Kansas City Sun

A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 20. We Desire 1000 New Subscribers During January. ORATORICAL AND MUSIC CONTEST Colored Universities, Colleges and High Schools to Try for Prizes. Allen Chapel to Be the Scene of Con test in Oratory and Music on January 29. With the spirit of unequaled school rivalry, the various institutions which are to participate in the Oratorical and Musical Contest, to take place at Alen Chapel on Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock, are rounding into shape. Splendid specimens of oratorical effusions are anticipated from representatives of the schools, whilst the different Glee Clubs will furnish a repertoire of songs out of the ordinary in their efforts to land the "cup" which the N. A. A. C. P. is offering for the best rendition of oration or song. One forr music and one for oratory. Question: Who is going to win the several prizes of the following schools? Our own Lincoln High, Topeka Industrial Institute, Western University, George R. R. Smith College, Sedalia, Mo., Bartlett High School, St Joseph, Mo., Lincoln High School, Sedalia, Mo., Muskogee High School or the Columbia (Mo.) High School. Here is a galaxy of Negro institutions which embrace some of the race's most promising talent. They will no doubt give an excellent entertainment for the evening. Anyhow we will see "Who Is Who." Among the several participants, naturally local favor is leaning toward our own Glee Club, but to say the least they will meet with some difficulty in winning the cup from the foreign contestants, as they will certainly bring strong contenders. The affair is designed to be an annual one and is fostered and promoted by Kansas City's progressive people. Tickets are being sold by teams of the Association who have a contest among themselves for a suitable prize. Date, Monday, January 29; place, Allen Chapel; time, 8:30 p. m.; admission, 25 cents. Shot By White Man for Walking Down Street With Colored Woman. Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday night, at 10:30 o'clock, Samuel Johnson a young man of good 'conduct, was shot and seriously wounded by a white man for walking down the street with a colored woman. Johnson knew the young woman well and had been keeping company with her for some time. On Wednesday night they were out for a walk and a shot was fired and the man fell beside the young woman. A policeman heard the shot and saw the white man as he fired. The white man said to the officer: "I just shot a nigger who was with my wench." The policeman was "tipped" and the white man made his "get-away." Note—Our readers may draw their own conclusions. MR. LEONARD JOHNSON. One of the Most Highly Respected Masons in Kansas City and a Valued Trustee in Allen Chapel. Miss Ruth Bradley, the charming young miss from Kansas City, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Jones, 6442 St. Lawrence avenue. Last Sunday she was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Jones with a ten-course dinner. Those present were: Dr. and Mrs. George Cleveland Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Jamieson, Cary B. Lewis and little Hertense Hall. On Wednesday night of this week she was the guest of the Century Whist club at the home of Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins on Calumet avenue.—Chicago Defender. BISHOP GRANT MEMORIAL DAY. The Bishop Grant Memorial Day will be observed under the auspices of the Ministerial Alliance of greater Kansas City, Friday, January 22, 1915, at 2 p. m., at the First A. M. E. Church Eighth and Nebraska, Kansas City, Kans. Rev. J. R. Ransom, D. D., Pastor. PROGRAM. Selection.....Chorus of Western University Invocation.....Rev. W. A. Bowren Scripture Lesson.....Rev. W. C. Williams Selection.....Chorus Western University Prayer.....Rev. M. I. Warfield Song, "I'll Be Present When the Roll is Called".....Congregation Introductory Remarks.....Master of Ceremonies, Rev. W. H. Thomas Bishop Grant—"The Man".....Dr. H. T. Kealing Bishop Grant—"The Minister".....Dr. J. C. Owens Bishop Grant—"The Presiding Elder".....Dr. J. F. McDonald Bishop Grant—"The Bishop".....Dr. Wm. H. Peck Bishop Grant—"The Citizen".....Judge I. I. Bradley Bishop Grant—"The Layman's Friend".....Hon. N. C. Chews Bishop Grant—"The Race Leader".....Dr. S. W. Bacote Bishop Grant—"The Educator".....Prof. J. M. Marquess Bishop Grant—"The Founder of Douglass Hospital" Dr. S. H. Thompson Selection.....Chorus of Western University "Last Scenes of the Life of Bishop Grant".....Dr. J. R. Ransom Offering.....J. R. RANSOM, President The Kansas City Sun MR AND MRS. C. C. CLARK EN TERTAINED. Mrs. Alma A. Clark of St. Louis, Mo, Grand Treasurer of the Order of the Eastern Star and first vice president of the State Federation of Colored Women's clubs left Kansas City on Tuesday morning of this week in company with her husband, Crittenden C. Clark, after a visit of eleven days as the guest of Mrs. Fred W. Dabney, 1806 East 24th street. On Saturday morning Mrs. Clark was joined by her husband, the genial Crittenden C. Clark who, in addition to being the most prosperous Attorney in St. Louis, is Grand Attorney of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Masons, who made the trip from St. Louis in order that he might attend the dancing party given in honor of Mrs. Clark at Lyric hall Saturday night by Messrs. W. C. Hueston, J. E. Herriford, Wm. H. Dawley, Jr., Geo. W. K. Love, and Fred W. Dabney Monday was spent as guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Campbell at Quindaro, Kansas and a visit was paid Western university where Eugene, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark, is attending school. At 5:30 Monday afternoon Dr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Thompkins entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Dabney at dinner. The festivities were concluded on Monday night with a card party and luncheon at the residence of Nelson C. Crews, 2624 Highland avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have a host of friends in Kansas City who are always glad to see them come and sorry when they leave. A pretty little romance had its climax in the marriage of little Miss Juanita Mae Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. Hunter, of 4424 Lucky street, to Aaron Lloyd, Jr., son of Grand Chancellor, A. W. Lloyd, on Monday, December 21, 1914 at East St. Louis, Ill. Rev. I S. Stone officiating. The young people took advantage of the absence from the city of the bride's father, and when he returned there was nothing to be said but "God bless you, my children," which he did in his usual genial way of adapting himself to all circumstances. The Argus wishes these young people a happy and prosperous voyage on the matrimonial sea.—St. Louis Argus. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915. 91C-1954 MAJOR GENERAL R. R. JACKSON OF CHICAGO, ILL. Commander in Chief of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythas and Member of Illinois State Legislature Who Received a Flattering Vote for Speaker of the House. Little Lonnie Shaw, 16 years of age met with an accident by falling while at work in a coal mine at Hastings, Colo. His body was shipped here for burial. The funeral was held from St. John's Baptist church, Rev. R. E. Tanner of Cherokee officiated...Mrs. Bondwell, mother of Rev. Edward Eatman of this city, died January 6 and her funeral was held at the A. M. E. church, Rev. Davis officiated...Mr. R. C. Chatman reports a grand time at Junction City, where the Grand lodge of Odd Fellows was held...Both churches are taking on added enthusiasm with their work for the new year. MAJOR GE Commander in Chief of the Uniform Received BLIND BOONE COMPANY PLEASES. The large crowd of 500 people who attended the concert given by Blind Boone and his company at the Christian church last night, went away more than pleased with the evenings program. Boone is more than a musician; he is a genius who has no equal in his class. His mastery of music in spite of his blindness, his ability to copy the most difficult pieces upon hearing them once, his drawing large crowds time after time in the same place, put him in a class by himself. According to his custom Boone extended an invitation for anyone to play a piece of their own selection, which he would copy. Miss Adaline Lang played a very difficult piece of her own composition. One could see that Boone took in the whole thing, and when the time came, he played it almost identically the same, with the exception of using his individual touch. He thanked Miss Lang saying that she was a musician of rare ability. The program was made up of everything from classics to camp-meeting songs. Boone showed his ability in all. Miss Fuell and Miss Wesley sang several pleasing numbers. Boone also did some singing. A monologue by Miss Fuell and a negro mammy song by Miss Wesley were especially good. The best on the whole evening's program were Boone's rendering of "Whispering Winds" and "The Marshfield Tornado," his own composition. The complete program follows: The Complete Emphal March. Whispering Winds. Massa's in de Cold. Cold Ground and encores—Miss Fuell. Il Trovatour—Gotschcank. Old Kentucky Home with variation—Boone. Mocking Bird—Boone I'll Come Back When You Gather the Sheaves. What D'You Mean You Have Lost Your Dog—Miss Wesley. Spingarn Reception; Band Concert Monday, January 18, in the big auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. building on Paseo, PProf. J. Simpar of "New Abolition" fame will speak. Capt. N. Clark Smith of Western University (former musical director of the touring Tuskegeeans), will introduce his now W. U. band in a concert before the reception. Concert beginning at 8:30 p. m. All given under the auspices of the aNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Admission free. GENERAL R. R. JACKSON OF CHICAGO Rank Knights of Pythas and Member a Flattering Vote for Speaker of t Marshfield Tornado—Boone. Imitation of various instruments. National airs—Mr. Boone. —The Nevada Journal. The above demonstrates that the Blind Boone Concert Co., under the unequalled and unapproachable management of our dear friend and brother John Lange one of the triest and best men this race or any other ever produced is still winning laurels in every section of our country. May God bless this splendid company and may they continue to win honor and fame for themselves and the race. ANNOUNCEMENT. Dr. T. C. Unthank desires to announce to his patrons and the public in general that he has sold his drug store to Cooper & Goodson; but by virtue of their agreement he will retain for the next two years his office there at 931 Independence avenue. Thanking you one and all for your patronage during the past year and a half, I remain Faithfully T. C. UNTHANK, M. D. —READ— If you hve the blues, read the 27th Psalm. If your pocketbook is empty, read the 27th Psalm. If people seem unkind, read the 15th chapter of John. If you are discouraged about your work, read the 126th Psalm. If you are all out of sorts, read the 12th chapter of Hebrews. If you can't have your own way in everything, keep silent and read the 3rd chapter of James. If you are losing confidence in men, read the 13th chapter of First Corinthians. Rokeby's Magno—Voltaic Remedy warranted to relieve rheumatism, neuralgia, heart and stomach trouble and piles in 30 to 60 days; charges $5.00—$1.00 in advance balance 30 days; John H. Rokeby, Ph. D. 2513 Agnes avenue. LAWR NCE, KANSAS. The many friends of Mrs. Janette Frye Jackson will regret to learn of her death, January 5. She was laid to rest Thursday, January 7, in Oak Hill cemetery. . . Rev. J. M. Brown of Topeka, Kansas, was in town Thursday. . . Miss Bertie Ellis entertained the 500 club at her home Saturday, January 9. . . Mr. C. M. Harris of Denver, Colo., was a guest of Miss Lena Hines during the holidays. . . The Roe Omegas of Kansas university gave a dance party Saturday afternoon at the M. and M. hall. . . Miss Lillian Hardwick of Osawatomie, Kansas, a nurse at the sanitarium visited Miss Lena Hines. . . Mrs. W. C. Brown and Miss Frances Kealing attended the inauguration of Gov. Cupper Monday. AGO, ILL. of Illinois State Legislature Who the House. FEDERATED ALUMNI BANQUET AT Y. M. C. A. Many Institutions Represented The first annual banquet of the Federated Alumni of greater Kansas City, was given Thursday evening, January 14, at the Paseo Y. M. C. A. About 200 persons were present to represent the various schools and institutions throughout the United States. The guests were seated at tables representing their respective schools. The following program was rendered: Instrumental Solo—Miss Cora Carr, Lincoln High. "Early Educational Conditions in Greater Kansas City"—J. D. Bowser, Ohio High School. "The College Man in the Community"—G. N. Grisham, Brown University. "Oberlin's Sons and Daughters"—Mrs. Ida G. Wood, Oberlin, Col. Vocal Solo—Mrs. Corinne Lester, Lincoln High School. "The Kansas Spirit"—Woody Jacobs, Kansas University. "The Sons of Howard"—Dr. S. H. Thompson, Howard University. "What's the Matter with Lincoln Institute?"—Dr. W. J. Thompkins, Lincoln Institute. Instrumental Duet—Mrs. M. F. Todd, Miss B. M. Nichols. "Wilberforce in the West"—T. Bolden Stewart, Wilberforce University. "The Record of Lincoln High"—Mrs. Wendell E. Green, Lincoln High. "Fisk University"—C. H. Calloway, Fisk University. Vocal Solo—F. J. Work, Fisk Uni. "The Progress of Western University"—E. E. Vaughan, Western Uni. "The Medicine Man"—Dr. J. Edward Perry, Meharry Medical College. Music—"Auld Lang Syne." * Drop in at C. A. Franklin's Print * * shop and see how his work is * * counted. Then you will know * * one reason why he can do your * * printing satisfactory. 1008 East * * 18th street, near Troost. Bell * * phone, Grand 2988. 1. Will You Help Us? Specials at Smith's Pharmacy for this Week. 25c Massatta Talcum Powder, 19c. 25c Black Draught, 15c. 25c Sachet Powder, 18c. 10c Hair Nets, 5c. $1 Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin, 85c. 10c Talcum Powder, 5c. 10c Talcum Powder, 5c. $1 Lydia E. Pinkam's Vegetable Compound, 85c. 25c DeWitt's Toilet Cream, 20c. 25c DeWitt's Golden Liniment, 20c. Beauty Spots, 10c. HAIR GOODS. 25c Bangs, 25c. 50c Double Braids, 40c. $1 Tope Transformation, 75c. $2 Half Wigs, $1.50. 50c Switches, 40c. SODA FOUNTAIN SPECIALS. We serve ice cream soda the year round. Tango sundae on a blazer, 15c. Ice cream soda, any flavor, 5c. Hot chocolate with whipped cream, 5c. Hot beef tea, 5c. We have just received a large shipment of human hair goods—straightening and drying combs—Madam Walker's Hair Preparations—combs and brushes—playing cards—syringes—rubber gloves—High Brown powder—Alda and Elite Pomades—watches, clocks and manicure sets—tooth brushes and perfumes—stage makeup. The ladies are specially invited to come and look over our large assortment of human hair goods. THEO. Smith's Drug Store Home Phone 5467 M. Bell Phone 4591 G Mall and phone orders promptly filled. GREAT MEETING MARKS CLOSE OF SECOND YEAR. The reports further showed that in the second year composed of between ten months to close with the fiscal year that without any income from entertainments there was an increase of $133.32 over the first year of twelve months. The tale of the work for the year in various departments and the entire association was told in brief by the report of the General Secretary which can be seen on request at the office of the Yates Y. M. C. A. 5th & State. The report told of the three gymnasium classes one in beauty culture and one in voice culture. It cited instances of good times and relief work and announced that the Yates branch of the Y. M. C. A. wants to be of service to every woman and girl in Kansas City and to those coming for any reason to this city. The year just closed gave much for which to be thankful and our vision for larger things in the future makes us willing to go forward trusting fully in Him who said "Not by might nor by power; by my spirit said he Lord of hosts." Every woman, girl or boy in the vast audience at the annual meeting was proud of the Y. M. C. A. and its splendid showing in both reports and program. Each of those should be a booster daily for its varied interests—Let us thank God for peace and good will which prevail. LYDIA C. SMITH, General Secretary. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. HON. I. H. BRADBURY. The Most Noted Politician in the City of St. Louis, a Real Leader of His People and a Mason of High Degree. OCHYA GIRLS' PARTY. One of the most delightful dancing parties given during the Christmas holiday season was that of the "Ochya Girls," the leaders in Kansas City's social life among the younger set. The name of the club is of Japanese origin and reduced to English means everlasting. Its selection was prophetic for when it comes to being everlastingly original, everlastingly unique and everlastingly charming this club is everlastingly in the lead. Every feature of the entertainment bore the stamp of originality. The invitation was a three fold folder with an envelope lap. The bid was printed on the center fold and to the right of it in Japanese type and in keeping with Japanese custom was printed the word "Ochya"; the top and bottom folds enclosed the bid and were fastened by a gold seal bearing the letter "O" thus doing away with the necessity for using the customary envelope. The program of dances was made up of sixteen numbers. In addition to fifteen of the latest and most popular dances of the season a special number, the Ochya waltz was featured. About 250 guests were entertained by the club at this party and each person enjoyed themselves to the fullest extent. A notable feature was the large number of out of town guests in attendance, many of whom came to Kansas City especially for this occasion. A partial list of persons in attendance from out of the city is as follows: Dr. G. B. Key, St. Louis; Dr. Frank A. Pearl, Atchison, Kans; Dr. Williams, Atchison, Kans; Prof. S. McElwain, I ndianapolis, Ind; Dr. Paul Crosthwait, Chicago; Messrs. Wm. McKnight, Excelsior Springs, Mo; Virgil Ward, Nashville, Tenn; D. Crosthwait, Marshalltown, Ia., Franklin Bradley, Lawrence, Kans; S. Rhodes, Blue Springs, Mo; Blyden Yates, Iowa; Sherman Scruggs, Topeka, Kans; Johnson, Wichita, Kans; E. Evans, Iowa; E. Baker, Lawrence, Kans; Seymour Williams, Misses Alice Simms, St. Louis, Mo; E. Rhodes, Blue Spring, Mo; Ann Crosthwait, St. Louis, Mo; Virgin Frierson, Wichita, Kans; Edna Schweich, Wichita, Kas; Bessie Gray, Salt Lake City, Utah; Hazel Hurst, Lawrence, Kas; Maude Glover, Ft. Scott, Kas; Genevieve Wilson, Manhattan, Kas; Grace Middleton, Manhattan, Kas; M. Carter, Manhattan, Kas; Mesdames Bertrude Ball, Lexington, Mo; and Bertha Pendleton, Brookfield, Mo. The Ochya Girls is composed of fifteen ladies of the younger set with Miss Viola Robinson, a teacher in Wendell Phillips school, as president. The members are: Misses Alberta Wells, Jeannette Green, Annabel Montgomery, Ethelyn Wilson, Effie Peniston, Neosho Venerable, Josephine Yates, Josephine Martin, Edna Hill, Harriett Wallace, Clara Hola Nellie Eubanks, and Mrs. Edna Herndon Lee. Mrs. Wm. McKnight, Chaperon. Each member of the club was a member of the arrangement committee and each was especially faithful in their efforts to make the affair the grand social success that it was. We make a specialty of decorating for parties, weddings and balls. Christmas trees and wreaths specially priced to clubs and Sunday schools. WEAVER FLORAL CO. 1510 E. 18th St. Home phone Main 7555. Bell phone East 4798. The PSYCHOLOGY of MASS FORMATION BY NIKOLA TESLA HEN I was a boy and chance or an unavoidable predicament made it necessary for me to walk past a graveyard after dusk of an evening, I began whistling as I approached and continued until my lips were swollen—or walked a mile out of my way to get well around it. But even with all my whistling in a boyish attempt to prod a recurrent courage, my legs nevertheless were pretty wabby and my knee action was not of the show-ring class. My heart, too, ungallantly huddled up in a corner and went on strike, so that there wasn't much blood in circulation to keep me warm, and quite as a matter of course I got "cold feet." In the nervous tension my scalp contracted so that my hair felt as if it was so many pricking needles, goose flesh writhed in creepy lines over my body, while my spine seemed like nothing so much as an animated icicle and my nerves were rasped by the demon of fear, for, mind you, every one of those dim-limned gravestones was a potential ghost that might at any instant raise its uncanny arms and sweep awesomely out and claim me for its own. Did you ever pass a graveyard at night when alone? And didn't you feel just about that way when you did? Much as I might wish to be a boy again, I should not ever care to have to pass a graveyard at night—alone. There has been so much said and written pro and con in discussing the tactics of the Germans in sending their forces at the enemy in what is known as the "mass formation" that it seems as if little could be added to the argument. But there is a human side to this policy that so far has not been presented; not to my knowledge, at least. It is a simple phase of the question that has to do with the element of human nature; the mental process of the mass, as disclosed by the individual as its unit. Why is it that the man who quakes with fear at the approach of an impending battle quite often, as the records show, is the one who goes in at the charge with apparently the daredevil recklessness and disregard for danger that distinguished him among his comrades as the man unafraid or as being "crazy with the heat"—of battle? However, before he attains to this degree of courage and comes eventually to be stricken with battle fever he must have been divorced from his sense of fear by some process or association aside from his conscious control. Fear and the concrete evidence of bravery are seldom if ever combined in any hazardous undertaking, and especially in the case where the individual faces the enemy in battle or other mortal danger—unsupported and alone. And that brings us again to the weird and fearsome specters that take form in the dreadful dark, along the silent and deserted road at the edge of the ghost-haunted graveyard. It is interesting, and not a little amusing, now that I (and we are all pretty much alike in that respect) look back over the years and coldly analyze the mental attitude in which under the curtain of night I hesitatingly approached, tremblingly passed and thankfully left behind those harmless and sacred villages of the dead at the time I was an impressionable lad. For, you see, when fortune favored me with companions on the infrequent occasions of my nocturnal journeys past the old graveyards, even if it were only a small boy not yet old enough to recognize the possibilities of a ghost in a dusk-shrouded tombstone, my courage always retained enough stamina to carry me through the otherwise nerve-shredding ordeal—without having to resort to the expedient of whistling myself out of breath, at any rate. or there in less running willows— ghosts with his side? was a com- There might be prowling ghosts over there in the lowering dark of the somber aisles running through the shrubs and the weeping willows—but what fellow should be afraid of ghosts with a faithful comrade touching elbows at his side? However, on occasions when there was a company of us, four or six or more boys, that walked together along the graveyard road, why, there just simply were no ghosts at all. But if one of us had by some fortunity become separated from the main body and suddenly realized that he was stark alone among the momentous possibilities of his ominous surroundings, his false keyed bravado would instantly have lost its grip and hit bottom with a plunk. The chances are, as a matter of fact, that he would have been "scared stiff"—too stiff to get out of his tracks—for the moment, at least 'And, quite unblushingly, I am assuming that that boy must have been myself. And, as for any of us to have ventured in the circumstance to go in there alone—quite unthinkable, I assure you. But what, you are asking, has all this to do with the question of the German general war staff's tactics when storming a fortress or charging the battle line in sending their troops at the enemy in close order or "mass formation?" Well, the man is the boy and the boy is the man, and the mental attitude of the soldier in relation to battle is precisely that of the boy and the night-veiled graveyard. With this difference, all boys, unless it be the occasional exception that proves the rule, are BATTLE WITH A JELLYFISH and white began to separate from the mass and extend toward him. He turned to swim out of reach when the creature threw its tentacles about him and the mad fight was on. In the struggle Wilson broke the mass into fragments, but reached shore exhausted, and his face and shoulders stinging as though from scalds. His pain at times was so intense that morphine had to be administered. His shoul- W G. H. Wilson lies at the Cottage hospital in a critical condition from as thrilling and unusual encounter as has ever taken place here. He had a life-and-death struggle with a huge jellyfish. Four hundred feet from shore, off Serena, Wilson was suddenly attacked. He saw before him what he says looked like a great sheet of butter and eggs. Suddenly strips of yellow GY ON SLA THE WHEELS EVERY ONE OF THOSE DIM-LINIED GRAVE STONES WAS A POTENTIAL GHOST naturally obsessed with childish fear of ghosts and graveyard phantoms created in their fertile imagination. Most men outgrow such baseless fears, and some, I cannot undertake to say what per cent, have by natural development, will power or self-control outgrown the sense of fear to such an extent that it does not manifest itself when in the face of danger. But there are those of us in whom fear quickly and prominently develops or recurs when our life is placed in imminent peril. And such men are in the majority, very probably. The world calls them "cowards." Possibly that is an appropriate generalized term, though it should be gingerly applied in the case of the man who strives but is unable to overcome a natural feeling of fear. There should, too, be qualifying distinctions, as, for instance, the moral coward, as distinguished from the "physical" coward; the coward of conscience and the coward of principle. The moral coward may not ever have experienced the sense of fear, vice versa. It is the rare exception, however, when a man will voluntarily admit fear of physical danger before the enemy. And it would needs be a grazeless coward indeed who should confess that he would be afraid to enlist under the colors if called upon for the defense of his country. Certainly an overwhelming majority of us, whether or not we are sufficiently candid to admit it, experience the sense of fear in a greater or Although mainly Mohammedan, the Indian native army embraces men of the most varying religions, sects and races. Its normal strength in round figures is 160,000 men, but this does not include (about) 22,000 imperial service troops, 35,000 reservists and 29,000 volunteers. The officers, of course, are British, but every regiment has its native officers, known respectively as risaldars, 'subahdars and jemidars. A risaldar is the native commander of a troop of cavalry, while the subahdar and jemidar rank respectively as captain and lieutenant—among themselves, that is, for in no circumstance does a native captain exercise any command over a British lieutenant. The Indian soldiers whose names are most familiar to the British public are the Sikh, the Rajput, the Gurkha and the Pathan. It was the Sikh, of course, who put up such a tremendous fight against England years ago, but who, once conquered, has ever since proved the loyalest of the loyal. Originally of Hindu origin, the Sikhs as a religious sect were founded by Nanak Shah in the fifteenth century, and reached the zenith of their military and political power under the famous Ranjit Singh (1780-1839). The Sikh is not born a Sikh, but is admitted or initiated as one when he reaches early manhood. INDIAN TROOPS IN ACTION ders and face resemble one mass of poison-oak burns. — Santa Barbara (Cal.) Dispatch to Los Angeles Times. Wasting Wealth. The United States produces about forty per cent of the total coal output of the world, writes George H. Cushing, in the Technical World Magazine. There are 17 separate commercial products made from coal and practically all of these are allowed in America to go up in smoke and are imported from Europe. TOUCHING EBOWS WITH FELLOW COMPATRIOTS the SENSE OF FEAR. IS NOMENTARILY ALLOWED TOUCHING HELLOWS WITH FELLOW COMPATRIOTS THE SENSE OF FEAR. IS MOMENTARILY ALLAYED less degree when we mentally place ourselves within range of the enemy's flesh-mangling shrap- nel, parrying the vicious thrust of a bowel-ripping bayonet or dodging the decapitating swing of a cavalryman's saber. And there are many of us who, if we were about to be placed in such a position, would—finch, to say the least. And then there are those, no one will ever know what proportion of the whole, who when ordered into action would drop out, flop over and play "possum or just plain "beat it." providing he could do so without attracting the attention of his more loyal comrades or being de- fected by his officers, which last eventuality he knows would result in a quick dealt penalty of death. Even if so disposed, such a getaway could, of course, be effected only in a thin line of troops advancing in open or extended order, where the chances of or opportunities for detection would be minimized, and where, too, such action would be likely to occur, because the individual is deprived of the moral support and psychological encouragement of elbow-touching comrades to spur him on. It is in the cognizance of this element in human nature, which is concrete rather than abstract, that the German commanders show their fine understanding of this phenomenon of temperamental idiosyncrasy, the mental attitude, if you please, of the soldier facing the enemy, for, after all, the soldier is only the average citizen in uniform. And this particular attitude of the soldier is the story, all over again, of the boy and the dark and the graveyard road. Alone and dissupported, he is the victim of fear. Touching elbows with fellow compatriots, the sense of fear either is momentarily allayed, or shame prevents an open display of it. Almost any man would accept the challenge of the risk in such environment rather than be called a coward by his comrades—or to be shot as such by a watchful officer. It is the understanding of this fact, for it is a fact, not a theory, that justifies and possibly compensates the Germans in their tactics of charging the enemy en masse. And then, too, the military experts, and even the layman, has learned that with the great advances made both in offensive and defensive means in modern warfare, the battles are won by masses rather than by the individual as the unit. When a certain objective is aimed at the commanders, having millions of men in hand and more in reserve, coldly calculate the sacrifice of many men to reach it, and to do so hurl men in solid masses at the enemy with the purpose of breaking him by sheer weight of numbers. The battle value of the individual as developed in wars of the past, when musket, bayonet and saber were prominent factors, is largely lost in the face of ultra-modern machinery devised for wholesale killing, which demands the co-operation of masses rather than the distinguishing activities of the individual. Such machinery makes for barbarism and brutal slaughter rather than civilized warfare, if war can be considered a civilized institution, but in this day of a bloodred continent it is a part of the game, and we must perforce accept it—New York Press. OPS IN ACTION from which date he never cuts his hair, and always wears an iron bangle on his wrist. By their religion, the Sikhs are forbidden to use tobacco in any shape or form. Equally at home in the saddle or on foot, the Sikh is a magnificent fighting man, and an awe-inspiring figure with his big beard, and great mustache curled up behind his ears. "Rajput" means literally, "son of a king," and the Rajputs are an intensely proud, reserved and silent race. They are the world's finest horsemen, bar none, though they do not disdain to serve in infantry regiments. They are very tall, upstanding men of magnificent "presence" and haughty demeanor, for they never forget or allow the spectator to forget that they are of royal blood. Inside his turban the Rajput carries a steel circle with sharp edges, and this he can hurl or throw with such deadly accuracy and force as to decapitate an enemy at many yards distance. "Rajput" means literally, "son of a king," and the Rajputs are an intensely proud, reserved and silent race. They are the world's finest horsemen, bar none, though they do not disdain to serve in infantry regiments. They are very tall, upstanding men of magnificent "presence" and haughty demeanor, for they never forget or allow the spectator to forget that they are of royal blood. Inside his turban the Rajput carries a steel circlet with sharp edges, and this he can hurl or throw with such deadly accuracy and force as to decapitate an enemy at many yards distance. Kipling has made us familiar with the Gurkha, who is "blood-brother" to the Highlanders, and the most cheerfully bloodthirsty little "devil" going. The Mongol descent shows itself in his broad, flat features and squat frame, and the contrast between him and the lordly Sikh or Rajput is comical in the extreme. --- For example, all the aniline dyes are byproducts of coal, yet scarcely any of these are made in this country, and all our big cities "belch great vats of gorgeous colors into the air daily." Creosote oil is another such product that goes to waste in smoke and is then imported. His Somnolent Periods. Anxious Mother—But, John, dear, when do you find time to sleep? John—Oh, I'm taking four lecture courses.—Cornell Widow. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Uncle Sam Will Text Your Watch location of European station The present war will have a serious effect on more than ten million white and Negro farmers who grow cotton in the South, according to a statement made by Dr. Booker T. Washington, the noted Negro educator, when seen at the capital on his arrival from Tuskegee, Ala. Doctor Washington said the depressed price of cotton would hamper the farmers in paying their debts, purchasing foods and other necessities and the raising of the next crop. He was much pleased, he said, with the remarks of President Wilson in outlining his attitude toward the Negro when he told the University Commission on Southern Race Questions that "our object is to know the needs of the Negro and sympathetically help him in every way that is possible for his good and our good." "Every thoughtful man North and South," he went on, "will agree with the president. I think his statement represents a growing liberal sentiment on the part of an increasingly large group of Southern white people." In regard to his suggestion made recently that each Negro family raise one or more additional pigs this year, to help bring about more prosperity in the South, Doctor Washington said: "I have been surprised to note how well this suggestion has been received and how many are following it. One church pastor in Uniiontown, Ala., went so far as to organize a pig club among the members of his congregation. "Now I want to make one other suggestion that in my opinion is of still greater and more practical importance. For months the great cry all through the South has been to stop the growing of cotton or to reduce the acreage. Chambers of commerce, business leagues, state legislatures and other bodies have adopted resolutions without end urging that we in the South stop growing so much cotton. To stop growing cotton is very easy; in fact it is always easy to stop work. But merely to stop growing cotton is a mere negative proposition and will not I fear, leave the South much better off than at present. If we destroy or cripple a great industry we should be very sure to have one or a number equally good to put in its place." Miss Belva Lockwood made a. address before a mass meeting of colored people at the Cosmopolitan Baptist church at Washington. The meeting was held in celebration of the anniversary of the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution. Rev. Simon P. Drew presided. Representative Willis of Ohio, governor elect of that state, and Representative Folconer of Washington, spoke. Others who took part were Dr. Harvey Falconer of Washington, spoke. Othist church; Miss Hattie P. Ivy of Howard university; Prof. James Wright, Prof. John T. Layton and Rev. F. W. Dixon of Berean Baptist church Two thousand Negroes assembled in the Bethel A. M. E. church at Chicago to hear the fifth annual essay contest held under the auspices of the Bethel Literary club on "The Best Solution of the Race Problem in the United States." Those who read essays on this subject were Frank W. Henry, Carey B. Lewis, Joseph Marshall, Leonora T. Curtice, and Irene McCoy Games. The prize winners were Lewis and Miss Ganes. Each was presented with a diamond ring. The Delaware state board of education has received a communication from the Negro teachers in the district south of Wilmington in which it is asserted that the condition in the Negro schools is deplorable. It is alleged that teachers are employed who are not properly qualified; that the clerks in many districts disburse the taxes without accounting to the district; that in many instances the state dividend is not sufficient to pay the teachers' salaries and in such cases it is necessary for the teacher to give entertainments to raise the necessary amounts, all of which tends to be detrimental to the schools. They suggest that conditions would be improved if county commissions or superintendents are empowered to fix the tax for double the amount of duplicates; the provision of a state supervisor of Negro schools; enforcement of laws with reference to Negro commissioners, increased salaries for teachers and an eight-month instead of a seven-month school year. Wife suing because husband treated her as a cook apparently doesn't know when she is being well treated. The Deutsches Theater in Berlin opened its season August 28. The owners and the managers of the theater have announced that ten per cent of their gross returns of every performance will be given to the Red Cross, and that they are willing to carry all the risk and forego any profit. The tusks of an ordinary elephant weigh 120 pounds and are worth $300. it requires 12,000 elephants to supply 650 tons of ivory to the English market. Sheffield takes one-third. Uricle Sam Wril Test Your Watch Regular testing of watches for the public was inaugurated by the United States bureau of standards recently, thus taking up the testing and certification of watches in a similar manner to that carried on by the Kew observatory in England, the Besançon observatory in France and the Geneva and Neuchâtel observatories in Switzerland. Preliminary tests upon the various types and makes of American watches have already been made, the results of which have been the modifi- The American Negro and the American Indian have really been succeeding in farming, in teaching, and in business during the recent years, and Hampton, therefore, has a valid public appeal to make, not only for its continued support by rich and generous men and women, but also for the spread of its educational aims, methods, and ideals, which have received the hearty indorsement of leading American and foreign educators. Hampton's lateral influence is publicly recognized by men like Dr. Wallace Butterick, and Dr. Wickliffe Rose. Distinguished foreigners, including Sir Horace Plunkett and Alexander Fraser, declare that Hampton is an important factor in the solution of perplexing problems of race adjustment through education. These tributes to Hampton need no words of explanation. "If a man is looking for a sure way to benefit the Negro race or the Indian race in the United States, let him send money to Hampton institute, making no restrictions concerning its use. He will surely get a large return in benefice."—Charles W. Ellot. "Hampton is perhaps doing more for the future peace and prosperity of this country than any other institution in it."—Robert C. Ogden. "I have always loved Hampton and I love her more and more because she is not only giving the Negro knowledge, but is seeing and reaching the needs of the race as no other institution is doing."—Booker T. Washington, who is Hampton's most distinguished graduate. "Hampton stands for dignity of labor and for the self-respect which is justified in any man when he has learned to do one thing well."—Francis G. Peabody. "There is nothing that offers such an opportunity for the wealthy man of this country as the cause of Negro industrial education in the South. Hampton is the solution of the Negro problem."—William H. Taft. A three days session of the board of directors of the Negro Baptist General State convention was held at Waco, Tex. The chief work of the board was the formulation of plans for the missionary and educational work of the Negroes during the coming year. The work of the convention is done through eight boards, each of which is under the supervision of a financial secretary. Two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars has been raised during the past year for the conventional work. The convention is supporting three educational institutions in Texas for the training of the Negro youth — Boyd's Institute at Oakwood, Central Texas college at Waco and Guadalupe college near Seguin. Another big institution fostered by the Negroes is St. John's Institute and Orphans' home near Austin. It is said to be the largest Negro orphanage in the world. The plant is valued at $200,000. The following secretaries were present: Church extension, W. R. Tolliver, Calvert; educational, W. H. Fuller, Austin; ministers relief, S. T. Floyd, Sherman; endowment, A. W. Early, Palestine; state missions, J. G. Gathings, Goliad; foreign mission, James Kelly, Waco; publication, M. M. Haynes, Austin; orphans home, A. Moore, Austin. Shanghai recently saw the opening of the first street-car system financed, constructed and operated solely by Chinese. Kindergarten for colored children are being adopted in different parts of the South as one of the agencies for improving social conditions that have troubled two generations. Richmond, Va., has lately opened an experimental kindergarten which has already created such interest among Negro parents and the school authorities that it is expected it will soon be made permanent. The Richmond kindergarten was opened by the National Kindergarten association of New York at the request of Richmond people who knew of the success of the demonstration given among colored children at Chattanooga, Tenn., where the local association assumed the care and support of the school. Kindergarten for white children in the South have also been started by the association and later carried on locally. Sabullite is the name of a new high power explosive, tests of which have lately been made in British Columbia. It can be handled without danger, and is cheaper than dynamite, which has only about one-third of its destructive effect. It is used for blasting purposes only. The areas of the nine Canadian provinces in square miles are: Quebec, 706,834; Ontario, 407,252; British Columbia, 357,600; Alberta, 253,540; Saskatchewan, 250,650; Manitoba, 251,832; New Brunswick, 27,985; Nova Scotia, 21,428, and Prince Edward islands, 2,184. There is serious work in progress to educate the Negro along sensible lines so as to increase his efficiency, his sense of responsibility and his usefulness as a citizen, and gratifying results are being achieved cation of European testing methods and the establishment of certain standards of tolerances for practical service. The possession of a government certificate will enable the owner of a "certified watch" to know that he has a timepiece which conforms to the average and reasonable performances of high-grade adjusted watches. The fees for tests will merely cover the actual cost of the trials. There are 2,640 daily and 572 Sunday papers in the United States. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course.) LESSON FOR JANUARY 17 THE CALL OF GIDEON. LESSON TEXT-Judges 6:11-13. 32-40 read entire chapter. GOLDEN TEXT-Blessed is the maw whom thou choosest.-Ps. 6-4. We have before us now the fourth apostasy and servitude of Israel, one which seems to have affected chiefly the four northernmost tribes (v. 35). in preparation for the call and work of Gideon, the sixth judge, "the children of Israel cried unto heaven," and God sent unto them a prophet who encouraged their flagging faith in Jehovah and turned them back to him (6:1-10). The now impoverished and overridden Israelites, who had enjoyed prosperity after their former deliverance, had again done evil and must first judge their sin and obey the voice of Jehovah before they could receive a message of hope and deliverance through one of Jehovah's prophets. God's Call to Glideon. 1. Glideon in Prayer, v.11:13. That the "angel of Jehovah" was a manifestation of Jehovah is clear from a careful reading of verse 13. There the first use of the word "lord" is not capitalized, whereas in the second instance it is capitalized. This angel was a foreshadowing of the incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth. He is clearly identified with Jehovah (see Judges 2.1, 2; Gen. 16:10, 13, R. V). It was thus that Abraham saw "my day" (John 8:56). "The angel of the Lord" at no time appears after Jesus came, as the revised text shows. The nomadic Midianites brought ruin to Israel as the bitter fruit of its sin. Then uttered the cry for relief (Ps. 130). The father of Glideon is passed by, for he was a worshiper of Baal (v. 25). They who bear the vessels of the Lord, those through whom he works, must have clean hands. God's call to Glideon came to him (1) as he was faithfully performing his duty, that one nearest his hand (v. 1, Ex. 3:1, 2; Luke 2:8, 9). It was a strange word, "thou mighty man of valour," one of fact and prophecy as well. It was a brave thing, thus to be faithful and to receive this call (3) in a time of great distress and danger. The sequel, which forms next Sunday's lesson, is the fulfillment of the prophecy. II. Gideon in Doubt, vv. 13-16. Gideon's thought must have been one of amazement as well as of doubt. His question, "Why then is all this beafalen us?" was a most natural one and one that men even now are asking when they are in great trouble. Suffering and misery are not all to be laid at God's door, though he permit it, but chief at the door of sin (Ps. 77:7-9; Isa. 49:1, 2). It is possible that Gideon had not yet recognized his heavenly visitor (cf. v. 21). The name Gideon means "Hewer" or "Treefeller" and indicates, as all eastern names do, something of his personal character or appearance. Hence the significance of v. 14. The Lord in the person of the angel looked upon him and said, seeing all of his natural qualifications, but with the emphasis upon the "T—" "Go in thy might . . . have not I sent thee?" Gideon Was the Agent. III. Gideon Assured, vv. 33-35. Gideon's first act on being assured of this heavenly communication was one of worship (vv. 17-26). His second one was to take ten picked men and overthrow the altar to Baal, thereby demonstrating the impotence of Baal and the futility of calling upon him for deliverance. The tribeenbe at once light upon him as having performed this act and demand his death from Joash, his father, who seems to have been a sort of caretaker of the idol (v. 25). These same men later become Gideon's enthusiastic followers (vv. 34). Gideon thus translated theory into action and gained confidence. It was one man against the community, and to further rebuke him he erected an altar to Jehovah (v. 28). an altar to Jehovah (v. 28). No blast from Baal struck him or any mark of displeasure, hence the suggestiveness of the words of Joash (v. 31). But now there is another raid (v. 33), and God is about to strike a blow on behalf of Israel. Whenever men get right with God Satan plans a special assault, 2 Tim. 3:12. A literal rendering of verse 34 is, "the Spirit of the Lord clothed himself with Gideon." Gideon was merely the agent, the instrument through whom and by whom Jehovah is about to do a mighty work. The only satisfactory and sufficient equipment we can have for effective service is the endurement of the Holy Spirit, Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4, 5. 8. This notice endurement came upon, took charge of, Gideon after he had by obedient service shown his trustworthiness. Men recognized in his trumpet call a note of the authority God had intrusted him with and of which his previous acts were a demonstration. IV. Gideon's Caution, vv. 36-40. Spurgeon said that he never entered his pupil to preach without trembling, and Gideon would have been more than human, even after assembling his army, had he been absolutely free from doubts. We should never place an "if" before any of God's promises, and Jesus reprimanded those of his day when they demanded a "sign" (wonder), but Gideon proved his heremism in part by his caution. Gideon was afraid of himself but was sure of God. Once assured of God's leading he was willing to lead 300 men against the overwhelming force of his enemies. If such a demand was a weakness God dealt with it with marvelous patience and tenderness, just as he he descends to treat our weaknesses. The very life of the nation is at stake, everything depends upon Gideon's success or failure. A. B. Mrs. Mattle E. Winn, the successful Divine Healer who has healed people from all parts of the state. She says: "When they come to me sick, they go away well, giving God the praise. I cured Mr. Agee, who had been paralyzed for three years; Mrs. Selldier of Dewitt, Mo., and many others who came to my home at Tripplett, Mo. And all that are sick can come to me between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. and be healed. My address is Box 88, Tripplett, Mo."—adv. FREE BEautiful Illustrated Booklet FOR EVERY COLORED WOMAN Shows all the latest styles in colored Ladies' Hair and Toilet Articles. 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Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Grand Commandery Officers. W. G. Mosely, Kansas City, Mo., R. E. G. C. J. H. Sherwood, St. Paul, Minn., G. E. G. P. C. Kincald, 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. Grand Chapter Officers. Geo. Broomfield, G. H. P., St. Louis, Mo. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Mofitte, G. S., Sedalia, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Sec'y, Kansas City, Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. R. T. Coles, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Meyers. Wm. Washington, F. P. Porteet, T. W. H. Williams, W. G. Moseley, J. E. Herrford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Wiley. 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 meet F. 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Sunday by Appointment Bell Grand 2553W DENTIST Gold Crown, Bridges and Plates A Specialty Painless Extraction 716 East 12th St. Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. C. A. Smith has opened a branch office of MRS. S. BEDFORD'S Wonderful Hair Grower & Scalp Treatment This treatment has proved to be a wonderful success. Mrs. Smith will receive patients for treatment from From 8:30 a. m. to 6:00 p. m. at her residence. 11th and Highland Every ingredient used on the hair is perfectly safe and Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction Bell Phone, East 4975. Best Shine in K.C. 5c For Ladies Gents AGENCY FOR The Kansas City Son. The Crisis, The New York Age, The Freeman and All Daily Papers Ice Cream and Soda Cigars and Tobacco HENRY SHUMAKER 1702 East 18th St. THE KANSAS CITY SUN All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Street Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1968, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1873. Nelson C. Crews. Editor and Owner Willa B. Glenn. General Manager J. H. Hirsch. Adv Agent G. E. THOMPSO N. Adv Agent Rosa Morton. Collector Almeda Johnson. Collector Elmer Craig. Collector KANSAS CITY, KAS, BRANCH OFFICE 849 Freeman Avenue. Miss Eva P. Washington. Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months $7.50 Three Months $5.00 ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Cristian Church, 19th and Tracy. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlottesville. Alen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Cassius Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kansas. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. Blue Valley Baptist Church, 1120 Crystal avenue. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Centennial Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, MO. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Third Baptist Church, Roundtop. People's Mission, 30th and Genesee. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pligrum Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Ashley. Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lydia. Preserve Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. G. M. E. Baptist Church, 4059 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN, CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Spiritual. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bethlehem A. M. E. Water and Steward Streets. K. A. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro, 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, 24th and Ruby Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee, Paul A. M. A. E. Zion Church, 400 Dunlap EDITORIALS. - President Wilson declares himself to be the captain of the team but the players are insisting that the captain shall not play all the positions in the game. The dignified United States senators readily took an undignified position upon the question of Negro immigration, but the cosmopolitan representatives saved the day by their coolness and loyalty to real Americanism. Southern statesmen who boast of being the best friends of the Negro should show some evidences of their friendship other than disfranchisement, denial of educational privileges, segregation, confiscation of property, debauchery of womanhood and frustrations of legal rights. Every slum ward in every big city is Democratic. In every big city the votes of the ignorant and vicious are Democratic. Every Democratic state attempts in some manner to abuse the civic rights of Negro citizens. Yet there are always enough colored men capable of being influenced by the same Democratic party to the end that it is kept in its unholy power. The Unthank Pharmacy has been sold to the "white competitor across the street." While the Negro enterprise was a paying proposition and a good price was realized in the transaction, yet most of the colored patrons preferred to give their trade to the white firm and the inevitable followed. The two stores will be merged and there will be no Negro drug store on Independence avenue. Intelligent and patriotic citizens of Missouri are anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of administrative promises toward reforming the legal code of the commonwealth. The highest guarantee of safe and happy citizenship lies in simple, swift and honest issues in all contentions in the courts. That a man guilty of a crime should be able to free himself by means of technicalities and quibbling delays simply because he has money, is inconceivably at variance with every principle of popular government. The dance tendered by Messrs. Dabney, Love, Hueston, Herriford and Dawley in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Crittenden Clark of St. Louis, at Lyric hall last Saturday evening shows how the Kansas City social instinct can "come back" after such a strenuous period as that the holiday week preceding. Although the affair was announced as informal the gay attire of the over one hundred guests rivaled that of the most brilliant events of the year. For the reason that Mr. and Mrs. Clark are-always "at home" to their Kansas City friends both are very popular in this city and our people can always be relied upon to show Health Hints By Dr. Lloyd E. Bailer A weekly discussion of Hygiene and Sanitation, First Aid Measures and Preventive Medicine. Questions will be answered but no diagnoses nor prescriptions will be given in this column. B A ON COLD FEET Each season of the year has its attendant disorders of the physical economy. We say disorders because we do not wish to confuse them with seasonal diseases. Such disorders may pass unnoticed; noticed they may seem not to merit serious attention. The subject of cold feet, which is a common disorder of the winter season will fit with equal ease and readiness into any of the above mentioned classes. The term "cold feet" is sometimes used in popular parlance to designate a condition of the mind characterized by deficient will power and courage. Our discussion of the subject however shall be confined to the physical aspects. It must be remembered that the feet like the nose are the most distant parts of the body from the center pumping station of the circulatory system—the heart, so that naturally in these parts, sluggishness in the circulation will first and most persistently be felt. Indeed for the most part, insufficient supply of arterial blood to the extremeties is the cause of cold feet. In old people degenerative conditions of the blood vessels predispose to cold feet. In persons suffering from chronic diseases or those convalescent from acute diseases a condition of anemia or improvised blood exists which may occasion cold feet. These cares, however are so greatly in the minority as to justly calling them the exceptions. The great majority of cases of cold feet on the other hand, are due to insufficient circulation caused, either by irrational clothing or lack of the proper physical exercise. Cold feet through irrational clothing can be caused by using garters or thick footwear with tight shoes, owing to the circulation of the blood being thus interfered with in the lower extremities. It is their appreciation of such honored guests. After the national House of Representatives had overwhelmingly defended the senate item in the immigration bill providing for the future exclusion of black races from this country it came back with the passage of a bill to prohibit intermarriage of black and white races in the District of Columbia. The fact that there have been no such marriages in the district for many years apparently did not detract from the urgency of such a measure. Something had to be done to show to the world that the American white race has its heel upon the neck of the Negro and that the "inferior" race must be kept in mind of its humiliation and woe. The act was a mere word advertisement of the unchristian, ungrateful attitude of the white man toward the most patriotic and helpful contingent of the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. TROY. KANSAS. Mrr. Clifford Lair of St. Joseph is spending the week with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lair of this city....Miss Mintle Wilkinson and Master Matthew Wilkinson were guests of Mrs. Maggie McCurry of Elwood, Kansas last Sunday....Mr. Bert Breenbridge of White Cloud, Kansas was in Troy attending to business at the court house Monday....Mr. Jean Holland of Jefferson City, Mo., is visiting his brothers and sisters of this city....Mr. Sam Beard of Wathena was transacting business at the court house this week....Mr. Geo Lair is the only colored man on the jury at this term of court....Ms. Osia Butcher has returned to the city after having spent several weeks visiting her parents in Jefferson City, Mo....Mrs. Amy Snyder and son. Mr. Stanley Snoyer were shopping in St. Joseph, Mo. Saturday....Mr. Mal Mack of Doniphan, Kansas was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Mack Sunday....Misses Rosa Snyder and Beatrice Martin were the guests of Wathena, Kansas Sunday evening. Mr. Julius Butcher was a St. Joseph visitor Sunday....Mr. Geo Lair attended the funeral of a friend in Horton, Kansas Sunday....Miss Emma Fonts and Mr. Lush Fonts of Highland, Kansas were transacting business in Troy this week....Mrs. Mable Gaskin gave a surprise party for her husband Mr. Wm. Gaskin it being his birthday Friday, January 8. A very pleasant time was spent and none but Troy's Elite were in attendance....Mrs. Nellie E. Howard was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Breckenridge of White Cloud, Kansas from Monday until Wednesday....Mrs. Florence Hughes of St. Joseph, Mo., was the guest of Mrs. Dora Lee one day the past week....Mrs. Myrtle Smith of Des Moines, Ia, who has been visiting Mrs. Lee has returned to St. Joseph Mo. to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Hughes until time to return to her home....Mr. Henry Parker the barber at Mr. Geo. Lair's shop has resigned his position and gone to Kansas City where they will look after him better and Mr. Charles Schumacher is at his old post. SALISBURY, MO. Mrs. Lizzie Hargrove was united in holy wedlock to Mr. M. C. Horg Friday, January 8 at the family residence... Mrs. Gooch has been quite ill but is slowly improving at this writing... Prof. Bolden, principal of the Public schools is meeting with quite a success in his educational efforts. The school is well attended. of no use to wear thick woolen socks or stockings to retain the natural warmth of the feet unless the shoes are large enough to prevent their causing any compression of the feet and thereby defeat their purpose by preventing the entrance into the feet of that warmth which they were intended to retain. A layer of air between the shoes and the feet is a highly efficient means of retaining warmth. Hence, it follows that reasonably loose footwear and shoes are necessary to the proper circulation of blood in the feet and consequently an essential factor in keeping the feet warm. Physical exercise is as a rule an efficient preventive against and treatment for cold feet as it is through the muscular contraction produced by walking or running that heat is generated and the heart stimulated. Women suffer more generally from cold feet than men largely because of transgression upon these two important laws of personal hygiene, namely; the use of suitable footwear and shoes and the taking of proper physical exercise. We would add that the daily footbath should be used in aggravated cases of cold feet. The warm footbath may last five or ten minutes. This should be following immediately by immersion in cold water. This latter procedure should occupy not more than two seconds of time, after which energetic rubbing of the feet will produce active circulation and a feeling of warmth and comfort in the feet. It is the solemn duty of all persons who suffer in winter from cold feet to the measures against this preventable disorder which is frequently the forerunner and cause of coughs and colds, bronchitis, influenza or lagripe, rheumatism, tonsillitis and pneumonia and many of the innumerable ills and maladies to which girlhood and womanhood are especially liable. CHILLICOTHE, MO. Mr. Harold Estes of Des Moines, la...is visiting relatives and friends....Miss Lucille Stapleton of Omaha, Nebr., arrived last Monday to give her assistance at the home of her uncle, Mr. M. Kingsberry, where his brother, Mr. Chas, Kingsberry has been seriously ill for several weeks....Mr. and Mrs. Wm. aNince and son spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Hanni balance last week....Mr. and Mrs. Clark of St. Joseph, Mo., arrived last Friday to be with Mrs. Rachel Wolf scale who has been ill for sometime ...Mrs. Clem Brown is visiting in St. Joseph, Mo. ...Rev. P. C. Crews of Columbia, Mo., visited Rev. Chas. Crews who is on the sick list and Mrs. Ann Saunders last week. Rev. Crews preached at Bethel church Wednesday... Miss Rebecca Sawyer entertained the Bachelor girls last Saturday afternoon... Rev. Burbridge was given a surprise by the members and friends of Bethel church last Thursday night under the leadership of Mrs. Tina Montgomery and Miss Mary Potts. Fruits, vegetables and meats were carried by the members of the party. If anything was overlooked it was the opportunity for one of the young ladies herself to be the parson's helppueet or better still his help eat at that appropriate time... Say what you will about the triumph of the Christian religion we readily confess and boast of the Kansas City Sun worshippers in this city. It is to be wished that many persons in and out of this state will begin to worship with us under the terms of $1.0 for a yearly subscription if taken this month FARMINGTON, MO Mrs. Laura Kennedy was in Coffman a part of, last week in the interest of her hair trade...Mr. Joseph Calvin of Festus spent the greater part of the week as the guest of his uncle Mr. Peter Swink. He left Saturday for his home...Messrs. Cordie Taylor and Leon Hill of Bonne Terre were visitors in the city Saturday and Sunday, the former visiting his mother, Mrs. Eliza Blackwell...Dr. B. F. Abbott pastor of Union Memorial M. E. church in St. Louis was secured to deliver an address for the Drys of the local option campaign to deliver an address. He arrived Friday and addressed an overwhelming audience at the court house. His address was eloquent, pointed and logical and surpassed any address delivered since the campaign has been waging... The white citizens were so well pleased with the Dr.'s address that a committee secured his services for a return date Monday, January 11 the 12 being election day. HOLDEN, MO. Mr. Sherman Brown has been on the sick list for a week but is reported better new...Mrs. Tom Lee has two very sick children...Mrs. Emma Dood spent Saturday and Sunday in Centerview with her many friends...Mr. and Mrs. Jas, Taylor entertained a family circle, the evening was spent in games...The south side Hunting club were defeated in a three days' hunt by the west side scoring the winning number and catching all the rabbits that were caught on this trip...Mrs. Andrew Harden who has been ill for the past month is reported not much better...Rev. W. Walker rendered a very delightful sermon at the Second Baptist church last Sunday...Mr. Johnnie Drake spent Saturday and Sunday in Holden with friends...Mr. W. Sims attended the lodge at Warrenburg Saturday night and reported a splendid meeting. LITTLE COURT That "Chitlin" suppers are not so numerous. Why? —That whatsoever you sow that shall ye also reap. Do you believe it? —That "rags are royally raiment when worn for virtues sake." Amen. —That if you miss that dollar rate for the Sun you will regret it all the year. —That every Negro in the two Kansas Cities should attend the Bishop Grant Memorial exercises Friday the 22nd. —That a woman looks at a woman to see what she wears—a man to see what she doesn't. Oh you naughty man. —That the definition of Alumnus is not exactly clear in the minds of some people. Look it up, friends. You may not be one. —That Henry Compton continues to serve at the Delmonico Cafe those splendid meals that has made his name famous throughout the west. —That here's a great hulabaloo on Woodland avenue because someone sent a charming young lady on that street a wash rag and bar of soap by parcel post special delivery some people are so funny. —That if men of the caliber of Drs. Holmes, Kealing, Thomas and Washington were secured each Sunday for the services at the Y. M. C. A., the auditorium would be crowded each Sunday to hear them. —That while a certain tough look- looking sinner was at the "mourner's bench" being prayed for the cork came out of a whiskey bottle he had in his pocket and the fumes like to broke up the meeting. —That a young lady came from the far west to cut a big swath in Kansas City society bringing $1,500 worth of diamonds but right behind her came the sheriff and took her and the diamonds back. Chillun let de white folk's stuff alone. MOBERLY, MO. The Second Baptist church of Mobery has called Rev. Geo. L. Migkins as pastor and he has accepted the call Pilgrim Rest Baptist church is in a big revival; baptized seven Sunday night. Rev. Swancy is being assisted by Rev. J. T. Thornley pastor at Glasgow, Mo. All four of the churches here are in a series of meetings. The Second Baptist church will give a grand reception Friday night in honor of the new pastor and wife. Mr. Luther Robinson departed this life January 8, and was buried at Huntsville, Mo. The funeral was from the Second Baptist church. Rev. J. Sterling Moore officiating. A wife, mother, brother, two sisters survive him...Mrs. Adeline Brown is on the sick list. Mr. Baker is slowly improving...Mrs. Jesse Alexander has bought a fine piece of property on West Franklin street...Mrs. H. S. Teeters of Huntsville was laid to rest Sunday at 2:30 p. m. The funeral was held at the A. M. E. church of which she was a member. She leaves a beloved husband, and a number of children and grand children to mourn her loss. Mr. Teeters was a high class Christian gentleman, a prominent Christian being secretary of Finney lodge No. 98 of Huntsville for a number of years. "I would not have you to be ignorant my brother concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if you be believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. The Sun extends sympathy to the bereaved. Moon's Live & Dressed Poultry Eggs, Butter and Fish, Fresh from the country, wholesale and retail. Rushing the season. Perhaps it would be to wear spring hats now, but we saw one on a woman the other day. Spring styles are here, right here we have them in all the latest shades and styles, fat hens haven't changed much, springs are very popular this season, while the style in broilers will remain as usual, only the ducks" are given a deeper shade. Moons live and dressed poultry, is constantly increasing their percentage on "good reputation." We actually have "the best of everything, quality and the cost is no more. For special prices, call bell phone, grand 1746W, 1325 E, 18th street. MOON BROS. 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M. C. A. NOTES Don't you know your relatives and friends who formerly lived in Kansas City, would enjoy the Sun for a present better than anything else you could send them? The rapidity with which the various gymnasium classes are developing is the surprise of all. An often repeated remark heard from out of town visitors where there are new Y. M. C. A. buildings is "I believe you have a more attractive building than we have." Investigation through questionaires show that only one city, Philadelphia, has a larger enrollment of boys in the boy's department than Kansas City. At the rate the boys are enrolling, Kansas City will soon head the list. The cities that already have modern buildings like Kansas City are Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and Indianapolis. The Business Mens' noon day class is composed of men from all walks of life. It has in its enrollment, two doctors, one Methodist and one Baptist minister, one taller, one dentist, one real estate dealer, one undertaker, one picture show manager, one dining car waiter, one merchant, one barber, one secretary and one pullman porter. It has been a theory with many association workers that small results are to be expected from the religious efforts in a new building. It is generally thought that the newness and the many details of the work for the first few months are such as to distract the attention of the members from the spiritual side of the association work. It is with gracious humility the workers in our new building are glad to report eleven men won to Christ. Most of these have joined the various churches of the city. Already this month six men have made decisions, two January 3, at the meeting addressed by Rev. R. Davis and four last Sunday when the meeting was addressed by Rev. D. A. Holmes. The men's meetings at present are held in the beautiful lobby 3:30 p. m. each Sunday. The fine reception every man receives makes each feel welcome. ROSEDALE, KANSAS Mr. John Weaver underwent an operation for his eyes Wednesday at the Bell Memorial hospital...Mrs. Henry Thornton entertained the Missionary Circle of the Pleasant Valley Baptist church at her residence Monday afternoon...Mrs. Geo. Schooler is president and Mrs. Thornton secretary and the circle is doing some very effective work...Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pearson wrote from Warwood, West Va. that they are enjoying their stay very much. Any subscriber square with our books can take advantage of our $1.00 rate by paying now. JOHN T. WATKINS. Phones: Home 7989 Main Bell 987 Grand THE NELSON GIRL Q Are you satisfied with your hair? Q Is it as long as it should be? q Is it soft and glossy and full of life? q Can you comb it out easily or is it full of tangles? q Are you proud of your hair? The Answer Is:--- Among the Churches SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. The entertainment given by the women of one of the clubs of the church at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith, 23 and Highland in honor of the church choir was a grand social success. They presented Miss Lulu Knox the organist with a beautiful gold ring set with a moonstone in appreciation of the efficiency to which she has attained. By hard work and application Miss Knox has proven herself to be a mistress of the pipe organ. Dr. S. W. Bacote as usual delivered an excellent sermon on "Wait on the Lord." There were four additions to the church. Miss Corrine Lester the president of the Leisure hour club which meets every Tuesday night is sparing no paines to make this organization a success. Brother James Anderson our excellent bartone singer is quite ill. Sister Ruth Price who was quite ill has so improved that she is able to be around. The church has started a fourteen days revival in which Mrs. Ida M. Becks of the National Foreign Mission board is conducting the Women's department This revival promises to be a great in gathering of souls. A torchlight street meeting was held at 6 and Oak streets Tuesday night and much good resulted. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. By the Christian Men's Flying Squadron of Ebenezer Chapel A. M. E. Church 16th and Lydia. We the undersigned men of the above named church seeing the very great and growing need of there being demonstrated in this city and particularly in the community in which our church is located, a more vital and a more practicable Christian life, have lined up with our pastor in the series of evangelistic meetings now on at our church for the purpose of bring THERON B. WATKINS. Res., Bell Phone 3281 East KANSAS CITY, MO. If you knew a sample box of Nelson's Hair Dressing, also a sample of Nelson's Scalp and Hair Cleaner and a sample cake of Nelson's Skin and Complexion Soap. in your own home, if they are not what we claim, you are not out anything. ing about a better condition in the religious life of this community. In order to obtain the largest measure of results from our efforts and to reach and influence the largest number of men of all walks of life, we have organized ourselves into the Christian Men's Flying Squadron for the purpose of reaching and influencing for a better life, every man in this community, whatever may be your creed, culture, color or condition. You can help us to accomplish our God given task. Therefore we not only invite but earnestly urge your hearty cooperation and personal assistance in the movement. For the evangelistic series of meetings now on at our church, our pastor made a splendid and wise selection of his assistance. He has secured the services of the Rev Dr. C. Elias Winston the famous vocal Evangelist. Dr. Winston is beyond doubt one of the best and most successful evangelists of America, regardless of race or color. He knows the "good old book" the Bible and knows how to harmonize, modernize and practicalize its wonderful teachings. His sermons to men are built for men and while they are pointed, pungent, and powerful, they are at the same time so gripping, thrilling and attention fixing as to fully envelope thinking men with that measure and degree of vital, fry enthusiasm which moves men to link lives with the Christ and then take delight in giving service in his great cause. Men, you must hear him in order to fully appreciate the above statement. Dr. Winston is truly a "man's man" just the kind and type of evangelist that appears to sensible, thinking, reasoning men both baint and sinners. He neither rants at nor grills men for their misdoings but with the loving, winning messages of the Christ makes his appeal directly to the religious consciousness and to the intellectual sensibilities of his brethren. And the result is that every man who hears him goes away helped. He speaks every night this month at our church. Hear him. Our Flying Squadron committee will meet you right at the door to welcome you Come. B. B. OFFICER B. B. OFFICER, R. J. HENDERSON, WILSON CLARK, HERBERT TILFORD, FRANK LOWE, Secretary, W. C. WILLIAMS, Pastor, C. ELIAS WINSTON, Evangelist. COMMITTEE— JOSEPH GIVENS, Chm., T. MOORE, C. A. FRANKLIN, PROF. T. B. STEWART, C. G. GRIFEN, M. RICHARDSON. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: You who are suffering from loss of hair or any scalp disease, you can try the hair Tonic a trial, Mrs. Simpson's Vegetable Salve will make harsh dry hair soft and pliable and probar dry hair soft and pliable and probar heads and temples and shows results from the first treatment. It will grow faster than the first treatment market. It is good for all scalp diseases such as pin heads, eczema, dandruff, tatter, and for all sore and itching scalp diseases. It has done all the others, it will do for you. Simpson's Hair Tonic..... $ .50 Simpson's Salve..... $ .50 Singering and Clipping..... $ .25 Treatments..... 1.00 Miss Lillie Page will give treatments at 201 Garfield Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Mrs. Simpson. **Recommendations** I have been treated on a diseased scalp ever since I could remember and my hair had come out until I was almost bald. I had tried over preparation and put on a scalp cream. I heard of nothing did me any good. Two years ago I went to Mrs. Simpson and she recommended a scalp using her own remedies. I could see good results from the first treatment, can high recommend Simpson's Vet Clinic's Hair Tortoise who desire a nice growth of hair or are troubled with any kind of scalp disease. I consulted the Lord for these wonderful remedies. LILLIE PAGE. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING Has no superior as a hair beautifier Thousands of men and women have improved the appearance of their hair by using NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING. For those who know—it is a toilet necessity. Ask your druggist. If he cannot supply you, send us his name and address and we will send you a free sample. NELSON MFG. CO. RICHMOND, VA. THE NELSON GIRL Mrs. J. W. Suthers is ill at her home 1731 Virginia. Try Butter Cream bread today and you will buy no other. CACTUS REMEDY CO., 2209 E. 9th. Cactus is a home product. Mrs. Ruby Lockhart, 1327 Michigan has been ill with lagripe. Mrs. Effie Hall of Omaha visited Mrs. Ruby Lockhart, 1327 Michigan. Miss M. E. Robinson, 613 McGee street is confined to her home with lagripe. What more suitable gift could you present a friend than a year's sub- scription to the Kansas City Sun? Poro hair dressing, hair weaving and facial massaging. Scalp treatment a specialty. Mrs. E. Norles, 1737 Paseo, upstairs. For RENT—Four room cottage, new, partly modern, newly papered in a good neighborhood, 608 Steptoe. Call at 4217 Mill Creek. Mrs. J. D. Reed is at home again 1226 Vine street after an extended visit to Chicago, French Lick, Indianapolis and Laclede, Mo., and reports a delightful trip. Mrs. G. W. Panks, Melvin, Okla., Mrs. M. D. Blanton, Muskogee, Okla., and Mrs. Corrine Lester and Mrs. Higginbotham were callers to the Sun office Tuesday. Mrs. Minerva Harris of 2643 Highland who is rapidly recovering from her recent illness is visiting her other daughter at Excelsior Springs, Mo. Mrs. Florence Lee Hawkins of Fort Scott, Kansas, who is the representative of Mrs. P. M. Dabeney's XX Century Hair preparations spent several days in this city this week. "THE HAITIAN RESOR —Or Sidelights of the Free —By T. G. STEWART, RETIRED CH U. S. A true and accurate account chains, made themselves free, e and constructed a state that ha century without help. PRICE, WM. H. DAWLEY, JR. FREE! FREE! The above book to anyone bring One Dollar Each T. G. STEWART, RETIRED CHAPLAIN 25TH INFANTRY U. S. A. A true and accurate account of black men who broke their chains, made themselves free, expelled their former masters, and constructed a state that has stood the twelve tests of a century without help. PRICE. $1.25 FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! The above book to anyone bringing Six New Subscribers of One Dollar Each for the Sun. The following names were omitted from the Card of Thanks in last week's issue by Mrs. Lucy Page: Mrs. Louise Bradshaw, Mrs. A. Grant, Mrs. M. Wortham, Mrs. Labe Smith. Fannie Marjorie Hemsley, the two year old daughter and only child of Mr. and Mrs. John Hemsley of 2640 Highland died last Wednesday after a short illness from pneumonia and was buried Friday at Lee Summit, Mo. The Sun extends its sympathy. Gone from this world of pain and sorrow To the home where suffering is not known Peaceful be thy rest, dear mother Tis sweet to breathe thy name In life we loved you dearly In death we do the same. MR. AND MRS.-S. D. SCRUGGS, MR. AND MRS. JAS EDMOND, MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH CARTER, MR. AND MR. WM. TAYLOR, MISS HATTIE MOORE. Friends of Mrs. Crittenden Clark, who is visiting from St. Louis have vied with each other in her entertainment this week. Numerous house parties and other social functions have been given for her and a special dance at Lyric Hall has been arranged for Saturday evening. The Odd Fellows and Ruth choir will give an entertainment Tuesday the benefit of their treasury at the residence of Mrs. D. Moore, 2522 Michigan avenue. Everybody is invited. Mr. T. A. Wheeler, 2323 Highland avenue is very ill with pneumonia under the efficient care of Dr. M. G. Brookins. Health, Happiness and Prosperity, are yours when you understand the all providing law of abundant supply. This is no longer a mere figment of the imagination but a proven scientific fact. If you are interested, investigate. If unable to call, write. H. J. HOWELL, Metaphysical Practitioner 1533 Baltimore avenue Kansas City, Mo Mrs. Hattie Foster, my sister, who left Fort Scott, Kass, 15 or 20 years ago. She has since married. Anyone knowing of her whereabouts will kindly write Sam Foster, 344 E. 41st street, Chicago, Ill. "Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman" and "Why Jesus Never Married."...There is a reason...Do you desire to know why?...If so, send 10 cents in stamps and get the booklet containing the addresses and proceedings of the second anniversary of Sidney C. Tapp's books on the sex law of the Bible...Address Sidney C. Tapp, 406 Reliance Building, Kansas City, Mo. MUSIC LESSONS. Miss F. M. Jones. Instructor. 1642 E. 23 street. H. J. HOWELL, WANTED TO FIND. In fond memory of W. G. Allen who died January 10, 1914, one year ago today. How long and dream has been, the How long and dreary has been the year Since our boy passed away. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of my dear hus band, Archie G. Howard, who depart ed this life two years ago, January 14, 1913. Gone but not forgotten. In my heart there is a sorrow That will never pass away For I mourn my loving husband, Who to heaven has gone away. MRS. LULU HOWARD. His smiling face and words of cheer, We miss them more each day. Day by day we are learning To say, "God's will be done"; But yet our hearts are ever yearning To behold you again, my son, our brother. MRS. ELIZABETH ALLEN, LENA ALLEN, ROBERT ALEN, LOUIS ALLEN, FRANK ALLEN, DAVID ALLEN, J. E. ALLEN. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of our darling husband and father Howard Albert Anderson who died two years ago January 14, 1913. Just two years ago you left us; How we miss you Howard dear, And remember all the kindness As we drop a silent tear. More and more each day we miss you; Friends may think the wound is healed. But they little know the sorrow That bides within our hearts con- cealed. Mrs. MAYME ANDERSON, Little daughter Martha. IN MEMORIAM. In fond remembrance of our dear mother, Susan B. Taylor, who died two years ago January 19, 1913. In the silent shade of Woodlawn, In a narrow casket bed Lies our dear mother With the calm and peaceful dead. REVOLUTION 1791-1804' — French Revolution by CHAPLAIN 25TH INFANTRY S. A. A lot of black men who broke their expelled their former masters, has stood the twelve tests of a , $1.25 2126 TRACY FREE! FREE! Hanging Six New Subscribers of fish for the Sun. Gone from this world of pain and sorrow To the home where suffering is not known Peaceful be thy rest, dear mother Tis sweet to breathe thy name In life we loved you dearly In death we do the same. MR. AND MRS- S. D. SCRUGGS, MR. AND MRS. JAS EDMOND, MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH CARTER, MR. AND MR. WM. TAYLOR, MISS HATTIE MOORE. The following donations were received by the Child Protective League for the Colored Good Fellows for the Xmas distribution is as follows: Pleasant Green church..... $ 2.10 Second Baptist church..... 5.10 Episcopal church..... 1.00 Centennial church..... 3.00 Lincoln Ward school..... 3.00 Lincoln High school..... 6.55 Garrison school..... 7.3 Douglass School clothing White Good Fellows..... 10.00 Penefit at 12th street theater..... 12.80 Cosmopolitan Lodge (O. F)..... 5.00 R. T. Coles Lodge (Masonic)..... 5.00 General subscriptions..... 16.02 Grand Total..... $70.30 J. L. Matson, 1 bushel of turpels, 1 dozen cans of syrup, 10 pounds of navy beans. W. C. Moon, one young turkey. Mrs. Owens, 1 can of tomatoes, 1 can peas. Sprangles Dairy, 1 pound of pig tails. Evans Cook ship, two dozen doughnuts, one pie, two dozen cup cakes. Mrs. Daniels, two head of cabbage, two rabbits. Eagle grocery, four chickens, one peck onions, one bushel turnips. White Good Fellows, one bucket candy, one sack rabbits, one box of cookies. 87 families were reached and made happy on Xmas day. Methodism in the United States. Methodism did not start in this country at Boston in the year 1760. It was in New York city, in 1766, that the tenets of Wesley were introduced to the people of the United States by a "few pious emigrants from Ireland." IN MEMORIAM. IN MEMORIAM. IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM. COLORED GOOD FELLOWS. Women's Club Notes Women's Club Notes The Social Pathfinders will entertain with a party at the home of Miss Bertha Smith, 1320 Michigan on January 20, 1915. Members urged to be present. Visitors welcome. The Coterie club was royally entertained by Mrs. Hamilton, 1009 Vine street. Next week the club will meet with Mrs. Boyd, 915 Vine street. All members are urged to be present. Election of officers. CARNATION ART CLUB The Carnation Art club met Friday with Mrs. Roland Huff as hostess. A very pleasant meeting was held. Delightful refreshments were served and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Todd the 15th at 1327 Michigan avenue. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY ART CLUB. The Phyllis Wheatley Art club kept open house at the beautiful home of Mrs. Briggs, 2532 Summit street. The decorations which were admired by all were arranged by the artist Mr. Wm. Briggs. Two hundred persons called during the day. The club met with Mrs. Weaver with a large attendance and adjourned to meet with Mrs. Mason, January 14 and Mrs. Howard, 1914 Olive street January 21st. MRS. E. BERRY, Pres. MRS. G. G. MASON, Reporter. OAK LEAF ART CLUB Oak Leaf Art club gave a beautiful New Year's party at the residence of Mrs. Helen McDonald, 2452 Euclid avenue. The members and guests engaged in music and cards. After dainty refreshments were served everyone one declared Mrs. McDonald a charming hostess. All were delighted to have the next meeting at the same place which was largely attended January 8. MRS. HELEN M'DONALD, President. MRS. RAY, Secretary. MISS AMANDA E. WHEELER, Assistant Reporter. THE FRIENDLY VISITORS. The Friendly Visitors of the Provident association wish to extend their thanks to those who so kindly contributed to the concert and Christmas tree at Garrison Square Field House December 24. About two hundred and thirty bags of candy, nuts and fruit were given to the children. The toys were sent to the nursery. About 60 persons were present and enjoyed the concert. Donations to Christmas tree and concert: Miss Harriett Walton, $1.10; Mr. P. James, $1.00! Mr. Frederick Green, $1.00! Mrs. Henderson, 70c; on hand, $2.00! Phyllis Wheatley Art club, $50; Allen Chapel through Miss Tooley, $2.21! Christian church through Mrs. Lewis, $1.10! Mrs. Henderson, $1.00! Avondale club through Mrs. Fairfax, $1.00! Garrison school package of toys; Second Baptist church, package of toys; The Clippers club, dinner to family, 50 bags of candy and nuts; The Clio club, $1.00 worth of candy; Mrs. Mollie Lee, box of candy; Mrs. Ashcraft, material for Santa Claus suit; Mrs. Bailey, three shirt waists; Mrs. Rodgers, 47 bags made by 7th grade; XX History and Art club, 25 bags candy; Mrs. Miller, 6 pairs new shoes for children; Kensington Art club 24 bags candy and fruit; Mrs. Butler, 3 suits underwear for child; Passion Flower club, dinner to Andrew Oliver; Mrs. N. C. Crews, dinner to Fanny Harris; Mrs. Franklin, entertaining child two weeks Lela Freeman's little girl; Mr. A. W. Harris, cut paper for notices; Mr. ablieve printed notices and distributed them; Mr. Bailey got the Christmas tree; Mr. Bailey saw about the light for Christmas tree; Mr. N. C. Crews printed appeal about Christmas in his paper. EXPENSES. Christmas tree, $1.00; hauling things to Field House, $1.00; Miss Anderson for playing, $1.00; rent of electric lights for tree, $1.50; candy, $1.00; bags, 50c; pop corn, 30c; decorations for tree, 70c; pins, 05c; boy for going around, 10c; care fare for children, 90c; total, $8.05. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Mrs. Alice Henderson and daughter left last Thursday morning for their home in Marlon, Kas. Mrs. G. W. Parsons had a painful fall at her home, 818 Oakland avenue, and was confined to her bed for eleven days, but is improving nicely under the care of Dr. S. H. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Parsons house guests during the holidays were: Mrs. Alice Henderson and daughter, Miss Leona Henderson of Moran, Kas. Mr. and Mrs. James Herndon of Kansas City took Christmas dinner with their sister and niece, Mrs. and Miss Henderson at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Parsons. The Vesper service of the Yates Y. W. C. A. is to be at the Y. W. C. A. building, 5th & State, 3:00 p. m. Sunday...At the Vesper meeting held in Pleasant Green Baptist church (since our last report) Rev. Geo. McNeal the pastor spoke on the necessity of being in touch wit hthe Young Women's Christian association...At the Vesper meeting held in the First Bapst tist church the Rev. W. A. Bowen spoke on, Christ's call to the Young Woman." THE CITY OF LONDON THEORETICAL ACTIVITY. "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "have you any wood you want chopped?" "Yes, indeed." "How much?" "There's about half a cord that you can start on." "Thanky, ma'am. Could you lend me a lead pencil and a piece of paper?" "Don't you want an ax?" "No. I'm representin' the Association of Industrial Inspectors. The secretary wants me to turn in a report on how much woodchippin' there is to be done in this township. It'll make a right interesting paper to read at our next meetin', an 'mbewe we can think up some way o' gettin' it chopped." News to Him. "Now that is a copperhead snake. It is dangerous. Over yonder is a garter snake. That is harmless." "Well, well," said the summer boarder. "So there are different makes of snakes, just as in automobiles." Market at Hand. "Why don't you ship your produce to market any more?" "I don't hafter. There's a gentleman farmer located near me now and it takes all I care to sell to supply his table."—Kansas City Journal. Houses and Flats FOR RENT 1415 Spruce, storeroom and living room 1416 Mich. 7, rm mod. $10.50 1916 Vine, 6, gas, water. 18.00 1916 Rm rear. 18.00 1916 Ea Stilt, 3, rm part mod. 6.00 2453 Flora, 8, rm mod. $20.00 1223 Highland, 3, cottage 10.00 1223 Holmes, 3, cottage 10.00 1223 Holmes, 3, cottage 10.00 2220 Mich. 5, rm 1st fl. gas, water and toilet. 15.00 2242 Highland, 4, each, water and toilet. 12.00 2214 Lyda, 1st fl. 4 rms $13.00 2214 Flora, 4, rms 17.00 2414 Flora, 4, rms 17.00 -926 Indep. 9 rms 18.00 138 rms. 80.00 2205 Moss, 8, rms 8.00 25th and Parkway, Quindaro, Kas. 4 rms, cottage. 7.00 406 Hickory, K, C, Kas. 6 rms, modern. 10.00 5418 Kansas. 6 rms. 10.00 5418 Montgat. 6 rms. 20.00 2415 Wing, 6, gas, water. 10.50 Howard and Mich. Sts. 4 rms and bath, 1st fl. 17.00 2d fl. 4 rms. 16.00 2d fl. 4 rms. 16.00 FIFTEEN DAYS' RENT FREE. 1713 Tracy, 4 rms. $12.00 5341 E. 11th, 5 rms. 10.00 2034 Holmes, 8 rms, water, gas. 18.00 1724 Oakley, 5 rms, cottage. 10.00 422 Brewster, 8 rms, mod. br. 10.00 559 Grand, 25 rms. 50.00 2108 Highland, 6 rms. 15.00 1584 Highland, 7 rms, strictly mod. 22.50 1828 E. 19th, 4 rms. rest. 18.00 2643 Euclid, 4 rms. mod. 18.00 2430 Garfield, 4 rms, part mod. 12.50 914 Garfield, 9 rms. mod. 22.50 FOR SALE. 913 Mich. 4 rms, partly modern, 2-story frame, price $1,800; $10 down and $15 per month. 1604 E. 10th St. 7-rm. 2-story modern residence; excellent condition. You can live in three rooms and rent the other two rooms at $1,400, Price $,000; $200 down and $20 per month. Truck Farm, 4-rm. cottage; 1½ acres of ground; fine place for raising hogs and cattle; two blocks from car line. Out of city limits. Price $,1,800; $200 down $10 per month. 2412 Mersington Ave. 4-rm. cottage. $1,250. $60 down and $12 per month. People who rent or buy from us will employment listed in our employment desk. Afro-American Investment Co. 911 McGEE ST. Phones:—Home, 7555 M; Bell, 751 M --- When leaving a street car-- Do not cross in front of the car. Do not cross behind the car with see whether a car is coming on the e moment's wait may save you from dent. The street railway management are using all means to eliminate acc appreciate the co-operation of patro Metropolitan S Railway Comp R. J. DUNHAM, FORD F. HARV Do not cross behind the car without looking to see whether a car is coming on the other track. A moment's wait may save you from a serious accident. The street railway management and emyloyees are using all means to eliminate accidents, and will appreciate the co-operation of patrons. Six-room frame, all nice large house in splendid condition; fine lines. Lot 25x134. Price, $2,300. PASEO $ Two-story frame, fronting Pa $1,200. Better see us about this a STEWART & 1515 East Eight Phones: Home, Main 7 IDEAL PH MASONIC THE IDEAL PLACE FOR Drugs, Toilets and Su BOTH PHONES FR Wonderful Positively Worst Cases of 50 cents Your money back if the One bottle is usually The Palace PORO HAIR GROWER. Scalp Treatment A Specialty. Hours 8:30 A. M. to 7:30 P. M. MRS. A. B. HOLT. Home South 2408. 3215 Main St. --- --- MRS. KATE MARTIN. Madame K. Martin the cultured Scalp Specialist is now ready to treat your scalp and grow your hair. Shampooing, massaging and hair growing a specialty. Madame Martin cures all scalp diseases, dandruff germ, tetter, eczema and guarantees satisfaction. No matter how short the hair, I guarantee to grow it and can produce testimonials of the same. Have finished a special course of methods of treating the scalp and growing hair and I hold a diploma from Lella college, Indianapolis, Ind. I would be pleased to have you call. Consultation free. Your patronage solicits. Hours 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Residence, 2220 Michigan avenue, 2nd floor, Bell phone East 3936W. Any ladies desiring to learn the method of growing hair may consult me as I shall open a class soon when the whole course will be taught. For further information, call Bell phone, East 3936W. MADAME MARTIN. 2220 Michigan avenue, Kansas City, Mo Rooms For Rent For Rent—2440 Montgall ave., six rooms; modern; $2.50 per month. John M. Day, 1411 Lydia ave. FOR-RENT—Furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Water, gas and telephone service. Rates reasonable. Bell phone East 2667J. 2632 Euclid. -Ind. 28. For Rent—Nice house for good col- ored family. Modern conveniences. Home phone S. 553. 403 Steptoe. Fort Rent—Two nicely furnished rooms, modern, telephone. 1291 E. 17th street. Mrs. A. Harper, Bely phone, Grand 1907W. For rent—Neatly furnished rooms. Quiet place to sleep with bath and free phone. Room $1.50 and up a week. 1527½ Lydia avenue. Bell phone Grand 4494. Mrs. P. Reed. For Rent—Three large pretty rooms, first floor, water paid. 2415 Flora avenue. $12.00, J. D. Bowser, 2400 Passe. Bell phone Grand 3795W. MONTGALL AVENUE Six-room brick and frame; three bed rooms and sleeping porch; full modern, furnace, gas range; fine location. Lot 32x125. Price, $3,150; cash, $350. PARK AVENUE Six-room frame, all nice large rooms; plenty of closets; house in splendid condition; fine neighborhood; near two car lines. Lot 25x134. Price, $2,300; cash, $500. PASEO SNAP Two-story frame, fronting Paseo on 25-fit. lot. Price, only $1,200. Better see us about this at once. ory frame, fronting Paseo on 25-fit. lot. P atter see us about this at once. STEWART & SMITH 1515 East Eighteenth Street phones: Home, Main 7255; Bell, East 4893 THE EAL PHARMACY MASONIC TEMPLE THE IDEAL PLACE FOR BUYING YOUR rugs, Toilet Article and Sundries BOTH PHONES FREE—CALL US UP IDEAL PHARMACY Special New Line of Prescription Drugs Graduate Prescriptionist. EIGHTEENTH AND WOODLAND Wonderful "70 Positively Cures the Most Cases of Rheuma 50 cents per bottle or money back if three bottles fail to bottle is usually more than en Palace Drug St Your money back if three bottles fail to cure! One bottle is usually more than enough 19th and Vine Sts. Bell Phone E. 1611 E. 18th St. Bell Phone E. Phone and we'll deliver it without extra charge. --- 1 "707" Cures the Rheumatism er bottle see bottles fail to cure 1 more than enough Drug Stores Bell Phone E. 641 Bell Phone E. 3668 Those sojourning or living in Chicago will find the Sun on sale at Mr. W. H. Robinson's place, 1937 West Lake street, or A. D. Hayes, 3640 S. State street. BEAUTY AND BELLE BY MARY EVANS GALBRAITH. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) "A mighty slick young fellow," was what most people said of Joel Quinby. "A steady-going plodder," was the way Ned Travers was designated. Both were in love with Constance Farrar, beauty and belle. Naturally Joel attracted her with his brilliant, dashing ways. When Constance seriously reflected, however, her thoughts mostly favored Ned. Both young men had a future to make, and both started in with the big wholesale house of Brown & Co. on an equal footing and with even chances. Joel was in the buying, and Ned in the selling department. The house had a large clientele. With Ned the effort was to buy as cheaply as possible, with Joel to sell at the best profit he could get. The latter had the instincts of a natural trader and forged ahead rapidly. He began to sport loud clothes, diamonds, and assumed an independent, swaggering manner that did not win friends among his associates. One day Ned had an insight into the character of Joel that affected him gravely. Joel invited him to visit his club. It was all new to Ned, who noticed that Joel made himself conspicuous. Some men were playing cards at a table, when Joel sauntered towards them. "I say," he observed in his bold, obtrusive way, "speaking of cards, I've run across a queer thing. Friend of mine developed sort of occult power. Told me any time, any place, he would be able to tell what any selected card in the deck would be, even if he was ten miles away." "What's the trick, Quinby?" questioned one of the men. "No trick at all—straight clairvoyance," insisted Joel. "I've enough faith in it to bet $100 to $50 that you can select a card, show it only to the five of us here, then send a friend to A man in a suit and hat stands facing another man seated at a desk, who is wearing a suit and tie. They are in a room with a large window and a wall decorated with framed pictures. "I Doubt That." the telephone, call up my friend and he'll call the card." "I doubt that," spoke one of the playing quartet, "and I'll take your bet." "Done!" The monay was put up. One of the card players selected a card. It was the ten of spades. Silently he showed it to Joel and his companions. Then he lay it face down on the table. "Hey, Jenks," he called to the club manager, "go to the phone, will you? Now then—what's your friend's address?" he asked of Joel. "Central 2056. Ask for Mr. Randolph." The club manager called up the number indicated. Ned interestedly keeping track of the incident, heard him say over the wire: "This Mr. Randolph—yes? Mr. Quinby and some members of the club here have picked out a certain card. He has wagered that you can tell what it is." Very promptly the person at the other end of the line must have answered, for the club manager wrote down his reply on a piece of paper and took it over to Joel and his friends. It read: "Ten of spades." There were exclamations of surprise, suspicious guesses, theories. No one, however, could tell how the thing was done. Blandy Joel pocketed his winnings. He chuckled audibly as he and Ned got out on the street. "I don't understand," remarked Ned. "On the quiet, then, I have a friend at the other end of the telephone. We have a card of fifty-two names, corresponding to the cards in a deck. When I phoned him as 'Randolph,' he knew he was to guess the ten of spades. Brown would have been the four of hearts, 'Smith' the seven of clubs, and so on. See?" Ned did see, and also the low grade of morals to which Joel had descended. However, many a time he smarted under the rapid advance Joel made in business. He was designated as shrewd, a live wire, and all that. Ned went slow—but sure. He could not afford to take Constance around in an automobile nor send her five-dollar-a-dozen roses. For all that she seemed to enjoy a drive in the old-fashioned phaeton, and the first wild daisies that Ned walked miles to discover. One day Ned, passing through the stock room of the big wholesale store, wan hailed by Joel. "I say, Travers," called out the latter, "help me a trifle, will you? Just get up on that step ladder and throw down that row of boxes." There was a great long table and this was soon piled man high with the boxes. As Ned got down from the ladder, his task accomplished, he was amazed to see Joel jump up on the table and fling himself into the midst of the heap. He pawed over the boxes, he rolled, he struck out with his fists, he jumped about the pile until it presented a great mass of wreckage. "There!" he cried exultantly, "that will do." "For what?" uttered the bewildered Ned. "Why, there's nine hundred gross of imported Swiss dress trimmings in that heap of boxes. The season is past and they're dead stuff. I'm going to put them out as a damaged job lot, sell 'em off and get rid of the truck." "Do you think that is wise?" interrogated Ned. "Why not?" challenged Joel, bristling a trifle at a criticism on his judgment. "Well," responded Ned, "of course you know all about the selling end of the business here, but at the buying end my point of view is different. I have noticed in our foreign correspondence that the head of the firm, who is in Germany, has written that there is a hint of war, in which case prices would go up and shipments become difficult. He has sent on a lot of invoices, showing extensive purchases, as if in anticipation of a dearth—" "Nonsense!" derided the self-cancelled Joel. "You don't suppose little Switzerland is going to war, do you? Say, I never make a mistake. I'll rid the house of that junk heap and make a good profit on it." Which shrewd-selling Joel did. Then came the news of war and close on the heels of the announcement the head of the firm returned. Two days later the amazing news went the rounds of the establishment that Joel had "resigned." Later Ned got wind of a storm. It appeared that, knowing of the surplus Swiss stock on hand, the head of the firm had not ordered any new material. The war had closed all imports. There was little of that especial brand of goods in the country and prices had advanced four hundred per cent. Joel had lost to the house possible profits of over ten thousand dollars. Immediately upon the announcement of war, Ned had sat up nights preparing a clear schedule of the lines of merchandise that would be affected. He was called into the private office of his chief later, to receive the warmest commendation and a substantial raise in salary. "Stability and usefulness versus plunging and trickery," was the remark the chief made in an allusion to the precocious Joel. On the strength of the raise Ned proposed to Constance. "Yes," was her sweet answer, and "yes" it would have been long ago. Ned learned, if he had only known that long since pretty Constance had seen through the sham and glitter of Joel Quinby's extravagant pretensions. Diplomatic Honors Diplomatic agents are in three classes: First, ambassadors, legates and nuncios; second, envoys and ministers; third, charges d'affaires. An ambassador is thus the highest diplomatic official sent from one country to another, and a minister is an agent of the next lowest rank. The ambassador represents not only the state from which he is sent, but the person of his sovereign, and is entitled to ask an audience at any time, to rank next the blood royal, and to be held exempt, with his household, from local jurisdiction. "Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotent" is the full title of the diplomatic agent of the second class, who represents only the state, and not the person of the ruler. Charges d'affaires are lesser representatives, and must deal with the ministers of foreign affairs of the country to which they are sent. The embassy is the headquarters of the ambassador, the legation that of the minister. Durable Snow. It was in the smoker of the limited, and the Yankee was talking of Joe Knowles, Boston artist, who took to the woods without food or clothing and lived there for some weeks, by way of proving that nature is an adequate provider. The man from the Soo was skeptical. "Well," said he, "maybe he might do that in Maine, but out here, where we have weather, he could never have done it. Why, man, I've seen good sliding out here in August!" The Pine Tree man never blinked, but replied: "Nothing wonderful about that! Why, up Farmington, Maine, way, where Joe and I come from, they never think of using the snow until it's two years old!" Wild Animals in Captivity After they are captured, wild animals nearly all suffer from melancholia, and, strangely enough, the gorilla is more sensitive than most. One of these animals proved so sociable when caught that he played with the native boys. Directly he was shipped for Stellingen, however, he began to pine. Civilization frightened him. When he found that people stared at him, he would shut his eyes and cover his head with a blanket. He was turned loose with two natives in the woods where there was nobody to worry him, but he refused to eat and drink and became almost a skeleton Camphor for the Future. It is estimated that Formosa contains about one million camphor trees, some ten thousand of which are cut down every year. At this rate the supply will be exhausted in a hundred years; but when the country is thoroughly pacified there is no doubt that the Japanese will see that reforestation is properly undertaken and an inexhaustible supply insured. Going to Extremes "I have just washed my head," said the society girl crossly. "Every time I wash my head it gives me a grouch!" "Then why don't you wash your feet?" "I hate water." THE FASHION OF THE WINTER THAT particular kind of furlcloth or "fabric-fur," as some people prefer to call it), known as "Pomoire," is shown here made up into a costume for the winter promenade. With high collar and cuffs of fitch fur and smart fastening of cord and buttons, it reflects something of the military modes. But the jacket, or short coat, is strikingly original, topping off the straight scant underskirt and long full tunic with which all the world of fashion is more than familiar. The coat merits study, as it is unlike any other without departing from the lines that are decreed as correct for this season. It is double-breasted, short in front and sloping downward toward the sides. At the back it is lengthened into a square tab which extends somewhat below the middle of the entire length of the figure. The sleeves are straight and loose and a diminutive cap extends over them and across the back. It terminates at each side of the front in the jacket. Following the line of the cape a flat, turn-over collar lies below the standing collar of fur. By this arrangement the fur collarette may be made separately and not always worn. There is A Few Novelties in Hosiery [ ] ```markdown ``` NOT many novelties in hosiery are in evidence, fashion inlining still to favor the plain, firmly woven stocking of silk. But for those who like a little eccentricity occasionally some new features have been brought out in the weaving of hose, and for dressy wear there is something to report of hosiery woven in lace patterns and in two-color combinations. Plain hose of black or colored silk with heel, foot and toe re-enforced, and hose similarly woven in lisle thread or cotton, of finely twisted thread, are the only varieties that prove interesting to the great majority of women. It is likely, however, that the new silk hose woven in a lace pattern over the instep and ankle will come in for much favorable consideration with the advent of spring. Stockings of this kind show a panel of openwork, usually in striped effects, at the front, that is very pretty. The catchiest of the novelties in silk hose is a double stocking. The underhose is of plain silk in a color. White, light blue, flesh, lavender, and pink or even light green, supplies the color background. Over this is a stocking of very open-meshed net in black. When flesh or pink is used for the foundation it is hardly noticeable when the stocking is on, and the effect is that of an open-meshed net stocking with the pink flesh of the leg showing through each Color Effect on Dew. Dew is a great respecter of colors. Take pieces of glass or board and paint them yellow, green, red and black. Expose them at night, and it will be found that the yellow will be covered with moisture, the green will be damp, but that the red and black will be perfectly dry. Responsibility Ended The youngster's grandmother and aunt had been visiting him, Mrs. Homer Hoch of Marion relates. He a slight blushing of the front of the jacket at the waist line and the merest hint of a slope inward at the sides. One could not ask a better or more graceful management of the fashionable silhouette. But the fabric-fur really look best when used with smooth-faced cloths in making up a costume. With skirt or tunic bordered with Pomoire, and a short coat of it a fine combination results. One of the smartest of cloth gowns shows a plain skirt with long narrow triangles of the fabric-fur let in, one at each side of the front, one at each side of the back and one at the center back. The short coat of cloth is lengthened by a skirt sewed to it and cut to ripple about the bottom. It extends to the knees, but not across the front of the figure, as it hangs from the sides and back of the short jacket. There is a band of Pomoire, which forms a border about the skirt of the coat. Cuffs and long revers are also made of it. For wear in mild climates the costume trimmed with fur-cloth or using fur-cloth with plain cloth in its composition, is the most pleasing of the season's new productions. ```markdown ``` mesh. The colored foundations arb presumably to be chosen to match the gown, and for summer wear this is a novelty that may flourish. The combination of black and white, worn with oxfords or slippers, ought to look especially well with white dresses. Another attractive color introduction is managed by weaving the foot and lower part of the leg in black silk, and the upper part (beginning at the middle of the calf) in a color. Stockings showing black combined with all the light colors make an appeal on the strength of pretty color combinations. All the visible portion of this hosiery, with either low or high shoes, is black. Silk hose in black and all colors, embroidered with small flower designs in self-color are not new but are always in favor. Occasionally small blossoms in contrasting colors are to be found on black stockings. Among the finest hosiery smart white clocking appears as a finish on black silk. But the strongest tendency of the fashion is away from contrasts in the matter of decorations. For Shiny Serge When a dark serge suit or dress gets shiny-looking with wear, sponge it well with hot vinegar, and press it in the usual way. No odor of vinegar will remain. had been including them in his prayers saying God bless each of the immediate family and them also. The night of the day on which they left, he prayed his prayers as usual, including them. Then he took a second thought and said, "Oh, no, I forgot. Grandma and auntie are gone, so you needn't mind about them any more."—Kansas City Star. Optimistic Thought. When pleasure exceeds its limits it becomes a torture. --- JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ON THE LINE OF DEATH WHAT THE FIGHTERS IN EUROPE ARE SUFFERING. Correspondent at the Front Tells of Conditions That Prevail in the Trenches—Desolation Marks Path of War. At the end of the village the road climbed again from the ravine and emerged on open fields. A wall of timber, dark and impenetrable as the woods round an old chateau, rose at the farther end of these fields—the road cutting through it like a tunnel—and on the brow of the ravine, commanding the road and the little plain, a line of trenches. Here evidently they had fought. We walked on down the road. Below the northern horizon, where they were fighting now along the line of the Aisne, rolled the sullen thunder of artillery, as it had been rolling since daylight, writes Arthur Ruhl in Collier's Weekly. And the autumn wind, cold with the week of equinoctial rain, puffing out of thickets and across revines, brought, every now and then, the horrible odor of death. Ahead, to the right, one caught the glint of French infantry's red trousers. A man was lying there, face downward, on the field. Then across the open space appeared another—and another—they were scattered all over that field, bright as the red poppies which were growing in the stubble and as still. They were in various positions. One lay on his back, with one knee raised like a man day-dreaming and looking up at the sky. Another was stretched stiff with both hands clenched over his chest. One lay in the ditch close beside us, his head jammed into the muddy bank just as he had dived there in falling; another gripped a cup in one hand and a spoon in the other, as if, perhaps, he might have tried to feed himself in the long hours after the battle rolled on and left them there. All these were French, but just at the edge of the thick timber was a heap—one could scarcely say of Germans, so utterly did the gray sodden faces and sodden gray uniforms merge into anonymity. A squad of French soldiers appeared at a turn in the road. Two officers rode beside them, and they were just moving off across the fields carrying shovels instead of rifles. Looking after them, beyond the belt of timber, one could see other parties like theirs on the distant slopes to the left, and here and there smoke. Two more French soldiers appeared pushing a wheelbarrow filled with cast-off arms. With the boyish good nature which never seems to desert these little men in red and blue, they stopped and offered us a few clips of German cartridges. They were burying their own men, they said, burning the Germans. The dead had been lying here for nearly a fortnight now while the battle line rolled northward, clear across France. . . . Through the coquettish little towns along the Marne, through the champagne country and the country just west of it, where we now were—everywhere were deserted, perhaps demolished, villages; the silent countryside with dead horses, bits of broken shell, mashed bicycles or artillery wagons along the road; and the tainted autumn wind. An Oriental Meal There was nothing in the meal that looked or even tasted like an American dish. The meat, folded up into small squares, was cooked in oriental ways, unknown to American cookery, while the little rice concoctions, rolled up in grapevine leaves, were as delicious as spinach, and the tiny summer squash, filled with an appetizing stuffing, made a pleasing dish. Pastry, cheese and sweets were also different from the customary American delicacies, and, lastly, the great Turkish pipe, with its long smoke-cooling tube filled with Persian tobacco, replaced the American cigar. The bill of fare, written in Arabic, backward, as is the custom with that language, looked like a stenographer's notebook—National Magazine. Hare Lip Hereditary. William F. Blades of the Eugenias Record office, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., is making a special study of hare lip and cleft palate, in which he is carrying on breeding experiments with several harpelip strains of Boston terriers. He finds that both hare lip and cleft palate are highly hereditary in both man and animal, but he has been unable to determine in what way they are inherited. Mr. Blades finds great difficulty in getting reliable statistics, owing to the fact that many persons do their best to conceal slight cases of hare lip and cleft palate, especially if these have been partially or completely remedied by operation. Now Live Fifteen Years Longer The average length of life in the United States is 15 years greater now than it was 35 years ago, according to a statement made by Dr. Victor C. Vaughn of the University of Michigan, president of the American Medical association, in an address before the City club at St. Louis. Crime he characterized as a disease, due to heredity and environment, and the way to eradicate crime was to treat it as a disease and to disinfect its breeding places. Doctor Vaughn said the death rate from tuberculosis had decreased 54 per cent since 1880. To Prevent Saw Edges on Collars. It is well known that the modern mechanical laundry methods are very hard on linen, and collars or cuffs soon have a rough edge which irritates the skin, even though the roughness is scarcely visible to the eye. This can be avoided by running over the edge a small rod having a suitable groove near one end, so as to flatten down the rough edge. A neat Paris device embodies this idea and also another useful one, for the pointed end of the rod serves as a buttonhole opener. TIME'S CHANGES IN ATCHISON City's Parlor Walls Form a Complete, Comprehensive History of Art, Fully Illustrated. In a town the size of Atchison it is not necessary to join an art study class to learn the history of art; it is written on the walls of the houses in the town. When an engraving of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" hangs on the wall, and a chromo of a woman with a shawl over her head stares over her left shoulder as though she were making a wish on the new moon, the house is ruled from kitchen to parlor by "mother," and she is between sixty and seventy years of age, and believes in the "old masters." When Madonnas holding fat babies are on the parlor walls, and highly thin women in red robes tooting bright yellow horns which they hold to their mouths with wooden fingers, the lady of the house adores sacred art and knows how to pronounce Fra Angelica, Bondenhousen, Raphael and the rest. When there is a picture on the wall of a weak-looking boy hanging on the neck of a motherly looking woman, while father and children look on, visitors at the house recognize the art that was born during the Chicago world's fair, and when "Breaking Home Ties" became the rage. A little later period in the art history of the town is represented by pictures on the parlor walls of a fine, healthy looking young man wearing a monk's habit, with the cowl slipping off from his thick hair. People posted in "art" know that is a picture of Hosea. When there are pen-and-ink sketches of square-jawed men and tails, bony young women in very low-neck evening dresses the ridge of Gibson pictures (now about extinct) is represented. When there are water-color pictures of girls with pink cheeks, lips puckered up as though ready to be kissed, and colored pictures of a chubby little girl, under which is written "Innocence," with a scattering of funny pictures of gayly colored English ladies and gentlemen climbing in and out of busses, "modern art" is displayed and the presiding genius of the house is a bride, and those pictures were wedding gifts—Atchison Globe. Animal Actors The impression is created by an occasional moving picture of wild animal life that the beasts, in order to force them into poses for the camera, are cruelly treated. Nothing, however, it is said, is farther from the truth. Careful investigation has shown that force is seldom employed and wherever it has been used the film resulting has been unsatisfactory. Ernest A. Dench, a London naturalist, who has made an extensive investigation of this phase of the movie industry, declares that the dumb actors are given every consideration. The thrills experienced by the spectator are the result, in a majority of instances, of the very innocent expedient of placing a piece of meat at a strategic point. The animal leaps for it and the cinematograph records every motion of the leap. The spectator, of course, sees nothing of the meat and concludes that cruelty alone could produce the picture thrown on the screen. "The animals," he concludes, "really have a much easier time than those that appear in trick acts on the stage." Woman Puts Him Wise. "You talk about disillusionments and breakfast jackets and curl papers," said the man, hanging over the railing of one of the bridges across the bridge path in Central park, "but I defy any woman to look worse than most of her sex do on horseback. And it's all on account of that hideous fashion of hairdressing. What woman is attractive with her hair braided into a tight, wiry braid and turned under or up on top with a string of ribbon, the whole topped by a mannish derby?" His companion, a woman, laughed. "Stupid, don't you know they can't possibly keep their hair up in any other way? The jolting of the horse loosens the colls and one by one the hairpins are strewn along the path until the hair is all tumbled down. Would you rather see a bevy of March winds or Dianas let loose in the park?" "They'd be prettier and you'd tell a man from a woman without straining your eyes, at least," said he—New York Times. Protecting Wild Beasts Protected refuges where the denizens of the wild may dwell and multiply are rapidly increasing in number. The Rockefeller Foundation has purchased a tract of 85,000 acres in Louisiana and placed it under the direction of state authorities. The state already controls a refuge with an area of 13,000 acres, and Mrs. Russell Sage bought and donated Marsh island for the same purpose. In Michigan, it is planned to set aside 200,000 acres as a refuge, while Ohio expects to dedicate 24,000 acres to the service. Illinois is preparing to extend its protected area by new purchases, and in other states of the middle West and the South similar projects are on foot. Substitute for Lemons. Some years ago my uncle, a physician in a small town, received a call to the country and asked me to accompany him, writes a correspondent. The patient was the wife of a very miserly man who lived in the backwoods. My uncle advised the husband to give his wife good, wholesome food and to purchase some lemons for her. The husband said: "Won't pickles do just as well? I have pickles as sour as any lemon." How Indians Purified Water The Indians had a way of purifying water from a pond or swamp by digging a hole about a foot across and down about six inches below the water level a few feet from the pond. After it was filled with water, they balled it out quickly, repeating the balling process about three times. After the third balling the hole would be filled with filtered water. Try it—Boy Scout Handbook. Knowledge. Knowledge is the only foundation both of the love and the principles of human liberty.—Webster. HOMETOWN HELPS Suggestion Made at Washington That Anacostia Flats Be Leased at Nominal Rentals. Vegetable garden plots on the Anacostia river flats for the use of poor families of Washington is the proposition which has recently been made to the commissioners by Charles Royle of Washington. The proposed use of the lands reclaimed by the Anacostia improvement project has been received with much interest by the commissioners and other district officials, and may be the subject of a request for appropriations when the next estimates are prepared. The suggested plan calls for the acquirement by the district government of the river front, the subdivision of the lands into quarter-acre garden plots, and their lease at nominal rentals to such families as the board of charities may recommend. It is suggested that the cultivation of the plots shall be under the supervision of the weights, measures and markets department of the municipality. Superintendent Sherman of that department said that he considers that the plan has great possibilities for good. "Under proper direction," he added, "the gardens not only could be made attractive in appearance, but they could be developed to the point where they would support many poor families without furnishing extensive competition for Maryland and Virginia growers." An act of congress would be necessary to place the title to the land in the district. TRIBUTE PAID TO SOCIETIES Co-Operative Work Acknowledged to Be Best Method of Advancing City's Interests. In looking over an old work of Peter Henderson, written about forty years ago, we find this beautiful "slam" on New York city: "In New York and its suburbs the taste is much lower than it is in either Boston or Philadelphia. In those places, no doubt their excellent horticultural societies have done much to refine the tastes of the people, and it is to be regretted that neither New York nor its adjacent cities, with probably over two million people, have a single horticultural or floricultural society." At the present day, this distinction is none the less clear, and where these societies best flourish the highest appreciation of plant life is shown. There are better gardens, better gardeners, more varied plant life and more rare and costly plants in Pasadena than in any other city on the Pacific coast; also less crime and a higher standard of citizenship.—Los Angeles Times. Lesson to Be Learned. According to the United States census, the population in California cities of over one hundred thousand people has increased, in the decade from 1900 to 1910, from 30 to 37.3 per cent. The population in districts outside of cities of ten thousand and over has decreased from 56.9 per cent, in 1900, to 46.7 per cent, in 1910. Most of this decrease of the percentage of population of agricultural districts has gone to the big cities of over one hundred thousand. This clearly shows the prevailing tendency. It also shows the grave necessity for building cities that are fit places for the permanent housing of the larger part of the population. For Deaf and Dumb in India For Deaf and Dumb in India. Fourteen years ago a school was opened in Palamcottah, South India, for deaf and dumb children, the only missionary effort among the 200,000 deaf of India. About 300 children of every race and creed, from all parts of India, and sent by every missionary society, have passed through the school, and over a hundred are studying there now. The Hindus are beginning to realize the good of educating the deaf, and last year asked government help to enable them to open a school in Madras. Last January a small school was opened in Madras; already it is full with 15 children—Missionary Review. Unremitting Tell. "Think you can learn a part if I give it to you?" inquired the Broadway manager of the chorus girl. "In the second act you say, 'Hurry, boys! Here comes the captain!' Now I want you to cut out the bright lights and late eats for a while and get right down to hard study."—Puck. Dark Rooms In Brookly The number of dark rooms in Brooklyn, N. Y., has been reduced from 192,573 in 1900 to 8,016 on March 1, 1914. The number of windowless rooms has been reduced from 58,544 in 1909 to 501 on April 1, 1914. Profit From Town Forest Forbach, Germany, is said to have the most profitable town forest known. It yields an annual net gain of $12.14 an acre. Timely Warning "I am awfully afraid of infection." "Then you had better not read the book you have just taken." "Why not?" "I am told it contains some germs of thought." The Gentle Exterior. "What I admire," said the statesman, "is the hand of iron in the glove of velvet." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "It is much more unusual than the head of bone in the hat of silk." BY ORISON SWETT MARDEN. Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndicate MAKING OF CONVERSATION A FINE ART. "Talk, talk. It does not matter much what you say, but chatter away lightly and gayly. Nothing embarrases and bores the average man so much as a girl who has to be entertained." Thus a noted society leader, who had been very successful in the launching of debutantes, was recently advising one of her proteges. I know of no other one accomplishment which will do so much to advance a girl socially as to become a superb conversationalist. It is indicative of intelligence, education, good breeding and culture. It will make a girl popular in spite of plain features. There is no other one quality which will give a girl such power over others, which will make her so popular, as to be able to fascinate people with her conversation. The good conversationalist is always the center of attraction in any company. A girl who can talk well, who has the art of putting things in an attractive way, who can interest others immediately by her gift of speech, has a very great advantage over one who may know more than she but who cannot express herself with ease or graciousness. There is no other one thing which enables us to make so good an impression, especially upon those who do not know us thoroughly, as the ability to converse well. To be a good conversationist, able to interest people, to rivet their attention, to draw them to you naturally; by the very superiority of your conversational ability, is to be the possessor of a very great accomplishment, one which is superior to all others. It not only helps you to make a good impression upon strangers; it also helps you to make and keep friends. It opens doors and softens hearts. It makes you interesting in all sorts of company. It helps you to get on in the world. It helps you into the best so clever, even though you may be noor The way to learn to talk is to talk. The temptation for young people who are unaccustomed to society, and who feel diffident, is to say nothing themselves and listen to what others say; but good talkers are always sought after. Everybody wants to invite Miss So-and-To in dinners or receptions because she is such a good talker. She entertains. She may have many defects, but people enjoy her society because she can talk well. Conversation, if used as an educator, is a tremendous power developer; but talking without thinking, without an effort to express oneself with clearness, conciseness or efficiency, mere chattering or gossip, the average society small talk, will never get hold of the best thing in a girl. It lies too deep for such superficial effort. Nothing else will develop a girl's brain and character more than the constant effort to talk well, intelligently, interestingly, upon all sorts of topics. There is a splendid discipline in the constant effort to express one's thoughts clearly, and in an interesting manner. We sometimes meet people who are such superb conversers that no one would ever dream that they have not had the advantages of the higher schools. Many a college graduate has been silenced and put to shame by people who have never even been to a high school, but who have cultivated the art of self-expression. Now and then we meet a real artist in conversation, and it is such a treat and delight that we wonder why the majority of us should be such bunglers in our expression, why we should make such a botch of the medium of communication between human beings, when it is capable of being made the art of arts. No matter how expert you may be in any other art or accomplishment you cannot use your expertness always and everywhere as you can the power to converse well. MAN WHO CAN DO THINGS IS IN DEMAND. When Mayor Mitchell of New York was discussing Colonel Goethals, who has won world-wide renown for his masterly construction of the Panama canal, for the head of the police department, he said he wanted the biggest man in America for the job. The man who is in most demand everywhere today is the man who can do things, the man with a vigorous initiative and the quality of fine leadership, the man who can create something, the man with resourcefulness, the man of productive power. There are plenty of men who can do routine work, who can follow prescribed lines, carry out in detail a program which others make, but the man of original 'force, of constructive energy, who can get out of the beaten track and blaze away for others is as rare as he is valuable. There is always a big premium on the man of original ideas, progressive methods, the man of productive force, the thinker. There is an advertisement up at the door of every house of human endeavor for such a man. Great business concerns are scouring the country for men of this "Many years ago a great battle was fought on this plain. I see two armies clash. Thousands fall to rise no more. The ground is drenched with blood. Horrible! Horrible!" "Control yourself. All I see is an unusually fine crop of wheat!" Getting Into Trouble. The sultan was slightly peeved. "He is a venerable man, this missionary," explained the grand vizier, "but he teaches that all should pay stamp; large combinations, are looking for them as leaders. Merchants need them, insurance companies are looking for them; they are wanted everywhere in the business world, in all walks of life. The world wants leaders, men with great executive ability, men with stamina, men who have an abundance of iron in their blood and lime in their backbone. It needs aggressive men, men whose blood is full of positive force, men of grit and stamina—these are the men who make things move. The man who is wanted everywhere today is a born winner, the man who is victory organized, the man who has the habit of victory. These natural winners have great self-confidence as well as determination. They have collossal self-faith in their ability to overcome obstacles. These great positive, forceful characters are optimistic. Their ability is not weakened by doubts and fears and hesitations; they do not worry; they are not able to do the things they undertake. These are the sort of men that accomplish the great things of the world, the giants that turn neither to the right nor to the left, who do not go over, around or under obstacles, but through them, and are always equal to the occasion. If you are ambitious to be something more than an average individual, if you expect to step out of the crowd and stand for something in particular, you must not do things as everybody else does them; you must inject superiority into everything you do; you must be original, inventive, resourceful. If you expect to become an important figure in the world of commerce, a captain of industry, instead of a common soldier in the field of labor, you must put your shoulder to the wheel. Some of the best people ever known—good companions, splendid friends and extremely agreeable—have never accomplished anything worthy of their ability, simply because they had no stamina, or grit. They were tame, commonplace; they lacked the fire, force, the originality and the push that accomplish things. People whose blood is full of positive force are the leaders, the aggressive men who get to the front. They do not lag and loiter behind, waiting to be attacked. They take the initiative and push ahead, regardless of obstacles. They go through life taking it for granted that they shall control their surroundings; they are convinced that there is but one power in the universe, and that they are a part of that power. They act as if they had their trolley pole upon the great trolley wire of infinite power, and that they are equal to any task, no matter how great. As Others See Us. The genial professor stood on the hotel veranda, the center of a group of young people, when the office door opened and the business man from Boston hurried down the steps for his usual morning walk. "Ah, good morning!" beamed the professor. "Glorious morning for a walk, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, certainly—very nice, yes, indeed," replied the other, absently. Then, stopping suddenly, as if arrested by the compelling warmth of the greeting, he called out, "Oh, by the way, professor, here's my Transcript—thought you might like to look at it, you know! Never mind returning it when you're through, for I've finished it. Oh, that's all right. You're quite welcome, I'm sure. Say, read that editorial on the tariff! It's got the whole situation in a nutshell. Well, good morning! It is a nice day, isn't it? The spectators watched with amusement as the professor carefully folded the paper and put it in his pocket beside its exact counterpart. "I couldn't explain to him that I already had one," he remarked, thoughtfully. "It would have deprived him of so much pleasure, and." he added, as if to himself, "he has so little."-Youth's Companion. Eagle Taken by Fishermen. Eagle taken by Fishermen. Here wiring fishing about fifteen miles from Filey, Yorkshire, England, a few days ago, the crew of one of the boats observed a large bird approaching, which, after hovering a short time, alighted upon the masthead. One of the lads on board, immediately commenced climbing the mast, thinking to secure a prize, but on the lad approaching it took wing. He had not descended far, however, before the bird returned to its previous position, apparently much exhausted. The lad again sprang up the mast, and on reaching the top attempted to grasp the bird, but his majesty was not to be taken without a struggle, for he stuck his talons deep into the boy's hand, making the blood flow most freely. The boy, clinging tightly to the mast with his legs, threw out the other hand, seized the bird by the throat, and succeeded, after a little flapping of the wing and attempting to bite, in strangling him. He then tied him round his neck, and came down, a bloody victor, to the deck. The bird was an eagle of a darkish brown color, speckled with white, of beautiful plumage, but excessively lean, about two feet long, measuring from tip to tip of wing a little more than five feet. "Miss Jennie did not seem to like my song at all." "No wonder, when she has a telephone job." "What has her job to do with my singing?" "Very much, when you selected, T Hear You Calling Me." their debts, from the highest to the lowest." "By the beard of the prophet!" thundered the sultan, "he is too gosh durned personal." Whereupon the Sublime Porte abrogated all scraps of paper, formerly known as treaties. Correct. Hi—What course is Sarah studying at that boarding school? Si—I can't remember but I think it's cosmetics.—Stanford Chapparal. IN DASHING CHARGE Chasseurs d'Afrique Like Irresistible Torrent. French Colored Soldiers Win Fame In Attack by Which Superior Force of Germans Was Dislodged at Albert. By PATRICK DE BATHE. (International News Service.) Northern France.—I have just obtained particulars of the magnificent charge of the chasseurs d'Afrique by which the allies retained possession of Albert. The Germans attacked Albert time and again with great ferocity. The busy industrial town was reduced to a mass of ruins by the bombardment. In order to dislodge the enemy it was found necessary to have recourse to a vigorous counter-attack. At the same time great masses of German cavalry were reported to be about five miles from Albert. The French staff sent forward a regiment of chasseurs d'Afrique to meet this cavalry body, which proved to be the Prussian dragoons of the guard. The Prussians were threatening the French line of communication with Aveluy. The gallant chasseurs, mounted upon their little Arab steeds, advanced along the road to Becordel. From this point I quote from the words of a chasseur of the party, now in the hospital: "We all felt as calm as possible, and were eager to measure our strength against the dragoons of the imperial guard. At a mile or two from Las Basselle we made a halt. "The colonel turned in his saddle, looking at us ah, and, rising in his stirrups, waved his sword as he shouted in a voice of thunder: "Escadrons, garde a vous, pour charger, sabre main, au trot—au galop—marche!" "The bugles sounded the charge, and all the officers repeated the words of command. "The spirit of all the men was splendid. We all felt this was a supreme moment. Off we went. "Rapidly the distance between us and the foe was diminished; it was not long before we came in sight of the enemy's lines. It was a solid, compact line, apparently motionless, but which, nevertheless, was advancing towards us at a walk, as they felt certain of victory against our onrushing torrent. "We got close together and had our horses well in hand. A great cry went up: 'Charge! Charge!' "From every throat came the word, from us all frantic hurrahs were shouted as we bore down upon the enemy. Indescribable cries, the clashing of steel upon steel, the squealing of horses followed. Then began the lust of slaughter and the grooming of the wounded. "The dragonons of the guard fell around us, leaving many a riderless horse, which tore here, there and everywhere, adding to the confusion and panic among the enemy. Like an avalanche we broke through right to the rear of the German lines, the imperial dragonons crumpled up before us. Most of them galloped off, the rest lay upon the ground, dead and wounded. "Suddenly a rattle is heard; it is the machine guns of the enemy opening fire upon us, and the German artillery is seen coming into action. We immediately broke out into open order, changing our front, and at the same time we heard the reply from our own artillery beginning, while to our left and right our infantry attack was developing so rapidly that the German artillery, fearing to be out flanked, retired upon Gulillemont. "Since that day Albert has no longer been bombarded, and when our 'ploup' pious pass by La Basselle they say with enthusiasm: "It's just here we ate up the dragonous of the imperial guard." SHOOTING FROM CLOUDS Copyright Underwood & Underwood A French sharpshooter standing guard in the bow of a sky cruiser, training a deadly rapid fire gun on the enemy. ALBERT IS IDOL OF FRENCH Belgian Monarch as King of France and Belgium is Gry of Paris." "Albert I. king of the French and of the Belgians," was the inscription recently cut on a few sous by a French engraver to amuse himself, says the Oeuvre, and already people who have seen the inscription or heard of it are crying. "That's not such a bad idea." Copyright Underwood & Underwood A vivid idea of the horrors of the bombardment of Lille is had from this photograph. The wall of one of the shattered houses is falling and the people are seen dodging the rain of brick and stone. When Fighting Wanes South of Ypres Germans Move in With Allies. Boulogne.—A British soldier relates a remarkable story of how the English and Germans hobnobbed in the same trench a few miles south of Ypres. There were a handful of Germans and a smaller handful of allied forces. Trenches were but a few yards apart, and in these for more than a week the men of both sides had been bored and inactive. They amused themselves as best they could, exchanging messages, swapping newspapers and tobacco, hurling back and forth greetings and epithets. More days passed and still neither side received orders either to attack or to withdraw. Some sort of co-operation seemed necessary. Accordingly the Germans hoisted a white flag and, advancing under this, entered the allied trench for a conference. The result was that an agreement was reached that it would be more comfortable for all to live in one trench until one side or the other received orders. The Germans moved over bag and baggage, and for a number of days all went well. Many of the Germans spoke English or French. Under the strange circumstances friends sprung up. Both factions dreaded the arrival of a messenger. One day a messenger came, and plans for the renewal of hostilities were hastily made. But the rissenger proved to be only a bearer of mail and newspapers for the Germans. All gathered around while a German began to translate the latest dispatch from Berlin. Unhappily for the harmony of the gathering, it referred to Ostend by its German nickname, "Kales," spoke of bomb-droppings on various French towns and of contemplated air raids on Great Britain. The English frowned, growled; the French grew excited. Both sides had by agreement laid aside their rifles; but both sides still had their fists. Both used them. A free-for-all fight followed, and the unique compact to an end. ROLL CIGARETTES FOR MEN London Women Abandon Knitting for a New Fad for Relief of the Soldiers. London—Rolling cigarettes for relatives, sweethearts, and friends in the fighting line is just now the occupation of many women here, who believe tobacco in this form will be more appreciated than packages of cigarettes manufactured in the ordinary way. It is not an uncommon sight to see women rolling cigarettes in the lobbies of some well-known hotels, and many have temporarily given up knitting to make cigarettes. Symmetry, of course, is not much in evidence in these productions, which often swell toward the center like cigars, but Tommy Atkins will probably be able to smoke them despite their shortcomings. PIQUET WAR IN TRENCHES Soldiers Have Regular Championship Matches Along the Battle Lines. Paris.-Piquet, says the Figaro, is the favorite diversion of the French troops in the trenches along the battle lines. Some remarkable games are played between the crack players of the different companies. Many of the contests are broken off suddenly by the bursting of shrapnel in or near the trenches. Not infrequently a game ends in a "dead" hand when some unfortunate player "passes out" forever while holding the winning cards. The Belgian king is great-grandson of Louis Philippe, and if there were thought of returning to a monarchy he would be in the line of succession. He would be a very popular aspirant, in view of his course in the war. One of the honors proposed for him by his Parisian admirers is to change the name of the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne to the Avenue Albert I. This is the thoroughfare by which all sovereigns visiting Paris are conducted from the Bois station to their headquarters in the city. Frenchwoman Describes Her Experiences at Soissons. Live in Daily Dread of Shrapnel as Bombardment Continues for Months—Houses All About Are Destroyed. Edinburgh, Scotland.—A letter has just been received here from a Frenchwoman whose home is in Soissons, long one of the hotly contested points on the French battlefront. She describes to her Scotch friend the misery of the inhabitants of the city. The Germans, it seems, were driven out, but not beyond the range of their big guns. The Frenchwoman did not desert her home. She says: "We have to remain in our house, for we really could not bring ourselves to leave it and all our possessions, although most of the inhabitants have left the town. "For three months the bombardment of the town has continued, sometimes for days and nights without ceasing, and then we hide in the cellar--you may guess how happy we are. We simply live in dread of the shrapnel, which is going to fall on our house and set it on fire and bury us in the ruins. "You have no idea what terrible engines of war the Germans have. Seeing everything around us burn and fall to pieces, we live in a sort of nightmare. Everything in our quarter is demolished. Fortunately our house has so far escaped, though all the tiles are smashed and the windows broken by the force of the detonations. You may imagine how uncomfortable we are in this cold weather, and the terrible thing is that no one can say how long it will last. "On their way back from the Marne the Germans took possession of all the quarries along the hills to the north, which they had carefully prepared on their way south with concrete and iron, making of them ventiable forts. They are terribly clever, and now they are shelling Soissons from the quarries of Pasley, Clamency and Crouy, from which they can dominate all the main roads from the town. There is absolutely no chance of taking them by surprise, because from there they see everything that happens. They have got the light railway to Coucy, which enables them to revictual from the rear. From Coucy and Chauny they have the main lines right to Germany, so that they can bring up en-reinforcements as they require them. "They have driven away all inhabitants, and they take everything movable they come across. "Quite a lot of English soldiers have been here—fine men and splendid horses (we have not a horse left in the district)—but now they have left this quarter and are in the north. They did well, too, and I am sorry for them where they are, for with the severe weather they are going to be very uncomfortable. "We also had some of our own men from the south, and they were shivering with the cold, for now it is freezing hard. I forgot to tell you that Crouy, Cuffles, Vallly and all these villages you know so well are all razed to the ground—churches, houses, everything—nothing remains. "As I write the bombardment commences afresh, and I must run. The room is shaking and the table dances. Who knows? It is perhaps our turn now, for, as I told you, we await the shennetel that to finish us off." Two Kaisers With Annes. London.—Two Kaisers are now with the British forces, Percy Kaiser of Hull, in the navy, and his brother, Frederick, with Kitchener's new army. They are of English birth and parentage. Form Regiment of Amazons. Constantinople.—Many women in Constantinople have armed themselves, a dispatch says, and declare they will form a regiment of amazons and go to the front. Where Amber ComesFrom THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE VIEW OF KOENIGSBERG MALL indeed is the knowledge in America of the amber-bearing district and the lake district of East Prussia, one of the most important parts of the eastern theater of the European war. The National Geographical society gives an interesting description of this region. Samland is an unsung strip of cheerless plain from which the whole known world has purchased for centuries. It is the heart of ancient amberland, and it has remained virtually unknown to the ultimate consumers of its product from early Phoenician times down to the present day. It still supplies the bulk of the world's amber, and the pipe-stem or cigar-holder or jewel that is of its fragrant, translucent substance was likely gathered in its unmanufactured state on the beaches, in the sand mines or from low water around this peninsula. Samland is an oblong arm of East Prussia, 18 miles in breadth, and reaching out 43 miles toward the Baltic sea. It lies some one hundred miles from the Russian frontier, and the soldiers of Russia who recently crossed its flat, southernmost stretches first drew attention toward it. Koenigsberg the Amber Center. Koenigsberg, the capital of East Prussia and the central amber market, is situated at the southwestern corner of the amber-producing territory upon the Pregel river. Much of the amber produced is worked in Koenigsberg, and quantities are sent to Vienna, where it was manufactured into all sorts of smoking appliances. Amber heads form an especially large item in the Koenigsberg trade, and VIEW OF KO are chiefly sold to the Poles, Russians and people of the East. There is a superstition among the folk of Russia and Poland that amber beads worn by an infant make teething easier, and that amber beads worn by the baby's nurse draw all contagious diseases to them and away from their charges, thus guarding the baby's health. So it is that one hardly ever sees a Polish or West Russian nurse without heavy chains of these ornaments. To its uncanny or at least mysterious virtues, the value of amber has been largely owing. According to ancient lore, it was the substance of the tears of the sisters of the incompetent sun-charioteer, Phaethon, who, after their brother's death, were changed to poplars. The old Greeks and Romans set an immense value upon it, and in the days when Scythia and the Alps marked the ends of the earth, Greece and Etruria traded with Samland's amber fishermen. Orient Buys Amber Charma. Even today amber is sold because of the quality of the amber. OIL KING NOT INFALLIBLE Shrewd as He Must Be Acknowledged, He Has Made a Number of Bad Investments. Queen Elizabeth was an illustrious ruler, but she spelled the word sovereign in seven different ways. John D. Rockefeller carries the world's best filled purse, but it contains many things of little value. The richest man is no more infallible in picking winners than England's foremost queen was infallible when describing her own job. You would think that Mr. Rockefeller couldn't make a mistake when investing money. His "inside information" should be copper riveted and all that sort of thing. But in the list of stocks and bonds which the oil king set aside for the Rockefeller foundation I observe a fair assortment of securities, which, if not exactly "cats and dogs," are still not strictly gilt edge, "Girard" writes in the Philadelphia Ledger. For example, 16.602 shares of International Mercant the East value it as a stuff of proper potency for amulets, and amber charms against death, disease and the devil are made in practical Prussian Samland for the eastern markets. Thales of Millet, an ancient Greek philosopher, first of the physicists, established the mystic powers of amber, and incidentally dabbled in electricity when he found that it would attract things after a little rubbing. From history's dawn to the present day many people have had faith in amber's curative properties. As a medicine it has been worn around the neck and has been taken dissolved in alcohol. A tangled land of marsh and brake, of forests of pine and fir and birch, of canals and sluggish rivers, sprinkled over all with lakes of every size and figure, lakes similar to the glacier-scooped basins in northern Ohio where summer vacationists go, big lakes, little lakes, frogonds—this is the Masurenland lake district. It makes up the southern part of East Prussia and forms one of the most difficult of military districts to be found upon the war map. Masurenland is a great natural barrier of marsh and water against the Russian border, and a natural defense of her eastern frontier. It is, however, not the dismal country of damp and depression which so many have pictured it to be. Well Worth a Visit. East Prussia's lake region is worth a visit. It has nothing of the impressive grandeur of the Alps, where one never does get upon familiar terms with surrounding nature, but it is a place—and, in this characteristic, it stands in sharp contradiction to the rest of East Prussia—which re INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE KOENIGSBERG celives the stranger upon the easy terms of old friendship on his first day out. Poles migrated in large numbers to this region in the fifteenth century, and of its some 400,000 population, many are the descendants of these early immigrants. These people speak a Polish language which bears about the same relationship to good Polish as Pennsylvania "Dutch" bears to pure German. The Polish peasants live scattered through the marsh and lake lands; the German settlers are found mostly in the larger cities. Among these cities are Angerburg, Johannisburg, Lensburg, Loetzen, Lyck, Orielsburg and Neidenburg. Many of the lakes are bound together by canals, and, thus far reaching navigable avenues. Lake Spirding is the largest inland water sheet in the Prussian kingdom. It is about forty-six square miles in extent and the depth varies to eighty feet. Masurenland is frozen over now, freezing occurring between November 16 and December 16. Ice holds until some time in March. tle Marine, now valued at a modest $3 a share—par $100. There are also 6,000 shares of Frisco second preferred, worth $7—par also $100. There are others, but the point is that even the wisest business man makes some mistakes. Even the richest man buys some things and gets stung. Besides that, the poorest servant girl in Philadelphia gets 3.65 per cent interest on her savings bank deposit. This Rockefeller fund of $100,000,000 earns only about three per cent. The biggest hoax on this side of the moon's nexhaustible mine of green cheese is that some men are so lucky they never go wrong, or that others are so bad they never go right. Getting Even. Girl Shopper--Why did you make that poor salesman pull down all that stuff and then not buy anything?" Second Ditto--Why, the mean follow was in a car yesterday and never offered me his seat, though I looked right at him; so I just decided I would get even--Boston Transcript 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. P. 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The Conference program has been arranged with special reference to assisting the Negro farmers to get in a position so that they can best cooperate with the agencies which are working to improve farming and financial conditions in the South. The Workers' Conference. The workers' Conference is to be held Thursday, January 21st. The subject selected for discussion is: The Schools and the "Hard Times" situation. CLOTHING FOR SALE. Big Bargains in Size 36 Clothing For Sale. Navy blue broadcloth suit.....$5.00 Cream broadcloth party dress.....$5.00 Very fancy white serge suit with beautiful lace waist.....$12.00 Swell gray broadcloth party coat silk lined throughout.....$8.00 Party dress, flowered silk chiffon.....$10.00 Bell Phone East 4850. GREENFIELD, MO. M. B. Church has lost her mother. There is a vacant chair in the church to be filled by some faithful Christian Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil Madam P. M. 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The Christmas tree was heavy with presents...Mar. and Mrs. Frank Nowling of Sedalia, Mo., visited his mother-in-law and relatives here and returned home taking his daughter, Miss Iuel Nowling back...Miss Julia Simmons of Iola, Kansas was here visiting Mrs. Malinda Owens. The services of Eskew Chapel C. M. E. church Christmas morning and watch meeting night were very impressive....Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Anderson received a great many useful and valuable presents among which was a beautiful kitchen cabinet and a set of 42 pieces of a dinner set....A number are ill in our city. Mrs. Susie Jones will entertain the Missionary ladies a January 8. Next meeting with Miss S. Hawkins....Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Towns entertained Mrs. Nancy Towns and two sons and daughter-in-law, Mr. Sam Woods and family, Rev. and Mrs. Chas. H. Anderson. vYears ears ```markdown ``` Visit or call up. Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combibits, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirella Corsets. Mail orders answered promptly BARBERS: T. E. Grear, Prop. F. J. Walker. Martin Franklin First Class Shaves, Hair Cuts and Shampoos. Best Shop in the City. Do not take your money down town when you can get good service for it at home. You will always find us at our post and ready to serve. GIVE US A CALL If You are Pleased Tell You Fine Cigars and Tobaccos If You are Pleased Tell Your Friends and if not Tell Us. Miss Sallie and Roby Hawkins with a family dinner...Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Anderson enjoyed a pleasant visit last Tuesday with Mrs. Lula Fox at her beautiful home. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The Main street church choir is progressing nicely since it has been reorganized. Mrs. Erma Ford and Prof. Burton are assisting in the training. Prof. Walker organist...Mr. Harris, our noted bathman is improving slowly from his illness which has lasted nearly four weeks...Mr. and Mrs. John Ford and children have returned after a very pleasant two weeks our Friends and if not Tell Us. Jackson Laundry Agency stay in Richmond and Norborn, Mo... ..The Elms orchestra is giving out some very good music and is anticipating giving a concert soon. Mr. Lewis Hannon drums, Mr. Ross cornet, Mrs. Ford pianist, Mr. Wm. McKnight Violin, a nd Prof. Walker trombone. It is a great pleasure again to engage the attention of the friendly readers of the Sun who from time to time have expressed a regret that the health articles were discontinued. The pressure and exactions of professional life with its associate duties and obligations imposed such great demands upon our time that we were forced to abandon contributions to this column pending certain adjustments and provisions which have now happily been met. Tennison or Longfellow could take a worthless sheet of paper with a poem on it and make it worth $69,000. —That’s genius. Rockefeller can write a few lines on a sheet of paper and make it worth $5,000,000. —That’s capital. The United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold, mp upon it an eagle bird and make it worth $20. —That’s money. A mechanic can take material worth $5,00 and make it into watch springs worth $1,000. —That skill. When you go into a Negro’s store and ask for an article temporarily out of stock and go away denouncing race enterprise. —That’s ignorance. and if we would spend our nickles and dimes among our own race and have a little more confidence, patience and be more loyal to race enterprises, we would be respected, protected and counterously treated by all other races. —That's common sense. Do not believe him who claims to be loyal to his race and fails to patronize race enterprise, for —That's gall. Do not practice nor teach ignoring Negro pictures, books and literature that should be in your homes for that of another race, for —That's a mistake. A copy of the Kansas City Sun should be in the home of every Negro family of Kansas City. TONGANOXIE, KANSAS. Mrs. Annie Hilderbrandt entertained a number of relatives for dinner Sunday.... Mrs. Cora James visited her sister Mrs. R. C. King at Topeka, Kansas last week.... Mr. Roy aWilton made a business trip to Lawrence last Monday.... Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Jarrett and sister, Edith made a business trip to Leavenworth Monday.... Willis Nelson, Jr., is visiting at Neely, Kansas.... Mr. B. Lee was a business visitors Monday. We will send the Sun for 1915 to any address In the United States for $1.00, if ordered now and accompanied by the cash.