Kansas City Sun

Take a Look at Beautiful Lincoln Park, 20th and Woodland. It Will Do You Good VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 31. A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE JACK JOHNSON, GENTLEMAN. By C. A. STARKS. Ordinarily one is so accustomed to hearing Mr. John Arthur Johnson of pugilistic fame censured and maligned by the white and black press that the above caption of J. A. J. will no doubt incite curiosity. Mr. Johnson, according to the newspapers, is about to engage in another fistic affair in order to prove himself supreme when it comes down to knocks and cuffs, governed by the famous Marquis of Queensbury rules of prize fighting. The white newspapers are at work to demonstrate Johnson's importance in the world, and it is "itt for tat" as to which get the choiceest space of their columns, this said person or the war between the allies and Germany. Indeed a noticeable decline in the avalanche of martial news is quite evident. It surely can not be that Johnson's horizon is so brilliant and all blazing that we are to lose sight of the European debauchery. This would be deplorable, as in the end the fight will simply mean one black man annihilating one white man. But the white sport writers insist on keeping Johnson before the public and they show a persistent inclination to be little and disparage this individual. All owing, no doubt, to that hatred which Johnson incurred at a certain little village called Reno. It frequently happens that the Flotos and a score of other sport dopers run completely out of data. In such cases Johnson is readily pounced upon as a victim to furnish the so-called fans with reading trash. Of course if the young man, Jess Willard, styled the best "white hope," ever enters the ring with the stalwart and heroic champion, according to all logic of the past and present, he is due for the usual sympathetic flogging which Mr. Johnson metes out to all who face him. This supremacy in his calling and the masterly style of defeating his opponent under established rules, which are fair and equal to the principals, does not seem to have earned for Johnson the admiration and respect of those who follow such. However, there are many, many who hold Johnson as a hero. A man that fully meets the requirements of his profession, manly and courageous and with that efficiency in his line that would make a German conqueror take notice. As a prize fighter he is all that we would have him. He is more than that, he is an American citizen, as much as those who have taken it upon themselves to persecute and revile him. We take him as we take other mortals with his virtues and defects. We have our ideas about his martial affiliations from a race standpoint. But give back to the higher law of citizenship which allows all American citizens to marry who they please as long as the agreement is mutual on the part of the principals making contract and is carried out according to the laws of state and country. Jack Johnson is essentially an American citizen and should have this right, and in the exercise thereof should be exempt from persecution on this account by whites and blacks alike. Whereas we do not put our individual stamp of approval on Johnson marrying a white woman and seemingly affronting the many beautiful and worthy race women, who deep down in their hearts would probably have been eager to become Mrs. ... ...but we still point to the many notable cases of black men who have married white women and the multitude of prominent colored individuals who barely miss committing thehenious crime by invariably marrying the extremely near white women of their race. What is so commonly practiced by the higher ups in every community should not be so highly censureable in Mr. Johnson's action simply because his matronial fitness largely looms up to the colored women from a standpoint of financial healthiness of purse. Now as to the white race, we say that Mr. Johnson honored the woman he married, he elevated her, and every white man should follow Jack Johnson's action when they love colored women (which many of them do) and marry them instead of trying to 'debauch them without assuming the vital responsibilities. To the black race we say that the average man so loves and respects the women of color, himself, whether she be black or near white, that we will have by our own loyalty and constancy a race of women excelling in virtues protected by our manliness. Lovely and beautiful because inspired and nurtured by our own love, it has been said with much truth that we have the most beautiful women in the world, and of the most varied types. The average colored man knows this and so do the whites, therefore it should make but little difference if a few individuals are foolish enough to go outside of their race to get what the race so abundantly supplies. The one point is to remember that we can not afford to condemn all the good one man does for what we may consider his bad mistake. Following this policy we would have to draw a mark through such splendid names as Moses, Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Mrs. C. H. Pendleton, 2455 Vine street, died very suddenly last Saturday night and the body was taken to Texas for burial. The Kansas City Sun The famous Emanuel Commandery No. 25, who will have charge of the Easter services this year, to be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora avenue. They will have as their guest the veteran Far West Commandery No. 3 of this city, and visiting Knights Templar, A PROTEST. Editor Kansas City Sun, Mr. Editor: Enclosed find a clipping from your editorial column of "The Sun" of March 6, 1915, in which is found the following remarks: We do not object to separate seats. We prefer them. Permit me to say that I was shocked beyond measure on reading such a weak-kneed sentiment in an Afro-American publication, which so proudly calls itself, "A fearless defender of the race." Hoping that some of your readers who could write (for I am not a writer) would call your attention to these disloyal and hurtful remarks. I have until now refrained from so doing. But the fear that they might escape your notice prompts me to action. For a colored publication to editorially advocate Jim Crowism is a pitious error and is positively harmful. The Afro-American should enjoy life, liberty and the puruits of happiness, identically as they are enjoyed by all other Americans. We are American citizens, no more, no less. It is the solemn duty of every Afro-American editor to teach unceasingly to his people that doctrine propounded by Patrick Henry when he exclaimed "Give me liberty or give me death." Can we hope for the respect of other races so long as we accept these discriminations? Our people must be taught to keep far and away from theaters and other PROF. W. G. MELFORD. Leader and director of the Second Regiment Band, that will lead the parade on Sunday, and also one of Kansas City's most efficient police officers. places which would Jim Crow or otherwise humiliate them. Should a man or woman who will go thru a front door or a back door to a Jim Crow seat hope fr the respect of libety-loving people? Knowing as he does, that of the many different races in this country, his is the only recipient of these abominable discriminations and flagrant insults, it becomes the Afro-American's immutable duty to turn loose his 42 centimeter guns on demon prejudice with such relentless fury that all his readers, having so imbued his fighting spirit, will fall in lne, and presently a sold phalanx ten millions strong will drive this blood-thirsty monster an abis consorts, Jim Crowism, lynching, discrimination, segregation and disfranchisement forevr from the habitations of man. This is no fight for the timid or the luke-warm. Our cause must be presented in an unmistakably clear andearless manner. The masses must know that so long as they are discriminated against, segregated, Jim Crowed and disfranchised that they are not free, and that life without freedom is not worth living. Until we take this stand we shall not deserve the respect of other races. Firmly believing that such action on the part of the Afro-American editors KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915. is best for the race, best for the nation and best for the world at large, I am. Yous very truly, J. H. EDWARDS, 3758 Washington Street, Kansas City, Mo. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO OBSERVE EASTER. Betnel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora The Knights Templars of Kansas City will observe Easter service by distributing flowers to the widows of deceased fraters, to the hospitals, to the Old Folks and Orphans Home and to the County Home in the morning; and by observance of religious worship in the afternoon at Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th Street and Flora Avenue, where the beautiful service of the Templars' ritual will be rendered. Rev. F. D. Wells, pastor of Bethel Church, will preach the Annual Templar sermon. Eminent Grand Commander Sir W. G. Mosely has called an occasional Grand Commander to take part in the service under the banner of Emanuel Comandery No. 25 and this service will be participated in by Far West Comandery No. 3. Royal Path Commander of Kansas City, Kansas and St. Matthews Commander of Liberty, Mo., have also been invited to take part in the service. Flowers will be distributed to the following widows of deceased Knights: EMANUEL COMMANDERY — Mesdames Queen Williams, T. B. Shilkirk, Kitty Silas, Lila Swan, Lucinda Day, Sarah Parks, John Anderson. FAR WEST COMMANDERY — Mesdames M. W. Love, Amella Gibbs, Sallie Payne, J. G. Carpenter, Evelyn Baldwin, H. R. Edwards, J. W. Fitzgerald, J.ack Sears, Marion Thompkins, and Mrs. D. D. Weaver of the Pennsylvania jurisdiction. The inmates of the Old Folks and Orphans Home of Wheatley Provident Hospital and those of the County Home will also receive Easter greetings' in the form of floral offerings. ECHOES. From the Closing Exercises of the Lincoln Night High School. Mr. Richard Hunter who finished in the Manual Training department has by his own handwork furnished six rooms, is a most efficient janitor in the Lincoln High School, has his home almost paid for, and is not yet thirty; Mr. Wm. House is a freight handler finished also from this department; his wife, Mrs. Rosa, finished in cooking. This year they paid out on their home, which was largely furnished by Mr. House's skill. These gentle people are not in the lime light; they and their like are often passed unobserved but they are the backbone and sinew of our race. Other industrious, energetic, but modest students of the Night School could be mentioned but space will allow the mention of but two: Mrs. Emma McDonald Richards whose mother last year graduated from the cooking department, she herself during the last three years has made several beautiful but useful pieces of furniture and finished with much credit from the Manual Training department; Mrs. Emma Green whose skill in bookkeeping had already attracted the attention of the bank where she is employed as a maid, delivered an able Commencement address. EASTER LILLIES Lowest Price in City Potted Plants of All Kinde— ROSES AND CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS AND VIOLETS WEAVER FLORAL CO. 1510 East 18th St. BELL PHONE—EAST 4798 HOME PHONE—MAIN 7555 Open Evenings. PORO CLUB. The Poro club met with Mrs. D Baldwin, 2316 Vine street, after the usual routine of business refreshments were served by the hostess and the club adjoined to meet with Mrs. U K. Thompson, 1622 Virginia street. The members present were: M. H. S. محمد حسن علی بن محمد SIR WILLIS G. MOSELY. Eminent Grand Commander of the Knights T Juriediction, whose program for the Missouri Jurisdiction able attention from the fraters of the Nation. EASTER AT ALLEN CHAP The Minister will preach Sunday morality the Great Hope," based on the text, "he live again?" Special music by the choir service the choir will render, by request, Words of Christ." Come early and get a g MASONIC. Commander of the Knights T ram for the Missouri Jurisd fraters of the Nation. MISTER AT ALLEN CHAP will preach Sunday mo ope," based on the text, "S pecial music by the cho will render, by request, Come early and get a g Eminent Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of the Missouri Jurisdiction, whose program for the Missouri Jurisdiction is attracting favorable attention from the fraters of the Nation. EASTER AT ALLEN CHAPEL. The Minister will preach Sunday morning on "Immortality the Great Hope," based on the text, "If a man dies, shall he live again?" Special music by the choir. At the evening service the choir will render, by request, "The Last Seven Words of Christ." Come early and get a good seat. It is announced from the committee appointed by Grand Master Trevor that the work is about Hand-Book and that the work will soon be available for use of the fraternity, and that the work has proved to be a task far greater than even the Grand Master expected and has required. When the new Hand-Book is is improved in every detail, it makes for the convenience of lodge work. Some of the old, unimproved matters are more desirable matters inserted. Among the latter will be a very effective form of exercise for the age of ten or longer sired by the brethren. MONUMENT TO MOSES DICKSON. Taberian representatives from five states met in Kansas City last week and perfected arrangements for the erection of a two thousand dollar monument in memory of Rev. Moses Dickson, founder of the International Or- ```markdown ``` Mrs. Smith. Mrs. A. B. Holt. Mrs. U. K. Thompson. Mrs. D. Baldwin. Mrs. G. A. Gibson. Mrs. C. Williams. Mrs. Beulah Franklin. Mrs. C. Williams. Mrs. T. Mosby, Secretary. Mrs. A. Thomas, President. MASONIC. At the Paseo Y. M. C. A. Monday Eve. APRIL 5, 1915. Under the Auspices of the Sorosis Club. Benefit of Y. M. C. A. Piano Fund. Admission—Adults 25c. Children 15c. Come Hear Him. A Rare Treat to All. Ticket on Sale at all Colored Drug Stores and Y. M. C. A. Building. [Image of a man in a military uniform, holding a sword with a cross on the hilt.] the Knights Templar of the Missouri Missouri Jurisdiction is attracting favor Nation. HLLEN CHAPEL. Sunday morning on "Immor- on the text, "If a man dies, shall by the choir. At the evening by request, "The Last Seven and get a good seat. Order of Twelve. The monument is to have the form of a twenty foot shaft with sections bearing the names of each of the twenty jurisdictions of the Order. It is to be located in the Father Diekson Cemetery at St. Louis and will be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies August 26 of this year. Joe E. Herriford, formerly head of the society in this state, is chairman of the committee having the enter- prise in hand. Are cordially invited to the Annual formal open- ing of Soda season, Easter Sunday, April 4, 1915. Theo. Smith's Drug Store Cor. 18th & Tracy Yourself and Friends THE MID-WEST MAGAZINE. Here is a publication just out that would appear to supply the generally ardent demand for a race journal in the West, a medium through which may find expression the more thoughtful and higher order of life among Afro-Americans in this particular community. The Wid-West Magazine is an attractive little book in its initial number, and has bany spicy articles that are quite informing to readers. It is in fact what the editor states, "a magazine devoted to art, literature and all matters of general interest for the moral uplift and the betterment of a rising race." Mr. Fagan was educated partly in the schools of Texas, but upon going to Chicago while working in the government mall service, he took a course in food chemistry in the Chicago University and finished in that department as an analyst. The department of agriculture has published several articles from his pen on "methods of analysis." Mr. Fagan's connection with the government has been for a long period, dating back as far as 1898. He has served in Washington. D. C., as well as Chicago. He still holds a good position now as food chemist in this city. Being a virile writer and having a decided genus for pushing an enterprise along, he should be able to succeed in this new effort. He owns a nice little home at 1908 East 24th street, which modestly cost only $5,000, all of which is identical to the man who is to give to the West the best magazine in this great field of literature. The Mid-West will all ways be on sale at the League Enterprise News Agency, 1521 East 18th street. It comes out the first day of each month. All subscriptions and correspondence for this magazine may be sent to the above mentioned place. Agents wanted everywhere with the most generous terms extended. COLORED PREACHER ON TRIAL Is Accused of Abducting the Wives of Ten Men. Kingston, N. C.-Rev. Thos. R. Miller, an influential negro, at the head of a religious cult similar to the holliness sect, was tried in Municipal Court here for the abduction of the wives of ten other negro men, some of them leaders of their race locally. The attendance was so large that court had to be removed from the city hall to the county courthouse where standing room was at a premium. Miller appeared on Queen Street dressed in an elaborate ceremonial gown of many colors, at the head of a procession of women adherents before the trial. Prominent legal talent represented him. The court reserved sentence until after Miller is tried on other charges in connection with the abduction.-Chicago Blade. From the description given of the Rev. Thos. R. Miller, it has ear marks of the Rev. Jas. G. Miller, formerly of Metropolis, Ill., who robbed Mrs. Geo. Blackwell, a widow of several hundred dollars and a household goods and then sent her over to Cuba to die. A RACE MAN. We Publish This Letter by Permission of Mrs. Williams. Please find enclosed check for three dollars as a benefit for your Domestic Training School. I believe you are doing more for the uplift of the race than any other Colored woman in Kansas City. You should have the moral and financial support of every thinking Negro in this city. With best wishes for your continued success, I remain. Yours respectfully, THEO. SMITH. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. He who gains time gains everything. Waste not your time with society if you expect to have anything in this life or to be in a position to help your fellowmen. When you get a position with a firm, do everything that you can for the interest of your employer and assure him that you are interested in the success of his business, and I assure you that in time that you will be greatly rewarded. As you all know that we can not be all professional men, therefore it behooves us to be careful in all our dealings, to endeavor to be successful in this life and to have something. The time is here at hand that in order to have any standing in the community in which you live, is to own something yourself. Above all things do not pay exorbitant rent in order to get a start to save, as the salary that the majority get will not allow them to accumulate sufficient funds to make a payment on a piece of property and pay exorbitant rent. In order to accomplish anything we must sacrifice. Hence, we will win out more than conquerer. I advise all young men, married or single, to rent them as small a space as they can do with, until they save enough to make a purchase on a home. Do not pay any attention to your associates that try to be little you on economizing in order to get a start. Just go ahead with all the will power and trust in God, to help you to accomplish your aim, for with Him all things are possible and as he is the Father of us all he makes it possible for us, if we only trust him. For in his blessed word he tells us to first "Seek ye the kingdom of heaven and all things shall be added." The only necessary step to take in our part is to trust him at his word and go with all the confidence in the world, for He never fails. If there is any failing it is on our part, so wake up, young men, for there is great prospects in this life if you will only make use of it. This is written by one that has had all the experience and no one to guide him except his Heavenly Father. As I was an orphan with a very little chance to get any schooling, I thank God, through his almighty power in some way, He has enabled me to have a very comfortable home for my little family. From one that is interested to see his race progress. H. W. MILLER. 1621 Norton. SIR JOHN LANGE. A 32d Degree Mason and the oldest Past Grand Warden now living in the Missouri Jurisdiction. THE BILLIKENS REPORT. The Billiken Club wishes to thank the many patrons who assisted them on February 22, 1915 in making their Martha Washington party a success. We also wish to make a report to the public and to the Board of Old Folks and Orphans Home as they seem to be misinformed by various reports concerning the funds made. It was decided by the majority of the club members that the money was to be used for the inmates and not for outstanding debts. Owing to this fact the Secretary of the home and also being a member of the Billiken resigned from our club on account of not receiving the entire proceeds. The report is as follows: Two dressing sacks.....$ .90 Three sacks of tobacco.....1.15 ½ dozen pairs of stockings.....60 3 pairs of stockings.....5.0 House shoes.....1.19 Coal.....8.00 Linament.....2.5 Apron gingham.....3.34 Groceries.....5.32 As donated: 1 comfort, 1 slop jar; 1 ladies' coat. These are the things each inmate asked for. We can clearly and truthfully say that the proceeds were not misappropriated by anyone. THE BILLIKEN CLUB. The Ochya Girls will give a charity dance at Lyric hall April 12. Chances on fine leather traveling bag at all drug stores and Y. M. C. A. Ask the man. Buy tickets from the members or at drug stores. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Three judges of the United States circuit court of appeals listened with profound interest to the plea of a Negro attorney, a one-time slave, who appeared before them in the Federal building at St. Louis. Probably few in the courtroom realized until he started his argument that a gray-haired Negro sitting near the front was a noted lawyer who has appeared before every United States judge in the central district in many famous trials. The attorney, Turner W. Bell, represented three men who are confined in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., serving sentences on convictions of conspiracy in the famous structural iron workers' dynamiting cases two years ago. Bell fingered his brief as he sat listening to the argument of Assistant United States District Attorney L. S. Harvey of the eastern district of Kansas, representing the government He had spoken but a few words, however, when the crowd knew that such incidents evidently were in the everyday life of the Negro lawyer. The men represented by Bell are white and were given sentences of six years at Indianapolis in December, 1912. They were convicted of being implicated in more than one hundred dynamiting cases, including the destruction of the Times building in Los Angeles, in half of the states of the United States. They were at one time officers of the organization of which J. J. McNamara was a member and who is now serving a life sentence in California. Bell represented the men in the United States district court in Kansas last July and was defeated. He appealed. Bell's chief contention is that the men could legally have been convicted on but one charge under the revised statutes of the United States, and that the maximum penalty should have been but two years in the penitentiary or a fine of $10,000. They were charged with having transported dynamite throughout the country, and with the blowing up of a bridge at Indianapolis. Bell has been a practicing attorney in Leavenworth 28 years. His "hobby," he said, is appeal cases. In 1914 he filed 61 appeals in the United States courts, and was successful in 41 of them. In but two cases were his clients Negroes. Bell was born a slave in Tennessee He was taken with his parents to Oksaloake. In., when young, and earned enough money to carry him through a course in law. The day he was admitted to the bar, at Leavenworth, United States Judge Hook was in the courtroom, and Bell considers Judge Hook one of his best friends. Among famous appeals in which Bell has been successful was the case of Charles A. Stevens, a wealthy Negro boy, of Kansas City, who stole a mail sack containing $55,800. Stevens' sentence was reduced from ten to five years. As his fee Bell received $13,000. For the first time in about a dozen years mackerel have been caught in the New Haven waters. In recent years porpoises are believed to have driven them away, but in the last month thousands of mackerel have been caught. The Supreme court, speaking through the chief justice, denied the appeal taken by the state of Illinois in the case of John B. Gaskill against the Forest Home Cemetery company of Chicago, which has become historical. Gaskill is a Negro who purchased a lot in the cemetery, but was denied permission to bury a member of his family there by the trustees of the cemetery after they made the discovery that the purchaser was a Negro. A bill for the relief of Gaskill passed the Illinois legislature some years ago, but was vetoed by the governor on the advice of the attorney general. The case was dismissed by Chief Justice White on the ground that no federal question was involved in the judgment rendered by the supreme court of Illinois, which found against Gaskill. In the opinion of an English scientist, the wear of macadam roads is not due to the suction of automobile tires, but almost entirely to the crushing effect of horseshoes and iron-tired wheels. In view of prevailing high prices for necessities in Santiago, Chile, it is planned to establish municipal provision shops at an initial cost of $500,000. The neighbors say S. W. Featheringham's initials stand for "Southwest Wind." "The southwest wind," they explain, "blows nearly all the time." Every member of the family of Sir Roper Lethbridge of England has gone to the war or training for it—the men to fight, the women to nurse. Supremacy or Thought. Thoughts are important factors in the molding of a life. They may not be seen but they bespeak of latent power, the trend of the mind, the hopes and aspirations of the heart. We marvel at some of the inventions and achievements of the age. But the thoughts of the inventor rushed on ahead of the invention. The mind of the man who achieves sees the possibility, and works it out, long before the world is aware of it. This is true in all THE JAFEA GATE, MAIN ENTRANCE TO JERUSALEM Eli Williamson (colored) ninety years old, for many years a licensed pilot, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Faire, in Washington, following an illness lasting only five days. For half a century Williamson had followed the sea before he retired and made his home in Washington. He served in the navy and in the merchant marine. He became a skillful pilot and was the first colored man to obtain a first-class license at the United States custom house at Norfolk, Va. Captain Williamson, as he was known to his friends, was born in Murfreesboro, N. C., December 23, 1824, the son of Trial and Winnie Williamson, and the grandson of George Williamson, who had been a noted showmaker and had bought his freedom from his master by making fine shoes. Eli Williamson's freedom came to him from his grandfather. When he was a youth Williamson went to live with a family of Quakers, who taught him to read and write, to the fishing nets and to rig seines for large fisheries. This gave him a taste for the sea which never left him. He enlisted in the United States navy and served faithfully. After leaving the navy Williamson entered the merchant service, and when the Civil war broke out he was chief pilot on the steamer Curlew. It was pressed into the service of the Confederacy and later was sunk. Williamson was highly regarded by the officers under whom he sailed. He did much to aid in the uplift of his race, and was the founder of the Cool Spring church at Franklin, Va. He married Miss Emmaine Hunter of Virginia. Ten children were born to them, five growing to maturity. One son, the late W. E. Williamson of Norfolk, Va. died February 1, 1910. His four daughters, Mrs. Curley Weaver, Mrs. Katherine Reld, Mrs. Sea Bird Faire and Mrs. Emma Gray, survive him. For the last five years Captain Williamson had made his home in Washington with his daughter, Mae. Faire. Burial was in Harmony cemetery beside the body of his wife, who died March 14, 1914. It is true, of course, that Professor Just is not the only colored man to do scientific work of a high order, nor the only colored teacher ready to labor for a pittance in order to aid the education of his people. But the honor bestowed upon him is worth while merely if it recalls to public attention once more the fact that no one can measure the contributions colored Americans are certain to make to our common civilization, and not merely in the fields in which lie their peculiar talents. It was a colored physician who first ventured an operation on the living human heart; a colored painter is in the front rank of his art as the delineator of Biblical scenes; no composer of recent years won greater honors than Coleridge Taylor, the negro. Any policy, therefore, which should limit the education and the opportunities of the race must be a grave loss to humanity as a whole. No one would think, in any country outside Russia, of refusing to Jewish genius the fullest play in every field. Yet we continue to hear, not only in the South, but in the North as well, repeated assertions that anything except common schooling is out of place for the colored people—New York Evening Post. The highest determined point in Florida is Mount Pleasant, 301 feet above sea level, according to the United States geological survey. The approximate average elevation of the state is 100 feet above the sea. All-stair cars are being experimented with on several railways in India. Metal freight cars have long been in use, but passenger cars have usually been built of teak wood resting on steel under-frames. Mrs. Kate Penner and Gertrude Pendel, English nurses connected with the Constantinople hospital, have received Red Cross medals from the German emperor for gallant service during the Balkan war. If you wish to interest idle men circulate the story that the hull of a sunken ship is full of treasure. If you wish to excite them circulate the story that it is full of fine old whisky. The yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and ten feet in diameter. During courtship a girl thinks marriage is a haven of rest in which she will be free from worry and care. After marriage she has another think coming. The new poison extracted from seeds of the castor oil plant by a German chemist is said to be so powerful that a single gram would kill a million and a half guinea pigs. Probably the speediest journey is that negotiated by a prize fighter who is on his way back to obscurity. the varied phases of life. The thought is the father of the act, the word of the deed. Tell me the thoughts uppermost in a man's mind and I will tell you what he will do and become tomorrow. If his thoughts are miserly he will become niggardly, if benevolent then charitable, if lewd then base, if pure then a man in whom there is no guile. If you master the inner world of thought victory will be yours in the outer world of achievement.—Frank Willard Court. Easter Week in Jerusalem THE JAFEA GATE, MAIN ENTRANCE TO JERUSALEM S WE crossed Palestine, riding over those ancient byways that wind through hill and dale leading to the holy city, we were deeply impressed by the pilgrims—not only by their numbers but by their very air of patient eagerness—as they trudged the dusty roads footsore and weary. As we neared the city we knew that Jerusalem was already filled to overflowing with these pilgrims, because the roads leading into the city were lined on either side with crowds of these pilgrims camping in the ditches, with their pots and pans and bedding. Although it was midday we arrived and we sun beat down mercilessly, many of these tired pilgrims had spread a small scarf or shawl across sticks and were sleeping in its shade. Still they continued to flock into the city, carrying palm branches in their hands, until all the highways round about Jerusalem were lined with these weary but devout people. Although it was midday when we arrived and one sun beat down mercilessly, many of these tired pilgrims had spread a small scarf or shawl across sticks and were sleeping in its shade. Still they continued to flock into the city, carrying palm branches in their hands, until all the highways round about Jerusalem were lined with these weary but devout people. One could not help pitying them, while at the same time admiring their wonderful devotion. Thousands of them had walked hundreds of miles through Russia and across inhospitable Turkey, being treated in the latter place more like dogs than human beings. If there is one thing above another a Turk hates, something that arouses his Mohammedan indignation, it is the sight of these Christians, devout members of the Greek church, plodding afloat across the sultan's domain with but one thought in view—to kiss the tomb of Christ. You can only marvel at their religious zeal which enables them to withstand the tortures of a long journey and the abuse of the cold-blooded Turks. Fortunately, our quarters had been reserved long in advance, otherwise we, too, would have been forced to camp among the pilgrims beside the highway. As these pilgrims come in sight of the Holy Land they fall upon their knees, facing the Jerusalem they love, so simple and beautiful is their faith. One could not help pitying them, while at the same time admiring their wonderful devotion. Thousands of them had walked hundreds of miles through Russia and across inhospitable Turkey, being treated in the latter place more like dogs than human beings. If there is one thing above another a Turk hates, something that arouses his Mohammedan indignation, it is the sight of these Christians, devout members of the Greek church, plodding afoot across the sultan's domain with but one thought in view—to kiss the tomb of Christ. You can only marvel at their religious zeal which enables them to withstand the tortures of a long journey and the abuse of the cold-blooded Turks. Fortunately, our quarters had been reserved long in advance, otherwise we, too, would have been forced to camp among the pilgrims beside the highway. As these pilgrims come in sight of the Holy Land they fall upon their knees, facing the Jerusalem they love, so simple and beautiful is their faith. Jerusalem's places of interest during the Easter week are many. They are made memorable through their association with Christ on and prior to the day of his crucifixion. We first visited the Garden of Gethsemane, where, so many years ago, he went to pray, "Not my will, but thine." This is really a very small plot of ground, about twenty-five feet square, containing many flower beds and some extremely old olive trees. Always kept in good order, on the occasion of Easter this hallowed garden is made glorious with beds of flowers in full bloom. There is also the Via Dolorosa, or "the street of sorrows," through which Christ passed on his way to Calvary. Along this street are the various stations of the cross, recording the incidents in this memorable journey. There is also the Via Dolorosa, or "the street of sorrows," through which Christ passed on his way to Calvary. Along this street are the various stations of the cross, recording the incidents in this memorable journey. Then there is the Church of the Holy Sepulchr, where the elaborate Easter ceremonies are held. This church is in reality a massive building containing vast congeries of churches, chapels and shrines in which the various sects worship. There are within these walls thirty-seven so-called "holy places," although it must be said that there is a grave question as to the authenticity of many of these. As we approached the outer gates of this church we were annoyed by the painfully incomgruous note which was struck by the deafening medley caused by the yelling and screaming of dealers in "articles de pliere," or, in other words, "holy relics." All sorts of venders were shouting at the tops of their voices and eagerly clutching at all comers in their frantic endeavor to make a sale—representative descendants, in deed, of they who once made the temple "house of merchandise." Then there is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where the elaborate Easter ceremonies are held. This church is in reality a massive building containing vast congeries of churches, chapels and shrines in which the various sects worship. There are within these walls thirty-seven so-called "holy places," although it must be said that there is a grave question as to the authenticity of many of these. As we approached the outer gates of this church we were annoyed by the painfully incongruous note which was struck by the deafening medley caused by the yelling and screaming of dealers in "articles de piete," or, in other words, "holy relics." All sorts of venders were shouting at the tops of their voices and eagerly clutching at all comers in their frantic endeavors to make a sale—representative descendants, indeed, of they who once made the temple "a house of merchandise." --- NEW WORLD AND THE OLD FACE TO FACE S WE crossed Palestine, riding over those ancient byways that win through hill and dale leading to the holy city, we were deeply impressed by the pilgrims—not only by the numbers but by their very air of patient eagerness—as they trudge the dusty footsore and weary. As we neared the city we knew that Jerusalem was already filled to over flowing with these pilgrims, because the roads leading into the city were lined on either side with crowds of these pilgrims camping in the ditche with their pots and pans and bedding SPRINGTIME OF THE WORLD Land That Was Filled With Loneliness Made Quick With Life and Keen-Eyed Joy. Life is visibly released, and we are eye-witnesses of creation at work. We see the earth touched with color, and greenness sweeping over the land. Now the waycide flowers spring up, rained upon and glad of the sun. And the eye of man is gladdened by intervale and fertile field, and the long THE TOMB OF THE MONK. THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS during the days of the actual on we would have little oppor- cee things, owing to the great occasion to visit them the day arrival. Among the principal inst in the Church of the Holy he supposed tomb of Christ, the, the holy sepulcher, the Greek epel of St. Helena and Mount the Easter services in the holy the "washing of feet." This thursday before Good Friday. It mony, short and unexcit, and the courtyard of the church Not it is unexciting, every available currydard and every commanding top was occupied as the Greek the feet of twelve of his priests stated upon a little platform. day-Good Friday—we witnessed omy of the crucifixion. This is away, but somewhat shocking to deen. This ceremony takes place did to be the actual site of the is performed before a cross on figure has been nailed. At the figure is taken down from the l in a white sheet, the crown of balls drawn from the "hands" andced on silver salvers. After this formed which leads to the stone are sermons are delivered in six ages. moon we witnessed the ceremony be," to the minds of the pilgrims tant of all. There is a certain about it, but the grandeur is lost struggle between the Latin and srs that changes what should be omy into a veritable mob scene. were there much talk was heardoning this ceremony or greatly and I must confess that all of our that unless it could be conductedanner it should certainly be aban- old tradition in Jerusalem that last had arisen and departed from other holy fire from heaven was into the sepulcher. Time has addition of the greater part of its must be admitted that many of soul but ignorant pilgrims still be- his heart's holy fire, struggling had lighted mass of time. We were be mainti fire ceremony wonder who like, since ers while wi jured by be the struggle It was it ing to by the Turu We watch where the a guard, m crowds dure ever a Turu and assist see, although not delign a Christians of Turkishly pounded but rather straight fire and vicious generally punctate eno against the who were On Sundmones in These ceguages, and were unn At noon were over army of p In all dire few belong number joe across the By night along the left the l where so the week. same quis man of so fore Pilate Knowing that during the days, of the actual Easter celebration we would have little opportunity to see these things, owing to the great crowds, we took occasion to visit them the day following our arrival. Among the principal places of interest in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher are the supposed tomb of Christ, the stone of unction, the holy pulchercer, the Greek church, the chapel of St. Helena and Mount Calvary. The first of the Easter services in the holy city consists of the "washing of feet." This occurs on the Thursday before Good Friday. It is a Greek ceremony, short and unexciting, and takes place in the courtyard of the church Notwithstanding that it is unexciting, every available space in the courtyard and every commanding window and rooftop was occupied as the Greek patriarch bathed the feet of twelve of his priests as they were seated upon a little platform. On the next day—Good Friday—we witnessed the Latin ceremony of the crucifixion. This is interesting in a way, but somewhat shocking to the occidental idea. This ceremony takes place over what is said to be the actual site of the crucifixion. It is performed before a cross on which a dummy figure has been nailed. At the conclusion the figure is taken down from the cross and placed in a white sheet, the crown of thorns and the nails drawn from the "hands" and "feet" being placed on silver salvers. After this a procession is formed which leads to the stone of unction, where sermons are delivered in six different languages. Saturday afternoon we witnessed the ceremony of the "holy fire," to the minds of the pilgrims the most important of all. There is a certain impressiveness about it, but the grandeur is lost in the mad struggle between the Latin and Greek worshippers that changes what should be a solemn ceremony into a veritable mob scene. At the time we were there much talk was heard of either abandoning this ceremony or greatly modifying it, and I must confess that all of our party agreed that unless it could be conducted in an orderly manner it should certainly be abandoned. There is an old tradition in Jerusalem that long after Christ had arisen and departed from the holy sepulcher holy fire from heaven was seen to descend into the sepulcher. Time has deprived this tradition of the greater part of its weight, but it must be admitted that many of the poor faithful but ignorant pilgrims still be- ```markdown ``` green lanes of linden. Not all the gathered snows and punishing winds can thwart this coming of the spring. All the tides of being are rolling in to the flood. Now there returns the wildness that leaps at life as a hunting dog let loose from the leash. The breezes tumble down from the great hills. Their cool has been nourished in the rich green pines, and has lifted off the hidden mounds of snow in dark ravines. All the spacious spread of lawn and meadow, white sea lapped beach' and lifting hill is vi his heart's desire was to light this candle by the holy fire. Within ten minutes the thousands struggling around the holy sepulcher enclosure had lighted their candles, and the church was a mass of tiny lights from each of these candles. We were told that much better order had been maintained on this Easter during the holy fire ceremony than ever before, and we could but wonder what some of the past ceremonies were like, since five persons were removed on stretches while we looked on, having been severely injured by being pushed down and trampled on by the struggling mob. It was interesting but by no means comforting to note the hatred exhibited on every hand by the Turks. We watched the line forming for a procession where the Turkish soldiers were drawn up as a guard, much as city policemen keep back the crowds during a parade in this country. Whenever a Turk got in the crowd he was well handled and assisted to a vantage point if he cared to see, although for the most part the Turks would not deign to look upon it. Whenever one of the Christians was pushed by the crowd into the line of Turkish soldiers he was promptly and effectively pounded with the butt of a rifle. Not openly, but rather surreptitiously, the soldier stared straight front at the same time he maliciously and viciously jabbed backward with rifle butt, generally grievously hurting whoever was unfortunate enough among the pilgrims to be crowded against the lines. Above all it was the Armenians who were thus abused. On Sunday morning there were more ceremonies in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. These ceremonies were conducted in many languages, and the vestments worn by the priests were unusually gorgeous. At noon on Sunday the Easter week ceremonies were over for the year. An hour later the great army of pilgrims was focking out of the city. In all directions they were traveling with their few belongings in bundles, but by far the greater number journeyed out on the highways that led across the Holy Land and into Russia. By night not a pilgrim remained, while all along the roads round about the holy city were left the litter and the ashes of the campfires where so many thousands had encamped during the week. The next day Jerusalem became the same quiet, sleepy city that it was when the man of sorrows rode into it and was taken before Pilate. brant. The land that was full of loneliness is quick with life and through the fresh morning there moves a keen-eyed joy. But what we witness in the silent upspringing of the wayside and forest is revealed today in the heart of man, says Collier's Weekly. We, too, are in a springtime blown upon by fresh winds. That marvelous and many-hued spectacle of the busy spring is but the garment of the God who works through the thoughts of men and touches them for renewal. The bleak ages have gone, and the THEY BEAR CROSSES ALONG THE VIA DOLOROSA leave the flames they wit- ness to be literally holy fire. We secured a good vantage point from one of the upper balconies, and by two o'clock the church was filled to overflowing with a zealous yet exitable mob. The Greek patriarch, accompanied by the Armenian high priest, entered the holy sepulcher, and instantly there was a hush throughout all the church. On either side of the sepulcher are holes, and soon flames appeared through these holes. Instantly the struggle commenced. To us it was a terrible sight to see the pilgrims fight to get near the holy flame. Each pilgrim held a candle, and the Desire was to light this candle by the Within ten minutes the thousands around the holy sepulcher inclosure their candles, and the church was a light from each of these candles. told that much better order had defined in Easter during the holy day than ever before, and we could but some of the past ceremonies were five persons were removed on stretche looked on, having been severely ing pushed down and trampled on mob. Interesting but by no means comforted the hatred exhibited on every hand used the line forming for a procession Turkish soldiers were drawn up as city police keep back the king a parade in this country. When got in the crowd he was well handled to a vantage point if he cared to the most part the Turks would be upon it. Whenever one of the was pushed by the crowd into the line soldiers he was promptly and effective with the butt of a rifle. Not openly, surreptitiously, the soldier stared at the same time he maliciously jyabbed backward with rifle butt, irreversibly hurting who was unhogh among the pilgrims to be crowded lines. Above all it was the Armenians thus abused. Day morning there were more cereal the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. monies were conducted in many land the vestments worn by the priests allly gorgeous. On Sunday the Easter week ceremonies for the year. An hour later the great pilgrims was flocking out of the city. actions they were traveling with theirings in bundles, but by far the greater arrayed out on the highways that led Holy Land and into Russia. It not a pilgrim remained, while all roads round about the holy city were later and the ashes of the campfires many thousands had encamped during The next day Jerusalem became the sleepy city that it was when the crowds rode into it and was taken be- race of men itself is visibly planning a resurrection. Out of the dust of its dead things it rises to a fuller life. Its ancient enemies are in retreat. Hate is dying, poverty is passing, the disinherited have found a voice. As out of a stormy night, we draw near a light and warmth for men. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR APRIL 4 SAUL REJECTED BY THE LORD. LESSON TEXT—Ie Samuel 15:16-23. GOLDEN TEXT—Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.—I Samuel 15:22. Jonathan's victory (ch. 14) brought with it a sinning on the part of the hungry, harassed Israelites in that they ate of the spoils "with the blood" (14:31, 32; Lev. 3:17, 7:26). In the emergency Saul erected "the first altar that he built unto the Lord" (ch 14:35), a rather dilatory act on the part of a God-anointed king. Saul had resorted to the subterfuge of commanding the people "to roll a great stone," i.e. cut the throats of the animals of which they had eaten that they might bleed, and thus be an evidence that the animals had died before being eaten. This the people did, fearing Saul, but having no scruples in transgressing God's commands. These same people rescued Jonathan from the foolish vow of Saul, for it was his faith and valor that had chiefly brought about the victory. 1. God's Sorrow, vv. 10-12. Samuel had first revealed God's purpose in making Saul king, and likewise first declared God's purpose to dispose of Saul (v. 10). Saul's actions (vv. 1-9) had stamped him as being no longer worthy of God's confidence. The word "repetenteth," meaning "to sigh" (v. 11), denotes a change of feeling due to Saul's actions and not to any change in the character, purpose or desires of Good. God was sorry that Saul had proved himself unworthy. A half-way obedience of God's command only heightened his guilt. "Whatever moral difficulties seem to lie, for a later age, in Saul's commission against Amalek, there were none such for him" (Vaughn). Man's repentance involves a change of mind and purpose. In Saul's case God repented, changed the instrument of his execution, because of the change of circumstances and relation. God is ever the same; it is man alone who changes. Saul had given Samuel cause for anger (v. 11 R. V.), but he did the wise thing in taking to God in prayer. Arising early the next morning Samuel hastened to acquaint Saul with Jehovah's message. It is remarkable of how many of the great men of the Bible it is said that they rose early, Abraham, Gideon, Joshua, Job, Jacob, Moses, etc., not to forget our Lord Jesus. II. Samuel's Rebuke, vv. 13-19. It must have been a striking scene when the aged Nazarite prophet faced the proud but recurrent king. A guilty conscience is often covered by a great show of plenty (v. 13), but such acts cannot stifle the conviction of the heart nor deceive the righteous judge. Sin proclaims itself even as Samuel's sharp question brought conviction from the lips of Saul (v. 14; Prov. 28:13). Saul thought to deceive Samuel by using a falsehood (v. 15). The only safe course is to confess our sins (Ps. 22:15; I. John 1:9). There is an interesting suggestion in the way Saul uses the impersonal "they" and "we" in verse 15, as if to lay the guilt of his acts upon others. It is easy for the sinner to blame others and seek to minimize his own guilt (Rom. 14:12). Verse 9 clearly indicates why Saul and the people had spared the best of the cattle. To use a part only for God and the rest for self in direct obedience to God's rights or the rights of others is to incur his righteous wrath (vv. 22, 23). Samuel did not tell Saul what he thought of him but simply and directly delivered words (v. 16 l. c.). Recalling Saul's beginnings as king of Israel, emphasizing God's mercy and grace, Samuel recounts God's command regarding the Amalekites. These are a type of the flesh and for such God has no mercy except that of Calvary (Gal. 5:24). Samuel eflectually swept aside Saul's sophistry by his direct question (v. 19) which demand a straightforward answer. III. Saul's Self-Rejection, vv. 20-23, God set Saul aside because he had rejected the right and chose the wrong. Face to face with his sin Saul could not dodge the issue. Samuel's "wherefore" (v. 19) must have aroused Saul's guilty conscience. It is a question which should reach every tempted soul. Samuel characterized Saul's sin as being due to stubbornness, rebellion, disobedience and a rejection of God (v. 19). Again Saul seeks to evade his responsibility (vv. 20, 21). Then Samuel speaks plainly (v. 22) comparing his sin of disobedience with witchcraft, stubbornness, iniquity and idolatry. Plainly he tells Saul, "Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king" (v. 23). Driven thus to a corner Saul made a confession of his guilt (v. 24) but spoiled it all by acknowledging that he had greater fear of the people than of God. His sorrow was that of the man who was caught in an act of transgression and not because of the sinfulness of his deed. God had forsaken Saul and therefore Samuel parts company with him also (vv. 25, 26). Saul's rending of Samuel's garment (vv. 27, 28) is used as a parable of the forthcoming rent kingdom. Samuel takes occasion to suggest that God, "the Strength of Israel," had won the recent victory and that God was not guilty of lying nor had he changed. Saul makes one more plea in which he acknowledged his departure from God by the words, "that I may worship the Lord thy God." There was a continuance of the outward form of worship before the elders and the people but both God and Samuel separated themselves from Saul; the cruel, bloody Agag is executed and Samuel retires to Ramah to mourn over this fallen, prodigal king, and never to see him again. Climbing the Clouds By Eva Meredith Rossiter (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman) And odd trick of fate made of me an amateur aviator. My father had been a professional balloonist. The average of life among men who follow that line is brief, and I was called from college to attend his funeral. My mother had died several years previously, but an aunt had been a faithful housekeeper. My ambition was the law and I had been a credit in my, college class. In fact I was so far ahead that another year would have seen me fully qualified to enter the official legal examinations. "It's come, Bertram," remarked my aunt day after the funeral. "What I suspected I find to be true, what I feared has come with full force." "You mean?" I asked, fairly troubled at her serious words. "That your father has left nothing but debts." "You amaze me!" I said, and stood shocked at a flashing thought of this dear old woman left stranded, and gave a gulp of dismay as I remembered Fay—loving, peerless Fay, the only girl I had ever loved or ever would love. "These later years," went on my aunt, "your father has devoted all his time and money towards perfecting a dirigible airship. His dream was to inaugurate an aeronautic mail service. I fear my little savings have gone into the scheme. I grieve, because I believe further that Fay's father, the judge, risked his pension in the investment. The family lawyer this morning sent me the results of his investigation. They are fairly appalling." Within an hour I knew that my legal aspirations were doomed. Nearly all my father could raise of money had gone into an impossible aerial mail cloud climber. My aunt's little savings were swallowed up. The judge had invested all he had. "If your father had only lived another year," he said, "how the world would have stared at his marvelous invention! Someone else will perfect it and attain fame," added the honest jurist with a sigh. "So we have pushed My Grim Passenger Never Lowered His Weapon. the world ahead as ploneers. That is one satisfaction. As to the rest—I presume my past services on the bench will win me an humble clerkship somewhere." "At sixty—you, my father's dearest friend, you, who have sacrificed all you had for him—never!" I cried and my heart was melted with tenderness and tears were in my eyes. "I have thought it all out, sir. Our home is mortgaged, but the debt can stand indefinitely if the interest is paid. It must be your home, and Fay's, and that of my aunt. Give up the expense and care of your establishment here. I am going to work and I would be a poor stick if I could not provide for the needs of so small a family." There was a general reconstruction of affairs. Those dear people agreed to my plans. I sold some odds and ends and placed enough in the bank to cover household expenses for six months ahead, and I set out to meet the world with a loving kiss from the dearest girl on earth, whose faith in my energy and ability was sublime. I was idle in the big city for a month and affairs began to daunt me, but one day there came a flash of hope and fortune. I was walking dejectedly along the street when a hand slapped me briskly on the shoulder and a cheery voice spoke the words: "The very man!" I recognized Revell. I had not seen him for years but I recalled him as a former partner of my father. "I am in on a great new trend," he advised me. "The balloon has had its day—now comes the airship. Heard of the big international meet at the aero grounds here? Well, I've got the latest in the biplane line and I'm an entrant for the great $50,000 prize. Your name, Bertram, is worth something, for your father is not forgotten. Come up to my hangar and I'll open your eyes to a fine business proposition." I drifted into aviation with this fascinating optimistic airman gradually. I could not resist his hopefulness and eloquence. Revel had a superb biplane, the latest model in its line. Then there was a small monoplane for practice stunts. He initiated me into its pos- siblities. In a week I was a fair birdman. I doubted our ability to compete successfully with experts from all over the world, and, indeed, in the all end we won was fifth place and a twenty per cent interest in a $10,000 minor prize pool. However, at dusk one evening that happened which led to my abandonment of the perilous field of aviation. Revell had arranged for a night flight, he in the big machine and myself with the little monoplane. I had got into the pilot seat and started up, expecting him from the hangar at once. Just as the tail of my machine left the ground a man, a stranger dashed up to the spot. He was in a frantic state of excitement. He ended a sharp run in a daring spring that carried him clear over the wings and into the pit just back of the pilot plot. The delicate mechanism of the monoplane shivered at the unusual shock. I was about to shut off the control when he leaned towards me, pressed the cold muzzle of a revolver to my temple and hissed out: "Keep on going or I will kill you!" I was conscious of shouts below, a blurred sense of Revell rushing out of the hangar, of uniformed men rushing to the spot. Then, fairly alarmed, I let the monoplane shoot up into space. Then there happened a series of starts and thrills. A steady level attained, my grim passenger never lowered his weapon. He ordered me to proceed due north. Less than five miles accomplished, he left out a wild yell of dismay and rage. Suddenly a great white glare shot up, down, narrowed in a steady circle to a direct focus, and as in a spotlight picture we were nailed by the powerful headlight of the big biplane, the loyal, intelligent Revell at the pilot post in hot pursuit. "Drop! drop!" panted my passenger. "They're after me. Drop, I tell you!" "In that forest of trees!" I objected, glancing below. "Impossible!" "Get lower, or I will shoot!" yelled my companion, and I volcanized till we were skidding twenty feet above the thick grove of trees. My blood ran cold as the man jumped. I saw his outspread form strike the top of a towering titan of the forest. He crashed through the branches. The headlight followed his downward plunge. Then it focused the monoplane. At a clearing I descended. The big biplane landed beside me. "Hurt?" inquired Revell, springing out of his machine. "No? Good! Hurry, we must find that man—it's important." We came across him under the tree, crushed, mutilated, stone dead. As we carried him to the biplane a long metal box fell out of his incoer coat pocket. We placed him in the big machine and were soon back at the exhibition grounds. Half a dozen policemen aid an excited bustling old man who looked like a millionaire excitedly awaited us. He was what he suggested, it seemed, and the dead fugitive had robbed him of papers of inestimable value to him. As I handed him the metal box he cried out with vivid delight. He glanced eagerly over the papers it contained. "All safe!" he gloated. "It means half my fortune. Young man, have you a fountain pen?" I almost fell over as he wrote out a check for twenty-five thousand dollars! Faithful old Revell was induced to accept a quarter of it. Then, good-by to aviation and—home, Fay, the mortgage paid, and a wedding and happiness complete. Our Tolerance—for Ourselves "One of the greatest difficulties with which Christians have to deal," writes A. C. Benson, "is the tolerance with which they regard their own characters, which is quite different from the way in which they see and mark the faults of others. We make every allowance for ourselves, because we know our own difficulties and temptations. The results of many of our own faults escape us. We are quick-tempered and excuse it by saying we say frankly what we think, or we are sulken and pretend to ourselves that we restrain our outbreaks of temper, and know what our faults are more truly than we know ourselves; while we take refuge in thinking we are well-intentioned and that God will not be hard on us." Ossian. Ossian, a mythical Gaelic hero and bard, is said to have lived in the third century, and to have been the son of Fingal, a Caledonian prince and hero, whom he accompanied on various expeditions. The story goes that Ossian was carried away by his fairy grandmother to the "isle of the ever young," but he returned later, and then old, blind and alone, "Ossian after the Feinn," he told the story of the heroes to St. Patrick. In 1760-63 James Macpherson published two epics, which he claimed to be translations from Ossian's poems. Prescriptions in English. "If a medicinal substance has any effect except upon the imagination, it will have that effect as much when written in English as in perfect Latin," says the New York Medical Journal. It says doctors still write their prescriptions in Latin—and what Latin!—only because their ancestors did so, and perhaps because it impresses the patient, but the names of the drugs now used "look as formidable in English as in Latin." Therefore it urges physicians to write in English; thus fewer mistakes will be made in putting up medicines. Electricity Used With Giant Blasts. Electricity is now generally employed in blasting operations in mines and misfires or failures to explode are not frequent occurrences. Experiments have proved that a much greater explosive effect is produced by electric blasting than by the other method. The explanation is that the whole charge is ignited at once. For electric blasting there is required an exploder, a firing cable, a detonator and wires and explosive charge in the bore R. --- ```markdown ``` It seems that everything is woven in stripes this year, and the frock of gingham for the half-grown schoolgirl may show them as well managed as they are in the visiting gown made for her mother. The handling of striped fabrics is not a particularly simple matter, but when well done the results are something to be proud of. A good model for a dress of striped material is shown in the picture. It is in every way commendable for the girl of from nine to fourteen years and merits the attention of those who must provide clothes that shall be attractive for girls of the awkward age. One of the strongest points in favor of striped fabrics for children's wear lies in the fact that they allow simplicity and variety at the same time. By the simple expedient of changing the direction of the stripes the trimming is provided of the same material as the frock. The model shown is so good that it should be followed exactly as it is, by the copyists who use it. The bodice is cut with long shoulders and large arm's-eye, and the simplest of neck openings. In it the stripes run up and down and the slight fullness gathered in at the waist line gives them New Combina A new combination has appeared among, undermuslinns and has proved a great success in the spring displays. It has appealed to the senses of utility, economy and daintiness, which women exercise when outfitting themselves with summer underwear. This garment is called the "envelope chemise" and is engagingly pretty as well as practical. To cut the new combination, one has only to vary the lower part of a chemise pattern by sloping the side seams outward to provide for a flare at the bottom. Also the back breadth is cut longer than the front breadth and with a tab at the center of the lower edge. This tab is more or less narrow and is provided with buttonholes which fasten over small, flat pearl buttons sewed to the bottom edge of the front breadth. This arrangement divides the skirt of the chemise, making it as easy to walk in as muslin or silk pants and giving the appearance of a short under petticoat. The envelope chemise is developed in nainsook or other thin cotton fabrics and in wash silk or crepe de chine. It is trimmed with the usual lingerie laces. The corset cover, pants and short skirt may be dispensed with when this chemise is adopted, since it takes the place of each of them. Colored handkerchief linen blouses are shown again this year. You remember last year they were introduced for country wear. They are still on tailored linens, frequently with pockets. They have long sleeves and sometimes the fronts are scalloped. Red Hair and Light Eyebrows. A word of warning to the red-haired woman with light brows and lashes. Don't make them black; the effect the right direction. They slant toward the middle of the belt at the back and front. At each side a band of the material, having the stripes running horizontally, makes a neat decorative feature and adds to the skilpiness of the waist. In the elbowlength sleeves the stripes run lengthwise. The neck and sleeves are finished with an embroidered edging in a simple, well-made design. Pearl buttons, two at each side, and simulated buttonholes of narrow braid, are effective little touches on the front of the waist. The skirt is moderately full with panel at the front and plaits at the sides and back. Above the three-inch hem a band of the material, with the stripes running horizontally, gives the skirt a neat finish and a desirable flare at the same time. The belt may be of patent leather or suede or of some heavy fabric. Altogether, this dress follows many good points in the modes of spring for grownnups and at the same time contrives to be prettily childish and very practical. It is meant to be developed in wash fabrics and is easy to launder. tion Garment In the picture two developments of this new garment are shown, one with lace sleeves and lace trimming and the other made with small hand-run tucks at the front, a narrow handmade edging about the bottom and top and finishing the arm's eye. Any needlewoman can make this chemise and it is a very simple matter to laurise it. it is cool for summer wear, for it dispenses with at least one piece of underwear. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Smart Outing Costumes For smart country club costumes in norfolk style there is a new silk material called khaki-kool, which comes in various crisp weaves resembling shantung and rajah ponges and in smart shades of sand, putty, dreadnaught gray and in pearl and oyster white. These costumes are very simple and very smartly tailored with belted coats above wide circular skirts. The natural shade of the khaki-kool is sometimes matched by natural silk stockings; stockings to match the dark and light gray shades are also carefully selected for wear with black pumps or boots. This khaki-kool has a virtue of springing up, however it is crushed, and will, without doubt, be fancied also for summer motor coats. you achieve by so doing will be weird in the extreme, artificialness being its predominant note. In such a case light brown water cosmetique, well diluted and carefully applied, gives the very best results, for it imparts to the brows and lashes a ruddy brown tint which has at least the appearance of being natural, which coal-black with red hair are decidedly not. If resolutions could not be broken, few would be made. --- DAINTY SLUMBER ROBE BELONGS TO THE CLASS OF FILMY, FRILLY LINGERIE. White or Colored Crepe de Chine or Very Fine Nainsook May Be Employed for Construction—Eyelet Work Used. This is the sort of alluring trifle that the heroine of a "best seller" would appear in, in the frontispiece illustration; propped up in bed, luxuriously languid, slipping at a cup of beaten breakfast chocolate, writes Lillian E. Young in the Washington Star. They always do, you know, while clad in something mystic and lacy, with a young Matterhorn of dainty pillows as a background and—oh, we almost forgot the telephone, located just at the lady's elbow on a small stand, without which no boudour is complete—in fiction. This penchant of ours for dainty underthings may be induced by reading of such perfect creatures, though it is more than likely that they serve only as a stimulus for an inherent and already manifest love of filmy, frilly lingerie. The lovely "nighty" of the sketch may be made up in white or flesh-colored crepe de chine or in a very fine nainsook. The little outside sack is not a separate feature, but is attached to the gown by the corsage ribbon, which is run through the two together. It is cut very short and circular, and Glorified Gown for the Trousseau. flares nicely over the gown. The lower edge and the wing sleeves are button holed and eyelet-embroidered. The gown itself is sleeveless, being held over the shoulders by narrow straps. At a decidedly empire waist line appear, in brief sections across the front, back and sides, several close rows of shirring. The plain spaces between are ornamented with a touch of eyelet work. One Will Not Go Far Wrong if That Method of Decoration is Adhered To. If you are in doubt about trimming the new evening frock, whether or not it is cut on the empire lines, place your minds on flowers. They have returned to favor out of the decades gone by. They are used to catch the drapery on skirt or bodice, or as shoulder straps, or as moyenage girdles, when they are fragile as orchids or rose-buds. The short full skirt has crept in. Gathered flounces are even used on the lower edge of underskirts. A tub frock that is as good an example as has been seen of the tendency of spring clothes has long, slim raglan sleeves combined with a standing collar and an exceedingly full skirt. The blouse, too, while it fits smoothly across the shoulders, is so circularly cut that it is fully gathered into the waistband. The circular skirt has as many gathers at the belt and a circular and gathered flounce is found at the bottom of the underskirt. This gown is a combination of cream batiste, pale blue or pink linen and cluny lece. Silk Fruit Silk fruit in pale colors, silk fruit in intense colors, or, for that matter, silk fruit in any color will continue to be a most popular trimming this spring. Purchased at a shop, the prices are prohibitive for many girls, but made at home the cost is proportionately nothing. Circles of silk or GO BACK TO OLD FASHIONS Some Designs In Hats Look as if They Might Have Been Copied From Family Albums. A great deal has been said anent the fact that many of the new fashions look as if they had been copied from the photographs in the family album. One is more and more impressed with this thought as the season, with its ever-changing fashions, advances. Certain it is that there is a decidedly old-fashioned look about many of our clothes. And have you seen the hats that look as if they were trimmed with wax flowers under glass? Surely you remember seeing some time, in some old-fashioned drawing room, waxed flowers under a little dome of glass? This new method of hat trimming is suggestive of the waxed flowers. The hats so trimmed have brims that curl or bend upward a little at the edge-perhaps half an inch is the depth of the bent or curled part of the brim. A layer of colored silk volle MARIE L. LANCASTER Reminiscent of crinoline days, is this quintet frock of chiffon in a combination of bisque and belgian blue. The corsage is traced in an embroidery motif. The sleeves are of the new tube type, gathered into a puff at wrist. The hat is a picturesque shepherdess of leghorn, covered with blue soldat chiffon, embroidered in contrasting shades. The streamers fasten under the chin. FOLLOW FASHION OF ELDERS Costumes for Small Girls Are More or Less a Copy of Those Worn by the Grownups. Faithful to tradition, the fashions of the nursery and school room are following those of the drawing room, and girls from seven to seventeen are wearing long-waisted dresses with frills or plats to give the basque or tunic effect. A very soft shade of red, like the wild rose, is popular for their tailor-made suits, and with it it is worn black headwear in the form of pliable velvet-felt or chenille, black shoes and stockings and black gloves. Military overcoats are designed for little boys and girls, as well as for senior wearers. The collars and belts are distinctive characteristics of the models and on the collars are emblems of gilt or silver braid. When the Russian inspiration is not pressed unduly it is accountable for some very handsome effects in braiding and finger-width fur trimminges upon open-air suits, and for particularly becoming collar bands, short and upright, or a roll of fur that clings closely round the neck. Pure colors are accepted now. It would seem that everything is to be simple. So we see a green that is the usually accepted dye, not olive, lime or pastel but just a pure green, and a brown as honest. Both are called Russian, and the brown is the accepted tint of the leather that smells so sweet. kid, firmly packed with cotton and drawn up snugly, is the recipe. Add a french knot, drawing the silk thread all the way through the fruit so that it flattens it correctly, and fasten the thread tightly to the other side. Or, in gold or green silk or some contrasting color, work a tiny circle in chain stitch (before filling with cotton), then fill and draw up the cover. In the center of the circle place a french knot and tighten firmly to the opposite side. EGG ADDS TO EFFECTIVENESS Suggestion for Best Shampoo—How to Coax the Eyebrow Into a Proper Appearance. To make egg shampoo, take the yolk of one egg, hot rain water, one pint and one ounce of rosemary spirits. Beat the mixture thoroughly and rub it well into the roots of the hair. Rinse in several waters or use a bath spray, which greatly simplifies the work. It is well to moisten the hair with warm water before the shampoo is applied; this makes the work easier and the egg will not stick to the hair. Here is a treatment for those afflicted with pale, sparse eyebrows and lashes which make a face expressionless. They can be coaxed into a better growth by rubbing the eyebrows nightly with vaseline and applying to the roots of both the eyebrows and eyelashes a tonic made by mixing five grains of sulphate of quinine with one ounce of sweet almond oil. Apply this with a fine sable brush which comes for the purpose. or chiffon is stretched from the edge of the brim to the crown, and in the space so covered flowers are laid. rather flatly, around the brim. The color effects so gained are charming. For instance, a faded violet volle is stretched from the edge of the curled brim of a peacock-blue straw hat, and the flowers under the volle are in various shades of rose and yellow. The color effect resulting is really charming. Hand Embroidery Hand embroidery plays a prominent part in the trimming of thin frocks. There are many lovely frocks of net almost covered with embroidery Blouses of sheer fabrics, too, show much embroidery. Varied Waist Lines There is a waist line to suit every type—the empire for the slight, youthful figure, the natural waist line for the conservatives and straight ones for the stout figure. The man who has no imagination never falls in love. WHEN PREPARING EGGS MUCH CARE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THEIR COOKING. Digestibility Is Affected by Temperature of Water in Which They Are Boiled—Proper Method of Making Omelet. While it would seem that anyone can cook so simple a food as an egg satisfactorily, no other food is so affected by different cooking methods and particularly by degrees of temperature. The albumen, or egg white, is greatly changed by heat, and the way the heat is applied. If it is gently warmed, coagulation, or hardening, does not at once take place, although the substance may be perfectly cooked. But if plunged at once into boiling water or liquid the albumen becomes tough and far less desirable as a food element. It is, therefore, much better to cook eggs by some other method than direct boiling; steaming, poaching or "codling" keeps the albumen soft, while cooking. For dishes requiring "hard-bolled" eggs, it is best to let them simmer for about twenty minutes, so that the white will be solid, yet tender, and the yolk dry and mealy. Frying, or coating the egg directly with fat, also hardens the albumen and makes it less digestible. It is far better to put the eggs in a buttered dish and "shirr" or bake them in the oven. The secret of successful dishes like the omelet, which is made so well abroad, lies all in the temperature of the pan, the fat and the quickness and skill with which it is handled before allowed to become tough or stringy. Eggs contain no starchy qualities. This teaches us to build up our egg menus with starches such as potatoes, rice, macaroni. Eggs also need to be served with fat, which does not mean frying in fat, but a sauce or dressing containing butter or other oil. An error common to housewives is to relegate the us, of eggs chiefly to cakes and puddings, adding these to an already heavy meat meal. Since eggs are the equivalent of meat, if we use them generously in a pudding we do not then need meat in our first course. Similarly, it is unwise dietetics to serve a heavy, rich cake as the last course of a dinner beginning with a fatty meat like lamb, which already has given us muscle and fat. Plain Paper Best A plain paper or one with quiet self-tone pattern is the only kind that makes a successful background for pictures. The soft neutral tone of cartridge paper is a splendid setting for ornaments and pictures, while soft brown is a safe choice of paper for the average room, as against it almost any picture, be it oil painting, water color, portrait, etching or photograph, appears to advantage. Gray is also a good restful color. A happy and popular combination is the gray wall covering with white woodwork. It is an admirable idea for the city apartment, where there is none too much light. Angel Cakelets. Sift together several times one-half cupful of fine granulated sugar, one-half cupful of pastry flour, one-half level teaspoonful cream tartar, beat whites of four eggs till stiff and dry, then gradually mix in the sugar and flour. Flavor with one-half teaspoonful of almond, rose or vanilla, drop with a teaspoon on pans covered with buttered paper an inch or two apart; sprinkle with sugar, white or pink, and bake in a moderate oven ten or fifteen minutes; will make two dozen. To Wash Comforters Make a nice warm soapsups in bath tub. Put comfort in. Take scrubbing brush and scrub soiled ends, using washboard to scrub on. After soaking and stamping, let water off and drain, then fill the tub with clean water and rinse. Let the water off and drain. Don't try to wring. Put on line; when almost dry beat with carpet beater. It will be as light and fluffy as new and no muss to clean up. Ginger Cream. Beat the yolks of three eggs, add one pint of milk, two tablespoonful sirup from preserved sugar and one cupful sugar. Cook all together until thick. Strain, add one tablespoonful gelatin that has been dissolved in a little cold milk, the whites of three eggs beaten stiff and beat all together until it begins to thicken, then add four ounces preserved ginger cut in very small pieces. Put in a mold to cool and serve with whipped cream. Cabbage Slaw. Take a head of cabbage and slice very thin. Wash and put in kettle with just water enough to cover. Simmer slowly until tender, then drain and add enough milk to cover and some salt and pepper to taste. If you have some gravy from a roast, add, but if not, add a good-sized piece of butter. Serve very hot. Soft Custard. Two cups milk, one-quarter teaspoonfuls salt, one-quarter cupful sugar, two rounded tablespoonfuls cornstarch, two egg yolks; scald milk and sugar in double boiler; mtx beaten egg yolks, cornstarch, salt and a little cold milk; add to other mixture; remove from stove when thickened. Serve cold. Onion on Toast. Take half of a large sweet onion, slice very thin, put in frying pan with butter, season with salt and pepper. Cover and let stew slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, then remove cover and let brown. Thicken with flour and milk as for meat gravy. Four over hot slices of toasted bread. Hungarian Salad. One pint cold boiled potatoes sliced very thin, one small onion, grated, two cold boiled beets, diced, five sardines, boned and mashed, one tablespoonful minced cold cooked ham, one small green pepper thinly shredded. Sprinkle with salt, add one-half cupful French dressing. Chill. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ‘All communteations should be addremwed HTM ensue city’ Sun, Leos Bast ttn Boll Phone East 999, Bntered a kecond-class matter, August 43, 2808, at fe Postoftice at Kanan City, fo, under the act of March 3, 1819. Nelson ©. Crews........Editor and Owner ‘Willa 'B. Glenn. ......27.General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MORN ERE ac ccscsecuirt asesscens cit MO: Er Mentha 2S saree. ‘Month. cccJccsessususeses 80 ADVERTISING RATE, 60 CENTS PER. INCH. | CHURCH DIRECTORY, Bothel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora toils Bleblon's Haptiot Chateh, Wt Char eB eee ‘M. & Church, 19th and (escond Baptist Caurch, 00h and Char ae ‘A. M. B Church, 10th and nasi ‘Citineas’ Ave, Baptist Church, 46th ani sents ae A. 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If you paint your house it will make it look fresh; if your wife paints her face it will make her look the same way. The Grand Master received an in- vitation to be present at the Knights Templar services on Easter Sunday, but regrets that he will be unable to do so, Mr. Ewing, the disciple of agricul: tural pursults for Negroes is dead right in his particular line even if he did have to endorse the policy of lying down before jimerowism in or- Wer to receive attention from the Kan- sas City Star, There are many forms of race hu- miliation to which we have to sub- mit on aecount of our political weak- Hess as a people, but we do not have to pay our money for undesireable seats in theatres, then be ushered in and out through alleys. The Negro who does this ought to be humiliated, ‘The Board of Police Commilssioners deserve the sincere thanks of the Ne- eroes in particular for their wisdom and courage in closing the notorious Weinberg saloon at 18th and Lydia avenue. It has long been an eyesore and a disgrace to the locality and the better class of citizens have repeated Ty protested against it. Inasmuch as Billy Sunday has so openly denounced all other forms of iniquity among his own people, a prominent Negro minister of Washing. ton has written him, begging that the greatest of all iniquities, race prejudice, come in for a share of his ‘attention during his coming visit. Sunday has made no promises along this line, ‘That young Dr. Paul Crosthwaite, son of Prof. David Crosthwaite of this city, made such a high record in @ recent civil service examination in Chicago is most gratifying to all his Kansas City friends. He ranked sec- ‘ond in the list and was less than one percent behind the white man who attained first place which indicates some very close Anglo-Saxon figuring. Capt. N. Clark Smith is another one of those talented Negroes who is not content with merely doing the work for which he is pald. He now has an ambitious plan on foot to organize among the musicians of Greater Kan- ‘sas City a big symphony orchestra to be composed of people who really Jove music and are willing to study it for its own sake rather than for commercial considerations. ; Dr. J. W. Hurse was quite right when he declared that “whenever Negro is beaten’ up in a certain North End Greek eating place, business al ways picks up.” There are glways Persons of our race who by thelr ec- tons appear to sanction not only the vilest discriminations but even the most brutal treatinent at the hanis of low white people. It is this class of Negroes, so lacking: in self-respect and manly courage which stands a constant menace to our welfare. : Health Hints By Dr. Lioyd 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. i, all ee” ~ array eT ki | BR SAS baie ae * eg, ae ee E ee _ ene Pe i Bk: : ‘te a Z Sf es eZ pele 5. eet : ae “Tp sy iting aS ae: age fa 4 Aa be OE Se ae ees en eid OES a Pe bee ai ee pee a ks Fs ‘ ‘phe : Pe * # ieee a P bee c |) et tee ES - pea ea eae} o> a PPT oe ee ; rm ‘SIR. P. C. KINCADE, V.E. G. C. of the Missouri Jurisdiction and the best drillmaster in the country. THE HYGIENE OF THE KIDNEYS. We have frequently mentioned the fact that we are being continually poisoned during the processes of life either by poisons taken into the body through food and drink or by poison- us substances formed within the body as a consequence of the action of various organs. It is evident, there: fore, that these poisons must be thrown off by the eliminating or gans, namely: the skin, intestines and kidneys. ‘The skin alone, even by the addi- tional assistance of perspiration is unable to eliminate more than a small portion of this mterial. In addit'on to the skin, the intestines also assist the work of the kidneys by expelling principally the poisons from the di- Bestive organs. But only a small por tion of the poisons circulating in the blood wil be elminated in this way, especially if there be a sluggish ac- tion of these organs. Thus the great bulk of the poisonous products is car- ried to the kidneys, which are, in- deed, our most important organs for the elimination of poisonous sui stances from the blood. In view of the great importance of these organs, it is highly necessary that we preserve their integrity and protect them. from disease, as far as possible, by the observance of hy- gienic measures that pertain especial- ly to the kidneys. We cannot over- estimate the importance of protect. Ing the kidneys from disease because such diseases are ditiicult to treat, difficult both for the physician anJ the patient. Cures are often impos: | sible because the destroyed glandular | tissue cannot be replaced and the pa- tient can prolong his existence only by tediously careful routine during the rest of his life. It is essential that the skin and in- testines be kept in good working or-| der because the kidneys, working nor- mally to their capacity, should not, be forced to do the additionals work rendered necessary by the incapacity of other organs. Frequent baths ani suitable clothing are necessary to the proper function of the skin while the free and daily movement of the bow- els should insure the eliminative fuac- tion of the intestines. Since, as we have before stated, the great bulk of the poisons within the body are generated from food ani drink, the hygiene of the kidneys is mainly the hygiene of diet. So we shail consider briefly those articles of diet most important in their rela- tion to the kidneys, 1 ROSEDALE, KANSAS. Mrs, Joseph Collins, 3921 Lloyd Avenue, was hostess for a luncheon given for the Pleasant Valley Baptist Chureh....Mr. and Mrs, W. B. Shel: by, 8905 Lloyd Avenue are on the sick list....The Easter program il! be rendered by the Sunday School at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church ‘Sunday evening....Mr. Joseph Col- Mins is very i, ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Rev. Prince, the pastor of Frances Street Baptist Church preached the annual sermon of-St. James Court at 11:00 o’elock Sunday morning. His text was taken from the 12th chapter of St. John and the 15th verse; at $:00 o'clock. He preached another very able sermon to the K. of P.’s --+-Mrs, Bell Brown, Mrs, Elizabeth Brown, Miss. Corporal, Mrs. Maggie Brown are reported on the sick list... «Mrs. Helm of Keokuk, la,, who was called to the bedside of her brother, Harry Vaugin, left Monday for her home. He remains unimproved... Miss Mable Jackson of Atchison, Kas , is in the city to remain indefinitely. +-+.Mrs. John Jordan gave a musical at the A. M. EB Church Thursday, April 1 which was quite a success, LAWRENCE. KaNgac substituted at New York School Mon-| hs According to Dr, Bunge, a note authority, we use entirely too mucl salt and in this way injure our kid heys considerably. It has been dem onstrated that diseased kidneys. dé Hot eliminate salt and that the reten tion of this substance is the chie factor in causing the dropsy which is characteristic of certain kidney dis cass, Also in these cases decides improvement follows when the patient Js put upon what is called a salt-free diet or one in which no salt Is used For these reasons it is advisable t¢ tise salt moderately if not sparingly in our daily food. Milk Is an article of dfet which is especially well borne by the kidneys It stimulates the action of these slands and passes through them with ont irritation, Milk in its acidulated forms, such as sour or butter milk, is especially valuable as a kidney stim lane An abundant meat diet {s decidedty injurious to the kidneys. The Irse Amount of poisonous products formed [from the digestion of meat places a “heavy burden upon the kidneys whose ‘overwork may be followed by their exhaustion, Hence it follows that a diet which is largely vegetarian with meat but once a day is the most suit- able, The immoderate use of alcohol is also destructive to kidney tissue and frequently causes chronie disease of these o1gans, ‘The alcohol habit leads to the Immoderate use of salt which has already been mentioned s injur- fous to the kidneys, Not only alco- hol but other stimulants like tea and coffee are harmful to the kidneys taken in large quantities, but their use in moderation is altogether safe. Irritating spices, commercial sauces ani highly seasoned foods of all Kinds are to be avoided. ‘The passage of such ‘ubstances for years through the Kidneys must certainly injure thelr delicate structure and prepare the way for disease. It is always advisable to drink plen- ty of water. ‘This is Nature's pro- vision for flushing out the kidneys and ridding them of the excess of pols- onous material which they would oth- erwise retain. Persons should train themselves to take at least eight glasses of water daily, The observance of the above men: tioned measures will go far towards red'iving the percentage of Kidney dis- eaces among us and of prolonging the life of those who already may be suf. fering from these diseases in their imilder forme. J day In Miss 8, Stone's place...,...4 number of Lawrence people are talk ing of spending Easter in Kansa: City....Mirs. W. C. Brown and he1 uncle, Mr. D. W. Spotsville spent Sun day in Carrolton, Mo,, visiting Rey. and Mrs.-L, W. Harris..,.Miss Cath erine Grant is visiting Mr., and Mrs. Jackson at Rosedale, Kansas....Mrs C. B. Venerable was shopping in Kan. sas City Friday....Mrs, J. G: Cruteh. fleld of Garnett, Kansas, visited last week with her daughters, Mrs. W. C. Brown and Mrs. L. Mason....Mr. D. W. Spotsville of Garnett, Kansas, visit. ed relatives and friends in Lawrence last week, PHOENIX, ARIZ. By 1. H. JONES. ‘The four churehes’here held a union love feast. ‘Those attending assem: bled at Sister Bullard Brown's rest- dence, 109 West JaJckson street, at 7:30 p.m, It was @ four round spread, Bible quotations were given by the ministers and their guest, Dr. Herring- ton, A short program was rendered, ‘The platters were filled with veal loaf, spring chicken, baked hen, Dis- cuit, four varieties of pie, beans, peas, Potatoes, sulra hog, chicken salad, cake, and three tables were filled with fruit, ‘This was a gala day for the ministers and” their flock, Sister Brown knew just how to make every: thing appetizing. Let Phoenix come out strong and be one of our leading church going cities, Watch our windows for. the best| # display of spring shoes aya pumps we| ¥ have yet shown, Try us 1507 east | 3 Betty @ Sam's Little Cornex) Baa Ck ‘ sae - aS Sr, si Gor TA) } A i Ee / SE by Ree ANP ery} Ee ty ‘es A THEY sa vy —That the Detmonico Cate will serve u bigger and belter dinner that ver on Baster sunday ~That the average Negro business man will not prnetice what he preach ea about TAGRRIGs Coir eee —That Dr. Theo. Smith's formal Raster opening will be the finest he has ever given and that a great sur prise is in store for the ladies, —That a great many Negroes want a “big writeup and their cut In the pa: bah,” as long as it costs nothing but ask them to pay ani Oh! my! —That you had better investigate before you swallow too much of H. P. wing's “Back to the farm” dope. —That a good sister threatened to report & preacher to his Bishop if he didn’t pay @ ttle bill ne owed but instead of being bluffed, he said “Re- port and be d—d."* Oh you preacher. —That there wil be a whole lot of clothes worn tomorrow that will not be paid for before next Christmas. Fast world, —That as the end of the school Year draws near, a number of teach- ers are found on the anxious set. Look: out for the ax. —That Betty and Sam’s cousin who lives at Chiliicothe, Mo., sent in the following queries this week: —That the Modérn Priscilla Club has a high tinie when they meet but the pastors don't know what's going on, Why? No invitation, Isn't that a pity? __—That out of twenty-nine pastors a ‘certain church has had, they have not learned to be loyal to any. What's the matter? Isn't he a Christian and & gospel precher? I guess that's the our | —That quite a number of the loyal ‘members refuse to become identified with the Modern Priscilla movement. Why- spirit of its foundation, God help it. —That a certain preacher is dealing out too much strong gospel, ‘Tell him to keep it up. ‘They wiil come to it after a while, Use both phones free’at Ideal Phar. macy. Phone us for ice cream, toilet articles and sundries, For Sale—An elegant almost new $200 cash register and a Smith Pre- mier typwriter, at @ bargain, Call the Sun office for information, AMUSEMENT PARK FOR NEGROES Land Near Nineteenth and Woodland to be Occupied by a $60,000 | ‘Concent Articles of incorporation were filed in the circuit court yesterday, creat. ing the Lincoln Electric Park Com. pany, whih will erect an amusement park for negroes, The company is capitalized at $60,000, and the officers are George H. Siedhoff, president; Locis Hector, vice-president, and Earl S. Ridge, secretary. ‘The park will extend from Mayfield Avenue south to the Belt Line and from Woodland Avenue to Euclid Avenue. The park will open May 15—K. c. Star. At last the colored people of the two Kansas Cities, thirty-five thousand in number, are to have a beautiful amusement park in keeping with the heeds and wishes of this great num. ber of our people who during the past two years have absolutely no place for recreation, save limited privileges at Swope Park and the tennis court on the Paseo. While a group of public spirited white men are financing this proposition and making {t possible for the negroes of Missouri and Kansas to have an ac: ceptable and delightful place of en- Joyment, they are also offering stock in any quantity to thrifty agd far. seeing colored people who desire to share in the profits and control of this much needed institution. The negro. fraternal organizations of the city will be invited to participate in the opening ceremonies of this beautiful and splendidly located park and the Negro Business League is going to make strenuous effort to secure the attendance of the distinguished Dy. Booker T. Washington to be speaker on this occasion, especially in view of the fact that the 1916 ses sion of the National Negro Business League will be held in this city and many of its social features will more than likely be held in this park, Every negro Who can should be @ stockhold- er in this concern and ue partite plating the purchase of stock better hurry and see Mr, Ridge, the yecretary of the Lincoln Hlectric Park Whose offices are at 301-23 Finance Bldg. Be . ‘ « You Should Use - - 5 —S TESTIMONIAL, 5 ’ Madam P. M. Dabney’s| | __ “With the use of Madam P. M. XXTH CENTURY Dabney’s XXth Century Hair Prep- arations my hair has grown four HAI R PREPA RATIONS inches in six months. 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STO yet [GH PATENT tyme Subscribe Now for The Sun TYPEWRITING DONE at Kansas City Sun office, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Neat, quick work. Rates rea- sonable, Engagements by appoint. ment. Bell phone East 999, DELMONICO'S FAMOUS EASTER DINNER WELL COOKED--WELL SERVED A Social Triumph to Dine Here. Mrs. Francis J. Wilson, 913 Woods land avenue, remains quite ill. Mrs. Helen Carter of Chicago is visiting Mrs. Mayme Heltz of Kansas City, Kas. Miss Emma Williams of 1326 Spruce avenue, who has been sick for the past two weeks, is rapidly improving. Mr. Allen Mansfield of Clifton, Mo., is visiting his son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Johnson, 1025 Walker avenue. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Tutt were called out of the city Monday to attend the funeral of Mr. Tutt's sister, Mrs. Maamie Burris, of Versailles, Mo. The Immaculates and Queen Esther Court will have their annual sermon Easter Sunday at the Pleasant Green Baptist church at 2 p.m. Miss Dorothy Waldron will spend Easter at Weston, Mo., the guest of her aunt, Miss Mable Emery, who is teaching in the public school there. Miss Judith Syms will come Thursday from the University of Kansas to spend Easter with her mother, Mrs. Henriletta Syms, 2415 Grove street. DELMO FAMOUS EASY WELL COOKED A Social Triump Money to loan on approved security. We sell homes on easy terms. See me or my clerk at my office, $521½ Virginia. Phone 1259. J. N. Brownlee, Joplin, Mo. Mrs. Nora Shaw of Omaha, Neb., is visiting her mother and sisters, Mrs. Henrietta Braxton of 1731 Michigan avenue, Mrs. Lottie Miller and Mrs. Alice Williams. H. A. Page, Shoes, SHOES, spring slippers, misses' patent white tops, boys' tans, children's baby dolls in swell grays and white. 1507 East 18th street. G. A. Page. Miss Gertrude E. B. Brown of Leavenworth, Kas., and Mr. Bernard T. Beauchamp of Liberty, Mo., were married Saturday afternoon, March 27, 1915. Rev. G. Harris performed the ceremony. We have the best shoes and fullest lines that we have ever had. We try to please. Our prices are lower and we guarantee satisfaction. Give us your next call and save money. G. A. Page, 1507 East 18th st. Mrs. Julia Holt Johnson, 934 Everett avenue, entertained Mrs. Cora Washington of St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday night. Mrs. Washington was called to the city to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. J. I. Neal. Have you seen that white top patent leather lace baby doll in the window at the Colored Shoe store, 1507 East Eighteenth street? They say it's the latest and smartest thing for well dressed misses and children. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Dotson entertained at breakfast Sunday morning at their cafe, 1705 East Twelfth street, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard T. Beauchamp. The table was beautifully decorated with American Beauty roses. Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp are at home at 1705 East Twelfth street. The Band of Hope Sewing circle of the Eighth Street Baptist Tabernacle, net at the home of Brother and Sister Josephine Marshall, 2412 Tremont street. There were seventeen members present. After the routine business the hostess served the ladies with a dainty luncheon. We are not even asking you to call on us because we are a colored business, but because we've got a nice, up-to-date line of Easter footwear. Slippers with beautiful colored vestings and quarters for ladies. They are correct to the minute. 1507 East 18th st. Mrs. Amanda Junior, Mrs. Mary Jones and Miss Addie Gordon gave a birthday surprise party to Mrs. Cora McKay, 2406 Flora avenue, Saturday night. Many beautiful presents were contributed and twelve persons were present and an enjoyable evening was spent. The management of the Old Folks and Orphans' home desire to thank the friends for the following donations received during the month of March: Mt. Olive lodge, groceries $5.20; Mr. Spligener, $1; Miss H. Walton, $1; Mr. Kate Jordan, $1; Miss Sarah O. Lee, 25 cents; Billiken Whist club, clothing, provisions and coal; Kansas City Sun, printing; Suydam Baking Company, bread. Mrs. Emma E. Ingrant, 18 North Compton avenue, St. Louis, Mo., who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. F. B. Heatley, 1607 Tracy, who has been quite ill, returned home Monday and took her aunt with her. Mrs. Albert H. Hall of Denver, Col., spent several days in our city the past week visiting and is stopping with Mrs. Allen, 1706 East Tenth CITY NEWS. street. She goes from here to St. Louis and will return here before leaving for home. Mrs. Fredericka S. Perry, wife of our distinguished physician, Dr. J. E. Perry, was operated upon last Monday at the Wheatley Provident Hospital by Dr. G. W. Brown and is doing nicely and will be able to return home by next week. The Thanksgiving services of the K. of P, N, A, S, A, E, A, A & A. were very largely attended last Sunday at Allen Chapel. Hon. Fred W. Dabney was Master of Ceremony and Grand Chancellor of the day, assisted by M. Lillian Johnson, Grand Worthy Lecturer. Music was furnished by Allen Chapel choir with Prof. D. N. Crostwhait as Prelate. The Proclamations were read by T. P. Jackson and Mrs. Ida N. Birch. After a solo by Mrs. Hammett, an able and impressive sermon was delivered by Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D. The Second Regiment K. of P. Band furnished most excellent music for the parade which was led by four colored police officers and nearly four hundred men were in line. The editor and Mrs. Jas. H. Crews were called hurriedly to Chillicothe. ONICO'S MSTER DINNER -WELL SERVED oh to Dine Here. Mo., last Monday on account of the dangerous illness of their brother, Rev. Chase H. Crews. The editor re- turned Thursday. Mrs. Crews remains at his bedside. A rare treat was given to the inmates of the Olk Folks and Orphan's Home Wednesday afternoon by the Neighborhood Art and Improvement club. The ladies prepared and served the following menu: Stewed chicken with rice, creamed potatoes, French peas, home-made pickles, jelly, hot biscuit, coffee, tea, two kinds of homemade cake, ice cream. Jars of fruit were left at the home. The club is composed of Mesdames Smith, Chas. Alexander, D. T. Grant, Chas. Harvey, Wm. Washington, T. M. King, John Steele, George Brown, Phil Cooper, C. Edmondson, Hayes Loving, Chas. Plummer, Howard M. Smith and Geo Johnson—Mrs. Samuel Smith, president; Minerva Alexander, secretary. Mrs. Mary Lackey passed away Sat sunday night, March 27, at the general hospital. She formerly lived in Mound City, Kas., and had been a resident of this city for five years, and was an inmate of the Old Folks' Home. She was born in Maco, Ga., 89 years ago. She is survived by a granddaughter, Mrs. Pearl Ewing, 2728 Highland avenue, four great-greatchildren and a host of friends to mourn her loss. Interment was made in Union cemetery. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends for their kindness and beautiful floral of ferings to our mother. MRS. PEAL EWING, 2728 Highland. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many neighbors and friends and Rev. J. M. Booker, Lily of the Valley Court and Queen Household of Ruth for their sympathy and beautiful floral offerings at the death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Henrietta Johnson. MRS. HEFFORD, Daughter. MR. HEFFORD. CHARLIE JOHNHSON, OSCAR JOHNSON, Sons. Major R. R. Moten, Commandant of the Hampton Cadets and the Hampton Quartette were banqueted Tuesday evening at the Y. M. C. A. A committee of the Alumni met them at the depot with motor cars and escorted them to the Y. M. C. A., their stopping place. At 6:30 dinner was served in the Cafeteria to a party of twenty including the guests and the Alumni. At 8 o'clock the Gym Team gave an exhibition for thirty minutes after which a public reception was held in the lobby at which a large number of our citizens were present to meet the visitors. Prof. R. T. Coles, president of the Hampton Chapter presided. In a brief remarks he outlined the policies pursued at Hampton Institute. He spoke of Manual Training all being done in the Colored Ward Schools by Hampton Graduates and of Tuskegee which is a child of Hampton. Several musical numbers were furnished by Miss Elsa Nix and Miss Helen Minnis. Vocal by Prof. W. T. White. Remarks by Prof. G. N. Grisham, W. B. Kennedy and Major Moten and several selections by the Hampton quartette. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of my husband Wm. Black, who died two years ago April 5, 1913. Gone but not forgotten MRS. BUTACE BLACK. The Negro Business League offers to its members a prize of $2.50 for the best practical plan to raise money to increase its funds. The plan is to be submitted in writing at the next meeting of the League, April 15. Women's Club Notes Miss N. E. White will entertain the Clippers at cards Easter Monday at 1020 Virginia. The 1915 Dancing Club dances every Tuesday night and Thursday afternoon at the Lyric hall. PROF. W. C. CLARK, Instructor. KENSINGTON ART CLUB Will Give Their Annual Exhibit MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5 At LYRIC HALL Admission 25 Cents. The Carnation Art club met Friday the 26th, with Mrs. Lillian Berryman, 1329 Michigan avenue, with 18 in attendance. The hostess served a dainty luncheon and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Mary Pennison, 2626 Highland avenue, Friday, April 2. PROGRESS STUDY CLUB The Progress Study Club will meet with Mrs. Lucinda McCarty at the home of Mrs. Silas Chaney Wednesday, April 7. "The Physical Destiny of the American Negro" will be reread by Mrs. A. E. Jenkins. All members are urged to be present. MRS. R. E. L. BAILEY, Pres. MRS. JESSE NOVEL, Secy. Mrs. Williams' training school had its monthly social at Garrison Field House Thursday night. A large crowd of girls attended. The social part of this school will be the means of making their lives more worth while and relieve the monotony of everyday duties. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Social motto. A. CORRECTION Editor Sun: Two weeks ago there appeared an article under the city news stating that Misses Jeanette Green and Ethellyn Wilson entertained with a dance at Garrison Square. I wish to correct this statement, and say the Ochya girls were entertained at Garrison Square Friday, March 12 by Misses Greene and Wilson. Respectfully, JEANETTE M. GREENE. The XX History and Art Club met Thursday, April 1, with Mrs. Mary Hawkins, 1711 East 19th street. A majority of the members were present. The ladies are working earnestly looking forward to their exhibit Our nevt meeting with Miss Ida Jones 1645 Cottage avenue. The hostess served a delicious lunch which was heartily enjoyed. MISS CATHERINE WASHINGTON President. MRS. ROSA SMITH, Secretary. OAK LEAF ART CLUB. Oak Leaf Art Club met with Mrs Emma Washington, 909 Garfield avenue. After three hours' work the hostess served a repast and the visitors were received. Mr. J. Dallas Bowser one of the most distinguished men of the race, intellectually, financially and socially addressed them on the work of the N. A. A. C. P., and on Club work. The Club is grateful for this excellent address. The other visitors were Mrs. Chaney, Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Jackson. AMANDA WHEELER. Reporter. The Women's League was entertained at its meeting last Tuesday evening by Mrs. N. C. Crews of 2624 Highland avenue. It being the regular election of officers the rules were suspended on motion of Miss Victoria Overall and all of the officers were re-elected for another year. After the transaction of the business of the League the hostess served a delightful lunch. Those elected were: Mrs. T. G. McCampbell, president; Mrs. Lena DeFrantz, secretary; Mrs. Myrtle Todd, vice president, and Miss Anna Jones, treasurer. The Lyceum Art Club met at the residence of Mrs. Mabel Weatherly, 2314 Highland avenue. The members worked steadily for two hours after which business was transacted. Miss Edith Evans was admitted to the Club as a new member. The Club donated $2.50 to the Eason Monument. The business for the evening being complete, we were served with a dainty two-course luncheon by the hostess. After spending a delightful evening and every member declaring Mrs. Weatherly a charming hostess, we adjourned to meet with Mrs. Nettie Johnson, 1806 Howard avenue, Thursday, April 8. The Phyllis Wheatley Art club met with Mrs. Clay, 2012 Summit street, with a large attendance. Mrs. Jacobs of Kansas City, Kas., and Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Barton were visitors. Mrs. Jacobs made an excellent talk on club work, Mr. Barton gave the club much inspiration and her remarks were enjoyed by all present. After a short discussion the club voted to offer Mrs. Weaver an apology for having made a mistake in the awarding of prizes for the Martha Washington tea. Mrs. Weaver brought in the largest amount of money; Mrs. McClain the second, and Mrs. Elliot the third. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Berry. 3211 Main street, and with Mrs. Elliot, 1017 Woodland, April 8.—Mrs. G. G. Mason, Reporter. Among the Churches Among the Churches Grand Art Exhibit by XX History and Art Club, at Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets, Monday, May 3. Watch this date. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH. Special music by Ebenezer choir Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. in the form of Schirmer's Sacred Cantata, "The Daughter of Jafrus," under the management of Prof. Fred J. Work. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. At 11 a.m. the pastor will preach from "Visit to the Tomb." At 7:30 an Easter program will be rendered by the Sunday school, after which the Rev. A. J. Parker will preach. All persons should hear this evangelist. He is helping in the revival meeting. The Lord is with us. Will you be with us, too? WARD CHAPEL. A church club called the Ward Chapel Propellers was organized on March 30 at Mrs. Marlon Reed's, 1103 Woodland avenue, to help raise money in the present rally to move Ward chapel out of the basement; to win the interest of the people in the struggling church, and to induce sociability. The four organizers were Mrs. K. T. Brooks, Mrs. W. M. Johnston, Miss DeKonza and Mrs. Reed, who were elected president, vice president, treasurer and secretary, respectively. ST. LUKE A. M. E. CHURCH Our church is making great progress under the able leadership of Rev. E. E. Treadville, pastor. Rev. Mrs. Mary E. Wilson of Indianapolis, Ind., that God inspired divine, who never hesitates to tell the truth regardless to whose foot she may fit, conducted the revival meeting, beginning March 9 to March 28. A glorious time was had. Souls were revived, sinners redeemed, backsliders reclaimed; eight additions, six converts. Would to God the race had more God-fearing and trustworthy leaders like Mrs. Wilson. BEHEL A. M. E. CHURCH The services at Bethel will begin at 5 o'clock Easter morning with song and prayer and a short sermon. Those enjoying an early morning sermon would do well to attend. At 11 o'clock the presiding elder, Rev. W. H. Peck, D. D., will occupy the pulpit. Doubless a large audience will hear him. At 3 o'clock the pastor, F. D. Wells, delivers the annual sermon to the Knights Templar which promises to be the largest turnout in years. At night a sacred concert by the choir. An excellent program will be rendered. All are invited. VINE STREET BAPIST CHURCH By GEO W TAYLOR Mrs. Matilda Derrick is very ill and has been for two weeks, and we hope for her speedy recovery...Mr. John Liggins is somewhat better at this writing...The juvenile choir sang Sunday morning...We were indeed glad to hear them, for they are making good under the leadership of Mrs. Gertrude Tibbs and others. We wish them success...Sunday is our busy day in Sunday school. It is not only the day we give souvenirs but election of officers will be held, and we hope for a large attendance. Don't forget to color some eggs and bring them with you for the children. We will need 500 eggs...Both services were well attended last Sunday, although our pastor was absent. He will be present Sunday. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. At the meeting of the City Conquest Union in this church last Sunday the B. Y. P. U. has for the third time won the attendance banner by having more members present than all the other churches combined...The Leisure Hour Club, under Mrs. Lester's supervision, rendered an excellent program at Mrs. Tucker's last Tuesday night...One of the grandest piano recitals ever given in this church will be rendered by Miss Hagan April 7...The Bacote Literary Society is progressing under the direction of Mr. Neal Range...Mr. E. W. Thompson's Bible class again demonstrated before the Conquest Union last Sunday afternoon the great efficiency, interest and enthusiasm it has attained in the study of the Bible...Dr. Bacote's sermon last Sunday was not only soul strumbing but also practical, telling us how to live rightly and to treat our fellow man justly...Next Sunday the usual special Easter program will be rendered in music and song and the pastor will deliver one of his masterpieces relative to the Risen Lord. All are invited to attend. CENTENNIAL M. E. CHURCH. Debt—A Mortgage Burning. Centennial Methodist Episcopal church, familiarly known as the Rock church on the corner, in a final rally on last Sunday at which $540 was raised, celebrated its freedom from debt by burning the mortgage on its property Thursday night. Despite the fact that this has been a year of depression and of financial stagnation this church has raised over $1,500 to be applied to the cancellation of the indebtedness on its property, and all of the departments have shown financial gain over that of the preceding year. In all close to $3,500 has been raised this year. While with the addition of 150 names to its membership will attest the fact that the spirituality of the church has not been sacrificed to that of finance. Rev. Richard Davis, the pastor, has been requested by the congregation to take the ashes from the burned mortgage to conference as the most fitting testimonial from the membership as to why he should be returned for another year. P. A. M. 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Kansas City's premier dancing master and proprietor of the Bon Ton Tonsorial Parlors, which have been moved from his old location, 19th and Vine streets, to the more suitable location at 24th and Vine streets, where he has one of the most complete, handsomely furnished, and up to the minute Barber Shops, cigar stands and billiard parlors to be found in Greater Kansas City. All of his old friends and patrons and strangers passing thru the city are invited to call and make it their headquarters. TRADE PORO MARK ST. LOUIS, MO. TO THE PUBLIC: We want you to come to us for everything carried by a Drug Store. DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMBS, BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER HAIR-GROWER-DRYING COMBS, STRAIGHTENING COMBS, ETC. We recommend and guarantee everything offered for sale to be exactly as represented. WE DO NOT "SUBSTITUTE" nor ask you to take other brands than you ask for. You "want what you want" and we want you to have it. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT All down the line. We give careful attention to all orders, and aim by courteous and fair treatment to give perfect satisfaction to our customers. When you think of Drugs think of THEO. SMITH'S PHARMACY. No demand is too difficult for us to supply. If you are too busy to come to our store, phone us your wants and we will do the rest. Mail Orders Solicited and Promptly Filled. Theo. Smith's Drug Store. Bell Phone 4591 Grand. Home Phone 5467 Main. 1301 E. 18th St. KANSAS CITY, MO. Symphony Orchestra (25 Musicians—Professionals) Send your name and address to—Bell W. 4481 Maj. N. Clark Smith, Western University EDE HOTEL HEAT AND BATH St. Joseph, Missouri, YOU WILL FIND IT PLACE TO EAT TO BE THE Atoga Restaurant PEOPLE WHO CARE" and Street, St. Joseph, Mo. LIZA CARRIGER, Proprietress PROF. J. C. HOBBS. and dancing master and proprietor of the Bon Ton have been moved from his old location, 19th and suitable location at 24th and Vine streets, where complete, handsomely furnished, and up to the min-ands and billiard parlors to be found in Greater friends and patrons and strangers passing thru and make it their headquarters. A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction Officers—1914'15. N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Deputy Grand Master, Richard Young, Lincoln, Neb. F. J. Brown, St. Louis, Grand Senior Warden. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Grand Junior Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonic Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Grass Lecturer. Grand Commandery Officers. W. G. Mosely, Kansas City, Mo. R. E. G. C. J. H. Sherwood, St. Paul, Minn. G. E. G. P. C. Kincaid, Kansas City, Mo. V. E. G. C. J. W. Beard, St. Louis, Mo., E. G. Wm. Roberts, Hannibal, Mo., Grand Secretary. T. P. Mahammitt, Grand Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. Grand Chapter Officers. Geo. Broomfield, G. H. P., St. Louis, Mo. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Mofitte, G. S., Sedalia, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Sec'y, Kansas City, Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. R. T. Coles, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Meyers. Wm. Washington, F. P. Porteet, T. W. H. Williams, W. G. Moseley, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Wiley. Lodge Director Office Hours 8 to 12 m. & 1 to 5 p. m. Sunday by Appointment Bell Grand 2553W DR. E. C. BUNCH DENTIST Gold Crown, Bridges and Plates A Specialty Painless Extraction 716 East 12th St. Kansas City, M BEDFORD'S HAIR GROWER. Mrs. C. A. Smith has opened a branch office of MRS. S. BEDFORD'S Wonderful Hair Grower & Scalp Treatment This treatment has proved to be a wonderful success. 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USING FLOWERS AND FRUITS Guitaid Qpesien Ars, Eaten Von tablee—Onrdan, Plawers for C2oh ing Purposse—Stale Cucumbers hve bal for Bice @repared by the United States Depart ment of Aericutture:) Mt le not generally realized tha there are certain flowers and fruits that we prepare and eat as vege tables. One example is the portion 0 the cauliflower we eat, namely th fower head, and the globe art choke (quite a diferent plant from the Jerusalem artichoke which ylelds edible tubers) is another. Capers, cas sia buds and cloves are unexpanded flower buds. Among the fruits that We use as vegetables may be men tioned the pumpkin, squash, cucum ber, peppers, okra, eggplant and to mato, and very often the banana and ‘more commonly the apple, for in stance, in the old-fashioned fried ap- ples often served with meat. Pickled Nasturtium Buds. Some of our popular garden flow ers occasionally have been used for cooking purposes. Nasturtium buds are sometimes pickled, and as their flowers have a flavor like water cress, they are sometimes eaten in a salad, Orange flowers are well-known in- &redients of cakes, creams and confec- tionery, being added for the flavor which they impart. Saffron and mar- gold petals once were considered {m- Portant adjuncts in cookery, chiefly for the yellow color they imparted, and are often mentioned in old recipes for Soups, etc. Saffron is still a staple article in use by professional cooks. In southern Europe squash blossoms and the tiny squash to which the blossom is attached are dipped in batter and fried, and locust flowers also aro used for fritters in France, as are elder blossoms in Germany. Cooked squash flowers may be folded Jn an omelet. But such things have Uttle food value in themselves, though they help to give variety to the diet. Sometimes rose petals, violets, and mint leaves are candied, but are used more for garnishing than for food purposes. Rose petals are used in the Orient for making a very sweet preserve Violets are used in cookery for im- Parting a purple color, while a num- Ber of other colors are made from blossoms or leaves, the more common being spinach. Some highly-prized flavoring extracts are made from flowers; for instance, rose extract, orange flower water, and a sirup of vio. lets. Nasturtium flowers are used like tarragon flavoring vinegar. Valuable Vegetable Fruits. The distinction between a fruit and a vegetable is not always easily made. On the borderland between the two are a number of valuable food plants which have appropriately been called “vegetable fruits.” Members of the gourd family have already been cited. This family furnishes the largest fruits of any kuown plants, some be- ing over eight feet around and welgh- ing more than two hundred pounds. ‘The squash, both winter and summer varieties, vegetable marrow, cucum- ber, and melons, belong to this family. Careful cooking will make a great dea! of difference in modifying the texture or flavor of squashes or pump- kins, The best of these are heavy in proportion to their size, having thick rather than thin flesh. Where the fibers are coarse, long cooking and straining will reduce them, and an excess of water may be evaporated. Where the shells are hard, bake or steam and then scrape out and mash the flesh. Baked in the pan with roast beef, mutton or other meats they gain an added flavor. The cooked, strained pulp of squash or pumpkin, in addition to its use for pies, Is sometimes combined with milk or stock for soups, or is added to doughs like those of corn bread or muffins, or may be cooked with sugar and spices for marmalades. The summer squash is not always fully appreciated because often allowed to grow too large. Either variety, crook- neck or turban, should be so tender that the seeds ard skin are edible when cooked. Summer squashes may be cut in slices and fried, though they are most commonly boiled. When fully grown they may be used like winter squash, skin and seeds being removed. Stale Cucumber Bad for Digestion. Many people do not eat cucumbers, because they fear they may cause indi. gestion. This is often true if the cu. umber is stale, wilted or overgrown. A fresh young specimen, thoroughly peeled and left in cold water (some- times salted) before serving, loses its bitter juices and is a palatable and usually healthful relish. ‘The cucumber may be served as a salad by itself or to accompany fish or at or er at erates to add to sauces. strips it may be cooked, and served on toast like as paragus, and cooked in many other ways. The skin and seeds may be re- moved and the firm flesh used as a ease for salads or, like pepper and tomato, filled with forcemeat and baked. A little onfon cooked with creamed cucumber improves it for many. ‘The tomato is a vexetable fruit to qe Se ‘owes much, although poisonous. i bas eon used ‘at 3 this “ for less than a century! but ‘fis growth in popularity has been ‘acid, Its distinctive flavor to special substances dimoult to identify. The peeling of tomatoes may be easily removed if the tomatoes are plunged into boiling water for less than a minute, then drained, and chilled over ive, if possible. They may then be peeled when needed. Perfect ly ripe tomatoes may be scraped with the back of a knife to loosen the skin, which then will peel easily, but this {s less rapid than the scalding process. If cooked tomatoes are to be strained, it Is unnecessary to peel them before stewing, as the skin will remain in the strainer with the seeds. Some Persons believe that immersion {n hot Water injures the appearance and fla- Yor of the tomato and peel them with- out this treatment. Many persons prefer to serve toma- toes unpeeled, particularly the hot- house tomato or other varieties with thin, tender skins. If this is done, the tomatoes, like all other fruits or veg- etables eaten raw, should be washed carefully, The very small red toma: tovs which grow in clusters, known as cherry tomatoes, often found in large markets, are very attractive for sal ads. These and the yellow plum to- matoes are perhaps always eaten with: out peeling. When a banana ‘e used underripe It is less of a fruit than a vegetable. It is also commonly used for fritters. It may be baked or fried Ike a po- tato or yam, and served with meats. The South has come to appreciate this fruit as a vegetable more readily than the North, thongh such uses are now very general. A simple way to cook bananas: Re- Move the skin, scrape off the rough outside, cut large ones in two across, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry brown in deep fat. HER TIME WELL OCCUPIED Pity the Poor Society Woman Who Is a Martyr to Duty of Being ‘Well Dressed. ‘The other day I called on a friend who lives in a fashionable New York apartment. She told me she went every morning for a “ftting.” I protested. “You mean in the spring and fall when you are getting your things don't you?” “No; I mean every dey, through the eight winter months. It’s an awful ‘nuisance. No wonder I'm a nervous ‘wreck. I wish John would let me ‘wear ready-made things. It’s absurd, but it’s a fact that I hardly ever go through the day without going either to the tailor, the dressmaker, or try on hats or shoes or corsets. Ihave a good many things made between sea. sons, when the prices are lower. And Ihave to squeeze in time to go shop- ping; T want to see what the new im- ported things look lke, and go to the openings. I've discovered a dear Uittle Frenchwoman who makes all my lngerie (my friend wears lingerie, not underwear), and very cheaply, too, considering the exquisite work she does, but she expects me to tell her Just how I want everything done, and to choose designs for the embroidery, and to buy the lace and ribbon; and, ‘of course, I try on every garment. Stockings and vells are about the only thing T can get ready-made, and it takes a lot of time selecting them. Don’t you think the new yells are aw- fully trying?"—Atlantic, oR yma EN It has been settled to the general satisfaction of students of tobacco his- tory that one Hernandez de Toledo introduced the smoking habit into Spain and Portugal in 1559, and that he brought his tobacco from Santo Do mingo. Jean Nicot was’ the ambas sador of France at the court of Por tugal and he, acquiring the habit in Lisbon, carried it with him back to France, where the habit took hold tn fashionable circles some time before Sir Francis Drake and his men carried Indian pipes and tobacco to England in 1686, at which time Sir Walter Raleigh set the pipe-smoking fashion at the court of Blizabeth, whence 1 spread over England. The habit o! taking snuff followed closely in the trail of the pipe smoke. Fishee See Well, An examination of the eyes of many fishes in the tanks of the public aquarium at New York was recently made by means of the retinoscope and other Instruments, It was learned not only that all fishes can see well, but that of the many examined none was nearsighted nor suffered from any ab. normality. Considering their big, roll ing, glassy eyes, a squint-eyed fish would be a horror! The glassiness, by the way, {s owing in many cases to the fact that, in the absence of lds, the eyeballs are protected elther by a slimy material, or by a transparent skin; these are not noticeable in life, but after death quickly become cloudy or opaque. Fishes such as the absurd Wttle puffers, which dig in the sand, have real lids that close over the eye. ‘The studies of fishes’ eyes have proved valuable in understanding and reliev- ing human near-sightedness. A “Searcher Out.” ‘The science and genius of Mr. Mar cont have made {t almost impossible for alien spies to use a wireless tele- graphic installation in the British Isles, but there {8 In use by the war office a “searcher out," which indicates the whereabouts of any “wireless” used for the receipt or dispatch of messages. It {s called the direction finder, and was primarily intended to enable the navigation officer of a ship to take bearings of wireless telegraph stations, with a view to finding the posttion of his ship oF avoiding colli elous with cther vessels. The Chargers Lament, “One man of the —— Lancers 1 found lying on his back with his eyes staring at the skies. He was dead without dovt. Standing over him was his horse, without @ wound. 1 was looking into his face every few minutes, and then neighing in a pitt ful way that sounded just Ike » human being in an excess of grief. ‘To heay that poor animal was enough to bring tear. to the eyes of the most hard ened of men," says Lance-Corporal J ‘Btiltes AEROPLANE SCOUT RETURNS TO REPORT — . Sa PAK? <el\\ rR AN fa 7 a : ere CP a : a erg =e ee This picture shows one of the armored aeroplanes of the British corps, snapped just as {t returned to its base after having gone on an important scouting expedition. The leutenant, who had been making observations of the enemy’s positions, is hurrying off to report his findings to the commander of the division. Development of Indicated Operations Seems to Purpose Expulsion of Turks From Constantinople—Allies in West End Need Oil and Grain, While Russia Desires Southern Ingress to Her Territory for Her War Shipments. New Tork.—the Mere. correspondent writes: ‘Tho most striking characteristic of this great war is the rapidity with which its main interest centers first in one part of the world and then in another, Something like eight thou- sand miles separated the scene of the battle off the Falkland islands and that off the Dogger bank, while on land attention is riveted at one time on the Belgian coast or the campaign in Lorraine, and at another in the Carpathians or on a_ life-and-death struggle in Poland. ‘This week the minds of both naval and military watchers of the conflict have been dl- rected to the Dardanelles, the gates of Asia. There another phase of the world-wide war 1s opening, the effect of which no man can tell. Each of the contending empires in tho conflict possesses an advantage which in a measure compensate one the other. While Britain holds the command of the sea, Germany has the interior position on land, which en- ables her to strike alternately heavy blows on either front. She also has been able, with the assistance of Aus- ‘trla and Turkey, and alded by the geographical conditions, to drive a wedge between the communications of her enemies which extends from the North sea almost to the Indian ocean, ‘The movement in the Mediterranean indicates the determination on the part of the superior sea power to cut that wedge in two. The strategic importance of the straits between Europe and Asia has been recognized from very ancient times, It was on the Chersonese, the Peninsula on the western side of the straits, that the Turks got their first foothold in Europe. Tt may very well be that if It now falls into the hands of Great Britain {ts occupation by British troops will mean the uproot- ing of the last vestige of Ottoman rule in the northern continent. There are at least indications of the development of a farreaching operation from both ends of the Sea of Marmora, having for its purpose the expulsion of the Turk from Constantinople. ‘There are other objects of first-class importance to be obtained from a sue- cessful attack on the Dardanelles. Now that the Archangel route is closed by fee, communteation between Russia and her allies has almost entirely ceased. There 1s no outlet for the immense supplies of corn and oil of which they are in want and which she could furnish, and, on the other hand, the only source of supply of the mu- nitions of war, which she cannot man- ufacture herself, must be brought over the long and difficult road from Viadt- vostok and Harbin. The opening of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus must have, therefore, an tmmediate and important effect both in the west- ern and eastern theaters of war. Nor can {t be doubted that a substantial gain of this character to Germany's foes would directly influence the na- tions which have been for so long hes- itating about entering the war. All the Balkan States would be affected considerably, and while Greece could scarcely stand still with Russia at the gates of Constantinople, Italy might well feel that this sharp stroke re- moved the last doubt as regarding the side with which she should be acting. Of the operation itself, although the Dardanelles have long been regard- ed as impregnable, it {s more than Mkely that as other fortresses have failed to maintain their security WILDCAT WAS BIG AS GOAT Alabama Hunter Kills Huge Bobeat Which Had Been Preying on Ani- mais In Vicinity. Bay Minette, Ala—K, R. White, one of the leading hunters of this vicinity, ia exhibiting a mammoth bobcat which he killed several days ago about five miles southeast of town. ‘The animal is almost ds large ks a goat and is noted as one of thé flercest of the wild animals yet in the woods of this Against the modern materials of war, 0 those in the straits will be over. whelmed by the mass of explosives hurled upon them from the long-range artillery of the battleships of today. When the forts in the straits were planned ships were dependent upon the wind and they carried guns which could not compare in power with those mounted in the land batteries. When Vice-Admiral Duckworth took 4 British squadron through the straits in 1807 his vessels were assailed with huge shots, some of them weighing 800 Pounds, but even these heavy missiles did little damage. Today the British ships will throw shells filled with high explosives, each more than double the weight of the shot thrown at Vice-Ad- miral Duckworth’s ships, and the de- ‘struction wrought by such missiles will be immeasurably greater. Moreover, it is unnecessary for the ships themselves to approach near enough to be Injured by the shore bat- teries, even if the guns in these have been somewhat augmented from Ger- man sources. It is already announced that the forts at the mouth of .the straits, about two miles apart, have been crumbled into atoms, and those in the narrows, further up, ean be sim. Hlarly treated at ranges at which the ships themselves will be comparative. ly immune. There remain other ob- structions in the shape of mines in the channel, but that these have been located by the British submarines is WHAT ONE SHELL DID 7 DA “Sel TP G§ y 7 8: “a @ NXE he iW Wr Yi Ge Vike. Abad ya i el ] aa 4 oe Bx ue i ee ec ! Bew people realize what great pow- er there lies in the modern shells ‘and explosives. This unusual picture ‘vividly (ells what’ an enormous amount of destruction a shot from one ‘of the French 7 mm. guns is able to accomplish. When this horse was ‘struck by the shell the force of the ‘shot cut the animal in two and lifted ‘the fore half of the carcass into the tree. Eg | ‘There are 91,818 organized workers in Missouri, of whom 3,926 are women, aaa ee county, ‘The animal has been preying on the smaller animals in the vicinity ‘of the White home, and when chase was made the hunter and dogs were able to capture it. ‘The fur is very pretty and it is highly prized by the ‘owner. Modern Living. According to a New York physical expert, modern living 1s destroying the human body,- That 1s one of the serious phases of tise high cost of liv- fex--Kansas City. Journal, certain, and thelr removal should be no diMoult task. Once the passage Is clear for the ships of war, and these are off Gallipoll, the remainder of the business is simple. With the numbers and composition of the Turkish garrison in the Gal- Mpolt peninsula the British authorities must be acquainted, and, the forts be- ing destroyed, a force of sufficient strength doubitess will be landed, if necessary under the fire of the guns, ‘The configuration of the mainland by -@ narrow isthmus not four miles wide at Bulair, and open to bombardment from the sea at elther side, makes the occupation and holding of it by the stronger sea power easy. ‘The pos- session of the peninsula, as the Inte admiral of the fleet, Sir Geoffrey Horn: by, sald in 1877, ‘when he took an fronclad fleet theough, guarantees a safe passage, not only for the shipa of war, but for thelr auxiliaries as well, The appearance of w Franco-British fleet off Constantinople and the con: sequent wiping out of the Ottoman navy, even with its German re-enforce- ment, will make the task of Russia at the Bosporus end a light one. Al ready, it {8 said, Russian forces are assembling at Odessa and the trane- ports are available whenever re- quired, so, in the opinion of many astute onlookers, the ultimate success of this undertaking is scarcely in doubt. It will be one more lesson of the ubiquitous exercise of seo power. IMAGINED RAT WAS BURGLAR Girl Bitten by Rodent Thought Her Cheek Punctured by Hypodermic Needle of Night Intruder. Lafayette, Ind.—Miss Bernice Crow: den heard a noise in her bedroom at her home and, thinking it was a bur- slar, did not move. In a few minutes sho felt warm breath on her face and was too badly frightened either to scream or to move. She thought that she was about to be chloroformed and @ second later, when she felt a sharp sting In her cheek, she was certain that a hypodermic needle had been used by a burglar. She screamed for her brother, who rushed into the room and found Miss Crowden's cheek bleeding. ‘The cause of the wound was not determined until a physician was called. He declared that the young woman had been bitten by a rat. A rat, believed to have been the one that bit the young woman, was caught and killed by her brother, Louis Crowden. Miss Crowden {s in a serious condition from the nervous shock. IN THE GERMAN TRENCHES Pees OEE NEN. fey coer ae — } ‘ Ne f La ay | Toes ne re See een kK) Reg. Wieden Sa Underground Houses In the Garman Trenches In Poland: Se WAVE DOES HOUSE MOVING | Huge Breaker Accompilshes Work 8c Gently Milk and Coffee Aro Agee Los Angeles, Cal.—C, H. Jennison of Alamitos Bay, near Long Beach, planned to move his home back 20 feet. Before he started a big storm struck. A huge breaker picked up the house and moved it back 20 feet, setting it down squarely on the ground so gently that a pail of milk and pot of coffee on the table in the house were not spilled. Mrs, Jennison and her two children weré not in the house at the time. ‘The house was placed on its new foundations the next day. SHOULD HE TAKE ONE DRINK? Tt Will Gost Him $4,000 Placed as Conditional Forfeit to Obtain His Release, Tacoma, Wash.—One drink will cout Thomas Cannally #4,000—that ta, if he takes it. Six weeks ago Cannal- ly was sentenced to six months in Jail for stealing $4 while intoxicated. After serving a month of his sen- tence Cannally appealed to Police Jus- tice Evans to be released, offering to deposit $4,000 in cash, to be forfeited in case he took a drink before his term would have expired. Justice Evans agreed, and placed the money on deposit in a local bank. ‘The money was still in the bank today drawing 3 per cent interest and Connally was occupying a seat bigh on the “water wagon.” pi Thief-Catching a la Mode, New York.—Pursuing a thief who had stolen his watch, Robert Brown ran his automobile on to the sidewalk and pinned his man against a build- ing. nnn Save Baby From Gorilla. According to Doctor Livingstone, the gorilla sometimes picks up a ne- gro baby and carries it about, The natives rescue it in rather an ingen- jous way. They place a large bunch of bananas in the way of the gorilla, which seizes them with both hands and lets the baby drop. Had the baby been one of its own kind it would have cling to its nurse. But, being a hu man baby, it naturally falls, so that the rescuers can drive away the ant- mal and carry off their priza In Constant Battles fe Freedom Meee ghee ioe San, OF BECORS, SRG ree AVE tom has made ter sturdiest stands among {ts dreamy crags and unproductive rockstrewn, Bravel slopes. Now, true to tradi tions of centuries of incessant war- ring, she has joined in the world war, with eagerness to expand In the to: baceo and grazing lands of Herze govinn. A pleture of the strongly: individual characteristics of this ua- tion, nurtured and contained upon a mountain, whose entrance into the war scales caused hardly a tremor of the balance, has been prepared for the National Geographic society by George Higgins Moses, United States r.inister to Greece and Montenegro during 1909- 1912, Surveying the history of the miniature country, against which pow: erful Islamfe waves broke in vain for centuries, the writer says: “For 600 years they have main- tained freedom, which ‘of old has sat ‘upon the helghts;" and, with sutterings indescribable, with courage iilmit: able, won from the great English apostle of Balkan freedom those words ‘of undying praise, in which he gave it as his ‘deliberate opinion’ that. ‘the traditions of Montenegro exceed in slory those of Marathon and Ther mopylae and all the war traditions of the world.” Everywhere within the little kingdom, the writer says, one can see memorials of the grim, un- broken struggle of Montenegro's’ peo- ple against the power of tho Turk, a struggle in which the Turk, master through the Balkans, battered against tho mountain heights to no avail. Montenegro has Ittle to invite ex cept the majesty of the vista from Its higher crests, andthe little band of Slave who fled hither had freedom more than Inxury and ease in mind. At the creation, so runs a Montenegrin logend given by Mr. Moses, an angel was sent forth to gather the superilu- ous stones on tho earth's surface, He placed these stones in a bag which burst as he was flying over Cerna- gora, and Montenegro's richest dower {a silll the rocks which the angel spilled upon it, Webbed With Fine Roads. The approach to the kingdom, a winding way up hill, is spoken of by the writer as a splendid piece of en- gineering, which weaves up the gaunt, gray cliffs, finally threading a narrow, easily-defended defile and crossing a pass mostly swathed in clouds, Mon- tenegro, Mr. Moses continues, is webbed with fine roads, the expression of the present King’s restless spirit for improvement. The capltal itself, Cetinje, is hardly more than a knot of cross-streets in two roads of this sys- tem. There Are no pretentious build- ings in the city, only two being of more than two stories in height, the Russian and Austrian legations. "The external lite of the capital 1s simple In the extreme. Montenegrins, declares the writer, are mostly of greater than average stature, and the men have come to feel thelr principal calling to be that of war, ‘The women of Montenegro are {ts economle producers, and, to quote King Nicholas, who has married his delightful daughters to some of Eu- rope’s leading houses, the women are the land's most important export. The men, Mr. Jones says, are good work- ers when put to it, and whenever a Montenegrin applying for a Job ts ‘asked what he can do, he invariably answers, “Superintend.” ‘There Ja little commerce and almost no manufactures in the kingdom, whose lands are barely rich enough to support the noeds of the people in the most simple manner. * Good tobac- co fs raised in the country, and afew coarse stuffs are woven in Podgoritza, Nearly everything in use, however, {s imported, and duties and prices are very high. An Bnglish laborer was being tried with a supposed accomplice for poaching, which he stoutly - denied. ‘The magistrate retorted that the evi- dence went to show that at least, he was in collusion with the other pris- oner. The laborer here interrupted, and said he “warn't in Collusion; It war in X—— that he met the other man.” The court explained the mean- ing of the word “collusion,” but It did not deter the other from proceeding with his defense, “There war no col- lusion ‘tween us, as that feller al. ‘ways wanted the whole profits, and I never collude with that sort o’ man if I knows it; and when there's no chance to git nothin’ I never colludes. Not me!” ‘ Magn sia In Fishes, Chemical analyses of starfishes, sea urebins and crinoids, collected froin all parts of the world, show that the ‘skeletons of thy:~ animals contain much magnesia. The percentage of magnesia 1s highest in those apect mens that lived tn tropical waters and lowest in forms from the icy seas King Nicholas, a democratic mon- arch, more a patriarch than a king, is an astute politician and a capable administrator. ‘Throughout his long reign of more than fifty years, he has accomplished much in the develop- ment of his land. He has increased his territory many times; adding two Adriatic ports to his possessions, and thoroughly organizing all departments of his government. Smallest of Capitals. Cetinje, the capital of Montenegro, is the smallest of the war capitals. It {8 the smallest capital city in the world; and, moreover, it is the most snugly placed of war-zone cities, for it 1s practically only assailable by the airship and aeroplane. In order to get into this city, an army would have to ascend a narrow mountain road be- yond the clouds, and after it got there would find nothing in particular to do other than to go sightseeing. There is nothing around Cetinje to hold on to, There are plenty of stones, fresh air and bleak fields. From the latter fruits are won only by undis- mayed pampering and cajolery. Cetinje consists of a main street and a cross street. On the cross street is the king's palace, This is a fair- sized, whitewashed Italian villa, with an audience room about fifteen feet square and a red tiled roof. The main street {s well kept and it fs en- closed by two regular Ines of white- washed, stone houses, of one and two stories, many of which have stores on the ground floor. There is a fac- \ eae ae y. ie. re Rp ih oe Br) hes | My ais a ——] ==) TYPE OF MONTENEGRIN WOMAN, tory for arms afd ammunition in the village, and a higher school for girls which was founded more than twenty years ago by the empress of Russia, Ivan the Black, forced about, the end of the fourteenth century, to abandon Jablilak, the former capital to the north of Lake Scutari, founded Cetinje, The Turks have taken tho town several times, the Montenegrins retreating to the surrounding heights of barren limestone, from whence they have kept up their struggle until the Turks) sickened of their dreary, bootless conquests. Cetinje ts dif- cult to, menace; little there {s to harm, and small reason there can be to un- dertake its capture. Daily Thought. No man at bottom means injustice; it {s always for some obscure distort- ed image of a right that he contends, —Cariyle. of Greenland and the Antaretle, with @ regular gradation between which even shows the local effect of cold Ocean currents upon life at the sea bottom, PRES Rh ES ag ‘The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which -to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. ‘This is the Just and generous and prosperous sys- tem which opens the way to all, gives hope to all and consequent energy and progresy and improvement of con dition to all.—Lincoln, Buchanan's Fund for Charity, Ono of the few funds, if not the only one, left for charity by a president of the United States, is used in Lancas- ter, Pa. for buying coal for the poor at Christmas and for other good uses, The fund Was lett by President Buchanan, who was a resident gf Lan: caster, and’ the income now abouate to about $3,000 a year. New Loves for Old By Victor Radcliffe ume w one Fage to face for the first time in fit- teen years with his almost forgotten early love, Mr. Archibald Newton raised his hat politely and his face be- came pleasant, The lady shook hands with him and smiled with a genuine greeting for an old-time friend. “A happy surprise,” remarked Arch: fbald. "Some changes since you and T last met. Married, of course?” “With two children,” and the lady's face saddened as she murmured soft- ly—"widow.” “Widower,” explained | Archibald. “Two children also—girls.” “And I have two boys,” supple: mented Mrs. Burton, “You do not live here, surely?” “But I do,” replied he, with a rath: er proud wave of his hand, including within its scope fair acres enclosed by the fence against which he had boon leaning. “How strange!” observed Mrs. Bur ton, with a slight flutter in her voice —"I have just bought the place ad: Joining.” * “You don’t say so!” exclaimed Mr Newton, “Then we shall be neigh bors.” “And friends, T hope, a8 we always were,” added iis companion, “Those dear old days!” and she lowered he eyes and he sighed. “I declare? Mary has made a fine looking woman,” commented Archi bald as they parted for the time be ing. “J always thought Archibald hand some.” Mrs. Burton communed witk herself. “He's more so than eve now.” And Archibald ‘smiled with warmt! and Mrs, Burton simpered, and i brightened the moment for both in 1 pleasing happy way. In about a week the Burtons move into thelr new home, Mrs. Burton ex plained that she had seen ft adver " tised and had purchased {t on the rec ommendation of a lawyer friend. Sh had never dreamed of the good for tune of getting next door to a helpfu accommodating old friend. It was when for the first. tim Archibald got sight of the two boy that he seemed to get a new life tm pulse. ‘They Were bright, lively, up-t date urchins, elght and ten years ol respectively. Such lads! It mad Archibald chuckle over his own ear: boyhood as he watched them up t all kinds of fun and mischief. ‘They climbed trees to the topmos branch. They hitchea up the cow t fa dog cart and had a runaway, The | ee $ Sal | ae ——. [ae ¥ oh) Mi=n\\ oss a slid down the barn root with Indian- like yells that set their mother in a tremor. “I declare, Mary,” exuberated Archt- bald, “I never saw smarter lads! They've got activity and brains, How Yd like to own them!” “What! With those two lttle angel girls of yours? Archtbald, they're so Sweet, I feel Ike hugging and kissing them all the time.” Certainly the little girls were very Irdylike and well-behaved. They had & somewhat -abdued air about them, however, and Archibald spoke of it, “You can't expect an old fosail like me to bring then. up cheerful and hap- py like @ mother,” sighed Archibald. “They need a woman's direction and company. See lots of them, Mary, it will do them good.” “And Archibald, do try and tune down those rude boisterous boys of mine.” “You don't elve them work aad they like it," explained Archibald. “Mary, I've an ides.” “What {8 that, Archibald?" inquired Mrs, Burton sweetly, “Let's trade,” “Ob, dear!” “I mean for a time, See here, give those girls the advantage of your kind motherly gentleness and love for a month or two. Meantime trust. the boys to me. I'll show you the real merit there 1s in them.” ‘The bargain was really made, Of course every day the families visited to an¢ fro, The girls bege 1 to lose their shyness and reserve, ‘The boys became interested in everything about the Newton place, They love prac- tieal work, and the cheery helpful old man was constantly with them, for the time being a boy at heart’ and sty as lark, “J there @ row at got intoxicated and had m runaway. ‘The boys were with him and both wore slightly bruised. ‘This angered Archibald. He discharged the man. “T'il'get even with you!” threatened the latter, “Don't show your face atound here again,” ordered Archibald, “Yahi” retorted the insolent fellow. “Mighty loving about those two mis- chlevous brats, ain't yer? Huh! guess it's the mother you're after.” “You wretched scoundrel!” raved Arch{bald, and made for the man, but the Intter darted away and back te is cups at the village tavern. A week later one morning the younger of the boys startled Archi- bald with a quick alarming cry. “Fire—aee, it's our house!" ‘They all ran for the Burton home. ‘The girls were* outside on the lawn, weeping. They had been carrled to safety by Mrs, Burton. ‘ “Where is she?” shouted Archibald frantically. “She went back to get the bird you gave her,” replied one of the little misses. “Why, she's hemmed in with the flames!” cried Archibald. Tt was fortunate that he entered the burning house, for in one of the upper rooms he stumbled across Mrs. Burton. She had fainted away. He lifted her in his arms, She partially recovered sensibility. Her arms en: circled his neck. He felt quite the hero as he got her safely out of the house, » “The house was set on fire, Arch: bald,” declared Mrs. Burton that eVe- ning. They were all housed comfort: ably now in the Newton home. “The flames started in the collar where no one had been for two days.” ‘The village marshal was advised He started a still hunt for the incen diary. Archibald and Mrs, Burton were dis cussing her plans for rebuilding the next evening when the marshal ap peared. The dismissed hired man wat in his charge. “I've found the person who set thal fire,” said the official, ‘The hired man looked reckless an¢ ugly. “What shall I do with him?” fn quired the marshal. Archibald hesitated. It veemed s¢ nice and homelike to see Mrs. Burtot under his roof that he almost forgav the firebug, “Make him sign the pledge and sen him away, I don’t want to start an man on the way to the penitentiary, he said. “But why did he set fire to m; house?” inquired Mrs, Burton in a injured tone. “Revenge, ma’am,” muttered the in | cendtary. “Why, I never harmed you.” '| “No, ma’am, but I was mad wit drink and down on Mr. Newton fo | discharging me from his service.” | “What had I to do with that? '| asked the Indy. | “Well, (T knew it would hurt hir || worse to have" you suffer than hin | sett.” | “I don’t understand—" | “Because—well, because ae was love with you!” blurted out the mat '| Mrs. Burton looked at Archibal | Both blushed. ‘The officer and hi '| prisoner departed. “Archibald crosse over to the woman's chair, “Mary,” he said softly, “we don need two houses. One will do, it—" “Oh, my!” fluttered Mrs, Burton. “It we bring up the boys and girl under one roof. Make me happy Mary,” and Archibald was eloquer and varnest as a young lover of twer ty-one. “I wish I could,” responded Mr Burton—“as happy as I am myself af er what that man sald.” “It's true, Mary—every word of tt! declared the ardent swain thrilling! _|_ And then he kissed her, just as h had in the far past when she was blushing girl of sixteen, “Uplift” in Fiction. Latter-day American story tellers, most of them, seem to be in a con- spiracy to “make the world better,” to “toueh the heart,” to “make you forget all your troubles,” to “exalt life and love,” to be “a sunshine ‘maker." These intentions are so un- faltering, and the stress laid on “clean living” is so insistent, that one is forced to ask one's self whether the practice and theory of living in Amer- fea are not antagonistic? whether the exaggerated sentimental appeal may not denote thinness of real emotion, and the persistent absorption with the moral issue an uneasy self-distrust? It would be as ridiculous to charge the great American people with being less honest with themselves than are those of other nations as {t would be to doubt that in ‘the land of freedom” there is less inner freedom than else- where. But the Intterday American novel often leaves one with an un- easy idea that the weight and momen- tum of American civillzation are roll- ing out the paste of human nature very flat and are stamping it with ma- chine-made patterns of too common an order.—The Atlantic, ek dead ES During the early period of the work on the Panama canal many persons were injured by jumping on and off trains in motion on the Panama rail- road. There were on the zone police force many West Indians, who were trained and capable men, but incura- bly literal. An order was issued to the force to arrest any person found jump- ing on or off a train in motion, and the next day two West Indian police- men brought into police station a white man who was struggling flercely to break away from them. “What have you arrested him for?” asked the police sergeant who was on duty. “For jumping on and off the rear of a train, sah,” one of the policemen re- plied. “The “blamed fools!” cried the ar rested man, “I'm the brakeman!"— Youth's Cgmpanion. First Shall Be Last. Miss Gushington—I think your nov- el has ® perfect ending, Mr, Scrib- bler, Seribbler—How do you like the opening chapter? ‘Miss Gestingten ob, I have not ‘come to that yetl—Judge Ghe OME BEAUEIEUL Eo Fiawers and Shrubbées7t CD Their Care and Cultivation, CLD mea) Se Ni Se a bs B ii nae A Tican \ Silt, ise 7 BOW An oes, eee nA | NV ve ae PS Be WO fe “Vee a pe oe C e ry Aa 7 ay : RM Ss : a hg ve feb ous ‘ye ) * \ f , ea A ALN Ne SS 7) J : pe ye: owe Daisies Make a Good Growth Indoors. STARTING OF THE ANNUALS jor the Teaves can ae on the sand and p Many annuals can‘be started trom] “ith halrping oF seed planted now for winter flower-| , Keep the cuttings Ing, and with the use of the plants | Sd, Way to make now growing In the garden and young | Small earthen ere Manes ea rom ‘tinge, geot| Mee PTL in display can be obtained for house| ‘nch OF twa of the SAS a tory Seal exponass = xtings and Pour It is & good idea to pot the plants| Constantly covered sufficiently early #0 the pots can be| the cuttings will 20 plunged in the garden, permitting|" When the cutting them to remain there a week or two| tno sand, the sand before taking them into the house. | frmiy about. them ‘A good rule 1s to allow two leaves|{neort the cuttings to remain on cuttings of such plants | The foliage shoutd 1 fs geraniums, cutting off the top half | cuttings. fof these Teaves with a sharp kalfe.| Plants growing in ‘Any cuttings that die or rot must be| make fine house immediately removed. Fuchsias, begonias, ‘The Rex Begonias are propagated | ias, pinks, verbonas from leaf cuttings, that 1s, a portion | anthemums, daisies of the leaf cut and stuck in the sand, | back about one-half A Ae ie = Ke ce Ze _ on ia ak 1 = @ Pe ai Sk we Geer S ae elas mS ZY : Ten a HE : aie ois me —_ 2 No other herbaceous plant lives ac Jong or produces flowers equal to the peony. Peonies planted this autumn will flower next season. The middle of September to the middle of October fs the best time to plant, preferably the earlier season to permit the plants to make a good root growth before winter sets in. The soil must be rich as the peony is a gross feeder. Remove the soil to a depth of three feet and fill up the space to the depth of a foot with well rotted cow manure. Spade the manure in well. If the soil is clayey, mix with it equal parts of sand, leaf and mold and manure for the other half, Fill up the excavation with the prepared soil, rounding it up to the center, which should be six or seven inches above the level of the lawn. In setting the plants dig a hole from one and a half to two feet deep and two feet wide. Allow a space of three feet in diameter for each plant, pla cing the crowns three inches below the surface, firming the soll well around the roots. This Is best done by the feet of the planter. Mulch well before cold weather with coarse manure and leaves, In the spring loosen the soil, after re moving the mulch, to a depth of five or six inches, care being taken to sty the soll without injuring the crowns of the platits, Commercial fertilizer strong in pot ash should be used in the spring dati tak hak tek ahaa, / PEONIES or the leaves can be spread out flat on the sand and pinned down tight with hairpins or wooden toothpicks. Keep the cuttings shaded. Another good way to make cuttings is in small earthen erock without drain age. Fill with sand to within an inch oF two of the top. Insert. the cuttings and pour in water until the sand is Just covered. Keep the sand constantly covered with water and the cuttings will soon root. When the cuttings are inserted tn the sand, the sand should be packed firmly about them with the hands, Insert the cuttings: closely together The foliage should be cut back on the cuttings. Plants growing in the garden, whieh make fine house plants include: Fuchsias, begonias, geraniums, petun fas, pinks, verbonas, arbutilons, chrye anthemums, daisies. Cut the plants back about onehait: SOME FLOWER HINTS Set out Iris in Septenfber and they will flower next summer. Hellebore dusted oh cabbage plants while they are wet with dew will keep the cabbage worms down. Late pruning induces a new growth on plants and treos, rendering them susceptible to injury from the winter cold. ‘The time for pruning is during the winter or early spring, before the buds start. Look at the stored roots and bulbs. It any sign of decay remove the rotton spot and cover quickly with powdered charcoal. Gas-heated rooms, unless well venti lated, are bad for plants, All faded or fading blossoms sbould be cut from every bush. Frutt trees are especially benefited by this treatment. The fruit will im: prove by the check in leaf growth. Climbing roses and vines can be made to follow your will, if you will sive that a good start ‘in summer. Cut back the shoots that are too vigor ‘ous and take out entirely every weak Ung. If @ branch 1s going up straight and you want it to go sideways cut the branch so that the bud which will ‘de at the top points the way you want the branch to go. Don't be too severe on your plants in summer, but at the same time let them understand you hold the reins and that they cannot run riot, | When & cow's udder is caked it ts | better to leave the calf with her untll the abnormal condition {a removed. s GOOD USES FOR KEROSENE Excellent for Cleaning Glassware— Will Remove Rust From Kitchen Stove—For the Refrigerator. A little Kerosene added to very hot water. will make windows, looking glasses and picture glasses bright and clear. Use a small, clean cloth, wring it dry and rub it over the glass, after wiping down the framework with an oiled cloth, ‘Then proceed to the next window and treat {t similarly on both sides, After that go back to the first one and wipe it dry with a large clean clot. No real polishing is required and the window or glass will look clear and shiny. Kerosene will clean your hands bet- ter than anything else after blacking @ range or stove. Pour a little in the water, wash your hands in it, then ‘wash them in tepid water, and finally with plenty of soap and a stiff brush in hot water. If possible finish up by rubbing the hands with lemon and Tosewater and glycerin. When your kitchen sink is rusty rut it over with Kerosene. Squeaks in shoes may sometimes be prevented by dipping the soles in kero sene. ‘The white spots appearing in the spring on the lining of your refrigera tor will disappear if you rub the zin¢ with Kerosene. Leave the refrigeratot open several hours, then wash witl water, soap and ammonia. The re frigerator will then be clean anc sweet and all spots will have disap peared. ‘To clean painted walls wipe then first with a cloth wet in kerosene anc Jet stand 15 minutes. ‘Then wash th walls with good warm soapsuds, bu do not rub soap on the cloth, or th paint will be streaked. Rub spots o tar or pine pitch on clothing in kero sene before washing them. MANY WAYS TO SERVE EGGS Albumen Water, for One Thing, Is Palatable and Highly Beneficial for Children. Atter a bilious attack or any other kind of stomach trouble when a child cannot digest the yolk of the egg, it ‘1s possible to make the needed albu- men more palatable by poaching just the white, removing the yolk before the white Is dropped into the poacher. Of course this can only be done in the transition period after the albu- men water (raw white shaken up tn water) fs no longer strong enough ‘Those who have babies generally know how to make albumen water, but for the benefit of those who do not know, the proportion depends upon the age of the child. ‘The usual formula for older chil- dren is the white of one ege shaken up in @ glass of water, put on ice or served with Ice chopped with a little orange juice for flavoring, if the doc tor will allow it. A refreshing drink for a sick person is the white of egg shaken up in two thirds of a glass of water, mixed with the juice of a whole orange and hal a lemon, with a Mttle cracked ice ‘The acid cuts the albumen and pre vents the stringiness besides adding « delicious flavor, cooling to a feverec throat. Beafateak Pie. Have butcher cut 1% pounds of round steak into small squares, Put meat, with one small onion chopped fine, in frying pan with two table- spoonfuls of butter and simmer for a few minutes, Cover with boiling water and boll—not too rapidly—until tender. Add four potatoes, cut into small cubes the last 15 minutes. Make pie crust and line baking pan, Prick and place in oven until dry but not brown. Put stew into this, adding one-half teaspoonful of chopped pars- ley, one-quarter teaspoonful of black pepper and one-half teaspoonful of ‘salt. Put on top crust and brown in oven. Serve from baking dish, Mush: rooms may be added with potatoes if desired. Plum Pudding, Chop one+half pound suet finely, put in a basin and add one-half pound cracker crumbs, pinch of salt, one cup- ful sugar, two grated nutmegs, one tea- spoonful powdered mixed spices, one- half pound seeded raisins, one-half pound sultana rafsins, one-quarter pound chopped candied citron peel, three ounces blanched and chopped al- monds, eight well beaten eggs and one gill of brandy, Mix well. Pour into well buttered mold, tie over with but- tered paper and steam steadily for five hours, Turn out and decorate with split almonds and holly. Fruit Sherbet. ‘The juice of two oranges, two lem- ons, a pint of cream and a cupful of sugar sirup (or less, depending upon the fruit). Strain the julce and add the cream and sirup, then freeze, ‘The proportion of ice and salt for fee cream is one part salt to three of ice, For ices and sherbets use one part salt to four parts of ice. For packing ‘use one part of salt to four parts of ice, Use a gunnysack and a heavy mallet to crush the ice, Lentil Croquettes. ‘Take one pint of lentil pulp, one-halt pint of bread crumbs (entire wheat preferred), three beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of grated onions, one- quarter cupful of butter. Salt and pep- per to taste, Mix ingredients together, cook in double boiler or steam until ‘eggs are set. Chill, then form in cro- quettes. Dip in egg, roll in crumbs and fry in deep fat. To add one-halt cupful of shredded English walnuts ‘or pecans imparts a rich, delicate fla- ‘yor. ‘Gettene @hesee, Put a pan of sour milk on the stove where it will warm very slowly. When it has thickened sufficiently so that it can be cut with a knife and the curd seems thick enough for cheese, remove from the stove and strain through a cheese cloth spread over the colander. Add a spoonful of butter, a little salt, ‘mix well and put into a dish. Pour ‘eream over the cheese before serving of WASHINGTON | ny i Ml LILI ee eae | How Income Tax Law Hits Members of Congress ternal revenue bureau wil! not give help; it has ruled that campaign expenses fre parsonal and afe, therefore, returnable as a fart of net income and tub; ject to the tax. ‘This deciston, tt fs aald at the treasury, might be altered it congressmen appeated to the sccretary of the treasury and could show a basis for an intent pretation of the law more favorable to their desires and pocketbooks. ; Congressmen, it is explained, have hesitated to take this course for two reasons; first, because such an argument has been difficult to invent, and ‘second, because it might prove embarrassing to any congressman adopting, such a course. The treasury department officials hint that a decision fa~ tone to congressmen might also put the secretary of the treasury in a bad! light. It remains now for some congressman bolder than his fellows to tntro4 duce an amendment to the income tax law allowing campaign expenses to be! deducted from net congressional incomes. In the house, it is learned, those) responsible for the income tax law have steadily opposed any such Saeed “In reply to your verbal inquiry,” says the nearly stereotyped reply of! the income tax division to the many applicants for information, “you aro) advised that the expenses incurred by a member of congress in conducting a campaign for re-election are regarded by this office as purely personal in’ character, and, therefore, not deductable in a return of your income under} the provisions of the income tax law.” | ‘The treasury will not divulge the names of the thrifty legislators who’ have telephoned and written letters on this subject, but it is a matter of wide! comment and gossip at the capitol; so the treasury ruling has been spread About from one congressman to another, English Sparrows Are Still Considered Aliens IX the recent bird census conducted under the supervision and inspiration of the department of agriculture with the aid of bird lovers and en- thusiasts throughout the United States no consideration was paid to that English sparrow was because of the difficulty of making a census of him and! her or them, ‘The estimate reached by the department of agriculture was that our, native field bird population fs something over two billions, exclusive of spar rows, or about one thousand to the square mile of land not planted to crops. The most numerous of these birds were the rebins, estimated as averaging: fifty pairs to the square mile east of the Mississippi river. The highest: average of field birds, seven pairs to the acre, was reported in the suburban) area of the District of Columbia, and the lowest estimate was one pair for every three acres in Montana, the forest birds being much less numerous than the birds which dwell in open lands, The history of the English sparrow in Washington goes back to 1872, im which year, under the supervision of Col. O, E. Babcock, in charge of public’ buildings and grounds, about one hundred pairs of these birds were pur- chased and set free in the parks of Washington. Legal Education Is Paramount at the Capital Le education {s paramount in Washington and court vernacular fs com- mon. There are many clerks here who take a law course in college as a diversion, and more lawyers are graduated per capita in the national capital manner,” and the young swain insists on her direct answer “Yes or no” when the proposal of marriage is made, leap year or otherwise. At a quick junch you may hear the expression, “Give me a potato, or potatoes, with peelings attached thereto.” “In detail state to the best of your knowledge and belief the component parts of the hash as set forth.” When a lawyer reads a document the lines are perused by words, differentiating the various shades of meaning with all the adjectives known attached, so that there may not be any loopholes for an extra word. Many a student dreams of the time when he may come back to the capital a full-fledged lawmaker, insigt- ing with the confidence and exuberance of youth that he can make better laws than those over which he was compelled to pore while a student in Washington—not to except Blackstone or any other authorities cited.—Na- tional Magazine, . All Original Plantation Restored to Monticello Roane JEFFERSON M, LEVY of New York is entitled to a vote of gratitude for his preservation of Monticello, the revolutionary home of Jefferson, which perches high on the side of the mountain overlooking Monticello, but the spot is still owned by the descendants of Jefferson, as that stipulation was made in the sale. Mr, Levy's affection for the, place ‘and his wealth have restored to the plantation all of its original land belong- ings, so that now the estate comprises 786 acres, the farm just as it was owned by Jefferson. ‘The house stands almost an exact duplicate of what {t was 100 years ‘ago, the colonial furniture being reproduced when the original could not be found, but most of the things, especially those of great value, were those used by Jefferson, Gee MUST HAVE Co ieen in Ai \ A wen | MADE NG ie THAT LAW eee es |! AO eek eae He, CAN SA Sse yi) ao DN . Ge ee aa called the English sparrow. It might seem that enough generations of this | pase have come into being and have passed away in the United States to have {it looked upon as naturalized, | but still people interested in birds continue to look upon this species of the sparrow as aliens. In the census enumeration the numerous. sparrows marked as native species were taken into account. It may be that one reason for the evident slight to the | Rnglish sparrow was because of the di her i thom, | ‘The estimate reached by the der ative eld bird population is somethh rows, or about one thousand to the sqi The most numerous of these birds we fifty pairs to the square mile east o average of field birds, seven pairs to t area of the District of Columbia, and every three acres in Montana, the fo than the birds which dwell in open lat ‘The history of the English sparro which year, under the supervision of ( buildings and grounds, about one hur chased and set free in the parks of Wé Legal Education Is Pai Le education is paramount in We mon. There are many clerks here diversion, and more lawyers are gradu | | =| p PGR, iN Y Sucre |-—a%, CLARA, YOUR | Scop) ANSWER | ra re MusT BE YES OR } bo NES OR. | (th, | A hie My pie eS | hs pes | manner,” and the young swain insist _| when the proposal of marriage is ma¢ .| tunch you may hear the expression, || peelings attached thereto.” “In detai , | and belief the component parts of th | reads document the lines are peruse , | shades of meaning with all the adjecti .| not be any loopholes for an extra ¥ time when he may come back to the ing with the confidence and exuberan laws than those over which he was Washington—not to except Blackston : tional Magazine, . woe . '/All Original Plantation | RemuesEnTanive JErrERSON » vote of gratitude for his preservatio | of Jefferson, which perches high on 5] ER RNT IO RES Se MORSE, ¢ | Virginia, | ‘There ts one feature of Monticello which has so far escaped most nar rators, and that is that under the house, which crowns a high knob on the western side of the mountain, 18 f | subterranean passage through which, tlit is said, Jefferson escaped once >| when the British cavalry officer Tarle- -| ton raided that section. -| The grave of the author of the ,| Declaration of Independence is at 1] Monticello, but the spot ts still own: | that stipulation was made in the sa s| and his wealth have restored to the p t | ings, 20 that now the estate compris s | owned by Jefferson, - ‘The house stands almost an exa ago, the colonial furniture being repr found, but most of the things, espec used by Jefferson, 0 . t Human Desires, 1 | HenriFrederic Amiel sald that hu- » | manity 1s the dupe of its desires, Bx- a | pertende “has two ways of crushing -. | us—by refusing our wishes and by ful- , | Milling them, But he who only wills r| what God wills escapes both catas- y. | trophes.” 8 Oa eR ne Peet Or ine ake trey are ee A are once ee ene up their income tax return. Mem+ hers of congress have awakened to the fact that they must allow the ser geants-at-arms of both houses to do- duct the income tax in advanee from congressional salaries without taking campaign expenses into consideration! ‘Thus there are several congressmen who have paid out large amounts to be reelected who must still pay in- come taxes on the money they spent. | [ECAN'T ee SEE WHY Ce (THEY Leet | 9 SSS | \me out oF) S. Se (|THE BIRD NA : | census i . 1 Reh 2 oe Ex : diMiculty of making a census of him and epartment of agrieuiture was that our nag over two billions, exclusive of spars quare mile of land not planted to crops. rere the rebins, estimated as averagingl ‘of the Mississippt river. ‘The highest. the acre, was reported in the suburban) d the lowest estimate was one pair for forest birds being much less numerous ands, ow in Washington goes back to 1872, in) Col. O, E. Babcock, in charge of public mindred’ patra of these birds were. pur- V ashington. aramount at the Capital Vashington and court vernacular is com- e who take a law course in college as a fated ser capita ini the aeatocat catia a ee ee eee ) The law course is especially attrac- | tive because the distinguished mem- bers of the Supreme court deliver’ lectures from time to time. Justice, Brower aud Jusiive Harlan were «| popular ‘with their law lasses, ane legal education is so prevalent that aven_ in dravingroom conversation, young ladies cautiously state, “In my, judgment this procedure should be so. and 80,” or “Whereas the parties dif- fered, the facts were set forth In this ists on her direct answer “Yes or no” ade, leap year or otherwise. At a quick . “Give me a potato, or potatoes, with ail state to the best of your knowledge the hash as set forth." When a lawyer sed by words, differentiating the various tives known attached, so that there may word. Many a student dreams of the e capital a full-fledged lawmaker, insist- ance of youth that he can make better s compelled to pore while a student in one or any other authorities cited.—Na- Restored to Monticello M, LEVY of New York is entitled to a ion of Monticello, the revolutionary home n the side of the mountain overlooking of 1 ey Pere aE: : i ae 8 f = i es eT -. a sae 20 Sere | h shite = Gemeente eal press : al . Ne at ned by the descendants of Jefferson, as sale, Mr, Levy's affection for the, piace plantation all of its original land belong rises 786 ucres, the farm just as it was act duplicate of what it was 100 years produced when the original could not be eclally those of great value, were those 1 Peat Bogs, Peat Bogs, a Peat is a vegetable formation, some- x-|times of a spongy character (when wg | Fecent), and again of a kind approxt- 1. | mating in composition to wood, while ls | in some instances, at the bottom of s- | bogs, it approaches lignite and eves coal, of Our Mottos "Nothing but The Best" The Crosthwait Floral Company Everything in Flowers and Flower Designs VE DELIVER THE GOODS The People say we have made some of the most beautiful and original designs in flowers ever seen in Kansas City. Bell Phone East 273 Home Phone Main 9070 1804 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo Ladies' Tailoring Dressmaking AND Drafting... Fancy Gowns a Specialty I am prepared to offer the public the best dressmaking, tailoring, drafting and fitting. Graduate of one of the best white downtown colleges. Will also teach Drafting. Bell Phone East 3413 M Mrs. Lillie Williams 2914 Woodland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISOURI See Wm. Hopkins For Bargains. If you are going to buy real es tate counsel given free. I have plenty of money to loan on improved real estate in Kansas City, Bell Phone East 3851. New and Artistic Superb Wall Papers Samples Shown at Your Home No obligation to purchase, A postal brings us. BELL PHONE East 2526 PROMPT WORK REASONABLE PRICES RANDOLPH BROS. & SON Carpenters and Builders Paper Hanging and Painting, Patching and Plastering General Repairing a Specialty SHOP 1207 Highland. Res. 1031 Highland KANSAS CITY, MO. PETER REV. MRS. PEARL. Rev. Sister Dee Pearl, 3101 East 16 has reopened her Church Grant Chapel at 533 Harrison street. It is a beautiful Church room easily seating 100 persons. To add to its comfort Sister Pearl is master in her profession of and altogether it is a very 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. --- Hon. A. W. Lloyd, Grand Chancellor of the K. of P.'s, is making his official tour through the state. He arrived in this city on Thursday, March 25, he was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Ball. Much of his time was spent in visiting lodges of the Knights of Pythias. A reception was given him by the men of Lexington at the Masonic Hail Saturday night. Speeches were made by Rev. O. A. Johnson, Dr. J. D. Ball and A. W. Lloyd. On Friday afternoon Hon. A. W. Lloyd was a visitor of Douglass School and delivered an excellent address which was full of wholesome advice to pupils of the High School. His visit was highly appreciated by the principal and faculty.... The Thanksgiving anniversary of the Knights of Pythias were held at the Second Baptist Church Sunday, March 28. A. W. Lloyd acted as Master of Ceremonies; J. D. Ball, Chancellor Commander of the day. The church was well filled by members of the K. of P. and their many friends. The sermon was preached by Rev. R. W. Williams who gave a splendid discourse. This was followed by an able address by Hon. A. W. Lloyd in which he urged in his usually eloquent manner the members to live up to their standard of knighthood.... The Heroes of Jericho conducted their annual services at the Masonic Hall Sunday afternoon, March 29, 1915.... The Citizens Forum which was organized three weeks ago was held at the Zion A. M. E. church last Sunday afternoon. An excellent program was rendered. The next meeting will be held at the Second Baptist Church.... At the St. John M. E. Church on Wednesday night addresses were made on Hygiene by Dr. A. H. Hudson, Dr. J. D. Ball and Prof. George H. Green.... A Clean-up Campaign is being propagated under the auspices of the Happy Club. . . Miss Moore of Pittsburg, Ill., is the guest of Bertha McCorkle. .Mr. Wm. Galbreath of Lincoln, Nebspent last week end here the guest of his mother, Mrs. Florence Galbreath. .Mrs. Amanda Graham of North Twenty-fourth Street is on the sick list; also Miss Rosa Carter and Mr. Finis Thomas. LAWRENCE, KAS The funeral of Mrs. Martha Wilson was held from the residence of her daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 246 Arkansas street at 2:30 p. m. March 29, the Rev. Jackson pastor of Warren Street Baptist church officiating. In interment in Oak Hill cemetery. CARD OF THANKS We the children of Mrs. Martha Wilson feel very grateful to friends and neighbors who were so kind to Mrs. Brown and children who cared for her during her 14 months illness, never growing impatient and doing everything possible to alleviate her suffering. We extend our thanks to the teachers of New York school, the ladies' auxiliary of Warren Street church, Mrs. Susie Taylor. Also for the beautiful floral offerings. A large pillow design was given by her children and grandchildren. MRS. LUCY STONE, Lawrence, Kan. MRS. KATIE REYNOLDS, Spearfish Lake, S. D. MRS. ELIZABETH BROWN, Lawrence, Kan. JAMES H. WILSON, Omaha, Neb. CHAS. F. WILSON, Kansas City, Mo. OBITUARY Mrs. Martha Wilson was born in Dresden, Tenn., in the dark year of 1820 or 1822, where she lived with her parents until about the age of 14. She was then taken to Fayetteville, Ark., where she met her husband, James McKizic, with whom she lived until about 1861 when he was sold to a Southern master and died two years later. Martha, his wife, was left with eight small children to support after doing her task for her task master, Mr. Wilson. She left Fayettville in 1863 with her children for Springfield, Mo., remaining there two years, after which she moved to Lawrence, Kas., in 1865 where she remained until death. It is useless to relate what courage and energy was required to rear eight children and provide for herself. Nevertheless she lost sight of the world and made every required sacrifice until she had seen the last reach the age of maturity. God in his divine providence has blessed her, for she has seen her children and children's children. She was faithful in all her doings and loved by all who knew her. She professed a hope in Christ about 25 years ago, but for several reasons she did not unite with any church. However, the Methodist church was her choice. Mrs. Wilson was about 93 years of age and was able to provide for herself until about 14 months ago, when she was confined to her bed, to receive an infant's care. Yet during this long illness she was faithful and often said: "Of course I prefer death to this suffering, but God knows best." She leaves five children—Mrs. Lucy Stone, Mrs. Kate Reynolds, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, James Wilson and Chas. Wilson, and a host of grand and great-grandchildren and friends to mourn her loss. She died March 27 at 2:15 p. m. Let us say from the depths of our hearts as a way of condolence. It is God who giveth and God who taketh; blessed be his holy name. JOPLIN, MISSOURI Rev. J. N. Brownlee has been invited to take part in Easter exercises in Chicago. The schools here are in fine condition and the churches are advancing along all lines. The Connor Hotel has a fine looking lot of waiters; they are all gentlemanly, neat and clean. Dr. Williams, our physiian, is loved by all his patients. A benefit for the Rev. A. J. Jones and wife was given at the Baptist church last Friday night. The parsonage they occupied was destroyed by fire several weeks ago. 19 CLOVER LEAF CASUALTY COM PANY OPENS OFFICE IN KANSAS CITY. J. J. Allen, District Manager. Mr. J. J. Allen, who has been engaged in the insurance business for four years for the Clover Leaf Casualty Co. has made a great record in his business in St. Louis. He has held the position there as District Manager for the past four years, and by his honest dealings with his people, he has been able with his staff of agents to insure a great majority of the business and professional as well as the laboring class of people in that city. The Clover Leaf Casualty Co. has recently completed arrangements to open an office in Kansas City, and have chosen Mr. Allen in preference to many other aspirants for the office of Manager. He comes to Kansas City highly recommended by the business and professional men of St. Louis and feels that he will be able to establish a great insurance business here, as his company is offering policies that cannot be excelled by any other old-line Casualty Co. The Clover Leaf is incorporated under the state laws of Illinois with $125,000 deposited with the state for the protection of each policyholder. He is in position to give employment to several of our young men and women as insurance agents, and would be glad to have any one with selling ability to call at his office for an interview with him. He states that he does not care whether or not you have had previous experience in insurance business, that many persons in the insurance business today came to him unexperienced and they are owing making from $100 to $150 per month. He is located in offices with Dr. J. E. Dibble at 19th and Vine streets. Phone, Bell East 887. SIR LUCIAN Past Grand Eminent C TROY, KANSAS. BY MRS. NELLE E. HOWARD. Mr. Bert Wakefield who has been very ill with pneumonia is reported somewhat better at this writing and his little daughter, Dorothy, is confined to her bed with a gripe. . . Mr. and Mrs. Morris Snoody were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Carter of St. Joseph, Saturday and Sunday. . . Miss Mintle Wilkinson was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Matthew McCurry of Elwood, Kansas and also did some shopping in St. Joseph, Mo. . . Mrs. Allie Duncan of Wathena and Misses Sallie Hathaway and Emma Starr of Highland, Kansas attended the Teachers Association in Troy Saturday. . . Misses Rosa Snyder and Maurine Weaver was St. Joseph shoppers Saturday. . . Messrs Harrison Wilkinson and Stanley were shopping in St. Joseph Saturday. . . Mr. and Mrs. Omar Pennel of Sunnybrook farm were shopping in Troy, Kansas. . . The Ladies Aid was entertained at the home of Mrs. Dora Lee Thursday evening and a delightful lunch was enjoyed by all present. Quarterly meeting will be held at the A. M. E. Church Sunday in connection with the Easter program. Presiding Elder Owens is expected to be present. . . Miss Elsie Lair and Mrs. Nellie E. Howard were the guests of Mrs. M. W. Webster in St. Joseph, Mo. Saturday. Miss Lair remained over Sunday to attend services at the Ebenezer A. M. E. Chap. . . Mrs. Amra Harvey of Kansas City, Mo. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson of this city. Mrs. Harvey is a sister of Mr. Johnson and will spend a week here before she starts to Memphis, Tenn., where she expects to remain and make it her home in the future. HOLDEN, MO. After a short illness Mr. Allen Anderson entered upon the life immortal Monday morning, March 22. The funeral services were held from the Second Baptist Church Thursday morning at 10:30, the Rev. Gardner officiating. Mr. Anderson was a member of the Baptist Church. A wife, two daughters and a host of relatives and friends survive him.....Rev. Wm. Duncan and wife of Chihlowee, Mo., and many friends from Centerview and Warrensburg attended the funeral of Mr. Allen Anderson.....Mr. Geo. Duncan, wife ad mother are on the sick list.....Ms. Jas. Ewing, who was dangerously ill, is improved.....Mrs. Mattie Harden was called to the bedside of her sister, who is very sick inigginsville, Mo.....Mrs. Clarise Smith was called to the bedside of her aunt at Monserat, Mo.....Mrs. Lizzie Holmes of Warrensburg, Mo. --- Since the book reception one or more books have come into the library each day. "Making a Living or Making a Life" will be the interesting subject discussed by Dr. W. F. Richardson of the Bales Avenue church Sunday at the Men's Easter services. The membership campaign between the Reds and Blues is being hotly contested. At present the two sides are a tie. Each team vows that when the returns are all in April 7 the other side will eat mush while they must be treated to chicken. The closing days of March found between fifty and sixty men lodging in the building. Among the visiting guests were Rev. Hayden of Oklahoma, Mr. A. A. Sanford and Dr. W. G. Gatlin of Carrolton, Major Moten, Mr. Tymes and quartet of Hampton Institute. The ladies of the Sorosis club report a large advance sale of tickets to the address of Hon. William Harrison of Oklahoma, "Jim Crow" fane. This address is to be given as a bonefit for the piano fund Monday, April 5, in the Y. M, C. A. gymnasium-audiortum. PLEASANT HILL, MO Phoebe Ann Court No. 98, H. of J., celebrated Palm Sunday with the usual sermon and an excellent musical program at the Second Baptist church The church was tastefully decorated for the ceremony and was filled to capacity. Rev. G. H. Bowers delivered the sermon. D. CARTER. Commander of Missouri. was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C, C Berry the past week....Mrs. James Hunley is on the sick list and eded much improved...Mrs. Geo. Smith spent two days of last week in Chill howee. Mo....Mr. Lewis Clay spet. Palm Sunday in Pleasant Hill, Mo....Dr. A. A. Mayer stopped here en route to Kansas City, Mo., Friday evening. IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear daughter and sister, Mrs. Mattie Jean Berry, who died April 2, 1912, three years ago. Gone but not forgotten. MRS. MARY VARASKA, Mother. ELLA CARPENTER, BETTIE MOSBY, SADIE DUNCAN, Sisters. JOHN MOSBY, GEORGE MOSBY, Brothers. A Take One Pain Pill, then— Take it Easy. To Head-Off a Headache Nothing is Better than Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills They Give Relief Without Bad After-Effects. "I can say that Dr. Miles' Remedies have been a godsend to me and my family. I used to have such terrible headaches I would almost be blind for days as a time. I began using Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills and never have those headaches any more. I can speak highly of Dr. Miles' Nervine also for it cured one of my children of a terrible nervous disorder. I always speak a good word for your Remedies and have recommended them to a good many of my friends who have been well pleased with them." MRS. GEO. H. BRYAN, Janesville, Iowa. For Sale by All Druggists. 25 Doses, 25 Cents. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. Zerubbabel Chapter Ross Crux No. 7, A. A. S. R., Valley of Kansas City, held their Feast of Maundy Thursday, Nissan 16, 5675, Thursday evening, April 1, at the Paseo Y. M. C. A. Toastmaster, Chester Arthur Franklin $32^{\circ}$. Invocation, Rev. T. G. McCampbell $33^{\circ}$ Hon. President of the United States Supreme Council, Edward Sherman Baker $33^{\circ}$. R. L Pendleton, Sovereign Grand Commander, Willis Gibson Moseley $33^{\circ}$ Hon. Edward Sherman Baker, Sovereign Grand Inspector General and Deputy for Missouri, George Washington Johnson $32^{\circ}$. Tenor solo, "Goodbye," Launey C. Whibby. Kansas City Consistency No. 7, David Nelson Crosthwaite $32^{\circ}$ Hon. Our Country, William Clarence Hueston $32^{\circ}$. Grand Chapter R. A. M., William Henry Dawley Jr. $33^{\circ}$. Solo, "The Rosary," Mrs. Rebecca Moore. Duet, "Oh That We Two Were Maying." Mrs. Rosalind L. Shannon, Washington Lee Whibby $32^{\circ}$. Plano Solo, Miss Elsa Nix. Roll Call, Washington Lee Whibby $32^{\circ}$. Taps, Clay Brassfield $32^{\circ}$. Ceremony of extinguishing the lights. Sixty-three Knights were present. The ceremonies of re-lighting the lights will take place at 8 a. m., Easter morning, April 4, 1915. WAIT FOR APRIL 7 Why? Miss Helen E. Hagan, the young Afro-American Paderewski will appear at the Second Baptist Church in a piano recital. Miss Hagan after winning the $2000 prize at Yale University spent two years in Paris under the most noted masters. Crowded houses have greeted her everywhere since she started on her tour of the South and West last November. She sails for Paris May 20. Admission 25 cents. Miss Helen E. Hagan is scoring great hits wherever she appears in her illimitable piano recitals at Topeka, Sedalia, Lincoln Nebr., Omaha, St. Joseph and Hannibal. She has played to crowded houses. This is what the whig of Quincy, Ill., says about her rendition there March 17: "Miss Hagan's program was a pretentious one, but she proved herself a rare artist; her technique is perfect. She plays brilliantly with feeling and with an individuality that adds interest and charm to the compositions. Not only Miss Hagan's playing won admiration but her attractive appearance and -charming personality delighted everyone." Hear her at the Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte Streets, Wednesday evening, April 7. Admission 25 cents. Mrs. L. J. Bacote will be delighted to welcome all her music loving patrons and friends at the Second Baptist Church, Wednesday evening, April 7, on which occasion she will present Miss Helen E. Hagan, the pianist wonder of New Haven the $2,000 prize winner of Yale_University who is touring this country before returning to Paris, where she spent two years in post graduate study under some of the world's famous teachers. CHILLICOTHE, MO. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mitchell of Ottumwa, Ia., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gilbert last week... Prof. Herndon of Marceline, Mo., was a visitor in this city Sunday... Mrs. Harriett Dawson of Meadville, Mo, spent several days as the guest of Mr. Creede Jones last week...Mr. Wm. Alnutt and Mr. Henry Williams are on the sick list...The illness of Rev. Charles Crews who is confined to his bed is unchanged. Editor Nelson C. Crews and Mrs. Jas. H. Crews of Kansas City, Mo, arived Tuesday morning to visit Rev. Crews and to whom in the joys and sorrows of life they have ministered with devotion...The Bachelor Girls met with Miss Alice Talley Saturday afternoon. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess...Mrs. George Allen entertained the A. S. M. Club Saturday afternoon...The weekly meeting of the Modern Priscilla Club was held last Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Charles Johnson as hostess...The Annual services of the Pythians was held at the A. M. E. Church Sunday afternoon Rev. Burbridge officiting. After music by Bethel choir remarks were made by Mr. Herbert Beach. His remarks were historical, phrased in wit yet enhanced by sincerity. The large congregation followed the Pythians who responded to the appeal of the finance committee without delay. The number and personnel of this, the youngest lodge in our city, bespeaks a brightening future. Rooms to Rent For Rent—Nicely furnished room; 613 Charlotte, upstairs. Bell phone Main 2967W. For Rent—Neatly furnished front room; modern. 2316 Highland, Bell phone East 3972. Mrs. T. A. Wheeler. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms with heat. 2531 Michigan ave. Bell phone East 4594. 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Tear off this coupon and mail it today to STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. District Office, 1507 E. 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. CARD OF THANKS. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends who so kindly assisted us during the illness and death of our husband and father, Henry Campbell. We especially thank Rev. Douglass, the pastor, choir members of St. James A. M. E. Zion church. MRS. EDITH CAMPBELL, Wife. MRS. MABLE BROWN, GOLDIE CAMPBELL, PASCAL CAMPBELL, OATH CAMPBELL, Children. --- In defense of those worthy of commendation I wish to commend and thank Watkins Bros., undertakers, for the courteous treatment, prompt attendance and fair dealing with me in the death of my husband. They are deserving of the patronage of anyone wishing fair treatment. MRS. EDITH CAMPBELL, Wife. NOTICE. RALPH WORTHAM, the expert cleaner and presser, is now located across the street from the Y. M. C. A., where old acquaintances will be gladly received and new ones likewise. Excellent bargains in uncalled for garments are now on sale. Bell phone, East 701. Y. M. C. A. CAFT Services were well attended Sunday at the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Migkins, the pastor, preached two interesting sermons. The Heroines of Jericho held their Annual Palm services also at the Second Baptist Church from 12:30 to 1:30 p. m., a large number attending...Services at Grant Chapel were largely attended and at the 2:30 p. m. the K. of P.'s and Court of Calanthe held their annual sermon from said church. A large attendance was present. The banquet given Saturday evening in honor of the Grand Opening of West View Cafe was largely attended. Music was furnished by the orchestra from Hannibal, Mo., under the direction of Prof. M. C. Lewis. Anumber of out of town guests were present. The Thursday at the home of Miss Hurly, Miss Elva Williams of Higbee is the guest of Mrs. Zeta Mitchell...Mrs. Sophia Reece of Glasgow is also the guest of Misses Onetta and Gracie Carr...Mr. McCann is very ill at this writing...Mrs. Mary Bailey is convalescing. Everything fresh in the complete stock of drugs, toilet needs, sundries, candies and cigars at the Ide Pharmacy, 18th and Woodland. Free phones, telegrams, want ads and long distance.