The Rising Son

PICKERSON It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME XI. KANSAS CITY, MO.. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907. NU The New Arlington Theatre Eighteenth and Harrison Streets Kansas City, Mo., the only Colored Vaudeville House in the City. PRESENTS A NEW BILL EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT DANCING BEFORE AND AFTER THE PROGRAM. PRESIDENT B. F. ALLEN, ONE OF MISSOURI'S MOST PROMIN- ENT EDUCATORS. The subject of this sketch is our esteemed Professor B. F. Allen, president of Lincoln Inst., Jefferson City, Mo. No one is more worthy of a tribute from the entire Negro race than Mr. Allen. Mr. Allen was born in Georgia. So was Grady and Toombs. Two great southern men with liberal views. He has spent a great portion of his time, however, in New York and Chicago. He graduated from Atlanta University, holding both the Bachelor and Master degree. He is a man with a great liberal education. He was a teacher of Lincoln Inst., 16 years ago, and some years ago he became its worthy President. He measures arms today with all the intellectual giants of the state. He has been elected and re-elected several times which shows how well the board is pleased with his works. A few years ago he had an enrollment of 244 students. Today his enrollment has reached over 500 students. The growth in this direction has been due to the organizing ability of Prof. Allen. Mr. Allen is a strong and cogent educator. His fame has gone throughout all the states. Through a democratic legislature, Mr. Allen seems to get what he asks for when he appears before that body. He is always heard. President Alleu is a close friend of Prof. W. E. D. DuBois as he was a graduate from Atlanta university. President Allen's work demands the greatest of consideration from every able and intelligent thinking Negro. The Negroes make their own leaders and in Prof. Allen they have made a leader that will carry Lincoln Institute on to its deserving rank among various educational institutions for Negro youths. President Inman E. Page accomplished a great thing when he made Lincoln Institute one of the positive forces of the state, but President Allen following with his useful vigor and liberal views of education and indominable persistence has advanced the Lincoln Institute to a prominent status throughout the entire country. Let his work be a living monument to those who shall come afar. He may clip the wing of an eagle and stop his flight towards the skies but the spirit therein shall with longing power ascend to Eyres undisturbed by man. Shall certain men; demagogue, stop the work of a genius, or shall a great man go on in his master work unmooted. God says you may tear me down but this day I shall erect the monument that no living force shall assail. Past achievements are proofs conclusive that the great works of B F. Allen as president and head of Lincoln Institute shall endorse through the opposition knoxs and ob stacles of narrow minded men who would tear down the living monument that they themselves have reared. If a woman's hat is comfortable for her to wear nothing could convince her it is becoming. Beginning with April the 1st th's paper is going to give a diamond ring to the solicitor who can bring in the greatest number of subscribers. A free ticket to the Jamestown Exposition to the subscriber who gets the lucky number. A gold watch to the next highest number. PUBLIC SENTIMENT AROUSED OVER DR. SMITH'S CONTEM- PLATED DEPARTURE. Numerous Negroes of our city since the notice of Dr. Smith's contemplated departure has made it a point to visit his places of business. They have phoned to the office of the Rishuf Son and numerous ladies and gentlemen have called at this office in person with the sole purpose of ascertaining whether the report is true. The impression that the reporter of the Son has gleaned from those with whom he has talked believe that the doctor is making the mistake of his life by leaving at this particular time. They say his stores are well stocked, in charge of courteous and well fed clerks. Six (6) telephones constantly in use giving and receiving orders from six o'clock in the morning until 12 o'clock at night. Colored and white customers going in and out during the business hours. He is extremely popular; has a score of friends among the people in all straits of society; is a member of the Masonic, Pythian and Elk fraternities, and for these reasons they are at a quandary to know why he should leave. Several preachers, lawyers, doctors, and professors have expressed themselves as regretting to learn of his contemplated departure. The Son has from the beginning insisted that he should remain. From an interview with Dr. Smith by a reporter of the Son a few days ago reveals the fact that we are on the verge of losing one of the great Negro business generals that the race has ever produced. It was his intention to equip scientific and pharmaceutical laboratories for the purpose of making various chemical and microsical tests of sputna, urine, and blood for physicians and the public and also for the manufacture of various pharmaceuticles and ete. Had this practical plan been carried out it would have been invaluable to the growing youth of our city. It would require about ten boys and girls to operate the enterprise, such as bottling, labeling stamping and ete. He claims that some one must make a place for the young Negro that is being turned out of the High School each year. And that he sees where he could place some of them in the pharmaceutical field. His greatest achievement was the discovery of his blood and rheumatic remedy. By hard study and research the doctor has discovered by combining certain analgesics together making an elixer combined with sodides and salicylates makes an invaluable preparation for the cure of rheumatism, blood and skin diseases. In their various forms. This one preparation is destined to make fame and fortune for him. Do you know that this Negro genius sits up late at night writing, stamping and mailing literature all over the country telling of the virtues of this great remedy and that one of his clerks is kept busy at his typewriter. He is doing an extensive mail order business throughout the width and breadth of the United States and Canada. After having the interview with the doctor reading some of the best testimonials I ever saw and seeing letters from men and women, white and colored, in all the various walks of life, I for one believe that this Negro has discovered something and for the benefit of my paper and suffering humanity I have persuaded the doctor to allow me to print the formula in my paper. I have never taken it myself but I do know, judging from the different letters I have read it must be the greatest remedy on earth I advise any Negro who is suffering with rheumatism or impure blood to cut this out and take it to one of his three stores, have it filled and you will be well paid for your trouble. Smith's Analgesic Compound: Four ounces Elixir Purgans, two ounces Kali iodide, four drachms Sodium Salicylate, one oz Directions—Take one dessert tea spoonful after each meal. EDITOR THE NEGRO EXHIBIT'S $100,000. A Clear and Explicit Statement from Secretary-Treasurer Hilier Showing How the Government's Money is Being Expended. Every Dollar Scrupulously Accounted For. Norfolk, Va., April 23.—In response to what is believed to be a very general desire to know how the appropriation of $100,000 that was made by Congress to aid the colored people to make an exhibit to their progress in this country is being spent, Mr. Andrew F. Hilyer, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Executive Committee, having charge of the expenditure of this fund, has authorized the following statement: "The Executive Committee took charge of this work on the 14th of January last. After spending several days in going over and disposing of the accumulated correspondence, examining and checking up the books and accounts and formulating a statement showing the outstanding obligations against the fund, it developed that the building could not be constructed for the $30,000 that had been originally set aside for that purpose and that no responsible contractors could be found who were willing to undertake it for less than $40,000. Accordingly a contract was made with Bolling & Everett, the colored contractors of Lychburg, Va., and signed on the 6th of February for the construction of the building for that sum. Their contract does not include the architect's fees, the equipment for electric lighting and decoration of the building, which the Committee is planning to make very elaborate, nor the cost of partitions, booths and decorations in the building. It is estimated that these items and the cost of granallic walks leading up to the building and of beautifying the grounds will cost at least $15,000 additional. We shall consider ourselves fortunate if the cost of manufacturing the building for seven months, cost of lighting, insurance on exhibits, maintaining guards, jailers and attendants and other necessary and incidental expenses can be kept under $10,000. $2,000 have been set aside for the preparation and distribution of an exhaustive report, showing the progress of the Negro race as exemplified at the Jamestown Exposition $1,500 for stationary, telegrams, printing, etc., $1,500 for the award of prizes on certain classes of exhibits a total of $70,000, which amount is fixed and determined, leaving but $30,000 to be expended in setting up the exhibit. Of this $30,000 not less than $10,000 had been already spent or contracted to be before the Committee took charge. The Executive Committee, therefore, will not have at its disposal to be expended in getting up the exhibition to except $20,000. From this sum must be paid the salaries and traveling expenses of its employees while engaged upon the work of the exhibit; the cost or transporting the exhibits to and from James town and the cost of installing the same in a way to make it attractive to the visitors. "There is one thing that the exhitter may be absolutely assured of and that is the Committee will see to it that a sufficiently large surplus will be kept on hand to pay for the return of all exhibits to their proper owners. No matter what other interest or feature may have to be cut it is the determination of the Committee to see to it that all material honed to it for the exhibit is safely returned. "I have been employed in the auditor's office for more than 21 years and have introduced in our system of records and bookkeeping the same system that is in force in the Treasury Department. The money is being disbursed by a disbursing officer of the Treasury by checks, under the rules and regulations governing the disbursement of all government appropriations, upon proper vouchers, when approved by the Ter-Centenial Commission. There must be a clear and explicit statement covering every essential detail about every item of expenditure. While all expenditures are under the control of the Committee, we do not disburse one cent of this fund. As this is a public appropriation, I am keeping my books and records open and intend to make the method by which this Executive Committee has expended and account for this appropriation one of the important exhibit features of the Exposition, and any one coming to Jamestown can see for himself just how every dollar of this fund has been expended. of this fund has been expended. "It will be seen from the foregoing statement that the amount at the disposal of the Committee for extent purposes is very small and the Committee will greatly appreciate every lover of his race who will do something to aid the Negro exhibit without being paid." Mr. Editor:—Will you kindly insert the foregoing in your columns, and oblige. Executive Committee Jamestown Negro Exhibit. ELKS GIVE A SWELL PROGRAM AT ARLINGTON HALL. There was a grand entertainment given by the Imperial Lodge, No. 101, Kansas City, Mo. It was one of the swellest of the season. Gay halves and well-dressed Elks attended the reception. Some of those who took part in the programme were as follows: Messer, Robt, Hurt, Walter Montgomery, W. T. Washington, and E. Leflidge, Solos by Juantette Jack Fields, D. Wilson, Arthur Pullman, and Alvin Jordon, Song and dance Met and Cleve Penn, Jingelg match Dick Alexander, Pete Finney, Pete Campbell and G. Whitney, Duet Antony Brown and Arthur Montgomery. Sparring match Capi, L. H. Jordon and James Caswell, Dancing Felix Payne and Fred Douglass and T. J. Benjamin, Song Dr. J. E Dible and Walter Williams, Song and dance Robert Jordon and Nicholas Frames, Waltzing exhibits Jacob Rentro Harry Brown, Harry Lampkin and Charlie Brower. THE BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY'S STOCK IS A SAFE INVESTMENT. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, president of this company lectured at Alben chapel last Monday night. He gave the history of his company and showed the location of the property they own in Kansas by small and large maps. He says "the colored man must learn to make his money make money by investing it in some paying proposition." There are three things which you should know before putting your money into any corporation. First, who are the men behind the thing, are they good business men with finance? Can they do or produce what they claim. Third, have they a market for the product? The Black Diamond Development company has all ready accepted a contract signed and sealed to furnish the Missouri Gas Co. about all the natural gas they can produce. Therefore the success of the company is assured. You are advised to buy stock now at 50 cents a share as it may go to $1 at any time. A CANVASS FOR 15,000 SUBSCRIB ars to THE RISING SON This paper is about to make a canvass for 15,000 subscribers. These things must be borne in mind. That we must keep every subscriber that we have, and every day redouble efforts for more patrons. Again every Preacher and School Teacher in this city should assist us. Every subscriber should make his personal business to see that every one of their friends take the paper. Every business Negro should have it on sale at his place of business Negro should contribute their share toward the suspect of the paper. All the young men on the staff should be encouraged. Every Negro citizen should have a cord of praise for this paper and should in all occasions praise its publication. WANTED—Office girl one who can write a good hand, with some ex- perience in business. Salary $5.00 per week. For information call to office of the Son 914 E. 12th St. PRESIDENT ALLEN IS RE-ELECTED Negro Politicians and Professors Must Now Lay Down Their Fight. M. B. B. F. ALLEN The Jefferson City Tribune and other dailies of the city contained the following on Tuesday, April 23. "The board of regents of Lincoln Institute held a meeting her Monday and reelected President B. F. Allen for another term of two years. This is a splendid endorsement of the work of Prof. Allen, as the head of this leading Negro educational institution in the United States." This reelection comes to President Allen as a special honor, for it is the first time in the history we have been able to learn, that a president has been elected to succeed himself several months before the close of the scholastic year. The many friends and admirers of President Allen in Missouri and throughout the country recite MILLION TO NEGRO SCHOLS Philadelphia, April 23.—A gift of a million dollars for the establishment of a fund for rudimentary schools for Southern Negroes was announced here to night. The gift is from Miss Auna T. Jeanes, a Quaker of this city, Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee institute, and Hollis Burke Frissell, president of the Hampton Normal and Industrial institute, are named as trustees of the fund, but neither of the institutions they represent will share in the gift. The income from the million dollars is to be used for the soie purpose of assisting in the "Southern United States community, country and rural schools for the great class of Negroes, to whom the small rural and community schools are alone available." The trustees are empowered to appoint a board of trustees in connection with the fund. Miss Jeanes is more than 89 years old, and comes from an old and wealthy family that has been widely known more than a century among the Quakers. She has long been interested in the welfare of the Negro and has been a giver to institutions for their education. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams an old resident of Kansas City, Mo., formerly a teacher of Kansas City, Mo., who has been in our city giving us valuable lessons relative to oil and gas fields and other corporate interests controlled by Negroes will leave tonight with a party of Kansas citizens for Chanute, Kan., investigate the oil and gas fields controlled by the Black Diamond Development Co., of which he is president. Dr. Williams holds several valuable contracts signed by the President of the Gas companies of Kansas and Missouri testifying as to the genuinness of his proposition. IS RE-ELECTED Sors Must Now Lay Down Fight. with him and congratulations are being showered upon him by members of both races, by members of his faculty and students. The entire race should be proud of the man who has brought Lincoln Institute to the front in numbers, equipment, and all that goes to make up a great educational institution. Preparations for commencement goes on apace and all friends of education are invited to be present. The Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the Rev Samuel Racote, D. D., of Kansas City, address to the religious bodies by Rev. Dr. Cook of St. Louis; to the Literary societies by Professor C. C. Hubbard of Sedla; to Sophomores normal graduating class by Professor C. G. Williams of Booneville. WHY YOU SHOULD BUY BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT CO.'S STOCK. It is a Corporation. It is not a Scheme. It is a Business Enterprise. Every Share is FULLY PAID. There is no Personal Liability. All Shares participate alike. There is no Preferred Stock. It has 7 Gas Wells. Two more being drilled. The Wells produce 15,000,000 cubic feet of Gas per day. It Success is Made. It has contracted for the sale of all its Gas. It has contracted for 23 more Wells. It now owns 620 Acres o' Gas Leases. The Pipe Line will be finished April 20th. Kansas City will soon be burning BLACK DIAMOND Gas. Dividends will be paid on $1.00 (PAR) for every share you own not less than 6 per cent. There were 10 stockholders Oct 24, 1905. There are over 500 now. There are but a few Shares for sale. There will never be another Share for sale by the Company. Conclusion: Buy Now or Never. Stock 50 cents per Share. BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. Write Dr. A. W. Wii Iiams. 2810 State St. Chicago. Too Much Simplified. Members of the house in Washington were amused by an exhibit of simplified spelling the other day when the river and harbor bill was under discussion. In order to illustrate the argument made in support of a 14-foot channel from this city to the gulf Mr. Itardtollt displayed before the house and had placed upon a large easel in front of the speaker's desk a map of the Mississippi river valley, upon which the draftsmans had indicated the names of cities, rivers and lakes spelled in a manner heretofore unknown. The map showed the following places: "Sixo City," Dubuque; "Pittbarg," "Louisville," "Missou river," "Mislispi river," "Soupi lake." --- NUMBER 33 MATTERS FEMININE. CHARGE OFTEN MADE AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN. Carelessness in Walking and Pose of the Figure Responsible for This Criticism—Home Gymnastics of Great Value. How to dispose of one's hands is a great test of breeding, and one's good appearance greatly depends on an upright carriage, a good pose of the head A Showing Repose of the Hands. and foot. It is a repreach leveled against American women that few of them know how to walk. Indeed, we have heard it boldly asserted that the only women who can walk, as they should are the handsome Spanish BIG BROOCH IS ALL THE GO. Pig brooches are all the go — really big ones, such as were worn two generations ago; only, with the exception of the cameo pins, they are more gorgeous affairs. The modern big brooch gleams and sparkles or is a sheet of vivid color. There is nothing denominate about it—it is a striking, effective ornament. Most of the big pins hold a single semi-precious stone. The stone makes the brooch, for the setting is simply a narrow rim about it. Transparent stones are not, as a rule, backed with setting, as this detracts from their appearance. Amethyst and topaz seem to outnumber other transparent stones used for these big brooches, such as garnet, peridot, aquamarine, etc. Well cut topaz pins gleam like living fire, the amethyst pins glow with a more subdued light. Alsatian Bows One of the most fashionable accessories to bridesmaids' costumes at present are the Albatian bows for the hair. These are especially suitable for young girls, either for the occasions of weddings or for evening functions. They are exceedingly dashing in appearance and yet very simple, and are much more becoming to young girls than feather or aligrette ornaments, while they are also newer though not more becoming than the leaf or flower wreaths. The bow goes directly in front, a twisted piece of the material going around the high collar as a snood. The bows may be made either of gauze sorbfukled with crystals, gold spangles, etc., of liberty satin or velvet to match or contrast with the costume, or of cloth of gold or silver. The bow is quite large and very jumy. Tips on Neck of Waist. Here's a point about the neck. The width of the back between the shoulder seams should equal in width that of one of the front portions of the clause between the shoulder seam and the front of the neck. All told, the neck should be divided into exactly three equal parts, one for each side front and one for the back. A back that does not measure exactly the width of one side front is too narrow and the neck will neither fit properly nor comfortably. The shoulder seam should always remain straight at the neckband. If it needs to be moved the alteration must only be made toward the back or toward the front at the armhole. Almond Milk. The simplest face bleach known is almond milk, and is good if constantly used. Blanch 30 large almonds. Break into a small basin and put in a lump of sugar. Take a wooden pot masher (not a wire or metal one) and break the almonds and sugar, then slowly, almost drop by drop, add a half pint of rose water. The process is a long one and must be carefully done, the object being to break the almonds as fine as dust. Let stand over night, then strain through muslin cloth. Use the "milk" morning and night, letting it dry on a foe. 1 donnais. Even American women who master the grace of walking well in their youth seem to lose it in old age. Watch an old woman walking; in nine cases out of ten she is flat-footed and ungrateful, and we should do everything that is possible to make old age comely. We dress better than we did, we know better what suits us, and how to put on our clothes properly, which is half the battle. But—there will be many dissentants to this—there are but few very graceful women, and the increased height in the majority of our sex does not tend that way. We are much too angular and too downright in our movements. The modern school girl indulges in games much on the same lines as her brothers, to the great improvement of her health and her physique; but when the schooldays are over there is not that due cultivation of grace which would add so materially to womanly charms. Note the swinging gait of well-dressed women in the streets, the movement of the arms accompanying the movements of the body, the lack of repose, and far too often the lack of dignity. Parents with children should realize Ruskin's injunctions, that the first duty owing to women is to secure a training which shall confirm their health and perfect their beauty. We rarely realize the ideal Greek beauty, and yet they were a long-lived race, and we probably should add to our length of days if we followed in their footsteps. There are plenty of paraphernalia for home gymnastics, which should be set up in our bedrooms and used judiciously daily; but simple exercises without anything will do wonders, and keep the body well braced and assure grace of deportment. Some exercises should be carried out every morning, either before or after the daily bath; if the bath be a hot one before, for fear of chills, and before, of course, the corsets are put on. NOURISHMENT FOR THE BABY. Neither Milk Nor Solid Food Should Be Forced or Urged. Do not at any time force or urge milk or solid food upon the child; if he should refuse part or the whole of a feeding, let that meal go, and do not give any food until the next feeding hour comes. For the first 24 hours after birth very little food is necessary; feed the infant about once in five hours. If it is possible, the baby should be nursed by the mother, as the nourishment it receives from her contains certain ingredients which are necessary to cleanse the stomach and intestinal tract of the newly-born, as well as to stimulate the digestive juices to activity. If for some good reason it is not possible for the mother to nurse her child, give as a substitute a little boiled water slightly sweetened or thin grape dextrinized. After the first 36 hours milk can be given in a dilute form. Cow's milk can be diluted, plain, or in the form of top milk. The diluent should be thin gravel or boiled water—14'armer's Bazar. Doily Varden Hats. Morning hats are extremely simple. The Dolly Varden is perhaps one of the most becoming novelties, and its simplicity makes its charm even more apparent, says the American Register. Ribbons will be largely used for morning and country millinery, and the full ruche for girls' hats will be revived in taffetas and glace silks. IN DOTTED SWISS MUSLIN Daisy Apron Ornamented with Colored Embroidery Silk. Dotted swiss muculin is the material used in making this apron. Quantity necessary is a piece 33 inches long by 30 inches wide. The hem on each side is 11½ inches wide. At the bottom is 21½ inches wide. Yellow embroidery silk is used for feather stitching the hem. The three rows of embroidery across the bottom repre ```markdown ``` sent oxeyed daisies. Yellow silk to be used for the petals, each petal having four stitches, the two center ones being a little longer than the one on each side. Brown embroidery silk is used for the center of the daisies, these being French knots. The top of the apron is turned over $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches and has four rows of shirring. On the wrong side of the shirring sew a piece of plain muslin, so the threads won't break. Fasten yellow saan ribbon on the right-hand side for the belt. BROADCASTING The IMMIGRANT HON. FRANK P. JARGENT IMMIGRANT STATION AT ELLIS ISLAND NEW YORK If there is one place the newly-arrived immigrant is not needed it is in the large cities where a large portion of the incoming horde has shown a tendency to herd. Especially is this true of New York, where over eight-tenths of the immigration to this country is landed. This concentration of the multitudes from every nation and cline in the already congested portion of the city is a disease-breeding and crime-encouraging condition, and is doing more to delay the healthy assimilation of the immigrant and hinder his development into a useful American citizen than any other circumstance. Concentration of the newly-arrived foreign element in the large cities of the country is a real menace to the future of those cities and the country at large. The federal government has long realized this and has at last determined on steps looking to a correction of this tendency. Instead of concentration we are to have dissentiation. Instead of letting them take root in the cities to grow up a foreign plant in American soil, the effort is to be made to broadcast them over the sections of the country where better living can be had for them and where their Americanization will be made more easy and certain. The plan devised under the direction of Frank P. Sargent, commissioner general of immigration, is to establish a division of information under the immigration bureau, whose purpose shall be to place the immigrant coming to this country in the place where he is needed and wanted. It is expected that this new department will be ready to begin work by the first of July, and already useful information regarding the resources, products and physical characteristics of each state and territory is being gathered and tabulated, preparatory to being published in different languages so that it may be placed in the hands of the incoming aliens as soon as they land and may aid them in choosing a place and a destiny in the wonderful promised land to which they have come with such expectant hope. As a further means of bringing states that want immigrants, and immigrants that want homes into touch with each other, the plan further provides that the states and territories will be permitted to send to the immigrant stations agents who shall be given access to all newly admitted allens. These official promoters will point out to the newcomers the special inducements for settlement offered by their respective states. Some of the states, particularly those of the south, already maintain immigration bureauas, and these will appoint the agents sent to the immigrant stations. Other states desiring immigrants are expected to organize such bureauas before July 1. Practically the whole of this educational campaign will be waged at the Ellis Island station, New York. Through its ports als passed last year 880,000 of the 1,057,000 allens admitted to this land of ours. How very badly immigrants are wanted in many sections of the south and west is disclosed in the urgent appeals which Mr. Sargent has been receiving. These come especially from agriculturalists, mine owners, manufacturers and railroad officials. A majority of our immigrants are pouring into the sections where they are least wanted and where the least chance of work awaits them, while they are avoiding the sections where they would be welcomed with open arms and given remunerative employment. Just how this is will be seen by the figures for last year. Over seventh of those passing through the immigrant stations said they were going to settle in already thickly populated centers, and all of this while the clamor for immigrants was coming from thinly populated districts. Over one-third of these aliens said they were going to make their abodes in New York state; more than one-sixth in Pennsylvania, and one-twelfth in Illinois. Almost as many declared themselves bound for Massachusetts and next ranked New Jersey. The south in particular wants immigration now. Formerly it desired nothing less. Its change of sentiment on this subject has been both recent and marked. It offers a splendid field for the newcomer with brawn and energy. It has millions of acres of cotton, cane, rice and tobacco lands that have never been cultivated. Indeed, Louisiana alone has 19,000,000 acres of vacant land out of a total of 26,000,000, and it is estimated that not more than one-eighth of the cotton lands of the whole south is under cultivation. In Louisiana there are more than a hundred immigration societies and in Maryland there are still more. But neither these nor the similar organizations in other southern states are looking for the Hungarians and Russians now flocking into the north in superabundance. The south has been calling for the good old Teutonic and Celtic stock which settled the country in its first days—the English, Irish, Welsh, Scotch and Germans, in particular. Yet, climatically speaking, the italians are, of all of our immigrants, those best suited to the south, and moreover they now constitute the largest class of our immigrants. The supply of these far exceeds the demand, in the north. They have proved to be successful farmers where they have so far settled in the southern cotton and sugar plantations. The great lumbering companies of the south are also employing them and it is estimated that more than 100,000 are working in the southern Mississippi valley. They have begun to purchase little farms, to build good homes and to put money in the banks. They are found to be prompt in paying debts, and to have improved morally as well as financially since arriving. The younger, of these italians do not wish to return to Italy, which desire has caused their race to be generally disliked in America. It would seem as though the cream of the old world's peasantry is now nearly skimmed off. Lately there has been a significant increase of persons who under the old law have had to be passed by the immigration surgeons, but who have been marked as "poor physique." This marking has implied that the subject has been undersized or poorly developed, has feeble heart action, arteries below the standard size, etc. In other words, as one of the surgeons explains, that he has been physically degenerate. It is to keep these degenerates out that the law gives the examiners far greater scope than ever before for refusing entrance. The degenerate himself is not only unlikely to become a desirable citizen, but it is very likely that he will transmit his undesirable qualities to his offspring. By admitting such aliens we vastly increase our number of public charges. "That the physical and mental quality of the aliens we are now receiving is much below that of those who have come in former years is evident," says Commissioner General Sargent. He recently instituted an investigation of the charitable institutions of the country, and actually found 30,000 alien paupers, including lunatics, in our public institutions, besides 5,000 of them supported at public expense. In addition he found in these institutions about 65,000 naturalized foreigners. But the most striking fact gathered by the commissioner general was that while in the United States there are 75 citizens to each alien there are in our insane asylums and poorhouses only six citizens to each alien. The Music of Man and Birds If the discovery of independent evolutions of human music all tending in the same direction indicates the existence of an ideal standard toward which progress leads, how much stronger is the evidence afforded by the fact that bird music is developing along the same lines! It seems a far cry from a Beethoven symphony or a Wagnerian opera to the simple law of a sparrow, but as we trace the course of the mighty river of music back toward its source the stream becomes narrower and narrower, until it is contracted to a point where it is no broader than the little rill of bird music, writes Ileny Oldy's in Harper's. Nor does the decrease stop there; for, remarkable as it may seem, there was a time when the music from which ours has been evolved was inferior to some of that which floats to our ears from the woods of spring. This is not to say merely that the songs of certain birds involve more intervals and greater variety, but that they are of a higher order, judged by our own modern standards. DON'T GRUMBLE AT TRIFLES. Twenty-five Bushels Wheat and Forty five Bushels Oats Per Acre Are in Western Canada. I willingly give you the result of my four and a half years' experience in the District of Saltcoats. Previous to coming here I farmed in Baldwin, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, and as I have heard a great deal about the Canadian North-West, I decided to take a trip there and see the country for myself. I was so impressed with the richness of the soil that I bought half a section of land about five miles from the town of Saltcoats. I moved on to the land she following June and that year broke 90 acres, which I cropped in 1904, and had 39 bushels wheat per acre. In 1905, with an acreage of 160 acres, I had 24 bushels wheat and 35 bushels of oats per acre. In 1906, with 175 acres under crop, I had 25 bushels wheat and 45 bushels of oats per acre. From the above mentioned yields you can readily understand that I am very well pleased with the Canadian West. Of course, I have had to work hard, but I don't mind that when I get such a good return for my labor. To anyone thinking about coming to this country I can truthfully say that if they are prepared to work and not grumble at trifles, they are bound to get on. Some things I would like different, but take the country all round, I don't know where to go to get a better. Yours truly, (Signed) O. B. OLSON. Write to any Canadian Government Agent for literature and full particulars. AGE TOLD BY THE PULSE. From Birth to Death the Beats Have a Steady Decrease. How old are you? Ask your pulse. The human pulse has a wide range, even in perfectly healthy persons. The female pulse always beats faster than the male, and from birth to death the pulse beats steadily decrease. It has been said by great authorities that the age and sex of a person could be ascertained by the rate of the pulse alone. Babies at birth have a pulse beat of 160 times a minute in case of a girl and 150 in the case of boys. At the age of four or five the pulse beats will have fallen respectively to 110 and 100. Maidens' and youths' pulses average 95 and 90. Mature men and women average 80 and 75. Elderly men and women have an average of 60 and 50. An old woman's pulse rarely, if ever, sinks below 50, but among men a pulse beat below 50 is quite common. There are, however, great variations consistent with health. Napoleon's pulse is said to have beaten only 44 times a minute. GONE FOREVER. Ten years ago a farmer put his initials on a dollar bill. The next day he went to the nearest town and spent it with a merchant. Before the year was out he got the dollar back. Four times in six years the dollar came back to him for produce and three times he heard of it in the pocket of his neighbors. The last time he got it back four years ago. He sent it to a mail order house. He never has seen that dollar since, and never will. That dollar bill will never pay any more school or road tax for him, will never build or brighten any of the homes of the community. He sent it entirely out of the circle of usefulness to himself and his neighbors. Patronize your local merchant who helps you to pay your taxes, support your schools and churches, and lends a helping hand in times of sickness and trouble. SKIN SORE EIGHT YEARS. Spent $300 on Doctors and Remedies but Got No Relief—Cuticura Cures in a Week. "Upon the limbs and between the toes my skin was rough and sore, and also sore under the arms, and I had to stay at home several times because of this affection. Up to a week or so ago I had tried many other remedies and several doctors, and spent about three hundred dollars, without any success, but this is to-day the seventh day that I have been using the Cuticura Remedies (costing a dollar and a half), which have cured me completely, so that I can again attend to my business. I went to work again to night. I had been suffering for eight years and have now been cured by the Cuticura Remedies within a week. Fritz Hirschlaff, 24 Columbus Ave., New York, N. Y., March 29 and April 6, 1906." Out of His Line. A man living in the country far from any physician was taken suddenly ill. His family, in great alarm, not knowing what to do, sent for a neighbor, who had a reputation for doctoring cows. "Can't you give father something to help him?" asked one of the sons. "Wa-al, I don't know nothin' about doctorin' people." "You know more than we do, for you can doctor cows. Now what do you give them when they are sick?" "Wa-al," I allers give Epsom salts. You might try it on him." "How much shall we give him?" inquired the son. "Wa-al, I give cows just a pound. Your father is a quarter as big as a cow—give him a quarter of a pound." At a recent examination a British candidate in the London College of Music defined a musical interval as "a short pause for refreshments." Take Garfield Tea in the Spring—it will save you many days of headache, lassitude and general ill health. This natural laziness purifies the blood, cleanses the system and establishes a normal action of liver, kidneys and bowels. The executive board of the Wesley brotherhood has referred to its general convention to be held in October, 1907, the resolutions from the Brotherhood of St. Paul requesting the appointment of a committee to confer with a similar committee from the St. Paul Brotherhood concerning the unification of Methodist brotherhoods. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt-walst just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. His Occupation. "What is your occupation?" the magistrate asked John White the other day in the Westminster police court, London. "I steal pewter pot," replied the candid Mr. White. WEIGHT AND HEALTH THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE NEED THE TONIC TREATMENT. This Woman Took Dr. Williams' Pint Pills, Gained Thirty Pounds and Has Been Well Ever Since. How many women—and men too—are suffering from a general decline in health which the ordinary remedies seem unable to check! How many husbands see their wives wasting away, steadily losing health and beauty, and are powerless to help! Consumption and other germ diseases find in these debilitated systems easy prey, for the lowered vitality is unequal to the task of fighting off the infection of these diseases to which most of us are almost daily exposed. The symptoms indicating the declining which may have results so fatal could scarcely be better described than in the statement of Mrs. William Manley, of 92 Court street, Utica, N. Y. Her case is a typical one. She says: "For six months after the birth of my baby, I suffered from sick, dizzy head, aches, which seemed like a rush of blood to my forehead, just back of my eyes. Some days they twitched so I could hardly see and black spots floated before them. The least exertion brought on this sickness. My appetite was poor and I was often sick to my stomach. "If I tried to work my feet soon became swollen, paining me terribly. I had sinking spells and grew pale and nerves. I was so thin that I weighed only 95 pounds. "One day when at the drug store to get headache powders I decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills instead. I soon noticed that my headache was disappearing and my nerves gradually grew stronger. The pills gave me a hearty appetite and I now weigh over 130 pounds. I believe the pills to be the best tonic and builder a woman can take, as they certainly helped me when my condition was critical and I have never been seriously ill since." The great value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills lies in the fact that they actually make new blood and this carries health and strength to every portion of the body. The stomach is toned up, the nerves are strengthened, every organ is stimulated to do its work. If you are ill and the treatment you are taking does not cure you, write for proof of what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done in similar cases. Your druggist sells them or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicino Co., Schenectad, N. Y. SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5$ CIGAR You Pay 10c. for Cigars Not so Good. F.P. LEWIS Pooria, Ill A Positive CURE FOR CATARRH Ely's Cream Balm is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at Once. 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. Full size 50 cts. at Druggists or by mail. Trial size 10 cts. by mail. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York. MRS. FEARN, OF WASHINGTON, TRUE PHILANTHROPIST. Her Mission the Amelioration of the Condition of the Blind—Queen of Roumania Her Close Friend. A fascinating and forcible philan- thropist whose mission and its appeal ts unique, is Mra, Walker Fearn, of Washington, a grand dame of queenly mien, who has spent most of her life ut European capitals. Mrs. Fearn's late husband was United States minis- ter td Roumania, in which Interesting country the couple became intimately Identified with “Carmen Sylva,” Eliz- abeth, the beautiful, the good, the bril- Uantly endowed queen, perhaps the most remarkable woman in the world, possessing almost every talent and every grace. ‘The queen of Roumania found a ready sympathizer and coadjutor in her various humane enterprises in the charming American, the two women being confidentially en rapport. Mrs. Fearn and “Carmen Sylva,” the royal poet and philanthropist, worked hand in hand, Mrs. Fearn’s especial enthu- siasm being enlisted in the queen’s wonderful mission to the blind. ‘There ure 20,000 of the sightless In the small country of Roumania, and for the amelioration and uplift of the condi tion of these unfortunates the queen is building an especial city, “Vatra Luminoasa"—the “luminous hearth,” where every possible physical and edu- rational advantage will be afforded tho beneficiaries. Mrs. Fearn, since her return to America, is pursuing the ‘same Une of humane endeavor here as was inspired by her friend, the beauti- fal queen of Roumania, with whom she is in constant communication. Mrs. Fearn is consecrating, gratuitously the best efforts of her life to the relief of the blind, her philanthropy being e:- pressed immediately in a vividly inter- esting lecture that she gives called “A Mission of Love to the Blind,” with stereopticon views taken from intl mate home scene and royal glimpses at the Roumanian capital. Mrs. Fearn wears during her lectures, a wonderful native Roumanian costume, a court dress presented to her by Queen Eliz: fabeth, heavy in embroideries of silver. A long, white flowing veil winds grace fully at the back. Mrs. Fearn, one of the effective social factors of Wash: ington, entertained an appreciative company of friends charmingly at her home in Massachusetts avenue, with talk about her work, and fllustrations und a rich collation, Her own pic turesque Swiss maid also wore a beat. 1iful Roumanian costume of the ay: propriate class. Mrs. Fearn, formerly Miss Frances Hewitt, was born in Louisville. Most of her early life was spent in New Orleans. She is starting on a tou at once to carry her beautiful message to other parts of the country, goin first to Cincinnati, where she will be the guest of her life-long friend, Mrs Longworth. Then Kentucky, ‘Tennes ce, New Orleans, Texas, Indiapa anc other sections will have the privilest of hearing this charming woman whe has consecrated her life gratutiously without the slightest remuneration, t so noble and benign a cause, At he Jecture at Rauscher's to a tremendous fashionable audience, Mrs. Fearn wa: introduced by the Rey. Dr. Couden, the blind chaplain of the house of repre sentatives. A recent autograph mes gage from the queen of Ronmanta t her sympathetic friend reads, “Brin; light to the blind, my dear Mrs. Fearn and make their life shine for all thos: whose mind's eye is not yet opened Viizabeth.” New Homes in Washington. Only a few days ago the announce: ment was made of the half million: dollar home to he built at Weshinston by Angust Belmont. To-day it is gen- eral gossip that options have been se- cured by Mrs. Marshall Field, of Chi- cago, and George W. Vanderbilt, of New York and Biltmore, on residence property in the northwest. ‘The prop: erie on which the homes for these mil- lionaires is to be erected is the west end of the square fronting on a small park formed by the interseciton of New Hampshire avenue and Seven: teenth street. The property has a frontage of nearly 200 feet Tourists and Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon, the home of Wash- Inston and his burial place, is visited by thousands of tourists every year, but Waskingtoniams don't go. there You hear Washington folks endeavor ine to flag their visiting relatives and siends from other places from the trip to Mount Vernon, Most felks who visit Washington want to see Mount Vernon. They suggest the trips to their Washington entertainers as soon ag they get there, Reward for Faithful Service. For the last two years of lis service fn congress Mr. ‘Theobold Otien, of Milwaukee, Wis. has led a Sunday night sacred song service for the guests of the hotel in which he lived at Washington. Recently he was pro: sented with a gold wateh fob in bebait of those whom he had led in the serv fce—Congressman Crumpacker's wife making the presentation speech, Cabinet Officers’ Signatures. Secretary Root, although his full name, Elihu Root, is not a long one, found it laborious to put his whole name ou bis state department mail, so he now simply signs It “E, Root.” See retary Bouaparte's right arm does not seem to have grown tired, however, In signing bis mail ho still signs his full name, “Charles J. Bonaparie.” HOW CLASSIC WAS WRITTEN. Bret Harte’s Great Poem Result of ar Inspiration. The war correspondent, Froderie Villiers, has recorded a talk with Bret Harte apropos of the poem, “Dickens in Camp:" “We all felt his. loss most keenly In the States,” said Harte: | “On hearing of his death (1) sat own about three in the afternoon to write an editorial on the great au: thor. I wrote one and then tore ft up. Then another, after much pains, was written. This did not please me, fo I tore it up. I wrote yet another and threw it into the waste paper basket; {t would not do. It was get ting late, and 1 was now keeping the Paper walting for press. 1 was drum: ming on my desk, absolutely without another thought in my head; I had run dry. Suddenly 1 mechanically Yegan to write and tho result wus the thing you seem to like so much. Well, Mr. Villiers, you are not far out. I lke it, too.” BLOOD GETS SOUR. Gives Advice and Tells of Sintple Home Mixture. At this time of year, says a well- known authority, the Kidneys become weak, clogged and Inactive, failing to filter out the poisons and acids, which sour the blood, causing not only facial and bodily eruptions, but the worst forms of Rheumatism, Nervous and Stomach troubles, Backache and pain- ful, annoying Urinary aMfictions. It is worth anyone's time now to get from some good prescription pharmacy the following ingredients: Fluid Ex- tract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Com- pound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking well in @ bottle and take 1n teaspoonful doses after your meals and at bedtime. This simple home-made mixture will force the Kidneys to normal, healthy action, so they will filter and strain all urie acid and poisonous waste matter from the blood, and expel this in the urine, at the same time restoring the “full blood count”"—that is, 95 per cent. red blood corpuscles—which is abso- lutely indispensable to perfect health. aN WITHOUT COMMON SENSE, Striking Example Related by the Late ; Dr. Field. A Presbyterian clergyman was praising the lato Dr. Henry Martin Field of Stockbridge, who for 44 years edited the Evangelist. “Dr. Field did so much good,” he said, “because he went about his work diplomatically, sensibly reason- ably, I once heard him declare that reformers failed often because the moment they started a reform they dropped common sense. Common sense was swallowed up in zeal. He said that a nerve cure faddist once entered a shop and leading the pro- prietor to one side whispered mys: teriously: ‘Ah, my friend, you can do the race untcld good if you will only take the agency for our anti- tea preparation. It 1s warranted to cure in a week the most confirmed and nerveracked tea Uppler. Never again— “But tho dealer langhed and drew away. ‘You have made a mistake,’ he sald. ‘I can't take such an agency as that. Don't you see that this {s & teashop‘’ “Oh, no mistake,’ said the reform: er eagerly. ‘It is because you run & teashop that I have sought you out. You come into constant contzct with the very people we are trying to reach.” Good Theory, Poor Practice. ‘To encourage temperance the Brit tsh admtralty allows 36 cents a month to sailors who forego their daily ra- tion of rum, But, a8 a sailor who does not wish to drink rum can draw his rations and sell them to other sail- ‘ore at 8) cents or even more a month, the temperance plan {3 not #o suc- cessful us was hoped. APPENDICITIS. Not at All Necessary to Operato In Many Cases, Automobiles and Appendicitis scare some people before they are hit. Appendicitis is often caused by too much starch in the bowels. Starch is hard to digest and clogs up the diges- tive machinery—also tends to form cakes in the cecum, (That's the blind pouch at entrance to the appendix.) AN. H. girl had appendicitis, but lived on milk for awhile—then Grape- Nuts and got well without an opera- tion. She says: “Five years ago while at school, I suffered terribly with consti- pation and indigestion,” (Too much starch, white bread, potatoes, ete, which she did not digest.) “Soon ufter Tleft sehool Thad an ate tack of appendicitis and for thirteen weeks lived on miik and water. When I recovered enough to eat solid food ‘there was nothing that would agree with me, until @ friend recommended Grape-Nuts. | “When I began to eat Grape-Nuts I weighed 98 Ibs., but I soon grew to 115 Ibs, The distress after eating left me entirely and now I am like a new per son,” (A little Grape-Nuts dissolved In bot water or milk would have been much better for this case than milk alone, for the starchy part of the wheat aad barley is changed Into a form of dl gestable sugar In making Grape-Nuts.) Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Read the little book, “The Road to Wellyille,” in pkgs “There's @ Rearca.” rom The Chicago Tribune.) ADVICE TO RHEUMATICS Noted Physician Tella ‘How to Pravin and Cure Rheumatism, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, (By Geo, Edmund Flood, M. D.) If you would avold Rheumatism and Kidney and Bladder Troubles, be mod- erate in the consumption of heavy, rich foods, substitute as far as possible soups, broths, fresh milk and drink water—lots of water, Take plenty of ume to eat, and don't cat after you have had enough, even if It does taste good. If your work 1s confining take 4 moderate amount of exercise each day fn the open air. Of course, neither diet, water, rest nor exercise will cure these afflictions. 1 advise them as preventives only. For the benefit of the readers of this arti- clo who aro now afflicted with Rhew- matism, Kidney, Bladder or Urinary trouble, and desire to be cured quickly, [give below, complete in every detail, ‘the famous prescription which has made mo so successful in the treat: ment of these diseases. It 1s the most certain cure for these diseases that I have ever used. It is pleasant to take, it 1s not expensive, it can be filled by any druggist, and I bellove it ts the greatest prescription for Rheumatism, Kidney and Bladder Trouble ever writ- ten. It is also a valuable spring tonic and blood purifier. If you are a suf. ferer, save this, take It to your drug: gist and have it filled, or get the tn. gredients and mix them at home. Fluid Extract Cascara Aromatle, % ounce. Concentrated Barkola Compound, 1 ounce. Fluid Extract Prickly Ash Bark, 1 drachm, Aromatic Elixir, 4 ounces. Adult dose, take one teaspoonful after meals and at bedtime; children one-fourth to one-half teaspoonful afte: meals, After you are cured follow the ad vice I have given you in regard t diet, exercise and water, and you wil not need the services of a physician | again for these ailments. ‘ake ake es gudataiik: de ian: World's Cheapest Gas. According to the Gas World, pride of place as the suppliers of the cheap- est gas in the world {s now shared with the Widnes corporation by the Shefield Gas company of England, who have just announced @ reduction of one penny per thousand cubic feet in the price, making the new scale 1s. 4d., 18. 2d., and 1s., according to con- sumption, and Is. for gas used In gas engines. The Widnes scale is 1s. 14. and 1s. 3d., with 11d. for gas used for power purposes, A Deatness Cannot Be Cured Re er a steigteaa ingest ites Ue oe Bele attired eae reete ee ta nies Sin maned Cen eae reee niece et pete seinen ts aR trae Ede terse ott Sgcinarat eee Sia areca ee Gear eit) uae meine utr ie ray st Dynes Gis Ecsta ten ei gid i a, NIN Tea tee FUSPADRE TU Fito coentoaton Citv Man te Worst Bore. It is a moot point which particular Kind of “shop” is the dullest for an outsider to listen to. Many people vote for golf shop, There is certainly much to be said for this view. Unin- telligible discussions about approach shots and slicings make an uniniti- ated hearer yawn about as quickly as most things. The author of “Social Silhouettes,” however, votes for the conversation of the hardened city man. “There is, I think,” he says, “no kind of conversation known to man which can for @ moment cou pete in point of dullness with the hab {tuai discourse of the genuine city man.’—London Globe. G2) 2 ED ees eC — rye / a) PW WR is ro ey ey Protective Paint Pure White Lead Paint protects Property against repairs, replacenieat and deterioration. It makes buildings Took better, wear better —aned sell bet ter. Use only Pure Litseed Oil and Pure White Lead made by the Old Dutch Process, which is sold in kegs with this Dutch Loy trade mark onthe site, This trade mark protects you against fraud Tent White Lead adulterations and. \& substitutes. 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Every render of this paper can got free of charge one of Dr, Coffee's fimous books Which telle of a mew method by” which | qm ns aficted with Deafness, Head: Noises, Sore Eyes, Failing Sight from any eause, can cure themselves at home at smial!’ expense. Write a letter immediately to Dr. W. 0. Coffee, 360 Century Bidg., Des Moines, Ia, United States Leads In Oil. | Of every 100 gallons of illuminating ofl used in the world, 54 gallons are produced im the United States. Important to Mothers. Examine caretully every bottle of CASTORTA ‘neafe aud sure remedy for infants and children, ond seo that it Bears the 2. 1a Use For Over 30 Years, ‘Tho Kind You Have Always Bou-it The Rev. W. Arthur Noble of Corea has one of the largest districts in Methodism. Recently ho waiked 300 miles, the church in one section of his district being near enough for him to do this, In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. A powder, It cures painful, smart: ing, nervous fect and Ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists, 25¢. Accept no sub: stitute. Trial package, PREB, Ad: dress A. 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. ¥. Little One's Prayer. Mary always gets a little piece of candy every day to keep her from be ing mnaughiy. One day she was “naughty, and she did not get hor candy. That night when she was go ing to bed she sald her prayers as fol lows: “Our Father, who art in heaven please give me my dally candy.” SD BE 2KIDNEY2 ZKIDNE} 2 inane e a RE ead DS Lae ee t eerie Ree we ‘4 EH of ie NSE i wyef) —— wer Ef atk 7), JH HG ee RORY HEY 2/7 ay NS ge VY 4k Ye pad aa aaa Voy Amat tee DAD fh ee ata Ube) sie Caan i 4 He ca AU a eaten HP EE ana had eo laU NG a Aaene aa a For Preserving, Purifying and Beautifying the Skin, Scalp, Hair, and Hands. 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Doulas (Been Weed AON Shion ace main, Fon Would chen vanisrstand why hey hold ete alvape, HE ether, Peal ib bi sed etetantibe Catsler nated ee, Wek! WOUUL AR Mesckion Minas MRS HENRY LEE Owing to modern methods of living not one Woman in a thousand ap proaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms, ‘This is the most critical period of her whole existence and every woman who neglects the care of her health at this time invites disease and pain, When her system is in a deranged condition or she is predisposed to. apoplexy or congestion of any organ, the tendency is at this period likely to, become active and with a host of nervous irritations make life a burden. At this time also eancers and tumors are more liable to form and begin their destructive work. Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, melancholia, dread of im- pending evil, palpitation of the heart, irregularities, constipation and dizzi: nes$ are promptly heeded by intel- ligent women who are approaching the period of life when this great change may be expected. Mrs, Frod Certia, 1014 So, Lafayette “Street, So, Bend, Ind., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham :— “Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound is the ideal medicine for wotnen who When a medicine has been actually thousands of women, y« it, “I donot believe it will hely and family to try Lydia E. 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Pinkbum's Vegetable Compound utsurpassed for women dug this trying period of life,” Mrs, Henry Lee, 60 Winter Street, New Haven, Conn’, writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — “After suffering untold misory for three yours during Change of Lito 1 heard of Tivitin E. Pinkhom's Vegetable Compound, Tivrote vou of my condition, and began to take Lydia T Pinkhams Vegetable Com: pound and followed your advice, aiid to-day Ficm weell att happy Lean now walk any whors and work as Well as anyone, and for years previous I had tried but could not get around without help. J consider your mea, cine a sovereign Daltu for suifering: women.” Woren passing through this critical Period should rely upon Lydia E Yivkham's Vegetable Compound, If there is anything about your case you don’t understand write to Mrs Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for advice. It in fee and has guided thousands to health. successful in restoring to health, reannot well say without trying me.” It is your duty to yourself Canadian Government REN RIET] Free Farms sy BRA oxo, 2000 ance ie Pama OVER NINETY MILLION BUSHELS i ae ea ig AYES amen aar Ta SORE SHOULDERS\, g HORSES = MULES § "FREE See MONEY DACK IPT FAIS Secunity Renny Cough PIN e Bae tan Ts, Ratna etree danas: W.N, U., Kansas City, No. 17, 1997. WM. T. WASHINGTON, Editor and Owner, Office, 914 E. Twelfth St. RISING SON PUB. CO. One Year..... $1.50 Six Months..... 75 Three Months..... 40 One Month..... 15 Strictly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter Correspondents wanted in every city and class state. Were in All news matter intended for pubi- lation should reach our office not later than Tuesday of each week, and must provide proof of publication but as guarantee of authority. BORACE W. HOLDEN Society Editor. 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. Let this be our consolation, all is well that ends well. Please pay the collector, Mr. Horace Holden 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! Upon one or two occasions reporters of this paper have been refused admittance because they did not have passes or tickets. Therefore, To the Negroes who don't know we would say to you that newspaper men are always admitted, or rather they should be admitted to any public of fair, and to many private affairs which are not of the strictest private nature without a ticket, pass, etc. We hope it will not be necessary to call attention to such any more. THUS FAR SHALT THOU GO AND NO FARTHER. The Lord spake thus to the ocean and it was heeded. So it is with the avaricious politicians and Negro demagogues who it seems was fighting the How B. P. Allen. Thus tar shaft thou go and no farther. Thus howling rabbles, climming for some ones' soul. President Allen has been re-elected and you can go no farther in your fight. This paper supported Pres. Allen because he is a good, clean, clear-hearted, consolentoga, men. Right will prevail during all the Epochs of history. He, Prof. Allen was right and he has trimmed. Cease thou uncontents and disturbers of peace. The same Negroes that fought Pres. Allen have fought every decent Negro who has striven to rise to an mark in life. Therefore thou canst go no farther. --- The Forum meets every Sunday afternoon at 4.00 o'clock at Allen Chapel and subjects of vital importance to the race are discussed by some of the best minds. You are invited to attend the meetings. Prof Foster, President. Why not let the "Son" Rise in your home to brighten the household. We are getting the news. We want you to make it your paper. As it is an educative Journal for Negroes. Will the Negroes by paying their subscriptions help this paper to get out a good issue every week. Rests in Life's Melody. Ruskin has said, "There is no music in rest, but there is the making of music in it." In our whole life melody, the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the time. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts and sudden pauses in the choral hymn of our lives, and we lament that our voices must be silent and our part missing in the music which goes up to the ear of the creator. See Him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune and not be dismayed by the "rests." They are not to be omitted. If we look up God will beat the time for us. Diplomacy A collector stepped into an office, and, seeing the debtor talking to a number of lady friends, waited till he had leisure. Whereupon the debtor turned to the collector with a very pleasant manner and said: "I will lend you this dollar to-day. Come again when you are hard up." and he smiled one of those smiles that crack a looking glass. "WE MUST GET CLOSER TO GETHER. To the thinking Negroes of Kansas City:—What is best for us to do to build up the enterprise of our race in this city? Can we not get a little closer together? Why is it we do not patronize one another in business lines more than we do? What help do we get from the other race along our professional and business lines? How can we give one another employment if we do not cater to each other? It is your money that a white man wants and not your credit which he would rather you would not ask for. An instance happened a short time ago which illustrates that he wants your money only. A Negro or our city called a white undertaker to take charge of the remains of his brother. Having gone to the place and seeing conditions he would not transfer the remains to his establishment. His excuse was that he had no room in his morgue for it. He would lay out the remains where he died, in a poorly ventilated room, but as he thought there was no money in the case, he recommended it he taken to one of the colored firms in the city. Of course as the white undertaker would not take charge of the remains, the people had to tall back on their own undertaker. It is a real shame that a large number of our people who know that the white undertakers do not give any better service than the colored and eat they patronize them. The colored undertaker of this city are well equipped to handle the best Newco trade in any city. What is the matter with our ministers alliance? Where is their influence? Why do they not preach the necessity of patronizing and helping to build up our business enterprises a little more? There is not a church in the city that is not calling on the business men to help them, and if the ministers would call on their congregations to help their professional and business men offender, we believe the people would rally to the front. It is ashame the number of Negroes who employ white doctors. Ask the undertakers who sign the most death certificates. Who are the majority of Doctors attending Colored people. They will tell you white doctors. And are killing you all the time, then get a white undertaker, who only wants your money, and say, I got a "coon" last night, it will give me good luck this month. Then you will have to ask your colored friends to act as palebearers. You ask your minister to open his church and unreach the funeral for you. Please show me where one Negro has been benefited by such a transaction. Through sympathy and friendship your friends have lost a day's labor to act as palebearers. You have carried mud in your churches and given the jailor a lot of extra work. You have worried your minister and metropolitan his valuable time. "You have given the white man all of your money." When you see a friend about to act so foolish remind him, not only of how bad it looks, but of how bad it really is. If we continue to patronize the professional and business world of the white race how can we, as a race, ever accomplish anything. Stop and consider. We must get closer together. THE MID-APPOINTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. Mayor Henry M. Heardsley has made his mid appointments. There was no change only with the exceptions of one office, city assessor. The appointments are good in their entirety but still the black face torch-bearers have not beca heard from. A year ago, through snow and rain, black boys arose to the cry of help from the republican party and every time the cry has beca heard from that old party, Negroes have risen up in defense of the flag and helped to strike the enemies down that would rise up to assail her. Shoulder to shoulder, black men and white men marched along together at the cry of distress emitted by the grand old republican party. Five thousand five hundred Negro voters have raised our cry for help have been refused. The direct question is, will the mayor give us by virtue of voting strength one half representation through our numerical forces. The county officials have seen the mysterious hand writing on wall. Let them depart in peace. But honorable mayor of this great city follow not in the path of wicked for their path leads to destruction but follow the small spirit in their own soul which tells you that the Negro has been mistreated. Let us have two Negro clerks. Show unto us by your actions that you are with the Negro during these trials when ever a friend to the Negro race is needed. I Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business NO MATTER WHERE LOCATED. Properties and Business or all kinds so quickly for as to all parts of the United States. Don't wait. Write today describing how to have to sell and give cash price on same. 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. Wednesday Offerings Jauntiest Coats in Vogue, possessing every authentically correct style point confirmed by foremost fashion dictators. Fancy Pony Coats, Medish Etons, Plaited Box Coats. Dashing, stylish, swagger, elegant Coats that command and hold admiration Choice of numerous models at this phenomenal price Daintily braid trimmed beautiful plaited effects some charmingly lined with silk every detail in pleasing harmony with Fashion's latest caprice. Extraordinary Bargains at the Wednesday Price $5.98 1203 E. 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. Sell Us Your Junk JOHNSON @ COOPER, Dealers in Scrap Iron and Metal. Two Yards. Main Office 1228 West 9th St. Storage Yard 8th and Hickory. Bell 'Phone 347, Hickory. UNION NATIONAL BANK Kansas City, Mo. Condensed Statement, as Made to the Comptroll the Close of Business, March 22. as Made to the Comptroll lose of Business, March 22. Condensed Statement, as Made to the Comptroller of the Currency, at the Close of Business, March 22, 1907. RESO ROLES Loans and discount..... $ 8,670,488.6 U. S. Bonds at Port $ 625,000.00 Municipal Bonds and other high class Bonds at per..... 726,722.18 1,151,722.18 Cash and Sight Exchange..... 3,279,153.02 Total..... $10,101,365.65 standing..... $600,000.00 Directors: C. W. Whitehead, Edward P. Merrill O. D. Hain, George W. Jones, son Bexx L. L. LaForce, David T. Beats, son W. Zeen NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING SON'S HAIR ESSING A Delightfully Perfumed Hair Pomade PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR COLORED PEOPLE This old, reliable preparation has been in constant use for over years, and is consider thousands of homes. It is guaranteed free from NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING makes hair soft, pliant and glossy, enables you up in any style consistent with its length. It is supplying the needed oils directly to the HAIR DRESSING tones up, invigorates and hair from falling out, increases its growth splitting and breaking off at the ends, and gives NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING removes l and Scaling of the Scalp, etc. There is nothing experimental about Nela thoroughly tested and is endorsed by thousands be convinced that it does all and more than what WHAT THOSE WHO KNOW preparation has been in ten years, and is considered a n it is guaranteed free from all inju DRESSING makes harsh, st and glossy, enables you to com ent with its length. It is perfeceded oils directly to the roots of ones up, invigorates and nouris it, increases its growth, and off at the ends, and gives the DRESSING removes Dandruhl help, etc. experimental about Nelson's Hall is endorsed by thousands of satisfi es all and more than what we cla OSE WHO KNOW HAW constant use for over 10 years, and is considered a necessary toilet article in thousands of homes. It is guaranteed free from all injurious drugs or chemicals. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING makes harsh, stubborn, kinky, curly hair soft, pliant and glossy, enables you to comb it with case and to do it up in any style consistent with its length. It is perfectly safe and harmless. By supplying the needed oils directly to the roots of the hair, NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING tones up, invigorates and nourishes the scalp, stops the hair from falling out, increases its growth, and prevents the hair from splitting and breaking off at the ends, and gives the hair new life and vigor. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING removes Dandruff, cures Tetter, Itching and Scalling of the Scalp, etc. There is nothing experimental about Nelson's Hair Dressing; it has been thoroughly tested and is endorsed by thousands of satisfied users. Try a box and be convinced that it does all and more than what we claim for it. WHAT THOSE WHO KNOW HAVE TO SAY: Miss Isabelle Bird, Batt. Creek, Michigan, writes: "I recommend it wherever I go. It has done wonders for me. Miss Willett H., Griffey, McMinnville, Tenn. writes: "I have used your Nelson's Hair Dressing for nearly four years and would not be without it. It is the most wonderful beautifier on the market for colored people. There are others, but none like Nelson." NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING is put up in all drug cannot get it at your drug store, send us 30c. in. We want good agents (male or female). Address NELSON MANUFACTURING DRESSING is put up in 4-ounce at all drug stores drug store, send us 30c. in stamps and persons (male or female). Write to MANUFACTURING CO., NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING is put up in 4-ounce square tin boxes and sold at all drug stores for 25c. a box. If you cannot get it at your drug store, send us 30c. in stamps and we will mail you a box. We want good agents (male or female). Write for prices, terms, etc. Address NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Virginia. DAVIDT BEMS, President EDWIN W. ZEM, Custser. this phenomenal price Daintily effects some charmingly lined harmony with Fashion's latest at the $5.98 TITORIUM CCG, Prop. Cleaners and Dyers INATTENDANCE Kansas City, Mo. Dunk COOPER, Dealers in total. Two Yards. Main St. Storage Yard 8th 'Phone 347, Hickory. L CAFE DENCE AVE. Small Hours in Connection E 4982 MAIN ECEE, Proprietor, City, Mo. FERNANDO NEAL, Vice President W. H. SEIGER Second Vice President the Comptroller of the Currency, at ass. March 22, 1907. LIABILITIES. Capital Stock ..... $ 600,000.00 Supplies Fund ..... 400,000.00 Undivided Profits ..... 258,769.67 Uncarned Interest ..... 101,152.00 George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. Fernando, P. Neal, William H. Seegar, Fernando P. Neal, William H. Seegar, S RG amade TOPLE. been in considered a necessary toilet article in tree from all injurious drugs or chemicals. makes harsh, stubborn, kinky, curly les you to comb it with ease and to do it gth. It is perfectly safe and harmless ly to the roots of the hair, NELSON'S ates and nourishes the scalp, stops the s growth, and prevents the hair from and gives the hair new life and vigor. moves Dandruff, cures Tetter, Itching. But Nelson's Hair Dressing; it has been thousands of satisfied users. Try a box and than what we claim for it. KNOW HAVE TO SAY: Mrs. C. Coveria, Fernandina, Florida, writes: "I have been an agent for your Nelson Hair Dressing for nearly four months. It is the best selling article I ever sold." Cora Reimove, Indianapolis, Ind., writes: "It is the only Hair Dressing that the colored people count to use. It is the only one that uses my hair any good." Set up in 4-ounce square tin boxes and sold all drug stores for 25c. a box. If you 30c. in stamps and we will mail you a box. (male). Write for prices, terms, etc. JRING CO., Richmond, Virginia. $5.98 Welcome to Good Clothing No extra charge for credit here—no interest—no security—no red tape—you can buy Stylish Spring Clothing here on the easiest of easy terms at just as low a price as at any cash store Factory to you—72 Stores—Twice over the Largest Credit Clothiers in the World. $1.00 a week payments. Men's Suits Snappy mixtures that make a man step livelier and feel more content with life. Black worsted Suits $12, $15, $18. Mixtures $20 to..... $7 Top Coats Top Coats in Spring materials of worth—a good top coat will prove mighty comfortable and convenient these days, $18 to..... $8 Top Coats Top Coats in Spring materials of worth—a good top coat will prove mighty comfortable and convenient $8 these days, $18 to..... Swell Raincoats $10 to $20 Derby and Fedora Hats $1 to $3 Genesee Shoes The Best Men's Shoe Made at $3.50 ```markdown ``` CLOTHING FOR BOYS We clothe Big Boys Youngsters in between Boys' Suits (Age 14 to 18) Boys' Knee Pant Suits Boys' Two-Piece Suits We clothe Big Boys and little shavers and Youngsters in between—pay conveniently Boys' Suits (Age 14 to 20) $5.00 to $15.00 Boys' Knee Pant Suits $3.00 to $7.00 Boys' Two-Piece Suits $2.00 to $5.00 We clothes Big Boys and little shavers and Youngsters in between—pay conveniently Boys' Suits (Age 14 to 20) $5.00 to $15.00 Boys' Knee Pant Suits $3.00 to $7.00 Boys' Two-Piece Suits $2.00 to $5.00 ALL THE CREDIT YOU WANT ANY TIME YOU WANT IT MENTER & ROSENBLOOM CO. Cut out this ad and we will accept it as $1.00 on any purchase of $10.00 or more. Our store open evenings until 8 o'clock. Satur-dav 10:30. D. E. LAUDERBACK, Mgr. STEV Has broke This store pertaining man's w ing, Hat and Shoe M.D. St Outf USTLY POPULAR TOM MOORE. 10c C HENRY GEORGE. 5c C SOLD BY Niles & Moser Cigar C 1004 Walnut, Kansas City, M GO TO MRS. B. M. THE Ice Cream P JUSTLY POPULAR BRANDS JUSTLY POPULAR BRANDS TOM MOORE. 10c CIGAR HENRY GEORGE. 5c CIGAR SOLD BY Niles & Moser Cigar Company 1004 Walnut, Kansas City, Mo. 1012 Independence. All kinds of Confections. Ice Cream and You get your monev's worth. Open until 12 BELL PHONE 3467X MAIN All kinds of Confections. Ice Cream and Ices a Specialty You get your money's worth. Open until 12 o'clock at night. BELL PHONE 3467X MAIN coats in Spring materials with—a good top coat will e and convenient $8 Ladies Suits Very dressy suits in every new style; made up in the height of fashion—perfect fitting Jackets, trimmed handsomely, $25 $10 down to..... Ladies' Coats Spring Jackets that you'll admire— tastefully trimmed and adorned with the newest ornaments, $25 to..... Millinery Stylish Hats, daintily built an exhibition entrancing in its beautiful combinations. Hats for Misses and Women, from $9 to $2 Women's Raincoats $10 to $18 Silk Waists $4 to $10 Oxford Shoes $2 to $4 STEVENSON STEVENSON Has broken through to 10th street with Crosset Shoes. This store sells everything pertaining to a Gentleman's wardrobe, Clothing, Hats, Furnishings and Shoes. M. D. Stevenson & Co. Outfitter to Men. 1003 Walnut POPULAR BRANDS FORE. 10c CIGAR GEORGE. 5c CIGAR SOLD BY User Cigar Company Walnut, Kansas City, Mo. RS. B. M. TRACY'S Team Parlor ions. Ice Cream and Ices a Specialty worth. Open until 12 o'clock at night. L PHONE 3467X MAIN $10 to $18 $4 to $10 $2 to $4 ```markdown ``` 1003 Walnut 105 East 10th St. NEWS & GOSSIP WILSON DAWSON, Business Mgr. PERCY D. CRUMP, Solicitor. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there hat enables us to run from year to year." All announcements and notices are ten cents per line. LOCALS. Nicely furnished rooms with bath 1120 Charlotte. Mrs. Fannie Davis has been very ill for the past week. Mrs. Ida Giddon of Colorado Springs is visiting her sister Mrs. Nellie Dixon of this city, 920 Campbell St. For Sale A full dress suit. Size 35 or 38. A big bargain, $11.00. Call Lewi Fashion Hat Stor 11th and Walnut Sts. Mrs. C. Fields of Omaha, Neb., has moved to the city to live with her daughter, Mrs. Zonia Reece 1115 Independence Ave. Mr. H. N. Towns of Detroit, Mich. is expected to locate in our city with his family. The people of this city should bid him welcome. Officer Pete Campbell went to Warrensburg and captured a Negro who had raped his step-daughter and landed him in the county jail. Mrs. Nora F. Taylor, the evangelist singer, lecturer of Chicago Ill., is expected to be here this week to preach at the A. M. E. church, 3rd & Holmes, Friday night. Mrs. Harriet Alexander of Independence, Okla., is visiting her nephew, Capt. Elliott, 1703 East 11th. Mrs. Alexander is one of the wealthiest colored women in Oklahoma. There was a breakfast party given by Mr. W. T. Washington at Latonia Cafe in honor of Mr Towns. Those present were Dr. Moore, Dr. Wm. Thompkins, Mr. Lorenzo Hines, Mr. Jno. Ford, Mr H N Towns host and Mr. W. T. Washington. Fred Douglass secured a letter from a postman his sweetheart had mailed without her permission. The letter was to a rival. He used it jokingly with his rival. It proved serious to him when he was fined $20 and costs. The Allen Chapel Choir met at the residence of Mrs. James Crews 7125 Wabash. Those present were Mr. A. T. Moore, Mrs. Sarah Hammet, Mrs. Emma Burnett, Misses Daisy D. Foster, Susie Ball, Mabel Lucas, and Mesdames Eugenia Mosley, Benton Dean, Wm. Griffin, Frolence Crews, W. F. Taylor, M. Bell; also Messors Wm. Griffin, W. Taylor, James Crews and J. D. Roberts. The programme were as follows: What relation does the choir and pastor sustain toward each other. James Crews. How can we obtain a well disciplined choir.—Daisy Foster; Do your best in any position in a voluntary choir.—Mabel Lucas: directress. How we can best obtain results.—Mr. J. D. Roberts. The programme was well rendered and the choir was well entertained. Refreshments being served. Everybody left well please! A reception for the various committees of Ivanhoe Court was given at the residences of Mrs. Johnson 616 Campbell St., Thursday 18th of March. Those present were Mrs. Nettie Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Green, Mr. and Mrs. King, Mrs. Minnie James, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Lydia Gardner, Mrs. Tilmon, Mr. and Mrs. Fields, Mrs. Aca Young. They had a very delightful time. This was a general meeting of all the committees to arrange for a grand entertainment to be given in the near future. W. M. Vernon of 1742 Lydia will change from there to 127 West 6th street. Watch us grow: McCampbell & Houston, Prescription druggists, 2300 Vine Street. Mr. Andrews, a former drug clerk of Dr. Theo Smith is expected in the city this week. A nice front room for rent for man and wife. Use of Dining room and kitchen. Inquire 1023 Virginia. The Son has a lady attendant who will be here to transact all business along the newspaper line. WANTED, energetic business woman, solicitor for grocery store. Call at once. Salary and commission. 1607 Lydia ave. Hotel Waiters' Journal Edition. Uneeda Domestic Hand Laundry Co., has opened up a splendid place at 2112-2114 E. 18th St. M. C. Jones is the manager. Mrs. Zonia Reece has opened an elegant cafe at 1115 Independence. The Star Cafe can take care of you at all hours. The Y. M. C. A. meets every Sunday afternoon 4:00 o'clock at their hall, 1512 E. 18th street. Mr. Ed. Ross President. The Highland avenue Baptist church literary meets every Monday night at 11th and Highland Ave. You are cordially invited to attend. We haven't any ax to grind; we don't knock on other business and professional men, but we are getting the business out on Vine street. Tom and Bill. They say it is so easy to dress nice all the time. Just go to the Union Credit Clothing Co. over 1230-32 Grand ave. Your credit is always good. Mr. A. Greathouse Upholsterer and furniture repairer does up-to-date upholstering furniture repairing at 1204 E. 18th St. Bell prone 4231 Grand, resident prone 4407 Grand, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Sadie Gamble of St. Louis is in the city visiting her people 1306 Highland. She will be accompanied by her sister Mrs. Nat Adams to California where she will meet her husband. Do you want to work? if so you can get any kind of work by applying to the Afro-American Employment agency at 1005 McGee St. Home Phone 6236 Main, Bell Phone 4821 Main. Watch our next issue for an account of Mr. Al. Sneed's new cast at 321 Central St., rear. The old cast which burned down last year was quite a novelty to the world. It took him twelve years to finish it. Ladies and Gentlemen, why not wear good clothes all the time when you can buy them on your credit. It only takes a few dollars down and a few dollars a month at Manter & Rosenbloom Co., 1017-19 Walnut St. This means money in your pocket. Cut out the big ad of The Manter & Rosenbloom Clothing Co., and take it to their store at 1017-1019 Walnut St. They will give you $1.00 for your trouble in value. Now don't delay, but act at once. The Afro-American Employment Agency has added the services of Mrs. Chas, Conwell and Mrs. Sarah Hammett of K. C. Mo., and Mr. Alonza Reevers of Des Moines, Iowa., to their office force to meet the demands of their increasing business. We regret very much the misfortune of our friend Chus, H. Thomas proprector of the Ideal Cafe which burn down Thursday morning at 2 a.m. It was a mysterious happening which has not been accounted for yet. We hope the Ideal Cafe will soon be ready for business again. Mrs. Pansy M. Spates, who was formerly Miss Pansy Williams, a well known school girl of this city and who finished school in Omaha Neb. has returned to the city, and resides with her mother, Mrs. Reece, 1115 Independence avenue. Mrs. Pansy Spates request her many old friends to call on her. Mr. George Little is now with the Manter & Rosenbloom Clothing Co., 1017-19 Walnut street. He was for seven years clerk at the Columbia Hotel, and is a reliable and representative young man. This means much to all of you, who will make it convenient to see him for anything in the line of ladies and gent's clothing. Dr. Henry M. Keys, one of Kansas City's popular physicians is now comfortably situated in his new location 716 East Twelfth St. Dr. Key's practice is steadily increasing. He is one of the few successful physicians who has treated a large number of patients and only lost a small per centage of them by death. For scientific medical treatment give him a call. Mr. Lance who is represented by Mr. N. C, Crews sent a letter containing a check for one hundred dollars heartily endorsing the scheme. GRAND MUSICAL TREAT Miss Annis H. Hackley and her recital at Allen Chapel last Wednesday night was a success. She was assisted by Prof. R. G. Jackson and the Allen Chapel choir. Miss Hackley has a sweet clear voice with wonderful range and as a soprano she ranks among the best. Her pieces were all high class music and she displayed marked ability in the rendition of them. The colored Y. M. C. A. of Kansas City, Mo., feels highly complimented in having Dr. J. H. Shannon, treasurer of the building fund. Dr. Shannon has been a staunch supporter of the Y. M. C. A. Y. M. C. A. Committee's first report, Emery,Bird,Thayer Co. To Every Member of the Family and Furnishers Family and nishers the Family Furnishers to the House When you choose merchandise in the big store you see from over one and one-half million dollars worth of goods. When you get your purchase home and for any reason wher ever are dissatisfied with it, return it at once on salable c dition along with the duplicate check for cheerful refu Emery, Bird, Thayer Co For Neatly Furnished Rooms Go to Mrs. Sadie Gibson's New Place at 609 E Avenue. For Railroad Porters and Hot Waiters Especially. GEO. JONES rise in the big store you select million dollars worth of goods. home and for any reason what- return it at once on salable con- cate check for cheerful refund. d. Thayer Co. Furnished Rooms New Place at 609 E. Missouri Broad Porters and Hotel Especially. JONES When you choose merchandise in the big store you select from over one and one-half million dollars worth of goods. When you get your purchase home and for any reason whatever are dissatisfied with it, return it at once on salable condition along with the duplicate check for cheerful refund. Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. For Neatly Furnished Rooms Go to Mrs. Sadie Gibson's New Place at 609 E. Missouri Avenue. For Railroad Porters and Hotel Waiters Especially. Has Opened an AND SODA FOUNTAIN Including all kinds of Soft Drinks, Cigars and Tobacco AT 900 EAST 10th STREET. Piano and Furniture moving call up Home 'Phone 5185 Main: B It Drinks, Cigars and Tobaccos T 10th STREET. Home 'Phone 5185 Main: Bell 3674X Main Including all kinds of Soft Drinks, Cigars and Tobaccos AT 900 EAST 10th STREET. Piano and Furniture moving call up Home 'Phone 5185 Main: Bell 3674X Main LADIES, THERE IS A CHANCE FQR YOU AT Madam Mamie De Vaule Vincent's School Making and Ladies' Talloring To learn all of the latest systems in Dressmaking, Cutting, Fitting to make you master of the dressmaking art. Madam Vincent is four different schools, with twelve years' experience in the la Kansas City. The price of tuition is very low-in fact, you can while learning. Special Course in Sewing, 20 Days, $ I cordially invite all to visit the school and investigate. The Vincent's School of Dress Ladies' Talloring pressmaking, Cutting, Fitting and everything ing art. Madam Vincent is a graduate of years' experience in the largest stores in very low- in fact, you can make money sewing, 20 Days, $5.00 school and investigate. To learn all of the latest systems in Dressmaking, Cutting, Fitting and everything to make you master of the dressmaking art. Madam Vincent is a graduate of four different schools, with twelve years' experience in the largest stores in Kansas City. The price of tuition is very low—in fact, you can make money while learning. Bell Phone 507 Grand. 1104 Charlotte St., Kansas City, Mo. The American Collection Agency No fee charged unless collection is made We make collections in all parts of the United States. 413 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kansas. Anthony P. Wilson, Atty. NEW CREDIT ST CLC PAYMENT NEW CREDIT STORE - OVER 1230-1232 GRAND CLOTHING PAYMENTS 50c TO $100 A WEEK 1 Cut out this Coupon and we will accept it as $1.00 on any purchase of $10.00 or more UNIO OVER I UNION CREDIT CO. OVER 1230-1232 GRAND AVE. --- and 1900 The American Collection Agency No fee charged unless collection is made We make collections in all parts of the United States. 413 Kansas Ave. Topcka, Kansas. OUR POLICY—The management of this paper takes a decided stand for honesty as the best policy. We propose to give every one a square deal, and we only ask for the same. It shall be the constant endeavors of the new management to place this paper upon a high basis, to stand for the right, to speak out against, and expose the wrong, to commend the aggressive and successful, to encourage and defend the weak and struggling whose ideals are high and whose motives are pure, to champion the cause for the best interest of the Negro race. To fight for good in the name of God. 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Five provinces in China and 21 in Russia are affected, and, while from the former country come awful tales of the bartering of human flesh for food, of the sale of little children, and of the breaking out of the plague among the close-packed sufferers, from Russia comes a wait of despair, where men, women and children are trying to cling to life, with almost nothing to eat and with no fuel in a temperature of 25 degrees below zero. Conditions are such in both countries that it is estimated that what in this country would be the price of a single visit to the theater would save a human life until returning crops bring self support. The Christian Herald of New York, which has taken charge of the American can end of the Chinese famine relief, pledged itself to supply 10,000,000 pounds of flour, corn, cornmeal, medical supplies, etc., in addition to what had already been sent. The government gave the army transport Gen. Buford to carry this consignment from San Francisco to Shanghai. Government Aid Inadequate. In Russia the famine is being relieved to some extent by government aid, but the restrictions this aid carries with it make it very inadequate. it involves the delivery of one pound of bread a day only to sufferers less than 17 and more than 59 years of age. Infants under one year, and all the vast majority between 17 and 59 get nothing except what the unselfish among the more fortunate are willing to share. And, above and beyond this, there is the fact that the black hand of Russian official graft appropriates for private ends at least one half of the money the government voted for relief. Bishop Potter, of New York, is president and Dr. Samuel J. Barrows, formerly of Boston, is secretary of the American relief for Russia. It is hard to judge between the two, but perhaps the situation in China is the more pitiful at present. Statistics gathered early in February in one of the five stricken Chinese provinces showed a total of 23,000 deaths. This is but a small section of the awful aggregate. A foreign correspondent writing in description of the affected districts says: "Every semblance of grass plants and roots has disappeared, and starving parents are eating their children. I know this to be true, and have myself found human flesh on safe." Three Months in Famine's Grip. The district involved in the famine is known as "Kinpeh," meaning "north of the river," the stream being the Yangtse. For more than three months this region in northern China has been in the remorseless grasp of famine and famine-bred disease. Forty days of rain and consequent floods heaped calamity upon the 40,000 square miles of territory and its 15,000,000 of people. Before new crops can be raised it is estimated that, despite the best efforts for relief, the death list will exceed that of Naples, San Francisco and Jamaica rolled into one. Writing after a tour through one of the famine camps of 30,000 starving refugees, a correspondent said recently, "Little more than an hour ago I saw two women, presumably mother and grandmother, wailing over the tiny coffin of a child that had been part of grim famine's daily toll. "It is all so horrible, so overpowering, so haunting, so heartrending, that one cannot write of it in orderly fashion. It seems as if only the repeated cry of 'Help! Help! Help!' can be fashioned for the ears of the prosperous American people, to whom God has given a year of plenty, while the poor of China perish from want. "Out of the awful mass of suffering a succession of individual pictures comes trooping before my vision. There was the man, too weak to stand erect, who bore on his back, as older brothers carry babies in China, his blind old mother, the mere skin-and bone framework of a woman. They wanted help, and pleaded for it in the thin whine of the utterly miserable—and I dared not give them so much as copper! The Mother's Suffering. "Or that mother, hard-eyed and rigid, who stood against a wall with her six children gathered about her tattered skirts, staring out uncaring on a company of living refugees, who are a more melancholy sight than the thousands of ancient graves among which they are encamped. They had been fed—one portion of thin, watery rice porridge for them all—and now they must wait in the cold for another 24 hours to pass before they can be fed again—and even then some stronger ones may push them aside and steal their turn at the meager relief. "Strange incongruities flash into one's mind as he walks among among these 30,000 refugees. As I passed this morning an old, old woman, covered only by a few rags, who sat on the cold, bare ground, sharing her small bowl of rice with a babe of 12 or 18 months, evidently her grandchild, who sat on her knees, I thought of some grandmothers whom I know in America—sweet-faced and comfortable and kindly, whose evening of life is made pleasant by the love of children and grandchildren, and who know not the word want. And I recalled some baby friends—sweet, ruddy little dears, wrapped in the finest linen, with wardrobes upon which love has lavished its generosity, and whose food is a matter of careful consultation with physicians and friends. "Of course, I cannot imagine these delicately nurtured babes in dirty tatters and exposed to the cold winter night and day, week after week, yet sorehow one picture suggests the other. Just so, when a refugee mother accosted us this morning and asked us to accept her child as a gift, imagination brought instantly to view the preacessness of the American children I know. Suffering Unparalleled. "Incidents could be piled upon incidents; every one of these 30,000 refugees incarnates a story—a story of a home abandoned, of toilsome journeys to this southern district in the hope of finding a pittance of food to allay that awful gnawing of hunger; of the eager hunt for a sheltered nook in a doorway; of being driven from spot to spot, until at last a few feet of bare earth are secured out among the graves with the other refugees—a space no bigger than a Chinese grave suffices for an entire Chinese family; of the daily and nightly huddling together in one mass for the sake of human warmth; of the search for dry gra.s with which to make a tiny fire; of the morning struggle for a portion of the government rice and of that in describable, terrible, primitive duel between life and starvation which the Chinese so dauntlessly endure. "In all this, I write of the best, and not of the worst. This is only the first outpost of the famine district. Always Close to Starvation. "The Chinese live closer to actual starvation than it is possible for a westerner to comprehend; they are always poor. So the failure of the crops—not to mention the destruction of their homes by flood—at once placed them in a state of actual destitution, which can only be relieved when the wheat crop' is harvested in July. Meanwhile, owing to lack of seed, only half of the spring wheat crop has been planted." The cargo of food which the Christian Herald sent over to the stricken district in China cost $100,000, and this sum was raised by popular subscription. Its arrival in China is expected to do much for the sufferers, but more food will have to follow at once. Conditions have grown steadily worse, and plague has broken out in one or two of the provinces. The sufferers are huddled together in thousands in the camps. Millions Face Death. In Russia the conditions are little less appalling. For the first time in the history of such catastrophes in Russia the government itself is aroused to the necessity for relieving the stress. The famine affects no less than 20,000,000 peasants inhabiting an area half as large as the United States, and while this area lies between the steppes and "White Russia," the famine is affecting indirectly the people within the "pale" who depend upon the peasants for trade and commerce. The peasantry represents 85 cent. of the entire population. Their one means of livelihood is farming, and when the rain did not come to make their crops grow the past season their only hope of sustenance was gone. Last year in more than 1,500,000 square miles of Russian territory there was sowing but no reaping. The peasants hopefully put their little store of seed grain into the ground. When the arid land failed to return a crop, not only were they robbed of the fruits of their toil, but their seed grain itself, which might have served as food, was gone. There was nowhere to turn for work or succor. Hundreds of miles away there were cities, but the few daring ones who reached them sent back the hopeless words: "No work." Wholesale "Grafting." In 1891, when the famine killed hundreds, the Russian government hit upon the expedient of forbidding the word "hunger," but the famine of the present is so much greater that the government is fully alive to it. Besides having appropriated $35,000,000 already, it is now negotiating a loan of $37,000,000 more for famine relief. But even this sum is totally inadequate to the work in hand, especially as half of the money will line the pockets of official grafters to whom the deaths of thousands of poor peasants is merely an unfortunate incident in their own short cut to wealth. At present the relief work in Russia consists of dolling out a pound of bread a day to sufferers. The aged and minors get nothing. Some families of five or six have perhaps two who draw bread. Other families have none. If two of a family of six draw bread and divide it equally it means that each member eats one third of a pound a day. The regular diet of a Russian peasant is five pounds of bread daily. Thus the most fortunate are now existing upon one-fifteenth of their regular fare, or, to an American who has three square meals a day, two meals in three weeks. The very seeds of the weeds have been eaten and the ground has been striped of every green thing. The little horses have all been sold or eaten, and the occasional cows, too. Nothing remains but the hope of relief from the outside. There is no wood for fires and many families have joined together in one house for warmth, tearing the other dwellings down for fuel! It is estimated that in the provinces of Samara alone there will be 200,000 deaths in a total population of 3,000,000, and others of the 21 provinces affected will have like averages. Seek Aid of the World. Determined efforts are now being made to enlist the sympathy of the world with the suffering, ignorant peasants, and emissaries have been sent to this and other countries. M. Shiskoff, who is in America to enlist aid, says that $5 will save the life of an adult and that $5 will keep a child from dying. The immigrants to Boston from Russia are mostly people from the "pale" and they are taxed several times a year to help their persecuted friends and relatives at home. It is estimated that delegates from Russia took not less than $5,000 out of Boston last year to help the victims of persecution; and probably $5,000 more was sent across the sea to individuals, either to relieve suffering or to help them to emigrate. To the Russian Jews in this city the famine tragedy now enacting is the climax of misery long drawn out. They will do what they can, but as one of the men at the civic service house on Salem street said the other day: "Where our people can get more money to send to Russia is a puzzle; they have drained their purses time and time again; and now it remains for all the charitable in general over here to do their share." The famine means a tremendous setback to Russia. At present the problem is how to obtain food. Later will come the question of the future of provinces whose people have lost farms, animals and savings and have no money. Friends of Russia, however, see promise of better times ahead, although this necessarily involves a vast amount of work. The hope of the peasant in the famine area lies in his education in modern farming methods to take the place of the thousand-year-old customs which he still follows and in the installation of great systems of irrigation so that crops may be grown even when the rain falls. Round About New York Gossip of People and Things in the Great Metropolis RYAN TO RAISE PEANUTS IN HIS CONGO DISTRICT NEW YORK.—When Thomas F. Ryan interests himself in any enterprise he is more than likely to get everything out of it that can be made to yield a profit. When he acquired the 70,000 acres in the Congo district it was generally supposed that he would be satisfied with the gold, copper and rubber in sight there. But Mr. Ryan, as a Virginian, knows the potentiality of rich soil, and as there would be many thousands of idle acres in the Congo principality which he had acquired, and as this idle land would not yield any of the three great crops from which the greater part of his profit was supposed to come, he determined to put it to practical use. Virginia is a great peanut state. The soil conditions in Mr. Ryan's Congo domain are peculiarly well fitted for peanut culture. The best-paying grade of peanuts that come from the Virginia market are the so-called jumbo variety, a large, rich nut, abounding in oil and general all-around nutrition. Mr. Ryan is going to raise jumbo peanuts in his mid-African property. These jumbo peanuts will bring a big price in this market and will be instrumental in breaking many a corner as now engineered by the shellers in Mr. Ryan's own state. Men with all technical agricultural knowledge of ROUNDING out a romance that has as side issues a shock for Pittsburg society, thrills for New York and Paris, a bearing on the destiny of the world's biggest industrial concern and general interest for men and women the globe over, William Ellis Corey soon will take to 803 Fifth avenue as his bride Miss Mabelle Gilman, the actress and singer. Corey was reelected president of the United States Steel Corporation, largely through his own ability and the influence of H. C. Frick. His retention in that position at his record salary of $100,000 a year is considered to be sufficient vindication of his usefulness to the company and of the fact that his standing as a business man had not been affected by his domestic troubles. But it is said to be possible that even that large salary will be increased heavily and that Corey may go down in history as the most highly paid corporation officer in the world. At once, note the steel man's alone. At any rate, the steel man's plans ONE CHURCH IN GOTHAM THAT IS ALWAYS FILLED IN view of the appeal of a delegation of New York clergymen to President Roosevelt to aid them in inducing the people of the metropolis to attend religious services it is interesting to note that there is one church in New York that is not troubled by the problem of filling its pews, perhaps for the reason that it is an altogether new church, based upon the doctrine of the brotherhood and interdependence of man, and uniting all creeds while advocating none. The "People's Church," as it is called, flourishes in the midst of the East side population, under the auspices of the People's institute. Its meetings are held during 25 or 30 weeks of the year in the large hall of Cooper Union, and not infrequently the attendance is 2,000 or more. In this unique church the personal SALOON GEN. BINGHAM has completed the organization of a corps of secret police, a squad as faithful and watchful as the secret police of the czar of Russia. Not a move can be made by any member of the police force of Greater New York but will be reported to the commissioner. Every member is under the eye of this secret force, and the commissioner now knows more about the inside workings of the department than he ever dreamed of before. This is the first time in the history of America that the head of a police department has found it necessary to resort to a system of spies. The new force has been recruited from other large cities, and not one of them is known to the regular members of the the matter have been sent to the Congo. Probably the most used peanut is what is called the Spanish, an offshoot of what used to be exclusively grown in Spain. This is the little round peanut so much used for salting. In Virginia a greater part of the crop grown there is called Spanish No. 1. When the crop is short in Virginia the original Spanish is imported from Spain, but, in fact, it is grown in northern Africa. The conditions of the Virginia soil make it superior for this nut over any other section in the world except the Congo district. The jumbo variety brings the highest price, however, and naturally it was that variety that Mr. Ryan selected for his crop. He will later grow the Spanish peanut, which, although cheaper, has a greater sale than the jumbo. But Mr. Ryan's advisers, knowing that the jumbo would have the greater sale if the price were lower, have advised him to try that grade first. And that is the grade that Mr. Ryan will grow in the Congo district, and from the proceeds thereof he hopes to be able to pay no inconsiderable part of the expenses of the working of his rubber plantations, gold mines and copper enterprises. It is said that Mr. Ryan will go to the Congo before very long. COREY RENTS HOUSE AND WILL SOON WED ACTRESS show he is resolved on asserting himself not only in business but in society. He has leased the Fifth avenue house from Mrs. James E. Martin, who is going abroad for a year. It is not the most pretentious building in "millionaires' row," but it is the best dwellings Corey can get in New York in the wealthy district and the fact that he has leased it only for 12 months is taken as an indication that he will provide a more elaborate home for his bride by the time they are ready to make their first attack on the inner fortifications of metropolitan society. The present plan is that Miss Gilman shall be married to Corey in Paris. Cable dispatches of recent days have told of extensive purchases made by her in the bazaars and jewelry stores of the French capital's most fashionable district and the domestic wires have quoted her relatives as saying they would cross the ocean to see her become Corey's bride. views of the speaker upon controversial religious questions are never sought to be impressed, not only for the reason that the rules forbid any attempt at proselytizing or any attack of creed upon creed, but because the audience enjoys the unique privilege of answering back; and the clergyman who speaks for the first time from the Cooper Union platform faces the novelty of having crude thought or inapt statements challenged, and perhaps refuted, by his hearers. According to the statement of Prof. Charles Sprague Smith, founder and director of the institute, an occasional roll call of the audience by "isms" discloses "philosophical anarchists, socialists of every phase, single taxers and adherents of every creed under the sun as well as adherents of no creed at all." SQUAD OF SPIES TRAIL POLICE FORCE OF CITY New York force. Several large private detective agencies were called upon to furnish members of the force, and only the best trained plain clothes men have been accepted. Just how long this force of secret police has been at work no one knows except the commissioner and the men themselves. The regular members of the force, captains and inspectors, know they are being watched, and they have sent men out on the trail, but they have not yet been able to trace one member of the new force. It was declared that the recent raid upon the headquarters of the Policemen's Benevolent association in which $82,000 in cash was uncovered, was the result of information gathered by one of the members of the new force Tella a Story of Awful Suffering and Wonderful Relief. Mrs. J. D. Johnson, of 603 West Hickman St., Columbia, Mo., says: "Following an operation two years ago, dropsy set in, and my left side was so swollen the doctor said he would have to tap out the water. There was constant pain and a gurgling sensation around my heart, and I could not raise my arm above my head. The kidney action was disor- ago, dropsy set in, and my left side was so swollen the doctor said he would have to tap out the water. There was constant pain and a gurgling sensation around my heart, and I could not raise my arm above my head. The kidney action was disor- dered and passages of the secretions too frequent. On the advice of my husband I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Since using two boxes my trouble has not reappeared. This is wonderful, after suffering two years." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Great Stunt by Geronimo. In a single day Geronimo, when in his prime, ran 40 miles on foot, rode 500 miles on one stretch, as fast as he could change horses, and so completely wore out the column which finally captured him that three sets of officers were needed to finish the chase, and not more than one-third of the troopers who started were in at the finish, says a writer in Outing. Wrinkled and crafty and cruel is his swarthy face to-day, but the fire of his infernal energy has died and he is no more than a relic of the Geronimo of whom Gen. Miles said after their first meeting: "He rode into our camp and dismounted, a prisoner. He was one of the brightest, most resolute, determined men I ever met, with the sharpest, clearest dark eye. Every movement showed power and energy." Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Queen's Most Prized Decoration. Australians Will Go Back. Australia has arranged for the repatriation of 1.000 discouraged Australians now in South Africa. Household Remedies The modern patent medicine business is the natural outgrowth of the old-time household remedies. In the early history of this country, EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME-MADE MEDICINES. Herb teas, bitters, laxatives and tonics, were to be found in almost every house, compounded by the housewife, sometimes assisted by the apothecary or the family doctor. Such remedies as picra, which was aloes and quassia, dissolved in apple brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic, made of whiskey, hops and bitter barks. A score or more of popular, home-made remedies were thus compounded, the formulae for which were passed along from house to house, sometimes written sometimes verbally communicated. The patent medicine business is a natural outgrowth from this wholesome, old-time custom. In the beginning, some enterprising doctor, impressed by the usefulness of one of these home-made remedies, would take it up, improve it in many ways, manufacture it on a large scale, advertise it mainly through almanacs for the home, and thus it would become used over a large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSEHOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC FORM. Peruna was originally one of these old-time remedies. It was used by the Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, before it was offered to the public for sale. Dr. Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COMPOUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Mennonite origin. First, he prescribed it for his neighbors and his patients. The sale of it increased, and at last he established a manufactory and furnished it to the general drug trade. Peruna is useful in a great many climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds, sore throat, bronchitis, and catarral diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE USE OF PERUNA and its value in the treatment of these ailments. They have learned to trust and believe in Dr. Hartman's judgment, and to rely on his remedy. Peruna. Lincoln Institute A seven weeks' Summer School is held every year, which gives teachers an opportunity to increase their scholarship, their teaching power and their grade of certificate. 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A lady who sailed for her home in Germany a few days ago took with her a dozen nutmeg graters and some tea strainers to be distributed as souvenirs of her visit to this country. "When I was here 12 years ago," she said, "I brought home a nutmeg grater and gave it to an aunt and every housewife who gave it envied her. When this aunt dled everything she owned was disposed of in her will with the exception of the nutmeg grater, and so many in the family wanted it that the simple article threatened to cause a fight among the heirs. Now I will give each of them one and a tea strainer in addition. These are two household necessities which are almost unknown in the part of Germany that I live in." "The views I express about religion," said the tiresome controversialist, "may seem rather too broad to most people, but—" "Not at all," replied the candid man. "To most people they seem not so broad as they are flat."—Philadelphia Press. Walnut Street. SECOND FLOOR WE COMPLETE YOUR HOME With Everything in our Line Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, CHINAWARE, Etc. For Cash or on Easy Payments Rhodes, Haverty & Huppe Furniture Co. 611 Main Street Home Phone, 4958 Main F. G. McCULLOUGH, TAILOR Cleaning and Repairing Suits Made to Order All work promptly and neatly done. Work called for and delivered. ```markdown ``` Rhode THE RISING SON QUERY BOX. This query box is for the benefit of the public. Everybody is at liberty to ask questions, except those questions of the strictest private nature, etc., and to answer any question desired. You will please write your question or answer and bring or mail it to the office of the Son, 914 E. 12th Street. Why should so called leaders and politicians fight a good man like B. E. Allen? Why is it that the Negroes do not support their Newspapers, which are so valuable in giving to the world the progress of the race? How many Negro Doctors are there in the city practicing medicine? Which is the proper day for the Negroes to celebrate as emancipation day? Does this paper show signs of progress? If you want the best work done cheap bring all of your job printing to the Pising Son. That's what you want, what to wear good clothes and buy them on credit. Go to the Manter & Rosenbloom Co., 1017 19 Walnut Street. WANTED, bright, energetic, young man as solicitor and collector. For information call at the office of the Son 914 E. 12th street. Let us know what you are doing in business or society, let the people read in the Rising Son when you or your visiting friends go and come Both Phones 780 Main and Grand. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Adkins have opened a grocery store at 1607 Lydia ave. They will succeed because they are well known and well thought of by the people. Let them fill an order for you Bell phone 4886 Grand. 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. F. G. McC TAIL Cleaning and Suits Mad All work promptly and ne and d BELL PHONE E. 4369X If you are thinking about making a purchase it will be worth your while to come in and see us first. You can't beat our goods for reasonable prices, and terms made to suit. A large stock to select from. Three stores for your convenience. Miss Mable Cox has been on the sick list for about a weeok. She is recovering very nicely now and we hope she will regain former health. McCampbell and Houston are having their store remodeled. Electric lights and fans and a new model dispensing counter have been installed. They will be in line again with all the old favorites and also the latest in cold drinks. Mrs. E. B. Ramsey wife of Doctor Romsey left last Sunday evening to visit Mrs. Miller of Windsor, Mo. from thence she will go to St. Louis where she will stay six weeks or more. The marriage of Homer Webster and Miss Pearl Mitchell was performed Thursday April 25, by the Rev. Bacote at the brides house 1620 Michigan. The house was very beautifully decorated with American Beauty Roses, Palms, and Carnations. The bride wore a fine white Chiffon, dress, draped and trimmed with Belgium lace, and Chinese silk The best man was Leslie Brown of 3307 Virginia and Hallie Eligin. It was quite an affair both in solemnity as well as joyful. Some of those present were Mesdames Ellen Williams, S. H. Moore, Samuel Winston, John N. Kennedy, E. Brown, D. Williams, Mitchell, A. N. Mitchell, James Robinson, John H. Williams, Messers A. N. Mitchell, Luther Hudson, Ben F. Walton, John H. Williams, S. W. Bacote, Misses Lossie M. Pennisont Ethel Jackson, Kate Carr and also H. G. Williams, John Moreland Chas. D. Frazier and Cliffer Kelly, and Miss Storandt Fitzpatrick. Go Slow Young Men. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, advises students against deciding upon a vocation too soon. According to Dr. Butler, a man should not go to college with any settled convictions as to what he is to do. Dr. Butler holds that college is the place to make such a decision. The opportunities there are so many and varied that, according to the president, every man ought to find something to suit him. He implies that by the end of his senior year a man ought to have acquired enough knowledge to enable him to determine his right vocation. CULLOUGH, TUILOR and Repairing de to Order eatly done. Work called for delivered. ADDRESS 2209 VINE 1006-1008 East Eighteenth Street Home Phone 5077 Main ADDRESS 2209 VINE ```markdown ``` Kansas City, Kans. Store 612 Minnesota Ave. Home Phone 1073 West GET BUSY IF YOU WANT WORK! The Afro-American Employment AGENCY WILL GET YOU A JOB We Make a Specialty of Securing Positions for Reliable Colored Men and Women When out of Work don't waste your time hunting a job and chasing ads but come to us and we will locate you. OUR TERMS ARE REASONABLE Hotel Crews and Domestic Help sent to all parts of the country when transportation is furnished All calls given prompt attention. Reference: Missouri Savings Bank. We are bonded by the Metropolitan Surety Co. Office 1005 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. Home Phone 6236 Main Bell Phone 3662X Main F. J. WEAVER, A. RIVERS.