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Go-to-Church-Sunday is February 7th. Lets Everybody Close Up and Go VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 22. A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE TUSKEGEE ANNUAL NEGRO CON FERENCE TELLS HOW TO WIN OUT IN HARD TIMES Crop Diversification, Raising Food to Eat and Organized Effort Needed. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Jan. 29.—To one who was present when the first Tuskegee Negro Conference met at the Tuskegee Institute, twenty-four years ago, and who followed the conferences held during the subsequent ten years, something was missing from the monster crowds which met today to visit or have part in the Tuskegee Negro oCference of farmers which has just closed. This "something" was the once familiar type of old colored men and women, carelessly dressed, primitive, timid, but ready to stand up in the conference and tell about their troubles and hindrances. Many times during the day persons who saw the earlier conferences were heard to remark that there was a difference—that the old bandana handkerchief is seldom seen now at the conference, that coatless discouraged men seldom appear as old old, and that few persons ever come now to tell of their "troubles." How Program Has Changed. The old men and women were here today in numbers as of yore; but the habits, manners, dress, and general views of things which made them so picturesque some twenty years ago have largely disappeared. Twenty-four years ago, the Tuskegee Nroo conference was started with the idea of helping encourage the colored people to get out of debt and to abandon the one-room cabins for better and more comfortable homes.. Steadily the Conference "pegged" away with these objects in view. Slowly improvements began to be observed; and year after year the colored farmers began to come back and tell proudly how they had gotten out of debt and had added more rooms to their houses. The Conference widened its program and began working for better teachers, better ministers and longer school terms. Very soon there was added to the program a campaign for the ownership of homes and land. Visitors to the Conference, from all parts of the oSuth, caught the inspiration of the slogan, "Buy a home and some land; get a good preacher and keep him; lengtteen the school term and employ a worthy teacherc"; and these visitors went back home and sent the message far and wide. If any one will take the trouble to examine the United States Census Reports and the proceedings of the Tuskegee Conference, he will find that negroes made the greatest advance in home-ownership during the period—1900-1910—in which the Tuskegee Conference was hammering home the entreaty to colored people in the SIR. GEO. BROOMFIFLD, ST. LOUIS, MO. Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Masons of the Missouri Jurisdiction, and a Masonic Scholar of Wide Reputation. South—"Buy a home! Get some land, if only a few acres!" And, so, the program has widened until today the dominant note was and is crop diversification and the raising at home of food enough for man beast. The old type visitor and delegate has gone, but in its place is another made up of colored men and women who are learning how to live. For this twenty-fourth annual conference, it is certain that not less than 3,000 people had gathered, farmers, their wives and children, teachers, ministers, editors, physicians and representatives of every group of persons now laboring with and fo rthe colored people. Agricultural Parade. Agricultural Parade. The exercises began with the agricultural parade which left the Millbank Agricultural building; at 9 intended to contrast old methods of farming' with those now in general use and as carried on by the Tuskegee Institute and the Farm Demonstration work of the United States government, was begun at the last conference; but the one today included many new features and wa smo instructive. The parade left the agricultural building on time, led by twenty-four horsemen, two abreast. These were followed by twenty-four bearing rods to which various agricultural products were attached, came next, and were immediately followed by the same number of young men from the Institute Agricultural also carried staffs to whichearmMM The Kansas City Sun department and the county. These also carried staffs to which farm products were attached. The band, playing a number of lively airs, came next and was followed by the experiment station float on which was shown a bale of cotton and select cotton seed produced on the institute experiment plat. The process of ginning and grading cotton was exhibited while the parade moved; and, at the same time, quantities of home-made fertilizer composed of leaves, swamp muck, pine straw, barnyard manure, etc., were mixed in the presence of the beholders. On the orchard float were shown a tree planter, and young men pruning and spraying fruit trees; while the truck garden showed a variety of vegetables indicated how they are prepared for market and exhibited the method of selling them from a wagon. Other floats showed a dairy and creamery, a poultry, piggy and meat house; from the canning factory; horses and mules; cotton and corn; individual floats; the new and the old—rural church, etc.; the rural school; hospital aid—children's house. Slowly the long line passed from the starting point to Carnegie Library, where a monster reviewing stand had been erected for the special guests. The spectacle was imposing, but eloquent in its showings of what can be done on the farm through intelligent efforts. At last the long procession reached the chapel, where, at 11 o'clock, the session began. Cause of Hard Times. The chapel was packed. Prominent educators, white and colored, had seats on the platform. Around the walls were a number of charts showing some of the causes of the present hard times, the main one being that too much cotton and too little corn are produced. For instance, it was sown that Negroes grow $340,000,000 worth of cotton and only $161,000,000 woft of all other farm products combined, a ratio of one dollar's worth of cotton for every forty-five cents frth of all other farm products. The charts showed in detail the value of all farm products grown in varionus states y Negro farmers for every dollars' worth of cotton. To give but a few examples—The Arkansas colored farmer grows 30 cents worth of all other crops for every dollar's worth of cotton he produces; in Georgia, the colored man produces 40 cents worth of other crops for his dollar's worth of cotton; Louisiana, 55 cents worth; and in Ala-ama, 62 cents worth. The meeting was opened by a song and prayer, after which Dr. Booker T. Washington, delivered his annual address. He said in part: Notwithstanding the strenuous financial experiences through which most farmers of this section are passing, I am glad to note many evidences of continued progress on your part. First of all, the farmers' parade in which you took part this morning is evidence of a higher character that the Negro farmers are not discourages that the are learning to produce that on their farms which is making them independent and more useful. One of the weights that our people should throw off is the habit of carrying pistols, of keeping pistols on the body and in the home. I know many colored people who spend more on a pistol every year than they do on the education of their children. The pistol, in nine cases out of ten, not only does not protect the individual, but it leads him to trouble. One of the weights, then, that we can throw off first is the expense of buying and keeping the use of a pistol will lead us into. Another weight which our race is getting altogether too fast, especially this year, of stealing—pilfering. Perhaps there has never been a season when there have been so many cases reported in town and country districts of people attempting to steal or pilfer. I am aware of the fact that this, y no means, is confined to the Negro race. The same charges are eling brought against white people, but the ooing of wrong on the part of white people does not help our people, an dI am talking just now especially to the Negro. Don't Go in Blind Tigers. Still another thing that we can throw off is that of supporting and patronizing "blind tigers." There are not a few petty officers of the law who make their living by arresting colored people who are changed with patronizing the "blind tiger." Let us throw off that weight and wherever the law prohibits the selling or buying of whiskey, let us comply with the law at any cost. Still another weight that we can throw off is the habit, in too many of our country and farming districts, of gambling. Gambling leads to a loss of time, to a loss of money, to a loss of character and in many cases, it leads to murder and finally to the prison and often to the gallows. Galmbling, then, is a weight which we should get rid of in every farming district. Another weight which we can easily throw off is the habit of spending so much money and time in useless law suits-law suits that are founded upon some trivial matter that could be settled in five minutes by the minister, by the teacher, or by somebody, else, or some person in the community. Often weeks are spent and much money is spent in hanging around a court house in connection KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915. REV. ARMSTEAD MILTON WARD, D. D., Presiding Elder of the Rocky Mountain District of the Colorado Conference of the A. M. E. Church. with some little law suit not worth five minutes discussion. Let us throw off that weight during this year and put the same time and the same money into a better farm, a better home; to the education of our children and the strengthening of the church. Finally, as you go home from this Farmers' Conference carry in your minds a fire resolve that this year, more than ever, you will raise everything necessary to keep you and your family at home. Raise it in your garden, raise it on your farm, raise your own poultry, your own stock, your own fruit and in propriont as you do this, you will have better homes, betracial relations and more righteous and law-abiding community. Raising Their Own Food Supplies. After concluding this address, which was received with great and prolonged cheering. Dr. Washington brought the Conference right down to business by calling for reports from persons who are raising their own food supplies. Mrs. Eliza Russell and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Robinson wish to thank the many friends and especially Gate City Lodge G. U. O. of O. F., who have been so kind during the illness of Mr. Russell. 1903 East 24th street. Mr. Russell is slowly improving. FREE LECTURE Pastor W. A. Wisdom In His Lectures "DISTRESS OF NATIONS; THEN ARMAGGEDON" "WHY FINANCIERS TREMBLE" SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 3 P. M. FRATERNAL HALL KANSAS CITY, KANS. DILLENBECK HALL 8 P. M. Ninth and Locust Streets KANSAS CITY, MO. Pastor Wisdom is a speaker of international reputation, fluent delivery and a close Bible student. 25,000 FEB 27 1419 RESTAURANT MEAT A group of the hustlers who went through the snow and storm to make the present Y. M. C. A. possible. Two of the group have passed on to the Great Beyond. Nearly all the rest are still on the firing line and expect to see the work through to the end. CARD OF THANKS. The Kansas City Sun is authorized to announce the engagement of Mrs. Lydia C. Smith, general secretary of the Yates Branch of the Young Women's Christian association Kansas City, Kansas and the Rev. Armnstead Milton Ward, Presiding Elder of the Rocky Mountain district of the African M. E. Church of Denver, Colo., who are to be united in marriage on the evening of Wednesday, February 10, 1915 at 5:00 o'clock at the First A. M. E. church, Eighth and Nebraska avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. All friends are cordially invited. No cards will be issued. An informal reception will be given by the Yates Y. W. C. A. from 6:00 to 9:00 p. m. at the church. At home after February 22, at 2337 Ogden street, Denver, Colo. The Sun desires to extend its sincere thanks to those friends, new and old who so enthusiastically and generously assisted in its campaign during this month for new subscribers. We especially desire to thank each and every one of the 638 persons to date who have availed themselves of our special offer and assure them it will be our highest aim throughout the year to give them our other subscribers and the race, absolutely the Best Negro Newspaper published in these United States of America. From a 33d Degree Mason, Topeka, Kansas. Dear Editor:— You will find herewith enclosed my check for a year's subscription to your valued publication. In making this renewal of my subscription, I would be unmindful of the greatest duty I owe myself, if I failed to testify my sense of a preciation of what I seem to be, that your publication is the greatest effort and triumph of Negro Journalism pat forward in this country. I am a reader and subscriber of many publications in the interest of the race, but the Kansas City Sun excels them all and a Negro home would be incomplete without its presence. I am Yours for continued success. ALLEN P. SMITH. A HIGH COMPLIMENT. --- Go to Church Sunday 8:00 to 10:00 a. m.—Breakfast. 12:30 to 3:00 p. m.—Dinner. 5:30 to 8:00 p. m.—Dinner. MRS. LYDIA C. SMITH Secretary of the Yates Y. M. C. A. Kansas City, Kansas. MRS. LYDIA C. SMITH Secretary of the Yates Y. M. C. A. Kansas City, Kansas. SMITH'S PHARMACY ASK FOR SURE SHOT It will cure that severe case of Rheumatism. That severe cough, and cold.—That severe case of Female weakness.—When you can't get relief after you have tried a number of other remedies. Ask for SURE SHOT they are the remedies that cure. Prices 50 cents, 75 cents and $1.00 at SMITH'S DRUG STORE 1301 East 18th Street, Bell Phone No. 4591 Grand Home Phone No. 5467 Main. Anything in the Drug line by phone and mail orders. Go to Chur After Go to the Y.M.C. Sunday Hours: 8:00 to 10:00 a. 12:30 to 3:00 p. 5:30 to 8:00 p. MOON'S MOON'S Live and Dressed Poultry, Eggs and Game, Fresh from the Country. Wholesale and Retail. QUICK ACTION! The spirit of the times is, do it now—when there is an emergency to meet, when a need of business or the home presents itself, quick, decisive action is demanded. MOON—with the best of live and dressed poultry—quality in all the word implies—has been, is now and shall be a large factor in the distribution of produce products and the money, too. Why? Because we have the goods, and the cost is no more. Saturday Specials! Kansas trapped rabbits.....14 Springs.....15½ c Broilers.....16½ c Nice fat, young hens.....15½ c For quick service call Bell Phone, Grand 1746W. 1335 E. 18th St. Y. 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? Watch for the Volley Ball League schedule. Mr. Julius Rosenwald has just sent the Y. M. C. A. an autograph photograph of himself. The boy's work committee has decided to place the Kansas City boys work at the head of the list of all associations of the country as to membership. To do this, it will be necessary to bring the total membership up to two hundred. The Washington, D. C. and Chicago Y. M. C. A.'s now have waiting lists for the men's departments. The manner in which the young men who now occupy our apartments are enjoying their new comfortable homes, points to an early waiting list in Kansas City. Once in, they do not care to leave. Men are making decisions for Christian living every Sunday at the men's meetings; connecting with the various churches and becoming active vital members of the community Rev. J. R. Ransom's address last Sunday on "Good Citizenship" was in tensely interesting and instructive Rev. W. A. Boren addresses next Sunday's meeting. Every man should be able to swim Noone knows when he will be called upon for a practical test of his ability to swim even to the saving of his own or another life. It is obvious there fore that instruction in swimming and Church Sunday Church C.A. for Dinner m. m.—Breakfast. m. m.—Dinner. m. m.—Dinner. life saving should be a part of everyone's training. The Y. M. C. A. offers to the men and youth of Kansas City the largest, best and most modern swimming pool in the city. LEARN TO SWIM in filtered, even-tempered water in February. Next Sunday is the Second Anniversary of the opening Sunday of the great building fund campaign of 1913. A great record has been made in the colecting of the funds, the typ eof building erected, the early date of entering the building and finally the great activity shown in the new plant. Only $2,000.00 more is needed to reach the amount of $25,000.00, which the colored citizens were asked to give. An appeal is being made the week to all who have not yet met their payments in full to do so immediately that the required amount might be reached. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. All Honor to Kenneth Oden May the Race Produce More Courageous and Manly Young Men Like Him, With Strength in Their Arms and Courage in Their Hearts. * "Kenneth Oden, Negro, a senior in Lincoln high school, was fined $5 in the South Municipal court this morning, on a charge of disturbing the peace Oden struck W. I. Richards, 3809 Baltimore, a white man, while riding on a Union Station car yesterday afternoon. Oden was accompanying a cousin a caterer of Topeka, Kas., and her two daughters, to the 1/2 Union station. Oden and his cousin testified Richards winked at her and motioned to her. Richards denied this.—Wednesday Post. The above clipping from the Kansas City Post should stir the heart of every manly—uprightNegro in greater Kansas City and it should be a source of pride to know that we are developing a class of young men who do not fear, regardless of the odds to protect the womanhood of the race. He alleges a big burly white man ogles and winks and insults a colored girl as many of them have done before in a crowded street car, feeling secure that whatever he does will be endorsed by his fellows and that no punishment will come to him on account of the cowardice and the inferiority in numbers of the Negroes present. But in this case a mere youth, a pupil in the high school imbued with the courage of a determined fathr and mother resents this insult, and cuffs and kicks the big burly masher until he cries for mercy and the youth is arrested by the representatives of the law, taken before the courts and fined for defending the honor and the peace of his relatives. Had the situation been reversed and it had been a "drunken Negro" who ogles white women not only would one white man have assaulted him but every white man in the car would have felt it his bounded duty to have administered a blow or a kick to this vicious enemy of society. And instead of the assailant being fined on the presentation of these facts, he would have been liberated with words of praise from the court and its attaches and the culprit would have had administered to him the severest penalty upon the statute books. And yet what can we expect in these days of prejudice and racial hatred? It was only a few days ago that Police Commissioner Reynolds is alleged to have said in discussing the case of a police officer on trial for shooting a white man and a Negro. "I will not take the word of any Negro or a number of Negroes against that of a whit eman." So colored men if this is the sentiment of those who are sworn to administer impartially the law, then it is our duty regardless of consequences whether we are fined, go to prison or die to protect our women, when they are right against the insults of any man white or black. Kenneth Oden comes from one of the most cultured, industrious and respectable families in this state and inherits all the finer instincts and high ideals of his father and mother. But he can ill afford school boy as he is, to pay out five dollars and costs at this season of the year for no other reason than having defended the integrity and honor of women relatives so the Sun believes that the Negroes of greater Kansas City should rally to his support and should instantly and enthusiastically raise not only enough money to reimburse him for the fine but to enable him to finish his studies in the high school and pursue a course later in some of the universities or colleges where manhood and honor is esteemed and respected. We start this collection with one dollar and call on every other Negro in Kansas City to give anywhere from five cents to one dollar to show this young man and all other young men of our race that we appreciate their courage and manhood in matters of tails kind. We shall publish a list in our next Saturday's issue of all those who have contributed to this fund and every Church, school, club, fraternal organization and individual should contribute to this high and laudable cause. Mr. A. W. Harris, of the Harris Printing Co. had the honor of eing the first subscriber. Subscriptions are as follows: The Kansas City Sun.....$1.00 A. W. Harris.....$1.00 Geo. W. K. Love.....50 L. C. Smith.....50 W. G. Moseley.....1.00 Miss Eva P. Washington.....25 H. Compton.....25 Criterion Cafe.....40 R. C. Long.....15 Dr. Theo. Smith.....1.00 Prof. J. C. Hobbs.....50 C. A. Starks.....50 Jos. R. Dimery.....25 T. D. Henderson.....10 C. A. Franklin.....15 Mrs. Stella Hubbard.....15 THE HIGH JUMPER By GEORGE ELMER COBB. A vivid scream rang out upon the still afternoon air, just as Ross Evans turned from a side street into a blind thoroughfare which lost, itself among the rock heaps of the canal. His was a quick eye, and within the space of a second its glance took in details of excitement and peril that thrilled him. What he saw was a young girl dashing frantically down the middle of the road, a square distant. In advance of her, coming full bent at top speed was an automobile, and clinging to its seat was a golden haired little child of about seven years. Her face was devoid of color, her lips parted in horror, her eyes distended. Young as she was, the little one seemed to fully realize her frightful peril. In a flash Ross fancied he comprehended the merits of the situation. The child had probably accidentally started up the machine while alone in its charge, was ignorant as to handling the mechanism and was powerless to stay its mad flight. "Save her! save her!" shrieked the young lady in wild pursuit of the runaway machine. Even at the distance Ross was away from her the agonized accents rang out clearly. Ross Evans, once high jump champion of a noted athletic organization, nerved himself mightily, at the inspiration of old time campus ardor and the call of humanity. Death and destruction hovered. The fated machine was headed for an end to its career less than thirty seconds ahead. There was one way only to hope to stay its course, a way full of danger and sacrifice. He took it. Calculating to the closeness of a single watch tick, he braced for a run. A man in a suit and hat walks away from a car on a street. A fire hydrant is visible in the foreground. Coming at Top Speed Was an Automobile. Magnificently, as though it were a test spring for a field prize, he rose to meet the coming monster of speed. Ross just cleared the edge of the machine. He landed in the seat, one arm striking the brass casing of the wind shield and numbing it. Then, quick as light he shot the reverse button, with a shuddering glance at the yawning pit, now not twenty feet away, and the gasping words. "Just in time!" It was truly so, yet with superb coolness of nerve he swung the machine back, fronting the advancing girl, spoke a reassuring word to the now huddled and sobbing child, sprang to the ground and awaived the approach of the young lady. She came towards him pale, tootering, on the verge of swoning, an advancing vision of grace and beauty. His eyes feasted upon all her girlish daintiness of dress and innocence of face, the pitiful appeal of frightened eyes and quivering lips. Then, as she swayed in utter collapse, Ross glided swiftly to her side and caught her pliable form in his strong arms, just in time to save her from sinking to the ground. She was helpless, held sheltering against his broad breast, the contact thrilling him, the world and all else it contained to him a worthless baule, could he but sweep with his own those full tempting lips. Only or an instant, however, the eyes closed. She roused to still cling to him, but braced to battle her agitation, that she might breathe out her gratitude incoherently and hastening to the machine to seize the rescued one, her sister, Ross surmised, she pressed her to her bosom in outspoken gladness. She had carried a little hand bag, and this had fallen open to the ground when she had swooned momentarily. As Ross picked it up to restore it to her, he noted her calling cards and the name upon them: "Nellie Moore." He restored the hand bag to her and lifted his hat. She swept his handsome face with a searching look, as though glad to believe that true nobleness of soul lay behind that courageous nature. Again and again she thanked him, was sure she was able so operate the machine, and made ready to drive away. "No, no, come here!" cried out the peremptory little miss whose life had been saved, and she beckoned eagerly to Ross. "What is it, little one?" he smiled. For reply the eyes of the child grew earnest and humid. She did not speak, but reaching out she placed a soft chubby hand on either cheek, drew him toward her and kissed him on the lips. Then, still holding him, she added with an inquiring glance at her sister: "And one for dear Nellie, too?" The fair malden blushed deeply, but did not gainyshe the edict. Again Ross Evans lifted his hat courteously. A bright episode in his life faded away as the machine disappeared, leaving him standing there, his heart warmed and thrilling. He watched the automobile till it turned the next corner, responded to a little hand waving towards him and uttered something of a sigh. The glimpse of apparent wealth, luxury and social distinction contrasted vividly with his own present condition. A company whose mechanical engineer he had been for some years had failed. He was fairly stranded, and the prospects ahead dubious. As Ross started to leave the spot he paused to pick up a small glittering object that attracted his gaze. "A bent nickel," he soliloquized, glancing at it with only casual interest. It had a slight mark where some heavy force had driven it out of shape. Two initials were scratched across its face—"A. B." Ross placed it in his pocket and for a moment thought no more of it. Two days later, however, Ross Evans treasured the disfigured coin as though it were a precious talisman. He was not given to foolish superstition, but from the hour that he picked up that nickel the tide of fortune seemed to turn. He chanced to help a crippled old man over a crowded street crossing. It led to an acquaintanceship. The man was a contractor. He took a liking to Ross. His frank, intelligent ways attracted him. Ross was employed to take charge of some important construction work in a neighboring city. From then on he was sure of a lucrative established position. It pleased his fancy to believe that the meeting with the fair girl he had not forgotten, and his finding the coin were harbinger of continued prosperity. He cherished the fond memory of the first, and stowed the bent nickel securely inside his watch case. It was about a month later when Ross, returned to Everdem to report to his employer, chancing to pick up a local paper at the hotel read the following remarkable advertisement: "Lost, reward—$1,000 will be paid to the finder of a bent nickel marked 'A. B.' one month since. Miss Nellie Moore, 905 Benson Terrace." Speedily Ross was on his way to the fair advertiser, not thinking of any reward save a look at her bonny face. He was not embarrassed with threadbare attire this time. He was in appearance fully what he was—a gentleman. She welcomed him with surprise, but as well with honest pleasure shining in her bright eyes. Then she explained. The nickel must have fallen out of her hand bag at the time of the accident. She had that day taken it from her uncle's safe to have a gold receptacle made for it, for it was a treasured memento in the family. It had stopped the course of a bullet at a time when her uncle was a victim to drink. He had reformed, and treasured the coin as a memento of evil days now fully redeemed. Of course Ross declined any reward. As he was about to depart, little Lois bounded into the room to greet him as if he were a familiar friend. "Then you have not forgotten me?" smiled Ross. "Oh, dear, no! nor sister either—I'll show you." And taking up a sketch book she showed a drawing, a very fair presentment of himself. "Nellie blushed and tried to prevent the exhibition of it, but Ross had seen—and hoped. And hope brought deeper love, and that was refined into a mutual affection that kept the cherished bent nickel in the family. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) The Congressional Library. The Congressional Library. The vastness of the congressional library is shown by a recent report to congress in which it is shown that the library contains 2,125,255 books, 133,323 maps and charts, 630,799 volumes and pieces of music and 360,949 prints. The books added in the previous year amounted to 136,720 and an extension of the library is asked for with racks for 800,000 more books. The library has an average of 2,454 visitors and readers during each day of the year and yet the place seems never crowded at any one time. Since the location of the Union station on its present site many travelers with an hour to spare between trains avail themselves of the opportunity to visit this beautiful building, while it is the favorite haunt for those who are students of music, literature or art and love to pore over its priceless treasures — Harper's Weekly. Rural Waggery. "Ira Beaore drove into town just before the big rain the other day and he saw Orio Tull setting tubs and barrels under all the spouts around his house," says Tully Marshall. "So Ira pulls up and 'holiers' at Atrio: "Hey, Orio! What ye doin'?" "Looks like rain, an' I'm settin' out these tubs so's the can can have some soft water fer her washin' Monday,' answers Orio, all innocent like, and not thinking about what a great codder Ira is. "Sho! says Ira. 'You won't git no soft water.' "Why won't I?" "'Cause it's goin' to rain hard. Haw-haw-haw! Git ep!"—Young's Magazine Justice in Haiti The theft of governmental funds in Haliti is very common. If one of the subjects or officials is caught in the act, or even suspected along such a line, it is merely a question whether he lives or dies. In such cases the president drops clay manikins on the cement floor of his private office. If the manikin breaks the prisoner dies. If it fails to break, he lives as long as the moist asmosphere of the prison he is confined in will let him. Remarkable Water My little niece, five years old, went to visit an aunt who lived on a large farm. Among other improvements on the place was a deep water well, the water of which tasted of sulphur. Upon being asked about her visit on her return home she said, after telling of the many individual things she had seen: "it was all fine, mamma, but the water tasted coy or piggy or sumthing."—Chicago Tribune. England and Scotland. The total length of England and Scotland together, from John o' Groats to Land's End, is 800 miles. THE LONDON WEEKLY Handsome Coiffure Ornaments NO wonder the devotees of motoring are braving the coldest weather. They may envelop themselves from crown to toe in cold-proof coats having hoods attached made of the same material as the coat. The fur fabrics that have had so great a vogue this season have been developed in patterns especially suited to midwinter motor coats. These plushes are used also for lining coats of other fabrics, and are as warm as skins. Fetching and unusual is the coat of leopard plush pictured here. The youthful motorist looks as cozy as a kitten in it. It is a long straight garment of the simplest outlines, comfortably roomy. The sleeves and yoke are cut in one, and the skirt part allows plenty of room in walking. A broadtail plush is used to make deep plain cuffs, and as an inlay on a small neckpiece that fastens about the throat. The hood is a close-fitting cap with a wide bonnetlike border turned back at the front and trimmed with a flat bow of broadtail. The coat is double breasted, fastened with a large button at the top and in the front. Smart coats for warmer climes are made with more concessions to new style features and allow themselves a little frivolity of composition. Drop yokes and flaring skirts, not so long as the figures, are noticeable among them. It is safe to predict that with things military imposing themselves everywhere, else, the newly designed motor coats for spring will reflect something of military modes. But to face the sterner requirements Handsome Coit IT is wonderful what miracles of improvement in looks can be brought about by means of the coiffure and its decorations. Only beautiful and audacious youth can afford to wear plain, severe styles of hairdressing. Waves that mitigate the austerity of straight lines, curls which suggest femininity, are almost invariably becoming. And aside from becomingness, a well-groomed appearance (more evident in the coiffure than anywhere) has a compelling charm in itself. When the test and most tasteful of hair ornaments are worn, to set off the chic coiffure, a chance is given for the exercise of individual taste. There are many pretty hair ornaments, unpretentious and elegant, that any clever woman can fashion for herself. Nearly all of the new ones are made of strands of small rhinestones, used in single or double bands, about the head, in the manner of Greek bands. But with them flowers, feathers, or velvet ornaments are used. Two of the best designs are shown here and one hardly needs more than the picture to be able to go about copying them. One consists of a rhinestone band sewed to a fine silk-covered wire which terminates in a loop at each end. A hairpin thrust through Wisely Plannel Dresses. Two little girls whose mother liked to keep them in white, kept the white frocks and stockings clean only as long as the proverbial "shake" of a lamb's tail." So the mother changed her plan and made them little dresses of striped seersucker, with bloomers to match. The dresses are made in kimona style, with large round collars of plain gingham, which match the stripe. The brown-and-white striped dresses have brown collars outlined with rather a coarse feather- of the passing season in the North coats of plush lined with a plain wool fabric, or of a wool fabric lined with plush, with hood attached, promise both comfort and style. And with them goes the comfortable thought that they may be made at a moderate price, and that there is no end of durability in them. Discard Small Turban In Paris the leaders of fashion have discarded the small turban hat for the larger models of white satin. These stunning hats appear in a wide variety of shapes, with gracefully rolling brims or brims which flare more on one side than the other. The favorite, however, is the wide, straight-brimmed sailor, smoothly covered with white satin of a good quality. These are trimmed with a simple bow of white satin, the ends of which are sometimes fringed. Fantasies of plumage appear on a few models, but the majority are simply trimmed with the satin or moire. The crowns of these hats are rather low, and the tops are unlined and scantily gathered about the edge. A Fur Tip. Two furs are very often combined in the small neckpieces and muffs—beaver and seal, seal and ermine, seal and leopard, ermine and monkey, brettschanzw and ermine or monkey, etc.; but the best looking sets shown are in one fur. fure Ornaments these loops holds the band in place and is concealed under a strand of hair. Fastened on the band at one side is a cluster of grayish blue full-blown roses of velvet, with small sprays of tiny rose foliage in sage green. One might wear such subdued colors with almost any costume. The sparkle of the rhinestones gives life to the pretty affair, and altogether its beauty makes an instant appeal. The second ornament is made of a narrow bias strip of cerise velvet, hemed in a very narrow hem at each side, into which a fine shirring wire is run. It is mounted with rhinestones supported by silk-covered wire, as in the first ornament described. The velvet terminates in a long pointed ear, outlined with a strand of rhinestones. Rhinestones are to be had set in tiny bands, and sell at a moderate price by the yard in dry goods stores. Other bead passemesteries and strands of pearl beads are used for making hair ornaments, alo-to narrow fancy ribbons and braids. If in making the last ornament described, bright green velvet, instead of cerise color, is used the handsomest of decorations for white hair is the result. stitching in white, which is very effective, the pink collars on the pink-and-white striped dresses are embroidered with a simple design in cross-stitch in pink and dull green, and the blue dresses have a line of French knots in white on the blue collars. With these garments the children wear tan stockings and russet shoes, wearing the stockings and dresses two days. The man who sits down and hopes for the best doesn't get it. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS One hundred years ago the first colored troops who ever served in the army of the United States won the commendation of General Jackson in the battles in and around New Orleans. It was there that a small part of the regular army, the militia of several of the southwestern states, and two detachments of colored troops won the final engagement which drove the invaders from the shores of that portion of the country. January 21 General Jackson read an address to each of the commands which had taken part in the battles, reviewing the campaign, and saying of the engagement of January 8 that the loss of the enemy was more than 3,000 while the American loss was but 13—"a wonderful interposition of heaven! An unexamined event in the history of war!" General Jackson characterizes the event. In his general orders of January 21, prior to breaking camp, General Jackson complimented the various regiments and commands, saying of the two bodies of colored volunteers: "They have not disappointed the hopes that were formed of their courage and perseverance in the performance of their duty. Majors Lacoste and Daquin, who commanded them, have deserved well of their country." Yet, although these colored troops were commended for their coolness and bravery under fire, especially in the memorable engagement of December 23 when they were attached to Coffee's brigade, which opened the series of battles, recognition for their services, by way of pension and bounty, was withheld for several years after their discharge from the service and then was granted only after an opinion had been given by William Wirt, attorney general of the United States at that time, that they might legally be so recommended. When the colored troops enlisted the act of congress of December 24, 1811, provided a bounty of $16, with three months' pay, and a grant of 160 acres of land to those who had served five years, the same amount of land to the heirs of those killed in battle, and the same amount of land to the heirs of those who had died in the service after having served five years. The act of January 11, 1812, carried like provisions, and the act of December 10, 1814, again carried the provisions, except that the amount of land granted was doubled. After the colored troops were mustered out, application was made in their behalf for recognition under these acts, especially for the bounty of 320 acres of land, but it was not until 1823 that their claims were recognized.—James Croggon in the Washington Star. It is reported in the newspapers of Transbalkal that new, exceedingly rich gold fields were discovered on lands belonging to the car in the region of Station Zilivo, of the Transbalkal railroad on the Bolshoi Urium river system. Upton, near Peterboro, one of the smallest parishes in England, possesses a mysterious tombstone of black marble which emits a damp ooze in patches whenever rain is about to fall. The stone is regarded in the village as an infallible barometer. It is estimated that there are 4,258,000,000 tons of iron ore unmined in the United States. "Few people realize to what an extent the nation is indebted to the educated colored man for the maintenance of peace between the races. While many race wars have been predicted, no serious and prolonged racial conflict has taken place in recent years in the South. It has been in a very large degree the influence of the educated Negro who has counseled patience, forbearance and sympathetic co-operation between the two races that has prevented disgraceful outbreaks and has resulted in securing and maintaining a large degree of peace and harmony between the races. The people of this nation should remember that the Negro is not a beggar so far as his personal needs are concerned. He supports himself in clothes and shelter, and has done so for 45 years. The only call that he has made upon the public has been for aid in the direction of education, moral and religious training."—B. T. Washington. Of about 1,400,000 pounds of caviar obtained each year by the Astrakhan fisheries, approximately 75 per cent is exported. The classification of the stellar spectra as being carried on by Harvard university, is a vast one, entailing the investigation and recording of 200,000 stars. New factory laws in Switzerland have established the 59-hour-week—that is, ten hours daily for five days and nine hours on Saturday, as the maximum working time. The American Bible society last year circulated 5,251,176 Bibles, breaking all records. Jenny Lind's California Debut. At Monterey, Cal., formerly a part of Mexico, and ceded to the United States during the Mexican war, is the first public building built in California and now a broken-down, weatherracked ruin of adobe, relates the Health Magazine. In this building Jenny Lind made her first California debut, and when the gold the enthusiastic miners had thrown upon the stage after her performance was gathered up it was found to fill two five-gallon oil cans—about twenty pounds Spellman seminary has trained many competent women for domestic service, the majority of them going back to the country from which they came, and marrying, while those who go into service in Atlanta are satisfactory. The Fort Valley school for the industrial uplift of the Negro has had little monetary assistance in Georgia. The domestic science school, established by that capable Negro of Athens, Samuel Harris, through various agencies, has most of its support from outsiders, and Linton Ingraham, that faithful ex-slave, who was born on Alexander Stephens' plantation, is struggling to raise $1,500 to build, as a memorial to Mr. Stephens, an industrial school at Sparta, Ga., where domestic science is one of the purposes. He has the highest indorsement from the white men of that vicinity, the governor of the state indores his work, and the men of thought who have seen it and appreciate the good purpose of it, but Ingraham is begging enough money now to go North and get the necessary $1,500 for the completion of the building. Individually, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Heard of Rose Hill farm, have established a school for domestic science for the Negro employees on their plantation, but in no city or town in the state where the cry for domestic service is loudest, is any step being taken to train for domestic science. To meet this condition, an ideal system has been devised in the work being done for the Negro at Hampton institute, Virginia, where Negro boys and girls are being trained to meet and work out the conditions now threatening the progress of the race. Hampton institute is an undemnominational school for the training of teachers and leaders in agriculture, the trades and community work. Its aim, as expressed in 1859 by General Armstrong, has not changed: "To train selected youth who shall go out and teach and lead their people, first by example by getting land and homes; to give them not a dollar they can earn for themselves; to teach respect for labor; to replace stupid drudgery with skilled hands; and to these ends to build up an industrial system, for the sake not only of self-support and intelligent labor, but also for the sake of character." Hampton has recently published a pamphlet, "Education for Life," which contains General Armstrong's leading ideas on education—a working philosophy of Christian living. "Education for Life" contains sections on education of hand, education of the mind, education of the character. Those who are interested in education which spells service and progress, will wish to read "Education for Life" and then compare their impressions with these words of endorsement, issued by the United States bureau of education: "It is felt that General Armstrong's theory and demonstration of practical education have proved to be right, not merely for the races for which they were immediately intended, but for boys and girls everywhere, since they represent a successful attempt to work out one of the most momentous tasks of our time—that of creating an education that shall be an effective force for training productive, efficient members of society." In December work began on the bridge over the Juan Diaz river about nine miles from Panama. It is a reinforced concrete arch of something over one hundred-foot span, which will be the longest span arch on the isthmus. A number of re-enforced concrete culverts with spans ranging from six to thirty feet have also been constructed throughout the country. One of the few funds, if not the only one, left for charity by a president of the United States, is used in Lancaster, Pa., for buying coal for the poor at Christmas and for other good uses. The fund was left by President Buchanan, who was a resident of Lancaster, and the income now amounts to about $3,000 a year. The wealth of the United Kingdom in 1814 was computed at about $12,500,000,000, while a conservative estimate would place it now at about $85,000,000,000, an increase of 850 per cent, while population has grown 130 per cent. The income of the British people in this period has increased 700 per cent—form $1,500,000,000 to $12,000,000,000. There are in the 21 university towns of Germany 3,436 enrolled women students and 1,037 not enrolled. The faculty of medicine attracts most women. In 1855 it took 274 minutes of labor to care for and raise a bushel of corn. In the year 1894 the average time required had been brought down to about 41 minutes. Georgia has 2,224 Baptist churches, with a total membership of 287,079 and property valued at $6,127,167. of gold, and equal in value to about $5,000. Another curious building is a police station which is built within the braces of an oil derrick, and for unique buildings certainly establishes a record. Very Embarrassing. Deacon (anxiously)—I wish that our young minister weren't obliged to preach to such a small congregation. Widow—So do I. Every time he said "dearly beloved" this morning I felt as if I had received a proposal. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course Moody Bibs Institute, Chicago.) THE BIRTH OF SAMSON. LESSON TEXT - Judges 13:18-15, 24:25 GOLDEN TEXT - Beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink - Judges 13:4. The story of Samson bulks large in the book of Judges and in the interest and imagination of all men ever since his day. This being the only lesson in a seven years' course we suggest, outline, Samson's entire life. 1. Samson's Parents. God chooses a humble man and woman, folk of piety and prayer, to bring forth and rear this great deliverer. The angel's most improbable promise (13:3) is accepted by Manoah and his wife (13:6, 7). They express a desire to be able to measure up to the responsibility—a suggestion to parents. There is also a hint of the dual responsibility of parents in the words, "teach us." (See Eph. 6:4; Jas. 1:5-7). It was reasonable to believe that the one who brought the promise could also tell them how to train and nurture the child. God honored the mother's prayer and she shares her experience with the father (v. 9). As the mother of a Nazarite she must keep herself from all things unclean (v. 14; II Cor. 6:17), even as Mary, the mother of Jesus (Luke 1:38). The experience of the sacrifice, the worship of Manoah and his wife, and the fact of Samson's birth completes the record of chapter 13. Manoah could not worship the angel, but could show him hospitality. Verse 18 (R. V.) seems to indicate that this was another premature festation of our Lord Jesus. 11. Samuel's Power. Every race has its superman, and usually it is one of physical strength. That Samson had no physical evidence of his superior strength is evident from the fact that Dellah asked to know his secret. Nor was his strength in his hair, else there was no need that the "Spirit of Jehovah" should come upon him. The secret of his power is indicated in 13:25. The word "move" suggests to play upon a harp, as if Samson's heart was open to God as a harp is open to human touch. "Samson's power was the result of a faith that was open to the infinite storehouse of the divine dynamic." Such spiritual power is within the reach of every man. Samson ("sunny") was full of laughter; not the comic, but the joyous. He did the big things God gave him to do and was filled with gladness. But Samson came under the spell of an evil woman and all of this true laughter and glad joylessness left his soul. Chapter 13, verse 25, illustrates the anointing of the Holy Spirit for service as perhaps distinguished from the same Spirit for holiness. The laughter heard in the haunts of sin has lots its buoyancy, is forced, is different, is that of men whose hearts are unclean. 111. Samson's Impurity. A woman can make or mar the man with whom she associates. As a Nazarite, Samson was dedicated to God, must not allow a razor to touch his head, was not to touch anything unclean, nor drink intoxicating liquor. This vow was usually for a short period. Samuel and John the Baptizer are other Nazarites recorded in Scripture, and are said to have been such from birth (3:14; 16:17; Luke 1:15). Samson's strength burned out when he lay his head in a harlot's lap and the laughter went out of his soul. It was that which broke the contact between him and God. Samson's birth in a godly home, his knowledge of his relation to God and the experience of God's power did not keep him from an ignoble failure. He left the atmosphere of God's spirit for that of sin (Prov. 4:23). IV. Samson's imprisonment. We find him after his excesses grinding in the Philistine prison, where he perhaps overheard praises being sung to Dagon who had overthrown Jehovah's judge. It is never safe to play with temptation though conscious of our own strength; then it is we are most apt to fall (I Cor. 10:12). One act and the gay hero is grinding in a prison house. Directly a man goes into impurity, whether in act or thought, he loses the power that formerly moved men or worked wonders. Year after year Samson plodded his round of enforced toil, a type of the force and power of intemperance and other impure habits. During these years he doubtless put his hand upon his head and said, "My hair is growing again," and it gave him courage to believe that God would yet give him another chance. Finally, "when their hearts were merry" (16:25), he is brought out to make sport. During one of his resting periods he said to a boy near by, "Let me feel of the two pillars," those upon which the main walls rested and which were within a man's reach. Then it was that he was able to grip the mysterious power of the unseen (16:30). Was Samson a suicide? No! He accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his act of duty (See Heb. 11:32). The growth of his hair was only a token of that consecration which he had surrendered when he failed to withstand the wiles of Deilah. The Temperance Teaching of this lesson is all too plain. It must begin in the home and continue throughout all of life. As we have scattered information throughout our land we have seen the work of temperance advancing mightly. Samson's exploit with the lion is a temperance sermon in parable (14:5, 6; Prov. 20:1). The business of the temperance forces is to slay the lion. We are also to eat "honey out of the rock," to gain victories, within and without, and, like Samson, we can give honey to others. To have a part in helping to redeem a lost world requires that we keen clerem MR8. MATTIE E. WINN Mrs. Mattie 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 par- alyzed for three years; Mrs. Seidler 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. NOTICE TO REAL ESTATE BUY- ERS-COUNSEL FREE. Have you made up your mind to buy? Have you saved up $100 or $200? Do you want the best bargain you can get for your savings and enjoy it paying for your home as you would pay rent? Ask Wm. Hopkins. He will give you sound and reliable information free. Has the best knowledge of property values in Greater Kansas City and will gladly help you. Free consultation. Absolutely no charges. I make it my business to list property for sale to colored folks at the very lowest figures for your money. I show you the property and let you find out for yourself. Bell phone East 3851W. WM. HOPKINS. Geo. E. Scott Joe Dimery Joe Dimery TempleBarberShop SERVICE FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY PARTICULAR Scott & Dimery, Props. 1802½ E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. Mme. Benton Dean, the popular milliner, is now at 1010 Troost avenue, where she is elegantly located and will be extremely pleased to meet her many friends and customers at that number. Belle phone Main 2102J. TYPEWRITING DONE at Kansas City Son office, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Neat, quick work. Rates reasonable. Engagements by appointment. Bell phone East 999. Ladies' Tailoring Dressmaking AND Drafting... Fancy Gowns a Specialty I am prepared to offer the public the best dressmaking, tailoring, drafting and fitting. Graduate of one of the best white downtown colleges. Will also teach Drafting. Bell Phone East 3413 M Mrs. Lillie Williams 2914 Woodland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISOURI Our Motto: "Nothing but The Best" The Crosthwait Floral Company Everything in Flowers and Flower Designs "WE DELIVER THE GOODS" The People say we have made some of the most beautiful and original de- signs in flowers ever seen in Kansas City. Our Specialty— "Quick Delivery--Satisfactory'Service" Bell Phone East 272 Home Phone Main 9070 1801 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE New and Second Hand Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged Bell Phone East 3851 W 2122 Vine Street WM. HOPKINS, Prop. J.C.WAGNER The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in Season. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. Courteous Treatment to All. 1819 Howard Ave. Bell Phone 3396 East Kansas City. - - Missouri Negro Business League of Kansas City Meets First and Third Thursday in Each Month, 1803 E. 18th Street. F. J. Weaver, President. E. A. Robinson, Secretary. Members will please report any mistake or change of address to the Secretary or Editor of The Sun. MUSICIANS. Winston Holmes, Piano Tuner, 2221 Michigan, Home Phone 5314 Main. Bell Phone E. 4394Y THE Modern I dern Builde THE Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General C Repairing SATISFACTION MISS WILLA SCHOOL OF S AND TYPE Rates Reasonable. 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Dabbs, 1221 Baltimore avenue. PRINTERS. C. A. Franklin, 1008 E. 18th street. REAL ESTATE. Colored Peoples Investment Co., 2427 Vine street—Phones, Bell 1011 East; Home 9203 Main. Solomon Smith, president. J. Dallas Bowser, 2400 Paseo—BeBill Grand 3795W. Afro-American Investment Co., F. J. Weaver, President, 911 McGee street—Bell phone Main 751; Home phone Main 7555. Mary Mitchell, 2608 Highland. Wm. Johnson, 911 McGee street, Afro- American Investment Co., phones. SHOE STORE. Temple Shoe Store, G. A. Page, Prop. 1507 E. 18th street. THEATRES. J. L. Williams, 12th and Highland. TRANSFERS. A. B. Hunn, 7th and May streets— Phones Home Main 7261. UNDERTAKERS. E. C. Jones, 1211 E. 18 street, Bel Grand 1565. Office 2460 W. Idrond Ave Builders Co. Contracting a Specialty GUARANTEED A M. GLENN TENOGRAPHY EWRITING ow. Persons Not Eligible Who are Grade Schools or the valent. FLL EAST 999. NEW MANAGEMENT on Cafe GIVEN OUR PATRONS 1700 E. 18TH STREET Call us, write, or see our agents. NELSON C. CREWS, Editor and Owner. NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. Furnished by the National Negro Business League. The Page Shoe tSore is a thriving Negro enterprise of Kansas City, Missouri. The American Negro Academy held its eighteenth annual meeting in Washington, District of oClumbia, last week. R. C. Houston of Dallas, Texas, has been appointed Treasurer of the Texas Grand Lodge of Masons to fill the unexpired term of the late Dr. W. T. Hughes. Mrs. Odessa Warren Grey, of New York City, and one of the race's best known and most, artistic milliners, has moved into new and larger quarters at 2221 Seventh Avenue. Mrs. Grey is said to have a large patronage among Broadway actresses. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, of Durham, North Carolina, has just closed its 1914 records with the following figures: total business for the year, $400,000.00; increase over 1913 $50,000.00; amount paid to policy-holders, $200,000.00. Two colored boys, James Jeter and Edward Allen, of Little Rock, Arkansas, joined the Savings Club of the Union Trust Company of that city and saved over $100.00 since January 7, 1914. These boys have a joint shoe-cleaning stand which they run after school hours. Aside from saving this money, they have bought their own clothes and school books. The assessed value of colored people's property in Brooks County, Georgia, is $556,777.00. In the Dixie District of this county, an industrial school under Miss Lillie Gaines and the Simon Hill Baptist Church, under Rev. W. F. Tarver, have done much to develop habits of thrift and economy among the colored people. This year they have six (6) Corn and Tomato Clubs and have put up 3,900 jars and cans of these products. "OVER THERE." They say there's a land o'er the ocean Where wonders and beauties are sen; They say it's a glorious Eden. Where none but the blessed convene. Many friends for that land have departed, They have crossed over life's troubled sea, O, let us sail over and meet them, Jesus' life-boat will carry us free. They say we shall know all our loved ones. When we meet on that bright, golden shore; They say we shall clasp hands so gladly, And together rejoice evermore. Then let us prepare for the journey, Let our hearts be kept loyal and true; Then the Saviour will watch and protect us. ANNOUNCEMENT * Dr. T. C. Unthank desires to an- * nounce to his patrons and the * public in general that he has sold * his drug store to Cooper & Good- * son; but by virtue of their agree- * ment 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. 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. 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'NEW YORK DENTAL CO New Location 1017-19 Walnut St. Over Jaccard's Jewelry store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co AUTO LIVERY By the Trip or Hour CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY DAY OR N $2.00 per Hour 5-PASSENGER PREMIER SERVICE. Bell Phone East 4079. 1415 VINE STREET, KANS. H. L. KINSLE S ANSWERED PROMPTLY DAY OR N $2.00 per Hour 5-PASSENGER PREMIER SERVICE. Bell Phone East 4079. STREET, KANSAS H. L. KINSLEY PROMPTLY DAY OR NIGHT. 0 per Hour ER PREMIER SERVICE. Phone East 4079. KANSAS CITY, MO CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY DAY OR NIGHT. $2.00 per Hour 5-PASSENGER PREMIER SERVICE. Bell Phone East 4079. 1415 VINE STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. H. L. KINSLER RENTAL AND REAL ESTATE AGENT Have homes to sell or rent, also modern furnished rooms in flats. 916-18 EAST 21st STREET In therear of these flats we have furnished and unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping and cheap living quarters. Bell Phone Grand 2303R. Home Phone Main 6516 Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C., U.S.A. BRIDGE WORK 'A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction Officers—1914'15. N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Deputy Grand Master, Richard Young, Lincoln, Neb. F. J. Brown, St. Louis, Grand Senior Warden. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Grand Junior Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonic Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. 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. Kincaid, Kansas City, Mo., V. E. G. C. J. W. Beard, St. Louis, Mo., E. G. C. 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. Herriford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Wiley. Lodge Directory Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 3rd Master Masons in good standing welcome. R. Greer, W. M.; J. H. Sniginer, Sec'y. Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 2nd Master Masons in good standing welcome. Master Masons in good standing welcome. F. W. Glilmore, W. M.; T. J. McCampbell, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are wel- loved. Thos. Jackson, W. M. Frank Secretary, 1618 Baltimore Ave. U. B. F. King of the West Lodge No. 21 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 563 and avenue. W. M. West, W. M. West, 1618 Baltimore Ave. Sec'y, 1732 Woodland Ave. ADVERTISE YOUR SOCIETY. We would like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in The Sun. It is the most popular way to let the world know who you are, when and where you meet and your object and purpose. For the next month we will make special announcements to have you put in your lodge or society list of of officers in this paper. Office Hours 8 to 12 m. & 1 to 5 p. m. Sunday by Appointment Bell Grand 2553W 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 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1808 East 18th Street Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1968, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the date of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa B. Glenn.....General Manager J. J. TYLER.....Adv Agent Nathan O. HINSON.....Adv Agent Rosa Morton.....Collector Almeda Johnson.....Collector Elmer Craig.....Collector SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....75 Three Months.....50 ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Centenial Church, 19th and Tracy. M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Alen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kendall. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Blue Valley Baptist Church, 1120 Crystal avenue. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview. Saventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Woodland. Monies's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 1311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Monies's A. M. E. Church, Centron. People's Mission, 30th and Genesee. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summer M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. st. James Baptist Church, 4083 Mill St. M. E. Church, 45rd 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 Epilog. St. Streets St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. Solomon Church, Church, 3rd and Satut Quindardo A. M. E. Church, Quindardo, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, Kentucky. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland, Maryland. M. E. Church and Oakland, Salter Mission, M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Church Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart, Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby, Wesley Chapel M. E. 106 Shawnee, Faul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Ames. EDITORIALS The Orpheum has dispensed with the services of a colored maid for the white ladies. The second balcony force is still intact but may be discontinued at any time, so rumor says. Ostensibly protected by the flat of Commissioner Reynolds, the police are shooting down so many Negroes with impunity that it will soon be in order for a black man to run as soon as he sees the bluecoat coming. An editorial in the Searchlight laments the passage of the immigration bill with its Negro exclusion clause. Our Sedalia sister will eventually find it necessary to change her news service from Washington, thus saving much spiritual distress. It is hoped that the reported threat of Governor Major to dismiss both of the Police Commissioners will be quickly carried out and that their places may be filled by men of higher patriotic instincts. The most sacred trust of a public official is the trust of protecting life and liberty and should never be given over to men of confessed narrowness and prejudice. An official returning from Alaska reports that white men are not only exploiting the natives in the most fragrant manner for financial graft, but that they are debauching the wives and daughters of these timid people in the most shocking manner, all of which is in keeping with the history of the white men in their relations toward so-called inferior races everywhere. If Governor O'Neal of Alabama lives up to the spirit of the great address which he delivered at Tuskegee last week he will create a new era in favor of decent opportunities for Negro education in his state. He declared ignorance to be the greatest foe of a free government and education to be the birthright of every citizen, black or white. This principle, he said, will be his guide as executive of the state. After an experiment of two months Lincoln School has demonstrated the success of its children's cafe. From fifteen to twenty items make up the bill of fare each day with no item selling for more than four cents. It has been shown that pupils may be provided with a warm, fresh lunch at a daily cost of from six to ten cents. From two hundred to three hundred teachers and pupils are regular patrons of the cafe and visit stompar parents are quite frequent. This is said to be the only Negro school in which the noon lunch is under the direction of the domestic science department and supervised by the higher officials. Only those pupils who go home for lunch are permitted to leave the school grounds during the noon intermission. It is the intention of the principal to add a confectionery table in the near future. ```markdown ``` 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. Jitney Busses Inaugurate Jim Crow Jitney Busses and Autos acting in the capacity of public carriers, using the streets for which all citizens pay, are BOLDLY JIM CROWING our people, and their president Mr. Pool at a meeting held at 225 East 6th Street Wednesday evening said: "If Negroes board your cars haul them a half block, make out that your switch has blown out, get them out and drive on."—Los Angeles Eagle. M. A. B. It is a matter of common knowledge that articles of food undergo definite chemical changes in the stomach and intestines efore they are taken up by the blood and utilized in the body machinery. These chemical changes are in the nature of a refining process, an, as in all such processes, a certain amount of waste remains for disposal by the intestines, liver and kidneys. It is easy to understand that the nature of waste matter in the digestive tract varies according to the character of food taken into the stomach. Accordingly, it happens that the residue from meat digestion is more poisonous than that from other articles of food: Consequently, an abundant meat diet imposes upon the liver and kidneys the necessity of rendering inactive, and of eliminating a corresponding abundance of poisonous material. The liver is one of the most important organs of the body. In fact, it is considered secondary in importance only to the heart. Man can exist without a stomach; he can live forty days without food, but he can exist only a few days without a liver. One of the chief functions of the liver is the destruction of poisons generated in the digestive processes. These poisons, which would kill us if thrown directly into the blood, are rendered inert and harmless by passing through the liver. This organ within the limits of its capacity, is capable of doing this work and doing it well. Like any other organ, however, when subjected to the excessive strain of long-continued action, the lived becomes exhausted and under goes structural changes which permanently incapacitate it for destroying the digestive poisons that constantly menace the body. Hence it follows that excessive meat eating Jitney Busses Inau Jitney Busses and Auto public carriers, using the zens pay, are BOLDLY j ple, and their president M at 225 East 6th Street "If Negroes board your o make out that your switch out and drive on."—Los FROM OUR EXCHANGES. PESSIMISM. Excepting the ancient Hebrews no people are so divided as are the colored Americans. We know the cause of Israel's almost perpetual bondage—a house divided against itself cannot stand. However, the respective causes of our disunity are radically different. The Israelies sinned against God through division because they had been so abundantly blessed by Providence;; we because of the acursed institution of American slavery which did everything it could to drive us a part and crush from us all our man and womanhood. We were pitted one against another, making of us an insidious secret service, until we began to mistrust every move and word made and said among ourselves. Now such a deep-rooted psychological cause cannot be remedied in a nightfall. No amount of exhorting is going to do any immediate good. The invincible processes of evolution must be served; therefore it will take three generations to rid us of this slave-blood, the secret of all our hardship within the veil—St. Louis Torchlight. The Philadelphia Tribune says: "As a rule, the most formidable opponents of our civil and political rights may be found among the coarser class of white people." That is very true; it is equal yrue, as a rule, that the coarser class of colored people are responsible for most of the formidable opposition to our civil and political rights. The enemies of the race are stronger inside than out side the race.—Washington Sun. --- We are sorry to send the news of the death of a beloved friend, Mrs. E. L. Shruggs, who died at 6:10 SAT day evening, after an illness of nine months. The deceased leaves to mourn her death a husband, daughter, one brother, one sister and a host of friends. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the home. Dr. E. H. McDonald of St. Paul, assisted by Rev. P. H. Lewis of the A. M. E. church, officiated. The music was furnished by Mrs. Ada Ford and Carrie Barnett and Wr. J. E. Smith of Macon, Mo. Mrs. Ollie Anderson and Miss Edna Williams at the plano. The pall bearers were: J. T. Wallace, J. S. Williams, J. E. Groff, T. W. Wallace and J. H. Twyman. Those who paid their respects from out of town were: Dr. J. W. Muse and Frank Mallory of Jacksonville, Dr. J. E. Smith and Dr. W. P. Garnett of Macon, Mo. also Mrs. Blanche Graham of Burlington, Miss Dorothy Hawkins and Mr. Tom Waters of Galesburg—Bystander. The work of Booker T. Washington and the central purpose of the National Negro Business League are so closely interwoven that when one is because of the strain placed upon the liver, is fraught with grave dangers to the health of the individual. In the same way, the kidneys, which, likewise, take part in the elimination of the end-products of meat digestion, are overworked when an abundance of meat is taken into the stomach. Also, in like manner, continued strain upon the kidneys is followed by their exhaustio and permanent_deterioration. Preserved meats, which may contain disease germs, ptomains, or mineral poisons, strongly seasoned, or spiced meats, even in small quantities, are especially injurious to the kidneys. Many cases of Bright's disease can be attributed to long continued and excessive meat eating. We do not wish to be suspected of fanatical prejudice against meat. It is not the use but the abuse of this article of food against which we would sound a warning. We would not discard meat from the daily diet of persons in health, for, indeed, it is an indispensable food element. We would, however, very strongly recommend moderation in its use. We would discourage the eating of meat three times a day, and suggest that, for the majority of us, once a day is sufficient. We would also advise against lunches consisting of meat and bread alone. Vegetables or fruit should always be taken with such lunches. Beef, mutton, chicken, and fish are more easily digested and preferable to pork. It is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when beef will entirely replace pork on the family table. Meat, in general, should be well cooked, and boiled, roasted, broiled, or baked rather than fried. It should also be remembered that much water should be taken dally by those who indulge themselves with a generous meat diet. In conclusion we would enter a final plea for moderation in the use of meat as a food. Bugurate Jim Crow pos acting in the capacity of streets for which all citi- JIM CROWING our peo- Mr. Pool at a meeting held Wednesday evening said: cars haul them a half block, h has blown out, get them Angeles Eagle. discussed the other comes readily into the mind. The Negro race as a whole is heartened and its cause will grow in strength in proportion as the broad principles for which Washington and the Business League stand become the cardinal impulse of the nation at large. Let "On to Boston!" be the slogan from now until August next.—Freeman. OH YOU VINE STREET. The finest street cars in the country were put into service on State street recently. The old sayin', "There is nothing too good for the Irish" will have to be remoleded, as this line especially is ours, for have we not christened it the "African Central?"—Chicago Defender. HURTING THE STATE The announcement that Judge J. B. Park and Solicitor General Joseph E. Pottle, of the Ocmulge circuit, are investigating he details of the recent lynching and that official action will probably be taken by the executive department, is significant as indicating that the enormity of this horrible offense is so impressing itself upon the officials of the state as to lend encouragement to the hope that the perpetrators will be brought to justice and punished as they should be. Nothing that has happened in this state in many, many years has provoked such universal condemnation as the Jasper county lynching, in which two negro men and two women were taken from the jail and summarily executed by a mob, the victims having been accused of operating a blind tiger, and of assaulting an officer who caught them in the act. The offenders should have been punished for violating the law and they undoubtedly would have been convicted through the usual process of law. But to resort to lynch law under these conditions is a lapse into brutality and barbarity which every decent Georgian must condemn. It is a sad commentary upon law and order and the administration of justice in this state if such a thing can happen without the offenders being brought to justice. Things of this kind smear the good name of the state and seriously react against its business, its prosperity, and its development. Can an outrage of this kind go unpunished in Georgia? If so, something is seriously wrong with the state-Editorial in Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. WANTED TO FIND: Mrs. Hattie Foster, my sister, who left Fort Scott, Kas., 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. KNSAS CITY, KAS. KNSAS CITY, KAS. KANSAS CITY, KAS, BRANCH OFFICE 515 Freeman avenue Miss Eva Johnson, Manager Explains Wilson Interview to Large Audience of Representative People of the Two Kansas Cities. Monroe W. Trotter, Negro Democrat and Editor of the Boston Guardian spoke under the auspices of the N. A. A. C. P. at the First A. M. E. church, Kansas City, Kansas last Thursday night to a large audience. The meeting was opened by W. E. Jacobs president of the association who presented Judge I. F. Bradley, a personal friend of Mr. Trotter's to introduce him which the Judge did in his usual eloquent and enjoyable manner. Mr. Trotter was in splendid mood and gave an interesting account of his visit to the White House. Hon. Chas. Calloway of the Legal committee gave a graphic description of the work of the Association during the past year and appealed for new members. After receiving several subscriptions and the "usual contribution" Mr. Trotter left for his next engagement. This is a matter over which the Sun refuses to enthuse because it considers it a mere scramble of a lot of hungry Negro Democrats for a few crumbs from the Democratic table and if they had not assisted in electing a Democratic president, they would not have been humiliated nor have caused the race the trouble that has ensued since Woodrow Wilson has been president of the United States. Mrs. Mary E. Stone, 544 Cherry street is confined to her home with pneumonia. Mrs. Sadie Cline, 215 Steward avenue has been quite ill with neuralgia for the past week. The first meeting of the board of management was held at the Central association Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Effie C. Richards, 618 State street is now residing at Claremore, Okla., where her husband, Rev. J. E. Richards is pastof the Mt. Zion Baptist church. The Young Women's Christian association Yate Branch Fifth and Statle avenue will hold a big public meeting at the First A. M. E. church at 3:00 p. m. on tomorrow, January 31. Everybody is invited to come and hear Miss Anna H. Jones noted educator and leading club woman of th ewest. Special music and other features. Business included the acceptance of the resignation of Mrs. Lydia C. Smith after two years service as General secretary. Miss Edna Cook graduated of Howard university and of the National Y. W. C. Training school was the unanimous choice as secretary. The report of the nominating committee, Mrs. H. T. K'ealing, chairman, submitted the following who were elected officers for this year: Mrs. F. K. Douglass, president; Mrs. W. P. Mimms, vice president; Mrs. Dorsey Green, recording secretary; Mrs. S. D. Scruggs corresponding secretary; Mrs. S. C. Jones teasurer. Half of Pencils Wasted Lead pencil manufacture in the United States is consuming 73,000,000 feet of lumber annually, of which about one-half is estimated to be wasted in sharpening or throwing away short ends. Why Worry About Birthdays? Don't start counting your birthdays; they don't really count. We've been confusing age with efficiency for too long. How far have you developed? How sharp are your faculties? Naturally. A woman is generally sufficiently conceived to think her husband must really be a superior sort of man or she wouldn't have married him. Peculiarity of Lettuce Flowers. Although many plants close their leaves and flowers at the approach of rain, lettuce flowers open their widest at such times. Peculiar Vaccination. Until the year 1874 Japanese doctors vaccinated their patients on the tip of the nose. HAIR NETS Real Human Creole Hair HAND MADE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE COLORED WOMEN'S HAIR This Comb is SOLID BRASS EXTRA HEAVY BACK 89 Cents Shows all latest styles in colored Ladies' hair and Toilet Articles. The above is but four of the many new designs we are now making up. We are positively the largest mannequin in the imported creature hair and guarantees a brief article sold, or money refunded. Don't be misled in the buying of hair, as many of our small competitors are of the same quality. We will not stand washing and combing. Buy the best quality hair at manufacturers' prices, also hair nets and toilet We have been doing business for years and we have not had a dissatis- lied customer. SEND TWO CENT'STAMP TO DAY FOR BOOK AGENTS WANTED HUMANIA HAIR Co. Dept 100 23 Duane St. New York City A —That E. M. W. is now manager of a hotel. Get wise boys. —That he who gets rich quick usually goes broke in a hurry. —That the "hoodlum" wagon don't care who it hauls these days. —That two well known ladies had a fist and gun fight a few days ago. Do tell. —That the Y. M. C. A. cafeteria is the most popular place in town for after church diners. —That there are a lot of empty stomachs covered by good clothes in this old town right now. —That those clocked silk stockings and red socks you supersed last summer won't do you no good now.—6 below zero. —That it is quite common to hear the expression “where do you live Now?” Landlords must be wanting their money. —That if you want to see your wife smile just tickle her under the chin and say “Oh you’re so sweet,” then watch her smile. —That there are Negro dudes eating stews who last summer could be satisfied with nothing less than a double porter house. Oh this awful winter. That a certain porter who wrote two letters one to his wife telling her how lonely and sad he was and so forth and the other to a young lady friend telling her that the "old lady" had gone to visit her folks and for her to meet him at a certain number and they would have a h—of a time. 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NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Virginia THERON B. WATKINS. Res., Bell Phone 3281 East KANSAS CITY, MO. 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 solicited. 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. ROSEDALE. KANSAS. Miss Florine Jenkins was seriously injured Friday by falling in an attempt to board a car. Mr. Monroe Jordan died at his residence Friday. Mr. Geo. urner is ill at his residence, 1918 Lloyd avenue. Miss Martha Brown, a member of the Senior Class Sumner High School, has been quite ill, but is now convalescing at her residence. All of the services at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church last Sunday were largely attended. In the afternoon communion was administered. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: You who are suffering from loss of hair You know that you need a Vegetable Salve and Hair Tonic a trial, Mrs. Simpson's Vegetable Salve will make harsh dry hair soft and pliable and make hard skin soft and pliable and make heads and temples and shows results from the first treatment. It will grow on hair and temples and shows results in the market. It is good for all scalp diseases such as pin heads, eczema, dandruff, tertium or all scalp itching scalps. Give it do it. What it has done for othetis, 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 I have been a sufferer from a diseased scalp ever since I could remember and my hair had come out until I was almost bald. I had come out of school and went to every scalp specialist I could hear of but nothing did me any good. Years ago, went to Mrs. Simpson of Determined Co., to have my scalp using her own remedies. I could see good results from the first treatment; I was so happy with Simpson's Vegetable Salt Hair Touche that she desire a nice growth of hair or are troubled with any kind of scalp disease. I went to 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. Why not try it yourself? 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 | CITY NEWS. # Visit Smith's drug store. monia while on a visit at Excelsior , Pea iedonary Springs and was dangerously {ll for Miss. Cell Penniston, of 2626 High-|several days. He was sufficiently im land, 1s quite il with malarial fever [proved to be brought home last Wed- St nesday and Js gradually improving tol py, aa he Clipper Girls are engaged 1 street is confined to her home with|Sun wishes for him a speedy and com-|or the Orphans Home. paeumnébia: plete recovery of health. i ——— The Tango card party and dance ‘The Misses Hutchins will entertain ane era Friday, February 5, at Armory Hall, with a dancing party at Lyric Hall] I desire to thank my many friends| Cottage and Vine streets. Batutay erating, of the Second Baptist Church and New aay Hope Temple for kindness, sympathy wursday afternoon. January 21 a Mr, and Mra, Dan Carson, 314 New| nd beautiful lowers during wy be- suthver ot the gratuabee' ot «av Hooke Jersey avenue entertained at reak-|Cent fines —Mrs, Francis J. Wilson./o, Wagnington school met at the fast Sunday morning, Miss Eva P. CRA aOREORL building and organized a Club, Mrs. |, Washington, ra 2 _ Ida Brown Conner was selected Prest-| pau Who's the most useful man in town,|dent; Mr, Edwin Pierce, Vice-Presi-|¢ Mrs. Bmmett Lee has returned to|From preacher, lawyer, doctor, down|dent; and Mr. Cecil Brown, Secre-| tor home. in Britt, Ia, after-a very{¥20, neither ‘smiles. nor wears altary. Entertainment committee: |p pleasant stay with Mrs. Mary, Walk-| frown? Mrs. Ida Conner, Mr, Cedric Jotnson, | 5 er, $409 Wyandotte street, ‘The Editor. Miss Lillie Booker, and Mr. Russel] ® Dixon, . I Men taking the physical work, with|!n all the world who's most ignored. d shower baths and swimming, who! Slighted, deceived, abused and bored GRAECO ART CLUB 8 have in the past been subject to colds|And yet who's flag is never low. SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBIT 4 each winter, now seem to be immune.| ered? ; LYRIC HALL Ps eae The Baitor, MONDAY NIGHT FEBRUARY 15, |¢ Richard Fulbright, of 2613. High-| 1915. i lant ene of the best known Masons! Who flights the battle none dare] Mrs, Minne Adams, President. |; in this city, has been ill during the| fight, Foes a week with la gripe, but is improving |For what is clearly just and right | THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY ART Jn neat |And drives the foe out of sight? CLUB. c ‘Mrs, Fannie Carson of Kansas City, | Mo,, and Mrs, Amelia Lewis of Lex- ington, Mo., were called to Evans, la., on the account of the death of their father, Andrew Nelson. | Mr, and Mrs, Geo. W. Ford, former: ly of 1810 Tracy, recently moved to Portland, Ore., and write that they are doing nicely. They have been’ loyal supporters of the Sun every since it was established, . Mr, Thos, A. Wheeler, 2323 High- land avenue who has been confined for two weeks at his home with pneu monia is slowly improving under the efficient care of Dr. M. G. Brookins. The quict wedding of Miss Carrie E, Morgan to Mr. W. J. Dixon was solemnized at the residence of the bridegroom, 2828 Cleveland avenue, ‘Tuesday evening, January 19, 1915. | . —— On Saturday night, January 16, while Rev. Sister Pearl was attending fa reception given in honor of her re: turn home by Mrs. M. C. Hays, her beautiful residence was destroyed by fire. Dancing every Wednesday night at Armory fall, Cottage and Vine streets, Prof. Rose White, Dancing Master, Class every Saturday night. Mrs, Jennie White, teacher. Bell Phone, East 4594. Mrs. Minnie White, the amiable wife of 1. W. White, 922 B. 21st, under- went an abdominal operation last Monday the 18, The operation was performed by Drs. Perry and Walker, Negro physicians. Mrs. White is do- ing nicely at Phyllis Wheatley Hos pital, 1214 Vine street. “Grandma” Hartwell, of 2645 Vine Street, one of the oldest and most faithful members of Centenniel M. E. Church and who is beloved by all who know her, les dangerously ill at her home at this time and little hope is held out for her recovery. Her daughters and Miss Maude Olden are constantly at her bedside. > Note—As we go to press word comes that Sister Hartwell passed away {his (Friday morning and the funeral will be from her church Sun- day at 1p. m,, Rev. Davis, officiating, Mrs, W. M. Johnson, of 1426 W. 95th street, Los Angeles, Callf., writes Mrs. Payne to renew her subscription for’ another year for the Sun, which ‘Mrs. Payne has done, also saying that she could not get along without the Sun, which she considers the best edited and most interesting Negro journal that has ever come into her Sn ‘The proceedings of the last Grand Session Court of Calanthe, Sun Flower Lodge K. of P., of Kansas, was turned this week in best of form and style by the Harris Printing Establishment, 1515 E. 18th street. The Proceedings for United Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, of which Mrs. Vic- torla Clay Haley of St. Louis, Mo. is Grand Matron, is the next in order and is now being run. Both of these books are evidences o fthe best work: manship to be had from any of the smaller printing establishments thru: out the state. The various other or- ‘ders who have book work to let at a nominal cost would do well to get in touch with this establishment. Stop in at 1515 E. 18h street or call the Bell Phone, East 2782.¢ IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of my dear moth. er, Mrs, Annie Eperson, who was called away 4 years ago today, Janu: ary 29, 1911, Mother I miss you everywhere, Miss your advice, love and core. A faithful mother so kind and true, 1 always pray and think of you, You're not forgotten in my mind, To me you were 80 good and kind; How my heart fs milled with pain I hope someday we'll meet again. Sadly missed by her loving daugh ter, * eee Not is Prof, J. Silas Harris, president of the Negro National Teachers’ Assn., for many years a principal in the Kan- ‘sas City Schools, at present Editor of the Kansas City Herald, ane one of the best known colored men in Amer jca, was suddenly stricken with pneu- sie while on a visit at Excelsior Springs and was dangerously {il for several days, He was sufficiently im proved to be brought home last Wed- nesday and 1s gradually improving to the pleasure of his many friends, The ‘Sun wishes for him a speedy and com- plete recovery of health. CARD OF THANKS. I desire to thank my many friends of the Second Baptist Church and New Hope Temple for kindness, sympathy and beautiful flowers during my re- cent {liness.—Mrs, Francis J, Wilson, THE EDITOR. From preacher, lawyer, doctor, down who neither smiles. nor wears a frown? ‘The Editor. In all the world who's most ignored. Slighted, deceived, abused and bored. And yet who's flag is never low: ered? ‘The Raitor, Who flights the battle none dare fight, For what is clearly just and right And drives the foe out of sight? ‘The Eaitor. And*yet, who even hides his name Unmindful of the scroll of fame Or of the public’s loud acclaim? The Baitor. Who lights the torch for other men To honor, gain and wealth, and then, Who hears them say “Do it again?” ‘The Editor. i Who works most like a galley slave And stems the tide of wind and wave With faith and hope and courage brave? ‘The Eaitor. Whose heavy task is never done, But meets him with each rising sun As big as when ‘twas first begun? ‘The Editor, Who in this world shall know no rest Nor peace within his troubled breas| ‘To come a moment as his guest? The Editor. Who'll go to heaven when he dies And sing with angels in the skies, So very much to other’s surprise? ‘The Editor. Ancient Gateways. In days when cities were walled about for purposes of defense against an enemy, most of the masters of the people being marauders and brigands, there were real gates, by which is meant tremendous doors of solid oak built within stone walls which were indestructible by any weapons of those times. The ancient gates were built in the walls of cities at those points where the chief highways centered and on which an enemy would surely try to make his attack. Appeal for Help. Ruth, who is two, was visiting her grandmother, who had some summer boarders with whom there was a lit- tle boy whom Ruth disliked very much, but who was fond of her. One day when Ruth was seated on a porch bench the little boy came up and sat down close beside her. She tried every method to remove him and final- ly called in desperation to her grand- mother: “O, grandma, please do come and help me; I'se too much squeezed.” i a a La: In a case in which @ man was, charged with cruelly illtreating a horse by working it in an unfit state, a constable expressed the opinion that the animal was not capable of doing any more work on account of its age. A solicitor for the defense suggested that the horse merely required a rest. Magistrate—"Eternal rest?" Solleltor—"I do not mean that, sir.” ee What Made Her Laugh. * Jean was warned by her parents not to mention the fact that their guest at dinner had an unusually large nose. In the course of the evening meal Jean became convulsed with laughter. She was asked with fear and trembling what was the cause of her mirth. Her reply was: ‘, I'm not laughing at your nose, Mr. Smith—I'm laughing at the plates on mother's plate rail.” Flag of Belgium. ‘The Belgian flag perpetuates the colors of the duchy of Brabant, and was adopted when the monarchy was set up in 1831, The red, it should be noted by those who wish to use it cor rectly, forms the fly of the flag, the yellow the middle, and the black the hoist. ‘The Russian Imperial navy flies the ancient blue saltire of St. Andrew on a white ground, Mathie Withee nae rds ‘The best cloves come from Amboyna, one of the Molucca islands. They are grown also in Java, Sumatra, Zanzibar and in the West Indies. The clove tree grows as high as 40 feet, The ripe fruit resembles a small olive. The clove of commerce is the blossom which is dried by exposure to wood smoke and the sun. French Loquacity. ‘There is no nation like the French. A French milliner will make a hat out of a piece of felt and nothing; and a French official will make a diplomatio episode out of nothing at all, putting into five minutes of futility all tho Gallic civilization of centuries;—Ar- nold Bennett in the Century. Magazize. Women’s Glob Notes The Clipper Girls are engaged in Making up garments for the inmates of the Orphans Home. ‘The Tango card party and dance Friday, February 5, at Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets. , oe ‘afternoon. January 21 a nunfber of the graduates of the Book- jer Wasnington school met at the building and organized a Club, Mrs, dent; Mr. Edwin Pierce, Vice-Presi- dent; and Mr, Cecil Brown, Secre- Miss Lillie Booker, and Mr. Russel | SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBIT | MONDAY NIGHT FEBRUARY 15, | Mrs, Minne Adams, President. ‘The Phyllis Wheatley Art Club will gan avenue, next Thursday, February 4, and Mrs. Gibson, 1533 B®. 11th street February 11, OAK LEAF ART CLUB. The Oak Leaf Art Club met with Mrs, Jennie Johnson, 2045 Rosedale avenue, Friday, January 22d. A. spe- cial program was rendered and dle- licious refreshments were served. MRS, HELEN B, McDONALD, President, MRS, J.C. KAY, Secretary, MISS A. B, WHEELER, Reporter. XX HISTORY AND ART CLUB. ‘The XX History and Art Club met Thursday, January 28 with Mrs. Berry Thomas, 17 S, Harrison stréet, Kansas City, Kansas. A large num: ber of members were present. ‘This being history day, many historical topics were discussed and many bene ficial thoughts gained. After being served a delightful repast tne Clul adjourned to meet with Mrs. MeNait at the residence of Miss C. Washing ton, 2627 Buclid avenue, the Presi dent, Rose Smith, Secy. The Progress Study Club met with Mrs. R. E. 1, Bailey, President, with a goodly numb er in atfendance. It was decided to discuss the life and achievements of Frederick Douglass during the month of February. The first paper on this subject will be read by Miss Lucille McCarty at the next meeting, Wednesday, February 3rd, when the Club will be entertained by Mra, Willa Bigby, at the residence of Mrs, Green on Highland near 14th street, Mrs. Jesse Novel, Secretary. / GARRISON FIELD HOUSE. Our boys’ basket ball team beat ithe Y. M. C. A. team Wednesday, Jan- wary 20, by a score of 18-7, The game was played on Y. M. C. A. courts, ‘A big valentine party for Lincoln High School students and other young people on Friday afternoon and even ing, February 12, A large mail bos will be provided in which valentines may be deposited up until 9:30, al which time the box will be opene¢ and the valentines delivered to thos« to whom, addressed, Parents and friends of the young people are espec lally invited to this party. Lots of fnn and @ good time to everybody, A good time to even up the jokes on your ol dfriends, Remember no costs attached to pleasures at the Fieli House. THE CARNATION ART CLUB. ‘The Carnation Art club met on the aut with Mrs. Todd, 1537 Michigan as hostess. “after the regula® routine of business, Mrs. Carrie Cowan and Mrs. Roy Herndon gave the club very in- teresting remarks. Dainty refresh: ments were served and the club ad: journed to meet with Miss Lewis, 1320, The 15 at which time had only a few absentees, The ladies dis played much talent in heir crochet ing. One addition was made to the club, Mrs. Lizgle Davis, 4329 Penn street. The club opened a series of discussions with Mrs, Ferguson as hostess the twenty-second, 2280 Woodland, The first tople “Household Economy" by Mesdames Collier and Alexander. Refreshments were sevred served. beeen ereeeeereensees * 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. af stembestoeeeseseeaes PORO HAIR GROWER. Scalp Treatment A Gpecialty. Hours 8:30 A, M. to 7:30 P. M. MRS. A. B. HOLT, Home South 2408. 8215 Main St. “Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman" and “Why Jesus Never Mar- ried.”.. There Is a reason...Do you de- sire to know why?..If 80, send 10 cents in stamps and get the booklet containing the addresses and proceed: ings of the second anniversary of Sid: ney C. Tapp’s books on the sex law of the Bible...Address Sidney C. Tapp, 406 Reliance Building, Kansas City, Mo. . a ca » | re j cA f of) on ad “ ak wien] 2 The Pachouk Rvanaciiet. Rey. Sister Dee Pearl, 3101 East 16 has reopened her Church Grant Chapel At 58% Harison street . It is a beauti- ful Church room easily seating 100 persons, To add to its comfort Sister Pearl is master in her profession of and altogether it is a very comfort- ‘able and cozy Church room. Sister Pearl it master in her profession of divine healing coupled also with the gift of wisdom to preach the infallible doctrine of truth makes her a tower of strength in advancing the cause of Christ, unfortunate and fallen human- ity and giving God the praise, Sister ‘Pearl will also open a spiritual study at her church for the acceptance of members and all those who are spirit: ually inclined that they may gain strength and knowledge in the study of the scripture in this great work with faith in Jesus-Christ, For infor- mation consult Sister Pearl at her residence, 3101 B. 16th, Bell Phone, Bast 2367. OSKALOOSA, 1A. DIED OF HIS BURNS. Andrew Nelson Succombs to Injuries Received in Fire at His Home. Andrew Nelson age 72 years was fatally burned at Evans, Ia,, January 21, 1915 when his home was destroy: ed by fire, The house was all in flames when the fire was discovered and Mr. Nelson was in the midst of the flames, He succeded in passing through the fire alive but die dat 4:00 o'clock Thursday morning after in- tense sufferineg. He was terribly burned and had no chance to live at any time. He was abl teo talk and ‘was conscious until dath, He stated that the fire startd witu the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The property was a total loss. After awaking Mr. Nelson finally managed to get to a window and breaking it, crawled out, but he was seriously and fatally burn: ed by so doing. After escaping he ran to the Burgess home about twen ty rods away and Dr, B, J. Williams was summoned from Oklaoosa, ‘The flesh dropped in many- places from his body and the physician pro nounced his injuries at once fatal Mr. Nelson was a miner and a widow: er and hai lived alone at Hvans for sometime. He is survived by the fol lowing children: Mrs. Mary Kirkpat rick, Mrs, Amelia Lewis, Mr, Walter Nelson of Lexington, Mo., and Mrs, Fannie Carson of Kansas City, Mo. ‘The funeral services were held from the Chuseman parlors and intermen! was made in Forest cemetery Sun: day, January 24. IN MEMORIAM. In memory of our dear sister and daughter, Miss Dela ‘Thatcher who fell asleep, January 25, 1914, Just one year ago you left us; How-we miss you Dela dear, And remember all your 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 es within our hearts con: . cealed, Saily missed by mother, father, sisters’ and brothers. HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROS: PERITY. What Blessed condition. 1 want fualize this great. (rath. tench 301 iy, daleoreite restate for a1 uDtdalfablo eouditians: Gut of tows pailenta eared, for trang. toloatty H. J, HOWELL, Motaphysteal Practitioner 1583 Taltimore avenve Kanban City, Mo ae ce 5 ae A Ree Ee, wee Ae ae | + a Me a wey oe oe Be. = 2 eS pee te a Mis Vie A BEAUTIFUL DESIGN. Sprays «....+s00+0.$1.00 and upward Designs .+++-+++++4.150 and upward We please the people oth In price and aquality. Flowers for all occasions. WEAVER FLORAL CO. 1510 E. i8th St. Home phone Main 7555, Bell phone East 4798, Among the Churches Mr, E, W. Thompson, instructor of the B, Y. P, U, clags has been request: ed to bring the class before the City | Conquest Union which meets at this church next Sunday at 8:00 p. mf, and demonstrate ‘the effelency to which ft has attained,...Miss Ruth Price a poptlar and sweet soprano singer has resumed her position in the choir....Dr. S. W. Bacote deliv. ered. two powerful sermons last Sun- day to a large congregation. /..Much credit is due to Sisters Becks, Des: mond, Osley, Mitchell, Smith and others for the able manner in which they assisted the pastor in this great revival. The women were well or- ganized and worked by an excellent system, There are new 120 addi: tlons to the church of which 82 are candidates for Baptism. The revival will continue every night of the ‘week beginning Sunday, January 31. Don't miss this opportunity of having some stars added to your crown, Come out in larger numbers and make this the crowning week of the revival. On Sunday Feb. 7th, Dr. Ba. cote will celebrate his 20th anniver sary as pastor of this church by bap- tizing this great host of converted souls, Let us ope and prayer that this will be a Pentecostal day. ALLEN CMADEL. NOTES. Although the weather was very dis- agreeable yet a fair sized audience was in attendance and a very inter- esting sermon was delivered by- the minister. There were two additions to the church, The revival meetings being held are arousing much inter est and the largest week day crowds that have been in Allen in years have been attending each night, The Ush- ers board composed of the most ac: tive and successful young business and professional men in the city un- der the leadership of W. Clarence Hueston, Fsq., are evolving plans for the installation of the new up-odate heating plant, Bach one of the four- teen ushers 1s expected to raise $150 cash giving @ total of $2,100 for the installation of the plant without any debt to be pald thereafter. Rev, Howard, the Evangelist is having wonderful success In his meetings and the probabilities are that there ‘will be fully a hundred accessions by the close of the week, Under the leadership of Mrs. Bruce and Lawyer Calloway, great. preparations are be- ing made for Go to Church Sunday, ‘February 7th, Prof, Jackson will shave ‘a musical program program that ‘will surpass anything in recent years, WINE STREET BAPTICT CHURCH, On account of the cold weather our attendance was poor. Sunday our pas- tor preached, morning and evening, both sermons were full of instruction ....We were shocked to hear of the death of our pastor's mother. We ex: tend to him and family our heart: felt sympathy and say to them: Meet her in heaven where all is peace and Joy and love-and death is a stranger ----he following are on the sick list: Mesdames, Ella Lawson, Clara Pat: terson, Ella Gilham, Agnes Pollan, Maggie Reiner and Mr. Bragg Lig: gins for all of whom we hope an early pecovary,, Gere, = pa Ss | | REV. J, R. RANSOM, D. D. The Scholarly and Eloquent Pastor of the First A. M. E. Church, kansas City, Kansas, Who Delivered One of the Most Forceful and Renarkeble Addresses on “Good Government” Ever Heard at the Y. M,C. A. Finds Cure for Epilepsy After Years of Suffering way. dnughtor was) atioted with epileptic te for three years, the atuacks Saming every few weeks. Wo employed feveral doctors but they did. her 0 food, About w ES year ago we heard of Dr \ ae Ny Miles’ -Nervine, he pe cae ih Nl has proved a ‘s \. blessing to our Re tee gir. 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THE IDEAL PHARMACY, EIGHTEENTH AND WOODLAND THE CHRIST SPIRIT. Kansas City, Kas, “Whatever things are true, what: ever things are venerable, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report,” all owe their origin and ¢pntinuance to the Christ spirit. In this Christ mas season is a good time to meditate upon the Christ spirit and to reckon up the blessings that have their origin and impulse in the Christ spirit, Is it possible to think of anything in all the wide world that contributes to hu- man hope and happiness that does not exist because of the Christ spirit? Ail consolation, all comfort, all hope, all gladness, all that soothes, the rough asperities of life in this human world all of these exist and abound because Christ came into the world and breathed upon it his spirit. ‘The Christ spirit is a spirit of good will In the angel's song that echoed over the Judean hills on the night of the birth of Jesus was the glad and glori- ous refrain: “Good will toward men.” ‘That was an expression and dec. larion of the kindly purpose of God toward sinful men, It contained the that the greatest blessing and the highest good might come to all men Just this is what the Christ spirit means in the world today. As this spirit gets possession of human minds and hearts and wills there is good will toward men—all men. There is no enmity, no malice, no hatred, no feeling of revenge but the desire that blessings may be upon the heads of all men, The Christ spirit is a spirit of good cheer, Again and again dur ing his ministerial work on earth Christ spoke these words: “Be of good cheer.” He tried to show men how there was solid ground for good cheer, He endeavored to assure them that if they would ally themselves with him and trust him and follow him that there was even in a world of sin and sorrow and in spite of all the dif feulties and burdens and trials an¢ sorrows good reason for hope ani cheer, ‘The Christ spirit smiles anc sings glad songs and lightens burden: and puts light in dark places an gives flowers and wipes away tears ‘The Christ spirit 1s a spirit of love ‘The love of Christ is boundless an timeless. He loves the unworthy ‘the ungrateful, the lowest and mos lost of all the earth, His love neve falters nor fails, “Having loved hi own, he loved them to the end.” Hi So loved that he gave his life oe ungodly, ‘The Christ spirit of { in the world today, Human heart are responding to his love. Men and women are imbued with his spirit havng his spirit they love—love him and love what he loves. Saved men and women are loving their neigh- bors, loving lost men and women for whom Christ died and acting from a spontaneous impulse are giving their time, their money and themselves to the rescue of the pershing. The Christ spirit is a spirit of service. Christ spirit is a spirit of service. Christ was the greatest of servants. Hear this work from Paul: Have this mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus, bas] existing in the form of God accounted not his be- ing on an equality with God, account- ed not his being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself taking the form of a servant, becoming in the likeness of man; and being found in fashion as a ma, he humbled himself becoming obedient to death and the death of the Cross. Of himself Jesus said: “For even the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” And at the same time he said to bis disciples; but whosoever will be great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever of you will be the ehiefest shall ibe the servant of all.” So the spirit of Christ gives itself im service to other .How wide this field of service. The more there is of the Christ spirit in the lives of men and women, the more there will be of un- selfish service. The Christ spirit is the spirit of sacrifice. Christ gave his life as a ransom, He became obediest unto death even the death of the cross. He laid down his life to save the objects of his love. It is in the nature of love to sacrifice. We may say that love loves to sacrifice in the Interest of the objects of love. True love is always and everywhere sacri- fical. ‘There are no limits to which it will not go and no price that it will not pay, There is no pain that it will not suffer and no depth of bw- miliation to which it will not descend, Love will suffer without complaints ‘and die if need be. | BUTTE, MONT. Jerry Larkins, 9 East Galena street, Butte, Mont., proprietor of the Up to Date Tonsorial Parior is the agent for the Kansas City Sun and the Chicago Defender. These papers can be had every Monday morning by calling at the shop or phoning Independent phone 708 and a paper will be de- livered to your address, The Crisis is alco for sale. Leave your orders for any of these papers and see what progress the race is making. Let Larkins help you get them, SOOO STE a see aR Le eC NORE one nN vn RtTnC RE uneureenTaNNnew - re eae eet Ta a EER CASHIN RST EE TEE Dr. Marden’s Uplift Talks ee ee ee Brite once tn a white, Te will take your hoart seem lighter Bates’ a mirror—te we amile, ‘Smlles come back to rect tx; Be_we're frowning nil the. while, j trem ere eal Mr. Paul Poiret, the well-known Frenchman who visited our shores last fall, carried away some not very ittering impressions of our people id country—says we do not know Row to laugh, or at least must be “made” to laugh. With the French Jaughter is the expression of a gay heart, while with the American humor {is appealed to through the intelligence. | Even in our sports we are serious, Bays M, Poiret. “Those who take part tn them do it as soberly and as in tonsely as jt it were an act of bust mess. And the spectators! They might be watching a man being tried for his life. They could hardly look iene concerned if they were.” Many people give us the impression khat the famed Damocletian sword of paln, suspended by a thread, hangs ver them constantly, ready to fall Ee pierce them at any moment, even In their joys and pleasures. They Never seem to enjoy anything without alloy. They give you the impression that they are conscious of the skele- ton's presence at every feast. ‘The American people as a rule take Aife much too seriously. ‘They do not have half enough fun. Europeans look ‘on our care-worn, solemn-faced people as on pieces of machinery run at forced speed and which squeak for Tack of oil. “I question If eare and doubt ever ‘Wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any other population,” says Emerson. “Old age begins in the nursery." Why take life so seriously, anyway? ‘A lot of play will not only improve your health, but increase your eff- Clency wonderfully. If a man Is living in a perfectly nor- mal wey he ought not to have, as so many beve, a haunted, hounded look, as though he suspected either a police- ‘man or a detective were on his track. He ought not to be worried and anxious every minute. He ought not to take his vocation so very seriously, and should not give the impression that the whole universe is hanging upon the result of his task. A great many men fail because they Bre too serious; because they develop unsocial, morose, cold qualities, which repel and which make them poor mix- ers. It is the sunshiny, happy nature which attracts friends and trade. The too serious people seem to say, “Keep away from me, life is too serious a matter to be spent on trivial things.” ‘They are dry and rutty because there is not enough play in their lives to furnish the necessary lubrication, va- riety, or change Not long ago I heard a young cler- gymau preach a sermon which was so very serious, and so very gloomy, that It made everybody in the congregation feel melancholy and depressed, Ther was fo uplift, no encouragement, noth ing to stimulate one to greatest eu- deavor, People dfd not go out of the church, as they should have gone, re- solved to try a little harder than ever before, to do something worth while; ‘Dut the whole congregation went away with 2 gloomy look on their faces ‘There had been nothing inspiring in the clereyman's appearance. His face ‘was so serious and his whole manner so depressing that it was really pain. ful to listen to him. People have burdens enough of their own to bear, and do not want anybody to inject dark, doleful pictures in :heir minds. They go to church for uplift, encouragement. They want to rid themselves of the enemies of their happiness and prosperity. Thousands of people who now remain away from church would gladly go if they could come away feeling uplifted, encour. aged, and with Increased hopefulness. “He that cannot laugh and be gay should look to himself,” wrote Henry Ward Beecher. “He should fast and pray until his face breaks forth into Vight.” TRAGEDIES CAUSED BY THE TONGUE. f ‘They had “heard rumors and be- leame {rightened.” ‘This was the only reason the paniestricken depositors jwould give for their mad rush on the bank for savings in New York a few ‘days ago ‘The silly gossip of a servant, it was jthought, started the rumor that the bank was in difficulties. Although its [president stated that the deposits JWere ninety-seven million dollars ly eleven millions of a surplus, Gnd nat tie largest banks in. New Work had offered to come to the res with Afty million doliars if neces pod yet thousands of men and wom. crowded one another in their fran fete haste to get their money out of me of the soundest institutions in the wntry! The whole fabric of the busines: hangs upon confidence. Our eredit system depends absolute upon it. Anything which throw: ‘the slightest suspicion upon it cause: disaster. Nothing else is so senal tive as confidence. And there ig noth C « Moonliaht. ( One of the most beautiful phases of jooulight is that it not only shines jpon us with the light of the sun, but vo, with its crescent shape when it “new,” reflects back to us the light ‘of earth, a faint, wondrous tlumina, of the otherwise dark part, which las been called “the old moon in the of the new.” That is called ‘“earthsbine,” and comparatively tew jwho witness the advent of “new moon" understand the source of the Shenomenom, & Very Greamlight ome ————— Ing quite so malignant In Its power te destroy it, to blast he amg it touches, as rumor, the baseless go Sip of idle or malicious people. Sometimes the least breath of sus plcfon will seriously injure a man’s credit which it has taken « lifetime to build up. It has often made havoc of @ woman's reputation. One of the eruelest things that a human being can do is to peddle gos: sip, to pass along slander, or even a true story which tends to injure an- other, or to put him in an unfavor able light. It is fatally easy to say things which will cause lifelong wounds, and many people are 80 careless with thelr tongues! Only a short time ago a woman in Brooklyn was driven to sulqde by the gossip of her neighbors. They told her that her husband was pay- ing attention to other women; and although he assured her that he was doing nothing of the kind the gosstps succeeded in making her so jealous that she poisoned herselt. I know people who would never forgive themselves for striking an- other with their hands, but who do not hesitate to stab an absent person in the back with an unkind, unchar- itable, cruel remark, or to spread a bit of slander which may have disas- trous effects on the victim. Some years ago this headline ap- peared in a New York daily: “Geor- gia Cayvan Dies on a Sanatorium Cot! Falsehood Ended Her Career,” Miss Cayvan was an actress. She began her career by reading selec- tions from Shakespeare to customers in her mother's "candy store” in Bath, Me. Later she graduated from the School of Oratory in the Boston university and attracted the atten- tion of Daniel Frohman, who brought her to New York. Ina short time she became a star, and one of the most popular actresses in New York city. Her beauty, brilliancy, vivacity and remarkable talent made her such a favorite that those envious of her began to reflect upon her character. A scandal was started which so preyed upou Miss Cayvan’s sensitive mind that she fell into melancholy and ‘never returned to the stage. Al- ‘though it was proved that the actress was In Europe at the time of the scandal in this country with which her name was falsely connected, and notwithstanding the fact that her char- acter received a sweeping vindication, yet the wagging tongues continued to pedile the scandalous gossip until her melancholy developed into pare- sis, and finally put her beyond medi- cal aid. There are thousands of people in the great failure army today who might have been a success but for the gossips. The unkind criticisms of ‘companions or neighbors, the scan- dals calculated by the thoughtless or evilminded unnerved them. They lost heart when even those they thought were friends stabbed them fn the back and they gave up the struggle. We probably have all of us come to points in our careers when it would not have taken very much to have discouraged us and turned us the other way. Who can ever estt- mate the number of failures, the life wrecks, that have been caused by go8- sipers? How many people have been driven to suicide by cruel slan- der? How many people have become disheartened and have laid down thelr burdens and given up the struggle because thefr sensitive natures could not stand the strain of misrepresenta- tion? "There is no meaner, more cowardly or contemptible thing than to take ad- vantage of another's absence to dis- cuss his shortcomings, and to peddle {dle gossip and slander about him, I believe the time will come when the person who says unkind, cruel things about another in his absence will be ostracized as an enemy of the race, will be despised as a trator to everything that constitutes real friendship and true manliness or womanliness. ‘There is no more des- bleable abit than the gossip hab. The people who indulge in it litte realize that they are exhibiting their own defects; that they are showing themselves up in the most unfavor- able light possible. Everybody who knows them knows that he may be the next victim. ee aortas ae Plenty of fresh, pure air is an es- sential part of a patient’s treatment. Pure air {s just as {mportant and necessary for good health as are pure food and pure water, Fresh alr and sunlight are: the cheapest and best agents for the re covery of an ill person. Let fresh air and sunlight enter your sick rooms, through open win- dows as much as possible. Expose the bed clothing to the open air and sunshine for some time each day. Sleep with the bedroom windows open, says nurse, ‘The old superstl- tion that night alr is unhealthy even for an invalid is entirely false. On the coxtrary, night air, especially in large cities, is purer and better than day air, because it contains less dust and fewer microbes. ‘To get the best ventilation have the ‘window open at both top and bottom, : Why He Preferred the Moon. ‘Two negroes got into a discussion concerning the relative values of the moon and the sun to the world, After Ustening to the advocate of the sun the other proceeded to demolish his argument with the following ves “De sun am all right, but de moon wut two ob it; de moon shines in de night when we needs it, but de sun done shine only in de day when we got light enough without it.” nating from our globe, and suggesting how grand might be that earthshine to lovers and others on the moon if ‘there were such. Annoyed at “Joke.” In England it {8 quite common, tm stead of saying “Hello” when using the telephone, to ask, “Are you there?" ‘An American who heard it for the first time, thinking someone was endeavor ing to have some fun at his expense, replied “No,” and hung up the re ceiver. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS LAND AT PLYMOUTH SS oe fs ye ; oe Sys ES in ( ee Nn se a ee fe nome page t FSi Ser caaten p PR: 0 Be PP oe ea pio eae HA. a] is hale Jk Ore eee a & yt ert ene F< ‘ Fe ie led eo neon CS eee f Ryker oy ant re ek Walgcd Mae ray AN iB sa rhs Ti inhi aoe 4; a ° LIP aie, wl La) F ie RR a/ evi ele I eer LiTOe Win Tice How the Tide Was Turned on the Marne. General Gallien! Hurls 70,000 Men by Taxicab Against German Flank and Forces Retreat to the Aisne. ; By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Paris—It is not generally known that the Battle of the Marne was won by automobiles. General Gallien! had 400 taxicabs and other light motor cars at his disposal. It will be remem- bered that Von Kluck with the right of the German army got as far as Cham- ig Seber Geet ey oe ernor of Paris, had a large force, prob: ‘ably half a million men, at his disposal and he was responsible for the defense of Paris. Gallient figured that he had more men than he really needed and that 70,000 of his men could be spared for work at the front. Acting entirely upon his own re- sponsibility, he ordered his men to ‘crowd into the automobiles, He made eash taxicab carry nine soldiers. It was a curious sight. ‘There were two in each seat, two on the hood, one with the driver and one on each run- ning board, ‘Within six hours he threw the whole 70,000 against the flank of the Ger- “mans at Meaux, about thirty-five miles from Paris. Von Kluck evidently had not reckoned with such a sortie, He ‘was forced to stop and give battle. The French, retiring on his front, re-formed [and gave battle. ‘The result was the “retreat of the Germans from Marne to the Aisne after the sanguinary bat |tle named from the first river. | This is only one of the great exploits | of the French army automobile trans: port service. No other nation in this war has used the motor car with the effectiveness of the French, The auto: mobile transport service is organized a8 a separate branch. Working with amazing rapidity just after the begin- ning of the war, the French army off cers drafted into this corps men who had been employed in automobile manufacture—foremen, skilled work men, testers and drivers. ‘The officers were drawn from the manufacturers, agents and other heads of automobile organizations, The heaviest trucks are used for ammunition carriers and light: er commercial vehicles for the food supply. General Mongin commands the whole corps. Some noted French race drivers are now in the army service. Boillot alter. hates with the Marquis D’Albufera in ‘driving General Joffre's car. Several “machines are kept ready day and night ‘for General Joffre and it is no unusual gre. : wr eh, | Roe a 7 eee : as ye ate eae ae SA Vado? This unique picture of the king of the Belgians was taken in the trenches where his valiant little army is de- fending the last few miles of the devas- tated country. Every morning the king pays a visit to,his soldiers, asks after thelr welfare and generally comforts them, On this occasion he presented the men with warm rugs, the gift of Queen Elizabeth, Eee eee nee ARE SILENCED BY WHITLOCK Envoy Hands Card to German off cera Who Objected to His Speaking English. Paris—A story printed here of pecullar incident at Brussels recently is attracting much comment and con- siderable amusement. ‘Two German officers were dining in @ restaurant in the Belgian capital. At the adjoining table were two men conversing in English, The German suing for him to enter one of them and drive the whole length of the battle front in the course of the night. There are now 15,000 automobiles and 12,000 trucks in the service of the French army. One of the automobile service corps’ biggest feats was the transfer of the British army from Braisne, between Soisne and Reims, to St, Omar, a dis- tance of 170 miles, The 200,000 men were transported to thelr new posi: tions within three days, RAT WENT THROUGH THE WAR Unusual Pet Was in Soldier's Pocket During Hot Fights in ‘Panders. London.—Perhaps the only rat on record that ever went through a mili- tary campaign, ensconced snugly in its soldier owner's pocket, at the bat- tle of Mons, the Marne and the Aisne, 4s now in London in the possession of Sergeant Johnson of the Royal wield artillery, Johnson was wounded at Soissons and is on a few days’ leave, “Billy,” as Johnson calls his rat, though the latter is a lady, is pure white, and was given to the English soldier by a French girl at the begin- ning of the war. During the battle of Mons, the rat sat on her master's right boot. Twice she wandered away, but came back all right and was in the fighting all the’ way from Mons to Melun, southeast of Paris, and back to the Marne and the Aisne. Billy was in Sergeant Johnson's pocket all the time and was never hurt. When the soldier landed at Southampton, after he had been wounded by shrap- nel, a lady who saw the white rat, presented to Johnson a black tecrier pup name1 T>by to keep Billy com. Dany, The rat and the pup are now close friends, WAR SPATS CAUSE DIVORCE Use of French Language Classified as Offense—Suspects Tried by Court Martial. Basel, Switzerland.—German mar. tal law 1s described by Alsatians in Basel as “weighing heavily” upon their countrymen ‘at home. They declare that the speaking of French is classified as an offense un- der the orders issued by the com- manding generals of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-first German Army corps, who cite the imperial laws of 1878 and 1882 to sup. port their contention, The testimony of the children and servants is taken as proof befvre court-martial of guilt of talking French, Personal feeling between pro-French and pro-German Alsatians is running high, visiting Als.tians declare, The local courts have granted divorces re- cently to husbands and wives unable to live harmoniously because of their opposing national sympathies, MAKING UP FOR VODKA EDICT Russian Revenues Nearly Up to Ex Penses in Spite of Pro- hibition, Petrograd.—Next fo the war the financial side of life is claiming the at- tention of the Russian public, In spite of the war, with Its loss of customs receipts, and the abolition of the vodka monopoly, which together mean a loss of $400,000,000, the reve- hues for 1915 are estimated at $1,550,- 000,000. Ordinary expenses are esti- mated at $1,040,000,000, extraordinary expenses estimated at $75,000,000, making $1,615,000,000 the total ex- penses for 1916, ENEMIES IN DEATH EMBRACE Frenchman and German Bayonet Each Other and Die With Hands Clasped. London.—A Freneh observer of the battlefield of the Marne tells that he saw a Frenchman and a German lying together, porener in the act of ex- changing a handshake. Coming near- er, he found that each man had bayo- neted the other, and had fallen in a death embrace which mimicked the \ pase Of arectinn tritite. officers showed sigus of displeasure at the use of English by their neighbors, but the latter took no nottee of the annoyance of the Germans and con- tinued thelr talk. Pinally the Germans could stand it no longer and one of the officers urose and approaching the table at which the strangers were sitting sald: “I will be obliged if you will stop talking in English; {t displeases and annoys me." Ono of the men thereupon asked the offleer for his card and held out his own. The officer looked at the FOOTBALL GAME HALTS WAR British and German Soldiers Fight on the Gridiron—Kaiser Upsets the Schedule, Berlin—A general order issued by the German army authorities prohibits football games in the field between German and English soldiers. ‘At Christmas time men from both sides in the western theater of war fraternized and played hotly-contested games of football. OMcers and men laid aside their arms and watched the players and cheered them on. The rivalry became so intense that war was forgotten and the men who Kicked the most goals received more applause than fs usually given heroes on the fighting line. At one place where the Germans and British played the game was a draw and the players agreed to sus- pend fighting for two days more in order to decide the issue on two games out of three. News of this reached the military authorities and it was decided that football was interfering too much with the business of warfare, aside from the complications arising from too friendly contact between the ad- vance guards, ‘The order was issued forthwith and there will be no more athletic con- tests between the soldiers, who also are forbidden to fraternize or meet on any terms except those of bitter en- wie. OBSERVATION DUTY pe ph So . ee D “J " ese Mamma) H ese ‘ raed | ey <7 Le Pe aia A eer: 8 Ply i | ary Pa 8 . ee | —eugie | a Caan ees SS iacmnicel A French observation officer on duty along the firing line, GUNS’ ROAR DRIVES MEN MAD Soldiers Go at Each Other With Bay- chets er Rush for Rach Oth; othe Washington, D. C.—Burope's war is converting hundreds of men into ray- ing maniacs, according to Maj. J. J. Dickinson of the state department, who recently saw fighting in tho trenches near Soissons, “They don't fire at each other,” he said, “but the din of artillery directed ‘at the covered trenches 1s positively imaddening. Now and then I saw men Jump out of the trenches and go at each other with bayonets or in a mad rush for each others’ throats. “From my position from trenches a little behind the actual firing line I saw hundreds of men brought back. ‘They did not seem to be wounded. ‘They were screaming, raving man{acs, driven insano by that maddening roar of artillery overhead.” LOST GLASS EYE IN FIGHT Frenth Soldier Wants New Optic So He May Rejoin Forces at Front. Paris.—Emlle Decostered, a French soldier, has written an oculist in Paris asking that he be supplied a new eye. His letter states that he fought with his regiment until a week ago when he was wounded by a ball that hit the glass eye and shattered it. “phe doctor, noticing I am without ‘an eye,” says Decostered, “is holding me in the hospital. Please send me an eye so that I can Jolu my com- mand,” card, drew himself up, clicked bis heels together, saluted and murmured his excuses, ‘The stranger's card bore the name of Brand Whitlock, Envoy Wxtraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Belgium. Now Allow Movies. Paris, —The Paris authorities now al- low movies showing scenes of devasta- tion due to the war. Hitherto all films showing anything in connection with the war were prohibited. SOME KITCHEN KINKS METHODS THAT MAY BE NEW TO MANY HOUSEWIVES. Tiles Always Best When One Can Afford Them—Keeping the Dish- cloth Fresh—Linoleum for the Nisde Godwin: Tiles are so clean and nice if one is able to afford them. The young wite who has them will never regret the outlay, although they are rather ex pensive at the start. Round the kiteh en walls they are splendid and most hygiente in every way. ‘The back of the sink Is bound to get splashed with the washing up after each meal. Therefore here it 18 es. Sential to have either tiles or zine ot something of the kind through which ‘the water cannot penetrate. Zine an- ‘swers the purpose quite well if secure ly nailed flat against the wall. ‘This 1 ‘easily cleaned daily with a little dry ‘brickdust. ‘The tiles, of course, are Ideal, as all they need is & washdown with warm water dally. A little enamel basket Is so useful ‘in the sink for tea leaves and such ‘things which are more than likely to go down the sink and eventually stop it up. It is shaped so that it fits Into the corner of the sink, perforated with holes, so that all liquid passes away, leaving the solid bodies in the basket. Nothing {s more unpleasant than a greasy dishcloth. To keep this im- Portant article fresh and sweet, tt should be scalded each time after use, or else washed out thoroughly in hot water and rinsed well in several wa- ters, A plate rack fixed above the sink s 8 great saving of labor. Plates put in the rack must be rinsed in cold water after being washed in hot, if you do not want them to be smudgy. When roasting meat, use a double meat tin. Put cold water in the under one. This prevents the dripping burn- ing and also keeps it from boiling away. Plenty of hot water 1s essential for dish washing. Collect all the silver. Place the knives blade downward In a Jug of hot water. Pile up the plates neatly. A little arrangement saves the muddie one so often sees in con- nection with washing up. Wash all the cleanest things first to save the water, Rinse glass in cold water after washing in hot and polish well with a ary, clean cloth, ‘The most useful and healthy floor covering for the kitchen is linoleum. Inlaid Unoleum is the best to pur- chase, Here the pattern goes right through and therefore will be perfect to the last. Clean your windows when the sun is not shining, for if the sun shines on a wet window no amount of rub- ding will prevent it from being streaky when dry. Avoid a frosty day, too, as the glass is apt to break easily then. Dust the windows thoroughly. Wash the glass with a sponge wrung out in tepid water with a few drops of ammonia in it. Dry with a clean cloth (with no fluff on it). Polish with pads of newspaper. The Cook Says. If your market basket or clothes basket of willow shows a few loose ends, put it to soak for twenty min- utes of half an hour in lukewarm wa- ter. A good way to do is to put the basket into the bathtub, resting it on the part that s to be repaired, then turn in enough water to soak this part, The important thing is to get the willow ends soft and pliable. When this is accomplished the strips can be readily bent back into place, and if you push them in firmly, they will stay in place when dry. Nev- er try to bend the willow strips while they are dry, as they will be sure to snap off. ‘A putty knife, with its short handie and broad blade, 1s an indispensable tool in the kitchen. It can be used for turning hash, fritters and fish, Its broad end is also most useful in scrap: ing pots and pans, Halibut With Tomatoes. Take the required amount of hall- but steak and put into a buttered pan. Arrange slices of tomato to cover it and put on top of the tomatoes plenty of green peppers sliced rather thin. Season with'salt and pepper and pour ‘over all one-fourth cupful of melted butter, Bake in hot oven 30 minutes, basting frequently. A garnish of sliced hard boiled eggs may be added. ” Codfish Wiggle. Pick up .- cupful of codfish, place in saucepan with enough cold water to cover, let come to boiling point; drain off as before; thicken a pint of milk as for cream toast, seasoning well with pepper, salt and butter; now add the fish and half a can of peas and let all doll up. Have ready some nicely browned french-fried potatoes and turp the cream, fish, ete., over them. Red Pepper Salad. Mix half can of plmentos or sweet peppers with one cream cheese, Beat into the mixture sufficient mayonnaise to soften it slightly and add a few Arops of onion Juice, more if a decided onion flavor is liked. Pack in a mold, ehill on fee and when ready to serve cut in slices and place on crisp lettuce leaves. ‘This makes a good luncheon salad. Devited Ham Rolls, Make light, rather rich pastry, roll thin and cut {nto squares of about four Inches. Spread upon each square ‘& small quantity of deviled ham, leav- ing about half inch around the edge uncovered. Molsten the edges with cold water and roll each sheet of ham and pastry compactly, pressing the ends together, and bake. | iciecsian Witede Taek Reiki tabi leek For removing greasy spots on black woolen clothing the following {s ex- cellent: Make a solution of borax and warm water and wash the solled artt- ele tn ft, then rinse in clear water apd dry in the sun, ‘This is a good way to clean men’s coat collars. PROPER COOKING OF MEATS Various Treatments Necessary for Their Effective Preparation for the Table. Fresh meats which are to be served cold should be put to cook in a pot of boiling water and botled hard for 15 minutes, covered, then boiled gently until tender throughout. ‘The season- ings may be any combination of herbs or vegetables desired, Salt and pep- per should be added when meat ts hatt done. Salt meats take different treatment. First soak over night in plenty of cold water. ‘Then scrape and clean the next day, and put them on to cook in a pot of cold water. Cook tongue very gently until the ‘small bones in the root can be easily ‘pulled out, This is a matter of four hours, Leave in water until cold. Then lift out, trim, skin and serve, It may be put away cold in the tee box, wrapped in a coarse clean cloth, or may be returned to some of the wa- ter in which it was bofled. ‘This will help it retain its succulence, Ham, if very dry, may be soaked 48 hours, changing water once or twice, Put to cook in plenty of cold water. It should simmer five to elght hours. Yt is done when the small bone tn the hock can be pulled out easily. When nearly cold draw off the skin; do not cut, Cover the top with a mixture of egg, bread crumbs, pep- per, salt, sugar and a little made mus- tard, and set In a slow oven to brown. Baste frequently with two tablespoon- fuls of vinegar and a little boiling wa- ter in the pan. Bake from one to two hours. Save ham fat from the pan. It fs fine for frying potatoes, hominy or rice. Save the ham skin and use it to cover the ham under a coarse cloth. KEEPS DRAIN PIPES CLEAN Arrangement That May Be of Home Construction Has Been Recommended. A device for the kitchen sink that has proved successful in keeping the drain pipes clean is made of a wooden frame and ordinary window screen. Make a wooden frame, about two inches high, just wide enough to fit nicely into the sink, and not quite as Jong as the inside of the sink, On ‘one end of this nail a board, covering about half the length of the frame; on the other end, on the opposite side, nail'a piece of wire window screen. This device may be kept in the sink always, the dishpan set on the wooden part, and anything poured on the other part will be strained before reaching the pipes. This may be easily cleaned, and the wire screening renewed at small expense, when worn through. It is better than the ordinary sink strainer, as it covers the bottom of the sink, and catches everything thrown into it,—Holland’s Magazine. ‘Garin abeds. mated Boil ‘n their jackets two dozen small potatoes until tender. Peel, and while hot, cut in thin slices and mix carefully with two white onions, a cu- cumber, a green pepper and halt a dozen ‘radishes, all sliced thin. Sea: son with salt and pepper and while hot, mix with the following dressing: One-quarter pound bacon cut into small pleces, one-quarter cupful each of water, vinegar, sugar and one-halt teaspoonful of mustard, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, and a dash of cayenne pepper. Fry the bacon slow- ly until brown; then pour over both the bacon and the fat that has been fried out, the vinegar to which has been added the water. Mix the sugar, mustard, salt and pepper and add this mixture to the other. Cook until the sugar is dissolved and while hot pour it over the potatoes. Heap on a plat- ter and around the sides of the dish; garnish the top and sides of the mound »f salad with radishes cut like roses. Hartaauin: Aihbon Cake: Two cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful butter, four eggs, scant cupful milk, three cupfuls flour, two teaspoonful baking powder, flavor. Cream sugar, butter and eggs, then add one cupful flour, then milk and remainder of flour, little salt and baking powder, and last the beaten whites of the eggs. Divide into three parts, add fone squaro of chocolate or one table: spoonful of cocoa to one portion, a ttle pink coloring to another and eave the third plain. Press together ‘with white of the egg or a little jelly ‘and frost with mocha or chocolate frosting. Macedoine Vegetables. Here is a way to use cold pota- toes which may be new: Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter, add threo tablespoonfuls of flour and add grad- ually 1% cups of milk. When thick- ened add one cupful each cooked string beans, peas and cold votled po- tatoes, cut in cubes. Season with salt ‘and paprika and Jet stand 15 minutes over hot water before serving. As this calls for other vegetables it may help to use up the leftovers. * hia bee One pint of liver, chopped coarse asd measared after chopping. In fry- ing pan melt one tablespoonful of but- ter, add one teaspoonful of flour and blend well. Now Add one cupful of water gradually, while stirring, and season with salt and pepper. Stir in the liver and almmer for 20 minutes. Just before serving add one teaspoon- ful of lemon julce. Honeycomb Pudding, Feat together one-half cupful of sugar, one cupful of molasses and 1% cupfuls flour. Heat one-half cup- ful of milk and one-half cupful of but- ter, then add one teaspoonful of soda, Combine the mixtures and beat thor- oughly. Add four well-beaten eggs. and beat again. Steam in a buttered pudding mold three hours, or bake 1% hours. Serve with-creamy sauce, To Keep Sliver Bright, To keep silver bright that is not tn, use, lay a piece of gum camphor in the drawer or box in which the silver, ls kept, and you will find that the sil. ‘ver will not require so much polishing. es Always o)pring SRSAEEN CW Ue, Sonruey, Ve: Philadelphia lies one of the most remarkable lands in the world. Imagine a land of the simple life, that per- sists in maintaining its cheerfulness, beauty and youth, and refuses to grow up; a place where it always is spring; where the motor car and the trolley are never seen; but where exists the most delightful kind of civilization, the civilization that makes its way without noise, or haste, a very com- fortable sort, in fact, and that is the Bermudas, says the Philadelphia Pub- lic Ledger. ‘When one steps from the steamship at the wharf at Hamilton, one seems to have at the same moment moved into yesterday, and the change is not 80 violent as one might believe. Nev- ertheless, it is a change. The absence of tall buildings, the prevalence of white ones, almost all of them of stone, indicates that one has left home behind. It is impossible to find something compatible with the new vision, for there is no place like it in the world. : There {is a suggestion of the tropics, but the temperature is most temper- ate. The winds are of the kind usu- ally referred to as balmy, and to know just what that word means one has to go to these little islands south- east of the Gulf stream. Hundred Fair-Sized Islands. It is incorrect to allude to the land as Bermuda, for there is a small archipelago, ‘and collectively the {s- lands are known as the Bermudas. But Americans probably always will refer to it as Bermuda, ‘The Bermudas consist of about one hundred fair-sized islands, but if one counts all the islets that are visible when the tide is at ebb then, as some industrious geodetic surveyor has left it of record, there are 365. The total land area of the ‘slands is 19% square miles. In a general way the main islands are arranged in the form of a fish- hook, and the distance from one end to the other is about twenty-five eo eins d RPA ic stn rg ENE dae meee rae og BE PS eet treat a eee IN ae eae si ae ENS VS tee ara aie PASAY 9S CRSA cgi Magma are TE “ERO AA Ae ore dete ie a NO Ea ON GD: RRR 6S ~~ PRET GRO, Cn) aca aA Fat SR BON Ka eee eae ner ees Bu uur abs Ue aa ee ae hie Bs peo ae La WOR ed Nines beac et Oe ae ‘ TRURRER THES it BEGLIOA. miles. The largest of the group is Bermuda island, which is nowhere wider than three miles, and has a Jength of fourteen miles. As the average person does not like to burden himself with details about geographical position, expressed in degrees, it will be better appre: ciated how near home these delight: ful islands are by merely saying that they are 810 statute miles from the steamship pler in New York to the pler at Hamilton. The distance 1s about the same as that of Chicago from Philadelphia, There is still an- other way of indicating the location of the Bermudas, and that is to ex- plain that tho group les about six hundred miles east of South Carolina, just a little north of the latitude of Charleston. ‘They are nearer to the United States than they are to any other land, Houses All of White Rock. One of the first things that strikes a visitor from the United States when he catches his first glimpse of the hills of the Bermudas is the spots of white which powder them. As the steamship approaches {t is discovered that these most sparkling white dots are roots of the houses. ‘The houses are all, that is all that are found in the two towns—Hamil- IEDC Seene ine tie 5) maettanta tite. ‘A singular story of an English of- ficer having his life saved by a cat is told by Sir M. Lioyd of Newport, Pembrooke, England, the father of the officer in question. Lieutenant Lloyd became detached from his regiment near the French frontier. He found refuge in an outhouse, where he re- mained in an exhausted condition for three days. When he was found a cat was discovered curled around bis neck, and it was the conviction of his rescuers that but for this cat Lieu- tenant Lloyd would bave perished from the cold. His “BIL” He had spent half the winter in Washington endeavoring to get, a pri- vate bill through congress, and re- turned to the bosom of his family a sadder and wiser man. Shortly after his arrival he was met by @ friend, who greeted him warmly with: “Glad to see you back again. How about your bill?” “Bill—bill?” said the dis- appointed solicitor confusedly, with a dim recollection of an encounter with ‘the hotelkeeper, “I left it unpaid,” Hie “BIL” ton, the capital, and St. George, the old capital—constructed of a white coraline stone that is found on the islands, The roofs are whitewashed, with the design, principally, of keep- ing the drinking water pure. ‘Transportation in and about the Islands is of two kinds, by one-horso victorias and by steam ferries and steamboats, to the various places of interest, Bicycles are also used, for the roads are built of the same white coral stone that serves for the build: ings, and this makes mgst admirable roadways. While there is nothing without in- terest on the islands to the visitor, it still is the land of the simple lite; and not so very simple, either, when fone considers that there are two places where one may see moving plc: tures, There is ‘something progres- sive about that, but it must be: re- membered that the total resident pop- ulation of the islands, and that in- cludes the two towns, although Hamil- ton, the capital, is called a city, is only about 21,000 persons. The remainder ‘of the population is floating, being ‘augmented upon the arrival of each steamship and lkewise being dimin- ished by the departure of every ocean- going vessel. ‘There are plenty of amusements for the visitor, but they are naturally almost all of them of the outdoor variety, The climate and the general character of the weather rather sug: gests this kind to the visitor, for while there is no lack of rain in this little land, the porous character of the white coraline roadways absorbs the water as soon as it falls. Just Imagine a land where there is no mud to be found on the roads, even after fa heavy rain. But this is a fact abou the Bermudas. Frost is unknown there, Plenty to See and Do. ‘There are bathing, sailing, fishing; the most beautiful lagoons and lakes in the world; rocky coasts, sandy beaches, islands that invite one to visit them; caves, an aquarium, sea . gardens, long roads, bordering the sea or lakes; hills rising about two hun- dred and fifty feet from the sea, cov- ered with cedars and shrubs; acres of Easter lilies under cultivation, and plantations where the delicious Ber- muda onions and potatoes are raised. A long causeway connects the two largest islands, and nearly evory va- riety of beautiful landscape is close at hand. For so small a place as these islands there is an extraordinary amount of natural wonders, There is a weird old cave whose roof has tumbled in at one time or another, and into which the water of the ocean pours in at low tide, moaning in a most fascinating manner. They call this well, which has been stocked with fish native to these waters; Devil's Hole, on account of the noise the water makes when it enters. It ‘s a natural aquarium, and the fish in it have been looked at by visitors for so long a time that they rather like the experience, and even answer to a call for dinner. Then, just a few miles outside, specially fitted boats, which have glass windows {in their bottoms, take won- der-struck tourists to a fine stretch, where the water is perfectly clear, and the passengers are shown the Loautiful coral on this sea floor, like a marine garden of great beauty. A workman owes it to himself and his family to take care of himself. His labor is his only asset in business, When injured, he is for the time being a bankrupt, If killed, his family may be left destitute and his children de- ‘prived of an education and forced to seek employment before their matur- ity. This philosophy is found in a bul- letin of the Chicago bureau of safety. The Uncomplaining Woman. Lives there a man who does not believe that an uncomplaining woman has nothing to complain of? It is his masculine prerogative of destiny. Be- sides, does not he himself when hurt bellow like a bull? Why, he argues, should not wounded woman do the same?—W. J. Locke in “Simon the Jester.” | Incentive to Better Work, Emerson says: “Every day is a doomsday.” If we realized this, we would take each day and try its worth as jt came to us. ‘Then wo would do better work tomorrow— Malthie D. Babcock, feoeren Workman’s Asset. (ac eS ws ie D DUK Yi) Le ~j Kea SS LIN HC @) res i et ie os ’ Y hn iy \' Ni aif Mh ys J ; RSH ne {liye 2 aly S|, HAL, iS gy 7 \ ga AR | W) SS > ({h sa ty PX | ee : ~ 4a a y| ae | gee Hh 5 a re l ye Se as I \ qo | \ Gx a | 1f war has made the czar @ changed man. Instead of the In: visible aristocrat, concealed from his people behind great palace walls, enormou: | parks and files of Imperial guards, pro- ected with infinite care from the assassin, he has become al- most a democratic ruler. Everywhere he appears among his people and among his sol- diers, returning their greetings, Se eee See Oe ee |) Lr eCr ee tion is thrown to the winds. Several times he has penetrated to the battlefields of Poland and Would have exposed himself to the shrapnel of the Prussians had not bis entourage skillfully rendered this impossible. His dress is simple and he {s often seen in peasant garb—that is a suit of some fine ma- terlal cut in peasant blouse style, a manly-look- ing costume of which the true Russian is very proud. More remarkable still, the queen, always be- fore the most exclusive of royalty, has gone among her people, visiting the sick and wound- ed, The Russians scarcely knew her before. ‘There is in all this ostensible activity a little more than the Jesire to arouse and encourage the fighting nation, ‘There {s more, for instance, than inspired the visit of King George to his troops in Flanders. This extra element ts anxi- ety, a lively fear and not of German howitzers. The victories of Russian arms have thelr sweet- ness mixed with bitterness for the czar and his family Why? ‘The reason is none other than the ma- Jestic figure of ths Grand Duke Nicholas Nich- olaievitch, the commander in chief of the Mus- covite forces. The czar Las long suffered by physical comparison with his soldier cousin— now he suffers in a more serious way. If ever there was a king in looks it 1s Nich: olas Nicholalevitch. He {s full six feet six inches in his stockings, lean but graceful, with a head In which the keenest intelligence is combined with vast dignity and force. When he is with the czar the latter by com- parison is weak and insignificant looking, a cod- dled tnonarch. In secret the czar’s subjects are not slow to speak of this and many avow history of the past twenty-five years would have been far different if this tall Mars had been in his cousin's place, that the humiliation of the defeat by Japan would have been spared the proud Russians. It has to be remembered that the commander in chief has taken his commission to make him dlc- tator of Russia. ‘The proclamations to the Poles and the Jews promising liberties in exchange for loyalty during the war) were not signed by the czar, but by Nicholas Nicholalevitch, This was astonishing in itself and many have maintained made the promises null and vold because the promising party would never have the power, it he had the wish, to carry out his obligations to the oppressed peoples. & Yet, would the czar dare to oppose his victor. ous general by refusing to grant a request to carry out these promises? Such an issue might prove a popular one for :licholas Nicholateviteh. ‘The Listory of Grand Duke Nicholas begins in ‘an unhappy youth, He clung to his German mother, whose Russian husband had woefully wronged her and ruined the family fortune. But come to manhood, he followed straight in his father's footsteps, for the parent was one of Czar Alexander 1:’s famous field marshals, who many times had scourged the enemies of Rus- sia, Alexander II was not especially fond of the young Grand Duke Nicholas, for noble and peas ant alike consciously or unconsciously gave more homage to this splendid giant than to the three spindiing, dull sons of the ruler, He ordered that the grand duke’s army activitles rust be Itinfted to the cavalry—but the only result was soon to be told that his horsemen, thanks to VITAL FORCE SHOWN BY HAIR Records the Condition of the Body In a Manner That Is Practically Infallible. In the course of {ts continuous growth the hair records the tide of vitality as it risea and falls in the body. When a hair is held up to the Ught it may be seen to be smaller at some places than at others, ‘There may be & spaco of one-eighth of an {noh, perhaps, where the hair is so 4 ike Sy 55 thin as to appear ready to break off. Such spots indicate an appreciable loss of nourishment, a sleepless night or an attack of auto-intoxication. In the last named cases the general vital ity 1s interfered With, and the roots of the hair not being developed aro not as strong as otherwise, ‘The hair grows until the weight ts 80 great that {t can no longer be sus- tained by the roots and it drops out. ‘That s why hairs are of different lengths. Coarse hair, having large roots, will grow long. When the vital- a fs sa Ft ke df fi yy (i Sy \ ee Parr W yy = Se Sy ee Oe NEM, WEIS NOW the eee se Europe! Meantime the Nicholas’ family life was not free from the scandal which so often has made the title “grand duke” a reproach. He first mar- ried the middle-aged widow of a wealthy trader. He did not bring her to court, but left her at Moscow, where she would be safe from the slights her extraction might earn her in higher company, She died and her husband, now a rich man, only too quickly wedded the Princess Anas- tasia of Montenegro, with whom he had long been in love. It was while she was the wife of another man, the duke of Leuchtenberg, that Nicholas Nicholafevitch wooed and won her. She persuaded Czar Nicholas to permit her divorce. Anastasia is a large-framed, vigorous, ambi- tious woman, devoted to the cause of the Slavs. She is a firebrand and unscrupulous in methods to further her husband's progress to the position of natural leader of the Russian Slavs. It 1s sald her husband {s altogethe. too intimate with certain lady of the imperial ballet, but this does not seem to affect the relations between the wedded couple. She is always magnificently clad and is a8 regal in figure as her husband. Throughout the Japanese war the soldiers hoped Grand Duke Nicholas would be cde their leader and he was again and again promised to them. Many believed final disaster would have been averted if the ezar had conquered his jeal- ousy of bis popular cousin. After the wor, when the throne was threatened by the revolutionists, the czar was forced to fall back on the man he had slighted and the grand duke restored order by stern means. He was in danger of assassina- tion, and commanded admiration by vonstantly going about the streets unattended. Just what happened when the present war broke out remains to be told, It will be an in- teresting story. It {s known that the czar aspired to follow the kalset’s example, take the field with his soldiers, and “be his own fleld marshal.” What pressure was brought to bear to dissuad. him from this yurpose and to force his accept- ance of Grand Duke Nicholes is hard to say, But there are rumors that the mobilization was well along before the czar knew of it. It is to be remembered there is a Juaker party in Russia as well as in Prussia, And this party claims the grand duke as leader. ‘The present situation {3 this: The cabinet council of the empire meets every day at Peter hof. Its resolutions are outwardly submitted to the czar for confirmation; but, as a matter of fact, the cabinet simply O. K.'s the orders of the all-powerful commander {n chief and the czar then also attaches his signature, In time of war the cabinet does not dare defy the army head, nor does the czar. If all this is concealed from the mass of the Russian people, it is entirely clear to that astute German, the czarina, Suppoted to be a nervous invalid, she has suddenly donned the garments of the Sisters of Charity with her daughters and entered the hospital wards. She ts even present at operations and has bound up the -soldiers’ wounds with her own hands. Anyone who knows the almost religious attitude of the Russian peas ‘ant to the “Little Father” can realize the wild enthusiasm aroused among those whom the czar ina thus visits, Can the czarina be striving to win Vack for her family the personal popularity the grand duke is taking from her husband? It may be so. ity 1s low all over the body the roots are imperfectly developed and the hair is Ukely to fall out, as in cases of typhoid fever. Dandruff is a parasitic disease, and the parasites get down around the Toot of the hair, which becomes dis- eased. ‘That is another reason why the hair falls out. ‘Wind and Water. ‘The long-winded member of the de- bate clud had held forth for many minutes past his a time, and Her little son, now ten years old, is suffering from an obscure ailment and may never grow to maturity, If he lives he might have hard work in gaining the throne, for the tradition of blood inheritance is not any too strong in Russia. Many times in her history Russia has seen inhert tance by might instead. If the czarevitch dies the succession would fall to the Grand Duchess Olga, eldest daughter of the czar. To bolster up her claims the czarina is sald to be working ‘for a marriage with the Grand Duke Dmitri. Dmitri fs closer to the suc: cession than Grand Duke Nicholas. But he ts Uittle of the soldier—a handsome fellow, yet too elegant and {rresponsible. If the betrothal were unnounced of Olga and Dmitri with the proclamation that Olga tt to ascend the throne in the event of her brother's death, the party of the Grand Duke Nicholas would know what that meant, It might be well followed by a conflict. Would the army stand by the czar or by their leader of the great war? WORK ON THE FIRING LINE Monk Went Into Twelve Battles With Bavarians land Was Wounded in Foot. A South German monk who entered the First regiment of the Bavarian Royal Guards as a vol: unteer officer at the beginning of the war, is now lying wounded in the hospital at Freiburg He described his experiences when he was inter. viewed: “On August 10 our battalion was sent direct to the frontier. Then we proceeded in forced marches as rapidly as possible to the Vosges mountains, where the French had already taken up thetr positions, “The French had Intrenched themselves 60 se- curely and firmly that they could hardly get out again. All who fled we shot down. At nine o'clock their positions were ours. They threw away everything they bad—rifles, blankets and knapsacks—in the panic of fear, Ali their trenches were full of dead and wounded. “Our artillery had come up meanwhile; their shrapnel tore fearful gaps in the ranks of the fleeing Frenchmen, as they could not scatter in the narrow valley through which they had to re- treat ze “The French prisoners we took seemed to re. gard us as monsters, Everywhere we went after- ward the French terrified the people by crying, “The Bavarians are coming!’ They remember us still from 1870. “I took part in twelve great battles. ‘The last was near Epinal, where we were lying three days under fire. I was wounded about four o'clock in the afternoon of the third day. That was the worst day of all. The shrapnel burst over us from two sides at once. We sought protection even behind the dead. “It was the flercest fire 1 ever saw. 1 pushed my way back through the hail of bullets, and a piece of shrapnel tore my knapsack open. Finally 1 reached # dismantied battery and lay down under cover of the timbers. ‘The bullet which passed through my foot was buried in the sole of my shoe, and the shrapnel was found in the meat tin. 1 have them both as souvenirs.” “Is it true that the widow proposed to Tomp- kins?” “Yes, in a way. Tompkins was calling there fone evening, when she handed him a novel to read entitled ‘Put Yourself in His Place.’ Tomp- kins took the bint.” PLAYED A DUAL ROLE. “Now,” sald a newly-made husband, “I am your captain, and you must let me command you through life.” ¥ “You have a dual capacity,” replied the former widow, “because you are my captain and my sec- ond mate, also."—London Telegraph. “Now,” sald a newly-made husband, “I am your captain, and you must let me command you through life.” ‘ “You have @ dual capacity,” replied the former widow, “because you are my captain and my sec- ond mate, also.”"—London Telegraph. ‘THE WIDOW’S HINT. PLAYED A DUAL ROLE. still showed no signs of exhaustion. Feeliug thirsty, be reached out for the water carafe, but found it empty. Mo- tloning to the usher to have it filled, he would heve proceeded with his speech but for an interruption. A member in the back seat rose and waved his arms excitedly, “I protest, Mr, Chairman,” he said, “I protest.” “Protest against what?" asked the chairman, “Running a windmill with water,” was the reply.—Pittsburgb Cbronicle- ‘Dispatch. MONEY IN MUNICIPAL PLANT Cleveland Has Greatly Reduced Cost of Public Utilities Supplied to Ite Citizens. Cleveland has done better than most cities in the application of the com- munal or municipal idea to public sery- ces or utilities, It has a municipal cold storage, in connection with @ market, which cost $2,000,000, and is doing well on the investment. It has achieved a three-cent car fare. It now sets out for three-cent electricity. Tt was paying $90 to $100 a year for street arc lights and the price for pow= er tise was eight centa a kilowatt. Two small electrical plants were es tablished. The cost of atrect aro lights dropped about haif. The cur rent was sold by the city from ite swall plants at three cents, A heavy loss was predicted. Instead of that, the plants more than paid expenses. Mayor Baker proposed a sale of $2 000,000 worth of bonds with which to; bufld a plant to sell electricity at three! cents. The bond issue was passed by) the people and the operation of the: new plant began last July. In Aug- ust there was a profit of $600 on the, threecent price. In September the profit was $1,700, and on the basis of; business now in hand and contracted for the superintendent estimates the profit for the first year at $100,000, which would about cover interest charges, depreciation and taxes if it were a private concern. When the plant is completed and running at full capacity the superintendent estimates that there will be a net profit of $500,- 000 annually—Pittsburgh Dispatch, SHOW CHILDREN CIVIC NEEDS Birmingham (Ala.) Women’s Clubs Forming Leagues in All Schoo! Grades of the City. ‘The women’s clubs of Birmingham, Ala, have been the means of forming junior civic leagues in every school grade in the busy city. The women, feeling that the chit dren were growing up without knowl edge of city needs, decided to edu- cate for good citizenship. First, they cleaned up the school yards, then the parks and the streets. ‘Today every young citizen who joins a Teague in his or her school grade signs this pledge: “I will not injure any tree, shrub or lawn. “I promise not to spit upon ‘the floor in a street car, schoolhouse or any public building, or upon the side- walk. “I pledge myself not to deface any fence or public building. : “1 will not scatter paper or throw rubbish in public places. “I will not use profane language at any time. | “I will always protect birds “I will protect the property of oth- ers as I would my own, “I will promise to be a true and loyal citizen,” ‘Sshasl Mardasinn kk amen School gardens, embellishment of school grounds, is an important fac- tor in the reputation of a city, enbane- ing the beauty and value of the vari- ous points where situated and in these days of rapid travel in automobiles, of great interest to residents and vis- itors alike. Such beautification cannot fail to make lasting impressions upon travelers and visitors, who almost in- variably judge of cities and other communities by the public improve- ments and embellishments, while the satisfaction and delight of pupils and Parents is still of greater importance than all other considerations. : Gives Hornet Luncheons. H. B. Coles of the engineering staff of the state highway commission has learned not to be too friendly with hornets. A few days ago when he was eating his luncheon a hornet came along. He gave him something to eat. ‘The visitor called his mate, The fol- lowing day four hornets ate luncheon with him, and on the next day as Mr. Coles opened his pail a whole swarm of hornets came lighting on him and his luncheon. He took to the tall and unhewn, leaving the hornets in full Possession— Carpenteria (Cal.) Dis- patch to the San Francisco Exeminer. Chak Mates ee Mr. Brandes says in his history of Poland: “Individualism was the death of Poland. It was an enthusiastic and unpractical people, noble-minded and untrustworthy, pomp-loving and volu- Ule, vivacious and thoughtless, a peo- ple who despised severe and fatiguing labor, and loved all intense and deli- cate, sensuous and intellectual enjoy- ments, but, above all, who worshiped independence to the point of insanity, freedom to the extent of the liberum veto, and who, when they had lost in- dependence and freedom, remained faithful to their old love.” ‘tiene ' Crawford—Why do our officials will- fully destroy every natural beauty the city possesses? Crabshaw—That gives them @ chance in a few years to ask for mil- lions to make the city beautiful— Puck. A Better Idea. “Why are you late for school, Har: olan” “We had the most delicious pan- cakes for breakfast, and it takes Jong time to make them. Mother sens you a note,” “Hum!” eniffed the teacher, “Why! 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The mind may be likened to an ancient city with gates. There is the eye gate and through it pass friends, a multitude of strangers, the forests, the fields, the marching clouds. There is the ear gate and therein go trooping all sweet songs, all conversation and eloquence, all laughter, and sights, of woe and grief. And for fear of stepping too close to the heels of an error we add that the mind has two pair of important gates. That is we have two eyes and two ears perfectly matched and duplicates of each other in all their parts. It has been abundantly demonstrated that by having two eyes and two ears we are insured against emergencies, just as a man will provide himself with two keys for th ese lock, lest he lose one. We must recall the first news which the child gets from the other world of sight and of sound to estimate how much education the human mind receives through the eye and the ear. In order to conclude with a brief comparison we begin at once to emphasize the importance of each. "Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul" says Saunds, "gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret." Nor can it bedenied that a series of impression first of color, then of form, then of distance and lastly of definite objects, all are made upon the human mind until by repition a vast store of picture memories are there laid up for life, as so many object lessons. How much therefore is the mind of a young child deprived of, if it becomes lurking before the eye could give it a single lesson. Now as for the big ear bespeaking a kind and generous disposition and the little ear signifying a miser's spirit, it is for you to decide. But we know that with the ear closed a child remains more a mere animal than when any other avenue with the outer world is closed, because it is dumb. Let nature arrest Blind Boone's sense of hearing and his master mind would no longer touch and play with the hem of tone's garment with such charm and ease. If words once begin to reach through the ear, the mind springs forward to its limitless inheritance, and especially of feeling. It is sound, not the sight of things which moves the heart. It is the cry for help beating against the drum of the ear gate rather than the sight of the man struggling in the stream which quickens the pulse and sends us to his rescue. On that dark and fogy night the eye found that the ear was a friend in time of need, for the inhabitants of the freightened cities of England were conscious of the presence of German air crafts, because they could hear the buzz of machinery overhead. On the other hand the seeing of the eye supplies the intellect with more ideas than do sounds which come through the ear. But the intellect informing eye makes more mistakes than all the senses put together. News received through the eye gate as well as information by way of the ear gate must be weighed revised and corrected by the senses according to our knowledge of the veracity of the giver before it can be accepted upon the vantage ground of truth. Men have never doubted the fact of human responsibility nor the reason why every man is responsible Nature located our eyes and ears in that noble region above our shoulders and their use, value and worth in "up to us." ```markdown ``` A Great National Health Week to be Observed From March 21 to 27.1915. A Great National Health Week to be Observed From March 21 to 27.1915. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. — After carefully considering the whole matter, I am authoried by the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League to invite the following organizations, as well as others to be named later, to unite with the League in observing a National Health Week: Daily and weekly newspapers, Health journals, The National Medical Association, The National Association of Graduate Nurses, The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, The National League on Urban conditions among Negroes. The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, The National Negro Press Association, The bishops and other officers of colored religious denominations, State Medican Associations, Annual Church Conferences and Associations, Secret society organizations, Farmers' Improvement Societies, Churches, schools, and other local organizations, State health officers. In Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina and other states special Health Days have at one time or another been observed. For some years the Virginia Organization Society, under the leadership of Major R. R. Moton, has observed a Health or Cleanup Week. It is thought to be well to unite all these efforts into a National Movement and join the movement on to the Virginia effort. It is thought the race will welcome this opportunity to unite all these efforts in one great National Health Movement, and thus gain the benefit of the momentum and the enthusiasm that will come from the great united Health Movement. Without Health and until we reduce our high death rate it will be impossible for us to have permanent success in business, in property getting, in acquiring education, or to show other evidences of progress. WITHOUT HEALTH AND LONG LIFE ALL ELSE FAILS! The following facts will illustrate something of the need and importance of this health movement: 450,000 Negroes in the South alone are seriously ill all the time; the annual cost of the sickness of these 450,000 Negroes is $75,000,000. 112,000 Negro workers in the South alone are sick all the time; their annual loss in earnings is $45,000,000; 45 per cent of the annual deaths among Negroes are preventable. 225,000 Negroes of the working class die annually; 100,000 of these deaths can be prevented. The annual funeral expenses of Negroes in the South alone are $15,000,000, $6,500,000 of this amount could be saved. Sickness and death cost Negroes of the South alone, $100,000,000; $50,000,000 of this amount could be saved. We must reduce our high death rate, dethrone disease and enthrone health and long life. We may differ on other subjects, but there is no room for differences here. Let us make a strong, long, united pull together. Other facts will appear in the weekly press and in circulars from week to week, and information will be gladly furnished. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President National Negro Business League. Mrs. Geo. Robinson.....Miss Lora Robinson of Bonne Terre was a visitor in the city Sunday.....Mrs. Laura Kennedy is spending the week in Charleston attending to her hair trade.....Mrs. Leverne Smith and daughter, Helen, was a visitor in St. Louis the past week.....Mrs. Eliza Overton went to St. Louis on a visit to relatives and have her eyes treated.....Miss Matie Vale, spent a few days in Coffman visiting with relatives.....Mrs. Susie Smith was called to St. Louis to attend the slek bed of her sister, Mrs. Louis Gunnelle.....Mr. James Robinson, Sr., returned from an extended visit with relatives in St. Louis.....Mr. Percy Swink returned from an eight months' stay with his sister in Sidney, Ill. Monday evening.....Mr. Chas. Baker, G. M. of Exchequer of the Grand lodge of Missouri was in St. Louis Saturday evening attending the meeting of the beneficiary board of the Grand Lodge K. of P. Mrs. L. D. Pugh and children left Sunday for Bethany to make it her future home.....Mrs. Susie Robinson is improving after a few weeks' illness.....Mrs. Ada Murphy is able to be out after a week's illness.....The sad news of the death of Mr. Richard Jones was received from Fulton where he has been confined for the past three weeks, Sunday morning and it was quite a shock although he was quite febble when taken from here. The body will be shipped here and burial will be made in the Masonic cemetery under the auspices of Goodwill lodge A. F. & A. Rev. Geo. Migkins the new installed pastor of the Second Baptist Church comes well recommended. Along with the Church edification in Moberly. Rev. Migkins hopes to institute a social settlement activity modeled after the New York idea. Many additions have been made in the Second Baptist Church since Rev. Migkins' pastorate; also a new spirit of Christian activity is greatly evinced. Every outlook is for the success in Moberly if they will appreciate and realize the value...Revival services have been conducted for the last three weeks. Six were baptized. Last Sunday, January 24 the pastor delivered one of his strong sermons, subject: "What is Baptism Farmers' Conferences. State health officers HOLDEN, MO. By CHAS. BRATT. Mrs. Ralph Murray is ill...Mrs. Hannah Briscoe was called here Sunday to spend a few days with her grandmother, Mrs. C. Smith...Mrs. Jane Adams is on the sick list...Mrs. Harrison Jacobs is reported the same ...Mr. Norman Little spent Sunday here...Mr. Matt Carmichael is quite ill...Mr. Wm. Anderson returned home and says it is too cold to be on the sage...The Fish Fry at Mrs. Nannie Simmons' residence last Saturday was a great success...Mr. Ernest Edwards made a short trip to Sedalia returning Monday. The Ladies Social Club met Wednesday with Mrs. B. B. Tully and a splendid program was rendered. Mrs. Dodd entertained the young people last Thursday and the evening was spent delightfully. Mr. W. O. Hardin spent a few days in town last week with his cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pratt... Mrs. Flossy Taylor and little brother-in-law spent last Sunday in Warrensburg... Mr. Wesley Hendrix the blind musician of Warrensburg is the guest of Miss Jessie Smith and entertained many friends while here... Mr. Alec Jacobs was called from his work owing to his wife's illness. We wish her a speedy recovery...The Lannes Society Club is putting forth a great effort to pay for their organ at the church so let's all lend a helping hand...Mrs. Bertie Glenn of Kansas City spent a few hours here Monday enroute to Centerville to visit her daughter...Mrs. Barbara Carmichael entered a host of relatives and friends last Saturday and the evening was spent in pleasure...Little Willie Welchum is reported very ill at this writing. We hope for him an early recovery...Mr. Tom Chatman is rumored to be contemplating putting in a home phone...If more persons took the Kansas City Sun and read of the hap penings of the Colored people than the papers which do not mention us except we do something dishonorable they would be better off. FARMINGTON, MO. Mrs. Clara Poston returned Tuesday from a few days' visit in Bonne Terre with Mrs. Mamie Ransom.... Miss Dayse F. Baker spent the week's end in Bonne Terre as the guest of MOBERLY, MO. By MRS. W. H. DAVIS. Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combings, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirelora Cereals. Mail orders answered promptly GOOD SERVICE ELECTRIC LIGHTED BARBERS: T. E. Grear, Prop. F. J. Walker. Martin Frank! 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. If You are Pleased Tell Your Friends and if not Tell Us. Fine Cigars and Tobaccos and why am I a Baptist?".....The quarterly meeting at Grant Chapel Sunday was quite a success spiritually, and 'financially. The collection was $52.00. Thirty-eight have been added to the church.....Walter Cook is on the sick list.....Rev. B. R. Monroe of Glasgow, Mo., is the guest of Rev. J. K. Ponder thi sweep.....Miss Bertha Althouse and Mr. Joe Herriford were united in marriage on the thenty-second at the personage. The Rev. Ponder officiated.....Edward Kingsberry and Miss Mary Denny were quietly married the thenty-third inst. Rev. Estill Johnson officiated. Pilgrim Rest Baptist church has twenty-three additions. Rev. J. T. Thornily returned home. Rev Rhodes pastor at Parksville preached Sunday and Monday nights.....N. Y. Porter and Davis Hoskins are on the sick list.....Mrs. Mattie E. Winn of Triplett, Mo., is the guest of Rev. Swancy and wife. She returned home Thursday.....Nineteen additions were made to the M. E. church Sunday. The collections wer egood and the spiritual interest is increasing. The writer predicts a great awakening for this city. TROY. KANSAS. By MRS. NELLE HOWARD. Miss Kathaleen Wallace has returned to the city after having spent a couple of months with relatives in St. Joseph, Mo. ...Misses Emma Starr and Sally Hathaway of Highland, Kansas and Miss Leona McCurry and Mrs. M. W. Webster of Elwood, Kansas attended the Teachers' association in Trop Saturday...Mrs. Nelle E. Howard was in Atchison, Kansas the past week in the interest of the Kansas City Sun—Mrs. Frances Pennel was transacting busnesso in Elwood and Wathena Friday and Saturday...Mrs. Maggie McCurry of Elwood, Kansas is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Msr. Alex Wilkinson...The A. M. E. church will start their revival meeting this week with a series of prayer meetings until the Rev. Broadenax arrives to assist Rev. Weaver...Mrs. Nelle E. Howard was a guest of the Anniversary club which met at the home of Mrs. Jesse Payne on North 7 street in Atchison, Kansas. After the regular business was transacted a dainty two course luncheon was served which proved Mrs. Payne to be an exceptionally good cateress as well as ideal hostess...Mrs. Jane Hughes is quite indisposed at this writing but are another week has passed we hope to hear of her convalescing...Miss Quinnie Walker a High school student of Elwood took the Examinations at the Troy High school Friday and Saturday. She is a very bright and promising young lady and expects to complete the High school course this spring under the super vision of Mrs. M. W. Webster teacher of the Colored Elwood High school. PLATTS BURG, MO Mr. Ed Johnson is giving employment to a large number of men.... Rev. H. W. Botts is assisting Brother Golns in a revival meeting at Jefferson City....The many friends of Chas. Biggester hope that he will succeed in establishing his lawful right to the farm and money of his late uncle who died intestate. He is a deserving young man and has had the property awarded him by two different juries....Miss Agnes Tillman is visiting relatives in Kansas City.. Jackson Laundry Agency ..Services were well attended at both churches...Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hicks of Lathrop attended services at this place Sunday...The choir is making a good showing under the very efficient leadership of Mrs. Myrtle Evans. WEIR. KANSAS. By HELEN HOBBS The installation of Rev. F. H. Prenit took place Sunday, January 24. Rev. S. A. Williams of Pittsburg preached at 11:00 o'clock service, the Rev. J. T. Elias preached at 3:00 p.m., and the Rev. F. H. Prentice at 8:00 o'clock. Quarterly meeting was held at the A. M. E. church Sunday Rev. Williams preached a soul stirring sermon in the afternoon to a large attendance, many of whom were from Pittsburg, Kansas. LAWRENCE, KANSAS The many friends of Mrs. Roy Brown are sorry to hear of her death which occurred Saturday evening January 16 at her home 245 Arlansas street. She left a devoted husband, and one daughter to mourn her death and a host of friends....The 500 club did not meet Saturday owing to the illness of Mrs. Roy Brown....Rev, Payne, the pastor of St. Luke A. M. E. church is ill at his home....Rev. Curry of Kansas City had charge of the services at St. Luke A. M. E. church,Sunday owing to illness of Rev. Payne....Mrs. C. Hensen of Lawrence spent Tuesday in Topka visiting her daughter, Mrs. Stone-street and also attending a party....Topka high school basket ball team played the Lawrence team Friday night, January 22nd....The L. A. C. basket ball team challenges all good teams to play basket ball. Write Richard Ellott....Thursday evening January 14 the colored boys organized the club L. A. C. and W. C. Brown was chosen president, J. W. Clarke treasurer and Richard Ellott, secretary, January 23 will find them in their new rooms. PLEASANT HILL, MO. Rev. G. H. Bowsers of St. Joseph has been called and installed as pastor of the Second Baptist church... Herndon Wilkerson and family are improving from their siege of illness... Mrs. Wm. Henry Jenkins of Kansas City is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clark... Mrs. Wm. Bryant is reported convalescent after an illness of several weeks... The Rev. Reader Rozzel of the local A. M. E. church is a student of the Theological department at W. U.... The Rev. John Owings is busy in Kansas City this week where he was called to do some interior decorating... Mr. Geo. W. Wood has sold his farm and is preparing to move to town. He will have a public sale of his farming implements and stock Tuesday, Feb. 2... Mrs. E. B. Spencer and son Thomas have returned from an extended visit at Springfield... The pursuit of music is one of the most beneficial as well as the most entrancing of the arts; dedicated to the pursuit of music, the Pleasant Hill Glee Club is creating quite a beneficial influence in the community. The club met in special program rehearsal with one of its members, Mr. S. C. Gipson on Friday evening, January 22. Seven of the eight members were present, John Owings the absentee being out of the city. At the "witching hour" a light banquet was served.