Kansas City Sun

Hear Dr. Washington at 2nd Baptist Church, Mar. 4 Negro Restaurant Keeper Employs Several Bakers, Chefs, Waitresses and Others, Paying Them Over Eighty Dollars a Week in Aggregate Salaries. HENRY COMPTON, THE PIONEER CATERER OF THE WEST. A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI. NUMBER 27. Hear Dr. SUCCESS ACHIEVED LONG YEARS OF Negro Restaurant Keeper Em Chefs, Waitresses and Others Eighty Dollars a Week in A HENRY COMPTON, THE P OF THE W The earliest recollections of Henry Compton date back into the swift receding days of the "Ante Bellum" period just when war was about to make this phrase a thing of the past. He was a mere boy at that time, romping about a sequestered cabin in a village of Jackson county, Mo. This in itself was not unusual, but the business career of this "boy" in after life is not without its charms and varied interests to the race, as well as local people. The tendency of public investigation is to call attention to the solid achievements by members of the race and disallow the empty voiterations of nameless individuals who do nothing real, but manage to keep themselves before the public. And so in making this statement about Mr. Henry Compton as a real business man, the thought is entertained that we are bringing to light a dignified success of a Negro enterprise. Mr. Compton started life as a cook on a steamboat plying on the Mississippi river between St. Louis and New Orleans, in the palmy days when the maritime trade stood unrivaled. Here no doubt, he acquired that culinary art which has stood him in such good stead, in his long experience as Caterer. On coming to Kansas City he engaged in the grocery business with indifferent success. Also, he contracted for house moving (a business which was flourishing at that time) but gave it up to go into the restaurant business, which has occupied his time and attention unto the present day, and which has proven his success. The "Vision of a Salon" recently revealed this trader: "I see the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting courses of right and wrong, truth and error." This seems to eloquently sum up the life work of him who is engaged in a business which is naturally of a shifting nature. The restaurant business, superficially studied, is inviting, but when engaged in, soon appears difficult and complicated, so much so that more financial ships have grounded upon the hidden shoals in its sea than any other. If you do not believe this, ask the thousands who have ventured on its waters only to perish! The "Delmonico Cafe," of which Mr. and Mrs. Compton are the able managers, has been located in various parts of the city, always following the trend of the Negro population upon which it depends solely for its support. When historic Independence avenue was flourishing in the late "Nineties" it was there (under a different name) and at one time it received the influx of patrons at Nineteenth and Grand THE EDWARDS FUNERAL The funeral of the late Harvey R. Edwards held on last Sunday at Allen Chapel at 1 p. m., under the auspices of the Masons and Odd Fellows was one of the most impressive ever held in this city. Scottish Rite services were held at 12 o'clock Saturday night and were attended by a large throng while on Sunday, in spite of the inclement weather, three hundred and sixteen Masons and forty-seven Odd Fellows braved the worst blizzard of the year to pay a last tribute of respect to their chieftian and brother. Melford's excellent Military band headed the procession and the following grand officers were in attendance: Past Grand Master, A. R. Chinn; Past Grand Master, R. T. Coles; W. W. Fields, secretary of Masonite Relief; Deputy Grand Master Richard Young; Grand Lecturer, E. J. Cooper; Grand Secretary, G. W. K. Love; Grand Junior Warden, F. J. Brown; Grand Senior Deacon, A. L. Thomas; Grand Marshal, Richard Fulbright; Grand Registar, W. H. Dawley, Jr.; Grand Steward, Geo. W. Edwards. Splendid resolutions on behalf of the Masonic fraternity were read by Prof Joe E. Herriford. The obituary was read by Sir W. G. Moseley; Past Grand Master A. R. Chinn delivered a brief address and Rev. W. H. Thomas preached a brief but brilliant sermon. Past Grand Master Coles acted as Master of Ceremonies. The Grand Master, N. C. Crews, assisted by the officers of the grand lodge, conducted the Masonic ceremonies after the resolutions of the Odd Fellows had been read and the services of the Knights Templars had been completed. Owing to the severity of the storm it was impossible to reach the cemetery and the body was returned to the undertaking rooms from whence interment was held on Tuesday morning. Miss M. E. Clement, 1517 Woodland avenue, who has been quite ill, is out again to the pleasure of her many friends. The Kansas City Sun leaving there to locate on Twelfth street near Charlotte, a place which fitted nicely into the economic and social plan of the then thriving "Church Hill Center." Conditions changed; so did the Delmonico Cafe, which is located now (and has been for several years) at 1512 E. 18th street, in the very heart of a thickly populated Negro district. Here, has been established the best appointed Cafe and the best equipped Bakery west of Chicago that caters to people of color exclusively. Mr. Compton, whose life has been wrapped up in his business, proves to be a man of good sound business judgment, nicely sustained by a high morale of decency. Constant application, laboring-aided by an ever dear and helpful wife, he has built up the best legitimate race institution in Kansas City. Mr. Compton's reputation for keeping a first class place is of more than local fame, and people here are not only aware of its high standard in efficiency, but recognize the Delmonico Cafe as the one social gathering place where the Elite may be found. A few of the leading facts which distinguish the "Delmonico" from all others are as follows: 1st. It is the pioneer restaurant of Kansas City for colored people. Weathering every condition, normal or abnormal, for twenty years. "Restaurants may come, Restaurants may go, but I go on forever" quoth Delmonico. 2d. Its cuisine is unexcelled, affording a first class service to large patronage, which is drawn from all parts of the city. 3d. It is the distributing point for Mrs. Compton's celebrated sweet potato pies and a large variety of Bakery goods which have the Comptonian stamp of excellence with a daily delivery through the popular "Black Belt" District, furnishing many homes with that most important of things: Daily bread. 4th. It employs eleven people with an aggregate wage of over eighty dollars per week, thus taking front rank as an employer of colored help by a colored enterprise. And also taking an advanced step toward solving the race question on a real, economic and industrial basis. 5th. It is the best equipped Cafe in the city for members of the race, surpassing many of the downtown restaurants in style and appointment, having every arranged facility for quick and efficient service. Banquets, parties and luncheons specialized for all occasions. A banquet at the Delmonico being considered a "classic" and means the sum total of elegance and quality with an attending social triumph. MR. R. QUINN, The enterprising and intrepid young hustler who will give a mammoth entertainment in Convention Hall June 19th and who is preparing to organize a Negro Commercial Club. R. QUINN. Organizer of Colored Commercial Club, will hold a meeting Monday Night, March 2d, at 1718 E. 18th St. Ladies and Gentlemen invited. Promptly at 8 p. m. GRAND MUSICAL RECITAL. at Convention Hall, June 19, 1914. Speakers of Note In and Out of the City Will Be Present. the City Will Be Present. Music by the Best Talent Procured Tickets will be on sale at the leading drug stores of the city after February 15, 1914. For further information write R. F. Quinn, 5714 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. "I'll tell you the kind of man I am in these pool deals. I'm the kind of man who, when he finds a spoon in the hall after he has given a dinner party, says: KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914. The Sorosis Ladies will meet Monday afternoon with Mrs. R. A. Hughes 318 Garfield Avenue, Kansas City, Kans. The Valentine Banquet given by the Banquet Club of the Second Christian Church for the benefit of the choir, was a decided success. Dancing every Wednesday at Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets. Prof. Roscoe White and Mrs. Jennie White, instructors. Hall for rent—$6.00. Bell phone East 308R. Misses Estelle and Dovie Murray entertained the Shawndasse School Club Wednesday evening, February 18th at their residence, 13 00 Woodland Avenue. Many visitors were present. The evening was spent in playing parlor games, whist, and music; after which a dainty luncheon was served. Each departed declaring the Misses Murray charming hostesses. Miss Ruby Locke entertained with breakfast Sunday morning for the "Ka-Sees." Covers were laid for the. The centerpiece was a huge basket of red carnations and ferns, under which the favors with red streamers extending to each plate were hidden. Souvenir bows of the DR. BOOKER T. Who will speak at the Second streets, Wednesday night, March 4, 191 GARRY HARRIS DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Who will speak at the Second Baptist Church, Tenth and Charlotte streets, Wednesday night, March 4, 1914. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The foremost citizen of his race and today who is known as the "Wizard of stituation at Tuskegee deserves to rank will be in Kansas City next Wednesday auspices of the local league, a branch of which Dr. Washington is president, benefit of the Women's League Workstation will be 25 and 35 cents. After the Dr. Washington in the parliars of the citizens and Dr. Washington has request that the humblest members of the race both the lecture and the banquet may Business League or of the Women's L that 2,000 people will hear this disting A splendid program has been arranged lecture. The Business League into the year. During the day Mr. Washing several of the public schools on both the local league. The foremost citizen of his race and one of the greatest living Americans today who is known as the "Wizard of Tuskegee," and whose magnificent institution at Tuskegee deserves to rank as one of the wonders of the world, will be in Kansas City next Wednesday and will deliver an address under the auspices of the local league, a branch of the National Negro Business League, of which Dr. Washington is president, at the Second Baptist Church, for the benefit of the Women's League Working Girls' Home, and the price of admission will be 25 and 35 cents. After the lecture a banquet will be tendered Dr. Washington in the parlors of the church by the local league and the citizens and Dr. Washington has requested that the prices be made so small that the humblest members of the race may be able to attend. Tickets for both the lecture and the banquet may be obtained from any member of the Business League or of the Women's League. And it is confidently predicted that 2,000 people will hear this distinguished representative of a rising race. A splendid program has been arranged in connection with Mr. Washington's lecture. The Business League intends to make this the banner event of the year. During the day Mr. Washington will visit Western University, and several of the public schools on both sides of the line, and also the rooms of the local league. Club colors were tied on the handle of each grape fruit basket. A delightful menu was served. Skeptic's Question. Rey. C. H. Spurgeon, the eminent It appears that the Cosmopolitan Club intends to maintain the lofty position it has recently gained in the minds of the public. On lost Tuesday evening they were the hosts of a stag party with Prof. J. Dallas Bowser as the principal speaker. There were also invited twenty-three other guests among whom were Prof. G. A. Page, principal of Attucks School, Dr. Bunch and R. E. L. Balley, each of whom delivered a very appropriate address which was immensely enjoyed by all present. Mr. Bowser had for his topic, "Idealism," which he treated as only one of his eloquence and ability could do. The menu which was prepared by the chairman of the entertainment committee was the subject of much favorable comment by the various guests. It was as follows: Shrimp "Aldalise," Demitasse. Club Sandwiches Sherry. Cigars. Cigarettes. YOU PEOPLE TO WHOM WE HAVE MAILED STATEMENTS, WHY DON'T YOU PAY UP? OR AT LEAST BE KIND ENOUGH TO ANSWER OUR LETTERS WHICH WERE SENT YOU? PROF. R. G. JACKSON. This is a new cut from a recent photograph of one whom the Editor considers the greatest pipe organist of the race, and a musician of rare attainment and temperament. The Kansas City Sun can be found on sale at the following prominent places: Palace Barber Shop, 19th and Vine streets; Shumacher's News Stand, 18th and Highland; Unthanks' Drug Store, Independence and Harrison; Tucker's News Stand, 12th and Vine. WASHINGTON. Baptist Church, Tenth and Charlotte 14. and one of the greatest living Americans of Tuskegee," and whose magnificent ink as one of the wonders of the world, by and will deliver an address under the of the National Negro Business League, at the Second Baptist Church, for the Young Girls' Home, and the price of admise the lecture a banquet will be tendered church by the local league and the citited that the prices be made so small face may be able to attend. Tickets for be obtained from any member of the League. And it is confidently predicted enquired representative of a rising race. in connection with Mr. Washington's ends to make this the banner event ofington will visit Western University, and sides of the line, and also the rooms of Skeptic's Question. Rey. C. H. Spurgeon, the eminent English divine, said that, as soon as a man loses his religion, he wants to know who Cain's wife was.—The Congregationalist. Gas mantles which have become so discolored that they give a bad light can be made almost new by sprinkling a pinch or two of fine salt over them while alight. When Document is Valuable. "Father, what is the Constitution?" "My son, it is a document that is most sacred to the party that is not in power."—New York Sun. To Remove Spots From Varnish. One of the best substances to use in removing spots from varnished surfaces is butter. The stronger the better. Partly True. Anyway The man who thinks he has learned all he can, has merely learned all he will—at least until his hatband shrinks When a grass widow attends a hop of course she is a grass-hopper.—Florida Times-Union. NOTICE Better Gas Lights. Uncle Eph. is passing—bare the head. Let no words of scorn or saam cé be loved. For he wrought as doth the mole Save that light shone in his soul, And his like comes not again—bare the head. Uncle Eph. is passing—bow the knee. For, whatever the future holds, still twas Who hath fathered well the race And his grave yet kindly face Conducts wrong, and grief and death— bows the knee. Uncle Eph. is passing—whisper low. While the mild and soothing tears gently flow Who but he the way could tread Through the living and the dead And survive the dread ordain?—whisper low. Uncle Eph. is passing—let us pray; Grant, on wondrous Lord of Hosts, in our HIGHLAND AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. We, the members of the board and officers of Highland Avenue Baptist Church, wish to announce that Rev. Lee H. Mills of Atlanta, Ga., has kindly consented to conduct services for us Sunday, March 1. Order of Services. 11 a. m.-Preaching, subject, "Christ's Yoke." 1 p. m.-Sunday school. 3 p. m.-Communion Services. 8 p. m.-Preaching, subject, "The Pentient Malefactor." THOS. H. BAILEY, F. H. LEE, Deacons, B. J. KNOX, Reporter. A CHANCE FOR EVERYBODY. An opportunity for the School teacher, school boys and girls to win three valuable prizes for the best ad of twenty-five words describing the Tango Sundae on a Blazer at Smith's Drug Store at 18th and Tracyacy. Send your suggestions in at once. Each purchase entitles you to a suggestion. The Contest will close one week before Easter. The first prize is $5 in gold; second prize is a first class tennis racquet; third prize one year's subscription to the Kansas City Sun. The names of the winners will be published Easter Sunday in the Kansas City Sun. GET BUSY! VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs. John Reed is doing well after undergoing an operation at the Provident Hospital. Much credit is due Dr. Perry for the skillful manner in which he performed this difficult operation. We hope for her a speedy recovery....On account of the cold weather the revival services are not largely attended....Several additions have been made to the church. All are invited to attend....Morning and evening services were not well attended on account of the extreme cold weather. Our pastor, Dr. T. H. Ewing preached a good sermon in the morning and Rev. D. Phelps preached an excellent sermon in the evening. The XX History and Art Club met Feb. 26th with Mrs. Bert Crane, 1621 Cottage avenue. Current events were led by Mrs. Mabel Dixon and a delightful program was rendered as follows: Piano solo, Mrs. Bert Crane vocal solo, Mrs. E. Hendricks; reading from Dunbar, Mrs. Sol. Smith; instrumental solo, Miss Catherine Washington. Visitors were Wesdames Cecil Thompson, R. P. Jackson and J. N. Mitchell and an elegant luncheon was served by the hostess. The club meets March 5th with Mrs. W. McElhaney 1708 Michigan. MRS. WM. SNELL, MASONIC Some of these days some brave Masons are going to get together and rewrite the burial ceremonies and not only to shorten them but to bring them into touch with modern spirit. Each ceremony appears to have been written without regard for any other and the higher the rank of the degree, the longer and more tedious the ceremony, the more positively tiresome, especially as they are usually carried out. There was a time when ceremonies were performed but the time has passed. What formerly interested them now bores them and the demand for reforms has been met. Perhaps it would be better to out all the ceremonies in private, thus "making a better showing of diversity in our belief and eliminating the negative features of our public appearances. CARD OF THANKS We wish to sincerely thank each and everyone of our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown us during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father, Harvey Edwards, also for the beautiful floral offerings. For days he bore his pain, To look for cure was all in vain Till God above thought it best To ease his pain and give him rest. Friends may think the wound is healed, But they little know the sorrow That lies within our hearts concealed. —Mrs. Harvey Edwards and Family EVERYBODY IS GOING A MAGNIFICENT BANQUET EVERYBODY IS GOING A MAGNIFICENT BANQUET Everybody is going to Smith's Drug Store to try the famous Tango Sundae on a Blazer. The following is a list of distinguished guests and popular society people who have visited and declared the Tango Sundae to be the most delicious they have ever eaten. Is Your Name in the List? Meet me at Smith's after the show after church or after the dance, where we can sit and talk the matter over and enjoy eating one of those Thrilling Tangos. Eighteenth and Tracy is the place. MR. F. J. WEAVER, The President of the Negro Business League and Kansas City's foremost business man who will have charge of the Booker Washington reception next Wednesday night. BANK MESSENGERS The men composing the organization are: Mr. George Teeters of the S. W. National Bank of Commerce; Richard Allen and Frank Scott, First National Bank; Austin Young, Interstate Bank; C. A. Morgan and I. H. Neal Bank of the Republic; Tom Gamble, Peoples' Bank; Will Scott and J. H. Harworth, National Reserve Bank; W. A. Green, Fidelity Trust Co.; J. H. Green, Ploneer Trust Co.; Robert Sneed, Traders' National Bank; Don Rife, Gate City Bank; George Fowler, Missouri Savings Bank; G. A. Hickum, Western Exchange Bank; J. H. Dixon, Corn Belt Bank; Jack C. Thornton, German-American Bank; Arthur A. Bledsoe, Commonwealth National Bank; H. W. Hart, Drovers; Arthur Moppins, State Bank of Kansas City; Irving Johnson, Terminal Trust Co.; B. Ball, Southwest Boulevard Bank, and W. S. Gaines, Mexican Trust Co. MR. THOS. JACKSON, Worshipful Master of Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. & A.-M., who is making a splendid record this Masonic year. "Charity covers a multitude of sins," quoted the Wise Guy. "Yes, but it is generally our charity and other people's sins," added the Simple Mug. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE, 5c. Mar. 4 A MAGNIFICENT BANQUET The Bank Messengers and Employees Club Give a Delightful Social Affair at the Famous Delmonico Cafe, Last Monday Night. MANY PROMINENT GUESTS PRESENT The Bank Messengers and Employees Social Club, a recently formed organization, gave its initial banquet on last Monday night, February 23, at the Delmonico Cafe on Eighteenth street near Paseo. The spacious dining room was handsomely decorated for the occasion and the three long banquet tables, which extended the length of the room, wer brilliantly and beautifully decorated with cut glass, palms and cut flowers furnished by the Weaver Floral Co., and a choice gift of four dozen beautiful white carnations from the Alpha Floral Co. The members of the Club, their families and friends assembled at the elegant Palace Drug Store, 19th and Vine streets, and at 9:30 led by President Richard Allen and in order arranged by the Committee, they marched over to the Delmonico and were ushered to their seats by Messrs. Teeters, Rife and Sneed. During the evening high class vocal and instrumental music was furnished by the interesting and accomplished Anderson family, late of England. When all had been assigned to their places, the President asked all to stand while the invocation was delivered by Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., after which the President introduced Mr. Don Rife of the Gate City Bank, as Master of Ceremonies. Mr Rife briefly stated the formation and purposes of their organization and announced amid much applause, that the President, Richard Allen, had served twenty-nine years as Messenger of the First National Bank. Next to him was Austin Young of the Interstate National, who had been a Bank Messenger for twenty-eight years, and Mr Geo. W. Teeters of the Southwest National Bank of Commerce, who had been a Messenger for twenty-two years. An elegant menu was served as follows: (Oyster Dressing—Cranberry Sauce) Creamed Potatoes Hot Roils French Peas in Cases Roman Punch Combination Salad Wafers Neopolitan Ice Cream Mints Assorted Cakes Cafe Noir While this delightful menu was being discussed the Toastmaster called upon the following gentlemen, who responded with eloquent and entertaining remarks: Attorney L. A. Knox, Dr. J. Edgar Dibble, Rev. S. W. Bacote, D. D. Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D. Editor N. C. Crews, Prof. G. A. Page and Bishop H. B. Parks of Chicago. All of the gentlemen spoke in an optimistic vein of the possibilities of the race and urged upon the members of the Club of being prompt in their duties, courteous in their manner, and loyal to their employers and their institutions. The following guests were present: The officers of this Club are Richard Allen, president; Robt. Sneed, vice president; W. A. Scott, secretary, and G. W. Teeters, treasurer AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In an address delivered at the Auditorium at Houston, Tex., E. L. Blackshear, the head of the Prairie View Normal and Industrial College for Colored Youths, had this to say concerning the reasons why the negroes of Houston are specially interested in the movement to build a general hospital in Houston. The plan contemplated does not seek to make one hospital do for both races. They will be separate and distinct institutions; but there is to be a hospital for both, and upon the basis that in caring for his own health interests the white citizen must protect the colored as a matter of "Safety First." Following is the address delivered: Rev. Mr. Pevoto of the Baptist sanitarium of Houston in a visit to Prainie View on a recent Sunday used the Sabbath school lesson of the day as the basis of his remarks. It was the lesson of the Good Samaritan, and the speaker eaw in this parable the germ of the modern hospital. And indeed, how true is it that this spirit of the Good Samaritan, who picked up a helpless stranger, wounded and sore, and bound up his wounds and placed him in the Eastern inn for care and protection exemplifies the spirit of Christ, now manifested in modern hospitals, and in the Red Cross system of national and international relief. Regard less of race, nationality or creed, the Red Cross spirit, the modern hospital spirit, takes hold of helpless sufferers and gives them relief and medical and sanitary attention. The spirit of Christ is not the secular spirit and pride of nationality or race so well exemplified in the classic civilizations of Greece and Rome, but it is the spirit of humanity, the spirit of the Golden Rule, the spirit of human sacrifice for human good, the spirit of the Good Samaritan. The colored people as a part of God's common humanity need the help of modern medical science and sanitation. From the standpoint of self-protection, the municipality owes its colored population sanitary conditions, for bacterial diseases are no respecter of race or color once they find lodgment; and bacterial infection or contagion, originating from unwholesome conditions among colored people may thrust their fatal hand even into the mansions of wealth and culture. It is of interest to the whites that the bodies and hands and homes of those of the colored people who cook the food and wash the clothing and dress and handle the children of the white people should be clean, wholesome and sanitary. Speaking generally, insanitary conditions and disease among the negro people weaken the efficiency of the city's labor and entail a loss upon invested capital, which is fruitless without efficient labor. In the older days faithful slave women were the nurses of the south. They sat in humble patience at the bedside of the stricken mistress or her children, the dusky Samaritans of an allen race. Just as my grandmother, Aunt Harriet of Mongometry, Ala., was a type of the cooks of olden days who, Midaslike, turned whatever cooking material they touched to the gold palatableness, so my wife's grandmother, Aunt Celia of Grenada, Miss., was a type of the nurses of old, who was in truth a Good Samaritan in black, and, for miles around, was sent for to nurse the afflicted white women and children back to health and happiness. Retail dealers in Hongkong are dis covering the advantages of window dressing after the American plan. The honor of class oratory, assigned to a negro at Harvard, is indeed a creditable achievement, though eloquence in this fervid and imaginative race is not an unusual endowment, many negro preachers having manifested this moving quality. It is stated that this graduate-to-be has it in mind to devote his life to the uplift of his race. There is ample opportunity for many lives to be, so devoted. The freed race has progressed unevenly, individual specimens attaining to a high degree of knowledge and culture, while the mass of blacks are as much the wards of civilization as ever they were in the days of bondage. Not till individual culture begins to bear fruit in community uplift can work among the negroes be said to show adequate results. A curious tree of the tropics, the matapalo, grows only with the aid of another tree, which it gradually envelopes and kills. Before an American heiress who marries a foreign nobleman places him on exhibition she removes the price mark. Sixty thousand dollars a day is the estimate of the loss due to the recent strike at Dublin, Ireland. It is estimated that the Uruguay wool crop this season will reach a value of $25,000,000. Natural gas consumed in the United States last year was equivalent to 20, 000,000 tons of coal. The diamond output of German South Africa is being regulated to maintain prices. Roses form the chief ingredient in what is probably the earliest recipe for a hair restorer on record. According to Pliny, "wild rose leaves reduced into a liniment with bear's grease make the hair grow again in most marvelous fashion." Pliny also recommends "ashes of roses as serving to trim the hairs of the eyebrows." Roses figured prominently in several old time strong drinks, such as rose salts, which consisted of rose water mixed with agua vitae and flavored with cinn "I'm no professional agitator for temperance," said Booker Washington, in a recent address, "but keep whisky away from the negro. In the counties and states where there are no open barrooms the negro is 50 per cent, better off. I don't believe that prohibition increases drunkenness, as one so often hears. Certain men will get whisky anywhere—but in prohibition counties you hear of the ten men who do get whisky—and you don't hear of the 100 men who do not. "There are 200,000 colored people always sick from preventable causes," said he. "Some one is paying the bill. Not the colored man directly—for he can't." He opposes segregation in cities—"not because the colored man objects to associating with his own people. He is proud of his race. He wants to associate with his own kind. But experience has taught him that where he is segregated the street lights are dimmer and the streets muddier and the sidewalks more-full of holes and the police service more indifferent than in other parts of the same town—but that he is made to pay his full share of the bills." Nor is he in sympathy with the proposition to plant immigrants on the soil of the south. The colored man, he thinks, is already fitted to his environment. If he is given a fair chance he is the most satisfactory laborer the southern employer can have. But he wants a little of the comforts of life. He wants good church and school and social facilities in the country districts. "The white folks of Dallas county," said he, "held a meeting in the courthouse one night to discuss the question of immigration. Old Jake, the colored janitor, was a very curious old chap. He always tried to find out what was going on—but this meeting stumped him. After it was over he met the sheriff. "Cunnel Jones," said he, "wat you wite folks up to now?" "Colonel Jones explained. But Jake could not understand that word immigration. Jones had to make it clear. "What do you think of the plan of bringing more white folks to Dallas county, Jake?" asked Colonel Jones. "Foh de Lord's sake, Cunnel Jones," said he, "we Dallas county niggers got just as many wite folks as we can support now." "There are only 300,000 American Indians," said a prominent negro, "and the government appropriates $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 each year to feed and clothe and educate them. And they're dying off. There are 10,000,000 of us, and the government isn't called on to do a thing for us, as a race." Of the negroes, 9,000,000 are in the southern states, and 85 per cent of these in rural districts or villages. He thinks that the negro's best chance is in the south. The southern white is more tolerant of the negro's differences from the white race. He is more inclined to give the negro a chance. "That's all we want," he said. "Just a chance. I saw the other day that $50,000,000 is being spent annually to rescue Great Britain's drunkards from the ditch. We're not in the ditch—but help us keep out of it." The negro, he thought, is worse off in the cities, especially in the northern cities. More than one-half of the money derived from England's income tax is collected from Londoners. In the region between Yorktown and Williamsburg there is a district, where much of the land has long been either owned or tenanted by colored people; but it is a "back country" far from the river and penetrated by few good roads, so that it is and always has been a region of wretched poverty, miserable cabins and neglected soil, very different from the farming district on the eastern shore of Virginia, for example, where there are many well-cultivated farms owned or tenanted by colored men. In this latter region the large estates are being cut up into farms of from 60 to 100 acres, provided with complete outfits of farm buildings, and rented, or sold in many instances, to colored men. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and other European nations have for many years been making provision for industrial and technical instruction in public schools. In England the Smiths are the most numerous of all families, but in Ireland they are content to rank fifth, after Murphy, Kelly, Sullivan and Walsh. More than 50 per cent. of the sheep of this country are on the large ranches of the west. In the last year Iowa produced 96, 953,183 pounds of butter, which was sold for $28,285,240. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted; no hotels are allowed to open their bars. In a year 7,707,000 cigars and 14, 000,000 cigarettes were smoked in the United States. namon. The favorite morning draft among Elizabethan roysters was "roga solis, to wash the molligrubs out of a moody brain." You Can't Phase 'Em, "You can't expect us to accept stuff like this," said the indignant literary editor. "It isn't poetry at all—it's simply gas!" "I see," said the unruffled poet, as he meandered toward the door, "something wrong with the meter!"—judge. The EGRET Round and Round They Circle Above the Nursery Trees A Family of Exquisites OUR hat, if you please, madam; we must have that algrette." Such is Not White Flowers but Birds At Peace Worried a Little ```markdown ``` Worried a Little aspect that forcefully cruetify cruelty to live, that it that allows worthy of story of the ee, approve retained. If in all its wondrous maternal to vie with action, she be the ruth-But alas! RIGHT All nature's power animals, objs. sunflowles may be varying in that have sides exhibit to see the tenttion and will be llaves. The table of all found to noted brill-wood often then they are one to read other light. 16 inches how few women will ever less an egret's nursery! If the accompanying illu sympathetically, they will the grace and beauty than ing scene. The exact locality of the ter not be named; South enough! Here, hidden avail of sand and scrub, the colony, lies sparkling Out of its still waters gat tamarisk bushes, whose c draw near, is seen to b with a host of snow bird Every branch and twigful forms, the birds look ty and by their radiance der water near by fish of the British naturalist, u light, and a half dozen small room would furnish reading of a newspaper Crabs are notable light of California is the most of water 20 miles square with them, and in the Saa naturalist reported that she the creatures lay glunlight. Many luminous frogs from time to time, and luminous by inoculating which produce this phen Many theories have explain the phenomenon very little is known ab such as the cases of deac luminosity is evidently but in other cases, where the riddle remains unother marvels of nature. them another aspect of the case, an aspect that should appeal to womanly nature more fceoefely than legislation—the base and wanton cruelty attendant on this feather traffic. them another aspect of the case, an aspect that should appeal to womanly nature more focuely than legislation—the base and wanton cruelty attendant on this feather traffic. I have always thought, and still believe, that it is only thoughtlessness or ignorance that allows the wearing of the algrette. A woman worthy of the name simply cannot know the history of the plumes she wears and, at the same time, approve of the manner in which they were obtained. If she could but once see an egret nursery in all its living beauty, its countless forms of wondrous grace, each busily engaged in some maternal duty, and each seeming unconsciously to vie with the other in the elegance of pose and action, she would not, she could not, longer tolerate the ruthless destruction of these lovely birds. But alas! I have always thought, and still believe, that it is only throughlessness or ignorance that allows the wearing of the algrette. A woman worthy of the name simply cannot know the history of the plumes she wears and, at the same time, approve of the manner in which they were obtained. If she could but once see an egret nursery in all its living beauty, its countless forms of wondrous grace, each bushy engaged in some maternal duty, and each seeming unconsciously to vie with the other in the elegance of pose and action, she would not, she could not, longer tolerate the ruthless destruction of these lovely birds. But alas! Among the most remarkable of all nature's phenomena is the marvelous light-giving power of many of our common plants and animals, observes the New York American. Under certain conditions nasturtiums, sunflowers, dahlias, tuberoses and yellow lilies may be seen to glow with a soft radiance, varying in color and intensity. Only those flowers that have an abundance of yellow or orange shades exhibit this phosphorescence. The best time to see the light is after dark, but often intermittent and flashing. Often in the early fall the ground will be illuminated by the glow from the dead leaves. The Australian poppy is the most remarkable of all the luminous plants, for it has been found to send out a light of its own of quite noted brilliance. Mushrooms growing on decayed wood often have a degree of brilliancy that, when they are placed on a newspaper, will enable one to read the words in their vicinity with no other light. One species of mushrooms in Australia, 16 inches in diameter, was of such brilliancy that, seen from a distance, its light frightened the natives. More interesting than the luminous plants are the luminous animals. The Pacific coast, famous for its many curious specimens of plant and animal life, is the home of many of them. Of all these, the ascidians are most noteworthy. One of them, the pyroscama, was seen first as a blaze as big as a bucket. When captured it was found to be a foot long and open at one end, at which there was a faint light. When touched the light at once blazed forth into a vivid silver phosphorescence. One of the animals kept in a dark room furnished enough light for the reading of medium sized print. Among the most remarkable of all nature's phenomena is the marvelous light-giving power of many of our common plants and animals, observes the New York American. Under certain conditions nasturtiums, sunflowers, dahilas, tuberoses and yellow lilies may be seen to glow with a soft radiance, varying in color and intensity. Only those flowers that have an abundance of yellow or orange shades exhibit this phosphorescence. The best time to see the light is after dark, but often intermittent and flashing. Often in the early fall the ground will be illuminated by the glow from the dead leaves. The Australian poppy is the most remarkable of all the luminous plants, for it has been found to send out a light of its own of quite noted brilliancy. Mushrooms growing on decayed wood often have a degree of brilliancy that, when they are placed on a newspaper, will enable one to read the words in their vicinity with no other light. One species of mushrooms in Australia, 16 inches in diameter, was of such brilliancy that, seen from a distance, its light frightened the natives. lives. Plants are the least, famous and an- ncient and ani- tual. Noteworthy, in first as a buried it was one end, at touched the silver phos- tite in a dark reading of Hopele "I am determined the one rare accomplishmen- life." "What is it?" "I propose to see that the 'Star Spangled Bann" HOPELE "I'm afraid my son is 'What's the trouble geometry?' "Why, they say he signals." More interesting than the luminous plants are the luminous animals. The Pacific coast, famous for its many curious specimens of plant and animal life, is the home of many of them. Of all these, the ascidians are most noteworthy. One of them, the pyroscama, was seen first as a blaze as big as a bucket. When captured it was found to be a foot long and open at one end, at which there was a faint light. When touched the light at once blazed forth into a vivid silver phosphorescence. One of the animals kept in a dark room furnished enough light for the reading of medium sized print. The creatures are of almost indescribable beau-adventurer. His is the Wanderlust. He takes himself on lengthy, self-conducted tours, and ranges over large areas. He has been seen all alone as far up as Dyckman street, bold, carefree, absolutely sure of himself and of his whereabouts. And he always does arrive from his wanderings quite safe, though sometimes he shows indications of having been in a fight. "I am determined that my child shall have one rare accomplishment to help him through life." "What is it?" "I propose to see that he learns the words of the 'Star Spangled Banner.'" HOPELESS CASE. "I'm afraid my son is hopelessly stupid." "What's the trouble at college? History or geometry?" "Why, they say he can't learn the football signals." steps all morning; sometimes he vanishes and returns at dismissal hour. On a recent rainy morning Mac's master and nurse went home earlier than usual. Mac arrived at the proper time for dismissal and sat on the steps in the rain. An hour later, he was there by Miss Jones. "Oh, dear me!" said Miss Jones. "There's Willie's dear little dog, and kets and sent the baskets to the poor; they were not hungry, and the family idol did not eat at home. Every once in a while his room looked as though a cyclone had struck it; he had come home to dress to go somewhere. Yesterday mother and the girls received a hasty peck on their cheeks, and in a minute the family automobile had whirled the family idol to the train. He had spent about 15 minutes of his vacation in the household where he was so worshiped. His next vacation will come in the early summer, but he will need his overcoat in that house; there is a movement on foot to freeze the family idol. TOUCHED MISS JONES' HEART "Lost" Dog Appealed to Her, and She Acted at Once in a Sympathetic and Practical Manner. He is a Scotch terrier of the wisest and most independent kind, and his name is Mac. He lives on Riverside drive near One Hundred and Tenth adventurer. His is the Wanderlust. He takes himself on lengthy, self-conducted tours, and ranges over large areas. He has been seen all alone as far up as Dyckman street, bold, carefree, absolutely sure of himself and of his whereabouts. And he always does arrive from his wanderings quite safe, though sometimes he shows indications of having been in a fight. steps all morning; sometimes he vanishes and returns at dismissal hour. On a recent rainy morning Mac's master and nurse went home earlier than usual. Mac arrived at the proper time for dismissal and sat on the steps in the rain. An hour later, he was there by Miss Jones. "Oh, dear me!" said Miss Jones. "There's Willie's dear little dog, and sailed forth in the rain, carefully leading the hero of many a rambling escapade, the tried veteran of the road. "I was so afraid the little dog would get lost so far from home," explained Miss Jones to Willie's mamma. Willie's mamma glanced at the canine Ulysses and gravely thanked Miss Jones. Mac wagged his tail and sat down to map an excursion to Yon Every school day he accompanies his master and the master's nurse to a small private school five blocks from home. Sometimes he waits on the --- --- Y OUR hat, if you please, madam; we must have that algrete." Such is the startling demand made by the United States customs officials of unwary lady passengers disembarking at New York nowadays. Deeds, not words, at last! And effective deeds, too, they promise to be. if only other legislatures will follow the example thus set by America, and ban the importation of birds' feathers. True, for long there have been protective measures formulated to reduce the wholesale slaughter of wild birds, but their inadequacy is common knowledge. The case, in its practical aspect, is almost exactly parallel with that of the protection of birds' eggs. It is useless to strike at the agent or collector; so long as the demand exists a supply will be forthcoming—check one collector and another takes his place; throttle the demand and, de cause, every collector at once gives up the quest. So long as the importation and exportation of these feathers were prohibited only on a large commercial basis, while the individual, the actual consumer, was allowed to pass unchallenged, so long would means be found to smuggle through the plumes. At last, however, it seems that a blow is being aimed in the right direction, and now, when the attention of the fair sex is thus focussed upon the subject, it is an opportune time once more to place before MAKE THEIR OWN LIGHT MAKE THEIR OWN LIGHT TOUCHED MISS JONES' HEART "Lost" Dog Appaled to Her, and She Acted at Once in a Sympathetic and Practical Manner. He is a Scotch terrier of the wisest and most independent kind, and his name is Mac. He lives on Riverside drive, near One Hundred and Tenth street, when he's at home, and he is owned by a very small boy. But he is seldom at home when he can get away, for he is a rover, an Not White Flowers but Birds new women will ever see a living egret, much like egret's nursery! However, it is hoped that accompanying illustrations are looked at methetically, they will, perhaps, see some of grace and beauty that are present in the live scene. exact locality of this bird paradise had been not be named; South Europe will be definite! Here, hidden away amid a rolling wasteland and scrub, the little tarn, which bears alony, lies sparkling like a jewel in the sun of its still waters grow gnarled and twisterisk bushes, whose dark green foliage, as we near, is seen to be thickly spangled over a host of snowy birds. very branch and twig has got its load of grace, the birds looking from a distance like by their radiance when moving about under water near by fish can be discerned. Bibrīfish naturalist, utilized the animals for and a half dozen of them at one side of the room would furnish sufficient light for the tag of a newspaper at the other side. Bodies are notable light givers, and the Salp California is the most wonderful of all. Bodies after 20 miles square have been seen glowing them, and in the Santa Catalina channel on artist reported that as far as the eye could the creatures lay gleaming like gems in the night. any luminous frogs have been discovered at time to time, and any frog may be made obsious by inoculating it with certain bacteria to produce this phenomenon. any theories have been brought forward in the phenomenon of luminosity, but as yet little is known about. In many instances as the cases of dead leaves or decayed woodosity is evidently due to fungous growth in other cases, where no growth can be seen; middle remains unsolved along with many marvels of nature. how few women will ever see a living egret, much less an egret's nursery! However, it is hoped that if the accompanying illustrations are looked at sympathetically, they will, perhaps, see some of the grace and beauty that are present in the living scene. The exact locality of this bird paradise had better not be named; South Europe will be definite enough! Here, hidden away amid a rolling waste of sand and scrub, the little tarn, which bears the colony, lies sparkling like a jewel in the sun. Out of its still waters gnarled and twisted tamarisk bushes, whose dark green foliage, as we draw near, is seen to be thickly spangled over with a host of snowy birds. Every branch and twig has got its load of graceful forms, the birds looking from a distance like ty and by their radiance when moving about under water near by fish can be discerned. Bibra, the British naturalist, utilized the animals for light, and a half dozen of them at one side of a small room would furnish sufficient light for the reading of a newspaper at the other side. Crabs are notable light givers, and the Salpa of California is the most wonderful of all. Bodies of water 20 miles square have been seen glowing with them, and in the Santa Catalina channel one naturalist reported that as far as the eye could see the creatures lay gleaming like gems in the sunlight. Many luminous frogs have been discovered from time to time, and any frog may be made luminous by inoculating it with certain bacteria which produce this phenomenon. Many theories have been brought forward to explain the phenomenon of luminosity, but as yet very little is known about. In many instances, such as the cases of dead leaves or decayed wood, luminosity is evidently due to fungous growth, but in other cases, where no growth can be seen, the riddle remains unsolved along with many other marvels of nature. A RARE ACCOMPLISHMENT. I am determined that my child shall have rare accomplishment to help him through "that is it?" propose to see that he learns the words of Star Spangled Banner." HOPELESS CASE. I am afraid my son is hopelessly stupid." what's the trouble at college? History or metery?" why, they say he can't learn the football als." "I am determined that my child shall have one rare accomplishment to help him through life." "What is it?" "I propose to see that he learns the words of the 'Star Spangled Banner.'" "I'm afraid my son is hopelessly stupid." "What's the trouble at college? History or geometry?" "Why, they say he can't learn the football signals." ```markdown ``` only takes a tumult! No blance to a the fairiest Titania's magic to pepful life, and of snowy circle above upon fast-quail with widespread streams, each elegant and pace is slack birds glide they are setting on the d their snowy. Then the coevery side exquisite or played in a ture meant to show it is! of plumes to hover the back, so tremble with. As yet tha they crowd returning to from where be almost an Fortunate inly protected wilderness, by the few the sportsman late, at lea plume huntery; but on one lax control at last breary, I thin slaughter of bodies with ones left to the incident nursery, and do so in tha the Protect surest, ind scenes of s orate them. At Peace see a living egret, much however, it is hoped that intrusions are looked at, perhaps, see some of it are present in the liv- is bird paradise had bet- Europe will be definiteay amid a rolling waste little tarn, which bears like a jewel in the sun. Now gnarled and twisted dark green foliage, as we be thickly spangled over it. has got its load of gracing from a distance like will be discerned. Born illitized the animals for it them at one side of a sufficient light for the at the other side. It givers, and the Salpa wonderful of all. Bodies have been seen glowing at Catalina channel one as far as the eye couldaming like gems in the have been discovered any frog may be made it with certain bacteria menon. seen brought forward to of luminosity, but as yet out. In many instances, leaves or decayed wood, due to fungous growth, no growth can be seen, solved along with many An Atchil last September experience came home that town. was return His moth holidays to luncheons when he w The day the family en folks in The dinner served at o and raved in eastern He was a that a hard ture and called to the him to me went. Afte at my child shall have not to help him through he learns the words of er." SS CASE. hopelessly stupid." at college? History or can't learn the football steps all morning; sometimes he van- ishes and returns at dismissal hour. Mother a kets and so not hungry. home. Eve though a home to a home to a Yesterday hasty peck family autu to the trail his vacatic worshiped. early sum that house the family ishes and returns at dismissal hour. On a recent rainy morning Mac's master and nurse went home earlier than usual. Mac arrived at the proper time for dismissal and sat on the steps in the rain. An hour later, he was seen there by Miss Jones. "Oh, dear me!" said Miss Jones. "There's Willie's dear little dog, and Willie has gone home. The little fellow will get lost." So Miss Jones called Mac in, attached a bit of string to his collar, and a dainty white inflorescence on the trees. Then suddenly, as we canter down the shore, the colonly takes wing and tumult reigns. But what a tumult! Nothing rough or discordant, no semblance to a mob; rather is it the incarnation of the fairiest of fairy scenes, the scattering of Titania's revelers. The bushes seem as if by magic to pour forth an endless stream of graceful life, and soon the sky it filled with a multitude of snowy drifting forms. Round and round they circle above the nursery trees, now deftly poised upon fast-quivering wings, now riding easily along with widespread pinions—so they drift in endless streams, each one seeming, as it floats by, more elegant and lovely than the last. Gradually the pace is slackened, slowly and still more slowly the birds glide past, till presently more alight. Soon they are settling down on every side, to sit swaying on the delicate tracery of the tamarisk boughs, their snowy plumage glistening in the sunlight. Then the colony regains composure and we see on every side the lovely aigrette—perhaps the most exquisite ornament displayed by any bird—displayed in all its living beauty, displayed as Nature meant it to be shown. And what a lovely show it is! As mate meets mate, the lovely train of plumes of each is raised and spread in greeting, to hover like a cloud of frosted gossamer above the back, scintillating as the feathers shake and tremble with life's passion. As yet these birds have learnt no fear of man; they crowd the branches all around us, quietly returning to brood upon their nests not 20 yards from where we stand. To shoot them down would be almost as easy as to dispatch a farmyard roost. Fortunate indeed it is that this colony is naturally protected by a great encircling belt of utter wilderness, trackless and almost unbroken save by the few keepers who guard its big game on the sportsman's behalf. Here the birds have—of late, at least—been left to breed in peace. No plume hunter has dared to penetrate their sanctuary; but one shudders to contemplate the day, which one hopes may never dawn, when, through lax control by the overlord the plumassiers shall at last break through and steal. It is unnecessary. I think, to draw a picture of the awful slaughter of that day; the plies of mutilated bodies with the wings torn off, the hapless young ones left to starve miserably to death. Such are the incidents common to the pillage of any egret nursery, and those who wish to read of them may do so in the pamphlets of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Suffice it here that the surest, indeed, the only, way to obviate such scenes of slaughter is for women to cease to decorate themselves with aigrettes. WHEN SONNY COMES HOME An Atchison family has been talking ever since last September of the joy the members would experience when a son who was away at college came home for the holidays, says the Globe of that town. In the months he was gone his room was refurnished. His mother and sisters began weeks before the holidays to make out menus for the breakfasts, luncheons and dinners during the happy time when he would be home for the holidays. The day of his arrival he was whirled home in the family automobile and welcomed by the women folks in the family in their very best clothes. The dinner, composed of his favorite dishes, was served at once. He grandly sat down to the table and raved over the elegant things he had to eat in eastern restaurants and the dining cars. He was taken to his room, but failed to observe that a hardwood floor, new rugs and new furniture and draperies had replaced the old. He was called to the telephone. Some of the boys wanted him to meet them somewhere. He promised and went. After that the boys and girls kept him busy. Mother and the girls packed the dainties in baskets and sent the baskets to the poor; they were not hungry, and the family idol did not eat at home. Every once in a while his room looked as though a cyclone had struck it; he had come home to dress to go somewhere. Yesterday mother and the girls received a hasty peck on their cheeks, and in a minute the family automobile had whirled the family idol to the train. He had spent about 15 minutes of his vacation in the household where he was so worshipped. His next vacation will come in the early summer, but he will need his overcoat in that house; there is a movement on foot to freeze the family idol. An Atchison family has been talking ever since last September of the joy the members would experience when a son who was away at college came home for the holidays, says the Globe of that town. In the months he was gone his room was refurnished. His mother and sisters began weeks before the holidays to make out menus for the breakfasts, lunches and dinners during the happy time when he would be home for the holidays. The day of his arrival he was whirled home in the family automobile and welcomed by the women folks in the family in their very best clothes. The dinner, composed of his favorite dishes, was served at once. He grandly sat down to the table and raved over the elegant things he had to eat in eastern restaurants and the dining cars. He was taken to his room, but failed to observe that a hardwood floor, new rugs and new furniture and draperies had replaced the old. He was called to the telephone. Some of the boys wanted him to meet them somewhere. He promised and went. After that the boys and girls kept him busy. Mother and the girls packed the dainties in baskets and sent the baskets to the poor; they were not hungry, and the family idol did not eat at home. Every once in a while his room looked as though a cyclone had struck it; he had come home to dress to go somewhere. Yesterday mother and the girls received a hasty peck on their cheeks, and in a minute the family automobile had whirled the family idol to the train. He had spent about 15 minutes of his vacation in the household where he was so worshiped. His next vacation will come in the early summer, but he will need his overcoat in that house; there is a movement on foot to freeze the family idol. --- sallied forth in the rain, carefully leading the hero of many a rambling escapade, the tried veteran of the road. "I was so afraid the little dog would get lost so far from home," explained Miss Jones to Willie's mamma. Willie's mamma glanced at the canine Ulyssees and gravely thanked Miss Jones. Mac wagged his tail and sat down to map out an excursion to Yonkers.—New York Times. The American mountain sheep are the greatest leapers in the world. Home Town Helps BOSTON TO BE EMULATED New York Sun Thinks That City Might Well Follow the Example of Her Sister. Huge in New York the growth of cities has been so swift and the problems of building them have been so new that the buildings were scraping the skies along every thoroughfare that commanded high rentals before the sacrifices that a congestion of skyscrapers entailed upon the public became apparent, says the New York Sun. Reforming New York in any essential particular is too colossal for the city planning committee to tackle over night. Instead the mirror is held up to us so that we can see many of our most glaring faults. The nearest example that we ought to study is Boston, and the plan of Boston's new zone system are the first thing the visitor sees. There, following the system of some German cities, they have enacted laws forbidding the erection of buildings taller than 125 feet in a large area extending from the river docks to the commons. In this area there are only two buildings violating the law, the Ames building, built before the law went into force, and the new United States Customs building, which, in spite of all protests, is 400 feet tall. Copley square, on which Trinity church and the Library front, is protected by a height limit, and so is Commonwealth avenue. A building on Copley square, the Westminster chambers, exceeded the legal height and was cut down to the lawful limits, the city paying damages. Boston also proudly exhibits plans of her great 1,200-foot docks, her great dry dock, and the famous fish dock. ARTISTIC GAS LAMP POST I Design for a gas lamp post that recently won first prize in a competition at St. Louis. There is no reason why each lamp post should not be a source of improvement to the appearance of the city. None can now be erected in Philadelphia without the approval of the art jury, in accordance with its amended powers. Open Places League in Paris. "A league for open places has been organized in Paris. In a recent pamphlet is discussed the question of drainage and sports and the work that needs to be done in the conversion of the old fortifications into open places is described," says the National Municipal Review. It is a shock to some of the lazy and incredulous of us to get into our noodles that Paris never stops making itself more beautiful and more sanitary. A repetition of such shocks is sure to produce vigorous action on this side of the water sooner or later. Selling by Rule. "Why do you insist so strenuously on my placing my order right now?" "I have taken a course in a school of scientific salesmanship, and according to all rules and theories this is the psychological moment for closing this sale." How Hair Is Colored. Colors of the hair are due to amalgamated yet separate atoms of pigment deposited in the cells just beneath the surface of the hair. 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It is the most popular way to let the world know who you are, when and where you meet and your object and purpose. For the next month we will make special announcements to have you put in your lodge or society list of of officers in this paper. Mme. Benton Dean, the popular milliner, has moved to 1010 Troost avenue, where she is elegantly located and will be extremely pleased to meet her many friends and customers at that number. Belle phone Main 21024. WORTH WHILE. WORTH WHILE Don't ask, "Has the world been true to me?" But have I to the world been true? 'Tis not what you get, but what you give, That makes life worth while to you. 'Tis the kind word said to the little child, As you wiped its tears away; The smile you brought to a care-worn face That really lights up your day. 'Tis the hand you clasp with honest grasp That gives a hearty thrill; 'Tis the good you pour into other lives That comes back your own to fill. 'Tis the dregs you drain from another's cup That makes your own seem sweet, And the hours you give your fellow-men That makes your own life complete. 'Tis the burdens you help another bear That makes your own seem light; 'Tis the dangers seen for another's feet That shows your path to right; 'Tis the good you do each passing day With a heart sincere and true— By giving the world your very best Its best will return to you. Rheumatism one bottle of Lees Balsam Will Convince You Send for testimonials, FREE. At Druggists $1.00; by Express, prspaid, $1.25 GREEK BALSAM CO. 835 E. 15th St., Kansas City, Mo. Read The Sun , Neig Property of All Kinds For Sale In Both Kansas Citys and Topeka TERMS TO SUIT MISS RUTH BRADLEY & CO. Branch Office: Portsmouth Bldg., Sixth and Minnesota Ave. Branch Office, Topeka, Kas.: 410 Kansas Ave. Expert Dental Specialists Expert Dental Specialists Our work has stood the test. We have been doing high class guaranteed Dental Work for the past 26 years. We have thousands of satisfied patients. Remember, in Business 26 Years All work kept in repair free of charge. SAVE MONEY EXAMINATION FREE GET THE BEST All work guaranteed 26 years The doctor who extracts your teeth here has undoubtedly had more experience in this line than any other dentist in the city, so you get the most express service. Painless Extracting. 25s. Gold Crowne $3, $4 and $8 Silver Fillings, 75o. and $1 White Crowne $3, $4 and $8 Platina Fillings 20 'NEW YORK DENTAL CO New Location 1017-19 Walnut St. Over Jaccard's Jewelry store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co Gold Crowne $3, $4 and Silver Filling Wha FULL SET 'NEW YORK New Location Over Jaccard's Jewelry store ALL HAND WORK FRED GROCERIES Spaces where from one to ten teeth have been lost we replace with bridge work. It looks the same as natural teeth, lasts a life- time and requires no plata. Broken down teeth we restore to beauty and usefulness with crows of porcelain and gold. 1 $8 , 75c. and $1 te Crowns $3, $4 and $5 Platina Fillings 26g TEETH $4 TO $8 K DENTAL CO on 1017-19 Walnut St. , 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co Fashion Craft J. GREENBURG, Prop. Cleaning and Repairing 718 East 8th St. Suits Cleaned and Pressed, $1 00. Goods called for and delivered. Bell phone Main 4231Y; Home phone Main 3336. MARSHOCK S AND MEATS AND VEGETABLES Fresh and First Class PHONE 6496 MAIN Kansas City, Mo. A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction Officers—1913. N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Deputy Grand Master, Richard Young, Lincoln, Neb. L. F. Payne, Glasgow, Mo., Grand Senior Warden. F. J. Brown, St. Louis, Grand Junior Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonic Relief, Cameron, Mo. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Grand Commandery Officers. A. D. Butler, R. E. G. C., St. Joseph, Mo. W. G. Mosely, V. E. G. C., Kansas City. P. C. Kincade, E. G. C. G., Kansas City. T. P. Mahammitt, G. Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. C. H. Lewis, G. Rec., Kansas City. Grand Chapter Officers. Geo. Broomfield, G. H. P., St. Louis, Mo. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Moffitte, G. S., Sedalia, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Sec'y, Kansas City. Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. R. T. Coles, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. C. H. Lewis, Asst. Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Meyers, Wm. Washington, Geo. Bradley, T. W. H. Williams, H. R. Edwards, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lace, E. G. Miller, E. G. Hueston. Lodge Directory Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Mason in each month. Master Mason is standing welcome. R. Greer, W. M.; J. H. Sniginer, Sec'y. Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. R. Greer, W. M.; J. M.; T. J. McCampbell, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in each month. Ws titing Master Masons are welcome. Thos. Jackson, W. M.; Jno. A. Johnson, Sec'y. Harrison Williams Expert Furnace and Stove Repairs RESIDENCE 1612 COTTAGE AVENUE. VISIT THE New Negro Enterprise Known as the Fad Studio A First Class, Up-to-Date Gallery. Views, Flashlights of Banquets, Parties, Groups of all Public Functions. Enlargements our Specialty. Post Cards, three for.....25c Cabinet Photos made, per dozen, $2.00 UP. AGENTS WANTED. G. BRUGE SANTEE, Prop. 1718 E. 18th ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. J. C. WAGNER The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in Season. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. Courteous Treatment to All 1819 Howard Ave. Bell Phone 3596 East Kansas City, Missouri. Best Shine in K.C. 5c For Ladies Gents AGENCY FOR The Kansas City Son. The Crisis, The New York Age, The Freeman and All Daily Papers Ice Cream and Soda Cigars and Tobacco HENRY SHUMAKER 1625 East 18th St. THEKANSAS CITY SUN All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1802 East 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999 Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the order of March 5, 1879. Nelson C. Crews. **Editor and Owner** Willa B. Glenn. **General Manager** Geo. B. Thompson. **Advertising Agent** D. T. Tyler. **Advertising Solicitor** Eva P. Washington. **Traveling Representative** Rosa Morton. **Collector** Alma Crews. **Collector** **SUBSCRIPTION RATES:** One Year. $1.50 Six Months. .75 Three Months. .50 It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will advertise a duplication of the missing number. ¼ **ADVERTISING RATE. 50 CENTS PER INCH.** CHURCH DIRECTORY Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlton. Christian Church, 19th and Tracy. Greenwood Baptist Church, 1839 Terrace. Centennial M. E. Church, 194th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlton. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kendall. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1835 Vine St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independent and Tracy. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and woodland. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Relleview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Hilderwood. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis. St. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Third Baptist Church, Roundtop. People Mission, 30th and Genesee. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. Janee, Baptist Church, 4063 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Oakland. O. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Splitton. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Marymount Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and St. John. Stuart Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quintara Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland, M. E. Church, 11th and Oakland Salute Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee. St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Roseale, Kan. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virginia. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. "The Republican party is the ship, all else the sea for the Negro," said Frederick Duglass forty years ago. What was true then is true now. Stick to the party, boys. The political pot is not boiling, possibly on account of the shortage of gas. After an illness of nearly three months Prof. W. E. Griffin has resumed his work at the Booker T. Washington School. The "headliner" at the Lincoln school Parent-Teachers' meeting this week was an interesting program rendered by the sixth grade. The get-acquainted social which Alten Chapel gave in honor of its three hundred new members was well attended and quite a success. A large class for baptism will be presented Sunday morning. Never has there been such general disposition to observe the Lenten restrictions. The Ivanhoe Club set the example by calling off all its dances until after Easter and other clubs followed the idea. This is commendable in that it shows a growing respect for the Christian religion and for the influence of the church. OVERCOMING PREJUDICE. Every person of color is compelled to notice some instance of race hate, prejudice or so-called intolerance every day of his life. This is especially true of the down-town worker, whose active and widespread activity carries him into the different marts, business district; then, too, on the cars; in the homes of the other race and every conceivable place where activity is or has any bearing with the life of a great bustling city. Perhaps the colored porter is more often reminded that there is a "difference" between him and his fairer brother who works along beside him for the same employer, often at the same scale of wages, but with this difference the colored brother's station is usually "fixed" and he is seldom encouraged to look above a certain height; whereas his fairer brother is flooded with opportunities and inducements to rise to the highest possible position. May we not conclude that the Negro loses out on account of color? Of course unjustly so. What About Personality? What About Personality? If the Negro loses on account of color prejudice he is making it up in personality. Herein lies the one power to overcome prejudice and solutionize the race problem individually and effectively in our own business dealings with the other fellow, whether it be transacting a pure business deal or as employee and employer. Personal worth is a fair definition of personality, since it is left to the individual to prove of what grade his personality is made. Whether it be good or bad, strong or weak. We believe the average colored person who works in the downtown stores is aiming to make his personal services win recognition over the usual boundary lines and hence overcome an unreal prejudice which can not stand before his intrinsic worth to his employer. This is certain; Good service has never hurt any employee's standing, but goes a long way toward breaking down fences which have been built by the vain imaginations of men. The intelligent Negro keeps this thought in mind. The 'other fellow" whom we showed to be overflowed with opportunities for advancement, often falls on account of lack of this "personality" or personal worth. Seeing this, how much more should the Negro seek to be efficient in his own line (to use the vernacular) and not be content to merely "get by." In proportion as the Negro becomes a recognized economic factor in that institution by which he is employed, however humble that may be, he is not only demanding a better wage but wins for his race a deeper consideration. Intelligence and Politeness. We have confined this line of reasoning chiefly to the porter, the hotel waiter and the car driver, believing these to make up what is termed the real "people" they certainly come in contact with other races more so than any other class of Negroes and among whom are found some of the best examples of manhood. These people know better than anybody how the door of opportunity is lurgily closed and they know best how to partly open that door, too. They know that intelligence has won for them places which nothing else could have done. There was a time when the Negro was considered as a mere clown and an object of amusement, but the "yessa, boss" person is becoming obsolete, employee perforning service rather than entertainment. Then intelligence and politeness are the prime factors which will move any amount of intelligence, in our business relations with others. We find that courtesy is not altogether withheld from us and that it is largely dependent upon our own sense of what is good and true in attempting to break down the barriers of a falsely drawn line which cannot remain be fore Truth and Justice. Betty & Sam's Little Corner THEY SAY —That, a burnt child dreads the fire. —That if ever hard-hearted landlords got a "cussin," they have "got" it this winter. —That a certain railroad man doubled back the other night and got shot for his trouble. —That when a woman leaves her husband for another man she simply piles up misery for the future. —That every Negro in greater Kansas City should hear Booker T. Washington next Wednesday night. —That a certain prominent citizen usually takes some other woman than his wife to places of public entertainment. Why? —That a well known young man and young woman were seen going into a furniture store together the other day. Why? —That Dr. Theo. Smith is preparing to entertain the social sets of the two Kansas Cities with a Musical and dance at an early date. —That a pair of rubbers bought at the Colored Shoe Store, 1507 E. 18th street, today will save you a big doctor's bill tomorrow. Get wise. Two of a Kind. "My father is working on an invention that he expects to make him a millionaire." "My father is partly crazy, too, but he doesn't let it interfere with his regular job." Almost. "The man who sings is never wholly bad," says one of the philosophers. We might almost say the same thing of the girl who is taking vocal lessons. Hia Mind on Business Sunday School Teacher—"Benny, can you tell me what a prophet is?" Benny—"Buying something for a dime and selling it for a quarter."—Judge. Making Your Own Glue. A simple, effective glue that is harmless, colorless and odorless can be made by adding ordinary tapioca to water and boiling. To Remove Egg Stains. Egg stains on table linen will come out more readily if soaked in cold water before sending to the laundry. Daily Thought Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of virtues. —Bishop Hall. ```markdown ``` 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. There is a reason why the larger per cent of Cabinet Stationary used in the printing establishment from the Arthur W. Harris Printing Establishment. First their work was unexcelled by any of the larger and best equipped printing establishments, and they make a speciality of this class of work. Second, while their prices are always lowered they have "delivered" with accuracy and with迪亚 to over 50 per cent of the class yesterday, the past year and now when a function of class is announced its a ten-to-one shot that Harris will handle the Y. M. C. A. NOTES Y. M. C. A. NOTES One thousand and forty-three persons have paid their subscriptions in full to the Building Fund. A committee of representative Colored men are to meet Mr. Beardsley and Mr. A. B. Colton on Saturday to discuss matters of vital importance to the Association. "Jesus' Answer to an Important Question," is the subject of the address to be given by Dr. W. S. Abernathy of the First Baptist Church, Sunday, March 1, at 3:30 p. m. The address by W. S. Mesley last Sunday on "The Nobility of Manual Labor," met a popular response from the audience. The music by the instrumental quartet was of the highest order. Y. W. C. A. NOTES "Not by might no by power but by spirit, said the Lord of hosts." Zech 4:6, World's Y. W. C. A. Motto. Prof, Shelton French of Western University will be the speaker at the Vesper service at 3 o'clock Sunday, March 1. All women are invited to attend...Our first annual meeting of the Hate Yates Branch Y. W. C. A. will be held in the restaurant of Mrs. Scales in the lower part of the Y. W. C. A. building on Fifth and State Avenue on Monday, March 2 and 8 p.m. Prominent among the speakers will be Mrs. Catherine W. Eddy the new president of the Central Association, Miss L. Frances Cross, National Territorial Secretary, and Miss Mildred C. Mitchell, General Secretary of the Central Association, Mrs. W. G. Wood will preside and music will be furnished by the noted "Anderson Family." The business will include the Treasurer's report and that of the General Secretary. Six members are to be elected to the Board of Management. We are urging our members to be present to enjoy a good program and to share in our real jubilee celebration over the success of our first year. Miss Cross s aid to Mrs. Douglass, Chairman of our Finance Committee that we all should feel jubilant, especially because we are not closing with an indebtedness of $300. We do not expect to close without a deficit and with an increase of more than one hundred members. We have tried to send a post card to every member and we are asking each member to interest the other who may not receive her card. Our phone is West 1566. LYDIA C. SMITH, Gen. Secy. WANTED—Several honest indus- tious people to distribute Negro lit- erature; salary $60 per month. Prof. Nichols Box 135, Naperville, Ill. "WHY HAVE KINKY HAIR" "PRESTO" straightens the most obstinate stubborn Kinky Hair. 'PRESTO' eradicates Dandruff, Tetter and other diseases of the scalp. 'PRESTO' promotes a luxuriant growth of hair. 'PRESTO' is the greatest discovery known to chemists in this line. Throw away your old pulling and pinching hot irons, also the so-called Electric Combs, and use 'PRESTO', the king of all hair preparations. Apply 'PRESTO' just once to your hair and your hair becomes straight and remains straight for months. "THINK OF IT!" "PRESTO" is applied only two or three times a year, "that's all." Nothing in the world like "PRESTO." A package of "PRESTO" with full directions sent postpaid on receipt of One Dollar ($1.00). Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. LA FAYETTE MFG. CO. EDENTON, N. C. A Dumb Agent Can Self "PRESTO." It Talks. Negro Business League of Kansas City. A. E. ESTES, Secretary. Members will please report any mistake or change of address to E A. Robinson, Financial Secretary and Fiscal Agent. Bell Phone E754. 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. Wm. Lewis, Atlanta Pool Hall, Barber Shop and Bath, 1609-11 E. 18th St. Bell Phone, East 721. 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, 2333 East. Wm. Stitts, Criterion Barber Shop and Pool Hall, 1717 East 18th St. BLACKSMITH. BARBERS. Jas. Hopkins. 2325 Vine St. CAFES AND RESTAURANTS. Nannie Glover & Daughter, East End Dairy Lunce teenth Street, Bell phone, East 3313. Henry Compton, 1512 E. 18th St. Bell phone, East. Mrs. King, Eighteenth and Paseo. Maggie Seamster, 1507^2 East Twelfth. Harmless Wynn, barbecued meats, 2315 Vine. Mrs. H. W. Dotson, 1705 E. Twelfth St. Phone, B. Madame U. F. Scales, Northeast Cor. 5th and State, Bishop's Cafe, H. Bishop, Prop, 911 McGee St. Be. CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES. Mrs. Lydia C. Smith, General Secretary Y. W. C. Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Bell phone, West. R. B. Defrantz, Secretary Y. M. C. A., 1419 East Bell phone, Grand 885. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS, O. K. Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrimp dye, 1113 East 18th; Bell Grand 2437. R. Bennett, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. J. F. Basil, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Home. John Holmes, 1909 Win. John Worman Broz, 1222 E. 19th St. Bell Phone, Gran Laden Bros, Tailors, Designers and Cutters, 2427 Phone, East 569-W. G. W. Golden Steam Dye Works, 1605 East 18th; E. CARPET CLEANERS. D. W. West, 1718 Euclid. Phones, Bell East 3555; CIGAR MANUFACTURER. Henry Parks, 1509 East Eighteenth; Main 4905 Hom CLERGYMEN. Rev. G. H. Daniels, 2313 Vine Street. Home phone. E. N. Cohron, State Baptist Missionary, 708 North Mo. Phone 2137. J. R. Ransom, Pastor A. M. E. Church, 8th and Nell Kans. Bell Phone, West 2904. S. W. Bacote, Pastor Second Baptist Church, Kar Phone, East 3522. G. T. Mosby, Pastor Greenwood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. W. H. Thomas, Pastor Allen Chapel A. M. E. Chur- J. W. Hurse, Pastor Saint Stephens Baptist Church G. W. Boyd, Pastor Highland Avenue Baptist Chu- W. A. Bowren, Pastor First Baptist Church. Bell. COAL, FEED, ICE AND KINDLING. James Alexander, 574 Tracy Ave. Both Phones, J. H. Hall, 1208 Vine. Herman Kinslee, 2012 Harrison; Grand 2766 W 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. Bel 1620 North 3d street, Kansas City, Kas. CONTRACTORS—GENERAL. Wm. T. Garner, contractor and builder, 1728 Wood A. E. Estes, 240 Waldron. Bell, East 4394-Y. Leon H. Jordan, 712 E 12th St. Bell Grand 287 W. R. Nelson, 1322 Pacific Street. C. S. Page, 1514 East Eighteenth; Main 5119 Hom COOPER. Nannie Glover & Daughter, East End Dairy Lunch, 1613 East Eighteenth Street. Bell phone, East 3813. 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. Mrs. H. W. Dotson, 1705 E. Twelfth St. Phone, Bell 2214 Madame U. F. Scales, Northeast Cor. 5th and State, Kansas City, Kans. Bishop's Cafe, H. Bishop, Prop., 911 McGee St. Bell phone, Main 751. CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES. Mrs. Lydia C. Smith, General Secretary Y. W. C. A., Fifth and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1566. R. B. Defrantz, Secretary Y. M. C. A., 1419 East Eighteenth Street. Bell phone, Grand 885. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS, O. K. Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrink any garment we dye, 1113 East 18th; Bell Grand 2437. R. Bennett, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. J. F. Basil, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Home. John Holmes, 1903 Vine. Wortham Bros., 1222 E. 19th St. Bell Phone, Grand 3933-W. Laden Bros., Tailors, Designers and Cutters, 2427 Vine Street. Bell phone, East 569-W. D. W. West, 1718 Euclid. Phones, Bell East 3555; Home, Main 1169. CLERGYMEN. Rev. E. H. Daniels, 2313 Vine Street. Home phone, Main 5618. E. N. Cohron, State Baptist Missionary, 708 North 24th St., St. Joseph, Mo. Phone 2137. J. R. Robinson, State M. E. Church, 8th and Nebraska, Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 2904. S. W. Bacote, Pastor Second Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. Bell Phone, East 3522. G. T. Mosby, Pastor Greenwood Baptist Church, 18th and Terrace, Kansas City, Mo. W. H. Thomas, Pastor Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church. Bell, Main 3660. J. H. Wurse, Pastor Saint Stephens Baptist Church. Bell, East 4090. G. W. Boyd, Pastor Highland Avenue Baptist Church. W. A. Bowren, Pastor First Baptist Church. Bell Phone, West 3510. COAL, FEED, ICE AND KINDLING. James Alexander, 574 Tracy Ave. Both Phones, Main 7488. J. H. Hall, 1208 Vine. Herman Kinslee, 2012 Harrison; Grand 2766 W Bell. E. A. Sallisbury, 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. 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. Bell, East 4394-Y. Leon H. Jordan, 712 East 12th St. Bell Grand 2873. W. R. Nelson, 1322 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 B A. H. Hudson, 2330 Vine; East 2330 Bell. McQueen Carrion, 18th and Paseo. Bell Phone, Phone, Main 3490. H. D. Voorhies, 500 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City West 1910. H. D. Voorhies, 500 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 1910. DRESSMAKING Mrs. Blanche Page, Dressmaker, 2413 Vine St., Be Miss Georgia Coleman, 1510 E. 18th street. Birdie Jackson, 1913 East Nineteenth. DRUG STORES. Peoples Drug Store, M. H. Lambright, Mgr. Be Home Phone, Main 4382. McCampbell & Houston, 2300 Vine street, and N. Vine Sts. E. S. Lee Fallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine. B Ideal Pharmacy, 1532 E. 12th Street. Bell pho phone, Main 1532. DRY GOODS, GENT'S FURNISHINGS, Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Ladies Furnishings Vine street., Bell phone East 3192. Eli Harris, 2833 Vine St. Taylor Homes & Laden Bros. & Co., gents' furn 2427 Vine. EMPLOYMENT AGENTS. Afro-American Employment & Inv. Co., 911 McG EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall Ave. Bell, East FLORISTS. Weaver Floral Co., 1510 East 18th St. Main 755 FURNITURE DEALERS. L. M. Furniture & Repair Co., Lewis Townsen Bell phone, Grand 1772. GROCERS. Wilson & Gray, 1504 North 3rd St., Kansas City 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. Geo. M. King, 1208 North 9th St., Kansas City West 3597. J. H. Claybourne, 10th and Washington Blvd. Be E. Johnson & Son, 852 Freeman Ave., Kansas C HAIR AND SCALP CULTURIS Madame Grant Jones, 5th and State Ave., Kansas Phone, Bell, West 3715-J. HOTELS. J. H. Simmons, 915 Oak; Main 4072 Bell. Hotel Woods, 721 Charlotte. Lewis Woods, Prop INSURANCE. P. K. Brown, 1319 State Street, Kansas City, Ka 4955. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall; East 754 Bell. T. A. Ross, 1507 East Eighteenth; West 1496 Bell H. D. Simmons, 1832 Vine. Phone East887. G. F. Porter, 1507- East Eighteenth; East 4955 J. W. Golden, 1612 Lydia. Grand 3631. Charles C. Buster, 1508 East 18th Street, Bell, INVENTOR. Mrs. Blanche Page, Dressmaker, 2413 Vine St., Bell Phone, East 3192. Miss Georgia Coleman, 1510 E. 18th street. Birdie Jackson, 1913 East Nineteenth. McCampbell & Houston, 2300 Vine street, and N. W. Cor. Howard and Vine Sts. E. S. Lee Pallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine. Both phones. Ideal Pharmacy, 1532 E. 12th Street. Bell phone, East 26; Home phone, Main 1532. DRY GOODS, GENT'S FURNISHINGS, NOTIONS. Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Ladies Furnishings and Notion, 2413 Vine street.. Bell phone East 3192. Ell Harris, 2333 Vine St. Taylor Homes & Laden Bros. & Co., gents' furnishings and notions, 2427 Vine. Weaver Floral Co., 1510 East 18th St. Main 7555 Home; E. 4798 Bell FURNITURE DEALERS. L. M. Furniture & Repair Co., Lewis Townsend, 1720 Lydia Ave. Bell phone, Grand 1772. GROCERS. J. H. Claybourne, 10th and Washington Blvd. Bell phone, West 2682. E. Johnson & Son, 852 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kan. HAIR AND SCALP CULTURIST. Madame Grant Jones, 5th and State Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Res. Phone, Bell, West 3715-J. HOTELS. J. H. Simmons, 915 Oak; Main 4072 Bell. Hotel Woods, 721 Charlotte. Lewis Woods, Prop. Bell Main 2078. INSURANCE. P. K. Brown, 1319 State Street, Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, East 4955. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall; East 754 Bell. T. A. Ross, 1507 East Eighteenth; West 1496 Bell. H. D. Simmons, 1832 Vine. Phone East887. G. F. Porter, 1507- East Eighteenth; East 4955 Bell. J. W. Golden, 1612 Lydia. Grand 3631. Charles C. Buster, 1508 East 18th Street. Bell, East 4955. INVENTOR. W. J. Dixon, 2828 Cleveland Avenue. JEWELER. J. A. Wilson, 1616 W, 9th St. Bell Main 6453-Y HAIR DRESSING AND MILLINER Madame N. P. Jones, Beauty Culture., Hair G. street. Mattie P. Garner, electric straightening, comb East 4741W. Lillie Johnson, 1508 East 18th; Bell East 1795. Chapman & Caldwell, 18t hand Paseo. Phone: Eva P. Washington, milliner and hair dresser phone, 2306 West. Mrs. Stella Hubbard; 1510 E. 18th St. Bell Pho LAWYERS. New York Life bui d State, Bell phou Minnesota Ave., Kau , West 2335. Boynton law-and Law 6th, West Sixth St 6th, Home Main , Home Main 58. Home Main 5478. MISCELLANEOUS Bell Phone, Ease Main 5018 Home. Street, land, land. National Bank of Way, South 5087 University, West 44 manufacturer, 532 farmer, 1105 Wood butter, 53rd and Nurture Exchange Asia City, Kas. Custodian Western MUSICIANS. 714 South, 4th Str L. W. Johnson Offices, 325 New York Life building, Stein-Miller building, corner Sixth and State. Bell phone, West 938; Residence, West 3985. John Hill, 1513 Woodland. Bell Phone, East 1254. Amus Barnett, 1230 Forest; Main 5018 Home. R. C. Holland, 2423 Grove Street. S. J. Hightower, 2436 Highland. Solomon Smith, 2643 Highland. George Teeters, Southwest National Bank of Commerce. John Thomas, 425 Waverly Way; South 5087WBell. H. T. Keiling, Western University; West 4480 Bell. Henry P. Ewing, science farmer, 1105 Woodland. Wm. Sprangles, milk and butter, 53rd and Montgall; Lln. 750 Home. D. W. White, "White's Furniture Exchange." Bell West 483, 423 Minnesota avenue Kansas City, Kas. Samuel S R. S. Stewart, 1714 South, 4th Street, East, Salt Lake City, Utah. NEWSPAPERS. State St., Kansas Sum, 18th and Wood Western Christian 8. IS AND PAPERH ee St. Bell phone PHYSICIANS, East eleighteenth St st 3151 9 Waldron. Bell p east corner 18th and Residence Phone ate Ph.D, 1512 No st 18th; Bell East West 171; Residen 301 East 18th. 18th and Vine. Bell E. 18th St. St. Bell E. 18th St. Bell H. l. bell, Phone 731 nine street, Bell p est Corner 24th and I Vine. Bell East St. Bell East 3151 or, 18th and Paseoe pence avenue. Illinois Ave, Kame west, West 478 North 10th St. Res., Bell West 3 Cor, 18th and Fas 69. OULTRY RAISEI venue, Quindaro, K avenue. Bell pho OCTOGRAPHERS. . . . 1015 PIANO SALEMAN machines, Etc. Bell PRINTERS. ; Grand 2988 Bell Deal Printing Co. Arthur A. Anderson, 543 State St., Kansas City, Kans, 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 W. Hubert Bruce, 1512 East Eighteenth Street. Home phone, Main Lucian E. Richardson, 2439 Waldron. Bell phone, East 2527. M. G. Brookins, Northwest Corner 24th and Vine Sts. Bell phone, East 232. T. C. Unthank, 1112 Independence avenue. Both phones, Main 7488. W. W. Montgomery, 400 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Phones: Bell, W. 2302; Home, West 478. S. M Steele, 29 Sloan Avenue, Quindaro, Kans. Fred T. Drew, 2002 Bales avenue. Bell phone, East 5277-W. C. A. Franklin, 1409 Main; Grand 2988 Bell John H. Pairis, Square Deal Printing Co., 1731 Lydin. Bell phone travel 1847- 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. American Investment Paseo. Bell Phone Afro-American Inv Investment Co., Br ent; Main 7550 He Investment Co., 222 Parkway, Kansas State Ave, Kansas Home, West 503. ROBOTATION OFFICE h St. Bell Grand ALIAS, BADGES, and; East 3797 Be BOE SHINING PAY The Ward & Samlington Investment Co., Bell Phone East 4294Y. W. M. Johnston, rental agent; Main 755 Home; Main 751 Bell. W. G. Mosely, Ivanhoe Investment Co., 2220 Woodland avenue. E. E. Vaughan, 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kan. Bell, West 1757. Patterson & Gayden, 527 State Ave, Kansas City, Kan. Bell phone, West 215; Home phone, West 503. PROBATION OFFICER. Edward Ross, 1419 E. 18th St. Bell Grand 885. REGALIAS, BADGES, ETC. Moses Dixon, 1217 Woodland; East 3797 Bell. SHOE SHINING PARLOR. Moses Fields, 614 M. SHOE STORES. Page, Prop. 1507 STOCKMEN High Class Stock, M TEACHERS. Arrison School, 223 1612 Lydia; Bell E. 501. Prine Jackson. Bell E. 325 Lydia. Bell G East Twenty-four THEATRES. R. T. Coles, Principal Garrison School, 2327 Lydia; Grand 1851 Bell. W. T. White, manual training, 1612 Lydia; Grand 3631 Bell. G. A. Page, 2419 Flora. Bell E. 501. Principal Attucks School. T. W. H. Williams, 1323 Jackson. Bell E. 3259-Y. Principal Bruce School. Lewis Townsend, 1720 Lydia Ave. Bell, Grand 1772. 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. Jno. W. Jones, 440 State Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Both Phones, West 253. HAVE YOU SEEN IT? McCampbell @ Houston's New Drug Store The Finest in the City Everything Fresh and New Druggists' Sundries, Cigars and Tobacco Perfumes, Soda Water Prescriptions a Specialty Phones—Bell 765 East; Home 5806 Main N. W. Cor. Howard and Vine Sts. CAMPBELL COLLEGE Departments--Theological, Collegiate, College Preparatory, Scientific, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, Commercial Industrial Advantages--Trained Teachers, Thorough Discipline, Good Buildings and Christian Influences For further information, write to the President Campbell College, Jackson, Miss. Bishop J. M. CONNOR, D. D., Ph. D. LL.D., Chancellor. WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., LL. D., President. Mrs. J. H. Crews still continues ill Miss Hazel Bean is ill at her home with lagrippe. Mrs. A. S. Fulcher of 2638 High land Avenue, is improving nicely. Little Alber Bernice Dalley is recovering from an attack of bronchial pneumonia. Why have kinky hair when "Presto" will make the necessary improvements? See ad in this paper. Mr. W. J. Dixon the inventor at 2828 Cleveland Avenue is ill at his home. The Son hopes he will recover soon. Mr. Harry Bean, 1009 Euclid Ave. is able to return to his work after being confined to his home with pneumonia. Notice—The Lincoln Theatre at 12th and Vine Streets is an up-to-date picture show house and deserves your patronage. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wheeler, 2323 Highland Avenue, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. J. Walter Coleman, 4208 Finney Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. C. H. Birch, 4 Lombard, Kansas City, Kas., was called to St. Charles, Mo., Friday, February 20 to attend the funeral of his mother. Do you want stock in the Kaw Valley Truck Gardening Co., incorporated and bonded? Call E. A. Robinson president. Bell, East 754 Mrs. Nellie E. Young, 3412 East 21st, who has been seriously ill, is convalescing under the care of Dr. Perry and Miss M. Thompson, nurse. Kaw Valley Truck Farm Co. will hold a mass meeting at the First Baptist Church, 5th and Nebraska Ave., at 7:30 p. m., March 5, J. G. Groves will speak. Do you want stock in the Kaw Valley Truck Gardening Co., incorporated and bonded? Call E. A. Robinson, president. Bell, East 754. Mrs. Addie Rhodes of 1510 Lydia Avenue was quietly married Sunday evening, February 22 at her home to Mr. B. Sexton of St. Louis, Mo. Rev. W. H. Thomas officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Sexton will live in Kansas City. Mrs. O. V. Watts, 1907 E. 17th, received the sad intelligence of the death of her brother-in-law, Mr. Wm Crowell of Paducah, Fr. Friday, February 13th. A widow, Mrs. Cassie Hill and a son and daughter survive. NOTICE. Ladies and Gents' Shoe shining at the Colored Shoe Store. The Emanuel Commandery committee of the "On the Pittsburg" Club are Joe E. Herriford, president; T. A. Knox, vice president; R. T. Coles, treasurer; P. C. Kincaid, secretary; J. W. Crowe, sargent at arms; G. C. Cole, Chaplain. Allen Chapel held its election of trustees last Tuesday night and the following were elected: W. C. Hueston, Jas. H. Crews, R. W. Foster, R. T. Coles, Geo. W. Teeters, F. J. Gill more, Paul Whitworth, Leonard Johnson, Robert. Sneed. Poro hair dressing, hair weaving and facial massaging. Scalp treatment a specialty. Mrs. E. Norles, 1737 Paseo, upstairs. Mrs. C. L. Davis, 1811 E. 17th St. and Mrs. Francis Eubanks returned from Sweet Springs, Mo., with their brother, Mr. George Winstead, who is very sick. Mrs. C. L. Davis is also very sick and both are under the care of Dr. E. A. Walker. Mrs. Maggie Wortham announces the marriage of her daughter, Mimie Myrtle, to Mr. Thomas A. Higginbotham. Mr. Higginbotham is a Corporal in the 9th Calvary and will leave for duty at Juarez, Mexico about March 12. Mrs. Higginbotham will remain with her relatives for some time. 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. The Past and Present Counsellor's Council Order of Calanthe, will meet at Mrs. Robison's, 1115 Campbell Street the first Tuesday in March. All past, present Counsellors delegates and all members having the P. Degree are requested to be present. Business of importance. FLORENCE BIRCH, Pres. LOUELLA BASS, Secy. Mr. Colored Man:—Are you looking around to buy a home? If so call Main 751, Bell Phone. Ask for Wm. Hopkins. Why Worry? Why tire yourself out when I can take you direct to what you want? The Negro Business League will hold their Sunday night meeting March 1, at A. M. E. Zlon Church, 1805 Woodland Avenue, to which the members and public are invited. They will also have a special meeting of the full membership of the League at --- CITY NEWS. the Assembly rooms Tuesday night, March 3 to complete the final arrangements for the reception and banquet to Dr. Washington and will be addressed by Prof. J. J. Patterson of Western University'. We wish to express our thanks to our neighbors and friends for the kindness shown in our recent bereavement in the loss of our son, brother, husband, and father, William Woods, also for the beautiful floral offerings given by the following persons: Edw. S. Lewis, Council No. 113, Henrietta H. H. of R. No. 160; Mrs. E. McRay, Charles Taylor, Sadie Cooper, Wm. R. Tucker. MR. JAS. H. WOODS, MRS. JAS. H. WOODS. WILLIAM WOODS. ALBERT BENTON WOODS. MISS PEARL WOODS. MRS. LIZZETTA BEATTY. MRS. LUDIE FRANKLIN. ELDER WOODS. ALBERT WOODS. Mrs. Geo. Howard, the Poro Hair Grower. Scalp Treatment a specialty. Braids made from combings. For further information call at her residence. Hours from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. 567 Harrison street. This treatment is guaranteed to grow hair, regardless of the condition of one's s-alp. Give it a tial. Flowers, beautiful flowers, emblems of love, How happy they have made me, How sweet is their fragrance. Flowers and friends are a beautiful combination combination They fill my heart with a happy sensation, And words are inadequate to express my appreciation Of the many kindnesses shown me by friends, and also for the beautiful flowers sent me during my illness from the Centennial M. E. Church, Ladies' Aid, Ladies of the Golden Circle, Sisters of Eva Court No. 7, and free will offering and Brother A. Sayers, R. K. Council No. 1. I have no words to express myself, I simply say to all, thank you. In sad but loving memory of our dear son and brother, Frank S. White, who died two years ago, February 27, 1912. A precious one from us is gone A voice we loved is still. A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. But if we had thought thou couldst have died We might not weep for thee, But we forgot when by our side, That thou couldst mortal be. It never through our minds had passed The time would e'er be o'er, And we on thee should look our last That you would smile no more. And now we are so lonely Grieved for you both night and day Keep on watch for us dear Frank And guide us on our way. Your loving mother, MRS. JENNIE WHITE GEORGE WHITE. CORDELL WHITE. CARRIE GREENE. WILLIAM GREENE. THE COLORED SHOE STORE. The following is the standing of the various churches in the purchase of shoes at the Colored Shoe Store, 1507 East 18th street: St. Augustine Church.....$ 5.85 Second Baptist Church.....9.00 Allen Chapel.....10.65 Vine Street Baptist Church.....6.00 Ebenezer A. M. E. Church.....4.00 Morning Star Baptist Church.....6.20 Centennial M. E. Church.....5.75 St. Stephen's Baptist Church.....5.75 Pleasant Green Church.....8.75 Greenwood Baptist Church.....3.50 Zion A. M. E. Church.....4.60 —ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT— Please mention the name of your church when making purchases and remember the place. 1507 EAST 18th ST. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to our many friends and neighbors, and also the doctors for their kindness during the illness and death of our dear husband and son and also the many beautiful floral designs. Mrs. Wm. Hightower, Jr., Mrs. Wm. Hightower, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hightower, Emmett Hightower, Pauline Hightower, Luther Hightower. JNO. R- FAIRLEY, Mgr. The Printing House for the two Kansas Citys. Our Facilities for doing first class work unexcelled Home 2783 Main Bell 1647Y Grand 1731 Lydia Ave. (Hod Carriers' Hall.) CARD OF THANKS. CARD OF THANKS. IN MEMORIAM CARD OF THANKS IN MEMORIAM. In memory of Fannie Montgomery; A loved one's voice is hushed in death A faithful heart is still, A place is vacant by the hearth, None other e'er can fill. JAMES MONTGOMERY, SR., BETTIE MONTGOMERY, JAMES MONTGOMERY, JR. IN MEMORIAM. In said, but loving remembrance of our dear child, Samuel Daily, who passed away February 28, 1902. If we had thought thou couldst have died, We might not weep for thee; But we forgot when by thy side That thou couldst mortal be. It never through our minds had passed The time would e'er be o'er And we on thee should look our last That you would smile no more. Grieve for you both night and day; Keep on watch for us dear loved one And guide us on our way. —Your loving Father, Mother, Sister, brother and niece, S. L. Dailey, Onion as Medicine. A northern scientist now comes forward to defend the onion, which, he says, is a real specific for colds. All one has to do when his eyes begin to water and his nose to run, is to eat onions, and the trouble will go away. Of course, his friends will go away, too, at least temporarily, but that does not argue that the onion isn't good medicine. What She Wanted "I suppose," said the new saleswoman, "that you want a suit that will make you look attractive to your husband?" "Attractive to my husband!" echoed the shopper. "I should say not. He wouldn't know if I wore a suit ten years old. What I want is something that will make my next door neighbor turn a pale pink green with env." Really Forced to It "I understand," said the judge, "that you stole the watch of the doctor who had just written a prescription for you at the free dispensary. What have you to say to this charge?" "Well, your honor," said the prisoner, "it is true, but I found myself in a hole. His prescription said a spoonful every hour, and I had no watch." "Give me the girl who knits her stockings and not her brows, curls her hair but not her lip, and threads her needle and not the streets!" exclaimed the old fogy philosopher, who seemed to think he was going to have trouble in finding somebody who could give him one of that sort.—Browning's Magazine. Many Uses for Banana Plant. Many parts of the banana plant are used in the Malay peninsula besides the fruit. Flower heads are cooked, generally in curries, and the inner portion of the stem is also edible. Shoots and tops of the young plants are used instead of other vegetables. The outer sheaths are valued as elephant fodder. A business man in the Midlands the other day circularized the customers of his firm: "I am sorry to tell you that my partner died recently, but I am pleased to inform you that you may now have an additional five per cent, discount, as there is now only one to keep."-Manchester Guardian. Little Ross, aged seven, had been around the corner inspecting the fire station. He came home to tell his mother of what he had seen there. He said: "And, mamma, even if they are just in the middle of sweeping the floor, they drop the broom and rush off to the fire, and even in the night time when they are in bed, if the bell rings they jump up and dress and go to the fire—cause if they didn't do that, when they got there the fire would be all out." The Delineator. Had No Positive Proof. Two farmers met a day or two after a cyclone had swept over their farms. "She shook things up pretty bad out at my place," said one, stroking his whiskers meditatively. "By the way, Hiram," he added, "that new barn o' yourn get hurt at all?" "Wal," drawled the other. "I dunno. I hain' found it yet!" How to Clean a Violin Bow How to Clean a Violin Bow. If your bow is at all greasy, it may be cleaned with soap and hot water, and will then take the rosin once more. But the hairs may be worn smooth by usage, and in that case the only remedy is to have the bow repaired. If used constantly, the hairs wear out in about six months or less. Hands, Church, Society, Book and printing of all kinds. Printing Co. two Kansas Citys. Our Facilities ass work unexcelled dia Ave. (Hod Carriers' Hall.) --- --- In Search of Her. 'Tis an III Wind. Why They Hurry KANSAS CITY, KAN. Wm. Warfield, 202 Franklin Ave. is up again after several week's illness. Mr. Sterling Duncan, 229 , Ruby Avenue, Argentine, Kas., died and was buried Wednesday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Whitaker, 330 Cleveland Avenue, a daughter, to whom they have given the name, Gladys. Mrs. G. C. Chisholm will return to her home on Walker Avenue March 12, after a tour of five months. She reports herself and children well. 一 Mrs. Emma Graham died at the Douglass Hospital. She was a member of the Seven Day Adventist Church and an aunt of Lawyer Toole of this city. Mrs. H. L. Bailey of St. Louis, Mo., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ray, 325 Troup Avenue. She will visit Lexington, Mo., as the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jackson. Mr. Sanford Brown, 821 Freeman Avenue, W. M. of Mt. Etna Lodge, A. F. and A. M. and a number of others went to Lawrence Monday with the remains of Mr. J. Winston Smith. The funeral of Mr. J. Winston Smith, 905 Washington Boulevard, wah held Sunday afternoon at the Met. Baptist Church where he served as a deacon for many years. He was 43 years of age and a devout Christion. Rev. G. L. Prince officiated. He leaves a wife, two daughters and many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Interment in Lawrence Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Carr received their third annual pass the other day over the following lines: The St. L. & S. F. F. W. & T. T. & G. N., The K. C. & M. Mr. Carr has been on this same road for thirty years and has run out of Kansas City for twenty-three years. They will go to Claremont, Va., where they will visit their daughter who is one of the faculty of the Smallwood Institute. On Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Branche on the Kansas Side, there occurred a gathering which marks a distinct step in the growth of organization among the colored railway postal clerks of this section. Mr. Branche himself a clerk for twenty-five years, entertained complimentary to the Postal Clerks Alliance. And of the thirty-five men so employed living in the two Kansas Cities, the majority made it possible to be present, bringing their ladies. The evening was given over to a program descriptive of the various steps in the postal clerk's life from substitute clerk to clerk in charge. The speeches were intermingled with music and the Aeolians, a splendid musical organization which won unstinted praise for its playing of all pieces, but most especially for the composition dedicated to the Alliance by W. H. Graham, himself a clerk. All talks were interesting from the amusing and semi-tragical experiences of the substitute clerk who was terrorized in Southern communities where signs were displayed warning Negroes to read and run, to the historical and inspiring address of Mr. Bailler and Dr. Ransom. At the conclusion, Mrs. Branche played hostess inimitably, serving a buffet lunch of surpassing excellence. Something All Can Do. God has not given us vast learning to solve all the problems, or unfailing wisdom to direct all the wanderings of our brothers' lives. He has given to every one of us the power to be spiritual, and by our spirituality to lift and enlarge and enlighten the lives we touch.—Phillips Brooks. Refractory Lining. A refractory lining suitable for plugging cracks or for patching is described by the Brass World. The composition is: Fine asbestos, 40 pounds; water glass (silicate of soda), 60 pounds. These are mixed with enough water to make a pasty mass which can be worked. Never Makes a Friend. The spendthrift overpares for everything he receives. It is impossible for him to obtain equitable value for the money which he distributes. He sows, but he does not harvest. He works harder in his field of folly than does the poorest toiler of the soil. To Clean Bird's-Eye Maple. Bird's-eye maple furniture which has become soiled and finger marked can be cleaned by washing it with lukewarm water in which a little kerosene has been added. Rub dry quickly and polish with a soft cloth—From the Mothers' Magazine. Wider Field. "I think I'll be a trained nurse. I see many nurses marry millionaires." "I would advise you to try the stage. Of course, some millionaires go to hospitals, but more of them go to the musical comedies." Cause of Alpine Accidents. Most of the Alpine accidents are said to be directly attributable to sudden changes of temperature. Superlative Caution: Superlative Caution. Some men are so careful that it is comparatively safe even to go out in canoes with them. Breeding Place of Suspicion. The man who is unwilling to trust anybody acquires his caution through introspection. Some women are always painting things around the house, just to make their bushands feel guilty. Pleasant Information. It was nine o'clock in the morning in an English town, and the roads were blocked with snow. Bridget, who had been given a week's notice, was facing the last day of her sojourn in the house. She handed the usual cup of tea to her mistress in bed, and then said sweetly: "Oh, ma'am! when we asked me yesterday if we had everything in for tonight's party I forgot to tell we are out of coal and the furnace is goin' out." Flowers That Give Light Under certain conditions nasturtiums, sunflowers, dahlias, tube-roses and yellow lilies may be seen to glow with a soft radiance, varying in color and intensity. Only those flowers that have an abundance of yellow or orange shades exhibit this phosphorescence. The best time to see the light is after dark, when the atmosphere is clear and dry. The light is sometimes steady, but often intermittent and fashing. "Simon Pure." Simon Pure was the name of a character in a comedy entitled "A Bold Stroke for a Wife," by Mrs. Centlivre, an English actress and dramatist (1667-1723). The plot of the play turned on the identity of Simon Pure as against a person who assumed his name in courting a girl, thus emphasizing the real Simon Pure, which became a slang phrase. Vegetable Nightcap. A vegetable nightcap may be seen in the agricultural museum at Washington. It is the sheath of an immense African flower, and is used by the natives as a cap. Turned up around the lower edge, it runs to a point like a tasseled nightcap. Its color is a rich brown, its texture of a fine lacelike quality, and it is strong and durable. Tree Strangely Marked A curious tree which though sound was never known to blossom has just been cut down by Mr. James Hayden Carriglen, on his lands at Pandstown, County Kildare, Ireland. On the freshly sawn butt of the tree there was found a blood-red imprint of what closely resembled a hand and part of an arm. Had Reason for Belief A reporter asked Oscar Hammerstein one day if he believed in the new therapeutic idea that music was a medicine. "Believe in it? Of course I do," the impresario replied. "I know at least three operas that are a drug on the market, while as for popular songs, there isn't one of them that doesn't make me ill." His Fad. "No," said Abner Meddergrass, director of school district 14, Hoopoe township; "no, I don't imagine as you'll do noth for our school teacher. I want one as is well up in grammar. It's a fad of mine. You don't seem to know nothin' about that important study. Good morning!" Saves the Wire To prevent screens from being broken through cut an old broom handle an inch or two longer than the width of screen, slant off each end to fit and nail or screw to door at a convenient height to take hold of to open and close. It can be painted, stained or polished. Boldness and Faith. Boldness and faith go together; fear and unbelief go together. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be es tablished. It is always want of faith that is at the bottom of all fear. Why are ye fearful?—F. R. Havergal. Love's Power Limited Men think women's love to be last- ing without any effort on their part to retain it. But a woman's love cannot live any longer on a starvation diet than that of a man.—Manchester Union. His Only Surprise "Did the trained nurse take your temperature?" "Yes; after the surgeons got through with their charges it was all I had left to take."—Baltimore American. Tuberculous Parisians An eminent authority has estimated that 91 per cent. of the people of Paris have the germs of tuberculosis in their blood and are capable of spreading the disease. Secrets. A man can keep the secret of another better than his own. A woman, on the contrary, keeps her own better than that of another.—La Bouyere. Cocoanut Palm The coconut palm begins to bear at the age of seven to eight years, though in some cases it begins as early as the fifth or sixth year. Daily Thought: Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.—J. M. Barrie. Truth. Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.—George Macdonald. All Susceptible to Flattery Do you know a single human being that is immune from the grip of flattery at some weak point? Dear is the delusion that our fellowmen think really of us as they say they do! How much it eases our journey and compensates our troubles! Where compliment is sincere it comforts the soul like the fire's glow in winter. As for the insincere variety the false note must be peculiarly perceptible or we will give ourselves the benefit of the doubt every time. Your Groceries and Meats will Cost You Less and Give You Better Satisfaction if You Buy Them Here Our Prices are Right We Treat You Right Our Goods are Always Dependable THREE BalsigerBros THREE STORES STORES 9th and Charlotte Sts. 1121 East 12th St. 9th and Campbell Sts. A. E. H. WATKINS BROS. Undertakers J. T. 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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 2475. THREE STORES T. B. WATKINS. MRS. ANNA BRUNER. og as a FN a a a NT Lr eS a cf a a OO ae i car The Essayan Statue A a By H. M. EGBERT (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman) eG k Wee te eee oak ater Bee about his imagination, when tragedy | turned comedy and success was not purchased by tears. The case of the Eosayan statue well illustrates the fighter side of Nikolai’s nature, Tverybody in Boston came to ‘now Essayan after he formed the famous combination in corn, He must have made millions; and from the Rumble post of editor of a little rov- olutionary Armenian sheet, he became one of the city's leading bankers. Simultaneously his views underwent @ change, as Nikolai discovered when he called on him. “What?” shouted Essayan, “Con- ‘tribute fifty thousand dollars to the revolutionary party? You must be crazy.” “Six months ago,” said Nikolai ‘Choughtfully, “you were bawling for ‘vengeance upon Russia through the eolumns of your newspaper, and beg- ging subscriptions from your Armeni- an compatriots against the tyrant of your country.” Essayan stroked bis paunch, chuck- ting. “Maybe I did.” he admitted “But now Tam a millionaire, My views aye changed.” Nikolai looked round. We were seated in Basayan’s private museum, {1 which he stored his statues, Es- Sayan had gone in for culture. His collection must have been worth mil- Lions, ‘Treasures of Greece and Rome adorned his galleries; there was an original Venus of Praziteles, a Hermes by Phidias; bas-reliets and frieces had been stripped for the bank- er from many an ancient temple. Ni Kolai frowned angrily. You must have spent five millions on that collection of yours,” he said. Twelve millions,” sald Essayan suavely, “And all old, broken things ‘at that. They tell me that my Hermes hadnt a head. They tell me that Soey're just as valuable when every statue has some part missing. 1 don’t endorstand it myselt—but thay cost twelve millions." Nikolai ted him on to talk of his new hobby. It was evident that the Armenian took only a shadowy inter- est in the art side of his collection. Ele did not, in fact, remember wheth- *r it was his Appolio that had the smigping arm or his Jupitor whose leg as gone, “But Berg knows," sald che banker. “Berg's my art expert in London, and what he says goes. He's sending me a sample of old Egyptian mummies that’s going to cost me half » milion Now, Mr. Essayan," sald Nikolal, Wf you can spare twelve millions for your confounded art hobby you can © me fifty thousand for the Arme- analy Yet Til wager you that before the year (s out I'l sell you one of your wh staiues out of this gallery for uree times the amount I've asked you.” ‘No, you won't,” answered the bank- er placidly, “because 1 know you, and from this ‘moment my museum's go ing to be bolted and barred and guard ed, and nobody's golng to enter. See?” Nikolal could with difficulty restrain ‘tis indignation when we were outside. “The selfish hog!” be muttered. “Ee spends twelve millions on that stuf when fifty thousand would rebuild those villages that the Russians burn: ed last year, leaving hundreds of his countrymen homeless. Well, Sum- vaers, we'll win three times that amount and teach the scoundrel a les- soo.” “Nikolai,” 1 said, “I confess tha! breaking into a banker's house in Bos ton does not appeal to me. It isn’ feasible. This is America, and what can be done in Europe won't go here.’ “TH do the breaking in,” sald Ni wolal. “Or, rather, I shall be carried into the gallery in state and requested io spend the night there alone by Mr Wssayan. All you will be required to do will be to catch the statue in a ‘Dlanket when I throw it out.” T knew that some audacious scheme ‘had already been devised by my com panton, but Nikolai refused to deliver ‘himself of it. The year had several months to run and for two months we did nothing, except occasionally to wander in the neighborhood of the ‘banker's house. Once we encounter od Essayan as he was leaving bi: ‘front door, “Ha!” he snorted, “When are you going to sell me my own statue ewhat?’ He led us back into the house. “Look!” he said. “You shal ' @e warmly welcomed, gentlemen.” _ The door that led to the museun had been secured with iron bars, eact ‘of which terminated in a padlock. Es ‘#sayan showed us a series of electri wire. « “They communicate with the polio the private watchman’ Sy ows room, and the fre de shall expect you—soon’ q » time this ee ‘Nikola ar ‘swored. “Have you got your cargo mummies yot, Mr. Essayan?” “Next moni I expect them,” at eR teere 6 & Very emphatic provision ‘ the constitution of the United States ‘againat any unton of church and state fm this nation, Article 1, amendment 1, reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establish: mont of rellglon, or prohibiting the {roo exercise thereof; or abridging tho roadiom of speech, or of the press, oF the right of the people peaceably to ‘assemble, and to petition thé govern: arate iotrage cieresese! Ue ely Sam bas bis own ‘and he fs | swered the banker, “Now shoo! Go away, You make me feel tired.” On the following Saturday Nikolai and I sailed for England. It was on | shipboard that he unfolded his plans. “We must anticipate those mum mies,” he sald. "Now, Summers, to let ina light upon your brain, I in- tend to ent.r Essayan’s house dis- guised as au Egyptian king.” “A mummy?” I asked, bewildered. “Yes. Mummies can be procured easily in London. 1 shall simply re move the body, wrap myself in the spiced windings, enclosing a very mod- ern piece of papyrus recounting the history of my undertaking, bore a| neat breathing hole in the case, and ship myself to Boston. You will take me in your stateroom on the voyage back, and I trust that you will let me out of my case at times for a little fresh air and exercise. The dificult | part will be after we reach Boston har- bdr. I shall prepare for a stay of | twenty-four hours or more at the cus tom house by making myself insens!- | ble with opium or some drug, to while | away tho time and provent a feeling jot cramp from lying in my case. 1 | shall be consigned to Mr. Essayan, our |fat Armenian friend, and I have no doubt that he will consider me to be from Berg, his art expert on the other side, and welcome me with open arma, Of course he will deposit me in his | museum, where I hope to accomplish | my undertaking.” “But Essayan will recognize the | statue,” I objected. | “Neither Essayan nor Zerg himself | will recognize it,” Nikolai answered. | We readily procured a mummy in ‘| London, and, on the night before our return journey, Nikolai gave me my final instructions. « “All you will have to do,” he sald, || “will be to wait at the back of the house with a blanket and catch what I shall throw out to you. You will have "a pony trap in walting—or perhaps it || would be still better to be in the guise of the collector of waste from barrels, In this way you will not be under sus- piclon. You will wait, of course, un- til the watchman has made his round; then I shall throw down the statue.” | We unwrapped the mummy from its | fastenings, 1 confess it was a some | what gruesome undertaking, and when finally we stood looking down upon | the features of that ancient Egyptian, || 1 detected in it an uncanny resem: blance to Nikolal. There was the "same high forehead, the same eagle ||nose; moreover, the proportions, | shriveled though they were, were lit: || tle short of Nikolaf’s. He laughed | “Reincarnation?” he said, smiling | down on the grotesque thing. “Well, | iso, my worthy ancestor in the flesh, we shall put you to good purpose.” | We left the mummy in our rooms— there was no way to dispose of it— and Nikolai got into the box. I wrap- ped the windings round him and placed a pillow beneath his head. | Then, having bored a number of holes "| in the case, which I rubbed with a pig- ment to make them appear as though || they were the product of time, I put on the lid. "| “How do you feel?" I asked. | “Well, but. stuffy,” came Nikola’ "| answer faintly from within the case. ;| Then he called to me to raise the lid. | “For heaven's sake do not forget to '| lay by a goodly supply of food for my use in your stateroom,” he sald. “As :| you may have observed, I am a great '| trencherman, Now shut her down.” || He tested the air for half an hour -| and found it breathable, ‘Then he || emerged and we made our final dispo- -| sitions. | On the following day I boarded the -| Hispaniola, sailing from Liverpool for Boston. The mummy was holsted on t| board, and a little while afterward -| Nikolal came to life within my state | room. The voyage across the Atlan t| tic was uneventful, and, although my ‘| mummy caused considerable talk -| among the stewards, nobody suspected 1 | that it contained a very much upto | date passenger. I had given instruc -| tions that the case should be shipped ) | to Essayan's house; I marked the out 1 | side as though it had come from Berg, and, having left Nikolai with a supply »| of water and some concentrated food, -|I bade him farewell. He had decided, r|at my instigation, rather to endure || the discomfort of the long wait pa. »| tiently, than to take a drug. »| We ‘arrived on Sunday. The case >| would be delivered on tho following -| morning, Nikolat sald, and the cus s|toms officers promised to hurry it through. I forget what duty 1 paid; a} it was well worth it. On Monday .| night, about the hour of twelve, Ni | kolat’ was to emerge from the mum 1| my case, select his statue and throw it down to me. n| ‘Then I remembered that the how n| would be too early for the advent o | the ash-barrel collector. I hit on ¢|new plan, I would drive past th back of the house in sight — of the °| watchman, in an automobile; 1 woulk s| pretend that the machine had broker | down, and would stop in the stree "| for repairs. No crowd would be like | ly to assemble at such an hour in tha | secluded district; and the watchmar ‘would be compelled to make the rounc | of the house. willing for everybody else to haye theirs, but he will not enter Into co partnership with apy religlon.—Chtca- g0 American. , Useful at the Races, "Why did you pick Alpha to win that race? I never thought he would psa “Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabct. I figured that Alpha should ‘naturally: lead." (See what It is to have an educa Useful at the Races oN ill =Y\CL B\\! ill. we | ti ! Noes SES es mS: | UMN ae i ez ie roy aye (ier We coe Aes Bn zy CA A AW hi) a 2 Nh Ee i i oY Ai Gye NN We) = 0/0 Ni Ne Ht | Bayz ES es a = WEN a Wi Y) NIL i jo ep, es. \ ae US uh | 7/77 ae Pie VN ee BY Lgety Vig, ANG Vs Zo Sh 6. ht.) uy Ae LJ i SN Bae (0) GZ al DSS VY I Sa 5 ft af iy Ks ss Wig | Se a oe eS at / oe Ze e "ANSWERED ESSAYAN. ‘This plan I carried Into effect. The banker was In the country, I bed Tearned, and the house deserted. It would be the easfest matter to accom: plish my scheme. Soon after mid night I drove up toward Easayan's house: 1 duly stopped the machine uttored an exclamation ‘ot anger, de scended, and burrowed into the ground beneath it. As I had anticipated, the watchman paused on his round. “Broken down?” he inquired sym. pathotically. "I'm not doing this for fun,” T an swered, with felgned anger. He watched me for a while and then resumed his patrol of the house ‘The moment that he disappeared 1 sprang from under the machine, selzed the blanket I had brought, and whist led twice, the appointed signal, Then looking up, 1 saw ikolal’s head ap ee from an upper window. Nikolal motioned with his hands; 1 spread the blanket and braced myselt to receive the weight of the statue To my astonishment, however, I re celved, not what I had expected, but an oblate sphere, that hurtled heavily through the air and descended inte the receptacle. I glanced at it hastily It was the fore part of a female head ~ot course in marble. T lald it down stupidly and glanced up again. Once more an object de scended. This time it was a leg— a marble leg, worthy of an Apollo. 1 "caught it and hastened beneath the au tomobile again, concealing my treas | ures, just in time to hear the watch | man's tramp as he came round th corner. I pretended to be very busy with the machine. He halted for a moment, glanced at me, and again re- sumed his beat. But why was Nikolai cutting up the statue piecemeal? ~The next object that came down to me was a single hand. I looked up; I thought I saw Nikolai smiling. The situation was an absurd one. “Don't cut it up so fine,” I whis- pered. I do not know whether he ‘heard. A single finger next came down; but an instant later T was stag- gering under the weight of a torso ‘and the bind part of a head, which seemed to me to be the complimen- tary piece of the first one that had descended. “Again I sought the sate ty of the bottom of the automobile. ‘The watchman paused so long this time that I thought best to crawl out, “It's the carbureter,” I explained, with a yery dim understanding of the meaning of the term. “And I think my spark plug’s fouled. Do you know of any repair shop in the neighbor hood?” “Not at this time of the night,” an- swored the watchman, gloating, as it seemed to me, over my misfortune. ‘This was his revenge for my previous reception of his sympathetic inquiries. “Ob, well, I'll start the blamed thing somehow,” I answered, and began fum | bling the mechanism again, | He passed on upon his beat and 1 looked up to Nikolai. A fore-arm came whizzing through the alr; an arm; a second leg; then the greater part of a trunk; finally two ears. And then, ‘as I still waited, 1 saw Nikolal perched upon the windowsill. 1 motioned him back and crawled beneath the automo bile again. ‘This time the watchman hardly look ‘ed at me. When he was gone I bundled }| Clumsy in Proportion to Her Size. “Nuthin de mattah wid muh wife, nah,” stated Brother Stookey: “dat ts, |‘ceptin’ she's so clumsy. Welghs mighty nigh three bund'ed pounds, de |1ady do, and she’s allus steppin’ on || de dogs or de child’en. Broke one o' || de dog’s legs yiste'd’y, and spread po’ little Booker T,—ho's de baby—out .| flat dis mawnln’, Cou'se, I don't 'pose || she kim he'p it, but needer kin de live stock, Dunnah "zackly what to do, but .| I's "bout conclustoned to git a diyo'ce, Dat dog was wuth fi’ dollahs o’ any ' ‘the Items ig see machine, T look ed up. Nil was ¢hrowing out a 7m) caught the end as he sig naled m@-and waited, my heart beat ing fi for iis descent. He came down ash tertific paco and landed heavily upon the ground, bis hands Bleeding from the contact with the rope. “Aifiliny white dust had settled all over him, giving him the appear ance of @ miller, He sprang into the machine, “Let her go, Summers,” he orled and, even as he spoke, the watchman came back before his time and in an ‘opposite direction. He had evidently suspected something. One glance al Nikolat was sufficient for his suspic fons to-leap into fall activity. He snatched a whistle from his neck and ‘placed it to his lips. Before ho could blow Nikolat had selded tes by the throat and grasped ‘his hands. “Into the auto with him, Summers,” he cried in a low, pene trating Whisper. "Give a hand” 1 pulled the struggling man inside "Now lét-her go,” Nikolai . cried “Harry, man.” ‘And then a lamentable aspect of ou situation made itself manifest. The ‘automobile had actually broken down T had disarranged the gear in some manner. It would not stir. No soun¢ came from the engine. “Crank her, crank her,” cried Ni kolaf, still struggling with the watch man, whose powerful strength was al “most a match for his own. ‘Here! (Tako him and I'll start the engine.” | He forced bim into my arms and Yeaped: out Sees cae emene. OAs he had left the automobile my antag: onist disengaged himself with ease and blew a shrill, prolonged blast up- on his whistle. A moment later [heard the thump of a policeman’s night stick upon the pavement, two or three blocks away, ‘The watchman's strength was more than mine.” The only fortunate cir cumstance was that as yet he had not seen the broken pleces of the statue in the tonneau. In front, Ni kolai was cranking furiously. ‘The watchman called and shouts re-echoed from.the street, Then the engine be gan to chug and Nikolai leaped in, just a8 the watchman gained the street. A policeman had darted up and, as ‘the wheels began to move, he grasped at my collar. I shook him off. We left him and the watchman behind. A moment later we were traversing the street at full speed and congratu Inting ourselves that we had shaken off our pursuers, We were premature T heard a chug, chug, chug behind us. As I turned my head'l saw the police man leap upon the watchman's motor bicycle and shoot in our direction. Now followed a pretty chaee. The motorbicycle was as swift as the au tomobile. ‘Time and again the police man caught us; but one turn of the wheel and our huger bulk turned 4x upon him dangerously, threatening td shake him from his perch. He whist Jed all the while, Crowds came pour ing out of side streets. Once he drew his revolver, but a deft movement in hhis direction caused a slight collision and, In saving himself, our pursuer Jost his weapon, By ow we were speeding through Boston's streets, the city streets, which were as light a day and filled with theater crowds man's Money, and now loogy at him!” —Kansas City Star, Waated Postage. ||. Frequently in the eities, according to | the post office authorities, letters are held up because they have been '| stumped with foreign postage, Appar ently many neweomers to this country, | through. Ignorance, use thelr own | country’s stamps when they first ar | rive. But ghe mail doesn’t get past the first sub-Dost office. The letters are || held for postage. ane we should be compelled to halt, fultitudes took up tho chase. We turned off along the Common, shot across the grass, and sped along the deserted glades beneath the old trees; and all the while the policeman follow- ed us, riding now behind, now at our sides. We could not shake him off. Suddenly a desperate expedient o¢- curred to me. 1 turned, and, groping among the fragments of the dismem- dered statue, I found the leg. I seized it by the ankle and, taking alm, flung it with all my might at our pursuer. It struck him squarely beneath ‘the chin. He swerved and toppled from his machine, and went crashing with it upon the ground. Nikolai pulled the machine to a standstill, sprang out, and picked up our useful weapon. He brought it back broken into two parts but still serviceable. The po- iceman remained stunned upon the ground. Then, speeding up the machine, we regained the streets, and a few mo- ments after were leaving the city in ‘our rear as we tore out toward the country. | We were safe. But, looking at the pieces of the statue, I wondered how Nikolai proposed to sell them to Es- sayan. “I shall not sell them to Bssayan; |I shall sell them in London to his agent Berg,” Nikolai explained to me on the following day, as we sat to- gether in our Boston lodgings. “But Berg is an art expert; you can't deceive Berg,” I exclaimed. “Berg knows all the statues which he has purchased for Essayan. You can't sell him thé same again.” Nikolai laughed. “My dear Sum- mers, perhaps I should have initiated you into the whole secret at the begin- ning,” he said. “Well, I will do 80 now.” And then he told me. His story began with his arrival at the custom house, After what seem- ed an immeasurable period in the ob- security of his case he found himself Ufted upon a cart and conveyed to Essayan's house. The banker had left a deputy in charge while he was away, a shrewd fellow who was in- structed to admit nobody to the mu- seum under any -pretext at all. So well did he fulfill his instructions that he dismissed the carrier and, with the aid of the watchman, carried the sup- posed mummy into the museum, with much undoing of bolts and bars. He placed Nikolal and his coffin upon the ground in the mummy room and re tired, chuckling over his shrewdness. After waiting till evening, to assure himself that he would not be dis- turbed, Nikola opened the caso and emerged. Cautiously he explored the cham ber. He found that it opened into the house by means of an unlocked door. Clearly the banker did not apprehend attack from within; and for the safety of bis house he trusted his watchman, Nikolat’s first act was to discover the upper window from which he could ‘get into touch with me, His second was to rearrange the contents of the mummy case, so that, when it was ‘opened, the absence of any body would arouse suspicion of trickery on the dealer's part rather than suggest that it had been used as a medium for bur lary. Having done this Nikolai en tered the statue gallery. “I had already formed my scheme. | _ Preferred to Deliver It Himself. Henry J. Waters, president of the Kemsas State Agricultural college, tells of @ young man who was collect ) ing tunds for a benevolent institution. » Ho attempted to collect a dollar from | an old man who was noted for his - closeness. Tho youth approached the , older man and stated his minslon and | asked for a dollar, saying he was col: - lecting for the Lord. » “Collecting for the Lord?” asked the » old man, “Well, young man, how old are yout” | { Gin ak Sit ee ae Cae a kee me at once was the very mutilated condition of Essayan’s statue’, Hard- ly a one but lacked some member of the body, Aud thon I remembered ‘Essayan's comment upon this fact, and how he had boasted that he did not ‘mow one from: the other—knew only ‘that he had jald out twelve million ‘dollars for them. “Now, this was my scheme, I did ‘not intend to steal a statue. 1 planned ‘to steal parts of seore aad) to chop a leg from one that two legs, ‘an arm from one that had two arms; 8 torso from a statue that was other- wise complete; fingers and legs and ears and other members to make up my complete art object. “Summers, my plan succeeded be yond expectation. I haye robbed Es- sayan of an entire statue; yet so skill- fully bas it been done that the ignor ‘ant fool will never discover that he has lost anything.” To this the papers bore witness on the following day. I cull this extract from the Hoston Record-Mirror. “A dariag robbery was attempted last night at the house of Mr. Essayan, the well-known banker. The thieves made thelr appearance in an automobile, and had almost succeeded in effecting “an entrance when they were surprised _by the night watchman. A desperate struggle followed, but the night watch- man haying foiled thelr attempt to kidnap him in their machine, sue- ceeded in drawing his whistle and in warning the police. Officer 2270 gave chase upon his motor-cycle and follow- ed the burglars as far as the Common, when he was struck by some missile and felled unconscious. The thieves succeeded in escaping and so far have not been traced, though it is thought that the identity of at least one of them is known to Mr. Essayan—who had, in fact, been led to expect just such an attempt. It js believed that Mr. Essayan's art gallery was the ob- ject of the attempt. However, a care- ful examination by Mr, Essayan re- yealed the fact that the gallery was Tever entered.” ‘A month jater Nikolai and I were in London, in the guise of art agents from the Levant. We interested Mr. Berg in our new statue. “Dug up near Candia, Crete,” sald Nikolai, in broken English. “The mu- tilated ‘condition ts ascribed to the fact that the statue was demolished and buried by an earthquake about the time of Augustus.” “It has been pieced together credit ably," said Berg, examining it with ex. traordinary interest. “A truly remark able piece of work. ! should say that it had been made experimentally by one versed in the various schools of the clvilized world about the time of | Christ. Other statues, for Instance, show the influence ef some special school, but this bead ecems to have | been modeled after the school of Phi- | dias; here we have one leg of con- | temporary. Cretan sculpture and its fellow of Roman work. Possibly a | composite, prepared by pupils in the | iocat school. As a curiosity it should | be of vast interest; but Iam not pro pared to offer an exorbitant amount How much do you want for it?" “Two hundred thousand dollars, American,” Nikolat answered. * “Call it a hundred and Atty thouesn¢ and I'll purchase it,” said Berg. Nikolai agreed reluctantly. “By the way,” he continued, when Berg had signed in Essayan’s name | “fs that the Mr. Essayan who received the mysterious empty mummy casé last month, as reported in the art papers? I think I have a clue to the sender. Tell him to look inside anc find whether there fs not something writtqn in English upon a piece o | papyrus.” MATTERS TO PONDER OVER Some Timely Thoughts That Will Be Found Worth More or Less. ‘Consideration.. I like to talk about the “good old times” once in awhile, but I believe the new times are better. Compare the comforts of life and the facilities for carrying on farm work of the present day with those of 25 years ago and you will agree with me, I think. We are living in the best time and in the best country the world ever saw, but some of us have not yet found it out. ‘ You can almost tell what kind of a farmer a man is by the rattle of his mowing machine. The best kept ma- chinery makes the least noiso. ‘Too many of us believe in co-opera- tion, of the kind that means: You help’ me and I'll help mysolf. ‘The man who can afford to dross his wife and daughter comfortably and well and does not is a sorry sort of a fellow. God made woman's body the most deautiful thing on earth and he in- tended that {t should be properly clothed and cared for. Many a boy's heart has been hurt and his disposition soured by sense- Jess and thoughtless criticism of his personal appearance and manners ‘The young heart 1s always sensitive to ridicule—the eruelest weapon that ean be used—and it should never be Girected against a boy or girl. Revol lections of undeserved and thought. Jess ridicule of dress, the result of poverty, 40 years ago, causes the blood to rush to our own faces to this day—C, M. 8. ‘Method of Trapping Kentes. Every year thousands of Chinese go into Mongolia to-catch eagles to use for fans. ‘Tame eagles carried on thelr shoulders are used as decoys when certain spots are selected for the baiting of nests with Ken-yu or small figh. Other eagles then join the tame ones, and the nests are raised by the trappers. “Tam twenty-five,” answered the young man, “Well, I am seventy-five years old, and as you are only twenty-five years old I think that I will get to sea the Lord ‘sooner than you. 1 will hand hiin the dollar myself.”"—Kansas City Star, Relic Highly. Valued, A handkerchief formerly belonging to Richard Wagner, with a dedication to the composer's bride embroidered on it, was sold for £720 at Munica. Some Strange Tales of Hidden Gold and Jewels. Pirates’ Loot is esha But Not « Few Have Dreamed of Digging Spanish Doubloons From the ‘tart Only’ Breslin: What child ts there who cannot re call hearing at mother’s knee stories of buried treasures. And what child has net dreamed of digging from the damp, dank earth Spanish doublons or golden nuggets? Nor were they in ehildigh fancy tainted, though hid jy fome ywashbuckling pirate who ‘the main with plank ever sot for lu less syafarera who came his way, the Kansas City Star states. Down the generations has come the story of one who took his talents and buried them, and there { nothing to ‘disprove the theory that he then but conformed to common custom. A farmer digs a well, the drill ‘strikes metal, and p pot of gold is un- earthed, In the walls of a dismantled house a black box 4s revealed and its shiny treasure makes the finder a rich man, From New Haven comes the story of an Italian laborer, who, dig- ging the foundation ditches for his modevt home, disinterred enough gold- en guineas to clear his place from dent. Few towns away from the prairie country but have their treasure caves, and veteran river men will point in passing to where some vessel treasure laden went to the locker of the fresh water David Jones, Ksq. At New London, Conn., townspeoply still narrate a weird tale of treast which disappeared from a Spanis! Yessel there 150 years ago. In 1753, to be exact, the galleon Stas, Jose y Elena, gold laden and bound from Mexico to Spain, waa disabled in southern water and carrled north- ward. After weeks of idle dritt- ing, the boat was sighted by a relief ship and towed to port at New Lon- don, When repairs had been made and the ship was ready to sail it was learned that from its hold the bullion had disappeared. There was but one conjecture. The gold had been stolen and buried along the water front close by. Townspeo- ple kept close watch, but no one ever came to revealtthe hiding place, Something more than half a cen- tury ago came there a seeress, who gave directions as to the whereabouts of the buried riches. Two youths gave credence to her powers and, thelr story goes on, on a murky night she led them to a cache where stood a chest marked plainly “Jose y Bl ena,” but that when they tried to lift It the rusted handles broke away un- der thelr grip. Abandoning the quest for the night, they returned the following day, but never again were they able to locate the mysterious box, Not far from Buffalo an island in tho Niagara riger Is sald i be the trove of a Freiich refugee abd fairly dotted with boxes of jewels and pots of gold. Many prospectors have sunk thelr picks about the reputed site ot the exile’s cabin, but not one ever has discovered any ' treasure, save that once in 1888, at unvsally low water, some coins dated 1637 were found at | the very edge of the island. | It is known that Gardner's Island |was once the rendezvous of buc- cancers, and many rumore tell of buried treasure there, long hidden loot of pirates. Nor is the rumor of treasure trove confined to the Atlantic seaboard or tho east, for from Oregon to Lower California beach dwelling folk cherish and retell the stories of their fathers to the little folks, who dream of grow- ing up and finding the great stores of gold along the Pacific coast. Even along the lower Mississippl there is a tale of $300,000 gold buried near Natchez, and a classic of Colo- rado is the legend of Peg Leg Smith, | whose vast wealth died with him for ali the world {s concerned, no one ever having located the cache of the one-legged iver who did his trading with nuggets of huge size. Out in the Three Hills regions there are some who still seek the cache where Peg Leg hoarded up his wealth some indeed have perished in the rearch—but no one ever found the rumored gold. Nearer home there is the wartime tale of buried silver teapots stacked to their brim with family Jewels and ‘American gold coin and left in ditches hastily dug, where owners, frightene: fled before the soldiery of the Ch | war which came foraging. Exceptions. | Foote, the comedian, dined one day fat a country inn, and the landlord ‘asked how he liked his fare, “] have dined as well as any man in England,” said Foote. “Except the mayor,” cried the land- lord. {except nobody,” said be, “But you must!"" screamed the host, “1 won't!” “You must!” At length a petty magistrate took Foote before the mayor, who observed that it had been customary in that town for a great number of yeare al- ‘ways to “except the mayor,” and ac- cordingly fined him a shilling for uot conforming to ancient custom, Upon this decision, Foote paid the sbilti at the same time observing that hi thought the landlord the greatest foff in Christendom-—except the mayor, Christian Register, “Foe of the Short Cut. “Where did the phrase “The longest way ‘round 1s often the shortest way home’ originate?" teak om replied the man with a motor. “Probably with a trafic policeman.” |. Parental Pride, “Bo your youngest baby has learned to walk!" eaid the admiring relative. “walk, patning iene fond parent. "Some “talon look exactly as if r “Inventing ‘4 new fancy dance.” * BRAG AND BLUSTER By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHERWIN. "It pays to be slick. Everything is 'Front' in this world. Education is a waste of time and nothing goes but bluster, brag and pretense!" Thus Mark Dorrance to his closest friend and fellow workman, Bert Lansing, who smiled dubiously as he replied: "Getting rather pessimistic, aren't you, Mark? Of course you refer to gold-plated superintendent, Tracy Dunbar." "And isn't he truly all brass, with basis of self conceit and braggadoo?" demanded Mark stormily. "Why, say—he's about half the time on his job and it's a wonder the company keeps him. They can't know that we do all of the work and he gets the credit for it." "Which speaks well for our diligence, eh, Mark?" laughed Bert. "That may be, but I believe in merit rewarded. If the right man was made superintendent, it would be you." "Thanks, Mark," bowed Bert. "That shows that I have at least one admiring friend. Returning to Dunbar, though, you may find that the elements you idealize do not always spell permanent success. Somewhere Dunbar will strike a snag. Then, if he isn't true blue, his good luck will desert him. What is the direct animus of the especial moment as to Dunbar? "Well, when a fellow's got a girl he don't care to play second fiddle in her company," explained Mark in a complaining tone. "Last evening we were out at a little party. Dunbar is clever, it does, and fairly witched the crowd with his entertaining ways. He acted though as if he could take his pick of any girl in the room. I didn't like it. And by the way, Bert, he was especially attentive to the pretty sister of yours, Daisy." "Oh, don't let that trouble you," and Bert laughed confidently. "Daisy is engaged to a gentleman in New A "Getting Rather Pessimistic, Aren't You, Mark?" York who will probably claim his bride before the year is over." "That may be," answered Mark, "but I consider Dunbar a crafty, dangerous man. Certainly he interested Dalsy. Flirtation is a perilous game for a lonely girl with a distant lover only to think of." "Daisy is a sensible, loyal girl," asserted Bert, "and I am not afraid of Mr. Dunbar winning from her anything more than amused attention. She is shrewd enough to see through his artificial society ways, just as we do." The conversation dropped there, but it was destined to lead to results. An outside incident hastened this materialization. Bert and Mark were young engineers and Dunbar was superscripted, all three engaged by a big construction firm in the city to build a water power plant. The dam was about a mile from the town where the young men lived. It was to be a long job and the young men had been accustomed to going home nights. There came up, however, trouble among the shuice workers. It arose over the refusal of Dunbar to pay them a certain rebate agreed on. They refused to work. He claimed that they had violated their contract and were not entitled to the money. These men claimed they were being robbed and quit the job, but hung around making some ugly threats. On this account Bert and Mark consented to remain nights near the plant, and quite comfortably established themselves in a little building that had been used to store dynamites in the early stages of the construction work. They would go to town alternate evenings and did their own cooking. One afternoon Bert was *returning from the village when he heard a yell for help. He was amazed to trace it to the side of the rough road, apparently beneath its surface. Finally he discovered an old man who had fallen into an unused pit. He helped him out, scared and bruised. “Where's the eggs!” gasped the rescued one, looking wildly about. "The eggs?" repeated Bert vaguely. "Yes. I was carrying a basket with forty dozen of them in it. Automobile came along. Stepped aside to get out of the way of it and fell into that hole. As I did so the basket swung clear of my hand. I'm a poultry farm down the road. Suppose all that can fruit just smashed to smithers' arms." Bert made a search. It was a queer thing, but he discovered the basket safely nestled in among a lot of hazel brush and not an egg cracked or broken. The old farmer was delighted. He found out who Bert was. "Say," he observed. "I'll send you down a basket of the nicest, freshest eggs you ever saw tomorrow." The man kept his promise and there was a rare breakfast feast. Bert and Mark had eggs bolled, fried and poached. Bert was the cook that morning, and after the meal set the basket containing an egg supply for a week ahead on a sheltered shelf on the shaded end of the house outside. It was about two hours later that Bert and Mark, superintending some work at the dam, were startled by the sound of a violent commotion. They noticed a little way up the road an automobile containing half a dozen young ladies. It was one that Dunbari frequently hired from a local garage. Then at a distance they noted Dunbari himself. He had evidently driven up to the plant, had gone into the office and coming out had been confronted by a party of the dissatisfied workmen. About a dozen of these were chasing him now. "Lynch him!" "Where's the money you stole from us?" "String him up!" These and other vicious and furious shouts followed the fugitive. He ran for his life, his face ashen pale and terrified. He dodged behind the little cabin where Bert and Mark slept nights. As he came into view again an amazing spectacle was revealed. Swat!—through the air sped a white oval missile. It struck the glossy silk hat of the runner and carried it into a mud puddle. Swat!—two more of the missiles landed on his back, giving out a slimy ooze of white and yellow. Then a perfect fuselate, and as Dunbar turned to discern the distance of his foes two more projectiles landed on his face. With a shriek of fear the futgitive made for the near woods. He had to pass the waiting automobile. He was a bedraggled, forlorn specimen, a target for the basket of eggs his pursuers had discovered given to Bert by the farmer. The rioters halted near the machine as their prey escaped them, and then the fair admirers of Tracy Dunbar knew what kind of a man he was. He had never returned the rebate money to the company, but had robbed the workmen by dishonestly keeping it for himself. Bert noticed his sister among those in the auto. Their escort had disappeared for good and Bert had to drive them back to town. That night his sister made him a confession. She had almost consented to elope with Dunbar and marry him. But now the shocking truth had forever dispelled the illusion concerning a fascinating, but unworthy man. Her real lover never knew how nearly she had come to losing a happy, loving future. It was discovered that Dunbar was an embezzler to a large amount. He got safely out of the country and Bert Lansing succeeded him as superintendent. "Which proves," observed Bert to Mark Dorrance, "that 'front' and brag and bluster do not always win in the end." (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) SAID TO BE 1,000 YEARS OLD Remarkable Lamp Which Is One of the Most Precious of Mikado's Art Collections. What is probably the most extraordinary lamp in the world is one, said to be more than 1,000 years old, which forms a part of the art collection of the emperor of Japan. In this lamp the oil is stored in the body of a rat, which sits upon the top of a pole. Halfway down the pole, and resting on a projecting bracket, is a saucer, in the center of which is a pin that connects it with the bracket on which it rests. In this saucer and leaning over its side is a wick. When the saucer is filled with oil and the wick is lit there is presented a lamp that exhibits no peculiar qualities until the greater part of the oil has been consumed. Then suddenly a stream, which suffices to replenish the now nearly exhausted saucer, issues from the mouth of the rat. The saucer be full, no more oil is discharged from the rat's mouth until it is again nearly empty, when the creature sitting above yields a further supply, and so on till its store of oil is exhausted. The manner in which this is accomplished is simple. A peg that rises in the center of the saucer, and attaches it to the support on which it rests, terminates in a knob or cap; but the peg is hollow and is connected with the body of the rat by a tube which runs along the bracket and then ascends through the stand to the upper portion of the rat's body. The pin, which stands in the center of the saucer, it should be remembered, is perforated immediately below its cap, or about half an inch above the saucer. It is obvious, then, that when the oil sinks to a point at which the hole is exposed air will enter and thus allow the oil to run out of the rat's mouth; but when this hole is again covered by oil no further air is admitted, and therefore no more oil can run from a rat's mouth.—Philadelphia Record. Diplomatic Excoriation. I overheard a group of girls discussing the merits of their employers and, from their remarks, it was apparent that a majority of them were stenographers. Some were loud in praise of their employers, while others were not. One miss seemed greatly impressed by hers. "He is always so adept at answering letters that I have no trouble at all," she said. "He isn't afraid to say anything he means. The other day he called me over to take a letter and his dictation was illike this: "Sir, my typist being a lady, cannot take down what I think of you; I, being a gentleman, cannot even think it; but you, being neither, can easily guess my thoughts."—Boston Post. Lots Like That. A certain famous skyscraper builder said in his New York office the other day apropos of costs and values: "Costs and values get confused because there are so many men who, if sunshine had to be paid for, would swear that gas gave a much more brilliant light." Most. Elaborate. "Can you give me, offhand, a good example of elaborate sarcasm?" "Oh, yes. A very good example of that sort of thing is the thoughtful paragraph in which one country editor calls down another country editor for stealing his editorials." OVER THE RIOGRANDE ... ONE VIEW OF MEXICO CITY NO Mexican house is untidy, that is, what in England would be called "gentlemen's houses." The chairs with their backs to the wall look like a well-drilled regiment. The furniture is usually under covers; it is arranged with a precision which gives one an icy feeling round the heart. On the walls will probably be pictures. Let us not speak of them, but, like Virgil and Dante, "glance and pass by." Very unconventional householders may have some photographs showing, and even a few books, not, of course, lying about, but in a case or on a shelf. Rooms do not seem to be lived in. They are like "show rooms" in some "great house" through which a glibly respectable parrot housekeeper leads parties of gaping tourist visitors. Yet there is one unfailling charm about Mexican houses, writes H. Hamilton Fyfe in the London Dailly Mall. That is the charm of flowers. All Mexicans love flowers. Their homes present to the street bare, unlovely walls, with barred and close-curtained windows. Very often, though, you get a glimpse, as you pass the open door, of a patio where the eunight flickers on green leaves and vivid blossoms. Always you may count upon such an interior even if you cannot see it. It is the custom to build houses round a green plot open to the sky. Sometimes there is a loggia on three sides of this, a loggia into which all the room open (there being no "upstairs") and where the household lives in warm weather, cooled by the plash and tinkle of a fountain in the center. or else the ground floor may be given up to offices or stabling, and mounting a stairway you come to a broad balcony screened from the sun by thick trails of flowering creeper. Well-Seasoned Dishes. Most hotels are built more or less on this plan, which almost makes up for the hardness of their pillows. The Mexican idea of a pillow is that it should by its extreme discomfort prevent you for as long as possible from falling asleep. Otherwise hotels are tolerable. The food is usually pleasant enough. Mexican dishes are always highly seasoned, sometimes painfully 'hot' the mouth. But a "mole," which is a fowl or turkey served with a thick, dark brown, slightly sweet sauce all over it, is as good as any curry; they have attractive modes of cooking pork for those who are hardy enough to eat it in Mexico, and there is always fruit and always drinkable coffee. This is the land of coffee and I was told how it "really ought to be made." A small quantity of coffee, very, very strong, should be prepared (of course, from berries freshly roasted and ground), and in each cup a little of this should be poured; the cup should then be filled up with hot water. The hotels are not cheap. From ten to twelve shillings is the usual charge for a room. But they are clean as a rule, even those in small places, and in towns of any importance sanitation is now looked after. Mexican kitchens, being open to the air like the other rooms, are fresh and light and appetizing. (I speak of those I have seen.) Cooking is done on a "brasero," which is a charcoal stove in the center of the kitchen, with several glowing nests in it, on which several pots or pans can simmer or frizzle at the same time. The stove is on one side, hollowed into a semicircle; the cook stands inside this and is able to look after all the operations at once. The cook is frequently a "Chino" (Chinaman). Possibly his knowledge of Spanish is limited to a few words, yet somehow "with nods and becks and wreathed smiles" a system of communication is established. A friend of mine has a capital "Chino," who for a long time could only say "I do' STRANGE WILLS ON RECORD Eccentricities of Men and Women, With Money to Leave, Have Been Many and Varied. Many are the eccentricities to which wills have borne testimony from time to time. The earl of Portarlington left instructions that he should be buried with all his rings on his fingers. The late earl of Arkney stipulated that he should be taken to the cemetery in an old-fashioned hearse, so that the coffin should not be seen, and that no flowers should be placed on his grave. He also left word that his coronet would be found by his nephew and successor "in a cellar" of his house. A Vienna millionaire, who died recently, left a sum of money with which to defray the cost of 12 months' electric lighting, not only of his vault, but even of the very coffin in which he was buried. Less particular was the Frenchman who asked that his body should be thrown into the sea a mile from the English coast. He was, too, so disgusted with his know." This was his reply to everything that was said to him. It was necessary to discover from the way in which he said it whether he understood or not. One day his mistress gave him long instructions as to getting his master up very early the next morning and giving him his breakfast so that he might catch a train at dawn. When she had finished the Chinaman said: "Good night, lady." That was all. But he carried out her instructions exactly. Woman servants are called "criadas" and wear their hair down, either in tails or falling loose around their shoulders. They can be trained into clever cooks, neat waitresses and careful housemaids, but it is not often that they are so trained. Much patience is needed. It is useless to expect too much of them. If they are scolded or worried they simply leave without warning. They must be allowed to do their work more or less in their own way. Certain habits have to be checked. I suppose nearly all cooks use their fingers to test the temperature of the soup. Mexican servants practice even more unpleasant tricks until they are taken in hand. They are sometimes inclined to plifer, more from curiosity, I believe, than from a thieving propensity. But it is a libel to call them all dishonest, as many people in Mexico do. They have odd ideas which may make them appear dishonest when they are not so. Negro Servants Preferable. Negro servants preferable. For instance, a woman who washed for an acquaintance of mine in Mexico City told him one day she was going to live in Toluca. He paid her and said goodbye. A little later he discovered that his linen press was short several sheets, pillowcases, etc. He also missed some shirts. Naturally he concluded that the washerwoman had stolen them. Three months afterward she called at his office and said that she had left the missing articles at his rooms and would he please pay her? She had taken them to Toluca, washed them, and kept them until she had an opportunity to bring them back. Time meant nothing to her. Besides, "he had so many." This is the kind of mentality one is frequently "up against" in Mexico. It is useless to argue. It is worse than useless to be angry, for the poor Mexican is simply bewildered. The only thing to do is to see the humor of it and smile. Smile when you are told of some valued piece of china that "at dawn found itself broken." Smile, although you know for certain that your coffee and sugar are supplied regularly to your "criada"a' relations. Even when you are sued for defamation of character by a servant whom you have had convicted by the courts of theft (this actually happened) smile. At the same time, however, look out for negro servants. As cooks they are far better than Chinamen, and they keep a house cleaner than Mexicans ever will. They are faithful, and you do not have to wonder always what they are thinking about, for they have not the duplex Asiatic mind. They have to be paid more. "Criadas" seldom earn more than £24 a year, and sometimes as little as £10. But the change will be worth the money. Type of "Grafting" Ended. A pleasant and easy way of seeing the world and living without working, that of pretending to be on a walking trip around the world for a 'mythical wager with some equally mythical club or personages, has exhausted its possibilities in Prussia. The authorities have come to the conclusion that this type of traveler has become so numerous as to constitute a public nulsance, and the minister of the interior has instructed the police to prevent them from selling postcards with their photographs, announcing lectures, or otherwise molesting the public. own country that he would neither be buried there nor allow any of his relatives or fellow-countrymen to benefit by his death. He left the whole of his money to the poor of London. Protection Against Lightning. Coral necklaces have often been worn for warding off lightning; also an eagle's plume, as that bird is supposed to be quite invulnerable to lightning from its connection with Jupiter. The Romans were also much addicted to wearing bay leaves as a preservative. The laurel, the holly and the fig trees are supposed to be quite free from evil effects of lightning. The elder Pliny said: "Lightning never strikes the laurel." Famous English Oak. Steps are being taken for the preservation of the famous oak tree at Tilford, Surrey. Upon the advice of a prominent official at Kew gardens, decayed matter is being removed and the cavity filled with masonry. The age of "the king's oak," as it is generally known, is variously estimated to be from 300 to 1,000 years. SOME DON'TS TO REMEMBER Small Things, Possibly, but They Amount to a Good Deal in the Aggregate. Don't hurry your wife when she is getting the meals. Let the food get thoroughly cooked. Poorly cooked food raises hob with a man's stomach, and that leads to hard words and perhaps something worse. Don't send the boys out to cut wood with dull axes. Think of the strength that must be wasted using a dull axe. A few minutes at the grindstone will fix them all right. It takes the tuck out of a man to work with dull tools anyway. I don't like it. Do you? Don't be in a hurry about your work. Hurry and worry are a poor span to hitch up together. Don't overlook the fact that the wind often blows shingles off the barn and house. Save these if they are sound and good and when a nice, warm day comes get up and put them on again. Fix your ladder so that it will not slip and let you down, by nailing two pieces of wood to the upper end of the same angle as the roof on the opposite side where you are to work. Some farmers take added precaution by fastening a rope around their bodies and hitching the other end to a secure place while they are at work. A good pair of rubbers over the boots will add to the safety of the job. Don't forget that the boys see everything that you do. Where do you hang your hat when you come in from work? On the floor or the back of the chair? You would not like the boy to do that, would you? But they are watching you and will surely follow in your footsteps. Hang the hat and caps up. FOR HOUSEWIVES TO KNOW Should Familiarize Themselves With the Quality of the Food Products They Buy. "As many housewives as belong to the Housewives' league," is the answer to all test questions, says the Housewives' League Magazine. How many housewives study the labels on canned and bottled goods to find in small type, placed in an inconspicuous corner, the announcement that some adulterant or other has been used to cheapen the product? The pure food and drugs act compels manufacturers to tell the truth, and the housewife has only herself to blame if she places before her family the sort of food that injures the health. How many housewives know what the sanitary code of the board of health is? How many know what the office of the commissioner of weights and measures has to do with their table supply? How many know where the short weights and measures used by dishonest tradesmen come from? How many know what the department of agriculture stands for in its relation to the market supply? Fudge Cake. Cream one cup of sugar and two thirds of a cup of butter, add one cup of milk, stir in lightly two and one-half cups of four in which has been sifted one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, one-fourth of a cup of chocolate melted by placing in a cup and setting in hot water, one-half cup of English walnut meats broken into small bits, three eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately. Bake in a leaf tin. For the fudge frosting melt one and one-half teaspoonfuls of butter, add one-half cupful of unsweetened powdered cocoa, one and one-fourth cups of confectioner's sugar, a small pinch of salt and one-fourth cup of milk. Heat to the boiling point and boil about eight minutes, then remove from the fire and beat until creamy. Flavor with one-half teaspoonful of vanilla and pour over the cake to the depth of one-fourth of an inch. This is quite a famous cake, named for one of the foremost women's colleges of the country. It is delicious. Ham Croquettes. One cup of finely chopped cooked ham, one of bread crumbs, two of hot mashed oatatoes, one large table-spoonful of butter, three eggs, a speck of cayenne. Beat the ham, cayenne, butter and two of the eggs into the potatoes. Let the mixture cool slightly and shape it like croquettes. Boll in the bread crumbs, dip in beaten egg and again in crumbs, put into the frying basket and plunge into boiling fat. Cook two minutes. Drain and serve. Ham Puffs. Stir one pint of flour in one pint of boiling water, beat well, remove from fire and beat in four eggs, one at a time. Add the ham, about three ounces finely chopped, two-thirds of a teaspoon curry powder, a pinch of cayenne pepper. Drop a small dessertspoiltful at a time into a pan of deep lard. Fry a golden brown and decorate with parsley. Nice for a change. Tomato Beef Loaf. Three pounds hamburg steak, ten common crackers rolled fine, one can of tomatoes. Mix thoroughly together and season well. Form into a loaf in roasting pan, dredge with flour and lay thin strips of pork across top. Bake from one and a half to two hours in good hot oven. Thicken the gravy and pour over loaf or serve in bowl. Serve baked or mashed potatoes with this. Belmont Fudge. Put into a stew pan three heaping tablespoons cocoa, two cups brown sugar, one cup white sugar, one cup milk. Boil until it forms a ball in water. (Just before taking from the stove add about one tablespoon butter.) Add one tablespoon vanilla. Beat until it is creamy. Pour into a warm buttered pan. When cool mark into squares. **Cough Sirup for Children.** Get a bottle of honey and put it in a pan on back of the stove. When it is warm, put in a few drops of peppermint. This is simple enough and can do no harm. For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do (Copyright by A. Neely Hall) THE amusing little figures shown in the illustrations are a few of the many that live in Nutland. Five cents' worth of peanuts, a few chestnuts and peanuts, some pumpkins or squash seeds, and a few handfuls of toothpicks will furnish material for making them. Figure 1 shows the wild man and his prancing horse. The man is made of two peanuts, one for the head and one for the body. These are joined together by a short piece of toothpick stuck into a hole pierced in the end of each nut with a knife. Pierce holes in the body peanut in the right places for the arms and legs, and stick toothpicks bent as shown, into these holes. For the wild horse, select a long double peanut. Pierce two small holes near one end, and insert two bits of toothpicks for ears. Four bent toothpicks form the legs, and another forms the tail. The wild man must be fastened to the horse by sticking one end 1. THE WILD MAN AND WILD HORSE 2. THE GIRAFFE 3. THE PIG of a piece of toothpick into his body and the other end into the horse's buck. The giraffe (Fig. 2) has a peanut body toothpick legs, a toothpick neck, and a toothpick tail. Its head is a pumpkin seed, with eyes marked with pen or pencil. The ears are short pieces of toothpicks stuck into a slit made with a knife in the edge of the seed. Another slit is made in the edge of the seed for the toothpick neck to stick into. The pig (Fig. 3) has a peanut-nut body, and four short toothpicks legs. The tail is a piece of string. Twist the string into a curlecue, make it stiff by dipping it into glue, and stick its end into a hole made in the end of the peanut nut. The eyes are marked with pen or pencil. The old owl (Fig. 4) is made of a peanut. By careful hunting, you will 4 . THE·OWL· "BROWNIE JIM" 5 6 . THE·SPIDER· find a nut of just the form shown. Then all you will have to do is mark the eyes with pen or pencil and make a pair of toothpick feet. Brownie Jim (Fig. 5) is keeper of the Nutland zoo. His body is an almond, his head a chestnut, and his arms are toothpick. He wears broad shoes made of pumpkin seeds and a hat made of a cup from a large acorn. The spider (Fig. 6) is a monster, but is quite harmless. Its body is a peanut, and its legs are bent toothpicks. Nutland sparrows are just as fat and saucy as any live ones you have ever seen. Select a peanut for the body, make the feet of toothpicks, and mark the eyes and beak with pen or pencil. For the porcupine pierce one side of a peanut full of holes, and stick broken toothpicks into the holes for quills. Then provide four toothpick legs. The "gum" lives only in Nutland. Its body its a double peanut, and its legs are halves of toothpicks. He was an optimistic soul and a sportsman—a combination that made him a friend to bookies, both directly and indirectly. His pals, whom he infected with his enthusiasm, followed his tips blindly, with more often than not disastrous results. "See what you've done," wailed one of his friends after a race. "And you told me I could put my shirt on that horse." "And did you?" "Yes—worse luck." "Well, then," replied the optimistic sportsman, "see the money you'll save on laundry bills!"—Tit Bits. By A. NEELY HALL. TOYS FROM NUTLAND No Laundry Bills By DOROTHY PERKINS. Play store-keeping is great fun for a summer's day, and a very good counter for a little store may be made in the simple manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Chairs are best for the end supports of the counter, though if you can find STORE two grocery boxes about 30 inches high they will do. The illustrations show chair supports, for they will probably be easiest for you to obtain. As the chair seats are not high enough to rest the counter board upon, you must place a small box upon each to make them of the right height. If you cannot find a nice clean board for the counter-top, probably you can borrow one of the extra dining-table boards, or the ironing board. Another board of equal length to that used for the top, placed across the chair seats, beneath the small boxes, will make a good shelf, and by turning the small boxes so their open ends will be towards the back of the counter, and placing short pieces of board across the chair rounds, as shown in Fig. 2. you will have two splendid cupboards of three shelves each in which to keep stock. The canopy above the counter is really not necessary, but I think every girl will want one, for it makes the store much neater appearing. For the corner sticks you may use broom-handles, short curtain poles, and any other sticks that you can find. Bind them to the chair backs with string. Get a large enough piece of cloth for the canopy covering to extend over the four corner sticks and hang down across the front and ends to form a band eight or ten inches wide. Tack the cloth to the corner sticks. The front and ends of the counter should be enclosed with cloth or heavy wrapping paper. Of course, you must have a set of scale balances for your counter. Your little store would not be complete without them. Figure 3 shows a set very easy to make. The base of these is a large spool, and into the center hole of this spool a rubber-tipped pencil is slipped for the center support (Fig. 4). Cut the top cross strips from the cover of a cardboard box, making them ten inches long. Cut the ends and center as shown in Fig. 5, and pierce a pinhole through the center. Figure 4 shows how the strips are fastened each side of the rubber-tip of the pencil, by means of a pin pushed through them and through the rubber-tip; also, how a small cork is pushed on to the point of the pin, so there will be no danger of it injuring you. The weighing trays are made of pillbox covers of equal size. Pierce four holes through the rim of each, and, after running a thread through each CUT TWO CARDBOARD STRIPS LIKE THIS PIN CORK hole, bring the upper ends together, knot them three inches above the stray, and form a loop two inches above the knot to slip over the notched end of the top crosspiece. This completes the scale balances. The small collar buttons with which laundered shirts are returned from the laundry make excellent weights. Lacking these, you may use almost any kind of small buttons. "It certainly does. You remember that old joke about how hard it was to steal a woman's purse because no thief was smart enough to locate the pocket in her skirt. With these X-ray draperies they're wearing now, it's almost a shame to take the money, as it were." AC This house was built for an ex-Mayor of Kansas City. It has 9 large, light and airy rooms, large attic suitable for pool room or gymnasium, full cemented basement, combination furnace, lot 50x150, east front, street and alley paved, large barn suitable for garage. Several prominent Negroes have bought in this block, so the owner has decided to sell and in order to make a quick sale has reduced the price from $4,000 to $3,500, $500 down and $20 monthly. An ordinary family could live in four of the rooms and the other five could be rented for enough to make the payments and interest. Surely opportunity is knocking at your door. Will you continue to pay rent or will you buy? If this is too large, we have several others. Subscribe for The Sun "House of Love" Badges, Banners, Books, Robes, Emblems, Buttons, Furniture, Uniforms FOR ALL Lodge and Church Societies The Love Regalia Company 2418 Flora Avenue Kansas City, Missouri Bell Phone, East 944 Home 7555 Main. [Picture of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a suit and tie. The background is plain white.] [The text is in a serif font, centered, and reads: "PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK."] Bell 751 Main If you should ask a Kansas Cityan as to the most elegant and popular barber shop in the city he would unhesitatingly say—The Palace Barber Shop at 1516 East Nineteenth street (near Vine) owned by that prince of good fellow—Prof. J. E. Hobbs—who, also, has next door one of the neatest and best kept Pool Halls in town. Prof. Hobbs employees only the BEST workmen, among whom are Messrs. C. J. Nelson, David Robinson, W. T. Scott and H. A. Peace, while he himself is a barrer of acknowledged ability. Ernest Turner, the best knownporter in Kansas City, looks after the comfort of his patrons with Miss Mary A. Woodson, the neat and capable cashier. Prof. Hobbs is also Kansas City's most popular teacher. The people's Dancing Academy, which dances every Thursday night at Lyric Hall, 1731 Lydia avenue, all the latest dances, Telephone, Bell 2833 East. MISSOURI LEXINGTON, MO. Miss Ethel George and Mr. Harry Green were quietly married last week and are now living on North 24th Street....Rev. O. A. Johnson of St. John M. E. Church will leave to attend Conference real soon....Mrs. Robt. Henderson of 217 W. 24th St. left Friday morning for St. Louis to attend the funeral of her sister who passed away in that city February 19, 1914....Mrs. Blanche Worckuff of Higginsville visited relatives and friends here Sunday....The following are on the sick list: Mrs. Emanuel Saunders, Mayme Moses, Messrs. Wm. Schafer and Dan Green. BUTLER, MO. Saturday evening, February 21, the M. E. Church was crowded to witness the marriage of Mr. Stephen Crouch of Butler, and Mrs. Alice M. Harris of Kansas City. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Johnson while Mrs. M. Crouch was maid of honor and Mr. Wm. Ned Carter was best man. Mr. Crouch is a Mason, a churchman, and one of the leading citizens of Butler, while Mrs. Harris has been one of the useful and faithful stewardesses of Allen Chapel, Kansas City, for many years and one of the most competent art instructors of the race. Her church, Ladies of the Court, chapter and clubs wish her much happiness. The wedding supper was served by Mr. and Mrs. John Mills, assisted by their daughter, Thelma, and several other young ladies of Butler. Rev. Johnson, the pastor, was formerly a resident of Kansas City. He is an educated gentleman who is doing great work here. Sister Hill was also a stewardess at one time at Allen Chapel. She is looking fine. It is feared that Allen Chapel will lose two of her residents in Butler, Sister Drum and Sister Arms, as several inquiries were made. As the church bells were ringing and the writer was leaving the city, Mr. and Mrs. Crouch with smiling and happy faces, arm in arm on the porch of their own five-room cottage waved goodbye and their appearance was a beautiful picture which the writer will ever remember. FARMINGTON, MO. The Clover Bee Club was entertained Thursday by Miss Hassadah Bridges...Miss Zenia Brooks left Thursday for St. Louis...Messrs. E. Matthews and Percy Swink spent Thursday in Coffman...Mrs. Buleah Cayce and Mamie Swink of St. Louis, arrived Monday to visit parents..."Jumbo Jim" was presented Friday to the young people of the M. E Church under the direction of Mrs. Leora L. Simpson...Mr. Walter Franks of Coffman visited here Friday...Miss Ruth B. Mavis of Boone Terre spent the week's end here...Misses Jessie and Mildred Chappelle and Mr. Orville Chappelle of Avon spent Sunday...Mrs. Laura Kennedy returned Sunday from Charleston. She was accompanied by Miss Etta Jordan, a relative...Mrs. Alice Murphy of De Soto arrived Sunday on a visit Thomas Cayce spent the week's end with Mrs. Thos. Cayce. PLEASANT HILL, MO. Rev. E. M. Cohron, State Missionary, occupied the pulpit at the See and Baptist Church last Sunday morning...Mrs. E. W. Turner returned Sunday from Moberly where for two weeks she was the guest of Mrs. David Hoskins...Allen Blakey, formerly of this city, died in Harrisonville, last Thursday...Washington's Birthday was observed Friday, Feb. 20, at Douglass School. The evening was devoted to a Colonial Tea Party. Decorations in Colonial style, candles, powdered wigs, hatchet and cherry tree were the order of the evening...Colonial punch was served by young Misses in 1790 style and the evening was spent in studying Colonial history. CHILLICOTHE, MO. Mr. Paul Bealer left for Canada last Thursday after a month's visit with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Bearer...Mr. Fred Tull left for Council Bluffs, Ia. Wednesday afternoon on account of the death of his brother....Rev. Samuel Morris of St. Joseph, Mo., was a welcome visitor....It was quarterly meeting day Sunday at the A. M. E. Church and P. E. Rev. M. S. Brant preached an instructive sermon at the morning service. Rev. Oaks delivered a splendid sermon and all present did what his text commanded, "Do This in Remembrance of Me." The pastor and presiding elder announced Sunday night that the Quarterly Conference would be postponed until further announcement....Mr Nelson Kerr, inspector of High High Schools for the State Department of Education at Jefferson City, Mo., was here Thursday and inspected the work of Garrison High School....He found the work entirely satisfactory and placed it on the list of approved High Schools. There are only four high school cities in the state on the approval list, viz., St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Springdield. Garrison rank but too clearly shows what the Board of Education has done for it. Prof. Joe E. Herrford took charge of the school during its pioneer life and his tasks became more inspiring as it grew into more fortunate days. His successors, Profs. Wm. Williams, Leslie Clark, Jr., and Wm. Longdon seized the work as handed them showing their desire to serve and uplift the men and women of tomorrow....The Bachelors' Club postponed its meeting last Saturday which was to be held at the home of Miss Lossie Jones on account of her illness. A Club of what I would style "Sweet Sixteen Girls," was royally entertained by Miss Georgia Bealer last Thursday. A dozen or more of married ladies are preparing to organize a literary club. "A social center" seems to be the bologna of the young ladies and the women of this community. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. Miss Maude Morehead is improving fast...Mr. and Mrs. John Smith was called to the city on account of the death of Mr. Smith's sister...Mr. W. D. Seals was also called to St. Joseph on account of the sudden illness of his mother...Miss Chanie Golf remains in the same condition. ...Mr. Carl Gibson will spend five or six days in Kansas City...Mr. Wm. Washington will leave today for Omaha, where he has a position... Mrs. Jess was the hostess of a card party Monday evening in honor of Miss Allie Hubert of Houston, Texas. Those present were Miss Georgia Golf, Mrs. Eliza Jacobs, Mr. Charence Wisdom, Mr. Charley Craig and Mr. Robert Shepherd. The evening was delightfully spent...M. Vernon Young has returned to the city... Seventy invitations were issued for the dance given for Ralph V. Baylis Mrs. Charley Crople and Company furnished the music, assisted by Mr. Lewis Hannon...Mrs. Nettie Hellen and six friends were the guests of Mrs. Lena Mabion Wednesday evening. HANNIBAL, MO. Masonic Home Notes. We have been informed through a reliable source that the brethren of M. Hope No. 19, Lodge of Palmyra, and the sisters of Marion Court No. 30 are working in earnest to secure a pig for the Home. Don't allow the good work to lag... The Matron is under many obligations to the members of Star of Bethlehem No. 27 of Canton, for a donation of $2. The said amount was presented by the M. A. G. Matron, Mrs. C. R. McDowell. Since our last report the following visitors enrolled at the home: Miss L. B. Taylor, Hannbal; Mrs. Mary Radford, Chicago; Mrs. Edward Tucker, Loisiana; Mesdames Lizzie and Sally South Palmyra. There is a standing invitation to the ministers of the city to visit the home and leave a word of cheer with the inmates. We have started a reading circle for the home. W ehave several leading Negro papers on our list. All reading matter will be accepted with thanks. Bro Geo, W. K. Love, our Worthy Grand Secretary has mailed the Home quite a few periodicals. Many thanks. W. H. DIXON Sunt. CARROLTON, MO. CARROTION, MO. Madame P. M. Dabney of Kansas City is in our city this week the guest of Mrs. Benora Highsmith..... Miss Jessie Drake entertained the Pleasant Hour Club this week with an elaborate 5 o'clock luncheon. Decorations and colors were appropriate to St. Valentine. Madame P. M. Dabney of Kansas City, guest of honor, All declared Miss Drake a charming hostess.... The St. Valentine entertainment given at Virginia Street Baptist Church was a grand success.... Rev. L. W. Harris, pastor of Virginia Street Baptist Church, is preaching a series of soul-stirring sermons which no spiritual Christian can afford to miss. Let us not miss one.... Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sanford entertained a few of their friends Friday evening. This is the report of the A. M. E. Church for the past three months: Our Thanksgiving rally on Nov. 30 was a grand success, the amount raised being $650. Our new church being completed, we had a grand opening Dec. 21 and raised $84. At our Quarterly Meeting Feb. 1st we attained great results, having raised $55. Grand total for the quarter being $878.30. We feel that this is something to be proud of, and we know that our success is, in a great measure, due to the untiring efforts of our beloved pastor, Rev. J. K. Ponder, who has worked so faithfully and nobly with us. He is an honor to the church and his race. A. E. BROWN. KANSAS KANSAS RENO. KANSAS. Wm. Hawkins went to Leavenworth Friday...Miss Delia Lee returned home after spending a few days with her brother, O. B. Lee...Mr. Jeff Roffle went to Tonganoxie on business Thursday...Wm. Hawkins, Jr. went to Lawrence Saturday to spend a few days with friends...Mrs. L. Majors of High Prairie was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wash Roffle and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carter...Mr. Rabyon Roffle and Mr. Clarence Cooper were shopping in Tonganoxie Thursday...Mr. Wm. Gideon went to Tonganoxie Friday on business...Mr. P. Brown and Mr. Walker Roffle went to the other side of Lawrence Friday after cattle...Mr. O. B. Lee went to Lawrence on business Saturday...Mr. Albert Shepherd was in Lawrence Saturday...Mr. Jas. Nelson went to Leavenworth on business...Wm. Gideon was visiting in Tonganoxie on business...Mr. J. Jeff Roffle was in Tonganoxie on business...Mr. O. B. Lee went to Lawrence on business...Mr. S. George of Kansas City is spending a few days with Mr. P. Brown...Mr. Queen Gideon and Wm. Gideon were shopping in Lawrence Thursday...Mr. Grant Gideon went to Leavenworth Monday...Mr. Albert Shepherd went to Lawrence on business...Mr. Douglass Hildebrandt and Mr. Aaron Harvey went to Tonganoxie shopping...Mrs. Alex Jackson of Hogue and her sister, Mrs. Bush of St. Louis, were visitors of Mrs. Wash Roffle...Mrs. Queen Gideon went to Tonganoxie on business...Mrs. Walker Roffle wen to Lawrence Wednesday to shop. TONGANOXIE, KANS. Mr. Irvin Fowler and son, George, made a business trip to Kansas City, Mo., Friday....Mrs. Mat Wilson and John Matthew were on business here Saturday....Mrs. C. James and Mrs. Z. Nelson made a business trip to Lawrence Tuesday....Mrs. Alex Jackson visited friends in Reno Tuesday. OSKALOOSA, KAS Mrs. Etta Cotton, Mr. Chas. Porter and Mr. Guy Thompkins were Topeka visitors last week...Mrs. David Caldwell near Perry, has moved here for the remainder of the winter...Mrs. Lulu Cotton who has been in Topeka for two weeks caring for her grandson, returned home aturday...Mrs. and Mrs. Elmer Stice will move to Topeka the first of March...G. W. Jones who is to have a sale on the 28th, is going to quit farming on account of sciatic rheumatism and will go to Nicodemuds, Graham county, where there is a large settlement of Colored people and sell insurance. The farm is mostly in wheat and Jesse Jones will stay on the place...Mary Bland has rented her farm and will go to Bonner Springs or Kansas City to live. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. Mrs. W. G. Pinkard was hostess to the Juvenile Choir of which she is organist at a George Washington birthday party Saturday evening at her residence. Mrs. Geraldine Harris, 3905 Adams Street, who underwent an operation last Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital is improving nicely. The dinner given by the ladies of the Mission Circle of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church Monday was a success even though the weather was inclement. FOR SALE. Three-chair barber outfit; three handsome hydraulic chairs, mirrors, hat racks, boot black stand, six-foot cigar and wall case, cuspidors and hot water tank. Good condition. Three pool tables, two gas arc lights, cue-racks, roller top desk, two barber chairs, mirrors, wash bowl, cuspidors, stove, cigar and wall case, two ceiling fans and chairs. Six elegantly furnished rooms—best location in town; cheap rent; $140.00; strictly modern. Five elegantly furnished rooms, practically new with or without plano—plano new, cost $250. Best location in town on .street car line. Bath—hot and cold water free. With plano, $310; without plano, $185. House rent cheap. Ten rooms elegantly furnished; modern. House rent cheap; good location, $300. Piano new. Doing good business. Free water, hot and cold; bath. With piano, $450; without plona, $350. Ten modern houses in north end for rent to colored people from $8 to $25; from four to twenty rooms. Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combings, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirella Corsets. Mall orders answered promptly THE BARBER First Class Shaves, Hair Cuts & Shampoos. Best Shop in the City. Do not take your money down town when you can get good service for it at home. You will always find us at our post and ready to serve. BARBERS. T. E. Green Proo. E. L. Wells. Martin F. Freund If You are Pleased Tell Your Friends and If not Tell Us. Fine Cigars and Tobaccos Jackson Laundry Agency General Contracting Repairing a Specialty Estimates Cheerfully Furnished SATISFACTION GUARANTEED (The Modern Builders Co., are successors to) A. E. ESTES Contracting @ Building Co. Growers and Shippers of Early Garden Vegetables, Sweet Potato Plants, Tomato, Pepper and Cabbage Plants, Potataes and Watermelons. References: Commercial National Bank, Independence, Kans. Commercial National Bank, Kansas City, Kans. E. A. Robinson, Pres. W. R. Carter, Vice Pres. H. P. Ewing, Secy. Officers and Directors: Robt. Turner, Asst. Treas. Geo. McNeal, Asst. Secy. D. B. Jackson, Treasurer. Nick Chiles, Asst. Auditor. C H. Calloway, Atty. General Offices 117 West Sixth Street. H. P. EWING, Mgr. Aegnts: J. P. MAYNARD, 2330 Vine Street, Bell Phone, East 2330. REV. G. T. MOSBY, 2404 Highland Avenue. Bell Phone E. 4394Y Office 2460 Waldrond Ave