The Rising son. [volume], January 27, 1900, Image 1

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VOLUME V.
K PAN Y,
Bargain Specials,
.On Sale All This Week....
Ladies Suits, appropriate patterns, Latest styles
Ladies Fine Silh Shirts and Dresses,
Ladies Cloaks, Capes, Fur Mufflers S' Colaretts
Any of the above articles would make a useful Christmas present
The best attention and most courteous treatment to all alike.
The Household Loan Asociation.
Rooms 213, 214 Hall Building.
LOANS ON FURNITURE.
COAL, GOAL,
Get your Winter Fuel from
LOCK BROS., the reliable
colored Coal Dealers,
15th and Main streets.
-A A A A A ■<
We carry All Grades of Hard and Soft Coals,
Prices as reasonable as elsewhere. Orders
Promptly filled, Your trade solicited.
HeuJ $ York £ tyLilliriefy
1j.23 GIIA.KD AVE.
A STREET HAT CIVEN AWAY.
Owing 1 to our very -large stock, we
will give to every purchaser of a
1 rimmed Hat, a Hat for street wear.
c will sell everything dirt cheap.
e will continue this Sale until the
s tock is reduced very low. Come
I'arly and get first choice.
Human Hair bought and sold, Hair
Pitches made to order, Masquerade cos
tUrries for rent. Masks for sale.
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seeds
Onio n S Seed orn ' Special prices on
IJ T ( ii. lo . ts- Ca ‘ alogue Harnden Seed Co.
ephone 1618. 805 Walnut St., Kansas City’
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PARISIAN
1 108- 1 0 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Garden Seeds, Onion Sets, On
ion Seed, Garden Implements,
LET THE PEOPLE’S WELFARE BE THE SUPREME LAW.*
KANSAS CITY. MO., SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1900
Pabst Select on Henry Lvbbert,
Draught. Clerk.
MAX TEPPER,
SAMPLE ROOM
FINE WHISKIES,
WINES 8.
GIGARS. . . .
Family Trade a Specialty.
1 420 East 1 Bth Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
VIEWS OF THE NEGRO IN
THE WEST.
BY G. N. GRISHAM.
Principal ot Lincoln High School
The Negro is mainly in the South
ern States, but no inconsiderable num
ber are to found in the Great West.
if we start with Indianapolis and
move westward through large cities
to the Pacific slope, we follow the axis
of a Negro population amounting to
far more than a quarter of a million
souls. The largest number to be found
in any one state are in Missouri—the
only one of these states where slavery
existed. While these people form less
than one per cent of the total popula
tion, they constitute fully live per
cent of all the Negroes in America,
and present conditions of marked in
terest.
In the course of the past two de
cades there have been two movements
of population westward. In 1879 wide
spread discontent caused emigration
from various parts of the South to
Kansas. Later the opening of Okla
homa attracted thousands from the
same section and produced marked
movements from parts of the west
itself. Aside from these two move
ments there has been a steady drift
from the cities of the South and East,
to be explained only by the higher
price of labor in the West, and re
ports in regard to the kindly senti
ment of the people towards the Negro.
A slight examination of the statisti
cal tables discloses the fact that these
people, unlike their brethren in the
South, live mainly in the cities and
small towns. They are therefore to
but a slight extent engaged in agricul
ture or mining, though here and there
is a conspicuous example of success in
tilling the soil or searching the earth
for its hidden treasures. Kansas has
her black “potato king,'’ and Missouri
her rich lead miner who have made
thousands in their special industries.
Still it would be a mistake to suppose
that there is in the west a body of
wealthy colored men, though it has
besn estimated by Prof. J. M. Green
wood that the Negroes of Missouri are
worth fully $20,000,000. In the west
where so many forms of business are
conducted on a very large scale, the
man with small capital stands no show
against the iarge concerns that make
wheat-fields out of counties, enclose
single pastures with forty miles of
fence, plant orchards or orange groves
RIPANS tab mes
Doctors find
A Good
Prescription
for mankind -
Ten for five cents, at Druggists, Grocers, Restaurants
Saloons, News-Stands, General Stores and Barbers
cdiops. They banish pain, induce sleep, and prolong life.
One gives relief! No matter what's the matter, one will
do you good. Ten samples and one thousand testi
monials sent by mail to any address on receipt of price
by the Ripans Chemical Co., lo. Spruce St., New York City.'
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of many hundred acres, or invest hun
dreds of thousands in mining coal, zinc,
lead, silver and gold. And yet not a
few colored men have prospered by
lending their labor to these splendid
industries.
The western Negro loves the city.
And yet, despith the kindly sentiment
toward him, he does not, even in the
cities, secure so great variaty of em
ployment as ho does in the South. He
is.nractically excluded from the trades
and held by the trade unions to the
less remunerative forms of labor. In
Kansas City every white mechanic
would promptly lay down his tools if a
Negro were employed otherwise than
as a hod-carrier. Recently even the
hod-carriers had to wage a vigorous
war to prevent being crowded out of
their humble place in the building
trades. And yet for several years a
Negro architect and builder kept a
squad of white and black men busy
constructing houses of taste and beauty
in one of our western cities. Individ
uals may still be pointed out in any
western city who are making a living
at their trades, but they are fewer
than the number of white men engaged
in any one profession.—The Southern
Workman, Hampton, Va.
[To be Continued, j
GIVEN BACK TO EARTH.
Mrs Susan Beech, wife of MrC. W.
Beech, died last Tuesday, after a long
and painful illness. The funeral ser
vices were held Thursday afternoon,
r* Allen Chapel, Rev Gilbert officia
ting. Mrs Beech was a woman of fine
qualities and was much loved through
-01, t the community. She belonged to
the Daughters of Allen, where she did
a great deal of good work. Interment
took place at Independence.
Attention, Inventors.
We have received a pamphlet enti
tle “How to Obtain Patent, Caveat,
Trade-Mark and Copyright Protection
with Decisions in Leading Patent
Cases,” published by E. G. Siggers,
Washington, D. C-, who was for four
teen years late a member of C. A.
Snow & Co. The pamphlet contains,
among other things, a man of Wash
ington, and is replete with valuable
information to inventors. A copy of
it can be obtained free of charge, by
addressing E. G. Siggers, 918 F. street,
N. W., Washington, I). C.
BUTLER NEWS NOTES.
BY CHANG CHOO
Talk about’your good weather, this
is the real thing. Sunny Italy? Sunny
Missouri!
The spring elections will soon be
here, and then—!
Negroes, be true to your trust; do
your duty.
Mr Flavius Walker is still on the
sick list, but we understand that he is
some better.
The League was well attended last
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2598-IWI, no.it .)
night and the several numbers were
well rendered and well received. We
believe we have the banner League of
the State.
Sunday service was held at tho usual
hour by Rev D. J. Mitchell.
The Epworth League Topic Sunday
night was grand. We wish that more
would lend a helping hand to make
the welkin ring. Let eyeryone try to
make it a success.
Miss Hattie Fisher is on the sick
list.
Prof A. N. Wright is quite sick this
week.
The cabinet of the Epworth League
met last Wednesday night and elected
new officers for the new year. Now
let’s all join to make each department
of interest this year. For the literary
department we can say that we intend
to make it second to none, and hope
the same for the rest. Let each pres
ident make it his motto: Look up, lift
up and make the wheel go! Then it
will go.
The Teachers’ meeting is a great
help and a very important factor, and
should be more largely attended.
Mrs Jason Goff left Monday for a
week’s visit with relatives at Sedalia.
Small-pox at Topeka! The authori
ties have ordered a pest-house built at
the fair grounds, where some twenty-
five cases of small-pox will be quar
antined. It is feared that colder
weather may cause an epidemic of the
disease in Topeka.
Booker T. Washington addressed
the Young Men’s Sunday club, Sun
day, in Chicago, his subject being
"The Industrial Development of the
Colored Race in the United States.*’
The speaker predioted a bright future
for the colored people of this country.
He appealed to his hearers to aim at a
high moral character and try to ele -
vate the men and women of the race
who are less fortunate.
Quite an industry has been started
in Butler by the city council. They
are macadamizing a few of the outlv-
ing streets, and of course use lots of
rock. They pay so much a perch for
the rock, and the people break them
and haul thtm on the street. Any cit
izen can work, and employment is
thereby given to the unemployed. In
what is kNwwn as “Dark Town*’ there
is a big quarry, and wo “don’t do a
thing’* to that rock but send in about
six loads per day. Among the boys
who are working and making money
every day the weather is lit, are: Will
Harris, Andrew Misner, Will Woods,
Arthur Oaks, J. C. Duncan, William
Brown, .Jerry Majors, Gustavius Goff,
Gentry White, Craig Mills, Sam Ford.
Some are working for the exercise,
some because there is nothing else do
ing, and all are working ior the money.
Mrs Dollie A. Ford is substituting
for Prof A. N. Wright, who is sick.
“Resolved, that woman is not man’s
equal," was the topic of discussion at
the League, last night. Some of the
men will be dodging skillets and roll
ing pins in consequence.
Mrs Lucy Fisher, who lias been ill
for the past week, has fully recovered
and is out again.
You who are delinquent in your sub
scriptions please cail and settle.
Mr Sam Fisher is now clerking in
Sam Ford’s cash grocery.
Bing. Crouch and Luther Crouch
both have coon dogs and are now
engaged nightly in chasing Mr Coon
and O. Possum, and we had the satis-
action of trying a piece of roast coon,
whieh was fine.
A Feminine View.
Kate —“So Carrie is to be married? 1
fuppose she is very happy?”
Ruth—“ Happy? I should say so! Mr.
Fixton, her fiance : doesn’t amount to
much, but her trousseau is just ala
ga»t."—Boston Transcript
COME HERE FOR
FINE * JOB * PRINTING
We are doing first-class Job
Work at reasonable prices 3
US A TRIAI ORDER,7~7«fr
Lincoln’s Birthdav
entertainment
At Strope’s Hall, Ninth A
Central, Monday eve, Feb.
I2th. By Lincoln League.
Tickets on sale by commit-
tee, 25 and 50c. Program
next week.
The records of the Hydrographic
Bureau at Washington show that the
terrible hurricane which wrought
wholesale destruction in Porto Rico
in August last was longer lived than
any storm hitherto reported to the
bureau. It lasted from Aug. 3 until
Aug. 21, within which time it trav
eled between 4,000 and 5,000 miles.
It also began its career farther east
than any tropical storm yet on record.
It was first noticed on Aug. 3, about
half-way between the coasts of Africa
and South America, a little below
north latitude 12 degrees. On the Sth
its center ravaged Porto Rico, then it
turned up the coast of the United
States, and was last noticed, fast dy
ing out, about 800 miles directly east
of New York.
Up till the present time it seems that
the bicycle has only figured once in a
sculptured memorial of the dead, and
to a young Rio widow belongs the
credit of having originated the idea in
this instance. She was introduced to
her late husband while out wheeling,
and, therefore, when death put an end
to her married life, she thought it
suitable to introduce the cycle in her
husband’s memorial. She accordingly
desired the sculptor to depict her first
meeting with her husband, bicycle and
all, and herself in "rational” dress, in
alto relievo on the marble gravestone.
The effect is said not to be exactly ar
tistic. —Undertakers’ Review.
Remimixcence of Benedict Arnold.
A “withering glance’’ indeed must
Benedict Arnold have cast upon the
w’illow which, lifeless and unsightly,
remained for many years almost oppo
site West Point, and upon which he
is said to have bent a parting look
when fleeing along the river path to
the Vulcan, which bore him to Eng
land—a sure sign, said the supersti
tious, that the glance of a traitor will
kill the healthiest tree. Benedict Ar
nold is said to have had a passion for
willows, and to have been especially
fond of this particular tree.—New
York Tribune.
Increase of European Armies.
Within ten or twelve years the Rus
sian army has increased, on a peace
footing, from 800,000 men to 860,000;
that of France has grown from 520.-
000 to 580,000; Germany has increased
her 450,000 men by 135,000 more; and
Austria has raised the number of her
soldiers from 300,000 to 395,000. The
expenditure of Great Britain on her
army and navy has grown within the
same period from £31,000,000 to nearly
£46,000,000, and we shall probably
spend about a million and a half more
tn the coming year.
Every Siamese girl, who reaches a
certain age without marrying is tick
eted and labeled and placed in a privi
leged class, under the special care o£
the king, who binds himself to find a
husband for them all. His method is
delightfully simple. A prisoner in any
of the Siamese gaols his par*
don and release by marrylxl 6 one of the
ineligible class. Whetner ne is already
married or not Is not of great conse
quence, for in Siam it is not necessary
to draw the line at one wife. This
method of matchmaking can hardly re
sult in domestic bliss.
ALL KINDS OF
NUMBER 5.
A Wonderful Storm.
A Strange Gravestone.
Strange Siamese Cuntom.