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"Hooligan's Troubles" showed in Ottawa a few nights ago, but those who have seen both say they are as nothing compared with Henry Allen's. "How quick St. Petersburg and Tokio can hear good news," observes the Jewell City Republican, "and how long it takes the news of defeat to filter through." A farmer in Pike township, Lyon county, refuses to have a telephone in his house or take a daily paper because "the temptation is too strong to waste time." "The funeral of a Norton county man was held in a church last week and the clergyman observed that it was the first time he had been there for ten years. "If a man had his life to live over again," says the philosopher of the Sedgwick Pantagraph, "he would probably be galled up fully as bad as he did the first time." A horse fell into a trench which had carelessly been left without a danger signal in Hiawatha the other night and was killed. The owner, instead of claiming that the horse was worth $500, admits that $25 is its real value, and offers to take $10. It is believed to be a case without a parallel. The Izaak Walton club of Newton has bought a tract of land along the Little river and is preparing to cast its lines in pleasant places. Warden Jewett has started an overall factory at the state penitentiary. By this means the convicts will have something to wear when they send their prison garb to the tailor's to be pressed. Congressman Murdock spent all his spare time during the winter watching the cash register in Secretary Shaw's office, and is authority for the statement that the government of the United States costs $27 a second. The American Trotting association has disallowed the alleged record of 1:591 made by Cresceus in Wichita last October. All who were concerned in the deception are to be barred from the turf excepting, possibly; Cresceus. Kansas has reason to feel proud that Samuel W. Moore has been appointed general solicitor of the Kansas City Southern railway. He is a graduate of the law department of the state university, and was once deputy treasurer of Douglas county. Emporia is an excellent town, notwithstanding the State Elecutionary association is in session there. Leavenworth is having almost as much trouble increasing the jointists' "fines" from $25 a month to $50 as Kansas City, Kan., had raising them from $50 to $100. Emmet Dalton promises, if he is paroled from the state penitentiary, he will not exhibit or identify himself with any show. That's what Cole Younger promised, too. The Minneapolis Messenger hopes the prophecy that the world is to come to an end in ninety years is not correct. It wants to give Grant Gillett time to settle with his creditors. In Abilene the club women met and impressively elected a set of delegates and alternates to the meeting of the state federation in Emporia—not a soul of whom is in attendance. EUPARILLA Euparilla TONIC STIMULANT ALTERATIVE APERIENT ANTI-LITHIC DIURETIC A REPLACEMENT FOR DYSPEPSIA, CATARRH AND RHEUMATISM MANUFACTURED BY THE McPIKE DRUG CO. ATLANTISON, KANSAS. THE TONIC OF ALL TONICS THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER THE STRENGTH BUILDER THE NERVE TONER THE HEALTH GIVER THE LIFE SAVER It Is Narrless It Is Safe It Is Pleasant It Is Sure AT YOUR DRUGGIST'S J. J. J. "Won't You go to the Dairy with Me?" Find the Person to Whom She is speaking. $25,000 AYEAR JOHN F. WALLACE TO BE CHIER ENGINEER OF PANAMA CANAL. E IS AN OLD TIME RAILROAD MAN Is at Present General Manager of Illinois Central—Was Bridge Engineer for the Santa Fe In 1887, and Built the Sibley Bridge Across the Missouri. WASHINGTON. — (Special.) Admiral Walker, president of the Panama canal commission, received a telegram Tuesday from John Findley Wallace, of Chicago, general manager of the Illinois Central railroad, accepting the appointment of chief engineer in charge of the construction of the canal. Mr. Wallace will receive a salary of $25,000 a year. "Mr. Wallace has been considered for some time by members of the canal commission for the position of chief engineer," said Admiral Walker. "No one stands higher in his profession or is better equipped to take up the work mapped out than he, and the commission is to be congratulated on securing the services of such a man." Mr. Wallace will take up his work with the commission on June 1. He will arrive in Washington on or before that date, and for the present will have his offices at the headquarters of the commission in this city. It has not been determined when he will visit the isthmus, all matters of detail being left for a future conference with the commission. In regard to the salary to be paid Mr. Wallace, Admiral Walker said that when a man undertakes to direct the "Won't You go to the Dairy with H is spea construction of the Panama canal project it is necessary for him to burn his ships behind him, and that $25,000 is not too high for a man competent for so important a trust. "Whoever undertakes that task gives up his business in this country, for it will require all his time on the isthmus for an indefinite period," said the admiral. OLD SOLDIER MISSING No Word From Him Since He Left Blackwell, O. T., in March. BLACKWELL, O. T. — (Special.) William Ramisch, old soldier, has been absent from his home for the past eight weeks and his relatives and friends are unable to account for ti. A search is being instituted, but those who are assisting in it have no idea where to look. The old man came here from Nebraska several years ago, and purchased a home, where he and his wife have since lived. When he left, he took his pension papers with him, and told his wife he was going to look for a location and that, as soon as he drew his pension, he would send her some money. This he has not done, and it is thought he has not yet drawn his money. For some time Mr. Ramisch has been troubled with rheumatism and it is feared he has become suddenly worse and in a place from where it has been impossible to notify his wife, or that he has become mentally unbalanced. Nearly Died of Starvation. HALIFAX—(Special.) Advices from the west coast of Newfoundland state that the Philip Knowling expedition, which started from Bay St. George for Glenwood by way of Cormack's track, has arrived at its destination after three weeks' suffering and extreme hardships. The fellow that complains he leads dog's life generally grows about it. Twelve Tons of Gold Melted. PHILADELPHIA, PA. — (Special.) Twelve tons of virgin gold were reduced to a molten state at the United States mint here. At the same time the coinage department began the work of converting the mass into gold eagles. Wednesday twelve more tons will be melted and within the next few days about $12,000,000 will be coined. Most of the gold came from New York in bullion. The melting of twelve tons of gold in one day is satd to break all records for mint melting. Father and Son Die Together. NEW YORK—(Special). Their love for each other and the fear that they might be separated by death is believed to have led Conrad Haustein, 59 years old, and his son, Conrad, jr., 38 years, to take their own lives. The bodies of the two men were found Tuesday in a room in East Twenty-fifth street, where they had lived together for several years. Each of the men held the end of an open gas tube. JAPS ARE BOMBARDING Entered Upon the Campaign for the Reduction of Port Arthur. REduction of Port Arthur. LONDON.—(Special.) The Tokio correspondent of the Morning Post, cabling under date of May 10, says that a high-angle bombardment of Port Arthur is proceeding. ST. PETERSBURG.—(Special.) The Associated Press is informed that the garrison at Port Arthur is stronger than heretofore has been stated. "There is no reason to keep the strength of the garrison at Port Arthur a-secret," said the informant of the Associated Press. "The Japanese know it because of their perfect information. We have 20,000 soldiers and 10,000 sailors there. The latter will not be used on the fortifications except as a last extremity. "The Japanese will not obtain possession of our fleet even if they capture Port Arthur. The orders to the commander there are that he shall, when a fall is inevitable, put to sea and engage the enemy. We do not propose for the Japanese to find in the harbor a number of valuable warships which they can seize and add to their fleet. Moreover, in battle the Japanese will suffer as well as our ships, and those of the latter which do not escape will go down to the bottom." LONDON.—(Special.) The Dally Chronicle's Tokio correspondent declares that Port Arthur will be bombarded with heavy guns, and that a concentrated assault will be made on a well-known vulnerable point in the defenses. WILL BE HELD AT CHEFOO. U. S. Warships Not to Go to Newchamp Unless Gravely Needed. WASHINGTON—(Special.) It is said that the two United States warships which have been ordered to Che Me?" Find the Person to Whom She making. foo will act under the instructions suggested by the American minister and the consul at Newchwang. It is believed to be desirable not to advance the ships from this nearest neutral port into the theater of war without very great reasons. The captains of the ships, therefore, will communicate with Consul Miller at Newchwang, though he is to do this, in the event that telegraph lines are broken, is not suggested here. WAR NOTES. ST. PETERSBURG—(Special). The action of the Russian government in declaring cotton to be contraband of war is due to its being used in the manufacture of high explosives. NEW YORK—(Special). The National City bank and the National Bank of Commerce are associated with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in the flotation in this country of the £10,000,000 sterling 6 per cent loan of the Japanese government. Subscriptions will be opened Thursday and are to be closed on or before next Tuesday. It is understood that the loan has already been over-subscribed. The subscription price will be $93½ and accrued interest. ST. PETERSBURG.—(Special.) Russia has protested to the powers signatory of The Hague and Geneva conventions against the action of the Japanese in firing on the Red Cross train from Port Arthur May 6, when of 200 sick and wounded on the cars, two were struck by the Japanese bullets. The general staff is authority for the statement that the health of the Russian troops is exceptionally good, considering the filthy Chinese hovels along the line of march which it was sometimes impossible to keep the men from entering. The total number of cases in the hospitals does not exceed 1 per cent of the Russian forces. Midland Valley Begins Work TULSA, L. T.—(Special). The Midland Valley Railroad company began throwing dirt on the right-of-way in this city Tuesday. Several hundred men and teams are at work, and construction will be pushed as rapidly as possible. It is reported here that a corps of Santa Fe engineers are running a line up Bird creek from Owasso toward the Midland Valley line, north of here. It is the opinion that these two lines will unite at that point and the Santa Fe will run into Tulsa over the Midland line. Owasso is the present terminus of the Santa Fe. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. A Roosevelt-McGuire Club has been organized by the Republicans at Granite, O. T. W. H. Kettell is president and H. H. Arnett secretary. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail, it was announced in that paper Tuesday, has been expelled from Belgrade, Servia, for his severe comment on the conspirators who planned and executed the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. WARRANT FOR $40,000,000. It Is Far the Largest Ever Drawn by the United States. WASHINGTON—(Special.) Secretary Shaw Saturday signed a treasury warrant for $40,000,000, which was delivered Monday to J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York as disbursement agents of this government, on account of the Panama canal purchase. The warrant is dated May 9 and was delivered by Secretary Shaw personally on last Monday. This warrant is many times larger than any warrant ever before issued by this government. The largest sum previously covered by a single government warrant was for $7,200,000 paid to Russia in 1868 on account of the Alaskan purchase. In 1899 this government paid Spain, through the French ambassador, $20,000,000 for the Philippine islands, but this sum was represented by four warrants of $5,000,000 each. The $15,000,000 agreed upon as the purchase price for the Louisiana territory, was paid in 1803 by the assumption by the United States of the claims of citizens of this country against France, amounting to $3,750,000 and the issue to France of certificates of stock in the sum of $11,250,000. SEATTLE BOY KIDNAPED. Disappeared Almost Under the Eyes of His Mother. SEATTLE, WASH.—(Special). The 2-year-old son of R. D. Baker, a wealthy Seattle merchant, was kidnapped Monday at Eagle Harbor, a summer resort, located on an island across the bay from this city. The child was taken as he was passing through a small grove to join his mother, who was waiting for him on the brow of a hill. Mrs. Baker stood watching her baby as he came up a gentle incline. She turned her eyes away for a moment and when she looked again he had disappeared. The alarm was raised and all day and all night a party of 150 men thoroughly scoured the island. There are no wild beasts on the island, and the place where the boy vanished is situated so that he could not have possibly drowned in the bay. FOOD IS A FALLACY, SHE SAID. Now a Chicago Woman Is Starving In a Hospital. NEW YORK—(Special). Mrs. Bessie Nunzinsky, who lives here, became convinced, through months of pouring over literature, that she could attain perfect health through abstaining from food and ignoring all things material. She resolved a week ago to eat no more. She is now in the psychopathic ward of Bellevue hostipal and the doctors fear she will die unless they can prevail upon her to take food. After fasting seven days Mrs. Nunzinsky declared that her husband and three children should have nothing more to eat, having satisfied herself that food was a fallacy. Her husband had her removed to a hostipal, where she still refused to eat. AT THE ORPHEUM. Those who are one of comedy can have their desires satisfied at the Ophepum in Kansas City Sunday, when that playhouse completes its season with its annual amateur carnival. Nearly fifty acts of all kinds and classes are booked for the two per firmances and the whole programme will be made up of amateur turns Singers and dancers are in the majority, but there are monologists and others to vary the offerings. The Visions of Art, posed for by twenty pretty young women, will be the features The number of aspirants rom out of town is also greater than ever before The sale of tickets has been heavy. Preference to Married Men. DES MOINES, IA—(Special.) "Hereafter preference will be shown to clerks who are married, especially those with larger families." The above notice was posted in the Des Moines postoffice Monday. Postmaster McKay stated the order came from the postoffice department at Washington and is in line with a suggestion from President and his large-families idea. Stricken in the Pulpit. MARSHALLTOWN, IA.—(Special.) Without warning to the large congregation whose heads were bowed while the minister prayed for their welfare, the Rev. O. R. Newell, pastor of the M. E. church here, fell stricken with paralysis in his pulpit Sunday. The body of the pastor pitched headlong to the floor. He was removed to nis home, but cannot live. Throw Chloroform on Them WABASH, IND.—(Special.) While Christian Holiness people were in the midst of an enthusiastic revival meeting at their tabernacle here Monday an unknown person dashed a big bottle of chloroform over the congregation. Numerous persons were so overcome that they had to be dragged to the doors before they revived. It's funny how big a borrowed dollar looks when the time comes to pay it back. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The following additional rural free delivery routes are established to begin June 1: Kansas—Smith Center, Smith county; length of route, thirty-one miles; population served, 400. 3 President Roosevelt has appointed Colonel A. L. Mills, commandant of the West Point military academy, a brigadier general. William Marconi was a passenger on the Cunard line steamship Campania, which sailed from Liverpool for New York Monday. The comptroller of the currency has extended corporate existence of the First National bank of Girard, Kan., until May 7, 1904. Fred Ellsworth of Hunnewell, Kan., has been appointed a railway mall clerk. The salaries for the following post- masters in Missouri will be changed July 1: Independence, from $2,400 to $2,300; Kirksville, from $2,400 to $2,500; Liberty, from $1,800 to $1,900; Holden, from $1,600 to $1,700; Jackson, from $1,400 to $1,500; Lebanon, from $1,600 to $1,700. Discover Old Parchment Discoverers On Parchment. The archivist of Montecassino has just discovered in that famous matter a parchment containing historical matter of importance hitherto unknown, and bearing upon the period of the struggle between Gregory VII and Henry IV. Why Is a Hound? The spaniel is so called because the original breed came from Spain, and the first arrivals in England were called Spanish dogs. BE WARNED! Heed Nature's warnings! Pain tells of lurking disease. Backache is kidney pain — a warning of kidney ill. Urinary troubles, too, come to tell you the kidneys are sick. Constant weariness, he aides, dizzy spells, days of pain, nights of unrest are dander signals warning you to cure the kidneys Use Doan's Heed Nature's warnings! Pain tells of lurking disease. Backache is kidney pain—a warning of kidney fills. Urinary troubles, too, come to tell you the kidneys are sick. Constant weariness, headaches, dizzy spells, days of pain, nights of unrest are danger signals warning you to cure the kidneys. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, which have made thousands of permanent cures. Frank D. Overbaugh, cattle-buyer and farmer, Catskill, N. Y., says: "Doctors told me ten years ago that I had Bright's Disease, and said they could do nothing to save me. My back ached so I could not stand it to even drive about, and passages of the kidney secretions were so frequent as to annoy me greatly. I was growing worse all the time, but Doan's Kidney Pills cured me, and I have been well ever since." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Overbaugh will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. A. Young Naturalist. A mother was trying to impress on her four-year-old son the importance of going to bed earl. "You know," she began, "the little chickens always go to bed with the sun." "Yes, mamma," he interrupted, referring to a story she had lately read him, "but the big hen always goes along, too." Kitten Ignores Mice A kitten was lately brought up on an exclusively vegetable diet by a London family of vegetarians. The result is that it will not touch animal food, and pays no attention to rats or mice that are purposely permitted to wander across its range of vision. Names of Korean Women A Korean woman has no name. Before marriage she is so-and-so's daughter, and after marriage so-and-so's wife. Corea's Navy. The navy of Corea consists of twenty-five admirals and one iron-built coal barge. Japan's Many Capitals Japan has had no fewer than sixty different capitals within historic times. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science can cure. It is Cataract. Hailu's Cataract Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Cataract being a constitution of the eye, Hailu's Cataract Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the eye. Hailu's Cataract Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the eye, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting it in doing so. The patient may much need such a curative power that they offer One Hundred dollars for any case that it fails to address F. J. CHENX & CO., Toledo, O. Soll by all Druggists. This is a request for constitution. Women of Slam. There are no old mails in Siam, for there all the girls marry, and woman is not considered to have attained her highest estate till she has become a mother. Then she has reached the pinnacle of honor. The chief wife is the first wife and she may not be sold, but if her husband desire to be rid of her he must divorce her according to the law. Poor Return for Chivalry. A London man gave up his seat in a tramcar to a woman. While he was basking in the sunshine of self-approbation along came a constable and placed him under arrest on the charge of alding and abetting the conductor to overcrowd the car. He was fined 3s. and bade to go away and sin no more. Worshiped the Camel For sixteen centuries the inhabitants of Beziers, in south France, have held the camel sacred, for in 250 A. D. St. Aphrodise, mounted on one of these animals, evangelized the city. In their museum they preserve a curious papier-mache effigy of a camel. Half Time in Bed. Mount Hor, Ky., May 9th. The records of medicine in this state do not contain a more interesting and instructive case than that of Mrs. Lillie Jacobs of Mount Hor. Mrs. Jacobs tells the particulars of her case as follows: "For six years I had to keep to my bed half the time. When I did get up I was not able to walk across the house without just gasping for breath. I had kidney trouble in the worst form, in fact, I was a total wreck. It pained me fearfully to urinate and my back ached all the time. Now I am well for Dodd's Kidney Pills have entirely cured me. I saw an advertisement of this remedy and bought one box. I experienced so much benefit from this that I kept on till I was cured completely. "I can do my own housework and can walk around as well as ever with perfect ease and strength. Just now I am helping to make garden. I feel like a new woman and I owe it all to Dodd's Kidney Pills." "Dont look coy at me," said a man to a woman recently; "I am too old to enjoy it?" FITS permanently curated. No his or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervouser kit. Send for FREE $2.00 trial and treatise. Dr. K. & K. Lek, Lek, St. Arnold Street, Philadelphia, PA. The fat man naturally regrets to see his superfluous flesh going to waist. It is his blood, and not the amount of his wealth or the extent of his lands, that ennobles a Rajput. Many of the noblest families are very poor, but the poorest retains the knowledge and the pride of his ancestors, which are often his only inheritance. Protestant Contributions The average annual contribution in American Protestant churches is $12 per capita. AN ILLINOIS FARMER IN WEST: FRN CANADA. A recent issue of the Shelbyville, Illinois, Democrat contains a long and interesting letter from Mr. Elias Kost, formerly a prosperous farmer of that state, who recently emigrated to Western Canada, taking up a claim for himself and for each of his three sons. From Mr. Kost's letter, which was written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish the following, believing it will prove of great interest to those who have contemplated settling in the Canadian Northwest: "I had in August, 1902, secured a claim for myself, and filed on three quarter sections for my sons. My claim is one-half mile south of the Edmonton and Lake St. Anne trail. "Coming so late in the season we had little opportunity to break and to prepare ground for a first year's crop, still we raised over 100 bushels of very fine potatoes, and sowed a few acres of barley, but the season was too far advanced for the barley. However, we secured good feed from it, and on rented ground 18 miles cast of us, raised a fine crop of oats, so that we will have plenty of feed for horses. We cut about 60 tons of hay and thus will have an abundance. We have, all told, about 240 acres of hay meadow, which would yield the past year over three tons to the acre, and in an ordinary season the meadow would furnish 600 tons of hay. The grass is very nutritious, and cattle on the ranges become very fat without being fed a pound of grain. "On the upland the grass grows from eight to ten inches tall. This is called range grass, and is suitable for stock at any time, even in the winter when the ground is not covered too deep with snow. Horses subsist on it alone, at all times, provided they are native stock. The grass in the hay meadows here is called red-top, and grows from five to six feet in length, and when cut at the proper time yields an abundant crop of nutritious hay. "Our cattle have not cost us a cent since we came on our homestead, only the small outlay for salt and labor in putting up hay and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and feeding up to the first of January was unnecessary, as there was good range up to that time. "All the snows up to that date were followed by winds from the northwest that melts it very rapidly; these winds are called Chinook winds, and are always warm. In one night a Chinook wind may take away three or four inches of snow. "We have built on our claim a comfortable house of hewn logs, 20x26 feet, one and one-half stories in height, with a good cellar. During the latter part of June we rafted logs down the Sturgess to a sawmill, about eight miles away, and thus secured 5,000 feet of good lumber which was needed for the house. Later in the season a shingle mill located six miles away. To this we hauled logs and had shingles cut for the roof. "We had an abundance of wild fruit the past season, consisting of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, eyebberries, blueberries, cherries and saskatoons. The latter are a fine looking berry, red, and quite pleasant to the taste, but not much to be desired in cookery. The strawberries are the same as those that grow wild in Illinois. Raspberries are red in color, large and equal to any of the tame varieties, and so are the gooseberries. The cranberries consist of the high and trailing varieties. The latter are most sought and contiguous to the swamps. The ground is literally covered with them as with a red carpet, but the best and most sought is the blueberry, so called by the Indians. This is the famous 'huckleberry' (wortleberry) of the Blue Ridge mountains in Pennsylvania, and cannot be excelled for excellence by any fruit cultivated. It is found here both on the prairie and in the timber in immense quantities. "Game is very plentiful so far as prairie chickens, pheasants, ducks of all kinds, and geese are concerned. We have taken nearly 500 chickens and pheasants, also a great many ducks. "An occasional deer is seen, but are not plentiful, only one having been taken during the season in this settlement. "Fish are very plentiful at all seasons of the year. Fish wagons and sleds are passing almost daily along the trail with heavy loads of fish, destined for St. Albert and Edmonton. From the latter point they are shipped south on the Calgary and Edmonton railroad to points along the line, and also to Assiniboia, on the Canadian Pacific railroad." For further information apply to any authorized Canadian Government Agent whose address appears elsewhere in this paper. - Narrow Streets in Japan. Most of the Japanese cities are very old and their streets are too narrow for street railways. To rebuild the streets for the use of the street railways is not an easy matter. Insist on Getting It Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 2 oz. for the same amount. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. The more a woman fills up a shirt waist the more room there seems to be in it. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. A man always knows less than he pretends and a girl more than she lets To Relieve Toothache. To relieve toothache, make a fannet bag about four or five inches square, fill it three-quarters full of common salt; sew up and heat the bag in the oven, and apply to the side of the face. The salt retains heat for a considerable time and gives much relief. Month of Marriages. In all countries more marriages take place in June than in any other month. Brazil's Population. The population of Brazil is 16,000, of which 1,500,000 are Italians, 1,000,000 Portuguese, 250,000 Germans, 4,000 English, 400 Americans and about 20,000 of various other nationalities. The average number of immigrants is about 3,000 a year, the Italians predominating; the German immigration is about 200 a year. Free to Twenty-five Ladies. The Defiance Starch Co. will give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri who will send in the largest number of trade marks cut from a ten cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, anywhere in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September 1st, 1904. October and November will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up 16 oz. (a full pound) to the package. You get one third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. Advantages of Postal Parcels Law. Advantages of Postal Parcels Law. The farmer to-day, when he wishes to buy, hitches up a pair of horses, drives four or five miles and makes few purchases. If the United States had the postal parcels law of Austro- Hungary the farmer would draw a postal check, mail it free, the merchant would deliver the goods to the postoffice, and a few hours later they would be in the hands of the farmer. Long Loaves of Bread. The largest loaves of bread baked in the world are those of France and Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy is baked in loaves two feet or three feet long, while in France the loaves are made in the shape of very long rolls, four feet or five feet in length, and in many cases six feet. It's An Awful Disease An American physician has discovered that the blues are only a form of splanknic neurasthenia due to intra-abdominal venous congestion. Now if that doesn't make a patient with the blues bluer than he was before he could be jolly with hyperpyrexia, or with metaplasia of the epithelium. Defiance `arch` should be in every household, no good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. The divorce lawyer gets more out of some matrimonial ventures than the minister. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Many a man who rides in a parlor car would be sadly out of place in a drawing room. Mrs. Winstow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allows pain, cures wind colds. See a bottle. The dentist inspires profanity when he puts a dam in your mouth. K. C. S. Almanac for 1904. The Kansas City Southern Railway Company's Annual Almanac is now ready for distribution. It contains use usual monthly calendars, many useful household hints and information concerning the country in Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, Texas and Louisiana. Write for a copy to S. G. Warner, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. A woman may have a poor memory for names and faces, but she can always remember clothes. The World's Fair In making your arrangements for the World's Fair at St. Louis this summer, you will consider convenience and saving of time, you will take the Wabash Railroad as it runs by and stops at its Station at the entrance of the Fair Grounds; thus saving several miles run and return, and the inevitable jam at he big Union Station. By all means consider the advantages of the Wabash. We don't recall that we ever saw a woman in a drygoods store who was in a hurry. WABASH "Follow the Flag" WABASH TO ST. LOUIS "WORLD'S FAIR ROUTE" ONLY LINE TO WORLD'S FAIR MAIN ENTRANCE. Five Daily Trains from Kansas City. Shortest Line. Ask Your Agent for Tickets Over the WABASH H. C. SHIELDS, Trav. Pass. Agent, L. S. MCCLELLAN, West. Pass. Agt. KANSAS CITY, Mo.