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Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for It Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME XI. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COL- ORED WOMEN. Fifth Biennial or Tenth Anniversary of Organized Afro-American Womanhood. The Fifth Biennial, or Tenth Anniversary of the National Association of Colored Women, recently in session in Detroit, Mich., July 9-14, was in every sense of the term a decided success. Two hundred and four delegates were registered and they represented states from the Atlantic on the East, to, and including, Utah on the West, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the South, to the Great Lakes on the North. The entire convention was a grand object lesson of the progress of the Negro to the crowds of both races who attended the sessions; and the Detroit press had many excellent things to say, except from which will be given in succeeding issues of this paper. By constitutional limitations (two biennial terms) Mrs. Yate's term of office had expired and Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson, Mich., was elected President for the ensuing term. The association conferred upon Mrs. Yates the honor of electing her Honorary President for life, with all the rights and privileges of the body, and further expressed its devotion and esteem in consequence of the great work she had accomplished in building up the organizations, by presenting her a beautifully inscribed, sterling silver loving cup. The eloquent presentation speech was made by Miss Anna Jones of Kansas City. The National Association of Colored Women in 1901, when Mrs. Yates was elected President in Buffalo, consisted of five federated states and various local clubs; and had an enrollment of 10,000 women; it now has twenty-three federated states, clubs in thirty-seven of the states, an enrollment of 40,000 women; and by enactments of this last convention will now, through regularly appointed representatives, establish clubs in Canada and Africa, thus looking forward to international organization in the work of race elevation. INDEPENDENCE NOTES Brs. Nellie Clemmons of Denver, Colo., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. William Dehoney. Mrs. Esteller Moore of Kansas City is spending a few days in our city with her mother. Mrs. Emmer Salsberry of Kansas City was surprised Friday night by a number of friends from our city. It is reported that Mr. W. Thompkins is to marry soon. We wish him success. Mrs. Mattie Webb and daughter left for her home in Lamar, Mo., accompanied by Miss M. Laws. Prof. Chinn and wife will be in our city the 4th of August. They are always welcome. Mrs. Copridge had Rev. Fitts arrested Wednesday morning for misstreating her daughter and I presume Miss P. P. went way back and sat down. Rev. Winrow is expecting to have a picnic the 4th of August. Every one is invited to attend. Rev. Robinson is still carrying on camp meeting at the A. M. E. church. The band boys prepared a grand time here Thursday. They marched to the Grove where they were to have a picnic. Their music was excellent, but the rain overtook them so they went away back and set down. You fought against your assistant teachers without a cause, that is why they were elected. As soon as you have time subscribe for The Rising Son. The Distinguished Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal District. His Logical Ideas on the Negro Question. "I do not admit that there is a race problem in America because out of our blood God made all of the earth." Thus declared Bishop Grant in an interview by a representative of the Son. "If that is true," continued the Bishop, "why should there be a race problem? There may be a national problem which concerns all people alike. In my opinion the whites are as much responsible for the existing conditions as are the colored people. In many instances it is a problem of prejudice. In the days of reconstruction we were told by every speaker that when the colored man became intelligent and in possession of real estate or property owner, there would be no difference between the races. With understanding we have proceeded and now the 45 per cent of the illiteracy of the colored race has been removed and having become a tax-payer on 750,000 homes, we ought to see some signs of the promise. However, I believe that intelligence and character will remove it all regardless of the opposition. Darkness cannot stand before light. The bad cannot stand before the good. The unrighteous cannot stand before the righteous nor the unjust before the just. Each of us, however, should feel that the responsibility of bettering the condition is an individual matter—and watherie is necessary to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the white and black alike should be done by all concerned. We must live in the same country and it better be done in peace than in war. This is a constructive age we are living in and our people are building character and all sensible people who have read history know that to build character it takes centuries and not decades. The sensible men north and south in our country are aware of this fact, and they are guarding the interest of both the races in state as well as in church." In speaking of the duty of the ministers and teachers the good Bishop said that they should give special attention to the moral character of the people in all communities and what KANSAS CITY, MO., THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1906. ever they teach, they themselves should practice. "The home life of all the country should be well guarded and surrounded by the very best influence. For when the homes of the nation are lofty in character the people are also lofty in thought and character and when these conditions exist we can find a statesman in almost any home who will represent his constituency honestly." Bishop Grant is regarded as one of the most practical of men in his exalted sphere. His personality betrays unusual vigor and ambition while his manner is unassuming and very congenial. The Bishop is president of the board of directors of the Douglass Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas, into which he has injected new life. "We are making several improvements on the old building," said the Bishop. "We are putting on an addition of six rooms also. This is the first institution of this kind that the A. M. E. Church has control of in the United States. It is a new experiment but it is one that ought to succeed and have support of all the people and we have no doubt that it will." The Bishop left for Washington and California on the 2d of August to attend his Western conferences. NEGRESS GRADUATE IN ILLINOIS COLLEGE. Among the graduates of the university of Illinois who will receive diplomas today in -Champaign, Ill. will be Miss Maudell Tanner Brown, daughter 'of Prof. Charles H. Brown, principal of the Bannecker school, St. Louis. Miss Brown will be the first negro girl to be graduated from this university, where she has made a remarkable record for scholarship. She has completed the regular four-year course in the department of literature and art in three years, besides taking an extra course in psychology, and ranks with the first ten in a class of 467. The diploma will make her eligible to teach in any school in the state of Illinois. She is also a graduate of Sumner high school of this city, where she also completed a four-year course in three years, finishing with the highest honors of her class in June, 1903. Besides being a scholar of unusual ability, Miss Brown is an accom- plished pianist, having taken a thorough course in music under Prof Kunkel. She has been quite successful as an instructor in music, but has chosen teaching as her vocation, and probably will accept a position in the St. Louis schools.St. Louis Globe. Miss Brown has been visiting Midian Bosfield. The seventh annual session of the National Negro Business League is to be held at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 29, 30 and 31. The Atlanta Negro Business League is well organized and is at work maturing plans for the proper entertainment of the hundreds of visitors who are expected. Reduced rates of one and one-third fare have already been secured from the Southeastern Passenger, the Trunk Line and the New England Passenger Association. Only one or two other lines to the far west are yet to concur in the arrangement. The program promises to be, as all of the League programs are, devoted to an intelligent discussion of those features of business development wherein the Negro people of the country are making progress. The Governor of the State of Georgia, the Mayor of the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce joined in the invitation asking that this session of the League be held it Atlanta, and everything will be done to make the visit of all who attend pleasant and satisfactory. Information with regard to reduced rates may be secured from C. F. Adams, Transportation Agent, 924 S St., N. W., Washington, D. C., or with regard to other matters connected with the coming meeting from the president Booker T. Washington, Tuskooge Institute, Ala. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES Summer school classes, Aug. 9, attendance to date is 60. New catalog will be out this week. It will be the best illustrated catalog we have ever printed. Send for one. No president in the history of the school has won the esteem and confidence of his faculty and students more than President Allen. Only this week, the class of 1906, surprised him by sending him one of their pictures enlarged and elegantly framed. On his return from his lecture tour in the East last year, the faculty presented him a silver loving cup. It ought to be clear to the most obtuse mind that the people have the utmost confidence in Lincoln Institute. Its president and faculty, or they would not give it such a liberal, generous patronage. The president and his secretary are kept busy all summer receiving and answering letters from persons who wish to send their children to Lincoln Institute. WITH THE SAGES. It is the law of good economy to make the best of everything.—John Ruskin. An indiscreet good action is little better than a discreet mischief.—Bishop Hall. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.—Washington Irving. Sorrow is sent for our instruction, just as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.—Richter. Virtue will be a kind of health and beauty and good habit of the soul; and vice will be a disease and deformity and sickness of it.—Plato. Bread Vendors in Asia. Bread is sold from boxes strapped to donkeys in Asia Minor. BY THE SCRIBBLER Spring fever is merely a seasonable name for laziness. A woman's idea of economy is to have things charged. He who runs may read—if he succeeds in catching his train. An original girl is one who faints when no one is looking at her. Even in a thorny path a man can avoid stepping on all the thorns. It is easier for the average woman. It is easier for the average woman to make up her face than her mind. Of course brains count—but they frequently get mixed up if their calculations. Unless a man proposes he can never hope to attain perfection—so says the spinster. When your turn comes and you must say something, say as little as possible. When a mustache fails to tickle a woman it may be truly said that she has no sense of humor. The nickel jingles as loudly in the contribution box as the $5 gold piece—and much more frequently. Men who are always telling you things for your own good mean well, but they are awfully tiresome. It women reanunz that when they become disagreeable they also become ugly they would often try to be more agreeable. Men have to be honest when they are poor; after they get rich they can afford to say, "in the name of God let's rob somebody." When a Single Blessedness club woman offers as an excuse for a love affair that "she felt so sorry for the man" the dear man had better feel sorry for himself and shy off. A Chicago professor says that "bachelors are moral degenerates," and the old maids sing the doxology—Kate Thyson Marr. When we speak or a man as a well-known "character" it is frequently implied that he has none. The condition of the president's leg being what it is office seekers should not be allowed to pull it. Science has made great strides, but some of us have greater confidence in the poultices mother used to make. Heartman (after strenuous striking a stranger on the back) — I beg your pardon, I. I thought you were somebody else. Kindstick — That's all right, old man. Maybe you're right. I don't feel myself at all this morning. SOME GOOD ADVICE. The art of listening makes friends. He that listens is usually called intelligent. The art of listening and the art of keeping silence are separate accomplishments. The man most apt to succeed is he that knows how to listen and how to keep quiet. The art of keeping silent is even more important than the art of listening, for it keeps a man out of trouble and makes it possible for him to go any distance in his particular line of effort.—Chicago American. FROM "DR. NORTH" Why is a cucumber cool? He had not the outfit of our time. Success covers a multitude of sins. Genius is a freak of glad nature in good humor. The principle of fly fishing, love making and advertising is the same. To talk with a man about what he knows beat is a sure way of pleasing him and of learning something your self. Greatest Street Car City New York beats the cities of the world in the length of its street railway trucks. If in one single track its surface, elevated and subway system would extend in a straight line for 1,018 miles. Washington Foretold It. A bill recently introduced in congress provides for the drainage of the great Dismal swamp, of Virginia, thus fulfilling the prophecy made 100 years ago by Gen. Washington that some day the swamp would be converted into farm lands.-Farming. NUMBER 4 THINK THE MATTER OVER In point of service, Countee Bros is the oldest colored Undertaking and Funeral Directing firm in the city. In volume of business their trade is quite extensive. The people go to their place because of the courteous and gentlemanly bearing of the Countee Bros, and their employees. Countee Bros' motto: "The Smallest Amount Consistent With First-Class Service." Everyone in Kansas City knows Countee Bros. have succeeded in building up the largest Negro business in the city by "square dealing." You can always get the best services C. H. COUNTREE prices and terms because they are best able to serve you. They keep on hand at all times a large stock of caskets and furnishings of every description. Their out of town business is daily increasing and they are shipping cases and finding patrons all over the district west of Chicago. The Chapel Morgue, showroom and office of Countie Bros. are the most complete in the city. If you wish first class service and want to be treated like your business W. B. COUNTREE. deserves, call on Countee Bros., 214 East 12th street. If you are out of city and want the remains of your relatives or friends cared for, or desire casket or coffin, wire, or you can reach Countee Bros. by either phone. For reference, call up any bank in the city. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A fond parent makes a foolish mentor. Easy lies the head that wears a new bonnet. Birds that fly low are no game for sportsmen. There's many a slip 'twixt the mustache and lip. It is almost as hard to keep a friend as it is to lose an enemy. The boy who chooses rich parents takes the first step to success. A woman's face is her fortune, and her clothes her husband's misfortune. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPENDS HIS VACATION Oyster Bay, L. I—President Roosevelt is settled down in his country home on "the hill" for the first actual rest he has enjoyed in five years. It is to continue for three months. A high stone wall has been erected between the Long Island railroad station and Sagamore Hill and secret service men, under direction of Secretary Loeb, hold the key to the only gate. All sorts of gentlemen, crank or crankless, great or little, find it hard to get past. Artists and camera men for newspapers have to run for their lives. The president's day begins early. He may be seen on the veranda of his home at 5:30 a. m. almost any day, breathing the soft, cool air from the sound. After a brisk turn about the grounds a chapter from a library book will engage him until the children begin flocking from their beds, eager for breakfast and a day of rol- EXECUTIVE OFFICE OVER CORNER GROCERY AT OYSTER BAY. Ricking fun. As a rule the first meal is served to the president's family together. A game of tennis usually follows the morning meal. Usually in the forenoon the family take to their horses. This season the president is riding two new mounts, Audrey, a black mare, and Roswell, a bay hunter. They were purchased in Virginia. Rusty, a bay jumper, that has been out of service for two seasons, because of a complication of aliments, is fit again. Mrs. Roosevelt is also riding a new mare, named Molly, and from Virginia. Mr. and Mrs Roosevelt ride through the shaded roads of the country, sometimes accompanied by Theodore, Jr., who is delighted with his new mount Gray Dawn, a western cayuse of excellent action and spirit, and the most showy animal in the Roosevelt stable. Alignquin, the sturdy little calico pony which was Archie's boon companion for several seasons, has now descended to young Quentin. Archie BARON VON STEUBEN STATUE Albert Jaegers' Model Chosen for Memorial at Washington. Washington—The Von Steuben statue commission, of which Secretary Taft is chairman, has awarded to Mr. Albert Jacgers, of New York, the order to execute a bronze statue of Baron von Steuben, major general and inspector general in the continental army. Congress appropriated $50,000 for the statue, which is to be erected at the northwest corner of Lafayette park, in this city, and conforms in size and general type to the statues of Lafayette and Rochambeau already in place in that park. Seven German-American sculptors were invited to enter a competition last summer by a committee compris- MADRID THE BARON VON STEUBEN STATUE ing Secretary Taft, Senator Wetmore and Representative McCreary. The result of that competition was that the committee selected the models of Albert Jaegers. In the accepted model Gen. von Steuben appears in the familiar cocked hat and a long, full, all-embracing cloak, as though facing or enduring the hardships of the rigorous winter campaign at Valley Forge. He stands squarely facing the observer in an attitude of power and dignity. Slightly leaning with his left hand upon the sword, he is represented as inspecting military maneuvers. His personality, though quiet and simple, is essentially military. The sash he wears is reminiscent of his previous service as an officer of Frederick the Great. Flanking the statue at the base of has a new and larger pony named Betsy. It is one of the principal sights of the town to witness the charge of the Roosevelt youngsters, in miniature rough rider costumes, through the quiet streets of the town on their steeds. Quentin rides like his father, giving his mount full rein and scattering the sand dust as he飞es. Secretary Loeb arrives at Sagamore Hill from the "executive office" down town at 11 o'clock with the president's mail and the New York morning papers. If there are no visitors to luncheon the president rattles through his correspondence in less than two hours, and is free for recreation. His farm runs to the bay, the swimming beach being about 15 minutes' walk from the house. The hot July sun served to put a red tan upon the countenance of the chief executive in less than a week. Two hours' of the afternoon are spent in reading and writing at the broad library table or on the veranda. In the rear of the house the president is helping his farm hands to harvest a bumper crop of oats. The hay has not been taken in. He expects to take in from three to three and a half tons of timothy from his hillside meadow. Mrs. Roosevelt is busy in the afternoon with her large flower garden, and she has called upon the president frequently to assist her in the heavy work. The evening meal brings the family together again. The president frequently reads or talks to the boys in the evening. The mosquitoes are coming in droves this year, and folks keep indoors after the sun goes down, well protected by netting. Nine o'clock at night finds Sagamore Hill slumbering. The deathly silence which is the habit of the nation's summer capital is occasionally broken by wild rumors of misfortune having overtaken the president. They are flashed in over the telegraph wires, mainly from western cities, and by the very nature of their ghostly import all business in the town subsides until the colony of newspaper reporters have located the president and found him safe. After the receipt of a burning message from Ann Arbor, Mich., reporting a rumor there that President Roosevelt had met destruction at the hands of an anarchist, the chief executive was found plucking weeds from a late salad patch. The origin of such weed reports is a mystery that is being worked overtime in Oct agon hotel circles. the pedestal are two chaste allegorical groups. One of these represents Steuben's life work, "The Training of the American Army." It is worked out in an ideal composition thoroughly Greek in feeling, showing an experienced warrior instructing a youth in the use of his sword. The group on the other side is a departure from the customary symbols of paying tribute to our heroes, and represents America teaching a maiden to graft a branch to Steuben's memory into her growing tree of fame. In the design of the entire monument the sculptor, with his associate architect, T. R. Johnson, consulted Cass Gilbert, the well-known New York architect. They took into special consideration the location of the monument and the general scale of the other monuments in Lafayette park and adapted the design to the classic tendency of the time. This monument will form an important addition to the artistic features of the city and will be in harmony with the grand scheme of the development of Washington proposed by the park commission. PLAN A GIGANTIC DRYDOCK. Largest Structure of Its Kind to Be Erected on Puget Sound. Washington — Plans for the largest and best drydock in the world are being prepared in the bureau of yards and docks at the navy department. The last naval appropriation act contained provision for a dock to cost $1,250,000 to be constricted at the Bremerton navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington. This amount is larger than ever heretofore appropriated for a dock and the new dock when completed be able to take in the largest battleship either in course of construction or in contemplation. The location for the dock has already been selected at the yard and borings are now being made to learn the depth of the foundation. It is to be a concrete dock of the latest pattern and the materials will be purchased on the Pacific coast if practicable. The dock is to be so constructed that it can be lengthened if vessels of greater length should be built in the future. It will be 37 feet in depth, which will provide for the docking of any vessel that can be built unless some unknown system of building is developed. The greater depth of the new dock is also designed to meet cases where a vessel has been injured and draws much more than the ordinary depth on account of the injury. HAD WORKED HARD HAD WORKED HARD APPLICANT'S REFERENCES SAT- ISFIED THE HOUSEWIFE. Better Than Any Documentary Evidence She Might Have Carried Was Mute Testimony Offered by Cook. She was a gaunt, middle-aged woman, in a clean but faded calico dress. Her hair drawn into a tight knot at the crown of her head left her rugged features and furrowed cheeks unrelieved and her little black straw hat cocked at a humorous angle on top of her head transformed her into a living caricature. Mrs. Torrance opened the door to her with a sigh. All day long she had been answering the doorbell and examining specimens from the intelligence office, and her nerves had about reached the raw edge of endurance and were ready to jump over. Such specimens! Mrs. Torrence shuddered at the thought of letting one of them into her dainty, well-ordered little flat. Yet you can't do your own housework and have time to make yourself lovely and charming for a young and discriminating husband, too. Mrs. Torrance simply had to have a maid. At sight of the latest comer her heart sank. The big Irish woman impressed her more unfavorably than any of her predecessors. Mrs. Torrance was almost beginning to tell her that she has been suited already and to turn her away, when a wistful look in the woman's eyes made her ask her to step in. "I was sint by the intelligence, mum," said the woman, briefly. "Have you a reference?" Mrs. Torrance put that question first, "There. Mum," She Said Quickly, "Thim's Me Riference!" she had determined that she would take no one until she had looked her up and found her well recommended. The Irish woman looked taken back for a moment. Then she stretched out two big, hard, rough, red, knotted hands. The veins stood up upon them in purple lines and the finger nails were worn to the quick. The skin was calloused and chapped until it looked ready to peel. "There, mum," she said, quickly, "thim's me riferince." "I'll take you," said Mrs. Torrance, impulsively. That night, as Mr. Torrance sat down to the best dinner he had eaten for months, he looked his congratulations across the table to his wife. "Well, you have a jewel!" he explained. "How did you find her?" "Oh, William," said Mrs. Torrance. "I don't know where she comes from nor anything about her. I just took her on circumstantial evidence." Ram and Dog in Combat. A prize ram, belonging to John W. Larrick, of Chambersville, this county, the other day defended a flock of sheep attacked by dogs, and lost his life after a desperate battle with a fierce Great Dane. The ram and the dog fought for three-quarters of an hour, deep holes being torn in the sod where the encounter took place, but the superior size and strength of the dog proved too much for his weaker adversary, and the ram was finally killed. Four ewes were killed before the dogs were beaten off. After a chase of nearly five miles, Mr. Larrick and his sons killed the dogs, six shots from a revolver being required to put an end to the Great Dane. — Winchester correspondence Richmond Times-Dispatch Dripping Pan on Tombstone One frequently comes across curious epitaphs, but we have never before heard of that useful and necessary kitchen requisite the "dripping pan" figuring upon a tombstone. The following curious lines, however, are to be found in Wooditt churchyard, near Newmarket, England, and let into the head of the stone is a dripping pan: To the memory of William Simonds, who died March 1, 1753, aged 80 years. Here lies my corpse who was the man That loved a sop in dripping pan But now believe me I am dead See here the pain stands at my head See for sop to the last I cried But could not eat and so I died My neighbors they perhaps may laugh Now they do read my epitaphs. Set Fashion in Surgery. Confined at St. Luke's hospital, Denver, having recently undergone an operation on one of her fingers, which had become deformed from a break and which was straightened, is Miss Mary H. Gartside, who, according to the Times of that city, has the distinction of being the first person on record to have the vermiform appendix removed. It was because of this operation, which was purely experimental and which was resorted to in the last extremity, that the possibility of removing the appendix was discovered. DOUBLE-BASS A MONSTER. Extraordinarily Large Instrument Made in Germany for Use in Chicago Orchestra. The extraordinary large double-bass here illustrated was made by Herr Otto Roth in Markneukirchen, and is Jazz intended for use in a Chicago orchestra. It is about 14 feet high, and its body about seven feet. The top part of the body is about three feet four inches across; the lower part about five feet. It weighs 150 pounds. SNAKE SET DANGER SIGNAL. Reptile's Choice of Sleeping Place Made Trouble for Employees of the Railroad. Running at the rate of 65 miles an hour near Harrisburg, Pa., a train of the Philadelphia & Reading railway, filled with passengers, came to a sudden stop, halted by the red light of a block signal. After waiting the minute in which a train is supposed to clear the short blocks, the engineer proceeded with caution, expecting a wreck or at least a broken rail. When he came to the next signal post the white light was shining bright and clear. He did not stop to investigate and in spite of his fears of a medical examination to determine if he could distinguish between white and red light, he reported the occurrence. An inspector was sent at once to the pole and found the red still showing. A thorough investigation overhead and above ground showed no defect. The inspector finally removed the top of the underground case which contains the electric connections with the rails. A garter snake 22 inches long lay comfortably coiled, its head cushioned on the delicate spring, depressing it so that it made the contact necessary to set the signal at danger. A second after the snake was discovered the semaphore dropped from the danger to the clear position and a white light gleamed from the pole. FRIENDSHIP A STRANGE ONE Cat and Duck Are Chums, According to a Story That Comes from England. We have had the usual crop of curiosities as to nesting places and strange families adopted by birds and animals, but notning more diverting than a fellowship which exists between a certain ample "mouser" and a duck of gooselike proportions. Puss waits by the side of the pond in which the duck takes its bath, then the two retire in company to the shade of the trees and lie down in amity. How the cat tolerates the wet feathers of its comrade is a mystery; but there they lie, the duck with one of its wings spread as a shield over the cat, the tail of the latter curled like a very smart boa about the neck of its feathered friend. So long as the worm keeps beneath the turf and songsters do not stoop too low in the air the ifyl lasts, and all local life wonders. A Grecian bowl of the fifth century B. C., showing the method of teaching the young boys by illustration. Book 2.000 Years Old. A descendant of the ancient Babylonians, Mrs. Annie Naparian, of Nashua, N. H., has in her possession a book written in the language of the race and supposed by her to be dated many years before the Christian era. The book is 13 inches long, 8 inches wide and 5 inches thick. The covers are made of black walnut covered with leather. The leaves of the book are not of paper, but are made of some kind of skin. A Fence of Doors. Near Ridgewood, in Brooklyn, there is perhaps the oddest fence in Greater New York. It is composed entirely of doors—scores of them, all of a height and joined together. The fence has stood for years on the Myrtle avenue line of the Brooklyn Heights railroad. What strange freak induced its owner to erect it is a mystery but it furnishes a constant source of comment to persons passing that way. THE CHRISTIAN WORLD Movement on Foot to Erect Magnificent Memorial to Sir George Williams. The recent decease of Sir George Williams has suggested to many of his admirers the desirability of perpetuating his honored memory in some outward and tangible way. It has, therefore, been decided to erect at a cost of £100,000 a suitable building as the central home of the Young Men's Christian association in the metropolis. According to the London correspondent of the Record of Christian Work the locality will be in the neighborhood of the Strand, not far from where the historic Exeter hall, the present home of the Y. M. C. A., has stood for nearly 80 years. More and more it has been felt that Exeter hall is not adequate to the demands made upon it by the modern conditions under which the work among young men is carried on. It is hoped that, if responses to the appeal for funds to erect the new building are as quick and as generous as they ought to be, it may be begun and completed within two years. What the future of Exeter hall will be when the Y. M. C. A. has left it, is difficult to say. But there is some sort of an obligation that the venerable place shall not be put to uses inconsistent with the object for which it was originally erected—"to be a public building in which the anniversary meetings of religious and charitable societies may be held." There is no place in all London whose walls, had they but tongues and voices, could tell of such great speeches, made by such great men, on behalf of the many-sided progress of the kingdom of God. I think it is Macauley (or is it Carlyle?) who somewhere speaks scornfully of "the bray of Exeter hall." But from the Christian point of view Exeter hall has represented not the ashyin, but the angelic. CENEROUS OFFERINGS What the Church of England Has Given for Missions During Last Year. Although the Church of England is established by law, and supposedly maintained by rates, it contributes to its own support and to benevolence somewhat more than the sum it receives from the state. The tables for the last year show that its members have given about $40,000,000 to home support and foreign missions. The year book tells us that the rates and endowments supply from $35,000,000 to $38,000,000 annually. As their membership of the Established church is reported by Mr. Evans, the expert in such matters, at 7,211,183, it is manifest that it costs about $11 per capita to carry on the church and its benevolences, of which sum the members voluntarily contribute one-half or a little more. It costs American Presbyterians something over $18 per capita to carry on their work, of which sum they contribute all, beside supporting most of the undeniational charities in the union. The Anglicans give about $3,860,000 to foreign and $3,270,000 to home missions, or one dollar per member for both, which is not quite one-half the per capita contributed by the Presbyterians in America. The Anglican Sunday schools cost $900,000 a year. The Establishment expended $7,000,000 in new churches, a remarkable record when we consider that England has been called "over-churched." "NOT-YET-BELIEVERS." Term Which the Bishop of Kyoto Uses Instead of the Word Heathen. Rev. S. C. Partridge, bishop of Kyoto, in the Spirit of Missions writes thus: "Having given the morning to the Christians, we gave the evening to the Mishinsa—the 'not-yet-believers'—our courteous term, always used for the 'heathen!' It is much superior, even to the term 'unbelievers,' or 'non-believers,' because it does not accuse them of any opposition to the faith, but other implies an interest in it which a further study will surely deepen." And I in a note he explains: "A good deal of criticism has been passed at home, and some of it justly, on those who speak of the Japanese as 'heathen.' We, in the church missions, are very careful to avoid this, by alluding to those outside the fold in some such term as the above. St. Paul's 'Gentlemen of Athens' states a principle always to be remembered." Increases Its Missionary Offering Not many of our churches are able to register a more substantial development at every point than the Protestant Episcopal. Within eight years the gifts for missions have increased from $402,541 to $766,965 (of the women's auxiliaries from $82,000 to over $151,000); the missionaries from 101 to 180; the confirmations in the field from 436 to 1,083; and the total communicants from 3,896 to 9,528. Pledge 1,000 Missionaries Yearly. The Volunteer Students' convention at Nashville declared by resolution that 1,000 new missionaries should be sent out every year until the waste places are occupied. The church is dreaming great dreams, and only those who thus dream, accomplish great deeds. The Sufferings of a Citizen of Olympia Wash. L. S. Gorham, of 516 East 4th St. Olympia, Wash., says: "Six years ago I got wet and took cold, and was soon flat in bed, suffering tortures with my back. Every movement caused an agonizing pain, and the persistence of it exhausted me, so that for a time I was dazed and stupid. On the advice of a friend I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon no tortures with my back. Every movement caused an agonizing pain, and the persistence of it exhausted me, so that for a time I was dazed and stupid. On the advice of a friend I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon noticed a change for the better. The kidney secretions had been disordered and irregular, and contained a heavy sediment, but in a week's time the urine was clear and natural again and the passages regular. Gradually the aching and soreness left my back and then the lameness. I used six boxes to make sure of a cure, and the trouble has never returned." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A woman is never satisfied with herself until she has outdone her neighbor in some respect. Lewis' Single Binder straight for cigar. Made of extra quality tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis' factory, Peoria, Ill. BOOKS FOR GREAT COMMANDER Library Napoleon Ordered Comprized Many Subjects. In 1808 Napoleon formed the idea of having a traveling library in order to make his-hours of intellectual recreation independent of the exigencies of a campaign or the delays of a courier. The proposed library was to form about a thousand volumes. The books were to be of small duodecimo size, printed in good type, and without margins in order to save space. They were to be bound in morocco, with flexible covers and limp backs. The boxes for their conveyance were to be covered with leather and lined with green velvet, and were to average 60 volumes apiece. in two rows like the shelves in a library. A catalogue was to accompany them, so arranged that the emperor could readily find any desired volume. The distribution of subjects was as follows: Forty volumes on religion, 40 of epic poetry, 40 of the drama, 60 volumes of other poetry, 60 volumes of history and 100 novels. "In order to complete the quota," ran the instructions, "the balance must be made up of historical memoirs."—James Westfall Thompson, in the Atlantic. CURIOS AND ODDITIES. Only one woman in 100 insures her life. Ellen Terry is passionately fond of cats. Sarah Bernhardt has a huge bed 15 feet long. Patti sleeps with a silk scarf about her neck. Brides in Australia are pelted with rose leaves. In stature Eskimo women are the shortest on earth. No photographs are ever taken of women in China. A woman's brain declines in weight after the age of 30. In Africa wives are sold for two packets of hairpins. New York has 27,000 women who support their husbands. Drunkenness is rare, smoking common among Japanese women. PHYSICIAN SAYS Children Thrive on Grape Nuts and Cream. A Mass, physician has found a cure for constipation in children—citing fifteen cases—by feeding them Grape-Nuts. "Some time ago," he writes, "I became interested in your food, Grape-Nuts, as a cure for constipation in children. Having tried it in my own family, I have advised it in fifteen cases in which all suffered with constipation more or less severe. The result has been absolute relief in all. "I write this that other children may be benefited." How much better it is thus to bring about a healthy action in the bowels of growing children by natural means, than to feed them with improper food, requiring some kind of cathartic at intervals to overcome constipation. Grape-Nuts gives energy to the entire nervous system including the nerves that cause the natural contraction and relaxation of the bowel muscles, that propel the food mass along. It its predigested also, and the blood easily absorbs the food as it goes through the body, storing up vitality and force for the functions of all the organs. Children especially, should get the right start as to habits of living. They should grow into bright, strong, cheerful men and women. Grape-Nuts solve the question of the start; a wholesome appetite will do the rest. Children's teeth are benefited by chewing Grape-Nuts, also. Your dentist will cell you that a certain amount of exercise in chewing firm food, is necessary to grow strong, beautiful teeth. Teeth need exercise just the same as muscles, if they are to grow strong and firm as nature intended. Grape-Nuts gives the exercise and also gives material from which good teeth are made. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. THE IDEAL DOROTHY. BY GEORGE HORTON. Author of "Like Another Helen." He was down in the Washington City Directory as "A. Quintiner, clerk War Department," and that brief biography gave a very correct estimate of his relative importance in the community. He was one of several thousands in similar positions who left their houses at a certain hour in the morning, performed various duties and returned at a fixed hour at night. He was a bachelor, was A. Quintner, 45 years of age, retiring and timid, with brown hair, slightly silvered at the temples, a florid complexion, and shaggy eyebrows. He was a big man, he dressed neatly, his manners were grave and poite, and he walked with the aid of a corkscrew Manzanita cane. A. Quintner had never married because of an ideal. In early youth he had supposedly found the incarnation of that ideal; a tall, fair woman, with a form as graceful as the stem of a illly, a low, broad forehead, arching eyebrows, an oval face, serious, truthful, tender eyes. Exquisite refinement seemed to emanate from her like a perfume, while gentleness and angelic goodness looked from her level, fearless glance, and spoke in every tone of her low, soft voice. This woman led to him, played with his heart as a cat with a mouse, and married a disgusting old millionaire, whose very touch was contamination. Her husband died after a few years and the widow made it very plain to A. Quinter that he might share the dead man's millions with her, but he preferred to remain simply a "clk." in the war department. But he did not lost faith in his ideal, as we shall see. One morning, as he was proceeding to his desk in the department, he looked suddenly into the face and eyes of a woman who so reminded him of his youthful love that he nearly dropped his corkscrew cane in his agitation. He turned and gazed after her. Yes, there was the same graceful form, reminding him of the stem of a lily, swaying in a gentle breeze, the same massive coil of amber hair. "Can it be?" he mused. "But no. She is 40 by now, and this is a young woman, the same age that she was then." He called this woman, too, Dorothy, even though he did not know her name and had no desire to learn it. It seemed improbable to him that two persons so closely resembling each other and his ideal—this Dorothy and the Dorothy of long ago—should both be ignoble This opinion was confirmed the next morning when he observed her from his window bringing several bundles from the corner grocery, evidently provision for the family breakfast. The early air had touched her cheek with freshness, and there was a joyous light in her eyes, which he concluded were grey. After a week, A. Quintner began to feel that he had something to come home to nights. He was no longer envious of his two associates, one a fat, the other a thin old man, both bald, who shared his office. As the hands of the clock crept around the dial towards half-past four, he also glanced impatiently at them. They—the two old men—were hungry for a sight of their wives and babies, while he perhaps might get a glimpse of Her. Failing that, he should at least experience the sweet influence of her proximity, for she was sure to be in during the evening. Now, he enjoyed a bowling acquaintance with the servant next door, a woman of about 40, with one colorless eye and a Socratic nose. He stopped and talked several times with Annie, holding his hat politely in his hand, out of deference for her, whose servant Annie was and as he talked, his voice grew tender and he exhibited hesitation and embarrassment. When he was actually in conversation with Annie his purpose seemed preposterous for he realized that he had stopped the woman simply because she was her servant. He saw nothing incongruous in so much physical ugleness serving so much beauty. It seemed to him rather the fate of women of Annie's appearance to perform mutilal tasks for one upon whose face and figure God had set the seal of Queen. "There can be no such thing as sentiment in the heart of a poor creature like this servant," he reflected. "In the ideal woman, beauty of soul, refined and delicate feelings, are associated with physical beauty. The latter is the visible and tangible expression of the former. I can talk with Annie without her even suspecting my sentiments for her mistress." Soon suitors, or, in more conventional language, "men friends," began to appear next door. "There's a dozen of 'em," said Annie, one day, "and she wouldn't have any one of 'em, not if he was the last man on earth. She'll turn 'em all away some day, when her own true love comes a ridin' up to the door." "Cheap literature," reflected A. Quintner, as he walked off, "puts many silly ideas into the heads of the unenlightened." But Annie's remark brought a new element into his dreams and caused them to include the time when She should suddenly discover that She had lost interest in the others, and should spend all of her evenings with him. He shrank from actually making her acquaintance for two reasons: First, suppose she should fall short of his conception of her? This thought was each treason that he tried to persuade himself that he did not entertain it, and when it became too insistent he apologized, saying: "Forgive me, dear, I cannot forget the sins of that other woman." Secondly, his long years as A. Quintner, clerk, had deprived him of the powers of initiative. About this time something epocalh happened. One evening, at an early hour, Mr. Quintner heard a tapping upon the wall which separated his residence from the dwelling next door. He was thinking so intensely of her at the moment that the sound, coming from that quarter, impressed him as a signal. Scarce realizing what he was doing, he sprang to the wall and, trembling like an aspen leaf, he tapped three times, softly, with his knuckles. What was his joy to receive a response—almost inaudible, indeed, but unmistakably a response! On his way to the office the next day he met her; he passed her in the street; he fairly brushed her dress with his sleeve. He was about to lift his hat in joyful recognition and gaze smiling into her eyes, but was restrained by a feeling of delicacy, elusive, yet so clear that it caused him to pass by without looking up. "This is our secret," he mused, "unconfessed even to ourselves, and to take advantage of it or to seem conscious of it would be as rude as to speak of a kiss." Tapping upon the wall now became the chief feature of A. Quintner's daily life, something to be looked forward to, a sacred tryst to bring him home nights and to keep him there. Every evening at ten o'clock he tapped. Every evening he heard a faint response. In his imaginary association with her, he planned not only evenings of reading from inspired books, but hours of converse and of more eloquent silence. One morning she went away, and the fact that she took with her a suit-case and wore a traveling dress suggested to his unpracticed mind a long stay-months, perhaps. The second evening after her departure he began a love letter to her: "My Sweetheart—For such you are and you cannot help yourself, for whatever your sentiments may be towards me, you cannot prevent my loving you. I cannot believe you are gone. The flowers are here yet, the sun, the stars and the birds. Everything reminds me of you. Sometimes I feel that my love for you is sheer audacity, and then I reflect that it is not only inevitable but a duty; it is mere worship, the tribute that the soul of map TENSON HE FAIRLY BRUSHED HER DRESS WITH HIS SLEEVE. pays to the good, the true and the beautiful—" He laid the letter aside and never finished it, for she came back the next day, having been no farther away than Annapolis. Shortly after her return the responsive rappings ceased, and A. Quintner, fearful of betraying her, did not persist. He merely waited patiently. But on his way to the office one morning he met the servant with the Socratic features. Her eyes were red with much weeping. “What's the matter, Annie?” he asked. "Is Dor—is your mistress sick?" "Don't you know, sir," said the girl, "she has been very sick for a week. The poor thing died this morning at three o'clock." "My God!" gasped A. Quinter, blanching and leaning against the fence. "No!" "Yes, sir." Annie laid her large red hand tenderly upon his arm, and, looked up to him bravely. "God bless you, Annie!" sobbed A Quintner, turning away. He was never to know that the tapping on the wall, begun as a playful prank by "Dorothy," and indulged in but once or twice by her, had been long continued by the servant with the unsentimental exterior. She had only discontinued it the week before, when her mistress had been taken sick and had demanded her undivided attention. A. Quintner moved out of the neighborhood the next day, carrying with him the sad but radiant memory of an ideal woman, combining physical charms with beauty of soul and tenderness of sentiment. A girl with Socratic features stood blubbering, as she watched the dray carrying his effects, and repeating a verse which she had written with stubby, unused fingers: "Go, little pome, through the male, My love to my tru love too tell. The rose is read, the violet bloo, And o. my love, I loved you troo!" (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) STORY LACKS USUAL ENDING. Thoughtful Man's Visitant May Kave Been Ghost, and Then Again "Ghosts!" said the skeptic, conemptuously. "Pooch! no sensible man believes in such nonsense nowadays." "Well," said the thoughtful man, slowly, "I don't know. Curious things do happen occasionally. There was a man who lived beside me who used to scoff at me because I professed a slight interest in visitations from the other world. He told me one day that if he happened to die before me and found that there was anything in the ghost theory he would come back and notify me. Brown was his name, a sort of general disbeliever in everything save his own importance. "A couple of months ago," continued the thoughtful man, "I was sitting in my study reading. It was about 12 o'clock at night and everyone had gone to bed except myself. I was suddenly aroused by a loud clanking noise accompanied by a dismal wailing. After awhile it was repeated. I got my gun and started to investigate. I made a thorough search, but could find nothing. The watchman happened to be passing by and I called him, but everything seemed quiet. None of the folk in bed had been aroused, so at last I gave it up and went to bed, feeling, I confess, a little uneasy. "Next morning when we were at breakfast Markham called in and told me Brown had died suddenly in the night." "Oh!" exclaimed the skeptic, "his ghost had remembered his promise and come round to wall out his repentance at his former unbelief." "Well," said the thoughtful man, "that might have been so, only it turned out later that our cat had broken its leg and got tangled up in the hot water pipes in such a way that she was strangled." HE KNEW FEMININE NATURE. Amateur Theatrical Director Hit on Just the Right Thing. "Now," said the director of the amateur theatrical company to the girl who had the stellar role, "in this scene you must show the greatest anxiety and concern. You must be worried and nervous, and on the verge, apparently, of prostration. Act as though your lover were possibly lost at sea—that is the situation we portray in this scene." She acts as near that way as she can, but the director is not satisfied. "No, no," he says, stopping her. "Try to imagine how you would feel if some one near and dear to you were lost." She tried the act that way, but with no better success. The director is about to give up and let her go through the scene in her own way, when an inspiration strikes him. "Here!" he exclaims. "Act as you would if your Easter bonnet were not going to be delivered in time for you to wear it to church." When the play was produced, it was said that the heroine's rendition of this scene was one of the finest bits of acting ever witnessed. Wouldn't Prejudice His Case. Former Senator John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, who was representing the defense in a recent trial in one of the local courts, arose the other day to reply to argument of counsel for the government on a point of law. In deliberate and impressive manner the attorney began a forceful presentation to the court. Before he had fairly launched his counter attack, however, he was interrupted by the presiding justice, who said that he was about to decide the question in favor of Senator Thurston. "In that case," remarked Mr. Thurston, resuming his seat at once, "I will make no speech to the court for fear of changing your honor's opinton."—Washington Star. Her Quest. "Speaking of Irish bulls," remarked Clerk Brownell, "my wife had a funny introduction to one last evening. She was standing on our front door step, when a woman with a shawl pulled over her head came hesitatingly along the sidewalk. Seeing my wife, the woman paused and said: "Pardon me, but are you acquainted in this neighborhood?" "I am. What can I do for you?" replied Mrs. Brownell. "Can you tell me where Mr. McCloud lives? I understand he just died, poor fellow."—San Francisco Chronicle. Reatful. Gasser—I noticed your friend Knox at my lecture last night. Kandor—Yes, and he enjoyed himself immensely. Gasser—Yes, I noticed he stayed until the end; he didn't get tired at all. Kandor—No, he told me he was in a part of the hall where he couldn't hear at all. An Oregon Catastrophe. P. E. Colbern, of this city, has a refractory hen, and the other day when he went to take egs from the nest the hen actually rose up in wrath and kicked him on the hand. The hand became seriously swollen, and the prompt attention of a physician prevented a case of blood poison.—Athena Press. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in writing, trusts but little to dictation, writing nearly all he has to say, then submitting the manuscript for a type-written copy. Four or five clean copies are nothing unusual in the preparation of a manuscript. THE AMERICAN HOME W·M·A.RADFORD EDITOR THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF OBT on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for his wide experience on account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest all those subject areas of paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest all those subject areas of paper. All inquiries to William A. Radford No. 54 Fifth Ave. Chicago, Illinois, and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. Such houses as this are needed in every community, and they may be built for rent to advantage by men having a little money at their disposal. The size of this house on the ground is only 27 feet 6 inches by 30 feet, which does not include porches, but it contains the nucleus for a great deal of comfort. In many communities the front hall is not necessary or desirable. The families occupying small houses frequently would prefer having the space put to a more utilitarian purpose. There are always children to be provided for, and they should have good comfortable bedrooms fitted up with furniture and fixtures to please their youthful ideas. Happy is the boy or girl that is lucky enough to have a bedroom for their special use—a place to keep their tops and other belongings, where they can take a schoolmate for a talk or to show them their latest acquisitions in games, sporting paraphernula or toys. Such rooms are not common in the homes of the poorer classes—a fact that is not creditable to our age and generation. I am doing everything possible to remedy this state of affairs. This house can be built for $900 or $1,200 without plumbing or heating plant; but the plumbing is very simple and the heating may be provided for by placing a good stove in the living room. In this plan the kitchen is nearly square, well lighted and has good means of ventilation. A door opening onto the back porch and a good sized pantry in a corner, with a THE HOME OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE pot cupboard under the stairway, makes the kitchen as convenient as kitchens in larger houses. This plan provides for a cheap stairway, but being partially open it has a pleasing appearance from the dining-room; and because of its winding construction it takes very little room. In fact this plan is carefully designed to utilize to the best possible advantage every inch of space. The study of the floor plans will show this. While the house is not very big on the ground it is fully two stories high with an attic. An attic is a great cooler for the upper rooms. It prevents the PORCH BUNNERY 10' 3" KITCHEN 18' 0" 10' 6" DINING ROOM 18' 0" 10' 6" LIVING ROOM 18' 0" 10' 6" PORCH Ground Floor Plan. heat of the sun from striking down. It acts as a sort of a buffer between the hot roof and the ceiling below. Although the house is small there are no tiny little rooms such as most small houses have. Every room is light and airy, and every part of the house is pleasant. Like many of my selections for small houses there is no hallway upstairs. There is just a landing large enough to hold the four doors that open into the different rooms. This is one reason why this little house is so commodious and comfortable. Hallways are all right if you have the room for them, and a furnace in the cellar to keep them warm. But a good many families would rather do without the furnace and have the cellar room to use for other purposes, and use stoves for heating. In outward appearance this little house is very pleasing. In front it has a sort of a two-story gable, which distinguishes it from any other house on the street. The wide window in the CLOSET BED ROOM 10'6" x 10'0" GLOOS MALL BATH BED ROOM 10'6" x 10'0" BED ROOM 10'6" x 10'0" CLOOS Second Floor Plan. front of the living room also makes for an artistic effect. The front porch is large enough for comfort and well proportioned to the size of the house. Architects are fond of porches, because they relieve what would otherwise be a plain front, and they are sometimes inclined to overdo the matter. When I visit a community it is natural for me to notice the character of THE HOME OF THE MAYFIELD MUSEUM the houses that are occupied by families in moderate circumstances. There are few rich men in any community. The great bulk of our population is made up of honest, hard working people who are not blessed with an over abundance of this world's possessions. This class appeals to me and I would like to see them better housed, and I know it is quite within reason to expect it. Another thing I notice in traveling about is the attention given to flowers and shrubbery. No house is complete without some outside ornamentation. A great advantage of living in a small place is the amount of ground that is available and the freedom to plant and grow flowers and shrubs. The plainest house may be made attractive with a Dutchman's pipe vine and Virginia creeper, or even a wild grape vine, if the vines are thrifty, properly trimmed and artistically trained. Fortunately we have many hardy vines that almost care for themselves after the first year or two. The ones mentioned are especially valuable for this reason. If this house is built with the dining-room side to the west, a couple of lengths of woven wire fencing may be hung from the gable over the double dining-room windows and the window in the bedroom above. A Virginia creeper will soon get to the top of this wire trellis and form a welcome screen from the afternoon sun in summer. In the winter when the sunlight is wanted in the rooms the leaves are off, and the vine with its open trellis support makes little or no shade. Vines trained in this manner do not damage the house and the vines themselves do better than when tacked to the siding as we often see them. This kind of decoration requires the attention of a man. A woman can manage the flower beds very well, but a little help from the men folks make the task easier and much more pleasant. Then a man takes a great deal more interest in his home if he has a few vines and a bit of shrubbery to look after as the seasons come and go. PHILOSOPHICAL POINTS. The fatted caft never loves the prodigal son. Truth never runs around asking people to believe it. Alas, that tools are prosperous. Is it their penalty or reward? How many of us in listening to the tomtoms forget the violins? To think an original thought is to take a step nearer the divine. People who need to be continually propped up are not worth the prop. When men become suddenly good they should be executed immediately. It is easier for some people to believe the impossible than the possible. Before it was thrown down, the Golden Calf had a son, and it is still mooring around the world. It is self-evident that to successfully fathom the motives of men one must be a man himself. To an idiot — to a lunatic—all men are either idiots or lunatics. BOY'S TERRIBLE ECZEMA. Mouth and Eyes Covered with Crusts —Hands Pinned Down—Miraculous Cure by Cuticura. "When my little boy was six months old, he had eczema. The sores extended so quickly over the whole body that we at once called in the doctor. We then went to another doctor, but he could not help him, and in our despair we went to a third one. Matters became so bad that he had regular holes in his cheeks, large enough to put a finger into. The food had to be given with a spoon, for his mouth was covered with crusts as thick as a finger, and whenever he opened the mouth they began to bleed and purate, as did also his eyes. Hands, arms, chest and back, in short the whole body was covered over and over. We had no rest by day or night. Whenever he was laid in his bed, we had to pin his hands down; otherwise he would scratch his face and make an open sore. I think his face must have itched most fearfully. "We finally thought nothing could help, and I had made up my mind to send my wife with the child to Europe, hoping that the sea air might cure him, otherwise he was to be put under good medical care there. But, Lord be blessed, matters came differently, and we soon saw a miracle. A friend of ours spoke about Cuticura. We made a trial with Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, and within ten days or two weeks we noticed a decided improvement. Just as quickly as the sickness had appeared it also began to disappear, and within ten weeks the child was absolutely well and his skin was smooth and white as never before. F. Hohrath, President of the C. L. Hohrath Company, Manufacturers of Silk Ribbons, 4 to 20 Rink Alley, South Bethlehem, Pa, June 5, 1905." Close Second to American Tramp. The American tramp must look out for his laurels in the matter of stealing rides. A Roumaniana recently succeeded in lodging himself on the pipes underneath a dining car of the Orient express at Costanza, on the Black sea, these pipes affording a sort of shelf about 20 inches wide. He left his bed in Paris 53 hours later. It is remarked that at the end of the journey he was very dusty, hungry and thirsty, and possessed a capital amounting to five cents. M. Coopbaairaire, the French explorer, recently was lost in the forests of Cambodia. He got separated from his party and wandered through the soft-tide for eight days without any other nourishment than the water he could get from the marshes in the Jungle. When the real nature of a man's business is in doubt it is often hinted that de is a gambler. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKYE discernished by the use of our knowledge of milftone. Sold only in bespoke Libby's Food Products enable you to make good meals out of "hurry" meals. Libby's Food Products are ready to serve when you get them, yet are cooked as carefully and as well as you could do it in your own kitchen. Ox Tongue, Dried Beef, Boned Chicken, Deviled Ham, Veal Loaf—these are but a few of the many kinds your dealer keeps. Try for luncheon or supper tomorrow, some sliced Chicken Loaf. Liberty Chicken Loaf LIVIB WOODS..... Business Manager. RISING SON PUBLISHING CO One Year. 12 14 Two months. 15 Three months. 16 One month. 17 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 me. 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. FIOICE-No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. ... IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circula- tion of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. Christianity and prosperity do not go together always. Each is a neces- sity, but frequently we find one with out the other. Booker T. Washington shows a Godly spirit when he says that a good bath room in a house goes a long ways toward civilization. But we do not always have the coin at command. In the meantime we find that the old fashion tub will fill the bill. What remedy can we see to offset some of the repression through which we are now going? The Son offers this to every colored man and woman, get yourself a home and a bank account, and seek some of the commercial goods, and you will find on accomplishing this that your stock will go up. Congressman Ellis made a hit with the colored people at Swope Park August 1, when he advised home industry, home training and property ownership as a solution of the problem confronting them. Senator Warner made a short speech on the same date in which he referred to Colonel Wassom, speaking of whom he said he once knew an Irishman namer Burns, with a father and grandfather named Burns, but when he came to America he was called Burnsides for political purposes, and the Senator was a little afraid the Colonel was playing the same trick. Bishop A. Grant advised the Negroes as to whatever he did politically, to never flirt with any party other than the Republican party, as it had befriended him in the past, is offering him opportunities at present, and promises to stand by him in the future. Consider and be wise. For a quarter of a century the Negro of this country has been meeting and howling for recognition, politically, notwithstanding all that has been done for him through political channels, came to him through the Republican party. It is so often said by the Democrats to the Negro, why don't you make the Republicans do something for you? But I would like to ask, why don't you set the pace? You want his vote as bad as the Republicans do, if not worse, and in every Southern state where you are in full control, you give him this guarantee, special legislation with Jim Crow cars and take away from him what the honest, brave and loyal men of this country died for. Democracy has proved itself as good for the Irishman, the Dutchman and, perhaps, the Dugo, but the Negro has failed to share any of those political blessings. Of these evils, politically, Democrat, Populist and Socialist, Republican, we will take the least for ours, that is Republicanism. That the men who make up the savage, blood-thirsty mobs, are not law-abiding, self-respecting citizens has been clearly proven. For men of clear, sound judgment, indomitable will, invincible courage, and the other sterling qualities that go to make up a man fit to battle in life's fray, have neither time nor inclination to bother with such. The newspapers edited and controlled by some of our race do this class of men an injustice when they class them the common herd who so forget God, man and themselves as to deprive a fellow creature of his life in the lowest and most brutal manner imaginable. And the Son maintains that the class of white men who keep posted on their own affairs and read the high class Negro journals as well, do not stoop to such brutality and savagery. This is called forth from reading a comment in the editorial column of the Freeman, on the article published in case and comment. NEXT MORNING PHILOSOPHER. Grab is probably the national game after all. Theory is not always right. Neither is practice. A circus joke is like history—it repeats itself. The man who rides a hobby never wins a race. Only the man who understands himself is qualified to study others. It is better to avoid the faults of another than to talk about them. The ox knows his master better perhaps than the master knows his ox. Often when you trust a man you discover that you have only mistrusted him. One gossip in a neighborhood is enough to keep everybody else by the ears. You will probably be sorry sometimes for forgiving an enemy, but not often. You cannot make a fortune by grumbling about the success of other people. Money talks, but never voluminously. "No" is the principal words in its vocabulary. The less said about your own faults and mistakes is naturally the most pleasing to you. It is an even proposition that the best part of the world's history has never been written. Politicians are often credited with heart-to-heart talks, when they are in reality only from pocket-to-pocket. When you give a man a piece of your mind he is probably thankful that you did not give him the whole of it. QUIET THOUGHTS. Life is too short for its possessors to wear long faces. Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good. Conscience is the voice of the soul the passions are the voice of the body. He who begins with severity in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood To Preserve Violets It is worth remembering that a corsage bunch of violets may be worn several times if a little thin cotton batting which has been dipped in salt water is wrapped around the steam each time before the tin foil is wound about it. When not in use, take off the foil and batting and put the stems in a glass of water which is slightly salted. The bunch should be kept in a cool room with tissue paper twisted over to exclude the air. Circles Under the Eyes. For dark circles under the eyes, very gentle massage will sometimes relieve the congestion and improve drooping eyelids. THE MAIDEN May not go unchaperoned to any place of entertainment—concerts, theaters or exhibitions. May not accept expensive presents from a man to whom she is not engaged or who is bound to another girl. May not, under any circumstances, call at the house of a bachelor, this being one of the greatest breaches of etiquet. May not receive gentlemen visitors in her mother's absence, or take walks or drives with them unless they are relatives or old friends of the family. May not show encouragement to a man unless very sure that his feeling for her is something more than friendly; otherwise her advances would be unmaidenly. It's funny that the women's clothes that are never seen are mostly made for show. Marrying a woman who knows her own mind means marrying a woman with a wildcat temper. A woman can gain an awful lot of flesh without anybody discovering it except her corset maker. It's funny, but black haired women want their hair to be red and gray-haired women want theirs to be black. It costs more money to keep up your own family than it does to break up another man's.—New York Press. BACHELOR SAYS— Thieves can't steal your money if you spend it fast enough. Don't forget that the man who sells ice doesn't cut it in the same season. When a woman's husband quits doing something he knows she doesn't like it is time for her to discover what he has begun doing in its place. Connoisseur. Retired Publican (explainin details of his new mansion)—I'd like to 'ave two statues at the foot of the stairs. Architect—What kind of statues would you like? "I'd like Apollo on one side and Apollinaris on the other."—London Tatler. In veils the finer the mesh the better; some are as filmy as a spider's web. The cut-away Louis XVI. coat with shoulder cape or capes is the prevailing fashion for cloth costumes. Ribbon velvet, frequently put on in a quilling made by double box-pleats, as was the fashion years ago, trim many of the newest gowns. Skirts are clinging to the hips, and are long, fully covering the feet. They have a decided flare at the base, but this does not begin until the knee. The newest type of the lace gown being made for Nice is the frock of wide openwork net, like a fish-net, much applied with raised mousse-line flowers and lace motifs and mounted over shimmering satin. The approved way of micking up all diaphanous fabrics, such as lace or mousseline, for evening gowns is with an interming of chiffon or mousseline, with many fluffy little ruffles about the feet, this in turn being mounted over silk with one or more dust ruffles. Smart wraps are of white cloth, with a collar of sable and lining of pale gray satin and endless frills of white accordion-plied chiffon. The front is draped l'Empire and outlined with exquisitely wrought guipure or passenterie around the short waist. A feature of these wraps is the large sleeves, edged with fur and madeuffly inside with chiffon and lace. Very elegant wraps for afternoon wear have collars of lace instead of fur. Sometimes rise no higher than general fault finders. Will always declare honors come to them without solicitation. Often find difficulty in explaining why they are so designated. Feel that the world regards them as capable of doing anything. Ought to be those who earnestly strive to aid their fellow men. Frequently come to be looked upon as actuated by purely selfish motives. Like to know that they are acceptable to the public regardless of politics. Ventilate their opinions on public questions with oracle-like positiveness. Usually look upon the unassuming business man as lacking in force of character. Sanction many actions without thorough investigation thereof.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Dr. Torrey, the evangelist, was speaking one day in London when a bibulous fellow arose and announced, waveringly, that he did not believe everything in the Bible. "I don't see how anybody can walk on water," he declared; "can you do it, Dr. Torrey?" The preacher looked grimly at the man for a moment and then answered: "Well, I can walk on water better than I can on rum." L. J. MADDUX. Staple and Fancy Grocer Home Phone 784 West 852 FREEMAN AVENUE Home Phone 784 West. Bell Phone 200 West 852 FREEMAN AVENUE, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. As made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of Directors—T. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. M. Harvey, T. B. Hunt, Edward George, F. J. Feix, F. Leix, L. O. Faid, T. Beals, Fernando P. Nehl, Wm H. Seeger Edwin W. Zea. 1906 Vine Street, Kansas City, Mo. Hats made to order. You you can purchase an line you We also have a nice line of Lad Also Boys waists, Men and W notions. We buy our goods at wholesal cheap as the downtown stores trial. We keep Ozone Face Powder, Hats made to order. Your old ones made new or you can purchase anything in the millinery line you may desire We also have a nice line of Ladies Hose, Neckwear, Ribbons, etc. Also Boys waists, Men and Women's underwear. All kinds of notions. We buy our goods at wholesale and can sell to our patrons as cheap as the downtown stores can. Save car fare and give us a trial. We keep Ozone Face Powder, Electrical Skin Food, Scalp Soap, OZONE IS THE BEST FOR THE HAIR. 1906 VINE STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. Fashions in Paris. AGGRESSIVE MEN About Enough Said. David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. Approximately 1,00,0,00 young trees will be distributed to the people living on the prairies of western Kansas free of charge this year. H. S. Beauben, state forestry commissioner, says he is afraid that even this number will not be sufficient to supply the demand. The forestry stations at Dodge City and Ogallah have the young trees almost ready for shipment and will begin sending them out to those who have made application within a few days.-Topeka Capital. Navigation of the air, safely and expeditionally, is bound to be accomplished and to become man's future method of travel. An accident now and again is to be deplored through human sympathy, but it should not be allowed to prevent further experiments. If the bursting of a boiler with fatal results and deterred the inventor of the steam engine would we not have remained in the era of stage coaches? The army and navy maneuvers only lack the casualty list and a few scandals to be the real thing.—Pittsburg Dispatch. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" 80 The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Past 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. MEATS and All Kinds of Produce. Bell Phone 2'00 West KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President The Condition of the Union Mall Bank CITY. MO. Of the Currency at the close of June 18, 1906. LIABILITIES. Capital stock $ 600,000.00 Surplus fund 400,000.00 Undivided profits 108,589.16 Unearned interest 113,574.00 National bank notes outstanding. 500,000.00 Deposits. 10,546,507.11 Total. $12,268,608.27 STATES DEPOSITORY. George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. M. O. D. Ford, G. W. Lovejoy, Fenx L. La Fo Steger Edwin W. Zea. Millinery and Notion Store our old ones made new or anything in the millinery may desire es Hose, Neckwear, Ribbons, etc. men's underwear. All kinds ot e and can sell to our patrons as can. Save car fare and give us a electrical Skin Food, Scalp Soap. Trees for Kansas. Future Air Travel STRAIGHTENS WESTERN UNIVERSITY 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. List Your Property, as We Have Customers Ready to Deal. Homes Sold on Easy Payments Home 'Phone West 127. 1101 North Fifth Street, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS SHAVE 100. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR CUT 250 J. B. Lester. S. L. Clemons. Duke Mayes. J. B. LESTER'S SHAVING PARLOR Hot and Cold Baths. 557 Grand Ave. Kansas City, Mo. 4 New Porcelain Tubs. Cigars, Tobacco and Pool. Massage and Hair Dyeing a Specialty. Bell 380 West. EDGAR A. WILLIAMSON, Ph. G. Wyandotte Drug Co. 1512 N. Fifth Street. Tel. 171 West. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bath 15 Cents. Dyeing a Specialty The Progress Barber Shop and Shining Parlor Hair Cut, 25c; Shave, 10c. Face Massage a Specialty, 121 Independence Ave. SCOTT & SWENZELL, Props. Kansas City, Mo. DEALER IN Cash Groceries and Meats, Flour, Provisions, Etc. Goods delivered free to any part of the city Boll Phone 1265 x 1605 N. 10th Street, Kansas City, Kan. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE COLORED HELP A SPECIALTY MALE AND FEMALE MRS. EMMA STOVALL 1014 North 5th St., Kansas City, Kansas. There is but One Genuine SALT RISING BREAD Mother's Salt Rising Bread Insist on having the bread with the name on the label. THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . . DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Nation State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Musical (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ, mony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry and Book Binding, Business Course, Stemography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Coordering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Sipendid Location, Healthful Climate,ences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements o to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. PRESIDENT, QUINDARO, KANSAS Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell— D. W. WHITE, Real Estate, Loans and In List Your Property, as I have Customers Ready to Deal. Homes Sold on Easy Payme Home 'Phone West 127. * 1101 North Fifth Street, KANSAS Home Phone 6478 Main. R. H. TODD, Tailor. CLEANING, PRESSING AND DYEING. 0-Stairs 127 West 8th Street. HAVE 100. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR J. B. Lester, S. L. Clemons, Duke Mayes. J. B. LESTER'S SHAVING PARCEL Hot and Cold Bath Cigars, Tobacco and Pool. Massage and Hair Dyeing a S Bell 380 West. EDGAR A. WILLIAMSON, Ph. Yandotte Drug Co. Tel. 171 West. 1512 N. Fifth Street, KANSAS C Bath 15 Cents. Dyeing and The Progress Barber Shop and Shine Hair Cut, 25c; Shave, 10c. Face Mask Independence Ave. SCOTT & SWENZELL, Props. G. C. MOORE. Cash Groceries and Meats, Flour, Provo Goods delivered free to any part of the city Bell Phone 1265 x 1605 N. 10th Street, Kann ELECTRIC FACE MASSAGE FOR LADIES AND Henry Patton's BARBER SHOP ELECTRIC FACE MASSAGE FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN A SPECIALTY MASSAGE FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN A SPECIALTY BARBER SHOP 926 Wyandotte Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. Home or Bell Phones 253 West. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE COLORED HELP A SPECIAL MALE AND FEMALE OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. MRS. EMMA STOVA 1014 North 5th St., Kansas City There is but One Gen SALT RISING BRE and it is known by the name of Mother's Salt Rising B Insist on having the bread the name on the label ----MADE BY---- MATTHAEI (PRONOUNCED MAT-TAY.) Home Phone, 4117 Main. KANSAS CITY, M AIR OUT 250 MES. ARLOR New Porcelain Tubs ing a Specialty. Ph. G. S CITY, KANSAS a Specialty Dining Parlor Massage a Specialty Kansas City, Ma Provisions, Etc. Kansas City, Kan. LADIES' SHOES POLISHED. CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Lady Cashier in attendance. Prompt Service. OFFICE ALTY THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there bat enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Lawyer Calloway left today for Minneapolis. Don't forget the City Garden every Monday evening. Go to the City Garden Monday evening for a good time. Nice large unfurnished rooms for rent at 117 West 6th street. Miss Louise Robinson of 1017 Charlotte, is on the sick list. Typhoid fever is becoming very prevalent at present. Boil your water. Remember, the McRae Hotel is now being conducted by Henry Compton. Mrs. F. J. Peck is spending a few days in St. Joseph, Mo., with relatives. Harry Savington and wife, Sandy Miller and wife left this week for Chicago. Lawyer W. C. Hueston has returned from a very successful business trip to Denver. Mr. William James, waiter at the Baltimore hotel, will leave for St. Louis Friday. Bishop and Mrs. A. Grant accompanied Mrs Tillman to her home in Colorado last week. Mrs. A. Harper of 1712 Troost ave., has returned from Guthrie Okla., after a four weeks' stay. Crittenden Clark of St. Louis, a prominent lawyer, is visiting W. H. Bonsfield of Kansas City. Lawyer Quittrid of St. Louis, Mo., W. H. Bosfield and Lawyer Quittrid are at Excelsior Springs. Mrs. Hattie Knox of Talladega, Alabama, is visiting her sisters, Mrs. Mattie Edmonds and Mrs. King. Countee Bros. have just remodeled their place and now have one of the finest equipped embalming parlors in the West. Furnished rooms for rent in the Wales building. Apply at Black Diamond Messenger Service, 123 West Sixth street. The funeral of Mr. L. Ross was conducted Tuesday from the home 17th and Holmes streets. A large number of friends attended. Miss Stella Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. William Gamble and Mr. Hope, Faith and Charity Hall were the guests of Mrs. Lulu Beauford Sunday at dinner. The new addition to Douglas Hospital is progressing nicely. It will not be long before Douglass will take her place among the best hospitals of the city. 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. Doctor H. B. Parks buried his mother Friday in Atlanta, Ga., he is the only one now living of one of Atlanta's best and most respected families. James Runnells and The Son are grateful to the five subscribers who paid up last week. He will go after others next week. Please be ready to pay. Mrs. Parks, the mother of Dr. H. B. Parks, missionary secretary of the A. M. E. Church, died at her home in Atlanta, Ga., last Wednesday and was buried Friday. Mr. Henry Compton has succeeded Ben McRay in the hotel venture at 721 Charlotte street. No man is better fitted to take charge of this place than Mr. Compton. Luther Ross, age 44 years, died Sunday afternoon at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Rone, 708 --- East 17th street. He leaves a wife, two daughters, a mother-in-law, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The Rising Son sympathizes with the bereaved ones. W. H. Bosfield has sold the O. K. Barber Shop to Green Starks. Mr. Bosfield has been running this shop for a number of months, and will now join hands with his father on Fifth street. Miss Frances McWilliams, a very excellent and affable young lady, is now in charge of Douglass Hospital. Young ladies wishing to take the course in nurse-training may make application to her. The Winter-Wood Dramatic Club gave "Facing the Music" in Allen chapel Monday night to a good audience and all say it was the best ever given in this city and many are anxious for a return date. Sunday was a great day at Allen chapel, the church was crowded at 11 a. m., and at the night service many were turned away. Twenty were at the altar for prayer, some were converted and united with the church. Sister Mason as an evangelist, has no equal. Sister Mason left Tuesday morning for Hannibal, Mo., to attend the funeral of her sister, but will return for Sunday service. She has the prayers of many in this sad hour. The Masons are holding their grand session in Kansas City this week. C. G. Williams, M. W. G. M.; J. H. Pelham, Grand Sec'y; H. H. Fields, G. Sec'y and A. R. Chinn, P. G. M.; R. T. Coles, G. Treas.; J. W. Baldwin, G. H. P. Among the prominent Masons in the city is J. E. Heriford of Chillicothe; Lewis Root, G. J. W. The election of officers and the Convention Hall affairs taking lace too late to be reported we will mention in our next issue. A mob of 3,000 men broke into the Rowan county jail is Salisbury, N. C., August 6, removed therefrom three Negroes, charged with murder and lynched them. Governor Glenn, when he heard that trouble was threatened, ordered special trains to carry militia from other towns but countermanded the order as the lynchers had finished their work. He declared the lynching was a disgrace to the state and said that the members of the mob must be punished. Such occurrences are not only a far cry from right and justice, but are a disgrace to this country of ours, and a menace to civilization. And we are wont to exclaim, How long, oh! Lord, how long! And wonder why our white brother preaches law-abiding to us and constantly breaks it himself. JOTTINGS. Every blonde carries her own headlight. Poverty is a grindstone on which many wits are sharpened. Beauty is often one woman's thorn in another woman's flesh. Misery may love company, but the company seldom reciprocates. Bookkeepers and washerwomen always know where to draw the line. Any man who lives within himself is apt to be troubled with indigestion. When Dame Fortune goes calling she utterly disregards "at-home" days. It is always hard to foretell whether a strike is to result in a gusher or a duster. A cynic is a man who would make a fool of himself in the society he satirizes. When it comes to laughing stocks the pessimist is a bear and the optimist a bull. Some men get more satisfaction out of their laziness than others do out of the dollars they toil for. In a campaign of education it is often difficult to distinguish between pedagogues and demagogues. She Understood: "Yes," said the man who was beginning to sour on the national sport, "it's interesting sometimes, but baseball nowadays is becoming very dirty." "Oh," exclaimed his fair companion, "I understand now why all those players are wearing gloves."—Philadelphia Press. Country Mail Delivery. Rural free delivery was established under President McKinley in 1897. During the fiscal year ended 1903 there were 15,119 routes in operation, with 11,700 petitions pending. Great Sewer System If the sewers of New York city were placed end to end in a straight line they would reach from there to Pike's Peak, 1,710 miles, and the paved streets of the city would make a road along one side of them all the way. Poor Management. The Athens correspondent of the London Mail says the management of the Olympian games was "chaos." Busy Bodies. Too many people look for their duty next door. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES HIGH CLASS DENTISTRY 1029 Main St. EXTRA THIS WEEK Gold Filling, 80e to 32 Silver Filling, 28e Paintless Exte $8 PLATES $5 GOLD CROW Gold Fillig, 60s to $2 Silver Fillig, 25s Painting Extraction, 25s $8 PLATES $3 $5 GOLD CROWNS 23 Years of Success RELIABILITY Per cent Work The Old Reliable 23 years before the public; our work is guaranteed to give satisfaction; all work kept in repair free of charge. Any patient who has had work done in our Kansas City office or in Eastern Cities should come to us and have the work examined; any necessary repairs will be cheerfully made free of charge. Thousands of tes monials from satisfied patients. Kill and courteous treatment to all. Ask your friends about us. GOLD CROWNS, BRIDGES, $2.65 to Speci Inducer For Out-of-Town SET OF TEETH..... BEST TEETH..... GOLD CROWNS, $3 to CLEANING..... No Extra Charge for When Teeth are Specials on Bridge Rates This Week. Examination Free. Silver Filling ..... 25c White Crown ..... 2.00 Platinum Filling ..... 50c Painless Extraction ..... 25c Teeth Cleaned ..... 50c Gold Filling ..... 50c to $2 All Work Guaranteed 20 Years. The Best Pay For the Least Amount ...is the Best Paying Business For the Least Amount of Money Invested ...is... Having a Billiard and Pool Room No Bad Debts. Cash in the Drawer Every Night We can fit you out with a complete Hall for very Little money. The K. C. Billiard MAKERS OF GOOD TABLE 1321 Main The Eastern Meals at all hours. Ice Cream Grand A Furnished Rooms to rent at the 114 East 8th St., 576- The K. C. Billiard Table Mig. Co. MAKERS OF GOOD TABLES AT LOW PRICE 1321 Main Street. The Eastern Dining Room all hours. Ice Cream, Cigars and Tobacco Grand Avenue. Rooms to rent at the following places: g 114 East 8th St., 576-578 Grand Avenue. The K. C. Billiard Table Mig. Co... MAKERS OF GOOD TABLES AT LOW PRICES 1321 Main Street. The Eastern Dining Room Meals at all hours. Ice Cream, Cigars and Tobacco. 572 Grand Avenue. Furnished Rooms to rent at the following places: 913 McGee, 114 East 8th St., 576-578 Grand Avenue. Mrs. M. King, Prop., Bell. 572 Grant The 5478 Main Bell 'Ph L. PRAT REAL ESTATE RENTAL AND INSURANCE HOUSES For Sale Easy Terms, Like 127 West 8th Street AS CITY, MIS OMPTON'S HOTEL Charlotte Street, Kansas STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION Main. A Home 'Phone 5478 Main P.L.P. REAL ESTATE And INSU Houses On Easy Term 127 West KANSAS CITY, COMPTON 721 Charlotte Street, STRICTLY FIRST-CLAS Bell Phone 268 Main. REAL ESTATE RENTAL And INSURANCE. Houses For Sale On Easy Terms, Like Rent. 127 West 8th Street COMPTON'S HOTEL 721 Charlotte Street, Kansas City, Mo. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS Bell Phone 2078 Maln. A. COMPTON, Prop. "If a newspaper man knew how many knocks are received behind his back he would adopt another calling," remarked a citizen the other day. But we beg leave to differ. The wide-awake, go-ahead newspaper man, one with grit, get and gumption, realizes early in the game that he is to be knocked by every law-breaker, mugwump and hypocrite because by nature they are muck rakers, and the newspaper man expects to have his missils hurled at him and has long since learned to dodge. 18th and Tracy, one block north of the Negro High School. The doctor will occupy this room with a first-class drug store on or about Sept. 1. He will be the only Negro in this country owning and operating a string of drug stores. This young Negro came to Kansas City five years ago without a cent, today his rating with Dunn & Bradstreet is well up in the thousands. As a rule when we read of a Negro success, it is all on paper and is nothing but talk, but we know these are facts. We need more young men of this type. Dr. Theo. Smith, our popular drug-gist, has leased a store room under the new up-to-date forty room hotel at --- HIGH CLASS DENTISTRY Tel. 2471 Bell. 23 YEARS IN BUSINESS WEEK EXTRA Painless Extraction, 27c Teeth Cleaned, 60c TES $3 ROWNS $3 Special Inducement For Out-of-Town Patients SET OF TEETH..... $5.00 BEST TEETH..... 8.00 GOLD CROWNS, $3 to..... 5.00 CLEANING..... .50 No Extra Charge for Vitalized Air When Teeth are Ordered. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES NEW YORK DENTISTS, 1029 Main St. Entire 2nd Floor. --- Table Mig. Co., BLES AT LOW PRICES in Street. Dining Room m, Cigars and Tobacco. 572 Avenue. the following places: 913 McGee, -578 Grand Avenue. RATT. STATE RENTAL URANCE. For Sale Ins, Like Rent. 8th Street N'S HOTEL Kansas City, Mo. ASS ACCOMMODATIONS A. COMPTON, Prop. 18th and Tracy, one block north of the Negro High School. The doctor will occupy this room with a first-class drug store on or about Sept. 1. He will be the only Negro in this country owning and operating a string of drug stores. This young Negro came to Kansas City five years ago without a cent, today his rating with Dunn & Bradstreet is well up in the thousands. As a rule when we read of a Negro success, it is all on paper and is nothing but talk, but we know these are facts. We need more young men of this type. If Kansas City had a hundred such Negroes like the doctor the race problem in Kansas City would soon be solved. The Son wishes him success. --- 572 Grand Avenue. Bell 'Phone 3136 Main MISSOURI The Question Before the House It is a question of where you buy as to what you get in Pianos 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 Pianos 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 Pianos for $125. We sell $250 Pianos for $190. We sell $300 Pianos for $210 Any of our Pianos 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. There is no increase for time payments, only interest at 6 per cent per annum for such time as you actually take—a very small item indeed. We carry over 500 Pianos in stock. Come and see. Count them yourself—one, two, three, four, etc. J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. 1013-1015 WALNUT STREET ART DEPARTMENT OF Campbell Glass & Paint 1228 Main Street, Kansas C HOME PHONE 2727 MAIN. S. W. Agents for the Metrostyle Pianola. Best Place to Buy a Piano. ART DEPARTMENT OF Campbell Glass & Paint Co. 1228 Main Street, Kansas City. HOME PHONE 2727 MAIN. A. T. Moore Undertaking C Funeral Directors and Embalmers A Shoe Full of Value and Wear--- The Bostonian S $3.50 and $4.00 Patent Colt, 4 Button Patent Colt, Blucher Russia Calf Tan, 4 Button Button Blucher for Dress Oviatt Shoe 1105 Main. GREETING I, SAMUEL DIGGS, a member of McKin No. 21, am engaged in the undertaking and wish your lodge and brethren to give whenever you need anything in my line. aim in this great highway as a business r race to give first class accommodation service. Will be pleased to have each an brethren to pay my place a call at any time Patent Colt, 4 Button $3.50 Patent Colt, Blucher 3.50 Russia Calf Tan, 4 Button 3.50 Button Blucher for Dress 4.00 Oviatt Shoe Co. 1105 Main. GREETING SAMUEL DIGGS, a member of McKinley Lodge No. 21, am engaged in the undertaking business, and wish your lodge and brethren to give me a call whenever you need anything in my line. It is my aim in this great highway as a business man of the race to give first class accommodation and quick service. Will be pleased to have each and all of the brethren to pay my place a call at any time. SAMUEL DIG Undertaker, Embalmer Funeral Director 1012 North Third St., Kansas C Home Phone, 905 West; Bell Phone, 1094 SAMUEL DIGGS, Undertaker, Embalmer and Funeral Director. 1012 North Third St., Kansas City, Kan. Home Phone, 905 West, Bell Phone, 1094 West. Home Phone 5225 Main Bell Phone East 538 X. Parlors 1820 East 18th St.. For women. Strong and well built. Flexible sole and military heel. This is a John Kelly product—no better recommend needed. Every woman who has seen this Court Tie says it's "perfectly lovely." Patent colt vamp—patent tip—fancy heel foxing—medium eyelets—extension edge. e Yours fraternally, Lady Attendant. King Co. KANSAS CITY, MO. $2.50 an Shoe 4.00 SENSE IS NEEDED. ALOWG WITH A GREAT DEAL COM. MON TACT. Having Acquired These, and Standing Shoulder to Shoulder, John Sharp Williams Thinks the Democrats Might Carry the Next House of Representatives. John Sharp Williams has lately ex Pressed this conviction regarding the outlook for a rehabilitation of the Shattered fortunes of the Democratic party: “We are upon the eve of carrying the house of representatives, if we only act together, shoulder to. shout der, and show common tact and com mon sense.” To expect the Democratic party, Which Ingersoll used to characterize Ss “un orgmnized appetite,” to show common tact and common sense un: der any imaxinable conditions, is as Unreasonable as to expect the leopard to change his spots, It is diteult to recall a period of time within the past 60 years when the Democratic party failed to do the wrong thing at the right time, ‘Total ineapaeity to. cor: sectly jude the trend of things has Loen its almost invariable record Clearer proof of that fact contd not be asked than is to be found in that yartys mistaken adherence to free trade and its foolish antagonism to: ward the policy of protection. Its single opportunity since 1860 of show ing itself worthy of being entrusted with the care of the country’s best re- sults occurred in 1992, with the result of fniticting a loss npon the country moderately estimated at $10,000,000,- 009 ‘The total eost of Demoeratie tariff lextslation on free trade lines Was probably greater than that sum. it Wonld seem that common sense might have discovered the effects. of the blunder and that common tact might have prevented its recurrence, Nothing of the kind, The Bourbon fight against the accepted policy of the American people goes on forever, The party has learned nothing, for: gotten nothing For example, we find the everlasting dall, dense hatred of anestablished system cropping ont in the speech of one of the leading ora: tors ia the just Fourth of July: cele: Qwation of the ‘Tammany society ot New York. On that occasion Bourke Cockran declared As only a small percentage of om People are eniplosed in so-ealled pro tweted industries which receive the heneitis of the system, the great bur den falls upon the balance who ar employed in unprotected industries Dat receive none of the benetit of the eystem. So a large elass is taxed fo the advantage of a small class, ane Therefore the equality of | burden which Jefferson planned for Is defeat el by the inequalities whieh Roos velt stands for And Congressman Henry, of Texas followed with this jubilant preg tion : “When we meet Tammany In th hext national convention Texas wil be there holding ap the hanner of th Ereatest Democrat who has live sinee Jefferson —William J. Tryan.” What an appeal is here made fo fhe confidence of the business inte ests, the industrial producers and th Wageearners of the country! On demagozue shonting the shallow li Gisproved by the faets of the grea est prosperiiy ever witnessed or imi fined, that the benefits of protectio are for (he favored few, while its juries are vislted upon the gener: mass; and another demagozue givin assuranee that Texas and ‘Tamman will be found shoulder to shonider | the uphearing of the standard ot Pre Trader ryan, ‘That is the combin tion that is expected to capture tl presidential prize of 1908: ‘Texas au Tammany, Vryan and free trad John Sharp Williams may well pleg for common sense and common ta There is need for them. Saw Mot Be Advantaceous. An inerease in foreign trade may or may not be advantageous to a na- tion or @ commonwealth, It depends upon conditions and eireumstances, 11 is not necessarily advantageous and ft may be positively disadvantageous For example, Connectient produces cutlery and New Jersey produces pot: tery. Connecticut supplies New Jersey wiih cutlery and New Jersey supplies Connectieut with pottery. We will suppose that the annua exchange ts of $1,000,000 worth 0 cutlery for $1,000,000- worth of pot tery: total exchange, $2,000,000, Suppose, further, that under a con dilion of free trade or reciprocity Con necticut, instead of exchanging prod ucts with New Jersey, exchanges he cutlery for French pottery. In such case France gains what Nev Jersey has lost. The exports will show a gain o $1,000,900, but this gain is at the ex pense of New Jersey's labor and pre duction. ‘The imports also show gain of $1,000,009; total increase « foreign trade, $2,000,000, What has the nation gained? Not! Ans. It has lost by the transaction $1,006 000, precisely the sum lost by Ne Jersey labor and production, less th difference in the lower cost of tl pottery imported from France. It may be that this differen amounts to 20 per cent. In that ea: the nation has saved $200,000 and lo $1,000,000, Net loss, $800,000 a year. So the $2,000,000 “gain” In forels trade turns out to be fictitious. As a matter of fact there has be: @ loss and uo gain. FREE HIDES WOULD DO HARM. Senator Warren Drops Some Broad | Hints to Eastern Manufacturers. In a speechafew years ago before the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Senator Warrea ot Wyoming earnestly advised against any attempt to secure a removal of the tariff! on wool, If." said he, it “substance, “any of you are thinking of free waol, I would repeat the fam: ous advice of Punch to persons cons templating matrimony; ‘Don't!’ This: Was supplemented, as we remember, with some significant suggestions to the effect that the tari! on woolens could not very well be retained after the tariff on wool should be removed, Senator Warren's “Don't!” produced the desired effect. Very little has been heard from wool manufacturers in the past five years on the subject of abol- ishing the tariff! on wool, "Again the senatorial ranchman from Wyoming 8 on hand with a "Don't!" This time his advice is addressed the manufacturers of boots, shoes and leather products. Mr. Warren's speech of June 27, in the senate, on the subject of “Livestock Statistics: Shall There Be a Duty on Hides?" is brimful of pertinent facts as to the magnitude of the agricultural Inter- ests which would be assailed and an: tagonized by the refusal of the party of protection to continue the protec: tion embodied in the Dingley law to the livestock growers of this country, It will astonish some people to learn that as long ago as 1899 there was, according to the twelfth census, a total of 11,249,131 persons in the United States whose livelihood was dependent directly and indirectly on the livestock industry, or 88 per cent. of our entire working population, and that the gross value of meat products, not including retail butchering, will in 1906 reach $1,000,000,000. | There are facts and figures in Sen- ator Warren's speech which may well (arrest the attention of those who clamor for free hides and threaten the downfall of the party of protection unless their demand shall be granted. It should occur to these people that they represent a rather small voting foree, compared with the 12,000,000 voters who are concerned In the re- tetnion of protective duties on all the products of thel ivestock industry. To the disturbing element which would, if it could, stultify the party of protection by free trade in what it buys while retaining protection for | what it sells, the closing words of Senator Warren should come alike as a rebuke and a warning: “The permanency of protection as a national policy rests largely with the American farmer, When he arrives at the conviction that protection being withheld from him in order that the profits of manufacturers may be swelled, then the end of protection will swiftly come, “Mr. President, our tariff laws wher framed by protectionists have never been made to favor one state, one section of the country, or one indus try. They never will be, We are al so interdependent that an injury. t¢ one industry or to one part of the country is an injury to all, and benefit to one is a benefit to all, Un der a universal protective tariff ou: | freight ears are loaded going bot Ways from east to west, from west t east; from north to south, from soutl to north. The farmer is prosperous ‘as is the manufacturer, and employe of both, A protective tariff is a com * pensating tariff and always must be else it would not give protection a all and unless it is given to all, 1 is given fully to none, Protection ear not be sectional and selfish, It mus | he general and adequate. Such pre ‘ tection is now In foree under the oj ‘eration of the present law. It is th 1 moet perfect law we have known, W | shall, as a matter of conrse, have t sl revise it some time, but not todas P We are too busy, too well employe: 1 too well paid for our labor, too pro * perous to think seriously of tariff r 1) vision in the year of our Lord 1906 ‘ : | Higher Prices, The Buffalo Times covers only @ part of the subject when It asks: “Are you studying the tariff ques: tion? Do yon know that your money will buy only about two-thirds as much now as it would before the pres: ent tariff bill was passed?" Do you also know that a condition of high prices obtains throughont the civilized world, and. that — nobody's money will buy more than about two- thirds of what it would buy ten yeara ago? Financial scientists are attrib- uting this increase in current value: and this lower purchasing power of money all over the world to an enor. mous increase In the supply of gold The condition obtains in free trad Great Britain as well as in protecte America, In this country, however Lunder a protective tariff, employmen and wages have more than kept pac jwith the higher cost of living, whil 12 per cent. of Great Britain's wor! people have no employment and n money at all with which to pay th higher prices. An Asset? “Tariff revision Is a Democratic as. set,” sagely remarks the Washington Post. True now, true always. ‘Tariff revision was the chief Democratic asset in 1892, and the party realized on it in great shape, Three months after the realization in the Wilson: Gorman act the Democratic majority been changed back to a Republicar majority, and two years later MeKin ley, the apostle of protectionism, was tected president, along with a con gress Republican in both branches | Three Republican presidents and con | srossae have been elected tn succes sion on the strength of that valuabl | asset. Pease TaN sriaGe ot. 7 Fact gP\ir Little, 12 adFancy (|, People > Saw ey { PoE Fe EET ae: | N SS eo ee) The King’s Orders. But They Were Not Executed Because | the hexds of half the Spanish yout the Prince Held His Nerve Un- lk type that Cervantes has immorta Sitch hia Bile Wan ie Bon Quikcee A story 1s told of one of the Moor- fsh princes ot Granada, which 1s well worth noting, showing as it does, the great value of coolness and self-control in trying cireumstances. When Mahommed the Sixth usurped the throne of Granada, he set aside his elder brother Yousut, the rightiul beir to the throne, so that the kingdom migat be secure to his own children. He caused Prince Yousuf to be impris- oned in the castle of Shalobanya, where he remained for the ten years of his brother's retgn, Mahommed in- tending, when he felt his health fail ing, to have bis brother assas-inared ‘The untortunate prince, though ‘brave and courageous to the last de- gree, was forced to submit to his brother's arbitrary will, knowing that rebellion Would be In vain, He Was @ man of commanding presence, cour- teous to all about him, and of so wan: ning and gracious a manner that he gained the love and fealty of his entire household, any one of whom would gladly have risked life in his cause, ‘This was especially true of the aleayde of Shalobanya, who was his devoted friend. Prince Yousuf passed the weary days of his captivity the best he could, his favorite recreations being the kame of chess, of which he was a passionate Moe ARR fae a READING HIS DEATH WARRANT. lover; and the perusal of the exciting Itterature of the day. In the early part of the fifteenth ¢en- tury, knight errantry was rife, The young Spanish nobles vied with each other in proving their prowess In arms, incited by the reading of such wond?rful romances as “Adventures of Amadis di Gaul,” a book that turned The Magic Bottle. How You Can Make It Appear That You Are Pouring Through the Bottom of the Bottle. Here is a trick that will proye a puzzle to those who are not pretty well up in physics. Take an ordinary dinner plate, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, and fill it with water, then a small empty bottle, and assure the spectators that you are wizard enough to pour water through the solid bottom of the lat- ter. Pass the bottle around, that all may see it perfectly empty and dry, then, having thrust a stick into It and held ft to the fire until it it is very hot— too hot to hold in the bare hands— stand it, mouth dowward, in the plate of water, At the same time pour a tablespoonful of water on the upturned bottom, as if you were beginning te fill it in that way. | wach time you do this the bottle A Clever Trick. Requires Careful Balancing and You May Fool Your Boy Friends with It, ‘The accompanying picture shows this little feat better than any words could do, Plage a chair on the floor, front downward, in such a way that the legs are horizontal and the back is uppermost. Get one of your boy friends to kneel on the lower back bar of the cnair and take up with his lips a piece of candy placed on the back of the top bar, The picture shows you his post tion, just as he is about to make the attempt. It Is not unlikely that the boy will think you have set a trap for him; that you want to give him a "header" on to the floor, but you can overcome his reluctance by first doing the thins yourself, All that 18 necessary Is for you te keep the center of gravity back of th chair seat, and this you can do by crouching very carefully. Perhaps Suggests the Cincinnat! Commercia Tribune, it might be as well for yo || to practice for a while in private, an the hexds of half the Spanish youth, @ type that Cervantes has immortal+ ized in Don Quixote. ‘The fascination of chess, however, rivaled those of the tournament with the knights of Spain, and many an hour was begulled over the game by Prince Yousuf. and the faithful al- cayde. They were seated thus, one day, Loth intent upon the game, You suf tor the time completely forgetting the sword that was always hanging over hit head. He was losing slowly but surely, his adversary’s knight and castle were steadily bearing down upon his king, when « page hastily entered the room and injormed the Yleayde that a mes- senger Was without, desiring to see him upon an urgent matter of state, “Yell him to wait until our gene of chess ty finished,” sald the prince, But the page made an imploring ges- ture *o the ateayde, which brought the latter tustantly to his feet, and he hastened out to meet the messenger, who silently and gravely handed him a sealed note from the king. Hastily tearing It open, the aleayde glanced over tne contents, his cheek blanching as he did so, With tottering steps he reentered the room, and the prince, shocked at his pallor, explaimed: | “My friend, what Is thy trouble? | Thou !ookest as though thou hast just received thy death warrant! Oh,” he added, jokingly, “perchance the king, my most loving brother, demands my head! Speak! Is It so?” For answer the alcayde handed him the letter, but his hand trembied so that the paper fluttered to the floor. Yousuf, stooping, coolly picked it up, and rcad at a glance the following wor ls: “My servant, when thou receivest this letter thou shalt immediately take the life of my brother Yousuf and send me his head by my trusty mes: sengos.” ‘The eyes of the brave prince never Neuen od, nor did his voice falter as be Vsaid quietly to the page: “Bid the king’s messenger wait unt! Jour game is ended; it wil be but < few moments now, for Lt am losing rapidly; fate is against me on every side.” ‘They reseated themselves at the board, but the aleayde played wildly, It was an easy matter for the prince to regain his lost advantage, and he was just giving checkmate when In the | distance was heard the clatter o horses’ hoofs. Nearer and nearer the; came, and scon two caballeros fron Granada, armed cap-a-pie, coverec with dust, and in the maddest haste ; came Cushing into the courtyard at ful speed, - “The king is dead! Long live th » king! Long live our good king You 1 sutt” ‘The lesson for children to learn fron 1 this story 1s of course obvious, Neve f give up hope in the face of misfortune 1 —Chicago Daily News, IN ee Cees THE WATER MISING IN THE BOT- TLE will be seen to retain more water, and as a corresponding amount will have disappeared from the plateful from which you are dipping it, it will east- ly appear as though the water had passed through the bottom of the bot- tle. OT ae ee | Ary od = We oa Z a7 Zi - i—! —— 7 \) DOING THE TRICK. you might also find an advantage in having a pillow or some other soft thing just in front of the chair, so that if you come down you will come dowa easily, Some people suppose they can remne to nature in an automobile Foolish Idea. HON. W. H. KEI BAUGH OF WEST VIRGINIA PRAISES PE-RU-NA. iil Sis ans Pp FESR i . - a Hh aoe ~» H —.—i(<(i~SY | HA i ae ih | i i ‘| | i il a) f| A eS) a m 7 | H | ee ee ee ee at Cold at Any Time of the Year, Es. fecially in Hot Weather, is Very De- Pressing to the System, Pe-runa is aan Unequated Tonic For Such Cases. Read What People Say About It. poececcecceteccscocesesees Hon, W, H, Kelbaugh, Ex-Member W. Va. Legislature, 204 9th street, N.E,, Washington, D. C., writes: «You ean use my nameand word at all times for Peruna as a medi- cine and tonic unequaled. | have tried it for a stubbora cold and badly run down system. I tried all sorts of other medicines and paid several expensive doctor bills. Peruza cured me, strengthened me more than ever, and saved me money."" sttcccceseeeeeeeeageeeee Mrs. Clara Litterst, Seafleld, Ind. says: ‘Last fall I tool a severe cold. | took Peruni, began to improve and kep! on so until I was able to do my work.’ ——__—— TWO WRITERS OF BIOGRAPHY. Johnson and Boswell Exponents of Different Schools. It fs an interesting fact in the his- tory of literary genres that two of the great examples of biographical writing occur almost side by side. Less than a decade separates the com: pletion of Johnson's “Lives of the Pocts"—happtly honored in the new edition of the late Dr. Birkbeck Hill -—from the publication of his own life by Boswell. Yet with the latter book a new type of biography came into boing. Johnson, in the main, had, Ike most of his predecessors, fol- iSwed a simple narrative and expost tory method, prefixing a plain story ‘of the poet's life to a systematic ac: count of his character and a critical estimate of his works; he gathered his fags and impressions _ together and spoke for the author and for him: self, Boswell, on the other hand, making use of a more dramatic method, succeeded in his attempt to let the author reveal himself, and, in stead of an exposition of character, painted a picture of personality, te which his own comments were sub ordinate, What we see as a type o! mind and character In Johnson's work we see as a living man in Boswell.— The Forum. SAITH THE OWL. In the comic opera of life the chorus girls are cooks. One good thing about rainbow gold fs that we can't squander it on bar- gains. Many a fond young writer's hopes come home coffined in long white en: velopes. ‘The only jewels that man should no be ashamed to wear are the beads o honest toll. Go abroad and Godspeed you, m} friends. But forget the sights you se« before you see me again. ‘A modern financier {s a youth of to day who can marry and make his fa ther-in-law take care of them both. Consider the ways of the popula chaperon, She hath ears that hea not and eyes that obsolutely refuse t behold anything. “NO TROUBLE” To Change from Coffee to Postum. “Postum has done a world of good for me,” writes an Ills. man, “I've had indigestion nearly all my life but never dreamed coffee was the cause of my trouble until last Spring I got so bad I was in misery all tho time. “A coffee drinker for 30 years, it {rritated my stomach and nerves, yet Twas just crazy for it, After drinking {t with my meals, I would leave the table, go out and lose my meal and the coffee too, Then I'd be as hungry as ever. “A friend advised me to quit coffee and use Postum—said {t cured him. Since taking his advice I retain m food and get all the good out of it, and don't have those awful hungry spells “I changed from coffee to Postur without any trouble whatever, fell better from the first day I drank it I am well now and give the credit tc Postum.” Name given by Postun Co,, Battle Creek, Mich. Read the lit tle hook, “The Road to Wellville,” ir pkga ‘There's a reason.” A man can't be unusually polite without being looked upon with suse picion, PUTNAM FADELES® DYES do now stain the hands oF spot the kettle, excep Green aud purple. “Marriage is sometimes an accident,” says the Cynical Bachelor, “from which it takes lifetime to recover." “por eniftt, Winslow's Hoothing Arrap, Fopshlrsa teething” sarcna hg wmeegoasges fe Sctaiation, ads pels, cures wind coll. Waa vote | tthe trouble with self-conscious peo ple is that they forget to forget them- selves. You always get, full value in Lewiv? Single Binder straight Se cigar. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, I. In the course of conversation one must change the solid gold of one’s thoughts into countiess pieces of such small coin that one invariably ap pears poor.—Carmen Sylva. Ancestry of Dion Boucicault. The name of Boucicault is French in origin, Dion Bouctcault was the son of a French refugee who fled to Ireland and married an Irish girl. He was named Dion after his father's friend, Dr. Dionysius Lardner, a noted British writer on physical science. Ina Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. A powder, It cures painful, smart- ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails, It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold By ait drugesets, af0. | Trial package, EE. ress imstec Roy, N. ¥. New York's Diamond Cross. New York city has the largest dia- mond cross in the world, though it is not recognized as such. Its main line runs along Maiden lane, with its foot resting on Broadway and its arms extending north and south along Nassau street. Here there are 480 men in the diamond business and there are more of the gems there than in the same space tn any other city. India’s Cotton Crop. The cotton crop of India was larg- er last year, 1905, than the generai average. About 20,000,000 acres were planted tn cotton and the yield was about 3,500,000 bales. During the year there were exported from India to other countries over 2,125,000 bales of raw cotton at a value of over $81,- 000,000, the four countries, Japan, Ger- many, Belgium and Italy, in the order named, being the largest purchasers, they together buying nearly 1,500,000 bales of Indian cotton, while Japan alone took nearly 500,000 bales. REST THAT RESTS, | Rest means rest. “Cut out” worrying. Rest with a capital R. Few persons know how to rest. Rushing for trains and boats isn't resting. Being elbowed by a vulgar mob {sn't resting. Neither fs staying home and being annoyed by endless details. Overdressing, overeating ‘and too much excitement are not restful. Over Sunday rest is best accom- plished by a trip to some restful place. The {dea ts to discover what best agrees with one and then to follow it as well as possible. —————— RECORD OF A GREAT MEDICINE A Prominent Cincinnat! Women Tele How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Completely Cured Her. ‘The great good Lydia EB. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading pe and thinking people gener- ly, 5 Mos PO ct Gand “Pied gery : Va tea Sy Boh ee com Pie ea ma f Sie Mrs Jara Wilson \ ‘The following letter is only one of many thousands which are on file in the ‘Pinkham office, and go to Re beyond question that Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound must be = remedy of great merit, otherwise it Could ‘not ‘produce. such marvelous Fesults among sick and ailing womeh, Dear Mrs, Pinkbam:— “About nine months ago T was a great sut- tors twith Yosnalo trouble, which caused mo fovere pain, extreme nervousness and fre- ment Beadaches, from which the doctor filled to relieve me, 1 tried Lydia F Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, and within » short time felt better, and after taking five bottles of it wasentirely cured. Itherefore haurtiy recommend our Compestnd aa a splendid Somat trele, ml ged ay Spleteoguias and without pain; and. w a ‘leatng lt is to find such a Rmely after “4 fauny doctors fail to help you. Tam pleasst to recommen it to all suffering women."— Mrs. Sara Wilson, 31 East Sd Street, Cincin- nati, Obio, Tf you have suppressed or painful riods,, weakness. of the stomach, Thdigestion, bloating, pelvie eatarry nervous prostration, dizziness faint ness, ‘don't-care” and “ want-to-be- Tefvalone” feeling, excitability, back- ache or the blues, these arm sure indi cations of female weakness, or some derangement of the organs, In such cases there is one tried and true remedy Cydia B, Pinkbam's Vegetable Com- ae FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN Concerning Health When My Lady Motors A LITTLE TALK ADDRESSED TO THE SCHOOLGIRL. The Ideal Girl of Yesterday a Willowy, Delicate Creature—The Schoolgirl of To-Day, While More Robust, Should Look After Her Health First—Don't Try to Pay Your Way Through School with Your Own Work—Substitute Plain Water for Soda and Fruit for Pastry—Hot Biscuits Not for a Beauty. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. If you ever, Dorothy, in the house of some old-fashioned friend, pick up one of those elegant gift books which were in vogue in the '50's, you will remember the steel engraving that showed the ideal girl of yesterday. She was a willowy creature, with a delicate face, long silken ringlets shading her cheek, a very small waist, and long graceful hands. She had been taught to do embroidery and other fine needle work. She excelled in the piano playing of her day, which was a less severe accomplishment than now, and she was refined and reposeful. But there was something a little depressing in her charm. A dirgellike hymn, familiar to your mothers, epitomizes that girl as she used to be. "Sister, thou wast mild and lovely, Gentle as a summer breeze, Pleaseast as the air of evening, When it stirred among the trees." I have attended the funeral of more than one such exquisite girl, and have helped to sing that very nymn beside the silent sleeper. With the knowledge of hygiene, which is universal in the twentieth century, we are learning that the girls who used to be sacrificed on the altar of a mistaken ideal need not have died so soon. Very early in life they were taught not to run or jump, or do anything unit for a little lady, and as they grew older they were tight stays, abiding their breathing power; they slept in unventilated rooms, being afraid of the night air, and if by any fatal chance they come near a case of tuberculosis, they fell victims to it along the line of least resistance. It may have been 20 years ago or more that the reaction against this style of feminine languor reached its height. Then, the athletic girl was greatly in evidence. So far from caring at all about her looks, she was intensely proud of a sun-bronzed and wind-tuned complexion, of red hands and arms, and of a sort of rude robustness that eliminated the touch of daintiness to which every girl should aspire. We have reached a saner day, and our girls have learned that they live an outdoor life, have perfect health and lose no jot of attractiveness. I well remember in my girlhood hearing a man comment unfavorably on the thickness of my walking shoes. He said, sotto voce: "How can that girl's mother let her wear those clumsy, thick-soled shoes?" Being somewhat quick of temper and well acquainted with the youth, I ventured to tell him that the shoes were adapted to the climate and the weather and enabled me to take long walks without discomfort. He crushingly replied: "No elegant young woman ever takes long walks, or wears anything except thin-soled shoes." I suppose few girls who have grown up under the excellent regime which Toques and Peter Pan Turbans Lend ,Themselves Well to the Drap- ing Veil of the Day. Toques and turbans of the Peter Pan variety are comfortable motor shapes. ```markdown ``` and there are many little smugly but goes a motor vell of chifon, shirred around the sides and back of unragged shapes of fine straw braid or crin that are really ideal for motorizing, being of feather weight, most be- teaches us to dress properly for the weather, can believe that this critic voiced a general opinion. I have had reason all my life to be grateful for the independence and wisdom of a very sensible mother, who thought it a duty of her daughters to be well. Not merely a privilege—a positive, religious duty. Without health, one's pleasure is interfered with on every turn. This would be a small matter if one's chances to be useful were not also greatly diminished by fragile and uncertain health. People who are morbid and blue, and easily discouraged who make mountains of molehills and see lions in the way where others walk safely, are usually the prey of their nerves and have not reserve force enough to carry them through what they undertake. Schoolgirls, and those at college, too, sometimes break down through overwork, although I am inclined to think that this is seldom the case unless in addition to their legitimate work they attempt something else. Unless a girl is very strong, she should not try to pay her way through school or college by her own work. Some girls do this successfully, but they are exceptional. Still more dangerous is the effort to combine study and society. The girl at high school, living at home and trying to go to parties and concerts and other evening amusements, cannot maintain her proper rank in the classroom. Briefly stated, unbroken health is within the reach of most of us. We are fortunate if we have inherited vigorous bodies from parents and grandparents. Yet if we have begun life with tendencies to delicate health, we may overcome them by resolute will, careful dieting and generally hygienic living. An abundance of good, plain, nutritious food is essential to health. Thousands of schoolgirls owe their dull eyes, sallow complexions, pimples and frequent headaches to constant surfeiting on rich food and to eating too many sweets. A habit of eating between meals, nibbling chocolates and bon bons is fatal to digestion and good looks. A girl who is half sick most of her time will lose her comeliness, and as beauty is the birthright of schoolgirls, which they should not sell for the modern mess of pottage in the confectioner's window, one cannot but regret the spendthrift folly. Equally fatal to health is the habit of taking drugs. The girl who never gets far from the pill box will not have the high spirits and gay good humor which should be her portion. I seldom see a group of girls standing around a soda fountain without wishing that they knew the advantages of drinking plain cold water, only that and plenty of it, and letting sweetened syrups alone. Fruit should take the place of pastry, and it is better for growing girls wholly to omit coffee and tea from their bill of fare. Bread at least a day old is a better choice for a beauty than hot biscuits, and fried food should not be chosen if anything else can be had. Another secret of health for the schoolgirl is plenty of sleep. The beauty sleep must be taken before midnight. Go early to bed if you would be strong and equal to whatever you have to do. The temptation to sit up late because others do so is always great, but it should be resisted. (Copyright, 196. by Joseph B. Bowles) coming, and so closely fitted to the head that the wind bothers them but little and veils can be comfortably and attractively adjusted over them. Milliners are showing draped, close-fitting turbans in all shades of light gray to harmonize with the popular light gray motor coats, and, with the turban and leaving the face exposed. The veil is usually in gray, matching the straw, and sometimes a very sheer silk is used instead of chiffon, answering the same purpose of protecting the hair and neck and wearing much better than the more filmy material. Many women prefer for ordinary motoring to wear a separate veil tied over the hat and covering all of the head save the face, and select these veils with a view to their becoming qualities as well as their relation to the costume. If one can afford to sacrifice a veil often, one of white chiffon is desirable, for nothing is more becoming, and the white motor veils with dotted or striped borders of black or of colors are very charming. For the Nerves. For general treatment, so out into the fresh air as much as you can, take ocean baths, or sun baths if possible, and avoid tea and coffee and stimulants of any kind. Try a diet of fruit and vegetables, with meat once a day. Drink a glass of hot milk the last thing before going to bed. GOVERNMENT SERVICE NOT CALLING TO BE DESIRED. Salaries Small and Promotion Slow—Work Unfits Men for Business Life in the World. "In a debate at the capitol concerning the employees of the civil branch of the government stress was laid upon the eagerness with which these positions are sought by the public at large; that they were positions entailing no work, and they were upon the whole referred to in uncomplimentary terms," remarked a veteran employee of the treasury department. "It is to be regretted that these strictures upon our civil employees cannot be repiled to at length and in detail, but permitting a general denial to suffice, allow me to call attention to this act: It was thought to be remarkable because there are so many applicants for government positions. Men who have a knowledge of the employment of other men know that these applications are about in proportion to the number of vacancies to be filled, and that this same rule holds true as to railroads and the employees in other callings. Thus, it is an acknowledged fact that where one railroad man is killed or discharged there are 50 ready to step into his shoes. An advertisement for help in certain trades and businesses will bring hundreds of responses. "And as to the desirability of government clerical work as a life occupation let me say that although men seek these positions, it is a calling which should be the very last for any young man to enter who has ambitions higher than a graded salary. To those who feel that a comfortable living will answer their life demands it is a good occupation to go into in the lower grades and to work up to the higher on due course of promotion. In most occupations the financial limit of human attainments is not circumscribed, above the purely clerical level, but in the government civil service about $1,200 a year is the average limit to the yearly income, per haps it is even less than this, and I would not be surprised that it is. The positions paying $1,800 can almost be counted on the two hands in most of the departments. There is a little more liberality in the $1,600 grade, a shade more in the $1,400 grade, but the great bulk, the thousands and thousands of clerks and employees are in the $900 and $1,000 grades, or lower. "As compared with farm-hand labor this is liberal pay, but in many of the trades and manual callings it is not. In ordinary course of promotion to the average clerk it takes many years to get up to the $1,200 grade, where he lingers for many years more, and often stops there for good, as the small number of places in the three next succeeding grades of necessity limits their filling. When the average clerk reaches the $1,400 grade the percentage of a promotion to the two very limited upper grades is in proportion to their number very small in proportion to the great high bank of the thousands of lower grades behind them. "The whole character of the government work has changed within recent years. It is now very exacting and confining with a great deal to do; the day of the government 'snap' passed several years ago. There is now a constant strain and pressure, under which the work is put out. The rules are very rigid, and every day are becoming more so. Some officials lie awake nights planning ways to cut down the cubic breathing space of their forces. Every year spent in government service makes a man the more unfitted to go out into other pursuits, for the reason that the knowledge, and it is knowledge that he acquires while in office, is as a rute worthless in other calings. I repeat that it is not an occupation with possibilities beyond merely fair or good wages depending upon whether one is in the upper or lower grades." As soon as the president left the White House for the summer, extensive repairs were begun on the mansion, under the direction of Col. Charles S. Bromwell, superintendent of public grounds and buildings. The blue room is being thoroughly overhauled. The tapestries will be replaced by new ones, which will probably be ordered from abroad, as it is thought duplicates cannot be obtained in this country. No alterations will be made in the general appearance of the room, except that the floors will be scraped and polished and the woodwork refinished. The lower floors of the White House will be gone over, and all of them thoroughly cleaned and repolished. A great deal of painting will be done here also, and several minor changes are contemplated. Peculiar Line of Duty Charles Mades, of Washington, who used to feed the soldiers during the civil war, was telling of a row he had with a Pennsylvania soldier. "He came into my place," said Maues "and he was ugly. I remonstrated with him about some things he said and he picked up a big, heavy beer mug and threw it at me. I dodged and picked up another mug and threw it at him. It struck him in the face and tore off his nose." "What became of him?" asked Col. John Coovin. "Oh," said Mades, "he is around here now. He got a pension for injuries received in the line of duty." ```markdown ``` WHAT JOY THEY BRING TO EVERY HOME as with Joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health—and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature, and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. USE FAULTLESS THE BEST STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS COLLARS CUFFS AND FINE LINEN Nothing pleas as a well ma Shir W they will use no is guaranteed n delicate fabric best grocers at package contain storches, not no the same price per package, but they contain only 12 ounces of starch. Consult your own interests. Ask for DEFIANCE STARCH, get it, and we know you will never use any other. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Newkwood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. USE THE BEST FAUL STA FOR SHIRTS COLLARS the same price per package, but t Consult your own interests. Ask for know you will never use any other. Defiance Starch Co 60 Bus. Winter Wheat Per Acre That's the yield of Salzer's Red Cross Hybrid Winter Wheat. Send 80 to stamps for free sample of same as a catalogue of Winter Wheat, Hybrid Wheat, Clover, Timothy Grasses, Bubbe Trees, etc. for fall planting. SALZER SEED CO., Sor W. L. J. Cross. Wis. W. N. U., Kansas City, No. 32, 1906. This is but one of many interesting features of Good Health, the oldest health journal in the world. A big, handsomely illustrated monthly magazine. A quarter of the space below will bring you this handsome health magazine for the next three months. Sample copy ten cents. 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WATDOCK & CO., Oklahoma City, OK. If afflicted with injury, use: Thompson's Eye Water DEFIANCE STARCH easiest to work with and starches clothes Portugal's Population. Vice Consul Kinchant furnishes from Lisbon the census figures of Portugal taken in December, 1900, and just published. The population was 5,016,267, including the Azores. The percentage of illiteracy was 71 per cent. for the males and 85 per cent. for the females. The government, however, is bestirring itself on the educational question. The foreign residents in Portugal numbered 33, 844, of whom 66 were Americans. Easter Novelty A novelty in Easter eggs is one of glass that is electrically lighted. Such eggs are made in white, of frosted glass and in various colors, to glow when the light is turned on in them. They are lighted by means of a flexible conductor which may be attached to any electric light fixture and which is made long enough to permit placing them wherever it may be desired. Burmese Wives The Burmese woman must make an excellent wife. A Singapore paper says that her highest ambition is to maintain her husband in lordly iden-ness and to support him with abundant funds for cook fighting, bulbock cart racing and gambling. And many of the Burmese women do big deals in timber, buying up in advance the "paddy" crops of a whole district, and so on, on a scale that requires big financing. Important Questions How would you like to be your own horse? Would you let the head of a rivet stand twisted in the harness till it tore the skin off? Would you put a bridle on yourself that had a loose blinder that flapped you in the eye every time you made a step? Now, would you?—Detroit News. Next Solar Eclipse Not very many people will see the next to all eclipse of the sun. It will take place January 3, 1988, and it will be visible only from two islands in the Pacific ocean—Hull island and Flint island. Both are uninhabited islands enclosed by coral lands and landing said to be extremely difficult. The duration of totality will be three minutes on Hull island and four minutes on Flint island. Disillusioned "Can't I get you another r solit or something, Miss Marmaduke?" asked her indetatigible swain. The beautiful girl slowly shook her exquisite head. Lifting her long sweep of dark lashes from her violet eyes, she parted her delicately chiselled lips and murmured "N," thanks, old chap. I'm all in "Pittsburg Post, War Bonnets of Nations According to a German military journal, the British soldier wears a helmet which weighs nearly one and one-quarter pounds. The helmet of the Prussian infantryman weighs only a trifle over 14 ounces, while the Italian is still better off with a kept, which turns the scale at between 11 and 12 ounces. Not a Contestant An old negro in Atchison was asked which side he fought on during the civil war. The old man replied by asking: "Dye evah see two dawgs fightin' over a bone?" "Yes," was the reply. "Well, dye evah see the bone fight?"—Kansas City Star. Punctured His Tire A man who deserted his wife in the town of Winton, Scotland, gave the court a one of his reasons for the desertion that his wife had punctured the tire of his bicycle 42 times with a hatpin. Appearance Are Deceitful "I don't aim to take off my hat to a man jes' cause he's popular," said Uncle Ehen. "One o de mos' popular people dat over to Foggy Bottom turned out to be a confidence man." Very Recently Mr. Wade Parker—My dear, this silver looks as if it hadn't been cleaned recently. Mrs. Wade Parker—But it has been—only two girls ago—Cleveland Leader. Imperial Tribute. The kaiser has sent $75 for a commemorative tablet to be placed on the tomb of Gustav Ludwig, the historian of English art, who died at Venice in 1905. Cheap Coffins. It is stated by the Irish Independent that coffins for children are being supplied by a contractor to south of Ireland almshouses at four cents each. No Street Musicians The city council of Buenos Ayres has adopted a regulation banishing itinerant musicians from the streets of the city. "Ah! wizout her I shall die, monseur." "H'm! Starvation, I presume."— Judge. The glory of the present age is in its wealth of scientific discoverers and inventors. 1910 The American Collection Agency No fee charged unless collection is made. We make collections in all parts of the United States 413 Kansas Ave. Tapeka Kansas. Anthony P. Wilson. Attv Transformed by Love. A Christian grows lovely by just loving—by going on in love of Christ. It has been fabled from old times that the graceful swan was changed from a most ugly bird into its present beauty merely because of its constancy to its mate. But oh, how Christian fact is sure to outrun classic fable! The soul grows wondrously lovely by just loving, by pouring out its faithful affection, and all the more so when the object of its affection is the Lord Jesus Christ, the One altogether lovely. We behold His face, Jesus' face, as in a glass, and are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as the Spirit of the Lord. But the result is permanent. The soul gets more and more set in the way of holiness, in the beauty that holiness brings, "Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that if we shall be manifested we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him even as He is; and everyone that hath this hope set on Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure—Rey, G. B. F. Hallock, D. D. "Lo! It Is Nigh Thee." The surprise of life always comes in finding how we have missed the things that have lain nearest to us; how we have gone far away to seek that which was close by our side all the time. Men who live best and longest are apt to come, as the result of all their living, to the conviction that life is not only richer, but simpler than it seemed to them at first. Men go to vast labor seeking after peace and happiness. It seems to them as if it were far away from them, and if they must go through vast and strange regions to get it. They must pile up wealth, they must see every possible danger of mishap guarded against, before they can have peace. Upon how many old men has it come with a strange surprise that peace could come to rich or poor only with contentment as at the very end of life! They have made a long journey for their treasure, and when at last they stoop to pick it up, lo! it is shining beside the footprint, which they left when they set out to travel in a circle—Phillips Brooks. Why Do We Condemn? Because another is "all wrong" is no reason for our condemning him. In the first place we cannot know that he is an unworthy as he may seem, and in the second place our own records are entirely too frail. No one of us would dare to be judged by our follows strictly on our "merits"—the man who says or thinks he would is most to be pitted. And the failure in another that we are tempted to condemn harshly may be nearer victory than failure as God sees and knows. Earth sees the failures, because heaven sees the victories and the struggles. It was of heaven that Faber sang: "There's no place where earthly failings have such kindly judgment given. The only Man who never failed came not to condemn men, but to save them. Is it because we suppose that we can do better than He did to help others that we condemn so freely? Be All You Can. Let us do all the business we can. If we can't be a lighthouse, let us be a tallow candle. Someone said, "I can't be anything more than a farthing rushlight." Well, if you can't be more be that; that is well enough. Be all you can. What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. You go every Sunday and hear good sermons and think that it is enough. You are all the time receiving these grand truths but never give them out. When you hear it, go and scatter the truth abroad. Instead of having one minister to preach to a thousand people, this thousand ought to take a sermon and spread it till it reaches those that never go to church or chapel. Instead of having a tew, we ought to have thousands using the precious talents that God has given them.—D. L. Moody. Don't Get Old One of the worst delusions that ever crept into a middle-aged man's mind is the conviction that he has done his best work, that he is growing old and must soon give place to younger men. —Success Magazine. Promised Him a Treat Visitor—What a well-behaved little boy. Mother—Yes; I told him if he was good he could watch his father take up the carpet. N. Y. Sun. 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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 adjoined 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 secured . 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, with 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. Full details from J. A. STEWART, General Agent Passenger Department, 412-413 Bryant Building, KANSAS CITY. MO. FLOUR KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT --- --- 100 Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Rock Island System Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. NELSON'S Hair Dressing MAKES HARSH STUBBORN HAIR SOFT AND PLIANT REMOVES DANDRUFF NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING FOR MAKING HARSH, STUBBORN HAIR SOFT. GLOSSY. LUXURIOUS. 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