Kansas City Advocate

HEAR MISS HALLIE Q. BROWN OF OHIO TONIGHT, FRIDAY, AT FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH, INTEREST N.A.A.C.P. KANSAS NINETY-ONE RECEIVE DIPLOMAS AT WESTERN UNIVERSITY. THURSDAY JUNE 7TH The Largest Class in History of the School FOUR DEGREE STUDENTS IN CLASS No Particular Changes in Curriculum The Twenty-sixth commencement exercises at Western University last Thursday, with its 91 graduates, closed the school's greatest year. The address to the graduating class by Senator A. B. Carney, chairman of the State Board of Managers, was one of the most scholarly and instructive addresses that a class has ever had going out from this noted educational plant of the West. The class drank it in with untold appreciation as well as the immense audience. It was simply a masterpiece. The speaker wasted no words from his first utterance until the close of his address. The largest number of visitors were present this year that has been present to a commencement, many coming from as far as California, also trustees from that state and Colorado. The state of Oklahoma was well represented with friends of the school. The largest representation of ministers and university trustees were present during the week that has ever come to an annual closing and their reports on education were the largest. The class this year being the largest, it also carried with it the best fitted and equipped for life's work. In this year's class four had the honor and distinction of being the first graduates from the college department. The new state board of trustees, who met for the first time to do business for the school were delighted and in many instances, surprised, at the great work being done and complimented the management in the highest. Probably no board has ever been appointed by any governor, whose ideals and interest run as high for the school as the present one. The members are O. M. West, an old school superintendent of this state, at present manager of a large fraternal insurance company and a man who stands for efficiency first. W. C. Brown of Lawrence, a race business man and a graduate of Tuskegee and a man that stands for the best in everything. Charles Lytle of Topeka, is known to the state as one of the very substantial citizens and a successful business man of his city. E. F. Smith of this city is well known to many, living here for many years and a splendid citizen, who lives at 533 State avenue. Mr. Smith has for some years been employed at The Home Drug Company, 1512 North Fifth street. The other members of this board coming from the church side are. Bishop H. B. Parks, J. C. C. Owens, and F. Jesse Peck. The University Board, which is made up from ministers and laymen from each conference, as did the state board, felt that the management of the school and its corps of teachers were doing good work, therefore no changes were made this year. The exhibits were far the best this year seen in the school and a greater stress will be put on the work the coming school year. The Program. 1. Music..... Orchestra 2. Send Out Thy Light..... Gounod The Chorus SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TWELVE MONTHS, $1.50 A DEPLORABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS It has ben a painful observation with me to notice the steady and persistent practice of the great bulk of our people who have need for the services of a lawyer, of refusing to hire a lawyer of their own race, but instead hire and pay exhorbitant prices to lawyers of the other race. And they do this in spite of the fact that there are competent law-years of their own race, who can render them better service, for decidedly less money. It is indeed a galling shame that such is the case, and I can not help believing that if attention is called to the very unwise and unworthy practice, that much of it will cease. And I hereby appeal to the men and women, and to the preachers, teachers and business men of the race, to get busy in correcting this very improper and unprofitable practice. We should show the members of the legal profession who are capable and competent lawyers, the same consideration which is shown to the members of the medical profession, and the best way to accomplish it is to show these people that they do not do their duty when they ignore their own competent lawyers who are graduates from the best law schools-of the country, and can render the best of service, to choose others from cheap law schools, or from no law school at all, and without practice and experience. There is another practice which I think very improper, and it is that of our women holding these house to house political meetings and calling in, and putting forward the same kind and class of lawyers from the other race, giving them advertisement and advantage, to the exclusion of our young men. Just look about yourself and see if any such advantages are given our lawyers by persons of the other race who hire lawyers, or who hold such meetings at their houses. If no such advantages are thus given by them—just ask—yourself, why should the members of our race follow a different and opposite practice? This question comes home to all of us in clear and clean-cut terms. AN OBSERVER CARD OF THANKS. Words are inadequate to express our heartfelt thanks to our many friends during the brief illness and death of our loved one, who passed away June 4, 1923, for their kindness. Many thanks to Rev. Davis, pastor Christian church, also a lifelong friend and Rev. E. R. B. Quinn for their beautiful words of comfort during the hour of our trial. We also wish to thank the different ones for their lovely gifts of flowers which were many. The papers read by the different friends were beautiful and we certainly felt the idea and thoughts they wished to convey. We thank the choirs from both Missouri and Kansas for the beautiful songs of comfort. Also we wish to thank Mr. Thatcher (undertaker), and his assistants for their services. (Signed) Rev. J. P. F. Stuckey,husband; Mrs. Dessie Jackson, sister; Mr. H. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stuckey, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Stuckey, Mrs. Mary Gadson, children. Rev. H. L. Lannagan of Topeka, visited his brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lannagan, last week. He also was the guest a part of his stay here, of Dr. and Mrs. Meadows, 430 Haskell avenue. The Royal Circle will hold their Annual Sermon next Sunday, June 17, at Trinity A. M. E. church, Fourth and Stewart avenue, at 2 p. m. The public have a cordial invitation to be present. Young Men of the Chorus 10. Presentation of Diplomas..... Pres. F. J. Peck Awarding of Prizes 11. O. Western U....Jackson Benediction. TEACHERS APPOINTED FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. These appointments were made Monday night by the Board of Education as teachers of the new Junior High school that is to be erected in the northeast part of the city on Walnut boulevard. The Everett school building at Fourth street will be turned over for colored this year and the name changed to Grant school and will probably be used for awhile for the Junior High, providing it is not ready by the opening of school. Appointments: Northeast junior high school: Ida J. Wood, Mabel Jackson, Daisy Whitfield, Mary Thomas, Mae McClelland, Carolyn Kealing, Mary Link, Grace Austin, Cora Hannon, Ethel Gorden, Joseph Collins, Perry L. Jacobs, Reba Spicer, Gladys B. Garvin. Mrs. A. J. Hill, 1057 Freeman avenue, matron. J. P. King was elected principal. G. A. Curry was appointed to take King's place in Sumner high school night school work. MASON MEMORIAL M. E. CHURCH. Mason Memorial M. E. church members went into their pretty new stone edifice Sunday. Pastor Morrow preached at 11 a. m., and at 3 p. m., there was a mass meeting for all friends. The choir sang nicely, and Rev. A. Davis of the Christian church made the principal address. He certainly gave good christian advice, also ended with a good sermon. At night the Epworth League gave a special program and a debate. Much money was raised to help complete this nice church. Baptist Ministers' Alliance. The Baptist ministers held their closing meeting at First Baptist church. Several visiting ministers from Tulsa, Rev. Davis from Atchison and others made good talks. Rev. Hurst, who has returned from Hot Springs, made a fine talk on the benefits of mineral baths, etc. They adjourned to meet the fourth Tuesday in September at St. Steven's Baptist church in Kansas City, Mo. LOCAL NEWS. Mrs. Laura L. Stuckey passed away June 3, at 211 Garfield avenue. Rev. P. C. Roe, 611 New Jersey avenue, lost his 5-year-old boy June 11. Mrs. Rainey of Ft. Worth, Tex., a missionary of the Church of God, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. Henry New and wife of Oklahoma City, Okla., are visiting his sister. Mrs. Annie Ank at 729 New Jersey avenue. Mrs. Mary Gadson of Texarkana, Ark., responded to Mrs. I. L. Stuckey's funeral. She is an adopted daughter of Mrs. Stuckey. Mrs. Willie Yoakum of Richmond, Mo., was here to take part in Mrs. Stuckey's funeral. Mrs. Pryor Handley and daughter were here to attend Mrs. Stuckey's funeral. SUNDAY MEETING. Paseo Y. M. C. A. Dr. P. A. Crowe, editor of Church World, address, "Life of Triumph." Sunday, June 27, 3:30 p. m. All are invited. Membership, clean, cool runnig water in the finest pool in the city at the Paseo. Young Men's Christian Association—men and boys. Join now. See the executive secretary for rates. Miss Hattie Dickerson of Austin, Texas, is visiting her relatives, Mrs. Stephens and Mrs. Queen, 830 Nebraska avenue. Miss Dickerson has visited here once before and is well known to many who will be glad to meet her again. She is on her way to Chicago to attend summer school. ADVOCATE YOUNG LIFE PASSES. On last Sunday afternoon at eight minutes past two o'clock the angel came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Smith's, 533 State avenue, and removed their only heir, a son, Arthur Booth Smith, 26 years of age. Booth had been a patient sufferer for twenty-two weeks. The deceased was raised in this city and was very popular, being a graduate from Western University and for many years secretary of the First A. M. E. church Sabbath school and a member of the usher's board, member of the Civic League and its secretary at the time he took sick. He was married and leaves a lovely wife and two darling boys, in whom he hoped to see reared to manhood. The funeral was held from First A. M. E. church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, his pastor, Rev. J. F. Griffin, delivering the funeral eulogy. Resolutions, condolences and telegrams were only announced. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. The body lay in state Wednesday at the church from 12 noon to 2 p. m. and the casket was not opened any more. The wife and parents have the deepest sympathy from a host of friends in their hour of bereavement. Rev. Bowren will go to Hot Springs to recuperate his health. Mrs. Cunningham of 1043 Oakland, who has been sick, is better now. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH PAST TOR BELIEVES IN SOCIAL SIDE OF CHURCH. It is very gratifying to hear of the success of the church as a social factor in the life of the community. The pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. church is one of the most active pastors and a great sociologist. The Leavenworth A. M. E. church is open nearly every night. Tuesday night for prayer meeting and several classes of social functions are being conducted. Recently the proprietor of one of the theaters where the colored people visit, said to a member of the church, "You seem to be running an opposition against me." He spoke the truth. The church should compete with the theater. Where are our Christian people to visit? They are human and as long as they subsist on matter they must partake of the material and social side of life. Give the Christian clean, wholesome recreation and the church will grow and Christians will be better, and they will not have to hide under false pretense to visit the shows. They will/not have to leave town to visit the shows. It has been tried in spite of the rain. The Western University students came up and gave us a crowded house. Madam Osborne of Kansas City Dramatic Art club, not very long after gave us another crowded house and the people are clamoring for the return of the Western University students and the Dramatic Art Club. It is the duty of the church to provide clean, wholesome enjoyment for the community. If the church will not, then some one else will take the don't out of the church and you who cannot afford any thing constructive as a pastor, visit and learn. Jesus Christ never neglected the social side of humanity. Read the Bible. He healed the sick, cleansed the leper, fed the hungry. The church should follow the example of the Master. He attended social functions at marriages. What would the church do today if a pastor visited a marriage feast and gave wine to the guests? Crucify him. And yet that some hypocrite straining at the gnat goes around the corner and swallows a camel, figuratively speaking. Let the church of God maintain her human and divine side. Do not sacrifice one at the expense of the other. Give the community clean, wholesome amusement and the young as well as the old will find joy and pleasure in the church. D. A. DAVIDSON; Admirer of the Church HT, FRIDAY, A. A. C. P. GROUD BREAKING AT ST. LUKE A. M. E. CHURCH. Twelfth Street and Ann Avenue, Sunday. The ground breaking of St. Luke A. M. E. church on the northwest corner of Twelfth street and Ann avenue, where the future church will be built, June 17, 1923. The pro- gram is a very promising one, which will be an all day service. At 11 a. m. the presiding elder, J. S. Payne, will preach the opening sermon. At 1:30 Hon. Charles L. Childs, G. M. and the G. U. O. O. F., at 2:30 Hon. Dorsey Green, at 3:00 Rev. J. A. Broadnax, M. W. G. M., and the F. & A. A. York Masons. At 3:30 Hon. Mayor W. W. Gordon of this city, at 4.00 Dr. J. R. Ransom of Topeka, will preach the ground-breaking sermon. Rev. G. E. Horsey, S. D. Rhone and Green will look after the finance with the trustees. Prof. S. M. Wise will have charge of the music. The clubs will make their reports at 7:30. Dinner will be served in the church. EXCELSIOR COURT NO.1. Will have its tenth anniversary June 19-23. Hours from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p. m. at 334 Everett. Good music shall be rendered. Everybody cordially invited. Contest between Mrs. J. Walker and Mrs. L. Scott. Prize will be given to the one raising the largest amount of money. MRS. L. V. Terrell, M. A. W. MRS. G. KIDD. Seev. Mrs. Charles Porter, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Waters of Atchison stopped with Mrs. P. C. Long while attending the Grand Court as delegates. Mrs. Charles Milton of Kokomo, Ind., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hodge, 339 Greeley avenue. Mrs. Milton is a cousin of Professor Hodge. Social Civic Club met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. T. F. Reed with Mrs. Cecilia Jordan as hostess. Mrs. Horton instructed-the members on "Organizations and Meetings." Mrs. Reed will entertain the club at the next regular meeting. June 26. CITY BRIEFFS AND IN SOCIETY. Mrs. Fannie Tillery-Miller of Des Moines, Ia., is here this week attending Grand Court and visiting Mrs. Marr, her sister and other relatives. Mrs. Pearl Dabney, A. G. M. of Missouri, of Kansas City, Mo., visited the Grand Court in Kansas City, Kansas, this week. Miss Stella Sharp of Leavenworth, was a delegate to the Grand Court also. Mrs. A. Allsbrook came home from teaching this week and went to Lawrence to summer school. PRINCE HALL GRAND COURT. Prince Hall Grand Court opened its session at Metropolitan Temple Tuesday morning. Mrs. A. T. Marr, A. G. M., of Kansas, presided; and Mr. Andrew Wilson, Grand Joshua, assisted. About fifty delegates attended. More may be given later. The delegations to the District conference at Leavenworth this week from the various A. M. E. churches, returned home Thursday night and Friday morning. About forty attended from here and Quindaro. The Neighborhood Floral Club No. 1 gave a little token to Miss Carrie Williams, Fannie Williams and Mr. John Williams, as they were returning to their homes from Kansas City to Greenwood, Miss., and Memphis, Tenn. Number 44 MIDNIGHT MEETS WITH SOME BIG PYTHIANS IN TEXAS HEARS A MASTER SPEECH Business League in Hot Dallas, Texas, June 13. "Because of the death of the late president, Dr. A. M. Moore, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., is forced to announce the election of the following officers, C. C. Spaulding, president; J. M. Avery, vice-president and secretary; R. L. McDougald, second vice-president; E. R. Merrick, treasurer, Durham, North Carolina, May 3, 1923." Here is a card that I do not need to comment on at all. It came to me the other day. You know all about this great institution. It is what I call "Young Negro Getting a Start Institution." You see we take out insurance on our lives, and then we live and send our children to school. They come out of school with education and common sense, we die, they collect that few thousand dollars we have been toting on our lives and that gives them a financial start in life as well as the education, and in this way we are going to produce more strong men and women in the future. Now here I am in Texas, and this time I have a few things to say to you. I hope you will have time to stay with me until I get through talking, because I must ride and see for you, and I must tell you what I see and how I see it and if you feel like shouting, just let her go to the best of your shouting ability and I will say "Praise the Lord." When I took my pen in hand last week to write you a few scattering remarks, I was not where I am tqday, and when I write to you next time I will not be in this place, but will be humping it up the road to another part of the world. But I must make good of this time, because the next time is not promised me. You know I have been to New Orleans, La., associated with the Rev. B. G. Dawson, pastor of St. James A. M. E. church. I told you about him when he left Kansas City to go there, and I am here to tell you that he is making good, and making friends, too. He is just made up from that kind of stuff and it would be a surprise to you if sheailed. He was just brought into the world to do something and he placed himself where God could use him and he is being used. He had, the pleasure of entertaining the Rev. Dr. Edward Wittenburg. Speaking of Rev. Dawson, and the A. M. E. church, brings to my mind that Prof. Aaron E. Malone of Poro college, and our philanthropist, has by unanimous vote of the electoral college of the Illinois A. M. E. conference, been elected a lay delegate to the general conference to be held in Louisville, Ky., and he is now being urged by other laymen to accept the chairmanship of the laymen in Louisville. He has engaged Charles Stewart to serve as his secretary and he will accept. "I have but one desire in life," said Mr. Malone, "and that is to serve my God, my people, my church and my country." If I can do these well I will feel that I have not lived in vain and I have carried out the purpose for which God placed me on earth." I am sure that you know that right by the right side left side and all other sides of Mr. Malone is a devoted, cultured, christian wife. She too, has consecrated her life to service and she is serving. I have told you about them from time to time and will not do so in this letter. In New Orleans I had the pleasure of meeting many friends and others. Let me tell you something honey, when I left there, the Rev. B. G. Dawson brought me to the Union Stable two chickens, Miss Enola E. Porche, the teacher one chicken, and I was some chicken, believe me honey. I left in big company, Su- (Continued on Page 3.) 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Stocking, Storing L SERVICE AL Sunday by Appointment ce Drexel 2580 KANSAS CITY, KANSAS If No Regrets IS IT'S RIGHT" AN CONSIDERATION FOR—ASK ANYBODY THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE preme Chancellor S. W. Green of the Knights of Pythias, General W. W. Andrews of Florida, Grand Chancellor, and another distinguished Pythian from Florida. We were all headed for thsi place to attend the Grand Lodge of Knight of Pythias of Texas. I had to do some praying, for after that thing had pulled up a short distance, they put the whole thing on a boat and toted it across the Mississippi—River. While I am a good Baptist, yet I could not help but asking what the result would be if that boat should go down with me on it. My mother always objected to me going in swimming with the boys until I learned how, for fear I might drown and then her pretty little son would be an angel. But we got over on the other side and that old iron horse got busy again. I learned why he snorted and gounted so, I saw a man just tickling him in his—well, I don't know whether it was mouth or what not, but the tickling was going on. They fill him full of water, put fire under the water, it produces steam, and the steam wants to get out, and the iron horse lets it out on condition that it help him to go and carry his cargo. That's the way it is done. I was invited by Supreme Chancellor Green to go with them to the eating car and have dinner, but I had so much chicken I had to decline. I could not go in just for style, for I had plenty to eat. All day we rode, and about 10:30 at night landed in Houston. Supreme Chancellor Green got off as did the others, and I got off for the purpose of getting on again. They spent the night in Houston and I continued on to Dallas, reaching here Sunday morning, and was toted right to the home of Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, the pastor of Macedonia Baptist church, and one of the secretaries of the National Baptist Convention. Rev. Wilson is getting ready to go to Europe, and his friends are sending him cash with which to make the trip. He is going to represent the Baptists and will sail this month. His address is 2813 Thomas avenue, Dallas. I am only hinting, because I think the people in this country wants him to go over well fixed. Now, believe me honey this was one more big meeting. I must tell you some of the things which took place there. If you have time to listen. The Grand Lodge is one of the wealthiest and largest organizations in this country. At its head is Prof. W. S. Willis of Waco, Texas, one of the best trained business men in the whole race. He was at one time a professor in the school, but organized the Willis Construction company, and that took him out of the school room and since then they have been doing business at the same old stand. When he was called upon to take charge of the affairs of the Knights of Pythias, a few years ago he found his body way down at the heels so to speak, and in debt. He started then on strictly business methods. He had every detail looked into, which lost a few friends and gained many more. Step by step they have been going on to the top until now. They are out of debt now and have a fine balance and asset. I give you some of the figures from the annual statement made May 31, 1923, end of fiscal year: Assets, Cash in bank, $218,624.43; United States Treasury Certificates, $4,000; War Savings Stamps, $834; First Mortgage Loans, $38,488.58; Bonds, $20,000; Loan to Supreme Lodge, $7,000; Temple Building, $157,419.82; Temple Drug Store, $2,-471.75; Accrued interest, $3,976.01; total. $452,814.59. Liabilities. Unpaid death claims, $2,537.14; Net assets, $450,277.45; Net assets last year, $366,584.64; Net increase for the year, $83,692.81. Total amount interest earned for the year, $12,001.34; total amount paid officers for the year, $7,200; total amount of claims paid for the year, $88,496.08; estimated number of members, 22,530. This statement was signed by Grand Chancellor Willis and attested by J. E. Smith, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal. The visitors to the Grand Lodge were Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green of New Orleans, Grand Chancellor W. W. Andrews of Jacksonville, Fla., Grand Chancellor C. B. Wickham of Oklahoma; J. R. E. Lee of New York, representing the Urban League, and, of course, I was there with my big self. They had a field day, and Colonel (?) Roscoe C. Simmons, of Chicago, was the speaker, and he delivered a fine address. It was just the thing and he covered himself with glory. 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Weather Man Also at Variance. "This weather doesn't agree with me." "That's not surprising; it doesn't even agree with the weather man."— Judge. Wife—"So you expect to get into heaven by hanging onto my skirts?" Hub—"No, but I might by showing St. Peter the bills for them."—Boston Transcript. Literature. "What has become of the dialect story?" "Nowadays they tell it in slang."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Some people sleep with one eye open; others prefer to wake with both eyes shut.—Life. Rose—"She wears the most extreme skirts and shoes." Lilly—"Yes, and the extremes never meet." Small Loans WEEKLY PAYMENTS LIBERTY BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Credit Investment Co. Room 208. Wyandotte Building Fifth and Minnesota Avenue Drexel 117 Home have ever heard since, I have been colored was delivered by Prof. A. S. Jackson, Commissionr of Education of the A. M. E. church. He is a great speaker and the race and his church ought to feel proud of him. He will be held at the head of the educational work of his church as long as he lives. The next general conference will give him a solid vote. Now attention of the people will be turned to the National Negro Business League in Hot Springs, in August, and the National Baptist convention in Los Angeles, California. I hope to be there myself and will tell you about them. Things are getting in shape for this great meeting. I will write to you from Hot Springs in a week or two. I think I will have to bring this letter to a sudden stop. Write to me, care Hon. J. L. Webb, Woodmen of Union, Hot Springs, Ark. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Oswald had the habit of asking for something to eat whenever he happened to be at a neighbor's house, so his mother told him he must never do such a thing again. The next time he returned from a visit to the neighbor's she asked him if he had begged for anything to eat. "No," he replied, "I didn't. I was just talking to myself about how hungry I was and they heard me." 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Munson last shoes, sizes 5½ to 12, which was the entire surplus stock of one of the largest U. S. Government shoe contractors. This shoe is guaranteed one hundred per cent solid leather; color, dark tan, bellows tongue, dirt and waterproof. The actual value of this shoe is $6.00. Owing to this tremendous buy we can offer same to the public at $2.95. Send correct size. Pay postman on delivery or send money order. If shoes are not as represented we will cheerfully refund your money promptly upon request. NATIONAL BAY-STATE SHOE COMPANY, 296 Broadway, New York, N. Y. How Young Italian Cultivated Marvelous Memory. While Watching His Sheep, Jacques Inaudi Occupied His Mind by Working Out Sums. Up in the north of Italy, not far from the city of Turin, in the mountain land that lies to the south of the rugged line of the Alps, about 1875, a little boy sat engaged in the usual occupation of small boys in that rural region—watching sheep. There was nothing for him to do except to look at his woolly charges, or off at the line of hills that shuts in the sky on all sides. His name was Jacques Inaudi. His home was a little hovel scarcely worthy of the name of home. His people were the poor people of the region, peasants who could provide little or nothing for their children. There was just one way in which Jacques Inaudi was different from the scores of other boys in his neighborhood who likewise had been set to watch flocks. The others sat, idly, scarcely thinking, or else they threw stones, or played with their dogs, or built little walls and houses with sticks and rubble. Jacques Inaudi kept his boyish mind as active as though he were in a schoolroom. He counted his sheep, estimated the wool they produced, the amount of grass they ate, the number of lambs there were likely to be, the amount of money they would bring, and the number of people they would furnish food and clothing. At first he did this merely as an idle amusement. He had no paper on which to write, and there were few flat stones on which he could make records; so he was obliged to remember the facts that he observed. Soon he found that his memory was as good as any flat stone on which he could write, and as good as any paper that he might have. As he had nothing else to do, he continued to cultivate his ability to do sums in his head. When people came along and talked to him he asked them to give him the answers to problems he gave them; then he laughed gaily when they began to puzzle their heads and to write down figures. Soon he would flash out the correct answer, to their utter amazement. His fame spread and people took long journeys to hear him. They asked him difficult questions, to all of which he gave quick answers. Here was a wonder; a boy who astonished every one. People found it profitable to take Jacques Imaudi away from the pleasant hills and to bring him before the public as a lightning calculator. As he grew older he continued to develop his amazing gift, and his fame continued to grow. Soon he was known all over Italy and in Europe as one of the most unusual of persons. He was taken before learned people and questioned, and he amazed the humbler people. He had so cultivated a remarkable natural gift that in manhood—for it is now fifty-five years since he was born—he could, as it were, actually see before him the figures that were given him to use. By cultivating a natural gift he raised himself from poverty into riches and fame. The Only Difficulty. Edwin Lefevre, the Wall Street expert, said at a roof garden dinner in Philadelphia: "Now that wireless broadcasting is such a far, there are innumerable companies selling wireless stock. "A wireless stock salesman called on a country minister the other day. "Doctor Steenthly," he said, "I'll sell you a million shares of our stock for half a dollar. In six weeks the shares will be quoted at 95 cents. Think of it! You'll be a rich man.' "But, said Doctor Steenthly, in his cautious way, 'why don't you hold onto the shares and become a rich man yourself?' "I would," said the salesman, "only, you see, I need a shave—and how would I look if I waited six weeks?" Bees Brought Into Court. -An Akron man is suing for an injunction to restrain his neighbor's bees from stinging plantiff, his tenants, guests or "help." Also he asks $500 damages for last season's beestinging activities. Plantiff, says Capper's Weekly, alleges his neighbor keeps thirty hives, and whenever plantiff ventures out to hoe his garden or gather asparagus, the insects come over and play with him, and always they are so rough that he is driven indoors and his garden is neglected. He figures he lost $200 that way last year. It will be interesting to see if the bees will obey the law better than man. The Same Old Golf Grouch. "Has your husband started to play golf yet?" "I think so. He came home last night as ugly as sin."—Detroit Free Press. "He thinks he's going to play a good game of golf this year." "Shucks. All golfers are optimists in April." Marital Reaction Flubb—Marrige seems to exercise a sobering influence on some men. Dubb—Yes; it's a sort of aftermath to love's intoxication—From Life. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE HIS FIRST USE OF THE RAZOR Time When Parents, and Everybody Else, Should Carefully Refrain From Making Any Comment. When young men enter the period of learning how to shave, some mothers and fathers make the mistake of trying to help them along, of trying to ease their suffering a little here and there. But that is time wasted. Young men in that period of life cannot be reached with kind words or soft ministrations. HE LOST TO W By H. LOUIS RAYBON O. 1923, by McClure Newspaper CORALIE STRICKLAND, mother, Billy Hannaford and Cross sat on the afterdeck of of Miami. Within a few hours duck at Tampa Johnny MacFarland was told one day by his older sister—eleven months older in years, and therefore about eight years older in her own opinion—that if he did not start shaving immediately she would run away from home or something. Johnny replied that if he thought anything he did would have any such pleasant effect he would promptly do it, then went upstairs and began to look at his chin in the looking glass and finally locked the bathroom door, lathered himself up with his father's shaving soap, took his father's old-fashioned razor and carved off a piece of his face that would have satisfied Shylock and perhaps even made him reckon that he had turned over a bit on the deal on the side. That was Tuesday, says the New York Sun. On Wednesday he came home from school at noon and picked a fight with his sister over nothing and talked her right down into a crying spell, while his father stood right there beside him and kept saying, "See here, now! See here, now! See here, now!"—a unique and remarkable achievement, taking it all in all. Thursday he came home in the middle of the afternoon with a safety razor. He started right in shaving and he shaved off and on until six o'clock. He shaved off most of his profile and left on most of his hair. At the table his sister chaffed him gently about landscape gardening and ditch digging and one thing and another, but instead of his rising up and doing something awful, as his father expected him to do under the circumstances, he just sat there in his chair and did nothing save eat a piece of celery and gaze up over his sister's head, through the wall, and on into the middle of next week, as if he were foolish. Friday he— But he went on like this for a week. No need to dwell on the morbid details. He got over it after that and his mind cleared up, and so far as his folks could see was not weakened any to speak of. But if he had fallen in love right after learning how to shave he would have been a gonner—his mind would certainly never have got through that, too. Woman Chooses Husband. While in some parts of the great Indian empire the Hindu wife is so subjected to her husband that she is not supposed to sit at table with him or even look him in the face, in the province of Travancare, on the other hand, "matriarchy," or the rule of woman, survives almost in its pure state. In marriage the woman chooses her husband and he comes to her house to live, says the Detroit News. Until quite recently she could dismiss and divorce him whenever she felt like it. Now, however, divorce is by mutual consent. The woman is the head of the family. She owns property in her own right. When she dies her property passes on to her children, but that of her husband on his death passes on to his mother's nearest kin. There are no child marriages in Travancore, such as prevall throughout the rest of India, where there are millions of child widows. This province has less illiteracy than any other state in India. Its people claim they are the most progressive, prosperous and happy in all India. Catch Ealnt Sounds The air was full of talk and music countless centuries before man invented wireless broadcasting. Any number of other creatures whom we never hear and never hear are busy talking to each other. All sound comes to the human ear in the form of vibration. Our ear is so constructed that it can catch only a range of seven octaves of sound; constituting 30 to 30,000 vibrations a second. Dogs, cats and many other creatures can hear a lot of sounds that we miss. Take your dog out for a walk by the side of a wood at night and see how he keeps pricking up his ears as he hears noises too Indefinite for the human ear to catch. Watch two cats in a room. One will suddenly cock an ear, turn its head and listen. A moment later it will suddenly get up and cross the room. For some reason a woman's ear can catch a higher pitched sound than a man's. A woman can often hear a bat's high note, for instance, that is inaudible to a man. Her Choice. A little girl came to the Brightwood branch library very much elated over her first few weeks at school. She especially enjoyed the little dance games and said to the interested librarian that two boys had asked her to dance that morning. "Indeed," said she; "which one did you take?" "Oh, I took the cleanest one," was the quick reply.—Indianapolis News. Taxes on farm land have more than doubled during the last eight years. The average tax per acre in 1922 was 71 cents, as compared with 81 cents in 1914. HE LOST TO WIN By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD CORALIE STRICKLAND, her father, Billy, Hannaford and Jimmy Cross sat on the afterdeck of the City of Miami. Within a few hours they would dock at Tampa. Suddenly Jimmy chuckted and resumed the conversation where it had dropped. "Why, William here, blotted aristocrat, couldn't do a day's work to keep from starving!" Billy flushed. "Can it!" he said. "I could make work eat out of my hand." Coralie smiled doubtingly, Jimmy, taking advantage of that smile, burst out as if suddenly, inspired: "Why, I'll bet an eyn thousand right now that you can't leave this boat with a fiver in your pocket and land in New York by your own efforts!" Billy hesitated and his lips tightened. It was a dirty trick to get him out of the way and leave Jim a free hand with Coralie. Yet, before her, he couldn't back down. "Well, I'll take you up," he said shortly. These preliminaries explain Mr. William Hannaford's presence, the following day, in a Tampa employment agency. Seated on a bench beside half a dozen down-and-outers, he was meditating whether, in his case, "absence would make the heart grow fonder—fonder of the other fellow," when the head of the agency beckoned to him. "Want this?" he asked, and handed Billy a letter. "Please send another man to Bright Orange ranch—one with backbone this time. HARDY JACKSON." "I'll take it," he said. After a dusty tramp he reached the ranch. As he stepped on the veranda a gray-haired man appeared in the doorway, and at his side a young girl. "I'm from the agency," said Billy. Jackson looked puzzled and the low voice of the girl broke in. "We want a laborer, dad," she said. At this moment a huge car drove up and a stocky individual climbed down. "Take up my offer yet, Jackson?" he called. No, I won't!" returned Jackson flatly. "Intend to hang on—In spite of all that's happened." The other shrugged his shoulders, got back in the car and drove away, while Billy wondered what it was all about. Jackson turned to him. "Come in," he said. "You might as well have a try at it. You won't want to stay." After supper Billy learned how Jackson had sunk his all in the little ranch and was on the way to making a good thing of it when real estate men were using underhand methods to obtain it without paying near its value. "The latest stunt is night riding to intimidate us," said Jackson. "Night riders!" repeated Billy, thoughtfully. "We ought to be able to manage them. Let me see—tell me about it first, and then—well, I'd like to get off a telegram." With the sending of the telegram Billy lost his wager, but in the light of the adventure which seemed ahead of him he regarded the loss as trivial. "Dear Jimmy—you win! Have given up attempt to beat it to New York. Meet me at Grenoble hotel. Good little game up my sleeve. Need your help. BILLY." Forgotten was his resentment against Jim. Forgotten was Coralie's doubling smile. His thoughts were full of the night riders—and Shirley. The night riders came. Oh, yes, they came. At midnight of the very day that Billy and Jimmy and Hardy Jackson worked feverishly from the moment dusk fell. 'Scarcely, in fact, were the preparations complete when they heard the thud of distant hoofs. "You're trapped!" yelled Jackson out of the darkness. With a murmur of consternation the men spurred their horses about seeking an outlet. "You're riding on dynamite!" yelled Billy. "Prove it, Jim!" "Dismount, one at a time!" demanded Jackson. Hands up, in a row on the veranda, their captors regarded them. "You look d—n silly," said William. "We intend to march you into town in the morning, unless—" and he spoke directly to the man he had heard make the offer to Jackson the day of his arrival—"you prefer to offer Jackson what he paid for the place and a good-sized bonus to boot to pay him for all this annoyance." And the choice the man made was the only one possible. As for Coralie, she heard all about the affair from Jimmy, and, although Jimmy's arm was about her at the time and his ring, sparkled on her finger, there was a wistful look in her eyes. "Yes," Jimmy was saying, "Billy is going north with them. It is plain to see that Shirley worships the ground he walks on, and—well, believe me, old Bill's in luck." One of the characters in a play recently produced in New York is Mr. Shrdlu. The critics in their reviews of the play failed to give him a single line, possibly because of prejudice, for Mr. Eaton Shrdlu is a most unpopular type with writing folk, often butting in and spoiling their finest work.—Boston Evening Transcript. QUIPS OF HUMOR QUIPS OF HUMOR "What has become of the dialect story?" "Nowadays they tell it in slang." Her Easter Eye Open. "Your wife is a close observer, isn't she?" "If you spell it c-l-o-t-h-e-s." Floral. "So many girls at the dance. What a garden of flowers." "And what a lot of wallflowers," echoed Nitwitz. Correct Answer. Teacher—What is sugar? Tommy—Sugar is what you can't eat grapefruit without. Old-Fashioned. "She's old-fashioned." "So." "She still has a dressmaker come to the house." Just So. "They say girls are healthier nowadays." "They all seem to be in the pink of condition." A Woman's Way. A Woman's Way. "Why did you go without a winter coat, dearie?" "To buy some summer furs." Sure Sign. "How do you know Chaucer dictated to a stenographer?" "Just look at the spelling." Exactly. "Skirts have started downward." "That proves the girls did know where to stop." The Problem. They Will Do It. She—"The end of that detective story startled me." He—"You shouldn't jump at conclusions." A Murderous Instrument. A Murderous Instrument. Shoes—"I sing a little just to keep time." Boots—"You certainly have a good weapon." Clever Deduction. "I see Fithdub has bought a candy factory and a flower store." "Must be courting in earnest this time." One He Can't Swear At. "What kind of an alarm clock have you?" "My wife's elbow." Where Hs Is Great. "Brown is a great thinker, isn't he?" "Yes; he thinks he knows it all."—Boston Evening Transcript. Discouraging "The fools aren't all dead yet." "No, and the worst of it is most of them aren't even sick." Single Devotion. "Don't they get on well together?" "I'll say they don't. They have twin pews in church."—Life. So They Walked On. "Let's try this restaurant—what kind of a place is it?" "Oh—passable." Considerate Murderer. Warden (to murderer in electric chair)—Is there anything you would like to do before I push the fatal button? Thoughtful Murderer—Yes. I would like to give my seat to a lady.—Pennsylvania Pinch Bowl. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Alberta Turner, plaintiff. You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for a divorce by the above named plaintiff, and unless you answer the allegations as set out in the petition filed herein on or before the 20th day of July, 1923, the same will be taken as true and a judgment and a decree entered in accordance therewith, and such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and proper. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published June 8, 1923.) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Lillie Thorne, Plaintiff. You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte county, Kansas, for a divorce by the above named plaintiff, and unless you answer the allegations as set out in the petition filed herein on or before the 20th day of July, 1923, the same will be taken as true and a judgment and a decree entered in accordance therewith, and such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and proper. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published June 8, 1923.) FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1923: PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, 2nd Div. Georgia Mitchell, Willia Handcock, Ida Cowan, Wilbur Handcock and Mary Valentine, Plaintiffs. vs. No. 20747A R. B. Abernathy, and Fannie Abernathy, his wife, Mary Lue White and white, her husband, Defendants. In Dr. Bertschmann, and Pamela Auremathy, his wife, Mary Lue White and ..... White, her husband: You and each of you are hereby notified that you and each of you have been sued by the plaintiffs above named in the District Court, 2nd Division, of Wyandotte County, Kansas, in an action for Partition of Lot 13, Block 9, in Pasfield Place, an addition in and to Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas; asking that said property be appraised and sold according to law and that the interest of the respective parties herein be determined, and that costs of this suit be devised as the interest of the parties hereto appear; that the plaintiff's attorney be allowed a reasonable attorney's fees in said action; that you and each of you are required to answer the said Petition of the plaintiffs filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte county, Kansas, on or before the 19th day of July, 1923 or said petition, will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you in favor of the plaintiffs, granting them the right of Partitioning the property as set forth in their Petition and for such other and further relief as the matter of the case may require and for costs. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney for Plaintiffs. (First published June 8, 1923.) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Division No. _____ Mittie Germany, plaintiff. vs. No_____ Frank Germany, defendant. To Frank Germany, Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by your wife Mittie Germany, for a decree of divorce, in the District Court of Wyandotte county, Kansas, on the grounds of Gross Neglect of Duty, Extreme Cruelty and Abandonment; and that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff filed herein on or before the 20th day of July, 1923, said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you granting said plaintiff an absolute divorce of and from you and such other and further relief as she may be entitled to in equity. WM. H. TOWERS, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published June 8, 1923.) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Helen Thomas, Plaintiff. vs. Jessie Thomas, Defendant. To the above named Defendant. You are, hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for a divorce by the above named plaintiff, and unless you answer the allegations as set out in the petition filed herein on or before the 20th day of July, 1923, the same will be taken as true and a judgment and a decree entered in accordance therewith, and such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and proper. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published June 8, 1923.) NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte, ss. In the Probate Court in and for said County and State. In the Matter of the Estate of Elias Flemming, deceased. No. 11135. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that on the 2nd day of July, 1923, at the regular term of the Probate Court in and for said County, held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte, and State aforesaid, I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate, and at such time or as soon thereafter as the same can be heard, an application will be made for an order of the Court finding and adjudging who were the heirs of the said deceased. I. F. BRADLEY Executor of the estate of Elias Flemming, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, this 25th day of May, 1923. (Seal) JOHN T. SIMS. Probate Judge. (First published May 25, 1923.)