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WHY NOT ASK THE GOVERNOR FOR A NEGRO REGIMENT IN MISSOURI? A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VII. NUMBER 10. WHY NOT AS THE NEGRO AND An Entertaining Account of the Grand Master and Other Dignitaries to the F NOTABLE PERSONS AND CITIES THE NEGRO AND THE WEST An Entertaining Account of the Recent Trip of the Grand Master and Other Masonic Dignitaries to the Far West. NOTABLE PERSONS AND CITIES VISITED ON THE TOUR By DR, M. O. RICKETTS, ST. JOSEPH, MO. Past Grand Master of Masons. On September 24 I received a letter from Most Worshipful Grand Master Nelson C. Crews informing me that he was making up a party for the purpose of going to Douglas, Ariz., to do some Masonic work and asking me to make one of said party. He informed me that the party would leave Kansas City Wednesday, September 30. I answered at once, accepting the splendid offer of the trip and assured him that I would report in time for the start. On the date fixed George W. K. Love, E. S. Baker and myself, with the Grand Master, boarded the Rock Island Golden Gate Special and pulled out of the Union depot at 10:15 p. m. for Douglas, Ariz. We had gone but a short distance when Grand Master said to me that the trip might develop into one which might interest the readers of his paper and requested that I become the historian of the party. One gets a fine line upon the characteristics of his fellows by contact, and as the individual units of this party had only studied each other a distance, each expected a closer acquaintance from the more intimate contact which this trip would in a large measure supply. Love and Baker retired before we reached Topeka, while the Grand-Master gave evidence of the first of his peculiarities which we were to meet—an insatiable appetite for pie, and he remained up until he was able to secure a generous peach pie, which he and I ate. The fact that we disposed of this pie without calling in the other members of the party must not be looked upon as an act of selfishness, for just the contrary is true. Our two friends were so sweetly locked in the arms of Morpheus that it would have been a shame to have disturbed the sweetness of their dream. We desire to say right here to save repetition that the Grand Master never missed an opportunity to purchase a pie and no matter how depleted our commissary department became we could always count upon finding therein a pie. Nothing worthy of mention transpired until we reached Pratt, Kas., the breakfast station, where we experienced some difficulty in securing coffee to go with the splendid lunch with which the forethought of Mrs. Love had provided us. This difficulty provoked the Grand Master into telling a car load of white men his opinion of a damnable caste prejudice which would deny human beings the right to eat purely on the account of the color of their skins and the texture of their hair. We have never listened to a more scathing rebuke, and his truths were poured forth with such eloquence that several very prosperous white men were moved to the extent of so interesting themselves that we got all the coffee we wanted. We arrived at Liberal, Kas., at 12:52, where we secured a fine dinner and we had the satisfaction of leaving the state that was born amid the struggle and anguish which brought us liberty on full stomachs, for one needs just that sort of satisfaction when he is going to travel in Oklahoma. To make our history complete we must record the fact that the Grand Master bought his usual pie before leaving Liberal and we had his assurance that it looked good and from the seeming pleasure he derived from eating it, we must admit that it seemingly came up to his expectations. When we reached the Oklahoma line we expected to see a general exodus from the coach in which we were sitting, but we saw nothing of the kind, and so far as we were concerned we could see no difference between riding in that state and in riding through Missouri. From Pratt, Kas., far into Oklahoma we did not see a single colored person. Just before leaving Oklahoma for Texas a Mr. Seymour, an old friend of Mr. Crews, and an employee of the dining car service, came through the train and invited us to be his guests at supper. It is needless to say the party had no desire to offend, and of course accepted the invitation. We found no attention paid to the separate car law in Texas, and we were unmolested the two hours we were in that state. This may have been due to the dignified appearance of the distinguished Baker of our party. We arrived at the old historic city of El Paso about 8o'clock Friday morning tired and as usual, hungry. After a good breakfast of ham, eggs and cot fee we started out to see the sights. We went across what some people are pleased to call the Rio Grande river into Juarez, Mexico. On every --- The Kansas City Sun hand we saw evidences of war. The expression on the faces of the citizens of this strife torn country was one of inexpressible sadness, and when we saw mere children in uniform and doing pickt duty, and we saw the women in mourning and the great gashes which had been torn into many of the buildings by the shells of contending forces, we had no great difficulty in accepting Sherman's estimate of war. The people showed every evidence of poverty, and many of them looked as though they had never used water for any other purpose than for drinking. If at all, the country is tax ridden to such an extent that it costs 4 cents to mail a postal card. We went to the Juarez postoffice to secure stamps with which to mail our cards. Having completed our purchase and mailed our cards, we were making for the door when I heard Baker mattering to himself: "We don't have anything like this in the postoffice department of the United States, and I am surely glad that there is nothing like that out at Station B." I said: "What are you talking about Baker?" And he said: "Did you not see it?" "See what?" I asked. "That stamp clerk," he replied. "God might have made something more beautiful and more charming than that had he wanted to do so, but I am sure he never wanted to." Just think of that, and he a married man, too. The Grand Master had seen the vision and was letting drop this observation: "Enough to make a fat man walk ten miles in dog days and crawl through a barbed wire fence just to look at such lovelliness." George had not finished his work on the inside, for he had suddenly decided to write all his cards before leaving. I was thinking that the man who would not sit up and take note in such a presence had a bad case of leucocythaemia of the polymorphonuclear type. When we finally persuaded George to come with us we had to run to catch the car, and I am unable to give the benefit of his valuable opinion on the subject. They have adopted so many expedients for a medium of exchange that one can not tell whether his money will remain good over night. One of the peculiar customs of the country is for the women to go bareheaded, and it was the rule for them to wear black. Every woman carried about her shoulder or over her head a thin vell. We saw some evidences of jimcrow cars in the street railway service in El Paso. Colored people are required to sit in the rear end of the cars, and as humiliating as all this is, it has just one redeeming feature—they make the other fellow move and give you a seat. El Paso is to all intents and purposes a Mexican city. The population is largely Mexican, and all the public work and much of the private work is being done by them. There you will find four negro churches, all sorts of secret societies. While the Mexicans furnish as great a variety of color as do the negro race, they are permitted to attend the public schools, while separate schools are maintained for colored children and for their education six negro teachers are provided. We find no negro business enterprise to speak of. They have barber shops, restaurants and clubs. The competition with the labor of the Mexican peons is hard and from the negro's viewpoint the outlook is anything but cheering. One of our great troubles is a lack of the pioneer spirit among the better class of negroes. The class which believes in clubs is usually the first to get to a place, and when the other class gets there it is to find themselves measured by the class which will not work, and is on this account looked upon as undesirable. At 2 o'clock Friday, afternoon we boarded the train for a run of 217 miles, which separated us from Douglas, Ariz., our objective point. We arrived at 8 p. m. amid a downpour of rain. We were met at the station by ten men from the Ninth cavalry, and all these men were non-commissioned officers except Chaplain Prellou. We were placed in automobiles and hurried to the splendid home of Captain Weatherly, where we found a good supper awaiting our arrival. The wife of Captain Weatherly proved to be a most charming hostess and soon made us feel at home. Mrs. Weatherly was exceedingly entertain KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1914. ing and delighted us with accounts of the experiences of a soldier's wife. She had traveled very extensively, having made two trips abroad. They own their home in Douglas and to our surprise it was modern. To her many other accomplishments Mrs. Weatherly has added that of being a first class cook, and the way she, in the language of our friend Baker, "brought down the corn cakes" was a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Douglas was a surprise to all of us. We were expecting to see a little village, such as is characteristic of frontier settlements, and we were credulous enough to believe Loxe when he told us that in all probability we would have to sleep in tents, and you can imagine our surprise when we saw a modern city of 15,000 inhabitants, with electric light service and street cars. The principal interests are mining, and it must be a great mining country, for here are located the most important smelters in the whole Southwest. Here as in El Paso most of the work is being done by Mexicans, yet there is a demand for first class colored people who know how to work and who are willing. Women who work by the day receive $2 per day, and those who work out at service receive from $25 to $40 per month. We were made to wonder why it is with such excellent opportunities awaiting them so many of our people persist in leading precarious existences in the cities where the competition is acute and where the wage is inadequate to permit of saving anything for the proverbial rainy day which is sure to come. There are three colored churches in Douglas and a separate school is maintained for colored children. We came near to forgetting to state that men who work by the day receive from $2.50 to $3. Douglas is right on the border line between the United States and Mexico. The Mexican city just across the line is called Agua Prieta (Pretty Water) and has been the seat of several fights between the contending factions in Mexico. We went to Douglas for the purpose of doing some Masonic work for the members of Joppa military lodge of the jurisdiction of Missouri. Texas has a subordinate lodge in Douglas as well as an Eastern Star chapter. We organized a Consistory and a Temple of Shriners, and we had a fine lot of men with whom to work, and while they were delighted with the work done, we had lots of fun while doing it. On Sunday evening we attended a public meeting at the camp and Grand Master Crews and your humble scribe made addresses. The audience was large and enthusiastic. Mr. Crews made one of his characteristic eloquent addresses which brought forth frequent applause. The pleasing feature of the evening was the concert given by the now famous Ninth cavalry band, under the leadership of the renowned band master, Wade Hammond. This is one of the finest musical organizations to which we have ever listened and to prove that we were not alone in the estimate which we place upon it we desire to relate this fact. (Continued next work) (Continued next week CREWS-BASS WEDDING. Among the many presents given Mr. and Mrs. Crews at their recent wedding the following were either omitted or received too late for last week's publication: Half dozen Crystal Champagne glasses, T. H. Quinn and Jas. H. Burton, Chillicothe, Mo. Silver engraved Salad Spoon, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rush, Des Moines, J. Chochieted Irish Linen Center Piece, r. and Mrs. W. W. Payne. Embroidered Satin Spread, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pitman. Fancy Hand Embroidered Linen Pillow Cases, Mr. and Mrs. A. Frank Neal, Salt Lake City, Utah. Crisp Dollar, Rev. C. H. Crews, Chillicothe, Mo. This gift was highly appreciated by the recipients, coming from their old est brother who is more than 77 years of age, a retired minister and having just returned from the Ministers' home in Colorado. He said he wished to give something to "baby brother," although said baby brother is forty eight years of age. Hand painted Initial Salt and Peppar Set, Prof. W. E. Jacobs. Silver Cream Ladle, Mr. and Mrs. Silver Cream Ladle, Mr. and Mrs C. G. Bys, Buncein, Mo. White Savery Cake Box, Miss Ethel Jackson. Pair Linen Guest Towels, r. and Mrs. J. Louis Gamble. In the list of donors of the Silver Candelabra the name of Mrs. J. S. Gardner was omitted. Pair Embroidered Pillow Cases, Mrs. Melissa E. French and Mrs. Benford. In the list of donors of the Crystal Glasses and Crystal Sherberts the name of Mrs. Rosa Bradley was omitted. In the list of contributors to the Cut Glass Orange Bowl and Vase the names of Mesdames Emma and Arthur Pullman were omitted. Mr. and Mrs. Crews would be delighted to know the names of the donors of a beautiful pair of embroidered pillow cases in which was wrapped in bouquet of roses and to which there was no card attached. Mr. E. A. Robinson received the sad news of the death of his brother, Jas. Robinson, at Great Falls, Mont. ANOTHER NEERO REAL ESTATE BUSINESS FOR KANSAS CITY. Stewart & Smith, Who For The Past Twelye Years Have Been Engaged in the Real Estate Business in Winnipesg, Man, Canada, Open Offices at 1515 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City Sun takes especial pleasure in introducing to its many readers the personnel of this company as both are Kansas City products. L. C. Stewart of Stewart and Smith. Mr. Stewart the senior member will be remembered by many our citizens as an active member and official of Allen Chapel some fifteen years ago; and also, as the pioneer Negro grocer of Kansas City, having successfully conducted the business of Stewart and Bean for a number of years; in fact, until the illness of his wife necessitated a change of climate. As a result whereof Mr. Stewart removed to Canada some fourteen years ago and engaged in the real estate business at Winnipeg, where he became an accredited member of the real estate fraternity of that city; but being a race man, in every true sense of the word, he felt the call of the people; and believing Kansas City one of the most ideal places in which to cast his lot both from a business and social standpoint, he has taken the step hereinbefore outlined. L. C. Smith of Stewart and Smith. Mr. Smith, the junior member, is also well known, having attended the public schools here, graduating from Lincoln High School in the class of '97. For two years thereafter he pursued the study of medicine; and then, took up residence at Montreal, Canada with the intention of entering McGill University there. But as is so often true with our youths, circumstances and conditions caused him to drift into channels entirely different to his chosen avocation. With the result, that in the year 1902 he became associated with Mr. Stewart (aforementioned) in the real estate business at Winnipeg. Since which time the firm of Stewart & Smith has been engaged in business there. The ties of home and a desire to be of service to his race have been instrumental in influencing Mr. Smith in continuing to partnership here which had its inception in Canada some twelve years ago. Our representative had the pleasure of interviewing these gentlemen on Tuesday last, and it is his belief that this company will fill a niche in the Negro business world here that will work to the advantage of the race generally. The Kansas City Sun welcomes, yeheartly welcomes the firm of Stewart & Smith. The funeral of Mrs. Pocahonta Sullors who died last Sunday night was held Wednesday at 3:00 P. M. from the residence of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. O. T. Redd, 2642 Highland Avenue and the remains were taken to Macon, Mo., for interment in the family burying ground. She leaves a husband, 9 months old baby, father and mother, 5 sisters, 2 brothers, and many other relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Monda; evening, October 26, the following friends were delightfully entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Preston Porter at their home, 1614 Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. J. Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. L. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. R. Adkins, Miss Maude Olden, Miss Eliza Tyler, Mrs. Lizzie Walker, Mr. C. H. Countee, Mr. M. Caldwell. Note—Men would assign to women an inferior place in the world of art or the field of genius, but down the long centuries, here and there, our sister in some way has distinguished herself and elicited more consideration from the narrow sex. Aida Overton Walker's message to the world was a high grade professionality coupled with the sweeter qualities of womanliness that endeared her to her thousands of patrons. She elevated the stage and she gave to her race a better rating in the annals of productive art. Lo! Breathless silence all Ethope enthralls. And hushed the happy voice that once entranced. Night's sable garment enmant'ling falls. Eternity proclaims another soul advanced. No! Not one tear would we dare to shed Or attempt sad sorrow to express, Remembring as one living and not as dead, Immortal fame is life and nothing less. But tears will come when deep friends part, Though we seek to steel the thoughtful mind And thinking on thee dear Aida, the heart Must burst if expression it does not find. So lovely in form, in deep art skilled, Halled a dusky queen where ever you went Thousands drank thy charms that always thrilled With histronic graces which you sweetly lent. Thy face with its marvelous expressive look Haunts us. Nor do we seek to rid its spell Indescribable as a treasure filled book. Rich and deep as the living well. The goddess Terpischore with graceful art and style Your songs were delights which shed their flowers. Your sweet personality was one endearing smile. Oh Art! Enthroned on thy topmost mount. Watching o'er thy children in ev'ry single line. Great is thy genius which flows from the fount, Peaceful thy daughter's sleep, Aids the "divine." Peaceful in that mystic and unknown land Where each undimmed soul takes its solemn place Swelling and adding to that immortal band Joining fame's great ranks of a deathless race. Mr. Thaddeus S. Hulsey, who has been suffering with a slight attack of pneumonia at his residence, 1116 Armstrong avenue, is improving. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated area with no discernible content. 1920 M. H. JUDGE CASIMER WELSH Candidate for re-election as a District, comprising a part of the City. Boundaries: 13th street south, Grand avenue on the west deserves the support of all (Color our friend for all that term meant to our friends and we will prove Remember Judge Welsh for Just pre-election as Justice of the leg a part of the Eighth and 13th street on the north, ne on the west, and Cleveland of all (Colored) people in that term means. We are not we will prove it to the judge Welsh for Justice of the Sixth Candidate for re-election as Justice of the Peace in the Sixth District, comprising a part of the Eighth and Ninth Wards of the City. Boundaries: 13th street on the north, 20th street on the south, Grand avenue on the west, and Cleveland on the east, richly deserves the support of all (Colored) people in this district. He is our friend for all that term means. We are not wanting in loyalty to our friends and we will prove it to the judge on election day. Remember Judge Welsh for Justice of the Sixth District. --- --- "DIVINE" AIDA. By Chas. A. Starks. Thos. W. Howard J. Silas Harris Nelson C. Crews Prof. A. M. Wilson Ollie J. Brooks J. C. Hobbs Mary Who became the bride of Mr. Neil costume, which attracted favorable co. City's famous modiste, Madame Jacks hand-embroidered lace gown over chatin pumps to match. Her ornament hung a diamond pendant. She carrié of the valley, furnished by the Weavings, which were extremely beautiful, Franklin and D. A. Willis, assisted by Floral Co. Who became the bride of Mr. Nelson C. Crews the 21st inst. Miss Baaa* costume, which attracted favorable comment, was the handwork of Kansas City's famous modiste, Madame Jackson Andrews, and was a beautiful white hand-embroidered lace gown over chiffon with pearl trimming, with white satin pumps to match. Her ornaments were a string of pearls from which hung a diamond pendant. She carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley, furnished by the Weaver Floral Co., while the house decorations, which were extremely beautiful, were by Mesames Emma Payne, C. A. Franklin and D. A. Willis, assisted by Mr. D. L. Houston and the Crosthwait Floral Co. COL. KNOX BANQUETTED The banquet in honor of Col. L. A. Knox of Kansas City, Mo., commanding the Second regiment. Uniform Rank K. of P., at the Keystone cafe, Saturday, October 17, will go down in the history of the uniform rank K. of P.'s as one of the most brilliant and elaborate banquets served in the beautiful cafe. Picture in your mind forty-five distinguished men sitting around a table gaily decorated with roses. The beautiful lights, with a blaze of fire glittering from the uniforms, will be a sight long to be remembered. The banquet table arranged like the letter L was certainly beautiful and too much credit can not be given to Chas. A. Mills, owner of the popular Keystone, and assistant commissary general on Gen. W. H. Butler's staff. Es [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, looking slightly to the side.] Justice of the Peace in the Sixth the Eighth and Ninth Wards of the on the north, 20th street on the t, and Cleveland on the east, richly red) people in this district. He is us. We are not wanting in loyalty it to the judge on election day ice of the Sixth District. Prof. T. B. Steward Dr. Wm. J. Thompkins Leon H. Jordan Dr. Lucian P. Richardson R. E. L. Bailey C. H. Calloway IN MISS MISS MARGARET ANN BASS bride of Mr. Nelson C. Crews the tested favorable comment, was the Madame Jackson Andrews, and gown over chiffon with pearl . Her ornaments were a string ant. She carried a bouquet of by the Weaver Flor Co., w wemely beautiful, were by Mesdan Millis, assisted by Mr. D. L. Houst --- ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME MISSOURI? Bron C. Crews the 21st inst. Miss Bass* commment, was the handiwork of Kansas Andrews, and was a beautiful white off肩 with pearl trimming, with white urs were a string of pearls from which a bouquet of white roses and lilies Floral Co., while the house decor- were by Mesdames Emma Payne, C. A. Mr. D. L. Houston and the Crosthaw corted by the first regiment cadet band, 30 strong, under the leadership of Col. W. H. Hughes, the staff and officers, with their distinguished guests, marched from the K. of P. hall to the Keystone cave. Such good fellowship is bound to work havoc in bring out success. When Gen. W. H. Butler, the toastmaster of the evening, arose from his chair at 9:30 and opened the social gathering with an eloquent speech, he had struck the keynote of sociability and good fellowship of the uniform rank of K. of P. of St. Louis. Following in order, Capt. Wm. H. Shackelford, who delivered the address of welcome, should be highly commended. In response, B. C. Katkins made a most brilliant speech, a credit to his excellent ability. Short talks were made by Dr. T. A. Curtis, F. J. Brown, A. W. Lloyd, W. C. Ancell and Charles Baker of Farmington, Mo. Colonel Knox in delivering his address spoke on conditions of the Second regiment of Kansas City, paying high tribute to Col. B. J. Riley, commanding first regiment uniform ranks, K. of P. of St. Louis. A musical program was rendered by the Keystone trio, Miss Edna Freeman, pianist; Mr. Leroy Morton, vocalist, and a few selections on the piano by Mr. Shelton of Fiddler and Shelton, which closed one of the grandest affairs seen in St. Louis in years.—St. Louis Argus. The wise business man advertises his merit. Business is good with him. He uses printer's ink. The Kansas City Sun will tell your story. You need the printer, too. Try Franklin. He gives service. 1008 East Eighteenth street. Transfer at Troost. Bell phone, Grand 2988. A Beautiful Design. Sprays .....$1.00 and upward Designs .....$1.50 and upward We please the people both in price and quality. Flowers for all occasions. WEAVER FLORAL CO. 1510 E. 18th St. Home phone Main 7555. Bell phone East 4798. PRICE. 5c. THE NELSON GIRL q Are you satisfied with your hair? Is it as long as it should be? Is it soft and glossy and full of life? Can you comb it out easily or is it full of tangles? 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Kiel announced that he would sign the ordinance which was passed recently for the repeal of the 50-year franchise to the Southern Traction Company to operate street cars over the unfinished free bridge and to build a loop in the downtown district of St. Louis. The house of delegates voted for the repeal 26 to 1. It was repealed by the council early in the week. The bill goes to the mayor for signature after it has been signed by the speaker of the house of delegates and the president of the city council. The special election on the 2 3-4 million dollar bond issue to complete the bridge will be held November 6. It is expected that the mayor will have signed the bill by that time. While this, more than anything else, probably predicts the passage of the bond issue, it will make virtually worthless the $330,000 worth of the traction company's bonds that Jeptha D. Howse received for the passage of the franchise and which he lent to the Lorimer-Gallagher Construction Company which borrowed $180,000 on the bonds from the Lorimer bank. Largely because of that, it was said that the attorneys for the traction company would file an injunction to prevent the mayor from signing the measure. They have served warning that they will have the courts of the city and the state interpret the law as to whether the city has a right to repeal the franchise. If the injunction is granted, it is believed here that it would again defeat the bridge bond issue. THRIFT OF A LITTLE GIRL Member of School Tomato Canning Club Earns $23 on One-Tenth of An Acre. The story of how a little girl earned $23 net profit off one-tenth of an acre in the hills west of Kirksville as a member of the Sugar Creek School Tomato Canning Club was told at the fourth annual rural life conference in session under the auspices of the State Normal School. The cost of producing the tomatoes on the tenth of an acre was $5, and the receipts $28. Five counties held their autumn teachers' meetings in connection with the conference, and there were more than five hundred teachers present. The program was divided into two sections, one on the school and one on the church, with such topics as "Tomato and Sewing Clubs," "The Boy Scouts," "Parent-Teachers' Associations," "The Church as a Social Center" and others. ★★ C. E. Elected Officers.—These officers were elected by the twenty-seventh annual convention of the Missouri Christian Endeavor Union at Springfield: Frank M. Lowe, Jr., Kansas City, president; Fred Struddell, St. Louis, vice-president; T. B. Prescott, Kansas City, secretary; Anne Fleming, Columbia, statistical secretary; Ben F. Dickson, Canton, treasurer. Canton was selected as next place of meeting. ★★ Shot His Visitor.—William H. H. Brown, a retired farmer residing in Warrensburg, was shot and dangerously wounded by Oscar Applegate, a young farmer living four miles north of Warrensburg. Brown had accompanied J. W. Harrison of Warrensburg in a buggy to Harrison's farm, on which Applegate was a tenant. In the visit Harrison is said to have upbraided his tenant for pasturing some ground he had forbidden him to use. Applegate ordered Harrison to leave his premises. He turned his horse to leave, when, Harrison says, Applegate ★★ Shot His Father—Arthur Biggs, 21 years old, shot and seriously wounded his father, James Biggs, as the latter was opening a door at the Biggs home in St. Louis. The son mistook his father for a burglar. Doctor Found Dead—Dr. M. D. Lewis, 69 years old, was found dead from apoplexy in his office at Columbia recently. Christian Endeavors Meet—The twenty-seventh annual convention of the Missouri Christian Endeavor Union was held at Springfield recently. The largest delegations were from Kansas City and St. Louis. The Kansas City workers, numbering 100, arrived by special train. A Wealthy Suicide--Jasper Gaines, Brunswick, 72 years old, a wealthy pioneer resident of Charlton County, committed suicide recently at his home. He shot himself with a revolver. No Miracle. Black Race Forms Ten Per Cent of the Population of the Country. Washington, Oct. 14.—A bulletin on negroes in the United States will be issued at an early date by William J. Harris, director of the census, which will contain all the principal information obtained through the census regarding the number and distribution of the negroes, their rate of increase, their sex and age distribution, and their marital condition. The bulletin will sho what the number of negroes in the United States (exclusive of the outlying possessions) in 1910 was 9,827,763, and they formed 10.7 per cent of the total population. In 1900 the number of negroes was 8,833,994, or 11.6 per cent of the total population of that date. The increase among the negroes during the decade was 993,769, or 11.2 per cent, as compared with an increase of 20.8 per cent among the native whites and 30.7 per cent among the foreign born whites. The growth of the negro population results from their own natural increase, while the growth of the white population is accelerated by the great influx of immigrants and the high birth rate in immigrant families. Of the total number of negroes in 1910 about one-fifth were reported as mulatto; that is, as having some white blood. The proportion that mulattos formed of the total negro population increased from 12 per cent in 1870 to 16.2 per cent in 1890, and to 20.9 per cent in 1910. Urban and Rural Distribution. Nearly three-fourth of the negroes (7,138,534, or 72.6 per cent) were rural dwellers, while about one-fourth 2,689,229, or 27.4 per cent) lived in towns or cities of at least 2,500 inhabitants. Of a total of 2,953 counties in the United States there were only 110 in which there were no negroes, and there were fifty-three counties in 1910, as compared with fifty-five counties in 1900, in which seventy-two per cent of the population was negro. There were 263 counties in 1910 in which fifty per cent of the population was negro. In 1910 there were 4,885,881 negro males in the United States, as compared with 4,941,882 negro females, the number of males to 100 females thus being 98.9, as compared with a ratio of 106 for the whites. The negroes were the only race in the United States in which there were more females than males. The negro males in the United States of voting age numbered 2, 485,873 in 1910, and the negro females of voting age numbered 2, 427,742. Of the negroes 6 to 9 years of age 488,954, or 49.3 per cent, were reported as having attended school during the school year 1909-10; of those 10 to 14 years of age, 791,995, or 68.6 per cent, were so reported; and of those 15 to 20 years of age, 338,750, or 26.5 per cent. In each age group the percentage of school attendance was much lower for the negroes than for the whites. Percentage Decreased. Of the total number of negroes 10 years of age and over, 2,227, 731, or 30.4 per cent, were reported as illiterate; among the whites the percentage of illiteracy was five, being three among native whites and 12.7 among the foreign born whites. The percentage of illiteracy among negroes decreased from 57.1 in 1890 to 44.5 in 1900, and to 30.4 in 1910. The total number of farms operated by negroes in 1910 was 893,370; of this number, 218,972 were operated by their owners, 672,964 by tenants, and 1,434 by managers. The number of farms owned by negroes increased by 31,175, or 16.6 per cent, between 1900 and 1910, and the number of negro tenants increased by 115,790, or 20.8 per cent, during the decade. The total value of farm property operated by negroes in 1910 was $1,144,181,000, as compared with $499,941,000 in 1900, indicating that the value of agricultural property operated by negroes increased considerably more than two-fold during the decade. The statistics show that 1,806,727 negro males and 1,050,849 negro females were engaged in agriculture. The death rate among negroes in 1910 in this area was 25.5 per 1,000, showing a decrease as compared with the rate in 1900, which was 29.4, and the death rates for 1910 show many decreases, especially in the southern municipalities. Willie's Part. Mother—What is Willie crying about, Ethel? Ethel—Tommie was standing on him. "Judging by the effect of this thermometer, there are evidently squalls ahead." TREAT YOUR SCALP, AND HAIR MUST GROW! 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By the time that Congress has been some months in session, the members form fast friendships, and the impulse to have a little fun now and then will assert itself. The other day one of the large paintings on the stairway was being taken down, rope and tackle were required to handle the gigantic gift frame, and the senators stopped while going to lunch to discuss it. One of the Democrats remarked that "if we are going to make real changes in this administration, let us make some that the people will recognize as they come and go. You'll notice that Colonel Roosevelt's and President Taft's portraits no longer adorn the executive office," he finished exultantly. We must let the shifting pictures into the story in these 'movie times.'"—Affairs at Washington," by Joe Mitchell Chaple, in National Magazine. The Road to Successville The road to success. I speak of financial success—is rarely long and arduous," said George W. Perkins in one of his brilliant Y. M. C. A. addresses in Cleveland. 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Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C., U.S.A. BRIDGE WORK Kansas City, Ma A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Grand Junior Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonio Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Grand Commandery Officers. P. C. Kincaid, Kansas City, Mo, V. E. G. C. J. W. Beard, St. Louis, Mo., E. G. C. G. Wm. Roberts, Hannibal, Mo., Grand Secretary. T. P. Mahammitt, Grand Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, 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, F. P. Porteet, T. W. H. Williams, W. G. Moseley, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Wiley. Lodge Directory LODGE DIRECTORY. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing Masons, W. M.; J. H, Snigner, Sec'y. G MASONRY INSTRUMENTS Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome from McCabbell, McCabbell, McCabbell, SeeY. G M. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. W. Welcome. Thos. Jackson, W. M. Frank Lowe, Secretary, 1518 Baltimore Ave. U. B. F. King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 563 W. M., 1718 Eucld; Jas, Harris, Sec'y, 1723 Woodland Ave. ADVERTISE YOUR SOCIETY. We would like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in The Sun. It is the most popular way to let the world know who you are, when and where you meet and your object and purpose. For the next month we will make special announcements to have you put in your lodge or society list of of officers in this paper. Office Hours 8 to 12 m. & 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday by Appointment Bell Grand 2553W DR. E. C. BUNCH DENTIST Gold Crown, Bridges and Plates A Specialty Painless Extraction 716 East 12th St. Kansas City, Mo. BEDFORD'S HAIR GROWER. 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 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. All communications should be addressed the Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Bldr. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews. Editor and Owner Willa B. Glenn. General Manager Bob Thompson. Manager J. G. Tylery. Advertising Solicitor Eva P. Washington. ...Traveling Representative Rosa Morton. Collector SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case do not receive any number when due. Inform post office, and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. ¼ ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Cleveland Church, 18th and Tracy. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte Alen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Bristol. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Troost. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. St. Baptist Church, 1835 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. Blue Valley Baptist church, 1120 Crystal avenue. John S. A. M. E. Church, 1743 Beile view. Seventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Wood- view. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia, Morning Star Baptist Church, 3213 Vine, Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Hillhead. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1832 Woodland Ave. Highland. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. pendence Avenue and Tracy. 19th and Cavary Baptist Church, 18th and A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Biglow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lakeview Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. 4th and E. Church, 317 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 405 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 42nd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Church, 655 Grand Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Epitot. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and Bteward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Church, 3rd and 1st Quindarado A. M. E. Church, Quindarado Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. A. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salter Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart. Second Baptist Church, 23th and Ruby. Washington Church, 24th and Shawnee. St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Roseale, Kan. St. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virginia. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. READ MEDITATE HUSTLE AGITATE AGITATE The American Negro must read, meditate, hustle and agitate if he would obtain anything like an equal chance in that race which results only in the survival of the fittest. While there is so much agitation going on in the daily press, as to the necessity of strengthening our defenses and increasing our military forces, wouldn't it be a good idea as well as the right time to petition his excellency the Governor to authorize the organization of the Negro Regiments in the State of Missouri? Now that the election is virtually over in which an attempt to make the political pot "boll" has been a dismal failure it will be well for the country to buckle down to business and remove, if possible, the depression that has settled over the country through lack of confidence in the present administration. Colored women who are waxing warm over the subject of suffrage should bear in mind the fact that all "Jim Crow" legislation has come at the behest of women. If the "Full Crew" amendment carries, the railroads will be compelled to hire more brakemen. Then in order to retrench, they will be compelled to lay off the colored porters. Vote against Amendment No. 9. School authorities have given out a rule prohibiting outside phone calls to schools except during the first half hour of each half-day session and after 3 o'clock. This is a good rule and will be appreciated by teachers who desire to do their work uninterrupted. The return of Rev. Wm. H. Thomas to the pastorate of Allen Chapel insures another year of prosperity for both pastor and church. Rev. Thomas, coming among strangers one year ago, has more than made good and has established himself not only as a great preacher but as a stealing Christian leader and a strong factor in the moral and social life of the community. Naturally there are a few perhaps, who have not learned to appreciate the value of his work for good reasons which ignorance and jealousy so easily contrive disparage his efforts. But the fact remains that the church debts are being paid, the membership increased as never before, the congregation growing with each week and the services attracting the attention of the most intelligent and cultured, all fowhich looks good to us. Drs. L. M. Tillman, this city, A. F. Radford, Kansas City, Kans., J. A. Simpson, of St. Louis, Mo., all internes FREE BONUS BONUS 10 at the General Hospital passed the State Board at the last examination. All of these young physicians are graduates of the Meharry Medical College at Nashville, Tenn. Dr. E. O. Rone of Howard University passed the Kansas Board and was complimented by them. Among the attractive features of the October number of the Crisis was the half-page cut of the three beautiful and interesting children of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Webster of St. Joseph, Mo. The naturalness of their pose and their rugilog smiling countenance have enlisted admiration from all who have seen the pictures. Among the many candidates seeking election no next Tuesday is none more upright and conscientious than Alderman Miles Bulger who is running for presiding judge of the county court on the Democratic ticket. Alderman Bulger is a man renowned for his strong convictions and always exhibits the moral courage to back them. We predict for Miles Bulger the largest vote cast for any candidate for office in Jackson county next Tuesday. Mr. Bulger has expressed strong sympathy for the charity negroes at the county poor farm, and deplores the unsanitary and other frightful conditions which exist there. If elected he will immediately begin to remedy this existing evil. President George Evans writes that George R. Smith college at Sedalia Mo., opened very encouragingly. That a number of improvements and repairs have been made this summer; the faculty has been strengthened and an earnest spirit was manifested on the part of the students. Prof. Evans also informs us that the farm has become a real industrial feature under the supervision of Prof. B. H. Lillard of this city. MAY END LID CLUBS HERE. The Police Commissioners Say They Will Enforce the Law to the Letter When They Receive the Decision. The decision of the Missouri supreme court yesterday that clubs, social, benevolent or any kind, that dispense intoxicating liquors must take out dramshop licenses is of the most far reaching effect. Right off the bat it will result in the big social clubs of the city, such as the Kansas City Club, the Athletic Club, the Elks, Country Club and such, closing their bars on Sunday. They also must close nights at 1 o'clock. More than that, it will mean, if the law is enforced, the passing of the "lid club." Must Take Out Saloon Licenses. The police commissioners said last night they had not received notice of the decision yet. But as soon as they got it they would see that it was compiled with to the letter. That will mean that each club must come before the board and take the chance of getting a saloon license in the name of its secretary or some officer. It will mean the clubs must pay the regular saloon license and come under the jurisdiction of the police commissioners. If a man has a habit of getting hot under the collar he should quit wearing collars. THE BAR HEALTH IS WEALTH Favorite Prescriptions Which Have Been Used as a Preventive As Well As a Cure. HOW TO GET WELL No. 10. For rheumatism, aches, pains and neuralgia. Potassium Iodide 6 drachms; Sodium. Solylate 4 drachms; Vim and Vigor Analgesic Comp. V. S. 6 ounces; Sig: teapoonful every three hours; price, seventy-five cents. No. 6. Cut this out and bring to ur store. Potassium Acetate 4 drachms; Vim and Vigor Analgesic Comp. v. S. 6 ounces; Sig: teapoonful every three hours; price, seventy-five cents. No. 44. For female complaints; Cut this out and bring to our store. Silylum Bivorium Comp. 2 ounces; Vim and Vigor analgesic Comp. V. S. 8 ounces; Sig: teapoonful every three hours; price one dollar. Betty & Sam's Little Corner A —That of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. —That a certain disconsolate young man still sings "I wonder if you miss me as much as I miss you." —That Betty and Sam came near having a falling out last week because Sam told Betty she talked too much. —That it looks like the Divorce Docket is going to be well filled this term. —That money and beauty and education do not make happy homes. Only true, united and sympathetic souls can do that. —That the Masons are preparing to remodel their Temple until it shall be the finest in the West. —That after a man is fifty he would rather lose his hair than his teeth. What if he loses both? —That some of the Negroes who brag about "supporting" candidates can't support themselves. Hey Bill? —That lemons are going up. Well who wants a lemon anyhow? —That some people seem to think that chewing the rag is food for thought. What do you think? —That the Rex Theatre, 2411 Vine Street deserves the patronage of every Negro in Kansas City because it is owned, managed and controlled by Negroes. The mean, sneering, contemptible attitude of the Kansas City Star as reflected through its asinine reporters in dealing with all things concerning the Negro is simply a case of "storing up wrath" that will break on its head "some sweet day by and by." TYPEWRITING DONE at Kansas City Son office, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Neat, quick work. Rates reasonable. Engagements by appointment. Bell phone E999. COMBINATION. No. 13 Cut this out and bring to our store. (A) (A) Ingalls, cocks and larixpe Ammonium Cream, Elkirx herion and turpen hydrate, ounces Glyco herion 1 ounce; Cresote 1 drachm; Elkirx Analgesic Comp. V, B Sugar Sized X Quinibal Sized 10 grains; Codine Sulphate 3 grains; Aspirin 15 grains. (B) Caffine Citrate 10 grains; Analgesic powders 20 grains; make twelve capsules; sig. one every three hours. Vigor and Vigor Laxative Powder 1 ounce. (C) Dissolve in a half glass of water and take all at once. This combination is commonly used to curd the meat, were case of larixpe, coughs, colds, and etc. Price one dollar. The following prescriptions have given satisfaction to hundreds of people. We recommend them with our guarantee to give satisfaction or money refunded: If you are troubled with any of the following diseases, rheumatism, kidney and liver troubles, female weakness, headache, neuralgia, piles, constipation, bifidousness, stomach troubles, in- --- Y. M. C. A. NOTES Y. M. C. A. NOTES More than twenty per cent of all the subscriptions to the recent furnishings fund were paid in cash. As the workers were instructed to take subscriptions from only persons considered wholly reliable, the building committee is ordering the furnishings in as fast as the workmen finish each portion of the building. The forty-six dormitory rooms have already been carpeted with the best of carpet. These rooms with the rest of the building will be steam heated. The latest two-pipe valve system of steam radiators are in each room. Each man can regulate his own heat. The rooms will be lighted by electricity. All the water in the building, for swimming, bathing, drinking and cooking will be double filtered, making it as pure as possible. The floors will be swept with a vacuum cleaner. As every room is an outside room, plenty of sunshine, air and light will be obtained. The wash rooms on each dormitory floor contain a shower bath room. The dormitory floors will accommodate ninety-two men. Already the men are asking for space when these rooms are opened. Although the building as a whole will not be dedicated until Thanksgiving week, the management hopes to have the dormitories open by the 5th of November. Prof. Frenchs address on "The Open Door" was the treat of the season. The men voted to have him repeat this same address in the new building when a larger number can be accommodated. Sunday, November 1st the men's meeting will be given over to a praise service, when the fine result of the furnishing campaign will be especially before the men. Man's Wants. Man wants but little here below, but wants it mighty hard. It only needs but one More spot, apart. Forget Themselves "How does Pikiln stand with his fashionable neighbors?" "Several of them spoke to him once when there was a fire in the vicinity." "Indeed?" "But they exclaimed later that it was due to the excitement of the moment." Farming Literature. "The agricultural department issues some interesting and helpful bullets." "Anything new about handling summer boarders?" inquired Farmer Whif fletree. "Mine gimme a lot of trouble last year." Sarcasm. "I'm sending this communication to an editor. Would you write him that if it is too long he might cut it down to suit himself?" "Indeed, I should. If you didn't mention it, such an idea would never occur to him." Good Advice. "Mr. Gayboy talks in his sleep, doctor," said Mrs. Gayboy. "What would you advise me to do?" "If you wish to preserve your peace of mind," said the doctor, who was personally acquainted with Mr. Gayboy, "I advise you not to listen." THE NEW YORKER digestion, dyspepsia, etc., our favorite prescriptions are recommended and guaranteed to give satisfaction. These prescriptions are only at SMITH'S DRUG STORE. CUT THIS OUT AND BRING IT TO OUR STORE. Drug Specials for This Week 25-cent Black Draught 15 cents. $1 Wine of Cardui 85 cents. 50-cent Caldwell Syrup of Pepsiin 45 cents. 25-cent Ellisian Cream 20 cents. $1.25 Fountain Syringes 1. $1 Hot Water Bottles 75 cents. 25-cent Massatta Talcum Powder 19 cents. Ice cream sodas served the year around. Tango Sundae on a blazer, 15 cents. Hot soda drinks, hot chocolalte, 5 cents. Hot coffee, 5 cents; hotb eef tea, 5 cents. HATRED THAT WAR BREEDS Remarkable Changes in Pleasant Relations Caused by Hostilities Between Nations. Hate and war must go hand in hand. You couldn't go out and shoot your neighbor to death unless you first hated him. If circumstances should force you to such a thing you would speedily, by a sort of self-hypnosis, work yourself into a state of mind where you honestly believed that killing was entirely too good for him. This is just what the nations in Europe have done, writes Martin Marshall in Lesile's. We read now how the Germans have despised the English in the past and how the French have for 44 years longed for revenge on the Germans; of how Belgium hated the kaiser with the hatred of fear, and of mutual antagonisms between Teuton and Serb. These sentiments were partly official and conventional, but mostly imaginary. The people got along pretty well together. Frenchmen did business in Berlin and Germans went holidaying to Paris; London's restaurants were largely manned by German staffs and Russian peasants helped to reap the harvests in Prussia. Educated men in each of these nations prided themselves on their familiarity with the languages of the others, and enjoyed their literature, art and music. Then came war, and all was changed. Some millions of men were going to slaughter each other, and first they had to convince themselves that they ought to do it. The preliminary era was of window smashing, street demonstrations, trade boycots and imprisonment of inoffensive nationals of hostile nations. Then Wagner's music was tabooed in Russia and France; St. Petersburg must have its name changed to cleanse it from the loathsome Teutonic termination; English table sauce disappeared from Berlin restaurants; Paris styles were anathema in Vienna; London poured Munich beer into the gutters; a Paris magazine started a popular prize contest for the best substitute name for Eau de Cologne—in short, Europe ran the whole gamut of silly, sentimental hysteria preliminary to shooting of suspected spies, the bombardment of peaceful villages, the killing of women and children, the "strict military reprisals" that always occur in war—and always shock the victims and the neutrals. Big Pin Money. Some of the large dress manufacturers in New York, in whose factories a considerable amount of draping must be done, find that their bills for pins frequently run as high as $1,500 a year. Used only once, the pins are removed and permitted to fall on the floor, where they are swept away. Even if gathered up at the day's close they would be too dirty for use again. A company, just starting in business, proposes to effect a saving in the pin item by taking all the used pins, and, having cleaned and polished them, return them at half what they cost the manufacturers originally. The experiments to produce a clean, refinished pin entailed over a year's work. It was found that if the pins were gathered together by using a magnet they made a mark on white fabrics, so this method was discarded. A process has been discovered, however, whereby the satisfactory result was obtained. 10 Hot tomato bouillon, 5 cents; hot chicken bouillon, 5 cents; hot clam bouillon, 5 cents; hot egg chocolate, 10 cents; hot egg and grape juice, 10 cents. All ice cream sodas 5 cents. You have a standing invitation to visit our store. It is the finest and best equipped negro store in the West. It is well lighted and ventilated, sanitary in every respect. The surroundings are artistic which appeal to those of aesthetic taste. Our large shipments of goods, such as Madame Walker's Hair Grower, Glossine, straightening and drying combs, hair pressers, watches and clocks, talcum powders and toilet articles enables us to supply your wants at rock bottom prices. Phone us or write us today. S. E. Corner 18th and Tracy Home Phone 5467 M. Bell Phone 4591 G Mail Orders Promptly Filled A. WATCH THIS SPACE ACME SHAMPOO POWDER FOR CLEANSING THE HAIR AND DIRECTIONS Distributed by ACME NOVELTY CO. WILKES-BARRE, PA. COLD CREAM Here they are! The Big Four, addressing (full 3-oz. box), a two-ounce full size box of face powder in the box of shampoo powder that does applicable condition, all for 80c. Any postage prepaid. Agents wanted. For future use as this is an introduct Ltd., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. P. O. Box 3 COOPER & CO. Successor to Carry a B DRU Patent M. Cigars, S and 1 PHONES: Home M. 18th an M. MYER 1518 E. 1 Home Phone East 2192 ACME 100 POWDER ING THE HAIR DAILY INCTIONS ACME Pomatum for the DIRECTIONS Apply at night, or give as time as a deodorant. Handle with care and plain Acme Novelty Limited. WILKES BARRE. GOLD CREAM VELVET COMPLEXION POWDER Strisly Pure and B sily Perfume. ACME NOVELTY CO. WILKES-BARRE. are! The Big Four. An unsurpassed scab 3-oz. box), a two-ounce box of snow white of face powder in (high brown, flesh color, two powder that does the work and leaves the on, all for 80c. Any three 65c. Choice o d. Agents wanted. Send money order to as this is an introductory offer. Address A arre, Pa. P. O. Box 36. PER & CAMPBLE Successor to G. A. Roy Carry a Full Line of DRUGS, tent Medicin gars, Sundr and Paints ES: Home Main 7344; Bell 18th and Pasee MYERS, Ta 1518 E. 12th Street phone East 2192 Bell Phone E ACME SHIATTOO POWDER FOR CLEANSING THE HAIR AND DIRECTIONS Apply at night, or once in any time as a dressing. Handles the hair and hairline and phase. Acme Novelty Co.. Limited. WILKES BARRE, PA. Distributed by ACME NOVELTY CO. WILKES BARRE, PA. COLD CREAM VELVET COMPLEXION POWDER Striely Pure and Exquisitely Perfumed. ACME NOVELTY CO., LTD. WILKES BARRE, PA. Here they are! The Big Four. An unsurpassed scalp food and hair dressing (full 3-oz. box), a twoounce box of snow white beauty cream, a full size box of face powder in (high brown, flesh color, or white), and a box of shampoo powder that does the work and leaves the hair in a soft pliable condition, all for 80c. Any three 65c. Choice of any two, 50c, postage prepaid. Agents wanted. Send money order today, and get them for future use as this is an introductory offer. Address Acme Novelty Co. Ltd., Wilkes-Barre, P. P, O. Box 36. COOPER & CAMPBELL Successor to G. A. Roy Carry a Full Line of DRUGS, Patent Medicines Cigars, Sundries and Paints PHONES: Home Main 7344; Bell East 43 18th and Paseo M. MYERS, Tailor 1518 E. 12th Street Home Phone East 2192 Bell Phone East 1667W Man, you don't know what you miss, Every time that you forget, Real life is only this, Clothes will make you happy yet. High-grade clothes is what I make, And you would well pleased be Now if we your measure take To perfectly fit thee. Try me, then give me a chance, And you will content be; I know your business will advance— Long my clothes will last thee. Our grade of goods are best, Rightly tried by long, long test. TELEPHONE THE WHIB Cleaners SUITS TO ORDER, $5 manship C TELEPHONE GRAND 1356W THE WHIBBY UNIQ aners and Dy TO ORDER, $15 00 up. Fit an manship Guaranteed. TELEPHONE GRAND 1356W THE WHIBBY UNIQUE Cleaners and Dyers SUITS TO ORDER, $15 00 up. Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed. RAINCOATS TO ORDER, $7.50 up. Including the celebrated Balmacaans for men and women We also clean Portiers, Curtains, Shawls, Piano Covers, Carpets, Furs, Etc. Prices on application THE TEST OF SUPREMACY IS COMPARISON Work Called for and Delivered. Gloves and Neckties Cleaned free 1808 Forest Ave. KANSAS CITY, MO FREE FREE FREE Beautiful Faashion Book for Colored Ladies. Beautiful Faasihion 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 also by our own stores. We stand washing and combing. Hair sold by the pound, also hair nets and toilet artemis lower prices. If not satisfied money is refunded. Agents wanted. Send 2c stamp for book. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY, 23 Duane Street (Dept. 100) NEW YORK ACME Pomatum for the Hair DIRECTIONS Apply at night, or prior to end of any time as a dressing. Handles the hair with hairrest and plaque. Acme Novelty Co. London. WILKES BARRE, PA. VELVET COMPLEXION POWDER Strictly Pure and Exquisitely Perfumed. MADE IN ACME NOVELTY CO., LTD. WILKES-BARRE, PA. An unsurpassed scalp food and hair e box of snow white beauty cream, a ch brown, flesh color, or white), and a e work and leaves the hair in a soft free 65c. Choice of any two, 50c, end money order today, and get them tory offer. Address Acme Novelty Co. CAMPBELL To G. A. Roy Full Line of JGS, Medicines Sundries Paints in 7344; Bell East 43 d Paseo RS, Tailor 22th Street Bell Phone East 1667W GRAND 1356W BY UNIQUE and Dyers 500 up. Fit and Work- guaranteed. It is depressing to note with what laxity our children are being trained in our modern homes. The old-fashioned religious influences have almost disappeared. Children are actually being encouraged in things that are vain and shallow. The real traits of character among which are truthfulness, fidelity, filial love, punctuality and reverence are given such little esteem that it almost causes one to shudder for the future. Flocks of children are seen going late to school each day. They appear to have no idea of the value of promptness. In many cases they are loud and boisterous upon the streets, thus attracting the attention of those who are fond of pointing out our frailties. The school must not be held wholly responsible for these things. We must look to the home for the most enduring influences. Visit Smith's drug store. If you want to buy a home see Stewart & Smith. Visit the new, up-to-date real estate offices of Stewart & Smith. If you want advice concerning real estate, see Stewart & Smith. Have you ever been to Dr. Theo, Smith's drug store at Eighteenth and Tracy. Attorney C. H. Calloway spent Friday and Saturday in Hannibal on legal business. Mrs. Roy Davis of St. Paul, Minn. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Simons and Mrs. T. E. Grear, 2126 Woodland Ave. Mrs. Joseph Henderson of Atchison, Kas., is in the city the guest of her daughters, Mesdames E. W. Fields, E. B. Roberts and F. J. Weaver. Mr. J. T. Watkins the well known undertaker who has been seriously ill is improving nicely, to the pleasure of his many friends. Poro hair dressing, hair weaving and facial massaging. Scalp treatment a specialty. Mrs. E. Norles, 1737 Pasco, upstairs. Mrs. C. L. Davis, 1320 Kensington avenue, left the city Thursday morning for Lexington, Mo., to visit her cousin, Mrs. Henderson, for a few days. Miss Ada McAfee, 2110 Highland avenue, has returned from Sedalia where she attended the state fair. En route home she visited friends at Sweet Springs, Mo. It is depressing to note we are being trained in our modern ligious influences have almost certainly being encouraged in this The real traits of character a fidelity, filial love, punctuality, little esteem that it almost causes. Flocks of children are seen They appear to have no idea of many cases they are loud and be attracting the attention of those our frailties. The school must not be her things. We must look to the fluences. Mr. Harvey Groves of Denver, Colo., was in the city this week with cattle from his ranch. He is looking well and was pleased to see his many friends. Mrs. J. B. Young entertained at her residence, 2456 Waldron Avenue, Friday evening, October 23 in honor of Mr. J. J. Godwin, of St. Louis, Mo. The house was beautifully decorated with ferns and flowers. Games were indulged in after which an elegant luncheon was served. A most delightful evening was enjoyed by all present. NELLE HENDRICKS Teacher of Piano. Thorough Instruction Guaranteed. Studio 1802 E. 24th Street. ```markdown ``` The advertisement of the Nelson Manufacturing Company of Richmond, Va., which will be found in another column is of special interest to every one who takes a pride in their personal appearance. They are the originators of Nelson's Hair Dressing, a preparation that is sold in every state in the Union. It has been on the market for nearly twenty years and today has probably the largest sale of any preparation of its kind. Such a remarkable success would not be possible unless the article had real merit. Many of our readers have no doubt used it and know of its value. Those who have not used it and would like to test it can do so without cost as the manufacturers offer to send any reader of this paper a liberal free sample if they will enclose a 2 cent stamp to pay postage and mention this paper. They will also include a sample of their other preparations. Nelson's Scalp and Hair Cleaner and Nelson's Skin and Complexion Soap. Write today and get these samples and give them a personal test. Victimized by Changing Times. "Now, then, Cousin Emma, let me give you a bit of the breast." "Yes, please. I should like to taste that, for in my young days they always gave it to the grown-ups and now they keep it for the children, so I've always missed it."-Punch. Ancient Goods. "Has your neighbor a new wife?" "No." "Why, I heard he had just married her!" "So he has, but she's not new; she's as old as Kethusalch." Not For Him. "I want you to meet a friend of mine, a remarkably clever girl who taught herself to swim in one lesson." "If she is so ugly she had to teach herself to swim I don't want to meet her." CITY NEWS. Mr. Arthur Sanford of Carrollton Mo., was here Sunday on business, and while in the city accompanied by Grand Secretary George W. K. Love and Mr. E. W. Fields, called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson C. Crews and viewed the elaborate presents recently given them. Some business and professional men are complaining of hard times, but it is not so with Dr. Theo. Smith, who has one of the handsomest, busiest and most up-to-date drug stores in the country at Eighteenth street and Tracy avenue. The Concert by the Hann Jubilee Singers at the Second Baptist Church last Monday night was an unqualified success. Nearly a thousand persons were inattendance, and an excellent program was rendered by this capable company. CARD OF THANKS We are deeply grateful to you for the continuous courtesies extended; contributions of fruit and flowers and the many expressions of sympathy during the recent illness and death of our beloved wife, mother and daughter. Very gratefully yours, Last Friday evening was the scene of a very unique and enjoyable affair when Miss Hattie Scott, of 2838 East Sixth Street, entertained the members of the Jolly Whist Club. The house was beautifully decorated and the luncheon served was dainty and delicious. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Roy, Mrs. W. M. Stacy, rs. Jennie House, rs. L. V. Farnsworth, rs. Nannie Weans; essrs. Geo. Johnson, Gardner Beshears and G L. Lewis. with what laxity our children own homes. The old-fashioned re- disappeared. Children are ac- cents that are vain and shallow. among which are truthfulness, and reverence are given such ones to shudder for the future. In going late to school each day. of the value of promptness. In poisterous upon the streets, thus who are fond of pointing out old wholly responsible for these home for the most enduring in- An Open Letter to The Negro Business League An Open Letter to The Negro Business League By Charles A. Starke. If there is anything in a name, then the National Negro Business League means a great national body of Negro business men leagued together, mind you, to promote the general order of business among Negroes. This is doubly true in local organizations, as the national affairs are fraught with the convention spirit, it is to our local league that we must look for an effective work toward uplifting business standards and the promotion of trade among ourselves. To do this we will find it necessary to follow the well established rules of commerce which has always for its basis honesty, full value for the money and fair dealing. Other peculiarities should be dalt with strong and unusual methods of race loyalty and common sense. The business outlook for the negro is great. To the wide wake the light of truth sheds its rays over the horizon of the business world and opens to him possibilities never discovered before, but across this favorable sky emblazoned in bold and stern reading is this one command—work. Unless you invest your money in a business of some kind and work and feel the hopes and setbacks, follow the dalyy routine with added vigor, improve and wrestle with the thousand phases that bob up for consideration, you can not lay claim to real membership in the local league if that league means business. Then the Negro Business League is for business people, and business people should only be admitted to the ranks in order that nothing but business might be transacted or promoted. If you wanted to organize a carpenters' union you would not go to bricklayers, iron workers or common laborers to secure members, would you? No. But you would naturally go to carpenters, an decarpenters only. Here we have quite a contrast from this. We have the business league going to churches, women's clubs and to every place but to the highways of business life to get timber for its use, so that today we have upon the books of the organization a list of names that really mean nothing and stand for nothing in the business community. What the Negro Business League wants now is customers and patrons of the business the individual members and association of a roomful of vociferous persons arguing points of order, berating each other about their knowledge of "parliamentary usages" and debating whether preachers shall be admitted with special honor, and that gratis. "Resolve," said Booker T. Washington, rolling up his sleeves in imitation of the mysterious individual --- whose activity consists in making resolutions that reach no farther than the door of the meeting place. Let us get out of this habit of resolving and do a little active work in bringing about better conditions among our people and institute a sounder business policy among business people. The Way. There are some 33,000 Negroes in Greater Kansas City to be fed, clothed and housed. Abstractly, this means much, how to feed; clothe and house these people through Negro enterprises and with capital controlled by Negroes the practical problem of our business men. We have had great orations in abundance telling us how far the Negro has come, but little or nothing about how to really solve the "eternal row" problems which are confronting the business person of the hour. We believe that the Business League started wrong, and therefore can not end right. The thing to do is to halt and correct ourselves and put this organization which really has a latent power for great good upon a better working basis. To do this we are giving (what appears in our opinion) some practical suggestions to advance the cause of business. zFirst—Cleaner and better appointed business places, neat and attractive, polite and prompt service, not a mere sign hanging on the wall, but a real active and sincere effort to please and satisfy. Satisfaction they say makes regular customers. Second — Honest, advertisements with persistency, not the halting or sporic kind, but steady, practical advertising that brings business and keeps alive business consciousness of the people who would otherwise forget. Back up everything we say and pay for advertising as scrupulously as we do our gas bills. Advertising is a science. If you do not know the game secure the services of an expert and pay him for his labor. Advertising is what keeps the wheel of industry "a going." "So the people may know" is a good slogan in advertising. Third—A concerted actio non the part of all members to his own people, and make it a crime for any member of the business league to trade with a people who despises his very presence but who will take his money and hate him more. Any member of the Business League found guilty of buying an article from a white concern when he could easily secure the same from like place run by colored should be ostracised from the league church and lodge. If the white man wanted your patronage he would not har you from his best places. Then out of decency and self-respect we should stay out altogether. Fourth—We speak for cleaner and better places. Remember it does not cost as much to keep a place clean as it does dirty. Cleanliness is economy -dirt is wastefulness. Order invites business and trade. Disorder repulses both. Fifth -Let the league get out a "merit sign" for window display and general efficiency to be given only to members who meet requirements or standards set by the league. Sixth—Appoint every member a delegate to actively patrol the streets and boost Negro business and direct customers to all progressive Negro enterprises. Gy a little work on our part and a little loyalty on the part of the public we could easily "freeze out" a certain element who are not of our race and who do not contribute anything to our churches, public institutions or to our real economic life. As the administration for cleaner streets in our business district. Stop the tendency to slum our best community. Put our small capitals together and do something practical. A big, well established grocery store on Eighteenth street, run and controlled by negroes, would contribute toward more race salvation than a hundred poverty ridden churches which sap the vitality of the people at least financially. Start a great movement to patronize our press ent enterprises and we will have better business concerns. Put enthusiasm in our business and let us be loyal to ourselves. There are 5,000 suggestions to be carried out, but let us start right. Diamond Operations Machinery and barbed wire have supplanted the crude methods of breaking up diamond-bearing blue earth and protecting the valuable finds employed 20 years ago in the South African diamond mines. The depths of the strange crater shaped holes in which the peculiar diamond-bearing earth is confined are now penetrated by shafts, reaching hundreds of feet down into the earth with 40-foot levels. The broken earth is removed in closed trucks to the surface, where, after a season of exposure to sun and atmosphere, strewn on the ground, it is hauled to the mills. Here pulsators finally locate the diamonds on grease-covered inclined tables, to which the diamonds adhere, while loose sand, earth and gravel are washed away by water. Acres of ground, covered by broken earth brought up from the mines, contain possibly millions of dollars' worth of gems, and these treasure-troves are protected by high fences of barbed wire, with intricate arrangements at the corners and at the gates. About four thousand miles of wire are used in the defenses about the Kimberley mines. a Load of Buckshot. "I see where Doctor Olsen says tuberculosis is not hurtful unless one gets too much of it." "Neither is corrosive sublimate or a young bride's first batch of biscuits." Women's Club Notes Among the Churches The Ladies' Coterie Club will meet with Mrs. Dodson, 1706 45 12th Street Wednesday, November 6. MRS. COMPTON, Pres. MRS. BLACKBURN, Secy. The Clippers Charity Fund has now increased to $148.25. MISS VICTORIA NEWSOM, Pres VICTORIA NEWSOM, FRES. IRVA FRENCH, Scribe, BESSIE JACOBS, Treas. The Relief Workers will meet Sunday afternoon, November 1, at Garrison Square at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Maude Gamble, president; Miss Club's Inez Page, secretary. The City Federation of Women's Clubs meets at Garrison Field House Friday, November 6, at 2 p. m. Program by the Graeco Club. All club members requested to attend to arrange for our tenth anniversary. Mrs. Allene James Walker, age 25, the amiable and accomplished wife of Dr. E. A. Walker, 1420 East Eighteenth street, Kansas City, passed away Sunday, October 18, 1914. at 4 p. m., in Columbus, Miss, near the place of her birth, to which place she had gone, one month previous, in search of health, a change to a milder climate for the winter being advised on account of her lingering illness. Before marriage she was Miss Allene Ambrette James, eldest of the three living children of E. C. and Josie Motley James, well known and wealthy land owners of Bent Oak, Miss. Though frail physically in early life, her ambition was to acquire a liberal education in the pursuit of which she graduated from the following: High school, Columbus, Miss.; Union academy, West Point, Miss.; Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn. Fully realizing the commanding need of her people—education—she began teaching near Bent Oak in the community where she had been reared. Her evenness of mind, rare devotion to duty and a genius for instructing, were her towering qualities in the school room. Six years close application and increased weight of responsibility of instructing, overbalanced her health and she was forced to resign. The numerous appeals to her to remain and regrets for her enforced resignation bear testimony of her brilliant success, and the deep love and respect the people held for her. At Wichita, Kas., 1912, she was a member of the first corps of teachers in the separate schools. Her personality was pleasing; her kind manner dISTINCTive, love was the life of her. Yielding to the noble calling of womanhood, for which her matured judgment coupled with the insistent wooings of her many suitors, convinced her she was prepared, she was hap pily married to Dr. E. A. Walker Christmas eve, 1912, at Wichita, Kas she came at once to Kansas City, her future home. Amidst the new scenes of this cultured city, and in the atm sphere of its refined people, she found the happiness she sought, added to this was nature's greatest gift, motherhood. The two years of matrimony spent in Kansas City she offended referred to as the happiest of her life. But they were the splendor of her eve. Her funeral was held by her friends of early life, and her last remains inferred by those who had nursed her. She leaves to mourn her untimely death her husband and son, E. A. Walker, Jr., of Kansas City; parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. James, a sister, Mrs. Funie Harris; a brother, Peter W. James, all of Bent Oak, Miss, numerous relatives and a legion of friends in all parts of the country. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon, October 19, at Bent Oak, Miss. NO CHANGE IN WAGE SCALE Coal Miners Will Receive Same Pay and Work Same Hours Under New Schedule. No changes in-the wage scale or working hours of the coal miners of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma have been made in the new biennial schedule agreed upon at the last interstate conference of the operators and employees held at Kansas City last May. The old system of arbitration by which a permanent arbitrator, John Steele of Pittsburg, Kan., did all the final deciding, is changed, however. In its place is an arrangement by which each of the three mining districts establishes a joint board of arbitration composed of three miners and three operators. This is considered a more democratic method of settling disputes. The new schedule came up at the interstate convention of mine workers in the Labor Temple at Kansas City recently and was ratified. About 230 delegates representing the local unions in the four states were present. "No changes in the working schedule were made," John P. White, president of the International union, said. "During our conference with the operators last spring we tried principally to get better working conditions for the men. Hereafter each district will have its own arbitration board to handle local disputes." **Finds Doctor Dead.**—The body of Dr. E. P. Walker, 50 years old, for more than thirty years a practicing physician here, was found at 6 o'clock at night in the yard of his home. He had been dead for some time. A neighbor woman first noticed the body. The dead man's wife is said to be out of town on a visit. Foul Ball Kills Farmer—Calvin Grehinger, 55 years old, a farmer living near Sedalia, is dead from an injury received when he was hit on the head by a foul ball while watching a ball game. THE SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Located at Twenty-fourth street and Woodland avenue, will be dedicated Sunday, November I, at 2:30 p. m. The dedicatory sermon will be delivered by Dr. W. H. Bowen of Fulton, Mo. Good music by the choir under the direction of W. B. Countee. Solos will be sung by Miss Saxie English, Miss Margerie Debo of Kentucky, and short talks will be made by W. F. Richardson, Fletcher Cowherd and R. P. Jackson. Prof. G. A. Page will take the offering. Come one and all. You are welcome. The following program will be rendered during the day: Morning service at 11 o'clock. Prelude. Choir—"Praise God," W. B. Countee. Choir—"The Lord's Prayer," W. B. Countee. Choir—"Soldiers of the Lord," W. B. Countee. Scripture reading. Duet and Chorus—"To Dwell With Thee," Ira B. Wilson. Choir—"Holy, Holy, Holy." Sermon. Solo and Chorus—"I am the Way," W. B. Countee. Collection. Doxology—"Glory Be to the Fath- er," W. B. Countee. Afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Prelude. Choir—"Praise God." "The Lord's Prayer"JW. B. Countee. "Come Let Us Sing"—Carrie B. Adams. Scripture reading. Solo—"A Contrite Heart," W. B. Countee. Prayer. Choir—"Holy, Holy, Holy." Sermon. Solo and Chorus—"I Am the Way," W. B. Countee. Collection. Doxology—"Glory Patria," W. B. Countee. Evening service at 8 o'clock. Prelude. Choir—"Praise God," W. B. Countee. "The Lord's Prayer"—W. B. Countee. "Come Let Us Sing"—Carrie B. Adams. Scripture reading. Duet and Chorus—"To Dwell With Thee," Ira B. Wilson. Prayer. Choir—"Soldiers of the Lord," W. B. Countee. Sermon. Solo and Chorus—"I Am the Way," W. B. Countee. Collection. Doxology—"Closing Worship," W. B. Countee. Committee—J. R. Brown, R. P. Jackson, A. J. Lewis, J. T. Watkins, Rev W. A. A. Harris, pastor ALLEN CHAPEL. Last Wednesday night a very appreciative audience greeted Prof. C. Cameron White at Allen chapel when he was never seen at a better advantage. Dr. Wm. H. Thomas, the pastor who has been spending two weeks in Colorado, returned home and preached two sermons last Sunday. An excellent audience was out In the morning and an appreciative one at night. Next Sunday morning the pastor will preach on "The Unknown God." Special music by the choir under direction of Prof. R. G. Jackson. Efforts are being made for a big rally the third Sunday in November. The members are being asked to pledge. An effort is being made to get away from past methods in rallies and each member is asked to give according to his ability. The Ministers' Alliance has adopted a resolution urging each pastor to ask his members to vote NO to the ninth proposition known as the full crew bill. MORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH. The services last Sunday were of very high order. An excellent seremon was delivered by the pastor subject of which was "Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." In the afternoon a long preacher of the church preached from "Let us make man in our own image, after our own likeness." The pastor, at night, then preached another able seremon, subject, "The Lord's Plantation." The rally just closed was very successful, amount raised during the week, $52.09. Total amount, $286.44. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH Last Monday morning services were excellent. Messrs. J. D. Bowser and F. J. Weaver made short talks which were good. Sunday afternoon was the laying of the corner stone. Rev. J. M. Booker presided. Revs. G. T. Mosey and Crutchfield held the stone. Revs. Calloway and Hurse spoke on "Why Corner Stones Should Be Laid by the Ministers." The attendance was good. Next Sunday regular services will be held at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. G. W. Boyd, pastor. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Brother Eli Harris is quite ill. Morning and evening services were well attended last Sunday. wo additions were made. Dr. T. H. Ewong has selected Dr. M. L. Lambricht and Attorney C. H. Calloway to present the prizes to the two clubs, the Canites, of which Brother James Graham King is president, and Queen Sheba, of which Sister Samantha Walker is queen. The latter will receive first prize, having raised the largest amount of money. Our Sunday school can't be beat. All are invited to attend. H. J. Spigner, superintendent. Don't fail to attend the B. Y. P. U. and hear Brother D. A. Ross discuss some of the most important subjects in the Bible. Brother Ross is a great speaker. Come hear him next Sunday evening at 5:30. Amman in no way a weather man Even in the spring the weather man Finds Cure for Epilepsy After Years of Suffering 'My daughter was afflicted with epileptic fits for three years, the attacks coming every few weeks. We employed several doctors but they did her no good. About a year ago we heard of Dr. Miles' Nervine, and it certainly has proved a blessing to our little girl. She is now apparently cured and is enjoying the best of health. It is over a year since she has had a fit. We speak too highly. good. Most year ago we heard of Dr. Miles' Nervine, and it certainly has proved a blessing to our little girl. She is now apparently cured and is enjoying the best of health over a year since she has had a fit. We cannot speak too highly of Dr. Miles' Nervine. MRS. FRANK ANDERSON, Comfrey, Minn. Thousands of children in the United States who are suffering from attacks of epilepsy are a burden and sorrow to their parents, who would give anything to restore health to the sufferers. Dr. Miles' Nervine is one of the best remedies known for this addiction. It has proven beneficial in thousands of cases and those who have used it have the greatest benefit, but a reliable remedy for nervous diseases. You need not besithe to give it a trial. Sold by all Druggists. If the first Sold by all Druggists. If the first bottle fails to benefit your money is returned.® MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. NEVER A PLEASANT FEELING Nervousness May Affect Different People in Different Ways, But It is Never a Welcome Visitor. The mental state of a person suffering from "nerves" is very much like that of a man who is wanted by the police, or who has just heard a rumor that the ship on which his wife and children have sailed has been sunk in a collision, or who has cried "fire" in a theater and been thrown out, and knows his name has been obtained by the reporters. Very often it is a combination of all three, with per haps the added sensation of a man in doubt if he closed the safe before leaving the office. Perhaps some sufferers will disagree with this and say it is not like that at all, but rather like having fallen into a dry well, from which you can hear the voices of people passing near by, but are unable to make yourself heard, or like having accidentally shot your neighbor's only child while cleaning a revolver. The point is that it is distinctly unpleasant. Any bad quarter of an hour that you may have experienced of uneasiness, anxiety, guilt, remorse or mortification will give you a very fair idea of the chronic condition of the so-called neurasthenic. A good nightmare will help. There is nothing about this in the books. There the symptoms are described as "loss of interest," "inability to concentrate," "extreme depression," feeling of numbness in the extremities," etc. In a way this is true; just as it would be true of the men referred to above. The man wanted by the police would take little interest in the shop windows, and the man who thinks the ship has sunk would not get very far with a letter arranging the details of a business reorganization; and as for the man thrown out of the theater, he would probably admit, if brought to it, that he was profoundly depressed. None of these individuals would feel that the books quite did justice to their feelings. And it goes without saying that none of them would respond with enthusiasm if a brisk person came along and said: "What you need is to get your mind off yourself," or. "What you need is plenty of fresh air and exercise." The main thing is that the nervous victim is suffering severe mental distress. He is not simply "out of sorts." —Medical Record. Heard General Sherman Say It. Heard General Sherman Say It. Recently someone who seemed to know issued a denial of the prevalent impression that Gen. W. T. Sherman said "war is hell." J. P. Francis of Nickerson declares he heard General Sherman say it. He writes: "I never understood that General Sherman used the term 'war is hell' in any of his orders or official correspondence, but did use the term in a public address at a soldiers' reunion at Columbus, O., in 1880. The writer was seated near the speaker's stand and recollects the occasion which called the famous expression from the general. General Sherman, in his address, referred to a particular military feat which called (on part of the troops selected to perform the task assigned them) for heroic courage to accomplish the task successfully. And when he closed the narration the militia boys gave a hearty cheer. When the applause subsided the general looked down at the militia and said, 'Boys, you may think war is great sport, but I say, war is hell.'" Driest Spots in America. According to the weather bureau returns one of the driest spots in the United States is in the Fresno district of California. They have had only 34 per cent of the normal rainfall since March 1. The west coast generally has been short of precipitation. Another dry district centers in St. Louis, which has only 32 per cent of normal rainfall. The Ohio valley has had from a half to two-thirds of the usual quota, and there are some very dry spots in the Southwest and the Southeast that have not yet been cleared up. But generally the country is fairly well supplied with moisture for the late summer season. Streams are fairly full and reservoirs are not low as a rule. The distribution is uneven, however, Fort Worth, Texas, has 194 per cent of normal, and Fort Smith, Ark., only 48 per cent. Some portions of Kansas have had three weeks of 100 per cent weather, practically arresting vegetable growth and cutting off the corn crop for anything else but fodder. Neatly Furnished Room—Strictly modern. Six blocks south of the new Union Station. A suite of rooms suitable for men. For information call Home 'phone South 4098. ROOMS FOR RENT—Two first class rooming houses—modern-best location in the city. 813 Charlotte street and 1023 Charlotte street. Rates from $2.00 per week. Geo. W. Little. Prop. Bell phone Main 3910. FOR RENT Four large modern rooms, bath, gas, water paid, Cedar closets, $12.50, worth $15.00. For rent by the owner, 3562 Michigan Avenue. J. Dallas Bowser, 2400 Paseo; Bell phone Grand 3795-W. For Rent—Nearly furnished rooms. Furnace heat. Mrs. L. W. McKeever, 1301 Michigan Ave. 31. For Rent—Modern furnished room for gentleman. Heat furnished. 1013 Tracy Ave. For Rent—Furnished or unfurnished rooms; gas light, steam heat and bath; $1.50 per week and up. 2531 Michigan ave. —31 Furnished and unfurnished rooms in the rear of 21st and Harrison Street Flats, for Light housekeeping if desired. All modern conveniences. Only $1.50 and $1.75 per week. Also rooms in flats. See Kinsler, 918 E. 21st St. Phones, Bell, Grand 2303 R; Home, 6516 Main A NEW NEGRO BUSINESS FOR KANSAS CITY. We extend a cordial invitation to the public to visit our Hat Works, where we are prepared to clean and block hats for 50 cents. We guarantee all work strictly first class. We are prepared to block hats into the latest shapes. Our workmanship is of the highest art. Wishing to thank you in advance for your visit and future orders, we remain, Yours, WESTERN HAT WORKS, * THE ATHENAEUM ART CLUB HALLOWEE'N DANCE. October 30, 1914. At Armory Hall. Cottage and Vine. Admission 25 cents. Office Phone Residence Phone Home, Mail 18 1 Residence Phone 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. C. H. CALLOWAY Attorney at Law Notary Public Admitted to Practice in all State and Federal Courts. 601 Delaware St., Kansas City, Mo. FOR RENT 2635 Woodland, 4 r. 14.00 2636 Holmes, 9 rms. $18.00 916 Green, 9 rms. $18.00 2329 Highland, 3-r. $7.50 2454 Belfortman, 4-mm. $18.00 1807 Belfortman, 6-room partly modern cottage 15.00 2458 Monarch, 6-mm. $18.00 1326 Jabar, 3 r mod. 15.00 1316 E 24th, 6 m mod. 25.00 1316 E 24th, 6 m mod. 25.00 1316 Highland, 5 r. 15.00 1430 Garfield, 3 r. 12.50 1430 Euclid, 3 r. 16.00 1155 Michigan, 4 r. $13.50 1155 Michigan, 4 r. $13.50 1155 Michigan, 6 r gas and water, FOR SALE 1236 Michigan -6-r. modern cot age. $2,660. $200 down. $15 monthly. Near 11th and Michigan—S-r. str. mod. br. slate roof, lot 401x45, worth $5,000. br. slate roof, lot 401x45, worth $5,000. S. W. Corner, lot 401x45, worth $5,000. S. W. Corner, lot 401x45, worth $5,000. modern cottage, $1,900.00; $50.00 down and $14.00 per month. S. W. Corner, $1,900.00; $50.00 down and $14.00 per month. S. W. Corner, $1,900.00; $50.00 down and $14.00 per month. S. W. Corner, $1,900.00; $50.00 down and $14.00 per month. This is a real bargain. Get busy! Aro-American Investment Co. 911 McGEE ST. Phones: - Home 7555 Main; ST, 751 Main The Crosthwait Floral Company The People's say we have made some of the most beautiful and original designs in flowers ever seen in Kansas City. Our Specialty-- "Quick Delivery--Satisfactory Service" Bell Phone East 273 Home Phone Main 9070 1801 E. 48th St., Kansas City, Mo. CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE New and Second Hand Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged Bell Phone East 3851 W 2122 Vine Street WM. HOPKINS, Prop. --- By ORISON SWETT MARDEN. Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndicate N a recent divorce case the judge, in questioning the husband about in questioning the husband about his treatment of his wife, asked whether he was in the habit of making her Christmas or birthday presents, of bringing her flowers, confectionery or other gifts occasionally. "No," the husband replied, "I am sorry to say I never did. I always paid her bills without question, and thought that was all I should do, but I see now I was mistaken, that it did not take the place of my buying things and taking them home to her myself. It was a mistake." Many practical people think that sentiment is a sign of weakness; that such things belong only to silly people. It is a sad day in any married woman's life when she can say: "Dear me, it is not half so much fun to be a wife as it was to be a sweetheart. I do not begin to get the presents, treats and little attentions I used to." It is a great pity when a husband gradually ceases to be attentive in little things; when he neglects to bring home flowers or little gifts to his wife, as he did before marriage. It is a great shock in a woman's life when she begins to realize that romance is dying out; that her husband is always too tired to go anywhere with her in the evening; too busy to take her for a little outing; that his mind is always on his business; that he who was once so generous with her talks poverty, telling her that he cannot afford this or cannot afford that. It does not take a great deal to make the average young woman happy. It is not so much a question of the amount of money spent on her as the little attention, the little courtesies that indicate thoughtfulness and affection. It is the idea that she is in her husband's mind; that he has taken pains to express his affection, to make her happy, that pleases and satisfies her. A judge of large experience says that one of the chief grievances of women who come to him for relief through divorce is that their husbands neglect them and their homes, giving their minds so completely to their business affairs that even when at home they are only surly brushes with whom the angels themselves could not lead happy domestic lives. Men as a rule are so matter of fact. They do not realize what a little romance and sentiment mean to a wife. They seem to think that if a woman has a good home, enough to eat and good clothes to wear she ought to be satisfied; but these things do not feed the most important elements in a wife. The feminine heart is the most difficult thing to nourish. It does not feed upon things, however beautiful. The heart may starve in the midst of luxury, and it may thrive in a hovel where there is not a carpet on the floor or a picture on the wall. There are multitudes of wives in this country today who do not really know the meaning of the word companionship. Their husbands pay their bills, their physical wants are supplied, but their affections are not fed, and their hearts are starving for companionship. This is often the reason why so many wives seek elsewhere the sympathy which their husbands deny them. There must be romance in wedded life, constant expression of affection and appreciation not only on the husband's part, but on the wife's as well, or the most affectionate nature will in time grow indifferent and seek other interests. At a dinner in New York not long ago everybody at the table was obviously attracted to a wonderfully beautiful face belonging to a lady of about twenty-five. She seemed the personification of beauty and charm, grace and poise of character and mind, but the instant she spoke she exhibited such a coarse, repulsive voice, such grossness, and her manner and bad English were so completely out of keeping with her face that the remarkable impression she had made was dispelled. Her symmetrical and attractive face was her only recommendation. Grossness and ignorance back of it disillusioned us all. The most beautiful face in the world will lose its attractiveness the moment we see in the person any suggestion of coarseness or vulgarity, any lack of refinement and culture. Every child ought to be taught that a pleasing personality and a charming manner are of inestimable value to everybody, and especially to a girl. We judge people by the carmarks and signs which they exhibit. Everybody is taken on his manners. No matter what possessions you may have at home all that you have, so far as strangers are concerned, is what you show, what you exhibit in your manner, in your face, in your bearing, your personality. The best of our wealth we always carry with us. The triumph of character and a superb personality are of infinitely greater value than any material possessions, however great. If the impression you make is unfavorable people who meet you will naturally jump to the conclusion that you would not make a very agree Why Araba, Llc It is said by travelers throughout the world that the most universally untruthful people to be met with are the Arabs. All foreigners lie some of the time, but the Arabs lie all the time. Whether this he true or not, the Arabs give this reason for their untruthfulness; When the father of lies came on earth to distribute his goods he had nine bags of lies. He spread one bag of lies throughout Europe, then started for Africa and Asia. He landed in able acquaintance, friend or employee. Splendid ability and many superb traits often starve to death in a woman because she does not overcome the handicap of an offensive manner or disagreeable personal habits. No matter how able, how honest, how industrious she may be, or what splendid qualities she may possess, if a girl does not have an agreeable, an attractive manner, a pleasing personality, she will not attract her friends, and people will avoid her. Employers prefer girls with less ability but with pleasing manners. It is human nature to love sunshine and harmony and we gravitate towards agreeable, sunny, kindly people. Many girls seem to think that fine clothes are a good substitute for a pleasing manner, but the sunny, agreeable, pleasing girl often gets a good position when the girl who dresses much better, but who has a repellent manner, loses it. I have in mind a young girl of splendid ability and exceptionally attractive personality who applied for an important position in a very large concern. There was no vacancy or likely to be any in the position desired, but she made such a profound impression upon the proprietors that they created a new position for her, and paid her a large salary. One of the proprietors afterwards said that he could not afford to let the girl get away from them, for they considered the human element, the personal element, their greatest business asset. The firm in question prides itself on the superior personality of all its employees. It admits that a large percentage of the salaries of many of the workers is paid not purely for ability, but for the desirability and attractiveness of the employee's personality. They value this because an attractive personality has the power to make friends and to draw patrons for the house, and, notwithstanding the fact that they owe their success largely to the exceptional quality of their products and the excellence of service, they say that their large business is due even more to the personality of their employees. The greatest factor in your career is the personal one. Your personality will count more than anything else. Your chief assets are locked up in it. Cute----Rather. The smugging of precious stones into New York is perhaps one of the liveliest of "live" industries in spite of all the efforts of the authorities to stop it. Some of the tricks employed seem to touch the limit of human ingenuity. Perhaps the cleverest trick in this line—cleverest because the simplest—stands to the credit of a Chicago man. He would buy $100,000 worth of diamonds in London or Amsterdam, and hide them behind a panel of the wall of his cabin. On the ship's arrival at New York he would walk calmly ashore, leaving the stones behind him in their hiding-place, but going straight to the booking office and engaging the same cabin for the return voyage. When the time came for the vessel to sail he went on board accompanied by his wife. The lady, of course, must go to inspect her husband's cabin, and when at length the bell rang and the lady walked ashore with the rest of the visitors, her pockets were heavier by the weight of $100,000 worth of diamonds.—London Tit-Bits. Laughter In Supreme Court The Supreme court of the United States is absolutely and indisputably supreme when it comes to solemnity, dreariness and gloom. People do not laugh once a year in that funereal-looking chamber. All you have to do is to set foot inside of it in order to understand that the dispensing of justice is a heavy, ponderous and serious affair. Not long ago, however, Mr. Justice Lurton made the lawyers, the auditors and the other justices laugh right out loud. A lawyer from the South was arguing a case concerning two secret fraternal lodges. "May the court please," said the lawyer heatedly, "the opposing lodge not only got hold of our ritual and used it, but also got our insignia and regalia." "Just a moment," interrupted Judge Lurton. "Did they also get your goat?"—Popular Magazine. Regard for his Mother's Feelings. Jokes about cheap motor cars are as the sands of the sea, but a Kansas City traffic manager believes he has a new one. He met an old friend whom he had not seen for many months, and asked him: "What are you doing now?" "Selling motor cars," was the unenthusiastic reply. "What kind of cars?" "Well, er—the truth is," he stammered, "I am selling —— (deleted) cars, but I'd rather you wouldn't say anything about it. I don't want my mother to know; she thinks I'm a bar tender." Milk Looked Strange A family living in South Chicago found a good deal of cream on a bottle of milk which had been standing over night and when the driver called in the morning the pleased servant held it up to the light and said: "Look here, I have never seen anything like this before on your milk." The man looked at it for a moment, scratched his head and replied: "Well, I don't know what's the matter, but you can throw it out and I'll give you a fresh bottle in its place." Egypt one evening, intending to scatter a bagful over that country and Syria, then, on the following day, go to Asia. While he slept the Arabs (who were accomplished thieves), stole all his remaining bags of lies and distributed them among themselves. Paragon of Wives. "Does your wife write you continually for coin?" "No; she's an excellent bridge player. Bless her little heart, she sent me $10 this month on the rent money." INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director Sunday School Course, Moody Bloch Institution) LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 1 ARREST AND TRIAL OF JESUS. LESSON TEXT-Matt. 26:57-68. Include also, vx. 47-56. GOLDEN TEXT—As a lamb is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.—Isa. 55.7 R. V. The golden text selected for this lesson is apt to convey to us a wrong idea of the closing days of our Lord's life. Jesus did not die as a sheep in the shambles. His was not the death of one slaughtered in weakness. He was "led," that is true; he was "slaughtered" but not until his hour had arrived and he permitted it to be so. His death was a victory, not a defeat. In Gethsemane Jesus made his final dedication of himself to his victorious work of redemption. 1. The Betraying Judas, vv. 47-50. In this hour of consecration Judas enters, guiding the mob into the sacred precincts of our Lord's retreat. It has been suggested that perhaps this act of betrayal was in order to precipitate the Messianic claims of Jesus and compel him to assume an earthly triumph. If so, was not the motive of Judas a selfish one, that he might profit thereby? The baseness of his unholy compact is soon to be revealed to Judas and to the world. The kiss of Judas delivered Jesus into the hands of lawless men according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, Acts 2:23. This furnishes us the background, the atmosphere, in which to consider this, the first of his several trials. Wickedness of Judas. 11. The Blundering Peter, vv. 51:58. (1) Peter and the sword, vv. 51:58. Peter had knowledge and zeal, but used his zeal not according to knowledge. Jesus had warned him, only to receive the assurance that he was mistaken. The words of Jesus here recorded are a calm assurance of the fact that these events are not being controlled by man but by God. The wickedness of Judas is being worked out in the plan of redemption. If fighting were the program, what would Peter's puny sword amount to? For the asking Jesus could command 12 legions of angels, yet even such a force could not be used in human redemption. One man, the God-man, must die. Rom. 5:15. Notice the Master's acceptance of the Scriptures, v. 54. If by the sword he were to escape, how could these be fulfilled? Matthew adds (v. 55) that all of this "come to pass" that the words of the prophets be fulfilled. (2) Peter and the maid, vv. 56:58. That Peter should follow "afar" or at all, is evidence of his affection for Jesus and of his determination to see the end. There was perhaps an element of pride also in his going, for the others had "orsok him and fied." They seem to have realized that his enemies would now surely destroy Jesus and further that he was determined not to accept any deliverance. Let us recall that witnesses against Christ were at a premium that night (vv. 59, 60), and yet Peter did not witness against him, nor is there any suggestion that he was so asked to testify (see notes on Lesson for November 15). III. The Blaiseed, Brutal Judges, vv. 59-68. This is one of earth's most irregular and illegal trials. The priests and the council had one single determination, which was to find Jesus guilty. They did not seek to discover the truth, but rather to carry out the sentence of death previously determined upon. Hence the devilish business of discovering a pretext whereby to carry out their purpose. Finally two are found, vv. 59, 60, willing to "bear false witness" (Ex. 20:16) for the purpose of currying the favor of the rulers. What a spectacle! God's supposed representatives and the leaders of God's chosen people suborning witnesses whereby to condemn an innocent man and to carry out their devilish designs. False Testimony. A careful reading of what Christ really did say and what these witnesses swore that he said, reveals the falseness of their testimony, v. 61, see also John 2:9. "I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days" were not his words. What he did say was, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it up." He spoke these words of himself about those who should destroy him—his body—and claimed the power to raise that body again within three days. Grant, for the sake of argument, that he spoke of the Jerusalem temple and still the testimony is false, as anyone can plainly see. To such lying accusations Jesus "held his peace." There could be no possible change wrought by answering. At this point the high priest did another illegal thing in administering the legal oath, "I adduce thee" (v. 63). Not alone was the time and place of this trial illegal, but so was this act on the part of the high priest. But, that all might once more know the truth. Jesus replied "Thou hast said" and adds, "Henceforth ye shall see the son of man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven" (v. 64). This addition augmented the high priest's anger and gave him argument for the definite accusation of blasphemy, and upon this charge he makes his appeal to the council. They readily voted a verdict of guilty (v. 66). Once declared guilty Jesus is heaped with the basest of indignities (vv. 67, 68). That those in whose possession were the oracles of God and who administered his worship should find it in their hearts to stoop so low as to condemn a man upon known false testimony seems beyond reason (Jer. 17:9 and 26:24). --- AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The majority of Negroes of Texas are engaged in the occupation of farming. Most of them are farming because their fathers farmed before them, they were raised on the farm and know little else, and really little of that. Their woeful ignorance of the science underlying agriculture, of recent discoveries, of the use of modern machinery and the marketing of their crops is appalling. They do not practice home economies because they have not had the opportunity to learn anything about the subject. So these people go on from year to year doing the work of the farm in very much the same way it was done a generation ago. No particular effort has been made to reach these farmers with modern agriculture and home economies. The beauty, independence and importance of the farmer's life have never come to them. They only know the drudgery and wretchedness of it all. Is it surprising that so many are deserting the farms and seeking service in our cities? To those acquainted with conditions surrounding the average Negro farmer and farmhand it is not surprising. There are some conspicuous examples of successful Negro farmers in Texas, but theirs are individual cases, and most of these successes are due to fortunate circumstances and not to any particular effort to promote the general efficiency of the Negro farmers as a class. Articles appearing in the papers from time to time, speaking of Negro prosperity and citing these conspicuous individual successes as examples of what the masses are doing are misleading and really do the Negro farmers, less fortunately situated, great harm, for those in position to help him help himself conclude that the Negro farmer is doing well enough. We are all glad that a few individual Negro farmers are succeeding, but at the same time we are very much concerned about that very large body of toilers of the soil for whom the sun of prosperity has never risen. Honest men everywhere will agree that the only way to eradicate evils, and to make living conditions better, is to tell the truth about them, awaken sentiment, find a remedy and then apply it. The purpose of this letter is to arouse the people of Texas to the importance of making farm life more attractive to the Negro farmer and thus hold him on the farm, and to attract others back to this life from congested conditions of living in Negro sections in our large cities, making all of them useful citizens in their communities and producers of not only enough to supply their own needs but producers of a surplus which may go a long way to increase our food supply and materially reduce the high cost of living. Now somebody please rise and say: "It can't be done—we've tried it." The fact that it has never been tried in Texas in earnest on a sufficiently large scale and well organized effort to result in much good. A few good men of our state are doing the best they can, for example; R. L. Smith of Colorado county and now of Waco has done more than any other single individual for the uplift and improvement of Negro farmers through the medium of his farmers' organization, the Farmers' Improvement society, and an agricultural college at Ladonia Tex., supported by this organization. This society is self-supporting and deserves additional aid for its splendid work. E. L. Blackshear of Prairie Among the surprises that the department of fine arts will give the world when the Panama-Pacific International exposition opens in 1915 will be the presentation of paintings by Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; General R. S. Baden-Powell, warrior, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Engravings by Paul Revere, the famous patriot, will be displayed. If a young man has money to burn any number of anxious mothers try to hand him a match. In New Haven there is exhibited the earliest known skate, roughly fashioned out of the bone of a horse. It is at least seven hundred years old, is about twelve inches in length and was found in an excavation made in the city of London. Be frugal of your common sense; it will some day be above par. The fiber of a plant growing extensively in Argentina has been found to possess qualities similar to the kapok of the Philippines. All Danish passenger steamers and ferry boats on the route between Sweden and Germany will probably soon be equipped with the wireless telephone. Telephone stations will be erected on the coast. As a rule; the money a man doesn't save by remaining a bachelor would be more than enough to support a wife and ten children. He who marries a widow need not hope to be called the best man that ever lived. Old-Fashioned Beauty Sleep Old-fashioned Beauty Sleep. When you go to bed—if you are looking for beauty sleep—you should fall asleep right away. The beauty sleeper, the one who wakes up looking refreshed, will fall asleep the minute her head touches the pillow. She will fall into a slumber, heavy and dreamless, and she will waken in the morning of her own accord. The old-fashioned idea of the beauty sleep was the sleep that comes before 12 o'clock. Every hour passed in sleep before midnight made a woman View college has rendered service that is valuable to the Negro farmer through his Negro Farmers' congress, of which he is founder and president. The agricultural department of the same college, with C. H. Waller at the head, has turned out a number of young colored men who are doing excellent work. But almost all the work done so far has been voluntary, and has not reached the masses through organized effort emanating from some central authority. The state of Texas has never put forth any effort to reach these farmers and increase their efficiency, and yet a large proportion of the productive wealth of Texas is committed to this unskilled labor through the rich lands they control and cultivate—Wade C. Rollins in the Houston Post. The sum of $55,000, appropriated by congress for expenses of the exposition to celebrate the fifthth anniversary of the emancipation of the negro and to show the advancement and achievements of the negro race in education and in the industrial work of the nation, to be held next year, near Richmond, Va., will be turned over by the government to a depository at Richmond, when designated by the governor of Virginia. This fund may then be withdrawn by order of the treasurer of the Negro Historical & Industrial association of Richmond, Va., approved by the governor of the state. The treasurer of the organization will be required to give bond to the Negro Historical & Industrial association, as the governor may direct or approve. No bond will be required by the United States, the disbursement of the fund will not be done under federal supervision, and no accounting to the federal government will be exacted. This outlines the procedure set down by W. W. Warwick, acting controller of the treasury, in response to the inquiry of the secretary of the treasury as to the manner of withdrawal of the fund from the treasury, and as to what bond, if any, the disbursing agent should be required to execute to the United States, and how the money should be accounted for. It is stated in the reference that Giles B. Jackson, president of the negro organization, has given notice of the appointment of a disbursing agent. Acting Controller Warwick points out that the appropriation act provides only for supervision and direction of disbursement of the fund by the government of Virginia. He also cites the precedents, indicating the absence of any responsibility to give bond or to account to the United States for proper disbursement of the appropriation. Shantung can boast of 40 centuries of agricultural activity. It is still an agricultural province with an area of 55,000 square miles—about equivalent to that of the state of Wisconsin—with an estimated population of 30,000,000, and has been forced to a degree of intensive cultivation unknown to the farmers of the United States. All the relatives from the country round were gathered at the home of Frank Taylor, Tomah Wis., for a family party, when the conversation drifted to Albert Taylor, who as a boy of fifteen ran away in 1884 to join a circus and had not been heard of since. While they were talking the door opened and Albert walked in. If a woman still laughs at her husband's jokes five years after the wedding bells have jingled the divorce lawyers get discouraged. M. A. Johnson of Rockland, Me., has a pair of rubber boots which he bought in 1883. The boots were worn on a farm at intervals for six years, and have since been worn on many hunting and fishing trips. They are still sound and dry. Of the emigrants leaving Ireland during the year 7 per cent were destined for the United States and 21½ per cent for Canada. From the province of Ulster there were 12,392 immigrants, or 40 per cent of the total. There was launched at Port Arthur recently the largest steamer on the Great Lakes, having a capacity of 585,000 bushels or 12,000 tons of oats. Tinplate imports into the United States fell from 125,000,000 pounds in 1902 to 4,500,000 pounds in 1912, while the quantity exported increased from 3,500,000 pounds in 1902 to 183,000,000 pounds in 1912. Attending the same school for 13 years without being absent or tardy is the remarkable record of John Pugh, nineteen years old, who has just graduated from the Deepwater (Mo.) High school as the only boy in the class. Success may not depend so much upon what you do yourself as upon what you can jolly others into doing for you. Many a woman acts rather stiffly after her first tango lesson. younger, according to the old-fashioned idea of the beauty sleep. After 12 the sleep is heavy and not so good for the nerves, being less invigorating and less strengthening. According to a certain specialist, "sleep after 12 is the sleep of exhaustion." All Women Are Observing All Women Are Observing. The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading—Rous seau. An Isle in Sea of War SWITZERLAND is unique among nations. It has no proper physical unity, and its political unity is the unforeseen outcome of events which occurred more serve for short periods at stated intervals. In this way every man in the country is made a good soldier without seriously interfering with his occupation. A powerful fighting force than six hundred years ago. It is prosperous beyond other Continental countries, and its principal cities are undefended. Yet today Switzerland lies a cool oasis of peace in the midst of a burning, glaring desert of war. Because of its small size and its lack of seacoast, the Swiss Republic has never held an important place in the ranks of the powers. However, the little country is one of the oldest in existence, and has come safely through more than six centuries of European conflicts with no lasting injury, but considerable increase of territory. Since the time when the map of Europe was adjusted as it was before the present war the four nations surrounding Switzerland have all cherished hopes of some day adding it to their territory, but none of them has dared to try it. Many Swiss fear that this war will put some nation in a position to threaten their sacred liberty. The independence and neutrality of Switzerland are guaranteed by the powers of Europe, just as in the case of Belgium. It is her position alone which has thus far prevented an invasion by the kaiser. It is too far from Paris to Switzerland for the use of the present German campaign. Strictly Neutral. A German army could march up the valley of the Rhine into Switzerland, then follow the River Aar to the southwest and reach the tableland north east of Lake Geneva. From that region it could move past the south end of Lake Neuchatel and enter France. No inaccessible passes or difficult country would be met with on this COLLEZIONE MONTAGNE CASINO course and there are no fortifications of importance. Furthermore, France would be entered at a point where her defenses are not strong. This way is three times as far to Paris as through Belgium. Hence Belgium suffers. It is the opinion of Swiss officers that Germany will not undertake to send an army over this route. While Switzerland is maintaining a strict neutrality and hopes to avoid any part in the hostilities, public sentiment probably favors the allies. In 21 of the 22 cantons German and French are spoken by about equal numbers, while in one southern canton Italian is the chief language. All three are used in the federal parliament and proclamations and laws are published in them. But the inhabitants are Swiss before anything else, and any attempt to violate the neutrality of the country will meet with instant resistance. tons and divisions final ones under Everlasting league of this organ two centuries war Hapsburg and Rights as land nized, but any calmly ingored, enforced success Hapsburg forms claims. At that time it lack of unity in the wide difference bers. It was reg union for defense of the Hapsburg followed by the during the course land was attacked gave the people and a feeling of Pressure was rene Although there is a provision in the Swiss constitution prohibiting a standing army, the country actually has a large and most efficient body of soldiers. It numbers well over two hundred thousand men. Its equipment is the best. Although nominally a militia body because of the constitutional provision, it is actually a federal army. These soldiers do not serve continuously, and there is no such thing as an enlistment for a term of years. Instead, all male citizens between fixed ages are members of the militia and He "Knows Manners" In Washington they are telling a good story on one of the newest Western congressmen. Almost as soon as he deposited his carpetbag in the nation's capital he went out and purchased a "Handbook of Etiquette" and began to study it diligently. So he was quite prepared for any emergency when a member of the French embassy came to call upon him. "First calls," said the handbook, "should be returned immediately." When the Frenchman started to go his host accompanied him to the front door, where he donned his hat. "Ah," said the departing guest, "Monsieur is going out, n'est-ce pas? Is it zat you go to make ze little promenade?" The congressman smiled with conscious pride. "Why, no, sir," he ejaculated firmly. "You foreigners aren't the only ones that knows manners. I am going home with you, sir, to return your call, sir." Mleunderstanding Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, told, apropos of our teetotal Beet, a sailor story. serve for short periods at stated intervals. In this way every man in the country is made a good soldier without seriously interfering with his occupation. A powerful fighting force can be put in the field in a few days. Another advantage of the system is the low cost. By keeping only a small force in active service the Swiss maintain what is generally regarded as a thoroughly satisfactory military force for the low rate of about twelve francs per capita per annum. When the small population is considered this appears remarkable. With the situation in Europe as it is, Switzerland appears to be fairly safe just now. Her greatest danger will be after the war, especially if Germany should win. How Republic Was Formed. How Republic was Formed. It was the house of Hapsburg, whose troubles started the terrible conflict now raging, which was directly responsible for the foundling of the Helvetian Republic. The Hapsburg were a family whose power was rapidly growing. By the middle of the thirteenth century they were in control of Austrian politics. They were large land owners in the region which is now the heart of Switzerland, and they claimed feudal rights over the inhabitants. These mountaineers refused to submit to Hapsburg rule. On August 1, 1291, the men of the three forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden met and formed the "Everlasting League" for the purpose of resisting the Hapsburg. That house attempted to make war on the members of the alliance, but was completely routed in one battle a few weeks after the compact had been made. The three cantons were aided by four adjoining districts in their first fight. From that time on other can- COLLEZIONE DI SAN MARCO tons and divisions joined with the original ones under the terms of the Everlasting league. The main occupation of this organization for the next two centuries was getting rid of the Hapsburg and Austrian influences. Rights as land owners were recognized, but any feudal claims were calmly ingored, and were at no time enforced successfully. In 1474 the Hapsburgs formally gave up their claims. At that time there was a decided lack of unity in the federation, due to the wide differences between its members. It was regarded by them as a union for defense only. The retirement of the Hapsburgs was immediately followed by the Burgundian war, during the course of which Switzerland was attacked as a nation. This gave the people a national spirit and a feeling of oneness of purpose. Pressure was renewed on Austria, the only kingdom which had any claim to sovereignty over the Swiss, and in 1499 that country recognized the independence of the Swiss nation. For the next three centuries internal troubles caused by religious differences prevented any important progress. The party which contended for renouncing the authority of the pope and the separation of church and state was successful, and on March 29, 1798, a new league was formed, which was referred to as "The Helvetic Republic, one and indivisible." "A sailor," he said, "a sailor in the old, unregenerate days, was entering a beer saloon when one of his superior officers tapped him reproachfully on the shoulder. "The sailor, are the little yellow flap doors of the saloon closed on him, turned and said hurriedly to the officer: 'Can't—I only got a nickel.' 'And the beer saloon instantly swallowed him up.' Baseball Manager—Consider yourself unconditionally released. Maybe you can sign up with a circus. The Bonehead (warmly)—What dye mean—I'm a freak? Baseball Manager—Of course not. But the circus I have in mind has an elephant ball team—Puck. Alcohol From Nipa Palm. The Philippine islands produce approximately 10,000,000 gallons of alcohol yearly. Almost all of this is made from the sap of the nipa palm that grows in great abundance in various swamps of the country. WHAT JACK FOUND By VICTOR REDCLIFFE. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) "Stop that man!" The ne'er-do-well of the town, Jack Hazeldean, put down a side alley with half a dozen men, women and children in hot pursuit, the watchman's rattle crackling out its hideous notes of alarm. It was no unusual thing for Jack to create a commotion. The storekeepers did not move from their doorways, but looked upon the stirring spectacle as a bit of fun and frolic, all except one. This was a greengrocer into whose tub of eggs Jack had mischievously tipped a lurching inebriate. "Hold on!" ordered a stern voice as Jack, his pursuers eluded, darted across a garden space making for the open country and security. Jack recognized the minister of the church his uncle regularly, and he occasionally attended. He looked abashed but made a detour of the muscular outstretched hand. "You'll end at the gallows!" the disconfited divine roared after the recalcitrant. "I'm sorry now," confessed Jack, plunging into the woods. "That's too late to think of, though. Uncle said it was a parting of the ways last frolic. This shuts me out, sure." Jack had an abundance of time in which to think, for slowing down he planned out a march of over twenty-five miles. That would take him out of the county. He had no intention of going back home. He was twenty-two, long past school days, but two VAN GOGH "Stranger, Aren't You?" years he had simply hung around, made a failure of everything his uncle put him at and was a sad dog generally and a sad failure. His impetuous freaks were always getting him into trouble. He could not resist the promptings of mischief, and these were fertile in his case. Many a bill for his reckless fun his surly sordid uncle had paid for in good Canadian coin. "I'll mend it all," resolved Jack. "I'll strike out into new fields. Sure, I have been a disgrace to uncle and no credit to the town, so me for strange faces and a fresh start in life." Jack trudged on the long night through, reflected and sobered down. As all nature woke up with the early dawn he seemed to feel a new life stirring within him. As he passed along more of a path than a road, he became conscious of the echo of a pained grumbling voice. Peering through a hedge he saw an old man standing in the center of a little copse. His hand was on one hip, as if to suppress some vagrant ache. His foot rested on a spade. He had apparently dug up a few shovels full of earth and his strength had failed him. "I can't do it!" he groaned in a whining tone," I can't risk asking the crew about me to help me. What shall I do?" Always ready and accommodating, Jack brushed past the hedge. "Hello, old man," he hailed briskly. "What's the trouble now?" The old man started and stared. He looked suspicious and embarrassed. "Nothing," he replied dubiously. "Stranger, aren't you?" "In these parts, yes," said Jack. "You see," the selfish faced old man remarked, "I want to dig a hole to bury a pet dog of mine. Getting old, ah, me! too old to work." "Let me help you." So Jack went hastily at work. He dug the hole as ordered. "What shall I pay you? inquired his companion. "Why, nothing," replied Jack. "If you could give me work, though—" "Eh?" retorted the other, calculatingly studying Jack. "Would you work cheap?" "For anything to keep out of mischief, yes," declared Jack. "All right," said the old man. "Keep down the road till you come to the first house. I live there. I'm Abel Drake. You wait till I come and I'll set you at work. I've left my dog back in the woods, but I'll attend to him myself." "I see," nodded Jack, thinking all this passing strange, but following orders. He came to a small starved looking farm with a wretched old house on it. As he entered its yard a girl came from its stables carrying a pail of milk. She looked askance at Jack who lifted his cap, overcome with her rare beauty. "Im waiting for Mr. Drake," he explained awkwardly. "He's going to hire me to work for him." The girl half smiled as she regarded his white hands and respectable nuttle. Then she invited him to a seat on the porch and went about her household duties. It seemed to Jack as though his TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL KNOWS EIGHT TONGUES ROBERT H. MOULTON ```markdown ``` SHE IS A CLEVER DANCER O AMAZING have been the intellectual achievements of Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., a ten-year-old Pittsburgh girl that investigates persuaded her mother and chief teacher, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, to write the whole story of the child's education in a book. This unusual little girl is already prepared for college, in addition to studying astronomy and some other branches. She speaks eight languages; she can recite a thousand poems and she has written nearly five hundred poems and singles herself. studying astronomy and some other bach speaks eight languages; she can recite poems and she has written nearly 12 poems and jingles herself. Winifred plays the piano well. Winifred except the game of "making up songs" she can read over a page of Schubert close the book and play it accurately a expression. She can also hear a diff played and so keen is her concentrically sit down at the piano. Winifred draws well and paints admirer Browning, one would imagine she know which to choose for her life art or writing, but she is very decided she expects to do. Winifred is going buy and be the editor of a great zine. In tracing Winifred's development cally it may be said that she: Used pysyllables in conversation of one year; read at the age of sixteen wrote her own name on hotel register gan keeping a diary at the age of two the musical notes and played simple piano and amazed adepts at spelling learned the Latin declensions and c as singing exercises and received a Esperanto at four; wrote stories and the newspapers, spoke eight languages Mother Goose rhymes into Esperanto the waltz, two-step and three-step at the outlines of the Roman, Greek and Sythmologies at seven; composed a poem and locating all the bones in the human eight; was elected president of Peace League of America at ten. How can readers account for the Winifred is a perfectely normal, happy living, singing, loving and lovable, gary she is giving the freedom of the art and teaching to whistle and to whistle to all the music that she whistles? We a hundred dolls. As fast as she learns she imparts it to her dolls and perennially devoted to sports. She sw plays ball,舞es and physically she as she is mentally. Her little muscles as armor balls. She is as large as a twelve-year-old girl and can walk five out the least fatigue. Winifred's father is a colonel and at the Marine hospital service of the Un Now he is stationed at Pittsburgh. Winifred undoubtedly gets her splendence, and she is a perfectly well chap practical, like her father, and possesses mother's love of art and music and writing. No less remarkable is the little girl Mrs. Stoner in her book, "Natural seems to find nothing in little Winifred opment that might not be attained in a naturally bright child. If this is conceived sake of argument, it would have to be that very, very few children would have vantages of the extraordinary clever born teacher, such as Winifred's. In Stoner has employed methods peculiar. It might be said that Mrs. Stoner has years of constant labor to the educa daughter, labor that was not merely c that was intelligent and imaginative. For the whole secret of Winifred's life been the play spirit. Whatever she Winifred plays the piano well. With no lessons, except the game of "making up stories on the piano," she can read over a page of Schubert's "Serenade," close the book and play it accurately and with much expression. She can also hear a difficult selection played and so keen is her concentration she can immediately sit down at the piano and play it. Winifred draws well and paints admirably. Like Brownning, one would imagine she will hardly know which to choose for her life work, music, art or writing, but she is very decided as to what she expects to do. Winifred is going to earn and buy and be the editor of a great children's magazine. In tracing Winifred's development chronologically it may be said that she: Used polysyllables in conversation at the age of one year; read at the age of sixteen months; wrote her own name on hotel registers and began keeping a diary at the age of two; learned the musical notes and played simple airs on the piano and amazed adepts at spelling at three; learned the Latin declensions and conjugations as singing exercises and received a diploma in Esperanto at four; wrote stories and jingles for the newspapers, spoke eight languages, translated Mother Goose rhymes into Esperanto, learned the waltz, two-step and three-step at five; learned the outlines of Greek, Roman and Scandinavian mythologies at seven; composed a poem naming and locating all the bones in the human body at eight; and was elected president of the Junior Peace League of America at ten. How can readers account for the fact that Winifred is a perfectly normal, happy child, romping, singing, loving and lovable, gay as the canary she is giving the freedom of the entire house and teaching to whistle and to keep perfect time to all the music that she whistles? Winifred has a hundred dolls. As fast as she learns anything she imparts it to her dolls and pets. She is ardently devoted to sports. She swims, races, plays ball, dances and physically she is as well as she is mentally. Her little muscles are strong as armor bolts. She is as large as an ordinary twelve-year-old girl and can walk five miles without the least fatigue. Winifred's father is a colonel and a surgeon in the Marine hospital service of the United States. Now he is stationed at Pittsburgh. From him Winifred undoubtedly gets her splendid physical care, and she is a perfectly well child. She is practical, like her father, and possesses all her mother's love of art and music and the gift of writing. No less remarkable is the little girl's mother. Mrs. Stoner in her book, "Natural Education," seems to find nothing in little Winfred's development that might not be attained in any healthy, naturally bright child. If this is conceded for the sake of argument, it would have to be admitted that very, very few children would have the advantages of the extraordinary cleverness of a born teacher, such as Winfred's. In fact, Mrs. Stoner has employed methods peculiarly her own. It might be said that Mrs. Stoner has given ten years of constant labor to the education of her daughter, labor that was not merely constant, but that was intelligent and imaginative as well. For the whole secret of Winfred's learning has been the play spirit. Whatever she was taught, Brilliant Piece of Headwork Procured Steak Portion of Ple for Hungry Brothers. "War," said Major Jansen, "war is like the steak and potato pie." "The steak and potato pie?" mur- mured a mystified lady. "War," said Major Jansen, "goes on for awhile all in one party's favor; then comes a stroke of brilliant strategy, and the tables are turned. weary walk and the absence of sleep had made him light headed, for the sweet face he had seen seemed floating all about him. He was half asleep when Abel Drake came along. Jack was hired. It was hard work, but the labor had its compensation. The presence of Myrtle Drake, the granddaughter of the old man, lured him to stay. He felt himself bewitched by a pleasant lasting new influence. At the end of a month Jack received his sparse wages. He calculated the value of the broken eggs and sent the amount by letter to the green-grocer. He felt the better for it, an honest act, and soul elevating he found it. There came a letter from his uncle shortly afterwards. I read: "I have learned where you are and of your honorable act in paying for the mischief you wrought. Come home. I forgive you." But Jack could not leave Myrtle. Then one day the old man died. He had apparently left nothing but the old farm. Myrtle sadly spoke of going to live with some relatives at a distance. Jack was uneasy, irresolute. He wandered about, thinking, to come across his uncle in the nearby town. "I've come after you," he advised. "I want you to return home and settle down respectably. I've picked out a rich wife for you-" "I'm looking for a poor one," interrupted Jack in his masterful way, and told about Myrtle. Then the old man turned his back on him and told Jack never again to show his renegade face in his sight. Jack went back to the farm, a mighty resolve working in his mind. He found Myrtle packing up to leave. "Sit down with me," he said, "I've a story to tell you," and he told her all. Myrtle looked at him with wondering eyes. "You will not return to your uncle—to wealth, position?" she said. "Not I," answered Jack sturdily. "I if I had my way, I would stay here forever," said Jack. "But that cannot be without you. And you, who have taught me how to be a man—would you think of marrying a ne'er-do-well?" "No longer that," she said plainly. "If you love me, Jack, I would feel it an honor to be your wife." And later came love's reward, for one day passing the spot where he had first met old Abel Drake, Jack took a fancy to investigate the covered-up hole. And in it, within a leather bound box he found the fortune the old man had buried, and had then feared to tell his favorite relative, Myrtle, where he had secreted it. CRUELTY IN ANIMAL WORLD That Sick and Ailing Are Invariably Put to Death by Their Comrades Is Well Known. Many pretty tales are told in children's story books regarding the kindness of animals to each other, but probably most of these are nothing more than the products of the imagination, for there is very little kindness shown in the animal world when one of their number is sick. Wild birds and animals give no quarter to a weak or sickly comrade. This fact probably accounts for the mystery of never seeing a dead wild bird or animal, for immediately one falls sick it is done to death, and buried, no one knows where. The weakling dragging after a herd or flock is quickly put out of its misery, not for humane reasons, but for fear of the latter being revealed to a common foe. Nor are tame animals and 'birds less guilty in this respect. Healthy birds in an aviary will bully an aling bird shamefully. A sickly hen in a poultry yard has a miserable time, and even cats which have been brought up together will "round on" one of their number if it falls sick. No satisfactory explanation has yet been given to account for this displelar characteristic in birds and animals. It has been suggested that they are governed by that apparently cruel law, "the survival of the fittest." More likely is it that instinct guides them in this respect, for the good of the race, so that sickly young may not be reared from sickly parents or maybe, a limited food supply renders the removal of the useless desirable. Better Excuse Than Some Lawyers. On the first day of enrollment at the University of Kansas a freshman happened to get the wrong blank He wanted to enroll in the college and filled out a blank for the law school. After waiting in line for four hours he finally reached his adviser. "Do you want to take a course in law?" asked the professor. "I should say not. I want straight college." "Well, then; you'll have to fill out a new blank and start down the line again." The unsophisticated one looked down the long string of waiters and then tacfully replied: "Make her out for the law school. I'm gonna get out here." Slightly Mixed. Here is a schoolroom story, told us by a Michigan health supervisor: "We were raising funds for paying for operations for removal of the adenoids and tonsils. The school children were much interested and canvassed the town selling stamps. At one home where a little boy called to sell stamps the lady asked: 'What are you going to do with the money?' The little boy quickly replied: 'It is to buy adenoids for little children that haven't got none.'"—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Record Swims. Capt. Alfred Browne, commodore of the Flushing Bay division of the American Life-Saving society, swam from the battery to Sandy Hook, 22 miles, in 13 hours and 38 minutes. This was done on August 28, 1913. On September 14 Samuel Richards of Boston swam the same distance in 8 hours and 12 minutes. Many previous atempts had been made, but proved to be failures on account of the strength of the tides—New York Times O AMAZING have been the intercultural achievements of Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr., a ten-year-old Pittsburgh girl, that investigators persuaded her mother and chief teacher, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, to write the whole story of the child's education in a book. This unusual little girl is already prepared for college, in addition to economy and some other branches. She languages; she can recite a thousand she has written nearly five hundred angles herself. lays the piano well. With no lessons, one of "making up stories on the piano," over a page of Schubert's "Serenade" and play it accurately and with much. She can also hear a difficult selection so keen is her concentration she can sit down at the piano and play it was well and paints admirably. Like she would imagine she will hardly to choose for her life work, music, but she is very decided as to what to do. Winifred is going to earn and the editor of a great children's maga. Winifred's development chronologi-ble said that she: syllables in conversation at the age read at the age of sixteen months; own name on hotel registers and be a diary at the age of two; learned notes and played simple airs on the mazed adepts at spelling at three; Latin declensions and conjugations exercises and received a diploma in four; wrote stories and jingles for hers, spoke eight languages, translated she rhymes in Esperanto, learned to step and three-step at five; learned of Greek, Roman and Scandinavian for seven; composed a poem naming all the bones in the human body at was elected president of the Junior e of America at ten. The readers account of the fact that perfectly normal, happy child, romping and lovable, gay as the cavalying the freedom of the entire house to whistle and to keep perfect time music that she whistles? Winifred has lots. As fast as she learns anything it to her dolls and pets. She is noted to sports. She swims, races,ances and physically she is as well totally. Her little muscles are strong fits. She is as large as an ordinary old girl and can walk five miles with fatigue. Father is a colonel and a surgeon in hospital service of the United States. stationed at Pittsburgh. From him doubtedly get her splendid physical life is a perfectly well child. One is her father, and possesses all her life of art and music and the gift of remarkable is the little girl's mother. in her book, "Natural Education," and nothing in little Winifred's devel-ight not be attained in any healthy, right child. If this is conceded for the moment, it would have to be admitted very few children would have the ad-vent of the extraordinary cleverness of a girl, such as Winifred's. In fact, Mrs. employed methods peculiarly her own. she said that Mrs. Stoner has given ten instant labor to the education of heroor that was not merely constant, but intelligent and imaginative as well. she secret of Winifred's learning has my spirit. Whatever she was taught, --- as to what earn and men's maga chronologi- but the age in months; and be- bers; learned girls on the at three; and injugations diploma in singles for translated o, learned o; learned andindian son naming on body at the Junior fact that child, romp as the ca- tainfeire house perfect time unifred has as anything s. She is mrs. races, is as well are strong in ordinary mills with surgeon in United States. From him old physical d. Loe is sees all her the gift of his mother. Education," red's devel- lency healthy, dled for the oe admitted the ave- dness of a fact, Mrs. her own is given ten lad of her constant, but as well learning has was taught, In explaining her sys- out with the assumption with a distinctive tenden- will always bear fruit, vated in babyhood. It is cover this in infancy and as much as to keep its it has the proper food. begins before birth and duty of keeping herself both mentally and phys- not have to start out w first day. Not being able to sit the lines from Virgil's A sleep and taught the c the same. She declares soothing and that she child yield to the somm virumque cano. Trollea o When Winifred was s been reciting selection. The baby's favorite s "Crossing the Bar," and the Bridge." By the old she could scan the first ten lines of invented a game in wh o to the baby and say "roll it back and say "Vi the Latin words and a baby's memory. From the very begin carry her baby about the tables, etc., and pronoun She found it was just as say "train" as to say "c easy to teach her to say She surrounded the ba To teach her colors Mrs. of various tinted yarn was "Mother Red," and Green," and they would their children, those of ing the bables of "Mother Winifred's first toy was tied to her wrist Each day thereafter would be a balloon of until the child speedily balloon was light, round up and come down. She hear anything but the mother was not finicky s slang. As soon as the child lish reasonably well her Spanish. By the t learned to express her Mrs. Stoner declares, he over again she would Thus, I repeat, war resembles the steak and potato pie which furnished the Sunday dinner of two brother boarders in Tioga. "The two brothers, Tom and Sam, boarded with a mean-minded couple who made their steak and potato pie with all the steak on one side and the potatoes all on the other. This couple sat, of course, on the steak side of the table; the brothers sat on the potato side; and so it came about that every Sunday the hosts got all the meat, while the guests got the potatoes only. WINE RED AND SOME OF HER PETS RIDING HER DUTRO MRS. STONER AND WILLIAM it came to her not as toil but as play. She lived in a land of fairies and giants and gnomes. In explaining her system, Mrs. Stoner starts out with the assumption that every child is born with a distinctive tendency or talent and that this will always bear fruit, if discovered and cultivated in babyhood. It is the mother's part to discover this in infancy and to try to develop it just as much as to keep its body clean and see that it has the proper food. The mother's obligation begins before birth and imposes upon her the duty of keeping herself so healthy and serene, both mentally and physically, that the baby will not have to start out with handicaps on its very first day. Not being able to sing, Mrs. Stoner chanted the lines from Virgil's Aeneid to put the baby to sleep and taught the child's negro nurse to do the same. She declares that the meter is very soothing and that she has seen many another child yield to the somnolent influence of "Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris." When Winifred was six weeks old her mother began reciting selections from the English poets. The baby's favorites seemed to be Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar," and Macaulay's "Horatius at the Bridge." By the time Winifred was a year old she could repeat "Crossing the Bar" and scan the first ten lines of the Aeneid. The mother invented a game in which she would roll a ball to the baby and say "Arma." Winifred would roll it back and say "Virumque," and in this way the Latin words and meter were fixed in the baby's memory. From the very beginning the mother would carry her baby about the house, point out chairs, tables, etc., and pronounce their names carefully. She found it was just as easy to teach the baby to say "train" as to say "choo-choo car," and just as easy to teach her to say "dog" as to say "doggie." She surrounded the baby with colored pictures. To teach her colors Mrs. Stoner would take a box of various tinted yarns. She would play she was "Mother Red," and baby would be "Mother Green," and they would look into the yarn for their children, those of green tins, of course, be ing the bables of "Mother Green." Winifred's first toy was a red balloon, which was tied to her wrist where she could admire it Each day thereafter for several weeks there would be a balloon of different color and shape until the child speedily came to know whether a balloon was light, round, red, green and would go up and come down. She was never permitted to hear anything but the best English, although the mother was not finicky about vigorous, expressive slang. As soon as the child had learned to speak English reasonably well her mother began teaching her Spanish. By the time she was five she had learned to express herself in eight languages Mrs. Stoner declares, however, if she had it to do over again she would teach Esperanto first. In explaining her system, Mrs. Stoner starts out with the assumption that every child is born with a distinctive tendency or talent and that this will always bear fruit, if discovered and cultivated in babyhood. It is the mother's part to discover this in infancy and to try to develop it just as much as to keep its body clean and see that it has the proper food. The mother's obligation begins before birth and imposes upon her the duty of keeping herself so healthy and serene, both mentally and physically, that the baby will not have to start out with handicaps on its very first day. Not being able to sing, Mrs. Stoner chanted the lines from Virgil's Aeneid to put the baby to sleep and taught the child's negro nurse to do the same. She declares that the meter is very soothing and that she has seen many another child yield to the somnolent influence of "Arma virumque cano. Troiese out primus ab oris." When Winifred was six weeks old her mother began reciting selections from the English poets. The baby's favorites seemed to be Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar," and Macaulay's "Horatius at the Bridge." By the time Winifred was a year old she could repeat "Crossing the Bar" and scan the first ten lines of the Aenid. The mother invented a game in which she would roll a ball to the baby and say "Arma." Winifred would roll it back and say "Virumque," and in this way the Latin words and meter were fixed in the baby's memory. From the very beginning the mother would carry her baby about the house, point out chairs, tables, etc., and pronounce their names carefully. She found it was just as easy to teach the baby to say "train" as to say "choo-choo car," and just as easy to teach her to say "dog" as to say "doggie." She surrounded her baby with colored pictures. To teach her colors Mrs. Stoner would take a box of variously tinted yarns. She would play she was "Mother Red," and baby would be "Mother Green," and they would look into the yarn for their children, those of green tints, of course, being the bables of "Mother Green." Winfred's first toy was a red balloon, which was tied to her wrist where she could admire it. Each day thereafter for several weeks there would be a balloon of different color and shape, until the child speedily came to know whether a balloon was light, round, red, green and would go up and come down. She was never permitted to hear anything but the best English, although the mother was not finicky about vigorous, expressive slang. As soon as the child had learned to speak English reasonably well her mother began teaching her Spanish. By the time she was five she had learned to express herself in eight languages. Mrs. Stoner declares, however, if she had to do over again, she would teach Esperanto first --- hem, Mrs. Stoner starts that every child is born by or talent and that this if discovered and culti the mother's part to dis- try to develop it just body clean and see that The mother's obligation upon her the so healthy and serene, cally, that the baby will with handicaps on its very g. Mrs. Stoner chanted toenel to put the baby to kid's negro nurse to do that the meter is very has seen many another client influence of "Arma primus ab oris." six weeks old her mother from the English poets, seemed to be Tennyson's Macaulay's "Horatius at one Winifred was a year Crossing the Bar" and the Aeneld. The mother she would roll a ball Arma." Winifred would humue, and in this way meter were fixed in the ming the mother would house, point out chairs, see their names carefully, easy to teach the baby tooo-choo car," and just as "dog" as to say "doggie." y with colored pictures. Stoner would take a box. She would play she baby would be "Mother look into the yarn for green tints, of course, beer Green." as a red balloon, which there she could admire it. or several weeks there different color and shape, came to know whether a red, green and would go was never permitted to visit English, although the about vigorous, expressive had learned to speak Eng- mother began teaching one she was five she had in five languages. never, if she had it to do teach Esperanto first. with small the spots, they used all the spi played all simple add subtraction diers and n would topp Winifred w standing w Cancellation ing the nur and the oer were any get result learned the of coins a going to me weights an drug And so it at last the doings of Winifred physical put Fairty Tail low and w Pear. If s task, that be taken a soon learn own unpled havior me permitted of fatigue A strikc as well as tual bins, i bee. In he she picke followed, described i One day I And as I nose My nose a po So daddy like And now, take And when bum Like her suffrage. half of equ published Her "Valde clever and "At last Tom said to Sam one Sunday morning: "Look here, Sam, no matter what I say to you at dinner today, don't take offense, will you! "No, Tom, of course not. "Well, dinner time came; the pie, steaming hot, was set as usual on the table; the wily host and hostess took their places on the steak side, and the hungry boarders fell as usual into chairs opposite the potatoes. "But, then, just as the boarding mistress was about to thrust carving nifred had failed to get any sort of grasp on the object, she says, until the mother was in despair, bring the child's mind might be lopsided. At a tautauqua meeting in New York, however, the other met Prof. A. R. Hornbrook, a woman mathematics teacher, who soon put her on the right track. Professor Hornbrook explained that Mrs. Stoner I been successful in teaching music, art, poetry, story and languages because she herself loved see studies and had failed to teach mathematics cause she had not brought the "fairy interest" into She volunteered to send weekly outlines of work. ich Mrs. Stoner was to employ according to her ideas. Mother and child then began playing games with all objects, such as beans and buttons. These objects would be placed in a box and they would be turns drawing them out, to see which could the most at a single grab. When helping the maid shell peas they would try to see how many peas there were in two or more pods. In this way rudimentary lessons in addition were taught. To make greater progress they played parceles with small dice and got practice from adding up the spots. First they used two dice, but finally they used five and Winifred was soon able to add all the spots without conscious effort. They played all sorts of games which would require simple addition and multiplication. In learning subtraction, they would have battles with tin soldiers and marbles, and whenever a "cannon shot" would topple over a given number of soldiers. Winifred was able to decide how many left standing without stopping to count. Cancellation became a battle, one of them playing the numbers on one side of the dividing line and the other playing the other. There never were any quizzes, because Winifred was taught to get results and was not rule. She learned the values of money by the actual use of coins and the values of market products by going to market herself. To learn pharmacist's weights and measures, Winifred played at keeping drug store and sold things to her mother. And it went through the whole subject, until at last the girl became fascinated with the funny doings of Mr. X and got interested in algebra. Winifred never suffered the humiliation of physical punishment. When she did well, the good Fairy Titania would hide goodies under her pail and when she was bad the fairy failed to appear. If she was ten minutes tardy about some task, that meant ten minutes lost which had to be taken out of her next recreation time. She soon learned that offenses could bring about their own unpleasant consequences, while good behavior meant tangible reward. She was never permitted to stay at a single task when the point of fatigue had arrived. A striking instance of Mrs. Stoner's methods, as well as an illustration of the child's intellectual bias, is the story of Winifred and the bumblebee. In her zeal to study the insect at first hand, she picked one up. The natural consequences followed. While she was yet suffering, Winifred described her experience in these lines: One day I saw a bumblebee, bumbling on a rose, And as I stood admiring him he stung me on the nose. My nose in pain it swelled so large it looked like a potato, Winifred had failed to get any sort of grasp on the subject, she says, until the mother was in despair, fearing the child's mind might be lopsided. At a chauquaaua meeting in New York, however, the mother met Prof. A. R. Hornbrook, a woman mathematics teacher, who soon put her on the right track. Professor Hornbrook explained that Mrs. Stoner had been successful in teaching music, art, poetry, history and languages because she herself loved those studies and had failed to teach mathematics because she had not brought the "fairy interest" into it. She volunteered to send weekly outlines of work, which Mrs. Stoner was to employ according to her own ideas. Mother and child then began playing games with small objects, such as beans and buttons. These objects would be placed in a box and they would take turns drawing them out, to see which could get the most at a single grab. When helping the maid shell peas they would try to see how many peas there were in two or more pods. In this way rudimentary lessons in addition were taught. To make greater progress they played parcheesi with small dice and got practice from adding up the spots. First they used two dice, but finally they used five and Winifred was soon able to add all the spots without conscious effort. They played all sorts of games which would require simple addition and multiplication. In learning subtraction, they would have battles with tin soldiers and marbles, and whenever a "cannon shot" would topple over a given number of soldiers, Winifred was able to decide how many were left standing without stopping to count. Cancellation became a battle, one of them playing the numbers on one side of the dividing line and the other playing the other. There never were any quizzes, because Winifred was taught to get results and was not taught rules. She learned the values of money by the actual use of coins and the values of market products by going to market herself. To learn pharmacist's weights and measures, Winifred played at keeping drug store and sold things to her mother. And so it went through the whole subject, until at last the girl became fascinated with the funny doings of Mr. X and got interested in algebra. Winifred never suffered the humiliation of physical punishment. When she did well, the good Fairy Titania would hide goodies under her pillow and when she was bad the fairy failed to appear. If she was ten minutes tardy about some task, that meant ten minutes lost which had to be taken out of her next recreation time. She soon learned that offenses could bring about their own unpleasant consequences, while good behavior meant tangible reward. She was never permitted to stay at a single task when the point of fatigue had arrived. A striking instance of Mrs. Stoner's methods, as well as an illustration of the child's intellectual bias, is the story of Winifred and the bumblebee. In her zeal to study the insect at first hand, she picked one up. The natural consequences followed. While she was yet suffering, Winifred described her experience in these lines: One day I saw a bumblebee, bumbling on a rose, And as I stood admiring him he stung me on the nose. My nose in pain it swelled so large it looked like a potato. So daddy said; but mother thought 'twas more like a tomato. And now, dear children, this advice I hope you'll take from me. And now, dear children, this advice I hope you'll take from me. And when you see a bumblebee just let that bumble be. Like her mother, Winifred believes in woman suffrage. She has written several poems in behalf of equal franchise rights, which have been published in various newspapers and magazines. Her "Valentines for Suffragettes" are decidedly clever and have helped the cause. And when you see a bumblebee just let that bumble be. Like her mother, Winifred believes in woman suffrage. She has written several poems in behalf of equal franchise rights, which have been published in various newspapers and magazines. Her "Valentines for Suffragettes" are decidedly clever and have helped the cause --- Throughout all this preliminary instruction, Winifred was encouraged to take all the outdoor exercise possible, and soon was the peer of the boys of her age in the neighborhood at wrestling, or throwing or catching a ball. From that time, Winifred's life became a prolonged play of the game of "Let's pretend." Sometimes she and her mother would "be somebody" and often each would be herself and an alter ego. That is, Mrs. Stoner would play one minute that she was herself and the next minute that she was her dear friend Nellie and Winifred would alternate between being herself and her dear friend Lucy. In this way they often could get up rather a sizeable party when about to make some new exploration into the realm of knowledge. Perhaps nothing is more illuminative in Mrs. Stoner's book than her account of how she taught the child mathematics. knife and fork into the crisp crust, Tom struck the table a thundering blow with his fist, glared ferociously at Sam, and roared: "Look-a-here, Sam, if ever you dare speak to me as you done this mornin' while I was talkin' to a young lady, I'll screw your neck round, by crinus, the same as I'm screwin' round this blasted pie." In the past ten years the Carnegie Hero Fund commission has made awards to 54 women for heroism. Home Town Helps Beautiful German City of Frankfort Compuls the Admiration of All Visitors. Can the new world learn from the mistakes of the old? It is a question one is constantly asking, says the Chicago Examiner. A thousand years and more ago, when the houses began to spring up beneath the shelter of a castle, and these for further protection were girded by walls, it was not possible to foresee the modern city with its teeming millions. We are free. We are free to deliberate, to choose, to plan for long generations ahead. We are under obligations to plan for posterity. Opportunity confers obligation. It is interesting to contrast one of the oldest cities in Europe with one of the newest; Frankfort, in Germany, with Letchworth, in England. The medieval Frankfort grew up on' the foundation of an old Roman settlement. In the twelfth century it demanded for itself more space and ramparts were erected. Streets today run the course of those ramparts. In one of them it may be mentioned in passing, Goethe was born. In the fourteenth century Frankfort had to be enlarged again—its walls built round a wider circumference. In the nineteenth century its walls were broken down. The land on which fortifications had stood became public gardens; or, if sold to individuals, carried with it the stipulation that on a given area only one building should be erected, leaving the remainder for garden. This is the explanation of the belt of public and private gardens by which Frankfort is surrounded, the pride of her citizens, the surprise and delight of all visitors. URGES CITY TREE PLANTING Professor Francis Finds Room for 10- 500 on Upper East Side at New York. Prof. H. R. Francis of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse university, who has been making a detailed survey of the streets in Manhattas, for the Tree Planting association of New York city, has just completed the survey of the streets east of Fifth avenue between Eighty-sixth and Fortieth. In this area there are nearly sixty miles of streets, 40 miles of which are capable of sustaining tree growth. At present there are only 541 trees, while it is possible to have 10,500. In certain sections trees are really needed, where there are thousands of children who have no place to play other than in the streets. Other cities, such as Buffalo, Newark and New Haven, are successful where conditions for growth are as adverse as those found in this part of Manhattan. New York city could have trees if sufficient appropriations were made. Professor Francis finds that the few trees which have been planted the past two or three years are dying either from dry soil conditions or from the attack of insect pests.—New York Times. Keep the Streets Clean. Carefulness on the part of everybody is necessary to keep the streets clean. A careless boy, throwing scraps of papers in the highway, can make a tidy city block look untidy in thirty seconds. But it is not alone children on whom the responsibility rests. Many a grown person has the reprehensible habit of casting into the streets all sorts of unwanted articles—pieces of old newspapers, cigarette boxes, candy bags, banana skins and the like. Such thoughtless persons should be forced to a sharp realization of their offensive practice. The city suffers seriously from their aggregate carelessness. Five Stitches in His Heart With five stitches in his heart, M. Nigo walked into the office of District Attorney R. B. Goodcell, and announced that he wished to swear out a complaint against a fellow countryman, B. Nakao, who, on July 13, stabbed him in the heart during a quarrel at East Highlands. Nakao was captured at Ontario, and has been held in jail since, pending the outcome of Nigo's injuries. The surgeon sewed up the wound in his heart, and today the Japanese seems as much with the living as ever.—San Bernadino (Cal.) dispatch Los Angeles Times. Rapid Fire Movies. The cinematograph is speeding up. Photographs at the rate of a hundred thousand a second is its latest triumph. This extreme rapidity was necessary for recording the trajectory of a pistol ball and showing in detail how it penetrated a thin board. At the instant of firing an electric coil giving sparks at the rate of a hundred thousand per second is set going and the views of the flight are taken on a ribbon film. Since this film is mounted on a wheel making 900 revolutions per second, the individual images are different and can be projected as slowly as desired for the analysis of the motion.—New York Independent. His Gifted Son. "I don't know what I'm ever going to make of that son of mine," said a prominent citizen of the city of good will the other day. The P. C., it may be said, is a self-made man, graduate of the university of hard knocks, etc. And it naturally grieves him that his son is not aggressive. "Maybe your son hasn't found himself yet," we consoled. "I'm not he gifted in any way" "Gifted? 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Eleventh and Euclid—Eight-room, strictly modern, pressed brick, slate roof, south exposure. Price, $4,250; $500 down, balance to suit. Having Enlarged Our Quarters. Quicker and Better Service. As a result of cnanging phones, Our Bell No. is East 2782 ARTHUR W. HARRIS COMMERCIAL PRINTER 1515 East 18th Street. Kansas City, Mo. Same place, same price, same high class workmanship. H ub of the Negro business district. If you forget the phone number ask Information. Don't look in the book M. S. S. Are You a You a Member Are You a Member of the Knights of Pythias? They keep every promise. They pay funeral and death benefits promptly. They protect YOU in life, YOUR family after death. They have 108,000 loyal members. They have 18,000 members in the Uniform Rank department. They have 38,000 members of the ladies' auxiliary. They have the cheapest, yet BEST, endowment policy. They are the best governed of any fraternal society. They have honest, thorough business men officials. Membership in Missouri over 7,500. WE NOW HAVE NINE LARGE AND AGGRESSIVE LODGES IN KANSAS CITY. THEY SUCCEED BE- CAUSE THEY TREAT YOU RIGHT. Dispensations now on in Kansas City and St. Louis If you wish to become a charter member of the new lodge now being organized, phone or write J. P. MAYNARD. Bell phone East 2098. 2330 Vine Street. —OR— If you wish to organize a lodge in this greatest and most progressive of negro societies, write for particulars. cottage; water and gas in house; down, $12 per month. live-room modern stucco bungalow; easy cozy. Price, $2,500; $200 down, it. age; water and gas in house; lot, $10 per month. -room, strictly modern, pressed. Price, $4,250; $500 down, balance. to select from. See us before ring. INVESTMENT COMPANY. orated.) main 7555. 911 McGee Street. Quicker and Better Service. Our Bell No. is East 2782 W. HARRIS AL PRINTER Kansas City. Mo. me high class workmanhip. business district. information. Don't look in the book 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 1207J. R. L. HOPKINS, 2326 Vine street. member of the LAWRENCE, KANSAS. The Warrent Street Baptist Church assisted by the Colored students, is rendering some of the best programs in the history of the Forum. St. Luke has a pastor, Rev. Payne, who is well thought of by all the members—The Steward Board met at Mrs. C. Thomas Monday afternoon and elected all of their old officers except the Treasurer....Friday night there will be a grand Masquerade party given at McNutt's....The Lawrence Athletic football team plays G. R. College Friday, at Richmond, Mo. Lawrence Athletics would like a few more games this season. Write to Richard Elliott, 1508 Kentucky street, Lawrence, Kas., for dates. ROSEDALE KANSAS Prayer services are held every Wednesday night at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. We had splendid services last Sunday. The church will be comfortable and warm. This church is the stranger's home...Mrs. Leslie Berry, who has been quite ill, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Margaret Grant in Bryn Mawr addition...Mesdames Irving Johnson and Ell Tuppence spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lee in Fairmount, Kas...Mrs. Willa Lewis is ill at her residence on Division street...Mr. Henry Milton Kennedy died Tuesday at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Louis Mosely, 4030 Adams street. Mr. Kennedy came here from Minneapolis, Minn. and is survived by a wife, daughter, father, four sisters and four brothers and other relatives. TROY, KANSAS, NEWS As the writer for the Troy news was out of the city the past week, the readers of this city will excuse her for not having any news and will try and combine the two weeks' happenings together. Mrs. Dora Lee has recently returned home after having spent three weeks visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ola Thomas of Sedalia, Mo. Parties have been quite numerous this month in the city, it being the month for "noble" men, women and children. Mr. Willie Wilkinson was given quite a surprise, it being his seventeenth birthday, at the home of Mrs. Aaron Wilkinson, assisted by his sisters, Miss Mintle Wilkinson and Mrs. William Gaskin. Several of the young folks were in attendance and presented him with several presents. A dainty luncheon was served, and music interspersed between, which made the evening very pleasantly spent. On October 17th, quite a coincidence in being the birthday of three generations, namely: Mr. Charles Schumache, father, Mrs. Lillian Webster, daughter, and Master Charles Webster, grandson, celebrated their birthday. Each one had a birthday cake and you may imagine the number of candles were numerous. A few persons surprised Mrs. Webster by presenting her with a shower of handkerchiefs. Of course, Master Charles received presents in abundance. Mr. Ernest McCurry has gone to Hastings, Neb., to work for the winter. Mrs. Allie Duncan of Wathena, Mrs. Lillie Webster and Miss Leona McCurry of Elwood, and Miss Emma Starr of Highland were the out-of-town teachers who attended the Teachers' Association held here last Saturday. Miss Emma Fouts of Highland, Kas., was transacting business in the city Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schumacher and Mrs. Nellie E. Howard attended the funeral of Mrs. Samuel M. Holt in Wathena, Saturday. The Republicans and Democrats are having quite a campaign here this month, and speaking is being held in the Court House afternoons and nights. The Republicans have been having the Troy Colored Band to furnish music for their speakers, and the Democrats had a fine Colored orchestra to play for them. They also sang quartets and solos that were appreciated by the audiences as much so as the speaking. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Davis attended services at the A. M. E. Church, Sunday. They are of Wathena, Kas. Mrs. Mary Schumache, Mrs. Hiram Hughes, Mrs. Lillie Webster and Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Howard attended the Bass-Crews wedding in Kansas City, Mo., last Wednesday, and report it as one of the swellest events of the season. One of the saddest scenes that has occurred in Troy for many years was Saturday morning, when Hattie Louise Snyder, seven years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Snyder, was severely burned by a bonfire that she was standing near to get warm. The child was burned entirely over the body and ran to a neighbor's. Mrs. Mattie Eubanks, who tried to extinguish the flames by wrapping her in a carpet, but as this did not seem to take effect immediately, she put her in a tub of water and that was the only way to save her just then. The poor little thing had presence of mind all the time and asked the children around her to pray for her for she was burned to death. The doctor came immediately and said it was the worst case of its kind he had ever seen, and it made him so sick he could not be of much assistance only to tell the women what to do for her. She was conscious all the time and talked about how it happened, but on Monday morning she passed away about 7:30 o'clock. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon from the A. M. E. Church, where she was an active little Sunday school scholar. The family has our greatest sympathy in these sad hours of bereavement. God simply has plucked a flower before the fall dews have fallen on it and urging the parents to hear his warning and prepare to meet this darling child in the Great Beyond. Besides her parents she leaves one sister aged 8 years, and two brothers aged 5 and 2 years respectively, and a host of relatives. The young boys and girls gave a party the past week, and as far as we can learn of it it was for the purpose of entertaining each other. I think the young ladies who were at the head of the affair were Miss Rosa Snyder, Miss Beatrice Martin and Mrs. Ola Butcher. A very pleasant evening was spent in music and dancing. The house was beautifully decorated in autumn leaves and Hallowe'en colors, and a dainty three-course menu was served. The out-of-town guests were Misses Nelle Coleman, Gladys Henderson and Essie Davis and Mr. Grant Butcher and True Davis of Wathena, Kas. CHILLICOTHE, MO. Miss Clementina Banks is visiting in Macon, Mo....Mr. Turner, one of our new citizens and efficient plasterers, was happily married to Mrs. Kyles last Sunday evening by Rev. Charles Crews. They reside at the home of the bride....The body of Mr. Charles Wolficade, whose death occurred at St. Joseph, Mo., where he has been ill for several months, arrived Tuesday evening. We learn that the Oddfellows will take charge of the body, yet the time for the funeral services have not been announced.... Prof. Herndon of Brookfield, Mo., was a visitor in the city last Sunday. Through the kindness of Rev. Crews the young people of Bethel A. M. E. Church were privileged to hear an address from him. He spoke with good sense and good humor, and it was all spontaneous....Rev. G. W. Wright of Mexico, Mo., an ex-pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of this city, was hte guest of Rev. I. L. Tally last Thursday and Friday. A brief notice brought out a large congregation to hear Rev. Wright Thursday night. He has not departed from his admirable manner of presenting glad tidings, and his farewell remarks were complimentary to the marked improvements made in the city and in our homes, churches and school....Rev. W. B. and B. V. Longdon will spend Saturday in Brunswick, where they will attend the "Minsters and Teachers Literary Convention," of which Rev. Harris of Carrollton, Mo., is the chairman. Mr. Longdon will stand in the "dress circle" and perform the part of a spectator and the Professor will appear on the program Saturday afternoon. "When Ethiopia Stretcheth Forth Her Hand" It affords us much pleasure to extend thanks to our patrons and Kansas City Stars for their support. Our workmanship has proved satisfactory. Our team is second to none. Our prices are reasonable. We handle by hand, which enables us to clean and Hate into the Latest Styles. We carry, full line of the very latest trimming. The Negro Hatters west of the Mississippi. HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED 50c We call and deliver in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, Kansas and Independence. WESTERN HAT WORKS Rev. S. B. Anderson arrived from the Annual Conference at Cape Girardeau Monday afternoon. He reports that the sessions of this Conference were the best he has ever witnessed. Rev. Anderson has been assigned to Quinn chapel, A. M. E. church, in South St. Louis, and we wish him unbounded success in his new field of labor....Rev. T. L. Watson has been assigned to pastor of the A. M. E. church in this city. Rev. Watson and wife came from Washington, Mo., to us and their arrival is the most earnest wish of the members of their pastor....Mrs. Alice Murphy of Deto arrived Saturday to attend the sick bed of her brother, Mr. John Kennedy....Mr. Reuben Staten of Coffman was a visitor in the city Saturday....Mr. Benjamin Chappelle of Avon was a visitor in the city Saturday....The Ivy Leaf Club met with Mae Baker Wednesday afternoon. At the close of the meeting 5 o'clock tea was served....The Clover Bee Club met with Miss Dayse F. Baker Thursday evening. A very pleasant evening was enjoyed....Mrs. Eliza Overton returned Sunday from a two weeks' visit in St. Louis, having her eyes treated. She was accompanied by her granddaughter, Mrs. Buelah Cayce, who will visit relatives....Mr. Will Kennedy arrived from Poplar Bluff Monday afternoon, having come home to attend the bedside of his brother, John Kennedy. LEXINGTON, MO Messrs. Thomas Stanton and A. W. Banion of Independence attended the street fair here last week....Mrs. Bertha Lear Page of Independence spent last week here with friends....Mrs. Allen and son spent last week here with friends. Her husband is pastor of the A. M. E. church at Independence....Mrs. Blanche Fagan of Kansas City spent Wednesday here on business....Mrs. Martha Woodson and son are here this week from Kansas City....Rev. J. Will Jackson of Independence is here this week....Mr. Dan Green passed away last Monday night after an illness of several months. He will be buried Sunday at 2 o'clock from the Second Baptist church....Mrs. Pearl Dabney is in town this week selling hair goods. PHOENIX, ARIZ. In order to formally welcome the new corps of teachers to the city, a reception was given at the C. M. E. church Friday night. All present report an enjoyable time....The Y. M. C. A. movement is still the chief topic of discussion and very soon we hope to write some tangible results of these discussions. We propose to erect a $160,000 building and the committee on finance says they have some encouraging reports to make on November 1 at the Forum meeting....Jeferson street has been paved from First street to Seventh street, and now you will see property along that thoroughfare advance in value. We are indeed pleased to know that so many of our people will profit by this improvement....This is a very busy season here and all business men report a flourishing business....The Sun is the most fearless race paper distributed in Poenix. Read it carefully and be convinced. You Should Use Maqam P. M. Dab XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATION Madam P. M. Dabney's XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATIONS And Have Good Hair Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower promotes a beautiful growth of hair, stops falling out and breaking of hair, removes dandruff and relieves itching of scalp. It will make YOUR hair grow. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER JAR Mme. 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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has asked all the Democratic, Progressive and Republican candidates for the United States Senate and House of Representatives how they stand on the following: Abrogation of the 14th and 15th Amendments, Segregation in the Federal Service, Segregation in the District of Columbia, The Jim Crow Car in the District of Columbia, Anti-Intermarriage laws, Lynching. Reduction of representation in the States that disfranchise the Negro, Replies of the various candidates in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma to these questions have been compiled and published on a large poster by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. We are sorry that lack of space prevents us from publishing this long list of replies concerning the stand of the candidates on the race question. We advise all of our readers to see these posters before casting your ballot. Let no one vote for a Senator or Representative unless you are sure of his position upon the race question. NOTICE. The Second Christian Church, 24th street and Woodland avenue, will have their dedication the first Sunday in November. Watch next week's issue for the purpose. REV, W. A. A. HARRIS, Pastor. Committee—J. F. Watkins, A. J. Lewis, J. R. Brown, R. P. Jackson. Moon's Live & Dressed Poultry Eggs, Butter and Fish, Fresh from the Country. Wholesale and Retail. THE GREATEST DRAMA Of all history, crimsoning Europe with the blood of ten nations, yields to the United States the commercial and industrial supremacy of the world. Just remember, you are living in the best and soundest country in the world, and keep on hustling. If the war fever gets you and you feel like shooting—shoot your orders in to MOONS—where the "Best of Everything" quality. A place where time may be well spent in just "being shown." There is an "Almost Compelling Consideration" when you see—the cost is no more. 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