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An Angrel Cblld, The children were playing funeral, PRIVATE WIRES TO CHICAQO AND NEW YORK. First-Class in All Its Appointments. ANIMALS PRQVDEHT and Johnnie, our four-year-old boy, was chosen as the one to be burled. He was placed in a hammocii and taken to the supposed grave on the children's shoulders. Grouped about the spot, the children began to sing.

Johnnie Joined in lustily. NEW ALBANY Preparations Which They Make for the Rigors of Winter. "Stop!" said Mary; "you must not sing. You are dead." "Oh, no," was Johnnle'a answer; HOTEL. "I'm an angel up in Heaven.

'-Mary A. M. McDEARMOTT COMMISSION COMPANY. GRAIN, PROVISIONS, COTTON, STOCKS AND BONDS. Rooms 107 to 110 Navajo Building, 716 Delaware Street, KANSAS CITY, MO.

The Naturalist Give a Glimpse Into the Winter-Quarter ot th 'Beaver, Muskrut, Pica nod the Squirrel, The month has come when those ot earth's creatures which know not the use of fire must make their preparations for winter if they would survive its hardships. They are confronted with problems which, if they are hot already solved, must be attended to at once. In most cases their problems are those of food and shelter; sometimes one, sometimes both. Of course, the question of protection also comes up, and, although this is always before them, in some cases at least, it requires a special answer in winter. For this reason the fur of the Canadian hare, the ermine and some other mammals, and the plumage of the white-tailed ptarmigan, change from the brown color of summer to pure white, 1024 Union Opposite Union Depot, KANSAS CITY, MO.

Cable Cars Pass the House to All Parts of the City. H. Northend, in Llpplncott's Magazine. Faithless Faith. Jones I thoug'ht your- friend Smith was a believer in the faith cure.

Brown So he is. His wife was ill last week and he refused to call a physician. Jones But I saw Dr. Pllhtbury coming out of his house this morning. Brown that's different.

Smith is sick himself now. Cincinnati Enquirer. BrlnKinR Him to Time. Mrs. Modus Well, George, you promised me a new bonnet.

George Promised yon a new bonnet? Great Scot? When? Mrs. Modus Before you married me you swore that never should disgrace rest upon my head through you; and what do you call this shabby thing that's on my head now? Tit-Bits. Union National Bank rl II National Bank of Commerce References Commercial Agencies GOAL PROBLEM SOLVED. "We will sell you a Stove whose equal cannot be found for SAVING-FUEL. v- The CELEBRATED COLE HOT BUST STOVE.

Dealers in Builders' and General Hardware. 1 making them practically invisible in the snow. Then, in order that they JJIcDearmott, Evans Lee, Bankers and Brokers, JS Wall Street. .15 Broad Street, New York. An lumbal Removed.

look unusually happy, old may travel more easily over snow-covered ground, the feet of many animals are subject to peculiar modification al this season. "You man." i "I feel that way. I 've just paid for. As we all know, horny fringes grow my bicycle, and" "Gee whiz! What are you buying a upon the toes of grouse, the hoofs oi certain deer become broader, and the wheel for? Nobody rides a bicycle- J.W.YARDLEY,1820 N. SOL SL OTTO KNAPP, "Of course not I'm speaking of the feet of rabbits become wide, hairy pads.

But these latter advantages, de- II ami 8ffl 111, wheel I bought on installments in 1898." Philadelphia Press. Wonderful Medicine. Dr. Bluster What! The boy is well already? Well, well! A marvelous cure, indeed! What do you think of my medicine now, Dame Tacklelgh? Dame Tackleigh Wonderful, doctor simple wonderful I told the boy yesterday that if that medicine didn't cure I aim you were going to fetch a different IRON, STEEL, TOOLS, WAGON, WOOD, STOCK, F. B.

BONNIWELL, Prest W. H. GRANT. V. Prest.

and Secy. JOHN CALVIN, Treat. BONtHWELL-CALVIN IRON CO. Jobbers in IRON and STEEL. Carriage Wagon Hardware, Woodwork Trimmings.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS TOPS, CUSHIONS AND BACKS. kind to-day. Tit-Bits. Her Wine Pupa. She Papa says that when coming to CUTLERY, TINWARE, etc.

Telephone 312 Orand. lee me, you must not come in a street any more, 1504 Grand Avenue, He Really! Does he expect me to ivalk all this distance? THE BiAVER AT WORK. She Of course, not. He says all he isks is that you will come in a carriage, KANSAS CITY, MO. aired by the hour.

N. Y. Weekly, rived from change or color, or growth peculiar to the season, are attained without any effort on the parts of the creatures themselves. In order to obtain food and shelter for the winter, however, some animals are obliged to make active preparation. Recommendation.

"Didn't your old employer recom 1207 to 1215 West 10th St. KANSAS CITY, mend you?" "Oh, yes." RICHARDS CONOVER HARDWARE CO. "Their word should have been Perhaps the best known example oi A. R. JAMES SON, mough." such preparation is that of the beavers, which first make a pond by dam "It was.

They announced me as the -DEALERS IN- best man they ever turned out." Cin linanti Commercial Tribune. JOBBERS OF ram SKWKR BRICK LIE ming a stream with trees, brush, stones and mud, and then, in the pond thus made, erect stanch huts, whose roofs are well above the water, and whose doorways are well below it, Here they spend the winter, swimming that KJJ II JLIJ.L J. J.J. J-lj Cheap at Any Price. Husband Where did you get ildeboard? SMf anfl Heavy Hardware, Guns, Cutleir, Coal and Feed have Wife At auction for $100.

Husband Awful! I could nought the same thing for $50. S. E. Cor. 4th and Minnespta Avenue.

Kansas City, Kans. SPORTING GOODS, SEWING MACHINES, STOVES. Wife Well, I wasn't going to let out under the ice in search of aquatic roots, or the bark of trees and bushes growing near the water, or, when other food fails them, eating the barb of saplings carried to the bottom oi the pond and stored away near theii huts in the autumn. Unfortunately. Telephone W.

153. woman across the way outbid me, Brooklyn Life. Jnvenlle Diplomat. Iron and Steel, Tin Plate and Metals, Barbed and Plain Mamma Now, sir, for your disobedi ence, I'm going to whip you! Wire, Harness, Paints, Contractors' Supplies. Fifth Wyandotte Sts.

KANSAS CITY, MO. Fifth Wyandotte Sts. few of us ever get a chance to see either these animals or their works, for not only have Ihe beavers been almost exterminated, but those whicfc Willie Say, ma, let's compromise this Mamma What? GEORGE EYSSELL, Union Depot Drug Store. FINE LIQUORS AND WINES A SPECIALTY. still survive often -spend their winters in holes in the banks of streams.

Willie Call it quits, and I'll use my nfluence with pa to get that bonnet you We can, however, get some idea oi pant. Tit-Bits. No Roam for More. The Wyandotte Goal and Lime Company, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. LARGEST HOUSE IN THE WEST.

Wife wasn that Mr. uuzzie we the beaver's natural preparation foi winter by watching the muskrats, which have somewhat similar habits, The muskrat makes no dam, but chooses for the site of his winter home a pond already in existence. Here he passed? He seemed preoccupied. Husband He looked to me what you Opposite Waiting Rooms. hight call "occupied." Dealers in All Kinds of builds a hut or lodge on the same Wife Occupied? How do you mean? general plan as the beaver's, but much Husband Full.

Philadelphia Press, 1036 Union Avenue. KANSIS CITY, 1.10. NEVER GAVE IT A CHANCE. GOAL, WOOD, UIE, GEIIENT, ETC. Office: Basement Columbia Bide, Southeaet Cvner Gth Minnesota Are.

Yards: 3d and Minnesota, 5th and Central. smaller. The material used in its construction is usually that which is easiest to obtain sticks, leaves, moss, grass and the stems of bullrushes, being amongst the materials I have seen used by this animal. As far as J. J.

VAN WYCK, know, muskrats lay up no food foi General Hardware, M. B. HASKELL, I Streator, 111, the winter, but depend entirely upor what they can pick up from day tc W. W. HASKELL.

837 Washington Ave. day. Like the beavers, they are partial Stoves, Tinware and House Furnishing Goods. JOB WORK IN SHEET METALS PROMPTLY DONE. to the roots of aquatic plants, and fragments of these are often seen beneath the ice, where they have floated from the spot where some rat has been at work.

Muskrats also go out into the HASKELL HARDWARE. BUILDERS' CONTRACTS A SPECIALTY. STOTES AND TINWARE, CUTLERY AND PAINTS. fields through holes in the ice, to eal any winter apples they may find undei 648 Minnesota Avenue, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. the trees, or to glean corn or othei grain which may have been left by the farmers.

VAL BLATZ. The little chief hare or pica of the Phone West 352. 522 Minnesota KANSAS CITY, KAN. west is another of our provident wild creatures. This little fellow is appar WIENER BEER First Little Girl Does your father GLASNER BARZEN DISTILLING AND IMPORTING hate work? Is Unexcelled in the Market.

Second Little Girl No, indeed. It never done him no harm Cincinnati Successors to ently related to the rabbits on one side and to the rats on the other, Picas live on the slopes of the mountains, where in holes and crevices amongst the rocks and boulders the; find safe retreats. They are most industrious, and spend much time in gathering mountain plants which thej Brewed from the Purest Hops and Malt. Ask for It GLASNER BARZEN, Commercial Tribune. An Endless Programme, He sighed for wealth.

A mighty store He got; and then He sighed for more. Washington Star. 'What's In a Name DISTILLERS AND JOBBERS OP pile into "hay stacks" for their use in Kansas City Branch: Corner Walnut and Front. Telephone Main 342, A. P.

SPAAR, Mgr the winter. It would probably be difficult tc mention a more provident animal than the common chipmunk, which foi months now has been carrying intc his long, winding, underground tunnel FINE WHISKIES. 519-521 Delaware St. Telephone 148 3249. KANSAS CITY, MO.

"I am going to name my airship the rramp," said the inventor who had roftted by Prof. Langley's experieuce. MORIvEY'S, a store of nuts, grains and seeds ol different kinds, which would probably last him for two winters if there 800 Walnut should be a famine next year. The red and gray too, have been busy collecting nuts for sev eral weeks past, and many are the piles of shellbarks and butternuts hid den away in hollow trees, old Wood KANSAS CITY, MO "Why so?" asked his friend. "Then I am sure it will keep away Irom the water." Philadelphia Record.

Plata Reasons. Harry Blanche says she has Insuperable reasons for remaining single. Horace Yes, I know what they are. Harry Then she has told you? Horace No, but I have seen her. Boston Transcript One of the Joys.

"The brusque way that you refused to buy Willie a knife cut him deeply," asserted the mother. "In that case," replied the father, "he has the result without having the knife." Chicago Post. J3.IWirXj33 ROOM. (Ms Zora9 EUROPEAN HOTEL Finest Rooms in the City. 211 East Twelfth KANSAS CITY, 110, chuck burrows, and under prostrate logs in the woods.

But these creatures are not nearly so dependent on theii winter stores as the chipmunk is, for W. T. MAUNDER Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Glass, Books, Stationery red and gray squirrels are abroad more or less all winter, while the little hackhee sticks to his den from fali Trunks, Traveling Bags. until spring. ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES, Telephone W.

161. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS..