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10 THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1899. GUI. "BOB" AMNION HIS LIFE AXD ADVETLRKS, OR TOE - - VALVE OK A PULL. Illustrated liy the Career of 'a. Finan cial Comet That Has Flashed From the Atlantic to "- ' the Pacific. From the Ketr Tork Journal. Whenever a big mining1, stock Jobbing or financial scheme comes to the ground with a crash that shakes the world of that class ofpeople, one of whose members, accord ing to the late Hungry Joe, is born every minute, somewhere among the ruins is found Colonel "Bob" Ammon, attorney and promoter. Sometimes he is cast up by the caty clasm, as in the case of the Franklin syndi cate, as attorney only: sometimes he fig ures as a principal, sometimes as a cus tomer, but he Is always the same stout, valuable, assertive citizen. Once in a while he has emerged yet more prosperous. Whether he is in his capacity of in vestor, getting men out of jail on the hearty, bluff pica of a game loser that they are .merely employes, or whether. In his "Western guise, he is making wide tracks across thecquntrjr In some" mining" district wnh "Winchesters popping- behind him, he Is. always, the same calm colonel, with his wits-all about hlm-and soothing, specious words dropping from- his unquivcrlng lips. Jt-ls-estlraated that the colonel has done more successful-explaining than anybody In America. Give a fair field with him and" po. investor who has suddenly discovered that he has been buying preferred shares of moonshine and dreams will hold his rancor in the face of Colonel Amnion's talk. Just now Colonel Ammon is extremely distressed over the persecution of his Napoleonic soung friend, William Miller. The colonel is a large, 'blustering man. with a heavy dark brown mustache. His relations with Miller were never "close: than lawyer and client, he' says. A coinci dence Is that during the last'days of the yraaklln Syndicate there appeared in the offices a. large, blustering man with a heavy dark brown mustache who gave or Iers"to Miller himself, hut this man's name wasXouis Slessinger Miller himself said that wis'tho man's name, and he certainly Should havo known. A wonderful career has been that of Colonel Ammon. Sir Francis Drake and the other gentleman adventurers who lived three centuries ago never had half the ad. ventures nor made them pay half so well. The colonel's start is lost In the past, so Is the origin of .his military title, but he was a hrakexnan on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad at the time ot the Pittsburg strike in 1S77, and-his adven tures during that strike are the first in the known series. Since that time the colonel has been a brilliant figure Jn many fields. Jle went "West and appeared like a meteor in Mon tana. In the strictest confidence he let it be known that he had left tho largest criminal law practice In New Tork to de velop the gold mines "of Montana. His largeness "of, speech and presence, his com manding "style took .the Judith Basin coun try"y.storrnVi -A-sv Gold Miner. iTTeoecafoe trie .manager of the GiltEdge Cold mines, real mines, and. for a year he ran them on a splendid scale. Finally there were difficulties, and the night of a tig snowstorm found the colonel galloping away- with a gold brick, that was really gold and represented the' cleanup of the mine, in his possession, while behind him vainly thundered creditors and sharehold ers, but history does.not tell that the gold ever went out ot the colonel's possession. The. scene ichanged. -A grand banquet is spread in the .Hotel Metropoloin New York city to celebrate the, .founding of the New York Mining ex cliange. At the .head of the table Is the famous Western mine owner and capital ist. Colonel -Robert A. Ammon.' holder ot Intangible millions, owner of nebulous mines of -gaseous value, a rare bluff, gentle man with a true-miner's scorn ofcxpense. He has come 'on with the "gold train'' a special train from the West laden with magnificent specimens of gold-bearing quartz. The wealth of the1 East is going to exploit the resources of the West, and Colonel Ammon is the forefront of the en terprise. "with a big diamond on his broad shirt front. Colonel Ammon was an imposing toastmaster. . With, true Western uncon ventionality the colonel cast aside his dress coat and in His shirt sleeves presided at the banquet. The New York Mining exchange was or ganized, and Colonel Robert A. Ammon was Its president. The members of the Mining exchange lost many nights' sleep and some other ar t Iciest of value before they got- tho presl-dency-'away-1 rom him. There was in New York in ISM a former police captain. Joo Eakins. whom" tht T-r. ow disclosures forced from the depart iucnu xie aua money ana mere one day dawned on the street the firm of Ammon & Eaklns. They had tho most palatial bucket chop the street has ever known. It was on the ground floor of No. iZ and 47 New street, and was furnished In mahogany and llk "plush. Persian rugs protected the Wilton carpet, the clerks worked behind beautiful tret work of burnished brass; the ceilings were rarely frescoed; the place was a palace. Eaklns did not last long in ,"The captain, was too conservative," ex plained Colonel Ammon. "If I knew the hears Intended to raid a stock and a cus tomer .came ini and wanted to buv this block, i wouia inKe nis orner. Knowing it wpuld decline. I would simply take the profit and carry the deal myself. What is the use of. wasting money? But the cap tain didn't llko this way of doing business, though it is all straight and square, of course, so I-am now running the business myself." He did not run It long. 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Within a month the Falk transaction was forgottoh and the colonel was rising Willi his hand in the breast of his dignified frock coat, appealing to the court to .vet free two men arrested in connection with the E. S. Dean swindle. In this particular bunco game tho colonel appeared as a victim it made his course appear disinterested and lent fotce. to his argument. The colonel assured tho court that one man was only a bookkeeper in the dead concern and the other one ot the dupes. The magistrate told the colonel he would have to get the consent of the district at torney before the men would be discharged. "Exactly, your honor." said the colonel cheerfully, "the district attorney is satis fied; I got his consent, of course, before I came up here." "In that event," said Magistrate Brann, "I will discharge Goslin and Lemberg." Assistant District Attorney Allen, who had charge of the pro.-ecutlon of the Dtnn swindlers, was astonished and indignant when he heard the men had lcen set free, but the mischief was done. There was talk of disbarment procceuings and a grand Jury investigation, but Colonel Ammon un limbered his trenchant tongue and talked and talked and talked until the district attorney was convinced he had authorized the discharge of the men or was so tired out that he could no longer think straight. This the colonel did not consider an achievement at all. It was a mere trille to take a couple of men out of jail. Within two months tho colonel was ar rested In the raid on the huckctshop of McMillan & Co., and a month later he and William Sweelzer and William A. Woods were in custody again, this time charged with attempting to blackmail Samuel E. Kellar. the reputed head of the Dean swindlers, out of JSO.OOO. Detectives were hidden in Kcllar's room and overheard the whole proposition and saw the three re ceive marked bills. The case would have been absolute against any ordinary man. but the colonel talked It off, and In the interims between his flirtations with the criminal courts he organized the Yukon Klondike Gold Mining and Trading Com pany. Associated with him In this venture wcro Lewis A. May and John F. Enright. The literature of the Yukon-Klondike Gold Mining and Trading Company reads like a prospectus Aladdin might have issued. The Ynkon-KIondlke Co. "Everybody cannot go to the Klondike," said the circular, "but everybody can buy shares In companies which are managed by practical mining men, who own producing mines and whose reputations are a guaran tee of honesty. "We caution our friends against invest ing in companies whose visionary promot ers cannot deal in anything less than mil lions. "Invest with solid companies of moderate capital, like the Yukon-Klondike Gold Min ing and Trading Company, and you wid have every reason to be satisfied with your Investment. Capital, $123,000; divided into 23.000 shares, J3 each. "We are members of the New York Prod uce exchange and Philadelphia Produce and Stock exchange. We are represented on tho New York Stock exchange. New York Cotton exchange and Chicago board of trade. The directory embraces two bank vice presidents, two bank directors, an es tate company vice president, a former na tional bank president and a former savings bank president.': May soon quit the firm. The Yukon-Klondike Company faded away; the colonel's ventures do not seem to be stable crea tions, but the evanescence of a company, fhnnirh it de.is in millions, docs not disturb him. A- new company can be built in half a day, and colonel Ammon Knows now 10 huiid it. It is not to him the substantial, responsible creation it Is to most 'men, A company to Colonel Ammon is some neatly ruled stationery, a bale of glittering prospectuses, anu, pernaps, a ijitcwihci. Colonel Ammon has no connection with the exploded Franklin Syndicate, he says; he Is merely the lawyer of its fugitive chief, and the fact that some people might have taken the big, energetic, brown mus tached Shlesslnger for him disturbs mm no more than the collapse of one of his companies. Accidents, he will tell you, are llKely to befall any man of affairs. .. Grandma's Cnt Story. From the rhnadelphla Call. The lajnllyl group vere speaking ot cats and their Kays, and the peaceful looking grandmother aa aiked to say something. The oldladr railed, for she Is not often slighted -when In the company o younger people, and con sented to tell a story about a Kitten ane had when ahe as a child. 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Floating: Stable That Brave the Per ils of the Atlantic Hon- (he Ah-" -lmnls Are Stalled and Fed Profits Siot Lnrge. From the New York Son. "From a hundred and fifty to two hun dred thousand live cattle, as near as I can make it, are shipped from here to England everj- year. There's hair a dozen his Arms In the business, headquarters in the West of course, and every one of 'em's got mil lions tied up in fresh beef, alive or on ice.' This camo from the oldest boss cattle man ot perhaps the biggest firm In tho business, ami was introductory to what turned out to be a discourse on the ship ping of cattle across the North Atlantic as conducted to-day. This pioneer had been discovered in surroundings conventional tu cattlemen ashore. His i,hip had docked less than an hour before, and now he was resting against the bar of the saloon near est tho wharf. With one foot on the Hour railing, and one elbow on the bar, he looked perfectly at home. "This is something like." had been his first coherent sentence to whomever It con cerned. In response to a solicitous Inquiry he continued more coherently, "Ten days, not to mention nights, mv friends on tne bosom of the salty sea gives a man a must magnificent thirst. Search the wide realms of chemical literature and you'll rind noth ing, I'll gamble, that says there's any thin'H beat salt air and salt water for pro ducin'. nourishin' and quickly bringln' to its maturest development a fine thirst. It's lucky for mankind, now, there's a cure for it. And we've got it right here. The ale of old England may be all right, as some body hinted a while ago, but it's the red eye 01 young America tnat wins my undi luted favor. Here's a. shoot." After the gurgling interlude the patri arch was brought back to the subject. "Nowadays." he began, "our cattle comes from the West and Canada and some from Mexico. 'Twould surprise you now how much Canadian cattle are sent across. Yes, sir. Canadian cattle are mostly stall fed. They're kept In sheds through the long winter. That makes them quiet and easy to handle, so far as that goes, but now anu men we get tnem pretty lively. I've seen Colorado steers they're about thu wildest sort get pretty rampageous aboard ship. Let two or three of them loose down 'tween decks in the alleyways and they'll keen a crew stepnlnc sDrv so as not tn he too much in the way. But there's always a way 10 nanoie em. inais part 01 a cat tleman's business, to straighten out little tangles like a mess of cattle sasshaying up aim uown me alleyways. From, Where Shipped. "Most of the shipping In done from New Tork, Boson and Montreal. Some of It's done from Philadelphia and Norfolk and quite a little bit from Baltimore and Port land. Maine does the shipping for Mon treal in the winter time. The St. Lawrence, you see, ices'up in the cold weather. Bos ton, I guess, sends out the most. They have five big lines there that have accom modations for cattle. "A steamer has to be rigged up to take cattle. They "generally put them between decks that's under the big deck on which passengers promenade when she's a. pas senger ship. Oh, yes, cattle steamers carry passengers, too, and have good accommo dations, but not like the Lucanla or the William the Great, you know. .Down be tween decks the iloor is divided off into rows of wide stalls about four steers to a stall. Stalls for cattle on a ship are not like stalls In a stable ashore. Two planks a foot wide set on edge and locked above and below make the partitions between stalls. There will be four or live tires of tnese stalls across tne deck. The number of tires, or rows. I guess you gentlemen would call them is according to the beam of the ship. There's a new steamer run ning out of Boston has got six tiers, thev say. I ain't seen her yet. but she must be a mister of a cattle boat. "There's cleats on the deck for the cat tle to hold on by. In rough weather they'd slide all over the deck from one side to the other as she rolled if they didn't have the cleats. You'd be surprised how a big clumsy bullock gets so he can keep his place in a rough sea after a couple of days aboard ship. It's a fact they don't tumble about sometimes as much as the men that feeds them, though, of course, the cattle men don't always have something to catch on to when the ship gives a sudden lurch. "Spaces' run fore and .aft between spaces is the alleyways. They'll be froin two to six feet wide. It's from the alleyways we feed them. Feeding cattle, my people, is not poetic occupation. It's all right in smooth weather, but when a sea Is on it's a tough Job. And in winter time on the North-Atlantic the sea's more apt to be on than off. Cattle aboard ship are fed three times a day generally. I start my wo'rK at'-Tin'the-mornlng. We water them first. We give them all they want to drink. After that we hay them. We do that .al ways before we get" breakfast ourselve.. About I! o'clock we. give them a feed of cornmeal or cob corn, according to what kind ot cattle they are stall-fed or ranch, you know. At 2 o'clock we water them up again, xney uon 1 generally urinK so mucn In the afternoon as In the morning. Lord! 'tain't nothing for a thirsty steer to lap nn six or seven full palls of water after a warm night at sear At 4 o'clock we feed Ihem atraln. hay or corn. That ends tnem for the day. We allow about five bales of hay to a hundred bullocks at each feed ingthat's about the average. Their meal reed will oe aoout a pauiui eacn meat comes only once a day. Lous of Cattle. "We don't lose many cattle. I handled 5,000 last year and lost four. Two of them died from the heat while we were in dock on this side. It was devilish hot weather, and these fellows had been a week on the road in the cars. Cattle have to be al lowed out of the cars every .forty-eight hours, according to law, when they're com ing across the country, but that don't al ways save them in hot weather. The other two steers I lost was in a different way. One of them strangled himself with his headrope in the ship. They do get most outrageously tangled up at times. You can't Imagine the ways they get caught. Two steers side by side will get horns and legs locked In the dumdest way, and you can't get 'em apart sometimes with all the tackle on tho ship. It we get there in time we can cut the headrope and save them If they're choking cattlemen carry a hatchet In their belts for cutting headropes. In .1 hurry. The old bullock I'm speaking about broko his leg coming ashore at Birkenhead. Soma careless hand in the ship's crew dropped a bit of timber in the far end of the alleyway, and this half-wild fellow a big Colorado ho was in trying to leap It stumbled and broke his leg. How ever, we don't count cattle that way a loss to the firm. They're all Insured for about $100 apiece, and the insurance companies have to make good. "Havo I ever had any big losses? Well, yes. There's the Londonia went down in mldocean. We lost overytning then ship, cargo and all not to speak of a boatload of our men. But I guess that ain't exactly what you mean. In tho La Plata, now, I had 000 sheep on the spar deck swept over board at one crack. That wasn't so bad, though; sheep don't count for so much. But I've had worse than that. These cat tle I was speaking of on the Londonia and Ia Plata went down In a raging gale and died quick. Nov.' I was on a big liner once we won't call tho ship by name because she's going yet and the same captain with her. I had 350 head and the boss cattleman of another firm had 330. We warn't very heavy that trip. It was in the spring and we wcro off the banks when we hit an ice berg. We were doing thirteen knots at the time and the fog thick, and we hit her good and hard. The old girl stood right up on her hind end and vou could have rowed a lifeboat into her for'd. She settled down so fast they thought 'twas necessarv to lighten her right away. And they must begin on cattle, of course! Now to my way of thinking cattle ain't generally the best thing to heave overboard. They're better cargo, vou see. than am- dead weight in the hold. Cattle are alive, you know. I went up to the bridge and said the cattle ought to b last to go, but the old man thought different. You see the ship was settling so fast at first that the peoDle up at the bridge came near having a panic. "We had to rig tip tackle and hoist the steers overboard. If we had time wc could have got out planVIng and made a run down to hr side. Then all we'd had to do would be to fet one bullock for the gang way. The- followed one another like sheep. Once on the greased nlanks it would be all off with them. 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C Arnold '& Co., 1107 Main and 5th and Main. We put CO over that way and let me tell you it was a tough sight. When they reached the gangway they smelled what was coming and they tried to hold back. Buj. .with the hook in the bight of the line we a hoist and they couldn't help them selves. After they were dropped over they turned and swam after the ship we were going pretty slow at the time and some of those bullocks stayed with us a long time. We had them for miles, they look ing up with their big eyes and trying to climb up the sides of the ship. The Time of Passage. "The old packet went on with lifeTjoats out and twenty-two feet of water in her hold forward. 'Twas the big bulkhead saved her. She bumped her way across the ocean with her nose burled and her stern so high in the'air the screw barely got hold. We had good weather and made Liverpool all right, and the captain got a gold medal. If I had my way he'd have lost his papers for throwing them cattle overboard. They could have pumped grain out of tho hold Just as well as not, but he was too excited, and so he's gotCDO steers on his"consc!ence. "Cattle steamers nowadays are pretty good-sized and fairly fast boats. Ten days from dock to dock is their usual schedule, but there's plenty of 'em that beat that time regularly. There's one cattle ship cruising the Western ocean regularly that can make it from Liverpool to New York in a little more than seven days, c in an even seven to Boston, which 12 her regular port. "All the cattle worth mentioning going to England are landed at Livctpool or Lon don. Those going to Scotland are landed at Glasgow. It is Liverpool, though, that gets the big bulk of them. By Liverpool I mean Birkenhead, which is where the cattle are landed. All cattle imported from this coun try must be killed within ten days alter they are,put ashore.ln England. That is to meet a law over there with a view to pre venting the spread of disease. Cattle are sold almost as soon as the- are landed., You can figure for yourself what they are worth. An average sized bullock will weigh, say, 1400 pounds on the hoof. He will net, say. SO0 pounds of dressed beef. Of course, nan of that is much better than others. After dressthg there's about WjG pounds left, iou might not 'tnink tnat worth much, but it is all sold. No part'of a steer Is left to waste. Everything can be used for some purpose, and so Is of some value. Altogether the firm gets about JlOO, or maybe a little less, for a steer in a fair mffrket in "England. " , "What does-it cost to get him there? Well, as near as I can figure. It is from JSU to $90 or a trifle more. Looks like a good bargain, but Jhat Is under good conditions. Our firm is satisfied to average $2 or $3" a head on every steer they handle. They shipped 40.000 last year. Not so. bad at the end of the year? No, but they're liable to lose that much some years, and there's not the money there was in it. Competition is crowding here as well as everywhere else. "But America don't send over all the beef that is Imported Into England. Not by a good deal. That little place called Ireland ships England pretty near as many cattle as we do. When.I was told that first by man In the business I hardly believed it. but it is so. Take a trip through England and you'll find Irish cattle all over the island. They are smaller than American cattle, and can bo seen at every market or in every market place. Then there's a big importation from South America mainly from Buenos Ayres. There are some. big cattle ships running down there. They.takc about a month to make the trip each -way, and they carry big loads." W-4 lry JSrmmlr ..IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIB the PULPIT FOR $7000,000 BRIDE. The Rev. -Mr. Henry .11. Sherman, of Bridgeport, C't Yean Old, Won Mr. Leavenworth. Bridgeport Special to New York World. Rev. Mr. Henry M. Sherman, at the age of Ct, has won a bride 30 years his junior, north 7,000,000. The marriage took place at noon to-day. Mr. Sherman will not preach any more. He has given up ids pulpit to devote him self to his wife. They will travel together. The minister married his bride once be fore. Then he was the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, but he was then the of ficiating clergyman.and not the bridegroom as he was to-day. Then the present Mrs. Sherman was Miss Mary Perry, the daugh ter of William H. Perry, one of the richest men in Bridgeport. She had fallen in love with Mark Leaven worth, a hardware dealer, whose store was Just across Washington park from the Perry home. One night, thirteen years ago. Miss Perry slipped out of the house and Joined Leavenworth and the pair sought Mr. Sherman, who married them. They returned to the bride's home to beg forgiveness, but Mr. Perry kicked Leaven worth out of the house. The young man made a home for his wife over his store and Mr. Perry married again. 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Mr. Sherman was first married in Ter rlngton, Conn., forty years ago, and has two married daughters. St.. Paul's pulpit is to be filled by the Rev. Mr. Eaton W. Maxey, who came here from Troy, N.Y. Astoria' Queer Room. From theNcw York World. A department of the big Waldorf-Astoria hotel never seen.by visitors and seldom by guestsla.the lost and found room, on the top floor. The articles stored in this room are 'valued at many thousands .of dollars. Among them are overcoats, shawls and capes by the score; umbrellas, hats, caps, walkingstlcks. gloves, knives, rings, pock etbooks, handkerchiefs, snuff boxes, chat elaines, vinaigrettes, brushes, soap boxes. Jewelry, traveling bags and even well filled dress suit cases and odds and ends. The display, it placed on exhibition, would attract wide attention, and many of the articles if offered at auction would com mand handsome prices. tf 20th Thousands of people have started on life's journey only to be robbed of their health by thieves and robbers, com monly known as "Constipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness," and the two brothers, "Kidney trouble" and "Liver trouble," and are left by the "wayside" to die. But hark! footsteps are heard in the distance. One says, "Perhaps it's a friend. ' Yes, and here it is, ANTI PILL! which has rescued thousands of people from the cold and clammy clutches of just such robbers of health as "Constipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Kidney and Liver trouble." To the readers of this paper we wish to say, if you are one of the unfortunate people by the "wayside," why not let the "Good Samaritan" ANTI-PILL come to your rescue and put the robbers and thieves to flight ? You owe it to yourself and your family (if you have one) to keep this Good Samaritan with you constantly. The cost of its services is small as compared with the cost of damage done by modern robbers of good health. For further : nf ormation inquire of your nearest druggist or ANTI -PILL CO. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. THE LOST CHORD. A Hard-Luck Story That Would Bring: Tear to Any Eye. From the Detroit Free Pre si He was industriously drawing a woolen cloth to and fro over my shoe. "Know an'thln' 'bout coon songs?" he asked, as he breathed on the leather and polished It off again. "A little. Why?" "Ah had de wo"s piece o" bad luck yo" ever seen," he said. "Ah'd heard all these coon songs at de theaters an" lne an' de old lady we got ouah heads t'gether fo" t" git up a coon song dat'd beat all dem odders half-way roun de track. Ah got.th" w'uds In ma head; ma coco was full o' w'uds. an' dat aiah was as cleah In ma head as ma name. I sung de fus' vehrse ovah to de ol' lady, an she said: 'Say, boy. but dat's a swell song: yo's boun' t' hit 'em hahd wi' dat song, honey, an no mis take. Den I sez: 'Wheah's de .pen an" ink?' An' dey wasn't none. I takes me hat fo' t' go ovah to de avenoo fo' t' git some ink an' a sheet o' papah an' when I brings it home an' sets down at de table fo" t write out dat song an aiah. every bit o" both had lef my min'. Ah aln been able t' recollec' elder one o" dem sence. Now. If dat aln' hahd luck den dis nlggah doan' know what hahd luck means. Gimme yo othah foot!" The End of Football. From Collier's Weekir. The proprietor of a certain "sports empo rium" toward the close of last season had a good many footballs left on his hands. These he decided to clear "at greatly re duced prices." He filled his window with footballs of every shape, size and quality. Before he had finished he was called away, and turning to a young lady assistant he instructed her to affix the price of each football In plain figures. The young lady did so, and when her em ployer returned some mile time later a wonderful sight awaited him. Most of the footballs looked as If they had been tak ing part in a very rougn matcn. wnne tne once beautiful pyramid of balls in the center of the window was now a shapeless mass. "Here. Miss B ." roared the trades man. "what on earth's the matter with these halls? "Don't know, sir." was the reply, "un less it's the pins, sir!" She had pinned the price tickets on to tnem. The Telephone To-day. The telephone has become a necessity of modern life, and whatever tends to cheapen the telephone service and enlarge its sphere of operations deserves support and encour agement. There has been a rapid increase of independent telephone companies. It is stated that the close of this year will see 3,500 independent telephone exchanges in operation, having over 730,000 instruments. In 1SS0 there were under rental use in the country G0.S73 telephones. One year later the number had Increased to 132,692. In 1S the number of telephones in use was over 1,000,000. In 1SS5 there was in use in the various systems and modes or building 137. 223 miles of telephone wire. At the begin ning of this year the mileage had Increased to 1,158,000 miles. The use of the telephone is more common in the United States than in any other country. The Good Samaritan Century the "good Samaritan" THE SAVED REJOICE Hott a. Charmlnc and Beautiful Young? Lady Win for Years Fol lowed by a Malignant and Subtle Foe. THE EXEMV IX OUR MIDST. If the average reader of thedaijy papers asks why so much is said by Dr. Hume re specting Catarrhal Consumption, the an swer is at once forthcoming. It is esti mated that 9 per cent of the American people are afflicted with It. The neglect of proper treatment brings in its train raany dborders. It is the source of many other complaints, and yet few of those suffering from it recognize the fact. A bright and attractive young lady makes this state ment in an Interview with a reporter: ' fV Kt f. My name is Myrtle Ely. I reside at 409 Land's court, IStli and Broadway. Kansas City. Mo. I had been suffering from Ca tarrh and had all the painful symptoms ot that unpleasant ailment. (. was advised to see Dr. Hume, by my sister, whom he has cured of Catarrh, and about two months ago I consulted him. and I rejoice to say after his treatment life tars a different aspect. The following N thf description ot my condition tWore treatment and how I now feel. Conclusive evidence is rendered to show what it has done for me: Before Treatment. After Treatment. "I was always sleepless, had un "Thank3 to Dr. Hume. I can now sleep well and no tired feeling, anil dropping In my throat, hearing per fect and voice clear as a bell, nose clear, no hawking or .spitting- or mucus, breath pleasant, good appe tite, no gagging or vomiting in the morning, eye clear, hands and feet warm. I have no pains or aches, I have gained ten pounds, no cough now. and I have none pleasant dreams. tired and dull, hear ing impaired, drop ping in my tnroat, voice husky. Nose stuffed up. hawking ud offensive matter, my breath was bad. gagging and vomit ing, appetite poor. eyes sunken, hands and feet cld. 1 had pains and aches all through me. and 1 was losing weight at an alarming rate. Cough expectora tions, night sweats and severe pains In of mv old symptoms that I have had so my lungs. I had given up all hopes of long and gave me so ever being cured. and much trouble, and I am very gratefulinow to think that I to Dr. Hume and tojam entirely cured 13 my good sister whola rew lease to lifs recommended me tojand one that I owe use Dr. Hume's Lon-e ntlrely to Dr. don 8 t e a m A t o-i H u m e " s London mlzer. j Steam Atomizer." DOES THIS APPLY TO YOU? "Jf let mtltt before the rummer Mttn." to catarrh j if Id to the painltjl London Hospital Treatment. No Sawing; of Bones. No Agonizing: Treatment. No Nauseating; Drugs. Pleasant, safe and positive In Its results. The past unfortunate experience ot many suffering from Chronic Catarrh has rortl fied them In the belief that they are 'in curable. Dr. Hume does not claim any marvelous power, but by his new and , scientific methods of treating catarrh ha has and does cure this disease as well as Bronchial and Lung Troubles. He makes catarrh a specialty because It Is the most prevalent and annoying disease the peopl of this climate are subject to. CATABRH INTO CONSUMPTION. Since Dr. Hume has located in this city he has treated with success hundreds of persons whose Lung troubles other phys icians have told them were incurable. Does he not publish from week to week In tho dally papers testimonials from some ot his many grateful patients, giving in each case the full name and address of the per son making the statement, that the doubt ing and skeptical may call and Interview the said person prior to visiting the doc tor's office for consultation? The persons advertised as cured are by no means ob scure or unknown, but in the majority of cases citizens well known by the business people and community at large, and it will more than repay any one suffering from catarrhal complications to visit thosa whose statements are published. Delays are dangerous, for the catarrhal poison once deeply rooted In the system, incalculable evils follow. Trouble Is fore told by pains In the chest, constant hawk ing to clear the throat, weakness of the general system, pain over the eyes, poor appetite, loss of flesh, nervousness.CQiigh, chills and fever, catarrhal discharges, hem orrhage, night sweats and many other symptoms 01 degeneration or tne tissues. Be warned in time, and ascertain your con dition before the Incurable stage is reached. Consult. Dr. Charles Hume, the eminent specialist. offices are at 1013 Walnut street. Kansas City. Mo., where all chronic diseases are treated and cured with equal success. "Write ror question manic consultation and ex amination free. Office hours, 9 a. m. to S p. m.: Sundays, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Stove Repairs! Wholesale and Ietail. TEL.. I2I-4-.' S. . TVVETZINER. 304 W. 6th St. KANSAS CITY. MO. THE HABIT 4 Of using the telephone Instead of sending a messenger or writ ing a letter is Increasing very ranldly. S Cunts a Day will put a telephone in your house and give you uccess to nearly G.00O other telephones la Kansas City. MISSOURI sol KANSAS TELEPHONB CO) Talcpbons Mala No. u aslfJVfsssst asaTlXVk L -c' 'ssssSSiH Mr .i 1