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Don't Miss the Mock Conference at Allen Chapel A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI. NUMBER 35. Don't M Rabbit Perhit Fagoroh 1913 h for creat great achiev stantic to its limited civilized import though lically of any to work prizes race. EIGHTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Rocky Mountain Conference—Rt. Rev. Leonard Johnson, A. B., Bishop. FIRE AT MASONIC HOME. Word was received by long distance telephone that there was a fire at the Masonic Home, Hannibal, Mo., but, fortunately it was confined to one portion of the roof and through the extraordinary efforts of Superintendent Dixon and the inmates it was extinguished with the loss of approximately $75.00. THIRD EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Turnout Conference—Rt. Rev. Geo. W. Teeters, D. D., LL. D., Bishop. JUST A WORD We are giving you a good paper. You owe us. We need the money. Don't you think you ought to pay us? NINTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Progressive Conference—Rt. Rev. S. H. P. Edwards, LL. D., Bishop. There will be an important meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Chairman of other Committees this evening at 8:00 p. m. at Swope Settlement House, 17th and Campbell. Any person interested in the work of this Association is cordially invited to be present. FIRST EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Earthquake Conference—Rt. Rev Robt. Sneed, D. D., LL. D., Bishop. --- The Kansas City Sun Rabindranath Fagore (By W. E. Griffen.) Perhaps the chief public interest in Fagore 'centers' is the fact that in 1913 he was awarded the noble prize for creative idealistic literature. This great honor is in itself a most notable achievement involving not only substantial financial rewards, but bringing to its recipient an international fame limited only by the confines of the civilized world. But possibly more important still is the fact that although those prizes have been periodically awarded since 1901 no member of any of the darker races has hitherto won one of them. All of the noble prizes have hitherto gone to the white race. The East Indian Fagore is the first representative of the dark skinned races to achieve this particular form of recognition of creative genius. Fagore is emphatically a child of the Orient, and an intellectual descendant of the Ancient Hind. He is a voice from the tomb of the past, yet fresh and vital in its message of exuberant joy and abounding hope. Fagore embodies the spirit and has mastered the form of that ancient monumental literature which even four thousand years ago was old in story and tradition, history and song. Those who have enjoyed the pleasure of perusing Anvient Vedic poems, the Mahabarata, and other rich remains of that venerable Sanskrit literature which was ripe with age before the literatures of Europe were born, those persons have felt that never again should civilization witness poetry so exalted or a philosophical theology so profound. But now comes, Rabindranath Fagore, the modern-ancient writing in the same spirit, master of the same form. Fagore is both a poet and a philosopher. A philosopher because he deduces the ultimate purpose of creative life, a poet because he clearly perceives that truth and beauty are one. With him truth is beauty in its ultimate aspect, whilst beauty is the soul in a song of rhapsody. He sees He sees nature as a sympotic realm, whose changing scenes and visible forms proclaim a master drama which must culminate in oneness with the Divine mind; but also as a system of harmonies and rhythms, an infinity of lyric dreams and dancing phantasies, whose united music swells entrancingly, embodying the epic song of the world. Fagore is the poet of life as well as of nature. He is the poet of hope and love, and of that divine passion which sweeps through the soul in a song of rhapsody. He sees also the shadows and tragedies. He believes in the immortality of those spiritual things which we weakly symbolize in our actions—which we try to express, but find them dying on our lips. He believes in the exaltation of life, in the appropriation to and for life of all truth and beauty, and in weaving these essences and ideals into the very tissue of the soul. Hon. William Herbert Fields, National Grand Master of the A. U. K. and D. of A., spent the past week in this city on lodge business. Mr. Fields is one of the race's most progressive men and is a strong believer in race organization. NEGRO VOLUNTEERS Headquarters CORPORAL WILLIAM L. WHITE, Camp No. 10, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of the Potomac. Masonic Hall, 3619 Easton Ave., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. I have the honor to forward herewith the resolutions adopted by Corporal William L. White, Camp No. 10, United Spanish War Veterans, which resolution was unanimously approved. In order to place this pumptly we telegraphed our action and sincerely hope that if you deem it necessary to use additional troops you will grant us the privilege of assisting you in defending the honor of our flag. Resolved, That we, the members of Corporal William L. White, Camp No. 10, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of the Potomac, do hereby endorse President Wilson in his Mexican policy in upholding the honor of the American Republic; and, Resolved, That in further evidence of our loyalty we do hereby offer the services of Corporal William L. White, Camp No. 10, U. S. W. V., to the President for service in defense of our flag; and, Resolved, That our commander, Captain William H. Butler, be authorized to organize a regiment of Negro soldiers for service in the present conflict with Mexico; and, be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the President of the United States of America. JOHN R. WILSON, Chairman. MATTHEW HILL. JAMES A. WILLIAMSON. L. TUGGLE. LOUIS J. HILLS. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914. BABY CONTEST AND SHOW. "Out of the mouths of babes and socklings have I ordained strength," should have been Bishop Wm H. Dawley Jr.'s text on the night of the 15th inst. The Presiding Elders will have to make rigid strides to overtake Presiding Elder Clara Franklin, D. D., of the Arab District of the Matter of Fact Conference. Her Sunday School Extension reports as follows: Frances Ward, Baptist..... $32.50 Marguerite Hueston, A. M. E..... 29.15 Frances H. Caston, Baptist..... 25.00 Eliz. Anna Anderson, Baptist..... 24.00 Evelyn Elyn. Kelton, M. E..... 20.50 Marie Cleola Watson, A. M. E..... 20.00 Alber Bernice Dailey, Baptist..... 16.55 James Lee Whibby, Baptist..... 12.20 Anna Gene McCampbell, A. M. E..... 10.00 Geo. W. K. Love, Baptist..... 6.60 Thelma Arnold, A. M. E..... 6.60 Harry A. Johnson, Jr., Episcopal 5.50 Mariorie Odessa Perkins, Baptist 5.40 Foster Tyree Drew, A. M. E..... 4.80 Avis Mace Marshall, A. M. E..... 3.40 Elmer Jackson, Jr., A. M. E..... 2.30 Dorothy Fields, A. M. E..... 1.20 Elbert Thompson, M. E..... 1.00 Thelma Foster, A. M. E..... 1.00 Lyle Eugene Holman, A. M. E..... 1.00 Scattering..... 1.80 The teachers of Attucks school were granted a day in which to inspect the schools of Topeka, Kan., and study the system employed there. They will visit the Washington school of which J. L. Harrison is principal and which is conceded by leading educators and those who are in touch with elementary school work, to be as near ideal as is possible for a school to attain. The nine Mock Conference next week, commencing Monday using through Friday night, Mr deal of enthusiasm will be around nine Mock Conferences will rep Monday Night—First Epiference, Rt. Rev. Robt. Sneed, District, Nightingale Conference Tuesday Night—Third Epiference, Rt. Rev. Geo. W. Teeters Wednesday Night—Fourth Conference, Rt. Rev. R. T. Colpal District, Matter of Fact Co Jr., Bishop and the Fifth Epifer Rt. Rev. F. G. Gilmore, Bishop Thursday Night—Seventh Conference, Rt. Rev. Paul W. W Episcopal District, Rocky Mount H. Johnson, Bishop. Friday Night—Ninth Epiference, Rt. Rev. S. H. P. Edwa Don't let us fail to attend friend is urged to report to nights. Mock Conferences will convene at commencing Monday night, April 27th Friday night, May 1st. It is hoped dissension will be aroused in this financial conferences will report as follows: Night—First Episcopal District, Earn Rev. Robt. Sneed, Bishop; and the Secondatingale Conference, Rt. Rev. Jas. H. C. Night—Third Episcopal District, Turc. Geo. W. Teeters, Bishop May Night—Fourth Episcopal District, Rt. Rev. R. T. Coles, Bishop; and the Fifth Episcopal District, Rt. Rev. W. and the Fifth Episcopal District, Cyclor. G. Gilmore, Bishop. Night—Seventh Episcopal District, Rt. Rev. Paul W. Whitworth, Bishop; and the Fifth Episcopal District, Cyclor. G. Gilmore, Bishop. Night—Ninth Episcopal District, Prog Rev. S. H. P. Edwards, Bishop. Us fail to attend these sessions. Each agreed to report to their Bishop on the General Conference Officers. Chief Secretary.....Statistical Secretary.....Recording Secretary.....Sergeant at Arms.....Asst. Sergeant at Arms.....Asst. Sergeant at Arms.....Page.....Page..... Jury.....Joe Secretary.....W Secretary.....E Arms..... at at Arms.....C at at Arms..... Lloyd Ars Chief Secretary.....Joe E. Herriford Statistical Secretary.....Willa B. Glenn Recording Secretary.....E. E. Vaughan Sergeant at Arms.....Jas. Baker Asst. Sergeant at Arms.....Chas. H. Lewis Asst. Sergeant at Arms.....L. D. Hines Page.....Lloyd Stimmetz Page.....Arthur Johnson GREAT THINGS AT THE DELMONICO. That we are fairly approach and quality must be acknowledgement to our business customers which clearly shows us we are duly appreciated. Aside in cafe service and an enlarged physical innovation has made the 'tunate in having Miss Cozetta and singer of pleasing songs to Knows" (by Dunbar), "When the and "Isle D'Honour" are some finished from the repertoire of the is a versatile entertainer. While selections of every sort all the time. Remember this is our star ternoons and every evening. Read are fairly approaching the "De Luxe" section must be acknowledged by the most conscientious to our business is the evident satisfactions clearly shows that recent improvement appreciated. Aside from maintaining a license and an enlarged selection of Bakery Gion has made the "hit" with the people. living Miss Cozetta Kingberry, a local teal pleasing songs to entertain you while you Dunbar), "When the Sands of the Deser Honour" are some of the favorites called the repertoire of the young lady who, to entertain. While the clever-toned victories sort all the way from the ridiculous aber this is our standard service! Music every evening. Read our weekly ad. That we are fairly approaching the "De Luxe" service in style and quality must be acknowledged by the most conservative. The recommendation to our business is the evident satisfaction of our customers which clearly shows that recent improvements made by us are duly appreciated. Aside from maintaining a high standard in cafe service and an enlarged selection of Bakery Goods our Musical innovation has made the "hit" with the people. We are fortunate in having Miss Cozetta Kingsberry, a local teacher, pianist and singer of pleasing songs to entertain you while you eat. "Who Knows" (by Dunbar), "When the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" and "Isle D'Honour" are some of the favorites called for and furnished from the repertoire of the young lady who, to say the least, is a versatile entertainer. While the clever-toned victrola wafts out selections of every sort all the way from the ridiculous to the sublime. Remember this is our standard service! Music on Sunday afternoons and every evening. Read our weekly ad. H. COMPTON, Prop., Bell Phone, East 618. 1512 E. 18th St. 1910 SIXTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Matter-of-Fact Conference—Rt. Rev. W. H. Dawley, B. S. D., Bishop. REV. W. H. THOMAS, D. D., The Distinguished Pastor of Historic Allen Chapel. Corner Stone Laving The laying of the corner stone of the Second Christian Church at 24th and Woodland avenue, by Westport Lodge, assisted by Rone Lodge and others will take place the first Sunday in May. All pastors and congrations will be invited. The program will appear in next week's issue of The Sun. W. A. HARRIS, Pastor. Joe E. Herriford Willa B. Glenn E. E. Vaughan Jas. Baker Chas. H. Lewis L. D. Hines Lloyd Stimmetz Arthur Johnson AT THE DELMONICO. ing the "De Luxe" service in style ed by the most conservative. The is the evident satisfaction of our that recent improvements made by from maintaining a high standard selection of Bakery Goods our Muit" with the people. We are for- ingsberry, a local teacher, pianist entertain you while you eat. "Who Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" of the favorites called for and fur- young lady who, to say the least, the clever-toned victrola wafts out ay from the ridiculous to the sub- bard service! Music on Sunday af- d our weekly ad. H. COMPTON, Prop., 1512 E. 18th St. ```markdown ``` 22.15 22.15 25.00 25.00 24.00 20.00 20.00 15.55 12.50 11.25 10.00 10.00 6.60 6.60 6.60 5.50 5.50 4.80 4.80 3.40 2.30 1.20 1.00 1.00 1.00 10 180 EVERYBODY IS GOING 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? Miss Wauaheia C. Webb, John Roy Barker, Miss Beatrice Davis, Marion Marion Smith, Miss Catherine Washington, Miss Anna Collier, Mrs. T. W. H. Williams, Miss Irna Anthony, Miss Edith Williams, Miss Randall Street, Mrs. Randall Mrs. Mickle, A. A. Mosey, Mrs. E. A. Walker, K-See Girls in the park, and the following K-See Club members, Mrs. P. Steward, Mrs. L. E. Woods, Mrs. C. A. Washington; also Mrs. E. R. Whitmore, Mrs. J. Willis, Mrs. Wells, Jarrett, Miss Williams, Mrs. E. C. Bunch, Mrs. Elizabeth Stoke, and Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Dorssey, Mrs. Brown, Miss Stella Wingston, Mrs. E. R. Whitmore, Carter, Mrs. J. Willis, Mrs. Wells, Jarrett, Mrs. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, Dr. E. C. Bunch, Mrs. B. L. Fisher, Mrs. A. E. Osborne of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Susie Pearl, Mrs. Anna Care, Miss Hattie Shy, Mr. Hubbard Ramsey, Mr. Dorssey Brown, Mrs. Tilford Davies, j, K. C., K., Mrs. J. Lewis Gambles, K. C, K. Meet 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. The R. T. Coles Lodge No. 86, A. F. & A. M., of this city, sent $50.00 to be used in the defense of Robt. Harris who was given a new trial in the murder case in Colorado. The Grand Master hopes other lodges in the jurisdiction will render substantial asistance at once as $500 is needed. "ON MEN OF ETHOPIA." By Chas. A. Starks. On Men of Ethiopia! Sound the dire alarms; Move on to that place which you yourself must carve. Take unto your hearts the Truth that warms, And feed the famished longing which others would starve. Be never content with any second place; Heirs of immortality, accept nothing less. If you are men, then you are not a despised race. But mighty in right and laughing in distress. On Men of Ethiopia! Be men in every line. Seek always that mind which is of God: This heritage is yours by right Divine, Remember this Truth as you valiantly trod. Beaming with brightness, Ethiopia's undimmed star, Lights the sable night with its celestial ray; Tis big with hope, near when seeming afar, Visible in the darkest hour—hiding in the day. National Mock Congress at Second Baptist Church. A Collossal affair in which everybody can participate. A President and Speaker to be elected by popular vote. Likewise Senators and Representatives are to be nominated and elected by the vast contituency. More said, and date named in next issue. UNITED KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA SET UP BIG COUNCIL IN KANSAS CITY. Kansas City is now in complete control of the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa. This young organization which was only chartered in 1908 under the laws of Missouri, bids fair to compete with the best known societies. Last Monday night at Castle Hall on Holmes street, the largest gathering of prominent colored people ever assembled in our city was organized into the mysteries of this splendid race loving order, whose constitution calls for race uplift and race reciprocity. Mrs. Calle Diggs, Past National Grand Treasurer and Past Most Excellent Queen of the largest council in the United States, assisted by Mrs. Mollie Trowser, instituted the new council with this addition. Kansas City now has three large councils in good working condition. Mrs. A. M. Harpole is the presiding officer of East British; Mrs. Amanda Harper, Monrovia; Mrs. Trowser of Mid-West. National Grand Master Wm. H. Fields from St. Louis, assisted by Wm. H. King, National Deputy Grand Master and Editor of the Central Afro-American, gave the Grand Council Degrees. Miss Mamie Allen, member of East British, and Geo. Walker, were present, to help the good work. Prof. J. C. Hobbs, Field Deputy, announced that there would be two more ready in ten days. After the setting up there was an elegant repast served and all went home feeling they had done some good work for their race by adding their names to this great order. On his way home the National Grand Master will set up a council at Huntsville, Mo., Saturday night, and at St. Louis Monday night. BAPTIST INSTITUTE. The W. H. F. & E. Board of the New Era District Association will hold an Institute and Board Meeting April 28, 29 and 30 at Second Baptist church, Tenth and Charlotte streets. On the 28th, Bible Institute will be conducted by Dr. Bacote at 10:30 a. m., and in the evening there will be a solo by Mrs. G. T. Mosby and Dr. Bacote will preach. On the 29th will be an expression meeting at 10:30, after which Mrs. Susie Ivory will read a paper. In the evening there will be a paper by Mrs. A. Clifax and at night sermon by Rev. G. H. Daniels. On the 30th sermon at 10:30 by Rev. C. C. Calowa, and at 4:30 by Rev. G. W. Boyd, also a paper by Mrs. Alberta Smith. In the evening the report of the Talent workers and a lecture by Rev. Dr. Bacote on "A Stranger in Strange Lands," with closing remarks by the president, Mrs. Rosa C. Gipson. All are invited. FOR SALE. Fine five-room cottage at 9th and Woodland Ave., $1,700.00. Easy first payment; monthly payments $15.00 with interest included. Call me Sunday. W. F. Freebe, 4329 Walnut St., Home phone, South 1921. Office, 514 N. Y. Life Bldg. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. SECOND EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Nightingale Conference—Rt. Rev. James H. Crews, D. D., L.L. D., Bishop. Mr. Harry Bean and daughter, Hazel, are still confined to their beds at 1009 Euclid avenue. SEVENTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Rough Riders' Conference—Rt. Rev. Paul W. Whitworth, D. D., LL. D, Bishop. USE NEGROES IN MEXICO. Superintendent Greenwood's Suggestion to President Wilson. Following is a copy of a letter that was mailed yesterday by J. M. Greenwood, superintendent of instruction, to President Wilson: To the President, Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C: In case of war between the United States and Mexico I most respectfully invite your attention to the importance of calling for 100 or 150 regiments of Negro soldiers to be mustered in, armed and equipped, and properly officered by both white and Negro officers, to act as a constabulary force in preserving order in that unhappy country until some legally constituted government can be established that will protect life and property. In this connection I deem it unnecessary to offer any argument in favor of such a policy. As a citizen of the United States I most sincerely hope that war and its horrible calamities may be averted, but in case of open hostilities, the necessity of placing a large body of Negro soldiers in that country to preserve order, would be one of the greatest object lessons that can be given not only to the Mexicans themselves, but to the civilized world. Your most obedient servant. FIFTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT. Cyclone Conference—Rt. Rev. F. G. Gilmore, A. M., Bishop. 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It contains an account of his observations and experiences among the working classes in Europe. In this book he compares the progress and the problems of the American Negro with that of the same type of people in Europe. PRICE $1.50, postage 15 cents extra. Writeatonceto A.R.STEWART, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Tear Off Here and Mail. ee = DAGON a evet ete scans katy svete: A.R. STEWART, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA. Dear Sir: Bnclosed please find two dollars, for which please vend at once your Tus: kegee Edition of Booker T. Washington's Works. After examination, if 1 ‘am satisfied with the books I agree to send you $1.00 per month for six onths. It not satisfied, I agree to return the books in good order within five days, ‘and you are to return my two dollars. Title not to pass to me until the books are fully paid for. HOGOGDAHON sseereytens sexcveeensnqsacssucnaesoorsuennnissKesneuisesseiauseo AGATE. 2. <2 00s esnosseversvereusesseceonnerscsocnyseeseesenavecsscoan coves MATTER FOR SOME THOUGHT Decidedly One of These Two Had the ‘Wrong Inipression, but Where Ie Expert That Can Decide? ‘Who told the truth? ‘They met in the subway one morn- Ing, a young mother and a young pro- fessional woman. They had been friends at school, but aeons had pass- ed, and now, after some ten years, they began to discuss their present jobs—of motherhood and journalism. However, journalism seemed to fill most of the time, and motherhood was dismissed after a few desultory ques- tions about “Rilly,” whose fame con- sisted in being seven years old and Just entering school. “Oh, tell me about your work,” sald the mother. “There is quite a bit to tell of it,” sald the egotistical woman of busi- ness, and immediately launched upon the joys, woes, disadvantages and ad- vantages of the business woman's ca- reer | “My! But that is most Interesting,” said the mother, whose eyes were popping out of her head at the mere mention of the famous persons the journalist knew. “I certainly shall ‘buy your magazine and read it!” | “Grand Central Station!" mumbled the guard. | “Goodby,” said the mother. “Your life is certainly worth while.” “Goodby,” replied the journalist; | “not nearly as much worth while as yours” Who told the truth? OLDEST OF EARTH’S CITIES Damascus as Full of Life Today as ‘She Was in the Dawning of the World's History. At last we are set down in the midst of Damascus, a city that can claim life without a break from its founding back in the dim dawn of the world’s history. When Abram crossed the desert from Haran 4,000 years ago this city was standing. (See Gen, 14:15 and 15:2.) She dates back | to the time of the Pharaohs in Egypt; in fact, she was old when Greece and _ Rome were striplings in years. Rome may be termed the “Eternal City,” but Damascus is twice.as old, and though her streets have run red with blood of battle and rapine many times, she has not been overthrown. “Babylon is an heap in the desert and Tyre a ruin on the shore,” but Damascus remains. ‘Was there ever such a place to see the nations of the earth parading to- | gether? Here in the market place are | motley crowds of Persians, Moors, | Atabans, Indians, Fayptians, Gudan ese, Jews, Bedouins, Druses, Turks, Europeans. The streets—so crooked, 60 narrow, so dirty, so full of life with that strange spell of the desert upon them! The residences as seen from the street are ugly and disap pointing enough, yet, like old barns and tumbledown mills at home, are fascinating and picturesque—Chris tian Herald. Another Withdrawal. “No, Maria,” said Mr. Con Soomus, “I will not help you wash the dishes. ‘That is the business of the mistress of the home, while mine {s to provide the means of subsistence. I must with- draw from all interlocking directorates —public sentiment is against that sort of thing.” i ei _ HAIR AND SCALP CULTURIST. Lavra J 1 Bt, Kansas, | Madaioe eae ‘Kansas City, Kans, Res, Fhone, Ball, 5 Mrs, Ula Neff, 1714 H. 18th St, Bell phone Rast 412, J. H. Simmons, $15 Oak; Main 4072 Bell, : Hotel Woods, 721 Charlotte, Lewin Woods, Prop, Bell’ Main 2078. Madame , A, Bell, Hair Culturist-and College in Connection, 923 Campbell. oe ICE CREAM PARLORS, Ernest W, Williams, 2721 B, 64th St. ‘INSURANCE. | ‘ Standard Life Insurance Co,, General Office, Atlanta, Ga, Heman E. Perry, president; Harry H. Pace, secretary; @.'F. Porter, super: + intendent local ‘branch, Kansas & Missouri; 'T. A. Ross and Charles.©. Buster, assistants; P. K. Brown, uperintendent Health & Accident department; W. L. Robnett, assistant superintendent; ©. W. Gossett, ‘manager Industrial department, 1507 B. 18th St. Bell Phone Bast 4956, H. D. Simmons, 1832 Vine, Phone Hast887. J. W. Golden, 1612 Lydia, Grand 3631. . B. A. Robinson, 2418 Montgall, Bell, Bust 754. Special agent Stan- dard Life and District Mgr. Continental. INVENTOR, W. J, Dixon, 2828 Cleveland Aventie, JEWELER. J. A, Wilson, 1616 W. 9th St. Bell Main 6453-¥, HAIR DRESSING AND MILLINERY. * Madame N. P. Johes, Beauty Culture, Halr Goods, ete., 2110 Vine street. Mattie P, Garner, electric straighteneing, comb and hair goods; Bell Fast 4741W. Lillie Johnson, 1508 Bast 18h; Bell Bast 1795, : Chapman & Caldwell, 18t hand Paseo, Phone East 798, Eva P. Washington, 849 Freeman Ave,, Kansas City, Kans, Bell phone, 2908 West. Mrs, Stella Hubbard, 1510 B. 18th St, Bell Phone East 1007, LAWYERS. 1. H. Spears, 1789 Paseo, 7 L. W, Johnson Offices, $25 New York Life building, Steln-Miller build- ing, corner Sixth and State, Beil phone, West 938; Residence, West 3985. Judge I. F. Bradley, 721 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, Kan, Rooms 5 and 6, Bell Phone, West 2336. William B, Brace, Attorney-at-Law and Counsellor, Phone, Home Main 5478; Office, 117 West Sixth Street. Chas. H, Callaway, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. + WC. Huestons 117 W. 6th. Hogi Main Bt. L, A. Knox, 117 W, 6thSt, Homé Main 5478. MANUFACTURER. J, E, Laing, Human Hair, Hair Dye, Hair Dresser Supply and Hair Dressing School in connection. 1715 B, 18th St. MISCELLANEOUS. = + Mrs, Francis J. Jackson, Inspector, 2434 Montgall. Bell East 3942, Maggle Seamster. John Hill, 1513 Woodland. Bell Phone, Hast 1254. ‘Amus Barnett, 1230 Forest; Main 5018 Home, R, ©, Holland, 2428 Grove Street. 8. J, Hightower, 2436 Highland. Solomon Smith, 2643 Highland. George Teeters, Southwest National Bank of Commerce, John Thomas, 425 Waverly Way; South 5087W Bell. H. '. Kealing, Western University; West 4480 Bell, Henry P. Ewing, scientific farmer, 1105 Woodland, Wm, Sprangles, milk and butter, 58rd and Montgall; Lin. 750 Home, D. W. White, “White's Furniture Exchange.” Beil West 483, 423 Minnesota avenue Kansas City, Kas, Mr. T, G, McCampbell, Custodian Western University Grounds, Phone, West 1454. MUSICIANS, Samuel S. R. S. Stewart, 1714 South 4th Street, Hast, Salt Lake City, Utah. : ) NEWSPAPERS. | 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, : PAINTERS AND PAPERHANGERS. ‘ A. L, Williams, 1519 B, 28d, Patching, Painting and Paper Hanging. Bell phone, East 159. ‘. H, Bailey, 911 McGee St. Bell ‘phone, Main 751, PHYSICIANS. Dr. B.A. Walker, office and residence, 1426 B, 18th. Home Phone M. 8071; Beil G. 4332, || W. Hubert Bruce, 1512 Bast ighteenth Street. Home phone, Main 4620; Bell phone, Bast 3151. Lucian P. Richardson, 2489 Waldron, Bell phone, East 2527. . A. Murray Kane, Southeast corner 18th and Paseo, Bell, Bast 6069. Home, Main’ 5807, Residence Phone, Bell Hast 603, Henry W. Dillard, Graduate Ph.D,, 1512 North Sth St., Kansas City, Kans. M. H. Lambright, 1508 East 18th; Bell Bast 144; Home Main 3490, ‘Thos. A. Fletcher, Home West 171; Residence, Home East 2856. M. L. Flinn, pharmacist, 1301 Eagt 18th. L, B, Baller, N, W. Cor, 12th and Vine, Bell East 232, Howard M, Smith, 1509 Bast 18th St, Bell East 495. ‘Wm. J. Thompkins, 1509 E, 18th St. Bell Hast 495. L, J. Holly, 1117 Campbell. Bell phone, 783 Grand, B. J, McCampbell, 2802 Vine street. Bell phone, 501 East. M. G, Brookins, Northwest Corner 24th and Vine Sts, Bell phone, | East 232. || J. Edgar Dibble, 19th and Vine. Bell Hast 887. || 3. B. Perry, 1512 B 18th St. Bell Hast 3151. Home Hast 4620. || Jas. F, Shannon, N. B, Cor. 18th and Paseo, Bell Bast 670, T. C, Unthank, 1112 Independence avenue. Both phones, Main 7488. W. W. Montgomery, 400 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans, Phones: Bell, West 2402; Home, West 478. 9, Franklin Wilson, 1317 North 10th St, Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 2249. Res., Bell, West 9731-R. || Thos. A. Jones, Southeast Cor. 18th ana Pasco, Phones: Home, Main 5807; Bell, East 5009. POULTRY RAISERS. S. M. Steele, 29 Sloan Avenue, Quindaro, Kans, Fred T. Drew, 2002 Bales avenue. Bell phone, East 5277-W. PHOTOGRAPHERS. Charles Willfams.......+.-+.+00+4,+-1015 Oak; Main 8164 Bell ©. Bruce Santee, 1718’ Hast 18th ‘St. “Photo Fad.” PIANO SALESMAN, J. H, Malone, Talking Machines, Wte, Bell, East 4573-W, PRINTERS. ©. A. Franklin, 1409 Main; Grand 2988 Bell, John H. Fairley, Square Deal Printing Co,, 1781 Lydia, Bell phone Grand 1647-¥. REAL ESTATE, William Hopkins Afro-American Investment Co. J. Dallas Bowser, 2400 Paseo, Bell Phone 2795 W Grand. F. J. Weaver, President Afro-American Inv, Co, 911 McGee St. Bell Main 751, ‘The Ward & Samlington Investment Co, Bell Phone Kast 4204¥. W. M, Johnston, rental agent; Main 7555'Home; Main 761 Bell, W. G. Mosely, Ivanhoe Investment Co., 2220 Woodland avenue, B. B. Vaughan, 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kan, Bell, West 1757. Patterson & Gayden, 527 State Ave., Kansas City, Kan, ‘Bell plone, West 215; Home phone, West 503. Geo. W. Edwards, Moberly, Mo. PROBATION OFFICER, award Ross, 1419 B. 18th St. Bell Grand 885. REGALIAS, BADGES, ETC. Moses Dixon, 1287 Woodland; Mast 3797 Bell, SHOE SHINING PARLOR. Moses Fields, 614 Main. SHOE STORES. A.W. Willlams, General Repairing, 1960 N. 3rd St,, Kansas City, Kans, H. Shumaker, Ladies’ and Gents’ Shoe Shining Parlor, 1702 B, 18th St. ‘Temple Shoe Store, G, A. Page, Prop., 1507 B. 18th St. DIRECTORY . oF THE ‘ Negro Business League of Kansas City. F. J. Weaver, Pres. EB. A. Robinson, Secy. t pleas Intake address to 2 A. Hoplnae, “Pinder secretary and Fiscal Agents Ben bone Bast” 164 AUTHOR AND WRITER. ©. A. Starks, 1195 Vine street. Bell phone, Bast, 1128-W. , AUTOMOBILES, Chas, Monroe, 2102 Woodland Auto & Hack Service, Bell East 6194, Jas. Cowden, 1617 E. 12th St. Automobile to hire. Bell Wast 26; Home Main 1532. Wm, D, Foster Auto Co, 1423 Forest, hire ang repair; office Bell ‘Grand 1630W; res. phone Bell Bast 4417W, BAKERS. Eureka Barber Shop and Pool Hall. : Jackson & Allen, 2401 Vine, Bostic Evans’ Cook Shop and Catering, 2428 Vine St, Bell phone, East 3687, Henry Compton, home bakery, 1512 East 18th, Susie Owens, 2929 Vine. George Purnell, 1912 Viné; East 4915W Bell. BARBERS. Jas, Cowden, 1617 E 12th. Barber Shop and Bath, Burt Bros,, 1422 Bast 18th St, Barber Shop and Pool Hall, Bell phone, 2442, Wm, Lewis, Atlanta Pool Hall, Barber Shop and Bath, 1609-11 B. 18th St. Bell Phone, East 721, William Dabbs, 1219 Falthmore; Grand 3125 Bell. J. A. Jones, 1514 B, 18th St.; Home Phone Main 6119, Palace Barber Shop, J. C, Hobbs, Prop., 1518 B. 19th St, Bell phone, 2833 East. Wm, Stitts, Criterion Barber Shop and Pool Hall, 1717 East 18th St, BLACKSMITH.” Jas, Hopkins, 2425 Vine St. CAFES AND RESTAURANTS. J. A. Reld, Daisy Cafe, 1610 B, 18th St, Henry Compton, 1512 8. 18th St. Bell’ phone, Hast 618. Mrs, King, Eighteenth and Paseo. Mrs, H, W. Dotson, 1705 B, Twelfth St. Phone, Bell 2214 Madame U, F, Seales, Northeast Cor, 5th and State, Kansas City, Kans. R. W, Alexander, 1619 E. 18th St, “Barbecued Meats, Hoghes & Buckner, 1514 E. 19th St. Barbecued Meats. Bell Phone, East 2833, M. Hunter & Son, 1919 E. 18th_St, “M,C. Lunch Room.” Dora Tilson, Baltimore Cafe No, 2, 575 Grand Avenue, Mrs. Lyda Franklin, Lincoln Cafe, 1312 8. 18th St, CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES. Mrs, Lydia C. Smith, General Secretary ¥. W. C,.A., Fifth and State ‘Avenue, Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1666, R, B, Defrantz, Secretary 'Y, M,C. 4. 1419 Bast Eighteenth Street. Bell phone, Grand 885. | CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS, Laden Bros,, Tailors, designers and cutters, 2420 Vine, East 4950 J, Bell Phone, ©. K, Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrink any garment we dye, 1113 Bast 18th; Bell Grand 2437, R. Bennett, 1515 Bast Eighteenth; Fast 4746 Bell. 3. F, Basil, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Home, John Holmes, 1903 Vine. Wortham Bros., 1222 B. 19th St. Bell Phone, Grand 8933-W. G. W, Golden Steam Dye Works, 1605 Bast 18th; Bell East 639. R, L. Hopkins, 2826 Vine St. “The Star.” Bell Phone, Bast 3135, CARPET CLEANERS. D. W. West, 1718 Euclid. Phones, Bell East 3555; Home, Main 1169. CIGAR MANUFACTURER, Henry Parks.1509 Bast Eighteenth; Main 4905 Home, East 45 Bell CLERGYMEN. G. B, Arnett, 14th and Spruce, Baptist Church, Rev. T. B. Gardner, Founder of the Sons and Daughters of Douglas Lodge, New (Salem) Warrensburg, Mo. Rey. G, H, Daniels, 2313 Vine Street. Home phone, Main 5618, #, N. Cohéon, State Baptist Missionary, 708 North 24th St., St. Joseph, Mo, Phone 2137. J. R, Ransom, Pastor A. M, B, Chureh, 8th and Nebraska, Kansas City, Kans. ‘Bell Phone, West 2904, 8. W. Bacote, Pastor Second Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo, Bell Phone, East 2522, G, T, Mosby, Pastor Greenwood Baptist Church, 18th and Terrace, W.H. Thomas, Pastor Allen Chapel A. M, K, Church. Bell, Main 3660. J. W. Hurse, Pastor Saint Stephens Baptist Church. Bell, Bast 4090, W. A. Bowren, Pastor First Baptist Church, Bell Phone, West 3510, Lee H. Mills, 10th and Euclid Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Rev. G. B. Arnett, 14th and Spruce, Baptist Church, Rev O. T. Reed, State Baptist Church Convention and Twin City Min- isters’ Alliance Secretary. Rey, J. W. Carter, 2224 Mich. ‘St. James A. M. EB, Chureh, Rev. W. C. Williams, 17th and Tracy Ave., Ebenezer A, M. E. Church. Rev, T. A. Wilson, 1747 Belleview Ave,, Grand 2608, COAL, FEED, ICE AND KINDLING, 1. B, Blackburn, 1612 N. 9th St, K, C., K., Bell phone, W. 1576, 3, H. Hall, 1208 Vine, Herman Kinslee, 2012 Harrison; Grand 2760W Bell. EH, A. Salisbury, 2206 Vine; East 879 Bell, W. H. Winters, 1915 Highland, R, Williams, 1815 East Seventeenth, Hopkins Bros., 2023 Vine, W. H. Lambright & Sons, Coal, Ice and Feed. Bell phone, W. 1928, 1620 North 2d street, Kansas City, Kas, CONTRACTORS—GENERAL. ‘Thos, W. Rice, Cement, stone, sodding and grading. Home Main 826, 1908 Woodland Ave, John Day, office 1426 B, 18th street. Bell phone, Grand 1413, Wm. T. Gamer, contractor and builder, 1728 Woodland; Bell B, 4741W. ‘A. B, Estes, 2460 Waldron, Bell, East 4304-Y. Leon Hi. Jordan, 712 Bast 12th St,” Bell Grand 2873, W. R. Nelson, 1822 Pacific Street, ©, 8. Page, 1514 East Bighteenth; Main 5119 Home, COOPER. C. 1, Williams, 1508 E. 24th St, Bell Phone East 1437W. re Abraham Clark, 2831 Bast 54th St. Solomon Smith, Phillips School Grocery, 2440 Vine, Lee London, 407 West Sth, is Gr ek SHO DENTISTS. T. C, Chapman, 1505 East Bighteenth; Wast 798 Bell. A. H, Hudson, 2330 Vine; East 2320 Bell, ‘McQueen Carrion, 18th and Paseo. Bell Phone, B. 144. Home vy, Phene, Main $490, . Voorhies, 500 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, Kans, neeanan 8 City, Kans, Bell Phone, DRESSMAKING, Mrs. Blanche Page, Dressmaker, 2413 Vine St., Bell Phone, East Miss Georgia Color 2810 B, 18th street, a At Birdie Jackson, 1918 Bast Nineteenth, DRUG STORES. Palace, Drug, Store No. 2, B.S. Lee, 1011 H. 18th St, Bell Phone Peoples Drug Store, M. H, Lambright, Mgr, Bi Home Phone, Main 4382. HF PA Puan, Bee Jats, MeCampbell & Houston, 2200 Vine street, and N. W. Cor, Howard and e. Sts, E. 8. Lee Pallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine? Both phon 8. Ideal Pharmacy, \1532 F. 12th Stre z i Bhona Mat, aaa: et, Bell phone, East 26; Home DR. J. H. JONES Physician and Surgeon Office Hours: 10 to 11 a.m. 1 to 3 and 5 to 6 p.m. Office, 1501 EAST 18TH STREET Residence, 1526 Highland Ave. Res. Home Phone, East 852 KANSAS CITY, MO. Over THEODORE SMITH, Druggist Home Phone, 5407 Main Bell 4891 Grand 1301 East 18th St. KANSAS CITY, MO. Office of DR. M. G. BROOKINS, 24th and Vine Sts. Bell Phone Last 232. Residence, 1816 Woodland Avenue Bell Phone E. 838. Office hours: 11 to 12 a. m.; 2 to 4 p. m.; 6 to 8 p. m. Calls Answered Day or Night. Office Hours 8 to 12 m. & 1 to 5 p. m. Sunday by Appointment Bell Grand 2553W DR. E. C. BUNCH DENTIST Gold Crown, Bridges and Plates A Specialty Painless Extraction 716 East 12th St. Kansas City, Mo Mrs. C. A. Smith has opened a branch office of MRS. S. BEDFORD'S Wonderful Hair Grower & Scalp Treatment This treatment has proved to be a wonderful success. Mrs. Smith will receive patients for treatment from From 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at her residence, 11th and Highland Every ingredient used on the hair is perfectly safe and Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction Bell Phone, East 4975. FIGHTING FOR LIFE. Father and Son, Because the Latte Tried to Protect His Aged Parents —Let Us All Help Financially. Colorado State Penitentiary. Hon. N. C. Crews, Dear Slr: I am enclosing herewith a copy of a decision handed down by the supreme court of Colorado in regard to my case, which was hastily tried in district court of Otero county at La Junta, Colo., in July, 1911, where I was instantly convicted and sentenced to death and my aged father, a man of near 83 years, was also convicted as an accomplice and sentenced from 30 to 50 years at hard labor in state penitentiary. I was sentenced to death for protecting my aged father and mother, in their own home, and my life at the cost of the lives of the two brutal, inhuman, prejudiced, Negrohating, lawless policemen who were assaulting my mother and father, and seeking to murder me. But after being denied a new trial by the judge trying my case, my attorney, Ex-Judge Lyman I. Henry of Pueblo, Colo., assisted by W. B. Townsend, attorney-at-law of Denver, Colo., aided at great law of good citizens of both races and members of my lodge, the R. T. Coles lodge, No. 86, A. F. and A. M., Kansas City, Mo., and my father's Prudent lodge, No. 6, A. F. and A. M., Kansas City, Kas. I succeeded in getting our case to the supreme court, which readily reversed the judgment of the lower court, and granted me a new trial which will soon come. Now, dear sir, the fight has just commenced as the prejudiced class in that community are determined that the sentence imposed on my father and myself be carried out, and they will use every means in their power to gain their hellish ends, and to thwart all in their desire to see me get justice. I appeal to you for financial aid, if you can assist me in any way through the columns of your paper, or otherwise, to meet the financial demands involved, it will be greatly appreciated. My reason for sending you a copy of the supreme court's decision and comments, is for you to see clearly it was not an act trying or attempting to defy the law in any way, but one of protecting my parents and my life. I again beg to state that I am a worthy member of R. T. Coles lodge, No. 86, Kansas City, Mo., and my father, Joseph Harris, of Prudent lodge, No. 6, Kansas City, Kas, being a 32 degree man and a 33 degree gentleman. So I appeal to you most earnestly, that you may do for us what you can. You may refer to your respective lodges as to our standing Should you feel disposed to aid us forward same to my mother, Mrs. Clara Harris, No. 1319 River street Canon City, Colo., as she is striving to gain us justice and every one looks to her to be paid for any expense in curred in helping father and me. Wm. HOPKINS THE AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTMENT & IMPLOYMENT CO. Makes a Specialty of Assisting You to Buy a Home in Either Kansas City PRONFS: Bell, Main751 HomeMain 7555 911 McGee Street, Kansas City, Mo. GEO. R. COOPER Druggist 12th & H If you know your neighbor For I am your nei On the corn Come in and see me, cou and very "quick de make you w 12th & HIGHLAND know your neighbor, you know me or I am your neighbor's druggist On the corner of 12th and I and see me, courteous treatment and very "quick delivery service" w make you want to come again If you know your neighbor, you know me For I am your neighbor's druggist On the corner of 12th and Highland Come in and see me, courteous treatment and very "quick delivery service" will make you want to come again. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. "I did not know you were keen been around' to patronize you," w heard to say to a colored business ness man had been at the one stam did not know it. He was managin gotten his friends' trade because know that he was in business. How many friends were there lars had this colored man lost the which includes his friends. The business man did not ev date method of scattering circular vertising. He, too, knew that whi business from small beginning to users of advertising space in the care to know that the public large cause they let the community kno still in the beginning class, mak gets. Mr. Colored Business Man, th the white man who began small. "wants you to let the public know v It know you were keeping store here, else you patronize you," was what a colored man do a colored business man a few days ago been at the one stand for several years, sit. He was managing to make a living, hands' trade because he had neglected to was in business. My friends were there just like the first? I colored man lost through neglect to not hit his friends. Less man did not even resort to the sort of scattering circulars. He had never too, too knew that white merchants who had small beginning to large propositions but tising space in the newspapers. He did that the public largely patronized these the community know what they had for beginning class, making but little more tired Business Man, the opportunity is you who began small. The race wants to suit the public know what you have. "I did not know you were keeping store here, else I would have been around to patronize you," was what a colored man was overheard to say to a colored business man a few days ago. This business man had been at the one stand for several years, but this friend did not know it. He was managing to make a living, but he had not gotten his friends' trade because he had neglected to let his friends know that he was in business. How many friends were there just like the first? How many dollars had this colored man lost through neglect to notify the public which includes his friends. The business man did not even resort to the somewhat out-of-date method of scattering circulars. He had never considered advertising. He, too, knew that white merchants who have built their business from small beginning to large propositions had been large users of advertising space in the newspapers. He did not seem to care to know that the public largely patronized these merchants because they let the community know what they had for sale. He was still in the beginning class, making but little more than a laborer gets. Mr. Colored Business Man, the opportunity is yours, like that of the white man who began small. The race wants to support you, but wants you to let the public know what you have. Try the Sun for results. 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 2102J. 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; TYPEWRITING DONE at Kansas City Son office, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Neat, quick work. Rates reasonable. Engagements by appointment. Bell phone East 999. KELLEY'S BEST LEY'S FLO KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. ADVERTISE YOUR SOCIETY. We would like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in The Sun. 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. Money to Loan on Kansas City Real Estate. Don't lose your equity. Bring your troubles to us. We can help you. Afro-American Investment Co. 911 McGee Street. 'NEW YORK DENTAL CO New Location 1017-19 Walnut St. Over Jaccard's Jewelry store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. FRED MARSHOCK GROCERIES AND MEATS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Everything Fresh and First Class HOME PHONE 6496 MAIN 900 Charlotte Street Kansas City, Mo. Do You Read The Sun? Do you know you can get it for ONE YEAR for ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS. Sent anywhere in the United States. ORDER NOW! OUR PHONE IS BELL EAST 999. HIGHLAND for, you know me neighbor's druggist mer of 12th and Highland arteous treatment delivery service" will want to come again. uping store here, else I would have was what a colored man was overman a few days ago. This busi-ing for several years, but this friend to make a living, but he had not he had neglected to let his friends just like the first? How many dol-ough neglect to notify the public then resort to the somewhat out-of-ers. He had never considered adde merchants who have built their large propositions had been large newspapers. He did not seem to only patronized these merchants be-ve what they had for sale. He was but little more than a laborer the opportunity is yours, like that of the race wants to support you, but that you have. 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. Cheap rent and light expenses enable me to give you the same shoe you get downtown at 10, 15 and 20 per cent reduction. G. A. Page, 1507 East Eighteenth street. FLOUR Kelley's Best Hello, Neighbor! Call us, write, or see our agents. SOME OF THE STRUGGLES OF THE NEGRO PRESS. One evening this week at the close of a very busy day I drew me up at my desk. Before me was scattered a mass of newspapers, all bearing the distinction og colored. My already tired brain and sun strained eyes almost refused the task that was set before. But from somewhere and somehow I gained courage, and plunged in by string with the one on top—it was the Oklahoma—O, there I go, I didn't mean to call any names, but the press work on that particular journal was so poor that one could not even properly translate the answers to Booker Washington's article, asking for better traveling accommodations for Negro passengers over certain railroad lines; which was bravely undertaken. The Dallas Express came in for a similar criticism while the Boston Alliance and Conservative Counsellor is void of that harmonious toning with other parts of the papers on account of too much front page advertisement. In others there were similar and even more grievous errors. The colored papers that take first rank in typographical cleanliness and mechanical accuracy are the Amsterdam News, Richmond Planet, Kansas City Sun, and New York Age. It is with no small degree of appreciation that I review the merits and demurts of these journals and journalists, who are struggling as I am; for to publish a Negro journal at this period means sacrifice at every stopover. I see written in great red headlines at the head of the meanest effort in the way of a Negro journal these words, "Self Sacrifice." Our readers are more sensitive to literary abuse in a race paper than they are to the big dailies. I often have a man come into my office to complain about a stick of matter upside down in the last issue of an article that was backed up the wrong way. Now, if he, perhaps, knew that my day had been 36 hours instead of eight in comparison with his, instead of criticising he would step in and offer to pay his subscription with the hope that his mite might help a little in relieving the situation. For whenever you see faults standing out conspicuously in Negro papers there is but one conclusion to come to, and that is that finance is oh, so short. Now, don't stand apart and laugh jeeringly or criticise an effort that you yourself are not brave enough to make. If you cannot give thousands, you can give the widow's mite and the least you pay on your subscription will be precious in the editor's sight.—California Eagle. Would we like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in The Sun. 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. Money to Loan on Kansas City Real Estate. Don't lose your equity. Bring your troubles to us. We can help you. Afro-American Investment Co. 911 McGee Street. Property of All Kinds For Sale In Both Kansas Citys and Topeka TERMS TO SUIT Branch Office: Portsmouth Bldg., Sixth and Minnesota Ave. Branch Office, Topeka, Kas.: 410 Kansas Ave. 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 20 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 expat service. Painless Extracting, 25c. Gold Crowns #3, $4 and $5 Silver Fillings, 75e. and $1 White Crowns $3, $4 and $5 Plating Fillings $22 New Location 1017-19 Walnut St. Over Jaccard's Jewelry store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Ca FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Everything Fresh and First Class HOME PHONE 6496 MAIN ALL HAND WORK REAL Property of A In Both Kansas TERM MISS RUTH Main Office: 400 H BELL P Branch Office: Portsmouth Branch Office, Tope Expert Dent OF KAN Our work has stood the test. Dental Work for the past 26 years. Remember All work k SAVE MONEY EXAM All work The doctor who extracts your teeth in this line than any other dental service. Painless Extracting, 250 Gold Crowns $3, $4 and Silver Filling White FULL SET 'NEW YORK New Location Over Jaccard's Jewelry store FRED I GROCERIES FRUITS AND Everything HOME 900 Charlotte Street ghbo 718 East 8th St. Suits Cleaned and Pressed, $1.00. Goods called for and delivered. Bell phone Main 4231Y. ESTATE All Kinds For Sale Cities Citys and Topeka IMS TO SUIT BRADLEY & CO. Naskell Ave., Kansas City, Kas. HONE WEST 644 North Bldg., Sixth and Minnesota Ave. Kka, Kas.: 410 Kansas Ave. Dental Specialists KAS CITY. We have been doing high class guaranteed work. We have thousands of satisfied patients. In Business 80 Years cept in repair free of charge. MINIMATION FREE guaranteed 20 years GET THE BEST with here has undoubtedly had more experience in the city, so you get the most expi a. BRIDGE WORK Spaces where from one to ten teeth have been lost we replace with bridge work. It looks the same as natural teeth, lasts a little time and requires no plata. Broken down teeth we restore to beauty and usefulness with erowns of porcelain and gold. d $8 s, 75e. and $1 White Crowns $3, $4 and $8 Platine Fillings 260 T TEETH $4 TO $8 BK DENTAL CO on 1017-19 Walnut St. e, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co MARSHOOK S AND MEATS ND VEGETABLES Fresh and First Class PHONE 6496 MAIN Kansas City, Mo. or! 'A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction 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. 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. Mofitte, 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. Lacey, E. G. Miller, W. C. Hueston. Lodge Directory Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. B. F. Gilmore, W. M.; J. H. Snigher, 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. B. F. Gilmore, W. M.; T. J. McCampbell, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are welcome. Thos. Jackson, W. M.; Jno. A. Johnson, Sec'y. 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, C. BRUCE SANTEE, Prop. 1718 E. 18th ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. We are trying to serve the people in a legitimate business by giving them the best and latest in all styles of shoes and slippers. Think seriously about this matter and let us fit you out in your Easter Goods. Bring your children with you. Special care will be taken to give complete satisfaction. Our prices are low and goods guaranteed. Give us a chance. 1507 E. 18th St., G. A. Page, Prop. In passing, look at our windows. Remember all our shoes are not in the windows. Come in therefore and let us show you our entire stock. 1507 E. 18th Street. 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 1702 East 18th St. “All communications should be addresses spgitee Ramana city Sun, 1900 Bast 38% ‘ Bell Phone East 999. Prssarac tne pontofice at agian Cty MotMinace ihe det of harch 3,189 Rolson G. Grews......,.taditor and Owne ttn Slo 000 Ceneral taping Ne, Thompeoiiy<.--1---11. Ady, Agent Gi bylereeserrss-Advertising Solieto iva Pe Wastingigiec ss cercsencaneis Mee ese a Travelling Repressniatly PrN Ga eeRineereaman ee ty Grew ocscdeseasseseeesss Collector Seer SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Gia oar cccceseccacescoscsavecns ss 4B Be es Oe Waree Monthe yc.scsscusciscscscaee_ 8 Te accastonally happens that papers sen toliisserivors ure leet of toion,. im cane Boao "at etal card and’ we el cheerfully, forward @ duplicate “ot ‘th suing number. % Sete se ADVERTISING RATE 50 CENTS PE! Ice. —_—_————_—_—_ enuned BINRCTORY, Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Fre sade Beelien's Bagels Charch, it Chae este MSfriatlan Church, 10th and Tracy. Gheltwood "aptlet Church, 1889 Ter rene ‘SEntennial MB, Church, 19th and woodland, Wcond Baptist Civch, 101m and Char fees wiAlien Chapel A.M. . Courch, 10h and a aarte’ ave, Baptist Church, 46th ond xmas, * Genézer A.-M. HE. Chucch, 17th’ and racy, Be Augustines P. HB, Church, 11th and rosie Tite. naptiat Church, 1895 Vine st Pitas Gabon waptise Churea, nde penance and Tracy “Wart Chapel Av Bi. B, Church, 21th and woodlanS. Watitetie A. a B Chureh, 1049 Mee SMrenth Day Adventtat, 22rd and Wood: au St sfonica’s Catholic, 17th, and. Lydia Hordiog Star Baptise Choreyy 2311 Vine Hihiasa' Avenue apt Churen, 0 sigifana : mtholls A. M. B. Church, Centrop- ov, er I, MPimes A. ME, Z Church, 182 waoaiand Aver ‘PaaBaplst church, Rownaten, Pett ditsion sith’ and. Genesee. Bee apne Chinen, aethond BPiigrns Baptist Church, 614 Chariot Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Anew EeNiow A. aM. E, Mission, ‘ith and uy : MGgressive Baptist Church, 20th and summit ETM" B, Church, 1817 Flora, Ave Mame cBatetes Churn, wt ME St Bk Tuie’s (AT SE He 'Chitecn, 431d ane Prospect Place, Fe Sisson, 865 Grand Ave, KANSAS CITY, KAN, CHURCHES. Bieta, M. B. Churen, sth and Neb Fltasani Geen Baylis Church, 19t wav silition Migith St, Baptist Churcn, Sth anc ailing: Mietfopolltan Baptist Churca, 9th and washington, Benet" 3g, 1B, Church, Water and stewie Streets, Saat Re ML. E, Church, fist and Ruby. itse Boptet church, Sth and yb, Edlng Solomon Baptae Church, Sed anc ‘Quindaro A. ME. Church, Quin wteNindaro A. ¥f, E. Church, Quintaro leasunt Valley Baptint Chureh, Honea SEB, Churen, 9th and Oakland. Bartle Mission A. Meo church, Sout i Mision A. Ms Church Bou Park, Kans ‘Ehitestaat Episcopal, drd_ and stewart Becond Bapte churen, d4th and. Ruby Sfcony Ehapel at, Y08 Shawnee. pga Puu Ann BL zion “chursh 4 ‘Bethel A. A. B. Church, Rotelae, Kar Be aion Bapust Church, eh and Vi eine. Hibenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford an nee We were the recipients last week of an interesting little volume of eighty Pages neatly hound entitled “Facing the Many Scenes of Time,” by Rev. ‘T, B, Gardner, which contains an in- teresting and illuminating account of the life of the author and incidents connected therewith from 1851 to the present, It would be well for every member of the race in this state to secure a copy of this most interest- ing little booklet. Some time ago social workers, colored and white, went to visit the local branch of the Lose-wiles Bis. cult Cmpany. The colored members of the party were refused admittance but the others were welcomed. ‘The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peple took the case up for investigation and learned that the re- fusal was made not out of disrespect to the Negro callers, but in order to shield them from possible insults from the employes. This is a fine idea an¢ ought to make the Loose-Wiles pro ducts taste much better to black con mara. Everyone appreciates the possible good which may come from club work among women, yet it often happens that the woman who reads the _best paper makes the poorest pie and the ‘one most artistic with the crochet needle is least artistic with the broom, It is the spiritual side of aomestic life rather than the physical whic needs most attention ind which the clubs should strive to promote, What we need is better housewives and more enthusiastic mothers, rather than married women students of ab- struse arts and forgotten lore. The parent-teachers’ clubs now being in stituted in school neighborhoods stan: ‘out as the most cogent possibilit) ‘along the right lines. With magic wand the United States has waved the war cloud up from be low the horizon. The dignity of the nation has deen transgressed by an Irresponsible act in Mexico for which apology ‘was promptly made, ~The apology was not sufficient. It is no insult to the flag when an innocent black citizen 1s burned alive at the stake. Lynching does not dis- turb the tranquil dignity of liberty. ‘These are small matters, so small that, for example, the Louisville daily papers did not even mention the fact that a white census taker raped a 16-year-old colored girl whom he found alone in her home the other day. But with the Mexicans it is different, the brown, greasy things! Our great na tion will brook no offense from them. ‘They must know, even if at the bayo- net point, that we are a people whc dwell upon conventionalities and that ‘the slightest detail of our citizenship 1s more precious than our blood, ae ee We are asking our friends to bring ‘thelr children in early and have ears eed nat: 8 Sasiee, shose ond Mad Jane. “Our soc amps Y. M. C, A. NOTES Next Sunday's afternoon meeting will be addressed by Mr. C. A. Frank. Un, a former member of the Denver Association, at 8:30 p,m, 1880 Paseo. All men are invited. ‘The work on the new building is going forward at a rapld rate, It is a most Inspiring sight to those tho visit the rooms and all seem highly pleased with the progress that is te: ing made, At this writing the cas®- ment is being placed for the third story and for the gymnasium root. The total amount of money collest: ed to date is $15,272.95. This leayes a balance of $1,727.05 needed to reach the $17,000.00 mark, which we must reach in order to claim Mr. Rosen: wald’s check for $26,000.00. If those who have not paid in full would visit the building site we feel that no ef fort would be spared on their part to contribute to the fund needed tc keep the work going as it has started We can't afford to let it stop, Preparations are being made for the cornerstone laying on the new build ing. It 1s expected that the time will be set this week eo that It may be made public. Dr, J. E. Mooreland Is expected to be present at this big celebration and tell us of the progress veing made in other cities that have had building campaigns. We hope by this time to reach the $17,000.00 mark and thus be able to celebrate the re celving of Mr, Rosenwald's check at the same time. Y. W. C. A. NOTES “I am come that they might have fe and that they might have it more abundantly.” John. 10:10. National Y.W. CA, motto. Our gymnasium classes did splendid work on Saturday of last week. Miss Hattie Anderson was pianist for the girls and Miss Ele Grant performed for the adult class. | The Rev, Richard Davis, pastor of the Methodist Bpiscopal Church on the Missouri side, delivered an able discourse in 25 minutes to a thorough ly appreciative audience at our Ves sca Vaapvine lake: HunaAY: We regret that Miss Ethel Smith, who has played for the class weekly for over six months, had to retire ere the close of the “gym” year, but it is probable that she is busy wih her preparations for graduation, She has at least had the joy of volunteer service which is a privilege for all girls in the Association, Our Vesper service tomorrow, April 26th, will be held at the C. M. E. Church, Oakland avenue, of which the Rev, Warfield is pastor. An excellent Program has been planned by Mrs. J. W. Jacobs which includes a paper by Miss Winifred Morton; Miss Lot- tie Tipton and Miss Irene Furguson will render solos, and Miss Kathrene Johnson who started the movement for the ¥. W. C. A. for colored wom en in this city, will make remarks. The public is invited. Service begins lat 3:00 o'clock. Betty@ Sam's Little Corne> | 5 //; WoNae ru hey AU NED | & ae | LC te “ ¥ toe “iy J Late = Via Want j Trey SAY —That Dr. Ramsey, Dr, Carrion, 3 ©. Hobbs and A. Wsilarris are organ: ling a Negro regiment. Ob you alex That the apron and necktie party to be given by the Social Pathfinders at Allen Chapel, May 6th, will be grand. Will you be there? —That the next. bood who starts anything in the Cabaret will make sure Bush Wells is not around, —That when a woman gets angry she has @ fainting spell, but when a man gets angry he just raises h—1. —That the contest launched by the Bull Moose Conference for the most popular young Indy in Allen Chapel is getting red hot, —That truth and falsehood went in bathing together. Falseliood came out first and dressed herself in cruth’s garments, Truth unwilling to put on falsehood's clothes went naked. Hence the “naked” truth, On last Tuesday the Grand Court of the Heroines of Jericho, through Mra, Lila Swan, Grand Treasurer, pre- sented to the Grand Master and Grand Secretary for the benefit of the Ma. sonic Home, $53.35 as a contribution for the year 1913 with an expressed desire that needed improvements in the fencing, chicken coops and cow sheds be made. Coming just at a time when we had been much exer cised over the fire at the Home, it was doubly acceptable and the Grand Master desires to extend to this splen- did auxiliary of the Masonic family the sincere thanks of the craftsmen throughout the jurisdiction. THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Last Sunday Night ‘The League held a very interesting session at Allen Chapel last. Sunday night. In the absence of the Presi dent Baitor N. C. Crews was called to preside and after a few brief remarks introduced the following members who made short but forcible ad dresses: Prof. G. A. Page, Hop. Li: A Knox, Prof. Shelton French, and Secretary B. A. Robinson, Mrs, G. F Porter contributed a magnificent solo to the program. ‘The meeting closed with a few words of endorse ment from Rey, W. H, Thomas, pasto and the introduction to the audienc of the business representatives pres ent. At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon Mr ©. A. Franklin and Secretary B.A Robinson represented the league be fore the forum in Kansas City Kans, and were given a most cordial recep tion, Those who rendered service a Clark Chapel Sunday night were Mr, C, A, Franklin, W:llfam Johnson E. W. Laden and William Hopkins ‘This church Is at Seventeenth anc Madison and a splendid crowd greete: these representatives of the league. ‘On next Sunday night the Leagw will have charge of the program al the Second Baptist church, Dr. $. W Bacote pastor, and the following pro gram will be rendered: Addresses by Dr. H. T. Kealing Hon. ©. H. Calloway, and Mrs, J. E Dibble, Solo by Mrs, Corrine Lester Duet by Dr. and Mrs, Willam J ‘Thompkins, On the same evening Dr. J. EB Dibble, William Johnson, C. 8. Gos sett and C. H. Countee will represent the League and deliver addresses at Rey, Powell's church, Nineteenth and Askew, It Is the purpose of the League to carry the battle to every section of Kansas City. Sister Richard Lemmons is improv- ing rapidly. She is at the Perry San- itarium and we hope for her recovery soon, Dr. J. E, Perry deserves much credit for the skillful manner in which he performed the operation....Sister 8. A, Haworth and Sister G. W. Taylor are ill and we hope for thelr recov- ery soon....Mrg. R. T. Willams of Columbia, Mo, spent two pleasant weeks in Kansas City visiting rela- tives and friends, She was the guest of Mrs, Samuel Graham, 1209 Jackson ayenue...,Mr, and Mrs, Walter Peck Jare as happy as can be over the arri- |val of a little stranger in the family. She came April Sth and was given the name of Helen Velma, We hopo she will live long to scatter rays of sun- |shine for her parents and be a bless- ing to them in their old age....Our |pastor, Dr. T. H, Ewing, celebrated |his 62d anniversary April 17, and in |nonor of this great event the church |gave him a banquet the like of which |has never been given in Kansas City. | A committee of ladies of which Sister | Bila Gilham was chairman, spared no pains to make the affair the greatest jever witnessed in Kansas City, Great /credit is due them for the wholesome -|supper served.” Sister Ella Gilhar -| prsented the pastor a large bifthday Jeake, the striking feature being thal ‘|there were 52 flags which denotes each year of his life; The cake was | tun of flags from top to bottom so he must be old, The church was beaut! fully decorated with flags, bunting [palms and flowers and over each en trance was our motto, “Welcome, Every heart was glad and the ver: zephyrs seemed to bring us sweet tid ings of joy to know that such ; preacher, teacher and builder, was th pastor of our church. If the race ha ‘more such men, the standard of Chris tianity and morality. would be ighe and victory would be ours. At 9:3 the large doors opened and the chair man, Mrs, Ella Gilham, entered th room closely followed by Dr. and Mr T. H. Ewing and Miss Ethel Ewin and Miss Lucile Gilham and other: ‘They were seated in front of the ro: trum and after a few brief remark from Mr. C. A. Franklin, Dr, T. 0. Ur thank and Prof. A. M. Wilson, Di Ewing responded, Supper was serve to 200 persons present. There wa plenty of chicken, salads, ice crean ‘cake and lemonade We only wish ths such days come twice a year at Icas The guests of honor were Mr. an | Mrs, C. A. Prandin, Dr. T, C, Unthan Prof. A. M, Wilson. When Figures Lied, “Joe” Tinker, manager of the Chi- cago Federals, was entertaining some friends with baseball stories. One of them was about a game between Mobile and Savannah in the Southern league. The score stood 5 to 4 in favor of Savannah when a row occurred and the umpire awarded the game to Mobile by the usual 9 to 0 score, On the way home from the grounds, two negroes were discussing the affair, “But if Savannah had five runs,” said one, “how coyld the scoah be nine to nothin’?” “Dat’s easy,” replied the other. “Whar's yo 'rithmetic? Didn't Mobile hav’ foah runs?” “Yaas.” “Well, den, don’t foah an’ five make nine?” Where Angels ear. ‘The old and good jokes come precious near to being matched in real life, Phil May's little girl, watching the boy at the hokey-pokey stand, and remarking: “Don't he make a gawd of his stummick? That's the second ‘ap'orth I've seed ‘im ‘ave this morn. in’," was capped by a certain pony. coated one of the “facile prink-~ups” at ‘@ tango tea. A slim and satisfied-look. ing young man had just bade her good by. He was off to another occasion o the same kind, “Geo,” she euitted, “don’t that guy woiship his feet? It'll be the thoid | time he’s tangoed this afternoon!” Kalser as a Censor, ‘The kalser has forbidden the produe tion at Herr Relnhardt’s Deutsches theater of @ play called “Ferdinand Prince of Prussia,” on the ground that one of the characters is a member of the Prusstan: royal family. ‘There no appeal from the kaiser‘e censor abip. Pompus Funeral Processions Having a Morbid Effect. (By Ghas, A, Starks), One of the most baneful and mor- bid practices that 1s making itself felt among our people is the Sunday funeral with all of its pompous aux- Hlaries, a custom that has its origin in a fetich worship that belongs to ‘ages of the past. ‘The world in reach- ing forth for those things of a higher and more substantial nature, has neither time nor disposition to watch with any plessure these vain pro- cessions of pomp that are being erat ed upon the public mind, with the usual discordant band that shakes the telephone poles when making an at tack on some swelling strain or a feeble attempt to keep alive a dying militarism that is swiftly becoming obsolete, all of whlch strikes the thoughtful person as being fil timed aud having @b true place’ te Gut Slay ae ie G i ; oa ae. FEU > fatedeal a rt Mes nae Batik, Ba CHAS. A STARKS. | The versatile and brilliant corre: | spondent of the Kansas City Sun, | [sua progressive life. ‘This tendency’ to worship the dead with such public [demonstration 1s positively wrong, and brings to light one of the strang- est paradoxes in all human affairs that of some deceased person, even below mediocre note, figuring as the dead “prinefpal” in a rich and ex- pensive funeral where money, flow~ ers, time and curiosity are lavished upon one, wholin life, perhaps never enjoyed or even merited these things. No objections are advanced against relatives and friends showing proper concern regarding any deceased but in our burial ceremonies we should seek simplicity and divest the funeral of this unnatural pomp and vain glory, especially is this true of the Sunday funeral when so many people are compelled to either see these pro- cessions or listen to the ‘Thanatopsts: lke music. Some prominent Mason has advised 2 more simple ceremony in affairs of this kind and for this reason we urge every lodge to refrain from the Sun- day funeral whenever possible and 1 they must have turnouts, let them be in the week and not on the Sabbath. We understand that in Denver, Colo., that these processions are forbidden on Sunday by city regulations, At tending church on a Sunday one is invariably confronted with some fun eral procession or the prospect ol one, this should be stopped and there ||are’ several conerete reasons for do- ing so which we give below: | Ist. The average colored person Works hard six days in the week and || should not have his day of rest an¢ | recreation disturbed by a pretentiou: funeral with an Ml-tuned brass ban¢ as its chief feature, 2nd. A fmeral has a morbid effect -|on the public mind, especially wher '|it is pompous and loud. And in ind! *| vidual cases there have been seriou complications resulting from debilt t | tating music that reaches the ears o -|the sick who must hear these alr I) with as you can imagine no hopeful + | feeling. rd. ‘The average bereaved famtt can ill afford these expensive tune! als, even though there is an endon {.| ment of several hundred dollars, an e| worthy friends who lavish the flower t| on a deceased friend in death, mut b n| reminded of the frony of this action n| since they usually fail to do these o | fices toward the object when in lit a) 4th. Any week day ts the logica o| time for a funeral. And simplicity 1 n| the one rule to govern all. ‘The ric 0} have ceased to practice the "showy procession and even request that n "| flowers be sent, and discourage cur @losity by holding simple “services from thelr residence. What the ric r.|do from a food taste, the poor ca le|do from the same, with this adde virtue—economy, We believe the above reasons ar | sufficient to warrant the discontin ance of the Sunday “practice” nor ar we lacking in those human symps thies for one another in hours whe ¢| some dear friend has closed his: o tl) ner earthly career, 8| Sorrow wins its way to the rece; | tive heard and needs no brass ban 4 to advocate its cause, ‘The real su d/terer or mourner does not seek th D-| lime light of public curiosity or vai ¥.|display but rather quiet and solitud at alone with God where vanity may t : excluded from sorrow and the suffe ing one realizes the quality of infinit of love to cure every human wound, the deceased lias demonstrated Koc fy (im fe, remember that the same ea d/not ‘die. And that truth, howev. humble may be the one that lives 1 has the sa nade I lamer asia ftetood Vanity, a ; Mke things must perish, and ited by, Say methons va lathe ate e CM Read the Sun Flowers for Any And All Occasion gee Pe a ee) i Dae: NF a ‘ iy ad We Lead in Quality and Low Prices. Weaver Floral Co. 1510 East 18th St Home 7555 Main Bell 4798 East | Res, Bell E. 4852W. ‘There is a reason why the larger por scent or cabinet, Stationary ‘used yy Kansae City's "400" Is turned fiom the Arthur W. Harris Printing Establishment. First. thelr work: manship in this class of service 18 Unexcelled by any’ of the larger and bert “eauipped printing, establish ments in thls elty, since they. all but Take @. specialty’ of this clats of work ‘Second, white thelr prices are Rot alway the lowest, they are, ale ways the fairest, “They Nave “de- Iivered’” ‘with accuracy and despatch to over 90 per cent of. the classy Weddings and receptions during the past year and now wnen @ function Beets is announced its a. ten-to- he shot that Harris wi nanaie the BE STEADFAST. Do not be alarmed because you heard that some one said something! not complimentary about you. Peo- ple have always said ugly things about those who struggle to be, and! are achieving something; those against whom there 1s nothing said, anre negligible —_quantities—people talle about those who are doing good. You go ahead, like the ancient philo- sopher, who, when he was asked by ‘an apparent friend, who really de- ‘sired to help the old sage, whot he could do for him, replied: “Please stand out of my sunshine.” That is all the elert, energetic aspiring young person asks; “stand out of my ‘wunakine.* 6 eat Ladies’ Tailoring Dressmaking oe IND Drafting... Fancy Gowns a Specialty Iam prepared to of- fer the public the best ; dressmaking, tailoring, | drafting and fitting. } Graduate of one of the best white downtown colleges Will also teach Drafting. Bell Phone East 4159W Mrs, Lillie Williams 2914 Woodland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISQURI | | ae ee re | ey | ue ef | MR. R. QUINN, The enterprising and intrepid young hustler who will give a mammoth en. tertainment in Convention Hall GRAND MUSICAL RECITAL. at Convention Hall, June 19, 1914. Speakers of Note In and Out of 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, Call Chas. Monroe For Carriage or Automobile Funerals and Parties a Specialty Rates Reasonable 2102 Woodland Ave. Bell Phone 5194 East Beli Phone 2525 East Kansas City, Mo. ie : i A eit ae ee RCo sh aaa Pee sare ae A es US RN ci, i See cacy A ie i at BL oy Sale ec a Wied “ Ls Gigs Naess fee rable! MMP elas its jot asi ee dale a Rot ganna pete te x A a te ee gee re Kemerene 5 Be See ae Pw Cat ie aaa ee ee HOS Be lia {SAE BON Tar ta a Sa uc pee oa er oe. fe Headquarters for Home Made Pies OFFICE PHONE BELL 3786 M. We Boast of Serving the Best Meals in the Twin Cities The Baltimore Cafe JAMES W. HURSE, Proprietor Imported and Domestic Cigars ICE CREAM, SODAS and SUNDAES. 808 Independence Ave. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Tes Free-GCold Filled Spectacles Ifyou have defective sight, have your eyes examined and fitted with gold filled spectacles and best quality lenses—FREE. You pay for the examination only, which is 50 cents, and receive the glasses absolutely —— FREE — DR. M. B. JONES, BYP sPBorAuIsT Bell Phone G 2243 1412 E. 18th Street So | mee fic a. i i ‘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 #uitable 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, AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO. ‘ 911 MoGee Street, . Home 7555 Main, Bell 751 Main. CAMPBELL COLLEGE JACKSON, MISS, & Departments--Theological, Collegiate, College Prepara- tory, 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, Jackuon, Miss, i Bishop J. M. CONNOR, D.D., Ph. D, LLD., Chancellor. WILLIAM T, VERNON, A. M., D.D., LL. D., President, © Mrs. Wm. Homer Jones has returned from her visit to Western Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. James Montgomery of 1010 Troost were out in Kansas this week looking after some property. For Rent—Furnished room, modern to man and wife, or gentleman. 921 Highland. Bell phone, East 4017. Mr. Samuel F. Price is indisposed at his residence, 1319 Woodland avenue, with acute rheumatism. Mr. Martin Young of 3412 E. 21st street, is quite ill and confined to his bed. WANTED—Two bright, active boys to sell the Kansas City Sun, Saturday and Sunday, $1.00 per day. Mrs. J. C. Hobbs, who was operated upon by Dr. Dibble at Douglass Hospital last Monday is improving nicely. The battle is on, not in Mexico, but in Kansas City, where five popular young ladies are in a contest representing Allen Chapel. Mrs. Beatrice Day of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. Essie Lewis, after a four weeks' stay in the West. Mrs. Mary Richardson of Lawrence is visiting Mrs. Lewis also. Miss Lula Davis and daughter, Miss Pauline Penneck, of Petersburg, Ill. and Miss Willa Allen of Carrollton were the guests of Mrs. Rena Jones last week. E. A. Walker, Jr., the infant son of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Walker, 1420 East 18th street, is seriously ill and is under the care of Dr. J. E. Dibble and Miss Mary Johnson, trained nurse. Poro hair dressing, hair weaving and facial massaging. Scalp treatment a speciality. Mrs. E. Norles. 1737 Paseo, upstairs. 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 Money to Loan on Kansas City Real Estate. Don't lose your equity, Bring your troubles to us. We can help you. American Investment Co. Music furnished by capable pianist for parties, receptions, teas, etc. Also instruction given beginners on the piano for sale. Rates reasonable. MISS CARMEN L. CKLLEY. 2028 Harrison St. 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 tie yourself out when I can take you direct to what you want? Mr. J. H. Bryant received a telegram announcing the birth of a daughter, April 16, at Indianapolis where Mrs. Bryant is visiting her parents. Mr. Bryant will go there soon to bring his family home. Mrs. L. E. Bass, D. G. M. N. G. of the H. of R. made her annual visit to Independence, Mo., Thursday night She was accompanied by the D. G. Treasurer, Mrs. Frankie Johnson. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank my many friends for their beautiful floral offerings sent to Clinton, Mo., for the funeral of my sister. MRS. LENA INGRAM. This is the time for you to show your children the way to the Shoe Store at 1507 E. 18th street, where they may get White Baby Dolls and Mary Janes and the up-to-date Black Patent Baby Dolls. Have you seen how much our stock has grown. Come in and look over our goods. They'll please you and their quality and low prices will surprise you. 1507 E. 18th street. G. A. Page, Prop. Mr. T. B. Watts of St. Louis, Mo., formerly head walter of the Jefferson Hotel, spent Sunday and Monday in the city the guest of Mrs. Josephine Finney, 1511 Lydia avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Brownlow Sexton of 1510 Lydia avenue, entertained Mrs. Josephine Finney and Mr. T. B. Watts of St. Lobis. Mo., with a drive in a five-passenger car around the beautiful boulevards and parks of the city Monday afternoon. One of the most delightful receptions of the season was that tendered a large number of her friends by Mrs. J. E. Frazier, 1000 Benton boulevard, in honor of her husband's birthday at the Overgall Studio, 2116 Woodland avenue. The hall was beautifully decorated for the occasion and about sixty of Kansas City's prominent young people were in attendance. On a beautiful decorated table in the reception room was the birthday cake decorated with thirty-seven vari-colored candles which when lighted made a beautiful picture. Delicious punch was served throughout the evening and dancing was generally indulged in by those present. An elegant luncheon of chicken salad, bread and butter sandwiches, strawberries and whipped cream and Cream. Noir was served at a late hour. Miss Mazie throughout the evening. Wonder Clothes SUITS, Always RAINCOATS, TOPCOATS $10 BALMACAANS You can't buy a better Suit, Top Coat, Rain Coat or Balmacaan for $18 or $20 elsewhere than we sell you for $10, then why should you hesitate? Look in our windows and see for yourself. Our fabrics are guaranteed all wool, thoroughly shrunk and tailored, up-to-date in every respect. Doesn't this saving appeal to you? How do we do it? Well, we don't buy our suits, we make them in our own modern tailor shops and sell them through our own stores at the lowest wholesale prices. One or one hundred at the same price per garment, $10. You save the middleman's profit. We carry a large assortment of double breasted suits in blue and black serges and other fabrics. Open Saturday till 10 p. m. MONEY REFUNDED TO DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS. CITY NEWS. The Sun received communication from Mrs. Mildred Mott of this city of the death of her niece, Pauline Gant, at 8:15 a. m. Sunday, at Baxter Springs, Kan, Mrs. Mott and Miss Juanta left immediately for that place. Ambrose Hightower, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hightower, 2436 Highland avenue, died of pneumonia last Saturday and was buried Monday by the A. T. Moore Undertaking Co. The Sun extends its sympathy to the family. The Caldwell & Chapman Millinery and Hairdressing Company desire to thank their many old and new customers for their liberal patronage during Easter week. They shall ever strive to satisfy with the latest and best in everything in their line. Again we thank you and ask you to call at any time. CALDWELL & CHAPMAN. 18th & Paseo FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Bonner Springs, Kansas. Under the leadership of our much beloved pastor, Rev. J. M. Gilbert, the church is looking forward to be one of the greatest churches in the state of Kansas. The pastor commanded his ministerial labors in Kansas City, Mo., and has met with much success; he is looked upon by his ministerial brethren as one of the eminent preachers. We expect in the near future to have a grand Baptist celebration, of which due notice will be given the public....Sunday, the 19th, we had with us Rev. J. G. Hayes, who preached on the "Divinity of Christ." Services well attended. Past-preached to a large audience at 8:00 p. m., "The Necessity of Christ's Priesthood." Everybody should read the Kansas City Sun as it is one of our greatest newspapers. THANKS DEAR FRIENDS THANKS DEAR Mrs. M. J. Hayes, 2308 Woodland avenue, is rapidly recovering under the efficient and skillful care of Dr. M. G. Brookins from a recent attack of paralysis. We wish to thank our many friends who notwithstanding the illness in our family made ours a happy and joyous Easter. We wish especially to thank Mrs. Richard Alen for an elegant Easter dinner, Mrs. Scott Davidson for another, Miss Amanda Moore for a bouquet of cut flowers, little Comeleta Weaver carnations and lilies, Miss Ida Railey a beautiful bouquet of daisies, Miss Victoria Overall a beautiful bunch of Easter lilies, Mrs. Jas. Reeves, beautiful Easter lilies, the Baptist Relief Workers more Easter lilies, Miss Maude C. Olden a charming Primrose also a beautiful Primrose from Miss Amanda Wheeler and Mrs. Cecil Thompson a basket of fruit and flowers. Assuring you that your delightful attention and kind deeds will never be forgotten we shall ever remain under tender obligation to you one and MRS. M. J. HAYES and MISS FRANCES A. HAYES. Wonder SUITS, Always TOPCOATS $1 You can't buy a better Suit ean for $18 or $20 elsewhere th should you hesitate? Look in our windows and s guaranteed all wool, thoroughly in every respect. Doesn't this is How do we do it? Well, w them in our own modern tailor own stores at the lowest whole at the same price per garment, profit. We carry a large a breasted suits serges and 1121 W Open Saturday MONEY REFUNDED TO Just the Information We Need WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL - THE MERRIAM WEBSTER Every day in your talk and reading, on the street car, in the office, ship, and schoolcare new question inure to come up. You seek quick, accurate, encyclopedic, up-to-date information. THIS NEW CREATION will answer all your questions with final authority. 400,000 Words Defined. $270 definition. $120 definition. $400,000. The art dictionary with the new divided page. A "Stroke of Genius." Write for spec- instruments, etc. Mention this publication and press, pe FREE set of pooled maps. C. & C. MERDIAN CO., Springfield, Marys. U.S.A. Women's Club Notes The Clio Art Club Exhibit, May 1st, at Lyric Hall. Vote for the most popular young lady in Allen Chapel. Melrose Chapter will give a social April 28 at the residence of Mrs. Millie Jett, 1517 Lydia avenue. The Sorosis will meet with Mrs. E. S. Willett, northwest corner 26th and Euclid avenue, Monday, April 27th. The Aethenum Art Club will give their first exhibit and dance Tuesday, May 12. Admission, 25 cents. Keep in mind the Carnival Dance May 5, at Lyric Hall by Woman's League. The Ladies Coterie will hold As next meeting with Mrs. Katie Seaton, 29th and Sloan, Quindaro, Kan. The Kasees and Escorts made candies at Ida Ralley's Wednesday evening in honor of Pauline Vaughan's birthday. MAY CARNIVAL. The Woman's League will give one of its delightful dances Tuesday evening, May 5, at Lyric Hall. Admission, 25 cents. The girls and misses are wearing Mary Jane's this season. They buy them at 1507 E. 18th street, the Colored Shoe Store, G. A. Page, proprietor. The gent, who took an overcoat at Lyric Hall the night of the Kensington Art Club's Exhibit will be "pinched" if he doesn't return it to morrow. There will be a grand musical program by W. U. Jubilee Singers and Bazar at First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Nebraska, April 28-29, under the auspices of the Sewing Circle. The Odd Fellows & Ruth Choir will play the Old Maids Convention April 29th at the Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine street. Rev. G. H. Daniels, Pastor. Admission, 10 cents. The A. N. D.' will give a series of dances for the benefit of Charitable institutions the last Wednesday in each month. The first to be for the Industrial Home, April 29th, Admission, 25 cents. Lyric Hall. Past Grand Master's Council No. 122, G. U. O. of O.F., elected officers April 15th as follows: C. R. Johnson of 707 Oakland avenue, was elected for the seventh term W. G. M.; Mille Reams, Grand Secretary. This is one of the best councils in the West and pays $3.00 per week sick dues. Clothes days RAINCOATS, 10 BALMACAANS , Top Coat, Rain Coat or Balma- man we sell you for $10, then why see for yourself. Our fabrics are shrunk and tailored, up-to-date having appeal to you? we don't buy our suits, we make shops and sell them through our sale prices. One or one hundred $10. You save the middleman's assortment of double in blue and black other fabrics. Walnut pay till 10 p. m. DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS. THE STEADY SUBSCRIBER. How dear to our heart is the steady subscriber Who pays in advance at this time of each year. Who lays down the money and does it quite gladly. And casts 'round the office a halo of cheer. He never says—"Stop it, I cannot afford it, I'm getting more papers now than I can read;" But always says—"Send it, our people all like it— In fact we all thing it a help and a need." How welcome this when it reaches our sanctum, How it makes our pulse throb, how it makes our heart dance; We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber who pays in advance. LYDIA COURTS, 1422-32 E. 3rd St. STRICTLY MODERN FLATS JOHNSON-WILSON WEDDING. The marriage of Miss Lena Sara Johnson and Mr. Tugg William Wilson was solemnized at 7:00 o'clock Wednesday, April 15, at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Nellie Drew, 2610% Highland avenue. The home was decorated in smilax and pink and white sweet peas. The Rev. Wm. H. Peck performed the ceremony. Miss Mamie Loggins was mald of honor. Mr. Wilson was attended by Mr. William Houston as best man. Before the ceremony Mrs. Charles Lester sang "I Love You Truly," and "Beloved It I Morn." For the entrance of the bridal party Mrs. Stella Woods played the Mendelssohn Wedding March. The bride, who was given in marriage by her cousin, Mr. Johnson, wore a gown of white crepe meteor, court train. A wide bertha outlining a V-neck was trimmed with Chantilly lace and caught in front with a pearl ornament. Her tulle veil was caught just across the back of her head to a wreath of illies of the valley. She carried a shower bouquet of bride's roses and illies of the valley. Miss Loggins was gowned in pink taffeta, trimmed with Duchesse lace. She wore a head dress of pink chiffon and rosebuds and carried an arm bouquet of pink roses. Beautiful and numerous presents were received. The out of town guests were: Mrs. S. Joe Brown of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Mr. R. L. Lankford of St. Joseph, Mo. and Mr. Chas, Taylor of St. Paul Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson left on a wedding trip to Des Moines, Ia, and on their return will be at home at 2610% Highland avenue. AN APOLOGY. In last week's review of the "Seven Last Words of Christ" a mistake, was made by the author which is quite grievous to him. It was the unintentional omission of the leading tenor's name, Mr. William Briggs. The gentleman's work was highly appreciated and duy recognized throughout the whole rendition. That this was not specifically mentioned can only be attributed to a confusion, and an availance of ideas which enthusiasm brought forth. Mr. Briggs belongs to that select class of tenors who combine artistic expression with a beautiful naturalness that is always pleasing. This was particularly noticed in the seventh "word" when the tenor's voice rounded off with a spiciness that was peculiarly expressive of the text. There was the quaking earth, rocks rending, and graves opening. The prayer, all of which our tenor easily led in producing perfect effect. CHARLES A. STARKS. The Kansas City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its regular meeting with Miss Anna H. Jones. The following report was made: The Legal Redress committee, Mr. I. H. Bradley chairman, reporter investigation of a case of the refusal of the manager of the Loose-Wiles factory to permit colored students of the School of Civics and Philanthropy to enter and inspect the plant with the class. The management disayowed any desire to discriminate against or to humiliate the Negroes, and gave as a reason the "protection of the colored visitors from insults from the emplies." The association voted to send Mr. J. Dallas Bowser as its delegate to the annual conference at Baltimore, May 4-6. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, editor and owner of the New York Evening Post, and one of the founders of and principal contributors to the Association, will be with us May 13. A committee, Mrs. F. J. Jackson, Messrs. Weaver and Cook, was appointed to arrange for a meeting that the citizens might hear him. The next meeting will be with Mr. J. Dallas Bowser. CARD OF THANKS We sincerely thank the many friends for their kindness and sympathy shown us during the death of our beloved husband, father and brother, Geo. Price. We especially appreciate the floral offerings presented by Mary E. Dickerson, Tabernacle No. 52, Console Bros., Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Emma Harris, C. N. Gossett, Susie Smith Ada Vaughn, and B. L. I. P. U. No. 1 MARY PRICE, HOWARD PRICE, BERTHA COBB, ANNA MUKES SUMMER MUSIC SCHOOL. R. G. Jackson and Miss Beulah Douglass are going to conduct a summer school of music at Allen Chapel, 10th and Charlotte, Kansas City, Mo. All persons who may desire to take lessons will find it to their advantage to speak to Mr. Jackson early, for a number of periods have already been given away to city, and out of town persons. The advantage in enrolling early is, that you may have a choice of periods and avoid coming for lessons in the heat of the day. The studios at Allen Chapel are nicely located, well appointed and are equipped with pianos that are kept in fine condition. Special attention is given to children between the ages of seven and twelve years. The pipe organ of the church is at the service of pupils for practice, who are doing organ work. On account of the large enrollment in piano, organ and voice, only a limited number can be admitted into harmony classes, so it is advisable for persons wanting to do work along this line to enroll now. Mr. Jackson invites interested parties to call at Allen Chapel on Saturdays, between 8 a. m. and 8 p. m. to talk over music for the summer, or address him at 531 Nebraska Ave. Kansas City, Kansas, Bell Phone West 1052 and West 1102-W. Call and See Us Home Made Candy Kitchen and Ice Cream Parlor Cold Drinks Water Melons Fancy Candies 10 cents per Pound WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 1426 EAST 18TH STREET [Image of a man in a suit sitting in a chair, looking to the side.] If you have money to invest, come to me; if you want to buy a home and be satisfied, come to me. I am always ready to help you with the wrinkles. HOW E HAT SATIFIED HER. A cozy little cottage with a beautiful lawn. Bought through the hustler Mr. E. E. Vaughan. Was just the thing for that queen of mine For now we are moving along just fine. You Can't Beat this List. Some of these places I can sell for $50 down- Wine near 27th, 4 r. $2,000; Mersington near 28th, 4 r. $1,600; Sherman Ave. 4 r. $1,250; State near 12th, 7 r. 50 ft. $1,560; College Ave. in Inverness, 4 r. $1,000; $1,800 and $2,000 5 r. and electric lights on Tremont, $1,000; 275th 7th St. 4 r. new porches, $1,000; Bellefontaine 4 r. new porches, $1,000; 450 ft. 5th and Rowling Ave. $1,500; 15 acres 8 miles from town, $2,000. EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN, Twenty-sixth and Parkway, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Furnished and Unfurnished Rooms For Rent. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms; strictly modern; Bell phone East 4090; 1606 Garfield Avenue. For Rent—Large front room with bay window; nicely furnished; strictly modern. Bell telephone East 919. 1517 Woodland Avenue. For Rent—Four large rooms with gas, bath, water paid. 2502 Michigan Ave., $12.50. Bell phone Grand 3795-W. J. D. Bowser. For Rent—Furnished rooms; modern, 1715 E. 18th street, 3d floor. Mrs. Matsie Hobbs, Bell Phone, East 2061W. For Rent—One furnished room, modern improvements. 2638 Highland Ave. 'Bell phone East 1270. FOR RENT—Nice furnished front room; strictly modern. Bell phone. Grand 1967-W. FOR RENT—Nearly modern furnished rooms. Transcients, a specialty. East 4721-W. Wm. Fisher, Propr., 910 Garfield. Three furnished room for light housekeeping, strictly modern with telephone; 2313 Woodland avenue. Bell Phone, East 3446-W. WORDS OF APPRECIATION. More Mothers Testify to Merits of XXth Century Hair Preparations. Nelson, Mo., April 13, 1913. Dear Madam Dabney: I am writing you for a small order. I want you to please send by mail 3 bottles of shampoo, 3 boxes of hair grower and 2 boxes of pressing oil. I like the remedy just fine; I would not be without it for anything. I am using it on my little girl's hair; it seems to be helping it greatly. MRS. ANNA BRUNER. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 20, 1913. Dear Madam Dabney: I am a mother of four girls. In trying to improve their hair I had tried several preparations, but none gave me good results until I used Madam Dabney's XXth Century Preparations. Their hair was thin, harsh and would fall out so that I dreaded to use a comb. Now their hair is growing nicely—does not fall out—has no dandruff—is soft and pretty. Three of these girls are attending Wendell Phillips School, Howard and Vine streets. Investigation will bear out my testimony. I would not be without the XXth Century Preparation in my house. MRS. DORA HAWKINS, 2455 Woodland Ave. A six week's treatment of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations sent on receipt of P. O. money order of $1.25, or a single package of XXth Century Hair Grower, Pressing Oil or Shampoo sent for 50c. Write today to Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations Co., 1806 E. 24th St., Kansas City, Mo. Dept. 40. Persons living in Kansas City who cannot be supplied by their druggist will be called upon by an agent on dropping a postal card to the above address or calling Bell phone, East 2476 Golden Steam Dye Works 1605 EAST 18TH STREET When sending your Clothing to be cleaned and pressed have you ever realized, and every clean minded man would shudder with disgust at the thought, that the cloth use to press your suit had just previously been used to press the suit of a man suffering from Disease, Filthy Habits, etc.—the cloth in the interim being wet and wrung out in a pail of probably dirtier water, especially so toward the end of the day's work? A man in a suit sits on a chair, looking at another man who is working on a table. The man on the table is shaving his hair, and the man in the suit is holding a pair of shoes. There are clothes hanging on the rack in the background. OLD WAY OF PRESSING To overcome unsanitary methods we have installed an up-to-date Sanitary Steam Press. A garment that passes through this machine is disinfected, as no germs or microbes can exist under a temperature as high as the dry steam we inject. At the same time it removes any odor, takes away the grimy appearance, raises the nap, revives the colors and imparts to the garment that freshness desired by all dressers. THE HOFF-MAN NEW WAY OF PRESSING We are Hatters, Tailors and Cleaners. No delay in getting your work. We do everything in our own shop. When you send us your work we do not have to disappoint or delay you, as our equipment is equal to anyone's. We specialize on quality and carefulness, for if it pleases you it pleases us. We have one of the best Dyeing and Tailor Shops in the city. Everything new and up-to-date. We are prepared to clean any garment, no matter how richly trimmed or flouenced, without injury. We employ only expert workmen and guarantee to satisfy every customer. Soliciting an opportunity to serve you, we are yours. For First Class Meals Go to the Magnolia Cafe MEALS AT ALL HOURS 15 cents and up MODERN FURNISHED ROOMS IN CONNECTION Board and Rooms by the week Rates Reasonable ELIZA DIXON, Prop. 1518 E. 18th Street Calling Cards, Business Cards, Church, Society, Book and Stationery Printing of all kinds. The Printing House for the two Kansas Citys. Our Facilities for doing first class work unexcelled Subscribe for The Sun 1605 East 18th Street For First Class L Magnolia MEALS AT A 15 cents MODERN FURNISHED RO Board and Room Rates Re ELIZA DIX A. Calling Cards, Business Cards Stationery Print Meals Go to the Cafe ALL HOURS stand up ROOMS IN CONNECTION ons by the week reasonable TON, Prop. 1518 E. 18th Street 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. C. 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 barber of acknowledged ability. Ernest Turner, the best known patron in Kansas City, looks after the comfort of his patrons with Miss Mary A. Woodson, the neat and capable cashier. Prof. Hobbs, the best known dancer master, being manager of the People's Dancing Academy, which dances every Thursday night at Lyrie Hall, 1731 Lydia avenue, all the latest dances. Telephone, Bell 2833 East. s, Church, Society, Book and ing of all kinds. Back to Broadway (Copyright by the McCure Newspaper Syndicate.) The mere fact that he was a many times millionaire and owned or controlled enough railroads to string almost twice across the continent did not help the far-famed E. H. Cash one bit in the present juncture. Indeed, his illustrious name was much more likely, if he ventured to use it, to get him into trouble than to aid him. Impossible as it may seem, the illustrious ringmaster of the financial circus was without a cent, in a strange city, a distressingly immense distance from New York, and with absolutely no prospect of getting money unless he should earn it by manual labor, like any other homeless and penniless wanderer. Such an absurd condition was his own fault entirely, and due to two causes: his tremendous business energy and his equally notable personal carelessness. Mr. Cash smiled gril his unshaven chin. "Lost en route," he "Very unfortunate," clerk with rather a c of his eyes resting casus shaven face and soil rules of the house, of payment in advance. The prospective gril bit haughtily. "Git is my name." E. H. Cash—of New Quite so," agreed more coldly. "Some famous railroad oper "I am that Cash," other with a trace of the implied sneer. "Wake up!" admon throwing off all his asleep under the deck Mr. Cash was supposed to have started upon a summer cruise in northern waters, and had ostensibly cut the cables from all his business affairs. At Quebec, however, some newspapers had been brought aboard, and in one of them he found an obscure four-line item which made him change his plans in a hurry. "I am afraid I'll have to apply for a week's shore leave," he explained to his guests, a "star" crowd. "You fellows don't need any help in entertaining yourselves, for you never get away from the poker table anyhow except to cat and sleep. You own the Petrel till I fill back. Just lazy around wherever you like, and pick me up here a week from Monday morning, if you will." As he hastily threw some necessities into a traveling bag, he noted that he needed a shave, but there was no time for it now. He had almost literally "jumped" into a plain traveling suit, and did not even stop to put on his watch. He found that he had enough cash on hand to pay for his transportation, berth and meals en route, and beyond that he had no worry, for his checkbook and papers were in his travelling bag. Ashore, he caught his train with but brief minutes to spare, and was so absorbed in the deal he meant to put through that he was a hundred miles on his way before he missed his luggage, finding in place of it only the uncomfortable reflection that throughout his long 30-hour ride he would be deprived of a shave and clean linen. He was not one given to worry, however, and when he had his final brushing up at his destination he mechanically handed a dollar to the por- "But, Really, I Can't See 14 "But, Really, I Can't Seem to Please You, Miss." ter; but after he had left the train he found to his dismay that he had only one solitary ten-cent piece in his pocket. Five cents of that he used in carfare to the office of the man he had so hastily come all this distance to see, and the other five cents he used in riding back downtown. His man had been called from the city that morning, and would not be back for a week or more! Preoccupied with vexation, he walked into the nearest big hotel and scrawled his signature upon the register. The clerk hesitated a moment, though merely out of habitual courtesy. "Your luggage not arrived yet, Mr. er-Cash" he stumbled, puzzling over the register. sign a block away broung with a comfortable jerk affairs. The sign betoktion of a telephone off happy haven of refuge it. "Collect," he direct handing in his telegraming window. The girl in charge glance at the telegram, ing at the man; at the and the soiled collar. "Are you located in t asked mechanically. "No." "Where are you stopp "Nowhere as yet," angry with himself that rising under the skin of "We can send no tele A traveling showman at Columbia, S. C., gave it out that an 18-foot boa constrictor belonging to his show had escaped; but, as the reptile was not found, the story was put down as an advertising dodge. The other morning, however, when the porter of an office building went down into the basement to fire up, he saw what looked like a log lying beside the furnace. While he stood wondering how it could have got there, the "log" moved. Then he made his way up stairs in a hurry. Mr. Cash smiled grimly and rubbed his unshaven chin. "Lost en route," he replied. "Very unfortunate," commented the clerk with rather a cold expression, his eyes resting casually upon the unshaven face and soiled linen. "The rules of the house, of course, require payment in advance." The prospective guest frowned a bit haughtily. "Cash is my name," he observed. "E. H. Cash—of New York." "Quite so," agreed the clerk, still more coldly. "Some relation of the famous railroad operator, no doubt." "I am that Cash," announced the other with a trace of anger, resenting the impaired sneer. "Wake up!" admonished the clerk, throwing off all his suavity. "You are asleep under the deck-awning of your yacht, the Petrel, Mr. Cash. You just steamed away from Quebec yesterday morning, bound for the Labrador coast, and are only dreaming that you are here." And before Mr. Cash's eyes he thrust a folded newspaper that had been lying at his elbow, pointing sternly to a paragraph. "Yes, that was to have been true," said Cash, recognizing the reasonableness of the clerk's stand in the matter. "The yacht left there for a short cruise yesterday morning, with my friends aboard, but I took a run down here. I can tell you every man that was on the Petrel. There's Billy Edwards—" "I know," the clerk interrupted him. "Here's the entire list of guests, which anybody could read. Now, drop it. In the first place, Cash has a mustache." "The papers and their cartoonists are using the old photographs—the always do!" snapped Cash. "I have been without a mustache for over a year." "Step out of the way!" snarled the clerk, pounding savagely upon a bell. "You're lucky I don't have you arrested." Cash turned. The two or three men who had now come up behind him to register glared back at him in joy contempt, noting the unshaven face, the soiled collar and shirt front. For a moment he lost his poise, and a wild idea came to him of attempting to explain to these men. Even as the thought came, however, he realized the futility of it and walked out of the place, followed, too closely for comfort, by a broad shouldered porter. By the time he had gained the street he was fumbling, but a blue-and-white eem to Please You, Miss." sign a block away brought him back, with a comfortable jerk, to practical affairs. The sign betokened the location of a telegraph office, and as a happy haven of refuge he hurried to it. "Collect," he directed presently, handing in his telegraph at the receiving window. The girl in charge did not even glance at the telegraph. She was looking at the man; at the unshaven face and the soiled collar. "Are you located in the city?" she asked mechanically. "No." "Where are you stopping?" Where are you stopping? "Nowhere as yet," he confessed, angry with himself that he felt a flush rising under the skin of his cheeks. "We can send no telegrams for you and shouted that the boa had been found. Fortunately, it was half torpedo, so it was captured by a dozen men and put in a large box for shipment to its owner. What He Wanted. "They say he married her because he felt that his children needed a mother." "Yes. He has just bought her a $250 toy dog and sent his children to live with his first wife's mother." collect without a deposit sufficient to insure payment," she advised him. "Look at that telegram," he ex postulated; "see to whom it is addressed, and by whom it is signed!" Still without looking at it she shoved the yellow slip toward him. "It don't make any difference who it is to or who it is from," she insisted. "I've got my orders!" And she turned to the next customer. He glared at her for a moment, but she remained entirely unaware of his existence, and, crumbling the telegram in his hand, he strode out with a set of emotions too varied and too much commingled to classify. An attempt at a near-by bank to draw upon his New York house of exchange came more nearly resulting in his arrest than any of the other experiments, and it was a very much stupefied man who trudged almighty up the street, as much a pauper in this city, where he could not think of a soul who knew him, as any tramp with whom he might brush elbow! He turned into a dreary little park, where a few discouraged-looking trees fought to suck life from the stern gravel in which they were rooted. It was a no unattractive place, and the only thing that drew him unconsciously into it was the fact that here were benches upon which he might rest without being expected to pay for anything. He was tired and hot, and, appalling fact! hungry; moreover, he noted with aversion that every longer upon every bench bore the same attitude of hopeless dejection as himself. He had a bad quarter of an hour, in which a great many of his impressions of the corresponding relations of human beings to each other underwent a radical change. For one thing, he began to estimate his actual value, considered merely as two hands and a brain, if thrown upon the immediate market, for it looked as if the great railroad king would have to hunt a job at unskilled labor. As he sat dejectedly humped over, his elbows upon his knees and his hands clasped idly together, he noticed that a brown skirt—with a draggled bit of braid at the bottom—that twice had slowly passed him, now stopped directly in front of him. Naturally he glanced up and found a very good-looking girl gazing fixedly down at him. The moment she met his eyes her face lighted with a smile of delight, and she came toward him. "I just knew it was Mr. Cash," she began vivaciously. "My! this is a long way from Broadway, isn't it?" No sound had ever rung more agreeably in his ears than his own name pronounced at this moment. For the last couple of hours that magic word had completely lost its power, and he began to realize how few people knew him after all. It was with a sense of positive gratitude that he answered this girl, whom he could not place, but whose face seemed pleasingly familiar. "Indeed it is," he assented, rising and removing his hat. "I expect I am stupid, but really I cannot seem to place you. Miss—" "Bessie Williams, but you don't know the name," she returned. "I used to manicure you in the Hotel Belveigh, don't you remember? You've had your mustache shaved off, but, goodness! I'd know those hands with the mole on both little fingers if I found you down in Africa stained with walnut juice. I guess you'll think I've got a nerve for wedging in this way, but honest, anybody that was ever nice to me in little old New York looks like a long-lost brother!" He remembered her perfectly now, and he smiled with amusement as he recalled her vivid personality. She was a girl who had struggled up from the most squalfold section of the East side, and was noted on Broadway, not only for her own uncompromising rigidity of conduct, but for the number of other girls she had saved from "making fools of themselves." More especially, however, she was known for the picturesque slang which had clung to her as the only mark of her origin, and for the originality with which she used it. In the present juncture he was surprised to find her suddenly hesitate and show a bit of embarrassment. "I feel somewhat in the cold myself," he admitted, to put her at ease. "What brings you out here so far?" "I'm my own lemon," she replied, recovering her vivacity at once and rattling on with the greatest sang-froce, once she had plunged into the main topic. "Say, Mr. Cash, I'm going to be real open-faced with you about my troubles, because I know you don't make any mistakes in the dark and you don't keep the small change glued down. Every time I ever saw you there was a circle of tips rolling away from you in every direction, and once when a bell-hop got his leg broke I saw you peel off a fifty before anybody could ask if he had a mother. It's this way with me. I'm so stony broke that a ten-cent piece would look the size of the full moon coming up out of the water at Rockaway beach, and if you will just ship me back among the tall buildings I'll manicure the whole Cash family for a year!" "I wish I could," he said sincerely, "but I have a penny upon which I can lay my hands. I'm as hard up as any loafer in this park." "I beg your pardon," said Miss Williams with more dignity than he had expected to find in her. "I am very sorry that I made such a mistake." And she turned to go. He could see that she was both hurt and mortified; that she had instantly come to the conclusion that he did not care to help her. "Wait a minute," he called after her, his sympathies wonderfully quickened by his own disagreeable experience. "Come back here and sit down. I was A large rat was seen to capture an English sparrow yesterday by hiding behind a garbage box and springing upon its prey when the bird alighted to eat. At least such is the story told by W. Seward Shore, a druggist, 1500 North Bond street. Mr. Shore says that he watched through a window and saw the rat secret itself behind the box and when the little bird came down spring upon it. He ran into the yard and the rat dropped its prey and fled into a hole. The wing BF NOWAKER She Went Right on Talking Into the Transmitter. perfectly honest when I said that I am in as much, trouble, as you are." She was still incredulous, but he was so earnest in his insistence that she reluctantly came back and allowed him to seat her upon the bench beside him. He explained to her in careful detail precisely what had happened to him, and his unshaven face and soiled collar were sufficient corroboration. She laughed at his somberness when he had finished. "Lovely!" she exclaimed with sparkling eyes. "For a minute I was afraid exchange had given me the wrong number, but I couldn't figure out how you'd joined the T. Wad family so quick. But now watch the blue trail of our gasoline. Come with your Aunt Bessie!" She sprang to her feet and he arose uncertainly. "Where are you going?" he asked. "To beat it before the banks close," she exultantly replied. "Before three o'clock we'll be looking over an as- She Went Right on Talking sorted collection of time-tables, and I won't owe you a cent for my fare to New York and a new outfit from plume to patent leathers. Now, don't ask me how I'm going to do it, or I'll giggle myself to death over how easy it is." "If blind can lead blind I am very willing to be led," he laughingly observed as he caught step with her. "But you have not told me about your own troubles." "Me!" she said with infinite disdain. "I fell a victim to my own fatal beauty and it gave me the brain storm all right. I dreamed I had a voice and a figure, and that if I just let the public know about them I'd have Patti forgten and Melba retired on a pension. So I tried it, and 'The Belle of Broadway Company' Number Forty- Two quit here. That's all. There's only seven people in this town with pink nails and there's 42 girls to look after them. If I'd send to mother for a cent she'd have to borrow a jimmy and a dark lantern to get it; if I'd send to the boss barber at the Belveigh I'd get money so quick the edges would be scorched off when it got here, but I'd have to marry Jimmy when I got back, and while starving would be quicker, it wouldn't be so painful. And that starvation turns' no musical comedy, either. I've got a dinky little two-by-two room paid for until tomorrow night, and then it would have been little me to some body's kitchen with a half-Nelson on a gas range. And I can't boll eggs." They had crossed the little park by this time, and had stopped in front of those dingy-looking houses that have the perpetual smell of mildew in the front hall. She ushered him into a dim parlor embellished with six pieces of rugged plush furniture and a collection of atrocious wax flowers on the mantel under a glass globe, and then she tripped upstairs to the third floor. In a moment she hurried back with her suit case and a bowl of water. She threw up a blind and placed the bowl on a little table beside the window. "First of all, you've got to look the part, so dip in your hand," she directed him as she opened the suitcase and produced her manicure set. She was silent only until she sat down. "When I get back to little old Broadway tomorrow night," she rattled on as she delted and vigorously manicured him. "I'll promise never to get farther than four blocks away from the subway again as long as I live. I used to kick because I'd get called up to a room, as sure as death that the job would take an hour and a half, and that there'd be no tip, to manicure some waspy woman with her hair on the table and her complexion on the dresser, and her figure hanging up in a closet, and the rest of her beauty scattered on four chairs and the bed; but even that would be joy to me now. I've seen all of the country I want, and it's Bessie sit-by-the fire for me from this on! I'm willing of the bird had been broken, however, and Mr. Shore thought it humane to kill it.-Baltimore Sun. Bad Part of It. "It was too bad," said the young lady, "about your right tackle getting hurt that way. I see the doctors have no hopes of his recovery." "Yes," the captain of the team replied, "it was very unfortunate. We haven't a man in the college who can fill his place, and here it is just at the beginning of the season, too." to live the rest of my life with the "L" trains rattling over my head; and when I die, if they'll just bury me any place on the Great White Way, I'll be happy and still in my grave forever. Now you're done." A sourt-visaged old lady had come to the door and glared at them, then walked away. "I don't owe her a cent, and she don't bite," observed the girl; "so just you sit here and look sassy till I get back." She dried her manicure set and packed it in its roll of chamois and flannel and fine leather, put on her hat, and left him alone. In ten minutes she had returned, bearing a heavy package and lingling some colin in her hand. "I got two dollars, one for the tools and one for my good looks," she joyously announced, "which is bright and cheerful when you remember that the tools only cost me 20 and the handsome face was a present. I gave a polite colored gentleman ten cents for these bricks, right out of his hod, ing Into the Transmitter. so we've got a dollar-ninety to represent our capital." "Bricks!" he repeated with a wondering glance at the bundle. "What on earth do you want with those?" "To put in the suit case, so it won't go straight up when a bell-hop grabs it," she replied. "There's nothing in there now but an old waist that I couldn't get a cent on. Just think! I was going to hock that nice, ready-money-looking suit case the minute I got back to the room, if I hadn't met you! Now, you take this dollar-ninety. Right around the corner there's a ten-cent bar shop, and a gent's furnishing goods store right next door. You buy you one collar for 15 cents, one pair of cuffs for a quarter, one shave for ten cents, one shine for five cents, and a real extravagant-looking 15-cent cigar, but don't light the cigar. Have you got a clean handkerchief? Forunately he had. "Give it to me. Now, you bring back the dollar-thirty to spread around in tins; and hurry!" When he returned, shaved and much refreshed, she had run a white thread through the hem of his handkerchief, and this she slipped up under his collar, tying it behind. So far as it was visible it looked like an immaculate white negligee shirt. She had him cut off his attached cuffs and don the clean ones. "You look the part," she announced as she surveyed him with pride. "In a few jiffs I'll have a double extra sirloin for mine, please, but don't let me think about it or I'll faint." Fifteen minutes later, his 15-cent cigar in fragrant evidence, he stood at the register of the best hotel in town—not the one to which he had gone before—but he did not sign himself "E. H. Cash." Instead he wrote: O. H. Jones. Miss Gertrude Jones. "The two best suites you have," he ordered. "Yes, sir, Mr. Jones," said the clerk deferentially, glancing at the respectable, brick-laden suit-case. "Anything you want up?" "A boy with some telegraph blanks and a waiter." Presently there came down from him a telegraph marked "prepaid," and to be charged upon his bill. It was addressed to Henry Cruse of Henry Cruse & Co., bankers, New York, and read like this: "Here incog. Jiggers, larruped, woolly. Wire $1,000 immediately to me as O. H. Jones, care Hotel Grace. Describe me, but waive other identification." The telegram was unsigned, but the private code words in the body of the telegram were better than a signature. Having sent the wire, Mr. Cash knocked at the door of Miss Williams' reception room. "Come in," cried a cheerful voice, and he opened the door. She was at the telephone, and her eyes were sparkling as she nodded to him, but she went right on talking into the transmitter. The name stationer, used to designate one who sells paper, ink, etc. came to be so used in the following way: Originally there were two classes of booksellers, those who had only carts in which they peddled their wares about the street, and those who had shops of stalls. These latter were distinguished from their wandering brethren because they remained stationary, and because of the fact that they did not travel about they were able to sell other goods besides books. "Yes, size 38; and I shall want a brunette traveling gown and a hat to match. Send over at least half a dozen for selection." "Get a whole outfit!" he interjected as she repeated her address and hung up the receiver. "Get all the dresses you want. We take the same train out of here at seven o'clock this evening, and you shall have all afternoon to shop. Do you care to have lunch downstairs, or up here, until you get better gowned?" "Right here and right now," she replied. "You'd better have it sent up a little at a time, for fear I choke at first—but keep it coming for at least two hours. I haven't had enough to eat since I crossed to New Jersey." "Til see that you don't starve," he laughed. "I owe you meals for a long time, and a lot besides. I'm going to set you up in business, for one thing. Just pick out what you think you want and I'll see that you get it." "I don't want a thing," she said fervently, "but just little old Broadway!" NEW IDEA OF EARTH'S AGE Radium Has Caused Change in Scientist's Oponicns During the Past Five Years. If such an authority as Prof. Arthur Holmes of the Imperial college, South Kensington, London, has any weight at all with people, the discovery of radium means that geologists must change their calculations materially as to the age of the earth if they wish to be taken seriously. He says, according to the New Press, it is a well known fact that if the proportion of radium in the interior of the earth is in any way equal to the radium in the rocks of the earth's surface the earth will not grow colder, as has always been taught, but it ought to be growing hotter. Calculations, however, show that the distribution of radium as it is found would be more than enough to keep the temperature of the earth stationary. Thorium and uranium also supply a great amount of heat and must be taken into account. In order that the earth should be neither growing hotter nor cooling at a rate allowed by the radio-active elements as they disintegrate it is necessary, he says, to assume that the earth's store of radium be concentrated near the surface. The radioactive elements are found most abundantly in acid rocks, and their more basic associates are less rich. These acid rocks are characteristic of only the outermost zones of the crust, and there are many reasons for believing that with depth the nonacid rocks are predominant. Earthquakes and similar terrestrial events have provided facts from which the condition of the earth's interior may be deduced with confidence. First, there is the crust zone, which has an approximate thickness of 30 miles. Then comes the stone zone, something under 100 miles thick, and, finally, the central iron core of the earth, with a density eight times greater than water. Meteorites contain radium, and Professors Strutt and Holmes say that these meteors contain the proof that no radium is found in the stone zone or inner core. It is supposed that the earth began, of course, as a misty, nebulous mass and that it has become the great mass it is by the capture of meteors and greater masses floating in space during the ages. It is very unlikely that the earth was ever, as a whole, in a molten condition. It is surmised by several English savants that the internal heat probably arose in a great measure from the condensation of the mass as it grew. The temperature would slowly rise until the fusion point of certain of the earth's constituents was reached. Then the pockets and tongues thus formed would tend to move away from the center, and the less heavy, stony substances would be squeezed outward relatively to a network of the heavier, rigid metals. Surrounding the metallic core a thick zone of sandy rocks would be formed and the radio-active materials would be concentrated in the stony layers. When the oceans and the atmospheres were produced the sediment rocks appeared for the first time, and then came the earth's crust with the rocks that contain most of the radium and other radio-active elements. Before the advent of radium geologists did not recognize the difficulties presented by the peculiar makeup of the earth's crust. Radium did not create this difficulty, but it certainly emphasized it in the attention of scientists. It can hardly be said that radium has given a blank check on the bank of time, for its discovery not only destroyed all the old measurements of the earth's heat, but it necessitated a new method for getting at it. Every kind of radio-active mineral, as well as radium, may be regarded as a self-contained hour glass; the radio-activ emanations, such as helium, and residues such as lead, slowly accumulate at the expense of their ultimate parent uranium. The geologist, who five years ago was embarrassed by the brevity of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust, is now still more embarrassed by the overabundance of time that now confronts him. The recognition of radium means difficulties for the geologist and the absolute overthrow of every acknowledged theory as to the earth's age and development. The age of the earth, according to what happens to be radium, varies from 5,000,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 years, but what matters a few thousand million of years among geologists? such as pens, paper, etc., and in this manner the articles known as beggs sold especially by stationers became known as stationery. Encourage Travel In Sicily. Sicily is a land of great beauty, rich in historical remains and associations and with a wonderful climate; it has been for many years a resort for the traveler from other lands. A movement has been inaugurated recently looking to the encouragement of travel in the territory. HOME TOWN HELPS CO-OPERATE FOR MODEL CITY Civic Organizations and High School Boys Doing Splendid Work at Reading, Pa. Reading, Pa., has a number of civic organizations, such as the Woman's club, Civic league, civic division of the Woman's club and the Reading Kindergarten association, and all have accomplished noble work. But the youngest workers, and probably the most enthusiastic in this sphere, are the members of the high school for boys, who belong to the civic classes, and who are under the instruction and direction of Prof. S. H. Ziegler, one of the city's greatest enthusiasts for a more beautiful Reading, a cleaner, better, larger city. He has been teaching and preaching at almost every recitation civic pride, until the noble work of the boys has been recognized by the former board of trade, and the state board of education has taken an interest in what they have accomplished and set out to accomplish. City officials and the chamber of commerce give them encouragement, so that there are almost 100 boys from freshman to seniors who are peeping into every nook and corner of the city, into alleys and byways and around corners and over trees to see if they can find something that ought to be removed. Practically every member has a paper pad in his inside coat pocket and a kodak in the outer pocket when they make their trips of investigation, and as things appear before their eyes they are noted in the book or pictured on the film, so that they have a twofold record which will bear them out when they make reports as to the necessity for immediate remedies or improvements. TREES IN SCHOOL GROUNDS Of Material Value in Prosecution of Studies, as Well as Pleasing to the Eye. In the grounds of every school there should be a collection of both fruit and ornamental trees, and all the former should have at least one other warrant for use, aside from the fruit crop. Trees should be planted for both ornament and material for instruction, and these should be of standard commercial sorts. No special plea is made for apples, peaches, apricots, etc., but a walnut and a chestnut both make grand shade trees in summer and are instructive types of deciduous trees. As material from which to draw upon for the use of classes in botany, etc., these trees would not only be always close at hand, removing the necessity of using valuable school hours for collecting trips afield, but would be available when of greatest value and interest—when blooming, fruiting, seeding, etc. It would also give the entire student body some knowledge concerning the native vegetation of the state, of which he should have a good general idea before studying that from foreign lands. With school yards so planted education could never be confined to the four walls of classrooms nor narrowed to a consideration of the three R's and closely allied studies. Pictures in Parks Before anybody comes forward with the suggestion that the park commissioner's plan for "moving pictures" in the parks or playgrounds is whimsical or that it would involve the city in extravagance it is to be hoped that the proposition will be studied from all its aspects. The most extravagant course a city can pursue is to permit its children to go wrong. There are the public schools, of course; but despite the existence of these safeguards there are large numbers of sadly unschooled children in the city—children whose parents appear to lack either the ability or the will to attract young people's interests. Anything the city can do to attract the interest of these children in harmless or wholesome things is well worth doing. Children who are interested in moving pictures are not contemplating mischief of any kind. Young people who are capable of realizing that the city is interested in them are sure to become interested in the city, if they are endowed with normal reasoning power—St. Louis Times. Points for Improvement Workers: The waging of improvement work is dependent for success upon the same support accorded all effective warfare, for the greatest need is money and the second greatest need is more money. Funds are necessary for immediate action and for perpetuation of the work and these should be secured before starting on any specific problem. Annual dues are necessary to insure permanence, for little lasting interest is felt that is entirely aside from all feeling of proprietorship. Interest all classes and all ages; do not overlook the children and the work they may do. Select for your initial work something in which all, or nearly all, are interested. Have regular and frequent meetings; nothing is more contagious than enthusiasm. A Browning Club. "I want you to join our Browning club." "Really, I'm not cultured enough for that highbrow stuff." "Oh, all we do is to dance the tango and go to musical comedies once in a while." "No. I travel a great deal and always take an upper berth." Most Picturesque Fighting Men in the Country Robert H.Moulton LEMENTE VERGARA, whose ranch near Palafort, Texas, is situated on an island in the Rio Grand, missed his horses one morning. He learned that they had been taken across the border and he had reason to believe that Captain Rodriguez of the Mexican army had taken them. He voiced his suspicions rather freely, so much so that the matter is thought to have reached the ears of the federal leader. On Friday, February 13, Vergara was invited to cross the border into Mexico, intuitions having been made to him that he could learn about his lost property. He went at the invitation of federal troops. He did not return, but for some time there was little uneasiness about him. He knew the country thereabouts and his friends thought he could take care of himself. Finally, as the time of his absence grew longer, an investigation was started, first by Texas and then by the American government. Not much came of it except that Mr. Garrett, consul of Neuvo Laredo, reported that he believed the American had been murdered. Reports began to drift across to the United States side of the river that a man answering the description of Vergara had been seen hanging by the neck on the outskirts of Hidalgo, a little Mexican town five miles from Vergara's ranch. Later, Mexicans told that they knew Vergara's body had been buried—in the old cemetery at Hidalgo. No definite action having been taken to procure the body, in so far as either government was concerned, the friends of Vergara grew somewhat irritated. Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Texas asked the American state department for permission to send a company of his rangers across the border to make a more rigid investigation. Mr. Bryan notified Governor Colquitt that such action could not be taken by one state—that it was strictly in the province of the federal government to undertake such deeds. And the federal government did not undertake the matter. On the morning of Sunday, March 8, at three o'clock, the body of Clemente Vergara was brought across the Rio Grande by a party of Americans and placed on American soil. Consul Garrett was notified, and went to the place where he had been told the body lay. It was there. No one seems to know who brought the body back from the Mexican cemetery. All Governor Colquitt would say was: "We wanted Vergara's body and we have it." All deny that the rangers recovered it—but no one can offer a reliable reason for thinking others did it, according to those who have watched the incident closely. This incident has served to bring into the public eye what undoubtedly is the most picturesque body of legalized fighting men in this country. The Texas Rangers have no counterpart in the world. Only forty in number, they are equal to almost any emergency that may arise when it comes to putting to a test real fighting qualities. The presence of one solitary ranger upon a scene of disorder and threatened lawlessness has in innumerable instances been sufficient to quickly restore peace and uphold the dignity of the law. The ranger organization was created about forty years ago and was established primarily for the purpose of frontier protection. But Texas longer has a frontier. The ragged edges of civilization which once existed along the Rio Grande border and in the vast plains country of western Texas have disappeared. And the conquest of this formerly turbulent region, infested with various and divers bands of outlaws, must be attributed largely to the exercise of unexcellence, endurance, and expert markmanship of the part of the brave bands of men who have a different times comprised the ranger organization. In the old days the rangers had the distinction of being the real gun-fighting men of the world and this distinction still belongs to them. The methods of operation are different today, how ever, although the little army of men now if the state's service is just as brave and as expert in the use of the rifle and pistol as in the time when their chief occupation was fighting bands of depredating Indians or running down the bandit of the borders. A movement was started some months ago to disband the rangers on the ground that their services are no longer necessary and that they are used chiefly to perform the duties that properly belong to the peace officers of the different counties. But the fact that they were the first to be called upon when protection was demanded in connection with the Mexican misunderstanding has, probably, put an end to this movement for all time. Besides, Texans, as a whole, have such a sentimental pride in the wonderful deeds of valor of their rangers that it is doubtful if such On Friday, February 13, Vergara was invited to cross the border into Mexico, intuitions having been made to him that he could learn about his lost property. He went at the invitation of federal troops. He did not return, but for some time there was little uneasiness about him. He knew the country thereabouts and his friends thought he could take care of himself. Finally, as the time of his absence grew longer, an investigation was started, first by Texas and then by the American government. Not much came of it except that Mr. Garrett, consul of Neuvo Laredo, reported that he believed the American had been murdered. Reports began to drift across to the United States side of the river that a man answering the description of Vergara had been seen hanging by the neck on the outskirts of Hidalgo, a little Mexican town five miles from Vergara's ranch. Later, Mexicans told that they knew where Vergara's body had been buried—in the old cemetery at Hidalgo. No definite action having been taken to procure the body, in so far as either government was concerned, the friends of Vergara grew somewhat irritated. Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Texas asked the American state department for permission to send a company of his rangers across the border to make a more rigid investigation. Mr. Bryan notified Governor Colquitt that such action could not be taken by one state—that it was strictly in the province of the federal government to undertake such deeds. And the federal government did not undertake the matter. On the morning of Sunday, March 8, at three o'clock, the body of Clemente Vergara was brought across the Rio Grande by a party of Americans and placed on American soil. Consul Garrett was notified, and went to the place where he had been told the body lay. It was there. No one seems to know who brought the body back from the Mexican cemetery. All Governor Colquitt would say was: "We wanted Vergara's body and we have it." All deny that the rangers recovered it—but no one can offer a reliable reason for thinking others did it, according to those who have watched the incident closely. This incident has served to bring into the public eye what undoubtedly is the most picturesque body of legalized fighting men in this country. The Texas Rangers have no counterpart in the world. Only forty in number, they are equal to almost any emergency that may arise when it comes to putting to a test real fighting qualities. The presence of one solitary ranger upon a scene of disorder and threatened lawlessness has in innumerable instances been sufficient to quickly restore peace and uphold the dignity of the law. The ranger organization was created about forty years ago and was established primarily for the purpose of frontier protection. But Texas no longer has a frontier. The ragged edges of civilization which once existed along the Rio Grande border and in the vast plains country of western Texas have disappeared. And the conquest of this formerly turbulent region, infested with various and divers bands of outlaws, must be attributed largely to the exercise of unexcelled bravery, endurance, and expert markmanship on the part of the brave bands of men who have at different times comprised the ranger organization. In the old days the rangers had the distinction of being the real gun-fighting men of the world, and this distinction still belongs to them. Their methods of operation are different today, however, although the little army of men now in the state's service is just as brave and as expert in the use of the rifle and pistol as in the time when their chief occupation was fighting bands of depredating Indians or running down the bandits of the borders. A movement was started some months ago to disband the rangers on the ground that their services are no longer necessary and that they are used chiefly to perform the duties that properly belong to the peace officers of the different counties. But the fact that they were the first to be called upon when protection was demanded in connection with the Mexican misunderstanding has, probably, put an end to this movement for all time. Besides, Texans, as a whole, have such a sentimental pride in the wonderful deeds of valor of their rangers that it is doubtful if such --- C CABLES ON LAND AND WATER Convenience of Quick Transition of Messages Has Cost an Immense Amount of Money. There are upward of 2,000 submarine telegraph cables in operation in the world today, with a total length of more than 200,000 miles. It has cost about $800,000,000 to lay these lines. In the course of a year over 6,000,000 messages are transmitted. Practically every body of water which STARTING ON A SCOUTING EXPEDITION SHOWING EQUIPMENT CARRIED BY THE RANGERS ♦ bought he the time ation was American accept that reported been mur- the United answering seen hang- Hidalgo, a Vergara's they knew ed—in the to procure ment was somewhat texas asked mission to the border that such te—that it real govern- the federal A TEXAS RANGER READY FOR ACTION at three garaa was part of all. Consult place where there. In the body Governor have it." it—but no nothing others attached to the pub picturesque is country. part in the equal to when it ing qualities. on a scene has in to quickly of the law, about similarly for Texas noess of civiliGrande of western conquest of with vaust be at unexcelled manship on who have at organization. distinction of the world, them. Their today, how now in as expert on the time bands of the bandits ths ago to that their that they that prop the different the first demanded understanding movement for have such deeds of ful if such a movement would have under any circumstance. From the time the first established its men, proved experts in the saddle and absoluted any danger. In addition be of good moral charge they do not drink, or gage were formerly cowboys, ranger service they use. "The way I did," said who saw many years in into a man's eye, and I he had the right stuff ranger. I never got food. "There are some folk" who think that because ready to fight like a burr be a reckless, rowdy sew. The rangers are ful and God-fearing men. There's Capt. John R. H. been a ranger for near killed a lot of men, but he worker. A few months his station, Ysleta, when of the Sunday school, to that was going on in the region, and the children fuss to the governor abters away." It may be remarked of self that a few years ago Mexicans who were firin in a locality of border, the next Sunday ville and occupied a f churches at morning and the conditions existier at the time the rai1876, were a source of erment. The cattle Tamaulapia, Mexico, into what is known as the "1860. This was a most one without parallel in a less ranchero with a bautown of nearly three to not only defiled, but destate of Texas, and carr combined forces of the United States, maintain of five months on America can flag flying over his across the Rio Grande. Such was the remarks border troubles on the culated to inspire the l a movement would have terminated differently under any circumstances. From the time the ranger organization was first established its members have been picked men, proved experts in markmanship, at home in the saddle and absolutely fearless in the face of any danger. In addition, they are required to be of good moral character, which means that they do not drink, or gamble. The most of them were formerly cowboys, and when they leave the ranger service they usually return to the ranch. "The way I did," said Capt. "BILL" McDonald, who saw many years in the service, "was to look into a man's eye, and I could tell in a minute if he had the right stuff in him to make a good ranger. I never got fooled, either." "There are some folks," continued the captain, "who think that because the boys are always ready to fight like a bunch of wildcats they must be a reckless, rowdy set of men. But they are wrong. The rangers are just naturally as peaceful and God-fearing men as you'll find anywhere. There's Capt. John R. Hughes, for instance. He's been a ranger for nearly thirty years, and he's killed a lot of men, but he's a great Sunday school worker. A few months ago he was ordered from his station, Yelta, where he was superintendent of the Sunday school, to put down the bootlegging that was going on in that part of the Fanhandle region, and the children of the town made a big fuss to the governor about moving his headquarters away." It may be remarked of Captain McDonald himself that a few years ago he shot and killed four Mexicans who were firing upon him from ambush in a remote locality of the lower Rio Grande border, the next Sunday he was back in Brownsville and occupied a front seat in one of the churches at morning and evening services. The conditions existing along the Texas frontier at the time the rangers were organized, in 1876, were a source of much concern to this government. The cattle raids from the state of Tamaulapia, Mexico, into Texas commenced with what is known as the "Cortina war," in 1859 and 1860. This was a most remarkable occurrence—one without parallel in our history. A single lawless ranchero with a band of friends captured a town of nearly three thousand inhabitants, and not only defied, but defeated the forces of the state of Texas, and carried on a war against the combined forces of the state of Texas and the United States, maintaining himself for upwards of five months on American soil, with the Mexican flag flying over his camp, and finally retreated across the Rio Grande, ready to renew the fight. Such was the remarkable commencement of the border troubles on the Rio Grande, one well calculated to inspire the lawless element in Mexico. a movement would have terminated differently under any circumstances. From the time the ranger organization was first established its members have been picked men, proved experts in markmanship, at home in the saddle and absolutely fearless in the face of any danger. In addition, they are required to be of good moral character, which means that they do not drink, or gamble. The most of them were formerly cowboys, and when they leave the ranger service they usually return to the ranch. "The way I did," said Capt. "Bill" McDonald, who saw many years in the service, "was to look into a man's eye, and I could tell in a minute if he had the right stuff in him to make a good ranger. I never got fooled, either." "There are some folks," continued the captain, "who think that because the boys are always ready to fight like a bunch of wildcats they must be a reckless, rowdy set of men. But they are wrong. The rangers are just naturally as peaceful and God-fearing men as you'll find anywhere. There's Capt. John R. Hughes, for instance. He's been a ranger for nearly thirty years, and he's killed a lot of men, but he's a great Sunday school worker. A few months ago he was ordered from his station, Ysleta, where he was superintendent of the Sunday school, to put down the bootlegging that was going on in part of the Panhandle region, and the children of the town made a big fuss to the governor about moving his headquarters away." It may be remarked of Captain McDonald himself that a few years ago he shot and killed four Mexicans who were firing upon him from ambush in a remote locality of the lower Rio Grande border, the next Sunday he was back in Brownsville and occupied a front seat in one of the churches at morning and evening services. them. Their today, however now in as expert on the time and theing bands of the bandits this ago to that their that they that prophete different be the first demanded understanding cement for have such deeds of ful if such The conditions existing along the Texas frontier at the time the rangers were organized, in 1876, were a source of much concern to this government. The cattle raids from the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, into Texas commenced with what is known as the "Cortina war," in 1859 and 1860. This was a most remarkable occurrence—one without parallel in our history. A single lawless ranchero with a band of friends captured a town of nearly three thousand inhabitants, and not only defied, but defeated the forces of the state of Texas, and carried on a war against the combined forces of the state of Texas and the United States, maintaining himself for upwards of five months on American soil, with the Mexican flag flying over his camp, and finally retreated across the Rio Grande, ready to renew the fight. Such was the remarkable commencement of the border troubles on the Rio Grande, one well calculated to inspire the lawless element in Mexico separates civilized countries is spanned by one or more cables. The longest cable in the world, connecting Brest, France, with Cape Cod, measures 3,260 miles. by hand telegraph sys bring the total length of line to 1,180,000 miles. S miles of single wires or are employed, a distance The San Francisco-Hawaiian cable is 2,089 miles in length; that from Hawaii to Wake Island 2,040, while the line from Wake Island to Guam is 1,290; from Guam to Manila 1,520, and from Manila to the coast of Asia 630. All these form the longest direct cable in the world. The ocean cables are supplemented --- 1 by hand telegraph systems, which bring the total length of a telegraph line to 1,180,000 miles. Some 3,800,000 miles of single wires or conductors are employed, a distance equal to 152 times the circumference of the earth. Appearances Against Him A young man happened to be present at a party. One of the company offered him a glass of whisky. He declined with thanks, saying that he was a teetotaler. Unfortunately for himself he had a very red nose, not at were exposed, and their dependence for safety on the strong arm of the government. These feelings were confirmed and increased when the bold robber and outlaw, who was under numerous incitments in Texas for previous killings and robberies and who had left the American territory in infant warfare with the United States, was deliberately sent by the Mexican government. lolled with the high office of general of the army and governor, back to the very scene of his outages, and the United States quietly submitted to the insult. The whole country, from Brownsville to Rio Grande City, 120 miles, and back to the Arroyo Colorado, was laid waste. There was not an american, nor any property belonging to an american, that was not destroyed, in this large tract of country. Their horses and cattle were driven across into Mexico and there sold—a cow and a calf by her side for a dollar. were exposed, and their dependence for safety on the strong arm of the government. These feelings were confirmed and increased when the bold robber and outlaw, who was under numerous indictments in Texas for previous killings and robberies and who had left the American territory in defiant warfare with the United States, was deliberately sent by the Mexican government, clothed with the high office of general of the army and governor, back to the very scene of his outrages, and the United States quietly submitted to the insult. The whole country, from Brownsville to Rio Grande City, 120 miles, and back to the Arroyo Colorado, was laid waste. There was not an American, nor any property belonging to an American, that was not destroyed, in this large tract of country. Their horses and cattle were driven across into Mexico and there sold—a cow and a calf by her side for a dollar. Although cattle stealing was the original object er into Mexico, killing 29 of them without a man of their own being killed. A name which for many years struck terror into the heart of border criminals was that of Capt. Lee Hall. Captain Hall, who is now over sixty, was at the head of a company of rangers, which covered a territory as large as two or three ordinary states. They were a flying squadron that rode fearlessly into any kind of trouble where duty called them, and their battles with the Indians, the lawless white men and Mexicans were so numerous that they were in almost constant active service for three or four years. So much was Captain Hall feared by those who had reason to dread the ranger service that numerous attempts were made to assassinate him, the room in which he slept being fired into several times at night. One summer day about fifteen years ago Captain Hall and his men were taking a short rest in their camp in the Big Bend country, a wild and remote region bordering the Rio Grande, and much frequented as a rendezvous by many robbers, smuggled and a great variety of other criminals, when a messenger rode in with the news that a Southern Pacific train had been held up and robbed near Dryden, a hundred and fifty miles away. The word to be up and off was immediately given, and as the rangers have neither tents nor chuck wagon to hinder their movements, but only a blanket under which to sleep and a small sack or two in which to carry their commissary supplies, it was only a few minutes until they were headed across a trailless country for the scene of the robbery. By daylight next morning they had made sixty miles of the journey. Then leaving their tired horses at a ranch house, they snatched an hour's sleep, roped fresh horses from the corral, saddled them and were off again. The trail of the robbers was picked up about twenty miles from Dryden, and it was discovered that they were headed north, with a posse of United States marshals already on the chase. By making a detour the rangers were enabled to hit the trail again, ahead of the deputy marshals. On the fourth day after breaking camp they came within sight of the outlaws, and the shooting began as soon as the rangers and fugitives were within firing distance. One of the robbers was killed at the first fire, and the second, seeing his escape cut off, climbed to a point within sight of the rangers and deliberately blew out his brains. CORRECT. er into Mexico, killing 29 of them without a man of their own being killed. A name which for many years struck terror into the heart of border criminals was that of Capt. Lee Hall. Captain Hall, who is now over sixty, was at the head of a company of rangers, which covered a territory as large as two or three ordinary states. They were a flying squadron that rode fearlessly into any kind of trouble where duty called them, and their battles with the Indians, the lawless white men and Mexicans were so numerous that they were in almost constant active service for three or four years. So much was Captain Hall feared by those who had reason to dread the ranger service that numerous attempts were made to assassinate him, the room in which he slept being fired into several times at night. One summer day about fifteen years ago Captain Hall and his men were taking a short rest in their camp in the Big Bend country, a wild and remote region bordering the upper Rio Grande, and much frequented as a rendezvous by many murderers, robbers, smugglers and a great variety of other criminals, when a messenger rode in with the news that a Southern Pacific train had been held up and robbed near Dryden, a hundred and fifty miles away. The word to be up and off was immediately given, and as the rangers have neither tents nor chuck wagon to hinder their movements, but only a blanket under which to sleep and a small sack or two in which to carry their commissary supplies, it was only a few minutes until they were headed across a trailless country for the scene of the robbery. By daylight next morning they had made sixty miles of the journey. Then leaving their tired horses at a ranch house, they snatched an hour's sleep, roped fresh horses from the corral, saddled them and were off again. The trail of the robbers was picked up about twenty miles from Dryden, and it was discovered that they were headed north, with a posse of United States marshals already on the chase. By making a detour the rangers were enabled to hit the trail again, ahead of the deputy marshals. On the fourth day after breaking camp they came within sight of the outlaws, and the shooting began as soon as the rangers and fugitives were within firing distance. One of the robbers was killed at the first fire, and the second, seeing his escape cut off, climbed to a point within sight of the rangers and deliberately blew out his brains. Patience—How would you pronounce this diaphanous gown? Would you pronounce this gown? Patrice—I should pronounce it immodest --- TEXAS RINGER ON PICKET DUILY with defiant pride, and to teach the American people the extent of the danger, to which they of the raids, the lawless bands engaged in them were necessarily left to the perpetration of other and greater crimes. The lawless spirit engendered by their trade, and their own protection, caused them to kill travelers who happened to meet them on their raids, and those whom they thought might inform against them. In fact, these raids were soon turned into general robbery and slaughter. These conditions on the lower Rio Grande began to improve, however, as soon as Capt. L. H. McNally and his company of rangers were sent down there to run down the outlaws. No quarter was asked or given; it was a fight to the death when he and his men got within shooting distance of the Mexican thieves. Even international law had no meaning for at such times. On one occasion they chased a band of about fifty cattle thieves across the river. CORRECT. all like that of one who abstained from intoxicating liquor. Immediately on his refusal of the drink, an old Scotman, who was a bit of a wag, stood up, and said: "Weel, man, ye might tak' doyer ysign, and let folk ken that you're teetotaler." Not Interested. "Does your wife want the ballot?" "I think not. Her card club meets on Tuesday and she probably wouldn't have time to go to the polls." HELPS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Little Hinte That Will Tend to Lighten the Daily Labor Connected With the Home. A woman who makes delectable omelets cooks them as usual over the fire until they are set and then puts the omelet pan under the broiler of the gas stove and lets the top brown. This makes them slightly brown without hardening the eggs. A few drops of ammonia in the water will wash away all fishy smell from the hands. When the odor of onions lingers on dishes after washing put them on the stove for a few minutes to be heated thoroughly. When cool again the odor will have gone. Jewelry can be successfully cleaned by washing it in hot soapsuds in which a little ammonia has been dissolved. Shake off the water and lay the jewelry in a small box of fine sawdust to dry. This method leaves no scratches or marks of any kind. To keep a spoon in position when dropping medicine into it, place the handle between the leaves of a closed book lying upon the table. If the housewife who makes bread will beat it well with a large spoon before she puts her hands in it she will find that her bread will be light and wholesome. To remove dust marks from wall paper sprinkle powdered French chalk over a piece of stale bread and rub it on the paper. If this is not a success apply cornmeal with a cloth. BRAISED LAMB WITH BARLEY Particularly Appealing to Those Who Have a Partiality for Well-Served Stewed Meats. Ingredients: Two pounds of lamb from shoulder, two cupfuls of pearl barley, one small Spanish onion, one cupful of tomatoes (canned), salt and pepper to taste. Method: Have the butcher cut the meat into suitable pieces to serve, removing any unsightly edges or fat. Place a piece of suet or a little butterline in a deep skillet and as soon as hot put in the meat and let it sear quickly on all sides. As soon as all meat juice has been absorbed pour on enough water to cover, then simmer slowly for half an hour. Now stir the barley into the liquid, cut the onion into slices and lay on top of meat, then pour the tomato over. Cover and let simmer for about two hours. See from time to time that barley does not settle or liquid boil off. Toward last, reason to taste Try not to mash the meat and barley. When meat is tender the barley will be soft and puffy. Serve on platter with meat in center surrounded by barley and pour the tomatoes and onions over with just enough of the liquor to moisten, or if gravy is liked the liquor may be thickened with a litte dissolved flour. If need be, a little more hot water may be added during the cooking. Sally Lunn. The following recipe makes an excellent Sally Lunn. The ingredients are two level cupfuls four, two level tablespoonfuls sugar, half a level teaspoonful salt, half a cupful of milk three level teaspoonfuls baking powder, two eggs, and a quarter of a cupful of butter, melted; sift four before measuring, sift again with sugar, salt and baking powder. To the beaten yolks, add the milk and melted butter. Combine the two mixtures, beating together quickly. Add the whites of the eggs last, beaten very stiff. Bake 20 minutes in a hot oven. Spanish Lentils. One cupul lentils, one onion, two cupulfs tomatoes, two tablespoonfuls butter, three tinned red peppers Soak the lentils about eight hours. Drain, cover with fresh water and cook very slowly for half an hour Bring to the boiling point, drain, cover with hot water and simmer until they become tender. Melt the butter in a casserole. Add the onion and red peppers chopped fine. Stir and cook until the butter is browned. Put in the tomatoes and salt and pepper to taste. Drain the lentils and add them. Cook uncovered for 30 minutes. Turkey, Remnants. Take the remains of a cooked turkey and remove all bones, gristle and bits of tough skin; to one pound of the meat add one-half pound of cold boiled tongue or mash the whole to a smooth paste, with a generous piece of butter and one-half teaspoonful of powdered mace, one-half teaspoonful each of salt and pepper and a pinch of cinnamon. When this is quite smooth press into little pots, cover with clarified butter and put in a cool place. The meat may be run through a chopper, using the fine cutter. Jam Puffs. One cup of flour, five teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of butter, half a cup of milk. Rub the butter, salt, flour and baking powder with the milk. Butter custard cups, put a tablespoonful of jam in the bottom of each and fill two-thirds full with the batter. Steam three-quarters of an hour, and serve with any good sauce. To Clean Matting First shake it well to remove all dust, then wash it with salt and water. It must not be made very wet, and should be well dried after being rubbed with a coarse cloth, then hung over a rail in the sun. If there are any stains, spirits, such as gin, will remove them. To Remove Mildew To remove mildew stains from clothes, the following is excellent: The juice of a lemon mixed with equal weights in salt, powdered starch and soft soap and made into a paste; should be rubbed on thickly until the spots fade, then wash in the ordinary way. For Cleaning Tinsware First wash the tin in hot soapsuds and wipe thoroughly dry. Then scour with dry flour, applied with an old newspaper. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS There is certainly one thing which the negro has done since his emancipation gave him the opportunity. He has proved himself a brave, capable soldier. The military history of the nation for the past half century bears abundant witness to the fact. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the former chief of the army, gave excellent testimony to this effect in his address at the Lincoln birthday celebration at Quinn chapel, Chicago, when he said: "Even in the Civil war the negro proved that he was brave and worthy to be a free man. When volunteers were called to man vessels which were destined to go down to sure destruction against the Confederate vessel Merrimac, the terror of the seas, an appeal for negro volunteers was made and all who heard the call responded. In the fever camps of the Spanish war, after negro troops had taken and held San Juan hill, a call was made for volunteers to call fight fever in the hospitals. An entire regiment responded as one man. The negro is a brave soldier He has the stuff of which good citens are made." That is expert testimony. General Miles is quite right in instancing the willingness of the negro soldiers to serve in fever camps as a great example of heroism. It is a better example than mere courage in the face of death on the field. The story told by Samuel Lover of the Catholic priest who effectively rebuked the military braggart by telling of having just left a smallpox case, whereupon the military man in horror moved his seat far away from the priest, well illustrates this point. The negro is brave on the field. His aptitude for nursing the sick is well understood. The records of the graduates of Provident hospital in this city show that young negro women make excellent nurses. Altogether, there is no denying the negro's courage, and, although it takes more than mere courage to make good citizens, the possession of this excellent attribute gives emphasis to the claims which the negro is making good in many ways.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The form of government in Liberia is modeled after that of the United States, with a president, vice-president, cabinet officers, senate, legislature and judiciary, all of whom are black men, descendants of Afro-Americans or natives, many educated and trained in institutions of learning in Liberia. The present president, Daniel E. Howard, was educated in Liberia and is the son of a former slave from Norfolk, Va. The seat of government is located at Monrovia, a city of 10,000 inhabitants, where there is located also, the United States legation, consults of France, Germany, England Spain and Central America. Most of these governments have large commercial interests, which give the city of Monrovia buite a modern form of civilization, notwithstanding the climate is very unhealthy, caused from lack of proper sanitation, hospitals and poor water supply. The constitution forbids the right of any white man to own real estate or vote in Liberia. There are no more cheap lands in the West. Land that was sold 13 years ago for $1 an acre is now selling at from $10 to $100 in sections where there are successful irrigation systems. "Down deep in the heart of the average American there is a sense of fair play, and he is willing to recognize success, whether it is under a white or black skin." Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee institute, told a gathering of negroes at Kansas City. The educator spoke at the Second Baptist church to more than a thousand members. "What we need to do is to advertise our advantages as a race, our ability to overcome difficulties," he said. "Leave it to others to advertise our shortcomings and our disadvantages. "It does not pay in business and it will not pay as a race to advertise our troubles and our failures to the world." Japan has about 125 steam trawlers, and at the present rate of increase the number will reach several hundred in a couple of years. The catches range from five to ten tons each, and the net profit on one ton of fish is $50 to $75. The average optimist is like a toy balloon. It does not take much of a punch to make him collapse. The highest point in Nevada is Wheeler peak, which, according to a chart published by the United States geological survey, is 13,058 feet above sea level. The average elevation of the state of Nevada is 5,500 feet. Only four states—Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico—are higher. A bill has been introduced in the legislature of Manitoba to prohibit the employment of white women and girls in any factory or place of business owned or managed by Chinese or Japanese. Heaven and Hand-Organs Heaven and Frantzandt. Early in the last century an old Forfarshire (Scotland) lady installed in the bedroom corridor of her castle an automatic organ. It was her delight of a morning to wake her guests with its strains. But it was not the delight of one of them, Miss Sophi Johnstone of Hilton, to be so awakened, and she said so. "Ye deina like the music? Ye shouldna say that, Sophy," said her hostess. "Ye'll no win to heaven an ye deina take pleasure in music; it's to be all music there, ye know." Booker Washington talked in New York a few days ago of what the negro has done in the last 50 years in the United States. "I'm proud of my race," he declared. "I tell you that the American negro is the only dark-skinned race that ever lived side by side with you white men—and grew." Because of the negro's tangible as well as spiritual achievements he thinks that some consideration should be shown him. "You should allow the negro a chance a readjust himself to his changed conditions," said Washington. He has a habit of telling a story to illustrate the point he wishes to make. He told such a story now. "I called on a friend of mine," said he. "He was a lawyer in Jacksonville. He lived there in a fine new house—I'm afraid to tell you how much money that house cost. He was proud of it and he showed me around. By and by he came to the dining room. "When I put my foot on this bell, he said, standing by the dining room table, 'the maid comes to see what I want.' "So he put his foot on the bell and the maid came. Then he put his foot on the bell again and the maid popped in at the door. He motioned her away, but pretty soon he put his foot on the bell again, and the maid came once more. "What are you doing that for?" I asked him. "Well," said he, "it isn't so long since I was a Pullman porter. And I can't get used to seeing people come when I ring for 'em.'" Washington compared this man with another Pullman porter he once encountered. After the man had done his work Washington sat down to talk with him. He found the porter an educated and intelligent man. By and by the porter said: "Mr. Washington, I have some whiskey in my bag. Let's have a drink." Washington refused and expressed his surprise that a man of the other's apparent intelligence should drink on duty. "I wanted to be something once," said the porter, "but I've found out that I can never be anything but just a porter. Why shouldn't I drink? No one cares what a nigger porter does?" It's the first point of view, naturally, that Washington approves. The new spirit of co-operation is beautifully shown by the list of supporters of the social clinic at Nashville, Tenn. The room for the milk work is furnished by a negro woman of Nashville; milk is supplied by a fund raised by the Nashville Banner, the strongest daily in the city; the library is furnished by Mr. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, a Jew; the dean of the woman's department is a white graduate of Chicago university; her salary is paid by the Christian Service society of Chicago; the expense of the playground is borne by a negro and so on and on. With the suddenness of an Arctic spring latent forces push to the light. From the good old days before the war, the young South has inherited the traditional love for the negro, which even in the bitterness engendered by the war, the older South never forgot. And the bitterness is drained away.—Boston Transcript. The roads of the plains of Argentina have deeper dust in summer and deeper mud in winter than those of any other part of the world; consequently the wagons used on them have wheels from six to fifteen feet in diameter. Sponge waste is used in many German industries, especially for stuffing dolls. Toronto, Canada, has a housewives' league. A Hindu child of seven may be a skilled workman. Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000. There are 56,527,000 cattle on United States farms. A Washington tree stump makes a stable for two horses. School teachers in Italy receive less than $600 a year salary. In the year 1913 Austria produced 515,986,000 gallons of beer. More than 900 nurses are employed in Moscow hospital, the largest in Europe. It costs Paris nearly $100,000 a year to care for the trees on its streets and boulevards and in its parks, more than 1,000 new ones being planted annually. Last year the forest service distributed 116,000 basket willow cuttings —15,000 to forest schools, 20,000 to agricultural experiment stations and 81,000 to individuals. "'Deed,'" said the incorrigible one, "an' heaven's a place wi' ail wivee playin' on hand-organs at six o'clock in the morun' it' no' the place I take it for; nor yet the place I want to be in." Modern Structures. "What's the matter with this elec- rator?" asked the nervous man. "You keep trying to run it through the roof." "You'll have to excuse me," replied the operator. "I'm not used to one of these little 20 story buildings." Men Admire Women with Beautiful Hair! NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING will make you proud of your hair It is unsurpassed for making harsh, kinky and stubborn hair—soft, glossy and luxurious. It not only beautifies the hair—but also keeps it in good condition. Price, 25 and 50 Cents Everywhere NELSON MFG. CO., RICHMOND, VA. COOPER & CAMPBELL Successor to G. A. Roy Carry a Full Line of DRUGS, Patent Medicines Cigars, Sundries and Paints PHONES: Home Main 7344; Bell East 43 18th and Paseo MILLEA BY FESTUS O. MILLEA NOV. 25. 1831 MAY 22. 1830 BELAUREN HUILAND We call for you with our 5 passengers to show you our MARKERS and MONUMENTS arranging from $15.00 up. Let us see that you may have them up for De- Make your appointment with GEO. W. LITTLE Home Phone Main 4726 Bell Phone Main Collector for Highland Cemetery Co. and Agent for Kansas City Granite & Monument Directly opposite Elmwood Cemetery C Cast 15th St. KANSAS C Drink "Falstar" THE CHOICES PRODUCT OF THE BREWERY ART MADE IN THE BREWERY ST. LOUIS, MO E. GODRON, Man Families Supplied Telephones No. Grand 350 Bell Main We call for you with our 5 passenger car to show you our Prices ranging from $15.00 up. Let us show you early that you may have them upfor Decoration day. Make your appointment with GEO. W. LITTLE Home Phone Main 4726 Bell Phone Main 3910 Collector for Highland Cemetery Co. OHN'S BUFF aded Whiskevs with Soda 10c. st 12th St. Kansa All Bonded Whiskeys with Soda 10c. We call MARKET Prices ranging early that y day. Make Home P Col Kansas Direct 4801 East 1 IMPORTED BREWING CO. ALLSTART PRO J. JEFFER BREWING CO. ST LEUIS, GEA. COH All Bonded Home Phone Main 7646. ST. JOSEPH, MO. Editor of the Sun: Editor of the sun: All the Colored boys operating moving picture machines in the White Houses here were discharged and white boys put in their places. I are operating at the Dudley Theatre, the best Colored show house in the West. I hear that the Colored houses of Kansas City all have white operators and I do not think that with a Business League such as you have and a great newspaper like the Sun and lots of good business men, that that should be. Give the Colored boys a chance. L. W. BANTY. Editor's Note.—We have made inquiries and find that all the Colored Movies in this city have Negro operators. LEXINGTON, MO. LEXINGTON, MO. Mr. and Mrs. MO. Slaughter of Normal, Ill., are visiting the latter's mother, Mrs. Wm' McKinney on North 24th street...Mr. Samuel Booker spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City...Miss Pauline Bloise spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City visiting Dr. and Mrs. Hudson... Miss Maze Woodson, who attends Western University is at home this week visiting parents. The Glee Club of Western University. Quindaro, Kas, sang at Zion A. M. E. church Easter Monday night. The house was crowded and the program was grand. After the program President H. T. Kealing gave quite a nice talk...Mr. Chas, Curtis, who had been ill for some time, passed away Sunday morning and was buried Tuesday after noon from the Second Baptist church Rev. Williams conducted the funeral services. He was a member of the Masonic Order and leaves quite a few relatives and friends to mourn his loss...Mr. Wm. Schaffer of Estil Heights, is still on the sick list...Mrs. Finis Thomas and daughter Augusta spent Easter in Sedalia, Mo. visiting Miss Hattie Smith, Latin teacher at Geo. R. Smith's college, and a daughter of Mrs. Thomas...Master Manville Boldridge of West Lafayette street, who has been sick for a number of weeks with fever, is able to be out again. PALMYRA, MO. Mrs. Mollie Diggs is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Smiley. The Steardess Board of A. M. E. church gave a social Friday night. Master Richard Beal has gone to his father in Hannibal. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smiley announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Delle M. to Prof. C. Milton Yeger of Baxter Springs, Kas. The wedding will take place in Weil, Kas. May 3d, where Miss Smiley has taught successfully for the past three years. Mrs. Eliza Ransom spent a few days with Mrs. S. W. Dixon last week. Mrs. Mollie Diggs and Mrs. J. W. Smiley were in Hannibal Tuesday. Mr. Geo. Periman of Kansas City spent Easter with his mother. Miss Arlea Donly spent Easter in Quincy, Ill., with her grandmother, Mrs. Hughes. Those on the sick list are: Mr. G. T. Noland, Mr. Jno. Lee, Mrs. Alice Woods. Mrs. Clarence Smith is convalescent. Mrs. McPike of Quincy, Ill., was here canvassing in the interest of Madame Dabney's Hair Grower. Mrs. R. B. Smith was in Hannibal last week. The Trustee Helpers of A. M. E. church will give an entertainment Friday night. A debate will be connected with it. CHILLICOTHE, MO. Miss Yales of Laclede, Mo., was the guest of Miss Efle Alex Monday. Mr Kay Kiles of Brookfield, Mo., spent Wednesday night visiting relatives and friends. He made timely remarks at Garrison School, where he was a pupil and teacher... Mrs. Jane Lee died Sunday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Grace Trasper. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Utica, Mo. Mrs. Lee, who possessed patience, industry and hope in the glorious immortality, is survived by a husband, three daughters, a son and many sorrowing relatives and friends. Mrs. Wm. Green, a relative of Kansas City, Mo., attended the funeral...Rev. P. C. Crews spent several days visiting relatives last week. Rev. Crews delivered an instructive discourse at Bethel church Friday evening, where a revival is in session. He was instrumental in assisting the pastor secure the service of Rev. Ward of Salisbury, Mo. We are looking forward to the awakening spring revival... The Bachelore Girl's club was entertained at the home of the President, Miss Minnie Payne, Saturday afternoon. Embroidery work was the central theme of the afternoon and exhibited practical proofs of their handwork. Handsome souvenir baskets with sweet contents were given in addition to the delicious repast... An expectant crowd assembled at Mt. Zion Baptist church before the morning services last Sunday to be carried by the conveyances to Grand River, where the converts, fruits of the revival, were baptized by Rev Talley. The northern wind with its occasional snow showers, was the doves that descended figuratively speaking. The baptizing was well planned and carried out despite the unfavorable weather, and the spectators returned to the church or their homes conscious of a profitable troubling of the waters... Principal William Longdon, Misses Payne and Hill man are experiencing busy days at Garrison School. Although in unison the students are as determined and untiring in their efforts as the Mext cans. The host of patrons and friend will deem it their duty to salute them at the patron and commence exercises. MOBERLY, MO. Mr. Willard A. Taylor and Miss Callaway were married last Wednesday. The bride is a daughter of the ate John Callaway of Fayette, Mo. The K. of P. annual Thanksgiving service was held at the Second Baptist church last Sunday. A very bier sermon was delivered to the members by Rev. F. D. Avant...The Magic City Cornet band will give a musical at the M. E. church on Saturday night. The captains of the clubs for the July rally met with the tor, Rev. J. K. Ponder, Monday night and laid plans for raising the desired amount, $1,000. The pastor is doing his best to bring success to the church. Let's all join and help make Grant Chapel greater. Quarterly meeting Sunday at Grant Chapel....The "Ecclesiastical Alliance" elected officers Tuesday morning, as follows: Rev. F. D. Avant, president; W. E. Boone, secretary; Rev. J. K. Ponder, treasurer; Rev W B. Coeman, instructor....We can now look forward for a better Alliance. Hon. A. W. Lloyd and Mr. Ralph Bass paid the Alliance a visit and gave some time remarks....The members of Pilgrim Rest Baptist church will celebrate the anniversary of their pastor, Rev. J. S. Swancy, on the first Sunday in May....Mr. Edward Harris has started the transfer business, Patronize him and get good service. TONGANOXIE, KANSAS The S. M. T.'s will give an ent timent Saturday, April 25...Mrs Frances Jarrett visited in Kansas City last week...Mrs. Annie Hilder brand and Mrs. Mida Ellott made a business trip to Kansas City last week ...Mrs. Norisla Brurea is ill... Mrs. Alice Sweeney is ill...Mrs. T. S. Wood of Lawrence visited friends and relatives last week...Mrs. Josie James and little son left for Kansas City to spend a few days with Mrs. T. Nelson, an aunt who is ill...Mr. Elvin Frazier and Miss Erma Jones of Kansas City visited relatives here...Mrs. Lizzie Smith is visiting her sister, Miss Kate Wood...Mrs. Addle Batty visited friends here Sunday...Mrs. Z. E. Nelson made a business trip to Kansas City Friday...Mrs. James visited friends and relatives at Leavenworth Saturday...Mr. Arthur James made a business trip to Kansas City Saturday...Louis Nelson left for Kansas City Saturday to spend the summer with grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kunes...Mrs. Lizzie Williams of Kansas City visited her mother, Mrs. Alice Eweeney Saturday...Mrs. H. Walton and daughter visited Mrs. Carter at Moores, Kas. Sunday...Mr. Mat Wilson held meeting for Rev. R. E. Saunders Sunday...Mr. Roy Horton was among the visitors here last week...Mrs. Jerry Jarrett gave a dinner in honor of Rev. Saunders last Sunday. Those present were Mr. and Ms. J. Jarrett, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Jarrett, Mr. and Ms. Mat Wilson. MASONIC. With over one thousand names upon the craft rosters of this city why may we not erect a fine temple which would not only properly accommodate our meetings, but supply larger conveniences for the entertainment of the public. This must be done at some time. Why not do it soon? Masonry has always taken pride in big enterprises and in doing big things. The public looks to us as to no one else for these things and we owe it to our obligations as well as to our traditions to fulfill the demand. If Grand Master Crews, like our first grand master, can succeed in inspiring such an undertaking it will surely stand as a great monument to the zeal which he so generously possesses and will yield a result not only placing his name high upon the scroll of leaders, but carrying a blessing throughout years to come. With a structure of sufficient size controlled by us, it would be an easy matter to have the Grand Lodge permanently located in Kansas City. This would be Masonic headquarters. The traveling Grand Lodge is fast going out of style everywhere as the brethren grow more and more weary of the process. Soon there will be a cry for a permanent seat and we should be ready to supply it. RENO. KANSAS Mr. Wash Roffel visited friends in Tonganoxie...Mr. Grant Gloeon made a business trip to Leavenworth Saturday...Mrs. Emma Roffel returned from Lawrence and will spend the summer...Mrs. Addie Batty of Kansas City, Kas, visited her aunt, Mrs. Wash Roffel, Mr. and Mrs. Mason visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Nelson last week...Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Roffel and r. Wm. Gloeon attended the program at the A. M. E. church Sunday. LARNED. KANSAS. April 12th, a great rally was held at the C. M. E. church to pay off the indebtedness. Presiding Elder J. W. Jacobs of the Kansas District, preached excellent sermons morning and evening. In the afternoon the Sunday School and three clubs worked like heroes. Club No. 1 raised $33.00; Club No. 2, $10.30; Club No. 3, $66.20; Sunday School, $15.75. Grand total in ten weeks, $234.50, with eight converts and seventeen additions.....Miss Naomi Madison, 20 years old, died March 5th. She was a member of the Baptist church and loved by all who knew her....Twenty persons surprised the pastor with a pleasant reception on his birthday, April 2d. ROSEDALE, KANSAS, NOTES. ROSEDALE, KANSAS, NOTES. Mrs. Amanda Hilliard of Xenia, O., is the guest of her uncle and Mr. and Mrs. Elli Tuppence, 3947 Adams street. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Cotton, 4026 Adams street, have as their guests this week, Mrs. Cotton's father and sister, Mrs. Ruth Golden and Mrs. Heger, of Perryville, Ky. Mrs. Linnie May Bannister, the wife of Robert Bannister, died at her home in Columbus Helights Thursday. Besides her husband she is survived by six children. The remains were shipped to Mexico, Mo., for interment. Mrs. Brazile Strickland, 4052 Adams street, was hostess Monday evening to the Banacca Class, of which her son Lloyd is a member. Bishop G. L. Blackwell was the guest at dinner Monday of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Pinkard; also Wednesday. GREATEST OF ALL MIRACLES Nothing Yet Has Been Brought For ward to Compare With Divine Power of Love. Our latest miracle is radium. It was found by a woman. It changes all previous comparisons. It is the most valuable thing on earth. A bit of it on a pin point sends forth inconceivable emanations. It does many services, most interesting of which is its beneficent influence upon the new scourge of mankind, cancer. What we may expect of it finally, challenges the imagination, reflects a writer in the Woman's World. A miracle that has become familiar is the X-ray. By it you may see the working of the human heart. A common miracle now is the flying machine. Man has invented wings that sweep him higher than the birds. What can be more wonderful than the wireless? All these are wonderful. You may choose any of them as the greatest miracle—and then you would be wrong. For the greatest of all miracles is love—just common, old-fashioned love. A bit of it has more value and reaches farther than radium; it sees through things and shows the operations of the human heart better than the X-ray; it soars higher than the flying machine; and its tunes and silent voices annihilate distance more marvelously than the wireless. In these days electricity is in everything that is working for progress. In these days love is in everything that is working for human good. It is not only the greatest of the miracles but the most active of the agencies that are carrying forward the safety and sanity of the race. So put together your modern discoveries and inventions, and love will outweigh them all. BEST TO SUPPRESS COUGH Doctor Declares It is Irritating, and Has Deleterious Effect on the Sufferer. The following is from a doctor connected with an institution where there are many children: "There is nothing more irritable to a cough than a cough. For some time I had been so fully assured of this that I determined for one minute at least to lessen the number of coughs heard in a certain ward in a hospital of the institution. By the promise of rewards and punishments, I succeeded in inducing them to simply hold their breath when tempted to cough and in a little while I was myself surprised to see how some of the children entirely recovered from the disease. "Constant coughing," continues the doctor, "is precisely like scratching a wound on the outside of the body. So long as it is done the wound will not heal. Let a person, when tempted to cough, draw a long breath and hold it until it warms and soothes every air cell, and some benefit will soon be received from this process. The nitrogen which is thus refined acts as an anodyne to the mucous membrane, alaying the desire to cough and giving the throat and lungs a chance to heal. At the same time, a suitable medicine will aid Nature in her effort to recuperate."—Family Doctor. Much Teo Generous. Speaking of generosity at a banquet the other evening, Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois told how a certain party named Pat exceeded the speed limit along that line. Some time ago Pat decided to make his will, and to that end he called on a lawyer friend with a list of his relatives and a summary of the wealth he had to bequeath. The will was soon made and Pat departed happily conscious of a duty well done. Almost, before daylight the next morning the lawyer's doorbell violently rang, and looking out of the window the legal one saw Pat palpitating on the doorstep. "Shure, yez honor," excitedly cried the man below, "Ol come to see yez about that will. Ol got to thinkin' it over an' couldn't slape a wink all nofight." "You couldn't, eh!" returned the lawyer, a little testily. "What's the matter with the will?" "Matter enough, yez honor," soullly answered Pat. "Sat, the Ol haven't left mesilf a three-legged stool to sit upon."—Philadelphia Telegraph Fatal Premonition. Grant Duff in his diary tells a curious story of a "seearess." Mile, Lenormand* was consulted by Robespierre and Napoleon I. Grant Duff's father had a strange experience with Mile, Lenormand. He said a friend went to consult her, and after she had told him what he wanted to know, she tried with the friend, but became confused, said her heart failed her and begged him to leave the house. He persuaded her to try again, and again the same result followed. Then, declaring that this had never happened to her before, she lost all patience and implored him to leave instantly. He did so, and as he passed out of her door was knocked down and killed by a heavy wagon. King Ludwig's Visit. King Ludwig of Bavaria intends to travel to New York in June next in the new Hamburg-American liner Vaterland during the liner's malden trip to America. The king will also return to Europe in the Vaterland, which was personally named by him. The Vaterland is a sister ship of the Imperator. Girls After School Days GIRLS After School Days. The tactful mother inspires the daughter to bring into her interests in the home all of her freshly acquired knowledge and developed talents. Nowadays, with the cosmopolitan tone of society, languages are important, music is always a delight if well rendered. These studies should be continued after the school days. Conversation, too, should be encouraged, for the tactful conversationalist adds warmth and zest to every occasion. We are now entering upon our sixth year in the Undertaking business in Kansas City and we take this method of expressing our deep appreciation of the confidence and respect that the many families have shown in our efforts to please and our ability to render service by calling us into their homes or sending their loved ones to our parliors where they receive the same tender care as in the home. In the future as in the past, our time and energy shall always be spent in properly preparing the body, giving an expression to the face and restoring the life like appearance, for a body properly prepared and buried in the most ordinary priced Casket leaves a better impression with family and friends than a body poorly prepared and buried in the most expensive Casket and we spare neither pains nor expense in procuring the materials so necessary to obtain these results. 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