Kansas City Kansas News from Kansas City, Kansas • 8

Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Thompson son J.

of Drexel, are spending a fortnight with Mrs. Thompson's mother, Mrs. J. R. Canon, 2100 north 10th st.

Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Smith, 623 Tauromee announce the engagement of their daughter, Mayme Florence, to Mr.

H. F. Tuttle, of Adrain. Mo. The wedding will take place during the early summ1er.

Joseph Henry Wade, 62 years old, died Wednesday morning of cancer at the home, 515 Elizabeth ave. The funeral was from the home yesterday at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was in Highland Park cemetery. Joseph Duche, 65 years old, aretired farmer, died Wednesday at his home, 308 North Thirteenth st. Funeral services will be held at St.

Peter's Catholic church this morning at 9 o'clock. Burial in Mount Calvary cemetery. The Mary Littick Hive No. 28. held their regular meeting following the first of a series of card parties Tuesday at Butler's hall.

Prizes were awarded to Mrs. W. Brant, Mrs. Rose Cheneworth and Mrs. Jerome Scheigle.

Forest, 65 years old a laborer, died Wednesday at St Margaret's hospital. He had 110 relatives in this city. The body was sent to Raymonds undertaking rooms where the funeral services were held yesterday morning. Burial was made in Mount Hope cemetery. Housewives of this city will be given an opportunity to improve their knowledge of cooking at the high school, beginning March 24.

On that day a married women's class will be organized. Classes will be held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 2:30. No charge is made for the course. A niece of Mrs. Martha Cook, 15 st.

and Garfield, invited her out to spend the afternoon Tuesday end in the meantime Mrs. Cock's children and grandchildren numbering 19 in all prepared a grand birthday supper as a surprise for her. They also gave her a set of china as a birthday remembrance. The trial of Josiah Moore charged with the murder of Charles Mc Cormick is being tried in the Third division of the Wyandotte county district court. By the exhaustion of the jury panal, Judge Hutchings ordered anew panal drawn, and the selection of a jury is being made as we go to press.

Moore shot McCormick in the latter's barber shop at 33 Central ave. last Christmas day. The shooting followed a quarrel said to have resulted from a "crooked" dice game. Word was received in this city Tuesday of the death of Chapman in Chicago. "'Ollie" Chapman, as he was familiarly known 111 this city, formerly was chief clerk of the Kansas City division of the Union Pacific railway.

His fatl er Chapman, Sr. was for many years master mechanic at the Armstrong shops of the same railway. Mr Chapman was 53 years old. He left Kansas City, in 1888, and went to Chicago where he had since been engaged in the insurance business. Lou Chapman, chief engineer of the Kansas City Stock Yards Company is a brother, and a sister, Mrs Ira Coliar, liv.s at 925 Barnett ave.

The body arrived 111 this city Wednesday morning. Funeral services held at the home of Mrs Collar at 3 o'clock Wed nesday Bu ial was 111 Oak Grove cemetery. Mrs. Anna Wilmer, 63 years old, wife of Theodore Wilmer, a carpen ter employed by the Union Pacific railroad, was found dead in bel at her home, 516 Tauromee Tuesday 110011 by a boarder at their home. A post mor eill amination made by Dr.

A Davis, Wyandotte county co revealed the fact that she had swallowed carbolic acid. A physician who was called when the body was discovered found 110 trace of acid poisoning and pronounced it a death from heart disease. Dr. Davis was called three hours later but was not convinced that dea was from natural causes. Remember 11g a case three weeks ago, that of ny A Martin, a Rock Island rai.road clerk, who swallowed carbolic acid 111 such a manner that Lis 1:10 th and throat were not burned, Dr Davis decided to hold an autopsy.

Aiter finding acid Dr Da is aril ed from Mr Wilmer tha: a thre ounce bottle of the acid lal kept 111 the cupboard in the it. he The bottle, which Mr Wilm said had been a third full wa; empty. Mrs Wimer's fun ral thi 1110. 11 at St Anthony's Ca ho ic Burial in Mount Calvary cemetery. WORLD'S OLDEST ORDER.

What is the oldest order in existence? The claim is made for that of the Holy Sepulcher, the grand officership of which has just been conferred by the pope on a member the Irish nationalist party, Sir Thomas Grattan Esmond. It appears that no date or the name of a founder can be assigned to the Order of the Holy Sepulcher. though there is a lenegdary tradition that traces its origin to the time of Charlemagne. In the middle of the last century, however, when the latin patriarchate of Jerusalem was re-established, the office of grand master of the order was transferred to it by Pope Pius who many years later, in 1868, created by statute three ranks of the -the grand cross, commander and knight. The costume is a white cloak with the cross of Jerusalem in red enamel.

The pope himseif is grand master of the order. Bridal Costume of White Is One of the Oldest, Though Other Colors Have Been Worn. The many countries of the world all have different wedding customs. The custom of brides wearing white is an old one. White has always been the symbol of purity, and this is the main reason why it has been used in all ages and in all civilized countries as the color of the bridal gown.

In old days the Hebrew and Roman brides often wore pale yellow veils, and among the so-called "barbarian" nations--such as the early Saxons, Goths and Norsemen the bride allowed her hair to hang loose as a symbol of her freedom, until entering her husband's house, when it was bound up upon her head as a sign of her future submission. This idea was held by the AngloSaxons until a recent date. A great many flowers were always used at the early weddings and each kind of flower had some special meaning. Among the Greeks and Italians the myrtle and olive were intertwined with white and purple flowers, the white standing for the bride's purity and the purple for Christ's blood. Roses, myrtle and rosemary were worn among the English.

Pansies were also often used. The rose meant love and secrecy. One old marriage custom consisted in each guest dipping his spray of rosemary into his cup of wine before he drank the health and happiness of the bridal couple. CHINESE COMPRADOR. 'The comprador is an important factor in the treaty ports of China Many large foreign firms are engaged in the import and export trade at these ports, and each ploys a comprador, a wealthy Chinese, whose business it is to keep himself acquainted with the Chinese merchants in the various lines of trade in which his house is interested, in Tientsin, Peking and the other cities of north China.

He receives a commission on all that he buys or sells for the firm. In return, if credit be given to any Chinese shop or firm, the comprador guarantees the obligation, and if the shopkeeper does not pay at the appointed time he must pay out of his own CALIFORNIA'S FIRST RICE CROP. The harvesting of the first rice crop in this section of the country is now in progress. The industry centers chiefly about Richvale, in the vicinity of which place about 12,000 acres of land have been planted to rice. Figures from the first three or four days of harvesting show that the crop will average about 5,000 pounds to the Angeles Tribune.

4 A A. WEDDING GOWNS OF BEAUTY Brides of the Winter and Their Attendants Have Been Most Charmingly Attired. Winter brides have been, if pr.3sible, excelling those of the earlier season in the beauty of their wedding gowns and the daintiness of the processions. A recent bride chose for her bridesmaids tudor gowns in brocade that could have stood alone, Elizabethan collars and small gold caps which proved most daintily becoming. Another bride wore her heavy lace veil Madonna fashion, with the filmiest of tulle falling over the face.

As she walked up the aisle the diamonds and crystals with which her gown was embroidered caught the light and shimmered most poetically. Quantities of lovely old lace draped her silver brocade train. Here again the bridesmaids had selected a decorative period for their Pompadour pannier gowns of old rose and china blue. With these they wore large black hats and carried bouquets of pink roses. Shepherdess dresses were worn by another set of bridesmands, who carried crooks on which bunches of flowers were tied with colored satin ribbons.

The shepherdess hats were among the prettiest that have been seen for many months. Let us hope they may lead the fashion away from the extraordinary headgear that has been adopted of late, crushed and untidy looking in many cases. SHAVED PROMINENT MEN Jersey Barber Among Others of His Illustrious Clients, Recalls Lincoln and Charles Dickens. Louis William Miller, dean of Washington's barbers, celebrated his seventy inth birthday by working from five o'clock in the morning till eleven o'clock at night. Miller's birthday recalled to him the fact that he had shaved or cut the hair of more men of note probably than any other barber now livino.

Among those who subinitted themselves to his hand were Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce. Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Baron Rothschild, Charles Dickens, Gen. Winfield Scott, Gen. Philip I. Sheridan, Genera! Marcy and Gen.

George B. McClellan. The aged barber adheres to the hours that were kept when he first opened his shop, beginning work at five o'clock in the morning and keeping his shop open till 8:30 every night but Saturday, when he keeps open till eleven o'clock. Miller was born in Battenberg, Germany, and came to America when a young man. He was working in the barber shop of a New York hotel when the celebrities sat in his chair.

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