Kansas City Advocate

THE KANSAS CITY INDEPENDENT. For GoodFurniture at Low Prices See: M.K. & T. Auct. Co.730 Minn. Subscription $1.00 Per Annum For Good Fun SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. We publish in this column a resolution that was read to the Inter-state Literary association at Hutchinson last week, and which was unanimously accepted and adopted by that brainy body of men and women. Our historians of modern times are divided on the origin of this word in which this resolution refers to, "Negro." The origin of a word comes from its classification, so if it is in the unclassified list it's a misnomer or misfit. The Hon. J. H. Guy of Topeka, Kas., one of the race's brightest attorneys, is the framer of this resolution and his philosophy and logic in his argument ought to cause thinkers to think and not thank so much. Believing that the word "Negro" has no legitimate origin and that its use when applied to the black race, or colored people of this country, tends to etigmatize and place upon them the badge of inferiority, and believing that such a designation is hurtful inasmuch as it leads to segregation, and encourages race hate, and the establishment of prejudice between the blacks and whites of this country. An knowing as we do, that the word wherever and whenever used, causes a look either of pity or contempt upon the race to which the term is applied. And whereas, the colored people of this country desire that no special favors be given, or shown them, and that no impediments of any kind be placed in their way, but only desire to have an equal chance with all others in the race of life, and to enjoy in common all of the rights and privileges that the constitution and laws guarantee to all citizens, desiring no exemption from any of the pleasures, responsibilities or obligations of good citizenship. Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Inter-State Literary association of Kansas and the West, in regular session assembled in the city of Hutchinson, and in the State of Kansas, that we will not use the word Negro in any manner, shape or form, and that we will discourage the use of it at all times and on all occasions when we have the proper opportunity to do so. Be It Further Resolved, That any member of this association, or any other person using the word in this association, will be considered indecorous, as using language unbecoming a lady or gentleman. Be It Further Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be given by the secretary of this association, to the press of his state, to the Crisis, and to the president of the National Negro Business League. The what so ever club will lot meet again until the first Friday in February. Miss Mae Balcher Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. in St. Louis spent a forenoon at the Branch last week. The girls of the grade school appreciate the story hour. Last Sunday twenty five girls listened attentively to the stories which Miss Jaunita Howard told them. The "Glad Girls" entertained their friends at the Y. W. C. A. on Wednesday Dec. 29 from 2 to 6. Wlyma Dwiggins, Thelma Jackson, Evanne Adams and Mildred Owens acted as hostesses for the club. The girls spent a very pleasant afternoon. Sunday Miss Jaunita Howard told the Glad Girls the story of Epaminondas and because some of those present were already familiar with that story she told also the story of David and Gollath. The second term in gymnasium work begins in February. Enroll now. All of the Glad Girls have planned to join the gymn class in February. They are anxious that all the girls of grade school age should join with them. Girls of grade school age are invited to the Story Hour at the Y. W. C. A. on Sunday from four to five. Miss Ethel Caution Davis will tell the story. Mr. and Mrs. New entertained friends at their home December 29. Mrs. Louis New is visiting Mrs New from Omaha, Neb. VOL. 2. RESOLUTION. 15. Society Opens the New Year with a Swell Reception ALPHA ART CLUB RECEIVES. Alpha Art club, one of the oldest and largest clubs of the city, received its members and guests New Years day at the spacious residence of Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Thompson, 1321 North Eighth street. A special committee decorated the mantel in the large double parlor with miniature snow, frost and ferns and the large dining room had festoons of cedar and ferns, also bells and Christmas colors. The reception committee with the president greeted each guest and vied with each other in making all happy from 2 to 9 p. m. The refreshments were delicate but delightful. Some of the musical features were: Vocal solo, Miss O. Scott, B. Green and Mrs. A. D. Holmes, T. Davis and Mrs. C. Evans; instrumental solo, Miss A. Jackson. Some of the many beautiful costumes worn were: Mrs. S. H. Thompson, ivavender silk; Mrs. Nellie Wilson, president, brown cloth with fur; Mrs. Dr. Hayden, secretary, black skirt and white lace waist; Mrs. Marie Wilson, steel colored silk; Mrs. B. Lee, blue silk with Persian panne velvet; Mrs. S. Chinn, grey silk; Mrs. M. C. Matthews, black silk velvet trimmed with silver beads and fur, and beaded silk chiffon bolero and white rose; Mrs. H. Gamble, black silk; Miss Mabel Wilson, black silk skirt, and white silk waist; Mrs. O. B. Johnson, drab silk; Mrs. Holmes, of Kansas City, Mo., pink silk with black silk net; Mrs. Ed Smith, dove colored silk; Mrs. Jordan, Kansas City, Kansas, black silk; Mrs. Piggue, ping silk; Mrs. Neely, black silk; Mrs. Fields, white silk and silver trimmings; Mrs. Buster, black silk brocaded velvet; Miss Ruth Bradley, green silk velvet; Mrs. Clayborn, blue crepe de chine; Mrs. C. S. Matthews, blue silk; Mrs. C. Evans, rose colored silk; Mrs. Jordan, Kansas City, Mo., handsome painted silk, circular skirt with plaited scallops; Mrs. Johnson, blue chiffon; Miss Gertie Jackson, dove colored silk; Mrs. Taylor, black silk skirt and white silk waist; Mrs. Rice, black and white silk; Miss Maude Turner, elegant broadcloth; Mrs. Dyson, black silk; Mrs. Fairfax, of Kansas City, Mo., silk brocaded velvet; Miss Marie Johnson, pale blue silk chiffon; Mrs. J. Palmer, black satin; Mrs. Maud Brooks, silk; Mrs. Milligan, draped black satin; Mrs. Dr. Davis, silk; Miss Maud Olden, Mrs. Sallie Jordan-Love and others from Kansas City, Mo., were also guests. All departed highly pleased with the entertainment of most of K. C., K.'s elite "500." FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The first Baptist Church Brotherhood met Sunday January 2nd at 5 P. M. open in usual form. Prayer by the Pastor. It being the first meeting in the New Year. The Pastor Rev. Bowren suggested that we discuss the best method of assisting in the spiritual work of the church. And for every member of the brotherhood to make himself a committee to see that the plans suggested be carried out, also to invite all members of brotherhood to come out to the next meeeting for the purpose of electing officers to carry the plans suggested. All members and friends of the Brotherhood are requested to be present. Topic for next Sunday Jan. 9th 5 P. M. "Ways of Coming to Christ," "Ways of bringing men to Christ" Jno. 1-35-51. A. Geren, Pres., H. Mesley, Sec. Out of Town Subscribers All out of town subscribers who are in arrears will have until Feb. 1st to get square with Our books, Those who fail to do so, will be dropped. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, JAN. 7, 1916 CHAPLAIN PRIOLEAU AND FAMILY LEFT SUNDAY FOR HIS REGIMENT. Chaplain G. W. Prioleau and his wife, Mrs. Anna Stafford Prioleau and their two little daughters, Mary and Ethel, left Sunday at 11 a. m. after a pleasant two months' visit with Mrs. Prioleau's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stafford of 405 State street for Fort Huachua, Arizona, where the 10th U. S. Calvary is stationed. The Chaplain was recently transferred from the 9th Cavalry of which he had been the spiritual advisor for more than twenty years, to the 10th. This regiment may feel highly honored in having this divine sent to them as their chaplain and his kind and gentle wife, with her two sweet little girls will add much to the happiness and comfort of those about them. Their many friends here wish for them all that life can bring into their being. Nuttall-Taylor Nuptials. A very quiet yet charming wedding was that which took place Saturday night, December 25, at nine o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nuttall, 619 New Jersey, when their daughter, DeAlma, became the bride of Mr. Chauncey Taylor. The house was beautifully decorated with Christmas greens, mistletoe and bells. The ceremony was performed before members of the two families and a few friends. Rev. D. A. Holmes performed the ceremony. Before the ceremony Mrs. D. A. Holmes sang, "O Promise Me," after which she played the wedding march. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was charming in a dainty gown of pale pink silk. Many valuable presents were received. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are now at home, 619 New Jersey. FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH. Services the first Sunday of the New Year were largely attended. Rev. Isaacs, vice dean of Western University, preached a most interesting and soul-stirring sermon and five connected themselves with the church. Revival services have been going on this week conducted by the Rev. Isaacs, while the attendance has been small much interest has been manifested by those coming out and confessions have been made by sinners. There were two conversions Watch meeting night and four others joined the church. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. While many watched the old year out and the new year come in with song and prayer some ushered it in with folly and unconcernedness. * * * The most of our students have returned for business after spending the holidays at home or with friends. * * * Revival services started with the New Year at the most of the churches. Many of the sick of our city are finding their way gradually back to normal conditions. * * * Mr. J. Bland Brown, one of the leading cleaners and dyers of our city and the only colored one, says he has been able in the past two weeks to get a little rest, but as school has reopened he is ready with that same old vigor in taking care of his old customers as in the past, and many new ones, who will give him an opportunity. DON'T forget that money must accompany all matter to be published such as wedding announcements, resolutions of any kind, cards of thanks, memoriums, obituaries and lengthy club reports. So to insure publication of any of these mentioned send cash in with your matter or see the editor. A Royal Reception ADELPHIA ART CLUB'S OPEN HOUSE. The Adelphia Art Club royally entertained its members and friends at the pretty residence of Mrs. Collins, 1058 Freeman avenue, on New Year's day from 2 to 6 p. m. Mrs. Dilbert, the president, and the reception committee introduced the guests and made it pleasant for all. The triple parlors were tastefully decorated with festoons of bells of red and green, and the guests were ushered into the pretty dining room where they were served most delicious ice cream and angel cake, etc. Some of the many pretty costumes worn were: Mrs. M. Dilbert, black satin; Mrs. Pin, pink silk, Mrs. Mulligan, black satin; Mrs. L. Jones, silk; Mrs. B. Lee, blue silk and Persian panne velvet; Mrs. M. C. Matthews, black silk velvet with fur; Mrs. A. J. Hill, silk; Mrs. J. Palmer, black satin and many other pretty costumes we did not get. The afternoon was delightfully spent in conversation, music, etc. The guests being from the most select people of K. C., K's "400" made the affair one of the most pleasant of the season. Adelphia gave its guests souvenir cards with their colors, pink and green silk ribbon. CUTTING OUT WASTE MOTION Unnecessary Fatigue May Be Avoided and Much Greater Amount of Work Accomplished. "There is no waste of any kind in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed and ineffective motions, and their resulting unnecessary fatigue." This remark was made in a talk before the American Academy of Political and Social Science by Frank B. Gilbreth, the man who discovered lost motions in bricklaying and who has since devoted his time to scientific motion study. Devising ways of preventing this waste is now occupying a great deal of attention, and bringing to economy of labor the application of scientific principles has caused a readjustment of working conditions in many industries. The application of so-called efficiency methods in business means simply showing an exact regard for the relation of labor to a given task so that there shall be no waste effort. Our offices and factories are being readjusted so that time and unnecessary steps shall be saved. Establishing motion standards for the performance of routine work has resulted in increased output and increased wages, with an accompanying decrease in cost. Mr. Gilbreth points out that most of us do not stop to think about the time we waste in the performance of ordinary duties. It is declared that what motion study has done for the industry it will do for all human activities, and that a little more clear thinking about the things we do—a little less senseless hurry—and at the end of the day we will have attained greater accomplishment, with less fatigue, and will be in better sorts with ourselves and the world. HISTORY ONE OF BLOODSHED Record of Serbia Has Been a Continuous Tale of Atrocity and Wrongs It Was Powerless to Avenge. It Was Powerless to Avenge. The characteristics of no people in Europe are probably so little known to the world at large as those of Serbia. The Serbians are a primitive people with strong passions and inspired as are all primitive people by the clan spirit. The vendetta and blood feud prevail among them. Of the seven Serbian princes who have ruled the land since the beginning of the nineteenth century the first, Karageorgevitch, was murdered; the second, Prince Milosh, was expelled; the third, Prince Michael, was murdered; the fourth, Alexander Karageorgevitch, had to abdicate; the fifth, King Milan Obrenovitch, was expelled; the sixth, King Alexander I, was murdered; the seventh, King Peter, the present ruler, has spent much of his life in exile. Serbia is a peasant state with a liberal and progressive constitution. The national parliament is elected by universal male suffrage and a large proportion of the members belongs to the peasant class. It is a homogeneous nation of independent farmers. It has been called "the poor man's paradise," as there are inexhaustible mineral resources in the mountains, but Serbia has been less explored than the most remote parts of the United States. WYANDOTTE HAS A CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER. Wyandotte county with the state's metropolis, has never been piggish in asking for places on the state ticket at any time although having within her borders any number of strong and worthy men. They have not stayed in the background because they did not want to be on the ticket or the honor, but from time to time have simply done the Good Samaritan act and helped the other fellow in other parts of the state, so Wyandotte has commenced to feel that she has been the good old plow ox long enough to be turned around and be allowed to eat a little of the fodder and that good old ox is no less than Wylie W. Cook, the present assistant state treasurer, who lives at the corner of Seventh and Freeman. As a Republican it would be wasting time to speak of his loyalty and as a man of worth and ability every citizen of his city and county can vouch for him. Mr. Cook was chief of police of this city some few years ago and it can be truthfully said no better officer ever was honored with that rank than he. His four years' experience as assistant treasurer will strongly appeal to the wisdom of the taxpayers of the state. It is conceded at this time by many who make it their business every campaign of what they call "simmering down" the candidates, and Wylie Cook is simmered down for the nomination for state treasurer and its without saying that would be the equivalent to his election. Miss Zellner Entertains. Miss Nina Zellner entertained on New Year's evening in honor of her holiday guests, the Misses Louise Johnson and Eva West, of Denver, Colo. Miss Zellner had about twenty-five of her closest friends and the evening was spent with cheer and joy by all present. The evening guests departed at a late hour, declaring the hostess an ideal entertainer. Listening for Bullets. X-rays have enabled doctors to accomplish miracles in the way of finding foreign substances in the human body and of treating internal wounds, and now there has come an invention that actually enables physicians to discover embedded bullets by sound. It is described in Tit-Bits: The apparatus consists of a special telephone, with double receivers. One end of the telephone wire is attached to a small piece o' platinum, which is placed on the patient's skin near the wound and held in position by plaster or by a bandage. The other end of the telephone wire is in the form of a disinfected thread of silver, which is used because it can be readily attached to any of the surgeon's instruments—a knife, a probe, a needle or a pair of forceps. The only precaution necessary is that the terminating wire should be very firmly attached to the instrument. When the surgeon puts the telephone receiver to his ear and begins to use his instrument on the tissues, he will hear with great distinctness a grating sound that is known as a microphonic rattle the instant the instrument touches any metal imbedded in the patient's tissue. The value of this apparatus to surgeons on the battlefield is naturally very great. Art and the War. If every work of art existing in the western world were obliterated, and every artist killed, would human nature return to the animalism from from which art has in a measure raised it? Not so. Art makes good in the human soul all the positions that it conquers. When the world is over, the world will find that the thing which has changed least is art. Certain withered leaves, warts, dead branches will have sloughed off from the tree; the sap will run at first a little faster for the temporary check, and that is all. The wind of war reeking with death will neither have warped nor poisoned it. The utility of art, which in these days of blood and agony is mocked at, will be raised again into the view even of the mockers, almost before the thunder of the last shell has died away. "Beauty is useful," says Monsieur Rodin. Aye! it is useful.—John Galsworthy, in Atlantic. Clever Invention. William Beach, the New South Wales trooper who invented the rifle periscope which has been used in Gallipoli, is the second son of the ex-champion sculler of the world. He is twenty-three years old. NO.20 Dr. S. H. Thompson in Topeka DR. THOMPSON MEETS THE STATE ORGANIZATION OF HOSPITALS AT TOPEKA. Dr. S. H. Thompson of this city, surgeon-in-chief of Douglass hospital on Washington boulevard attended at Topeka last week the meeting of the state organization of hospitals, he being the only colored representative present. When it comes to surgery and medical science, we have probably no physician black or white, in this part of the West who is Dr. Thompson's superior, and a very few equals. He keeps himself at all times in the front rank of the medical profession. The doctor is also grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of the state and his work since he became its head a little over a year ago has been phenomenal and by the close of his second term it looks like the membership will nearly double 'itself. Dr. S. H. Thompson EDWARDSVILLE, KANSAS I hope you enjoyed this Christmas. And congratulate the coming New Year Hoping your smiles will hasten your footsteps On the way to success. As you are thinking of the passing old year, Looking forward for a better spring, To bring us a real good season, Especially for our Potato King. —AMANDA WEBSTER. Mr. Webster is still on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Groves are much improved after a severe sick spell. Mrs. Bettis' daughter is up and around again after a sick spell. There were quite a number out to the Christmas tree in spite of the first snow fall. Mrs. W. Bettiss had quite a reunion, her three brothers from Kansag City and mother from Bethel, Kas., spent Sunday with her. Amanda and Minnie Webster's cousins, Cora Gentry, of Omaha, Milda Gentry, Topeka, Henry Gentry, of Bonner Springs, Julia Clay of Colorado, John and Bell Stewart of Bonner Springs, Harrison Rods, of Oklahoma, spent Tuesday with them. Mr. Reed Flemmings and friend spent Christmas week with Mr. J. G. Groves. They returned to Pratt, Kas., this morning. Parthena Webster came home on a vacation from Kansas City, where she has been attending Sumner school. Minnie Webster expects to go to school at Lincoln High at Kansas City, Mo., after Christmas week. Amanda, Minnie and Willis Webster June Groves, J. R. Jasper Francis took Christmas dinner with the Gentrys in Bonner Springs. Mrs. Webster spent the afternoon with Mrs. Bennit Xmas day. Also her brother and Mr. Will Shannon from Bonner Springs, were present. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grove's son, William Groves and wife, from Kansas City, Mo., spent Xmas with them. His sister Helen went back with them. Miss Bertha and Miss Nina Groves spent Christmas in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. S. Divers, daughter, Ophelia, came home on an Xmas visit. Mrs. Griggs is complaining with the la gripe. Her sister, Mrs. Combs is stopping with her for the winter. Miss Ophelia Bennett taken suddenly ill. Mr. Allie Groves and Ora June Groves and Jasper Francis came down to Webster last night. THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop. Published every Friday at 932 Oak- land Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas The Independent is a weekly Journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Splits. SUBSCRIPTION. For Year ..... $1.00 Six months ..... .60 Three months ..... .25 Single Copy ..... .05 ADVERTISING RATES. Made on Application. BELL PHONE WEST 455W. "Entered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the post office at Kansas City, Kansas, under the last of March 3, 1879." Don't forget The Independent collectors when they call. It's only 10c per month and no one should put the collector off. The editor of The Independent is glad to know that our brother editor, Mr. Nick Childs, of the Topeka Plaindealer, has nearly recovered from a severe spell of sickness. The Gurkha's Charge The Gurkha's Charge. That the Indian troops not only respect but love their officers is illustrated in the following humorous story from T. P.'s Journal: A young English subaltern had just arrived at the front, and his superior officers, who were not at all sure of him, gave an old Hindu soldier of his regiment orders to keep his eye on him. The Indian was very proud of his trust, and looked after the young fellow as if he had been his own son, although he was always perfectly respectful and obedient. Then, one afternoon, the German across the way started a violent bombardment. Carried away by his feelings, the boy jumped up and exposed himself unnecessarily to their fire. The Gurkha immediately pulled him back, pushed him to the floor of the trench, and sat on him! The young Englishman struggled to rise, but the Gurkha sat tight. "Not yet, sahib," he cried, "not yet!" And it was not until the colonel gave the order to charge that the conscientious Hindu allowed his prisoner to rise, saluted him respectfully, and charged the enemy trenches at his side. Treasure Ship Ready. The staunch old whaler Jeanette is receiving a coat of paint and a powerful engine is being added to her equipment in the Pacific shipyard at Alameda Point, Cal. The Jeanette, for a long time, has lain idle, but now she is going to sail again on a long expedition to the South seas. She will carry adventurers to Cacos island to search for fabulous treasures thought to have been hidden by "Red Jacinto," a pirate chieftain. The party is to be headed by Capt. James Brown of Portland, Me., and is composed of business men from Springfield, Mo., and Kansas City, who have formed a syndicate to finance the expedition. They will leave Oakland, Cal., in a few days. Wood Pulp Substitute for Cotton. A German chemist is working on a process which is expected to make wood pulp available as a substitute for cotton in the manufacture of high power explosives. The pulp is prepared and made into sheets much the same as in the manufacture of paper. The only difficulties yet remaining arise from the fact that the material contains impurities which make the explosive uncertain and highly dangerous to handle. --- Painting With Airbrushes Painting and varnishing of large surfaces is now being successfully accomplished by means of airbrushes, which send the liquid paint in a huge spray all over the object. At a big furniture factory in New York they place a chair upon a revolving platform under a galvanized iron hood, in the back of which is an electric fan drawing the air out into an exhaust flue, and in the top of which are electric lamps in front of reflectors. The painter stands with an object that looks like a pistol in his hand. This is the airbrush, which is attached to a tube leading from a tank in which the paint is under 70 pounds of pressure furnished by a dynamo and is kept constantly stirred. On pressing the trigger the paint is projected like a shower bath all over the chair. Cow's Disquise Washed Off. A copious coating of whitewash and ink dye successfully transformed a Jersey cow into a beautiful white and black Holstein, until Louis Nickarian, living near Los Angeles, Cal., who had stolen the animal and was leading it to a slaughterhouse, was overtaken by a shower. Then the colors ran. Caught near the home of the owner of the animal, Nickarian resorted to brutal measures to hide his crime, slashing off the cow's tall and removing the horns. He is under arrest. BUSINESS DIRECTORY ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Bell Phone West 3866. E. A. SHACKELFORD. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 516 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell Phone 424 West. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. 516 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell, W. 2335 I. F. BRADLEY. Lawyer. 721 Minnesota Avenue, Rooms 5 and 6 Bell W. 2569. WYATT & RANDOLPH. Undertakers. 920 North Third Street. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. REAL ESTATE Real Estate and Rentals. C. W. NELOMS & CO. Real Estate Dealers Have All Kinds of Property for Sale and Rent. PRICES TO SUIT PURCHASER See Us Before Closing Deal We Will Save You Money 500 Minn. Ave. Up-Stairs, K. C., K. Home Phone, W. 1036. Bell Phone, West 1743. Bell Phone, West 1757 EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN Real Estate and Insurance Brokerage Investigated Investments, Cozy Cottages, Farms for Farmer Folk. SUBURBAN TRACTS 26th and Parkway. Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 823 McNEAL & ANDERSON Real Estate Agents 100 Propositions to Select From. 400 Minn. Ave Kansas City, Kans. PHYSICIANS. DR. T. H. JOHNSON, M.D. Constitutional Specialist 318 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. DR. J. H. MIXON, M.D. 313 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Office Phone Bell West 380 Residence 1321 N. 8th St. Bell Phone, 361 West S. H. THOMPSON, M. D. Office 1512 N. 5th Street Bell Phone, West 3711 Office Hours: 8 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. At Night. DR. LEE R. PETTY Physician and Surgeon 516 Minnesota Ave. OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 to 11:30 a. m.; 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p. m. Bell Phone, Office and Residence, Main 1219 DR. H. M. BRATHWAITE Physician and Surgeon S. W. Corner James and Central KANSAS CITY, KANS. DENTISTS Bell Phone W. 1864. DR. MARION COTTEN, DENTIST. 514 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. GROCERS C. E. CANNON STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIE& Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Etc. Bell Phone 1955 N. 3rd St. NEW REFORM BARBER SHOP. The tonsorial shaving parlor which is named the New Reform, is well worthy of the name, for as one enters this shaving parlor he readily sees it's run and operated, on a higher plane than most of the business places of this kind is conducted. Mr. Stines is not going to stop at this one shop, but will place other shops of this calibre in other parts of the city in a short time with good men in them. His central shop will be the one at the corner of State avenue and Sixth street. Mrs. Lucinda Clark entertained on Christmas evening at her home, 1116 Oakland avenue, a number of her friends in honor of her birthday. The rooms were decorated beautifully with holly and ferns. Mrs. Clark was nicely remembered by her friends. W. C. CARROLL FANCY GROCERIES, MEATS, CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS, ETC. Bell Phone West 1653. 2120 NORTH THIRD STREET P. R. CHESTER Two Stores FANCY GROCERIES 801 N. Fourth St. 2404 Tremont St. Groceries and Ice Cream Parlor. HILL & HILL Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions. Bell Phone, 385 West 2702 North Sherman St. G. P. McNAIR Fancy Groceries, Meats and General Merchandise 1607 N. Tenth St. Kansas City, Kasa. Bell Phone E. 3062W. Free Delivery If you want Barbecued Meats, that's my business. R. W. ALEXANDER 1619 E. 18th Street KANSAS CITY, MO. TRANSFER CO'S Home Phone West 473. Bell Phone West 247. Business Directory TOM CROWDER TRANSFER CO., Does a General Moving, Packing, Ship- ping and Storage Business. Office 412 Minnesota Ave. EXPRESS AND PAPER HANGING. Expressman, Paper Hanging, and Kalsomining work. No job too small to save money. Call Bell West 483 F. W. RAGSDALE, 228 Virginia Ave. STOVE DOCTOR. Nathan Taylor, "The Handy Man," All kinds of repairing of all kinds of stoves. Steam and Gas Fitting. 324 Minnesota avenue, K. C., K. F. D. HOWE. Painting, Plastering, Paper Hanging. 1722 North Third 8t, KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell Phone West 3385—Ring 1. A. J. HILL, Groceries, Meats, Dry Goods and No tions. Corner 11th and Freeman Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 433. COAL DEALERS. W. H. LAMBRIGHT & CO., Dealer In Coal, Ice and Feed. Office 1620 N. 9d St. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 1923. JEWELER J. A. WILSON is Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler. RELIABLE JEWELRY 1616 W. 9th St. K. C., Mo. Bell Phone M. 6248R. JEWELER Local Happenings Mrs. Gloria Branch on Everett was reported ill with pneumonia. The Misses B. and S. Green gave a watch party New Year's Eve night. Miss Johnson one of our most mannerly teachers visited her mother in Quincy Ill. recently. We regret that Mrs. Sophia Stewart on Nebraska avenue, is reported unable to move at all. She is paralyzed. Mrs. B. C. Scott got her foot cut severely. We hope it will soon get all right. Rev. Holmes' mother from Fayette, Mo. visited her son on Freeman Avenue Miss Leona Green, after visiting relatives a week in this city, returned to Emporia to attend school. Miss Rubie Hill, who is here from Emporia, is said to be unable, physically, to return to school Mr. C. W. Barnett fell the other week and hurt his back, which disabled him for work. Mesdames J. P. King, W. H. Thompkins, M. Green and Miss J. Green were also guests at the Alpha Art club's "open doors." Also three past City Federation presidents were in attendance, viz.: Mr. C. Matthews, B. Lee, L Sewall and M. Brooks, present president. THE KANSAS CITY INDEPENDENT Hodgson Mirror Co Old mirrors resilvered NEW ONES MADE TO ORDER Work Guaranteed HOME PHONE W. 1619 1017 N. 5TH ST. Kansas City Kansas Mrs. Mattie Johnson and her daughter, Mae, of 1908 N. C. street, are on the sick list. Mrs. S. J. Thomas and her friend from Lawrence attended the Alpha Art club open doors. Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Guy of 2317 Hallock, December 17th, a fine girl. Mother and daughter are doing fine. Miss Fountella New entertained friends of W. U. school and Sumner high school December 30. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, on State Avenue, served luncheon to Mrs. Matthews and other friends this week. Mrs. D. Curtright, Mesdames A. Curtright of Oklahoma and Mrs. Rhodes were guests at supper at Mrs. Pierces in K. C. Mo. Miss Blanche Brooks, on Nebraska avenue, has returned from California and we are proud to say was baptised by Rev. Bowren recently. Our friend, Mrs. James Lankford, of 837 Nebraska avenue fell in her yard on December 24 and broke the bones in her wrist. She suffered a great deal. Miss Jackie Brown, of 834 Freeman, who has been down sick for two weeks is much better now. Young people go and see her. We learn that Mrs. Dora Maddux who is in the Southland visiting her parents and other relatives and friends, is having a fine time. We hope that she will not forget us. Now since the holidays are over Mrs. L. D. Hall is in hopes that she will be able to sell the "Life of Blind Boone" and the "Negro Girl." Miss Bessie Parker, of 844 Washington boulevard, is now visiting in St. Louis, Mo., and writes her mother that she is having a fine time. Rev. and Mrs. J. C. C. Owens, of 1914 North Sixth street, returned home New Years day after a week's visit with their relatives and friends in Hannibal, Mo., and the country. Mother Alexander, Mother Patrick, Mrs. Ruth Collins, Mrs. Lizzie Thornton, Mrs. McMorris, Mrs. N. P. Bruce, Mrs. M. Jones, Mrs. C. R. Johnson, are on the sick list. Mrs. J. M. Phillips, of 334 Greeley avenue, was called to Neosho, Mo., December 28 to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Ella Farris. We are glad that Mr J. T. Roberts our tonsorial artist has joined the Metropolitan Church and will be baptized soon. Mrs. Ella Parker, of 844 Washington boulevard, received word from her son, John, in Great Falls, Nebr., who met with an accident on the road and is now in one of the hospitals, is some better. Perhaps the company will send him home in a few days. We learn that Mrs. Anderson, of 1046 Freeman, is now in the Douglass hospital. We hope that she will soon recover for she has two lovely little girls. Mrs. P. Bradford on State Avenue desires to thank the Progressive Culture club girls of the Metropolitan church for the fine Christmas box they sent her. Rev. J. H. Lee and family were the dinner guests of Rev. T. Thomas and family Christmas. Rev. J. Thomas was also present with other guests. Mrs. John Ghering, of 922 Walker avenue, has invited a few young people to her home for a party in honor of Miss Edith Douglass, of Kansas City, Mo. The young people reported a good time. Mr. R. C. Clark who was a 32nd degree Mason was buried from M.& O. Hall. Prudence lodge turned out in a body, Mr. Charles Porter and Mr. Thomas Brown, State Grand Officers assisted Mr. C, A. Long G. High Priest of Kansas in the Masonic Chapter of Sorrows. Rev. D. A. Holmes preached a sermon which inspired Saints and sinners. They say there was not a dry eye in the hall, Mr. Clark left a daughter and a son who is in the army. A large crowd attended the funeral. Both Phones, 253 West Auto Funeral Same Price as Horse Drawn Ambulance for Sick Purposes JNO. W. JONES Undertaker and Funeral Director Full Stock of Funeral Furnishings Lady Attendant PARLORS: New Co NOW DOING At 1969 N. 3rd Street. HANDLE BEST 2,000 Pound Bell Phone, We Deliver Any Place. Small New Coal Yard NOW DOING BUSINESS N. 3rd Street. HANDLE BEST GRADES. We Deliver Any Place. Small Orders Promptly Delivered. See Us. N. W. Bailey, Pr W. A. Mason Dealer in Coal, Ice and Feed. Office, 1610 N. 3rd Street. Kansas City, Kansas Bell Phone, West 1738 For Quick Service and Prices that Are Right Bell Phone West 2411J. CALL E. W. Anderson Restaurant Nice Meals, at Reasonable Prices From 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. Mrs. Nellie Falls 314 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, Kansas Stenographer Bell Phone 424 West Residence, 1407 N. Eighth St. MRS. DORSEY GREEN Notary Public Copying of All Kinds PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER. 516 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY, KANS. Covenant was held at the Metropolitan Church last Sunday morning and Holy Sacrament at night. The collection was about $70. Mrs. Lorena Griffin, a grand daughter of Mr. Stafford of 405 State avenue and her little two years old son of St. Paul, Minn., were visitors at the Stafford home all last week. Mrs. Griffin will visit her husband's people in Missouri this week and then return to her home in St. Paul. Mrs. Bertha Carroll of 2524 Allis avenue entertained at 6 o'clock dinner in honor of her husband, Mr. Matt, Carroll, who was in from San Francisco. Some of the menu were roast turkey, oyster dressing, fried Chicken, Salmon salad, mayonnaise dressing, candied sweet potatoes, gold cake, cherry pie, mince pie, new peas and lettuce, celery, vienna rolls and banana ice cream like Morton's of K. C., Mo. Some of the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. L. Carroll of K. C. Mo., Mrs. M. C. Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, Miss Jacobs and other names we can't remember. Mrs. Carroll is a fine hostess, and her guests greatly enjoyed her hospitality. Story of Barbed Wire. Barbed wire, says the Manchester Guardian, the origin of which Sir Ian Hamilton recently attributed with unhistorical picturesqueness to the devil, was actually the invention of an ingenious lad named Latta. Fifty-four years ago, the boy, then aged ten years, saw on a farm at some distance from his home in New York state a novel kind of fence, with a boarding at the top and another at the base, two strands of thin wire strung between. On his asking the reason for that peculiar arrangement, he was told that it permitted the free passage of the wind and prevented snowdrifts in wintertime. On the boy's suggestion, his father adopted that sort of fencing on his own farm. Then a neighbor allowed his hogs to roam on the highway, and they found Mr. Latta's pasturage attractive. The thought then occurred to young Latta that small barbs inserted in the wire strands at distances of six inches might discourage them. The hogs did not mind the scratches much, but the owner of them objected, and kept them at home. The first patent taken out for barbed wire was registered in the harmless name of Smith, in 1867. Must Have Standard Vocabulary. Two large manufacturing plants at Bayonne, in New Jersey, which employ an army of workmen of many nationalities, require them to master a standard vocabulary of 600 English words. If, when hired, a man does not know the necessary 600 words, his employers give him, at their own expense, enough time off to learn them. The teaching is done in co-operation with the local board of education. A vocabulary of 600 words is not exactly Shakespearean, but a wayfaring man can do a lot with it at a pinch. 440 STATE AVE. Real Yard BUSINESS T GRADES. dts to a Ton West 1111J Orders Promptly Delivered. See Us. N. W. Bailey, Pr) For Quick Service and Prices that Are Right Bell Phone West 2411J. CALL E. W. Anderson TRANSFER AND EXPRESS Kindling and Sawed Wood for Sale from 25c Up. 950 NEBRASKA AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS REFUTES THE CANAL THEORY Member of British Astronomical Association Takes Issue With Scientists Concerning Mars. According to the report on the 1909 opposition of Mars, published by the "section for the observation of Mars" of the British Astronomical association, under the direction of E. M. Antoniadi, "the alleged existence of a geometrical network of canals on Mars has received a lasting and unanswerable confutation." Mr. Antoniadi had the advantage of using on Mars the great Meudon refractor, the most powerful telescope in the Old World. In working with smaller instruments he himself had, like other observers, obtained frequent glimpses of narrow, straight lines, but in the Meudon instrument these lines were seen only when the definition was bad and the image of the planet "faring." With good seeing, a complex natural structure of the so-called "continental" regions of the planet was revealed, a variety of irregular bands and shadings, replacing the sharp, narrow lines drawn by Schiaparelli, Lowell and others. Mr. Antoniadi pronounces the geometrical lines, and also the doubling of the lines, mere optical illusions, and presents a large number of his own drawings side by side with those made of the same regions by Schiaparelli and Lowell, in support of this contention. He notes that the markings which Schiaparelli only glimpsed with his modest $8\frac{1}{4}$ inch refractor were held quite steadily in the $32\frac{1}{4}$-inch refractor at Meudon.—Scientific American. INDISCRETION COST HIM LIFE Ambassador "Talked Too Much," and the Result Was Unpleasant for Himself and Others. In a "History of the Turks," Chalconeylas, a Greek, relates how a fleet of crusaders sailing toward Constantinople in the beginning of the thirteenth century, was becalmed at the entrance of the Hellespont. At that time there was at the court of Athens an ambassador of the king of France, who set out in a galley to visit the chiefs of the fleet. The admiral confided to him that he had been ordered to take Constantinople by surprise. The ambassador spoke of the difficulties and dangers of this passage, as it was between two banks from which ballistae could hurl upon the vessels enormous stones, bolling oil, and, above all, Greek fire. The admiral revealed to him that the governors of the forts would make little resistance, as they had been bribed. The envoy was so pleased that as soon as he had returned to land he had great trouble to hold his tongue. He was heard to prophesy in mysterious words that the famous passage would soon be forced. As there were spies on all sides, the words of the ambassador were soon carried to Constantinople. When the fleet itself in the Hellespont the catapults of the Turks manifested great activity. The bribed captains of the forts had been removed and others were in their places. The indiscreet ambassador was recalled to Paris and executed. War Fatal to Ostriches. Ostriches in South Africa are dying by scores because their food has been taken to feed British cavalry horses. Besides the withdrawal of thousands of tons of alfalfa, which is the main food of the ostriches during the winter, drought has added to the scarcity of food. It is estimated that the farms in South Africa which are the principal sources of the supply of ostrich feathers, have lost 30 per cent of their adult birds. Among young birds the mortality has been still heavier. Formerly markets for the buying of feathers were open daily in Cape province, but with the advent of war there was a complete cessation of trade. KANSAS CITY, KANS. WANTED! 500 Refined Young Ladies and Gentlemen, recruited from the Lodges, High Schools, Churches and Organizations Great Drama Ethiopia, and Local Scenes, for Motion Pictures Monday Eve, Jan. 10, 1916 Ethiopia Film Corporation ARTHUR A. ANDERSON, Impressario 600 State Ave. Cor. 6th St K. C., K. HOME TRAINING TO BLAME Northwestern University Professor Points Out What He Considers One of Crime's Chief Causes. Prof. Robert H. Gault of Northwestern university, in a report submitted to the crime commission of Chicago, declares that mental deficiencies and unfit homes are the contributory causes of crime. Another report submitted by Professor Gault constitutes an attack on the present law by showing that criminals whose history should exclude them from probation are given their liberty. The cause of the latter, the sociologist says, is inadequate investigation. Compulsory education until the age of sixteen is one recommendation made by the professor to solve the delinquent boy problem, and another suggestion is that vocational training should begin at any time, optional with the pupil and his advisers—meaning his parents or guardians. In the statistics compiled in the report, it is shown that many delinquent boys on probation in Cook county are not working at all, others work only half time, and of those that work many are errand boys, wagon boys, bellhops, and have other occupations that contain no future for them. Society would best be served, it is contended, if the delinquent boy had work where he realized he had a chance to make something of himself.—The Living Church. NEGRO WAITÉR A DIPLOMAT Was Fully Alive to the Importance of Keeping His "Mouf Shet" at Sundry Times. Here is a story about a diplomatic negro waiter; also about two well-known Kansas men, who can go by the names of Smith and Jones, just to tell the yarn: Smith and Jones look much alike, and are frequently taken for each other. One day Smith was in a certain big hotel not a thousand miles from Kansas City and went into the dining room for dinner. The negro waiter busily brushed off the crumbs and said: "Why, how is you, Mr. Jones, is you? I've glad to see you. I hasn't seen you since I waited on your table when you all used to have a little game upstairs." "I'm afraid you are mistaken," said Smith very quickly. "My name isn't Jones. You have the wrong man." "Nuff said; nuff said," smiled the negro, with much bowing and scraping. "Ah knows all right when to keep mah mout set; ah knows all right, Mr. Jones."—Unidentified. Risk Anything When Duty Calls. There seems to be no limit to which the moving-picture man will not go in the search of novelties to be thrown on the screen. In order that he may get pictures at night or in dark places, such as in dense forests, one company has had a complete electric light plant built on a motor truck, which is taken around the country wherever there happens to be a demand for its services. The portable lighting equipment includes a number of projection lamps which may be connected to the power plant by 2,000-foot cables. This permits the projection lamps to be taken into caves, ravines or other inaccessible places that may be found suitable as backgrounds for the photo plays. A 13-inch navy type searchlight is one of the features of the portable lighting plant. It is mounted at the side of the driver's seat, that its rays of light may be played in any direction. If need be, this searchlight may be employed to illuminate motion-picture settings in conjunction with the other lamps. The entire portable plant outfit weighs approximately four tons. Facts About Concrete. Tests made in the engineering laboratory of the Sheffield scientific school, Yale university, using 1:2:4 concrete mixtures, with varying percentages of water, showed that concrete with $ 2 7 \frac{1}{2} $ per cent of water was stronger at the end of 30 days than mixtures in which other percentages had been used. These experiments indicate that, contrary to the general belief, there is a definite limit to the amount of water that should be used and that that limit is considerably lower than the percentage used in a large amount of concrete construction. NOTICE OF NEWS MATTER. All news matter hereafter must be in the office not later than Wednesday noon of each week if you expect it to appear in that week's issue. Paid matter must come with copy invariably. If you can not call at the office to get the desired information on paid articles call Bell West 455 W. and leave your number and name and our representative will call and see you.-Ed. THE NEGRO MAGAZINE. Have THE CRISIS, one of the leading Magazines of America, delivered at your address, anywhere in Greater Kansas City. Only ten cents a copy. Read it, then pay for it. We will trust you. A post card will bring our agent. THE NEGRO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Address all mail to THOMAS KNAPPER, 1716 N. 8th St., Kansas City, Kansas. WAR HAS CUT OFF GENIUS But Famous Russian Bacteriologist Belleves Science Will Continue to Forge Ahead. I asked Metchnikoff a while ago whether the war really deprived the world of genius; whether we should have to wait long years for new inventions, for the solution of problems which vex and weigh upon humanity, says a writer in the London Observer. The veteran bacteriologist was in a hopeful mood. In the calm of his laboratory, in which I found him engaged on a study of silkworms as if there were no earth-shaking war, he spoke to this effect: "It is true that there has been a loss of science on the battlefield. Two of the young doctors here have died at the front; a young professor of promise has also perished. These are but samples of what has happened everywhere. But I do not despair. Nature is boundless in her resources; the regenerative force of France and Russia is not exhausted." On the contrary, he feels that this frightful war may advance science rather than retard it. If the Germans beaten they will turn more readily to their interrupted studies and knowledge will benefit by their application. I did not ask the learned investigator whether he thought the German was indispensable to science; but, at the moment, England leads the way, and one of her sons, graduate of a new university, has discovered what appears to be the ideal antiseptic Doctor Dakin, the fortunate scientist, has been working with Doctor Carrel, the French-American, at the Complegne branch of the Rockefeller institute. The young savant treats of his discovery in the "British Medical Journal." And now, the French hospital, if not the last work in scientific installation—for that costs money and a great deal of it—is at least admirably adapted to the end in view—the rapid recovery of men from their wounds. Extending Ocean Fishing. Extending Ocean Filming A state fishery is to be established in New South Wales, and the government has bought three trawlers, which were built on the Tees, and which are manned by Grimsby crews. 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Another atomizer consists of a small cylindrical pump mounted on a cork so as to fit into any bottle and thus avoid handling of the perfume from one bottle to another. A plunger at the top serves to produce the spray from a side orifice. The tube which descends into the liquid has a second or telescoping end so that the tube can be extended down as far as the bottom of the bottle and thus take up all the liquid. Seems to Disprove Old Belief. In one of the ancient chimney pieces in Cawdor castle, Scotland, there is a rude carving in stone of a fox smoking a tobacco pipe, with the date 1510. As it is generally believed that tobacco was first introduced into the mother country by Sir Walter Raleigh, about the year 1585, it is singular to find the common short tobacco pipes thus represented on a stone bearing date so much earlier. There can be no mistake as to the date or the nature of the representation. The fox holds the fragrant tube in his mouth exactly as it is held by its human admirers, and is such as may be seen every day with those who patronize the cutty pipe. HAVE SYSTEM IN EXERCISE Proper State of Health Impossible If This Important Matter Is Ignored. Without exercise no woman can keep her good looks. She fades as a flower without sunshine, as foliage without rain. And yet, in spite of the necessity of exercise, few women take a sufficient amount—those who can afford it preferring to ride rather than to walk, and those whose circumstances force them to walk seldom finding time to indulge in this form of beauty treatment. Exercise to be beneficial should be taken out of doors, and walking, within the reach of the poor as well as the rich, is one of the best of exercises, says a writer in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The average woman is, alas! a sadly indoor animal, and does not seek with sufficient ardor or zeal the outdoor life, which is one of the greatest secrets of lasting beauty. It is interesting to note here that the vast majority of great singers have in their youth led an open-air life under the canopy of heaven, or have sprung from families where such a life had been led for centuries. It seems as if the pure, fresh oxygen of the hills and plains was distilled in the secret laboratories of their bodies into the liquid notes that so move and thrill us. So it is with beauty. The great beauties of history have, one and all, at some period of their lives lived freely and unrestrainedly the quick, invigorating life of the open. Perhaps you may say that in a city it is next to impossible to get fresh air or to find the time to exercise. The first may be true, for alas! city air is far from fresh. 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Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will more to enjoy than insane institutions and hospitals than any other idea that has ever been given to the world, in our opinion, to say nothing of the great good, morally and spiritually, that they will do the ruman race. He has indeed produced a world idea that should be in every home and library in the civilized world. W. A. Thompson, M.D. W. A. Syan, M.D. S. M. McCubbins, M.D. H. F. Mikel, A.B. M.D. Theodore F. Clark, M.D.* We have arranged with the author to fill all orders for these books. Remit price of book or books you desire to this paper and name of the book or books you wish and the same will be sent to you at once. It is estimated that in Kansas City, Kansas, there are about 2,500 Colored homes. From these homes an average of ten cents per week laundry is paid, making $250 per week. Of this amount $75 per week is paid to agents. Why not divert some of this money with some of the Colored homes. 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To the above named defendant: You are hereby notified, that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff, in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of January, 1916, the petition filed against you will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from you, the defendant, and for the costs of this action. And you are further notified, that plaintiff will, at Muskogee, Okla., on said 22nd day of January, 1916, at the office of John H. Escoe, a Notary Public in and for the County of Muskogee, in said state, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and six o'clock in the afternoon, and between such hours, on subsequent days to which the same may be adjourned, take the deposition of divers and sundry witnesses, to be used in the trial of said cause. ROBERT JASE, Plaintiff, By I. F. 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McClelland Bell, W. 364. Home, W. 594. Real state, Fire-Insurance, And Rentals, Room 13 1-2 Peoples Bank Building, Cor. 7th and Minnesota Ave. 7th street Entrance, Up-stairs. FOR RENT. 2 room house, city water, $5.00 per month. 4 room House, close in, city water, $8.00 per month. 5 room House, city water, $10 per month. HOUSES FOR SALE. Fine—5 room house, water and gas. 50 ft. font, $1,500. $150 down and the balance to suit. Bargain—6 rooms, 100 ft. front, only $1,200, $200 down, balance to suit. 5 acre tracts at $110 per acre. Office and Residence 828 Nebraska Ave. Bell Phone, 2684 West Office Hours: 8-10 A. M.; 3-5 P. M. DR. G. E. HORSEY. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Frank Confession. "When you got out of college I dare say there was nothing you thought you couldn't do." "Not quite. I knew I couldn't get a pass in Greek, If I had it to do over again." Large Russian Wheat Harvest. Russia in 1913, harvested 947,964,000 bushels of wheat. P. R. 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Just received a new line of Meritol Perle, Toilet Goods, all first class articles. Beautiful packages of Dainty Perfumes, suitable for XMAS PRESENTS, 25c to $5.00 each. And don't forget anything in the drug line. N. B.—Ask to see and try Perie Kiss Perfume, the latest perfume sensation. Xmas Cigars in packages of 10, 25 and 50. All brands, prices 40c to $4.00. "Stop that headache! it's stopping your work" Pain and Ill Health rob you of all your efficiency. DR. MILES' ANTI-PAIN PILLS quickly relieve Pain, but at the same time, when over-work or nervousness is the cause, Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine should be used to relieve the cause. IF FIRST BOX, OR BOTTLE, FAILS TO BENEFIT YOU, YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED. SEVERE HEADACHE. "I once had terrible headaches and feared La Grippe. I could not attend to my work. I took some of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills and the pain was quickly gone. Then I started using Dr. Miles' Nervine and the trouble vanished completely and I felt well and active once more." HENRY FARNHAM, Spring Valley, Minn. ner STEAM Clea Sumner STE WM. ROUTTLEDGE & S. R. WILSON Proprietors. Goods called for and delivered All Work Guaranteed Samuel Samuel Diggs THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER Pays the highest cash prices for junk at all times, rags, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and everything in the junk. SQUARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT A Place of Business—1006-1009 North Third Street, Kansas BELL, WEST FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HARSH KINNY HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE FASTER FORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION MAKES THE SKIN LOOK WHITER Pays the highest cash prices for Junk at all times, rags, Iron, bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and everything in the Junk line. SQUARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Place of Business—1006-1008 North Third Street, Kansas City, Kansas. BELL, WEST 3577. 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CHICAGO, ILL Home Phone, West 137 Old Hats Made New Sumn 1319 North 9th Street Giblin DENTAL WORK General Repair Work Kansas City, Kansas Drug Co. at 380. Pharmacist last received a new line of Mer- s. Beautiful packages of SENTS, 25c to $5.00 each. e. perfume, the latest perfume sen- 50. All brands, prices 40c to headache! your work" Pain and Ill Health job you of all your efficiency. DR. MILES' PAIN PILLS to relieve Pain, but same time, when work or nervousness cause, Dr. Miles' rative Nervine be used to relieve use. BOX, OR BOTTLE, FAILS FIT YOU, YOUR MONEY REFUNDED. Gloves and Ties Cleaned Free Cleaners Bell Phone West 121 KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Diggs at all times, rags, Icon, bottles, ing in the Junk line. WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Street, Kansas City, Kansas. BELL, WEST 3577. THE KANSAS CITY INDEPENDENT Poro Treatment SCHOOL OF SCIENTIFIC AND SANITARY SCALP AND HAIR TREATMENT. 934 EVERETT AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PLAY MARBLES WITH BULLETS But In Spite of Diversion, British Soldiers Will "Get Stale" in the Trenches. Prof. J. H. Morgan, late home office commissioner with the British expeditionary force, in his "Leaves From a Field Notebook," published in the Nineteenth Century, describes the readiness of our Tommies to play the part of mother's help in the French villages. One of the most engaging sights he saw was a troop of our cavalrymen riding through Armentieres leading a string of remounts, each remount with a laughing child on its back. "But it may well happen that in spite of bables, and baths, and brass bands, and footballs, and boxing gloves, and playing marbles (the general in command of one of our divisions told me he had seen six Argyll and Sutherland sergeants playing marbles with shrapnel bullets in some support trenches), the men get bored. Men become 'stale' or get on each other's nerves. When a company commander sees signs of this he has one very potent prescription; he prescribes a good stiff route march. It has never been know to fail. Many a time in the winter months when out visiting divisional headquarters did I, in the shameful luxury of my car, come across a battalion slogging along ruddy and cheerful in the mud, and singing with almost reproachful unction, 'Last night I s-saw you, I s-saw you, you naughty boy!'"—Montreal Star. HOW ONE NOVELIST WROTE Frank Norris Worked Only Three Hours at a Stretch, but Claimed He Worked Every Day. Frank Norris, the well-known author of "The Pit," "The Octopus" and "Vandover and the Brute," once sent a letter to Ward Macauley, the Detroit book seller, in answer to certain general questions about Norris' writing. "Don't believe fiction writer should shut himself up in his profession," the letter says in part. "Novels can't be written from the closet or study. You've got to live your stuff. Believe novelists of all people should take interest in contemporary movements, politics, international affairs, the big things in the world. "I write with great difficulty, but have managed somehow to accomplish forty short stories (all published in fugitive fashion) and five novels within the last three years, and a lot of special unsigned articles. Believe my forte is the novel. Don't like to write, but like having written. "Hate the effort of driving pen from line to line, work only three hours a day, but work every day. Believe in blunt, crude Anglo-Saxon words. Sometimes spend half an hour trying to get the right combination of one-half dozen words. Never rewrite stuff; do all hard work at first writing, only revise—very lightly—in typewritten copy." By a Lake in Winter. The deep sense of peace which fills the woods at midwinter is nowhere expressed more fully than where a sylvan lake or pool reflects with calm surface the grayness of the patient skies. Strained by the autumn scourings of the hills, and the decay of innumerable leaves, the water is rarely clear and bright, as when it mirrors the clearer heavens of spring and summer. It gleams to the slanting light that strikes between denser masses of cloud in tints of yellowish suffusion from the rainscoured clay, or in a strange lade-green opaqueness. Where the naked trees upon the margin of the lake project the whole length of their reflection upon its unmoved water, they present an impression of enormous columnar height, such as can never be equaled after the leaves of the summer add substance to the lines of their upper boughs. Boyhood Memories. "The kids of today have better playthings than when I was a boy," said a grizzled old fellow today who was watching some boys flying kites. "Take, for instance, kites. You see these kites they are flying are made of cloth, box shaped and without tails. That's a big change from the 'house' kites and 'cod-fish' kites that I made when a kid. When I was a boy every boy made his own kites and mended them, if they needed mending. He whittled out his own kite sticks to make the form of the kite, and then he covered the kite with paper, which he pasted on. And he made the paste himself; he got some flour of his mother and mixed it with water and cooked it enough on the kitchen stove to make it sticky. And when he had the kite made he was ready for the tail. He would go to mother and she would cut out a nice piece of old cotton cloth for the tail. What a change these cloth-covered, box-shaped kites are, and made to fly without a tail. My, what a change that is from the old-time kites." And the old fellow's memories still lingered with his boyhood days as he watched the kids "raising" their kites. Home Phone West 1177 WESTERMA BROS. Sheet Metal W ROOFING, GUTTERING, FURNACE AND 1703 Central Ave. Bell Phone West 836 Bell Phone 2 WESTERMANN BROS. ROOFING, GUTTERING, FURNACE AND · EPAIR WORK. 1703 Central Ave. Kansas City, Honest Man's Friend S. P. PETERSGEN Grocerles, Meats, Cigars and Tobacco 1607 N. 8th St., K. C., K. B. West 933. James E. Hogan Attorney at Law. PRACTICE IN ALL STATE COURTS 600 State Ave., K. C. K. C. E. Cannon STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Etc. Shoes Repaired and Made to Order Bell Phone 1955 N. 3rd St. K. C., K. W. C. Carroll Dealer In Fancy Groceries: Meats, Confectionery, Fruits Cigars and Tobacco Bell Phone West 1653. 2120 NORTH THIRD STREET Kansas City, Kansas. FOUGHT DUEL IN THE AIR German and British Aviators Engage In Struggle Which Results in Destruction of One Participant. A thrilling spectacle took place the other day on the French frontier when a German aeroplane passed overhead spying out the land. First there was a rapid fire of the antiair-craft guns, and though the white puffs of the shells seemed to encircle it, they appeared to be doing no harm. Then the German airman caught sight of a British aeroplane and immediately started in hot pursuit of it. Another British aeroplane which was returning from a scouting tour over the German lines, dropped out of the white clouds, as if by magic. But being above the German plane, its presence was not perceived until it was quite close. Then began a sensational battle. For fear of injuring their own machines, the soldiers stopped the fire from the antiaircraft guns. Left to themselves, the two crafts circled and recircled round each other, the British aeroplane rushing in sometimes and then darting away again, while the machine guns kept up a rapid firing. Suddenly the German plane dropped with an abrupt, twisting drive. For a thousand feet or more it fell, helplessly. Then, as if the aeronaut had made frantic effort to adjust his levers, the machine straightened out for a second or two. The British plane followed the German in its fall, in graceful spiral curves, and when it righted, opened renewed fire upon it. A burst of white smoke from the German acroplane announced the explosion of the petrol tank. The body of the German machine crashed to the earth. Its heavy four-cylinder engine embedded itself in the ground, its wings and body shattered into splinters, and its steel stays bent and twisted, lay scattered about. Defense Against Zeppelins. An English military expert writes: "The question of how far aircraft can be utilized for defense against Zeppelins appears to be still under consideration. If they are to be used effectively for the attack of the enemy airship it is generally assumed that they must operate outside the London area, or between the capital and the coast. It would hardly do to have them passing through localities covered by gunfire. There is also the difficulty of descending at night to be met. Important subsidiary questions which are yet to be settled by consultation between the bodies concerned are the control of lights and traffic, as well as the alien problem. Perhaps of more personal interest to Londoners is the question whether the greater danger is incurred by being in the streets or in the houses. Upon this point the authorities might do well to publish figures showing the number of casualties in either circumstance." Draw Power From Air. The mission settlement at Mt. Hope, 100 miles north of the arctic circle, in Alaska, is contemplating the installation of an electric lighting plant to be driven by large windmills. During the long arctic winter the steady winds in that region seldom fall below 20 miles an hour, which is ample for driving the power plant. Since fuel of any kind is exceedingly expensive in that region, the power will serve the dual purpose of illuminating and heating. Cornices RMANN OS. Ral Works ACE AND · EPAIR WORK. Kansas City, Bell Phone 2569 West Res. Phone Bell 3098 West WYATT & RANDOLPH UNDERTAKERS 920 N. 3rd St. K. C., K. Dr. T. C. Chapman Dentist Bell Phone 798-E Home Phone 6840-M 18th St. and the Paseo 9 a. m. to 12 m. 1 p. m. to 8 p. m. KANSAS CITY, MO. NATHAN TAYLOR "The Handy Man." ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING . All Stoves: Gas, Gasoline, Coal and Oil Steam and Gas Fitting ALL WORK GUARANTEED . 324 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN$. Office Phone Bell West 380 Residence 1321 N. 8th St. Bell Phone, 361 West S. H. Thompson, M. D. Office 1512 N. 5th Street BURNING AFTER SIXTY YEARS Now One Million Dollars Will Be Spent in Endeavor to Put Out Coal Mine Blaze. Engineers of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company are making herculean efforts to extinguish the fire which has been burning for 60 years in a coal mine at Summit Hill, Pa. Seven mine locomotives and three steam shovels are in operation and a large force of men is at work driving deep holes into the earth, into which culm and water are being sluiced. Millions of gallons of water are being pumped daily into crevices and holes, and the issuance of steam indicates that the fire is burning in spots which had long been considered burned out. The gigantic effort the company is making to extinguish the fire for all time will probably cost $1,000,000, but that sum is insignificant when compared with the damage the fire would do if it should spread into the valley and ignite the mammoth veins running throughout the Panther Creek valley. The fire had its origin directly west of Summit Hill, and was caused, it is believed, by forest fires. The flames have been gradually spreading westward, and have destroyed millions of dollars' worth of coal. Give Home the "Once Over." Now is not too late to look over the house and see what is necessary to repair the ravages of the summer sun and dust. It is a good idea to clean the glass over pictures with a cloth wrung from hot water and dipped in alcohol. Polish them immediately until they are dry and glossy with chamois or tissue paper. Rub leather chairs with a little fresh milk to prevent cracks in the leather. Do this about once a week. Whiting spread on a damp flannel cloth will remove all spots from painted wood without hurting the surface and without tiring the arm which applies it. Often when a house has been closed all summer the iron sink becomes rusty. It can be cleaned with mutton tallow. Cover the tallow with quicklime and leave it on over night. The lime and tallow should then be rubbed off with an old sink broom and the sink should then be washed with hot soda water. The lime should not be allowed to touch the hands. The agricultural department of the University of Illinois has published another report dealing with the soils of this state and the fertilizers which they need. This new investigation, like the last, shows that Illinois farmers need not worry about potash. With the exception of swamp lands our soils have all the potassium salts they need, and the addition of more is a stimulant rather than a food. What Illinois land usually does lack is phosphorus, and the United States has a plentiful supply of phosphate rock. This is good news to farmers who had been taught that the lack of German potash would cut down their crops. It tends likewise to stimulate an American industry which was being hidden behind clever foreign advertising. By the time this war is over, America will know how much potash fertilizer it really needs, and what the stuff is worth on the soil-Chicago Journal. Sky-Llg Potash and Phosphates.