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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."
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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
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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. Consultation free and
con Aden tial, personally or by letter. 1
permanently cute
Seminal Heaksess lad Sexnal Debility
Spermatorrhea and fmpotencv)pro(luci n a
pimples, nervousness, rushes of blood
to tne bend, pains in the back, f orgetf ill
ness, bashfulnesa and aversion to socie
ty; stop night losses restore lost sex
ual power enlarge ud strengthen weak
parts and make you lit for marriage.
Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, aud all
private diseases cured for life.
Cf r4rf i-tro cured without cutting,
Q 11 11. t Ul C caustic, sounds or bou
fries. No pain or exposure, fallents
can nse treat ment at home.
RfliiT for both sexes 80 pnges,57
AJVlSJa. pictures, with full descrip
tion of above diseases the effects and
cure sent sealed In plain wrapper for
60, stamps. Sure Care for Khrnmttlam.
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