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. PROF HEZEKIAH WALDEN. Professor of Physics, Lincoln High School. Alongside with the other competent teachers of the New Lincoln High School, Prof Walden as one of the new teachers stands in a very conspicuous light. Mr. Walden was born in the town of Markham, Virginia and attended the public school of his native town. Then he attended Wayland Seminary and College in Washington D. C., and graduated from the academic course in 1893. He took a Post Graduate course at Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville Maine and finished in 1894. Afterwards entering Colby University at the same place and finishing in 1898. MARKETING Immediately on leaving college he took charge of the department of Natural Sciences at Roger-Williams University, Nashville, Tenn. Occupying the chair from 1899 to 1905. Leaving Roger-Williams because of the destructive fires to that Institution occurring Jan. 24, 1905, and May 22, 1905, he was given the chair in the department of industries and in additions to that teaching some studies in natural science, particularly college physics. During the years of his teaching service, he has been improving all the time taking two special courses, one in X-ray and Physico-Chemical Radiography and the other in Mineralogy in the University of Chicago. Prof. Walden is a staunch Christian and a follower of the faith, and since giving his valuable service to his special school, he has also begun to take an active part in the Y. M. C. A., and we wish to say in order for such institutions to prosper they need more men like Prof Walden's type. He is at present occupying the chair of Physics at Lincoln High School in which subject he has devoted a number of years, making him peculiarly fitted and doubly valuable in that line. Prof. Walden has a very nice family, composed of a boy and girl, and a wife of very pleasing maner intellect and refinement. In Mr. Walden the people and the community at large have a very valuable adjunct to our new High School's corps of teachers and he should be given every consideration. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. The members of the Athletic Association under the able management of Professor West are preparing for the annual contests upon the gridiron. Sounders, otherwise "Big Jim," Young, Richardson, Johnson, and many others well known in former victories, are all here in good shape. The religious bodies, the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. societies are in flourishing conditions and aid materially in elevating the tone of student life. The concert given by the Y. M. C. A., on the 12th inst., under the supervision of Professor Reynolds was financially and otherwise a great success. Friday, November 9th, the date set for the Annual Farmers' Conventions, draws night, and we hope many are planning to be present. At no previous time in the world's history has that ancient and honorable occupation known as agriculture received the scientific attentions that has been accorded it within the last decade; and yet, even with the present advanced ideas on the subject, farming methods today, as some one has well said, are little more than "a slight scratching of the soil." To render this same "scratching" more complete, more productive of results, is the aim of the Farmers' Institutes and Conventions that have multiplied within the last few years. By means of the ideas thus disseminated the white farmer has been enabled to make two grains grow where one grew before, and it is just this THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN WORKS 'A Gifter Devine to Move the Negroes to Righteouances. Great human spirits are born, not made. Go ye forth into the highways and byways and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Fear not, for the Lord thy God is with thee. He will lead you through the valley and through shadows of death. So it is with the spirit of Annie E. Brown. Inspired to preach the Gospel when only seven years of age, she was sent forth to active work 16 years ago. Since that time thousands have been brought to their knees under the magic influence of her melodious voice. She is irresistable because she is one of the greatest evangelists living, having preached in all the largest cities in the east. She comes here from New York City where she has had great success. In one single meeting over six hundred were converted. Mrs. Brown is a Virginian by birth. knowledge that the Negro farmer must have if he is to become part and parcel of American civilization. Therefore let us come together for a practical discussion of farms and farm life; how to secure arms; how to improve farm life and thus render it more attractive to the boy and girl of today. KANSAS CITY, KANS. Young Mr. Payne, at 841 Nebraska Ave, died Monday morning of consumption. Mr. Chastine Hickman, of Frankfort, Kansas, visited in Kansas City, Kansas a short while. The 1st A. M. E. Church Choir will have a vacation Tuesday evening on account of the Carnival. The series of lectures of the two cities was quite interesting. The place was at the Abernathy Fur. The Sun-rise prayer-meetings are growing rapidly. All are invited to attend at the 1st A. M. E. Church. The Friday session of the A. M. E. Conference of Missouri was held in the University Chapel with Bishop A. Grant presiding. but early removed to Washington, D.C., where she was educated in the public schools and when a young girl, was married to an employee in the patent office. Is your soul saved? If not come out and hear this great woman spirit lecture at the 2nd Baptist church next Tuesday night. No admission as she came to save souls. Show your appreciation of her great works by a silver offering. Should women preach? Any one who has been touched with the divine spirit should go forth. Be they woman or man. Thousands have been saved by this woman. By an inspiration from Heaven she was possibly led to have a gospel wagon built which has been a means to reach hundreds of sinners in the slums of New York. She is a soldier of the Lord. Let there come over this city a great spiritual awakening. Let seethe masses of negroes pour out to hear her wonderful words of wisdom. Let us praise good people while they live, for after they are dead we cannot pay them any debts of gratitude A number of distinguished visitors were present and made some interesting remarks along educational lines. Among them were the U. S. Treasury, Dr. W. T. Vernon, Rev. Low of Arkansas, Dr. H. B. Parks of New York and Mrs. Collet, wife of the late Rev. Collett all made very interesting talks to the many visitors as well as to the student-body. In the evening the Conference met in Kansas City, Mo., at Allen Chapel where the Choral Club rendered some favorite selections. On Sunday the University Forum was very highly entertained by Mrs. Wallace, State Temperance lecturer who made one of the most practical talks ever witnessed at these meetings. In her remarks she illustrated to the oung men the dangers of the uses of tobacco and strong drinks and the effects they had upon the human system. Western University football team will play Summer High School, Kansas City, Kas., Friday afternoon at Chelsa Park. Rev. J. T. Smith, a former student of the University visited us on Friday. Theodore Marshall of Pueblo, Colo. returned to resume his studies for another year. The speaker for the Sunday Forum is Prof. I. N. Grisham who will discuss "The Color Question." GOOD PROOF OF HIS SKILL Floor Polisher Surely Left Nothing to Be Desired. Frank Miles Day, the well-known architect and essayist of Philadelphia, stepped carefully from a Persian rug of dull green and old rose to another rug of rich blue, for the polished floor between was dark and smooth and slippery like ice. "Rather a good polish there. I think," said Mr. Day's host. "Remarkably good, indeed," said Mr. Day. The host just then slipped and nearly fell, and the architect, with a laugh, went on: "A friend of mine has beautiful floors, and the other day sent for a floor polisher. "I want these floors polished,' he said to the man, as he led him about the house. 'They are, you perceive, fine ones. They ought to come out as lustrous as rosewood. Do you think you're capable of doing them justice? Give me some proof of your thorough competence.' "That's easily done, sir," the polisher replied. 'You just go and ask Col Snow, next door but one, about my work. He'll tell ye. Why, governor, on the polished floor of Col Snow's dining room alone five persons got broken limbs last winter, while two ladies slipped down the grand staircase during the Easter week ball and one dislocated her hip, while the other fractured three ribs. You ask Col Snow, sir. I polished that floor and that there staircase of his'n." USED RUSE TO SECURE MONKEY Animal was Unacquainted with Qual ities of Opera Glass. A professor well known in the scientific world recently hit upon a novel method of capturing a pet monkey which had escaped from the house and taken refuge in the branches of a tall tree. He looked at the animal through a pair of opera glasses, pointing the small end at him, and then retired to a short distance, leaving the opera glasses on the ground. The imitative monkey descended from the tree, and, taking the opera glasses, gazed in a similar manner, at his master, who seemed to the deluded ape to be many yards distant. The monkey, continuing to look through the same end of the opera glasses, supposed his master, who was walking slowly toward him, to be still a long way off, when the professor, reaching out, secured the chain and led the victim back to his cage. The Part of True Wisdom The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable if the tendency of the laws was to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands. In the nature of things, those who have not property and see their neighbors possessed of much more than they think them to need cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of such property. When this class becomes numerous it grows clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready at all times for violence and revolution. It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property, but to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the support of the government—Daniel Webster. Courtesy in Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark, is a city of canals and cleanliness—a land of pure delight, free from beggars, organ grinders, and stray dogs. The inhabitant thereof are born courteous, and seem never to have recovered from the habit. When a passenger boards a car in Copenhagen, he exchanges greetings with the conductor; a gen trianen, on leaving the car, usually into his hat in acknowledgment of a salute from that official. When a fare is paid the conductor drops it into his cash box, thanks the passenger, and gives him a little paper receipt. He offers change with a preliminary "Be so good," and the passenger accepts it with thanks. If, in addition, transfers are required, complimentary exchanges go on indefinitely. Yet there is always time enough in Copenhagen—Four Track News. The Advice of Experience It has sometimes been remarked by the student of childlife that the only child learns to read sooner than the child belonging to a large family. There may or may not be psychological reasons for this; but the story of the small boy of five, who was struggling with his alphabet blocks for the first time, may be enlightening to those who wish for reasons. The small boy was really rather interested than otherwise in a large A that fulfilled its usual function of standing for an apple tree; but he had a brother who was nearly eight. "You leave 'em alone," advised the brother; "if you once begin to read you can never leave off." Ten Cents on a Dollar Swiss hotel keepers are trying to arrange a ten per cent, scale of tips. They complain that the scale of graft tufts has risen greatly owing to the reckless generosity of Americans. If they can reduce it to ten per cent, well and good; but if they wish to keep Americans from giving more they must first employ a class of servants who expect no more from Americans than from other guests. CUTTING THEIR WORDS SHORT. Writers of English No Longer Use Extended Sentences. "The English sentence grown shorter and shorter," said an essayist, "Spencer, Sir Thomas More, Llyd and Sidney used sentences of the average length of 55 words. Nowadays the sentences of the average journalist are only 15 words long. Pacon introduced the short sentence. At a time when everybody else was using 50 words he took 22. Praise be to Bacon! "Macauay used a very short sentence. Its average length was 23 words. Dickens' average was 28. Thackeray's was 31. Matthew Arnold's sentences are long, but beautifully balanced. They are of 37 words Henry James' are longer and, though intricate, graceful and well worth puzzling out, for in each of them a powerful meaning is concealed. They are 39 ers. "Kipling's sentences contain 21 words, George Moore's 24, H. G. Wells' 23, Upton Sinclair's 22." WIFE HAD HER TRIBULATIONS Hard Time Indeed With Such an Un accommodating Husband. "John," asked his wife as he was beginning to dream that he had pat ented something and made a million "did you lock the door?" "Yes." "The pan y window's open!" "No taint. I shut it." "Hurry down and turn off the gas stove. I'm almost sure Hulda forgot and left it burning when she went to bed." "No, 's all right. I looked." "You didn't fasten the side screen door. Go and hook it or it'll flap all night and keep us awake." "S all right. I hooked it." "John Pritchard, get up quick. Don't you know that I shan't be able to go to sleep to night unless you go and look around to see whether you haven't forgotten something? My goodness, it's a wonder you haven't driven me into nervous prostration long before this!" Where Shelley Wrote "The Cenci." NUMBER 13 "Here," says the inscription, "Shelley wrote 'The Cenci.' But the words of the Italian are 'La Cenci.' Now no Englishman could possibly read Shelley's title but as a family name—'The Cenci.' in the plural. That an Englishman should call Beatrice "the Cenci" in the feminine singular, as one may speak of "la Duse" or "la Patti," is altogether inconceivable. To the Italian municipal mind it seemed that Shelley naturally called his heroine and his tragedy "La Cenci." What a pity that none but editors decline English articles! Did You Know This? "Say, d'you know anything 'bout hosses, hey? D'you know they'll eat pork? Well, they will, when it's fed 'em an' they have to. The heavies stops, subsequent, though they're an all fired sight wuss afterwards. Belle went right onto a meat diet, hog meat an' oil cakes. Yep, linseed oil—it'll fat a rail fence. Belle took on weight amazin'. Cur'us thing 'bout oil cakes, though; once a hoss has been fattened on 'em, an' then grows pickid agin there ain't nothin' in God's world! put flesh onto him a second time. You can try as much as you are a mind to; it ain't no use."—American Maga zine. Remember Your Umbrella "How do you manage to keep your umbrella from being spirited away?" And how do you avoid leaving them on trains?" asked a girl who was a frequent "Lost" advertiser. On this occasion she was exulting in the surprise of seeing an answer to her entreaty for the return of her rainy shedder. "When you sit in in a car," said her companion, "place the umbrella on the outside, between yourself and the aisle. Thus the umbrella is a fence. It bars you in. When you jump up hastily to get off at your station, you fall over the umbrella. You cannot forget it." OLD TIGHTFIST NOT CAUGHT. Clever: Rune to Secure Draught of Beer Was Wanted. Near Vineland, N. J., there lived a German farmer who brewed his own beer, the superiority of which he was continually proclaiming, though no other person ever enjoyed an opportunity of testing its merits. A young neighbor made a wager that he could trick the farmer into giving him a taste of the much-uvaunted drink. The youth visited the German one Sunday afternoon and the conversation was deftly stered around to home brewed beer. The young man boasted that his father brewed beer that could not be equaled. The farmer at once vehemently ordered up a mug of his own favorite brew. When it appeared, the German raised it to his lips, and, the other hand pressing his stomach, drank every drop without taking breath. Then holding the empty mug to the disappointed young fellow he said, gravely: "You say your fnder's beer iss so better as mine!" Jost schmell dot mug!"—Lipincott's Magazine. Cold Storage in Labrador A bucket of potatoes, "to be eaten out of three times a day," is a not uncommon prescription to supply from our dispensary. We have great trouble to keep enough, says Dr. W. T. Greenfell in Boston Transcript. Often a bit of fresh beef is easier to give, for we kill our oxen in the fall and cut them into joints. Then we fill our old barrels with clear water and drop in the beef. It promptly freezes solid and is preserved at least from December to July. I was much amused to notice that some rats had singled out in the store one of these barrels for attack. After patiently gnawing through the wood they came down to the block ice, but in many nights' working they had got very little "forroader." Brilliant Belts The new belts, although created in Paris, are very Scotch in effect and of extreme smartness. Made as they are of brilliant plaid silks edged with wide bands of white kid, and having white kid buckles, they are very effective with both dark and light gowns. A Marriage of Convenience Ey H. H. LERSNER (Copyright, by Joseph B. Howlea.) It was generally conceded that Ila Leslie was the handsomest girl with in her circle—but vain to a degree; never making any attempt to interest those with whom she came in contact socially—relieving absolutely on her extreme good looks to court popularity. Nevertheless, she had an ardent admirer, James Lyle, a fine, manly fellow, young, stalwart and possessed of a genial nature, not so situated, however, as to be able to give her a home such as she anticipated. Babe hold a remunerative position with a large corporation in an official capacity, and although she derived an income far in excess of the work demanded of her, she was discounted with her lot, probably due to the fact that she had too much leisure, giving her simple time to conjure foolish notions. She loved to be mistress of a fine home, with all the charming accessories that accompany luxurious environments. James loved Bab dearly, and urged her to become his wife. "I can see no future but the care of a home, donating a wrapper and apron for the convenience of performing household drudgery, and never showing my good looks to advantage," she laminally replied. James coaxed and pleaded, but of no avail. Bab's vanity exceeded her discretion. James was compelled to accept the inevitable and discontinued his courtship. Through meeting many gentlemen in a business capacity, Bab was much admired. Gifts of value were lavished unremittingly on her, and unusually extravagant amusements were thrown in her path. The home of her parents was fading rapidly from sight. Bab was traveling at a rapid pace the road that is bright and luring while youth holds sway, out tramples one under foot when the lines of care and dissipation have deepened into non-effaceable wrinkles. She was saved in time from the unseen hand in the precipice that was rapidly beckoning her to its unfathomable depths when Mr. Thorn A "You Here, James, at This Hour?" a prosperous merchant past middle age, sought her hand. She cagely accepted his offer, and in a very short time was wed and established in a magnificent home. She moved in a different sphere, and her ambition was gratified. After seven years of incessant pleasure and excitement, Bab became a widow, with three little ones to love and care for on a reduced income. She had spent money with a lavish hand, and friends were numerous—but all too late realized how empty her gay life had been. She was compelled to curtail expenses, move to a small apartment, and was able only to employ one maid. Belle, the new servant, proved to be a jewel. Educated, and with more than the ordinary amount of attractiveness. Too proud to work in a factory, and preferring a home to store employment, she made every effort to please. One of her many duties was to take the children out each pleasant afternoon, the outing giving them all a rosy, healthy color which poor Bab no longer possessed, she remaining indoors doing the duties incumbent upon housekeeping rather than walking out with the per ambulator and exposing herself to the gossip of past friends. It was a summer day—weather was humid—children were freeful, and Bella, exhausted from the strenuous labors imposed upon her. Mrs. Thorn was observant enough to notice her mald's indulposition, and knowing full well her invaluable services, and how she could fill afford to part with her, she called in a friendly tone: "Belle, you may go out for the remainder of the day. The change will no doubt do you good." "Thank you, Mrs. Thorn," Bella gratefully answered. "I am quite tired to-day. I shall take a short trip out of town to visit a cousin whom I have not seen for a long time, but I will return before you retire." In a very short space of time Bella appeared ready for her journey—really looking weary. She wore a simple frock of pink and white muslin, caught here and there with tiny bows of pale pink ribbon. She could boast of a fine, clear complexion, and a mass of wavy reddish brown hair which she had to day arrange artistically in a coil at the nape of her neck, with a black bow entwined, and testing lightly on her head a soft white chip hat, which her deft fingers had gracefully maneuvered until it confirmed very attractively to the contour of her oval face. The straw was partially hidden by small white and pink blossoms and harmonizing ribbon; she presented a picture of refinement and simplicity that many a girl in her station who affected tawdry raiment might envy, and, indeed, a lass of far loftier station would perforce of her daintiness, give her more than a passing glance. Mrs. Thorn recalled her girlhood and sished as she bid Bella a pleasant afternoon. It was evening of the day in question. Children had been put to bed; after much coaxing and promises of goodies on the morrow they fell fast asleep. The dinner dishes having been disposed of, and all irksome duties performed, Mrs. Thorn prepared to discard her wrapper and apron and rearrange her hair, which had become disheveled; but before she had been able to do anything, the bell rang; she hesitated—not having time to make herself presentable, the ringing of the bell again caused her to hasten to the door. "You," she gasped—"James Lyle—Whatever brought you to visit me here?" "I. oh, I've called to visit you and your husband," he managed to stammer. "Come in, James, and make yourself at home. I am practically alone just now, my maid is out. Think of it, you find me so." She blushed, for she recalled all too well her reason for refusing him. "James, I'm a widow now. Hadn't you heard?" "Indeed," responded James, "I didn't even know the name of the man you married." He not realizing what a stupid blunder such a reply was, Bab, however, was so embarrassed and mortified at the condition he so surprisingly found her in that his remark passed unnoticed. The evening went all too quickly for Bab. She felt a certain amount of discomfort attired in such habitiment, but in her inmost heart hoped she might yet win James back to love her, forgetting in her new-found happiness she was handicapped by three very young babies. Seven years of unrelaxed gayety and her present cares had aged her most perceptibly. James was dumb-founded at the change time had wrought in her. He was restless and ill at ease—not being able to compliment, her, and fearing each moment he might commit himself irretrievably. He begged to be excused, telling Bab she looked a trifle tired—as he modestly put it. "But, James," she pleaded, "you will surely call soon again. Now, don't say no," said Bab, teasingly, as she observed his hesitancy, "think it over, and I will anxiously wait to hear from you. I am very lonely, and your presence will cheer me and give me courage." With a half promise James was about to depart, when Bella opened the door. "You here, James, at this hour," Bella almost screamed, and took his band. "What can have happened?" Bella was scarlet with excitement, She certainly looked enchanting. James looked from Bella to Bab. Such a contrast. There was joy in his eyes. Bab saw it in a twinkling. Her indignation knew no bounds. She resented the deception of his visit in a fire of speech. Turning to Bella she snapped: "You may look for another position when your month is up, and you, James Lyle, don't ever cross my threshold." "Bella," said James, addressing her gently, "you will leave at once, and you shall have a position as mistress of my heart and home." Tolstoi as a Shoemaker "These shoes were made by Tolstol, the greatest literary genius of the age." The shoes, framed in oak, hung over the mantel—a coarse pair of cowhides, with hob nails. The speaker who was a famous manufacturer of shoes, went on: "When I was in Russia I visited Tolstol. I told him of my admiration for his books, and I watched him at his cubbling. He works, you know, three or four hours a day on the bench. "I found that he worked too slowly to make a living as a shoemaker. Furthermore, I found that he would have been incapable of turning out dress shoes. The coarse, heavy boot of the peasant was all Tolstoi was equal to, and, though he labored fiercely—for he wanted, of course, to show off before an experienced shoemaker like me—I had to tell him that he'd have had difficulty in getting a journeyman's job anywhere. "Tolstoi presented me with a pair of boots over the mantel, and I presented him with some money for his poor. I also taught him a quicker way to waxenwax a thread than the old-fashioned one he used." THE HISTORY OF POLICEMAN FLYNN BY ELLIOTT FLOWER HE STOPS A RUNAWAY. They had been discussing the various duties of a policeman at the station, and the subject of runaways had come up for incidental consideration. "The way to stop a runaway," the captain had said, "is to catch the horse by the bit. Never yell at him, for that only frightens him the more, and of course the worst thing a man can do is to get out in*the street and jump around and wave his arms. Just keep your head, take things cool and easy, and catch him by the bit. You might as well try to stop a locomotive by catching hold of the tender as to stop a horse by grabbing any of the harness back of the bridle." "Is it to be ta-aken as ordons?" Policeman Barney Flynn had asked at this point. "Certainly," the captain had replied. "Thin' it is me that hopes they'll put cur-r-bits with handles to thim on every hor-rose in me district," had been Policeman Flynn's comment. Nevertheless, these instructions, given half jokingly in a general conversation some time previous to the events here to be recorded, became firmly impressed on the policeman's mind. He referred to them repeatedly in his conversations with his wife, and on one occasion, when she was endeavoring to lay her hands on their elusive boy Terry, he suddenly called to her: "Ca-atch him be th' bit!" The subject seemed to worry him not a little. "Wondher," he remarked on another occasion, "If 'it was in his mind I'd thr fr to ca-atch him be th' leg." "P'r'aps," suggested Mrs. Flynn, "he had th' idee ye'd ca-atch him be th' tail or that ye'd grab th' back iv th' wagon an' null." "Oho! 't is likely so," returned Policeman Flynn. "But it luks to me like a matter that day-pinds on circumstances. Ye ray-mimber Tim Dolan, Mary, him that weighed two hunderd an' ninety-siven pounds in his shtockin'-feet—" "Ye're thinkin' iv how tall he was," interrupted Mrs. Flynn. "I am not," retorted the policeman, "I'm thinkin' iv th' size iv his fut an' th' consiquint weight iv his boots. Now will ye hold ye' eler clapper shill an' let me ma-ake me p'nt on th' shtoppin' iv runaways?" Twas pure raysoorefulness with him. Th' ca-art was comin' down th' shtreet with a little gir-rl in an, an' th' dog was r-runnin' away." "Th' dog?" cried Mrs. Flynn, in astonishment. "Fir sure," replied Policeman Flynn. "T was a dog ca-art made out iv a soapbox, an' th' dog all iv a sudden wint ather a cat. Ivery ma-an' an' bye in' block th' trick frr to shtop it, an' not a wan c'u'd do it, an' th'in it come to Dolan. If he'd hear-rd' th' capt'in's talk 't is like as not he'd thriled to ca-atch him be th' bit, but not bein' poshthed, he used his br-brain, an' whin' th' dog was passin' he fell on him. "T was th' only thing fr a ma-an like him to do, an' th' pint I make is that ye must use a bit iv judgmnt now an' thin an' not do iv everything be rule." "What happened to th' gir-rl?" asked Mrs. Flynn. "A felly in th' nixt block caught her in his ar-rms before she shtruck th' gr-round." "Barney Flynn. ye're lyn' to me!" exclaimed Mrs. Flynn, and she was" Policeman Flynn Is a man of nerve and daring. Policeman Flynn Is a man of nerve and daring. indignant that she refused to continue the conversation. But Policeman Flynn brought the subject up again and again, always holding that the course to be pursued ought to depend entirely on the circumstances, but that it was, nevertheless, the duty of a policeman to obey his superior's orders. It was a month or so later that his trial came. Shouts and cries attracted his attention one day, and before he fully realized what was happening, a runaway horse attached to a light wagon was almost upon him. "Ca-utch him be th' bit," he muttered to himself, but he couldn't get into the street in time even to try that. Policeman Flynn, however, is a man of nerve and daring, as has been demonstrated on many occasions. He believes in doing things the right way, which is the way provided for in verbal or written police instructions; but when that is impossible, any way is good enough for him. "T is wr-r-ong," he thought, as he caught the tail-board of the wagon as it went past, "but it is better than not thriny' in at all." "It required both strength and activity, but Policeman Flynn succeeded in swinging himself over the tail-board, and worked his way along the wagon-box to the seat. Here he found that the reins had fallen over the dash-board, and he had to climb over the seat to get them. He was just reaching for them, and the watching pedestrians were starting a cheer for his pluck, when the horse stumbled and fell. "An 'd' dye know," he said in telling about it afterward, "th' very fir-rst thing I knew I was sittin' ashtride th' hor-rse's neck, an' an I'd dh' board with me—I had that same." At the time, however, he had no leisure to think of that feature of his trip. He merely knew that he was astride the neck of a struggling horse, and that a lot of men were giving him advice from a safe distance. "Sit on his head!" roared two or three. "Why, ye divils," sputtered Policeman Flynn, in the midst of his wrestling- "'Twas a dog-ca-art made out iv a soap box." "Twas a dog-ca-art made out iv a soap box." match, "d'ye think I wa-ant fr'r to sit on his hoofs?" "Hold him down!" was another cry from the crowd. "Don't let him get up!" advised some others. "He'll get away!" shouted the doubtful ones. "If ye think so, why don't some of ye sma-art lads put salt on his tail?" demanded Policeman Flynn, as he finally got settled on the horse's head, and thus was able to hold him comparatively quiet. "Ye're a bra-ave cr-rowd, ye are, fr sure," he went on sarcastically, 'shtandin' there, afraid to give me a ha-and whin I have him down. If any iv ye ha-ave hor-sses iv ye-er own ye'd bether sell thim an' buy sheep fr'r to thrive. Just at this moment the captain pushed his way through the crowd, and a few minutes later they had the horse on his feet, still nervous, but reasonably quiet. As a result of his experience Policeman Flynn was a sight to see, especially as he hadn't even had time to brush off his uniform. The captain looked him over and laughed. "What were you doing out there on his neck, Barney?" he asked. The glance that Policeman Flynn gave his superior was reproachful, but the tone of his answer, at least, was respectful. "I was in th' wagon fr-rst," he said, "but I ray-mimbered yeer wor-rds, an' I come out here fr to ca-atch him be th' bit." (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.) (Copyright, by the Century Co.) AN ASTOUNDING ROCKET. Eyewitness Graphically Describes the Shaft of Fire from Ve- Entering Naples from Rome, I had intended to keep my eyes open for everything, says a writer in the Independent, but after a tremendous day of work, tired nature gained her way and I went sound to sleep. I was suddenly awakened by a most tremendous clap of what I took to be thunder, and opened my eyes full on a scene which few people have been privileged to witness. On a background of piled up heaps of yellow gray smoke, seeming great puffs from a giant fire, rose a perfect, straight column of burning material, without a flaw or deviation, to what seemed thousands of feet above, spreading at the top and throwing out myriads of iridescent globes in all directions; no smile can be so perfect as that of a Cyclopean rocket. This unique rocket issued from a burning caldron in which red-hot glowing material boiled up and over, flowing down the side of the mountain so quickly that I imagined I could see it advance as I watched. Size of Sun's Corona. The brightness of the corona, or ring of light encircling the sun, was measured by Mr. Charles Fabry during the last total eclipse. He found the light of a point a twentieth. degree from the sun's edge to be equivalent to about 720-candle power, or a little more than a fourth of the brightness of the full moon. The sky near the uneclipsed sun is 2,000 times as bright. A Dream. "What do you consider a peculiar experience?" "Well, I had just paid the grocer his bill when—" "When something woke you up?"—Houston Post "NUBLACK" Loaded Black Powder Shells Shoot Strong and Evenly, Are Sure Fire, Will Stand Reloading. They Always Get The Game. For Sale Everywhere. PUNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle, except green and purple. With the exception of the stage villain every man has his good points. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Some people even covet the gold in their neighbor's teeth. 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In three days I have had seven different persons try to cheat me by returning too little change." A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. How a Veteran Was Saved the Amputation of a Limb. B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of Roosevelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., says: "I had been showing symptoms of kidney trouble from the time I was mustered out of the army, but in all my life I never suffered as in 1897. Headaches, dizziness and sleepeasness, first, and then dropsy. I was weak and help- PETER B. BURGESS less, having run down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain in the kidneys, and the secretions passed almost involuntarily. My left leg swelled until it was 34 inches around, and the doctor tapped it night and morning until I could no longer stand it, and then he advised amputation. I refused, and began using Donan's Kidney Pills. The swelling subsided gradually, the urine became natural, and all my pains and aches disappeared. I have been well now for nine years since using Donan's Kidney Pills. 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We want a live network through experienced salesman in this location with experience in our line lights. Buy outruns in his first month's supply of our line lights. A utility need in every store and home and fully complying with insurance rules. A guarantee to refund money if goods not sold in 6 days. Further purchase on request. The Standardized Light Co. 930 N. Haisted 6, Chicago, IL 60610. $25,000.00 FOR AGENTS. Please work among your friends, frequent sales, large commissions, and big promotions for all. Address Dept. H.X. E. D. Kishiwai, N.Y. City. YOUNG MEN Learn Telegraphy and R.R. Communications. Write J. D. BROWN, M. McGraw, Salem, SADDEST PLACE in NEW YORK IT IS BEYOND THE "DOOR THAT IS NEVER CLOSED"in THE FOUNDING ASYLUM, WHERE EVERY DAY HAS ITS TRAGEDIES THE OLD STORY OF HUMAN FRAILTY WOMEN IN A CITY New York.—The saddest place in the city. Do you know where it is? Do you think that some time, per haps, you, your, life, you, have, found, it? haps, in your life you have found it? Can you shut your eyes to the present. New York man or woman, and look back to that day when you found some one you loved down in the silent morgue, and say, yes, you know the place well—the saddest place in New York? Or remember one corner in some green cemetery where all your love lies buried, and say, no, the place is here? Or look at some deserted home, where ghosts of a lost faith walk always, and say, no, this is the saddest place of all, for here there is no hope? But it is not so. The saddest place in all New York is not a spot determined by the personal, individual loss of mere life or love or faith. If it were, every grave would claim the title and every broken heart dispute it. It is one little room in a large building up on Sixty-eighth street. Two sweeping rows of broad stone steps lead from the street to the wide doors of the main entrance. These doors are always locked. But under the stone staircase, right in the center, opening directly on the street, is a little low door that is always open, and it is the entrance to the saddest place in New York. It is framed in clinging ivy vines, the little low door. Above it, on each side of the stone steps, droop weeping willow trees. Higher still there stands in a niche the statue of a woman holding a child close to her breast. And every woman who seeks the little low door under the ivy vines holds MARIE child close to her breast, but when she comes away her arms are empty. For this is the New York Foundling Asylum. Anyone may enter through the doorway. There is no one to stop you or question you as to why you have come. You stand in a small, square room. There is no carpet on the floor, no pictures on the walls. Two settees stand, one on each side of the room. And between them is a little white cradle. It is very dainty and inviting, that cradle. The tiny blanket and coverlet are soft and spotless, the little baby pillow has a lace-edged case, and there is a pretty muslin canopy draped above it in bassinet fashion. But the room is not empty. Pacing up and down the floor is a woman, hardly past girlhood. She does not look very strong. Her long brown chiffon veil is thrown back from her face. It is a sweet face, the features well cut and refined, but white and wet with tears. Close in her arms, so close that the little face is pressed next her cheek, she holds a baby, hushing it to sleep. Last Look at Her Child. Last Look at Her Child. After awhile she lays it down gently in the little white cradle and stops to listen, but there is no sound, and the door still stands open. She may come or go as she pleases. And, standing a minute over the sleeping baby, she looks into its face for the last time. It is her baby. She has given it birth and nurtured it. Its little body is healthy and flushed with the rose tint of palpitant life. It is not as though death had given her no choice in the matter. She has absolute choice. Either she may take the baby again to her breast and face the world with it, or else she may go through the little low door and leave it forever behind her. Standing in the corridor beyond the little room, I watched this mother. She stood rocking the cradle for about five minutes. Her sobbing ceased. Once she stooped and kissed the little face on the pillow. Then, suddenly, she let the brown chiffon vell fall over her face and, turning from the cradle, went quietly out of the door and down the street. And she did not come back. After she went out of sight, the Sister of Charity who sits in the little office next to the room with the cradle went in and took the baby in her arms. It was well-dressed and about four weeks old. The sister touched a bell, and presently a nurse came and took the baby away to the reception ward. That was all. It was a common case. Only one more mother who had deserted her child; only one more baby foundling in Greater New York. The sister smoothed the coverlet on the cradle, shook up the pillow, and left it ready for the next one. "Sometimes we have several in a day," she said. "And other days, none at all. But every year from a thousand to fifteen hundred are left with us. We always leave the baby in the cradle for a few minutes, because some of the mothers change their minds. They will wait for hours, trying to decide, sometimes, holding their babies, nursing, them, and crying over them. And at last they will leave them, as this one did, and go away. But sometimes, before they get as far as the corner they will come running back and catch the baby up out of the cradle and hurry away with it. As long as the baby is still in the cradle it is not too late." Not too late as long as the baby is still in the cradle! But afterward, once the baby has been taken from the little room, has been received and recorded and perhaps in a few weeks adopted, it is too late. Many a mother has come back by stealth to A walk along the street and steal a look at the low doorway under the stone steps when it was too late, and the cradle was as empty as her arms, writes Izola Forrester, in the New York World. But most of them never come back. It is not cruelty nor hardness of heart. It is bitter necessity and the way of the world that lead most of them to that door. Sometimes it is cowardice. When the baby wears dainty, costly garments, when the name pinned on its breast is written in a hand showing education and breeding, and a roll of bills is found also in the cradle, then the woman who left her child as a foundling is a coward. It is not the cry of the wolf that drove her there. It is only the cry of the world she feared. Now and then a strange figure comes to the little room, a lone, troubled figure. Out of place and incongruous, the figure will not bother over the appeal of the cradle, but will go straight to the sister in the office and hand over the burden it carries to her. These are the fathers. And the most helpless object in the world is a man with a week-old baby in his arms, trying to find out what it wants. They rarely want to give up all claim to the babies, the fathers. It is only because the mother is dead, or has run away from home, that they come to the Foundlins' at all. All they want is for some one to take the weak, fumbling, crying blind kitten bundle out of their arms and care for it, so they can go to work. But most of the mothers are of that other great class, the "unwedded," as the sisters call them. When a woman walks into the little room and lays a child in the cradle without a tear or the least hesitancy and goes hurriedly away the glitter smiles and shakes her head. "That was not the mother. A roather always lingers. Sometimes when they stay too long and the struggle is a hard one we talk with them. The great trouble to an unmarried girl with a child is that she cannot obtain employment, and the baby is too young to be left. So, if they are willing, we take them here for a month or three months. We keep a record of each foundling, and of the family it is adopted by, but we do not tell the mothers where they are, if they come back and ask. It would not be fair to the adopted parents. And they find good homes, these little waifs. There is one family, one of the wealthiest and best known socially in New York, whose oldest son and heir is a waif from the Foundlings'. No, I cannot give the name. It is years ago. One winter night the family physician sent here for a baby. He only wanted the loan of it for a few weeks, as the wife had given birth to her first child and it had died. She was dangerously ill and delirious, and they were afraid unless she had a child to nurse and love the shock would kill her. So we picked out the littlest baby of all, a pretty boy hardly a week old, and he was taken away in a carriage to one of the handsomest homes uptown. Even for a loaned baby it must have been a pleasant experience. For three or four weeks he was treated just exactly as the baby would have been that died, and the mother knew no difference. Then, when she was strong enough, they told her the truth. But the borrowed baby never came back. In those weeks of suffering, when the clasp of its little hands and the touch of its yearning lips had been all that had held her from death, she had grown to love it as her own, and she kept it. He is a boy at college now, and will never know that he was a foundling waif." There was a step in the little room and the sister glanced out. A plump, rosy-cheeked girl of about 19 stood A there staring happily around her. She held out a five-dollar bill. "I would to get my baby out," she explained. "Two mont I leave him by you. Now I get money and pay for him, and get him back." Could Bring Him Back. Gently and tenderly the sister told her it was too late to get her boy back, that she had left it for good, and no money could bring him back to her. The big, round, childish eyes brimmed with tears; she sank down on one of the settees, and poured out in broken, stumbling English her story on the sister's shoulder. She was a young Hungarian girl, who had been betrothed in the old country when she was 14. She had come to America alone. He was to follow soon, and they would work hard and save and be married, sure, he promised they would be married before the baby should come. But he never came. And after the baby was born, she must go to work right away quick, so a girl told her, another girl, who had left her baby in the handy little white cradle, too, of the big building on Sixty-eighth street, where you could leave a baby, and she had brought her baby boy and left it. But now Julius was good again, and he had come over and married her, and she wanted back her baby. And sobbing hysterically, she went out of the low door, carrying back to Julius the news that it was too late. Sometimes, years afterward, a mother will return, seeking trace of the child whom she deserted. She may have married happily, and be an honored, loved wife and mother, but in spite of all there will ring in her ears the last cry of the baby she forsook, and the memory of the little, frail hands that clung to her, and she back to the little door under the ivy to seek her nameless foundling. But the answer is always the same. "It is too late. Some other woman has taken the waif to her hungry breast, and mothered it and named it, and the little white cradle is as barren of hope to the real mother as though it were a little narrow, unmarked grave. --- SETTLED BY COMPROMISE. Wildemeanor Trial Ended in Adjournment to Tavern. A Virginia colonel well known in Washington had the unusual experience some time ago of being called upon by a justice of the peace in one of the rural districts of the old dominion to sit as associate in the trial of a misdemeanor case, notwithstanding the fact that no warrant for the action existed beyond the colonel's title, his dignified bearing and his literary attainments. A drunken row had occurred among several young men of the village, resulting in an arrest. When the matter was brought before the squire it was sufficiently late in the day for him to be feeling the effects of his regular morning, noon and afternoon indulgences. Therefore he realized the need of sound, reliable advice. When the request was made of the colonel it was in vain that he protested that he had no authority under the law to sit upon the bench. The squire would take no refusal, and the colonel, observing the farcical character of the proceedings, finally consented. The case being called and many witnesses sworn, the colonel noticed that the squire was conducting the hearing with the code of Virginia upside down and opened at the section detailing the fence law. The associate justice proposed that an anilicable settlement be suggested to the complainant and the defendant. This struck the squire as a brilliant idea, for he was laboring heavily with the intricacies of the fence law and the misdemeanor proposition. "Excellent suggestion, sir, excellent suggestion," he announced in ponderous tones. Then turning to the parties of the proceeding and the witnesses, he said: "I shall follow the course proposed by my distinguished colleague and offer to this defendant the olive branch instead of the iron hand of the law. This case shall be dismissed if the person accused of this misdemeanor will agree to treat the crowd to good liquor, and plenty of it. What do you say, sir?" Scarcely had the squire finished before defendant, complainant and all the witnesses joined in a great shout of glee. They lost no time in accepting the offer, and didn't stand on the order of their adjournment to the village tavern. CONTRACT SYSTEM IS COSTLY Conclusions of the Superintendent of Foreign Mails. According to the annual report of the superintendent of foreign mails it cost the government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, $121,630 more for ocean mail service under the contract system than it would have had had the mails been transported and paid for by weight. The most disproportionate cases the report shows are those embracing the routes between San Francisco and Tahiti and New York and Havana. In the former instance the cost was $42,120 for carrying mails which, if paid for by weight, would have been but $1,153, while it cost to transport the mails to Havana $71,578, but which if paid for by weight, would have resulted in an outlay of but $2,239. In but one instance is it shown that the contract system worked advantageously to the government, and that was on the New York and Southampton route, which cost $662,688, whereas, it is stated had it been paid for under the system of weights, it would have involved an expenditure of $119,748 additional The excess of cost of contract service on the several routes as against: what it would have been if paid for by weight is as follows: New York to La Guira, $14,986; New York to Maracatu, $36,109; New York to Taxan, $106,800; Boston, Philadelphia and New York to Port Antonio, $106,585; San Francisco to Sydney, New South Wales, $206,786. The quickest trip between New York and London was 144 hours and six minutes, and between New York and Paris, 155 hours; between San Francisco and Yokohama, 401 hours and 36 minutes, and between San Francisco and Hongkong, 624 hours and 6 minutes. Beautifying Washington. In point of architecture Washing ton will soon be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is not far away now. The dream of the great man for whom the national capital was named will particularly be realized. In buildings and bridges now under construction, Washington is spending $50,000,000. Others which will cost $20,000,000 are projected. The senate and house office buildings will represent an expenditure of $7,000,000. The eastern front of the capitol is to be extended in marble at a cost of $1,330,000. A fine building for the supreme court is in contemplation. The rail roads are expending $12,000,000 on a magnificent union passenger depot. Two steel bridges are to be thrown across the Potomac river, and the largest cement bridge in the world will span Rock creek. There will be a war college for the army, and several imposing university buildings and extensive improvements are to be made at the navy yard and the soldiers' home. When the house and senate office buildings are completed the plaza east of the capitol will be nearly surrounded by one of the most magnificent groups of public buildings in the world. When the supreme court building goes up it will probably be without a rival. All of which suits the American people. HOME LIFE ON A JAPANESE FARM It is Quite Different From That to Be Found in the Occident. No contrast could be greater than between the farm-life of the Occident and that of the Orient in the "land of the Rising Sun." The man who possesses one solitary bullock is deemed rich. A wealthy farmer, as we understand the term, is unknown. Often too poor to hire help the whole work of his rice field devolves upon himself and family. As the farms are very small the farmers' houses are usually built together, thus forming a small village. The buildings, as a rule, are of the very poorest kind, and often contain but a single room. The framework of the house is made of bamboo, and is covered with plaster made of mud and rice straw. The roof is usually thatched with rice straw, and the floor, even in the poorest houses, is covered with mats made of the same material. There are no home comforts or conveniences, and the little wife does her housework under the most trying circumstances. Should she desire to wash, the clothes are A Japa M. C. E. taken outside to the running creek, and bending over it, she makes them whiter than the driven snow. Long boards are placed in the sun, and on these the farmer's wife carefully stretches those pieces of cloth that require smoothing, and when dry they would compare favorably with similar pieces ironed by the brawny arm of some western laudress. Like all Japanese houses, the place is destitute of furniture. There are always children, and generally plenty of them. For it is considered a disgrace for a married woman not to be a mother. In addition to the wife and children, the farmer's aged father and mother are often members of the family circle, for, according to the custom of the country, when the oldest son marries he always takes his wife home to his parents. Thus it is no unusual sight to behold four, six, or even eight persons huddled together in one room. At dawn of day the whole family rises. The simple repast is quickly prepared. The fireplace is a bibbach, a kind of brazier. The kettle is placed on this, and the green tea is made. ```markdown ``` A Japanese Farmhouse. The meal consists of millet amongst the very poor, and rice when the family is more prosperous. After breakfast the farmer prepares for his day's work. It his wheat or rice field be some distance away, he takes his dinner with him. This consists of a jar of millet or rice, sometimes a dried fish or a cob of corn. He wears either a large straw hat or a cloth on his head, and a garment half-way between a robe and a coat. He is usually barefooted, but sometimes wears sandals made of the inevitable rice straw. In summer when he reaches his work he usually divests himself of all superfluous clothing and may be seen in the field wearing only a loin cloth, and a covering on his head. Should it rain, the coat is put on once more, and in addition a rain coat. This is a circular piece of matting made of rice straw and fastened round the neck by a piece of straw string. For 12 or 14 hours he remains in the burning sun during the summer month, sometimes stooping all day, as he transplants the tiny blades of rice, sometimes walking beside the bullock (if he possesses one) as he guides the primitive plow. Not until daylight has deepened into night does he leave his labor and wend his weary steps toward the wretched hovel he calls home. No cheery wife greets him as he reaches his abode. She has worked all day just as hard as he, and is just as weary. While the scanty meal of rice or millet is being prepared the farmer plunges into the creek outside his house and there performs his evening's ablutions. Whatever may be the fault of the Japanese lack of cleanliness is not one. After his bath he "dresses" once more by putting on his loin cloth. Then, squatted on the floor and surrounded by his little brood all equally airily clothed, he partakes of his evening meal. As the wife is trained to obeience, and has no education, no helpful or elevating conversation is board at the family board. Indeed, the farmer himself has very few ideas, his nese Bed. A Japanese Bed. creek, as them Long and on are carefully that they similar arm of the place there are plenty a dis to be mental horizon being bound by the confines of his tiny rice field. The repast ended, the quilts which form the beds of all classes of the Japanese are hauled forth from the recess of a neighboring cupboard and are spread on the floor. If it be summer, and the mosquitoes trouble some, a net as large as the room, and made of fine canvas is likewise bought toth, and the corners tied to nails driven into the wall. Under this the farmer, his wife, his parents and his children creep, and there spend the night. Such, year in and year out, is the home life of a Japanese farmer. If it so happens that the house contain more than one room, they are separated by paper sliding screens, through which every sound can be distinctly heard. As there are no fastenings, and as it is the custom to enter a room unannounced, very little privacy can be had. At the dawn of day t.e. farmer once more rises from his hard bed and repeats the labor of the previous day without one iota of variation. Although important, he is not tilt- Farmhouse. erate. Still he seldom reads, as the hours of toll are so long that he prefers to creep under his mosquito net as soon as they are ended. His Spartan fortitude is really surprising. With a scanty vegetable diet, low vitality, and none of the comforts of civilization or assistance of modern invention, he braves the elements, conquers the soil, endures hardship, overcomes difficulties and maintains witha a contented and even a cheerful frame of mind. Forget Name of His Child: A. P. Powell, a Mississippi Choctaw, who lives near Homer, I. T., went to the Ardmore land office to register. He was the father of 15 children, but found that he had forgotten the name of one of them. After half a dozen names had been suggested by the affable clerk in the enrolling department Powell thought of the right one. This child bore the name of its father and Powell had forgotten his own name. The 17 allotments belonging to Powell's family are worth about $80,900.—Chicago Chronicle. ADA L. A. MURCUTT. LEWIS WOODS,..... Business Manager. Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. DOWN IN this state. Write us. All news matter intended & 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. FFIOEI-No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . 8.00 For one inch, three subsequent insertion . 8.00 For two inches, three month . 8.00 For two inches, six month . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . 10.00 For two inches twelve months . 18.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. TO THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS OF JACKSON COUNTY The Rising Son at this junction does not differ with the policies of the Republican party as a whole, but it does differ with you upon the candidates which you have selected for us to support. Does it not look reasonable to you that a man who will not give to a race which has 5,000 votes to put him in office something in return. The few dollars which you pay to the negroes do not pay the bill. The negroes of Jackson county went into the campaign two years ago with the hope of reward for their votes and not a mother's son of us got a thing out of the county, state and congressional ticket. These promises that you have made from time to time have grown thread-bare. The hobby of the Republicans now days is to put a handful of negroes into the conventions and call that representation. The negroes definition of representation is to hold some of those deputyships and not patry five dollar bills. If we are to be deceived, then let us be deceived by our enemies and not by our so-called political friends. The negro should take this stand. When a set of men will not treat you as men, you should exercise the same rights to eliminate him from power as he does to curtail your rights. If he thinks that it will hurt his chances for re-election by appointing negro deputies to his offices then the negro shou'd take the stand that they are not worthy of his vote. The same promises that are being made now were made two years ago to the negro after the election, there will not be a mother's son of us to receive any compensations worthy of any note. The negro must take a manly stand against the man that does not treat him right. Let him be a Republican or Democrat. The man who stabs you, stab him back! What have the candidates who were so successful two years ago in the county done for the negro, that he should come out again as ask the colored men for their votes? The Bible says, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Let us negroes be men and stand together like Spartacus with his brave gladiators, and ask for our rights. Let us like Romans fight for our rights, rights that the shedding of the blood of 10 million lives gave to us. Rights that by the death of the immortal Lincoln and old John Brown gave to us. Let us stand for the rights that Garrison, Phillips, and Charles Sumner helped to give us. For the past ten years the negro and the Republican party put me in mind of a poker game, that is; on every hand the negro would play, but when it comes to a show down, if the negro had two pairs the Republicans would have a flush and if the negro had three then he would have a full hand and the only way to make him come clean and give us a square deal is to beat him. That is to take his own club and thrash the very life out of him, and if you negro voters do that this time you will more than likely get a square deal next time. The Son would like to ask the Republican leaders the congressional record of T. C. Unthank in the Southland. Who was it that took him to Washington and put him on his feet and made it possible for him to stand alone? Was it a good old Republican or a so-called bad Democrat? The Son would like him to answer through the columns of this paper. God forbid any negro to be guilty of voting for a man who will deliberately deny you the rights of a man. Have the negroes as much right to deny you their votes as you have to deny him representation? The Son has found out that all the good men are not allied with the Republican party. THOMAS J. PENDERGAST. Nominee for Marshal. Where do the Negroes stand on this position and on this blunt and square man? Mr. Pendergast's term as marshal established a new era in penal progress. He stood for the negro as well as the white man. No cruel treatment of prisoners. No jail scandals, but honest, intelligent. Let us try him again. A CARD OF THANKS We hereby tender our heartfelt thanks to the friends who in any way assisted us during the illness, and also at the time of the burial of our beloved son, James H. Crews, Jr. We wish especially to thank the faculty and students of Western University, the Allen Chapel Choir and the Fountain of True Reformers for their expression of sympathy. JAMES H. CREWS. FLORENCE M. CREWS. Every one is invited to the Halloween party at Miss Overall's Studio, 2116 Woodland, given by St. Augustine Guild. Lots of fun! Come see the spooks and learn your future! Admission 10 cents. Don't forget the date. October 31. A Greater Power. Good is a reality and a power, and a greater power than the evil. Every age has had its saints, from the days of Abel until now. Human virtue has grown beside human vice. In some of the darkest characters there have been gleams of light not of the evil one. Amid some of the most violent scenes of human history have moved spirits of purity and kindness like sisters of mercy over rough battlefields. And steadily mankind has moved upward into a better present. And jealously does the present cherish the best that has come down to it out of the decay of the past. Now, it is every man's privilege to help this victory of the good over the evil. He cannot do it by pessively watching the battle. Each one must overcome the evil in his own life by persevering resistance. But merely repressive measures are nevar adequate. It is not enough that vice be absent. Negative virtue is never satisfying. The demand is for an aggressive goodness, for a positive virtue. The farmer is never satisfied merely to have his land free from weeds; he wants it covered with grain. As the easiest and surest way to keep the weeds from a field is by giving good grain a good start and cultivating it, so the best way to free a aife and a world from evil is by finding the good and encouraging it. By seeking and cultivating the good will the evil be overcome. By simply making it the most of the best he discovers in himself and in all his fellowmen, and by making this a habit, a man will be cendering an incalculable service to the cause of righteousness and truth in the world. And now it is for men to gain the fearless faith of Christ that the fondest hopes of their hearts are not impossible of realization; that the noblest ideals in their minds are not impracticable; that they should believe in the power of good more than in the power of evil, and lose their despair and pessimism in the grandeur of His faith and hope and gratious goodness. He Goeth Before. "He goeth before you!" Matthew xviii:7. "He goeth before us!" Is it infancy? He went before us there, in being Himself the Rabe of Brehlehem! Is it youth? He "goest before us" in the nurturing home of Nazareth, sanctifying early toll and filial obedience. Is it hours of weariness and faintness and poverty? He "goest before us" an exhausted traveler to the wells of Jacob, "sweary with His journey." Is it temptation we have to struggle with? He "goest before us" to the wilderness of Judea, and to the awful depths of the olive groves of Gethsemane; to grapple with the hour and power of darkness. Is it the loss of friends? He "goeth before us" to the grave of Bethany to weep there. Is it death (the last enemy) we dread? He "goeth before us" wrapped in the ceremonies of the tomb, descending into the region of hades, uncrowning the king of terrors, trampling his diadem into dust! Is it entrance into heaven? He "goeth before us" there. Having overcome the sharpness of death, He has opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. He shows us the path of life leading into His own blessed presence, where there is fullness of joy, and to His right hand, where there are pleasures for evermore.—Dr. J. R. Macduff. Custom does not reason overrule.— Rochester. And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.—Armstrong. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face—French. Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. Directors—U. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmeizer, J. P. Merrell, T. Beals, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Seeger W. Eza HAD TO BE CULTIVATED. Friendship With Senator Not Likely to Be Spontaneous. Ex-Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is known as a man of uncompromising adherence to his own ideas of right and wrong, and, like many men of his kind, has little diplomacy, carrying at times a large chip on each shoulder. These qualities made him one of the chief irritants of the upper house of congress during his membership. Senator Hoar's sweetness of temper, however, was not lost on the irrasible Chandler, and no difficulties ever entered into their relations. Hoar, however, was not blind to his colleague's failing. A senator from the middle states, fresh from an encounter with Chandler, sunk into a seat beside Hoar, exclaiming: "By thunder, Hoar, I've had just about enough of that autocrat from New Hampshire. You're about the only man here who can bear him. How do you manage to endure him?" "Well," replied the Massachusetts man, with one of his familiar smiles, "I like Chandler; I really do; but, my friend," and here he lowered his voice, "I must admit that it's an acquired taste." LONG LIFE·EASILY ATTAINED Prof. Metchnicoff Has Simple Scheme to Secure Longevity. It is well known that the average length of human life has been considerably prolonged in the last century owing to a better understanding and better fudfillment of private and public hygienic conditions. Few, however, attain old age, especially that of 100 years or more, and among these very few enjoy all their physical and mental powers. Prof. Metchnicoff, of the Pasteur institute of Paris, shows the causes of deprecitude, of premature weakening. He demonstrates that certain cells constituting the human organism become mutinous and devour the nobler cells of the body. He points out a special danger, the intestinal germs and the poisons or toxine elaborated thereby, which penetrate the system and cause the hardening and degeneration of tissues. The professor goes further and says that man can educate and improve these intestinal germs and their toxins. The most practical and easy way is, said he, to drink a beverage which contains the germs of lactic acid fermentation, whose antagonism to the bad germs he has demonstrated. Great Men Fond of Tea. Like all things in the world tea met with opposition at the first thought or knowledge of it. There were some who called it a filthy custom, while others held that it would dwarf the body and destroy personal beauty. Samuel Johnson tells us that he was "a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for 20 years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning." Thackeray, Shakespeare and Lamb were all devotees to the teacup. "Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things." Sixpences on a Tombstone. Sunday morning 21 old widows of the parish of St. Bartholomew, West Smithfield, went to the churchyard at the close of the morning service to pick up the sixpences which are annually deposited on the tombstone of a parishioner who died several centuries ago. The origin of the custom dates back to Saxon times, and it was revived some years ago by Mr. Butterwick. The little graveyard is raised several feet above the level of the pathway, and to mount to this enmence the elderly dames are assisted up a step-ladder lodged against the stone coping of the wall—London Daily Chronicle. David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. Deformed Chicks. While the faults of incubation are responsible for many of the deformities found in the chickens, and undoubtedly weaken others in ways which are not so apparent to us. one cannot state that the chickens which come from the egg in developed condition and can eat ever die on account of weakness due to the incubation, says a report of the Rhode Island experiment station. In my experience so far the weak chickens, when properly handled, seem to have developed and grown as rapidly as the stronger. However, those which were hatched incompletely developed or with crippled members, as the legs or beak, have not been able to survive in all cases. Under the even temperature system, however, the weaklings, when separated into hovers by themselves, grow unexpectedly well, and may attain some weight. As a practical matter, however, all such weaklings and cripples should be destroyed as soon as hatched. To the poultryman who can devote but little attention to them they would prove an annoyance. No Gush in These Letters. In the 300 letters from Mrs. Jordan, the actress, to the duke of Clarence, afterward William IV. of England, her morganatic husband, which letters were sold at Lashby's, London, there were no terms of endearment. The letters all begin abruptly after the date line and end "Yours sincerely, Q. J." "Ah! wizout her I shall die, monsieur." "H'm! Starvation, I presume..."—Judge. 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 United States. Don't wait. Write today 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 time and money. DAVID P. TAFF THE LAND MAN 415 Kansas Avenue. TOPEKA, KANSAS. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" 80 The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Past 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. and bath. Furnished Rooms to Gentlemen only. Joe Otte, Mgr. Mr. Clem James and John Huston, are prepared to give the best service city, Mo. in the Tonsorial Department. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President The Condition of the Union All Bank CITY, MO. of the Currency at the close of June 18, 1906. LIABILITIES. WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . . DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Presidential (Instrumental and Volcanometry, Drawing (Fine Arts and Book Binding, Business Writing, Tailoring, Dressmaking, Dering, Farming and Garden) ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Locations and Thorough Teachers INFORMATION: For terms, prices to WILLIAM T. VERN PRESIDENT QUINDARO, Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 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), Carpenters, Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. AGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Nurses and Thorough Teachers. ATION: For terms, prices and all inducements of WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., PRESIDENT, INDARO, KANU : Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell— DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Volical), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Talloring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooling, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to QUINDARO, - - - - KANSAS. Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West 15. Houses for Rent. Roaming Houses for Sale on Easy Terms. Can give the Best of Bank References. F. J. WH Room H Can give best accommodation in room controls more rooming houses Office 911 Oak. ART DEPART Campbell Glass 1228 Main Street HOME PHONE EARBERS, Walter Harrison, John Shipley F. J. WEAVER, Room Locater. est accommodation in rooms. Why? Because tools more rooming houses than any one man in Ra Can give best accommodation in rooms. Why? Because he owns and controls more rooming houses than any one man in Ransas City. ART DEPARTMENT OF Campbell Glass & Paint 1228 Main Street, Kansas City HOME PHONE 2727 MAIN. Walter Harrison, John Shipley. CASHIER, Ara Porter, Dannie Whealer. C. W. MONTGOM Barber Shop and P Cigars and Tobacco Sh Pariors for Ladies a Spec First-Class Service Laun Headquarters for Porters, Waiters, Mu ler East Side Messenger C. W. MONTGOMERY'S Barber Shop and Pool Hall Cigars and Tobacco Shoe Shining Parlors for Ladies a Specialty First-Class Service Laundry Agency Headquarters for Parlors, Waiters, Musicians, Etc. 1333 East 18th Street. Home-T Ball Tel. SHAVE 100. TONSORIAL J. B. Lester. S. L. C. J. B. LESTER'S S Hot and Cold Baths. 557 Grand Ave. Cigars, Tobacco and Pool. Mass. 100. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR J. B. Lester. S. L. Clemons. Duke Mayes. B. LESTER'S SHAVING PAR Baths. 657 Grand Ave. Kansas City, No 4 Ne s, Tobacco and Pool. Massage and Hair Dyeing a SHAVE 100. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR CUT 250 J. B. Lester. S. L. Clemons. Duke Mayes. J. B. LESTER'S SHAVING PARLOR Hot and Cold Baths. 557 Grand Ave. Kansas City, Mo 4 New Porcelain Tubs. Cigars, Tobacco and Pool. Massage and Hair Dyeing a speciality. G. C. MOORE. DEALER IN Cash Groceries and M Goods delivered free Bell Phone 1265 x ish Groceries and Meats, Flour, Pro Goods delivered free to any part of the city e 1265 x 1605 N. 10th Street, Karn 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. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES CLASS STRY 1029 Main St. 23 IN B TRA THIS WEEK EX $2 Silver Filling, 25c Painless Extraction, 25c $8 PLATES $3 5 GOLD CROWNS HIGH CLASS DENTISTRY EXTRA THIS Sold Filling, 60s to 32 Silver Filling, 28s $8 PLAY $5 GOLD C $8 PLATES $3 $5 GOLD CROWNS $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. 23 Years of Success RELIABILITY Perfect Work The Old Reliable 23 years before the public our work is guaranteed to give satisfaction; all work kept in repair free of charge. Any patient who has had work done in our Kansas City office or in Eastern Cities should come to us and have the work examined; any necessary repairs will be carefully made free of charge. Thousands of test-monials from satisfied patients. Kind and courteous treatment to us. Ask your friends about us. GOLD CROWNS, BRIDGES, $2.65 to $4.00 Specials on Bridge Rates This Week. Examination Free. Silver Filling.....25c White Crowns.....110c Platina Filling.....50c Paleless Extraction.....2c Teeth Cleaned.....5c Gold Filling.....50c to 12 All Work Guaranteed 20 Years. Guaranteed 20 Years. 1020 Main St. PETER H. BURKE college, Normal, Sub-Normal and laboratory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Mu- ), including piano, organ and har- Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing course, Stenography and Typewrit- and Plain Sewing, Cooling, Laun- g. , Healthful Climate, Good Influ- s. and all inducements offered write NON, A. M., D. D. DENT, KANSAS. 302. Residence—Bell—"West 15. List your Real Estate with Weaver. Let Him Collect for You Rent Guaranteed. EAVER, Locater. ms. Why? Because he owns and than any one man in Kansas City. Home Phone 6236 Main. DEPARTMENT Liss & Paint Co. et. Kansas City. 2727 MAIN. CASHIER, Araminta Benaett. Whealer. MONTGOMERY'S Shop and Pool Hall Tobacco Shoe Shining Srs for Ladies a Specialty Service Laundry Agency Porters, Waiters, Musicians, Etc. The Messenger Service. 1 3851 Main 3851 Grand Kansas City, Mo ARTISTS HAIR CUT 250 Elemons, Duke Mayes. HAVING PARLOR Kansas City, Mo 4 New Porcelain Tubs. Stage and Hair Dyeing a Specialty. Home Tel. 385' Main Ball Tel. 3851 Grand Heats, Flour, Provisions, Etc. to any part of the city 605 N. 10th Street, Kansas City, Kan. Main St. 23 YEARS IN BUSINESS WEEK EXTRA Painless Extraction, 25c Teeth Cleaned, 60c 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 1020 Main St. Entire and Floor. a” eee ee VSS ED Ned ee A aig] No! hee) a ey iy a | H7 ol Leal J Ca m| } i f ) Caan) aaa hn Remember pleasom— 1s tae little bite wo collect here ana sere bat enables us to run from year tw year.” Eugene Brown, brother of Mrs. Richardson, is very sick at 1325 East Sixteenth street. National Printing Co. has moved from 6th and Delaware to 1311 Inde- pendence avenue. Miss Lena Williams has just recov- ered from a two weeks’ illness at 1327 East Sixteenth street. ‘Mr. Weaver sold one of his room- ing houses to Mrs. Reed, 1000 Locust, who desires railroad porters and wait- ers. , Miss Nora Reynolds, of 1010 Troost, has returned from Carrollton, Mo., where she has been visiting her rela- tives. WANTED.—Fifty more comedians, dancers or singers for the Great Un- bleached Minstrel show. Call Home East 2610. . October 2ist the following subject will be discussed: Thé subject of the possibilities of our young mem in Kansas City. Mrs, Edna Moody, of 1330 East Six: teenth street, sister of Mrs. W. J. Harris, will return Sunday from a tour in Texas. Phone your news to the Rising Son, with an order for a year’s subserip- tion, Bell Phone 4713X Main; Home Phone 58 Main. WATCH. WATCH. WATCH. for bills and tickets to the Great Un- bleached Minstrels at Convention hall, November 9th, It will seem quite natural to the old Kansas Cityan to see the steam oat and hear the whistles on the Missouri river once more. Use Chowley’s AntiSweat Powder. For bad odor it has no equal. Price 25¢ by mail, 5113 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted. This elegantly furnished room for rent at 406 E. Gth street. Bath, gas, and telephone, 2081 Home. Newly furnished. Call and investigate. T, B. Carter and wife were in the city Sunday, They were much pleased over the outlook of the conference and glad to see their old friends. Mrs, Dora Fisher, wife of Walter Fisher, was called to her home on ac: count of the very sick condition of her sister who is not expected to live. When you want the best news con- cerning the Negro, place your name on the subscription list of the “Son” and thus have it delivered to your door. Bessie Whitney, a former student of Lincoln High school of this elty and then of St. Louis High school, is attending school this year at Nash: ville, Tenn, HEAR, HEAR, HEAR, Kansas City's best Negro talent in their own melodies, scintilating wit and happy humor at Convention hall, November 9th. Mrs, George M. Plearson, of Poca- tello, Idaho, 4s visiting her aunt, Mrs. Josephine Catterdo, at 1753 Bellview street. She expects to visit Kansas City for three weeks, Mr. Henry Compton has succeeded Bon McRay in the hotel venture at 721 Charlotte street. No man is bet- ter fitted to take charge of this piace than Mr. Compton. Mrs, T. W. Rich, formerly Mrs, Madge Jones, has returned from a trip to the northern states and. will stay with her sister, Mrs, Richardson, at 1225 East Sixteenth street Mr. Arthur Stecl was elected pres {dent of the Young Men's Literary of the Y. M,C. A. Mr, Steel is a grad: nate of Lincoln High school He is also a moral young man of which the Y. MC. A. is very proud Geo. P. Craig, Ph. C., formerly of Smith's drug store and then a drug xist at the People’s and also in Mus: cogee, Ind. Ter., passed through Kan: sas City en route to Chicago, where he will take a post graduating course Women are like men in one re- spect; some are good and some are not. It doesn't matter whether you want to buy, sell, trade or room, don’t move until you see Weaver, Monday and Thursday night, dane- ing at the Arlington Hall, Class, Wednesday night. Hall, $15 per night, Dr. Wm, J. Thompkins, recently of the staff of physicians and surgeons of Freedman’s hospital, Washington, D. C., wishes to announce his office at 704 Bast 12th street; residence, Compton hotel, Both phones, Dan Francis, who shot and killed his wife and Mrs. Dora Jackson, was hanged last week in Chicago. He was once a prominent Negro citizen ot this community and he {6 also the brother of Bass Francis, a prominent Negro Mason. October 19th the Bible class will be organized. Young men desiring to become members of the class see the president, Edward Ross, 1512 East Eighteenth street. Sunday meetings at 4:00 sharp, Bible meeting even: ing. Young Men's Literary ‘Thursday evening, 8:00. ‘The death of Tom Gross last Sat- urday was a sad blow to his friends and associates. He was a member of the Lily Lodge No, 8, K. of P., and a member of the McRay P. T, A. He was also a member of the Elks. His remains was carried to Lawrence last Sunday, his old home, by many friends, | The Rising Son wishes to call the ineoplo'a aitenllon’ (6 young? edie lawyer, Chas, H. Calloway, who 18 doing everything possible to make his way In this community, His ability has been shown by his high mark in the recent state bar examination, He is also-a commissioned Notary Public [Show your appreciaton by caling on ‘him. Negroes are not the first people that have been scourged for unfaith- fulness, The Israelites had a hard time of it, before they learned to cast away their idols and seek protection from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and we must make our chureh- es something stronger and holier than mere money exchanges or meeting places to vie with each other in showy clothing and give invitations to parties and dances, Imperial Lodge No. 101 of the T, B. P. 0. Elks will have an initiation at 1734 Grand avenue, Vendome acad: emy. Some of the officers of the Lodge are as folows: Chas.T, Watts, Exalted Ruler; W. Tecumseh Wash: ington, Secretary; A. T. Moore, Ks quire Knight; Walter Fisher, Treas: urer; Dunk Trusty, Lecturing Knight This is a Lodge in which all young men should join for the betterment of the race and help toward each other Unsanitary Graveyard, Sanitary caution ix not new, though foubtless it has grown. An elght- tenth century rector was burying one of his parishioners in the churchyard, when he was interrupted by a woman who demanded immediate speech with aim. “You must wait until I have fine shed,” waid he, “No, sir, [must weak at once.” “Well, then, what's the matter?” he inquired. “Why, str,” txelaimed the poor woman, “you are durying a man who died of the small- 20x next my poor husband, who never tad it."—N. Y. Tribune. Spread of Contract System. ‘The contract system of supply, the Condon Mail remarks, is being ex: iended to every branch of the public's aecessities. A London firm, for $100 2 year, received in installments, If de- Hred, will supply one dress sult, one lounge suit, one morning suit, one flannel suit, one frock coat sult, two overcoats, one winter, one summer, A Manchester firm supplies other cloth- Ing, hosiery, shirts, gloves, etc., for a fixed quartely sum. i he a a Rh ile he It is estimated that from 400,000 to 600,000 natives have died in Africa of aleeping sickness in the last ten years, The disease is, moreover, spreading with alarming rapidity, yet nothing Is done to check it. The weight of opinion is that no person once infect- ed ever recovers, Despite its name, sleep is not an Important symptom, as it occurs only toward the end of the disease in a small number of cases, ‘Why all this toil for triumpia of an bour?—-Young, Life's a short summer--man is but & flower—Dr, Johnson By turns we catch the fatal breath and die.— Pope. The cradie and the tomb, alas! how “igh! —Prior. To be is better far than not to be.— Sewell, Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy.— Spencer. But light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb—Dantel. The, bottom is but shallow whence they come--Sir Walter Raleigh. 7 Ho! For Cold Weather Ws a ipllsniyaia eect Se A. 5 ; ; L Our Fall and Winter Showing of Styles in Bi $ fi Dorothy Dodd, the Faultless Fitting Shoe are by festhe prettiest we have ever had cS sont’ All styles and suzes 99 @Nd $3,50 Men! Here are to be Found Your STRONG & : GARFIE: Favorite Shoes!! “*RgFe J and a more complete showing of fF 4 proper Fall and Winter Styles insuch > well-known and dependable makes as » Cy GARFIELD'S FINE SHOES FOR MEN YOU'VE NOT SEEN. ——- a Come down and inspect them. {ooo | OVIATT SHOE CO. 1105 Main Street, Kansas City. |} ELECTRIC , LADIES’ Be Henry Patton's | siozs MASSAGE BARBER POLISHED. { FOR CIGARS. LADIES SHOP AND AND ‘TOBACCO. | Cesar een, 926 Wyandotte Street, te A SPECIALTY KANSAS CITY, MO. in attendance. ia Phone 2170 Main Home Phone 5646 Main, DR. E. C. BUNCH, Dentist. Office H STA nae aa 805 Independence Avenue. Sunday by Appointment. KANSAS CITY, MO. Home or Bell Phones 253 West. Prompt Service. EMPLOYMENT OFFIGE COLORED HELP A SPECIALTY MALE AND FEMALE OFFICE HOURS | gtoiza.m.,1tos p.m. MRS. EMMA STOVALL 1014 North Sth St., Kansas City, Kansas. FOR ALL STOVES AND RANGES. ‘as’ GS. A. METZNER 7 %nties Gis, more” Chicago Milkmen Prosecuted. The Iilinots state dairy and food commissioner has brought about 100 sults against Chicago milkmen for the breaking of the state law relative to signs and names on wagons, selling skim milk for whole milk and for wa- tering milk, Much of the milk being sold for the use of children in the poorer quarters was found to be wa- tered. Some of the cases are due to the use of formaldehyde in the mitk, but these cases are not reported nu- merous. The best part of the prose- cutions consists in the publication in the dally papers of the names of the men being prosecuted and the charges against them, Thus in the list printed last week we Spd that there are charges against 17 for selling adulter- ated milk, charges against ten for hav- ing no labels on thelr cans of skim milk and also for selling adulterated milk, and against nine for selling skim ‘milk contrary to law and violating the label law. ‘The other prosecutions are for the violation of the Inbel law. | Habit Stronger Than Nature. “Habit @ second nature! Habit is ten times nature,” sald Lord Welling- ton. There was profound philosophy in this remark, and it was philosophy born of experience, for Wellington, who in childhood was considered such @ dunce his own mother could not bear to have him near her, became one of the greatest soldiers, diplomat: ists and statesmen of his age by as- siduousiy cultivating the habits of thorough preparation and quick de cision. ‘Antistrenuous. Rickett—I say, Easyun, how did you happen to marry a widow? EFasyun—Oh, I did my courting as I do everything else—along the line of least resistance.—Chicago Daily News. ‘Thy fate vo wae Common fate of all. Longfellow. Unmingled joys here no man befall Southwell. y Shocked. “A girl out west was driven insane by the sight of a railway train the other day.” “Gee! It must have been on time ‘—Houston Post. ‘The Word of Aporeciation. It Is a question of where you bur as to what you get in Pianos of lower price. The record of our past is your best protection, For more than a quarter of a century we have been selling in Kansas City the best Pianos in the world in each class. We have built up here the greatest Piano business in the West and have done it by fair, square dealing . We shall continue to travel that road) = We shall stick to one price to all alike. We do not pay commissions to anyone for bringing or sending plano cus: We sell $175 Pianos for $125. We sell $250 Pianos for $190, We sell $300 Pianos for $210 Any of our Planos may be paid for in cash, or part cash, $10 or more down, and $6 or more a month. The price is the same whether you pay cash or buy on time, There is no increase for time payments, only {n- terest at 6 per cent per annum for such time as you actually take—a very small item indeed. We carry over 500 Pianos in stock. Come and see, Count them your: self--one, two, three, four, ete. J. W. Jenkins’ Sons Music Co. 1015-1015 WALNUT STREET S, W. Agents for the Metrostyle Pianola. Best Place to Buy a Piano. Suppose the word of appreciation is never said to you, suppose your life of selfdental is accepted merely as a duty—then what shall you do? It seoms like cold comfort, but you must try and be as brave as you can ana keep on doing that which is right The knowing that one is doing the oest that one can for those who need help is, after all, a great reward, The Knowledge that somebody else is a aittle warmer, has a little better food. or that a younger brother or sister Is peing trained to be helpful—this is fine, even if the word of commenda- tion never comes in this world, and with it to feel in your heart that God perroves: Chrisvtike Living. We should seek to be like Christ In His wonderful optimism. If we find Ourselves turning every aight and sound of earth into sadness, we should take ourselves resolutely ip hand We are living wastefully, sinfully, while we submit to such moody, und we should set ourselves to work to change the miserable trend and habit inte something more beautiful gnd whole. some, Part of the work of Christ in us Is to transform us into sougful, cheerful, rejoicing Christians. St. Paul learned during his long life, in what: soever state he was, therein to be con- leant, He cartien the eacret of content in his own heart, so thut he was not ‘dependent on this world’s weather for the temperature of bis Inner lite. Home Phone 5235 Main, Lady Attendant, | Bell Phone East 538 X. Ghe A. T. Moore Undertaking Co. Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Parlors 1820 East 18h St., KANSAS CITY, MO. In Times of Perplexity. Which way is forward, Is a questton which Is liable to occur to one under certain circumstances in life, ard yet fs not always easily answered. A per: son walking in the forest or ina dense fog, may easily mistake backward for forwan!, and move in the direction of the point whence he started, rather than in the opposite direction. The same WiMenity often presents itself in the moral and spiritual life. There may be times when it will be exceed: ingly difficult to say which way is for: ward. But we may be helped by re membering that nearer to Christ. is always forward, and that the office of the Spirit Is to afford illumination im just such circumstances, The Best Paying Business For the Least Amount of Money Invested raises Having a Billiard and Poo! Room No Bad Debts. Cash in the Drawer Every Night We can fit you out with a complete Hall for very Little money. Ghe K. C. Billiard Table Mfg. Co., * MAKERS OF GOOD TABLES AT LOW PRICES 1521 Main Street. Home ‘Phone 5478 Main Bell "Phone 3156 Main F s L.. f F 2A T T es CZ VS REAL ESTATE RENTAL And INSURANCE. Fiouses For Sale On Easy Terms, Like Rent. 127 West 6th Street KANSAS CITy, MISSOURI. I SAMUEL DIGGS, a member of McKinley Lodge 9 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. Yours fraternally, SAMUEL DIGGS, Undertaker, Embalmer and | : | Funeral Director. 1012 North Third St., Kansas City, Kan. | Home Phone, 905 West; Bell Phone, 1099 West | COMPTON'S HOTEL 7a! Charlotte Street, Kenees city, Mo. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS Belt Phone 48 Main ‘A. COMPTON, Mer ```markdown ``` PURELY FEMININE Season Was Too Gaudy. RECENT SUMMER MARKED BY OSTENTATION. Autumn's Decree Is That Quieter Effects Are to Rule, and Marks the End of the Reign of Hysteria. According to a well known writer on fashion, it has been a delicious clothes summer, and the woman whose hysteria points that way has fairly revealed in the different effects she has created in the way of combinations, each one more violent than the last. Chains and beads have been omnipresent, and glass and china have been worn as freely and fashionably as onyx and coral might be in more particular days. Autumn, happily, has decreed that Irish Dancing On bathing beaches there have been such sights as never were before on land or sea. quieter effects must rule, proving that the girl who clung to white and black and brown through the rainbow summer was really in advance of the style, although the clothes maniacs set her down as dowdy. There is positively no vice in the feminine list that makes a woman seem such an idiot as this dress hysteria. She carries the air ever with her that she is watching for some gleam of recognition as to the smartness of her attire, and no glance is bold or long enough to convince her that it is not the beauty of her dress, but its elaborate loudness that is attracting attention. Evening gowns, low-necked and pinched with jewels, have actually been worn at the first meal of the day, a hat apparently being meant to transform the weird get-up into a morning dress. Women have gone about the plazzas of the big hotels in motor coats and veils who never traveled in anything but a trolley car. The long glove and short sleeve epidemic, together with transparencies in the way of bodices, have called down the criticism of clergymen the country over. Tulle hoas, reduced by dampness to the consistency of a gauzy caterpillar, ```markdown ``` Chains and beads have been omnipresent, and glass and cloth have been worn as freely and fashionably as onyx. have been flaunted for the reason that they furnished the necessary note of color contrast. At some of the boardwalk places young women have disported themselves in khaki coats, skirts, leggins and hats suggesting the Rough Rider uniform. On bathing beaches there have been such sights as never were before on land or sea; the princesses effects offering opportunities for the cartoonists' penetil, calculated to add hugely to the world's gayety at the exense of woman's good taste and modesty. Autumn offers a safe antidote to the woman who has suffered even slightly from the clothes hysteria during the last few months. Whatever mistakes she has made she now has the chance to redeem them, not by laying in an entirely new set of clothes, but by modifying her contrasts and wearing dark hats, gloves, veils and coats. These will convert her from a demoralized May queen into a sane and sensible appearing person, who has a mind fit and willing to take up other issues of life beside this eternal clothes mania. IDEAS FOR THE HOSTESS. Hallowe'en Brownie Party—Decorations for Church Wedding. A Hallowe'en Brownie Party. People of all ages love to celebrate on all halloween, and this party is especially adapted to children between the ages of eight and 12. If not more than a dozen guests are invited, ask them to supper and send them all home promptly at nine o'clock. On the little pumpkin-shaped cards besides the hour and date write: "This reason of the year, is to the Brownie's heart most dear." Have a pumpkin centerpiece filled with fruit and a ring of little Brownie figures around it, one for each child. Light the rooms with jack-o'lanterns and serve a simple supper of creamed chicken, baked potatoes, egg salad with crackers, cocoa, with little individual pumpkin pies. Let them bob for apples, burn nuts and have a supply of pop corn. Tell them harmless ghost stories and give a description of how halloween originated and how the day is celebrated in other countries. It is surprising how interested children are in facts and the many legends pertaining to this interesting time are all fascinating. If not too much trouble the guests may be asked to come in Brownie costumes and a prize given to the child who guesses the most children. The Japanese paper masks may be used or the mothers can make them of cloth. Have the words to a "Brownie" lingle that will be good to read to the little folks or set to a simple tune for them to sing. Decorations for a Church Wedding. Decorations for a Church Wedding. At the head of each aisle place an arch covered with ferns and vines. From the one under which the bride passes have her monogram suspended and from the other that of the groom. Mark the pews reserved for special guests by bunches of flowers tied with ribbons or white tulle. Bank the altar with ferns, palms and masses of flowers. If there are to be a number of attendants, say four or six, have them carry shepherds' crooks, tied with a knot of flowers and ribbons and precede the bride two and two, awaiting her coming at the head of the aisle where they separate and cross the crooks above their heads, forming an arch under which she passes. The effect is extremely pretty and is something different from the flower girl. Immediately preceding the bride, there may be a tiny page carrying the ring on the calyx of a calla lily. He should be dressed in white linen, with white canvas shoes and white stockings. Blue is a color much affected by bridal attendants with large hats, plume laden. Shower bouquets are still popular, also the white prayer book with markers of ribbon with a flower on the end of each. Mourning. The question is asked, "How long should a mother seclude herself from church, calls and the world in general after a child's death and how long mourning should be worn." Custom prescribes one year for the wearing of deep mourning and during that time it is not necessary to return calls or accept social invitations. Church need never be excluded. In fact, one's individual feelings are one's best guide in all these matters. An English Bride: At a recent English wedding the bride was in white crepe de chine and a girdle with long ends of silver tissue. It was trimmed with brussels point and the court train of cream-colored moire was draped with brussels point. The skirt of the gown had a deep lace flounce. The bodice had a Dutch neck and guippe of white chiffon, over which point lace was arranged in narrow fliem outline. The sleeves were double puffs of crepe de chine, each ending in a lace ruffle. Another English wedding gown was white taffeta embroidered in sliver cord and trimmed with point lace. The bridesmaids were in cream-colored taffeta and wore large beliotrope hats trimmed with shaded plumes and carried purple sweet peas. Simple Precautions That Will Save Lives and Money. A set of dishes should be selected for the sick room and these should be washed by the nurse and never mixed with the dishes used by the family. The nurse should disinfect all bed and body linen used by the patient and also keep the sick room and all belongings to it free from infection. Nothing contaminates the atmosphere more than dust and nothing creates worse air dust contamination than the spilling of foul discharges on floors, rugs and bed and body linen and allowing them to dry. All such foul matter should be wiped up at once with a moist disinfected cloth which should be burned. A broom is out of place in a sick room. It only scatters the dust into the air. The only safe disposal of the refuse from a quarantined room is cremation. The nurse in charge of a case of contagious disease should avoid direct contact with other members of the family, especially children. If needs be she must mingle with others she should have a special gown for the sick room which should be discarded with her cap on coming out and always worn in the room, and she should disinfect her hands before touching anything outside of the room. All these simple, commonplace quarantine regulations faithfully carried out would save thousands of lives yearly among the children of the land and also greatly lessen the cost to common people for illness and funeral expenses. Nothing would pay better than for the heads of all American households to be their own health officers—Dr. Kate Lindsay, in the Houskeeper. CARE IN WASHING SWEATER. Garment Never Should Be Hung Up to Dry—Needs Much Rinsing. In washing a sweater, rub thoroughly in warm water and soap suds, rinsing several times to get all the odor of the soap out of the wool. Be sure never to hang up a sweater to dry, as hanging ruins the shape and stretches the garment. If you can lay the sweater on the grass, do so, having first spread out a heavy towel or a sheet folded. If you must dry it on the fire escape or in a window, spread out first a newspaper and then cover that with towels or a sheet to keep the water from soaking through, and then lay the sweater on them, not stretched out, but rather in a heap. Half a day of hot sunshine will dry it. but it must be hot. Don't try to wash a sweater on a cloudy day. Dress Coverings. Some girl with a love of pretty things hit upon the clever idea of making the great bags and slips, with which she covered her best bib and tuckers, of flowered stuffs instead of the usual plain white muslin affairs. The open door of the closet reveals a pretty sight, instead of a rather funeral effect the muslin shroudings are bound to give. Choosing a closely woven material, so that the dust is as safely defied as when a stout muslin is the shield, is the only point that need be looked to Have some of the covers big, sheet like affairs—there are certain gowns which keep in better condition if something is folded about them than if they are slipped into the roomiest of bags. Put loops upon bags or wrapping sheet, so that their weight, little as it may seem, will bear directly upon the closet hooks, instead of adding its mite to dragging the delicate skirt or blouse out of shape. Two Good Cleaning Recipes. Here is a recipe which is efficacious for cleaning fabrics without injuring their texture or changing their color. It is also particularly good in cleaning rugs and carpets. Grate two raw potatoes in a bowl which contains a pint of clear, cold water. Now strain through a sieve, allowing the liquid to fall into another bowl containing another pint of cold water. When it settles, pour off the water into a bottle and keep for future use. Dip a sponge into the potato water and rub the soiled garment carefully, after which it may be washed in clear water. When ivory knife handles get discolored dip half a lemon in salt and rub on them. Wash off immediately in warm water, and the handles will look as white as when new. Baked Potatoes. Select smooth, medium sized potatoes, wash, and put in a dripping pan. Bake in a hot oven over 40 minutes, or until soft. The potatoes are put in a dripping pan so that all may be drawn at one time to try them. Test the potatoes by taking one up in a holder or towel, and if they are soft and mealy inside, they are done. Baked potatoes are cooked in their natural water, and when done the skin should be broken to let out the steam. If this is not done, the steam inside condenses again, and forms water, and the result is soggy baked potatoes.—Good Housekeeping. To Sweeten Musty Cellar A damp, musty cellar may be sweetened by sprinkling upon the floor pulverized copperas, chloride of lime, or even common lime. The most effective means ever used to disinfect decaying vegetable matter is chloride of lime in solution. One pound may be dissolved in two gallons of water. Plaster of paris has also been found an excellent absorbent of noxious odors. If used one part with three parts of charcoal, it will be found still better. WOMAN AND HOME Comfort for the Tots. Pattern Is a New One. NEAT AND APPROPRIATE COOL WEATHER CLOTHES. Wool Always the Best Material for Undergarments — Bloomers Good for Both Boys and Girls—Sensible Sweaters. With the summer at an end and the schools again open, the careful mother is laying in a supply of warm clothes for the little folks, says a writer in the New York World. To begin with, put away the short socks and sandals. Long hose are now the best and healthiest. Many draughts skip over the school room floors and with socks and sandals the children are likely to take severe colds. This, of all things at the beginning of the school term, is to be deplored. ```markdown ``` The summer under clothing should be replaced by warm, knit garments that hug down to the little bodies and absorb perspiration. When playing, a child is apt to become overheated, a cotton garment becomes cold and damp with the perspiration, the woolen one maintains its warmth and absorbs the dampness. One who has made a study of the clothes that children should wear, advises next a pair of serge bloomers if the day be chilly or a pair of lightweight canton flannel ones if it be warm. These are for both girls and boys, and not merely are they regarded as excellent from a point of saving in household labor, but they are much better for both boys and girls than the little light under drawers that used to be worm. These bloomers, fastened at the knee with a rubber, keep the upper part of the legs warm and comfortable and, kick as much as they please, the children's legs will still be warm. Over these, for the girls, is worn a little kilted skirt that buttons to a a little skirt, sai walst. However, the more approved method of dressing the child is in the Russian smock with leather belt. This sips on over the bloomers, all in one piece, and the child is never troubled with the unbuttoning of skirt and waist. ```markdown ``` There are very sensible sweaters made for children nowadays. And, if mother has the time she can make one herself, or if there is a grandmamma in the home, surely such work would delight her fingers. Sweaters for the chill days are best in the colors of dark blue and red; Fancy Work Design Appropriate for Christmas Gifts. The fancy work pattern and design is something absolutely new in the way of the clever work aprons that can be converted into bags for holding the work. The design is shown as a plain apron and also drawn up at halfmast, when it forms a little pocket in washerwoman fashion. Again when it is taken off by drawing up the belt ribbon, it can be made into a complete bag. Eyelet work done upon parallel slots wide enough to take lace and a half wide ribbon form the trimming motif and at the same time the working plan of the apron. A fancy design should be worked in the corners, which are an attractive feature when it is in bag children then do not feel that they must be so careful that all the joy of play is taken away. By the way, this is a rather important point in the clothing of children in wool. Be absolutely certain that the children are not permitted to wear woolen clothes that have become dusty. Every sweater should be washed at least once every two weeks. and shaken thoroughly and hung out of doors at night. This is important inasmuch as the wool comes close to the face; the child at play cannot help but get the garment dusty, and the tender little lungs are filled with a great deal of dust that would not be there if the sweater were kept clean. For the boys of the family, serge blouses, bloomers, or if they are too old for bloomers, woolen knee pants and a sweater complete the first fall outfit. It is just as important to keep the boy's woolen clothes free from dust as it is the little girl's. In all probability he will need more attention because his play is a bit more strenuous, and there is a deal of dust kicked up when old for bloomers, woolen knee pants and a sweater complete the first fall out-fit. It is just as important to keep the boy's woolen clothes free from dust as it is the little girl's. In all probability he will need more attention because his play is a bit more strenuous, and there is a deal of dust kicked up when boys play "Injun" and give Wild West shows. These clothes are sensible, and they can be made pretty. Pretty clothes do not need a lot of frills and ruffles, but neat trimming can be put on, and what is prettier than a little girl in neat school dress and a white pinafore? She looks spick, span, tidy and well cared for, much better than she with the ruffles that will get dirty and look bedraggled. The two rules to be observed are health and hygiene in the dressing of the little ones, and following the schedules here given one must come pretty near those rules. Fault of Amateur Dressmakers. Nine out of ten amateur dressmakers will try to put a small sleeve-top into a large arm's eye, or vice versa, without the least idea of the relation of size between the two. Another evil lies in "taking in" promiscuously. "It is too big under the arms," or, "it is too long in the shoulder seams; I shall have to take it in a little." Now it will only make matters worse by constantly pinching in and cutting off any portion of the material in one place; it must be taken in by gentler methods. Slope it away gradually down the seam or work the material out in two or three places—never take the material out abruptly in one spot. In making the sleeves in children's dresses, make them quite full and long enough to turn a hem and gather at the wrist. Then when the sleeves are too short, rip out the hem and gather into a cuff. Have a few tucks in the bottom of dresses. They improve the looks of a garment and when it needs lengthening it is easier to rip out a tuck or two than let down a hem. shape. If firm and sheer handkerchief linen is used, and the edge is finished with buttonholing, a practical little possession, which is perfect for washing purposes, is the result, and nothing could be more attractive than its appearance when finished with the ribbons. For the burried worker embroidery edges may be used instead of the buttonholing and a thin beading applied to the outside, from under which the goods can be cut away. Basket Brooches in Favor Again. An evidence of the popularity of mixed color schemes in jewelry is shown in the revived popularity of the little flower baskets which were fashionable many years ago. The baskets, of gold lattice work, are filled with flowers made of various colored jewels. The ornament is used for a brooch. These brooches, when formerly used, were usually of French billigree and paste jewels and were exceedingly pretty, although comparatively inexpensive. A number of them were disposed of at the sale of the effects of the late Mrs. Gilbert, the well-known actress. They went for a mere song, although they were, in fact, prettier than the new brooches of similar pattern. Pink and white stones are also a fashionable combination. Among the most attractive bracelets at the jewelers are those of pink and white baroque pearls linked together with a deepest pink amethyst. HEALTH IS THE FIRST ESSENTIAL It Helps Women to Win and Hold Men's Admiration, Respect and Love Woman's greatest gift is the power to inspire admiration, respect, and love. There is a beauty in health which is more attractive to men than mere regularity of feature. Mrs. Chas. F. Brown To be a successful wife, to retain the love and admiration of her husband, should be a woman's constant study. At the first indication of ill-health, painful or irregular periods, headache or backache, secure Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and begin its use. Mrs Chas, F. Brown, Vice-President Mothers' Club, 21 Cedar Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "For nine years I dragged through a miserable existence, suffering with inflammation and female weakness and worn out with pain and weariness. One day noticed a state of a wound in my belly, getting it was, but who had been wounded by Lyda E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound, and I determined to try it. At the end of three months I was a different woman. Every one remarked about it, and my husband fell in love with me all over again. Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was a terrible trouble, and I felt like a new woman. I am sure it will make every suffering woman strong, well and happy, as it has me." "Women who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, bloating (or fatulence), displacements, inflammation or ulceration, that 'bearing-down' feeling, dizziness, faintness, indigestion, or nervous prostration may be restored to perfect health and strength by taking Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Animals Do with Little Water There are some animals which rarely drink; for instance, the llamas, of Patagonia, and certain gazelles of the fur east. A number of snakes, lizards and other reptiles live in places devoid of water. A bat of western America inhabits waterless plains. In parts of Lozeire, France, there are herds of cows and goats which hardly ever drink and yet produce the milk for Roquefort cheese. KING OF SAFE-BREAKERS. Marvelous Delicacy of Hearing Possessed by Milner James. "Milner James was the most artistic safe-breaker in the business," said Lecocq the detective. "He is dead now. He opened in his time over 700 safes without tools or gunpowder solely by working out the combination with his delicate and patient fingers. "It took me a year," he once said, 'to learn the trick of picking combinations. I studied all the locks there were and I had three safes of different makes to practice on. The ear is the most important factor in my method and it must be held tight against the safe door on a line with the tumblers. When the knob of the lock is turned slowly and one of the tumblers reaches the notch corresponding to the first number of the combination the tumbler will fall with a little click. Care must be taken not to displace this tumbler. You keep on trying the knob back and forth gently till each of the tumblers drops. Then the door opens. Hardly one man in a thousand has an ear delicate enough for this work and to be a success at it you've got to give up tobacco and alcohol." NO DAWDLING. A Man of 70 After Finding Coffee Hurt Him, Stopped Short. When a man has lived to be 70 years old with a 40-year-old habit grown to him like a knot on a tree, chances are he'll stick to the habit till he dies. But occasionally the spirit of youth and determination remains in some men to the last day of their lives. When such men do find any habit of life has been doing them harm, they surprise the Osterles by a degree of will power that is supposed to belong to men under 40 only. "I had been a user of coffee until three years ago—a period of 40 years—and am now 70," writes a N. Dak. man. "I was extremely nervous and tebbitated, and saw plainly that I just make a change. "I am thankful to say I had the nerve to quit coffee at once and take on Postum without ang dawdling, and experienced no ill effects. On the contrary, I commenced to gain, losing my nervousness within two months, also gaining strength and health otherwise. "For a man of my age, I am very well and hearty. I sometimes meet persons who have not made their Postum right and don't like it. But I tell them to boil it long enough, and call their attention to my looks now, and before I used it, that seems convincing. "Now, when I have writing to do, or long columns of figures to cast up, I feel equal to it and can get through my work without the fagged out feeling of old." Name given by Postum Jo. Battle Creek, Mich. Read the cook, "The Road to Wellville," in okgs. "There's a reason" CITY IS GROWING. BTEADY INCREASE IN POPULATION OF THE CAPITAL. Demand for Houses Far Exceeds the Supply In Spite of Building That Has Been Done. Washington as a city of homes is very much in evidence just now. It seems to be the opinion this year that the demand for apartments and for houses did not begin quite so early as was the case last year, but the prospect seems to be that it will be quite equal to what it was last fall. There has been no reduction in rents, and the supply of vacant suites and vacant houses has been the lowest in years. In spite of the increase in the number of buildings this condition of the market is taken to mean that the population has grown, and as far as known, the growth is continuing. It has been the apprehension all along that the city was being overbuilt, especially in the line of apartment houses. Thus far there has been no clear indication of such a condition. In the event the close of the present rental season shows a supply of vacant houses and apartments, some conclusion may be formed on this subject that will have at least the value of being based on facts. Owing to various conditions the amount of building done during the past year, which has equaled the record of last year, which has undoubtedly given strength to the market and kept in check the tendency to overdo. Another circumstance that has served to help the rental market has been the withdrawal of a large number of houses from that section of the market in order that they might be sold. The demand from people who want to own their own homes has without doubt been the feature of the reality situation for the past few years, and its continuance is indicated by the addition to the number of such houses and the success which is met with on disposing of them. It is the belief of the brokers who are in the midst of active trading and are therefore in a position to know the character of the market, that the supply of home buyers has been by no means exhausted. In fact, it is said that for a certain class of house, say one that contains seven rooms and sells for about $7,000, there is not enough to meet the demand. Of course it may be said that the supply of homes at a moderate price, to a certain extent never at any time equals the demand, for there are more people who want that class of house than any other and at the same time it is difficult to find the ground and to build a house that can be put on the market at that price. It is, however, a good indication of the condition of the market that now, after a year or two of active home buying, the movement is not yet finished and there are still additions being made to the army of people who already own their homes or are in the process of acquiring them. As far as known the inflow of population into this city is still going on, and it seems likely that it is going to continue, for every year the attractions of the city increase and the inducements to people to make their homes here are becoming more widely known. HUT IN DENSE THICKET. Speculation as to Who Had Occupied Peculiar Abode. A discovery was made the other day by several young folks in a dense thicket about a thousand yards south of the electric railway station at Mount Ranier, on the District line, which gave the discoverers a subject for considerable speculation. The young people were on a fern hunting expedition and in their search they entered a thick forest of young pine trees. In a secluded spot about the center of the forest they came across a quaint little log cabin which appeared to have been long unoccupied. The structure had been built of the small pines which had been chopped down in the immediate vicinity of the hut. These had been placed end on end and built into shape, just as the boys of years gone by made their "figure 4" bird traps. The roof was formed of the branches of the trees that had been employed in the erection of the queer little house. Whoever built the cabin selected a spot which evidently was but seldom visited by man. The surrounding trees, bushes and vines made an almost impenetrable barrier to the small clearing in which the hut is situated. In one corner of the little abode was a large sheet-iron box that had perhaps been found on some junk of rubbish pile. This was used as a stove, and a piece of rusty stepperpipe protruded above the thatched roof. There were evidences about the place that it had been the abode of either a recluse, a tramp or perhaps a fugitive from justice within a year past. The discoverers of the hut in the forest conjectured up many theories as to who had been the occupant of the place, and it was as deep a mystery to residents in the neighborhood as it was to the fern hunters. Fate Had Other Plans. Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, once enticed a competitive examination for appointment to West Point and lost his opportunity for becoming a great soldier because he laughed at an inopportune moment in the examination and was fined several points for indecorous conduct. The successful asprant for the place Senator Beveridge aspired to fill was Capt. Austin Hastings Brown, who died in 1903. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, § 25. LUCAS GURDIN FRANK LEE BURKE oath that he is senator partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing accessible, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE RUNDENED DOLLARS for each and every HALLY GATARUCH CURRY FRANK J. CHENY Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this sixth day of December. A. Dr. Kline A. W. GLEASON [REAL] NOTARY PUBLIC NOTARY FUNERAL Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonial free. Send for testimonial free. Bold by all Drugs, 75g. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Lower Animals In Sickness. Lower Animals in Sickness. Man might often take from the lower animals a lesson as to the care of himself when ill. All sorts of animals suffering from fever eat little; lie quiet in dark, air places, and drink quantities of water. When a dog loses his appetite he knows where to find dog grass, which acts as a purgative and emetic. Sheep and cows, when ill, seek certain herbs. Any animal suffering from chronic rheumatism keeps as far as possible from the sun. If a chimpanzee be wounded he has been seen to stop the bleeding by a plaster of chewed-up leaves and grass. Kept Tax Receipts Long. Charles King, of East Liberty, a suburb of Pittsburgh, is what might be termed a careful man. He has been a voter in the East Liberty district since 1857 and when asked on the last registration day if he had a tax receipt he pulled from a pocket tax receipts for the last 41 years. When asked by the registrar if he had any more he replied that if he went down deep into his "strong box" at home he might possibly find a few dating long back before the oldest member of the board was born. Mr. King is now 78 years old, having been born in Baltimore in 1828, removing to East Liberty in 1857. His first presidential vote was cast for John C. Fremont and his last for Theodore Roosevelt. He is a stanch Republican and as a contractor and brick manufacturer for half a century has contributed much to the upbuilding and growth of East Liberty. INTERESTING CONTEST. Heavy Cost of Unpaid Postage. One of the most curious contests ever before the public was conducted by many thousand persons under the offer of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., of Battle Creek, Mich., for prizes of 31 boxes of gold and 300 greenbacks to those making the most words out of the letters Y-I-O-Grape-Nuts. The contest was started in February, 1906, and it was arranged to have the prizes awarded on Apr. 30, 1906. When the public announcement appeared many persons began to form the words from these letters, sometimes the whole family being occupied evenings, a combination of amusement and education. After a while the lists began to come in to the Postm Office and before long the volume grew until it required wagons to carry the mail. Many of the contestants were thoughtless enough to send their lists with insufficient postage and for a period it cost the Company from twenty-five to fifty-eight and sixty dollars a day to pay the unpaid postage. Young ladies, generally those who had graduated from the high school, were employed to examine these lists and count the correct words. Webster's Dictionary was the standard and each list was very carefully corrected except those which fell below 8000 for it soon became clear that nothing below that could win. Some of the lists required the work of a young lady for a solid week on each individual list. The work was done very carefully and accurately but the Company had no idea, at the time the offer was made, that the people would respond so generally and they were compelled to fill every available space in the offices with these young lady examiners, and notwithstanding they worked steadily, it was impossible to complete the examination until Sept. 29, over six months after the prizes should have been awarded. This delay caused a great many inquiries and naturally created some dissatisfaction. It has been thought best to make this report in practically all of the newspapers in the United States and many of the magazines in order to make clear to the people the conditions of the contest. Many lists contained enormous numbers of words which, under the rules, had to be eliminated "Pegger" would count "Peggers" would not. Some lists contained over 50,000 words, the great majority of which were cut out. The largest lists were checked over two and in some cases three times to insure accuracy. The $100.00 gold prize was won by L. D. Reese, 1227-15th St., Denver, Colo., with 9941 correct words. The highest $10.00 gold prize went to S. K. Fraser, Lincoln, Pa., with 9921 correct words. A complete list of the 331 winners with their home addresses will be sent to any contestant enquiring on a postal card. Be sure and give name and address clearly. This contest has cost the Co. many thousand dollars, and probably has not been a profitable advertisement, nevertheless perhaps some who had never before tried Grape-Nuts food have been interested in the contest, and from trial of the food have been shown its wonderful rebuilding powers. It teaches in a practicable manner that scientifically gathered food elements can be selected from the field grains, which nature will use for rebuilding the nerve centres and brain in a way that is unmistakable to users of Grape-Nuts. "There's a reason." 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Loree From the foot of the grand * \ pte the Mbrary of C¢ q ani We pass round to the lett f the gteat brary and come tothe anew of the school of engineering artments ia a pattern sh a fore And HiNeHIG | BOY fact verything a you oneeds in Ve at stairs ’ fine otumbia such a grand: fellow s Kipling’ s engine hero in his story Here is a locomotive turned school ister, We walk round the grand old ellow and stand before the great living wheels Here we are at the Ige of a deep pit In the floor. In it we seo A pair of massive wheels sup orted on great timbers Each wheel S exactly under and rests against ne of the great “drivers.” and when he drivers move the wheels in the it move, too,and in dis way the en zine can move ts wheels and yet stand perfectly still, To give perfect security, the first wheels of the en ne are blocked 1p Ly this deview it is possible to have in engine “run” at full speed while We sit beside the track and sce just vow it Works, On the road the engine Mies along so quickly that it ts im possible to see anything, still less earn anything Think what anim: hiense advantage we have in this school of the locomotive! — Here in this quiet. comfortable room we ean walk all about the great mutchine, earn the name and nse of every part, ind actifully see how it works The assistant teacher in this school of the locomotive climbs into the cab with several students while a part of the class are studying the ae tion of the pistons in the — steam cylinders. Others can study steam. naking. the work of the running-gear wo the wheels One boy ean. study viling, while another is studying the ise of the airbrake Again, a boy may flag the train to see if the hoy at the lever knows the riles of the read. A dozen boys can thus study wn engine turning its wheels at $0 miles an hour in perfect ease and safety, while 50 more ean learn much of the Jessen by looking on and le tening to the explanations of — the teacher A locomotive is a grand, scientific tool used in a certain way for a cer tain end. An engineer uses this splendid tool in a scientific way, and he must be himself a man of sei enee It 18 not enough to know how to “stop her.” or “start her,” or run ‘on time,” according to the rules of the road. He must know his engine; know every part; how it ts made and used. He should be able to make complete working drawings of — the whole machine, from the headlight te the draw-bar He must know how the steam behaves inside that eylinder and must be able to take the eytin der apart and put it together again He must know how every part is made and be able instantly to decide when the engine works badly, and why, and be able, as far as possible to cure its little ills and disorders He must know it all; must be freman machinist, railroad man, engineer and man of science. He must have strong calm nerves, and must never get con fused, or “lose his head,” or make mistakes. A hundred lives may de pend on his knowledge and. skill, ‘The men who build locomotives: ir the great shops at Philadelphia se that this is the way to teach, — S¢ they made this splendid engine a gif to the university, that in’ its cal young men and boys ean have a bet ter chance to learn to be engineer: than oid their fathers, who picked uj their edneation on the road. No more will the Columbia mak her 60 miles an hour, Never agats Will her headlight gleam on the po ished rails, Her whistle will neve startle the echoes in the mountain to Wake the sleepy towns along th river, She is here at rest, and wil never go out again along the line She is here to teaeh—and to teach | the greatest thing any man or imi chine can do, Perhaps the captiv engine misses the road, and dream of the Hghts and signals beside th way, and longs to fly along the tracl Ov perhaps Columbia knows she i at school, and is really and truly teacher on the staf! of a great un versity Charles O, Barnard, in 8 Nicholas New Use for Locomotives, In & small town in Massachusetts recently there occurred what is probe ably the first instance of the kind on record —a locomotive employed — to run a factory, The establishment had outgrown the power developed by ts old plant of boilers, and, not wishing to shut down long enough to install a new battery, the proprietors con ceived the plan of availing themselves of use of the surplus locomotives from the shops of a near-by raliroad. ‘The engine Was a small freight engine. 1t was sidetracked near the factory, ‘The pipes leading to the cylinder heads were disconnected, and one of them connected to the steam dome of the locomotive, leading therefrom to the engine room of the factory. The plan was perfectly successful, TO TEST FABRICS. SOME VALUARLE THINGS FOR THE SHOPPER TO KNOW. How to Detect the Diterence in the Quality of Linen=einding « Cotten and Linen Gentle Vinetiess of the threads in the Weave denote the quality of Hnen and ' Her the number to the square weiter the sheeting and: the faye Jeon the real grades it is more AIM cult to tell whieh Is the better, and 1a sinall maxnifying glass such as a a clerks carry should be asked for by the shopper, and the one who < interested can count the threads herself and detormine which is the bette Threads pulled from the edge of a Piece of Hien may fray, while those cken from cotton snap when pulled in two An old-time test is to wet the finger, pltee it under a piece of linen and wateh the surface get damp. It the moisture does not appear, yon may be perfectly sure that the goods ts cotton, for it does not absorb water as linen does. Another test for linen is to ravel oue thread of the warp and another of the woof and barn them, If one is cotton it will be charred fmmediately, while it will take the linen a trifle longer to be destroyed. ‘There is less chance of being mis: taken in buying silk than in purehas ing linens and an albsilk piece can be told immediately by the tonch. There is quite little difference to be considered in judging certain — silks, for some are more valuable on ac. connt of thelr heavy qualities, while others are costly on account of their shoerness Pongees that are being sold 80 ex- tensively this season cost more when they are thick and heavy than when of Hahter grade, With lonisine the softer and finer | the quality the more expensive. ‘The “softer taffeta is the better, as a rule, esbecioliy wey: (einhal a: bist sues or luster, It also has an unmistak. able swish that stamps {tas good as soon as heard. Materlals in’ which the threads running both ways are “silk, are springy and to the touch are full of life, while those with half silk And cotton are not so elastic, A lighted match touched to the “threads will show at once whether one is of cotton, for if it is it wil roll up in smoke before the silken one has fairly started to burn ‘The same test applied to wool will show quite as quickly whether there are any cotton threads, for they will burn rapidly and leave the woolen or “worsted ones. burning slowly, and “making a black charred ash that has “an unmistakable odor of burning wool. A piece of all wool is very soft to the touch, while one of half wool or cotton has a very hard surface, and Worsted is quite rough when rubbed \ test that never fails on woolens Vis made with muriatie or nitric acid. | A piece of all wool dipped tn elther of these powerful chemleals turns it te 4 reddish yellow color, While if there | are cotton threads they are destroyed, leaving the piece with nothing — but the yellow warp or woof, For Babies on Sleeping Cars. When traveling with a baby in a fleeping car, says Good Housekeep: ing insure, a good night's rest for yourself ahd the baby, not to men- tion your fellow travelers, by putting him to sleep in a little hammock which is to be found in the berth. ‘This procedure is practicable for all fnfants under one year of age, and ix the only absolutely safe sleeping place for them Provide yourself in advance with a piece of cotton rope two feet in length, With this one end of the hammock is to be made fast to the lower end of the chain or cable by which the upper berth is suspended; the other end of the hammock fs left on the hdok from which it usually hangs, ~The hammock is thus suspended dl caxonally across the berth; now put in two pillows end to end. These serve the double purpose of spreader and bedding. If the hammock fs strung tightly it will swing clear of the person sleeping below and the rougher the road the more the ham mock swings and the sounder the baby sleeps. | @ Mat of Snow-White Neapolitan. A beautiful hat was a snow-white Neapolitan, a large sailor shape, tlt ed by a wide bandeau well up the right side. ‘This bandean was cov. ered with pale-brown tulle, and the low crown was surrounded with a double wreath of shaded roses In White and cream color, also yale yel low ones, with deeper centers; these were separated slightly into groups of three and four, with a very litle brown mottled foliage where the hat Hrose quite high at the side, two very Pwide and full ostrich tips shading trom white to pate yellow falling over ihe wearer's dark hatr. Nothing but masses of taneolored tulle filed in the back under the beh, | To Cure Dark Circles | Dark eiveles nnder the eyes general Jay indicate a sluggish elrenlation ot fF torpidity of the liver. Kidney disor | ders are other causes. Exercise daily Breathe deeply, live on simple, muted | tious food, and get enough sleep te thoroughly rest you. Every morning Ddathe the eyes with diluted — witch | hazet or strong salt water. At nigh | Muskage around the eyes gently wit | erange ower skin food, HOWARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges.) WASHINGTON, - - - DC 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 practi- cal laboratory demonstrations, well equipped labatories in all depart- ments, Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12, 1906, For catalogue or further information, apply to | F. J. SHADD, M. 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Up-to-Date ie Fall Styles Shoes Arriving Daily. and No trouble Furnishing toshowgoods, Goods. 2 VG KEKE mip ONE PRICE Qi ca : oo is MTS , Gay WSHOES | \ in eter Le Our Motto: “YOUR MONEY’S WORTH” 60S Main Street, Keneses City MC “Hot Sprl Special” ot Springs Specla Long looked for Improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, Is now provided for by the : | B3 m $93 = 8 eek a ta y 3 gS ’ j 3 ® P. aa |S g w A =: S m7 ss Leaving Kansas City at 11:00 a. m. daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via ‘Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Indepen- dence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. Through Sleepers and Chair Care (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 Traine for all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Hot Springs Night Express 9:35 p. m. dally. For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen’! Agt. Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY MO. Home Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 740 Hickory |___ Home Telanhone S057 Main. __s Bail. Telepneane £0 Mickery PHOTOLOLOLO1O1O1Os Oi G1 O1OrO1 Store rerOiO1e1OiO1erer: i M. Brancato @ Bro. | Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats, Oysters and Game in Season | Rel Ppagne 241g Main 211 W. 6th St. | I a a ee 2 ee