Kansas City Sun

White Woman Bequeathed Negro $200,000 The National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People a Worthy Organization. Kansas Citians Slow to Recognize Its Merit. Prof. Spingarn, Scholar and Friend of Man Heralded to Speak Under Auspices of the Association. A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI. NUMBER 21. White V The National Association in ment of Colored Peo Organizati Kansas Citians Slow to R Prof. Spingarn, Scholar and Fri to Speak Under Ausp Association By Chas. A. Starks. An organization should be judged by its ability and willingness to do a needful work effectively and unselfishly. Such an organization exists and lives in the great movement of men and women, white and colored, who are working for a good cause under the happy appellation of the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." Strange to say, this organization has grown out of a necessity which Negrophobia—race hate—and barbarianism have mothered and brought forth to blot a progressive civilization and hamper certain people who would rise and elevate themselves along all worthy lines. Race prejudice seems to be steadily taking form in every community and in every conceivable way just where it will break itself we cannot say. This much: It exists and is industriously working to establish discrimination on account of color; baneful segregation of government employees; mob violence and in a thousand other ways which only evil could suggest. Hence this organization we speak of appears to be necessary to protect and advance the cause of civil justice to colored people who are swindled out of their rights and privileges as American citizens. The very fact that such an organization is necessary reflects discredit upon the whole American Republic and its sense of justice. We say it because the national government has practically sanctioned the world which prejudice has wrought and received it in the very bosom of civil office. The human hate, the envy the jealousy, appears to exist, so widely among men has but one effective weapon against it as is ever the case, and that is God, Truth. This will finally be demonstrated. We hold that the Negro has every sacred right to live and not only enjoy what rights civil authority might assure him, but to live that spiritual and social life in which he can demonstrate over the prejudices according as he receives proper wisdom of God. Unjust restrictions of any kind narrow the activities in the field of good and impede progress. Civil law fights against itself when it is so constituted to favor one set of individuals over another. When it exits one citizen above another. The spirit and the letter of the law should be to do justice to every individual, this is Truth in divine law which permits of no gainsaying is inevitably harmonious and cannot be defeated in its office by any overdrawn technicality or false argument. We should therefore learn to enforce the just laws which are designed to promote the good to all men. A law on the statute shows the ignorance, hate and weakness of those who enacted it. It is non-enforcement of the "good" laws and the strenuous activity in enforcing unjust "measures" is the cause of the existence of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Its purpose is to see what the good laws mean and what the trumped up measures contain of truth and justice to warrant their enforcement. In this the organization is doing a creditable work inasmuch as it is fighting (often successfully) the unjust laws and securing a liberal number of favorable decisions for citizens of color. Its methods of procedure are best told by the editor of the Crisis, the official organ of the Association, who asks and answers this question when speaking of its policy: "What are the weapons? Organized publicity, vertisement, public meetings, petitions, arrest, law suits, protest, investigation, research, resistance—every way in which the civilized world has fought and must fight and will fight wrong. Kansas Citizens have not been over enthusiastic about these things and a certain lethargic spell has entrained the minds of our citizens not understanding that we need such an organization to serve as a "watch dog" over our interests and help secure our lawful rights. Thursday night Prof. J. E Spingarn addressed a representative gathering of colored people at Allen Chapel under the auspices of the local branch of the Association. More than 1,000 people crowded the large auditorium to hear him, among whom were a number of whites, but the politicians and white preachers were conspicuous by their absence. Preceding themeeting a conference of workers was held at the parsonage of Allen Chapel, which was attended by Profs. H. O. Cook, G. N Grisham, R. W. Foster, Kealing, Gregg—Jacobs and Williams, Miss Ann --- The Kansas City Sun Do You Read The Sun? Do you know you can get it for ONE YEAR for ONE DOLLAR during the month of January only? Sent anywhere in the United States. 1803 East 18th Street. Jones and Naomi White, Messames F. J. Jackson, M. F. Todd, Carrie Brydie, D. Frantz, Croschwalt, Willett, J. Frazier and Thomas and Attorneys Hueston and Calloway, Editor Crews Revs. Dr. W. H. Peck and W. H. Thomas, Father E. S. Willett, Y. M. C. A. Secretary R. B. De Frantz, J. Frank McDonald of the Christian Recorder, Dr. S. H. Thompson, F. J Weaver, Prof. John Love, G. W. Teers and Mr. Jacob Billikoff and Prof Spingarn. When the distinguished speaker entered the church he was given a magnificent ovation, and after a song by the Western U. Chorus, folowed by a prayer by Dr. W. H. Thomas, President Woody Jacobs in a brief address outlined the purpose of the association, and Introduced Mr. Billikoff, who in choice and eloquent language introduced Prof. Spingarn who for one hour held his audience spellbound. To epitomize, he is a great man, fighting for a great cause May God give him victory! The Negro Business League will hold an open meeting to which the public, both ladies and gentlemen, are cordially invited, at their rooms, 1303 East Eighteenth street in the office of the Kansas City City Sun Tuesday, January 20 at 8:00 p. m. sharp. Western University Glee Club will furnish one or two vocal numbers and short addresses will be made by Mr. H. P. Ewing, Manager of the Kaw Valley Truck Farm Co. and T. G. McCampbell, Manager of W. U. Farm and Custodian of Grounds. If you believe in Negro business and want it to succeed, you are urged to be present. F. J. WEAVER, Pres. A. E. Estes, Secy. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1914. Hello, Neighbor! Call us, write, or see our agents. TANGO KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BARRED FROM TANGO. Lawrence, Kas., Jan. 12.—Chancellor Frank Strong today forbade students of Kansas University attending tango receptions or teas or dances where the tango is permitted. SAYS TANGO IS SLIDE TO HELLA Minneapolis Minister Raps Our Adaptation of the Dance. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 11.—Illustrating his sermon by going through the various positions of the dance in his pulpit, the Rev. G. L. Morrill, pastor of the People's church, preached today on "The Tango." Mr. Morrill, who has recently returned from South America, compared that popular dance, as performed in the United States, with that in the Southern republics. During the sermon he said: "The savage heathen dance I recently saw in Bolivia is outdone by civilized, Christian Americans. "The natives wear more clothes and dance more decently than the tangoists of so-called high society. "The Argentina tango is a modest minuet compared with the way we rush it. The man from Buenos Aires would not know it as danced here. "The dance has degenerated from devotion and diversion to dissipation and debauchery. "The tango is popular because it is deprived." "It is the 'dance of death, and its step in due time slides to hell." San Francisco, Jan. 9.—Miss Ellen fitz Pendleton, president of Wellesley college, who is a visitor in San Francisco, declared today that the tango and other modern dances would never invade Wellesley. She also declared that slit skirts and kindred costumes are not the dres for gentlewomen. New York, Jan. 9.—Dr. Stephen S. Wise, in an address said: "My objection to the so-called modern dancing arises out of the belief that it is only a phase of the widespread social deterioration we see about us. Modern dancing is not dancing at all. It is simply a prolonged sex orgy set to music." New York, Jan. 9.—The dance known as the tango will lead to the NELSON C. CREWS, Editor and Owner. destruction of many girls," according to Mrs. Frances Woodman Wiley, a policewoman, detailed to various dance halls. "I have talked to many young girls and the tango has a most demoralizing in 'fluence on them," she said. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 9—Bishop Dennis J. O'Connell of the Catholic diocese of Richmond, Va., will place cese. "Chivalry is far from being dead in Virginia," he said. "The men there have too wholesome respect for the dignity of womanhood and the women are too jealous of their high estate to permit the self-respect in either sex to be trailed in the dust by sensual dances." San Francisco, Jan. 7—Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, president of Wellesley college, who is a visitor in San Francisco, declared that the tango and other modern dances would never invade Wellesley. She declared that slit skirts and kindred costumes are not the dress for gentlewomen. "The students of Wellesley would not think of appearing in the classroom with their skirts unbuttoned at the bottom," said Miss Pendleton. She declared there was not a faculty ban on the slit skirt—merely a well-bred Djike. Chicago, Jan. 12. Is the tango crase in Chicago on the wane? Many public dance halls have barred the Argentine dance and the proprietors say that they have suffered no drop in patronage. "Popular opinion is not in favor of the tango as it is danced," said George Curtin of the Vermont dance hall. "I find that the dancers enjoy the tango and not the waltz. The middle-aged dancers do not like or want it." Policewemen Mary A. Boyd and A. B. Telford of the staff of Major M. L. C. Funkhouser, second deputy superintendent of police, Chicago's morals censor, are convinced today that the tango craze is waning. They visited a number of former tango sanctums Wednesday night and found only one where the dance, upon which a ban had been placed by the police, was being permitted or desired by any but the youthful dancers. These younger dance hall patrons are blamed for the tango. It is they that put the "wriggle and "dips" and other objectionable features into the dance, it is claimed.—American. "GO TO CHUECH SUNDAY" is Feb. 1. If you've a gray haired mother In the old home far away; Sit down and write the letter You put off the other day. Don't wait until her weary steps Reach heavens' pearly gates; But show her that you think of her Before it is too late. If you've a tender message, Or a loving word to say; Don't wait until you forget it, But whisper it today. Who knows what little memories May haunt you if you wait; So make those you love happy Before it is too late. The tender words unspoken, The letters never sent; The long forgotten message, The wealth of love unspent; For these some hearts are breaking- For these some loved ones wait; Show that you care for them Before it is too late. MASONIC HOME NOTES. Hurrah for Green Valley Court No. 70. Editor Crews—Through the efforts of the matron, Mrs. Sarah W. Dixon, the inmates were made to rejoice over a box of good things received from Green Valley Court No. 70 of Marshall, Mo. Mrs. Bettie Furgeson, matron of said Court, got her hustling sisters together and the following groceries were sent: 4 cans of peas, 3 cans of corn, 1 can of kidney beans, 4 cans of tomatoes, 3 cans o father fruit, 3 pounds of prunes, 6 pounds of navy beans, 2 pounds of dried peas and $2\frac{1}{2}$ pounds of hominy. We are proud to announce not a single Court or Chapter has turned a deaf ear to our appeal for a donation. We wish we could say as much for the lodges—only a few Masters, it seems, have pushed the donation idea. Mesdames Edward Rucker of Louisiana, Mary Radford of Chicago, Anna J. Healey, Ethel J. Penny, Ellen Hicks, Nellie Lewis, Harvey Hicks and Prof. Chas, E. Penny of Hannibal were recent visitors of the Home. W. H. DIXON, Supt. NOTICE. Ladies and Gent's Shoe shining at the Colored Shoe Store. 1507½ E 18th St. Ladies Especially Invited. Miss Effie Penninston was a very charming hostess Friday evening at a party given for the Ochya Girls, complimentary to her cousin, Robert Penninston, Dixon, Ill. New Year's night eight of the Kansas City young men entertained the Ochya Girls, in honor of Miss Wallace, at the beautiful residence of Mrs. Franklin, 2626 Highland avenue. Miss Wallace will leave soon for her home in the South. Kansas City will lose a very charming young lady. Progress Study club met at 2216 Woodland avenue, with Mrs. Bert Hill as hostess. The club was entertained by Professor J. Dallas Bowser, who lectured on "Travels Abroad," and was highly appreciated by all present. All the meetings will be held at the Overall Studio. Miss Frances Hayes will be hostess next Tuesday, January 20. THE CLIPPERS SOCIAL CALENDAR FOR MISS CLAUDIA E. JENKINS A towel shower Saturday January 24 at 2628 Highland avenue by Miss Vic Newsom, Miss Bessie Jacobs and Miss Della Newsom. A kitchen shower Saturday 31 at 400 Haskell avenue Kansas City, Kansas by Miss Winifred Morton and Miss Ruth Bradley. A miscellaneous shower Saturday February 7 by Miss Oma White, Miss Rosa Barbee and Miss Grace White. A handkerchief shower Saturday February 14 by Miss Effie Grant, Miss Margaret Jackson and Miss Katherine Davis. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Sister P. A. McFadden, Bros. Thomas Glenn and G. W. Taylor have been on the slick list.... The funera of Sister T. Robinson was preached last Sunday. The occasion was indeed sad, but we can but say God's will be done. She was a Christian of long standing and died in full triumph of faith. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family.... Sister Robinson was a member of Eva Court, E. & W. H., and the Tabernacle. Much credit is due both lodges for the great care and high respect shown.... Mr. James Graham and his newly married wife, Miss Jennie Piper, were at church last Sunday. A very pleasant smile was worn by each of them.... Morning and evening services were well attended. One addition to the church was made. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. African Emigration A Fake. From Sierre Leone, capital of Liberia, comes the last word to Oklahoma regarding Chief Sam, the Negro promoter, who has been working among the Negroes of Oklahoma on an alleged colonization scheme, Chief Sam, declaring that a boat is being built for him at New York, has been securing $25 apiece from Negroes in Oklahoma, the money to be used in building the ship and paying the passage of the Negroes to Gold Coast, Africa. Yesterday Rev. Johnson of the African A. M. E. Church here, received a letter from Bishop William H. Heard at the capital of Liberia, branding Chief Sam as a pure fake. The bishop says in his letter that there is absolutely nothing to the colonization scheme and that Negroes are not even allowed to land in the Gold Coast country.—Tulsa World. Negro Gets Fortune. Wilmington, Del. January 10.—Levil A. Taylor, a Negro farmer of Newark, Del., has come into a fortune of $200,000, including a large strip of land in Atlantic City, N. J., by the will of Mrs. Susie Brighter, a white woman, who died recently. Taylor worked for Mrs. Brighter, entering her employ in 1900. He reclaimed lowlands at Atlantic City and supervised the erection of sixty houses on these lands for Mrs. Brighter. He will establish a home for colored boys near Wilmington, Del., with the money. Provident Hospital Makes Annoucement To the Public: The Institution formerly run by Dr. J. E. Perry and known as the Perry Sanitarium has been taken over by the Provident Hospital Association. The doors of this institution were thrown open to the general public January 1st, 1914, and the management of the same is vested in a board of directors consisting of five of Kansas City's well known and public spirited citizens, toitw: Evelyn Baldwin, Marilida Gardner, Clara T. Knox, E. M. Smith and T. B. Watkins. The officers are: President, Evelyn Baldwin; secretary, Eva M. Smith; assistant secretary, Effie Watkins; treasurer, Mrs. Clara T. Knox. The building of which the Provident Hospital Association assumes charge has twenty-five beds, two of which this association has for several months maintained as free beds and this policy will be continued. The building is provided with steam heat and lighted with electricity and has an operating room with all the instruments necessary for the most difficult operations. In this connection also the institution has retained the services of Miss Nellie Palmer, the most accomplished and experienced nurse in the West, together with other competent nurses who will render valuable assistance. This institution is now public in every sense of the word and whatsoever money realized from operating the same will be expended for the malpenance of the hospital. This institution therefore belongs to the public, is a public necessity and merits the public's support. The following physicians and surgeons are on the lecturing staff: Dr. Lloyd E. Baller, Dr. G. W. Brown, Dr. J. H. Williams, Dr. J. E. Perry, Dr. Thos. A. Jones, Dr. E. A. Walker, Dr. M. H. Lambricht, Dr. Thos. A. Fletcher, Dr. C. M. Kane, Dr. White tington Bruce, Dr. Wm. J. Thompkins. The medical profession when desired hospital services for their patients will find the Provident Hospital an ideal place. Doctors desiring to serve on the staff for either medical or surgical are kindly requested to apply to the president. A Beautiful Design. Sprays ... $1.00 and upward Designs ... $1.50 and upward We please the people both in price and quality. Flowers for all occasions. WEAVER FLORAL Co. 1510 E. 18th St. Home phone Main 7555. Bell phone East 4798. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., aims to fit young men and women to do well and in an uncommon way the common tasks of life. Students are taught to handle their tasks like skilled work- men. They have for their work an excellent equipment and they are expected and required to take the best possible care of the school's property. They receive financial credit for their work and they are required to keep a strict account of all they earn and On December 14, engineered and directed by W. Woods White, philanthropist and progressive thinker, there was gathered at Atlanta the most notable and epochal meeting of the negroes ever held in the south, if not in America. Between 8,000 and 10,000 representative negroes of Atlanta, 32 churches and pastors of all denominations, meeting for a common joint-religious purpose, assembled in the great Atlanta auditorium and were addressed by leading preachers of their own race, by leading preachers of the white race of Atlanta, by Governor Slayton of Georgia, by bankers, business men and editors. The object of the meeting was to persuade the negroes, out of their own means, to erect a Y. M. C. A. building at Atlanta, with the assurance that if they did this thing the general public would co-operate with them more liberally than it had ever done before. The great objective lesson was to persuade the negro to help himself in this matter, and the speeches were of the best ever made in Atlanta in many years. Negroes themselves contributed $4,000. The most valuable result of the meeting was the education of the negro in the great policy of self-help and of confidence in the good will of the white race. The results have already been remarkably inspiring. The Southern Baptist convention of Louisville passed resolutions pledging southern sentiment and to the help of that new race. The white preachers of Atlanta frequently leave their own pulpits on Sunday morning to go out and preach the saving grace of character, thrift and self-help in the negro churches. The effect of this better spirit is widespread throughout the south. It has almost revolutionized the feeling between the two races. It has inspired the negro to greater expressions of sacrifice and industry that he has ever shown before, and he is accumulating both property and public institutions in a gratifying way. Apparatus for coupling ordinary vehicles behind automobiles, so flexible that sharp corners can be turned, is the invention of an eighteen-year-old California boy. In making a trip through the south a few weeks ago, I discovered cases where colored teachers were not receiving more than $10 a month for their service for teaching a public school, writes Booker T. Washington. This indicates the sacrifice that many colored teachers are making throughout the south in order to give the negro children some education. It is for teachers and pupils of this class for a number of years I have made an appeal to the public for Christmas cards, books or any other gift that will remind these people, who are doing the nation's work under such difficulties, of the Christmas season. It is most helpful for them to be reminded that there is somebody on the outside who is thinking of them and cares for them. I should be very glad to serve as a medium for the forwarding to such persons whatever gift that may be sent to me. According to the geological survey there is good reason to believe that Louisiana is underlaid by one of the greatest natural gas fields in the United States. The opening of a new railroad in German East Africa early next year will help to develop 384,000 square miles of territory with a population of 10,000,000. A ring, carrying a sharp blade and large enough to encircle two fingers has been patented by an Ohio inventor for cutting twine as parcels are being tigged. Perhaps it is possible for a man to be rich enough to do exactly as he pleases, provided he isn't married. A London medical journal recently published some interesting facts concerning walnuts as foods. According to this authority, "thirty large walnut kernels contain as much food value as two and three-quarters pounds of lean beef." With beef worth approximately 20 cents a pound, this means that each walnut is worth about two cents as a food product as compared with beef. That these facts will greatly encourage the production and consumption of walnuts is hardly to be spend during their training. spend during their training. The Hampton institute is properly regarded as an educational force of exceptional worth. The illustration herewith is a picture of a Hampton student reading the Bible to the old folks. This represents very clearly Hampton's idea of training boys and girls for unselfish service. Instructors, supporters and well-wishers of the institute have been pleased to hear it referred to as "The Hampton spirit." Chicago has a hospital in which young Negro women are successfully taught to become trained nurses. It is he Provident hospital, at Dearborn and 36th streets. Robert McMurdy writes in the Survey: "The hospital is really and distinctly a Negro enterprise. Founded twenty years ago with the purpose of affording colored women the nurse's training, it was then the only institution of its kind in this country, except the government hospital. Freedmen's, at Washington. Through its earlier years it was managed by colored people and even to this time members of both races are on staff and board of trustees. It is supported largely by colored people. Its endowment started from the pathetic bequest of an old colored woman, who, dying, had just $50 to leave after providing for her burial. Her direction was: 'Give it to two charities established for my people, one-half going to Provident hospital.' To this 'widow's mite' have been added generous gifts from friends of all races sympathizing with the aim of Provident and enthusiastic over its splendid record of achievement. It has graduated over 118 nurses and has now in training twenty-five colored women." After a month's visit at this hospital Sophie P. Palmer answered the question of whether these Negrems made efficient nurses. She said: "From the standpoint of order dignity and technical skill the nursing force of this hospital seems to compare more than favorably with hospitals of the same size and class in other cities where the nursing service is composed of white women." "When the Provident students took their training in dietetics at Northwestern university," adds Mr. McMurdy. "their record was in no way inferior to that of the white students! in similar classes of the School of Domestic Arts and Sciences they took the lead. Recently a graduate took a civil service examination in Chicago Falling at the first test she passed later at the head of a class of fifty four. And these nurses not only maintain their average but show in crises the skill, endurance and devotion which is rightfully expected from the nurse, regardless of her color." Women always say their husbands coax them to go away for the summer—and sometimes this is the truth. The city of London, Mo., lays claim to the distinction of having the oldest public school pupil in Missouri, if not in all the United States. "Aunt" Mary Long, a negress, has started out to acquire an education at the age of eighty-three years. With a score of other negroes, most of whom have passed the half century mark, she is learning the "A B C's" in a recently organized night school class. "Aunt" Long is physically spry, mentally alert and the star pupil of the class. Thirty families and 80 guests at the Perry hotel, Woodland avenue and East Twenty-second street, Cleveland, Ohio, were driven into the street when fire damaged a three-story brick building which housed the hotel, the Perry theater, a bank and several stores and family suites. John Caldwell, a negro, who was sleeping in the rear of the building, ran through the structure, arousing the occupants. His brave act, in the face of personal danger, resulted in the saving of many lives. In 30 years British exports have increased 100 per cent, German exports have increased 100 per cent, and United States exports have risen 316 per cent. The world's annual production of gold is now about five times as great as in 1887, when the great fields of South Africa were opened. It is announced that every baby born in Argentina the day of Roosevelt's arrival has been named Theodore. expected. There is some consolation, however, in the thought that when meat has become a luxury to be indulged only by the rich, the general consumer can keep his dinner very well—somewhat like Peter Pumpkinate's wife—in a walnut shell. Time Saving. Dorcas—"Won't your meeting be very late if all the members are going to take part in the debate?" Mrs. Dorcas—"Why, no, dear! We'll all speak at once"—Judge. SALTED NUTS MADE AT HOME Old Favorite for Afternoon and Evening Entertainments Need Not Be Expensive. Salted nuts are always acceptable as a part of the refreshments for afternoon and evening entertainments. and as an adjunct to the simple home dinner as well as to the formal one. They are expensive when they are bought ready, salted, and unless they are bought of a reliable caterer they sometimes taste stale. They can be easily, inexpensively and well made at home. Peanuts are appetizing, and so much less expensive than almonds that it is a wonder they are not more often substituted for almonds. To salt them, buy unroasted peanuts—which can be easily purchased from any street vendor of peanuts. Shell them and remove the inside skins by letting them stand for a minute or so in boiling water, after which the skins may be removed between the thumb and forefinger. Leave them in the hot water only long enough to loosen the skins—not long enough to wilt or cook the nuts. There are several ways of browning the nuts. One way is to put two spoonfuls of olive oil—it must be of good quality—in a pan and roll the nuts in it. Then put them in a brisk oven and leave them there until they are brown. Another way is to put a tablespoonful of oil in the bottom of a chafing dish, turn the heat full on, and drop in enough nuts at a time to cover the bottom of the pan. Keep the nuts moving over the flame until they have turned a delicate brown. Almonds, blanched and shelled, and pecans, carefully cracked but not blanched, can be salted in the same manner as peanuts. When they are brown, turn them in a paper and sprinkle them with salt. Let them cool before taking them from the paper, which absorbs the superfluous oil and makes them pleasanter to handle. KEEPS SPICE BOXES HANDY Shelves That Hang on the Inside of Cupboard Door the Latest Thing in Conveniences. To keep the spice boxes in a handy place where they would be together and not behind the larger articles on the cupboard shelves, I made a spec. Shelf Will Hold All the Spice Boxes and Keep Them Handy. calal spice-box shelf, as shown, to hang on the inside of the cupboard door. The shelf swings out with the door as it opens, and is made of two bracket ends to which a bottom board and front crosspiece is nailed. The size of the shelf and its capacity are only limited by the space on the door. Popular Mechanics. Norwegian Prune Pudding One-half pound prunes, two cups cold water, one cup sugar, one-inch piece stick cinnamon, one-third cup boiling water, one-third cup cornstarch, one tablespoon lemon juice. Pick over and wash prunes, then soak one hour in cold water, and boil until soft; remove stones, obtain meat from stones and add to prunes. Then add sugar, cinnamon, boiling water, and simmer ten minutes. Dilute cornstarch with enough cold water to easily, and add to prune mixture and cook five minutes. Remove cinnamon, mold then chill, and serve with cream. Cream Puffs. One cup boiling water, one-half cup melted butter, boiled together. While boiling strir in one heaping cup of flour. As soon as it cools add four well-beaten eggs. Bake in greased gem pans in moderately hot oven about forty-five minutes. Cream for Filling—One and one-half pints milk heated to a boiling point in double boiler. Add one cup sugar, two tablespoons cornstarch and two eggs beaten together. Cook until it thickens. You might flavor the cream with vanilla or lemon. Stale Bread Left-Overs There is always great waste in bread as well. Stale bread can always be utilized. It may be dried out thoroughly in the oven and then crushed to a powder for breading croquettes or veal chops or cutlets. Or else it may be soaked in milk and used for pudding. It is all these little economics which tend to reduce the cost of living and make the business side of the kitchen a profitable instead of an extravagant part of household management. Uncooked Fondant: Get the very finest .confectioners' sugar, not powdered. Roll and sift carefully to prevent its getting gritty. Molsten with white of egg and the desired flavoring until it is a smooth, pliable mass. This fondant must be used as soon as made as the candies will not keep as long as those made of cooked fondant, but it is very easily handled and is good material for children to work with. Short Blankets. Many people complain about the blankets pulling from the foot of the bed. This trouble can be easily remedied by sewing a strip of outing flannel 18 inches wide across the bottom of the blanket. This you tuck under the mattress, and you have the full length of your blanket. You will find them very comfortable fixed this way. Mashed Potatoes With Onions Mashed Potatoes With Onions. To four or five cups mashed potato add one cup boiled onions minced to a pulp, one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon milk, some salt and pepper. Beat lightly together and before serving brown the top for a moment in the Elaborate and Beautiful Evening Gown THE Oriental influence is distinct enough in this elaborate evening gown, in which one thin fabric after another is draped over the silk foundation. There is first a skirt of silk velled with chiffon. Six narrow ruffles are also veiled with chiffon with a border or tuck of this fabric extending below each ruffle. Over this skirt a tunic of lace is worn, extending almost to the knees. One would think this quite enough in the way of draping, but over this a drapery of gorgeously embroidered chiffon is gathered like a second tunic. By way of further elaboration a wreath of scattered chiffon roses on a fuzzy stem extends from the bust to the hem of the embroidered chiffon, and a small bouquet at its upper end finishes the corsage. The draped shoulder and opening at the neck are finished with a fine lace edging. There is a narrow crushed girdle of chiffon. The natural lines of the figure are followed in this wonderful gown, and the pattern is very similar. NETS AND SHADOW LACES USED FOR THE LATEST BLOUSE NETS AND SHADOW LACES USED FOR THE LATEST BLOUSE THE last step in the direction of thin materials for blouses is said. There isn't anything thinner than nets and shadow laces. An underblouse with sleeve caps, (finished with lace) is made of the same net as that used over it, in the waist model shown here. A broad band of ribbon is tacked to it below the bust and finished with a bow at the left side. The blouse with long sleeves is placed over this. The shoulder seams and under arm seams are in one. A double frill of net encircles the neck and extends down the front with round pearl buttons for fastening The sleeves are finished at the wrist with two single frills. Sometimes two kinds of net are used, but often shadow lace makes the outside waist, over plain net. Heavier all-over laces are used as well. In any of these the waist is so sheer that a fancy corset cover must be worn under the blouse. These are of lace, chiffon, net or thin silk. They are trimmed with ribbon, and small chiffon or ribbon flowers, and are very pretty. Using a plain net waist as a foundation, more beautiful effects are made by draping lace or chiffon vells over them and supplying a wide crushed girdle of silk or velvet. Lace vells in colors are used for the same purpose, and tinted nets and laces make possible an unending variety in these thin, soft garments. Three such blouses take up so little the room that they may be carried in a small box or a bag. They are very convenient for the southern tourist and they are indispensable with the season's suits. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. we must concede to the French designer a masterful handling of the drapery. It is modest, but is meant to be conspicuous. It is original and sticks to beautiful lines, so that there is no straining after novel effect at the expense of taste. The headaddress is in keeping with the character of the gown. It is made of rhinestones and a magnificent spray of costly feathers. The hair is peculiarly dressed but suits the type of face of the model in the illustration, which is pure French. Altogether the gown, coiffure, and hair ornament suit this type incomparably well, so that the ensemble is full of fascination. One could hardly be other than charming with a toilette so complete and so beautiful. And it is the knowledge that she is making a charming appearance which lends charm to those wonderful French women, to whom the world owes a debt of gratitude. They are preserving charm; they take care to be charming. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. SEASON'S COLOR IS YELLOW Skillfully Handled, as It Must Be, It Is Becoming to the Average Wearer. Yellow is much seen in these days. Last spring yellow was first extensively used in lingerie. Ribbons of yellow were run into all sorts of underwear and negligees. Then yellow and crepe de chiffon were used for the making of rest robes and petticoats and chemises and night gowns. Yellow waists of chiffon and crepe de chine were next worn. And then evening frocks and afternoon frocks of yellow appeared. There are even some yellow tweed street suits. Yellow is usually a becoming color, if it is skillfully handled. But there are not many skins that are improved by coming into direct contact with yellow. This fact is now understood by most dressmakers. In almost all the gowns and blouses of yellow there is a generous use of cream of white tulle at the throat. There is usually a touch of black somewhere on these yellow garments. A little black velvet at the wrist or elbow or belt, or a knot of black in the drapery of the skirt, gives character to the color that might otherwise seem monotonous. Two Kinds of Wrinkles Can you tell the difference between wrinkles produced by smiling and those produced by discontent? And which would you rather have? Perhaps you say "Neither." But the wrinkles from happiness only come after a couple of scores of years of smiling, while those which spring from worry may grow over night. Another argument for the smile wrinkle is that when it comes it is really attractive, curving up and giving the face even in repose a happy expression. On the other hand, the lines born of discontent make the expression unhappy. There are few smiling faces in any big city. There is an anxious, hurried look on every face you pass on the street. Is it any wonder young women grow wrinkled before their time and are forced to spend hours in the hands of a massuee, so that they may frown as much as they like at other times? Hooped Coats. The hooped coats are very smart. They are made of velvet, broche satin, velours de laine, fine faced cloth and many other materials, says the New York Press. The genuine leg of mutton sleeve is seen, and, as a rule, these coats are generously trimmed with fur. To Heal Chapped Skins. Skins that have been chapped and made rough by exposure can be relieved by applying with a bit of old linen a lotion consisting of one ounce of rose water, half an ounce of glycerin, half a teaspoonful of borax and three drops of benzoln. THE SMALL LOCKET By GEORGE ELMER COBB. "Which does Mae like best?" "Two evenings in the week, Rufus Dodge. Saturday evening and Sunday, Worth Bartley." "And the rest of the time?" "Well, I think young Bartley is the favorite. He should be—a fine, manly fellow, ambitious, earnest and handsome. Not that Dodge is in any way bad. Some time ago, however, he won a prize in a foreign lottery." "How much?" "One thousand dollars. He has salted it away in bank, all right, but he boasts of it constantly. Brags of his luck and, mark me, with the speculative fever latent in his veins, will some day lose it just as easily as he got it." Thus two members of the social circle in which pretty Mae Winston was the belle and Bartley and Dodge worthy and popular members. They were a theme of a good many discussions, but all that was completely overshadowed the day succeeding to that upon which the foregoing conversation took place. 'Tie parties to the same met again. "What do you think of the latest?" "The diamond robbery up at the Beeches?" "Yes. They say the burglarls got a box of jewels worth $20,000." "Whew! That's some value." "Here's a printed description! and reward offered—$5,000 for the recovery of the gems—double that for the additional conviction of the thieves." "It almost tempts a fellow to play the detective." The great jewel robbery was the biggest sensation that Fairmont had ever known. A great many wealthy people lived near the pretty lake adjoining the town, and the robbers had sought a grand field for operations. They seemed to have vanished completely, however, leaving no clew to blind them. Then two evenings later a new excitement set the village all agog. Bartley had been found wounded and insensible in a waste piece of ground about a mile from the village. It was Saturday night, and Worth apparently, had been on his way from the neighboring town where he worked, bent on his regular visit to A MAN AND A WOMAN IN A TREE Began Looking About the Spot. the Winston family, when attacked. He had been struck on the head with some heavy, blunt instrument. The motive of the assault was a mystery, for although his clothing had been ransacked and torn, his money and jewelry were intact. For twenty-four hours Worth lay insensible at the home of a relative, whither he had been removed. Then a fever set in, and for over a week he was delirious or too weak to talk. Mae visited him several times and sent him flowers and delicacies. Meantime, Rufus had come into a new experience. He called at the Winston hor. e one day and sought a private interview. "I've got something very confidential to tell you, Mr. Winston," he said. The wise old farmer looked interested. He was a shrewd man and selfish, and he knew that some day he would be asked to act as a father-in-law to Worth or Rufus. "I've got a chance to make $4,000," went on Rufus, rather excited. "That would give me enough to marry on. Don't you think so?" "It's a pretty fine plum for a start," encouraged Winston. "I've got a chance to get the stolen diamonds." "Hey!" stared the farmer. "Yes. Now this is a secret. You see, it's only at a stage of negotiations, so far. A stranger came to me, one of the thieves, I am sure. He warned me to act with caution. He said that the stolen jewels had been so widely advertised by description that the thieves were afraid to offer them for sale. He has agreed to turn them over to me and have me verify them through the printed description for $1,000. I think it's a good speculation, don't you?" "It's hobbobbling with thieves," suggested the wily farmer. "Yes, but the owners will get back their property—no other way. And then, you see, there's $4,000 in it for me. I suppose you'd consider me favorably as a sutor for Mae's hand with all that money?" "Ha-hum! I'll think about it," replied Winston, conservatively. Rufus drew his thousand dollars out of bank. He was to meet the supposed thief four days later. Worth was up and about. The brightest spot in his experience was the knowledge that Mae had shown great anxiety and interest concerning him during his illness. When he came to put on his clothes Worth discovered his possessions all right except in one particular—a smallocket that had been attached to his watch chain, was missing. It had contained a picture of Mae. That was enough to him to give it an inestimable value. The haze began to clear away in his mind. Dimly, at first, then more strongly memory began to develop the chain of circumstances, obscured until now since he was struck down. He was not yet streng, but he went out into the warm sunshine, walking slowly, bent on reaching the spot where he had been assaulted. Half the distance progressed, his face brightened and his pulses stirred deeply as he saw coming towards him the woman he loved. Mae was overjoyed to see him convalescing, and told him so. She was sollicitous as to his over-exerting himself; learned that he was bent on some specific mission, and insisted on acting as guard and helper. For the first time she learned from his lips the story of his recent mishap. It seemed that while nearing the spot they had now reached he had seen a light among some bushes. As Worth investigated, he observed a man take from the hollow of a dead tree a box. He opened it with a chuckle. Evidently it had been hidden there some time before. The moment Worth caught a dazzling glitter he guessed that they must be the stolen diamonds. "I don't know what possessed me," he told his fair companion, "but some impulse made me seize the box. I ran. There were wild shouts, and the first man and two others just arrived, probably to share the hidden plunder, pursued me. Just about this rugged spot I stumbled and fell. The box flew far from my hands. The men came up, dealt me a stunning blow and—this is the spot where it all occurred." "They probably regained the box and fied," theorized Mae. "Probably that," rejoined Worth, but he began looking about the spot and poking in the grass with his cane. Mae asked him what he was looking for. She flushed quickly when he told her that it was for the locket wrenched from his watch chain in his fall, which contained her picture. Mae aided him in his search, silent and impressed. A sudden cry from Worth brought her to his side. Groping beside a big boulder, his hand had brushed back a dense growth of grass and had touched—the box of jewels, where it had rolled the night of his adventure! Together they proceeded to the office of the lawyer who had advertised the reward. It was to face a vast surprise. There, dismayed, speechless, stood Rufus. He had just brought in the jewels he had purchased from a scheming thief. "Paste," said the lawyer—"a fair counterfeit, even to the infials. You have been cleverly swindled, my friend." "If I could only find that lost locket!" said Worth, as, the reward surely his, they left the lawyer's office. "You value it so much?" murmured Mae, wistfully. He caught the expression of her face, then her hand. And Mae did not take it away until he had told his love. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) QUALITIES OF THE ATHLETE Natural Training That Has Done So Much for the Indian Will Do You Glenn Warner, the coach of the Chelsea Indian school athletes, says that the great success of the young Indians in football and other sports is largely due to the fact that all the Indian pupils have led an out-of-door and active life before they came to the school. This is true, but it does not wholly account for the very large proportion of successful athletes among the small number of Indian students in this country. Another and important factor is the Indian psychology, which has for ages been implanting in the males of the race precisely the qualities which make them good competitors in sports. The Indian "brave" did not work. He played, as we should say; he hunted, chased game on foot, fought his enemies almost constantly in swift expeditions on foot or in canoes, ran races, swam races, danced; and in all this he accustomed himself to the endurance of hunger and thirst, of the severest physical tests and of unfinching persistence in the attempt to overcome something or somebody. Something of the early Indian spirit is needed in the development of a proper athletic spirit among our boys. The Boy Scout movement, the passion for camping and woodcraft, the canoe, the swimming pool, will make American youths of the future the greatest athletes the world has ever seen—New York Mall. Useful Tree. The most marvelous tree in the world is the Carnahua palm, which grows in Brazil. Its roots produce the same medicinal effect as sarsaparilla. From parts of the tree wine and vinegar are made. Its fruit is used for feeding cattle. Of the straw, hats, baskets, brooms and mats are made. It is also used for thatching houses. The pulp has an agreeable taste, and the nut is sometimes used as a substitute for coffee. Its stems afford strong, light fibers and serve also for joists, rafters and other building materials. It yields a saccharine substance, as well as a starch resembling sago. Of the wood of the stem musical instruments, water tubes and pumps are made. From the stem a white liquid similar to the milk of the coconut, may be extracted. Moreover, salt is extracted from the tree, and likewise an alkali used in the manufacture of common soap. Youngest Church Organist. Organist Henry Alban Chambers, just appointed organist of the Roman Catholic church of St. Ann's, feeds England, is probably the youngest church organist in the world. He is eleven years old, and at eight some of his compositions were published. His powers of transposing and improvising are described as remarkable. The late organist at St. Ann's, Mr. Grimshaw, described him as "the young Mozart." _____ When Sarah Scored. Mistress—"Sarah, I heard that policemen here again last night. Remember, I don't allow this sort of thing, and I will not have it!" Sarah—"Well, then, ma'am, you mustn't let the dog out without his collar on!" AT THE HEMISPHERE'S END THE MOUNTAIN F you crave the unusual it may be encountered in South America as in few other lands. But before visiting that part of the world make sure you are well supplied with money and in a mood to put up with more or less discomfort and inconvenience; for the exceptional will be your portion in this line as well as in others," says Frederic S. Isham, author and globe trotter, in the Detroit Free Press. "South America is a land of magnificent distances, also of surprises, some of which are not exactly welcome, although on the whole it is a very interesting part of the world," said Mr. Isham, recounting some of the experiences that befell them on the trip. "You are constantly running on to the unexpected, so that there is no danger of being wearied by lack of variety. "We met one man who has the most trying position of which I know. He's an American—a big, broad shouldered, athletic chap, with the polish of a university man and the breezy open-hearted manner of a true westerner. "He is an engineer, and it is his duty to see that the Chilean division of the Trans-Andean railroad is kept free from land and snow slides. "That doesn't sound so bad, does it, because you can have no conception of what it means unless you have seen the country. The Trans-Andean railroad is a third-rail system in the strictest sense of the word. That third rail is located between the narrow gauge strips of steel on which the cars travel, and is a cogged affair into which teeth on the driving wheels of the locomotive slip, giving sufficient grip to pull the heavy trains up the almost perpendicular course. "On the Chilean side of the Andes it is a case of climbing almost every foot of the way, and at times it seems as though the locomotive must fall backward on the cars that follow. "This chap lives in a little stone house close by Inca lake, in the Andes, 12,000 feet above sea level. He has a gang of natives under him, and at certain seasons of the year they are kept on the jump battles with snow slides, which bury the tracks so deep that it requires days of the hardest kind of work to clear them. "Then the mountains have a playful habit of casting off a good big slice of rock and dirt, which comes tumbling down across the tracks and puts an end to travel until it has been removed. "Sometimes these pranks result seriously, and there's many a lonely grave along the right of way to indicate the last resting place of some poor section man who was buried beneath a slide. Last winter a few square acres of snow and rock and ice came crashing down on a crew that were endeavoring to clear the tracks. Part of them escaped untouched and immediately began digging out their fellow workers. At the end of 26 hours they came upon a sorry figure—a battered section man who had borne the full brunt of the slide. "And what do you think he did when they pulled him out, more dead than alive? Berenated them for leaving him buried so long. "You're a fine lot, he stormed, 'why, you left me in there two hours. It wasn't your fault that I didn't die.' "And the hands on the clock had started on their round trip since the slide went over him! "The place this engineer calls home is one of the most Godforsaken spots I ever saw. They try to keep the road open the year round, but there are three of four months every winter when trains are few and far between, and the district is virtually cut off from the outside world. "South America is a land of magnificent distances, also of surprises, some of which are not exactly welcome, although on the whole it is a very interesting part of the world," said Mr. Isham, recounting some of the experiences that befell them on the trip. "You are constantly running on to the unexpected, so that there is no danger of being weighed by lack of variety. dirt, which has and puts invaded.iously, and right of way some poor slide. Last rock and that were enclosed of them esegn digging of 26 hours red section the slide. when they? Erated you, you left fault that started on went over round, but enter when the district world. impressive—pular Amer- and getting one of the Service on us. compartment. It was my life compartment they are not would se, a journey conditions. as of a paraphyton they rubber remem- are affeet fresh liking for a any other entry to enable repre- comfort prospect. fortune to was on his lure luck asiment. Forlish. can't get a "Buenos Aires is an interesting seaport, with a wonderful waterfront and dock system. However, it is in some respects one of the deadest places imaginable. "No respectable woman of the country is to be found in the innumerable cafes of an evening, for the reason that she would not be safe from insult. The only place of amusement where the young women of the city can go is the opera house, and this has only a brief season. "As an example of up-to-date construction and equipment the railroad which runs from Santa to São Paulo, in Brazil, commands attention. It is doubtful if there is anything more complete anywhere on earth. The road is only 25 miles long, but so far as I could discover the only thing they overlooked in their endeavors to outstrip all others was to gild the telegraph poles and to use gold wires. "The road impressed me so that I made some inquiries, and discovered the reason for this lavish expenditure. It seems that one of the terms under which the concession was granted that all profits above 8 per cent. were to go to the government. CO-OPERATION In common with many of the prophets of Bible times, Abilah, the man who placed Jereboam over the ten tribes of Israel, was a rural man, W. A. Lippincott writes in the Kansas Industrialist, Ellijah, who outwitted the brilliant and scheming Queen Jezebel, went about preaching in his sheepherd's mantel and carrying the shepherd's staff, as though proud of his country origin. Of Ellijah, his successor, we are told that at the time when Ellijah offered him a job as his helper he was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen. The fact that this is recorded we would interpret to mean that he was considered a skilful teamster. When Saul first comes to our attention in the Old Testament, he was out on the range looking for his father's asses that had broken away from the picket or escaped the wrangler. Later we find him coming after the herd out of the field. David was a red headed farm boy called from his keeping the sheep to have Judge Samuel pass complements upon him to his father and point out the great possibilities he saw in the boy. The problems which confronted the people of the Old Testament and the questions involved in current legislation have just as modern a ring as has the eminent and great. One of the problems which they had solved and which we have not was that of co-operation among farmers. Another was the question of concentration in the owner-ship of land with its attendant evil, the absentee landlord. "Crossing the crest of the Andes and getting down to the Argentine plains you strike one of the widest gauge railroads in the world." Service on the line is not so bad—in some respects. "They have single and double compartment cars for male and female passengers. It was my ill fortune to draw a seat in a double compartment with three Spaniards. Now, they are not exactly the traveling companions you would select for a 24-hour ride across the plains, a journey that is trying under the most favorable conditions. "They are passionately fond of onions of a particularly rank variety. Without exception they smoke cigarettes that make burning rubber reminiscent of attar of roses. Most of them are affected with bronchial trouble. They detest fresh air. Also they never have acquired a liking for a cold plunge before breakfast—or a bath any other time, for that matter. When I was ready to enter the train three of the most disreputable representatives of their species were settled comfortably in the compartment. Delightful prospect. "Just about that time I had the good fortune to run into an American engineer who was on his way to Buenos Aires. He had the same luck as I—three of the unwashed in his compartment. Fortunately he was able to talk some Spanish. "Let's bribe the guard and see if we can't get a compartment to ourselves," I suggested. "No sooner said than tried. Presently my new-found friend came back. We had with our train a virtuous guard. Offered five dollars to effect the desired change, he spurned the tender with a fine display of indignation. He could not be hired—for such a paltry sum. But for ten dollars he would throw the dirty rascals out, bag and bagage. "Gladly I contributed the other half of the bribe. Soon baggage began to fly out on the platform, followed by a jabbering trio, who made the Argentine air blue with picturesque profanity as they protested against this summary ejection. "They produced tickets to show they were entitled to seats in this particular compartment. The guard, in his most imperious manner, informed them that he cared not what their tickets called for. Did not he have the official chart of Color Blind Never under with a not be hired farm houses where single families lived alone. As a general thing, a number of more or less related families united in forming a rural village. These were not cities in any sense, nor even small towns, but little hamlets set in the midst of the fields and hills. The country districts were dotted with these tiny villages, and we find constant reference to them throughout the Old and New Testaments. Every morning the men went out to the fields to work and at night they came back to the village for shelter. The reason for this gathering into villages was that the farmers were under the necessity of cooperating against the attacks of enemies from the Color Blind Never Haunted Dr. Lummer explains the phenomenon in this way: "The normal eye has an arrangement of tiny rods and cones in the retina. The rods perceive light and the cones color. When a person with a normal eye tries to see in a half dark place the cones, which are useless, interfere with the effective action of the rods, and the confusion creates --- --- WHERE AN AMERICAN ENGINEER LAYS If you crave the unusual encountered in South A in few other lands. In visiting that part of the w sure you are well sup money and in a mood with, more or less disco inconvenience; for the e will be your portion in as well as in others," say J. Johan, author and el "We met one man who has the most trying position of which I know. He's an American—a big, broad shoulder, athletic chap, with the polish of a university man and the breezy open-hearted manner of a true westerner. "He is an engineer, and it is his duty to see that the Chilean division of the Trans-Andean railroad is kept free from land and snow slides. "That doesn't sound so bad, does it, because you can have no conception of what it means unless you have seen the country. The Trans-Andean railroad is a third-rail system in the strictest sense of the word. That third rail is located between the narrow gauge strips of steel on which the cars travel, and is a cogged affair into which teeth on the driving wheels of the locomotive slip, giving sufficient grip to pull the heavy trains up the almost perpendicular course. "On the Chilean side of the Andes it is a case of climbing almost every foot of the way, and at times it seems as though the locomotive must fall backward on the cars that follow." "This chap lives in a little stone house close by Inca lake, in the Andes, 12,000 feet above sea level. He has a gang of natives under him, and at certain seasons of the year they are kept on the jump battling with snow slides, which bury the tracks so deep that it requires days of the hardest kind of work to clear them: "Then the mountains have a playful habit of casting off a good big slice of rock and dirt, which comes tumbling down across the tracks and puts an end to travel until it has been removed. "Sometimes these pranks result seriously, and there's many a lonely grave along the right way to indicate the last resting place of some poor section man who was buried beneath a slide. Last winter a few square acres of rock and ice came crashing down on a crew that were endeavoring to clear the tracks. Part of them es- untouched and immediately began digging out their fellow workers. At the end of 26 hours they came upon a sorry figure—a battered section man who had borne the full brunt of the slide. "And what do you think he did when they pulled him out, more dead than alive? Berated them for leaving him buried so long. "You're a fine lot," he stormed, 'why, you left me in there two hours. It wasn't your fault that I didn't die.' "And the hands on the clock had started on their third round trip since the slide went over him! "The place this engineer calls home is one of the most Godforsaken spots I ever saw. They try to keep the road open the year round, but there are three of four months every winter when trains are few and far between, and the district is virtually cut off from the outside world. "The scenery along the route is impressive—but somehow I didn't envy this particular American his job. "Crossing the crest of the Andes and getting down to the Argentine plains you strike one of the widest gauge railroads in the world." Service on the line is not so bad—in some respects. "They have single and double compartment cars for male and female passengers. It was my ill fortune to draw a seat in a double compartment with three Spanials. Now, they are not exactly the traveling companions you would select for a 24-hour ride across the plains, a journey that is trying under the most favorable conditions. "They are passionately fond of onions of a particularly rank variety. Without exception they smoke cigarettes that make burning rubber reminiscent of attar of roses. Most of them are affected with bronchial trouble. They detest fresh air. Also they never have acquired a liking for a cold plunge before breakfast—or a bath any other time, for that matter. When I was ready to enter the train three of the most disreputable representatives of their species were settled comfortably in the compartment. Delightful prospect. "Just about that time I had the good fortune to run into an American engineer who was on his way to Buenos Aires. He had the same luck as I—three of the unwashed in his compartment. Fortunately he was able to talk some Spanish. "Let's bribe the guard and see if we can't get a compartment to ourselves," I suggested. "No sooner said than tried. Presently my new-found friend came back. We had with our train a virtuous guard. Offered five dollars to effect the desired change, he spurned the tender with a fine display of indignation. He could not be hired—for such a paltry sum. But for ten dollars he would throw the dirty rascals out, bag and bagage. "Gladly I contributed the other half of the bribe. Soon baggage began to fly out on the platform, followed by a jabbering trio, who made the Argentine air blue with picturesque profanity as they protested against this summary ejection. "They produced tickets to show they were entitled to seats in this particular compartment. The guard, in his most imperious manner, informed them that he cared not what their tickets called for. Did not he have the official chart of Are you afraid of the dark? There isn't a chance of you seeing a ghost if you are color blind, which may furnish you a ray of comfort for the beauties of landscape and floral decorations you may have missed during your lifetime. Dr. August Lummer, head of the physical Institute of the University of Breslau, in Germany, is authority for this. LA PRENSAR BUILDING BUENOS AIRES found it expedient to sit under an umbrella. The dining car had a couple of inches of water on the floor and we found it necessary to wear rubbers when going in to our meals. Interesting seaport, with dock system. How-pects one of the deadest of the country is to be the cakes of an evening, for could not be safe from in-fund of amusement where the city can go is the opera a brief season. To-date construction and which runs from Santos to commands attention. It is thing more complete anyand is only 25 miles long, cover the only thing they savors to outstrip all othraph poles and to use gold time so that I made some the reason for this lavations that one of the termsation was granted that付nt were to go to the gov-ron of the prophets of Bible who placed Jereboam over a was a rural man, W. A. the Kansas Industrialist. the brilliant and scheming out preaching in his shep-ing the shepherd's staff. country origin. Of Elisha, old that at the time when job as his helper he was oxen. The fact that this interpret to mean that he held teamster. is to our attention in the out on the range looking hat had broken away from the wrangler. Later we find out of the field. David boy called from his keep-udge Samuel pass compli-fler and point out the row in the boy. confronted the people of the questions involved in just as modern a ring as beat. One of the problems and which we have not among farmers. Another concentration in the owner-dendant evil, the absentee desert and operated early color stockade-of the time are co-op reason-b. It's a cait in it is not the con- military; just as rea. And the tion deep will come be gather: Germany sure of broad pro- The souls the lower numerous years. The no more, the state flowery da Fortune. "Buenos Aires is an interesting seaport, with a wonderful waterfront and dock system. However, it is in some respects one of the deadest places imaginable. "No respectable woman of the country is to be found in the innumerable cates of an evening, for the reason that she would not be safe from insult. The only place of amusement where the young women of the city can go is the opera house, and this has only a brief season. "As an example of up-to-date construction and equipment the railroad which runs from Santos to Sao Paulo, in Brazil, commands attention. It is doubtful if there is anything more complete anywhere on earth. The road is only 25 miles long, but so far as I could discover the only thing they overlooked in their endeavors to outstrip all others was to gold the telegraph poles and to use gold wires. "The road impressed me so that I made some inquiries, and discovered the reason for this lavish expenditure. It seems that one of the terms under which the concession was granted was that all profits above 8 per cent were to go to the government. CO-OPERATION IN BIBLE TIMES In common with many of the prophets of Bible times, Ahlish, the man who placed Jebroam over the ten tribes of Israel, was a rural man, W. A. Lippincott writes in the Kansas Industrialist, Ellijah, who outwitted the brilliant and scheming Queen Jezebel, went about preaching in his shepherd's mantel and carrying the shepherd's staff, as though proud of his country origin. Of Ellish, his successor, we are told that at the time when Ellish offered him a job as his helper he was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen. The fact that this is recorded we would interpret to mean that he was considered a skillful teamster. When Saul first comes to our attention in the Old Testament, he was out on the range looking for his father's asses that had broken away from the picket or escaped the wrangler. Later we find him coming after the herd out of the field. David was a red headed farm boy called from his keeping the sheep to have Judge Samuel pass compliments upon him to his father and point out the great possibilities he saw in the boy. The problems which confronted the people of the Old Testament and the questions involved in current legislation have just as modern a ring as has the eminent and great. One of the problems which they had solved and which we have not was that of co-operation among farmers. Another was the question of concentration in the ownership of land with its attendant evil, the absentee landlord. You will not find the subject of co-operation discussed as such in the Old Testament, perhaps, but you will find it put in practice. died, there were no isolated families lived alone. As ever of more or less related to a rural village. These house, nor even small towns, the midst of the fields and districts were dotted with we find constant reference Old and New Testaments. In went out to the fields to come back to the village gathering into villages was under the necessity of coacks of enemies from the find condition Here the days, is men may which the people of great graat where spit in the at the spit whirring was in on graphed C from her at sea.—C So far as can be learned, there were no isolated farm houses where single families lived alone. As a general thing, a number of more or less related families united in forming a rural village. These were not cities in any sense, nor even small towns, but little hamlets set in the midst of the fields and hills. The country districts were dotted with these tiny villages, and we find constant reference to them throughout the Old and New Testaments. Every morning the men went out to the fields to work and at night they came back to the village for shelter. The reason for this gathering into villages was that the farmers were under the necessity of co-operating against the attacks of enemies from the Haunted er explains the phenom- ay: real eye has an arrange- the effect of apparitions that come and go and change their shapes. The color blind person lacks the cones and his rods act with extraordinary outline of things as long as there is the least amount of light present. That means that he never sees ghosts." Preserved Memory of Friend. Ten years ago Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. met his death by starvation while exploring that bleakest of lands, Labrador. His comrade on the trip, Dillon Wallace, who survived, recently PALM TREES BOUNDARY GARDENS BY FROZZ GARVINIRO the train? And did it not show that this particular compartment belonged to the two distinguished American travelers? Out with such dogs as they. And out they went. "I never learned what be- came of them. The next morning when we left the train at Buenos Aires three ugly looking Spaniards glared at us as they trudged by with their baggage—but we cared not. All the way across the plains we had a compartment to ourselves, a double portion of bedding and every attention that the guard could bestow up on us. "Even then there was sufficient discomfort. The rain came down in torrents throughout the entire trip. The roofs to the coaches leaked like a sieve, and some of the passengers who were fortunate enough to possess such an article LAGUNDA DEL INCA, ANDES The on the robbers with How-adeast to be in the opera and to tos to it is any long, they "So far as I could appreciate decrease in the government's share vast sums of money—stipulated $ per cent. price. "Evidently spending not fall into the hands strenuous job and call There are gutters along off the water. These tions of stone, laid wifi feature alone, wholly a vast amount. And same extravagant scale. "To crowd more thir time than you would only necessary to hire Here dare devilism find the way the drivers of "So far as I could discover there had been no appreciable decrease in the national debt from the government's share of the profits. It makes vast sums of money—but everything above the stipulated 8 per cent. goes back into the enterprise. "Evidently spending these earning so they will not fall into the hands of the government is a strenuous job and calls for no little ingenuity. There are gutters alongside the tracks to carry off the water. These are paved with small sections of stone, laid with mosaic precision. This feature alone wholly unnecessary, must have cost a vast amount. And everything else is on the same extravagant scale. "To crowd more thrills into a given length of time than you would have thought possible it is only necessary to hire a taxicab in Rio Janeiro. Here dare devilism finds its highest expression in the way drivers of motor cars tear around. "So far as I could discover there had been no appreciable decrease in the national debt from the government's share of the profits. It makes vast sums of money—but everything above the stipulated $ per cent. goes back into the enterprise. "Evidently spending these earning so they will not fall into the hands of the government is a strenuous job and calls for no little ingenuity. There are gutters alongside the tracks to carry off the water. These are paved with small sections of stone, laid with mosaic precision. This feature along wholly unnecessary, must have cost a vast amount. And everything else is on the same extravagant scale. "To crowd more thrills into a given length of time than you would have thought possible it is only necessary to hire a taxicab in Rio Janeiro. Here dare devilism finds its highest expression in the way the drivers of motor cars tear around. The drivers have a union of their own and they dictate things to suit themselves. Whenever one of them hits a pedestrian he throws on more power and races off, never waiting to see whether or not he killed his victim. And they hit them with frightful frequency. Every day the newspapers publish a brief summary of accidents of this nature, and I should say the average was around 20." IN BIBLE TIMES desert and the surrounding countries. They co-operated just as the sturdy pioneers of our own early colonial days co-operated in the use of the stockade—because they had to. And the trend of the times seems to be that the farmers of today are co-operating more and more for the same reason—because they find they have to. It's a case of self-preservation now as much as it was in Eible or early colonial times. The enemy is not the same, save in the characteristic of being a common enemy. Then the necessity was military; now it is economic and social, but it is just as real. And there are those who have studied this question deeply, who feel very certain that the time will come when the American farmers will again be gathered into farm villages, as the farmers of Germany have already gathered, under the pressure of economic necessity and as a part of a broad program of co-operation. people of lived in living as problems he not another owner-tenantee oration harps, collected As. As collected These towns, is and with presence elements. kids to village is was of co-own the The south for years w the lover of the picture numerous and rapid haw years. The old negro to no more. The log cab the stately plantation flowery days of "befoe" Fortunately for those we lived where there is soil, the French secti Here along the lower S find conditions exactly A Here the "one-hoss shi days, is making its last en may be seen cutin which there is no people of the hamlets a great grandparents. P where spinning is still sat in these simple ho at the spinning wheel whirring sound that is was in one of these c graphed Grand mere T from her cabin across t at sea.—Christian Hera The south for years was rich hunting ground for the lover of the picturesque, but changes both numerous and rapid have occurred there in recent years. The old negro types of the cotton fields are no more. The log cabins, the pine groves, even the stately plantation mansions, recalling the flowery days of "befe" dew wah," are passing away. Fortunately for those who enjoy seeing life as it is lived where there is a real attachment to the soil, the French section of Canada is left us. Here along the lower St. Lawrence river one may find conditions exactly as they were a century ago. Here the "one-hoss shay," the pride of colonial days, is making its last stand. In the fields women may be seen cutting grain with sickles than which there is no implement more primitive. The people of the hamlets live and work as did their great grandparents. Picture to yourself a place where spinning is still an everyday task! I have sat in these simple homes, watching deft fingers at the spinning wheels and listening to their whirring sound that is like the hum or bees. It was in one of these old interiors that I photographed Gland'mere Trudeau. She sits looking from her cabin across the river, thinking of a son at sea—Christian Herald. The south for years was rich hunting ground for the lover of the picturesque, but changes both numerous and rapid have occurred in recent years. The old negro types of the cotton fields are no more. The log cabins, the pine groves, even the stately plantation mansions, recalling the flowery days of "befo" de wah, are passing away. Fortunately for those who enjoy seeing life as it is lived where there is a real attachment to the soil, the French section of Canada is left us. Here along the lower St. Lawrence river one may find conditions exactly as they were a century ago. Here the "one-hose shay," the pride of colonial days, is making its last stand. In the fields women may be seen cutting grain with sickles than which there is no implement more primitive. The people of the hamlets live and work as did their great grandparents. Picture to yourself a place where spinning is still an everyday task! I have sat in these simple homes, watching def fingers at the spinning wheels and listening to their whirring sound that is like the hum or bees. It was in one of these old interiors that I photographed Guand'mere Trudeau. She sits looking from her cabin across the river, thinking of a son at sea—Christian Herald. --- --- HERE'S THE SIMPLE LIFE. went again to Labrador with a tablet as a memorial to his friend. In trying to reach the place where Hubbard died, his canoe upset and the tablet was lost. Wallace, however, persevered and finally carved this inscription on a bowder: "Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., intrepid explorer and practical Christian, died here October 18, 1903. John xiv, fourth verse." University of Today. The true university of these days is a collection of books—Carville. FOR THE HOUSE IN WINTER Those Who Prefer Blooms to Foliage Should Cultivate the Primula Obconica. The window-gardener who wishes blooms rather than foliage during the winter, should grow Primula Obconica. This plant when well established in a seven-inch pot, will have dozens of stalks or clusters of blooms about the size of a nickel, and they last a long time. The plant begins to bloom when very small and blooms all winter. The colors vary through the many shades of pink, lilac, and peach-blossom to almost white, and with its lemon-yellow eye sets off the very delicate beauty of the flower. It is a hardy, self-reliant plant, well able to hold its own, and is seldom troubled with insects or disease. If the apis appears, spray with tobacco-infusion throughout the foliage. This plant may be raised from seed, or a large plant may be divided, allowing a crown to each plant. See that its soil is light, and rich, and friable, and the drainage perfect. This plant cannot stand wet, sour soil, or to have water poured into its crown. If care is not taken in this regard, the flowers will blast and the plant die. Twice or three times a month apply some good liquid fertilizer while the plant blooms. Remove the fading flowers and do not allow the plant to mature seeds. HANGER FOR WASH BASIN. If there's a wash basin in your kitchen the chances are you are compelled to look for it every time you want to use it. That is the way it usually is! Why not fix things so that the basin is kept right alongside the sink? Get a length of heavy wire—ordl- Holds Basin in Place. nary bale wire will do—and bend it in the shape shown in the drawing. The basin rests in that hook all the time. Boston Brown Bread. Mix and sift together one cup of rye meal, one cup of granulated cornmeal, three-fourths teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, one cup of graham flour; add three-fourths cup of molasses and two cups of sour milk and stir until well mixed, turn into a well buttered mold and steam three and one-half hours. The mold should not be more than three-fourths full, the cover should be buttered on the inside and then tied down with string. For steaming place mold on a trivet in kettle containing boiling water up around mold, cover closely and steam, adding as needed more boiling water. A melon mold or one-pound baking powder box makes the most attractive loaves, but a five-pound lard pail answers the purpose. Fried Eggs With Apples Pare and core three medium sweet apples, then cut in six slices, season all over with one-half teaspoon salt and two saltspoons pepper. Thoroughly heat one and a half tablespoons melted butter in a large frying pan, add apples, one beside another, and fry for two minutes on each side. Carefully crack 12 fresh eggs over apples, season evenly with one-half teaspoon salt and two saltspoons pepper, fry for a minute on range; place in oven for six minutes, remove, carefully glide on a hot dish and serve. Llma Beans With Fine Herbs. Boil one pint of shelled lima beans in one quart of boiling water with one teaspoonful salt 25 minutes. Drain on steve, then place in a saucepan with one ounce good butter. Season with one-half teaspoonful salt and two saltspoonfuls pepper. Finely chop together two branches parsley, one branch chervil, ten branches chives and six tarragon leaves. Add this mixture to beans, tosse well in pan and cook five minutes, frequently tossing meanwhile. Serve in vegetable dish. Old-Fashioned Corn Bread Sift together one cup of yellow cornmeal, one cup of white flour, four teaspoons sugar or two of molasses, four teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt. Add one cup of sweet milk to one well-beaten egg; stir this into mixture, then add one tablespoon of melted butter or fat and turn into a well greased and heated pan; bake in a hot oven. Apple Slump. This is cooked on top of the stove: Pare one-half dozen apples, put in kettle that can be covered tightly to keep in steam, pour over them one cup boiling water, a little sugar, whatever spice you like. This makes a light dough such as you make for dumplings. Spread over top, cover tightly and steam three-fourths of an hour; eaten hot with butter or sauce. Currant Bun Pudding Four current buns, gotten at bakery, jam, white of one egg, two ounces of sugar. Line a pie dish with the buns previously soaked in milk; put between them a layer of jam and bake one-half hour. Whip the white of the egg up with the sugar and place on top when done. Stuffed Potatoes Select fine smooth potatoes; cut off the end of each and scrape out the inside. Mix this with chopped ham, onion and parley, and a tablespoon of butter. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Fill the potato with the mixture; let take in moderate oven until tender; serve hot. RED SEA to MOUNTSINAI Copyright, Underwood & Underwood. MT SINAI VISIT the Holy Land is a risk that many people prefer not to run; they would rather keep the picture of Jerusalem in their minds than witness the degradation of an ideal Jerusalem where humbug preys upon credulity at so many shillings per "holy site." Indeed, the faith and ignorance of a Russian pilgrim seems necessary if one would retain unspoilt the childhood's glamour of many scenes of scriptural association. In spite of drawbacks, however, the ever-increasing facilities of travel draw thousands and thousands to Palestine, a vast of whom return with a faith stimulated and imagination strangely vivified. For the danger of disillusion is confined more or less to the cities, whose vulgar modernisation so utterly destroys the glamour of the past. The country, the atmosphere, the climate remain fortunately unchanged. To follow the route of the Israeliitish exodus, for instance, challenges comparison less crudely. To visit the scenes of the 40 years' wandering in the wilderness, apparently holds less risk of disillusionment. For the desert does not change; the granite peaks of Sinai may have crumbled, but it has not yet a funicular railway to bring it up to date; and no tramway line makes convenient, though hideous, the desolate shores of the wonderful Red sea. Rock Moses Smote. With a thrill of reverent awe one looks upon the rock that Moses smote for water, the slope where grew the brilliant burning bush, the gray, waste plain where the golden calf enfamed the idolators, and the bleak, limestone heights whence Moses watched the battle against the Amalekites while Aaron and Hur held up his aching arms. From Cairo by train to Ismailia, thence to Suez and across the Red sea from the Valley of Moses, some eight miles down the coast—and then, by easy camps, always prepared in advance by Cook's dragoman, to Mount Sinai and its monastery. A good map shows the route, while the brief description and the striking photographs persuaded the reader that he had almost witnessed a swift cinematograph performance. Formalities were considerable, it seems; a permit from the war office had to be obtained, while the necessary camel and Bedouin in for the journey were engaged by contract from no less a personage than the archbishop of Sinai! All the Arab tribes, from Suez to Sinai, are under the control of the Sinai convent, each tribe in turn supplying travelers with camels. The dragoman, in this instance, was typical of his race, and the actual start was attended with as many difficulties and delays as those of the Israelites themselves experienced. For Mr. Sutton made the mistake of believing that when Isa'a said a thing was done, it had been done! From the journey itself one gets a vivid impression of a desolate and howling wilderness, "howling" with wind, not savage animals; of waterless Germany Rich in Platinum. Rich platinum deposits have been discovered in some mines near Wenden in Westphalia, Germany. It was intended to work these mines only for iron, lead, and copper, but a thorough investigation showed the various layers of rock to contain platinum in an unexpectedly high percentage. So far Russia has possessed practically a monopoly of the platinum output. Almost the entire annual output of approximately six and a half tons comes from the Ural mountains. The rich mines are gradually being exhausted, and though the demand for this most precious of metals has increased annually the supply has been continuously decreasing, with the result that a kilogram of pure platinum (about two and two-tenths pounds) is worth about $1.375. What Is a Week-End? What, or rather when, is a "weekend?" An English court has had to determine the meaning of the phrase. A man brought a reduced rate "weekend" ticket on Friday and when he sought to return Saturday night was wadis, unbroken by any sign of plant or creature life, their sandy floors strewn with gigantic boulders that earthquakes have shaken down from the surrounding peaks; of occasional delightful cases where the wells, though sometimes brackish, were plentiful filled; of crystal atmosphere, fierce heat, and gorgeous sunsets. The temperature varied between 35 degrees Fahrenheit; often the track (made by camels only) was flat enough to allow a motor car to travel smoothly; the average camel pace was three miles an hour; involving much muscular inconvenience to a rider who had never been on camel back before. From little details such as these the reader pictures the daily trek and thinks of the host of weary israelites on foot, with insufficient food, harassed by Amalekites and other disagreeable people, and blaming their leader for leaving behind the tempting flesh pots of their Egyptian slavery. Loneliness Complete The loneliness was, of course, complete, an occasional Bedouin being the only humanity the little party encountered, except once, when, nearing Sinai, they came across two Englishmen sleeping in the open, without tents or retinue, while they hunted for Turquoises and kept a weather eye alert for bexes. One has a longing to know more about those two lonely Englishmen on their adventurous quest, but information is not forthcoming. The mountains stand out boldly on this trip—not only the great bleak range of Sinai, but other hills as well, with naked ridges, gaunt cliffs and peaks of extraordinary formation. The coloring was most striking. Red granite mountains in the glory of the desert dawn must be seen to be believed; but it was the limestone strata that provided the weirdest framework of this desolate wilderness. The afterglow in desert country can neither be painted nor described. The granite and limestone, too, were varied sometimes by veins of red-brown porphyry, black diorite, and glittering slabs of gypsum, transparent as crystal. A visit to the Monastery of Sinala is interesting. The party was courteously received by the monks, who now number only 25, instead of, as formerly, 400, and pitched their tent in a convenient spot outside. After attending a service in modern Greek, "three of the monks called and joined us at tea, when we had a most interesting talk with them about evangelizing their Moslem 'slaves', i. e., descendants of 100 Roman and 100 Egyptian slaves, presented to the monastery by Justinian in the sixth century. They said that up till the English rule in Egypt their lives were in danger, one of the monks having been shot through the chapel window while celebrating mass. Now, thanks to the English, all the country was peaceful and quiet, but yet they had not dared to mention Christianity to their Moslem dependents for fear of raising antagonism." A visit to the charnal house was also made. told that he would have to pay full fare, as the special ticket would be good only on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The man sued the company for the excess fare charged him and won his case. Jimmie's Conclusion. Little folk frequently manifest unexpected powers of observation and analysis. Little Jimmie, for instance, was asked if a young lady whom he dearly loved was pretty. "She looks pretty to me," he announced, after a brief period of consideration, "but I don't spose she's really pretty. I notice Brother Ben don't sit by her sid an awful lot when she comes here." Bad Effect of Moonlight. There is scarcely any region on this globe, from the equator to the newly found continent of the arctic circle and the lately discovered south pole, where there is not a general belief in the powerful and deleterious effects of moonlight on fish, newly planted seeds and to a lesser extent on meat which is to become food, says a writer in the New York American. THE KANSASCITY SUN All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City City, 1803 East 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., on the occasion of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editors an. Owner Willa B. Glenn.....General Manager J. G. Tyler.....Advertising Solicitor Eva P. Washington.....Traveling Representative Rosa Morns.....Collector Alma Crows.....Collector SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....175 Three Months.....50 It occasionally happens that papers sent to您邮箱 are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. ADVERTISING RATE. 50 CENTS PER INCH. Visit Provident Hospital. Do you want stock in the Kaw Valley Truck Gardening Co.? Call E. A. Robinson, president, Bell, East 754. Are you a Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Bull Moose or for Commission Government? The political situation in this city is very much complicated at present, and the average voter doesn't know where he is "at." With the five parties in the field, the spring campaign promises to be very exciting. May the best man win. A young woman has brought a heavy damage suit against Senator Gore for an alleged attempt at kissing Senter Gore is a blind man and if he loses the suit he should not also be blamed for possessing a poor appreciation of values. Other senators have shown the same fault, particularly in their dealings with Negroes. The lecture of Mrs. Hall the African Missionary at Allen Chapel last Tuesday afternoon brought, out a surprisingly large crowd which almost filled the Auditorium and they were rewarded with a most vivid and interesting recital of the needs of our brethren in Africa. An offering of $17.00 was taken for Mrs. Hall. Because Mrs. La Follette has written several articles and delivered several addresses against the prevailing discriminations against Negroes many unreconstructed Southerners have cancelled their subscriptions to her husband's magazine. There are none so deaf as they who will not hear and the Southern Negrophobists have not been listening for a long time, except for the call of the lyncher. The local branch of the Society for the Advancement of Colored People was unable to tourrange for Prof Spingarn, formerly of Columbia University, to address a white audience during his visit to this city. Evidently the white people surmised the meaning of "The New Abolition" and did not care to embrace it. This is unfortunate. The address was appreciated by the large number of Negroes who heard it, but they did not need to hear it. They have felt it in language stronger than any words can convey. And they will continue to feel it until the heart of the "new master" relents in its hatred and indifference toward his "ward." No greater opportunity for education and utility could be furnished the adult colored people of this city than is offered in the excellent Night School now being conducted at Lincoln High School. This is especially true of the Domestic Science and Cooking Departments under the Management of that peer of all Domestic Science Teachers Mrs. Fredericka D. Perry whose pupils are unanimous in their praise of her versatility as well as ability. Every negro who is desirous of bettering himself and the race will take advantage of this splendid opportunity. And those who have not been attending should enroll at once and fill every room of this commodious building. The A. W. Harris Publishing Company turned out during the holidays the greatest volume of finished and high class work that has ever come from the press of a Negro printer in the history of this city, and has won universal praise by its prompt and satisfactory service.. They have enlarged their facilities and are prepared to give during the year 1914 THE BEST and MOST SATISFACTORY service possible. Remember they are located at the Hub of the Negro district. 1515 East 18th street Bell phone East 4746. OPENS AN EXCLUSIVE HOTEL FOR NEGROES. John A. (Jack) Broomfield, prominent negro politician and Third ward saloon-keeper, last night opened his new hotel, The Broomfield house, at Ninth and Douglas streets, entertaining more than 500 men and women representing every walk in life. The new hotel is equal to anything of its kind in Omaha, but is to be conducted exclusively for negroes. There are a hundred rooms in the place on three floors, and they have been decorated throughout. There was an orchestra present last night and Manager Broomfield entertained with a lavish hand. A banquet was served in the big dining room and there was dancing in the parlor. The leading negro citizens of Omaha were present to congratulate Mr. Broomfield. Bloomfield believes that Omaha is large enough to support an exclusively Negro hotel. Being a pioneer himself in lots of things, he saw the opportunity and so leased a building that has been idle for a number of years, and remodeled it to suit his purposes. Already the place has been all but filled. It is the plan to have a number of transient rooms, but for the most part the house will represent a family hotel—orld Herald. [Name] Attorney and Counselor at Law, office 117 West Sixth street; residence, 1810 Woodland avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Phone East 700. Mr. William B. Bruce is a native Virginian, born in Danville, Va., Dec. 25, 1886, entered Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., early in his life in 1889. He remained there until 1907, when he received his A. B. degree. During the same year he entered Brown University, Providence, R. L., upon the quest for more knowledge. Mr. Bruce graduated from Brown University in 1910 and in September of that year he entered the Howard University Law School, situated in Washington, D. C. Bruce graduated from Howard Law School with the degree of LL. B., June, 1913. Dec. 15, 1913, Mr. Bruce took and successfully passed the bar examination of the state of Missouri with an average of 83 per cent. Mr. Wm. B. Bruce comes to Kansas City well prepared to practice law. He is the brother of Prof. N. C. Bruce, principal of Bartlett Industrial School of Dalton, Mo. 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Robinson, Pres. W. R. Carter, Vice Pres. W. C. Hueston, Treas. H. P. Ewing, Secy. Officers and Directors: Robt. Turner, Asst. Treas. Geo. McNeal, Asst. Secy. D. B. Jackson, Auditor. Nick Chiles, Asst. Auditor. C H. Calloway, Atty. General Offices 117 West Sixth Stfreet. H. P. EWING, Mgr. Aegnts: J. P. MAYNARD, 2330 Vine Street, Bell Phone, East 2330. REV. G. T. MOSBY, 2404 Highland Avenue. TWO MILLION FARM HANDS The Right and Wrong Way to Handle Negro Labor. By Boooker T. Washington. "I just can't learn to work free negroes." Thirty years ago, when I was establishing Tuskegee Institute, this was the plaint made to me by a wealthy planter in Alabama who had formerly owned and worked slaves, and in this sentence is the crux of the problem of Negro labor. In slavery the Negro could be worked. In freedom he must be induced to work. There is a vast difference between being worked and working. But the problem in nearly every county in the south is how to use Negro labor successfully on the farm. Of the nearly 9,000,000 colored people living in the Southern states it is safe to say that more than 2,200,000 work on the farms as hired hands, as independent farmers or croppers, as renters or as independent owners. Included in this number are a great many girls and women, for it must be kept in mind that especially in the cotton-growing states it is a common thing for girls and women to work in the fields. Despite all theory and academic discussion as to the value of the Negro in the economic life of the South, it is true in the cotton-growing states that a large part of the banking business has for its basis the Negro and the mule. If a planter wants to borrow money, the decision of the bank will hinge largely on the question of the number of reliable Negro tenants he can control. Here, then, is a tremendous amount of labor, and in it there are tremendous possibilities. These more than 2,200,000 people are not likely to leave the Southern states. Where they remain in large numbers no other class of laborers is likely to come in large numbers, and I also find that the majority of Southern white land owners do not want any other. To put the matter in another form, forty per cent of the tillable land in the Southern states is in the hands of colored people in one form or another. The large number of colored laborers and the vast territory that they occupy make up a serious but interesting question for the South and for the whole country. In my opinion, in this mass of Negro labor is an undiscovered gold mine.—Country Gentleman. PORO HAIR GROWER. Mrs. Geo. Howard—Wonderful Hair Grower and Scalp Treatment. This treatment has proved to be a wonderful success. Mrs. Howard will receive patrons for treatment from 2:30 to 6:00 p. m. at her residence, 567 Harrison street. Also switches woven from combings. Complete course of hair weaving. School, situated in Washington, D. C. Bruce graduated from Howard Law School with the degree of LL. B., June, 1913. Dec.. 15, 1913, Mr. Bruce took and successfully passed the bar ex- amination of the state of Missouri with an average of 83 per cent. Mr. Wm. B. Bruce comes to Kansas City well prepared to practice law. He is the brother of Prof. N. C. Bruce, principal of Bartlett Industrial School of Dalton, Mo. Unity For Investment SALE IN THE RUCK FARM CO. (ORATED) Of Early Garden Veget- to Plants, Tomato, Cabbage Plants, Po- Watermelons. Al Bank, Independence, Kans. Al Bank, Kansas City, Kans. Betty & Sam's Little Corner) Little Corner THEY SAY —That as a man thinketh so he is. —That a dollar is a mighty good friend just now. —That wedding bells will ring soon for a well known teacher. —That unless times get better they'll have to establish a bread line in Kansas City. —That everybody who can find anybody else who will have them are rushing to get married. —That men sometimes plead guilty without any specific charge being made against them. —That one of the most popular refrains being sung in Kansas City now is "If I only hadn't done it." —That a young lady who spent four dollars for an automobile New Year's day was ejected because she couldn't pay her rent last Saturday night. Strange world. —That a well known white man's office hours are bulleted from 10 to 5, but a prominent colored lady, the janitor says, calls often between 6 and 7. Why? That two ladies had a hair pulling match over which should have an opportunity to read the Sun first. Now, why couldn't they have ordered two Suns and saved all that 'ar? That, Dr. W. H. Thomas delivered one of the most impressive sermons ever heard in Allen Chapel on last Sunday. Result—fifteen additions. Negro Business League of Kansas City. FORTUNE J. WEAVER, President. A. E. ESTES, Secretary. Members will please report any mistake or change of address to A. Robinson, Financial Secretary and Fiscal Agent. Bell Phone East AUTOMOBILES. Wm. D. Foster Auto Co., 1423 Forest, hire and repair; office Grand 1630W; res. phone Bell East 4417W. BAKERS. Members will please report any mistake or change of address to E. A. Robinson, Financial Secretary and Fiscal Agent. Bell Phone East 754. AUTOMOBILES. Wm. D. Foster Auto Co., 1423 Forest, hire and repair; office Bell Grand 1630W; res. phone Bell East 4417W. BAKERS. Henry Compton, home bakery, 1512 East 18th. Susie Owens, 2329 Vine. George Purnell, 1312 Vine; East 4915W Bell. BARBERS. William Dabbs, 1219 Baltimore; Grand 3125 Bell. J. A. Jones, 1514 E. 18th St.; Home Phone Main 5119. Palace Barber Shop, J. C. Hobbs, Prop., 1518 E. 19th St. Bell phone, 2833 East. William Stitts, Criterion Barber Shop and Pool Hall. BLACKSMITH. William Dabbs, 1219 Baltimore; Grand 3125 Bell. J. A. Jones, 1514 E. 18th St.; Home Phone Main 5119. Palace Barber Shop, J. C. Hobbs, Prop., 1518 E. 19th St. Belt phone, 2833 East. William Stitts, Criterion Barber Shop and Pool Hall. BLACKSMITH. Jas. Hopkins, 2225 Vine St. CAFES AND RESTAURANTS. Henry Compton, 1512 E. 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. Mrs. King, Eighteenth and Paseo. Maggle Seamster, 1507½ East Twelfth. Harmless Wynn, barbecued meats, 2315 Vine. J. E. Rolland, "Catfish John's, Cafe," 2330 Vine street. Mrs. H. W. Dotson, 1705 E. Twelfth St. Phone, Bell 2214 CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS. O. K. Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrink any garment dye, 1113 E. 18th; Bell Grand 2437. R. Bennett, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. J. F. Basil, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Bell. John Holmes, 1908 Vine. Laden Bros., 2427 Vine; East 569W. Worthan Bros., 1222 East Nineteenth; Grand 3933W Bell. G. W. Golden Steam Dye Works, 1605 E. 18th; Bell East 539. CARPET CLEANERS. D. W. West, 1718 Euclid; East 3555 Bell. CIGAR MANUFACTURER. Henry Parks. 1509 East Eighteenth; Main 4905 Home, East 45 Bell COAL, FEED, ICE AND KINDLING. J. H. Hall, 1208 Vine. Herman Kinslee, 2012 Harrison; Grand 2766W Bell. E. A. Salisbury, 2206 Vine; East 879 Bell. W. H. Winters, 1915 Highland. R. Williams, 1815 East Seventeenth. Hopkins Bros., 2323 Vine. W. H. Lambright & Sons, Coal, Ice and Feed. Bell phone, W. 1925 1620 North 3d street, Kansas City, Kas. CONTRACTORS—GENERAL. Wm. T. Garner, contractor and builder, 1728 Woodland; Bell E. 474 A. E. Estes, 2460 Waldron, Bel I, East 4394-Y. Leon H. Jordan, 712 E. 12th St. Bell Grand 2873. W. R. Nelson, 1322 Pacific Street. C. S. Page, 1514 East Eighteenth; Main 5119 Home. COOPER. Henry Compton, 1512 E. 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. Mrs. King, Eighteenth and Paseo. Maggie Seamster, 1507½ East Twelfth. Harmless Wynn, barbecued meats, 2315 Vine. J. E. Rolland, "Catfish John's, Cafe," 2330 Vine street. Mrs. H. W. Dotson, 1705 E. Twelfth St. Phone, Bell 2214 CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS, O. K. Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrink any garment we dye, 1113 E. 18th; Bell Grand 2437. R. Bennett, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. J. F. Basil, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Home. John Holmes, 1903 Vine. Laden Bros., 2427 Vine; East 569W. Worthan Bros., 1222 East Nineteenth; Grand 3933W Bell. G. W. Golden Steam Dye Works, 1605 East 18th; Bell E539. CIGAR MANUFACTURER. Henry Parks. 1500 E. 12th St. Home, East 45 Bell COAL, FEED, ICE, AND KINDLING. W. H. Lambright & Sons, Coal, Ice and Feed. Bell phone, W. 1923. 1620 North 3d street, Kansas City, Kas. CONTRACTORS—GENERAL. Wm. T. Garner, contractor and builder, 1728 Woodland; Bell E. 4741W. A. E. Estes, 2460 Waldron. Bel I, East 4394-Y. Leon H. Jordan, 712 East 12th St. Bell Grand 2873. W. R. Nelson, 1222 Pacific Street. C. S. Page, 1514 East Eighteenth; Main 5119 Home. COOPER. Lee London, 407 West 5th. DENTISTS. T. C. Chapman, 1505 East Eighteenth; East 798 Bell. A. H. Hudson, 2330 Vine; East 2330 Bell. McQueen Carrion, 18th and Paseo. Bell Phone, E. 144. Home Phone, Main 3490. DRESSMAKING. DENTISTS. T. G. Chapman, 1505 East Eighteenth; East 793 Bell. T. H. Hudson, 2330 Vine; East 2330 Bell. McQuain Carrion, 9th and Paseo. Bell Phone, E. 144. Home Phone, 8th, A. 249. DRESSMAKING. Miss Georgia Coleman, 1510 E. 18th street. Birdie Jackson, 1913 East Nineteenth. DRUG STORES. McCampbell & Houston, 2300 Vine street, and N. W. Cor. Howard Vine Sts. E. S. Lee Pallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine. Both phones. DRY GOODS, GENT'S FURNISHINGS, NOTIONS. Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Ladies Furnishings and Notions, Vine street.. Bell phone East 3192. Ell Harris, 2333 Vine St. Taylor Homes & Laden Bros. & Co., gents' furnishings and not 2427 Vine. EMPLOYMENT AGENTS. Afro-American Employment & Inv. Co., 911 McGee. Both phon FISH AND OYSTER MARKET. Miles & Hill, 1702 East Eighteenth. FLORISTS. Weaver Floral Co., 1507½ E. 18th; Main 7555 Home; E. 4798 Bell GROCERS. McCampbell & Houston, 2300 Vine street, and N. W. Cor. Howard and Vine Sts. E. S. Lee Pallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine. Both phones. DRY GOODS, GENT'S FURNISHINGS, NOTIONS. Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Ladies Furnishings and Notions, 2413 Vine street.. Bell phone East 3192. Eli Harris, 2333 Vine St. Taylor Homes & Laden Bros. & Co., gents' furnishings and notions, 2427 Vine. Weaver Floral Co...1507½ E. 18th; Main 7555 Home; E. 4798 Bell GROCERS. G. E. Arnett, 2200 East Twenty-fifth. R. Mason, 1905 Vine. J. L. Matson, 19th and Grove. Bell Grand 1417-X. M. R. Wilson, 2644 Woodland. HOTELS. J. H. Simmons, 915 Oak; Main 4072 Bell. Hotel Woods, 721 Charlotte. Lewis Woods, Prop. Bell Main 2078 INSURANCE. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall; East 754 Bell. T. A. Ross, 1507 East Eighteenth; West 1496 Bell. H. D. Simmons, 1832 Vine. G. F. Porter, 1507. East Eighteenth; East 4955 Bell. J. W. Golden, 1612 Lydia. Grand 3631. INVENTOR. J. H. Simmons, 915 Oak; Main 4072 Bell. Hotel Woods, 721 Charlotte. Lewis Woods, Prop. Bell Main 2078. W. J. Dixon, 2828 Cleveland Avenue. JEWELER. J. A. Wilson, 1616 W. 9th St. Bell Main 6453-Y. HAIR DRESSING AND MILLINERY. Madame N. P. Jones, Beauty Culture,, Hair Goods, etc., 2110 street. Mattie P. Garner, electric straightening, comb and hair goods East 4741W. Lillie Johnson, 1508 East 18th; Bell East 1795. Chapman & Caldwell, 18th hand Paseo). Phone East 798. Eva P. Washington, milliner and hair dresser, 849 Freeman. phone, 2306 West. Mrs. Stella Hubbard, 1510 E. 18th St. Bell Phone East 1007. LAWYERS. William B. Bruce, Attorney-at-Law and Counsellor. Phone, Ho Main 5478; Office, 117 West Sixth Street. Chas. H. Callaway, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. W. C. Hueston, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. L. A. Knox, 117 W. 6thSt. Home Main 5478. MISCELLANEOUS Madame N. P. Jones, Beauty Culture, Hair Goods, etc., 2110 Vine street. Matthew Garner, electric straightening, comb and hair goods; Bell phone, 2306 West. Mrs. Stella Hubbard, 1510 E. 18th St. Bell Phone East 1007. LAWYERS. William B. Bruce, Attorney-at-Law and Counsellor. Phone, Home Main 5478; Office, 117 West Sixth Street. Chas. H. Callaway, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. W. C. Hueston, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. L. A. Knox, 117 W. 6thSt. Home Main 5478. MISCELLANEOUS. Amus Barnett, 1230 Forest; Main 5018 Home. R. C. Roland, 2423 Grove. S. J. Hightower, 2436 Highland. Solomon Smith, 2643 Highland. George Teeters, Southwest National Bank of Commerce. John Thomas, 425 Waverly Way; South 5087W Bell. H. T. Calling, Western University, west 4486 Bell. Edward D. Craig, sausage manufacturer, 5298 Kansas. Henry P. Ewing, scientific farmer, 1105 Woodland. Wm. Sprangles, milk and butter, 53rd and Montgall; Lin, 750 Home. D. W. White, "White's Furniture Exchange." Bell West 483, 423 Minnesota avenue Kansas City, Kas. Mr. T. G. McCumby, Custodian Western University Grounds. N. C. Crews, Kansas City Sun, 18th and Woodland; East 999 Bell. Rev. J. Frank McDonald, Western Christian Recorder, 2517 Grove St. Bell phone East 488. M. H. Lambright, 1508 East 18th; Bell East 144; Home Main 3490. Thos. A. Fletcher, Home West 171; Residence, Home East 2856. M. L. Flinn, pharmacist, 1301 East 18th. L. E. Baller, N. W. Cqr. 12th and Vine. Bell East 232. Howard M. Smith, 1509 East 18th. St. Bell East 495. Wm J. Thompkins, 1509 E. 18th St. Bell East 495. L. J. Holly, 1117 Campbell. Bell phone, 738 Grand. E. J. McCampbell, 2302 Vine street. Bell phone, 501 East. M. G. Brokens, N. W. Cor. 12th and Vine Bell East 232 J. Edgar Dibble, 19th and Vine. Bell East 887. J. E. Perry, 1512 E 18th St. Bell East 2151. Home East 4620. Jas. F. Shannon, N. E. Cor. 18th and Paseo. Bell East 670. T. C. Unthank, 1112 Independence avenue. Both phones, Main 7488. POULTRY RAISERS. S. M. Steele, 29 Sloan Avenue, Quindaro, Kans. Fred T. Drew, 2002 Bales avenue. Bell phone, East 5277-W. PHOTOGRAPHERS. Charles Williams. 1015 Oak; Main 3154 Bell PRINTERS. C. A. Franklin, 1409 Main; Grand 2988 Bell. Arthur W. Harris, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. John H. Fairley, Square Deal Printing Co., 1731 Lydia. Bell phone Grand 1647-Y. REAL ESTATE. William Hopkins Afro-American Investment Co. J. Dallas Bowser, 2400 Paseo. Bell Phone 3795 W Grand. F. J. Weaver, President Afro-American Inv. Co., 911 McGee St. Bell Main 751. The Ward & Samlington Investment Co., Bell Phone East 4284Y. W. M. Johnston, rental agent; Main 7555 Home; Main 751 Bell. W. G. Mosely, Ivanhoe Investment Co., 2220 Woodland avenue. Edw. E. Vaughn, Afro-American Inv. Co., 911 McGee St. PROBATION OFFICER. Edward Ross, 1419 E. 18th St. Bell Grand 885. REGALIAS, BADGES, ETC. Geo. W. K. Love, 2418 Flora. Telephone East 944. Moses Dixon, 1217 Woodland; East 3797 Bell. SHOE SHINING PARLOR. Moses Fields, 614 Main. SIGNS, LETTERS AND SHOW CARDS. Prof. D. G. Watson, 1906 East Twenty-fourth. SHOE STORES. Henry Jones, Mgr., Temple Shoe Co., 1507½ E. 18th street. TEACHERS. R. T. Coles, Principal Garrison School, 3237 Lydia; Grand 185 W. T. White, manual training, 1612 Lydia; Grand 3631 Bell. G. A. Page, 2419 Flora. Bell E. 501. Principal Attacks School T. W. H. Williams, 1323 Jackson. Bell E. 3259-Y. Principal School. Chas. A. Westmoreland, 2325 Lydia. Bell Grand 1320-W. Lincoln School. THEATRES. Homer Roberts, "Dixie Theatre," 2411 Vine St. TRANSFER. Geo. Jones, 1008 McGee. Home Phone, 5188 Main. W. Lee Whibby, 18th and Forest. Home phone M. 4023. R. W. Elmore, 1607 Harrison street. UNDERTAKERS. C. H. Countee, 2220 Vine St. Bell East 3336. Watkins Bros. & Co., 1729 Lydia. Telephone Grand 987. People's Undertaking Co., 1211 East 18th; Phones, Bell Grand Home 8163 Main. Edward Jones, Mgr. Save 20 Per Cent ON DIAMONDS AND WATCHES Money Loaned at a Low Rate. Fine Wash Repairing. Cash Paid for Old Gold, Silver, Diamonds. Unredeemed Pledges For Sale a Bargain, see Telephone East 944. St 3797 Bell. NG PARLOR. ERS AND SHOW CARDS. Twenty-fourth. STORES. Co., 1507½ E. 18th street. CHERS. School, 2227 Lydia; Grand 1851 Bell. 2 Lydia; Grand 3631 Bell. 201. Principal Attacks School. B. Bell E. 3259-Y. Principal Bruce a. Bell Grand 1320-W. Lincoln High ATRES. 2411 Vine St. NSFER. Phone, 5188 Main. Home phone M. 4023. TAKERS. Bell East 3336. Telephone Grand 987. East 18th. Phones, Bell Grand 1565; Times, Mgr. Per Cent ON AND WATCHES Low Rate. Fine Watch and for Old Gold, Silver and named Pledges For Sale at Geo. Jones, 1008 McGee. Home Phone, 5188 Main. W. Lee Whibby, 18th and Forest. Home phone M. 4023. R. W. Elmore, 1607 Harrison street. UNDERTAKERS. C. H. Countee, 2220 Vine St. Bell East 3336. Watkins Bros. & Co., 1729 Lydia. Telephone Grand 987. People's Undertaking Co. 1211 East 18th; Phones, Bell Grand 1565; Home 8163 Main. Edward Jones, Mgr. Money Loaned at a Low Rate. Fine Watch Repairing. Cash Paid for Old Gold, Silver and Diamonds. Unredeemed Pledges For Sale at a Bargain, see MORINO OPPOSITE POST OFFICE 812 Grand Ave. MORINO OPPOSITE POST OFFICE 812 Grand Ave. Elk Marke Market Elk Market GROCERIES AND MEATS The Lowest of Prices and Best Brands of Goods. 20 Pounds Sugar.....$1.00 24 Pounds Kelly's King B 1 Pound Good Coffee.....20c 1 Pound Country Bacon... Round Steak.....15c Best Lard. Milk. per Quart.....6c 24 Pounds Kelly's King Flour...60c 1 Pound Country Bacon...20c Best Lard...15c 6c 20 Pounds Sugar ..... $1.00 1 Pound Good Coffee ..... 20c Round Steak ..... 15c 24 Pounds Kelly's King Flour ..... 60c 1 Pound Country Bacon ..... 20c Best Lard ..... 15c We Appreciate Your Trade. ELMER'S PLACE 1305 EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET Home Phone 9723. Bankrupt Sale of the John M. Habash $2,000 stock of Drawn Work, Cluny Lace, Renaissance, Needle Silk Shawls and Crochet Silk Neckties, Kimono Waists and Dresses. All goods are imported and will be sold at actual co Sale commences Saturday Morning at 8:00 o'clock and co two weeks. Come quick and get Christmas bargains. JNO. M. HABASH, 518 East -Special Offer S PLACE NITEENTH STREET. Phone 9723. Expt Sale Labash $2,000 stock of Lee, Renaissance, Needle Work Silk Neckties, Kimonas, Shirt and Dresses. and will be sold at actual cost. ning at 8:00 o'clock and continues for k and get Christmas bargains. BASH, 518 East 12th St. Real Offer- TO COLORED PEOPLE OF ELMER'S PLACE 1305 EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET. Home Phone 9723. Bankrupt Sale Drawn Work, Cluny Lace, Renaissance, Needle Work Silk Shawls and Crochet Silk Neckties, Kimonas, Shirt Waists and Dresses. All goods are imported and will be sold at actual cost. Sale commences Saturday Morning at 8:00 o'clock and continues for two weeks. Come quick and get Christmas bargains. JNO. M. HABASH, 518 East 12th St. -Special Offer- High Grade Trunks and Grips for the Holidays. BIG DRESS TRUNK Regular $8.00 Value, $4.75 for bre Trunks for.....$10.75 sewed, at.....$6.95 and $2.95 ink & Grip Mfg. Co. 12th and Central 223 West 12th. to repair work. Call Home Main 1909. Owl Market Woodland Ave. for Eat for Christmas Special Offer of $25.00 Fibre Trunks for..... Real Leather Bags, hand sewed, at ..... $6.95 a GET THE RIGHT PLACE American Trunk & Grip Mfg. Co. 12th 223 SPECIAL ATTENTION given to repair work. Call Home M Go to the Owl Man S. W. 18th and Woodland Ave. Good Things to Eat for Chris Special Offer of $25.00 Fibre Trunks for.....$10.75 Real Leather Bags, hand sewed, at.....$6.95 and $2.95 GET THE RIGHT PLACE American Trunk & Grip Mfg. Co. 12th and Central; 223 West 12th. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to repair work. Call Home Main 1000. Go to the Owl Market And Free Useful Christmas and New Year's Presents Owl Market, 1725 East 18th St Home Phone 5238 Main Bell Phone Subscribe for The Su 725 East 18th Street Bell Phone 3262 East for The Sun Owl Market, 1725 East 18th Street Home Phone 5238 Main Bell Phone 3262 East Subscribe for The Sun ```markdown ``` CITY NEWS. "GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY" is Feb. 1. Jas. H. Crews is able to be out again. Mr. Harvey Edwards is quite ill at 921 Highland avenue. FOR RENT—Front room; light housekeeping; 2220 Woodland avenue. 4t Miss Nagatha Marshall the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Mar- shall is ill in Paola, Kas. Do you want stock in the Kaw Valley Truck Gardening Co.? Call E. A. Robinson, president, Bell, East 754. The prices and the goods at the Colored Shoe Store are right. Try them at $1507½ E. 18th. G. A. Page. Mrs. M. W. Wilson of. 25th and Flora was called to Moberly last Sunday on account of the death of a relative. Mrs. J. W. Woodson, 1637 Cottagevenue, returned from a very pleasant visit at her old home, Chillicothe, Mo. E. A. Robinson, Express, Baggage and Light Moving. Prompt and courteous service. Call Bell phone East 754. Mrs. L. C. Clark of Topeka, Kas, was a visitor this week in the city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Clara Smith 2112 Tracy. We have at last put in a complete line of Men's, Women's and Children's shoes at the Colored Shoe Store, 1507½ East 18th street. Miss Edna Herndon and Julia Balley gave a surprise party for Miss Wallace Tuesday evening. A delightful evening was spent. Miss Jennie Walker of 3409 Wyandotte street, returned last Sunday from a visit, to Miss May Tripplett and relatives at Odessa, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mallory announce the birth, Saturday, January 10, of a daughter, to whom they have given the name of Helen Marie. LOST—A bunch of keys near 19th and the streets—Return to 1518 East 19th street and receive reward. C. J. NELSON. The Peck Mite Missionary Society sent Mr. Jas. H. Crews a beautiful bouquet of flowers during the week with the compliments of the Society. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. R. Fairley 1726 Woodland avenue are the proud parents of a daughter to whom they have given the name Ray Elizabeth. Mother and daughter are doing nicely. Get used to the imprint of the race printer, who wishes your patronage on the basis of better and quicker printing service. This is it: C. A. Franklin, Printer, 1409 Main St. News was received that W. C. Scott, the young attorney who formerly lived in this city, and who attended Kansas university and the University of Michigan, died at his home Brenham, Texas, January 3. The Nine O'Clock School Shoe for children is absolutely the best shoe at the lowest price for your boy or girl in school. Think of it. From two and one-half dollars on down, at the Colored Shoe Store, $1507½ East 18th street Mrs. Versia Rice 1153 Tracy avenue entertained a few friends with whist Tuesday evening. A dainty luncheon was served. Music was furnished by Mr. Wm. D. Foster. Everybody left at a late hour declaring they had spent a delightful evening. Mrs. Sallie Moore Haworth a member of many fraternal organizations and one of the best known ladies in our city lies extremely low at her residence 1716 Michigan ave. Her many friends wish for her recovery although her physician says there is no hope In thinking of flowers, think also where you can get them at the low est prices. Exquisite blending and Prompt service. GIPSON FLORAL CO. 1613 East Eighteenth. Bell Phone—East 3813 William G. Allen, 40 years of age, died at the residence of his mother, at 1706 East Tenth street, and was buried from the home on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Dr. S. W. Bacote, the pastor of the family, conducted the funeral services, with Mr. C. H. Countee the undertaker. Mr. Allen leaves oae daughter, a mother, sister, and four brothers to mourn his loss. He comes from one of the oldest and most highly respected families of this city, and his brother John is one of the representative citizens of Denver, Colo., coming on to attend the funeral, but was compelled to return home on Friday night, on account of business engagements. The Sun extends to the beavered family its deepest sympathy. REMOVAL NCTICE. The real estate office o. Eugene Edward Vaughan has been transferred to 27th and Parkway. Bell Phone West 1757. Mrs. Frank Sawyers of Kentucky gave a luncheon at the residence of Mrs. B. F. Wilson 1812 East 12th st. in honor of a few friends who have been extremely nice to her since she came from the Blue Grass state to spend the winter with her life long friend Mrs. B. F. Wilson. Mrs. Sawyers has had the pleasure of meeting many of the most prominent people in Greater Kansas City. Those who attended the luncheon on last Tuesday were: Mrs. Dr. G. W. Brown, Mrs. McClellan, Mrs. Dr. Thompkins, Mrs. Geo. Jones, Mrs. W. D. Milligan, Mrs. Moses Ballard, Miss Lella Rogers and Mrs. B. F. Wilson. The dining room was exquisitely decorated with cut flowers and beautiful cut glass and a delightful six course luncheon was served in faultless style. All present enjoyed themselves immensely, and and were unanimous in declaring Mrs. Sawyers a charming and entertaining hostess. The Editor visited the recently purchased home of Mr. Jas, A. Lee, 2404 Paseo, the other day and found one of the most commodious, substantial, and luxuriously appointed homes owned by colored people in this city. It possesses every modern convenience, has a splendid ideal Heating system, and a commodious garage in the rear which Brother Lee has not yet filled with a machine. He showed us a magnificent Cabinet in his dining room which if purchased at a furniture house would have cost $160.00 but which was made wholly by his adopted son, Prof. Wm. G. Moore, teacher of manual training at Wendall Phillips School. And which was presented to him and Mrs. Lee as a Christmas gift. It is made of beautiful polished oak with a five foot double French mirror four beautiful cathedral glass doors with large drawers at bottom and all handsomely mounted. Prof. Moore also made them an elegant library table and bookcase which are splendid specimens of his mechanical skill Young Moore is a graduate of Lincoln High School and Hampton Institute and his foster parents are exceedingly proud of his splendid career. Mrs. Emma Davis of Mexico, Mo, who was visiting her cousin, Miss Katherine Jamerson, near Twenty-fourth and Highland avenue, died very suddenly last Sunday morning. Her remains were carried back to Mexico for interment, and was accompanied by Mrs. Jamerson and another cousin, Miss Sallie Harris, 1801 East street. Other relatives in the city are Mrs. Wesley Miller, Mrs. Agnes Porter Mrs. Mamie West and James Harris. LID OFF THE TANGO. Pref. J. C. Hobbe announces that on every Thursday night at the Lyrical Hall, 1731 Lydia avenue, that the following dances will be introduced: Tango, hesitation waltz, flirtation schottische, hesitation schottische and a variety of other dances since the Board of Public Welfare lifted the lid on dances. IN MEMORIAM. In sad and loving memory of my darling husband and father, Howard Albert Anderson, who died one year ago, January 14, 1913; Around thetomb where he is laid, A voice I loved is stilled; A place is vacant in my heart That never can be filled. Softly the stars are gleaming Upon a quiet grave; There sleeps without dreaming The one I could not save. How I miss your kind and loving word And care is more than I can tell We will meet again some day. Lovingly, MRS. MAMIE ANDERSON...life. MARTHA ANDERSON, Daughter. CARD OF THANKS Words are inadequate to express my appreciation of the kind motive that actuated the members of my club the Phyllis WWheatley—to present to me at our last meeting the six beautiful hand painted china plates. Indeed am most grateful and shall ever remember their kindness. "Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, You may break, you may shatter, the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang around it still." MRS. G. G. MASON, President. ST. STEPHEN'S BAPTIST CHURCH Monday, January 5, we began our soul-stirring meeting, being ably assisted by our ablest Dr. Mose William assisted of Leonard Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., who have filled our pulpit both logical and biblical. We recognize the Rev. Dr. William as being a great preacher, and up-to-date. We have realized the greatest success in all of our days in the St. Stephen's Baptist church. Each night we carry at least three or four hundred people. On Sunday night, past, if there was one person, there were at least one thousand in attendance. Our list is growing so fast for Baptism that we are almost assured that we will have to go to the river. The Rev. Dr. William will be with us until after the fourth Sunday. Sunday, the 18th, is our Communion Sunday. Everybody is cordially invited. WANTED—At once, two hustling, energetic solicitors, men or women.—The Sun Mrs. I. F. Bradley has been indisposed this week. Mrs. Laura Howell, 847 New Jersey avenue, is indisposed. Rev. E. A. Wilson of Muskogee, Okla., left for home last Wednesday. Rev. M. Johnson, 2214 North 2d, entertained at dinner a few friends for her guest, Miss Maggie Ross. Mrs. Willis Allen, 1001 Walker avenue, entertained sixteen guests with a smoker at their beautiful home. A four-course dinner was served. A revival is being conducted at the First A. M. E. Church, of which Rev J. R. Ransom is pastor. Already near lily thirty additions have been made. The funeral of Mr. Eugene Clay, 11th and Everett avenue, was held Monday afternoon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church. Rev. E. A. Wilson officiated. Mr. and Mrs. J, T. Roberts and son, James, visited Mrs. Roberts' cousin, Mr. Lee Gillum, and family Tuesday about one and a half miles from Argentine. They were accompanied by Mrs. Minnie Rue and son Elliott, Mr Arthur Anderson and daughters Misses Alice, Egypt, and Master Edward. A delightful afternoon was spent. On Tuesday afternoon past Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Freelain and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Howard and family were guests at a Southern dinner at the residence of Mrs. J. D. Barkedale 925 Reynolds ave. Kansas City, Kansas. After spending an entire afternoon discussing Southern attractions and partaking oof an ideal Southern dinner the guests departed declaring Mrs. BaRkedale an ideal entertainer and oone who has not forgotten Southern hospitality. Rev. E. A. Wilson of Muskogee, Okla, arrived us snday and officiated at the funeral of Hon Corvine patterson, which was held under the auspices of M. Etna Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Many high tributes were paid to his memory. Resolutions and floral tributes were profuse and beautiful. A large number attended the funeral. The hearse was drawn by four beautiful black horses. The procession was three blocks long and a large number walked to Woodlawn cemetery, where interment was made. He leaves a wife, daughter, son-in-law grandchildren and a host of friends and relatives to mourn his loss. The Sun extends sympathy to the be reaved. J. W. Jones was funeral director. A letter of condolence was read by Judge I. F. Bradley frof W. J. Buchana, an old political friend (white), expressing his regret at no being able to be present. Was Returning Sam Jimpson, colored, had a colored neighbor of some means, who was unkind enough to build a high board fence about his yard, wherein grew many luscious melons. One day Sam found a hole in the fence, and, licking his lips, he *started to crawl through*. The neighbor happened to be standing near the hole, "Heah you!" he cried, "wha you whaw? "Ise gwine back," said Sam, quickly suiting action to word. Drumtochty Logialmond, am Maclauren's "Drumtochty," is neither a village nor a parish, but an estate about eight miles by four in extent, and situated some twelve miles north of Perth, and lying at the foot of the Grampian Hills. The only semblance of a village in the entire Logialmond district is the little hamlet of Harrietsfield, where Mr. Watson lived. Lucky He Was There. A teacher in a certain town (we considerately decline to be more specific) had a great deal of trouble to make a boy in his class understand a point in his lesson. Finally, however, he succeeded, and, drawing a long breath, remarked: "If it wasn't for me you would be the greatest donkey in this town." Ought to Be Enough Physician at Watering Place to Patient's Husband—'And after all, the great thing for your wife is exercise. Does she take any?" Patient Husband—'Take any! I should say she did. Why, doctor, she changes her dress at least six times a day.'—'Stray Stories. Happiness. You cannot stow the bulky furniture of the millionaire into a cottage, but you can sometimes stow more happiness into the cottage than the millionaire can stow into his mansion. Happiness is absolutely independent of things. Pickings Better Here. Official salaries in England may be much greater than those paid in this country, but there are not nearly so many opportunities over there to make a little on the side.—Washington Post. Paint Cleaner. An excellent cleaner for painted surfaces is made as follows: Two quarts of hot water, two tablespoons of turpentine, a pint of skimmed milk and enough soap to make a weak suds. THE UNIMPORTANCE IMPORTANT MEN. By Junius J. N. Gray. The city was quite busy, but if it had not been so I would have been alarmed, and not at all alone in the surprise. It would be a waste of time to attempt to describe just how busy everybody was, hurrying to and fro, on foot and in cabs. I had been talking—principally asking questions—and walking. I did not take to the cabs readily, because of a feeling that there I would be shut off somewhat from the rush and roar of the much alive metropolis. Just for the novelty of it occasionally I rode the horse cars, but not for long, for I had lo g since learned to hurry as did the native New Yorkers. Like the busy throngs that are hurried here and there, I sometimes rode the sur face or trolley cars, but for quicker transportation, would take an "L" on "Sub" train. As has been raid, I asked many questions, not unlike the newspaper reporters. I knew that questions were not popular in the city. If they were unpopular, the proper answers there were more so. I was also sufficiently acquainted to know that there was not much street, manners or politeness in vogue in the great city. So when a graff voice replied to my queries: "I'm no waiving encyclopedia," or "See the information bureau at——," I took it all good naturally and not allowing the expressions to create the least insult. I was aware that many persons really did not have time to give justifiable answers; irritable by nature or rendered so by thousands of too frequent previous inquiries, would find it easier in keeping with their dispositions, to sweat than give the desired information; still others were blind to everything but the insignificant illuminations of their own sphere, and not to overlook the practical joker. There fore, the best answers to my questions on the street usually came from the lips of boys, who, omitting exceptions, tell the truth when the interview is not prearranged. On this occasion I had been out of town for several days. Returning, I reached "Little Old New York" by way of the Pennsylvania ferry from the Jersey side. Wanting a little extra ride and especially fond of the Hudson breeze, went up to West Twenty-third street. Leaving the ferry, walked over to Broadway, where I stopped on the southwest corner of Broadway and Twenty-third. It was early in January. As I stood there a clock from somewhere behind me announced the noon hour, and the clanging strokes were twelve times heard above the noises of the streets, which were filled with persons on foot and in the common carriers rushing from a thousand offices and other places of business to nearby cafes and homes. "Noonextrah! Noonuxtrah!" yelled a number of boys with as any bundles of papers. I bought a "Journal" from one of the boys nearest to me. And as I wont to do at every opening, began asking question: "How long are you on duty, my little man?" I inquired. "I'm playing quits, now, boss," was the reply from a boy about 12 years old. "Then what do you do?" "Go't school 'till this evenn', then I put on another extra 'till nine." "So, you're really a busy boy, eh?" "What do you do?" he asked with true boyish inquiry and less premature manhood so often found in the boys of the greater cities, although, probably by contact, he had much of the slang accent characteristic of the street urchin who also sells papers for cigarette money and even for sustenance and to keep him war during the ice winter months with days as cold as the one of which I refer you. "I am a statistician," I replied. "And your name?" he asked, looking up into y face. "Winfield—Cecil Winfield," was the answer. The boy seemed to be deep in thought then, but soon continued: "I don't remember seeing your name—and I didn't know they had colored men to take statistics?"—say, do you know that old man, right there," he went on, apparently abruptly changing the subject. Out in the street near the car track stood a man of about fifty or fifty-five years. He was short and stout, rather corpulent. His face was square with jaws firmly set, and as he turned toward the sidewalk I noticed that he possessed a set of keen, piercing eyes. His face was covered with a stubby beard of some two weeks' growth, and his hair streaked with gray. He wore a slouch hat that had been long in his service judging from its appearance; unpressed, well worn long black overcoat that showed but little of the black trousers slightly raveled at the bottom. His foot covering was a pain of heavy, flat-heel shoes. "No, who is he?" I asked, centering my attention and interest upon the man awaiting the arrival of a downtown car. "They say when he first came to the city he was a statistician of some kind. But now he's a millionaire—a power in Wall street, my dad says." "How did he make his money?" I asked. "He came here from a Jersey farm several years ago. Couldn't make it pay there, I think. I don't understand it so well, but after a few years he started to farming by long distance telephones, telegraph, letters and through men and never seeing the land. Now he's what they call a land grafter and farm magnate. But I don't understand it at all." "A remarkable character," I replied and would have said more, but the boy butted in with: "Iy you had plenty money like that old top would you dress as few as he does and look so commonplace with y' face covered with ha brush" he asked, but did not wait for a reply. "Well, I guess not," he went on, "colored people must have their fine rags, even if they have t' go off their feed to do so. Clothes get first place, and if there's any room left maybe money will get it." At this juncture the car for which the boy was waiting passed—he swung it and a moment later was lost in the crowd. I boarded a downtown car, buried myself in the news columns of my paper and later transferred to the elevated line which goes to lesser New York by way of the Brooklyn bridge. This New York incident was recalled the other day when I crossed the street at Third and Main in a city in the eastern part of the state. Lost in thought, not paying especial attention to anybody or anything at the time, was aroused when a voice called out: "Hello, Mr. Winfield! Prof. Alden told me you were here. Although I have never met you personally, I readily recognize you at sight by what I know of you through the papers." I raised my head and looked into the congenial face of a stranger with proffered hand. "Of course, you don't know he," he continued, realizing my surprise, which I suppose I showed, "and it doesn't matter much, because I'm just an everyday fellow." The man who confronted me was a Missourian and showed it in voice and action. But otherwise he looked like a working man of any state. On this street his clothes seemed just as odd and were in as much contrast to those about him as were those of the agricultural king who stood at the intersection of Broadway and Twenty-third. After keeping me in suspense for a while he made known his identity. Paul Flipping was clad in a broad-brim felt hat which had evidently several years since seen better days—it had been black once before the red set in. His other clothing consisted of a short overcoat, wore into shreds at the elbows. He wore a blue white striped suit of overalls, and heavy, serviceable shoes completed his movable wardrobe. His complexion was red-dish brown; hair dark streaked with gray; uncertain eyes of brown; ;high nose, long sandy mustache which curled up at the ends in true foreign style. His face was round with a few lines carved by care and toil. He was of middle age; fully six feet, with a good stride. Mr. Paul Flipping is a farmer owning 180 acres of fine farm land. His city property is valued way up in the thousands. Although he knows how, he is not an active farmer himself. His busiest thoughts are on contracting and building where he does a competitive business. "For years," he informed me, "I carried thousands of dollars in my pockets. They were my profits from deals. I was then beginning and all the whites looked upon me as a poor man who worked hard, but apparently went back two degrees for every degree of progress. I wore, and even now, shabby clothes except when away from home." This farmer-contractor could build a town of his own with at least a hundred houses. I found him unpretentious, simple but practical, and never made a front that he could not back up. He was for a long time and is now a leader of men. He witnessed only eight years of school life, but his knowledge would do credit to a university man. His business transactions are broad and far reaching, involving many whites of position and influence. While his real financial standing is known to but few, yet the secret of his manipulations and increasing wealth has leaked out. But Paul Flipping is now on his feet, using his term, and has his eyes open. In the eyes and words of whites are found both admiration and envy, many of his own people are neither admirers nor envious of "him that hath," who would lead them to a brighter day, from whom they shrink, lurk far in the dark and look through eyes that see only evil, with minds that distrustingly measure others by their own dishonest practices. WILLING TO OBLIGE. REAL ESTATE OFFICE "Look here," roared the angry man who had bought a lot of suburban real estate, "that ground you sold me is under water, and there are actually little fish swimming about." "Oh, I'll fix that all right," assured the oily-tongued agent. "Then you'll give me another lot or return the money?" "Not exactly that, but TII send you out some fishing tackle to catch the fish." Always Something. 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Then the inevitable happened. Factions arose, base men perverted {ts aims to their own ends; the best element abandoned ft tn disgust, a counterorganization of Western rul- ers was initiated, and, after the issue hud hung for months In the balance, the scales fell, and the league became discredited, And up and down Europe, traveling from court to court, a cohort of pala- dins, each fighting singly and whole- heartedly, strove for the two factions. ‘That the league was planning a desperate stroke in order to regain its former influence was the sub- stance of a conversation between Lord Claude Tresham, secretary to the cabinet of kings which had fought the league successfully, and Paul Lane, the young American mitlion- aire, as they sat together in the palm room of the Hotel des Anglais, at Geneva, and looked out at the snowy- crested mountains. Paul's wits had been sharpened in many fights when he was serving the league. He had been induced to place his fortune and his services at its disposal by the Princess Clothilde of Austria, the guiding spirit of the society, When he came to under Stand that he was but a tool in the hands of an unscrupulous woman, whom, nevertheless, he had grown to Jove with a passion which, he knew, would last during the remainder of his life; whon, too, he understood, in shame and humillation, that the high motives of the league were shams masking criminal designs, he offered his services to Lord Tresham, to fight his former friends. He had performed several missions with hon- or, he had met Clothilde herself in battles of wits and worsted her; but each encounter only drove home more deeply the shaft of the pitiless archer who wounded him to the heart, For this reason he fought the more daringly, He had become, next to ‘Tresham, the opposing organization's most powerful agent. ‘Tresham had summoned Paul to Switzerland to undertake a mission which was to overthrow the league's Wast remnants of power and influence an Europe. He explained {t to him in the afterglow of the glorious August evening, “The league has one prop, Paul,” the eaid, “and you are to Kick it away. ‘The kaiser bas long abandoned it; 20 has Alfonso of Spain, its leading western ally. But in the realm of the Tsar the league still rests supreme. The Russian agent of that ‘nscrupulous association {8 Apollodo- rus, the monk who has obtained so strong a hold over the people and over the superstition-ridden Nicholas Ul. As you undoubtedly know, this Apollodorus, whose headquarters are in the monastery at Nishikoff, is the Iutest of a long train of charlatans who have duped Nicholas with spirit ualistic phenomena. At Nishikoff, they say, he calls up the ghost of his majesty ‘the Inte Alexander IIL, and ‘this spectral adviser, whose counsels are, of course, always those of the teague, and who is, in reality, the ‘medium’ Apollodorus himself, direets che policy of the whole realm of Rus- ela. Paul, did you ever turn the dark Santern on a ‘spirit’ at a seance?” "L did,” said Paul, chuckling over the remembrance, “It was in my col fege days. I exposed the notorious Grale, who had fooled many leading people in New York, and photographed him with a calcium light, capering round the room in fifteen yards of erash toweling.” “That, Paul, is exactly what you are to do to Apollodorus,” answered Lord Claude, “You can imagine the scene: the Tsar, wildly credulous, his attend. ants secretly sceptical, but outwardly believers, and just a little bit inclined to a mystical interpretation of the phenomena because of the inherent human tendency to self-deception. | can obtain admittance for you through friends at St. Petersburg ‘You will, then, attend the seance witt dark lantern under your coat, ex pose the fraud at the psychologica' moment, and obliterate the league's influence in Russia in a flood of ridi cule. Once Nicholas has lett it, wi shail hear very little more about tt’ Paul left for St, Petersburg on th following day, bearing a letter of in troduction to Count Gabel, a man o ‘old family who, though at presen gx ot da, sakes is day wher heel ¢ Bois semen ot that was a firm be jever in the ‘and that | must obtain admittance to the seanc — €LOQUENCE WENT TO WASTE fdignant Mother Had Gained Nothing by Denunciation That She Thought Effective, Determination writ large upon her angry countenance, the mother of the ‘ehild who had been bitten by an Irish (erior belonging to a new neighbor (Mrs, Green) gave an authoritative at” with the knocker of Bre. door. - Phe door was opened by & moek ittieeeet, Miah MRECRI aie Taree presenting his card he was at once admitted to Count Gabel's house and ushered into the presence of a portly, elderly gentleman, somewhat pomp- ous, but with a saving sense of humor which, together with a certain art- lessness of nature, attracted Paul. “And so you wish to investigate the phenomena of the monk Apollodorus, young man,” he said, when he had finished reading the letter. “Lord Tresham and I are very old friends, dating from the days when he was first attache at the Russian court. I am sure that I can obtain permission from his majesty, and you have come, ekily, at precisely the most favor- able time, for his majesty departs for Nishikoff on Wednesday next, with all, the gentlemen of his court, to ques- tion his late father concerning an important matter of foreign policy, upon whose adoption or rejection, I may say {n confidence, grave issues depend, His majesty is only too anx- fous to make converts, and anyone for whom I vouch can accompany his gentlemen.” His voice grew low and he bent for- ward and began speaking earnestly. “It will convert you, my friend,” said Count Gabel. “It is positively the most wonderful exhibition ever vouch- safe to man. I knew the late Tsar Alexander, And, since his death, I have seen him at the Nishikoff monas- tery—-seen him, touched his hand, Just as it was in the flesh, and spoken with him face to face and heard his own voice answer me, It is wonder- ful! Imagine what it means to us who have been privileged thus to learn for surety that death is, in truth, only transition! Imagine what {t means tc the Tsar to have the advant- age of his father’s counsel upon mat- ters of state!” He suddenly became aware that he was talking with utcer abandon to a stranger and, sitting up in his chair, resumed his severe manner, “Mr, Lane, it will be necessary to make use of a very harmless decep- tion,” he gaid, “You are not mar ried?” “No,” answered Paul. “Good! Good!" exclaimed the jovial old man. “Because of course you must have some sort of erevse for being taken to Nismkoff. You must be some relative of mine, for instance, You don't speak Russian? Ha! H'm! Then you can't be a blood relation. Ha! I have it! You shall pass as the fiance of my wife's cousin, a very charming lady of royal blood who is staying with us and is a friend of the ‘Tsaritsa. She will, I am sure, will- ingly accept you in that capacity for she loves a jest. She is as convinced as T in the reality of these phenomena— and so will you be too, Now you must, send to your hotel for your baggage and come home with me.” Paul was completely disarmed by the old count’s hospitality. In fact nothing but a strong sense of duty prevented him from throwing away the dark lantern and calcium powder which he had brought in his suit-case. But he conquered this impuise and at the end of the day waited upon the count again, entered the droshky which was waiting outside his office, and was whirled away to Gabel’s resi- dence in @ fashionable part of St. Petersburg, where he was warmly wel- comed by the countess. A few words of explanation from the count in Rus- sian vastly amused her. “Clothilde will be here in a few minutes," she said to Paul in English. “But wait! I myself will go and tell her that her fiance is expecting her!” And she tripped out of the room, leav- ing Paul and the count alone, Clothilde! It could not be the same, unless she were ublquitous, Yet Paul was hardly surprised when she came in, for fate seemed resolved to link their fortunes together, The strangeness of that meeting filled him with a realization of the dramatic nature of the parts they were to play, “Well, how do you like each other?” inquired the countess amiably. “Do you think you can permit Mr. Lane to act as your flance for a day, Clo- thilde?” She raised her eyes for an instant. “I—I think I can,” she murmured, and the blood flushed her cheecks and then receded leaving them whiter than ivory. In that moment Paul felt assured that she was not indifferent to him. ‘They found themselves side by side upon the window seat after dinner, while the old count snored peacefully in his chair and the countess knitted, casting secrets, sly, amiable glances toward her guests. She had taken an extraordinary fancy to this young American. She did not know very much about Clothilde, who had always moved in a circle loftier than her own; but the good soul's mihd was filled with match-making. If Clothilde could learn to care for him as much as he evidently cared for her! ‘Tt seemed to be a@ case of love at sight! Perhaps—well, stranger things had happened. She saw in her mind the acceptance of Paul as Clothilde’s lover, the marriage ceremony, the bridesmaids, in white, with fragrant |looking elderly woman, and the vial looking elderly woman, and the vials of the mother's wrath burst forth. “You're Mrs. Green, I s'pose," she sneered. "Green by name an’ green by natur’, I should call you, to keep & feroshus antmile like that there Irish terriertorial o’ yourn, a-bitin' of innercent ‘children an’ a-terrierizing the whole neighborhood! I'll have the law on you! I'll make you pay! D'you hear? I'll sue you for damages and ‘ave that ‘orrible dog shot by act of pariyment, I will!” ‘Then as she paused for # moment hy ty L | yt Wy \ ii, | ii i Ze We) ict ‘ We A saa oe =I mM a yw a ae il ad | ie Roa? ia ‘ = 4 Ws Lo 4 i se SS 2 ne ye ‘, “te ‘i ) a y a Ly i i ae ye Yj ‘ez ie fl | My ‘ a= 2 Xd oe i —_ if al ara eee iee hm =a a aa ha blossoms tn thelr hands . . . and all this faded into the midst of dreams. ‘The countess slept beside the’ fire, ‘opposite: ‘hee sleeping: tue band, And Paul was stammering out his love and clasping Clothilde’s little hands in his, “Forgive me," he was saying, “for my remarks to you that day in Paris. I was mad with a sense of shame and betrayal, I have always loved you, Clothilde, I shall love you for ever more, Do you love met” For they never seem banal to lov. ers, those hackneyed words, Nor did her reply seem as insipid as the printed record of it would be; for doth were in heaven, Paul saw toars in Clothilde's eyes. “I tere you, Paul” she sald, and humility had replaced the imperious pride in her voice. “When you showed me to myself for what I am I suddenly realized—O, ever so many things. I knew then that I had found the one man whom I could love. 1 always loved you, Paul, from that strange moment of our first meeting in America, Dut lately—well, Paul, do you know why I am here?" “To ald Apollodorus,” he answered, with the least tinge of bitterness in his vole. “No,” she answered, “It 1s because Tam sick of the league. 1 tried to bury myself here, to escape them. But they have found me and followed me. They know that without my in- fluence the league will lose the last vestiges of {ts influence. And they have even threatened me, Paul.” “Who?” he cried angrily. “Von Holzrath. He 1s now one of the leaders of the organization. He has offered me the chofce between continuing as their agent and the league's enmity, I must decide, I fear him so; I hate the league 60 much, and I long for peace, I think it is my love for you, Paul, that has sickened me of these intrigues.” “Then come with me,” cried Paul “Come back to America, No one will dare molest you there. Come and—" She placed her hand upon his arm “Some day,” she answered. “But not now. There are things to be done— you understand? I cannot disappear 80 swiftly. I feel, somehow, that I must remain until the Jeague is crushed, or till it crushes me. It will be only a little while, Paul. Promise me that, now we are sure of each oth- er’s love, you will not seek me out ‘until T call you." “I promise,” he answered sadly. “But, Clothilde, why are you here? Did not the league send you to ald in the fraud upon the Tsar?” She nodded, “But 1 found that tt 4s no fraud, Paul," she sald. “What? You don't mean that it ts true?” She nodded, looking earnestly into his eyes, s “It fs in very truth the spirit of the late Tsar,” she answered. “I was most sceptical; but when I went with the count 1 saw and heard and touched him. None could mistake Alexander. : | for breath the old woman took a slate and pencil und safd, in a mildly apolo. || getle tone: | "Very sorry, mum; but would you )| mind writin’ {t all down? I'm stone || deat."—London Tit-Bits : Pee eS : Fit Ammunition. | Stmmy—OF course, I didn’t hit dat || fyin' equirvel. How could you expect )| me tot |) Johnny—Why couldn't you? Timmy—I didn’t haye no bird abot [tn ais gun. Why, Paul, do, you not know that Alexander was the strongest man in Europe? He gould bend a horseshoe double with one of his hands, And 7 have seen him—his spirit—do that, to convince Nicholas.” “It was Apollodorus.” “Never, Paul., 76 1a a weakling and has ‘nantes a woman, Paul, it you are here to expose the monk Fou will be convinced in spite of your- welt.” “You are deceived by a clever im- postor,” Paul answered. “It cannot be, Clothilde.” She did not try further to persuade him, and a moment later the countess ‘awoke and looked around for her knit- ting. ‘The party was to start from the ‘station at ten o'clock on the Wed. ‘nesday morning, in a special train, ‘scheduled to reach Nishlko late in the afternoon, when they would be re- ceived and dined in the refectory of the monastery and lodged over: night. The program was carried out 4s it had been planned. Paul caught a glimpse of the thin, nervous figure of the Tear as he hurried into his private coach; then, with his host and Clothilde—for the’ countess stayed comfortably at home—he entered a compartment already three parts filled with gentlemen of the Tsar's body guard, and the train colled out of the station, to pull in at Nishikoff about five in the evening. There carriages awaited the party and drove in long procession to the monastery. Their sleeping accomodation was in cells, for the Tsar's visits were re- garded both by himself and by the head monk as disciplinary journeys; but the meal, spread on long tables in the refectory, was satisfying and al most epicurean., Evidently these monks were not averse to the good things of life; indeed, from the glances which they turned upon Clo- thide It was evident that they were by no means fanatical in thelr asceti- cism, ‘The admission of a woman, though contrary to the strict monastic rule, was condoned in the case of one of his majesty's suite, but it proved sufficiently disconcerting for many of the inmates. Paul noticed, however, that cach scrutiny of his companion was preceded by a furtive glance toward a small, thin man in a brown monk's robe made, instead of from cloth, out of horsehair, and fast- ened with a plain hempen girdle, and that this man, who occupied a carved chair at the head of the long table, seemed to possess @ wholesome au- thority over the brethren. “That 1s Apollodorus,” whispered Clothilde to Paul; and Paul, looking at the stern, ascetic face of the man, ‘was consclous of a fund of power in him which would make his own duty the more difficult. He grasped the Ht tle dark lantern tightly under bis coat. Undoubtly Apollodorus “was no com: mon impostor and would fight for his control over the wavering mind of Nicholas, And Paul was not among friends. He knew the self-deluded vanity of those who are tricked. ,] MURDERERS BURKE AND HARE 7 Be in the Recollection of anatchers treasured in King's College t| hospital recalls that there must be t| Londoners till living who remember Hare, who, with his accomplice, Burke, first substituted murder for ply subjects for the dissecting rooms. whteh makes them the moro Inalstent Jn defense of the impostor, He turned ‘to Clothilde, “Olothilde, a& you love mo, tell me, do you believe that the spirit of the ‘Tsar really appears to Nicholas?” “As I love you, I am sure of At, Paul,” sho answered. “O Patt, 1 know that you are here to fight against the league, to show up Apollodorus, the impostor, as you con sider him. Paul, indeed it 18 no 1m- posture, and in very truth Alexander HI. makes himself manifest to his on" For the first tlme Paul was stag. gered by this calm faith in the monk; he began to feel himself upon the brink of the unknown, ‘Tho matter was assuming a more serious aspect than ever before. He ran over his instructions in his mind. His duty was to convince Nicholas that Apollodorus was an im- postor. That would turn the weak: minded ruler from his allies and des: troy the league for ever. He must, then, catch the man when he was ca- pering rotind the seance room in the guiso of the Inte Tsar. He could do no more than that; if that failed to sufficd, he would fail In bis mission. Clothilde seemed to realize the pur pose of his journey. “Paul!” she whispered, “you will be sadly deceived if you intend to brea up the seance meeting. Promise me you will do nothing until you are con- vineed that {t fs fraudulent.” “T promise you that, Clothilde,” Paul answered, and at that moment the inner came to an abrupt end by the rising of the Tsar. The brethren stood up from thelr benches and marched out in order, leaving the Tsar and his retinue alono with the head monk and Apollodorus. ‘Then, since the affair was a matter of routine, by reason of frequent re- ‘Patition, no words were spoken, but ‘the whole party filed out in the monks’ wake and entered a largo, square, ‘vaultlike chamber, at one’ end of which a black curtain had been drawn in front of a sort of dais, a platform containing a dark cabinet and a chair. In front of this were chairs in rows several deep, into which the Tsar and his courtiers sank, while the head monk bowed bis head and intoned a prayer. Then, bowing solemnly, he withdrew, leaving Apollodorus to per- form his ‘teats, The monk addressed the Tear. What he sald Paul could not, of course, understand, but he saw how thoroughly the man dominated the mind of the monarch and impressed himself upon the courtiers, From behind the curtaln came a low muttering sound, gradually in- creasing in intensity, with broken words In deeper tones interjected as by an alien voles, Then a draught blow back the curtain till 1t bellied tn to the face of the Tsar. Nicholas drew back with a stifled shriek; a ‘moment later the gurtain was a8 oud denly withdrawn, nd, as the Tear subsided, a huge figure of & man glided from the cabinet and stood be ;| Burke (whose method of smothering the victims gave his name as a new || verb to tho language) was hanged on the testimony of his accomplice, for Hare turned queen's evidence and was released, }| Borty years or so ago Hare was a >| well-known figure in London streets, »| or Serjeant Rallantine in his “Life,” + | describes him as one of the most per. ,|eistent blind beggars on the streets r| about 1870, Few people recognized -|the cold-blooded murderer in tho . | middle-aged, stout man, clad in « Rt soe ae) Wecathe uta kad et ae en Paul's ear, And Paul, looking, owned that he had never seen a clearer ro- presentation of the late ‘Tsar than this spectral figure with the gaunt cheeks, gray beard, and mighty arms stretehed out over the company. ‘The ‘Tear had fallen upon his knees, the ‘courtiers followed suit, and somebody ‘among the audience was singing a Russian hymn, It died away; the figure still stood motionless before the curtain; then Nicholas arose weak- ly and, prostrating himself upon the lowest step, held communion with the figure, which bent over him. Only the whispers of their voles were audible in the room. ‘The eyes of all were on tho pair, Ail watched, all wondered; perhaps of that assembly half belleved and hard- ly one was wholly sceptical, Paul slipped, unnoticed, out of his chair, and edged his way toward the front row, immediately behind the prostrate sovereign. A candle filckered in one corner and the light fell clearly upon the face of the tall figure. Paul was amazed. ‘This could not be Apollodo- rus—some confederate, perhaps, but never that ascetic little man, A voice whispered in agitation on one side of him. Others took up the words, Hands clutched at him. Paul did not understand that he was sit- ting in Nicholas’s chair. At any mo- ment the monarch might rise and come back and perceive this intruder. ‘They laid hands violently upon him, and Paul, thinking his purpose had been discovered, tore the dirk lantern from under his coat and flashed it in- to the face of the figure. He had planned to begin instead with the cal- cium, but this proved equally effica- fous, For everybody was upon his feet shouting as Paul, leaping forward, his lantern light flooding the room, grasped the tall man by the flowing draperies he wore and whirled down the steps with him and into the midst jot the guests. Simultaneously the whole company precipitated them- selves upon Paul and him whom he held fast. Whoever it was, it was no ghost, that much was certain, but a giant in strength, a giant who sought for him and found him among the stumbling men and crashing chairs and wrapped his great arms around him like a vise and slowly crushed the breath out of his body. Pinned helpless in the grip of his antagonist, Paul felt his senses leaving him. He heard the shouts of the courtiers blend and mingle into a sullen roar as of the sea; lights flashed before his eyes; he felt himself Jifted up and carried away. Tho last things that he saw were Clothilde's terror-strick- en face and the horrified eyes of Count Gabel. When he opened his eyes again he was lying in the little cell which had been assigned to him on his arrival. Overhead an electric light burned brightly. Beside his bed a cowled fig. ure Was seated—the figure of Apollo: dorus, As Paul stirred the monk put down the missal which he had been reading and came toward him. "You are feeling better?” he asked, smiling composedly. “Then you can tell me who you are. An English- man?” g “American.” “Newspaper correspondent?" “If you Ike,” answered Paul indit- ferently. “Or perhaps an emissary of the league,” continued Apollodorus, smil ing more broadly. “Like yourseif? No," answered Paul, “My good American, you are a month out of the date,” Apollodorus answered. “I knew that I had the reputation of being a member of that organization, but one must not be Meve all that one hears. I have bet ter things to occupy my mind—eter nal things, not those of this wretched world, ‘That his majesty has been in clined toward the league was due to the counsels of his father; lately Alexander has counselled him other wise.” “By whom you mean yourself,” sate Paul. “Now let us be frank, | What are you going to do with me?" ‘The monk stared at him thoughtful yy. “I¢ you will give’ me your word o! honor to keep the secret which I shall reveal, you may go free,” he said “To be equally frank, you have us in an unpleasant position, If we had not dragged you away before the lights ‘went up—" “Yes.” “His majesty might have guessed at your purpose. As it 1s, everybody thinks you were a journalist, Have I your word? Good., The man you fought with was his late majesty Alexander Il. In middle life he wished to withdraw from the world to give himself up to meditation. As the ‘Tsar cannot abdicate he followed the example of his predecessor, Alex ander I, and withdrew to this monas. tery after a mock funeral, and hither his mafesty comes at times to recetve counsel. You understand, my friend, that with a soverelgn of his majesty's type of mind we cannot always be frank.” He whispered into Paul's ear Nicholas {s weak in his wits, It ts necessary to use certain methods tc strengthen them. You understand?” “And to strengthen the priesthood,” white smock ‘and led about by a dog. ‘His blindness he owed to the fact that on leaving prisod Hare found work in some lime kilns. Tho laborers dis- covered his bistory and threw him into & pit of limo, It was » terrible ven- geance, for It destroyed his eyesight. And as it te not fifty years since he was a striking figure in Londor streets some people should recall bim-—Lon- don Chronicle, ‘The less logig there is in a man's i catkins tha Teubor ie tah. Habits and Oddities of Little Night Creatures. Ie Not a ihe but a aka With a Great Difference From the Ordl- nary FourLegged Land- Golhe Tyek Of all the more common animals: about us the bat 1s probably the least well known to the average man, & writer in the Scientific American states. This is because of Its dune nal habits and the consequent dimen! ty in observing it. Indeed, all that most people seam to know about bata, | that they fly at night and are ful things to got into your hair.” As ‘a matter of fact, there Is no authentle Instance of bat's ever alighting upon 4 woman's hair, and they are no more in the habit of doing so than are hum- ming birds. The fact ts, very little is known concerning the habits of bats and much remains to be found out about them. The order comprises some 450 specios, but It fe safe to say that three-fourths of them are known only by their dry skins and skulls. They exhibit differences in form that are fairly bewildering. ‘They range all the way from the beautiful to the fan- tastic and hideous. The great ma- jority, however, are useful to man in destroying Insects which, without the ald of birds and beasts, would very soon overwhelm him, The harmful species are those which destroy fruit and a few which suck the blood of domestic animals. ‘The bat has figured in folklore from the earliest times. Bats are supposed) to have given the Latin poet Virgil the idea of harpies—creatures that had the faces of women and the wings: and claws of birds. The Greeks had a story about the two daughters of a certain hero who, on account of thelr obstinacy, were changed by the gods Into bats. The Saxons called the bat the “rere-mouse.” The ‘word comes from hreran, to move, and mus, a mouse—the ‘mouse that moves the air with its wings. The word Is now ased only in heraldry as signifying a bat on a coat of arms. You may hear country people speak of the filter mouse, and the word has been used sometimes in poetry, as for instance: “And giddy flittermice with leather wings.” The Chinese speak of the bat as the heavenly rat, the fairy rat, the flying rat or the night swallow. Their Ideas of the animal are very odd; they believe that it flies head down- ward because its brain 1s so heavy, and that it lives to a very great age because it has the habit of swallow- Ing its breath, They also take the bat as their emblem of happiness. A symbol consisting of five bats fs called wee fuh, or the “five happl- nesses” which every one is supposed to desire; they are wealth, health, goodness, long life and a peaceful death. In China, {f you wish your guest good luck, a graceful way of dothg so fs to have five bats depicts on the bottom of his. a x The bat is not a bird but ¢@ mamma, with almost as wide a departure from the ordinary fourlegged, land-going type as is a whale of manatee, Its hand reveals an extreme degree of what {s called “specialization.” For a mammal the arms are unusual length. The bones of the fingers are enor- mously extended and connected with hairless skin as flexible as India rob- ber to form a wing for filght. ‘This wing membrane {s extended on up the arm to the body and the legs, and fs continued between the legs and tail, where it forms a supporting para- chuce in flight. The thumb of a bat ls very short and free, and tts nail a developed as a hooked claw, by the ald of which the creature can com- fortably elimb about or support itself. The favorite position of a bat at rest is hanging by its feet, head dows ward, One of the strangest charactertstles about the bat 1s that it eannot fly from the ground. When it finds itself apon terra firma it crawls painfully to some wall or tree, and, clambering up to a suitable elevation, launches {t- self into the air. Curiously enough, too, it accomplishes this climbing trick upside down, holding on with one of its hinder hooks while tt reaches up and lays hold of the slight- est inequality with the other, In this way it makes rapid progress and, flinging itself into the alr, takes filght. Once upon the wing all awkwardness of the bat disappears as if by magic. Plague Rat Convicted.” ‘The editor of the Manila Dally Bat- ‘The editor of the Manila Dally Bat tetin died on September 22 alter a tour days’ illness the onset of whick was sudden and violent. ‘The case proved to be one of bubonte plague, His office was promptly cleaned out and disinfected, In the course of this work a mummified rat was found in a drawer of his desk. fm the same drewer a number of living rat fieas were found hovering about the car- cass, In these fleas and in the mum- mjted body of the rat virulent Plage ofganisms were found. The: connec- tion between the death of the editor, the mummified rat, and the fleas seems unmistakable, Although the rat had been dead at least two weeks, it was atill a a highly virulent state, as were also the fleas. Tho caso is of Interest. as showing with unusual clearness and directness the source of ‘a buman plague infection, and also as furnishing the strongest ‘kind. of testimony in support of the close nection betwoen rat. plague 4nd. 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In trying to improve their hair I had tried several preparations, but none gave me good results until I used Madam Dabney's XXth Century Preparations. Their hair was thin, harsh and would fall out so that I dreaded to use a comb. Now their hair is growing nicely—does not fall out—has no dandruff—is soft and pretty. Three of these girls are attending Wendell Phillips School, Howard and Vine streets. Investigation will bear out my testimony. I would not be without the XXth Century Preparation in my house. MRS. DORA HAWKINS, 2455 Woodland Ave. A six week's treatment of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations sent on receipt of P. O. money order of $1.25, or a single package of XXth Century Hair Grower, Pressing Oil or Shampoo sent for 50c. Write today to Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations Co., 1806 E. 24th St., Kansas City, Mo., Dept. 40. Persons living in Kansas City who cannot be supplied by their druggist will be called upon by an agent on dropping a postal card to the above address or calling* Bell phone, East 2476. Read the Sun --- Heckel Bro's. rbers' and Cooks' Supplies ocket Knives, Razors, S and Elite Pomade. RINDERS OF ALL H TOOLS. 20 Main St.. Kansas City Barbers' and Cooks' Supplies, Pocket Knives, Razors, Shears, and Elite Pomade. GRINDERS OF ALL EDGE TOOLS. 620 Main St.. Kansas City. Mo. H. B. MOORE, Proprietor. THE HAND For Ladies' and We most cordially invite you and at your earliest opportunity and see and Notions we carry. We hope we trust that you will help us build up a ALSO DESIGNING HANDY STOCK for Ladies' and Gents' Notions cordially invite you and your friends to visit our best opportunity and see for yourselves the line of we carry. We hope we can gain your trade and will help us build up a creditable race enterprise DESIGNING AND TAILOR THE HANDY STORE For Ladies' and Gents' Notions. We most cordially invite you and your friends to visit our little store at your earliest opportunity and see for yourselves the line of Dry Goods and Notions we carry. We hope we can gain your trade and sincerely trust that you will help us build up a creditable race enterprise. ALSO DESIGNING AND TAILORING CLEANING AND DYEING SPECIAL values in Overalls, Work Shirts, Gloves, Susp Shirts, Hosiery, Linen Collars, Fancy Ties, Handkerchiefs, L Work Baskets, Thread, Underwear for men, women and ch and so forth. LADEN BROS., HOLMES & MRS. ANNIE HOLMES SALESL values in Overalls, Work Shirts, Gloves, Suspenders, Linen Collars, Fancy Ties, Handkerchiefs, Laptops, Thread, Underwear for men, women and children N BROS., HOLMES & S. ANNIE HOLMES SALESLA SPECIAL values in Overalls, Work Shirts, Gloves, Suspenders, Fancy Shirts, Hosiery, Linen Collars, Fancy Ties, Handkerchiefs, Ladies' Aprons, Work Baskets, Thread, Underwear for men, women and children, Notions and so forth. 2427 Vine Street A. B. The Eureka Carp 1718 Eucl The Only Steam Carpet and Operate Your Old Carpets Made to Lo Special Attention Town Orders Freight One the Rest. ALL WORK GUARANTY Call Up or Write Yours in PHONES: Home M. 1169. Bell E. 3555. 1718 EUCLID AVEN WINES LIQU Home Pho Eureka Carpet Cleaning 1718 Euclid Avenue My Steam Carpet Cleaner in Missouri and Operated by a Negro. Carpets Made to Look New for a Reason Special Attention Given to Our Town Orders---You Pay Freight One Way and I the Rest. WORK GUARANTEED TO BE FIRED Call Up or Write for Information Yours in J. M. & T. M. 1169. Bell E. 3555. D. M. WEST UCLID AVE. Kansas C LIQUORS Home Phone Main 5130 The Eureka Carpet Cleaning Co. 1718 Euclid Avenue The Only Steam Carpet Cleaner in Missouri Owned and Operated by a Negro. Special Attention Given to Out of Town Orders---You Pay the Freight One Way and I Pay the Rest. ALL WORK GUARANTEED TO BE FIRST CLASS Call Up or Write for Information. Yours in J. M. & T. PHONES: Home M. 1169, Bell E. 3555. D. M. WEST, Prop. Leo's Place STRICTLY UNION S. E. Cor. 13th and Baltimore, Kansas r. 13th and Baltimore, Kansas S. E. Cor. 13th and Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo. DEALERS IN Cooks' Supplies, Goves, Razors, Shears, e Pomade. OF ALL EDGE TOOLS. St., Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City Undertaking Co. Motto: Prompt attention and courteous treatment. Lady Attendants. Caskets and Carriages Only Chapel Room in the City OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Home Phone, Main 3341. Bell Phone, Main 3398. 1031-33 Independence, Ave. KANSAS CITY, MO. INDY STORE and Gents' Notions. and your friends to visit our little store free for yourselves the line of Dry Goods we can gain your trade and sincerely to a creditable race enterprise. ING AND TAILORING Work Shirts, Gloves, Suspenders, Fancy Nancy Ties, Handkerchiefs, Ladies' Aprons, for men, women and children, Notions HOLMES & CO., HOLMES SALESLADY Carpet Cleaning Co. Cyclid Avenue Pet Cleaner in Missouri Owned created by a Negro. Look New for a Reasonable Price ention Given to Out of orders---You Pay the e Way and I Pay NEED TO BE FIRST CLASS Write for Information. in J. M. & T. 55. D. M. WEST, Prop. E. Kansas City, Mo Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo. CIGARS WHERE CAN YOU FIND ITS EQUAL? It has been said the value of convince the public of the advantage advertiser. It is not the inter alia pelmonico Cafe and Home Bakery a advertising phrases that long since bag of time. We have no des which that term is most generally ac few open facts which your invest has been said the value of advertising lies in its power to the public of the advantages to be gained in dealing with tiser. It is not the intention of the management of the Cafe and Home Bakery to deal at length with customary phrases that long since should have been cast into the of time. We have no desire to advertise in the sense in term is most generally accepted; we simply desire to state facts which your investigation will necessarily verify. It has been said the value of advertising lies in its power to convince the public of the advantages to be gained in dealing with the advertiser. It is not the intention of the management of the Delmonico Cafe and Home Bakery to deal at length with customary advertising phrases that long since should have been cast into the rag bag of time. We have no desire to advertise in the sense in which that term is most generally accepted; we simply desire to state a few open facts which your investigation will necessarily verify. A STATEMENT OF FACTS: The Delmonico Home Bakery, located East Eighteenth Street, Sas City, Mo., thoroughly equipped of the Mississippi it does a service to Negroes. The rooms in centrally situated of the Negro Dale the most modern furnished in their pointments. The Home Benection, while co new enterprise to of greater Kansas from the day it measured well thru in the quality of And has today the most finished Beneployed by Bakery pacity anywhere. Our solicitation for your patron the traveling public, is based on the service and as a guarantee of our management of the Delmonico Cafe and this proposition: To supply anyone our people in this city with their the foregoing statement of facts can HENRY C. CO Delmonico Cafe and He The Delmonico Cafe and Home Bakery, located at 1512 East Eighteenth street, Kansas City, Mo., is the most thoroughly equipped Cafe west of the Mississippi, rendering as it does a service almost wholly to Negroes. The rooms in connection are centrally situated at the Hub of the Negro District, and are the most modern and neatly furnished in their various appointments. The Home Bakery in connection, while comparatively a new enterprise to the Negroes of greater Kansas City, has from the day it was installed measured well to the standard in the quality of their products. And has today in service the most finished Bakers ever employed by Bakeries of small capacity anywhere. Solicitation for your patronage, either to the local trade or ling public, is based on the foregoing facts coupled with and as a guarantee of our position in this matter, the man-of the Delmonico Cafe and Home Bakery willingly makes position: To supply anyone of the recognized Charities of life in this city with their bread and pastry for one year if doing statement of facts can be disproven. HENRY C. COMPTON, Prop. Delmonico Cafe and Home Bakery, The Delmonico Cafe and Home Bakery, located at 1512 East Eighteenth street, Kansas City, Mo., is the most thoroughly equipped Cafe west of the Mississippi, rendering as it does a service almost wholly to Negroes. The rooms in connection are centrally situated at the Hub of the Negro District, and are the most modern and neatly furnished in their various appointments. The Home Bakery in connection, while comparatively a new enterprise to the Negroes of greater Kansas City, has from the day it was installed measured well to the standard in the quality of their products. And has today in service the most finished Bakers ever employed by Bakeries of small capacity anywhere. Our solicitation for your patronage, either to the local trade or the traveling public, is based on the foregoing facts coupled with service and as a guarantee of our position in this matter, the management of the Delmonico Cafe and Home Bakery willingly makes this proposition: To supply anyone of the recognized Charities of our people in this city with their bread and pastry for one year if the foregoing statement of facts can be disproven. SWITCHES 24 inches long, made of good quality combable hair, on three stems. Sell regularly at $1. In this sale only $2 $1 TRANSFORMATIONS, 50c ```markdown ``` 814 E. 12th St. HESSEL'S Kansas City, Mo. AGENT our High Special Ag The People's U Cut Rate U Funeral Directors and OUR M "Do unto others should do Our Sp LOW PRICES—FIR When in need of an Undertake look over our stock be Experienced and Practical Licensed E. mba HOME PHONE, 8165 MAIN. to you at Half-Price AGENTS WANTED Hundreds earn $10 to $80 weekly selling our High Grade Guaranteed Goods. Call or write for Special Agents Offer. The People's Undertaking Co. Cut Rate Undertakers General Directors and Licensed Embalmers OUR MOTTO "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." Our Specialties LOW PRICES—FIRST CLASS SERVICE. In need of an Undertaker call and get our prices and look over our stock before going elsewhere. Experienced and Tactical Licensed Embalmer. Manager. HOME PHONE, 8165 MAIN. BELL PHONE, 1565 GRAND. The People's Undertaking Go. Cut Rate Undertakers Funeral Directors and Licensed Embalmers OUR MOTTO "Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." When in need of an Undertaker call and get our prices and look over our stock before going elsewhere. Experienced and EDWARD JONES, Practical Licensed E. balmer. Manager. 1211 EAST 18th STREET. HOLIDAY Suits and Made to Order, Workmanship and Repairing, Cleaning and Pressing Give us a trial. HOLIDAY SPECIAL ON its and Overcoats Made to Order, $20.00 and Up. Workmanship and Fit Guaranteed. airing, Cleaning and Pressing. Work called for and delivered. is a trial. HOLIDAY SPECIAL Suits and Overcoats Made to Order, $20.00 and Up. Repairing, Cleaning and Pressing. Work called for and delivered. Give us a trial. BEN SCHWARTZBERG 408 East Twelfth Street Home Phone Main 2876. KANSAS CITY, MO. 1512 East 15th Street ```markdown ``` All-a-round Transformations, wt. 1/2 oz., 20 long; long; of fine quality hair, straight or wavy. We carry a complete line of Hair Goods, including Wigs and Braids at 15 to $15, which we make and we sell direct to you at Half-Price REVEREND L. H. MILLS, NOW PREACHING AT HIGHLAND AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev, Dr. L. H, Mills, B. D., of Aton "The Paramount Need of the Race lanta, Ga., as a preacher of the Gos- pel, has but few equals; as a race number stood, signifying that they man he has no peer. January 11, at would hereafter be one of the men of 3 p| m., he spoke to 150 or 200 men the race. Sunday, January 18, at 3 p. m.,—Wanted—1,000 Women. Subject, "The Woman's Place in the King- dom," come, come, come now. The revival service will continue and will close with Rev. Mills Sunday, January KANSAS ROSEDALE NOTES. The installation of Rev. Ralsten as pastor of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church will take place Sunday, Jan. 18, at 3 o'clock. Mr. Noah Everett will be ordained as deacon and Mr. McMillan will be given license to preach. Rev. D. B. Jackson of the Eighth Street Baptist Church will furnish the music. Mr. and Mrs. John Ralls entertained Mrs. J. T. Haskell and Mrs. Burna Bond at dinner Tuesday evening. Mrs. Alfred Davis entertained quite a number of small guests Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 14, in honor of her little son, Alfred's., second birth anniversary. The Parents Teachers' Association of Attucks school met Friday, January 9, at the school building. The association is doing a good work. Let all help...The programs of the Parent Teachers Association of Attucks school are always pleasing and interesting. Mrs. Hines, chairman of Program committee. The address of the Rev. Stripling, district superintendent of the M. E. church was highly instructive and interesting. Rev. Stripling has kindly consented to address the extra meeting to be held Friday afternoon, January 23, at 4 o'clock. All parents and well wishers are cordially invited to be present...Miss Alena Garth rendered a delightful instrumental solo at the meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association of Attucks school last Friday evening...Mr. and Mrs. Levi Collins, 3904 Lloyd avenue, entertained at dinner Sunday the district superintendent, Rev. Stripling, and Rev. and Mrs. Allen...Aglorious meeting was held at Wesley M. E. church Sunday. OSKALOOSA, KAN. Mrs. Lulu Cotton and son, Oliver are visiting in Kansas City....Mr. Jarrrett Gardiner and wife have moved back here and rented Ed Emery's house....Rev. Mat Wilson of Neely preached a very instructive seren at the A. M. E. Church Sunday night....Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Leonard REVERE Rev, Dr. L. H. Mills, B. D., of Atlanta, Ga., as a preacher of the Gospel, has but few equals; as a race man he has no peer. January 11, at 3 p. m., he spoke to 150 or 200 men of Stillwater, Okla., have moved to Oskaloosa for the winter... Mrs. Etta Cotton and children are visiting in Topeka this week... Robt. Bryant, a well known Negro of this city, was charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of Jas. Roach of Topeka...Mr. and Mrs. James Irvine gave a dinner Sunday for a number of relatives and friends in which there were four generations represented. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Irvine and their sons, Will and James, and wives, their children, Mildred and Henry Irvin and Mrs. Elsie Cotton and her children, Harold and Dorothy...Ms. Ella King spent the day with Mrs. Irvin Sunday. RENO KANSAS Mr. William Hawkins went to Lawrence on business. . . Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins gave a dinner I honor of Mr. Hawkins sister who is visiting here from Colorado. Those present were: Mrs. Jno. Harvey, Mrs. Susie Hawkins, Mrs. Queen Glideon, Mrs. Ophelia Hawkins and children, and Mrs. Alice Roffel. . . Mr. B. Roffel made a business trip to Lawrence last week.... 'there was a Jack rabbit race held in O. Dea's pasture by Mr. Frank Scott, Mr. Wwalker Roffel, Mr. Sam Jones and Mr. Walter Surk. Mr. Roffel's dogs held the championship....Come everybody and enjoy yourself. . . Mrs. ```markdown ``` Roffel is among the progressive citizens of Renooo...Mrs. Luvenia Hawkins is on the sick list this week....MrMs. Amanda Shepard was visiting in Reno Sunday...Mr. and Mrs. Gra in Renooo Sunday...Mr. and Mrs. Grant Glideon was in Lawrence Monday on a business trip...Chas. Hicks is in Reno this week...Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Lee gave a dinner in honor of Mrs. Chas. Lee of Kickapoo, Kansas Sunday. Those present were: Miss Delba Lee of Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. D. Hilderbrand, misses Brown, Bablon Roffel, Roy WaWilton, Levi McKinney, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Lee, Frank Nelson and daughter. Mr. Segel George of Sheridan, N. Y. is visiting Mr. P. Brown...Brown...Brauner and Edward Grant were quietly married last weck. They are both respected by the community and their many friends wish them success. TONGANOXIE, KANSAS. Don't forget the Oratorical Contest January 24. ...Mrs. C. C. Davis of Lincoln, Nebr. will spend a few weeks with Miss Alice Wood. ...Miss May Wood is on the sick list—Mrs. Ellen Brura is ill at her home. ...Rev. Saunders of Pittsburg, Kansas will preach at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. ...Mis at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. ...Miss Marie Lee visited Tonganoxie friends Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Guy Carper of Toopeka, Kansas visited his sister Mrs. E. Jarett. ...Miss Elsie Reynolds entertained a few friends Sunday afternoon. ...Mrs. Hattie Carter of Hoge was amooing the visitors Sunday. ...Mrs. Corona James was Lawrence visit Tuesday. EX-SLAVE PENSIONS Captain Charles Taylor of Leavenworth, Kansas an indefatigable worker in the cause of securing pensions for those of our race held in slavery writes that he has placed in the hands of Congressman D. A. Anthony at at Washington, D. C., the following bill which he hopes to have presented and passed at this session of Congress. In view of the fact that all of the Southern states including Missouri have taxed their citizens to provide pensions for Ex-Confederate Soldiers who fought against the Gov- END L. H. MILLS, NOW PREACHING ON "The Paramount Need of the Race as Men." After the lecture a great number stood, signifying that they would hereafter be one of the men of the race. Sunday, January 18, at 3 ernment, it seems reasonable and fair that the Government should tax its citizens to provide pensions for those people who hewed down the forest, leveled the mountains, tilled the soil and by their labor made this the greatest and most prosperous country in the World. THE BILL A bill to reimburse all ex-slaves in the United States of America for labor and services performed by them without compensation while held in bondage and involuntary servitude and for being denied the rights and benefits of an education while so held. I. All persons born in slavery and now under sixty years of age to receive a bounty of $250. II. All Ex-Slaves over sixty and under seventy years of age to receive a bounty of $500. III. All Ex-Slaves over seventy and under eighty years of age to receive a bounty of $750. IV. All Ex-Slaves cover eighty years of age to receive one thousand dollars. These sums so received by the Ex-Slaves to be payments in full for all claims against the United States Government for any and all services performed by them while held in bondage in the United States of America. ```markdown ``` Y. M. C. A. NOTES The foundation for the new building has been completed and the concrete work will begin as soon as the casings are ready. Fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety-five cents is the amount collected to date in the building fund; 1,019 persons have paid in full to this fund. Are you one of this number? A few days ago we received a check from Mrs. Lucinda Day for $20, paying in full her pledge to the building fund. This means much from one who has been so closely connected with the birth of the organization as has Mrs. Day. Next Sunday afternoon the Men's meeting will be addressed by Rev. W. A. Bowren, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Kansas City, Kas. The men who have heard Rev. Bowren on previous occasions know what a treat awaits them and we invite those who have not heard him to avail themselves of the opportunity next Sunday, 3:30 p. m. A Bible class is being formed for those who care to learn more of the way to salvation. This class will be taught by an experienced teacher and we invite the men, especially the new members, to join immediately that they may get the full benefits of the course. The first meeting will be be held at the rooms tonight at 7:45. Come and bring a friend. Y. W. C. A. NOTES "I come that they might have life; and that they might have it more abundantly."—John 10:10. —National Y. W. C. A. Motto. One hundred and seventy-nine aggressive women are wanted to complete our membership roll of five hundred before the expiration of our first AT HIGHLAND AVENUE BAPTIST CH p. m.,—Wanted—1,000 Women. Subject, "The Woman's Place in the Kingdom," come, come, come now. The revival service will continue and will close with Rev. Mills Sunday, January year and by the date of our annual Y. W. C. A. meeting on March 5. The Tuesday Night Bible Class had an interesting study of the International Sunday School Lesson this week. Mrs. G. L. Prince has consented to be the teacher of Thursday night Bible Class, formerly taught by Mr. G. B. Buster. Our total attendance at the Bible Classes last month was sixty-nine. It is not necessary to be member of the Y. W. C. A. to join either or both of these classes. Miss Josephine P. Viphyon, National Student Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. delivered an interesting and instructive address to a large and enthusiastic gathering of young women at the Vasper service in the Association building, 5th and State avenue, at 3 o'clock last Sunday. Miss Viphyon told the progress of the Y. W. C. A. in our various colleges and in the increased interest shown this year by teachers as well as the students. It is possible that Miss Hall, the Missionary to Africa and of the recent student volunteer conference, will be the speaker on Sunday. All women and girls are asked to come early. Mrs. A. W. Hunton wrote to express her very deep regret to the many friends of the two cities of Kansas that she was unavoidably detailed even at the last moment from coming West for her engagements/this month. --- MISSOURI By I. C. U. Know. Mr. Floyd Dawson and Miss Alice Tally were visitors at Gallatin, Mo., last Sunday....Mr. Harold Estes of Des Moines, Ia., who spent the holidays with his relatives, went to St. Joseph, Mo., Friday, accompanied by Miss Ralph Anderson. There they visited relatives and friends for a few days and returned to their respective homes Monday....The following persons are on the sick list and they are the possessors of what goes to bring about a restoration of health: Mr. Wachum Bell, Mrs. Holmes Miss Clemite Banks and Mrs. Alvis of Minneapolis, Minn., and her brother, Sawyer Tull of Council Bluffs, Ia., who are at the home of Mrs. Daniel Monroe. The revival is present in the Baptist Church is increasing in interest. The evangelist is cremars of Rev Jackson of Kansas City, Kas., are heartfelt. Hence the services are well attended and the several persons have done the people' s friend....In the midst of this 80th birthday celebration Mr. Wm. Moore was pleasantly surprised by the Knights of Tabor, who went to his home and gave expression of the respect they have for their oldest member. A delicious two-course lunch was served by the daughter of the venerable Mr. Wm. Moore. Mrs. Jenie Anderson was assisted by her lady friends....Mr. joseph Holme was given a similar birthday celebration several days ago by Miss Clyde Clark, at whose home he and his wife reside. Mr. Moore and Mr. Holmes are blessed with the present help of faithful children and grandchildren and they seem to be enjoying that repose of life called old age....Misses Minnie Payne and Odessa Hillman or organized a young ladies' club last week Just now my knowledge of the new cub is not sufficient to grant you the privilege of reading and saying to yourself I. C. U. Know all about it. HURCH. 25. Let the sinner come. Let the saint come and hear this great man Sinners must be saved and backslid ers reclaimed. So come now. REV. G, W, BOYD, Pastor. LEXINGTON, MO. Miss Glover Hawkins spent part of the holidays in Kansas City.....Mrs. Susie Hawkins returned usday evening after spending a few days with Mrs. Ed Marshall.....Mrs. Letha Lightle was the guest of her aunt and cousin in Kansas City during the holidays.....Mrs. Sarah Combs of Kansas City was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. Saunders during the holidays.....Mrs. Eva Hunter who is teaching at Huntsville, Mo., spent the Christmas at home with parents.....Miss Mildred Hawkins septed a few days at home, Dec. 26 Miss Hawkins and Mr. Harper were quietly married in Iowa and we hope for them a happy life....The following girls came home from college: Misses Nellie Ray, Lille Jackson, Cordella Hayden and Rebecca Walker, all of whom attended Lincoln Institute.....Mr. Earl Lacy has gone to Iowa to work and his wife is expecting to join him soon....The Progressive Club had a grand reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hicks.....The Happy Hour Club held its sixth annual reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Frazier. Seventy-five persons were present.....Mrs. Charles Haywood of Kansas City is the guest of her sister and brother, Mrs. Maud Johnson and Mr. Herbert Jackson.....Miss Ethel Henderson, who has been ill for the --- past two weeks, will soon be able to resume her work as teacher in the Douglass School...Mr. Lincoln Jones, one of our prominent young men, passed away Monday and was buried Thursday from the Second Baptist Church. He leaves three daughters, a loving wife and friends to mourn his loss. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. MO Messrs. Bellamy and Browning have come to us from Omaha to cast their lot with that noble body of Elms waiters. Also Mr. Rainbow, accompanied by his wife...Rev. Bird of Liberty preached a soul-stirring sermon. He is a student of Western College and will be a wonderful servant of God if he continues...Mr. Fred Thomas has returned to work at the Elms Hotel. Old friends were glad to see him...The church is looking forward to a grand time when it will have three night bazaars on one night. The program will be rendered entirely by the Elms boys and we are assured of a success...Miss Dess Johnson returned to her home in Lawson after spending two days here...Mr. W. D. Seals is spending a few days in Kansas City with his parents...Mr. J. Clark left Wednesday for Richmond, where he will spend several days...Mrs. J. Clark returned from Kansas City Sunday, where she has been visiting her daughters...Miss George Floyd of California, Mo., is in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. Pennington...Mrs. Vivian of Moberly, Mo., is the guest of Mrs. Miller, 622 North Main street...Wanted, lots of girls in Excelsior Springs. Must be good looking, refined, and educated to a certain extent. Write the Big 4 or call mr. O. C. W., President, Bell phone 10. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Johnson have moved to their new home on Osage avenue, where they are comfortably situated...Mr. and Mrs. Wmn. Trigg and Mr. and MrsfI Jess Mablon will leave for Parksville on Saturday to spend two days with parents...Miss Bessie Lindsay was the guest of Miss Frankie May last week...Miss McKnight was the guest of her husband last week. She came to attend one of those fashion balls. The music was furnished by three white gentlemen, which was duly appreciated...Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Bosler were cained home on account of the death of the former's aunt...It was very painful to the public to know that Prof. Johnson was forced to give up school on account of his eyes. He has our sympathy as he had such an excellent system...Messrs. Washington and Brown gave an eight o'clock lunch on Thursday last week in honor of Miss George Floyd of California, Mo. The table was decorated in pink roses and the whole evening was spent enjoyably...Mrs. Minnie Miller is taking her vacation this week and will visit friends and parents in Carrollton, Mo...Mrs. Oscar Hope was the guest of Miss Eliza Jacobs Saturday. The S. M. T. offered a prize of a pig to who brings in the most money and Mrs. Jess Boswell spent Sunday in Liberty with parents...Rev. Hillman of Kansas City, Mo., preached a soul-stirring sermon last Sunday so plainly that a fool need not err...Miss Elmore Fields and mother left Thursday for their new home in Ohaha. The entertainment at church naturation night was quite a success...Miss Susie Lindsay is the guest at Albany this week and also W. H. Ashby. We are glad that Mr. Carl Glpson won in the wood sawing contest at Creeked Creek...Miss Channie Golf has moved to the cozy home of Mrs. Johnson...Mrs. Jess Mablon was taken suddenly ill Saturday...Mrs. Norman is able to be out...Miss Clara Doxey was ill last week with sore throat...Mrs. Kate Jones is still on the menu. I am looking for a lady by the name of Angire Jackson. Any one having this information will please write R. L. Jackson, 626 North Main street, Excelsior Springs, M. when she was last heard of she was in Oklahoma. FARMINGTON, MO. Mr. B. J. Wilkins of St. Louis visited his mother. Mrs. Susie Wilkins, the first of the week...Mr. Alexander Anthony returned to St. Louis Tuesday after visiting his mother, Mrs. Louise Anthony, through the holidays...Miss Mattie Vallie returned from St. Louis Monday after having visited relatives in the city through the holidays...Mesdames J. Hunt and L. Anthony returned from Fredericktown u.Snday. Mrs. Hunt is looking after he rtrade there and Mrs. Anthony was visiting friends...Mrs. J. Swink is convalescing after a few days' illness...Rev. Bailey, pastor of the Christian Church of this city, lectured at the A. M. E. Church Friday evening on 'the Bible, which was indeed quite a treat...The Clover Bee Club was entertained by Mrs. James Robinson and an elaborate luncheon was served...Miss Mac Baker returned Sunday evening from a two weeks' visit; in Bonnie Terre with relatives. Furnished and Unfurnished Rooms For Rent. For Rent—One front room for light housekeeping. One front room, strictly modern, 1413 Lydia avenue. FOR RENT—Five room house, 1914 East Seventeenth street. Home phone, Linwood 1407. FOR RENT—Four room apartment; desirable neighborhood... 2434 Woodland avenue. FOR RENT—One nice furnished room for married couple. Bath and telephone free. Strictly modern. Bell phone East 4573W. For Rent—Nearly furnished rooms, strictly modern, for gentlemen or married couple. Mrs. J. O. Kingsberry, 1007 Tracy avenue. E. A. Robinson, Express, Baggage and Light Moving. Prompt and courteous service. Call Bell phone East 754.