Kansas City Sun

The Sun Congratulates Our Colored Voters Upon Their Loyalty Last Tuesday A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI. NUMBER 46. The Sun Cong MR. E. A. ROBINSON, The aggressive Secretary of the Negro Busi Kansas City, who will be unanimously elected a the National Negro Business League at Muskog "NEGRO ONLY" TOWN HELD NO TERROR FOR C. E. ELLIS. slaves. E h's own la a dozen N erations by The aggressive Secretary of the Negro Business League of Greater Kansas City, who will be unanimously elected as one of the delegates to the National Negro Business League at Muskogee, Okla. Railroad Agent at Verdark, Ok., Overcame the Disadvantage of Breaking Into a Village Where "White Men Are Not Allowed." Muskogee, Ok., June 20.—Five years ago there was a sign pasted conspicuously on a tree in the village of Verdark, a negro settlement six miles north of Muskogee, which read: "White man, let not the sun go down on you here!" Time and C. E. Ellis have changed all that and the story of the taming of a wild and vicious Negro settlement, and getting rich while doing it, is nearly a romance. Five years ago C. E. Ellis made application to the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad for a job. There were two places open, one at Verdark and one at a small station near Parsons, Kas. Ellis was working in Louisiana and had never heard of either place. He was given his choice and selected Verdark. The railroad sent him a pass to Muskogee and here he first learned what he was to confront. No One Stopped But Railroad Agent. "No white man stopped at Verdark," the sign read. He passed on through. No man passed through the region surrounding unless he was well armed, unless he was a stranger. The Negroes were the former slaves of aristocratic Indians and, after being freed, they seized the land of their former masters and since the Civil War, had been in practical control of a large area of which the Verdark settlement was the center. They resented the intrusion of whites in any way and ordinarily ran with a high hand. The only white man who ever remained in the place longer than a few minutes was the railroad agent. He scarcely ever left the station building, always went armed and numerous bullet holes in the building testified to the situation. He Couldn't Buy a "Six-Shooter." When Ellis arrived in Muskogee, a railroad official came here personally and checked him into the new office. The old agent tipped Ellis off to what he might expect and pointed to the six-shooter he always carried. Ellis had neither a gun nor money to buy one, nor did he have money enough to get out of the place, so he remained. He resigned by wire on the day he drew his first pay check, however, and the answer was to stick on the job until relieved. No relief was sent. A few months later he resigned again, with the same result. The Vardark situation was a knotty problem to the "Katy" railroad and when they got an agent there they kept him as long as he would stay. Ellis Made 'Em Be Friendly. Ellis lived, ate and slept in the station building. His first move was to get a negro of the better element appointed as village postmaster. This was followed by advice on planting and cultivating crops. Ellis was a natural agriculturalist. A new vista opened before the railroad agent. He extended his activities in making friends with the Negroes. He had no security except faith. However it soon became known that the better Negroes who had received help would make it mighty uncomfortable for any other Negro who did not repay Ellis. They knew their friend and did not propose to have him imposed upon. He had the community sentiment back of him and his debtors had to pay or they had to leave the settlement. Now He's Married and Happy. Then Ellis began to branch out. He bought a small piece of land and put a Negro tenant on it. He married. Verdark was redeemed. Ellis took his wife there to a cozy little home and she was welcomed almost as an old time Southern mistress among her --- The Kansas City Sun slaves. Ellis directed the farming on his own land and was a partner with a dozen Negroes in their farming operations by backing them for seed and farming machinery. The net result of Ellis's five years in Verdark are: A good job with the railroad as long as he wants it: a farm of fertile land; a wife and a comfortable home; $5,000 on deposit in the bank; a community redeemed, prosperous and law-abiding in which he is chief counsel, for no Negro in the Verdark settlement undertakes anything without first asking Ellis.—Kansas City Star. Editor of the Sun: Kindly allow me space in your valuable and most interesting columns to say a few words, in addition to this clipping I am sending you, for publication. You know my position on the Negro Weekly newspaper. I believe that not less than 80 per cent of all our organized bodies should read and subscribe to the Sun. It is worthy and merits not only the support of our different organizations, but every Negro whatever be his station. To do so is race pride, and race pride will bring to the Negro the sunlight of love for one another, which will invigorate all his activities and make him pure and noble. Therefore do I with deepest feeling and thought request of you to publish this article, in a paper where comment will prove pleasing. Although the clipping was from Kansas City's Monday's Star of this week, in keeping with its life-long traditions, on Negro matters, it was silent. Of course Mr. Editor, you very understand, newspapers like all other business, must have ready money. Advertisement does the work. Negroes contribute but little, towards this end; hence special mention of him (the Negro) is not necessary unless it be to tell what an ugly wretch it is. But whining and complaining never uplifts an individual, neither will it a race of people. The acme of success is in us. The trouble with us, as a race, is permitting men and women, yes organizations of inferior types and motives, to go around, self-organized, of course, philosophizing in long adjectives, perplexing verbs and horrible adverbs, elaborating in their nonsensical abstractions. Oh, a bit of bible love; viz.: Proverbs, some chapter, which reads: "In all labor there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." Again read: "Much is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that which is destroved for want of judgment." Again and again, read ye self made Negro leaders, read. "The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of fools." Mr. Editor, we are very proud of some of our worthy conventions, organizations, schools, and colleges, but don't you think that one particular book on Bible lore would help them, also? Oh, how Negroes love to go to white opera houses. Permit an invitation, to read again: Proverbs of Colomon—Chapters 7, 8 and 9. Do this—If the opera disease is not sanitary read the following article and if the contagion continues let me advise you to do and dwell among these people, there who will teach you—Race pride. Respectfully, T. W. H. WILLIAMS, 1323 Jackson Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 2317 LYDIA AVENUE FOR SALE. Eight room modern solid brick house; slate roof; lot faces Lydia and Pasee; highest grade Colored neighborhood; five hundred dollars first payment and easy terms will handle deal. Owner is a sick man and will sell on right terms to reliable party. Property shown only on appointment. W. F. FROEBE, 5*4 New York Life Bldg. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY. JULY 11, 1914. ONCE SENTENCED TO BE HANGED NOW A FREE MAN. "Not Gulity" is the verdict returned by the jury in the Bob Harris case. When Judge Rizer read the words Saturday evening in a clear ringing tone, a silence fell over the crowd in the county court room and even the prisoner was unable to recover himself for a few moments, as he, along with all others, expected at least a verdict of murder in the first degree. As had been stated in these columns before Bob Harris and Joseph Harris, his father, were arrested for the killing of officers Craig and Kipper in the city of Rocky Ford on the night of July 4th, 1911. In the fall of that year these two men were tried and Bob was convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to be hanged. The father was found guilty of alding in the murder and was given a sentence of twenty years in the state penitentiary at Canon City. Both cases were taken to the supreme court and were sent back on error. In the meantime these two men, father and son, were held in the penitentiary and when the time came for retrial they were brought to La Junta. The trial of Bob Harris, who was accused of doing the shooting and who was sentenced to be hanged, was started in the District court in La Junta Monday morning, June 22 with Judge Rizer on the bench. It took two and one-half days to get a jury, after 69 men had been examined. The testimony was commenced on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 24th, and Saturday at 3:30 the case was given to the jury. When the twelve men retired to their deliberating room on the third floor of the court house there was a great deal of speculation as to what their verdict would be. Soon after five o'clock Saturday evening, a little over one and one-half hours after they retired, the jury announced that they had arrived at a verdict. The court and attorneys were summoned and the twelve men again filed into the court room and took the seats they had occupied during the week while hearing the evidence. The verdict, duly signed, was then handed to Judge Rizer. Every ear in the room was strained to hear the words which were to decide the fate of the prisoner. The judge read the verdict over to himself to make sure that he was right and then read it alud as follows: "We your jury find the defendant, Robert Harris, not guilty." A few moments later he turned and spoke sure to his attorney as if to make sure that he understood the judge correctly. Judge Rizer then discharged the jury and at the same time gave Mr. Harris, who for the last two and one-half years had been living in the fear of dying on the gallows, his freedom. Mr. Harris then arose and thanked and shook hands with each of the jury-men, after which he left the court room and dropped out of sight. The unexpected verdict in the case of Bob Harris has, in a way, upset the plans for the trial in the case of Joseph Harris. His case was to be heard at once but the judge and prosecuting attorney have not yet decided when they will take it up. On account of being unable to get a jury here without a great expense to the county, the case may be tried in Pueblo, or it may go over until the October term of the District court. The witnesses examined by the plaintiff were Dr. Barber, Dr. Pollock, Dr. Wilson, Chas. B. Boyd, Mrs. J. A. Kipper, Mrs. J. B. Crang, E. W. Bailey, Ernest Lane, Earl P. Bennett and Tim O'Leary. And the testimony in the former trial given by John Tinsley, H. W. Potter, H. J. Sprinkler and G. M. Coffman, was reproduced, these gentlemen not being able to attend the trial. For the defense only Bob Harris, the defendant, and his father, Joseph Harris, with Mrs. Harris, together with Limon I. Henry, were put on the stand. Mr. Henry, the attorney for the defense, visited the scene of the murder about a week after it happened, and he gave testimony as to the lay of the house, blood stains here and there, etc. Probably the most interesting testimony was from the defendant, when he attempted to show his position when he claimed he was attacked by the officers. He gave an illustration by getting on his knees, when he claimed he was struck by the officers, and he gave a dramatic scene with Prosecuting Attorney Davidson by showing the manner in which he twisted the gun from the officers and shot them. Robert Harris testified that while the trouble was going on in his house he got down a bible and read a chapter. The arguments in the Bob Harris murder case were concluded Saturday afternoon and the case was given to the jury at 3:30 o'clock. -Megaphone. THE BEST EVIDENCE. Though men may knock and men may roast The narrow skirt that shows a stocking. From coast to coast, they look the most And longest at the one most shocking. Yea, many men who rail and blow About that skirt, in secret love it: Most women know that this is so— They have the figures, too, to prove it. —Walter G. Doty, in Puck. NEGRO REAL ESTATE DEALERS MAKE GOOD The Afro-American Investment Co. is Demonstrating That They are in a Position to Give the Very Best Protection and Get the Lowest Price and Terms For Negro Home Buyers. A CREDITABLE RACE ENTERPRISE MASS MEETING In the Interest of the Federated Colored Charities The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows will hold their 32nd Anniversary of the District Grand Lodge No. 8 of Missouri and District Grand Household of Ruth No. 15 at Kansas City, Mo., August 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, 1914, and also the Grand Staff Council of the 14th Patriarche Regiment who will hold their encampment at Ridges Grove, 20th street and Woodland avenue. This promises to be the greatest meeting ever held by the Order and a week's pleasure for all who attend—there will be more than 500 delegates and visitors attending the occasion. The Grand Lodge will hold their session at Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church on Woodland avenue between 18th and 19th street, and the Household of Ruth's sessions will be held at the Vine Street Baptist Church. The entire week will be devoted to Competitive Drills and Dress Parades by the famous drill teams of St. Louis, Mo., Topeka, Kan., Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. Also the Cadets of St. Louis, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., will compete for the Grand Lodge prizes. Don't fail to attend this meeting. All kinds of attractions will be at the Grove during the week Admission, 10 cents. The Afro-American Investment & Employment Co. has just closed a deal with Mrs. Minerva A. Kirkpatrick for the purchase of the Mansion at 1212 Vine street, formerly owned by Mrs. Kate Jordan. This is the largest and most valuable piece of residence property ever sold to a Colored person in Kansas City, Mrs. Kirkpatrick and her two daughters spent ten months in looking at various pieces of property trying to find a home that would meet the requirements. Hardly a day passed during the ten months but that some of the leading real estate firms of Kansas City showed them property or called to see them. During that time the A-A. I. Co was the only firm that was able to find property that met their approval. Mr. Wm Hopkins, the Afro-American salesman, found three places that they were willing to buy and put up earnest money as follows: Eleventh street near Euclid—earnest money put up thirty minutes too late. The next property decided on was located on Lydia near Fifteenth street. This property was contracted for and earnest money deposited with the Afro-American Investment Co. as agents. The owner of the property refused to consummate the sale owing to the fact that they found out that they were selling too cheap. After exerting every effort to get the deal closed the Afro-American Investment Co. brought suit against the sellers and the court awarded them their commission and $500 damages for Mrs. Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Kirkpatrick Shows Her Race Pride and Loyalty. The next house selected was also near Fifteenth street and Lydia avenue, owned by a Colored woman who has a white agent. She informed the owner that she would buy the house if it was sold by the Afro-American Investment Co., as she had explicit confidence in their integrity and ability as real estate agents, but would not buy through a white agent. This MASS MASS In the Int'l Federated Colle ALLEN CHAPEL, SUNN Prominent Speaker All are The Grand United O will hold their 32nd Anniversary of the souri and District Grand Household August 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, 1914, and 14th Patriarche Regiment who will hold 20th street and Woodland avenue. T ing ever held by the Order and a week will be more than 500 delegates and Grand Lodge will hold their session on Woodland avenue between 18th and Ruth's sessions will be held at the V week will be devoted to Competitive B drill teams of St. Louis, Mo., Topeka, City, Mo. Also the Cadets of St. Louis City, Mo., will compete for the Grand meeting. All kinds of attractions w Admission, 10 cents. REV. H. H. HARRIS ARRESTED. Rev. H. H. Harris, who until last Monday night was pastor of the First Baptist Church, was arrested last Saturday night by Officers Cooper and Wallah. It was stated by the officers that at about 11:45 Saturday night when the arrests were made the Rev. Harris and two women, Mrs. Cornice Reed and Mrs. Edna Ramey, 2815 Lucas, were found undressed and that the women were drunk. Charges of lewdness were filed against the minister which were dismissed in the police court Tuesday. Rev. Harris denies the charges, stating that he saw the women drunk on the streets and accompanied them to his place that they might sob up.—The St. Louis Argus. WANTED. An intelligent, earnest young woman as collector for the Kansas City Sun, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Salary on percentage. The new Negro enterprise conducted by Mr. Chas, A. Starks, at 1621 East Eighteenth street, will open for business next Sunday, July 12. sale failed to materialize. Next the Jordan Mansion was considered. Mrs. Jordan wasn't just sure that she wanted to sell, but after taking the matter under consideration for several weeks and by the advice of her son, Mr. Oliver Jordan, and the ultimatum of her daughter, Mrs. Edwards, who said "Mother is getting too old to have the care of such a large house," and she wanted her to sell it and buy a nice little cottage all on one floor, so she could spend her declining years in comfort and without cares. Mrs. Jordan finally consented and instructed the Afro-American Investment Co. to find her a buyer. The proposition was submitted to Mrs. Kirkpatrick and daughters. They turned it down, saying the price was too high. Mrs. Jordan at once cancelled the agency and said she would not sell at all. In a few weeks Mrs. Kirkpatrick made Mrs. Jordan an offer which was $1,000 less than the original price; after some delay Mrs. Jordan accepted the offer and the sale was made. This article was not put in the paper to let you know that Mrs. Kirkpatrick has bought this most valuable home in Kansas City owned by Negroes, but it is to let the public know that the Afro-American Investment Co. is the only real estate firm that makes a specialty of handling property that is for rent or sale to Negroes. We have been doing business in Kansas City for ten years. We have sold more homes to Negroes than all other dealers combined. THERE IS A REASON. We have never sold a piece of property with a faulty title. We help our customers over the rough places and see that their mortgages are renewed. In fact, we see that every one gets a fair and square deal and look after the best interests of our people as we feel it is our duty. Sores of satisfied customers are willing and ready to testify to the fair and courteous treatment they have received from this company. MEETING Interest of the Colored Charities SATDAY, July 12, at 3:30 p. m. Pers of Both Races. Invited. Order of Odd Fellows The District Grand Lodge No. 8 of Mis- of Ruth No. 15 at Kansas City, Mo, and also the Grand Staff Council of the old their encampment at Ridges Grove, This promises to be the greatest meet- sk's pleasure for all who attend—there visitors attending the occasion. The at Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church and 19th street, and the Household of the Street Baptist Church. The entire Drills and Dress Parades by the famous Kan., Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas is, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas Lodge prizes. Don't fail to attend this will be at the Grove during the week. COLORED FARMERS IN MISSOURI. Out of the 280,000 farms in Missouri a little less than 3,753 are owned by Colored men. They range in size from 3 to 260 acres and are estimated to be worth $27,788,750. The farm of the average Missouri Colored farmer, just like that of his white brother, the bulletin says, is well kept and well stocked and is very productive, growing wheat, corn, oats, grasses, watermelons, strawberries, apples, peaches and all other food necessities. Colored farmers raise poultry for the market, sell eggs, milk and butter, have bee-hives and plenty of honey, produce sugar cane, which in the fall they boil out for sorghum molasses. Their daily menu is made of the best things they produce, being far superior to that of the average Colored family in the city. Nearly every Colored farmer of Missouri has a bank account, and his profits allow him to take a vacation in St. Louis, Kansas City or some other large city once or twice a year.—Correspondence, Philadelphia Ladger. Nicely furnished room for rent at 3906 East 14th street. Isby's Business Adventure An elderly looking man was lazily unloading empty dry goods boxes on the vacant lot between Vine and Flora streets from a delapidated express wagon, which hi skinny little pony could scarcely draw. His (the man's color was the kind of 'velvety' black which everybody admires and which would dispel all doubt as to his racial identity; his feet were set in opposition to each other and enabled him to push the minutest obstruction from his pathway as he 'shambled' from one side of his wagon to the other; he was a little better than six feet in height; his face (which disclosed a ten week's growth of beard), his broad shoulders and small bead-like eyes, suggested to anyone, who might desire to do or say anything to incur his anger or displeasure, to stand at a perfectly safe distance. The surprising thing about it all was his absolute indifference to passers-by. He would not even speak to his acquaintances when they hailed him. Presently a prominent business man, who knew him better than anybody else or who was a little bolder than any of the others who had passed, accosted him: 'isby, what are you unloading those boxes there for? What are you going to do with them?' Isby, with a frown: 'Oh, well, it's none o' yo' business. Now you jes' wait an eat. You never know what ah'm a goin' to do 'till yu me doin' it. Ah raily jes' cain't see why so many other folks worry 'bout what ah'm tryin' to do.' This reasonah it was laughin' and shaking his head. Now, Isby had always boasted that he was a member of a family which claimed a reasonable portion of this world's goods, however, it is needless was sadly withered and depleted longere it reached Isby, judging from the fact that the dilapidated wagon and weather beaten pony were his only bequests at the death of his latest ancestor. It had been the ambition of his life to be a business man. Back in Virginia many years before he had stood in the valley beneath the great natural bridge and related to a gang of his playmates that he would some day be a master merchant—able to give employment to many of their future sons and daughters. Now that he was about to come into the full filment of his prophecy, he was extremely happy. He considered himself sufficiently prepared to launch out into the business world and break every record of success and prosperity which any one of his kinfolk had ever made—and he did. (?) His location was in an aristocratic neighborhood made famous by its Colored residents. Everything and everybody were Colored. They were glad that some one had enough race pride and business foresight to open a grocery in their community for it was a very great convenience to them. Well, he finished his task of unloading boxes, gave the pony a scanty meal of hay and oats (at the same time betraying his penuriousness, for the horse had all appearance of having been underfed and shamefully neglected). Referring to the poor beast, a bunch of school boys asked him if he was not afraid of his "shadow." He did not even look up for he was too busily engaged with the thoughts of the great change which was about to come into his life. Within a day or two the boxes were dissected and the erection of Isby's store house was completed. It was veneered with paper roofing which gave it the appearance of an improvised shelter for tools. He was very proud of his progress so far. He proudly shrugged his shoulders and walked around his little shanty inspecting all the corners and even the heats of the rusty nails with which he put it together. He exclaimed: "Ah believe Ah could make uh good murchanic. If uh lot o' these carp'ntuz 'round hyar was to come an' look at this house 'to make m'shame." Believing in a systematic way of doing things, he harnessed his horse preparatory to driving to town, but there was just one thing which proved a source of worry to him—he was forced to avoid the busy streets for fear of an encounter with the humane officers. However he made his way to several wholesale houses in search of a place where he might make the cheapest purchases of inferior foodstuffs. Finally he succeeded and his entire supply of groceries could be loaded on his rickety wagon. As he drove back to his storehouse it appeared that his vehicle groaned under its burden and would fall to pieces at any moment. By getting out and walking and coaxing his wheels as much as he did his pony, he managed to reach his place of business. He unloaded the goods, which consisted of the cheapest qualities of staple and fancy groceries and meats. These he contrived to sell as strictly first class and at the highest prices. His steals and chops were always tainted; his bottled milk was adulterated to the consistency of water; his canned goods were old and stale and his cheese was "as strong as an ox." The next morning after he purchased his stock he hung out his sign: "Redy Po' Biness." That same morning Mrs. Searcy, his first customer, entered with an air of dignity and asked for a alex "loin steak." He promptly told her that he did not handle that grade of meats for it was "to expense." He informed her that he had ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. MR. WM. HOPKINS, The hustling salesman with the Afro-American Investment & Employment Co. who so successfully handled the deal for Mrs. Kirkpatrick. Mr. Hopkins is at the service of his people and can be reached over Bell phone East 3851-W. 2122 Vine Street. "some might' nice roun' steak tho' (at the same time displaying a quantity which was already cut). It did not look very fresh, but however, Mrr. Searcy decided that she and her family would cheat their stomachs just a mite in order to patronize a member of her own race. All the other neighbors followed the example set by Mrs S., whether Isby had just exactly what they wanted or not, they too, demonstrating their race loyalty. TRIUMPHANT MEETING Business League Volunteers Given Heartiest Reception. C. M. E. Church Congregation magnificently entertained. Commercial, Industrial and Financial conditions explained by Secretary Robinson. Hon. C. A. Franklin spoke on "Solution." Hon. Dorsey Green on "Permanent Success and United We Stand," and many prominent men joined the League. The volunteer meeting to promote the Industrial, Commercial and Financial advancement of the Afro-American at the C. M. E. Church last Sunday, was a corking success. That it surpassed any previous effort of the League was the general verdict. Though it was Bro. Warfield's Quarterly Meeting Day, the Volunteers were given the honor to entertain the people, which act they performed in the most approved style to the delight and benefit of all. Hon. C. A. Franklin, Hon. Dorsey Green and the Secretary spoke. The Hon. Dorsey Green based his remarks on Mark 3:25. "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." The Elder threatened to license the speaker on the spot, so well did he (preach) handle his subject. Grand Opportunity. Rev. T. S. McMorris, D. D., fresh from Muskegue and pastor of the Ninth Street M. E. Church of Kansas City, Kas., who is conducting a camp meeting at Eleventh and New Jersey avenue, has given us the tent for a Volunteer meeting Sunday night. Meeting at 8 p. m. Boys, make good. Come and bring all the family. Emphatically appreciate this grand opportunity. Three thousand dollars and a building in reach on a steam laundry, five thousand on a factory, two hundred dollars to place with a proper sum to open a drug store on North Third street, Kansas City, Kas., and unannounceable tangible schemes. As the Secretary is placed in a most responsible position by man and God, duty forces him to do what conscience, consistent, systematic and up-to-date business methods prescribe, to assure permanent business success. The Kaw Valley Truck Farm is our idea from the President down from start to finish. We love agriculture, we love science, we love art, but principle is first and last. Misrepresentations melt like snow in a June sun before truth, justice and square dealing which is the only sure path to lasting success. Get right, keep right and we must end right. W. W. C. Moon, Rev. T. S. McMorris, Rev. A. J. Williams, Mr. G. K. Williams, and Rev. M. I. Warfield united with the League. On, Men of Ethopia, On! BURKE-FRANKLIN WEDDING. The marriage of Miss Nannie Franklin, the daughter of Mrs. Josephine Duval, and Mr. Spencer Burke took place Friday morning, July 3, at 11 o'clock, at the residence of the bride's mother, 2224 Flora avenue. The ceremony was performed by Rev Richard Davis, pastor of Centennial M. E. Church. Only members of the immediate family were present. Monday evening, July 6, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Burke were tendered a reception by Mrs. Mary Walker at her residence, 2222 Flora avenue. Lilies of the valley and hyacinths were used in the dining room. The punch bowl was presided over by Miss Jennie Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Burke are at home at 2106 Woodland avenue. A capable young lady typist wanting a position can find one by calling at the Kansas City Sun, 1803 East Eighteenth street. DIRECTORY OF THE Negro Business League of Kansas City. F. J. Weaver, Pres. E. A. Robinson, Secy. Members will please report any mistake or change of address to E A. Robinson, Financial Secretary and Fiscal Agent. Bell Phone East 754 AUTOMOBILES. Bob Robinson, 7 Passenger Car to Hire, 1219 Baltimore Ave. Day Phone, Grand 3125; Night: Bell, East 1759; Home, Main 8467; Chas, Monroe, 2102 Woodland Auto & Hack Service. Bell East 5194. Jas, Cowden, 1617 E. 12th St. Automobile to hire. Bell East 26; Home Main 1532. Wm. D. Foster Auto Co., 1423 Forest, hire and repair; office Bell Grand 1630W; res. phone Bell East 4417W. Thomas Black, 7-Passenger Packard, Safety and Service. Bell, East 2833. Home, Main 6545. BAKERS. Eureka Barber Shop and Pool Hall. Jackson & Allen, 2401 Vine. Bessie Evans' Cook Shop and Catering, 2428 Vine St. Bell phone, East 3837. J. H. Ashcraft, 911 Wyandotte. Bell Phone, Main 3849. Res. 2636 Highland, Bell, East 4908. Jas, Cowden, 1617 E 12th. Barber Shop and Bath. Burt Bros., 1422 East 18th St., Barber Shop and Pool Hall. Bell phone, E. 2442. Wm. Lewis, Atlanta Pool Hall, Barber Shop and Bath, 1609-11 E. 18th St. Bell Phone, East 721. William Dabbs, 1219 Baltimore; Grand 3125 Bell. J. A. Jones, 1514 E. 18th St.; Home Phone Main 5119. Palace Barber Shop, J. C. Hobbs, Prop., 1518 E. 19th St. Bell phone, 2833 East. Wm. Stitts, Criterion Barber Shop and Pool Hall, 1717 East 18th St. BLACKSMITH. L. M. Townsend, Blacksmith, 1720 Lydia. Grand 1772. Jas. Horking, 2225 Vine St. CAFES AND RESTAURANTS. Cream and Refreshments. Mrs. E. Dora Thomas, 23 West 13th St., Spotless Kitchen, Steam Table Service. Bell Phone, 2863 Grand. J. A. Reid, Daisy Cafe, 1610 E. 18th St. Henry Compton, 1512 E. 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. Mrs. King, Eighteenth and Paseo. Mrs. H. W. Dotson, 1705 E. Twelfth St. Phone, Bell 2214 Madame U. F. Scales, Northeast Cor. 5th and State, Kansas City, Kans. R. W. Alexander, 1619 E. 18th St. Barbecued Meats. Hughes & Buckner, 1514 E. 19th St. Barbecued Meats. Bell Phone, East 2833. M. Hunter & Son, 1319 E. 18th St. "M. C. Lunch Room." Dora Tilson, Baltimore Cafe No. 2, 575 Grand Avenue. Mrs. Lyda Franklin, Lincoln Cafe, 1312 E. 18th St. CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES. Mrs. Lydia C. Smith, General Secretary Y. W. C. A., Fifth and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1566. R. B. Defrantz, Secretary Y. M. C. A., 1419 East Eighteenth Street. Bell phone, Bell 885. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS. Laden Brothers, Cutters and Designers, 2420 Vine St. Bell, E. 4950-J. O. K. Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrink any garment we dye, 1113 East 18th; Bell Grand 2437. R. Bennett, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. J. F. Basell, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Home. John Holmes, 1903 Vine. Wortham Bros., 1222 E. 19th St. Bell Phone, Grand 3933-W. G. W. Golden Steam Dye Works, 1605 East 18th; Bell East 539. R. L. Hopkins, 2262 Vine St. "The Star." Bell Phone, East 3135. CARPET CLEANERS D. W. West, 1718 Euclid. Phones, Bell East 3555; Home, Main 1169. CIGAR MANUFACTURER. Henry Parks. 1509 East Eighteenth; Main 4905 Home, East 45 Bell CLERGYMEN. Preston Kyles, 1310 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. C. J. Ferguson, 416 New Jersey Ave., Kansas City, Kans. F. D. Welsh, Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. G. E. Arnett, 14th and Spruce, Baptist Church. Rev, G. H. Daniels, 2313 Vine Street. Home phone, Main 5618. E. N. Cohron, State Baptist Missionary, 708 North 24th St., St. Joseph, Mo. Phone 2137. J. R. Ransom, Pastor A. M. E. Church, 8th and Nebraska, Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 2904. S. W. Bacote, Pastor Second Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. Bell Phone, East 3522. G. T. Mosby, Pastor Greenwood Baptist Church, 18th and Terrace, W. H. Thomas, Pastor Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, Bell, Main 3660. J. W. Hurse, Pastor Saint Stephens Baptist Church. Bell, East 4090. W. A. Bowren, Pastor First Baptist Church. Bell Phone, West 3510. Lee H. Mills, 10th and Euclid Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Rev. G. E. Arnett, 14th and Spruce, Baptist Church. Rev O. T. Reed, State Baptist Church Convention and Twin City Ministers' Alliance Secretary. Rev. W. C. Williams, 17th and Tracy Ave., Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. Rev. T. A. Wilson, 1747 Belleview Ave., Grand 2668. J. M. Booker, Pleasant Green Baptist Church. Res. 595 Tracy. J. W. Clay, King Solomon Baptist Church. Res. Bell, West 1434. D. B. Jackson, 8th Street Baptist Tabernacle, 710 Freeman. Bell, West 3763 G. McNell, 211 Garfield. Bell, West 1999. J. M. Gilbert, First Baptist Church, Bonner Springs, Kans. C. C. Callaway, Pillgrim Baptist Church. Rev. A. A. Harris, Second Christian Church, 2220 Michigan. COAL, FEED, ICE AND KINDLING. I. B. Blackburn, 1612 N. 9th St., K. C., K., Bell phone, W. 1576. J. H. Hall, 1208 Vine. Herman Kinslee, 2012 Harrison; Grand 2766W Bell. E. A. Sallsbury, 2206 Vine; East 879 Bell. W. H. Winters, 1915 Highland. R. Williams, 1815 East Seventeenth. Hopkins Bros., 2232 Vine. W. H. Lambright & Sons, Coal, Ice and Feed. Bell phone, W. 1923. CONTRACTORS—GENERAL. C J West, Contractor, General Repair 1419 East 18th St. Grand 885. an day, Office 1426 E. 18th街. Bell phone, Grand 1413. Wm. T. Garner, contractor and builder, 1728 Woodland; Bell E. 4741W. A. E. Estes, 2460 Waldron. Bel l, 1728 4394-Y. Bel l, 1728 4394-Y. 2773 COOPER. Lee London, 407 West 5th. DENTISTS. W. L. Hayden, cor. 4th and Minnesota. Bell, West 823. K. C., K. T. C. Chapman, 1505 East Eighteenth; East 798 Bell. A. H. Hudson, 2330 Vine; East 2330 Bell. McQueen Carrion, 18th and Paseo. Bell Phone, E. 144. Home Phone, Main 3490. H. D. Voorhies, 500 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 1910. DRESSMAKING. Mrs. Blanche Page, Dressmaker, 2413 Vine St., Bell Phone, East 3192. Miss Georgia Coleman, 1510 E. 18th street. Birdie Jackson, 1913 East Nineteenth. DRUG STORES. Palace Drug Store No. 2, E. S. Lee, 1611 E. 18th St. Bell Phone E. 3313. Peoples Drug Store, M. H. Lambright, Mgr. Bell Phone, East 1814. Home Phone, Main 4382. McCampbell & Houston, 2300 Vine street, and N. W. Cor. Howard and Vine Sts. E. S. Lee Pallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine. Both phones. Ideal Pharmacy, 1532 E. 12th Street. Bell phone, East 26; Home phone, Main 1532. Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Ladies Furnishings and Notonti, 2413 Vine street., Bell phone East 3192. Ell Harris, 2333 Vine St. EMPLOYMENT AGENTS. Afro-American Employment & Inv. Co., 911 McGee. Both phones. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall Ave. Bell, East 754. C. Washington, 1326 Highland. Home phone, Main 5119. FLORISTS. Crosthaite Floral Co., 1611 E. 18th St. Anna J. Carter, Lila H. Swan and Minnie L. Crosthaite. Bell Phone East 3813. Weaver Floral Co., 1510 E. 18th St. Main 7555 Home; E. 4798 Bell FURNITURE DEALERS. L. M. Furniture & Rooms Co., Lockhart Terrace, 1790 Ludlow L. M. Furniture & Repair Co., Lewis Townsend, 1720 Lydia Ave. Bell phone, Grand 1772. H, J. Spigener & Sons, Phillips School Grocery. Bell Phone, E. 3875-9, W. C. Carroll, Groceries, ice Cream and Refreshments, 2120 North 3rd Geo. M. King, 1208 North 9th St., Kansas City, Kan, Bell Phone, West 3597. J. H. Claybourne, 10th and Washington Blvd. Bell phone, West 2682. E. Johnson & Son, 852 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kan. C. L. Williams, 1508 E. 24th St. Bell Phone East 1437 W. Marshall Wilson, 2644 Woodland, Bell East 1493. HAIR AND SCALP CULTURIST. Mrs. Lena B. Downs, 422 Haskell, Hair and Scalp Culturist, Bell, West 2781. Laura Jacobs, 120 Mills St., Rosedale, Kansas. Mdame Grant Jones, 5th and State Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Res. Phone, Bell, West 2715 J. Mrs. Ella Neff, 1714 E. 18th St., Bell phone East 412. Mrs. C. E. Taylor, Poro & Scalp Treatment, Bell, East 1927-W. HOTELS. J. H. Simmons, 915 Oak; Main 4072 Bell. Hotel Woods, 721 Charlotte. Lewis Woods, Prop. Bell Main 2078. Madame S. A. Bell, Hair Culturist and College in Connection. 923 Campbell. Charles Slaughter, 9th and Everett, Kansas City, Kans. Ice Cream Manufacturer, and Refreshment Parlor, Bell Phone, West 465. Manufacturer's address 723 878-2345. INSURANCE. Standard Life Insurance Co., General Office, Atlanta, Ga. Heman E. Perry, president; Harry H. Pace, secretary; G. F. Porter, superintendent local branch, Kansas & Missouri; T. A. Ross and Charles C. Buster, assistants; P. K. Brown, superintendent Health & Accident department; W. L. Robnett, assistant superintendent; 1507 E. 18th St. Bell Phone E4955. H. Walden, 2442 Montgall, 1507 East 18th St. Bell, East 4955. A. D. Parron, Agent, Bell, East 4955. Health and Accident Dept., Standard Life Ins. Co. Bell, East 4955. H. D. Simmons, 1832 Vine, Phone E8878. J. W. Golden, 1612 Lydia. Grand 3631. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall. Bell, East 754. Special agent Standard Life and District Mgr. Continental. INVENTOR. W. J. Dixon, 2828 Cleveland Avenue. JEWELER. J. A. Wilson, 1616 W. 9th St. Bell Main 6453-Y. HAIR DRESSING AND MILLINERY. INVENTOR. Madame N. P. Jones, Beauty Culture., Hair Goods, etc., 2110 Vine street. Mattie P. Garner, electric straighteninge, comb and hair goods; Bell East 4741W. Lillie Johnson, 1508 East 18th; Bell East 1795. Chapman & Caldwell, 18t hand Paseo). Phone East 798. Eva P. Washington, 849 Freeman Ave, Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, 2306 West. Mrs. Stella Hubbard, 1510 E. 18th St. Bell Phone East 1007. LAWYERS. LAWYERS. L. W. Johnson Offices, 325 New York Life building, Stein-Miller building, corner Sixth and State. Bell phone, West 938; Residence, West 3985. Judge I. F. Bradley, 721 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kan. Rooms 5 and 6. Bell Phone, West 233. Willing H. Bruce, Attorney-at-Law and Counselor. Phone, Home Main 5478; Office, 117 West Sixth Street. Chas H. Callaway, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. W. C. Hueston, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. L. A. Knox, 117 W. 6thSt. Home Main 5478. Dorsey Green, 516 Minnesota Ave. Bell, West 424. E. A. Shackelford, 516 Minnesota Ave. Bell, West 424. I. H. Spears, 18th & Paseo, Bell, East 1690. MANUFACTURER. J. E. Laing, Human Hair, Hair Dye, Hair Dresser Supply and Hair Dressing School in connection. 1715 E. 18th St. MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs. Francis J. Jackson, Inspector, 2434 Montgall. Bell East 3942. John Hill, 1513 Woodland. Bell Phone, East 1254. Amus Barnett, 1230 Forest; Main 5018 Home. R. C. Holland, 2423 Grove Street. S. J. Hightower, 2436 Highland. George Teeters, Southwest National Bank of Commerce. John Thomas, 425 Waverly Way; South 5087W Bell. H. T. Kealing, Western University; West 4480 Bell. Henry P. Ewing, scientific farmer, 1105 Woodland. Wm. Sprangles, milk and butter, 538 and Montgall; Lin. 750 Home. D. W. White, "White's Furniture Exchange." Bell West 483, 423 Minnesota avenue Kansas City, Kas. Mr. T. G. McCampbell, Custodian Western University Grounds, Phone, West 1454 John H. Plasterer, plasterer and plumber, 1405 Spruce. Independent Printing & Publishing Co., Kansas City, Kas. 1103 N. 5th Street, C. A. Young. MUSICIANS. Beulah Douglass, Music, 16 North Mill St., Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 2297. 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 488. PAINTERS AND PAPERHANGERS. W. Hubert Bruce, 1512 East Eighteenth Street. Home phone, Main 4620; Bell phone, East 3151. Dr. Theo. A. Fletcher, 1300 E. 18th St. Bell Phone, Grand 792, Office and Residence. Also both phones at Dr. Theodore Smith's Drug Store. M. L. Flinn, pharmacist, 1300 East 18th. L. E. Baller, N. W. Cor. 132th and Vine. Bell East 232. Howard M. Smith, 1509 East 18th St. Bell East 495. Wm. J. Thompkins, 1509 E. 18th St. Bell East 495. L. J. Holly, 1117 Campbell. Bell phone, 783 Grand. E. J. McCampbell, 2302 Vine street. Bell phone, 501 East. M. G. Brookins, Northwest Corner 24th and Vine Sts. Bell phone, East 232. T. C. Unthank, 1112 Independence avenue. Both phones, Main 7488. W. W. Montgomery, 400 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Phones: Bell, West 2302; Home, West 478. J. Franklin Wilson, 1317 North 10th St., Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 2249. Res., Bell West 3734-R. Thos. A. Jones, Southeast Cor. 18th and Paseo. Phones: Home, Main 5807; Bell, East 5069. A. D. Bradbury, 821 Independence avenue. Bell Phone, Main 4438. Lee R. Petty, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 3711. M. B. Jones, Eye Specialist, 1419 East 18th St. Grand 2243. R. C. Hayden, cor. 4th and Minnesota Bell, West 823. Res., 1403 North 10th St. Bell, West 3739-R. E. B. Ramsey, northwest cor. 18th and Paseo. Office, Bell, Grand 1413. Res., East 2144. H. Sylvester Gillespie, northwest cor. 18th & Paseo. Bell, Grand 1413. POULTRY RAISERS. S. M. Steele, 29 Sloan Avenue, Quindaro, Kans. Fred T. Drew, 2002 Bales avenue. Bell phone, East 5277-W. PHOTOGRAPHERS. Charles Williams.....1015 Oak; Main 3154 Bell C. Bruce Santee, 1718 East 18th St. "Photo Fud." PIANO SALESMAN. J. H. Malone, Talking Machines, Etc. Bell, East 4573-W. PRINTERS. C. A. Franklin, 1409 Main; Grand 2388 Bell. John H. Fairley, Square Deal Printing Co., 1731 Lydia. Bell phone Grand 1647-Y. REAL ESTATE. William Hopkins Afro-American Investment Co. J. Dallas Bowser, 2400 Paseo. Bell Phone 3798 W Grand. F. J. Weaver, President Afro-American Inv. Co., 911 McGee St. Bell Main 751. The Ward & Samlington Investment Co., Bell Phone East 4294Y. Patterson & Gayden, 527 State Ave., Kansas City, Kan. Bell phone, West 215; Home phone, West 563. W. M. Johnston, rental agent; Main 7555 Home; Main 751 Bell. W. G. Mosely, Ivanhoe Investment Co., 2220 Woodland avenue. E. E. Vaughan, 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kan. Bell, West 1757. REAL ESTATE. People's Investment Co., Solomon Smith, Pres; R. D. Jackson, Sec.; C. H. Adams, Tress, 2427 Vine St. Home, Main 920-S. Bell Phone, East 1011. Geo. W. Edwards, Moberly, Mo. REGALITAS, BADGES, ETC Moses Dixon, 1217 Woodland; East 3797 Bell. SHOE SHINING PARLOR. SHOE STORES. A. W. Williams, General Repairing, 1960 N. 3rd St. Kansas City, Kans. H. Shumaker, Ladies' and Gent's Shoe Shining Parlor, 1702 E. 18th St. Temple Shoe Store, G. A. Page, Prop., 1507 E. 18th St. SIGN PAINTER AND SCENIC ARTIST. Geo. W. Martin, 1812 East 17th St. Home Phone, Main 1133. Harry E. Taswell, Artist, Sign Painter, Paper Hanger. Res. 2400 Flora. Office and Shop, 1803 Vine St. Woody E. Jacobs, 2055 North 3rd St., Kansas City, Kans. Bell, W. 3112. J. P. King, Summer High School, Kansas City, Kans. Res., 916 Everett. D. G. Watson, 1906 E. 24th St. T. W. H. Williams, 1323 Jackson. Bell E. 3259-Y. Principal Bruce School. Chas. A. Westmoreland, 2325 Lydia. Bell Grand 1320-W. Lincoln High School. R. G. Jackson, Music, 531 Nebraska. Bell, West 1032, Kansas City, Ks. The Exact Transfer Co., Planes a specialty. R. R. H. Gordon, Mgr. Move everything. Office 926 McGee. Home, Main 8864. Res. 1708 E. 14th St. Home, East 1969. Lewis Townsend, 1720 Lydia Ave. Bell, Grand 1772. Geo. Jones, 1008 McGee. Home Phone, 5188 Main. W. Lee Whibby, 18th and Forest. Home phone M. 4023. R. W. Elmore, 1607 Harrison street. A. B. Hun, northeast cor. 7th and May. Home, Main 7261. UNDERTAKERS. H. B. Moore, Undertaker. Bell, Main 3398. 1031-31 Independence Ave. Home 3341. Wyatt & Randolph, 920 N. 3rd St. Kansas City, Kans. Bell West 2569. C. H. Countee, 2220 Vine St. Bell East 3336. Watkins Bros. & Co., 1729 Lydia. Telephone Grand 987. People's Undertaking Co., 1211 East 18th; Phones, Bell Grand 1565; Home 8163 Main. Edward Jones, Mgr. Jno. W. Jones, 440 State Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Both Phones, West 253. 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 seated in a chair, wearing a suit and boots, sits on the floor in a dressing room. Another man, standing behind a table, is seated and appears to be working on a piece of fabric. The room is filled with clothing and shoes hanging on racks. 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 flounced, without injury. We employ only expert workmen and guarantee to satisfy every customer. Soliciting an opportunity to serve you, we are yours. GOLDEN'S STEAM DYE WORKS 1605 East 18th Street Bell Phone East 539 Calling Cards, Business Cards, Church, Society, Book and Stationery Printing of all kinds. JNO. R. FAIRLEY, Mgr., Square Deal Printing Co. The Printing House for the two Kansas Citys. Our Facilities for doing first class work unexcelled Home 2783 Main Bell 1647Y Grand 1731 Lydia Ave. (Hod Carriers' Hall.) NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League will be held at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 19, 20 and 21, 1914. The Oklahoma State Negro Business League in co-operation with the Muskogee Local Negro Business League has arranged a most comprehensive program for the reception and entertainment of the delegates who may be present. Aside from the regular and most interesting sessions of the League itself, arrangements have been made for an Industrial Parade on Thursday afternoon, August 20th, which shall embrace a large number of floats upon which will be represented the progress and industrial achievement of the Negroes of Oklahoma. Thirty (30) full-blooded Seminole Indians in native and picturesque costumes are planning an entertainment at the Fair Grounds, following the Industril Parade on Thursday. On Friday afternoon, August 21st, the delegates will be given a view of the city. A live stock and agricultural exhibit, showing the great possibilities of the southwest section, will be open for the inspection of the delegates; also, on Friday evening, a Grand Banquet will be given in honor of the delegates. On Saturday, August 22, a special train will leave Muskogee for Boley, Oklahoma, the largest and most prosperous Negro city in the United States. The train will pass through some of the richest agricultural land in the world much of which is owned by Oklahoma colored citizens. For the annual meeting of the League, the Southwestern Passenger Association has announced through its chairman an intention to authorize an open rate of four cents a mile for the round-trip from all points in the territory of the Southwestern Passenger Association except Oklahoma, selling tickets August 18th to 18th, inclusive with final return limit to reach original starting point Augusta 31. The Western Passenger Association through its chairman also announces an intention to authorize an open rate of two cents a mile in each direction from points in Missouri and Kansas to Muskogee and return, tickets to be sold on August 16th to August 18th, inclusive, with final return limit to reach original starting point prior to midnight of August 31, 1914. Application has also been made to the Southeastern Passenger Association embracing the states south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and east of the Mississippi river, for reduced rates, and these will most likely be granted on the basis of four cents a mile for the round trip. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with headquarters in New York City is planning to provide for the transportation of delegates from the eastern territory—New York City, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington, and for all eastern delegates who plan to be present at the meeting. A special Pullman Car will be provided if enough delegates signify their intention of making the trip. Delegates will most likely be present at the coming meeting in larger numbers than ever before from the Southern and Southwestern States. It is expected also that the east will not be neglectful of its duty, considering the fact that the Southern States have always been so largely represented at all of the meetings which have been held in the North and East. The annual session of the affiliated organizations of the League will be held at the same time—The National Negro Bankers' Association, The National Negro Press Association, The National Negro Funeral Directors' Association and the National Negro Bar Association, a group of the strongest organizations in the country among Negro people. Further information as to details, plans for the coming meeting, etc., may be secured from: Booker T. Washington, President, J. C. Napier, Chairman, Executive Committee, or from Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. Courteous Treatment to All 1819 Howard Ave. "Riches take unto themselves wings," quoted the Wise Guy. "Yes, and you don't have to be a high flyer to realize it," added the Small Mug. Every day in your talk and reading, on the street car, in the office, shop, and school some new question is sure 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. 2700 Illustrations. Illustration. Illustration. $400,000. The only dictionary with the new divided page. A "Stroke of Genius." Write for spec- timen pages 11, instruments, etc. Mention this information, and receive E.M.R. stock of pocket maps. G. & C. MERRIAM CO. Springfield, Mass. U. S. A. Saved by Audacity. Saved by Audacity. Youthful nerve trained to legal curves frequently raps the cuticle of judicial dignity and gets away with it. Out in San Francisco the other day the court remarked to a legal freshie: "I have been informed that you have been going around the city criticizing the way in which I conduct the business of this department. I hear you have been maligning me generally and telling people that I am becoming incompetent. What say you?" Instantly and without the flicker of an eyelash the youngster replied: "Your honor is correctly informed." Courthouse veterans, made speechless by the exhibition, mutely waited for the roof to fall in. Nothing doing. The judge reddened, swallowed the dose and went on with the grind. Napoleon's Vain Hope. One hundred years ago, March 6, the allied army advancing on Paris was seriously threatened in the rear by the French peasantry. Long unacustomed to invasion, and exasperated by the devastation wrought by the invaders, the peasants gathered into troops and massacred the foreign soldiery when not in sufficient numbers to keep them in check. This led Napoleon to hope that his diminished army would be supported by a general rising of the people. But in this he was disappointed. The people didn't rise in any considerable number, and the allies continued to march upon Paris, convinced that the possession of the French capital must inevitably bring the war to a favorable conclusion. Snow Will Not Quench Thirst. The water which will allay our burning thirst augments it when congealed into snow, so that it is stated by explorers of the Arctic regions that the natives "prefer enduring the utmost extremity of thirst rather than attempt to remove it by eating snow." Yet if the snow be melted it becomes drinkable water. Nevertheless, although, if melted before entering the mouth, it assuages thirst like other water, when melted in the mouth it has the opposite effect. To render this paradox more striking, we have only to remember that ice, which melts more slowly in the mouth, is very efficient in allaying thirst. "Mixed" Tobacco. "James Hazen Hyde," said a New York tobacconist, "advised me, for the smoker's good, to fight the nationalizing of the tobacco trade. He illustrated the condition of the French nationalized tobacco trade with a story. "A Frenchwoman, so the story runs, said to her husband, as they promenaded in the Bols: 'Have you got a pin, my dear?' 'Well,' he answered, 'I've just bought a packet of government smoking tobacco, and as it's apt to contain anything, why not a pin. Let us see. Humph! A shoe button, a tooth pick, would a hairpin do? No? Well, no matter, for here at the bottom is a pin, after all.'" How She Stopped the Train. A high, stiff feather on a girl's hat caught in a bellrope as she was passing through a car, Kate Upson Clark writes in Leslie's. She shook her head in order to free herself, but the feather had become well intertwisted with the bellrope and would not out. Suddenly the train stopped with a terrific jerk, which threw the girl to the floor and half the passengers from their seats. The trainmen came rushing in to find what was the matter, while a pallid conductor swung himself off, expecting to find at least a rock on the track. The feather was quite torn from the girl's hat—and nobody on the train cared if it was. War of the Roses. The "War of the Roses" was waged between the houses of York and Lancaster and their adherents, 1455-1485. The Lancastrians chose as their emblem a red rose, while the Yorkists selected a white rose. While no great popular principle was at stake, the struggle indirectly did much for the cause of democracy. It was said that no fewer than 12 princes of the blood and as many as 250 of the nobility were killed. The effect of this upon the future political status of the country was immense. The Anti. Dr. Lyman Abbott, the eloquent and sincere anti-suffrage, said at a dinner in New York: "I am convinced that, despite all this sex equality talk, woman in her heart still longs to look up to man in reverence. A diplomat at a dinner in Washington took down the season's belle. 'You ravish all hearts,' the diplomat said to her. 'You make a fresh conquest every week.' 'True,' said the belle, and sighed. 'True—and I'd give all my slaves for the master.'" In the Line of Duty. In the time of duty. "What's become of that particularly agile young dancing master they used to have here? I've not seen him lately." "Haven't you heard? Why, he went to New Zealand to study the folk dances of the Maris. When he got so he knew the steps better than the natives themselves, the Maris, who admired him immensely, made a meal off the poor fellow!" Honored a Deaf Mute. Honored a Deaf Mute. Cambridge university has just conferred the degree of master of arts on Armand Mackenzie, the first deaf and dumb man who ever won the masters' hood in a British university. Mackenzie, who was born deaf and dumb, paid the university fees out of his scanty earnings. He married a deaf wife. This would be a grand old world if people could purchase experience on trial, with the privilege of returning it if not satisfactory. Mnte. 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. ```markdown ``` Hello, Neighbor! 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. Call us, write, or see our agents. GEO. R. COOPER Druggist 12th & HIGHLAND 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. THE STORY OF THE NEGRO WASHINGTON VOLUME THE STORY OF THE NEGRO WASHINGTON VOLUME MY LARGER EDUCATION WASHINGTON The My Pastime Down WASHINGTON CHARACTER BUILDING ROOM FOR CHANGE WASHINGTON WORKING WITH THE CHANGE ROOM FOR CHANGE WASHINGTON UP FOR A SLAVEY ROOM FOR A SLAVEY WASHINGTON DOUBLEDAY PAGE & DO DOUBLEDAY PAGE & DO DOUBLEDAY PAGE & DO DOUBLEDAY PAGE & DO The Tuskegee Edition of DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S WORKS The Tuskegee Edition of DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S WORKS Write at once to A.R. STEWART. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 1803 East 18th Street. 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 travelling 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 Counselor 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 demerits 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 was 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. 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. 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Sec'y, Kansas City, Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. R. T. Coles, Chairman. E. S. Baker, 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 G MASONRY 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, W. M.; J. H. Snigner, Sec'y. Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M., meets the 1st and 2nd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome, F. W. Glimore, 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. Visitors are welcome. Those, Jackson, are welcome. J. N. Johnson, Sec'y. U. B. F. King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mon- Grand avenue D. M. West, W. M. 1718. Euclid, Jas. Har- W. M. 1718. Euclid, Jas. Har- Office of DR. M. G. 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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. THEKANSAS CITY SUN All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo. under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews. Editor and Owner William. General Manager Geo E. Thompson. Adv. Agent J. G. Tyler. Advertising Solicitor Eva P. Washington. Traveling Representative Rosa Moria. Collector Alma Crews. Collector SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year. $1.50 Six Months. .75 Three Months. .50 It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. ½ ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 694 Charlotte St. Christian Church, 19th and Tracy. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kansas. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. Blue Valley Baptist church, 1120 Crystal Avenue. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Hollys A. M. E. Church, Centron- olls, Mo. St. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1823 Woodland A. M. E. Z. Church, Third Baptist Church, Roundtop, People's Mission, 80th and Genesee, St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland, Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Askew, Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lily Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave, St. Luke's Baptist Church, 4638 Mull St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 45rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. AKSAN CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Splitting. Oakland. St. Baptist Church, 8th and Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Rivers. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and State. Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, Kan. Church, 8th and Oakland. Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Salter Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart. Second Baptist Church, 4th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E. 106 Shawnee. St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethle A. M. E. Church, Roselale, Kan. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virginia. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. Hustle. Don't be a loafer. Get Busy—Get Money—Buy Homes A candidate for the Missouri General Assembly offers as a pre-election promise that he will introduce a bill providing for an "open season" on Negro chauffeurs. In the last week's issue of the Sun in publishing the list of presents received at the Crews-Overall wedding, an error crept in which we will correct as follows: Cut glass olive dish, Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Bunch. Fame is indeed an evanescent thing. For example, there are quite a number of our men in Kansas City who one week ago were prominent Negro leaders, but who today are just plain Afro-Americans. The Colored physician who writes prescriptions on a white drug store gets paid twice, once by his patient "two dollars, please," and again by the druggist, "my commission, sah." The patient foots both bills. The number of our substantial white friends is constantly increasing. If we could just work up a little more race pride and loyalty among ourselves, our problems would soon be solved. Envy and jealousy are the real enemies which we must overcome. Principal Williams of the St. Louis Summer High School, is to receive a salary of four thousand dollars next year. The reason is that he is not only a high class school man, but is a real race man, seeking in every possible way to elevate his people by freely mingling with them and helping them to work out their daily problems. His value in the civic, social and religious life of the St. Louis people is thus recognized by the whites and appreciated by the blacks. The next biennial meeting of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs will be held August 4, 5, 6 and 7 at Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio. Representatives from 1 of the various organizations affiliated in any way with the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will be represented. A program is being formulated which will show the work that has been done by the various organizations under the direction of the state presidents and department organizations. Many of the ablest women of the race are planning to be present at the coming meeting and to speak, including Miss Anna M. Jones of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. B. K. Druce of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Mary Talbert of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. Geo. Cook of Washington, D. C. --- MY LOVE. Thou are more fairer than a rose, Perpetually blending its delicate hues Thou remindeth me in thy sweet re- pose Of dulce music of an enchanting muse. The time when sweet solitude abides. When undisturbed by discordant sound; When peace steals o'er and softly glides Its sweet influence encircling round. Then, I love to dream of you. Dream of that love which engulfs my soul; Blesses like the plant is blessed with dew, Or the lonely heart by a sweet carol. Than thy angeli face proves a sooth ing draught. The Federated Colored Charities, whose mass meeting is announced elsewhere in this issue, is appealing to the public in the interest of our charitable institutions. So impressed have our white friends become over the showing made by the Negroes in this community in raising funds for the support of the Y. M. C. A. and other institutions, that they are ready and willing to keep on carrying the burden which the dependent and neglected place upon us. They have been liberal enough to promise the Negroes $5,000 annually to the support of their charity work, if we ourselves will raise $2,500 among our own people. To take advantage of this generous offer, the Sun urges every Negro who can to attend Sunday's meeting at Allen Chapel and help in raising this money. The Negroes owe it to themselves as well as to the community to make this occasion a grand suc MASONIC. We would like to see some of the Kansas City lodges try the Wilkerson Lodge plan of collecting dues by placing the Secretary in the ante-room and collecting from the brethren as they enter for work. An assistant could take the proceedings of the lodge transactions in the meantime and much in the way of lectures and other esculter practice could be gone through as well. After all the members have entered the room the Secretary comes in and reads his report of dues received, turning the money over to the Treasurer. This plan is so sensible that it seems a shortcoming to overlook its advantages. More members would attend the meetings and, the sessions being short and interesting, everybody would go away "satisfied." HERRIFORD. TWO FACTS. (By W. E. Griffin.) To the Negro who has lived in Kansas City for a period of twenty or more years, Two Facts stand out with conspicuous prominence. The first fact: During the past twenty-five years the material and educational progress of th Negroes of Kansas City has been wonderful. The second fact: During the same period race prejudice towards Negroes has increased in this city probably two or three hundred per cent. Is this a mere coincidence, or is there a vital and workable connection between the two facts? May we deduce a law and say that race prejudice towards Negroes varies directly with the Negro's material and intellectual advancement? It would seem so. Dr. Grimke has already pointed out that the friction between the two races is as much the result of an upward pressure on the part of the Negro as downward pressure by the whites. The Negro resists, he struggles constantly towards higher levels and that occasions increased friction. There can be no doubting that the educated and progressive Negro is the Negro toward whom the shafts of racial hatred are most certainly and persistently leveled. The Negro has been assigned a position at the very bottom of the social and economic life, and if he were contented to remain there he would not be subjected to the abuse he receives at the hands of the professional race-haters. When a Negro makes an effort to climb in any degree from the bottom of the economic scale it is said that he is trying "to get away from his race"—which means only that he is trying to better his economic and social condition. Race prejudice in the United States is almost wholly an economic question. The white people themselves have been unable to bring this fact to clear consciousness. When they denounce "social equality" they unwittingly mean economic equality. No white man ever knows what he mans by "social equality"—in fact the expression does not mean anything. It serves its purpose, however, in engendering class hatred and bitterness, and senses vividly that terrifying fear which white men feel when they see Negroes improving their economic status. The great middle class of white people are by no means convinced of the Negro's inferiority. In fact they are keenly alive to the fact that Negroes cannot be held down and in that they sense grave danger to themselves. If the Negroes were really an inferior people there would be no need of Tillmans and Vardanans and if white men hopelessly outclassed Negroes in mentality and aggressiveness there would be no need of constant watchfulness, agitation and legislation to keep the Negro at the bottom of the economic scale. So we see that although the doctrine of Negro inferiority is freely preached it is not really believed and the increasing prejudice towards Negroes has back of it economic self-preservation—it senses the white man's fear of the competition of the black man's brain and brawn. Thus is explained the intimate connection of the Two Facts mentioned at the beginning of this article. Flaw in the Defense. A religious worker was visiting a southern penitentiary, when one prisoner in some way took his fancy. This prisoner was a negro who evinced a religious fervor as deep as it was gratifying to the caller. "Of what were you accused?" the prisoner was asked. "Dey says I took a watch," answered the negro. "I made a good fight. I had a dandy lawyer, an' he done prove an alibl wif ten witnesses. Den my lawyer he shore made a strong speech to de jury. But it wasn't no use, suh; I gets ten years." "I don't see why you were not acquitted," said the religious worker. "Well, suh," explained the prisoner, "dere was shore one weak spot, 'bout my defense—dey found de watch in my pocket." Glad-Eve Men. Forty Chicago septuagenarians have formed themselves into a "Club of Borrowed Time." With the object of outwitting Father Time, the following rules were drafted for the guidance of members by their president, A. T. Hemingway, himself a man of seventy-five: "Remain a boy till the end of time. Be married. Be moderate and temperate in all things. Read your Bible. Smile when you retire, smile when you awake, smile when things go wrong, and keep on smiling." No person under seventy is eligible for membership, and every new member must pledge himself "to keep young and to cultivate the glad eye" for the rest of the time that he remains on earth. Post a Dog Lover. Gabrielle d'Anunzio, the Italian poet and playwright, says: "The book I am writing now to be published in November is about greyhounds, the dogs I love so well. I am calling it 'Lives of Famous Dogs.' All my life has been intertwined with the life of my greyhounds. The imagination looks on dogs as benevolent genii. I have detected their strange supernatural vision in their unexplained restlessness and agitation at certain times of the day and in certain places. I have lived with them so much that I feel as if I understood their conversation among themselves and their little ruses." Witte on War. Count Witte, the famous Russian stateman, estimates that 40 per cent of the total income of the great powers is absorbed by their armies and navies. Of the consequences he writes: "When and how will it all end? Unless the great states which have set this hideous example agree to call a halt, so to say, and knit their subjects into a pacific, united Europe, war is the only issue I can perceive. And when I say war, I mean a conflict which will surpass in horror the most brutal armed conflicts known to human history and entail distress more widespread and more terrible than living men can realize." Artists' Copyright A legal measure, which will be of extraordinary importance to artists and which as law exists in no country, is now before the French parliament, and has been reported favorably upon by the fine arts committee of the chamber. This measure institutes a copyright for artists, painters, draftsmen, sculptors or engravers, such as is enjoyed by writers and musicians. The bill levies a royalty on all public sales of works of art held during the lifetime of the artist, for his benefit, or for 50 years after his death, for the benefit of his heirs. Birds That Shine In the Dark. Birds That Shine in the Dark. That certain birds of prey are sometimes luminous at night is a fact well known to observant naturalists. It is explained by the presence on their feathers of the phosphorescent spores of certain fungi that grow upon the trees in which they roost. But the bulletin of the National Acclimatization society of France records the observation of a white swan that was luminous all night from July to October of last year, while none of the other birds that inhabited the same lake could be seen after dark. Honorable Scars. A late justice of the supreme court was with great difficulty persuaded by his family to sit for his photograph. When the proofs were submitted the photographer's assistant said: "You see, Mr. Justice, we remove all these lines about the face." "Remove all those lines," stormed the irate old gentleman. "Remove all my wrinkles? Young man, it has taken me more than seventy years to acquire those lines. If you remove one, you may keep every picture." Nobel Prizes. The "Nobel Prizes" were founded in 1886 by Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. He gave his estate of $9,000,000 to the creation of a fund, the interest of which should yearly be distributed to the "good of humanity". The interest is divided into five equal parts and given to the five persons who have during the year done most for the betterment of human conditions. For Pure Bread. The Civic club of Philadelphia has started a campaign to have the bread wrapped, as it is maintained that bread is often left very carelessly by the distributors in the mornings and is handled by very dirty persons. They wish the bread delivered in the sealed sanitary packages. Facts in the Case Miss Laura Drake Gill, president of the College for Women at Swanee, Tenn., says that while statistics show that college women marry a little late in life, they finally marry in the same proportion as their female blood relations who are not college bred. Betty @ Sam's Little Corner —That our Y. M. C. A. will be the finest thing of its kind for Colored in this country. —That Miss Nora Reynolds is the neatest and most tastily dressed woman in Kansas City. —That you can smell liquor on the breath of a good many prominent people these days. Why? —That the race for Queen between Ebenezer and Allen in this year's Carnival is going to be a hummer. —That people who keep their doors and windows closed these warm days usually tell the world they have an unkept house. —That preacher who was arrested last week with TWO sisters all in September morn' costumes was sure violating union rules. —That Dr. J. H. Williams shall win that automobile if Kansas City has to buy 200,000 more votes and The Sun will take 10,000 of those. —That the man who says he loves God whom he has not seen and hates his brother whom he has seen, is a llar and the truth is not in him. —That already two June brides have gone back home and one has applied for divorce. Oh you June brides! —That if all the women who are supporting lazy, trifling husbands were to turn them over to the police the work-house would be full in a week. --That there are some Negro women who carry an odor on street cars and in public places that ought to get them six months in jail, especially when there are free public baths and water everywhere. BOB ROBINSON Seven Passenger Car FOR HIRE 24-HOUR SERVICE 24-HOUR SERVICE Special attention given to sight- seeing parties. Stand, 18th and Vine Streets. Phones: Home, 8647 Main. Kansas City, Mo. YOUNG, BUT DISCREET. A certain man who lives in a suburban town in North Jersey is no beauty. He is not only long and angular, but has a face and a complexion that are neither pale blue, sky yellow nor any other color that dress effect will attune to, says the Indianapolis News. One day the aforesaid party called to see an acquaintance and while waiting for him to appear in the parlor was entertained by the little eight-year-old son. "Well, what do you think of me?" asked the caller, after conversing several minutes. Instead of replying, the boy turned aside and thoughtfully hung his head. "You haven't answered me," smilingly persisted the caller. "Aren't you going to tell me what you think of me?" "No, sir," returned the youngster. "Do you suppose that I want to get a liking?" "What's this!" exclaimed the sensational editor. "Story about a woman who put a few people to considerable trouble," said the reporter. "But you haven't identified her." "We couldn't learn her name." "What difference does that make? Not knowing her name would not prevent you from referring to her as a prominent society mowan, would it?" World's Seven Bibles. The Seven Bibles of the World are the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Try Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scriptures of the Christians. The Koran is the most recent of these seven Bibles, and not older than the seventh century of our era. It is a compound of quotations from the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud and the Gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of the Scandinavians were first published in the fourteenth century. The Pitikes of the Buddhists contain sublime morals and pure aspirations, and their author lived and died in the sixth century before Christ. There is nothing of excellence in these sacred books not found in cur Bible. EASY TO UNDERSTAND WOMAN SOLVES PUZZLE THAT HAD CAUSED ARGUMENT. Final Conclusion Was That Men Did Not Need to Attend Women's Meetings, Since Wives Would Tell Them All About It. It was 11:45 p. m. The man and his wife had just come home. They did not come home together. They had not been to the same place. She had been to a meeting for women only, he to one men. Said the woman: "There was a man at our meeting tonight." Said the man: "There were about a hundred women tried to push their way into ours." "That one man," sald she, "looked awfully scared." "Those hundred women," said he, "didn't look a bit scared." "I think," said she, "the man got into our hall by mistake. Anyhow, he got away as soon as he could." "There was no mistake about those women being there," said the man, "and they didn't leave until they were shoted away." There was a short silence. Said the man presently: "It is this difference in the attitude of the sexes toward the meetings for women only and for men only that makes me feel morally superior. It makes me proud of my sex. I haven't the slightest desire—no man has the slightest desire—to butt into a feminine confab, but the woman never breathed who wasn't on edge with curiosity in regard to what takes place when a bunch of men hold a secret conference. I have known women who admitted that they would willingly sacrifice a year's normal pressures for the privilege of being smuggled into a Masonic initiation or some other masculine rite. Contrast that prying spirit with the modesty of men. On your own showing, when a man is accidentally trapped in a hall where a beauty congress or a dressmakers' convention is in progress, he is so miserable that the fly in the spider's web had a picnic compared with his martyrdom. That, to my mind, is a pungent commentary on the disposition of man and woman. Can you explain it?" The woman admitted that she could not explain it—furthermore that she did not intend to try. There was another silence. Said the woman after a little: "What happened at your meeting tonight?" "Oh, nothing much," said the man. "What happened at yours?" "Everything," said the woman. Then she proceeded to tell him what 'everything' comprised. It took more than half an hour to tell it. Every now and then the man, for consistency's sake, tried to look bored, but the air of indifference was ill assumed. The narrative really interested him, and he was sorry when it was finished. The story being ended, there was another silence. Suddenly the woman said: "I can answer your question now. "What question?" "Why women are crazy to go to men's meetings, while men wouldn't give a fig to go to women's meetings. It is because the women come home and tell the men everything that happened, so they don't need to go, whereas the men never tell the women anything." "By, George," said the man, "I don't know but you are right." Reasons for Poor Work. Mrs. Christine Frederick, in the American Review, tells why 80 percent of modern housework is inefficient. The worker does not have the proper tools, she says, at hand when she begins to work; she wastes time and effort walking about fetching tools, ingredients that should have been at hand when she began work; she stops in the middle of a task to do something; she lowers the efficiency of good work by losing time putting tools or work away due to poor arrangement of kitchen, pantry or closets; she loses time by not keeping sufficient supplies in hand and tools in proper condition. Tiny Farm for a Dime Land is cheap. For easy garding let us say it is worth $160 an acre. A square rod, then, is worth only one dollar, and ten cents' worth will be a little more than twenty-seven square feet, or a little farm slightly more than five feet on a side. How often a boy will waste a dime and think nothing of it. For a dime he can buy land enough to hold a flower bed, four hills of clover or a peach tree! The boy who can save a dime can become rich. Make a dime look like a tiny farm. The boy who learns to save a dime and to know values will some day come into his own.—Breeders' Gazette Italian State Telephones. Under an act of the Italian parliament of July 15, 1907, the telephone service in the larger cities of the kingdom was taken over by the government through the purchase of the plants of the largest two operating companies. Several smaller companies were allowed to continue operations for ten years before being taken over. The government operates the principal long distance lines and has exchanges in 69 cities. On June 30, 1913, the number of government subscribers was 51,828 and of subscribers to private lines 24,233. Peace Proposal. Sir Edward Grey announces that the government hopes to reintroduce the naval prize bill this session of parliament. Great Britain still clings to the position stated in the report of The Hague conference of 1907—that the government is prepared to examine the question of the conclusion of an agreement to abolish the right to capture of merchant ships at sea if such an agreement would promote a reduction of armaments. 1803 East 18th Stree Efficient, Practical Printers—Can do it Cheaper, Quicker and Better. Keep Cool and Be Pleasant! TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE DELMONICO CAFE And Have Both We have installed our electric fans which practically make our dining room a place of pleasure. Remember where the Elite go. Remember the excellent service. Best quality of food and music with your meals. Finest selection of Bakery Goods from our own ovens. H. COMPTON, Bell Phone, East 613. 1510 E. 18th St. S NANNIE C. BURNS Teacher of ical Culture and Staging MISS NANNIE C. BURDEN Teacher of Vocal Culture and Staging Woodland Studio 2116 Woodland Ave. U.B.F. ATTN SPECIAL STOCK R T. CORO See Us for Qu on R The Moses Dickson 1217 Woodland Ave., ATTENTION S SPECIAL PRICES ON NEW STOCK REGULATION S. M. CORONETS. Us for Quick Service and Low Price on Robes and Badges. Dickson Regalia & Supplies and Ave., KANSAS U.B.F. ATTENTION S.M.T. SPECIAL PRICES ON NEW STOCK REGULATION S.M. T. CORONETS. See Us for Quick Service and Low Prices on Robes and Badges. The Moses Dickson Regalia & Supplies Company 1217 Woodland Ave., KANSAS CITY, MO Headquarters for Home Made Pies OFFICE PHONE BELL 3786 M. We Boast of Serving The Batt JAMES W 3rd Member of Board Import ICE CREAM Of Serving the Best Meals in the T the Baltimore C MES W. HURSE, Propriet Number of Board of Management V. B. F. @ S. M. Imported and Domestic Cigars CREAM, SODAS and SUNDAY We Boast of Serving the Best Meals in the Twin Cities ICE CREAM, SODAS and SUNDAES. 808 Independence Ave. Splendid Oppon STOCK Kaw Valley (I) GROWERS AND SHIPPERS SWEET POTATO CABBAGE References: Commercial Commercial d Opportunity For Inv A Splendid Opportunity For Investment! STOCK FOR SALE IN THE Valley Truck Farm (INCORPORATED.) AND SHIPPERS OF EARLY GARDEN W POTATO PLANTS, TOMATO, PEPP ABBAGE PLANTS, POTATOES AND WATERMELONS. Commercial National Bank, Independ Commercial National Bank, Kansas Kaw Valley Truck Farm Co. (INCORPORATED.) GROWERS AND SHIPPERS OF EARLY GARDEN VEGETABLES SWEET POTATO PLANTS, TOMATO, PEPPER AND CABBAGE PLANTS, POTATOES AND WATERMELONS References: Commercial National Bank, Independence, Kansas. Commercial National Bank, Kansas City, Kansas. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS General Offices: 117 W Agents: J. P. MAYNAR REV. G. T. M WAGNER Choice Cigars N: 117 West Sixth Street—H. P. EW MAYNARD, 2330 Vine Street, Bell Ph V. G. T. MOSBY, 2404 Highland Avenue GNER'S BUR Choice Wines, Lique gars and Tobacco General Offices: 117 West Sixth Street—H. P. EWING, Manager Agents: J. P. MAYNARD, 2330 Vine Street, Bell Phone, East 2330 REV. G. T. MOSBY, 2404 Highland Avenue. Choice Wines, Liquors Cigars and Tobaccos Heim's Beer on Tap We solicit your patronage 000 Indep. Ave. A. L. Wagner, Prop. Home Phone ve. A. L. Wagner, Prop. Home 1000 Indep. Ave. A. L. Wagner, Prop. Home Phone 4959 M ORATORIO Residence 2444 Highland Ave. ENTION S.M.T. PRICES ON NEW REGULATION S.M. NETS. Work Service and Low Prices Dresses and Badges. Regalia & Supplies Company KANSAS CITY, MO the Best Meals in the Twin Cities timore Cafe HURSE, Proprietor Management U. B. F. @ S. M. T. of Mc. and Domestic Cigars SODAS and SUNDAES. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Fortunity For Investment FOR SALE IN THE Truck Farm Co. (CORPORATED.) S OF EARLY GARDEN VEGETABLES ANTS, TOMATO, PEPPER AND ANTS, POTATOES AND TERMELONS. National Bank, Independence, Kansas. National Bank, Kansas City, Kansas. Rev. J. R. Richardson, President, Rev. W. A. Bowren, Vice-President, Rev. D. B. Jackson, Treasurer. H. P. Ewing, Secretary and Manager George McNeal, Assistant Secretary, J. C. Branch, Assistant Manager, Nick Chiles, Auditor. I. F. Bradley, Attorney. Sixth Street—H. P. EWING, Manager 2330 Vine Street, Bell Phone, East 2330 BY, 2404 Highland Avenue. R'S BUFFET Wines, Liquors and Tobaccos Vagner, Prop. Home Phone 4959 M FOR RECITAL Mrs. Julia Flemmings, 910 Walker avenue, is ill at her home. Mr. Hayes Braxton, 534 Cherry, is at Atlantic, Ia., for an indefinite stay. Let E. A. Robinson rent, sell or buy you a home. A square deal, prompt and courteous service. Call Bell East 754. Miss Daisy B. White, formerly of 1011 Charlotte, is now located at 802 Jefferson street. For prices that are right in drugs, paints, toilet articles, etc., visit the Cooper & Campbell Drug Store at 18th and Paseo. Miss Carrie M. Larner, a teacher in the schools of Beaumont, Tex., is visiting Mrs. M. N. Young, 3412 East Twenty-first strete. Dr. R. C. Hayden, 400 Minneapolis avenue, was called to Chicago, where she spent a week attending a patient. Wanted — Information concerning the address of Austin R. Roulhac, recently left heir to large estate. Write Attorney Clarence A. Jones, 412-15 German building, Los Angeles, Calif. Miss Willa E. Allen, teacher in the Carrollton, Mo., schools, who has been the guest of Mrs. E. Jones, 1916 Woodland avenue, left for her home at Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. H. W. Carson, 1621 East Thirteenth street, returned from Evans, Ia., after spending ten days with her father, Mr. Andrew Nelson. She reports a pleasant time. The Annual Midsummer Carnival of Ebenezer and Allen Chapels is fast approaching and will begin July 15 at the same place—18th and Paseo. New Attractions. Many Enjoyable Features. Full account later. Mrs. S. C. Mitchum disappeared June 25, from 818 East Tenth street. Any information will be glad appreciated by Mrs. W. M. Ballard, 818 East Tenth street, Flat A. Bell phone Main 4841. YOUNG LADIES WANTED. We want a number of energetic, intelligent young ladies of neat appearance to handle Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations. We pay salaries to those who are qualified. Previous experience not necessary. Apply in person Saturday, Monday of Tuesday morning between 9 and Mrs. Ida A. Walker of St. Joseph, Mo., editor of the Appeal and president of the Federation of Colored Women's Club, passed through the city Thursday enroute home from the Chautauqua at Huntsville, where she delivered her famous lecture on Tuberculosis before a large and appreciative audience. Poro hair dressing, hair weaving and facial massaging. Scalp treatment a speciality. Mrs. E. Norles, 1737 Paseo, upstairs. The funeral services of Mrs. Sallie A. Moore Haworth were held from the Vine Street Baptist church, Monday, July 6, under the auspices of Adah Chapter No. 3, Western Queen Court No. 5, (Masonic); Eureka Household of Ruth No. 4744, G. U. O. of O. F.; New Hope Temple No. 138 Hosanna Royal House No. 5, S. A. Haworth Princesses Council No. 7 (S. M. T.), of which she was a member. The floral offerings were the most profuse and beautiful seen at a funeral recently. FOR SALE High grade modern flat at Fourteenth and Woodland; can use good mortgage paper for first payment. Terms very easy. Flat rents for $75 per month. The Third Baptist Church of Kansas City, Mo., was reorganized Tuesday. The Council was composed of the following ministers; Rev. G. T. Mosby, moderator; Rev. P. C. Crutchfield, see retary. By vote of the members the church was named the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. The church also voted to come under the management of the Greenwood Baptist Church and that Rev. G. T. Mosby have the oversight of the same. FRANCIS THOMPSON, Clerk ELITE CAFE and LUNCH ROOM Meals at all hours Prices reasonable Home Cooking Quick Service WHEELER & WHEELER, Props. 1904 Vine St. IN MEMORIAM Pippins—In loving but sad memory of my dear nephew, Mr. Roy Pippins, who departed this life one year ago July 10, 1913. Blessed one now sleeps in Jesus Sleeping in that holy land, God received you in his kingdom And extended a welcome hand. You have left us sad and lonely, Of the ones who love you dear, But God has taken him in heaven With his love and misery care. MRS. C. L. DAVIS, Aunt, C. L. DAVIS, Uncle. CITY NEWS. Mrs. Laura Lewis, 713 Troost avenue, left Wednesday, July 8, for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Jack Oliver, whom she has not seen for forty-four years. She will also visit Norfolk, Va., and Lynchburg, Va. She will be gone all summer. The Kaw Valley Truck Farm Co. announces that you will find its wagon on the Market curb every Saturday, day and night, and they want you to give the ma call. They can supply your vegetables cheaper than anybody else on the market. If you don't believe it, try them. Look for their wagon. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our thanks to the many friends of both cities who sent beautiful floral offerings and assisted us during the illness and death of our dear one, Tillie Flossie Cornell, who departed this life June 25, 1914. CLIFFORD CORNELL, Husband. JOSIE RICE, Mother, LLOYD RICE, FLOYD RICE, Brothers. Music furnished by capable pianist for partitions, receptions, teas, etc. Also publication given beginners on the piano forte. Rates reasonable. MISS CARMEN LACKLEY. 2028 Harrison St. Arra Mallory, the nine year old daughter of Edd Mallory, of Jacksonville, Ill., is visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mallory of this city. The famous Mallory Bros. who are well known throughout the United States are also classed among the best business men of the state of Illinois; who are always representatives of the Negro Business League, will stop a few days to visit their brother, W. C. Mallory, en route to attend the Negro Business League which will conven in Muskogee, Okla., August 19, 20, 21. W. C. Mallory, their brother of this city, will accompany them. NO MIDDLE MAN'S PROFIT. If you have not time to bring your printing to my office phone me and I will send after it. I use no solicitors. The cost he would be I give to you directly in material and good service. Persons have complained recently that some one is soliciting printing in our name which is a false representation. C. A. Franklin, the printer, 1409 Main Street. Bell Phone, Grand 2988. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH The morning and evening services were well attended. Two additions were made. Our pastor's five minute talk to the young people was grand, the subject being "The love for a man for a woman and the love of a woman for a man." The doctor said a man could not exist as a man without woman. Then I say give us more women...Mr. Floyd Howard and Miss Mamie White will be married at the church Saturday night at 8:30. Dr. T. H. Ewing will officiate, ...Sister Sallie Moore Haworth died July 2. Funeral services July 6. She died in full triumph of faith. We extend our heartfelt sympathy. We say to them, "Prepare to meet her in that great beyond where parting will be no more." The Orders to which she be belonged did all in their power to make her comfortable...Mr. and Mrs. J. Cordell White entertained their sister, Miss Mamie Ellen White and Mr. Floyd Wilson Howard and their attendants at a bridal luncheon, Friday evening, July 10, at their residence 1523 Noth Eighth street, Kansas City, Kas. A NOTED VISITOR. Captain T. D. Jackson, one of the leading Negroes of Oklahoma, on his way to Tulsa, Okla., from Colorado Springs, stopped and spent a week with his nephew, Timothy T. Jackson, 1210 East Seventeenth street. In an interview with a reporter for the Sun the captain said: "Kansas City is one of the most important avenues of prosperity that stands open for the progress of the Negro that I found in the United States, and why it has not demonstrated the fact more fully is the lack of race pride among the race. The white people must be some sort of a friend to the race from the consideration they have given you in the shape of one of the greatest institutions for pleasure and training for the children, the Garrison Field House, in the United States, and it behoves the Colored people of Kansas City to take advantage of it by maintaining law and order. The Colored people should pride their women more for no race can prosper unless it prides its women above the men, virtue and integrity must be the password. The Colored people should be independent of politics. I find many beautiful homes and as fine looking ladies as I ever saw in my travel. I used to live in Kansas City seventeen years ago and expect to live here again if nothing happens, for I have spent one of the happiest weeks of my life here." J.C. WAGNER The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in Season. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Mrs. Willis Allen., 1001 Walker avenue, is much improved from her recent illness. Attorney E. A. Shackleford spent two days at Tipton, Mo., his old home, last week. The Compact Masons held their annual sermon at Rev. G. McNeal's Church Sunday. The funeral of Mr. Alfred Taylor, 840 Everett avenue, was held Sunday morning, July 5. The grocery of W. H. Lambright, 1508 North Third, was damaged by fire last Thursday. Rev. D. A. Holmes of Springfield, Mo., preached to a large crowd at the Metropolitan Baptist Church Sunday. The grocery store of Mr. John Wilson, 1717 North Tenth street, was destroyed by fire Friday morning, July 2. The Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem held their annual sermon at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. Mr. Wyatt, 920 North Third street, returned home Saturday from Quincy ill., where he was called by the illness of his father. Mrs. Louise Verter and James King of Lawrence, Kas., were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Perry, 1815 North Third. The funeral of Mr. Albert Penn, 101 Franklin avenue, was held at the A.M. E. Church, Eighth and Nebraska Sunday afternoon, July 5. The ladies of the M. E. Church, Ninth and Oakland avenue, gave a Barbecue which was a grand success. Rev. T. S. McMorris, pastor. The suite of office rooms of D. J. Franklin Wilson, 1317 North Tenth street, were ruined in the fire caught from his father's grocery store. Mrs. Kate Wilson of Omaha, Neb., and Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, of St. Louis, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Bradley, 400 Haskell avenue, last week. Robt. Hill, 1057 Freeman avenue only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hill groceryman, is ill at his home. He is a pupil of Summer High School, also a member of the Western Imperial Band. We hope for him a speedy recovery. The funeral of Rev. J. W. Wilson 1322 North Eighth street, was held at the A. M. E. Church, Eighth and Nebraska, Thursday, under the aus pieces of Mt. Etna Lodge A. F. & A. M interment in Garnett, Kas. Rev. J. R Ransom accompanied the family with the body. THE COLORED WORKING GIRL. In reading the numerous articles anent the pending investigations into the relation between vice and low wages among working girls, I often wonder if any of the social economists or philanthropists interested ever gives a thought to the peculiar conditions confronting the colored girl. Debarred by race prejudice from seeking employment in office, store or factory, no matter what her training, education or special aptitude, she must enter the army of house workers to whom employment spells long hours, small pay, scant time for recreation or attention to personal needs—"staying nights" meaning often sleeping in the kitchen (!) or attic or at best sharing one's room with a stranger often personally uncongenial. Yes, there is teaching and sewing and hair dressing—oh, the utifully few "gentee" occupations for the dusky maid! These are overcrowded and demand special training. The girl not so fortunate as to have succeeded in one of these lines looks longingly over the long list of "wants" at the demand for help in trades, stores and offices, knowing she will meet "no colored need apply," no matter how nature or training may have fitted her to fill the advertised position. Finally she accepts work as a domestic; physically she may not be able to meet the demands upon her strength; or the deadly monony, absence of all association with social equals, or the depressing effect of her environment drives her out to drift with the mass of "unemployed" thronging the city's streets and contributing to the increase of social evil—a bit of flottsam and jetsam in the wreckage along life's stream that might have been a useful portion of the social structure had not the deadly bugbear of "social equality" closed the doors to remunerative and congenial employment. You men who so carefully protect and provide for the "working girl," will you give the colored girl a fair chance to an honest and fair livelihood in some of the many avenues open to women? C. Who Is Doctor Theo. Smith? ASK ANYBODY. Conspicuously before the public's eyes is Theo. Smith, our druggist, who is located on the busy corner of 18th and Tracy. If you belong to that class of men and women who think and do things, don't ever be guilty of saying that you have never visited this up-to-date store. His latest creation is the Tango Sundae on a Blazer, 15 cents. This is a combination of the best fruits and fruit syrups incorporated with ice cream and capped with angel cake, served in gold and silver containers under a bamboo tree among gleaming electric lights and before the breeze of an electric fan. This is irresistible. The following is a list of distin guished guests and popular society people who have visited and declared the Tango Sundae to be the most delicious they have eaten. Is Your Name In the List? **IN YOUR NAME** Mr. R. Browne, Mrs. Bearice Jordan, Mr. N. G. Fulbright, Mrs. N. G. Fulbright, Mr. C. Hollinsworth, Mrs. C. Hollinsworth, Mr. A. J. Rolling, Miss V. Thomas, Mrs. L. Randall, Mrs. Syntha Crews, Mrs. J. Lullies, Mr. George Carter, Miss Cassie Davine, Mr. Robert S. Kirby, Miss Cora B. Martin, Mr. Homa Baugh, Miss Catherine Kett, Miss Louvena Nowell, F. D. Clement, Denver L. Cranshaw, R. J. Brown, Miss Georgia Hall, Miss Catherine Price, Miss Ross C. Curry, Miss C. Curry, Mrs. C. H. Curry, Miss Gertrude Brown, Overian Fleming, Dr. Paul Crosthaite, Miss Nelle Palmer of Wheatley Provident Hospital, Mr. W. Smith, Mrs. D. Smith, Mrs Joseph Ransom, Mrs. Ernest Cotton, Charles A. Mrs. J. W. Daniels, Miss Lizzle Dusen, Mrs. J. Jr., Miss Lizzie Bower, Bower, Jr., Hattie Scott, Allen Harris, Miss P. Washington, Jack Wengate, W. G Kennedy, W. G Kennedy, W. G Hampel, W. Hampel, Allen Harris, Pulman, Parlee Harris, Mrs. Emma Mont line, Mrs. Lula Spalding, Will Finnel, Mrs. Lula Spalding, Will Finnel, W. D. Holmes, Mrs. W. D. Holmes, Mrs. Edna Winkfield, Mrs. Douglass McMillan, Mrs. Douglass McMillan, W. D. Holmes, Mr. Fred Plummer, Mr. Freed Snodny, Miss Mable Edwards, Miss F. Willburn, Mrs. Geo. Willington, Washington, Mrs. Geo. Willington, Stella Gant, Mrs. Bertha Smith, Mr. Milton Clay, Mrs. F. W. Anthony, Miss May Shields, Mr. C. W. D. Anthony, Miss May Shields, Mr. C. der, Mrs. Arthur Brown, Mr. Wm. Johnson, Mrs. E. P. Fagan, Mrs. Anna White, Mrs. Clara Howard of Minneapolis. Miss Ethel Berryman, Mrs. Lillian Berryman, Mrs. Lillian Thompkins, Mrs. Thompkins, Mrs. Thompkins, Johnson, Miss Bertha Alexander, Mr. Asa Damon, Mrs. Leslie Brown, Mrs. Leslie Brown, Mrs. John A. Nories, Mrs. Mary Henderson, Mrs. Mary Lewis, Mrs. Jessie Meyers, Jessie Meyers, Miss Galena Plum- mer, Miss Rush Hurt, Miss Estella Tuenan, Miss Estella Tuenan, Mrs. R. Bennett, Mrs. Clara Holland, Mrs. Alfred Rodgers, Mrs. Prof. T. B. Stewart, There is a reason why the larger per cent of Cabinet Stationary used in the printing industry came from the Arthur W. Harris Printing Establishment. First their work was unexcelled by any of the larger and best equipped printing establishments, but all but make a speciality of this kind work. Second, while their prices are always the fairest. They have livered" with accuracy and despatch of their wedding and reception duties a past year and now when a function of class is announced its a ten-to-slot that Harris will handle the job. Call Chas. Monroe For Carriage or Automobile Funerals and Parties a Specialty Rates Reasonable 2102 Woodland Ave. Bell Phone 5194 East Bell Phone 2523 East Kansas City, Mo. Miss Ruth Bradley, Mrs. D. N. Crosthwaite, Professor Work, Miss Victoria Newsome, Dr. Bruce, Miss Della Newsom. Prof. T. B. Stewart, Professor White. Professor Holder, Miss Grace White, Mr. N. G. Walker, Dr. Kane, Dr. Lowe, Mrs. S. S. Chainey, Mrs. Annis Garrett, Mrs. Daisy McNight, Miss Viola Robinson, Miss Ethyline Wilson, the Misses Martin, Miss Ambia Keene, Mr. T. Laws, Mr. Eugene Vaughan, Mr. Johnnie Banks, Miss Pauline Vaughn, Miss Ferlow, Mrs. E. Baldwin, Mr. Hugh Jones, Miss Josephine Yates, Mr. Phillip Johnson, Miss Sue Hutchings, Miss Mary Jones, Mr. Phil Tilford, Mr. Tim Cooper, Miss Overton, Mr. Arthur Harris, Mrs. Sally C. Rodgers, Dr. Holly, Miss Bell, Miss Annie Bell Montgomery, Dr. Hopkins, Mr. Thurman, Miss Sadle Rodgers, Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Bradbury, Mr. Moore, Miss Jarrett, Mrs. Washington, Mr. Blue, Miss Reese Jacobs Mrs. E. L. Washington, Mrs. Edward Whitmore, Kansas City, Kas., Mrs. E. L. Washington, Mrs. Edward Fortner, Mrs. M. I. Wiley, Mrs. Roht, P. Hurd, Chicago; Mrs. J. W. Mitchell, Mrs. Abermatry, Miss Carrier Sanders, Mr. E. L. Hurd, Miss Carrier Sanders, Millie Williamson, Mrs. L. Lankford, Miss Nancy Taylor, Hon. N. C. Crews, Mrs. W. H. Hicklet, Mrs. Clara Gardner, Mrs. W. H. Hicklet, Mrs. Clara Gardner, Backwell, Mr. C. Hollinsworth, Miss Emma Gardner, Mr. Andrew Rollins, Mrs. M. B. Carr, Rosedale, Kas.; Miss Beatrice Edna Kirkpatrick, Miss Mary Day. Mrs. Doresey, Mrs. Brown, Miss Stella Washington, Miss Coleman, Mrs. Carter, Miss Stewart, Miss Franklin, Mrs. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, Dr. E. C Bunch, Mrs. B. L. Fisher, Mrs. A. C Osborne of Los Angeles, Mrs. L. Patton, Mrs Susie Pearl, Miss Anna Caro, Miss Hattle Mr. Hubbard Ramsey, Mr. Dorssey Brown, Mrs. Tilford Davis, jr., K. C., K., Mrs. J. Lewis Gambles, K. C, K. Meet me at Smith's after the show after church or after the dance, where we can sit and talk the matter over and enjoy eating one of those Thrilling Tangos. Eighteenth and Tracy is the place. WORDS OF APPRECIATION. More Mothera Testify to Merite 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. 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. 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 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. CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE New and Second Hand Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged 2122 Vine Street WM. HOPKINS, Prop. Ladies' Tailoring Dressmaking AND Drafting... Fancy Gowns a Specialty I am prepared to offer the public the best dressmaking, tailoring, drafting and fitting. Graduate of one of the best downtown colleges. Will also teach Drafting. Bell Phone Enst 4139 W 2914 Woodland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISQURI E. EUGENE VAUGHAN. MEMBER K, C. BUSINESS LEAGUE. JOIN THE THRONG. And still there comes a throng of hearty men. Their hearts are free when they seek of me. And the rent you pay will be yours some day, To save you many a tear. ANNOUNCEMENT. I have plenty of capital to build houses. Telephone me to-day. Eventually you will. Estimates cheerfully given SPECIALS. Fifty (50) lots in Riverside Park, opposite Western University, to go at easiest kind of terms. A new rock road is now being built to this addition. Use the telephone, and make an engagement with me to-day to see these lots. First class 7 per cent mortgages for sale. 4 rooms. 25 ft. $650.90. $50.60 down. EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN, Twenty-sixth and Parkway. KANASS CITY, KANASS. Bell phone, West 1757. WATCH IT GROW. WHO IS PROMOTING IT? Watch the Columns of The Sun for Particulars. 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 1032 and West 1102 W. --- A League Enterprise! On Eighteenth in the Fifteen Hundred Block A News Bureau Every Negro Periodical, Negro Pictures, Negro Books, Novelties Stationery A FIRST-CLASS Shoe Shining Parlor 5c. Every Day in the Year 1521 East 18th Street. CHAS. A. STARKS, Prop. 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. Rooms For Rent Furnished Rooms for rent. Hot and cold water; telephone. Melissa E. French, 1315 Michigan. FOR COLORED N. W. Cor, 4th and Forest—Several houses, 2 stories, 7 rooms each, all in fine order, your choice, $14 to $16; or apartments. Remember that this location is opposite and very convenient to Garrison School, also field house and free baths. ROOMS FOR RENT Furnished and unfurnished rooms in the rear of 21st and Harrison Street Flats, for light housekeeping if desired. All modern conveniences. Only $1.50 and $1.75 per week. Also rooms in flats. See Kinsler, 918 E. 21st St. Phones, Bell, Grand 2303-R; Home, 6516 Mahn. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms partly modern. 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ON TWELFTH AT HIGHLAND CARL SPENCER, Proprietor. A. B. PROG. GEO. W. STEVENS. Dr. G. W. Stevens, the well known and famous spiritualist, can be consulted at his residence, 618 State St., Kansas City, Kan., any day from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. THE DEVIL CHAIR THE GOD FROM THE PAGODA By H. M. EGBERT (Copyright by W. G. Chapman) O'RWIN MYERES 1912 At Chung Ling, twelve miles north of Wu Chang. She went there as a missionary after she thought you and her daughter dead!" This was all that John Haynes was able to learn concerning his wife, and those few words he had wrested from the last of his enemies only when he held him upon the brink of death. Now, his vengeance accomplished, there remained only the task of this discovery. And it seemed but a matter of a few weeks until he should find her; there could be little difficulty, once he set foot within the confines of the Flowery land, for Wu Chang is a mighty metropolis in central China, and there are few white women in its vicinity. was agreed that that the three should travel to Wu Chang together in order to find the missing wife and mother. She had been told that her husband died in a steamship accident, together with her child—at least, so the searchers inferred, after comparing all that they knew concerning the tragic separation five years previously. Mary Haynes, left thus alone, as she believed, had been hurried to a remote corner of the United States by one of the conspirators, under the guise of protection, and, when she recovered from a protracted illness, there had revived in her a girlish ambition to become a missionary in the Orient. So she had sailed for China and disan- diers who accompanied the trac broke and fled. It was then o'clock in the noon. Haynes, Beyers and El found themselves alone, surround a constantly augmenting crowd, evidently meant to capture them in order to torture them. From group before the garden wall a spain man detached himself and walked ward, smiling, and waving a Japanese white paper handkerchief token of truce. Haynes, pushing his daughter behind the shelter of a pillar imately before the temple door, went forward. The Chinaman smiled more broadly. Five years before John Haynes had been torn from his wife and daughter and railroaded into the penitentiary at Nokomis Falls, on a false charge, by the conspirators who had leaged themselves together to steal his lands. In the prison he had invented a wonderful machine—a gyroscope, which he bound to his feet and, gaining access to the outer world, utilized to effect his escape. Propelled by this powerful top along road, railroad, or trolley line, at the speed of two hundred miles an hour, he was invincible. He set to work to execute justice upon his enemies, and, one by one, they had paid the penalty, according to the magnitude of their crimes. And now the last had suffered retribution and Haynes was free to find the woman who, he doubted not, had long since mourned him as dead. He had already discovered his daughter, living in an obscure northern town, and sent her to Chicago to await his summons. He had enlisted her sympathies, but she was married now, and he had chosen not to blacken her life with the knowledge of all that he had done and hoped to do. But when the last of his enemies was disposed of he sought her out and told her that he was resolved to find her mother and bring her back to her. And then he found that fate had played a strange prank on him. For, when he appeared, unexpectedly, in Eleanor's splendid home on the Lake front, he found the house in confusion. Mr. Beyers, his daughter's husband, and junior partner in his father's firm, had been commissioned to go to Shanghai to straighten out the accounts of a branch bank there, and, with his wife, he was to leave for San Francisco on the following day. Beyers knew Haynes and all about his deeds, for his father had been one of those who had wronged him; the two men had been dramatically reconciled by the marriage of their children, and their mutual hatred had been replaced by mutual esteem. Between Haynes and his son-in-law had sprung up a warm friendship, which was cordially renewed on that last evening in Chicago, and before they separated it PLANTS MUST BE KEPT BUSY Manufacturers Have Come to Realize That Periods of Idleness Cut Into Profits. One of the strong points made by modern systems of efficiency is that no business plant will be a success unless it is kept running somewhere near its top capacity, remarks the Manchester Mirror and American. Many manufacturers, for instance. was agreed that the three should travel to Wu Chang together in order to find the missing wife and mother. She had been told that her husband died in a steamship accident, together with her child—at least, so the searchers inferred, after comparing all that they knew concerning the tragic separation five years previously. Mary Haynes, left thus alone, as she believed, had been hurried to a remote corner of the United States by one of the conspirators, under the guise of protection, and, when she recovered from a protracted illness, there had revived in her a girlish ambition to become a missionary in the Orient. So she had sailed for China and disappeared in the interior of that enormous country. Several weeks later the three arrived in Wu Chang under unexpected circumstances. Hardly had they landed in China before the revolution broke out, having its center in Wu Chang and Hankow, two of a trinity of towns upon the river bank in which millions of yellow men toil and labor. Even New York and its activities are dwarfed by the commercial industries of this densely populated region. The three proceeded up the river aboard a Chinese gunboat, on which Beyers, by the lavish expenditure of money, had secured passage. The knowledge that Mary Haynes was exposed to the fanaticism of the mob, always ready to be excited against foreigners, made them reckless of running into danger. They reached Wu Chang to learn that a furious battle had taken place there the week previously; and that the Manchus had been worsted, and that the Republican army was in hot pursuit, leaving the city exposed, as was the surrounding country, to the raids of robbers and murderous bands. Conditions could hardly have been worse, but they were worse, for it was learned that the telegraph lines leading out of Chung Ling had been cut and that the roads were blocked. Hiring a force of twenty soldiers, the three set forth, Eleanor Beyers refusing to leave her father and husband in spite of their protestations. Constantly they passed straggling bodies of bandits, but these hesitated to attack a force so strongly armed and passed them peaceably enough. The news of the travelers' journey, however, had evidently preceded them for when they were already on the outskirts of Chung Ling, and actually in sight of the mission building in which, reports said, the missionaries were shot up under the guardianship of a few loyal soldiers, an armed mob came racing down the road in their direction, evidently with hostile intent. The three took shelter in the garden of a native temple, a pagoda dedicated to the local god of war; this proceeding evidently infurred the townpeople, for suddenly a volley was discharged in their direction. The sol- will recall how in former days they gave comparatively little thought to this idea. There was little effort to systematize mill production down to a regular basis. If there was a period of weeks when production fell off, it attracted comparatively little notice. Modern scientific efficiency analyzes production costs more carefully. It shows how when production falls below a normal level even for a day there is a heavier burden to be added to each article produced, as "overhead charge," and for all labor costs diers who accompanied the travelers broke and fled. It was then three o'clock in the after noon. Haynes, Beyers and Eleanor found themselves alone, surrounded by a constantly augmenting crowd, which evidently meant to capture them alive in order to torture them. From the group before the garden wall a spokesman detached himself and walked forward, smiling, and waving a cheap Japanese white paper handkerchief in token of truce. Haynes, pushing his daughter back behind the shelter of a pillar immediately before the temple door, walked forward. The Chinaman smiled still more broadly. "What for you come to Chung Ling?" he asked. To take away the missionaries," Haynes answered. "We mean no harm. Bring them to us or let us go to them, rather, and we will depart peaceably." The yellow man drew in his breath with a hiss. "Unfortunately," he said suavely, "my people say you must stay here with the missionaries. They are afraid to let you leave Chung Ling for fear you tell the Republicans that the Manchus have left the town. All who come stay; it is the rule." "Very well," said Haynes, after a moment's thought. "Take us to the missionaries, then. There is a woman there," he added, unable to restrain his desire to learn whether Mary was in that building whose strange, funnel-shaped roof was plainly visible five or six hundred yards distant, towering over the intervening houses. "Yes, but wait a minute," said the yellow man. "Treaty must be made—" He hesitated. Haynes saw his eyes wander and, with a sudden instinct of treachery, looked back. At the same moment a cry broke from Eleanor's lips. Under cover of this friendly parley a murderous band were creeping up, with knives in their hands, toward the rear of the temple, with the evident intention of rushing Beyers and his wife and taking them captives. Haynes drew his revolver and discharged it full into the other's face. The man staggered back, grooming; the multitude made a rush toward the visitors. The three turned back toward the temple doors and hammered on them with their fists. In vain; they could not hope to break those panels of solid, inlaid teakwood. They were like tiny islands in the yellow sea that swept on them from all sides, cruel-eyed men with yellow faces and hideous, shaven heads, from the backs of which hung the long pigtails, still worn in conservative Chung Ling as a sign of Manchu sympathes. But just as the three had formed back, determined to fight to the last rather than submit to the tortures which they knew awafted them, the temple doors opened and a monk, with shaven head and keen, impassive features, beckoned to them to enter. And at his appearance the based on work by the hour, day or week. One reason why newspaper advertising has grown very fast during recent years is that retail merchants understand how this principle applies to their business. In former days a merchant fitted out his store, hired his clerks and sat down to wait in a passive fashion for business. He was very apt to find that he did not do an amount of trade that was normal, either for the capital invested in equipment and stock, or for the cost mob outside stood still as though petrified. The three followed the priest, whose robe of white wool was alone visible in the obscurity of the interior. He flitted in front of them, his felt slippers making no sound upon the thick pile of the carpet, until at length he stopped before an altar, behind which, in brazen armor, the life-size figure of the god of war. The grinning face and dripping sword seemed to be faintly illuminated by the reflection of lights burning somewhere in the recesses of the building. The sudden aspect of this ferocious face under the steel headpiece, the crimson stains upon the sword, horrified the fugitives; they stood stock still, uncertain where to advance. And suddenly the priest disappeared and a door snapped shut. They waited in silence until their eyes became accustomed to the gloom, and, little by little, they were able to distinguish objects around them; then they felt their way cautiously forward until farther progress was arrested by a steel barrier. Haynes struck a match, and by its light they perceived that a wall of wrought iron, extending from the stone floor to the high roof of the pagoda, barred their advance. On either side of them was a similar wall. Behind them was another, in which was set the temple gate, two feet behind the teakwood door. They were in a trap. Then all at once the truth dawned on. They were caged securely as any wild beasts in zoological gardens, caged before the altar of the god of war, to whom they were destined to be offered as a sacrifice. And the inscrutable Chinese mind had planned all this from the first, had lured them into the pagoda in the belief that they would find safety there. Escape was impossible. They looked into each other's faces, and each read his fate in his fellow's eyes. Six feet behind the wrought iron barrier the god stood over his altar, one hand stretched out, brandishing that dreadful sword, still wet from the blood of victims. At some time, perhaps days later, after exhaustion had made resistance impossible, that secret gate in the iron wall would open again, and, one by one, they would be dragged off by the priest to the sacrifice. If Haynes could reach the sword he calculated that he could hew his way through the soft iron, whose malleable properties made it more serviceable as a cage than any structure of steel, which might haply have been fractured or disjointed by repeated blows. But it was so closely wrought that he could pass only two fingers of one hand between the interests. He looked at Beyers in despair. But the others had resigned themselves to the inevitable; husband and wife were taking last farewell of one another, oblivious of his presence. In that hour of peril he was forgotten, and for an instant, as he recalled all that he had endured for his wife and daughter, a little fire of jealousy smouldered in Haynes' heart. It was but momentary, but ere it died it sent back his thoughts with a rush to Mary. Perhaps she too stood in some such deadly danger, Perhaps—he shuddered and turned sick with horror at the unhallowed thought—perhaps that was her blood upon the sword! He set his wits to work examining the iron structure. There seemed no way of assaulting it without the sword. But he perceived that there was a space of about four inches between the bottom of the steel and, the ground, and that the point of the sword, held in the idol's hand, reached to within an inch of the flooring and was turned toward him. His eye could measure a straight line from where he stood to the point and thence to the sword hilt. From the deep pocket of his coat he drew a flat, round object, resembling in size and shape nothing so much as one of those toy roulette wheels used by amateur gamblers. This was the gyroscope. From another pocket he took the little motor, unscrewed it from the tiny tank, and looked inside. The tank contained almost a quarter of a pint of gasoline—half its capacity. Haynes never traveled without this apparatus, which had often proved his salvation. Now, desperate as his design was, it seemed to open to them the only possible avenue of escape. The gyroscope was so well made and spun so easily that a quarter of a pint would serve to keep it running for perhaps an hour. And he could do so much in that period. He started the motor and its low buzzing startled the lovers from their rhapsody. Haynes went up to Beyers. "Do you happen to have a piece of string about you?" he asked. Beyers felt in his pockets doubtfully. "No," he answered. "What should I do with a piece of string?" "You, Eleanor?" She shook her head.. "Then tear off the your pet ticat," said Haynes impatiently. Even in that peril she hesitated. No woman likes to wear a petticoat with a dragged hem, nor is the disliked lessened even when she stands in a Chinese pagoda, awaiting death at the hands of a blood-thirsty priest. She hesitated one moment; then, stooping, she rent off a long strip of silky lace and gave it to her father. Haynes tore it into two strips, folded and joined them. One end he fastened to the body of the machine, the other to the stop which controlled its action, and he held the loop in his hand, in the manner of reins. Then, while the others watched with languid interest, he aimed the little gyroscope at the point of the sword and started it beneath the cage. It flashed across the floor, missed the sword point, and pulled up with a jerk that threw Haynes against the ironwork. Pulling hard on the right rein, he shut off the mechanism; then with the left rein he pulled back the machine. Again and again he launched of his help. The result was, that the proportion of failures among retail merchants used to be abnormally large. There is rarely any money in a store that does not have the appearance of being busy. It is not a difficult thing to turn the current of trade in any given direction. It is not hard to convert an idle or half worked and unprofitable retail plant into a busy and profitable one. If the stock is well chosen and offered at fair prices, the public can always be interested in it. It is sim- this strange missile, alming in the half darkness at the edge of that blood-stained weapon, and always missing it. Twenty-eight times he did this. At the twenty-ninth attempt the gyroscope struck the sword point fairly; it trembled, and then running straight as an arrow, it raced up the blade along the narrow edge, reached the hilt, dashed into the idol's porcelain hand that held the sword, and smashed it from the armored body. The sword fell crashing to the ground, its hilt toward the ironwork of the cage. Haynes thrust his hand under the structure, grasped the hilt, and drew back the sword. Then he drew back the gyroscope and shut off the motor. Haynes held the heavy weapon aloft and looked at it. It was of the finest steel, such a weapon as is used by official executioners for beheading their victims. Motioning to Beyers and his daughter to stand as far back as possible, Haynes swung the weapon aloft and brought it down upon the malleable iron with all his force, denting and cutting into it. Again and again he swung the eword with the full force of his arm. And at each blow the structure trembled and twisted, until at last he had hewn a space in it through which the three might creep. He squeezed his body through the cage and, standing beside the altar, listened intently. Nobody came. If any priest heard him he was afraid to enter, but, more probably, all were away, engaged in pillaging. Haynes took the helmet from the head of the god and placed it upon his own, pulling down an inner covering of chain mail over his face. He donned the breast and back pieces, the greaves and shoulder pieces; finally he stood up, the very image of the idol, which now lay, a poor, shattered thing of porcelain, fallen beside its terrible altar. When he was fully attired Haynes placed the gyroscope upon one foot in each a way that he could at will, by a motion of the other, start the motor in action. Then, hobbling as a boy, who goes on one roller skate, he beckoned to Beyers and Eleanor to follow him and crept round behind the altar. A door barred them from without. There was a peephole half way down through which Haynes could perceive the outlines of a garden, concealed by hedges of box. Without hesitation he unlocked it and went out; then turned back, and called in a law voice to the others. When they emerged they found themselves in a tiny close, shut in by high box hedges, and quite deserted. In the midst of it was a well. There was no water in the well. But six feet down, clinging with clenched fingers to a shelf in the broken brickwork of the wall, was a white man in tattered Chinese garb, the body strained in agony and the face blanched with pain. As Haynes stood on the edge, wielding the sword, a fearful figure in his arm, the man's eyes were opened and were turned upon him, and from his mouth came a few Chinese words. Haynes understood nothing of it, but he surmised that the fugitive imagined him to be the executioner. He called in English. "Come out! You are safe! We are friends!" The man stared up at him incredulously and clung still more tightly to the wall. Haynes saw that his sufferings had paralyzed his understanding. "There's a man down here—a white man," he called back to Beyers. "We've got to pull him out. Lile flat and catch me round the waist. Let Eleanor catch you. Now—pull!" Two minutes later the man emerged from the well. He was one of the missionaries, he said, when he recovered his wits. There had been five men and three women in the mission, one of the latter his wife, married to him only two weeks previously. He had gone out as an envoy to parley with the mob, had been lured into the temple, and had somehow contrived to secret himself near the altar when he suspected the priests' designs. While they pursued him through another door, by which they thought he had escaped, he had discovered the exit into the little garden and, seeing the well, had flung himself into it and had clung there for several hours. So far as he was aware, the mission was safe. Only a few of the mob had firearms, and they were too cowardly to attack, since the defenders were well supplied with rifles and ammunition. Furthermore, they had contrived to send a messenger through the mob to seek aid from a body of English marines, who were supposed to have landed at Wu Chang to protect the consulate. Rescue might arrive at any moment. When he had left, all were unharmed. Haynes did not dare to ask if Mary were there. At the end of the garden was a small door, of a height level with the top of the hedge. Motioning to the others to remain where they were, Haynes opened it cautiously and looked out, his body still concealed from view by the flowering branches. In front of him was a large open space, surrounded by small, mean houses, and immediately across this square, facing him, was the mission itself. Half way between the mission and the pagoda were encamped a number of irregular levies. They had raised a low parapet of sandbags, from behind which they kept up an intermittent fire upon the building. Evidently, falling to capture it by storm, of which attempt evidence was aplenty in the shape of bodies of their dead, lying where they had fallen upon the street in front of the mission, they had resorted to siege tactics. The main force of the roisters seemed to have withdrawn to another part of the city, for their cries came faintly to Haynes' ears, and here and there ply a question of taking in detail the various attractive features of the stock, and talking about them through the newspaper. External Vegetariana. Internal vegetarianism is common enough, but the external sort is rare. It is the latest beauty bad. Internal vegetarians utilize vegetables by swallowing them. The other class apply vegetables to the skin with, it appears, excellent results. The red pulp of watermelon, second the smoke of burning houses was event on on the hose Yet, even as he looked, he saw a body of them sweep the round far angle of the plaza-like space and run wildly toward the mission, uttering savage, guttural cries. They seemed like devils—and they were devils, atirst for murder. Some carried pikes, some swords, some blazing torches; and at the sight of them the beslegers leaped to their feet from behind their defenses and, joining them, swept up to the mission doors once more. Now from within resounded the crack of repeating rifles. Here and there a man fell, but the mob were too insatiate for blood to heed their dead. They broke like a storm against the heavy, barricaded doors, hammering on them, firing into the shuttered windows, battering at them with axes and billets of wood. Haynes saw that this onslaught must prove decisive. No doors could survive so tremendous an impetus. Even while he watched the place would be stormed, then men slaughtered, and the women That thought set the blood whirling through his brain. He touched the stop that set the gyroscope in motion. An instant later he was darting across the square with the speed of a missile shot from a catapult. He saw houses whiz past him, he shot by the heaps of dead, wielding that dripping sword and shouting exultantly. They heard him, turned, and saw a terrific apparation—their own god of war and destruction, fully armed and wielding his dreadful sword, issuing forth against them! A moment, and Haynes was in their midst and cutting them down. None could withstand him. He ran through their ranks like a war chariot, leaving a broad trail of death behind him. He clicked the stop of the gyroscope, swung round, and went through them again. Their missiles glanced like lash off his brazen flanks and shoulders. They turned and fled along the narrow streets, and he pursued them; packed tightly as they were between the houses, there was nowhere for them to seek safety. He passed them, hewing them down, swung round, and repeated his journey of destruction. Then times he traversed their ranks, like some angel of destruction, and each time the dead were heaped up on either side of him like chaff on a threshing floor. When at last he paused, through sheer physical weakness, the streets were redder than a shambles and the last of the mob were flying in the distance. Then he came to his senses out of a delirious dream; he wiped the sword and went back to the pagoda garden, where he found the others still waiting. "Come," he said. "The streets are clear." He did not know that he was spattered from head to foot, nor that at that moment he seemed to them as inhuman as he had appeared to the Chinese. They followed in abject fear; they dared not answer him. Haynes led them across the square toward the mission, but, before they reached it they heard the shouting of another mob and, at his command stood still. Haynes drew himself up before them, waiting, one foot against the stop of the gyroscope. But it was white men who were advancing—white men, in khaki tunices and wearing white helmets. In column of fours they swept up the streets and into the square; and all at once came answering cries from the mission windows, and the defenders poured forth, men and women, unscathed, and ran to meet their rescuers. Half way between the cowering bodies stood Haynes and his little band. Then the man whom he had recrued broke from his side with a gladiory and caught his wife by the arms and drew her to him and kissed her joyously. For the first time the figure in armor drooped a little and the drawn sword bent to the ground. Haynes bowed his head upon his breast. He knew that he had come too late. For in this woman he recognized his wife, unchanged after all those years, but seen again at what a price of suffering! He turned to Eleanor, who stood at his side in fear, trembling, not daring to claim kinship with her whom she had come so far to see. He drew her aside, and Beyers too, and spoke to them softly, raising his chain face-guard ever so little. "You understand?" he asked. He saw that they understood. "I am going away," said Hayness. "You will not tell her." They could not answer him. "You will tell her that you learned she was here and came after her. Of me you will never speak. If you must do so, when occasion makes this necessary, you will speak of me as though I died in that steamship accident five years ago. You must blot me out of your memory." Eleanor's arms were round him, round the spattered and stained arm which contained all that, next to her husband, was most dear to her. "You promise!" he asked. "I promise," he heard her whisper. He kissed her; he grasped Beyers by the hand; an instant later, and he had touched the stop of the gyroscope again and was speeding southward toward Wu Chang. He knew that he had acted rightly, and that fate had been wiser than he. For the blood on his arm was but a symbol of that upon his soul, and between himself and Mary there was a barrier which he might not lift. "I understand that Mrs. Bloomeroons has employed a boxing instructor for her daughters." "Yea. She says that every girl ought to learn something about its womanly art of self-defense." ing to external vegetarians. is a good astringent and, applied daily, will remove the most obstinate wrinkles. Carrot water—rain water in which grated carrots have stood overnight—is said to whiten and clarify considerably the muddiest complexion. For removing sunburn and freckles cucumber juice is recommended. External vegetarianism offers a number of recipes for making the skin fresh and ruddy—among others toma- to pulp frictions, lemon frictions and onion frictions. Home Town Helps Possible for Every One to Plant a Few Simple Flowers on Their Property. Cleaning up is limited in meaning. Homes may go through housecleaning, householders may clean streets and sidewalks and remove every rubbish trifle. In great buildings strenuous efforts may be made, will be made, to have every bit of litter carted away. That is a beginning. The city may be made beautiful by nature's work. Plants respond to every little care. Flowers bloom when almost neglected. Is it not right not only to clean up, but to start the habit of growing plants bearing flowers? It is not difficult and almost inexpensive. One great concern in this city, with hundreds of windows in the building, where a thousand work, has potted plants on every sill. Trailing vines halfway cover the brick walls, though they are artistic. In midsummer the factory is a joy to those who like to see evidences of nature's handiwork. Greater things can be accomplished along this line. A space two yards wide and ten yards long in front of a factory or store will yield abundantly. The window ledges bear flowers, the vacant spots have earth and they will satisfy the eye with a charming mixture of color if given half a chance. One prisoner, famed in story and song, had not a joy. Through a crevice in the damp wall there came the sprout of a little flower. He nursed it and gave it encouragement with a few drops of water from his limited supply. He was well rewarded, as the ambitious flower wanted to grow. And they want to grow on every vacant foot of land and every city has acres in the aggregate. Clean-up is a proper rallying cry, but add to that a desire to see nature's marvels grow, and the city clean also will be a city beautiful.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. INVITED TO PLANT TREES Park Commissioner Ingersoll of Brooklyn Urges Systematic Beautifying of Highways. Park Commissioner Raymond V. Ingersoll of the borough of Brooklyn has published a pamphlet entitled "Tree Planting on City Streets," which is to be sent to property owners whose trees are removed as dead or dangerous. "Citizens are urged to plant trees in front of their property," the commissioner writes. "Still better than individual planting is co-operative planting by streets or blocks. This method secures uniformity of treatment and has been done successfully in several sections. Fuller particulars will be furnished if requested. The department cares for the pruning and spraying of street trees and the removal of dead trees. It has no appropriation for street planting. The number of street trees in Brooklyn is growing less by about fifteen hundred yearly." Commissioner Ingersoll recommends the Oriental sycamore, the Norway maple, and the red oak for city streets and for suburbs. The poplars, silver maple, catalpa and willow are classed by him as undesirable. Some Gardenlng Advice. When he begins gardening the amateur calls a spade a spade. After the third blister his vocabulary expands. Don't expect your heliotrope blossoms to smell like the cologne named after them. Trailing Arbutus should be hunted, not planted. Wistaria grows well, but it takes its own time about it. When introducing tomato plants to their summer home be gentle and courteous. A little kindness at this time will make them happy all the season through. Cultivating a hedge is like acquiring an accent. You always prefer the way the natives do it.—New York Telegraph. Keep on Cleaning Up. Gratifying results followed the tittular clean-up week, but these will be of little importance if the spirit does not continue throughout the year. Philadelphia is now in its best bib and tucker, and should remain so. Much as we necessarily depend upon the authorities for the heavier part of the work, that which is most essential is that every householder shall make up his mind to maintain existing conditions. It is the bits of paper and clusters of dirt that offend the eye. They are easily removed and ought not to be allowed to accumulate. Let every week be a clean-up week.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Coming Fast. "Business must be picking up with you," said the postman, as he threw down a bundle of letters. "No, it isn't business," the man at the desk replied, with a sigh. "My two sons are away at college now. These are demands for more money." —Judge. Really a Good Idea. "Is your wife goin; to wear her diamonds to the grand opera?" "Of course," answered Mr. Cumrox. "We can't all appreciate music, and we ought to try to make grand opera interesting even for those who go merely to look on." Cheap Cleansing Powder. If short of cleansing powder, use a cloth soaped and dipped in coal ashes. This will be found an excellent and economical way of removing stains from pots and pans. Mark Spots Where Heroes BURNLEY RECY, a town of northern France, is famous in history for the great victory gained near by on August 26, 1346, by the English, under Edward III, over the French of King Philip of Valois. The first attack resulted in disaster for the French, who were driven back. The second attack was made by a large body of French knights who had arrived, and served only to increase the number of casualties of the French forces. A few of the more valorous charged up to the the great on August under Ed- dh of King first attack the French. The sec- y a large who had to in- suailties of new of the up to the and king of lights, suc- , and the prince of the illustra- field. who died in this most de- vented Persian influence. The battle had hard- slans, in immensely sup- to one, pulled themselves mass broke through the had been calculated upo- employed strategy, make center, and allowed the Then with his heavy ground the Persian wing the Persian center. Apart from the battle this spot, half a mile far sand four hundred Persi- plain and along the s Marathon lay wrapped English line and fell near it. The blind king of Bohemia, with a party of devoted knights, succeeded in penetrating the English line, and the king was killed among the ranks of the prince of Wales' men-at-arms. The tablet in the illustration marks the spot where he fell, as near as can be told at the present time. English line and fell near it. The blind king of Bohemia, with a party of devoted knights, succeeded in penetrating the English line, and the king was killed among the ranks of the prince of Wales' men-at-arms. The tablet in the illustration marks the spot where he fell, as near as can be told at the present time. WHERE WALLACE GATHERED HIS HOSTS. Wallace tower, Stirling, Scotland, marks a spot famous in Scottish history. It was here Wallace gathered the Scots for his greatest battle. Six centuries ago, when Robert Bruce was fighting for the throne of Scotland, the patriotic William Wallace led a royal army of Scots to the hill in preparation for a battle with the English under Surrey and Cressingham. Here they camped one September night in 1297 and the next day utterly defeated the English in an encounter at a bridge over the river. Up to that time the English forces of Edward I had had the advantage: Wallace's victory here turned the tide of fortune, and though he himself was afterward taken prisoner and put to death (1305), the splendid triumph of the Scots a few years later at Nannockburn (only three or four miles from here at the other side of Stirling) did secure the independence of the land. The memory of Wallace is dear to every lover of Scotland. "While the great rock he watched from shall endure, His monument is sure, Build low—build high, The great name cannot die." GRAVE MOUND OF GREEK HEROES. The Soros of 132 Athenians who fell in the battle of Marathon, August 12, B. C. 490. The mound is about forty feet high and 300 yards in circumference. Underneath the mound lie the circumference. A beautiful memorial of India, in memory of the dered by Nana Sahib in deast, most pathetic incide of the world is marked. In the terrible Indian man 200 women and children at the massacre of back by Nana Sahib, an here by professional bus thrown into a well bene the angel now stands, noting resignation; she martyrs palms. Aroused, "Sacred to the great company of Christ and children, who near by the followers of the living with the dead, in 15th day of July, 1857." THE LION OF One of the illustriant Chaeronea, which guard who fell on Mt. Parna. A few years ago one and saw only massive densly parts of a lion, muzzle upward; other about. There was never ligent Greeks that these set up over the Theban or near this spot, when nians made a last hero. MARKS a here was here greatest bat-Bruce was the patriotic roots to the English Here they and the next encounter at time the advan-tide of afterward the splen-les later at from here the in-fof Wallace from shall ROES. over the battle of the mound is in circum-the heroes WHERE WALLACE GATHERED HIS HOSTS. Wallace tower, Stirling, Scotland, marks a spot famous in Scottish history. It was here Wallace gathered the Scots for his greatest battle. Six centuries ago, when Robert Bruce was fighting for the throne of Scotland, the patriotic William Wallace led a royal army of Scots to the hill in preparation for a battle with the English under Surrey and Cressingham. Here they camped one September night in 1297 and the next day utterly defeated the English in an encounter at a bridge over the river. Up to that time the English forces of Edward I had had the advantage: Wallace's victory here turned the tide of fortune, and though he himself was afterward taken prisoner and put to death (1305), the splendid triumph of the Scots a few years later at Bannockburn (only three or four miles from here at the other side of Stirling) did secure the independence of the land. The memory of Wallace is dear to every lover of Scotland. "While the great rock he watched from shall endure. endure. His monument is sure, Build low—build high, The great name cannot die." GRAVE MOUND OF GREEK HEROES. The Soros is the mound erected over the graves of 132 Athenians who fell in the battle of Marathon, August 12, B. C. 490. The mound is about forty feet high and 300 yards in circumference. Underneath the mound lie the heroes tract the pranhaas, whereas the skinned carcass of a good-sized monkey was at once seized, pulled under the water and completely devoured by the blood-crazy fish. A man who had dropped something of value waded in after it to above the knee, but went very slowly and quietly, avoiding every possibility of disturbance, and not venturing to put his hands into the water. But nobody could bathe, and even the slightest disturbance in the water, such as that made by scrubbling the hands vig- --- WHERE KING OF BOHEMIA FELL AT CROCER RECY, a town of northern France is famous in history for the grievance victored near by on August 26, 1346, by the English, under ward III, over the French of K. Philip of Valois. The first attack resulted in disaster for the French who were driven back. The second attack was made by a la body of French knights who arrived, and served only to crease the number of casualties the French forces. A few of MAN-EATING FISH GO MAD Piranhas, Described by the Theodore Roosevelt, Scorn Birds, but Devour Skinned Monkeys. Writing of the piranha, the cannibal fish of South America, Colonel Roosevelt in Scribner's says that he did not find that they were cannibals among themselves, but only in the sense of eating the flesh of men. Dead birds and mammals thrown whole and snucked into the water failed to at- ```markdown ``` THE LION OF WATERLOO-ON THE BATTLEFIELD who died in this most decisive victory which pre- vented Persian influence from invading Europe. The battle had hardly begun when the Persians, in immensely superior force, doubtless to one, pulled themselves together and by she mass broke through the Greek center. But the had been calculated upon beforehand. Miltiad employed strategy, making his line weak at the center, and allowed the Persians to break Then with his heavy masses at the ends ground the Persian wings to pieces and fell up the Persian center. The most stubborn fightin apart from the battle at ships, was probably this spot, half a mile from the shore. Six the sand four hundred Persian bodies lay on the plain and along the shore, while 192 men Marathon lay wrapped in glory on this bloo field. who died in this most decisive victory which prevented Persian influence from invading Europe. The battle had hardly begun when the Persians, in immensely superior force, doubtless ten to one, pulled themselves together and by sheer mass broke through the Greek center. But this had been calculated upon beforehand. Miltiades employed strategy, making his line weak at the center, and allowed the Persians to break it. Then with his heavy masses at the ends he ground the Persian wings to pieces and fell upon the Persian center. The most stubborn fighting, apart from the battle at ships, was probably at this spot, half a mile from the shore. Six thousand four hundred Persian bodies lay on this plain and along the shore, while 192 men of Marathon lay wrapped in glory on this bloody field. THE MASSACRE AT CAWNPORE. A beautiful memorial was erected at Cawnpore, India, in memory of the women and children murdered by Nana Sahib in 1857. Perhaps the sadest, most pathetic incident in the entire history of the world is marked by this brooding angel. In the terrible Indian mutiny, half a century ago, 200 women and children who had escaped slaughter at the massacre of Cawnpore were brought back by Nana Sahib, and were hacked to pieces here by professional butchers. The bodies were thrown into a well beneath that stone upon which the angel now stands. Her arms are folded, denoting resignation; she holds in her hands the martyr's palms. Around the well curb is inscribed, "Sacred to the perpetual memory of the great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, near this spot were massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana, and cast, the living with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857." A beautiful memorial was erected at Cawnpore, India, in memory of the women and children mended by Nana Sahib in 1857. Perhaps the saddest, most pathetic incident in the entire history of the world is marked by this brooding angel. In the terrible Indian mutiny, half a century ago 200 women and children who had escaped slaughter at the massacre of Cawnpore, were brought back by Nana Sahib, and were hacked to pieces here by professional butchers. The bodies were thrown into a well beneath that stone upon which the angel now stands. Her arms are folded, not noting resignation; she holds in her hands the martyr's palms. Around the well curb is a scribed, "Sacred to the perpetual memory of the great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana, and cast, living with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857." THE LION OF CHAERONEA. One of the illustrations shows the Lion Chaeronea, which guards the graves of patriarch who fell on Mt. Parnassus, Greece. 338 B. C. A few years ago one traveled past this spain and saw only massive pieces of marble, densely parts of a lion. The head lay with a muzzle upward; other fragments lay scattered about. There was never any doubt among its ligent Greeks that these were remains of a life set up over the Thebans who fell in the battle, or near this spot, when the Thebans and Athinians made a last heroic struggle for the liberation. THE LION OF CHAERONEA. One of the illustrations shows the Lion of Chaeronena, which guards the graves of patriots who fell on Mt. Parnassus, Greece. 338 B. C. A few years ago one traveled past this spot and saw only massive pieces of marble, evidently parts of a lion. The head lay with its muzzle upward; other fragments lay scattered about. There was never any doubt among intelligent Greeks that these were remains of a lion set up over the Thebans who fell in the battle on or near this spot, when the Thebans and Athélians made a last heroic struggle for the liberty --- THE ANGEL OF LONDON OAN OF ARC WAS (EN, FRANCE) excisive victory which pre- form invading Europe. by begin when the Peri- lor force, doubtless ten sisters and by sheer Greek center. But this in beforehand. Miltiades ing his line weak at the e Persians to break it. masses at the ends he is to pieces and fell upon most stubborn fighting, ships, was probably at the shore. Six thou- sian bodies lay on this shore, while 192 men of in glory on this bloody only to the Greece ture, but were its rere WHERE A slab in Marche. Joa of An For a c (1066) this land, by a from Willi English to hold it in French ha- Jeanne d'ail against the enemies, a hatred bla was erected at Cawpore, women and children mur- 1857. Perhaps the sadient in the entire history by this brooding angel, half a century ago, who had escaped slaughter, were brought to pieces of chers. The bodies were that stone upon which Her arms are folded, deholds in her hands the well curb is interpetual memory of the man people, chiefly women this spot were massacred debel Nana, and cast, the to the well below, on the CHAERONEA. ons shows the Lion of the graves of patriots sus, Greece. 338 B. C. traveled past this spot pieces of marble, evil The head lay with its fragments lay scattered or any doubt among intel- were remains of a lion who fell in the battle on the Thebans and Athene struggle for the liberty France we siege of Charles VI let her go In 1430 by the Bu them sold fended her a mile away in and conde where the bury was buried The but important it was four forces of Gsla, under France unculminat of Napoleon was defeat a square his far-sight that more On the feat, Napoleon day preset The man stands on battlefield of Br orously with soap, immediately attracted the attention of the savage little creatures, who darted to the place, evidently hoping to find some animal in difficulties. Once, while some Indians were attempting to launch a boat, and were making a great commotion in the water, a piranha attacked a naked Indian who belonged to the party and mutilated him as he struggled and splashed, waist deep in the stream. Men not making a splashing and struggling are rarely attacked; but if one MEMORIAL AT CAWNYPORE, INDIA of Greece, 338 B. C. All who honor a lost cause will bring their offerings to this sacred spot. The heroes who fought here did not propose to submit until they had done their utmost to save Greece from Macedonian Philip. The battle was fiercely contested, especially by the Thebans, who formed the right wing thrown out into the plain, resting on the Kepbisos and facing west, while the Athenians at the other end of the line rested on the hills, one of which appears just behind the lion. The Macedonians were commanded by the veteran Antipater with the youthful Alexander by his side. When after a stubborn fight, the Thebans were beaten, the Athenians were isolated and rolled up a loss of over a thousand slain. Demosthenes, the soul of the enterprise, fought in the ranks. In the enclosure where the lion now stands, 254 skeletons were found and carried to the Athenian museum. The lion is a funeral monument not only to the Theban dead, but to dead Greece. Greece remained a power by its art and literature, but the Macedonian and then the Roman were its rulers. WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS BURNED. A slab in the sidewalk of the Place du Vieux Marche, Rouen, France, marks the spot where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. For a century and a half after the conquest (1066) this northern district belonged to England, by virtue of the sovereign's inheritance from William of Normandy. Rouen here was an English town. Then the French captured and held it until 1419, when it fell once more into French hands. While the inspired peasant girl, Jeanne d'Arc, was leading the French armies against the English, this was a stronghold of her enemies, and every victory she won made their hatred blacker. According to the old chronicles, she had premonitions that her mission for France was accomplished when she raised the siege of Orleans and secured the coronation of Charles VII at Rheims; but the king would not let her go back to private life. In 1430 at Compiègne, she was taken prisoner by the Burgundian allies of the English, and by them sold to those against whom she had defended her country. It was in an old castle half a mile away behind us (the building itself is not now in existence), that she was tried for heresy and condemned to death as a witch; on the spot where the slab is set in the pavement (1431) she was burned at the stake. Egyptian Lion of Greece, 338 B. C. All who honor a lost cause will bring their offerings to this sacred spot. The heroes who fought, here did not propose to submit until they had done their utmost to save Greece from Macedonian Philip. The battle was fiercely contested, especially by the Thebans, who formed the right wing thrown out into the plain, resting on the Kephisos and facing west, while the Athenians at the other end of the line rested on the hills, one of which appears just behind the lion. The Macedonians were commanded by the veteran Antipater with the youthful Alexander by his side. When after a stubborn fight, the Thebans were beaten, the Athenians were isolated and rolled up a loss of over a thousand slain. Demosthenes, the soul of the enterprise, fought in the ranks. In the enclosure where the lion now stands, 254 skeletons were found and carried to the Athenian museum. The lion is a funeral monument not only to the Theban dead, but to dead Greece. Greece remained a power by its art and literature, but the Macedonian and then the Roman were its rulers. WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS BURNED. A slab in the sidewalk of the Place du Vieux Marche, Rouen, France, marks the spot where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. For a century and a half after the conquest (1066) this northern district belonged to England, by virtue of the sovereign's inheritance from William of Normandy. Rouen here was an English town. Then the French captured and held it until 1419, when it fell once more into French hands. While the inspired peasant girl, Jeanne d'Arc, was leading the French armies against the English, this was a stronghold of her enemies, and every victory she won made their hatred blacker. According to the old chronicles, she had premonitions that her mission for France was accomplished when she raised the siege of Orleans and secured the coronation of Charles VII at Rhelms; but the king would not let her go back to private life. In 1430 at Complegne, she was taken prisoner by the Burgundian allies of the English, and by them sold to those against whom she had defended her country. It was in an old castle half a mile away behind us (the building itself is not now in existence), that she was tried for heresy and condemned to death as a witch; on the spot where the slab is set in the pavement (1431) she was burned at the stake. THE LION OF WATERLOO. The battle of Waterloo was one of the most important military engagements of all history. It was fought on June 18, 1815, between the allied forces of Great Britain, the Netherlands and Prussia, under General Wellington, and the army of France under Napoleon. This battle was the culmination of the campaign following the escape of Napoleon from his exile at Elba. Napoleon was defeated; he left the field in the center of a square "with a somber but calm countenance, his far-sseeing glance probing futurity, and seeing that more than a battle had been lost that day." On the 21st of June, three days after his defeat, Napoleon reached Paris, and the following day presented his abdication. The battle of Waterloo was one of the most important military engagements of all history. It was fought on June 18, 1815, between the allied forces of Great Britain, the Netherlands and Prussia, under General Wellington, and the army of France under Napoleon. This battle was the culmination of the campaign following the escape of Napoleon from his exile at Elba. Napoleon was defeated; he left the field in the center of a square "with a somber but calm countenance, his far-seeing glance probing futurity, and seeing that more than a battle had been lost that day." On the 21st of June, three days after his defeat, Napoleon reached Paris, and the following day presented his abdication. The huge statue shown in the illustration stands on a 200-foot mound in the center of the battlefield, about ten or twelve miles from the city of Brussels. The huge statue shown in the illustration stands on a 200-foot mound in the center of the battlefield, about ten or twelve miles from the city of Brussels. --- THE LION OF WATERLOO. is attacked by any chance, the blood in the water maddens the piranhas, and they assail the man with frightful ferocity. Handy at Banquets On the occasion of official banquets in Gwalior, India, a miniature locomotive and train of cars, electrical, running over a diminutive track laid along the table, is so constructed that it automatically stops before each guest with a cargo of cordials and cigars. MENU FOR THE WEEK COMPLETE LAYOUT OF MEALS TO SERVE SEVEN DAYS. Ideas That May Relieve Housewife From the Tiresome Necessity of Considering "What Shall We Have, for the Next Meal?" By LIDA AMES WILLIS. SUNDAY—BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal. Cream. Broiled fish, sauce tartare. Muffins. Coffee. DINNER. Cream of cheese soup. Veal cutlets au gratin. Mashed potatoes. Asparagus on toast. Tomato mayonnaise. Dandy pudding. Coffee. SUPPER. Green pea mayonnaise. Sliced tongue. Strawberry shortcake. Iced cocoa. MONDAY—BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal. Cream. Codfish cakes. Creamed potatoes. Toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Deviled ham loaf. Cucumbers. Egg bannocks. Orange marmalade. Iced tea. DINNER. Stewed hearts, French style. Bolled potatoes. Spinach souffle. Egg salad. Little strawberry puddings. Coffee Fruit. Cereal. Cream. Liver a la Bordelaise. Potato souffle. Raised corn bread. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Macaroni, with cheese sauce. Stuffed green peppers. Butter rolls. Rhubarb sauce. Ginger sponge cake. Tea. DINNER. Velvet soup. Egyptian chicken. Mashed potatoes. Creamed cauliflower. String bean salad. Lemon cream ple. Coffee. Cereal. Cream. Ham toast. Potatoes, matre d'hotel. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Baked shad roe, with bacon. Radish and cueumber salad. Grape fruit marmalade. Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Baked shad. Spinach. Potatoes a la Italienne. Peas. Lettuce salad. Orange ice. Brownies. Coffee. THURSDAY—BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal. Cream. Scrambled eggs. Spring onions on toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Clam chowder. Boiled rice, with orange compote. Nut bread. Cocoa. DINNER. Asparagus purée. Smothered steak, with red bananas. Mashed potatoes. Cold slaw. Sweet fruit salad. Wafers. Cream cheese. Coffee. FRIDAY—BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal. Cream. Fried butterfish. Creamed potato hash. One-egg muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Swiss eggs. Stuffed tomatoes. Old-fashioned strawberry shortcake. Iced tea. DINNER. Asparagus soup. Boiled sheephead, sauce Hollandaise. Boiled potato balls, butter and parsley. New beets. Cucumber salad. Fruit ambrosia. Sponge cake. Coffee. SATURDAY—BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal. Cream. Creamed*chopped beef. Lyonnaise potatoes, cream. Toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Spiced salmon. Potato and cucumber salad. Raisin bread. Iced tea. DINNER. Fried veal cullets, tomato sauce. Boiled rice. Spinach, with egg. Rhubarb and raisin pie. Cheese. Coffee. Lamb a la Russe. Serve lamb 'tenderly' cooked with a brown gravity to which slices of lemon and cucumber (gherkin) have been added. For the next course have ready a rich pastry dough and roll it very thin, a square in form. Spread this with a savory forcemeat of chopped cooked mushrooms, rice, hard-boiled eggs and cold veal, moistened with butter and broth, and roll it from edge to edge like a "roly-poly". Put into baking dish, sprinkle the top with bread crumbs and bake one hour. It is to be sliced and served with a wine sauce. Apple Omelet. Beat into a cupful of sweetened apple sauce a tablespoonful of melted butter and flavor well with grated nutmeg. Whip the yolks of six eggs and stir gradually into them the cupful of apple sauce. Beat for three minutes, then stir in lightly the stiffened whites of the eggs, and two tablespoonfuls of rich cream. Cook in a frying pan until set, and just before folding the omelet over, sprinkle with bits of chopped citron. This is a delicious dessert. White Bean Soup. Into a pot put two quarts of soup stock, a carrot, two onions, a small turnip, cut fine, and two cupfuls of white beans. Boll for an hour, add a little flour made smooth in a little of the stock, salt and pepper to taste and a little chopped parsley. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- Declaring that the progress of the colored race during the last half-century has not been excelled by any people, Henry B. F. Macfarland, former commissioner of the District of Columbia, urged the graduates of M Street high school, Armstrong Manual Training and Cardozo and O Street vocational schools to pledge themselves to honest endeavors for the further advancement of their race. Mr. Macfarland was the principal speaker at the joint commencement exercises of the four schools, which were held in convention hall at Washington. The big auditorium was packed with friends and relatives of the graduates. Henry P. Blair, president of the board of education, presided, while members of the board and James F. Oyster, its former president, occupied seats on the stage. In beginning his address former Commissioner Macfarland referred to the interest which the nation has in the public schools of the District, and declared that further development of the schools depends upon the maintenance of the organic act of 1878, under which the federal government contributes to the support of the municipality. "I think the city is to be congratulated upon the services of the men and women of the board of education who serve without pay," said Mr. Macfarland. "I am glad to believe that I simply express the feeling of every patriotic American the country over who is intelligent enough to know about the public schools of the District of Columbia. I have had reason to believe that in the recent campaign of education concerning the organic act that there are all over the country men and women who feel just as strongly interested in education in the District of Columbia as they do in their own states and cities. "They regard the national capital as an integral whole, like no other city, and would feel ashamed and disgraced if the education given here was below the standard that existed elsewhere. They do not divide the capital into a national city, made up of parks, buildings and things that can be seen, and a local city made up of schools, a health department and municipal services generally. They look upon this national capital as one, and they want it to be in all respects the finest in the world. "Fifty years ago five per cent of the colored race could read—now 70 per cent. Fifty years ago no architects or engineers or manufacturers or mine owners were of the colored race—now there are thousands. Fifty years ago there were no negro newspapers, banks, stores or other businesses of similar character—now you have 400 newspapers and periodicals 64 banks, 100 insurance companies and 20,000 grocery stores. Fifty years ago there were no colored doctors, nurses or dentists. Now there are 50,000 of such professions. Fifty years ago there were no farms owned by the members of your race. Now there are 220,000 farms, embracing more than 20,000,000 acres. "Rejoicing as I do at your pride in your race, I rejoice to speak to you tonight as members of that great race—a race which is going to be greater in the future than it has ever been in the past. The unparalleled record of the negro race in the United States ought to be to these young men and women the greatest possible inspiration that can be given them." A unique collection of books has just been acquired by the library of congress from Betram Dobell of London. It consists entirely of works printed for private circulation, 1,500 in number, covering a wide range of subjects, and representing a labor of 40 years on the part of the collector. Mr. Dobell has prepared an interesting descriptive catalogue to accompany the collection. Imbedded in the solid trunk of a tree in Deerings Oaks, Portland, Me., where it had roasted for about 225 years, a bullet was disclosed when an employee of the park department cut through the trunk of the tree and felled it. Examination of the bullet showed that it was of a kind used more than two centuries ago, and it is believed it was fired in the Indian battle of 1689. In these days of domestic science and manual training it is interesting to know that sewing and knitting were taught in the first frame schoolhouse erected in Farmington, Me., more than a century and a quarter ago. Geologists have estimated that the great German deposits of potash salts, practically the only important ones in the world, will last, at the present rate of exploitation, 600,000 years. The commonwealth ministry of New South Wales is preparing a national insurance bill on the lines of Lloyd George's measure. Japan's rice crop this year is estimated at nearly 265,384,000 bushels, a 12,000,000-bushel increase over last year. Rapid Fall of Petroleum Level. A recent article in Engineering is of somewhat panicky tone over the rapid waning of the world's supply of petroleum. The enormous increase in the consumption of petroleum products is shown by the fact that while at the beginning of the century the oil wells touched 1,100 feet in depth, now the average level of the oil has fallen to 2,000 feet. "America, by reckless expenditure of her resources, has increased her annual output to 200,000 barrels, yet the demand for oil Supervisor of Statistics A. T. Edmonston states in a bulletin that any Missouri city or town negro with $1,000 in cash and a little knowledge of farming can become a farmer and in four or five years have his farm paid for and be independent and well off financially. A first payment of $500 would be the opening wedge toward getting the farm, leaving $500 for purchasing farming implements or other articles which may be needed. The balance due on the farm can be paid off in small weekly installments from the money derived from the sale of crops and poultry, butter, eggs and milk. Many farms have wooded areas full of oak and other timber suitable for lumber and ties. In winter, time could be given to cutting and marketing such timber and enough earned that way to pay the yearly installment. This is the picture painted in the bureau of labor statistic bullefin of the life of the average Missouri negro farmer. At Jefferson City, in the Lincoln institute, maintained by the state to educate negroes, the curriculum includes a course in agriculture, but the present class is not as large as it ought to be. Prof. B. F. F. Allen, the superintendent, in his last report to Superintendent of Public Schools Evans, gave the following facts pertaining to the negro state farm and its future: "The farm consists of 60 acres, with a good brick cottage, barn, piggy, fruit orchard, etc., just purchased, and better opportunities will be offered for practical farming now than ever before. All surplus farm products that cannot be used in the boarding department will be sold in the local market and the money thus earned will be used in helping to stock the farm and to pay for student labor that may be needed from time to time." On the outskirts of St. Louis city are nine fair sized dairy farms owned and operated by negroes. In Jackson county are 22 negro farmers who sell their products for a high price in Kansas City. Jasper county, with the cities of Joplin, Carthage, Webb City and Carterville, has only one negro farmer. Cole county, in which is Jefferson City, the state capital, has 16 negro farmers, who are prosperous and constantly have well-filled larders. One of the most important effects of the work done at Hampton institute is found in the way in which graduates go back among their own people and raise the latter's economic position and standards of living. In his annual report the principal of the institute remarks that the government agent for farm demonstration among negroes in 12 Virginia counties is a Hampton graduate. With the help of nine subagents and 1,000 demonstrators he has doubled the corn crop of negro farmers in certain counties of Virginia and has improved their homes, schools and churches. Another graduate who has under his direction on the Sea islands nearly 100 farm demonstrators is showing the people of the islands how to double and in some cases quadruple their crops. he has also formed a co-operative society for the purpose of helping the farmers with loans at a fair rate of interest. The rules of this society, the first of its kind in the South, have been adapted from those governing the farmers' co-operative societies in Ireland. What is said to be the largest stone ever cut by human hands lies in an abandoned quarry in Syria, near the ruins of Baalbek. The stone is 75 feet long, 18 feet high and 15 feet wide. Its weight is estimated to be 1,500 tons. The greatest mystery is how similar stones almost as large were raised to a great height to form part of the nearby ruins. Among the silver masters of Sheffield, England, it is rather an established practice to encourage the employment of families. It is more the rule than otherwise that a father working in the silver trade will apprentice his children to that trade as they arrive at working age. The largest telescope in the world is to be put into position in Ottawa. It will weigh 50 tons, will contain a 72-inch lens and will be large enough for an automobile to drive through its tube. If it is true that the good die young, will the oldest inhabitant please offer an explanation? 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 United States' bill for diamonds the last decade has been just about enough to buy and build the Panama canal. In their experiments with the production of steel by electric methods the United States Steel corporation has expended more than $800,000. for special purposes has become so great that the rise in price is considerable—so great, indeed, that competition with coal for ordinary purposes has become impossible." The United States bureau of mines has already issued a warning and urged improved methods. Where the Shoe Pinched. Stork—Hey! Got a working card? Eagle—What? Who are you? Stork—Flying delegate to the Kid Carriers' union Fuck. WHOM SHALL I EMPLOY? This question comes at a time of Great Bereavement. Many are Least Prepared for it. Unhesitatingly the answer is, the Firm that does not take Advantage of its patrons because of peculiar bereavement, but Protects and Advises them Sympathetically. The firm whose goods are of the best quality, prices the Most Reasonable services the Promptest, Most Efficient and Most Courteous. The firm that is well kno for its Upright Dealing and questioned Integrity. Such a firm is C. H. Coun Undertaker and Licensed I balmer. It entered the busin first and Paved the way for others. Its Nineteen years of stinted satisfaction to Hundr of patrons in the conduct of Th sands of funerals enable it to derstand the Peculiar needs the patrons of Greater Kan City. IF YOU DESIRE MODERATE PRICES, THE BEST QUALITY, COURTESY AND PROMPTNESS, CALL C. H. COUNTEE. UNDERTAKER Men A Women w Beau Ha NELSON HAIR DR will make you pr It is unsurpassed for m stubborn hair—soft, gloss It not only beautifies th in good condition. Price, 25 and 50 C NELSON MFG. CO COOPER & Successor to Carry a F DRU Patent M Cigars, S and P PHONES: Home Ma 18th and Men Admire Women with Beautiful Hair! NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING will make you proud of your hair. It is unsurpassed for making harah, 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. PER & CAMPBELL Successor to G. A. Roy Carry a Full Line of DRUGS, Patient Medicines, Gars, Sundries and Paints. NES: Home Main 7344; Bell L 18th and Pased 2220 VINE ST. Lady Attendant BOTH PHONES 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. GOOPER & 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 If you should ask to the most elegant shop in the city he w say—The Palace Bast East Nineteenth street ed by that prince of J. C. Hobbs—who, a one of the neatest a Halls in town. Prof. Hobbs emplo workmen, T. D. Hobbs, David Robin and H. A. Peace, wh barber of acknowledg Turner, the best kn sas City, looks after patrons with Miss the neat and capa Hobbs is also Kansas iar dancing master, the People's Dancing dances every Thursu Hall, 1731 Lydia av dances. Telephone, I Home Phone Main 7646. COHN'S All Bonded Whiskevs HN'S BUFF ed Whiskevs with Soda 10c. 12th St. Kansas All Bonded Whiskeys with Soda 10c. 800 East 12th St. Particular attention may be given to the following subject, since there are hundreds of thousands using theEureka Comb throughout the United States and Isles. They give the best of satisfaction as to our recommend, straightening the hair beautifully with one stroke, and as assistance in causing a rapid growth. Evidences coming to us from every source, of which is pleasing, that theEureka closely as advertised Comb performs precisely as advert No better comb on the marka when it comes to benefits and eff placed goes with it instructions, h preferable. Merchants and agents the public. They are usually sold for $1. be careful in the purchase as the Eureka. We wholesale the Eurek wholesalers of this special device; The devises are patented and No better comb on the market for purposes as we have been advised that other combs are toys, when it comes to benefits and effectual influences when used as to directions, for which every comb placed goes with it instructions, how to use and for what purposes. Wherever introduced the Eureka preferable. Merchants and agents are successful when they are placed conveniently in quantities for the public. They are usually sold for $1.50 (one dollar and fifty cents) each complete. The only thing is to be careful in the purchase as there is no other comb that will answer the purposes so well as the Eureka. We wholesale the Eureka Comb, being the manufacturers and promoters, and are the only wholesalers of this special device; if there are others we would be pleased to be informed. LAMP CAP The firm that is well known for its Upright Dealing and Unquestioned Integrity. Such a firm is C. H. Countes, Undertaker and Licensed Embalmer. It entered the business first and Paved the way for the others. Its Nineteen years of unstinted satisfaction to Hundreds of patrons in the conduct of Thousands of funerals enable it to understand the Peculiar needs of the patrons of Greater Kansas City. dmire men th beautiful air NELSON'S DRESSING proud of your hair making harsh, kinky and y and luxurious. the hair—but also keeps it Cents Everywhere RICHMOND, VA. CAMPBELL To G. A. Roy Full Line of JGS, Medicines Sundries Paints in 7344; Bell East 43 d Paseo 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 nearest and best kept Pool Hails in town. Prof. Hobbs employs only the BEST workmen, T. D. Henderson, Henry Hobbs, David Robinson, W. T. Scott, and H. A. Peace, while he himself is a barber of acknowledged ability. Ernest Turner, the best known porter in Kansas City, looks after the comfort of his patrons with Miss Mary A. Woodson, the neat and capable cashier. Prof. Hobbs is also Kansas City's most popular dancing master, being manager of the People's Dancing Academy, which dances every Thursday night at Lyric Hall, 1731 Lydia Avenue, all the latest dances. Telephone, Bell 2833 East. BUFFET with Soda 10c. Kansas City, Mo. Attention may be given to the folle- thousands using the Eureka Comb that give the best of satisfaction as to- tally with one stroke, and as assist- ning to us from every source, of wertised. Best for purposes as we have been a- cceptual influences when used as to- tow to use and for what purposes. a are successful when they are plu- MOBERLY, MO. The entertainment given by Miss Ella E. Boone Friday night at Grant Chapel, was very good and all who witnessed it were pleased. The proceeds were to rhe benefit of Club No. 3.... The Magis City Cornet Band enjoyed a fine trip to Woodland on last Saturday.... Mrs. Bernice Hughes made a trip to Forest Green Sunday.... Prof. J. H. Williams of Wellsville was in the city for a few days, and a guest of Prof. A. B. Bolden....Dr. J. T. Casten of St. Louis spent a few hours in the city Monday....Mrs. Bessie Coleman of St. Joseph, is visiting parents and relatives....Rev. Cochon of St. Joseph preached at the Second Baptist Church Sunday.... There was a grand opening of the U. B. F, Hall at Madison last Sunday. A large delegation from here attended. D. D. G. M. W. B. Coleman, Prof. A. B. Holden, M. W. West, Mrs. Albert Stapleton and others prominent in U. B. F, circles attended. W. B. Coleman was the speaker for the occasion.... Mr. A. C. Black went to Paris Sunday.... Mrs. M, Etta Bolden was called to Kansas City on account of the death of the Grand Treasurer of the Grand Temple.... Miss Verneta Vaughan has been ill.... The big rally last Sunday was kuite a success. Rev. Abbott of Huntsville and more than a dozen of his members were present and gave freely. Mr. and Mrs. Dock Payne took special interest in the rally. Mr. Joseph Herrelson, a prosperous farmer of Clifton took quite an interest in the rally, and pressed himself as being pleased with the new church. Mr. Herrelson donated $15 to the church and said that he was willing to give even more. The report of the clubs was as follows: Club No. 1, Prof. L. B. Quinn, leader, $131. Club No. 2, Wm. E. Boone, leader, $131. Club No. 3, Mrs. Lucy Graves, leader, $66. Club No. 4, Rev. W. B. Coleman, leader, $105. Club No. 5, Jas. Baker, leader, $21. Club No. 7, Geo. Washington, leader, $79.61. Club No. 8, Mrs. Mattie Lovell, leader, $42.40. Club No. 9, Miss Sopha Althouse, leader, $63.30. Club No. 10, Rev. J. K. Ponder, leader, $104. Total, $745.31. Club No. 2 was the leading club. Club No. 10 lead by Rev. Ponder, had only two members, pastor and wife. The other churches attended well and contributed liberally. Pastor, officers and members are much pleased with the success, and wish to thank all who assisted. This is the largest ever collected at one effort in the history of the Colored churches of this city, and the officers hope to raise the amount to $800 by the last of the week. The Ecclesiastical Alliance experienced a very interesting meeting Tuesday morning. Rev. J. N. Fitzpatrick of Hannibal and Prof. A. B. Bolden were pleasant visitors. PALMYRA. MO. Mrs. Mayne Downing of St. Louis, who has been the guest of her sister, will return to her home Tuesday..... Mrs. C. G. Williams and daughter, Miss Estella, were guests of Miss Hamilton last week.... Mrs. R. F. Noland was in Kansas City, Kas., last week.... Misses Black, Velma Queen of Hannibal, attended the picnic of July and stayed over Sunday, the guests of Miss Maggie Lee....Miss Blanche Hubbard of Chicago is visiting Mrs. Jennie Davis....Florence Cooke of Hannibal, is spending her vacation with Miss Sandridge....The Telephone 561 Strictly First-Class Emma Montgomery DELICATESSEN 517 Shawnee St., Leavenworth, Kansas Open Day and Night Meals at All Hours Special Service for Balls, Parties, Etc. Meals Sent Out by Request and Satisfaction Assured. When in Moberly, Mo., Stop at ALONZO RAY'S ROOMING HOUSE ALONZO RAY, Prop. Electric Lights and Hot Baths and Ladies Massage Best Rooming House in Moberly 212 North Ault Street e Union Station Mo. EUREKA REG. PAT D AUG 8, 1911. the following subject, since there are hum- mb throughout the United States and as to our recommend, straightening the assistance in causing a rapid growth of which is pleasing, that the Eureka has been advised that other combs are toys, as to directions, for which every comb poses. Wherever introduced the Eureka are placed conveniently in quantities for (ats) each complete. The only thing is to will answer the purposes so well as the tuturers and promoters, and are the only aid be pleased to be informed. Further information write EUREKA COMB COMPANY, Chattanooga, Tenn. --- Summer Tourist Fares VIA Missouri Pacific picnic given by the A. M. E. Church was quite a success. An immense crowd, including neighboring towns, attended the picnic. The play at night given by the young ladies, was well worth mentioning. CHILLICOTHE, MD. Miss Evans of Brunswick, Mo., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Evans last week...Miss Cooper of Keytesville, Mo., is spending a few days with her relatives...Mrs. Kereford of Atchison, Kas, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown. Mr. Kereford has made several occasional visits to their homeestead, not that he loves her less but their daughter more...Col. Ales Winfrey departed for St. Louis, Mo., Friday, where he is to transact business relative to his mail service. He proposes to return Monday...Prof. Longdon was called to Brookfield, Mo., Sunday to assist in directing the musicale of the program of the enthusiastic and successful rally given by the developing A. M. E. Church of that city...Mrs. Dicy Woods and daughter were attendants...Our readers of the Sun found interesting reading in the wedding of CrewsOverall and HarrfordHabney. Since we are interested in the success of the new husbands, we extend to them and their chosen companions our best wishes for pleasant sailing upon the high sea for which no compass has yet yet been invented...Mr. Joseph Holmes, who is blessed with length of years, is ver yill at the home of Miss Clyde Clark, where his wife and daughters are giving him the best attention. Our hearts and those of hundreds of his friends, we are sure, go out in deepest sympathy and go up in heartfelt prayer for the afflicted husband and father. ROSEDALE: KANSAS Sunday will be quarterly meeting day at the St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church. Mrs. H. Smith, who has been visiting her sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Cotton, 4026 Adams, has returned to her home in Lexington, Ky. Mrs. Julia Evans of Harrodtsburg Ky. is visiting her cousin, Mrs. W. G. Pinkard, 4022 Adams street. LAWRENCE, KANSAS The Steward Board met at Mrs. Yeager's on New York street and enjoyed a four course lunch... Mrs. Williams, Mr. Williams and Mrs. Shepherd of Kansas City, Mo., spent the Fourth of July in Lawrence visiting their sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Fuel...The Colored K. P. of Lawrence are making preparations to attend the Grand Lodge at Fort Scott July 20 and 24...Mr. Leonus Figgins left for Omaha, Neb., Sunday evening... Miss Nellie Crutchfield is visiting her sisters, W. W. C. Brown and Mrs. Mason of Lawrence, Kas...Miss Catherine Grand and Miss Alma Robinson spent Sunday in Topeka...Willie Wright spent Sunday in Kansas City...Mr. Herbert Gleed was married in Denver, Colo., Tuesday, June 30. He is expected home in a few days with his bride, where he has a nice cozy bungalow waiting for them...Mrs. Johnson Smothers' daughter suffered a broken arm Saturday afternoon at the picnic. The Warren Street Baptist Church gave a large picnic July Fourth in Pinkney's Grove. A large and very nice crowd was out...Rev. Smith's son, Preston, has gone to Topeka on a visit. TONGANOXIE, KANSAS A grand reception was given by the S. M. T. at Banning's Hall in honor of Rev. McNeal last Friday. Mr. Lee Baker attended Church here Sunday... Mrs. Z. E. Nelson is visiting Miss Donor Walton at Reno this week... Mr. Jas. Nelson was among the visitors Sunday... Mrs. Effie Jones of Atchison and Mrs. Josie James visited Mrs. Wake at Neely last week... Mr. Tom Nelson of Kansas City, Kas, visited relatives and friends here Friday... Mrs. C. Barnett, Mrs. E. Williams are visiting parents here this week... Mr. Al Miller and wife of Kansas City, Mo., visited friends last week... Mrs. Wake and daughter left for Indiana Sunday, where they will make their future home... Mrs. Alex Jackson and son visited here Sunday... Mr. Ed. Winston and wife visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday... Mr. Guy Carper and nephew Dorris of Topeka, visited his sister, Mrs. Eugene Jarrett, Sunday... Mr. Ephhram Collins of Leavenworth spent Saturday with his daughter, Mrs. Jno. Caldwell, Jr... Mr. A. D. Hines of Kansas City, Kas, visited his son, Mr. Willis Nelson, Sunday... Mrs. Brookman of Kansas City ...Mrs. Brookman of Kansas City, Kas., Mrs. Mary Sharon and Gretched Buford spent a few days with parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Oasley.....Mrs. Bertha Rogers' visited relatives here last week.....Miss Dorothy and idel Nelson of Reno spent the Fourth with Miss Edna Hicks.....The Punlor Priscilla Club gave a party in honor of Lulu Wake at the home of Mrs. Arthur James Thursday afternoon. A two course luncheon was served.....Rev. S. E. Saunders is visiting Kansas City this week.....Rev. A. Smith of Kahsas City, preached at the first Baptist Church Sunday. OFFICIAL CALL. To the Members of the Western Negro Press Association: I hereby call the Association to meet in its 16th annual session in the city of Muskogee, Okla., August 18-19, 1914. All newspaper men and women are urged to be present. A. J. SMITHERMAN, Pres. Attest: Tulsa, Okla. J. D. COOK, Secretary, Milwaukee, Wis. TURNER-WRIGHT WEDDING. One of the most beautiful weddings of the season was that of Miss Bernice Anna Wright, the charming niece of Mr. and Mrs. Penn Hawkins of 409 East Elm street, Independence, Mo., and Mr. Lionel Turner, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Turner, also of Independence, which was solemnized at 8 o'clock Monday evening, June 29, at the M. E. Church. Rev. J. Will Jackson performed the ceremony on the altar in front of a cross which was beautifully decorated. Before the arrival of the bridal party Miss Flora Kyles played an instrumental selection and Miss Rowenia Brown sang "O Promise Me," followed by the wedding march played by Mrs. John Wright. The bride, who was escorted and given in marriage by her uncle, Mr. Ike Wilson, of Kansas City, Mo., wore a gown of white silk with a shadow lace bodice, and her veil of tull fell from a cap of point lace, caught with a wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of bridal roses. Preceding the bride was the little flower girl, Voucille Raglain, who carried the wedding ring concealed in a bouquet of roses. The maid of honor was Miss Mayme C Raglain. The best man was Mr. Percy C. Turner, the brother of the groom. After hearty congratulations were received from their many friends, the happy couple left for their home, 409 East Elm street, Independence, Mo. There were many beautiful and valuable presents received said to be worth over $150. Their many friends wish for them a long and happy married life. On Wednesday, June 24, the Young School Alumni gave a whist party for the bride and groom-elect at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Dehoney. The prizes were won as follows: First, Percy Turner; second, Mr. Workman; booby, Mrs. Minnie Wilson. The guest prize which was a hand-painted pin tray, was presented to Miss Wright. Punch, ice cream and cake was served. Everyone had a delightful time. On Thursday, June 25, Mr. and Mrs. John Wright gave a kitchen shower for the bride-elect. Quite a few useful things were brought. On Friday afternoon, June 26, Miss Lella Harrison, the niece of Prof. Harrison and Miss Arvilla Gibson, gave a linen shower for the bride to be at the residence of Prof. and Mrs. Harrison. The house was beautifully decorated. Cards were indulged in. Prizes were won by Miss Ruth Harrison and Miss Veta Garr. On Friday evening, June 26, Mrs. W. H. Harrison and Miss Nellie Lraigain gave a reception for Miss Wright and Mr. Turner at the former's residence. Cards and dancing were the amusements of the evening. All declared themselves elated over the delightful evening spent. SMITH'S QUICK LUNCH CAFE. Meals at all hours--15, 20, 25 Cents Lunches Put Up Miss Lillie Page, advertiser and agent for Mrs. Simpson's Vegetable Salve and Hair Tonic, will give treatments at 1730 Michigan avenue. 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