Kansas City Sun

MAYOR JOST: Shall Prejudice and Wrong or Right and Justice Prevail? the brilliant pastor of St. Stephens's Baptist Church of this city who had the biggest vote of any man in a contest at the Grand Lodge of U. B. F. KANSAS CITY'S CHAMPION TENNIS TEAM, the undisputed champions of Missouri and the West A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 1. REV. J. W. HUR the brilliant pastor of St. Stephens' Baptist biggest vote of any man in a contest at TENNIS CLUB SCORES BIG HIT Splendid Conduct of Players Both On and Off the Field WIN FAVORABLE COMMENT The Matchless Management and Handling of the Men by Captain McQueen Carrion Largely Responsible for Their Overwhelming Victory. PREPARATION FOR NEXT YEAR. The magnificent and decisive victory of the Kansas City Tennis Club over their St. Louis rivals is still the talk of the big town on the eastern border of our state. And they are still dazed from the crushing defeat administered by the boys from the banks of the Kaw. St. Louis was much elated on the first day when KANSAS CITY'S CHAMPION the undisputed champions of M they won two out of the three sets of plays on that day. But that was large- ly due to the fact that the Kansas City boys were playing upon a rough and new field to which they were un- accustomed. But after they got their bearing and under the relentless but superb coaching of Dr. Carrion, the captain, they swept everything before them on both the second and third day in doubles, singles and exhibition games, St. Louis never having a look- in. The St. Louisans could not under- stand that splendid exhibition of MASONIC NOTES. They say the recent Grand Lodge was the best ever. Grand Master Crews is in receipt of many flattering letters relative to his address. The little tilt between Past Grand Master Coles and Editor Mahammitt ended in a love feast. Prof. J. E. Herriford demonstrated at the recent Grand Lodge that he is the most astute parliamentarian of the race. The next session of the Grand Lodge will be held at Hannibal and the Knights Templars expect to have an encampment throughout the week. Two of the busiest and most indispensable persons in attendance were Miss Willa M. Glenn and Miss Pau- The Kansas City Sun civic pride and race loyalty when a greatbuch of prominent Kansas Cityans were on the side lines coaching and cheering and urging their players on to greater endeavor. As one St. Louisan said: "You couldn't get one St. Louis Negro to praise or help another if you were going to give him a house and lot on the principal thoroughfare and you Kansas Cityans are a revelation to us, but we hope that this object lesson will do our people good, though we lose." Among those on the line were Prof. G. N. Gresham, principal of the High School; Prof. R. G. Jackson, music instructor of Western University; Hon. N. C. Crews, Grand Master of Masons and editor of the Kansas City Sun; Prof. R. W. Foster, principal of Kansas City's largest ward school and wife; Mrs. Dr. Howard M. Smith, one of Kansas City's most enthusiastic club women; Mrs. Minie Higginbotham of the Wortham Tailoring Co., and several others whose names we were unable to get. The Kansas City team was composed of Prof. G. A. Page and C. R. Wastmorland, who played in magnificent form; Dr. E. J. McCampbell, Profs. H. O. Cook and G. N. Grilsham, Drs. H. M. Smith and C. V. Lowe; Messrs. Felix H. Payne, C. Jackson, J. Jenkins, and Kansas City's famous dentist, Dr. McQueen Carrion, captain. The club was the recipient of many CHMPION TENNIS TEAM, of Missouri and the West. social attentions during their stay and have nothing but words of praise for the St. Louis players and people. Already preparations are under way for the entertainment of the St. Louis players and visitors next summer on a lavish scale, and doubtless the next tournament will be the society event of the state. Banquets, balls, automobile parties and receptions are being talked of in the most enthusiastic way and St. Louis can look forward to the most brilliant outing she has ever enjoyed. line Vaughan, stenographers for the Kansas City Sun and official typlists for the Grand Lodge. They were accorded a vote of thanks by the Grand Lodge for their valuable service. Prof. T. W. H. Williams, one of the ablest Masonic Jurists in the Jurisdiction, was compelled to leave before the close of the session to the regret of his many friends. The Grand Master was the happy recipient of a magnificent Past Master's Jewel, presented by Mt. Oread Lodge No. 76 of which the brilliant and erudite W. Clarence Hueston, attorney-at-law, is the Worshipful Master. So completely was he taken by surprise upon the eloquent presentation of this beautiful jewel by Brother Hueston that he was compelled to call upon Past Deputy Grand Master J. E. Herriford to respond for him which Brother Herriford did in his usual happy and felicitous style. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914. Buckner's Famous Dixie Jubilee Concert Co. W. C. BUCKNER, the most famous Manager and Basso before the public today. MADAME NEAL HAWKINS BUCKNER, who is acknowledged the greatest Soprano of the race. HONEY MOORE, Tenor and Humorist. Twelve successive years with this great company. HELLEN SMALLWOOD, the remarkable Contralto, who has a voice unequalled in power and expression. M. E. ATKINSON, who has a tenor voice of exceptional quality timbre. One of our own boys. HILLARD BIRD, the Sensational Baritone; and ALLIE B. FREEMAN, Plainist, a graduate of our own Western University and whose work as a soloist has brought the most favorable comment. HEAR THEM AT ALLEN CHAPEL, RAIN OR SHINE, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1914. ADMISSION 25 CENTS—Reserved Seats 35 Cents Under Auspices of the Trustee Board. Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., Pastor. For Sweet Charity's Sake For Sweet Charity's Sake Charity Carnival at Twentieth and Woodland, September 233. A combined effort. A combined effort of Associated Charities and Fraternal Organizations for benefit of Wheatley-Provident Hospital. Carnival entertainments, Free Picture Shows, Dancing, Competitive Drills, Baby Show and amusements of all kinds. Admission 10 cents. T. C. UNTHANK, G. N. GRISHAM J. E. HERRIFORD, N. C. CREWS, J. E. PERRY, C. H. CALLOWAY, W. C. HUESTON, L. H. JORDAN, M. H. LAMBRIGHT, E. H. PAYNE, L. A. KNOX. Execut Executive Committee, M. PROF. J. C. HOBBS, Kansas City's Premier Dancing Master. GRAND RE-OPENING of the People's Dancing A THURSDAY NIGHT, SEE at LYRIC HALL, 1731 Lydia with all the latest dances, best of music and good or has been remodeled with new plush seated chairs and tion room for the convenience of its patrons and is n ever. We desire to thank all our patrons for favors show academy and expect to meet and greet you as cordially above date. PROF. J. C. HOBBS, Danc GRAND RE-OPENING People's Dancing A HURSDAY NIGHT, SEP MYRIC HALL, 1731 Lydia latest dances, best of music and good or modeled with new plush seated chairs and the convenience of its patrons and is n e to thank all our patrons for favors show expect to meet and greet you as cordially GRAND RE-OPENING of the People's Dancing Academy THURSDAY NIGHT, SEPT. 3 at LYRIC HALL, 1731 Lydia Ave. with all the latest dances, best of music and good order. This hall has been remodeled with new plush seated chairs and elegant reception room for the convenience of its patrons and is now better than ever. We desire to thank all our patrons for favors shown this hall and academy and expect to meet and greet you as cordially as ever on the above date. SUN LIGHTS. Art must rise above caste, sectarianism and narrow religion to be truly great, leaving the material for the spiritual and spreading its pinnons for things Heavenly. Love and Beauty. When will we understand that Beauty of life consists in our ability to put good in everything that we come in contact with. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole," so a little love in everything we do will sweeten our labors; soften our sorrows; regulate our pleasures, broaden our capacities and enlighten our minds. Love is the basic principal of all Beauty. Criticism. If it's True accept is graciously; if it's Malicious ignore it, and if it is entirely false, refute it. Beauty may be only skin deep, but it will bunko a man out of his seat in a crowded car every time. --- G. N. GRISHAM, N. C. CREWS, C. H. GALLOWAY, L. H. JORDAN, E. H. PAYNE, Executive Committee, RE-OPENING S's Dancing Academy Y NIGHT, SEPT. 3 ALL, 1731 Lydia Ave. best of music and good order. This hall new plush seated chairs and elegant recep- ance of its patrons and is now better than our patrons for favors shown this hall and t and greet you as cordially as ever on the PROF. J. C. HOBBS, Dancing Master. LEXINGTON, MO. tetarian, the truly for the opinions and that ability that we leave a little sweeten; regu- capac- Love beauty. ociously; if it is sleep, but seat in Miss Ethel Henderson of 217 North 24th street, returned home Tuesday after spending six weeks in Kansas City with Mrs. Wm. Green of 2503 Woodland avenue. Mrs. Geo. Johnson and Mrs. Wyatt Harper are visiting Mrs. Leatha Lightle, North 24th street. Mr. Claude Davis of 2602 Euclid avenue, Kansas City, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Thomas Boldridge, on West Lafayette street. The Happy, Hour Club entertained Tuesday evening in honor of the visitors. Mrs. Robert Henderson entertained Mrs. Geo. Johnson, Mrs. Gertrude Harper and Mr. Claude Davis at dinner Saturday. Miss Mazele Woodson left for Kansas City Sunday morning. Mrs. George Johnson, Miss Ethel Henderson and Mr. Forest Bowens spent Sunday in Waverly, Mo. ... Mrs. Maggie Young and Mrs. Gracie Williams returned to Kansas City Saturday evening after a two weeks' visit here with Mrs. Guy Korcuff on North 24th street. THE DOUGLAS HAND LAUNDRY OPENS! A Well-Planned Establishment for Getting Out Work—To Play a Great Part in the Economic Life of Colored Kansas City. Many institutions among Negroes are being opened up in various lines of endeavor, but the Douglass Hand Laundry just launched into the busy Negro life on 18th street, at 1720 caps them all for full bloom and running order from the start. The place has opened with a rush and bustle that denotes a determination to succeed if thrift, industry and right management can make it so. There have been several indifferent attempts to start a laundry here by Negroes, but always with a lack of business methods which insure success. The Douglass Hand Laundry has started right and it will keep right. It has every sign and indication of a successful future, 'big with prosperous business that will give employment to many of our men and women. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass, the enterprising couple who are responsible for the success of the new venture are not without a good sound and practical experience in the laundry business. Mr. Douglass is a veritable wizard in mechanics; he has demonstrated many highly practical and ingenious methods in applying motor power to the laundry's particular needs. This is a feat within itself. He is making this power run his washing machine, the extractor, the combination collar, cuff and shirt machine, and mangle for flat work, also boiler for heat, water and drying room. The complaint against laundries has been that they were unable to get out the work. This problem is at once overcome by the fine and adequate facilities already installed by the Douglasses. They are especially prepared to do the work. Two neat well-appearing laundry wagons will gather in bundles and deliver them to all parts of the city. The Negro is the natural superior to others in laundry work as he is in other household affairs. Then, quality and service are assured. The colored people have yearned for this laundry. They have got it now and they are going to support it with their patronage. There is absolutely nothing for the calamity howler to preach about. Slowly but surely the Negro is learning to support his own. The white man is forcing us to it, and we are discovering the wisdom in doing it voluntarily. Any intelligent person will spend his or her money where he receives the proper value for money expended and the same being appreciated. But the fool crieth on lame excuses, saying "I will not see good; I'll spend my money where I'm scorned and despised and hated." Remember the Douglas Hand Laundry is a Negro enterprise, by and for the Negro. It is the most advanced step in industrial independence for colored people of Kansas City. It is a necessity; therefore, it will succeed. The nearest home phone puts you on the wagon route which makes its daily round collecting and delivering. The office is neat and well-appointed. Every possible care will be exercised in handling your laundry. Our prices are moderate and compare favorably with like concerns. Equal in price; better in service. THE DOUGLASS HAND LAUNDRY, 1720 East 18th Street. Home Phone, 1619 Main. NOTE—The League Enterprise has arranged its spacious store room for our first branch office. This place is in the hub of the Negro business, 1521 E. 18th street. Bell phone, East 1521. U. B. F. NOTES The white people of Keokuk said they never saw so many Colored people in their lives as were in that city on last Friday. Drs. G. W. Brown, J. H. Williams, J. D. Sexion, Rev. J. W. Hurse, and Rev. J. H. Garnett were commanding figures in the Grand Lodge. The next meeting place of the Grand Lodge will be Omaha, Nebr., and it is expected to be the most largely attended Grand Lodge in the history of the order. Dr. T. H. Phillips, the Grand old hero of the U. B. F.'s, was here—there—and everywhere trying to make it pleasant for the thousands who attended the Grand Lodge. The delegates to the National Grand Lodge are Dr. J. T. Caston, Prof. B. K. Bruce, Prof. S. T. Pettigrew who defeated Hon. C. H. Calloway by a narrow margin for the third place on the delegation Mrs. Prof. Starnes of Kansas City, M. DR. JAS. H. WILLIAMS, Kansas City's popular physician who won by more than 100,000 votes the handsome automobile given away at the recent U. B. F. Grand Lodge in Keokuk, Ia. Dr. Williams is now being industriously boomed by his friends who are legion, for Grand Master next year. DR. WILLIAMS WRITES Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25, 1914. Mr. Editor: Dear Sir: Please allow me space in your splendid paper to express, by means of this letter, my thanks to the various fraternal organizations and individuals, both professional and non-professional for the loyal assistance given me, making is possible for me to be the winner in the recent automobile contest, which closed in Keokul, la., Saturday evening, August 23. I am now the proud owner of a magnificent five passenger Ford car, the possession of which I owe, not only to the friends in Kansas City, but to those of the state of Missouri in general. You will agree with me when I say that in no contest of such magnitude, has a contestant of Kansas City received greater and more loyal support than did I in this recent contest. The people of my own city seemed as interested in my being successful as did I, myself. Many attended the session declaring that they expected to be with me, financially, until I won out. Among those who deserve special mention for this kind of loyalty The Handsome New Auto won by Dr. J a nice ride. The Handsome New Auto won by Dr. J. H. Williams last week. See him for a nice ride. Kans., was the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. W. Gross, during the grand session and made it extremely pleasant for the Kansas City delegates during their stay. The defeat of Magnolia Lewis in the Grand Temple for Grand Treasurer was both unwarranted and unfair from the fact that she had given the most brilliant and comprehensive report that has ever emanated from that office and unfair in that having once been elected by acclamation they had no right to hold another election. But such is politics. MRS. H. O. COOK DEAD. Mrs. H. O. Cook, the wife of Prof. H. O. Cook, vice-Principal of Lincoln High School, died after a lingering illness of long duration at the family residence, 2436 Montgall avenue, last Monday morning at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Cook was the daughter of Levi and Susie Jackson. She was placed in a convent-in her earlier life, and after a few years she attended the public schools of Washington, D. C., from which she was graduated. She then attended Howard University and was N. C. Crews, Grand Master of Masons and G. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, were royally entertained in the beautiful homes of Mr. and Mrs. French Bland and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gross, 1312 and 1316 High street, Keokuk, Ia. Their stay was one continuous round of receptions, and entertainments and both were loud in their praises of the intellectuality, culture and hospitality of the leading families of Keokuk. McPherson, Kas., Aug. 22.—A lion, the property of the big International Show company that played here during fair week, broke loose last evening on the fair grounds with a thousand men, women and children about It was thirty minutes before he was captured. No one was hurt and there was no panic. Teddy broke a bar, then walked toward the Wild West show, where he scented stock. Half a dozen shots were fired into his face and he retreated walking into the dressing rooms of Stella, one of the women's shows, and into the plantation tent, stepping on Benj. Gibson, colored musician, of Kansas City, Mo. who was scared most to death. A score of men finally corralled the beast in a tent and he walked calmly into his cage. --- ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME Prevail? are, Rev. J. W. Hurse, Dr. Gideon Brown, Attorney C. H. Calloway, R. A. Moten, Jno. Haworth, Paul Whitworth, Geo. Martin, Milo Strong, Wm. Saunders, David West, and James Jefferson. And none among them deserve more credit or exhibited a greater spirit of loyalty than the Hon. Nelson C. Crews, who came to the Grand Lodge at his own expense, one of his chief objects being to see that I brought the automobile back to Kansas City. Mr. Crews did not hesitate to say as he shook hands with the many delegates in his big-hearted way, "Williams will take the automobile back to Kansas City all right, for Kansas City is behind him. If it takes money to make him win, we've got it." I desire to thank these gentlemen for this splendid show of loyalty. I desire to thank each and every individual or fraternal organization, who loaned me assistance or rather gave me their support. Remember that if at any time I can be of service to you, you've but to command and I shall obey. Again I thank you and beg for you a continuance of Heaven's choicest blessings. I am J. H. Williams last week. See him for MRS. H. O. COOK DEAD Mrs. H. O. Cook, the wife of Prof. H. O. Cook, vice-Principal of Lincoln High School, died after a lingering illness of long duration at the family residence, 2436 Montgall avenue, last Monday morning at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Cook was the daughter of Levi and Susie Jackson. She was placed in a convent-in her earlier life, and after a few years she attended the public schools of Washington, D. C., from which she was graduated. She then attended Howard University and was graduated from the Normal and college departments. Following this Mrs. Cook studied at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., taking a special course. She afterwards taught in the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Normal, Alabama, where she was married to Professor Cook. They remained at this place only a few years, when they came to Kansas City. The funeral services were held at the St. Augustine Episcopal Church, the Rev. Father Willett conducting, Interment in the Highland Cemetery, this city. Mrs. Cook leaves to mourn her loss a husband, Prof. Cook, a mother, Mrs. Susie Jackson Andrews, and two sons, John Hartwell and Hugh Jackson. The Sun extends its deepest sympathy to the family in this their hour of sorrow. An intelligent, active young woman in or out of the city, as typist and collector. The Sun, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Will keep and store a good piano for its use. Address Kansas City Sun. 1803 East Eighteenth street. PRICE, 5c. Yours in J. M. T., DR. J. H. WILLIAMS. WANTED 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. Bob Robinson, 7 Passenger Car to Hire, 1219 Baltimore Ave. Day Phone, Grand 3125; Night: East, E1759, Home, Main 8467. Chas, Monroe, 2107 woodland Auto & Hack Service. Bell East 5194. Jas, Concord, 117 E. 22th St. Automobile to hire. Bell East 524. 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 2835. Home, Main 6545. BAKERS. Bessie Evans' Cook Shop and Catering, 2428 Vine St. Bell phone, East 3637. Henry Compton, home bakery, 1512 East 18th. Susie Owens, 2329 Vine. George Purnell, 1312 Vine; East 4915W Bell. BARBERS. J. G. Ashcraft, 911 Wyandotte. Bell Phone, Main 3849. Residence, 2636 Highland; Bell Phone, East 4908. Eureka Barber Shop and Pool Hall. Jackson & Allen, 2401 Vine. 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 St. 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. Hopkins, 2235 Vine St. CAFES AND RESTAURANTS. Henry Perry, Barbecue King, 1514 E. 19th St. Bell, East 2833. Mrs. Glover and Daughter, 1413 Walnut Street. S. Matthews, 1010 North 3rd St. Original "69" Barbecued Meats, Ice Cream and Refreshments. Mrs. E. Dora Thomas, 23 West 13th St., Spotless Kitchen, Steam Table Service, Bell Phone, 2863 Grand. J. A. Reid, Dalsy 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. 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. R. B. DeFrantz, Secy. Y. M. C. A., 1830 Paseo. Bell, Grand 885. Mrs. Lydia C. Smith, General Secretary Y. W. C. A., Fifth and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1566. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS C. K. Cleaners and Dyers, guaranteed not to shrink any garment we dye, 1113 East 18th; Bell Grand 2437. R. Bennett, 1515 East Eighteenth; East 4746 Bell. J. F. Basil, 1509 Main; Main 6449 Home. John Holmes, 1903 Vine. Wortham Bros., 1222 E. 19th St. Bell Phone, Grand 3933-W. G. W. Golden Steam Dye Works, 1605 East 18th; Bell East 539. R. L. Hopkins, 2325 Vine St. "The Star," Bell Phone, East 3135. CARPET CLEANERS David M. West, 1718 Euclid Avenue. Phones. Bell East 3555; Home, Main 1169. CIGAR MANUFACTURER. Henry Parks.1509 East Eighteenth; Main 4905 Home, East 45 Bell CLERGYMEN. M. I. Warfield, C. M. E. Church, Kansas City, Kan. Preston Kyles, 1310 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. C. J. Ferguson,416 New Jersey Ave., Kansas City, Kans. F. D. Wells, 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. Cohran, 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. O. T. Reed, State Baptist Church Convention and Twin City Ministers' Alliance, Securities. 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, Pilgrim 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. Sailsbury, 2206 Vine; East 879 Bell. R. Williams, 1815 East Seventeenth. Hopkins Bros., 2232 Vine. W. H. Lambright & Sons, Coal, Ice and Feed. Bell phone, W. 1923. 1620 North 3d street, Kansas City, Kas. 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, East 4394-Y. Leon H. Jordan, 712 East 12th St. Bell Grand 2873. W. R. Nelson, 1322 Pacific Street. C. S. Page, 1514 East Eighteenth; Main 5119 Home. DAIRY. William Sprangles, 2224 Vine St., Countee's. Phones. 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, 2303 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. DRUG STORES. Palace Drug Store No. 2, E. S. Lee, 1611 E. 18th St. Bell Phone E. 3813. Peoples Drug Store, M. H. Lambright, Mgr. Bell Phone, East 1814. Home Phone, Main 4832. McCampbell & Houston, 2300 Vine street, and N. W. Cor. Howard and Vine Sts. E. S. Lee Pallace Drug Store, 19th and Vine. Both phones. Ideal Pharmacy, 1532 E. 12th Street. Bell phone, East 26; Home phone, Main 1532. DRY GOODS, GENT'S FURNISHINGS, NOTIONS. Taylor Holmes, Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings and Notions, 2409 Vine St. Mrs. Josephine Abernathy, Ladies Furnishings and Notions, 2413 Vine street.. Bell phone East 3192. Eli 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. Crostwaite Floral Co., 1611 E. 18th St. Anna J. Carter, Lila H. Swan and Minnie L. Crostwaite. Bell Phone East 2813. Weaver Floral Co., 1510 East 18th St. Main 7555 Home; E. 4798 Bell FURNITURE DEALERS. L. M. Furniture & Repair Co., Lewis Townsend, 1720 Lydia Ave. Bell phone, Grand 1772. C. C. Simons, 528 Lydia Avenue, Bell, Main 3692. H. J. Spigener & Sons, Phillips School Campus. Bell Phone, E. 3679-W. W. C. Carroll, Groceries, Ice Cream and Refreshments, 2120 North 3rd St., Kansas City, Kans. Bell, West 1653. Abraham Clark, 2831 East 54th St. G. E. Arnett, 2200 East Twenty-fifth. R. Mason, 1905 Vine. J. L. Matson, 19th and Grove. Bell Grand 1417-X. 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, 825 Freeman Ave., Kansas City, Kan. C. L. Williams, 1508 E. 24th St. Bell Phone East 1437W. 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. Madame Grant Jones, 5th and State Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Res. Phone, Bell, West 3715-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. ICE CREAM PARLORS. Charles Slaughter, 3th and Everett, Kansas City, Kans. Ice Cream Manufacturers and Refreshment Parlor. Bell Phone, West 455. 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, upintendent Health & Accident department; W. L. Robnett, assistant superintendent; 1507 E. 18th St. Bell Phone East 4955. H. Walden, 2442 Montgall, 1507 East 18th St. Bell, East 4955. Health and Accident Dept., Standard Life Ins. Co. Bell, East 4955. H. D. Simmons, 1832 Vine, Phone East887. 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. Madame N. P. Jones, Beauty Culture., Hair Goods, etc., 2110 Vine street. Mattie P. Garner, electric straighteneing, comb and hair goods; Bell East 4741W. L. W. Johnson Offices, 325 New York Life building, Stein-Miller building, corner Sixth and State. Bell phone, West 938; Residence, West 9385. Judge I. F. Bradley, 721 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kan. Rooms 5 and 6. Bell Phone, West 2335. William B. Bruce, Attorney-at-Law and Counsellor. Phone, Home Main 5478; Office, 117 West Sixth Street. Chas. H. Callaway, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. W. C. Hueston, 117 W. 6th. Home Main 58. L. A. Knox, 117 W. 6thSt. Home Main 5478. 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. MANUFACTURER J. E. Laing, Human Hair, Hair Dye, Hair Dresser Supply and Hair Dressing School in connection. 1715 E. 18th St. MISCELLANEOUS. G. K. Williams, Registrar, Western University, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Francis J. Jackson, Inspector, 2434 Montgall, Bell East 3942. Amus Barnett, 1230 Forest; Main 5018 Home. R. C. Holland, 2423 Grove Street. S. J. Hightower, 2436 Highland. 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, 53rd and Montgall; Lin. 750 Home. D. W. White, "White's Furniture Exchange." Bell West 483, 423 Minnesota avenue Kansas City, Kas. Mr. T. G. McCampbell, Custodian Western University Grounds, Phone, West 1454. John Acy, Glacier, 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. The League Enterprise, newspapers, notions and stationary; shining parlor. C. A. Starks, Prop., 1521 E. 18th St. Bell Phone. N. C. Crews, Kansas City Sun, 18th and Woodland; East 999 Bell. Rev. J. Frank McDonald, Western Christian Recorder. 2517 Grove Bt. PAINTERS AND PAPERHANGERS. Dr. E. A. Walker, office and residence, 1426 E. 18th. Home Phone M. 8071; Bell G. 4332. W. Hubert Bruce, 1512 East Eighteenth Street. Home phone, Main 4620; Bell phone, East 3151. Lucian P. Richardson, 2439 Waldron. Bell phone, East 2527. Henry W. Dillard, Graduate Ph.D., 1512 North 5th St., Kansas City, Kans. M. H. Lambricht, 1508 East 18th; Bell East 144; Home Main 3490. 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. Finn, pharmacist, 1301 East 18th. L. E. Baller, N. W. Cor. 12th and Vine. Bell East 232. Howard M. Smith, 1509 East 18th St. Bell East 495. Wm. J. Thompkins, 1509 E. 18th St. Bell East 495. L. J. Holly, 1117 Campbell. Bell phone, 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. J. Edgar Dibble, 19th and Vine. Bell East 887. J. E. Perry, 1512 E. 18th St. Bell East 3151. Home East 4620. Jas. F. Shannon, N. E. Cor. 18th and Paseo. Bell East 670. T. C. Unthank, 1112 Independence avenue. Both phones, Main 7488. 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 Ave. Bell Phone, Main 4438. Lee R. Petty, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Bell Phone, West 3711. M. B. Jones, Eye Specialist, 1419 E. 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., E. 2144. H. Sylvester Gillespie, northwest cor. 18th & Paseo. Bell, Grand 1413. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRODUCE AND POULTRY MARKET. S. M. Steele, 29 Sloan Avenue, Quindarbo, Kans. PHOTOGRAPHERS. Charles Williams.....1015 Oak; Main 3154 Bell C. Bruce Santee, 1718 East 18th St. "Photo Fad." PIANO SALESMAN. J. H. Malone, Talking Machines, Etc. Bell, East 4573-W. PRINTERS. C. A. Franklin, 1409 Main; Grand 2988 Bell. John H. Fairley, Square Deal Printing Co., 1731 Lydia. Bell phone Grand 1647-Y. REAL ESTATE. William Hopkins Afro-American Investment Co. J. Dalias Bowser, 2400 Paseo. Bell Phone 3795 W Grand. F. J. Weaver, President Afro-American Inv. Co., 911 McGee St. Bell Main 751. The Ward & Samlington Investment Co., Bell Phone East 4294Y. Patterson & Gayden, 527 Ave. Kansas City, Kan. Bell phone, PHOTOGRAPHERS. REAL ESTATE. 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. People's Investment Co., Solomon Smith, Pres; R. D. Jackson, Sec.; C. H. Adkins, Treas., 2427 Vine St. Home, Main 920-S. Bell Phone, East 1011. Geo. W. Edwards, Moberly, Mo. PROBATION OFFICER. Edward Ross, 1419 E. 18th St. Bell Grand 885. REGALIAS, BADGES, ETC. Moses Dixon, 1217 Woodland; East 3797 Bell. SHOE SHINING PARLOR. Moses Fields, 614 Main. SHOE STORES. SHOE STORES. A. W. Williams, General Repairing, 1960 N. 3rd St. Kansas City, Kans. H. Shumaker, Ladies' and Gents' 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. J. Silas Harris, 1611 Forest, President National Negro Educational Congress and Principal Summer School. R. T. Coles, Principal Garrison School, 2327 Lydia; Grand 1851 Bell. W. T. White, manual training, 1612 Lydia; Grand 3631 Bell. G. A. Page, 2419 Flora. Bell E. 501. Principal Attucks School. T. W. H. Williams, 1323 Jackson. Bell E. 3259-Y. Principal Bruce School. Chas. A. Westmoreland, 2325 Lydia. Bell Grand 1320-W. Lincoln High School. The Exact Transfer Co., Planos a specialty. R. R. H. Gordon, Mgr. Move everything, Office 926 McGee. Home, Main 8864. Res. 1708 E. 14th St. Home, East 3669. 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. 1031-33 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. TREAT YOUR SCALP, AND HAIR MUST GROW! GOOD NEWS FOR OUR WOMEN AT LAST The Brice Afro-American Scalp Food and Always Young Cream is too well known for better recommendation here. We know as millions of others will testify that my Goods grow Hair even when all other preparations fail. I manufacture preparations according to what the scalp needs and will send you the Goods that will be necessary to cure YOUR scalp, for there are no two scalps alike. Have you Eczema or Tetter? Have you Dandruff? Does your hair break off at times? Is it harsh and stubborn, and are you annoyed with Itching of your scalp? If so, write for Mme. W. H. Brice's Wonderful Afro-American Scalp Food and Hair Grower, which will positively cure all scalp trouble and start your hair growing at once. These remedies are manufactured only by W. H. 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Brice's Eczema Scalp Lotion, 50c per box. Brice's Gray Hall Restorer, 25c per package. Brice's Dusting Powder for tired feet, 15c per package. Brice's Best Face Powder, in three colors, 25c per box. Brice's Afro-American Scalp Food, 4 boxes for One Dollar, no less sold. Brice's 6 Weeks' trial treatment Two Dollars, with the greatest discovery of the age, just send her as near as you can how the condition of the scalp and if the hair is dry and brittle and breaks off; it will stay after Madame sends this treatment—you will have healthy scalp, long and beautiful hair. Bell Phone E. 4394Y Office 2460 W Idrond Ave THE Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Subseribe for The Sun STATEMENT OF FACTS BY THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE WESTERN COLLEGE. Submitted by Dr. J. H. Garnett, President. The Board of Managers of the Western College and Industrial Institution located at Macon, Missouri, desires to make the following statement of facts to its friends, concerning its purchase and ownership of the property located at 33rd street and Jackson avenue Kansas City, Mo. For the past twenty years the college has been located at Macon, Mo., and during its existence there, we are proud to say, has accomplished a great work of education for the ambitious youth of our race. As a result we have men and women in many useful walks of life, and some missionaries in the foreign field. It has been the wish of the managers of the institution for a number of years to locate our college at some place where we could be in close touch with a larger Negro population than it is possible for us to reach at Macon, Mo., and also to locate our school where indigent students might find opportunities of support while endeavoring to educate themselves. Kansas City appealed to us especially as being the center of the territory from which we draw much of our support, also because of the 30,000 Negroes located in and adjacent to Kansas City. We have investigated several locations in and about Kansas City, and finally the location at 33rd and Jackson was suggested to us by those who posed as our friends, and negotiations were entered into which led up to our purchase of this property at the sum of $25,000. It is a tract of ten acres of land situated at the southwest corner of 33rd street and Jackson avenue, and has located upon it a big stone residence building which can be used for our purpose and other buildings which can be utilized. We desire to say that this property had never been proposed to us by anyone prior to the beginning of the negotiations which were consummated in our purchase of this property, and we purchased same without any suggestions that there would be any opposition to our location in this district. The property is located, as can be demonstrated, by investigation, in an unimproved territory. At the time we purchased this property, there was not a sidewalk or improved street south of 31st and east of Indiana avenue, with the exception of one sidewalk. Within about three blocks of this location there is now located a colored public school and a settlement of fifty to seventy Negro families. Immediately surrounding the location are a few unpretentious homes occupied by white people, but none of them so expensive that we cannot find ready purchasers for them at their actual worth, among our people. After looking the situation over we were impressed that this was a place where we could locate with as little opposition from the white people as any place in Kansas City. Without arguing the right or wrong of the matter, we are conscious of course that it would be difficult for us to locate anywhere without arousing some opposition from the white people. But, we are confronted with the all-important fact to us, that we are here and we are entitled to at least an opportunity to make the best of our condition and we ask from the white people their co-operation in securing for us the opportunity of doing what we can for the elevation and betterment of our race. When it became known that this property was to be used as a site for the Western College, a Negro school, considerable opposition was manifested in the neighborhood by residents and land-owners owning land adjacent to our location. An effort was made to have the Park Board condemn the property for park purposes. This petition was rejected by the Park Board and matters were left to stand in statu quo. When it became manifest that we would not be able to occupy this property without opposition, we at once assured those opposing us that it was not our disposition to intrude ourselves upon any community where we were not wanted, as we realized that our greatest asset was the friendship of the white people, and we were willing to allow our plans to be defeated to suit their desires if the same could be done without absolute ruin to ourselves. We expressed our willingness to postpone our plans of locating here, and offered to sell the property at exactly what it cost us. That offer has been made all along and stands good today, but no substantial attempt has been made on the part of anyone to purchase our ground. We submit to the sense of fairness of the white people, that it is not right to ask us to sacrifice the money that we have now invested in this property. We are not able to hold the property in its present unproductive condition, and unless it is disposed of at once, we will be compelled, for our own protection, to take possession of the property and use it for the purpose we had intended. Before we do this, we desire to place before the white people of Kansas City, who we believe will look with favor upon our efforts to help ourselves and benefit our race, a statement of the facts as we desire that our white friends shall understand fully and completely the facts with reference to this location. J.C.WAGNER The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in Season. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. Courteous Treatment to All. 1819 HowardAve. Bell Phone 3596 East Kansas City, Missouri (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON TEXT—Matt. 22:15-22. GOLDEN TEXT—"They say unto Him, Caesar's. Then said He unto him, ren- dered for protection, and to God the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." Matt. 22:21 R. V. The title of this lesson suggests more than the portion of Scripture selec- tured seems to warrant. We have seen in previous lessons how the Master condemned and denounced the rulers by his teaching in parables. This led the Pharisees to take counsel how they might ensnare him (v. 15). Three questions were asked, one political, one doctrinal and one ethical. Our next lesson deals with the third question. Secret Methods, I. The First Question, vv. 15-22. This parable of the wicked husband-man (ch. 21) seems to have been clearly understood by the Pharisees (v. 45). While it stung it did not bring them to repentance. The hardening effect of unaccepted truth is one of its most terrible results upon the human heart. The record tells us plainly (ch. 21:46) why these Pharisees were withheld from at once putting Jesus out of the way. They therefore resorted to secret methods and endeavored to bring him into conflict with the Roman government. The Pharisees entered into this plot to entangle Jesus with their most determined enemies, the Herodian party (Mark 12:13). It was a good scheme from their viewpoint to get Jesus to utter something treasonable and then to turn him over to Herod, who was a puppet of Rome. These Pharisees scorned to pay taxes to this same government with which they are now convining. They began with words of smooth flattery (v. 16). The devil is never so subtle, so dangerous nor so malicious as when he flatters. Apart from Jesus each party would have given quite a different reply to this question. In fancy we can see them as they must have gloatingly exclaimed, "Now we will see him entrapped." If Jesus declared it illegal to pay tribute to Caesar they could at once formulate a charge of sedition against him. On the other hand, for him to declare it proper thus to pay tribute to a foreign government would seem to them for him to deny his messianic claim, according to their understanding of the messianic program. Calling for a Roman denarius, a legal taxpaying coin worth about 17 cents, he asked, "Whose is this image and superscription?" "Caesar's," they reply, and by those words they have caught themselves and not Jesus. His reply was, in effect, "Very well, you accept the money of Rome, you must by that act accept the responsibility which accompanies it." Jesus first of all denounces their hypocrisy and then exposes the folly of their question. II. The Second Question, v. 23-33. The rationalistic Sadduces, who did not believe in the resurrection at all, now try to entrap Jesus by questioning him along the line of their particular doctrine. The teaching of Jesus is plain and unequivocal as to the resurrection of the body and the immortality of the soul. Jesus seems in this reply rather to ignore the first and to strike at the second, which is more fundamental. Their plan of attack was very scholarly and philosophical and was designed to show the absurdity of his teaching and thus by ridicule discredit his standing. It is always a favorite way for those who quibble to imagine a suppositional case and then to put a subtitle question. In this case our Lord, by one sentence demolished their well-planned attack. "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." The Teaching. Jesus here shows us the true relation of himself and of his people to political questions. He recognizes the authority of human government and it is his will that his followers shall enjoy the liberties or privileges which that government has to offer; at the same time they are to submit themselves to its requirements under one clearly stated condition, viz., God's supreme will. In so far as the laws of the state are just and true and in harmony with the law of God it is the duty of Christian people to support and to obey them. Jesus would ally himself with neither party, thereby avoiding complicity with any measure of evil. We may likewise maintain a similar relationship with God and speak with authority in the correction of abuses, and in the direction of civic and national life. We have purposefully included the second question inasmuch as the next lesson concerns the third of this group, which ought to be studied as a whole. Jesus was ever ready to meet any question. He never equivocated, but lifts his answer out of the realm of the controversial into that of abiding principles. Jesus denounced the hypocrisy of his assailants, condemned their ignorance of the law they so loudly professed to obey and proclaimed at the same time the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body. He emphasizes man's responsibility to his government. Bacon—I see eggs can be boiled, steamed and poached at the same time with a new cooking utensil on the chafing dish order. Egbert—Nothing new about that. Why, I've had eggs served that I couldn't tell if they were boiled, steamed or poached, even after I'd asked the waiter." Master Was Away. "What are you smacking your lips about, Norah?" asked the lady of the house, suspiciously. "Because there's nobody about to smack 'em for me, ma'am," was the reply. 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. Muehlebach's PILSENER BEER "A HOME PRODUCT" "A DELICIOUS DRINK" "A BEER OF PURITY" Surpassed by None in the Market. Geo. Muehlebach Brewing Co. Bell Phone 777 Grand Kansas City, Mo. Home Phone 3277 Main The People's Undertaking Go. 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In buying a Vacuum Cleaner, why not give the "Duntley" a trial in your home at our expense? Write today for full particulars Emery, Bird, Thayer D. G. Co., Kansas City, Mo. 1803 East 18th Street. NELSON C. CREWS, Editor and Owner. SOME OF THE STRUGGLES OF THE NEGRO PRESS. One evening this week at the close of a very busy day I drew me up at my desk. Before me was scattered a mass of newspapers, all bearing the distinction og colored. My already tired brain and sun strained eyes almost refused the task that was set before. But from somewhere and somehow I gained courage, and plunged in by string with the one on top—it was the Oklahoma—O, there I go, I didn't mean to call any names, but the press work on that particular journal was so poor that one could not even properly translate the answers to Booker Washington's article, asking for better traveling accommodations for Negro passengers over certain railroad lines; which was bravely undertaken. The Dallas Express came in for a similar criticism while the Boston Alliance and Conservative 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 see written in great red headlines at the head of the meanest effort in the way of a Negro journal these words, "Self Sacrifice." Our readers are more sensitive to literary abuse in a race paper than they are to the big dailies. I often have a man come into my office to complain about a stick of matter upside down in the last issue of an article that was backed up the wrong way. Now, if he, perhaps, knew that my day had been 36 hours instead of eight in comparison with his, instead of criticising he would step in and offer to pay his subscription with the hope that his mite might help a little in relieving the situation. For whenever you see faults standing out conspicuously in Negro papers there is but one conclusion to come to, and that is that finance is oh, so short. Now, don't stand apart and laugh jeeringly or criticise an effort that you yourself are not brave enough to make. If you cannot give thousands, you can give the widow's mite and the least you pay on your subscription will be precious in the editor's sight—California Eagle. ADVERTISE YOUR SOCIETY. We would like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in The Sun. 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Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonie Relief, Cameron, Mo. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Grand Commandery Officers. A. D. Butler, R. E. G. C., St. Joseph, Mo. W. G. Mosely, G. E. G, Kansas City, Mo. Theo. Wiley, V. E. G. C., St. Louis, Mo. P. C. Kincade, E. G. C. G., Kansas City. T. P. Mahammitt, G. Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. Grand Chapter Officers. Geo. Broomfield, G. H. P., St. Louis, Mo. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Mofitte, G. S., Sedalia, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Sec'y, Kansas City, Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. R. T. Coles, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. 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 LODGE DIRECTORY. Pritchard Lodge Book No. 42, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Monday in each month. All meet in good standing welcome. R. Green, W. M.; J. H. Sniginer, Sec'y. Rone Lodge Book No. 25, A. F. and A. M., meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. F. W. Glmore, W. M.; T. J. McCampbell, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge Book No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. Visits to the Masons. Thus, Jackson, W. M.-Frank Lowe, Secretary, 1518 Baltimore Ave. U. B. F. King of the West Lodge Book No. 218 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 653 West Lodge Ave. W. M., 1718 Euclid; Jas. Hammersley, Sec'y, 1733 Woodland Ave. Office of DR. M. G. BROOKINS 1816 Woodland Avenue Bell Phone East 838. Home Phone Main 2554. Office Hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 4; 6 to 9 p. m. Calls Answered Day or Night. Office Hours 8 to 12 m. & 1 to 5 p. m. Sunday by Appointment Bell Grand 2553W DR. E. C. BUNCH DENTIST Gold Crown, Bridges and Plates A Specialty Painless Extraction Mrs. C. A. Smith has opened a branch office of MRS. S. BEDFORD'S Wonderful Hair Grower & Scalp Treatment This treatment has proved to be a wonderful success. Mrs. Smith will receive patients for treatment from From 8:30 a. m. to 6:00 p. m. at her residence. 11th and Highland Every ingredient used on the hair is perfectly safe and Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction Bell Phone, East 4975. Best Shine in K. C. 5c For Ladies Gents AGENCY FOR The Kansas City Son. The Crisis, The New York Age, The Freeman and All Daily Papers Ice Cream and Soda Cigars and Tobacco HENRY SHUMAKER 1702 East 18th St. THE KANSAS CITY SUN All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1892 East 18th Stre Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1983, at the postoffice at Kansas City, M. under the March 5, 1879. Nelson C. Crews. Editor and Owner Vills B. Glenn. General Manager Gillen Company. Avg. 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Second Baptist Church, 24th and Buby. Wesley Chapel M. E. 106 Shawnee. St. Paul. M. A. E. Bzion Church, 4000 Bethel M. A. E. Church, Roseale, Kan. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virg Ebneresan A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. EDITORIALS On account of the war, bird seed has advanced in price 50 per cent. Those who are accustomed to supporting birds during the winter should begin saving their money now. The Kalser's boast that his armies can whip the whole world is being verified admirably so far, but it may yet be demonstrated that he has included too much territory. This bloody, devastating war being waged in Europe is just about as inexhaustible as the taking of the Massey property from the Negro Baptists. Each is the direct result of envy and prejudice. At the last municipal election many Negroes voted for the successful candidates for the city council. The council has shown its appreciation of those votes by ordaining that hereafter no Negro school shall be located within 2,400 feet of a white school. Ours is the only race in the world that would feel no resentment toward such a breach of faith. In the recent Ohio primaries J. B. Foraker was defeated for the senatorial nomination largely on account of his open advocacy of the decent rights of the Negro. The South could not invade the north with bayonets, but it has invaded it with sentiment, all of which proves that the pen is mightier than the sword. The management of Lyric Hall is taking advantage of the Sun's suggestion and making some much needed improvements in that popular pleasure resort. Modern conveniences for checking wraps both for ladies and gentlemen are being installed and the hall is being seated with fine upholstered chairs. Other much needed features are being added and the place will present a fine appearance when the social season opens next month. Boise, Idaho. Lear Editor: I write you in behalf of a friend of mine who is anxious to make the acquaintance of a good, kind and industrious man about fifty years of age, brown skinned and capable of making a good living. He must be honest and kind. I asked the lady, who is in my employ, what kind of a man she wanted. She replied: "I don't expect no Jesus or King, but I want a good man." Now, doubtless you have numbers of colored people in your town or city and perhaps many who would also like a good woman companion. The woman of whom I am writing is a most excellent cook, housekeeper, and a true and loyal friend—no kinder or better hearted woman lives on earth today than she of whom I write. I can give employment to such a man at $25 per month, and he can live here if he marries our girl. My address is in the hands of the editor of the Kansas City Sun, which will be cheerfully given to any who is earnest and sincere. ```markdown ``` Where Kansas City's Elife Eats the Tango on a Blazer. Price 15c. SMITH'S DRUG STORE, 18th AND TRACY. Café Smith's Drug Store the Sensation of the Town. Everybody Going. 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? Mrs. Willa Brown, Mr. J. A. Rolling, Mrs. J. A. Rolling, Mrs. Columbus Jones, Mrs. J. Rolling, Mrs. Columbus Jones, more, Mrs Mary Perry, Mrs L. B. McCoy, Mrs J. Brisco, Mrs Sallie Jackson, Mr. Welton Evert, Mrs. John Lane, Mrs WILLOW, Mrs WILLOW, Mr. E. M. Grant, Mrs Birdie Dandridge, Mrs Alice Moppins, Mrs Fowhatan Perkins, Mrs Robert Hughes, Mr. W. H. Bowren, Mrs Bowren, W. H. Bowren, Master, Bowren, Mrs Mary Shumake, Mr. Archie Walton, Mrs Jainite Yancy, Miss Mardell Rolls, Mrs Vida Kiney, Miss Amelia Rolls, Mrs Vida Kiney, Miss Amelia Rolls, Mrs Edward Neely, Mrs Edward Page, Mrs Nellie Bryant, Ms. Leon Joran, Ms. Louis Taylor, Ms. Louis Taylor, Prof. H. R. Graham, Miss I. Schweich, Mrs Maffine Nichols, Mrs Dulcein Barker, Miss Ethelyn Wilson, Mrs A. M. Graham, Mrs Hermond Mrs A. M. Graham, Mrs Hermond Mr. W. W. A. Tobert, Mrs. F. L. Brown, Miss Hazel Smith, Miss Magnolia Jack- Hawkins, Mrs. Edward Neeley, Mr. and William Ferguson, Mrs. Malinda Jones, Mr. J. C. Carey, Miss Hattie Ethel Hawkins, Mrs. Benton Ethel Hawkins, Mrs. Benton Betty & Sam's Little Corner —That you can never tell today what a "cullud" man is going to do tomorrow. —That when it comes to running for office Rev. J. W. Hurse is in a class to himself—for instance $33 to 74. Oh you Hurse. Miss Lucy Turner, Miss Bessie Smith, Mrs. Charles A. Ellis, Miss Bearice Jorrell, Mrs. Charles L. Loyons, Mr. Thomas L. Holly, Mr. Ollie Price, Mrs. Pearl Griffin, Mrs. Luol Colleen, Mrs. Olivece Goebers, Miss Mary Jackson, Mrs. Melissa Hudson, Mrs. Nettie M. Ellis, Miss Hazel Miller, Mr. Fred Burton, Mr. E. H. Munson, Hudson, Mrs. Nettie M. Ellis, Miss Hazel French, Mrs. I. P. Bradley, Mrs. Smith of Minneapolis, Minn., Miss Inez Arm, Mr. Harry Jordan, Mrs. Bearice Jorrell, Mrs. Olivece Goebers, Mrs. C. Fulbright, Mr. C. Hollingsworth, Mr. A. J. Rollin, Miss V. Thomas, Mrs. L. Randall, Mrs. Syntha Crews, Mrs. Julia Littles, Mrs. George Carter, Mrs. Missie Davis, Mrs. Robert C. Gassie, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. Cora B. Martin, Mrs. Homa Baugh, Miss Catherine Kett, Miss Louvena Nowell, F. D. Clanton, Denver L. Cranshaw, R. J. Brown, Miss Georgia Carter, Missie Davis, Miss Rosa Peyton, Mrs. Cora B. Martin, Mrs. Curry, C. H. Curry, Miss Gertrude Brown, Overlan Fleming, Dr. Paul Crosthwaite, Miss Nelle Palmer of Cheatley Provident Hospital, Mr. W. S. Crawford, Miss Joseph Ransom, Mrs. Ernie Cottin, Mr. Charles A. Taylor, Mrs. Charles A. Taylor That as soon as a recent bridegroom found out that his wife had no money, he got cold feet. —That if you want to see women who are very, very stiff at home "loosen up" just follow them, to the Grand Lodge. —That the Negro business man who tries to maintain two households at one and the same time will eventually come to grief. Savay? —That just as a swell bunch were starting on an auto ride anticipating a high old time, the engine went "plum dead." How annoying. —That the "high yallers" are trying to shut the blacks and browns clear out of society but the B's and B's are getting there "alla same." —That a man in St. Joseph says he is an Elk, but the members say that if they get a chance to make him everybody will know he is an Elk. —That because Betty told Sam last week a certain husband was stuck on his wife's chum, the wife proceeded to give her chum a devil of a licking and now they don't speak. Oh you jealousy. Walls, Mrs. H. Derritt, Miss C. Palmer Dorothy McDaniel. Mrs. J. W. Daniels, Miss Lizzie Dusen, Miss Leona Johnson, G. S. Murphy, J. L. Miss Joan McKenzie, Mrs. J. W. Wong, Miss P. Washington, Jack Wengate, W. B. Kennedy, Mrs. W. B. Kennedy, L. J. Jamie, Parlee Harris, Mrs. Emma Montine, Mrs. Lula Spalding, Will Finnel, Mrs. J. E. Ingram, Mrs. Pearl Taylor, Mrs. J. E. Ingram, Mrs. Pearl Taylor, Edna Winkfield, Mrs. Douglas McMillan, Miss Minnie Johnson, Mr. Geo. Taylor. Mr. Fred Plummer, Mrs. Fred Snoddy, Mrs. E. Ingram, Mrs. Pearl Taylor, Mrs. Geo. Washington, Mrs. Anna Combs, Mrs. Ethel Tether, Miss Stella Gant, Miss Ethel Tether, Miss Stella Gant, Miss W. Anthony, Miss May Shields, Mr. C. C. Lewis, Mr. L. Peppars, Miss Ethel Crowder, Miss Arthur Brown, Mr. Wm. John Frohren, Mrs. Wm. John Frohren, Prof. Reynolds, Miss Clara Howard of Minneapolis. Miss Ethel Berryman, Mrs. Lillian Burke, Dr. Tether, Mr. Ernest Johnson, Miss Bertha Alexander, Mr. Ernest Johnson, Miss Bertha Alexander, Mr. Stella Dudley, Mrs. Mary King, Mrs. John A. Nories, Mrs. Mary Henderson, Mrs. Mary Lewis, Mrs. Jesse Meyers, Mrs. Jessie Meyers, Mrs. Galena Plummer. The annual conference of the A. M. E. Church, which closed a successful session in Spokane, Wash., Monday, with Bishop Parks presiding, gave out the following announcement for the ensuing year: Helena District, Rev. C. N. Douglas, Missoula, presiding elder; Helena, Rev. I. S. Wilson; Missoula, Rev. S. J. Collins; Billings, Rev. Robert House; Great Falls, Rev. D. W. Sims; Butte, Rev. John Adams; Boise, Rev. S. E. Bailey; Anaconda, to be supplied; Havre, Rev. G. T. Kenchon; Poca tello, Rev. Henry Mathews; Boseman, to be supplied. Jordan Allen, a local preacher, was transferred to the Kansas conference. Seattle District, Rev. T. G. Barr, presiding elder; Seattle, Rev. John L. Williams; Tacoma, Rev. H. M. Collins; Portland, Rev. J. Logan Craw; North Yakima, Rev. W. J. Toliver; Everett, Rev. A. R. Little; Franklin Circuit, Rev. James Smith; Ellensburg and Roslyn, Rev. C. B. Clements; Bremerton and Winlock, Rev. J. B. Coleman; Seattle mission, to be supplied; Renton and New Castle, Rev. M. C. Knight. Bishop Parks decided to return the Rev. F. L. Donchoo to the Spokane pulpit for the present and transfer him to some other church or conference later. Ferguson, Mrs. Charles J. Adams, Miss Mamie Martin, Mrs. Griggs, Mr. W. W. Young, Mrs. C. M. Thompson, Mrs. W. W. Young, Mrs. C. M. Thompson, C. W. Comagor, Miss P. Brown, Mrs. Julius Fox, Miss Allene Fox. Mrs. Marle Patrick, Mrs. Charles A. Quarles, Miss Susie Johnson, Miss Marie Woodson, Miss Claudia L. Quarrels, Mrs. Quarles, Miss Susie Johnson, Miss Marie F. Taylor, Mrs. W. W. Lynn, Mrs. Luelia Ree Turner, Mrs. Lula Sweatman, Mrs. Eva L. Moore, Mrs. Ince Mcz. Dean, Mrs. E. T. Carrington, Mrs. Lena Allen, Mr. H. Hopkins, Mr. H. W. Millen, Mrs. H. D. Millen, Mrs. Hudgins, Mr. F. B. Dan, Mrs. Willie Glass, Mrs. Lillian Carey, Mrs. Dorothy Cole, Miss Bertha Johnson, Mr. Willie Glass, Mrs. Lillian Carey, Sailie Mae Nixon, Mrs. Grass Pape. Mrs. A. Williams, Mrs. T. L. Patton, Miss Susie Pearl, Miss Anna Caro, Miss Hillary Mr. Hubbard Ramsey, Mr. Dorsey 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. ROSERALE. KAS. The District Conference at the Wesley Chapel, M. E. Church, closed Sunday. Dr. Thomas, LL. D., of Baltimore, delivered a splendid lecture on "misfits" Friday evening, which was enjoyed by a large audience. The conference in every way was a success, and good reports were brought in from all churches. The pastor and members of the above church are very grateful to the members of others who assisted in keeping the delegates...Miss Paansy Jackson of Manhattan, came here as delegate to the District Conference, and is still in the city visiting her aunt and uncle. Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Allen...Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ross of Versailles, Mo. en route to Long Beach, Cal. stopped over a few days and visited Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Barger. 240 Valley street. They left for Long Beach Monday...M. Perry Hannon left Saturday for a visit with Mrs. Laura Bradley in Parsons, Kas...Mrs. Frances Watson, a student in the training school for Foreign Missionaries in Washington, D. C., made a splendid talk at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Sunday morning, on Foelign Missions...Mrs. Watson will complete her course in June, 1915...Sunday afternoon Rev. D. Norfleet will preach a sermon to Mission Circle of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. A program will also be rendered. Don't forget the Carnival. The steady subscriber who pays in Keep Cool and TAKE YOU AT DELMOND And Ha F We have installed our electric dining room a place of pleasure. Remember the excellent service. With your meals. Finest selection ovens. H. COHN Bell Phone, East 613. CONCERT ORA MISS NANNIE Teach Vocal Culture Cool and Be Plea KE YOUR ME AT THE ALMONICO CA And Have Both FOR led our electric fans which practic place of pleasure. Remember where excellent service. Best quality of fi s. Finest selection of Bakery Goods H. COMPTON, one, East 613. 1510 E. 1 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. BURK Teacher of Local Culture and Staging MISS NANNIE C. BURDEN Teacher of Vocal Culture and Staging Woodland Studio 2116 Woodland Ave. U.B.F. ATTEN SPECIAL PRICE STOCK REGU T. CORONET See Us for Quick S on Robes The Moses Dickson Rega 1217 Woodland Ave., ATTENTION S SPECIAL PRICES ON NEW STOCK REGULATION S. H. 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 Best Meals in the T The Baltimore C JAMES W. HURSE, Propriet 3rd Member of Board of Management V. B. F. @ S. M. Imported and Domestic Cigars ICE CREAM, SODAS and SUND Of Serving the Best Meals in the T the Baltimore Co HOMES W. HURSE, Propriet Member of Board of Management U. B. F. @ S. M. Imported and Domestic Cigars CREAM, SODAS and SUND 808 Independence Ave. We Boast of Serving the Best Meals in the Twin Cities The Baltimore Cafe JAMES W. HURSE, Proprietor 3rd Member of Board of Management V. B. F. @ S. M. T. of M Imported and Domestic Cigars ICE CREAM, SODAS and SUNDAES. AL HONEY of Clear Strained Honey from my Ready For Delivery 1 lbs. 25 Cents Phone Argentine 860, and make re- ELMER JACKSON carber. Argenti REAL HONEY About 300 lbs. of Clear Strained Honey from my own bee-hive Now Ready For Delivery 2 lbs. 25 Cents Call Bell Phone Argentine 860, and make reservation. ELMER JACKSON 37th & Barber. Argentine. Kansa FREE FREE Beautiful Faashion Book for Colored Ladies. Beautiful Fashion Book for Colored Ladies, Showing all the latest styles in hair. We are the largest importers and manufacturers of this style hair which is sold by us at prices lower than any dealer, and we offer a wide range of stand washing and combing. Hair sold by the pound, also hair nets and toiletten paper lowered prices. If not satisfied money is needed. Agents wanted. Send 2 caskets for book. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY, 23 Duane Street (Dept. 100) NEW YORK and Be Pleasant! OUR MEALS AT THE NICO CAFE Have Both FOR metric fans which practically make our measure. Remember where the Elite, go. vice. Best quality of food and music section of Bakery Goods from our own COMPTON, B. 1510 E. 18th St. ORATORIO RECITAL INIE C. BURDEN Teacher of Nature and Staging Residence 2444 Highland Ave. ENTION S.M.T. PRICES ON NEW REGULATION S.M. NETS. Stock Service and Low Prices tubes and Badges. Regalia & Supplies Company KANSAS CITY, MO the Best Meals in the Twin Cities timore Cafe HURSE, Proprietor Management V.B. F. @ S.M. T. of M and Domestic Cigars SODAS and SUNDAES. dependence Ave. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI HONEY trained Honey from my own bee-hive y For Delivery 125 Cents time 860, and make reservation. R JACKSON Argentine, Kansas RECITAL Mrs. E. C. Bunch is convalescing from a severe attack of tonsillitis and la gripe. Mr. E. J. Banks, 1022 Michigan, who has been ill for five weeks, is convalescing. Miss Glover Hawkins of Lexington, Mo., is spending a week with Miss Beulah Douglass. FOR RENT—1011 Tracy Avenue. Nicely furnished rooms in modern house, for gentlemen; reasonable. Miss Armeda Jarrett has returned from a visit of eight weeks with her sister, Mrs. D. A. Loving of Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Laura Allen of Jacksonville, Ill., en route home, stopped in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mallory. Mrs. A. H. Tucker and Bertie L. Fisher of 2.34 Woodland avenue, went to Excelsior Springs for a two weeks' stay. Mr. David Allen and Miss Lella H. Rogers spent last Thursday in Excelsior Springs, renewing old acquaintances. Miss Douglass and Miss Della Roberts have returned from a three weeks' pleasant visit in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Mr. Anthony Overton passed through the city en route to Muskogee to attend the National Negro Business League. WANTED—A position as housekeeper, by a wide with small child. Refences. Address reply care Kansas City Sun. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. White left last week on a vacation for thirty days. Mr. White is manager of the Overton Hygencil Mfg. Co. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. B. DeFrantz wrote from New York City that they had a very pleasant visit, the guests of Bishop Alex Walters. WANTED—Colored lady barber. Splendid opportunity. Address Madam H. C. Walls, 878 South State St., Chicago, III. Mr. C. D. Frazier of Grand Canyon. Ariz., after attending the Grand Session A. F. & A. M., at Moberly, Mo., is visiting friends in the city. Mrs. Ethel Shores of 2328 Highland avenue, returned from Chicago, where she has been visiting for three weeks. She reports a very pleasant visit. Dr. Theo Smith, Kansas City's popular druggist, will take his annual vacation in a few days and will visit a number of cities, East and North. FOR RENT—2440 Montgall avenue, 6 rooms modern, $22.50 per month. J. M. Day, N. W. Cor. 18th and Paseo. Grand 1413—Bell phone Mrs. D. H. Tutt left today for St. Louis to visit her sister, Mrs. Buelah Hyter. She will also visit relatives in Versailles and Sedalla before returning. Mr. and Mrs. James of 1321 Woodland avenue, have moved to Rosedale, Kas., on Mills street, and will be pleased to see their friends. Phone Rosedale 464W. Poro hair dressing, hair weaving and facial massaging. Scalp treatment a speciality. Mrs. E. Norles, 1737 Paseo, upstairs. Mrs. Beatrice Ranadolph Gibbs, who has been residing in Kansas City for the past year, returned to her former home at St. Louis, Mo., for a month's visit. Old houses made new; we will point your house, stop all kinds of leaks, patch your porches and fix up your steps for a reasonable sum. Call Bell phone 2089W. James L. Blake. Mr. Geo. Walker went to Excelsior Springs to recuperate his health. Mr. Walker is a, member of Mumford Lodge, K. of K., St. Louis, Mo., and a member of A. U. K. D. of A. We hope for his recovery soon. Mr. S. J. Faver of Shiloh, Okla., brought a carload of cattle to the city and while here is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. White, 2031 North Third street, Kansas City, Was. He will probably be here again with another load of cattle soon. Mr. Frank Mallory of Jacksonville, Ill., passed through the city last Monday en route home from Muskogee, Okla., where he attended the National Negro Business League. While here he was the guest of his brother, W. C. Mallory. Dr. N. J. Adkinson of Greenville, and Dr. B. J. Covington of Houston, Tex., were in the city and visted their old friend, Dr. J. Edgar Dibble. They had been to Dr. Mayo's Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn., where they took a post graduate course. A HUNDRED MEN Wanted, 100 intelligent, wide-awake Negro professional and business men to locate in Kaanaan City. It is one of the best cities in the United States for wide-awake Negro business men. For further information write THEODORE SMITH, 1301 East 18th Street. CITY NEWS. Mr. J. M. Mason and Ed. Talton are in Marshall, Mo., attending the fair. Mrs. Geo. Trumbo of 1912 Tracy, left Saturday morning for Marshall, Mo., visiting her mother and friends. Don't forget the big Carnival for the Wheatley-Provident Hospital, begins next Wednesday. Everything doing. All kinds of amusements and pleasures at the Charity Carnival for the Hospital. Everybody lend a helping hand. Mr. Deemer Washington, 1005 Agnes avenue, is much improved from his recent operation at the Wheatley-Provident Hospital. Mr. Chas. F. Wilson of the City Hall is spending his vacation in St. Paul. Omaha and Chicago, where he has relatives and many friends. Madame M. P. Jones, of 2110 Vine street, who has been quite ill, with heart trouble, has fully recovered to the pleasure of her many friends. Mrs. Anna Fox, 1900 Haward street, who had anticipated leaving for Colorado Springs, was delayed on account of illness. She is under the care of Dr. J. Edgar Dibble. NOTICE Lawyer I. H. Spears has moved his office to northeast corner of Eighteenth and Tracy. Bell phone 4591, Home 5467. He will be pleased to meet his clients and friends. St. Louis recently cleared $5,000 on its Church Carnival. Why can't we do as well for Provident-Wheatley Hospital? We can if you will attend the Carnival at Twentieth and Woodland, September 2-13 inclusive. Admission only 10 cents. Miss Cozetta Kingsberry of 1007 Tracy avenue, has returned from a delightful visit to Chicago, where she was royally entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Crews. She returned by the way of Milwaukee and St. Louis. NOTICE. Pictures of the Grand Lodge taken in Moberly, Mo., can be had for 50 cents per, postage prepaid, by writing to J. H. Green, 721 South Fourteenth street, St. Joseph, Mo., or John Harvey, 516 North Twenty-fourth street, St. Joseph, Mo. REMOVAL NOTICE. The Crosthwait Floral Company has been forced to move, on account of the great increase of its business, from 1611 East 18th street to 1711 East 19th street, where they will be pleased to see all patrons and friends, Bell phone, East 272.—Crosthwait Floral Ct. A party of twenty young people were royally entertained last Monday evening at the beautiful residence of Mrs. J. H. Johnson, 2300 North Ninth street, Kansas City, Kas, by Mr. Walter Singleton. Music and games were enjoyed during the evening, refreshments were served and all expressed themselves as having spent a most delightful evening. Mrs. A. L. Rummons, 1306 Highland avenue, entertained with a 10' o'clock luncheon in honor of Mrs. Marguerite Robinet of Columbia, Mo., Mrs. Page of Bowling Green, Mo., Miss Olivia Porter of Oswego, Kas, G. M. A. M of the O. E. S. of Kansas; Mrs. W. T. Lewis of Kansas City, Kas, Mrs. Martha Finley, Miss Zella Porter, Mrs. Bertle Greer, Mrs. Ruby Lockhart and Mrs. Mollie Wells of this city. Dancing every Wednesday night, Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets. Hall for rent. Bell Phone East 308R. PROF. ROSCOE WHITE, Mgr. MRS. JANIE WHITE, Teacher. PROF. FRANK BUCKNER, MISS KATIE ANDERSON, ALBERT THOMAS, EARL THOMAS. Assistants. Mrs. Lettie Williams of 2208 Flora avenue, entertained with a birthday party Friday evening, August 14. The house was beautifully decorated with Japanese lanterns, wreaths of pink tea roses forming a heart around the punch bowl. Master Leander Williams and Andrew Washington received presents. Mrs. Mary Washington presided over the punch bowl. Many beautiful presents were received. Sr. A. Cantu, of Monterey, Mexico, who is the professor of Spanish at the William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., will give lessons in Spanish weekly at the office of Dr. S. H. Thompson, 1512 North Fifth street, Kansas City, Kas. All those desiring to join the class will please communicate immediately with Dr. Thompson, Bell telephone West 380. CARD OF THANKS. To my many friends and relatives for their sympathy and kindness toward me while in the hospital and the floral offerings which were beautiful; also my physician for his skilful and medical aid in my early recovery; and my nurses, who were perfectly lovely to me, I feel grateful to one and all and to the Almighty above because I am living. The Weaver Floral Co. delivered some of the freshest flowers I have ever received. I also wish to thank the Kansas City Sun for the notices of my condition from time to time. MISS NORA REYNOLDS. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Mrs. Charles Williams, 1309 North Tenth street, has fully recovered from her recent illness. Mr. John W. Jones, 440 State avenue, returned home Saturday from a business trip to Fulton, Mo. Rev. B. A. Holmes of Springfield, Mo., preached at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. A. Smith, 1023 Oakland avenue, have beautified their home by adding several more rooms to it and painting it. Mrs. James Cahill, 206 Franklyn avenue, who spent several weeks in the South visiting her relatives, returned home Monday and reports a pleasant trip. Mrs. Alice Murphy, De Sota, Mo, Miss M. Perkins, Fulton, Mo, and Mrs. Amanda Bassett, St. Louis, Mo, were here last week attending district H. H. R. Mr. Anthony Overton of Chicago, Ill., stopped over a few days here and in Topeka, en route home from the National Negro Business League meeting in Muskogee. Mrs. Laura Wells' funeral was held from Pleasant Green Baptist church, Sunday, August 16, 1914, services being conducted by Rev. G. McNeal. She was a niece of Mr. H. Scott, 2411 North Fourth street. Mrs. Henrietta Harper of Wighita, Kas, Mrs. Rosa Jackson, Topeka, Kas, and Mrs. Rebecca Jones, Leavenworth, Kas., all district grand officers of the H. H. R., Kansas jurisdiction, were in the city last week on business. Mr. Barney Wyatt, father of Mr. Simon Wyatt, 920 North Third street, died in Quincy, Ill., where he had been a resident for many years, and for forty-one years a member of the A. M. E. Church. The funeral was held in that city from the Methodist Church, under auspices of the U. B. F. lodge, to which lodge he belonged twenty-three years. A missionary mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, August 30, at Tenth street and Oakland avenue, where the two Baptist churches are holding their carnival. Rev. T. J. Fishback of Topeka, Kas, will address the meeting at 3 p. m., and preach at night. All the missionary societies of the two cities are invited to be present. MEN AND WOMEN OF AFFAIRS. MEN AND WOMEN OF APARTMENT. Mr. Burton of the Burton Publishing Co., of this city, is compiling a brief but complete and comprehensive history of the institutions, associations, societies, and clubs of Greater Kansas City, that have for their purpose the betterment and general uplift of the Colored race. Emphasizing the struggle they have had in the building and maintaining, the efforts being made, and the results that are being obtained in every phase of humanitarian and philanthropic efforts. The history of each institution or association will be written by the man or woman whom is deemed best equipped, by association or knowledge of the subject, to give the desired information. Following is a partial list, with the name of the writer of the article: Garrison Square, by R. E. L. Bailey; City Hospital, by W. J. Thompkins, M. D.; Douglas Hospital, by S. H. Thompson, M. D.; Wheatley-Provident Hospital, by J. E. Perry, M. D.; Y. M. C. A., by R. B. DeFrantz; Y. W. C. A., by M. Lydia C. Smith; Kaansas City Medical Society, by G. W. Brown, M. D; Business League, by F. J. Weaver; Western University, by Prof. H. T. Kealing; Schools of Kansas City, Mo., by Prof. G. N. Gresham; Methodist Churches, by Rev. William H. Peck; Baptist Churches, by Rev. Samuel W. Bacote; Episcopal Churches, by Rev. E. S. Willett; Federated Clubs of Kansas City, Mo., by Mrs. M. A. Bailey; Federated Alumni, by Miss Anna Jones; Hod Carriers Hall, by C. H. Harris; Domestic Science in Schools, by Mrs. Fredericka D. Perry; Domestic Training in Schools, by Mrs. T. W. H. Williams; South Side Day Nursery, by Mrs. J. A. Abernathy; St Simon's Nursery, by Rev. E. S. Willie; Working Girls' Home, by Mrs L. A. McCampbell; Old Folks and Orphans' Home, by Victoria E. Overall Others will be added as writers are obtained. In addition to the historical feature, which will be profusely illustrated, will be a brief biography with portrait, also pi-ture of the homes of many prominent men and women of Kansas City. The title of this work will be, "Negro Men and Women of Affairs of Greater Kansas City, and Kansas City, Kas." and will be a work of art in every respect. Our people are being interviewed in regard to their biographies by Mr. George W. Little, the well known solicitor and magazine promoter of this city. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my many friends and members of the Masonic family who were so kind and attentive to me during my recent serious illness. I also wish to make special mention of Dr. J. Edgar Dibble. It is through his most efficient care and attentive service that I am on the road to recovery. Again, many, many thanks to all CHARLES, MONROE. 2102 Woodland avenue. ```markdown ``` For Neuralgia, nothing is better than Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills Used by thousands for a operation Those who have suffered from neuralgic pain need not be told how necessary it is to secure relief. The easiest way out of neuralgia is to use Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They have relieved sufferers for so many years that they have become a household necessity. "I have taken Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills for five years and they are the only thing that does me any good. I have been in the head in fifteen minutes. I have also taken them for rheumatism, headache, pain in the breast, toothache, enarache and pain in the bowels and limbs. I have found nothing to be sure that they are all that is claimed for them." J. W. SEDGE, Blue Springs, Mo. At all druggists=25 doses 23 cents. Never sold in bulk. MILES MEDICAL COSMIC, Ind. A NEW BOOK The old saying, "of the making of books there is no end," is probably more nearly true today than ever before. So the publication of a new book is not usually the signal for general public excitement. But when the new book is written with particular reference to a certain class or group of people, the members of that group are justified in noting carefully its contents. Negroes then will be interested in reading "Democracy and Race Friction" by John Moffatt Mecklin, Ph. D. professor of philosophy in the University of Pittsburg. Prof. Mecklin's book is saturated with a militant and all-absorbing Anglo-Saxonism; and is the frankest statement yet put forth by those who believe in the divinity and infallibility of the white man, and that the Negro in America has no rights whatever. It is above the average of its type in force and clarity of statement, and by being couched in rather scientific phraseology, will be likely to catch the fancy and command the belief of the unthinking. The style of composition is on its face almost purely expositional, but the exposition is defyly carried out in such a manner as to constitute a strong, subtle and menacing argument. Apart from the many little argumentative side implications in which the author delights to indulge, such for instance as that the Anglo-Saxon race is the chief creator, preserver and guardian of civilization, the main purpose of the book is to convince the American people of two things: (1) that the Negro being of a different ethnic type from the white man and possessing different racial characteristics, can never appropriate unto himself nor realize within his own life those -culture ideals of civilization which constitute the white man's peculiar social heritage; and therefore, (2) the American people should exclude the Negro from any participation in our social democracy, and should deny him every form of equality, including equality before the law. Now if it were possible to sustain the argument assumed in the first proposition, namely, that the Negro in America cannot take in and on take on the best in American civilization, the deduction that therefore he has no natural rights and should be denied equality before the law, exemplifies a species of logic of which John Stuart Mill would hardly be proud. But the attempt to show that one ethnic group cannot appropriate and absorb the civilization achieved by another ethnic group—that assumption is so contrary to the history of civilization, and so totally at variance with contemporaries human events that it really amounts to a crude and gross absurdity. No race, as Prof. Kelly Miller has already pointed out, has a sole proprietorship in civilization; and if the Anglo-Saxon race had been under the necessity of inventing its own alphabet and symbols to represent numbers or evolving its own religion, or enriching and elaborating without borrowing from the Latin its own language, or creating without the benefit of previous models its own system of jurisprudence—in that case those people today would be in the same state they were when the Caesars used to sell them in the slave markets of Rome. In trying to show that the Negro cannot acquire what he calls the white man's social heritage, Prof. Mecklin rehashes a lot of matter that has been exploded time and time again, besides mis-stating, misinterpreting and suppressing facts. There are two broad and fundamental considerations that Prof. Mecklin ignores. One is that the Negro is, after all, a human being; and the other is that ethics cannot be divorced from the problem. But Prof. Mecklin has no patience with any effort to inject any considerations of equity or humanitarianism into the matter. He denounces the attitude of those who believe that the Negro has natural and inalienable rights in the case as an "uncritical humanitarianism," and repudiates Prof. Royce of Harvard as being an "uncritical humanitarian." Dixon, Vardaman, Thomas Nelson Page, Ben Tillman—they are philosophers. But Josiah Royce, professor of philosophy of Harvard—he is uncritical. But Prof. Mecklin's plea will be in vain. The greatest Americans will never repudiate equity, and they will never consent to pervert those fundamental doctrines of natural rights, and equality before the law, which are the particular safeguards of our civilization. Prof. Mecklin's book does not add anything of value to the literature of the problem he has under discussion. W. E. GRIFFIN. THE DIXIE JUBILEE CONCERT COMPANY. The Best Jubilee Company in the World. Chautauquas that are to have the Dixies on their programs next summer may well congratulate themselves on having the greatest Jubilee company in the world. This is saying a great deal, but can be easily proven. There are no great companies of this kind outside of the United States. In this country, the Dixies stand easily at the head of all similar companies. Mr. Buckner is one of the best informed leaders of his race in the north and the most efficient jubilee manager in the country today. He has made a study of Negro melody and has kept in close touch with researches along those lines at Tuskegee and other institutions. The result has been that while other companies have been giving a minstrel program, the Dixies are presenting programs of genuine Negro folk lore and melody. Buckner is proud to present the folk songs of his race as they really should be given, with the genuine feeling as well as the technical ability that reveals the vocal outburst of a race in bondage. Another reason for the phenomenal success of the Dixie Company, is the beautiful soprano voice of Madame Neal Buskner, who is conceded to be the greatest soprano of her race. No one who has heard her beautiful rendition of the "Suwanee River" or any of the other old favorites will ever forget that marvelous voice. She has starred in some of the greatest theatrical companies this country has known. She prefers traveling with her husband in the more congenial lyceum and Chautaqua work. It is due to this fact alone that she is with this company.—Entertainment Review. The Criterion Theatre is putting on a most pleasing and entertaining bill this week in addition to the Negro pictures which are pronounced by all the best ever shown in this city. Under the management of Mr. Homer B. Roberts, this theatre is obtaining its former prestige and glory and is being crowded nightly by the best people of the city. 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. J.C.WAGNER The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in Season. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. Courteous Treatment to All 1819 Howard Ave. WORDS OF APPRECIATION. More Mothers Testify to Merits of XXth Century Hair Preparations. Nelson, Mo., April 13, 1913. Dear Madam Dabney: I am writing you for a small order. I want you to please send by mail 3 bottles of shampoo, 3 boxes of hair grower and 2 boxes of pressing oil. I like the remedy just fine; I would not be without it for anything. I am using it on my little girl's hair; it seems to be helping it greatly. MRS. ANNA BRUNER. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 20, 1913. Dear Madam Dabney: I am a mother of four girls. In trying to improve their hair I had tried several preparations, but none gave me good results until I used Madam Dabney's XXth Century Preparations. Their hair was thin, harsh and would fall out so that I dreaded to use a comb. Now their hair is growing nicely—does not fall out—has no dandruff—is soft and pretty. Three of these girls are attending Wendell Phillips School, Howard and Vine streets. Investigation will bear out my testimony. I would not be without the XXth Century Preparation in my house. A glx week's treatment of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations sent on receipt of P. O. money order of $1.25, or a single package of XXth Century Hair, Grower, Pressing Oil or Shampoo sent for 50c. Write today to Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations Co., 1806 E. 24th St., Kansas City, Mo., Dept. 40. Persons living in Kansas City who cannot be supplied by their druggist will be called upon by an agent on dropping a postal card to the above address or calling Bell Phone, East 2476. JOHN B. FLEMING DEAD, Hon. Jno. B. Fleming of Horton, Kas, one of the best known business men and politicians in the state, died last Tuesday following an operation for appendicitis and was buried on Thursday from his home in that city. The funeral was conducted by Dr. J. R. Ransom of Kansas City, Kas, and a life long friend, an dws largely attended by white and colored citizens from over the state. The Sun extends its deepest sympathy to the bereaved family. Help Whectley-Provident Hospital. Dancing lessons taught at Armory Hall every Saturday night. We teach all the latest dances. We guaraantee that everyone will learn who takes an interest in dancing. Class from 9:30 to 11:30. Price 25 cents. Private lessons from 6:30 to 9:30. Price 50 cents. MRS. JANIE WHITE, Instructor. MISS KATIE ANDERSON, MR. GEO. DARNELL, MR. ALBERT THOMAS, PROF. FRANK BUCKNER, MR. EARL THOMAS, Assistants. Bell Phone East 308R. There is a reason why the larger per cent of Cabinet Stationary used in the printing establishment from the Arthur W. Harris Printing Establishment. First their work is completed by the largest unexcelled by any of the larger and best equipped printing establishments to make a specialty of this class of work. Second, while their prices are lower than the average ways the fairest. They have 'delivered' with accuracy and despatch over per cent of the paper weeding during the past year and now when a function of class is announced its a ten-to-one shot that Harris will handle the job. Mrs. B. F. Wilson of 1300 Paseo, writes from Chicago that she is having a delightful visit and will leave September 1 for the South and East to visit relatives and friends. She says that there is no paper that she has been able to read that compares with the Sun and sends the following catchy little poem to the paper: Oh the Sun, the dear old Sun, But not the one that shines, The paper's like its Editor, It's right up with the times. I'm going South in a day or two, But I shall not go to stay, And I want the pleasure of reading the Sun While I am far away. I've taken the paper eight long years And I will take it eight years more, Fir I never saw a paper grow As this one has, before, Yours for the race, NANNIE B. WILSON. The Colored Presbyterian of the city are invited to attend services at Fourteenth and Michigan next Sunday at 11 a. m., 3 and 7:30 p. m. This church property was purchased from the Seventh Day Adventists by the Colored Presbyterians. We hope to have a large attendance at these meetings. The pastor of the church has just returned from his Presbytery, which convened at Hartville, Mo., about a week ago. The next annual session of the Presbytery will convene at the Colored Presbyterian Church of this city. THE DAY NURSERY. The South Side Day Nursery is very grateful to Mrs. Otto Hayes for making three aprons. To Mrs. Helen Herndon of the Sorosis Club for one white chair. To a friend for dishes worth $1.50. To Mrs. Mary Wheeler for various kindnesses that cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. Mr. F. D. Holman has given $5 with which to buy a lawn swing. Who will follow his example and make possible a sand pile and comfortable seats in the back yard. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH Sister Gertrude Tibbs is still improving. We hope she will continue. .Sister Nicy Cuby has been ill, but is somewhat better at this writing. Mr. M. W. Hill and daughter visited Jonesboro, Ark, where he purchased 75 acres of land in the St. Francis River Bottoms. He expects to cultivate 20 acres next summer and reports a pleasant trip....The Kansas City Sun is in great demand at this Church....Morning and evening services were very poorly attended Sunday on account of the intense heat and rain. Dr. T. H. Ewing is suffering from blood poisoning as a result of being fined by a fish....Dr. Lambright lanced his hand and he is much better at this writing....Don't fall to hear Brother D. W. Ross' lecture next Sunday evening at the B. Y. P. U. Subject, "The Bible In Its Making." Brother Ross has but few peers in Bble work. Come and hear him at 5:30 Sunday evening. PALMYRA, MO. Sunday was a glorious day at Bethel A. M. E. Church, being Quarterly Meeting, Rev. R. L. Beal, P. E. preached two excellent sermons. Amount raised $37.50... Miss Pearl Sparks has returned from Keokuk. Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, Mr. Jas. Howell and Mrs. K. A. Smiley have returned from the Grand Lodge at Keokuk and report a pleasant session ...Mrs. Rilla Williams entertained at supper Friday, Mr. Roy Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nasemore of Chicago ...Miss Lena Lewis of Hannibal, who has been visiting Miss Bertha Sandridge, has returned home...Mr. Roy Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bas- more, after a pleasant visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith, left for Chicago Saturday...Mr. Jessie Smith and son and Mrs. Bertha Carter and son, were in Quincy Saturday ...Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sandridge Jr. have moved to Hannibal. An optimist is one who hopes to catch enough. A woman feels able to cope with any difficulty if she just has time to give her nose an extra dab of powder. E. EUGENE VAUGHAN. MEMBER K, C. BUSINESS LEAGUE. I have plenty of capital to build houses. Telephone me to day. Eventually you will. Estimates cheerfully given. TO THE NEWLYWEDS. While now your hearts are so joyful, Take heed lest you forget. That buying a home today, for tomorrow, Is a step you'll ne'er regret. GOING! GOING! What? First class 7 per cent mortgages for sale. 4 rooms, 25 ft. $650.00. $50.00 down. EUGENE EDWARD LAUGHAN, Twents-Kirkland Parkway, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell phone, West 1757. CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE New and Second Hand Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged Bell Phone East 3413 M 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. Will also teach Drafting. Bell Phone East 3413 M Mrs. Lillie Williams 2914 Woodland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISOURI A League Enterprise! On Eighteenth in the Fifteen Hundred Block A News Bureau Every Negro Periodical, Negro Pictures. Negro Books. Novelties Stationery 5c. Every Day in the Year 1521 Best 18th Street. CHAS. A. STARKS, Prop. Our Motto: "Nothing but The Best" The Crosthwait Floral Company Everything in Flowers and Flower Designs "WE DELIVER THE GOODS" The People say we have made some of the most beautiful and original de- signs in flowers ever seen in Kansas City. "Quick Delivery--Satisfactory Service" Bell Phone East 273 1719 E. 17th St., Kansas City, Mo. Subscribe for the SUN Bell Phone East 999 1803 East 18th Street Human Documents of Married Life By Virginia T. Van de Water Intimate and Human, Intensely Alive, Each Story Presenting a Problem Which Might Occur to Any One of Us at Any Time WHY I MARRIED AGAIN ERHAPS the calendar hanging above my desk, telling me what day of the month this is, has set me thinking of the reason that led to my second marriage. For this is the anniversary of my first wedding day. It seems strange that I should remember this, and that there is nobody ERHAPS the calendar hanging above my desk, telling me what day of the month this is, has set me thinking of the reason that led to my second marriage. For this is the anniversary of my first wedding day. If seems strange that I should remember this, and that there is nobody to whom I can talk of the thoughts that the date brings to me. Ernest and I were absurdly happy, our friends said. Maybe they were right, but I did not see any absurdity in our bliss. My husband's income was a comfortable one, but not large. I suppose we could have saved money, but we did not try to, and lived up to every cent we had. "Why should we bother?" Ernest would ask merrily. "I'm sure of my job, and it brings us in enough to give us a good time and to pay as we go. Since we have each other, why not make the most of all the happiness that comes to us? When we begin to grow old we can be saving." Yes, it was a care-free, happy life. I had left college, expecting to support myself, and began by writing an occasional story to earn a little money. I was, in fact, a poor girl when I married. My parents were dead and an aunt in the West had cared for and educated me until she died, leaving me with sufficient money to take me to New York, where I had a few friends and where I determined to make my living by my pen. How easy it sounds, and how easy I thought it was before I knew life! But I did not have to earn the precarious living then for, during the first fortnight in New York, while I was still staying with the friends who took me in until I could look for a suitable boarding place, I met Ernest, Ours was, I suppose, what people call "a case of love at first sight." We had a short engagement, and had the pregnancies of our acquaintances proved true, we would have repented at leisure. But we never did. For five perfect years we were the happiest couple in the world. We had a dainty little apartment and kept one excellent servant. In society we had friends who liked us; at home, we had each other. Our honeymoon lasted five times twelve months. And then Ernest died. It was all so sudden that I felt as if he had slipped away into the Great Unknown without stopping to wave me a last good-by. I suppose I was numbed and dazed, for I did not cry out nor make a moan. I remember wondering how Ernest could do such a thing when he knew that he was all I had. He might have waited long enough, I thought, to tell me that he was going, and what I was to do without him. I almost envied him because he was spared the loneliness to which he had left me. Anyone who has been through a crushing sorrow knows the misery of the obsession of petty thoughts. It is as if one's true self were made unconscious by the blow, and only the small, weak, and trivial side of one's nature asserted itself. The night before they buried Ernest I was left alone with him—except for the servant asleep in her room. My friends had been very kind and had attended to everything for me. I suppose they thought that it was all right to leave as calm a woman as I seemed alone on this last night. I have remembered that often since then when I have heard people declare that someone in sorrow "is wonderfully quiet and brave." How little they know! But I was glad my friends thought this of me. After they had coaxed me to go to bed, and all had gone away, I got up, put on slippers and wrapper, and went into the little parlor where Ernest lay. As I gazed at him I could at first only remember how handsome he had looked on the last evening we had spent alone together. He had taken me out to dinner and I had chided him, laughingly, for ordering so many good things, "just for me." He had insisted that when he dined "with the sweetest woman in the land," he liked her to eat the best things he could afford. He had looked at me as he said this, lifted his glass of champagne to his lips, and drank my health, the smile I loved to see brightening his face and lighting his eyes. Now, for an awful moment, I looked down on his closed eyes. Then the truth came to me, and I felt that he was dead. Nobody ever knew what that appreciation or realization meant to me. The whole world changed while I was alone in that little parlor, before I crept back at daylight to my own room. God was very far off and did not seem to hear or care. And Ernest was dead. My friends helped me find a fourroom and bath apartment in an unfashionable street. It was up four flights of stairs, as the higher one went the cheaper it was. Only "flat-houses" were on that block, and the street swarmed with children—most of them the small sons and daughters of the janitors. The courts were narrow and I used to hear the neighbors talking across the air shaft. Some NOT HARD TO TEST DIAMOND Simple Methods by Which the Genuine May Be Diatungulated From the Artificial. Marvelously beautiful as are the imitation diamonds of today, an experienced eye never mistakes them for the genuine article. The average person, however, can easily be deceived, and the following simple tests should assist him when times they quarreled, and the sounds of alteration disgusted me. It was like another world from that to which I had been accustomed. My only life in an apartment had been in that to which Ernest had taken me when we were married—a small apartment, to be sure, but in a handsome house overlooking the river. Now I was a poor woman. Yet I did not feel that we had made a mistake in saving nothing for such a contingency as the one that had arisen. While I lived, I lived, I reminded myself. I had had my day. I fed my physical being with enough tasteless food to keep it alive. I suppose that self-preservation is one of the great laws of nature that work while we are unconscious of them. I did not want to meet my friends of happier days, and, in my deep dejection, I did not make them very welcome when they ran in to call on me. I felt uncomfortable when the few women who came reminded me of how far I lived from my old haunts and from their present homes, so I did not urge them to repeat their first calls. Men do not seem to mind one's surroundings, in fact scarcely appear to notice them. And one does not feel that one must apologize to a man when he has to take a long trip to call on one. So when Charlie Borden, a young reporter to whom my husband had been kind, got into the habit of running in to see me every week, I showed him that he was welcome. He took me out to supper occasionally on Sunday evenings, or for a walk on Sunday afternoons. These calls and outings made a break in my round of work, for I was writing now for my living—or trying to. I know the boy was sorry for me, and one evening he said so. We had returned from taking supper in a downtown restaurant, and found the apartment dark and cold. He shivered as he lighted the gas in my tiny reception room and heard the wind howl at the windows. "It's dreary here for you," he said, with embarrassment. "I don't suppose you care to hear me say so, but I have a heartache when I think how lonely you must be sometimes. And I can't help thinking of what a dandy home you had and how happy you were—before he went." "Don't!!" I said sharply. "Don't talk about it!" I feared that I had hurt the boy and told him I was sorry. He murred confusedly something about "wishing he could do anything to make things easier." "You do," I said gratefully, "by coming to see me." After that he came twice a week instead of once. I did not object. I liked the lad and remembered that Ernest had been fond of him. I was at my desk most of the day except when I went downtown to try to sell something I had written. I could not work all the day and the evening, too, and I found Charlie a diversion. But one spring evening, coming in and finding me sitting alone in the twilight, he told me that he loved me. At first I was shocked, then angry, then bored. I tried to be kind and explain that I was ten years older than he, a woman of the world, while he was a mere boy. He thought that he was horribly hurt. He did not call again for a month, and then but once, until the following October when he came in to tell me about his engagement to "the dearest little girl ever." I congratulated him, and he looked more confused than when he had told me he loved me, as he asked me to "try to forget the foolish mistake he had made last spring." I tried to make him believe that I had forgotten it weeks ago. I have mentioned this little affair because Charlie Borden was the first man who showed me, after my husband's death, that my life was a rather complex problem. There were, of course, other men, for there are always men for the women who enjoy them and are good comrades. I was not handsome, nor even pretty. But I like men and they have always been kind to me. I met many of them at this stage of my existence, and to their encouragement and interest in my work I owed the fact that I got enough writing to keep soul and body together, and to dress the latter in decent clothes. Black is always a safe garb and I bought only that which was in good style and took excellent care of it. I learned very soon in my lonely career that if one would succeed, one must appear successful. That I had not known that fact earlier was, perhaps, the reason one editor looked at me patronizingly when I offered him a story. "Do you write because you like to write?" he asked bluntly. "No." I said tremulously, "because I need the money." "I see," he replied. "I doubt if you can do just the kind of stuff we want for this magazine. But I will look over your story." It came back to me in a few days with a printed slip. Later, after I had had more practice and had acquired a kind of "knack," my work provided me with an income that kept my rent paid, my body fed and garbed. But I had to be striking a bargain. The facets on a real diamond are rarely so regular as those of really good limitations. With the latter the greatest care has to be taken in grinding and polishing, so that there shall be no regularity in the reflections of the light. A file cannot scratch a real diamond, but quickly injures an imitation. A sapphire is the next hardest stone to a diamond and is an even better test than the file. Thrust a diamond ring into a bowl of water and the stones will glitter careful of every cent, and the constant effort to suit the notions and idiosyncrasies of magazine editors wore on my nerves and spirits. I would come home elated one day, but horribly depressed the next. There were periods of discouragement when I almost gave up hope of making my living with my pen. At one of these times I spoke my thought to my best man friend. Will Mason was older than I, and successful in his profession. He knew much of the publishing business and was in touch with many editors. I have often thought that had he not steered me through that first year I would never have had the courage to continue. Late one afternoon I called at a magazine office to offer to the editor an article I had in mind. I had never met this editor before, and he was not a gentleman. As I unfolded my plan he threw himself back in his chair with a contemptuous laugh. "None of that in ours!" he declared roughly. "We don't want that stale kind of stuff in our publication." I felt my cheeks burn as I took the elevator to the street. It was duck as I left the building, and I actually staggered with a dumb nausea and revolt against the life I was leading. I felt as if I had been begging, instead of offering to do honorable work. I did not take a car, but walked slowly uptown. "I can't stand this kind of thing any longer!" I muttered over and over. I repeated the declaration to Will Mason when he called on me that evening. "I would rather take in washing than hawk manuscripts around!" I said. He shook his head, although there was a gleam of sympathy in his eyes. "Don't talk like that," he protested. "You couldn't wash a pocket handkerchief properly! You're up against it all right, but you'll have to play the game out, child. I'll help all I can by standing on the side lines and cheering." He did. It was he who told me that I needed self-confidence, that I should seem brave even if I wasn't. After that I tried to be brave, and I was, I suppose, for things began to grow brighter. An editor offered me a hundred dollars for a short story I had written. A hundred dollars! And I did need the money so badly! I was so much excited over this piece of good fortune that I called Will Mason up at his office and told him of it. He seemed as much pleased as I was and suggested that I meet him that evening and dine with him in celebration of the event. Perhaps it was unconventional, for Will is a married man, but I did not stop to think of that, and I accepted. Will was kind to me, and had a great bunch of violets at my place at dinner. We had a little table away off in a secluded corner of the downtown hotel and had a merry time. A week later a woman whom I knew came to see me and told me that Mrs. Mason had heard that I had dined with her husband and was angry. That evening Will came to call and I told him frankly what I had heard. "Please explain the matter to your wife," I urged. He shrugged his shoulders and laughed. "Why should I? She represents the fact that I took you out to dinner. I saw a friend of hers in the restaurant that evening. Had I seen her earlier, we would have gone somewhere else." "But—why? I asked. "There was no harm in my dining with you, an old friend." "Of course not. But people don't want to believe the best, but the worst. And if there had been any harm in it, whose business would it have been anyway?" "Your wife's and mine!" I flashed out hotly. He rose to his feet with a forced laugh. "Your ideas are as narrow as Mrs. Mason's," he said curtly. "I supposed you were a more sensible woman. Good night!" I was alone once more. I was tired, and my head ached. My little parlor was deadly dull. Was this all there was to be in my life? A pleasant friendship was spoiled. And yet what could I have done to keep it and my self-respect at the same time? But I was horribly lonely. Not only did I have nobody to love me, but, worse still, I had nobody to love. I had given my husband my all, and now my heart was turned back upon itself. But I had my work, I remembered, and after this I wrought at it with feverish intensity. I took my next article to an editor whom I had met several times, and he ordered some other work from me. He wanted to talk it over with me, he said. Would I go out and lunch with him, and we could discuss it while we were eating and drinking? I flushed uncomfortably, for I knew he had a wife. He laughed merrily as I tried, stammeringly, to "wonder if it was all right." "It's only business, you know," he said. "I often ask some woman writer to lunch with me while we talk magazine work. My wife likes me to do so, for then I eat a decent meal instead of bolting a sandwich and coffee at a quick-indigestion lunch counter." through the liquid, but an imitation stone loses all its brilliancy under water. If you look through a diamond at a black dot on a piece of white paper you will see one black speck quite clearly. If the dot is blurred or multiplied the stone is probably not genuine. Place one drop of water upon the face of a diamond, touch it with a point of a pencil—the drop will keep its globule form and the stone remain dry. If the brilliant is an imitation the water at once spreads out. I breathed freely and murmured, "Thank you." Then, and often since then, I have wondered why nearly all the nice men are married. For they are, I thought so at that time. I knew it later when a young fellow whom I had met at a friend's house on one of the rare calls I made during my lonely life, and who often came to see me, told me that he was going abroad that summer. I spoke out the thought that arose immediately to my mind. "How lovely for you! But how I shall miss you!" "Miss me?" he asked, in some surprise. "Yes," I declared. "I shall miss you and all the kind things you have done for me. It has been nice to have someone to bring me the newest novel, or a box of candy, or some one of the many things that women like—and which of late I have had to do without." I was tired, and as I spoke one of the waves of cruel remembrance, such as all bereaved persons know, swept over me. I suppose there were tears in my eyes, for I had for the moment forgot the lad who stood near me. I was recalled to the present by a hand on my shoulder. "I am sorry," the young fellow was saying, "for making you feel like this. I never fancied you cared for me except as you might care for a brother!" When I had explained and the discomfited youth had gone, I sank down upon my couch and laughed, then cried. But the cry lasted longer than the laugh. Yes, all the nice men were married, and most of the unmarried men were fools! To the lonely and sad hearted the winter is not the dearest time, if we except the holiday season. At least it is not the dearest time if one lives in town. One can pull down the shades, turn on the lights, and read at night. But the summer, with the windows open and the hucksters making hideous sounds all day, with the children and poisy groups laughing and talking on the sidewalks far into the night—all these add horrors to loneliness. And one cannot walk off these horrors by a swift tramp through the open air. The streets are hot and dusty, and one is unspeakably tired. I appreciated all this as I walked up Broadway one July noon. I had just secured an order for another article that would mean a hundred dollars. I had also, several months ago, taken the editorship of a woman's department on a magazine, and this would bring me in a small check each month. But any enthusiasm in my work was growing faint, for I had never really loved it. What was it all for? I asked myself. Just to keep up the same round and grind, month after month, year after year. There was nothing else to look forward to—nothing else! The thought of marrying again had, of course, come to my mind once in a while, but I had put it from me as something unutterably abhorrent. To my way of thinking the widow who married again had never loved her first husband. I mused on this fact for the twentieth time as I strolled slowly uptown on that hot noon. I was brought to the present and my surroundings by a pleasant voice speaking my name. In front of me stood a man whom I had met the year of my marriage, and who had left New York while I was still a bride. I had always liked him, and meeting him just now, when I was morbid and depressed, gave me the feeling that he was an old friend. His hair was grayer than when I had last seen him, he was homsomer for the flesh he had gained, and he had the well-groomed look of a prosperous man. He fell in to step beside me, and, after asking a few questions about myself and my work, told me that he was now settled definitely in New York and was glad to renew our acquaintance. Might he call? Thus began a friendship that was a help and stimulus to me. For the first time since I had been alone I was the happy possessor of a man friend who was old enough to be my adviser and yet unattached and under no obligations to wife, mother, or sister. He was good company, and we had many delightful open-air excursions together. Days in the Bronx woods, trips up the Sound, afternoon teas together —all rested and refreshed me. This man was a great reader and excellent critic, and would suggest gently and tactfully this or that improvement in my style. He read my work as fast as it was published, and talked of it with an interest that was comforting to my lonely heart. Perhaps what appealed to me most was that he was, like myself, lonely. His mother had died the year before, he had no near relatives, and he had been away from New York so long that he had gotten out of touch with many of his friends, even had they been in town at this time of year. I got to depending upon him for companionship, and I knew that he turned to me for rest and sympathy. So it was natural that I should have a feeling almost like jealousy, when, in the late autumn, he told me that several of his old friends had looked him up and had invited him to their houses for two evenings of the following week. I lay awake far into that night reasoning with myself and jealousy. Why had I let my self lean on this man's friendship? Did I love him? No—a thousand times no; if I compared the feeling I had for him with that which I had given my husband! Did I want to marry him? Again, no! But how I would miss him when his friends claimed him, as I was sure they would do now that they had found him! What a weak fool I had been to let myself become so depend upon this man for companionship! And now all the awful loneliness HOW HE RECOGNIZED THEM Youthful Picture Gazer Was Not Impressed by Beauty of the Faces of the Madonnas. An art missionary was giving an exhibition of pictures to a crowd of settlement children. One small boy seemed especially interested in the Madonnas and listened attentively to her explanation of the meaning conveyed by each picture. When half a dozen Madonnas had A. S. SMITH MIDDLE-LEVEL 1910 HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS HORRIBLY HURT would come back to me, worse than ever, if that were possible! Several days passed before I saw him again. One Sunday evening he called as usual. It was good to hear his pleasant voice, to feel his cordial hand chap, to talk of the things that interested us both. Perhaps he and I were thinking the same thoughts,困惑edly he sighed. I made no reply. His face and tone were serious as he added: "I have accepted three invitations for the com- HE THOUGHT THAT HE ing week, and I find myself wishing they were all from you." "I wish so, too," was my unexpected response. He looked at me keenly. "Have you missed me?" he questioned abruptly. "Yes." He had risen to his feet, as had I. He stood in front of me looking me straight in the eyes. "Will you be my wife?" he asked, without further preamble. I was no longer a young girl to start and blush. I was simply a superfluous woman, and a lonely one. I answered his question with another: "Do you love me?" KING OF DUELISTS NO MORE Death Removes Etienne Laberdesque, a Picturesque Figure of French Capital. M. Ettlene Laberdesque is dead and the boulevards of Paris are poorer by reason of his passing, remarks the Kansas City Star. For Laberdesque was the most picturesque of modern swash-bucklers, and he might well have strutted in the muddy streets of Paris what time M. Francois Villon and his friends made those streets unsafe after nightfall. A sort of Twentleth Century D'Artagnan, this Laberdesque bristling for duels with whoever failed to please his fancy. He should undoubtedly have worn doublet and feathered cap, and a sword might very fittingly have been a part of his everyday costume. As it was he knew how to use a sword as well as any man in Paris, and he kept his skill from growing rusty. Consider, if you will, how he fought five duels with five friends of M. Max Regis, mayor of Algiers, and when the five had been conquered, fought a two day's duel with the mayor himself. Name of a name! This was a man out of the heart of romance. Of course, those duels were not too bloody; but on the second day the mayor was pricked upon the arm a smart touch, and the blood spurted beautifully, and the seconds rushed in, and fell to disagreeing and challenging one another, and the spectators took sides and shouted epithets and defences at one another; ay, 'twas a most vociferous affair! And M. Regis, dragged away by his friends, brandished his unpricked fist and shouted: "I fought you to show I was not afraid of your sword. You are, nevertheless, an assassin." Whereupon Laberdesque challenged him to another duel. "Though his clothes were the prosale garb of modernity," says the London Globe, speaking of Laberdesque, his spirit belonged to the days of cloak and ruffle, when men drew swords on a quarrel and spitted their opponents deftly. He was the hero of more than a hundred duels. Tall and broad, with a brown face, he swaggered along the boulevards a few years ago, ready to pick a quarrel with any one whose presence was obnoxious to him and ask for satisfaction at the point of the sword. His manner was grandiloquent and authoritative. "When he lifted his alouch hat with a medieval flourish, you could almost see a cloak and sword behind his lounge suit. He rolled his name grandly as he delivered his challenge to those who were luckless enough to merit his anger. 'Laber-r-desque,' he would say. "Laberdesque was born in Cuba of a Spanish mother. He quarreled with his family at the age of eighteen been shown he cried out excitedly: "Here's another of them like we've had before!" The earnest young woman turned with surprise. "Why, did you really recognize it?" she questioned, "Yep- yer c'n spot 'em every time," was the prompt response. "Can you truly?" she queried "Can you, truly?" she queried, touched and pleased. "Surest thing you know!" the small critic replied. The art missionary thought a moment, then said softly to him, "Yes, He took my hands in both of his. "I hardly know," he said slowly, "what is meant by love. I care more for you than for any other woman; I admire you; I find you are the best companion and comrade in the world. I miss you and long for you when I am not with you. I am proud to be the friend of a woman with your mind, your courage, your tact. And I am not a foolish boy, but a man of forty. You have known one perfect love, so I do not ask you if you love me, but I believe you are fond of me. I hope I may make your life happy. Will you marry me?" E WAS HORRIBLY HURT I saw opening before me a door into a brighter world, into a lighted place away from the black desolation, the monotonous dreariness, the fear of loneliness and of a long, solitary life, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has said "Fear is the multiple of suffering." I had proved the truth of this. in the open doorway I saw standing a man whom I liked, who was congenial, who would care for me, and who would let me care for him. And I put my hand in his and turned to the lighted door. Do I regret it? No. Do I regret it? No. Am I happy? Does any human being have in this world more than one period of complete happiness? (Copyright, by Moffat, Yard. & Co.) and went to fight in the Venezuelan revolution. When a revolution was threatened in Cuba he turned there, and in the course of three years fought forty-three duels with saber, pistol and yataghan. His father succeeded in shipping him off to France, where he enlisted in the Spahis. He had astonishing strength and was capable, it is said, even of carrying his own tired horse on his back after being carried about by it all day." After leaving the army, Laberdesque founded a club in Paris which he called "Les Mousquetaires." All the members were accomplished swordmen, and they made it their business to maintain a censorship of Parisian society. When the Mousquetaires decided that a man wouldn't do at all they sent him a challenge, and he had either to leave Paris or take a chance of being run through the body. To keep in practise the members of the club used notched swords—swords with the points bare, but a notch of wood an inch below, so that though one might wound an opponent, he could not make a wound more than an inch deep. Among his friends Labertesque was noted not only for his bravery, but for his lavish generosity. What belonged to him belonged to his friends. And how he loved to gather a little knot of listeners around him and with magnificent gesture, rolling voice and flashing eye recount his adventures to them! There was a naive, childlike vanity about the man that quite disarmed his hearers and made his braggadocio the most delightful extravaganza. He was just past 40 when he died, but he had certainly succeeded in cramming a world of living into those 40 years. One of his last duels was with M. Messimy, against whom he ran for a seat in the French chamber of deputies. Messimy boxed Laberdesque's ears in a public meeting and, of course, nothing but blood could wipe out an insult like that. They met and M. Messimy was disarmed by the famous thrust to the arm, not much more painful or dangerous than a barb wire cut. Honor was avenged. Laberdesque leaves' a widow, who was the Marquise del Flores, a beauty of Cuban and Spanish descent. She was a kinswoman of the Spanish ambassador to France. A Wayfarer's Ruse. "Please, mum, could I trouble you for a bottle of wine and a plate of pate de fole gras?" "What!" "I merely said that, mum, to prove to you that I have seen better days. A few cold biscuits will do." Ragtime. Mr. Flatte—That was the best piece of raftime I have heard on our piano-player, dear. Mrs. Flatte—Well, that was one of those porous plasters I got in there by mistake. you are right. You can distinguish them from other pictures. There is a tenderness, a beauty, a sort of brooding mother-love such as you never see anywhere but in the face of Mary as she looks at the Child Jesus." "Naw, 'tain't that!" was the disgusted rejoinder. "It's them rings around their heads that gives 'em away!" Inseparable. Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other—Addison. --- Home Town Helps Police Regulations the Principal Cause for Clear Atmosphere in German Capital. Visitors who go to Berlin to make industrial investigations, being usually aware of the fact that the Kaiser's capital is one of the largest manufacturing cities in the world, are amazed that the air is so free from smoke, and set about to find the cause. They usually go about it in the wrong way, and come to the conclusion that it is all a matter of coincidence. There are many reasons why Berlin is smokeless, and these reasons range all the way from police regulations to the economy of the inhabitants in the use of fuel. There is actually no law against smoke, but Clause 27, Part 2, Paragraph 10, says: "The necessary measures for the preservation of the public peace, safety, and health, and the avering, preventing, and removing whatever may be detrimental to the general public or to the individual members thereof belong to the function and duty of the police. That is quite sufficient, and yet the reasons why the police rarely have to enforce this clause in regard to smoke are to be found elsewhere. In the first place most of the big factories were placed, for that very reason, on the eastern edge of the city, and the prevailing wind blows from the west, so that it is only one day out of five or six that the smoke is blown across the city. Second there is the fuel used. This is lignite or "brown coal." As a mineral it is not so "old" as American coal, is much lighter in weight and is almost entirely consumed on combustion. For use it is usually compressed in the form of brilquettes, which burn steadily with almost no smoke. One of the most important factors in making Berlin smokeless, however, is economical. Locomotive firemen and the stokers in factories receive premiums for the coal they save. They are ordered from day to day or from week to week to keep up a certain standard of heat, using a fixed quantity of coal; if they manage to keep up the standard with less fuel they are allowed a certain percentage of the value of the fuel saved. This is one reason why Berlin stokers are so eagerly sought for by the trans-Atlantic liners to tend their furnaces. HOW TO BEAUTIFY THE HOME Careful Selection of Vines and Shrubs Will Make Ordinary House Attractive. In making a garden of the home grounds, the planting around the house itself should receive the first attention. A careful selection of vines and shrubs will make an ordinary house attractive, and a beautiful one even more charming. Study your own house and its architectural defects. Luxuriant masses of vines will break up the spaces of a wall that seems blank and forbidding, and will conceal any crude carpentry that the veranda may display. Large shrubs banked against a house that stands too high above the ground will give it the effect of fitting more closely into its surroundings, while the apparent breadth of a house that is too narrow can be increased materially by a deep planting of shrubbery at the sides. Even if a house is of good proportions, the harsh lines of its foundation must be concealed, and any irregularities in its outline, such as the angles formed by steps or extending wings, filled in with shrubbery. Flowers are not good for this purpose; they do not make masses that are rich enough to frame a building. Moreover, they are on duty for less than half the year. Choose shrubbery of varying height to avoid monotony. Pearl bush, Tartarian honeysuckle, American hawthorn, illac and syringa are excellent tall shrubs that will succeed under most conditions. Bugosa roses, Spirea, Van Houtel, the drooping golden bell, Japanese barberry, and the deutzias are useful in front of other shrubs to make a good transition to the grass. Drape the veranda with vines, not only for their beauty, but for the privacy they will give. Virginia creeper, a variety of climbing roses, and masses of feathery, white-flowered chemis that blooms in the fall, clematis paniculata, will make the veranda delightful for six months every year. Would Have More Gardens. Mrs. Philip Martneau, who has come to this country to show Americans how to make gardens, deplores the fact that there are so few gardens in this country. She says that Americans are so used to things on a big scale that they do not realize what can be done with a garden plot no bigger than a handkerchief. London, with all its smoke, she says, has more gardens than New York. Every town has its men who take pleasure in running after other people's hats when they blow off. Shadows. "Could you sing that song about the twilight when the flickering shadows softly come and go?" said the sentimental youth. "Sir!" exclaimed the lady at the piano. "I don't approve either of the current fashions in gowns or of the promiscuous references to them." Daily Thought. Cultivate the great art of leaving people alone, even those you think you have a right to direct in the minutest particular.,-Bulwer Lytton. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Fifty years of neglect have engendered conditions which the new-born zeal of southern whites, armed with all the wisdom which modern social science can furnish, will be hard put to combat. And alas! the south had first to forge her own weapons, nay, even to build the forge. In all the south there was no training school for social workers, few social experts, few libraries of social science. The single library of Columbia university contains more valuable books than are owned by all the colleges of the south put together. So the first thing was to train leaders, all the way from district nurses to sanitary engineers. The new south is daring. It not only contemplated a school for social workers whose faculty of white experts should teach in a negro department as well as in classes of their own people, but it dreamed of rallying seven religious denominations to the support of the training school. The dream has come true. The American Interchurch College for Religious and Social Workers opens its doors on the 14th of January. The negro department, opened on the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of emancipation, has been in operation almost a year. The school has autistically sat itself down in the shadow of Vanderbilt university and Peabody college (training school for normal teachers) in order to establish a co-operative triad, no one of the colleges duplicating the advantages of the other two, students of one passing freely to lectures in the others. Since the negro department is situated at a little distance (and also because negro students in the south do not go to a white college), professors and social experts from the north will repeat their addresses at Nashville Institute for Negro Christian Workers. Economy is achieved by this happy arrangement. Each of the seven co-operating denominations will eventually have its own training-school on the campus, building and owning their own halls and giving at their own expense all instruction in denominational doctrine, polity and methods, while the Interchurch college provides a faculty to give all courses which can be taken in common by all the students. This amounts to about four-fifths of the whole curriculum. The social service library, already opened, will be at the command of all, and a chapel, gymnasium and administration building for common use. No such audacious system of church co-operation has yet been launched in America, nor do I know its parallel anywhere. It is estimated that the maintenance of seven distinct denominal national schools with seven distinct faculties would require an annual outlay of $105,000. Yet the seven, together with the training schools maintained by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. can be handled co-operatively for $70,000 a year. The saving is actual, too, for the demand for social workers of every sort is so strong throughout the south that the denominations would be compelled to build independently had it not been for the interchurch college. The south is full of the raw material for social work, college men and women who want only expert training to make the finest kind of instruments. The south needs not imported northern experts, but home-bred workers who know their ground.-Mary Bronson Hartt in Washington (D. C.) Star. In these days of great achievements it is possible to reach heights before unknown by short cuts. The Japanese have assimilated western civilization in about a half century from the time, in 1853, when Commodore Perry of the United States navy first entered the harbor of Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and forced the Japanese to give up their policy of isolation and nonintercourse with foreign nations. There is no question that the colored people have assimilated American civilization in 300 years of contact and are today the equals of the other varieties which make up cosmopolitan America. The difference between the literacy of the white and colored peoples is not so great as the census would seem to indicate. The dense mass of ignorance is in the South, and the difference between the literacy of the southern colored man and the southern white man is very small. In Chicago, owing to the large foreign population and the fact that all native citizens have had equal advantages, there is probably less illiteracy among the colored people than among the whites. Russia has 57,612 miles of navigable inland waterways; Germany, 11,293; France, 7,862; England, 3,906; Holland, 3,250; Sweden, 3,187, and Belgium, 1,440. The value of gold produced in the Gold Coast and Ashanti during 1912 was $2,045,455, the largest production on record. There are 1,237 British gas companies in England and Wales, 260 in Scotland, 110 in Ireland, 161 in Australia and 72 in other British possessions. Dangerous Hiccoughs. Two unusual cases of suffering through hiccoughs are reported. In one, a man had an attack of hiccoughs which lasted for nine days before he obtained relief. A little girl had a much worse attack, which lasted between three and four months, and was the result of a fright. Doctors had been unable to end the paroxysms, and many times it was thought the child would die. She had wasted away alarmingly, and hope for her recovery was abandoned. Some twenty thousand persons are attracted usually to Hampton institute, the pioneer industrial and agricultural training school for negro and Indian youth, founded in 1868 by Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong at Hampton, Va. These visitors from all parts of the world, are attracted by the unique and effective educational methods which Hampton institute has been successfully employing for over forty-five years in training negroes and Indians for unselfish and efficient service in the home, on the farm, in the shop, and in the kitchen. Hampton institute is an industrial village with some 1,200 or 1,300 students, 200 teachers and workers, 140 buildings, and an instruction farm of some 600 acres. Whatever work the Hampton school needs to have done, the students are usually prepared to do. Farming, home-making, teaching and the common industries form vital parts in the training of Hampton institute boys and girls. Blacksmithing, brick-laying and plastering, carpentry and cabinetmaking, machine work, painting, printing, shoe-making, steamfitting and plumbing, tailoring, tinsmithing, upholstering and wheelwrighting, are the trades which are offered by the Hampton Institute Trade school. In the busy shops, on the scaffoldings of new structures, in odd nooks and corners of the Hampton grounds, negro and Indian carpenters have for many years been daily mastering the building art and have been preparing themselves for life's emergencies by learning how to make the best possible use of their resources—time, tools, skill and moral qualities. Today the construction of the Hampton institute buildings and the necessary repairs are being satisfactorily done by student tradesmen. When it was necessary to remodel the principal's home, one of the oldest buildings on the Hampton campus, negro and Indian tradesmen did the necessary tearing down and building up. These operations were no easy tasks. The bulk of the work had to be done in hot and trying weather. The boys labored with a will. They were happy to have an opportunity of doing well what professional builders considered a difficult piece of work. The College of Missions, which is in the charge of the Flanner House settlement, has bought three adjoining vacant lots in Colton street, Indianapolis, which will be converted into a playground. The Flanner house owns four pieces of property and four lots. Plans are being made for an extension of the work. The free cooking school, which is being conducted this summer under the supervision of Mrs. Marlon Colefisher, has met with the heartiest response, especially from the mothers in the neighborhood. The work is in the charge of two young women from the College of Missions, one of whom is neighborhood nurse. The main building has been remodeled and things will be in readiness for a resident worker this fall. Rev. H. G. Dorthk, who has the supervision of the social settlement work being conducted in the city under the auspices of the College of Missions, is outlining plans to create larger interest in the children's department and to increase the force of volunteer family visitors. The play hour, which is conducted each Saturday during the school year, will be developed into a larger feature this year. An illustration of the value of effective training in the industrial arts is furnished in the graduates of Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington's school. There are more than one hundred of these trained young men and women in Chicago, according to Fannie Barrier Williams. A recent investigation shows that none of them is out of employment. The following is a partial list of the occupations in which they are engaged in this city: Two are practicing law, two are veterinary surgeons at the Union stock yards, three are undertakers, three are plumbers and steamfitters, five are merchant tailors, two are shoemakers, three are dressmakers, two are electricians, one an assistant meat inspector at the stock yards, there are three trained nurses, three carpenters, ten clerks in the post office, one editor and publisher. Wireless telephoning between Paris and a suburb of Brussels recently was accomplished. Out of a total coinage of $62,200,000 produced by the Paris mint last year, $47,200,000 was in gold. To encourage boring for oil the government of South Australia has offered a large bonus to the first person or corporation producing 100,000 gallons of crude 90 per cent petroleum from a well. George Sanford of Bath, Me., has an old-fashioned mortar and pestle standing 14 inches in height, which has been in his family for 150 years. The United States mints made 186, 621,871 coins, worth $37,496,530, last year. But a short time ago she had a violent attack of coughing. Her mother gave her cold tea and lemon. The coughing stopped. Everybody waited anxiously expecting the hiccoughing to return. But it did not. The Reason He Does Not. "I am quite sure that I can stop drinking when I have had enough." "But you never seem to do it." "I know it. You see, the trouble is that when I have had enough I don't know it." EFFICIENCY IN OUR NAVY JACKIE USING NEW TYPE RARID FIRE GUN HOW THEY KEEP FIT to me, disclose a field of usefulness for the navy second only in it. WHAT OUR 1400 LB SHELLS LOOK LIKE N INVESTMENT of $250,000,000 is something well worth while analyzing for the purpose of determining the best way to utilize all the possibilities for service to the investor. The taxpayers of the United States have considerably more than this amount already invested in the United States navy. The insurance of peace and prosperity to the individual and to the corporation under the United States government given by the army and navy undoubtedly pays a considerable percentage of dividends on the investment, but utilization of all possibilities for efficiency is the standard of 6 The insurance of peace and prosperity to the individual and to the corporation under the United States government given by the army and navy undoubtedly pays a considerable percentage of dividends on the investment, but utilization of all possibilities for efficiency is the standard of MILITARY CORPS JACKIES READING THE LATEST NEWS This feeling is based upon the fact that the specialized industries of today demand specialized education. Vocational training in the public schools, in extension courses and the still more highly specialized training of the corporation schools, are all long steps in the right direction. An accurate fitting of the round peg to the round hole demands, however, something in addition to the above. The navy requires 34 trades to administer to its needs. All these trades are under the common direction of one head. Each ship contains modern machinery for each trade to attain maximum efficiency. Does it not seem possible that during the four years of the enlistment period the natural capabilities of each man might be worked out in such a way as to practically insure locating this man in any profession to which his particular type of brain and mental and physical equipment best fit him? Fitting the individual man in the navy to his position of maximum usefulness means a careful, personal, unselfish consideration of the ambitions and capabilities of each man by the officers under whom he serves. Mutual understanding between officer and enlisted man in the navy is being developed at a wonderfully rapid rate. In the first place, a very large majority of the work in the navy is with machinery. Officer and man are both in overalls. The officer is Mr. Brooks, for example, and the man is simply "Smith;" but that is practically the only distinction between the officer and the man, except such as is given by the power of the officer to serve the enlisted man and to bring him to his highest point of efficiency. In the forward turret of the Alabama, for example, the ordinary seaman in charge of the holist motor has found that tightening a certain clutch will give greater speed to his car. "Mr. Brooks, I think a little change will give us a quicker ammunition supply." "What do you recommend?" The man then explains his idea and the entire turret crew gather around to discuss the advisability of the change. Each member of the turret crew is just as vitally interested in the success of the turret as the officer is, and each man knows that his best effort is absolutely essential to the maximum score of hits. In this way machinery on the ships has proved a great force working toward intelligent democracy in the navy. The second force tending to draw officer and man together is the fact that the efficiency of each officer and man from the commander in chief to the latest recruit on board, is a matter of exact record. "The shots that hit are the shots that count," and, incidentally, they are the only shots that count. The number of hits of each officer for each gun, of each man for each gun and of each man for each shot of each gun is put on the record of the officer and the enlisted man and becomes a matter of public knowledge, published in the newspapers of the country, advertising the efficiency of each, if the score is good enough; and, on the other hand, advertising inefficiency if the score is bad enough. The engineering competition applies the same exact methods to the number of pounds of coal, This feeling is based upon the fact that the specialized industries of today demand specialized education. Vocational training in the public schools, in extension courses and the still more highly specialized training of the corporation schools, are all long steps in the right direction. still more corporation direction. Competition thus eng rewarded for success of study of the enlisted r seg to the enlisted has resulted in a feeling in ad-ence which has brought relationship which mail one hand and misunderstands trades are read. Each An accurate fitting of the round peg to the round hole demands, however, something in addition to the above. The navy requires 34 trades to administer to its needs. All these trades are under the common direction of one head. Each ship contains modern machinery for each trade to attain maximum efficiency. Does it not seem possible that during the four years of the enlistment period the natural capabilities of each man might be worked out in such a way as to practically insure locating this man in any profession to which his particular type of brain and mental and physical equipment best fit him? and physical This given purpose navy to his First, to use the navy as a care fizer and enlisted man of the amy each individually to g y the off-understand returns in actual use expended for his pay a Fitting the individual man in the navy to his position of maximum usefulness means a careful, personal, unselfish consideration of the ambitions and capabilities of each man by the officers under whom he serves. Mutual understanding between officer and enlisted man in the navy is being developed at a wonderfully rapid rate. In the first place, a very large majority of the work in the navy is with machinery. Officer and man are both in overalls. The officer is Mr. Brooks, for example, and the man is simply "Smith;" but that is practically the only distinction between the officer and the man, except such as is given by the power of the officer to serve the enlisted man and to bring him to his highest point of efficiency. In the forward turret of the Alabama, for example, the ordinary seaman in charge of the hoist motor has found that tightening a certain clutch will give greater speed to his car. age of the the employer will be a records, the man fitted efficiency in any given some of the largest e country show that they holding honorable disch getting from them high the average man. the entire the advis of the tur "Mr. Brooks, I think a little change will give us a quicker ammunition supply." "What do you recommend?" The man then explains his idea and the entire turret crew gather around to discuss the advisability of the change. Each member of the turret crew is just as vitally interested in the success of the turret as the officer is, and each man knows that his best effort is absolutely essential to the maximum score of hits. In this way machinery on the ships has proved a great force working toward intelligent democracy in the navy. The second force tending to draw officer and man together is the fact that the efficiency of each officer and man, from the commander in chief to the latest recruit on board, is a matter of exact record. Commander in is a matter that count," Rlo de Jas shots that er for each of each put on the man and published advertising good enough; inefficiency is the same ods of coal, Suppose I am a mine it is my desire to in- plant in the mines u fleet visits Rlo de Jas the ship as a visitor. in the fire room I find ing so smoothly and effi- nacy for supervi immediately with the made by an Americ only ones that will serve In other words, the machinery has over to bear by foreign man to their product. A systematic use thr of the possibilities in "The shots that hit are the shots that count," and, incidentally, they are the only shots that count. The number of hits of each officer for each gun, of each man for each gun and of each man for each shot of each gun is put on the record of the officer and the enlisted man and becomes a matter of public knowledge, published in the newspapers of the country, advertising the efficiency of each, if the score is good enough; and, on the other hand, advertising inefficiency if the score is bad enough. The engineering competition applies the same exact methods to the number of pounds of coal, Yes? Why so? we asked. "All the pretty girls who go abroad this summer," he answered, unless, indeed, they're rich—and few of us, after all, are rich—will wear lingerie of crinkled crepe, and will carry more crinkled crepe lingerie in their little cabin trunks as well. Why? Because crinkled crepe requires no ironing. Wash it and dry it and it's ready, immediately, to put on. "And so, to save laundry bills, our pretty and frugal girl travelers will wear and wash, all through their ```markdown ``` A achievement for all modern industries. In addition to the prosecution feature of the navy, there are three ways in which, it seems to me, there might be possibilities for future service to individual taxpayers and to individual employers fortunate enough to live in the United States. A widespread feeling is abroad in the land that the present method of education does not give to boys aged seventeen to twenty-one the maximum return for the time spent in study. APPEALS TO THE TRAVELER Poetic Saleeman Explain, for the Benefit of the Uninitiated, All About Crinkled Crepe. "Crinkled crepe—it's an honor to handle it," said the dreamy-eyed and poetical young salesman. He laid before us a mound of crinkled crepe, pink, azure, pale green. "An honor to handle it," he repeated, running his fingers through the delicate mess. JACKIES IN WAR ACCOUNTANTS the number of gallops of oil and the number of gallons of water used in the engines, dynamos and auxiliaries. Competition thus engendered and intelligently rewarded for success or failure has compelled a study of the enlisted man by the officer which has resulted in a feeling of mutual interdependence which has brought officer and man in a relationship which makes snobbishness on the one hand and misunderstanding on the other more nearly impossible every day. Competition thus engendered and intelligently rewarded for success or failure has compelled a study of the enlisted man by the officer which has resulted in a feeling of mutual interdependence which has brought officer and man in a relationship which makes snobbishness on the one hand and misunderstanding on the other more nearly impossible every day. To fit the man to his position of maximum usefulness in the navy demands, therefore, no change in existing mechanism of effort. The only thing necessary is to co-ordinate and to direct to a given end the forces already in existence on every ship and at every station of the navy. This given purpose is two-fold in character. First, to use the navy to give education, broad-mindedness and personal efficiency to each officer and enlisted man in the service, training each individually to give the highest possible returns in actual useful effort for the money expended for his pay and training. This given purpose is twofold in character. First, to use the navy to give education, broad-mindedness and personal efficiency to each officer and enlisted man in the service, training each individually to give the highest possible returns in actual useful effort for the money expended for his pay and training. This first aim will send forth among our citizenship each year approximately 7,000 men, each of whom is qualified by his industrial training, by his association with officers and men of different nations, by his habit of mind of intelligent comprehension and quick, well-disciplined action and by his broad understanding of world politics, to act as a center for spreading knowledge of discipline, of good citizenship, of the highest ideals of mental, physical and spiritual efficiency, through every section of our United States. Second, from the body of men thus qualified the employer will be able to select, from exact records, the man fitted in every respect for best efficiency in any given position. Letters from some of the largest employers of labor in the country show that they are now employing men holding honorable discharges from the navy and getting from them higher efficiency than from the average man. Second, from the body of men thus qualified the employer will be able to select, from exact records, the man fitted in every respect for best efficiency in any given position. Letters from some of the largest employers of labor in the country show that they are now employing men holding honorable discharges from the navy and getting from them higher efficiency than from the average man. Give greater certainty of direction to the industrial education of each man and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that greater efficiency still will result. Let us pass now to consideration of the material side of the navy. Do you realize that when a ship of our fleet visits a foreign port she carries on board practical, complete, working demonstrations of the best and latest American-made types of machinery? Suppose I am a mine owner in Rio de Janeiro. It is my desire to install a $250,000 pumping plant in the mines under my direction. The fleet visits Rio de Janeiro and I go on board the ship as a visitor. In the engine room and in the fire room I find American pumps operating so smoothly and efficiently and with so small a necessity for supervision that I am impressed immediately with the fact that those pumps, made by an American manufacturer, are the only ones that will serve my purpose. In other words, the actual demonstration of the machinery has overcome any means brought to bear by foreign manufacturers to convert me to their product. A systematic use through the consular service of the possibilities in this line would, it seems Suppose I am a mine owner in Rio de Janeiro. It is my desire to install a $250,000 pumping plant in the mines under my direction. The fleet visits Rio de Janeiro and I on board the ship as a visitor. In the engine room and in the fire room I find American pumps operating so smoothly and efficiently and with so small a necessity for supervision that I am impressed immediately with the fact that those pumps, made by an American manufacturer, are the only ones that will serve my purpose. In other words, the actual demonstration of the machinery has overcome any means brought to bear by foreign manufacturers to convert me to their product. A systematic use through the consular service of the possibilities in this line would, it seems --- undered and intelligently failure has compelled a man by the officer which of mutual interdepend- t officer and man in a man steps es snobbishness on the landing on the other more day. In many peaceful man steps cere adver ing and i rack-yard. into an a. s two-fold in character to give education, broad- al efficiency to each of in the service, training to give the highest possible effort for the money and training. been forget beside the search by smatches economy, rapid deve naval and Nothing y of men thus qualified able to select, from exact in every respect for best position. Letters from employers of labor in the are now employing menargs from the navy andner efficiency than from posseses; h No one h things. The con tradition ofness, unstility, whiling Europ acquistion owner in Rio de Janeiro. install a $250,000 pumping adder my direction. The reiro and I go on board In the engine room and American pumps operat- lently and with so small Jon that I am impressed fact that those pumps, manufacturer, are the e my purpose. actual demonstration of come any means brought ufacturers to convert me ough the consular service this line would, it seems there will "The M people." "What a I see the rivers there "How & enthusiastic "It's to "People w a water w travels, their lingerie of pink or azure crinkled crepe. Isn't it a charming thought? Isn't it a pleasant picture? crinkled crepe. Isn't it a charming thought? Isn't it a pleasant picture? "Imagine those thousands of girls—in English village inns, in boisterous French pensions, on rolling Atlantic liners, in cheap, magnificent, unsatisfactory Swiss hotels high up on the Alps. It is very late. They are very tired. Nevertheless, in their kimonos, amid their little room's nocturnal solitude and silence, they wash their crinkled crepe—they hang it up so that it will be dry to put on in the derful power and inspiration for service expressed in it, and at the present time on every vessel of the navy and at every station under its supervision greater effort is being put forth from day to day to render to the great public a more efficient service in return for the appropriations made for their maintenance. I am not talking for a greater navy, I am not talking for the military form of management! I am asking you simply to understand that each officer and enlisted man of the United States navy is feeling more and more every day that in order to live up to the full measure of his usefulness he must give you service; and I ask for them from every dweller under the Stars and Stripes the heartiest co-operation in helping each of us to find and use, in the broadest way, all possible paths of usefulness open to us as your servants and fellow citizens. derful power and inspiration for service expressed in it, and at the present time on every vessel of the navy and at every station under its supervision greater effort is being put forth from day to day to render to the great public a more efficient service in return for the appropriations made for their maintenance. I am not talking for a greater navy, I am not talking for the military form of management! I am asking you simply to understand that each officer and enlisted man of the United States navy is feeling more and more every day that in order to live up to the full measure of his usefulness he must give you service; and I ask for them from every dweller under the Stars and Stripes the heartiest co-operation in helping each of us to find and use, in the broadest way, all possible paths of usefulness open to us as your servants and fellow citizens. MILITARY DISCIPLINE In many ways military organization is the most peaceful of activities. When the contemporary man steps from the street, of clamorous insincere advertisement, push, adulteration, underselling and intermittent employment, into the barrack-yard, he steps on to a higher social plane into an atmosphere of service and co-operation and of infinitely more honorable emulations. In many ways military organization is the most peaceful of activities. When the contemporary man steps from the street, of clamorous insincere advertisement, push, adulteration, underselling and intermittent employment, into the barrack-yard, he steps on to a higher social plane into an atmosphere of service and co-operation and of infinitely more honorable emulations. Here at least men are not flung out of employment to degenerate because there is no immediate work for them to do. They are fed and drilled and trained for better services. Here at least a man is supposed to win promotion by self-forgetfulness and not by self-seeking. And beside the feeble and irregular endowment of research by commercialism, its little short-sighted smatches at profit by innovation and scientific economy, see how remarkable is the steady and rapid development of method and appliances in naval and military affairs! Nothing is more striking than to compare the progress of civil conveniences which has been left almost entirely to the trader, to the progress in military apparatus during the last few decades. The house appliances of today, for example, are little better than they were 50 years ago. A house of today is still almost as ill-ventilated, badly heated by wasteful fires, clumsily arranged and furnished as the house of 1858. Houses a couple of hundred years old are still satisfactory places of residence, so little have our standards risen. But the rifle or battleship of 50 years ago was beyond all comparison inferior to those we possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things. The conceptions of order and discipline, the tradition of service and devotion, of physical fitness, unstinted exertion and universal responsibility, which universal military duty is now teaching European nations, will remain a permanent acquisition, when the last ammunition has been used in the fireworks that celebrate the final peace—H. G. Wells. "Things in general," said the pessimistic theosophist, "are very, very bad." "Oh, well," replied the optimistic theosophist, cheerfully, "it's all in a lifetime; and, besides, there will be other lifetimes."—Puck. "The Mexicans must be an unusually smart people. "What makes you think that?" "I see the oll people are afraid they will set the rivers there on fire." "How do you account for the falling off in enthusiasm in your district?" "It's to be expected," repiled Senator Sorghum. "People will fall off a band wagon, the same as a water wagon." --- HOW THEY KEEP IT to me, disclose a field of usefulness for the navy second only in its power for service to the wonderful personal service given to enlisted men on the one hand and employers on the other by efficiently coordinating their mutual power and necessity. In the opinion of some of our distinguished fellow citizens the army and the navy are an industrial waste. The watchword of modern industry is "Turn your wastes into profits." The navy has heard this watchword, comprehended the won. NIL DESPERANDUM THE LOGIC OF IT. GENERAL TENDENCY: morning—they say their prayers and turn in. "Crinkled crepe," mused the dreamy-eyed young salesman. "If I were a bard, a Tom Daly or a Sam Stinson, I'd write a poem on it for the magazines." The Commonplace Kind. "What sort of married couple do you consider Mr. and Mrs. Twobble?" "She's one of those 'Now, Henry.' wives and he's one of those 'Yes, my dear' husbands." SOFT DRINK IS OLD Ancient Physician Believed in Efficacy of Pure Water. If One Dialked the Taste of Water It Could Be Flavored With the Essence of Flowers, Barks and Roots. The soft drink is no new diversion, and the inference from this fact might be drawn that not all dwellers in the dim, remote past were hard drinkers of hard stuff, a fact which would seem to contravene much literature descriptive of the habits and thirst of our ancestors. A suggestion, or perhaps a taste, of some of these very old soft drinks and innocuous tipples may be had by reference to the advice given his patients by a venerable physician who lived when our present business forms and social customs, which many are pleased to call civilization, were young, or perhaps unborn. The name of that physician is now of no especial importance, but if the reader insists upon having it, why here it is: His name was Sangrado, and he was a Spanlord. No doubt there are old chronicles which will give more information than that relating to him. He was a great believer in the efficacy of pure water as a potion or potation, and he wrote this: "Health consists in the suppleness and humectation of the parts. Drink water in great abundance; it is a universal menstruum that dissolves all kinds of salts. But if thou feelest in thyself any reluctance to the simple element, there are innocent aids in plenty that will support thy stomach against the insipid taste of water. Sage, for example, and balm will give it an admirable flavor, and an infusion of cornpoppy, gillyflower and rosemary will render it still more delicious." Before the virtues and the vices of the grape were suspected, before headaches, quarrels and goodfellowship were distilled from the peach or cherry, and long centuries before the intoxicating possibilities of barley, rye and corn were recognized, a home and homely tipple was made of honey and water. It satisfied the same kind of a thirst which many old-fashioned children of a recent age slaked with sugar and water—sweetened water—nothing else. Honey water goes back to the youth of the human family, for honey as a sweet and as a "duclich" long antedated the sugar of cane. Water flavored with the essences of flowers, barks and roots were common family preparations. To them were ascribed medicinal qualities, but it was easy to confer this repute upon things grateful to the taste. It was good for the palate and therefore good for the rest of the body. Today men ascribe curative properties to certain liquids, while other men and women cry them down as poison. Perhaps there was a very widespread belief that these palatable preparations were remedial for many of the ills of flesh, but they were copiously drunk because they were wet and agreeable. Sage tea was an old beverage and sassafras tea had a great vogue, a vogue which lingers to some extent among us. It is drunk as a spring medicine, but it is undeniably fragrant and even to some up-to-date palates has a pleasing flavor. One of the things which impressed the earliest white settlers in this part of the country and of which they glowingly wrote as one of the charms and appealing features of the new world was the abundance of sassafras. Mead was a temperance drink in early Europe before it was perverted, or improved, according to the point of view, by fermentation. It was honey and water and spices, and later ground malt with fermentation transformed it into a potent liquid. Among early Americans mead was a gentle and harmless drink of sweetened water and flavoring matter, usually sarsaparilla. When the art or practice of distillation 'came to be understood by a few select spirits many herbs were changed into ardent waters. A very early recipe for making one of these distillations, cordials or herb tonics gives the following ingredients, with their needful proportions: "Juniper berries, enula campana, roots, calamus aramaticus, gallingall wormwod, spire mint, red mint, caraway and angelica seeds and saffron." Victim of Insane Patient. A terrible tragedy of madness occurred near Draguignan, France, a few days ago. Doctor Porre was hastily summoned to attend a peasant named Ghio, an Italian by birth, who was giving unmistakable signs of insanity. The doctor, who had been talking with his patient, turned his back for a moment, whereupon Ghio, who had concealed a razor up his sleeve, sprang upon him from behind and cut his throat, death being instantaneous. The man was overpowered and taken to the gendarmerie. Here he attempted to strangle a gendarme, whereupon another gendarme, in order to save his companion, drew his revolver and shot the madman dead. 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MATTHEW Assistant General Passenger Trains Daily to St. Louis. 2 Trains Daily to Little Rock and Hot Springs. 2 Trains Daily to Omaha. 2 Trains Daily to Joplin and Carthage. 2 Trains Daily to Wichita. 2 Trains Daily to Pueblo, Denver, Salt Lake and Pacific Coast. 901 Main Street, Union Depot. Ticket Offices Third and Washington, Kansas City, Kas. Particular attention may be given to the following subject, since there are hundreds of thousands using the Eureka 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 the Eureka Comb performs precisely as ad No better comb on the man when it comes to benefits and e placed goes with it instructions, preferable. Merchants and agen the public. They are usually sold for $ be careful in the purchase as to Eureka. We wholesale the Eur wholesalers of this special device The devises are patented an 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. The devices are patented and registered. For prices and further information write New York. Boston. Atlantic City. Niagara Falls. MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN LAMP CAP The firm that is well known for its Upright Dealing and Unquestioned Integrity. Such a firm is C. H. Countee, 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. RICES, THE BEST QUALITY, PROMPTNESS, CALL UNTEE, TAKER endant BOTH PHONES admire men' th beautiful hair SON'S DRESSING proud of your hair making harah, 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 main 7344; Bell East 43 d Paseo tourist Fares VIA ri Pacific Glenwood Springs, Colo. ..... 27.50 Burlington, N. J. ..... 21.60 Glenwood Nilagara Falls. ..... 31.60 Washington and Baltimore ..... 47.20 Philadelphia. ..... 50.20 St. Paul. ..... 18.50 Minneapolis. ..... 18.50 Duluth. ..... 22.50 And Hot Springs. Baltim and Carthage. Olo Wichita. Daily to Pueblo, Denver, Salt Lake Pacific Coast. Main Street, Union Depot. and Washington, Kansas City, Kas. -6327 Main, Home; 6740 Main, Bell. R. T. G. MATTHEWS, Agent General Passenger Agent. FOR RENT—Six room house, stricty yq modern, with steam heat, Inquire at 1129 Troost avenue, Grand 1967W Bell. For Rent—Five rooms, modern (except furnace), will rent partly furnished if deired. 2413 Flora. For Rent—Neatly furnished rooms. Modern, quiet neighborhood; near Troost car line. Mrs. Daisy Smith, Bell phone, Grand 2779, 1211 East 21st. ROOFS FOR RENT. Furnished and unfurnished rooms in the rear of 21st and Harrison Street Flats, for light housekeeping if de- sired. All modern conveniences. Only $1.50 and $1.75 per week. Also rooms in flats. See Kinsler, 1918 E. 21st St. Phones, Bell, Grand 2303-R; Home, 6516 Main. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished front room. 1697 Harrison. Inquire 1326 East 14th street. FOR RENT—Modern furnished room. Bell phone, East 4721-W, 910 Garfield avenue. Wm. Fisher, Prop. FOR RENT—326 Garfield avenue, Kansas City, Kas., strictly modern 7 room house to family without children. Beautiful location to right party. Inquire at the above address for particulars. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms, modern, with or without board Teachers preferred. Mrs. Jacob Allen Moore, 2316 Michigan Ave. FOR RENT—Rooms and board for teachers. Modern. Telephone, bath plano. Mrs. Kingsberry, 1007 Tracty FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms, modern with furnace heat Phone Bell East 2825. HOWARD UNIVERSITY Stephen M. Newman, A. M., D. D., President COLLEGE OF ARTS AND A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS' COLLEGE A. B. and B. S. in Pedagogy Courses SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES Courses in Engineering Domestic Science Domestic Arts Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ACADEMY Three Preparatory Courses (Classical, Scientific, Normal) COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Stenography Typewriting Economics Bookkeeping LIBRARY SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE College of Medicine College of Dentistry College of Pharmacy SCHOOL OF LAW All Courses begin Sept. 30th, 1914. For Catalogue, address Howard University, Washington, D. C. 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 Set Out by Request and Satisfaction Assured. When in Moberly, Mo., Step 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 EUREKA REG. PAT D AUG 8, 1911 the following subject, since there are humb throughout the United States and as to our recommend, straightening the assistance in causing a rapid growth, of which is pleasing, that the Eureka been advised that other combs are toys, as to directions, for which every comboses. Wherever introduced the Eureka be placed conveniently in quantities for each complete. The only thing is to fill answer the purposes so well as theurers and promoters, and are the onlybe pleased to be informed. Further information write EUREKA COMB COMPANY. Chattanooga, Tenn. A Great Plea for the Teeming Millions of Africa. Probably the most distinguished visitors to the Kansas side this summer were the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Reed of Monrovia, Liberia, West Coast, Africa. They are of African descent and were born in New Orleans, La., and Texas respectively, and are not only well educated, but highly cultured people, Mr. Reed being a graduate of New Orleans University, and a former instructor of Mathematics in one of the American colleges of the Methodist Episcopal church. Aside from her college education, Mrs Reed is a graduate of the Missionary Training School of New York City, and in the Borough of Brooklyn. They chose to suffer the affliction of our people in the Fatherland than to enjoy the luxuries and privileges in America. After being saved with their two children, Walter and Florence, from the Galveston flood, in which city Dr. Reed was holding pastorate, they labored for a while in Arkansas, and then with the children, Dr. and Mrs. Reed sailed for the Black Republic, where they have spent more than nine years laboring in school and church under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Within a few years he and his wife will again sail for Africa, leaving the children in America to pursue their studies in a boarding school. They are to return to that country as educators; and as principal, Dr. Reed is to establish an industrial school for the Government of Liberia, modelling it after the best of its kind in America. Dr. Reed in Ebenezer. Under the auspices of the Ministerial Alliance of the two Kansas Citys, the Methodist clergymen, under the leadership of Dr. J. R. Ransom, and through the graciousness of Dr. W. C. Williams, Dr. W. H. Thomas, and others, the Ebenezer A. M. E. Church tent on Monday evening was the scene of a large and representative gathering which listened to one of the most remarkable lectures that has been given in recent times. Dr. Reed was the speaker, and the subject of his discourse was "World Empire.—Its Relation to Backward Races." The speaker told how the great continent of Africa, which contains one-fourth of the entire area of the earth's surface, had become the bone of contention for many nations, and of how it had been divided, subdivided and even the 35,000 square miles that had been allotted the Liberian or Black Republic, had been sliced even in recent years in the greed by two of the great nations of the world, and he told of the kindly protection of the United States. The speaker declared that it seemed strange, but nevertheless true, that a government which permits burning and lynching of its own citizens at home, dares to give protection under its flag to those of the same people in Africa. Concluding, he declared "Africa will be redeemed. She will take her place on the scroll of nations. 'Princes shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hand unto God.' It was a wonderful meeting. Dr. Ransom presided. Rev. W. Williams of Wichita, Rev. W. C. Williams, the pastor in charge, Dr. W. H. Thomas, Dr. McDonald and other prominent clergymen were seated with Dr. Reed on the platform, and many of them took part in the services. During their stay here in the West, Dr. Reed and his family found a cordial welcome in the hearts and homes of many of the people. But they were anxious always to get back to Africa. Latta August 27 not even daunted by the war cry. They left for New York City on Thursday, followed to the depot by many of those who learned to love them as some of the best of all the people the writer has ever met. LYDIA C. SMITH, General Secretary, Y. W. C. A., Kansas City, Kan. MUSICIANS WANTED! Ninth U. S. Cavalry Band and Orchestra 1 cornet and 1 saxophone player. snare drummer, who can handle ordinary traps; 2 clarinet players. Applicants should have talent and ambition. No objection to good amateur players. Sobriety and respectability escan place players as follows: 1 sential. Excellent opportunity for bright young men to become identified with one of the finest Government Bands. State age, experience and give name of instruments you play. Immediate correspondence necessary. Address WADE H. HAMMOND, Bandmaster, Ninth Cavalry, DOUGLAS, ARIZ. Mme. Benton Dean, the popular milliner, has moved to 1010 Troost avenue, where she is elegantly located and will be extremely pleased to meet her many friends and customers at that number. Belle phone Main 2102J. Peace Power Plenty Are you Discouraged, Discontented or Despondent? Are you Poor, Poverty-striken or Painful? Are you Sick, Suck or Sinful? THE PULLMAN COMPANY AND ITS PORTERS. The Pullman Company, one of the wealthiest and most conservative corporations in the world, has begun a movement that bids to be revolutionary in effect toward its large army of porters, numbering more than 7,000. Investigation by the officials has brought to light many instances where their faithful employees have not received enough consideration at the hands of the company, and, because of this, dissatisfaction has resulted to the detriment of the service. And in the end, not only the porters and the company suffered, but the public upon whom both depend for existence. It has been discovered also that not enough rightly-directed attention has been given to the type of men brought into the service and that a few without principle were bringing discredit upon the many who were giving their best energies to the company and the public. To remedy these evils the general officials have decided that a closer relationship and a better understanding must exist. To this end a series of meetings were called the second week in August at the Chicago Y. M. C. A. for colored men. The officials from the general offices had heart-to-heart talks with the 1,365 porters that were in attendance, showing them that the interests of all were linked together. These meetings introduced many of the men to the magnificent Association building, who have since become members, and was so successful that the company decided to hold similar meetings whenever the Young Men's Christian Association had, or soon would give, accommodations for such. Saturday, August 22, J. A. Davis, Chief Service Inspector, with J. B. Elliott, Superintendent of the Kansas City district and other local officials, held the second meeting at the C. M. E. Church across the street from the Y. M. C. A. building no wnearing completion. There were present several officials of the local office, more than a hundred porters and a number of professional and business men of the city. Mr. Davis strongly impressed the men with the fact that a new day had dawned for the porters. He told of many new rules which are calculated to add to the men's comfort and well-being. Among them—the old system of penalizing the men, which worked a hardship on their families; had been modified; that each man would have a loose-leaf book that held full instructions as to what a man could and could not do; also of the sick benefits and retired list and of the reward to be paid for suggestions that benefit the service. Already several men have made suggestions that have been approved. One porter has just recently received $200 for a helpful idea. To receive the class of men who deserve and will appreciate the new order of things, the company is to give preference to men who attend churches and frequent such institutions as the Y. M. C. a rather than those who frequent dives and bawdy houses. Prof. J. M. Marquess made a pointed response that was heartily received by all. Rev. J. R. Ransom and Rev. W. H. Thomas, in a few well chosen sentences, spoke very enthusiastically of the proposed reforms, declaring this to be one of the greatest steps for the benefit of the Negroes ever instituted in this country. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. Among the new guests at the Harris Flats are Miss Ada McAfee, Mrs. K. Kelton, Dr. and Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Fisher of Kansas City, and Miss Hayden Campbell, Mrs. Emily Parker, Mr. and Mrs. J. Comordore, and Miss Idle Harris of St. Louis, and Mr. Geo Walker of Kansas City....Mrs. Lizzie Baker and niece of Leavenworth, Kas., are visiting here....Miss Essie Nichols of Kansas City is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Mablon this week....Mrs. Gray and son have joined her husband at the Springs....Several young men will entertain at Chesapeake Hall with a private dance in honor of the visiting guests at Harris Flats and Albany Hotel....The new guests at the Albany this week are Mrs. Jones and son, Miss N. Z. Bell, Mrs. L. Atkinsonss, Mr. L. Gentry of St. Louis, Mr. C. D. Calhoun, Mrs. D. L. Penny and daughter of Memphis, Mr. Maxwell of Columbia, Miss Mayberle of Indiana and Mr. L. Clark of Jefferson City, Mo.; also Miss Perlie Davis....Mr. John Allen and sister visited their mother at the Doxey bath house....Miss Ethel Donnelly, 1100 Michigan, and Miss Ethel Johns, 1210 Topeka avenue, Topeka, Kas., visited at the Flats....Mrs. Hugh White, the proprietor of the Albany Hotel, and Mr. McKnight entertained the guests of Harris Flats and the guests of the Albany Hotel with an evening dance, at which dainty refreshments were served. MOBERLY, MO. Mr. Jno. M. Hughes has been ill for several days but is much improved at this writing. ...Mrs. Susan Terrel has been ill. ...Miss Mary Lee Jackson of Glasgow, M. spent a few days in the city visiting Mrs. Geo. Evans. ...The delegates to the Grand Lodge from the city returned home Sunday and report having spent a very pleasant time at the session. ...Rev. J. G. Hayes, pastor and members of the Second Baptist Church, are entertaining the North Missouri Baptist Association and Women's Home and Foreign Mission Board. ...Rv. F. D. Avant, pastor and members of the Franklin Street M. E. Church, are entertaining the District Conference and Sunday School Convention. ...Both of these meetings are having great success in their business sessions. ...Rev. J. G. Register of Kansas City spent Sunday in the city and preached for Rev. Ponder. ...The Magic City Cornet Band presented Prof. J. M. Hughes, their instructor, with a $65.00 horn of which Mr. Hughes is very proud. ...Prof. H. C. Vaughn is beautifying his house on Fort street. ...The sad news of the death of Rev. G. B. Abbott cast a gloom over the people of Moberly. This good man's friends were numbered by his acquaintances. ...Mrs. S. A. Graves has been on the sick list for several days but is somewhat better. Lincoln Institute Normal, Collegiate, Industrial and Agricultural Courses JEFFERSON CITY, MO. Supported by the State of Missouri Normal Diplomas carry with them the degree B. Pd., (Bachelor of Pedagogy) and are Life Certificates to teach in public schools of Mo. College Course leading to the degree A. B. Modern Buildings, Voice, Piano, Violin, Band and Orchestra, Tailoring, Shoe Making. School Farm of 60 acres, Three Teachers of Agriculture School Opens August 31 For Catalogue E. B. F. ALLEN, Press A GOOD SCHOOL George R. Smith Colle SEDALIA, MO.. courses in English, Ancient and Mod science, Agriculture, Music, Busine ing, Dressmaking, Cooking, etc. Next School Year Opens October 1st. and other information address GEORGE EVA ESTERN COLLE Will Open on Monday, September 28, 191 Write B. F. ALLEN, President offers Courses in English, Ancient and Modern Languages, Science, Agriculture, Music, Business, Sewing, Dressmaking, Cooking, etc. Next School Year Opens October 1st. For terms and other information address GEORGE EVANS, Pres. WESTERN COLLEGE at Macon, Mo. Here the student will find a pleasant and comfortable home, thorough instruction, good discipline and Christian culture, at low rates. For further particulars address J. H. GARNETT, President WESTERN COLLEGE, MACON, MO. M. A. B. CALDWELL Hair and 18th and Paseo Home Ph Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Grows Hair. Try it. and any old Hair Matched From Samples. Blocked. Agents for Spirella Co WORK GUARANTEED. MANICURING We teach A Splendid Opportun CALDWELL & CHAPMAN Hair and Millinery 18th and Paseo, Kansas City, Mo. Home Phone Main 7499 Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and T Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combings, cut it and any old hat you may have. Hed From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned Agents for Spirella Corrsets. Mall orders answere ARK GUARANTEED. LIVE AGENTS WANT CURING FACIAL MA We teach the work we do Indid Opportunity For Inve Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combits, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirella Correts. Mail orders answered promptly A Splendid Opportunity For Investment! STOCK FOR SALE IN THE Kaw Valley T (INCOD GROWERS AND SHIPPERS OF SWEET POTATO PLAN CABBAGE PLAN WATER References: Commercial Na Commercial Na Valley Truck Farm (INCORPORATED.) AND SHIPPERS OF EARLY GARDEN VEHICLE POTATO PLANTS, TOMATO, PEPPER, CABBAGE PLANTS, POTATOES AND WATERMELONS. s: Commercial National Bank, Independent Commercial National Bank, Kansas C 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 West Six Agents: J. P. MAYNARD, 233 REV. G. T. MOSBY Pices: 117 West Sixth Street—H. P. EWIL P. MAYNARD, 2330 Vine Street, Bell Pho REV. G. T. MOSBY, 2404 Highland Avenue 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. D SCHOOL Smith College ALIA, MO.. Fish, Ancient and Modern Lan- culture, Music, Business, Sew- king, Cooking, etc. Year Opens October 1st. Station address GEORGE EVANS, Pres. N COLLEGE Will Open on September 28, 1914 The Star Cleaners and Dyers, Mr. R. L. Hopkins, proprietor, five years at this location, 2326 Vine street, wish to take your measure for summer and winter suits. Steam and French dry cleaning a specialty. Ladies' and gentlemen's clothes called for and delivered. We make a specialty of altering Ladies' and Gentlemen's clothes. Our work speaks for itself as well as hundreds of satisfied customers. If you want good work at moderate prices, give us a call. Bell phone, East 1207-J. R. L. HOPKINS, 2326 Vine street. L & CHAPMAN and Millinery Seo, Kansas City, Mo. Phone Main 7499 Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Save your combings, cut hair old hat you may have. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Corsets. Mail orders answered promptly LIVE AGENTS WANTED FACIAL MASSAGE ch the work we do TRUCK FARM CO. CORPORATED.) 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, Managers 330 Vine Street, Bell Phone, East 2330 BY, 2404 Highland Avenue.