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Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. M. H. --- Emery, Bird. Thayer Co., Browning @ King. Nebraska Clothing Co. Stevenson's. Hubbard's Shoe Store and all the largest white business firms advertise with us. Because, our circulation is twice the combined circulation of all the other Negro weekly newspapers. Besides, a standing of ten years in the community, from a point of authenticity we are foremost. From a point of educational instructiveness we stand preeminent. Our representatives are the most intelligent Negroes in the journalistic field of today. Our circulation is increasing at a wonderful rapidity, and as soon as it reaches the 10,000 mark we will change it into a daily. Go on, Rising Son, keep on Rising! VOLUME XI. BISHOP ABRAM GRANT, CHAIR MAN OF THE KANSAS CITY DELEGATION OF NEGROES TO JEFFERSON CITY. He Was Made Permanent Chairman of All the Delegations in the Entire State. The Right Rev. Bishop Grant was born in 1848 in Florida, Columbus county. He was born a slave and was at one time sold for $6,000 in confederate money. At his very birth he displayed remarkable genius. It is said at his birth he uttered the first words "Slave, mamma, free." Thus he showed the rare ability of a man, and the birth of another real genius. ... On becoming a young man his great craving was learning. Being instructed by his master's son, Willie, he showed great advancement. His master forbid them to teach him, but the key had been given to him to fit the door, so at night he would steal away and absorb those tremendous problems of the books which enabled him to grasp those tremendous problems of life. He has a keen foresight of the future. His utterances are preponderous yet tempered with a string which will lead you into their very chasm. After receiving his education he opened up a night school for his more unfortunate brothers. He was asked how he received his education. He replied: "From the trees, the grass, personal absorption, in fact everywhere, or otherwise he could not tell." He occupied the position of Inspector of Custom in Florida. He was president of the board of trustees at one time of four colleges, Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas; Morris Brown College, Alien University, Wilberforce and on the board of Western University, Quindaro. He was twelve years Emery, Bird, Ting @ King, Nebraska Stevenson's, Hub president of church extension, and at present is head of the financial board with headquarters at Washington, D. C. For many years he did great work in Africa. He was made Bishop in 1888. He is presiding bishop of the Fifth district with headquarters in Missouri. This district comprises the following states: Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. There are over 500 churches in the entire jurisdiction. When viewed by a reporter of the Son from his recent visit to Jefferson City he said he had never been at such a meeting in the United States where leaders from all THE LORD OF THE RING owr the state gathered without any distinct call, save that each man knew the humility that would occur in the passing of such a bill. Men of all religious creeds being represented; Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Christian and Catholics. He said never did such harmony prevail. He said he could not find words enough to describe this harmonious meeting. Bishop Grant stands in the lime light of civilization sending his sun rays of comfort upon the poor, humble and despised negroes. As a guiding star you can see his rays entering into the humblest home. Never was one man so great. Like sun rays through a cloud he comes with the word of God, the story of the child in the manager, the beautiful Nazarene who died on the cross to save the soul of men. Listen at the calm tone of the Bishop's voice, surely he has drunk deep of the blood of Christ. Who can say whether or not Jesus has spoken to him or perhaps has told him his mission through the fixed status of the cross. You cannot come into his presence without feeling that same calmness. He speaks and all your fear Thayer Co., Brown-aska Clothing Co.bard's Shoe Store vanishes as the midnight darkness. In these days when the negro is haunted on all sides with cruel tortures, hunted like a beast, burned at the stake, eyeballs torn from their sockets, limbs wrenched from their bodies, his flesh being streak in stripes, scowled at on all sides, no place to lay his head. More terrible things coming for him, the world is turning backward. Into the future he stares at blank darkness. Farther on, he still goes farther, counting the mile stones one by one. He hears the voice of Jesus calling, but cannot see the way is dark and rugged. Is it not a blessing that we have our Bishop alive, and standing like the great Pyrimids of Egypt his spirit will endure to the end of time. In the arms of thy loving kindness and let us hide. Oh! Jesus, Christ of our souls. Let us all hope that through His will our Bishop will endure to guide through the crises yet to come. He lived in the past, He is with us in the present, and we pray our God that he he will be with us in the future. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES One of the happiest occasions in the annuals of Lincoln Institute was that of Wednesday, February 13, when a large body of Missouri's representative men of color, each man holding a worthy place in his chosen profession or calling, visited Lincoln Institute, listened to recitations, inspected all of the departments and the plant generally speaking. This delegation, headed by one of Nature's noblemen, Bishop Abram Grant, included Professor Grishan, and Harris, Reverends Peck, Stevens, Cook, Gilbert and Stewart; Doctors Unthank and Shannon; Lawyers Houston and Phillips; statesmen or politicians; Crews, Washington and Blackburn. The body occupied seats upon the platform in the auditorium during devotional exercises, at the close of which President Allen in his usual gracious manner and with interesting and humorous remarks, announced Bishop Grant, president pro tem of the institution; upon which the bishop in well chosen sentences introduced the speaker for the various callings represented in the delegation. Among these speakers -we note professor Grishma, Dr. Unthank, Reverend Dr. Stevens, Cook and Peck; Lawyers Houston and Phillips; Statesmen Crews and Vashons. Each speech was an inspiration and indicated, in no uncertain sound the friendliness and good-will entertained by each speaker for president Allen specifically and for Lincoln Institute generally. Each speech was replete with sound advice to the student body, and with facts, figures and telling points that cannot be otherwise than helpful now and in the years to come. At the close of the morning session the orchestra treated the destinationed visitors to an impromptu serenade. On the following day Dr. Crossland of St. Joseph and A. B. Blackburn of Kansas City, Kansas, were the honored guests. Both of these gentlemen are patrons of Lincoln Institute and their excellent and timely addresses showed them, like the speakers of the previous day to be firm friends of president Allen and of the administrative policy by means of which he has made Lincoln Institute, with its more than 500 students, one of the leading negro schools of the country. Another great event of the week was the concert given by students of Lincoln Institute in the Hall of the House of Representatives, for the entertainment of Governor Folk, the state officers and the 44th General Assembly of Missouri, on the evening of February 14. In every sense of the term the concert (literary and musical) was a signal success and on the following vote of thanks was tendered Lincoln Institute and its president by the legislative body assembled. Among those who delivered orations and received well merit rounds of applause were the following with subject: Chester Kimbrough "Causes of American Prosperity;" Eunice Freeman, "The Home-Making Arts;" Victor Collins, "The Unemployed;" Carrie Sydes, "The Normal School and the Relation to the Training of the Negro;" Josephine S. Yates, Jr.; "The Selection and Preparation of Food As Factors in National Development;" Russel Johnson, "The Toilers;" Mayselle Williams, "The Poetry of the Bible;" Ruta Cooper, "Clineness Next to Godi-Godliness." The vocal solos by Miss Zerela Gordon, the violin solos by Miss Pansy Phelps, the renditions of the Glee Club and of the orchestra, the choruses, jubilee songs and instrumental duets were all thoroughly enjoyed by a critical but keenly appreciative audience. Many congratulations and requests for a repletion of the concert at an early date have been received by President Allen. Knights of Pythias Celebrate. Kingdoms of Pythias Celebrate. The Eastern and Western hemisphere hold their 43rd anniversary services at the Second Baptist church 10th and Charlotte Streets, Tuesday night, Feb. 19th. About 300 persons were present. The program was brief and to the point. Mr. N. W. Jordan defended with much force the principles of Pythianism and Court of Calanthians. Rev. J. M. Booker, pastor of the Pleasant Green Baptist church, the speaker of the occasion preached the sermon, which was full of good advice and just the kind of a talk the organization and race need. The sermon was a friendly criticism pointing out the weakness of the Order and race, and a plea for more love and unity among the people. Good music was rendered by the Pleasant Green Choir directed by Mr. W. B. Countee, Mr. F. L. Lewis, master of ceremonies. Collection raised $22.50. RIFLE AS CHIMNEY DESTROYER Expert Marksman Proves Right to Title of Champion. Plainfield, N. J.-When Loft: Hollingsworth of the firm of Harper, Hollingsworth & Darby, local hat fur manufacturers, called a mason to discuss a contract for rebuilding the tall chimney of the mill, because it was unsale, the contractor told him he knew of no way to do the work without incurring great danger from the structure toppling over. He said he would not dare to build a scaffold about the chimney, because not only the brick might tumble, but a 300-pound casting at the top of the chimney, which held the top layers, might come down and sweep the scaffold to the ground. Mr. Hollingsworth debated the matter with himself and said: "I have an idea, and I think it will work." He has a neighbor, T. A. Albert, who is a good shot, and it occurred to have the latter try with his rifle to disdodge some of the bricks which held the heavy casting at the top of the chimney. Mr. Albert came with his rifle and began shooting at the top row of bricks. Pickling them out one by one with his shots, he soon loosened enough of them to unbalance the casting, and it came tumbling down. With it came enough of the loose bricks to leave the chimney safe for a scaffold, and the work of rebuilding has begun. Women in Parliament. Protests by women in parliament were not unknown during the Middle Ages. Stow tells us approvingly of "a crew of stout dames" who had the courage in 1428 "to checke a great duke in open parliament." "There was one mistris Stokes," he procluse, "with divers other stout women of London, of good reckoning, well apparrelled, came openly to the upper parliament and delivered letters to the duke of Gloucester, and to the archbishopes and to other lords there present, containing matter of rebuke and sharp reprehension of the duke of Gloucester," on account of his treatment of his wife Jaqueline. "But what good successe their labours tooke, my Author reporteth not." Moved! Moved! Take notice, the office of the Rising Son has been moved to 914 East 12th Street Come around and pay the new owner a visit. Come around and pay your subscription to the manager, or perhaps, send it in by mail. Thanking you for what you have done in the past. Bring us your news, and let us know what is going on in society. Phone your news to 780 Main, Home, or 780 Grand, Bell. Now come on, all together, and let us make this paper the Leading Journal in the West. Let us have from 10,000 to 15,000 subscribers. WILSON DAWSON. Wilson, Dawson a young Kansas City product has assumed part management of the Son. Mr. Dawson's capabilities for such work are gener- ally known. After graduating from Lincoln High school of this city he attended Lincoln Institute. He has been very active in various capacities, Mr. Dawson is an English student of marked ability. He brings to the Rising Soon, good judgment, coot calculating procedure, energy, friendly supporters and wide acquaintance in the dealing with the number of business men of the city. This paper is proud indeed to bring such a living force and enlist such energy to its al ready valuable staff of young men affiliating with the paper. Rev. J. T. Smith, of Jefferson City, whose hospitality to the delegation from Kansas City has made many friendls. He is Pastor of the A. M. E. church, Jefferson City. He has had two successful years at this place. It is thro' him that the church which had split has come together. The congregation is rallying around him splendidly. The colored grocerman is located at 921 Independence Ave., with a fresh stock of fancy groceries and salt meats. Give him a call—R. Smith, Prop. NUMBER 24 A SHORT SKETCH OF SOME OF THE MEN WHO ATTENDED THE JIM CROW MEETING Hon. Charlie Turner, formerly sheriff, for eight years office holder, sheriff of St. Louis county, for eight years office holder; Rev. S. R. Woolrich, B. A., an energetic pastor of Lexington, Mo., and a strong worker for the race; Rev. B. W. Stewart, St. Louis, a strong missionary preacher; Prof. J. W. Daniel, who holds the chair of Agriculture and Biology, Dr. J. T. Castron, a prominent Jefferson City physician and pastor of a church, Dr. Garnett, of Macon, president of Western College., Dr. Stevens, a brilliant minister of St. Louis, Dr. Crossland, exminister to Liberia, Dr. Cook, also a preacher of St. Louis, has charge of a large church in that city. Tom Bass, Joplin, Mo., a professional horse trainer, Hon. A. W. Lloyd, Grand Chancellor, K. of P. of Mo., a prominent politician, a strong wreiller and a man who gets results. PROF. G. N. GRISHAM AS THE MAN OF THE HOUR It was said in ancient times by one of the great philosophers that the principle for which you fight is a genuine part of a man's fight. The same rule applies in this case, even though the Jim Crow measure may pass nevertheless the Negro has put himself or record in a masterful manner against it. Prof Grisham has done this in his cool logical manner. As principal of the High School for over twenty years and coming with such force in his speech it has made a great impression upon future generations of Negroes to come. Posterity has intended in his some rich jewels that it may wear forever. Mr. Horace W. Folden is Society Editor of the Rising Son. Any one having parties or social gatherings, please 'phone 780 Main or 780 Grand and we will send to your residence 'to take an account of the proceedings. Mr. Edward Baker, Jr., its collector 'or the Rising Son. Please pay him your subscription and tell him where he can get a new subscription. Now 'don't give him the same old song that you stopped the paper six months ago or ordered it stopped. Peck Pleads Guilty St. Louis, Feb. 9. Thomas V. Peck, chief clerk of the board of education, Friday pleaded guilty to having issued fraudulent checks for $330 and was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. To Harness Victoria Falls Churchill Source of the Power, Victoria Falls. If the stupendous undertaking of certain English capitalists is carried out to a successful conclusion Darkest Africa will become Lightest Africa, for with the unlimited power of Victoria falls on the Zambia harnessed and transmuted into electrical energy there will be no limit to the possibilities resulting therefrom. The breadth of the falls is 5,400 feet and the fall of the water is 230 feet to the gorge below. This energy now going to waste is to be utilized and the electricity generated transmitted over 600 miles to the gold mines at Johannesburg. How bold such plan is can be appreciated when it is stated that the longest transmission of electrical current up to the present time is only a little over 150 miles. And so if the project succeeds it will not only mark a marvelous development in the handling of the electrical current, but the labor problem of the Rand will find easy solution. The firm of Sir Douglas Fox and partners are the engineers-in-chief of the enterprise, known as the Victoria Falls Power company, Limited, the advisory board including such eminent scientists as Lord Kelvin, M. Andre Blondel, of Paris, Dr. Klingenberg, professor at the Royal Technical college of Berlin, and Dr. E. Tissot, of Bale, amongst the engineers associated with them being Mr. Ralph D. Mershon, of New York, who has a world-wide reputation in connection with long-distance electrical transmission, and Mr. Arthur Wright, consulting electrical engineer to the boroughs of Brighton, Marylebone and Stepney, while also connected with the project are such well-known names as Sir Lewis Mitchell, general manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa, and Mr. H. Wilson Fox, manager of the Chartered company, and originator of the power scheme. The Victoria falls lend themselves admirably to the generation of electricity by hydraulic power, and the construction of the proposed works offers no great engineering difficulties. To begin with, electrical plant for the production of 50,000 horse power will be installed, though the intake and the canal will be made large enough for double that capacity. The intake will be on the left or northern bank of the river, above the falls, and the canal will conduct the water to a spot near the top of the gorge at the first bend below the falls. Hence it will be delivered through steel tubes to the power house near the water's edge 350 feet below. By high tension electric current the power will be conveyed to the Rand, and at the main receiving station a system of hydraulic storage will be installed. The object of this is to store the energy not immediately wanted, by pumping water to the top of a high hill, whence it is released, as required, for the production of fresh electrical power. Coupled with this hydraulic storage will be a steam-driven reserve station, with a capacity of 20,000 horsepower, as a standby in case of temporary interruption of the current from the falls, another guarantee that users of the supply will have absolute security for its continuity. It is well to remember that the enterprise will in no way interfere with the beauty of the falls for the British South Africa company has fenced off a large area as a pub lie park, extending some miles along both banks. The Victoria Falls Power company will have a total capital of $30,000,000. The first instalment of the work will be completed in two years, and the company will effect a saving of $5,000,000 per annum in the cost of working the mines. Mr. H. Wilson Fox, the manager of the company, is enthusiastic over the project and in explanation of the plans to the English capitalists interested he declared that the difficulty which had been suggested that the Kaffirs might climb the cable towers and cut the wires was too absurd even to mention. "The objection has also been made," said Mr. Fox, "that white ants may eat the coverings of the cables, but the reply to that is that the cables will not be covered. Ants will not climb 60 feet to eat metal, and, if sufficiently athletic to make the attempt, I am afraid that they will be bitterly disappointed with the result. "At our main receiving-station near the Rand an entirely new departure will be introduced through the utilization of a system of hydraulic storage. So far as we can discover, this expedient has never been previously employed in connection with long-distance transmission. "The main purpose of this device is to prevent waste of power. In any industry—and mining is no exception—there are slack hours. Between shifts, power is in full swing. Nevertheless, the water does not cease to fall over the lip of the falls, the turbines continue to generate current, and if our customers do not use it, the power will be wasted. To prevent this waste we shall, whenever there is spare power available, use it to pump water into a reservoir at the top of a high hill, where it will constitute a reserve supply of energy. We can then allow it to run down again through pipes to the bottom of the hill, and we shall thus be able to constitute an pleasure an artificial waterfall, and by its use regenerate power. "When the line reaches the Rand, it will be worked in conjunction with a large steam-driven reserve station. Our customers will therefore have a triple security. "Consider, too, the effect which the development of power at the falls upon a large scale may have upon the future destinies of South Africa. The establishment of great industries at the falls themselves, the supply of water for irrigation to agriculturists, and the provision of cheap power to the mines in the Transvaal, will all tend to give greater employment to European labor, and will help to redress the balance between white and black." SETTLED IN FEW WORDS Connoisseur Quickly Determined the Status of Port Wine. Winter strawberries are raised in a large way by S. E. Jeter, of Humboldt, Teun. In all the big cities Mr. Jeter's strawberries can be bought in the coldest weather, and the fruit is as sweet and delicate as that of June. "It is one thing to raise winter berries, and it is another thing to raise good ones—to raise the kind that don't knot up your face like a mouthful of lemon," said Mr. Jeter. "You test strawberries as you test port wine, by the color, the odor, and the flavor. And there are few winter berries that will meet this test. It is like the port wine story. "A gentleman invited a connoisseur to try some port that he had just laid in. "I like it myself," he said, "but I admit I'm no judge. I'll feel better about it after I've heard your opinion." "Well," said the connoisseur, "we judge a glass of port-in three ways: First by the color, second by the odor, and third by the flavor.' 'He held the glass to the light. "'The color of this port is very good,' he said. "He sniffed it delicately. " 'The odor,' he said, 'is far from unpleasant. Now for the taste.' "He sipped the wine, and then put his glass down hastily. "Would you mind passing me the claret?" he said." First Coffee in Europe. Coffee was first publicly drunk in England when Ted Edwards opened his coffee shop in London in 1652. He imported the idea from Cairo, in which city cafes have abounded for centuries back, there being no fewer than 2,000 these in the year 1563. French coffee, so much in vogue with certain drinkers, begins its history with Louis XIV., who drank the first cup. Taverns for the sale of coffee were first opened in Paris in 1672, and in the following reign they had increased to the number of 600. The present yearly consumption to each person is, in round numbers: Brazil, 14 pounds; Belgium, 11; United States, 7; Germany, 5; France, 3, and England 14 ounces. WOMAN'S SPHERE OLD FASHION BACK MANNISH TURN-DOWN COLLAR RESTORED TO FAVOR. Once More a Conspicuous Feature of Feminine Neckwear—In Many Ways an Improvement on Predecessor. With the rehabilitation of the Tallor-Made Girl the mannish turn-over collar of linen has become a conspicuous feature of fashionable neckwear. You remember that we sported these collars some three of four years ago, but they were banished when the little Dutch necked frocks came in. Women at that time who possessed scrawny necks encircled by yellow collar lines said some very unpleasant things about the tail, stiff collars which had done the mischief. Time, however, is a great pacifier, and most women to-day have so far forgotten their past grievance that Eyelet Pattern for Heavy or Sheer Linen. they have appropriated the mannish collar as of old. The present turn-down collar is a great improvement FOR TWO PLEASANT PARTIES. Mother Goose Is One and "Poverty Breakfasts" Another. Send out invitations decorated with Mother Goose characters. When the guests arrive give them a bit of paper on which is written the name of a jingle from this ever popular book. When the hostess calls these titles one by one, the holder must repeat the rhyme at once, or in the space of two minutes. Failing to do so entails the paying of a forfeit. To the one who responds the first award a goose quill pen, and to the one who falls entirely give a child's copy of Mother Goose. The following menu may be served for refreshment. Ornament the table with a huge pie, on which 24 toy birds are seated around the edge; have a ribbon leading to each plate, with a snapping cracker attached to the end inside the pie. The guests are to guess what is to be served them from this Mother Goose bill of fare: Shared by the walrus and carpenter (Oysters). A king's dish (Bird pie, individual chicken pies). A queen's lunch (Bread and honey). Taffy's spoils (Beef sandwiches). The golden eggs (Eggs hard boiled). What the baker made (Rolls). Sample of the pieman's ware (Tiny pies). Jack-a-Dandy's delight (Plum cake). What the ships brought (Apples and conifits). I wonder how many readers of the department are aware of the fact that Mary Goose, the original "Mother Goose," is buried in a Boston cemetery? She was not a myth, but a reality once upon a time. For Lent. A coterie of ten ladies, who are accustomed to entertaining on quite an elaborate scale, are giving a series of Lenten affairs which they call "poverty breakfasts." Each hostess keeps an itemized account of what the meal costs, and then subtracts it from the sum she would ordinarily have paid. The difference she puts into a box marked "Charity." - Modes In Coats. The feature of the season's little coat is that it is short and the favorite pattern is that of the pony coat. This is hip-length and is rather loose. It buttons down the front with big cut steel buttons or with buttons of smoked pearl, and the back is semi-fitting. The seal coats of this description are exquisite and those who like a little brown fur coat, easy to slip off and on, cannot do better than invest in one of these little garments, the price of which ranges around $100. French women delight in wearing the lighter shades of mink with a black dress. One very handsome French woman, visiting in Washington, wore a light brown mink coat with a gown of black satin and a picture hat of black with spreading plumes. There was a tiny bit of pink embroidery upon the collar and cuffs of the coat, and her muff was lined with pink. Old mink collarettes can be brought out and woru as new, now, upon its predecessor. It is not made as heavily as before, being only three ply, and the linen is of a fine, lightweight quality. The new turn-over collar is just like a man's collar, save that it is less heavy and embroidered in the corners. Grapes of Padded Embroidery with Eyelet Border. and for a distance along the sides, or is hemstitched. There are two buttonholes in front and one in back. Many of the better grade ones are hand embroidered. These collars range in price from 25 cents to two dollars, according to the quality of the linen and handwork employed. Their decoration consists of a variety of finger work, real and imitation, such as Medeira or French convent work, or of the St. Gall order; others have Teneriffe stitching in round or square design, and in drawn thread patterns. We show an example of the stiff turn-over collar, a combination of blind or padded embroidery and cyclet work. With this is worn a four-in-hand. Another collar is designed with grapes; these are heavily padded and thrown into relief by the open-work edge. Some of the newest Parisian fancies in these stiff turn-over collars show floral patterns in one or more colors. Wee violets, forget-me-nots, lilies of the valley, besides other small neat posies are so treated. Shirt-waist suits are worn, and the "breakfast" is served at 12 o'clock, thus giving a long afternoon for sewing, which in this instance is making out flannel nightgowns for a child's hospital. The garments are exceedingly dainty, as one lady insists upon finishing the neck and sleeves with feather-stitching or lace. This little circle is having what they call a "scrap party" once a week, held in the evening. The men are asked to come and bring all their cast-off neckties; the ladies bring bits of silk—even samples are available. The pieces are sorted into piles, neatly tied with skeins of embroidery silk, and are sent to old ladies in homes and institutions—to "shut-ins" and invalids, who gladly receive these contributions to their silk quilts. Some of these bundles are sent to remote regions in the south, where industrial schools have been established. A cup of something hot is served and the party breaks up at ten o'clock, for early hours are a part of the Lenten regime. An Old-Fashioned Party. At this most unique affair, the hostess requested her guests to come in as old-fashioned garments as they possessed or could borrow, and such an array of polonaises, basques, full skirts and bonnets as assembled in the drawing room, which was full of old-fashioned furniture, samplers, candlesticks, bedspread draperies, etc. The men were in coats and ruffled shirts of ancient vintage, and funny old stovepipe hats. Dominoes, chess, whist and checkers were the games, and the ladies had a knitting contest. Cup custards, unfrested sponge cake, strawberry preserves, with tea, were served. Prizes were awarded for the qualitiest gowns and the histories of many of the old garments and pieces of furniture were related. A candle was lit and handed each guest when they went up to don their outer garments, preparatory to going home, and the host lit an old "Paul Revere" lantern standing on the porch to light the way to the gate. Snuff boxes were passed and neighbor borhood gossip exchanged. Altogether, it was a most novel affair. and if badly out of repair, they can be taken to a furrier who will manage to make out of the little new short fur Eton coats. A tiny, fur Eton can be worn all winter with a heavy cloth suit and it is a good idea to have something of this kind to wear when one makes fashionable calls. Tramp Balls. Calico parties, which flourished a few years back, are being superseded by tramp balls. If you have a capacious barn for your ball so much the better; if not, clear your rooms of all their pretty trappings, or, if you have rugs, take them up, leaving the floors bare. Festoon the walls with hay and bring in boxes, nail kegs and rough benches for seats. Tell all your guests to come as hoboes, organ grinders and mendicants of various kinds. Serve a Dutch lunch and offer a prize for the most effective costume. The more old-fashioned country reels and dances that are introduced into the programme the better. INTERNATIONAL BALLOONCONTEST TABLE America is to witness the next great international balloon race, and St. Louis has been designated as the "flight" city by the Aero Club of America because of its central location, and also because it affords opportunity for records flights whatever the direction of the wind. The rare privilege of holding this airship contest in this country comes as a reward for the victory won by an American aeronaut, Lleut. Frank P. Lahm, in the international contest last year. Year. His triumph is of such recent occurrence as to be still fresh in mind, and we recall with what pride American newspapers heralded the achievement. a number of precursors in Europe where the science of aerial navigation has for many years received care study. When the Aero club of America organized its first exposition, in January, 1906, balloons were imprint from Paris, and the public was given the opportunity of seeing what were like. Photographs of balloons censors were displayed and a fort was made to arouse a popular terest in the sport as it is practiced abroad. This show was followed by a number of actual ascents from different places in the eastern states, and people in one section of this con Especially did the victory bring satisfaction and enthusiasm to the Aero Club of America for it claimed Lieut. Lahm as an honorary member and his triumph not only brought it prestige among the ballooning fraternity of Europe and brought to this side of the water the magnificent international challenge cup offered as a prize by James Gordon Bennett. And now the Aero club is actively engaged in making arrangements for the contest this year at St. Louis. It is determined, and hopeful as well, of retaining the cup on this side of the Atlantic. Eight nations—France, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the United States—each with three balloons, are entitled to compete, and the contest will be in all respects international. It is estimated that the great European balloon contests of 1906 were each witnessed by 200,000 spectators, and it is hoped that this race of 1907 will command at least equal interest. It will require all the resources of the Aero Club of America and all the energies of its members to properly organize and conduct this contest. This will, of necessity, be its chief task for 1907 and to this all else must be subordinated. It is hoped that the history of the America's cup will be repeated and that the international cup has crossed the ocean never to return. The club has been assured that three balloons of 2,200 meters, the maximum capacity permitted under the rules, will be available for its champions. There are already many applicants for the honor of being chosen as one of the three defenders of the cup, and it is certain that there will be a large field from which to make the selection. The greatest interest has been displayed throughout the civilized world, and special facilities will be offered to all aeronauts visiting St. Louis for this contest. Through the liberality of various citizens and organizations of that city the Aero Club of America has been able to offer cash prizes amounting to $2,500, to be distributed among the contestants winning respectively second, third, fourth and fifth places. This is in addition to the sum of $2,500 to be given by Mr. Bennett to the winner of the cup. The Aero Club of America also offers a prize to the contestant remaining longest in the air. As a further stimulus to ballooning, the Aero club has founded and offered for competition a challenge trophy to be known as the Lahm cup and to be held in turn by each of its members who exceeds the distance—402 miles—covered by Lleut. Lahm in winning the International cup. The Aero club will endeavor to introduce and popularize in this country the various contests in connection with ballooning which have proved so attractive in France. These include the pursuit and capture by several balloons of a pilot balloon having a certain start; also a contest by several balloons, the winner to be the one who lands nearest to a given spot designated on a map beforehand. Prizes will also be given to automobiles which shall start in pursuit of balloons and reach them within a given interval after their launching. The Aero Club of America is less than two years old, having been formed in the summer of 1905 with the purpose set forth in the constitution of promoting and developing the science of aerial navigation. Founded by men who had almost without exception never made an ascension in a free balloon, the club has in one year of existence earned for itself a position in the world of sport and it is to be hoped it has opened up a brilliant career for itself in the future. Although the Aero club is the first organization of aeronauts to be formed on the American continent, it has had a number of precursors in Europe, where the science of aerial navigation has for many years received careful study. When the Aero club of America organized its first exposition, in January, 1906, balloons were imported from Paris, and the public was given the opportunity of seeing what they were like. Photographs of balloon ascensions were displayed and an effort was made to arouse a popular interest in the sport as it is practiced abroad. This show was followed by a number of actual ascents from different places in the eastern states, and thus people in one section of this country at least were given an opportunity to become familiar with aerial navigation in its simplest and safest form. The home of the Aero club, the city of New York, is unfavorably situated as a ballooning center. The ocean, the one peril of the aeronauts, is close at hand, and only with a wind from a southerly direction is an ascent to be made with perfect safety. The gas question is also an important factor, and the Aero club has found at Pittsfield, Mass., a station combining the features—distance from the sea and an abundant supply of coal gas. The great drawback is its distance from New York and other centers of population. The Aero club has acquired two balloons, one of them, the Centaur, having made the record balloon journey from Paris to Russia in 1900. These aerostats are available for ascensions by members and it is hoped that before long the club will be able to acquire new balloons. It should be the province of the Aero Club of America to encourage all attempts at a solution of the flying problems, and it should investigate and report upon every invention or contrivance which seems to have a reasonable chance of success. A technical committee composed of experts and scientists, in whose names and reputations the public will have confidence, will be appointed. This committee will be authorized to solicit and receive subscriptions, to be spent judiciously and when there is a good chance for a profitable return. Only by lavish expenditure of money and my continued experiments can success in flying be achieved. In France all that has been accomplished in this direction has been largely done by the generosity of a few patrons of aeronautics. The most successful steerable balloons now owned by the French government are due to the Lebaudys, who spent large sums of money in experiments and whose wealth made possible their construction. The rich prizes offered by M. Deutsch de la Muerté stimulated Santos-Dumont to achieve his notable flight around the Eifel tower. M. Deutsch has built at his own expense a large airship which recently maneuvered near Paris and he has offered prizes of great value for aeroplanes. Is there not in all this land of swollen fortunes some one who will offer a prize of sufficient size to reward the inventor and repay him for all the years he has to spend in unsuccessful effort? To England belongs the credit of having invented the steam railroad engine; to France belongs the honor of producing the automobile. Shall the United States of America allow themselves to be left behind in the race to bring forth a flying machine that will fly, and thus confer one of the greatest benefits on mankind? A Goose 71 Years Old. Among the interesting assets which Moran has to its credit is a goose which had reached the mature age of 71 years, says the Kansas City Journal. This oldest inhabitant of the fowl tribe in Allen county is owned by James Strong. Mr. Strong has owned it for many years and is greatly attached to it, and does everything to make its latter days pleasant. There are, of course, reasons other than those of sentiment why this goose is safe from being served up as a table delicacy. In 1871, when William Jones left Iowa for Kansas, a friend gave him a goose which was 35 years old at the time. It was regarded as a fairly venerable bird then, but it stood the hardship of ploneer life in Allen county with no complaint. When Newt Strong married a niece of Mr. Jones he gave them the goose. Later they moved to Iowa and left the goose with James Strong, who still has it. MATTERS FEMININE. QUALITY OF TACT REALLY LITTLE MORE THAN COM MON POLITENESS. Simply Means Avoiding Saying Things That Will Hurt a Friend—Pitfalls for the Overaympathetic Person to Avoid. Tact is a quality that is a good bit of a misnomer! There's a species of lying that is often called tact. "Do you really like this hat? Mme. Cerise sent it home nearly a week ago, and I have been trying it on in every possible angle, and have almost made up my mind that it is not my style. Do you like me in it? Tell me frankly." "My dear, it is perfectly ducky on you! The prettiest hat I have ever seen you wear." And then, as we three part at the corner Lady Tactful says: "My dear, she looks a perfect pig in that hat! But, after all the nice things she said about my new furs, I couldn't tell her so, could I?" And I said "No." What else could I say? There's a long distance from her method and that of the horrid creature who prides herself on her "frankness" and who in the expressing of it rides rough-shod over the most sensitive souls, and who would have said: "You're a sight in that hat. I thought so that day you wore it at Maude's luncheon." She doesn't mean to be horrid, and the effect upon that unfortunate hat would have been excellent, for it would have been sent back to Mme. Cerise instanter and done over, though its poor owner would never have forgotten how awfully she, doubtless, looked at Maude's luncheon. Some other person who had achieved the happy mean—I suppose I mean myself; we're all inclined to think we have a corner on tact—would have found a tiny fault, and after that had been recognized found a dozen others that in total had the effect of happily packing up the hat in its tissue coverings en route to its maker. But the FOR THEATER OR EVENING. Elaborately Trimmed Waist of Embroidered Batiste. Dainty theater or evening waist of embroidered batiste elaborately trimmed with open-work insertion, 1 rosettes of embroidery and valenciennes lace. On the front of the blouse is a ruffle of lace headed by a band of insertion. The bretelles are of the material ornamented with loops of ribbon and buttons. The sleeves are covered with lace ruffles and finished with cuffs of the open-work embroidery and lace insertion. In the Mode The checked velvetteens make de- lightful walking suits. Underskirts of Batiste and chint silk are in season again. Some of the novelty suitings are spotted with big chenille dots. Trim your black net waist with ribbon velvet in the Greek key pattern." Very beautiful old-fashioned brocades are shown for evening gowns for older women. High girdles of silk elastic with handsome buckles are worn with gowns of more or less formality. Mandarin sleeves, having no seam at all on the shoulder, but all joined under the arm, are seen on a few bodices. Waving the Hair. Use this curling fluid when doing up your hair for the night: Dry salts of tartar (carbonate of potash), one dram; cochineal (powdered) half dram; liquor of ammonia, essence of rose, one dram each; glycerin, one-quarter ounce; rectified spirits, one and one-half ounces; distilled water, 18 ounces. Let the mixture digest with frequent stirring for a week and then filter. Molsten the hair with the lotion when dressing. The effect will occur as the hair dries. result would have been no inward tears nor unhappy feelings of distrustfulness toward the fibbing friend or toward the frank one, writes Margaret Chilton. Politeness goes a long way toward smoothing the path of long friendships, and women have a tendency to too great intimacies, during the course of which small politenesses are laid aside as "unnecessary." They never are. The frank person so rarely is hurt herself by equal sledge-hammer blows that she thinks the sensitive person is merely lacking in courage in facing truths. And the sensitive one thinks her blunt friend lacking in delicacy of character, which probably isn't so at all. Tact is only common politeness! Avoid saying the one thing that's going to hurt that particular friend; presumably you know her well enough to know what does hurt. It means avoiding discussing scandals or even small shortcomings of the other's loved friends or relatives. One mostly doesn't adore one's relatives for some unexplained reason that we nevertheless recognize; but, in spite of that, we usually like to do all the "slanging" of them ourselves. And the role of confidante on this particular subject has its own especial pitfalls for the over-sympathetic one who hasn't learned the first principles of tact. The truly tactful person is mostly polite to elderly people, but doesn't do it as though the poor dears were actually antique, but as though she naturally had a courtesy toward a woman older than herself. She doesn't bubble over with sweetness to the one shabbily dressed woman at a bridge afternoon, but quietly includes her as part of them all. She talks to the shy man as though she found him especially interesting, and does most of the talking herself till he is ready to conquer his diffidence, and, above all, she doesn't comment to others of her ministrations. Politeness, golden rule and a few other long taught maxims nicely cover the question of tact. A woman of tact is one whose love for humanity is second only in her life's devotion, and whose watchword is unselfishness in thought and action with regard to others. JACKETS OF THE SEASON. Garment Made Up in Particularly Effective Manner. Many jackets this year are made up so as to look very like dress waists, but they open down the center in the regular way and underneath is worn the fine lingerie or silk bodice. One model was exceedingly pretty in a tan, or, rather, light brown broadcloth. This jacket was made with a wide fitted yoke cut rather in the shape of a sailor collar, and this was bordered with a double row of soutache braid. Below the yoke the cloth was laid in six box plaits, that is, three on each side of the center plait, and these, opening cut, allowed the material to bluse slightly over the wide fitted cloth belt. Delow the belt was a short shaped hip piece. There was a small round collar of hand embroidered silk, through which was run black taffeta ribbon, which, tied in a four-in-hand bow, fell half way to the belt. The cuffs at the elbows were embroidered, with taffeta ribbon run through in the same way as on the collar. Linen Collars. Embroidered linen collars, the high turned down style, are extremely smart, and are worn with all kinds of walsts. They are finished in front, and the favorite finish is the tulle bow or rosette fastened with a bar plin of diamonds or pearls. One style has buttonholes through which are put link cuff buttons, or a velvet ribbon that is tied in a stiff bow. A hemstitched edge, a narrow line of hand embroidery, or some small design in embroidery just at the corner, is the current fashion. FROCKS FOR THE NURSERY. 1222 The little girl standing on the right has a frock of tan cashmere, trimmed with black velvet ribbons, with square lace medallions cut in half and used as revers on the waist and trimming on the skirt. The boy on the floor wears a suit of blue and white striped flannel with the stripes on the yoke, cuffs and belt running in a crosswise direction. The girl has a pretty dress of gray light weight cheviot, trimmed with bands of bright plaid with a frill of ecru lace falling across the front. DON'T DESPAIR. Read the Experience of a Minnesota Woman and Take Heart. If your back aches, and you feel sick, languld, weak and miserable day after day—don't worry. Doan's Kidney Pills have cured thousands of women in the same condition. Mrs. A. Heiman of Stillwater, Minn., says: "But for Doan's Kidney Pills I would not be living now. They cured me in 1899 and I've been after day—don't worry. Doan's Kidney Pills have cured thousands of women in the same condition. Mrs. A. Heiman of Stillwater, Minn., says: "But for Doan's Kidney Pills I would not be living now. They cured me in 1899 and I've been well since. I used to have such pain in my back that once I fainted. The kidney secretions were much disordered, and I was so far gone that I was thought to be at death's door. Since Doan's Kidney Pills cured me I feel as if I had been pulled back from the tomb." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Much Arid Land Reclaimed. During the four years since its organization, the reclamation service has rendered productive 280,000 acres of desert, being one-fourth of an area that has been mapped out for irrigation under 22 projects.—Harper's Weekly. SOME NEW FRENCH KNIGHTS. Queen of Holland Has Agreed to Recognize Vatican Titles. Among the lucrative sources of revenue of the pope before the separation of church and state in France was the toll or tax on titles of nobility and decorations. Since the rupture the French government no longer recognizes the ennobling titles and decorations of the holy father. To have the right to wear the Vatican ribbon, or to be called count, it was necessary to obtain a confirmation of title. This gave much perplexity to the candidates. The question has just been settled. Queen Wilhelmina has consented to validate such titles and distinctions. The result has been an amusing pilgrimage to The Hague—and also in an increase in the price of these pontifical favors. In the last few weeks the French Knights of the Golden Spur, of the Holy Sepulcher, of Christ, of Gregory the Great, of Plus IX. have greatly increased. ONE WAY OUT CF DIFFICULTY. Match Twins with Twins, Was the Fond Mother's idea. A little woman entered a drug store and asked the proprietor if he had "another picture." "What kind of a picture do you mean?" the druggist asked. "One like this," said the woman, holding up an attractive advertising print. "I may have one or two of them left," the proprietor said, "but I haven't many of them." The woman said she only wanted one, and her tone indicated that she was anxious for that one. She explained that the one she had with her had been given to one of her children. Another child, she stated, was sick, and was crying for a picture such as his brother had. "That's a bad way to bring up your children," ventured a woman customer in the store. "Do you try to give a child everything he cries for just because his brother is more fortunate?" "But," said the mother of the children, "you don't know. The children are twins and what one has the other wants." "Suppose," objected the moralist, "when your children get older, they fall in love with the same girl, what will they do?" But the mother was ready. She promptly replied: "Find twins and fall in love with them." DREADED TO EAT. A Quaker Couple's Experience. How many persons dread to eat their meals, although actually hungry nearly all the time! Nature never intended this should be so, for we are given a thing called appetite that should guide us as to what the system needs at any time and can digest. But we get in a hurry, swallow our food very much as we shovel coal into the furnace, and our sense of appetite becomes unnatural and perverted. Then we eat the wrong kind of food or eat too much, and there you are—indigestion and its accompanying miseries. A Phila, lady said, the other day: that day, and the other day. "My husband and I have been sick and nervous for 15 or 20 years from drinking coffee—feverish, Indigestion, totally unfit, a good part of the time, for work or pleasure. We actually dreaded to eat our meals. "We tried doctors and patent medicines that counted up into hundreds of dollars, with little if any benefit. "Accidentally, a small package of Postum came into my hands. I made some according to directions, with surprising results. We both liked it and have not used any coffee since. "The dull feeling after meals has left us and we feel better every way. We are so well satisfied with Postum that we recommend it to our friends who have been made sick and nervous and miserable by coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." THE USEFUL GASOLINE CAN. Plays Important Part in Building Where Wood is Scarce. In the sparsely settled districts of the arid southwest, where gasoline is the mainstay as fuel in cooking, and where wood is scarce and dear, the empty five-gallon can in which the liquid is sold has come to have a considerable vogue as a building material. The sides cut out with a can opener make capital plates either for a tin roof or for weather boarding for the side of a house. Three or four cans with tops and bottoms cut out and set one on top of another make a chimney. Filled through the nozzle with sand or dirt, the cans become effective substitutes for blocks of stone accurately squared, and substantial walls are not infrequently built of them. On a pigeon ranch visited by the writer, the dovecotes consisted of tier upon tier of gasoline cans laid on their sides, the top of each being cut out three-fourths around and bent horizontally forward to serve as a front porch, on which the pigeons alighted in their flights to and from home. With the top cut out the can also does service as a pot for large plants; while, furnished with a wooden cross piece as a handle, it is a first-class water bucket, as the gasoline, unlike petroleum, leaves no greasy trace behind on the tin.—Exchange. BABY TORTURED BY ITCHING. Rash Covered Face and Feet—Would Cry Until Tired Out—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "My baby was about nine months old when she had rash on her face and feet. Her feet seemed to irritate her most, especially nights. They would cause her to be broken in her rest, and sometimes she would cry until she was tired out. I had always used Cuticura Soap myself, and had heard of so many cures by the Cuticura Remedies that I thought I would give them a trial. The improvement was noticeable in a few hours, and before I had used one box of the Cuticura Ointment her feet were well and have never troubled her since. I also used it to remove what is known as "cradle cap" from her head, and it worked like a charm, as it cleansed and healed the scalp at the same time. Now I keep Cuticura Ointment on hand in case of any little rash or insect bites, as it takes out the inflammation at once. Perhaps this may be the means of helping other suffering babies. Mrs. Hattie Currier, Thomason, Me., June 9, 1906." EARLY NORTHWEST VOYAGES. Some Account of, the Arctic Trips That Have Been Made. Beginning with the American discoveries of John Cabot in 1497, the search for the northwest passage was for many years the object of rival expeditions from Denmark, England, France and Portugal, says A. W. Greely, in the Century. It was Frobisher, however, who in 1576-78 first gave a distinct national character to the quest. John Davis of Davis' strait, followed in three voyages, 1585-88, and then, in 1612, came the illustrious and hapless Henry Hudson, whose motto was that explorers should "achieve what they had undertaken or else give reasons wherefore it will not be." The search for the Atlantic side closed for two centuries with the voyage of a great seaman, William Baffin, who, in a tiny boat of 55 tons, with a miserable equipment, but an undaunted heart, attained, in 1616, the highest north in the western hemisphere, 77 degrees 45 minutes N., and discovered three radiating sounds, Jones, Smith and Lancaster, the last being the eastern entrance to the long-sought passage. The revelations regarding fraudulent paint materials which have been made by the Agricultural Experiment Station of Fargo, N. D., and published by Prof. E. F. Ladd, state commissioner, have occasioned almost as much of a sensation as the exposure of adulteration in food products did when the latter first began to appear. It has been shown that kegs marked "Pure White Lead" often contain other substances such as chalk, barytes, silica, etc., and that oil supposed to be linseed often contains petroleum adulterants, to say nothing of water in large proportions. Sometimes, so-called "White Leads" contain not an lota of genuine White Lead. The farmer is a large user of paint. No one is more interested than he is, that the label should enable him to get what he supposes he is paying for. There should be a law in every state requiring that all paint packages be labeled exactly according to their contents. That would enable every paint-buyer to buy intelligently. Indian Reaches Advanced Age Columbus Cunnitubby, a full-blooded Choctaw, probably is the oldest Indian in the United States. He is believed to have passed his one hundred and fourteenth year. Other aged men of his tribe declare that in their childhood days he was a grand specimen of the redskin race. Even now his mind is clear, but he is so feeble that he can not talk more than two or three minutes at a time. He has 23 children and 109 grandchildren. Defiance Starch—Never sticks to the iron—no blotches—no blisters, makes ironing easy and does not injure the goods. The soubrette has the laugh on the comedian who gets none. more cases of Female Ills than any other one remedy known. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound dissolves and expels Tumors at an early stage of development. Dragging Sensations causing pain, weight, and headache are relieved and permanently cured by its use. Tumors at an early stage of development. Dragging Sensations causing pain, weight, and headache are relieved and permanently cured by its use. It corrects Irregularities or Painful Functions. Weakness of the Stomach. Indigestion. Bloating. Nervous Prostration. Headache. General Debility; also, Dizziness. Faintness. Extreme Lassitude. "Don't care and want to be belaleone" feeling. Irritability. Nervousness. Sleeplessness. Flatulency. Melanchoia or the "Blues." These are sure indications of female weakness or some organic derangement. For Kidney Complaints of either sex Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a most excellent remedy. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for advice. She is the Mrs. Pinkham who has been advising sick women free of charge for more than twenty years, and before that she assisted her mother in law Lydia E. Pinkham in advising. Thus she is well qualified to guide sick women back to health. Her advice is free and always helpful. Don't Suffer all night long from toothache neuralgia or rheumatism Sloan's Liniment kills the pain - quiets the nerves and induces sleep At all dealers, Price 25c 50c & $1.00 Dr Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass.U.S.A. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. What we are stretches past what we do, beyond what we possess.—Drummond. Garfield Tea insures a normal action of the liver, overcomes constipation, and keeps the blood pure. Drink before retiring. Prickly thistles have their uses without doubt, but that doesn't justify you in becoming one. ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE" That LAXATIVE BIOMO QUININE. Similarly named restores sometimes decree. The first original Gold Tablet is a WHITE PACKAGE with black and red lettering, and bears the signature of E.W. BROVE. 200. Jacques Lebaudy, the self-styled emperor of Sahara, is said to be quietly making a tour of the United States. He was in Boston some time ago. By following the directions, which are plainly printed on each package of Defiance Starch, Men's Collars and Cuffs can be made just as stiff as desired, with either gloss or domestic finish. Try it, 16 oz. for 10c, sold by all good grocers. Lord Iveagh has one of the most curious hobbies in the world. 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Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The Kind You Have Always Bougat Insect Drunkards. Insects have their own public houses, and get intoxicated just like human beings, was the charge made by Prof. Bottomley in a lecture at the University of London, South Kensington. The leading public house in the insect world, according to Prof. Bottomley, is the wild arum. It looks like a large illy, and its big, dark shaft extending upward is the sign that attracts the insects. They climb down into the nectar pit beneath the flower's bags of pollen, and there the orgy commences. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Is acknowledged to be the most successful remedy in the country for those painful ailments peculiar to women. For more than 30 years it has been curing Female Complaints, such as Inflammation, and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and consequent Spinal Weakness, Backache, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. Records show that it has cured How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any carrier that cannot be cured by Hailo Caterpillar Cat A Mortifying Answer Richard, aged seven years, in company with his parents, was visiting a friend. At the dinner table he was asked to have some cake. He hesitated. "Say, quickly, Richard! Will you have some cake?" said his mother. MUSCULAR AILMENTS The Old-Monk-Cure will straighten out a contracted muscle in a jiffy. ST. JACOBS OIL Don't play possum with pain, but 'tends strictly to business. Price 25c and 50c CATARRH ELY'S CREAM BALM CURES COLD HEAD ROLL COLD HAYFEVER BREATHING MORE THAN ELY BROS. PEE M PEE HAY FEVER A Positive CURE Ely's Cream Balm is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at Cures. It cleanses, soothes heals and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Pigstis or by mail. LYDIA E. PINKHAM WM. T. WASHINGTON, Editor and Owner, Office, 914 E. Twelfth St. HORACE W. BOLDEN Society Editor. ADVERTISING RATES For one inch, one insertion . . . $ .50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . $ .25 For two inches, three months . . . $ .50 For two inches, six months . . . $ .80 For two inches, eight months . . . $ .12 For two inches, twelve months . . . $ .150 Oldest Negro Journal in Kansas City TWICE ALL THE REST The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Colored weekly newspapers. WILL IT BE A JIM CROW LAW. MONDAY might the negroes of the city had a mass meeting for the purpose of opposing the Jim Crow car law, which certain legislatures are trying to have enacted. Strong speeches were made against it by J. Silas Harris, Rev. S. Bacote, Dr. Dibble, Prof. Nelson C. Crews and others. Mr. Crews as he always is equal to the occasion advised caution in our procedure. His talk from among the rest was deemed the most plausible course to pursue, however, many of the others had very sensible suggestions to offer. Mr. Washington reading a letter from a member of the legislature who had promised him to fight the proposed measure. All in all it was a very sincere meeting. A committee being formed which at a moment's notice is to act in behalf of the Negro. SOME OF THE MOST NOTED NE GROES WHO APPEARED BE FORE THE LEGISLATURE. Never in the history of the real perils that have confronted the negro race has there appeared on the scene so many distinguished Negroes. Among them were George Vashon, a noted democrat of St. Louis; Rev. Stevens Turner, A. W. Lloyd, also stevens and Dr. Cook of St. Louis, Charlie A. Turner, A. W. Lloyd, also from St. Louis, B. B. Tully, Hidden, Mo. Hirbert Beach, Chillicothe, Mo., Rev. A. Gilbert, and L. R. Woolrich, Lexington, Tom Bass, Joplin, Dr. J. C. Caston, Prof. B. F. Allen, Prof. Daniel J. C Caldwell, Dr. Crossland, St. Joe, Dr. Garnett, Macon, Mo.; Rev. S. W. Parr, Rev. Stewart, St. Louis, Dr. Smith, of A. M. E. church also of Jefferson City. Bishop Grant, Nelson Crews, Rev. Peck, Dr. Shannon, Dr. T. C. Unthauk, W. C. Hueston, Leon Jordon, Edward Thompson, Prof. G. N. Grisham, J. Silas Harris and Wm. T. Washington, also Mr. W, Spencer. ( BY HOMER BASSFORD.) Missouri, a Democratic State; Missouri, a Southern State by tradition; Missouri, a State which lies for the most part south of the imaginary Mason and Dixon Line, is the one State in the Union that goes heavily into the work of industrial education for negro boys and girls. The entire country knows a good deal in a general way about Booker Washington's enterprise at Tuskegee, but most people in Missouri do not know anything, even in a general way, about the big Lincoln Institute here in Jefferson City. It has 530 negro pupils this year, as against 400 last year, and the State last year spent about $75,000 in support of the enterprise. Against this sum, Alabama gives a pittance to the Taskegee school and in none of the Northern States, in which the negro question is discussed academically, is there any approach to the practical example offered by the State of Missouri at Lincoln Institute, here in Jefferson City. STATE CONTROLS SCHOOL The school is as much of a State institute as the University at Columbia in the sense that it receives State support; is owned by the State; is managed by appointees of the Governor, and is subject to all the regulations that hedge about other institutions that rest in the Commonwealth's control. Lincoln Institute teaches everything. The negro students, of every age, from 9 to 20 years, and even somewhat older, have opportunity to learn languages, farming cooking; washing and ironing; all of the common branches, manual trades for the boys, including woopwork and blacksmithing in well-equipped shops. DISCIPLINE EVERYWHERE. You will find a good deal to interest you in all departments of this M. D. R. "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea."— Frederick Dot class very unusual school, but nothing is more impressive than the discipline that is everywhere an evidence of the capacity of the negro president of the school Professor Benjamin Franklin Allen, who is a doctor of laws. Professor Allen appears to have the confidence and complete respect not only of the pupils, but of the large teaching body that is under his direction. When it is understood that Allen has responsibility for everything from the condition of the institute's farm to a course in Greek, from the blacksmith shop to the department where girls are taught to sew, wash clothes, build picture hots and make plies, it will be seen that his is a wide range of endeavor. "That hat-making department, better known as the department of millinery," said Professor Allen, "is one of rather unusual interest. When the girls came here at first, they sent home for hats. Now they make their own hats, and send others back to the folks who are paying their board for them here." "What does this board cost?" I asked the president. "About $7 a month, including board and lodging," the professor said "and you will see, by walking through the kitchen and dining room, that everything is spiked and spun." Professor Allen is not troubled by a race question. Nor are the directors appointed by the Governor so troubled, with the c condition that they might see blacks everywhere Tuskegee Institute, Ala., February 1, 1997. It is now nearly twelve years since Frederick Doughlass, to whom the Negro people owe more "The Republican Party is th Frederick Douglass bun to any other mea of our race, for the part he took in securing our freedom, died in Washington. His home at Anacostia, in the subrubs of Washington, still remains, however, and an effort is now being made to preserve this house with its memories and traditions and make it a permanent memorial to Douglass and the Negro people. An association, known as the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, has been formed to effect this purpose. The people of our race have a rare opportunity to honor the memory of Frederick Douglass and to show their reverence and love for the man, who during the trying times before and after the war, embodied in his own life, more than any other man of our race, the aspirations and the cause of the Negro people. I have been asked by the officers of the Memorial Association to assist in securing the comparatively small sum of money amounting to some $5,400 and interest necessary to clear off the mortgage on the property and so secure the property for all time to the Association and the Negro people of the United States. We should make Cedar Hill to the Negro people what Mount Vernon is to the white race. All of this can be accomplished if every member of the race would contribute, at once, a small sum of money and send it to me by Post Office order, check, or otherwise, as soon as this communication is read. I am making this appeal by the authority of the officers of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, and with the approval and sympathy of Mr. Douglass' immediate family. Now is the time, when Mr. Douglass' birthday is being celebrated and talked of in all parts of the country, for the race to show its love for, Douglass not only in words, but in deeds. I shall hore to receive, within the next few days this money, which can be sent in sums of twenty-five cents up. Each contributor will receive a receipt for whatever he sends. After the money has been secured to clear off the mortgage. I am sure steps will be taken to but the place in condition to serve the purpose mentioned. The following letters, written to me by the officers of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, will make the situation clear: Washington, D. C., December 17, 1906. Dear Mr. Washington: There is an encumbrance of fifty-four hundred dollars ($5400), bearing 6 per cent. interest, payable semi-annually against the Douglass property. This property consists of about fourteen acres in the heart of Anacostia, on a hill giving a beautiful view of the Potomac River and city for several miles. It is the opinion of experts that when the Government completes the new bridge and the reclamation of the flats, this property will be worth at least $5,000 an acre. Its actual worth is now $1,500 and acre. It is exempt from taxes by the act of Congress incorporating the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. The Association needs at least the $5,400 to lift the mortgage. In the course of time about nine acres of the property could be cut up into building lots and sold, and with the proceeds of such sale Cedar Hill could be endowed with ample funds to meet the wants of the Douglas Memorial Association in perpetuity. (Signed) Archibald H. Grimke, President. Whitfield McKinley, Secretary. Francis J. Grimke, Treasurer. The following pledges have already been received: the Ship, all else the Sea."~ Prof. L. B. Moore..... 5.00 Howard University, Washington, D. C. Dr. F. J. Shadd..... 5.00 For Rent 3 You will have to hurry clean, 3-room apartments, just Street. Terms $9. and $12 p. F. J. WEAVEN REAL ESTATE Office, 911 Oak. WHY Own Your It costs only a little more each payments than it For Rent 3 Rooms $3. & $12.00 You will have to hurry if you want one of those swell, clean, 3-room apartments, just completed at 416-18 East Sixth Street. Terms $9, and $12 per month. WHY NOT Own Your Own Home? It costs only a little more each mon h to buy a home on easy payments than it costs to rent one. You can buy lots in COLUMBUS ADDITION, on Humbolt Avenue, just north of Rosedale, for How much, more i than you now pay as Five Dollars down and Five Dollars a month is all we ask for-$100. and $150. lots; Ten Dollars down and Ten a month for the $200. and $250 lots. COLUMBUS ADDITION IS HIGH, DRY and SIGHTLY And Near the Southwest Boulevard Car Lines. Go out and look at it. There is an agent on the ground every Sunday. For particulars see G. F. WINTER. 207-8 Shukert Building. 1115 Grand Avenue. 207-8 Shukert Building. Kansas City, Mo. 1115 Grand Avenue. Home Phone 4614 Main Anacostia, D. C. 901 B St., N. W., Washington, D. C. A. S. Gray ..... 5.00 1833 Vt. Ave., N. W. Washington,D.C. Dr. P. B. Brooks (paid) ..... 5.00 306 3d St., N. W. Washington, D.C. Dr. P. B. Brooks (for daughter) (paid) ..... 5.00 306 3d St., N. W. Washington, D.C. Judge R. H. Terrell ..... 5.00 326 T St., N. W. Washington on, D.C. Whitfield Mc Kinley ..... 10.00 936 F St., N. W. Washington, D.C. Albertus Brown ..... 5.00 1725 10th St., N. W. James W. Johnson..... 25.00 U. S. Consul to Venezuela. James W. Johnson ..... 25.00 U. S. Consult to Venezuela James W. Johnson...... For Robert Cole, New York C James W. Johnson...... For Rosamond Cole, New York James W. Johnson...... For Philip A. Payton, Jr., New City. J. A. Lankford ..... 20.00 For Washington Negro Business League, Washington, D. C. J. A. Lankford..... 10.00 1210 V St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Fred McCracken..... 5.00 1523 N St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Rev. F. J. Grimke..... 5.00 1413 Corcoran St., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell..... 5.00 226 T St., Washington$ z 226 T St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Miss Angelina Grimke..... 5.00 By Archibald Grimke, Washington, D. C. Julius R. Cox..... 10.00 Tuskegee, Ala. Bernard Walton..... 5.00 322 Spruce St., N. W., Washington, D. C. R. L. Pendleton..... 5.00 1826 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. R. L. Pendleton..... 5.00 1826 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. D. C. Rev. J. A. Mooreland..... 5.00 1923 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. D. C. William L. Pollard..... 5.00 609 F St., N. W., Washington, D. C. J. L. Golnes..... 5.00 1830 14t hSt., Washington, D. C. Mrs. A. S. Gray..... 5.00 By Arthur S. Gray, Washington, D. C. W. J. Singleton..... 5.00 2102 Ward Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. J. A. Cobb. 5.00 609 F St., N. W., Washington, D. C. I hope that much additional money will be sent at once. All money will be acknowledged with proper receipt. The heads of churches, Sunday schools, literary societies, and other organizations are urged to raise and forward collections for the above purpose. I shall be glad to furnish such additional information as may be desired. (Signed) BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. How much more is this than you now pay as rent? Rent goes on forever; these payments would last only two and a half years at most. You would then own your home. FRANCK & WOLF HAT CC., 917 Walnut St., 2nd Floor MANUFACTURERS We make all kinds of New Hats and Repair old ones so they are as good as new. Genuine Trade Mark. Expert Service SHAVE 100. TONSORIAL ARTISTS HAIR OUT 250 J. B. Lester. S. L. Clemons. Duke Mayes. J. B. LESTER'S SHAVING PARLOR Hot and Cold Baths. 857 Grand Ave. Kansas City. 4 New Porcelain Tubs. Cigars, Tobacco and Pool. Massage and Hair Dyeing a Specialty. G. C. MOORE, DEALER IN Cash Groceries and Meats, Flour, Provisions, Etc. Goods delivered free to any part of the city Bell Phone 1265 x 1605 n. 10th street, Kansas City, Kan. All calls given prompt attention. Reference: Mo. Sav. Bank We are Bonded by the Metropolitan Surety Co. We make a Specialty of Securing Reliable Colored Help for all kinds of positions and odd jobs. Home Phone 6236 Main F. J. WE Bell Phone 3662x Main A. RIVER Call and have your name listed for a job HOMES FURNISHE HOMES URNISHE HOMES FURNISHED For Cash or on easy payments Western Furniture & Stove Co. Home Phone 3218 Main. 1322 Grand Western Furniture @ Stove Co. Time Phone 3218 Main. 1322 Grand A Western Furniture @ Stove Co. Home or Bell Phones 233 West. EMPLOYMENT COLORED HELP A MALE AND I OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. MRS. EMMA 1014 North 5th St., EMPLOYMENT OFFICE COLORED HELP A SPECIALIST FOR MALE AND FEMALE E HOURS: m , 1 to 5 p. m. RS. EMMA STOVA 43rd 5th St.. Kansas City COLORED HELP A SPECIALTY MALE AND FEMALE OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 12 a. m. 1 to 5 p. m. MRS. EMMA STOVALL 1014 North 5th St., Kansas City, Kansas. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT --- --- ES SHED rniture Co. 1322 Grand Ave. T OFFICE SPECIALTY EMALE STOVALL Kansas City, Kansas. FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Prompt Service. NEWS & GASSIP WILSON DAWSON, Business Mgr. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and I were that enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. All kinds of hot and cold drinks at McCampbell and Houston. Get busy! The African, American employment agency will help you. Eliza Jessee will rent you a room at 1118 Campbell, rear. Give her a trial. It seems to be the intention of certain negroes to hide everything that goes. Let some one read in the Rising Son what you are doing in business or society. If you are out of work call on the Afro-American Employment agency, 1005 McGee St. The negro undertakers are doing the bulk of the negroe's burying and the Son is glad of it. Any one desiring to buy a fine square piano for $40 please call M, at the office of the Rising Son. Mr. Horace Bolden a representative of the Rising Son has just returned from a trip to Boonville, Mo. If you want a room in town, with the companionship of good men, call at the Bachelors' Apartment, 1005 07 McGee. Mrs. Morris of 1021 Virginia, wife of Charles Moriss died last week. She is bemoaned by her many friends. Uneeda Domestic Hand Laundry Co., has opened up a splendid place at 2112-2114 E. 18th St. M. C. Jones is the manager. The Rising Son was the only negro newspaper who had a representative at Jefferson City to fight the Jim Crow Car Bill. Mrs. J. S. Yates of Lincoln Inst. Jefferson City, teacher in the English department is just recovering from serious illness. If you want a good position call at the office of the African American employment agency and have your name put on the list for a job. I have some vacant lots that I will exchange for rooming houses, furniture in storage or equity in cottages. The so-called rape proposition of Flora Clark the white girl in the south end of town and her incapability to recognize the supposed negro, shows conclusively the falsity of such crimes. Persons desiring a full course in milliner work will see Mme. Benton Dean, 1627 Park. She is prepared to fill orders for Easter work. Persons desiring a new hat, she will be pleased to get your order. Mrs. Annie Moreland, wife of John T. Moreland, died last Tuesday after a short illness. It was a rather sudden departure. She was 30 years of age and was born in Mexico, Mo. She will be mourned by her many friends. WANTED.—Educated colored man to travel and distribute samples and circulars of our goods among their own people. Salary $80 per month and expenses. Saunders Co., Desk 10, Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. Prof. and Mrs. Moten of Jefferson City threw open their doors to the delegation from this city. Such persons should be highly commended for their race pride and patriotic efforts. The Son hopes that the patrons of this paper will feel that its columns are open, but it also wishes to state that people not subscribing for this paper should at least order the paper when they send in their news. Prof. B. F. Allen, President of Lincoln Institute threw open the doors of the entire school to our investigation. Speeches were made in the chapel by Messers. Crews, Stevens, Cook, T. C. Unthank, W. C. Hueston, H. G. Phillips and Rev. Peck and Bishop Grant all representing various professions. Dr. E. B. Ramsey has moved his office from 19th and Grand to the Northeast corner of 19th and Vine, over Crawbody drug store. Come around and give him a call. Hotel Waiters' Journal Edition. Miss Nellie Love was married to Mr. Lester Davis of Quincy, Ill. Miss Love comes from one of the best families in the city. Mr. Davis has married one of Kansas City's known belles and may consider himself proud. They are thinking of locating in Chicago. F. J. Weaver is one of the Negroes in this community whom the people should give their united support. Mr. Weaver is one of the Negroes who is doing something. He is making unusual progress in various lines. He is now engaged in the Afro-American Employment Agency. After Mr. Weaver had so earnestly pleaded for the Kansas City Wrecking Co.; to employ colored help. They called for 20 colored men and the packing company ask for 15 men. He went through the streets looking all over for men and the best he could do was to get 5 men. Do the Negroes want work? Madame De Vaul Vincent has moved from her home on Michigan to her elegant place, 1004 Charlotte. She has a large place for her sewing class and a much more spacious compartment. The people will do well in recognizing her splendid record and they should patronize her establis The Sumner High School of Kansas City, Kansas, was formally opened yesterday afternoon. The building cost $40,000. The occasion was quite a success. There are now 101 students in attendance. Able addresses were delivered by Bishop Abram Grant, the Rev. J. D. Barksrale, I. F. Bradley, and M. E. Pearson. Please pay the collector, Mr. Horace Bolden or Mr. Edward Baker, your year's subscription. Don't have the manager to appear in person or have him to send a collection agent after you. We must have money in order to run this paper. It can not be run with a whole lot of news sent in without money. Now let every one rally! The Banks Milwaukee Colored Giants base ball team issues a formal challenge to the Jenkins Son or any other colored team of Kansas City through the newspaper known as the Rising Son of Kansas City. S. R. BANKS, Pres. and Mgr. JOE, WRIGHT, Vice Pres. LOUIS CHASE, Sec'y. THAD TURNER, Captain. Address 194 Fourth Street. Let us fill it. Have you a prescription to fill? If so, why should you not choose your druggist as well as your physician. Your recovery depends as much on the proper compounding of your prescriptions as on the proper diagnosis and treatment of your case by your physician. If your druggist is wrong it is worth little to you to have your trade. We guarantee you purity, accuracy and skill. McCampbell & Houston. GEORGE JONES While a pleasant stroll is on your mind, Please try and make it in time, To No. 900 East Tenth St. And there you will find, a pleasant smoke of any kind; For George Jones has a fine line, Of cigars and tobacco, that will please your mind And Miss Vallie Bowman will find time To show you the whole line. It may seem strange that the white press of the country with its men of letters, linguists and scholars, continue to treat the word Negro as a common noun, when it is well known that the word, regardless of its derivation, is intended to denote a particular race. The pity of it is that there are some Negro journals which persist in treating the word as a common noun. We have no aversion to the word, but when it is used out of respect for English, it should be written with a big "N". Mr. and Mrs. Pete Finney of 721 Forest, entertained in honor of her 25th anniversary. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Miller, Mrs. Clara Rogers, Miss Mamie Blue, Miss Gertrude Shipley, Mrs. Fannie Green, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Lovington, Mrs. Dora Walker, Mrs. Willie Thompson, Mrs. Mollie Fowler, Mr. John Armstrong, Mr. Monroe D. Morris, Mr. Wm. Hart, Mr. Henry Avery, Mr. Walter French. Mrs. Finney received many beautiful presents. Those coming late were Mary Trust, Adele Miller, Mrs. Bertha Perry. All expressed themselves as highly pleased. Hon. Geo. Vashon, a prominent Negro democrat, whose speech before the railroad committee was very impressive. Leon H. Jordan, a prominent Negro democrat of Kansas City, Ex-Capt. of the regular army, and who because of his ability as a fighter, appeared before the committee with a strong plea to the party with which he affiliates. Prof. B. B. Tully home town. Bishop Abram Grant albert Beach, of Chillicothe, who will succeed Prof. Joe. Herriford in his home town. Bishop Abram Grant always the most conspicuous character in any gathering. Rev. J. C. Caldwell of St. Joseph, who also made a masterful speech before the commit- Lewis Hoffman, Wine @ Liquor Merchant. The Genuine CEDAR BROOK W. H. McBrayer Bottled in Bond. ECONOMY RYE the best Pennsylvania Rye made Bottled in Bond. JAS. E. PEPPER WHISKEY Bottled in Bond. 1111 BROADWAY. Kansas City's Largest and Lowest Price Grocery tee; his wonderful eloquence will easily push him into the rank of bishop. J. Sillas Harris, principal of Sumner High school and one of the shrewdest Negroes of the state. L. W. Parr, pastor of a large church in St. Louis, a man of means. W. C. Hueston, an attorney in Kansas City. Prof. G. N. Grisham, whose concise logic could not be excelled by any member of the Anglo-Saxon race. Prof. B. F. Allen, a strong prodigy of our race, Pres. Lincoln Inst. T. C. Unthank, M. D., a well known physician of our city. Dr. J. F. Shannon, another physician of Kansas City. Wm. T. Washington, A. B., editor of the Rising Son. Nelson C. Crews who always comes in at the right time, and who has no equal this side of the Mississippi river. His speech before the Legislature invoked the highest praise. Edward Thompson another attorney of Kansas City, and an unassuming fellow. These are only a part of all the men who took part in a serious work for their race. I Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business NO MATTER WHERE LOGATED. Properties and Business or all kinds sold quickly for cash in all parts of the United States. Don't wait. Write today describing what you have to sell and give cash price on same. If You Want to Buy any kind of Business or Real Estate any- where, at any price, write me your require- ments. I can save you time and money. DAVID P. TAFF THE LAND MAN 415 Kansas Avenue. TOPEKA, KANSAS. Lewis H Wine & Merc The Genuine BROOK W er Bottled in OMY RYE t sylvania Rye in Bond. JAS WHISKEY B 1111 BRO Kansas City M. QUI Both Phone Kansas City's Largest a Why Should Grocer We know of no better reason than that you get the very best good at lower prices than at any other store in Kansas City. Here is a sample of how we are selling good, pure Groceries: 3 bars Buttermilk Soap ..... 5c 8 cans Scrubbing Lye ..... 25c 8 pkgs Pearline ..... 25c 4lb pkgs Sea Foam Washing Powder ..... 13c 4lb pkgs Grandmo's Borax Powder ..... 13c 1,000 boxes Water Queen Soap, regular retail price 6 bars 25c; our price, 9 bars ..... 25c 12 boxes Matches ..... 4c Scotch Oats, pkg ..... 7c Egg-O-See, pkg ..... 7c Fresh Baked Crackers, lb ..... 5c Fresh Baked Ginger Snaps, lb .. 5c Party service a specialty. Barber shop EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. WAITERS' CATERING ASSOCIATION 1223 BALTIMORE AVE. Bell 'Phone 4137x Grand. Kansas C Home DR. E. C. BU Office Hours 8 To 12m. 1 To 5 P. M. 35c Large Navel Oranges, doz...23c 15c Fancy Bananas, dozen...10c 35c Fancy Dairy Butter, lb...25c 15c Butterine, lb...10c Fancy Rural Colorado Potatoes, bushel...73c Fancy Cranberries, 2 quarts...15c Pure Sugar Corn, 5c; dozen... 58c E. J. Peas, 5c; dozen... 58c Fine E. J. Peas, 8c; dozen... 95c Large size solid packed Tomatoes, 10c; dozen... $1.18 Large size Pumpkin, 7c; dozen... 75c Large size Apple, 7c; dozen... 75c Pink Salmon, 9c; dozen... $1.09 Red Salmon, 12c; dozen... $1.40 Q. Q. Q. best hard wheat Flour, cw! $2 20 Q. Q. Q. best soft wheat Flour. cwt.....$2.50 5lb carton Q. Q. Q. Coffee.....$1.00 20c Special Blend Coffee, lb.....15c 50c Tea any kind, lb.....29c Q. Q. Q. Pure Rye Whisky, qt.....75c Purity Pure Rye Whisky, bottle 50c Best California Wine, bot, 30c gallon.....$1.00 op and bath. Furnished Rooms to Gentlemen only. Joe Ottey, Mgr. Mr. Clem James and John Huston are predared to give the best service city, Mo. in the Tonsorial Department. Phone 1655 Main. UNCH, Dentist. Moved to his new location, 716 E. 12th. KANSAS CITY, MO. Mitchells "THE STORE OF THE PEOPLE" able Go Reliable Goods At Low Prices. line of Clothing, Shoe Notions, Hardware and Grow Cheerfully Refunded purchase not Satisfactor MAIN STREET Guernsey & Murray roce Co. OTH PHONES Main Store, 1121 Main St. Le Park Store, BLTIMO SHIRT CO Complete line of Clothing, Shoes, Dry Goods, Notions, Hardware and Groceries. "Money Cheerfully Refunded on Any Purchase not Satisfactory." 1009-11 MAIN STREET Guernsey & Murray Grocer Co. Main Store, 1121 Main St. Hyde Park Store, 3947-49 Main St. BALTIMORE SHIRT CO. 3 STORES 803 Walnut 12th a Best Places in Prices Right 12th and Baltimore 9th a ses in Kansas City TRY US. Right and Good Tr 78 Main Bell L. PRAT L. ESTATE RE and INSURANC houses For S asy Terms, Like 127 West 8th Street S CITY, M 803 Walnut 12th and Baltimore 9th and Wyandotte Best Places in Kansas City to Trade. Home 'Phone 5478 Main REAL ESTATE RENTAL And INSURANCE. On Easy Terms, Like Rent. 127 West 8th Street KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. $1,700 in frame house, near highland. East front. newer to closet: gr All street improve easy terms. WHIPPLE R. 23 W. 10th Street. 5-room frame house. near 25th and Highland. East front, water. gas. sewer to closet; granitoid steps. All street improvements in. Easy terms. B. T. WHIPPLE R. E. CO. 23 W. 10th Street. ... Sells ... Bell 'Phone 3136 Main FEUD IS RESULT OF A REFUSAL TO KISS BABY Whole Section in Trouble Because of Unappreciative Man with Grouch. COMMUNITY TAKES SIDES Bill Dunham Open in His Declaration That Ollie Kebler Shall Yet Beg for Privilege He Scornfully Refused— Kebler Had Loved Pretty Little One's Mother, and There is the Root of the Whole Trouble—Fight So Far Has Been Interesting, with Further Developments Expected. Cynthiana. O—Four hundred and sixty-three persons have kissed little Miss Margaret Dunham, aged four months and three days. The tally includes Dave Downing, who travels for McKeehan. Heistand & Company's grocery, and the five candidates for office in Pike county, Ohio, who visited during the recent campaign, which are about all the visitors the little hamlet, set down in the beautiful Brush creek hills, has had recently, or at least as recently as the coming of Miss Dunham into the world that has welcomed her with kisses. But despite the fact that she has been kissed by more persons than any girl in Pike county (and most of them are kissable), the fact that Ollie Kibler has not kissed her has started trouble, divided the town into two factions and almost caused a feud between the Dunhams and the Kibler family. Everybody in Cynthiana, over the age of five months excepting Kibler, has kissed Miss Dunham; Kibler alone has refused to fall in love with her. How Kibler can refuse to kiss her no one else in town can understand, for she is the prettiest, plumpest, sweetest baby ever born. That is what her mother says, and besides that 63 persons, including Dave Downing, who ought to be unprejudiced, being a bachelor, have said the same thing. She is so soft and satiny, and so pink and white, and her blue eyes open with such amazed and delighted stares, and her dimples evolve such unexpected and wonderful smiles, and her soft, little rosebud hands flutter so confidingly into even the horny hands of the loggers, that any person, it seems, who has any human blood in his veins wants to grab her right into his arms and just squeeze her and kiss her—and then look ashamed and say "I always liked bales," and sneak away and wish he had one just like it. Where Ollie Kibler Lost Out. That is the way little Miss Dunham has affected everybody—except Ollie Kibler. He has not kissed her and will not kiss her. Therefore, there is trouble. It appears, from the facts that are acceptable, that Miss Margaret Shannon, who was better known as Madge, was the belle of the entire district around Cynthiana by the time she was 18 years old. Not only that, but the young men from Bainbridge drove down to call on her, and once it was rumored that she was engaged to a wealthy young man up at Waverly, the county seat. Everybody knew that Fred Cravens, from Sinking Springs, was wildly in love with her. Almost all the town boys were and especially Ollie Kibler, who owns a big farm over Cameron's mountain, besides his house in Cynthiana. Then Bill Dunham, big, hearty, good natured, and with a laugh that could be heard over half the town fell a victim to the prettiness of Margaret Shannon—and that settled it. They were married and Ollie Kibler became a sort of woman hater. People with college educations would have called him misanthrope, but Cynthiana simply referred to it as grouch, except Uncle Billy Newell, who said Ollie was peevish. At any rate, Ollie ceased to be the Beau Brummel of Cynthiana and settled down to business and was as hard as flint, and, as Uncle Billy Newell vowed, "as close as his paw was, and 14 shoemakers couldn't have got a bristle between his fingers and a dollar." Story About the Baby. All those things happened years ago, possibly ten. Bill Dunham got along pretty well in the lumber business, running a sawnmill over Newell Mills way, and hauling to Bainbridge, and his wife was just as pretty as when she was a girl, although in a different sort of way. They were happy, but until a few months ago their happiness was incomplete. Bill Dunham's friends said he hadn't an enemy on earth. He was one of the most popular men in Pike county and a lot of the Republicans up at Cynthiana wanted Bill to run for county supervisor and try to wrest the control of old Pike county from the Democrats, but Bill said he didn't care for politics and refused to run, although he let them make him an alternate to the state convention, which was quite an honor. He took his wife with him to Columbus and they visited the penitentiary and the blind asylum and—but that is another story. This story is about the baby. When the baby arrived everybody said it would be a pretty baby, for its father was big and handsome and its mother so pretty. Grandma Shannon said it took after the Shannons CYNTHIANA- DUNHAM and Grandpa Dunham vowed It favored the Dunhams, but almost everybody said it resembled both. Its eyes were blue like its father's and the upper part of its face was his—one could see that by putting a hand over the mouth. But its nose and mouth were just like its mother's, only pretier, she said, although, of course, Bill denied that. Anyhow, it was the prettiest baby that ever came to Cynthiana. Everybody conceded that, but no one suspected that it was going to cause so much trouble. The First Great Event. When it—or she rather (her mother gets mad when anybody calls her "it")—was just one month old they took her to the Campbellite church and christened her Margaret, after her mother and her mother's Aunt Mag, who sent the little turquoise ring and the knit jacket for the baby. By that time almost everybody in town had kissed Margaret (her mother won't let her be called Mag or Madge), and on the day of the christening almost everybody else kissed her. They don't have these new fangled ideas about it being unhealthy to kiss babies down in Cynthiana, and when Dave Downing kissed Margaret and said he was going to stay single and marry her when she grew up Mrs. Dunham was just as proud as any one could be. The real trouble didn't start until Margaret was over two months old. Her mamma had her out riding in her CYNTHIANA- DUNHAM new go-cart (the one with the front that lets down, and the blue silk parasol, with a robe to match, all covered with blue ribbon) when, right in front of Wickersham's store, they met Ollie Kibler. He was standing there talking to Nate Giddings, from over at Paint. Kibler Refused Precious Boon. Nate never had seen the baby, so, of course, he spoke to it, and began playing with it, and when it cooed and laughed and wrinkled up its dimple little face he didn't do a thing but stoop down and kiss her. Nate is a family man himself and has three or four kids at home and likes them. But Ollie never moved. He just stood and looked disgusted and Nate and Mrs. Dunham talked baby and she asked how Mrs. Giddings was. Then Nate, not meaning to make any trouble, laughed and said, "Ollie, come and kiss the baby. Ye ain't afraid, are ye?" Ollie said something about not making a fool of himself over any slobbery brat and walked away. Nate said afterwards he was so mad he could have kicked Ollie, and Mrs. Dunham was so hurt she almost cried. She went straight home and at supper she told her husband and Bill was hot under the collar. Of course, he didn't care whether Ollie Kibler ever kissed his baby or not. In fact, he'd rather he wouldn't, but that didn't make it any better. Swore Kibler Should Be Sorry. And then and there Bill swore that Ollie would kiss the baby or be sorry for it. He went right up to the store and told Ollie what he thought of him before all the men and repeated his vow that Ollie would be begging for a chance to kiss the baby before he got through with him. Ollie was just as mad as Bill was and swore he wouldn't kiss anybody's squawking, collicky brat. The idea of saying that when Margaret never had colic but once and that was when Lizzle Munt gave her a lump of sugar. Bill and Ollie came near fighting and would have fought if Mr. Wickersham hadn't told them to dry up or else go out in the street and fight it out. The trouble grew serious at once. Half the people in town declared that Ollie ought to be tarred and feathered. A few said that the Dunhams oughtn't to be so touchy. The rest just kept quiet. A few days later Bill came out as a candidate for township trustee on the Republican ticket, just to beat Ollie, who was a Democrat. He only had three weeks to campaign in, but he swept the township and it went Republican for the first time in years. Made No Boast Money. Bill didn't boast much. He simply repeated his assertion that Ollie would beg to kiss the baby before he got through with him. Then he went up to Bainbridge on business and caught the train for Waverly, and what did he do but buy a tax claim on a piece of land that belonged to Kibler. Ollie had neglected to pay the taxes and it was advertised among the delinquents, so Bill bought it, just to splite Ollie and make him spend money. People began to say that Bill Dunham could be just as bad an enemy as he was a good friend, but they didn't know him until he had two of Ollie's J. C. C. stray cows that were feeding along the roadside taken to the pound. When Ollie had to pay one dollar each fine he was so mad he threatened to lick Bill. That's the way the feud stands now. Bill still vows that Ollie must kiss his baby and ask his wife's permission to do it. But Ollie swears he'll law Bill out of Pike county before he'll do it. As for little Miss Dunham, she is growing pretier each day and from present signs about the time she gets to be 17 Ollie or any other human being will beg for the chance. Cheer Up! Here is some good advice from the Ottawa News; "Cheer up! "What right have you to carry a funeral in your face? The world has troubles of its own. "Cheer up and change your point of view. Your ills are mostly imaginary. Why, man alive! In five minutes' walk you can find scores of people worse off than you. And here you are going through the world feeling sorry for yourself—the meanest sort of pity in the world. You are nursing an ingrown illusion. Rid yourself of the bogie man and— "Cheer up!"—Los Angeles Times. Long and Short of It. Junior Partner—Did you see that short man who was inquiring for you? Senior Partner—No. What kind of a looking chap was he? Junior Partner—Oh, he was rather tall, and— Senior Partner—But you just said he was short. Junior Partner—Well. I guess he was. At least, he wanted me to stake him to a dollar until he could see you.—Chicago Daily News. Charles Edward's Engagements This is not a love story, yet if Miss Nancy Scott had been willing to accept Mr. Charles Edward Austin it would never have happened. "It seems to me ridiculous," he said, addressing the other members of the house party, when all were assembled for tea, "that Nancy will not marry me." "I don't see why I should," protested that young woman, too busy with tea to be anything but concise. "I love my profession and I wouldn't give up acting for any man I've yet seen." "But if you married me you wouldn't need to give it up. That is, not altogether; you could always go back to it for a flyer now and then; that's easy enough." "Oh, you are, are you?" he growled, "and who the 'ell are you?" "I, said the young man, 'am Capt. Jackson." Trevelyan, who is a connoisseur in such matters, admits the genuine dramatic quality of the moment. It fetched him well out of his corner. The wife beater paused, dazed, muttering "Gorblimny" under his breath. The woman seemed to grow pale, and spoke hurriedly: "That ain't him, Ed, that ain't Capt. Jackson." She put her hand on her husband's arm. "I dunno' who he is. Come away, dearie." In spite of his wife's entreaties he got his coat off. "Don't attempt anything foolish," said Charles Edward, looking rather "Pardon me—" began a young gentleman in gray flannels. Then for at least a half hour he and Miss Scott, growing more excited as they talked, explained to Charles Edward how laborious and exacting was the career of acting. "Well," said Mr. Austin, finally, "I feel that you exaggerate. I believe that I, for instance, could go on the stage at once. And I believe that one could get an engagement in almost any company he liked if he knew how to ask for it." "You might try," said the young gentleman in gray. "I will." said Charles Edward. "By the strangest chance Henry Trevelyan is playing for this one night at Chatham. His company is fairly difficult to get into. You might take a train over after dinner and get an engagement in it." "I will," said Charles Edward. I will, said Charles Edward. He rose and took Miss Scott's cup from her. Then, having disposed of it, he sat down next her. "You'll never do it, you know," she said. "You know what I want," said Charles Edward lowering his voice. "You are absurd," she said. "Well, if you have an engagement in Henry Trevelyan's company by lunch tomorrow you can—you can propose again. Good heavens, no, I shall unquestionably refuse! But you seem to like doing it." To requests for personal interviews the great actor was not unaccustomed to turn a deaf ear; but when, a few minutes after the curtain had fallen, Mr. Austin's name was brought to his dressing room he was, as it chanced, in a genial mood. He sent a message that, while he could not see him at the theater, he would be glad to see him at the station before returning to London. At the station Mr. Austin presented himself. "You want an engagement in my company, I suppose," asked the great actor. "Yes. I was going to ask for that," said he, seating himself. But the fusiliade continued. The applicant leaned forward in his chair. "A lot as an amateur, and, although perhaps I'm not the one to say it, I thought—" "Oh!" said Trevelyan, with a chuckle, and then suddenly his manner became more formal. "At present there is no vacancy in my company. Anyway, I can't engage you, because I've no means of knowing you're a good actor." "And I've no means of proving it." "No. You see my point?" Now that his young companion did see the point, Trevelyan had the air of feeling that the conversation had been brought to a singularly neat and definite end. Then chance sent an interruption. The door from the platform opened and a man dressed in sailor's costume appeared carrying a bundle and accompanied by a woman. "You're in a bloomin' 'urry to get me onto my ship," said the sailor. "I ought to stay at home and keep an eye on you and your bloomin' lodger." "Oh, for the Lord's sake, Ed," the woman said, dreadfully, "you ain't ever goin' to begin that again!" "I ain't rightly touched on the matter at all," growled her husband. "I dunno what you call 'touched on it,'" she retorted, bitterly. "You give me a black eye." "Well, you've got another I might 'ave blacked, aln't you, same as I did the first?" The possible victim of this second assault was reduced to tears, through which she protested that the stories a certain Mrs. Mason had told Ed about his own wedded wife and a certain Capt. Jackson "was a pack o' dirty lies." The sailor lurched heavily towards her, and she suddenly gave a piercing scream, and even before he touched her she cried: "Oh, 'e's killing me!" The drunken man paused a moment. "Yes, I will," he said, "and who's a-going to stop me?" From the farther corner of the room Mr. Trevelyan's companion stepped briskly forward. "I am," he said. The sailor faced the newcomer. "What you like." "Can you act?" "I'm sure I can." "But have you acted?" "Oh, you are, are you?" he growled, "and who the 'ell are you?" "I, said the young man, "am Capt. Jackson." Trevelyan, who is a connoisseur in such matters, admits the genuine dramatic quality of the moment. It fetched him well out of his corner. The wife beater paused, dazed, muttering "Gorbilny" under his breath. The woman seemed to grow pale, and spoke hurriedly: "That ain't him, Ed, that ain't Capt. Jackson." She put her hand on her husband's arm. "I dunno' who he is. Come away, dearle." In spite of his wife's entreaties he got his coat off. "Don't attempt anything foolish," said Charles Edward, looking rather young and slight in comparison. "What are you going to do to stop me?" "I'm going to thrash you well first, and then call in the policeman from outside the station and give you in charge." The pacifying effect of this speech was astonishing. "Call in the police, will you?" remarked the sailor. Then turning to Trevelyan. "I ain't got nothing against you. If the coppers wants you as bad as they wants this here friend of yours the captain you'd better look out." As chance would have it, the station policeman almost at that moment came along the platform. In a moment the sailor had explained. Capt. Johnson was wanted, that was evident. "Look here," began the policeman. "Sorry you're impatient, constable," said Charles Edward, jauntily. "Let M. "I Know Nothing at All About Him." me explain the joke. I'm now going to do you a great honor. This," with a wave of the hand, "is Mr. Henry Trevelyan. You've heard of him. He is England's greatest comedy actor!" "Yes, I've heard of him," said the policeman. "But I ain't never seen him. I don't know who this gentleman is. Looks to me like another of your games." The great actor rose somewhat uneasily. "But I am Henry Trevelyan." "So you say. If you are what are you doing with Capt. Jackson? "Don't be impertinent," replied Charles Edward. "It matters that he can explain that I'm not Capt. Jackson; that I only pretended to be for a joke, to show that I can act." "What about this, Mr. Trevelyan, can you go guarantee that this ain't Capt. Jackson?" "No," rapped out Trevelyan, "I certainly cannot. I know nothing whatever about him." "Surely you can't possibly think—" "How can I know anything? You seemed as natural to me as Capt. Jackson as you were as Mr. Austin, and if you wanted to get out of the way to become a member of my company—the American tour would be—" "You thought me good, then, as Jackson?" The London train was called by a porter with raucous voice. Upon this Charles Edward made a speech compact of frankness, of the kind which so often astonished people. And I'm awfully disappointed not to get the engagement. If I'd got it I There was no time to lose if Trevelyan was to catch his train. "Of course," he said, and turned to go, when suddenly he stopped. 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Round About New York GIVES COSTLY GIFTS AT BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION NEW YORK.—With gold and diamond sleeve buttons and pearl necklaces as souvenirs for his men and women friends, Nathaniel F. Moore, son of one of the chief owners of the Rock Island railroad system, gave a dinner the other night that cost in the neighborhood of $20,000, and takes rank with repasts that have gained attention in the past. It was in celebration of his birthday that young Mr. Moore made his friends his guests. There were about 15 couples present when the dinner was begun after a visit of most of the party to a playhouse in Broadway. Some were on the stage and joined the others after the performance. For the most part the men were intimate friends of Mr. Moore. The young women, with few exceptions, are playing in theaters. The party was held in a private room THAW FORTUNE WHEN the Thaw trial is ended, and the smoke clears away from the field of battle, how will the Thaw fortune fare? What will the expense be? More than that of any other murder trial that has ever taken place in New York. Never before in the court annals of this city has such an expensive array of legal talent been gathered together in a criminal case. It is expensive not only on account of ability, but because of the disposition of the Thaw family to throw open the doors of their money vaults and "go to the limit" for the defence of the man on trial. The Thaw fortune, according to Pittsburg estimates, is about $40,000.000. All the tremendous strength of this fortune has been thrown into the battle to save Harry K. Thaw from the death chair. The array of lawyers, counsellors and what not, consisting of Messrs. Delmas, Hartridge, Peabody, O'Reilly, Gleason and others, will cost the Thaw estate before the trial is over at least $200,000. Apportion it as you may. THE RELATION OF HIGH FINANCE AND SOCIETY EDWARD HAPRIMAN did more than deprive Stuyvesant Fish of an income when he deposed that gentleman from the presidency of the Illinois Central railroad. He dealt a body blow at the social supremacy of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, from which she has been devoting all her talents to recover herself. What is said to have been the conclusive test of Mrs. Fish's standing in the smart set came the other night, when she gave a dinner. Sixty persons were present, but not an Astor, not a Vanderbilt, not a Goetel, not a Rhinelander, not a Schermerhorn, not a Wilson. All of these stand in the front rank of New York's smart set, but they were not among the guests. Edward H. Harriman himself is not socially aspiring. But he is intensely interested in having his daughters "break into" the "400." It was a simple enough matter. Stuyvesant Fish was president of the Illinois Central, in which Harriman was a director. Mrs. Fish was an undoubted leader in society. What more easy than to have Mrs. Fish take the Misses Harriman MISS PAULINE MORTON, the second daughter of Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance society and formerly secretary of the navy and vice president of the Santa Fe railroad, has become the bride of J. Hopkins Smith, Jr. The wedding took place at St. Thomas' church and was a notable incident both in social and diplomatic circles, for the guest list included many names of New York and Washington society. Out of the formal acquaintance made in the brilliance and crush of a White House reception grew the romance that resulted in the marriage of Miss Morton to J. Hopkins Smith, Jr., Harvard graduate and society man. Though it was only a fleeting glimpse that Smith got of Miss Morton, he was so attracted by her vivacity and GET UP MILITARY UPHORSE In Rector's, and lasted until nearly five o'clock the next morning.* Then automobiles took the diners to Churchill's, where coffee and liquors were served. In addition to a full orchestra, several vaudeville numbers were provided for the entertainment of the gathering, many of whom had attended a similar dinner last year when Mr. Moore celebrated his birthday and the acquisition of a fortune said to have been nearly $750,000 from his father, James H. Moore, formerly of Chicago. It was without ostentation that the favors were presented. Each guest found under his or her serviette a little leather box, in which the jewels lay. The necklaces consisted of single strands of unusually pure pearls, made up for Mr. Moore. It is said each cost about $1,000. Other favors, too, were presented to the women. DEFENSE OF THAW WILL COST A SNUG FORTUNE you cannot go much below this figure. Scores of detectives working in divers parts of the world for many months will cost $50,000 more. Then there are the services of Roger O'Mara, the former chief of police of Pittsburg, whose expenses will be reckoned in the thousands, as well as heavy outlays for witnesses whose time and expenses must be paid by the Thaws. There is at least a dozen local detectives constantly on the go on behalf of Thaw. They look up the records of talesmen from the time they enter the courtroom until they are accepted or excused. Taken in its entirety the Thaw trial will cost in the neighborhood of $325,000. Of course, this amounts to only a fraction of the annual income of the Thaw family, but it is enough to fill the mind with wonder. It cost the state about $150,000 to find out that Roland Molineux did not kill Mrs. Adams. But all these expensive cases shrink into significance beside the huge expense list of the Thaw trial. under her wing and bring them within the charmed circle? But, Mrs. Fish flatly refused. She put her foot down hard and said that the Misses Harriman must stay outside, so Harriman gave up the attempt in behalf of his daughters and bided his time. That came in November when he deposed Fish as president of the Illinois Central. In the Illinois Central directorate are some men socially powerful in society here. They are Cornellius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor and Robert Walton Goelet. It was through Mrs. Fish's influence that these three men were placed on the Illinois Central board. Mrs. Fish rightly concluded that they would be helpful to her socially. When the fight in the Illinois Central came in November of last year and Harriman decided that Fish must go, how did these friends of Mrs. Fish line up? The three voted against Fish and for Harahan. Harriman had got his revenge and Mrs. Fish's social supremacy began to wane. Since then her stock has declined steadily. ROMANCE BEGUN at WHITE HOUSE ENDS AT ALTAR beauty that he sought the young girl out. 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Cardul regulates irregular functions, relieves unnecessary female pain, restores strength and invigorates the system. Over a million women have been benefited by its use. Try it. AT ALL DRUGGISTS IN $100 BOTTLES TRUTH AND QUALITY formed in every walk of life and are essential, therefore we wish to call the attention to its blessings, to the fact that it involves. With proper knowledge of the nature of contemplation and of effort may of medicines dispensed with generally be simple, wholesome remedy may be in the California Fig Syrup Co. feels that it is all and to supply the one perfect laxative as and the world-wide acceptance of the combination, known to all, and the origin of the California Fig Syrup Co. only. The remedy has been long and favorably known as attained to world-wide acceptance as its pure laxative principles, obtained and the Well-Informed of the world to adopted the more elaborate name of —Syru descriptive of the remedy, but doubled in name of Syrup of Figs—and to get its full name of the Company —Cali front of every package, whether you sit alone —Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna —one laxative remedy manufactured by a tofore known by the name —Syrup of Figs. The genuine is for sale by all leadin original packages of one size only, the world under the general guarantee of the place, at Washington, D. C., that the remedy meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, CORNIA FIG SYRU San Francisco, Cal. U S. A. London, England. 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PE? CO DO YOU SMOKE? DO QBOID GRANULATED - PLUG - solid comfort which a good could give a man. BITE THE TONGUE THIS STYLE TOBACCO to other pipe tobacco possesses, and the smoking qualities are the results implementing. SPECIAL OFFER QBOID Tobacco is now on sale almost anywhere, and hundreds of thousands of boxes were consumed last year, and it is our purpose to place QBOID in reach of every pipe smoker in this country, and to that end we make the following offer: If your dealer does not handle QBOID Tobacco, we will send you any size box, regular price—viz: Prices, 1½ oz. tin tin box, 45e. and 16 oz. fancy tin dissatisfied purchaser. Send with money order or stamps. y, and address to Manufacturers, Richmond, Va. READERS of this paper describe things advertised in its columns should insist upon having reducing all substitutes or imitations. FARMS FOR RENT AND SALE ON J. MULHALL, MIOUX CITY, IOWA. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 8, 1907. en Up" "by ten (10) doctors. ARE YOUR SOX INSURED? | | | $1.50 PER $-DOZ. BOX C—O proof He ort el ae M.D, STEVENSON & CO. SOLE AGENTS for KANSAS CITY The Negro Civie Lengue is com: prised of the followtng Negroes of this city: Rev, Jesse Peck, Rev, Samuel Bacote, Prof. G, N. Grisham, W.W. Yates, R. W. Foster, M. J. Har: and T. W. 1 Wil ifams. 1 of the Lexington Dele We, The Colored voters, ip an as Fim Crow" ear, waleh Ie a humillia: fon to the en x ee REY, AO A, GILBERT, S. RL WooLtten, Committee. In reply to the credit Old en Tiluan { s Rooker T. Washing ton for heir eat, his father hay ing aw man, let me say bere, thar Well thinking people know this to be a fact, and mothers and fathers have watched it, from tie eueliest existence up until the pres: ent time, that the traits of character ko from the mother into the mate children, and the father into the fe- tale children. Had Booker ‘T, Wash. ington the traits of his father, he Would have been a leentious charac: ter, sneaking around in the southern states with white women, You can readily see why the majority of our mixetbreed women ean not be trust: ed. it is the traits of the father, ‘Tho vind that rocks the cradle is the hand that rates the world, A NEGRO WOMAN. All persons desirous of giving en- tectaimments for the benefit of the Ol Foiks and Orphans Home at 2446 Michigan ave. will confer a favor up- on the managers thet, by first making known their intentions and seeuring the consent of the organiza: Hon ‘This will enable the managers to protect the interests ef the home us Well as prevent unpleasant con fhets. ‘This organization is a member © fhe Assnciated Churities and is mn lor obligation to observe the regula. ns which govern all the other char: es of the city that are considered worthy Be ft understood that whenever the ome’s name is used to raise money, Ht procends must be handed ever to tee home, but when the intention t6 to donate only a part of the proceeds vad the name of the home is not used, then the managers will thankfully re cove wititever may be offered. EVELENA BALDWIN, Pres. LUELLEN WILLIAMS, See, To the negroes want a good negro newspaper In Kansas City. If you do please send ws all the news so. that we aa TH our newspaper with live, fresh matter, If yo do please pay your subseription promptly, when our ‘cents appear or drop by our offlee nd sete up. The neroes need an tuthentic colored journal in this city, Have you readers enough race pride to do your duty with this paper, We we far behind when it comes to de tail work for us to perform as a race, Will yon manage to save ont tnomgh money for your paper. Will Jon wale up trom your lethargy? 409 FE. Pheins St Springfield, Mo., Dee, 28, "06, Editor Rising Son; — Allow me to say a word relative to your paper that you have recently ssumed editorship, We note with pleasure the steps you are taking to improve the paper in order that it may be a elean, newsy progressive Negro Journal, commen- surate with the enterprising city of Whieh you are an integral part. May the day hasten when the “Son” will have competent reporters; at least in the principal cities of Missouri, The obvious signs of improvements; and the bold stand you have taken against the viee and destructive places of re- sort, have prompted the writing of this letter. Hoping you Success Tam Yours watching with interest the Negro in the journalistic fleld WM. H. WHEELER. (Formerly pastor of Asbury M. E Church for 5 years.) BURNS CHAPEL NOTES. This has been the best year in the history of the ehureh, Total amount collected for all purposes since March 25 to date, $2,199.04, An average of over 200 per month. Of ths amount $1242.70 has been paid on chureh indebtedness, — ‘The Rev. Dr J. M. Harris is a brilliant young preacher and flnancter of this church. Miss Daisy Lewis is one of the ef ficient workers. A recent Sunday she turned in $25 from her club, Sunday, February 16, will be the fourth and last quarterly meeting. The ladies are preparing for the chureh bavear Febroary 12, 1 and W You are always weleome at Burns SADIE, WASHINGTON, t enti an ession of the State Federation of elubs Second Baptist chured, 1 7 and 28, 1908, The two v well attended, The addresses were able and intrue- t The annual address by the sident, Miss Anna Jones, was a larly produetion, ‘The convention {to have 1 published so tt will n he in the hands of those who were not fortunate enough to hear it t the meeting, ‘The reports showed that mueh work had been done dur. ing the past year and that the women were taking an active part in charit- able work. ‘Through the efforts ot the federation a state reform school has been built for colored girls. A committee was appointed to continne the work in the interest of the school, ‘The Women’s League of Kansas City reported having bought a house whieh they hope to be able to use soon as a home for working girls, Mrs, J. Si- lone Yates was elected president, MISS MARY RUCKER GREEN MISS AMANDA WHEELER, MISS T. J, MeCAMPBELL, Committee, Special Rising Son. Hon, W. T. Ver, the register of the United States treasury was in thts city January to deliver the emanelpa- tion address of the 43rd, year of the freedom of the Negro, It was through Rev, 1. G, Jordan, the secretary of the Afro-American council that the citizens of this community got an op- podtunity to hear the most distin: guished orator, While here he was in the hands of such well known per: sons as Miss Nannie H, Burroughs, Col. RW. Thompson, Rev, L. G. Jordan and Carry B, Lewis, His addvess was not polltteal, but one of advice, encouragement and hope for the future of the race. ‘Throughout his speech he arggued for the better things that go to make xood citizenship, Hi etold most pit thetically of the part that Negroes have taken in wars and how they had tried to be of service to this great republic. He spoke of the work of Booker T. Washington and other face leaders, After disenssing in dustry, sobriety, honesty, unity of purpose and the higher things that help his people to be brought to a favorable consideration of the Amer ican people he said: “The progress of the Negro in America since the eimaneipation is without parallels in the history of the world. ‘The spirit ‘of the AngloSaxon for progress along all Tines has been exhibted by. his former slaves, and the — manhood and indestructhle worth which these former slaves have exhibited should Appeal for fair treatment to the man: hood of every American, To argue that education should be denied him is to argue against the best inter ests of the government. Our best citizenship is that which knows. its rights and is accorded them; which [knows its duty and performs it, Ig horance in a country such as ours can not bo made the mother of de- votion, which Is another name for pa triotism, upon which rests the safety of the republic, In war the Negro has a record that he is not ashamed of. Let us not be content on onr past efforts for race security, Let our ac: complishments of the past be a xuarantee of our future — efforts. Unity of purpose and unity of effort have always meant much in the lives of nations, “The strongest of the race should help the weakest. ‘Those who see the light should point the way to thoes who see it not, We should seck to reform those of the race whose tread has been other than up: ward, To go amongst these with a spirit of Christ showing them theit weakness and convincing them of thelr errors is not only a duty ta them, but to ourselves. ‘These weights that are about us must. be changed to instruments of hepful fulness, and we who are leaders must labor for the masses, As was. sal¢ In Holy Writ, “Righteousness — ex alteth a nation,” oS, reetiture of con duet. industry, sobriety and a strug gle for the higher things of life wil bring us to the favorable considera tion of the American people.” Aer the speaking he was given 4 grand reception at the Women’s In dustrial Club rooms, 728 Walnut streets, He left the next morning for Lex ington where he spoke to a larg audience on “The Negro in America, Home Phone 5948 Main = SSC Phone 3075 Main ROSENBERG @ GODSON, Dealers in al! kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Freshand Salt Meats, Glassware, Crockery Good Things to Eat at a Low Price. 333-335-337 West Sixth Street. ieee Fayment VOW danG@ a SMadll Payment Each Week. 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The Rock Island runs Tourist Sleepers daily on fast thru trains. Fine dining car service. WOPIPI? cay ior lured Touret folder, costaining. fll Ty details and map. . A. ST 1 Gen, Agent Pass. Dept., ASha sare In his first success at Drury Lane, Fdmund Kean overheard a knot ot old stage carpenters discussing vigorously the various players of Hamlet they had seen in their day. “Well,” sald one, ‘you may talk of Henderson and Kemble and this new man, but give me Rannister's Hamlet—he was al- ways done 20 minutes sooner than any of em." The American > Collection Agency + te No feo charged un- Pe, | Ew te-ncotteciionis made Bs We make collections 2 jn all parts of the SEE 7/ United states % i 4135 Kansas Ave, Anthony P. Wilson, Atty, Toptha. 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A \ > feck Leaving Kansas City at 11:00 a, m. daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Indepen- dence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. © Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this “Hot Springs Special” is the Elegant Dining Cars. ! This train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Trains for ; all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Hot Springs Night Express 9:35 p. m. dally. For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address . | E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY Mo, Home Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 740 Hickory You are cordially invited to call and inspect the swell Bachelor Apartments just opened for accommodation of Col- ored trade at 1005 McGee St. Elec- tric light; gas and bath. MRS. CLARA HALE Landlady F. J. WEAVER, Prop.