The Rising Son

Wednesday, May 21, 1786 It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME VIII. LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. Gilbert went to Kansas City Monday morning on business. The trustees of the A. M. E. church have begun their improvement on the church and parsonage. The teachers institute is held here and is conducted by Prof. Green. There are about fifteen teachers in attendance. The temple and tabernacle will be preach Sunday at which time we expect all the members to be present. A concert will be given at St. John's M. E. church on Tuesday for the benefit of the church, conducted by Mrs. Mary Wright. Everybody is invited to attend. Mrs. Shelby has left the city for Higginsville, and expects to go to Kansas City to make that her future home. Mrs. James Davis of Kansas City was here visiting her mother and brother and other relatives. Al Williams was in Kansas City on business. Mr. Bob Brownfield departed this life on Tuesday, June 16. He had been sick for quite a while. He leaves a dear wife, sister and a number of relatives to mourn his loss. He was about 35 years old. Mr. Tom Jenkins shot and killed Mr. Lum Hayes on Monday evening about 7 o'clock. He died in a few minutes after he was shot. The difficulty between them arose about a can of beer. He followed Mr. Hayes and shot him twice, one taking effect in the breast and killed him. The can business is bad business, and we hope our young men will take a lesson from this and quit it. He was burried on Wednesday. He leaves a mother and brothers and sisters to mourn his loss. Last Tuesday was set apart for the people to go out and clean off their cemetary. There were only two men who went and cut weeds and undergrowth, and other men sat around the court house yard from the time those men went out until the time they came back. They said they did not have time. If we have any respect or care for our dead, I think we ought to show it. Those men who went out there did not go because they wanted to go, but because it was their duty, and we think it the duty of every colored man in the city to go out next Thursday and clean it off. We hope the ladies will furnish their dinner. If you have any race pride, show it, for that place is a disgrace to the race. Mrs. Amanda Graham, Mr. Rooker Saunders, Mr. Chas. Haywood paid up their subscriptions to the Rising Son. We hope others will do the same, especially our yearly subscribers; we need the money. The high water kept the Son from rising, but she will rise now; please pay up. Mr. Israel Burles is quite sick. Mr. Mair Barries is quite sick. Mrs. Mary Wilson has been quite ill but is now out again. Mrs. Louise Parker is on the sick list. guest of Mrs. Kirk Wilson. She will probably spend a week or so. We were unable to learn her name. The students of Lincoln Institute have all returned home. They speak highly of their school. Mrs. Jone Porter is unable to get around on account of her crippled limb. Mr. Bunks and Mr. Moppins, who have been down here several weeks moving houses, went to Kansas City Saturday evening. Mr. Moppins understands the business. We wish we had more such men among us. Lime Bridge Chapel "Well, dearest," he wrote, "it is the old, old story, this story of love, the divine music of the heart. It is the basis of all the world's poetry and song; we never gifted tired of it or desire any change in its main features. I can come as near describing my delight in getting your letter as in describing the fragrance of the rose or the beauty of a sunset. Each word you write takes on a new meaning as it drops from your pen. There clusters around the little incidents of our acquaintance the sweetest, tenderest memories. I look—I see your face. I look forward and it is there. it is entwined in every hope, wrapped up in every joy." And now she is suing him for breach of promise! A. MRS. W. M. LUCAS Mrs. W. M. Lucas and Mrs. S. F. Green whose cuts appear above are two of the best talent we have. They have given concerts and have met with such success that they will take it up hereafter as a profession, and on larger basis. Mme. Lucas has a very rich and beautiful voice; her selections are of a high character and the rendering of them is superb. Mrs. Green the accompanist has a fine contralto voice, which is in perfect accord with Mme. Lucas's soprano. MRS. S. F. GREN NOT BE A HOME: Look our list over and come and see the Rising Son, 117 West Sixth street. For Sale— 2119 Highland, 6 rooms.....$1,500 2119 Highland, 5 rooms.....1,500 2316 Highland, 6 rooms.....1,375 2208 Grove, 4 rooms.....1,100 1719 Agnes, 5 rooms.....1,300 2333 Agnes, 4 rooms.....1,000 UNCLE SAM'S PENSION ROLLS. How the Vast Sums Are Paid Through out the Country. Some idea of the vastness of the funds paid out at the various pension agencies throughout the country every three months is given in a requisition just forwarded by the secretary of the interior to the secretary of the treasury. The requisition calls for an aggregate of $10,955,000, and is to be paid to small armies of veterans from half a dozen of the agencies during the first week in March. Payments are made at each agency quarterly, but for convenience sake the agencies are divided into three groups, each group paying off on a different month. Following are the figures for March: Boston, Mass., $1,840,000; Augusta, Me., $700,000; Washington, D. C., $1,910,000; Columbus, Ohio, $3,750,000; San Francisco, Cal., $1,155,000; Detroit, Mich., $1,600,000. Not Usually So Fatal. A man from Pittsburgh was introduced to Representative Littlefield of Maline the other day. "I spoke in Pittsburgh last fall," said Littlefield. "Yes." replied the Pittsburg man. "I ran for office there and I was beaten by only 7,000." "Heaven!" said Littlefield. "I am not usually so fatal as that. I spoke out in Omaha in 1906 for 'Dave' Mercer and they didn't beat him until 1902." KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1903. NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. League decided at its last meeting, to hold the fourth annual session of the organization at Nashville, Tennessee, during the month of August, 1903. The Executive Committee has decided upon Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 19, 20 and 21, as the dates for the meeting. The Local Negro Business League of Nashville has already begun making thorough and elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the National body, and there is every indication that the coming meeting will be the largest and most important in the history of the organization. BOKER T. WASHINGTON, Pres. BOKER T. WASHINGTON. Pres. EDWARD COOPER. Secy. CALL FOR MEETING OF NATIONAL AFROAMERICAN COUNCIL AT LOUISVILLE, KY, JULY 1, 2, AND 3, 1903. To the members of the National Afro-American Council, Delegates from Local Councils and Affiliated Organizations, such as Churches, Colleges, Benevolent Societies, Newspapers and other Race Organizations. Greeting: The Sixth Annual Session of the National Afro-American Council will be held at Louisville, Ky., July 1st, 2d, and 3rd, 1903. WILIAM A. PLEDGER, Acting President. ALEXANDER WALTERS, Chairman Executive Com. GYKLE, FIELD ADAMS Chartered Com- CYFUS FIELD ADAMS. General Secretary APES SING IN CONCERT. African Traveler Tells of a Remarkable Performance. In the Zoological garden at Berlin may be seen a curious-looking ape. It is a member of the species known as "guereza." Herr Schilling, an African traveler, shot it near Kilmandscharo, in German East Africa, but the animal was not badly wounded, and he soon succeeded in restoring it to health. This is the first adult "guereza" which has ever been seen in captivity in Europe. Three young apes of a somewhat similar type, whose home is in Abyssinia, were captured some time ago, but died very soon after they were photographed. An interesting fact about the "guerezas" is that they hold a regular concert in their native woods every night, which, while not very musical, since it consists merely of a succession of growls, produces a startling effect on those who hear it for the first time. Was Too Highly Honored. Senator Cullom was in an elevator the other day when someone shook hands with him rather effusively, saying: "How do you do, Senator Fairbanks? I am very glad to see you." Mr. Cullom did not correct the effusive person's error. The latter got out at the next floor and the Senator continued for another flight. As he stepped out of the elevator a second stranger grasped his hand and said: "Why, Senator Proctor, I am glad to see you. How are things progressing in Vermont?" Stranger No. 2 entered the cage and Shelby walked away in a slightly dazed condition. In telling a friend of the mistaken greetings he said: "One would have been a good many, but to be taken for Fairbanks and Proctor inside of five minutes was really too much." She Wondered: They were hanging over the gate to St. Paul's churchyard during the police parade. The bands were playing popular melodies. "What do you think would happen," said she in a low voice, "if that band suddenly started to play, 'Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep?' "—New York Press. The Clever Photographer A German photographer named Kunwald, when taking a picture of a lady of doubtful age, places sheets of celluloid behind the negative and the printing paper, thus producing a very softening effect, which hides the discrepancies of age. RACE NOTES. Thomas Fortune, who was sent to the Philippines by the President has returned "chuck full" of information. It is said by good authority that another exodusis planned from the south. Mr. Robert R. Church, of Memphis, Tenn., is the largest real estate dealer of our race, and is owner of the only park and auditorium of its kind. Dr. Jas, G. Clayton, connected with the Pension office at Washington, D. C., died at his home in Springfield, O. June 4th—Colored American. The following is a report of some of the work at Tuskeek Industrial Institute The total number of pieces lau- dered by the young women of our laundry division during the year aggregated a total of 15,051 pieces a week. 60,204 pieces a month, a total for the school term of 54,183 pieces. THE FACE AND THE COLLAR Easy Means by Which a Stout Man May Make Himself Look Thin. Men who do not want to look any fatter in the face than they can help have an easy means of accomplishing their purpose. Not all of them are aware of the effect that may be created by the form of a collar or cravat. "The stout man who wants to look as thin as he can," said the haberdasher's clerk, "ought to wear a tie of the kind known as a four-in-hand. Preferably it should be dark in color and drawn tight. That carries down the line of the face and lengthens it to a degree that tends to make the face thinner. "Another aid to making a man look thin is in the height of his collar. Stout men who want to look thin should wear high collars and closed ones. Any collar that opens in front makes one look stouter under nearly every circumstance. Such collars are becoming to the thin men. "The fat man should avoid the kind of tie that has a horizontal effect. This will add pounds to his appearance—in his face at least. On the contrary, this cross effect will make the thin man look stout."—New York Sun. GOD WAS NOT DISPLEASED. How Little One Obtained Absolution for a Fib Little Dorothy Perkins was usually a truthful child. When she was not truthful she was plausible. Coming in from her walk one morning she informed her mother that she had seen a lion in the park. No amount of persuasion or reasoning wavered her statement one hairs-breadth, so at night, when she slipped down beside her knee, her mother said: "Ask God to forgive you for that fib, Dorothy." Dorothy hid her face for a minute; then she looked straight into her mother's eyes with her own shining like stars, and said: "I did ask him, mamma dearest, and he said: 'Don't mention it. Miss Perkins. That big dog has often fooled me.'" Yes. Children Do Lie Do children lie? Yes; constantly, persistently, and universally, says Kindergarten Magazine. A child does not tell the truth, because he could not, He does not know the truth, and his approximation to the truth is much vaguer than ours. And there are certain qualities of his mind which make it inevitable that he should pervert the truth. In the first place, truth is synonymous with knowledge. He does not know what truth is. In the second place (and it is the same with us), children gradually approximate the truth. They have their ideas of truth. In the third place, the child's imagination drives him often to tell what is not true. DEADS THE LIST All of the complimentary terms, such as accomplished, brilliant, handsome, charming, gallant, etc., fade into insignificance in old age before one word that conveys more that is complimentary; and that word is "patient."—Atchison Globe. M. A. B. MISS ISABELLA H. JORDAN The above is Miss Isabella H. Jordan, the girl evangelist, who is carrying on a revival at Allen Chapel this week. She was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1887, but was reared in Jersey City, N. J. She has been before the public for 5 years, and success seems to be the results of her work everywhere. She preached for Bob Ingersoll, the great Infidel 3 years age, and when she finished, he is quoted as saying: "I have been leading people to believe that there is no God. Now I say there is a God." She will be in our city over Sunday, and we pray and trust that a harvest of souls will be the outcome of her visit. You will miss a great treat if you fail to hear her. COULD HER SUFFRAGE SUFFER? Amusing Mistake Made by Australian Woman, Voter Female suffrage sometimes leads to amusing mistakes. A candidate at a recent election in Australia, where the women have votes, tells a story in this connection. The constituency was a seaport town, and one of the burning issues before the electors was the question of berthage rates. A woman voter came to him and asked whether he was in favor of imposing these berthage rates, because if he was she would take good care that neither her husband nor herself would vote for him. A little discussion of the matter revealed the fact that the woman was under the impression that the question of berthage rates related to a poll tax on babies. That candidate now doubts whether the average female voter is not under a declusion, or, perhaps, say, under a spell—New York Tribune A Wonder of Science The method known as spectrum analysis originated in the discovery of Fraunhofer that a ray of light decomposed and split up into its seven principal colors, numerous fine and thick, black and colored lines, the number of which soon grew to hundreds and now amounts to thousands. Kirchoff and Bunsen in 1859) that these lines have their origin in the chemical components of the burning or shining substance, and that each element produces particular invariable lines, always appearing in the same place and spectrum—sodium, for example, a light, broad, yellow line, thallium, a blue, rubidium, three green lines, etc. A Novelist's Old Age "I am 74," says George Meredith, the novelist, "but I do not feel to be growing old either in heart or mind. I still look on life with a young man's eye. I have always hoped I should not grow old as some do—with a palsied intellect, living backward, regarding other people as anachronisms because they themselves have lived on into other times and left their sympathies behind them with their years." France Cares Nothing for Royalty A Brussels correspondent writes that the only interesting point about the recent visit of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans at Brussels is the proof it affords of the low ebb to which the fortunes of the royalist party have fallen. The episodes were of a kind to make one philosophy, when one remembers that less than ten years ago the royalist party was still a practical force in French politics. NUMBER 16. FIRST PAGE At the meeting of the Board of Elegents for Lincoln Institute the Negro State Normal School, located at Jefferson City, the following faculty and teachers were elected: President, B. F. Allen, A. B., A. M. LLD.; Dr. J. H. Garnett, A. B. and A. M. Prof. of Ancient and Modern Languages; Prof. J. Silone Yates, A. B. and A. M. Prof. of English; Prof. G. S. Murray, A. B. and A. M. Prof. of Natural Science; Prof. J. T. Moten, A. B and A. M. Prof. of Mathematics; Prof. A. U. Craig, A. B. and A. M. Supt. of Manual Training Dept.; Prof. English, Supt. of Agricultural Dept.; Miss M. E. Grimshaw, Teacher of Sewing and Domestic Art; Miss Carry M. Carney, Teacher of Music; Miss Burrel, Teacher of Domestic Science; Prof. O. M. Shackelford, A. B. Ass't Prof. of Mathematics; Prof. J. Wesley Daniel, A. B. and Ph. D. Ass't Prof. of Natural Science; Prof. Romeo West, Prof. of Bookkeeping and Business Course, also See't to Faculty; Miss Florence Pigeon, ass't in Music; Mrs. L. W. Anthony, Matron for Girls; Mrs. Sarah Dupee Matron for Boys; Mr. J. Mason, Supt. of Grounds; Mr. Joinson, Chief Engineer. Round to Win. "Yes," said the young wife, "Henry and I had some words this morning, and I can't deny that he got the best of it." "That will never do," returned the experienced neighbor, "You can't afford to start in married life that way." "I know it," answered the young wife. "I've thought it all over, and when he comes home to night I'm going to bring him to terms so quick that he'll hardly know what's happened." "That's right, my dear. Show some spirit. What are you going to do?" "I'm going to bring up the subject again and then cry." "Stray stories." Claims Part of Scotch Estate Claiming descent from the duke of Sutherland of three generations ago, Mrs. Elmund D. Hennessy, wife of a lawyer living in Brooklyn, is planning a fight for a part of the estates of the dukedom of Sutherland in Scotland. "My great grandmother was Mary Sutherland, granddaughter of Lord Rotsay Duffus, and a niece of the then duke of Sutherland," says Mrs. Hennessy. "She married Michael Googan, an Irish physician, with whom she came to New York to live. Later the family went West." Historic Battle Chests on View In the Irish "House of Lords," now the board room of the directors of the Bank of Ireland, are at present on view two great wooden chests strongly bound in iron, which are believed to have contained the money with which King William III paid his troops after the battle of the Boyne. The chests were discovered in one of the bank vaults some time ago, and after having been cleared of the dust and dirt of two centuries are now decided objects of interest to visitors. The Workings of Trusts. An eminent English student of economics, Prof. Smart, regards the trusts in Britain "as, in the main, the elimination of the unnecessary the unnecessary persons, the unnecessary processes, the unnecessary machinery of production and distribution. They mean smaller cost of raw materials, the dispensing with costly advertisements, larger shipments, fewer mid-dienna and a smaller staff." He does not refer to the elimination of unnecessary profits. The Congressional Pun "What has the capitol got that you will never have?" asked Congressman Fletcher of Minnesota of Congressman Tawney. "Give it up," said Tawney, "Two white wings," said Fletcher, "Pretty fair, pretty fair," admitted Tawney. "But what has the capitol got that you give to applicants for office?" "It's too many for me," replied the other Minnesota man. "A marble stair." At this point quits were called—Baltimore Herald. Work of Volcanoes. The five volcanoes active last year destroyed 60,000 lives. . COLUMN TARIFF REFORM Iowa Iowa Idea --- FAIR PLAY IN TRADE RIGHT SORT OF RECIPROCITY FOR THIS COUNTRY. Equal Privileges for Our Exports in All the Markets of the World and no Tariff Discrimination for or Against What We Import. There is no question that the United States can get all the reciprocity treaties it wants or can inspire to it if it will to that end cut down sufficiently its protective duties and make sacrificial offerings of its home industries. It may be claimed in many instances and perhaps proven in some that the particular sacrifices demanded are small in comparison with the general advantage to be gained; but such reasoning will never be satisfactory to the industries to be sacrificed or produced, nor is it at all likely nor desirable that Congress will ever place unreservedly the power to slaughter protective duties in the hands of the President, who in the course of time and events might be actuated by an over anxiety to make a reciprocity record or even by hostility to protection as a principle. So the industries threatened defend themselves through their friends in Congress and have the moral support outside of people who without being well advised in the premises believe in fair play to every legitimate American industry and view with instinctive suspicion any proposition to find a foreign market for some products by impairing the home market for other products. From all of which it appears not merely that reciprocity, as it has been recently proposed, has failed to work, but that from the conditions surrounding it it was from the start destined to failure, and may as well now be relegated definitely to the limbo of attractive but impracticable schemes. Acceptance of this situation should not, however, carry with it abandonment of efforts to promote the foreign trade and commercial expansion of the Is it Possible That Cat COLUM country. Rather should the frank relegation of any unavailable instrument make easier the search for an effective weapon for a most proper purpose. Reciprocity at best is a piecemeal proposition, involving a hangle with each separate nation over the mutual concessions to be made, and by its necessary and interminable delays wearying its friends and disgusting every one. The dignity of the United States and the practical necessities of the case alike demand the adoption of some policy that shall be susceptible of general application, that shall protect the American producer and shipper against petty exactions and discriminations in foreign markets, and that shall, in compel, compel in every quarter the "open door" for American trade, but that shall be content when that door is just as open to American trade as it is to any other trade. The time was when the United States was not of sufficient commercial consequence to enable it successfully to inaugurate such a policy, but the time is when the United States with its immense population, unprecedented wealth and unapproached consuming capacity for nearly all sorts of products is in position, if it admits the products of another nation upon the same terms as it admits the products of all other nations, to demand from that nation like treatment for its own products. To ask more would be to ask what other nations are very likely prohibited by their existing agreements from granting, but equality of treatment the United States may justly and should in self-respect insist upon, and the nation which denies this much should be made to pay upon all its exports to this country a discriminatory duty, either uniform for all nations of its class or graduated according to the discriminations which American exports suffer in its markets. By such policy of dignified insistence and retaliation must the United States in the end protect its interests in the markets of jealous nations, and with such protection assured there is every reason to anticipate that the era of American commercial expansion will soon appear to be only well be gun—Nevada (la.) Representative. Montana Would Suffer. The people of Montana are interested in the question. They have experienced the benefits of protection and have seen nothing to convince them that the trusts are so dangerous and damaging as to demand that the protective policy should be interfered with upon the excuse that the abolition of duties would destroy trusts. As to reciprocity, among the treaties hung up in the Senate is one with the Argentine Republic opening our markets for Argentine wool and hides in return for opening the markets of that country to the manufactures of the United States. This would mean ruin for the wool and cattle growers of the West in return for something to be galanced by the Eastern manufacturers. Fortunately the people of Montana and the West can depend upon a Republican Congress to protect their interests and to consent to no changes in the tariff that would tend to make larger prosperity for one class at the expense of other classes of Americans. - Helena (Mont.) Record. Our Annual Gift to Europe: Our Annual Gift to Europe. The annual exodus to Europe has begun. A single steamship last week took a thousand first-class passengers and $500,000 in gold, which about covers the expenditures of the tourists at an average of $500 each—a very conservative estimate. Here we can account for at least $75,000,000 a year of our favorable balance, and if it must be remembered that this $75,000,000 or more is simply a gift to Europe for which we get no material commodities in return. It is spent in transportation, hotels and sight seeing, most commendable ways for those who can afford them. At the same time the millions are dumped into English and Continental pockets with no appreciable return. All of which proves our wonderful prosperity and wealth under our excellent tariff. As to Cummins. The "iowa idea," advocated by Gov. Cummins and his followers, if put into practice, will knock things endwise in that state. If Gov. Cummins thinks for one moment that the Republican party is to be frightened into adopting a free trade policy by his ranting he is greatly mistaken. Others have snarled and tried to flag the What Has Come Back Again? TARIFF REFORM Iowa Idea moon on this same line, but where are those fellows to day? A little cheap notoriously for the sake of coming into the light will result to Cummins as that of the moth that hovers near the gas burner. He will soon disappear from the horizon as an enemy to his state and to this nation. No man can urge free trade for the United States and be a good citizen at the same time.—Pueblo (Col.) Opinion. A Loss of $10,000,000,000 a Year A Loss of $10,000,000,000 a Year. There were, according to the census, 29,071,117 persons engaged in gainful occupations in 1990. There must be fully 32,500,000 new. The income of these people will certainly average over $2 a day, or $20,000,000,000 annually altogether. The sum is probably nearer twice that amount. But suppose we were to lower our tariff or abolish it as the free traders wish, our incomes would certainly but cut into and reduced by at least $10,000,000,000 a year. In ten years that would be a sum equal to our total wealth. Think of what the loss of $10,000,000,000 a year in incomes means. No wonder the great majority of the people want to let well enough alone, and put off revision either up or down till some years hence. Our Drink Bill. Our drink bill last year amounted to $1,360,098,276, about 50 per cent more than in 1896. The quantities of the four leading beverages consumed were: Gallons. Coffee ..... 1,498,910,304 Beer ..... 1,381,875,437 Tea ..... 396,420,115 S spirits and wine..... 157,206,554 We might get along on milk and water, but we don't, not when protection gives such prosperity as we are now enjoying. A Good Thing to Keep Out Of. A Good Thing to Keep Out Of. Tariff discriminations and recriminations have brought on a warm little row between Canada and Germany. Canada began it by giving Great Britain a 33 1:3 preferential tariff rate on manufactured goods. Germany retaliates by clapping higher duties on Canadian wheat. It is a natural and inevitable outcome of the system of preferential trade arrangements commonly called "reciprocity." It is chiefly productive of reciprocal hatred and ill will. A good thing for any country to keep out of. BACK IN THE DAYS OF '44. Some Opinions Regarding the Great Flood at That Time. KANSAS CITY, MO.—(Special.) "Yes, it has been a fearful flood, and the damage it has wrought is unprecedented, out the volume of water has not nearly equaled that of the flood of 1844." said William Mulkey, one of the few survivors of that historic event. Mr. Mulkey sat on the veranda of his home on the point of the bluff at Thirteenth street, looking down at the wide expanse of river and the busy wholesale district directly below him. "Fifty-nine years ago," he continued reflectively, "I stood on this same place and watched the water rise to a height that passed all belief and then fall again, leaving desolation and ruin behind. But, of course, you understand it was no such ruin as we see down there," with a waive of his hand toward the wrecked bridges and railroad yards that could be plainly seen below. "Then it was nature ruined, now it is man. The bottoms then were absolutely unimproved, not more than a dozen families had squatted there, so that while the water was just as terrifying then as it has been this time, yet the danger to life and destruction of property were almost nothing in appearance. "At that time the bottoms were so different in appearance from what they are now that I almost like Rip Van Winkle when I look down there. The channels of both rivers were altogether different. The mouth of the Kaw was then just this side of what is called Jersey creek. Turkey creek flowed then just this side of where Dodd's packing house now stands, and emptied into the Missouri. The flood at that time came down the Missouri, came down in a perfect wall of water that backed up into the Kaw. The Kaw was unusually high just then from excessive rainfall up in Kansas, and the two combined gave us just a little more water than I ever saw before or since in this part of the country. The rise of the river was much more rapid than it was this time. One day the river was in its banks, barely it is true, but still there—the next it had broken through, and the water extended twelve or fourteen feet deep clear from bluff to bluff and it was terrible, and if the Another thing that shows how bottoms had then been settled as they are now, the loss of life would have been appalling. 'As to the depth of the water I cannot say. The mark on the Hannibal bridge is almost correct I think, but it is, if anything, too low. The way I gauged it was this—you see down there" pointing with his stick over the edge of the bluff, "there are two benches or shelves below this one that the house is on. Well, on June 15, 1844, the water was just up to the edge of that lowest shelf there, and the day when the water was the highest here a couple of weeks ago, that shelf was fully six feet above it. Now, that is proof enough, isn't it? deep the water was; a big river steamer came up from the Missouri, crossed directly through the bottoms, where the Union depot now stands, on through over where the stock yards now are, and so into the Kaw. I do not believe that could have been done at this flood, do you? "The bottoms were then a grove of cottonwood trees, tall ones, too, as Kansas cottonwoods are, but when the water was over the bottoms that time the tops of them were just sticking up above the surface. I was surprised during this last flood at the small quantity of green drift that came down with the current, but I presume that it was because the river bottom has been almost wholly cleared of timber. In 1844 the drift was almost all of green trees, big ones, snapped off like pipestems, and coming bobbing along like a floating grove. "Most of the drift came down the Missouri, but as there was only one little settlement between here and St. Joseph, and nothing between there and brakes you can see that the drift, apart from the trees, amounted to comparatively little. I remember one house though that came down from where Parkville now is. It was a two-story frame dwelling, very fine for those days when everything was built of logs, and belonged to a widow. Some other boys and I caught it over in the East bottoms, and anchored it there until the water went down, the woman came down the river. As soon as it was possible to travel hunting her house. The furniture in the second floor was uninjured and she took that away with her, but she gave me the house, and I tell you I was proud of my capture. "I was 29 years old at that time and big and strong. That last quality enabled me to earn $75 from the flood. There were three men here who had to get over to Liberty, flood or no flood. They offered $25 apiece to anyone who would take them across to Randolph. I volunteered and took them across in a row boat. It was hard work and dangrous too, and I earned every cent of the $75." Mrs. Mulkey was also living here at the time of the flood, and though she was only 12 years old her recollection of it is vivid and clear, and she quite agrees with Mr. Mulkey as to the comparative depth of the two inundations. Mrs. Mulkey was the daughter of Mr. Dripps, who was agent for all the Indians west of the Missouri, and who was himself married to a half breed Indian woman. The Dripps' home was at that time in a log cabin on the present site of the large flat building on Thirteenth street, between Summit and Madison. It directly overlooked the flooded district, and Mrs. Mulkey says that child as she was she still remembers the impression that the swirling water and the roar of it made on her. "We were as fascinated by it then as we were this time," she said, "and used to sit for hours cut there on the ledge from where we watched the present flood, and look at the tops of the trees showing their heads above the yellow foam and wonder what would have happened to people if many of them had lived down there. "But one of my most distinct recollections of the great flood," she continued, "is of the post of mosquitoes that followed it. It was simply terrible. Everyone suffered, bottoms and bluffs alike, and if we have anything like it this time I do not know what will become of us. There was a great deal of sickness that summer, too—ague we called it then, but it goes by the name of malaria now. Anyway it all amounted to the same thing. Everyone who had been in the water or near it even suffered and a good many who had only viewed it from high on the bluffs "From this ledge up here I have watched two great floods. One of them wiped out all vegetation in the valley for miles across and left a thick covering of sand on everything. The other wiped out valuable property in the same territory and left as much mud as the other had sand. I do not know what the next one will do, but I have had enough. I do not want to see another." The following article was written by the late John C. McCoy on the flood of 1844 and published in The Kansas City Journal about 1879. Although not a scientific, Mr. McCoy was a practical engineer of considerable ability, and his wide experience and good judgment made his ownions valuable. Up to the time of his death, which was in September, 1889, he watched with interest and considerable solicitude the development of the vast commercial center known as West Kansas, and often expressed his fears of a calamity such as we have recently had. He feared it would come from one of these causes, viz., a flood such as we have just had from excessive rainfall in the West at a time when the Missouri was high; from the constant narrowing of the rivers' channels by accretions which would not permit the egress of the waters; or that large numbers of low bridges being built of their fulfillment. This is very across the narrow channel would form a barrier for ice: The subject of floods in the Missouri and Kansas rivers in the past and the probabilities of their recurrence in the future is neither a pleasant nor popular theme to talk or write about just now and those who indulge in speculations or predictions of danger are looked upon as croakers and birds of evil omen, especially by those whose interests would be in jeopardy in event plainly shown by the way many persons interested in West Kansas City and the bottom lands of the river have received warnings and statements of the United States engineers as to the probable danger of adevasting flood in the Missouri river, and which appeared in The Journal a few days ago. His statements have, I think, provoked a gooddeal of unjust and unnecessary criticism and comment. He is a stranger to me, but holding the position of trust and responsibility that he does in the engineer service of the government we may safely construe that he is at least theoretically competent and certainly possesses the most correct information obtainable to enable him to form the proper dangers to be apprehended. Not only this, but it is his especial business to study of all the facts and facilities requisite to form a correct conclusion in the premises. Now, granting that it is his leibereate judgement formed from these sources that the dire calamity of a devastating flood was likely to sweep over the West Kansas City bottoms, causing the loss of millions of dollars' value in property and perhaps many lives, his failure to give timely warning would under the circumstances be looked upon as little short of murder; and then, if his predictions failed and the elements over which he had no control are propitious why then he subjects himself to ungenerous flings and jeers. His situation in the premises is one of great responsibility and certainly by no means to be civil. Having some knowledge of facts connected with floods in the Missouri river, I will venture, disagreeable as the subject may be to many, to briefly state them. Physic, albeit nauseating, is sometimes very beneficial to general health. We may sincerely hope that the general health in this case is in no danger at present. The records of the past tell us of only three floods that may be regarded as devastating, viz: in 1782, 1826 and 1844. One other in 1843 only partially so, and many others where the overflow caused little or no damage. According to my recollection the overflow of 1843, occurring the last May and the first of June, reached a height about six feet lower than of the succeeding year of June, 1844, and the damage was correspondingly less. The winter of 1842-43 was a long, hard one with much snow toward the mountains. In January there was a general thaw and breakup with fine weather lasting nearly three weeks, and the steamer "Tone" ascended the river to Kansas City. On the day of her arrival it turned suddenly cold, the river froze up again and so it remained until the first of May, during which time the boat remained at the foot of Grand avenue. The rise of the water of 1843 was high enough to wash away some new one story log houses standing near the river bank at the lower end of Harlem, which I had put up at the beginning of the winter. I stood on the levee one day and witnessed their departure; with sudden lurch and a graceful sweep of the upper end toward the river they mingled and melted away in the boiling flood. Have I told this story so often that I really believe that it was an actual occurrence, and that, rumors of the snowfields in the Northwest caused me as soon as the ice was out of the river to vamoose the imperiled ranks? Nay even before that occurred, that I pulled down one house and hauled the hewed logs across on the ice and put them up to live in near the foot of William street? Does anyone doubt the correctness of this statement? And his occurred in 1843, the year before the great flood. I hope not, for I am now going to say something of another flood that far exceeded this one in its devastating effects—that which occurred from the 13th to the 16th of June, 1844. The water rose to a length of six feet or more above the previous year. The Missouri river at about the 13th was only a few feet over the bottom lands, but the great volume of water that came down the Kntsas river madly rushing against the mighty Missouri caused the seething waters to pile up at the vicinity of the mouth, no doubt several feet higher than they would have done had they met at the point of juncture more obliquely. On the morning of the 14th Col. William Chick, who was temporarily occupying with his family a house he owned, which stood on the east side of Turkey creek, not far southeast of the State Line house, was surprised to find the water just rising above the banks of the creek. By 9 o'clock it had reached the doorsteps and the ground was lower toward the hills eastward, he deemed it advisable to seek a place of safety on higher ground, which they succeeded in doing with the aid of a canoe or small boat. His daughter, Mrs. Peery, went to the hills near Twelfth street on a horse, the water being then about mid-side to the horse near the hills. From there she made her way by horse, two miles south of the city, and astonished me by her statement of facts. I galloped down to the ferry across the river, which I owned and ran at that time, and taking a skiff with Col. John Polk, we made our way, with great difficulty and danger, up through the woods to the house, where we arrived about 12 o'clock and found the water about waist deep on the lower floor. We secured as many articles as our skiff would carry, placed the balance out of the reach of the water, and made our way back to the ferry, where I immediately secured a party of about ten persons to take up the ferry flat, to secure that which was left. The soothing, foaming flood of water was not only dashing madly onward in the river channel, but it swept across the heavily timbered bottom of West Kansas, from bluff to bluff, with a roar almost deafening. With the aid of twenty or more men in rounding the rocky headland above the bridge, we finally reached the building about 4 o'clock p. m., when we found that water had reached nearly to the upper floor. Placing the boat beside the house we tore off a portion of the roof, the eaves of which were probably five feet above the boat—the upper window being too small to pass out the furniture. Being now nearly dark we held a council and decided to tie up for the light, deeming it unsafe to venture in the river in the dark. So we ran up to the smoke house, built of heavy logs, in which about 5,000 pounds of bacon were floating about, and there spent the long, dreary hours of the night in roasting bacon and hams, and telling marvelous tales of blood curdling scenes that never happened, probably. Now, those who feel disposed to believe the above statement of facts can make their own estimate of the rapidity of the rise of water in twelve hours from the morning of June 14. I make it from eight to ten feet. Is this incredible? If so, ask Colonel Polk, Allen McGee, William Mulkey and others who spent the night in that flood of water. I will now only mention another episode of that eventful day in West Kansas. During the night of the 15th and the next morning, from time to time loud cries of distress were heard over in Wyandotte in the direction of the residence of Louis Cromley, who then lived near the Missouri south bank, just east of the state line. Those who listened to those cries knew full well that the old man was in deep trouble, as well as deep water, but the impetuous Kaw forced its mad waters into the broad sea of the Missouri with a current so rapid that it was impossible to get the ferry flat across the opposite woods (for there were no banks then) without cordelling the boat some distance up the Kaw, and before this could be done darkness had overspread the desolate scene. At early dawn brave hearts and strong arms were ready for the rescue, Isaiah Walker, Ethan Long, Russell Garrett, David Froman and Tall Charles of Wyandotte soon made their way with the boat, cutting their way through the woods, to poor old Cromley, whom they found perched in a tree, and a few hundred yards further on his wife in another tree, and a short distance farther his boy sitting a straddle of the comb of the houses, which was just beginning to sway into the seething waters of the river. J. M. CROMBR HUMOR OF THE DAY The Tyrant of the Household. "No, I am sorry I can't be with you this evening. I'm obliged to stay at home." "Expecting: company?" "No, our 14-year-old daughter is going to a party this evening." "Does that keep you at home?" "Of course it does. Sne has to have the latchkey." "But, couldn't you go out and stay if you wanted to?" "I suppose I could, but daughter objects to having us out so late." She Received the Invitation. "And when you marry," she softly said, "I hope you'll remember to invite me to the ceremony." He looked thoughtful. "It will be awtully crowded, no doubt," he said, "but I think I can ring you in somehow." And a moment or two later she declared the ring an astonishingly good fit. A He—He's gone to the bad. She—Who? He—The missionary, of course. Suspicious. "I'm afraid my husband doesn't love me any more," said the bride of six months, with an overgrown sigh. "When did you discover the change?" "When I discovered that he had quit leaving any change in his pockets," replied the young wife, sadly.—Exchange. Lost His Identity Lost His Identity. "So you want to get married?" "Yes, suh—I'm resigned ter it." "Ever been married, before?" "Two or three times, suh." "Don't you know for certain?" "No, suh; atter de third one got me I never known who I wuz, or how I come here."—Atlanta Constitution. In Boston. Judge—What do you know about the case? Witness—I seen him bring the stuff upstairs and— Judge—That will do; step down. I cannot listen to such an abuse of language. Discharge the prisoner. Discouraging. "Do you think your father would accept me at a son-in-law?" "Why not? Papa is often of a very different opinion from me."—Dorfbarbler. Unreasonable Sisters Mamma—Why, Herbert, what in the world is the matter with sister? Herbert—Aw, we was just a-playin' haunted house, an' she was the ghost, an' I give her the little chain to swaller so's she would clank every time she moved, an' now she's a-cryin' an' says she don't want to be the ghost any more!—Magazine of Humor. Any Present Surprising. Mr. Krochett—I'm going to surprise you on your birthday. Mrs. Krochett (coldly)—Indeed? Mr. Krochett—Yes; can't you guess what it is? Mrs. Krochett—If you really mean to surprise me I suppose you're going to give me some sort of a present. The Cut Direct. The Cut Direct The Fork—What would you do if a man should cat with you? The Knife—I should feel inclined to cut him.—Philadelphia Record. These are the blown spindrift that is lashed from the face of the waters That cover the Soul with Care; These are the Children of Sorrow, these are the sons and the daughters Sped forth from thy house, Despair! Spray that is fung on the desolate cliffs from the deeps of the sea-sources To lie, like a vell, on our blers; Children that follow the plumes and the waves of the sea-sources; Slow mourners, sure comforters—Tears! —Will H. Ogilvie, in Spectator. He Made When Ned Dalton married Una Perkins the village gossips reaped a harvest. Every one had something to say except the man whose heart was smarting under the wrong dealt him by the friend and schoolmate of his boyhood and the woman he had loved ever since she was a wee lass. When some of his friends came to him to offer sympathy, Tom Reed met them with an impenetrable reserve. He turned with renewed fervor to his work upon a wonderful invention, which he never ceased to believe would one day make his fortune. Una and Ned went to housekeeping in a cozy little cottage on the edge of the village, and for a time it seemed as if the dark prognostications would prove false. Then Ned got into bad company and neglected his wife and home. After the baby came it was worse. Una expostulated, entreated, rebelled. They quarreled bitterly and one dark, dismal November night Ned took the midnight train to Greenfield and the next morning was speeding away on the Northern Pacific express to Seattle, the gold fever in his veins and the Klondike a dazzling vision before his eyes. He left a letter for Una: "I've gone to make my fortune in the gold fields. If I never come back, marry Tom. He always loved you, and it will be some amends for the wrong we both did him. "NED." Una read the note with blinding tears, and fancied her heart was broken. But as the months passed and grew into years, and no word came from her husband, it was Tom she thought of most. For the first year after her husband left she watched every mall, hoping that it would bring her some message. Now five years had gone, and she had given up all hope. One day as she came home from work, her mother met her at the door. "Una, we have heard at last," she said, as she put a western paper in her daughter's hands, and pointed to a small notice marked in blue penell. Died—In Denver, May 18, Edward Dalton, aged 32. Westbrook, Conn., papers please copy. "Now Tom will surely come," Una thought. But he did not. One day she learned that he was ill in dire poverty in a neighboring city. She went to the address that had been given her, and stumbled up the dark, ill-smelling stairs to the wretched hall bedroom that he occupied. Knocking timidly at the door, she received no response. She opened the door softly. "Una!" He had awakened and recognized her. "Una, why have you come?" "To ask your forgiveness, Tom." "You had that long ago. Do you M. W. Una read the note with blinding tears. think I don't know what you have suffered?" "Then why have you stayed away all these years, Tom?" "Can you ask? Look around. What have I to offer any woman. You've had enough of poverty, my girl." "I've tried, Una—every friend I know." "But have you tried our manager, Mr. Norton? He made a fortune in old last year, and has plenty of ready capital." "Why do you think he would help me?" "From something his wife told me." You know, she has been such a friend to me, Tom. That was the beginning of Tom's good fortune. Mr. Norton was interested in his behalf and advanced funds. Soon Tom had regained his former strength and was working all day and long into the night at the factory which bore the name of Norton, Reed & Co. Una and Tom were married on the day that the factory wheels first started to run, and even the village gossips admitted that they would surely be happy at last. And so they were until the tide M. Under the window he paused and looked in. turned. A wealthier firm than Norton, Reed & Co. manufactured sweaters and caps at prices with which they could not hope to compete. Tom was in despair, for again ruin stared him in the face. One drizzling night a stranger alighted at the station, took the only cab the village afforded and told the driver, Old Bill Streaker, to take him to Thomas Reed's. On the way they conversed. "Did you know a fellow who lived once here by the name of Ned Dalton. I met him out west," the stranger said. "Did I know Ned Dalton? Well, I guess I did. Every one knew him, Good hearted as the day was long, but shiftless. Just about broke Una Perkins' heart, and played Tom Reed a mighty dirty trick. Tom and Ned were chums till Tom fell in love with Una, and then Ned cut him out. Darned if I know how he did, though, even if he was a handsome cuss. "But she got her reward all right. She and Ned lived a cat and dog life, and one night he sneaked off to the gold fields. She never see hide nor hair of him after that, till one day she heard he was dead. "Then she married Tom. That's just about a year ago. They were happy as clams at first, but they've had mighty mean luck of late. They're poor as a church mouse, they say." When they got in sight of the house the stranger gave the old man a dollar and dismissed the cab. Lights gleamed from the little cottage. The stranger stood a long time leaning over the gate, smoking his cigar. Then he threw it aside, set his jaw, squared his shoulders, opened the gate and walked up the path. Under the window he paused and looked in. Tom sat at the open fireplace starring in at the fire. Una sgt at his feet, leaning against his knee. Her boy, sprawled at full length beside her, played with a kitten. Una's face was turned toward the window, and it looked wan and white in the firelight. Tom's hand was resting lightly on her head. A cold December rain was falling but the drops on the cheeks of the stranger were warm. Then he turned and walked rapidly away in the darkness. A week later Mr. Norton came to Tom, his face radiant with good news. "An order for 1,000 sweaters, caps and leggings from Messrs. Lucky, Strike & Co., Chicago, Tom!" After that orders poured in so rapidly that Tom could hardly fill them, and with every order came a check in payment. Other firms, seeing the output of the factory, gained confidence in them, and gave them their orders, and in a few months the business was on a paying basis. Then one day Tom read the following article, clipped from a Seattle paper: "The proprietor of the Lucky Strike Teara. mine, on the upper Yukon, who is safe to have taken out some $5,000,000 of gold in the last three years, owes the discovery of this rich claim to the Indians. He has repaid them in the following original manner: Every man, woman and child of the entire tribe has received the present from him of a woolen sweater, cap and leggings. These garments are of as many colors as Jacob's coat, and the tribe is not only the most comfortably clad, but the most picturesque Indians we have in the far west." Tom took the paper to Una. "Can it be—" His lips failed to speak the name. Some few months ago a San Francisco paper printed the report of a steamer lost en route to Alaska. Among the passenger list was the name of Ned Collins, who was once the proprietor of the Lucky Strike mine, and who was known as Lucky Ned Collins. He had squandered a fortune in wild plunging on the New York stock exchange and was returning to Alaska to retrieve his fortune. He was said to have been worshiped by the Indians, who would erect a monument to his memory on the site of the old mine now deserted. They did, and though the inscription on the rude stone only commemorates the generosity of Lucky Ned Collins Una and Tom read between the lines "Ive made amends to you"—Helei Farr Hunter in Boston Globe. EXAMPLES OF RUSSIAN RULE. How Czar's Officers Dealt With Un fortunate Chinese. An English writer tells some extraordinary stories of Russian rule in the far east. "It is not necessary," he says, "to repeat here the tale of the horrors of Blakaveshchensk, but a personal friend of mine is a witness to their reality. On his way to that city while two days' journey down the river he saw floating on the water the corpse of a Chinaman. Then he passed another and another; then two together tied by their pigtails; then more until as he drew near the city the drowned bodies lay so thickly together that the whole broad sweep of the river was one dark mass of floating dead. Tied together by their pigtails, and many of them horribly mutilated, the dead Chinese in their hundreds, in their thousands, stretched from bank to bank, a moving river of the dead. In the spring of 1901 another friend of mine was traveling in Manchuria. He was accompanied by his Chinese comprador. When they left the railway line and struck across country in carts the land became country in carts the village as they entered it was deserted. Signs of life, recent life, were there in plenty, loaves of bread in the ovens, pigs in the yards, fires in the houses, but no people, not a sign of man, woman or child. He had come on business, to buy pigs' bristles, and in order to buy it was necessary to find some one to sell, but no one was there. The first day they wondered, the second they consulted and then the comprador said he had a plan. Would the master stay a long way outside the next village quite hidden and let him go on alone? The master could and did. The explanation was simple but sufficient. The Russians had occupied Manchuria for a year and the Chinese were acquainted with their rule. Seeing a white man coming toward the village they naturally mistook him for a Russian and fled man, woman and child, leaving all their earthly possessions behind them, hoping perhaps that he would be content with loot and leave life alone." The Flower of Liberty What flower is this that greets the mew. morn. its hues from heaven so freshly born? With bouring star and fading band it kindles all the sunset O tell us what its name may be— Is this the flower of liberty? It is the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty! In savage Nature's far abode Its tender seed our fathers sowed; The storm winds rocked its swelling bud. Its opening leaves are streaked with blood. Till it's earth's tyrants shook to see The full-blown Flower of Liberty! Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty! Behold its streaming rays unite, One mingled flood of braided light— The red that fires the Southern rose, And spathed over its nature, The sister stars of Liberty! Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty! The blades of heroes force it round; Whereer it it springs is holy ground; From tower and dome its glories spread; It waves where lonely sentries tread, It makes the land as ocean free. And plants an empire on the sea! Then hall the banner of the free, The starry Flower or Liberty! Thy sacred leaves, fair Freedom's flower, Shall ever float on dome and tower, To all their heavily colors true, In blackening frost or crimson dew— Aureole holy flower, true, Thrice holy Flower of Liberty! Then hall the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty! —Oliver Wendell Holmes. Ingratitude. Not till the crime, roughening of the way, Not till the hopeless tiring of the feet, Not till the dusk and fading of the day Is the home most sweet. Not till our joy has turned to memory, Not till our hearts are weared out with fasting. Do we beaten hands and cry to thee, Life everhanging! Lord Kelvin a Great Scientist Lord Kelvin, who has come before the public again in connection with some scientific discussions in London, has been called "the greatest all-round man of science living." He took his college degree in his early teens, and although he is now nearly 50 years old is recognized by scientists to be in his intellectual prime. Frocks for Little Ones. A noticeable feature of the new frocks for the little ones is the continued popularity of black and white. The liking for this combination of extremes has gained rather than lost with time. Frocks for almost every occasion are of soft white fabrics, trimmed with broad sashes with long loops and ends at the waist and with floating ribbons at cuffs and collar. Over this is worn the redingote of black velvet, silk, cloth or moire which has been in style so long, and a hat either of black or white. Beautifying the Home The door drapery presented is also suitable for a window. The best effect may be obtained by the use of fifty-inch double-faced velour, which comes ```markdown ``` in solid colors only. If fringed in a contrasting color it is made doubly effective. The overdrape, which is the main feature of this drapery, may also be arranged with one pair of portieres fifty inches wide and nine feet long, providing the space to be draped is five feet and does not exceed seven feet wide. This alone makes a complete drapery devoid the straight hangings at the sides. The overdrape is arranged with the aid of three 41-inch brass or wood rings. The center ring should be placed about twelve inches above the door facing and rest on an 8-inch brass extension bracket. The other two rings are placed on the door facing as seen in the illustration. Clean the steelwork of your kitchen range when discolored by rubbing with vinegar. When making a cake, if you want it to slip easily out of the tin, grease the tin first and then sprinkle well with flour. To clean tin or nickel kettles, rub first with turpentine or paraffin, and afterwards with a cloth, dipped in dry, prepared whiting or chalk. Flattron holders if lined with a layer of old soft leather, like the top of a boot, will protect your hand from heat far better than if made in the ordinary way. French Women of Fashion The French woman of fashion is most careful that every detail of her costume should perfectly harmonize. Stockings, shoes, petticoat, gloves and handkerchiefs have long been chosen with this end in view, but this summer has added jewelry. Especially must the summer girl exercise care in the selection of the long chains of real or imitation stones which adorn her neck. She must either keep to a limited range of color in her gowns, or else have an unlimited supply of chains. These made from the imitation stones are quite as pretty as their more expensive prototypes, so that they will be widely worn. At the jewelry counters can be seen anxious women who are trying to match dress materials with the shimmering head chains. It is not an easy task. As one shopper said, "I think that in the future I will buy my chains first and my dresses afterwards." Novel Card Partly. At a recent card party the hostess puzzled her guests by providing beans as tallies, instead of paper stars and hearts. Five beans were awarded to the winners at the end of each game and one to the losers, each one being solemnly warned to keep his beans carefully in a little bag provided for the purpose. There was much conjecture during the games as to the ultimate use of the beans, but no hint was given until as the tallies for the last game were being distributed, a maid brought in dainty bills of fare bearing the following astonishing information: Sandwiches ..... 5 beans Coffee ..... 3 beans Almonds ..... 5 beans Olives ..... 5 beans Ices ..... 10 beans Cakes ..... 5 beans Immediately there was an astonishing dive into bags to count up accumulated gains, and more anxious calculations by those who were short of funds as to what their store would buy. Some of the fortunate, who had seven beans more than the cost of the entire bill of fare, generously offered to share with their poorer neighbors, but when it was found that even that would not treat everyone to the entire menu, the hostess offered to advance, for forfeit, enough to make up each deficiency. This was accepted, and later on the forfeits were redeemed, which was amusement enough for the rest of the evening.—Good Housekeeping. THE WELL DRESSED WOMAN Smart walking gloves are made up in two colors of kid. Valenciennes medallions are inset in the daintiest lingerie. A good deal of straw trimming is used on the new hats. All-over embroidery is used for many of the modish blouses. New fans are made of the bright plumage of tropical birds. After the cape is coming the real old-fashioned "dolman," says Paris. Those convenient robe gowns now come in foulards, louisines and tafetas. Black silk stockings come with the college flags embroidered on the in-step. The little bonnet for elderly women has become an unprecedented elaboration. Novel ornaments are the big blackberries and chestnuts fashioned of cut jet. No hair ornament is smarter than the plain velvet how matching the gown in color. HOUSEHOLD TALKS Curtain rods that are very shabby can be freshened by painting with a coat of enamel of whatever color is the predominating note in the room. A paste made of plaster of paris and well-beaten white of egg will mend valuable china, so that the point is hardly visible. But it must be washed quite clean first. Ink spots on polished wood should be touched with sweet spirits of nitre. Use a tiny camel hair brush or feather to apply it, and rub the spot directly after with a cloth dipped in sweet oil. Brass, if lacquered, should be rubbed with a cloth dipped in sweet oil, and afterward polished with soft cloths. Unlacquered brass can be cleaned with lemon juice or paraffin, and bath brick. Polish with dry brick finely powdered. PRETTY COSTUMES PRETTY COSTUMES FOR EARLY SUMMER. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` French Voile and Nun's Veiling. Two pretty gowns are shown here, one of French velle and the other of nun's velling. The voile gown has a coat to match, stylishly trimmed in a heavy Rusarian face. On each side of the skirt are three box plaits which throw a pretty flare into the bottom of the skirt. A pretty liberty silk bodice is worn with this coat with a full bishop sleeve, which is left exposed by the voile sleeve being slit to the elbow, turned back and faced with lace. The hat is a fine white straw, with Summer Muffs. A few muds have been made for weddings to catch the parasols trimmed with fruit and grass, or made in pink chiffon with roses. They do very well for bridesmaids. There are a good many fantastic ideas for weddings just now, and one of these is a large basket, behind which the bride and bridegroom stand to receive their friends. The handle stands up over their heads, and the basket is filled with tiny bouquets, which are scattered among the guests when the bride and bridegroom have left, and confetti or silver horseshoes have been sufficiently well circulated by their friends as they wish them God speed. Pretty Afternoon Frock. An afternoon frock of tan-colored satin crepe de chine, with lace cap of A cercis. The tan parasol has a design in browns and greens, and the dark brown hat is trimmed in light brown trimmed with green leaves. Yellow and Black. A popular combination in new millinery is that of yellow and black. A lovely hat is in black Neapolitan straw and pale yellow tulle. The crown is of fluted tulle, while the brim is of straw, faced with the tulle. Round the crown is a wreath of yellow and black roses and the same flowers trim the bandane, which raises the hat from the hair on the left side. Piano keys that have become discolored cover with a rather thick paste made of lemon juice and prepared chalk or whiting. Be careful not to let it get between the keys. Leave a few minutes, then wash off with a soft cloth, wring out of warm water. Polish with the tiniest drop of sweet oil, and then rub with soft duster till every trace of oil is removed. B FOR EARLY SUMMER. long black feather and velvet bow. The other is a champagne nun's vel- ling combined with ecru guipure. Ecru medallions and knotted silk cord ornament the front of the waist. It fastens to one side and has a yoke and collar of ecru guipure. The skirt is trimmed with circular straplings of the material. The toque is of shirred chiffon, with an aigrette and rhinestone buckle. In the back is a stiff bow of ecru velvet ribbon with two short ends which just touch the hair. 9 LEWIS WOODS..... Business Manager. 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Kansas City, Mo., March 2, 1903. Office of the Postmaster, Publishers, Rising Son, Kansas City, Mo. Sirs: In response to your inquiry, I beg to say your publication is duly entered as second class matter at this office and regularly mailed. Very respectfully, J. H. HARRIS. The Rising Son is the only paper published by Colored people in Kansas City, Mo., that is entered at the post office as second class mail. --- We have always taken a pleasure in speaking of worthy and commendable deeds and the doing of honor to whom is due. In this instance, we feel that it is a duty, as well as a pleasure to speak of the commendable manner in which the Kansas City, Missouri, committees of the flood sufferers, have gone to the substantial and timely relief of the colored flood sufferers, in the midst of the thousands of their own blood and skin. These acts of charity, on the part of the good people of this city not soon be forgotten by an humble people, in an hour of great distress and need. We take our hats off to the good people of Kansas City, bid you God's speed in your noble work for relief. Prof John H. Jackson who served as president of Lincoln Institute very successfully for three years has since been in Colorado Springs, where he held at excellent position in the office of County assessor. He has been devoting his leisure to literary work, and has just finished a book which goes to press at once, and will be shortly in the hands of the reviewers. He has always taken high ground on all race questions and his book will be recorded a heartily welcome at this time when strong words are needed on matters moral, social, political, educational. By the way, Prof. Jackson thinks the laugnishing Christian Recorder should be n the hands of a layman who will not be bothered about getting into a bishop's robe and who will therefore have more time to give the great A. M. E. church a weekly paper worthy of its great membership. At the next general conference he will offer his services as editor and they who know about his experience, his honesty and energy are willing to predict that in his hands the R corder will enter upon a brilliancy and usefulness. Danger in a Flower. At a meeting of the Gardeners' Society of Berlin, held recently, a solemn warning was read by a member against the primula obconica, a paie blac variety of the popular winter flower. It seems that this particular variety, which is very prolific in bloom, has tiny hairs underneath the leaves, and when these hairs come in contact with the human skin they cause inflammation. A member said that his daughter had suffered for three years from this inflammation, which also affected her hair so much that she became bald. The only alleviation known for the inflammation is a decoction of creosin. Zurich Cleared of Bad Characters. As a result of the introduction of the Bertillon system by the Zurich police the town has practically cleared out all its bad characters. Even tramps give the place a wide berth, for as soon as a person is arrested he is photographed and his measurements taken, even if the charge is not serious. Of late the police have had so little to do that there is talk of reducing the number of the force. So few crimes are committed in the town that Zurich is considered to be the most moral town In Switzerland. THE SPICE OF LIFE READ THESE JOKES AND FORGET YOUR CARES. Where the Tails of Mr. Wraggles Coat Had Gone—Youngster Sought Information Because He Was Interested in the Subject. Pat's Puzzle. Five or six men were recently chatting in a village inn, when one of them said: "I say, I bets ye dinners all round ye can tell me the answer to a puzzle I knows of." "Done," they said; "I bet we can. What is it?" "Well," said Pat, "why is a journalist the funniest creature in the world?" After vainly trying for about two hours they sadly said they must give it up. "Why," said the delighted Pat, "because his tale comes out of his head, don't it?"—London Spare Moments. Close Quarters Preferred Helen—I wish I had some kind of enchantment to cast over him to keep him fond of me. Ned—Why don't you borrow some? "Oh, dear! I'm afraid no one has any to lend." "Why yes. Distance lends enchantment. Have you tried that?" "No, and I'm not going to. I'd rather take my chances at close quarters."—Kansas City Journal. Fairly Caught. "Ah, my darling!" he murmured, "what matters it that sorrow and trouble must of necessity be lurking in the unknown future?" While I am with you I think of naught but the present—the superbly beautiful present. "So do I, dearest," she replied. "But you'll take me with you when you buy it, won't you? Men have such queer tastes in rings!"—Stray Stories. Inconsistent "Here, you!" cried big Mrs. Cassidy, "sthroike or no sthroike. O'll not hovy ye standin' 'round doin' nothin'" "Well, oh, well," meekly protested little Cassidy, "tis the most onr'asonit' woman ye are. Last wake ye told me if Oi didn't behave mesel' yeld make me stand 'roun, an' now that Oi doin' it ye're kickin'." Only the Truth. "So your wife accused you of spending that extra dollar in hard drink," interrogated Guyer. "Yes," replied Rounder, "but I told her I spent it in fruit." "But you did not?" "Oh, yes, I bought cherries." "Oh, yes. I bought cherries." "Get out! Where can you find cherries this time of year?" Compressed-Air Power "Say!" the man who had never before attended a concert remarked as the cornet soloist began his number, "who's the feller wavin' the little stick?" "Sh!" replied his neighbor, "that's the conductor of music." "Oh!" and is the feller with the horn the motorman?" Already Supplied. A book canvasser went in to a barber's shop and ask the proprietor if he could sell him an encyclopaedia There was a victim in the chair, and he put in feebly, "He doesn't need it." Information Wanted. A man in a suit and hat is walking down a street with a child. The man is holding the child's hand and looking at them. The street is paved with cobblestones and there are buildings in the background. "Hey, mister, does it take long to git fat like youse? 'cause I want'er get inter de circus as a freak."—New York Times. Not Landed Yet. Miss Ascum—Wasn't that Mr. Bond I saw you walking with last evening? Miss Coy—Yes. Miss Ascum—He is a landed free-holder of the county, isn't he? Miss Coy (blushing)—Well—er—he isn't quite landed yet.—Stray Stories. Couldn't Bunko Him. Grocer—"I'll give you five cents a head for that load of cabbage, Uncle Josh." Uncle Josh—"I ain't got no picter uv me makin' enny sich dicker ez that. I kin git seven cents deown tew th' seegar facktry, b'gosh!" CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL. AND SECRET LODGES. St. Mary's Tabernacle, No. 2, meets first third Fridays in each month at 1734 Grand avenue. Daughter Lulu Baasley H. P. Laughter Mary Finley, Seccothena. St. Hallyrd Tabernacle No. 7 meets first and second St. Louis Ave. RV, N. C. Lurvist apvenue. Daughter Martha Johnson H. P. Straighthorse Abbie L. Pyles, Seccothena. Gate City Lodge, No. 469. G U. O. of O. P. meets third E. I. Eschhout every first third Fridays, of each month. E. S. LEWIS, P. S. St. John's Chapel, on Bell St. Between 9a and St. Louis ave, Irv. N. C. Buren. pastor. Sunday services 11 a. m. and 13:0 p. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening and Teachers' meeting Thursday evening. Vine Street Baptist church, T. H. Ewing, pastor. Sunday services 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 2:30 Prayer meeting Friday evening. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, cor. 2d and Holmes. Rev. A. G. Gilbert, pastor. Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 3:30 p. m. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M., meets second and fourth Monday evenings in the month. J. W. Crowe, W. M. H. J. Spigener, Sec'y. Allen Chapel, south-east corner 10th and Charlotte streets. Rev. O. J. W. Scott, pastor. Sunday services 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. Class Meeting Tuesday, 8 p.m. Praye. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Choir practice Monday evening. Second Baptist church, corner Tenth and Charlotte. S. W. Bacote, D. D. pastor. Sunday services: Preaching, 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m.; Sunday school, 2 p.m. Weekly meetings, Monday B. Y. P. U. meeting, 8 p.m. Wednesday night, prayer meeting. Highland Avenue Baptist church Sunday services, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Preaching, Wednesday evening, 8 p.m. Praise meetings Monday evening B. Y. P. U. Sunday school 2 p.m. G. W. Boyd, Pastor. MRS. A. B. CUMMINGS, Clerk. Pleasant Valley Baptist church Rosedale, Kaosas, Sunday services Preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; B. Y. P. U., 7 p.m. W. H. F. and M. Society, Thursday evening praise meeting. Rev. H. E. STRUCKLAND, Pastor TUCKER, Clerk. Pleasant Green Baptist church, Independence and Tracy ave. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Preaching, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p.m. Weekly services—Prayermeetings and missionary, Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock p. m. Young People's Literary and Progressive Club, Thursday evenings. Church meeting, Friday before the second Sunday in each month. E. M. WILSON, Pastor. Residence 1603 East 13th st. Burns Chapel, M. E. Church. Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Cass Meeting, 2:30 p. m. Epworth League, 7:00 p. m. Preaching, 7:45 p. m. Literary Tuesdays 8:00 p. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 p. m. Class Meeting, Thursdays 8:00 p. m. Corner 11th and Highland, J. M. Harris, Pastor. ORIGIN OF "MEAL MONDAY." Time When Students of Edinburgh University Led Strenuous Life. Students in the Scottish universities enjoyed their "Meal Monday" Feb. 9, but few of the undergraduates remembered how the holiday was instituted. In the far-off days, when learning was really nourished on "a little oatmeal," the students, before leaving home for the universities, provided themselves with a quantity of meal, sufficient to make "halesome parritch" half through the session. By the end of January their "meal kists" had run low and "a day off" was given in which the student was expected to journey half-way home, meeting at this point his parent or brother, who brought with him a second load of the simple diet. The holiday was fixed on a Monday, so as to allow the undergraduate the benefit of the proceeding Saturday. In times past the journeys would often extend to fifty or sixty miles. The modern student goes home for "Meal Monday," but he travels with a railway ticket and has no thought of the painful journeys of his ancestors. The Best Time to Buy A man who has a speaking acquaintance with John D. Rockefeller met him the other day as he left the Standard Oil building to enter his carriage. He stopped the financier with a direct question: "When do you think would be a good time for me to buy St. Paul, Mr. Rockefeller?" As he stepped into the carriage Mr. Rockefeller replied, "Between 10 and 3." And these are market hours every day." Wants to Cultivate Lobster Beds. Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fernandez, is surrounded by lobster beds so productive that a fortune awaits some man who will start a canning establishment there. So, at least, says Juan Calasaff, a native of Chill, who now lives on the island, and has just come to the United States in search of the capital needed for the enterprise. The island now has 180 inhabitants, but none of them has sufficient means to gather the rich harvest of lobsters that the nine months' open season makes possible. Everything Pertaining to Music. PIANO KNOWLEDGE. How much do you know about the qualities of a Piano or other Musical Instrument? Couldn't you be deceived easily in that matter? Nine out of ten people can be, and therefore trust to the honesty of the dealer. How important then, that you buy from a house with a reputation of many years behind it. This is the oldest and largest music house in the West. arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY 1022 N WALNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, NR. Telephone 2101. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up etaires. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager When UNEEDA Shave or Hair Cut or Shampoo GO TO C. A. Evans' Barber Shop For first class work. 107 F. 14th St. Kansas City, Mo CREWS @ CAMPBELL 806 and 808 East 12th St. Barber Shop and Pool Hall. Hot and Cold Baths. All the choice brands of cigars and tobaccos. Robert Simpson, H. M. Kennedy, Allan Bates, Barbers. Mrs. Bottle Jorden Can be found at her old stand at 419 Cherry St..... Dressmaking and Plain Sewing....Old Clothes Made Over. W. B. RAYMOND Licensed Funeral Furnisher and Embalmer. No Extra Charge For Work In Kansas City, Missouri. 431 MINNESOTA AVE. Tel. 32 West. Kansas City, Kansas HIGHEST PRUDENCE Is directing, instructing how we shall best serve you. Sound organization and broad daylight methods are yours for comfort and profit. Nebraska Clothing Co. LASTMAN MANJ Where There's Always Something Doing. She: Wanted to Know. A Chicago dentist tells this story: "Some years ago a young woman recently from the Emerald isle called at my office to have some dental work done. I examined her teeth and found that among them was one so badly wasted that it was not worth filling. I told her this. 'How long,' she asked, 'do you think it would last if it were filled?' 'I have no idea,' I replied, 'Not very long, anyway.' 'Well, how long do you think?' she persisted. 'I cannot say,' I returned. 'I would not guarantee it for any length of time.' Still anxious and determined to secure a favorable and definite answer, she asked: 'Will it last longer than you think it will?' " --- FAST MAIL SERVICE A GOOD THING H. D. SIMMONS, OPTICIAN, 1118 CAMPBELL ST., K. C. MO. to thank you for the promptness in the payment me me for the time that I was seriously ill, and I agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for his regular attention to is visiting me every day while I was sick, which me since it cost me nothing. Gentlemen:—I want to thank you for the promptness in the payment of the claim that was due me for the time that I was seriously ill, and I also want to thank your agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for his regular attention to me, and your doctor for his visiting me every day while I was sick, which was a great saving for me since it cost me nothing. Yours for success, SUSIE BOGGS. We don't go around boasting about what we have done; we allow others to do this. Those persons who feel that they should be insured against accidents and sickness, we courteously invite you to investigate all companies of this nature, and if you find any one among them that will afford you the privileges, and benefits that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such company; but if not, then we throw open our books for your enrollment. Whether you would be insured or not, call to see us; we would be pleased to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance. We don't go around boasting about what we have done; we allow others to do this. Those persons who feel that they should be insured against accidents and sickness, we courteously invite you to investigate all companies of this nature, and if you find any one among them that will afford you the privileges, and benefits that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such company; but if not, then we throw open our books for your enrollment. Whether you would be insured or not, call to see us; we would be pleased to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance. G. A.CLAY, Organizer, 1106 Charlotte St. W. C. COMBS, Examiner, 1104 Charlotte St. C. H. COUNTEE, Mgr. W. B. COUNTEE TEL. 780 GRAND. COUNTEE BROS., Undertakers. Licensed Embalmers. Carriages and flowers furnished for all occasions. 1784 Telephone 178 WALL'S Laundry Co.. First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. Fancy & Staple Groceries ...AND... Table Luxuries Vegetables in Season. Fresh & Salt Meats. Teas & Coffees. G. JONES, E 17th St., Kansas City, Mo. J. B. LESTER, BARBER SHOP. 559 GRAND AVE. Hot and Cold Baths 25c Large, New Porcelain Tubs. Good barbers. Give us a Call. For Good Service in Grocery and Meat Business . . . CALL UP 455 GRAND THAT'S ALL BROWNING BROS. WILL DO THE REST S. W. COR, 21ST and SUMMIT. L. W. 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Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon appli- cation to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. Heim's KANSAS CITY S11 F.H.B. CO. OLD LAGER SPECIAL BREWS: SCHARNAGEL SELECT KYFFHAUSER PERFECTION 1880 1890 1900 SALES: 12000 39946 130578 BBLS. BBLS. BBLS. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 1 MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The Train Service of the Missouri Pacific. The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 9:50 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and South-eastern trains. The only line leaving Kansas City after the Operas. Lodge meetings and Sunday night Church service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in time for all Eastern connections. 9:55 p. m.—10:50 a. m.: Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment, Pullman Sleepers and Compartment cars; Reclining Chair cars, (all sects free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 921 Main St., City Office. E. S. JEWETT, Pass. & Ticket Agent. Enthusiasm wins half the battle. This is a Colored Man. Eyes Tested Free Solid Gold and Gold filled Eye Glasses and Spectacles for sale on Easy Payments. No. 730 Charlotte, St. Kansas City, Mo., Aug., 1902. s Mo. Yours for success SUSIE BOGGS. NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— "Is the little bits we collect here an there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. LOCALS. Mr. Alvin Jordon is now on the mail force. Mr. Snipes, from St. Paul, formerly of Kansas City, is here on a visit. Mammie Deloache is reported as being quite ill at Denver. The ladies' art class met with Mrs. Charles Jackson Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Mattie Teters is home from Sedalia. Miss Anna Crosthwait has been on the sick list this week. Rev. Bacote will leave on a vacation the first of July ao be gone a month. Miss Ruth Deloach has gone to Denver. Bernard Mesbet is visiting in Chicago. Miss Maud Oldham and Miss Ophelia Watts successfully passed the last examination. Rev. O. W. J. Scott and family left last week for Washington, D. C., their future home. Mrs. J. Silone Yates and children are at home from the Lincoln Institute. Mr. and Mrs. Evans of Highland ave, are the happy parents of a bouncing baby boy. Mrs. Frank Watts and Miss Ophelia Watts gave a picnic last Wednesday afternoon. There was a large attendance at the Silver leaf club dance last. Friday night. Mr. Ansul Hunn has purchased a beautiful home in Chelsa Park, in Kansas City, Kan. Rev. A. A. Gilbert and Prof. G. N. Gresham and T. B. J. Robson called at our office this week. Dr. Lamhooght was quite sick for a few days last week, but is up and around again. Mrs. J. Silone Yates returned to Jefferson City Monday to conduct a summer school at the Institute. Prof. H. F. Thompson has gone to Knod Noster where he will spend the summer with his parents. Smith, the Druggist is prepared to serve you with the cold drink. When you go down town stop at 908 east 12th street. When you want your teeth fixed or some good work done, give us a call. We will treat you right.—New York Dentists, 1029 Main street. Mr. Frank Watts has been offered a position with 4-Paws and Sells Brothers circus, as band boy, which he will probably accept. To all subscribers who are a year or more behind in their subscription: Your bill will be placed in the hands of a collective agency after next week you have one week now to settle up, out of town and intown. Mrs. John Rone, sr., who has been spending afew weeks at Excelsior Springs, with her daughter, Mrs. Botts has returned home. Miss Zenobia Bruce, who has been attending Lincoln Institute, passed through on her way to Richmond Sunday to visit friends. Mrs. J. F. Cole of 1416 Lydia has a nice furnished room for gentlemen. A very desirable place if you are in need of a room.: Rev. C. C. Owens did not resign his place as presiding elder to take charge of Allen chapel, but will look after both places till Dr. Scott's successor is appointed. Miss Anna Macon of Salt Lake City who was called here on the account of the death of her mother left Monday to visit her relatives in Lexington, Higginsville and Richmond. The Rising Son is devoted to the best interests of our rase, a fearless advocate of right and fair play. There are those in high places who read and receive this paper and its benefits who think that printers' ink and labor are produced by wind and talk. Now, to all such we ask you again to pay us what you owe. Some of you have gained your notoriety through this paper. Come and see us with the money. --- Sam Diggs, the junk man, is back at his stand doing business; ready to buy if you have anything in his line, iron, brass, copper, lead, bottles or rags; junk of any kind. Call and see him. Next week is commencement week at the high school. Monday night class night, Tuesday night Lyeum Club Party, Wednesday night reception given by juniors in honor of seniors, and Friday night commencement exercises at Central High school. Mr. A. W. Craig, one of Kansas City's boys, is now teaching in Washington, D. C., has been appointed as head man of the Industrial Department at Lincoln Institute. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marrison have sent out invitations announcing the celebration of their fifth anniversary, June 29, at their residence, 1023 Virginia avenue. How can you expect to get a good news paper when you don't pay up your subscription and then kick its late. This is a race enterprise and you have a right to help make it what it out to be. At a regular meeting of Green Pasture Lodge No 128. A. F. & A. M., the following officers were elected for the ensuing Masonic year: Mark W. Wilson, W. M.; Edw. S. Lewis, S. W.; Sam'l. Winston, J. W.; J. H. Wilkins, Treasurer; E. S. Baker, Secretary. Mrs. J. A. Smith of 1025 Charlotte Street wishes to thank the waiters of the Baltimore hotel for the kindness toward her in her husband's illness, and also Mr. Benny McRay for his kindness and liberality to her and her husband. WANTED—SEVERAL PERSONS of character an good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and advertise an old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21.00 weekly and expenses additional all payable in cash each Wednesday direct from head office. More and carriage furnished when necessary. References. Enclose self-addressed envelope. Colonite Co., 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. J. A. Wilson, who is better known as our "Pioneer Negro Jeweler," suffered great loss on account of the flood. The water lacked two inches of touching the ceiling. It carried everything out of his store except the safe. The National Negro Business league will meet in Nashville, Tenn., during the month of August, 1903. The executive committee has decided upon Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 19, 20, and 21, as the dates for the meeting. Kansas City colored people need an industrial school in connection with their high school, and we hope that our principals of Kansas City will prove that they are interested enough in the colored youth to bring the matter before the school board while they have funds to build with. The parties who visited Jefferson City, Commencement week have all returned and report as having a delightful time and take pleasure in saying that Miss Ruby Bradshaw and Mr. John Harris who graduated last Thursday, did honor or to themselves as well as to Kansas City. The reception tendered the Rev. Mr. Scott and family by two of the church clubs was all that could be expected. About 300 persons attended. Light refreshments were served in abundance. Resolutions from all the leading ministers of the two Kansas Citys were read and several speeches were made by some of our leading men. The Rev. and Madam, with their two little ones made a scene of loveliness, as they stood under the alter and bade Kansas City friends good bye. FOR SALE For sale, by R. E. Shryock Real Estate and Loan Company, 705-706 Postal Building: $2,000—Five room cottage and 50 foot lot, paved street, good location; $1,750—Seven room frame, East Side; all special improvements in and paid; easy terms. $1,250—Five room frame, good repair; easy terms. The next thing you do, subscribe for the Son. Stupidly Proper. An editor of a small paper recently stated that he had been kissed by one of the most beautiful married women in the town. He promised to tell her name in the first issue of his paper next month. In two weeks the circulation of his newspaper doubled. But when he gave the name of his wife he had to leave town. Fire Screen of Human Skin. The Sultan of Turkey is said to possess a fire screen made of tanned human skin, exquisitely embossed, and over two hundred years old. The skins were those of twelve faithful servants who rescued one of his majesty's ancestors from a blazing wing of the palace, afterwards succumbing to the effects of their burns. The Irony of Fate. For international trony it would be hard to beat the fact that, whereas in 1870 France produced 25,000 tons of mudder, the quantity gradually fell to a few hundred tons, till now the trousers of the French troops are dyed with an artificial red made in Germany. Forever and Aye. There's song on the meads And song on the lea, Blithe song in the bracken, Sweet song in the tree; While a voice call my heart Hath carried all day; And "long is my love And sweet," is the lay. There are sobs in the shadows, And yearning and tears, Sad tears to be righted, Yerre to be yered, But still in my heart, Rings the voice of the day, And "long is my love And sweet," is the lay. O song of the noonday, O sobs of the night, O infinate yearning, For truth and the light, He grants us in goodness A song of the day, And "long is my love And sweet," is the lay. A Secret Which Was Never Told The family call me Babbles, because I tell too many things and have fluffy hair. I feel that I am a blot on the family escutcaeon; for I've never done anything fine or noble; while Lucy Lee, my sister, went to Smiths, and came home with her notebooks full of wonderful statements. Omar Khayyam is my Persian pussy cat. Every year on Jan. 3 we start for the City of Mexico. The main office of the Randolph Explosive company is there. Father is president of the company and goes there to look after the business. Lucy Lee goes to look after him, to put in his studs. I go to look after Lucy Lee. By Jan. 5 we reached El Paso, crossed the Rio Grande and had gotten into Mexican territory. I looked out upon vast stretches of alkaline plains decorated with cacti, until I felt like a large prickly cactus, myself, and turned to Lucy Lee for solace. Now, Lucy Lee had a grand game, which she invented for railroad journeys. She took a large sheet of paper and blocked it off into squares corresponding to the bert's. Then she would look at the passengers with half-closed eyes and write things in the squares. And so she wrote until every soul in the Electra was put into one of the neat squares. Every soul but one. "Lucy Lee," I murmured. "You haven't put Lower 3 into his square." "Is there any one in Lower 3?" "Well, rather." I replied. "You old sneak." Then Lucy Lee let her big eyes rest studiously on Lower 3. "He looks as if he might be Marcus Aurelius about to write out his noble reflections." "Nonsense." I didn't know who Marcus Aurelius was. I think he has done something desperate and is running away from it." He had a look in his eyes that made me want to go up and say, "Never mind, it will all come out right." The train was pulling into the City of Mexico. I took a final glance into my bag. Something was missing. I called to Lucy Lee. "Your nightgown?" said Lucy Lee. "Cassius must have carried it out with the linen." Cassius was called but knew nothing. "I suspect some one has stolen it." Cassius lived on the gloomy superstition that all men are black sheep until proven white. "Cassius Pullman," I cried. "That's nonsense. It's been taken by mistake." Then father came in to get brushed and the thing was explained to him. At such time it was not necessary to look him up in Dunn's agency. The explosive business was written in the blue fire of his eye and in his blazing voice. "Cassius, you will please find Miss M. H. Opened his valise. Randolph's wearing apparel at once. Marcus Aurelius jumped to his feet, opened his valise, tumbled his' things about and produced a roll of muslin. It was mine. I seized it. "Sir," blazed my father, "what is the meaning of this." "It means," said Marcus Aurelius, "that there has been an absurd mistake. I'm not exactly in the souvenir business." Then Cassius put in. "I put Lower 3's things in your daughter's seat when I was making his berth." "And in the transfer I got more than belongs to me." The car roared loud and merrily as only a car of gentlemen rovers can. --- Things are free and easy south of the Rio Grande. "City of Mexico," called the conductor. Father hustled his brood into the carriage, and we spun rapidly toward the Iturbide. And so the incident was closed. But it was reopened with a startling stroke. That night, rolled up in the gown. I found $100,000. It was in the new one-thousand-dollar bills as fresh as from a bank. Into what black mystery had I been woven? The next morning I was up bright and early. As Lucy Lee and father were sluggards, I tucked Omar under my arm and we started over to the cafe at the Jardia. In the patio of the hotel I bought a great bunch of roses and a basket of strawberries. As we entered the cafe, I saw Marcus Aurelius eating his breakfast. At the same moment two men, who entered behind me, were speaking in Spanish. "The telegram said: 'Brown eyes, smooth shaven, six feet.' There's our man." With the tail of my eye I saw dark blue uniforms and buttons stamped with the emblem of the republic. The arm of the law was about to stretch forth and pluck—whom! I stepped gavely over to the table Midva "The police are behind. Don't turn," where the man with the brown eyes sat "Marcus, dear," and I laid my hand heavily and dug my seal ring into his knuckles. "Here are strawberries for our breakfast." I took the seat facing him. Then I said, scarcely moving my lips: "The police are behind. Don't turn." Two brown faces stared down at us, stolldly as Aztec gods. "Pardon you, Senorita, but this gentleman——" and one of them laid his hand on Marcus. "Senora, if you please——and this gentleman is my husband." If I had had a thousand husbands. I could not have been haughtier. "We're wrong, Terrazas," said the shorter man. "The telegram did say he was alone." The man opposite me sat and looked in amazement at me. "Why have you done this? Of course, you've read about me in the Morning Herald?" "No, I haven't," I replied, "and I don't want to." "But I do want to know to whom the money belongs." "It belongs to the First National Bank of Kansas City. I was cashier there." Then he smiled. "But it got into your bundle by mistake." "I didn't know just how to receive it, unless you meant it for alimony." "Alimony!" he stared. "Do you like my looks?" I said. "My color scheme I hope you do, for I'm your wife." I told him the marriage law of the hot countries and how he had been entangled. He stared. "This is startling." But I could see that he was not much frightened. "I had expected to marry another girl down here. She was to have come by Eagle Pass, but this came instead." He handed me a telegram, which read: "Decided not to come Risk too great. Good luck to you. Adelaide." The business energy of my father descended in an enormous mantle upon my shoulders. "You must get out of the city at once. The train for Vera Cruz starts in half an hour. We'll go to the ticket office at once. At Vera Cruz you can get your steamer for Central America." When I went back to the cafe father and Lucy Lee were cating breakfast. Father was devouring his Herald. "Another poor fellow gone astray; and the First National Bank of Kansas City is out $100,000. The paper says he's here in Mexico." "Oh, Babbles," cried Lucy Lee, "it must have been that bad looking man that got off at Chihuahua." I said nothing; and still it is a family legend, that I can't keep a thing over thirty seconds. That afternoon the Wells-Fargo Express company forwarded to the First National Bank of Kansas City a package. It contained $100,000.—H. Morris, in Los Angeles Times. Treatment by Chemical Rays. Treatment by chemical rays has not yet made so great progress in the United States as in some of the European countries. The therapeutic effects of the violet and ultra-violet rays have been shown to be remarkable, and in France, perhaps, this form of treatment has reached the highest stage of development at present attained. Don't worry through the season without oxfords.... come here, try a pair of John Kelley's Make Soft as velvet, turn soles, nobby military heels, and you will be free from foot worry all summer. Prices $2.50 to $3.00. OVIATT SHOE CO., 520 Minn Ave K C K 1105 Main RELIABLE DEN No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--T We are the most reliable dentists in the city, oldest practice in the city. Our success is due grade work done by gentlemanly operators of We Guarantee to Please. Our Rei This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, ooughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S, White Teeth... $4.00. Gold Crowns 22-k... $2.60. Bridge Work, per tooth $2.60. Platinum fillings... 50. Cleaning... 50. 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National Bank KASAS CITY, MO. The Comptroller of the Currency at the business Feb. 6, 1903. RESOURCES. $5,981,798.36. $ 523,000.00 327,441.14 4,180,685.29 5,031,126.43 $11,012,924.79 LIABILITIES. $ 600,000.00 300,000.00 78,771.60 94,983.00 423,000.00 9,516,170.17 $11,612,924.79 Union National KANSAS CITY, Statement as made to the Comptroller close of business Feb. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts..... $ 523 U.S. Bonds at par..... 377 Municipal Bonds at par..... 418 Cash and Sight Exchange..... 418 Total...... LIABILITIES. Capital Stock..... Surplus Fund..... Undivided profits..... Unearned interest..... National Bank Notes Outstanding..... Deposits..... Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency ai the close of business Feb. 6, 1903. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. DIRECTORS L. T James. A. J. Snider C. W Whitehend. A. P. Merrill. H. J. Roserans. O. H. Dean. C. J. Schuecker. EL DIGGS, and Retail Dealer in SAMUEL Wholesale and Retail SAMUEL DIGGS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in JUNK. CASH PAID FOR Scrap Iron, Rags, Bottles and Metals. Our business transaction will convince you of our honest weights and fair dealings. PHONE 126 HICKORY. IRON YARD...Cor. 8th @ Hickery Sts. OFFICE & WAREHOUSE 1315 W. 9th. Kansas City, Mo. Gentlemen's Shoes in Best Makes Made We have the makers name on all our shoes and do not sell unstamped shoes for any make asked for. Such names as Strong & Garfield, Stacy, Adams & Co., The Resilia Shoe, The Woodman Shoe, protect you against fraud and make us headquarters for best shoes made. Oviatt Shoe Co.. 1105 Main ```markdown ``` P 1029 Main St. DAVID T. BEALS, President. FERNANDO P. NEAL, Vice-Presta. David T. Beals Geo. R. Barse Edward George THE UNION THE WOODMAN "ANEW STYLE TEETH WITHOUT PLATE W. H. SHIGER, 2nd Vice-President CHAS. H. L. V. LEWIS, Cashier $11,012.9,4.79 $ 600.000.00 300.000.00 78.771.60 94.993.00 423.000.00 9,516.170.16 11,624.729.70 Fernando P. Nea W. E. Thorne Feixin L. La Force G W. Lovejoy Geo W. Jones Geo D. Ford E W. Zea. SERVIA TURNS TO NEW KING; WORK OF MURDERERS INDORSED Rumors that Karageorgevitch Is Not Satisfied with the Situation—Authentic Story of the Assassination Told by One of the Soldiers Who Took Part in the Affair. BARRICA View of Corner of the Palace. Showing Windows of Apartments Occupied by the King and Queen. The conference of senators and deputies, held at Palgrade, resolved unanimously, that the constitution of 1888 should be put in force, and that Prince Peter Karageorgevitch should be elected king. It is not certain that Karageorgevitch will accept the crown. The most sensational rumors have been received from Geneva. One is to the effect that the prince demands that before he enters Belgrade all officers concerned in the murders shall have left it, requires an increase in his civil list, and insists that his election must be unanimous. It is believed that the terms laid down by the prince will be granted, that the assassins will be banished, and that annuity will be extended to them later. Prince Karageorgevitch, although little is known of him among the people of Servia generally seems to have caught the public fancy, and his election will be a popular one. King and Queen Buried The bodies of the murdered king and queen were spurned and spit upon by hundreds as they lay in rude coffins awaiting burial. They were buried 0 SERVING NEW CROWN PRINCE after midnight, secretly and without ceremony, with not a single friend at their grave side. The remains were interred in a vanit in the cemetery chapel. Two wooden crosses alone denoted the spot, marked "Alexander Obrenovics" and "Dragtnja Obrenovics." The other holds lie outside in the cemetery in rough graves. Lieut. Naumovitch was not buried with the other victims, but in response to the wishes of the public was buried in daylight, with full military honors, and is now generally styled "a patriot who died for his country." The sisters and nieces of the late queen, who had been arrested by the military authorities, were expelled from the country. Her sisters were permitted to take a farewell book at the dead queen's remains. They were subsequently conveyed by the police on board a Servian ship, which took them out of the country. They were lucky to escape with their lives. The autopsy held has proved that the late king received thirty shot wounds, many of them deadly. Queen Draga had numerous shot and saber wounds, and it is alleged that her body was torn in a barbaric fashion. The appearance of the royal apartments is indescribable. The doors and floors are shattered and the ruins drenched with blood. A new element in the situation is a feeling among the intelligent classes in favor of the abolition of a Servian monarchy altogether, and the creation of a republic, but it is certain that Austria and Russia would not countenance the creation of a republic. The government has laid claim to the possessions of the late monarch. It is not known whether he left a fortune, but it is supposed that he had considerable savings, having lived economically during the last decade. It is reported that the greater part of his money was deposited in England, but it is questionable whether the capital would be delivered to the Servian government. The opinion at Belgrade is that all belongs to the state, even including the king's foreign investments. It is possible that ex-Queen Natalie may also appear as an heiress. Queen Draga was in receipt of 20,000 gulden monthly, and also had great savings, which will be handed over to her three sisters. NEW KING DENIES COMPLICITY. Says the Killing Was to Him a Shocking Surprise. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, the pretender to the Servian throne, gave an interview at Geneva, Switzerland, in which he repeated his disclaimor of any complexity, direct or indirect, in the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. He expressed his detestation of the crime, and gave a brief outline of his own political tendencies. Replying to a series of direct questions, Prince Peter said: "It is true my partisans have a complete organization in Servia, with which I am in frequent communication. I know from other sources that the discontent of the Servian people had reached its height, but I could not possibly have foreseen the events of the other night. I in no way contributed to their preparation, and I took no part, direct or indirect, in them. On the contrary, their persecution surprised me. "My opinion of the executions of the king and queen of Servia is this: I deeply regret that it has been thought necessary to shed streams of blood. I formally disapprove of the violent measures, and I especially deplore that the army has had hocourse to such measures—an army which has nobler tasks to accomplish than assassination. It would have sufficed to force King Alexander to sign his abdication. Ever a Soldier of Fortune. Since Prince Peter Karageorgevitch has been spoken of for King of Servia, those who have known for a long time the members of his family and who some years ago knew him as an interesting figure in Paris, are recalling various phases of his adventurous and checkered career. His life has been filled with dare-devil escapades and the ups and downs of a royal pretender and a soldier of fortune. He has been constantly engaged in intrigue, plots, and counterplots for the realization of his royal demands. The prince received in Belgrade the View of Belgrade. Where Assassination of King and Queen Took Place. early education of a prince, but when a boy of 12 he saw the rule of his family terminated and he and his relatives were driven into exile. He entered the lycce of Sainte Barbe, and there qualified himself for the military school of St. Cyr, from which he was graduated a sublieutenant. Later he entered the military staff college, and, graduating therefrom just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, he eagerly plunged into this conflict as an officer of the foreign legion, which was largely made up of scions of noble houses and adventurous foreigners. He was in the hardest fighting of the war and took part in the battle of Orleans, where his cousin, Nicolaievich, was killed. He there attracted the attention of Gen. Billot, who made View of Belgrade, Where Assassinat him a member of his personal staff. His conspicuous bravery in the battle of Villersexel brought him the badge of the legion of honor. On the conclusion of the war he turned his attention to Herzegovina's struggle for liberty and took a prominent part in the rising which was the starting point of the Russo-Turkish war. He spent the great part of his fortune in aiding the insurgents. ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER. Royal Couple Long Evaded Their Determined Pursuers. The following is a narrative of the revolution given by men who took an active part in it. "Army officers to the number of ninety having formed a project of a Where Cabinet Ministers Were Killed, revolt, among them being delegates from almost every garrison In Servia and the majority of the officers of the Sixth regiment, Lieut. Col. Mittschitsch invited his comrades to meet in the Kalimagden garden at 11 o'clock on the night of the murder, and there the immediate carrying out of the intended deed was organized. "At 1:40 a. m. the officers in eight groups went to the royal palace. Each had special directions regarding his part in the revolution. In the palace itself the revolutionaries had two im- portant partisans in the king's body- guard—Col. Alexander Maschin, Queen Draga's cousin, not brother-in-law, and the king's personal adjutant, Lieut. Naumovitch. "Two officers of the high military academy appeared at the appointed hour, 2 a. m., at the gate of the palace, where the king's adjutant, Pana-jotovic, who was in the conspiracy, handed them the keys to the garden gate, which is always kept locked. First, stepping before the guard at the palace, one of the two officers called, 'Throw down your arms.' A fight ensued, with shots from both sides, in which several persons were wounded. "The revolutionaries then entered the front garden without hindrance and reached the courtyard of the old palace, where Lieut. Naumovitch was awaiting. He opened the lock of the iron door leading to the front room on the first floor. By this it was seen that the palace was carefully closed and that danger was suspected. Hurrying up stairs to the first floor, the revolting officers attracted the attention of the palace attendants and the royal couple by the noise of the shooting. Lieut. Lavar Potrovitch, alarmed by the unwonted hubbub, hurried forward with a drawn revolver in one hand and in the other a sword. "What do you want?" he cried. "Show us where the king and queen are." came the reply. "Back!" cried Petrovitch, and at the same moment a bullet stretched him on the ground. The revolutionaries pressed forward, when suddenly the electric light gave out. All stood in darkness. In the greatest excitement, and feeling their way, the revolutionaries climbed the stairs and got into the dark anteroom to the king's apartment. Here they found candles and lit them. "This seemingly slight circumstance was decisive to the whole action. Without light they could not have found the victims, who fled from their sleeping apartment through corridors and numerous rooms, and might have escaped, but some of the officers with burning candles and others with pistols commenced to search for the royal couple. "In breathless haste the conspirators ran through the rooms, opened wardrobes, and looked behind curtains, in vain. In the anteroom connecting with the corridor between the old and new palace the sergeant of tion of King and Queen Took Place. the gendarmes was sleeping. Awakening, he stepped before the revolutionaries, who felled him. "At last Queen Draga's servant was found. He wounded Capt. Dimitrevic severely, but was spared because he was needed in finding the fleeing couple. Indeed, this servant showed the officers where King Alexander and Queen Draga has gone to secrete themselves. When he told them this he was shot. "Col. Maschin now joined the revolutionists and led them back to the sleeping apartment, where the king's adjutant tried to hinder the search. He shot at Lieut. Naumovitch, who fell dead. The others then killed the adjutant. After a long search a small door leading into an alcove was discovered, but it was found locked. It was broken in with an ax, and here the royal couple were found in undress. "The older officers first intended forcing the king to abdicate, but the young officers were in no mood to be held back and shot at the royal couple. Nobody knows in the excitement who shot first, but it is generally said it was Lieut. Kistics. "After the murder King Alexander's body was found entirely covered with blood. That of Queen Draga was badly torn by bullets. The report that the bodies were thrown out of the window into the garden is untrue. The young officers intended to do so, but Col. Maschin prevented it, exclaiming, 'that would be barbarous.' "All the servants of the royal couple fled when the first shots were heard, with the exception of Queen Draga's servant, who was found dead. At 2:12 o'clock all was over. Col. Machin issued from the gate of the palace, around which great crowds had collected, and made a speech saying: "We have now destroyed the dynasty of the Obrenovitches, and have got rid of the dishonorable woman who was the king's evil spirit. Long live Servia." "The people responded: "Long live the army." Almost simultaneously with the butchery in the palace the troops en- AUSTRIA RUSSIA HUNGARY BELGRADE RUMANIA BOSNIA SERIA BULGARIA ROMEUR ROATIC SER ITALY TURKEY Geographical Position of Servia. deavoured to arrest all the relatives of the queen and those ministers whom the conspirators disliked. Two brothers of the queen, Lieut. Cols. Nikola and Nikodem Lunjevics, were seized and escorted by a detachment of troops from their dwelling to the guardroom of the divisional commander. They were evidently not suspicious of their doom, and were lightning cigarettes when they were shot dead by eight soldiers. Not the Same. Recorder Goff is telling a story of a brewer's agent who gave evidence the other day to show that a saloon the license of which was objected to had been a well-conducted place since the conviction of a former tenant. "But was not that because the sword of Damocles was hanging over the place?" the agent was asked. "No," he said, with grave surprise; "no one of that name ever ran the saloon at all."—New York Times. Forage Crops Improve Soil Three states which are noted for the production of forage crops not only have maintained the original fertility of the soil, but they spend for commercial fertilizers less than 1 per cent of the annual value of their crops, while those states which pay least attention to forage crops have impoverished the soil and spend annually for fertilizers from 5 to 9 per cent of the total value of their crops. Language for Busy People Several examples of the busy man's language have lately been overheard. "How is your wife?" inquired a man. "She's influencing I am afraid," was the laconic reply. This economy of words seems only so far to be applied to various maladies; but later, no doobt, such expressions as "We theatred last night" and "I tallored this morning" will become common enough.—The Tatler. It having been found that the accuracy of fire of the new army rifle is not lessened by shortening its barrel from thirty inches to twenty-four inches, the standard arm for infantry will be two feet long, and it will supersede the twenty-two-inch carbine of the cavalry. Carries Heaviest Insurance: Until a few days ago John Wannamaker was believed to carry more life insurance than any other American, his amount being $1,500,000. Now he has been outstripped by his son Rodman, who, in addition to the million which he carried for some time, has taken out another policy for an equal amount. Sees It All Now. Woman witness in sensational hearing says of the man in the case her love for him was innocent and she only allowed him to kiss and bug her. Never before understood the full meaning of the anthem, "Put Me Off at Buffalo."—New York Telegram. New Names for Lo. Lo, the poor Indian, having been deprived of lands and hunting grounds and made to cut his hair, must now give up his native cognomen. As ruled by the Indian bureau, Young-Horse-Afraid-of-His-Oats will become plain John Smith. Advance in Agricultural Science Tomato plants have recently been grafted on potato plants, giving a crop of tomatoes above ground and of potatoes below. Potatoes grafted on tomatoes have produced flowers and tomatoes and a few tubers. New Antisentic Toothpicks Antiseptic toothpicks, warranted free of germs, are being supplied by the large hotels and restaurants in London. It is proposed shortly to serve sterilized food in chemically cleansed dishes. Many Nationalities Mixed In the girls' boarding school at Monastir, in the European Turkey mission, seven nationalities are represented, Bulgarians, Albanians, Greeks, Gypsies, Roumanians, Germans and Jews. Wanted to Beat Jack Rabbit Wanted to Bear Jack Rabbit. An engineer on a Kansas railway has made a request to be allowed to run faster than sixty-five miles an hour, because a jack rabbit has been making fun of him on his run. Many Missionaries in Australia. Nearly 600 missionaries of the British and Foreign Bible society are at work in Australia and New Zealand. THE REAL CRANK la Plainly Marked. A crank is one who stays in beaten paths when common sense tells him to leave. The real crank is one who persists in using coffee because accustomed to and yet knows it hurts him. It is this one who always pays the penalty, while the sensible parson who gives up coffee and takes on Postum Food Coffee in its place enjoys all the benefits of returning health. A well-known manufacturer's agent of New York City visited the grocery department of one of the big New York stores not long ago and there he tasted a sample cup of Postum made the right way. He said afterwards: "Just through the energy of that young woman who was serving Postum there I became a convert to the food drink and gave up the drug drink coffee and got well. "I had used coffee to excess and was gradually becoming a complete wreck, getting weaker and more nervous every day. I paid the penalty for using coffee and when I tasted the delicious Postum I was glad indeed to make the change. "So I gave up the coffee altogether and have used Postum instead ever since. My family at first called me a crank, but seeing how Postum benefited me the first month they all got in line and as a result of Postum's remarkable benefits to me we all drink it now entirely in place of coffee and we are well." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Iowa Farms 84 Per Acre Cash, balance 14 crop till paid. MULHALL, Bloux City, Bn Long Strike of Coal Miners. Coal miners at the Dark Lane col- lery, Mirfield, England, have been on strike for 112 weeks. THE K. C. S. ALMANAC FOR 1903. The Kansas City Southern Railway's Alliance for 1903 is now ready for distribution. Farmers, stock-raisers, fruit-growers, truck gardeners, manufacturers, merchants and others seeking a new field of action or a new home at the very lowest prices, can obtain reliable information concerning Southwestern Missouri, the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations in the Indian Territory, Western Arkansas, Eastern West New England, Louisiana and the Coast country, and of the business opportunities offered therein. Write for a copy of the K. C. S. Almanac and address, S. G. Warner, G. P. A., K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. First English Woman Novelist. The first novel by an English woman novelist was "The Adventures of the Black Woman," by Mrs. Aphra Behn, published in 1684. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. A woman thinks she is a good talker when she is able to entertain herself. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 3 oz. package, 5 cents. If women had the making of the country's laws they would limit the number of lodge meetings. Hall's Catarrh Cure Some men get out of debt after a long and painful struggle—then plunge in again. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. There is the greatest difference in the world between overlooking a fault and overhearing it. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE Address Allen S. 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Address, "KATY." 511 Wainwright Bldg. St. Louis, Mo Span of Life Increasing In 1890, 449 in every million people died of sheer old age. This proportion has now increased to 540. AN EXQUISITE REQUISITE for hot weather. Cools the blood and quenches the thirst. Hires Rootbeer A package makes five gallons. Sold everywhere, or sent for 25 cents. Inward of institutions. Booklet free. CHARLES K. HIKES CO. Malters, Pa. 25 CTS PISO'S CURE FOR CURSE WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Boat Company Malters. Use in time. Sold by druggists. 25 CTS CONSUMPTION M. France Caros Nothing for Royalty. A Brussels correspondent writes that the only interesting point about the recent visit of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans at Brussels is the proof it affords of the low ebb to which the fortunes of the royalist party have fallen. The episodes were of a kind to make one philosophize, when one remembers that less than ten years ago the royalist party was still a practical force in French politics. Liszt at Seventy-Five. 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For young women who are subject to headaches, backache, irregular or painful periods, and nervous attacks due to the severe strain on the system by advanced years in the most trying time of life, it serves to correct every trouble and restore a healthy action of all organs of the body. No Race Suicide Here. In the trial of the Tulite Ranch company versus Hunsacker, while Isaac Hunsacker was on the stand, Attorney Rogers was asking him as to the identity of numerous persons by the name of Hunsacker, to all of which he replied: "Brother." Finally Rogers asked him how many children his father had, and he replied: "Fifty-one or two; maybe, fifty-three head."—Salt Lake Tribune. More Than Fortunate. "Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a household reliance in my home, and I would not be without it. In all my experience with this medicine, which covers years, I have found nothing to equal it and always recommend it." — MRS. LAURA L. BARNES, 607 Second St., N. E., Washington, D. 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In the new Senate the Republicans have only one Senator from the South, Southwest or border states, McComas of Maryland. The Democrats have six from the West, two from Colorado, two from Montana, and one each from Idaho and Nevada. In this division West Virginia is counted as a middle-West state, which, politically as well as industrially, it has become. Gramophone COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO., 1016 Walnut St. KANANAS GYM. KANANAS GYM. Missouri Notes A former recorder of Saline county is in jail in the Indian territory for financial crookedness. The Moberly Democrat says that nine-tenths of the families of Moberly are its subscribers. The other tenth borrow or steal the paper. A St. Joseph man killed himself while his daughter was playing the piano in the next room, the other day. The young woman was not arrested. The Home Dramatic company of Hamilton gave a performance the other night and the Hamiltonian just made a job lot of its praise and said every one in it was a star. "Why," asks an exchange, "does a tree on a hillside grow straight up?" "Never mind that," says the Jamestown Journal, "why does a pigeon bob its head when it walks?" A Knobnoster woman has a hen that lays two eggs a day. It would seem that it hasn't heard that the chicken raisers in convention recently decided that one is enough. Vandalia was without sugar for several days during the flood. But anybody who has seen the town's girls will bet his last dollar Vandalia got along all right without it. "Rock Port and Albany rejoice over the fact that neither has a negro resident," says the Brookfield Gazette. "It is barely possible that the negroes rejoice over the same fact." Roy Hubbard, son of the editor of the Edgerton Journal, is said to be the youngest printer in the state. All though only 11 years of age, he can set two galleys of type in ten hours. "Every farm boy," says a North Missouri exchange, "wants to be a school teacher; every school teacher wants to be an editor as a rule; every editor would like to be a banker; every banker would like to be a trust magnate, and every trust magnate hopes some day to own a farm and have chickens, cows and pigs to look after. So what's the use?" A Salisbury young woman who was reported to be engaged, denied the rumor in a paid notice in the Press-Spectator as follows: "I take this method of informing the public that the rumor going over the country that Jesse Henderson and I are going to marry is without foundation, never intended to marry him." B. R. Lingle of Warsaw has a hen that was hatched February 4 and began laying May 20. This is summer and ice cream is here, but the hot tamale is still a warm favorite in Missouri. There is a preacher in Cainville named Church, a dentist in Joplin named Paine and a barber in Daviess county named Cutter. The News advises every citizen in Chilhowee to carry a hammer to use in nailing down loose sidewalk boards that fly up when stepped on. Jewell Jayes of the Richmond Missourian says that ice cream soda eating and booze drinking are akin. Perhaps this is his way of saying that either kind of refreshment can be had at the drug store. After the rainy season was all over the Collins Advance man had the leaky roof of his office patched up. Hannibal took advantage of the high water the other day and floated bonds for a new school and other improvements. Two members of the Carthage Light Guards band have the mumps, but nobody can notice it when they are blowing their horns. Lawson has been quite a railroad town for ten days past. About twenty trains a day have been passing through it on the "jerkwater" to St. Joseph. A merry-go-round was set up in Jasper Tuesday, and, on the belief that one good turn deserves another, the people are making the proprietor rich. A Jefferson City storekeeper advertises cheap pocketbooks and advises his customers to buy them to hold the money they save by taking advantage of the cheap bargains offered at his store. Carl and Claud Jackson, who work in a Carthage laundry, are twins and look so much alike that one of them chews gum all the time so as to be able to tell himself from the other. Carthage will vote on a proposition to build a $75,000 high school. It will doubtless carry, as Carthage people realize that in these flood times high schools are good things. There are 49,187 widowers in Missouri, and the Louisiana Press-Journal says it knows of several who are tired of their jobs. Being somewhat bashful, though, the editor isn't going to mention any names. A St. Joseph policeman has been suspended because he wore a dirty shirt while on duty. A Louisiana burglar stole $225 in gold from a dwelling and the following night took all back but $5 and left it on the doorstep. "It is evident," remarks an exchange, "that the fellow is neither a state senator nor a postal official." "I is living higher in Columbia than in other towns?" asks a local paper. Before answering it would be interesting to know how high it is in columbia. A Joplin man is working on a flying machine and says he hopes to have it ready for service during the next flood. Tony Boyle, of Lexington, has a chicken with three legs and seventeen toes, according to the Higginsville Advance. It stands on the middle leg and scratches with the side ones. With the old surety, St. Jacobs Oil to cure Lumbago and Sciatica There is no such word as fail. Price, 25c. and 50c. Another Dual Story. Mark Twain's duel story, told recently, recalls another in which the duel was also fought with pistols. Five rounds had been shot and no one even scratched. A conference was held by the seconds, who decided that "honor" had been satisfied, and it was suggested that the contestants shake hands. One of the seconds remarked, "That is quite unnecessary. Their hands have been shaking for the past five minutes." Murderer's Heavy Sentence. One of the strangest sentences that has been pronounced in any court has just been passed on a man named Boutin, at the assizes of Stolpe, Prussio. In October last Boutin broke into a farmhouse in Russia and killed two women and three children, besides robbing the place. Boutin has now been condemned five times to death, plus five years' imprisonment. Smallest Public School What is probably the smallest public school in the world was opened at Easter on the Hallig Nordstrandisch Moor, in Schleswig-Holstein. It has been closed for some time in consequence of the depopulation of the island, but it is about to be opened again with one master and two pupils. Lipton's Luck. Shamrock III, is to be fitted out with sails which weigh three and a half tons. A somewhat heavy burden. Should the three-leaved Irish clover fall to lift the cup, will Sir Thomas persist and go on a search for a fourth leaf? A four-leaved clover is said to be particularly lucky to the finder. New York Tribune. Wisconsin Absinthe Exported. The manufacturers of absinthe in Wisconsin are now exporting to Europe a part of their product, so that the French have competition in the business of making their most important liquor. A Maryland Wonder Upper Cross Roads, Md, June 15th. —Never in the history of medicine in this state has anything created such a sensation by its marvelous cures of the most extreme cases as Dodd's Kidney Pills. This wonderful medicine seems to know no limit in its wonder working power. Long-standing cases that have defied the most expert medical treatment seem to yield easily to this new conqueror of disease. Hundreds have testified to the virtue of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They tell of severe cases of Rheumatism, Lumbago, Backache, Female Trouble, Nervous Diseases and even Dropsy, Diabetes and Bright's Disease cured by this medicine. Among those who have been benefited may be mentioned Mrs. John Cooney of this place. "I believe Dodd's Kidney Pills the best remedy ever known for Kidney Trouble and weak back. "They are without exception the best medicine I have ever used. "I will always praise them highly, "I will always praise them highly, for I know that they are good." Mrs. Cooney is only one of many who say of Dodd's Kidney Pills: "The most wonderful remedy we ever heard of." The phrase "single blessedness" was coined by some anonymous married man. This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Curve Feverliness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the bowels and destroy Worms. Sold by all Druggists. 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. The more wisdom a man has the less he boasts of. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch it will keep them white-10 oz. for 10 cents. Some men display good business judgment even in matrimony. IF YOU USE BALL BLUE, Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue, Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. With some people education is merely ornamental. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Your name is mud," remarked the April shower to the earth. Look for this trade mark: "The Clean, Kool Kitchen Kind." The stoves without smoke, ashes or heat. Make comfortable cooking. A man is happy if he feels young, a woman if she looks young. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for cough and colds. John P Bovena, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 18, 1900. When a wife is outspoken the husband is generally out-taked. All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. The smallest hotels often look the largest on the hotel stationery. DOCTOR ADVOCATED OPERATION--- PE-RU-NA MADE KNIFE UNNECESSARY. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. It's the thoroughly modern and scientific system of loading and the use of only the best materials which make Winchester Factory Loaded "New Rival" Shells give better pattern, penetration and more uniform results generally than any other shells. The special paper and the Winchester patent corrugated head used in making "New Rival" shells give them strength to withstand reloading. BE SURE TO GET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. AFarm All YourOwn! There are at present exceptional opportunities for homeseekers in the Great Southwest and California. Low-rate round-trip homeseekers' and one-way settlers' tickets, first and third Tuesdays each month, over the Santa Fe to Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. Very low round-trip excursion rates to California in July and August. Write and tell us where you think of going. We will send you land literature and information about good farm lands at low prices. Values in certain portions of the Southwest sure to advance. We will tell you about it. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. WESTERN JESS, and postpaid a 100 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page treaties on Diseases of the Fistula. Of the thousands cared for by the Department of Women's Health, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, to Oak State, Kansas City, Mo. CATARRH is a very frequent cause of that class of diseases known as female weakness. Catarrh of the pelvic organs produces such a variety of disagreeable and irritating symptoms that many people—in fact, the majority of people—have no idea that they are caused by catarrh. If all the women who are suffering with any form of female weakness would write to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, and give him a complete description of their symptoms and the peculiarities of their troubles, he will immediately reply with complete directions for treatment, free of charge. Mrs. Eva Bartho, 133 East 12th street, N. Y. City, N. Y., writes: street, N. Y. City, N. Y., writes : "I suffered for three years with leucorrhea and ulceration of the womb. The doctor advocated an operation which I dreaded very much, and strongly objected to go under it. Now I am a changed woman. Peruna cured me; it took nine bottles, but I felt so much improved I kept taking it, as I dreaded an operation so much. I am today in perfect health and have not felt so well for fifteen years." — Mrs. Eva Bartho. Miss Maud Steinbach, 1399 12th Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes : "Last winter I felt sick most of the time, was irregular and suffered from nervous exhaustion and severe bearing down pains. I had so frequently heard of Peruna and what wonderful cures it performed so I sent for a bottle and in four weeks my health and strength were entirely restored to me." — Miss Maud Steinbach. Everywhere the women are using Peruna and praising it. Peruna is not a palliative simply; it cures by removing the cause of female disease. Dr. Hartman has probably cured more women of female ailments than any other living physician. He makes these cures simply by using and recommending Peruna. If you do not derive prompt use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. of your case and he will be pleased gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, Preside Columbus, Ohio. WINCH 'NEW RIVAL' It's the thoroughly ling and the use of Winchester Factory Lter pattern, penetration ally than any other shchester patent corrup Rival" shells give the BE SURE TO GET V A Farm All There are at present exhomesekers in the Great Low-rate round-trip homeses tickets, first and third Tuesday Fe to Kansas, Colorado, New and Texas. Very low round-trip excursion August. Write and tell us where you think of go information about good farm lands at low Southwest sure to advance. We will tell you Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Santa Achilson, Topaka & Santa Fe Railway PILES ING, MIXED FARMING, The Reason Why more wheat is grown in Western tundra is to draw water because vegetation grows in proportion to the soil moisture. The wheat will come to perfection, the better It is. Therefore 62 lbs per bushel is as far as standard as 60 lbs. in the East Area under crop in Western Canada, 1902, 1,987,330 Ares. Yield, 1902, 117.922,754 Bus. HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE, the only charge for which is $10 for making entry. send to the following for an Atlas and other literature also for your assistance in getting you the flight information: Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada; Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada; Mo. the authorized Canadian Government Agent. Wanted to fill position selling our goods in the country. Must have team and rig. Address OLIVER CO., 61 Bates St., Detroit, Mich. WE WANT DISTRICT MANAGERS on salary; $100 PER MONTH TO right parties who can qualify office positions to salary HOME BUILDING CO., Elkhorn Bldg., Chicago W. N. U. KANSAS CITY, NO. 25, 1903. old surety, obs Oil cure and Sciatica as fail. Price, 25c. and 50c. MRS. EVA BARTHO. and satisfactory results from the Hartman, giving a full statement to give you his valuable advice of The Hartman Sanitarium, BLACK POWDER SHELLS. modern and scientific system of load-only the best materials which make loaded "New Rival" Shells give betta and more uniform results generals. The special paper and the Win-ted head used in making "New them strength to withstand reloading. WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. YourOwn! optional opportunities for Southwest and California. kers' and one-way settlers' each month, over the Santa Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma rates to California in July and We will send you land literature and queries. Values in certain portions of the about it. a Fe General Passenger Office, Chicago TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured and a cent filicured we furnish their names on application. ON & MINOR, 10 40 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. General Passenger Office Chicago U.M.C. Stands for Union Metallic Cartridges. It also stands for uniform shooting and satisf- factory results. Ask your dealer for U.M.C. ARROW and NITRO CLUB Smokeless Shot Shells. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co., BRIDGEPORT, CONN. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BROMO- SELTZER CURES ALL Headaches 10 CENTS--EVERYWHERE Let us look no longer on the past, but to the future. Let us seek to make life worth living and our home comfortable. This we will help you to do, if you will help yourselves. Come and see us. Could any honest man ask for more? The house of Rhodes, Haverty & Huppe, has always been known as the friend of the poor class. Thousands of comfortable, happy homes stood a few days ago monuments to its liberal and fair treatment, and to day, in the hour of distress of the perple it comes again to their rescue, and offers terms upon which the most distressed sufferer can recuperate, live and be happy and hopeful. The company arises to the emergency--you may do the same. All we ask is that you treat us fairly and liberal as we treat you, and we will be your friends now as in the past. Go see for yourself. ends now firm of Rhodes, has reasonable prices, stress and suffering lifetime. So any for yourself and position to help you The price reasonal tress and lifetime. for your position If you are in need, come and see us at once. We will spare the time to wait on you and supply your wants for we are bound to agree. THE new, non-failing and infallible combined treatment for the human Hair, OZONO and CEDROLINE, used contenu, cannot fail to lend to the Hair length, and has been used ago the directors of the BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., with the sole purpose and intention to produce an absolutely perfect and reliable treatment for the hair, and the sum of $4,000 for this purpose alone. The services of three of the world's most noted chemists were sewed and dressed for investigation and costly experiments, have successfully formulated a treatment so potent and powerful, yet so harmsome that our customers have to take effects upon the Hair border upon the miraculous. This treatment can be used in all faith and confidence, as it is certain to produce results most grafting, causing the hair to contract, curl, and tangle, thus making it more manageable and less off, and splitting at the ends. This great combined treatment is now the most wonderful remedy for the Hair in the whole wide world. Our government funds made by any amt on earth. Cut out this advertisement, and send to us, with only $1.50, and, immediately upon receipt of same, we will send to you a full and complete treatment, consisting of two large bottles of OZONO, also two large bottles of CEDROLINE, the lightning Hair Grower, worth $2.00; also one large package of our latest discovery, POWDERED EGG SHAMPOO, worth $9c.; also one bar of POWDERED HUILE, worth $2.00; one I-plant package of ANTI-ODOR, the most wonderful toilet specialty of the day, worth $2c. This grand collection, worth in all $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and your name and address, with full, plain, and complete money selling our preparations. No matter where you live, we can get our goods safely to you. Do not delay; order to day. Address BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR, If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent. Come and see us. Style. Fit and Finish Up-to-Date. S. W. Blvd. Kansas City, Mo NEGRO ENTERPRISE. Smoke a Paul Laurence Dunbar Cigar. PRICE & CENTS, This cigar is made exclusively of high grade imported Havana Fil- ler Tobacco, with a Sumatra wrapper, and a better cigar cannot be bought, even at a cost of twenty-five cents each. COLORED-AMERICAN CIGAR CO., Main office Chicago, Ill. Anthony Overton, Manager Western Division, Station "A" Kansas City, Mo. An Ad placed in the Rising Son brings custom n brings custom Bargain baby r A THE FLOOD! Rhodes Fluerty & Happe FURNITURE CO. J A. MUPPE MGR. 611 MAIN STREET FURNITURE. CARPETS. STOVES. COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS CASH OR CREDIT Kansas City, Mo. 190 firm of Rhodes, Haverty & Huppe, whose warm heart, small payments and reasonable prices on furniture would enable him to do more, in the hour of distress and suffering, for his people than wifh any other similar firm in a short lifetime. So any person who is a flood sufferer and wants furniture, you will, for yourself and honor to the only colored man in Kansas City who is in a position to help you in the way of furniture. The prices of Rhodes, Haverty & Huppe have always been as good as could be sold for. The immense purchases of this house to more branches, backed by its unlimited capital, enables it to go and buy at the lowest possible prices, and it always has been its people the benefit of its ability to buy cheap, by selling them the least possible profit. This rule will hold good in the city, and you will find prices as low as any house in the United State class of goods. WABASH "FOLLOW THE FLAG." 5 Daily Trains 5 The prices of Rhodes, Haverty & Huppe have always been as low as good goods could be sold for. The immense purchases of this house to supply its 20 or more branches, backed by its unlimited capital, enables it to go into the market and buy at the lowest possible prices, and it always has been its policy to give to the people the benefit of its ability to buy cheap, by selling them the best goods for the the least possible profit. This rule will hold good in the present emergency, and you will find prices as low as any house in the United States for the same class of goods. L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. Be Sure to Patronize SMITH The DRUGGIST. He will deliver your goods free of charge if you will call Is This Really True? Is This Really True? Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. Q The subject of this sketch, Cap. I. H. Jordan, who for a number of years was one of the notable figures with the firm of Rhodes, Haverty & Huppes, at 611 Main St. Some months ago he severed his connection with that firm and was engaged with another of the same business. But, in the act of God, coursing the raging waters to lay waste and make barren the thousands of once happy homes, where comfort, love and contentment once reigned supreme, He saw that in order to serve his people. He called upon him to return to the READ THIS. have always been as purchases of this house to and capital, enables it to go and it always has been its very cheap, by selling them rule will hold good in the any house in the United W THE FLAG." y Trains 5 Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnificent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls and Buffalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through service. Wabash is the only line that does it. L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. If ills galore affect you sore And pains beset you more and more, Then do not stop; run, skip or hop To SMITH'S Apothocary Shop. With drops and pills he'll cure your ills And "PIGE" will bring around the bills. The DRUGGIST. arge if you will call Phone 1211 Grand. Yes! Some of the choicest qualities and prettiest designs in Watches and Jewelry are in the show window of : : : : Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler, J. A. WILSON, Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public either in buying his goods or in repairing of watches and jewelry (which is a specialty) assures nothing less than complete satisfaction. Regains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, by rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. There are only a few incidents in history more appalling than the disastrous flood from which the people of our city are now suffering. Among the recent disasters which are still fresh in our memories are the eruption of Mt. Pelee and the Galveston Tidal Wave. The losses in property in this city was greater in extent than in either of these great disasters, and while the loss of life was not so appalling, still the loss of homes and property of the poor, the enforced idleness of honest workmen and throwing on the charity of the more fortunate, thousands of self-respecting, honest heads of families, brings to us a condition of suffering seldom in a community which in ordinary times is amply able to protect itself, and where honest labor asks charity from no man. a short u will, s in a a short you will, is in a In this hour of our dire distress and real destitution of our people, it is a fair warning to, and they should heed it. Go to work and do something; learn to patronize racial enterprises; profit by the past and live for the future. J. L. WILLIAMS, Blacksmithing, Horse Shop. Good Man Workmans 707 Independence Ave. Only First Class The Very Residence 416 Laurel GENERAL Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed. 707 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed. 707 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. MOBERLY EXCURSION, $1.25 - ROU SUNDAY WABA $1.25 - ROUND TRIP - $1:25. SUNDAY, JUNE 14th, VIA WABASH LINE. Grand Outing, Baseball, Band Concerts, Beautiful Parks and Picnic Grounds. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. ```markdown ``` PURITY Manufacturers of Ice PURITY DAIRY CO., Manufacturers of Ice Cream & Ices. We are fitting our plant up to be the best in the City. We make a specialty of serving Churches, Lodges at parties at Wholesale Prices. Do not give an order until you Call 1515-1517 East 18th St., Call up 396 East. 1515-1517 East 18th St., Kansas City, Missouri. BRANCHES. ```markdown ``` Beat Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Peninsular Agents for... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Light for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. 1329 Grand Ave.