Kansas City Sun

Sunday is Boys' Day at all Churches; Boy Choir and Ushers at Allen Chapel * HARRY H, WALKER, ST. JOSEPH, MO. Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons and member of Relief Board. WM. H. JONES, ST. JOSEPH, MO. Principal of the Bartlett High School and member of the Relief Board. A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 24. Sunday is Boy HARRY H, WALKER, ST. J. Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons and AN EXPLANATION. AN EXPLANATION. While the Sun does not believe in the desecration of grandal, vituperation or abuse, yet it believes that our public servants should occupy a high moral plane and our public officials must meet the requirements of their office. And it is the public servants who when they have their whole duty without fear or favor that they deserve the support of our public officials; this week we are extending that same courtesy; these officials give their side of the controversy. With this issue the controversy is closed as far as the Sun is concerned. HANGING UP TO THE PUBLIC. Negro's Death in Hands of Kansas City People, Governor Says. Mr. Major Says He Won't Interfere Unless a More General Desire Is Shown That the Sentence Be Commuted—Set for Monday. Jefferson City, Feb. 10.—The Life of Wesley Robinson, the negro sentenced to be hanged in the Jackson county jail next Monday morning, lies entirely in the hands of the people of Kansas City. Governor Major told George Birmingham, Kansas City attorney, this morning that he would not interfere and stop the execution unless the people of Kansas City showed a desire that the death penalty be changed to life imprisonment. "Write me Saturday of the progress you have made," the governor said. "If you can make a showing I may give the Negro more time. I don't promise it." Robinson killed his wife and daughter.—Wednesday's Star. Why should the Negroes of Kansas City or the white people either put forth any efforts to set aside the penalty visited upon Robinson for one of the most brutal and horrible crimes ever committed in this city. And not only that but he attempted to implicate an innocent woman, had her kept in jail for several weeks without any reason whatsoever except that his other child happened to have spent the night with her which was fortunate indeed or she would have shared the fate of her mother and sister. With no malice in our hearts, but fully mindful of the awful end that confronts Robinson. The Sun believes that the verdict of the court should stand and that he should be made to pay the penalty and may God have mercy on his soul. Mrs. Robert Simpson, 1323 E. Fourteenth street left for Fulton, Mo., and other places in Missouri n the interest of her dres storms. THE NEW YORK TIMES The Kansas City Sun By CHAS. A. STARKS. Universal Love. There's a joy that brightens, a love that fires There's peace for the sade and sorrowing hearts There's freedom for the mind that God inspires And success for the true and nobler arts. What beauty the heavenly Mind imparts To mankind, to nature and all the earth! From its own bright aplha this power starts Holding the whole world with encircling girth. The best trait in any person is teachableness. After all it is knowledge that knows no color line the lessons of frugality, soberness, patience, love, hope and faith are open books to those who wish to peruse their pages to get wisdom and learn understanding. ORATOR AND WRITER. The orator has power to stir the heart—The writer has beauty to attract the mind. The orator is a painter with a stiff brush instilling animation—The writer is an artist picturing beauty. The orator incites the feelings and raises the pitch of passions—The writer soothes them and leaves a thoughtful state. One, therefore incites, the other inspires. Both are divinely gifted. If one stirs, the other radiates; if one appeals, the other instructs; and if one is musical, the other is harmonious. Combined they are as a double peak mountain reaching up to heaven. A Song, Why? Why do the winds, sigh, O why do they sight? Why does the world rejoice, or the birds sing? Why weeps the sad willow, O tell us why, Do the flowers smile or the glad brooks ring. Why sweet joy does the gentle shower bring Why grow the plants, why do the swift streams run? Why splits the blue sky by a feathered wing, Why bleats my happy heart, why shines the sun? The Dream of the Ages has been the perfect cooperation of all the people. When man is reconciled unto God, he finds his true self. True philosophy directs as well as it intensifies the yearning for love and beauty. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1915. SKETCH OF MAIN PAVILLION ON WOODLAND AVE NEAR 19TH ST. LINCOLN PARK SMITH REA & LOVITT. ARCHITECT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. It has long been the opinion of many business men that the negroes of Kansas City should have, and are entitled to, a first class amusement park. The Lincoln Amusement Co. proposes to offer such a place, having secured a ten-year lease on the ground laying between Woodland Ave., Euclid Ave., Mayfield Ave., and the Kansas City Terminal Railway right-of-way. This piece of ground has a frontage on Woodland Ave. of 150 feet, and is 600 feet in length. The Lincoln Amusement Co. proposes to build an electric amusement park. Among the numerous attractions will be a beautiful theater with a seating capacity of probably seven hundred. Next in importance will be a dancing pavilion, having the finest hard wood maple floor that money can buy, and large enough to accommodate one hundred couples at one time. The various other concession space, being over 8,000 square feet, will provide for the various attractive amusements suitable for such a park. A choice reservation is made for a merry-go-round, that king of entertainers for old as well as young. The entire park, theater, dance pavilion, and concessions will be conducted at all times in a law-abiding orderly manner. At no time will liquor be permitted on the premises, and rowdyism will not be tolerated. The park will be conducted in sue ha manner that women without escorts will be perfectly safe. The Lincoln Amusement Co. will be capitalized for $60,000. There will be 60,000 shares of stock, par value $1.00 per share. All stock will be non-assessable, and the Company will be incorporated under the laws of the State of Missouri. In order that the negroes may feel that this is their park an opportunity will be offered them first to subscribe for 30,000 shares. If the issue is not all subscribed by them the balance will be placed through other channels, but it will be a satisfaction to every patron of the park to be listed as a stockholder, thereby being interested in same financially, even though the amount be small. It will be necessary to receive all subscriptions not later than March 15, 1915, as it is the intention of the management to have the grand opening about May 1, 1915, and from forty-five to sixty days will be required to complete the improvements. The stock will be offered at par value $1.00 per share. Subscriptions as small as $5.00 may be made. From most conservative and careful estimates, this stock should pay 25 per cent dividends annually, and most likely much more. LINCOLN PARK SMITH, REA, & LOVITT, ARCHES. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. CONCERSIONS MOOTING GALLERY MERRY SO-ROUND PARK DANCING PAVILION ARGADE THEATRE WOODLAND AVE. MAYFIELD AVENUE. WANTED! WANTED! I want a Christian man or woman with $250 or $300. I desire to make money and at the same time engage in a business to better the condition of the race. Investigate this at once. I have an entirely new, unique original, but intensely practicable business project which will not large returns on investment. The business is fascinating and inspiring and is already set with well appointed offices but I need money to boom it. Now if you really mean business and are looking for the best proposition ever offered, one that will make immediate returns for investment and keep on increasing? Investigate at once. Phone East 1813J.Bell phone. THE LINCOLN AMUSEMENT CO. HOLDEN, MO. Miss Maud Ewing took sick but is improving...Mr. Jessie Smith went to the country to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Brown...Mr. W. O. Hardin was in town Monday and reported his mother able to be up again...Mr. Alex Jacobs remains the same...Mr. Toney Atkins is somewhat better. The children of Mrs. Tom Lee are in the same condition...Mr. Sherman Brown bought a nice bunch of hogs here Saturday and took them out to his farm, Mrs. Lillie Freeman of Kansas City spent Saturday and Sunday here visiting her mother...Mrs. C. Smith, Mr. Orb King and Leo Carmichael spent Sunday on Blackwater visiting old families...The little son of Mrs. Lee King was severely burned by falling in boiling hot water. P. NELSON C. CREWS. Grand Master of Masons and President of the Masonic Relief Board. NEGROES GAINING IN TRADES. It is a very significant fact that the census of 1910 shows, contrary to what was apparently indicated by the census of 1910, that the Negro is making marked gains in the trades. In 1900 there were 86,534 Negroes reported as being in the building and hand trades. The report recently issued gives 288,141 Negroes in these trades. This is an increase for the decade of 201,607, or 235 per cent. Carpentry was one of the trades in which the Negro appeared to be losing ground. In 1900 the number of Negro carpenters working in the building trades was 22,318. In 1900 there were reported 21,114, or 1,200 less. In 1900 there were 29,039 Negro carpenters working in the building trades. In addition to these there were 2192 other Negro carpenters who were returned as donig carpentry work n connection with factories, mines, railroads, etc. Similar increases are shown for the decade, 1900,1910, for the other trades and industries in which the Negro was thought to be losing ground—Monroe N. Work in the Southern Workman. ADVANCE OF THE NEGRO RACE. This is a great day in the history of the Negro race in this country, stand but little over a half a cent from slavery. Then we were the million strong. Today we number millions. Fifty-two years ago the grod had just ceased to be prop. Now he owns property worth $600,000,000. At the close of the war fewer than five out of e hundred Negroes could read a write. Today seventy out of e hundred read and write. We live over thirty thousand teachers of own race, including many college uates. There are said to be more five hundred schools devoted to ondary and higher education and us. Eight years ago there were 770 Negro churches in this county with more than three and a half communicans. The Negro making commendable progress ininess. He is gaining confidence his own abilities generally, and he securing the confidence and respec his white neighbors in the South. gain in the last respect has been specially marked in the last five ye ```markdown ``` SEND IN YOUR NEWS Qute a few of our patrons complain that news of their doings, parties, receptions, visitors and so forth do not get into our paper; that is because you do not write or telephone us. Although we know a great many things, we do not know everything that takes place socially in the two Kansas Cities, and unless you notify us we cannot insert it in our paper but we will cheerfully do so if you will send it in. Take due notice and govern yourself accordingly. * The meeting of the Federated * Alumni will be held Thursday evening, February 18. All are urged * to be present. Interesting pro-gram and election of officers. COMMITTEE. WM. W. FIELDS, CAMERON, MO. Faithful and energetic Secretary for more than ten years of Masonic Relief. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME Allen Chapel C. CREWS. President of the Masonic Relief Board. ADVANCE OF THE NEGRO RACE. This is a great day in the history of the Negro race in this country. We stand but little over a half a century from slavery. Then we were three million strong. Today we number ten millions. Fifty-two years ago the Negro had just ceased to be property. Now he owns property worth over $500,000,000. At the close of the Civil War fewer than five out of every hundred Negroes could read and write. Today seventy out of every hundred read and write. We have over thirty thousand teachers of our own race, including many college graduates. There are said to be more than five hundred schools devoted to secondary and higher education among us. Eight years ago there were 26,770 Negro churches in this country with more than three and a half million communicants. The Negro is making commendable progress in business. He is gaining confidence in his own abilities generally, and he is securing the confidence and respect of his white neighbors in the South. The gain in the last respect has been especially marked in the last five years.—Emanication Day Address in the Southern Workman. DISCRIMINATION AT CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.—The office of the Secretary of the National Negro Business League is in receipt of a communication from Mr. J. J. Nashburn, Secretary of the Local Negro Business League at Oakland, California, stating that the Commissioners of the International Exposition to be held in San Francisco during the present year have notified the Local Negro Business Leagues of Oakland and San Francisco that there will not be equal accommodations in San Francisco during the fair, for colored people. The Local Leagues of those cities have been requested to appoint committees to locate places in San Francisco and Oakland for colored visitors and to notify intending colored visitors of this condition. The Hotel and Restaurant association of San Francisco is responsible for this action the Commissioners state. The Local Negro Business League of Oakland has made a vigorous protest against these conditions and proposes to give full publicity to this matter before any large number of our people start for California. FOR SALE. One mission dining table; 4 mission dinig chairs, 1 Mission buffet; 1 refrigerator. Easy terms. Call Saturday or Sunday afternoon. 1315 Michigan avenue. S, CAMERON, MO. more than ten years of Masonic Relief PRICE. 5c. NORTON'S DARLING By WALTER JOSEPH DELANEY. "How did I come here?" murmured Ralph Norton, and turned in his bed and gazed out through the window of a cheerless, sparsely furnished room. Far as he could see the sluggish river wound in and out a low marshy stretch. Barges loaded with coal moved lazily along. Beyond a group of dilapidated factories and shipyards was the city. It recalled the last fading picture presented to his consciousness, how long since he knew not, but that problem was instantly soiled. "We found you outside, where you had fallen into a cinder pit," spoke a melodious voice, and Ralph turned his glance to see, seated near his bed, a young girl sewing. She was poorly, but neatly dressed. She wore few articles of adornment, her hair was worn without attention to fluff or flummery, but the sweet repose of her face, the kindly gentle eyes arrested the attention of the invalid and held it riveted. "You have been there four days, unconscious," she went on. "You must not move, the doctor says, for your left ankle is broken." Ralph winced as, moving the member in question, he was promptly made aware that it was not in normal condition. "You are strangers to me," said Ralph weakly, "and this is a strange place. I recall wandering aimlessly about the docks with my suitcase." "That is here, safe," spoke the girl. "We found it by your side. You must have stumbled and fallen. The doctor I called was at first serious about the bruise on your head, but he said this morning that all danger had passed for that and you would have the broken limb only to trouble you." "Only," repeated Ralph bitterly under his breath, and then sheer weakness caused him to close his eyes and his mind drifted hazily. His thoughts took in a present very unhappy and forlorn condition. He had left his home after a quarrel with his wealthy uncle, to make his own way in A man and a woman stand in a room, the man wearing a suit and the woman wearing a dress. They are holding hands and looking at each other. "I am Poor, Very Poor." the world. Alas! it had been a hard, awakening experience for the disappointed young man. He had found false friends, hard knocks, was brushed aside in his efforts to secure work by men with a "punch" as well as those "with a pull." He had to confess that he had not the training to combat in the journalistic arena with those who knew the ways better than he. He had come from home with a very good outfit, and his dressiness had helped him get several good assignments with a society journal. The season over, however, he lost his position. No new ones offered. His money ran out and, selling off some of his effects to settle his debts, he placed the rest in a suitcase. Ralph was city-wearied as he wandered almlessly. He had a vague idea of finding some country weekly where he could bury himself and forget his old vain ambitions. Near the spot where he now found himself his mishap had overcome him, and here he was, helpless. Apparently he was not friends, however, for his environment suggested that he as under the charge of a faithful and attractive nurse. It was dusk when Ralph awoke again. He observed a light in the next room and made out his nurse and a weazened, elfin-faced old man conversing. "I am poor, very poor," the latter was whining. "I cannot afford expense. Get money from him, if he has any." "No, uncle," spoke the girl definitely. "I know from his ravings while in fever his whole story, and it is a pitiful one. See, uncle, he himself will surely find some way to pay the surgeon when he is well. As to the little he costs us, the way we live, you can surely spare that for the sake of sweet charity." "Charity! charity!" groaned the old man. "Who gives me charity? No, no, I tell you I am poor, poor! See how miserably I am obliged to live! See how hard I work in the city! He must pay—pay!" "He will, when he recovers" declared the young girl. "Oh, uncle! would you drive him out, possibly to become crippled for life, because of neglect? Be humane, for my sake; I will work the harder for you." "Ha! he has struck your fancy, eh?" snarled the old man. The girl blushed hotly, but she said, with girlish 'ugly': "The memory of the poor brother who died bids me be kind to the stranger. "The old man grumbled, but his companion held to her point. He exacted a promise from her that she would see if the suitcase did not contain some belongings that might be sold to pay the way for h's unwelcome guest. It did not take long for Rachel It did not take long for Ralph to understand that the miserly Galbraith, as he learned his name to be, was a miser for whom his niece slaved. He had some businesses in the city in the scrap-iron line. Within two days Ralph was able to sit up. Then the girl, Ottila, in some way got a pair of crutches, and inside of a week he was able to move to a bench outside the house and hobble around. He had unpacked his belongings from the suitcase. Recalling the conversation he had overheard, he did up the dress suit that had done vast service in his society reportorial experience. He asked Ottila to dispose of it. The sale brought a pitiful sum, but it quiled old Galbraith for a day or two. Then Ralph handed her the watch he wore, a cheap silver timepiece that did not go. She seemed embarrassed as these negotiations showed the niggardly persistency of her uncle and placed her in a false position with the guest whose respect she cherished. Ralph was pained to note the sharp corners she had to cut in order to provide the meals from the narrow amount her uncle allowed her. It could not be otherwise that day by day the sterling qualities of his devoted nurse wooed his mind from all thoughts save interest, and then deep gratitude and finally love. After the sale of the watch he observed that Galbraith was more favorably disposed towards him. Then he accidentally learned the secret of this. He missed a gold necklace that Ottila had once worn. He was sure that she had disposed of this and that the proceeds had gone to Galbraith as if coming from their patient. His soul was stirred to their deaths. That evening Galbraith came home in a great state of excitement. He showed Ralph a newspaper advertisement stating that one missing Ralph Norton would learn of something decidedly to his advantage by communicating with a certain law firm. Within twenty-four hours Ralph learned that his uncle had died leaving him an independent fortune. It was a happy day for Ralph when he sent Galbraith a check for a liberal amount. Then there was a royal gift for his faithful nurse. Accompanying it was a letter, telling her of his love. There came a brief note. It bade him forget the obscure girl so far removed from his social circle. It hoped he would find some fitting bride in his own class and that they would be happy. When Ralph went in quest of the Galbraiths he found the old house on the river deserted and abandoned. For a year he watched, waited and hoped. Wealth had not its anticipated charm, with his thoughts fixed ever and always upon the one woman who had befriended him in his distress and whose loyalty and simplicity had won his devotion. Then one day, just a year after his first meeting with Ottila, an amazing visitor came to Ralph. It was Galbraith, but a new Galbraith. He was arrayed decently, almost gorgeously. "I sold out my business," he clicked with a shrewd grin, "hence, some profit. It was for the sake of my niece. You remember Ottila?" "I shall never forget her!" cried Ralph, starting from his seat. "Where—where is she?" "You would see her?" questioned Galbraith. "I have been searching for her for a whole year." "And your mind has not changed concerning her?" "It never will! Speak out, man—where is she?" "Come with me," said Galbraith, and as they walked along he told of how Ottila had been at a school studying for a year, how she was now at the comfortable home he had provided for her. "It was a test," said the old man. "Ottila wished for education, to wait a year, and see if you still remembered her. See, neither of you are poor now, and she is a jewel!" And within the hour Ralph Norton fondly folded in his arms his darling! (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Tears gathered in his handsome eyes like crowds about a scoreboard. "Is it too late? Is there no hope for me?" he questioned himself as he looked at the likeness with longing languor. "Have I waited too long?" The lovely face in the photograph gazed back at him. Greedily he drank in the trusting expression. "I did not appreciate you while I had you!" he cried to it. "Oh, is there yet time? Is there yet time?" With the picture still in his hand, he staggered to the mirror. There was no doubt of it. The large bald spot in the center of his head was still spreading. "Oh, why did I not take care of it while I had it?" he moaned, and again his eyes fell yearningly on the picture of himself taken seven years before—Detroit Free Press. Not So Bad In America "I read in an American paper that well-heated cellars may be used for providing that luxury in January, rhubarb ple," writes V. V. V. in the Sphere, "not by storing up the delicacy but by growing the plant. The forcing clumps are to be buried in a box or tub, covered with sand and watered freely. In from one to three months, it is averred, the rhubarb, nicely blanched, will be ready for the ple. This information fills me with dread. Rhubarb that comes in its natural order is to me so horrible that the thought of forcing it, too, turns me cold." Oh, Pahaw! We were going to insert one of the cute sayings of the youngest right about here, but it was so smart we knew no one would believe it.—Kalamazo Gazette. Saturated. "D've ken Mac fell in the river on his way hame last nicht?" "You don't mean to say he was drowned?" "Not drowned, mon, but badly diluted."-London Opinion. M. For Wear Under Southern Skies THE blouse for general wear is made of several materials besides those reliable cotton or linen wash fabrics which always have been and always will be good. Just now crepe de chine, which washes beautifully, and cotton or wool crepes are put into requisition and have proved themselves useful and afforded a means of variety as well. The pretty blouses of crepe de chine are made in white and light colors, cut rather plain, and are usually decorated with sprays of embroidery in self color, very sparingly used. Collars of fine batiste, and sometimes cuffs of the same, make the prettiest finish for them. Sleeves are long and necks high, although it remains to be seen whether the high collar will hold its own or give place to the high guipme. A detachable high collar is far more practical than the blouse and collar in one. The latter has to be washed as soon as the collar becomes soiled, which is much too For Wear Unde THOSE who journey south to meet the spring, with heads bedecked in her honor, have a remarkably wide range of choice in the new millinery. In shape there are the diminutive "pill box," the numerous boat-shaped turbans, all sorts and kinds of sailors, many military styles, and lovely wide-brimmed hats in lacey hairs and diaphanous materials. As for trimmings, there are many new departures. All sorts of gayly-colored flowers (mostly small), a world of new ornaments of ribbons (mostly narrow), and innumerable hand-made decorations of silk, straw, kid, feathers and other things. Handwork is featured in this new millinery. Ornamental stitches in needlework, much exaggerated in size, and cross-stitched designs are used in finishing and applying trimming. In fact, a large part of the decorations are sewed flat to the shape in the form of applique, the sewing being an important part of the scheme. In colors, beside the beautiful sand, twine, and tan colors, there are many white hats, including panamas, a gray which is called "battleship" gray, without any good reason, and many shades of blue and red that may be called "reserved." Black seems not to be in the running. Three of the smaller hats are shown in the picture. At the left is a narrow-brimmed sailor of white satin. It is carefully made and distinguished by a trimming of small chrysanthemus cut from white kid, and stems made of kid also. A dark gray hat of satin belongs among the boat-shaped models and is trimmed with short peacock feathers and leaf-shaped pieces of velvet sewed flat to the shape with the heavy black embroidery silk. The buttonhole stitch outlines the leaves, and the leaves overlap the edges of the peacock feathers holding them to place. First Lifeboat Station. One hundred and twenty-nine years ago the Massachusetts Humane society built its first hut on Lowell's island, near Boston, to succor the stranded mariners along the dangerous and desolate Cape Cod coast. From that little dark red hut, the first house of mercy of the sea-to be erected, arose a score of like huts along the coast that had been bleached with the bones of sailors for two centuries. In 1807 the first lifeboat station was organized at Cohasset and soon for the good of the blouse, or she who must pay for its tubbing. A pretty blouse is shown here of wool crepe showing shaded stripes in yellow, brown, gray and occasional fine lines of black. It is made with a yoke and has long sleeves. A neat collar of batiste finishes the neck. Such a waist will wear a long time without needing to be washed, and will stand the washing, when it must be done, without detriment to its colors. That is, if care is taken, almost any waist made can be successfully washed. Printed chiffons are liked for dresser waists and are made up with laces into the loveliest affairs. Embroidered volles are dainty and more lasting than chiffons. If one wishes a sheer, fine, lacy-looking waist that will last long enough to pay for any amount of elaborate work in making and decoration, fine cotton volle is of all fabrics the best to use. r Southern Skies This shape fits the head and has much good style. A little pill-box turban is made of brown satin and trimmed with narrow fallie ribbon, falling in two meager ends at the back. Bright satin dalsies, in rich colors, and smaller flowers, are set in a prim row flat against the coronet. Besides the made hats, as they are called, the panama is the best liked hat for southern tourists' wear. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. To Make a Warm Can To Make a Warm Cap. Take the sleeves of a discarded sweater, and use one sleeve for the crown and one for the band. Rip the sleeve, lay the double shape by sewing down the side seam to fit the head, which avoids a seam over the head. If the corners are rounded off you can fit the head without a seam on top. Put on the band and turn up, finishing the upper edge of the band with shell crochet, or trim with crochet rosettes, ribbon, or any way desired. The back of sweater coats or any other parts can be used. Black Silks Modish Such was the craze for taffeta last summer that rumor said it had had its day. For once rumor was wrong, however, and taffeta will be worn all winter upon all occasions. Black taffeta vies with black velvet and black moire for dressy wear and is relieved by vivid touches of color in sash, lining or embroidery. There is a fancy for black in all materials, especially for the street. Style Revivals. Coat tails and notched revers like the lapels of a man's dress coat have been revived, and one-piece cloth gowns worn out of doors are uncommonly like the redingotes of some past years. out of that sprung the most efficient life-saving service of all the seven seas. Where the Trouble Was. Husband—"You spend altogether too much money." Wife—"Not at all!" The trouble is you don't make enough." —Boston Transcript. Daily Thought Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.—Dr. Johnson. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS "If a stone wall were built around the state of Georgia, and communication with the outside world entirely shut off, the people of the commonwealth could live and enjoy life for an indefinite time," said Claude N. Bennett, president of the Southern Society of Washington, at Washington. Mr. Bennett has just returned from a month's trip through the South, spending most of his time in his native state of Georgia. "While in Atlanta," he continued, "I attended a 'Georgia products dinner.' This is something new that has been adopted by the present regime there. November 18 of each year is known as 'Georgia Products day,' and on that day, at every important place in the state, great dinners are given, the menu of which is entirely made up of Georgia products. At the one I attended between 1,500 and 2,000 people were present, and the food was good enough, both in quality and variety, to serve at a banquet to the gods. "The possibilities that the state affords for good, wholesome living can be no better illustrated than by telling of an experience I had one day while making a tour of some Negro farms in Columbia county. I had visited the homes of three colored families and found them all poorly kept and none of the men able to pay his way out of debt—in fact, they were objects of charity. The fourth colored man I found working on land exactly, like that occupied by the others, but instead of renting his land he had bought it and paid for it. He rented a little extra land from me adjoining his, but most of it he owned. I found his house as neat as a pin, comfortably furnished, the larder well supplied, and five bales of cotton under the shed. He had provisions enough to last his family all winter, plenty of fodder for his cattle, and his total indebtedness was less than $50. He was afternoon by the time my companion and myself reached his house and we had not had dinner, so we asked his wife if she could fix us up a 'snack'. In less than half an hour she had prepared a most tempting meal, which was set on a table covered with a spotless cloth and clean napkins. The dinner, all of which was grown on this colored man's farm, consisted of collard greens (which might be termed the local spinach), bacon, corn bread, wheat biscuits, Irish and sweet potatoes, milk and good butter, and Georgia cane sirup. That was an impromptu meal that would have done credit to any household. Now, if a colored family can, on the spur of the moment, get up a dinner as good as that you can realize what can be done by the other people in the state." Between 3,000 and 4,000 Boy Scouts have been specially employed in London since the war broke out at various government offices, recruiting depots, the headquarters of the prince of Wales' fund and other new organizations requiring dispatch carriers and attendants. Photography has discovered the depth to which the sun's rays penetrate water. Five hundred and thirty feet below the surface darkness was much the same as that on the earth on a clear but moonless night. Manchuria is making a new paint out of the bean oil that is produced there in tremendous quantities. The plant is said to be waterproof and fireproof as well as cheap and durable. In your issue of December 21 (editorial page) appears an article entitled "Germany Hoping to Get Liberia." While we do not doubt Germany would like to get Liberia, if might be timely to say the American Colonization society, which founded Liberia, in creating that republic reserved to itself certain inainable rights, to wit: Ownership, in fee, of each alternate block of territory in the original republic for the purpose of colonization by American colored citizens. This covenant runs with the lands and waters of the republic. We shall oppose any alienation of property rights or sovereignty by any of the powers, and shall expect full protection of our rights by the United States. The Liberian constitutional prohibition against ownership of land by whites is obviously plain, and a necessary protection to a colored nation. We are not committed to the theory or belief that the above-mentioned article is a "feeler" in this country advanced by an overactive German affluent press.—H. L. E. John, President American Colonization Society, in the Washington Post. The widow's cap is as old as the days of Julius Caesar. An edict of Tiberius commanded all widows to wear the cap under penalty of a heavy fine and imprisonment. The sinews of the kangaroo are especially desirable for use in surgery, for sewing wounds and binding broken bones together. Electrical apparatus intended for drying beer vats is used for drying motion picture films in a studio in New York City Two Years, Dog Reappears. The happiest fox terrier in the world today is Gyp, but he isn't any happier than the household of his owner, Edward Sayre, of Orangeburg, N. Y. If the family had been given to wall mottoes it would have hung up one that read: "What is home without Gyp?" but after the call of a thief two years ago the home was without Gyp. The family was at dinner the other day when a whining and scratching was heard at the door. Dorothy Sayre, The second oldest American was Flora Thompson, who died at Harba Island, Penn., in 1808, at the age of one hundred and fifty years, writes Willis Fletcher Johnson in the Philadelphia Ledger. She was, however, a Negro slave, and I pass her by, as I do many other records of Negroes of great age, for the reason that in those days the status of that race in this country was such that little credence is to be given to its annals. Passing by many other less authentic cases, chiefly of Negro slaves, I come to one of this class which seems to be much more authoritative than most of them. This is the case of Wonder Booker, a slave who belonged to George Booker of Prince Edward county, Va., a family name of the most eminent American Negro of our time, Dr. Booker T. Washington. Wonder was so named because his mother was fifty-eight years old at the time of his birth and his birth was therefore regarded little short of miraculous. He was a man of extraordinary physical powers and of considerable mental gifts, all of which remained unimpaired until within a few years of his death. At the age of one hundred and sixteen years he was able to do a full measure of work on his master's plantation, and he died in 1819, at the age of one hundred and twenty-six. I have found, following him, records of more than one hundred persons of from one hundred and twenty-five down to one hundred and ten years of age at death in the United States, more than four-fifths of them dying in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is soon to start on a speaking tour of the middle West in the interest of the work and ideals of the association. A year ago he made a similar tour. His present trip began at Pittsburgh on January 10, and will include Columbus, Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, Springfield, Ill., Joseph, Mo., Des Moines, Ia., Omaha, Neb. St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., Toledo, Ohio, and Buffalo, N. Y. It is intended that succeeding trips will cover other sections of the country, until all have been organized in the interest of the advancement of the colored people. The annual meeting of the association will be held at the Ethical Culture hall, West Sixty-fourth street, New York, on February 12. Governor Whitman will present the first "Spingarn medal," a gold medallion to be awarded annually to the colored man or woman performing the highest or noblest achievement during the preceding year. The committee on award, consisting of William Howard Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard, Bishop John Hurst, President John Hope of Morehouse college, and Dr. James H. Dillard of the Slater and Jeanes funds, will announce the winner at this meeting. Dr. Therbald von Bethmann-Hollweg, imperial German chancellor, was a lawyer in his earlier life. He is now fifty-seven years of age. He studied law at Gottingen and practiced for six years, after which he was made a judge at Potsdam. There he became intimate with and gained the confidence of the present emperor, with whom he had formerly been a fellow-student at Bonn. Obedience to the law was emphasized in a speech at Tuskegee by Booker T. Washington as a principle to which members of his race should conform in their efforts to advance. Doctor Washington was the chief speaker at the twentieth annual Tuskegee Negro conference. Carrying concealed weapons, theft, gambling, visits to illegal liquor establishments and useless court litigation were enumerated as evil practices with which Nigrores were often charged. "I know many colored people who spend more on a pistol every year than they do on the education of their children," Doctor Washington said. "The pistol, in nine cases out of ten, not only does not protect the individual, but leads him into trouble." Resolutions adopted urged the production of food crops in the South. It was declared that there are 220,000 farms, mostly tenanted by Negroes, where there are no hogs; on 250,000 poultry is raised; 200,000 on which there are no gardens, and 140,000 on which no corn is grown. Bankers and planters were asked to aid the Negro to raise products other than cotton. Tod Sloan, the famous American jockey, is at the front with the French Red Cross, driving motor ambulances. He was rejected as a soldier, but being an expert motor driver, was immediately accepted by the medical authorites. The letter carriers in Portugal save themselves much walking on Sundays by delivering letters at church. Japan's government forests last year yielded $5,360,000 in revenue and consumed $2,327,000 in expenses. six years old, opened it and in walked Gyp. The dog was gaunt and too weak to bark in his joy. He wore a license issued in Mechanicstown, 60 miles from there. Motor Boats In Demand Practically all inhabited sections of the Beyer district, Norway, can be reached by boat, and as a large percentage of both freight and passenger traffic is by water, there are at least ten motor boats owned, exclusive of the fishing fleet, for every motor can. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Bourke College Moody Bible Institute, Chichester, England) LESSON TEXT - I Samuel 3:1-13, 19, 20, GOLDEN TEXT - Speak, Jehovah; for thy servant heareth. I Samuel 2:9, R. V. Samuel was the last judge and the first of the order of prophets. His name means "asked of God," and he was dedicated to God (1:11) as a Nazarite. In fulfillment of his mother's vow he was brought to the temple when he was a young child (1:24), Josephus says, at twelve years of age. Hannah's song of rejoicing (2:1:10) is the expression of a great soul and a choice piece of literature. Samuel had the advantage of being well born, but after studying Eli's household we are not so confident as to the environment amid which he was placed. I. Samuel's Vision, vv. 1:10. The young child entered heartily into the temple worship and duties as directed by the aged priest, Ell. This man was not faithful in giving the people the word of God. "It was rare" (margin) and the result was that "there was no frequent vision" (R. V.). The word is also "precious" (v. 1: Ps. 19:9, 10), though when it is as common as it is in this land men frequently set but little store by it. God will judge men for such laxity even as he judged Israel (Amos 8:4-6, 11, 12). A vision is a knowledge of a need and of the resources at our command. Ell and his sons had no vision and a people lacking in this direction perish (Prov. 29:18). Jehovah is about to make known to Israel his will and in so doing he passes over this indulgent father and chooses the child Samuel. Teachableness and obedience are the chief characteristics of childhood and these traits count for more with God than does age or experience (Matt. 11:25, I Tim. 4:12, Matt. 21:6). Samuel had not acquired the conceit of youth, he was faithful to his duties, respectful to his elders and did not boast of his accomplishments nor of the special revelation which came to him. Samuel slept in the holy place of the "sacred tent" near Ell, for the great temple was not yet built. As such it is a type for the Christian (Ps. 27:4). It was the that the Lord献 himself to him (John 1:14 R. V. margin). One of Samuel's duties as the special attendant of Ell was to open the house of God every morning, also to tend the sacred lamp which burned from evening to morning (Ex. 27:20, 21). As he attended to these duties God made himself known to Samuel (v. 4). God frequently calls men and they are not at home but have gone into the far country. Samuel knew God as every devout worshiper knew him, but had not yet received a direct revelation, hence he "did not yet know Jehovah." Thinking at once of the priest, Samuel ran to receive orders or to render service. Had he disregarded the voice he would not in the end have received his clear revelation. To have closed his ears, turned over for further sleep or to have risen heatfully, in all probability, have prevented any further calls (Prov. 1:24, 25, 28). God wants, for special services, those who make glad response to his first call (Isa. 6:8; Lake 9:59-62; Acts 9:6). Three times the call comes and three times Samuel makes reply. There are three periods in the unfolding life that are most susceptible to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Nine to twelve, fourteen and fifteen, seventeen and eighteen are particularly open to impressions, especially if the child has had a religious atmosphere and training. The teacher needs to be ever alert to take advantage of these opportunities to unfold and enforce the claims of Christ and to challenge an immediate decision of the soul. Happy are they who like Samuel hear and recognize, even though it be a progressive revelation, the voice of Jehovah, and hearing, obey it. There is little need at present for the audible voice, for we have the word and the still small voice of the Holy Spirit. The voice Samuel heard became a vision (v. 15). The Bible everywhere assumes that God speaks to men. We do not find him so much by searching for him, for he is made known ("manifested") in the person of his Son (I John 1:1, 2; John 17:6). God's calls to service may come at any period, but frequently they come very early. Hudson Taylor, founder of the wonderful China Inland mission, received his call at seventeen. Ell in times past must have heard Jehovah speak, else he would not have recognized who it was that speaking to Samuel (chapter 2:27). Samuel's call was to service, to be a prophet. Our commission is to witness and to serve (Mark 16:15). Samuel received Jehovah's word not at Ell's side but in his own resting place; so God would speak to us when in our own place where he has put us. It is well for us to be sure we are truly hearing the voice of God (John 4). II. Jehovah's Vardict, vv. 11:13, 19:20. The chapter following tells of the defeat of Israel, the capture of the ark and the death of Ell and his sons. These were the things "at which both the ears of everyone that he hearth it shall tingle." The word of Jehovah stands fast, and what he speaks that he performs "from the beginning even unto the eid" (Luke 21:32, Numbers 23:19). The word of Jehovah to Samuel about the house of Ell was one calculated to strike terror and silence into the lad's heart. Ell was not ignorant of the wickedness of his sons (2:27-36). Ell learns from Samuel Jehovah's message. 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WAGNER ‘The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in , Season. Fancy. Groceries and all Table Luxuries, Courteous Treatmentto All. 1819 HowardAve. Bell Phone 3596 Kast Mansas City, - + Miserurl DIRECTORY —OF THE— 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, \ Bell Phone E. 4394Y Office 2460 Waldrond Ave iit Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty SATISFACTION GUARANTEED eee re eee ie ee ee eae e : ‘ ‘ - MISS WILLA M. GLENN | ; f , . ; SCHOOL OF STENOGRAPHY : AND TYPEWRITING : Rates Reasonable. Enroll Now. Persons Not Eligible Who | : Have Not Finished the Grade Schools or the : ; Equivalent. ; PHONE BELL EAST 999. 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T, Redd, 2042 Highland, Sec- retary Baptist Ministers’ Alliance. CONTRACTORS AND CARPENTERS A. E, Estes, 2460) Waldrond—Bell phone East 4394Y. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. £. A. Robinson, 2413 Montgall avenue —Bell phone Hast 754, FLORISTS. Weaver Floral Co,, 1510 E. 18 street. Bell phone East 4798. GROCERS. J..H. Clayborne, 954 Washington Blvd. Kansas City, Kas., Bell Phone West 2682. R. Mason, 1905 Vine. Marshall Wilson, 2644 Woodland—- Bell phohe Hast 1493, JEWELERS. J. A. Wilson, 1616 W. 9th street—Bell Phone Main 6248R. MILLINERY. Miss Eva P. Washington, 849 Freeman avenue, Kansas Clty, Kas, Mt Mnery and Hair Work—Bell phone 2306 West. MUSICIANS, Winston Holmes, Piano Tuner, 2221 Michigan, Home Phone 5314 Main. LAWYERS. W. ©. Hueston, 601 Delaware, ©. H. Calloway, 601 Delaware—Phone Home 58 Main, NEWSPAPERS, Kansas City Sun, N. C. Crews, Editor, 1803 B. 18th street—Bell East 999. PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS. T. H. Bailey, 911 McGee street—Bell phone, Main 751. POOL HALLS. Wm. Pabbs, 1221 Baltimore avenue, PRINTERS, ©, A. Franklin, 1008 B. 18th street. REAL ESTATE. Colored Peoples Investment Co, 2427 Vine street—Phones, Bell 1011 Bast; «Home 9203 ‘Main. Solo mon Smith, president. 4. Dallas Bowser, 2400 Paseo—BeBl Grand 3795W. Afro-American Investment Co, F. J Weaver, President, 911 ‘MeGec | street—Bell phone Main 751; Home phone Main 7555. ‘Mary Mitchell, 2608 Highland, ‘Wm, Johnson, 911 McGee street, Afro ‘American Investment Co., phones i SHOE STORE. ‘Temple Shoe Store, G. A. Page, Prop. 1507 B, 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, NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. KELLEY S$}, FLOUR BEST @ Kelley's Best e Beat all the Rest. JGHPATENT tt REAL ESTATE _ Property of All Kinds For Sale in Both Kansas Citys and Topeka MISS RUTH BRADLEY & CO. Main Office: 400 Haskell Ave., Kansas City, Kas. Branch Office: saisnerd Wide, Ge aa Minnesota Ave. |Branch Office, Topeka, Kas.: 410 Kansas Ave. Furnished by the National Negro Business League. ‘The late Mrs, Ellen Bransford, of Little Rock, Arkansas, better known as “Aunt Bllen” left $6,000 to the Negro Lutheran church of that city, She had been working as a domestic since the Civil War and invested wisely in real estat .o Solomon Harpety @ colored man, has invented an automatic signal and safety device for train. Repre- sentative colored men of New York city have organized a company called ‘the National Grand Control Signal ‘company which will take charge and promote the sales, John B. Nail is the president, Mr, E.G, Charleston, a colored uun- dertaker of Charleston, South Caro- Mina, has erected a $10,000 office build- ing in that city. The Philadelphia (Pa,), Courant Bas a published “black lst" of ad- vertisements which they refuse, The list includes liquor cure-all medicines, elairvoyants, fake land sales and all advertisements which hold the race up to ridicule, The Raiyway Employes Protective association was organized in Nash: ville, Tennessee recently. ‘This is an organization of colored men from all ‘sections of the country, The National Negro Business League has issued a call for the ob- servance of a National Negro Healh Week, March 21 to 27th. The Provident association of St. Louis has been organized to relieve the poor and destitute of that city. ‘The colored people have already con tributed more than $200, The Standard American Mutual Fire Insurance company, of Houston, ‘Texas, made a very creditable show- ing for its first six months of opera. tion. Dr. M, W. Dogan is president. The Farmers’ Cooperative Mer- cantile company, of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, has Just closed the most successful year in its history, The books showed a total business for the year of $32,210.51, Colored ‘business men of Des Moines, Iowa, have organized the Towa Realty Investment company company with S, Joe Brown as the secretary. Mr. Brown is also secretary of the Local Negro Business League. Henry Burris, for twenty-five years @ cartier in the postoftice at Rock Island, Illinois, was recently tendered a banquet by other carriers in his city. Speeches of appreciation were delivered by the Postmaster and As- sistant Postmaster, BUTTE, MONT. Jerry Larkins, 9-East Galena street, Butte, Mont., proprietor of the Up to Date Tonsorial Parloris 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 5708 and a paper will be de livered to your address. The Crisis is also for sale. Leave your orders for any of these papers and see what progress the race is making. Let Larkins help you get them. 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. j * ‘Thanking you one and all for ' * your patronage during the past ' * year and a half, I remain ; + Faithfully . T. C, UNTHANK, M.D. Speke ebe ee cabs s oe’: oo ~~ " ay If you knew ’ SP Tar cimesnes! NELSONS I +S) patel wate aie are la MNES else on your hair. 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Painless Rxtracting, tha BRIDGE WORK Spaces whore from one to ten teeth have deen lost we replace with bridge work B looks the same as natural teeth, lasts a Mie time and requires no plata Broken éewa teoth we restore to beauty and usstuinand Coo with erowns of poreslain and gold. Gold Crowns %3, 64 and $8 Ghvor Fillings, 760. and ov Walte Crowne 63, 84 and 68 Platina Filllage 209 FULL SET TEETH 84 TO 68 " i NEW YORK DENTAL CO New Location 1017-19 Walnut St. * Over Jaccard’s Jewelry store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Ce MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS, R. T. Coles, Chairman, B. 8. Baker, Secretary. R, W. Foster, Treasurer, W. ©. Mallory, Sandy Moyers, ‘Wm. Washington, F. P. Porteet, T. W. H. Williams, W. G. Moseley, J. EB. Herriford, |B. G. Lacey, B. G. Miller, Robt, Wiley. Lodge Directory Lonae pinecrory. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. ¥, and A. BM, meets the tid and Master Aehous fa pont aitnaaa welcome, Re Greer, W. 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Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Vir- BE ner A Church, Sat ‘Tremont. = nord EDITORIALS, Even up in Minnesota a Colored girl named Mary Marshall had to bring suit against a white Methodist Sunday school before she was allowed to sit ‘with the other members of the class. Religion, too, moves in mysterious ‘ways, {ts wonders to perform-upon white folks. Although the United States Su- preme Court has recently handed down a decision strongly condemning ‘that form of peonage which is prac- ticed under the guise of parolling Ne- gro prisoners to white planters it is doubtful whether the practice will cease from the fact that the unfortun- ate prisoners will in many cases have little chance to make their complaints heard, Senator Tillman and his fellow ‘Christians of South Carolina appear to think that there should be an age of consent for white boys rather than for colored girls, the claim being made that the fair scfons are being led from the paths of virtue by the artful brown girls in whom the passion of sex burns like an uncontrolable fire, By all means let us protect the inno- cent little white boys. In the war which continues to dis: Tupt our transatlantic neighbors, Ja pan appears to be playing the Wilson policy of “watchful waiting.” The is- land empire of the east seems to be saving her strength so as to be in strong when the final dividends are declared whether Germany or the Al- Hes win. She is mot wasting her re- sources either at home or abroad ex. cept in s0 far as is necessary to keep all parties aware of the fact that she is in the game, Norway and Sweden are playing a role much the same, It is exertmely unfortunate that ever once in a while such scandals as the one now resting upon Negroes in the Pullman service must be brought out. We do not believe that our peo- ple any more than another is prone to ‘steal, though such exposures appear to hurt us more than other people. Railway conductors and other white ‘employes are constantly meeting with tee syns nxptnere of Aishonesty, 20t ‘they Rave many other fields in which ‘they may find employment. It pays everybody to be honest, especially those whose limitations are great and whose opportunities are few. As “Betty and Sam” would say, “Let the ‘white folks’ things alone,” - OBSERVE HEALTH WEEK. It is gxtremely important that every Comunity ‘of Negroes in this country shiould make arrangements to observe Hath ‘Week which has been ‘wisely called to our attention by that foremost citizen of our race, Or. Booker ‘T. Washington. By common ‘consent St has been agreed that March 21-27 special effort shall be made by s Health Hints By Dr. Lloyd E. Bailer A weekly discussion of Hygiene and Sani- tation, First Aid Measures and Preven- tive Medicine. Questions will be ans- wered but no diagnoses nor prescrip- tions will be given in this column. ON VENTILATION AND ARTIFI CIAL HEAT. ‘The purpose of yentilation is t supply fresh air to the lungs of per sons Indoors. Fresh air is one o} the most important of all health agen cles and at the same time it is the most neglected. Perhaps we shoul call it the most important, for al though people have been known tc live days without food or water, yet without air their hours would be quickly numbered. Air is a vital ne cessity to the human organism, and the fresher the better—it can not be too fresh. The oxygen of the alr, After being absorbed by the blood in the lungs, is carried to the heart and dy that marvelous pumping machine sent bounding through the arteries to contribute to the animal heat and to the vitality of the body. No mat- ter how nutritious the food may be that is taken into the stomach, no matter how perfect the processes of digestion and assimilation are, the blood can not be vitalized without fresh air, It ts estimated that the blood is Pumped through the lungs at the rate of 800 quarts per hour, and that dur- Ing that period it rids itself of about thirty quarts of foul air (arbonic acid gas), and absorhs about the same amount of fresh air (oxygen). This Process takes place on condition that fresh air is provided. If it is not pro- vided, it will be readily seen that foul air is thrown off only to be re- placed by more foul air, It requires no great wisdom to understand that ‘great damage is done to the health of the individual if fresh air is not provided for this interchange within the lungs. ‘Ventilation, as a means of providing fresh air within doors, is particularly imperative in rooms where people are gathered together, as in churches, halls, schools, etc. The late Prof. Willard Parker in a lecture once made a forcible illustration of how the air of a room was vitiated, in the following impressive words: “It, ladies and gentlemen, instead of air, you suppose this room filled with pure, clean water, and that, in: stead of air you were exhaling, twen- ty times a minute, a pint of milk, you can see how soon the water, at first clear and sparkling, would become cloudy and finally apaque; the milk diffusing itself through the water, you would thus be able also to appre- ciate how, at each fresh inspiration, you would be taking in a liquid that became momentarily more impure. Were we able to see the air as we see the water, we would at once ap. the Colored people throughout the country to arouse the race to the dan- gers that confrout our health as a peo- ple; the unsanitary condition of our localities and surroundings, the fear. ful mortality among our people, all of which can be reduced materially by earnest, intelligent and sympathetic cooperation of all our people, Let us follow the lead of Dr, Washington in this matter and no doubt if we do a year from now, we will be more than pleased at the beneficial results. The Sun will speak at length on this very important matter in a future issue. THE ODEN TESTIMONIAL. On account of the absence of the editor from the city during the week few new contributions were added tc the Oden testimonial fund, but that it is attracting the attention of the race is attested by the following let. ter which we take pleasure in re. producing: Dear Editor: Please permit me to subscribe my hearty indorsement to the young race hero, Kenneth Oden, for whom you are raising a fund to purchase a testimonal. 1 heartily indorse him and all others of our young men who will support and de- fend the honor of our women, In- closed find $1 as my contribution to this laudable cause. ARTHUR W, BRANHAM. Ida Grove, Ia. Would that Kansas City had more men like Mr. Branham, who is a ptom- inent and successful young business man in his state. ‘To total subscriptions to date are as follows: Arthur W, Branham ...,......$1.00 Dr. HM. Smith......... 25 Mr, and Mrs. R. J. Rice........ 1.00 Harry J. Brown..s.s..csscsse 28 The Kansas City Sun......-.--.$1.00 AoW. Harris... 6. c0c0ceeseees $1.00 Geo, W. K. Love..............5 BO La G, Smith... ccrcecrvesersesee VEO W, G, Moseley.......-..0+.0+++ 1.00 Miss Eva P, Washington........ .25 HL Compton .. ....eeesseveeress 26 Criterion Cafe... .......6.s005, 40 Me Cy LOR eisesescsscssecess AE Dr, Theo. Smith................ 1,00 Prof. J. C, Hobbs............... 50 CG. A. BOreB ssc eeee cece eeeeeeens 50 Jos. R, Dimery.........5-ss05-5 25 T. D. Henderson,............... 10 C.A, Pranklin........csccseseee 1S Mrs. Stella Hubbard............ 15 Mrs, Sarah L. Hammett.....,..$ .25 “AD adtbiver . ....6seccececeeees 3S J. B. Herriford................. 1.00 Patrons of Rex Theatre........ 50 Miss Magnolia Lewis........... 25 Frederick A, Turner............ 1.00 Miss Florence Coles............ 10 W. H. Dawley, Jr.......seeceees 25 M, Clarkgon ... ..2..cecreceeses 25 Little Helen Floyd . ............ 25 Have you the courage to subscribe? ARE YOU AFRAID TO sup. SCRIBE OR ARB YOU TOO POOR? ‘Those sojourning or living In Chi- DET pepetey weemeane tine /, H. Robinson's place, 1937 West Lake street, or A. D. Hayes. 2640 8. preciate how thoroughly we are con: |taminating it, and that, unless there be some vent for the air thus vitiated Jana some opening large enough tc admit a pure supply of this very yat- |uabie material, we will be momentar. ily poisoning ourselves, as surely as if we were taking sewage matter into ‘our stomachs.” Close air, just as much as stagnant water, promotes the growth of dan- gerous microbes, and the chances of infection are greatly enhanced where 4 number of people are gathered to- gether. Many of them may be sut- fering trom infections diseases of the respiratory organs; they exhale and also eject by coughing and sneezing an enormous number of microbes which mingle with the air and mult ply at their leisure in such close at- |mospheres, and this is especially so jwhen they are assisted in their ‘growth by the great heat prevalent in such places, particularly in winter time. We need not be surprised, therefore, when persons, and especial- ly children whose resistance is dimin- ished, often contract tonsilitis, Wiph- theria, bronchitis or pneumonia after having passed two or three hours in such a place, the air being close and hot and particularly if, at the same time, the air on the outside into which they must pass, be very cold. Not only public places but our homes are too frequently overheated in winter, Old people and infants are particularly sensitive to cold and they, therefore, need to be in a warm room unless they are in bed. No stich necessity exists, however, for adults in good health whose rooms in win- ter should not be heated above 70 degrees, Overheated houses are re- sponsible for a large percentage of the coughs and colds, bronchitis and pnetimonia of the winter season, Sleeping rooms need no heat, but they do need perfect ventilation. Use plenty of bed covering and open the windows both from the top and bot- tom at night. It is more especially during the hours of sleep that fresh, pure air is needed, for that is when nature is busiest, repairing and build- ing up, and calls for larger supplies of oxygen to keep up the internal fires, but her efforts at repairing waste are futile if you diminish the supply of the vitalizing element and compel her to use over again the /Tefuse material she has already cast oft. In conclusion we would urge that you let no consideration blind you either in sickness or in health, at oe or abroad to the imperative necessity of fresh air. BUTTE. MONT. COLORED PEOPLE PROTEST S. B. Buste| Celegation Goes to Helena: te ‘ork Against Proposed Measure. A committee consisting of Rey. En: mett B, Reed, J. E. B, Reed and L, C. Foreman went over to Helena this morning to protest against S. B. 93, prohibiting Negro and Asiatic males from empioywent in industrial pur sults where white females are en- gaged. A mass meeting of the colored citi: zens was held last evening at the Bethel Baptist (colored) ciurch and the proposed measure was very gen- erally and freely discussed 1t was urged that the Negro citizen has been admitted to eltizenship and the meet- ing believed that such a measure as S.B. 93 would be a discriminationg against a section of the citixensbip of Montana. ‘The delegation left here this morn- ing and will spend a couple of days in Helena.—Butte Daily Post, Butte, Mont, has two Negro churches, A, M, B, and Baptist, respec- tively....Rev, A. Raulston is pastor of the former and Rev. Emmett B, Reed of the latter. The Baptist church choir of which comprises 22 sweet toned voices and of which Mrs. ‘Robert C. Logan Is directoress and ac- companist is rendering satisfactory services, Mr, Robert C. Logan the husband of Mrs. Robert C. Logan and a member of the choir sang a beauti- ful solo last Sunday evening, February 7 entitled, “The Garden of Life” by Trevelyn. Mr, Logan is a cultured bass singer....The Choir will render an Easter song service program April 4, 1915, Hann’s Jubilee company will appear in Butte Friday, March 26 un- der the auspices of Bethel Baptist church. LAWRENCE, KAS, Mr. and Mrs, Henry Stone are the proud parents of two girls born Feb- Tuary 8....The W. U. chorus will sing Gerbuary 12 en route from ‘To eka, at which place they sing be- fore the legislature which is in aes. sion here....Prof. R. G, Jackson of Western University was in Lawrence Feb, 8....Western University agreed to play Lawrence High school colored basket ball team on Wednesday... W. C. Brown {s conducting some of the best programs at the forum that have ever been held since the forum Was organized... ‘Prof. Vander Vries of Kansas University will give a lec: ture at the Forum soon, ...Prof. Keal- ing of W. U. visited his daughter Frances Kealing Saturday, February 6, who is attending K. U....Budora literary society has challenged the Lawrence Forum for a debate soon +++,The many friends of Mr. Alfred Stone were very sorry to hear of iis death Saturday, Bel.ruary 6, in Beaumont, Tex. His body was xa to Lawrence Monday morning and“in the afternoon he was laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. He left a moth- er, sister dud two brothers to mourn his loss, Mr, Stone was oa of Kansas ‘University and a drug: Y. M.C. A. NOTES De. 3B. Sileex telephoned the as sociation on Wednesday that already forty volumes of books for the book Feception had been given him by his churen, Prof. Wm. A. Jones, principal of the Bartlett High school, St. Joseph, Mo., became a member of our asso- elation this week, The boy's department will soon have Ahe largest membership of any boys’ department in the country. ‘The members of the boys’ depart. ‘ment are working to make boys’ Sun- ‘day, February 14, one of the great- ‘ést' days for bringing boys Into the church, Dr. D. D. Munro of the Calvary Baptist church, addresses the men’s meeting Sunday 3:30 p,m. “The Man of Wealth” ig the subject of his ad- dress. ‘The High school gymnasium class of Lincoln High school has been or- ganized into a basket ball league and is playing a regular schedule, Team No, 3 is leading the league. Two teams from the working boys’ divi- sion are expected to enter soon. Dr. H. T. Kealing, president of Western University, missed the carly train for Topeka on Tuesday, While waiting for the next train he visited the association of which he is a mem: er and took dinner, He said of the dinner “That dinner would have cost ‘me 60 cents at the depot. I only ‘paid 27 cents for it here and it was 80. good.” It was a large and appreciative au- @ience that heard Dr. Silcox deliver his farewell address on last Sunday. ‘The following resolutions were sub- mitted by Mr. N.C, Crews and adopt- ed by the meeting, which will he framed and hung in his study in his ue home: | Regsiutiona of Apereciation; Whereas, we the members of the Paseo branch of the Y. M. C. A, as well as the colored people in general, learn with deep regret that our sin- cere and dearly beloved friend, Dr, J. B, Silcox, {s to leave our city for other fields of labor; and, Whereas, during his years of resi- dence here he has been a loyal and consistent friend of the Negro, re- Joicing with us in our successes and cheering us in our hours of depres- sion and sorrow; therefore, be it Resolved, That we extend to him our heartfelt thanks for the many deeds of kindness and valuable serv- ices he has rendered us during his residence here and pledge him our sincere prayers and a permanent abid- ing place in our memories, and pray that heaven's choicest benedictions may ever rest upon him and his dear ones wherever their lot may be cast. RACE AND LABOR. Editor The Leader: The Negro question in this country Is acutely de- | veloping along labor and industrial jlines, ‘There are a small group of Ne groes, known as the better element, that are indignantly aroused over segregation of Negroes in government service. They have set up an awful howl. Teachers, preachers and Negro hewspapers are much exercised over the democratic policy toward the Ne- gro, They are going to try to resur- rect the old Republican party, yet it does nothing for them and has refused to do anything for nearly 40 years. Se- gregation and JimCrowism are not worrying the working negro, ‘The op- portunity to make @ decent living is his chief concern. Our industrial life is in a state of chronic anxiety and fear of displacement; the labor unions with their narrow, but drastic meth- ods of excluding from their ranks Ne- Sroes, who are, constitutionally at least as much citizens as they are, and the increasing race prejudice along every aventie, are forcing Ne- groes to do some thinking. Segrega- ton and Jim-Crowism may be un- pleasant for the Negro, but after all there is a biological law that takes precedence over our aspirations, If the Negro expects conditions to grow better in this country socially, he had better wake up, “nobody home,” we have been losing ground in this direc- tion for 50 years. Shall we wait until the white man has driven us, through desperation, to the concentration of our forces or -accepting segregation perfunctorily from him as a solution to the race problem? Segregation on a fair basis is much preferable to our Present perfidious state of affairs. Imagine, if you please, a community of Negroes, free from a white man's domination and exploitation, operat- ing and controlling industries just as they are run in any white community. It is possible if worked for. The race problem is a color question; being good, honest or efficient does not count for much. The real truth of the matter is we are not wanted, The Negro has been looking for a Moses to lead him into the promised land and he superstitiously ‘believes that some day “Ethiopia” shall stretah forth her hand and conquer the world; and with the constant preaching of such absurd doctrine, he is made sub- missive to any condition forced upon him. Most all eNgroes are Republi- cans, a few Democrats and some are Progressives, but a very, very few So- dialists, A good suggestion to these capitalist party men, who expect re- sults beneficial to race, to come out of the old parties, to demand federal laws protecting the Negro against os- tracism from the industries of this country; if segregation must be car- Hed into our industrial life, make it imperative that they employ Negroes in proportion to population in com- munities where’ Negroes live, In the north the Negro 1s barred from work through prejudice; in the south he oe ns all of Geet but Pat oath do with setting the price Indor., a a Rey! “Git dresa gene, Kanne hi, paint anced haere) pte tg ides: Reply to Mrs. Moore's “Facts! leit eet a er ait a Oe ee ae have known her longest Would not ex pect her to make any sort of fight ot | white men. She knows their manne: of fighting would prove “isastrous t her. ‘Thus wit hthe aid’ of relative she decided upon and followed th line which they regarded ‘east hazard ‘ous, an ingenfous one in generalities but embodying some statements an¢ insinuations concerning which the public has a right to know more ani which I am attempting to answer it the order in which they were printed First, how did an illiterate woman without previous experience, pass ar examinations in spelling, arithmetic and hygiene with other importam ‘questions to answer, and get a ratin, higher than that of two or three wel educated women? Her ‘competitors were: Misses N. E. Wilson, Mrytle Carr, Mrs. Virginia Botts and a indy whose name I do not recall, Dr Thompkins, Mrs, Moore's son-In-taw, was chief examiner and it was sald by well informed people that her de mands to be placed at the head of tke list occasfoned him much trouble, The relativeness of this fact is in that it tends to show the type of woman, and that her's is a dangerous path to cross. In the line of duty I crossed it when 1 was asked as to her ability to do the various kinds of work waich I |was informed that the woman who would be kept on the pay roll must be te to do. In addition to attending the few baths, to handle girls and ‘Young women's classes in athletic ‘games, folk dances, physical exerctees ‘and some janitor work, Frankly, 1 said she wovld not be able to do the [physical sultire work and that she had acquired the {ll will of the young [people who come into the building ‘Thus agsertion No, 1 that she was as competent to do the work as the play- ground teacher falls of its own weight. As to my “attitude toward her"; ‘two pgrsons will bear witness that I spent two hours with her on Friday the day before she began actual work, and again on Saturday mornings and ‘on the Monday following I put in an- other hour helping her at which time ‘I made up the weekly report in her presence, Tt was then I saw she had been registering the cash register at random much after the manner of that of a three year old child. To sub- stantlate this fact-one needs only con- ‘sult the Indy who she claims told her ‘that her work was . K. At the end of ‘the second week she had her daugh: ter come down ant, make out the re- | ports for her. When I relieved her of the duty of taking eare of the men’s | bath, work which I thought would be | distasteful to her, and gave her in "stead the care of the ladies’ club room [I felt 4 sense of injustice to Miss Wil- son, who had done that work, but I is extremely anxious to give Mrs. | Moore no ground for complaint. My ‘duties requires me to supervise evegy phase of work in the building; there- fore, I could not spend all of my time [with Mrs. Moore, | As to her hours; she constantly complained of the uselessness of her being there so long. On more than fone oceasion I called her attention to the fact that she was leaving ahead of her time. I recall on one occasion she showed plainly she was ih a bad humor because I asked her to stay lat- er, All of this I am able to prove. She asks, “Why the former play- ground teacher” went to the place twelve of the fourteen days she was there. If she had asked the Park Board Officials they would have told her that this lady had an agreement with them to come to the bullding aud handle the girl classes afternoons and ‘evenings much after the manner she had been doing in the past, and for Which she was receiving some com- penation, All of this can be verified by a visit to the secretary of the board. As to the number of classes she handled, Mrs. Moore tells another of her bilssful falsehoods, as the rec- ords will show. As to the teacher's “close” conversations with me, All extended conversations this play ground teacher or anyone else had with me, were at my desk in the office of the main lobby. Never in any private rooms for there are none in the building, which by any stretch of imagination could be adopted to the use which her vile mind insinuates, 1 havé refrained from asking for a rest- room to be suitably furnished because of just such minds as Mrs, Moore's, As to the “fireman in the basement” —Mr, Wm. Brown, who has @ commis- sion from the police board as a special police officer, whose duties require him to look after the entire premises —bullding and grounds; few people visit the building without seeing him in evidence and it is as apt to be one place as another. ‘It has always been a consoling sat- isfaction to me that fate has many ways through the providence of God to protect the worthy from the rav- ages of malice and revenge. In this case it has not failed me, I seo it plainly in the circumstances which brought Mr. Joe Whitney, one of the original employes of the building whose work at night had put him in bad: health to the extent of an attack of pneumonia, necessitating his going under the care of @ doctor and re- maining away from the building for leis $k, eS Sak aed ee there she gave food to Mrs. Moore's evil mind, No caution was given her to é carefill what she said about me, she left in a rage and said much abou what she intended to do to me. 1 re call that when I told her to go aheac but to stay within the bounds o truth, Her aldes and relatives whe prefer staying in the back ground and fighting over her shoulders seem tc belleve no one else smart enough 0} mean enough to do such a thing. I they are able to reason from cause te effect and would think over the list of prominent Negroes they would doubt less understand that others might have had a hand in bringing about her downfall, = ‘ ‘True to her low suspicious nature —probably no less due f irregulay breeding than to envioronment—Im morality being the chief thought in her,simple mind—a fact that is no tickle to every intelligent person who talks with her any length of time—she could find nothing so at tractive as to assail, with the most absurd tales, the morals of two people whom she regarded as least danger. ous to attack, In this case the luring goal is to arouse the people to the point where they would force humilia: tion upon two employes whose lives and reputations, wherever they have lived, are clean and free of any ques: tlonable manner of living—This the public knows of them but has serfous doubts if she would attempt to prove the’ same of herself. While I have lived in Kansas City most of the years of my life and have, considerable of that time, been en- Kage in newspaper work wherein 1 have crossed people's paths who would throw impediments’ in my way, it has remained for this treacherous mortal who have lived here ‘abot two years to attempt to impeach my morals, If a woman out of an un- savory environment can convince the people after they read and examine the truthfulness of the facts herein presented, then I will confess that I do not know the people of this city. Very truly, R. E, LEE BAILEY. Betty@ Sam's Little Corners) RS 3 KS" my Neo ry) TE obeet =a MERGE! “Ca a ee ey [Sai - PO ae get na Mh ts ANG A UH LY ae Ue THEY SAY week. Oh Mr. Pullma,n I'll be good. __—That certain Negroes, men and women who are supposed to be well fixed and have good positions are ‘Paying 15 and 20 per cent monthly to the money sharks of this city, Oh you suckers. | —That if you sean the list of con tributors to the Oden fund you don't ‘ind many of your professional people. Are they all cowards or just bluffs? —That Dr. Theo, Smith is made of the stuff that constitutes real leader- ‘ship in any people. May his shadow ever grow less. : | —That not a dozen Negroes have been seen in the soup line during the past two Weeks, Hurrah for the Ne- groes, i ~That Allen Chapel Choir is about to lose one of its most accomplished members, Oh you Cupid. —That a very light complexioned colered, lady went to @ white drug store down town to buy some Palitier’s Skin Success and the druggist, not knowing that she was colored said: “Oh don’t use that, all the Niggers in town are using that and its killing about half of them.” Can that be true? \ That we have about three bun- dred subscribers who always have an excuse to keep them from paying us and yet they say they like the paper. Ain't that wrong? That neither Chicago nor St. Louls has a restaurant to compare with Compton's famous Delmonico. —That certain Negro physicians de- riving all their support from Negroes invariably send all their prescriptions to white drug stores, Do you know them? —That ‘blue veinism js breaking out again in Kansas Cit}. Shame! That the Packing houses have not been able to supply the demands for ham hocks and back bones among the colored folks this winter. Oh you beans, —That Chillicothe and Moberly have the most enterprising Negroes of any small towns th the state. What do you say Lexington Ma,rsball,, Se- dating % That all the Negro students are getting at K. U. ts a receipt for their tuition fee. x -PORO HAIR GROWER. Scalp Treatment A Gpeciaity. Hours 8:30 A. M, to 7:30 P, M. . MRS. A. B. HOLT, Home South 2408, $215 Main St. For, Sale—Rooming house; five rooms; modern; cheap. Grand 2437 Bell phone. For Rent—Housekeeping rooms at 1607 Harrison street; very cheap. In- quire at 1326 ast Fourteenth street, Fort Rent—Neatly furnished rooms in modern home, Gentleman and wife or men only, High class, In- quire at office of Kansas City Sun, FOR RENT—Modern furnished rooms with heat. 2531 Michigan Ave, Bell Phone, Past 4594, Mrs. Jennie White and Roscoe White. For Rent—Nice furnished rooms with kitchen privileges. 1306 Mich- fgan Ave Yell Phone East 4777J. For rent—Neatly furnished rodms, Quiet place to sleep with bath and free phone. Room $1.50 and up a week. 1527% Lydia avenue. Bell phone Grand 4494. Mrs, P, Reed, lee Rent.—2502 Michigan Ave. 1st fl; 4 large rooms, double parlors, bath, water paid; basement and laun- ‘dry rooms, $13.50, Bell Phone Grand a795W. J. DALLAS BOWSER, 2400 Paseo. —————— ‘Our Motto: "Nothing but The Best” The Crosthwait Everything in Flowers and Flower Designs “WE DELIVER THE GOODS" ‘The People say wo have made some of the most beautiful and original de- signs in flowers ever seen in Kaneas City, Our Specialty— “Quick Delivery--Satisfactory Service” Bell Phone East 272 Home Phone Main 9070 1801 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo . " = a “ad ag Ga aay ae a9 a es Madame K. Martin the cultured Scalp Specialist 1s now ready to treat ‘your scalp and grow your hair, Sham- Pooing, massaging and hair growing @ specialty. Madame Martin cures all scalp diseases, dandruff germ, tetter, eczema and guarantees satisfaction. No matter how short the hair, I guar- antee to grow it and can produce testi- monials of the same. Have finished a special course of methods of treating the scalp and growing hair and I hold ‘a diploma from Lelia college, Indian- apolis, Ind. I would be pleased to have you call. Consultation free. Your Patronage solicited. Hours 8:30 a, m. to 5:80 p, m. Residence, 2220 Michi- Kan avenue, 2nd floor. Bell phone East 3936W. Any ladies desiring to learn the method of growing hair may consult me as I shall open a class soon when the whole course will be taught. | For further information, call Bell phone, East 3936W. «MADAME MARTIN, 2220 Michigan avenue, Kansas City, Mo. KNOWLEDGE THAT EVERY- ONE SHOULD POSSESS, You never know when you will face an emergency, caused either by sickness or accident, when there will be-no doctor within call and when it will be compulsory for you to render what aid you can, You cin never tell at what time you may suddénly be taken sick or may be ealled to take charge of a Sick or injured person when you will need some practical knowledge of medical matters, Dr. Miles’ Family Medical Guide contains advice and knowledge that will enable you to be of the greatest assistance to your doctor both be- fore and after he is called in, This book is divided into three parts. Part 1, Simple Treatment for Common Ailments, Part 2, What to Do in Case of Accidents, Part 3, Practical Laws of Health, Special arrangements have been made whereby the readers of this Paper ean obtain this book free of charge for a limited time only, It is a book that should be in every household in America, Just write your name and address clearly, on a post card if you like, and send it to Family Medical Guide, Miles Medical Co,, Elkhart, Ind., ‘mentioning the name of this paper and you will receive one of these valuable books all charges prepaid. CITY NEWS. Visit Smith's drug store. Mrs. Janie White, 2531 Michigan avenue lady dancing teacher of Armory hall was quite ill the past few days but is convalescing. The many friends of Mrs. Henriletta Hill, Bonner Springs, Kansas, will be surprised and grieved to learn of her sudden death February 4, of heart failure. The Pleasant Green Baptist church Sewing Circle will give a Valentine party at the residence of Mrs. Annie McGuee, 1809 East Seventeenth street Monday evening, February 15. All are invited. Dancing every Wednesday night at Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets. Prof. Rose White, Dancing Master. Class every Saturday night. Mrs. Jennie White, teacher. Bell Phone, East 4594. The editor made a flying trip to Chillicothe last Tuesday to visit his sick brother, Rev. Charles Crews and to make some repairs on the family home. He found his brother much improved and returned home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dixon, 2828 Cleveland avenue left Monday evening for Burlington, Ia., to superintend the manufacture of a few of his newly patented car replacers for demonstration purposes. He will return the last of the week. The Misses Quarrels entertained with an informal dance party at Garrison Square Friday evening in honor of the Misses Crouch of Wichita, Kas. About 150 young people were present and everyone spent an enjoyable evening. Mrs. L. K. Bell, 2115 Highland received word of the death of her mother, Mrs. Mattie Kay, which occurred in Gollad, Texas. She is survived by ten children. Besides Mrs. Bell, two other children reside here, Floyd and S. S. Kay. Mrs. C. A. Smith entertained the Unique Club last Monday afternoon, February 8 at her residence. Dainty refreshments were served. The house was very artistically decorated and whist was the feature of the afternoon. First and second prizes were awarded. THE MASONIC RELIEF BOARD will hold its second quarterly meeting in the office of the Grand Master, Nelson C. Crews, 1803 E. 18th street, Saturday, February 13, at 9:00 a. m. All Masons and others with business before the Board are invited to be present. An evening of enjoyment was spent with Mrs. M. A. Kirkpatrick, 1212 Vine street, when she entertained a few of her friends with a select six-course dinner. The home was beautifully decorated with ferns, red and white carnations and sweet peas. Lovely music was rendered. The following guests were present Mr. and Mrs. V. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Trower, Mr. and Mrs. W. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. W. Brashier, Mr. A. McPhetas, Prof. Adams. All departed saying they were very happy. P. S. S. WALLACE H. DIXON, HANNIBAL, MO. Superintendent of the Masonic Home CARD OF THANKS. CARD UP THANKS. We desire to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for the kindness shown us during the recent illness and death of our dear beloved wife, mother and grandmother Julia Hartwell and also for the beautiful floral offerings. We especially wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. Nelson C. Crews, Mrs. Annie E. Floyd, Mrs. Bennett, and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jennie Williams, the brothers of Centennial M. E. church, Mr. and Mrs. Glass, mother and Geo. Franklin Glass, Centennial M. E. Sunday school, Miss Maude Thomas, Women's Home Missionary Society C. M. E. church, Mrs. A. G. Nelson, Class No. 12 of C. M. E. church, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Smith, M. and Mrs. S. M. Brown, St. Mary's Tabernacle No. 2333. We are very grateful for the floral offerings which were closed in the Couch. JACOB HARTWELL, Husband, MRS. LEATHA NEWCOMB, MRS. FANNIE MOORE. MISS EMMA BROWN, Daughters and Grandchildren. Dally Thought. Nature has perfections in order to show that she is the image of God; and detects, in order to show that she is only his image—Pascal. Women's Club Notes THE OAK LEAF ART CLUB. The meeting of the Oak Leaf Art club at Mrs. Oden's was quite interesting. Many topics were discussed. The last meeting was with Mrs. Prowler, 1418 East Twenty-fourth street and was well attended. Mrs. Crosstwait and others were visitors. After an elaborate and delicious luncheon was served Mrs. Crosstwait gave an interesting talk on the work of the federation and the good it has accomplished; also the needs of the Children's Home. The club donated $5 to the home and voted to contribute news to the Bulletin each week. The next meeting will be with Mrs. J. C. Ray, 325 Tunco avenue, Kansas City, Kas. MRS. HELEN McDONALD, President. MRS. J. C. RAY, Secretary. MISS AMANDA WHEELER, Reporter. M. B. CRITTENDEN C. CLARK, ESQ., ST. LOUIS, MO. Grand Attorney of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Missouri. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB. Phyllis Wheatley Art Club met with Mrs. A. E. Estes with a large attendance. After being served with an elaborate luncheon the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Johnson. The Club met with Mrs. Gibson. 1523 E. Eleventh street, February 11th and February 19 with Mrs. Lightner, George Washington Tea will be given at 1313 Michigan avenue by the club. Sandwiches and other dainties will be served. 10 cents. CARNATION ART CLUB. The Carnation Art Club met with Mrs. Wells, 2436 Highland avenue, February 5. Rev. Wells opened the club with prayer and also make interesting remarks concerning the work which the club is doing. Two visiting ladies were present. A very delicious two course luncheon was served and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Alexander, 2432 Troost avenue, Friday, February 12. MRS. LILLIAN BERKYMAN Reporter COLORED ARTIST PAINTS COLORS Works of Merits on Sale at Home and at the League Enterprise. Among many other good things which we enjoy by way of men of genius and talent may be mentioned R. J. Rice, who is putting out works of merit that please and command the attention of those who really patronize the fine arts. By this we mean those who will pay $1.50 for a beautiful landscape up to $2.50 and $3.00 and as high as $60 for a painting that according to merit should bring $100. You didn't know we had such an artist, did you? Well we have. Mr. Rice is more than ordinary and has the technique in painting which is necessary to meet the demands of an exact as well as tempermental art. Up to dat the artist's "Lion Painting" is his strongest plea for recognition among the patrons and critics. He has rather departed in some respects from the old school which has frequently delineated "The Master Beast" and gives a much stronger power to the lion in his natural majesty than many of the so-called masters. In landscapes, fruit effects, character settings, and ocean views, the painter reaches a state of high perfection and in his "Visiting Minister," he shows a slight tinge of the comic as well as a degree of sarcasm, (by the way.) This picture is on exhibition in the show windows of the League Enterprise on Eighteenth street. Few pass that place without stopping to give the painting a few thoughtful moments of study. Several of the Rice collection are on sale at this place. And attendants are always glad to show the merits of the paintings as well as give any facts about the young artist who lives at 1015 Tracy and whose telephone is Main 2016 Bell. In the absence of the artist, Mrs. Rice, his cultured wife will kindly show you all of the paintings which are kept at their residence. The collection there includes elon, every lover art should at least see. Remember you can buy a modest painting for your parlor or dining room for two or three dollars and have the satisfaction of knowing it to be from one of your race. Mr. Colored man what kind of pictures have you got in your house? Caucasan an or Colored? Electricity Cheap in Japan. Electricity is cheap in Japan and the use of the current is becoming very general. IN MEMORIAM In memory of our dear mother, Mrs Rhoda Nelson, who passed away one year ago today February 11, 1914. Sleep on dear mother, take thy rest BEST. AARON NELSON, MR. AND MRS S. E. SMITH. LUCILLE NELSON. IN MEMORIAM In loving remembrance of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Colbert who passed on three years ago, February 9. Mother. It is a wonderful thing, a mother, Other folks can love you But only your mother understands. She works for you, looks after you, Loves you, forgives you anything you may do, Understands you, and then the only thing bad Mrs. Howard M. Smith wishes to express her sincerest thanks to the Parent-Teachers' association of the Wendell Phillips school for the beautiful silver tea service presented to her and for the kind words of appreciation for her humble efforts in behalf of the association and the school. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of our dear wife and mother, Josie Schumacher, who passed away two years ago today, February 11, 1913. Dear mother it is us that breath thy Dear mother 'tis us that breath thy name; In life we loved yo udear; In death we do the same. More and more each day we miss you Friends may think the wound is healed, But they little know the sorrows; That lie lie within our hearts conealed. Sadly missed by THOS. SCHUMACHER, SR., HENRY SCHUMACHER, S. H. SCHUMACHER, W. P. SCHUMACHER, THOS. E. SCHUMACHER, Jr., H. D. SCHUMACHER, ALICE SCHUMACHER, MILLDRED DUNN, MATTIE HOBBS. IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of our wife and saintly mother, Mary Kennedy, who departed this life February 11, 1912, in the fullness of religious faith: Softly breath her name to us. Ah, we loved her so. Gentle let your tribute be; None may better know Her true worth than we who weep O'er her as she lies asleep— Safe asleep. Safe above the water's swirl She has crossed the bar; Earth has lost a precious pearl, Heaven has gained a star, That shall ever sing and shine Till it quells this grief of ours For our love. E. K. KENNEDY, JOHN N. KENNEDY, CHAS. A. KENNEDY, BLANCHE KENNEDY, POET KENNEDY, C. KENNEDY-HICKS, MRS. SIRENA HEGWOOD, HORACE KENNEDY, MARTHA KENNEDY-MOSELEY. EN RECUERDO Touch life's keys with sorrow's hands, Whisner so soft and low. Whisper soft and low, Like death's river through life's lands Let the sad strains flow. Place this white rose o'er her heart, Strew the lilies fair; Sweetly did her soul depart On God's starry stair. Touch life's keys with sorrow's hands, Peace and mercy moan; Prayers of roses make the stands For her glory throne. Yet love breathes of other times, Faith and hope foretell Souls rejoin in blissful climes And for aye, they dwell. Departed this life Feb. 13, 1909. Sadly missed by father, mother and brother. JEFF THURMAN, ELLA THURMAN and ADOLPH THURMAN. 2128 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, Mo. HEALTH, HAPPINESS ANN'D PROS PRITZY What a Blessed condition. I want every colored person in America to realize this great truth. I teach you how. I also give treatments for all undesirable conditions. Out of town patients cared for through telepathy and correspondence. H. J. HOWELL, Metaphysical Practitioner, 1533 Baltimore avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Among the Churches ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES. Go to church Sunday attracted an audience of more than 2,000 people to Allen chapel last Sunday and they were amply repaid both by the highly illuminated and intellectual sermon of our excellent minister and the matchless singing of our famous choir. The congregation began assembling at 10 o'clock, and by 11:30 standing room was at a premium. There were 34 additions to the church during the day, among whom were Dr. Wm. J. Thompson, the distinguished superintendent of the city hospital. At night the largest crowd that has been in Allen at evening services in a year was in attendance and the services were of a very high order. On Thursday night the 18 Western University chorus under Prof. R. G. Jackson and the new university band under Major N. Clark Smith, with the full uniformed student body of the institution will give a musical at the church. All are invited. On Monday next the Peek Mite Missionary society will entertain the Ministerial Alliance and an excellent program will be rendered. Tomorrow is boys' Sunday and 1,000 boys and young men are expected to be in attendance. The services will be wholly conducted by the boys Boy choirs and boy ushers. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. BY GEORG W TAYLOR BY GEO. W. TAYLOR Last Sunday our services were good. Our large auditorium was filled with persons anxious to hear the gospel on Go to Church Sunday. Our pastor of rejoicing. Two additions were made to the church. The Covenant meeting was continued until 5:30 at the B. Y. P. U. at which time a great shouting for joy was had and the old fashioned hand shaking added much to the spirit of the meeting. We will be glad when every person will feel that every Sunday is Go to Church Sunday and go some where and help lift the banner of Christianity higher. Unless we as a race draw closer together, his hand will ever be on us and we will suffer many things. Not only us but our children. So let us come nearer unto the Lord that He may bless us with an everlasting blessing. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. During the meeting of the City Conquest Union at this church recently, the new beautiful attendance banner was awarded to the Second Baptist B. Y. P. U. which had more members present than the Unions of all the other churches in the city combined. Mrs. Mary Huff deserves special mention for giving all the books of the Bible in order without mistakes.... Mrs B. H. Brown, 1904 East Twenty-fifth street is ill....Mrs. Eva Smith, a soprano singer, has returned after a year's absence....The service last Sunday broke all record in enthusiasm and attendance in the history of this church. At the morning services Dr. Bacote's sermon, "The Thirst of the THE WORLD'S FIRST AFRICAN MASTER OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGE [Name not visible] GEO. W. K. LOVE, KANSAS CITY. Grand Secretary and Secretary of Masonic Burial Fund, of the Missouri Jurisdiction. Soul" was delivered with much eloquence amid many tears and much shouting. In the afternoon this great sacred edifice was filled with such a multitude that standing room was at a premium, both on the main floor and gallery. After a glorious service the pastor baptized sixty-two new born saints. At the evening service the Lord's supper was given to an unusually large number. This was certainly a Pentecostal day. During the revival 191 additions were made to the church and 114 were candidates for baptism. The Lord has crowned our efforts with a great harvest of souls. Glory to His name. day evening of each week. REV. F. D. WELLS, Pastor. H. WILLIAMS, Church Clerk. GRAND MIDWINTER RALLY At St. John's A. M. E. Church or Belleview Ave., Kansas City, Mo. This is the George Walker rally. All persons are invited to come on February 14, or the second Sunday will be the card rally, and all per sons holding cards will please return them on February 14. The following named persons have entered the gold watch and ring contest: First prize the watch; second prize the diamond ring: Mr. Louis Sanders, Mrs. Bel BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH. Bethel has closed procted meeting; for there is always a revival in Bethel. We thank the Lord for giving us fifty-four Souls as the result of four weeks' labor. Forty-eight added to our membership, and six joined other churches. During the meeting, all the auxiliaries were abandoned in the interest of saving Souls for Christ. Revs F. D. Douglass, and P. J. P. Howard assisted our Pastor, Rev F. D. Wells, in the meeting. Sunday will be Boys' Day. We will swell our attendance to 200 in addition to our regular Endeavor attendance of 75 each Sunday at 6:30 p.m. The Boy Scouts, under the directions of Scout Master H. Williams met Wednesday evening, and listened to an address by Prof. J. D. Bouser." Boy Scouts and Scout lung." Dr. T. A. Jones gave the boys a very interesting lecture, on the first aid to the injured. The Golden Leaf Club will meet as usual on Wednes 1. KANSAS CITY, KAS. KANSAS CITY, KAS., BRANCH OFFICE Mrs. Marie Wilson is indisposed this week. Mrs. Jennie Morris of Everett avenue is still quite ill. Miss Eva Jackson of Douglass school continues ill at her residence, 936 Nebraska avenue. The Mercy Matron's Club met last Saturday with Mrs. R. C. Hayden and will be entertained Saturday by Mrs. Myrtle Merndon. Mr. Thos. Crowder and Mrs. Nannie Washington formerly matron of the Orphan's Home were quietly married last Monday evening. Mrs. Willie Taylor Princess of Maple Leaf Temple S. M. T. was the recipient of a beautiful fraternal pin presented to her by the members of her Temple. The Avondale club was entertained by Mrs. J. M. Marquess and Mrs. Wm. Jarret Thursday of this week at the residence of the former on North Sixth street. A number of the ladies of the A. M. E. church met Thursday at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Gamble and organized a club to be known as the B. F. C. A. Building Fund Church Auxiliary. Mrs. Lottie Williams, president. Mrs. Nellie Wilson entertained the following ladies at a 6:00 o'clock dinner complimentary to Mrs. Bettie Penix' Herdon of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. S. M. Banks, Mrs. Wm. Jarrett, Mrs. R. C. Hayden, Miss Harriett Walton, Miss Dorthila Vanduever and Miss Mable Wilson. Six courses were served including all the delicacies of the season. Miss Juanita Brown entertained February 2d, a number of her friends at the residence of Mrs. Hattle Montgomery, 2738 Woodland avenue in honor of her birthday anniversary. It was unanimously agreed that the hostess was a royal entertainer. The house was beautifully decorated in pink and white. A number of beautiful presents were received. The Deaconess Board of the A. M. E. church will meet this week with Mrs. M. Jackson on Oakland avenue. The B. Y. P. U. of the Metropolitan Baptist church gave an interesting program Sunday evening. Mr. Harris of Kansas City, Mo., delivered an address which was very inspiring. The Missionary society will meet at the church Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Calloway entertained the eSwing Circle Friday afternoon. Rev. Holmes preached an inspiring sermond Sunday evening and is doing a great work toward building up the church. * day evening of each week. REV. F. D. WELLS, Pastor. H. WILLIAMS, Church Clerk. GRAND MIDWINTER RALLY At St. John's A. M. E. Church on Belleview Ave., Kansas City, Mo. This is the George Walker rally. All persons are invited to come on February 14, or the second Sunday will be the card rally, and all persons holding cards will please return them on February 14. The following named persons have entered the gold watch and ring contest: First prize, the watch; second prize, the diamond ring: Mr. Louis Sanders, Mrs. Bell Hyde, Mrs. Kate Cummings, Alex Moore, Brooks Brown, Mrs. Alberta McMen, Mrs. Mattle Parker, Mrs. Hattie Williams, Miss Gertrude St. Clair, Mr. B. L. Dangerfield, Mr. J. Harris, Mr. Grant. Remember the person bringing in the highest amount over $50 is entitled to the gold watch and the person bringing the second highest amount receives the diamond ring. This contest will close February 17, Wednesday night, at St. John's A. M. E. church. Dear readers, friends and members, don't fail to come and see who will be successful. This church wants everybody's help, so come and help us and God will help you. Don't forget the days and dates—Sunday February 14, the rally, and Wednesday day night, the 17th, the contest will close. All pastors and their entire flocks are invited to come. GEORGE WALKER, Manager. REV. T. A. WILSON, Pastor. 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The Moses Dickson Regalia and Supplies Co. Special Catalogues for Each LODGE ROOM FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER Souvenir Badges for All Conventions THE STORY OF WENDELL PHILLIPS. By Charles Edward Russell. When, before the War, Wendell Phillips denounced chattel slavery, he was assailed by the slaveholding interests of the South; when, after the war, he rejected all proffers of high political office and threatened wage-slavery, he was assailed by the manufacturing interests of the North. In both instances he threatened somebody's profits. That was all, and for this reason Southern fire-eaters offered a price for his head. Yet, in his long life of ceaseless activities, he debated for no crown, argued for no fees, strove for no reward, sought no place nor any fame, cared for no achievement for its own sake, and used his unequalled gifts only for some cause of justice or freedom in which he could earn nothing but oblackat, hatred and isolation. No man ever gave up more for the sake of his faith. All his brilliant career was wrecked in an instant. His friends and family deserted him. Some of his relatives declared that he was insane and planned to have him confined in an asylum. The press covered him with ridicule and abuse. For more than twenty years he lived in daily danger of his life, with a price on his head. When a cause was won, as in the case of the abolition of slavery in the South, and in the natural revulsion of popular feeling men sought to make his its hero, he put aside their tributes and demanded their attention to the next unpopular reform. Compared with such a career, the stories of the men that on the grounds of material triumph have won place in the world's regard, seem poor indeed. They toiled for themselves, or for the glory of achievement. This man's single and unselfish purpose was to win better conditions for the unfortunate, wherever they might be, to strive against injustice, to further brotherhood, to spread liberty. As ardently as other men sought wealth and power, he sought the Common Good. This is an outline of the story Russell tells in this book of 185 pages, including many glowing passages from Phillips' speeches. Almost any capitalist publishing house would have paid the author handsomely for this book if "toned down." Russell prefers to have us print its unexpurgated, at a price the workers can pay. So we offer it in neat strong cloth binding at 50c postpaid. Russel's Doing Us Good and Plenty, an up-to-date campaign book, is published in the same style at the same price. His Stories of the Great Railroads, a much larger book, will be mailed for $1.00. Address CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY, 118 West Kinstle Street, Chicago. See Wm. Hopkins For Bargains. If you are going to buy real estate counsel given free. 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To add to its comfort Sister Pearl is master in her profession of and altogether it is a very comfortable 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 humanity 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 spiritually inclined that they may gain strength and knowledge in the study of the scripture in this great work with faith in Jesus Christ. For information consult Sister Pearl at her residence, 3101 E. 16th. Bell Phone East 2367. DRESSMAKING CLASS, BEST SELLER "Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman" and "Why Jesus Never Married."...There is a reason...Do you desire to know why?...If so, send 10 cents in stamps and get the booklet containing the addresses and proceedings of the second anniversary of Sidney C. Tapp's looks on the sex law of the Bible...Address Sidney C. Tapp, 406 Reliance Building, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Marden's Uplift Talks BY ORISON SWETT MARDEN. Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndicate THE ELEMENTS OF TRUE GREAT- NESS. A lawyer who recently died in New York city left instructions in his will that one-half of his fortune of $300, 000 should be devoted to establishing and maintaining a "bread line" for the hungry of the city. Obsessed with the idea of perpetuating his name, he stipulated that it should appear in raised letters on each and every loaf of bread distributed by his agents to the poor and needy who might apply for aid. It is said that this man had often expressed the opinion that the only immortality of which the individual can be certain is in the perpetuation of his name and acts through bequests in one form or another to posterity. Thus we can somewhat account for his ambition to have his name so prominently associated with his good deed. While we would not belittle this man's philanthropy, which will undoubtedly prove a blessing to many a poor fortunate, yet we cannot but regret his methods of gaining "immortality" and contrast him with the two great men whose birth we celebrate this month—Washington and Lincoln. How undimmed is their renown all these years, and yet without any self-laudation, or advertisement on their part. They gave themselves to their country and thus engraved their names on the hearts of their countrymen, and immortalized themselves for all time. Abraham Lincoln, one of the most colossal figures in all history, was the apostle of modesty and simplicity. An analysis of Lincoln's character shows that his marvelous career was due more to the moral qualities which everyone can cultivate than to any particular mental brilliance or genius. Lincoln illustrates in a remarkable degree the power of common qualities, everyday virtues, in the making of manhood. His great horse-sense, his tenacity of purpose, his force of character, his keen sense of humor, and his power of self-expression; these were the foundations upon which he reared his great life structure. When we think of Lincoln we form a picture of a great, hearty, kindly, helpful, accommodating, sympathetic soul, more than of a great intellectual genius. To this sort of a man the world builds its monuments. Pure genius without a heart which matches it; great brilliance without the virtues which are common to humanity, or mere wealth without character does not live very long in a people's regard. The world builds its monuments to those who have sacrificed self to the public good; it builds no monuments to selfishness or greed, however brilliant. All through life Lincoln was true to the best, the highest that was in him, and so he never was, never could be, false to himself or to any man "I am not bound to win," he said, "but I am bound to be true, I am bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with any body that stands right." A rich life is worth a thousand times more to the world than a rich bank account. Who would have thought of asking how much money Lincoln left? Yet, is not the whole world richer for his life and example? Lincoln's great ambition was to make the most he possibly could of himself. Who cannot have such an ambition? Who cannot succeed in it? A STUDY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MAN. It has been said of Lincoln that he "grew to a great mental stature and achieved his masterful grip upon the intelligence of the world, not alone because he had extraordinary natural endowments, but because he had an insatiable interest in realities, and never allowed a book or a formula to obscure the sunlight of a living fact." A great many people are inclined to look upon Abraham Lincoln as a marvelous being, raised up for a divine purpose, and endowed with sublime attributes which are not bestowed upon ordinary mortals. Yet if we analyze his character we find it made up of the humblest virtues, the most ordinary human qualities. It was his incorruptible manhood, his unswerving honesty, his love of truths, his adherence to what he believed to be right in the face of all temptations and difficulties, that, more than all else, made him the sublime character he was. Lincoln never shrank from espousing an unpopular cause when he believed it to be right. At the time when it almost cost a young lawyer his bread and butter to defend the fugitive slave, and when other lawyers had refused, Lincoln would always plead the cause of the unfortunate whenever an opportunity presented. "Go to Lincoln," people would say, when these hounded fugitives were seeking protection, "he's not afraid of any cause, if it's right." His fellow lawyers called him "perversely honest." Nothing could induce him to take the wrong side of a case, or to continue on that side learn- W. V. Hodges of the United States bureau of education says: "Letters revealed reveal improvement everywhere in the schools for country children. There is a feeling that the country child will be best educated for whatever life he may lead, whether in the city or in the country, if taught in terms of country life. The movement toward this is nationwide. Country school houses are used to some extent as civic centers in all states of the Union. No special feature of rural ing that it was unjust or hopeless. Only the most sublime moral courage could have sustained him as president to hold his ground against hostile criticism and a long train of disaster; to issue the emancipation proclamation, to support Grant and Stanton against the elamor of the politicians and the press. Everybody who knew him felt that he was every inch a man, a large-hearted, generous friend, always ready to help everybody out of their troubles, whether it was a poor widow in distress or a farmer who needed advice. He had a frank, transparent mind. He never covered up anything, never had secrets. He always left the door of his heart wide open, so that anyone could read his insomn thoughts. Abraham Lincoln inherited no opportunities, and acquired nothing by luck. His good fortune consisted simply of unfiring perseverance and a right heart. Yet the romance and achievement of his marvelous life have no match in fiction or history. We shall search the biography of the world in vain for a man who reached such heights of power, and yet has graduated from such humble beginnings and such an iron environment. Instead of a school and university training, Lincoln had little else than hardships, trials and struggles to lift him above relentless circumstances. Behold him as a lank, awkward youth, felling trees on a little claim, building his homely log cabin, without floor or windows, teaching himself arithmetic and grammar in the evening by the light of the fire. In his eagerness to know the contents of Blackstone's Commentaries he walked 44 miles to procure the precious volumes, and read 100 pages while returning. Yet it was this man, born in a log cabin, without schooling, or books, or teacher, or even ordinary opportunities, who won the admiration of mankind by his homely, practical wisdom while president, and who emancipated 4,000,000 slaves. What an inestimable blessing to the world, what an encouragement, an inspiration to the poor and lowly born, that his great achievements can be accounted for by the triumph in his character of those qualities which are beyond the reach of money, of family, of influence, but are given freely to the lowest as well as to the highest. There is no quality of integrity, perseverance, or industry that distinguished Lincoln, that any one, no matter how poor and humble, how hardly circumstanced, cannot cultivate. His career is a rebuke to the indolent, faint-hearted youth of today, who, in this age of opportunity, dares to cry "No chance!" Abraham Lincoln is becoming more and more our national hero, and he would drop into oblivion, were we to discover that he had ever bartered that most precious attribute—his manhood, his character—or ever offered it for sale. "Die, when I may," said this king among men, "I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower, where I thought a flower would grow." What a glorious ideal, and how gloriously realized! No man ever lived of whom it could have been more truly said that,— "The elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This is a may"." Elephant Office Boy A few years ago, when Lord Dufferin became viceroy of India, among his gifts was a young elephant whose tusks had been sharpened and who had been taught to open the daily mall of his master. Oriental rulers in all ages sought collections of wild animals whose savage instincts have in some way been overcome and made to do the bidding of man. In 1897 the people of Befrut saw a wonderful collection of tamed animals sent by the negus of Abyssinia to the former sultan of Turkey. I once helped tame a small bear from Mount Hermon until he was as playful as a kitten, though not easily handled by reason of his strength. The promise in this reign of peace is not the extirpation of predatory animals, but having their habits and instincts changed—Christian Herald. All Not Lost "Here, my son," said the father to Willie, "what does this mean? Your report gives you only fifty for arithmetic, and your teacher makes the comment that you can't count straight up to twenty-five. What are you going to do with such a record when you go into business?" "Now, don't worry, father," replied the son. "To count up to twenty-five isn't necessary for success in business nowadays." "Not necessary?" gasped the father. "No, sir, I can start a ten-cent store." Bone. At the urgent request of an umpire, the pitcher plodded his weary way to the clubhouse. "I lost my head, I guess," he vouch-safed, as he hesitated near his manager. "I saw a dog gnawing something outside the gate," sympathized the manager.—Puck. Dodging Responsibility. "Yes," said Mr. Growcher, "I intend to keep up the idea of Santa Claus in my family as long as possible." "What for?" "I don't want the children to blame me when they don't get just the presents they were looking for." work is confined to any one state or section. The home project method of teaching agriculture used in Massachusetts is also used in Louisiana, Wisconsin and other states. Boys' and girls' agricultural clubs are found in almost every state in the Union. Persons who wish to keep "up to the mark" should drink water systematically regardless of the feeling of actual thirst—before breakfast, between meals, and at bedtime. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE These are two of the many mortars which the Germans were compelled to abandon in Flanders when the allies cut the dikes. SCOUTS DEFY DEATH Daring Exploit by Company of French Chasseurs. Daring Exploit by Company of French Chasseurs. Go Daily on Scouting Expeditions as One Goes Out to Hunt—Mother With Children Trapped Between Lines. By RENE ARCOS (Correspondent of the Chicago News. Bacaccar, France—The French and German lines are separated by a distance varying from half a mile to four miles, and this neutral zone is traversed ceaselessly by patrols of the two adversaries, whose mission it is to compel the other to remain quiet while more important combat take place on other parts of the front. However, no day passes without rifle shots and a few shells being exchanged. I was a witness of one of these daily combats from a distance of about half a mile. A company of chasseurs went forth on a scouting expedition through the magnificent snow covered forests, but the men were soon stopped by the enemy's volleys. I was able to see very little except that the entire wood seemed to be alive and quivering. The chasseurs threw themselves flat on the snow and answered the fire. The engagement grew in intensity and the cannon began to grow. Then the chasseurs having accomplished what they had set out to accomplish, namely, to see what force the enemy had in front, returned to the rear, bringing one comrade killed and two wounded on improvised litters made from branches of trees. Some were singing, all seemed happy and they carried themselves proud. A captain with whom I was talking said: "It is difficult to believe how the instinct of the chasseurs guides them. As soon as they see a German they almost fight among themselves for the privilege of killing him. They start out on scouting expeditions daily as one goes out to hunt." While shots fired by the Germans were reawakening the echoes in the forest we met peasants peacefully returning to their homes. Many of these peasants live between the hostile lines, careless of the terrible dangers they run. One poor woman had a sad experience one day. When firing sounded near her house she set forth with her six children, hoping to reach a distant village, where she could take refuge C HARRIS & EWING Mrs. Edward B. W. Eberle, wife of Captain Eberle, U. S. N. is one of the new leaders in the army-navy society in Washington. Captain Eberle has just assumed command of the Washington navy yard, succeeding Capt. Hilary Jones. Mrs. Eberle is a member of one of the oldest Virginia families, the Randolph Harrisons. Catholicio- Protestant- Jewish Service Held Over Field of Anonymous Dead. Paris—At Verdun two Roman Catholic priests, a Protestant clergyman and a Jewish rabbi, all army chapains, said a combined service over a field of anonymous French dead. Latin, French and Hebrew were blended in the blessings spoken over the fresh graves of men of various faiths. with relatives. Her husband is in the army. She waited near by until night, and then, avoiding the roads, sought the thickest parts of the forest. She lost her way and wandered for a day and a half with the children, carrying the youngest, a babe, in her arms. On the morning of the second day she suddenly found herself between the fire of the French and the Germans. She ran hither and thither, maddened with fear, until finally she met some French artillerymen, who called to her: "Come this way! You must be crazy! You will be killed with your children! The woman remained several days with the artillerymen, who did everything possible to nourish the family and find milk for the babe, which, nevertheless, died from privation. The men had great difficulty in tearing the mother from the child's corpse and they saw her walking a long time carrying it in her arms, the other five children following her. She is now back in her own house, not far from Baccarat. Fright still seizes her when she speaks of her adventure and she dreams every night that she and her children are under the terrible rife fire and amid the bursting shells. BOILER TRUCK FOR HEARSE Last Wishes of West Virginia Man Are Carried Out at His Funeral. Fairmont, W. Va.—In keeping with a request made at various times in his life that his body be borne to the cemetery by his faithful teamster, "Black Dick," in the latter's vehicle, a boiler truck, the wish of William D. Smith, a prominent team contractor and pipe-line man, in the oil fields of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, was carried out recently at his home town, Mannington. Mr. Smith died Tuesday of acute indigestion. Owing to his heavy build, weighing 360 pounds, an ordinary hearspee would not hold his casket. His body was borne to the church and to the grave in a boiler truck, draped in black and the Elks' lodge colors, purple and white. Dick, a negro employee of 23 years' service, drove the conveyance, drawn by six white horses. Rev. C. E. Goodwin of Mannington conducted the services, assisted by other ministers. Smith was a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania. WANT IT SPELLED "SERBIA" Nation Opposes "Servia" Because of Latin Derivation Meaning "To Serve." London, England.—The Servian legation in London has addressed a letter to the press and public urging the adoption of the spelling of "Serbian" and "Serbia," instead of "Servian" and "Servia." "The latter spelling," says the legation spokesman, "is highly offensive to our people, mainly because it suggests a false derivation from the Latin root, meaning 'to serve.' It is a source of hidden pain to Servians to see that some journals persist in using the corrupt forms." The same letter requests wider publication and performance of the Servian national hymn. "In restaurants and public places we hear the British patriotic songs and hymns, with those of your allies—France, Russia, Belgium and Japan—yet, alas! not that of Servia, which is really a beautiful piece of music." WOULD ADOPT HER OWN SON Mother Tries to Recover Child Left at Mission When a Baby. Chicago.—Patrick Warren Hastings is four years old. Recently his mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Hastings Smith of No. 5837 Glenwood avenue, who has been seeking in three courts to gain his custody, filed a petition in the county court seeking to adopt him. Frederick L. Smith, the mother's present husband, joined in the petition. Patrick's father, Warren W. Hastings, is dead, and before Mrs. Hastings became Mrs. Smith the child had been left at a mission, where Mrs. Lee C. Hackett of No. 5837 Washington boulevard found him and took him home. Mrs. Emily F. Roley, No. 3427 Prairie avenue, was appointed guardian. The petition sets forth that the adoption was sought in order to make the child eligible to inheritance. The military authorities arranged and conducted the ceremony, after which all members of the party had lunchon with a country priest whose house was near the battlefield. Joffre Reads No Papers Paris.—General Joffre, the French commander, has not read a newspaper since the war began, it is said, and the only thing in the way of letters he has written were brief notes to his wife and sister. BATTLE IS WON BY AUTOS Re-enforcements by Motor Turned Scale for Germans at Soissons. Berlin.—The automobile played an important role in deciding the battle of Soissons. It is now learned that re-enforcements, brought up by a column of more than two hundred automobiles on the night of January 12 and thrown in on the German left flank at Vregny, turned the scale when the Germans were making their counter-stroke and enabled, them to sweep the French from the plateau. Hitherto automobiles have been used by the Germans but little in this campaign, except for the transportation of riflemen attached to cavalry divisions, owing to the length of time required for loading in motor cars large bodies of troops, which, to a great extent, neutralizes the extra speed in the actual movements. On this occasion the troops were drawn up four abreast in a column along the road. As each automobile arrived men clambered in quickly and without confusion. DIED SINGING 'MARSEILLAISE' Alsatian Boy Chanted French National Hymn as Life Ebbed Out. Paris.—A pathetic story is told of the death of a seventeen-year-old Alsatian boy in the hospital at St. Nazaire the other day. The boy had fought successfully in Belgium, on the Marne and Ypres. At Dixmude he wounded in the left thigh, right arm and other parts of the body. The youth showed wonderful stolcism. When he was dying his mother asked him if, now that he knew what war was, he would be willing if he lived to undergo his sufferings again. The boy answered unhesitatingly: "There is no doubt about it, mother." He then bade farewell to all the other patients in the ward, thanked the nurses and died singing the "Marseillaise." $13,000,000 HEIRESS TO WED INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Miss Catherine Barker, the $13,000 000 heirs, whaith, although she has not yet made her debut in society, has announced her engagement to Howard H. Spaulding of Chicago. Miss Barker inherited her fortune from her father, the late John H. Barker, the car manufacturer of Michigan City, Ind. Miss Barker intends to make an extended tour of Europe before her marriage. PROPOSE MONUMENT TO CAT Residents of Old English Town Would Remember Felline That Saved Soldier's Life. London.—The residents of the quaint旧 Pembrokeshire town of Newport (in England) are discussing a proposal to erect in the grounds of its feudal castle a monument to the French cat which saved the life of Lieutenant Lloyd of the Grenadier Guards. After becoming detached from his regiment near the French frontier the officer found refuge in an outhouse, where he remained in an exhausted condition for three days. When he was found a cat was curled round his neck, and his rescuers say that but for this cat he would have perished from the cold. Rapid Promotion: London—W. Jones of the Loyal North Lancashires, twenty-seven years old, was a private in the reservoir last August 4. In three months he has risen to the rank of sergeant major in his regiment. Kalser Saws Wood. Berlin—the Kalser is understood to saw wood for from one to two hours daily for exercise, since the cares of war began to weigh on him. SEEKS 400,000 WAR HORSES Agent of Great Britain Looks Over the Available Supply in Man Butte, Mont—Great Britain is in the market for 400,000 horses, according to a statement made here by a Boston agent of the British government who is looking over the market here. England now has 300,000 horses on hand, he said, which probably would not be used until spring. BREADS WITHOUT EGGS BREADS WITHOUT EGGS WILL BE WELCOME ON MENU AS A CHANGE. Buttermilk Gems and Biscuits Are Two of Five Recommended—Sweet Potato Pone—Recipe for Quick Cinnamon Buns. Buttermilk Gems or Muffins.—Add a teapoonful of soda dissolved in a tea- spoonful of water to a pint of thick, sour buttermilk, stir in quickly suf- cient flour to make a batter that will drop from the spoon. Grease gem pans or muffin rings, fill them partly full with this mixture, and bake quickly in a hot oven. If the batter is thin enough to pour it may be baked on the griddle. Buttermilk Biscuits.—Sift one quart of flour with a level teaspoonful of bla- carbonate of soda and a half teaspoon- ful of salt; rub into it a tablespoonful of shortening. Grease a shallow baking pan, and see that the oven is hot. Add to the flour mixture one pint of thick sour milk or buttermilk; knead quickly, using sufficient flour to pre- vent sticking. Sweet Potato Pone—Pare and grate sufficient sweet potatoes to make one pint, add one cupful of sweet milk, a teaspoonful of ginger, two level tablespoonfuls of butter, melted, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar, beat thoroughly. Sift two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder with one and a half cupfuls of flour; add this to the pane, beat a minute, turn into a buttered baking dish, and bake in a moderate oven three-quarters of an hour. Serve in the dish in which it is baked. This is a spoon bread and should be served as soon as taken from the oven. Bachelor's Buttons.—To a pint of flour add two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a half teaspoonful salt; mix; rub in two tablespoonfuls shortening; add two tablespoonfuls sugar, and milk to just moisten. Roll into small pieces, brush with milk, dust with sugar and bake in a quick oven twenty-five minutes. Quick Cinnamon Bun—Sift a quart of flour into four teaspoonfuls baking powder and a half teaspoonful salt; rub in two tablespoonfuls shortening; add milk to just moisten. Mix, roll into a sheet, spread with butter, dust, thickly with sugar, lightly with cinnamon, and sprinkle with dry clean curRANTS. Make into a roll, cut into two-inch lengths, stand these, cut side up, in greased pan, and bake in moderate oven about forty minutes. Serve warm.—Good Housekeeping Magazine. Codfish Omelet. Allow one egg for each person to be served. Separate yolks and whites, beating the latter until stiff. Heat one level tablespoonful of butter in a fryer. Whip the yolks with two tablespoonfuls of milk for each four eggs used, then mix in the whites carefully, adding a dash of pepper. Have a cupful of cooked faked codfish. Pour the egg into the hot fryer, and as the bottom of the egg sets spread the fish over; then begin with a broad-bladed knife and turn the omelet gently from the bottom, tipping the pan to allow the uncooked egg to drain out and cook. To Clean Glass Oven Doors. Glass front ovens are frequently complained of as not sufficiently light and clear to be satisfactory. Such glass doors will do their duty if the housekeeper does hers, for the glass needs frequent thorough washing on both sides with some fine scouring powder or scouring soap; ordinary soap and water will not accomplish the results desired, as in baking the fumes and steam generated sometimes make a coating difficult to remove. In addition a small searchlight may be used where stoves are not well placed for light. Vegetable Compote. Chop vegetables left from a boiled dinner, such as cabbage, parsnips or potatoes. Sprinkle with pepper. Then place a frying pan over the fire with a piece of butter the size of a hickory nut in it and when butter begins to melt the tip in the pan in order to oil the bottom. Add the vegetables and one or two spoonfuls of hot water which has been boiled. Cover quickly to keep in the steam. When heated thoroughly take off cover, stirring contents occasionally until well cooked. Serve hot. Practical Household Tips. Cooked Beans—If a little baking soda is added when cooking navy beans or shelled beans, they need not be soaked over night, and will be soft in about half the usual time. Easy Cleaner—Grease spots on wall paper may be removed by rubbing thoroughly with camphorated chalk. Scorched Cloth.—Bread crumbs not too taut, rubbed over scorched cloth will cause the burn to disappear.—MoClure's Magazine. Hamburg Roast. Try this and see if it isn't good; Make a dressing of stale bread soaked until soft. Then squeeze the water off and season with a little pepper, salt, sage, one egg and a few bits of butter. Stir it into your meat and put into a greased tin; add a little hot water and bake about one and a half hours. One pound of steak fixed this way is plenty for four. French Puffs. Cream a third of a cupful of butter with a cupful of sugar and add two eggs, beaten separately, a cupful of milk and two cupfuls of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of cream tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda and a pinch of salt. Bake in patty pans until brown and serve hot with maple syrup. For the Cream Pitcher If you have a small pitcher that has the trying habit of "pouring back," just rub a bit of butter under the nose and you will not be troubled more. This will prevent the dripping from a pitcher used for any purpose and thus save many spots on the tablecloth PRACTICE SAVING IN KITCHEN Proper Use of "By-Products" Will Do Much to Reduce Bills From the Butcher. To apply a manufacturing term to our household materials and methods our kitchen "by-products" should be more carefully considered than they often are; and by this expression is meant waste materials. The by-products of meat are more often lost than those of other foods, and this is a great loss, since this group of foodstuffs is increasing in expense. Bones are chief among them, and fat. All bones may be quickly turned to good service by being washed, covered with cold water, heated gradually and made into a broth, which even if small in quantity will add flavor and some nutritrient to gravels or soups. We must learn to use these meat flavors to help reduce the cost of living by making gravels and vegetables more palatable. As to the fats, they are not always made as full use of as is possible. For shortening cakes, etc., for deep frying and for soap every bit may be used with little additional labor. To prepare it suet is cut in small pieces, covered with water, allowed to soak for a day, the water being changed once. When drained, it is put in a kettle with one-half cupful skim milk to each pound of suet, and cooked slowly until sound of boiling has ceased. When partly cooked the clear fat is drained from the scraps. A combination of leaf lard or chicken fat with beef fat yields a softer product. Whether sliced bacon is fried on top of the stove or baked in a pan in the oven, a large proportion of it exudes in clear fat. All of this should be saved to use for browning vegetables for soup or for hashed brown potatoes or similar purposes. SALT PORK PROPERLY FRIED This Is a New Method, and the Results Will Justify the Time Spent on it. Here's a new way to fry salt pork: Slice salt pork in slices a little thicker than bacon, remove the rind, place in a skillet of cold water and add a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, bring to boil. Pinse with cold water, dredge with flour and place in lightly greased skillet. Sprinkle lightly with red and black pepper and sift in a small amount of sage. Now sprinkle with sugar about as one would salt the same amount of fresh pork. Do not use too much. Lastly, dust with nutmeg to give a pleasant aroma, but not sufficient to taste. Fry a light brown on both sides and remove to a hot platter. Pour off the grease from the top, leaving about two tablespoonfuls of grease the skillet. Place in a heaping tablespoonful of flour in skillet and stir till it becomes a rich brown. Pour in about a pint of milk and bring to a boil. Season with salt. Serve with gravy and meat separately. Spinach with a dessert of hard boiled eggs and vinegar, is an excellent accompaniment to the above. To Launder Woolen Garments. To clean blankets or all-wool garments, shave up half a bar of any good laundry soap, add four tablespoonfuls of borax and a little water, and melt over the fire. Then add four tablespoonfuls of household ammonia, put in the tub and half fill the tub with cold water. Enter the articles to be cleaned, and let soak four hours. Then rinse in water containing four tablespoonfuls of ammonia. Do not wring. The article will be just like new and will not shrink. Tripe Fried In Batter Cut tripe in pieces for serving and boil twenty minutes, which makes it nice and tender. Beat one egg, add one-quarter cupful cold water, one teaspoonful salt and flour to make a batter, not too thin. Dip the tripe in the batter and fry until a nice color on both sides. If there is any batter left pour it into the spider and cook with the rest. Be sure to have plenty of grease in the spider. If you use fresh tripe add one tablespoonful vinegar to batter. Brazilian Stew Cut up a few onions, tomatoes and carrots; have ready two pounds of the shin of beef, cut into pieces about two inches long, and dip each piece into vinegar; put the vegetables and meat, with some pepper and salt, into a saucepan without any water (or in a casserole in the oven), and let all simmer for four hours. There will be plenty of gravy, and the meat will be very tender. Shin of beef is inexpensive. Cold Slaw. Chop one small head of cabbage and one-third of a bunch of celery together. For dressing, stir one pint vinegar, two beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of French mustard, with a half-saupful of pepper, together. Cool until it comes to a boll, stirring constantly; then remove from the fire and when cold mix well with the chopped cabbage and celery. Rich Chocolate Pudding. Beat the yolks of three eggs until very light and thick, with half a cupful of sugar, flavoring to taste, two ounces of sweet chocolate and a half cupful of chopped almonds. When thoroughly mixed, stir in the whites of the eggs well beaten and pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven from 30 to 40 minutes. Serve with any light sauce. Broiled Flounders, Parsley Sauce. Put the flounders in boiling, salted water and cook 20 to 25 minutes. Put some butter in a saucepan, stir in some flour and add some of the water in which the flounders were boiled. Have it as thick as sauce is usually made. Then chop some parsley fine and put in the sauce. Salt to taste. Let stand on the back of the stove a rimuta Holy City of the Shias MYSTIC, buried in the exclusive sands of the desert, almost unknown by the white man, the Arab city of Nedjef, Mecca of the Shia Mohammedans, born of and for a religion, contains within its walls of sundried brick a treasure beyond fable, the Shia St. Peter's, into which a stream of gold and jewels has poured for centuries, and over the looting of which many an empire-building soldier has sweetened his dreams while sleeping on the battle fields of India and elsewhere in Asia. Nedjef has become hostile land, and the wonderful mosque of gold and precious stones is exposed as a possible objective of invaders. Frederick Simpich, one of the few white men of any race to have made a visit to hidden Nedjef, has transmitted an account of this strangest of cities to the National Geographic society. He writes: It is five days by mule or camel caravan from Bagdad to Nedjef, and in the eventful centuries since the Shias founded Nedjef—on the spot where a nephew of the Prophet Mohammed was slain—it is estimated that over 25,000,000 Moslems have made the pilgrimage to this mysterious desert city of golden domes, fabulous treasures, and weird rites. Thousands of devotees from the Shia hordes of India, Persia and South Russia flock through Bagdad each year, bringing with them their mummified dead—salted and dried—for burial in Copyright Underwood & Underwood Copyright. Underwood & Underwood ON PILGRIMAGE TO NEDJEF the holy ground about the mystic city, All Seek Burial There. Each member of the Shia sect must make the pilgrimage to this holiest of his shrines, the city toward which throughout life he bows in worship, the unnatural city bound up in the desert's spell, into which the treasures of all his fellows in faith are flowing for their spiritual welfare. Each member of the Shia sect expects to be buried in the sacred earth without the city's walls, where millions upon millions of past Shias have turned the sands to clay. This enormous grave yard about the city is not the least part of its weird fascination. The desert trail to the sacred city is empty, barren and dead. It is an unattractive trail whose silence is broken only by fanatic pilgrims and by caravans transporting corpse; to the Shia Mcca of the dead. Nedjif is a great city. Not a green thing—a plant, shrub, or tree—wives within its dry, hot limits. It is built on a high plain of soft sandstone. The narrow, crooked streets, in many places mere passages three or four feet wide, wind like jungle paths. One of the strange features of this strange city is its cellars. In summer the fierce heat drives the panting people deep down into the earth, like rats in a hole. Beneath every house is a cellar, burrowed mine-like to amazing depths; one I explored reached an astoundingly low level, being more than one hundred feet below the street. Cellars as Refuges From Heat. Into these damp, dark holes the Shlas flee when the scorching desert air sizzles above and imported Ger- HER DIVISION OF THE SHAME Aunt Dinah, Caught In Pilfering, Would Not Even Apportion It Equally. Representative G. W. Taylor of Alabama tells a good story about a colored cook who presided over the destinies of the kitchen of a neighbor. Aunt Dinah was fat and forty, even if not fair. Her waffles were poems, her baked ham a symphony, while her fried chicken would have beguiled a St. Anthony himself from his anchorite's cell. But Aunt Dinah possessed not only a most correct taste in culinary matters, but also a large brood of grandchildren of various ages and sexes—a brood whose wealth of appetite was equaled only by the poverty in its supplies. But Dinah was fully up to the occasion. Every time the mistress was not looking she would annex a small pat of butter, half a cake, a few chops or sundry other things not likely to be missed. The mistress knew of this petty man thermometers stand at 130 degrees F. Some of the cellars are arranged in a tier of cells or rooms, one below the other; the upper room is used in the first hot months, the family going lower down as the heat increases. Many of these cellars are connected by underground corridors, and the criminals, who swarm in Nedjet, easily elude capture by passing through these tunnels from house to house. The mosque is covered with great gold tiles which run to its very base. For ages the rich of Shia faith have made precious presents to this temple, until its vaults are bursting with pent-up treasure. The city has no industry, no commerce—nothing that is apart from its religious purpose. It supports itself upon the money of the pilgrims, lodges them, feeds them, robs them, sells them prayer bricks made from the graveyard clay, and even marries them for the period of their visit to perennial brides, brides kept in stock, who legally have many husbands in their lives. A British Indian army officer told me that the looting of the Nedjef mosque was a favorite dream of the soldiers in the middle East, who looked forward to the day when war may sweep an army of invasion into Nedjef. **Something About Caucasia.** Concerning Caucasia, where the Turks and the Russian are renewing that long ago conflict that has existed between the Turk and the Muscovite. capture of ww pointed govern- tioned many man- at Torreon, at between Carr offered him to He acted callentes con- ranza, when he in Mexico City but Villareal tude of the C Villareal and this mea- the United S well educated been a school When a y with a rival killed him. He served with this he in Mexico w Villareal published in same time ta Americans, e way to accom- and hatred of American th Carranza is the only always protec- publication o he was much troops in Vw which stood American. the National Geographic society issued the following statement: Caucasia is a potpourri of races, tongues and religions. Nowhere else in the world can one find on a similar area so many types of peoples, so many languages and dialects, so many religions and sects thereof. The Caucasus mountains, for the most part, stretch above fruitful land, and every folk-stream which flowed their way has left eddies within their closed, world-isolated valleys. The cosmopolitanism of New York is provincial compared with the magnificent, regardless confusion of Caucasian peoples. There are some seventy dialects strange to the West spoken within its boundaries, while tusiness, touring, engineering and other techniques bring most of the other languages in. In this modern Babel dwell Georgians, Imiterians, Chevsurs, Lazes, Mingrellians, Pshavs, Swanittians, Abkhaslans, Circassians, Kebardians, Ossetes, Avars, Chechinzes, Jews, Russians of several varieties, Daigs, Lesghlans, Kazy-Kumyktli, Tush, Ingush, Greeks and others of the Occident. Caucasia, indeed, may be said to be a place preeminently devoted to language—all kinds and complexions of speech being native there in bewildering richness. Caucasia is the broad, stocky isthmus which, extending from the southeast corner of Europe to Asia, divides the Black and Caspian seas. Its area is about 180,000 square miles, or more than four times larger than the state of Ohio. It has good ports upon both the Black and Caspian seas, Batum on the one, and Baku on the other. pilfering, but preferred to appear ignorant, because Aunt Dinnah was a "pearl of great price," even if a black one. But one day Dinnah plainly saw that the mistress just as clearly observed the stealing of a pot of cherries. "Laws, Miss Sarah!" she cried, "I knows you is 'shame of me,' but I knows, too, you is more 'shame of yourself for watching.'" Coloring Wood Alcohol It has been suggested that the United States should follow the example of Sweden and color wood alcohol so that it may instantly be distinguished from grain alcohol. Inasmuch as this deadly poison is responsible for the deaths of a number of people every year it strikes us that the suggestion is a good one. A poison label is not sufficient warning apparently as the careless, but a colored liquid could not be mistaken as readily as is the colorless liquid which sometimes cannot be distinguished for a poison until it is absorbed into somebody's system. TRACED TO Experiments Kindred Inter Experiment yet wholly not yet complying showing that hypnosis and the norm are induced by ing vital stress M UNDERWOOD E UNDERWOOD GENERAL VILLA M If there is one man of whom the Americans interested in Mexico have hope it is Antonio Villareal. He enlisted early in the cause of Carranza's constitutionalists and was fighting steadily up to the date of the taking of Monterey, in the capture of which he assisted. Then he was appointed governor of Nuevo León. He was mentioned many times for his part in the conference at Torreon, which followed the first open break between Carranza and Villa and later Carranza offered him the post of war minister. He acted as president of the second or Aguascalientes convention, it will be remembered. Carranza, when he began his short period of "glory" in Mexico City, made Villareal minister of finance, but Villareal became disgusted with the ineptitude of the Carranza crowd and resigned. Villareal is quiet and unassuming in manner, and this means more in Mexico than it would in the United States. He is thirty-eight years old, well educated, and speaks good English, having been a school teacher. If there is one man of whom the Americans interested in Mexico have hope it is Antonio Villareal. He enlisted early in the cause of Carranza's constitutionalists and was fighting steadily up to the date of the taking of Monterey, in the capture of which he assisted. Then he was appointed governor of Nuevo Leon. He was mentioned many times for his part in the conference at Torreon, which followed the first open break between Carranza and Villa and later Carranza offered him the post of war minister. He acted as president of the second or Aguascalientes convention, it will be remembered. Carranza, when he began his short period of "glory" in Mexico City, made Villareal minister of finance, but Villareal became disgusted with the inepititude of the Carranza crowd and resigned. Villareal is quiet and unassuming in manner, and this means more in Mexico than it would in the United States. He is thirty-eight years old, well educated, and speaks good English, having been a school teacher. When a youth he became involved in a dispute with a rival to a certain woman's affections and killed him. He served four years in the penitentiary. But with this he has the clearest record of any man in Mexico who is in a position of power. Villareal once was editor of a Spanish paper published in St. Louis. He is daring and at the same time tactful. He is not antagonistic toward Americans, either, and frequently goes out of his way to accommodate them. In his bold frankness and hatred of shams he is much more like an American than any of the other Mexican leaders. Carranza and Villa both like Villareal, and he is the only man they both like. While he has always protected foreigners and even forbade the publication of anti-American articles in Monterey, he was much hurt by the presence of American troops in Vera Cruz. This was the one thing which stood in the way of his approval of things American. As to Villa, he has long ago become familiar in ability and character to Americans. He is a great military genius, but no civil executive, and he knows it. His game now is to be the power behind the throne—to rule through the de facto Mexico City president, Eulalo Gutierrez. If Villa ever attempts to occupy the presidential chair he will probably travel the rest of the road of Diaz Huerta and Carranza in short order. Before the present troubles started Gutierrez was a watchman employed by the big Mazipul Copper company at Zacatecas. This concern owns He served four years in the penitentiary. But with this he has the clearest record of any man in Mexico who is in a position of power. Villareal once was editor of a Spanish paper published in St. Louis. He is daring and at the same time tactful. He is not antagonistic toward Americans, either, and frequently goes out of his way to accommodate them. In his bold frankness and hatred of shams he is much more like an American than any of the other Mexican leaders. Carranza and Villa both like Villareal, and he is the only man they both like. While he has always protected foreigners and even forbade the publication of anti-American articles in Monterey, he was much hurt by the presence of American troops in Vera Cruz. This was the one thing which stood in the way of his approval of things American. As to Villa, he has long ago become familiar in ability and character to Americans. He is a great military genius, but no civil executive, and he knows it. His game now is to be the power behind the throne—to rule through the de facto Mexico City president, Eulalia Gutierrez. If Villa ever attempts to occupy the presidential chair he will probably travel the rest of the road of Diaz, Huerta and Carranza in short order. Before the present troubles started Gutierrez was a watchman employed by the big Mazipul Copper company at Zacatecas. This concern owns SCIENCE IN ITS EARLY YEARS And so it happened that, about 650 B. C., there arose Thales, who, by his wide experience and the persistent enthusiasm with which he carried on investigation, earned the title of Father of Science. And so, also, shortly after him, Anaximander, by committing his knowledge to writing, brought into existence the first scientific manuscript. The sixth century, like the seventh, was still a period of origins. It saw the physical researches of Pythagoras, and the historical studies of Hecatidae. In the fifth century Greek learning reached its olimax. This age was resplendent with the names of Thucydides, who wrote history with critical care; of Heraclitus, who conceived of a universal reign of law, and of Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. Its greatest character was Socrates, the barefooted, questioning sage of the market place of Athens. With ever burning enthusiasm for truth, this great teacher attempted, by quiet and candid debate, to aid men to make their concepts clear, and to give words definite meanings, trusting that through the correct use of the reason they would arrive at a recognition of superiority of right actions. The fourth century was both an advance and a decline. It comprised the work of Plato and Aristotle, the one elaborating the concepts of Socrates with poetic power, the other systematizing knowledge in truly scientific form. But in this age the demand for brilliant TRACED TO PHYSICAL CAUSES Experiments Concerning Sleep and Kindred Unconsciousness Are Intensely Interesting. Experimental investigations do not yet wholly prove—because they are not yet completed—but go far toward showing that the catalyse in animals, hypnosis and mesmerism in some men and the normal sleep in everybody are induced by releasing into the flowing vital streams of blood and lymph "hormone's freed at sleep. Feat animals, a fear, open matter of. Moreover, such roid insult near catalyse, it has various p MEXICO LOOKS IN VAIN FOR STRONG MAN EXICO'S plight is more serious than it has been in the gloomiest days of Madero or Huerta. More than ever the prey to a thousand petty leaders, subject to the loot of wandering irregular troops, governed only by chiefs having the allegiances of a section of the country, the intelligent men and women among her fifteen millions see no ray of sunshine, no Diaz or Juarez appearing to restore order hand. Dispatches from the agents States government to the officials pleasant reading for the friends of and at the stewardship out of his frankness are like an american leader, real, and he he has he forbade the Monterey, of American one thing of things the familiar is. He is a executive, and the power the de facto viz. If Villa chair he of Diaz. Gutierrezolg Mazipul incen owns factories, mines and rail of Britishers. Gutierrez made him tutionalist party rather than by actual hard fight of the Zacatecas disbail of his old employer, Gene of the Mazipul Copper had never heard of Guti a humble watchman. The copper company the railroad running arranged a special train of foreigners. As soon he telephoned to Carr he pay him $27,000 for the train over Carr's own diers of the ex-watchman pass. "If you don't pay, are you know what will have he could not have Carr had he drawn his s. So Carr paid the m children, chiefly Ameri without hurt. superficial learning as an asset for climbers led to the rise of the Sophists. These popular teachers, by their careless, sweeping generalizations and their rhetorical embellishments, turned the Greek mind aside from the simple pursuit of truth, and entangled it in unprofitable metaphysical speculations.—Engineering Magazine. American Dentist in Europe. But let me tell you about the American dentist in the European war. The hospital physician told me that he noticed early in his war work that many of the soldiers were suffering from toothache more than from their wounds. So every wounded man was examined by a dentist before he was taken to the ward. It was discovered that a large percentage of the men from the trenches had swollen gums, and that by treating their mouths they were cured and ready for the front ten days earlier than in cases where their teeth were allowed to go. The English, he said, had the worst teeth, the Arabs the best."Here and There in Battle-Scarred France." Peter MacQueen, in National Magazine. Since 1893, when Prof. John Muir head Mactailare, now director of the botanical garden at the University of Pennsylvania, found that the leaves of the plant known as the Venus fly trap will close up only if the trigger hairs are disturbed twice in succession, very little has been learned about the physiology of this curious insect-catching plant. During the past year, however, some new experiments have been some pent-up juice or fluid. There is present in the living structures some "hormone" or gland stuff which is燥住 at night in the case of normal sleep. Fear releases the other stuff in animals, and suggestion, as well as fear, opens up the floodgates in the matter of catalepsy and hypnosis. Moreover, in certain types of insanity, such as dementia praecox, thyroid insufficiencies and others where near catalepsy and true catalepsies occur, it has long been understood that various parts of human physiology --- GENERAL OREGON LUIK CABRERA PORCHE EQUINO INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE GENERAL VILLAREAL factories, mines and railroads. It is the property of Britishers. Gutierrez made himself a power in the constitutionalist party rather by destroying property than by actual hard fighting. He became dictator of the Zacatecas district and set out to annoy his old employer, General Manager Percy Carr of the Mazipul Copper company, who, of course, had never heard of Gutierrez while the latter was a humble watchman. The copper company was the proprietor of the railroad running to Zacatecas and had arranged a special train to take away the families of foreigners. As soon as Gutierrez heard of this he telephoned to Carr in Saltillo that Carr must pay him $27,000 for the privilege of running this train over Carr's own railroad or else the soldiers of the ex-watchman would not let the cars pass. "If you don't pay, and send the train through, you know what will happen," said Gutierrez, and he could not have made his meaning clearer to Carr had he drawn his finger across his throat. So Carr paid the money and the women and children, chiefly Americans, reached the border without hurt. Botanical Curiosity made that bring its behavior into line with the behavior of animals in certain respects. The leaves are sensitive to mechanical disturbances, to electrical stimulation and to the sudden increase in temperature as through the application of warm water. At ordinary temperatures it takes two stimulations to get up the response; but at higher temperatures one "shock" will cause the leaf to close. At ordinary temperatures one electric shock will produce the effect if it is strong enough. Wonderful Wireless There is apparently no limit to the future possibilities of the wireless. Wireless storm warnings and general weather forecasts for ships at sea, covering conditions 100 miles off shore along the entire Atlantic coast, was inaugurated by the United States navy department on July 15, 1913. Direct wireless communication between America and Asia was established by the completion of stations in Siberia and Alaska, the stations being about 500 miles apart. Today no vessel of any consequence piles the oceans without its system of wireless, and its effectiveness in receiving news of the present European war is well known. London's First Ambulance London, which has never yet had an ambulance, has at last ordered six of them, and expects them to do all the work for the entire city. In case of past accidents the policemen have had to commander the nearest wagon, depending on the generosity of the driver, as they were not able to offer him anything. were out of order. The thyroid, parathyroids, adrenals and other glands are often then found in distress. First "Typewriter" So long ago as 1714 a patent was taken out in England by Henry Mill for "a machine for impressing letters singly and progressively as in writing, whereby all writings may be engrossed in paper so exactly as not to be distinguished from print." His machine was very clumsy and practically useless, however. Gutierrez' speciality of ruining houses, bridges and railroads earned for him the title of "The Destroyer." He never displayed any such military ability as Villa; but destruction is popular with the Mexican soldiery, it must be remembered. Gutierrez plundered and robbed with slight heed to what Carranza and Villa were doing. He seized property of Americans and put it to his own purposes, while Carranza ignored protests, despite his title of first chief. Last July he sent a demand to Carr, ordering him to resume all the Mazipul industries at once. It must be remembered that the British company had been closed down for months. There was no fuel, no cars, no railroad tracks, and there was no financial basis. Yet the order from the ex-watchman read to "start up the works, as North Mexico is now pacified and there is no excuse for delay." It was a physical impossibility, so Carr went to Carranza with a final protest. Carranza informed Carr he could delay resumption, and for this Gutierrez seized $300,000 worth of ore owned by the company and sought to sell it as contraband, in which he probably succeeded. Carranza has degenerated into the head of a band of looters. The scenes accompanying his evacuation of Mexico City, it is learned, were disgraceful. The national treasury was robbed of all except about 200,000 pesos, which must have been overlooked. Every ounce of gold and silver in the mint was taken. Also there went printing presses, plates and the entire stock of bank note paper in the government printing offices. The public offices were stripped of fittings, inkstands, typewriters, furniture, rugs, carpets and curtains. Even the huge presidential chair in the National palace was crated and borne off. It is estimated that automobiles valued at three million pesos at least were taken out of the city, many of them commandeered from private citizens and foreigners. At the Buena Vista station of the Mexican railway train after train drew out in the direction of Vera Cruz laden down with every conceivable sort of plunder—motors, furniture, horses, pianos, paintings and safes. Even Huerta was out-Huerta, The now ridiculous Carranza is set up at Vera Cruz. His cause is hopelessly lost. Among his remaining leaders, however, Gen. Alvaro Obregon looms large. He is undoubtedly a strong man. He has kept Gen. Lucio Blanco in line for Carranza and saw that the retreat from Mexico City was not an entire rout. However, Obregon is a plunderer like the rest. The now ridiculous Carranza is set up at Vera Cruz. His cause is hopelessly lost. Among his remaining leaders, however, Gen. Alvaro Obregon looms large. He is undoubtedly a strong man. He has kept Gen. Lucio Blanco in line for Carranza and saw that the retreat from Mexico City was not an entire rout. However, Obregon is a plunderer like the rest. Another man who should not escape mention is Governor Jose Maria Mayorena of Sonora, whose men have been besieging the Carranza general, Hill, in Naco. In Sonora Mayorena is supreme and he is idolized by the Indians. He is not friendly toward Americans, and there is a well-defined conviction among the American army officers along the border that Mayorena could by a word have prevented the snipers' bullets which killed and wounded 52 persons from coming over the international boundary line at Naco. So far he has confined himself to the Northwest. If Mayorena ever decides to follow the path from the north of most of Mexico's conquerors from the time of Juarez it may be with no mean army. --- MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION Writer Thinks, However, That Preparation Should Be Made for it by Both Parties. Marriage should be looked upon as a vocation and not a mere avocation, argues one who signs herself "Feminist" in an open letter to one of the daily papers. The writer, who had been a teacher, but who is now a mother, has been surprised that being a wife and mother is a "profession, the successful performance of whose duties requires all my effort and all my time," "Feminist," thinks that women generally do not realize this or refuse to face it, that young women contemplating matrimony should be made to realize that they are choosing a profession quite as important as medicine, law or business, and that, if possible, a preparatory course should be required before granting the certificate to practice the profession of wife and mother. This sounds very well and would be admirable if it could be carried through. But as there are two paths in marriage it would be very one-sided if the woman received all the training. A good, stiff preparatory course for the young man contemplating the profession of husband and father would be quite as much in order. If we have one, let us have the other, also—Francis Frear in Leslie's Weekly. Seek Treasure in Paris. Wealthy Parisians have bought an entire block of houses in that city, and will tear them down to hunt for Roman and Gothic treasures. Attacks Tramp's Peg Leg. Attacked by a tramp whom she had allowed to enter her home to drink a cup of coffee, Mrs. F. L. Cechelt of East street, North side, was rescued by a large English setter, the property of her husband. The dog, which answers to the name of Victor, viciously attacked the tramp and tore his wooden leg from the stump. Unable to get away, the miscreant was captured by the police. —Pittsburgh Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. HOME TOWN HELPS Residents of California City Urge Them to Beautify Their Rights of Way. At a recent meeting of tree planters in a California city it was resolved to request the various chambers of commerce in that part of the state to urge the railroads to beautify their rights of way, particularly their approaches to cities, all of which are slovenly and none of which are good. The subject of railroad gardening has been agitating the whole country for many years, and it has finally been determined that hardy, drought-resistant shrubs offer the best material for permanent beautification. It is not advisable to obscure too much of the station or station grounds, for obvious reasons; therefore, few trees and many shrubs should be used, with very few flowering plants, for the latter require care, and railroads are most economical in matters where no direct financial return is assured. Could the embankments be planted with low-growing, low-priced drought-resistant flowering shrubs and among these sown seed of native wild flowers, we would have a beautification scheme of effectiveness at low cost that would stand for all time to come with a minimum of care and expense; yet one that would forever transform present ugliness into tracts of beauty. KEEPS TREES IN CONDITION Device of German Expert Provides for Their Systematic Watering and Ventilation. A very ingenious and practical device for assuring the trees on city sidewalks a sufficient supply of water, no matter how dry the season and how hard baked the earth, has recently been put in operation in Strasburg by Mr. Sauer, the city tree inspector. It consists of a tube of iron or lead bent into the form of a ring large enough to encircle the stem of the tree. The earth is removed so that this ring may be placed just above the roots, and is then filled in again, leaving the end of a pipe connecting with the ring projecting above the surface of the ground. The top of the ring is pierced with a large number of small holes, and a tin cover or shield prevents these from becoming stopped up with earth. By means of a funnel in the protruding end of the pipe any desired amount of water may be supplied to the roots without waste or loss of time. A further advantage, according to Promeus, is the ventilation thus secured of the earth in the vicinity of the roots—Scientific American. Cultivating Vacant Lots. Vacant lot gardening has greatly increased in Philadelphia during the last year. More than six hundred families were engaged in the healthful and remunerative work of cultivating the spaces of idle land in various sections of the city. The work is carried on under the direction of the Philadelphia Vacant Lot Cultivation association. Since its organization in 1897 this organization has accomplished much in affording opportunity for self-help in Philadelphia. It secures the temporary use of idle land and assigns gardening thereon to people who are in need of money, as well as a healthful occupation. Not only by this scheme is a chance for healthful and profitable work afforded, but it prevents these vacant spaces from being used as unsightly dumping grounds. Life Jobs on a Farm: A farm for the benefit of "silver" or unskilled workmen thrown out of employment by the completion of the Panama canal has been established by the government on the Canal zone. There are now about one hundred men on this farm, all of whom are earning a comfortable living for themselves. Nearly all these farmers are crippled, some having lost an arm or a leg or having been incapacitated in some other way for hard work. The farm grows bananas, oranges, cocoanuts and other tropical products and is stocked with cows, chickens, ducks and pigs. It is managed by the medical corps of the United States army. Each workman is to have a life job on the farm. How to Clean Up Yards. It has remained for a picture show man to clean up a Kansas town in a most effective way, and by a simple method. He offered a free ticket to his show for a limited time to any boy who could bring a certificate from his mother that he had thoroughly cleaned up the back yard, and some three hundred boys—about all there are in the town—got on the job. There are great possibilities in a scheme of that kind; it can be made to do almost anything. 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She is loved and respected by all who know her and The Sun wishes for them continuous prosperity through their matrimonial voyage....There was a glorious covenant meeting at the Second Baptist church Sunday morning at night Rev. G. L. Mickkins preached a soul stirring sermon to a large and appreciative audience....Mrs. McElroy and little son, Francee have returned to St. Louis after a very pleasant visit in this city....Mr. and Mrs. Ira Frain of Carrollton, Mo., are visiting Mrs. Finney's parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Spencer Johnson....The Calendar club met at the house of Mrs. Frances馆 atbury Wednesday afternoon, a delightful two course luncheon was served, there were about 26 present, all departed, declaring Mrs. Attbury an ideal hostess....Mrs. Glen Burwin has returned to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in after a few days' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Maupin....Rev. J. K. Ponder, pastor of Grant Chapel A. M. E. church report excellent services Sunday with two application for membership received....Rev. Avant pastor of the M. E. church report good services and good attendance. Dr. Mitchell, the Evangelist was with him during the day and left Monday morning for Columbia, Mo. Mrs. Mary Batley is very sick at this writing....Rev. J. S. Swancy, pastor of Pilgrim Rest Baptist church reports a good attendance. Five candidates were baptized in the evening. Among those immersed was one of our very distinguished gentlemen in the person of David Tymony, Jr., who is a very prominent young man, a profound thinker, with much business tact, he is also a prominent Mason. The M. E. church will have a rally the 83th. Rev. J. S. Swancy was called out of the city Monday on business. Fire destroyed the residence of Mr. Olle Evans Tuesday morning. Everything was destroyed....At 1:30 Sunday the residence of Mrs. Althouse on Horsely street was destroyed by fire. The loss is partially covered by insurance....The jitney cars are now in full service, and passengers are carried to most any part of the city for five cents. WEIR, KANSAS. Miss Chrisola Christian and Mr. Charlie Wright were united into matrimony Saturday night at 8:30 at the home of the bride...Mrs. Jessie Brice spent Saturday evening and Sunday with Mrs. W. F. King...Prof. C. M. Yeager and wife were through here Thursday on their way to Pittsburgh to attend S. E. K. T. A....The Junior Union rendered an interesting program Sunday afternoon at three o'clock...The Pittsburgh band will give a band concert here on the 16th at Baker's hall....The Queen Eastern Star Temple No. 21 were anticipating on adding more members to their Temple, but owing to the illness of their W. P. Mrs. Al R. Phillips, the meeting was postponed...Mr. Hartman and Mrs. Mary King visited New Hope Church in Pittsburg Sunday afternoon. LEXINGTON, MO. Mr. Robert Johnson passed away Tuesday morning, February 2d at 6:20 at the residence of his sister, Mrs Hattle Henderson on North Twenty-fourth street, after a lingering illness of several months; he was buried Wednesday at 1 p. m., the funeral being held at the residence conducted by Rev. O. A. Johnson. He leaves a son, daughter, two sisters and a number of relatives and friends to mourn his loss... Mrs. Bessie Lindsay is at home this week from Excelsior Springs visiting relatives and friends... Mrs. Mary Perry of Higginsville, Mo., and Mrs. Sophia Taylor of Colorado Springs spent the week-end here the guests of their sister, Mrs. Lottie Coates on North Twenty-fourth street... Rev. Wheeler of Kansas City, Mo., was in town last Sunday and held Quarterly meeting at St. John M. E. church...Mr. Walter Bluitt of Omaha, Nebraska, is at home the guest of his parents...Miss Mannie Walker, one of the teachers of Douglass school, on going home last Tuesday afternoon found that their home had been robbed. Quite a sum of money was taken and a gold watche, as yet the guilty one has not been caught...Mr. Jas. Wilson was in Independence last Sunday to see his brother who is quite ill... A surprise party was given Miss Eva Hunter a few weeks ago at the residence of Mrs. E. B. Conway quite a few young persons were present... Mrs. O. A. Johnson and Miss Ethyl Henderson gave a program at St. John's M. E. church last Friday night. Quite a number of persons were there... Mrs. John Johnson left this morning for Omaha to be with her daughter who is ill. CHILLICOTHE, MO. Miss Josephine Anderson royally entertained the Bachelor Girls' club last Saturday afternoon....The Fancy Work club met with Mrs. Herbert Beach last Thursday afternoon. This is the largest club in membership among our women and its president, Mrs. Flora Tolstoy is an efficient needle worker. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess....The A. S. M. club was entertained at the home of Mrs. Geo. Allen Saturday afternoon. This is the second meeting of the club and the President Mrs. Mary Botts was pleased to hear every member respond to the roll call of the secretary, Mrs. Edward Gilbert....Miss Ella Parker of Pooria, Ill., is visiting relatives and friends....Repairs and a general improvement have been made at the Crews home recently under the supervision of Editor Nelson C. Crews who spent Tuesday and Wednesday visiting Rev. Charles Crews whose health is improving....Owing to the illness of Mr. Thos. Quinn the regular monthly meeting of Golden Rule Lodge A. F. & A. M. was presided over by the distinguished Grand Master Nelson Crews. We were informed that his presence, service and timely remarks contributed much to the pleasure and profit of the meeting....As scientist tells us that the fall of a leaf sends a slender thrill to the distant planets so the death of Mrs. Henrietta Wright widow of the late Samuel Wright sent a shock through the whole community Tuesday morning. This honored and respected woman was 65 years of age at the time of her death and is survived by a son, Buel, who was ever at her service to the last hour. Arrangements for the funeral have not been made. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. The revival services will begin at the St. Paul A. M. E. Zion church Monday evening, Rev. F. K. Douglass, the pastor of the St. James A. M. E. Zion church, Kansas City, Mo., will conduct the services. Everyone is invited....All services at the Pleasant Valley Baptist church were well attended Sunday. Rev. Callaway delivered a splendid sermon to a large congregation in the afternoon. Prayer meetings are held every Wednesday evening....All the other pastors of churches in this city report a large attendance at their churches Sunday....Miss Mable Hall of Pobedy has returned to her home after a very pleasant stay with her aunt Mrs. W. G. Pinkard....Kathryn May the, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Collins after undergoing an operation for adenoids at her home Sunday....Mrs. T. T. Morton was hostess at a lunchroom given for the Pleasant Valley Mission Circle at her residence Monday afternoon. FOREST GREEN, MO Mr. Henry McFerguson, who departed this life February 2, was brought here for burial Sunday. The funeral services were held from the First Baptist church. He was 24 years old. A father, stepmother and brothers survive him. His father, Jorda McFerguson was an old resident of this town and is well known and respected by all. The funeral was largely attended and the Rev. W. H. Davis oficiated. The necktie social given Saturday evening by the B. Y. P. U. was quite a success and well attended. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The Main Street Baptist church observed Go to Church Sunday, morning and evening and the services were largely attended. Special music was rendered by the ill doctor...Mr. Henry Wilson was quite ill but is convalescing...Mrs. W. A. Doxey is very ill and we wish for her a speedy recovery...Mrs. Minnie Miller of North Main street was very pleasant surprised Monday evening by her friends. A delicious luncheon was served. Peace Power Plenty Are you Discouraged, Discontented or Despondent? Are you Poor, Poverty-stricken or Painful? Are you Sick, Sad or Sinful? If so, write now and learn the SECRETS OF PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY. Immense Damage by Rate No animal is more destructive to property or more dangerous to human health than the rat. The damage it does to property runs up into figures which stagger the imagination. It is estimated that there are in the United States at least 300,000,000 rats. They destroy a hundred million dollars' worth of grain in this country every year, or enough to feed one hen for every man, woman and child in the nation. The total annual cost of rats to the nation is estimated at $360,000,000. Truly a Grasping Man. "The graspin'est man I ever known," said Uncle Jerry Peebles. "was an old chap named Snoopins. Somebody told him once that when he breathed he took in oxygen and gave out carbon. He spent a whole day tryin' to find out which of them two gases cost the most if you had to buy 'em. He wanted to know whether he was makin' or losin' money when he breathed." Leopard a Wise Animal The leopard maintains its existence alongside its far more powerful rivals the lion and tiger by reason of its greater activity and power of climbing. Often it is driven from its wellearned prey by the brute force of these greater cats, but it has the wise habit of storing the remains of its meals in a tree, the weight of meat thus placed aloft in one effort being sometimes almost incredible. Whale Among Fishing Boats Whale Among Fishing Boats. A large whale struck the fishing boat Jane recently, while it was engaged in herring fishing five miles off Girvan, Scotland. The boat was undamaged, but the incident caused considerable alarm among the crew. The S. S. Alisa, lying between Girvan and Alisa Craig, narrowly escaped having its propeller fouled by one of three whales which were in the vicinity. Plenty of Smiths. The unassailable supremacy of the "Smiths" in London can be estimated from the telephone directory. The honorable family of Jones, for example, occupies not quite four pages. The Robinsons, who have a place with the greatest, do not require two pages. But the Smiths begin on page 762 and end on page 770. Playing Safe. 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