The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. 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. RT. REV. ABRAHAM GRANT. 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 that 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 whatever 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 whatever 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. 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 facutly, 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. THE EDITOR MR. WM T. WASHINGTON. Associate Editor, Rising Sun Mr. Washington has been given the position as Associate Editor of the Rising Son, Kansas City's most popular and widely circulated negro journal. Mr. Washington undoubtedly has ability which especially fits him for this position. He attended Williams and Oberlin colleges, where he finished a course of journalism, besides taking the entire classical course of these institutions. Mr. Washington has a number of friends who will no doubt be glad to assist him in his present position by giving him their subscriptions and all the news they can gather, combined with their support and sympathies. P WHAT LODGE SHALL SEND FOR Prof J. Westz Hall formerly of Kansas City, has returned for a few weeks to be among his friends. The colored people of this city will no doubt be glad to hear of one of her renowned sons. Nine years ago Mr. West Hall left his home town for Chicago to enter into the dancing business in Chicago. Mr. Hall will be remembered in this city as the conductor of the famous dancing academy on Sixth and Charlotte. Since opening up in Chicago Mr. Hall has done remarkably well. He is a member of every organization tending toward the uplift of the negro 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. Mr. Washington will give the paper his entire time and energy and ability feeling assured that the negroes of this city will heartily cooperate in making the Rising Son a good negro journal. The negro population of this city is 35,000 from the last census, and the Rising Son in giving efficient service should receive from its long standing and faithful work of its manager the co-operation of all his people. When you meet Mr. Washington please give him all the news and also your subscription. By so doing you contribute greatly to the interest of your race. ince. Besides being prominent in various lodges he is the only negro member of the Dancing Master's Association. Mr. Hall is at present conducting a dancing circuit, including Chicago, Quincy and Jacksonville, Ill. In the near future he is conducting his affairs; if he can get enough patrons to include Kansas City in his circuit. The people of this city should be very proud to hear of the success of one of her favorite sons. It is the opinion of the Rising Son that appreciation shall be shown him by giving him a large dancing class and an opportunity to return to his native city. Great Sewer System. If the sowers 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 HIM AGAIN? THE NEW HEAD WAITER OF THE BALTIMORE. The intention of this article is to bring before the public gaze a young man who has worked himself like all negroes from mere nothing to the honorable position which he occupies. Mr. Charles Washington was born on a farm in Carrollton, Mo., 30 years ago. After working in the dining car service, he served as third and second waiter alongside with Mr. McKnight. With a determination to be successful he now occupies the position of head-waiter, the youngest at the head of any large hotel. Mr. Washington attended school in Marshall, Mo., graduating from the High School. His aim is to better the waiters in general, giving uniformity among the waiters in the various hotels. The people of this city greatly appreciated the efforts he is putting forth in that line more especially because he is carrying out a well-laid principle MASONIC GRAND LODGE The fortieth annual communication of the Masonic Grand lodge was opened in Kansas City August 5th at the Second Baptist church under a very elaborate program consisting of choice music and able addresses along the line of Masonry, Grand Master C. G. Williams was introduced by Prof. R. T. Coles and the welcome address was delivered by Mayor H. M. Beardsley. The session was interesting and harmonious. The election of each officer was unanimous. C. G. Williams was re-elected Grand Master, J. H. Pelham, Grand Secretary, R. T. Coles, Grand Treasurer, W. W. Fields, Secretary of the Masonic Relief association, E. S. Baker, District Deputy, Nathaniel Harris, Tyler, G. H. Cooper, Grand Lecturer. On Thursday, August 9, a grand entertainment was given at Convention Hall. The affair was a success in every particular. Nearly 4,000 persons were in attendance. On Friday the local committee chartered a special car and spent the afternoon showing the visiting Masons the sights and magnificent growth of Kansas. Among other things accomplished by the Grand Lodge at this session was the establishment of a Masonic Home at Hannibal, Mo., which will cost $5,000. The Masonic Relief association has increased its assessment from $2 to $4,00 a year for each member by which the widow of a deceased brother is to receive $200, instead of $100. The attendance at this session was larger than ever before. PHARMACEUTIC COLLEGE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY. The Pharmaceutic College occupies a unique position in supplying the demands for first-class colored pharmacists. The advantages offered students are unequalled. Students are thoroughly drilled in chemical, bacteriological and pharmaceutical laboratories, and are given practical experience in compounding and dispensing drugs and chemicals in the Dispensary of Freedmen's Hospital. The development of the South has created a demand for collored pharmacists much greater than the supply. The fact that white druggists do not care for the patronage of colored people has caused enterprising colored men to open drug stores of their own. The field is not overcrowded and there are dozens of cities begging for druggists whose demands cannot be supplied. In a number of which cities, companies NUMBER 5 are formed, waiting for a good pharmacist to come and open a drug store without any cost whatever to himself. To young men desiring a professional career, pharmacy offers flattering inducements. 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. COUNTEE 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 Countee Bros. are the most complete in the city. If you wish first class service and want to be treated like your business THE BROOKLYN PRESS W. B. COUNTEE. deserves, call on Countee Bros., 914 East 12th street. If you are out of city and want the remains of your relatives or friends cared for, or des- sire casket or coffin, wire, or you can reach Countee Bros. by either phone. For reference, call up any bank in the city. Nine rooms for rent, either furni- nished or unfurnished. 1708 East 18th St. Bell 'phone, East 2514. Mrs. A. Farr. Poor Management The Athens correspondent of the London Mail says the management of the Olympian games was "chaos." IMPORTANCE OFERIE CANAL FAMINE AT WAKUYA, JAPAN WILL BE THE LARGEST ARTIFICIAL WATERWAY IN WORLD. Improved Excavating Machinery to Be Tested in the Work. Which Will Cost $101,000,000. One of the big projects which is occupying the attention of the people of the state of New York is the enlargement of the Erie canal, an appropilation of $101,000,000 having been made by the legislature for the purpose. The extent of the proposed enlargement will make the canal the largest artificial waterway for navigation in the world, considering the length as well as the breadth and depth. When speaking of the Erie canal we include its two important branches which are frequently overlooked, and these are to share in the improvement. These branches are the Oswego canal, 38 miles long, extending from Onondaga lake, near General View of Excavation Showing Deep Cut Near Rochester. Syracuse to Lake Onatrio at Oswego, and the Champlain, 66 miles long, which furnishes a navigable waterway from the upper Hudson near Troy to Lake Champlain. Each may be called a branch of the Erie for the reason that boats passing through the Oswego canal enter the main channel by way of Orendaga lake, while boats from Lake Champlain bound southward and westward enter the Erie near the southern terminus of the Champlain canal. The value of these branches is indicated by the fact that they furnish the interior of New York state its only water connection with Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river, and are the means of considerably swelling the traffic of the main canal, since they also give it a connection by water with Canada. The main canal and branches will be of uniform depth and breadth on the bottom. Vessels drawing 111g feet of water can pass from one end to the other of the system, while the width at the bottom will be at least MISERY AND WANT HAVE RUN RIOT IN JAPANESE TOWN. Pen Picture of the Sufferings of the People by Murasaki Oyami, a Japanese Correspondent. Few places in the northeastern provinces of Japan have suffered more from the famine than has the town of Wakuya, about 25 miles north of Sendai, if the testimony of Murasaki Oyami, a Japanese correspondent, an eye witness of the distress, is consid- ered. He writes that there "the want and misery have run riot." One of the distressing features of the famine has been the desertion of children by their parents, hundreds of such cases having resulted as an irresistible consequence of the lack of food. Among the efforts which have been put forth to succor these little waifs, none is more touching than that of Mrs. Narita, a poor but energetic woman who has gathered a group of girls together and is striving to make them not only self-supporting, but capable of rendering aid to their families. For this purpose she is teaching them to make Battenberg lace, which finds ready sale in Tokio. Then as fast as it is possible she sends them on to the famous Okayama orphan asylum, an institution that has bravely set to work caring for scores of these needy northern people. Mr. Miura, a Japanese philanthropist at work at Wakuya, is busy giving out the "sympathy bags" of rice to families most in need. In one case he found a family where the father and grandfather were striving to keep the dread wolf of hunger from the door by bringing wood on their backs from the mountains five miles away, and for which work they earn an equivalent of two pence a day. little wafw whose mother died from the sufferings she had to endure, and Mrs. Shopper—Goodness! look at that rug. Isn't it hideous? Mrs. Rook—O! perfectly horrid. Dealer—I saw you looking at that rug. ladies. It's only $550, and a great bargain. The Ladies (in chorus)—How perfectly beautiful!—Philadelphia Press. 75 feet. Generally speaking, this means that the main canal will be enlarged to about four times its present transportation capacity. At present the depth ranges from 7 to 9 feet, about one-third of the waterway being of the latter depth, to which it was excavated by the expenditure of $9,000,000 appropriated for this purpose in 1894. When the historic Seneca Chief, the first boat to carry freight and passengers upon it, made the trip from Buffalo to Albany, the canal was but 28 feet in width on the bottom, 70 feet on the surface, while its average depth was not over 4 feet. The demands of commerce so crowded it with traffic, that only ten years later the New York legislature authorized the enlargement which approximately represents the dimensions of the canal prior to the enlargement of 1895—a work which was not completed until 1862. The barge of the future, however, will have a cargo capacity of 33 1-3 times the original craft, 22 2-3 times the boats of the period between 1830 and 1850, ten times those in service between 1850 and 1862, and four times as great as the average boat in present use. What is perhaps more significant, however, is the extent of the cargoes which can be shipped at one time by a fleet of tows of the new boats. The majority of the towing vessels are intended as cargo carriers, but provided with engines sufficiently powerful to pull from two to three boats in addition, moving at a rate of from four to six miles an hour. Thus from 12,000 to 15,000 bushels of wheat can now be transported from Buffalo to New York at a single shipment if desired. The present plan will probably be followed in making up tows for convenience and economy. This means that a single series of barges will carry enough grain to load an ocean steamship of 4,000 tons capacity. A very large fleet of vessels of this kind is plying across the Atlantic in the so-called "tram" service, for it has been demonstrated that they can be constructed and equipped with engines which make them among the most economical freight carriers in the world. Already some interesting machinery has been installed, especially on Contract No. 6 between Rochester and Buffalo and on Contract No. 4 on the eastern division. Enough work has been thus far performed to give some conception of the great size of the excavation required. While western New York is comparatively level when contrasted with the Mohawk valley, the country is rolling in character, necessitating several deep cuts on the contract referred to. Up to the present the digging has been performed chiefly by steam shovels equipped with toothed bucket scoops holding from two to five cubic yards. Mr. Miura and his wife are shown in our second illustration with a pooring able to rise above this famine calamity, committed suicide. One case illustrative of the pride of the people and their sensitiveness at their deplorable condition, was that Succoring a Waif. of an old man of 87 years who, when found, was almost dead of starvation, but who had strength enough left to reply when food was offered him: "If my descendants should ever know that I received public aid, they would never hold up their heads. It is better to die." This is the spirit found among so many of the old people whose self-respect suffers in the receiving of charity. Feminine Way. "I understand," said the parson "that you young ladies held the first meeting of your debating club last night. What was the subject of your discussion?" "Really, I do not remember," answered the maid with the dimple, "but anyway the subject had nothing to do with what we talked about."—Chicago Daily News. Rowan—Did you have any trouble in learning to play the cornet? Blitot—None worth mentioning. All the neighbors were poor shots.—Chicago Daily News. The Cure. Miss Budd—How did you cure your insomnia? Mrs. Lotus—Sitting up nights waiting for my husband. I always set sleepy before he gets home.—Detroit Free Press. THE AMERICAN HOME WmA.RADFORD EDITOR 1919-1920 Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF OST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of accounting for the readers of this paper. On account of his experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address qualified students of Whatman, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, IL, and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A good, comfortable, roomy house is shown in this plan. It presents a good, comfortable appearance from the outside, and the inside is just as comfortable as it looks. There is a great deal of room downstairs, and there is room enough upstairs for three good bedrooms and considerable storage under the sloping roof both front and back. Then the thin edges of the roof is utilized to advantage to cover both porches. There are many ways of building porches. It seems necessary to design a special style of porch for each house built, a porch that suits one house will not do for another. I have often seen it tried, but it looks like some borrowed attachment tacked up for some special occasion. This style of porch is about as old as anything we have. Our grandfathers used to build porches like this and partition off small bedrooms on each end of it. We don't do that any more. We slept at grandfather's house in the winter time a good many years ago in one of these porch bedrooms, and nearly froze to death. The experience has been handed down in history for the edification and warning of all builders. I had a friend who bought a New England house built in that way for a summer home. It worked all right in hot weather, and he enjoyed the novelty of living in a house 150 years old, but he organized a winter house party and that was the mistake of his life. He and his friends had been accustomed to steam-heated houses and offices, and did not know enough to put on four suits of woolen underwear for this .0716 special occasion. Grandfather used to wear two woolen shirts, and that is the reason he did not freeze to death when he slept in a box in one end of his porch in winter time. I would rather sleep in the barn with the cows than to repeat my experience in that old porch wing bedroom with no means of heating except the old-fashioned wood stove away off in the sitting-room. This house is 34 feet wide by 44 feet long, which size accounts for the large rooms laid out in the plan. You can have four rooms and a hall downstairs in a great less space, but you must make up your mind to do without something. For instance, if PONCE Kitchen 96'-26' Dining Room 10'-10'-19' Pantry 80'-30' Bath Room 20'-60' Parlor Courtyard 10'-46' Cloister Aisle 10'-10'-19' Pond Ground Floor Plan. you wanted to swing a cat, you might have to go outdoors to do it, but this house is not necessarily very expensive. In locations where material may be had at reasonable prices, and carpenter work, say, at two dollars per day, the house should be built complete for less than $1,800. I like to see plenty of room in a house. The family is almost certain to use all of it at times, and a big house with large rooms is an inducement to the members of the family to surround themselves with articles of furniture and ornaments that add to the appearance, comfort and luxurious surroundings of every member. This style of house should be surrounded with shrubbery and a few nice shade trees. No house looks like a home without such embellishments. The house itself may be a shelter, but it is a bleak, bare-looking concern without green decorations. It takes time to grow shade trees, but flowers spring up in a night, especially if you buy the plants from a greenhouse. By making proper selections it is quite possible to have a good Room Closet Closet Closet N6.10 N0.40 Hall Closet N0.40 Floor Second Floor Plan. showing of annuals the first year. I have seen large shade trees successfully moved in the winter time. It seems a long time to wait for a shade tree to grow from a whipstock, and I often think it pays well to move a good tree and plant it just where it will do the most good. Trees six inches in diameter may be handled by digging a trench in the fall and tipping them over after the ground freezes. Such trees may be 100 hailed some distance by using a lever over the back axel of an ordinary farm wagon. Of course, considerable pruning is necessary, and the trees must be stayed with heavy wire guys from at least three different directions to prevent the wind from loosening the roots, and the guys must remain in place all summer, but the second year if everything works well, the tree is well rooted, and worth a great deal more than the price of moving it. The building of a home should be extremely interesting to every rightly constructed person. The word home means a good deal. Too many of our expensive houses that are occupied by intelligent persons cannot properly be called homes because the home sentiment is lacking. In order to have a home each member of the family must do their share towards making it. There is a great satisfaction in devising plans and means for the comfort of other members of the family. A consultation occasionally about the little affairs that affect home life are interesting, and they help to bind the members of the family together in sympathy. There may be a bond of sympathy between the members of the family for a short time without any apparent outside indications, but very soon the house occupied by such a family will take on an air of comfort and sociability, neighbors will drop in occasionally because they like to do so. There is an attraction that calls them, and they like to respond. It would be difficult to explain just what the homely influence is. It does not consist of any one thing. It is a composite born of good management and fostered by good fellowship, and the influence extends beyond the family circle and the neighbors are benefited. Real homes seem to require that the family shall own the house it is living in. I have seen a great deal of comfort in rented houses, but the greatest satisfaction in life is to be found in a medium sized comfortable house that has been built and paid for by economy and hard labor. Such houses are homes, and they are appreciated --- THE CHURCH AT WORK CHURCH GROWTH. Rapid Increase in Membership Mark ed by Obliteration of Denominational Lines. It is wonderful how complete and rapid has been the change in the attitude of our churches within the past quarter of a century. No one can fail to notice how denominational lines have been swept away and how sectarian differences and teachings are being disregarded, the churches now trying to emphasize points of agreement rather than a difference and are working harmoniously together for moral and humanitarian enis, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Theology and doctrine have been sent to the rear, and it is recognized that the true work of the church is here and now, in making this world a happier and better place for everybody to live in, on a basis of unselfishness and brotherly love. In this effort agnostic and churchman, Jew and infidels are working together, and what a man believes is regarded as of comparatively little consequence. "Oer creeds and forms let senseless big-ots fight. He can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Has come to be recognized as good sense and pretty safe theology. It is under these conditions that the growth of the churches is taking place in our time, and the figures given for 1905 are interesting. They are given by an ecclesiasticalist theologian as follows: In the year 1905 the total number of communicants was 31,148,445, a net gain for that year of 519,155. This membership was distributed as follows: Roman Catholics first, with 10,755,496, net gain 192,122; Methodists second, with 9,428,815, gain 102,892; Baptists come third, with 4,974,047, gain 72,667; Lutherans fourth, with 1,841,346, gain 51,580; Presbyterians fifth, with 1,723,871, gain of 1,428; Disciples of Christ sixth, with 1,325,294, gain of 1,428; Episcopalians seventh, with 827,127, gain 19,203; Congregationalists eighth, with 687,042, gain 13,321; Reformed (Dutch and German) ninth, with 405,022, gain 4,021. In their percentage of increase they stand in this order: Lutheran, 028; Episcopalians, 023; Congregationalists, 019; Roman Catholics, 017; Methodists, 015; Presbyterians, 0.5; Baptists, 014; Reformed, 008; Disciples of Christ, 001. Methodists and Baptists are doing most for the negro in the south, and are very strong in that section. The Baptists' growth in the north, where they number 1,075,833, was but 4,864; but the Methodist Episcopal church North, 2,910,779 strong, had a growth of 62,847. A GOOD SHOWING. Gratifying Record of the Congregational Home Missionary Society. The Congregational Home Missionary society held its eighth annual meeting recently. This organization had been a self-perpetuating body, empowered at the expiration of a term of service to elect new members to succeed to the offices. At the Oak Park meeting this was so far changed that hereafter each contributing state society will have a voice in the constitution of the body. Four out of every five of the 7,000 Congregational churches have been brought by it to self-support. In connection with its auxiliaries it has raised and expended $23,401,523. During the past year $120,000 has been added to the endowment of the society, and the increase of gifts for the current work of the year was $70,000. It employs 1,641 missionaries who have during the year preached at 2,216 stations. during the year 5,100 converts have been added to these home missionary churches. Forty-five churches have been organized during the year and 57 houses of worship completed. Forty-one young men connected with the home missionary churches are preparing for the ministry. Missionaries as Bible Translators. Missionaries as Bible Translators. Rev. J. S. Dennis has recently stated that the number of translations made by missionaries covering the entire Bible—including three versions now obsolete—is 101; number of additional translations by missionaries covering the entire New Testament—including 22 versions now obsolete—127; number of additional languages into which missionaries have translated only portions of the Old and New Testaments—including 15 versions now obsolete—254; the resultant total being 482, to which may be added the versions prepared by transliteration. Mission of Sorrow "Let sorrows and sadness come; they bear in their hearts the golden flower of higher enlightment. Let friends censure or forsake us; we cannot lose an, thing that is really ours. As externals of all sorts fall or disappoint us, the Great Heart draws us closer to itself. We are attuned to the music of the spheres; we join in the Song of Life with glad voice, our tones enriched by the experiences through which we have fought our way to this Chamber of Tranquillity. Nothing can disturb the soul that is anchored in the Eternal." BIG NEW SHOE BUILDING. It Is Dedicated by the W. L. Douglas Co. at Brockton. The dedication a short time ago of the new administration and jobbing house building erected by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. as a part of its mammoth manufacturing plant at Montello was marked by the thoroughness and attention to detail characteristic of the firm in all its undertakings. The dedicatory program included open house from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. with concert by the Mace Gay orchestra and the presence of a Boston caterer to attend to the wishes of all. The building itself afforded a feast for the eye, especially the offices, which are marvels in many ways. Fifteen thousand invitations were sent out, including over 11,000 to the retail dealers in the United States who handle the W. L. Douglas Co. shoes, the others going to shoe manufacturers and all allied industries in Brockton and vicinity. Mr. Douglas will be glad to have anybody who is interested call and inspect the new plant, and says "the latch string is always out." All departments of the plant were open for inspection, the three factories as well as the new building, and visitors were received and escorted through the industrial maze by ex-Gov. Douglas, assisted by the heads of the various departments. Under the present system all shoes are manufactured to order, and customers sometimes lose sales waiting for shoes to arrive. With the new jobbing house they will be enabled to have their hurry orders shipped the same day they are received. The new building is 260 feet long and 60 feet wide and two stories in height. The jobbing department will occupy the entire lower floor, while the offices will occupy the second floor. The jobbing department will carry a complete stock of men's, boys' youths, misses' and children's shoes, slippers, rubbers and findings equal to any jobbing house in the country. Buyers are especially invited to come here to trade, and every effort possible will be made to suit their convenience. There will be a finely appointed sample room on the second floor, with an office in which both telephone and telegraph will be installed, with operators, both Western Union and Postal Telegraph wires to be used. There will also be arrangements for the receipt and despatch of mail. NEAR DEATH THROUGH SNAKE Sleeper Awoke to Find Monster Coiled Around His Neck. F. E. Feve, an employee of the Northern Electric, had a thrilling experience with a snake Tuesday morning. Feve with two companions occupies a tent made out of gunny sacks in the western portion of Oroville. He was awakened by a feeling of strangulation. He attempted to cry out, but so tightly was his throat bound that he could make no sound. As he became fully awake he realized that something must be done or he would choke. He grabbed frantically for his throat and his hand slipped over the scales of a huge snake which had coiled itself around his neck. He frantically pulled the coils loose, the reptile resisting him and biting him in the cheek. His two companions, awakened by the noise, came to Feve's rescue. The two pulled the snake away and threw it to the floor, where it glided away while the men attended to Mr. Feve's wound. The reptile was a gopher snake.—Redding Correspondence San Francisco Call. Drawing the Line. We have followed the plow, wielded the hoe, served time on the public roads under an austere overseer, swept the backyard, worked the garden, churned the butter, washed the dishes, nursed the baby and performed other various and sundry disagreeable tasks in our times without a murmur, but when it comes to cleaning streets under three lady bosses—excuse us, please. Three women to boss you. Great Caesar's ghost! Just the thoughts of such a catastrophe is enough to give a man the "buck-ague." —Minden (La.) Signal. A WINNING START. A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Makes Nerve Force for the Day. Everything goes wrong if the breakfast lies in your stomach like a mud pie. What you eat does harm if you can't digest it—it turns to poison. A bright lady teacher found this to be true, even of an ordinary light breakfast of eggs and toast. She says: "Two years ago I contracted a very annoying form of indigestion. My stomach was in such a condition that a simple breakfast of fruit, toast and egg gave me great distress. "I was slow to believe that trouble could come from such a simple diet but finally had to give it up, and found a great change upon a cup of hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream, for my morning meal. For more than a year I have held to this course and have not suffered except when injudiciously varying my diet. "I have been a teacher for several years and find that my easily digested breakfast means a saving of nervous force for the entire day. My gain of ten pounds in weight also causes me to want to testify to the value of Grape-Nuts. "Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our table." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. ON THE BRINGING UP OF THE BOYS Pretty Clover-Leaf Doily MANLY QUALITIES THE ONES TO BE EMPHASIZED. Don't Coddle Your Boy Too Much—Win His Confidence—Consult His Tastes Before Deciding on His Career—Boys Should Have Daily Chores—Teach Your Boy to Be Knightly—Insist on His Being Accurate in Money Matters. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. Doys are on the way to be men. If they were to remain boys it would matter very little about their bringing up, but the period of boyhood hurries on, and the lad will presently be out in the thick of the fight scrambling for a foothold and having hard work to maintain his own among the fierce competitions of the day. What sort of man shall your boy become? It is not too much to say that the little fellow, eager and earnest at his play, foreshadows the older fellow who will be no laggard in business and who will find as much to engage ambition later on as he finds in sport on the playground now. Some of us douse our boys too much. Women are especially in danger of shielding their boys from every rough wind or treating them too tenderly and of making them effeminate through their over- anxiety and continual fussing. Men, on the other hand, make the mistake of beginning the hardening process too soon, of being too rigid in their requirements and of forgetting wholly that they have been boys themselves. If you want to bring a boy up aright, you must win his confidence, keep in touch with him, care for the things that please him and occupy his thoughts, and at the same time hold him to a right standard of conduct. Neither too much indulgence on the one side or too much severity on the other results favorably in the education of a boy. The first years are important beyond others because in them are laid the foundations of character. Truth, honor, obedience, kindness to animals, and fairness in intercourse with playmates and friends are inculcated while a boy is still wearing short trousers and while he is under supervision and tutelage at home and at the primary school. Principles of self-control, of submission to authority and of deference to women, if not practically given while a boy is very young, are seldom well taught during adolescence. After a boy has mastered the elementary studies of the grammar school it is time to think what shall be done with him in the matter of active preparation for life. What is he to be? Here his tastes and capacity must be consulted, and it is most unwise for a parent to arrive at a decision without careful balancing of the arguments pro and con and without knowledge of the youth's fitness for this or that career. The boy whose chief delight it is to care for wounded and suffering creatures, who likes to look after the animal that is hurt, and who in childhood shows deftness and dexterity in making bandages, may have in him the germs of skill that will by and by make him a surgeon or a specialist in some remedial direction. "I am going to be a doctor," said a boy who had successfully set the broken leg of a pet dog, and who found pleasure in ministering to any dumb animal that was suffering. A doctor he became and a good one. If a boy is to be an engineer, he must take a course of study that will fit him for that profession and if he is to be a lawyer or a business man, equally his studies should be directed in such a way that he may not fall when he attains an age to enter on real work. There are golden opportunities everywhere to-day. Success or failure may depend on the personal equation. The boy who is first manly and honest and next capable, prompt and efficient, will achieve success. He will push forward to the front rank. A boy of 12 whose home in New England is in a hill country remote from a village, walked last winter and the winter before three miles to school over a rough road and three miles back. Neither storm nor sleet nor wind nor rain nor weather of any kind interfered in the least with the school attendance of this sturdy boy. He simply took the weather as it came, and went to school. Incidentally, he learned valuable lessons of courage, steadiness and pluck of this indifference to conditions. This Is Nice Pick-Up Work for a Lazy Summer Day. Strike a circle of size desired on your linen, stitch around it with the sewing machine or run closely with needle and thread two or three times, then trim and buttonhole stitch or double crochet all around, making the stitches close together. First row—Fasten in, chain 3 for 1st treble, a treble in every stitch around, join to top of 3 chain. Second row—Chain 3, a treble in same stitch, * chain 2, miss 2, 2 trebles in next stitch, repeat from * around, joining * top of 3 chain at beginning. Third row—* Chain 3, a treble between 2 trebles of last row, chain 4, fasten in 1st stitch to form a pict, chain 5, fasten, chain 4, fasten, chain 3, fasten under 2 chain of last row; repeat from *. Fourth row—Work up to center of A boy should have some stake in his home. Country boys who have chores as they are called, daily tasks in feeding the farm animals, in bringing home the cows, milking them, chopping wood, weeding gardens and going on errands, have a decided advantage over city boys who are never called upon to perform a single duty in the practical management of the house. A boy should take his share in whatever happens to be necessary about the home, and it is sometimes worth while for a mother to devise errands and entrust a son with messages and tasks when it would be easier for her to do without his assistance. . . . . In bringing up boys, it should be remembered that they are entitled to courtesy as their sisters are and as their elders are. A boy ought not to be snubbed when he expresses an opinion. Of the late Thomas K. Beecher, who for many years was influential as the pastor of one of the first institutional churches in this country, was said that as a boy he often wrote sermons at the dictation of his father, Rev. Lyman Beecher. Dr. Lyman Beecher was a very great preacher, and one of the famous men of his time. The boy of 15 was called upon to write many things with which he did not agree. "Father," he would say, "I don't think as you do on this subject." Instead of checking him or commanding him to be silent, the great divine would talk the matter over as enthusiastically as with another man, sometimes convincing, sometimes falling to carry the point with your youthful antagonist, but never obliging him to feel that he was out of his proper sphere in venturing to have an opinion of his own. We have no right to treat a boy as if he were an idiot or a slave. The best development comes in the line of a training that recognizes and respects individuality. The proud boast of Americans used to be that their manner to women in public and private was always deferential and always unselfish. That boast can be made no longer. Any woman who has periled life and limb in a mad struggle to secure entrance to a car on, let us say, one of the Brooklyn bridges, or in the effort to get safely into a New York subway car, knows full well that three-fourths of the masculine passengers behave like brutes. They have no respect for age, no toleration for weakness, no regard for anything except their own claim to transportation. A few years ago a woman with white hair or a woman carrying an infant was sure to have a seat offered her by three or four men at once. Last week I saw a slight woman, pale and wan, holding a heavy child with another tugging at her skirts and a car filled with young men, able-bodied and vigorous, allowed her to stand. The so-called ladies' cabin of the ferry boats are thronged with men who tranquilly occupy all the seats while women stand unnoticed by the lords of creation. For this unhappy change I do not blame the men, as boys they have been very badly brought up by women who ignored in the training of the child that spontaneous courtesy that every small boy should be taught to show to womankind. When a mother points to a vacant seat and tells her small son to take it and keep it while women stand, she is giving him his first and most lasting lessons in incivility and boorishness. If the men of the next generation are to be polite, to be helpful to women, and knightly in their demeanor, there must be a change from the highest homes in this land to the lowest, and women must take the thing in hand in bringing up their boys. Possibly nothing is more important in the training of boys than to insist on their being exact and accurate in everything connected with money. A boy should have an allowance at an early age and should keep within it. He should not be taught by example or precept that money making is the greatest thing in life, but he should be made to feel that he cannot cheat or gamble or borrow without paying. An abhorrence of debt should be instilled into a boy's mind very early in life. We would have fewer shipwrecks of honor, fewer embezzlements, fewer ruined names and blighted homes if strict integrity were the corner stone of home education. (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) middle picot, or break thread and fasten in again, as preferred, then A Pretty Style. chain 5, fasten in next middle picot; repeat. Repeat the border from 1st row twice, ending with 3d row of picots. LOVED by a MADMAN By GEORGE WEIGH Narrative of John Caleeps.. On the 9th day of September, in the year 1900, I was a passenger on one of the famous Canadian ocean liners. Had I foreseen, however, the strange happenings during the voyage, I should have postponed my trip. As he grew convalescent, however, to my amazement the reticence of a suffering patient suddenly turned into the speech of a passionate lover. At last I realized that I had been nursing a sensual, homicidal maniac, and a sickening fear chilled me. I at once gave up the case. His discharge example of this marriage failure Their strife and bickering often nearly led to blows, and I have been to that just before I was born, in a misd dispute about a trifle, my father ma a lunge with a knife at my moth and that it was only by the mere accident that he had not killed h I always like a berth to myself, but as the steamer had more than the usual complement of passengers, I had to share one with another person. The exigencies of the situation gave me the companionship of Mr. Gorman Grating. I was just getting into my berth—and for various reasons I chose the top one—when, to my surprise, I saw my companion take a coil of rope from his pocket, which he placed on a scat. "I want you, Mr. Caleeps, to do me a favor—to take this rope and firmly secure me to the berth with it, so that by no possibility whatever I can escape." "Don't be surprised at my request," he continued. "The truth is, I am a somnambulist, and I don't want to walk into the sea." His words having reassured me, I fastened him as securely as possible. I continued this every evening, always releasing him in the morning. One morning he complained of indisposition, and asked me to send the doctor to him. I could not find the doctor, but happening to meet the stewardess, I requested her to do so. "What did you say his name was?" she asked, looking at me with astonished eyes. "And does he occupy your berth?" Having gratified her curiosity, she continued, in a low voice: "You must not repeat what I tell you, but if I were you I'd change my berth?" As I could not conceive any practical reason for her advice, I did not see the necessity of acting on it. At all events, that night I tied the ropes more firmly than ever. I am one of those fortunate individuals who always sleep soundly, but on this night a jumble of unpleasant dreams now and again startled my slumbers. Suddenly my dreams grew so insufferable as to completely overpower sleep. I awoke. All was still. The light of the porthole seemed to glare luridly, and my glance reaching the berth where I had fastened my companion, found it empty. He had broken loose from his meshes. Just then my ears were assailed by distant muffled sounds of "Murder! murder! Help! help!" proceeding from the deck above me. In an instant I ascended the gangway stairs. I rushed to the deck. The night was dark and silent. In the gloom I proceeded to where the voice had issued, and to my horror I saw my companion dragging the stewardess by main force along the deck, striving evidently to cast her into the sea. I caught hold of the arm of the wretch and strove to wrest it from the clasp of the woman, but I did not succeed. I attempted again and with all the resolute force possible. At that moment I saw a flash of light. I felt a maddening blow, and then I must have grown insensible to everything. On recovering consciousness, I found myself in my berth, attended by the doctor and the stewardess. I soon recovered from my injuries, which were slight, and afterward, naturally, I asked her to give me some particulars of the mysterious occurrence. "Read what will explain what seems inexplicable," she replied, handing me the following MS. Narrative of Milicent Harworth, Stew ardess. I am the youngest of six sisters—all favored by nature with good looks, and in consequence, all encouraged by our parents to bid advantageously in the market for respectably rich husbands. Three of my sisters mated themselves to unexceptionable types of golden propriety; two of them wedded worthy but necessitous young men. Somehow or other, I did not follow the excellent example of my elder sisters. I had never hankered after a monotonous life of responsibility. I did not think that the crown of womanhood consisted in being a nurse of squalling infancy or a slave to manly brutality. My views of life were cast in another mold. If I possessed the kindly, gentle attributes of womanhood, my ambition was to strive and follow the steps of those women who live to cure suffering, to banish pain; to tend, to alleviate, to soothe. I therefore resolved to become a nurse. After a few years I became one of the principal nurses in —— hospital. I need not detail here the numberless cases I nursed, but I must mention the particular one which concerns this narrative. He had met with an accident, and his injuries necessitated careful nursing. He was not a restless, complaining sufferer. He gave little trouble and his sturdy constriction soon conquered his injuries Wilson "He strove to fasten his loathsome lips against my own" 888 As he grew convalescent, however, to my amazement the reticence of a suffering patient suddenly turned into the speech of a passionate lover. At last I realized that I had been nursing a sensual, homicidal maniac, and a sickening fear chilled me. I at once gave up the case. His discharge from the hospital eased my mind. Still, I constantly was haunted by the thought that some day I was destined again to meet this man who would wreak vengeance on me and murder me. Time went on, and luckily I never saw or heard of the man who had terrified me with his passion. Then confinement and perhaps a too close attention to my duties affected my health. My lungs became weak, and my doctor recommended a long sea voyage to cure them. I gave up my position reluctantly, but as I abhorred an idle life, and as tending my fellow creatures was my life's purpose, I eventually secured the position of stewardess on an ocean liner. On the morning of the first day of the passage, to my amazing horror, I saw and recognized the hateful object of my fears. Then I happened to hear that he was your companion, and I warned you. By what subtle intelligence the wretch knew that I was on deck on that fateful night is a mystery, but when he abruptly surprised me with insulting and degrading attentions, my sense of injury overcame my common sense. I was alone and with an irresponsible person, yet I flew into a wild rage at him; then his vile hands encircled my waist and his hot breath burned my cheeks as again and again he strove to fasten his loathsome lips against my own. I was helpless in his arms as he dragged me onward, onward on the deck. I felt I was doomed, that presently the wild, cruel waves would engulf me, and I made a frantic effort to cry "Help!" and "Murder!" and you came on the scene, and after my assailant had felled you with a blow my screams awakened assistance and the brute was quickly overpowered and secured. I have now completed my narrative with all necessary detail. MILICICENT HARWORTH. When I had read it and returned it on the following morning a sudden stir and hubbub on deck proclaimed that something unusual had occurred on board, and on inquiry I ascertained that the would be murderer had cut the ropes that bound him and had plunged into the sea. Under the circumstances, the news *He strove to fasten his loathsome did not surprise me, but when a document addressed to me and signed by the suicide was given me, I must say that the curious fatality of events seemed astounding. I now give its contents. Narrative of a Homicidal Madman. I am a madman. I own it. At certain times my senses are not under the control of my mind. Wickedness usurps reason. In my mad moments I am an abnormal being. In my sane moments I know what an insane monster I am; but when you read on you will pity me instead of hating me. I am the victim of heredity. There are married couples in this world of sin and sorrow who ought to have died before linking themselves into matrimonial bonds—husbands and wives who repel and hate one another; unsympathetic, callous beings, who don't possess any of the attributes to knit them in loving bonds of matrimony. My parents, unfortunately, were an example of this marriage failure. Their strife and bickering often nearly led to blows, and I have been told that just before I was born, in a mad dispute about a trifle, my father made a lunge with a knife at my mother, and that it was only by the merest accident that he had not killed her. Is it any wonder then that I inherited their viciousness; that on occasions I could not permit anyone to contradict me, to thwart me, to interfere with me, to rebuke me? One day I was in a motor car which overturned. I was nearly killed. I was taken to a hospital where I was kindly treated and tended, and it was here that I met the one whose love might have driven the devil out of me. I had never known before what the spell of a woman's beauty and sweetness meant. It is impossible for me to dilate upon my passionate love for her. The thought arouses a surge of emotion to madden me. I tried—oh, how I tried!—to awaken her pity, to inspire her devotion. She would not listen to me or give me the slightest encouragement; in fact, I could win neither her confidence nor her favor, and I only aroused her repulsion. Then my madness came again. Her repulsion stirred my hate and I felt it would be a joy to strangle her. But when my saner moments came, I abhorred myself for my thought, and common sense urged me to forget her, so I tried to banish her memory. Soon I lost sight of her. One morning, at my club, I read glowing accounts about Canada—its resources, its climate, its scenery, its life, and I resolved to go there. After I had taken my berth on this steamer, to my surprise I recognized the stewardess. It seemed a caprisse of fate. Her face again stirred the old feelings, but my common sense was in the ascendant. I did not want to talk to one who spurned and hated me, and I sought relief in study and books to ward off that dread of being with her. However, I noticed that every night when not engaged in her duties she used to sit on the deck, and though I could control myself when awake, I had always a dread that my passion might incite me when asleep to seek her. I was afraid of myself, and thus I asked you to bind me to the berth with ropes. You kindly did so, and Millicent Harworth was safe. One day I noticed that she spoke to you, and it was only by a supreme effort of will that I refrained from accosting her, but the desire to do so must have so affected my mad brain that I must in my sleep have lips against my own" cut the ropes in the frantic desire to be near her. I rushed up the stairs—she was seated as usual on deck. The fresh air awoke me, but I could not retreat. Madness overpowered me, guided my steps, incited my action, urged me to pronounce wild, passionate words. I clasped her waist. I strove to snatch her kisses. She repelled me. She maddened me. I resolved to destroy her life. My wicked desires gave me unnatural strength. I held her in my arms in spite of her wild cries for help, and I tried to cast her overboard. Then you appeared and I vented my anger and vengeance on you. I struck you. You fell, but I was soon overpowered by those who came to her rescue. They bound me tightly, but I had the very knife secreted with which I had cut your ropes, and after writing these words I shall seek eternal peace. I must not any longer blight the world with my madness. I am unfit to live. The cold mass of waters shall embrace me, stifle me in oblivion. Good by. --- The autumn season is coming more and more to be recognized as a most suitable time for housepainting. There is no frost deep in the wood to make trouble for even the best job of painting, and the general seasoning of the summer has put the wood into good condition in every way. The weather; moreover, is more likely to be settled for the necessary length of time to allow all the coats to thoroughly dry, a very important precaution. An old and successful painter said to the writer the other day: "House owners would get more for their money if they would allow their painters to take more time, especially between coats. Instead of allowing barely time for the surface to get dry enough not to be 'tacky,' several days (weeks would not be too much) should be allowed so that the coat might set through and through. It is inconvenient, of course, but, if one would suffer this slight inconvenience, it would add two or three years to the life of the paint. All this is assuming, of course, that the paint used is the very best to be had. The purest of white lead and the purest of linseed oil unmixed with any cheaper of the cheap mixtures often known as "White Lead," and oil which has been deformed with fish oil benzine, corn oil or other of the adulterants known to the trade are used, all the precautions of the skilled painter are useless to prevent the cracking and peeling which make houses unsightly in a year or so and therefore, make painting bills too frequent and costly. House owner should have his painter bring the ingredients to the premises separately white lead of some well known relia ble brand and linseed oil of equal quality and mix the paint just before as plying it. Painting need not be evensive and unsatisfactory if the old painter's suggestions are followed. FINEST TROUT IN THE WORLD Found in Small Stream in the High Sierras, Says Expert. The finest trout in the world, save Dr. Barton W. Evermann of the bureau of fisheries, is to be found in a little stream of the high Sierraas in southern California called Volcano creek. The trout is named the "golden trout," and in beauty of coloring gameness and delicacy of flavor it has no equal. So far as it known, it exists only in this stream, which is about 20 miles in length. President Roosevelt recently called attention of the bureau of fisheries to this unique specimen, with the result that Dr. Evermann was sent to California to study its habits and environment and to see whether it might not be introduced elsewhere. He reports that the trout is in danger of extermination and that fishing in the stream must be prohibited by the state of California for three years if the trout is to be saved. Dr. Evermann has also recommended that the bureau of fisheries undertake the artificial propagation of the trout and cooperate with the state of California in translating it to a number of barren streams that can be easily reached—National Geographic Magazine. HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR. Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kansas, will interest the thousands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffering tortures with kidney complaint. Capt. Elysays: "I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally de sands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffering tortures with kidney complaint. Capt. Elysays: "contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally developed into a chronic case. At one time I had to use a cratch and cane to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901, but the remedy cured me, and I have been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Millburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Tigers Tap Rubber Trees. Near Perak in the Malay peninsula is a prosperous rubber factory run by a long headed Sogotchman. In order to obtain the sap from which the rubber is made it is necessary to puncture the bark of the trees. Laborers are scarce in that district, but there are an abundance of tigers. There were not enough men to "tap" the trees, but the Scotch proprietor hit on a brilliant idea. He knew that tigers are fond of valerian, so he gave orders that all the trees should be rubbed with this stuff. The tigers came up and caressingly scratched the bark in the most approved herringbone fashion, after which all that the coolies had to do was to walk around once a day and collect the rubber. Veterans Rapidly Passing Away. Veterans Repository Passing Away Veterans of the civil war are dying now at the rate of 100 a day, according to records of the United States pension office. The monthly reports for several months past have shown the death rate among the old soldiers to be in the neighborhood of 3,000 a month. Pension office officials who have watched the figures closely and know the tendency of the death rate are of the opinion that the number of civil war pensioners has reached the maximum and that hereafter each succeeding month will show a decrease. THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS.....Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... 61 56 Two months ..... 70 Three months ..... 69 One month ..... 18 Safety paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE—No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . 2.00 For two inches, three month . 8.00 For two inches, six month . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . 10.00 For two inches, twelve months . 15.00 GLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. The city ordinance passed a few days ago giving a franchise for natural gas, was turned down for some unknown reason. The mayor hoped that the franchise which was granted would be accepted. It was granted to Flemming and Wilson. The natural gas proposition seems to be a mere joke to the citizens of Kansas City while it seems to be understood by both the mayor and council that they were elected on this proposition. The attempt to segregate the colored soldier simply because some of the common ordinary white privates object to his occupying the same fort with them, is an injustice. If he were in any way the inferior of his white comrade, or if he were pugnacious by nature there might be some excuse, but as it is, it will be a stigma. When the South rebelled the negro fighting side by side with the loyal union men, whipped it back into line. When our own Teddy led his regiment to shaughter up San Juan hill the negro soldier, full of vim, vigor and loyalty, fought back the Spanish, conquered San Juan and saved one flank of Uncle Sam's army from annihilation. Since in time of peace he must abide by the same rigid rule, in time of war must fight with as much valor, why should he be stigmatized? That the men who make up the savage, blood-thirsty moals, 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. The 25th Annual Communication of District Grand Lodge No. 8, of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows was held in Macon, Mo., Aug. 6th, 7th and 8th, and was one of the most successful in the order's history in this state. There was a balance on hand of $6,000 after paying all indebtedness, an increase of $3,000 over last year. Among the new propositions adopted was the appointment of a committee to select a suitable site for the location of our proposed Odd Fellow's Home. Brother J. W. Boone, better known as Blind Boone, of Columbia, Mo., was an interested delegate, and was appointed on the above named committee. Officers for ensuing year are, D. G. M., Edw. S. Lewis, Kansas City, Mo., (re-elected); D. D. G. M., D. B. Jones, Sedalia, Mo.; D. G. Sec., Geo. E. Temple, St. Louis, Mo., (re-elected); D. G. Treas, Augarner, St. Louis, Mo., (re-elected); D. G. D., A. C. Cummins, St. Louis, Mo. The next session will be held in Boonville, Mo. --- KANSAS CITY KANS. Douglas Hospital is making headway towards completion. The Eastern Star Chapter of Kansas and Jurisdiction met in Kansas City, Kas. last week and had a most excellent session. Miss Jennie Moore of Lawrence was elected Grand Matron, Dr. W. E. Jackson of Topeka Grand Patron and Mrs. S. E. Dilbert of Kansas City, Secretary. Rev. Borthron who has until lately been in charge of a church in Ft. Scott, was installed as pastor of the First Baptist church of Kansas City last Sunday. Three new teachers have been appointed for the new High School of the West Side. Mrs. Mary Hilson had a tumor weighing three and one half pounds removed yesterday by Dr. S. H. Thompson, I. H. Anthony and J. R. Thompson. Patient is doing well. An organization of the young men of the West Side for the entertainment of visitors and for mutual development is in course of construction. It promises to be quite the thing Such organizations should be encour aged. IS EVERYBODY HAPPY? If not come around to 706 East 12th, the A. L. C., and see Richard Alexander, Kansas City's most popular bartender. Mr. Alexander has been in Kansas City for 25 years and is well liked by all his friends. When J. B. you meet him he is always pleasant and congenial. He is living "the simple life," taking things easy. When you are lonesome and looking for a place to go, come around and see your old friend Dick smile, with the smile that won't come off. ANNUAL MEETING OF NEGRO JOURNALISTS. A movement of the negro newspapermen for the uplift of that Dark Body of Negroes, and to promote general felicity among our negro editors and writers. They convene 21 and 22 of September. CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT. While the fool ponders the wise guy acts. Opportunities are far more powerful than prophets. If you would discourage trusts neither borrow nor lend. Poverty isn't a crime—unless it furnishes one with prison fare. Man can see a sorrow at twice the distance he can see a blessing. It is easier for the landlord to raise the rent than it is for the tenant. Misfortune is no respecter of persons—and neither is fortune, for that matter. When people actually carry out their good intentions the milieu will be in full blast. With the march of civilization come innumerable chances to make a dishonest living. Contentment may be better than wealth, but the most of us are compelled to jog along without either. A New York physician has succeeded in making a mute woman talk. Still some folks imagine that it is impossible for a doctor to outlive his usefulness. POOR RICHARD, JR.'S, SAYINGS. Love is great, good and beautiful, but it hates arithmetic. Vacation weather generally begins after the close of vacations. When a man knows what he does not know he begins to learn. It makes little difference what has been in the empty pocketbook. That low rumbling sound in the distance is caused by the reassembling of the football teams. No mental process is so rapid as the decision of the average man to remain home from church on a rainy Sunday morning. The prediction of Russell Sage that $10-a-ton coal is a signpost on the road to revolution gives rise to the awful suspicion that Russell has no coal at hand.—Saturday Evening Post. 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. 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 quilting made by double box-pleats, as was the fashion years ago, trims 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 appliqued with raised mousse-line flowers and lace motifs and mounted over shimmering satin. The approved way of making up all diaphaneous fabrics, such as lace or mousseline, for evening gowns is with an interbining 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 trills of white accordion-plated criffon. The front is draped l'Empire and outlined with exquisitely wrought gimpure or pass-menteric around the short waist. A feature of these wraps is the large sleeves, edged with fur and made furly 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. M Staple and Fancy Groceri Home Phone 784 West 852 FREEMAN AVENUE Home Phone 78 West. Bell Phone 206 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 business, June 18, 1906. 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 Wor 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 ot notions. We buy our goods at wholesale and can sell to our patrons as cheap as the downtown stores can. Save car fare and give us a trial. We keep Ozone Face Powder, Electrical Skin Food, Scalp Soap. OZONE IS THE BEST FOR THE HAIR. 1906 VINE STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. AGGRESSIVE MEN About Enough Said. David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. Approximately 100,000 young trees will be distributed to the people living on the prairies of western Kansas free of charge this year. H. S. Beaubien, 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 . . . deterred the inventor of the steam engine we would 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" SO 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. ADDUX, es, Meats and All Kinds of Pro- duce. Bell Phone 2406 West. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President Condition of the Nation Mall Bank CITY, MO. Of the Currency at the close of June 18, 1906. JIABILITIES. Capital stock $ 600,000.00 Surplus fund 400,000.00 Undivided profits 108,560.16 Unearned interest 113,574.00 National bank notes outstanding 500,000.00 Deposits 10,546,507.11 Total $12,268,680.27 STATES DEPOSITORY. Erge, L. T. James, C. J. Schmeizer, J. P. M. O. D. Ford, G. W. Lovejoy, Felix L. LaFo eager Edwin W. Zea. our old ones made new or nothing in the millinery may desire es Hose, Neckwear, Ribbons, etc. men's underwear. All kinds ot 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. STRAIGHTEN8 WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . . DEPARTMENTS: Theological, State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Physical (Instrumental and Vocabulary, Drawing (Fine Arts and Book Binding, Business, Tailoring, Dressmaking, Dering, Farming and Gardening). ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Locations and Thorough Teachings. INFORMATION: For terms, prior to WILLIAM T. VERDEN. QUINDARO, Phones: Office—Bell—"White." D. W. WHITE, Real Estate List Your Property, as I Have Sold on Home Phone West 127. 1101 Home Phone 5478 Main. R. H. TOY CLEANING, PRECIOUS-8stairs 127 West 8th Street. HAVE 100. TONSORIANA J. B. Lester. S. L. J. B. LESTER'S Hot and Cold Baths. Cigars, Tobacco and Pool. Bell 380 West. EDGAR A. WILLIAM Vyandotte Drug Co. Tel. 171 West. Bath 15 Cents. The Progress Barber Hair Cut, 25c; Shave, 10c. Independence Ave. SCOTT & MENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-National Industrial. B: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-National (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. MAGES: Sipendid Location, Healthful Climate, Homes and Thorough Teachers. ACTION: For terms, prices and all inducements of WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. PRESIDENT, WINDARO, KANSAS Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—178 Main. R. H. TODD, Tailor. CLEANING, PRESSING AND DYEING. West 8th Street. OO. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR J. B. Lester, S. L. Clemons, Duke Mayes. B. LESTER'S SHAVING PARCELS Baths. 557 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 4 New York, Tobacco and Pool. Massage and Hair Dyeing a S. DOGAR A. WILLIAMSON, Ph.D. Bug Co. 1512 N. Fifth Street, KANSAS CITY. Face Massage. SCOTT & SWENZELL, Props. DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D. PRESIDENT. QUINDARO, KANSAS. Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West 15. D. W. WHITE, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance List Your Property, as Have Customers Ready to Deal. Homes Sold on Easy Payments Home Phone West 127. 1101 North Fifth Street, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS SHAVE 10c. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR CUT 25c 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. EDGAR A. WILLIAMSON, Ph. G. Wyandotte Drug Co. Tel. 171 West. 1512 N. Fifth Street, 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. G. C. MOORE. Cash Groceries and Goods delivered from Bell Phone 1265 x North Groceries and Meats, Flour, Provo Goods delivered free to any part of the city 1265 x 1605 N. 10th Street, Kansas Henry Patton's BARBER SHOP 926 Wyandotte Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. DEALER IN Cash Groceries and Meats, Flour, Provisions, Etc. Goods delivered free to any part of the city Bell Phone 1265 x 1605 N. 10th Street, Kansas City, Kan. Home or Bell Phones 253 West. EMPLOYMENT COLORED HER MALE AN EMPLOYMENT OFFICE COLORED HELP A SPECIAL MALE AND FEMALE E HOURS: m., 1 to 5 p. m. RS. EMMA STOVA 4th 5th St.. Kansas City ere is but One Gen ALT RISING BREA EMPLOYMENT OFFICE COLORED HELP A SPECIALTY MALE AND FEMALE OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. MRS. EMMA STOVALE 1014 North 5th St., Kansas City, Kane There is but One Genuine SALT RISING BREAD MRS. EMMA STOVALL 1014 North 5th St., Kansas City, Kansas. There is but One Genuine SALT RISING BREAD and it is known by the name of Mother's Salt Rising E Insist on having the bread the name on the label ----MADE BY---- ther's Salt Rising B st on having the bread the name on the label ----MADE BY---- Mother's Salt Rising Bread Insist on having the bread with the name on the label. MATTHAEI (PRONOUNCED MAT-TAY.) Home Phone, 4117 Main. (PRONOUNCED MAT-TAY.) Phone, 4117 Main. ELECTRIC FACE MASSAGE FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN A SPECIALTY KANSAS CITY, M AIR OUT 250 es. ARLOR New Porcelain Tubs g a Specialty. Ph. G. S CITY, KANSAS g a Specialty Dining Parlor Massage a Specialty Kansas City, M provisions, Etc. Kansas City, Kan. LADIES' SHOES POLISHED. CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Lady Cashier in attendance. Prompt Service. OFFICE ALTY 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. Jim Bush took a trip to Chicago. Tim Cooper is visiting his father and friends in Chicago. The Son is glad to know that the subscription list is growing. Nice large unfurnished rooms for rent at 117 West 6th street. A. J. Nash, the mail carrier, is also spending a week in Kansas City. The Negro Elks will set up their Lodge at Kansas City, Aug. 14, 1906. Mrs. Mose Green, of 1528 Lydia, is just recovering from a serious illness. D. A. Willis, of the Baltimore, is taking his vacation at Excelsior Springs. Mrs. John Winn, of 1326 Vine, is progressing very nicely with the new addition to her family. Mrs. Abe Lyle left Friday, Aug. 10, to visit her daughter in Chicago; she will be gone two weeks. John King, a well-known piano mover, of Kansas City, died Thursday, Aug. 9, from heart disease. Typhoid fever is becoming quite prevalent. Boil your water and be careful of the milk you drink. Mrs. I. H. Anthony and children are visiting parents in Tennessee. They will return in September. Mrs. A. W. Wilson is down from Leavenworth visiting her husband and to attend Grand Masonic Lodge meetings. Miss Pearl Chouteau, of 813 Charlotte St., is in Chicago the guest of Miss Leona Doughtry, formerly of this city. Officers Peter Campbell and Tillman recovered $500 worth of diamonds for a white lady, Mrs. Johnson, 1328 Campbell. 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. Col. Geo. T. Wassom will deliver an address at Oak Grove, on Labor Day. Subject, "The Negro as a Citizen and a Patriot," at 4 p.m. Mrs. Brice entertained the Kensington Art Club; visitors Mrs. Maud Jackson, of Chicago, Miss Jessie Pierce, and the wife of Finley Wilson. 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. Mrs. Prof. G. W. Wood and daughter are spending a few weeks at the mineral wells and summer resort owned by Prof Wood's father, near Pleasant Hill, Mo. 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. The waiters of the Midland and Baltimore hotels are sending Mrs. Mose Green to her home. She was deserted by her husband, Mose Green, last week. What you sow; so shall you reap. A nice little surprise party was given by the young ladies and gentlemen of the twin cities, headed by Miss Emma Roman of Kansas City, Mo., for Miss Helen R. Armstrong of St. Louis. --- Mrs. Thos. Hoden, of Grantville, Kan., spent last week in Kansas City and Independence visiting her sons, J. W. and M. E. Hoden. She returned home Monday evening, having spent a happy week with the boys. The South Side Bible class No. 1 wishes all the members to meet September 31st at 2316 Highland to resume our year's work after a vacation of two months. By order of the organizer, Mrs. Sarah Richardson. The following named persons have eaken advantage of the cheap rates to Chicago: Mrs. Birch, Dr. J. E. Perry, Mrs. Chapman, Dr. E. B. Ramsey, Dr. Maurice Keys, Dr. Lambright, Nelson Crews, and Mr. and Mrs. Weaver. A certain waiter at the Baltimore hotel, who has a wife, was forced to leave another man's house at a very early watch without even clothing. His wife must have thought him a ghost coming in so early in white.—Waverly Court Review. At the 8th Ward Republican Club meeting of Tuesday night, T. C. Unthank was conspicuous by his absence. May be like the ground hog, he saw his shadow and went to his hole. If so the public will be relieved of the painful duty of forcing him to retire. The new Albany hotel, erected in Excelsior Springs about nine months ago by S. W. Wing, is a recommendation, as to what the negro is doing in Excelsior Springs. Mr. and Mrs. King should be congratulated upon their great efforts and there is no reason why you should not spend a week at Excelsior Springs. Mesdames Edith Edmonds, Annie Scruggs, Lula Cunningham, A. M. Ward, and B. S. Smith are summering at Excelsior Springs. Since the addition of the new department to the Albany hotel by Mr. King, Excelsior has excellent accommodations for colored people, and they are showing their appreciation of it by keeping his hotel taxed to its capacity. Rev. Christopher Hunt, a minister of the A. M. E. church and for many years a prominent citizen of Kansas City, died at Shreveport, La., July 8 after a brief illness of three days. He was buried from St. Matthew's church, Friday, July 6. Services conducted by Presiding Elder Daniels and Reverends Martin, Butler and Hubbard. Interment in Star cemetery. The body will be brought to Kansas City later. Yours in deep sorrow, A. M. HUNT. Miss Louise Adams and. Bessie Fleming entertained in honor of Miss Mabel Thurmon, of Marshall, Mo., Monday evening, the following guests at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Oden, 1221 Highland, avenue: Miss Mamie McFadden, Miss Arlivia Demming, Miss Madge Dorsey, Miss Laurie McFadden, Miss Beatrice Thurman, Miss Bessie Fleming, Miss Emma McDonald, Miss Bartley Oliver, Miss Eva Smith, Miss Addison, Mrs. M. E. Oden and daughter, S. Alberta Oden. Messrs. Henry Austin, A. W. Campbell, John Larry, William Armstrong, Silas Cropp, Elmer White and M. E. Oden. Music furnished by Prof. Jarrett's orchestra. Sunday August 19th, 1906 public meeting of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at 19th and Woodland at Burns Chapel at 3:00 p. m. The following programme will be rendered: 1. Invocation, Rev. Harris. 2. Music by Counttee's Quartett. 3. Thomas Knapper, K. C. K., "The Work of the Y. M. C. A. 4. Music 5. Gleanings from the Topeka Y. M. C. A. by Dr. Jackson and others. 6. Instrumental Solo, S. W. Shannon, K. C. K. 7. The Missionary Work of Y. M. C. A., by the Pres. E. A. Mobilley, K. C. K. 8. The work of the Y. M. C. A. Kansas Lawyer Knox, K. C. Mo. A mob of 3,000 men broke into the Rowan county jail is Sallisbury, 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. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES HIGH CLASS DENTISTRY 1029 Main St. EXTRA THIS WEEK Gold Filling, 50c to $2 Silver Filling, 25c Palettes $8 PLATES $5 GOLD CRO EXTRA THIS WEEK EX Old Filling, 50c to $2 Silver Filling, 25c Painless Extraction, 25c $8 PLATES $3 $5 GOLD CROWNS Speci Inducer For Out-of-Town SET OF TEETH... The Old Reliable 23 years before the public our work is guaranteed to give satisfaction. all work work is free of charge. Any patient who has had work done for us, Kansas City office or in eastern Cities should come to us and have the examined and made free of charge. Thousands of tec- monials satisfied in patient. Kind and courte- ous treatment to all. Ask your friend about us. GOLD CROWNS, BRIDGES, $2.65 to $4.00. Specials on Bridge Rates This Week. Examination Free. Silver Filling .250 White Crowns .1200 Platinum Filling .500 Citrus Examination .500 Teeth Cleaned .500 Gold Filling .50 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 132: Main The Eastern Meals at all hours. Ice Cream Grand A Furnished Rooms to rent at the 114 East 8th St., 576- Mrs. M. K. THE K. C. Billiard Table Mfg. Co. MAKERS OF GOOD TABLES AT LOW PRICE 132: Main Street. The Eastern Dining Room All hours. Ice Cream, Cigars and Tobacco Grand Avenue. Rooms to rent at the following places: 99 114 East 8th St., 576-578 Grand Avenue. Mrs. M. King, Prop., Bell. 572 Gran The 5478 Main Bell 'Phi L. PRAT REAL ESTATE RENTAL And INSURANCE Houses For Sale Easy Terms, Like New 127 West 8th Street AS CITY, MISSION COMPTON'S HOTEL Glottte Street, Kansas STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION Main. The K. C. Billiard Table Mfg. Co.. MAKERS OF GOOD TABLES AT LOW PRICES 132: 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. 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 208 Main. P.L.PRATT. Houses For Sale On Easy Terms, Like Rent. 127 West 8th Street KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. "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. 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, 25c Teeth Cleaned, 50c TES $3 BROWNS $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 Mfg. Co., BLES AT LOW PRICES n Street. Dining Room m, Cigars and Tobacco. 572 Avenue. following places: 913 McGee. -578 Grand Avenue. King, Prop., 572 Grand Avenue. RATT. STE RENTAL INSURANCE. For Sale Ins, Like Rent. 8th Street MISSOURI. N'S HOTEL Kansas City, Mo. SS 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. --- Bell 'Phone 3136 Main The Question Before the House It is a question of where you pay as to what you get in Planes 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 Planes in the world in each class. We have built up here the greatest Planes 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 Planes for $125. We sell $250 Planes for $190. We sell $300 Planes for $210 Any of our Planes 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 Planes in stock. Come and see. Count them your self—one, two, three, four, etc. J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. 1013-1015 WALNUT STREET W. Agents for the Metrostyle Pianola. Best Place to ART DEPARTMENT OF Campbell Glass & Painting 1228 Main Street, Kansas City HOME PHONE 2727 MAIN. Best Place to Buy a Piano TMENT The Paint Co. Kansas City. 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 Co. Funeral Directors and Embalmers. A Shoe Full of Value and Wear--- --- John Kelley Miller The Bostonian Shoe $3.50 and $4.00 Patent Colt, 4 Button Patent Colt, Blucher Russia Calf Tan, 4 Button Button Blucher for Dress Oviatt Shoe O 1105 Main. GREETING I, SAMUEL DIGGS, a member of McKinley No. 21, am engaged in the undertaking bu and wish your lodge and brethren to give me whenever you need anything in my line. It aim in this great highway as a business man race to give first class accommodation and service. Will be pleased to have each and al brethren to pay my place a call at any time. an Shoe $4.00 $3.50 3.50 Patent Colt, 4 Button $5.50 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 DIGG Undertaker, Embalmer Funeral Director. 1012 North Third St., Kansas City, Home Phone, 905 West; Bell Phone, 1094 West 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. The Pariors 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 cyclets—extension edge. Yours fraternally. Lady Attendant. KANSAS CITY, MO. $2.50 CUPID AT CHURCH And, glancing in her eyes, I deserved in their cerulean hue The beauty of the skies. I heard her sweet, serene voice In softest murmurs that. Its music made my heart rejoice And treasure every note. I did the very best I could To look the other way. And all went fairly well and good Until I heard her say. "I want to be an angel." when She tempted me too far. And so I told her, there and then, "Dear girl, that's what you are." Nixon Waterman, in Woman's Home Companion. THE AWAKENING OF A MOTHER-HEART BY JESSIE WADE MANNING We have lived for 20 years in a flat over the stables provided by the superintendent of the Brixton park. My husband, William Newman, is now one of the head gardeners. I was brought up to work, and as good, honest, hard work keeps one out of mischief. I'm none the worse for doing the washing, ironing and housework all these years for my little family of two. Well, I started out to tell about the tenants, and especially the boy, in the adjoining flat—the new undergardener, Norman Gray, and his wife and small son. They've been there now going on three weeks, and, as I never cousin strangers, I haven't spoken to any of them, only twice I've shook my finger at the child, and motioned him to keep on his own side of the yard. Unfortunately, we are obliged to dry our "pieces" in the same yard; so it is a tug-of-war each Monday morning to see which will get ahead. I must admit she has no new-fangled ideas about hanging up clothes—woolens and stockings are always the first on the line. The boy Norman is called by the foolish name of "Nibsey," and if a childless .fe of 20 clean, neat, monotonous years hadn't put a crust on PUBLIC HOSPITAL me like the bark on a tree, I might be tempted to notice the handsome child, although he's frightful forward and mischievous. Only yesterday I looked up from cutting my old pieces of carpet into strips for a rug, to see Nibsey punching a boy, head and shoulders taller than himself. The blood was trickling down the big fellow's face. Calling up to the window, he said, proudly: "Say, Mith Newman, did you see me 'do' him? I gib him a blaggy nose like everything." I suppose I would have lived right along, finding fault with all the mother and child did, it Mrs. Gray hadn't been taken suddenly til. Norman Gray called me at midnight. The doctor was already there, and it did not take him long to order her removal to the hospital, where he said an operation for appendicitis would be necessary. I disagreed with the doctor, and told him that disease was only a fad of the profession, and a few old-fashioned remedies for inflammation of the bowels would soon put her on her feet, and not to be so fast for a knife and a reputation. As the husband and doctor tenderly lifted the young thing into the ambulance, she looked up at me, through all her pain, her big, brown eyes (just like Nibsey's, I noticed) full of tears, and whispered: "Please be kind to my little boy." "Sure," I replied, all kind of choked up; "I guess my bark's worse than my bite, child." WHY NOT? SOLD BE CAREFUL BOYS THE REPORT THAT MR. J. PIERPONT MORGAN HAD PURCHASED THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT IS UNTRUE — NOT YET, BUT SOON. FOUND HIM FAST ASLEEP I began by carrying Nibsey home with me. It is awful for strangers to upset you so, yet that boy looked like a cherub sleeping. "The operation was successful," said Norman Gray the next morning, as he drank the coffee I offered him. But you can't make me believe anyone is quite the same after losing a portion of their anatomy. In the week that followed, I lived 20 times 20 years. Such a racket in the house. The bird sang for the first time in years, and such a whirl as Nibsey led me! Bless his little heart, there's really some good in that boy, after ah! Strange, he took to me like a duckling to water. Late in the afternoon of the third day Nibsey was missing. I got not and cold at the same time. William said I tore round as though the boy belonged to me. But it was sheer nervousness, nothing else. By a happy chance I telephoned police headquarters and found him at Station No 2, sitting on a bench with his little head on my old carpet bag, fast asleep. I'd brought that bag down from the attic in the morning to cut up for the rug. How he got it and carried it such a distance was a mystery, "Nibsey," I called, softly. "Oh! Mith Newman," he cried, jumping up and throwing himself into my arms, "I toudent find Dr. Johnson." "Find Dr. Johnson!" I exclaimed, knowing his mother's doctor lived on the other side of the city. "Yeth, Mith Newman, he div me five cents the udder night and said if I'd come and he his little boy I tou'd drive his horse." "Well, where's the five cents?" "Oh!" he said, beginning to cry. "I - div - it-to-the-man-on-the-car-and-tolded-num-i-wanted-to - go - to - dr. Johnson's - and - after-a-long-time-he-put-me-off-and-tolded-me-to - wait-in-here-for-my-mamma." I took his little hand and then picked up the carpet bag, which was as heavy as lead. In it he had put a train of cars, an old broken kite, a lump of wet clay and a dead sparrow. Dr. Johnson didn't know what he'd missed. I hugged the boy all the way home, and believe I'm getting as idiotic over him as William. When love's been adriving for nigh on to 20 years, and is awakened by a little innocence who falls pell-mell right into your frozen, numbed, old heart, you begin to realize there's something in life besides yourself, your dog and youroardings. Then came that awful day. It was Friday, Black Friday, indeed. It appeared that one of the men driving a sprinkling cart through the park was sunstruck. Norman Gray working near the spot, jumped upon the seat to drive the impatient team and wagon back to the stable. The vehicle was an unusually high one, and always kept in a shed built for it. This Norman did not know, so, while driving in the stable he was caught between the low door frame and the high seat of the cart, which doubled him up and killed him instantly. The poor, young wife recovered and bore her great sorrow like the brave little woman that she was. When it came time for her to take Nibsey, who clung to me like a young tendril around an old oak, I concluded, and so did William, that the best thing for Nibsey and his mother (who had got a position packing flower eeds) was to make their homes with us. "She's awfully well informed, isn't she?" "I don't think so." "She can quote from all the ancient and modern authors and is right in touch with all the affairs of the day." "But she's not well informed; she thinks she's pretty and a glance into her mirror would inform her otherwise."—Houston Post. WORK IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. The Beauty of Golden Glow, Some Low-Growing Plants. Rudbeckia golden glow is a wonderful plant. It blooms profusely throughout August and September. It multiplies remarkably. You are able to divide it after the first year, increase your border and share with your friends. The plants are so hardy that you need never give them an anxious thought. Its "habit" is good and its foliage handsome except at the bottom—a shortcoming which can be hidden by planting something else in front. In the hardy border it makes an admirable background against a force. A large number of plants of few kinds usually makes a better effect than a few of each of a great many kinds, says the editor of the Garden Magazine. In front of these very tall plants should come the larkspurs, foxgloves and others, that grow to a height of three feet or so. In front of these come columbines, bleeding heart, day lilies, lupines and a score of medium-sized ones. Low edging plants, either annual or perennial, come right down to the edge of the lawn. English daisies, pansies, primulas and low flags are used for this. Sweet alysum is good, too. It has a delightful habit of self-sowing, so that it may fill all the space available, covering the ground between the taller, more "stemmy" plants. Most good gardeners have a prejudice against bare soil. They would almost harbor a weed rather than an unproductive square foot in the border. I like to raise a great many seedlings of forget-me-nots and pansies and poke them in wherever there is a gap. The first year it is well to sow Shirley poppy and zinnia seeds broadcast among the perennials, which are, very properly, planted far apart to give them room to expand, and thin them out when they crowd. COOKERY FOR THE INVALID. Nice Soup and Broth, Strengthening Essence of Beef, a Custard. ESSENCE OF BEEF—Lean beef, chopped fine. Put a sufficient quantity into a bottle to fill up its body; cork it loosely and place it in a pot of cold water, attaching the neck by means of a string to the handle of the vessel. Boil this for an hour and a half or two hours, then pour off the liquor and skim it. To this preparation may be added spices, salt, wine, brandy, etc., according to the taste of the patient. VEGETABLE SOUP. — Take one turnip, one potato and one onion; let them be sliced and boiled in one quart of water for an hour. Add as much salt as is agreeable, and pour the whole upon a piece of dry toast. This forms an agreeable substitute for animal food, and may be given when the latter is inadmissible. CHICKEN BROTH.—Cut up a fowl and break the leg bones. Put it into a stewpan with a quart of cold water, a teaspoon of salt, and the same quantity of white sugar. Boll gently simmering constantly for four hours. Then strain into a basin. When cold take off the fat. When required for use warm a funnel. SAVORY CUSTARD.—A savory custard, much relished by sick people, is made in the following manner: Take the yolks of two eggs and the white of one, and put in a small basin; add one gill of beef tea and a quarter of a saltspoonful of salt; whip up the eggs and the beef tea; take a small cup which will hold the mixture and butter it; pour the mixture into the cup and cover by tying a piece of white letter paper which has been buttered over the top. Put the cup into a saucepan of boiling water; let it simmer for a quarter of an hour; serve hot.—Chicago Tribune. ABOUT THE GUEST CHAMBER. Have a Comfortable and Well Aired Bed, Closet and Drawers. First of all, a hostess should find out if her spare room is comfortable by sleeping in it herself now and then. She should not put on it monumental pillows and bolsters unless she also provides something less neck twisting to sleep on. The bed should not be left made for weeks at a time and the sheets allowed to grow clammy and musty smelling, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Above all, the windows should be opened every day, and opened wide, not a stingy inch or two behind airproof draperies. There is nothing so depressing as being put to sleep in a room that smells "shut up." Leave plenty of drawer and closet room for your guest's belongings. Don't fill every corner of the room with your own extra possessions. Contrive a good light by the bed, so that if your guest desires she may read before going to sleep. A hostess who is a real housekeeper will think of her own possible wants in fitting out Ler spare room for her women guests. Shoe Buttons. For sewing on shoes there is a linen thread that comes in both black and brown, with a needle attached. It is used just as an ordinary thread, except that the thread is not cut at each button, but runs from one to the other, fastening at the first and last buttons. Plaster of Paris Ornaments Plaster of paris ornaments may be cleaned by coating of thick starch. This should be allowed to become thoroughly dry then it may be brushed off. The object will look quite clean again. All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do-use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. Good intentions should be covered with asbestos. You know what's paved with them. Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup. For children teething softens the pain, reduces inflammation, allays pain, carries wind cooler, 25 oz bottle. King Doing Equestrian Stunts. King Edward has taken to equestrian exercise as a means of keeping his weight down. Since the rabbit hole mishap, which lamed him, his majesty has been unable to take walking exercise. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Convenient English. "We become accustomed to a phrase," observed an educator at a teacher's convention, "but when we introduce a new one along exactly the same lines, it startles the hearer. "A number of ladies were seated in a hotel parlor, and one of them, commenting on a woman who was standing in the hallway, said: "Mrs. Loraine seems unusually happy this morning." "Yes," answered a companion, knowingly, 'the ladies of Newark gave a tea in her honor yesterday. But doesn't her husband look gloomy and dejected?" "That is true,' admitted the first speaker. 'I presume the gentlemen of Newark gave a beer in his honor last night.'" Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Dafiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Sinal, the "Turquois Land." Sinai was known as the "turquois land" in very ancient times, and Dr. Flinders Petrie believes that it was the first mining center in the world. In his recent book on the subject Dr. Petrie tells of the various expeditions sent to Sinai by the Egyptian government. At the head of the party was the "commander," or "hearer of the seal of the god," the Pharaoh. The official staff consisted of "masters of the house of metals," or assayers, scribes and secretaries, to make inventories of the output of the mines. NOTRE DAME ALWAYS CHARMS Visitors Never Tire of Beauty of Famous Cathedral. Often as I have seen Notre Dame, the marvel of it never grows less. I go to Paris with no thought or time for it, busy about many other things; and then, on my way over one of the bridges across the river, perhaps, I see it again on its island, the beautiful towers high above the high roofs of houses and palaces, and the view, now so familiar, strikes me afresh with all the wonder of my first impression. The wonder only seems greater if I turn, as I am always tempted to, and walk down the quays on the left bank, the towers before me and with any step coming more and more completely together, by the Pont Neuf, to the island, and at last to the great square where Notre Dame fronts me in its superb calm.—Elizabeth Robins Pennell, in The Century. AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Postum Food Coffee since it came upon the market 8 years ago knows from experience the necessity of using Postum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Postum was first put on the market I was suffering from nervous dyspepsia and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or coffee. Finally I decided to take his advice and try Postum, and got a sample and had it carefully prepared, finding it delicious to the taste. So I continued its use and very soon its beneficial effects convinced me of its value, for I got well of my nervousness and dyspepsia. "My husband had been drinking coffee all his life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to shift to Postum and it was easy to get him to make the change for the Postum is delicious. It certainly worked wonders for him. "We soon learned that Postum does not exhilarate or depress and does not stimulate, but steadily and honestly strengthens the nerves and the stomach. To make a long story short our entire family have now used Postum for eight years with completely satisfying results, as shown in our fine condition of health and we have noticed a rather unexpected improvement in brain and nerve power." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Increased brain and nerve power always follow the use of Postum in place of coffee, sometimes in a very marked manner. Look in pkgs. for "The Road to Wellville." The food which contains in itself every element necessary, in right proportions, properly prepared by a physician and chemist which makes the perfect food for man, is Persons whose diet is composed of most wholesome foods are comparatively free from disease and are active mentally and physically. Dr. Price's Food being made from the whole grain of the wheat, if eaten daily, disposes to keep the bowels regular. Palatable—Nutritious—Easy of Digestion and Ready to Eat Can be served hot. Put in a hot oven for a few minutes; or cook in boiling milk to a mush. as 8 leaves of bread Dr. Price, the famous food expert, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, Delicious notwithstanding strenuous Food laws, to change any of his products. They have transformed to their requirements. This is an absurd guarantee of their quality and purity. World's Cotton Consumption. The consumption of cotton from 1893 to 1898 averaged only 9,000,000 bales annually in the whole world, but from 1898 to 1903 the average was 16,684,146 bales annually, and the average price was three cents per pound greater than for the previous period. If the consumption increases at the same ratio during the next five year period the average will be nearly 13,000,000 bales annually, and the prices will be much higher than in the previous period. This indicates a prosperous future for the cotton producer and manufacturer, as well as for the export trade. Deaf Women Form Club. One of the most curious clubs on record has recently been formed by society women in Berlin. The principal condition of membership is that the applicant must be deaf. The club has over a hundred members, who meet regularly once a week in handsomely furnished rooms in the Wilhelmstrasse, where they converse by means of ear trumpets and sign language and drink tea. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE Continuing discontinued use of DODD'S products of imitations. Sold only in unrestricted markets. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5 CIGAR You Pay 10c. for Cigars Not so Good. 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Send us 50 cents (stamps if you prefer) with this advertisement, and in addition to GOOD HEALTH for Six Months, we will send you FREE a copy of Mrs. E. R. Kollog's new language cook book. *Healthful Cookery*. This offer will not appear again. Good Health Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich. YOU CANNOT CURE all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh, uterine catarrh caused by feminine lilis, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs,checks discharges, stops pain, and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ilis ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box THE R. PAXTON CO., Boston, Mass. APPLES PEACHES CHIP DIRECT WANTED. J. B. HOXSIE & CO. St. Paul, Minn. 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Defiance Starch Company, Omaha, Nebraska. A. Monument to War Horses Killed in South Africa. W. J. STARK This monument has been erected at Port Elizabeth "in recognition of the services of the gallant animals which perished in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902." This monument has been erected at Port Elizabeth "in recognition of the services of the gallant animals which perished in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902." MINERALS IN ILLINOIS. To Cook Without Fire. --- Coal Easily Heads List—Clay Products and Limestone Next in Importance According to Figures of Geologist. Chicago.—The annual production of the mineral wealth of Illinois has been compiled by the state and government geological surveys. It has been found that in 1905 the state produced a total of $57,989,000 in minerals. Of this $39,754,000 was coal. Clay products and limestone come next to coal in importance. Other useful decorations from home minerals are sandstone, Portland cement, natural rock cement, fluorspar, mineral spring water, spelter, lead ore, glass sand and molding sand. One startling thing discovered in all this research, according to E. B. Van Horn, in the Mining World, is the decrease in the amount of spring water sold. At one time there was water to the amount of $3,038,000 sold from springs in Illinois. In 1905 this dropped to $44,000. The explanation is that resorts have been founded at the different springs and the water is used for bathing purposes and hot sold in the market. The production of Portland cement, which is becoming one of the most important factors in building, is in increasing. On this question Mr. Van Horn says: "The output of Portland cement for 1905 was 1,545,500 barrels, valued at $1,741,150. In 1904 1,326,704 barrels, with a value of $1,449,114, were produced. The natural rock cement was valued at $166,555 in 1905, as compared with $113,000 in 1904. There are four concerns manufacturing Portland cement only, three manufacturing natural rock cement and one To Cook W Merits of Invention Will Be Tested In Field Operations and Commis- Washington—Brig. Gen. Sharpe, commissary general, has sent enough of the new army fireless cookers to feed four companies to the joint camp at Mount Gretna, Pa. He has also ordered enough of the cookers to supply eight companies sent to Fort Riley, Kan., where one of the largest of the joint encampments began recently. It is the intention of the commissary department to test the merits of this device in practical field operations. The cooker in its present form has been constructed by the army artisans themselves; there are no patent rights connected with it, and it is so simple that any boy handy with tools could Carnegie Reward of $1,200 Will Pay Mortgage on His Home. Wilkesbarre, Pa.—William Watkins, a young worker of Edwardsville, near here, is the first anthracite miner to receive a Carnegie medal for heroism and $1,200 from the hero fund. This is in recognition of his act of heroism on September 3, 1904, when he saved the lives of three men at the imminent risk of death. He was greatly surprised by the news that the medal was to be given him. There had been an explosion in the No. 4 colliery of the Kingston Coal company. As the workers rushed out of the mine Watkins realized that three men who were at the bottom of the slope where the explosion occurred might be alive. H turned back and calling to his comrades to stand by to help, he rushed down the slope. --- making both Portland and slag cement. The output of slag cement is included with the figures for the natural rock cement. A new Portland cement plant is building at Dixon, Ill." Lead mines in the state are not important, but the fact that this metal is produced is interesting. The forthcoming report will say on this point: "A small amount of lead ore is mined in northwestern Illinois, and a little of it is reduced in a local furnace near Galena. The bulk of the lead smelted in the state, however, comes from Alton, where the Federal Lead company has a large modern plant. It is run mainly on ores from Missouri, particularly the southeastern part of the state. Since there is only the one producer it is impracticable to give the output for Illinois separately." The increase in Illinois coal production from 1833 to the present year is graphically illustrated in a bulletin of the state survey, which says: "In the last 25 years the production of the state has increased 519 per cent. If the same rate of increase continues for another quarter of a century the annual production then will be approximately 135,000,000 short tons. The production for the last ten years has increased at even a more rapid rate, amounting to 113 per cent. "At this rate a production of 80,000,000 tons will be reached in ten years, or approximately 280,000,000 tons in 25 years. This is about the amount of bituminous coal now mined and sold in the whole of the United States. It is impossible to say what the future rate of increase will in fact be, but these figures are at least serious possibilities and the production undoubtedly will increase rapidly for many years to come. make one in the course of a day according to the army standard. The commissary department is highly gratified over the success in the experiments made in the west, and the officers are devoting their attention to developing minor improvements, such as the application of devices for hermetically sealing the cooking vessels and lightening the weight of the outfit. The large six-compartment cookers first made weighed 450 pounds each, but they have been lightened, and one development is a single compartment cooker weighing a little over 100 pounds which has found much favor because it can be packed readily on a mule, assuring a hot supper for a detachment at the end of a day's scout. Another improvement to be introduced is the adoption of aluminum vessels, made after the department's plans, which are expected to be indestructible. "The explosion had knocked out the props," he said, "and the roof was falling. The black damp was gathering, and I knew I had to work quick. Brinley Davis was burned bad, so was Joe Winchent, white Reese Williams was caught under a car which had been blown on top of him. I could not pull him out. The only way was to lift the car. I tried three times before I could get it up a bit and he managed to wriggle out. Davis and Winchent were wild crazy. They all recovered and are working in the mines now." C. T. Mathews, of 93 Water street, New York city, a wealthy Welshman who takes a great interest in his countryman, heard of Watkins' heroism through friends, and was so impressed that he gave Watkins a handsome gold medal himself, and later brought the case to the notice of the Carnegie hero fund commission. The $1,200 which Watkins will get will just pay off the mortgage on his house. PLAN COLONY IN TEXAS. Big Tract to Be Settled by Farmers from Europe. Chicago.—A tract of land comprising 25,000 acres has been purchased near Raymondville, Tex., on the Gulf Coast railroad, for the colonization of farmers from France, Belgium, Switzerland and Holland. The land was purchased by A. M. Davidson, of Chicago, and the colonists are being found by his eminence, Mgr. J. R. Vilatte, right reverend archbishop and primate of the Old Roman Catnolle Church in the United States. The plan of the archbishop, who makes his headquarters in Chicago, is to colonize the tract with people of his own religious faith. Ninety acres have been set aside in the center of the tract, and upon this will be erected a monastery and a cloister for the education of priests and for the preparation of young men for the ministry. The archbishop will be at the head of the monastery. It is the purpose of those who are carrying on the project to allot the land to the immigrants in 40-acre tracts, which is the largest farm one man can handle in that section of the country. From France grape growers are to be taken to secure experienced agriculturists or horticulturists. The archbishop will superintend the selection of the colonists and see to it that no undesirable immigrants are brought in. TAKE MILLIONS FROM AMERICA. Records Show That Immigrants Send Earnings to Home Banks. Washington—Millions of dollars in American gold is being hoarded annually in the banks of Italy by temporary Italian residents of the United States. This is the news that has just reached the government, along with a statement from the general commissioner of immigration at Rome that the total immigration to the states from Italy in the year 1905-6 approached the 500,000 mark. The idea of most Italian emigrants, says the immigration commissioner, is to accumulate something like a fortune in the states and return with it to Italy. The intimacy of the home connection is shown by the exhibit of the Bank of Naples, which, having advertised that sort of business as its specialty, has more than 183,000 accounts opened by Italian emigrants in the United States and placed to their credit during the fiscal year just closed more than 500,000. During the same period Italians in Argentina sent to this single bank $828,000 and $425,000 came from Brazil. The total receipts from such sources at the Naples bank were $200,000 above those of the year before. And that is only one bank among dozens in Italy. NO BAN ON SMALL SOLDIERS. Government Lowers the Standard to Admit Porto Ricans. Washington—Concession to the slight stature of the Porto Ricans is made in a general order just issued by the general staff of the army providing that five feet two inches shall be the minimum height of men admitted to the Porto Rican provisional regiment. Heretofore the minimum height for the insular regiment has been five feet five inches, which is the height required for admission to the regular army in the United States. The new order does not extend to officers of the Porto Rican regiments, who will still be required to come up to American standards. Other minimum measurements are also reduced by the general order in proportion to the height. Recruits five feet two inches tall are required to have a chest measurement of 32 inches at expiration and mobility of the chest amounting to two inches. One hundred and twenty-four pounds is fixed as the minimum weight for this height. BRICKS MADE BY LIGHTNING. Elements Are Kind to Man Living Near Columbus, Ind. Columbus, Ind—Nathan H. Newsm, a farmer of Sandcreek township, has brought to this city some samples of bricks made by lightning. During a thunder, rain and hail storm on his farm recently lightning struck a shock of wheat and burned it. Several hours later Mr. Newsm was walking through the field and found the ground so hot near the burned shock that he could not stand on it. The next day the ground was still hot, and he took a shovel and dug down to see for his own curiosity how much of the ground had been affected. Ten inches down he found that the ground was thoroughly baked, and pieces of earth which readily hold together were taken out. The earth, which was fine black soil, is cooked to a brick red, and every bit of vegetable matter has been roasted out. Goods All Displayed: It was in a railway carriage, and the company consisted of several commercial travelers and a stall and pompous old gentleman. Various efforts were unsuccessfully made by the knights of the road to draw their companion into conversation. At length one of them said: "Come, sir, I know you are one of us. Tell us what you are travelling in." "Sir," answered the old gentleman, facing his interlocutor calmly. "I am travelling in very objectionable and inquisitive company, and the carriage is full of my samples."—Stray Stories. What is Castoria. CASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. "IF YOU DON'T GET WELL, I WILL GIVE YOU BACK YOUR MONEY" OXIDINE Read the following analysis made by the state chemist who analyzed three bottles of Oxidine sent to him by the Secretary of the State Pharmaceutical Association (The Texas Retail Druggists Association): Analysis and Valuation of Cotton Seed and Rice Products a Specialty Waters, St. Louis, MO. Reports Made on Economic Geology Upton. Reports Made on Economic Geology Mr. R. H. Walker, Secretary Town State Pharmaceutical Association, Dear Sir, I wish you to help hand you certificate of analysis of the Origan you submitted a few days since. I found and found my赖ly satisfactory. I have kept you waiting for a little while, but appreciate the responsibility you have to be certain and accurate about my results. My time to be certain and accurate about my results will be in the future. Thank you, I beg to remain. Buffered for a Long Time Without Relief—Doctor Was Afraid to Touch Them—Cured by Cuticura. "For a long time I suffered with sores on the hands which were itching, painful and disagreeable. I had three doctors, and derived no benefit from any of them. One doctor said he was afraid to touch my hands, so you must know how bad they were; another said I never could be cured; and the third said the sores were caused by the dipping of my hands in the water in the dye-house where I work. I saw in the papers about the wonderful cures of the Cuticura Remedies and procured some of the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. In three days after the application of the Cuticura Ointment my hands began to peel and were better. The soreness disappeared, and they are now smooth and clean, and I am still working in the dye-house. Mrs. A. E. Maurer, 2240 State St., Chicago, Ill., July 1, 1905." Amusements of Royalty. The amusements of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland are skating and riding, but as a child her hobby was the keeping of poultry. What CASTORIA is a harmless Soothing Syrups. I other Narcotic substance. I Feverishness. It cures Dian cures Constipation and Flat and Bowels, giving health Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have 30 years, has borne the sig his personal supervision si All Counterfeits, Imitations and endanger the health of 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS * CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAVVIL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alc. Straw - Kabellie Salts - Avin Seed + Impermint Mortonite Soda + Worm Seed - Cleratid Sugar Wintergreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fae Simile Signature of Charles H. Porter. NEW YORK. 46 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. "IF YOU DON'T BA THIS IS WHAT OX What is Castor Oil? It is pleasant. It contains neite. Its age is its guarantee. It de- diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It re- lapsulency. It assimilates the Food thy and natural sleep. The We Always Bought, and which signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, a since its infancy. Allow no one and "Just-as-good" are but Ex- of Infants and Children—Experi- Letters from Promis- addressed to Chas. Dr. F. Gerald Blattner, of Buffalo, N. for children and I frequently prescrib- results." Dr. Gustave A. Elsengraeber, of St. your Castoria repeatedly in my practi- mend it as an excellent, mild and harm- Dr. E. J. Dennis, of St. Louis, Mo. your Castoria in my sanitarium and out and find it to be an excellent remedy y. Dr. S. A. Buchanan, of Philadelphia, toria in the case of my own baby and obtained excellent results from its use. Dr. J. E. Simpson, of Chicago, Ill., s cases of colic in children and have fou- on the market." Dr. R. D. Daskildson, of Omaha, Neb. standard family remedy. It is the best have ever known and I recommend it. Dr. L. R. Robinson, of Kansas City, I has merit. Is not its age, its continu- years, and the many attempts to imi- What can a physician add? Leave it. Dr. Edwin P. Pardee, of New York C. recommended your Castoria and shall invariably produced beneficial results. Dr. N. B. Sizer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., patent medicines, where maker alone them, but I know the formula of your GENUINE CASTOR Bears the Sign The Kind You Have In Use For Ow "T GET WELL, I W ACK YOUR MONEY T YOUR DRUGGIST TELLS YOU WHEN Castoria. Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Tree. It destroys Worms and allays it. It relieves Teething Troubles, lifes the Food, regulates the Stomach Sp. The children's Panacea—The kind which has been in use for over 100 years. Fletcher, and has been made under no one to deceive you in this. Are but Experiments that trifle with Experience against Experiment. Prominent Physicians and to Chas. H. Fletcher. Of Buffalo, N. Y., says: "Your Castoria is goodently prescribe it, always obtaining the desired aceber, of St. Paul, Minn., says: "I have used in my practice with good results, and can recom- mend and harmless remedy for children." Louis, Mo., says: "I have used and prescribedarium and outside practice for a number of years sent remedy for children." Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I have used your Cas- town baby and find it pleasant to take, and have from its use." Chicago, Ill., says: "I have used your Castoria in and have found it the best medicine of its kind. Omaha, Neb., says: "I find your Castoria to be a It is the best thing for infants and children I recommend it." Kansas City, Mo., says: "Your Castoria certainly its continued use by mothers through all these prompts to imitate it, sufficient recommendation?? Leave it to the mothers." New York City, says: "For several years I havecia and shall always continue to do so, as it has special results." Oklyn, N. Y., says: "I object to what are called maker alone knows what ingredients are put in formula of your Castoria and advise its use." CASTORIA ALWAYS years the Signature of Fletcher. You Have Always Bought For Over 30 Years. I WILL GIVE YOU MONEY" YOU WHEN HE SELLS YOU INE HE KNOWS ILS AND FEVERS CULAR AND TASTELESS guaranteed to cure Chills and Fevers. Sold by all analyzed three bottles of Oxidine sent to him by the Druggists Association: Letters from Prominent Physicians addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher. Dr. F. Gerald Blattner, of Buffalo, N. Y., says: "Your Castoria is good for children and I frequently prescribe it, always obtaining the desired results." Dr. Custave A. Elsengraeber, of St. Paul, Minn., says: "I have used your Castoria repeatedly in my practice with good results, and can recommend it as an excellent, mild and harmless remedy for children." Dr. E. J. Dennis, of St. Louis, Mo., says: "I have used and prescribed your Castoria in my sanitarium and outside practice for a number of years and find it to be an excellent remedy for children." Dr. S. A. Buchanan, of Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I have used your Castoria in the case of my own baby and find it pleasant to take, and have obtained excellent results from its use." Dr. J. E. Simpson, of Chicago, Ill., says: "I have used your Castoria in cases of colic in children and have found it the best medicine of its kind on the market." Dr. R. E. Eiskildson, of Omaha, Neb., says: "I find your Castoria to be a standard family remedy. It is the best thing for infants and children I have ever known and I recommend it." Dr. L. R. Robinson, of Kansas City, Mo., says: "Your Castoria certainly has merit. Is not its age, its continued use by mothers through all these years, and the many attempts to imitate it, sufficient recommendation? What can a physician add? Leave it to the mothers." Dr. Edwin F. Pardoe, of New York City, says: "For several years I have recommended your Castoria and shall always continue to do so, as it has invariably produced beneficial results." Dr. N. B. Sizer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "I object to what are called patent medicines, where maker alone knows what ingredients are put in them, but I know the formula of your Castoria and advise its use." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Flitchers. The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE GENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. HE DOES THIS BECAUSE HE KNOWS JURE CHILLS AND DE IN TWO FORMS—REGULAR AND T either one. They are both guaranteed to cu contains no poison. made by the state chemist who analyzed three Association (The Texas Retail Druggists Asso ratories Houston logical Rice Products & Specialty. Examined and Reported Geology and Consulting Chemist DEX TEXAS, June 17, 1966 Pharmaceutical Association, certificate of analysis of the and entirely satisfactory. I appreciate the responsibility reason I have taken reason. Thanking you, I beg Houston Laboratories Chemical and Biological I. and Valuation of Cotton Seed and Rice Products a Specialty, Laters, Soils, Oils, Ores etc. Carefully Examined and Reported Upon. Reports Made on Economic Geology T. TILSON, Director, Analytical and Consulting Chemist 2151-2 MAIN STREET CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS Seven Bottles of Oxine Substituted by P. H. Walker of Gonzales, Texas, Secretary of the State Pharmaceutical Association HORSTON, TEXAS, June 27, 1866 and this guideline in contain absolutely no poisonous or injurious chemicals and not a trace of Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, Lead, nitrate, nor, in fact anything that would produce a harmful effect. I. TILSON, Chemist, THAT CURES CHILLS Hastings, Texas June 27, 1996 I and this Order to contain statements no prosecution or imprisonment deprived a person of a right to a trial of the State or of any other form or circumstance, nor an act anything that would produce a harmful effect whatever, heapedfully submitted. The University of Notre Dame, it appears, has some features that cannot be duplicated in any other school. It is one of the old, well-established colleges, with a teaching back sixty-four years, with a distinct teachers and excellent library and laboratory equipment. Its discipline is of the paternal kind—strong without being oppressive; and as it embraces in its scope the normal school, high school and college work its students are most potent. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the famous Indiana University, however, is the fact that it has arrived at its present marvelous development absurdly early in its development of the courses provided at Notre Dame appear on another page. Intoxicants in Vegetables. Vegetables not only contain stimulants but are capable of producing an intoxicating influence on those who depend on them exclusively for food, according to an investigator. He cites a case in which some young people of his acquaintance suffered from partial intoxication as the result of a purely vegetable meal. To Wash Velveteen. Velveen may be washed by shaking it about in warm Ivory Soap suds; then rinse thoroughly and let it drip dry. On no account squeeze or wring it. Be careful to hang it straight on the line, for otherwise it will be crooked when dry. ELEANOR R. PARKER. Lots of people would be glad to get rid of their experience for less than they paid for it. By following the directions, which are plainly printed on each package of Defiance Starch, Men's Collars and Cuffs can be made just as stiff as desired, with either gloss or domestic finish. Try it, 16 oz. for 10c, sold by all good grocers. Laid Out Like Checker Board. The country in which the large towns are most nearly equidistant is Holland. They are at an average distance of 20 miles from one another. SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little Pills. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Sole, TORPID LIVER. They CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature BrewWood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. > 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 hostile itself on the educational question. The foreign residents in Portugal numbered 23, 384, of whom 60 were Americans. Easter Novelty A novelty in Easter eggs is one of glass that is electrically lighted. Such eggs are made in white, or 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 ideals and to support him with abundant funds for cock fighting, bullock 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 total eclipse of the sun. It will take place January 3, 1985, and it will be visible only from two islands in the Pacific ocean—Hull island and Flint island. Both are uninhabited islands laciosed by coral reefs and laminated to be extremely difficult. The duration of totality will be three minutes on Hull island and tour minutes on Flint island. Disillusioned "Can't I get you another r salad or something, Miss Murmadike?" asked her indefatigable swain. The beautiful girl slowly shook her exquisite head. Lifting her long sweep of dark lashes from her virable eyes, she parted her delicately chiselled lips and murmured: "No, thanks, old chap. I'm all in"—Pittsburgh 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 eveh see two dawgs fightin' over a bone?" "Yes," was the reply. "Well, dye eveh see the bone fight?"—Kansas City Star. Punctured His Tire A man who deserted his wife in the town of Wigton, 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 Daseitful. "I don't alus take off my hat to a man jes' cause he's popular," said Uncle Ehen. "One o' de mos' popular people dat ever come to Foggy Bottom turned out to be a confidence man." Very Recently. Mr. Wade Parker—My dear, this sil- ver 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. Case of Necessity. "Ah! wizout her I shall die, mon steur." "Hm! Starvation, I presume,"— Judge. The glory of the present age is in its wealth of scientific discoverers and inventors. 1900 413 Kansas Ave. Tapeka Kansas. Anthony P. Wilson, Atty 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 monogamous life 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 fellows 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 heavens 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 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 few, 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. I Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business NO Matter WHERE LOCATED. Properties and Business or all kinds sold quickly for cash in all parts of the tilted room don't want. Write tools describing what you have to sell, and give cash price on same. If You Want to Buy any kind of Business or Real Estate anywhere, at any price, write me your requirements. I can save you a time and money. HOWARD UNIVERSITY Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges.) Thirty-Ninth Annual Will begin Oct. 1, 1900, and continue Students Matriculated for Day 1 Four Years' graded course in Three Years' graded course in I Three Years' graded course in Instruction is given by didactic lectures, quite cal laboratory demonstrations, well equipped ments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12 For catalogue or further information, apply Thirty-Ninth Annual Session Will begin Oct. 1, 1906, and continue Eight Months. Students Matriculated for Day Instruction, Only. Four Years' graded course in Medicine. Three Years' graded course in Dental Surgery. Three Years' graded course in Pharmacy. Instruction is given by didactic lectures, quizzes, clinics, and practical laboratory demonstrations, well equipped labatories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12, 1906. For catalogue or further information, apply to F. J. SHADD. M. D.. Secretary, 901 R Street. The Albany 1 will entertain colored guests health and pleasure Centrally located, modern, elec large hall and veran Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Home phone to. For terms call or write. EXCE The Stoeltzing Stove and any Hotel colored guests in search of and pleasure. modern, electric lighted, ill and verandas. rs. Sanford W. King, Props. ill or write. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The Albany Hotel will entertain colored guests in search of health and pleasure. Centrally located, modern, electric lighted, large hall and verandas. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford W. King, Props. Home phone to. For terms call or write. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove On German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Light for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces TIN WORK a Specialty ...A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. YOU ever been Chicago? a city, however, it is of great importance that and comparatively new terminal, used jointly R. I. & P. Ry. and C. & E. I. R. R. city—closely adjoining the business section—State Street shopping center and all the prin- ing the city through La Salle Station is the connecting the main waiting-room with the Elec- the North, Northwest, West or South sides a 5-cent fare WITHOUT DESCENDING TO the dangers and delays of the great, crowded y into Chicago is elevated for more than eight Prompt arrival at Chicago terminal is thus as- en, seven miles out, affords ready access to mains stop here. Chicago on sale at all points in Kansas, Ne- 1 to September 30. or the round trip, with minimum of $20. Full Have YOU ever in Chicago? If so, you know the extremely convenient location STATION. If you are a stranger in the city, however, it is you learn about this magnificent and comparatively by Rock Island-Frisco Lines—C. R. I. & P. Ry. and o. 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 WHY THE STREET. You thus avoid the dangers and danger city. The Rock Island right-of-way into Chicago is eleven miles out through the suburbs. Prompt arrival at Gurred, Englewood Union Station, seven miles out southern suburbs—all through trains stop here. Summer excursion tickets to Chicago on sale at braka 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 NT Kelley Milling Co K. C., U. S. A. --- WASHINGTON. ```markdown ``` Best Stores Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Rock Island System Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. NELSON'S Hair Dressing MAKES HARSH STUBBORN HAIR SOFT AND PLIANT REMOVES DANDRUFF NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING FOR PLAINT HARSH STUBBORN HAIR SOFT GLOSSY LUXURIOUS PROMOTES THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR PREVENTS IT FROM SPLITTING AND BREAKING OFF Not New or Experimental, but an Old, Reliable Preparation of Proven Merit. Nelson's Hair Dressing is an ideal Hair Pomade. It contains no strong, dangerous chemicals that can in any way injure the hair. You can use it just as long as your hair is damp and moist. It is also safe to use on hair. Nelson's Hair Dressing soothes harsh scabbed, refractory hair, prevents it from becoming dry and brittle, and enables you to do it up in any style consistent with its length, at the same time giving it that rich, glossy look so much desired. Nelson's Hair Dressing is the best solution for the scalp of anything made. It supplies the needed oil directly to the root of the hair and invigorates the scalp, thereby removing dandruff and promoting the growth of the hair. Stops the hair from falling out, breaking off and splitting at the ends, which is nearly always a problem. Nelson's Hair Dressing is an excellent remedy for all kinds of Scalp Diseases such as Tetrion, Ritening and Scalling of the Scalp, Dandruff, &c. Nelson's Hair Dressing is delightfully perfumed; put up in handmade 4-ounce square tin boxes (like one shown in cut), and sold everywhere by druggists and agents at 25 cents a box. If you cannot find it in your town, send us 30 cents in stamps and we will mail you a full size box, postage paid. Address. Nelson Manufacturing Co., Richmond, Va. WE WANT GOOD AGENTS. WRITE FOR PRICES, TERMS, ETC. "Maine --- Our new Spring Goods Have Arrived in the most Complete Styles for Men. SAM. Stetson Hat Our Motto: "W 805 Main Street "Hot Sp Long looked for imp and Hot Springs, Arkans the Hot Springs Little Rock Leaving Kansas City at Breakfast. This train re dence (Kan.), Coffeyville Sleepers and Chair Cara feature on this "Hot Sp This train connects at L all Southeastern Points ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS FOR GENTS FURNISHED SHOES SAM. H. FINKELSTEIN, Pro Stetson Hats $1.50 Cleaned and Our Motto: "YOUR MONEY'S Main Street, "Hot Springs Sp Long looked for Improved Train Service be- d Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is Hot Springs Little Rock MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Leaving Kansas City at 11:00 a. m. daily. Arrive breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, ence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot feature on this "Hot Springs Special" is the E this train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana a Stetson Hats $1.50 Cleaned and Blocked. Our Motto: "YOUR MONEY'S WORTH" 805 Main Street, Kansas City Mo "Hot Springs Special" Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by the Hot Springs Little Rock MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Fort Smith Coffeyville Leaving Kansas City at 11:00 a. m. daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this "Hot Springs Special" is the Elegant Dining Cars. This train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Trains for all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Hot Springs Night Express 9:35 p. m. daily. For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths call or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Pass 901 Main Street. Home Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Te For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths all or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Pass 001 Main Street. Home Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Te For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY MO Home Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 740 Hickory M. Brancato @ Bro. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats, Oysters and Game in Season Bell Phone 2415 Main Y Home Phone 5595 211 W. 6th St