Kansas City Advocate

Henry Hutchee Secol KANSAS Subscription $1.00 Per Annum Citizens Forum Starts off with an Excellent program Large attendance The Citizens' Forum of Greater Kansas City, was opened promptly at 4 p. m. with prayer by Chaplain A. Brown and Prof. J. M. Marquess with much dignity, started his year's regime. As it was the first Sunday the Forum had time to hold its memorial for the Emancipation, the students of Sunner High rendered an appropriate program as follows: Quotations, Current Events, Chorus, Suanee River. Paper, Struggle for Freedom," ..... ..... E. Link Instrumental Solo ..... H. Flower Paper, "Abolitionists,"...G. Washington "Fifty Years of Freedom" .. O. Henry "Negro Soldiers" .. Levi Terrell Chrous, "Listen to the Lambs." The president then asked for discussions. Messrs. Frye, White and Gardner talked. Mr. T. Napper also spoke very fluently. Prof. Marquess then appointed several ushers and a number of young men to be under the supervision of Prof. Porter for programs, etc. He also said on account of the experience of newspaper work and the wonderful impress she had made on the community, he had asked Mrs. M. C. Matthews to act as a committee on publicity. The Forum was crowded and the program was very good. Mr. Truman, the critic, gave a very good critique, and received great applause. Prof. Marquess has already enthused new life in the Forum. GREAT REVIVAL IN INDEPENDENCE KANSAS. The city of Independence is enjoying the blessing which a revival campaign brings with the H. Franklin Bray evangelistic company in charge. In every nook and corner, street, home and work shop the people are either talking about the meeting or singing the campaign song "The Storm is Passing over" the city is on fire from every viewpoint. At all services the holy spirit is present. The meeting is being held in the A. M. E. church and the people crowd the building every service still there is no church large enough to hold the people. Since the meetings began New Year's night there have been sixty one souls lined up for Jesus Christ and many more are expected to join the army. If sixty one have lined up in such a short time then the God's presence should abide until Independence is made a better town to live in and many homes that are filled with sorrow may become home filled with joy. The evangelist preaches strong helpful sermons every night and what makes them so great is the power and plainness that he uses Dr. Bray makes every sentence plain enough for a child to understand. Mrs. M. W. Bray wife of the evangelist is having good success with the children's work. Mrs. Iona Bowen marshals the women's work like a spirit baptised, General Mr. Robert Bowen Superintendent of the personal workers handles his work so well that it is no trouble for people to do the altar work. Miss Faye Bowen Soloist sings until the hundreds who heard her weep and sinners yield to Jesus. On the whole this is a God sent company of workers and they are soul winners for God. Revs. Charles Teal pastor of Second Baptist church, S. E. Sanders pastor of St. John M. E. church and B. M. Stadford, St. John Baptist church, all these ministers have so greatly helped the services by their hearty co-operation and also the cooperation of their members. Dr. Bray can be reached by those desiring his services by addressing, 1146 South Cherokee St. Denver Colo. For the spring of the soul 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. VOL. 2. (Encored.) President of West which has been High Standard Under His A [Portrait of a man in formal attire, facing slightly to the right]. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The Brotherhood met Sunday, January the 9th at 5 p. m. The meeting was opened by the president, H. H. Geren, who made some very good suggestions in outlining the work for the ensuing year. The Biblical topic was discussed by all present. Topic, "The Ways of Coming to Christ and the Ways of Bringing Other Men to Christ." The lesson was very nicely explained by the pastor who spoke of the cooperation of all the auxiliaries of the church along spiritual lines. After the lesson was very logically and wisely discussed by the brethren present the Brotherhood then proceeded to elect officers. The present officers were unanimously elected for the ensuing year: H. A. Geren, president; H. Mesley, secretary; Bro. Knight, vice president; James Downs, treasurer. The president then appointed the following committee on program: Bros. H. L. Moberly and J. H. Walker. Committee on reception: James Down and Deacon W. Jones. On membership: Bro. H. R. Seins, Deacon Austin and Bro. Reynolds. All male members of the church are members of the Brotherhood. All visiting brothers are requested to participate in our deliberations. The president with his officers are planning to make this one of the strongest organizations of its kind both spiritually and civically for the uplift of our people. We ask the prayer and good will of every one who is desirous of advancing morally, spiritually and financially. We also were pleased to have present the efficient president of the B. Y. P. U. in the person of Brother Dixon who is a young man whose future seems to be bright. Also Bro. Robt. Reebs, spent a while with us. We are always pleased to have these good brethren around. The Biblical topic for Sunday, Jan Out of Subso All out of town in arrears will have get square with Ou 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. DR. H. T. KEALING furniture think of Eastern University, of which brought up to a of Efficiency administration KEALING WHY R 'Tis would be for the itself; So it that is that is easily, augurate plete la ourselves 'Tis a horrri tation; and eve other. The ure is of our greater exercise iorating is put tive eff. And lieved vince o The and rise to tran that w science it, "Co thrives And and m all that would tempt the sy It is given, orating former better ly thou harme must able, a either uary the 23rd, "Jesus Cleanseth the Temple, John 2:13-17. The Brotherhood then closed to meet at 5 p. m. Sunday, January the 23rd. REV. RANSOM'S AGED MOTHER DIES IN PARSONS, KANSAS. Mrs. Ester Ransom, the aged mother of Rev. J. R. Ransom, pastor of the First A. M. E. church at Eighth and Nebraska, passed away peacefully Tuesday morning at 7:30 at her late home in Parsons, Kansas. Mother Ransom was nearly 82 years old at the time of her demise and the cause of her death was due largely to her advanced age and the dreaded malady, a gripe. The funeral was held Thursday at 2 p. m. The community and friends extend to Dr. Ransom and the balance of the family their heartfelt sympathy in the loss of their last real earthly friend and mother. BISHOP GRANT MEMORIAL DAY. The annual Memorial day of Bishop Grant will be held Wednesday, January the 26th at 2 p. m. at Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charlotte streets, Kansas City, Mo. This memorial is under the auspices of the Ministerial Alliance of Greater Kansas City and a splendid program has been arranged by the committee. Most every denomination of the two cities is represented on the program. That famous choir of Ebenzer church will furnish special music for this honored occasion. The general public is cordially invited to be present. Mr. Tilford Davis, one of our popular mail carriers is laid up at his home on West Washington boulevard through a fall during the icy weather. Town subscribers subscribers who are are until Feb. 1st to our books, Those who dropped KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, JAN. 21, 1916 CITY And Independent H. A. GEREN, Pres., H. MESLEY, Sec. ADVOCATE WHY NOT CHRISTMAS ALL THE YEAR. 'Tis said that every normal child would walk long before it does, but for the lack of confidence it has in itself; to shift the Center of Gravity. So it is, with the human family. All that is—that should not be; and all that is not—that should exist, could easily, smoothly and speedily be inaugurated; but for the almost complete lack of confidence as we hold in ourselves. 'Tis frightful to contemplate—what a horrible hell we make of this habitation; wherein no one trusts another, and everyone mistrusts all, and every other. The full effect of this untoward feature is to be seen in the general trend of our social structure; wherein a greater degree of effort and energy is exercised to curb and rein the deteriorating and destructive forces; than is put forth in productive and constructive efforts. And the situation is not at all relieved by our abortive attempt to convince ourselves differently. The truth is, we know differently—and rightly, and it is in our attempts to transpose our knowledge and beliefs that we reach the point where "Conscience makes cowards of us all" and it, "Conscience," becomes Coin and he thrives best, who has most to spare." And thus we continue to support and maintain a regime, that entails all that, which we do not desire, and would not have; while we foolishly attempt a cure of a malady, by treating the symptoms instead of the cause. It is a verity, that everyone who has given, to relieve another, in commemorating the birth of the greatest reformer who has walked on earth; feels better for having so given; and surely those who will receive, will not be harmed thereby; hence the Process—must be, and is altogether Commendable, and is not to be questioned from either of the only two points of human interest—the Christian and the Economic. If such is true;— and beyond all doubt it is. It is high time to flourish trumpets and sound alarms, that shall awaken a calloused and heedless world to the importance involved. What is this "Process Commendable" that may not be questioned from either of the only two points of view, within the sweep of human existence? It must be worthy of serious consideration. It is just such, 'Tis great, even sublime; but 'tis so, because of its simplicity, and accord with Right, Reason, Common Sense, Justice. And 'Tis nothing more nor less, than that which we have been doing in a small way, these last few days, perhaps unwittingly, to-wit:—The looking upon, and dealing with the wealth of the world, produced by labor;—as designed, for use of mankind,—to warm, clothe, feed, shelter and comfort rather than for the amassing of fabulous fortunes, strongly impregnated with the blood, the tears, the sorrows and the sadnesses, the pains and penalties, the hollow moans, and piteous groans, and death throes suffered by countless thousands; who are ground down, and below the level of comfortable existence, by reason of our Captialistic system, with its Profit-taking principle. 'Tis true we call it Competition—and it is also true, that the sooner we conclude, that competition for the Necessaries of life; in the last analysis, means Unadulterated Death, by any means possible, the better it will be for suffering humanity. Then why stand for such a regime? Why not, all the year around, reason as we have these last few days—"That the Wealth of the world serves its best and only legitimate purpose, when used for the maintenance of men." "And should be directly applied to the Well-being of that great horde of the Unwashed, producers of it; while they are producing it, in such proportion as will make the "Process Commendable" a matter of practice all the year around; instead of an isolated festival; bearing the stamp of Charity, which with all its redeeming features, has its rise, in no other principle; than that of Master and Slave. Why not, by the "Process Commendable" have such a just distribution of the wealth of the world, rather than gathering it into great centers as described herein-above, by those who are lucky in gambling in the misfortunes and miseries of their fellow-man? "Tis true we call the Process by many names, such as Business World, Commerce, Trade, Competition, etc., but by whatever name, 'tis known the principal commodities bought, bartered and sold therein are men and women. Then why not have a Reign of Reason, and all the year around, Aye all through the ages; that shall teem with common Sense and Justice; instead of a Regine which entails that upon which we daily look, and deeply deplore;—a wanning—wasting—dying Civilization. In which, the active principle is composed of Selfishness and hate together with the sinister qualities of human nature; whetted to their keenest edge, by our Capitalistic and Profit-taking system; doomed in the last analysis, to extinction by Force and Violenc by reason of fruitless to maintain itself. A French king it was of the effete class, in conjunction with one of his ministers, of his subjects spoke as follows. "The people, let the people eat grass." The answer was that of a man of sound judgment and deep thought, and it was: "Ah, Sire, they are now eating grass and that too, boiled without grease. "But Sire, do you not know that The People, are much like the atmosphere they breathe—very common and unnoticed, until it manifests itself in sheets and streaks of Deadly lightning and bolts of Terrorizing thunder." That incident is aptly illustrative of the human family today. Wherein nine-tenths of it, constitutes that great horde of the "Unwashed" who labor, and produce the wealth of the world, and who unwittingly, fight the death-dealing battles of needless mercenary wars; by which nine-tenths of their production are monopolized and held in the hands of the one-tenth who do not labor. Such a practice is in direct opposition to the teachings and the practice of the man whose memory we delight in honoring the Christ. And 'tis wrong, grievously wrong, and well do we know it. But Hark! that great horde above mentioned is beginning to awake and bestir itself, and become cognizant and confident, of its power to SHIFT the ECONOMIC Center of gravity. And in conclusion let me implore all those who believe in praying, to bend to their efforts to the end; that they may do so, Gently, Peaceably, but Surely withal; by which process we will emerge from beneath the pall that now heavily overhangs us; into the bright effulgence of the natural condition of man. Where, in our dealings with each other—no more to be actuated by selfishness, avarice, envy, malice, greed of gain and hate, which do but generate deepseated and undying strife, which has made red the record and course of human events, with horrible murder and untimely death; aggravated now and then, by Devastating wars of Conquest. Pray I suggest, that the shifting of the Center may be as suggested rather than, that they shall awaken to a full sense of the wrongs and exploitation they suffer—only to fuse into the Blighting, Blasting Fury, described by the French mintsier. That afterwath of which, can but be the wildest guess or conjecture. NEWS MATTER MUST BE IN OF FICE BY TUESDAY. All news matter must be in our office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in that issue. Only write on one side of your paper, write plain and spell names in full and correctly. If you will follow instructions your news will appear each week and without errors. Name of party sending matter must be signed to insure recognition.—Ed. MID-WEST COMPANY OF`K. P.'S GROWING. The Mid-West company No. 2 Knights of Pythias, is growing rapidly and several recruits have been enrolled in the past few weeks. Mid-West will work hard from now until the grand session which meets in Independence, Kas., in July and will endeavor at that time to bring back to Kansas City, Kansas, the first cash prize. The boys have commenced drilling in real earnest and expect to keep it up until the grand session, and the company that beats company No. 2 will have to know their tactics. NO.22 STATE CAPITAL NEWS STATE CAPITAL NEWS Topeka, Kansas. The Pleasant Hour Literary Circle, owing to the low pressure of gas, held no meeting last Saturday night. The program was carried over till Saturday night this week. The Rev. F. Jessie Peck, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, is confined to his bed with la grippe. The Sunday morning service was conducted by the Rev. W. R. Carter of the Topeka Industrial Institute. Arthur Davenport, until recently one of the attendants at the state hospital was convicted last Friday in the first division of the district court of a statutory crime committed on Thelma Grant, a 13-year-old colored girl. Davenport is a white man. The Rev. George Gilbert Walker, rector of St. Simmons church, spent the past week in Muskogee, Okla., in conducting a mission in the church of that city of which the Rev. Mr. Roker is the pastor in charge. James Phillips, one of Topeka's oldest and most respected citizens, and the proprietor of Phillip's Mineral wells died at his home on West Eighth street Sunday morning, January 16 at the age of 72. Mr. Phillips was well and favorably known in the city, especially among the white people who for years he had supplied with health water from his wells. Much is being said nowadays about who should be delegates to the National Republican convention to be held in Chicago in June. It has been suggested by some of those who consider themselves as being capable of dictating that at least one woman should be on the delegation. Why not have a colored man on the delegation, also, Mr. Dictator. The executive committee of the Lincoln Day club is arranging a program for the annual meeting February 12. Unless prevented by inclement weather the attendance at this meeting is expected to be large. We hope to be able to publish the program in the next issue of our items. The severance of the Rev. Mr. G. W. Henry and wife, of their pastorate of the Second Baptist church of this city, is a matter of much regret. Too much cannot be said of their valuable services in connection with the up-building for good of the affairs of the city generally, and this church especially. The Rev. Mr. Henry and wife left last week for their new field of labor at Pueblo, Col, carrying with them the best wishes of many friends of this city. Mr. John Moseley and Miss Angie Young were joined in wedlock by the Rev. F. J. Peck on Thursday evening of last week. The bride and groom are now at home at the residence of the groom in this city. Mr. Mosely is one of Topeka's most enterprising business men. He is a huckster. Miss Young formerly resided in the state of Illinois and is a very amiable young woman. She is a niece of Mrs. Angie DePriest, one of the teachers in our public schools. "The Birth of a Nation" again. The privilege to show this picture having been denied the management by the state superintendent of public instruction, we are now informed than an appeal from his decision is being taken to the governor, attorney general and secretary of state, as is provided by law. It is claimed that the public is clamoring to see this picture. And why? Is the public anxious to stir up and increase race hate in Kansas? It would seem so. We have not seen this picture but what we learn of it from those who have, it is libel on the colored race, and why any honest fair minded person, white or black, should clamor to see a false picture which in character tends only to increase the bitter feeling that already exists between the races, we are unable to see. ST. CLOUD. TWENTIETH CENTURY PARABLE —A REAL GOOD SAMARITAN. A colored man in overalls, on account of the curse of the liquor habit, fell in the snow and would have frozen. But a certain Christian in the person of Judge Keplinger picked him up and took him to the little one-room house where he lives, and there other Christians cared for him. How many dressed up Afro-Americans or professional men would have carried the man home in the day time? ```markdown ``` KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE. And Independent. THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop. Published every Friday at 932 Oak- land Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Uplift. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Year ..... $1.00 Six months ..... .60 Three months ..... .85 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 2, 1879." CENTENNIAL OF METHODISM. Great preparations are being made for the one hundredth anniversary of African Methodism, which will be held in Philadelphia this May. It will be celebrated at Bethel church which stands on the ground where the first church was founded by Richard Allen, the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church. General conference will convene during this month of which the churches of America, Bermuda and the West Indies will be largely represented. NO COLORED DEMOCRAT FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS. 一 When President Wilson was declared the chief executive of the United States after the election in November, 1912, the black Democrats from every quarter of this great commonwealth, said: "Here am I send me." The worthy, loyal and the faithful and many of them merited what they stood for, but with all the pledges that had been made to that matchless leader of black Democrats, Bishop Walters, by our President, every place where colored men have occupied for many years through appointment, were turned down, and the last straw has now been used and it failed to break the camel's back. The office of recorder of deeds was their last hope and as this paper stated some two months ago, no black man would ever grace the office of recorder of deeds while Mr. Wilson was on the throne. Bishop Walters made his last appeal to the president a few days ago in the name of his party and his race, and especially that part of it who had been loyal to his party pledge not to forsake all at this psychological and momentous time, but with that convalescent preparedness with a quivering voice and a trembling hand, he says, "Bishop, I have decided to appoint a white man to that office:" Is it fair? Men who worked, toiled, boosted and boasted in some instances what rewards they would receive at the hands of those whose pledges are as sure as a mustang. Boys, don't feel that you were singled out as the only ones whose pledges were not fulfilled, as there are ninety million others. THE INDEPENDENT CHANGES NAME. Those who have been reading this paper for the past 72 weeks under head and name of The Kansas City Independent, changes its name with this issue and will be known hereafter as THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE and The Independent. The policy of The Kansas City Advocate will continue to be as it has been since the present management took hold of it one year ago, January the first. Its policies have been conservative with the hope of developing a real newspaper for the good and advancement of its readers. Its purpose will also be to assist at all times, in the way of building up and boosting any commercial enterprise of city or state. As to its politics it stands today where it did one year ago, Republican, but since our city is under a commission form of government, and its citizens have so decided it to be as such we should be non-partisan so long as it brings results to all the people. The pages of this paper have been and will be open for any clean, moral or legitimate reading matter at all times. The Eighth Street Baptist choir was very much elated with the reception given in their honor by Mrs. Jossie Walker and husband at their home, 1415 North Fifth street Thursday night, January 13th. 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. Undertakors. 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. PHYSICIANS. 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 DR. T. H. JOHNSON, M.D. Constitutional Specialist. 318 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS8. DR. J. H. MIXON, M.D. 313 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS8. 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 GROCERIES 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. The cantata, "The Eternal Light," will be sung by the Metropolitan choir and characters from Kansas City, Mo. Sunday at 4 p. m. at the Forum. Seats free. DIRECTORY W. C. CARROLL FANCY GROCERIES, MEATS, CON- FECTIONERY, 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. Hodgs Old m NEW ONE Wo HOMI 1017 Kansas City Try a pou Coffee, 30c t the store dat 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, Kass. BARBECUED MEATS. 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, Shipping 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 St, 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. Sd 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. Local Happenings Mrs. Stewart died on the 17th. Mrs. Hazel Maye died on the 17th. Mrs. R. A. Adams of 1016 Tauromee was on the sick list last week. Baby Patterson, of 951 Everett avenue, is sick. Mrs. Albert Miller is down sick with tonsillitis. Mrs. Stewart, 944 Nebraska avenue, is very sick. Mrs. Hazel Maye, of 744 New Jersey avenue, is very sick. Mr. Rhoades of 941 Washington boulevard is quite sick. Mrs. Hyde has moved to 433 Free man avenue. Hodgson Mirror Co Old mirrors resilvered NEW ONES MADE TO ORDER Work Guaranteed HOME PHONE W. 1619 1017 N. 5TH ST. Kansas City Kansas Try a pound of Moulton's "Special" Coffee, 30c the pound, roasted fresh at the store daily. Fresh Roasted Jumbo Peanuts, 15c per pound. Get your presents FRED with a pound of Tea, Baking Powder or Extracts.—Moulton Coffee Store, 847 Minnesota Ave. ROOMS FOR RENT—Nice comfort- ably furnished rooms for rent at a reasonable price. Only a few steps to the best car line in the city. 433 Freeman avenue.—Mrs. Belle Hyde. Mr. Sammington, who has been sick. is able to be out again. Miss Juanita Brown of 949 Everett received a fine piano for an Xmas present. Miss Eva Howell, of New Jersey avenue, is on the sick list and out of school. Miss Lottie Grant, of 130 Stewart, has been confined to her home for two weeks with la gripe. Mrs. Neloms, of 2518 North Sixth street, who has been ill for two weeks is able to be out again. Mr. J. H. Doniphan, of 1721 Marion street, Denver, Colo., is here visiting his sister, Mrs. L. D. Hall, whom he has not seen for more than 11 years. Mrs. Anna Baldridge and Mrs. Hinton's mother, of 711 New Jersey avenue, are on the sick list. Mrs. L. E. Nutall, of 619 New Jersey, is quite ill again. Her friends hope she may soon recover. Mr. and Mrs. Augusts Hinton left Sunday, the 9th inst. for North Carolina, where they will spend some weeks with Mr. Hinton's mother. Mrs. Ella Braxton, of Colorado Springs is here on business and is stopping at Rev. and Mrs. J. C. C. Owens, 1914 North Sixth street. Mrs. Ida Godfrey, of 327 Troup avenue, entertained at dinner Sunday, January 16, Mr. J. H. Doniphan, of Denver, Colo., and Miss Howard of this city. Mrs. Ward, of 712 New Jersey avenue, has been very sick with tonsillitis, la gripe and a very sore hand, having stuck a splinter in it from splitting kindling wood. Eighth Street Baptist Mission Circle was highly entertained with a 4-course luncheon last Friday by Mrs. Lucy Hurman of 323 Troup avenue. Mrs. A. Curtright who visited her son and daughter on Washington boulevard for 5 weeks, returned to her home at Ionia, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Morehead, of 838 New Jersey avenue, entertained about ten of their friends to an old fashioned dinner January 16, 1916. Everyone present hopes that they will have another dinner soon. Miss Odessa Dickson, of Memphis, Tenn., a brilliant young school teacher of that state, is visiting Mrs. R. A. Adams of 1016 Tauromee boulevard. Miss Dickson will probably make this city her future home. Mrs. H. R. Stines, of 439 Walker, who has been quite ill for three weeks, has improved very much so as to be up. Her many friends are pleased to know of her improved condition. Mrs. Sophia Stuart, an invalid for 14 years, died Monday morning at 11 o'clock at her home on Nebraska avenue. Details of the funeral will be given in the next issue. About eighteen members of the Eighth Street Baptist church gave Mr. and Mrs. Elmore on North Eleventh street, a donation party. The wife is sick and has seven children. Mrs. N. P. Phillips, of 827 Freeman, entertained the Becon Hill Art club on the last Friday of the old year from 2 to 5 p. m. All had a very pleasant time. Mrs. Brown is president. Nice Meals, at Reasonable Prices From 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. Mrs. Nellie Falls 314 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, Kansas Restaurant THE NEW IDEA "Pressing and Training the Hair while you sleep" G.A. MORGAN'S HAIR REFINER Before TRADE After CLEVELAND.O. MARK PRICE $100. Why be untidy about your hair when it can be avoided? G. A. Morgan's Hair Refiner will positively straighten the hair and make a complete change in your appearance within fifteen minutes. G. A. Morgan's Hair Pressing Night Cap (Pat. Apld. For) keeps the hair in perfect condition and trains it while you sleep. Everybody should use one. G. A. MORGANS Black Hair Dye Hair Tonic Hair Oil Liquid Shampoo Soap Refiner Soap THE G. A. MORGAN HAIR REFINING CO. 304 SUPERIOR BLDG. CLEVELAND, OHIO Mail orders promptly attended to. Incorporated 1914 PHONE: MAIN 4535 Same Price as Horse Drawn Ambulance for Sick Purposes JNO. W. JONES Undertaker and Funeral Director Full Stock of Funeral Furnishings Lady Attendant PARLORS: 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 IN COUNTRY OF NOVELIST Visitors to Summer Home of Kate Douglas Wiggin Wrote Entertainingly of Their Sojourn There. Everyone who went to the Dorcas fair, held each summer at Quillcote, the summer home of Kate Douglas Wiggin, talked about it, and a great many wrote about it. Here is an account of the tea party with which one group of visitors closed their afternoon. "We took our tea at an old tea house down the road and in sight of the bridge. The tables were set out of doors and I don't know which one of Mrs. Wiggin's characters served us. Certainly she was as good as anything in a book. There are servants; hired girls, and those who wait on table in Maine. Said she to me: 'What will you have to drink?' 'Tea,' I answered. One other of our party called for tea, but later changed to coffee when the other members ordered it. 'Well, what do you say now?' demanded the girl. 'Tea,' I answered firmly. 'And sandwiches?' 'Certainly.' 'And we have gingerbread.' 'Gingerbread, too, but not with the sandwiches.' I seemed to have made a hit. In due season she reappeared from the house, deposited the coffee upon the table, and a part of the cup of tea in my lap. She wasn't looking at the tea. 'How many people do you think were up at Mrs. Wiggin's today?' she asked. 'Four thousand,' I answered. 'No, really,' she gasped. 'Only 1,100. They told me so. Four thousand?' 'I didn't count; I guessed.' 'Then it was 1,100,' she assured me, and deftly removing traces of the spilled tea, went in search of the gingerbread. But dear me, Hollis is filled with people who have clad themselves in the garments of Mrs. Wiggin's characters. I suspect that during the afternoon we must have touched elbows with Mr. Cobb, and Mirandy, and Emma Jane and Clara Belle, and even, possibly, Mr. Aladdin." 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. Auto Funeral Same Price as Horse Drawn 440 STATE AVE. W. A. Mason Dealer in Coal, Ice and Feed. Office, 1610 N. 3rd Street. Kansas City, Kansas Bell Phone, West 1738 Hiring and Firing. Personnel is, in fact, the all-important element of plant equipment. Selection of employees should rightly require more study than selection of boilers and generators. Unfortunately the art and science of hiring is so young and basic principles yet so vague that the great majority of companies operating plants still continue to waste enormous amounts of money and dissipate natural resources in addition to doing a great social injustice in this respect. Time honored habits of "hiring and firing," building up an organization by "hit and miss" method, has generally two immediate results: Men, hired because they did not want to starve, perform their tasks indifferently, merely avoiding gross neglect and, therefore, the actual efficiency of equipment; and frequent changes of employees, either because of their low efficiency or because of a fancy to advance a good fireman to a position of bad engineer, result in lack of thoroughness, lack of pride in their profession, and in extra expense in training unfitted men.—Engineering Magazine. Wanted Bath Without Room. A worn, dusty and bedraggled man marched courageously across the lobby to the desk of one of the exceedingly luxurious New York hostelries. "What are your prices?" he inquired. "Room without a bath, $3.50; with bath, $4," the clerk rattled off glibly. The dusty and bedraggled one pondered. "Well, please give me," he remarked finally, "a bath without a room. And kindly see that a nice eiderdown pillow is placed in the tub. Also be especially sure that—" at this the clerk looked up. And the house detective closed the incident. Drill Struck Wood at 1,900 Feet. Drill Struck Wood at 1900 feet One of the first deep wells drilled in the West was put down near Huxley, Nev., by the Central Pacific railway in 1881, in a search for good water. The boring reached a depth of 2,750 feet, but the water obtained was of very unsatisfactory quality. At 1,700 feet the drill encountered a bed of, "petrified clams" and the record states that at 1,900 feet well-preserved "redwood timber" was found. --- Gold Fields Still Prolific. Reminiscences of the palmy days of the gold fields in western Australia were recently revived when a parcel of dollled gold was brought to Kalgoorlie from Norland and Rudd's lease at Bracad Arrow. It was the finest display seen for many years, and recalled the rich finds of the early days of Coolgardle. When smelted the bullion welghed 790 ounces and is valued at over $15,000. The reef from which the gold was obtained has widened to five feet, and there are about 300 tons of ore in sight, in addition to 110 tons on the surface, estimated to average three ounces per ton. ```markdown ``` KANSAS CITY, KANS. SMALL-TOWN BOY NOT GONE He Plays the Same Old Pranks and Has the Same Old Youthful Exuberance. Not long ago a writer in a western exchange bewailed the passing of the true boy, the boy of natural impulses with a streak of old Adam, and a fine contempt for the minor ordinances, the Cleveland Plain Dealer remarks. He was the boy who plotted and executed mischief of the boyish type, who made himself a nuisance, perhaps, to the community in which he ran wild, yet never mixed meanness with mischief. In short, he was the old-fashioned boy, the embodiment of life and spirit and impishness. In his place, as the writer points out, we have the hulking street corner boy, who travels in gangs and becomes the bane of the police guardians. No doubt the author of this dissertation had in mind the boy of the rural community, not the city boy, but the small-town boy. That type of boy isn't found in the cities. They are too hampering for his soaring soul. He needs room, he requires a tolerant community, he wants a congenial atmosphere. It may be imagined that the author of the lamenting screed, having looked out through his urban window and noted no boy of the old-fashioned type, believes he and his joyous type have passed. The small-town boy still exists, however. Every little while his boyish pranks provide material for the country correspondent. He plays the same old tricks; he exhibits the same old brand of boyish exuberance. The other day he slipped into a Delaware church where a revival service was in progress, and left a half frozen hornet's nest beside the stove. When the hornets thawed out they organized an exploring expedition and the congregation promptly endeavored to leave the edifice in a body. There is no use of worrying over the decline of the small-town boy. He hasn't declined. PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL COURTS Tribunals First Created In France Have Accomplished Good, According to This Writer. As long ago as 1806 France created industrial courts, and the example has been followed by Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium, says George Creel in the Century. "A president, who represents the public, and an equal number of workers and employers sit as a jury rather than as a court. Lawyers are barred; the parties to the dispute take turns relating grievance and defense, and in consequence of this simplicity, 90 per cent of the cases are adjusted without formal hearings. In event of threatened strikes or lockouts, the courts have the power to sit as boards of arbitration, and it is only in rare cases that satisfactory agreements are not reached." Compare the simplicity of this procedure with the American method of frequent trials, frequent appeals, reversed decisions, remanded cases, court costs, lawyers' fees and months of delay, a gantlet that no poor man dares to run. The dollar out of which an alien is cheated may mean to him the difference between a bed or a park bench and certainly his sense of injustice will not inspire him with respect for democratic institutions. Department Store Efficiency. Department Store Efficiency. That this is the age of commercialism is even shown by the visitors to New York city. Formerly they hastened to see Eden musee, Grant's tomb and other notable landmarks. Now their first stop is at the department stores, and these seem to be a continual surprise and an ever-increasing source of astonishment. It is hard for the visitors to realize that under one roof everything one needs from the cradle to the coffin can be obtained, and with no more difficulty or delay than the small town merchant takes to wrap up a paper of pins. Few realize what constant supervision must be exercised over every department to see that losses are cut to the minimum, and that not only every article must be kept in its place, but also that the warehouses must be well stocked with goods to take care of any early calls for renewing the stock. An example of the high efficiency under which this class of stores is run can be seen in the fur storage department of one of the local stores. During the last summer they stored over 8,000 articles valued at nearly a million dollars, and their total losses on the same were $25.—Wall Street Journal. --- Earliest School Books. Among the recent discoveries in the archeological excavations in ancient Babylonla are some stone tablets believed to have been used as school books in the first regular school ever held in the world. They have been added to the collection of the University of Pennsylvania. These prehistoric text-books have marks proving that they were used in a school conducted in a temple in Nippur more than 2300 years B. C. This school is known to have been in existence at least one thousand years and no records have yet been found to indicate the existence of any preceding it. The tablets contain notes upon several sciences, evidently made upon the stone surface by a stylus. Several of them contain two forms of characters, indicating that the pupils attempted to copy the work of the teacher. OLD TOWER FAST CRUMBLING Landmark of San Juan, Porto Rico, Undermined by Resistless Action of the Waves. The famous "haunted" watch tower of San Juan, Porto Rico, which for half a century has fairly reeked with mystery, seems to be doomed to disappear beneath the waves which have undermined its foundations. This melancholy relic of vanished glory of Spain's empire in the West now hangs precariously over the boiling tide rip which has gnawed ceaselessly at its foundations for 300 years. Originally a part of the outer defense of the great fort San Cristobal, which was built by the Spanish conquistadores to guard San Juan from land attack, the "haunted" sentry box is regarded as one of the sights of the Porto Rican capital. The story of this crumbling bit of masonry runs that within the last 100 years six men have entered the tower and were apparently swallowed up. None of the sextet, it is declared, ever was seen again. The first three disappearances of which a record has been kept occurred within the first half of the nineteenth century and were separated by considerable intervals; the last one being in 1840. Ten years elapsed and the memory of the mysterious happenings was growing thin when three more men vanished in as many days. Since then the tower has been shunned as a pestilence, but its secret has remained undiscovered. All the cases were identical in that the missing one was a member of the garrison of San Cristobal detailed for night sentry duty on the sea wall. PLAGUED BY INSECT PESTS Explorers In Subtropical South America Tell of Hardships Encountered on Their Journeys. Though nearly every prospect pleases, other things as well as men are vile in subtropical South America. According to a lecture delivered recently before the Royal Geographical society in London by Lieutenant Edwards the insect and other pests are unspeakably terrible. The lecturer, who conducted a frontier exploration on the Bolivia-Brazil boundary last year, describes the forests as being wellnigh impassable. Their rate of progress was 15 miles in 35 days through those tangled fields. The soil of the country, he said, was wonderfully fertile, and with very little toil returned a harvest out of all proportion. In the forest and on the smaller rivers life was made almost unbearable by insect pests. Ants were met with everywhere; they swarmed over one's person in hundreds, and most of them bit most savagely. There was one kind of red ant, called Itashi, which lived in trees named palosantos, hollowed out by themselves, whose bite was like a touch with a red-hot iron. If a person inadvertently touched or leant up against one of these palosantos the ants swarmed out upon him instantly, and his life for hours afterward was a long-drawn-out misery. Gulnea Pig Farm. Guinea pig farming would seem to rank as the most curious of the various industries that municipalities have undertaken from time to time for the common good. Seattle is a guinea pig farmer on a considerable scale and at times the principal worry of those in charge of the "ranch" is that the guinea pig supply will exceed the demand. The municipal guinea pig herd at the present time numbers about 700. The guinea pig farm is a necessity, not an idle experiment. In their humble way these funny little animals play an important part in the daily work of preserving the city's health. They are the official "goats" for the chemists in the city's bacteriological laboratories and at the federal plague laboratory which the city helps to maintain. The little guinea pig is one of the most unfortunate of all animals. Since doctors have learned that he is subject to al most all the ills that human flesh is heir to, life for him is one long feast of germs. Beware of Paraffin Cups. When an Englishman drinks a toast to his queen, he breaks the glass as a pretty little homage, Glard writes in the Philadelphia Ledger. When you put a penny in the slot and extract an individual cup you should smash it after using it. That isn't homage, but a precaution that may save a human life. Do you know what happens to many of those discarded paraffin drinking cups? Picked up by careless people and used over and over again. If you will recall that a deadly germ feels even less at home on a glass cup than upon one made of paraffin you can easily see why neither should be used many times by many persons. There is one certain way to outwit the germ: Crush the cup. Beyond Scriptural Number. The clergyman of a country village, reprehending one of his parishioners for quarreling with his wife so loudly and frequently as to be a source of perpetual disturbance in the neighborhood, in the course of his exhortation remarked that the Scriptures declared that man and woman were one. 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The waves positively beckoned when they rose and pitched toward our boat laboring in the trough. And all the long night it seemed to me that I heard volces through the planking, talking, talking, endlessly, monotonously, querulously, and I couldn't make out whether it was the ocean calling from the outside or the ship herself muttering gropingly, finding herself. If the voices are of the ship they will soon cease, for she must find herself. But if they are the voices of the sea they must be sad sirens that cry, restless, questioning, unsatis-fied—quaint homeless little sirens." Hair Grower Will Promote a Full Growth or Hair, Will Also Restore the Strength, Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. IF YOUR HAIR IS DRY AND WIRY TRY EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER the best known remedy for Heavy and less Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Lightening. Cents Extra for Postage General Agent Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. osmos club O. Hall Night in 15 cents 8:30 to 11:30 A. M. BELL PHONE, E. 385-2 Directly. 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Delay means—no hair. Bell, West 3905 1616 N. Tenth St., K. C., K. ANNOUNCEMENT. ABRUPTLY CHANGED HIS MIND Jersey City Man Had Cause to Reconsider the Advisability of Cutting Up State of Texas. We had been talking for half an hour or so on the subject of dividing Texas into four states, and the man from Jersey City, who had a front seat in the stage, insisted that the matter ought to come up for congressional action. We finally drew up at a way station to change horses, and as we got down to stretch our legs the one native Texan among the eight passengers pulled out a bowie knife and confronted the Jersey man with: "So you reckon that there's 'nuff of Texas to make four states?" "It's—it's a very large state," replied the man, looking with anxiety at the knife. "Exactly. You are also a very large man." "Do you reckon there's 'nuff of you to make four men?" "Well, hardly." "If I should even slice off your ears you'd lose suthin' of your glory wouldn't you?" "Of course." "And you wouldn't feel that you were much of a man with your head gone, would you?" "No indeed." "I merely illustrate," said the Texan, as he whetted the blade on his bootleg. "If Texas can be divided up and still—" "Oh! She can't be!" interrupted Jersey. "Texas is none too big for a single state, for the empire state of the West, and if I were one of her honored citizens I should certainly oppose such a movement with my every energy. Gentlemen, let us drink to Texas as she is!" And we gurgled.—Exchange. VALUABLE SOAP BERRY TREE Product of Ecuador Has Remarkable Qualities, Besides Its Worth as a Cleanser of the Skin. The jaboncello, or soap berry tree (Sapindus saponaria), grows in the humid parts of western Ecuador. It attains a height of about fifty feet and has wide-spreading branches and immense quantities of fruit of the size and shape of cherries. The nearly transparent yellowish skin and pulp surrounding the round black seeds are so saponaceous as to be used instead of soap by many people of Ecuador, being equivalent to more than fifty times their weight of that material. The hard, polished seeds have been used extensively in Spain and England for waistcoat buttons, for they are very durable and seldom break. They are used also as beads. Although considerable quantities of the berry are utilized locally, tons of them rot, on the ground every year, there being as yet little foreign demand for them. Since they contain a large percentage of saponin, they should be of value in the manufacture of soap. 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 fire, 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. Sex the Key to the Bible "The Truth About the Bible" about five hundred pages, $3.00. "Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman," three hundred pages, $2.00. "Sexology of the Bible," over one hundred and seventy-five pages, $2.00. All cloth-bound. These pages are not to be shown that the Bible is a book of sex and a book of spirit, and that sex is the dividing line between the physical and spiritual worlds. They show that disease, sickness and insanity are within the sex, and that sex-lust was the origin of the death. We are arresting the attention of a medical, scientific, philosophical and theological worlds and people of all classes as no other books of modern times, and will probably do more to shape the thoughts written in the history of the world. They are daily going to the great thinkers of all parts of the civilized world. "I would rather be the author of the Truth About the Bible, by Sidney C. Tapp, than to be the President of the United States. His sex interpretation of the Bible, as therein contained, is so daring and his conclusions are so unanswerable, that the human intellect under the ideal threat for ideas, it is the world's greatest book, Mr. Tapp's books on the Bible and his sex interpretation of the Bible will live until time shall be no more. Republics may perish and Empires may decay, but the ideas presented by the author in the book on the Bible will never die—"Prof. S. Sils Harris, A.M. "Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will do more to empty our fails, 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. W. Swan, 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. We have everything needed commercially, but a Colored laundry man, N. B. Robinson, 1964 North Agent for O. K. Cleaners and Dyers, the only Guarantee Cleaners and Dyers in America. Office Hours—Until 10 a. m., 3 to 5 p. m., 7 to 9 p. m. Bell Phone, West 4102 Dr. Wm. A. Love PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 1700 N. Thirld St. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Robert Jase, Plaintiff, vs. Alma Jase, Defendant. Plaintiff vs. Alma Jase. Defendant PUBLICATION NOTICE. 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, cn 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-Insur= ance, And Rentals, Room 13 1-2 Peoples Bank Bullding, 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— rooms, 100 ft. front, oaly $1,200, $200 down, balance to sult. 5 acre tracts at $110 per acre. : Vacant Houses Wanted. A. T. LONG Dealer in Fine Groceries Fresh and Salt Meats. We can save you a nice per cent on your Grocery Bill. Cor. Third and Minn, Ave. Bell, W. 450. | Kansas City, Kansas. : | ‘The Glad Girls .will meet at the As- sociation on Saturday at twelve thirty. Forty-five girls listened attentively to the story which Miss Ethie Cautin Davis told tnem on Sunday. It is too bad that nature will not al- low trees, or some trees, at any rate, to live forever. In many places in this country, in the East particularly, the guides or the local historians once began their holding tales with “Under that tree.” The famous colonial and revolutionary day trees are gone or are going. Some of the present day events which are likely to have patri- otic or other sentimental interest for posterity might be staged purposely under thrifty trees of long-lived spe- cles, ‘The charter oak is gone, the old elm of Boston Common fs gone and the elm et Cambridge under whose shade ‘Washington took command of the con- tinental army is gone. The trees which Alexander Hamilton planttd, one for each of the thirteen original states, have either died of old age or havo succumbed to the encroachment of a civilization which takes little heed of sentiment or of natural beauty. And the treaty tree at the base of which the whites signed a compact (which unquestionably they broke) with the Wequadequeek Indians is dead. It was under this tree at Sleepy Hollow that Washington Irving wrote of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. The old cottonwood at Eighteenth street and the lake in Chicago died many years ago. A part of it is pre- served in the bullding of the Chicago Historical society, but a bit of dead timber is as nothing to the living tree. The sequoias of California come pretty close to living forever. They certainly live long enough to satisfy for ages mankind's sentiment concerning deeds done in their shadaw. It is a pity that the ancient eastern and middle west- ern elms, cottonwoods and oaks were not all sequoias. Trees ought to be spared for their own sakes, but when they mark the scenes of stirring na- tional events they ought to be tended with double care and solicitude. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE. . ROSE BAY — Rose Bay, a Positive and SpecificRemedy for Weak and Sore Lungs, Deep Seated Coughs and all Pulmonary Affections. We guarantee satisfaction in eygytotiic of Rose Bay taken for the above purposes. The merits of RoseRay are widely known. T. A. Moseley, General Agent 710 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAS. NY sie Home Phone, West 137 . P. R. Hance Peninsular and Giblin TIN and SHEET METAL WORK Roofing; Guttering and General Repair Work 839 Minnesota Avenue ’ Kansas City, Kansas Do % ee Dont suttier from Grain headaches’ ¥ ‘ Ls When travel- Tread Mee | ing, attending ae ee ee | ? aad Lg is ‘i iy T a $ tap VT ek a Kheatreor Ms ee Nh % SS iy Ppt SN some Social was iN Roe Function, or 7/23 De leg * = AIRY | | Pare I Saas if Shopping, A ld 1 don’t forget to have fee (hes DR, MILES’ a AN -Anti+ rat PAIN PILLS BRING DESIRED RELIEF. . h Th e. ‘Pits have usa@ii Dr. Miles’ Anti-Palin with you. They are in- | 2c rat cr masa valuable for Headache | 1 *ve sways taken great pleasure and all other Pains. | Bera ite (2 joses, 25 Cents. for all attacks of pain, knowing FACTORE Yoon ONE ace | tigre, BE REFUNDED. Wap aes Cee. Old Hats Made New Gloves and Ties Cleaned Free fogs, amet Somes Sumner STEAH Gleaners WM. ROUTTLEDGE & S. R. WILSON Proprietors. ‘ Goods calfed for and delivered : All Work Guaranteed Bell Phone West 121 1319 North 9th Street KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. ——————————————————— Ss. 1 Dig amuel Diggs THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER é Pays the highest cash prices for Junk at all times, rags, Inon, bottles, bones, copper, brags, lead, zine 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, i BELL, WEST 3577. 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LIKE THE RATTLB OF RAIN How the Trilled “R” and the Short “A” Have Been Employed by Masters of the Language. The trilled r and the short a after It make a sound which {is often won- derfully suggestive of the thing de- seribed by the word which they initiate, or of the mood of the speaker using such a word. You feel this in words of very di- verse meanings; in rapture and in racket; in ransack and in ravage; in rally and rampageous; even in rafile, All these words seem to do their work with a certain unctfon, and they are capable of absorbing the unction of the speaker in a remarkable degree, When a man relates that he was very hungry, hear how he rasps on the first syllable of ravenous, See how Burns almost compels sym- pathy with the wastrels of life against the “douce folk that live by rule” in the mere rattle of his r’s and vigor of his a’s: 2 Reig tn yeaa tess ne tt ‘The hairum-scarum, ram-stam boys, ‘The rattiin’ squad: 1 see you upward cast your eyes— Ye ken the Toad, Good humor, dislike, anger, scorn pass over these words in the act of utterance like rain or hail over a wheat field. Venerate Hooded Cobra. _ The hooded cobra, or Naga, still has his devotees in Bombay city, and from Kashmir to Nepal in the Himalayan region throughout the Deccan and southern India, and on the west coast in particular, this curious veneration of snake gods survives, says the Times of India. An interesting account of the worship is given in the latest an- nual report of the archeological de- partment. The usual form of Naga worship is the vow taken by childless wives to install a snake stone if they are blessed with offspring, Closely allied with this idea is the worship of trees, and pipal and margosa trees planted together—"married,” as the saying goes—come in for a share of the devotion paid to the snake stones set up in their shade. It is believed, says this account, that women will bear children if they walk round the married trees one hundred and eit times every day for forty-five days consecutively. Unfortunately no au- thentic case is cited of the efficacy of this prescription, but the offerinys brought in gratitude by women to the shrines may be taken as favorable evi. dence. —- SelfLighting Smudge Pot. ! By the invention of « simple thermo- gtatic controlling device, a Los An- /geles man has developed an ingenious apparatus for rendering the smudge pots used by orchardists self-operat- ing, says Popular Mechanics. The ap- Ppliance, which may be fitted to any standard type of pot, is regulated by a small copper rod. When the atmos- pheric temperature drops to a prede- termined point the contraction of the rod is sufficiently great to release a cup containing an acid. The liquid is poured into a small chamber provided in the smudge pot. This holds a chemical substance which burns upon the addition of the acid, producing a flame that ignites the crude oil used in the pot. The thermostat may be adjusted so as to release the acid when the temperature falls to any spe- cific degree. With this apparatus in use, an orchard may be protected from trost without personal attention being given it. Gerace . : : a Sky-Lig Home Phone West 1177 : WESTERMANN BROS, Sheet Metal Works - ROOFING, GUTTERING, FURNACE AND - EPAIR WORK. 1703 Central Ave. Kansas City, . t ~~ eee REE TL OR Bell Phont West 836 Honest Man’s Friend S. P. PETERSEN Groceries, Meats, Cigars and Tobacce 1607 N. 8th St, Ke G., 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, 6, K, W. C. Carroll —Dealer in— Fancy Groceries? Meats, Confectionery, Freits Cigars and Tobaccos Bell Phone West 1653. 2120 NORTH THIRD STREET Kansas City, Kansas. Mcleal & Anderson Real Estate Bell Phone West 823. 400 Minn. Ave. Kansas City, Kans. WE SOLICIT THE BEST HOUSES FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Pay us $25 to $50 down and $8 to $10 per month for three or four years, and we'll give you a house. Good Farms in Okla., Col., Mo., Kans. and la. 200 Propositions to Select From “It's Cheaper to Buy Than It Is to Rent.” Athenlans Willing Taxpayers. One of the most interesting cases of voluntary taxation is the ancient Athenian “liturgy,” which means something very different from the “tit- urgy” of today, the etymological mean- ing of the word being “public work.” The Hturgy was a special contribution made to the state by a wealthy citizen or group of citizens. There were ord. nary Mturgies, such as the provision of the chorus for a tragedy, and ex: traordinary ones, such as the equip. ‘Ment of maintenance of a warship. The liturgy was fundamentally a tax, and it was often evaded by all sorts of shifts. But in the palmy days of Atb- | ens it was considered disgraceful for those upon whom it was imposed to Ps More than the law exacted, and sometimes rich citizens would volun- teer a liturgy from public spirit or to | win popularity. | “California Pea Bean” Liked. Housewives who have mastered the fine art of baking beans testify that by all odds the best raw material for the purpose is the “California pea bean.” It is the ne plus ultra of the Boston bean pot, and its higher price is only a reflection of its distinct su- perlority. Compared with its delicacy and fineness all other beans are gross and commonplace. The Pacific coast beans that saved Boston are not a makeshift, a compromise or a substl- tute for “native beans.” They are the genuine and most highly esteemed ar- ticle for conversion into Boston beans. The integrity of the Boston Sunday breakfast has been preserved through the superlative medium. Immune to Cold. Gouverneur Morris, the New York Utterateur, said at a luncheon in Brooklyn: “American society is the most ex- clusive in the world. Useless, quite useless, for a ltterateur to try and force his way into it. “I know a litterateur who, on the strength of a best seller, managed to get himself invited to a dinner at Mrs, Van Astorcordt’s. “Well, did Mrs. Van Astorcordt’s cordiality stagger you?’ I asked him ‘the next day. - _ “Oh, no, not at all’ he answered. You ‘see, before I took up writing I worked in an ice-making plant’ ” Plate to Remove Tarnish. There has just been put upon the market a metal plate that removes tarnish from silver in a few seconds. It is a thin sheet made of a combina- tion of metals; this is put Into a dish of hot water in which two tablespoon- fuls é6f washing soda have been dis- solved; the silver is immersed in such @ way that at least one piece of it touches the plate, then is taken out, rinsed and wiped dry. The dish in which the operation is performed must be of glass, porcelain or enam- eled metal; if the latter, the enamel must not have been broken. Bell Phone 2569 West Res. Phone Bell $098 West WYATT & RANDOLPH ~,UNDERTAKERS 920 N. 3rd St. K. C, K, SS Dr. T. C. Chapman Dentist Bell Phone 798-E Home Phene 6340-M 18th St. and the Paseo Qam.toi2m, 1p.m.toSp.m KANSAS CITY, MO. NATHAN TAYLOR “The Handy Man.” ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING All Stoves: Gas, Gasoline, Coal and Ol Steam and Gas Fitting ALL WORK GUARANTEED . | 324 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY, KANS, Office Phone Bell West 380 Residence 1821 N. 8th St. Bell Phone, $61 West S. H. Taompson, M. D. Office 1512 N. Sth Street FAMOUS OLD LONDON CHURCH St. George’s, In Hanover Square, Has Long Been Identified With His- tory of England’s Great. Famous St. George’s church, in George street, Hanover square, was the work of James of Greenwich. One supposes that this is the best known church in London, for it has been the Scene of fashionable marriages almost from its earliest day. Here Sir William Hamilton was wedded to Emma Hart; here the duke of Sussex was joined to Lady Augusta Murray, about the results of which circumstances Lord Eldon tells us with such gusto; here the notorious Lola Montes, who ruined a king and| caused a revolution, was married to} Mr. Heald (not Heath, as the name ist 80 often wrongly given); here the Iron ‘Duke might have been seen on in- ynumerable occagions “giving away” ‘the brides at fashionable weddings. One wonders how many who have trodden those well-worn steps, or waited beneath that ample portico, have ever asked themselves who de- signed the church which, seen from Hanover square, stands cut proudly from the adjacent houses. Even Ralph, who wrote certain critl- cal observations on London’s bulld- ings, and generally managed to fall fout of most of them, has a good word for St. George's and the poetic voice of Wordsworth has also been raised on its behalf! DIVIDE YEARS INTO “CYCLES” Chinese Have a Custom Which Is Un- Ike That of Any Other People on the Earth. Among the many extraordinary cus- toms of the Chinese is that of band- ing years together in groups of twelve, called “cycles,” and naming each year of the series after some animal. Thus, the first year of a new cycle is the year of the rat, the second the year of the ox, the third the year of the tiger. Every Chinese born in the year of the rat belongs to the Order of the Rat, and so on. The animal class of every Chinese man and woman is thus recorded, and is held to be of great importance in foretelling the future. Another curloua fact about the Chi- nese reckoning of time is that in the Celestial empire a child is held to be one year old as soon as born. With the absurd superstition so dear to the orfental mind, a baby boy is frequent-; ly given a girl’s name in order to de- ceive the evil spirits, who apparently| have an objectional habit of making] it as hard as possible to rear a male; child successfully. For Safety's Saxv. Business was very brisk, so the firm appointed Patrick foreman, a position of which he was very proud. He was always fussing around, or- dering this and altering that. One morning his gang of men stopped’ work because they heard the well- Esowa voice of their new foreman shouting loudly. Down below on the ground stood Pat, yelling lustily, and waving his arms wildly. : - “Ql cay, you, up there!” he shout- ed. “You know that ladder at the ‘end of the scaffolding? Well, don't any of yez thry to come down, be cause Ol've taken {t away!”—Phila- delphia Record.