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THE AMERICAN
Kansas City Advertisements
J, a MAGEE,
Furniture, Stoics and Tinware.
THI CLEVER WOMAN.
-DEALER IN
r.ew am
ii
seconWdoois
Alt kind of Household Good, bought,
r mid and eacnaoseu.
FURNITURE REPAIRING.
m . a... .......iMrf la all buvinr and MHirK.
91 on r.et V.lirMintli Street. KANSAS C1TV, MO.
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W. S. WOODS. PnCSiDENT.
w. A. RULE. Cashier.
National Bank of Commerce,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Capital
Surplus
Demand Deposits...
11.000,000 00
300,000.00
5,000,000.00
DIPkOTORS:
J. J. Swofford.
W. P. Voorhees
Wra. A.kew, W. A. WlUon, Wm. Huttl,
if a TT r Warn.
kV&r' j. ll Arnold Chester A. Snider, D T. Morton,
Jos.Cahn, W.S.Wood, ?w. A. uuie.
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
BURT MEEK. Uoensed Embalmer.
TELEPHONE 864.
0URT MEEfc & CO.,
Undertakers and Funeral
Directors.
Carriages furnished at reasonable rates.
1813 Main Street .... KANSAS CITY, Mo,
GAUGLER & SUDDARTH,
(lwm H 4. t. "0lM.)
Great Western Steam Dye Works.
Ladies' Dress Goods, Silks, Satins and Shawls
Cleaned and Dyed.
TELEPHONE 2263.
18 and 20 East Seventh Street, kajs sas city, mo.
Tws Binds a Ckimmh, feat Oaly Oas
That Really ray.
"I wish I were clever."
The woman was charmingly dimpled,
wore a French (own. wu the mistress
of a luxurious establishment and was
dispensing tea to afternoon callers In
cups of priceless faience, says the New
York Hersld.
Women who write." had been ths
subject on the tapis, and the remark
was a delicate compliment to the wom
an to whom she handed the tea. She
was a successful writer successful to
the eitent of making a good Income
as the fruit of unwearied Industry. She
had never known tha delights of dia
monds or her own carriage, or a box
at the opera. She sometimes spent a
hard-earned 15 for a drive, but mere
was neither luxury In the carriage, nor
swiftness In the steeds, and sne was
conscious all through the drive that
when she went back to the office she
would write something about the coun
trv In the SDrinc or the flotsam of fan
follaee and flowers with which the sub
urban resident could decorate his house
and table.
If she took a 12 seat In the opera
house she rarely lost herself complete
ly in the music, as she would have
liked to do. because skeletons of para
graphs on theater hat and tneaier
manners, on lovers who make love In
the stalls as well as on the stage and
a thousand other things for the next
dav's Daoer flitted through ber mina.
She never had a French gown; on tne
contrary, she walked ten blocks ana
climbed seven stories to And a dress
maker who would make, though at the
same time mar. her one gown for 110
Her modest house was pretty ana sne
was even quite famous for her petltes
aouoera. at which one sometimes met
eminent and always delightful people,
but only herself and her one maid knew
at what cost of perspiring brow and
smutched fingers and aching back those
dalntv little dishes were evolved.
Bo there was almost reverence in her
tones as she replied: , I i
"Mr dear, foil are the clever woman;
you are far more clever than George
Eliot The really smart woman is not
1V tin makes YlfT nwn dallV
bread, even though there be a Nessel-
rode pudding thrown In now ad tnen.
It la aha who. without raising ner
hand, can cause all this luxury to be
laid at her pretty satin-shod feet. It
Is like eating a Delraonlco dinner ana
lamentlnr that you are not the chef
who cooked It Not the woman who
works but she who geta all there Is In
life without working, la the really
clever woman.
"Ma there not be two kinds of clev
erness?" said the woman who came to
make her adleux.
A CURIOUS CROWN.
rtu sur imn i
Callfarala.
IAHSAS C1TT STATE BANK.
EAT
Smith Steam Baking
BREAD.
THERE are two kinds of Bread Sold in Kansas City
SMITHES and Ordinary Bakers Bread. Be Sure Our
Label is on Every Loaf.
SMITH STEAM BAKING CO.,
306-8-10 East 17th Street, KANSAS CITY, M0.
f . 1 f I SIS West OtB St.. Kansas City, Ho.
111 y J r Oldest and original. Most successful special
1st. Est' W. Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality. Organic Weak nee. Karly Decay. Lack of
tr-.,.- a-tt in....,., ui.k Minn IWiiwmlL Kihs.ust.lnit Losses. Phonies on ace.
Aversion to "Society. Loss of Ambition, TJnntne.a to Mar ntfd Iswloninent. Lost
Manhood. Milky Urine, efforts of abuse or excess CURED TO STAY CURED. My He
long experience, special study of each case, pure medicines. Insure a REAL CURE. Ques
tion list No 1 free In plain envelops. Charges reawnahle. Terms easy. I all
BLOOD AND SKIN diseases, all forms SCROFULA. RHEUMATISM, CATARRH.
ECZEMA, (Itchy or scaly tetter, and ALL BLOOD DISEASES, cured for life, safely and
sure. Avoid patent medicines or Inexperienced bands. Call or writ for question list No.
I on blood dlwaes. .... . . .
GONORRHOEA, GLEKL, 8TRICTURE. cured without Instruments or pain. List
No. I free. Medical Dictionary and Adviser frei at offce, by mall 8c, Hours 9 to 4, 7 to 8.
Duailsa 1A . 14
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AN UP-TO-DATE, ....
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT,
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
Wkara Ran Prstklln Wars His Wlr,
The difficulties encountered recently
by the lineal descendants of that great
man. statesman, patriot and every
thing else that men properly hold in
satlmatlon Benjamin Franklin In
having themselves enrolled among the
Colonial Dames, recall an anecdote oi
him. When about to present himself
for the first time at the court of Ver
sailles he was Informed by the mastei
of ceremonies that a wig was sine qua
non. Now, his head was so large that
no ordinary wig would begin to fit it,
and the situation was embarrassing in
ha extreme. However, one was found
sufficiently large to pass him through
the ante-chambers, after which he was
nermltted to remove the ridiculous con
ventlonal appendage and place It In hla
ample pocket, whence it never again
emerged to public gaze. Washington
Post
Didn't Follow In. tractions.
Irate Patron You advertise to cure
eonaumDtion. don't youT
Doctor Yes. sir; I never ran wnen
mv Instructions are followed.
irate Patron My son took your mea-
Iclne for a year and died an hour after
the last dose.
Doctor My Instructions were not fol
lowed. I told him to take it two years.
Tit-Bits.
a short time ago Prof. Van der Nall-
len of San Francisco received from
Henry Buehler, of Jacksonville, Ore., a
most strange and Interesting curiosity,
says an exchange. A letter came with
it stating that Mr. Buehler believed the
object to be some sort of a crown, but
would like some positive information
on the subject The letter went on to
asv that the supposed crown was louua
by the writer about thirty-five years
ago on hla ranch in Tuolumne county
In California. At the time he had been
living on the ranch about three years
and It was wild land when be got it.
There Is so record of any one except
Indians ever living In the vicinity ana
there Is not the varuest possibility that
the work was done by them. The place
where the crown was found was a most
curious one, and the circumstances
connected with It are strange and in
teresting. Mr. Buehler states in nis
letter that he was digging out a large
sage brush that was In the way of his
plow. At the depth of about four feet
from the surface, his shovel struca
what anneared to be a boulder about
the size of a man's head. As the ground
about the roots was soft be picked up
the lump and was astonished at Its
lightness. A close examination showed
a piece of shining metal sticking out
at one side. Taking his knife, Mr.
Buehler scraped away a portion and
could hardly believe his eyes when a
perfectly formed grape lear, maae oi
bright yellow metal, came to view. The
work of removing that object from its
encasement was a task that occupied
several days. The substance surround
ing It proved to be a composition of
clay and gypsum, and Incessant boil
ing and scraping with bits of soft wood
was necessary to get It oft. Great care
was necessary, as the Intricate mass
was found to be very delicate, wnen
Mr. Buehler at last had the object In
his hand he had not the least Idea of
what it was. but his few neighbors
agreed that It was a crown of some
kind, although nobody would attempt
to explain how It came to be burled
among the roots of a sage brush. Since
then hundreds of people have examined
It but so far no satisfactory explana
tion of Us origin has been given.
Taken altogether, It is a most un
usual oblect It is hemispherical In
shape, about five Inches In diameter
across the base, and made to appear of
Interwoven leaves of grapevine, me
leaves are most delicately and accurate
ly modeled, all the veins showing plain
ly on both sides. Little buncnes or
grapes are scattered over the surface.
These are, In fact, the most curious
part of it. They are purple In color
and made of a substance that iooks
like Bohemian glass. Each grape Is
fastened in the proper place by a tiny
wire and all are bound together In a
perfect bunch. An analysis ot the
metal forming the leaves shows it to
be composed of gold, silver and copper,
gold being nearly one-half of the com
position. There must be nearly Slim
worth of the precious metal in it
Capital
Surplus
V. O. COX.
President.
coco o
S0.0u0t
s. C. ADAMS.
Ass't Cashier.
KANSAS CITY
Steam Carpet Cleaning
AND MOTH DESTROYING CO.
Relttlnr and Saving Specialty. M. E.
rLMMsUt A CO . successors to L. M. Vtckei a.
Telephone 121.
120 E.I8th it.. Kansas City, Mo.
DOUTIIAT'S
HARNESS SHOP
D
SECOND-HAND STORE.
2220 East 18th St.
Kew and Second-hand Goods of all
kinds.
Universal Repair Co.
CMAS. H. WARD, Propr.
Carstatstr sa Users, trick sas Tls
Piaster!. aaS Paiatlaf .
Kalstantstar s4 Caper Hanftng. Cisterns
built and r. t aired. eea'rcoeoecUoBS put
la. Estimates vuverfully furnished. Ail
work guarsAtead satisfactory.
niifiiosi -704
Wisasttt It. Kassas CriT. HO
Sold Weekly
Payments.
Jewelry
so Optician.
EYES TESTED FREE
8 East 1 3th St., Kasaa CiTV. MO.
HEW PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY
1032 Main Street.
The undersigned has been In the Photo
graph business since lwil. This gallery baa
one of tha Anthony's Latest Improved Cam
era's for waking Fine Photographs the
Hrat out of I lis factory. I n f set. this gallery
keepa up with all the latest styles snd in
provenienu In Una Photography. 0'r "e a
trial order.
T. D. SANDERS,
I03 Afain St., KAKBAS CITY.
WEMOVEB Coma. Bunions and Ingrowing
Nails without pain or the use of sclds.
Also racial Massage. Superfluous Hair,
wrinkles, pock marks, moles and scars per
manently removed by electricity.
444-445 NEW RIDGE BLD'G.
Entranct.912 Walnvt St. r 916 Hals St.
JAMES fcEItllY,
Looking GlassPlates
BEVELED GLASS.
Damaged Mirrors Re-SUvered at Short Notice.
aena tor rnces.
OSes, 1429 Wtlait St., IA KSAB CUT, M0
MISSION
Employment Office
6E0. 8HIRAR. Msnssir.
mnifl ImeittuHnn was .ntt.n llfl tj SfMMlte
X employment for the unemployed and to
send you such he p as vou are in need of,
using tne uesi ox juuimvutr in uuiug su.
rsLSPHoaar soos.
012 Walnut Street. Kansas City, Mo
MCCRYSTLE
The Hatter.
bats cleaned, colored and retrlmmed.
Also ladles' and Gents' straw
hats cleaned.
Eail Eighth Street. Kaksas City, Mo.
Kansas City Tent-and Awning Co.,
M
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fcnortnllr nrAnarnd t.rt maat. f Via wnriffl of FarniPrS. Mflr
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chants, Mechanics. Clerks. Students, Women, and all who
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aesire a complete vrors at tne minimum cost.
Nearly 70 Comprehensive Maps.
140 New and Superb Illustrations.
A Whole Library of Itself, of vital and absorb
ing interest to every member of the household.
Population of each State and Territory, of all
Counties of the United States, and of American
Cities with over 6,000 Inhabitants.
IT CONTAINS much special Information regarding- any Nation, Province
SUte, City, Town or Village desired. The knowledge la rarely obtainable
from a school geography, which necessarily has only a few general facta and
the location of important cities. .
Railroad maps are notoriously Incorrect and misleading, hence the purxled
truth-seeker, where large libraries are inaccessible, is without relief unless he
is the happy owner of a knowledge-satisfying, pleasure-giving People's Atlas.
Ail Countries on the faoe of the earth are shown.
Rivers and Lakes are accurately located.
Ail the large Cities of the World, the important Towns and most of tha
Villages of the United States are riven on the Map.
It gires a classified List of all Nations, with Forms of Government, Geo
graphical Location, Size and Population.
This beautiful Atlas Is bound In heavy paper cover, and will be sent to Cft PCNTC
any address upon receipt of - -- -- VkniOi
AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO.
What Girls Marry for.
"t alwavs let my daughters have their
say about the color of the lamp-shades
and the arrangement or tne aouies,
M s sensible Atchison mother today,
"I nd. aa a result, that they are not in
such a hurrv to et married. The
foundation of most glrla desire to mar
ry is to live In a house where they can
have their own way aDout me tamp
hades and dollies." Atchison uioDe,
Dangerous Hypnotic Experiment.
Hvonotlc exDerlmenta ot a grewsom
kind are belnii kept up at me noyai
Annarlum in London. The latest it
the burying ot a man, who has been put
into a trance. In a pit eight reel aeep,
which was then filled with earth, leav
ing only a small funnel open over tnt
man's face, through which ne is waicn-
ed. He is to be dug up alter a wee
VVasaen la Palltles.
Victoria doesn't rule England. It if
fa freest land on the face ot the earth
that Is, for Englishmen. And why
la this so? Simply because the aear,
rood old lady doesn't Interfere in poa
tics. And let me say that it might bt
better for this country ir the uaies
did not interfere In politics. Rev. H.
H. ConwelL
Sancta Blmpllcltas.
Doctors have many curious experi
ences, but the following production, re
ceived by a London medical man, to
whom it was sent by a child, ana wmcn
Is printed as It was written, omitting
only the name and address, wouia oe
hard to beat:
"Dear Dr. : I would be very
pleased if you would let me have a Baby
for one guinea. We want it for the
fourth of Febry for Mother's birthday.
Wa would like It fat and bonny, witn
blue eyes and fair hair. We Children
are going to give It to her ourselves
please answer at once. Yours sincerely,
Archie .
"P. S. Which would be the cheapest,
a Boy or a Girl?"
The "P. 8." especially Is delightful.
and shows how wonderful the ramifi
cations ot the commercial spirit are
among us.
Breaks the Record.
A British shin which has been taking
soundings In the south Pacific reports
a dDth in three Dlaces near the Tonga
Islands of over 30,000 feet, which breaks
the record by 3.000 feet. The aeepesi
holes are not in the middle of the ocean,
but within 100 miles ot land. Their
depth Is greater than the height of any
known mountain. Specimens or the
bottom at 80,000 feet proved to be the
usual red clay found In ail deepest parts
of the ocean.
g.
Awnings, Tents, Tarpaulins, Covers, &c
109 WEST EIGHTH STREET.
Ttltphons 1SI4. KANSAS CITY. MO,
6. BOCK,
Brush Factory,
0 EAST tSts St..
All soils of brushes
made to order
promptly at reason-
n a I r lag brushes.
Ke-
able pr
carpet s w e epers,
etc., etc.
Scrsk rash Frsa
ft Usaars.
MRS. M. M. SMITH,
Manicure Chiropodist
and Facial Electrician.
j. p. BUTLER.
O. D. ROWS.
BUTLER & ROWE,
Cotractors and Builders.
nfir.a Fixtures a Specialty.
All order will receive our personal atten
tion, oausiauuuu .
cali vataHOMS as.
OTTic ana inuoi M
115 E. 13th Sts.st. I-nsasCltj, Mo.
H. NEVINS,
Practical Horse Shoer.
Morass Entrusted to My Car
will not bs Abused.
307 Grand Ave., Kansas city, mo.
Missonn, Kansas & Teias Trnst Ci
KANSAS CITY, MO.
C.nltsl . - Sl.SBO.OOO.
Surplus and Undivided Proflts, SjeSO.OOO.
AKTHUR E. BTILWELL, President.
Vice Presidents: J. McD. Trimble, B. L.
Martin, W. 8. Taylor, Jacques T. Nolthe-
BRobert B. Cone, secretary; William 8. Tay
lor, treasurer; Fran B. Wilcox, assistant
treasurer; Jacques T. Nolthenius. assistant
secretary ; E. S. oshr, second sgsistantsec
retary, Trimble & Braley, general attorney.
Executes a General Trust Business.
Aets as Trustee, Transfer A sent or Regis
trar tor Corporations,
Aets as Executor, Administrator, Guard
Ian or Trustee or Estates.
Collects Western Mortgage.
Take Charge of Propertle, Collecting
Rent, Paying Taxea, etc., for Eastern In
vestors. Kansas City Directors-A. E. Stllwell, K.
L. Martin, Frank Cooper. F. A. Faxon. J.
Mcl). Trimble, Robert Gllhatu, Jacques T.
Nolthenius, O. A. Braley.
piade of Old Intjraue and Brussels Carpet,
We take your Carpet, and cut and make a
Rur, from three to eleven feet wide, for SO
cent per rquare yard ; frlng extra. Five
pounds of Carpet to the yard of Rug.
Q. n. SAPPENFIELD,
607 Eiit Eighteenth St., KANSAS CITY. M0.
T roost P&rlj;
On Troost Ave. Cable Ry.
Brass Band Concerts Sundays.
Zoological Garden, Merro-go-round,
Boating and other at
tractions. Watch for the opening next
week of
"Shooting the Chutes."
Catsrnlilar Nest la Winter.
In early autumn the tent caterpillar
moth lavs a cluster of 200 or 300 eeea In
a circle around the twigs ot apple and
other trees and covers tnem with a g me
ntis secretion mat Drotecta tnem until
they hatch In the following spring. In
the bright oays or winter, while the
branohes are bare, these clusters can be
easily seen and should be removed and
destroyed. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Caasfort.
Books on comfort are very rare.
Doubtless one large reason is because
it is impossible to write a book on the
real meaning ot comfort which people
want. They want comxort in a nazy,
mysterious way. But the Biblical Idea
ot comfort Is very plain and lull of I
common sense, comfort means help.
Rev. A. F. Newton.
Lake View Consolidated
Gold and Silver flining Co.,
Located in Beaver Head County, Montana, offers
a portion of its
Treasury Stock at a Low Price
to secure money todevelop its property and pui
in a mill.
This company owns FOURTEEN CLAIMS
of twenty acres each, all well prospected,
and have been examined by competent experts
and practical miners. The Ore assays from $12
to $300 in gold per ton. It offers the
Best Chance for a
Paying Investment
Tha aartoasaea of Leap Teas,
a widow of 40 at Richmond. Kr
married her 15-vear-old brother-in-
law, and the same day another widow,
of 65 at Lorraine, O., waa Joined In
hands ot wedlock to a youth ot JO.
This Is one ot the serious phases ot
leap year.
What you keep by you, you may
change and mend; but words ones
ipofen can never be recalled. Ros
Bla Diamond.
A 634-karat diamond, the finest ever
found In Africa, was discovered at
Jagersfontein, In the Transvaal, on the
day after Christmas, when cut it is
expected that It will be worth 11,500.
000. Exchange.
Water n. La ad.
An acre ot good fishing will yield
more In the way of food In a week than
an acre of the best land will yield
in a year.
in the West. The Stock is non-assessable, and
its development will greatly enhance it value.
This Company has all of the preliminary
work done, and is supplied with tools, tool
houses, blacksmith shops, and stables, all com
pleted, and is only twenty-eight miles from a
Railway station. There is also plenty of Timber,
Water and Free milling Gold Ore. For partic
ulars, address the undersigned for circulars
and other information.
Af. L. ZOOK, Agent,
1615 Howard Street,
Omaha, Nebt
common.