The Rising Son

NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS ADVERTISEMENT 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 XII. KANSAS CITY, MO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1907 NUMBER THE FARMERS' CONVENTION GREAT SUCCESS. Macon, Mo., Nov. 19, 1907. The farmers' convention at the Western College, Macon, Mo., was a marked success, notwithstanding the inclement weather. The meeting was opened in religious form, led in prayer by Rev. E. D. Green. The president of the college delivered an opening address, setting forth the object and importance of the meeting, and pointing out the advantages which the agricultural department of the school will be to the race. Splendid remarks were made by Mr. Craig Griffin of Macon county, O. T. Redd of Cooper county, Mr. Speed Daniels and many others made remarks favoring the permanent organization of the convention with a view to developing the agricultural feature of the college work; looking to a regular annual meeting for the purpose of relating facts and experiences and observation in a way to improve and advance the art and science of farming in all phases. A committee was appointed on permanent organization, and the meeting adjourned until 10 o'clock on the morrow. The morning session of the second day was begun with singing by the convention and prayer by the president, and the work of the previous day was resumed. The convention went into permanent organization by electing the following officers: Mr. Craig Griffin of Macon, President; William Henderson, of Bunceon, Mo., vice president; J. H. Carter, Macon, Mo., treasurer; Prof. C. B. Johnson, of Callao, secretary. Other interesting papers were read on "Poultry Raising" and "Floral Farming," after which the convention adjourned to meet at 7:30 p. m. Judges were then selected to award the premiums on the products, cakes, butter and bread. About two hours were spent in hearing reports and speeches from representatives of 33 counties, which were immensely interesting. The committee on resolutions made the following report: Whereas, The idea of a farmers' convention at the Western College and Industrial Institute was conceived by our president, Dr. J. H. Garnett; be it Resolved, That a standing vote of thanks be tendered him by the convention assembled, thereby expressing its gratitude for his thoughtful service and its approval of the movement; Whereas, The farmers, in a measure compatible with the weather, have shown their interest by their attendance and exhibits; and Whereas, The students entered so heartily and enthusiastically into the spirit and purpose of the convention; be it further Resolved, That we thank them individually and collectively and recommend that all engage in a united effort to propagate and perpetuate the idea of a great farmers' convention at Western College; Whereas, The need and usefulness of the convention to our industrial folk and to our educational plant at Macon, Mo., is so imperatively necessary: be it Resolved, That this organization become permanent and meet annually at the Western College and Industrial Institute on the first Friday and Saturday in November. GREAT BEAUTY CONTEST HAS CLOSED! Much Thanks to Be Extended to the Overflowing Crowd at Convention Hall. The Rising Son Bows in Humble Obedience to the Will of the Great Body of Negroes. We have found you at last! The Eureka of our hope! We shall earnestly strive to retain this confidence. When we started our Beauty Contest we had no idea it would meet with such approval as it did. But last Thursday plainly told us where the hearts of the black folks laid, backing a negro paper. Too much cannot be said of the occasion, as it was one of the grandest things that ever happened. In regards to the ladies we do not think anyone was disappointed. All was satisfied. Those receiving honors among the single ladies were Bessie Patterson, Alberta Wells and Edmonia Hubbel. Among the married women were Minnie James, Frankie Glens and Phildella Mitchell. The first two leaders received, single, a silver manicuring set, valued at $25.00. German make; married, a handsome cut glass water set, valued at $25.00 cut incog del Al. Mode. Those second the same an order for a $10.00 photograph of themselves, life-size. Third, as honorable mentioned and running high. At one time the crowd became so unmanageable that Mr. N. C. Crews got up and addressed it on the Rising Son, telling the object of the contest. The editor of the Rising Son was kept busy answering questions concerning the status of the affair. There were gains in all of the names in the contest from 50 to 100 votes. If you will *notice* we will give you name of the first ten ladies in the married or single list in their respective order, above the list, showing where the voting began before going to the hall: MESDAMES. Married ladies: Minnie James, first. Frankie Glens, second. Philldella Mitchell, third. Mary Rucker Green, fourth. Josephine Finney, fifth. John Lange, sixth. W. H. Hubbell, seventh. Hattie Adams, eighth. F. J. Weaver, ninth. Luella Reeves, tenth. MISSES, Bessie Patterson, first. Alberta Wells, second. Edmonia Hubbel, third. Ethelyne Wilson, fourth. Emma Collins, fifth. Maud Olden, sixth. Corrienne Bettis, seventh. Cordalia Seymour, eighth. Ida Foster, ninth. Ella Jacques, tenth. THE NEGRO PATRONS OF THE PARISIAN CLOAK COMPANY We were glad to note last Thursday the great number of Negroes who were at the Parisian Cloak Company buying something. There were about 25 or 30 at one time. They all received a square deal and good treat- ment. Mr. Harsfield, the president, sees to it that every one of them can get an equal chance for their money. What more can you ask. The Parisian Cloak Co. has become a regular advertiser of the Rising Son. Let more Negroes each day be in full atten- dance at this very satisfactory store. TWO UNFURNISHED ROOMS, WITH GAS, BATH AND HEAT. CALL 628 TRACY. BELL PHONE 3427 Y MAIN. KANSAS CITY, KAN., NOTES. Miss Inez Link of Topeka was the guest of Miss Mabel Madison for three days. Slick List: Mr. Vohles, Mrs. Elia Robinson, Mrs. Roach and Ensley. Miss Effie Gant and Mrs. Pauline Freeman are able to be up and about. Sewing circle of First Baptist church will meet at the residence of Mrs. G. W. Burdette, 722 Everett. Mrs. Ida Moseley left for St. Paul Minn. Mrs. Fannie Anderson is the guest of Miss Eula Brown at Waverly, Mo. rs. Katie inor of 312 Nebraska avenue, and Mrs. Marrietta Dixon have been quite ill at their homes. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Sims served a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at their home, 1023 New Jersey avenue. Those present: Rev. Bowen and family, Lawyer Henderson and wife, Mr. Squire Lee and wife and Mrs. Stella Broad. Miss Florence Smith is now Mrs. Florence Montague. Married Nov. 29. There was a surprise party given in honor of Miss Inez Link of Topeka, Kan., at residence of Mrs. Fannie Teavault. Thirty-six were present. There will be a rally at the Metropolitan Baptist church Sunday, December 8. E. C. GANT. THE SILVER LEAF CLUB An Organization of High School Girls and Boys, Which Should Be Broken Up. On Thursday night, Dec. 5, a reporter visited a ball at Arlington hall, 18th and Harrison streets, given by members of the High school called the Silver Leaf club. People coming were supposed to be admitted by invitation, but this was not so, for any one having 25 cents could come, as was seen by the reporter. We do not hold the teachers of the High school responsible for such dances. They danced until about 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. Oh, such hours for boys and girls attending school who have their lessons to get. The parents of the children should take note of such affairs and put a check on them. Especially on our young girls. To think of school children having public balls and allowing questionable characters to attend! Such contact for our girls! We speak not for the majority, for they consisted of the club itself. The parents should be more stringent with their girls. Upon them we had any generations to build strong men and women by allowing the younger people to run loose! Just to think of girls, possibly coming in about 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning, saying she had stayed all night at Miss C. B.'s and any other girl's house. How can you prove she stayed there unless by street inquiry, or just to take her word. These things are sadly deplored. Will we get any relief from such. Look at the manish young boys. What is to be done? Parents, be careful what you allow your daughter to attend. Such clubs must be broken up. They must be opposed. Where are your wives coming from if you allow your girls to become grown before they are and spoiled at an unseasoned age? True there were two or three elderly ladies at the dance, but they could not control 80, 90 or 100 girls and boys. No use locking the door after the horse has been stolen. No use tightening up on your girl after she has been ruined or misled. These things must be looked after, and it should begin now!! MOST OF THE NEGROES HAVE SAVINGS AT THE UNION NATIONAL Many Negroes have their bank accounts at the Union National Bank. This bank has increased its deposits. Those having money there need have no fear. The bank is on a solid foundation and Mr. W. H. Seeger, one of the directors, is an able financier. During the entire financial stringency he, with the rest of his colleagues, is carrying on through the trouble. FOR CORRECT AND EFFECTIVE DRESSMAKING CALL ON MRS. HUFF, 2303 HIGHLAND. SATISFaction GUARANTEED. ENTERTAINED. Mr. and Mrs. William Payne - 2315 Woodland avenue, entertained a few of their friends Thanksgiving day. The house was nicely decorated for the occasion in Oriental trimmings. The table was decorated and set in ancient style. The guests of honor were Colonel Winfrey of Chillicothe, a well known orator and civil service gentleman; Edward Jones of Chillicothe, a well known business man, and a few of Kansas City's best colored gentlemen and ladies. After dinner the party was entertained by music and games. --- On December 1 the members of the Clinicle Circle gave an informal reception at the residence of Miss Myrtle Lewis, 1826 Highland avenue, in honor of Miss Hazel Washington of Topeka, Kan., and Miss Irene Beard of Omaha, Neb. The circle colors, red and white, with ferns and palms, were the decorations. Those present were: Miss irene Beard, of Omaha; Miss Bessie Patterson, Miss Pearl Chouteau, Miss Lottie Whittington, Miss Capitola Wilson, Miss Myrtle Lewis, Miss Hortense Flood, Miss Edith Overs, Miss Zola Pigeon, Miss Ethel Gatewood, Miss Warneda Abernathy, Miss Willetta Mathena, Miss Mavzel Williams, Kansas City, Kan.; Miss Edith Million, Denver, Col.; Messrs. C. Savage, W. Jacobs, Lawrence, Kan: Ray Reed, H. Johnson, J. Crawford, W. Dawson, E. Green, Charles Hubbard, E. Steele, D. Emery, R. Wortham, E. White A. Patterson, Roy Dorsey, F. Stewart, C. Davis and H. Collins, By special request Miss Overs and Messrs. Hubbard and E White rendered solos. "Hypocrite" Defined. Mr. Reid, the leader of the commonwealth Free Trade party of Australia, objects to being called in parliament by his first name. At a recent meeting there was a persistent Protectionist interjector, who at last called out: "Good old George!" Mr. Reid then focussed him with his monocle, and icily observed. "I have not the slightest objection to my friends calling me George, but when a man calls me George who would be glad to see me under a steam roller I call that man a hypocrite." What Father Does. Mothers may talk, work, struggle to make their sons models by which to shape a new heaven and a new earth. But the boy's world is in the man who is his father and the boy believes that, whatever may be right on Sundays or at prayer time, the things that are really good, that, really count in life are what father does. Moreover, it is what father does which defines the means with which the boy shall work, the sphere wherein his efforts shall be shaped. In a word, what father does is the beginning as it is the end of the boy's achievements—Harper's Bazar. Force of a Cyclone. Careful estimate of force of a cyclone and the energy required to keep a hurricane in active operation, reveals the presence of a power that makes the mightiest efforts of a man appear as nothing in comparison. A force equal to more than 400,000 horsepower was estimated as developed in a West Indian cyclone. This greatly exceeds the power that could be developed by all the means within the range of man's capabilities. Were steam, water, windmills and the strength of all men and animals combined they could not even approach the tremendous force of this mighty power. Reviving an Ancient Game. One of the recent revivals is the ancient game of bowls, which now bids fair to take once again a leading place among the sports of Merrie England. As a matter of fact, it is just as good a game to-day as it was in the time of Raleigh or in the remote Anglo-Saxon times. From a medical point of view we have nothing but praise for this most excellent of recreations. It provides open air exercise and amusement for old and young, it is admirably fitted for many invalids, and above all it is one of the best of what may be called natural opiates.—Medical Press. SPECIAL. Hatlesburg, Miss., Dec. 7.—The Thirty-second annual communication of the Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Mississippi, was held here during the past week and was attended by over 1,000 from all parts of the state, and many distinguished and prominent visitors were present. The delegation was composed of doctors, lawyers, bankers, merchants, preachers farmers, planters, business men, and working men—all united to better the condition of the race. Rev. E. W. Lampton, D. D., of Greenville, Miss., is the Grand Master. He is one of the most noted men of the race in the United States. In addition to being at the head of the grand which has a membership of 11,000 in Mississippi, he is also financial secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal church, handling over a hundred thousand dollars every year for the church. The Stringer Grand Lodge is noted for its financial standing. It owns 1,000 acres of land in the Delta valued at $40,000, and has a large bank account to its credit. The membership and finance have greatly increased under Dr. Lampton. In token of appreciation for his faithful service, Dr. Lampton was presented with a handsome gold watch, from London, England, which cost $1,000. It is unique, and especially adapted to a Mason, because one can tell the time in the dark as well as in the light. It strikes the hour, then the minutes past the hour by touching a spring. John W. Strauther, of Greenville was chairman of the committee that made the selection. The presentation was made by L. J. Winston, of Greenville. It was decided to raise the endowment to $700. The report of Hon. E. E. Perkins, Secretary and Treasurer of the Masonic Benefit Association, showed the receipts of the department for the past 12 months to be $166,380.10, paid to widows and orphans, $117,468.27, and a cash balance on hand of $18,919.93. This did not include the grand lodge funds collected during the year which amounted to $5,000, and the Grand Master paid over to the Grand Lodge $1,148, the amount collected for charters and dispensations. The following officers were elected: Rev. E. W. Lampton, of Greenville Grand Master, W. A. J. Morgan, of Shebly, Deputy Grand Master, B. J. Lacey, of Shiloh, Grand Senior Warden, G. S. Goodman, of Holly Springs Grand Secretary, T. J. Wilson, of Meriden, Grand Treasurer; E. E. Perkins, of Edwards, Secretary and Treasurer of the Masonic Benefit Association. KANSAS CITY KAN. NEWS. Resolutions of Sewing Circle of First Baptist church in honor of deceased member, Mother Louise Downs, 74 years old, died of paralysis at the home of her son, Mr. James Downs, 422 Haskell, Dec. 3, 1907. Our friends we meet here this afternoon to pay our last tribute of respect to all that is mortal of Mother Down. The silver chord has been loosened, and the golden bough has been broken, the spirit of our Mother has gone to its long home. So today whilst we meet here in deep sorrow yet we are sure that we are ready to say: God's will be done. She lived a consistent Christian and was always ready to do whatever was assigned to her hands. The afternoon of Thanksgiving day Mother Downs was in our midst greeting us with smiles. To the sorrowing grief stricken loved ones our heart goes out in the deepest sympathy. We commend them to the God of all grace and comfort and pray that they one and all might meet here at last in that fair land where no tears are ever found, no heart is ever broken, and that our loss is heaven's gain. E. B. HILTON, Committee. Mr. Henry Sims is seriously ill at his home, 1023 New Jersey. "They say the marriage will be soon." Mrs. Carrie Thompson, of Denver, Colo., is the guest of Mrs. Chas. Ash. Mrs. Fannie Anderson reports a NUMBER 18 pleasant time to Waverly, Mo. Mrs. Ella Robinson is up and about again. Mr. and Mrs. H. Knok, of Muskogee, I. T., have permanently located in this city Correspondent—E. C. G. The members of the Old Folks' and Orphans' Home Association desire to thank most heartily the kind friends who so generously responded to their Thanksgiving appeal. Especially are they indebted to the public schools and churches. The following is a list of donations: Manual Training High School. $13.25 Lincoln High School. 17.20 Lincoln School. 8.25 Douglas School. 12.17 Attucks School. 12.00 Attucks School, Rosedale. 2.23 Garrison School. 8.03 Bruce Sscol. 4.25 Allen Chapel. 6.75 St. Augustina Mission. 3.20 Central Christian Church. 1.00 Vine St. Baptist Church. 3.01 Centennial Church. 1.40 Provisions were sent by Manual Training High, Lincoln High, Attucks, Attucks, Rosedale, Bruce, Penn and Thatcher Schools. St. Augustina Mission and Second Baptist Church, Messrs Robert Schells, and Rosa blooml; Mesdames Betty Scott, A. Jones and Callie Edwards each has donated a ton of coal this autumn. The Association also desires to thank the public for the splendid patronage given to the Bazaar recently held at the Vine St. Auditorium. A full report of the affair will be given at an early date. Encouraged by the universal liberality of the community, it is the intention of the Association to erect in the spring a new Home which will be a credit to the Negro population of Kansas City. As the Benefit bequest which has been reserved for that purpose is wholly inadequate for the erection of such a building, it is hoped that the public will continue to contribute to the Home that the bequest may be kept intact and also largely augmented by generous subscriptions. MRS. C. E. CUMMINGS, Pros. VICTORIA E. OVERALL, Sec'y. A STATEMENT FROM W. DAWSON IN FAVOR OF W. T. WASHINGTON FOR CLERK IN ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT I hereby announce to all my friends who supported me for the position in the Engineer's Department that I am now out of the race and turn my support to Wm. T. Washington, whom I believe is the strongest Negro for the position. Thanking my friends for their support of me, I am. Yours truly. WILSON DAWSON. H. SANCHES MARTINEZ. THE MEXICAN PHOTOGRAPHER RECEIVES ANY KIND OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ENLARGING PICTURES AT HIS RESIDENCE, 628 TRACY AVE. BELL PHONE M-3427. MR. SANCHES MADE THE PICTURES FOR THE TWO LADIES, MRS. GIVENS AND MISS WELLS IN THE BEAUTY CONTEST. HE DOES GOOD WORK AND SHOULD BE PATRONIZED. R. C. Martin, who died last Sunday morning, has left a gap in our midst. His was a life calm serenity, and yet those who knew know him to be a man of distant habits, yet on meeting him he always had a smile for his friends. This paper is growing into a broad and progressive Journal for the benefit of all the Negro people. We fight for right with all our might. FOR SALE—Two rooming houses, one seven room furnished, another ten room newly furnished. Gas and water in both houses. Sell or rent 780 Main and Grand. Washington Gossip Interesting Bits of News Picked Up Here and There at the National Capital SENATORS TOSS COIN TO DECIDE STATE PATRONAGE WASHINGTON.—The newest and most unique method of dispensing federal patronage was exemplified by President Roosevelt in the White House the other day. It marks a departure in the usual procedure governing the selection of presidential appointees. There is nothing complex or intricate in the process. It is merely a case of "Heads I win, tails you lose." There were a large number of vacant offices in South Dakota due to the fact that the two senators, Kittredge and Gamble, have been unable to agree upon applicants, thus permitting the old office holders to refrain their positions long beyond the time to which they were appointed. Senators Kittredge and Gamble scarcely have spoken to each other since the former started in to defeat the latter for reelection two years ago. The senators met in the president's MAD P.O. DEPT. OUT of the mist of bank failures, fronzied finance, horse shows and the like, Douglas county rises to subtime heights of esthetic devotion, reviving the Bull Run controversy and changes the name of the classic town of Starvout to the more tragic name of Booth. Time was perhaps when Starvout was a euphonious and appropriate cognomen for the little cluster of saloons and other more or less ornamental and necessary structures which kept back the sage-brush from the bosom of Douglas county, but that day has passed, and now it is Booth on the records of the post office department. But Douglas county does not seem to be the only one, nor does the great and important question of whether the name Bull Run contaminates the water Portland drinks seem to affect all parts of the country alike. The post office records show that many different municipal christenings have been celebrated throughout the country in the immediate past. New baby cities have been entered upon the roll and, sad thought, some have had their names changed or lost in the darkness of the records of other years. Alabama has started things going in good shape by creating a town bearing the energetic name of "Getun." GOVERNMENT COIN MAKERS ARE WORKING OVERTIME THIS is the busy season in the United States mint at Philadelphia. All the country is calling for money! Every bit of coin making machinery in the big institution is working overtime. Streams of bright new coin, silver and golden, trickle from the big money-stamping presses. Millions of dollars' worth of bullion is coming to the mint from all directions for coinage. Secretary Cortelyou has ordered the coinage of $60,000,000 in $20 gold pieces within the next three months. The mint machinery has a capacity of 4,000 of these coins an hour. Meantime there is an insistent demand from all over the country for silver coin of the smaller denominations. The mint officials have been wholly unable to supply these calls. Day and night cochers, assayers, weighers and the countless other sme THE PRESIDENT CAN'T SEE YOU TODAY WHY CORNISH IT I VOTED PER HIM! SCORES of Washington sightseers go to the executive offices every day under the belief that all they have to do is to ask to see the president and the thing is done. They are a sorely disappointed lot when they find that they can't get in. They go away murmuring at times, and occasionally saying things above a murmur about aristocratic government and head-in-the-air presidents. If Mr. Roosavelt saw every person who wanted to see him there wouldn't be any messages written and there wouldn't be any policies outlined for the progress of the greatest democracy on earth. When a stranger comes to Washington bent on seeing the president he or she should call on the representative in congress from the home dis- office by appointment to agree, if possible, upon a distribution, but when they confronted the president they found themselves just as far apart as they have been in his absence. The president saw the difficulty, and proposed that they draw lots. The senators agreed, and the position of national bank examiner being the place for immediate dispute, the president tossed up a coin, saying that heads meant Kittredge should win and tails Senator Gamble should name the man. The piece of money fell heads up, and the nomination was then awarded to Mr. Kittredge. The twirling of the coin by the president also determined the appointment of land agents, Indian agents, a United States district attorney, a collector of internal revenue, an assayer of the mint and an auditor of the treasury department. ODD POSTOFFICE NAMES ON DEPARTMENT RECORDS Some poetic fancy not long ago substituted the harmonious name of Bellview for the old-fashioned and pioneer name of Salille. California comes bravely to the rescue of modern language by the establishment of the post offices of Crackerjack and Skidoo. It also shows its aversion to unpleasant refreshments by abolishing the office of Bitterwater. Florida has caught the habit and has cut Cat Creek off her visiting list while Idaho has disguised her desire, spelling her new town according to the phonetic system, Buhl. Indiana has cut out Gent and Wishtown. Louisiana, preparing for the future, has established the town of Brimstone, while Maine, suddenly unfriendly, has throttled Dutch Neck. Mississippi, in remembrance of certain well-known insects, perhaps, has christened a new town Crawley, but has relegated to the past the burgs of Dido, Mike and Shute. Missouri, utilitarian in her endeavors, has created the village of Useful, but now that the war is at last a thing of history has abolished Arnica. Montana, not yet weaned from her other days, has dubbed a new place Hellgate, while just to the opposite North Carolina has put Outlaws Bridge in the catalogue of the past. cialized workers have been working overtime, some of them 14 and 16 hours a day. They have succeeded only in giving each city less than half what was requested. Peremptory demands have been made for an unlimited amount of dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars Within the last two weeks $2,000,00. in gold has been coined. Every department has been ordered to get busy. About $40,000,000 in bullion is already within the vaults. More is coming. It is all to be coined without delay. Massive new machinery has been added lately and is now being tried for the first time, very satisfactorily. The mint officials are confident they can complete the task on time. The new issue of gold eagles will have 46 stars around the edge instead of 45, as heretofore, Oklahoma having become a state. PRESIDENT A BUSY MAN; CANNOT SEE ALL CALLERS twit. The representative, 99 times in 100, won't be a bit pleased at being called on, but he will take good care not to let his constituents know it. If he can't find an excuse that is ample and that won't give offense, he will take his callers to the executive mansion, where they will have a chance to shake the presidential hand. Mr. Roosevelt will say that he is very glad to see each one of them, and he will tell the callers something about their home town which they knew before, but which they will be very much surprised to know that the president knows. Mr. Roosevelt apparently knows something about every city, town and hamlet in the United States from which there is any possibility that a journeyer to Washington may come. WITH THE FUNNY FELLOWS AT THE ECONOMICAL HOUSE. "We have to be awful economical down at our house," said the boy, "there's such a big family." "Yes? inquiringly. "That's so, for fair! My biggest brother is a bartender, and of course has to wear a white coat; so ma buys a whole suit for him, says wearing the overalls saves his pants. When they've been washed a few times, of course they don't look nice enough for a bartender, so ma gets him new ones and hands over the others to Bill. Bill works in a meat market." "Gets two wears out of them that way eh?" "Then dad's a painter; when the white suit gets too dirty for Bill, dad wears it as long as he can to paint it. Course, in time they get pretty well caked up with paint; then ma uses 'em for kindling the fire, and being soaked with paint they burn fine." "So that's the end of them? Well, you certainly do—" "No! Ma uses them again along with the wood ashes to make soft soap of!" "You don't say!" "Yep! After that she pours the soap suds on the back garden. Best thing in the world, she says, to make things grow."—Puck. WHO, INDEED? Whipper—Why, my dear fellow, it's as plain as day. Anybody of common sense can see through it, don't you know. Snapper—indeed! Who explained it to you? Shivery. Off with the old, On with the new, It's much too cold, For the peek-a-boo. Detroit Free Press. Undaunted. "And now, sir," the fierce-looking pirates blithely informed him, "we are going to maroon you on a desert island in mid-ocean. We calculate that you will starve to death in just about five days, or a week at the outside." But so far from being daunted by their savage words, their prisoner only smiled scornfully. He had in his inside pocket a complete Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus! ALL HE COULD SEE. C. W. WILLIAMS Mrs. Benham—How does my new hat look? Mrs. Benham—How does my new hat look? Benham—It looks the price to me. —Chicago News. Just as Good. Yes, she had to sell her auto- Expenses she must curb; Yet when she walks upon the street Her carriage is superb. -Chicago News. SUFFERED. Mr. Jabber—I have had such a cold that I couldn't speak for four days. Miss Knock—My! How you must have suffered! Another Disaster. "You look worried. What's the matter?" "Oh, we're all upset at our house. There's been another drop in copper." "But I thought you never speculated." "I don't. Our cook let the coffee pot roll on her foot, and she has had to go to the hospital."—Chicago Records Herald. A Failure. "Have all of your investments been successful?" "Not all. It cost me $300 last summer to send my daughter away, and it's nearly two months now since we've heard a word from the man she became engaged to. I guess that one was a failure, all right."—Detroit Free Press. Doing Fairly Well. "How are you getting along with your new cook, old man?" "As well as can be expected. She doesn't like our automobile very well and is inclined to kick because the bath tub in her room isn't onyx, but outside of that she's all right."—Milwaukee Sentinel. A Typist—Because my typewriter hasn't a cold in the head. Proved Both Ways. "Did you see where the pure food government experts are going to take meat kept in storage nine years and try it on a dog?" "That's a good idea, as whether it kills the dog or not, in either case it is bound to be a howling success."—Baltimore American. New Answers to Old Questions. Applicant—Is this a comfortable flat? Caretaker—Hardly. The rooms will look even smaller when the furniture gets in, the neighborhood is noisy, it is a long walk to the Tube, and the flat is always very hot in summer and chilly in winter. His Sign of Sanity. She—They say of persons stricken with insanity about one-third recover. He—Well, I guess that's right. / don't seem to care for that Huggins girl I was engaged to any more!—Yonkers Statesman. A CHRISTMAS LESSON Sunday School Lesson for Dec.22, 1907 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT—Matthew 2:1-12. Mem- ory. Verse. 10:12. GOLDEN TEXT.—"For unto you is born this day in the city of David & Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."—Luke 1:11. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The Effect of the First Christmas Day Upon the World. What This Power Has Accomplished.—The Test of Power. How do we know what person or thing can do? By what he oh it has done. I look out of my study window and see a number of black wires strung along the street. They look as "dead as a door nail." But every day I hear messages coming over them from near and from far over the telephone. Every night I see blazing lights from the current passing through them. Not long ago a man just over the way touched one of those wires, blown down in a gale, and he was struck dead. I know what those wires can do by what they have done. Therefore, I let them alone in the street, and I turn the switch with perfect confidence when I want a light. Last summer at Niagara I descended 100 feet underground in the city power house, and in a small brick compartment, only a few feet square, saw more black objects like great rolls of iron wire. They seemed as lifeless and innocent as coils of wire in a store. I was told that the power of 70,000 to 100,000 horses resided in those black, dull objects. How could I know? I knew by what they did. I saw the cars moving all over the city, and the streets and houses lighted at night. And all the power and all the light came from those black dynamos. We see that with Christ came a new era of the kingdom of heaven, with new powers for the changing of this world from the darkness of sin into the righteousness, love, peace, prosperity, and all that makes perfect people in a perfect world. The progress has been slow, but becomes more and more rapid each century. The world as it is to-day tells us what Christ has done for the world. The more Christianity, the more happiness; the more of all that makes the kingdom of heaven. The blessings lessen and sorrows multiply in proportion as there is less of the Christian religion. "The new age stands as yet half-built against the sky," but it is Christ that has built the new age thus far, and that building is rising faster and faster each year. There is a great deal of evil in the world yet, in the best of countries, in the best of people. But it is evil fought against. It is good gaining the victory slowly but surely. The very revelations of evil, the controversies and conflicts, are signs that the power of Christ is working upon the evil, a never-ending conflict till the good has triumphed. The Sun Conquering Winter.—Astronomers are thinking that the planet Mars is inhabited. Suppose that this winter a gentleman from Mars should come and make you a visit, being an utter stranger to the ways of this world. You would show him the clean, white, snow-covered ground, the trees beautiful in their branching twigs, "the fringes of the hills," calm, cold sunshine, no mud, no floods, but all peaceful as death. But you tell him that all this is nothing to what is coming next spring—the snow melted away, the fields covered with green, the trees bursting into leaf and flower, the gardens radiant with color, the air soft, with fragrance. A wonderful transformation. "When does spring begin?" he asks "About the 21st of March," you reply. But when the 21st of March comes, he finds snow and slush and mud and fogs and east winds and bare trees, and he exclaims, as Pliable did to Christian when in the Slough of Despond, "Is this the blessedness you were describing, the beautiful spring you pictured to me with such enthusiasm? Is this what your mighty sun is doing?" You reply, "These very things you complain of are a proof of the power of the sun, and of the coming of the spring I described. By these things we know that spring is coming. They are a thousand times more hopeful than the silent whiteness of winter." We may personally feel this power of the coming of Christ. He came to save and change each one of us. He calls us to accept of him as our king, our leader, and our Saviour. When we give ourselves to Christ we do not always, though sometimes we do, realize the greatness of the change. When of two boys one makes his choice to become an educated man and the other to live a low and selfish and sensual life, we do not always see a great change or difference immediately in the boys; but as the years go by the difference grows greater and greater. Of all things discovered in the world's history—mines, treasures, new worlds—none compare with the discovery, each in his own experience, of Jesus Christ. Of all memorial days, the celebration of Christmas by the giving of gifts is the most appropriate, for it celebrates God's greatest gift to each of us and to the world. Sometimes the custom of giving is misused, but it is folly "to burn up the barn to get rid of the rats." Our best gift to God, really our only gift, is the gift of our hearts, our love, our service, our devotion. I CHOUS I FROM RELIGIOUS FIELDS Success Which Has Followed the Adoption of Scholarship Plan. The writer has spent some 27 years on the mission field, and has either tried or seen tried many of the usual schemes for securing the attention of native African children and winning them into the Christian life. Moral suasion is good, just as far as it will go. Industrial missions are excellent just African Mission Chapel African Mission Chapel are excellent, just so far as the mission has the cash to the bills. The best method, open to every mission, is to take the child out of the heathen home and plant it in a Christian home, where it soon learns to believe in the Gospel. Believing this, the child is seldom at rest till the other members of the family are also in possession of this great happiness. For 15 years we tried the usual methods, and met with indifferent success. For the last ten years we have followed the scholarship plan, and have doubled our output of profitable fruit-age every year during that entire period. Churches in the homeland that have accomplished so much are rare indeed. We had nine members some nine years ago and we have over 1,200 now, while there is an average of more than 50,000 outside people reached per month. How is this all accomplished? The children do pretty much the whole of it. It is most interesting to found a station and watch results, which almost immediately appear. A teacher is found—not a learned man at all; but he is good as far as the beginning of addition, and he can read hesitatingly in the Testament only; but he can preach like Niagara! Lots of noise, much volume, and here and there a good bit of truth. He is married. He is given money to sustain 15 little mission children as soon as he can secure them. In six months he has them. They are allowed all the little visits home they choose to make; and every time they go, they preach by their clothing, their quiet manners and their avoiding the purely heathen, all of which, though they speak not a word of their religion, teaches most powerfully. If they talk of their faith, as most do, they will the sooner bring brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and the whole connection to the mission station. This inevitably follows in the regular course of events—E. H. Rich ards, in Christian Herald. NEW FIELD OF WORK. Evangelists Being Sent to Great Prairie Land of Western Canada. A recent enterprise for giving evangelists to the Great Prairie Land in Western Canada, is that of Archdeacon George Lloyd, who first entered the Saskatchewan country in 1903, at the time when emigration there from Canada began. Since that time a railway has helped to open the country, and more than thirty missions have been established. About a year ago Archdeacon Lloyd returned to England to secure a band of Prairie evangelists, and has now returned to his field with a numerous band of men to serve as catechists, each in charge of from one to two hundred square miles of territory, where they are to open centers of worship. Five ladies have also volunteered as dea conesses for work with women and children. A Blessed Work. About 18 months ago the missionaries of the London Missionary society commenced work among the "Kuravers," a wild people in South India, and 61 one of them have recently been baptized. Rev. William Robinson writes: "So far as I know, these Kuravers are the first of their tribe to be baptized in any mission. They have such tenacity of will that they are not at all likely to revert, what ever may happen. I have to-day seen another company of Kuravers. They ask for a teacher and a school, and their headman says they are deter mined to worship the God whom we present to them." Church for Chinatown. The corner-stone of the new Presbyterian Chinese mission in the very heart of old Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal. has very recently been laid with simple and yet impressive ceremonies. It stands on the site of the old Presbyterian church. The corner-stone was laid by Fong Doon, the oldest living convert to Christianity in the United States. The services were under the direction of Rev. J. H Laughlin, superintendent of Chinese missions, and pastor of the Mission church, and was attended by many Chinese. Bible Work in India. During the past ten years almost two-thirds of the entire cost of the Bible work in India has been borne by the British and Foreign Bible society. In this time it has issued 5,000,000 copies of the Word of God in India, and a Gospel can now be purchased in each of the great Indian languages for a farthin FASHION'S LATEST FANCIES IN FASHION'S REALM SEASON'S STYLE OF HATS ARE HARD TO COPY. Little Distinctive Touches Give Individuality That the Amateur Is Seldom Able to Duplicate with Effectiveness. The making of a fashionable hat at home by nexexperienced hands is no longer an easy task, according to the Boston Globe. The hats of to-day are an art in themselves, and unless you are a very clever copyist you are foolish to attempt to waste goods. You do not pay so much for the material that is on the hat, but it is the style that makes the cost run up it is that indescribable something that The Square Loops, Velvet Ribbon Effect. counts—the way the bow is tilted, in manner in which the ribbon is twisted, the exact angle of the feathers and such little things that make or mar a fashionable hat. Hats are really huge in size and we see no signs of anything else. I asked a fashionable milliner the other day if he had any small hats. "O, yes," he said, "a few for old ladies and some plain ones for motoring. "That's all. We can't sell them if GOWNS FOR THE GROWING GIRL. Deep Tucks Add Much to Usefulness of the Garment. In making gowns for growing girls it is well to provide for the outgrowing of the garment in advance, without spoiling the effect in the beginning by making them too large and ill-fitting. For instance, the belts of the dresses may be set up on the waistband instead of on the edge. In this way one is enabled to lengthen the waist line by setting the belt down some two inches. It is usually in this particular that the gown is first apt to need lengthening. Deep tucks are much in vogue, and are exceedingly convenient for this purpose. It is quite easy to leave enough space between each of two tucks to enable one to take others on the wrong side under the wider ones. These will not show at all, and can be let out as needed, without any other change in the skirt. The outgrowing of the sleeves may be provided against in a measure by setting the cuffs up, instead of joining at the edge of the sleeves. Also tiny little tucks may be taken at the bend of the elbow at the inside seam. All these little points add to the lifetime of a frock, and mean a great saving to a busy mother. NOVEL USE OF MALINETTE. Pretty Neck Dressings Can Easily Be Made at Home. Since maline has been brought out in a water-proofed quality, styled as malinette, some very beautiful neck dressings have been shown in this diaphanous fabric. The shops are asking goodly prices for these novelties, but the handy women can make the same things at home at a comparatively small part of the price asked for the ready-made articles. A combination of white point d'esprit and white malinette is shown in this neck ruche, trimmed with white satin ribbons. The ruche, which is some three-quarters of a yard in length and about seven inches thick, is made of four very full ruffles of the spotted net, each wider than the other and set on an inch wide band of white satin. The edges of these four ruffles are finished with full pleatings of the malinette, giving a sofe fluffy effect, which is possible with no other material. The malinette being moisture-proof, the dampness in the air only serves to give it more body, so that after all a ruche of it is quite a satisfactory investment. The rounded ends of the ruche are finished with short and long loops of white satin ribbon depending from large rosettes. they are small." However, because large hats are being worn, do not go to extremes and get the largest one you can find. Unless you can have many hats, be moderate in your choice of sizes and colors. Purple, in all its regal splendor, has been overdone in the large cities, and its life will be a short one. It seems the most difficult thing in the world to make a color fashionable and not common. Women jumped at purple, bought it in gowns, hats, stockings, boas and every imaginable garment—so much so that the more exclusive set are avoiding it. This latter class have turned their favor toward peacock blues, soft browns, tea greens, all of which are colors that will stand the test of a second season's wear. All hats must tilt down. Most of the shapes are modified forms of the mushroom, falling rather low in the back and are worn well off the face. No bandeaus are worn in most of the large hats, but if any is used, it must be even all around the crown and not over a half inch in width. This gives just enough place to put your hatplins through; but many of the handsomest hats are made absolutely without bandeau, setting close on the head. Nothing is raised at all. Little mocking birds are among the newest ideas in hat trimming, their appearance being caused by the demand for the peculiar tinge of blue-green which is found on the plumage of this bird. They are not cheap, but are exceedingly smart on a hat that blends those shades. Another new idea is the square bows of velvet ribbon such as are pictured. This effect is made by wiring the ribbon two ways across the ribbon and directly through the middle. It is a very up-to-date trimming and helps to fill in around the crown of the larger shapes. Embroidered bands of hand work are being used around the crowns of velvet hats to give them a bit of life. These hats are to be purchased in shops where Japanese trimmings are carried and sell from $1.75 up. To an otherwise dull hat they give a dash and style that is infinitable. Sometimes a buckle is made of heavy buckram and covered with this gay embroidery instead of running the band around the crown. FOR THE TOILET TABLE. Useful Cushion Designed for Hatpins and Other Articles. When a pincushion is intended for hatpins it should not be of a very light nature, or it may easily overbalance. A useful little pincushion is shown in our sketch that is not likely to overturn. It consists of a small white jar, on the outer side of which a pretty little floral design has been painted. A circular cushion, covered with velvet, is made to exactly fit the in- PIN CARE tetrior, and this is fastened in with glue. To finish off the cushion a ribbon with a bow on either side may be tied round the neck of the jar. The cushion should be filled with emery powder, mixed with bran or sawdust, to keep the points of the pins quite smooth. It should be packed as full as possible to make the cushion both hard and heavy. To Hemstitch on Sewing Machine. Hemstitching, which can hardly be distinguished from the hand work, and which may be done much more speedily, may be done on the sewing machine in this way: First, draw the number of threads desired, in the goods to be hemstitched, then fold the hem over and baste the edge of the hem in the center of the drawn threads. Now loosen the tension on the sewing machine and stitch exactly along the edge of the hem. Pull the bastings out, and taking the goods in one hand and the hem in the other, pull the edge of the hem to the bottom of the drawn threads and your work is finished. Tucks hemstitched in this way make a pretty finish for children's clothes, and they are so much more quickly done than by hand. Black Satin Costume. It may be mentioned that a black liberty satin very much on this order, the bodice being an intermixture of black satin and mousseime, with additions of jet to the passamenterie emplement, had a special elegance of its own, and bore distinct evidence of the extreme modishness this year of handsome black gowns.—Vogu No Need to Suffer Every Day from Backache. Mrs. Joannah Straw, 526 North Broadway, Canton, S. D., says: "For three years I suffered everything with rheumatism in my limbs and a dull, ceaseless aching in my back. I was weak, languid, broken with headaches and dizzy spells, and the kidney secretions were thick with solids. I was really in a three years I suffered everything with rheumatism in my limbs and a dull, ceaseless aching in my back. I was weak, languld, broken with headaches and dizzy spells, and the kidney secretions were thick with solids. I was really in a critical condition when I began with Doan's Kidney Pills, and they certainly did wonders for me. Though I am 81 years old, I am as well as the average woman of 50. I work well, eat well and sleep well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HAD NO DOUBT OF HIS FATE. Mr. Jerome Evidently Was Aware of His Wife's Culinary Ability. Some weeks ago the wife of Judge Blank, of Pacific avenue, lost her cook, and since she had no other resource she rolled up her sleeves and for a week provided such meals as the judge had not enjoyed since those happy days when the Blanks did not keep a cook. The judge's delight was so great that by way of appreciative acknowledgment he presented Mrs. Blank with a beautiful ermine cloak. Quite naturally, the incident was a good deal noised about among the social acquaintances of the Blanks and a spirit of envious emulation was developed in certain quarters. It was in this mood that Mrs. Jerome recited the story to her husband. "What do I get, Jerry?" she asked, "if I will do the cooking for a week?" "Well," said Mr. Jerome, "at the end of a week, my dear, you'll get one of those long crepe vells."—San Francisco Argonaut. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Bilev and the Weather While going to the office of his publishers on a bright morning in September, James Whitcomb Riley met, what seemed to him, an unusually large number of his acquaintances who made the conventional remark about the weather. This unremitting applause pleased and amused him. When greeted at the office with "Nice day, Mr. Riley," he stopped at the door and answered drolly: "Yes-yes—I've heard it very highly spoken of." Daily Thought. A little fun, A little play, A little laughter Day by day, A little school And we'll confess A little bit of waywardness. A little grief A little woe As down the later Years we go. A little love, A little strife, A deal of hope— And this is life. Corpse in No Hurry Respect is due to the man on his last journey to the cemetery, and the New York cabman who was making for the Central station showed the proper feeling in driving for some distance along the procession without trying to cross it. But at last he could contain himself no longer. Turning his horse across the hearse, he said, in a cabman's whisper: "Look 'ere, my fare's in a 'urry, an' yours ain't!" BOTH GAINED Man and Wife Fatten on Grape-Nuts. The notion that meat is necessary for real strength and the foundation of solid flesh is no longer as prevalent as formerly. Excessive meat eaters are usually sluggish a part of the time because they are not able to fully digest their food, and the undigested portion is changed into what is practically a kind of poison that acts upon the blood and nerves, thus getting all through the system. "I was a heavy meat eater," writes an Ills. man, "and up to two years ago, was in very poor health. I suffered with indigestion so that I only weighed 95 pounds. "Then I heard about Grape-Nuts and decided to try it. My wife laughed at me at first but when I gained to 125 pounds and felt so fine, she thought she would eat Grape-Nuts too. "Now she is fat and well and has gained 40 pounds. We never have indigestion any more and seldom feel the desire for meat. A neighbor of ours, 68 years old, was troubled with indigestion for years; was a heavy meat eater, and now since he has been eating Grape-Nuts regularly, he says he is well and never has indigestion. I could name a lot of persons who have really been cured of indigestion by changing from a heavy meat diet to Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville" in pkgs. CONTAGION A QUESTION OF PREVENTION CONTAGION A QUESTION OF PREVENTION Sinks, drains, eating and cooking utensils, sick room linen and clothing frequently carry the dreaded disease-germ unnoticed by the household. Thorough and hygienic cleansing is the best safeguard against infection, and such a safeguard is found in the universal household necessity—Borax. This simple preventive carries in itself, disinfecting qualities which enter the fabric or act upon the article to be cleansed in a hygienic manner, eliminating every unwholesome property, rendering it contagion-proof, while at the same time Borax is of itself as harmless as salt. Unlike most disinfectants which depend upon their strength of odor or harmful to-the-system qualities, to arrest or prevent contagion, Borax is Nature's remedy, being easy to obtain and easy to apply, a simple solution in hot water being all the application necessary and requiring no prescription, it can be obtained from any grocer or druggist in convenient, economical household packages. In addition to its disinfecting qualities, Borax is especially a household necessity, and can be used for softening water, cleansing and whitening clothes, clearing the skin, whitening hands, makes an excellent dandruff remover and can be used on the finest laces or most delicate fabrics without injury, while as an adjunct to the bath it removes all odor of perspiration and leaves the skin soft and velvety. Preacher's Comforting Remarks. At an evening prayer meeting in Maine village the senior deacon, Dominicus Jordan, arose to make appropriate scriptural remarks about the death of the late Miss Simpkins. In conclusion the deacon said: "I respected Miss Simpkins, the members of this church respected Miss Simpkins, the citizens of this town respected Miss Simpkins, but now she's dead gone to the Lord, and the scripture saith, 'The Lord is no respecter of persons.'—Exchange. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the die caused portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure daffiness, and that is by constitutional remedies. The ear contains a mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, heat is released. When the tube is taken out and the tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases have been treated with this condition but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Dearness (caused by cataract) that cannot be freed by Hail's Cataract. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Sold by Druggists, 15c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Truthful Boast. A party of traveling men in a Chicago hotel were one day boasting of the business done by their respective firms, when one of the drummers said: "No house in the country, I am proud to say, has more men and women pushing its line of goods than mine." "What do you sell?" he was asked. "Baby carriages!" shouted the drummer, as he fled from the room.—Success Magazine. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Burglar on to the Job. Burglar (rousing the sleeping head of the family—"Don't move or I'll shoot! What's your money hid?" Head of the Family (struck by a bright thought)—"It's in the pocket of my wife's dress." Burglar—"That's all right. I'll just take the dress. Thanks." Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The Kind You Have Always Bought Fatalities Among Seamen. Deaths from accidents among seamen number 53 per 10,000, five times higher than in "dangerous occupations." Lemon, Chocolate and Custard Pies. It does not require an experienced cook to make good pies from "OUR-PIE." Just the proper proportions of all ingredients are in the package ready for immediate use. All Grocery Pie package. Order a few packages to-day. Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, thou ask yourself, "Why should I tell it?"—Lavater. FITS, St. Vitus Dance and all Nervous Diseases permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for Free $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ld., 831 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. America is the land of the free, where one must pay for everything worth having. DONT SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers, 5c, a package. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.—Marcus Aurelius. ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for the signature of E. W. Wohlkech. Learn the World over to Carve a Cowl in One Day. 25c There are countless roads on all sides to the grave.—Cicero. 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A QUICK, SURE, SAFE AND ALWAYS READY CURE FOR PAIN - PRICE 15c. - IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES MATURE OF PURE TIN - AT ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, OR BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15c. IN POSTAGE STAMPS. A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of the article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve Headache and Sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all Rheumatic, Neuralgic and Couty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household and for children. Once used no family will be without it. Many people say "it is the best of all your preparations." Accept no preparation of vaculing unless the same carries our label as otherwise it is not genuine. Send your address and we will mail our Vacelline Booklet describing our preparations which will interest you. CUT THIS OUT. Fine Recipe for the Quick Cure of Coughs and Colds. Mix half ounce of Concentrated oil of pine with two ounces of glycerine and half a pint of good whisky; shake well each time and use in doses of a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every four hours. This is the formula prescribed by the renowned throat and lung specialist who established the camp for consumptives in the pine woods of Maine and whose remarkable cures attracted widespread attention among the medical fraternity. He declares that it will heal the lungs and cure any cough that is curable and will break up an acute cold in 24 hours. The ingredients can be secured from any prescription drugstreet at a small cost and is easily mixed at home. Be sure not to buy the ordinary bulk oil of pine nor patent medicine imitations, as they will produce nausea. The real "Concentrated" oil of pine is a product of the laboratories of the Globe Pharmaceutical Co., Dayton, Ohio, and is guaranteed under the National Pure Food and Drug act. It comes put up for medicinal use in half-ounce vials enclosed in tin screw top cases which protect it from heat and light. Suspicions. "What does old Symper use a cash register for? He's the only person in his place of business that handles a cent of the money." "I know it, but old Symper won't trust even himself." GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS. Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents. Thy sum of duty let two words contain—Be humble and be just.—Horace. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OUNTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Hobbing, Bind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Insomnia is one of the infant ailments that is contagious. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Pearlia, Ill. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKKAT 375 "Guarantee" W. N. U., Kansas City, No. 50, 1907. READERS of this paper de- signate things advertised in its columns should insist upon having that the do, refusing all sub- stitutes. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and bondage the back. Hair Color. New Fall in Restore Grow Hair to its Youthful Color. Correct hair color. Scalp and dandruff. $ and $ at Glaucoma. Fritz Color Fritz Color Erichartz THE RISING SON WM, T. WASHINGTON, Editor and Owner. Office, 914 E. Twelfth St. Published Every Weete RISING SON PUB. CO. WILSON DAWSON, Business Manager, Hell ‘Phone 780 Grand Home ‘Phone 780 Main SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Your 100 St ittns seen Phe Was . Strletly paid tg ateanee Entered at the Post Uitice at Kanan City. a Second Clase Matter Correspondenta wanted tn every. eity GG tower in thie grates, Write ue AU mews matter intended. for publt than “runsday. of each week, ands muat Bev aigned by the writer nat for pubis Potion but as wuaranter of autharity 1 FRANKLIN CRAIG Society Editor ADVERTISING RATES For one inct so I ach rabseicnt We rt incne | fo be Fir tw : : Fer two inches, twelve aR Oldest Negro Journal in Kansas City TWICE ALL THE REST The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of ail the other Kansas City Colored weekly newspapers, a Fgt gocie. The entered people ways endeavored to be fair with the We wish te explain to the public concerning the articles on the vouny High school boss and girls, In the first place we do not hold the teachers to blame in the least, Their duty stops when they have imparted know! edge to them each day. ‘The moment the children leave the building their parents are responsible for their ae tions, We wish to say in connection with this comment that the High school has a collection of teachers, the best that could be found in-any part of the United States, for the colored people. Prof. G. N. Grisham and his corps of teachers are very: superior in their varior's lines at the sehool, So Jet no one constrie that the: article Was intended as a slam at any of the teachers Where are ve Negro political ora: tors? Come forth We most sincerely thank the par ents for those letters received at our otis A continual streteh of polities to November, 1908 Well, the notitieians are awakening from their slumbers Roosevelt has announced that his third term decision is. final. Let us close up some of these dis: reputable rooming houses An election of sheriff in Jackson county Is only three weeks off. RESOLUTIONS FROM ALLEN Whereas, In view of the loss we have sustained by the decease of our friend amd associate, William Cramp: and of the still heavier loss sustained by these who were nearest and dear est to him: be it Resolved, That it is but-a pust trib: ute to the memory of the departed to say that in regretting his removal from our midst we mourn for ene who was, in every way, worthy of our re: spect and. regard: Resolved, That we sincerely con: dole with the family of the deceased and commend them for consideration to Him who orders all things for the best: Resolved, That in the death of Wm, Crump this choir has lost a member who was ever ready to lend the hand of aid and the voice of sympathy to the needy and distressed; Resolved, That this heartfelt testi. monial of our sympathy and sorrow be forwarded to the family of our de- parted triend J.D. ROBERTS, EMMA ©, COLLINS, DAISY D. FOSTER, Committee. Mr. Kelso is making good as col- lector of Rising Son, because the peo: ple are paying him. The Pitchfork got it in the neck with its own weapon. Sometimes Weapons are too dangerous to wield. TAYLOR STUDIO COUPON. Address 11th and Charlotte. ‘This is good for one photograph for Who has paid one year's subscription, MaRS Gisisss secs ssesccsse asia Mer. Rising Son, ATTENTION! - We always make good clothes at a reasonable price. They retain their shape torever. Get it at HARRY HOFFMAN'S New Location. 210 West 12th BiWard Allen Carter **itatet Author-Poet Your Entertainer. Terms reasonable. _ 1013 1-2 CHARLOTTE ST. | We are very sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Geo, Jones, wife ot the piano and furniture mover, and quite recently proprietor of a grocery store on 1oth and Charlotte, Mrs Jones was known by all wha knew cher as a kind aml sweet disposition Pwoman, Kansas City people will suf ‘fer a great loss in her death. She ‘eaves a family and a host of friends to mourn her loss: We are glut the Negro business Wlaces are doing xo well The Rising Son Co: Would you please send me the Rising Son for one year Send your collector around for the money. Please send me the copy with the article on the young High school boys amd girls, as 1 have heard a great deal of praise concerning the article and E would like to read it. MRS, JESSIE SIMMS. 721 Holmes st. Kansas City, Mo, Dec. %, 1907, Mr Editor: Dear Sir—Enclosed you Will find a dollar for six months’ sub: scription, ‘This is to show my appre: ciation of your paper. 1 heartily ap: preciate the article on the High sehoo! pupils, and more so the girls. 1 have two girls myself, Send my paper to ISH Madison SARAH HARRIS. Mr George KE. Walden and | Mr. Drummond of 1th and Troost, clean: ers and dyers, have undergone a change. ‘They are remodeling their, place and it is strictly first class. Mrs Geo, Wallen is presiding as secretary She is “making good” looking after her husband's business Editor Rising Son: My family con, xratulates you on that very intelligent piece whieh appeared in’ vour paper on the young High sehool girls and boys and the dancing academy Mt was timely and deserves notice GEORGE MeHANEY Independence, Mo. MME. M. L. NELSON RAILEY WILL HAVE A GRAND MUSICAL FOR BENEFIT OF SECOND CHRIS- TIAN CHURCH, DECEMBER 16, 1907. SHE IS A MUSICIAN OF SOME NOTE. YOU SHOULD COME OUT AND HEAR HER. Mr. dR. Gleed of Silao, Guanaja- ato, Mexico, spent Saturday and Sun- day of last week in the city, the nest of Miss €. Cross of 2318 Flora Ave. |The stenographer of Prof. L. 1. Thompson is making good. The Prof. has been doing a great deal of busi- ness in his professional work as a esate Mr. W.H. Seeger, vice president of the Union National Bank, who has been dangerously ill, has been pro: “nounced by his doctor to be out of | danger. Well, the first gun in the sheriff's election has been fired. Did you hear the shot? Did it hit any one? Mr RoI. Middlebrook made a logic al talk at the Republican meeting in behalf of Mr. William J. Campbell All the Negroes who are able to Vote must be able to get out Decent ber as. 1907, NOTICE. THE ELDORIA HOTEL ANDCAFE NEATLY FURNISHED AND UP-TO- DATE. ROOMS FULLY EQUIPPED FOR COLORED PEOPLE. MEALS IF DESIRED AT THE MOST REA. SONABLE RATES. 1720.22.24 EAST 18th ST. ON CAR LINE. CALL AND BE CONVINCED, MRS. S. GRIFFIN, PROP. HOUSTON KELSO'S TAILOR SHOP CLOTHES MADE TO ORDER Clother Cleaned, Dyed and Pressed. Repairing neatly done. All work guaranteed Work called for and delivered Special attention given to ladies’ clothes, Location, 910 E. 12th St, HOUSTON KELSO, Prop. Kansas City, Mo. FOR RENT—1100 Highland, neatly furnished room. Steam heat and bath. E. ED. ERVING. HAVE YOU A LARGE ABDOMEN? If so wear the C. Y. C. corset, which has an apron that reduces and. sup ports the abdomen and gives a beautl- fal form, Made to order at 723 KE. 1th st. Phone 1310 Grand Trees, Possibly by reason of some mystert ous defect in the national character Americans seem to have little apprect ation of the value of trees. The des truction of forests has gone on apace for many years, and even now that the absolute necessity of protecting the re maining tracts 1s generally recognized, it 18 only with great diMcuity that legisiation to this end is secured, Al. though the establishment of Arbor day oe been regarded as an effective means for cultivating the appreciation ‘of trees, there fs still nothing like the sentiment there ought to be against thelr wanton destruction. Just Missed It. An elderly woman who had, during the course of a somewhat eventful life, buried four husbands, encounter. ed at the gates of the cemetery where they reposed an old but timid lover, whom she had not seen for years, She took him inside and showed him—not without @ feeling of pride—the well kept tombstones of her former lords and masters. “Ah, James,” she ro- marked, feelingly, “you might have been lying there today if you had only had @ little more courage." Tender-Mearted. The Bearded Lady (horrified)—En- xaged to the Ossified Man. My dear thild, why In the world did you take such @ step? The Circassian Girl—He said it would break him all up if 1 refused rim and you know I couldn't bear to tee the poor fellow go to pleces! DEDICATE LODGE HALL. Colored Elks Celebrate. puise Gopher Lodge No. 105 Moves Into New Quarters on Third Street. Several hundred) men and women attended the dedication of the new hall of the Improved Order of Elks at 126 Kast Third street last night The rooms are elaborately furnished and include the main meeting hall, a reception parlor, a dining room, kitchen and two ante-rooms. Gopher Lodge 105 Was organized only a year ago and has 250 members and $1,000 in the treasury. ‘The lodge has the next annual convention of the order for St. Paul in 1908, The meeting was presided over by T. H. Lyle, the exalted ruler, Sam D. ‘Thompson, in his address, said that Gopher lodge has made wonder. ful strides ina single year. It has expended $1,200, furnished Its new hall and enrolled many members. He said that the annual convention of the grand lodge will bring thousands to St. Paul next year. Mrs. Laura 1. Hickman extolled the efforts of the men at the head of the new lodge in St. Paul. Mrs. T. H Lyle spoke of John Rrown, President Lincoln, Fred Douglass and Booker Washington that was loudly cheered Fo L. MeGhee, T. H. Lyle, G. W Holbert, RoW. Wilborn, Rev, M. Graves, Joe Gans, the champion pugi list, and others addressed the meet Jing. Vocal and instrumental selec tions were rendered by Mr. and Mrs T. WH. Lyle, Mrs, Addie Crawford Miner and others after a banquet was served. The affair was under the manage ment of T.H. Lyle, Dr, V. D. Turner [Dr HTL. Wiitfams, Dr. W.D. THoom |i. Mirsehfield, Ro M. Johnson, C. C |Hall, Thomas R. Morgan, Rey. W. D Carter, Tt, Brooks, Sam D, ‘Thompson T. H, Williams, A. K, Clark, Richard Parr, J. A. Smith, J. A. Coqnier, J Thomas and G. E. Pickett. PROF. C. E. STARR HAS DECIDED “TOBE WITH US AGAIN. Prof. Starr, an old acquaintance of Kansas City, has decided to locate with us again, You know Starr? Don't you remember when he taught at Quindaro in the manual training department, and since then Mr, Starr has taught his trade in some of the most prominent schools in the coun try. He was at Langston university and summer high school, besides teaching for years at Western uni- versity, Mr. Starr is prepared to serve you now in the plumbing busi ness, Look at his large ad. in the Rising Son, It will explain all. Pat ronize Mr. Starr, as he is promoting Negro industries Nicely furnished rooms for rent lady or gentleman 1225 Vine. MRS. JOHNSON... HAIR’ PO AIR. POMADE “OZONIZED OX MARI RoW”? peaTaronsas ET aera x Sanaa aed cine a Sages oe era a re Senses ieee ennieg Fee cne Bienes pee eee ica trchlcare aah Rie nae Sea soe Reee een cera ite a ek rae oa i avi bad he Ozonized Ox Mar: Ke = ‘without my signature) “ 153 B. KIN: a & , . zens, yasiee orteaw ian rerywhere, OOOO 00000000 O08: Home Phone 5327 Main Bell Phone 392 Main MRS. V. L. NORTH ROOMS WITH HOT AND COLD BATES. LUNCHEONS AT ALL HOURS. ‘ 1017-19 OAK STREET. KANSAS CITY, MO, "WE CARRY A EULL LINE OF Groceries and Fresh Meats Vegetables in Season Orders solicited and delivered, J. LL. MATSON, !8th and Grove BELL PHONE, GRAND 1417K Diamonds, Watches and Fine Jewelry Sold on Weekly and Monthly Installments Eagle Jewelry Co. J. F. ALLISON, Mer. 215 E. 12th Street pon Barca 4a Kansas City, Mo, STATEMENT OF FACTS We Positively Guarantee Our SUITS and CRAVENETTES & 38 gertent Sd’ Kansas City, STYLE, QUALITY, FIT AND FINISH IT'S ALL HERE! Tarde tue aire you bought that $3. HAT for $1.50 Same great values in our Suits. Come and Have a Look = LID 508 E. 12th St. DAVID T. BEALS, President, FERNANDO P. NEAL, Vice President, EDWIN W. ZEA. Cashier. W. H. SEEGER. Second Vice Prosideat Kansas City, Mo. Condensed Statement, as Made to the Comptroller of the Currency, at the Close of Business, December 3, 1907. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and discounts. ........$ 7,710,875.95 | Capital stock. .....ccecc6.2.8 600,000.00 Ve 8. bonds, at Surplus funds... 2000000000020" 600,000.00 DAR wees es $825,000.00 Undivided promts. 6202002012 xa.os748 Munietpal and Unearned interest. 00021.) 118,634.00 other high National bank notes out= class bonds at SUANGINE. «ee eeeeeseeseeses+ 600,000.00 DOr. . vevveeses 617,615,62— 1,242,618.52 | Deposits, . cs... csscsscsseseee 11,186,082.99 Cash and due from banks... 4,209,512.98 Total. . soecsceseeseseesesssB18,162,80645 | Total. .escescesecseeee ese $1162, 804.45 Above Statement is correct. E. W. ZBA, Cashier Directors: C. W. Whitehead, Edward George, I. T. James, C. J, Schmelzer, J, P. Merrill, O. H. Dean, George W. Jones, Lee Clark, George D. Ford, W. D. John: pana Hi TaPores, “David ) Beals, Fernando’ P. Neal, Willinin Ht, Béogar, win W. Zea. BELL PHONE 841 X EAST. AMERICAN BEAUTY ROSE CAFE, MEALS AT ALL HOURS, DAY OR NIGHT. Mrs. M. D. Pogue, Prop. 1510 E. 14th St., Kansas City, Mo. Caterers’ Cafe The_New Idea A strictly up-to-date place to carry your company Prompt aceommodation. First-class service. Open all night. After-Theatre Lunches a spe- cialty. MANAGERS.--Wm. James, Al. Grimes. 1223 Baltimore Ave (324 GRAND AVE. r BIG CLOTHING SALE | Men’s Suits and Overcoats | Drummers’ Samples — :_ ALI. UNION MADE | These goods represent one of the best makers of high grade Clothing in the country, and are all of this season’s make. Were achiaky made to sell for —~ : | $18, $22, $25 and $28 | SALE PRICES: $6.75, $8.90, $9.25, $11.25 Come early and get one of the biggest bargains ever offered in ' Kansas City. SSE Open Every Evening Ss 1324 GRAND AVENUE NEWS & GSSIP It's the little bits we collect here and there that enables us to run from year to year." All announcements and notices are ten cents per line. LOCALS. Prof. W. W. Fisher, fiscal agent of Western University, has been on the sick list for a few days. He is now able to be up and around. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Musicians' Club at 14th and Grand ave, gave a grand smoker. It was a decided success. The program consisted of vaudeville features. The Grand Mogul Octette of the Willis Wood started the ball a-rolling. Next followed Don Turley, who mistified them with magic, but the biggest hit of the evening was when they called for Edward Allen Carter, Kansas City's Negro poet and author and humorist. He furnished three numbers which were well received. Mr. Carter has a great future before him and deserves much credit. W. M. Rose, Grand. Committee: F. Watson, Majestic. C. Stickney, Schubert. Prof. Wm. H. Crawford, the great Shakespearian, will recite Hamlet next Wednesday night at the St Stephens Baptist church, Independence and Charlotte streets. Also on next Thursday night at Asbury Chapel at 19th and Woodland ave. EXTRACT, KANSAS CITY TIMES NEGROES ORGANIZED The colored Rank and File Republican Club of the Eighth Ward held a meeting upstairs at 908 E. 12th street last night. Resolutions were introduced indorsing the candidacy of Wm. J. Campbell for Sheriff and Wm. T. Washington for clerk in the engineer's office to succeed the late R. C. Martin. The meeting was addressed by Dr. L. L. Holly, Jno. E. Allen, Wm. T. Washington and A. J. Kelso. Jno. E. Allen presided. The election of officers followed: Jno. E. Allen, president; Dr. L. J. Holly, vice president; Wilson Dawson, secretary; A. J. Kelso, assistant secretary; Dr Theo. Smith, treasurer; Charles La Count, sargeant-at-arms, and Wm. T. Washington, chairman of executive committee. The mayor made a great hit in Washington by his enthusiastic speech. Did you read it. Kansas City gets almost anything it asks for. Are you not glad you live in Kansas City? Mrs. W. H. Hubbel is doing a good business at Twenty-third and Vine. She has the only Negro dry goods store in town. Give her a call. Mrs. Starr, who is secretary at Smith's drug store on 18th and Tracy, is a very brilliant young lady, besides helping her husband's business very much, she is very amiable to all the people who come around. Go out and pay her a visit and become acquainted. When Mr. William Hendricks made his usual call on Miss Magnolia Lewis last Monday evening that young lady reminded him of his 29th birthday by surprising him with the presence of a few friends engaged at whist. Miss Lewis's little parlor was very prettily decorated and in one corner stood a small table bearing a huge cake, ornamented with 29 burning candles. Those invited were: Misses Estelle Graham, Hattie Brown, Pearl Bonham, Xenia Lindsey, Hugie Lewis and the Misses Williams; Mesdames Lahm Smith, Marie Cathey and Christina Fennel; Messrs, Edward Tult, Mose Daniels, E. Cosby, Emmet Barnhill, Edward Pleasant, Phillips Sheerrell, Joseph Cathey and William Fennell. We want it understood that the Son is at peace with everybody and everything. And any articles or extracts appearing in this paper or news matters come under the form of announcements and notices. See comment on announcements. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT STEAM HEATED. 1108 HIGHLAND, 3rd FLOOR. Mr. A. J. Kelso, a student of Lincoln High school, and a very bright and industrious young man, is now with the Rising Son as collector. Please pay him your bills and encourage the young man, and help us also to build up a great, broad and expanding Negro journal. Pay Mr. Kelso your subscriptions to the Rising Son. FOR NEAT FURNISHED ROOMS CALL AT 1910 GROVE ST., MRS. JOHNSON, FOR YOUNG MEN ONLY. WOULD BE NO DISTURBANCE. Woman Merely Had Little Account to Settle with Husband. She was a middle aged colored woman of muscular build, and as she stopped at one of the gates in the Union depot the other morning the official took notice that she was greatly perturbed and breathing hard. "Madam, you seem to be excited," he said, as she choked and gurgled and coughed. "Yes, sah, I does. I dun run most all de way from de house, and I fell down fo' times on de way. If I gits sight of dat pusson he will also be afflicted wid overexcitement—heaps of it." "You have something under your shaw," he said, as his eyes detected a bulge to the garment. "Yes, gah," she replied, as she removed and held up to view an old axe handle. "Dis am what will bring on dat overexcitement in case dat pusson shows up yere." "But I can't permit any violence or disturbance, madam." "Oh, dhe won't be no fussin' aroun' De pusson I done spoke of am my husband. He's done made up his mind to leave me fur another woman, and I 'spects 'cm yere to take de train." "And you won't disturb the peace!" "Not at all, sah—no, sah. Dar won't be no disturbance. When I git eyes on him I shall spit on my hands, grit dis yere handle and jump for him, and befo' he comes to I'll have him home and all tucked in bed. No. sah—no disturbance 'cept dat I shall ax de people to stand back so dat I kin git a full swing of my arm to mash him!" —Chicago Daily News. "MANLY ART" IN FRANCE. Sport of Boxing Just Now Something of a Craze. Boxing has become quite the rage in Paris; the old savate, with its effective high kicking, has been discarded for the "noble art" of Britain. But our lively neighbor the Gaul has always had a sneaking affection for a manly bout of fistfuls a l'Anglais. When Owen Swift, the famous champion of the lightweight, took refuge in Paris after killing his opponent, Brighton Bill, in a prize fight, he was patronized by all the members of the French Jockey club. After a fierce battle at Charenton with Jack Adams, another pugilist of renown, Swift was arrested and brought before the Paris tribunal of correctional police, on a charge of "having inflicted wounds occasioning an incapacity to labor for less than 20 days." Owen's description in his evidence, of the course of training which he had to go through had an amusing effect upon the young sporting swells of Paris. For months afterward these young exquisites might be seen going at their best pace along the streets and boulevards, muffled up to their eyes in sweaters and greatcoats, getting into condition for boxing.—T. P. O. of London. Coals at Newcastle. If fish is the greatest brain food, as scientists have said, then Boston is in a fair way to outstrip the rest of the country in brain development without half trying. In a recent two days there were brought to T wharf—the greatest fish mart of the country—more than two million pounds of fish, including large and small cod, haddock, hake, pollock, halibut and various other species of the deep. This enormous catch has been brought by 100 schooners, round numbers, 65 of which arrived on one day and the remainder the day following. Granting that the fleet of 100 schooners average 20 men to the vessel (which probably is a high estimate), and the average sum coming to each fisherman, outside of the captain, is about $20, representing from five days to between two and three weeks at sea. Of course, the sums vary, according to the vessel, the catch and the time spent at sea. Some schooners brought in as high as 75,000 pounds and some little more than 5,000; some had five men in the crew and some 25; some caught plenty of large cod and some very few.—Boston Transcript. A Word to the Wise. A corporation conducting a series of quick lunch places accords conspicuous position to a placard reading as follows: "A Suggestion—Perhaps a large number of our patrons who daily favor us with their money, instead of taking luncheon at 12 o'clock could just as conveniently come at 12:45 p.m. and thus find more comfortable seats; or they might arrange to fix 1:30 as lunch time, and thereby be afforded still more elbow space." Managers at several of the branches situated in business sections are authority for the statement that since the advent of the signs the high noon attendance has been larger than before.—N. Y. Press. Charity's Biggest Achievement. The highest achievement of charity is to love our enemies; but to bear cheerfully with our neighbor's failings is scarcely an inferior grace. It is easy enough to love those who are agreeable and obliging; but to love one who is cross, perverse, tiresome, is as unpleasant a process as chewing pills. Nevertheless, this, the best way of practising it, is to put ourselves in the place of him who tries us, and to see how we would wish him to treat us if we had his defects. We must put ourselves in the place of buyer when we sell, and seller when we buy, if we want to deal fairly.—Formel de Sales ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS HOP early in the day. Shop early in the week. Shop where it is easy to choose what you want. Select from an extensive variety of articles for the boy, the girl, for mother and father, for uncle and member of the family --this store's big stocks merchandise are ready a vice. Remember that it is not satisfactory wh home, return it at or condition together wi check and get your mo business rule of partic you in your Christmas Emery, Bird, J for uncle and aunt, for every or of the family and for friends store's big stocks of dependable andise are ready and at your ser- Remember that if what you buy is satisfactory when you get it return it at once in saleable on together with the duplicate and get your money. This is a less rule of particular interest to your Christmas shopping. Wery, Bird, Thayer Co. father, for uncle and aunt, for every member of the family and for friends--this store's big stocks of dependable merchandise are ready and at your service. Remember that if what you buy is not satisfactory when you get it home, return it at once in saleable condition together with the duplicate check and get your money. This is a business rule of particular interest to you in your Christmas shopping. KANSAS CITY, MO. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Bell Phone Main 1300Y. The Artificial K. C. BILT which has the motion of the m Remodeled and Im every style of Limb. 1274 WEST EIGHTH ST ACTION GUARANTEED OR NO PAY Y. J. F. COR The K. C. Artificial Limb K. C. BILT-WELL LEG which has the motion of the natural limb in walking Remodeled and Improved Manufacture every style of Limb. 127¼ WEST EIGHTH STREET. Asian Cloak and 1110 Main Street Special Attention to tailor-made models at $2.50 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR NO PAY. Bell Phone Main 1300Y. J. F. CORDELL, Mgr. Parisian C 1108 and 1110 Calling Special At of our tailor-m suit models at Parisian Cloak Co. 1108 and 1110 Main Street. Calling Special Attention to two of our tailor-made suit models at $25.00 ```markdown ``` Woman's 52-inch B For these coats we purchased a large model is of our own selection, and each coat quality satin, edged around collar with gathered sleeve with braid trimmed cuff. these coats. $16.50. 52-inch Box Coats $1 less we purchased a large, fine imported broad selection, and each coat is lined throughout w and around collar with velvet and neatly braid with braid trimmed cuff. There will be a great This Woman's 52-inch Box Coats $16.50 For these coats we purchased a large, fine imported broadcloth. The model is of our own selection, and each coat is lined throughout with splendid quality satin, edged around collar with velvet and neatly braid trimmed, gathered sleeve with braid trimmed cuff. There will be a great interest in these coats. $16.50. Third Floor. S 9 KANSAS CITY. aunt. for every and for friends of dependable and at your ser- f what you buy when you get it price in saleable in the duplicate money. This is a regular interest to shopping. Thayer Co. MO. EED OR NO PAY. J. F. CORDELL, Mgr. The K. C. Real Limb Co. BILT-WELL LEG the natural limb in walking and Improved Manufacturers o lmb. STREET. MISSOURI loak Co. Main Street. Attention to two made $25.00 ENGLISH BROADCLOTH SUITS $30.00. CUTAWAY COAT SUITS, $40. Suits of attractive, mannish mixtures; 30-inch length, fitted cutaway coat; double-breasted; velvet coat collar, outlined with contrasting color broadcloth; new 1 ch pockets, trimmed with vet buttons; cluster plaited dirt, finished with two wide scl folds. $40.00 A GREAT SALE OF COATS AT $25.00. Smartest effects of the season in coats for women and misses. Coats that would cost $35 to $50 to duplicate. English and lightweight broadcloths, kerseys, mixtures and caracul cloth; elegantly lined; 30 to 52-inch lengths. $25.00 Second Floor. Box Coats $16.50 fine imported broadcloth. The is lined throughout with splendid velvet and neatly braid trimmed. There will be a great interest in Third Floor. FAMILY TRADE A SPECIALTY BELL PHONE, 1884 EAST. Special Prices to Lodges. 5c Off on Phone Orders. GEORGE O'BEE, Gen'l Solicitor. For all kinds of Wines, Brandies, Whiskies and Gins. We handle all the Standard Brands of Liquors known for their AGE, Purity, Qual tv and Strength Buy your Holiday Wines and Liquors now. Special Low Prices made to Private and Public Parties on Entertainment, and Sacrament Wine in Gallon Lots. Whiskies, 75c to $1.50 per Quart. Wines, 35c to 75c per Quart. " $1.50 to $5.00 per Gal. " $1.00 to $7.50 per Gal. Brandies, 75c to $1.00 per Quart; $1.50 to $3.00 per Gal. BOTTLES: $1.00 to $1.50 per Quart. $3.00 to $5.00 per Gal. JAMES TUCKER, RETAIL LIQUOR DEALER, 220 V NE STREET. Repairing Done Free of Charge On All Cleaned and Dyed Articles. WE WANT YOUR TRADE KEYSTONE TAILORS and Watches too EASY PAYMENTS W.F. Smith Jewelry Co. EMMETT E. VENRICK, Manager 103 EAST TENTH STREET Both Phones, B. 2618 M. GEO. JONES. H. 5145 M. LEM ANDERSON, Props. KANSAS CITY'S LEADING NEGRO GAS MAN. Gas Stoves Connected for $1.00 up Burners Installed in Stoves $5.00 Burners Installed in Furnaces $8.50 Give us a trial. we guarantee complete satisfaction Tel. Home Main 5467; Bell 4591, or call at 1301 E. 18th St C. E. STARR, Manager KEEP OFF THIS DATE. Jan. 20, 1908. THE UNITED K. OF P. LODGES, 9 IN NUMBER, WILL GIVE ON MONDAY, JAN. 20, 1908, A GRAND RECEPTION TO THE BENEFICIARY BOARD AND WILL ALSO HAVE AS THEIR GUESTS THE SUPREME KEEPER OF RECORDS AND SEALS, C. K. ROBINSON, OF ST. LOUIS AND MAJOR GENERAL R. R. JACKSON, OF CHICAGO, COMMANDER OF ALL THE UNIFORMED RANK IN THE WORLD. WATCH THIS PAPER FOR PARTICULARS. HELP THIS AFRO-AMERICA BY GIVING IT YOUR FAMILY TRADE BELL PHONE Special Prices to Lodges. GEORGE O'BEN For all kinds of Wines. Br We handle all the Standards for their AGE, Purity, Quali Holicay Wines and Liquor made to Private and public and Sacrament Wine in Gal Whiskies, 75c to $1.50 per Quart. " $1.50 to $5.00 per G" Brandies, 75c to $1.00 per Q BOTT $1.00 to $1.50 per Quart JAMES TUCKER, RETAIL Home Phone 7890 M. J. W. BRO Work Called for and Delivered. GOLDEN ROOF AND CLEAN Repairing Done Free of Dyed Location 910 East 12th WE WANT KEYSTONE COPYRIGHT. KEYSTONE F. C. MORRIS, Mgr. HOLIDAY GUILD and Water EASY P W.F.Smith EMMETT E.V. 103 E CRAWFORD'S DRUG STORE. THE STORE WHERE EVERY ONE GETS A SQUARE DEAL TELEPHONE BUSINESS ESPECIALLY SOLICITED. CALL US UP OVER OUR PHONES: HOME 2027 MAIN, BELL 579 LOCATION 19th & VINE. ALL THE PATENT MEDICINES ON SALE. BLOOD MEDICINE ESPECIALLY PREPARED FOR ALL KINDS OF DISEASES. ALL KINDS OF PRESCRIPTIONS, IN FACT, EVERYTHING THE PEOPLE COULD GET AT ANY OTHER DRUG STORE. GAN ENTERPRISE SUCCEED YOUR XMAS ORDER. E. A SPECIALTY E. 1884 EAST. 5c Off on Phone Orders. E. Gen'l Solicitor. Brandies, Whiskies and Gins. And Brands of Liquors known special tv and Strength Buy your ars now. Special Low Prices ic Parties on Entertainments, allon Lots. Wines, 35c to 75c per Quart. * $1.10 to $2.50 per Gal. Quart; $1.50 to $3.00 per Gal. DO OPS: Art. $3.00 to $5.00 per Gal. L LIQUOR DEALER, 220 V NE STREET. Bell Phone 1696 G. OKS, Propr. Ladies Work a Specialty D STEAM DYE NING WORKS. If Charge On All Cleaned and Articles. Give Us a Trial. YOUR TRADE E TAILORS Wear Clothes THAT WILL HANG $1.00 OFF on all or- ders of Suits and Overcoats if you CUT THIS AD OUT E. TAILORS 12th @ Grand Ave. AMONDS ON The Hypnotizing of Lizzie By George T. Pardy (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) "I've done most all I can for you," said Capt. Habbleton, emphatically, "and it's up to you to help yourself some." "Show me how," said the mate, desperately, "I'm willin' to take any kind of a chance." "You've had a barrel of 'em," returned the captain, sternly. "Here you are, Jim Blake, six feet two and a fine figure of a seaman, standin' next to me for command of the Arklam, which is the swelliest steam freighter on the lakes, and yet you ain't got the nerve to go in and win a 20-year-old slip of a girl, even with her father a backing you up." "Wot's the use of it all when she don't want to be won?" queried the mate, disconsolately. The indignant captain turned purple. "Bust me if ever I see such a chick-enhearted swab," he roared. "Here I brought Lizzie on this trip to Buffalo, a purpose, so as you'd be thrown together a lot, and wot's come of all my trouble"—nothin!" "I done my best," said the mate, sulkily. "Didn't I take her to a show last night?" "You did," retorted the captain, with fine scorn. "you did, but wot did you buy three tickets for and ask me along?" "She said you'd like to go," said the mate, feebly. "You shouldn't have minded her," returned the captain, testify. "I wish I was like that are magician we saw at the theater that did all them hypnotizing tricks," sighed the mate. "Women like chaps that can do wonderful things, and t'was fair surprising the way he put folks asleep and made 'em hop around. She thought he was all right, too; talked about him all the way back to the boat. Capt. Babbleton smacked his high vigorously. "That's a good notion, Jim," he exclaimed. "Wot's the matter with you turnin' hypnotist in a amateur way and pakin' a hit with her?" "Wot, me?" ejaculated the startled mate. "Yes, you," returned the captain, complacently. "You kin fake up a exhibition on the trip to Chicago. We'll square a couple of the boys to help you out and I'll stand half the expense." The mate looked doubtful. "It might work," he asserted, "but I dunno." "It's got to work," returned Babbleton, firmly. "I know a smart, young chap on Seneca street, a performer himself, as kni put us onto a few tips. This thing's got to be put through, Jim Blake, and you know me. I'll never let my daughter marry that lubber of a young doctor in Chicago that's gone on her, long as I kni got her a good sailman for a husband." Miss Lizzie Babbleton was a shrewd young woman, and soon after the Arkham started on the return voyage she became aware that something unusual was on foot, for her worthy father was unable to conceal his exultation and strutted about with an air of portentous mystery. Therefore she was not altogether surprised when informed of the treat in store for her, although expressing due astonishment upon hearing of the newly-acquired powers of Mr. Blake. Capt. Babbleton, satisfied with the effect of his revelation, hastened to the cook's galley, where the mate was perspiring freely while engaged in the task of rehearsing his "subjects." They were three in number, two deck hands and the cabin boy and, all things considered, performed their parts very well, stimulated by the prospect of coming rewards. Before Lizzie's admiring gaze, Mr. Blake induced his assistants to slumber, awoke them by virtue of mysterious passes and gentle touches of his hands, and caused them to obey extraordinary orders, whereby they mewed like cats, hopped gravely around the cabin on all fours and indulged in other antics usually confined to the brute creation. "Ain't that clever work?" inquired the captain, when the performance had ended and the "subjects" returned to their own quarters. "That leather-headed young sawbones 'll never see the day he kin do such stunts, Liz!'" "It's wonderful," agreed his daughter, ignoring the last part of her parent's remark. "Now that I notice it dad, Mr. Blake has eyes exactly like the magician's that we saw at the theater. And now I want him to hypnotize me." The startled mate glanced at his superior and that gentleman interposed hastily. "Couldn't be thought of, Lizzie," he said. "It might be dangerous. You're only a girl, y' know, not like them strong fellows." "Nonsense," retorted Miss Babbleton. "The man in the theater put two girls to sleep and neither of them was as big or strong as I am." The captain persisting in his refusal, the aggrieved maiden took refuge in a flood of tears, whereupon her dismayed parent withdrew with the mate for a conference. "You must pretend to try, Jim," said the captain, "and then tell her she's got too much will power for you. Mebbe that'll flatter her." Blake protested, but his commander was insistent and led him back to the cabin, where Miss Babbleton, smiling radiantly, composed herself for the or- deal. The mate waved his hands in mystic fashion and stared into the girl's face until his protruding orbs seemed ready to start from their sockets. To his unbound amazement the head of his "subject" sunk back suddenly, her eyes closed and a gentle snore issued from her dainty nostrils. He gave vent to a horrified exclamation, which was echoed by the captain. "You've done it, by gum," said Babbleton, hoarsely; "it's your eyes, Jim; she allowed they were like the magician's. I don't half like it, though—here, Liz—wake up!" He shook the girl vigorously, but there was no response. "Lemme try," said the mate, secretly proud, yet afraid of the success of his experiment. He touched her face gently and Miss Babbleton sat up and gazed at them inquiringly. The captain pointed proudly to Mr. Blake, who was breathing hard and flushed with triumph. "Jim did just wet you asked him, Liz," he said, jubilantly. "Only him could wake you, too. I tried and you wouldn't budge an eyelid." "I never thought he was so clever," remarked the girl, admiringly, and the modest mate turned a still deeper crimson. It was evident that Miss Babbleton was favorably impressed by Mr. Blake's wonder-working powers, and her demeanor towards him for the remainder of the voyage caused her father intense delight. The Arklam was about five hours' sail from Chicago when she insisted upon her suitor again testing his hypnotic strength. After much persuasion, he yielded and the "subject" went promptly into a heavy trance. Much to the dismay of the amateur magician, however, she refused obstinately to awaken. "This is a pretty mess," said the agitated captain to his no less nervous subordinate. "I've read of felks dying in them there trances." The horror-stricken mate swore feebly but could offer no suggestion, and when the Arklem tied up at the Chicago docks, the female passenger was still slumbering. "I'm going to send for that medical swab she's so fond of," said Babbleton, desperately. "He'll fix her if he can and keep mum about it. I dissent trust a stranger." Half an hour later Dr. Nicholas Marston entered the patient's state room. Soon afterwards he emerged and sought the anxious commander and mate. "Miss Babbleton is conscious but not quite out of danger, captain," he said, sternly. "And now I have a proposition to make to you. Consent to our marriage and I'll not report this case to the authorities. Refuse, and the law must take its course. I suppose you are aware that there is a heavy penalty attaching to all such wilful attempts on human life, and a jury would be apt to take a severe view of the matter." "The agitated captain seized the physician's hand and wrung it fervently. "Say no more, my lad," he explained. "You've saved her and she's yours!" Miss Babbleton, standing behind the half closed door, laughed softly as she beard her parent's acknowledgment of surrender. COLORED WOMAN'S BIG DEAL. Trusted Servant Makes a Remarkable Financial Transaction. One of the most remarkable financial transactions recorded in years in Philadelphia took place one day recently. An elderly colored woman, poorly dressed, entered one of the large banks in the financial district and insisted on seeing the president himself. No one else would do, and the attendant was eventually obliged to conduct her to that official's private office. Arrived there, the old woman, with much simplicity of manner, asked whether the financial disturbance was passed, and was smiling assumed that it was. Thereupon to the amazement of the financier, she drew from the folds of her dress a bank book and 26 bills, each of the denomination of $1,000, and asked that they be placed to the credit of her "master's" account. The book was in the name of one of the oldest and wealthiest customers of the bank, a retired and superannuated merchant, who nowadays rarely leaves his house, but who had every confidence in an old domestic. Thoughts Far Away Mr. Edison is one of the most absent-minded of men, and a story relating to this weakness tells of a visit the inventor made to the office of the tax collector, says the Boston Herald. Standing in line, with a score or more of taxpayers in front of him, Edison's mind reverted to an important experiment on which he had been engaged. When his turn came at the window to which he had moved mechanically he was aroused by a clerk asking his name. He looked at the man vacantly. "I could no more have given it then than I could have flown," he confided later to an acquaintance. Luckily an official who recognized him and knew of his forgetfulness came to his rescue. APPETIZING DISHES NEW AND TESTED RECIPES FOR THE COOK. Swiss Eggs Are Something of a Novelty and Will Be Found Delicious —Maple Blanc Mange and Banana Desserts. For Swiss eggs—a delicious supper dish—spread the bottom of a baking dish with two ounces of butter. Cover this with thin slices of American cheese. Place four eggs over the cheese, taking care that the yolks are not broken. Season with pepper and salt; pour around the eggs two table-spoonfuls of rich cream and cover the top with grated cheese. Bake it for ten minutes, garnish with parsley and serve with fingers of dried toast. An unusually appetizing curry of veal is made as follows: Cut two pounds of veal into small pieces. Roll the pieces in flour and season with pepper and salt. Put a couple of tablespoonfuls of butter in an iron stewing pan. Slice a large onion and fry it in the butter, and when it turns a light brown add the veal and a quart can of tomatoes. Stir well and place the dish where it will cook slowly for an hour; then add a tablespoonful of curry powder mixed to a smooth paste with a little water. Simmer half an hour longer and serve on a platter with a border of boiled rice. Lamb may be prepared in the same way. A maple blanc mange is a novelty. To make it boil a quart of milk. Measure out four heaping tablespoonfuls of cornstarch and moisten it with a little cold milk. Add to it a liberal cup of thick maple syrup, then gradually stir it into the boiling hot milk and beat thoroughly to prevent humping. Cook until very thick, then put aside to cool. Serve with whipped cream. For a banana dessert of the same type boil a quart of milk in a double boiler. Mix four tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with two large tablespoonfuls of sugar. Thin it with a little cold milk, then stir it gradually into the remainder of the milk, taking care that it does not form lumps. Cook for ten minutes; break two eggs and beat the whites and yolks separately. Add the yolks to the pudding and cook a few minutes longer. Then remove from the fire and add six bananas that have been cut into thin slices and sprinkled with sugar and a little banana extract. Have ready a pretty mould, and just before pouring the pudding into it fold through it the whipped up whites of the eggs. Serve cold on a low dessert platter with whipped cream. Those who are fond of curry powder often use it as one would pepper and salt, in ordinary dishes, such as soups, hashes, stews, vegetables, rice, eggs, etc. The next time you serve poached eggs at breakfast try dredging just a little curry over the top of each. The next time you make layer cake, instead of lefing it first and then cutting it in slices, as usual, cut it into small squares and ice each square heavily, ornamenting the top with a candied cherry, a piece of citron or a walnut meat. For a Bone in the Throat. An obstruction in the throat, trachea or oesophagus may sometimes be removed by striking the patient forebly on the back between the shoulders. Sometimes it is expedient to invert him while doing so. A child can be held up by the legs, but an adult should be placed across a bed or chair with his head and chest hanging well over the edge. If the object is in the oesophagus it can be often washed down with a drink of water or forced down by eating bread or other solid substance. To prevent exorcitation of the alimentary canal after the swallowing of any sharp substance have the patient eat plentifully of bread, potatoes or mush, but do not give a purgative. Jelly Roll. Weigh four unbroken eggs. Equal their weight in flour, sugar and butter. Cream the butter and sugar until smooth and light, beat the yolks of the eggs and add them to this mixture. Beat for a few minutes, then put in the flour alternately with the stiffened egg whites and stir in lightly and quickly a scant teaspoonful of baking powder. Pour into a greased baking tin, not having the batter more than a scant half-inch thick. Bake quickly and steadily and when done turn the cake out upon a clean towl, spread at once with jelly and roll. Cover with tissue paper or waxed paper and tie in shape until cold. Celery Jelly. Celery jelly is an attractive basis for fancy salads. Cut up the outer green stalks and to one cupful of celery use one pint of water with one teaspoonful of salt. Cook until soft, add one quarter of a box of gelatin that has soaked for half an hour in half a cupful of cold water, strain through a jelly bag and mold. When solid cut out the center and fill with the salad. Two oranges, two bananas and two apples diced form an attractive salad to serve with the celery jelly. Prune Pudding. Stew half a pound of prunes until soft, stone and chop. Add half a pound of stoned chopped dates, half a cup of English walnuts and half a cup sugar. Mix well and add stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. Cook 20 minutes in a hot oven and serve cold with creme. Apple Salad. Take red apples; polish; dig out inside and fill with apple, celery and nuts. Serve on a leaf of lettuce, covering apple over with mayonnaise dressing. ```markdown ``` Mother Died in Burning Home. Mrs. George Collins of Noble, the wife of the county judge of Ozark county for the western district, was burned to death with her baby in a fire that destroyed their home recently. Mrs. Collins was shucking corn and discovered the house on fire. She went into the house and got out a child five years old and returned for the baby. When she got to the door she was overcome by smoke and fell. The little child then rescued the baby, but the mother burned to death. A few hours later two older children returned from school and found the house in ashes and the little child sitting near the dead body with the infant in its arms. It is supposed that the baby had inhaled smoke. It was taken to the nearest home, but the children, being overcome by the disaster, would not venture away, and that night slept in a corn shock. The next morning, the father, who had been away all night hunting cattle, returned and found the children and charred remains of his wife in the ruins of his home. Girls Got All the Honors. For the first time in the history of the University of Missouri have the first five members of the senior class in the college of arts and science been women. The Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, which at this time of the school year elects to membership the five members of the senior class which have attained the highest scholastic standing has chosen five co-eds: Miss Carolyn Belle Benton, Higginsville; Miss Bessie S. Fair, Trenton; Miss Elizabeth Reed Ferris, Mobery; Miss Laura Mabel Kingsbury, Columbia; Miss Eula Adeline Weeks, Butler. Election to the Phi Beta Kappa is an honor much sought in the university. Membership in it means a good recommendation from the university authorities and the right to wear a key which is the sign of the fraternity. The fraternity is in no way a secret organization, but its purpose is to confer honor upon the strongest students in school. The number chosen each year is never to exceed 10 per cent of the graduating class. New Militla Commissions. At the request of Adjutant General DeArmond Gov, Folk has commissioned the following officers of the National guard: Everett E. Phillips, first lieutenant, Company B, Third regiment; Grover C. Shanholtzer, second lieutenant, Company L, Second regiment; Ray E. Seltz, second lieutenant, Company F, Sixth battalion; Louis W. Winkler, a graduate of the state military school in Columbia, second lieutenant, and Carl Kopp, principal of Bleees Military academy, lieutenant colonel. Juror Goes Insane. In the circuit court of Howell county, the jury in the case of Anna Hibbard, charged with the murder of her husband, Crawford Hibbard, who was shot at his home in Mountainview last March, returned a verdict of not guilty. After the jury was discharged, Frank Wilson, one of the jurors, became insane, caused by the strain of the trial. Feasted His Friends. William T. Reyburn of Boone county celebrated his 88th birthday anniversary by giving a dinner to 74 of his descendants and a host of friends. Five long tables were kept working nearly four hours. Paroles Convicts. Gov. Folk has released F. W. Meher of Kansas City and Lawrence Taylor of St. Louis from the penitentiary by parole commutation. Raytown Church 65 Years Old. The West Fork Baptist church in Raytown, Jackson county, celebrated the 65th anniversary of its organization recently. The minutes of the first meeting of the congregation were read. The church was organized the Saturday before the second Sunday in December, 1842, with 16 members, seven men and nine women, none of whom are now living. The first church was a small stone structure erected in 1846. Highwayman Robbed a Woman Mrs. Marie Linn of Joplin, the wife of a real estate man, was robbed of $19 and her watch and was badly beaten by a highwayman recently. Mrs. Linn was on her way to visit a friend and, as she was passing an alley a man demanded that she throw up her hands. When she refused he struck her in the face, knocking her down. For Federal Building at Maryville. Senator Stone has introduced a bill for a $50,000 public building at Maryville. Killed a Freak Crow. An Atchison county man killed a crow that is something of a curiosity. While intensely black as these birds usually are, this one has white feathers in his wings and tail. Some of the feathers are perfectly white while others seem to be tipped with white. The bird will be mounted. What's In a Name? There must be something in the name of Miss Neet, who won the Milan Republican's popular girl contest. Editorial Association Meeting. The executive committee of the State Editorial association met in Emporia and decided to hold the annual convention of the association in Emporia April 20 to 21. The Business Men's association will help boom the convention. The members of the executive committee are Charles Stich of the Alma Enterprise, J. E. Junkin of the Sterling Bulletin, J. L. Napier of the Newton Republican, Max Kretcher of the Selgwick Pantagraph and W. C. Austin of the Cottonwood Falls Courant. Wife Gets Lion's Share. Where a wife works hard, and helps acquire property while living with her husband, through her own labor and management, it is right that she should get the larger share in the event of a divorce from her husband, if she is accorded the decree, and he has some means of livelihood, according to a ruling of the supreme court. The case came from Lyon county in which W. C. Hobbs sued Sarah A. Hobbs for divorce and an equitable division of the property. Topeka Old Settlers Meet. A. B. Whiting of Topeka was elected president of the Shawnee County Old Settlers' association at its annual meeting held at the First Christian church in Topeka. Other officers chosen were: Vice president, Mrs. Esther Youngs; secretary, John Doane, and treasurer, J. A. Hickey. The meeting was formally opened with prayer by the Rev. John D. Knox and closed with a vote of thanks to Charles F. Spencer, the secretary. No Tears Shed. The Ottawa Herald resents the Emporia Gazette's charge that Ottawa is "shedding tears over a $25,000 fire." "This," says the Herald, "is rank insult. Ottawa shed sedimented Marais des Cygnes river water over the fire—shed it in copious quantities through a brand new water works system. And this explains why the fire only cost $25,000." A Patent Hay Packer- David E. Bellinger of Chanute has received letters patent from Washington protecting a recent invention of his, a packer for baling presses. The invention is designed to eliminate one attendant in the baling process, besides materially increasing the capacity of the machine. It can be attached to practically every make of self-feeding press, and if the antiepations of the inventor are not exaggerated, will not him $10,000. Shocked to Death. A. D. Coleman, proprietor of the electric light plant in Kinsley, was almost instantly killed at the plant. He was alone at the plant when the accident occurred. The lights went out, and his assistant ran to the plant and found Mr. Coleman dead. A contact with some portion of the machinery had caused the full force of the current to pass through his body. To Have Trains Replaced The Missouri Pacific may have another suit to defend. The company took off eight of its passenger trains on various lines in the state and the Kansas board of railroad commissioners is waiting from a complaint from some traveler to order those trains put into commission again. The company announced that it was taking its trains off because of the 2-cent fare. A Fight on Sunday Funerals If the city council passes the Sunday closing ordinance now under consideration, there will be no more funerals on the Sabbath in Arkansas City. Historical Society. George W. Veale of Topeka, was elected president of the State Historical society to succeed James R. Mead, of Wichita. George W. Glick of Atchison was elected first vice-president and A. B. Whiting of Topeka, second vice president. Secretary George Martin holds his place for two years and was elected last year. However, there is no likelihood that there would have been any change even if there had been an election in this office. The society has a total of 43 life members. Twelve new ones were taken in this year. No Penalty for Cash Eares It was given out from the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific office that this company would not enter into the proposed schedule of other western roads to charge passengers without tickets a graduating excess fare, running from 10 to 50 cents, which would be retained. The Rock Island road will charge 10 cents penalty, giving the passenger a refunding receipt good at any ticket office of the company. Douglass Had Big Poultry Show The first annual exhibit of the Douglass Poultry and Pet Stock association, which was held in the city building was a marked success, and interest in the show was taken by larger cities throughout Kansas. Salina, Wichita, Wellington, Arkansas City and St. John were represented with displays of fancy poultry, pigeons, turkeys, ducks and guinea fowls. D. A. Stoner, of Wichita, was the judge of the birds and awarded the prizes. The exhibit Included 312 fowls. MR. EDWARD E. BURTT. I Recommend Pe-runa. MR. EDWARD M. BURTT, 5 N. 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Minister's Amendment to Usual Grace Fitted Circumstances. A Pennsylvania divine formed one of a house-party in Philadelphia where the younger son, in accordance with what the clergyman observed to be his constant habit, as soon as he had seated himself at breakfast immediately possessed himself of a large slice of bread, the quality of which he proceeded to test by a liberal mouthful. The minister, a stickler in such matters of propriety, gazed blandly at him for a moment or so; then he folded his hands and closed his eyes in preparation for grace. "For what we are about to receive," he intoned with painful emphasis, "and for what our young friend has already received, Lord, make us truly thankful."-Harper's Weekly. ECZEMA COVERED BABY. Worst Case Doctors Ever Saw—Suffered Untold Misery—Perfect Cure by Cuticura Remedies. "My son, who is now twenty-two years of age, when four months old began to have eczema on his face, spreading quite rapidly until he was nearly covered. 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Twenty-two Representatives; three, held diplomatic and consular positions; many have been officers in the army, six were Recorders of Deeds in the District of Columbia. A fine engraving of these Negro Congressmen has just been issued, giving accurate portraits of each; also the Congress in which they served and the years of service. In the picture, the two Senators, Messrs. Revels and Bruce, occupy the center of the group, surrounded by the other eighteen Representatives. In the background, the Stars and Stripes in color. This beautiful engraving, with a booklet containing biographies of these eminent men, is sold for one dollar ($1.00). This engraving is a graphic political history of the Negro in America. No home, library, office, or school-room will be complete without it. Send for one to-day. THE COLORED AMERICAN NOVELTY CO. To learn all of the latest systems in Dressmaking, Cutting, Fitting and everything to make you master of the dressmaking art. Madam Vincent is a graduate of four different schools, with twelve years' experience in the largest stores in Kansas City. The price of tuition is very low—in fact, you can make money while learning. Special Course in Sewing, 20 Days, $5.00 I cordially invite all to visit the school and investigate. Bell Phone 507 Grand. 1104 Charlotte St., Kansas City, Mo. Home 'Phone 5478 Main Bell 'Phone 3136 Main P. L. PRATT. REAL ESTATE RENTAL And INSURANCE. Houses For Sale On Easy Terms, Like Rent. 127 West 8th Street KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. P. O. Drawer 2318 Agents wanted. LADIES, THERE IS A CHANCE Madam Mamie De Vaule Vine Making and Ladies To learn all of the latest systems in Dressmaking to make you master of the dressmaking art. four different schools, with twelve years' ex- kansas City. The price of tuition is very lo- while learning. Special Course in Sewing I cordially invite all to visit the school and Bell Phone 507 Grand. 1104 C Home 'Phone 5478 Main P. L. 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We will allow a cash FAT CASH WITH plated brass hand pin puncture closets to be at OUR expense if fo We are perfectly reli puncture closets to 1025 East 19th Street. His new place will be ole inducement for ladies and GREEN, Propr. ers and Dyers JUMMOND Props. Let t your pr calling nouncem printing "The Beer that made Milwaukee America's Family Beer ROYAL BREWING THE WESTON ROYAL BREWING CO., Kansas City Office 1912-14 Deep down beneath the surface of the old, pictured Weston are the cellars of the Weston Royal Brewing masonry and massive stone walls remind one of and one ambition was to brew a healthful beer. Studio wont to whet their wits and discuss great questions in bumpers" in cellars like those of the Weston Royal "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," is the brew religious idolity. From the choicest hops and well matured made, to the bottling works, which is equipped with machinery. THE WATCH WORK "A Pure Health Tonic For 1 CENT IS ALLOWED TO write for the showroom. THE ROYAL BREWING BELOW any other manufacturer DO NOT BUY A or on any kind of form, until you have logged the history and descriptions of your bottles old patterns and latest prices and wonderful new offers direct to rider with no misdemeanors WE SHIP ON APPROVAL policies and make house in the world will do. You will able information by simply writing to We need a Rider Agent in order to make money to suitable young men. $8.50 PUNCTURE-PRO Regular Price $9.50 per pair. To introduce We Will Sell You a Sampio Fair for Only (CASH WITH ORDER $45) $4.80 NAILS, TACKS OR GLASS WONT LET OUT THE AIR NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. "The Beer that made Milwaukee Jealous" THE WESTON ROYAL BREWING CO., Kansas City and Weston, Mo. Kansas City Office 1912-14 Grand Ave. Deep down beneath the surface of the old, picturesque and beautiful little city of Weston are the cellars of the Weston Royal Brewery. The great arches of heavy masonry and massive stone walls remind one of ancient times when the old master's one ambition was to brew a healthful beer. Studious Monks and wise Friars were wont to whet their wits and discuss great questions while "enjoying the bowls and bumpers" in cellars like those of the Weston Royal Brewery. "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," is the brewery motto, and is adhered to with religious idulity. From the choiceest hops and well matured malt from which "Royal Brew" is made, to the bottling works, which is equipped with the most modern and sanitary machinery. bring up a training team and describing every kind of high grade and low grade buildings, old patterns and latest models, and learn of our remarkable LOW PRICE and wonderful new offers made possible by scaling from factory direct to rider with no middlemen's pronts Result of 15 years experience making, no danger to THORNS, CACTUS, PINS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS. Serrious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. Two hundred Thousand pairs now in actual use. Over Seventy-five Thousand pairs sold last year. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lovely and on without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being in soft roads is overcome by the patent "bucket Wreave" it squeezed out between the tire and the read thus overcoming tires is $1 to per pair, but for advertising purposes we are not allowed to use soft roads. We do not pay a cent until you have examined and found. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (cheerily make FULL CASH WITH ORDER). We will allow two Sampson metal puncture puncture closers to be used in case of intentional knife cuts at OL R expense if for any reason they are not satisfac- es. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is the same. **DESCRIPTION:** Made in all sizes. It is likely and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. It is also resistant to the heat and the moisture, and it protects the tire twice in a whole season. We weigh more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resistance qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. That "Holding Back" sensation commonly felt when riding on asphalt or soft roads is overcome. The tire is made of high-quality rubber and the tire and the road thus overcoming all silt. The regular price of these tires is $50 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the tuber of only $5 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship Cargo on an approval, and we will accept any payment made by cash or credit card. We will deliver a cash discount of 5 percent (after making the price $1.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel-plated brass hand pump and two Sampoon metal puncture closers on full paid orders (the metal puncture closers to be used in case of intentional leakage will be returned). If you fire on an examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. Ask your Postmaster, Banker, Express or Freight Agent or the Editor of this paper about us. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better than any tire you have ever used or at any price. We will be happy to work with you your order. We want you to send us a small trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. GOASTER-BRAKES built-up-wheels, saddles, pedals, parts and repairs, and prices charged by dealers and repairers. We will be at us half the usual cost. We send you a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING Bell Phone 2772 Grand Home Phone 7397 M. Kansas City, Mo. HOME PHONE 48 MAIN The chief reason for leaving home is that one may the better enjoy coming back to it. Home is the place we have so studiously suited to our own needs that it fits us like an outer envelope. In no other house do we feel so absolutely ourselves. — London Truth. Do the Colored people of this city desire to see a newsy news paper? Will they show that they want one? If you want to make a safe investment that will bring you a nice it come see Weaver's list of rooming houses on Page 7. We wish that our Kansas City Kansas subscribers would be more prompt in paying their subscription. Our collectors have had a very hard time in making his regular rounds. Send your subscription to the office. We have a sum of over $300 at present due this office. Don't let our collector call again. Come promptly or send it to our office 914 E. 12th St. Let the Rising Son Pub. Co., do your printing. We print all kinds of calling cards, invitations, wedding announcements or any kind of job printing. Call 780 Main or Grand. Office 914 E. 12th St. ESTABLISHED 1842 The Milwaukee Jealous" BREW Brewed From Hops and Malt CO., Kansas City and Weston, Mo. e 1912-14 Grand Ave. The old, picturesque and beautiful little city of Royal Brewery. The great arches of heavy one of ancient times when the old master's tr. Studious Monks and wise Friars were questions while "enjoying the bowls and Boston Royal Brewery. with the brewery motto, and is adhered to with matured malt from which "Royal Brew" is shipped with the most modern and sanitary H WORDS ARE tonic For Home Use" IS ALL IT WILL COST YOU to write for our big FREE BUYCYCLE catalogue showing the most complete line of high grade WOLL TURS and MANDRILES at CRIFLES manufacturer or dealer in the world. BUY A BICYCLE from anyone, until you have received our complete Free Catalogue showing every kind of high grade and low grade WOLL TURS and MANDRILES at CRIFLES manufacturer or dealer in the world. NEW orders made possible by selling from factory middlemen's pronts. WAL without a real deposit. Pay the Freight and mail must other than land, where which you also. You will learn everything and get much easily writing us a postal. agent in every town and can offer only the young men who apply at once. E-PROOF TIRES ONLY $A.80 S, CAC- GLASS. cuts, can use. Over Notice the thick rubber tread of the puncture strips and the rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This the will outlast any other make of H, LASTIC and JASM RIDING. lively and easy riding, we durable and lined inside seconds potious and which closes up small punctures hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating at twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than ses being given by so many awards of thin specially made leather, and they which prevents all air from being overcoming all section. The regular price of these ses we are making a special history price to the rider after it is received as an approval or approval heathy making the price $1.55 per pair) if you send this advertisement. We will also send one nickel taint puncture closers on full paid orders (the metal alkine cuts or heavy gasses). Tires to be returned is as safe as in a bank. Ask your Postmaster, or of this paper about us. If you order a pair of sensor, run faster, wear better, last longer and look any price. We know that you will be so well pleased your order. We want you to send us a small trial PROPRIETOR FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C. U. & A. If a man be willing, then any argument shall be matter of encouragement; but if unwilling, then any argument shall be matter of discouragement—John Bunyan. India has 4835,947 acres of irrigated land in the Punjab, an increase of 453,561 acres in one year. The crops are mainly wheat, sugar cane, grain and winter oilseeds. Hint to Housewives. If you have a solid silver cake dish and no cake for it, don't discard it. Tie a pale mauve ribbon on it and keep it in the kitchen as a receptacle for potato peelings. Ungallant Suggestion "He complains that his wife refuses to listen to him." "He should cultivate the habit of talking in his sleep." —Houston Post. We wonder why it is that those individuals who boast about telling the truth never have anything very pleasant to say. Her Heaven. The fleshy woman's idea of heaven is a place in which she can take off her corset and sit around without loosening unreceivable. Place for a Good Book The very best place for a thoroughly good book is in your head and your heart. If it is not worthy of being kept there, it is of little importance where it is kept, or how soon you get rid of it.—From "Books and Reading" in St. Nicholas. The Secret of A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION Now Revealed FREE What beauty is more desirable than an exquisite complexion and elegant jewels. An opportunity for every women to obtain both, for a limited time only. The directions and recipe for obtaining a faultless complexion is the secret long guarded by the master minds of the ORIENTALS and GREEKS. This we obtained after years of work and at great expense. It is the method used by the fairest and most beautiful women of Europe. Hundreds of American women who now use it have expressed their delight and satisfaction. This secret is easily understood and simple to follow and it will save you the expense of creams, cosmetics, bleaches and forever give you a beautiful complexion and free your skin from pimples, bad color blackheads, etc. It alone is worth to you many times the price we ask you to send for the genuine diamond ring of latest design. We will ring you at one small price above manufacturing cost. The price is less than one half what others charge. We will sell you ring at one small guide above manufacturing cost. The price is less than one whole ring. This escape is fine with every ring It is a genuine rose cut diamond ring of sparkling brilliancy absolutely guaranteed, very dainty, shaped like a Helcker with Tiffany setting of 12Kt. gold shell, at your local jeweller you would cost considerable more than $2.00. Notice style of ring. We mail you this beautiful complex recipe free when your order is received for ring with size marked on diag stamps herewith and $2.00 m money order, stamps or bills. Your order is in before our supply is exhausted. This offer is made for a limited time only as a means of advertising and introducing our goods. Send to-day before this opportunity is longotted. 32 East 23rd Street, New York City FREE To women for collecting names and selling our novelties, we give big premiums send your name to-day for our new plan of big profits with little work write to-day. Address C. T. MOSELEY Premium department 12 F. 23rd Street New York City. EXAMPLE OF SUBLIME "NERVE." This Man Surely Cut Out for Great Captain of Industry. When Robertson entered his sitting-room he found Trescott there, resul-endent in full evening dress, and helping himself to one of his—Robertson's—best cigars. "Halloa!" he said. "Why the war-paint?" "Going to Bellingham's to dinner," was the reply. "Why don't you buy better cigars?" Robertson looked his friend up and down. "The effect isn't so bad," he said. "Anyone that didn't know you might take you for a gentleman. But I didn't think you boasted an evening suit." "I don't," said Trescott. "These duds are yours." "Well, of all the gigantic cheek—" "But I didn't come down to talk about that. I want to know if you'll lend me your umbrella, it's raining." "I'll see you in Jericho first!" said the indignant Robertson "Oh, very well!" said Trescott. "It's for your benefit, you know. I only want it to protect your togs!" And with a choking gasp Robertson handed over his best gold mounted rain-defer. SURELY DESERVED THE RELIEF Aunt Lizzie's Heroic Method to Get Teeth to Fit. The following dialogue occurred between a lady and her aunt, who had recently purchased some false teeth, which hurt her: "Aunt Lizzie, here is a piece of sandpaper; now, after you get your work done, you take your teeth out and sandpaper them wherever they hurt you." About an hour later Aunt Lizzie came in, and her niece said: "Well, Aunt Lizzie, did you get your teeth fixed?" "No, not very well" "What did you do?" "Why, I took my teeth out and sandpapered my gums that was what you told me to do, wasn't it" "No, I told you to take your teeth out and sandpaper the teeth" "Oh!" said the aunt "Well," she added "it helped them some" She Loved and Ate. Perhaps the ultimate limit of idiocy and banality, in the shape of an attempt to imitate the monkey, dog and horse dinners of Newport degenerates was reached by a woman of Santa Ana, Orange county, who gave an entertainment at her "palatial home," in honor of a young pig that was about to be killed and eaten. We are informed that the "charming hostess" became greatly attached to the piglet, and feeling that its end was near, she decided to honor it—before eating it—with an afternoon tea, so that her friends and guests might tender their adieux to the young swine—Los Angeles Times. Just Like a Story. Bysus, of which fine, tridentes stockings and shawls are made in Sicily, is a silk made by a fish. The puina is a Mediterranean shellfish that has an odd little tube at the end of its tongue. Out of this tube, spider fashion, or silkworm fashion, it spins a silk thread, with which it fastens itself to any rock that it wishes to adhere to. When the puina moves on its fastenings, its silken cable remains behind. This cable, which is called byssus the Sicilian fishermen gather. Bysus weaves into the softest, finest, sheeniest of fabrics, but it is very rare and expensive—Popular Science Sittings. Stilt-Marks on Old China Hunting for stilt-marks on old China is often good fun in itself. Almost every old piece of flatware—i.e. plates, platters, saucers, etc.—shows three little rough spots, more or less clearly marked on both sides, usually in the margin. These spots were made in the firing, by the co*kspur or stilts—little tripods used between the plates in piling them up in the kiln. The three points where the cockspur touched the plate caused a defect in the glaze. Unfortunately, stilt-marks are not as sure a guarantee of authenticity as some collectors have supposed, for they are not only easy to imitate, but they are sometimes imperceptible on the old Staffordshire. Furthermore, they appear very frequently on modern tableware of the cheaper sort, and so are no sign of antiquity.—Country Life in America. Believes in the Newspapers "I believe in the newspaper," said Mr. Alexander, the singing evangelist. "To illustrate their carrying power, let me tell a story: "A newspaper, published in England, one day carried in its columns a sermon by the late Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon. That newspaper found its way to Australia, and eventually was part of a bundle that was thrown under the counter of a store to wrap up packages with. In course of time it was reached and inclosed some articles that were sent to the house of a most ungodly man. He unwrapped the goods, and as he did so the heading of the sermon struck his eye. The man read it, became thoughtful, read it again. It convinced him, and he became an earnest and devout Christian." Some divorces cost a lot, but are worth all the alimony that must be paid. When an elderly woman begin a conversation by saying; "I raised my children without help," it is an intimation that she is tired taking care of grandchildren. MAN GROWING MORE HUMANE Treatment of Domestic Animals Is Proof of This. "Electric fans in stables, horse shower baths and screens to keep out flies and mosquitoes are not uncommon nowadays in rich men's establishments," said a coachman. "The world is improving. Animals are now treated better than men used to be. "Look at the drinking troughs for dogs and cats. You find them everywhere in our big cities during the hot season. And they are continually in service. "Look at the straw bonnets that horses wear on the hot days. These bonnets, with a moist sponge inside them, are an immense protection against the heat. And look at the many costly and excellent kinds of fly nets that are continually being patented. "Then there are innumerable boarding houses in the country for dogs and cats and horses, where these animals may be sent in July and August if the hot weather runs them down. "Yes, undoubtedly the world treats animals nowadays better than it treated men in the past." QUALITIES THAT MAKE A LADY Idea of Charles Dana Gibson Very Near the Truth. "I dined with Charles Dana Gibson at Prince's restaurant in London during the season," said a Chicagoan. "The lofty, spacious dining-room was filled with women in pale gowns, their hair uncovered and their arms and necks bare, and though these women were very fashionable, very aristocratic, they smoked cigarettes with their coffee as they watched the bloscope pictures that went on at one end of the big room and as they listened to the singing that went on at the other. "Amid all this feminine smoking we Americans began to discuss and to define the word 'lady.' Was it ladylike to smoke? we asked. Would a lady ever smoke? What was a lady? "I think Mr. Gibson's definition of a lady was the best that was given." "A lady," he said, ignoring the smoke question altogether, "is a woman who always remember others and never forgets herself." EXTREMES IN MODERN COSTUME Woman's Dress Extravagant and Immodest Says Writer. It has gone beyond extravagance in women's clothes. It has come into debauchery. The dress habit is ruining more homes now than the drink habit. Ten minutes in a fashionable dressmaker' a establishment to-day costs the husband more money than ten nights in a barroom a decade ago. There are hundreds of women in New York who spend more than $10,000 a year on dress. The woman who might have dared to walk upper Broadway of a summer's afternoon, ten years ago, wearing a 1906 waist so thin and transparent that a lace curtain would be opaque beside it, would have excited the scorn and disgust of her sex. Today she vies with her sisters as to who shall be the most expert in the art of heightening the effect of exposure by a shadow of concealment—N. Y. Press. Legends of the Kingfisher. Many and curious are the legends of the kingfisher. One of these is to the effect that the bird was originally a plain gray in color, but upon being let loose from the ark flew toward the setting sun and had its back stained blue by the sky and its lower plumage searched by the sun to gorgeous hues. The dried body of the kingfisher was once used as a charm against thunderboots and moths, and it was hung up so that it might point with its bill to the wind's quarter. Miss Eva P. Washington, of 1138 New Jersey avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, who has been traveling for her health since a serious accident which happened her on July 2nd. She was seriously injured in Mitchell's dry goods store on the elevator, which was the fault of the house. She has opened a school of hair dressing and Milinery in Lafayette, Mo. Not in the Succession The young pastor was examining the Sunday school and asked the class just in front of him if any of them could tell anything about the Apostle Peter. A little girl raised her hand. "Come up here, my little lady," said the minister. "I am much gratified to see that you have remembered your lesson. Now, tell the school what you know about Peter." The little girl was quite willing, and commenced: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her, put her in a—" But they never heard where he put her, on account of the general uproar. —Congregationalist. Lucid. But Wrong. When the steam engine was invented a learned Englishman wrote a book in which he set forth his theory that it would be impossible to propel a vessel across the ocean by steam power. The writing was lucid, the reasoning was correct, but the premises were wrong, and the first volume of this excellent work that came to America was brought over in a steamboat, thereby demonstrating that one fact may carry away a volume of theory. Great Speech by Dr. W. T. Vernon The Honorable W. T. Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, spoke in the large auditorium of the Baptist Church at Durham, N. C., on the evening of November 26, 1907, to a crowded house. The meeting was presided over by Dr. James E. Shepard, one of the Secretaries of the International Sunday School Union who is doing special work among the Colored people. Among other things he said: "All true Americans regard with extreme satisfaction the preachments and efforts for an era of good feeling on the part of the leaders of the North and the leaders of the South. The coming together of the hitherto discordant elements in our body politic can but meet the approval of the patriotic citizens of the American Republic. While this feeling of charity for all and malice toward none is ever increasing, we must all agree that it should be sufficiently inclusive to embrace the Negro, and that it will never have accomplished its full purpose until he, a necessary part of this Republic, is the beneficiary of the same. If such a spirit is necessary to the rehabilitation of the Southland, and the building up of the Northland as it relates to the American white man with his education, wealth and power—how much more imperative it is that the Negro, the weaker race should be fostered and encouraged in the same way. The weak look to the strong, the ignorant look to the intelligent—look to them for aid, leadership, light and justice. Justice unalloyed, justice full and free is that which the Constitution guarantees and that which will bring a better day to our country. The evidences of progress around me, the prosperity of the Negro which I have observed in the South, all convince me that there is here a spirit of mutual helpfulness between the races. This is gratifying and reassuring to those of us who desire this better era. The elimination of selfishness on the part of both races should be sought after. The economic phase of the question should not be confused with the racial phase. It may be difficult for some to always realize that race prejudice should have no part in business relations. Wherever the Negro mases himself competent and worthy his color should not bar him from remunerative employment and protection of the laws in the performance of his tasks. The better element of the white race should and do look with favor and satisfaction, upon the efforts of the sturdy progressive Negro. He in turn asks and should receive their protection from any ills which may be visited upon him because of his race. Feeling secure he will more industriously strive to become a factor for the commercial and industrial uplift of his community. The sum total of the progress of his locality will be hindered or helped by his individual status. So then, the protection of the laws, the opportunity to thrive should be guaranteed him on the one hand and should be accepted by him on the other. This interdependence of the white man and the Negro must be acknowledged by all who see the right and strive for the same. I am always optimistic with regard to the final outcome of this question. The patience, industry, fidelity, hopefulness and splendid endeavor of the Negro through long generations are an earnest of the indestructibility which always counts in the lives of nations. These qualities have always made for the splendid triumph of the American white man and I believe the better natures of a people who have thus succeeded will be appealed to successfully by weaker people traveling the same pathway. It is because of this that I have faith beyond the discouragements placed before us by any who doubt the final success of the Negro. Those who advocate that the Negro should not be educated indirectly speak for more jails, more repressive laws and more crimes. To educate out of the ignoble into the noble, from the lower to the higher, from narrowness to broader vision, from badness to goodness is the supreme duty of all who see the light. Unbiased educators, statesmen and publicists of the highest order are everywhere arguing for an enlightened citizenship which will include the Negro. In a country such as ours, where bayonets do not control, where the ballot is sovereign, where law is King, our Republican form of Government is protected and secure when civic virtue of the highest order is in the ascendant. It was an inspiring sight a few days ago to see Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States; Andrew Carnegie, the philanthropist; James Bryce, the diplomat, and James R. Garfield, the statesman, lay aside pressing duties and weight responsibilities, to participate in the fortieth anniversary exercises of one of the great Institutions of learning where hundreds of Negro youth are being educated. The encouragement, advice and hopefulness propounded in the addresses of these great men meant more for the race and nation than we can here estimate. Their philanthropic unselfishness act was but in line with the spirit of the age, which spirit is making for the amelioration of all untoward conditions and the betterment of all humanity. Such acts exhibit a lofty purpose, the outgrowth of the idea that service to others is paramount and that no man's duty is complete unless it encompasses his duty to his fellow men as well as to himself. As a race we must put ourselves at all times in harmony with this spirit. We shall be able to measure up to the same by making ourselves the highest types of manhood and womanhood. If we lay well to heart these thoughts and demand of ourselves the best that is within us, we shall raise ourselves in the estimation of all the world and prove ourselves worthy of all the best men of America will finally secure for us." The Register is delivering in all sections of the country addresses, and is thus working earnestly to benefit the race and serve his people. After a splendid reception tendered him by the citizens of Durham, he left to attend a meeting of the A. M. E. Conference at Wilmington, N. C., where he also spoke. MARYLAND. And District of Columbia Return to the Fold. Campaign of Education Inaugurated by Supreme Chancellor Starks Adds Over Two Thousand Members to Mother Organization. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 16.—A happier set of Pythians than those in Baltimore and the State of Maryland cannot be found in the broad jurisdiction of the Supreme Lodge of N. A., S. A., E., A. & A. This happiness is caused by the consummation of the long pending negotiations to unite with the mother jurisdiction. No subject relating to Pythianism has been watched more closely and no question has created such universal interest as that of union. For years Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks has worked patiently and faithfully to bring about the desired end. It required a campaign of education and this was made. When the Pythians of this jurisdiction were enlightened and shown the truth situation the work was done. Grand Chancellor Geo. A. Watty issued a call for an extra session of the Grand Lodge to meet in the city of Baltimore on October 31 to decide whether or not they would unite with the mother orgitization. Every lodge in the jurisdiction, including those in the District of Columbia, was representer and in addition to the duly accredited representatives there were more than five hundred interested Pythians present. Grand Chancellor Watty called the Grand Lodge to order and stated the object of the meeting to be whether or not we shall united with the Pythians of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Dr. Chas, H. Fowler, who is the Grand Medical Director of the Grand Lodge, presented a resolution to unite and moved its adoption. Without one word of discussion the vote was taken and the vote for union was unanimous. Supreme Chancellor Starks was at once notified and it was arranged to make the transfer on November 14. According to agreement the Supreme Chancellor arrived here on the morning of the 14th and was quartered at the Myrtle Hotel, of which Col. Geo. H. Carter is owner and proprietor. At 8 o'clock Thursday evening he met Grand Chancellor Watty and his cabinet, which consists of the officers of the Grand Lodge, and the final transfer was made and it was proclaimed that from that time henceforth and forevermore the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of the State of Maryland and District of Columbia would be subordinate to the Supreme Lodge of N. A., S. A., E. A. A. & A. All matters pertaining to the working of the order were gone over carefully in order that a thorough understanding would be had? As a fitting close to the long drawn out campaign for union, Col. Geo. H. Carter tendered the Supreme Chancellor. Grand Chancellor Watty and his cabinet a banquet at his hotel. It was past one o'clock a.m. when the party reached the beautiful dining room of the Myrtle. This table was laden with all the luxuries afforded by Baltimore's splendid market. Mrs. Carter, who seems as much interested in Pythianism as the Colonel himself, assisted in making it pleasant for the guests. Those present at the banquet table were Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks, of Charleston W. Va., Grand Chancellor Geo. A. Watty, Grand Chancellor Geo. A. Watty, Vice Grand Chancellor Truly Hatchett, Grand Prelate Thaddeus Copeland, Grand Past Chancellor Lewis E. Williams, Grand Medical Register Chas. A. Fowler, Supreme Representatives Josiah Diggs, Grand Ouster Guard Jno. C. Green, Sirs Jos. S. Blackwell, John H. Henderson, Wm. Layton, Jno H. Hawkins, Jno H. Booth and Col. Geo. H. Carter, Chief of Staff. It is safe to say that a happier set of men never surrounded a banquet table. Supreme Chancellor Starks was particularly gratified over the result. He said this means the addition of three Grand Lodges to the roster of Grand Lodges before the next session of the Supreme Lodge. They will be as follows: Maryland, Connecticut and District of Columbia. The lodges at Hartford and Bridgeport, Conn., have united with us which gives us enough lodges for a Grand Lodge in that State. The three lodges which come to us in the District of Columbia with the five we have there make enough for a Grand Lodge there. He was outspoken in his praise of the good work done for union by Col. Geo. H. Carter, Grand Chancellor Watty, Past Grand Chancellor WilliaMs, Sirs, Henderson, Blackwell, Diggs, Strange and others. When here the Supreme Chancellor had a conference with Mrs. Lillie Jones, Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court, and Mrs. Rosie Richardson. Past Grand Worthy Counsellor relative to the transfer of that department. 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