Kansas City Sun

Colored Men—What Helps Kansas City Helps Us—Vote For the Bonds NOBLE ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN The Heroines of Jericho in Their Forty-First Annual Communication Held at Macon, Mo., This Week Make History for the Order and Race. MRS. C. R. McDOWELL, G. M. A. M., AN IDEAL PRESIDING OFFICER. A Brilliant Assemblage of the Representative Women of the Race and a Body of Staunch and Loyal Supporters of the Masonic Home. A Splendid Offering of $232.70 Given by the Ladies of this Organization to Renovate and Beautify the Masonic Home. A HIGHLY INTERESTING AND ENJOYABLE SESSION MRS. DOLLIE STEVENS ELECTED GRAND M. A. M. Decoration Day will be observed Monday, May 31. Let us remember those who made freedom a reality for the Negro. VOLUME VI1. NUMBER 39. Colored Men- NOBLE ORGANIZATION The Heroines of Jericho in The Communication Held at Macon Make History for the Orde MRS. C. R. McDOWELL, G. M. PRESIDING OFFICE A Brilliant Assemblage of the Re the Race and a Body of Staun porters of the Masoni A Splendid Offering of $232.70 O this Organization to Renova the Masonic Hot A HIGHLY INTERESTING AND EN MRS. DOLLIE STEVENS ELECT GRAND MASTER'S VISIT. The Grand Master of Masons has just returned from a two weeks visit to the lodges in the jurisdiction. While away he visited Capital City No. 9 at Jefferson City, and assisted in raising ten splendid candidates. Also St. John No. 49 at Boonville, where he was royally entertained at a five-course dinner at the residence of Past Grand Master C. G. Williams, principal of the schools and editor and manager of the U. B. F. Searchlight, and was also shown the beauty of the city by Dr. R. L. Hill, Wm. Shelby, W. M. Geo. P. Jackson and Wm. Banty. He was accompanied to both of these places by Brother E. J. Cooper of Mexico, who rendered splendid service. While at Jefferson City the conferring of the degrees by District Deputy E. G. Lacey elicited many compliments. On the 15th he visited the lodge at Clarksville, and on the 16th escorted by the brothren of the lodges of Clarksville, Paynesville, Edgewood, Louisiana, and Frankford and assisted by Senior Warden F. J. Brown of St. Louis. Acting Junior Grand Warden E. J. Cooper of Mexico, Grand Secretary Love of Kansas City and Relief Secretary W. W. Fields of Cameron, all of whom contributed much to the success of the laying of the cornerstone of the A. M. E. church, Rev. E. Pittman, pastor, which was done with due ceremony. About one hundred Masons assisted in the exercises. He next visited the lodge at Louisiana accompanied by the two secretaries, where they were royally entertained by District Deputy Grand Master Boone, who also assisted them at Clarksville, and had a very pleasant meeting with the brethren of Hughes Lodge No. 23, locaten --- The Kansas City Sun and asked the Grand Matron to endorse the appointment of a committee composed of the following Past Grand Matrons: Mesdames McDowell of Hannibal, E. J. Smith of St. Louis, Carter of Kansas City, Dixon of Palmyra, and Kenner of Marshall, to meet at the Home at a date to be designated by the Grand Master, go carefully over it and report the physical needs of that institution, that suitable repairs and improvements may be made previous to the sitting of the Grand Lodge, and invited the Grand Court to send its executive officers to the next session of the Grand Lodge to be tendered a reception in conjunction with the officers of the Grand Chapter by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the state of Missouri and its jurisdiction. Among the distinguished Masons who visited the Grand Court were: Grand Master Crews, Grand Secretary G. W. K. Love, Grand Relief Secretary W. W. Fields, Past Grand Lecturer E. W. Perkins, Dr. Jno. E. Golns, Dr. C. R. McDowell, and Messrs. Innuit of Gallatin, Crockett of Kirksville and several others whose names our reporter did not obtain. On Wednesday the election of officers was held, which resulted as follows, and after a spirited contest Mrs. Dolly Stevens of Hannibal, Mo., defeated Mrs. M. E. G. Eoins of Jefferson City for Grand Most Ancient Matron by a vote of 230 to 191. The following are the officers for the ensuing year: Grand Officers Mrs. Dolly Stevens, 1100 Lindell St. Hannibal, Mo. G. M. A. M. Mrs. Sarah Robinson, Lexington Mo. G. V. M. Rev. M. S. Bryant, St. Charles, Mo., G. W. J. M. Lilah H. Swan, 1514 E. 17th St. Kansas City, Mo., G. C. Treas. Miss Catherine White, 2732 Morgan St. St. Louis, Mo., G. S. Secy. Miss Daisy McKnight, Kansas City, Mo. G. R. Treas. Mrs. Ida A. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo., G. R. Secy. Mrs. Mary E. Golns, 712 E. McCarty St., Jefferson City, Mo., G. B. Treas. Mrs. A. J. Carter, Kansas City, Mo., G. B. F. Secy. Mrs. Zenobia Grant, Macon, Mo., G. I. G. K. Mrs. Pearl Brown, Joplin, Mo., G. O. G. K. Mrs. N. H. Kenner, 265 S. Ellsworth, Marshall Mo., Chairman of F. C. Com. The next place of meeting by a unanimous vote, is Independence, Mo. in that city. From there they went to St. Louis, where they visited the fourteen lodges of that city, also the lodge at Webster Groves, the lodge at Kirkwood and St. Charles Lodge No. 7 at St. Charles, Mo. At all of these places the brethren were royally entertained, banquets, luncheons and auto rides being the feature of their entertainment. Brother Fields narrowly escaped serious injury in a runaway while out driving with Mr. I. H. Brad, bury, inspector of streets, and the Worshipful Master of J. Q. Johnson Lodge No. 30; although the rig in which they were riding was demolished, neither received serious injury. On Sunday, the Grand Master delivered addresses at St. Paul's in the morning and accompanied by his nieces, Miss Ida Crews and Mrs. Nettle Z. Woods, delivered the principal address at the opening of the new Pullman Porters' Club. 2117 Walnut street, where he met many of the representatives of the Pullman company, their wives and friends. In the evening he was the guest of Dr. B. Garland Shaw, pastor of the Metropolitan Zion church. On Monday he visited the Home at Hannibal and at night the lodge at Palmyra, Mo., and also delivered an address in the Baptist church, Rev. Dr. Green, pastor, spent Tuesday and Wednesday, and Thursday at the Grand Court H. of J. and arrived home Friday morning. The graduating exercises of the Wheatley-Provident Hospital which were postponed from last week on account of bad weather will be held at Allen Chapel next Monday evening, May 31. A good musical program has been prepared and the public is cordially invited. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915. MISS KATHERINE JEFFERSON. The daughter of Mrs. Mattie Jefferson. Miss Katherine is a young musician, coming to this city from Dallas, Tex., at the age of 9, ten years ago. She graduated from Attucks school under Prof. J. Dallas Bowser; graduated from Lincoln High School in 1913 and entered Kansas State Normal at Emporia, Kass, where she finished the teachers' course in that institution. Being very industrious she learned to cut and sew for regular customers at the age of 13 to pay her piano instructors. She is a member of the St. Augustine's Episcopal school and has many friends who are pleased with her success. The average per capital bonded indebtedness of these 25 cities is $60.18, while that of Kansas City is is but $31.32. St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Kee, Newark, New Orleans, Wash- ington, Minneapolis, Seattle, Jersey City, Indianapolis, Portland, Providence, Denver, Rochester, Louisville and St. Paul. --- THE LATE MISS EMMA SMITH. AUTOS WILL BE FURNISHED THE 15TH STREET LINE. E by Colored men, managed by V ticket man and treasurer. Whe tle, you are not patronizing a J ROUND TRIP, 25 CENTS. Four Swell in a Fine AUTOS WILL BE FURNISHED YOU AT THE END OF THE 15TH STREET LINE. Eight cars owned and operated by Colored men, managed by W. H. Hubbell, Geo. W. Little, ticket man and treasurer. When buying your ticket from Little, you are not patronizing a JIM CROW JITNEY. ROUND TRIP. 25 CENTS. 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Four Swell Bungalows Six rooms each, modern, gas, electric lights bath, mantel, beautiful decorations These elegant homes will be sold on EASY TERMS. $250 cash, balance like rent. Stewart & Sn These elegant homes will be sold on EASY TERMS. Price $2,500; $250 cash, balance like rent. Stewart & Smith 1515 EAST 18TH ST. Home phone, East 4042 Bell phone, East 4893 THE SONG OF SUMMER. BY CHARLES A. STARKS. The great crowd quiet and gazingly awed The livid one aglow in purple gown, Looking o'er the hostess plus his song be "I'm the zenith and glory of the world, My sunlight brightens in full radiance; Day unto day, brighter unto heaven, Hall, my joy, my light, my pleasure, ric Which dazzle all earth with brilliance h And white fleeey clouds loafing in the Glorifying all unto wonderment. My sun is welcomed as a comforter, Men greet his rays of enamoring warm And think themselves quite happy in h Which shines most bright in my own h I give thee fierce light, I also give thee My cooling sephyr is the world's delight The great crowd quiet and gazingly awaits The livid one aglow in purple gown. Looking o'er the hosts thus his song begins: "I'm the zenith and glory of the world, My sunlight brightens in full radiance; Day unto day, brighter unto heaven. Hall, my joy, my light, my pleasure, rich hues, Which dazzle all earth with brilliance heightened, And white fleecy clouds loafing in the skies, Glorifying all unto wonderment. My sun is welcomed as a comforter, Men greet his rays of enamoring warmth, And think themselves quite happy in his light Which shines most bright in my own time, even s She the fierce light, also give the shade, My cooling spirea is the bright light, With much thanksgiving men receive my rains, Heavenly rains. Blessing and are blessed My storms, full of power and majesty With attractive lightnings that dance and thrill And vari-hued rain gracing the sky, I am Summer, full blooming and wholesome. The high pinnacle of maturing hope." Thus bright Summer sang his lay and finished, The people on him wonderingly gaze, More livid becomes his brightness until He takes his place with swift receding Spring While thus the mystic ones survey him long Sweet Autumn, wistful Autumn, now appears. May 24, 1916. Mr. R. A. Long, Chairman Executive Committee, Citizens Bond Campaign Committee, Kansas City, Md. My Dear Mr. Lee: I learn that your committee has received many inquiries concerning the power of the Business Men's Committee, headed by Mr. Franklin D. Crabbs, appointed by me, for the purpose of superintending the expedition of bond funds if the same are authorized by the people. The Mayor, through his different boards and by the exercise of his veto on ordinances, controls the executive business of the city. This includes the expenditure of any bond funds. In regard to the expenditure of these bond funds the judgment of the Business Men's Commission will be taken before the money is expended and no part of the money will be spent unless first approved by a majority or more of this Business Men's Commission. Your Committee may make its statement to the public in regard to this matter as strong as it likes. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Russel, 2440 Flora, had as guests to dinner last Friday evening, Mrs. Ella Clines of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Bradley and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Mitchell. At a late hour the guests were conveyed to their respective homes in autos and declared they had spent a pleasant evening and Mr. and Mrs. Russel royal entertainers. NOTICE. The public installation of Mose Dixon Temple No. 1, Zeblon Temple No. 33, Primrose Tabernacle No. 12, and Great Western No. 83 has been postponed to June 4. Those holding tickets may use them on this date. FOR RENT—14 room house, 1010 Charlotte. Monday, May 31st The Public is Invited to Attend the unveiling of the beautiful monument erected by Mrs. Josephine Smith for her daughter, the late Miss Emma Smith, under the auspices of the Clio Art Club A program will be rendered consisting of addresses and papers. ISHED YOU AT THE END OF Eight cars owned and operated W. H. Hubbell, Geo. W. Little, when buying your ticket from Lit-JIM CROW JITNEY. 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Bungalows Locality on EASY TERMS. Price $2,500; lance like rent. & Smith Bell phone, East 4893 MRS A. STARKS. and gazingly awalts purple gown, has his song begins: of the world, full radiance; unto heaven. my pleasure, rich hues, with brilliance heightened, loafing in the skies, periment. a comforter, amoring warmth, white happy in his light in my own time, even so also give thee shade, world's delight, WESTERN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. The Western College commencement reached high water mark this year. The exercises from beginning to end were above the average. The sermon delivered before the religious bodies Sunday at 11 a.m. by Dr. B. P. E. Gayles of Macon was very instructive and interesting. The convocation sermon Sunday at 8 p.m. delivered by President J. H. Garnett is inspiring, instructive and refreshing. Being a man of wide experience, he was able to give a vivid description of the world into which the graduating class was soon to be ushered. He emphasized the fact that man is greater than his productions. The display of the work in the various departments by the teachers was superb and enjoyed by all. The annual musicale and literary program Monday night was without equal. The chorister, Mrs. Ida L. Garnett, deserves great credit for bringing such a splendid cantata before the public. The oratorical and declamatory contest Wednesday afternoon was great. Oratorical—Mr. Leory Richardson of Armstrong won first prize, a gold medal; Mr. Jacob Maxwell of Callao second prize, a silver medal. Declamatory—Miss Alerta Dandridge of Miami won first prize, a gold medal; Miss Virginia Richardson third prize, a handsome pocket book. The graduating exercises at the Logan theater occurred Friday night. The program from beginning to end was without parallel. The orations were all good and above the average. The music was grand. The contestants were called to the stage by Dr. Garnet, the president, and awarded the prizes won at the contest. Certificates from the sub-academical department were also awarded to nine persons. At this juncture Mrs. A. J. Abington presented each of the graduates with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of Mrs. Fannie Lee of Clarksville. She also presented to Dr. and Mrs. Garnett a beautiful cake, from Mrs. Fannie Lee. To this mark of respect Dr. Garnett fittingly replied. Following this presentation, a purse of $15 from the alumni association was presented to the president by Mr. Clarence Carter f Macon. Thus closed one of the most strenuous and successful years of Western college. OF INTEREST TO KNIGHTS TEM PLAR. By W. G. Mosely, Grand Commander The following letter from Deputy Grand Commander A. R. Bohon, speaks for itself: Hannibal, Mo. M. W. G. Mosely, Grand Commander Mr. W. G. Mosely, Grand Commander Knights Templar of Missouri. Dear Sir and Frater: Your orders in respect to Easter day were faithfully carried out and a splendid success attended. Send us orders in regard to Grand Encampment and they shall be promptly obeyed. We are anxiously awaiting your arrival to make arrangements for the Grand Encampment and we shall be glad to know when you expect to come. We shall also be glad to know just how much prize money will be offered at the Encampment as we hope to add enough to that and with the amount which the Grand Lodge will give to induce a large attendance of knights and a fierce contest. Has the Grand Commandery any decorations? If you have we would like to get them; if not, then cite us to a place where we may obtain them by hire or purchase. We are very busy preparing for the Grand Encampment and Grand Lodge and this has prevented me writing you as often as I would have liked. Courteously and fraternally, A. R. BOHON, Deputy Grand Commander. Grand Captain General J. W. Beard Writes: "Easter Sunday was a red letter day in Masonic knighthood in this city. One hundred Knights Templar in uniform attended the service and we are headed in full force for Hannibal to attend the grand encampment in August." District Deputy Milton Fields writes: "The Commanderies of St. Louis are thoroughly awake and have in their work surpassed anything done in knighthood for the past twenty-five years. We had 100 knights in uniform Easter and expect to confer degrees upon at least fifty between this and the convocation of the Grand Commandery in August. We expect to give an account of St. Louis such as has never before in the history of Templarhood. Sir Talton Robinson of the Tenth district writes: "Our Easter services were just grand. The ladies here are taking an interest such as never before manifested. We are preparing to uniform our entire Commandery. The fraters who live in the country are uniting themselves in bands of five or six and giving entertainments for the purpose of helping to secure uniforms for the grand encampment at Hannibal. Sir Charles Griggby of the Sixth district writes: "We have knighted four candidates and have a class of six or eight to come through the Royal Arch chapter, which will be knighted a little later on. We are preparing to uniform our entire Commandery in order to be present at the grand encampment in Hannibal in August." Sir A. D. Butler of the Third district writes: "Northwest Commandery is in line and will give a splendid The Grand Court Heroines of Missouri gave the Masonic Home $232.70. All hail to our noble women and Grand Matron McDowell. God bless them. he Bonds! THE WOMEN'S HERITAGE MISS JOYCE DORSEY, The talented young pianist will complete her court Conservatory of Music in Minneapolis, Minn., June Exercises she will appear on program May 29 assi mal and Public School music. She was also honor resent her class. The teachers and players pupils final recital will take place June 7. Miss Dorsey friends that she will be in Kansas City after June ate her course in the North Western Minn., June 7. In the Commencement May 29 assisting the graduates in Norrs also honored by being chosen to repayers pupils in Theory Program. Her liss Dorsey wishes to say to her many after June 24. The talented young pianist will complete her course in the North Western Conservatory of Music in Minneapolis, Minn., June 7. In the Commencement Exercises she will appear on program May 29 assisting the graduates in Normal and Public School music. She was also honored by being chosen to represent the teachers and player pupils in Theory Program. Her recital will take place on June 7. She will say to her many friends that she will be in Kansas City after June 24. 1421 East Twenty-second Street who give Poro Scalp and hair treatment. Massaging. Bell phone East 4495. Kansas City L the Bonds You're for Kan You're for Kansas City Vote for ALL the Bonds A vote for the bonds means voting for 80 per cent of the entire amount of the issue that will be paid out for labor, between $3,000,000 and $3,500,000 for the workingman. This together with the $2,500,000 to be spent by the Metropolitan for improvements and $1,000,000 by the Burlington for a new Hannibal Bridge means great prosperity for the workingman of Kansas City. Vote for ALL the Bonds Vote for Prosperity for Yourself account of herself at the encampment; in Hannibal." Sir Wm. Roberts, grand recorder, writes: "We are just now engaged in a strenuous effort to uniform our entire Commandery, and we expect to give the fraters the time of their lives in Hannibal in August." DELMONICO CHANGES SERVICE. Popular 4:30 O'clock Dinner Inaugurated. Breakfast from 6 to 12 with fine noon-day lunch. We have made progressive changes in our service hoping it will appeal to all of our customers. Our breakfast is extended to 12 or 1 o'clock with fine lunch served until 4:30 p. m., when our popularly growing dinner begins which lasts till 7 p. m. The advantage of this you can readily see. A hot appetizing meal after a day of activity. Remember short orders any time. DELMONICO CAFE, 1512 E. 18TH ST. Bell Phone East 618. H. Compton, Prop. PRICE. 5c. MRS. LEANO MOSBY. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The name Manassas conjures up in the minds of most people in this country the great struggle between the North and the South on the battlefield of Bull Run fifty years ago, in that brother-against-brother strife for the freedom for the Negro. It seems, therefore, peculiarly fitting that on this battlefield which witnessed such havoc and bloodshed for the emancipation of these people, there should spring up a school where they might learn the value and usefulness of the liberty won for them at so great a cost. Such a school—a school of everyday common-sense training with industrial work supplemented by practical academic studies—came into existence there twenty years ago, under the guiding hand of a colored woman, Jennie Dean. The founding of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth is really the life-story of Jennie Dean. Her parents were slaves, but of the most intelligent class of Negroes, her father having been taught to read and write early in life. He was ambitious after the war, to own his farm, but died before he had finished paying for it. Jennie Dean, then a young girl, left home and went into service in Washington, her wages going to pay the balance on the farm, as well as to pay her younger sister's tuition at college. Jennie Dean's life in Washington brought to her full realization of the danger her people run in migrating to the cities, and she made up her mind to try to do something to keep them at home. Her first work toward this was the starting of a Sunday school one summer while on a visit home, which later developed, through her efforts, into the founding of a church in Manassas. During the time that she was conducting these Sunday school classes and working for the church, Jennie Dean was also holding Saturday afternoon classes in cooking and sewing, and through this work she realized the possibilities which might develop out of training of this sort for young colored people. She spent twelve years in this mission work before she determined to devote herself to the industrial education of the Negroes of northern Virginia and to found a school for that purpose. She knew the danger that lurked in the cities for these young people, but she also realized the discouraging situation which confronted them if they remained at home. She was mindful of the skilled labor of slavery days, and bemoaned the fact that nothing had come to replace that industrial side. By this time, Jennie Dean's influence had become very strong in the community, so that they were all ready to help her when she called the people together and said: "Keep your children at home. Don't send them to the cities. You must buy your land; become taxpayers. Make all you can and save all you can. Meanwhile, I will go out and raise the money to build a school where your children may be educated to trades. You do your part here, and I will do mine in the world." While Negroes have progressed, poverty still shows its handicap. The death rate of Negroes in thirty-three northern cities, each having a Negro population of at least 2,500 in 1910, was 25.1 per thousand. This was a decrease of 2 per thousand in a decade, but it was still very high in comparison with the white death rate of 15.7 per thousand, incidentally a It has been a practice in the recent past among our people to stand off and criticize the wayward young Negro and make no effort to help him. Many of us charged him with being responsible for his lost and ruined condition and fussed at him for not turning voluntarily to the paths of rectitude and for not healing his own ills. Others of us blamed our schools and educational institutions for these lamentable conditions, always seeming to excuse parents for their responsibility in the matter. All of which was wide of the mark. It is beginning to dawn now upon the majority of us that there is no effective substitute for good home training. Neither schools, colleges nor reformatories can do a work for the young as effectively as the home. The schools and colleges do all within their power for the morals of the young; the most of their time must of necessity be spent in technical or book instruction, which of itself may or may not better the morals. But conditions which compel fathers and mothers in Negro homes to become breadwinners to the neglect of the children, force The highest temperature ever known in a human being was recorded in the case of an Italian recently. A victim of lung disease, his temperature was 138. Some men who think they are dear are easily bought. No woman is safer than the length of her hatpin. _____ Thera's are 70,000 Indian farmers in the United States. We fear grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant; the liberation from material attachments, the unablued soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we have, or do, and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly—the more athletic T. M people who will take part in the strewing of flowers on soldiers' graves are not veterans who fought in the Civil war. To those who are old enough to remember the war, its memories have softened and grown calm, its material evidences have about all faded from sight. To those who are not old enough to remember the war, its events are only matters of history. But to the old soldier Memorial day is a day of reflection and meditation. He will be thinking of events of those "stirring times" as living realities. Some thirtieth of May in the Civil war, in all probability, was to him an eventful day. Possibly he may remember some event that took place on each thirtieth of May in the war. Go back with him in his reflection as he fancies himself back in those old days, and begin with the first thirtieth of May in the Civil war. It was 54 years ago. The thirtieth of May in 1861 was a sort of calm before the storm. No great battle had as yet been fought. Just 48 days had passed since the firing upon the Stars and Stripes at Fort Sumter. The battle of Bull Run did not take place until 52 later. People this thirtieth of May must have felt that there would be a conflict soon; when or where no one could foretell. It was day of suspense. Lincoln, at the time, had not served three months as president. Between the time of his election and his inauguration seven of the southern states had seceded. Soon after his inauguration Virginia had seceded, and before this thirtieth of May Arkansas and North Carolina had followed the example of Virginia. Immediately after the fall of Fort Sumter Lincoln had issued his call for 75,000 troops. Most of the northern states, in loyal obedience to this call, had sent troops to Washington; but many of the states near the border line between the North and the South had defied the call. Some of the questions asked by the people of the North on this day must have been: "Will these states, too, secede?" "Can President Lincoln hold them in the Union?" But a question, more momentous than these, which must have been asked by these people, was: "Can our troops at Washington defend the city?" For it must be remembered that it was only 11 days before this thirtieth of May when northern troops had been fired upon by a mob while they were passing through Baltimore on their way to Washington. Many people, at the time, interpreted this act to mean that Maryland, too, was about to secede. True, the Union soldiers at Washington seemed at this time to be successfully defending the city; a band of troops six days before this thirtieth of May had crossed the Potomac and had taken possession of Alexandria. This had made the Union people hopeful, but they were by no means confident, for, at this time, they had just received news from abroad about the expressions of joy which had just been made by certain Europeans who were predicting the immediate downfall of the American republic. Then, too, many of the news items about events of the war which were appearing in the daily newspapers indicated that there might be some foundation for the prediction of the people in Europe. Here are some the news items that the people of the North were reading in their home papers. The Boston Journal for this thirtieth of May contained the following telegraphic dispatches: "The report of the surrender of the United States troops in Texas, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Reeve, the Confederate force, under command of Colonel Van Dorn, is fully confirmed." Lincoln, at the time, had not served three months as president. Between the time of his election and his inauguration seven of the southern states had seceded. Soon after his inauguration Virginia had seceded, and before this thirtieth of May Arkansas and North Carolina had followed the example of Virginia. Immediately after the fall of Fort Sumter Lincoln had issued his call for 75,000 troops. Most of the northern states, in loyal obedience to this call, had sent troops to Washington; but many of the states near the border line between the North and the South had defied the call. Some of the questions asked by the people of the North on this day must have been: "Will these states, too, secede?" "Can President Lincoln hold them in the Union?" But a question, more momentous than these, which must have been asked by these people, was: "Can our troops at Washington defend the city?" For it must be remembered that it was only 11 days before this thirtieth of May when northern troops had been fired upon by a mob while they were passing through Baltimore on their way to Washington. Many people, at the time, interpreted this act to mean that Maryland, too, was about to secede. True, the Union soldiers at Washington seemed at this time to be successfully defending the city; a band of troops six days before this thirtieth of May had crossed the Potomac and had taken possession of Alexandrin. This had made the Union people hopeful, but they were by no means confident, for, at this time, they had just received news from abroad about the expressions of joy which had just been made by certain Europeans who were predicting the immediate downfall of the American republic. Then, too, many of the news items about events of the war which were appearing in the daily newspapers indicated that there might be some foundation for the prediction of the people in Europe. Here are some the news items that the people of the North were reading in their home papers. The Boston Journal for this thirtieth of May contained the following telegraphic dispatches: "The report of the surrender of the United States troops in Texas, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Reeve; the Confederate force, under command of Colonel Van Dorn, is fully confirmed." "General McDowell has been informed that General Lee, with 25,000 rebels, is advancing on Alexandria." The New York Tribune for the same date was to its northern readers somewhat more hopeful. Here are some of its headlines: "Frank Blair Ordered to Fortress Monroe." "Harpers Ferry Threatened. The Rebels Likely to Be Surrounded." "30,000 Troops to Rendezvous at Cairo." These news items, taken from northern newspapers, reflect the general mood and spirit of the people in the North who were at the time reading the papers. Among them there was a spirit of uncertainty and doubt. They were uncertain as to the strength and purpose of the South. They doubted the ability of Lincoln, who had recently been elected by a new and untried political party. They were uncertain as to whether he would yield to the demands of political bosses. Lincoln was not a trained soldier. They were uncertain as to whether he could succeed in the management of his army. These news items, taken from northern newspapers, reflect the general mood and spirit of the people in the North who were at the time reading the papers. Among them there was a spirit of uncertainty and doubt. They were uncertain as to the strength and purpose of the South. They doubted the ability of Lincoln, who had recently been elected, by a new and untried political party. They were uncertain as to whether he would yield to the demands of political bosses. Lincoln was not a trained soldier. They were uncertain as to whether he could succeed in the management of his army. But the people of the South, on this thirtieth of May, were hopeful and confident. Loyalty from their point of view meant allegiance to their states. They held that the general government had no right to interfere with their formation of a new government. Their loyalty to their cause almost amounted to enthusiasm. They BIRDS WARN OF AIR CRAFT of Paris, Eiffel tow --- lowering of 2.5 per thousand for the whites. A comparison for twenty-four southern cities showed a rate of 29.6 for Negroes, a decrease of 4 per thousand, and 16.9 for whites, a decrease of 2.9 from 1900. Malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and whooping cough seem to be more deadly among Negroes than among whites, while Negroes are better able to withstand measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cancer, appendicitis, diarrhea and violence. Also fewer Negroes commit suicide. Dr. W. F. Brunner, health officer of Savannah, Ga., shows clearly in the current survey, how much of a menace this high death rate is to both Negroes and whites in the South. In 1913 there were about 39,000 whites and 42,000 Negroes in Savannah. Deaths from natural causes totaled 1,038 among the Negroes and only 442 among the whites. The infamous housing upon city dwelling Negroes, North and South, account for this great disparity. Of course, however, the city which permits a high death rate among Negroes pays the penalty among all its people. Bacteria are color blind. That the mortality rate among the colored population is vastly higher than among the whites has long been known. But efforts to learn the cause and to remedy the trouble have not yet gone very far. The New York department of health, however, is going into that task with an energy that promises good results. It is taking up the task with the cooperation of various colored civic organizations, all under an impulse given by Booker Washington and the National Negro Business league. It is generally understood that this heavy death rate is the result of ignorance as to the most sanitary methods of life and the care of aliments in their inception. For example, two types of disease are notable for abnormally large death rates among the colored people. These are infant mortality and tuberculosis. But in both of them it has been shown that right methods of living and care in the treatment of the disease can produce a notable saving of life. The work of training the Negroes to the style of life that will lower mortality is eminently notable in itself. But it is even more so with regard to its effect on the whites. Living as they do, close to us, when segregated, they cannot convert their quarters into breeding places for disease without enlarging the danger of infection for the white population. It is to be hoped that the New York effort to improve that evil will be successful and widely copied. The will of Lemuel Googins, a colored barber of Baltimore, who died recently, was filed for probate. Googins' estate is said to be worth $200,000. Letters testamentary were issued to the Colonial Trust company, executor and trustee. The will bequeaths $4,000 to the Colored Masonic home to furnish two rooms in memory of Florence Googins, a deceased daughter. The residue of the estate is placed in trust with the Colonial Trust company as trustee, the income to be paid to Henriletta Googins, widow of the decedant, as long as she lives. At her death the estate goes to Granville Googins and Lemuel Googins, Jr., sons. upon the schools the impossible task of trying to counteract the evils planted by a lack of adequate hearthside instruction. According to a Negro publication, the Crisis, members of the darker race have gained recognition from scientific bodies in music, in art and also in the more commonplace walks of life. There is a colored man who is a major in the United States regular army, Maj. Charles Young. He has passed all his examinations with flying colors, is a first-class soldier and fighting man and, as a matter of fact, army officers are rather proud of him in an official way. The colored American citizen is not an alien. Reaching this country unwillingly about the same time as the white man, he has demonstrated his loyalty in every war in his country's defense. He is a self-supporting, industrious, thrifty and useful citizen, and has as much right to equal treatment as those who have come later and rendered less service. "She is the sort of girl," said Eph Wiley yesterday in discussing Genevieve Willoughby, "who will turn around to see if she has attracted your attention and then frown at you for looking at her." A man can't do justice to himself as an entertainer when his wife is around. The gold industry of the Rand is estimated to be worth $500,000 a day to South Africa. trim, in short, the moral fighting shape. It is certain that the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. Prof. William James. Just What Did He Mean? Judge—"What was the cause of the rumpus?" Policeman—"Well, you see, judge, this man here and that woman there are married" Judge—"Yes. yes. I know; but what was the other cause?" Boston Transcript. MEMORIAL DAY A DAY OF THANKFULNESS But the people of the South, on this thirtieth of May, were hopeful and confident. Loyalty from their point of view meant allegiance to their states. They held that the general government had no right to interfere with their formation of a new government. Their loyalty to their cause almost amounted to enthusiasm. They GEM. U.S. GRANT EMORIAL day, as it is now observed in most of the states of the Union, is a day of thankfulness, patriotic thankfulness for the preservation of the Union. A majority of "30,000 Troops to Rendezyous at Cairo." Screeching of Parrots Lets Paris Know When Hostile Fliers Approach the City. If parrots could state the nationality of any airplane they hear there would be no need for men to be continually on the outlook for hostile aircraft. The parrots, would give warning quick enough. The French authorities have had a number of parrots kept in the outposts THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC "TOLD HOW FIELDS WERE WON" FOUND HOW FIELD WHICH WILL BOON; but it was a died three of his the south- inaugura- this thir- colina had mediately had issued northern had sent the states and the questions this day secede?" Union?" on these, the people, defend the at it was day when a mob more on this act to secede, seemed during the this thir- colina had had made here by no had just expressions certain Eu- mediate When, too, of the newly some found in Europe. The people the papers. May con- hes: The United of Lleu- state force, is fully named that dancing on date was the hopeful. Monroe." Labels Like ro." new news- spirit of the time read as a spirit uncertain the South. who had retried po- to whether local bosses. They were need in the thirtieth Loyalty legislation to real govern- our forma- loyalty to rasm. They RECALLING INVOL- had the best of reasons, confident. Their presiden- He had studied at West- experience both in the arri- partment. Above all the dence of his people. It is no wonder that t received the announcement 75,000 troops with derisive This was on the third of of May their loyalty to a more enthusiastic. This their younger men. The to their preparation for pleasant pastime. There for troops. Thousands of anxious to enlist. Mana been selected as the rail- federates, and volunteers. Such was the situation 1861. A calm before the later the battle of Bull R The truthfulness of the events cast their shadow been realized by the pea- and in the South the thir- at that time there were a er of which, these peo- m might prove to be the t One of these, they knew Vicksburg, the other som- at what place no one con- “Any news from Vicks the question which was on this day when neigh- people of the north were diers would soon succe- stronghold of the Confe- doubts in their minds. gained the confidence of Within the three week this thirtieth of May gaining a series of vio- Grant had defeated "Joe and had placed Union city. He had defeated Bla- plon's Hill and at Big now cut off from comm had retired within the Eight days before this had tried to take these being repulsed, he had the heights north of the had the best of reasons for being hot confident. Their president was a trainer. He had studied at West Point, and had experience both in the army and in the partiment. Above all things, he had a dence of his people. It is no wonder that the people of it received the announcement of Lincoln 75,000 troops with derisive laughter and this was on the third of April. By the of May their loyalty to their cause had more enthusiastic. This was especial their younger men. The military drill to their preparation for war with the pleasant pastime. There was no need for troops. Thousands of them were anxious to enlist. Manassas Junction been selected as the rallying place for federates, and volunteers were gather. Such was the situation the thirtieth of 1861. A calm before the storm. Fifty later the battle of Bull Run! The truthfulness of the old saying events cast their shadows before," he been realized by the people both in and in the South the thirtieth of May at that time there were pending two ever of which, these people must have might prove to be the turning point of One of these, they knew, would happen Vicksburg, the other somewhere in the at what place no one could at this time. "Any news from Vicksburg?" must the question which was asked hundred on this day when neighbor met neighbor of the north were hoping thatiders would soon succeed in capt stronghold of the Confederacy, but the doubts in their minds. Grant had regained the confidence of the Union force. Within the three weeks immediately this thirtieth of May the Union forces gaining a series of victories near Grant had defeated "Joe" Johnston and had placed Union troops in character. He had defeated Pemberton both plon's Hill and at Big Black river, now cut off from communication with had retired within the defenses at Eight days before this thirtieth of had tried to take these defences by being repulsed, he had taken up his the heights north of the city and had RECALLING LINCIDENTS OF THE WAR had the best of reasons for being hopeful and confident. Their president was a trained soldier. He had studied at West Point, and had experience both in the army and in the war department. Above all things, he had confidence of his people. It is no wonder that the people of the South received the announcement of Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops with derisive laughter and cheers. This was on the third of April. By the thirtieth of May their loyalty to their cause had become more enthusiastic. This was especially true of their younger men. The military drill incident to their preparation for war with them was a pleasant pastime. There was no need of a call for troops. Thousands of them were ready and anxious to enlist. Manassas Junction, Va., had been selected as the rallying place for the Confederates, and volunteers were gathering there. Such was the situation the thirtieth of May in 1861. A calm before the storm. Fifty-two days later the battle of Bull Run. The truthfulness of the old saying, "Coming events cast their shadows before," must have been realized by the people both in the North and in the South the thirtieth of May in 1863, for at that time there were pending two events, either of which, these people must have realized, might prove to be the turning point of the war. One of these, they knew, would happen soon at Vicksburg, the other somewhere in the East, but at what place no one could at this time foretell. "Any news from Vicksburg?" must have been the question which was asked hundreds of times on this day when neighbor met neighbor. The people of the north were hoping that their soldiers would soon succeed in capturing this stronghold of the Confederacy, but there were doubts in their minds. Grant had not as yet gained the confidence of the Union people. hired po- tical bosses. They were need in the thirtieth Loyalty regiance to goal govern- er formal- loyalty to asm. They Within the three weeks immediately preceding this thirtieth of May the Union forces had been gaining a series of victories near Vicksburg. Grant had defeated "Joe" Johnston at Jackson and had placed Union troops in charge of that city. He had defeated Pemberton both at Cham- plon's Hill and at Big Black river. Pemberton, now cut off from communication with Johnston, had retired within the defenses at Vicksburg. Eight days before this thirtieth of May Grant had tried to take these defenses by assault, but, being repulsed, he had taken up his position on the heights north of the city and had begun his of Paris, as well on the summit of Eiffel tower. The birds have shown a remarkable power of heralding the ap- proach of an airplane when the latter has been quite invisible to trained observ- ers stationed near. when perched away from This peculiar power of discovered quite accide excitement they show the Paris air patrol was raid was made by the Warning is given by the birds in a peculiar way. Their feathers literally bristle with excitement, and they yell and screech until they are pacified. The extraordinary thing about this power of the parrot is that it has nothing whatever to do with eyesight, many of the parrots having given warning --- for being hopeful and he was a trained soldier. Point, and had had ex-ay and in the war deeds, he had the con- the people of the South at Lincoln's call for the laughter and cheers. April. By the thirtieth their cause had become especially true of military drill incident war with them was a was no need of a call them were ready and Junction, Va., had being place for the Con- were gathering there. the thirtieth of May in storm. Fifty-two days an! the old saying, "Coming was before," must have apple both in the North bit of May in 1863, for sending two events, eith- must have realized, nring point of the war. would happen soon at where in the East, but old at this time foretell. burg?" must have been asked hundreds of times met neighbor. The hoping that their so-ced in capturing this deracy, but there were Grant had not as yet the Union people. is immediately preceding Union forces had been stories near Vicksburg. "Johnston at Jackson troops in charge of that emberbent both at Cham- black river. Pemberton, implication with Johnston, defenses at Vicksburg. thirtieth of May Grant defences by assault, but, taken up his position on city and had begun his North and May, not know waiting and become a man. Twenty y on his dylin who ever take Grant of Lee; he of this fact met in the On the t of the people was center- tion, or ra- which had the ming of Michigan, under to invade Union sold victories of Gettysburg. On this guard his victory Washington eral of the at once be- in the most pulsed three ginia—at Anna. For result, Lee ceiled at V at such a soldiers lo- Such was No other this time, eracy," Ri porary seo courageage. On the Union had Johnson in which the rebell- scribe to States, and ing the end of this oat was the first states of- when perched away from the windows. This peculiar power of parrots was discovered quite accidentally by the excitement they showed whenever the Paris air patrol was flying, or a raid was made by the German aircraft.—Pearson's. War Name Explained. Chanak-Kalesi, the straggling town near the "narrows" of the Dardanelles, which figures frequently in the latest operations, means "earthen-ware castle" in Turkish, and is so North and in the South, on this thirtieth of May, not knowing what would happen next, were waiting and watching. Gettysburg had not yet become a realization. Twenty years after the Civil war Grant while on his dying bed said: "The greatest general who ever lived was Robert E. Lee." It did not take Grant twenty years to realize the greatness of Lee; he had been brought to a full realization of this fact early in May, 1864, when their armies met in the Wilderness. On the thirtieth of May, in 1864, the attention of the people both in the North and the South was centered on this one man. Note the situation, or rather the events of the preceding year which had led up to this situation. On the thirtieth of May, 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia, under command of Lee, was on its march to invade Pennsylvania. A few days later the Union soldiers gained two of the most important victories of the war, one at Vicksburg, one at Gettysburg. On this thirtieth of May we find Lee still keeping guard of Richmond. Grant, who soon after his victory at Vicksburg had been called to Washington, had been appointed lieutenant general of the Union army, "On to Richmond!" had at once become the war cry of his soldiers. Within the month of May Grant's army had been repulsed three times by the Army of Northern Virginia—at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna. Four days later, Cold Harbor! The same result, Lee still keeping guard. The word received at Washington was "Victory." But victory at such a cost! Thousands of the Union's best soldiers lost! Such was the situation on this day in 1864. No other thirtieth of May had been as serious as this one. At the "White House of the Confederacy," Richmond, there was a feeling of temporary security. In Washington there was discouragement. On the thirtieth of May, in 1865, the war for Union had ended. The day before President Johnson had issued his proclamation of amnesty, in which he pardoned all who had taken part in the rebellion on condition that they would subscribe to an oath of allegiance to the United States, and accept the results of the war, including the emancipation of the slaves. The signing of this oath by Confederate soldiers on this day was the first formal step in the reuniting of the states of the Union. J. siege. So, on this thirtieth of May the inhabitants were just beginning to be subjected to the horrible experiences of continual bombardment and starvation, which lasted until the Fourth of July, when the city surrendered. Caves were dug in the ground for the protection of the women and children, and food became so scarce that rats were sold in the butchers' shops. While on this thirtieth of May the people throughout the country were watching with interest the developments of the siege at Vicksburg, their chief interest must have been centered on the movements of the armies in Maryland and Virginia. Since the last thirtieth of May these armies had met at Antietam, at Fredericksburg and at Chancellorsville. Thousands of soldiers from both the North and the South had fallen in these battles. Only 25 days had passed since the battle at Chancellorsville. Stonewall Jackson, the idol of the southern soldiers who followed him, had fallen in this battle, but the spirit of his name remained; his faithful followers were still ready to stand "like a stone wall" against their foe, as they had done while under his leadership. The situation in the East gave hope in the East gave hope and confidence to the people in the South, but discouragement to the people of the North. Many northern people were demanding that, since Hooker had failed in the last two battles, a new commander in chief be appointed. McClellan was called for, but Lincoln appointed Meade. Since the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville Lee's army had been steadily growing until it now numbered 75,000 men—men who were still elated over the last two victories. Taking advantage of the confusion at Washington occasioned by the changing of commanders of the Army of the Potomac, Lee with his entire army slipped into the Shenandoah valley and marched northward with the intention of invading Maryland and Pennsylvania. Meade with 88,000 'men followed him. Would they meet? If so, where? The people both in the and in the South, on this thirtieth of not knowing what would happen next, were wing and watching. Gettysburg had not yet come a realization. Twenty years after the Civil war Grant while his dying bed said: "The greatest general never lived was Robert E. Lee." It did not Grant twenty years to realize the greatness; he had been brought to a full realization is fact early in May, 1864, when their armies in the Wilderness. The thirtieth of May, in 1864, the attention the people both in the North and the South centered on this one man. Note the situator rather the events of the preceding year had led up to this situation. On the third of May, 1863, the Army of Northern Vir- under command of Lee, was on its march avade Pennsylvania. A few days later the soldiers gained two of the most important series of the war, one at Vicksburg, one at Gettysburg of May we find Lee still keep witness of Richmond. Grant, who soon after victory at Vicksburg had been called toington, had been appointed lieutenant gen- of the Union army, "On to Richmond!" had become the war cry of his soldiers. With the month of May Grant's army had been re- three times by the Army of Northern Vir- at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North. Four days later, Cold Harbor! The same t, Lee still keeping guard. The word re- read at Washington was "Victory." But victory a cost! Thousands of the Union's bestiers lost! which was the situation on this day in 1864. Other thirtieth of May had been as serious as one. At the "White House of the Confed-," Richmond, there was a feeling of tem- security. In Washington there was disagreement. At the thirtieth of May, in 1865, the war for man had ended. The day before President Johnson had issued his proclamation of amnesty, which he pardoned all who had taken part in rebellion on condition that they would sub- to an oath of allegiance to the United States, and accept the results of the war, include the emancipation of the slaves. The signing oath by Confederate soldiers on this day the first formal step in the reuniting of the less of the Union. dowses. it was by the neveren or a in air-town Darda-in the arthen-ils so called from a celebrated pottery on the Asiatic side of the strait. An agent from this pottery used to be always on the lookout for a wandering European, and hooked onto every passing ship. His boatload of gaudy crockery was generally more remarkable for gliding and tawdry color than for taste. But the forms of the vessels were often graceful, even classical; and specimens of the tall water jugs he sells, or once sold, can be seen throughout the Levant, though seldom in London.—London Chronicle INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Course of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) BRINGS ARK TO JERUSALEM. LESSON TEXT-II Samuel 6:12-19 and Psalm 24. (Study all of chapter 6.) GOLDEN TEXT-I was gud when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of the Lord—Psalm 122:1. This event occurred B. C. 1042, in the twenty-second year of David's reign. It would be a good plan to assign to various pupils such subjects as: (a) What the ark was and how it came to be lost; (b) Where it had been since the days of Joshua; (c) What occurred to it while in possession of the Philistines; (d) Who was Obed-edom? (e) Ueziah? (f) Michal? (g) How Jerusalem came to be the seat of government. 1. The Ark Recovered, vv. 1.5. David realized that while God was the God of all the tribes, still there was no visible religious center; there was the consequent danger of confounding the local place of worship with that of some local Baal (god) and the possible breaking up of the national reliance upon Jehovah. Where Kirkjath-jearlam was is not definitely known, but perhaps it was eight or ten miles west of Jerusalem. The ark had lodged here for perhaps seventy years. David and they that were with him followed the example of the Philistines (I Sam. 6:1-18) in their mode of transferring the ark rather than to have it carried upon the shoulders of the priests (Josh. 3:3). Preceded by "David and the house of Israel," i. e. leaders of the people and all others present, they began the return journey from the house of Abinadab. II. The Ark Retarded, vv. 6-11. They had reached one of the open places used as a threshing floor when the oxen slipped and the cart was shaken. Uzziah, one of the two into whose charge it had been placed, laid hold of the ark to keep it from falling. Why was he slain therefore? We have already suggested the reason. How to carry the ark was plainly written (Num. 4:5-12; 7:9). Neglect of God's word gets many well-meaning people into trouble, along with their friends, also. The ark was the symbol of God's presence, and men had to be taught to revere his holy name and his glorious presence (see last clause v. 2). Uzziah's sin was the sin of irreverence. He seems not to have sensed the invisible God in his visible abode. The result struck terror into the heart of David and the people, and the ark was left in the house of Obed of Edom for a period of three months. David's "improved plan" was a proved failure. III. The Ark Restored, vv. 9-19. David, by thus abandoning the ark, seems to have resented the judgment of God, yet he must have realized that God had sufficient cause for his acts. The ark is a type of Christ, who is manuel, God with us. The ark contained the law of God, as Christ enshrined the will of his Father. Over the law was the blood-sprinkled mercy seat where God met his people (Ex. 25:18-22). In Christ we find our mercy seat where we meet God. Though this ark brought judgment to Uziah it brought blessing to Obed-edom (v. 12). Even so Christ brings joy or joy according to our treatment of him. Obed-edom so pliously cared for the ark that both he and his household were richly blessed. If Christ is really in our hearts we will be blessed, and Christ abdeth forever. It has been suggested that Obed-edom was only a heathen by descent, a Gittite (v. 11, see chapter 15:19), but he welcomed the presence of God in his home. The happily noised abroad, and soon David's fear and plaque gave way to "joy" (v. 12 R. V.), for this time David brought up the ark into the city of Jerusalem in the God-appointed way, accompanied by sacrifices and dancing. This dancing was not of a kind to find fault, nor was it merely a demonstration designed to attract attention. To say that the presence of God, or of the Holy Spirit, depends upon some sort of physical emotion, holy jumping, trances, and the like, is untrue, for it is not in accord with the teaching of the Bible. Note this dancing was "before the Lord." Most modern dances seem to be advanced by Satan, as the results so well demonstrate. Whenever any emotion is evidenced in connection with religion, someone is ready to raise an objection. In this case the objection came from David's own household. Michal evidenced her father's disposition of churlishness, and in her reproach of David evidently forgot Saul's lack of dignity when he lay naked among the prophets (I Samuel 19:24). IV. The Psalm of Praise, Pa. 24. In the Jewish synagogue this psalm is recited at the carrying hack of the book of the law to its shrine, and in the Greek church at the consecration of the church. The twenty-second psalm presents the suffering Savior; the twenty-third presents the risen Savior as the shepherd caring for and leading his sheep, and the twenty-fourth tells of the reigning, glorified Lord. The whole earth is Jehovah's (v. 1) and no incident better teaches the converse, viz., that he is God of the earth and not a mere trivial deity. He "founded" and "established" it, and all "the fullness," and "they that dwell therein" are his by creative and redemptive right. Since we belong to him we owe him worship and service—and a servant is one who "stands" v. 3). The conditions of fellowship with Jehovah are "clean hands and a pure heart" (v. 4), those who deal with honesty and reverence. "Vanity" and "dolatry" are frequently synonymous terms. The first and the fourth condition relate to others, the second and the third to one's inner life (see I John 1:6, 7). HOWARD S. LIGHTNING SHOE POLISHES BOX CALF [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, 1907; San Antionton, 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 Dorsey B. BrBown. Town orders will be filled at Taylor Holmes. NO ACID OR TURPENTINE CONTAINS LET BLACK AND EASY WITHOUT LIQUID NEW COMBINATION USDA - BEST MOTEL SHOE PASTE OUT SHINES THEM ALL Out-of-town stores and bootblack parlors state quantities wanted and write for prices. Ask for it in the stores. Address all mail orders to DORSEY B. BROWN 3507 Lydia Ave., Kansas City, 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. WATLINGTON DRILL CORPS. Here is the list of U. B. F.s and S. M. T.s that will help the Watlington Drill Corps to secure their uniforms What will you give Address your com- munication to Joseph Parrent, 1609 E 13th street or Neal Range, Jr., 1407 Lydia. Make checks payable to Wat- lington Drill Camp. The following have contributed: Fred Douglas Lodge 22.50 New Hope Temple 20.00 Mercy Temple $10.00 Justice Lodge 10.00 Gates Ajar Temple 3.00 B. K. Bruce Temple 5.00 E. A. Walker 5.00 Ezekiel Lodge 10.00 W. M. Saunders Lodge 5.20 Peaceful Path Lodge 15.00 Progress Temple 5.00 B. K. Bruce Lodge 5.00 St. Stephen's Lodge 3.00 Lilly of the Valley Royal House 2.00 Seven Son Lodge..... 3.00 Hosanna Royal House..... 5.00 Seven Son lodge..... 3.00 Chrysanthemum Temple..... 5.00 The Camp meets every Monday night at Garrison Square, 5th and Troost avenue. You may send your donations there if you desire. 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 pilgrimage will as usual be made to Leavenworth 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. We would like to see every lodge and society in Kansas City put their cards in the Sun. It is the most popular way to let the world know who you are, when and where you meet and your object and purpose. For the next month we will make special announcements to have you put in your lodge or society list of officers in ALL WORK CANNOT NO DELAY PAINLESS EXPANSION BY VITALIZED AIR CROWN BRIDGE ON PLATE WORK AND PRACTICE PRICES DR. CHAPMAN DENTIST GARDNELL & CHAPMAN 1200 HAIR DREBBING & MILITARY William S. Phant C. N. Kansas City Sun M. B. FROM A QUIET CORNER. The highest aim of the individual should be directed toward the accomplishment of something of worth in the world. It must be understood that however much we may do in the world, it is only as a grain of sand in the sight of Providence. There is no time for idleness, but as the little bee that gathers honey from the flowers of the field, we should go forth each day with the determination that while we shall gather, we shall also scatter sunshine. There are always dark corners in the world that need light; there are always people who need words of consolation to lighten their heavy hearts. Let our aim be, each day, to increase the sunshine in the dark corners of the lives of these people by doing some noble deed, or speaking some word of kidness. Let us bear each burden with patience and accept such duties as devolve upon us as blessings, knowing as we do that though, sometimes, we become weak and faint of heart and sow in tears, that much joy may attend the time of reaping. While living in hope the world may continue to grow better, let us contribute our full share of usefulness thereto, but above all, let us remember that only through honesty can we hope to reach the crowning point in life, and that men can only be saved through the might of an all-wise Providence. A great many people have so much to say about the fine things they are going to do some time that they have a very satisfactory sense of achievement, with very little to show for it. Thanks to an active imagination, these anticipated successes become as act ual as reality. It is very important to learn to draw the line strictly be between the things we have done and the things we mean to do sometime even if emphasizing the distinction results in a decided loss of compaency. As a matter of fact, we deserve very little credit for the things we are going to do. "sometime." ```markdown ``` No life is successful in the highest sense, which is not built upon positive ideals. We all know people who are perfectly satisfied with them, selves because they do not do certain things, and because one can call them dishonest or untruthful. But a character of which nothing better can be predicated than these negative virtues, possesses neither grace nor beauty. You can not attain the ideal woman anhood or manhood by a series of "thou shalt not." Choose positive ideals. Strive to be kind, instead of merely refraining from injuring your neighbor. Live with a view to helping the world, instead of being satisfied with not holding it back. It is a fine thing to be an idealist, providing that it means "hitching your wagon to a star." It is an un- fortunate thing, if it only means that the star stands for your dreams, while your wagon keeps in the same old ruts. Unless there is a connection between your ideals and your practice, the former are worthless and the latter unworthy. Have your ideals working ideals, the kind that can be brought into the smoke and dust and clamor of daily living and be none the worse. It is a strange thing, but there are THE NELSON GIRL Are you satisfied with your hair? Is it soft and glossy and rull of life? Can you comb it out easily or is it full of tangles? Are you proud of your hair? The Answer Is: NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING 25¢ 50¢ some people who live in the fear of being found out. They are the unlucky ones, who in some way or other have acquired a reputation too big for them. 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THE NELSON GIRL Symphony Orchestra (25 Musicians—Professionals) '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 Masonio Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Gran Lecturer. W. G. Mosely, Kansas City, Mo, R. E. G. C. J. H. Sherwood, St. Paul, Minn, G. E. G. P. C. Kincald, Kansas City, Mo, V. E. G. C. J. W. Beard, St. Louis, Mo., E. G. C. G. Wm. Roberts, Hannibal, Mo., Grand Secretary. T. P. Mahammitt, Grand Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. Grand Chapter Officers. Geo. Broomfield, G. H. P., St. Louis, Mo. T. G. McCampbell, D. G. H. P., Kansas City. A. L. Thomas, G. K., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Mofitte, G. S., Sedalia, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Sec'y, Kansas City, Mo. R. T. Coles, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Meyers. Wm. Washington, F. P. Porter, T. W. H. Williams, W. G. Moseley, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Rob. Willey. Lodge Directory Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M. meets the 3rd and 4th Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. R. Grey, W. M.; J. H. Snigner, Sec'y. Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 2nd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. 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 welcome. J. Jackson, W. M. Frank Love, Secretary, 1618 Baltimore Ave. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 4th Friday in every month. Vis come. Thos. Jackson, W. M. Frank Lowe, Secretary, 1518 Baltimore Ave. I. O. I. Queen Esther Court No. 43. Hale from the O. I. I meets the high school team in each month at 2:30 p. m., at 10:10 and Campbell Sts. Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Bettle Davis, Q. Ressa L. Jones, Chron. 1406 Nord 3d, Kansas City Kas. U. B. F. King of the W-Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mon- days in each month at 563 Grand avenue. D. M. West W. M. Jackson, W. M. Secy. 1732 Woodland Ave. HENRY H. SCOTT INTERIOR DECORATING, PAINTING and PAPER HANGING Hardwood Finishing Bell East 1762W 2103 Bellefountain 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. Missuri Whole Family Benefited By Wonderful Remedy There are many little things to annoy us, under present conditions of life. The hurry, hard work, noise and strain all tell on us and tend to provoke nervousness and irritability.. We are frequently so worn out we can neither eat, sleep nor work with any comfort. 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THE KANSAS CITY SUN All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1802 East 18th Street. 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.....50 ADVERTISING RATE, 60 CENTS PER INCH CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bathel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Broad Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Woodland A. M. E. Church, 11th and Woodland A. Slue Valley Baptist church, 1120 Crystal avenue. St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Wood- view. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia, Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine, Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Askew. Biglow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lakeside. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and summit M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4098 Mt St. M. E. Church, M. E. Church, 45rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 555 Grand Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCH. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and 10th. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Baptilog. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Metropolitan Baptist Church, 8th and Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and 6th. Quindarao A. M. E. Church, Quindarao Pasan Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, Kansas M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland, A. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salter Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee. St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Roselale, Kan. Mr. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virginia. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. M. Zion Primitive Baptist Church, Westport avenue and Tangent street, Rosedale, EDITORIAL. At the closing session of the Florida legislature a man named Davis introduced a bill to prohibit the licensing of Negro attorneys. The bill was enthusiastically supported by another member named Davis, and passed the lower branch unanimously. Attention of the N. A. A. C. P. is called to the fact that at the Federal League park colored people may occupy grand stand seats while at the Association park they are compelled to sit in the bleachers. Let's have a mild protest from the local head. The professional spirit shown by several Negro physicians in attending the Oklahoma State Medical Society and at the same time working up a fine attendance upon the Missouri society, which is meeting here this week, is worthy of all commendation. Any profession which thus manifests the spirit of progress may be assured of popular confidence and support. Notwithstanding the bad weather the colored people have shown a fine interest in the new Lincoln park, which has just been placed at their disposal. Better weather will bring bigger crowds, of course, and if the management keeps up the high standard promised and continues to maintain colored employees at decent living wages there will be many reasons why our people should continue to give the enterprise unlimited support. The management of Lincoln park, finding that the prices set for the dancing pavilion were too high to be popular, reduced the same to meet a greater demand. Why not pursue the same policy with the Y. M. C. A. billiard room? It is not and never shall be the policy of the Sun to antagonize the Y. M. C. A. as an institution. Its influence is too well established everywhere. It must succeed here, but can not reach the highest success if its management is to pursue a policy of pigheadedness in the face of local conditions. A big enterprise like the Y. M. C. A. is no place for managerial conceit, and any manifest disregard for the reasonable rights of its supporters will naturally be met by opposition. It is now the time of the year when the schools are putting on the finishing touches in their work and the subject of promotions is naturally foremost. Principals should bear in mind that any untoward advancement of pupils will finally result in immeasurable harm and detriment to the children. Our race, especially, should have a firm foundation in all things which contribute to present and future elements of citizenship. False notions of education produce fatal notions of life. It is not the idea of getting by which should be held out. It is the idea of real value which counts. Childred should be taught this above all other things. A school which boasts of quantity rather than quality in its products not only falls short of its purpose but is a positive menace to the public. Among the imperative duties of ev- ery city government are caring for and safeguarding the lives, health, comfort and property of the citizens. and safeguarding the lives, health, comfort and property of the citizens. These duties require the immediate construction of safe bridges and traffiways adequate to care for the business of the city, which is growing with such marvelous rapidity; the provision of ample approaches to the Union Station, making our front yard attractive. The phenomenal growth of the city demands additional fire stations and fire equipment and additional police stations. A larger population means enlarged sewer equipment. A greater number of people means a greater demand upon the city for care of the sick and provision for the correctional disposition of offenders. Incident to the safeguarding of the health and comfort of the citizens adequate facilities for the disposition of garbage are essential. All of these problems are pressing for settlement, not next year or in three or five years, but NOW. They can all be solved with permanent investments and without raising taxes a fraction of a mill by passing this bond issue, but of this bond issue is not passed some of these necessities must be provided immediately and paid for by special tax levies, which means a certain increase in your taxes. TRI-QUARTO CELEBRATION. Fifth Episcopal District St. Louis, Mo. July 5-9, Inclusive, 1915. To the Fifth Episcopal District: Dear Brethren: Seventy-five years gao, William Paul Quinn came to the shores of the Father of Waters (the Mississippi River) and stood upon its eastern bank and preached across its waters to the Negroes in St. Louis, who hungered and thirsted for the bread of life. As soon as he was permitted to do so, he crossed over into St. Louis and organized the A. M. E. Church, the first Methodist among Negroes in Missouri and the West. As the years passed by, Thomas D. Ward went to the Pacific coast and John M. Brown, to New Orleans and the south west. These fathers of the church, although they suffered bonds and afflictions, yet with unfaltering trust in God, they stood as the beaten anvil to the strike. They passed on to the heaven of peace and rest by the quiet waters of life in the everlasting city of God. Their names and memory, rich with the holy spoils of peaceful triumph, come to us as a glorious heritage and as an inspiration to carry on to a final consummation the work by them so well and wisely begin. African Methodism, the one flame of Negro religious freedom and manhood, is the gift of these men of the west and to the generations of to-day. Seventy-five years ago, a few trembling slaves stood upon the murky bank of the sulen Mississippi and listened to the message of peace from this grave ambassador of God, but today, a mighty host of loyal sons and daughters of Allen with banners outlung join in one voice to sing: "Glorious things to thee are spoken He whose word cannot be broken, Formed thee for his own abode On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose With salvation's walls surrounded Thou mayst smile at all thy foes." Seventy-five years! Two generations of men have come and passed into the silent vista of yesterday. Those of the second that remain, with the mighty host of the third that has entered Zion's gates, will meet in St. Louis, July 4, 1915, to celebrate the triumphs of the seventy-five years of our religious existence west of the Father of Waters. Our sons and daughters fro mthe shores of the pacific, from the International line of British America, from the arid wastes of Arizona and New Mexico, from beneath the shadow of the stately and framing Rockies, will come back to our Mecca of Western Methodism, back to the shrine of the mother of this Western Religious Empire, beautiful in her robes of righteousness, we gather July 4th, to bow at her sacred altars and sing together, the praise of God. Back to the altars of St. Paul, the Queen of our empire! What honors shall we bring in memory of the illustrious fathers of the past? We believe that every loyal son and daughter of African Methodism in all this vast territory—the twenty-five thousand children of Father Quinn, will each make an offering according to their ability. We are trying to raise means to carry on our Mission work in this territory and ask all who can possibly do so, give us One Dollar. If you cannot give One Dollar give Fifty cents; give twenty-five, give ten cents, give five, give as God has prospered you in life. Those who give fifty cents or more will have their names printed in the records of the celebration. Report to the pastor or to whom he may designate to receive it to be sent to Rev. A. A. Gilbert, 4729 Ferdinand street, St. Louis, by July 4, 1915. With faith in your love and loyalty for African Methodism. H. B. PARKS, Bishop. J. D. BARKSDALE, Gen. Sec. LOOK BEAUTIFUL. Have a clear, healthful skin free from liver spiotes and freckles. The skin must be regarded in two lights: Beauty and health; one part of which I have not spoken is papillae, 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 masseuse; Hair and Scalp treatments a speciality. All work guaranteed. 1711 Michigan Ave. Monday—out of town patients. Hours: 8:30 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Miss Cora B. Holmes. Money to loan on approved security. We sell homes on easy terms. See me or my clerk at my office, 521½ Virginia. Phone 1259. J. N. Brownles. *Bell Phone* 1521 E. 18th* THE WHITE ELEPHANT. We are told that in Siam, a kingdom of Southeastern Asia, the white elephant is worshipped as an omen of good fortune, and as the supply is often too small to give the kingdom the rich promise of prosperity that is desired, the Siamese have hit upon a plan of helping nature. They spend much skill and labor in painting a goodly number of dark elephants white and when the spring festival is held to propitiate the gods and insure good harvests there is no lack of encouraging auguries in the parade. Whatever we ma ythink of the trick as an attempt to deceive, it yet holds a hint for us. Many a discouraging prospect would grow more hopeful if only the people who waste time in complaining could spend a little more skill and labor in trying to turn their dark omens white. The agonies of conscience tormented over sin, the frailties of body, the catastrophes which came even upon the most prudent, the perplexities which confront any serious man in face of the responsibilities of life. These are facts which make the whole world kin. With the goal in sight obstacles spring up overnight to thwart our plans. Good fortune are rives with misfortune tagging at its heels in a way to spoil everything. The fly in the apothecary's ointment makes the whole mass unsavory. Yet to be able to transform dark and sour facts of experience into wholesome elements of comfort and power is moral victory of high degree. If men can break over the region now traversed by the Panama canal, why doubt that the universe can be made more potent than the toxins of these days? Our obstacles can be surmounted, our ores can be conquered. Demons can be exorcised and wrongs redressed. Ignorance and selfishness are the cause of many woes, but both of these are curable. It is incredible that the ugly moods and ignoble practices of the nations shall go on forever. If our supply of good omens become too small to give us the rich promise of prosperity that is desired in this above ground and all around us world, let us hit upon a plan of painting our dark elephants white. TROY. KAS. The picnic given last Friday for the school children was largely attended and every one brought well filled baskets, and not a person was turned away hungry...Their teacher, Miss Elsie Lair, also furnished them with plenty of ice cream and had their pictures taken, so in after years they will recall how they looked after partaking of all the delicacies of the season...They also had a ball game in which the boys were defeated by the girls. Oh, you ball boys...Mrs. Myrtle Thomas of St. Joseph was in the city the past week the guest of Mrs. Dora Lee...Miss Elsie Lair was shopping in St. Joseph Saturday...Mrs. Allie Duncan of White Cloud, Kas., is sewing at the residence of Mrs. Geo. Lair this week...Mrs. Mary Schumache has returned home after having spent the school term with her daughter, Mrs. M. W. Webster of St. Joseph...The colored boys are going to play ball with the Savannah team A. E. Hutchings, Chairman C. F. Win Central Bond Comm 215 Kieth and F A. E. Hutchings, Chairman C. F. Winters, Sec J. W. Perry, Treasurer Central Bond Campaign Committee Kansas City, Missouri Dear Sir: There are no secrets about the bond issue. biggest and most important movements ever u City. We want you to be thoroughly informed ab proposal, well knowing that when you are, you dorse the whole issue. Read this letter carefully, remembering th have a civic duty to perform. This is not in an lital movement, but a demand by the citizens th will make our city great and prosperous shall be Be sure to go to your voting place on Tuess time between 6 a. m. and 7 p. m. and soratch the one of the nineteen proposals. A vote against a against the whole issue. There are no secrets about the bond issue. It is one of the best, biggest and most important movements ever undertaken by Kansas City. We want you to be thoroughly informed about every item in the proposal, well knowing that when you are, you will unreservedly endorse the whole issue. Read this letter carefully, remembering that as a citizen you have a civic duty to perform. This is not in any sense a partisan political movement, but a demand by the citizens that those things which will make our city great and prosperous shall be done. Be sure to go to your voting place on Tuesday, June 1st, at some time between 6 a. m. and 7 p. m. and scratch the word NO on every one of the nineteen proposals. A vote against any one item is a vote against the whole issue. WHEN YOU DO THIS, YOU VOTE For more work for all kinds of labor For more business for business men For the bringing in of outside money For more building by our own people For increased prosperity for our own city AND YOU VOTE AGAINST A certain increase in ta CENTRAL BOND MOBERLY, MO. By Mrs. W. H. Davis. CENTRAL BOND CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE The closing exercises of Lincoln High School began Thursday evening at the Second Baptist church. The rendition of each musical and literary number was very good. On Friday evening at the A. M. E. church the graduating exercises were held. An immense crowd was in attendance. President B. F. Allen of Lincoln Institute was to deliver an address, but failed to arrive. The Rev. Smith of the Central Christian church delivered a masterful address for the occasion and met the hearty approval of all. The music for this occasion was well selected and rendered in a manner that was hard to be surpassed anywhere. The exercises were very fine and reflect much credit upon the principal, Prof. L. B. Quinn and assistant principal, Miss Lillian Schmeich. Three finished the three years High School course, viz. Roy Oliver, Wade Renrof and Eddie Wright, and twelve finished the Grammar School department....Rev. H. W. Botts of Boonville, Mo., passed through the city en route to Plattsburg, Mo., for the closing of school and the closing his pastoral work. --- Dear Sir: in Savannah, Mo., Wednesday...Mr. and Mrs. George Lair and daughter, Miss Elsie, and Mrs. Adda Wakefield and daughter, Dorothy, attended the commencement exercises at Horton, Kas, Thursday evening...Miss Lauer and Mrs. Eugene Fleming were the two colored graduates and are children of the late Col. John B. Fleming...Miss Maurine Weaver and Mrs. Pearl Sportman re the delegates from the Sunday school and Mrs. Mary Schumache from the Allen Christ Endeavor League of the A. M. E. church, which holds its district conference and Sunday school convention in Leavenworth, Kas., in June... To the Editor of the Kansas City Sun: It has been my good fortune to pay a recent visit to Hot Springs, Ark., and in the meantime to visit our institution, the Pythian sanitarium, at that place. We have the greatest institution of its kind in the world and every Pythian should take pride in rallying to the standard of that old Trojan, Dr. C. M. Wade, who is laboring assidiously to make it a success, as I believe, that it means more for the advancement of our race than any other institution of its kind. And I hope that in the future provisions will be made by the great body of Pythians to thoroughly equip it with all the requirements of a first-class sanitarium. The Pythian body should see to it that this plant in the Southwest be developed to equal any such institution in the land so that the Pythians from all over the world may derive benefits by visiting the world famous resort, Hot Springs, Ark. All honor to our Supreme Chancellor and Pythian Temple Commission for having rebuilt and reconstructed such an institution for the honor of the fraternity and the benefit of the race. Respectfully yours, ROSEDALE, KAS Mr. Elmer Tilford of Nashville, Tenn., and his sister, Mrs. Edna Motin of Kansas City, Mo., were the guests of Miss Etta Simpson, 3908 Lloyd avenue, Sunday...Mrs. Walter Henderson entertained the Pleasant Valley Mission Circle Monday at her residence, 3936 Lloyd avenue...Mrs. Wesley Tolley and little son, Gilbert, of Leavenworth, Kas, who have been visiting relatives in this city and Kansas City, Mo., will leave Saturday for their home...A program will be rendered Monday evening, May 31, under the auspices of the Pleasant Valley Mission Circle at the church Thursday evening, June 3, they will render another program to which the public is invited. List Your Vacant or Improved Property with Wm. Hopkins Modern Homes for Sale on Easy Terms Bell Phone East 3851 Winters, Sec J. W. Perry, Treasurer and Campaign mittee Perry Building the bond issue. It is one of the best elements ever undertaken by Kansas. Ily informed about every item in the you are, you will unreservedly en- remembering that as a citizen you is not in any sense a partisan po- the citizens that those things which perous shall be done. place on Tuesday, June 1st, at some and scratch the word NO on every vote against any one item is a vote TE taxes ND CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. A Vote for the Work for the and Busin A Vote for the Bonds Means Work for the Workingman and Business for the Businessman The labor organizations have unreservedly approved this issue of bonds. They realize that a very large part of the total amount will be paid out to labor. The most careful estimate shows that from 75 to 80 per cent will go to Kansas City workmen—from $3,000,000.00 to $3,500,000.00 in new money to be paid for labor alone. Every dollar's worth of material that can be bought in Kansas City will be bought in Kansas City. Every business man worthy to be counted as such has approved the bonds, because anything for the good of the city is for the good of all and a demand for labor means a demand for merchandise and better business for everybody. LITTLE CORNER —That a certain young bride to be is on the verge of changing her mind. —That the Clover Leaf Casualty Co. is the best sick and accident insurance company to join. —That Negroes send back enough furniture each year to the installment houses to fit up a dozen Baltimore hotels. —That every Negro who can save the railroad fare will be at the U. B. F. Grand Lodge in Omaha next August. Big doins. —That we have a good joke on one of the recent Matrons attending the recent Grand Court. Ask Sister Cella Johnson about it. —That a certain married woman has so many gentlemen friends that she is afraid to answer the telephone when hubby is at home. —That if half the scandals that are whispered around in polite society were published in the Sun it would start a riot in Kansas City. —That Geo. W. Little will have cars Sunday and Monday at the end of the 15th street car line to convey passengers to the Highland Cemetery. —That a very popular young lady says that if she doesn't get married in June, she's going to leave Kansas City forever. Won't some young man please save her to Kansas City? That a popular Past Grand Matron ate so heartily at the recent Grand session at Macon that she broke EVERY chair she sat on. Ain't that eating? Our Motto "Nothing but The Best" The Crosthwait Floral Company Everything in Flowers and Flower Designs "WE DELIVER THE GOODS" The People say we have made some of the most beautiful and original designs in flowers ever seen in Kansas City. "Quick Delivery--Satisfactory Service" 1801 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo GEO. W. LITTLE. Who has charge of the autos at the end of the Fifteenth Street car line Decoration Day, Get yourtickets from him. Phone Bell, Main2967V The Bonds Means the Workingman less for the Pressman have unreservedly approved this that a very large part of the total labor. The most careful estimate Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City (Your name, business, address and telephone carried in this directory at 25 cents per month, $2.00, less than one cent a day. Can you best it? To secure space call 516-252-2222. E-mail: belford@microsoft.com) R. W. ALEXANDER, 1619 East 18th street. Bell phone 3062W. Free delivery. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS. O. K. CLEANERS AND DYERS, guarantee not to sh ment they dye. 1113 East 18th street. Bell phon WORTHAM BROS., 1731 Paseo. Bell phone East 701. GOLDEN'S STEAM DYE WORKS, 1605 East 18th S East 539. O. K. CLEANERS AND DYERS, guarantee not to shrink any garment they dye. 1113 East 18th street. Bell phone, Grand 2437. WORTHAM BROS., 1731 Paseo. Bell phone East 701. GOLDEN'S STEAM DYE WORKS, 1605 East 18th St. Bell phone East 539. IDEAL PHARMACY, Prof. R. W. Foster, Prop., 18th Bell phone East 2727, Home phone East 4070. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. B 272. Home phone, East 4070. WEAVER FLORAL CO., Flowers for all occasions. F Homes, churches and halls decorated. 1510 E. 18 phone 4798 East, Home phone 7555M. GROCERS. J. L. MATTSON, 14 East 19th St. Bell phone Grand COTTAGE GROCERY, 121 Westport Ave., Rosedale, I Anderson, proprietor. LAUNDRIES. THE ELECTRIC LAUNDRY CO., J. C. Hale, Mgr., 2 Home phone 3160. THE IMMACULATE LAUNDRY, 1912 East 18th S East 4723. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58 all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58. Practices in all courts. GEO. T. WASSOM, Attorney at Law, 307 Walnut street. IDEAL PHARMACY, Prof. R. W. Foster, Prop., 18th and Woodland Bell phone East 2727. Home phone East 4070. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 272. Home phone, East 4070. WEAVER FLORAL CO. Flowers for all occasions. Funeral designs. Homes, churches and halls decorated. 1510 E. 18th street. Bell phone 4798 East. Home phone 7555M. J. L. MATTSON, 14 East 19th St. Bell phone Grand 2309W. THE ELECTRIC LAUNDRY CO., J. C. Hale, Mgr., 2928 Summit St. Home phone 3160. THE IMMACULATE LAUNDRY, 1912 East 18th St. Bell phone East 4723. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. PHOTOGRAPHERS C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East phone East 1643. PHYSICIANS. DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Theraptics, P. O. box 90A, Bell 523, Rosedale, Kas. C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell phone East 1643. PHYSICIANS. DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Theraptics, P. O. box 90A, Bell phone, Rosedale, 523, Rosedale, Kas. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. AFRO-AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO., Help furnished. 911 McGee street. Bell Phone 751 Main. Home Phone 7555 Main. MRS. A. E. JENKINS, 1324 Vine street, Bell Phone East 4067J. SECOND-HAND GOODS. W. G. HOPKINS, 2122 Vine St. Bell phone East 3851. MILLINERY. MME. STELLA HUBBARD, latest things in hats. Old hats made new. 1510 East 18th street. Bell phone E. 4798. E & INVESTMENT CO., Help fur- Home Phone 7555 Main. Street, Bell Phone East 4067J. ND GOODS. Bell phone East 3851 ' ERY. t things in hats. Old hats made Bell phone E. 4798. AFRO-AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO., Help furnished 911 McGee street nished. 911 McGee street. Bell Phone 751 Main. Home Phone 7555 Main. MRS. A. E. JENKINS, 1324 Vine street, Bell Phone East 4067J. SECOND-HAND GOODS. W. G. HOPKINS, 2122 Vine St. Bell phone East 3851 . MILLINERY. MME. STELLA HUBBARD, latest things in hats. Old hats made new. 1510 East 18th street. Bell phone E. 4798. TO THE PUBLIC: We want you to come to us for everything carried by you DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOOD BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER HAIR-GROWER-DRYING STRAIGHTENING COMBS, ETC. We recommend and guarantee everything offered for exactly as represented. WE DO NOT "SUBSTITUTE" me take other brands than you ask for. You "want what you we want you to have it. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT All down the line. We give careful attention to all one by courteous a d fair treatment to give perfect satisfi customers. When you think of Drugs think of THEO. SMITH'S PHARMACY. No demand is too difficult for us to supply. If you to come to our store, phone us your wants and we will Mail Orders Solicited and Promptly Filled Theo. Smith's Drug Store. Bell Phone 4591 Grand. Home Phone 5467 1301 E. 18th St. KANSA Randolph Bros. & New and Artistic Carpent EVERYthing carried by a Drug Store. CYCLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMBS, AIR-GROWER-DRYING COMBS, COMBS, ETC. EVERYthing offered for sale to be "SUBSTITUTE" nor ask you to You "want what you want" and ARE RIGHT attention to all orders, and alm give perfect satisfaction to our gigs think of PHARMACY. to supply. If you are too busy wants and we will do the rest. and Promptly Filled. Drug Store. Home Phone 5467 Main. KANSAS CITY, MO. ros. @ Son Carpenters We want you to come to us for everything carried by a Drug Store. DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMBS, BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER HAIR-GROWER-DRYING COMBS, STRAIGHTENING COMBS, ETC. We recommend and guarantee everything offered for sale to be exactly as represented. WE DO NOT "SUBSTITUTE" nor ask you to take other brands than you ask for. You "want what you want" and we want you to have it. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT All down the line. We give careful attention to all orders, and aim by courteous and fair treatment to give perfect satisfaction to our customers. When you think of Drugs think of THEO. SMITH'S PHARMACY. No demand is too difficult for us to supply. If you are too busy to come to our store, phone us your wants and we will do the rest. Mail Orders Solicited and Promptly Filled. Theo. Smith's Drug Store. Bell Phone 4591 Grand. Home Phone 5467 Main. 1301 E. 18th St. KANSAS CITY, MO. Randolph Bros. @ Son New and Artistic Carpenters and Builders Paper Hanging and Painting. Patching and Plastering General Repairing a Specialty PROMPT WORK REASONABLE PRICES BELL PHONE East 2526 SHOP 1207 Highland. Res. 1031 Highland KANSAS CITY, MO. It's Up to You to patronize a man who has been for lo these man- ing to help himself and also build up the busi- ness of his race. J. A. WILSON Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jew Sells Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and other Staple Reliable or will help you to buy the same from any leadi- house. You will receive courteous treatment and sq This store is at 1616 West 9th street, Kansas Ci half block west from Wyoming street or station. n for lo these many years striv build up the business prestige WILSON meer Negro Jeweler 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 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. --- BARBECUE BARBERS J. COWDEN. 1617 East Twelfth street. DRUG STORES FLORISTS. GROCERS LAUNDRIES LAWYERS PHYSICIANS MILLINERY. Superb Wall Papers Samples Shown at Your Home No obligation to purchase, A postal brings us. Telephone, Bell Main 6248R CITY NEWS. Get the habit of going to the Handy Store for notions. HAVE YOU VISITED THE CRITERION THEATRE? IT'S GREAT. Dr. Chas. A. Bentley of Chicago was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. D. A. Crosthwait while in the city. PASTURE—For horses. and cows. Bud Gilliam, R. R. 4, Box 106, Kansas City, Mo. The Peace Offering between Germany and England has been postponed until the third Tuesday in June. Mr. Wm. Smith, who is walking to Galveston, Tex., writes that he had reached Ardmore, Ok., the 19th. Miss Anna D. Taylor entertained the Ladies' Aid Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Mollie Brown. Have you visited the Colored Handy store at 2409 Vine street? Go there for bargains. Mrs. Hellen Green and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Winnington returned from Leavenworth, Kas, where they attended the funeral of their niece, Mrs. Georgia Holloway. Mr. Arthur Thomas, who has been visiting Miss May Smith of 3906 E 14th street, has returned to his home in International Falls, Minn. Mr. A. W. Fox left Friday for Omaha, Neb., to decorate the grave of his late wife, Mrs. Luda Bruce Fox, and place a monument to her memory. Mrs. E. W. Williams and her sister, Miss India Gross, left Monday evening for Charlotteville, Va., to be at the bedside of their mother, Mrs. Agnes Gross. Mrs. Lulu Frazier, 1101 Michigan avenue, has as house guests this week Mrs. R. E. Webster and daughter Hortense of Denver, Colo., who are enroute home from Ft. Smith, Ark. Mrs. Fannie B. Heatly, formerly of 1607 Tracy avenue, died last Friday at the home of her niece, Mrs. Emma E. Ingram, 18 N. Compton St., St. Louis, Mo., and was buried at Hot Springs, Ark. The Only Place in Town—Shirt waist ball, Wednesday, June 3, Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets, Dancing every Wednesday night. Class every Saturday night. White's famous orchestra. When you want work done up-to-date, call up the COLORED ACME HOUSE CLEANING CO. Prices reasonable. Bell phone Main 751; Home Main 7555. Residence phone Home Main 6438. M C. SPICER, Manager. Miss Alice M. Shores of Lincoln School, who spent a week at the bedside of her father a tLexington, KY., has returned to her duties here. She reports that her father is very low and that no hope is held out for his recovery. A very pretty party was given by Mr. Earl Thomas in honor of the senior class of Sumner High School Monday evening. May 24, at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Thomas, 17 S. Harrison street, Kansas City, Kas. The Rt. Rev. Theo D. Bratton of Jackson, Miss., preached the commencement sermon at Tuskegee Institute May 23 and the commencement address was delivered by Rt. Rev. R. S. Williams, bishop of the C. M. E church of Augusta, Ga., May 27. Miss Callie Williams entertained last Saturday evening complimentary to the Jolly Bachelors at the Garrison Field House. The L. S. P. Girls were guests. The evening was highly enjoyable and the guests left at a late hour declaring Miss Williams a charming hostess. Mrs. Ida Overall Nash, 2728 Woodland, entertained last Saturday evening in honor of the Lincoln school faculty. Mrs. Nash was for several years a teacher at Lincoln and her devotion to her former associates was shown in the elaborate manner in which she made up the enjoyment of this occasion. Mrs. Mosby, the hair and scalp specialist, requested me to submit a testimonial regardin- her work. I hereby state that it is in a class by itself. I can say that it has done a world of good to date, and would advise any one desiring to become able to boast of a head of growing hair to consult Mrs. Mosby, W. A. A. HARRIS. TO THE GENEROUS PUBLIC. I take this method to notify my clients, friends and public generally that my office is now located at 307 Walnut street, where I am near the city hall, criminal court and circuit court houses, where I will be pleased to serve those who may need my services. Respectfully, GEORGE T. WASSOM, Attorney at Law. CARD OF THANKS. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank Mr. T. B. Watkins of the Watkins Bros. Undertaking Co. for the businesslike manner in which he took care of my interests while preparing to take my dear husband's body home for burial. I also wish to thank him for the favors done for me, thus enabling me to look after his re- mains without embarrassment to my- self. I trust that he will have a well deserved success. DAISY ROBERTS. 1521 E. 18th street. TRY A CRESCENT AD. For Your Business sake Nothing to equal it for a dull, sick business—only one penny a day. CRESCENT ADVERTISING AGENCY. "The Business Way" BOB BOSLEY, Manager. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our sincere thanks to the many friends of our dear mother and wife, Julia Dulen, who died April 21, 1915, for the beautiful floral offerings. Respectfully, JOHN DULEN, Husband. FANNIE KING, JOE DULEN, HARRY DULEN, CLORINDA DULEN, Children. What are you doing? Lying in your trenches and afraid to raise your head. You have boasted that you would whip England and all her allies and now is your time to prove to the world your greatness. England is waiting to meet you and make you eat that milk and mush while she eats ice cream and cake prepared at the Y. M. C. A. June first. Program will appear in next week's issue. Commander of England. Grand Charitable Given b Domestic Sci Grand Charitable Entertainment Domestic Science Circle For the Benefit of the B. L. I. P. U. Of A. No. I. Of Ka —AT— LYRIC HALL, 1731 LYDIA MONDAY, MAY 31 THE BEST OF DANCE MUSIC AND R Come Out and Dance ADMISSION B. L. I. P. U. Of A. No. I. Of Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. T. W. H. Williams, Chairman. Of Gerald William Jones, who de parted this life May 30, 1911. Aged 9 years and 10 months. Ab. birth and carrot flower that lov Ah, first and rarest flower that love e'er gave, Plucked from thy mother's heart, now in the grave. Thou liest, yet in life's long threnody Thy sweet young spirit hovers near est me PARENTS, BROTHER AND GRAND PARENTS. IN MEMORIAM. In sad and loving memory of our dear brother and uncle, Fred McClarne, who passed away one year ago May 30, 1914. Gone from this world of pain and sorrow To a home where suffering is not known; One by one we all shall follow, To be crowned at Thy heavenly throne. Keep a watch for us, dear loved one, And guard us gently on the way. MR. and MRS. ABNER CRUMP and daughter Leah. IN MEMORIAM In loving remembrance of Leon Oliver, who died two years ago, May 16, 1913. You were with us once, your voice we could hear, It seems but yesterday. You were our pride, our joy, our all, But you suddenly went away. Twas hard to bear, but 'twas God's will, We missed you then, we miss you still. You've paid the debt; climbed the Heavenly Hill, We'll meet you there some day. O brother mine, how my heart did ache The day you went away, And mamma's, too, it seemed they'd break. And find a peace in his loving word. And though your body sleeps beneath the sod, We'll meet the soul up there some day. SARA LEE HAMMETT, Sister. AMANDA OLIVER JACKSON, Mother. EDNA HAMMETT, Niece. Among the Churches ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday, May 30, will be Quarterly meeting day. Rev. J. W. Warfield will preach. Everybody is invited. The G. U. O. of O. F. choir will sing at 3:00 p. m. Preaching at 11:00 a. m and 8:00 p. m. by Rev. W. H. Peck the Presiding Elder. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. The following persons are on the sick list: Mrs. Catherine Gibson, 1731 Harrison; Laura Cliff, 2442 Flora; Lulu Hughes, 1019 Michigan; Rilla Jenkins, 2408 Flora; Albert Johnson, 1820 Howard. We hope for them a speedy recovery...Mrs. Willie Lee Gore is here visiting her mother, Mrs. F. D. Michal and her many friends. We wish her a pleasant stay. Morn ing and evening services were well attended. Notwithstanding the inclement weather many came through the rain to church. Such Christians can well sing through floods and flames "If Jesus Leads I Will Follow Where He Goes." SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. The Imperial Jubilee Concert Company's entertainment which was postponed on account of rain to May 23, rendered an excellent program to an appreciative audience, which responded to the applause with excellent numbers....The B. Y. P. U. is planning to give a rally in the near future. More members and friends are urged spesu tannu uu uu oi aljxx xiu se to attend and support the B. Y. P. U. The Entertainment by the— cience Circle I. Of Kansas City, Mo. 731 LYDIA AVE. AY 31st, 1915 MUSIC AND REFRESHMENTS and Dance SION 25c your aid both in attendance and finance...Come to the Wednesday evening prayer meeting and receive strength...The Bacote Literary Society which meets the first and third Thursday night in each month, is using the question box, which is very interesting...The Leisure Hour Club which meets every Tuesday night is still progressing...Mrs. Bell Compton, our worthy Sunday school superintendent, was absent last Sunday on account of illness...The relief workers of this church are a great help to the unfortunate...The Woman's Mission Circle, which meets every Friday night, requests your presence...The services last Sunday were as usual up to a high standard. An interesting feature is the song service from 7:30 to 8 p. m. Come out and hear the 'Sweet Singers of Israel'. Dr. Bacote's sermon last Sunday was interesting and practical. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH. By Mrs. Mildred Mott. Sunday, May 23, was a high day at Ebenezer. It was called Men's Day, being a day given to the men of the church that they might have the leadership in all the doings and sayings throughout the day. To say they acquitted themselves grandly is putting it mildly for they rose far above all expectations in their orations. I wish first to call especial attention to the morning service. The sermon preached by our pastor, Rev. W. C. Williams, was a masterpiece. It seems that he started upon the highest pinnacle of spiritual and eloquent power and remained in that high atmosphere and to have the pleasure of occupying a seat with the congregation and enjoy that great sermon was indeed gratifying. The most graphic and beautiful yet pathetic picture of our Saviour's betrayal, his sad journey to Calvour's and the cruel crucifixion was vividly painted by the speaker. It made one feel as if they were present in the garden of Gethsemane and indeed upon Mount Calvary at the time of the crucifixion. Oh, if I could find words appropriate to express the feeling of elation, even pride, that I felt at the close of the morning and evening services. The committee of arrangements is to be highly complimented and too much praise cannot be given the program committee for the arrangement and execution of such a grand program which was carried out to the letter. The choir, composed entirely of male voices under the direction of Prof. Work rendered the finest selections of hymns, choruses and solos that have ever been heard in Ebenezer. And a choir of male voices exclusively would at any and all times be a special and enjoyable attraction at our services. If we take the institutions of Mr. C. A. Franklin in his most timely and eloquent address and season our church work with the rea Christian spirit portraying more ben evidence and charity and ever observe --- ing the golden rule, we would indeed be a great power and for the good of humanity and the uplift of our people we would have no peers, and it would be a great credit to our dear Zion. We hope for another such day in Ebenezer. God bless Ebenezer, long live its mighty leader, renewed strength be given its willing workers, more courage and zeal to its faithful followers and true and tried friends. Women's Club Notes STATE FEDERATION. The Missouri State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs are holding their 15th annual session at Vine and Broadway Baptist Church, Macon, Mo., the 28th and 29th, the program for which is as follows: Friday Morning, May 28, at.9 O'clock. Convention called to order by President, Mrs. Ida A. Walker of St. Joseph, Mo. Devotional exercises. Appointment of committees. An acquaintance meeting. Report of committee on credentials. Roll call of delegates. State song. Welcome address on behalf of citizens, Mrs. S. J. Mott. Welcome address, Mrs. Ida L. Garnett, Macon. Instrumental solo, Miss Corrine Wright. Response, Mrs. Alma A. Clark, St. Louis. Report of state officers. Report of state The value of "Team Work," Mrs. G. G. Mason, Kansas City. Clean Up Day or Our Public Health, Mrs. Gertrude Ball, Lexington. General discussion. Memorial remembrance. Adjournment. Friday Afternoon, 1:30 O'clock. President's report and message. Report of Clubs. Vocal solo, Miss Alma McElroy. Paper, Miss Dollie Stevens, Hannibal. Churches and Schools as Social Centers, Mrs. Kate Moore Fields, Columbia. Discussion, Led by Mrs. Josie E. Williams, Boonville. Reading, Miss Othello Bartlett. Environment in Race Culture, Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, Hannibal. Report of chairman Educational Committee, Mrs. Estelle Damel, Jefferson City. Vocational training, Mrs. Leota Fields, Carrollton. Economic training of boys and girls, Mrs. R. E. L. Bailey, Kansas City. Report on industrial Home for Girls, Mrs. C. R. McDowell, Hannibal. Friday Evening, 8 O'clock. Selection—Brown's Orchestra. Invocation. Song, Choir. Welcome address on behalf of city, Mayor C. H. Payson. Response, Mrs. C. R. McDowell, Hannibal. Reading, Sara Green, Joplin. Address, Nelson C. Crews, Grand Master of Masons. Instrumental solo, Miss Idella Harris. Vocal solo, Mr. Euell Clark. Vocal solo, Mr. James M. Garnett. Selection—Brown's Orchestra. Saturday Morning, May 29, 9 O'clock. Music. Instrumental solo, Miss Lucile Harris. Children and Moving Picture Shows, Mrs. Mary E. Goinns, Jefferson City. Discussion, Led by Miss Dayse Baker, Farmington. Community Work, Mrs. Marie Hogan an White, Sedalia. Discussion, led by Mrs. Katie Lee Carrollton. Influence of the Negro in Business Mrs. Pearl M. Dabney, Kansas City. Christian Education, Mrs. Phana Clay, St. Joseph. Echoes from the National Association, C. W. C. Mrs. Lucinda Day, Kansas City; Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley St. Louis. Saturday Afternoon, 1:30 O'clock. Children's Hour, conducted by Miss Margaret Oliver. A Plea for Better Informed Mothers Mrs. Georgia Parker, Lexington. Discussion, led by Ida B. Green Joolin. Value of Music in the Development of Character, Mrs. Ida A. Hill, Boonville. Reading, Miss Alerta Dandridge. Social Hygiene, Mrs. M. E. Newton, Columbia. Discussion, lad by Mrs. N. H. Kenner, Marshall. Discussion of Art Work, Mrs. G. G. Maason, chairman. State song. Adjournment. The Progress Study Club will meet with Mrs. R. E. L. Bailey, 2206 Euclid avenue, next week. All members are requested to be present. CHILLICOTHE, MO. CHILLEOTHE, M.O. Mrs. Iva Williams returned from Atchison, Kas., last Saturday after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kerford ...Rev. Burridge, Mr. Clyde Banks, Miss Mayme Cabbell and Miss Alberta Young attended the Commencement exercises of the Baptist College at Macon, Mo., last week—Rev. and Mrs. Talley and daughter, Miss Alice Talley, were the guests of Prof. and Mrs. Reynolds of Hamilton, Mo., Friday. Miss Talley played for the closing exercises of the public school Friday night...Quarterly meeting was held at the A. M. E. church last Sunday. Presiding Elder M. S. Bryant was present...A surprise party was given by Mr. Wm. Anderson at his home last Tuesday in honor of the birthday of his wife, Mrs. Ruth Anderson. In addition to a company of invited friends, Mr. Charles Gilbert of Rockford, Ill., and Mrs. Alymra Jones of Denver, Colo., were the out of town guests present...The Bachelor Girls met with Miss Bertha Monroe Saturday afternoon. A pleasant evening's entertainment was furnished by the primary pupils of Garrison School un der the supervision of Miss Odessa Hillman last Friday. This was a most unique entertainment, introducing the strange incidents and characters of fairyland, and it attracted a large crowd of interested patrons and friends, who were well repaid for attending. The remainder of the evening was spent in social intercourse and in reviewing the literary and manual work on exhibit. Much credit is due Prof. Wm. Longdon and Miss Minnie Payne and Odessa Hillman who have succeeded in bringing this year's work up to the usual standard of excellency. Prof. Theo. Copeland gave a good operetta Thursday, May 20, assisted by the Maptist and Methodist choirs...Sunday is the last Forum day for the students this year and the Seniors will have charge of the program...Bryon Mason is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Crutchfield, at Garnett, Kas...Mr. and Mrs. H. Gleed are the proud parents of a baby boy who was born Monday, May 24...Mr. Adam Carter visited his daughter in Kansas City...Mr. A. K. McNutt passed away May 20 at Eureka, Kas, after a short illness. A wife, three boys and three daughters survive him...Mr. Jessie Scott was in Kansas City Sunday...Mr. Claude Jones was up from Kansas City Sunday...Mr. Fred Mack spent Sunday in Kansas City...Miss Hellen Brown of Kansas City attended the Tennis Club party Friday evening and stayed over Sunday. Her many friends were glad to see her...Rev. J. M. Brown, pastor of St. John's church in Topeka, Kas., was in town Monday to see Rev. Sam Barker, who is very sick. Mr. Theo Copeland assisted by the choirs of the Baptist and Methodist churches, will give a cantata Thursday at St. Luke's A. M. E. church. Archie Macey and Richard Elliott walked to Eudora, Kas. Sunday...W. W. C. Brown spent Sunday with her mother at Garnett, Kas. PLATTSBURG, MO On the 14th inst. the grade exercises of Washington school was held at the Christian church. The exercises were well rendered by the pupils and a large audience witnessed the same. Sunday, May 16, the graduating sermon was delivered by Rev. A. L. Lovell at the A. M. E. church. Special music by the vested choir. Friday, May 21, the friends and patrons visited the school and served an excellent luncheon. At night the cadets gave an exhibition drill at the Knights of Tabor hall. The drill was the prettiest ever witnessed in this city. The commencement exercises were held Monday, May 24, at the Baptist church. The attendance was large and the exercises pronounced to be the best ever rendered by this school. Rev. L. W. Harris of Carrolton delivered the address, which was eloquent and forceful. The following composed the class: Hellen N. Estell, Ethel L. Miller, Bernice E. Green, Samuel Dixon, Jr. The school has made great progress under the efficient management of Prof. C. W. Black, who is held in high esteem by patrons and pupils....Miss Ada Clark has been appointed as teacher of room No. 1. Her selection meets the hearty approval of the patrons. Many out of town visitors attended the commencement....The members and friends of the Baptist church regret the loss of Rev. H. W. Botts who has accepted the pastorate of Boonville church....Mrs. James Clark was visiting her daughter's school at Hardin, Mo. ST. JOSEPH. MO. The funeral of Luvenia Corpal was held fro the Francis Street Baptist church Sunday afternoon, Rev. Prince officiating. She was a member of Heletrope Tent. The installation of the Knights of Tabor was held at the C. M. E. church Monday night. Miss Sadie Sauleds spent several weeks with relatives and has returned to her home in Chillicothe. Mr. David Haines, an old citizen of St. Joseph, dled Monday morning. Mrs. Smith Crews is visiting her mother and relatives in Oregon, Mo. There will be a contest drill between A. R. Chinn's Palatine Guards of St. Joseph and George Walker's Guards of Leavenworth, Kas, for championship of the district on May 31 at Leavenworth, Kas. The Pioneer lodge of the A. F. and A. M. gave a two nights' fair at the Knights of Tabor hall May 25 and 26. HOLDEN, MO. By Chas Pratt Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. R. Little of Kansas City are the guests of Mrs. Nannie Simons.....Mr. Henry Chatton of Holden and Miss Bertha Sawyers of Centerview, Mo., were quietly married.....A number of young men went to Warensburg Friday night to a grand minstrelshow, Sedalia talent.....Mr. W. O. Harden spent a night in Warensburg.....Mrs. Alex Jacobs and little grandson are visiting in Topeka, Kas, for two or three weeks.....Mrs. Nannie Young passed away Friday morning. Many of her friends and relatives from different little towns attended the funeral, which was highly appreciated by her relatives and many friends of Holden. Rev. Gibson officiated.....Rev. Summerville of Sedalia preached an excellent sermon Sunday night at the C. M. E. church. LEXINGTON, MO. Dr. and Mrs. Hudson have moved on 8th street... Miss Mable Cox of Appleton City, Mo., who has been visiting Miss Hazel Smith, left Thursday morning for her home in Topeka, Kas. ...Rev. W. H. Wheeler, District Superintendent of Kansas City, Mo., held Quarterly meeting at St. John M. E. church Sunday and preached three excellent sermons—Miss Jeanette Woodson left for Kansas City Thursday to remain a few weeks. The marriage of Miss Hattie M. Smith and Prof. J. W. Jackson was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Thomas at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, May 19, Rev. W. H. Smith officiating. They left immediately for Chicago, where they will spend the summer. TRADE PORO MARK Mr. John W. McRae's Wife Objected To her husband's taking insurance in August, 1914. Mr. McRae's widow felt differently in April, 1915. Mr. McRae was insured with us in August, 1914. On April 16, 1915, he was apparently perfectly well. On April 17 he called a physician. Tuesday, April 20, he was able to be around his store, but Saturday, April 24, he was dead. The following Tuesday, as soon as the death proof papers were handed to us We Paid Mrs. McRae One Thousand Dollars A wife sometimes objects to life insurance but a widow never does. Is your wife protected? If your husband insured? You don't know when you will be called as suddenly as was Mr. McRae. Suppose he had waited! We pay all our claims promptly. Ask anybody. Largest company of its kind in the world. Capital fully paid, $100,000.00 Over $1,500,000.00 Insurance in Force. Standard Life Insurance Company Home Office. Insurance Company Standard Life Insurance Company Standard Life Insurance Company Home Office. 200 Auburn Ave., Atlanta KANSAS CITY OFFICE—1507 East Eighteen GEO. F. PORTER, Agency Director. Calling Cards, Business Cards, Church, Society, Stationery Printing of all kinds. ICE—1507 East Eighteenth St. TER, Agency Director. Cards, Church, Society, Book and Printing of all kinds. 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Bargains == For Sale If you want to make a good investment with a small amount of money payable in installments, easy terms, see these high, level lots. s == For Sale good investment with a small amount of ats, easy terms, see these high, level lots. Over Jaccard's Jewelry Store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. Bargains == For Sale If you want to make a good investment with a small amount of money payable in installments, easy terms, see these high, level lots, 35v150, two blocks north of the South Park line. Get off at Barber's store and walk two blocks north and inquire for Will White or Gee White, the owner, at 1409 Adams street, Rosedale, Kansas. 200 Auburn Ave. ```markdown ``` Atlanta, Georgia ```markdown ``` Toodles and His Grandpa BY H. M. EGBERT How Toodles got acquainted with his grandfather in the first place was always a mystery in the town. It was Mrs. Clay, who lived next door to the old recluse, who brought the news that Toodles and the old man were hobbobbing on the doorstep. Toodles was five and Henry Pentland seventy-five. "What a pity it is," said Toodles, swinging backward and forward in the rocking chair, "that you didn't like my papa as well as you like Uncle George." "Why?" rasped the old man, speaking as if to a man of his own years. "Because then you wouldn't have been so lonesome and miserable in your old age," said Toodles. The shot went home. With a snarl old Henry Pentland was upon his feet, "What do you mean, sir?" he demanded. "I am anything but miserable." He went on in a soliloquy, apparently. "Charles and George were both dear to me. George had the brains. He made a success of his life in the city, where he is honored and feared. Charles was centent to plod along in a country store. He married a non-entity. He did nothing toward elevating the family. Why shouldn't I prefer George?" "Because papa's your son, too," declared Toodles, looking up earnestly into the old man's face. "And mamma says you've never set eyes on papa since he was married," he added, wistfully. "Tell me this, sir," insisted the old man, "who put you up to this game? Who sent you here?" "I sent myself here," answered Toodles. "A likely story. Why?" "Cos mother said you must be so b badly punished for being so unkind Wilhelm "I'm the United States Marshal for This Federal District." and I wanted to see what you looked like." Toodles declared, scampering away. "Good-by, grandpa." And he was gone. All that Toodles had said was true. George Pentland, financier, had inveigled upon him his entire fortune, which he had invested in his dubious schemes, paying his father 10 per cent per annum. However, he had only paid two years' income, and in reality this had come out of the principle. Henry Pentland had dotted upon his second son when he was a boy. But Charles was not smart, like George, and when he married pretty, but commonplace, Lida Gray, the angry old man, who had dreamed of seeing both his children wealthy and honored, refused to go to the wedding. He had never spoken to Charles since the marriage, nor held communication with any member of his family except George, who, having wheeled the old man out of his eleighteen thousand dollars, under promise of eighteen hundred a year for life, now began to find his father something of an embarrassment. Old Henry Pentland wrote to his son every week. His solicitude for his son's health did not touch George, and his twice a year visits to him at his bachelor quarters in town were an event of horror, for George was sensitive to the opinions of his friends, and dreaded that one of them would meet him in the company of the shabby old man who clung to his arm and gesticulated with his cane. "Grandpa's going to town Monday," said Toodles. Lida and Charles exchanged glances. They knew of Toodles' visits and had not discouraged them, hoping that the old man would soften toward the child, and, through him, toward them. "How do you know?" inquired Toodles' father. "I heard him telling his servant," answered Toodles. "He's going to see Uncle George." Charles drew his wife aside. "Dear, I wonder whether we can't do anything to save his money," he said. "You know, of course, that I received a circular about that mining proposition. It's an obvious swindle; yet the fellow seems to be clinging to the inside wall of the law. He'll dissipate that money he wheedled out of father as sure as fate." "But dear, you know how obstinate your father is—" "I know, but we can't let him be in need. There ought to be some way of getting his money back for him, even if it does destroy his faith in George." They put their heads together, and after a while, a heroic, desperate plan occurred to Charles. He loved his fa- ther, in spite of the old man's behavior toward him, and he did not intend to let his brother George despoil him — especially as he suspected George of being interested in a good many shady propositions. As a matter of fact, George, who had not seen his brother for ten years, had never meant that circular to fall into his hands. It had been an oversight of one of his girls. It was not George's interest to arouse any suspicions in his brother, whom he despised, until he had made good on his coup and betaken himself with his victim's money to another land. On the following Monday Henry Pentland stepped out of the train at the central station and made his way toward his son's office. He had seen George's new handsome suite where his companies had their headquarters. He had wondered at the stenographers and addressers at their desks, at the mahongany fittings of the interior office, and any doubts which might have existed in his mind as to the security of his capital had been immediately dispelled. George seemed in his father's eyes the most wonderful man in the world. He contrasted him scornfully with stay-at-home Charles, who had never done anything but keep a store. As he ascended in the elevator the old man looked without much interest at the middle-aged man that accompanied him. The two entered the office together. "An investor!" the farmer thought. A girl rose and came toward them, but the middle-aged man brushed past her and coolly made his way into the inner room. The girl hesitated and then took Henry Pentland's name. "I'm just his father—I'll wait," said the old man. At that moment he heard an oath from within, the sound of a falling chair. Instantly the dread suspicion flashed upon him that the stranger had injured George. He knew that financiers were greatly hated by the unsuccessful. He had always feared for George's life when the papers were filled with denunciations of the wealthy, and mob orators indulged in wild declamations. Overcome with fear, he plunged into the inner room —to see George standing at bay defiantly, the stenographer upon her feet in terror, and the bearded, middle-aged man confronting George dramatically. He did not take his eyes from George, but called to Henry to come in and close the door. "I'm the United States marshal for this federal district," he explained, quietly, "and I am instructed to place the government seal upon everything here. Kindly do not attempt to leave this room. It is not necessary to create a panic outside. I will take the books and ask for Mr. Pentland's company to the federal fall." "What's my son done?" besought the old man. "He is suspected of having organized a crooked concern known as the Alpha Gold Mining company." "But I've put eighteen thousand into it," wailed Henry Pentland. "I'm afraid you won't see it again," answered the marshal. "Now, Mr. Pentland, are you ready?" "See here, George." shouted his father, "is this all bunk or what?" "He's lying," muttered George, but without conviction. "See here, how much will you give to give me twelve hours' grace?" he continued, turning to the marshal. "Oh, George!" moaned Henry Pentland, all his ambitious dreams shattered. "You squirrel, give me my eighteen thousand or I'll have you hauled off to the penitentiary," he continued. George Pentland held a short whispered colloquy with the marshal. At the end of that time he sat down and wrote out a cheek, which he tossed across the table to his father. It was for eighteen thousand dollars. "Take it, and don't let me see your face again!" he snarled, and, clapping on his hat, he strode out of the office. The marshal took the old man by the arm. "It's made out to bearer," he said, taking up the check, "and we'll go and get it cashed before closing hour." Fifteen minutes later Henry Pentland, with eighteen thousand dollars in bills upon his person, entered a cab. "I'll never forget your kindness, never," he sobbed to the federal marshal. "That scoundrel robbed me of my hard-earned savings, and I trusted him completely. Now, he's no longer a son of mine. I cast him off, I've got another son, but I ain't treated him well, and I can't rightly expect him to have anything to do with me. But—eh?" For the marshal, stepping into the cab, pulled the beard from his face, revealing the features of—Charles. He grabbed his father's hand in his. "Let's shake and forget it, dad," he said. "We'll get home and tell Lila—and Toodles. What do you say?" Henry Pentland said little, because the shock stunned too heavily, but the look upon his face was sufficient answer. Tinned Cheese. In this age of "sanitary" packages for food products, it is an anomaly that we still buy our cheese by the pound, sliced off from a common leaf at the grocers. For a number of years the United States department of agriculture has been testing the merits of cheese put up in air-tight tins, and the results are said to be satisfactory. It is found commercially practicable to press cheese of the Cheddar type in hoops of small diameter, cut into pieces of the desired weight, and seal it in the tins. This process not only conduces to the preservation of the product, but also prevents loss by evaporation and the waste entiled in cutting. Moreover, the tinned cheese has no rind, and this fact represents a gain which helps to offset the cost of tinning, estimated at about three cents for labor and tins.—Scientific American. Plan to Teach American Farmers. The government of Chile plans to send experts to the United States to teach American farmers the correct methods of utilizing nitrate of soda as fertilizer I Transparent Hats and Others for Midsummer Rp. Admirers of the shepherd's check in clothes for tailored suits—and these are many—were given a very great variety in models this spring to choose from. Those suits for which small checks were chosen, on cut simple, but carefully thought out lines, proved to be the most successful. A great many of them were made with short-waisted box coats. A less number had short jackets, and some of the smartest were designs in which semifitting coats figured. Skirts were nearly always plain, moderately wide and somewhat flaring. The advance of the season proved that the suits of shepherd's check received a merited appreciation. The pretty spring suit became the crisp midsummer suit by a variation of the shoes and hats worn with it, and is a paying investment for street wear. One of them is illustrated here. The perfectly tailored skirt is plain with moderate flare and cut instep length. Transparent Hats and Early in the season hats having transparent brims made their appearance. These brims were flat and mounted on braid crowns. They were made of malines, net, chiffon or thin crepe. Nearly always, embedded between layers of such air materials, flowers, with petals spread flat, added touches of lovely color. The effect is very pretty—and gave the hats their distinguishing name—that of "halo" hats—the embedded wreaths encircling the head like a halo. So good an item of art in millinery was destined to outlast the early season and to introduce many transparent hats for midsummer. The latter are made, crown and all, of the thin fabrics, and brims have grown wider. Flower and feather trimmings—but mostly flowers—are mounted on the outside or underbrim instead of being embedded in the material. A beautiful hat of this character is shown in the picture. It is of black malines made over a frame of fine silk wire. The edge wire and one other are outlined on the underbrim by filter jet. There is an immense pompon of malines at the front with two long jet ornaments thrust in it. Nothing could be prettier for midsummer wear than this exquisite piece of millinery. Hemp and leghorn hats, with facings of crape on the upper or under brims are among the loveliest offerings in dress hats. Light pink crepe is the favorite color and hats of this character are among the best designed for bridesmaids at June weddings. One of them is shown in the illustration. It has a crown of hemp and its upper brim covered with crepe stretched smoothly over it, leaving the hemp as a facing. It is trimmed Beginning of "Reuter's." Reuter's the European news agency, had a curious beginning. Baron Reuter long nursed an idea for organizing the supply of foreign news in identical terms to all the newspapers, but editors gave him no encouragement. At last he determined to risk things, and arranged with correspondents all over Europe. When their messages began to come in he took them round personally to the newspaper offices and offered them for nothing, on condition that his name should be printed The jacket is among the modest number made with normal waist line, which rises a little at the back, where plaits are depended from the belt. It is cut in points at the front, is longer than at the back and is shaped by small plaits laid in at each side. The belt terminates at these plaits. The shoulders are somewhat long and so are the plain coat sleeves. The flaring turnover collar is cut in three pieces and unusually well adjusted. Ball buttons in three sizes are used for fastening and trimming. The suit is worn with low shoes and black cloth gaiters, to be changed to white for midsummer wear. The sailor hat, of black taffeta, with collar and border in black and white stripe, is trimmed with small pompons of black feathers with long curving ribs extending from them. White neck ruffs of malines or combinations of white and black look well with these check suits. Others for Midsummer with a wreath of rose foliage against a background of ribbon with a narrow border in black. Little June roses are set in the wreath. The ribbon band is extended into sash ends at the back. Near the brim a little cluster of roses is tied into the sash with a bow. The coloring is pale pink with the narrow black border of the ribbon and dark, natural green of the foliage adding depth and character. The roses are shaded and deeper in tone than the body of the hat. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Smart Costume. One of the smartest costumes for young women, exhibited on a living model at a recent opening, was of very pale tan worsened and mohair mixture, made with short, flare skirt, revealing the new slim black leather pump, gulless of buckle or bow, and stockings of natural silk. A little coat, buttoning high to the throat, was surmounted by a very tall choker collar of white organdie with points reaching up over the cheeks and a broad stock of black satin holding it in place. The coat had a belt and a plaited coattail at the back. This knowing spring costume was completed by a tiny black satin hat with slashed ailer brim and a floating veil of black mesh with an allover vinet pattern. Dotted Chiffon Gown. Chiffon figured in large polka dots of contrasting color is used for some very smart looking frocks, but models of such pronounced material must be very graceful and conservative of line, and utterly without elaboration. A good example of such treatment is a frock of sand color chiffon polka dotted largely in dark blue. against them. "Try them for von month," he urged. "If they not satisfy you, vell, to you it signify nothing." One editor after another did try them, with such results that when Renter broached the subject of subscription rates his demands were readily compiled with. Equal Rights on the Farm We are for equal rights to this extent: A farmer should let his wife retire from the strenuous life at the same time he does.—Atchison Globe. HOME THAT IS TRULY HOME Its Creation Is Wholly the Art of Woman, and Really Her Life's Best Work. A home is not merely a house; it is an atmosphere; it is a place of beloved associations, where you can wear old clothes, and think old thoughts, and hear familiar voices without hearing them. You can be happy there, and be comfortably unhappy, be thoroughly unpleasant even, and know that those you love will think no worse of you than they do already. Luxury cannot make a home, nor can books, or pictures, or rugs, or bric-a-brac. A cat, a canary, two geraniums, a Bible and an old rocking chair may make one of the loveliest homes in the world. At the same time a home is not necessarily happy because it is the house of poverty, as some would have us believe. The art of creating home atmosphere is wholly the art of woman, and she has none more charming. Mere care will not do it, or mere neatness and tidiness; indeed those things sometimes work the other way. The love of prettiness will not do it; good cooking will not do it, although it is a mighty help. Even being gay and merry, and kindly yourself is not quite enough, although it helps even more than the cooking. Success in homemaking, as in everything else, requires that you shall feel a real joy in your work. If it is a drag, if it is an irksome duty, if your mind is on a thousand outside things that are not home, you cannot make home what it should be. Not that the homemaker should think of nothing else. That is neither desirable nor possible. But the woman whose first pleasure is to create that beautiful thing, home, will be a precious and permanent influence not only to her own family, but to all her household, to all her guests, to the whole community in which she lives. -Youth's Companion. HOW TO COOK VEGETABLES To Attain Best Results, These Worth While Observances Should Be Kept Strictly in Mind. 1. Use the freshest vegetables that can be procured. 2. All fresh green vegetables should be placed in boiling salt water. 3. All dried vegetables, such as beans, haricots, lentils, etc., should be placed in lukewarm water. 4. The use of plenty of water in the cooking of all sorts of cabbage and sprouts is not only preservative of color; it is also advantageous in reducing the disagreeable smell which cabbage water always has. 5. Never allow vegetables of any kind to remain soaking in the water in which they were boiled; drain them at once when they are cooked. 6. It is waste of money to buy old, dried vegetables, and a waste of time to try to cook them. For Hot Biscuits. Any hostess who prides herself on her delicious biscuits should not fail to keep them tasty by having them covered during the meal, so that they will retain the heat. An attractive cover can be made of white linen having a square center and four pointed ends. On one of the pointed pieces two biscuits might be embroidered. To make the design more realistic you can tint the biscuits brown and then outline the edges of them. Or, in place of using the design, embroider the words "Hot Biscuits" on the linen. Have such a cover ready for the next plate of hot biscuits you serve to your friends and enjoy the praise you will receive for your needlework and your culinary ability. Washing Shawls. To wash knitted or crocheted shawls, fold them as flat as possible and lay carefully in a pillow case, run through at intervals with basting thread to keep flat. Then they should be handled like other flannel or woolen goods, says the Dallas News. If washed separately, observe the usual precautions for woolen goods, gently squeezing through the hands and keeping the suds and rinsing water of the same lukewarm temperature. Take out of pillow case, but do not hang knitted goods up to dry. Put in the oven on a big platter, shaking and turning occasionally, or lay on a clean cloth in the sunshine. Jelly Jumbles. One-half cupful butter, one cupful sugar, one egg, one-half teaspoonful soda, one-half cupful sour milk, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, flour, currant jelly. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, egg well beaten, soda mixed with milk, salt and flour to make a soft dough. Chill and shape, using a round cutter. On the center of one-half the pieces put currant jelly. Make these small openings in remaining halves, using a thimble, and put pieces together. Press edges slightly and bake in a rather hot oven, that jumbles may keep in good shape. Sour Cream Cookies. One egg beaten light, one heaping cupful sugar, one-half teaspoonful soda in one cupful sour cream, one-half cupful butter, and flavoring, and pastry flour to roll. Cream butter and sugar, add egg and the cream and whatever flavoring you prefer, then flour enough so you can roll. Moisten top of cookies with little milk and beaten yolk of egg. This makes them look nice, but may be omitted. Maitre d'Hotel Sauce Make a tacupful of drawn butter; add to it the juice of a lemon, two tablespoonfuls of minced onion, three tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, a teaspoonful of powdered thyme or summer savory, a pinch of cayenne and salt. Simmer over the fire and stir well. Excellent with all kinds of fish. To Clean a Copper Kettle To bring a copper kettle back to its first brightness, wash with soap and water, then make a paste of a knife powder and paraffin and scour well. Two or three cleanings may be necessary to bring it back to its original brilliance. WORLD'S NEW GRANARY EZRA'S TOMB ON THE BANK OF THE TIGRIS OF all the problems of territorial distribution that will follow the war, perhaps none is of greater importance than the future of Mesopotamia, for it seems certain that most fertile tract of the earth's surface is destined to regain its ancient position as the granary of the world. This legendary cradle of the race—it contains the supposed site of the Garden of Eden—bears a name strictly descriptive of the country, set as it is "in the midst of rivers," the four streams of Eden—Pison (now a flooded swamp west of Babylon), Ghilon (now the Hindia branch of the Euphrates), Euphrates proper and Tigris. For thousands of years one majestic civilization after another flowered in this region, but for many centuries past the beauty of life has been fading, until now not only Eden but almost the whole of Mesopotamia has become an arid waste crying aloud for the renewal of youth. If Mesopotamia comes under British control it is probable that its regeneration will be brought about by some such scheme as the magnificent plan of irrigation and flood control proposed by Sir William Willcocks, who declared he could recreate the Garden of Eden and make the hanging gardens of Babylon blossom again like the rose. Hopes for its Future. Writing in the Missionary Review of the World, Dr. Arthur K. Bennett of Bushran, Arabia, says: Mesopotamia is a country north of Arabia proper, which though peopled by Arabs today dates back to the civilization which was in its glory three thousand years before Christ. Here is the seat of ancient Babylon, the Queen City of the Earth, the metropolis of literature and art for all the nations of the then known world. Today excavations have revealed a system of canals which told of its wonderful fertility and researches in its ruins during the last half-century have brought forth the prose and poetry of that marvelous civilization. Inhabited by such glorious peoples, it stands today a desolate place in comparison, surrounded by wide wilderness and waste, and only peopled along the river by a few straggling Arab cities here and there. There are many reasons which lead me to hope that Mesopotamia has a he is hope that metropolitan life CORACLE WITH GRAIN CARGO future of marvelous development before it when they shall adopt western methods and progress. Indeed, it is fascinating employment as Hermith Freeman says, to watch the immemorial culture of the East, slow moving with the weight of years, dreamy with centuries of deep meditation, accept and assimilate as in a moment of time, the science, the machinery, the restless energy and practical activity of the West. Geographically there is no doubt but that within the last five thousand years the great delta caused by the confluence of the three great rivers, the Euphrates, Tigris and Karoon, has gradually pushed its way into the Persian gulf, until over two hundred miles of the sea has been replaced by land. Frazer, in his recent book, "The Short Apple. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," is an old adage, and the same may be said of the orange, as it has an equally fine effect on the entire system. If one is inclined to acidity of the stomach, the juice of an orange is a counter-irritant. If the stomach is weak the juice of an orange before breakfast is an excellent tonic for the entire day. If one is dleting to reduce, one or two oranges eaten at noon will nourish, fill the aching void in the stomach and reduce rather than add to the weight. An orange always quenches the thirst, and in travelling it is much safer to eat an orange than to drink stale water. A hot orangeade before going to bed on a cold night warms the entire body and soothes the nervous system. The peel of an orange thrown into a hot tub softens the water to the extent that the whole body benefits by it. For cleansing the face soak a bit of orange peel in a basin of warm water, then go carefully over the face with the peel; afterward rinse in the water in which the peel was soaked. It is Cut to India," says that these rivers at the present time advance the land from the silt they deposit to not less than eighty feet per annum. Sir William Willcocks says that undoubtedly many of the ancient cities of Babylon were very close to if not directly on the Persian gulf, while the ruins of these cities are at the present time from two to three hundred miles back from the coast BursahR Once a Seaport. Bursah, the city where our Arabian mission is established, must have been at one time a port on the sea, but is now 60 miles from the mouth of the river and is the terminal port for all lines of steamers plying in the Persian gulf, and commerce with it is bound to increase. I have counted over twenty large ocean steamships in the Bursah river at one time, waiting for the shipment of dates. Here the English and Turkish river steamers ply to and from Bagdad on the Tigris, and to and from Mohammerah and Ahwaz in Persia on the Karoon river. If you will look up Bursah on the map you will see that it is in a direct line with Kurachee and Bombay from Constantinople and is on the track of the shortest possible mail route to India, and the railroad which the future is bound to bring. Seventy-five miles of date gardens extend from above Bursah down to the sea on either side of this wonderfully beautiful river, and twice daily the gardens are watered by the tidal wave. Sailboats coming down the river for hundreds of miles are laden with grain, licorice and provisions for sale or exchange at Bursah. In order that the situation may be more real, consider the political aspects which confront us on every hand. Busurah is at present in the mealstrom of political strife; many statesmen believe that the future battle of diplomacy will not take place in the far East but in the Persian gulf. Naturally the favored valley of the Euphrates will be the chief bone of contention. Prominent engineers say that there are here million acres of the finest land in the world, capable of yielding cotton and wheat, or the luxurious date palm. This land only needs proper care, and does not suffer from a dearth of water, but from the abundance of it. Floods are of yearly occurrence, ruining crops and discourse. currences, farming stops and discontent ing canals inland. Sir William Willcocks would bridle this immense power in the mountains of Mosul, and by great dams high upon the two rivers. He would then irrigate the country from the Euphrates to the Tigris, and as this former river is about eighteen feet higher than the latter, the situation is ideal to use all the Euphrates water for irrigation and the Tigris for navigation. Helping Others. If you meet the man who knows not, teach him; but much more—if you meet the man who thinks he knows and knows not, teach him, also. But do it with kindness, with patience, with good will, without ridicule and especially without resentment—H. J. Desmond. far more cleansing than cold cream and never promotes the growth of hair. Wondera In Cled of Earth. Wonders in Clod of Earth. A clod of earth may not seem to have any romance about it, but it is one of the most wonderful things imaginable. The soil is a living machine, where microbes so small that ten to one hundred million are contained in enough earth to cover a penny are working together in a systematic way. They cannot be seen and are only known by their work, and the greatest benefactors of the human race are those who promote their activities. The wise gardener looks after their well-being, for without them there could be no plant life and no human life, since all nutritiment is drawn from the soil. "They contemplate a trip to the Frisco exposition." "That's cheap enough." "What? Why the fare—" "I was speaking of the contemplation."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Helping Others. In the Abstract. SEEING LIFE with JOHN HENRY BY George V. Hobart John Henry On Home Dinners CARRY Helga Floated Into the Room Clad in a Low-Neck Gown. SAY! did you ever get ready and move into a new apartment? Take it from me it's an occupation that makes the burning of Rome look like an election-night bonfire. I'm going to talk harshly about it some day when I recover the use of three fingers, distranchised by the unexpected closing of, a folding door which had previously refused to fold. However, here we are in the "cozy little nest" that Peaches sopranced so canaryishly for many weeks before we finally flew up into this tenement tree. Now that we are in "the nest" she sings a different tune, poor girl, because she finds it mighty hard to hit a high C of joy when she has to put in eighteen hours a day waiting for the dumb-water to be fixed, and the hot water to be turned on, and the knob introduced to the dining room door, and all the other thousand and one pre-election promises, so earnestly given and so eagerly unext. Now we come to the plot of the piece. Peaches invited a few friends to a house-warming dinner and an hour after they had vociferously accepted our cook got mad because he found out the Persian rug on her boudoir floor was made in New Jersey and quit—left us flat with a bunch of friends on our hands who had already gone in training for a long heavy feed; catch as catch can, strangle-hold barred, but go to the mat with everything from clams to the printer's name. For twenty-four hours Peaches spent her time hurrying between the intelligence offices and the depths of despair, and that dinner party began to look like cold turkey. And the next day, just as I was about to send out the S. O. S. signals, a tramp cook arrived with the milkman, prepared to pour oil on our troubled kitchen stove. The name of the new cook was Helga. She was half Swede and half deaf. Peaches asked her for recommendations, and Helga said that her only recommendation was her face, but that she tripped the night before and broke it just above the chin. Peaches engaged her—what else could she do with kind and loving friends eager to exercise our silverware and gurgling their hunger at our outer walls? Helga was shown to her room. She kicked a little because there wasn't a Southern exposure, but subsided when Peaches promised her a bunch of fresh cut flowers every morning. Then the procession started for the kitchen, halting for a moment in the butler's pantry so that Helga could inform herself as to whether we voted the Prohibition or Progressive ticket. Helga discovered four bottles of beer coyly reposing on the lee in the refrigerator, whereupon her face became lighted up with the joys of anticipation and she rushed out and embraced the gas stove. When, later on, Peaches joined me in the front room she looked woe-begone and frightened. "It's an awful risk," she sighed; "I feel that the friendship of years may be interrupted because we have a new and uncertain cook in the kitchen—do you get me, John?" "Sure!" I said; "but what are we going to do about it, Kid? It's too late to cancel your bookings now. These friends of ours have been saving up their hunger for three days. We can't send them a buttered biscuit on a postal card and pass them up. Let's go through with it and hope for the best—maybe Helga is a good cook." "I'm afraid not, John," Peaches moaned. "She picked up a bowl of radishes just now and said she thought strawberries were out of sea. Helga Floated Into the Room son. When I asked her if she knew how to cook chicken a-la-king she wanted to know which King—Denmark or Germany!" During the rest of the day Peaches worried so much about the new cook that she almost had an attack of nervous postponement. She walked around the apartment with her fingers crossed, murmuring little prayers to herself and making wishes that Helga's idea of potato salad wouldn't turn out to be imitation chop suey. Our guests arrived promptly and we could see from their eager faces that they'd fight that dinner to a finish. Under ordinary conditions the arrival of frends with hearty appetites is a compliment to be cherished, but with a visitation like Helga in the kitchen, likely at any moment to kick over the can containing the milk of --- human kindness, I felt like eight cents' worth of God-help-us. The ladies in the party began to chat pleasantly while they sized up our furniture out of the corners of their eyes, and the men glanced carelessly around to see if I had a box of cigars which could be attended to after dinner. At least I imagined that's what they were doing—having qualified as a bum sport from the moment Helga began to rehearse a dishrag. Presently dinner was announced and the entire cast jumped to their feet as though they'd stepped on a third rail. The first round was oyster cocktails, and everybody drew cards. This was Helga's maiden effort at oyster cocktails and she had original ideas about the cocktail, consisting chiefly of salad oil and tabasco. The salad came from Italy, consequently the oysters were extremely foreign to the taste. After exploring her cocktail glass with a fork Mrs. Fitzsteena politely inquired if we raised our own oysters, but just then a gill of tabasco struck Mr. Fitzsteena between the thorax and the epiglottis and he spent the A man in a coat and hat is sitting on a chair, holding a book. He is facing a woman in a dress and hat, who is standing behind him. The woman is holding a child in her arms. They are all looking at each other. "Helga Said That Her Only Recommendation Was Her Face." rest of the evening screaming for the fire department. The next round was mock turtle soup, but nobody under the wide canopy of heaven can ever guess where Helga found the mock. Sometimes I think I may have surprised her secret, because later on, when I looked for my rubber boots, one of them was missing. Then we had fish-blue fish. It had arrived in the kitchen just a simple, plain, kind-hearted fish with the blues, but after watching Helga's work it had developed acute melancholia. Then came the roast turkey, and right here was where Helga stepped to the footlights and clamored for the Victoria Cross. Peaches had told Helga to stuff the turkey with chestnuts, but Helga was firm in her belief that a chestnut is an old wheeze, so she stuffed the turkey with peanut brittle. Helga had noticed several other things around the kitchen which appeared to be bored and lonely, so she stuffed them in the turkey—one of which was the corkscrew. When I started to carve the turkey the first thing I struck was a horse-shoe which Helga had put in for luck. It made Peaches extremely nervous to see the can-opener, a pair of scissors and seven clothspins come out of the interior, but when Mrs. Fitzenstanz said that their latest cook had n Clad in a Low-Neck Gown. tried to stuff their latest turkey with the garden hose friend wife felt better. The next round was some salad which Helga had dressed in the kitchen, but the dress was such a bad fit that nobody would speak of it. Then we had some home-made ice cream for dessert. The ice was very good, but Helga forgot to add the cream. Consequently it tasted rather insipid. Then came the last round—and the knockout. Helga had been told to serve the coffee demi tasse. When the cue came*Helga floated in the room clad in a low neck gown such as the merry-merries wear in the Bal Tabarin scene in the second act just before the police break in. Then she splashed down in front of all assembled a cup of brown cough mixture and floated out again, while Peaches turned red, white and blue and I had all I could do to keep from becoming a murderer. It afterwards transpired that in the shredded wheat which Helga was using as a brain the words dermis tasse and decollete had become mixed and, having taken the low-neck as a souvenir of a former employer, she had decided demi tasse meant "Enter from kitchen, smilingly, with anatomical display; place coffee on table, Center, and exit, showing vertebrae." However, the house warming dinner came to a finish without any casualties and the guests went home, hungry but unpoisoned. The next morning Peaches gave Helga Helga and she left us abruptly, followed by the prayers of all present, including the gas stove. The only thing about the house that loved Helga was a diamond brooch belonging to Peaches and it followed Helga out into the land of adventure. We've made up our minds, friend wife and I, have that we'll give no more dinners till we get a cook who knows the difference between breaded lamb chops and the coal scuttle. Even the friendship of a lifetime isn't proof against a brass key-ring in the stomach, which lies there, tossing restlessly for weeks and weeks, sometimes. P. S—Helga's contract called for $35.00 per month, Sundays and Thursday evening out, and nix on the wash. Have you a little fairy in your home? JAPANESE WOMEN IN POLITICS Although Not Voters, Without Doubt They Are Making Their Influence Felt. The participation of the women of Japan in a public election is a most striking instance of the progress of the woman movement throughout the world. Women in oriental countries have for centuries occupied a menial or subordinate position, and while Japan as the most progressive of eastern people cannot be compared in this respect with many of the other oriental nations, the Japanese woman has been accorded the social freedom and influence exercised among the more progressive western nations. It must be understood, of course, that the women of Japan have not yet been given the ballot, Frances Frear writes in Lesile's, but in the recent election of a new house of representatives the wives of several of the candidates made a house to house canvass in behalf of their husbands. The election was of the greatest importance, as the last house was dissolved on last Christmas day by the emperor because of its refusal to ratify the military program of the cabinet. Comment was made by the Japanese press upon the entrance of the "new woman" into politics, but the fact that women in Japan, contrary to all national traditions, have begun to take an active part in political affairs is a significant instance of the leaving process of the movement for woman's emancipation. The development of modern Japan shows that when that country does begin to move she moves with great rapidity. Even more tremendous will be the revolution in the great Chinese republic when the progressive principles of the West begin to work themselves out. MAKE TROUBLE FOR ROYALTY Mentally Unbalanced of Both Sexes Source of Constant Annoyance to Rulers. Lunatic asylums in the old world abound in inmates who are firmly convinced that they are closely related to the anointed of the Lord. It is a very common form of delusion, says a writer in the New York Sun. Until the outbreak of the present war hardly a week passed without some crank calling either at Buckingham palace or at Windsor castle, demanding immediate admittance to the royal presence. The men usually insisted that they were the real husband of the queen, or else an elder brother of George V, and consequently the lawful heir to the throne. The women professed to be the lawful wife of the monarch, or else a daughter of Edward VII, born under romantic circumstances. The stories which they told were of the most extraordinary description. As they insisted on haunting the approaches of the palace, and in dogging the movements of the members of the reigning house, whom they persecuted with their attentions, they ended by being arrested and quietly consigned to the public lunatic asylums, where they either remained as permanent inmates, or else were permitted to go free after undergoing a fortnight's detention serving as a salutary warning. Much of the same practice has been followed at Berlin and Petsdam, where the emperor and empress have ever since their accession to the throne in 1888 been troubled in much the same fashion by mentally unbalanced visitors. In fact, there is not a reigning sovereign in Europe who has escaped this particular form of annoyance. A Place for Everything. The auto owner: "No, I don't want your book. I would much rather forget my car troubles than perpetuate them in black and white." The book agent: "But this little book is so universally handy, don't you know. It's not merely a record, it's a lot of other things. I don't suppose there's anything that could happen to an automobile without someone of these departments covering it. You see, there are headings here for virtually everything. Take a look at it." "A heading for everything eh? Don't you believe it. Here, suppose I'm driving a car along a country road Sunday afternoon. A parachute jumper goes up in a balloon from a nearby by-recreation park. He swings off squarely on my auto top and crushes it. What's the heading for that financial item, eh?" "Just a minute, sir. Here you are, Put it down here, sir. 'Overhead expenses.'"—Cleveland Plain Dealer SOLDIERS MADE MAD Become Maniacs in Ceaseless Roar of Guns. Correspondent at the Front Says Experience Indicates Truth of Reports—Shots at Aviator 100 In Five Minutes. Paris.—The New York Sun's correspondent with the Foreign Legion sends the following notes from his diary: Monday—Started for rations at 7:30 p. m. and on the way caught up with three officers strolling along slowly. The roadway was narrow and it was very dark through the woods, so that it was impossible to pass them. One of the boys got tired of being kept behind at such a slow pace and at last broke out with: "H—, I'm not going to stick behind that guy! He's too blame slow" (only the word was not blame). The officers accompanying the colonel, for it turned out to be our colonel, evidently knew the American language, for they burst out laughing, but the colonel continued his stroll imperturbable. Tuesday—Up at 3:30 a. m. rheumatism in my right arm preventing me from sleeping. Found Joseph Collett, who declared he had not slept a wink all night as a continual bombardment had been taken from ten o'clock till three, with a short letup between midnight and one. The French heavy artillery was firing incessantly without any reply from the Germans. It was over in the direction of Reims, he said, and the firing was awful; the flashes of fire were continual. When it ceased about midnight I supposed the infantry must be charging with the bayonet, but it commenced again as furiously as ever. I am not surprised at the stories about Germans going crazy as they did at Hartmannsweller Kopf after seeing and hearing this. The papers spoke of German soldiers running round the village, mad, stark mad, driven so by the hellish noise and the destruction. Even the men in reserve underground trenches, feet below the earth, who were to replace the men killed in the trenches, were driven mad. They could see nothing, but could hear the swish of the shells, the roar of the explosions and the shrieks of those above. Tuesday—Bouligny has received word that he has been promoted sergeant; unfortunately he will leave our company, being moved to Battalion C, Second Company, Second Section. Tuesday—Trinkard found a baby cart in the village and wheeled it over to bring the wine when drawing raions. A big success. At 1:45 p. m. the enemy began shell- JUST TO TEST HIS NERVES A man balancing on a chair, throwing a ball. Just by way of making sure his nerves were steady, Dare Devil Johnny Reynolds went to the roof of a five-story building in the heart of the business section of New York city and performed balancing stunts on a cornice extending two feet from the front of the building, which took the breath out of thousands of spectators who anxiously watched him from the street below. He obtained three ordinary kitchen tables of which the legs were not at all secure, placed one upon the other, put a chair on the top table, placed the hind legs of another chair on the outer edge of the seat and with one foot on the back of the first chair and the other on the seat of the second, he juggled the balls without the least concern or worry. To the amazed street audience it looked an evident attempt at suicide, but Johnny Reynolds came down as fresh and round as ever. Born Without Lower Limbs, Youth Propels Himself on Roller Skates —Bright and Healthy. Glenwood City, Wis—Little Loule von Ruden, Glenwood City's noted lapsus natura, has just received word that he has won a pony for securing the largest number of votes in a farm journal's subscription contest. What he will do with the animal UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD The Austrians have made excellent use of the Skoda 30.5 centimeter guns in the fighting in the Carpathians. One of these guns is shown here about to be fired. ing the road half way between Craonelle and Blanc Sablon wood. As usual they send a couple of small time shells to test the range (they explode in the air), and then some big contact shells which destroy anything they hit and make another big hole in the ground if they miss. The shelling stopped at 2:05—missing a barn not a hundred yards from me. There was a little volunteer (a new chap) just beside me yesterday who fired his rifle. Up came the corporal of the guard to know why the etcetera he fired. "Oh, I had a cartridge that looked bad so I tried it." Then the sergeant-major wanted to know why he had fired and he pleaded that he had seen two rabbits and could not resist to pop at them. This is a real war anecdote, I only wish I could give you something more lurid, like those I see in the American press. Watched a French aviator being fired at about 4:45 p. m. Four bat terries were at him at the same time, six or seven shells exploding at once. There was still enough light to see the shells explode. The firing was so fast that I counted, and found that more than a hundred shells exploded in five minutes. The aviator flew out of range, but at 5:15 he came back again, and, strange to say, was not fired at. They say that French aeroplanes have a wire attached about two hun dred feet long by which the observer on board can flash signals by making the wire spark. Thus officers all the way back can read the signals with powerful glasses. GETS HIS REVENGE Aged French General Waits 44 Years for Day. Since 1870 General Maunoury, Recently Decorated by King George, Has Worked and Planned for Revenge on Germans. Paris:—"I owe to you the attainment of the aim towards which all my efforts, all my energy have been strained for forty-four years past—revenge for 1870." This message from the order of the day in which General Maunoury thanked his troops for their victorious participation in the battle of the Marne, explains the whole life of the veteran upon whom King George has conferred the order of St. Michael and St. George. In a war which has clamored for the qualities of youth, a general upon the retired list, sixty-seven years of age, might well have imagined that his hopes of active employment were vain, that the most he could expect would be some post as organizer in the depots well to the recr of the zone of operations. General Maunoury was called from his flowers and his farming in the Loir et Cher in August, and came to Paris in the hope of obtaining some command in the field where he would be able to work directly for the "revanche." At the outset of the war all the general officers belonged to the active army, and for a time General Maunoury had to content himself with the useful, if less satisfying, work of inspecting depots and the organization of reserves. It was not long, however, before he was given the command of an army formed at Verdun, at the head of which he took part in the early and disastrous fighting along the Belgian frontier. During the retreat he fought a series of actions with the greatest brilliance, while at the same time reorganizing and completing his force. General Maunoury was ordered to Paris to undertake the task of organizing and commanding the army destined, in the event of things turning out badly on the Marne, to act in the defense of Paris. The appointment was flattering, but to General Maunoury it aroused many cruel memories, for he had begun his military career in the army of Paris in 1870 and, as artillery officer, had known the bitterness of defeat in the series of battles which was fought in the neighborhood of the capital. That bitterness he wiped out in signal manner at the head of the army of Paris which at the critical moment swung on to the German right along the Ourcq, and withstanding the most terrible battering for days, finally precipitated the general retreat of the enemy back to the Aisne. General Maunoury comes from a family which has been noted for its service to the countryside of the Loir. when he leit is a matter of speculation, as he is entirely without lower limbs, having been born that way about ten years ago. Notwithstanding his lack of natural propellers, he gets about with more than the average speed of boys by means of a roller skate strapped to a stump where one of his legs ought to be. He is an unusually bright boy for his years, goes to school, enjoys uniformly good health, and shows no lack of cheerfulness because of his unique physical make-up. you something more lurid, like those I see in the American press. Watched a French aviator being fired at about 4:45 p. m. Four batteries were at him at the same time, six or seven shells exploding at once. There was still enough light to see the shells explode. The firing was so fast that I counted, and found that more than a hundred shells exploded in five minutes. The aviator flew out of range, but at 5:15 he came back again, and, strange to say, was not fired at. They say that French aerosplanes have a wire attached about two hundred feet long by which the observer on board can flash signals by making the wire spark. Thus officers all the way back can read the signals with powerful glasses. et Cher and to the greater country, France. Perhaps his most striking characteristic is quiet modesty, his unassuming nature. He is a type of the officer bred of the desire for revenge. For that he has worked; it was that idea which gave to his teachings their strength; it was that idea which gave to his spirit the force required of it during the battle of the Ourcq. From the Ourcq General Maunoury and his army have moved up to the Aisne. It was there that I had the honor of visiting him. Like many another army commander I have been privileged to meet along the French front, General Maunoury has refused to admit that a general's place is in the study poring over maps, receiving reports, conducting war as though it were nothing but a game of chess. He declined to believe that the telephones, wireless, the aeroplanes, and modern shell fire have in any way belittled the importance of men, and he made a point of making at least one visit a day to the front trenches, where his cheery smile and cheering words never failed to increase the respect and admiration in which he is held by his officers and men. It was during one of those visits that a bullet found him with his eye at a peebole and temporarily deprived France of his service. RUSSIAN WOMEN IN THE WAR Do Effective Work in Bringing in Prisoners and Doing Sentry Duty. London.—A dispatch from Warsaw declares that the present war is growing every day more like the campaign of Alexander I against Napoleon. Now the civil population is joining in the defense and among these are found women and even children willing to undergo the hardships even of sentry and outpost duty. These women and children are most effective, the dispatch says. They bring in many German prisoners to headquarters. The prisoners are usually safely bound and for greater security their guns, though taken away from them, have the triggers tied with cord. The devotion of the peasant population to the cause of defense is noticeable particularly in the Grodno district, where the volunteer guard has rendered valiant service. 137-POUND CATFISH IN NET Indiana Men Have Desperate Encounter With Big Catch in Ohio River. Lawrenceburg, Ind.-Samuel H. Bowman and Richard D. Grismler caught a catfish weighing 137 pounds in a net in the Ohio river near the mouth of the Great Miami river. It was the largest fish ever caught in the river in this vicinity. Their lives were endangered before Grismler shot the fish and landed it. Bowman was hurled ten feet by the big fish in its struggle for liberty and fell into about twenty feet of water. However, he was able to swim back to the boat. Seattle.—Mrs. Nellie L. Spoorman, having obtained a pilot's license for the waters of Puget sound, British Columbia and Alaska, has been appointed master of the steam tug Hero, of which her husband is mate, it was announced here recently. Must Shed Whiskers. Sharon, Pa.—Steel companies here have ordered their employees to shave because whiskers carry microbes and may infect drinking cups HOME TOWN HELPS WAR ON PUBLIC NUISANCES American Civic Association Condemns Smoke, Poles and Wircs, and Bill- boards as Among Them. From its very institution, the American Civic association has devoted itself to the protection of the public against three great nuisances—smoke, poles and wires and billboards. At the annual convention of the association in Washington one of the important subjects discussed was billboards, with a principal address, entitled "The Passing of the Signboard," by Jesse Lee Bennett of Baltimore, in which he recounted the steps that had been taken for the legal control of the billboard in all parts of the United States. Concerning the sentiment against the billboard, Mr. Bennett said "The feeling against the signboard has become nation-wide, and in the last few years the agitation of civic organization has been so successful as to awaken resentment against it so widespread that from coast to coast, and in almost every state and city, there are now, or have been, vigorous movements seeking the abolition or regulation of these unnecessary and disgusting objects. "There has been much agitation, and from it there has been distilled one thing—the recognition of the fact that what is called the signboard problem is a question more complex than the mere removal of the signs. The signboard has been found to be inextricably intertwined with two questions of even greater importance—the awakening of civic sentiment and the recognition by legislators and judges of the validity of arguments based upon esthetic considerations." Commenting on what ought to be the attitude of the law and the courts toward the billboard he added: "It would take our psychologist but a few minutes to show that it is not a question of ear or nose or eye, but a question of the brain and of the very consciousness that is life itself. No law should permit any man to intrude or force himself or his business into another man's consciousness to the extent that outdoor advertising has come to permit, an intrusion immediately increased by the fact that it is impossible to avoid seeing signboards." NEW WAY TO WATER TREES German City Official Seems to Have Hit Upon Method That Should Be Effective. A very ingenious and practical device for assuring the trees on city sidewalks a sufficient supply of water, no matter how dry the season and how hard baked the earth, has been put in operation in Strassburg by Mr. Sauer, the city tree inspector. It consists of a tube of iron or lead bent into the form of a ring large enough to encircle the stem of the tree. The earth is removed so that this ring may be placed just above the roots, and is then filled in again, leaving the end of a pipe connecting with the ring projecting above the surface of the ground. The top of the ring is pierced with a large number of small holes, and a tin cover or shield prevents these from becoming stopped up with earth. By means of a funnel in the protruding end of the pipe any desired amount of water may be supplied to the roots without waste or loss of time. A further advantage, according to Prometheus, is the ventilation thus secured of the earth in the vicinity of the roots. Flower City of Germany The marked industrial developments in Erfurt are of comparatively recent date, and in spite of the increasing importance of its manufacturing establishments the city is still best known for the immense horticultural establishments found there. Erfurt is appropriately called the "Blumenstadt" or Flower City of Germany. Almost 3 per cent of the population is engaged in commercial horticulture. While vegetables and flowers for sale are grown on a large scale, of much vaster proportions is the business in flower and vegetable seed. The larger Erfurt seed firms ship to almost all parts of the world, the United States importing larger quantities of Erfurt horticultural products than from any other city in Europe. Baltimore Sets Good Example. About a year ago certain owners of real estate in Baltimore decided to create small parks in the rear of their houses by tearing down division fences, and laying out the lots on each side of the midway alley on a definitely arranged and uniform scheme of landscape gardening. In many blocks the fences were replaced by a continuous flower garden. Hundreds of house owners have co-operated in this interesting effort to beautify what were formerly bare and forbidding wastes, and the city forester has given them every assistance. Many other cities might well emulate this example. Youth's Companion. Fatigued Generals. When "Papa Joffre" gets the idea, which it is said sometimes happens to him, that a general is "fatigued," he convokes a council for f'o clock in the afternoon. And these words suffice: "I have had you come to write me a letter saying that the state of your health obliges you to resign your command." "But, my general!" "Oh, we will not discuss it. I have not the time. It is five o'clock. The train leaves for Paris at 5:20 and you must not miss it!"—Le Crt de Paris. THE UNVEILING OF THE EASON MONUMENT. Mrs. A. E. Jenkins has been successful in obtaining money to buy a marker to be placed on the grave of Samuel Eason, Decoration day at 3:00 p. m., Monday afternoon. Mr. Eason was the founder of both the Old Folks and Orphans Home and spent his life in working for these two institutions, dying without a dollar. Kansas City owes him a debt of gratitude, as few indeed are there who have done so much for charity. The following clubs and persons contributed: Barker Monument Co., $15; Progress Study Club, $15; Kensington Art Club, $5; Athenaeum Art Club, $5; Graeco Art Club, $5; XX History and Art Club, $5; Clio Art Club, $2; Oak Leaf Art Club, $2; Lyeum Art Club, $2.50; Phyllis Wheyart Art Club, $1; Mr. Wm. Garrett, $2; Dr. Theo. Smith, $1; Prof. J. E. Herrford, $2.5. The program will be: "Blest Be the Tie that Binds," Invocation, Dr. W. H. Thomas; "Nearer my God to Thee"; Address—Rev. S. W. Bacote; Asleep in Jesus; Decorating the grave by the clubs. Unveiling by Mrs. Clara Knox and Mrs. Fitzpatrick, closing remarks by Rev. Davis. 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ANNOUNCEMENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON MAY 29 Special School Children's Field Day Exercises under the auspices of the City Federated Colored Women's Club SATURDAY EVENING Band Dance Free Pictures Changing Daily DECORATION DAY SUNDAY Afternoon and Evening Special Program Band Dance Free Pictures Changing Daily MONDAY — MAY 31 SPECIAL PROGRAM Something New at Lincoln Electric Park Every Day Remember: FERRIS WHEEL MERRY GO-ROUND CHANGE OF PICTURES DAILY DANCING EVERY EVENING AND THURSDAY MATINEE REGULAR DANCE PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Open Every Afternoon and Evening ADULTS.....10c CHILDREN.....5c WANTED—Canvassers, men of women, to sell the famous Peerless furniture polish. Liberal commission. A splendid opportunity for the right parties. For information see J. H. Malone, 1318 Michigan. 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. Wanted—Leading soprano, contralto and bass singers; also good pianist. Christians preferred. Apply to B. J. Knox, business manager, Imperial Concert Company, 1513 Woodland avenue. At Canton, Ga., the home of quality. Marble and granite markers, memorials and monuments. Have opened a branch office here and Mr. Simon Wyatt, manager of the Wyatt & Randolph Undertaking Company, is representative for Kansas. All the latest colors and styles. Reasonable prices. Phones: Des. West. West 2569; office West 3098, 920 North Third st., Kansas City, Kas. R. V. ATKINS, Gen. Mgr. T. T. PAYNE, Bus. Mgr. L. W. FITZGERALD, Secty. and Treas. The Immaculate Laundry Lace Curtains a Specialty GIVE US A TRIAL Bell 'Phone 1912 East E. 4723 18th St. G. C. COLE Painter and Paper Hanger. General Repairing. 1710 EUCLID. FOR RENT 309 East Mo. Av. 10r, water, gas. $20.00 309 Cherry, 8r, water and gas. $25.00 310 Cherry, 8r, modern. $25.00 310 East 18th St. 8r, modern. $25.00 310 Roanoke Road, 5r. $7.00 310 East 17th St. 5r. $10.00 310 East 17th St. 4r. $10.00 310 Vine St. rear, 2r. $7.00 310 Euclid, 4r. $12.00 312 East 19th St. 4r. $15.00 312 Highland - 4 rooms. $17.00 312 Olive - 6r, water and gas. $20.00 323 E. 8th - 9 rooms. $20.00 369 Holmes - 8 rms, water and gas $25.00 369 Holmes - rooms; partly mod. $18.00 312 Highland - 4 rooms. $20.00 310 W. Prospect - 6 rms; water and gas $15.00 312 East 18th - 6 rooms; 24 floor; partly modern $20.00 312 Woodland - 6 rms; partly mod. $18.00 316 Haskell - 6 rms, mod. Kansas $18.00 319th and Michigan - 6 rms; modern; apart; two weeks free rent $16 and $18 3191 Tracy - 5 rms, strictly modern; 3210 Highland - 6 rooms; water and gas $12.00 3191 Tracy - 5 rooms strictly modern; 3210 Highland - 6 rooms; water and gas $12.00 3191 Virginia - 5 rooms; water and gas $10.00 3186 Madison - 4 rooms $12.00 39th and Main - 4 acres of ground; 3 room cottage $12.00 3214 Highland - 2 room cottage $8.00 1423 Michigan—4-room cottage; $1,800; $150 down, $14 month. 1215 Michigan—7-room modern 2-story frame; $2,700; $200 down; $20 month. 2430 Garfield—4-room cottage; water and toilet and electric lights in house; corner lot. Price $1,350; $150 down; $12 month. 2004 East 11th—7-room strictly modern, pressed brick, slate roof, hardwood floors. Price $4,252; $600 down. Persons renting or buying from us will be given preference on all employment in our employment department. AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTMENT & EMPLOYMENT Co. 911 McGee St. Main 7555 Home. Main 751 Bell. CLOVER LEAF CASUALTY COM PANY LAUNCHES BIG CAM- PAIGN FOR 500 NEW MEM- BERS DURING MONTH OF JUNE. JOIN IN THE CAMPAIGN AND MAKE MONEY. J. J. Allen, District Manager. The Clover Leaf Casualty Company is an old line legal reserve sick and accident company with a capital stock of $125,000, deposited with the state for the protection of each policy holder. This company has thrown open its doors wider to colored agents than any other white insurance company in the United States and is offering the best form of health and accident policies and therefore should be given the first consideration by our people. Mr. J. J. Allen, who is district manager for the company in Kansas City and suburban towns around Kansas City, was for a number of years district manager for the Clover Leaf in St. Louis, Mo., and through his persistent efforts there and his fairness in handling the claims and other business pertaining to his office, the Clover Leaf today is the leading insurance company in that city, with a staff of about 15 colored agents, under the supervision of another colored manager in the person of Mr. E. Hawkins, and everyone there, especially physicians, recommend the Clover Leaf for real protection in health and accident insurance. We believe the same spirit should exist in Kansas City. Mr. Allen since coming to Kansas City has secured the services of some of the most influential young men of this city, some of whom are: P. C. James, Arthur Payne, Lawyer Bruce, J. J. Seals, Rev. Harris, Moses Sledge, J. C. Hobbs and J. C. Williams. During the campaign they have launched these men will be the leaders. We want at least 100 influential men and women to work in this campaign and help us get 500 new policy holders for June and we will pay you $1 for each person you influence to insure with the Clover Leaf Company. Send us your name and address, enlist now. It will mean money for you and real protection for your friends. Cut out coupon below and mail to us or call at our office in person. CLOVER LEAF CASUALTY CO. 1501 E. Eighteenth St. Kansas City, Mo. Phones: Bell East 1415. Home Grand 4332. Sirs: Please send one of your rep- resentatives to see me as I desire fur- ther information relative to your campa- ign. Name ..... Street No. City and state ..... SPEED RELLIABILITY ACCOMMODATION You get these three most important requisite when you take your printing to C. A. FRANKLIN, 1008 East 18th Street, one-half block from the Troost Avenue and Eighteenth Street transfer point. Bell phone, Grand 2988. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms 613 Charlotte street upstairs. Bell phone Main 2967W. WANTED: SEVERAL WIDE AWAKE Colored Agents. Liberal commi- sion. A postal brings information. The Patrick-Lee Realty Co., 2743 Wel- ton St., Denver, Colo. Dept. K. 2,000 Brave In addition to B Military Musica Clayborn Jones derful impersonate The Criterion is A L L A H Nobles of the Mystic nual Trolley Car Kansas, Thurs FARE 60 EVERAL WIDE AWAKE agents. Liberal commis- tal brings information. see Realty Co., 2743 Wel- ter, Colo. Dept. K. You Should Use Madam P. M. Dab XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATION dam P. M. Dabney's XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATIONS XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATIONS And Have Good Hair Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower promotes a beautiful growth of hair, stops falling out and breaking of hair, removes dandruff and relieves itching of scalp. It will make YOUR hair grow. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER JAR Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower TESTIMONIAL "This is to certify that the writer suffered for four years with danduff and itching of the scalp until practically bald, trying many remedies but of no avail. About six months ago I began to use Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower, the results up to date are pleasing. Dandruff removed, itching stopped, good growth of hair started. The remedy is O. K. Yours for succes, Rev. L. W. Harris, Mod. Mt. Zion Baptist Association, Carrollton, Mo." * --- These are the Men Who Asked for and Endorse the Proposed Bond Issue t Call to W valry and Eighth Regiment nois at the riterion Theatre May 28-29-30 Brave Blacks 2 addition to Billy Kings's great ary Musical Comedy headed born Jones, the World's most W impersonator. riterion is the Home of T LAH TEMP the Mystic Shrine will give rolley Car Party to Leavenw as, Thursday, June 17, 19 FARE 60c ROUND TRIP ney's TESTIMONIA First Call to War! Ninth Cavalry and Eighth Regiment of Illinois at the In addition to Billy Kings's greatest Military Musical Comedy headed by Clayborn Jones, the World's most Wonderful impersonator. The Criterion is the Home of Talent ALLAH TEMPLE Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will give their an nual Trolley Car Party to Leavenworth, Kansas, Thursday, June 17, 1915 FARE 60c ROUND TRIP ood 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 Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo is cleaner for the wash heads of colored p contains no astri other ingredients h the scalp. It prom health and vigor. F an, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER Weeks' Treatment Six *Weeks' Treatment $1.25 One jar Madam P. M. 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 . . . . . . XXth Century Shampoo . . course of treatment for the hair and will last six weeks. Send us an order P. O. money order for $1.25 and rec post prepaid, or write for literature a 0 Dam P. M. Dabney's XXth Cent HAIR PREPARATIONS CO. 24th St. Kansas C 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. Ford A. Allen L. R. Ash H. M. Beardsley A. Benjamin Jos. T. Bird W. T. W兰 Dan Boone, Sr. L. C. Boyle Hughes Bryant Edw. Camack E. M. Glendenden Geo. R. Collett A. D. Cottishman Fletcher Cowherd F. D. Crabbs T. Crittenden F. G. Crowell Julius Davidson O. H. Dean J. P. Deo W. S. Dobey H. Dierks Geo. H. Edwards H. R. Ennis Frank P. Ewins Henry D. Faxon Howard A. Fitch C. L. Flaugh Fred W. Fleming A. D. Flinton C. H. Flower Jos. P. Fontron Jno. B. Gage Carl Gleessner A. H. Greef A. R. Grelner Walter L. Grush H. A. Guettel J. E. Guilotte General Committee D. J. Haff Ford D. F. Harvey J. A. Harrafeld J. J. Helm N. F. Heitman W. B. Henderson C. H. Hill Q. J. Hill J. F. Holden J. D. Hook A. E. Hutchings R. I. Ingraham F. L. Kaufman Chas. S. Keith W. T. Kemper H. C. Lambert R. A. Long Frank E. Lott A. Stanford Lyon Leslie J. Lyons Homer B. Mann Conrad H. Mann C. C. Meade C. C. Meservey John A. Moore F. J. Moss Lal B. Muntuh Go. E. Muhlebach Chas. T. Mcoun Chas. D. Mcoun Geo. N. Neff J. C. Nichols W. A. Osgood R. E. O'Malley R. E. Orear T. J. Pendergast J. W. Perry C. C. Peters D. F. Piazek All to War! The Eighth Regiment of Illi- lis at the Bison Theatre 28-29-30 The Blacks 2,000 Billy Kings's greatest Comedy headed by the World's most Won- or. the Home of Talent TEMPLE Shrine will give their a Party to Leavenworth, day, June 17, 1915 c ROUND TRIP 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. Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo is the best cleaner for the washing of the heads of colored people. It contains no astringents or other ingredients harmful to the scalp. It promotes hair health and vigor. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER BOTTLE Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo Treatment $1.25 treatment for the hair and scalp seeks. Send us an order today or order for $1.25 and receive them or write for literature and infor- Dabney's XXth Century EPARATIONS CO. Kansas City, Mo. R. C. Patterson R. F. Worter R. L. 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