Kansas City Advocate

Subscription $1.00 Per Annum A Pleasant and Safe Trip CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD DELIVER WESTERN METHODISTS SAFELY TO GENERAL CONFERENCE—ARRIVE TUESDAY MORNING AT 10 A. M.—MR. MURRAY, WESTERN PASSENGER AGENT, STARTS THEM OFF IN HAPPY MOOD. The Kansas, Missouri and Western Methodists were a happy and jovial bunch when they left the union depot last Sunday evening at 6 p. m. over the Chicago & Alton line for the General Conference at Philadelphia. There were just 45 who took passage in an elegant tourist sieper. Mr. C. R. Murray, the genial western passenger agent, was there to see that everything was in tip top shape for their accommodation and comfort en route. The party arrived in Chicago at 7:30 a. m., where a special train was made up of all sleepers and with other large delegations left at 9:05 a. m. over the Michigan Central to Niagara Falls and Buffalo, then going over the Lehigh and P. R. to Philadelphia, arriving there at 10 a. m. Tuesday morning, western time. No change had to be made after leaving Chicago. The trip was a pleasant one and everybody was feeling good when the party arrived in the city where African Methodism was founded. A FINE TOURING CAR TO BE GIVEN AWAY. The Odd Fellows Drill Contest between Kansas and Missouri will be the one big feature next week which will take place next Thursday evening, May the 11th at M. and O. Hall. A fine 5-passenger touring car of the Briscoe make will be given away on that evening. It's a car that sells for $695.00. Some one will get this elegant car for the price of admission to the drill. See ad in this issue where to secure tickets. ANNUAL SERMON OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The Annual Thanksgiving sermon of the local Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe will be held this Sunday at 2 p. m. at the First A. M. E. church. Rev. D. A. Holmes, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist church, will deliver the annual sermon. A fine program has been arranged for the occasion. All of the lodges and courts of Kansas City, Mo., and the Uniform Companies have been invited and accompanying them will be the famous Second Regiment band. If the day is anything like pleasant one of the largest turnouts will be seen that ever occurred on an occasion of this kind. Many grand officers of the state and visitors will be present for this great annual affair. A Circulating manager of The Advocate who is now representing this family paper at the A. M. E. General Conference in Philadelphia. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The Brotherhood met Sunday, April 30, at 5 p. m. Open in usual form. Topic: The Fall of Man, Rom. 5, 1-19. After some interesting remarks from Deacon Austin, Dr. Moore and Rev. Bowren, the president then opened the discussion on loyalty, which was discussed by all present expressing their willingness to be loyal to their country. Prof. King did not reach the meeting in time for the lecture he was to deliver. Subject, "Not for Ourselves VOL. 2. Open in usual form. but for Others," owing to the inclementy of the weather, but will deliver it at the meeting Sunday, May 7 I cannot close this article without saying something about the leap year party, which was a great success under the direction of the most able committee, led by Prof. Lewis and Hodge. Also we wish to especially thank the sisters for the great assistance they gave us in the work, especially the following, towit. Sisters Anna Cox Ewing, the efficient cateress, who so wisely and economically served the supper, although the browns did not have as large a crowd as the sisters, but through economy they will realize as much money as the sisters, feeding 200 or more for $25. So you see Sister Ewing understood the business. Also the other sisters assisted and are entitled to part of the honor, towit. Sisters Anna Scruggs A. Weeden, M. E. Jackson, Maggie Austin and Mittle Jackson, who decorated so nicely as to give the building the appearance of a flower garden The church and pastor gave the ladies a rising vote of thanks for the officiation and very timely way they arranged the tables. Topic for Sunday, May 7, God's purpose of grace, 2 Tim., 1, 1-9. Do not forget the lecture by Prot King. Subject, "Not for Ourselves but for others" H. A. GEREN, Pro- H. J. MESLY, Sec. DR. McNEAL DELIVERS SERMON AT FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH— HIS CHOIR ALSO SINGS. Rev. Gec. McNeal the popular pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist church, preached a splendid sermon last Sunday afternoon at the First A. M. E. church. While the weather was very inclement a nice size audience was present. Dr. McNeal brought his splendid church choir who furnished the music. The audience greatly enjoyed the sermon and also the excellent music by his choir. Rev. George McNeal attended the funeral Friday of Mrs. C. Robinson McDonald at Leavenworth. She was a past Grand Princess of the U. B. Fs. DR. J. R. RANSOM. One of the A. M. E. church's strongest devines. A man who has been the means of building up African Methodism in the Middle West. A man of strong personality and Christian character. No honor in the gift of the church is too good for this worthy hard-working minister of the gospel. His friends are by the legion, by men in all walks of life. He lead, as he has for years the Kansas delegation to the General Conference which is now in session at Philadelphia. He is pastor of the largest church in Kansas and has been for three years at the First A. M. E. church, Kansas City, Kansas. ANDERSON FURNITURE CO, SUCCESSOR TO KANSAS CITY FURNITURE HOUSE AT 739-741 MINNESOTA AVE. The well-known and old reliable business firm, known as the Kansas City Furniture House at 739-741 Minnesota avenue, has been purchased by one of Kansas City's pioneer citizens, Mr. John E. Anderson and his amiable son, Carl E. Anderson. Mr. Anderson is well known in this city, and has been a man, who has done much in the 30-years he has lived here, in building up the city to its present standing. He has been for many years one of Kansas City's foremost and leading contractors. No doubt many of our readers will readily recall the name and face of Mr. Anderson, as he was always partial to colored workmen. The large, spa- And Independent Rt. Rev. H. Blanton Bishop of the Fifth Epi KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, MAY 5, 1916 Rt. Rev. H. Blanton Parks D. D. Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal District J. H. CITY cious room has been remodeled and the interior handsomely decorated. With their mammoth and elegant new stock adorning hundreds of square feet of floor space, shows up one of the prettiest stores on the avenue. While this firm is open for business a grand opening will be announced later at which time the public will be invited. The citizens of Kansas City should feel proud and also fortunate in having one of their old reliable citizens to launch out into business that will help hold up the commercialism of our city. Carl E., the son, is a hustling young man, who has had a business training and his push is like that of his father and as general manager things will move systematically. TROLLEY EXCURSION MAY 9TH. The Cosmos club will run the first trolley excursion of the season to Leavenwoth Tuesday next, May the 9th. This club always takes a fine crowd of excursionists and the nice thing about the trip is no one ever has to stand up. The first car will leave Fourth and Minnesota avenue at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Tilford Davis is president of this popular club. The New Cafeteria Cafeteria SOMETHING THE RACE SHOULD BE PROUD OF—NO ONE NEED BE ASHAMED TO TAKE A FRIEND IN THIS PLACE— SUCCESS IS THE MOTTO. Kansas City, Kansas, has at last come to the front with a business man who has opened up a place of its kind that has long been needed for our citizens and the visiting public—a high class and up-to-date restaurant and cafeteria. Mr. Wm. J. Lee and his business wife, Mrs. Lee, have put in at 544 State avenue, as swell a cafeteria as you will find anywhere, and Mrs. Lee says they are not through yet. Well, it can't be much finer, while the looks of a place have something to do with one's taste, but when anything at this cafeteria is served it can be relished in its fulness. It's because they won't keep anything but the freshest and best in meats, vegetables and seasonings. Their cooks are simply experts when it comes to making up dishes. Everything in the place is kept in perfect sanitary condition at all times. There is one thing about this place that can not be found in any of the white restaurants and that is a handsome parlor, fitted up in elegant taste, for ladies only, where they can be served without coming in contact with men it they so desire. Anything in the eating line, fruits, ice cream sodas, short orders or soft drinks, can be had. They also carry toilet goods and a line of the popular brands of 5 and 10 cent cigars and tobacco. This house employs eight people and when it comes to service it is of the very best. Mr. and Mrs. Lee are well pleased with the high class trade they have been getting since their opening and believe the public will appreciate their effort, and the great expense that it has taken to establish this much needed business in our city. Mr. Lee has spent lots of money in fitting up this place for the race, and something they have been howling for. Now they have it, so let us do our part in patronizing it. These two energetic, well deserving people deserve great credit and may success be their reward. NOT A DISSENTING VOTE ON THE TERMINAL RAILWAY GRANT. Mayor Green Issues a Proclamation for an Election to Be Held July 6 for the People to Approve or Reject the Grant. Without a dissenting voice the city commissioners Thursday morning passed the ordinance granting the Terminal Railroad association the 200-year franchise grant drawn up a few weeks ago by the city and Terminal officials The majority of the railroad companies composing the Terminal Association accepted the franchise last week Mayor C. W. Green issued a proclamation this morning calling a special election on July 6 for the disposal of the franchise by the voters of this city. The franchise had the first of its two required readings Tuesday morning and it was passed at the second reading this morning without a single protest being made against it by citizens of this city. MISS ANNA PERKINS DIES SUDENLY—FOUND KNEELING AT HER BED. Miss Anna Perkins, one of the city's splendid young women, was found kneeling at her bedside on last Friday morning by her sister, Mrs. Younger, on Freeman avenue, with whom she made her home, dead. It seems as though Miss Perkins had risen for the day and was giving thanks unto her Savior for his watchful care over her during the night's slumber, and also asking Him to guide her steps during the day. Mrs. Arthur Younger, her sister, went up to her chamber to see what was delaying her in not coming down stairs, and found her in a kneeling position with her hands and head leaning on the side of the bed. Her sister spoke to her, and when she receive no reply, touched her, and then when she t that something was wrong, and immediately phoned for a doctor, but w the doctor arrived he found that she had been dead some little time. It was a great shock to her devoted sister as well as to the entire community. Miss Perkins was one of our best young women and was highly respected by all who knew her. She was a devout Christian and was always found doing her Christian duty. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from the house, where a large circle of her friends gathered to pay respects to this dear young woman. Many fine floral offerings were sent by friends and the neighborhood. Rev. Bowren of the First Baptist church officiated. Interment was made in Woodlawn cemetery. Her sister, Mrs. Younger, has the sincere sympathy of the community. FORT SCOTT. The funeral services of Rev. Buford Crawford were held today from the Holiness church on Sixth and Wilson. Mr Crawford dropped dead Friday morning. He will be much missed by the community. He leaves a wife, father and brother and a host of friends to mourn his loss. Rev. H. H. Jones left Friday night for Philadelphia, and Rev. Morrison of New Orleans is filling his place. Miss Moore of Cherryvale spent the week end visiting Miss Mattie L. Moore and Miss Myrtle Tenny. Dr. G. Allison is in the city visiting his mother and other relatives. Lawyer A. M. Keene, a very prominent citizen of our city, delivered a very pleasing and instructive lecture at the A. M. E. church Sunday night April 30, the subject being the "Divinity of Christ." Miss Lula Duncan and sister of Kansas City, Kansas, spent Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mrs. Fields and Mr. and Mrs. Duan can and children of Iola, Kas., spent the week the guests of Mr. and Mr. Harry Martin. S. H. THOMPSON, M.D. Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, of the Kansas jurisdiction, who is now attending the General Conference of the A. M. E. church now in session at Philadelphia. He is a lay delegate from the Kansas City district. MRS. PATTON'S DRILL COURT. Mrs. Patton's drill court will give a drill at Mt. Zion Baptist church Wednesday night, May 10th, for the benefit of the Ten Virgin Rally. Everybody invited. MICHIGAN G. O. P. FOR HUGHES. Delegates Must Cast First Vote for Ford but They Favor U. S. Justice. Lansing, Mich. May 3.—Republicans of Michigan, at a harmonious state convention here today, indorsed Justice Charles E. Hughes for president and elected four delegates at large to the national convention. The delegation, as a result of the recent state primary, must cast its first ballot for Henry Ford, of Detroit. For delegates at large: Maycr Oscar B. Marx, of Detroit; Albert E. Peterman, Calumet; Benjamin Hanchett, Grand Rapids, and George W. Cook, Flint. were chosen. The resolution dwelt upon universal protection and military preparedness. Mr. Ira Smith of the Topeka Plain Dealer. was in the city Tuesday. Mr. Smith was on his way home from a visit with his mother in southern Kansas. Stop and see us again, Ira. NO.37 'Choking at Gnat Swallowing Camel' THE APPEAL CONTINUED. BROTHER WISE-ACRE, WHO TRIED A NEGRO ONCE. And now comes Mr. S. M. Wise-acre, who knows whereof he speaks, and says: "I believe in treating, trading and dealing with my people commercially and professionally, but they will not let me. I dealt with one, and he gave me the worst of it, and you can't expect people to overlook such conduct. Poor soul, equally as poor and thin as any of the others whom we have met and vanquished in previous issues. In fact, you are equally as false, palpably as unreasonable and decidedly more ridiculous than those who have preceded you. We have heard of the parable spoken by the Christ, of "choking at a snat and swallowing a camel." Brother, yours is a case of a similar "choking, and then, at one gulp take down the whole herd." Just think of the reason, or rather the lack of it, in the above statement. Think of it, "I dealt with one and he gave me the worst of it, you cannot expect people to overlook such conduct." My brother, as a (non) reasoner you cap the climax: by establishing both the inductive and deductive theories of reasoning, as well also that of analogy, with the one single instance in which you grossly violate all of them. How easily in this case are you convinced that your brother in black and all the rest of the race are unalterably and constitutionally perverse, crooked and unreliable, as is proven by this one example. While in the case of your other friends, who in every hour of the day and through every day of the year, think, feel and act with the intent, purpose, motive and power to wrong, overreach and exploit you, yet all such thoughts feelings and actions have no effect toward convincing you that such "other friends"(?) are unworthy of your highest and best consideration and appreciation. And more still, the same sort of thought, feeling and action in and by the ancestors of your "other friends" for 300 years have no effect whatever to impress you, my brother, that your position is by far the weakest and most unmanly of any yet taken. And all the more so when we know that this untoward thought, feeling and action on the part of your "other friends"(?] has been manifested by robbing you and yours of all your rights, privileges and immunities, and leaving you naked and unprotected to the wildest abandon of the most pronouncedly anti social and wanton element of your "other friends"(?). And still more unmanly do you appear when we consider that in reaching your weak, foolish, unnatural and reasonless conclusion you steadily refuse to observe the facts that daily and hourly present themselves. All of which facts tend to reduce you to the lowest and most miserable point of existence. And yet still more craven and unmanly are you, my brother, when you fail to observe that your "other friends" violate with impunity every law upholding human rights in order to wrong, overreach and exploit you. And not resting there, go further and to the extent of devising and inventing still other laws to further curtail your rights and to positively outrage you. For 'tis an open and galling shame that these "other friends" of yours make no "bones" of letting it be known that they are disgraced by your very existence (living near them). And that it is equally as dishonorable to have their immaculate? (but badly bitched) bodies molt and roar away yours (in the grave). And the latest sad I believe is that these "other friends" of yours will be disgraced should they be told how to mend their downward and damnable ways in the same place by the same person, who tells you the same thing. It seems beyond question that they would have you occupy a separate hell. I do not think that they concede that there is any heaven for you. (Are they correct, once, brother?) And still, my brother in black, all that has gone before is of no effect to convince you, that these "other friends" of yours are not in truth and Continued on page 2 a* wis, = ge S s Oho ate ofa oe Sea oF we a KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE. : And Independent. —_—————— THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Prop, —______. LOTTIE B, HALL, CIRCULATING MANAGER, ee Published every Friday at 932 Oak- lahd Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas —_————$—$—$—$—$— — —__. The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human ‘Uplift, —— SUBSCRIPTION. Pear Year . ........0.20e000004. $1.00 Six months . .,......ceceeeeeeee 60 Three months . .....-...se000. 85 Single Copy . ........eeeceeeeee 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 Act of March 3, 1879,” Don’t forget The Advocate collec- tors when they call. It’s only 10c per month and no one should put the col- lector off. —_— Have your news in our office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication. Office 932 Oakland avenue.—Ed. ‘The editor of The Advocate regret- {ed very much that his old friend of Ohio, Hon. Ralph Tyler, was not elect- ed as one of the “Big Four” to the Republican National Convention. Tag Day last Saturday for Douglass hospital was not as fruitful as it ought to Have been. There was lack- ing of interest and business system. ‘The few who were on tie streets did well enough in the short time they were out and they deserve credit for the Interest and manifestation for that which they labored. ‘The Advocate circulating manager, Mrs. Lottie B. Hall, is one of the prominent women at the General Con- ference which is now in session at Philadelphia. She will represent Kan- sas’ great family journal. —_—_—_____ NEW ENGLAND PRIMARIES AND “PREPAREDNESS”, Acitizen of Cambridge who has been making speeches in eight states, writes to the New York Evening Post that “it will doubtless interest your readers, who are also interested in staying the ‘preparedness' hysteria, to know that light is breaking in on Darkest Boston on this subject.” He finds it “promi- nent in the newspapers, non-existent among the rank and file of the people. ‘The masses in New England no more want warthan the masses in the Mid- dle West.” But how light happens at this time to be breaking én on Boston he explains, and attributes the fact to the primaries. «Anybody who belittles the Primaries, even this year, when interest In presidential candidates has reached the lowest ebb in 40 years, must de politically blind as a bat. We know from every side that the day after the Nebraska primaries Washington sat up with a jerk, From that hour also Col. Roosevelt's candi- dacy drooped and faded, and good politician that he is nobody knows the fact better than the Colonel himself. The very people who most desire Bryan eliminated as a political factor in the United States are the most underheaded critics of primaries, see- ing that what nothing else could do for 20 years the primary in Nebraska did Jast month. Byran is completely elinrinated of a factor for the time be. 4am. and for the first time in near a generation, by the primary in his owr State, ‘The primaries are cutting great quan tities of political ice and are alway: to be reckoned with hereafter. “After: all the Reoseve't talk.” writes the citi ven of Cambridge, “and the 20.00: Roosevelt telegrams on Easter Sunday the Roosevelt delegates, abundantl; financed, and after stumping ever; part of the state, were snowed unde by more than 15,000 majority in a ligh vote.” He quotes the Boston Adver tiser, Roosevelt supporter: “Yet considering the apparent Re publican lack of interest inethe cdntes as evidence by the light vote cas’ and remembering the recent results i Nebraska and Michigan, one may ha: ard this inference: that possibly th sentiment for preparedness is muc weaker, and the pacifist sentiment i much stronger, in the party than on would wish to see. Certainly so far results have shown to date, one mu: be pretty optimistic to find in them : yet any signs of an overwhelming se: iiment among Republicans, whether | the Middle West or right here in Ne England, for any adequate military « industrial preparation for what tt future may bring to this country.” If the Republican sentiment is not f “preparedness” what one-stops to ask must Democrat sentiment be? Another Boston Roogevelt paper the Record, calls the voters to account for their ignorance. “They haye not real ized the great importance of the issue between pacfism and preparedness— for that was the issue involved in yes- terday’s balloting.” And preparedness was beaten 15,000 voters! The Boston paper would undoubtedly itself come nearer to understanding the times if it assumed, on the contrary, that the voters fully’ comprehended that the issue is betiveen pacifism and pre paredness, so called. For that ds the fact. The people have shown in the primaries, in Massachusetts and New Jersey as well as Michigan and Ne- braska, that the “preparedness” agita- tion by the magazines, the newspapers ‘and the banking and manufacturing interests, which want a big navy and a big army to back them in future ex- Doitation of financing and business “spheres of influence.” round the globe, hag not represented American opinion. It has represented only the aristocratic element, the emotionally “patriotic” and capitalism. An interpretation nearer the truth is that of the Boston Traveler: “The yote of Henry Ford is more than a joke, and cannot be treated safely as a joke. It represents a well defined opinion on the part of many Repub- licans, that the cause of peace is wort fighting for, and that Mr, Ford as an exponent of the peace doctrine, is hon- est, patriotic and sane.” “The sober truth”, says the Cam- bridge writer, “in this whole business is that the munitions crowd have over- played their game. That is what really happened, and the American public, which knows something of the Ameri- can game itself, has seen through the humbug.” He has spoken in eight states and 11 cities and gives his own opinion as to what American sent! ment is: It wants rational defence arrange ments. It wants a good ammy and a good navy. It wants sound adminis- tration of its military establishment premacy of the civil over the military authorities. It wants the merit sys tem preserved. It does not want war, and it despises the warmakers. And “right here in New England” this is being discovered, without a press and without a propaganda. The sane American “pacifist” will decide the next election. Middle Western Americans will be glad to note this sentiment in New England. Here, as there, though to 2 less extent, the noisy, all the vocal, forces are on the “preparedness” side, and except here and there the antt- preparedness sentiment has no medium of expression. In the far west and far east the control of the press for “preparedness” is so complete that many people supposed no anttsenti- ment existed in those sections, The primaries are the first opportunity for expression to all sides equally and their verdict has begun to percolate into the understandings of politicians EIGHTH ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. The Cighth Street Baptist Sunday School had a big day Easter Sunday. The program was very interesting. The significance of the cross was car- ried out through the entire exercises. The collection was even collected in crosses. All of the crosses which were not turned in Easter were hrought in last Sunday, which made us a grand total of $45.00 for For- eign Missions.—Mrs. B. C. Scott, chair- man of the Program Committee; Mr. R. H. Parker, Supt.; Dr. D. B. Jack- son, Pastor. LINWOOD ART CLUB. The Linwood Art club met with Mrs, J. M. Weeden, 1949 North Sixth street. A splendid program was rend- ered. Mrs. J. H. Dickson being one of the numbers which was enjoyed by all, Anrong our guests were Mrs, James Edmon and Mrs. Brooks. The president of the City Federation, Mrs. Dilbert, ex-president of the City Fed- eration who.addressed the club and her remarks were very encouraging and enjoyed by all. They were in- vited to come again. The club will next be entertained by Mrs. Williams at the residence of Mrs. Roberson 1044 New Jersey avenue, the tenth of May. MRS. A, R. MERRITT, President MRS. ETHEL KING, Secretary Linwood club has federated with the city and state. COSMOS CLUB SECOND ANNUAL TROLLEY EXCURSION, The president, Mr. Tilford Davis, will put on a new stunt this year by taking a photographer along, who will make flashlight pictures of the excur- sionists at the hall. The Junior Stewardesses of the A. ‘M, E. church met at Mrs. R. Stew- art’s, on Allis avenue, Friday. BUSINESS _ DIRECTORY a et ee: he sEWELER 4 A. WILSON is! Yansas City’s Pic neer Negro Jeweler. RELIABLE JEWELRY 1616 W. Sth St K. C, Mo. Bell Phone M. 6248R. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Bell Phone West 3866. E. A, SHACKELFORD, ATTORNEY-AT.LAW, 516 Minnesota Avenus. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, Bell Phone 424 West. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney and Counselor at Law. 516 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell, W. 2335 |. F. BRADLEY, Lawyer. 721 Minnesota Avenue, Rooms 8 and 6 REAL ESTATE Reat Estate and Rentals. Cc. 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 Cot- tages, Farms for Farmer Folk. SUBURBAN TRACTS 26th and Parkway. Kansas City, ans, 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 Speclallet. $18 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. DR. J. H. MIXON, M.D. 818 Minnesota Avenue, ~ KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Office Phone Bell West 380 Residence 1821 N. 8th St Bell Phone, 361 West . 8. H. THOMPSON, M. D. Office 1512 N. 5th Street Bell Phone, West 8711 Office Hours: 8 to 11 A.M. 2to5 P.M. At Night. DR. LEE R. PETTY Physician and Surgeon 516 Minnesota Ave. Happenings Mrs. William Price also went witi: the General Conference party to Phila- delphia. Mrs. Parks went to Leavenworth to attend the funerat of the late Julia C, Robinson-McDonald. Mr. ard’ Mrs. Batie of 717 Everett have gone to Fort Scott to visit three weeks. Mr, and Mrs. Robinson have rented the lower rooms of the Matthews apartments on Washington boulevard for one month. Mr, and Mrs, S. T. Thomas and Miss “Marie Johnson attended the fine recep- tion at Lincoln Park in K. C. Mo. Monday evening, May Ist. Rey. J. W. Braxton, manager of the A. M. E. church’s ministers’ home of Colorado Springs, joined the delega- tion here for the General Conference which left Sunday evening. Among those who left here Sunday evening for the General Conference at Philadelphia was the Hon. T. W. Gan- away, of Pratt, Kansas, a lay dele- gate and one of the state’s wealthiest colored farmers. Mesdames VM. C. Matthews and Lau- ra Lewis were tbe first ladies from this side te attend the Billy Sunday meeting in the tabernacle on Sunday, April 30th, They enjoyed it Rev. Hancock and nine others of our race from the other side were also pres- ent. aa ar Se a ee DENTISTS, Bell Phone W. 1864. DR. MARION COTTEN, DENTIST. 514 Minnesota Avenue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. GROCERS. Ww. C. CARROLL FANCY GROCERIES, MEATS, CON. FECTIONERY, FRUITS, ETC. Bell Phone West 1653. 2120 NORTH THIRD STREET H. W. HILL, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions. Bell Phone, 385 West 2702 North Sherman St TRANSFER CO’S. . Home Phone West 473. Bell Phone West 247. Business Directory TOM CROWDER TRANSFER CO., Does 2 General Moving, Packing, Ship. ping and Storage Business. Office 412 Minnesota Ave. DECORATOR F. D. Howe, Decorator and Palnter Ice Cream Parlor and Confectionery. 1722 N. 3rd Std. Bell, W. 3385 A. J. HILL, Groceries, Meats, Dry Goods and No. tlons. Corner “ith and Freeman Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 433. COAL DEALERS, ‘ W.H, LAMBRIGHT & CO.,, Dealer In Coal, Ice and Feed. Office 1620 N. $d St KANSAS CITY, KAS. Bell West 1928. OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 to 11:30 a. m.; 2 to 4 and € tod p.m Bell Phone, Office and Residence, Main 1219 DR. H. M. BRATHWAITE Physiclan and Surgeon S. W. Corner James and Central KANSAS CITY, KANS. Miss Lillian Wall and Mr, John Pat- terson of Kansas City, Mo., were unit- ed together last Sunday at 6 p. m at the residence of Rev. W. MM. Garrison, 1515 North Eleventh. The Advocate extends to Mr, and Mrs. Patterson a long, happy life and success and enjoy- ment. Mr, Jolin Webster has bought a few fine five room cottages and two lots on Twelfth and Nebraska. Mr. Thoma W. Butler is in California on his way home to his mother, Mrs. -H. Butler of 1043 Freeman. Mr, But- tee has served in the U. S. army in the ‘Hawaiian Islands! Mr. Cd Holden of 202 Stewart ave- ane, is suffering from an injury to his foot. Mrs. H. T. Bolden of St. Louis, the wife of Dr. Bolden, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Simpson, 9(0 Nerbaska avenue. Mr. J. T. Hart, general agent of the Prudential Insurance company of this city, has added to his office at 514 Minnesota avenue, a real estate ex- change. The Metropolitan Mission Circle had a night meeting for both men and women, Mrs F. Morvis presided Some of the principal features were music, paper, “The Cross in Foreign Lands.” by Mrs. Meeks; current events and personation; “India,” by Mrs. M. C. Matthews and ten others. Sev: eral praised the impersonation and Rey. D. A, Holmes discussed the pa per and praised the program. The crowd was much pleased with the pro. cram. A large number of persons were at the depot Sunday evening to see the ferty or more delegates and friends off for Philadelphia. It was a happy and jovial crowd. The four-act drama, “Along the Mis. souri,” had an overcrowded rouse and the audience say it was fine. It was given by Juniors of Sumner High school. Mr. Matthew Carrol and Miss Lizzie Link were the stars. Other characters did well also The management says their motto will be “A House of Service and a House of Merit,” with a moderate liv- ing per cent profit on their goods, which will be sold on time or cash, Stop and see their goods and get ac- quainted. The Mission Circle of the Eighth Street Baptist church met Friday night. ee @ OVER 20,000 HAVE ADOPTED @ & 75 SSS New IDEA = SS 8 : CS “og and Training Me Hair white yo, \_ 9 3 A eGRGANS HAIR RER yal | : ane m. 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All of this is not sufficient to pre- vent you from “Choking at a snat and swallowing a herd of camels.” All of the foregoing does not keep you from demanding that your biack brether shall be without blemish and perfect before you will give him your busi- ness and support in the professions. While you will readily give ycur best offices and support to your “other friends” though they be the personifi- cation of wreng and imperfection, and their record a ruthless red line of wreckage of your every right, O, brother, my dear brother. he hon- est with yourself. | Do you really claim your process 1s ‘Teasoning? Brother, you know 'tis not. Brother, there fs such a thing as the condign justice of God. Think on it. Subscribe for this paper, don’s borrow it. (See you again.) TRespt., LF, BRADLEY. FIRST A. M. E, CHURCH, The bazaar held at the church dur. ing last week, was only fairly attend- ed, closing Friday evering with the largest audience of the week, with Mayor Green and Commissioner Lou Chapman as speakers. Both of these gentlemen gave earnest and practical talks and many things were said by the two city officials that were very commendable as well as helpful. The Sunday moming service brought to the church a number of our noted devines who were on their way to the ° Hodgson Mirror Co Old mirrors resifvered NEW ONES MADE TO ORDER Work Guaranteed HOME PHONE W. 1619 1017 N. 5TH T. Kansas City Kansas ee Try a pound of Moulton’s “Special” Coffee, 30c the pound, roasted fresh at the store daily. Fresh Roasted Jumbo Peanuts, 15¢ per pound, Get your Presents FREE with a pound of Tea, Baking Powder or Extracts.—Moulton Coffee Store, 847 Minnesota Ave. 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. Third st. KANSAS CITY, « KANSAS, _—_OO General Conference. Among those was one of the pioneer ministers of this section of the country, Dr. xf, s. Bryant, presiding eider of the St. Jo- sepb, Mo., district who preached a masterly sermon at the 11 o'clock service. Others present were Revs. T. W. Green, of Parsons, Kas., James Craw, of Los Angeles, Calif. and Pre- siding Elder J. T. Smith of the Kansas City district. 7 Rey. Patterson will have charge of the pulpit in the absence of Dr. Ran- som. hans + Seberan iid obese Brig ee oh OVIATT & HAMILTON'S New Basement Department Proves a Winner We quote a few Special Prices for Saturday Buyers WOMEN'S TURN SOLE PUMPS IN PATENT, DULL OR BRONZE WITH GREY OR BROWN CLOTH . .....$1.95 WOMEN'S STRAP PUMPS IN PATENT AND KID ....$1.95 WOMEN'S AND GIRLS MARY JANES AND 2-STRAPS ..... $1.95 and $1.75 MISSES MARY JANES AND 2-STRAPS—SIZES Oviatt & Hamilton HENRY KASSEL DRUGGIST BOTH PHONES, WEST 77 534 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, Kans. Free Delivery New Location HENRY DRUG BOTH PHONE 534 Minnes Kansas C Free D FAKER KNEW HUMAN NATURE Story That Shows the Old Law of Psychology Is Still in Full Operation. Legend tells of a Hindu faker who seemed to have a working knowledge of practical psychology and made him self rich selling plain wicker baskets in the streets of Calcutta. The peculiar virtue of the baskets, he explained to the buyers, lay in the fa t that, if one filled his basket with ordinary pebbles, placed himself in a receptive attitude of mind, and stirred them with a stick for an hour, each and every pebble would be transmuted into a nugget of gold—provided the stirrer did not think of a hippopotamus while stirring. The baskets were sold, but the idea of a hippopotamus was so firmly fixed in the minds of all the purchasers that not one of them ever had legitimate grounds on which to demand his money back. Knew He'd Seen Her Before. Three women met in a New York elevated station. "Well, I declare," they all chorused. The last arrival was asked if she, too, was bound for the shopping district, the destination of the other women. "No, indeed," she quickly replied. "I'm going to my husband's office. He just telephoned me he had left an important letter at home, and asked me to bring it to him. He's the most absent-minded man I ever met." "He isn't any worse than my husband," chimed in one of the other women. "Doctor is so forgetful at times that he frequently goes off without his medicine folio." "Well," spoke up the third woman, "my husband beats that. John, as you know, is a traveling man. He has been away a month this time. He came home the other day and patted me on the cheek and, said, 'I believe I have seen you before, little girl, at some place, at some time. What is your name?' " NEVER WAKE SLEEPING BABY Writer Points Out How Injurious Is Action Too Common With Young Mothers. Eating and sleeping are the only voluntary acts of the young infant, writes Mrs. E. E. Kellogg in Good Health Magazine. As a general rule, the child should not be awakened from sleep to be fed; neither should he be awakened, as many a poor little mite of humanity is, for the purpose of being exhibited to interested friends or relatives. The physical rights of the little one demand that he should be allowed to follow nature's plan, which for a child under one month of age is 20 hours sleep out of the 24. When he has attained the age of six months, 16 hours sleep may suffice. Lack of sleep has a most demoralizing effect upon the brain and nervous system. The child at four or five years requires 12 hours' sleep, and the youth, even at fifteen or sixteen years, should sleep nine or ten hours. Best and quiet, as well as sleep are a necessity for the young child. Quick temper and irritability are often the direct result of exhausted nerve force. --- 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. 530 Minnesota Ave. HOLDS STRENGTH IN RESERVE Century Plant Conserves Energy to the Time When It Shall Bloom In Full Splendor. For a mere plant, the century plant exhibits an unusual amount of good sense. Nature decreed that its blossoming process be fast and furious. So the plant spends a lifetime storing up reserve strength for the day when it puts forth its flowers. Sometimes it spends fifteen years getting ready for its flower season, sometimes longer. That's why we've named it the century plant. Before it is ready to blossom, the century plant is a dense cluster of rigid, thick leaves, with a thorn on the tip of each leaf. It grows in Mexico and on the western desert. In Mexico it is extensively cultivated and is put to several uses. An extract is made from the leaves and used for soap. When the plant is ready, to blossom, the sap is taken from the stem and made into a drink, which the Mexicans call pulque. After the flower withers, the stem is cut into slices to form razor strops. Finally, the leaves produce fiber, which is made into thread and ropes. Tricky. A senator was talking about national preparedness. "The man who would make political capital out of such an important question as preparedness," he said, "is as selfish and tricky as the chap in the station bar. "A chap hustled into a station bar. He had only a minute or so to catch his train. But the bartender was busy, and the chap saw that he stood to lose out on being served. "Two gentlemen, each with whisky and soda before him, were conversing pleasantly before the bar. Well, what does this chap do but reach over, grab one of the whiskies and toss it off. "The owner started back. "‘How dare you!’ he spluttered. ‘The idea!’ Why, that wasn't your whisky!’ "‘Wasn't it?’ said the chap. ‘Then I guess this one must be mine, eh?’ “And he tossed off the other gentleman's drink and dashed out and caught his train just as it was moving off.” Reversion to Type. An English traveler in Baluchistan had from a holy man in that country a story about Moses, which does not appear in the Scriptures, yet which has its pertinence to this matter of politicians proposing to do away with all the evils of the human lot. The patriarch was sitting in his house very sad, and the Lord said to him: "Prophet Moses, why art thou cast down?" "Alas!" said he, "I see so many people sorrowful. Some are unclothed, and some are hungry. I pray thee make all happy and contented." The Lord promised it should be so. But soon Moses was again disconsolate, and once more the Lord asked the cause. "Lord," cried the prophet, "the upper story of my house has fallen down, and nobody will come to mend it; they are all too busy enjoying themselves." "But what am I to do?" "Lord, make the people as they were before!" GAME WARDEN OF THE GULF Captain Sprinkle of the Royal Term Is an Efficient Protector of Bird Life. The Royal Tern, a boat which is the property of the Audubon society, is commanded by Capt William Sprinkle, born and bred on this gulf coast, who knows the sea fowl, and the islands where they breed and dwell, as he knows the winds and the lovely, snuiling, treacncrous gulf waters. He is game warden and he and the Royal Terr are the police force of more than five hundred square miles of sandbars, shallow waters and intricate channels. The man and the boat are two of the chief obstacles in the way of the poachers, the plume hunters and eggers, who always threaten these bird sanctuaries. Many of these poachers are at heart good men, who follow their fathers' business, just as respectable men on the seacoast once followed the business of wrecking. But when times change and a once acknowledged trade comes under the ban of the law the character of those following it also changes for the worse. Wreckers are no longer respectable, and plume hunters and eggers are sinking to the same level. The illegal business of killing breeding birds, of leaving nestlings to starve wholesale, and of general ruthless extermination more and more tends to attract men of the same moral category as those who sell whisky to Indians and combine the running of "blind pigs" with highway robbery and murder for hire. In Florida one of the best game wardens of the Audubon society was killed by these sordid bird butchers:—Theodore Roosevelt, in Scribner's Magazine. KEEPING THE TRENCHES DRY Water Continually Pumped From Positions Which the French Are Occupying. The French made their trenches as comfortable as possible for the benefit of the troops during the winter months. Many of the trenches are paved and the water was kept out of them by means of powerful pumps. There are drain pits which have been sunk along the whole length inside the trenches, and the pumps are used to force the water from these pits to the outside. The walls of the trenches are strengthened with hurdles to prevent landslides. The bottom of the trenches are carefully beaten down, leveled and covered with plank or straw, and the earthen roofs are made stronger by sheets of zinc. The heating, which is adequate, is furnished by charcoal braziers. Farther back from the trenches, along the second line, are erected little wooden huts, built with double walls to keep out the cold, with slate roofs, and in most cases with flowers raised above the level of the ground. The beds consist of wire netting stretched over wooden frames, with a covering of straw packing and a supply of warm blankets. In the huts stoves are furnished Fuel is very plentiful and easily obtained because the shells of the enemy have scattered huge branches from the trees and splintered them ready for burning. The soldiers are given two good meals a day, and in the case of the men who are most exposed there is an extra ration of meat. Hot drinks are furnished, such as tea and coffee with a fixed measure of alcohol when the temperature requires it. His Share. Thomas P. Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma, spoke of the problem of interest and usury in this country recently at a dinner of the New York Credit Men's association and told the following story to illustrate practices which Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams had unearthed. "A man down in my own state went into a little bank in a country town and gave his note for $10 for three months. The bank deducted interest and gave him $7.50. A friend noticed he was looking pretty thoughtful and glum. "What's the matter, Jack?' he asked. "I was just thinking,' said Jack slowly, 'how glad I am I didn't give my note for a year. I wouldn't have got a cent!'" Hotel Puts Tents on Roof. High in the broad roof of the Hotel Lenox several tents have been pitched for the benefit of guests who wish to sleep in the open, says the Boston Post. So far as is known, this is the first time that a Boston hotel has arranged for sleeping accommodations on the roof, the idea being to provide fresh air right in the heart of the city. Among the first to try out the plan was Miss Ora McBride, widely known among magazine illustrators, and Miss Helen Walsh, a stenographer. After the fact became known that tents had been erected on the roof, many of the guests of the hotel flocked there, accompanied by moving-picture men, newspaper photographers and reporters. The tents are what are known as "arctics." They are heavy and windproof, and give plenty of room for iron cots, "made up" with either blankets or sleeping bags. "Gaspipe Cavalry." The motorcycle and bicycle scouts and dispatch riders of the British army in France are familiarly known as the "Gaspipe Cavalry"—a good example of Tommy Atkins' fondness for slang nomenclature. RISKED LIFE FOR HIS PIPE British Seaman Braved Death to Carry Off Insignificant Article to Which He Was Attached. A merchant seaman, ashore for a brief spell after many thrilling adventures in the vicinity of Gallipoli, where he has been engaged in landing stores in the dead of night, tells of a delightful little incident which has hitherto escaped publication, says London Answers. The incident happened at the time when submarines were unpleasantly active in the middle seas. A trim little craft lay in the grasp of an Austrian submarine and, after a game effort to show her heels to the submarine, the ship's papers had been seized and the crew had taken to the boats. The submarine stood grimly by with guns trained and the final scene was about to be enacted. Before the commander of the U-boat gave the fatal order, however, it was noticed that one of the ship's boats had pulled back to the vessel and that a grimy figure in blue overalls was clambering back over the side. Even Austrian submarine commanders are curious, and he held back the order to fire, to await developments. A full minute passed and, wearying of the delay, the submarine chief motioned to the gunners. Almost simultaneously the blue-coated figure reappeared. Lelsurely he made his way towards the waiting boat, and then it was those puzzled Austrians saw what his important mission had been. In his left hand was an old, worn rubber pouch, and with his right hand he clutched a nut-brown clay pipe. READING FOR THE SOLDIERS Germany Sending Motor Trucks With Books to Men on the Fighting Front. "Books for soldiers" has become the slogan of a great part of the stay-at-home population of Germany, and the popularity of the "Bildungskanone" (educational cannon), as the field circulating libraries are called by the men in gray, seems almost to rival that of the famous "Gulaschkanone," which supply the hot meals that keep the kalser's fighters-in condition. The task of distributing the books has been taken over by a special committee, headed by Undersecretary Conze, which has begun to send out the libraries on wheels, and which hopes to have 100 of them in service within a short time. These "Bildungskanone," as described in the Berliner Tageblatt, consist of big motor trucks carrying from 1,000 to 1,500 volumes each, arranged on shelves and looked after by a librarian. The first five of the field libraries were sent to the eastern front. As the roads in Poland and Serbia in some cases do not admit of the use of the heavy lorries, arrangements have been made for forwarding the books in special chests. It is estimated that one motor library will be sufficient for 20,000 men. Zeppelin Victims: French illustrated newspapers gave much space to depicting the scenes attending the funeral of the men, women and children killed in the recent raid of the Zeppelin airships on Paris. All the city was in the streets along which the cortege with the 23 bodies, each on a separate gun carriage, were taken to the famous cemetery of Pere la Chaise. Each coffin was draped with the tricolor of France. Troops lined the way and marched in the processional ranks. The funeral was a national tribute and was of a deeply sorrowful and pathetic character. Hundreds of persons in the great course, men as well as women, were carried away by their emotions, and though of no kin to the dead were unable to restrain their tears. It was said that this was the most impressive funeral ever known within more than a hundred years and that the "gay city" was a city of gloom and sorrow, such as she had not been even when news of slaughter had come from the front. The British Museum In the early years of the British museum, whose treasures are to be locked up from the general public till after the war, the days of opening were fewer than now. Three days a week were considered enough Economy ruled then also. No generous grant of public money aided the foundation of the museum. A public lottery provided the sinews of war. By this means $465,000 was raised, $100,000 of which went to Sir Hans Sloane's executors, $50,000 to the earl and countess of Oxford for the Harleian manuscripts, and $50,000 to Lord Halifax for Montague house. When the pantechnicons paid for by the proceeds of the lottery had done their duty in the removal of the curiosities, Montague house was thrown open with great ceremony on January 15, 1759.—London Chronicle. The Montenegrin's Arms. To ask a Montenegrin to surrender his firearms, even to the family'heirloom, as the Austrians are now proposing, is like asking a Covenanter to surrender his Bible. A Black mountain proverb runs: "You might as well take from me my brother as my rifle." The Montenegrin adores his revolver as a doting father does a beautiful daughter; and baby in his cradle is given the butt-end to play with. A Montenegrin without a rifle is one of those incredible things with which the war is every-now and then surprising us. Peculiar Experience of German in Russian Capital Which Led to Capture of Pickpockets. Some time before the outbreak of the war a German organist, who went to St. Petersburg, as the capital of Russia was then called, to live, had an experience with a new cap that for a time almost made him believe in the magic of the Teutonic fairy tales. The organist bought the cap during his first day at the Russian capital, and wore it the next day when he went out for a walk. On his return to his lodgings he was amazed to find two gold purses in his pocket, one of which contained a sum equivalent to $50. The next day, after his usual walk, he found four purses in his outside pocket, a find that caused him to doubt his senses. A third day, with a similar profitable result, sent him to the chief of police to tell his story. The authorities detailed a detective to go with the German to the tailor who made the cap. Investigation disclosed the fact that it had been constructed of an old piece of English cloth brought in by a stranger. From it the tailor had made fifteen identical caps to order. Having a bit left, he had constructed a sixteenth cap, which was the one sold to the organist. The detective then followed the organist through the streets of the city, when the mystery was solved. The cap, it appears, was the emblem of a gang of pickpockets working co-operatively. The one who secured a purse dropped it into the pocket of the first confederate he saw. The cap had identified the German and he had reaped the reward. With this clue, it was an easy matter for the Russian authorities to catch the whole gang. PLEASED WITH THE BAGPIPES Policeman Listened Delightedly to its Skirl in Deserted Building. As the "special" approached, the police sergeant stood in a listening attitude near a little city church which is built in and dwarfed by tall offices and warehouses. Usually the place is one of the busiest, but this Saturday afternoon all was quiet, save for the unmistakable skirl of bagpipes. The sound was hard to locate. "He's away up yonder in that top room," said the sergeant in response to the "special's" inquiry; "he practices on Saturday afternoon, and I like to hear him at it." His highland accent gave the reason. "The tune? "Tis the 'Barren Rocks of Aden,' but he's not quite correct in it; there's four beats to that bar, not three," and he beat time as the stirring martial air floated over the silent Manchester street, says the Guardian of that city. The unseen piper changed into the unmistakable "Cock o' the North." "There was an old fellow here," continued the sergeant, "a watchman on the street repairs, and he learned to play these two tunes on the tin whistle from hearing the piper away up above. Proud the old man was, too. He was a quare old chap. He made a fiddle cut of a cigar box and a bit of wood the telephone man gave him. The sound was quite good. He was seventy if he was a day." Reindeer in Canada. Efforts of the dominion government to propagate reinder in the Peace river and Great Slave lake districts in northwestern Canada have proved unsuccessful, according to a recent report on the subject. Of the original herd of 50, which were sent from Labrador in 1911, there is now but one survivor. The chief difficulty was the bull files of the north which drove the reindeer frantic in the summer. The result was that they stamped through the strongest inclosures their keepers could build and were lost, or shot by the Indians. Reindeer have thrived in Alaska, but apparently the Peace river country and valley of the Mackenzie were not suitable for them. Later an effort may be made to introduce them in the Yukon, where there seems to be no reason why they should not succeed. Fighting Elephants Rounding up elephants is in progress in several places in India. At Sukna nine elephants have been captured and one of them, a huge beast, refused to eat in captivity. Six were sent on to Chalsa where one of them charged the other elephants, and bowling over one of them, killed the mahout. The other day a tusker charged the only camping ground in the Tendu forest, but fortunately a European assistant prevented a panic. Not long ago a herd took possession of the short branch line from Patigurl to Ramshahi. The driver did his best to frighten them off, but at the last moment one of the animals made for the engine and damaged it slightly, though it was itself thrown off the line, and is believed to have broken a leg. Chinese as Shipbuilders. Chinese ship yards may possibly yet build ships for the United States, as they are already building them for European owners. Hongkong is said to be enjoying a shipbuilding boom on an unprecedented scale, one yard being prepared to build steamships up to 10,000 tons. The labor employed, including foremen, is all Chinese, though the white race supplies the technical staff. A. C. Cook, Druggist Home Phone, W.1361 Bell, W.1368 13th and Quindaro Boulvard Kansas City, Kansas Trolley Party Cosmos Club May 9th to Leavenw'th Cars begin leaving 4th and Minn. at 7:30 p. m. Every ticket a seat. No standing room sold. Tickets withdrawn from sale Saturday, May 6th, so do your shopping early if you are going. TILFORD DAVIS, JR President. Specific SAT. MAY Handy Colored The REMAINDER of our Ex- of Trimmed Hats—a sale full of biggest economies ever presented $7.50 all go at $2.50. Beautiful bons and flowers and wings. 3 doz. TRIMMED HATS, val- styles and shapes in a riot of ri- SPECIAL SALE on Skirts and 1421 N. 5th St. Leap Year Party G Hermione O. O. C., N. & N. AT M. & O. HALL 8th and 9th Dinner served from Exc. Linnerand Admissi Mrs. E. J. Thompson, Chrm. Special Sale MAY 6TH, AT Only Colored Millinery MAINDER of our EASTER HATS will be a HAT Hats—a sale full of timely interest and overflow nies ever presented here. 75 trimmed Hats at $2.50. Beautiful conceptions, elaborately trim vers and wings. MMED HATS, values up to $5.50. Chic creat tapes in a riot of rich trimmed effect. All go to SALE on Skirts and Shirt Waists also at half p Special Sale SAT. MAY 6TH, AT THE Handy Colored Millinery Store The REMAINDER of our EASTER HATS will be a HARVEST SALE of Trimmed Hats—a sale full of timely interest and overflowing with the biggest economies ever presented here. 75 trimmed Hats valued up to $7.50 all go at $2.50. Beautiful conceptions, elaborately trimmed with ribbons and flowers and wings. 3 doz. TRIMMED HATS, values up to $5.50. Chic creations of many styles and shapes in a riot of rich trimmed effect. All go at $1.48. Year Party and Chicken GIVEN BY Hermione Court No. 21 D. O. C., N. & S. A., E., A., A., & A. D. HALL 8th and Washington Blvd. inner served from 5:30 P. M. to 10:30 P. M. Excellent music and Admission 25c. or 50c. Thompson, Chrm. Mrs. Norene Leap Year Party and Chicken Dinner GIVEN BY Hermione Court No. 21 O. O. C., N. & S. A., E., A., A., & A. AT M. & O. HALL TUES., MAY 16TH 8th and Washington Blvd. Dinner served from 5:30 P. M. to 10:30 P. M. Excellent music Innerand Admission 25c. or 50c. a couple Mrs. E. J. Thompson, Chrm. Mrs. Norene Davis, Sec'y Grant's Dress Club Bell F Res., Bell CLEANING, PRESSING, DYE GOODS CALLED 1319 N. 9th St. Bell Phone, West 455W. Res., Bell Phone, West 3246W. PRESSING, DYEING AND REPAIRING GU GOODS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. KANSAS CITY, Goods Called for and Delivered, C vice Auto Delivery SUMNE Steam Claer Repairing neatly Dyeing a spec Add 50 per cent to Your A by having our Expert w your cleaning and pre Bell Phone, West 1708 N. 3rd St., K W. E. Routtledge Bell Phone, West 455W. Res., Bell Phone, West 3246W. CLEANING, PRESSING, DYEING AND REPAIRING GUARANTEED. GOODS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. 1319 N. 9th St. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Goods Called for and Delivered, One Day Service Auto Delivery SUMNER Steam Claeners Repairing neatly done, Dyeing a specialty. 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During the Russo-Japanese war an officer of Cossacks offered to carry a dispatch which ten horsemen had already failed to get through. "4"The others have failed," the officer insisted, "because they traveled on horseback. I shall go under my horse." "Under your horse!" the general exclaimed. But he accepted the offer of the volunteer. Whereupon the Cossack officer received the communion, said his prayers, bade good-by to his men and started off in the middle of the night strapped face downward be neath his horse, which he guided by means of passing the reins between the forelegs of the horse. The Japanese outposts whistled to what they thought was a riderless horse, but did not shoot at it when it did not heed them. The animal, driven on by kicks from the officer's heels, accomplished the journey of 30 miles in safety. On the following night the officer returned as he had gone. When Lieutenant Gilmore, an officer of our navy, was captured by the Filipinos during the insurrection 14 years ago he sent news of his whereabouts through the Filipino lines by a Spanish prisoner who had been liberated. Naturally all such persons were carefully searched. But the insurgent officers had failed to examine the bamboo walking staff of the Spanford. The end had been opened, the written message insorted and a cork was fitted into the hole again, which also rendered the paper safe from water. WROTE FOR A MONGOOSE Revenge on Rats, Which Annoy Them, Plotted by British Soldiers in Trenches. An army officer searched all London one day for a mongoose, which is a weasellike animal. He had received a piteous letter from some friends in the trenches asking for one of these valuable little beasts—a sure cure for rat plague. He was told that one could only be had if a private individual happened to have one to sell, and the price would be about $27.50. Cecil Isaacs of the Royal Menageries said the mongoose is the only animal that can be depended upon to rid a trench of rats. "A ferret," he said, "will kill for the sake of eating. But a mongoose kills for the sake of killing. I guarantee that any trench with a mongoose will not suffer from rats. The difficulty is to get a mongoose. I have sent out half a dozen recently to France, but live stock is not being shipped to England now, and the home of the mongoose is Ceylon. "The only chance is to seek out private owners and ask them to sell. Many inquiries have reached me from officers at the front. Even the ferret is scarce." Golden Age of Our Poetry. There is no more hopeful sign of the advancement of a new age of artistic appreciation in this country than the recent genuine renaissance of native and vigorous poetry, blazing new trails for itself in realism, fantasy, form and method, says the Century. The best of this work is based upon the craftsman's knowledge of his craft and his clear-sighted study of the poetic "old masters," though the modern poet shows his individuality in two distinct ways. He is either a merciless and challenging realist or weaves new and gorgeous patterns upon the loom of fancy, rejecting old poetic phrase, the age-long pigeon holed "fit expression" for a given theme, shaping out of the flexible, slang accreted language of the day a new poetic diction full of pith and "brimmed with nimbler meanings up." Thus, mixed metaphorically, some idea may be given of his enthusiastic and hearty modern method. French Ministerial Etiquette The wives of outgoing French ministers suffer a loss of dignity through their husbands' departure from office, for they must conform to the rules of precedence carefully defined by the protocol. It is enacted that the wives of senators and deputies must rise if the wife of a cabinet minister enters a room where they are seated, and they must remain standing until Madame la Ministresse finds a seat. Ministers' wives show similar deference to the premier's wife, who, in her turn must rise to salute the wife of the president of the chamber or the president of the senate. The last-named ranks in the official hierarchy next to the hostess of the Elyssee. Japan Gains in Pacific. The two countries benefiting mostly in Australia in consequence of the war are the United States and Japan. The latter has the advantage over the former so far as shipping facilities and freight rates are concerned. The regular lines of Japanese passenger and freight steamers plying between the ports of Japan and Australia afford facilities for promoting trade. STATUES IN EUROPEAN CITIES Things That Impressed English Author When He Visited Capitals of Germany and Russia. It is interesting to recall at the present time, when Russia and Germany are warring, what Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice in Wonderland," wrote in his diary of Berlin and Petrograd, the rival capitals, during a continental tour he took as long ago as 1867—even before the Franco-Prussian war. After commenting upon the enormous number of statues in Berlin, Lewis Carroll goes on to say that one of the types of statue most frequently seen is "the colossal figure of a man killing, about to kill, or having killed (the present tense is preferred) a beast. A dragon is the correct thing, but if that is beyond the artist, he may content himself with a lion or a pig. The beast-killing principle has been carried out everywhere with a relentless monotony, which makes parts of Berlin look like a fossil slaughter house." He continues his tour, and eventually comes to Petrograd. This is his description: "There is a fine equestrian statue of Peter the Great near the admiralty; the horse is rearing, and has a serpent coiled about his hind feet. If this had been put up in Berlin Peter would, no doubt, have been actively engaged in killing the monster, but here he takes no notice of it; in fact, the killing theory is not recognized."—London Tit-Bits. WHEN THE PEONS PROFITED American Soldiers, in Their Progress Through Mexico, Threw Away Silver Money Too Heavy to Carry. On the only occasion when American soldiers and marines got further than Vera Cruz on the job of "cleaning up Mexico" they threw away money on the march and paid as much as $1.50 for a canteenful of water. That was in the days of "wooden ships and iron men," when General Scott's army marched from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. There was a company of marines from the San Jacinto with the army. Instead of the present-day khaki they wore blue with white belts that had to be carefully pipe-clayed. The marines, deprived of the grog that Uncle Sam served them daily on shipboard, in that year of 1846, suffered greatly from thirst on the road to the capital. Water was scarce, and sometimes they paid as much as $1.50 for a canteenful. They had been paid in silver before starting from Vera Cruz, and finding that the money was too heavy to carry they threw it away. The peons along the way profited from that march. Another "Voyage of the Sunbeam." Lord Brassey has placed at the disposal of the government of India his steam yacht Sunbeam, which was also utilized for the same purpose last autumn in the Mediterranean. There can be very few yachts in commission which have seen so much active service as the Sunbeam, for it must be more than forty years since the first Lady Brassey made the ship a household word by her account of a voyage round the world in it. A few years ago, it will be remembered, the gallant old yacht was entered for a transatlantic race for sailing yachts, and made quite a good showing among the younger and larger boats, though not the first to reach the goal. The stanch old boat now fitted with steam, though retaining her masts and spars for sailing, paid a visit to Montreal harbor four or five years ago, under the command of her noble master, who is a properly qualified sea captain. Chance for the Battered. An ancient, storm-battered British trawler, with leaking sides and a worn-out engine, is worth more to the owner these days than a new spick and span craft with equipment, a dry hold and fast engines. Similarly the one-eyed skipper, who had a hard time getting a job before the war, is in more demand than one without physical defect. The reason for this is that all serviceable trawlers and able-bodied skippers are snapped up by the admiralty. Meantime, owing to the shortage of craft, the old tubs and their derelict masters are making a fortune in fishing. It is true, they engage in a risky business and run the chance of both mines and submarines, but the reward for a good catch is several times that of the old days. Most Powerful Explosive. Lyddite is probably the most powerful explosive known to man. It is largely composed of one of the derivatives of coal-tar, namely, picric acid To convert and develop the explosive properties of this new discovery to the purposes of war was only a matter of time and experiment for the expert chemists. They did not labor in vain, for they found that by melting the picric acid crystals until they turned into a fluid of the consistency of cream, and then combining this fluid with gun-cotton melted in alcohol, they got an explosive more terrifying and tremendous in its destructive powers than anything else known before or since. Luxury Tax for Dane. The proposed Danish ban on luxuries, known as the "luxury tax," is expected to include tobacco, flowers, ralsins, currants, wines, caviar, truffles, lobsters, oysters, tea, coffee, cocoa, hats, plumage, corsets, dresses, perfumes, laces, ornaments, watches, books, magazines and paper. ```markdown ``` Senator Warren G. Harding. This is the very latest photograph of Senator Warren G. Harding, selected at the temporary chairman of the Republican national convention. He will deliver the keynote speech for his party. OFFICIAL CALL. To The Members of the Western Negro Press Association: At the 17th annual meeting of the association in Kansas City, Missouri, Dec. 27th, 23th 1915. It was voted that the 18th annual session of this organization should be held in the city of Chicago, on Monday and Tuesday, June the 5th and 6th 1916. Therefore by the authority vested in me as president of the association, I hereby call upon each member of the association to be present at the office of the Chicago Defender 3150 State Street in said city of Chicago at 10 o'clock Monday morning June 5th 1916, for the purpose of transacting the business of the Association and discussing questions of interest, the race, state and nation. All newspapers, or magazine editors reporters, managers or correspondents not members of the association are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Respectfully, A. J. SMITHERMAN, Tulsa Okla. Rec. Sec. Milwaukee. Wis. THOS. KENNEDY, Cor. Sec. Kansas City, Kan JOTTINGS FROM RENSSELAER MISSOURI. The Sunday school gave an Easter Social Friday, April 21st and a neat sum was raised for Easter Sunday. A good crowd was present at the A.M. E. church Sunday. Rev. Tony preached an Easter sermon in the afternoon after which a program was rendered by the pupils of the Sunday school. The Easter visitors to Rensselaer were Miss Peoples, of Frankfort, Miss Lulu Butler, of Paris, who teaches at Hunnewell, Miss Mable Saunders, of Hannibal, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Scott and baby of Hunnewell, Mrs. Fannie and Miss Evelyn Taylor of Monroe and Mr. Lewis Sharp of Hunnewell. The missionary meeting will be held at Mrs. Susie Herrington's the second Thursday in May. This is the last week of school which will close with exercises in the afternoon and a plenic. Miss Mary L. Dant has gone to Withers Mill to work. Eye CHARACTER TOLD BY NOSE Shape of the Most Prominent Feature of the Face Will Reveal Much to Observer. Nasography reveals the character, habits and inclinations of people by a simple inspection of noses. According to the system, the nose should be as long as possible, as this is a sign of merit, power and genius. Examples—Napoleon and Caesar, both of whom had large noses. A straight nose denotes a just, serious and energetic mind; the Roman nose a propensity for adventure, and a wide nose with open nostrils is a mark of great sensuality. A cleft nose shows benevolence—it was the nose of St. Vincent de Paul. The curved fleshy nose is a mark of domination and cruelty. Catharine de Medici and Elizabeth of England had noses of this kind. The curved thin nose, on the contrary, is a mark of a brilliant mind, but vain and disposed to be ironical; it is the nose of a dreamer, a poet, or a critic. If the line of the nose is re-entrant—that is, if the nose is turned up—it denotes that its owner has a weak mind, sometimes coarse, and generally playful, pleasant and frollicsome. A pale nose denotes egotism, envy, heartlessness; the quick, passionate, sanguine man has a strongly-colored nose of uniform shade. GREAT FIELD FOR NOVELISTS Industrial Life In America Should Inspire the Best Work of the Best Novelists. No strong hand has yet been laid (in a literary sense, upon our industrial life. It has been pecked at and trifled with, but never treated with breadth of fullness. Here we have probably the most striking social contrasts the world has ever seen; racial mixtures of bewildering complexity, the whole flung against impressive backgrounds and lighted from a thousand angles. Pennsylvania is only slightly "spotted" on the literary map, and yet between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh nearly every possible phase and condition of life is represented. Great passions are at work in the fiery aisles of the steel mills that would have kindled Dostoyefsky's imagination. A pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night marks a limitless field for the earnest fictionist. A Balzac would find a thousand subjects awaiting him in the streets or Wilkes-Barre!—Meredith Nicholson in the Atlantic Monthly. Sensitive Measurement Minute bendings of a steel bar three feet long and three and one-half feet in diameter are accurately measured by a curious but very sensitive device of the United States bureau of standards. The bar, supported at each end, has a small mirror fixed in the center, and above this is a frame holding another mirror partially silvered. As the light of a sodium burner is reflected in each mirror the lower mirror shows a series of black and yellow concentric rings. A very small weight, even that of a pin, deflects the bar and causes the circles to expand outward. Each circle indicates a movement of one hundred-thousandth of an inch, the pressure of a finger, forming five or more new circles, showing a bending of one twenty-thousandth of an inch. Second Girl Wins Out. Wouldn't it jar you if a man borrowed a hundred from you to get a marriage license and buy some furniture for a flat and then went and spent the hundred on his wedding with another girl? It did a New York girl, and her intended husband, who has a monicker as bad as a Russian city, and who came near missing his marriage to her rival. She had him jugged. But once behind the bars the husband-to-be gave vent to a wild outburst of passion. His plight reached the second girl of his choice and she made a house-to-house canvass until she had raised the cold cash to liberate him. And then they were married. What's a little thing like jail when it stands between a determined matrimonialist and her intended? The progress of humanity depends on two movements which must go on side by side. One is the impulse toward change; the other is the steady drag toward stability. To prevent a given social state from petrification there must be constant revolts, a continuous series of fresh and likely efforts to strike out new paths. But in order that a social state may exist at all, the newer impulses must be harmonized with the older structure. Order is as necessary for the world as progress. Don't Spill the Milk. In almost every accident someone is to blame. Let us then learn from our own accidents just where we might have done better. Let us acknowledge that the fault was ours, and set about trying to make good in the future. There is no use in blaming luck or misfortune for our faults of commission or omission; and instead of crying over the milk which was split let us learn wherein we were wrong, so that when next we carry milk it will not be split. A Grand Entertainment and Contest Drill Between the Uniform Ranks of the G. U. O. of O. F. of Kansas and Missouri, ever held in Kan. ```markdown ``` Under the auspices of the Odd Fellows Club at the M. & O. HALL, 8th and Washington Blvd. Thursday Evening May 11th, 1916 Admission $1.00 This Handsome $795 (5 Passenger) Briscoe Automobile will be given away free by the Odd Fellows Club, after the Program and Drill Contest TICKETS MAY BE SECURED AT, Dr. S. M. Banks, 514 Minn. 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Ave. McNeal & A 353 S. 14th St. Mrs. Gertru HARD TO DEFINE VULGARITY What One Generation Condemn Another May Have Considered Distinctly Proper. There is nothing more difficult to define than vulgarity. It is often merely something one dislikes in somebody's manner of speech or behavior. Webster's dictionary defines "vulgar" in the modern sense as "lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic, boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low, coarse, mean, base." And "vulgarity" it defines as "grossness or clownishness of manners or language; absence of refinement; coarseness." The half of these definitions might safely be cast aside. It is absurd to define "vulgar" in the present sense as "rustic; low, . . . mean, base." When we say that anyone is vulgar we mean chiefly that he is, in Webster's words, "offensive to good taste," and that is about as near an explanation as we can go. As to what good taste is, who can inform us? To say that it is the taste of the best people does not get us much farther, for we have then to discover who are the best people. And is it the best people who have ever lived that we must follow, or the best people who are living now? The best people nowadays would consider it vulgar to get drunk at table; but the best people of bygone times were of a different opinion. There are two very simple but effective remedies for that kind of sleeplessness that comes from overwork or nervous exhaustion. One is to have the feet very warm. Put them against a rubber bag filled with hot water. A rubber bag is better than an earthen bottle, as it will retain the heat for hours. The second method is much more simple. Discard the pillow, turn over and lie on the stomach with hands clasped under the forehead to lift the head a trifle. This will often send one to sleep. When you are tired and nervous a good rubbing all over the body with the lotion here given will be very restful. 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Don't sit around pondering whether you are happy or not, whether or not life is worth living. Live it thoroughly; keep awake to all the wonder of it, and you'll be happy without knowing it, at first, until you have gone along far enough to realize what happiness it is. Except in times of real tragedy and great suffering, happiness, in some at least of its myriad forms, is possible; is a duty, Ald to Sleep. and Con Kansas and Missouri O. HALL, 8th and Automobile will be program and Drill Anderson 400 Minn. Ave. Jess de Jenkins, Quindaro. Mr. CAN GROW BULBS IN ROOMS Prepared Fiber Enables Flat Dwellers to Have Choice Flowers at Their Pleasure. Lovers of flowers who live in flats, apartment or uptown houses where there are no yards for bulb planting, can have their plants in their rooms. The wizards of the flower world have discovered that the rarest bulbs, as well as the common ones, grow their best in prepared fiber. This is fertilized and is cheap. Bulbs can be planted in this fiber in vases and bowls. The fiber is dampened from time to time and nature does the rest. In the last 25 years bulbs have never been as cheap as they now are, nor has the American market been supplied with a better quality than can be bought this season, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal observes. Holland, the greatest bulb producing country of the world, is a neutral nation, but the countries engaged in war have no time to think of flowers. In years of peace England, France and Germany were great patrons of the bulb market. They had the first choice of the select bulbs. Today these markets practically are closed. The Holland bulb growers look to this country to buy their output and for this reason are offering the choiceest bulbs at prices so cheap that bulb planting is placed in easy reach of nearly every person. It is to the thoughtful lover of flowers of the early spring that the present cheapness of bulbs will appeal. Once planted in the open air, the bulbs will bloom patiently for years and years. They never die naturally, and will yield their fragrant harvest each spring. DID NOT WANT PRESIDENCY Doctor Shaw Tells How Her Election as Head of Woman's Suffrage Association Came About. It is interesting, now that it is rumored that Doctor Shaw is to lay down the presidency of the National American Woman's Suffrage association, to recall how unwilling she was to assume it in 1904. In her recently published autobiography, "The Story of a Pioneer," she says: "Miss Anthony immediately urged me to accept the presidency of the National association, which I was now most unwilling to do. I had lost my ambition to be president, and there were other reasons, into which I need not go again, why I felt that I could not accept the post. "At last, however, Miss Anthony actually commanded me to take the place, and there was nothing to do but obey her. She was then eighty-four, and, as it proved, within two years of her death. "It was no time for me to rebel against her wishes, but I yielded with the heaviest heart I have ever carried, and after my election to the presidency at the national convention in Washington, I left the stage, went into a dark corner of the wings, and for the first time since my girlhood 'cried myself sick.'" "Writing," said Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, the novelist and feminist, "is a woman's job. Men ought to do things, not write about them. When a man does nothing but write his hands get soft and his character, too." Mrs. Atherton once nearly fell in love with a man who was a writer. But a thought saved her in time, she confides to an interviewer. "I thought: 'Good heavens! the man does nothing but sit on a three-legged stool and write little stories all day and peddle them about to the magazines; he might as well be crocheting!' so I promptly recovered." er 814 N. 3rd Street. K.C. 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Robinson. ee "0 Eva Everett: | You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named Plaintiff in the District Court of Wy- andotte County, Kansas, for divorce, and that you are required to answer the petition of the plaintiff filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas, 0. or before the 25th day of May, 1916 or said petition will be taken as true and judement will be rendered against you in favor of the plaintiff, granting him an absolute divorce from you and for such other and further relief as the nature of the case may require. DORSEY GREEN, Atty. for Piff. (First publication April 14, 1916.) In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Div. No. 2. Bessie Price, - DORSEY GREEN, - Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published April 14th, 1916.) The men’s leap year entertainment at the First Baptist church Tuesday ev ening drew a large crowd and it was a success in every respect. . ‘ Samuel Diggs THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER : Pays the highest cash prices for Junk at all times, rags, ion, bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc and everything in the funk fine. SQUARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES. Place of Business—1006-1008 North Third Street, Kansas City, Kansas. BELL, WEST 3577. Cornices OO — Sky-Lig Home Phone West 1177 WESTERMANN . BROS, Sheet Metal Works = ROOFING, GUTTERING, FURNACE AND PAIR WORK. 1703 Central Ave. . <1asas City, -W. H Adans CARPENTER & CONTRACTOR Job work a specialty, Office 400 Minn. Ave. up stairs Bell Phone West 823 W. C. Carroll —Dealer in— Fancy Groceries: Meats, Confectionery, Fruits Cigars and Tobaccos Bell Phone West 1653. 2120 NORTH THIRD STREET Kansas City, Kansas. McNeal & Anderson Real Estate Bell Phone West 823, 400 Minn. Ave, Kansas City, Kans. 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Many of the men have strange ways of keeping count of the days. One rider, who had lived for thirty years in the back country, used two jam tins and seven pebbles. One tin was marked "This Week" and the other, "Last Week." On Sunday morning he was accustomed to take a pebble out of "Last Week" and drop it into "This Week." This operation he repeated every morning until "This Week" had used up the seven. They were then returned to "Last Week," one each day; and the old fellow knew when another week had passed. Another rider, named Eagan, tried several plans to keep count of the days, but always failed. At last he hit on a novel and attractive method. He made a big damper—the name the Australians give to a cake of flour and water with a seasoning of salt—on Sunday and marked it into seven parts. Each section was a day's allowance, and the slices that remained told him the number of days that must pass before Sunday came again. For several weeks this method never failed him. Unfortunately, one Tuesday he fell in with a fellow rider who was very hungry. Eagan stinted himself, in order that the ravenous one might be satisfied with that day's section of the damper. But it was no use. The host saw the knife cut the boundary line and the hungry rider carve into the almanac. He could stand it no longer. "Stop, now, stop!" he yelled, as he clutched the remains of the damper and glared at his visitor. "There," he continued, "you've caten Tuesday and you've caten Wednesday, and now you want to slice the best of the mornin' off Thursday! Not if I can stop it, sonny! I won't be knowing the day of the week!"—Youth's Companion. EASY TO DETECT THE LIAR Scientific Tests Have Shown How Plainly a Deviator From the Truth May Be Distinguished. When a man is telling a lie he breathes differently from when he is telling the truth. The difference was discovered by means of some tests made upon his students by Professor Benussi of Italy. He prepared cards bearing letters, figures and diagrams and distributed these among his pupils. These were required to describe the cards correctly, except in certain cases when the cards were marked with a red star, and the students receiving them were required to describe them falsely. Each student was watched carefully by his fellows, who, ignorant of the nature of the card, tried to judge from his manner whether he was telling the truth or not. The watchers were unable to judge with any certainty. Under the direction of Professor Benussi the time occupied in inspiration and expiration was measured, and the measurement was taken again immediately after he finished. It was found that the utterance of a false statement always increased and the utterance of a true statement always diminished the quotient obtained by dividing the time of inspiration by the time of expiration. Dr. Anton Rose, commenting on these results, remarks that the discovery furnishes a certain criterion between truth and falsehood. For even a clever liar is likely to fall in an attempt to escape detection by breathing irregularly, Professor Benussi having discovered that men are unable voluntarily to change their respiration so as to affect the result. TINY VILLAGES IN ENGLAND Two Hamlets in Which There Is Only One Inhabitant, and Many With But a Few. It takes two to make a quarrel, but it only takes one to make a village. For an example of the truth of this latter statement you need only to take a trip to Skiddaw, in Cumberland, England. This lilliputian village contains only one villager, who complains bitterly because he cannot vote. The reason that he cannot vote is that there is no overseer to prepare a voter's list and no public building to publish one, as the law demands. Yet one-man villages sometimes have their benefits. In a Northumberland hamlet the single inhabitant refuses to contribute money to maintain the roads, declaring that the one he has is quite good enough for his use. Twelve inhabitants of a tiny village in the Isle of Ely are similarly blessed. They have no rates, no roads, no public institutions of any kind. Buckland-in-the-Moor is another curiosity. Public houses, policemen, doctors and paupers are unknown there, though the population is nearly a hundred. All the "oldest inhabitants" are pensioned by the owner of the estate, who himself recently celebrated his golden wedding. ONE GOOD QUALITY HE HAD Truthful Man Could Not Go Far In Eulogy of Dead Man, But He Did Hls Best. There was an old farmer who was widely known as the crossest, closest, and most generally nonlikable citizen in the whole state. Like other mean men he lived to a ripe old age, but eventually he died and his friends went ahead with plans for the funeral. Now, it is customary, in the case of rural funerals, for those who attend, as they stand by the coffin, to murmur some eulogy of the dead. A number of farmers came in and said things which didn't square at all with the old man's life. Finally, an aged man, who had known the deceased all his life, hobbled in and stood by the coffin. The aged man was known as the most truthful man in the county. Hence, the other people present waited with interest to hear what he would say. The old man gazed down silently for a while. He paused. Finally he spoke. "Wal," he said earnestly, "nobody kin deny that he was a great hand for closin' his stable door o' nights." Candle Extinguisher. It has been found that candles can be fitted with attachments to extinguish the light at a set time. To determine the length of time it is necessary to mark a candle of the size used and time how long a certain length of it will burn. Then it is sufficient to suspend a small metal dome or cap, to which a string is attached, directly over the flame, and run the opposite end of the string over nails or through screw eyes, so that it can be tied around the candle such a distance from the flame that the part between the flame and the string will be consumed in the time desired for the light to burn. When this point is reached the string slips off the candle and the cap drops on the flame. Riddle of Nature. Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean! Life has unfathomable secrets. Human knowledge will be erased from the archives of the world before we possess the last word that the gnat has to say to us. Scientifically, nature is a riddle without a definite solution to satisfy man's curiosity. Hypothesis follows hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish beap accumulates and truth ever eludes us. To know how not to know might well be the last word of wisdom—Henr! Fabre. Mary Miss Leona Curtis, daughter of Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, is a welcome addition to congressional circles in Washington. Though she has been in the capital only a short time, her charm and good looks have won many friends. HOLD GRIM WAR MEMENTOS Personal Treasures of Soldiers Killed in the War Are Kept for Their Families. London.—Little brown paper parcels and canvas bags, ranged in hundreds of pigeonholes in a London Wall building, are silent mementos of the grim side of the great war. Here are stored the personal treasures of the soldiers who have died at the front. They are kept for the dead soldiers' wives and mothers who find comfort in the possession of the few belongings found in the trenches after bullet, bayonet or poison gas has done its work. Most of the packages contain things of only trivial value, such as a pipe, a pocket knife, a shaving brush, watch or unfinished letter, but all are carefully kept until relatives of the dead soldiers claim them. The record office of the territorial regiments deals with every arm of the service and hundreds of inquiries a day are handled. The office attempts to trace the relatives of dead soldiers, but this is not always possible. By means of a very efficient index system the record office keeps track of every officer and man in the territorial regiments. HOLDS OFFICE FOR 46 YEARS Aged Man In California Has Handled Many Millions of Public San Jose, Cal.—William A. January, for 46 years an official of California, San Jose or Santa Clara county, celebrated his nineteenth birthday anniversary the other day with his usual morning routine of three hours' work in his offices in the hall of justice and an informal reception at his home. January has been tax collector of this county for 26 years. In 1883-1884 he was state treasurer, and previous to that served eight years as city treasurer and eight years as county treasurer, when that office and the tax collector's were combined. During his service in various city and county offices Collector January has handled $50,000,000 of public funds. SOLDIER'S WILL IN VERSE Testament of an Officer of the London Scottish Is Admitted to Probate. London.—The will was proved recently of Second Lieut. Norman McGregor Lowe, D. M. C., of the London Scottish, who was killed in France on January 10. The will, dated September 21 last, made on a half sheet of notepaper, reads: "In the event of my death, which I hope will be an honorable one on the field of battle, I appoint my brother Charles Edward Berkeley Lowe to be executor. Bury me by the bracken bush That a kindly Scot lies there. (Signed) Norman McGregor Lowe. Second Lieutenant London Scottish. Long live the King. Unearth Den of Snakes. Greenville, Pa.-Two residents of Stoneboro were walking through what is known as Lynch woods, a heavy timber tract near the village, when they saw something moving near an old log. They investigated and discovered a snake, which they killed. The log was then moved a few inches and a den of snakes was unearthed. The men killed 27 of them. They were blacksnaks and several of good size. Death Takes Heavyweight. Jersey City, N. J.-Death has claimed William R. Katt, forty-four, who weighed 573 pounds. Katt used a strongly re-enforced automobile and lived in rooms that were especially constructed to support his weight. CITY'S LOW COST OF LIVING Cheap Dinners Supplied Working Girls in British Metropolis Without Loss. Whatever the fate of Germany, the English are beating of the plentitude of food in their country. What is claimed to be the cheapest lunch in London is provided by a girls' club associated with the Social Institutes' Union for Women and Girls, of which Lady Ancaster is president, says an exchange. In connection with the union there is a Women's and Girls' Dinner Hour club, whose members meet and dine daily at the W. H. Smith Memorial hall, in Portugal street, Kingsway. Some 200 working girls lunch there every day, and the meal costs them only 13 cents. Before the war the price was ten cents, but the advance in the cost of certain articles has obliged the management of the club to put up the charge. The following is a typical menu from which the girls may make a choice: Roast leg of mutton, boiled rabbit, steak pie or sausages. Baked or boiled potatoes, cabbages or haricots. Bolled mince roll, rice pudding, rhubarb tart or stewed rhubarb. Apart from the dining room there is a cozy restroom, with a piano, and many of the girls are accomplished players. Membership in the club costs four cents a month and working girls are joining it in increasing numbers. The club is run without a loss. All girls working in the neighborhood are invited to attend. GIVES HER DIVORCE AND JOB After Granting Decree Asked For Judge Takes Interest In Deserted Woman. Mrs. Augusta Blackledge got a divorce and a job on the same day through the offices of Superior Judge Graham. After testifying that her husband, John Blackledge, a clerk, had deserted her a year ago, she secured an interlocutory decree. When the judge questioned her as to her finances, she said she had just six dollars, and would have one dollar left after paying the court stenographer his fees. "If that's the case, there will be no stenographer's fees in this case," declared the court. Stenographer Roy Gallagher willingly consented. Some time later Judge Graham got busy on the telephone, and as a result Mrs. Blackledge was notified that employment awaited her in a local department store—San Francisco Chronicle. Brave Dogs Honored. The hall of brave dogs was the most fascinating "exhibit" at a dog show, held in London, recently. There are ten of those hero dogs on view on a wide stand draped with purple hangings, the observed of all observers. One called "Sammy" is the greatest hero. He is a pleasant-faced, kindly retriever. A year ago the lady who owns him was lying ill in bed, and alone in the house. She was awakened by Sammy barking and liking her face. The bed was on fire. She was dazed and half unconscious, and she most certainly would have died had not her faithful dog dragged her out of bed and so out of danger. Five years before this she was attacked in Epping Forest by a wandering lunatic. The brave Sam, who was roving near by on the quest of rabbits, heard his mistress' cries, dashed up, collared the madman, and held him by the throat until assistance arrived. Women to Raise Drugs. After consultation with leading firms of drug dealers and medical men, the Woman's Herb Growing association, recently formed in England, has drawn up a list of medicinal plants which it is both desirable and profitable for women to grow in their gardens and allotment plots. In the old days England used to grow most of its own drugs, but in recent years the industry has passed largely to Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. The new association intends to prove that the industry can be carried on just as well in England by women. Among the plants in urgent demand are monk's-hood, camomile, deadly nightshade, thornapple, henbane, purple foxglove, fennel, opium poppy, valerain. Snoring Caused Divorce. The French law courts declare that a woman afflicted with a snoring husband has good grounds for a divorce. Some time ago a newly-married couple, both of whom were confirmed snorers, found it impossible to get a good night's rest as each woke the other by unpleasant snoring noises. At first they tried sleeping in different rooms, gradually increasing the distance between them. But they both snored so vigorously that the flat was not big enough to cure the evil. Finally they mutually decided on divorce as the only solution of their common trouble. Finds Body In Cake of Ice. Frozen in a cake of ice and in an almost perfect state of preservation, the body of an unidentified man in working clothes was found floating in the Allegheny river. Charles Debor, an engineer, while moving a barge noticed a dark object incased in ice and towed it to shore. He notified the coroner, and the body, after being chopped out, was taken to the morgue.-Pittsburgh Dispatch to Philadelphia North American. GERMAN MACHINE GUNS MOW DOWN RUSSIAN MASSES Terrific Assaults of the Czar's Soldiers in Ten Days Bloody Battle. DEAD PILED HIGH ON FIELD "Magnificent, but Criminal," Says Teuton Officer, in Describing Advance Made by Slavs in Face of Certain Death. By OSWALD F. SCHUETTE. (Special Correspondent of Chicago Daily News.) With Field Marshal von Hindenburg's Armies, Near Postawy, Russia. I have come to these blood-drenched battlefields too late to see the terrific assaults of the great Russian offensive, so I can only tell the story of this battle that raged day after day by picturing the scenes as I find them and piecing together into one ghastly mosaic the fragments of what I am told. I have talked with officers and men of the German regiments that held back the Russian deluge and have carefully gone over the statements of the Russian prisoners. This battlefield consists of an open glade cut through the Russian primal forest. It runs almost due north and south and varies in width from 400 to 1,500 yards. The Russians were intrenched along the eastern edge of this opening, while the forest behind offered splendid opportunities for concealing movements of troops and emplacements of artillery. The German lines skirt the western edge of the glade. Battle Lasts Ten Days. The Russian fighting at this point lasted ten days before the czar's troops finally gave up their attempt to break through the German lines. On the first day the Russian fire was sporadic, apparently to make certain the range of the guns. Then for two days more the Russian bombardment continued, but now it was a real "drum fire." This means that the cannonading is so heavy that it sounds like the rattle of a drum. On the afternoon of the third day the Russian drum fire was suddenly lifted from the German trenches and converted into a "sperffeuer" (curtain fire) back of the German lines to prevent the bringing up of reserves. It was the signal for a Russian attack. Out of the forest came the storming Russians straight for the German lines, straight into the curtain of German artillery队 that tore great gaps in the attacking columns, though these quickly closed up. In the meantime the German troops rushed out of their dugouts into the water-filled and shell-torn trenches. Almost in a moment the machine guns were jerked out of the bombproof protection, and after being hastily mounted on the wreckage of the breastworks, began to sputter their fearful greeting to the Russians. Between the machine guns rattled the infantry fire. There was no time for giving commands and there was no need of any. There were no volleys. Each German soldier fired as fast as he could. The gaps in the Russian line widened, and then the Russians would halt and fire toward the German trenches, but it was hard to aim, and the bullets scarcely checked the withering crash of machine gun and rifle fire. Stopped at Barbed Wire. The Russian wave reached the barbed wire entanglements before the German breastworks, but came no farther. Torn, beaten and shattered into a thousand fragments, the remnants of the Russian host beat a retreat. How many reached the protection of their trenches under the unceasing German fire no one can tell, but the ground between the German and Russian lines was covered with dead and dying. There was no further attack that night. Toward morning the thunder of the cannon quieted and the cries of the wounded were almost stillled by daybreak. The great battlefield was asleep only for an hour when the action of the fourth day began with another terrific drum fire, which lasted until long past noon. Again the Russian wave broke from the forests, but it had hardly got out of the woods before the German artillery opened fire. Again shells tore open the ranks; again the machine guns plied up the dead. The task was more terrible than on the day before, as the Russians had to storm over the bodies of their dead comrades. Again the night was freezing cold, again the hours were hideous with the cries of the dying men out there on the battlefield and again the darkness was filled with the thunder of cannon. To prevent a night attack, the Germans kept up a discharge of illuminating rockets and a blue-greenish glare added to the ghastliness of the field of death. But no Russians dared to advance. At daybreak the Russians opened with a third drum fire. This time it was more terrible than on the previous occasions, for it was directed not only on the German trenches, but deep into the lines behind them, to hold back the reserves and prevent the bringing up of relief to the half-frozen German soldiers, who, bundled up, were standing in the water-filled dugouts waiting for the attack which they knew was inevitable. At eight o'clock the attack came and this time it was more successful. Despite the artillery, despite the machine guns and despite the infantry fire, the apparently inexhaustible regiments of Russians swept on over the dead, over the barbed-wire barriers before the German line, over the first trenches and routed the German soldiers, who were half frozen in the mud of their shattered shelters. A terrific hand-to-hand conflict followed. Hand grenades tore down scores of defenders and assailants alike. The men fought like manlacs with spades, bayonets, knives and clubbed guns. Within 100 feet of Victory. But the Russians won at a fearful price for so slight a gain. It might have been worth more had the Russian deluge swept farther, but it did not. The Russians stopped within a hundred feet of victory. It may have been lack of discipline, lack of officers or lack of reserves; no one knows. The Russians seemed helpless in the German trench; instead of sweeping on into the second lines they tried to intrench themselves in the wrecked German first line. Immediately German artillery hurled shells of the heaviest caliber into these lines, and tore them into fragments. Then came the German reserves, and by nightfall the Russians had again been driven out, 800 of them being taken prisoners. Four days of almost absolute quiet followed, with only occasional artillery fire and now and then a sputtering infantry volley across the glade with its burden of death when the scout posts on either side thought they saw the enemy. The weather turned warm again and the field of battle was an almost impassable swamp. Attack Without Drum Fire. On the eighth day reports reached the German lines that the Russians intended to make a surprise attack that night without any drum fire. The German artillery therefore shelled the Russian woods at a terrific rate at hourly intervals through the night. All the troops remained on duty without a minute of sleep, but no Russiana came. The next day was quiet. That night again it was feared there might be a surprise attack and so again the German artillery shelled the Russian lines until morning. But there was no attack until the following noon, when, without any artillery preparation, the Russian onslaught was repeated. A German officer told me the story of that attack. He said that if he had not seen it himself he would never have believed it possible that an attack would come out of the Russian woods, where the lines were almost 1,500 yards apart. Suddenly, without any warning, a mud-colored wave began to pour forth from the forest. It was a line of Russians three ranks deep, containing more than 1,000 men. They marched step by step, and did not run. Behind this was a second wave like the first, and then a third, the intervals between them being about 150 yards The German artillery tore holes in the ranks, which merely closed up again, marched on and made an attempt to fire. They marched, as though on parade. "It was magnificent, but criminal," said the German officer. Then came a fourth line like the other three. The first line was less than 1,000 yards from the German trenches. It came so slowly that it was possible for the Germans to make plans with cruel precision to meet it. Caught Between Walls of Fire. When the fourth line emerged from the Russian wood the German artillery dropped a curtain of fire behind it and then a similar wall of shells ahead of those in front. They then moved these two walls closer together with a hail of shrapnel between them, while at the same time they cut loose with the machine guns. The splendid formation of Russians, trapped between the walls of fire, scattered headlessly in every direction, but in vain. Shells gouged deep holes in the dissolving ranks. The air was filled with clamor and frantic shrieks were sometimes heard above the incessant roar and cracking or exploding projectiles. Deafened men sought to dig themselves into the ground in the foolish belief that they could find safety there from this deluge of shells. Others raced madly for the rear and some escaped in this way as if by a miracle. Still others ran toward the German lines, only to be cut down by the German machine-gun fire. In less than twenty minutes the terrible drama was over. The attack had cost the Russians 4,000 lives, and yet not a Russian soldier had come within 500 yards of the German lines. "It was a terrible harvest of death," said the officer who described the battle. It was the last gasp of the Russian offensive at this point. His Own Funeral Director. Reading, Pa.—In his will, W. H. S. Moyer named a clergyman to preach the funeral service and directed that he be paid $2.50; named his palebearers, described the kind of coffin he wanted and ordered that his body be kept six days to make sure he was dead. The provisions were carried out. These Are Swift Times. New York.—A "wed and divorced" record was established by Babbette and William F. Busch. They separated four days after the wedding. TRENCH WARFARE SHATTERS NERVES Horror of It All Has Lasting Effect on Victims of the Titanic Conflict. WEIRD SCENES ARE DESCRIBED Dr. E. Murray Auer of Philadelphia Says "Trench Dreams" of the Wounded Bare Horrors of Modern Battles. Philadelphia.—That the horrors of trench warfare, with its sudden alarms at night, the bursting of shells and the burying of men by mine explosions, have a lasting effect on the men who undergo them is the conclusion reached by Dr. E. Murray Auer of Philadelphia, Pa., who for some time was attached to the Twenty-second General hospital of the British expeditionary force, "somewhere in France." In a paper which was read recently before the Philadelphia Neurological society, and which appears in the current issue of the Medical Record, Doctor Auer gives the results of his observations. In practically all of the cases which were observed by Doctor Auer the soldiers received no appreciable physical injury, the effect being purely mental. One such instance cited by the physician was found in a boy nineteen years old. This boy had been for three days under a sustained and heavy shell fire. At the end of that time he was threatened by his sergeant with courtmartial for sleeping while on sentry duty. This led to an examination and the sending of the boy to the hospital. He was in a stupor for ten days. The same was true of another soldier who had seen his chum blown to pieces. During the time of their coma, which in some cases lasted more than a week, the soldiers gave the impression that they again were living through the experiences which had caused the stupor to come on. This was evidenced by their terrified expressions. They crouched, started and stared wildly when spoken to. One such man rose from his bed in the middle of the night and recited in a one-sided conversation his experience of a charge and burial by a mine explosion, and then relapsed into his stuporous state. Another result of shock, according to Doctor Auer's observations, is a continued shaking of the entire body, accompanied by various pains and unusually severe headaches. In some cases this shaking has been observed to last several days, and even weeks, although in most instances its duration is a few hours. In one instance this trembling came after a soldier had twice been buried in a mine explosion, had been through a charge and under heavy bombardment in a trench and finally was hit by a piece of rock, which, while not injuring him, knocked him down. In his case the tremor of the head was marked, and lasted for some time. Temporary loss of memory is a common thing with the men who have been through some extremely trying period or who have suffered a sudden shock. In such instances the recovery of memory is as sudden as its loss. One such soldier, after being near a shell which exploded, could remember nothing that happened to him until he came to himself, walking along a lane, some time later. Another man in the hospital thought himself back in the trenches and became violent, moving his cupboard about as though it were a machine gun and pointing it at his enemies. When he suddenly returned to a normal state he could remember nothing of his experience. One of the most common, and at the same time most pitiful, of the many mental results of the struggle is the inability to sleep soundly and recurrence of so-called trench dreams. It is not uncommon, Doctor Auer says, to see soldiers start from their beds in the middle of the night, crying out and weeping, the bodies bathed in perspiration as they dream of being chased by Germans with bayonets, of being buried under debris following a mine explosion and of losing the trench in a fog and being unable to get back. The fear which is commonly found is not the kind which a layman would expect. The soldiers do not fear injury to themselves. They are rather afraid of doing something wrong, a fear of an emergency in which one may fail or lose the confidence of his comrades. In one instance the patient was afraid to go to sleep for fear he would not awake. Blindness and deafness are frequently found, but one of the most unusual of the phenomena in this connection is the presence of photophobia, the fear of looking. In many instances men are found who complain that they cannot see. In such instances, when their eyes are opened for them, they can see without any difficulty. One instance of this...came as the result of a trench dream in which the soldier again lived through his burial by a mine explosion four weeks before. When he awoke he complained that he could not see and imagined that his sight had been lost as a result of the explosion. When the eyelids were raised he could see as well as ever. HAD TO CRITICIZE WRITING Old Lady Was Grateful for Being Enabled to Hear Sermon, but Truth Was Truth. A kilted regiment, while on the march through a part of Scotland, halted for a Sunday's rest at one of the remote villages in the Highlands, where some of the braw laddles were billeted on the inhabitants. One old lady had to find a lodging for two of the soldiers, Sandy and Tam, and she was delighted to know they were going to the kirk in the evening, she herself being unable to go. Her pleasure was increased when one of her guests, who happened to be an accomplished shorthand writer, promised to tell her all the minister s.id in his sermon, though she had her doubts as to how he would be able to remember it all. Sandy and Tam came back from church, and the former read the sermon out from his notebook, to the admiration and astonishment of his landlady, who had never heard of shorthand, and had no idea how anyone could write as fast as the minister spoke. When Sandy had finished, and the good lady had expressed her thanks for the privilege of hearing the sermon, she asked him to let her look at the book he had been reading from. She seemed much disappointed, however, because she could make nothing of it. At length, after a close inspection of the mystic signs, she said to the blushing warrior: "Ye're a grand laddie and a verra gude reader, but I must tell ye, and if I was your ain mither I wad hae to admit it, ye're the verra wurrst writer I ever came across." OBJECTED TO THE ROOSTERS Philadelphia Man Unable to Appreciate Chanticleer's Greeting to the Rosy Morn. Roosters that are described as having "shrill and penetrating crows" and hens that cackle unceasingly are responsible for William Brousworth getting a summons to court to answer to a charge of maintaining a nuisance, the Philadelphia North American says. Complainant in the action, begun in court No. 1, is Andrew Heldrich, 418 Lindley avenue, who lives next door to Brousworth. He alleges that the noise of the roosters and chickens is destroying the peace and quiet of his home and making early morning sleep impossible. "For some months past," the statement says, "the defendant has been keeping in his yard a number of loud-voiced crowing roosters and a large number of hens, which have become an intolerable nuisance, because the roosters have shrill, penetrating crows and they crow during all hours of the night and early morning. "The crowing of the roosters and the cackling of the hens have affected the nerves of the complainant, his wife and children, and their health is threatened. The complainant's wife has suffered complete nervous breakdown and is under the care of a physician." The court is asked to declare the chickens a nuisance. Marketing Farm Products United States Senator Fletcher has called a meeting of the national marketing committee to devise means to aid the farmer in marketing his products, and also to enable the consumer to distinguish between the high cost of food and the high cost of service. "The farmers of the country are producing annually crops for which they receive $9,000,000,000, and for which the consumer pays, $27,000,000,000," said Representative W. S. Goodwin of Arkansas, a member of the committee. "The farmer gets 35 cents and the middleman gets 65 cents for each dollar the consumer pays for the farmer's crops. There is an enormous amount of waste, especially in perishable products, because of the lack of some central directing intelligence." Having Fun With the Bread Cards. Having fun with the Bread Cards. German humorists have found excellent material in cartooning the bread cards. "Give me your bread card or your life!" was popular. Ferocious bandits were pictured as relinquishing fortunes in gold and jewels in order to steal bread cards; cautious heads of families were depicted as mounting guard at night over the safe in which repossed the family tickets. Dinner invitations, instead of "R. S. V. P," bore the legend, "Please bring your own bread."—From "Is Germany Hungry?" in the Saturday Evening Post. Wants Couch for Policeman. Council has reinstated William E. Hockenbrecht, a policeman, in spite of a recommendation of Burgess Keiser that he be discharged, the burgess declaring the officer loafed in city hall instead of patrolling his beat, which Hockenbrecht admitted. After his reinstatement the burgess recommended that the borough buy Hockenbrecht a couch for use while on duty.—Sunbury (Pa.) Dispatch, Philadelphia Record. Gets Along Without Bananas. Since Italy's entrance into the war the commonest of fruits, the banana, has disappeared. In a recent trip, including five of the most important cities in Germany, I was unable to procure a single specimen of the fruit.—From "Is Germany Hungry?" In the Saturday Evening Post. WHEREIN IS REAL ECONOMY Going In Person to Buy for House hold Bound to Save Money on the Weekly Bills. Economy does not merely imply living more cheaply and thereby of necessity cutting down either the quality or quantity of food, or both. True economy lies in obtaining as good, or nearly as good, value for the lesser expenditure. How many wives whose husbands are earning, say, between $1,000 and $1,500 a year, still think it beneath their dignity to do more than the most dainty of shopping? The habit of ordering at the door is an ingrained one, and to some minds smacks of superiority; but an examination of the extent to which higher prices have necessarily to be paid in this way would surprise a good many. This only applies to the difference between the actual cash price paid at the shop and the price charged by the same tradesman who collects orders and delivers and very often has to allow a bill to be run up, to say nothing of the odd ounces frequently charged on the bill, which, had the purchaser been present at the weighing, would have been found to be nonexistent. This, however, is not the only saving which can be made as between personal shopping and giving orders at the door, says the New York Evening Telegram. A keen shopper, with ready cash available, will soon find a substantial difference between various shops supplying the same commodities within quite a small radius if the trouble is taken to ascertain prices. This means trouble, but looked at sensibly it results in the equivalent of earning money, for money saved is money earned in a distinct sense in housekeeping. Moreover, when purchasing in person one can always insist upon getting the best article at the price, whereas if the goods are delivered after ordering at the door, if they are found to be not quite up to the mark, they are more than likely to be put up with, either through lack of time to send them back or indisposition to bother further. BROUGHT SHARPER TO TIME Procedure of Justice Probably Not Found in Blackstone, But It Was Decidedly Efficacious. It was the early days of boat travel on the Ohio river when even passenger steamers stopped at landings on islands and mainlands for freight. We had made an island landing and a wealthy passenger had left the boat to buy cigars at the island's tiny store. He bought $5 worth, and presented a $100 bill in payment, whereupon the storekeeper offered him $5 in assuring that he had received only $10. The customer returned to the boat and related his tale of woe to the captain, who at once went ashore and informed the storekeeper that unless the change wag at once forthcoming he would hitch a cable around the store and drag it into the river. The storekeeper still refused and the captain started for his boat. A cable was quickly passed around the little building, hitched to the vessel, and full steam ordered. When the shack toottered upon its foundation, the frightened storekeeper appeared the missing bills fluttering in his hand. —New York Evening Post. Resourceful. A southern lady who met with financial reverses recently moved to the country in order to economize. She engaged a little colored boy in the neighborhood to assist her at old times about the house. Sam was so much pleased with his employment that he was anxious to become a permanent member of the little household. "Mis' Alice," he began one day, "don't you-all ever git skееered in dis big house, jus' by yousef?" "Why, yes, Sam," the lady admitted, "it is lonely at times. I have thought of having someone about when my husband has to be away." "Well," ventured Sam again. "I jus' thought you might like to know dat I'm a candidate fo' de position ob protector in case you should decide to employ someone." "Why, Sam," asked the lady, laughing, "what could you do to help me if robbers happened to break in some dark night?" Sam was puzzled for a moment, but presently he had an inspiration. "Well, Mis' Alice," he said proudly, "dah's one thing dat I could do in case you was visited by unwelcome intruders; I could light de lantern and show you all which way to run!"—Youth's Companion. Giving Him No Chance. Apropos of some rulings of the interstate commerce commission with regard to the conduct of the New Haven road, Howard Ellott, the head of the line, told a story recently. "The average board of directors of the average railroad these times is in the same distressful fix as was the negro who fell ill," said Mr. Ellott. "The attending physician warned the patient he must go to bed early every night and then prescribed a certain diet. "When the doctor had gone the old man raised his voice in protest: "How does dat white man 'spect me to eat chicken breast' once a day et I ain't got my evenin's free to go out and git chicken?"—Saturday Evening Post. WANT HUSBANDS WHO DANCE Woman Students Say Men May Smoke and Play Bridge, but Must Not Drink. Minneapolis.—The student newspaper of the University of Minneapolis, which had asked the woman students of the institution the question: "How much salary must a man receive before you would consent* to marry?" has received replies ranging from $800 to $10,000 a year. Most of the girls were conservative in their demands, however, and the general average, based on early replies, is about $1,600. One girl wrote: "What is money to me? Give me a true, loving husband and a cottage." A large majority of the girls demanded that their future husbands be good dancers, some said they must know the "latest steps" and one went so far as to say she would marry only a man who was a "dreamy dancer." Smoking would be permitted, even demanded, by a large number of the girls, but drinking would be prohibited, and those who advocated card playing say bridge should be substituted for poker, although one girl concedes her future husband one night a week for the latter game. SINGS AS PAIN GRIPS HER Seven-Year-Old Girl Chants Popular Airs While Burns Are Being Dressed in Hospital. Kansas City.—"It's a long way to Tipperary. It's a long way to go" Nurses and doctors left their work, attracted by the unusual singing. One pushed open the door. On a white table lay the child. A nurse was bending over her. From the child's knees to her feet were burns. During the painful proceedings the singing did not stop for more than a minute. Only once did the girl stop, when the pain caused her to bite her lip to keep back the tears. Then she began to sing "The Rosary." The child was burned when she pulled a kettle of boiling soup off the stove. The child's mother, Mrs. Albert Johnson, carried her daughter to the hospital for treatment. TEACH BOYS HOW TO COOK Domestic Science Applied by Lads in Kansas Opposed by the Girl Students. McPherson, Kan.—Leap year is producing adverse results in Central academy and college here. A dozen boys have applied for a domestic science course and others will join. The instructor is Miss Viola Graham, and she has received a number of additional applications. The course will include cooking and sewing and will continue the remainder of the school year. The girls are doing their best to prevent the movement of bachelorhood by inviting the boys to attend skating parties, but the domestic science boy students are busy practicing the culinary art, and they assert that if the women intend to live independent lives they also can. CAN'T FREEZE IN THIS A life-saving suit which keeps the wearer's head above water and his body warm even in zero weather has been perfected by T. E. Aud, of Herndon, Va. The suit was tested in the Potomac river in the presence of Gen. George Uhler and other officers of the United States steamboat inspection service, the test resulting in a favorable, though unofficial, report by General Uhler. The lower part of the suit contains four pounds of lead to the foot, and the upper part is filled with cork to float the body in an upright position. The material is non-conducting so that the heat of the body will keep the wearer alive for four days in icy water, the Inventor claims. In the picture Mr. Aud is shown wearing the suit. A. H. Listening for Bullets. X-rays have enabled doctors to ao complish 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 car 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 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 Monsteur Rodin. Aye! it is useful.—John Galsworthy, in Atlantic. Growing Russia. From the foundation of the Russian Empire at Moscow, about 1500, says Dr. Nansen in his recent book, entitled "Through Siberia, the Land of the Future," Russia has grown at the average rate of 55 square miles a day or 20,000 square miles a year—a territorial increase that is almost without parallel. You Don't Just Like It. After you've worked outdoors longer and harder than ever before to make the whole place more attractive it isn't funny to have someone ask, "How'd you get tanned up so, playing tennis?"—Boston Globe. Growing Russia. league is getting out over the country. One effect the league's work seems to be having is to put business frankly in the foreground as a political factor to be reckoned with in the campaign. Not in years has the individual importance to a hundred million Americans of Uncle Sam's routine activities been so vividly emphasized. Nor has the President been so sharply pictured as the biggest executive of the biggest concern in the world. Ormsby McHarg is the chairman of the organization. The offices at 165 Broadway, in New York, are reported to present a scene of intense activity. The league has spoken favorably of Root, Weeks, Estabrook, Fairbanks, Burton, Knox, McCall and Gen. T. Coleman DuPont, but it declares it has done nothing actively to advance the candidacy of any one of these. BIRDS' NESTS A DELICACY Edible Dear to Chinese Constitutes an Important Part in the Export Trade of Slam. An important item in the export trade of Siam consists of edible nests of swifts, or swiftlets, as they are also called. The principal markets for this trade are China, Hongkong and Singapore. In Hongkong, it is said, the demand often exceeds the supply, and prices range from $15 to $25 per pound, according to quality. The first nests constructed in the season, which are composed of pure saliva, are held superior for eating purposes. They are gathered on completion before the eggs are laid. The birds then build again, and the second nests, in which the saliva is mixed with rootlets, grass, etc., and often shows traces of blood, from the efforts made to produce saliva, are also taken on completion. A third nest is then constructed of extraneous substances cemented together and the whole fastened to the wall by a little saliva, the flow of which seems to be practically exhausted. The birds are allowed to rear their young in these nests, which are afterward destroyed by the nest gatherers, so as to compel the construction of fresh nests the following year. Edible nests of swiftlets are found in the Malay archipelago, Australia, and many of the Pacific islands. In northern Borneo certain caves inhabited by these swiftlets produce $25,000 worth of nests every year and show no diminution in the quantity, despite systematic robbery for seven generations. Her Viewpoint "Ma'am?" they answered as they fluttered around her. "Men," proceeded the wise old woman, "are practically all reprobates. I have married and buried four of the wretches, and know whereof I speak. They are but little above the animals—selfish, domineering and greedy. The less they know the more conceited they are. They are dogmatic, tactless and tyrannical. But—drat 'em!—as they are all there is for us women to wed, we will go right on marrying them and doing our best to make something out of the poor material provided us"—Kansas City Star. Tray for the Invalid. The invalid in our household declares the greatest comfort to her is a tray which supports on either end. When she sits up in bed this fits over her knees and the weight of the tray rests on the bed. It can be easily made from light wood and measures 24 inches in length, 12 inches wide, and the supports are 10 inches high. Finish three sides of the top with narrow molding and attach small brass handles to either end. Stain the wood a soft color, and a useful addition might be pockets made of a prettily-figured cretonne on either end of the tray.—New York Sun.