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Buckner's Jubilee Singers, 2d Baptist Church, Friday, Apr. 30. Admission 25cts. ALL HAIL GLAD TIDINGS GOOD NEWS Grand Opening CRITERION THEATRE, Sunday, April 25th The World Famous BILLY KING with his Incomparable Company of Sixteen Artistic Stars. The Greatest and Most Celebrated Group of Negro Performers Ever Assembled in America. Everything Fresh, New and Up-to-Date. VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 34. FLEGUSON'S PIXIE JUBILEE CONCERT COMPANY THE BEST COMPANY OF COLORED TALENT IN THE WORLD NOW BUCKNER'S FAMOUS JUBI LEE SINGERS This famous aggregation will give the greatest concert of the year at the Second Baptist Church, Tenth and Charlotte streets, Friday evening April 30. To the Kansas City Sun and to the Baptists at large: This is to certify that the Twin City Baptist Ministers' Alliance, after a careful investigation of the charges brought by the Greenwood Baptist church, Rev. G. T. Mosby, pastor, against Rev. S. A. Anderson, pastor of Pleasant Valley Baptist church, Rosedale, Kas., for unbecoming conduct toward the Greenwood Baptist church and pastor, and walking indiscreetly as a minister of the gospel; and after being thoroughly convinced of his guilt, we therefore withdraw the right hand of fellowship from him as a gospel preacher in a regular meeting of the Alliance. After the expiration of the three weeks given him to set himself right, which he has failed to do. We therefore publish his name to the public. Done by the order of the Alliance April 19, 1915 The names of those who voted are: Revs. W. A. Bowren, J. M. Booker, J. W. Clay, J. W. Hurse, George McNeal, J. R. Williams, D. B. Jackson, G. H. Daniels, C. C. Callaway, D. Norfleet, C. P. Crutchfield, J. W. Jenkins, J. W. Fagan, C H Todd, J. J. Adams, D. St. Clair. REV. W. H. DAVIS An able and eloquent Baptist Divine now pastoring at Forest Green, Mo. Dear Editor: That some of the employees of the Metropolitan are gentlemen in their conduct toward colored ladies as well as white, was evidenced the other day when a colored woman's hat was blown from the car. The conductor stopped his car, told the lady to sit still, went back nearly a block, got the hat and handed it to her with a smile and said, "no trouble; we are pleased to look after our passengers." This was conductor No. 676 of the Brooklyn line and I am sure the thanks of our race goes out to a man like this who is manly enough to forget prejudice and be a gentleman toward all women, white or colored. A FEARLESS DEFENDER OF THE RACE NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES A Bulletin Containing the Most Recent Statistics Relative to the Race. Bulletin 129, entitled "Negroes in the United States," presenting statistics derived from the thirteenth census and from other statistical inquiries conducted by the bureau of the census, department of commerce, has been issued and is now being distributed. The bulletin, which consists of 207 pages of text and tables, will be followed by a more complete and comprehensive report on the same subject. The director of the census in transmitting the report to the secretary of commerce, states: "The object in view is to embody in a single publication the principal and most recent census statistic relative to the Negro, arraanged and presented in such a way as to contribute as much information as possible regarding the status and progress of the Negro race in the United States. "A similar publication was issued in 1904 following the completion of the twelfth census, taken in 1900, and there has been a very general demand for a report covering the same field but based upon the more recent statistics of the thirteenth census. "The need for a monographic presentation arise from the fact that the census statistics relating to the Negro must otherwise be sought for in many different volumes covering population, agriculture, mortality and other general subjects. The result is that these statistics are not easily accessible to the general public until brought together in a single publication." The bulletin was prepared in the division of revision and results, bureau of the census, under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by three Negro employees of the bureau-Chas. E. Hall, William Jennifer and Robert A. Pelham, or under their direction by other Negro clerks. Mr. Hall's assignment covered population and occupations, Mr. Jennifer's agriculture and religious statistics, and Mr. Pelham's mortality and ownership of homes statistics. As a government document the bulletin is for free distribution and can be obtained by application to the director of the census, Washington, D. C. WATLINGTON DRILL CORPS. Here is the list of U. B. Fs and S. M. Ts that will help the Watlington Drill Corps to secure their uniforms. What will you give Address your communication to Joseph Parrent, 1609 E 13th street or Neal Range, Jr., 1407 Lydia. Make checks payable to Watlington Drill Camp. $490.00 By May. The following have contributed: Mercy Temple . . . $10.00 Justice Lodge . . . 10.00 Gates Ajar Temple . . . 3.00 Fred Douglas Lodge . . . 22.50 B. K. Bruce Temple . . . 5.00 E. A. Walker . . . 5.00 Peaceful Path Lodge . . . 15.00 Progress Temple . . . 5.00 Ezekiel Lodge . . . 10.00 W. M. Saunders Lodge . . . 5.20 New Hope Temple . . . 20.00 St. Stephen's Lodge . . . 3.00 Lilly of the Valley Royal House . . . 2.00 B. K. Bruce Lodge . . . 5.00 Seven Son Lodge . . . 3.00 The Camp meets every Monday night at Garrison Square, 5th and Troost avenue. You may send your donations there if you desire. BUCKNER'S JUBILEE SINGERS. The coming of Buckner's Jubilee Singers to the Second Baptist church, Tenth and Charlotte Rivers, Waco, Texas pastor, Friday night, April 30, marks a distinct epoch in musical history in the city, and doubles the brilliant audience that has ever attended a like entertainment in this eclectic acote's success entertainment, an acote's proverbial, and the list of assistants who has selected speeches success from the very church has been divided into sections, of which Mrs. Black and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. King, section 2; Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Berry, section 3; Mrs. Juanta Johnson, section 4. Any of these ladies will be pleased to furnish you tickets, and the general reservation for all will be 25 The Kansas City Sun BAPTIST ALLIANCE SPEAKS KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 191 In the production of "The Birth of a Nation" in this city a race is labeled. In the office of the collector of internal revenue for the Second district of New York that race may be judged by its fruits. Charles W. Anderson goes uot of office today after holding for ten years this responsible post under the treasury. Many millions of dollars have passed through his hands. His dealings have been practically all with white men of the keenest intellect and of substantial business standing. Capacity and courtesy have been the qualities most remarked in his conduct of an office maintained always in the highest efficiency. In Collector Anderson's time, three complicated and important new revenue measures, the income tax, the corporation tax and the war revenue tax, have made this office the most difficult, as it is the most important ever held by a colored man under the government. He has stoo dhe test. No race is fairly judged by holding up as types for reprobation its most degraded specimens. Every race has the right to be judge by its patient, toiling, useful average, and by its best.—New York World, April 1, 1915. MARSHALL MO. Entered into life—Miss Mae Louise Johnson. Once more have the shadows lengthened across the portals of our home and the great Angled Death has borne away our beloved niece and sister to join the heavenly choir which throngs around the great white throne, chanting hallelups. Mae Youise Johnson was born in Marshall, Mo. May 5, 1891. She was left an orphan at the age of 2, and has made her home with her aut, Miss Mollie C. Johnson, since that time. Desirous of a higher education she was sent to Lincoln Institute, where she graduated with all honors in 1913. She was engaged in the profession of teaching, having taught in Bluffton, Mo., the year 1914, and was, up to the time of her death, a teacher in the Napton school. The deceased had been complaining of the dreaded tuberculosis when death came to her relief on April 3, 1915. She was a member of the North Street M. E. church, also a member of Queen Foster Temple No. 139. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her, for to know her was to love her. She leaves to mourn her departure an aunt, Miss Mollie C. Johnson, two brothers, Leverette and Oliver Johnson, and a number of relatives and friends. The funeral services were conducted at the North Street M. E. church in the presence of a large congregation by Rev. A. H. Higgs of Fayette, Mo. Interment was in the Fairview cemetery in this city. A FRIEND. MASONIC. Already is heard the advance firing of the warriors who expect subordinate lodges. June electors candidates are being groomed and doomed alternately, unless to say that the extent to which this pre-election work is arried on is not only unMasonic but is usually unfair. The Masonry is the most pressing peace and harmony of the lodge is to transact all its business upon Masonry. Masonry is the pressing opportunity to serve where he is best fitted, regardless of his participation in each member's pressing set of the members. Outside caucusing and "frame-up" bittenness and sometimes effect the result of men who would develop into most useful members. Masonry is the political politics enter Masonry. It seems to the ordinary thinker that the honors should be governed (1) by the ability and ability of the men; (2) by the enthusiasm and interest shown to attend late meetings and lodge work when called upon. A holding office but if he is so desolate about attending his lodge he should not expect to receive its things being equal, and they should go to the workers, all other things being equal, and they should go to the unMasonic coordination with that fraternal spirit of brotherly love which is the gaining force in the craft, rather than the unMasonic spirit aims. —Herrford SHRINERS' ANNUAL OUTING. Allah Temple No. 6, Mystic Shrine at a business and social session combined Wednesday night last, decided upon Thursday, June 17, as the date for its annual outing. The pilgrim age will as usual be made to Leaven worth Kas., over the interurban lines. Proceeding the outing a ceremonial session will be held and preparations are being made for a large class. Mr. W. G. Mosely is the Potentate and John A. Johnson is recorder. The Temple was entertained Wednesday by the Empire City quartet. Y. W. C. A. NOTES YATES BRANCH Y. W. C. A. The energy with which the earnest workers of the association have worked to raise the yearly budget is refreshing. Too much credit can not be given to the earnest team workers. The budget this year is $1,200, which is to include a home that will be a center for girls' activities. Six men have already pledged $25 each toward the rent of the home. They are Mr. Tilford Davis, Mr. S. H. Randolph, Mr. Nandletary, Dr. W. W. Montgomery, Wm. Hulsey and John W. Jones. May we have six more to insure the rent for one year? Miss Eva D. Bowles, the National Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., with headquarters in New York city, has been a most welcome guest of the Yates branch for the past ten days. Miss Bowles is an ideal type of womanhood and is giving her entire life fto the service of others. The national secretary found the work here doing nicely. Edna H. Cook is general secretary. ART EXHIBIT. DUNBAR ART CLUB Monday, May 3 LYRIC HALL Admission 25 Cents LOOK O LOOK The K. C. Patriar G. U. O. of Od their Annual Fi Lincoln Electric P 20th. All Drill Corps have been we promise to make i Military Display The K. C. Patriarche, No. 66, Corps G. U. O. of Odd Fellows, will hold their Annual Field Day Exercises at Lincoln Electric Park, Thursday, May 20th. All Drill Corps have been invited to take part and we promise to make it one of the Grandest Military Displays ever witnessed. The Park is Filled with all of the Latest Attractions. ADMISSION 10 cents. By Committee, E. G. DUGGER, Chairman. Capt. T. WHITE, Sec'y. By Committee, E. G. DUGGER, Chairman, Capt. T. WHITE, Sec'y. JOPLIN, MO. Mrs. Joseph Stover gave a grand entertainment for the benefit of her club Wednesday evening at the parsonage, 624 Wall street, which was a delightful affair....The services at Unity Baptist church were fine. Don't forget that Joe Washington has the Sun at Bunn's barber shop....The services were well attended at Handy A. M. E. church. The sacred concert was good under Miss Waite, musical director, assisted by Miss Dixon, teacher in Lincoln school. The clubs are all progressing nicely....Mrs. J. Cox has been indisposed....Rev. Mrs. Walker left Sunday for St. Louis....Prof. Brooks of the Lincoln school and his faculty are making every effort to make this school year the greatest in its history....Miss Myrle Brown of Baxter Springs, Kas, spent a few days in Joplin this week with her sister, Mrs. Hagerman....Miss L. Gardner, the Beaty culturist, 316 Kentucky street, is meeting with much success. D TIDING ON THEA BY comparable Co Y. M. C. A. NOTES The Reds, captained by L. A. Knox, won the membership contest by four. To date, five months after entering the new building, the membership has already reached 539. Indicative of how wide spread the information concerning the association has gone out, men coming from all parts of the country are writing in for dormitory accommodations. Two large banquets, the Knights Templars and the railway mail clerks, have taken place in the association banquet hall this month. Still another is scheduled for a later date this month and another early in May. Some of the gymnasium classes are now doing outdoor work. As the weather approaches the physical department with its shower baths and swimming pool becomes more popular. This is the time of year to build up stamina to overcome the enervating days of the summer. On Monday evening, May 3, a match for the championship of Kansas City will begin. The contestants are Mr. A. V. Pepp, tournament champion, and Mr. Emanuel Jackson, two of the best local Negro experts. This will be the first time such a match was ever conducted in Kansas City, and will cause the greatest excitement among the fans. On the evening of April 14 a num ber of expert chess and checker players met at the Y. M. C. A. rooms and organized a regular chess and check er association. This following officers were elected: W. E. Griffin, presi dent; D. Howard, vice president; A V. Pepp, recording secretary; Prof. J D. Bowser, corresponding secretary The association adoited rules and che, No. 66, Corps d Fellows, will hold held Day Exercises at ark, Thursday, May n invited to take part and t one of the Grandest s ever witnessed. regulations governing match and tournament plays, and will immediately put on a number of big events. The first big event will occur on Saturday evening, April 24. Mr. Harry Liebreman, known for many years as juvenile champion of the world, and now acknowledged to be one of the very finest players in the United States, will be the guest of the association. He will meet all comers in a simultaneous exhibition, after which he will conduct a number of games blindfolded. Come out boys, and do yourselves honor. Let's make a good score against this great master and expert. *Drop in at C. A. Franklin's Print shop and see how his work is counted. Then you will know one reason why he can do your printing satisfactory. 1008 East 18th street, near Troost. East phone, Grand 2988.* GS GOATRE, Su mpany of Sixtec LEON H. JORDAN, Sole Mgr. CAPT. LEON H. JORDAN Who will personally manage the new Criterion Theatre this season, which insures its continued success. ST. JOSEPH MO Rev. W. J. DeBoe of the M. E. church has been assigned to the church at Joplin, Mo., and Rev. Wolfolk succeeds him...New Baptist church closed its fair last week and succeeded nicely...Rev. N. C. Buren spent last Wednesday visiting Rev. J. Siler at Norborne...The "flying squadron" visited the city last week and several interesting speakers brought many facts to us concerning the liquor traffic...Quarterly meeting was held at Holsey chapel Sunday. The presiding elder, Rev. Curry, was present and the sermon in the afternoon was delivered by Rev. Wolfolk...Hon. A. W. Lloyd of St. Louis, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Missouri, was the guest of Mr. Smith Crews Saturday and Sunday...Madame Anita Patti Brown, the coloratura sorrano of Chicago, sang to a very appreciative audience at the Masonic Temple last Tuesday night. She was presented by M. A. D. Harts...Mrs. Essex Allen was out to service Sunday morning, the first time since November. Her many friends are so glad of her recovery...Mrs. Ella Henson, who was taken suddenly ill last week, is on the road to recovery ...The A. M. E. church opened its annual fair and bazar Monday night, the 19th. The program rendered that evening was a playlet called "The Sewing Society." It was well rendered and much enjoyed...Mr. Alonzo Lewis has moved to Atchison, Kas. Mrs. Lewis was Miss Opal Lee... Hon. A. W. Lloyd of St. Louis, grand chancellor of the K. of P., was a visit- MR. FORTUNE J. WEAVER The hustling and energetic President of the Afro-American Employment and Realty Co., who has sold more than 500 homes to Negroes and secured employment for 60,000 in the past ten years. or here Sunday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Crews, and give a lecture to the organization....Mrs. Sam Henson, who has been ill, is improving . . . The Whatsoever club gave a fair at the A. M. E. church during the week which was a grand success under the management of Mrs. Bell McGee, president....Mrs. Howard Johnson died April 8 and the funeral was held from her sister's residence, Mrs. M. D. Lawrie, Saturday. Rev. G. L. Prince officiated....Mrs. Mattie John son died at her home, 222 Iowa ave. nue, and her funeral was held from the First Mt. Union Baptist church Saturday. A husband, Mr. Lee Johnson, two sisters, a father and many other relatives survive her ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME PRICE. 5c. A sweet complexion like the ripening corn, With the softest mellow-brown laughing eyes; Like pleasant glories of a vernal morn Exulting in the sun's ennobling rise. Touch not those flowered lips unfeigning wiles, Which may lure you with a tempting power, Nor drink too deep a draught of those pure smiles Which warms the soul as a blooming flower. Oh Daughter of Thiope, lovely maid, How pleasant the glow of thy burnished charms, And how beautiful each gold tinted shade Brightens up all, even those matchless arms, So dimpled cheek and coy, lovely in grace, With black locks straying down thy comely face. —Chas, A. Starks. Notice—We will publish in our next issue something decidedly new in the way of composition by our poet, entitled "Songs of the Seasons." Watch for it. WHY NOT BE FAIR WITH THE NEWSPAPER MAN? There are many persons who never stop to think o their obligation to the newspaper man. They seem to be of the opinion that he can live easily without collecting from his subscribers, and yet be able to give them a newspaper that is full of news, back and front and all up and down the sides. There is no question about it, it is damned if he do, and be damned if he do not. Then why not be fair with the fellow who at the best he can do is always between the devil and the deep blue sea? No one has an opportunity of learning the characteristics of individuals more than the publisher of a race paper, and no one has more varied and peculiar experiences. There are those who will pay the subscription as regularly and as promptly as it is due without delay or hesitation, just as they would any other debt. This is the desirable and welcome subscriber. There is another class who subscribes as willingly and will pay the subscription at that time, but it is almost impossible to collect it again, for it is almost impossible to find the individual as they move from place to place so frequently. Then there is the responsible subscriber who feels that he is good for the subscription but never pays unless a personal demand is made upon him for it. This may ease his conscience, but it is almost as difficult to collect his subscription when it is needed most, as it is to collect from the man who is not responsible. Then there is the subscriber who imagines that every one pays his subscriptions except himself and that the publisher is well to do and does not need the money. He keeps the money in his pocket until it is thawed out by first one process and then another. Some subscribers never intend to pay and by first one subterfuge or another avoids payment until the publisher in self-defense must stop the paper and collect the subscription by legal process when this is possible. Really the subscribers to race papers should feel a deeper interest in their success and adopt the habit of paying for them promptly, and in that way may lighten the burdens of the publisher and insure better and more regular publication of the paper. ROSEDALE, KANSAS The funeral of Mr. Wm. H. Jackson was held from the Pleasant Valley Baptist church, of which he was a member, Wednesday. He is survived by a wife, five children and a mother. A'daughter, Miss Wilmer Jackson, is a student at Summer High School.... Revival services are in progress at Wesley Chapel M. E. church. Rev. Williams is the new pastor....The revival services are still in progress at the Pleasant Valley Baptist church. A large number of additions have been made....The condition of Miss Rosa Morton, who has been ill for several weeks, is somewhat improved....The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Raines was buried from their residence Tuesday. Dealing with Elementals By G. W. MASTERS (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman) "Business is mighty slow, Professor Nahum," said Madame Ida, the medium, to the latest satellite whom she had picked up in the courses of her journeys up and down the length and breadth of the land. "It might be better," admitted the professor, gloomily. Madame Ida, driven out of Iowa, and at her wits' end, had considered herself fortunate in securing the services of the starving young man who had agreed to work for her on the basis of a division of the receipts instead of on salary. They had had quite a successful tour in Ohio, stopping for a day and a night at the little country villages, where the gullible are just as numerous as they ever were in spite of education. "Queer business, ain't it, professor?" soliloquized Madame Ida. "But Lord, all business is a graft. It's respectable, and it don't do no harm and does do a lot of good, that's what I say. At least, it makes some folks think they're seeing the spirits of their beloved dead, and even if they ain't sure that it's true it helps. That's what I say—it helps. Never had no folks of your own, did you, professor?" "Not since I was a boy," answered the professor gloomily. "Well, listen now," said Madame Ida. "There's a rich old guy in this place that's crazy on spirits. I got a line on him and I've sent him an advertisement of tonight's meeting. He WILLIAM ROGER "It's Faith That Counts, You Know." ought to be good for fifty if we can work him right. Had a son who run away and was wild, or something of the sort, and he's got the idea that he's in the summerland and thinks he didn't treat him square. Work the game for all it's worth tonight, professor." "Sure," answered the professor. "Karpen is his name—Henry Karpen, and he's got a mint of money. We might manage to stay over a few days, and perhaps give him private settings. Shrewd old fellow he is, too, they say, in the law. But Lord, that's the kind that we catch the easiest. So work him, professor." "I will," muttered the professor, rising and going into the cabinet, which was set with the accessories for the seance. Madame Ida had advertised extensively, not through the newspapers, which was apt to bring down the attentions of the police, but by means of handbills, and by letters addressed to persons whom she had learned, through underground channels, to be spiritualistically inclined. As a result there was a fairly full house at a dollar apiece, among the audience being old Mr. Karpen. Watching him narrowly out of the corner of her eye, Madame Ida decided that the old lawyer could be "worked" as easily as the rest. She had instructed the professor not to permit the spirits to approach the old man that night, this being the method adopted to pique and stimulate the curiosity. So while the professor, attired in flowing robes, capped about the assemblage in the dim light for the benefit of most of the audience, eliciting exclamations of awe by his shrewd "fishing" processes, Mr. Karpen saw no spirit of his son. At last the spectators filed away, but the old man lingered. Presently he was alone with the woman, the medium being presumably entranced within the cabinet. "Now, Madame Ida," he said, "I came here to see the spirit of my son, and I generally get what I want in this world." "Ah, Mr. Sharpen—no, the spirit tells me your name is Carp?—thank you, Karpen—you see, it is difficult to get the spirits invariably at the first attempt. Spirits are like human beings. They are just as suspicious as we folks are. They, too, want to be sure that the parties who call on them are the real parties. The astral influence—" "Would fifty dollars bring up my son's spirit for me?" asked the old man eagerly. Madame Ida's mouth watered. Fifty dollars! That was just the sum she had longed for. Even a medium is human, and she had seen a spring suit—but why prolong the story? Madame Ida thought that the spirits might be induced to bring up his son —not, of course, for the money, but because of his faith. "It's faith that counts, you know," she said. "Do you want the sitting at once, Mr. Karpen?" She pouched the fifty dollars and went into the cabinet. "Professor, the old fool's stayed to see his son," she said. "Don't be scared to go out to him. I've got the fifty, and he won't try any roughhouse business, I guess." Old Mr. Karpen, seated alone in front of the cabinet, saw a luminous cloud upon the floor, which slowly changed into the form of a spirit. It was a tremulous spirit, for the professor was more ill at ease than he had been in many a day. "Here is your son, Mr. Karpen," said the medium softly. "Don't touch him. He isn't fully materialized yet, and if you were to lay hands on him the astral influence might project an elemental in his place and snatch him away." "Father!" whispered the tremulous wrath. "You wanted to see me, father. O how glad I am! You didn't treat me very well when I was in the world of fleshy phenomena—" "I know I didn't, Percy," answered old Mr. Karpen. "How is Edith?" inquired the ghost. Oh, tolerable," answered the old man. "At least, she was the last time I heard of her. How did you die, Percy?" "I am not dead," said Percy with a sob. "I have passed over into the summerland, as the result of a blow on the head, delivered?" "In a saloon, Percy? How often have I warned you—" "No, father. It was a quarrel in a freight car. I was working my way home to you, to implore your forgiveness, when the brakeman found me and struck me on the forehead. I was stunned by the blow and pitched forward over a bridge on to a jagged rock in the river bed a thousand feet below. When I recovered conscious ness I was in summerland. Father have you cared for Edith?" "Why, no, Percy," answered the old man. "I told you not to get married until you found a job. I didn't feel called upon to support Edith. But I understand she has a steady job at a dollar a day as a seamstress—" "Then listen, father!" cried the ghost passionately. "I swear to you that unless you take Edith into your home and cherish her I will haunt you for the remainder of your days. I will never give you peace. If you love me, cherish my poor wife—" "I don't know about that, Percy," answered the old man thoughtfully. "I understand that she can take pretty good care of the child—" "What!!" shouted Percy, and for the first time a dreadful suspicion began to show itself in Madame Ida's manner. "Have I a child?" "A pretty little two-year-old, Percy," said the man wistfully. "As sweet a little toddler as ever I saw." "And you have let my wife and child starve on a dollar a day, you infernal secondbreel!" shouted the ghost, throwing off its trappings and striding up to the father. "Father, it is I, Percy, in flesh and blood. I am not a ghost." The old man rose stiffly out of his chair. "That's just like you, Percy," he said reproachfully. "You never were strong for veracity. First you tell me you are a spirit and then you say you aren't. Which am I to believe?" "He is a spirit," cried Madame Ida. "The elementals have got him and built up a framework of flesh and blood about him. I warned you, Mr. Karpen. Your son is in summer-land—" "I tell you I am a human being you old impostor," shouted Percy clutching his father by the arm. "Father, surely you know me: Look at me!" "It does look like you, Percy," admitted his father. "But you know the elements are clever fellows. How do I know you aren't in summerland and that the elements are just fooling me?" "Of course they're fooling you," shouted Madame Ida angrily. "You aren't the first man that has been fooled by an elemental. Why, Queen Victoria once said to me—" "I'm afraid you are an elemental Percy," said his father, shaking his head. "And I'm sorry, because if it was really you I'd ask you to forget the past and come home with me, where your wife and baby have been living two years past, and—say, Percy, you infERNal chump, if you're ready to quit this foolishness and come home there's a job waiting for you and the calf ready for the butcher." "You bet your life!" yelled Percy flinging his arms about his father. And Madame Ida, looking alternately at the door and at her fifty dollars, realized that she would have to find a new professor before the next seance. Choate on Lord Aberdeen A characteristic remark of Mr. Choate was made about Lord Aberdeen at a dinner in New York, where the then governor-general of Canada was the principal guest, appearing in kilts, in honor of his Scotch entertainers. Aberdeen had made a neat speech, and the applause had hardly ceased when Choate was introduced, and proceeded to say some complimentary things of the last speaker and to declare that if he had known that he was to be permitted to sit next to his distinguished Scotch friend, the governor-general of Canada, "this Gordon of the Gordons", he, too, would have come without his trousers. It was audacious, but the kilted guest was soonest to catch its humor and led the laughter it produced. Money. "Money makes the mare go," or perhaps it's vice versa, as a well-known gambler and race-horse owner once remarked. We presume money is desirable or else such a gigantic number of people would not be so busily engaged in the attempt to make some or make more. But the irony or justice of great wealth is that when we have everything that money can buy we awake to the realization that money cannot buy everything. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Loyalty to the United States and Stars and Stripes, with expressions for the future welfare of ten millions of Negro people was proclaimed by the National Negro Press association at its last session at Nashville, Tenn., when the representatives from 126 publications, through their organizations, issued an address to the American people. The facts concerning the address were given out by the corresponding secretary, Henry A. Boyd, who states that this address was prepared by a committee consisting of C. V. Roman, chairman, Nashville, Tenn.; W. E. King of Dallas, Tex.; Joseph L. Jones of Cincinnati, Ohio; Emmett J. Scott of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., and T. G. Stewart of Wilberforce, Ohio. This document, which made up the report of the committee, says, in part: "The National Negro Press association in convention assembled takes this opportunity to consider the condition of the country, especially in so far as it concerns the Negro. "The student of history is alive to the fact that for the past fifty years the Afro-American element has been by law made a part of the citizenry of the republic. The National Negro Press association believes that there are many evidences everywhere covering every walk of life to show that the Christian white element is doing much to advance the civilization and progress of the Negro peoples. "In the fields of journalism we are gratified to bear witness to the growing liberality of a large element of the white press, not confined to any section of the country. "In the field of religious effort there has been no time when white Christians showed a higher respect for the great doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man than now. "In the field of education we make haste to bear testimony to the great and growing philanthropy which is laying itself upon the educational altar of the race. There is unmistakable evidence that white America is coming to the unalterable opinion that the strength of the nation is not in its armies and navies and embattled cities, but rather in the virtue and intelligence of the people. "We call specially upon those who are charged with the interpretation and enforcement of the law to attend its benefits without bias to us, to the end that the struggling millions of the colored race may continue to hope for that governmental encouragement which should be the heritage of the humblest American citizen. "The strong need the restrictions of the law and the weak need its protection. When the former lose respect for the law and despise its restrictions, or the latter lose faith in its fairness and doubt the justice of its execution, then popular government is in danger. Fitness and not race is the only safe test for citizenship if our country is to become in reality the 'land of the free and the home of the brave.' As we can best serve the nation by faithful service to our own cultural unity, so the national welfare will be best promoted by the general acceptance of the good old democratic doctrine of 'equal and exact justice to all and special privilege to none.' "We appreciate the growing liberality of the American press and wish to assure it that we will not disappoint it if it will not 'play us up,' empha- A favorable report from the committee on increased accommodations of the Baltimore school board for an elementary school for colored pupils in the Fourteenth ward, which comprises all that territory between Pennsylvania avenue and the Fallsway and North and Lafayette avenues, is expected shortly. The committee has had the question of such a school under advisement for several months due to the activity of City Councilman A. C. Binswanger. There is a Negro population in the ward of approximately 10,000, and of this there are between 1,200 and 1,500 Negro children of school age. The present accommodations are not only far from that section but are inadequate in every way. The nearest school is an annex to the building at Fremont and Pennsylvania avenues, and this school has long been overcrowded. The need of either a colored high school or an elementary school for colored children has long been agitated and as the high school is practically assured City Councilman Binswanger has endeavored to also have A Springfield (Mo.) man took out homemade papers the other day on an 89-acre tract of land 100 miles from that city. Before applying at the land office for the paper he walked the entire distance and back in order to visit the property. When he got back he had just money enough to pay for the land and cover the necessary fees. A taite from the Pacific relates that a steamer whose rudder unexpectedly broke was steered for several days by packing boxes hung over the sides Aeroplanes Safer Than Trenches. Is an aeroplane the safest place for a soldier in war? The English newspapers recently reported that an officer of the Royal Flying corps had applied to be allowed to rejoin his regiment in his former capacity. When inquiry was made as to his reasons he replied that he could not bear to see his brother officers running all the risks of the trenches while he himself was in safety flying in the air above them. Similar remarks by other British military sizing our virtues and letting our vices go into the general cauldron of crime without special label. "Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover." The organization has membership in every state in the Union and in many foreign countries. Melvin J. Chisum of Okmulgee, Okla., is president. His administration is supported by two executive committeeemen from each state where the newspapers justify it. They are to hold their next executive committee meeting in Boston, but the regular session is to be held in some centrally located place, like St. Louis, Mo., Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., or Cincinnati, Ohio. This matter will be decided at the coming Boston meeting. A throng of colored men and women, which packed Bethel A. M. E. church at Baltimore to its doors, was stirred to conduct an active campaign for recognition in the state to improve their health conditions and properly care for their sick and infirm by several prominent speakers. It was the opening session of the first public health conference of the Maryland Colored Health association under the auspices of the medical and chirurgical faculty of Maryland. Resolutions were adopted by unanimous vote to petition the next legislature for adequate provision in the state for the isolation of all classes of colored people suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. Among the speakers were Dr. William H. Welch, one of the leading medical men of the country, and Dr. Booker T. Washington, one of the greatest Negro educators in the country. The meeting was scheduled to begin at eight o'clock and 6:30 o'clock there was a crowd outside the church. Within ten minutes after the doors were thrown open, shortly after seven o'clock, the edifice was filled. So dense was the throng out side at eight o'clock that it was necessary to lock the doors. It was estimated that several thousand persons were turned away from the doors. A direct appeal was made by all of the speakers to be cleanly and to guard against disease as well as to continue to make strides for advancement. Doctor Washington congratulated the Negroes of Baltimore on their educational facilities. "What you get from the city in the way of education is in the right proportion," he said, "as the total population of the colored man is 15 per cent and the money spent on the education of the Negro is 15 per cent of the total appropriation for schools." St. Louis business men forgot their work for two hours at the City club when Maj. R. R. Moton, Negro commandant of Hampton institute, near Old Point Comfort, addressed them, following a score of songs by the Hampton quartet. Major Moton is a real Negro and is proud of it. He believes the Negro should be trained to work with his hands and told of the work Hampton institute is doing along that line. He said the problem might well be expressed as a question of how the two races may live together as brothers in Christ and yet not become brothers in law. A good deal of the "dope" is misleading. If you really want your secret kept tell it to a woman. a modern and up-to-date elementary school to properly care for the overcrowded conditions which now exist. The city councilman recently appeared before the school board with a colored delegation and after the needs of such a school had been pointed out, the question was referred to the committee on increased accommodations. Mr. Binswanger has been assured that the best efforts possible would be put forth to obtain the school. In response to the advertisement of the United States navy department for 1,500,000 teak decking logs, a Manila lumber firm has submitted an offer of 500,000 feet of yacal, a Philippine wood resembling teak, which is regarded as the equal of teak for construction purposes. This is the first time that such offers of Philippine woods have been made to the navy. Vertical circles of electric lights have been erected at Berlin to guide aviators, who can tell how near they are to the ground by observing the angles of the circles. For every quarrel a man and his wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. You probably had noticed that the loan made by the man who knows people pretty well is nearly always secured by mortgage. "Buzz" Hopgood is considered the biggest fool in our town. The Hopgoods spent the winter in California. Before starting "Buzz" bought a pain of arctics and a fur-lined overcoat. alarm, all of whom seem to regard their work as much less hazardous than that of the fighting man on the ground, have lent interest to reports of the surprisingly small number of casualties suffered by flyers since the war began—Popular Mechanica. Keeps Butter Sweet Housekeepers who get butter by the jar or tub will find that a little charcoal placed in a paper bag and then put into the tub or jar will keep the butter sweet. R. 1 A separate coat, which becomes a suit-coat when worn with its own particular skirt, but is available for wear with various frocks, will commend itself to every woman, especially to her who contemplates a journey. Many of these coats have been designed this season, and they have been enthusiastically welcomed. They are shown in tans, grays, black and white mixtures, and in checks. In these neutral colors they go well with frocks or skirts in any color. One of the newest and smartest of coats of this kind is shown in the picture. It is cut with almost straight lines at the front and back and trimmed in braid and buttons with a crisp military precision. At each side, a little below the waist line, there is an insert of fan plaits, giving the desired flare, and the double turnover collar, set on at the back, is another concession to demands of the vogue. The skirt to match is plain, fitted about the hips and with a very conservative flare from hip line to bottom edge. It is a little longer than ankle length, but short enough to be a correct tailored model. In nearly all coats of this kind the fit is vague, the waist line either Headwear for All-V Now that the return of spring lures everyone to the out-of-doors, devotees of motoring are happily busy getting together their "motor togs." Coats and headwear for rain-or-shine driving must be considered from every point of view, and let no one think that becomingness is not as important in motor apparel as in any other. But this is a hint hardly needed for the buyer of headwear. Women are accustomed to placing becomingness as the paramount essential when choosing any kind of millinery. In the choice of motor hats there is so great a range this spring that one can afford to be exacting and to look until the very best model is found. Two motor bonnets are pictured here that may be depended upon for good service. They are made of silk. One of them boasts a brim and is quite like a hat in shape. It is developed in pongee with brim-rever turning up at the back over the folded-over crown. A silk cord and fan of fringed braid supply the decoration and these are supplied in any color demanded. The bonnet at the left of the picture is made in changeable taffeta piped with a dark color in the same silk. Veils Are Cobwebs. Thin meshes. Hexagonal design. They look like hair nets. Sometimes they have designs. These are in allover effect, wide apart. "Floaters" have a wide border on the bottom. Handsome Floral Effects. Buttercups and daisies form a pretty cluster for a lawn frock. A novelty is a small pink rose mounted on white raised above or dropped below the normal, and only a suggestion, at most. In many of them lines are perfectly straight or show a gradual flare from the shoulders down. New Towels. Some of the newest Turkish towels have an initial quite four or five inches long, worked in French knots at the left of the towel, above the border, instead of in the center, as is usually done. For a man's use towels worked with these large letters are very good looking. Among the newest designs for small guest towels is one of a fine damask of a very small pattern without a woven border. The latter is hemstitched on and consists of an inch-wide hem of colored linen, pink or blue. The initial may be embroidered in white on the hem or worked on the towel itself in a color to correspond with the hem. Separate Coats. Separate coats are receiving a great deal of attention; motor coats continue to be full length or seven-eighths. Some of the newer coats are of uneven length. -Weather Motoring The "body" possessed by this silk makes it especially well suited to soft crowns. Also, in the better grade, it has fine resisting qualities against dampness, and sheds dust readily. This bonnet is finished with broad ribbon ties in a soft weave that will not crush. A buckle, made of the silk used in the pipings, over a foundation of buckram, and two flat buttons of the same, are used for trimming. Many of the new vells are large squares of chiffon hemmed all around. Among them is a novelty showing a square insert of net or lace in the chiffon at one side. This is placed over the face, when the veil is not needed for actual protection, and allows the weaver to see clearly. Spring, Waists. Spring waistls are both novel and wearable. The most noticeable features are the continued use of high collars and the return of jabots and ruffles. That the jabot has returned is good news, for never did women look more attractive than when they wore jabots and ruffles of crisp linen and lace.—Vogue. ostrich, the ostrich cut round. A small cluster of pink roses has leaves of white ostrich edged with tiny rhinstones. Long clusters are sometimes arranged across the shoulder or across the corsage, while in other cases they are arranged on the skirt. Contrasting Linings. Contrasting linings are a feature of many of the new street suits in covert and other light woolen fabrics. Blue cerise, black and white, brown and green are all effectively used. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Ill.) DAVID AND GOLIATH. LESSON TEXT - I Samuel 17:3-51. GOLDEN TEXT—If God be for us, who is against us?—Rom. 8:31 R. V. For forty days (v. 16) Gollath defied Saul's army, encamped near Bethlehem. Three of the sons of Jesse were in Saul's army and to them David is sent with food (vv. 13, 18, 19). These brothers scornfully reproached David when he expressed a willingness to fight Gollath, accusing him of pride and reminding him that he was but a shepherd (vv. 26-29). David's words are carried to Saul and he is introduced to the king. 1. Boastful Pride, vv. 38-44. Fear and dismay were aroused at the very sight of this proud Philistine (vv. 11, 24, 32), yet such fear was foreign to David, for his eyes were not upon man but upon God (v. 37). He related to Saul his exploits not as boasting but as giving him assurance that God was able to deliver him out of the hand of this Philistine. Saul, who had once been a man of like simple faith, is now as much in fear as any of his army. David was perhaps about twenty years of age and verse 56 calls him a "stripping," hence it was that Saul's armor would not fit him (cf. 10:23). Humanly speaking, it was an impossible thing David offered to accomplish single-handed. Even Saul (v. 32) sought to dissuade David, but David was not trusting in man nor depending upon the armor of the king (v. 39; Ps. 27:13; Isa. 12:2; Rom. 8:31). David took his sling, with which all Israelite was skilled (see I Sam. 13:19-23). On the giant, a man about nine feet tall (v. 4), "a stalking mountain, overlaid with brass and iron," preceded by his protector (v. 41). Why such a soldier after his period of triumph should desire this added safety is not quite clear. It suggests, however, the sinner's timidity which reveals his essential weakness in that he trusts himself, takes no chances, and is even suspicious of his own supporters. What a contrast! This armored giant and this ruddy-faced, unarmed youth, carrying only the staff, wherewith he was wont to fight wild beasts, and his sling! When God calls a man he uses that weapon with which the man is most familiar, and when the church on the Christian soldier seeks to fight in the armor of another, or by using the weapons of the world, it is foredoomed to failure (Ex. 4:2; Judges 3:31). As though youthful shepherd were seeking some beast of the hills, Goliath exclaims, "Am I a dog" (v. 43), and offers to make carrion of David (v. 44) Such derision and boasting is the usual attitude of the enemies of God. It was designed to strike fear into David's heart on one hand, and to bolster the courage of the Philistine on the other 11. Conquering Humility, vv. 45-51. David acknowledged Goliath's superior armament, yet armed with the name of the God of the army of Israel which Goliath had insulted, his confidence overtops that of the Philistine and he hurls back his broad boast. Furthermore, the victory was to be an immediate one, "this day" (Zech. 4:6; James 4:7). With calm assurance he informs Goliath of the outcome of their conflict, but takes no credit to himself. David had naught but naked faith and the sense of a just cause to strengthen his arm. He would do to Goliath and the Philistines the things that Goliath had boasted he would do to David (vv. 44 and 46) "that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel;" see also v. 47. David's seemingly insufficient preparation is now revealed to be abundant, for he had four stones more than he needed (v. 40). It is thus that God chooses the weak things to confound the mighty (I Cor. 1:27). Goliath's one unprotected spot was his sufficient weakness. In warfare it would be protected by his shield, but his pride and boastfulness exposed him to David's unerring shot. There is always an open, vulnerable place in the infidel's arm, and the man who trusts God will surely be guided to make accurate aim and to deliver a mortal blow at that point. The enemies we most fear fall the easiest and the hardest (Judges 20:16). Verse 50 is paren thetical, but from 51 it would seem that Goliath may have been only stunned and that David, to make complete his victory, cut off Goliath's head with his own sword. Israel received a great lesson that day and the Philistines, a type of the world, received one also (v. 47 R. V.). God will give the fruits of victory into the hands of those who trust and obey him. 111. Summary. We have before us three lessons. First the lesson of individual responsibility. A saintful king had paralyzed the effectiveness of the army of Israel. David, "a man after God's own heart," refused Saul's arm, crying out "I cannot go in these." Saul, bound by tradition, must use conventional weapons. Every great advance in the history of the church has been led by some man who struck out boldly, insensible alike to the conventionalism of his friends and the glibes of the enemy. God would have every man work according to himself, not copying, not imitating, but with his own equipment. Second, all the giants of sin have not yet been overthrown. We still have the giants of Intemperance, Unchastity, Graft, Selfishness, Ambition and the Inequalities of our civic and social life. These can only be overcome in the strength of our God. Bunyan mentions three giants, Pride, Grim and Pagan; to these we may add, Anger, Untruthfulness, Self- isness and Sullengths. 6660 x COTTAGE HOUSE OF EIGHT ROOMS Architectural Skill Employed to Give Structure More Solid Appearance. Always the Most Economical and Satisfactory Way of Heating such a Structure as This—Kitchen Designed to Save All Unnecessary Steps. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject, building for a random of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to WILLIAM A. RADFORD, 187 Prairie avenue, Chicago, ill., and only endless two-cent stamp for reply. An eight-room cottage house 27 feet 6 inches by 40 feet in size, exclusive of the front porch, is shown in this perspective and floor plan. The heavy front porch gives this cottage house a rather massive appearance as you see it from the street. The porch is 7 by 24 feet and is covered by a gable end roof with considerable projection of eave, that protects the porch in all kinds of weather. The plan of building two solid piers about six feet up from the ground with short wooden pillars to support a heavy arch that reaches from one pier to the other across the front entrance helps to establish a solid design that looks much more expensive than it really is. The porch foundations are entirely separate from the cellar wall. The pier foundations reach below frost, but the work above ground is made of wood covered with metal lath and plastered with stucco. The work is solid and strong, but is much cheaper than concrete or stone. The same character of finish is used on all outside parts of the front porch as well as the side walls and dining window extension. When a good quality of metal lath is used and the first coat of stucco contains plenty of hair this kind of finish may be permanent and satisfactory. The main part of the house is plain, square in build and covered with a gabled roof. The manner of building is to construct a stone wall up above grade line. The framework is plank frame construction above the wall. To get the necessary headroom in the basement the floor joists are started about three feet above the top of the wall, which makes the cellar about seven and one-half feet from the cellar floor to the joists overhead. It is usually a good plan to heat a house of this kind with a warm-air furnace. It is the most economical and satisfactory way of heating a small, compact house. The furnace pipes may be carried to the two upper rooms with very little expense, so that every room in the house may be warmed by registers, either in the BED RM. 11'-10" LUNCH PANTRY PORCH GY-4-2 KITCHEN 12'-9" BATH RM. 11'-10" BED RM. 11'-10" DINING RM. 15'-12' SEAT BUTTE AUTUMN BOOK CLOSET DEN. 10'-9' PARLOR. 15'-12' PORCH. 21'-8' First Floor Plan. floor or baseboards. There is less objection to floor registers than formerly, when the floors were covered with carpets. Still it is sometimes difficult to select a place for a floor register which won't interfere with some article of furniture. Usually wall registers are placed near a door, because it is necessary to keep the furniture away from the doors, anyhow. In this plan the furnace pipes would work into the different partitions without making trouble anywhere. The plan of building eight rooms into a house as small as this is a notable economy. The two upper rooms are extra, as the space is taken entirely from the roof. This arrangement gives four bedrooms, besides the den, which may be used for sleeping purposes if necessary. The regular living rooms, parlor, dining room and kitchen, are laid out in the most approved order. The kitchen is built in such a way as to save steps in the every-day work of preparing meals. There is a great deal in designing a kitchen, pantry, cellar stair and back porch in such a way as to condense the business of housework into small quarters. Also, the arrangement of the sink and kitchen cabinet helps very much in saving labor. Multiple windows are used in all parts of the house, being placed together in twos and threes. White window casings and white cornice trim, as well as the archway across the front of the porch, all match together in such a way as to add life to the dull stucco finish. The house appearance is very much improved by contrast. A dark background like this seems to make the white trim stand out prominently. There is more work and expense in the dining room in this house than in any other room. It is finished with built-in cabinet work from the hardwood floor to the crown molding at the ceiling. The extension window is carefully well built by boxing it in with sheathing boards and covering the sheathing with building paper, so ROOF STORAGE SEWING RM 88-10 CLOD BED ROOM 13-15 HALL 11-16 STORAGE ROOF Second Floor Plan. as to cover all the cracks and joints. The same style of finish is carried through the parlor and den. The particular pattern is usually selected by the owner of the building. Fashion dictates that inside woodwork shall be plain, no beading whatever, and very few curves. Many expensive rooms are finished with plain, straight bands of wood instead of moldings. The baseboard, window and door casings and the crown molding at the ceiling may be light or heavy, but in either case they are all plain, usually with square corners. The idea is to make the inside of the different rooms smooth for easy cleaning, both to save labor and to prevent accumulations of dust, because dust harbors disease-carrying bacteria, so that the health of the family depends a good deal upon the manner in which floors and other woodwork are built into a house. There is a double sliding door between the dining room and parlor, which may be opened as occasion requires to make the two rooms into 6660× one. A great deal of the time this door will be left open, which is a benefit in the circulation of air for ventilation. Houses of this type are so closely built that some means of disposing of the excess of air brought in through the furnace is a problem. In this plan the stairway door may be left open, which will lead the air to the upper rooms. An open window upstairs will complete the ventilating system from the cold air box that supplies the furnace through the different warm air pipes and registers, so that the air will be kept in constant motion. This is one of the valuable features of a warm-air furnace and one that is seldom mentioned. In fact, some warm-air furnaces are set in such a way as to take the air from the front hall or some other room in the house, so as to use the same air over and over again. If house owners understood the advantage of taking fresh air from outdoors they would refuse to deal with a furnace man who advocated the self-contained inside circulation of foul air Misguided furnace men get the idea that a house may be heated cheaper if the heating is done with a smaller-sized furnace, by cheating the inmates of the oxygen that their lungs require. Another feature about taking air from the inside of a house is the dryness of the air that has been passed several times through the furnace. Besides the extra load of carbonic acid gas which it contains it is robbed of the moisture that helps to make outdoor air so enjoyable. There is a great difference in the water that a warm-air furnace will evaporate, according to the different ways of setting the furnace. Air taken from outdoors contains considerable moisture, so that with proper ventilation it goes through the house without loading up with much moisture from the evaporating pan. All furnaces are provided with receptacles for the evaporating of water into the air that passes through the furnace. The comfort of a house depends very much on the amount of moisture contained in the house air. Fishing de Luxe. "Come on and go fishing with me." "Aw, fishing is too rough sport. There's mud and briers and rocks and damp boats." "I see. Your idea of fishing is to sit in a hotel lobby and angle for goldfish in a fountain."—Louisville Courier-Journal. CAKE COVERS OF LACE JUST NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO PREPARE THEM. Round Frame With a Dome Top Is the Prevalence Shape—Some Dainty Effects That May Easily Be Secured. While there is no immediate need for cake covers, the present is a good time to prepare them, since one has more leisure now than in warm weather, writes Helen Howe in the Washington Star. Odds and ends of lace for making the covers can be picked up cheaper now than when fly time arrives and the protection becomes necessary. The octagonal has been the popular shape for many seasons, but this year a round frame with a dome top, something like a bird cage, has made its appearance. It is a change from the old shape, but I do not think it is as pretty. Besides, it reminds one entirely too much of the tarlatan bird cage cover put on to prevent the seeds from dropping through. There is a wide band of lace set around the frame and another wider strip joined to the top of the first band, wide enough to reach the top of the frame, which, by the way, is best described as being bell-shaped. Then the free edge of the lace is gathered and drawn together very closely under an ornament placed in the center. This can be a ribbon rose, a rosette, artificial fruit, or whatever the sewer pleases. The cover itself is always of white lace and preferably flet, probably for the reason this lace has a loose mesh, which makes the dish of cake very attractive. Oftentimes the design of the lace is outlined with a running stitch of blue embroidery silk. This gives a very dainty effect, but I think if the silk used matched the color of the china it would be prettier. For instance, if the china were white and gold, use gold silk or gold thread on the white lace. If the dishes showed a floral or other design in several colorings, the same effect could be carried out with silk thread to match the china. The octagon-shape cover lends itself better to the colored treatment than does the dome-shape, unless one just embroider the band and then, instead of setting on another band of lace, make the top of plain fine white ```markdown ``` net. In covering the octagon shape the work can be lessened and the effect improved if a lace dolly is bought for the top of the cover. The band of lace is first put around the sides and firmly secured to the wires. Then if a tiny hole is made in the center of the dolly for the ring to pass through a few stitches will keep the top in place. If all-over lace is used the top is made first and sewed to the wires. Then the band is added. ECONOMY IN USE OF LINEN Sensible Method Employed by One Woman is Worth Copying by Every Housewife. Before buying a new supply of linens and bedding it is a good idea to go over the supply already on hand and see just what is needed. Sometimes worn linens may be cut down and old sheets may be turned and made to last a little while longer. One economical woman remarked: "Before taking advantage of these linen sales I go thoroughly over my own linen closet. Worn tablecloths are cut into small lunch cloths, and the ends, when hemmed, make attractive tray cloths. Square napkins, which have become ragged at the edges, can be cut into circular doilies and buttonholeed or neatly hemmed around the edges to serve as luncheon dollies. The sheets that are worn in the middle I tear in two and put together the reverse way, thus bringing a new surface to stand the heaviest wear, or I cut down a large sheet for a crib sheet and use the left-over portion for a pillow case. Bath towels that have become worn I cut up and sewn neatly into new face cloths. By looking my linen over carefully in this way I know more accurately what I need, and am better prepared to lay in a new supply." The old, many-seamed covert coat has come back, but with a difference. EASY TO DUPLICATE MODELS Clever Woman Should Be Able to Copy the Newest Millinery With Good Effect. There is a splendid opportunity for a woman to see how skillful she can be when it comes to trimming her own hats. This season the shops are full of suggestions for her who longs for chic models, but who is unable to purchase on account of their exorbitant prices. By observation and imitation such a woman has the privilege of duplicating any model she admires. Figured crepe hats are very much in vogue. They are a fine accompaniment for a dress of the same material. The material is inexpensive, and the design scattered over it makes it unnecessary to spend much money for trimmings. A band of ribbon, carrying out the prominent color of the crepe, can be entwined around the crown and allowed to hang in streamers at the back. Surely such a hat could be created for a very small sum. The woman who is able to do neat AFTERNOON FROCK OF SILK Fleur-de-Peche Duvetyne is Employed for Costume That Is Decidedly Attractive. Afternoon frock of Fleur-de-peche silk duvetyne. The bodice is a kimono with long fitted sleeves. The neck is "V" shaped and trimmed over the front with a simulated revers of applique lace, that also makes the small de medici collar. The draped girdle is of the same INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE material, fastened with a huge violet poppy. Three tunics bordered with flouances of applique. The small skirt is plain and round model. PLACE FOR THE REMNANTS Handy Little Box in Which May Be Kept Odds and Ends of Lace and Ribbon. Our sketch shows a charming little box for remnants of lace and ribbon; it was made from a strong cardboard box that had contained chocolates, and should one not be at hand, a suitable one may be obtained from any candy store. In this instance the box measured twelve inches in length, six inches in width, and three inches in height, but a larger or smaller box could, of course, be prepared in the same manner if desired. The surface of the lid is first slightly padded with a thin layer of cotton wool and then covered with figured silk. This is done by turning the material over the edges of the lid and fastening it on just inside with a strong adhesive. The silk is also fastened on at the back of the box in the same way, thus strengthening the hinge. The sides are covered with some of the same silk, the material being turned over the edges and fastened on just inside and underneath the box. The interior is loosely lined with soft white silk, and a pocket is arranged in the lining of the lid in which a paper-scent sachet may be kept. The box from which our sketch was drawn was covered with cream-colored silk on which appeared a pretty design consisting of pale pink blossoms and tiny green leaves, and the ribbon strings which secure the box when closed were selected of a color to match the flowers, as also was the broader ribbon of the rosette bow that is tacked to the right-hand corner of the box. Dainty boxes of this kind are, of course, useful for many other purposes, and even empty they make a most acceptable little present for an unimportant occasion. The Side of the Skirt At the sides of the skirts the greatest changes have taken place. Gathers, plaits, circular insets and even pockets are introduced. embroidery should have at least one hat on which some of her work is displayed. A stunning white satin hat, sailor shaped, could be given a smart air by embroidering the front of the crown in red silk. If you are in doubt as to the kind of a design to apply, use two little diamonds and a circle between them. All around the crown put a double row of French knots. Can't you imagine how well such a hat would look if worn with a white serge suit? Fruit and vegetables have a very prominent place on the newest millinery. In one instance blackberries dangle over the brim of a brown barnyard straw sailor. The berries are made of brownish black braid wrapped round and round a foundation of cotton wadding. Should you decide to make the berries at home, begin to wind the braid on each berry from the bottom up. As you reach the very top, do not cut the braid, but let it go on and on to form a long stem by which the berry is to be fastened to the crown. To make the stem thicker you might wrap a layer of braid around it. DISHES JUST NOW IN SEASON Maryland Spring Chicken Something Which the Best Cooks Have Been Unable to Improve On. Maryland Spring Chicken — Clean spring chickens and disjoint them and then wash them in salt water. Dry thoroughly. Sometimes the Maryland cook soaks the chickens for two hours in salted water, but, although this method of preparing them plumps them, it is likely to lessen their flavor. Put equal parts of lard and butter in a deep frying pan, enough to cover the chickens when they are in it. Then roll each piece of chicken in flour and then drop into the fat, which should be very hot. Fry until browned on both sides. Drain a moment on paper and serve on a hot dish garnished with sprigs of parsley. Pour off most of the fat and thicken the remainder with browned flour and add to it a cupful of rich milk. Stir until smooth and pass with the chicken. Fried Tomatoes.—These are especially good with roast or broiled meat of any sort. To prepare them cut firm tomatoes, perfectly ripe, that have been washed and dried, in slices half an inch thick without removing the skins. Dust the slices with pepper and salt and dredge with four. It is a good plan to mix the pepper and salt with flour and then dip the slices in the flour. Brown well on both sides in hot olive oil or butter. Cook carefully to avoid breaking the slices, but cook thoroughly, as they are better when cooked through. Drain on paper and serve very hot. Fried Green Peppers.—Wash sweet green peppers and cut in halves. Remove the seeds and fry the peppers in hot olive oil until thoroughly cooked. Have ready a cream gravy or white sauce and pour it over the peppers after they have been drained of grease on blotting or brown paper and seasoned with salt and pepper. FOR THOSE WHO LIKE PORK Here Is a New Recipe That Will Be Appreciated If the Directions Are Followed. Chop fine three pounds raw lean pork and a quarter-pound of fat salt pork. Soak a pint of white bread crumbs in cold water. When soft squeeze very dry, add to the chopped meat with a large onion chopped fine, one tablespoonful chopped parsley, half a teaspoonful each of chopped sage and seal up in the same man- ner as when canning fruit. This gives a supply of soup ready to use. To prepare the meat, cut it up in small pieces, sprinkle with salt to taste (and spices, if liked), then pack closely in jars; no water is required as the meat makes a jelly itself. Put a layer of hay in the bottom of wash-boiler, and put in the jars, packing well with hay between them to keep them from breaking. Fill up the boiler with cold water nearly to top of jars (having laid covers loosely on top) and put on the lid. When water boils let it boil for hours longer, when the meat will be thoroughly cooked. If necessary, add more boiling water to keep the jars well covered. When done, take out each jar separately (have rubbers soaking in warm water), sealing at once to exclude the air. The main point in keeping is to have jars sealed air-tight. Before taking out the jars have a thick cloth wring out of cold water ready, to set them on to prevent breaking while tightening on the covers. Magic Herbs. Our grandmothers' complexion secrets were quite simple. First of all, they were firm believers in the properties of certain herbs and vegetables, both as health-giving foods and for external use. In summer green salads, fresh lettuces, spring onions and green vegetables formed a conspicuous part of their diet; also rhubarb, and plenty of it—served hot, served cold, served in almost every imaginable way—indeed, it was seldom absent from the table as a sweet. And, really, fresh salads, green vegetables and rhubarb are all splendid for purifying the blood, and we might well follow our grandmothers' example in this respect. A Spanish onion boiled in milk and taken at night time was looked upon by them as a splendid diet and blood purifier also, and this it really is. Lamb Flank Roast3 Buy two pieces of lamb flanks, which will weigh about three pounds and cost from five to eight cents a pound. Make bread dressing, as for chicken. Place four or five pieces of twine on the table and lay one piece of flank on the twine, spread the dressing over the meat and place the other on top, then tie each piece of twine around the whole to keep them together and hold in shape. Put in the roasting pan, salt and dredge with flour. Bake two hours. This makes a very pretty and delicious roast, large enough for six people, and also excellent cold. Hogshead Cheese. Use the head, tongue, feet and other pieces, which should be thoroughly cleaned and soaked in water before being cooked. Boil the pieces until the meat slips from the bones easily. Chop up the cooked (boiled) pork, season with salt, black pepper, sage or sweet marjoram; little cloves, if liked, may be added. Mix well together and put in board covered with clean white cloth to fit inside of tin, and on top a weight of some kind. Allow to remain for two days untouched. Then out and it is ready for using. Suitable for supper sliced. Mother's Cream Pie One pint of rich milk, two-thirds cupful sugar, three heaping teaspoonfuls cornstarch, three eggs, flavor to taste with vanilla, one-half teaspoonful butter, a little salt. When milk, sugar, butter and salt are hot add cornstarch stirred smooth in milk—and yolks of eggs. Cook thoroughly, then remove from fire and add vanilla. Pour into crust previously baked. Beat the whites of eggs stiff with three teaspoonfuls of sugar, spread on top and brown in oven. NEWS and GOSSIP of WASHINGTON President Wilson, Believing in Slang, Said "Rats" WASHINGTON.—Though the diction of President Wilson is elegance itself, he is not so bide-bound in his exactions of the refinements of it as to be intolerant to the lapses in style called slang. He frequently uses it with president really back of the document? he was asked. "Oh, rats," was his sententious reply. Now, in cold type it looks as if the president was not observing the presidential proprieties in dignity. But the president conducts himself ever in such a manner that his dignity is never in question. There is a wonderful graciousness of manner in him and an ever prevailing smile on his face and a merry twinkle in his eyes, so as to pass as natural and consonant with the utmost requirements of the dignity of his station whatever he utters, though couched in language on other lips would be called vulgar. These sallies and departures of the president are sure to be followed by a hearty laugh, which it was intended they should occasion. In short, the president will laugh a question or a proposal out of court. A good story, of which the president has a great store, or a sharp word in slang is the instrumentality used. Uncle Sam Searches the World for New Fruits FROM the office of information of the department of agriculture comes the delectable announcement that a smoothstone peach has been brought from China and is to be used to improve our commercial fruit of the same family. We are pleased to dustry of the United States government never make announcement of the addition of new fruits, plants and flowers to the American field until their successful growth has been proved. The government employs explorers to go into lands new and old for the purpose of finding valuable trees and plants which can be added to the native growths of the United States. The explorer must know his own country well, for in his work of discovery he must bear in mind just what section of the homeland it is which resembles the region in which his work is being done. These explorers are a hardy lot, and their work is at times dangerous. They delight in it, apparently, and always are ready to undertake journeys into new fields, no matter how forbidden. Comparatively little is known of Uncle Sam's bureau of plant industry. Its work, however, is apparent all over the United States. Treasures in Crypt and Vaults Under the Capitol THERE are all kinds of treasures in the crypt and vaults under the capitol rotunda, but during the last few years many of them have been taken out in order to make space. Immediately under the central dome is the large masonry of the base walls of the building and designed as a tomb for the immortal Washington, but other influences of a more sentimental nature defeated the object. In an adjoining vaulted room the plaster cast of Cranford's "Goddess of Liberty," from which Clarke Mills cast the bronze figure that surmounts the dome of the capitol, was kept for years. In another room are the plaster statues of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas H. Benton and also a sitting figure of Hamilton by the artist Stone. In various portions of the crypt are paintings of large size in boxes waiting for their owners to claim them. Among them are the "First Nebraska Homestead," by a lady who desired to present it to the government; "Rescue of Greely," by Operert and "Farthest North," the subject of which is two of Greely's men taking observations. Washington Has a Thousand-Dollar-a-Week Hole NO one does justice' to a visit to Washington who does not take a long look at the huge crater which is the hole where once stood the famous Arlington hotel. This was torn down four years ago to make room for a modern fice building, but it is understood that everything is off again and the loss of more fortunes seems in sight, Charles P Taft, brother of former President Taft, having lost about $200,000. The hole is so deep that nothing can be done with it except to provide a foundation for a great structure, and as matters now stand the owners of the hole pay $1,000 a week in interest and taxes. It is the costliest hole in Washington, and has become one of the sights of the city. On this land formerly used to stand the home of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Hard by is Lafayette square and near is the White House. Two prominent clubs look right into the hole from their windows. Shored up are the grounds and the walls of a large private house, which used formerly to be the British embassy, in which Bulwer-Lytton wrote "Lucille." RATS president really back of the document sententious reply. Now, in cold type it looks as if the dental proprieties in dignity. But this such a manner that his dignity is new graciousness of manner in him and are a merry twinkle in his eyes, so as to put utmost requirements of the dignity of couched in language which on other it. These sallies and departures of the a hearty laugh, which it was intender president will laugh a question or a p which the president has a great store, mentality used. Uncle Sam Searches the FROM the office of information of the delectable announcement that a from China and is to be used to imp family. We are told also that a beautiful Chinese quince, "golden on one side and reddish on the other," is doing well in its new American environment, a condition of thriving and promise, which is also true of Chinese hazelnut bushes brought to America, and which now are bearing nuts that ought to make our inferiorized fruit crack for the very shame of insignificance. There is no joke about these importations. The bureau of plant industry of the United States governm addition of new fruits, plants and fai successful growth has been proved. The government employs explorers purpose of finding valuable trees and native growths of the United States country well, for in his work of disc section of the homeland it is which n is being done. These explorers are a hardy lot, They delight in it, apparently, and a ings into new fields, no matter how foe of Uncle Sam's bureau of plant indus over the United States. Treasures in Crypt and THERE are all kinds of treasures in rotunda, but during the last few out in order to make space. Immediat THE GARDEN masonry of the base walls of the bus immortal Washington, but other influenfeated the object. In an adjoining vaulted room the Liberty," from which Clarke Mills candome of the capitol, was kept for ye statues of Alexander Hamilton, Thou of Hamilton by the artist Stone. In various portions of the crypt waiting for their owners to claim the braske Homestead," by a lady who do "Rescue of Greely," by Operti, and "is two of Greely's men taking observa Washington Has a Thou O one does justice' to a visit to Waht at the huge crater which is the ho ton hotel. This was torn down four hotel, to be up by the 1912 inauguration, but the hotel has gone no further than down about forty feet into the ground. An immense fortune has been lost in the speculation so far. While construction was begun, the plans fell through, because the capital required was not raised in toto. Everything went under the creditors' hammer a year ago, and what had cost about $1,600,000 was sold for half that sum. Another hotel project was started to include a theater and of- face building, but it is understood that of more fortunes seems in sight, Charc Taft, having lost about $200,000. The done with it except to provide a founders now stand the owners of the hole it is the costliest hole in Washington the city. On this land formerly used to stner of Massachusetts. Hard by is La House. Two prominent clubs look ri Shored up are the grounds and the used formerly to be the British em "Lucille." A woman entered one of New York's automatic lunchrooms appearing much preoccupied. After changing a dime for two nickels she put one of them in the slot marked "sandwiches" and the other in the hot coffee slot. She turned the crank, as per directions, and then gave a series of panic-stricken staccato shrieks of "Oh, oh, oh—look!" The other auto-eaters turned in time to see that she had forgotten to put a cup under the faucet, hence the dismay. All of the brownish liquid had filtered down in the drain. great force and has apparently been long a student of it, and at a time, too, when the classic shades of his university surroundings should have made the sound of it unusual to his ears. Not long ago the president was called upon to comment on the report current and printed that some person authorized by him was circulating a document in Wall street signed by his name urging big business to get together to help business. "Was the ? he was asked. "Oh, rats," was his president was not observing the presi- dee president conducts himself ever in question. There is a wonderful ever prevailing smile on his face and pass as natural and consonant with the his station whatever he utters, though would be called vulgar. the president are sure to be followed by and they should occasion. In short, the proposal out of court. A good story, of or a sharp word in slang is the instru- ne World for New Fruits the department of agriculture comes the smoothestone peach has been brought rove our commercial fruit of the same UNITED STATES OF AMERICA dent never make announcement of the owers to the American field until their ers to go into lands new and old for the and plants which can be added to the s. The explorer must know his own covery he must bear in mind just what resembles the region in which his work and their work is at times dangerous. always are ready to undertake journey- erbidden. Comparatively little is known try. Its work, however, is apparent all Vaults Under the Capitol the crypt and vaults under the capitol years many of them have been taken ely under the central dome is the large crypt and vault, a subterranean museum of historical works of art. The first object of historical interest is the tomb built for Washington, immediately under the centerstone of the floor of the rotunda, which is the exact center of the building. It is a small, square, vaultlike room, with about two-thirds of its side walls deeply recessed in arched alcoves, or rather more like the recessed reliquary chambers in the tomb of Napoleon. This vault was built up in the building and designed as a tomb for theences of a more sentimental nature deplaster cast of Cranford's "Goddess of the bronze figure that surmounts theears. In another room are the plaster was H. Benton and also a sitting figure are paintings of large size in boxes them. Among them are the "First Neesired to present It to the government; Farthest North," the subject of which tions. usand-Dollar-a-Week Hole washington who does not take a long look where once stood the famous Arling-years ago to make room for a modern THIS HOLE COSTS $1000 A WEEK at everything is off again and the loss less P Taft, brother of former President the hole is so deep that nothing can be bation for a great structure, and as mat- pay $1,000 a week in interest and taxes, and has become one of the sights of and the home of Senator Charles Sum- fayette square and near is the White night into the hole from their windows, walls of a large private house, which bassy, in which Bulwer-Lytton wrote Making a Changeless ink. In shops where it is damp or chemical fumes are present it is usually difficult to cause labels to stick to bottles or cans. An ink for use on such containers is made as follows: Shellac, 20 grams; dissolve it in a hot solution of borax containing 30 grams of borax to 400 cubic centimeters of water; filter while hot and add a solution made of aniline black 8 grams, tannin 0.3 gram, picric acid 0.1 gram and ammonia 15 grams, in water 10 grams. It will be found that this ink works nicely and resists the usual chemical and corrosive fumes. THEKANSAS CITYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY. All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th St. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa B. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....75 Three Months.....40 ADVERTISING RATE, $0 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethal A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Char- lotte St. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Char- lotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kansas. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Troost. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. St. Baptist Church, 1225 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. Blue Valley Baptist church, 1120 Crystal avenue. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 231 Vine. Hilland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis St. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Third Baptist Church, Roundtop. St. Paul's Mission, 30th and Genesee. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 18th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and M. E. Church, A. M. E. Church, 5th and 11th Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and 11th Lydia. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and 30th C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4059 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and 34th Prosper Mission, A. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and 2nd Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and 9th Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and 10th Bethel M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and 22nd First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and 4th State. Gundaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro. Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale; Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salvation Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart. Second Baptist Church, 2nd and Ruby. Washington Chapel, 196 Sharpe, St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Roseale, Kan. Mary Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virgina. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. West Primitive Baptist Church, Westport avenue and Tangent street, Roseale. EDITORIAL The United States supreme court has affirmed the Leo Frank case, thus refusing to shift the crime upon the head of an innocent Negro whom Frank attempted to involve in his defense. It is not only the so-called middle class of our people who submit without protest to galling discriminations on account of race. The so-called leaders are also found patronizing the alley entrances of theaters and roosting upon the far back seats. It is said that the girls' social clubs whose funds have been employed toward the entertainment of their men friends are beginning to realize the poverty o their investments. It often happens, they say, that after a girl has put into an affair her hard earned pennies she has to attend the party alone, and sometimes spend most of the evening on the wall, the "boys" not even asking her for a dance. As a rule in such cases as these the "boys" are just what the "girls" allow them to be. While no one would detract from the high purposes and aims of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People nor dispute the fact that it is doing a great deal of good in its unselfish mission, yet some of its claims for glory are greatly overdrawn. In reading the report of the Kansas City branch in the fifth annual report we note some of these claims at close range. It is set forth that the local branch prevented segregation and Jim-crow street cars, while as a matter of fact it did nothing of the sort, neither of these evils having been threatened. It claims to have saved Garrison Square to the colored people, while as a matter of fact there was never any great danger of its being lost, and such work as was necessary was done by the Negro citizens generally and without any special aid from the association. The most laughable claim made by the local forces is that the successfully fought state bills against intermarriage, while as a matter of fact such laws have existed for years in Missouri and there has not during the last decade been any new agitation upon the subject. There was a little stir upon the last named subject made by a frenzied member of the Kansas legislature, but he was quietly squeaked by members of his own race who probably never heard of the N. A. A. C. P. Serious Thought. "Have you ever thought seriously of marriage刷" "Indeed, I have; ever since the ceremony."—Boston Transcript. Keep Sunny. Store a little sunshine in your heart and the gray days will be easier—Columbia State. Optimistic Thought. In the eddies, where you least expect it, there may be a fish. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Mrs. Allen Cornell, 947 Freeman, is improving. Miss Rubie Hill, 1507 Freeman, is up again after a week's illness. Mrs. Phillip Taylor member of the Odd Follows' choir, is much improved. Mr. J. H. Claybourne is erecting a beautiful eight-room Queen Ann bungalow. The Jolly Matrons' club met with Mrs. B. F. Robinson, 2201 North Third street. Mrs. Lewis and Mr. Mason, Eleventh and New Jersey avenue, were married last week. Mr. Charles Vaughan, son of Mrs. Vaughan Hardy, was killed last week in Oregon. Mrs. John W. Jones, 440 State avenue, returned home last week from California. Mrs. E. L. Thompson, 938 Oakland entertained at her home Monday evening Miss Hook of Boley, Ok. Mrs. W. A. Jarrett, 923 Freeman avenue, entertained the Hyacinth Art club Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. James, 925 New Jersey avenue, had their home destroyed by fire April 20. Mrs. Amelia Tobert of Topeka, Kas., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore, 2522 Michigan, this week. Rose of Sharon Temple No. 33 gave a banquet at Knights of Tabor hall to celebrate their first year anniversary. Mrs. Leola Dixon Scott, 819 Free Freeman avenue, and Mr. Roy Boone, 625 Winina avenue, were married last week. Hon. Nick Chiles, editor of the Topeka Plaindealer, was in the city last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Williams. Mrs. Robinzine, 1227 Washington boulevard, assisted by Miss Olive Heardson, entertained the Adelphia Art club. The funeral of Mr. Charles Alexander, 31 North Ninth street, was held Wednesday afternoon. Rev. G. E. Horsey officiated. Miss Grace Booker and Mr. Johnston Brown were married last Thursday day evening at the residence of the bride, 30 Oakland. Mrs. Hall, who is the mother of Mrs. C. L Nolan, 913 Oakland avenue, remains ill. She is a member of the S. M. T. of Texas. Mrs. M. C. Phelps, 129 Greely, returned home from Chillicothe where she was called to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Elnora Alex. Miss Margaret Perkins and Mr. Arthur Younger of this city were married at high noon last Wednesday, April 14. Rev. W. A. Bowren officiated. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Fitzhugh, 1514 North Ninth street, were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. John Dodson, 2940 Summit street, Kansas City, Mo., at dinner. Rev. John Gordon and wife of Iola, Kas., attended the funeral of Mr. Stevenson, Ninth and New Jersey avenue, held April 25 under the auspices of U. B. F. Mr. Arthur E. Charles and Mrs. M. Matley of Topeka, Kas., attended the funeral of Mr. Daniel Osborne Wednesday afternoon at Mt. Pleasant Baptist church. Mrs. James Edmonds, 443 Freeman avenue, who underwent an operation at Bethany hospital March 23, has returned home. She will be pleased to see her many friends. Mr. Frank Hughes and Mr. Mansfield of Armstrong, Mo., are in the city on business. The former is an uncle of Mrs. Artie Johnson, 1025 Walker avenue, and the latter her father. Mrs. Mary White of 1849 North Seventh street, Kansas City, Kas., recently returned from West Nashville, Tenn., where she was called on account of the death of her brother. HOLDEN, MO. BY CHARLES PARTY The literary met Wednesday night and had a splendid program. E. Jacobs made a splendid talk...A duet by Mr. Herbert Jacobs and Miss Eiffel Jacobs. A paper by Mr. Otis Adkins was very good...The Y. L. S. C. gave a fish fry last Saturday evening and a successful outcome was the result...Mr. Richard Hill's house was destroyed by fire last Monday night...Rev. Evans has bought a residence in North Holden, where he moved Tuesday...The body of Lewis Carmichael was sent to Holden from Kansas City for burial. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon from the M. E. church. He leaves a mother, two sisters, three brothers, a wife and a host of friends and relatives to mourn his loss...Rev. Bowers of Pleasant Hill preached two splendid sermons last Sunday at the Second Baptist church, and Mrs. Bowers gave some interesting remarks. Lost Nickel In a Mill Race Lost Nickel in a Mill Race. A wealthy mill owner in a small town on the Wabash river, whose plant was operated by power derived from the waters of the river, several years ago accidentally dropped a nickel in the mill race. This man actually had his employees close the headgates of the race in order to secure his nickel after the water had oiled itself into the river. A weekly discussion of Hygiene and Sanitation, First Aid Measures and Preventive Medicine. Questions will be answered but no diagnoses nor prescriptions will be given in this column. A. Among the many kinds of pests to which humanity is subjected, vermin are perhaps the most common and all-pervading. Wherever human beings live or congregate, there, as a rule, will be found vermin of some sort or other. Even the homes of the rich are not free from rats and mice that have their runways in the basement and from which they have every access to the rooms above. Cockroaches and water bugs, though not so numerous, are as much at home in the kitchen of the dwellers on the boulevards as they are in the poor homes of tenement dwellers, or in the paste jars of the downtown offices. Then there is the unspeakable bedbug, the terror of housewives, and whose unwelcome presence is often noticed when least expected. These dreaded foes to household peace and comfort, so secretive and elusive in their habits, are a veritable scourge to a household when once they have infested it. At this season of the year, when there is much moving and changing of living quarters, the problem of vermin becomes a pertinent one. Fortunate, indeed, are those families who find few or no vermin in their new quarters. Those who are less fortunate should immediately begin a war of extermination upon these pests, not only because their mere presence is obnoxious, but because they may be carriers of disease from the family which was their former host. General cleanliness and eternal vigilance is the best preventive of vermin. Commercial exterminating preparations are many. Some of them are good, more are of doubtful value. Turpentine will kill bedbugs and destroy their eggs, but it leaves a disagreeable odor which remains for days. Suburban fumigation kills the bugs but CHILLICOTHE, MO. A very large number of friends, including the members of the Daughters of Tabor, gathered at Mt. Zion Baptist church last Wednesday afternoon to pay the last tribute of respect to Mrs. Elmer Alex, who died April 12 after a lingering illness. The services conducted by Rev. Tally were of an extremely simple and exalted character. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, daughter, other relatives and a host of friends....Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd of St. Louis, Mo., visited the local order of K. of P.'s and lectured at the Mt. Zion church Monday night....Mrs. Almy ra Jones of Denver, Col., is the guest Passengers often inquire of trainmen regarding the many stops of cars where passengers neither leave nor enter. These stops are mainly due to the city ordinances. As examples: Cars are required by ordinance to stop at all boulevard crossings and are required to slow up in passing hospitals in order to avoid noise; they are required to slow up in passing schools to avoid injuring children playing in or crossing the streets; they are obliged to slow up in passing churches on Sundays, where attendants at services may be leaving or entering church. There are almost one hundred similar stops required by city ordinances for the safety of the pedestrian, all of which cause many of the delays noticed by passengers. It is the company's desire to give the most rapid service consistent with the city's regulations and in accordance WITH THE COMPANY'S POLICY OF SAFETY FIRST. R. J. DUNHAM and FORD HARVEY, Receivers. not the eggs. Gasoline will destroy both the eggs and bugs but it should never be used at night when gas or oil lamps are used for lighting. A small bottle of gasoline will evaporate gas enough to blow up a house. Corrosive sublimate or bichloride of mercury also destroys the bugs and eggs, but it is dangerous to have around where children can get it, as it is a violent poison. Black flag or pyrethrum powder is an effective insecticide for bugs, flies, mosquitoes, water bugs and roaches. Mosquitoes and flies are recognized carriers of certain infectious diseases. For this reason we should seek not only to keep them from the house but also to destroy, as far as possible, the places where they breed. As is well known, stagnant pools, cesspool, rain barrels and low lying moist grounds are breeding places for mosquitoes. Flies breed mainly in manure piles, garbage cans and dumps. The abolition, then, of the places and conditions under which they are propagated will mean their extermination. The house fly is one of the most troublesome as well as the most dangerous of insects. He delights in fifth of every kind and character. But it is our misfortune that he has also an equal delight for sampling all the good things we eat. This is why he is so dangerous. He will leave his feast on the carcass of a dog to sail into our dining room and help himself to the butter, milk, cake, fruits, or whatever there is on the table that his palate. The time has not yet come when all the breeding places for the house fly can be exterminated, and until this can be accomplished let us protect our homes by carefully screening all doors and windows. Let us be sure, also that we get screens early before "fly time" arrives. of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Longdon....The Bachelor Girls met with Miss Josephine Anderson Saturday afternoon....The Modern Priscilla club was entertained at the home of Mrs. Flora Tolston Thursday afternoon....Tennyson has said "Our little systems have their day and cease to be." The A. S. M. club has proven to be one of the little social systems. The Home Talent minstrel, under the management of Mr. Victor Alex, entertained a large audience at the Majestic theater Wednesday night. And like an enthusiast poverty stricken for words we declare, unhesitatingly "Why the first performance of this minstrel company was grand—simply grand. It certainly was just grand." Paper Hanging and Painting, Patching and Plastering General Repairing a Specialty BELL PHONE East 2526 SHOP 1207 Highland. Res. 1031 Highland It's Up to You to patronize a man who has been for lo these ing to help himself and also build up the of his race. J. A. WILSON Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Sells Watches, Clocks, Diamond and other Staple Relie or will help you to buy the same from any house. You will receive courteous treatment at This store is at 1616 West 9th street, Kansas half block west from Wyoming street or st for lo these many years striv to build up the business prestige WILSON meer Negro Jeweler s, Diamonds Maple Reliable Jewelry me from any leading wholesale use. treatment and square dealing. street, Kansas City, Mo., one- street or station. to patronize a man who has been for lo these many years striving to help himself and also build up the business prestige of his race. Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler Sells Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and other Staple Reliable Jewelry or will help you to buy the same from any leading wholesale house. You will receive courteous treatment and square dealing. This store is at 1616 West 9th street, Kansas City, Mo., one-half block west from Wyoming street or station. Bell Phone E. 4394Y Office 24 THE Modern Build A. E. ESTES, Presid General Contract Repairing a Spe SATISFACTION GUARA Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. Builders Co. S, President Contracting a Specialty GUARANTEED SATISFACTION GUARANTEED M. Benton Dean, the popular mer, is now at 1010 Troost is, where she is elegantly lo- and will be extremely pleased at her many friends and cus- s at that number. Belle Main 2102J. We would like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in The Sun. It is the most popu- lar way to let the world know who you are, when and where you meet and your object and purpose. For the next month we will make special an- nouncements to have you put in your lodge or society list of of officers in lodge or soo --- Superb Wall Papers Samples Shown at Your Home No obligation to purchase, A postal brings us. Telephone, Bell Main 6248R. Mme. Benton Dean, the popular milliner, is now at 1010 Troost avenue, where she is elegantly located and will be extremely pleased to meet her many friends and customers at that number. Belle phone Main 2102J. and Builders PROMPT WORK REASONABLE PRICES KANSAS CITY, MO. Visit or call up. A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction 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., Gran Lecturer. W. G. Mosely, Kansas City, Mo., R. W. G. C. J. H. Sherwood, St. Paul, Minn., G. E. G. P. C. Kincald, Kansas City, Mo., V. E. G. C. J. W. Beard, St. Louis, Mo., E. G. C. G. Wm. Roberts, Hannibal, Mo., Grand Secretary. T. P. Mahammitt, Grand Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. Grand Chapter Officers. Geo. Broomfield, G. H. P., St. Louis, Mo. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Mofitte, G. S., Sedalia, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Sec'y, Kansas City, Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. R. T. Coles, Chairman. R. S. Baker, Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Mayers. Wm. Washington, F. P. Porteet. T. W. H. Williams, W. G. Moseley. J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lacey. E. G. Miller, Robt. Wiley. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 3rd Master Masons on good standing. All Master Masons good standing welcome. R. Greer, good standing. J. H. Sniginer, Sec'y. Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 2nd Friday in each Master Mason good standing welcome. F. W. Glimore, W. M.; T. J. McCampbell, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are wel- lited. M. Joe Jackson, W. M. Frank Love, Secretary, 1810th Baltimore Ave. I. O. I. Queen Esther Court No. 43. Hale from the I. O. I. meets the first and third Mondays in each Master Mason. M. R. Bettie Davis, M. R. Q. Rosa L. Jones, Chron- 1466 North 3d St., Kansas City, U. B. F. King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 658 and averages 659. M. W., M. 1781 Euclid; Jas. Har- sey, Sec. 1723 Woodland Ave. See Wm. Hopkins For Bargains. If you are going to buy real estate counsel given free. I have plenty of money to loan on improved real estate in Kansas City, Bell Phone East 3851. J.C.WAGNER The Clean Market Man Oysters, Fish and Game in Season. Fancy Groceries and all Table Luxuries. Courteous Treatment to All. 1819 Howard Ave. Bell Phone 3596 East Kansas City. Miss urt Take One Pain Pill, then—Take it Easy. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills will help you, as they have helped others. Good for all kinds of pain. Used to relieve Neuralgia, Headache, Nervousness, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Kidney Pains, Lumbago, Locomotor Ataxia, Backache, Stomachache, Carsickness, Irritability and for pain in any part of the body. "I have used Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills when troubled with headache, and find that one pill infiltrally effects relief in a very short time. I am considerably affected with neuralgia in the head at times, and find the Anti-Pain Pills of much benefit. The Dr. Miles' Remedies are beyond comparison and I recommend them to all my friends." GEORGE COLGATE, 219 Oakland St., San Antonio, Tex. At all druggists. 25 doses 25c. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. L. A. Knox, Esq., Attorney at Law practices in all Courts, wills and legal papers drawn. Office: 1419 E. 18th Street. Bell 'phone Grand 1413. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Oliver, 1709 Tracy, and Mrs. Laura Lewis spent Sunday in Carrolton, Mo., with Mr. Oliver's father and Mrs. Lewis' brother. TYPEWRITING DONE at Kansas City Sun office, 1803 East Eighteenth street. Neat, quick work. Rates reasonable. Engagements by appointment. Bell phone East 999. BoBn to Oather and Mattie Ferguson April 15, a girl, to whom they have given the name of Dorothy Malt Mrs. Ferguson was formerly Miss Mattie Emery. Mrs. P. C. Kincaid is improving from her recent serious illness under the efficient nursing of Mrs. S. M. Baker. Her sisters, Mrs. Williams of Nicho lasville, Ky., and Mrs. B. J. Harrison of Webster Grove, Mo., and her eldest son, J. W. Kincaid of Chicago, are at her bedside. All the members of the Wheatley Provident Hospital Association are urgently requested to meet at the Y M. C. A. rooms Monday evening, April 26th, for the annual election of officers. All persons holding membership cards or that have contributed $2.00 during the last year for the support of the hospital are eligible to vote. REV. T. H. EWING, Pres. MRS. JESSIE NOVEL, Sec'ty. The W. C. T. U. met with Mrs. Urith K. Thompson. 1622 Virginia. Tuesday afternoon with a good attendance. Mr. G. F. Davis, district superintendent of Sunday school work, gave an excellent illustrative lecture on evil influence of drink and the cigar et. She hopes to be in the various Sunday schools soon. The visitors were: Mrs. Henry Parks, Inez Page and Mrs. A. Chevaller. The next meeting will be with Mrs. M. F. Crews. 2634 Woodland avenue, Tuesday, May 4 at 3 o'clock.-Mrs. Ida Bold is president. Mrs. H. H. Cavelle secretary. [Picture of a man in a suit]. DORSEY B. BROWN The presenter of public utilities offers to you the products of the Fulton Polish Company of New York, a colored company, makers of paste, liquid cleaners and dyers for the cleaning, preservation and shining of all shoe leathers. The products of this company are prize winners at the Paris exposition, 1903; Jameson, 1997; San Antonion, 1909. They also furnish the polish for the United States army. We will be in your neighborhood soon to show you our goods. Wholesale price to stores and bootblack parlors. Address all mail orders to Dorssey B. BrBown. Town orders will be filled at Taylor Holmes. Mrs. Wm. J. Thompkins writes that a committee from the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs consisting of representatives from the Carnation, Athenaeum and Booklovers' Clubs, brought six bunches of beautiful flowers to the Old City Hospital. Two sprays were sent from Wm. R. Nelson's funeral and last Tuesday girls from the Flower Mission of the white Y. W. C. A. brought eight sprays from another funeral, all of which were very much appreciated. Rev. Isaace Mills was given back to "mother dust" Sunday afternoon after services in his memory at Pilgrim Green Baptist church, of which he was a member. Rev. Booker, the pastor, paid a glorious tribute to his untiring efforts as a preacher of the gospel. Indeed, it is remarkable that during his entire illness he insisted upon preaching, and a few minutes before death, announced his text "You must be born again." Resolutions from the church of which he was pastor, Elmwood Baptist church, Mt. Leonard, Mo., Pleasant Green and the order of U. B. F. were read. He was remembered by flowers profusely. LOOK BEAUTIFUL. Have a clear, healthful skin free from liver splotches and freckles. The skin must be regarded in two lights: Beauty and health; one part of which I have not spoken is papalia, tiny prolongations, a horny under layer. The circulation of skin of the face needs stimulation so facial massage is needed. Try our beauty massagist, Miss Cora B. Holmes, an experienced massuse; Hair and Scalp treatments a special CITY NEWS. ty. All work guaranteed. 1711 Michigan Ave. Monday—out of town patients. Monday hours, 8:30 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Miss Cora B. Holmes. LEXINGTON, MO. Miss Glover Hawkins spent the week end in Kansas City with friends.... Mrs. Tillie Moss of Kansas City, Kas., is spending a few days here with relatives.... Mrs. Jeanette Woodson, who i steaching in Dover, spent the weekend here.... The "Citizens' Forum" was held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Zion A. M. E. church and quite an interesting program was rendered. Mr. E. J. McGrew, president of the Board of Education, was present, and made an interesting talk on education, and tried to encourage the parents to keep their children in school, as the attendance of the colored schools has been rather poor this year. Interesting talks were also made by Dr. J. D. Ball, Prof. George H. Green, Rev Brooks, Rev. Wm. Smith and others.... Rev. Wm. Peck was here and held quarterly meeting at the Zion A. M. E. church. Dr. John John Jones departed this life last Saturday evening at 8:30 o'clock. He was born 5 years ago on his father's farm near New Albany, Miss. His early education was obtained in his native village and supplemented by more advance draining in the state normal school at Holly Springs. He identified himself with every interest of the community and was highly respected by white and black. In 1890 he was appointed county assessor, but on account of an unusually stormy and riotous political situation he not only did not enter upon the duties of his office but deemed it prudent to leave the town which he had made his home and where he had made the splendid beginnings of a business career. While living at Forest City, Ark., where he taught and carried on business he married Miss Eva Cobb, with whom he lived happily for a period of thirty-two years. They had five children, only one of whom, James Hugh, now lives. Dr. Jones went to Nashville and matriculated at Meharry Medical college at Meharry the honors of graduation in 1894. He devoted himself assiduously to his new profession for twenty-one years. After years experience in Arkansas, he moved to Popular Bluffs, Mo., and practiced there six years. In 1905 he came to Kansas City and practiced until his death. He was a man of bright intelligence, great integrity and genuine Christian piety and could not understand the laxity of men prominent in social and professional life. Early in life he identified himself with the Baptist church, but in 1907 joined Allen chapel during the pastorate of Rev. F. Jesse Peck. He was an exact scholar, a careful thinker, a kind father, loving husband, a devoted friend, a conscientious practitioner and an enemy of all forms of fraud, trickery and insincerity. His quiet nature concealed from many the real man of positive conviction, strong business instinct, keen judgement of social values and genius interest in the general welfare. In him the community loses a worthy citizen and the medical profession an efficient exemplary member who never forgot his ideals. Gave Sick Man Verdict. The Green Bag says that a suit brought by a portly man against a little man with a hacking cough had gone to the jury, at which time it appeared from the evidence and the instructions of the court that the big man had won the case. After half an hour the jury was called and asked if a verdict had been reached. "No, your honor," replied the foreman. "We only want to know which is the defendant and which is the plaintiff." "The large man sitting over there is the plaintiff, and the small gentleman here is the defendant," replied the judge. The jury filed back to the jury room. In a few minutes they signaled that they had reached a verdict. The judge received it and read: "We, the jury, find for the man with the consumption." Unrest and Causes. A nation without unrest is a nation dead or dying. The causes of unrest are beyond the scope of any commission, and those who would administer nostrums for the relief of unrest are like quacks who never treat the afflicted but make all of their marvelous cures among those who have nothing the matter with them. Unrest is to be seen everywhere in this country, as it always should be, but nevertheless it is personal. Wherever injustice is found it is comprehensive, embracing communities and states. Why waste governmental energy upon unrest, which is forever at war with injustice on its own account, when there is such splendid fighting to be done against wrong all along the line?—New York World. Chronology of the Chimney Chimney sweeping, which has made a fortune of over $15,000 for one of its exponents, is a comparatively modern profession. None of the Roman ruins show chimneys like ours, with fireplaces and flues, nor are any to be found in Herculaneum or Pompeii. The chimney of antiquity consisted of a hole in the roof, and kitchens were then always sooty. Braziers were used in the living rooms, the fuel supplied to the wealthy classes being carefully dried wood from which no soot came; but the Roman architects used to complain that the interior decorations of houses soon became smoked up. The modern chimney was first used in Europe in the fourteenth century. Women's Club Notes A CORRECTION. The Jolly Matrons Friday afternoon whist club met with Mrs. Hill, 1606% Lydia avenue March 9th. First and second prizes were given. An elaborate lunch was served after which Miss Edna Hammett rendered an instrumental solo. ALL HAIL! ALL HAIL! ALL HAIL! There will be a public installation of Pritchard Court No. 3, Star of West Court No. 77, Century Court No. 66, Octavia Court No. 103, H. of J. at Lyric Hall Friday night, April 30th. Admission, 25 cents. The public is Phyllis Wheatley Art club met with Mrs. T. M. McDonald with a large attendance. Thursday being painting day, there were nine ladies in the class under the careful instruction of Mrs. A. E. Estes. After being served with a delightful repast the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Young, 2336 Summit, April 29.—Mrs. G. G. Mson, reporter. LYCEUM ART CLUB. The Lyceum Art club met the residence of Mrs. Mary Wherry Thursday day evening, April 22. The members worked steadily for two hours. All declared Mrs. Wherry an ideal hostess. The club will meet April 29 with Miss Edith Evans, 2816 Mersington avenue.—Mrs. Richard Allen, President. OAK LEAF ART CLUB The last meeting of the Oak Leaf Art club was with Mrs. Helen McDonald and was very interesting. The meeting was well attended. Business of importance was discussed and an excellent repast served. Mrs. Edmondson was an out o f town visitor. She is the mother of Miss Emma Washington. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Allen.—Amanda E. Wheeler. Reporter. THE XX HISTORY CLUB The XX History and Art Club meet on Thursday, April 22, with Mrs. Wm. McElhaney. Business was transacted and art work taken up. The pieces are nearing completion prior to our exhibit. We announced a month ago that our exhibit would be held Monday evening, May 3, at Armory Hall. We sincerely desire the patronage of our friends. After a delicious two-course luncheon we adjourned to meet with Mrs. McNair, 1905 E 25th street. THE PORTIA GAYS. The Portia Gays, one of the most cultured and representative clubs of the two cities, gave a delightful formal dance last Friday evening at Lyric hall. The music, punch and decorations were the finest ever witnessed in this city and the club is composed of seven of the two cities finest young ladies and reflects honor upon greater Kansas City. Its members are: Miss Minnie E. Jackson, Miss Trussie Smothers, Miss Sara A. Chinn, Miss Sarah A. Porter, Miss Ruly L. Locke, Miss Ida V. Railey, Miss Clara Carter. Onions. As an exhibit of what ingenious man may do, the achievement of an odorless onion is all right. But no onion lover would part with that one distinct and appetizing fragrance for any price offered. From early spring through the year its penetrating, unmistakable, pungent smell appeals to the soul of man. Children revel in them. Poets have written of them, at least one has. Sydney Smith begs that his favorite salad may have "onion atoms lurk within the bowl, and half suspected animate the whole." "Now you are married," Artemus Ward, wrote to the Prince of Wales, "you can eat onions," a truly royal privilege. An odorless onion is a dishonest onion—Oll City (Penn.) Blizzard Use Shot aa Rivets An ingenious method of making use of a shot as a rivet is described in an English paper. It is said to be often more satisfactory for mending small holes than soldering and more quickly accomplished. First round out the hole with a knife blade or suitable tool and lay the vessel bottom up on a firm support, such as a flat stone or anvil, so as to be able to pound firmly on the metal. Placing a small shot of suitable size in the hole, a sharp hammer stroke transforms it to a rivet. All that is needed is to file off on each side and sandpaper. It is said that even a quarter-inch hole can be bus stopped. Among the Churches VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Mrs. E. J. Hines, 2011 Askew, is reported better...Services were well attended Sunday. Three additions were made to the church...Sunday is the teachers' examination day and we hope all teachers will be present ....The Woman's Mission Circle is doing fine, also the sewing circle, and we hope for them a great success. These two auxiliaries are under the management of Mrs. J. B. Wright and Mrs. A. E. Johnson...Mrs. Jennera Saunders, 2726 Highland avenue, is very sick, but we hope for her a speedy recovery. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Mr. L. B. Cheeks, our worthy president, has again demonstrated the fact that he is not afraid to take the initiative in anything he believes to be right by establishing in the B. Y. P. U. a short session of a young people's prayer meeting, which is of a great benefit to the children....The City Conquest at 3 p. m. at Mt. Calvary Baptist church, Nineteenth and Askew, and we hope for a large attendance....The relief workers deserve much credit for the excellent manner in which they are taking care of the poor and needy....The Sunday school is still growing in interest and attendance....D. Bacote not only delivered two excellent and practical semions last Sunday, but Mrs. Mamie Hightower demonstrated the fact that she is adapted to singing pathetic songs, judging from the great number of shouts and tears expressed by the congregation....The church member ship is increasing rapidly by additions from both Kansas Citys. All are invited and welcomed to join us. Well-Tempered Living The statistics of insanity show that the minds of men and women are often made aberrant through the steady drive of environment, in which the simple life and the spurring city life are equally at fault. The figures show the per capita of insanity differs little in city and country. Rural solitude and the abnormal life of the city are alike responsible for mental diseases. It is as bad for man to be too much alone as it is for him to be surrounded by perfuvid life. The history of the race, the inquiries of investigators and the judgment of specialists in the diseases of mind and body tell us that the well tempered life, void of excesses, is the plane upon which men and women best endure in mental and bodily health; a temperance of thought and a temperance of action in an environment in which the individual is neither submerged by human society nor detached from it. Don't Bite Pencils. Not only is pencil biting an ugly habit, but it is actually dangerous for two reasons: First, because the lead exposed at the end of the pencil is injurious to the stomach, and, secondly, alas! because the biter is not always careful to bite only his own property. There is no better way of spreading diseases than by chewing a pen or pencil previously chewed by somebody else, and while teachers at school to guard against the habit among their pupils, the parents are not always so careful when the children are at home. Indeed, the parents themselves are not always proof against the temptation. If you go into a public writing room you may often write writers ruminating with the tip of a public pen between their teeth. It is thoughtless, but dangerous, even in the most carefully kept writing room. Sleep Very Like Death All sleep is said to be the closest resemblance to death in life that is possible with healthy persons, but the winter sleep of certain warm-blooded animals approaches far nearer the similitude of death than any other description of sleep. Nearly every vital function is suspended. Heartbeats are hardly to be discerned. Digestion is practically ended. The temperature of the blood is reduced. Breathing is hardly noticeable and, perhaps, the most interesting of all these winter sleepers is the woodchuck, alias the marmot, alias the groundhog, which goes to sleep in its hole when it is rolling in fat and while there is yet plenty to eat. Then it wakes and often comes out in the cold of the spring, but if it be too cold it holes up again, and this gave rise to the myth. Universal Fairy Tale "The Sleeping Beauty" may be called one of the stories of the whole world; for there is hardly a people which has not its tale of magic slumber and awakening. It has been conjectured with some plausibility that the origin of these stories is to be sought in hypnotism. Certainly it is a striking point that wands, pins, rings or similar objects that would assist in the hypnotist's suggestions commonly figure in them. In many eastern versions the girl goes to sleep, or dies, when a magic rod is laid near her head; she rises from sleep or death when another is placed at her feet. In Grimm's "Briar Rose" the heroine pricks herself with her spindle. In Scandinavian and Celtic versions it is a sleep thorn. Judging Distance. Many people find it difficult to judge how far off a sound comes from, and, of course, in regard to big guns fired on battleships at sea, it is almost impossible for an ordinary person to form an opinion; but the distance at which various sounds can be heard are both curious and remarkable. For instance, roughly speaking, the whistle of a locomotive is heard 3,300 yards through the air; the noise of a railway train, 2,800 yards; the report of a rifle and the bark of a dog, 1,800 yards; an orchestra or the roll of a drum, 1,600 yards; the human voice reaches to a distance of 1,000 yards; the croaking of frogs, 900 yards; the chirping of crickets, 800 yards. Betty & Sam's Little Corner HARVARD —That might is not right. Nay, nay verily. —That Buckner's singers are the best in America. The editor banks on that. —That a villanous assault similar to the Shilder case happened in a Negro resort recently. Why not investigate? —That if that Ne gro on Highland doesn't stop whipping his wife they are going to tar and feather him. Oh, you Indians. —That under the management of Billy King the Criterion ought to do the biggest business in its history. "Here's hoping." —That every Negro carrying a bucket, bottle, jug or pan of beer through the open street makes more votes for prohibition each day. —That Kansas City has more of the sportiest preachers real high rollers than any other town in the country. Well, I didn't know that. —That Leon H. Jordan as manager of the Criterion theater will have the greatest show ever produced by Negro talent in this city. Watch and see. —That the dirty store fronts and unswept walks of some Negro places on 18th street is enough to drive anyone away who might want to patronize them. Get busy and clean up. —That instead of dumping beautiful flowers out on the grave of some friend or loved after a funeral, why not send them to our hospitals, the aged, the sick and the poor. What say you? Why Boards Have Knots Some boards have knots because they are made from trees having many branches. The knot in the board is part of the root of the branch in the trunk of the tree. When you see a knot it means that before the tree was cut down and the log sawed up into boards, a limb was growing out from the inside of the tree at the spot where the knot occurs. The wood in the knot is harder than the rest of the board because more strength is needed at the base of a branch and in that part of it growing in the tree than in other parts. This is necessary to make the branch strong enough to support not only itself, but also the smaller limbs growing out from it. Water and Health. The part played by water in daily life is not very well understood. Beginning with the bath, water is not only a cleansing agent, but a healer and a beautifier. A daily bath will do much for the beauty of the skin and the health of the body. The morning glass of water, hot or cold, clears away the accumulation of the night from the throat and stomach and prepares the way for breakfast and its digestion. Taken at night, water acts as a soothing agent, and swallowed in liberal quantities through the day it is an agent of health, curing many obstinate cases of intestinal trouble. California Redwood California redwood is a remarkable material. It is wood that is obtainable in large boards, is straight-grained, free from knots, is easily worked, being soft, and yet it is tough and durable. For the manufacture of tanks, rectangular and round, it is the ideal wood, and it has been extensively used for them in the cyanide process and in ore-concentrating mills. Lately it has been finding wide employment also in copper extraction plants.—Engineering and Mining Journal. Tomorrow. No one ever sinks under the burden of today; it is always the to-morrows and yesterdays that overwhelm us. If it were not for the sorrows o. the past and our fears and anxieties for the future, we could very well bear today's cares and do its work. Every day holds its strength and its compensations as well as its troubles, but it has no provision for that which does not belong to it. All the journey through, the heaven-sent manna must be gathered morning by morning. Best and Worst Things in Chile. Best and Worst Things in Chile. Now the best thing in Chile is the horse. He is of an Arab strain, short-bodied, with powerful legs that can bear a rider all day long at a gallop. Not only is he docile and intelligent, but nothing can break his spirit. I have yet to see a Chilean horse so old or spent that his ears are not pricked forward with an air of interest and hope. How natural, then, that the worst thing in Chile is the roads!—Edward Alsworth Ross in the Century Magazine. [Portrait of a man in formal attire]. PORC TRADE PORC ST. LOUIS, MO. Kansas City's premier dancer, Tonsorial Parlors, which have been Vine streets, to the more suitable he has one of the most complete,ute Barber Shops, cigar stands and Kansas City. All of his old friend the city are invited to call and mar [Image of a man in a suit with a mustache and glasses, looking slightly to the side.] V's premier dancing master and proprietor of bars, which have been moved from his old loft to the more suitable location at 24th and VI the most complete, handsomely furnished, aps, cigar stands and billiard parlors to be all of his old friends and patrons and strangely to call and make it their headquarters. 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. TO THE PUBLIC: We want you to come to us a DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET BRUSHES, MADAM WALK STRAIGHT We recommend and guard exactly as represented. WE take other brands than you as we want you to have it. OUR PR All down the line. We give by courteous and fair treatment customers. When you think THEO. SM No demand is too difficult to come to our store, phone Mall Orders Soli Theo. 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We have been doing high for the past 26 years. We have thousands of members in Business 20 All work kept in repair free of charge. MONEY EXAMINATION FREE All work guaranteed 20 years extracts your teeth here has undoubtedly be- an any other dentist in the city, so you g cess Extracting, 35a. Our work has stood the test. We have been doing high dime guaranteed Sental Work for the past 18 years. We have thousands of satisfied patients Remember in Business 20 Years All work kept in repair free of charge. The doctor who extracts your tooth here has undoubtedly had more experience in this line than any other dentist in the city, so you get the most expert service. Painless Extracting, 25a. BRIDGE WORK Spaces where from one to ten teeth have been lost we replace with bridge work. We have the most natural teeth both time and require no plate. Broken down teeth we restore to beauty and comfort with crowns of porcelain and gold. 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It looks the same as natural teeth, lasts a little time and requires no plaque. Broken teeth we restore to beauty and unstained with crowns of porcelain and gold. and $8 Wilings, 78e. and $1 White Crowne $3, $4 and $8 Platine Village $8 SET TEETH $4 TO $8 ORK DENTAL CO Location 1017-19 Walnut St. Store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co | John Henry on Cabarets AY! Did you ever burst right Ss into Bohemia and with the gid of a complaining pocketbook try to Help yourself to a Hilarious eve- ning? ‘Tag me—I'm It. Of course, I don't mean Bohemia in the highbrow sense—nix. Not one of those quaint retreats with the lemon- colored atmosphere where sad-eyed Artistic Temperaments foregather to chop spaghetti with a fork and bark hand-made repartee at each other over ‘@ beaker of absinthe—nix, 1 mean the Bohemia so called by ‘the Buyer from Max Plahn’s Universal Emporium, Waukesha, Wis., who hits New York along in August and leaves the imprint of his sandals all over Longacre Square and adjacent by- ways, ‘The Bohemia, so called, which 1s composed of incandescent lights dis. guished as rosebuds; Bulgarian walt: vers disguised as second-story work- ‘ers, and a menu card which, without ‘any disguise, leads the unwary direct- Ay to a Petition in Bankruptcy. ‘The Bohemia, so called, where the wise virgin trims her lamps about nine o'clock of an evening and when said lamps get to flashing over the Martini and other happy waters, be- eve me, the suckers rise to the sur. face so fast that the waiters have to hand out eyeshades, P. S—Foolish virgins with untrim- ‘meble lamps are not to be found in this Bohemia, so called, Ever since we've been back In New York, Peaches has been Handing out ‘Hints that she'd like to have me take her over the hurdies into that Falr Land where rag-time and breaded pork chops do a sister act—to one of those real devilish New York Cabarets, Rub his ankies, Doctor; the blood has rushed to his Bean! 1 tried to explain to friend wife that the Cabaret is an institution in. Yented solely for the purpose of giv. ing hiccups to Gold-plated Strangers, ‘but Peaches was strong for a Peek at re a = J) Mie ik - Ae ee Ean IE EB fe Ee) A hig Che VST. a er ee TJ \iuZ a Wess MN ye Re! i: naw ae WYN Ih yak WSR Lou pecs. MESS Aes the Night-Life of New York and it Was up to me to furnish the opera lasses, She wanted to know if T thought she could toy with a tenderloin steak in some Musical Soup-House without having a policeman call her by her first name, 1 told her T was away on sick leave the morning Cabaret Etiquette had been passed around, but I'd ask my friend Hep Hardy about ft. Hep ig what they call in the laura- feans Prince of Good Fellows. ‘As near as I can size him up a Prince of Good Fellows puts in twelve hours a day trying to stab himself to death with Bronx cocktails, and the other twelve hours are de voted to screaming for help and ice- water, Mind you, I'm not Knocking Hep. Far be from me to aim the Ham- mer. When it comes to falling off tho street sprinkler I can do an annette- kellermann that gets loud applause from all the members of the High Tide Association—so tuttley-tut on the knock! His father cut out the breathing Dusiness about four years ago ang eft Hep with $200,000 and a long dry spell on the inside, Hep has been in the surf ever since. His only recreation between bars 1s golf. He invented the G. A. R. score in that game—out in ‘61, back in ‘65. 1 explained my sad plight to Hep over the ‘phone and, later on, with Peaches all dolled up like a Corot Yandscape, we met Hep by appoint ment in front of Bustafiddiestrings Cabaret. Hep in bis man-about-town scenery ‘was a sartorial dream in black and white. He had everything on, includ fing haif a bun. “Well, {f it isn't John Henry!" he Aagueandhagued. “Touch thumbs wit your old pal!” Then in a side spece! he wanted to know what musteal shoy had loaned me its prize chicken, 5a introduced him to my wife anc “Re trled to square himself by explain tng that now that bis right eye was _ properly focused she didn't look at al -Mke @ ehicken—she was more of th : i sag Te “thee with a we of ver owt taden ta itr he ied ‘The head waiter met us at the edge of the reservation. Hep slipped him something that made a noise like five dollars and the H.W. bowed, Hep slipped him again and he bowed lower. Hep slipped him another little map of the mint and H, W's forehead seraped the floor Hep ceased slipping and the H. W. came up on the other side and lec us toa table, The room was adazzle with Gaudy Lights. Rag-time music hurried away from a preoccupied orchestra, hit the ceiling, bounced off and scampered around the tables. Laughter, both re fined and careless, tried to drown the clatter of dishes—and won out. Ciga rette smoke and Mary Garden per fume clinched in a death struggle all over the place and Mary put the boots to Murad every time. “So this is Bohemia!” sighed Peaches as the head waiter pulled out a chair and dared her to sit down “John, dear, do point out the celebri ties to me, won't you?” “They haven't come in yet.” I gur sled, and Hep let loose a laugh so nearly like that of a nervous coyote that four waiters rushed up, prepare¢ to take any kind of a tip, Just as we were sinking gracefully into our plush chairs, and the Sicilian brigand was about to take our order who should float into the dry-dock but Max Mincenstein, one of Hep's friends after 2.4. M. I don’t know how Max ever pressed close enough to get on Hep’s staff. Max has money. He'll always have ‘{t—the same money. Max is a lazy loosener. When the waiter returns with the check Max is the busiest talker in the bunch, ‘Max loves money. Money loves Max. They are inseparable, Whenever Max passes a bank he takes off his hat and walks on his toes. TL spoke his name rapidly when T in ‘troduced Max to Peaches, but as she was busy trying to lead a swift life by ordering a seltzer lemonade, it didn't make much difference what 1 called him, Hep. must hava’ been sitting over's trapdoor, because suddenly wine-cool- ere beean ta. featoon themselves around about him. Blue wine-coolers appeared at bis right, magenta wise coolers at his left, and lee, atite ie as far North as the ere Gould eee Presently 6. platoon of walters beren to annoy the corks end then tolloned a correct Imitation of the stcond day sGeenaes One Gore went over Oulthir forge other table and struck a fat moneyed person from Pittsburg between to second and third floor of his accordion chin. He thought it was one o'clock, so he arose hurriedly and left the room. For months he'll be telling the home folks how he beat the police to it at Closing time, Meanwhile Max was overboard with a splash. For the first ten minutes he had three waiters on the verge of hervous prostration trying to supply the suds fast enough. But Max didn't play Rugby rules—he used two glasses and both hands. After a time, however, he feathered both oars and drifted aimlessly with the tide, “Pardon me!” said Peaches to Max, in an effort to pass out a bit of Soet- ety Salve, “but do you find it inter esting—this glimpse of Bohemia?" “Bohemia nothing!” bubbled Max. “This joint is Cosmopolitan—sure thing! The chef ts a Frenchman; the pastry cook is a Greek; the head waiter is a German; they got a Hun. garian violinist and the proprietor has a wife and two klds in Jersey city but he don’t go there much, Bohemian ‘not on your powder puff!” Peaches took the count, then she Jeaned over and whispered to me “What is he?—a painter?” “Oh! he's a painter all right,” | squeaked; “when some one leads him up to a tub.” “Water colors or oll?” she asked “Oil,” I said; “fusel olf.” “Has he over done any good thing? she queried. pda said; “Hep Hardy.” “Oh! I'm enjoying this s0 much, ‘he ‘coo-coved. giving Max and i performances the sudden Lean eddie sit dich ages ‘He was the night-watchman of an apartment house uptown, but I gave her an easy apeech to the effect that he was Bill Mendelssohn, a grandson of old man Mendelssohn, who once wrote a wedding march #0 carelessly that {t is now used as @ coon song. She gasped and gurgled with de- light—in Bohemia and having the time of her young life, po I let her dream. In the meantime Hep, with a bucket ot wine, was busy trying to put out tho fire in the well Max used as a neck. Every time a waiter looked at our table Hep’s roll would blaze up. Peaches presently concluded she'd broaden out a bit on Art and the Old Masters, so she asked Max if he liked Rembrandt. Max looked at her out of the cor ner of his eye and murmured, "Much ‘bliged, but I'm up to here now!” Then he pointed at his Adam's Apple and fell asleep. Hep was beginning to see double. Every once in a mile he'd stop hum- ming “Here Comes My Daddy Now— Zap) 7? aa BEN 3. LY 55 atte Ney | J y 1% i SS 1a loon” Papa, Papa, Papa, Papa!" then he'd close one eye and with the other look over at Peaches and hand her a sad, sweet smile It’s a gay life, boys! When our expensive food finally arrived Hep was gazing at his fingers and wondering how they got on his hands, while Max, the genial pest, with bis chin driven through his shirt- front, was over on Dream Avenue, about to hitch up his favorite night- mare and take a spin through Bug- land, Peaches was toying with a spoonful of consomme Julienne and I was par- leying shoestring potatoes back on my fork, when suddenly there came a great clanging of bells, doors rattled and banged, women screamed and the orchestra fell out of a back window —all except the bass fiddle. He fell in a bowl of soup left for him by an obliging but hurrying waiter. Max woke up suddenly, looked about wild-eyed and slid gracefully under the table, Hep, with a roll of bills in each hand, trled to stand up and dety the universe, but he toppled over among the wine-coolers and passed peaceful- ly away again in cold storage. A fat man with a beard and a dia- lect ran around in circles exclaiming that he was the proprietor, but nobody pinned a medal on him, and he burst into sobs. Then he rushed over to our table and yelled, “Get out! Get out!” “Why should we get out?” I tn- quired, placing a plece of fried chick- en tenderly in his outstretched hand. “Because it's closing up time and I always forget about it. ‘The police have to come and remind me.” ‘Then he threw the fried chicken at the lady cashier and faded out of our lives. T looked in the direction of the door, Yes, there they were—an Army Corps of Cops, marching steadily forward into the Palace of Pies, fearless in the face of danger. It was a brave sight to see them de- ploy by fours and reaching forward with their nightsticks knock a hunk of beefsteak out of a hungry diner's hand. T grabbed Peaches by the elbow and we beat it from Bohemia while the beating was good ‘The last I saw of Max he was act- Ing as a foot-rest for the General com- manding the Fifth Brigade, while Hep slept peacefully on amid the up-turned wine-coolers and the {ce-floes, Bohemia, eh? So this {s what they call Having A Good Time in New Yorkt Mr. Umpire, I called you Bad names —put me on the Bench. This Burg is the home of the Gink who can't keep his Temperature down unless he is continually snit- fing the odor of burning money. ‘This Gink's dea of beng a gentle- man {s to get into a Tuxedo make-up and swap gags with a bunch of booze biters while Mamma has to tle her- self up in a Mother Hubbard and stay home alone till Papa gets through be- ing a Good Fellow, Cabarets, eh? Hereafter me for the little Pto- maine Parlor where the dilipickles hide behind the bowl of pulverized sugar and wink at you when the wait- ress splashes an omelette on your shoulder, But Peaches thought it was all per- fectly lovely. “and you'll take me some night soon," she marshmallowed, “where we can see some real turkey trotting, won't you, John, dear!” A glass of water, Nurse; he's faint. ing, Some Modern Widows’ Mites, Specific instances of generosity among the very poor are often seen in our distant mission work, reports the Episcopal board of missions. Bishop Biller of South Dakota recently re- ceived a letter from the Indian women of one of his missions inclosing $21.45 for the sufferers from war in Europe, and Archdeacon Stuck from Chandalar village upon the Yukon, sends $26, “the value of an offering, mainly in weazel sling, taken at the celebration of the Holy communion in Chandalar village.” * British Generals Speak in High Praise of Kitchener's New Soldiers. ASK FOR NO BETTER TROOPS Men Are Wonderfully Intelligent and ‘Acquire Remarkable Skill in Trench Wartare—Hot Bath Every Ten Days for Every British soldier, ec ee i lk aes International News Service Correspondent. British General Headquarters, France.—At the outbreak of the war ‘almost everyone in England had com- plete confidence in the British small Tegular army, and felt certain that {t would give m splendid account of it self on the continent. On the other hand there was widespread mistrust of the capabilities of the new terri- torial army, either for purposes of home defense, or for service abroad, I will give my own impression from what I saw during my visit to the front, and also the opinions of various generals—without mentioning names, which is forbidden by the censor—un- der whom they have served. The vast majority of the men who fill the ranks of the territorial forces are drawn from a different class to those who enlist in the regular army. ‘There are clerks from the London financial district holding good post- tlons. ‘There are men who come from behind the counter, and others who fill positions of a highly important and confidential character, such as sec- retaries, accountants and mechanical experts, Every branch of trade and industry 1s represented in the ranks. ‘They are men who have joined the force out of a sense of duty, because they feel that every able-bodied man should play somo role, however small, in the defense of his country. Many have been obliged to throw up employment which was bringing them in large salaries, and now sup- port their homes and families on the King’s shilling and separation allow. ances. Some of the battalions sent to the front had to meet their baptism of fire undér the most trying circum. stances. French Is Delighted. But Sir John French himself ts de- lighted with them. A corps commander said to me: “I consider the terrl. torial battalions under my command the equal of any of the line battallons. Let them send me out as many as they can. I can ask for no better troops after they had a few weeks of experience in the face of the enemy.” ‘A brigade commander spoke as fol- lows: “My territorials are a wonder. ‘ful lot. Inever saw finer troops. ‘The men are wonderfully intelligent. They are as keen as mustard, and are ac quiring a remarkable skill in trench warfare.” Take the case of a crack corps, like the “Artists’ Rifles.” Our losses in officers has been so heavy that Sir John French decided on the novel ex. EUGENIC BABIES BETROTHED ae S| ae GSE » fo eo ae 4 Bis. i J qty * P ; Co >. . -~| g | sy 4 7. - ayy oo TY. Lhe | : of F 4 Bey , Ls tant WE become Unless there is serious objection by one or both later on, little Alene C, Houck, pictured below, and William C. Flynn, above, both of whom have won many prizes and are eugenic babies, will be married when they grow up. Alene Houck fs seventeen months old and William Flynn is thirty-seven months old, Each has won first prize in three successive baby shows in New York and this has caused the parents to plight their troth, mI REPORTER'S JOB DENIED KING Belgium Ruler Was Turned Down by Two New Orleans City Editors. New Orleans, La.—King Albert of Belgium was turned down by city ‘editors of two New Orleans newspa- pers when he applied for work as a reporter here in 1898 under the name of CA: Harris, The authority for this statement is Antoine Alost, a pestaurateur of this city, to whom the SCOURGE OF CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA Sa A i, ae” , Oey 4 4 rig Ne Y v4 fs ss ‘ ¥ mf B, B 3 Leh ALIN maine AUG al fo le} Jl Wiss, Cy ) j SN, 1 a ese a Pe a \ Joon tee ater tae aT t oO eR : Ee See A a Dba One of the Kurdish horsemen who have been massacring Christians tz Persia near the Turkish border, periment of keeping the whole of this famous battalion behind the line, and training all ranks aa officers. As they reached a certain standard of progress they were given commissions and drafted to regular battalions. 1 made careful inquiries as to how this ex- periment had worked out in practice. ‘One corps commander told me he had Teceived a large number of these new officers from the Artists’ Rifles, and that with extremely few exceptions they had turned out admirably. A love of cleanliness is one of the strongest traits in the Anglo-Saxon race.~ The best of troops speedily lose thetr pride and self-respect if they are obliged to live in filthy surroundings, amidst which it is impossible for them to clean themselves, their uniforms and equipment. The conditions in Flanders throughout the winter have been about as bad as any troops have ever had to face. The army medical corps took the problem in hand and has shown remarkable skill and in- genuity in its solution, Bath Every Ten Days, Scattered over northern France and Flanders are many factories for mak- ing beet sugar and beer. These pos- Sess enormous vats such as most of us are familiar with in breweries at home. As their legitimate occupation, in the case of those situated close to the firing Tine, is now gone, they have been utilized for the purpose of washing the British army. This experiment of cleaning every man in an army several hundreds of thousands strong once in every ten days has never been tried before In war. Yet so complete is the organt- zation that, except under exceptional circumstances, every man and officer is sure of his hot bath every ten days. A battalion comes off duty and marches to rest in its billets, the men and their uniforms covered with mud. Above all, it 1s necessary to change their shirts and underclothes, Let it not be supposed that the only enemy our mén have to face is found in the trenches, There is another, IRISH FOES JOINED BY WAR Nationalist and Ulster Volunteers Are Fighting Side by Side in the Trenches. Dublin—A band of the Irish guards, which even a few months ago would have received an unfriendly greeting anywhere in Ireland, arrived here on ‘@ recruiting tour and was enthusias- tically cheered as it marched to the Mansion house, playing “St. Patrick's Day.” ‘There was another remarkable scene here when John E. Redmond, the Irish nationalist leader, reviewed 25,000 of the Irish national volunteers and in a speech said that of the na- tlonalist and Ulster volunteers, who had organized to fight one another, more than 50,000 were now fighting side by side on the continent, or in training to go there. Perhaps for the first time in Irish history such scenes have been wit- nessed, and certainly there has been a change from the days when an Irisb- man who joined the army was shunned by many. BLAMES CAT FOR SHIP'S LOSS Captain Says Feline on Schooner Was Cause of Collision Off Hatteras. Newport News, Va.—Capt. Roland F. Quillen, whose three-masted schooner William J, Quillen, was sunk off Cape Hatteras, after a collision with the Norwegian steamer Laly, never again will take @ cat to sea. He attributed the accident, which nearly cost his life and the lives of the eight mem- bers of his crew, to a gray cat which he had aboard. “pve shipped for 25 years, and ak ways have taken along dogs,” Captaia Quillen said. “Just before I started from Baltimore for Mayport, Fla, somebody stole my dog. So I got a cat, @ gray cat. Cats are bad luck, I guess. This was my first accident ‘The cat was lost.” ann future ruler of Belgium disclosed his identity. From this city he went to New York, where he had no better luck. SOW RESCUES PIG FROM SACK Tearg Bag From California Ranch: ‘man’s Back and Bites Him Twice in Leg. | ..¥reka, Cal—George Flock, a promi ‘nent rancher near yreka, was badly bitten by a sow with a litter of pigs, who carries on a horrible nerve-rack- ing form of guerilla warfare in closer proximity to you after a few days spent in the mud. His pertinacity and vitality 1s amazing. He requires ten times as much killing as any German, but our medical service has proved equal to tho task of circumventing his wiles. ‘The battalion is paraded and marched to the nearest bath, Often this is un- der shell fire, and tho shrapnel is screaming overhead. But no one heeds such trif_es as these. Each man strips and throws his shirts, underclothes, and socks into a heap. His uniform he takes off, and ties to it his tin iden- tiflcation disk. Ata word of command groups of fourteen nude forms with ‘@ wild howl of joy rush into each of the steaming tubs. From these arise a chorus of screams and chaff as the men soap or duck each other in soap suds. Clothes Steamed and Washed. Meanwhile the uniforms are placed in another vat, and steamed for ten minutes. The heat 1s so great that no evaporation takes place, and they come out perfectly dry. Hach man as he emerges from the bath after his alloted span is handed a towel and a fresh set of underclothes. He then dries himself, puts bis new garments on, and claims his unl- form, recognizing It by the identifica- tion disk, The underclothes, which he took off are then boiled or steamed in great vats, and then handed over to the washerwomen who are em- ployed for this purpose at four francs | (80 cents) a day. They are then care- fully inspected and it found perfectly clean are made up into sets, and are available for the next battalion which comes to be washed. I was present when a territorial battalion was having its turn. A young printer's clerk said to me: “This is the day we all live for. It helps you to get back your self-respect fust when you feel you are sinking to the level of brute beasts from mud and dirt, I don't believe one of us ‘would surrender his tum for a fiver.” MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL ee bos 2B i> te ‘¢ Pe ieee a é 7s Lo ae Miss Justine Johnstone, a well- known model and show girl, has been Pronounced the most beautiful girl in America by several artists for whom she has posed, and {s referred to as the typical American girl. Her pho- tograph won the $5,000 prize at the photograph show in New York. A tourist without money 18 a tramp, ‘and a tramp with money is @ tourlat, \At the time of the accident he was passing through a yard with a six-day. old pig in a sack on his back. The pig gave @ squeal and the old sow, on hearing it, Jumped for the suck, tear- ing it off Piock’s back. She then made for Flock, who ran for the fence, but before he could reach it he was bitten ‘twice in the leg. If he. would rather contribute » ten-dollar opinion than two dollars in cash, he's a regular lawyer Gelvestos. News. SYSTEM IN THE HOME EXCELLENT IDEA MUST NOT BE CARRIED TO EXCESS. Careful Preparation of Menu Is De- sirable, But Like All Good Things There Is a Possibility of Its Being Overdone. Carefully planning and writing out menus at least three meals in advance, and marketing for the same, is abso- lutely essential in housekeeping off- clency if a woman expects to keep her youth, beauty, good health and sunny disposition. Tam told by some that women do not like the word “System.” Neither do I when it is so ironclad that, if my husband asked me to take a little spin with him after luncheon so we could doth get a little fresh air, I would have to stay home and follow out my “Reg- ularly Planned System!” ‘The butter, cream, bread, etc., could quickly be taken care of and the dishes to be washed certainly would not run away (we often wish they would) and would be done with greater ease for the change and fresh air which we have enjoyed. Yes, I thoroughly believe in 8 system, and so does any wellorgan- ized business organization; but let 1t be a flexible one when in the hands of the women who think. No wonder women wear out! They either carry the house around on thelr two shoulders from morning til! night or they forget it entirely. ‘There is a happy, helpful medium, Let us take a pad and pencil and go to the refrigera- tor after breakfast and make a note of Just what food is there in “left- overs.” Then decide where these may be used in any one of the next three meals; maybe the outside stalks of celery are there which will make a fine cream of celery soup for luncheon or dinner. Now plan and write out on a card (which is kept in your card index back of menus) each of these menus, and on another slip write the neces: sary grocery order; at the same time see if any of the staples, such as sugar, tea or coffee, rice, etc., must be re- plenished, and write these down also. If you know exactly what is wanted once or twice, or even three times a week, this order can be telephoned; at other times it Is necessary to go to market to compare foods and prices, know values and become skillful in marketing. Besides, it is a great ad- vantage to have personal acquaintance with the “butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.” Now, with this done, prepare all these meals as far in advance as pos- sible, such as meats, desserts, ete., 50 that your work can be all pigeon-holed, as it were. Very little time then is needed in preparation of any one of those three meals at the last moment. —Alice Critchell Kirk, in the Philadel- phia Leldet Oysters in a Crust Case. One loaf bread, one quart oysters, one-half cupful melted butter, two ta- Dlespoonfuls butter, two tablespoon- fuls flour, one cupful milk, selt and pepper to taste, one lemon, parsley. Cut the top from loaf of bread, remove crumbs, brush inside of case with melted butter and place in a slow even to become crisp. Prepare top in same way and fasten to crust. Dry oysters and chop them. Keep ten of the oysters out. Blend butter and flour in a sauce pan over fire, stir in miik and keep stirring until it boils. Season nicely with salt and pepper and lemon juice. Add oysters, make very hot and turn into bread case. Heat whole oysters and lay them on top. Garnish with parsley and serve at once. Creamed chicken may be used in place of oysters. Curried Rice. Boll two cupfuls of rice in salted water till tender, then blanch and set in the oven to dry a few moments. Meantime make a sauce as follows: Fry two sliced onions in a tablespoon- ful of butter till a light brown. Add a tablespoontul of lemon juice, a table- spoonful of curry powder, salt to taste and the liquid from a sinall can of to- matoes, Grease a baking dish, put the rice in it, pour over the sauce and bake for 20 minutes. Excellent warmed over for luncheon, as well as when freshly made. Chain Lightning Cake. Here ia something easy as well as good for the busy housewives: ‘One and one-half cupfuls flour, one cupful sugar, two teaspoonfuls. baking powder, speck salt, two eggs, one-quar- ter cupful melted butter, milk and one teaspoonful vanilla. Mix and sift dry ingredients together. Melt enough but- ter to make one-quarter cupful, add eggs whole and enough milk to fill the cup. Add to dry ingredients. Add vanilla and beat. Bake 30 to 40 min- utes. To Use Cheap Cuts of Beefeteak. Cut into pieces small enough to serve, roll in egg, cracker crumbs. Have good dripping or butter in fry- ing pan and when smoking hot put in the pleces of steak, and sear well on doth sides. As fast as ready put into the steamer, then add the gravy and a little hot water if needed, Let steam ebout three hours, then add one can peas. As soon as they are hot it is ready to serve. This will be found to be as tender as chicken, Martinique Salad, Mix one-half teaspoonful salt, one- half teaspoonful black pepper, two ta- Dlespoonfuls vinegar, four tablesjoon- fuls olive oll, one-half tablespoontul chopped parsley, one tablespoonful finely chopped green pepper. Shake well and chill thoroughly. Pour over lettuce nests filled with rings of thin- ly sliced Bermuda onions that have stood one hour in ice water. Flour for Gravy. Keep a quantity of browned flour on, hand for making gravy; you will find it saves a great deal of time, Put sev, eral spoonfuls evenly on the bottom of a baking pan and sttr it over a mod- erate fire until it becomes an amber brown. Tora {t into a bottle and keep for use. ° CITY HELPED BY NEWSPAPER Prominent Man of Mobile, Ala., Gives Testimony to Good Work by Press. “The Mobile chamber of commerce for the last couple of years has not taken any page space in newspapers; but we have had occasion recently to hhave a great deal of newspaper pub- Nelty on several matters and the re- sults from it have been far beyond our expectations, “Within the last two weeks we had a campaign for the raising of better live stock, which was commented on by the newspapers throughout the country, and brought up scores of in- quiries ‘from all parts of the United States. Without this newspaper pub- Ucity our eampaign would have been for naught, as it was through the newspapers that the tnterest was aroused, and today everyone in this section is talking cattle raising, “Another instance: \ “Some weeks ago we inaugurated a movement to colebrate a day in honor of the Satsuma orange, grown in this section, which 1s a recent industry. Our purpose was to advertise it through the stores, hotels, ete, We did not think our first attempt would be a big success, but the newspapers took up the matter with a vim, and the attendance from surrounding sec- tlons was far in excess of what we anticipated. “This was all accomplished entirely by the newspapers, and without their co-operation we do not believe we could have had such success."— George G. Card, secretary of Mobile Chamber of Commerce. IMPROVING THE BACK YARD Women's Municipal League of New York Is Making Elaborate Plans For the Season. Wasted back yards are to be, im- proved by members of the Women’s Muntcipal league of New York. Sev- eral of the members have taken courses in landscape gardening to pre- pare themselves for the work of plan- ning other people's back yards. Even the tinfest space of earth may be cul- tivated in some way, and where soll {s Jacking, flowers and shrubs in pots can be used with good effect. ‘A specimen garden is described by Mrs. Robertson Jones, chairman of the gardening committee of the league. First of all, the back fence is to be painted green, and a garden seat of lighter green put at the cen- ter. Trellises for honeysuckle are at either side. Stone jars containing small box trees will mount guard. ‘over each side of the path, with rows of barberry bushes leading up to them. ‘This $s an allyear garden, for the honeysuckle leaves stay on until De- cember, box is an evergreen and the barberry bushes have leaves in sum- mer and red berries in winter. The cost of this garden complete is about $40, including labor, plants, painting, bench and jars, Members of the league are trying to induce the owners of whole groups of houses to install these miniature gardens, so that each family may have its own small rest-spot and play-space for the children. MOVE {N RIGHT DIRECTION Annual Clean-Up Exercises Have Been ‘Taken Up With Enthusiasm That 18 Commendable. The good influence of the painters ‘us a factor for health and cleanll- ness is manifested in the statement that largely through the persuasion of the national organization 2,200 cities and towns have begun annual clean-up enterprises, and this sea- son it is expected that about 800 more will adopt the slogan, With 3,000 cit- Jes and towns scouring and scrubbing and painting simultaneously {t may be said that the United States has got the habit of cleanliness. This habit ‘once formed will endure, It will make for a healthier, better country. It will set a standard of appearance and santtation that must necessarily result fn the years to come in better citizen- ship, through sounder health and a more definite consideration for the general welfare. Washington has ‘deen cleaned up each spring during re- cent years and is proud to have been one of the first to go after the disease- carrying fly and to rout out its breed- ing places. It has yet to acquire the painting habit, but that will surely follow. ‘SRaaad hahaa “iow Chas: ‘Trees planted along the main streets of @ Massachusetts city failed to show any growth for two successive years ‘Then some of them were dug up to be transplanted, and it was found that the trees had been planted just as they came from the nursery, with the roots all bunched together and wrapped in burlap. Planning for Good Housing, Architects and Fa ainne have been invited to take in an architec- tural competition instituted by the housing commission of the city of Los Angeles to secure plans for tenement Douses. How Different! “Just being mother’s daughter was 8 great help," says Jose Collins, “but ‘heaven bless the critics!" There you are, boys—read it again. Smiles, If we cannot strew life's path with flowers, wrote Charles Dickens, we can at least strew it with smiles, Beware, Reware ao long as you live of Judg- ing people by appearances—La Fon- “A SELLING #eTARMER, > ~ Ms WIIAT TODOAND }:° Bee TOW TO DOIT | cats dp X a) fy EDWARD B CLARK: + a ox i (x: "aa am an / es ASHINGTON.—For nearly two years there has been an attempt on the part of the agricultural department to spread useful agricultural and household information among the people through the medium of the press of the country. The attempt has been highly successful, as per- ‘ haps the readers of newspapers do not need to be told, for the interesting and and at times compelling writings of the service men have been before them from day to day. In the department of agriculture there fs an of- fice of information which was created in June, 1913. Refore its establishment there had been no active effort to give directly to the people the results of the department's work. Walter H. Page, at pres: ent the American ambassador to Great Britain, enid on this subject of getting agricultural information to the people that the department “Had been reser. Yolring an enormous mass of information collected with the people's money and which the people were entitled to get.” In the past there were issued at frequent Inter vals publications largely in bulletin form, but with the exception of more or less perfunctory notices of their appearances comparatively little was done to make the public aware that they were at its dis- posal. One of the first things that the office of in- formation did, therefore, was to develop a system by which absolutely accurate newspaper stories based on the material contained in these bulletins could be sent out to such newspaper, which it seemed reasonable to expect from the nature of the various subjects, would be Interested in publishing them for the sake of their readers. ‘This work still forms a large part of the activities of the office, Some time ago there was a criticiam of what were called the publicity efforts of the department of agri- culture. ‘The critics did not understand at all the nature of the work which was being done. ‘They seemed to think that a press agency had been es. tablished simply for the purpose of booming the activities of the agricultural department with a view, ‘perhaps, as some of the critics may have thought, of saying something kindly occasionally about the officials of government concerned in the work. Criticism passed quickly, for congress was told in ‘a letter to Speaker Champ Clark of the house of rep- resentatives of just what the information work of the department consisted, and a sharp line was drawn between the nature of the information which was being sent out and the usual stuf which Is turned out by a publicity bureau which is not at ‘all necessarily an information bureau. m_the letter to the speaker of the house the sec. retary of agriculture said this: “The nation 1s spending through the depart- ment many millions of dollars in acquiring agri- cultural information. It would be little short of criminal to spend millions of dollars to acquire information and not to. use every possible effi- cfent agency available for placing it at the dis- posal of the people as promptly as possible. It 1s the purpose of the office [the office of informa: tion], with as little delay as possible, through every proper medium, to give the knowledge which the department possesses as the result of investigations and field work to all the people who desire it or should have it. The office un- dertakes to deal solely with facts, with sugges- tions of remedies, and of methods of applying them in every field of agriculture.” Prior to the time that the office of information was created nearly all the printed matter con- veying Information was in the form of bulletins and circulars and the {sues were not very vot uminous, Frequently a great deal of time was required finally to prepare the bulletin, to print it and to distribute it, It was inevitable for many reasogg that these bulletins could not reach the great mass of the people who would be interested in them. Many farmers did not know that the service was at their disposal. They knew nothing about the bulletins or which ones of them would be helpful to them, nor did they know how to secure them. Moreover, the publications largely were technical, were dif- ficult to interpret, to understand and to apply. One of the particular duties of, the depart- ment's office of information is to put the matter which comes from the different bureaus in tech- nical or scientific form into language which lay readers can understand. It seemed easter and better to the department officials that the office of information should choose the matter of spe- cial value to particular districts or sections of the Union and to have it distributed to such sec- tions quickly. It had been found that delay in issuing the official printed bulletins and in mail- ing them often defeated the ends of real service. In case of the appearance in some district of an insect plague or of a disease that menaced the stock, quick action, of course, it was realized, Was necessary to accomplish results, *” ‘The inauguration of the service of information as it 1s at present carried out necessitated a most eMelent mailing system which would enable the office to circulate its material among those classes of publications and in those sections of the country which could derive benefit from it, and at the same time avoid a distribution that would be expensive to the government and use- less to the newspapers and, if they should pub- Ush it, to their readers. Now there is & mailing system installed and under operation by the division of publication and by means of it the publications of the coun- try are classified geographically and by their character. Now it s possible to transmit a story to all the newspapers in the United States, to all the newspapers in any city or group of cities, to all the farm publications in the country or in any state, omitting the general newspapers, to the trade papers of any one or all of the trades, to daily newspapers in big cities alone, or to those in small county seats alone—in short, practically any desired combination of publica. Stann tn woeetnie. as « Best} dy ees IEE ieee ete ee (eee areas Reset, Speer Ee IRON A FACTOR IN HEALTH Science Has Proved That It Is Highly Necessary in the Production ‘of Red Blood, Iron should play an important part tn preparing meals. It is essential in the making of red corpuscles of the blood and {s directly concerned with the processes of oxidation and reproduction, ‘The iron of the food enters the clr culation and 1g deposited mainly in ee ier On | _ el -@ es : : & aE me yi 3 eo s | iy Se ies Ld res ti oa a aad mh “(lam pa / a i ‘— 6 a Bh “ba = eR ‘ =e A sh a. Nee es Bs oe iim a | ptt eae i gil. eae " a ry tee as Wak ec a BAe aN emer me | - ae ee a ae ‘ eine { i iH LOE d LABORATORY Ve LB BUREAU OF (my le Z oe ay effect that t aa 5 was 44 por ce oe polls fiseal year. ¢ <a ‘ s this percenta; i a [_ } Foputation, bu ie oe wee as be plain that je cc ee se } formed about Ve Cy eey much more fi ee pH While the 4 eon of the Farme We. * SH Bae famiNarizing 2 SS > wh | tents and val sr prepared for 5 <2 x S 5 Etrietly news ee edltaet WATCHING FOOL ANDILOULEE CONDITIONS From this it will be seen that each story, with its fund of human interest and useful information combined, reaches a different circulation, “the distribution being governed entirely by the range ‘of applicability of the information {t contains.” It is the desire of the office of information to Prepare these stories so that they may be printed without editing or revision. It is in this that les one of the strengths of the agricultural depart- ment information service, for it means that sclen- tifie terms and phraseology are eliminated wher- ever possible, that the significance to the people of the bulletin on which the story is based is emphasized, and that specific, bui easy, instruc: tions are given to enable the people to do that which the bulletin recommends. The stories, therefore, can be called “constructive news.” They tell the people what they can do and how to do it, ‘The department of agriculture takes great care to make its stories accurate. Everything that is put out by the office of information is submitted for approval, first, to the author; second, to the chief of the office or bureau which has charge of the subjects with which the story {s con- cerned; third, to a second chief of bureau in order that he may check up any undue em- phasis on one particular aspect of a given prob- jem, and, fourth, to the secretary or assistant Secretary of agriculture for final approval. ¢ It would seem that with these safeguards noth- ing can be sent out which will be misleading to the people. It can be said that since the office of information was created it has been a rigid rule to avold any appearance of personal pub- licity. In the information stories which are sent out neither the names of individuals nor even the names of the different offices and bureaus in the department are printed unless they are absolutely essential to the story. Every state- ment that Is made {s given upon the authority of the department and not upon that of a part of it. No stories are sent out from the office of infor- mation about what the department of agriculture Intends to do or hopes to do. Neither is anything said in praise of the department's work. Plain statements are given of what has been done and recommended. This is all. It can be said that seemingly this policy has brought about a very appreciable change in the way in which the hewspapers regard agricultural news. Once the daily press was inclined to consider that the only interesting stories were those which were personal in character, were sensational or what might be called freakish. Now it is believed that the newspapers are much more disposed to meas- ure the value of a story as news by the value of the information it conveys, ‘The office of information does not measure the worth .of newspaper circulation by numerical Standards, but rather by the appropriateness of each story that it sends out to the necessities of the readers. So {t can be said that the farm papers are regarded as a much more valuable medium than the daily press for purely agricul: tural stories, and the papers circulating n rural districts as much more valuable for the same kind of reading matter, No absolutely accurate information can be had ae to the extent of the circulation given to infor- mation stories by the agricultural department service. It is sald that clippings are received the liver, the spleen and the bone marrow, Iron may be taken as a medicine and stimulates the production of hemoglobin and red blood corpuscles, but it is better to get it if possible directly through food and water. ‘The amount of iron needed appears to be varied with different individuals, depending on tho nature of thelr work, diet and othcr conditions, says an ex: change. Careful experiments havo shown that the average man under normal conditions requires ubout fif- teen milligrams of iron per day, The average woman is supposed to require about elght-tenths as much food as a man and the same proportion of iron will suffice. A child that needs half 48 much food requires the same pro- Portion of iron, As long as infants are drinking milk they get only a small amount of iron, but it is interesting to know that a certain amount has been stored in their systems at birth to tide them over until they get a diet that con- taing its share of iron, Beefsteak and i \ N in saiiai é TONER os i eRect that the demand for Farmers Dubletins was 44 per cent greater than during the previous fiscal year. Of course a certain proportion of this percentage must be laid to the increased number of publications and to the increased population, but making all allowances it seems to be plain that the public was much better In- formed about the existence of the bulletins and much more interested in them than ever it had been before. ‘While the department extends the usefulness of the Farmers’ Bulletins among the people by famiMarizing them with the publications’ con tents and value, it also sees to it that stories are prepared for publication that are much more strictly news from the point of view of the news. paper editors. ‘These stories are usually warn- jngs of frauds or of pestilence, or decisions and announcements connected with the enforcement of the meat inspection law and food and drugs ‘act and other statutes of regulation which are administered by the department of agriculture, In the days before the creation of the office of information the only organized method of spread- ing news of this character, which is almost al- ways of considerable and even great commercial importance, was to send it out through the mails in the form of circulars. The delay frequently was costly to the people and the interests con cerned and it was necessarily unsatisfactory, Under the present system information is sent out at once from the department's office by tele- phone or messenger to the press associations and to representatives of newspapers which are like- ly to be interested in the matter and who are within reach, ‘The usefulness of this work is shown in the prompt publication of every quarantine order affecting the footand-mouth disease. This sub- Ject, however, had attained such proportions that it is tkely the newspapers themselves would have secured the information through thelr own representatives, but there are other cases and many of them, where the stories could not be covered because if the department did not give out the information voluntarily nothing would be known of it. A case in point which may be cited was an elaborate attempt to palm off on thé farmers in the corn belt region a preparation alleged to cure hog cholera. The sellers pre- tended that the preparation was recommended by the department of agriculture. This fraud Was suppressed when through the office of in- formation the newspapers in the territory con- cerned received a full statement of the facts in the case, Many of the department's activities, moreover, have to do, not with the farmer, but with those who manufacture farm products into food or handle, store, or market them. ‘The department's specialists are constantly making discoveries for preventing losses, devising methods for manu- facturing new products or improved methods for handling or manufacturing old products. Here- tofore it frequently happened that one progres- sive manufacturer would learn of these things and thus gain an advantage over others in the fame trade who had no knowledge that the in- formation was available. Under the present system the office of information quickly com- municates the details of these discoveries or im- provements to all trade papers in the class af- fected and to all important dailies in the ter- ritorles where such manufacture is 8 prominent industry. ‘The office of information in addition to the service of the character outlined prepares a “Weekly News Letter” to crop correspondents which has taken the place of the “Crop Report- er." This “Weekly News Letter" is sent to all the voluntary crop correspondents serving the department, to inspectors, agricultural colleges, correspondents, and to other persons in a posi. tion to make use of the material. It has a clr culation approximately of 103,000 weekly. In all the work of the office of information the effort is simply to place at the disposal of the people the information hich the department of agriculture primarily was organized to obtain for their benefit. In none of the material {s there any attempt to gain prominence for any individuel or branch of government, or to praise or to criticize anyone or in any way to influence legislation, TDG TLD OGRA. ROOTL from only one clipping bureau and that these afford only a . rough kind of indication of the 5 extent of the use of the materi- ¥ al. Calculations, however, have \ been made and it is perhaps likely that they are under rath- gf] cr than over the mark. It is believed that just before the outbreak of the European war the material furnished by the information office appeared each month on approximately 200. 000,000 printed pages. At the cloge of the Inst fiscal year, just PATORY about twelve months after the AUT OfF — information service had been a7 established, the division of pub- Mcations made a report to the ‘The | Some vegetables are rich in tron, squire] In meat the fron exists largely as }as a| hemoglobin, due to the blood con. t tron | tained in the muscular tissue. Iron In 5 hait| combination with protein matter ts » pro-|found in considerable quantity tn grains. String beans, navy dried -mitk| beans, spinach especially, cabbage ‘iron, | and dried peas are rich in tron, hat | Among the fruits that have plenty of ed in| {ron are dried prunes, apples and ‘them | Taisins, | con-| Borrowed money soon begins to 1ook k and | like borrowed trouble, ci Doran City “OF CEYLON: hie kee tee cet nee eee OOF nants or to see the ruins that sahib has come?” asked my Singhalese host at the festhouse In Anuradbapura, writes Tyler Dennett in the New York Tribune. The question was not really asked for information, He knew that 1 had not come equipped to hunt elephants. He also knew that the game laws of the British govern- ment amply protect these valuable beasts. He wished, merely, to 1m- Dress me with the range of entertain- ment afforded by Anuradhapura, 1 ‘was impressed. Elephant hunting in the jungles of Ceylon or curio hunt- ing in the ruins of a forgotten me- tropolis which once stood amid these same jungles—one may take his choice! ‘Twenty-two centuries ago the morn- ing sun cast the shadow of a nine- story building over the spot where we were seated. This Brazen palace of Duttha Gamani was 166 feet high, higher than the tallest building on Broadway 25 years ago, Out yonder grows the sacred bo tree, over 2,100 years old, It was grown as a slip from the sacred fig tree under which Buddha himself sat when fighting off the temptations of sense which hindered his attainment of perfect wisdom. Crumbling ruins, forests of pillars, grass-grown mounds hundreds of feet high stretch back into the dim vista of a tropical for. est on every side. Monkeys swing PE ee Fer eee Ey AP ae? Wy) aT) AIC ; ib i” 1 ; | i a ee RUINS OF THE BRAZEN PeLcace from the trees in this jungle, chat- tering wildly at anyone who ventures ‘to disturb their solitude. From high Platforms in harvest time the vil lagers watch their few impoverished grain flelds to drive of the maraud: ing wild elephants, Now Mere Jungle Ruins. ‘Once Anuradhapura must have been one of the most thickly populat- ed spots on the surface of the globe. No one can know with certainty how many people lived there, “It is a well- known fact, sahib,” said my host, “that 10,000,000 people lived here in the reign of the great Gamani.” 1 had not been long in the Orient, yet long enough to know that the Oriental has little regard for statis- ties, Every statement is introduced as a well-known fact. In Anuradha pura there are the ruins of what is called the “Blephants’ bath,” so called, not because the elephants used to bathe In it, although the wild ones do come there now every morning at daybreak, but merely because it is big. The word “elephant” is the Singhalese adjective for bigness. Adopting their terms, 1 had already learned that there are “elephant” beggars in Ceylon, and “elephant” Mars as well. Even supposing that my host's estimate was three-fourths too high, I know of no other city of that day which contained 2,500,000 people, Ceylon is che garden spot of the world, What wonder that the Tamils, who lived on that dry, hard strip of southern India ncross the strait from the island, were always Jealous of their prosperous neighbors? Repeated and often successful attacks from the mafiland partly explain why the northeastern end of Ceylon is literal- ly full of buried, forgotten and ruined War Makes John Bull Sociable. War is making the British public sociable, ‘Trayelers, who in times of peace would occupy the same com- partments for hours at a time without exchanging a word, now start conver- sations without an introduction. ‘This sudden breaking loose from the Vic- torlan spirit of reserve and aloftness has caused the Times to comment edi- torially on the change, which it calls one of the minor results of the war. He first confesses: “Most of us in nornial circumstances go on a rallway Journey as we go to a Darber's, with a prayer for silence in our hearts, and st the first sign of Joquacity, we take refuge behind a rampart of newspaper.” But now he finds it “ludicrously solemn” to sit mutely for hours, look- ing straight through the fellow’ crea- ture oppoalte, and concludes, in be halt of friendly intercourse between passengers: “If we only have the honesty to ad- mit it to ourselves, the sense of hav- ing done our duty in being Seley aaa Pleasant gives @ comfortable lit. pA me i cities. Anuradhapura was built, de stroyed and rebuilt half a dozen times. Since the twelfth century tt has been a complete ruin, Palace Had 900 Rooms. The Brazen palace, with its nino floors, a hundred rooms to a floor, Tested on sixteen hundred roughly cut stone pillars. Probably the super structure was brick, wood and thateh, ‘The Singhalese were not skillful in the use of stone. To them stone was merely a substitute for wood. They id not understand the principle of the arch. They hewed out a stone beam as they would have shaped a tree trunk and employed {t in the same way. The Brazen palace was destroyed by fire a few years after it was first erected. It was immediate: ly rebuilt, destroyed many times more in the course of its history, and now 1s marked only by this forest of upright, broken and fallen pillars in the jungle. ‘Tissa, a great king of the pré-Chrise tlan ere, introduced Buddhism into the land. He erected A great temple, the Mahapali almshouse, the ruins of which have been almost entirely ob- Mterated, and planted the slip from the original bo tree ‘This tree flourished to the samo exe tent as did the new religion and the city which afforded it a home. The ‘Thuparama dagaba, a huge mauso- leum and shrine for the left collar bone of Buddha, the oldest building in Ceylon—now a high mound of sod covered brick, with trees growing halt Way up the slope—tis a witness to the enthusiasm of Tissa and to his ambl- tious plans, In its ruins it stands 250 feet high and 350 feet in diame- ter at the base. Originally it was @ hundred feet higher than now. ~ Two Kinds of Ruins. Generally speaking, there are two Kinds of ruins to be seen in Anurae dhapura—the vihara and the dagaba. The viharas, or palaces, are come pletely fallen. Only thefr founda tions remain. There is a typical group of these ruins scattered among the trees out near the ancient Thupae rama dagaba. Five palaces were grouped together, evidently as parts of a single monastic establishment ‘The beautifully molded slabs of gran- fte which composed the foundations are, for the most part, still in thelr original places. The dagabas, owing to thelr solid construction, are in a fair state of preservation. At first they remind one of the pyramids, although they ‘are conical in shape, rising from the plain 200 to 300 feet in height, The {terior of them is brick, packed to gether without mortar. The relio which each one contained was placed in the very center of the mound, and well protected. In some mysterious way the exterior of these dagabas became covered with soil, and now they look merely like grass-coverea mounds. Standing amid these ancient ruins, under the welcome shade of the jun gle, one has only to conjure up in im agination the forms of these huge structures, and see them in their original brilliant colors to realize that Anuradhapura in its pristine gradeur ‘must have been a veritable dream ‘city. Ue glow at the heart which more than compensates for an occasional bad ‘half hour.” Patriotic Families, Early in the war it was announced that one German general, in active service, had ten sons at the front Something very close to this recoré is now reported from France, where ten brothers from La Vendee region are with the colors, Another remarks able case is that of Francots Vouillon, of Douzy:le-National, France, who has eight sons and two sonsdnlaw in the French army. Of these one son and one soninlaw have already beea Killed in battle, lf Arms Are Too Fat. 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J. H. Swancy preached two soul reviving sermons with one addition....Mrs. Alice Silvan of Columbia, Mo., arrived in the city to attend the bedside of her daughter, Miss Anna Mae Livan. They departed for home Sunday at 5:30 u. m..... The entertainment given by the Ladies' Sewing circle of Pilgrim's Baptist church was quite a success. A neat sum was realized....Rev. J. A Hurley preached an interesting sermon at the Second Baptist church Sunday morning and Rev. G. L. Migkins preached an instructive sermon at night....Mrs. Earl Tymony of Chicago spent a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Tymony....Mr. Earl Tymony was in St Joseph a few days last week....Service at Grant chapel was good. The collection was $21.80. Quarterly meeting with be held Sunday, the 25th....Rev. Avant, pastor of the M. E. church, has returned for another year....The Western college students will give a musical and literary at-the A. M. E. church the 23d for the benefit of the Pilgrim Rest Baptist church....The great tabernacle meeting is proving a blessing to our city. Choirs from the three colored churches rendered music Monday night. This was a special night for the colored and there were, 12 confessions, five to Grant chapel and etaetaoisdrhduetraohrduietao chapel, two to M. E. church, three to Pilgrim, two to Second Baptist church. Total attendance 77,500; total confessions to date, 1,036; total collections $1,289.22. Everything fresh in the complete stock of drugs, toilet needs, sundries, candies and cigars at the ideal Pharmacy, 18th and Woodland. Free phones, telegrams, want ads and long distance. MME. MARTIN. FOR RENT 732 Locust - 9 rooms ..... $27.50 742 E. 8th - 9 rooms ..... 12.00 749 Highland - 8 rooms ..... 20.00 750 Woodland - 8 rooms ..... 20.00 751 Woodland - 8 rooms; partly mod. ..... 18.00 743 E. 17th - 9 rooms ..... 10.00 748 Highland - 6 rooms ..... 15.00 1807 W. Prospect - 6 rms; water and 1808 East 18th - 6 rooms; 2d floor; partly modern ..... 18.00 1809 Woodland - 6 rms; partly mod. 1806 Woodland - 6 rms; mod.; Kansas City, Ks ..... 18.00 11th and Michigan - 6 rms; modern; apart; two weeks free rent $16 and 18.00 1755 r. rms; strictly modern; apart ..... 18.00 1718 Woodland - 5 rooms newly re- 15.00 1545 r. Beliefonteau - 5 rooms, partly modern ..... $15 and 18.00 2418 Highland - 5 rooms; 2d floor; modern ..... 12.00 1028 Freeman, K. C, K - 5 rooms; water and gas ..... 12.00 1219 Highland - 5 rooms; water and 18.00 gas ..... 12.00 1919 Tracy - 5 rooms strictly modern; apart ..... 21.00 1919 N. 7th, K. C, K - 5 room bun- galow ..... 19.00 1919 Virginia - 5 rooms; water and 18.00 gas ..... 19.00 1311 E. 5th - 4 rooms; upstairs ..... 10.00 4 rooms downstairs ..... 10.00 714 Neston - 4 rooms; lower floor ..... 10.00 1827 Neston - 4 rooms; gas and water ..... 18.00 1828 E. 19th - 4 rooms; gas and water ..... 14.00 1826 Michigan - 4 rooms; modern; 6th and Main - 5 acres of ground; 3 room cottage ..... 12.00 2826 Michigan - 5 rooms ..... 7.00 501 to E. 6th - 3 rooms; mod.; br apart ..... 12.00 1824 Highland - 4 rooms; modern ..... 12.00 1214 Highland - 4 rooms; cottage ..... 4.50 1208 Woodland - 2 room cottage ..... 4.50 1720 East 18th - Store room ..... 15.00 FOR SALE. 1423 Michigan—4-room cottage; $1,800; $150 down, $14 month. 1315 Michigan—7-room modern 2-story frame; $3,700; $290 down; $20 month. 2430 Garfield—1-room cottage; water and toilet and electric lights in house; corner lot. Price $1,350; $150 down; $12 month. 2004 East 11th—7-room stricly modern, pressed brick, slate roof, hardwood floors. Price $4,252; $500 down. Persons renting or buying from us will be given preference on all employment in our employment department. AFRO-AMERICAN INV. AND EMP. CO. 31 McGee St. Main 7555 7555 751 Bali Rooms to Rent For Rent—Modern furnished rooms with heat. 2531 Michigan ave. Bell phone East 4594. Mrs. Jennie White and Roscoe White. For Rent—Neatly furnished front room; modern. 2316 Highland. Bell phone East 3972. Mrs. T. A. Wheeler. For Rent—Nicely furnished front room; modern. 1419 Lydia ave. For Rent—Furnished room; modern. 1306 Michigan. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, 613 Charlotte, upstairs. Bell phone Main 2967W. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. Upstairs or down. 1009 Euclid Ave. For Sale—An elegant almost new $200 cash register and a Smith Premier typrwriter, at a bargain. Call the Sun office for information. MASONIC HOME, HANNIBAL, MO. The Masonic Home premises attract the attention of every one that travels along the Paris gravel road. The county court has put the main road leading to Hannibal in a fine condition. It is a real pleasure every evening to view the numerous automobiles, carriages and buggies passing the home. At this writing sister M. J. Gofins of Moberly is very sick. Rev. A. E. Miller, Hannibal, and W. H. Huston of Poplar Bluff held prayer and song services in behaf of the home on the 15th. The following visitors have enrolled since our last report: N. T. Thornton, Oklahoma; J. T. Brown, E. G. Payne, A. E. Henley, A. Johnson, L. McEllow, Jennie Cotton, Addie Sharp, Virginia Tyler, Roberta Bloon, Dollie Stevens of Hannibal; Mrs. Mollie J. Stevens, Montgomery; Mrs. Dorothy Hawkins, Galesburg, Ill.; Janie L. Combs, Kansas City, Mo.; Messrs. L. W. Henderson, W. H. Clay, Prof. A. C. Maclin, Prof. J. T. Brown, Rev. A E Miller, A R. J. Hownibal, W. H. Huston, Gussie Blames, P. L. Pratt, Cameron; Mussie Hea and Susan Scott, Palmyra, Mo.; Mrs. Charlotte Palmyra, Boon, Ia. inators are always welcomed. Through the interest of D. D. P. C. Givens the home received last week $4 donated by Hawkins lodge No. 44, Sedalia, to purchase a pig. Who will be the next to follow No. 44? Electa Court No. 17, Miami, sent the following articles in March: Two cans corn, four cans tomatoes, three cans peaches, one can cherries, 2½ pounds sugar, one pound butter. Dorcas No. 55, Kirksville, sent half dozen towels. P. M. A. G. M. Sister Cornelia Russel of Washington, D. C., sent an Easter offering of $1 to the inmates, Rev. A. E. Miller of the M. E. church with several of his members, held services at the home on the 18th. Rev. Miller has shown his interest more than once by bringing the gospel to those who are so unfortunate as not being able to go to the city to hear it. Come again, Brother Miller. The gospel should be preached to the unfortunate as well as the fortunate. By LEONARD THOMPSON The Washington school is preparing for the closing. There will be four graduates. . .Mrs. Jessie Baker, who underwent an operation in St. Joseph. Mo. is improving. . .Mrs. Jasper Bazler was in St. Joie Saturday visiting his mother. . .Mr. Elmer Clark was in town Saturday and Sunday. . .Mrs. Mollie Jackson is out again after several weeks of illness. . .Mr. George Kay has returned from Excelsior Springs, and says there is no place like home. . .Crowfoot greens for sale by Estell & Thompson. Orders filled at once. FOREST GREEN, MO. Mrs. W. H. Davis of Moberly is the guest of Mrs. Elenora Craig. Revival meeting has been going on this week at the Baptist church. There will be a big baptizing at 11:30 a. m. Rev. Davis, the pastor, has aroused much interest in the spiritual and business affairs among our people here. We are looking forward to great things in the future. Mrs. Laura White is improving. Money to loan on approved security. We sell homes on easy terms. See me or my clerk at my office, $521\frac{1}{2}$ Virginia. Phone 1259. J. N. Brownlee, Joplin, Mo. uld Use M. Dabney's TURY PARATIONS Madam P. M. Dabney's XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATIONS And Have Good Hair Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil is an ideal hair dressing, having properties which protect the hair from wind, weather and disease, make it soft and glossy; improves the quality of the hair and promotes straightening without irons. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER BOX Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil Six 'Weeks' Treatment $1.25 Make a course of treatment which will last six weeks. enclosing P. O. money order by parcel post prepaid, or written to Madam P. M. Dabr HAIR PREPA 1806 E. 24th St. Make a course of treatment for the hair and scalp which will last six weeks. Send us an order today enclosing P. O. money order for $1.25 and receive them by parcel post prepaid, or write for literature and information to Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century HAIR PREPARATIONS CO. 1806 E. 24th St. Kansas City, Mo. The baseball nine played the white Wathena team at Wathena, Kas., and defeated the latter by the score of 12 to 6...The Ladies' Aid was entertained at the A. M. E. church last Thursday by Mr. James Butler and a very dalty luncheon was served. Next Thursday the Ladies' Aid will be entertained at the home of Rev. P. W. Weaver by the Misses Maurine Weaver and Rosa Snoddy...Mr. Bert Wakefield seems to be meeting with misfortunes galore. Recently recovering from an attack of pneumonia, while visiting in St. Joseph last week he ran to catch a car and fell, fracturing a bone in his head. He is doing nicely at this writing...Mr. Willie Brown was shopping in St. Joseph one day last week...Mrs. Martin of Atchison was a visitor at the home of her son, Mr. Frank Martin, Friday ...Mrs. Ophelia Snoddy is indisposed ...Mrs. Mattie Hicks returned to St. Joseph after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hughes. ...Mr. Robert Swinney of Hiawatha has been here buying horses. ...Mrs. Mary Schumrache was a home visitor Sunday and attended services at the A. M. E. church. ...Mrs. M. W. Webster of St. Joseph was in the city Saturday evening transacting business. ...Mr. Webster has purchased 12½ acres of ground in southeast Troy and expects to place it in fruits for the coming year. ...Mrs. Nelle E. Howard was transacting business in Atchison the latter part of the week. ...Mrs. Herschell Walker of Elwood and another young man accompanied by two young ladies, were automobiling in Troy Friday evening and met with an accident by backin into a ditch in the east part o f town in trying to turn around. After working for about two hours with the assistance of passersby, an automobile chanced to come along and pulled them out. The damage was slight, only bending the fender. But joy riding is very expensive sometimes. Ha! ha! ...Mrs. Allie Duncan, accompanied by her daughter, Wilma, and Mr. Raymond McWilliams of Wathena, changed trains here Friday en route to White Cloud. Hennessey, Ok. Dear Editor: I am writing you this letter to let you know how very much impressed I as a stranger and countryman was with your courteous treatment when I called at your office. While admiring your up-to-date and well equipped office, your frank, kind and friendly manner of entertainment made a lasting and favorable impression upon me. By your invitation I visited Lincoln Park, the Y. M. C. A. and other places of interest. I found the park to be very interesting and just what the people of your city needed. When I called at the Y. M. C. A. I was also treated cordially and carried throughout the building. Everything was immaculate. It was indeed marvellous to behold. Among other things I was most interested in the swimming pools. I found the cafeteria up-to-date and I was highly pleased. I have been telling my friends down here just what our race is doing there, and that strangers are treated in the best possible manner. I had to say Queen Asheba that the half has not been told. I wish to join my daughter with sincere thanks to Dr. W. H. Bruce for his close and careful attention of my son, Thomas A. 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Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower One box Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil And one bottle Madam P. M. Dabney's LOOK Lincoln Electric Park WIN A SEASON PASS TO LINCOLN ELECTRIC PARK This beautiful park on which work is progressing so nicely is going to have a very elaborate wide walkway or promenade which will run the entire length of the concessions. This distance will be about 600 feet. The walk will be in front of all the concession booths, will be 12 feet wide and a flash of electric light. The management of the Park wishes to adopt a suitable name for this walking, or promenade, and in order to select the most suitable name, a call is being made to the public for suggestions. The person sending in the accepted name will be awarded a season pass for two. In the event of more than one person sending in the accepted name, the passes will go to the person whose name reaches the management first. Second and third prizes in passes will also be awarded. Mail names to Mr. Earl S. Ridge, manager, 301-2 Finance Bld. Announcement of winners will be made in papers. Content will close April 30, 1915. The plans of theatre and dance pavilion have been enlarged and Mr. Ridge says no expense will be spared in order to make this park one of Kansas City's most attractive amusement resorts. 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 8413 M Mrs. Lillie Williams 2914 Woodland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MISOURI TESTIMONIAL "With the use of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations my hair has grown four inches in six months. I would not be without them." Mrs. Henderson, 1721 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo Madam P. M. 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