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THE AMERICAN Kansas City Advertisements T. o. 3ivGi;ii:, DEALER IN lew and Senfl-Hanfl Goods. .siiiS: ' ' ' FURNITURE Fquir dealing guaranteed 2120 F.ast Kkhtrttith Slret't. W. S. WOODS. PRESIDENT. National Bank of Commerce, KANSAS CITY, MO. CaplUl Surplus Demand Deposits DIRkCTORS: Wb. Akfw, W. A. Wilson, Wm. Hut'lff, J. J. Swofford, J. C. Egolhoff, H. C. Arnold, II. C. Ward, W. P. Voorhecs O. M. Colo, J. II Arnold, Chester A. Snider, D T. Morton, Joa. Cahn, W. 8. Wood, V. A. Kule. ACCOUNTS BURT MEEK, Liceusad Euibaujier. BURT MEEK & CO., Undertakers and Funeral Directors. . Carriages furnished at reasonable rates. 1813 Main Street .... KANSAS CITY, Mo, OLDEST CHIMNEY SWEEPS IN THE UNITED STATES 00 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Ti5iioxi II. Edwards. Son & Co. Steam and hot air furnace set and repaired. Chimneys, Gratea and Mantels built and repaired. rrp upatafra, In fronf of W. J. Cra'if'a Tin Shop. 803 WALNUT 8T KANSAS CITY, MO. Dr WkiHIftr 1& West Ui SU, Kansas City, Mo. WW nlX lvrj (oldest and ordinal. Most successful special lit. Eat' M. Nervous Debility, Umt Vitality. Organic Wenkne.s, Karly Decay, Lark of Raerty. Self Distrust, Weak Memory, DvNpepsla. K.ihaustliig Losses, Plmpleson Face. Aversion to "oclety. Loss of Ambition, Unfllness to Mrry. Stunted Development. Lout Manhood. Milky Urine, fffwu of attune or excess CURED TO STAY CURED. My life Ion experience, special study of each rase, pure medicine. Insure a REAL CUKE. Quos Uon lint No 1 free In plain envelope. Charges reasonable. Tcrnnfmv. Call. BLOOD AND SKIN diseases, all forma SCROFULA, RHEUMATISM, CATARRH, ECZEMA, (Itchy or scaly tetter), and ALL BLOOD DISEASES, cured fur life. safely and aure. Avoid patent medicine or Inexperienced hand. Call or write for question list No. Ion blood rilsen.es. GONORRHOEA, OLEEL, STRICTURE, cured without Instruments 01 pain. Lint No. I free. Medical Dictionary aud Advliier fret at offce, by uiall Sc. Hour I) to 4, 7 to 8. Bunday 10 to 12. 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REPAIRING to all buying and selling. KANSAS CITY, MO. w. A- RULE. Cashier 11,000,000 00 :UK),(KH).00 5,000,000.00 SOLICITED. TELEPHONE 2ti a -tea. Chimney Sweeps Brickmasons. TALENT NOT APPRECIATED. Mea ( Itlatlartlaa rreasvatly Icaa4 at by Th.tr ("oat.iuporarW. In the rerent memoirs of Dean Duck land an amusing picture la given of the antipathy felt fifty )eara ago by the old classical scholars at Oiford to the new scientific burning. They described it aa "mischievous and ab surd." When liucklanit on re went to Home for a long vacation one of the elder dona la said to have exclaimed: "WeM. IluikUnd has gone to Italy. Thank heaven, we shall bear no more of bis allly geology." learned men do not always appre ciate the achievements of their fellows. It la said that a friend brought Mil ton's "Paradise Lost" to a great Scotch mathematician, who remarked when he bad finished It: "It's verra pretty, but, mon, what does It prove?" An American, who stated recently in a Ixmdon rlub that he was going to Enfield In search of the grave of Charles Lamb was SFtonished to bear him contemptuously described by an English statesman as "a flighty writer of silly papers. In which there was no meutlon of political questions of his day." Paftanlnl, while in England, was mentioned by a great Jurlnt In a letter as "poor fiddler who had driven the town mad with his squeaks and scrapes," and he, no doubt, would have described his critic as soulless and deaf to the highest expression of emotion. An anecdote is told of Henry Clay In the zenith of his popularity and fame. Meeting; an old schoolmate at a recep tion, he expressed regret that another friend, a mutual acquaintance, whose career promised to be brilliant, had given up his life to the raising of pigs and making a fortune. The friend presently met the gentleman referred to, who exclaimed, with a shake of the bead: "Poor Henry Clay! He might have made a good stock grower and be a comfortable planter now If be bad not waBted bis time In politics." i ' 1 - PORT ARTHUR IS DIFFERENT. England Is Willing- for Rassla to liars What She Doesn't Want. Now, we have always held that Rus sia Is entitled to an Ice-free port in the Pacific, says the London Chronicle. It is out of the question that so colossal an undertaking as the trana-Slberian railway could be allowed to end in a remote barbor frozen for five months In the year. Mr. Balfour, we were glad to eee, declared that the government would put no obstacle In the way of such an acquisition by Russia. All this, however, refers to Port Lazareff, on the eastern coast of Corea, or some place in the Immediate neighborhood, upon which Russia has for long been known to have her eye. Port Arthur is a very different thing. Russia took the leau In coerclLg victorious Japan out of Port Arthur on the ground that the presence of Japan there would give the latter a dangerously preponderating Influence upon China. A thousand times more will the influence of Russia there be dangerous for the trade and policy of other countries, for the pos session of Port Arthur Is a band upon the throat of China, which can be tightened to suffocate her at any mo ment Moreover, England is the only country which throws her possessions open to the trade of the world. Port Arthur in Russian hands will of course be carefully restricted to Russian com merce. . The harbor Is a splendid one. The fortifications manned by Russians would be absolutely impregnable, and thus Russia would have In the far east a naval base which would instantly make her the mistress at sea of that part of the world. In fact, with Rus Bia firmly settled at Port Arthur, with the trans-Siberian railway behind her the Influence of other powers upon China may be regarded as gone, and the advance of Russia from her north ern frontier towia Pekln would be merely a matter o tlnig. Torlty of tbs Air. Out In Arizozt we have a way of bragging on the puilty and clearness of our air," said Judge Murphy, the delegate at Washington fro'm that ter ritory, "and we heve reason for it, for there is nothing like it in the known world. The air of California may sur pass that of Arizona from a photog rapher's point of view, and it Is claimed that it does, but as the Arizonlan only cares for air for breathing purposes, we are not at all Jealous on that point. We can see mountain tops for over 100 miles, and some here claimed that mountains 130 miles distant can be dlscernod with the naked eye. I was speaking of this to some friends here recently when I was blandly informed by a Scotch clergyman, who was here on a visit, that that would hardly bo regarded as In any way remarkable In Scotland, where, too, he said, the air was very clear. 'We can see murther than 130 miles in Scotland,' he said. We can see all the way to the moon.' " -Ex. Dan's Pay Day. It having been the custom of a cer tain establishment In the north to pay the workers fortnightly, and the work men having found the custom some what inconvenient, it was derided to Bend a delegate to the head of the firm to state their grievances. An Irish man, named Dan D , famed for his sagacity and persuasive powers, was selected for the task. He duly waited on the master, who addressed him thus: "Well, Daniel, what can we do for you this morning?" "If ye plaze, but, I've been Bint as a diligate by the workers to ask a favor of ye regardin' the payment of our wages." "Yes; and what do they desire?" queried the master. "Well, sur, it is the desire of mssllf. and it is also the desire of lvery man in the establishment, that we receive our fortnight's pay every week." A ROMANCE FROM AFRICA. Tha alary af a Traaiara lagaalaas aaa far Ha Traa. Englishmen are pedatory creatures, and the London papers do not hesitate to express annoyance because the expe ditionary force recently sent againt King I'rempeh found at Coomassie only a meager number of gold orna ments, and hollow ones at that, says the New York Times. The value of the loot taken from the royal "palace" was only about 2,000 and made a poor showing when exhibited In London, as compared with the results of previous raids. Now a correspondent writing from Accra tells a story which If true a very large "If will make the Itrltlsh officers winh they bad not left the Afihantl capital quite so soon, lie says: "Some years ago a slave girl of surpassing beauty of the Ashantl type bein entendu had the misfortune to attract the fickle fancy of a chief, whose head wife tolerated no rivalry. To reproach a husband is generally useless; In Coomassle It Is dangerous. The lady, wise in her generation, fore bore to risk ber head, but sent for the executioner and caused the ears and lips of the too fascinating maiden to be removed, rendering her such an object as can only be seen in savage king' doms. History does not say if the ex pedlent answered the purpose of re storing the chief's wandering affections to their rightful owner, but the slave girl developed, not unnaturally, Into a woman with an undying thirst for revenge. Lately she sought an audience with the governor, and she Informed hlra that the real treasure of the Ashantls lies buried some fifty feet below the soil. In a dis used shpft of a mine near Coomassle, and readily undertook to point out the spot. Digging is being vigorously car ried on, already more than a fourth of the depth has been cleared, and should the treasure amount to anything like the rumored value, the cost of the ex pedition will be fully defrayed, making the Ashantl war a record one, as not only bloodless, but free of cost." Ilia llrother's Revenge. We are all more or less familiar with that exasperating class of Individuals who seem to feel that the simple com mon sense of the world is centered in themselves and that the rest of ua are in need of guidance and direction in the simplest duties of life. Mr. B was a young man of this class. He was always painfully pro fuse In details regarding anything he wished done. He had a parrot, of which he was excessively fond, and when he was about to go abroad for a few months, leaving hta bird behind, he bored and exasperated his family and friends with senseless details re garding the care of the parrot and his last words, screeched from the deck of the steamer that bore him away, were: "Hi, Jim!" "What?" shouted the brother on the pier. "Look out for my parrot:" came faintly over the water. Aa tf this was not enough he had no sooner reached Liverpool than he sent the following cablegram to his brother, who had assumed the charge of the par rot: "Be sure and feed my parrot." On receipt of this the infuriated brother cabled back at his brother's ex pense: "I have fed her out sne is nungry again. What shall I do next?' uar- pes's Magazine. Itath Tub vs. Antipyretics. Tho tvnhnlrl fitatistlcs of the Bris bane hn .dtal show a remarkable tri umph of pioneering work in what the cv.inov iiemld calls the "ghoul-haunt- ed swamps of medical conservatism." The man who introduced the cold Dam qo n means of reducing temperature, instead of the antipyretics prescribed in hog Latin to subdue the nre oi me favnr down the lamp of life. was held grimly responsible by the pro fession for every failure, itesuus, . v, i nrtv nrnveri hevond all uuwevi-i, u.i"j J" t : doubt that the cold-water treatment is, on the whole, the best yet discovered. Since its adoption in the Brisbane hos pital the mortality from typhoid has been reduced ruiiy two-tnirus. uu this la not on the average of a single year, but upon that of a long series, throughout the whole oi wnicn siaus Hca tell the one consistent tale. "The bath tub has beaten the pharmacopeia all along the line, and the doctors have to admit It." Westminster Gazette. Repeating Rifles. The king of Denmark's "sort of new Invented guns, which being but once charged will discharge many times, one after another," in 1657, would seem to have had rivals about the same period. Pepys twice refers to such. On July 3, 1662, when "at the Dolphin with tne officers of the ordnance, after dinner was brought to Sir. W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices that ever I saw and very serviceable, and not a bawble, for it Is much approved of, and many thereof made." And on March 4, 1663-4, he mentioned "a new fashion gun to 6hoot often, one after another." Notes and Queries. Tbs UasebaU Pltebar. The famous base ball pitcher had walked the floor with the youngest of his family for an hour or so. "Mary," said he, "if the manager saw me now, I bet I'd get soaked with a fine." "Why?" asked the wife, sleepily. "I don't seem to have any control of the bawl at aH, I don't," Foresight. "I think," said the statesman, who didn't have any great hopes any way, "that it would b a good plan to make these here campaign buttons of mine with eyt to 'em so that if the demand is smaller than the supply, I kin sell 'em to some overalls factory or some ting of the kind." KANSAS CITY STATE BANK Capital Surplus w. o. COX. Proldrat. rwtt 2D.UU0 F. C. ADAMS. Ass't Caakler. KANSAS CITY Steam Carpet Cleaning AND MOTH DESTROYING CO. Keflttln and Sealns a euerlaJtv. M F. hL MMkKS A CO . lurcMon to L. Id. Vic Iters. Telephone Ul. 1220 E.I8th it., Kansas City, Mo nOUTJIAT'S HARNESS SHOP ini SECOND-HAND STORE. 2220;East 18th 6t. Sew and Seconif-liaad Goods of all fcinda. NEW PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY 103. Main Street. The undersigned has been In the Phntv (raub bus'new. store l-i'.l This miller lu uudui ine dninony s Latest Improved Lam era's fur U'HkiiiK Fine I'hotoiirapbs the umioumr ins racinry. In fact, tills gallery keeps uu with all the latest itlvles and in.. urovements In tine PuOtoKrapbv. Ulve iue a trial oruer. T. D. SANDERS, JO.12 Main St.. IMA MS CITY. JAMES JJERITY, Looking GlassPlates BEVELED GLASS. Damaged Mirrors Re-Silvered st Short Notice. bend for Price.. Offios, 1429 Walnut 8t., KANSAS CITY, HO MCCRYSTLE The Hatter, Hats cleaned, colored and retrlmmed. Also ladles' and tients' straw bats cleaned. 8 East Eighth Strtet, Kakras City, Mo. Kansas City Tent and Awning Co., Awnings, Tents, Tarpaulins, Covers, &c. 109 WEST EIGHTH 8TREET. Ttltphon 1614. KANSAS CITY, MO, Fancy fugs pint oi on ingraqe ana Biisstis Cupel, e take vour Camel and cut and make a Bui. from three to eleven feet wide, for 80 cents per Fquare yard; fringe extra, live pounus ot carpet to tne yara oi itug. Q. fl. SAPPENFIELD, (07 Estt Eighteenth St., KANSAS CITY. MO. Troo$t Parlj On Troost Ave. Cable Ry. Brass Band Concerts Sundays. Zoological Garden, Merro-go- round, Boating and other at tractions. Watch for the opening next week of 'Shooting the Chutes." Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Co. KANSAS CITY, M0. Sfl Wall Street. New York. 400 (it estnut Street. Philadelphia. 114 Washington Street. Kostnn. Single No. 2$, Amsterdam. Holland. Porotheenstrausse No.M, Berlin, Germany. 31 Lombard Street, London, E. O., England. Capital . 1, 8150,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, 1,000,000. ARTHUR E. STILWELL, President. Vice Presidents: J. McD. Trimble, E. L. Martin, W. 8. Taylor, Jacques T. Nolthe- lus. Arthur C. Roblnfon. secretary: William B. Taylor, treasurer; Frana B. Wilcox, assistant treasurer; J. 3. Calrnes, assistant secretary ; E. 8. V osher. second assistant sec retary, Trimble & Braley, general attorneys. Executes a General Trnst Business. Acts as Trastee, Transfer Agent or Regis trar tor Corporations. Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guard ian or Trustee of Estates. Collects Western Mortgages. Takas Charge of Properties, Cllectlng Rents, Paying Taxes, etc., for Eastern In vestors. Kansas City Directors A. E. Stllwell, E. . Martin. Frank CooDer. F. A. Faxon. J. McD. Trimble, Robert Ollhaiu, Jacques T. Nolthenlua. O. A. Braley. H. NEVINS, tactical Horse Shoer. Horaea Entrusted to My Car will not ba Abused. 307 Grand Ave., Kansas city, mo. Jewelry Sold on Weekly Payments. ALSO Optician. EYES TESTED FREE. iS East lath St., ksnsss city. mo. Universal Repair Co. CM AS. H. WARD, Propr. Csrststtrs ss slWsrs. fries sad Tls Wtrk, Plastsrlaf sa fsiatlaf . Kalsomlnlns 1 Paper Hanging. CUieras built and rt aired. iv-r-r onorvllon. put la. Ellmaia i-tierrfully furnished. All work guaranteed sails! actury. 704 Wrsssstt ft. Ksssss CiTV. MO 6. BOCK, Brush Factory, OS EAST 181k (t. All sorts of brushes mad to order prom pt I y at roas in able prices Ka pair fng brushes, carpet sweepers, etc.. vie. Scruk Brashes Fro 6c Usasrss. MRS. M. M. SMITHt Manicure Chiropodist and Facial Electrician. TJEMOVE8 Corns. Bunions and Ingrowing Nails without pala or the unn of adds. AlHO Facial Massage. tupertluous Hair, wrinkles, pock marks, moles and scars per manently removed by electricity. 444-445 NEW RIDGE BLD'G. Entrance. 912 walnut SI. sr SIS Mala SI. tl. F. BUTLER. O. D. ROWE. BUTLER & ROWE, Cotractors and Builders. Office Fixtures a Specialty. All oiders will receive our personal atten tion, eatisraction guaranteed. urrica ana nop: 115 E. 13th Strbbt. Kansas City, Mo. How It Is Done! We use only the choicest raw material, and give it a slow, mild cure, which develops all the natural sweetness of the meat without making it too salt. Qold B&nd flams AND . . . B r ?& 1$ fast" B& co n Represent the best work of the packers' art every piece guar anteed. All butchers and gro cers have them. Armour Packing Co., KANSAS CITY, MO. Reduction ol Prices! In order to be up to date I have con cluded to reduce prices to regular customers in a way that will not lower the standard of my shop. Scientific and Positively Becoming Hair Cut for 250 COMMUTATION TICKETS. Four Shaves for KCln Or Ten for SI Baths, In large poroeluln tubs, fine rooms, 40 ceuw e&cn or a ior u cents at GRAND JUNCTION BARBER SHOP and ATH ROOMS . . . HENRY A. MAYOR. 821 Delaware Street, First Shop north of Junction. tVMentlon this paper 1 City References Private and Hospital Experience. BEIT POTTER, Male Nurse Surgical cases preferred. Terms, $10.00 to Ho. 00 per week and expenses. Telephone 1601' 801 E. 8th St., KANSAS CITY, M0. CHARLES WITTENBERG, Boots Sh?S MADE AND REPAIRED 1302 Main St., Kansas Ciiy, Mo. DR. HENDERSON 101 V. ft h SU Kansas City, SIo. A Regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 27 i'ears Practice 12 in Chicago. The Oldest la Age and Longest Lorated. Authorized by the State to treat (Jknmia, Ntroout and Prl eat Dlfate: Cures guaran teed or money refunded. Over so.ooo ctunes cured. (Jbarires low. fio mercury or injurious mod lolne used. ho lime lost from business. J 'art leant a rlistance treated by mnll and express. Medicines aont everywhere free from fraxeor breakage. Slate your citse and send for terms. 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