Kansas City Sun

Attention! Black Men: Close Up the Ranks; Forward March! Say, have you a furnished or unfurnished room for rent? Advertise it in The Sun and let it be bringing you in something. VOLUME VIII. NUMBER 13. Attention! THE SUN'S GLORIOUS SYMPOSI IUM. in our Upon a I desire to thank you on my part and also on the part of the galaxy of local citizens who were asked and permitted to express their condolences, praises and lamentations on our common exemplar Booker T. Washington, thru the columns of your splendid sheet last week. In this instance the Sun took its place with the big National weeklies and in portraiture, in noble expression, in sincere thought positively ranked with the best of the land. I noted some of the sternest critics of the Sun had their freezing attitude melted to an appreciable degree when they saw the typographical feast displayed in bold clear outlines embracing words that have a profound meaning to race, people and the Nation. I am wondering now if all fully appreciate the accompanying large expenditure with such a feature number? Oh yes, Mr. Editor, we all know that you did this with a big sense of duty and with a generousness overlooking the costs to yourself, still we remind ourselves of what is incumbent on us in the way of individual and collective support to make it possible for you to regularly get out a paper worthy of your genius and the people of greater Kansas City. Being on the inside facts of any journalistic effort among our people I happen to know what old and new cash subscribers mean to you, I also know what a large meaning the good advertiser has. This is the person who keeps agog the economic life of a paper and acts as importantly as the fire does in keeping the steam in a 1900 1 REV. J. W. HURSE, D. D. President of the Twin City Baptist Alliance en's Baptist Church, who will start an old-fashion Jubilee singing and Hallelujah, revival at his chur and will preach nightly. Dr. Hurse does not believe real conversion without prayer and he says if the out he'll make them pray until their minds change. revival in Kansas City this year. President of the Twin City Baptist Alliance and pastor of St. Stephen's Baptist Church, who will start an old-fashioned Gospel preaching and Jubilee singing and Hallelujah revival at his church Sunday, November 28, and will preach nightly. Dr. Hurse does not believe that there can be any real conversion without prayer and he says if the sinners will just come out he'll make them pray until their minds change. This will be the biggest revival in Kansas City this year. boiler. However, we believe that several recent events have served to cement the Sun and the people more closely together in a compact for public uplift. May this people find it their duty to be largely responsible for the growing success of the paper, and may this paper find it right and necessary to extend its medium liberally to public expression. He Knew Not Discouragement. Doctor Kulp reviewed the life of the "matchless leader," his struggles out of slavery and difficult progress to ward the leadership of his race. "The character of this man afford us a valuable example," he continued "Washington absolutely refused to bribe." BRIEF AFTERMATH: It has been observed that quite a few orators and writers have modestly and vainly referred to their intimacy with our late Booker T. Washington. Now the writer claims no such superior association with our esteemed leader. I never personally met Mr. Washington tho I've heard him speak several times. No reasonable opportunity ever presented itself to meet him on common ground so I never sought to even shake his hand along with the "vulgar crowd." I was too content to embrace what ideas he advanced (which my own judgment considers good) at a distance rather than a close range view of contact which I would have to urge. Not that there was any particular enchantment from the "distance" but that it is in keeping with my own policy of not worshipping the great or near great. Good ideas are all important to humanity because of their divine origin; mortal clay has little to do with such. This is why that some people in Africa who have never seen or heard of Mr. Washings can demonstrate the practicability of his savings if brought to their notice just as easy as one of his immediate students providing they had native appreciation. Then the right way to show appreciation of any Ex-pounder of Truth is in actual demonstration of his "message to the world --- The Kansas City Sun in our own individual life's efforts. Upon an occasion Christ was made to see the fallacy of a lot of would be followers when he wisely observed something to this effect: "This people draw nigh unto me with their lips but their hearts are far from me." Local Sages and Expounders would do well to come around to the League Enterprise now and then and they will see a few ideas demonstrated (humble efforts of course) along the line that Dr. Washington advocated, yet we claim no former close proximity to his personal character or any particular devotion to his teachings. NOT A ONE-RACE PROBLEM. Dr. E. J. Kulp Says It's a Brown, a Red, a Yellow Race Question. "Towards the Solution of This Problem No Man Contributed More Than Booker T. Washington," the Minister Said. The world's greatest question today is the race question—not the problem of the relation between white and black races only, but the problem of the relation of every race to every other. Toward the solution of this problem no man has contributed more than Booker T. Washington, the Rev. E. J. Kulp last night told an audience that filled the Linwood Boulevard Methodist Church. "He was the first black man to bridge the chasm between the white and black races," the minister said. "He was the first to be impressed with the fact that any race must make its own place in society. He held and taught that any man, white or black doing the things this world wants done, cannot be held back by prejudice." THE NEW YORK TIMES He Know Not Discouragement. Doctor Kulp reviewed the life of the "matchless leader," his struggles out of slavery and difficult progress toward the leadership of his race. "The character of this man affords us a valuable example," he continued. "Washington absolutely refused to be discouraged and he accomplished a work that was of supreme importance to the world. It is not alone a question of how we are to live with the black race, but also of how we are to live with the brown and the red and the yellow races. God says to all the races of the world, 'Move up closer.' The whole world now is neighbor to all the rest of the world, and the greatest problem of the Twentieth Century is the race problem. The day of the hermit in the desert is passed—the desert is irrigated now. He Was Proud of His Race. "And Booker Washington did not advocate or predict race amalgamation. One reason I admire him so much is that he was always a negro and proud of it. It would be a bad thing for the world if all the people were white. We need the patience and courtesy of the yellow race, the mysticism of India, the religious and musical traits of the black race, and the faculty of organization and getting hold of things of the white." The four greatest books of recent years for Americans, the minister believed, are "On the Trail of the Emigrant," by Dr. Edward A. Steiner; "The Making of An American," by Jacob Rils; "The Promised Land," by Mary Antin, and "Up From Slavey," by Booker T. Washington—Daily Star. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1915. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. No blare of trumpets heralded its flight. A knight of people trodden and despised. Thy life, black clouds of ignorance to dispel. Back to thy Southland dust thy dust, shall go, But still the mighty weapon thou hast forged Will manifest thy spirit here below, And by the arms of others wield its strength, On-girded by fresh warriors, year by year, For struggle in the cause that was thine own. MT. OREAD WINS. In the annual drill contest between the Commanderies of the Inter-State Conclave held at St. Joseph, Mo., Thanksgiving day. Mt. Oread of Lawrence, Kas., was declared the winner with Far West of Kansas City, Mo., second, although the audience thought Far West should have been announced the winner. A great crowd was in attendance and a full account will be given next week. BOOKER WASHINGTON A PEACE MAKER BY MAZIE HUDSON SMITH. The Hon. Booker T. Washington stood as a peace maker between the two races. He was as loyal to his race as ever a man could be and still a true friend to the dominant race. The mistakes of each race he solved in his heart and presented them to each as God revealed them to him. St. Louis, Mo.—Mayor Kiel of this city has appointed Dr. H. B. Wilkins editor of the Clarion a member of the Committee on National Defense. The Committee is composed of the leading men of the city and Dr. Wilkins is the Colored representative. ATTENTION READERS Aren't you just a little bit proud of your paper, the Kansas City Sun? Now really wasn't that the greatest issue of any race journal in the Country? And now honest didn't you feel proud that your paper measured up to the exigencies of the occasion? Then lend your united support and we will build up here the greatest Negro newspaper in America. Mrs. Carrie Welch of 1515 E. Thirteenth street, entertained her cousin Mrs. Julia E. Prince of St. Louis at 6:00 o'clock dinner Thursday, November 18, at the Y. W. C. A. cafeteria. The guests were: Mesdames Fannie Williams, Julia E. Prince, Eula Harrison, Thos. Higginbotham, F. D. Douglass, P. T. Ingram, Ada Harris of St. Louis and Carrie Welch. The delicious repast was enjoyed by all. Money to loan. East 4349. Both phones. NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE MEETING WILL BE HELD IN KANSAS CITY AUGUST, 1916. One of the last official acts of Dr. Booker T. Washington was to have his secretary, Emmett J. Scott, notify Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, president of the Negro Business League of Greater Kansas City that the next meeting would be held in Kansas City. At a special call meeting of the Local League it was decided to start the League campaign at once by holding meetings at the various churches throughout the city. Our first meeting will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Twenty-fourth and Flora, Sunday night, November 28. The regular monthly meeting of the League will be held at the Y. M. C. A. Thursday night, December 2. All business people and friends who are interested are cordially invited to attend. ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Rev. M. J. Mace of Kentucky is preaching in a series of meetings at the Second Christian Church, Woodland and 24th street. The meetings began last Sunday, the 21st. On Sunday morning, November 28, the subject will be "Truth"; in the evening, "Excuses for Being Saved"; Monday evening, November 29, "What Must I Do to Be Saved?"; Tuesday, "A New Thing"; Wednesday, "What Will You Do with Jesus, Who is Called Christ"; Thursday, "Who Touched Me?"; Friday, "The Doubter." All are especially invited to attend these services. Respectfully, PAUL JACKSON, 1625 Cottage Ave. NEGROES LOSE SLAVERY CASE Court Dismisses $68,000,000 Action Hinging on Civil War. Washington, Nov. 19.—The district supreme court today dismissed an action brought by L. M. Johnson of Louisiana, and other negroes against the government to recover more than $68,000,000, which they alleged was due to their ancestors as slaves for involuntary servitude in connection with federal handling of cotton during the Civil war. The action was brought against Secretary McAdoo. MR. GEO. V. GOLDEN. The popular Tailor of Eighteenth street, who is turning out some of the finest and most artistic suits being worn in this city. A SPECIAL LUNCHEON. A special luncheon will be served at Allen Chapel Thursday, December 2, from 12:00 to 2:00 p. m. Menu. Soup Celery Toasted Bread Sticks Mock Bird Baked Apples Potatoes THANKS. The Royal Messenger, published at Helena, Arkansas, is probably the first of the colored newspapers to guarantee its advertisements. They are careful to exclude all unreliable advertisements from their columns and then agree to make good any losses their readers may sustain on the part of their advertisers. The Lincoln Memorial Campaign which is a plan to raise $150,000 for a modern plant for the Mercy Hospital has been enthusiastically lounched in Philadelphia. Dr. Algernon B. Jackson is the Medical Director and in this movement he has the hearty support of Dr. H. M. Minton, Dr. E. T. Hinson and other representative white and colored citizens. The Mound Bayou State Bank, the second Negro bank to qualify under the Guarantee Act of the State of Mississippi, has opened for business with a $10,000 capital and $2,000 surplus, all fully paid. The organizing skill and business experience of Mr. Charles Banks, president of the Mound Bayou Oil Mill, is largely responsible for the successful opening of this institution. Mr. Banks was also responsible for $11,000 of the capital stock and surplus. A Thought for the Week. There is a new awakening along business lines which argues for greater strides toward the accomplishment of great things and the strengthening of those who are already in business by combining the strength of many who are now merely eking out an existence. "Co-operation in business" is the new slogan. The old idea that another man must not engage in the same line of business that we are engaged in has had to give away to the new idea that by co-operation many can succeed where none can single-handedly—The Nashville News. MT. OREAD CHAPTER ATTENTION MT. OREAD CHAPTER ATTENTION Mount Oread chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, will confer degrees Sunday afternoon, November 28, at 1:30. All companions in good standing invited. W. C. HUESTON, H. P. HARRY J. BROWN, Secretary. IF YOU THINK THE SUN IS FIGHTING THE BATTLES OF THE RACE, SUBSCRIBE AND HELP IT FIGHT. Women's Clubs. WANTED—A reporter for Kansas City, Kansas. Inquire at The Sun Office. MEET ME AT THE WHIRL AT LYRIC HALL UNDER AUSPICES OF CITY FEDERATION OF CLUBS ADMISSION 25 CTS. OAK LEAF ART CLUB The Oak Leaf Art Club met in its regular weekly meeting and spent several hours in fancy work. The instructress was kept busy. The next meeting will be held with Miss Hattie Davis, 2406 Flora avenue, December 3. Mrs. Toney, president; E. Wanzer, Απραγαθος The chorus of Western University under the direction of Prof. R. G. Jackson sang at the white Manual Training School of this city last Wednesday and elicited much favorable comment. W. U. has possibly the finest chorus in this section of the Country. SPECIAL NOTICE The Amory Hall Saturday night dancing class wishes to apologize to those who have been overcharged by one of their gentlemen teachers for private lessons. All who wish to take private lessons please pay no one except Mrs. Janie White, dancing teacher. If taking class lessons pay at the window. Respectfully. THE CLIPPERS Miss K. Davis was hostess on Saturday morning, November 20, at an elaborate four-course breakfast for the Clippers. The gold, green and white color scheme was carried out in exquisite detail from the huge bouquet of golden chrysanthemums which graced the center of the table, to the hand-painted place cards which had been designed by the clever hostess herself. GRACE P. WHITE, Clipper Reporter. A HOME SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS. Colored women of Virginia, during eight long years full of hopes and disappointments, have struggled to do something worth while and immediately necessary for the wayward girls of their own race. Acting through the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, these pioneers and leaders in social-service work have raised nearly $6,000, have bought a farm of 147 acres at Peake in Hanover County, Virginia, and opened what is known as the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls. The word wayward has been purposely omitted from the school's title. The colored women of Virginia, working with their able president, Mrs Harris Barrett—a graduate of Hampon Institute and a successful settlement head worker—feel that the emphasis should be placed on the ideas RICHARD FULBRIGHT, P. G. M. Who is organizing a new Golden Jubilee Masonic Lodge in this city RICHARD FULBRIGHT, P. G. M. Who is organizing a new Golden Jubilee Masonic Lodge in this city. of home, industry, and school, rather than on reform, correction, or waywardness. Virginia colored club women have received from their white friends, including some of the most influential and aristocratic Virginians in private and public life, over two thousand dollars. Best of all, they have won and held, both in and out of Virginia, the hearty endorsement and sympathetic co-operation of hundreds of white people. Working together in harmony for a splendid cause they have received for the Industrial Home School an appropriation from the Virginia Legislature amounting to six thousand dollars—and the promise of more in proportion as the school helps to solve the difficult problem of handling successfully a group of wayward colored girls. Southern Workman. If you want something nice to send to a friend stop at Bessie M. Weaver's fruit and flower shop. Deliveries made to any part of the city. 1510 East Eighteenth. Bell phone East 4798. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comment or Men and Measures. The Presidential Nomination Washington, D. C.—Hon. Charles D. Hilles, Chairman of the Republican National Executive Committee, announces that many candidates for the Republican nomination for President next year are entering the field for the pre-convention contest. Among those mentioned are Former Senator Elihu Root of New York; Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa; Senator William E. Borah of Idaho; Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana; Former Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio; Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts; Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan; Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas; Senator L. Y. Sherman of Illinois; Former Governor Myron T. Herrick of Ohio; Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York; and H. D. Estabrook, a prominent and eloquent lawyer of New York City, who delivered the principal address at the annual meeting of the Advertising Clubs of America held in Chicago last June. From now on, it will be interesting to note how prominent Colored men of national reputation "line up." It is said that Hon. Charles W. Anderson who has just been appointed Supervisory Agent of the State Agricultural Department, and Hon. Fred R. Moore, of The New York Age, appointed Minister to Liberia by President Taft, will support Governor Whitman; Former Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis of Boston, will support Senator Weeks; Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor of the Navy Department, under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft will support Senator Burton, while George A. Myers and Editor H. C. Smith have not yet decided whom they will support. As a rule, however, it is expected that the leading Colored men in the various states will follow their "favorite sons." The Southern leaders are against any candidate with "illy-white" leanings, and are already at work "sounding" the candidates. REV. S. W. BACOTE, D. D. Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte streets, where the great Union Memorial services in honor of Booker T. Washington will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30. The first Community meeting held at Lincoln High School last Sunday afternoon surpassed the expectations of its most ardent supporters and Dr Paul Paquin, Health Officer, was when he arose to deliver his address at 3:30 p. m. Excellent music rendered by the Lincoln High School Orchestra was praised by all. Delightful music numbers were rendered by Mrs. Emma Payne, Mesdames Payne and Lester, and Mrs. Andrews. Following the address of Dr. Paquin brief remarks were made by Rev. W. H. Thomas, Rev. S. W. Bacote, N. C. Crews and W. C. Hueston while the opening invocation was by Rev. W. C. Williams and benediction by Rev. Dr. Davis. The citizens were so well pleased that they are actually clamoring for Principal Lee to give us an other Sunday afternoon Community meeting. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH All of the sick are much improved at this writing. Mr. T. W. Glenn is able to be out again....Our Services were well attended....Our Sunday School is not what we would have it numerically so we urge the parents to see to it that your children go to Sunday School....Mr. D. A. Ross our representative at the Y. M. C. A. prayer meeting last week, reports good services. One convert for their labor. Let the good work go on....The B. Y. P. U. meets at 5:30 every Sunday with an interesting program. Mrs. P. A. McFaddeen, president. J. H. Evans of Sallsbury, Mo., one of the stalwart Masons of Missouri, came to Kansas City, Thursday, and accompanied the Commanderies to his old home, St. Joe. Evans is one of the Grand Master's substantial friends. More than one hundred Knights Templar and their ladies went to St. Joseph Thursday to the Templars' Conclave. They returned early Friday morning, declaring they had had one of the most enjoyable conclaves ever held. We want good reliable Agents in every city and town in the country. Write us for terms. T THE GOLDEN WEST. AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE PEOPLE, TOWNS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE GREAT WESTERN SECTION OF OUR COUNTRY. The Colored Americans Making Good in the Far West and a Steady Stream of Desirable Immigration Now Pouring Into That Splendid Country With Its Wonderful Possibilities. —By the Editor. CHAPTER 7 One of the great and most popular features of the Frisco Exposition is the Philippine Constabulary Band of one hundred musicians under the leadership of Captain Walter H. Loving, the only Negro bandmaster of the world who holds the rank of captain. Captain Loving organized this band some twelve years ago while on duty in the Philippines and so accomplished and popular did they become that they were brought to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and afterwards were taken on a transcontinental tour, always winning the highest praise and highest enconium for their excellence. We were especially proud of Captain Loving because he is a member of the Missouri jurisdiction of Masons and has been our District Deputy in the Philippine Islands for several years. He sent his regards to members of the Missouri jurisdiction and said his one desire was to be able to secure a leave of absence and attend the Golden Jubilee to be held in Kansas City in 1916. After viewing the Fair from every angle in the brief time allotted us we decided to go on Saturday for our next stop, and at 11:00 o'clock Saturday evening we bade the Jewel City goodbye, crossed on the ferry to Oakland and at midnight left on our journey of 775 miles for our next stop which was PORTLAND, OREGON. This was one of the most thrilling scenic trips of our travels. Over mountains, thru tunnels, across rivers and lakes, we went and on every hand was something new to charm and thrill and amaze. At one place we went thru two tunnels one directly above the other, and in the valley 4,000 feet below was the quaint little village we started from two hours before, only five miles away. After riding all day Sunday we reached the beautiful city of Portland at 8:30 Monday morning, found a taxi waiting for us with instructions and were quickly whirled away to the Golden West Hotel. This hotel is the finest and most complete of its kind for Colored we have ever met in our travels and easily ranks with the best hotels for whites in prejudiced Kansas City and is a distinct credit to the race. It is located on two of the principal streets of the city, is five streets high, with the modern convenience, elevators, electric bells and telephones in every room! all rooms with hot and cold water and toilet, a large office handsomely furnished, switchboard operators, bell boys, clerks and in fact everything you will find in any first class hotel. In addition is a first class bar, barber shop, the best restaurant we found on the Coast presided over by a chef who is a past master in the clairy art and who is an old Kansas City boy, Charles Jackson; billiard room and a cleaning and pressing establishment that is first class. Mr. W. B. Allen, the proprietor, who is a Mason of high degree and Dr. J. A. Merriam, our deputy, did everything they could to make our stay pleasant. We were shown over the city in Mr. Allen's auto, called at the homes of Editor Cannaday of the Advocate, Mr. and Mrs. Gray, Rev. J. L. Craw, Mr. and Mrs. Allen's and at night delivered a brief address at Victoria Clay Haley's recital, then met Euclid Lodge No. 47, and the visiting breen of other lodges in the city and retired at 2:00 a.m. tired but exceedingly well pleased with our first day's stay in Portland. PRICE. 5c. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A revival of old memories, harking back to the antebellum days when he, as a boy, was sold many times on the auction block as a chattel and finally, at the age of seventeen, learning of the war to free the Negroes, he escaped from his master and found refuge in a camp of Federal soldiers, was occasioned a few days ago in the mind of Rev. J. Preston Watson of Pueblo, Colo., by the receipt of a letter from Thomas Gannon, an old soldier now residing at Monte Vista, Colo. It was Gannon, then a first heir entrant in the Ninth Missouri cavalry, and later promoted to captain, 54 years ago, who formed a liking for the fugitive colored boy and took him in. Throughout the war, until the close four years later, Watson remained with Gannon. Then they separated with the understanding that Watson was to go to Gannon's home and under his instruction learn the tinner's trade. But alternating circumstances intervened. Although in the years each frequently tried to find a trace of the other, their efforts proved in vain until two years ago Watson, then a veteran pastor who had done nearly 40 years service for the African Methodist church, learned that Captain Gannon was living near Leadville. This being in the district which Watson toured as presiding elder, he renewed his search and finally found Captain Gannon, a feeble, gray haired man, at that time just recovering from an operation. "Of course neither of us knew the other," remarked the Rev. Mr. Watson in telling of the meeting. "When I knew Gannon in war times when I was a square shouldered young man with a long black mustache and bushy black hair. Half a century later I found him an old man, little resembling his former self. But the old friendship still was there. He seemed mighty glad to see me, and for two hours we talked over old times. Then later he came to my house and we sat up all night long talking old times." Reminiscent in his letter received a few days ago Mr. Gannon said: "Again I recall an incident—the colored boy who wandered into camp, a fugitive from slavery, meek, humble, seeking protection. My boys in blue treated him with kindness and sympathy and I soon realized his faithful services; honest, truthful and diligent, employing his leisure moments in the efforts to learn to read that he might be helpful to his fellow freemen. Now, how well he has succeeded. From a humble servant to a devoted servant of the Lord and zealous in the uplift of his people." Born near Lynchburg, Va. Watson was sold when a baby with his mother to Robert Barnett Bowling Green, Pike county, Mo. When four years old his mother died and from that time until ten he was sold five times on the auction block in Missouri. Educated through his own of forts entirely, Rev. Mr. Watson is one of the prominent retired pastors of his church in the West. He has lived in Pueblo, first 20 years ago and again for the last nine years, and has been pastor of both the St. Paul's and St. John's A. M. E. churches. Mrs Watson is superintendent of the colored orphanage at Pueblo. When white men discuss the Indian problem the discussion generally has to do with a scheme to get the Indian's money. An optimist is a man who makes a living in town. A pessimist is one who earns his on a farm. "Banneker, the Negro astronomer," was born at Elliott's Mills, Maryland, a few miles from Baltimore, several years before the Revolutionary war. He learned to read while doing farm work and managed to study and become quite proficient in mathematics. In his study of astronomy he was encouraged and assisted by Andrew Elliott, an astronomer and civil engineer of scientific attainments and founder of Elliott's mills and connected with some large enterprises. Elliott was a friend of Washington and when he was employed to survey the District of Columbia and locate the city of Washington he gave employment to Banneker. After this Banneker made astronomical calculations and published almanacs which were used in Maryland and some other states. Thomas Jefferson sent one of the almanacs to the French Academy of Sciences and the secretary of the navy wrote Banneker a complimentary letter. He died in Baltimore in 1806 and many scientific societies bore testimony to the correctness of his mathematical and astronomical work. Many years after his death, J. H. B. La Every community produces a citizen or two whose chief ambition is to make a living exhibiting a five-legged calf. A woman can get more into a trunk, but a man has something "on" her when it comes to stowing a derby hat safely in a suitcase. What, mentioning him quite casually, became of the old-fashioned man who referred to the Bible as "the Word?" Music of the Spheres. The rising and the setting of the sun clearly prove that this globe is carried round in the space of 24 hours in an eternal and never ending circuit, and with incredible swiftness. I am not able to say whether the sound caused by the whirling about of so great a mass be excessive, and therefore far beyond what our ears can perceive; nor, indeed, whether the resounding of so many stars, all carried on at the same time, and revolving in their orbits may not produce a delightful In a communication to the Houston Post D. Porter, principal of the Brenham Normal and Industrial college, writes: Prof. E. L. Blackshear, with his dogged tenacity has succeeded in organizing some of the best Negro farmers in Texas into a 'farmers' congress," having them to come annually and spend from six to eight days in our state school, where they can get strong help by the way of lectures and coming in contact with the actual experimental farm that cultivates it them a strong love for their farms and at the same time broadening their views upon the plans of getting better results from their many productive farms. And many of our boys are laying their diplomas in the bottom of their trunks and taking a part with their fathers in the development of their farms. They are no longer looking at labor as a disgrace, but are rolling up their sleeves, and taking a part in the various communities in whatever vocation they find best to be pursued and are thereby making home worth while. This kind of teaching was the end in mind of the founders of our state school. Blackshear is a southern Negro, and thoroughly understands southern conditions and his constant lectures and conversations with the students of that institution have so thoroughly fitted them not with a prejudiced mind to his brother in white, but with a knowledge to go, hand in hand with his neighbor in the various duties of life without the least friction. No one during Blackshear's principalship has heard of a single Prairie View student having the least trouble with any of our white citizens and we have hundreds of them going out on various roads at the close of that school. Now, I was born and reared in Texas, and would not live anywhere else. Have tried to teach 22 years, and do believe that if there is any one man in Texas that knows anything about that state and the kind of teaching necessary and best fitted for our people, I should know something about it. I have for the last 10 or 12 years spend much of my time traveling and talking to many of our country teachers' institutions, and I find that a large number or a very large per cent of these teachers are from Prairie View. I have made it my business to talk with each superintendent as to the work, and as to how these teachers get along with their white neighbors. Uncle Tom and Aunt Nancy, Uncle Jim and Aunt Susan who the old pioneers had the highest regard for, are all passing from the stage of the living and the young Negro is coming on the scene. He has to have that teaching that will enable him to live in perfect harmony with his white brother. Not every criminal leaves a trail. The miscreant who invented bean soup covered his tracks so carefully that he never was apprehended. Men are a good deal like horses in the respect that the thoroughbred should be picked for speed and the scrub for service. Another precedent has been overturned by a Kansas bachelor. He was in a hospital six weeks a couple of years ago and did not marry the trained nurse who attended him. trode, a prominent citizen of Baltimore and for a long time connected with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, wrote a memoir of Banneker which was published by the Maryland Historical society. A large newspaper plant in Philadelphia has recently been taken over by a company of colored men, who are preparing to issue a weekly paper for circulation in a number of different cities. Arrangements have been made for its distribution in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and thirty other cities within a twelve-mile radius of Philadelphia are expected to be included in its circulation. This is the first large newspaper enterprise ever undertaken entirely by colored men, and the purpose of the paper is the general uplift of the colored race. The undertaking is well financed, and will embody the highest ideals of race journalism. The paper is to be controlled, edited and printed entirely by colored men. The printing plant includes every labor-saving and cost-cutting device known in the newspaper world. Something like 40,000,000 barrels of beer are brewed in the United Kingdom every year. Among the other prohibited things which we do not care to do is that of loafing in the depot waiting-room. Generally speaking, it is the man who has no story to tell who laughs at yours. Osaka is a great Japanese toy-making center, with Tokyo next. harmony of incredible sweetness. To us, who are in the interior, the world appears to glide silently along both by day and by night.—Pliny. Police "Eveglasses." Germany's secret police are supplied with "police eyeglasses." These have tiny concave mirrors on the side next to the face, which may be extended sideways or folded back so as not to show, and give the wearer, if he has normal sight, an image of what is going on directly behind him. LEAVING THE TRENCH TO CHARGE THE GERMANS Copyright Underwood & Underwood This remarkable snapshot of French first-line troops leaving a communication trench to charge the German position was taken south of Arras. The men, as usual, have left their haversacks behind. IS PRISON DE LUXE Internment Camp at Islington Like Exclusive Club. No Prisoner Would Leave the Camp Under Any Inducement Less Than Declaration of Peace—Have By HAYDEN TALBOT. London.—If any belligerent country ever conducted an enemy internment camp as this country is running the make-shift prison into which the old Islington workhouse has been transformed, the world's historians have deprived their readers of a tale at the same time amazing and amusing. Surely that greatest of all British humorists, W. S. Gilbert, would be able to write a classic satire around Islington workhouse, were he only alive to do it. Except his, no pen can do justice to the facts. To begin, there are upwards of 700 Germans and Austrians interned at Islington. The guard—altogether unneeded—is comprised of one police sergeant and four P. C.'s, who are in America plain policemen. Not one of the seven hundred-odd prisoners would leave Islington for any consideration less than a declaration of peace. The waiting list of alien enemies now intermed in less-favored camps exceeds five hundred. Islington workhouse resembles in every material way an exclusive club, rather than an internment camp. To become a "prisoner" in the institution is the dearest wish of every German and Austrian now in Great Britain—excepting, perhaps, only those who are still enjoying their full liberty. The attention of Britishers was directed to Islington by the announcement that a brother of Von Bissing, who was governor general of Belgium when Miss Edith Cavell was executed, is among the more recently "elected" members of the internment club. That certain privileges were permitted such wealthy, highly placed figures as Von Bissing has been an open secret since the outbreak of the war, but the real conditions existing at Islington are still undreamed of by the British public. To begin with, you can escape doing any work—if you are among those fortunate 700 prisoners—by the payment of 75 cents a week. You can MOTHER OF MISS CAVELL POPE BENEDICT XIV A "grand old lady" is Mrs. Cavell, the mother of Edith Cavell, the British nurse whose last words before her execution were, "I am happy to die for my country." To perpetuate the memory of her daughter, there is now a plan on foot in Great Britain to organize the Cavell Memorial fund. SOCIAL WAR WAGED IN CHINA British and Germans Clash in One of Clubs in Shanghai—Trouble at Other Ports. Peking—Numerous incidents of a disagreeable social nature are occurring in the foreign settlements in the treaty ports of China. The only foreign place of amusement in Peking, a moving picture show run by an East Indian British subject, was raided recently by some seagation guard because have a private room, furnished just as you wish (providing you can pay for the furnishings), for $2.50 to $5 per week, depending on the room. But the British government doesn't stop with taking this money. It spends it on the dependents of those interned. As all the inmates of the Islington camp are married men, many of them with English wives and almost all of them with wives resident in England, this fund may be said to serve a not-altogether inconsistent purpose. In any event, the government applies it all to the assistance of the enemy prisoners' dependents. But that is only part of what the government does for these enemy alliens. There is a lawyer appointed by the government and paid by the taxpayers, whose sole business is to take care of the prisoners' legal troubles. He has been busy ever since the camp was started. One German had been in partnership with an Englishman. Could that partnership be legally dissolved? The English solicitor promised to do his best to prevent the dissolution. An Austrian butcher with a shop in Southend—his premises having been wrecked in the riots following the sinking of the Lusitania—wondered if he might collect damages from somebody. The English solicitor promptly instituted a suit for damages against the municipality of Southend. Every day this barrister transacts business in the financial district for those of his clients who were engaged in the stock market before they were intermed. In one instance it was necessary for a German prisoner to attend to a certain very important financial transaction in person. The solicitor obtained for him permission to be absent from the interment camp 12 hours, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. There are classes studying Spanish at Islington; there are other classes in which electrical engineering is being studied. One of the highest-salaried tailor's cutters in London is teaching a score of his fellow prisoners how to cut men's clothing. Another skilled cutter has a class learning how to cut women's garments. These two cutters furnish about the only instances of really tough luck. Said one of them to me: "And before, the war each one of those pupils would be paying me 15 shillings ($3.75) a week. Now I get nothing." The culine at Islington may not be quite up to the standard of the Ritz, but if it isn't there is small excuse for the failure. In charge of the culinary department is the erstwhile manager of one of the largest hotels in the West end. SHOOT GAME FROM AIRSHIP Texas Men Say New Kind of Hunting Is Greatest of All Sports. Gallop, N. M.—Hunting wild game from the seat of an aeroplane is the favorite sport of Sam Hampson and J. N. Long, who recently purchased a machine from a man who had served with General Villa in Mexico. They took the machine to a point in the foothills of the Mimbres range of mountains in New Mexico and made a flight over that rough region. On the initial flight they saw a number of bear, deer and other wild game, and on a second trip, when they carried guns, they succeeded in killing some of the animals. The greatest difficulty which they encountered was that of recovering the game after it had been shot. Usually the game fell in places that afforded no landing for the aeroplane. DISEASE WIPES OUT RABBITS Tuberculosis Making Terrible Inroads Among Bunnies in Northern Minnesota. Duluth, Minn.—It is asserted that tuberculosis has wiped out the rabbit family in this part of the country. Hunters say they no longer see bunny in the woods and around the city, and the sport of rabbit shooting is gone. Last year it was found that almost every rabbit caught' or killed for examination was suffering from incipient tuberculosis, and a warning was sent out not to use rabbit food. It is generally believed among physic- ians and some others that the little animals have been wiped out by the disease. a British "animated cartoon" was un- complimentary to the Emperors William and Francis Joseph. But the most peculiar incident has occurred in Shanghai, where the German members of a club were requested to remain away from the club house during the war. The The Germans went to the club and took away many cups and other silver trophies, and are now retaining them, threatening to melt them unless their entrance fees and dues paid to the club are returned to them. PHEASANT CAUGHT IN NET Tennis Players Find Bird Dead and Enjoy a Feast Out of Season. New York.—Four New York men who left here about ten days ago for a holiday at golf got back yesterday with a tale of a pheasant eaten out of season. S. L. Snowden, a bond broker; A. A. Spriggs, a stock broker; T. M. Logan, a manufacturer, and W. P. De Saussure, Jr., of the McAlpain, ate the pheasant. According to Mr. De Saussure, the four golfers hid themselves at Brick Hill Falls, N. J., and played golf so hard that on last Wednesday they were glad to try tennis for a time. At a critical point in the game there was a sudden whirring sound in the brush behind Mr. De Saussure and his partner, and a big bird flashed past them and dashed itself into the tennis net. All the players rushed to see what it was, and found that it was a hen pheasant. It had broken its neck in the net. Knowing the open season had not begun, the four men discussed seriously whether it was lawful to eat the bird. The upshot was that it made a full breakfast for the four. WAR SCENES IN LONDON A county of London battery not "somewhere in France," but on Hampstead heath, where they are training. ARRESTED FOR MANY FALLS City Prosecute Citizen Who Tumbled Into Coal Holes Several Times Too Often. New York.—Accused of having fallen into coal holes several times too often, James Smith was arrested at the Brighton Beach hotel, where he is employed. Smith had been indicted by the New York county grand jury for attempted grand larceny on evidence obtained by James H. McCool, an examiner in the office of the corporation counsel. Frank V. Burton and J. H. Burton, owners of property, were the complaining witnesses. Smith had brought an action against the Messrs. Burton for $20,000 damages for injuries alleged to have been received on April 12 by falling into an open coal hole in front of the premises. START ANTI-AIN'T SOCIETY Kansas Normal School Students Plan to Abolish "Ain't" From Vocabulary. Hays, Kan.—Organization of an Anti-Ain't association has just been completed by students at the Fort Hays Kansas Normal school. The association has for its purpose the teaching of its members, among whom are most of the students in the school, the correct use of simple English, the abolition of long, unnecessary words, and especially the abolition from their vocabularies of the word "ain't." The association was organized by P. Casper Harvey, professor of English, in one of the classes, and has spread gradually through the school. Misuse of the words "come," "came" and "nice" also is under the ban. Robs While Music Playa. South Bend, Ind.-Enter the musical burglar. While a phonograph in the home of Alexis Mossy was playing "I Want to Go Back to the Farm," an entertaining robber was going through the Mossy residence and making a rich haul. Two diamond rings, several watches and a quantity of money made up his loot. Neighbors who heard the machine thought the Mossy family was at home, and the burglar was left to his own devices during the absence of EASY TO SERVE THEM IN AN AT TRACTIVE MANNER. Many Ways That Will Appeal to the Housewife Who Prides Herself on Her Table—Making Desserts Attractive. Now we turn to the serving of left-over cold sweets, says the New York Evening Telegram. Only too often the housewife flops last night's pudding on to the table in its tin, offending the appetites of everyone present with the sight of it. The same pudding, dished in the kitchen with whipped cream added to each plate, seems quite different to the fastidious eye. When re-serving such cold sweets as jelly or prune mold, etc., cut them up into cubes and dish them in custard cups with a little whipped cream on the top of each, if you can afford it. Do not send half of yesterday's cold prune whip, with the remains of some cream that was poured over it, to the table in such a dilapidated condition. Again, if you have half a cold tart or fruit pie place the fruit in a glass dish and cut the cake into neat wedges and arrange them on top. Perhaps you have some stewed prunes and a few tinned or freshly stewed apricots left from other dishes. Do not throw them into a glass dish in any which way, but pile the apricots in the center and make a border of the prunes. When you serve fritters do not cast them flat on the dish and let remnants of the frying grease make unappetizing trails around about them. Drain them first thoroughly, pile in the center of the dish and shake powdered sugar over them. A paper dolly in the center of the dish adds to the attractiveness of its appearance. When you have an extra quarter or so to spare sometime, buy some angelica, pistachio nuts and some preserved cherries. Keep in them and use them sparingly and you will find that they will go a long way in making any number of desserts more attractive to look upon. For example, your husband may eye with scorn a plain tapapla pudding, but a tapapla cream, consisting of tapapla thoroughly cooked in milk with sugar and vanilla, spread in a glass bowl with just enough cream to cover it and half a cherry and four leaves of angelica as a center ornament, will be greeted with a friendly welcome. Yet the latter will only cost you four or five cents more than the former. Tomato Carolina. Butter a baking dish, and in the bottom place a layer of cooked rice, then a layer of sliced and peeled tomatoes and small raw onions or large onions cut in quarters. Put in a few lumps of butter—or dripping, which is just as good and much cheaper—season highly with celery salt, paprika and ordinary dairy salt; then place another layer of rice on top, continuing with tomatoes and onions until the dish is full. Now take a cupful of fresh or canned tomato juice, whichever you prefer, and pour over the dish. Sprinkle the top with grated cheese and bake in a moderate oven for half or three-quarters of an hour. If the dish is very large it takes an hour to bake it. It can hardly be cooked too much, and is not good underdone. Filled Peaches. Skin and halve peaches, removing stone. Chop coarsely an equal quantity of almonds and English walnuts. Fill the halves with them and fasten each part together with tiny toothpicks. Set them in a saucepan with a little water, sprinkle four or five tablespoonfuls of sugar over them and steam ten minutes. Chill and serve cold with cream. If preferred, marshmallows may be substituted for the chopped nuts, rolled in powdered sugar with browned almonds stuck in them and served with candied ginger or a bit of jelly. Hoe Cake. Scald one pint of white cornmeal, add, if desired, a tablespoonful of sugar, and add to this one-half tablespoonful of salt that has been mixed with boiling milk or water, just enough to make a batter sufficiently thick not to spread. Drop on a hot griddle in large or small cakes, as preferred, about one-half inch in thickness. Cook slowly and when well browned turn. Serve on a hot platter, adding a little butter or maple syrup Boiled Rice Pudding Wash a large cupful of rice through several waters, and mix with it half a teaspoonful of salt and half a cupful of seeded raisins. Tie in a buttered cloth, allowing plenty of room for the rice to swell; boil rapidly for two hours. Remove the cloth and turn the ball of rice out on to a hot dish. Make a depression in the top and drop a piece of butter into it. Serve with grated nutmeg, butter and sugar. Tongue Roast Mince remnants of boiled tongue very fine, with cream or milk and simmer slowly. Add the beaten yolk of one egg and stir until egg is cooked. Have ready buttered toast and spread meat over it. If you like it, a little grated cheese can be sprinkled over it, if not the bread can be placed on the stove to meet the meat browns slightly. Ham toast can be made in the same way of the lean remnants of ham. It is nice for breakfast. Egg Sauce. Egg sauce made in this way is delicious. Beat the whites of three eggs stiff. Beat the yolks until creamy and sweeten with three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Just before serving fold in the stiff whites and serve immediately. To Clean a Carpet Sweeper. Remove the brush and after rubbing off all the hairs and lint, rub well with kerosene. Let the brush stand in the air until all the odor has evaporated. The sweeper will do much better work after this treatment. HOMETOWN HELPS Interior Arrangements Should Have as Much Care as the Outside of the Home. Things one should not do in planning a home have been enumerated from week to week on the Home Builders' page of the Sunday Herald during the past few months. But in addition to the things that should not be done there are many little things that should be done, some of which, seemingly unimportant, are in reality very important. Following are a few of the "Do's," combined with "Don'ts." Don't treat the piazza as an architectural excremence; make it a real out-of-door living room. It should command a good view, have a western exposure and be so located as to afford privacy and rest to those occupying it. Don't plan for other than wide openings between the hall, living room and dining room. These wide openings give an air of spaciousness and gracious hospitality. Don't buy a building site without first having the architect visit the site with you. You may in this way avail yourself of many valuable and helpful hints. Don't plan your house until you have selected your building site. To do so is about as difficult and will result more disastrously than buying a hat without first trying it on. Don't forget that a cheery entrance hall affords to the casual visitor agreeable anticipations that a further acquaintance with the house will be equally cheery. Don't fail to locate the kitchen range out of reach of cross drafts. Much time and fuel are wasted, often with disastrous results to the cooking, by not obtaining this condition. Don't omit the shower from the bathroom. You will be more than repaid in health and comfort for the extra outlay. Don't fail to conceal, if possible, the hot-water boiler in some convenient closet in the kitchen. The boiler is not a decorative feature, even with much time expended in polishing it. This time can be spent to better advantage in numerous other ways. The water-keeps hot longer if the tank is concealed, which is an advantage economically.—Boston Herald. TELLS OF APPROACHING CARS Electric Signal Warns Motorists and Pedestrians to Watch Out for Possible Danger. 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High Class Representatives wanted in every town in Missouri. OVER $1,700,000 IN LIFE INSURANCE IN FORCE. Monuments let us show you that you may have take your appointment with LITTLE KANSAS CITY, MO. The Royal Life Insurance Company of Chicago, Ill., has inaugurated a department for Colored people with Frank L. Gillespie of Chicago as superintendent. In addition to giving him this responsible position, the officers of the company presented him with a gold watch as a token of appreciation for his long and faithful service with them. In Morocco.....$2.50 ENTERPRISE BOOK STORE to Canvassers. Price at Net Prices. GENERAL AGENT BELL PHONE E. 1521 Regalia and Supplies Co AND AVENUE Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City (Your name, business, address and telephone carried in this directory at 25 cents per month. $3.00 a year; less than one cent a day. Can you beat it? To secure space call Sun Office, Bell phone 999 East, or see our agent.) BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. J. E. LAING, 1715 East 18th St. MESDAMES JACKSON & JOHNSON, 18th and Highland Ave. Bell phone E. 4788. MRS. CADDIE WITCHER, 1708 Michigan Ave. Madame Walker's Hair and Scalp Treatment. Bell phone. East 4167X CAFES. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. CARPET CLEANERS. EUREKA CARPET CLEANING CO., 1718-20 Euclid Ave. Bell phone, East 3555; Home, East 4169. COAL AND FEED. W. W. PAYNE, 1902 1-2 Vine St. Bell phone, East 559; Home phone, East 4132. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS N, 1650 East 18th St. Bell phone East 5 BROS., 1831 Paseo. Bell Phone East 701. DENTISTS. BACH, 716 East 12th St. Bell phone G. 258. DRUG STORES. SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone in 5467. DRUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell ph act 4082. ER'S PHARMACY—18th and Woodland East 272, Home phone East 4070. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. JMES & CO., 2409 Vine Street. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. SON, 1816 Highland, Bell phone, East 34 G. V. GOLDEN, 1650 East 18th St. Bell phone East 539. WORTHAM BROS., 1831 Paseo. Bell Phone East 701. DENTISTS. DR. E. C. BUNCH, 716 East 12th St. Bell phone G. 2553 W. DRUG STORES. THEODORE SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 4591, Home Main 5467. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell phone East 1814, Home East 4082. R. W. FOSTER'S PHARMACY—18th and Woodland. Bell phone East 272. Home phone East 4070. THOS. JACKSON, 1816 Highland, Bell phone, East 3485W. FLORISTS. T FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. B e phone, East 4070. GROCERS. N, 2644 Woodland Ave. Bell phone, East CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 272. Home phone, East 4070. GROCERS. M. R. WILSON, 2644 Woodland Ave. Bell phone, East 1493. INSURANCE. LIFE INSURANCE CO., 1507 East 18th 366J. T. A. Ross, JEWELERS. N, 1616 West 9th St., Bell phone, Main 62 LAUNDRIES. RIC LAUNDRY CO., J. C. Hale, Mgr., 2 one 3160. STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO., 1507 East 18th St., Bell phone Grand 2662J. T. A. Ross. THE ELECTRIC LAUNDRY CO., J. C. Hale, Mgr., 2928 Summit St. Home phone 3160. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. WAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Practices in all courts. CON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Practical advice. Practices in all courts. SOM, Attorney at Law, 307 Walnut street East 2727, Home phone East 4070. LEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minne Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. GEO. T. WASSOM, Attorney at Law, 307 Walnut street. Bell phone East 2727, Home phone East 4070. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. MILLINERY. CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home p WASHINGTON, 849 Freeman Ave. B Bassas City, Kas. Also hair work. A HUBBARD, latest things in hats. 610 East 18th street. Bell phone E. 479 PHOTOGRAPHERS. ANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East st 1643. CALDWELL CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home phone East 4009. MISS EVA P. WASHINGTON, 849 Freeman Ave. Bell phone, West 2306, Kansas City, Kas. Also hair work. MME. STELLA HUBBARD, latest things in hats. Old hats made new. 1510 East 18th street. Bell phone E. 4798. PHOTOGRAPHERS. C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell phone East 1643. PHYSICIANS. DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Thraptics, P. O. box 90A, Bell phone, Rosedale 523, Rosedale, Kas. PRINTERS. BILIN, 1008 East 18th St. Bell phone Gra REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT SMITH, 1515 East 18th St. Bell phone phone East 4024. BIGAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT 111 McGee street. Se 751 Main. Home Ph GOPLE'S INVESTMENT CO., 2427 Vine Home East 4011. Sol Smith, Pres.; C. I. SECOND-HAND GOODS. INS, 2122 Vine St. Bell phone East 3851 C. A. FRANKLIN, 1008 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 2988 STEWART & SMITH, 1515 East 18th St. .Bell phone East 4893, Home phone East 4024. AFRO-AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO., Help furnished. 911 McGee street. Bell Phone 751 Main. Home Phone 7555 Main. COLORED PEOPLE'S INVESTMENT CO., 2427 Vine St. Bell Phone East 1011, Home East 4011. Sol Smith, Pres.; C. H. Adkins, Tres. SECOND-HAND GOODS. W. G. HOPKINS, 2122 Vine St. Bell phone East 3851. UNDERTAKERS ROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine Sts. Bell p REE, Licensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine St., B ine East 3341. ROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Gr . Res., Bell East 3281. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine Sts. Bell phone East 4784. C. H. COUNTEE, Licensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine St., Bell Phone, East 3336, Home East 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Grand 987, Home Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281. Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combits, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirella Cores. Mail orders answered promptly THE KANSAS CITY SUN All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 13, 1808, 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, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Clevelandian M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Miss Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kansas. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Trecy. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Blue Valley Baptist church, 1120 Crystal avenue. St. Jebn's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Bellevue Seventh Day Adventist, 32rd and Woodland. 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. St. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Third Baptist Church, Roundtop, People's Mission, 30th and Genesee. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Aa'view. Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lydia. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. C. M. E. Baptist Church, 4659 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. President Green Baptist Church, 1st and Splitton. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and State. Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, kan M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland, A. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salter Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart, Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby, Wesley Chapel M. E. 106 Shawnee, Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams Bethel M. A. E. Church, Rosedale, Kan Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virginia. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church, Wetland avenue and Tangent street, Rosedale EDITORIAL The Editor received a beautiful Thanksgiving card from his old friend Dr. T. H. Phillips of Keokuk, Ia. And what shall it profit the Goats and the Rabbits if they defeat all the people's bonds and lose the next election? The loss of a sixty-eight million dollar lawsuit against the government by Negroes of the state of Louisiana will prove a keen disappointment right here at Thanksgiving. The erstwhile significant patrons and patronesses lists for popular entertainments have degenerated into the mere payment of an additional price to see one's name in print. That rumbling noise you hear is the moving of Negroes from the Twenty-seventh street district in obedience to the wishes of the Christian white people of that vicinity. A few weeks ago a number of benevolent persons secured permission from the Board of Education to exploit the Negro schools for the benefit of charity. Since that time very little has been done in the class-rooms except to rehearse dancing and gymnastic stunts for a big Convention Hall affair to be given a week before Christmas. At first it was understood that the program should consist of selections from the daily music, calisthenics and folk dances as practised in the schools but the supervisors decided to put on all new work and it must be said to their credit that they have given most diligent assistance to the principals and teachers, all of whom are working with great vim and enthusiasm to properly carry out what they understand to be the wishes of the Board of Education. It is among the things possible that the Board has been imposed upon, for the loss of time from the regular school work of pupils is entirely out of proportion to the ends sought, that of raising a fund of uncertain amount for the benefit f a certain charity scheme. It might have been a great saving to the schools if the patrons and teachers had been asked to raise the fund by direct contribution. Many would have preferred it to the plan which throws all the schools into a chaos of disorder for one sixth of the year. The entertainment will be fine, do doubt, and will draw a record crowd of patrons, as it should. The only question is, does it really pay in the end? Handkerchiefs, Wash Cloths, Towels, Cuffs, Collars—anything for any body who admires art needlework Place your orders now. Prices right. MRS. W. T. SUMLIN, 2822 Pine St. St. Louis, Mo. A —That if you want to forget your troubles get a pair of tight shoes. —That some things we get for nothing are usually worth just what they cost. —That Weaver's fruit and flower store is the most attractive shop on Eighteenth street. —That the Pessimist believes that if "Man wants but little here below" that he won't get that. Poor soul. —That if you possess magnetism you can draw all things to you. I wonder where I can buy a magnet. —That the world is full of people who think every time they see a cloud it's going to rain. Well they can't be Missourians. —That the Sun had the greatest Booker T. Washington edition issued by any Negro newspaper in the United States. Thank you. —That some day the horde of policy writers infesting this town will get before Judge Latshew who has no patience with that class of parasites and when they do it will be “taps” for many a day. They say that when the white minister heard the Centennial Choir sing Sunday, November 14, he said: “If a man couldn't preach behind such singing, he might as well put up and shut up.” They can't shirk while under the leadership of F. J. Work. This choir broke all records the past summer as they did not discard their robes during the entire summer. TABLE TALK. I see you are unlike Timothy Stanby who lives in Grumble Lane. He takes the Chief seat at the table and then grumbles when it becomes known that he is not fitted for it. Yet, I am inclined to believe that Timothy is coming to a wiser and better way of living. Why? Because he said to me recently, "I have decided to get out of Grumble Lane and in Thanksgiving street before November 25." And his wife is looking forward to a Thanksgiving feast in their new home. Think how that new home enables them to enjoy Thanksgiving Day at least two weeks distant for the first time in their lives. They have been so busy recalling miseries, rather than mercies, the defaults and crimes of men rather than the goodness of God that they never thought of Thanksgiving a day off. And today we can afford to be courteous in saying that Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Standby are enjoying the future. That is one of the highest privileges of man. Imagine, if you can, that you are seated before a Thanksgiving feast in the twinkling of an eye without the privilege of tasting it in advance. Good things would lose half their virtue if we could not enjoy them before we get them into our hands. And every good thing which comes to us we can enjoy by anticipation, by realization, and by memory. We give up certain days of each year for memorials—the days set aside for Washington, Lincoln, Christmas, Independence and so on. Each day has its peculiar significance for the things held sacred thru its observance but none has any advantage in odds over Thanksgiving. No, my friend, not because it is a day for feasting. It gives the needed opportunity to crowd on the mind many recollections of a kind Providence, and to renew faith in these principles of human conduct that rejoice in all good of yesterday, all the blessings of the present, and sees no terror in the future. And it is well that Thanksgiving Day should be a festival and time of family reunions in connection with gratitude to Fim who "setteth the solitary in families." Think how great are our educational and religious privileges and how blessed the hope of immortal life! Think what might have been our lot. Regrets? Of a certainty we all have. Disappointments? Who has not? Battles? Every man's life is a kind of warfare. Therefore we must observe the duty of a soldier. If the world buffets us let us not be utterly cast down. We will confront the good and evil with serene eyes and a smile upon the face, confident that time and human effort to improve must eventually right all injustice. And if we, as did Timothy Standby fail to take into account these blessed hours of—but oh! I have a strange sensation about my heart. If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ROCHEPORT MO Miss Marie Patton is very sick at this writing....Mrs. Lizzie Cowden of StfL. Louis was called here owing to the death of her uncle....Miss Mayme Smith spent Wednesday in Columbia the guest of her sister and Mrs. Anna Bell Barnett....One of the oldest citizens of Rocheport died here Sunday morning at the age of 93, Ucle Alfred Sampson, leaving a wife, daughter, four grandchildren and two great grfandchildren....At the Baptist Church memorial services were held for Booker T. Washington Sunday evening. Excellent papers were read and good music was rendered. Fifty Years of Masonry Fifty Years of Masonry By JOE E. HERRIFORD, P. M. CHAPTER II. Memorable in many ways was the eighteenth annual communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge which met in the city of Sedalia August 19, 1884, and was opened in Ample Form, Grand Master Robert O. Smith, presiding. The attendance was good and all the grand officers were there to make excellent reports. Neither of the Past Grand Masters, Moses Dickson or Willis N. Brent were present, the former being elsewhere on business and the latter taking very little interest in the Grand [Name] Lodge after retiring from office. Past Grand Alexander Clark was present, but the lodges of Iowa having withdrawn from Missouri and instituted a grand body of their own, Brother Clark thought his duty lay with them and during the meeting took a dramatic leave of the Missouri body SOMETHING NEW! GREAT! PLEASING! WRIGHT'S DANCING ACADEMY 14TH and MICHIGAN BIG DANCE THANKSGIVING AFTERNOON AND NIGHT Dancing Every Thursday Afternoon Hall For Rent at Any Time Very Low Prices Biggest in the City for Colored which had, during many years, heaped upon him as many honors as it could even though not so many as he might have desired. The Old Guard was passing and in its almost forced retirement there was something really pathetic. The younger set, represented by the brilliant young Pelham, Chinn and Jones, were somewhat harsh even if justified in the rapid fire methods which they adopted in bringing about a new order of things. Nor was this all. It was plain to be seen from the very beginning of this session of the Grand Lodge that even the Grand Master, Robert O. Smith, was slated to go. He was a man of fine scholarship, honest ideals and unapproachable Masonic principles. But he lacked the real powers of leadership and was unskilled in the arts of fraternal politics. Fault was found with his manner of presiding, specifically that he was weak and lacking in executive ability, much of which was really exaggerated for the actual purpose of pushing forward the young Pelham, who was at this time an idol among those who were dissatisfied with the old order of things. Grand Master Smith evidently saw the end coming and did not spend a great deal of mental energy in composing and delivering his annual address. It was below his standard, though still very readable and inspiring. The floor leaders swarmed around him with congratulations and fine enconiums upon his great work for the Craft, the picture somewhat resembling a certain scene which transpired one time in the Roman senate. The Grand Master said that he was not well and hinted that the cares of office were heavy upon him. No one discouraged this idea, especially none of the friends of Pelham. One would have expected Chinn to have come forward as the Man of the Hour, but he was a man of exceedingly modest manner, not inclined to push himself and that was what the hour required. Jones was much of the same disposition. It was all Pelham. He had held the office of Grand Secretary but one year and had drawn around himself a circle of admirers which he well deserved on account of his congenial manners, his attractive personality, his high scholarship and his political sagacity. At the election of Grand Officers the records do not show that Grand Master Smith was even offered to succeed himself. Everybody either got out of the way or was pushed aside for Joseph H. Pelham, who was elected to the highest office with great enthusiasm. Wm. H. Jones became Grand Secretary in the same manner, it being an honor which he richly deserved and for which he was perfectly fitted. Grand Master Smith, in his annual address had recommended that the Grand Lodge should meet biennially instead of annually, but his idea did not prevail. After the excitement of the second day he became seriously ill and was unable to attend to his remaining duties. Pelham, even before he was installed, indicated his policy by putting through several resolutions having the effect of changes in the administrative department. In due time he was installed into the office of Grand Mas- Admission 25 Cents ter of Masons, which office he was destined to fill for a period of sixteen years. Independence was chosen for the next meeting. Y. M. C. A. NOTES Chaplain Prioleau of the Ninth cavalry addresses a gathering of the anniversary members on Saturday evening. The association building was the headquarters for the Lincoln Institute and Western university football teams on Thanksgiving day. The evening gym class is swinging ing along with its customary stride, and all of the members are enthusiastic over the outlook for the year's work. Numbers of the floral companies are now sending the association winter plants. Already a rubber plant, three ferns and a begonia have been received. The Lincoln High school football players are all members of the association. This team played the Sumner High school of St. Louis Thanks giving day. The billiard players of the association are happy to learn that an additional combination billiard-pocket billiard table of the latest design has been installed. Rev. M. J. Mace of Louisville delivered a very effective address on "En environment" at the men's meeting on last Sunday. One young man made a decision for the Christian life. Interest is being worked up over the prospective basket ball league among the Sunday schools of the city. The Second Baptist Sunday school has, under the management of Mr. James An GREAT! PLEASING! CING ACADEMY derson, bought the equipment for their team. The Allen Chapel Boosters are lining up and will soon be in fighting trim. Centennial and Pleasant Green churches are to be heard from soon. Dr. Claude B. Miller of the Central Baptist church will address the men's meeting next Sunday, November 28, at 3:30 p. m., on the subject "The Essentials of a Godly Man." Dr. Miller probably is the most popular speaker that comes to the association. The following activities on last Friday evening are typical of the evenings now at the association: A special dinner party in the cafeteria, the choral practice, men's Bible class, men's prayer meeting (week of prayer), the Booster Boys' club meeting and a meeting called to discuss certain civic movements. OUR BOOKER T. Born at a time to be a slave boy, Without a mother's care and an infant's joy. They looked upon him as a common brat, Not taking time to name, or buy him a hat. Turned out in the world to grow up tough. Not knowing they handled "a diamond in the rough." But God had destined he should be The leader of his race—our Booker T. A life of service he has given the world. Today his honors are being unfurled, But no human being can ever tell The deep influence that from that life fell. No pen can describe the benefits wrought. Transfused into the lives of those he taught; Public opinion was most, from prejudice set free. By the doctrine taught by our Booker T. (As Dunbar Saw Him) The word is writ that he who runs may read. What is the passing breath of earthly fame? But to snatch glory from the hands of blame. That is to be, to live, to strive indeed. A poor Virginia cabin gave the seed, And fro mits dark and lowly door there came A peer of princes in the world's ac- claim. A master spirit for the nation's need Strong, strong, purposeful beyond his kind, The mark of rugged force on brow and lip, Straight on he goes, nor turns to look behind Where hot the hounds come baying at his hip With one idea foremost in his mind Like the keen prow of some onfor- ging ship. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room in modern home; bath, electric light and telephone. 2626 Highland Ave. Bell phone East 4139M. For Sale—A good gas range. See janitor at 3100 Wabash avenue, Price $7.00. Admission 25 Cents Very Low Prices DRILLED SOLDIER UNDER FIRE Rockless Courage Shown by Russian Captain in Driving Fear From, Subordinate. At Sebastopol, during the siege, a Captain Samoloff, wishing some wine, ordered an officer to send a man for it. The man, a young soldier, took the money and started on the errand. Just then, however, a French battery had concentrated its fire upon the very spot where the young man must go outside the works. He stopped and turned back. "I wouldn't go out there for the world," he said. An officer, of course, reported the act of disobedience to the captain. The captain, in a rage, ordered the man into his presence and demanded why he had not obeyed his order. "Afraid!" cried the captain. "Afraid! A Russian soldier afraid! Wait a minute. I will drive the fear out of you. Come with me." The captain led the way to the rampart, mounted it, and there, with the bullets raining round him, began putting the man through some military exercises. The lookers-on in the fort held their breath. If a hat was put on a bayonet and lifted above the walls the bullets came that way on the instant. Not many seconds elapsed before a bullet struck the captain in the arm. He did not wince, but kept on with his drill, while the blood dripped down his hand to the wall. Next a bullet went through the tail of the soldier's coat, and another through his knapsack. Then suddenly the firing ceased. The soldier begged for grace and promised to go wherever he was sent. Still the captain continued his drill. When he thought the lesson had been learned, or, perhaps, when his wound grew too painful, he dismissed the soldier and went himself to the surgeon and had his arm dressed. The French explained afterward that they ceased firing out of sheer astonishment at the sight of the two men exposing themselves so recklessly. TAKE NOTE OF SMALL THINGS Not the Larger Dangers, But the Insignificant, Are Most to be Guarded Against. Alike in the world of nature and the realm of human conduct, the things called little count for more in the sum of good or evil than the things acknowledged as great. Statistics would probably show that the ravages of gypsy moths, and other parasites that feed on the products of garden, field and forest, exceed the ruin wrought by cyclones and earthquakes. We are more likely to be killed by microbes than devoured by lions. The soldier may be in greater danger from the neglect of sanitary precautions than from the bullets of the enemy. Some people are terrified at the approach of a thunderstorm, and do not breathe freely until the danger is past. Others would rather forego the pleasure of foreign travel than brave the perils of an ocean voyage. Yet poor ventilation numbers more victims than the lightning, and insufficient drainage than the tempests that strew the shore with wrecks.—Universalist Leader. British Writers Still Inclined to Observe With Alarm the Genus Nut. Every age has its own name for him, but essentially he remained the same until a subversive twentieth century produced this negative dandy, whose dandyism consists in an affection of the slovenly, a denial of the elegant. His very orthography lacks precision, for we know not whether his initial is K. or N. Our "nut" has no style at all, only mannerism, which is the death of style. The loose drab clothing that came in with speed, speed of earth or air, may amount in some measure for the nut. These brown husks, we know, contain a kernel that is man; but his godlike shape is disguised quite as much as woman's has been revealed by recent fashion. Nuts are frequent devotees of vicarious energizing, and their odd and chronic roundness of shoulder is the eternal sign of a strenuous life and of a body perpetually arched over the steering wheel. And his little soft hat, jammed feaously over his eyes, tells of continual battling with the breeze of speed. Set low, with hunched shoulders and neck outstretched, in his gray torpedo of a racing car, he has no use for elegance. He is merely concerned that his sloppiness be expensive.—London Times. Activities of Women. The International Woman Suffrage Alliance comprises nearly 20 affiliated associations with a membership of over 1,000,000. Because she dared to pass judgment on a case, Mrs. M. J. Kendall, New England's only woman sheriff, was fined $10 by the court. Misses Lulu and Lottie Kelly are the only registered pharmacists operating in Kansas. They will have a large drug store in Topeka. Over $20,000 was collected in one day at Paris recently for the Red Cross society, when 6,000 women sold artificial flowers. There is a law in Austria under which a wife seeking refuge in that country may be extradited back to her husband if he wants her back. Miss Bertha Miller, a lawyer of Missouri, is the first of her sex to be admitted to membership in the National Association of Credit Men. Cutting Loose. She climbed the social ladder, At last she reached the top. Lord knows how many relatives The poe thing had to drop. China Eggs. Mr. Bacon—I see Cleveland has received shipments of eggs from China. Mrs. Bacon—I think setting hens on china eggs is a mean trick. Corresponding Secretary. Just the Information We Need WEBSTERS NEW INTERNATIONAL —THE MERRIAM WEBSTER PRINTING? Why Certainly SEE FRANKLIN. Bell phone Grand 2988. Everything it takes to make Printing pleasing and attractive— why he's got it. OLD HATS MADE NEW GLOVES AND TIES CLEANED FREE Goods Called For and Delivered WM. ROUTTLEDGE and S. R. WILSON, Props. 1319 N. 9th St., Kansas City, Kas. Help Make Our Store Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends Special Values in Furnishings for Men Women and Children GIVE US A CALL 2409 Vine St. K. C. Mo. 2409 VI The Inter-State Literary Association of Kansas and the West, will hold its twenty-fifth annual session in Hutchinson, Kansas, December 28, 28, and 30, 1915. The Executive Committee will meet in Topeka, December 8, at which time the Literary program will be arranged. Program numbers, and membership fees, must be in the hands of the Corresponding Secretary on or before December 1. New Societies are admitted in the payment of $1.50. All societies, enrolled at the last session., will retain membership on the payment of $1.00, only. The oratorical, original music, original poetry, and declaration contests, will be held on the night of December 30. It being a QUARTER OF A CENTURY since the organization of the Association an effort is being made to make the event worthy of the occasion; and to this end the earnest co-operation of all citizens and all literary societies within the jurisdiction of the Association are requested to do more than usual in the way of contributions to the program, and to the occasion generally. All persons wishing accommodations for the session can obtain the same by writing to the Committee on Homes, Mrs. Kate Wickliff, 225 E West Street or Mrs. R. B. Perkerson, 405 Thirteenth Street, West Hutchinson, Kansas. For any further information address the undersigned, MRS. ELLA M. GUY. Every day in your talk and reading, on the street ear, in the office, shop, and school some new question is sure to come up. You seek quick, accurate, encyclopedic, up-to-date information. This NEW CREATION will answer all your questions with *fina*(*authority*) of the *Defined*. *200* Pages. *6000 Illustrated* dictionary with the new divided page. A "Stroke of Genius." Write for spec- liment pages, instructions, etc. Mention this publication, and receive FREE's a set of pocket maps. G. & C. MERRIAM CO. Springfield. Mass. U.S.A. * Have you been to Mrs. Stella * Hubbard's * NEW MILLINERY SHOP 1609 E. 18th St. * It's cozy—Go see her. * I am sure it would be gratifying as well as profitable to you, to visit R. W. Foster's Pharmacy at 18th Boddell. See our beautiful store, equip and get our prices; they are reasonable and our goods are just as represented, if not bring them back to your home or back. Yes, filling and delivering prescriptions promptly to any part of the city is one of our specialties, our charges are. Give us a trial answer, convinced. Phone E. 272; Home E. 4070. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN Undertakers and Embalmers "SAYS" They eliminate all doubt at a time when confidence in a square deal is most requisite, 19th and Vine Streets Both Phones East 4349 "He Delivers the Goods." 1008 East 18th Street. (Near 18th and Troost). Sumner Cleaners List Your Vacant or Improved Property with Wm. Hopkins Modern Homes for Sale on Easy Trems Bell Phone East 3851 N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Deputy Grand Master, Richard Young, Lincoln, Neb. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Mo., Grand Senior Warden. Crittenden C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Grand Junior Warden. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonle Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Royal Arch Masons: Grand High Priest—Geo. Bloom- field; St. Louis. Deputy Grand High Priest—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand King—A. L. Thomas, Jefferson City. Grand Scribe—J. P. Moffett, Sedalia. Grand Treasurer—Chas. Griggsby, Liberty. Grand Secretary—E. S. Baker, Kansas City. Grand Lecturer—W. H. McAdams, Springfield. Grand Chaplain—Rev. R. Barber. **Knights Templars:** Right Eminent Grand Commander —Willis G. Moseley, Kansas City. Deputy R. E. . C.—Peter Kincade, Kansas City. Grand Inspector—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand Captain General—James W. Beard, St. Louis. Grand Senior Warden—Geo A. Johnson, Kansas City. Grand Generalissmo—Joseph H. Cherwood, St. Paul, Minn. Grand Junior Warden—B. F. Gray, St. Joseph. Grand Prelate—Henry Roan, St. Louis. Grand Recorder—James T. Cannon, St. Louis. W. G. Mosely, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Meyers, Wm. Washington, F. P. Porteet, T. W. H. Williams, R. T. Coles, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Willey. Lodge Directory G M. J. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. P. and 4th Meeting and 4th Monday in each month. Master Masons in good standing welcome. Cecil Thompson, W. H. SPIGENER, Secretary G MASONRY Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and M., meets the 1st and 2nd Wednesdays in each month at the Master Masons in good standing welcome. J. C. Granger, W. M.; T. J. McCampbell, BeeY. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and M., meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are wel lled by Mysers, W. M.; Frank Lowe, Secretary, 1418 Baltimore Ave. I. O. I. Queen Esther Court No. 43, Hale from the I. O. I. meets the first and third Mondays in each month at the 10th and Campbell Sts., Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Bettie Davies, M. O. J., Rosa L. Jones, Chron., 1406 North 3d St., Kansas City, Kas. U. B. King of the West Lodge No. 213 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 543 North 3d St., Kansas City, Kas. C. F. Wilson, W. M.; D. M. West, 1718 Euclid Ave., Secretary. G MASONRY Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F. A. O. M., Liberty, M., meets the nights in each month. Saturday nights in each month. Master; Nelson Wallar, *Seattle*. The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods and Notions HARDWARE DEPARTMENT Enamelware, Pocket Knives, Fire Shovels, Iron Handles, Padlocks, Coal Hods, Stove Pipe, Elbows, Nails, Curtain Rods. Hinges and Hasps, Bolts, Screws, etc., Window Shades, Fixtures, Moulding, Hooks, Brass Cup Hooks, Mouse and Rat Traps. BARGAINS Special Bargains in our Notion Department and Hair Goods CITY NEWS. Mrs. John B. Shutte, 1510 Cleveland, has been critically ill for more than a week from Arsenal poisoning. Mrs. T. A. Holland, 1706 East 19th street, has returned home after a three weeks' visit with her mother and husband. Wanted to hear from Mrs. Cora McGinnis, formerly of 1725 Michigan avenue. Mrs. Nora Johnson Walker, 914 Cannon street, Helena, Mont. city will be present. The meeting will be held by and under the direction of the Twin City Baptist Alliance and will be one of the greatest Memorial Exercises ever assembled in this city to do honor to any man. The program will begin with introductory remarks and presentation of the Master of Ceroemonies, Rev. Geo. McNeal by Rev. J. W. Hurse, president of the Twin City Ministerial Alliance. There are 18 speakers on the program and seventeen choirs combined. Kansas City, Kans. Mrs. Anderson, 1040 Freeman, is indisposed. The little son of Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Holmes is quite ill. Mrs. Sylvia Hawe, of Fort Smith, Ark., enroute from the Pacific Expositions, is visiting Mr. E. Lacy and family at Twelfth and Nebraska. Messrs. Jno. H. Clark and W. W. Hardy of Wankemis, Okla., drove to the city in their motor car Sunday and will remain a few days. The Masonic Relief Board met last Saturday in Hannibal and the Board reports both the Home and Relief department in excellent condition. Mrs. Julia E. Prince, who has been visiting her cousin Carrie Welch for two weeks, returned Saturday night to her home in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. E. C. Bunch, 1609 E. Tenth street, was very pleasantly and agreeably surprised with a kitchen shower last Monday night, the 15th, by her neighbors, friends and members of the L. S. P. Club and was the recipient of about fifty useful articles. Memorial services were held in the Second Baptist Church at 11:00 o'clock; at Ebenezer Chapel at 8:00 p. m.; at Allen Chapel at 8:00 p. m. All were of a high order and attested the esteem in which Dr. Washington was held by his race in this city. At Allen Chapel the church was crowded to the doors and an unusual program of excellence was rendered. Miss Fleming and Mr. W. G. Steward were quietly married at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Brown, $609\frac{1}{2}$ Charlotte street, Sunday morning, November 14. Rev. J. W. Hurse officiated. A wedding breakfast followed. The house beautifully decorated for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Steward are at home at $609\frac{1}{2}$ Charlotte street. Little Ida Hutchison, a faithful member of St. Peter's A. M. E. Zion Sunday school, departed this life November 14. Her bellbearers were six little girls in white, and following them were 30 Sunday school children and their teachers, including the Buds of Promise Society, of which she was a member. The funeral was preached by Rev. Mrs. Beard, pastor of the church. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their sympathy and beautiful floral offerings. We especially wish to thank the friends in the neighborhood of Cottage and Vine for their beautiful floral offerings and the Carnation Court, Royal House and Zorah Chapter for their condolences and beautiful flowers for our son Bert Walker who passed away November 10. Granville Walker. Mrs. Mary E. Walker, James Walker, brother. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Prof. Waldron made an excellent half-hour talk on the "Objects of the B. Y. P. U." The instrumental duet by the two young men was enjoyed by all. Mr. Becks conducted the B. Y. P. U. in an excellent manner. The attendance was 104 last Sunday. Next Sunday a fine program will be rendered to which all are invited. Come early; meeting begins at 6:00 p. m. The memorial services of the late Booker T. Washington were held in the church last Sunday morning during which a great tribute of respect was tendered this noble man. Dr. Bacote delivered a grand sermon at the evening services. Next Sunday, November 28, at 2:00 p. m. all the Baptist churches of both Kansas Cities will have a joint memorial service in the Auditorium to which everybody is invited. IN MEMORIAM. In sad but loving remembrance of our dear son and brother, B. K. Bruce Lewis who departed this life two years ago November 18, 1913. Peaceful be thy silent slumber Peaceful in thy grave so low Thou no more will join our number Thou no more our sorrows know. Yet again we hope to meet thee When the day of life is fled And in heaven with joy to greet thee Where no farewell tears are shed. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Lewis, B. K. Lewis Mr. Thomas Yates a member of Biglow Mission died November 12 at 6:30 and the funeral was held from that Mission, the Rev. Mrs. L. B. Biglow officiating. He was 84 years of age, was the father of the church and came in thru a revival and made a good and faithful Christian. This is the twenty-second funeral from Mrs. Biglow's mission all of which were adults save three. Over a thousand persons were in attendance. Rev. Biglow starts revival services this week assisted by Rev. Carter of Memphis Tenn., and all are invited to attend. Union Memorial Exercises will be held in honor of Booker T. Washington at Second Baptist Church at 10 and Charlotte Streets Sunday November 28 at 2:00 p. m. At this meeting all the Baptist churches, pastors and friends throut Kansas City and vi- cinity will be present. The meeting will be held by and under the direction of the Twin City Baptist Alliance and will be one of the greatest Memorial Exercises ever assembled in this city to do honor to any man. The program will begin with introductory remarks and presentation of the Master of Ceroemonies, Rev. Geo. McNeal by Rev. J. W. Hurse, president of the Twin City Ministerial Alliance. There are 18 speakers on the program and seventeen choirs combined to sing under the direction of Mrs. L. J. Bacote. Everybody invited. Don't worry about your first loan of your home. Just call East 4349 and ask for White. He will take it up. ALLEN CHAPEL NOTES Sunday morning, November 21, was a beautiful Sabbath morning, and I believe that this was the feeling uppermest in every heart, "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord, our feet shall stand within thy gate, O Jerusalem." Promptly at 11 o'clock Prof. R. G. Jackson began playing the processional, and Allen chapel's famous choir marched down the aisle and took their places and sang as sweetly as the day was beautiful. The opening hymn was No. 617 in the A. M. E. Hymnal, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary." Exactly at 11:30 o'clock Dr. Thomas began preaching. His text was from the 22d Psalm, 15th verse, which is, "And that hast hast brought me into the dust of death," and the 26th chapter of Isaiah, 19th verse, which is, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust." His subject was, "A Message to Those That Dwell in the Dust." The message was inspiring and uplifting. The invitation for members was extended and Miss Beulah E. Coleman, a young lady, and trained nurse from Tuskegee, Ala., came forward and joined the church. She was very highly recommended as a Christian young woman by the pastor of the A. M. E. church of Tuskegee. At 6 o'clock the three Endeavor societies met and held an interesting and spirited meeting. The subject of the lessons was "Thanking God." The seniors were led by Prof. W. H. Dawley. The intermediates were led by Mr. J. H. Heywood. The juniors were led by the supervisor. At 7:30 in the evening memorial exercises were held in the auditorium of Allen chapel in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington. The auditorium was full to overflowing, as was the balcony of the church. The audience reminded one of those large audiences which assembled in Allen chapel during general conference. After the great audience had assembled Prof. R. G. Jackson began the processional and a choir of 60 voices marched in and took their places and sang as an opening hymn "Abide With Me." The following is the program: Invocation—Rev. W. H. Thontas. Song—"Abide With, Me," choir. Memorial—Read by Prof. R. T. Coles. Chorus—"My Lord, What a Morn- ing." Booker T. Washington as a Moses —Attorney C. H. Callaway. Chorus—"By and By," a plantation melody, a favorite of Dr. Washington. Booker T. Washington as an Educator—Prof. H. T. Kealing. Booker T. Washington's Memorial Dirse—Composed by Major N. Clark Smith, violin cello and organ. Booker T. Washington at Home—Prof. J. R. E. Lee. POL. S. K. R. LEE Booker T. Washington as a Citizen —Chaplain George W. Prioleau of the Ninth cavalry. Booker T. Washington as the Man—Attorney W. C. Hueston. Hymn—Congregation. Dr. J. E. Dibble, master of ceremonies. The above was as fine a memorial program as I ever witnessed. Backlogs Made of Stone. Backgams Made or Stone. It will surprise many persons of the present day to be told that the "backlog" of which we read so much in old-time stories was a large stone, a porous stone being preferred if possible. This stone was buried in the ashes, and on top was placed the "back stick." The back stone in those primitive times played a very important part in the economy of early housekeeping. Matches were not then invented. Flint, steel and tow were the only means of lighting a fire or a lamp. Imagine for a moment the Bridget of today thus engaged, with the thermometer ten degrees below zero in the kitchen. The stone, together with the ashes with which it was covered, served to retain fire and heat through the night, and all that was necessary in the morning was a little kindling and gentle use of the indispensable bellows and a fire was as readily made as at the present day. Women Should Drink More Water. Physicians will tell you that women do not drink enough water, that the sex is given to various internal disorders because a thorough fushing of the body is necessary to make the organs do their duty. More than one patient has been told that fewer women would have to go to spas for treatment if they would drink water as freely at home, and take it between meals at that. Thin women have been known to gain flesh through this process, and stout ones have lost it by exercising a due amount of care in drinking. People with flesh are given to a freer use of water than their thinner sisters think necessary and they generally enjoy better health. Kansas City, Kans. Mrs. Anderson, 1040 Freeman, is indi- posed. The little son of Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Holmes is quite ill. Mrs. Sylvia Hawe, of Fort Smith, Ark., enroute from the Pacific Exposi- tions, is visiting Mr. E. Lacy and family at Twelfth and Nebraska. Mrs. Tilford Davis, 1116 Washington boulevard, attended the board meeting at Wichita and is now visiti- ng friends in Hennesey, Okla. The Metropolitan Baptist Church surprised Mr. and Mrs. Woodson, 948 Oakland, with a surprise party for which they were unable to express in full their gratitude. Mr. J. W. Woodson, 948 Oakland avenue, who has been ill at his home for the past seven months continues to be seriously ill and desires to thank his many friends who have visited him. LEFT TAIL AS TROPHY FRENCH OFFICER'S REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM MOB. Revelation of Closely Guarded Secret May Have Been Unpleasant but Undoubtedly There Were Great Compensations. On February 24, 1848, when Paris was disturbed by the revolutionary mobs, a Captain Prebois was sent by the government with orders to be delivered to the leaders of the troops that were defending the threatened points in various parts of the city. It was a dangerous undertaking, for the bitterness of the people against the government was intense. Before starting out, says Novellen Schatz, Captain Prebois was warned to take the greatest care if he valued his life; but he took the warnings lightly, and said, "If you fellows knew my black horse as well as I know him, you wouldn't worry about me. That horse has carried me through thick and thin." And with a farewell wave of his band, he was off. The black horse of which the gallant captain was so proud was indeed a beautiful animal. He had a well-shaped, erect head, a deep chest, and slender, well-formed legs. But there was something very extraordinary about his tail. It was long and bushy, but it never moved or twitched, except with the* movement of the animal's body. Close observation showed also that it had a slightly reddish hue, although the difference in color was not great enough to be noticed under ordinary conditions. When Prebols arrived in the disturbed section of the city he fearlessly delivered his messages. He met with no resistance from the crowds in the streets until he reached the Place Vendome, one of the principal squares in the heart of the city. Here a great crowd of revolutionists had gathered, and as the officer rode through the square, some one seized the bridle and cried, in a fierce voice, "Hold! What message are you carrying?" The captain refused to answer. "Put a bullet through him and get that message!" bawled the man in a commanding voice. He was evidently a leader of the mob. At this point, the captain determined that quick action alone would save him from violence at the hands of the crowd. Quick as a flash, he wheeled his horse, and dashed off. Several bullets flew after him, but they went wild—and then suddenly ceased altogether. He looked round, and saw the mob crowding round one of their number, who held something in his hand. And then his eyes fell on the back of his horse, and his heart sank in dismay. It seemed that, as he whirled his horse about, several men seized hold of the animal. But the powerful creature threw them all except one, a lad of fourteen, who had seized the horse's tail. That tail was the object of interest that had caused the shooting to stop—for it had come off. There stood the boy, in the middle of the road, with his feet spread apart and an 'expression of grim determination on his face, as he tightly clutched the fleeing creature's tail. The mob saw the humor of the situation, and burst into a roar of laughter. The explanation came out later. It seems that Captain Prebois' horse, while perfect in every other particular, did not have a very good tail, and so his master had had an artificial one made for him. No doubt that artificial tail, and that alone, saved Captain Prebois' life. Value of Cool Nights Heat waves, says Edwin C. Martin author of "Our Own Weather," prove disastrous directly in proportion as hot nights are combined with hot days. "For a number of days successively the heat may mount during the day to extraordinary heights, but if the intervening nights turn comparatively cool the number of prostrations and deaths will be much less than under a considerably lower temperature continuing with scant abatement through the day and night. Thus any situation that peculiarly favors cooling off at night has a clear advantage during the prevalence of a hot wave. It is also an advantage to be inured to heat. The same degree of it that would cause great suffering to the people of the North imposes nothing more than discomfort on the people of the South Everyone knows there are only two kinds of successful cleaning—DRY and STEAM CLEANING. Steam Cleaning is the use of distilled water, neutralized soaps, borax, ammonia, the use of chemicals and a great deal of thought and reasoning on account of the great variety of materials and the condition of the same. Articles steam cleaned require patience and reshaping by the presser. "THE HOFF-MAN" DRY or FRENCH CLEANING is the process of cleaning soiled garments or other textile fabrics by means of benzine, gasoline or similar volatile solvents, which extracts the greasy matter, thereby removing the dirt. It is indicated for goods which would be spilled by coming in contact with water, by losing the shape or original finish, or where the colors would not be sufficiently fast for steam cleaning. Drying does not clean every article perfectly, because benzine loosens the dirt but by greasy matter only, but has no influence on water, soluble matter like sugar or glue. For instance, if you get wine, ice cream, or water spots on a silk dress, benzine will not remove the spot. You cannot treat the spot the same as you would for wool or cotton goods—silks of today are mostly artificial, tin-weighted and finished with glucose and other sizeing properties. The colors in silk are not deep dyed. To prove the same, if you slightly rub a spot on silk, it removes the color. Organized cleaners of today are fighting the artificial silk manufacturers as many of the best shops do not guarantee silks. Our HOFFMAN STEAM PRESS is a germ exterminator, even killing the egg life. One cannot be too careful as clothes worn by people in every walk of life, reach some Tailor shop. The GOLDEN TAILORING AND CLEANING SHOP is located at 1605 East Eighteenth Street near Eighteenth and Vine, and our Bell Phone is East 539. Wished To Improve Her Appearance. Her only fault was a large mouth with heavy lips. A friend recommended Thin-lip Creamoline and one box reduced the lips and mouth. No! There isn't a happier woman anywhere. It will do the same for you. Price. $1.00 prepaid, in plain package by return mail. MACKINAW CITY, MICH. New Patent Incline Straightening Comb Just Out. SECTION OF COMB THE KING OF ALL STRAIGHTENERS 3¼-inch wide, 9½-inches long, guaranteed or money refunded. Retail.....$1.00 EACH These Combs are Sold in Wholesale and Job Lots. The hair is immediately straightened while it passes these wide teeth of the comb from the roots to the ends. The comb can be used both ways, right or left hand, by ex- ing handle; a hole at each end. The comb will straighten test hair around the neck and edges. The only re- comb made on the market. Laing's New Patent Incline Straightening Comb Just Out. CROSS SECTION OF COMB THE KING OF ALL STRAIGHTENERS 3¼-inch wide, 9½-inches long, guaranteed or money refunded. Retail.....$1.00 EACH These Combs are Sold in Wholesale and Job Lots. The hair is immediately straightened while it passes between these wide teeth of the comb from the roots to the ends. The comb can be used both ways, right or left hand, by exchanging handle; a hole at each end. The comb will straighten the shortest hair around the neck and edges. The only reversible comb made on the market. HAIR DRESSING PARLOR J. E. LAING Pressing Taught in All Branches, Manicuring, Facial Massage also Hair Dressers' Supplies, Combings Made Over. We guarantee to Cure Different Scalp Diseases by Giving Different Scientific Treatments. Manufacturer of instantaneous hair dye in black, brown, white. Manufacturer of all kinds of human hair goods, refined, and dye, any shade. Manufacturer of wigs, toupes, doll wigs, French ventilators made to order. Manufacturer of Shampoo Drier and straightening combs. States Patent Office, Washington, D. C., Serial 798947. Manufacturer of face and hair toilet articles. People's Goods a Specialty—Mail Orders Promptly Filled. MAIN OFFICE, 1715 EAST 18TH STREET KANSAS CITY, MO. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Tub That Folds In A Roll A rare happy invention that meets with instant approval. Simple, easily adjusted, thoroughly efficient and absolutely in every respect. In truth a God send to humanity. PLIES YOUR HOME WITH A MODERN BATH ROOM Do not leave for the landlord but can move with you wher- . Investigate this by calling on D. M. West, 1718 Euclid ent, or call Home phone, East 4169; Bell phone, East 3555. them at 1718 Euclid Avenue, or call up and I will bring for your inspection. D. M. WEST, Agent ANNOUNCEMENT Akins R. V. Adkins R. F. Green ADKINS BROS. & GREEN FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Based the People's Undertaking Co. and are planning to Kansas City the most up-to-date and complete Under-taking establishment in the city. Carriage or Auto Funerals at the Same Price Our service will be unsurpassed Tree—Lady Attendants—Calls Answered Night or Day. LOCATION—19th and Vine, Bell Phone E4349. F. GREEN, Licensed Embalmer and Manager. Everyone knows and STEAM CLOSURETALized soaps, thought and real condition of the shaping by the OUR MACHINE DRY or FRONT or other textile events, which ex It is indicative with water, by you not be sufficient article perfectly, but has no inf instance, if you will not remove for wool or cotton finished with glue. The colors rub a spot on skin. Organized as many of the Our HOFFM egg life. One c o of life, reach so The GOLDEN East Eighteenth East 539. A share of Hair Dressing Taught in All Branches, Manicuring, Facial Massage, also Hair Dressers' Supplies, Combings Made Over. We guarantee to Cure Different Scalp Diseases by Giving Different Scientific Treatments. Manufacturer of instantaneous hair dye in black, brown, and blonde. Manufacturer of all kinds of human hair goods, refined, bleach, and dye, any shade. Manufacturer of wigs, toupes, doll wigs, French ventilating on nets made to order. Manufacturer of Shampoo Drier and straightening combs. United States Patent Office, Washington, D. C., Serial 798947. Manufacturer of face and hair toilet articles. Colored People's Goods a Specialty—Mail Orders Promptly Filled. MAIN OFFICE, 1715 EAST 18TH STREET KANSAS CITY, MO. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. The Tub That Folds In A Roll The Tub That Folds In A Roll Surely a rare happy invention that meets with instant approval. Extremely simple, easily adjusted, thoroughly efficient and absolutely satisfying in every respect. In truth a God send to humanity. FOLDED $10.00 SUPPLIES YOUR HOME WITH A MODERN BATH ROOM which you do not leave for the landlord but can move with you wherever you go. Investigate this by calling on D. M. West, 1718 Euclid Avenue, Agent, or call Home phone, East 4169; Bell phone, East 3555. You can see them at 1718 Euclid Avenue, or call up and I will bring one to you for your inspection. D. M. WEST, Agent ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Chas. H. Adkins R. V. Adkins R. F. Green ADKINS BROS. & GREEN FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Have purchased the People's Undertaking Co. and are planning to give Kansas City the most up-to-date and complete Undertaking establishment in the city. Carriage or Auto Funerals at the Same Price Our service will be unsurpassed Chapel Free—Lady Attendants—Calls Answered Night or Day. LOCATION—19th and Vine, Bell Phone E4349. R. F. GREEN, Licensed Embalmer and Manager. Muehlebach's Pilsener Beer "A HOME PRODUCT" "A DELICIOUS DRINK" "A BEER OF PURITY" Surpassed by none in the market o. Muehlebach's Brewing Company Phone 777 Grand Kansas City, Mo. Home Phone 3277 Main WASH SEATED IN COMFY CHAIR WE GUARANTEE NO YELLOW WASH WITH THE "SHOW-M Geo. Muehlebach's Brewing Company Bell Phone 777 Grand Kansas City, Mo. Home Phone 3277 Main Home Phone East 4082 Bell Phone East 1814 TAILORING AND CLEANING G. V. GOLDEN Improper cleaning and pressing ruins the construction and the shape of our clothes. Garments of today are made by the most skilled designers of the 20th century. The art of making a suit or a dress is done by experts; the ironing one of the Principal Factors in shaping a garment. The inner construction of your coat, is the foundation upon which it is built. Time and patience, the proper kind of canvas padding, hair cloth, wadding, etc., carefully selected to get the desired results. If such patience and skill are required to build your suit it is only reasonable that it requires the same to keep its shape; therefore, the inner construction and shape are at stake in the hands of the inexperienced. It is very easy for your garment to lose its Gracefulness and Body Line not Properly Pressed. We are showing and selling suits from $18.00 and up. If you have a miserable overcoat or suit that needs remodeling, send them to us. We specialize for we look after the small things. It requires a thorough knowledge of the business in taking a garment art and altering it, giving the same article a fit to your figure and still maintaining its life and satisfaction to the wearer. Ladies' suits, furs, winter suits relined, altered to the different styles, are successfully handled by industrial will convince. 1605 East 18th St., Kansas City, Mo., Bell, E. 539. Improper cleaning and pressing ruins the construction and the shape of your clothes. Garments of today are made by the most skilled designers of the 20th Century. The art of making a suit or a dress is done by experts; the iron being one of the Principal Factors in shaping a garment. The inner construction of your coat, is the foundation upon which it is built. Time and patience, the proper kind of canvas padding, hair cloth, wadding, etc., is carefully selected to get the desired results. If such patience and skill are required to build your suit it is only reasonable that it requires the same to keep its shape; therefore, the inner construction and shape are at stake in the hands of the inexperienced. It is vry easy for your garment to lose its Gracefulness and Body Lines if not Properly Pressed. We are showing and selling suits from $18.00 and up. If you have a misfitting overcoat or suit that needs remodeling, send them to us. We specialize, for we look after the small things. It requires a thorough knowledge of the business in taking a garment apart and altering it, giving the same article a fit to your figure and still remaining its life and satisfaction to the wearer. Ladies' suits, furs, winter coats relined, altered to the different styles, are successfully handled by us. A trial will convince. THE OLD WAY OF PRESSING. OUR CLEANING DEPARTMENT Everyone knows there are only two kinds of successful cleaning—DRY STEAM CLEANING. Steam Cleaning is the use of distilled water, newized soaps, borax, ammonia, the use of chemicals and a great deal of thought and reasoning on account of the great variety of materials and the condition of the same. Articles steam cleaned require patience and reaping by the presser. THE HOFF-MAN THE NEW WAY OF PRESSING. OUR MACHINE IS A GERM EXTERMINATOR. THE HIGH STEAM PRESSURE KILLS THE EGG LIFE. DRY or FRENCH CLEANING is the process of cleaning soiled garments, other textile fabrics by means of benzine, gasoline or similar volatile solvents, which extracts the greasy matter, thereby removing the dirt. It is indicated for goods which would be spilled by coming in contact in water, by losing the shape or original finish, or where the colors would be sufficiently fast for steam cleaning. Dry cleaning does not clean every piece perfectly, because benzine loosens the dirt held by greasy matter only. It has no influence on water, soluble matter like sugar and glue. For instance, if you get wine, ice cream, or water spots on a silk dress, benzine cannot remove the spot. You cannot treat the spot the same as you would wool or cotton goods—silks of today are mostly artificial, tin-weighted and shed with glucose and other sizing properties. The colors in silk are not deep dyed. To prove the same, if you slightly spot on silk, it removes the color. Organized cleaners of today are fighting the artificial silk manufacturer many of the best shops do not guarantee silks. OUR MACHINE IS A GERM EXTERMINATOR. THE HIGH STEAM PRESSURE KILLS THE EGG LIFE. PRESSING DEPARTMENT. Our HOFFMAN STEAM PRESS is a germ exterminator, even killing the life. One cannot be too careful as clothes worn by people in every walk life, reach some Tailor shop. The GOLDEN TAILORING AND CLEANING SHOP is located at 1660 Eighteenth Street near Eighteenth and Vine, and our Bell Phone is 539. A share of your business will be appreciated. "SHOW-ME" PATS. PEND'G. WHAT IS THE USE OF WEARING YOURSELF OUT DOING A LOT OF HARD LABOR WHEN IT IS SO EASY WITH THE "SHOW-ME" WASHER to do TWICE as much WASHING in the week EARNING twice as much money and use LESS SOAP and FUEL. We GUARANTEE cleaner clothes and better COLOR. ASK Mrs. Nannie Fields, 1333 Vine St. Mrs. Anna Simms, 1915 Oak St. Mrs. Nettle Johnson, 1800 East Howard St. Mrs. Harry Nelson, 1620 Michigan Ave. Mrs. Emma Jenkins, 1810 East Howard St. Mrs. Georgia Lewis, 4916 Wornall Road, Mrs. Amanda Slaughter, 1069 Euclid St. Mrs. Minnie Jackson, 1220 East 122th St. Mrs. McGary, 1916 East 64th St. Mrs. W. M. Hickens, 1117 Woodland Ave. All are experienced lau- dressers. We have used and ARE using "SHOW-ME" SHOWERS and say they can do more work and are not so tired. Mrs. Nelson C. Crews, 2624 Highland Ave., is well placed with the "SHOW-ME" as is also Mrs. L. B. Aleman, 345 Lydia Ave. SAVE YOUR BACK AND HANDS, YOU MAY NEED THE SUN FOR FREE TRIAL ARRANGE WITH THE SUN FOR FREE TRIAL H. A. MANUFACTURING CO., IRA C. HUBBELL, Pres. 4961 Wornall Rd., KANSAS CITY, MO. Ak Mrs. Nannie Fields, 1333 Vhne St. Mrs. Anna Simms, 1365 Oak St. Mrs. Nettle Johnson, 1806 East St. Mrs. Emmie Jenkins, 1819 East Howard St. Mrs. Georgia Lewis, 4919 Wormall Road, Mrs. Amanda Slaughter, Mrs. Emmie Jenkins, 1819 East Howard St. Mrs. McGary, 1416 East 24th St. Mrs. W. M. Hickls, 1175 Woodland Ave. All are experienced lauers have used and are ADB using "SHOW-ME LAUERS" have more work and are not so tired. Mrs. C. Crews, 2624 Highland Ave. is well pleased with the "SHOW-ME" as is also Mrs. L. B. Aleman, 347 Lydia Ave. Three | Candles | MILDRED ¢"coopnibce | “Three of the wax candles, please— the little ones. Why do you hesitate?” ‘Mrs, Prescott, young, still beautiful, although sorrow shadowed her face and her eyes looked dim and wearied, almost reproachfully challenged the faltering clerk in the little confec- onery and toy store. “As I tell you, I will pay for them and the cake when I get my pay, Saturday,” she added. “Oh, it is not that!" declared the Girl behind the counter, “indeed tt 1s not. It is because my heart is full of love and sympathy for you, My dear Indy, won't you try to forget?” “I must never do that,” replied the Andy in mourning in sad but even tones. “It is the little one’s third birthday anniversary. She was the only ray of brightness that ever came {nto my life. With all the agony and grief, her memory is sacredly sweet to me,” ‘Without another word the girl placed the three tiny candies in the package containing & small frosted cake the Indy had ordered, but her tears were falling and she vainly tried to stifle @ sob. “Bless you, dear,” spoke now Mrs Prescott, gently. “Do not think me morbid. It would be cruel for me tc forget little Arline.” “The lady of sorrows!” murmured the girl, pathetically, as her customer departed. “Poor soul! Truly, her cup 1s full to overflowing. A tragedy, sudden, terrible and dev: eel ie Sa. ZY ] MN) . A \stating, had come into the lfe of Mary Prescott. The little town knew only of its rare outlines. Mr. and Mrs. Prescott had come to Wartham with a little child a year old. They rented a small cottage and lived very much to themselves. Their life seemed & strange one. The husband would go away mysteriously and be absent for as long as a month at a time, Dur- ing such periods mother and child shut themselves up in the lonely home, seeing as few people as was possible, Neighbors never intruded, but they could not fail to notice that the lady's face grew paler and thinner each day, and ber eyes had a constant expres- sion of fear, suspense or grief, they could not determine which sentiment most prevailed ‘Then the truth came out, discovered by a resident of the little town visit- ing the city. James Prescott was a gambler. He had used up all his own money and that of his wife at the card table. For a month, surly, scowling, speaking to no one in the town, he had been seen about the house. Then one evening the village was startled by a. new disclosure. ‘The father, with little Arline by his side, had been seen to go aboard the river steamer Puritan. An hour later Mrs. Prescott came rushing to the whart to make inquiries. She was frantic, half beside herself, Two hours later this circumstance was ob- soured by the message flashed from a point fifty miles down the river, that the boiler of the Puritan had blown up in midstream and of the one hun- dred passengers aboard less than twenty had been rescued. About fitty bodies were recovered. In the list of those not found the names of James and Arline Prescott were listed. In the village it was supposed that Prescott had been taking his child on @ casual down-theriver trip. Alas! poor, bereaved Mary Prescott alone Imew the agitating incidents that led up to the tragedy that shadowed her already dreary life. She had never loved James Pres. cott. It seemed as if some adverse mockery of fate had conspired to make her accept his attentions back in her home village of Leclaire. Just before Prescott appeared upon the Scene Mary had received a proposal of marriage from a most estimable young man named Paul Barry. She had not known her heart at the time ‘but later, when the full measure o! her sorrowful miseries overwhelmed her, she realized that her hesitation ‘which had driven him away, had beer a lifetime mistake. Mary smothered her disappointment, however, giving ‘her full love to little Arline and by pa ence and loyalty striving to wit some measure of kindness from he husband, In this she signally failed. Prescott pretending to be a man of means, hac Anituenced Mary's oe to favor E ‘marriage. Just after the wedding ; died. His estate was quit “daughter and a. stepbrother peoot ote jortion. Thi to in ) sontest the legacy to be re or induce the lat ter to lend her some of his smal means. Mary refused. It was then that Prescott had threatened to break her spirit If she did not meot his wishes Tt was then that he started out with Arline, to hide the child away from her mother until Mary relented. ‘Then, overcome with this fearful climax of misfortunes, Mrs, Prescott had resigned herself to her fate as a lonely, brokenhearted being without a friend in the world, So she thought and settled down to work for a seamstress in the town. In her estimate of friendlessness, how: ever, she had not counted on the undy: ing fidelity of a noble man. Pati Barry had not forgotten ‘er. News had come to his ears, an intul. tion of the worthlessness of Pres cot. He had secretly visited and in: vestigated, and had found himself powerless to better things or come be. tween husband and wife. He came again when he learned of the sup- posed death of father and child. ‘Then he made a strange discovery. ‘This was the statement from a friend that he had seen Prescott in a dis. ‘tant city two weeks after the sinking ‘of the steamer. Barry started a new investigation Whatever he learned, it resulted In his visiting Wartham upon that same evening when Mrs, Prescott had bought the tiny candles to celebrate the third anniversary of the birthday of little Arline, Under the cover of darkness he hov- ered about the boarding house where Mrs, Prescott occupied a room. He located the apartment from the out. side, At a table he made out Mrs. Prescott, seated at a table upon which was a cake with three lighted candles on it A great wave of pity and love swept his soul as he comprehended the meaning of the lonely scene. Then Barry entered the house, He consult ed the landlady, She was to manage to get Mrs, Prescott out of her room for a brief spell, while he sped to the village hotel, to return and smuggle Into the room a little child. Barry seated her at the table, went down: stairs and gave an agreedon signal to the landiady. A minute later Mrs. Prescott re- turned upstairs to confront—her lost child, Arline! It was a feverish, unreal hour for the poor mother. Barry did not in: trude until the first wild Joy of find: ing the dead alive had somewhat sub sided. It was then that he told her of the escape from the wreck of fa ther and child, of his discovery of the former with Arline in a wretched hovel in « distant city. Prescott had sustained serious injuries in the ex plosion of the steamer, had died, and Barry had brought Arline home. ‘True friend he had been. In her heart of hears fervently Mary Pres cott realized this fully. ‘True lover ever!’ She knew this too, before many weeks had passe by, and little Arline and happy Mary after the storm found peace and & loyal protector. Man Never Gets Old. When is a man old? A woman is as old as she looks, and a man is old ‘when he quits looking. Dr. Osler's re- marks were distorted until the popular belief was established that a man at sixty was ready for the chloroform cone. From recent news it would ap- pear more plausible that at that age a man is ready for the ice cream cone, being a mere child in years compared to frolicsome, nonagenarians who hurtled into telegraph briefs, the New York correspondent of the Pitts- burgh Dispatch writes. Lately there have been _ninety-three-year-old youths looking around the matrimont- ‘al market and callow youths of ninety: ‘one quitting the bench to make room for a mere infant of eighty-seven ‘Time was when a man at ninety re tired to the easy chair with a cush fon for his gouty foot, remaining there in querulous grandeur to the general exasperation of those wh had to wait on him. ‘The modern mar of ninety or more, however, is the spriest of the spry, being “there” on the dancing floor, the golf links or tt the tonneau of the seven-passenget car. Sand Toboenes. Tobogganing, in some form, seeme to be dear to the human heart, espe clally to the heart of the boy. In the deserts of the Southwest, where snow never falls and water is a rarity, the too plentiful sand offers the means of satisfying this craving. 1 was recent: ly exploring some remarkable sand dunes on the Colorado desert, to which the thirteen-year-old son of my host had piloted me. While I was tn- tent upon my notes and photograph: ing, I heard a patter of bare feet be- hind me, and in a moment my lively young friend shot past me with a shout, threw up his heels, and plunged headlong down the steep slope of a 30-foot dune on the edge of which I was standing. By using a little arm motion, he easily slid to the bottom. When he had rubbed the sand out of his hair and nose, he was ready for another descent.—J. Smeaton Chase in St. Nicholas. Biicker, Fileker, Facile Fincer, Every industry nowadays evolves {ts own literature, We observe a movie enterprise announcing that “there's thumps and throbs” in a new offering; “five reels of punch, pep and plot, pluck, perils and pitfalls. ‘The plodding pawns of penury cross and recross the primrose paths of plenty, plagued by pitiless pertidy, down, dawn, doggedly down to the Moteating dusk of disaster’s doom. ‘Then fate, the fickle fiddler's fancy, shifts and from out the tortured tangle love leaps and laughs and links the lucklorn lives with loops of gold.” ‘The movie, reflecting the mae!strom of modern life, long ago swallowed the best actors and dramatists. Now it fs evidently widening to devour the more refined literary talent. Did Rob- ert Chambers write that “ad” or was it “Hen” James? And are we to wit ness all literature become reely?— St, Louls Post-Dispatch, Acquiring Ability, ‘The very best way to get ability ts to do thoroughly whatever you do, Master every detail of work that tally to your lot.—Selected. 4 88 secretary of state in the cabinet of President | Wilson. He was succeeded by Robert Lansing. These two statements of fact are put together because it may be justified by the human inter- est which seems to exist in the fact that John |W; Poster ts the fatheriniaw of Robert Lansing. It ts probable that no two men more entirely @ifferent in temperament and in manifestations |thereof ever existed than William J. Bryan and | hls Successor In office, Robert Lansing. Mr. Bryan was more or less inclined to be hail fel- low well met with men, Mr. Lansing has little of the hail fellow well met in him, but never. theless he fs approachable, genial and almost | without question the best listener that the state | department has had for a great many years Now it is said frequently that the man who ts | good listener ts more ayt to get results than the man who is, we shall not say a good, but a great talker. Those who know the pres: | ent secretary of state say that there is no chan- nel connecting one of his ears with the other. This simply ts their way of expressing the fact that nothing that goes into one of Mr, Lansing’s ears finds exit from the other. He holds fast what he hears and later he acts on his knowl edge or refuses to act on it as seems better to | bis understanding of the case. Ordinarily speaking, persons Ike to hear stories about men in high positions. It s prob- ably no exaggeration to say that there are a thousand stories about Mr. Bryan, about Mr. Knox, about Mr. Root, and about one or an- other of the predecessors in office of the present incumbent to one about the present incumbent himself. When one says stories, of course, ho means human interest and humorous stories. Mr. Lansing does not lend himself readily to the ex- ploitation of fun making. He is a grave man, @ receptive man and therefore not at all an ex- uberant man. His sense of humor, however, ts Veen and he enjoys a good story well told and bnjoys it with an evident, it quiet, showing of appreciation, ‘The kind of story they tell about Mr. Lansing when a story is demanded {s in character some- thing like that of the man himeelf, grave and dignified, and not possessing the qualities which make up the more or less substantial story with ‘@ substratum of humor. For instance, not long ago two ambassadors Fepresenting foreign countries, and one high official of the United States government, ex- pressed a desire for an audience with Mr. Lan- sing on a certain Thursday evening. Mr. Lan- sing said that he would be happy to see the gentlemen at almost any other time, “but on ‘Thursday evening I must go to church.” Now, Robert Lansing is a Presbyterian, and a good one. It took real sincerity of purpose for a secretary of state, who is supposed to be ready at any hours of the day or night to listen to the plenipotentiaries of foreign powers, to say in effect, “No, state matters must walt until after prayer meeting.” When Mr. Bryan was secretary of state he saw the newspaper men frequently, and his inter- course with them was rather of the free and easy sort because the Nebraska gentleman was |and {s a newspaper man himself. The corro- || spondents, however, did not get any extraor- inary amount of news out of Mr. Bryan despite || his affability. Mr. Lansing has regular business || meetings with the correspondents. There are | few stories to fly back and forth, few quips of | humor, and there is the usual reticence on many | subjects which marks diplomacy, but Mr. Lan- | sing, nevertheless, always gives up a story, a | news item of minor or greater importance, when- | ever it ts proper for him so to do, and, moreover, || he is a pretty keen judge of news values despite || the fact that he is a lawyer and probably does || not know @ 4-em dash from a linotype machine, | Some people say that Mr. Lansing had several ,| months’ training as secretary of state before he || took office actually, These are the people who -| think that he did most of Mr. Bryan's work. ,| ‘This probably is unjust to Mr. Lansing’s prede cessor, but {t is known definitely that the pres ent secretary was consulted constantly and con: sistently upon most of the matters relating to our 1| foreign intercourse, which recently, as everybody .| knows, has been in a state not only delicate, but | perilous, 1] It is pretty definitely known now that wher )| Mr. Lansing was counselor for the state depart .| ment he aided tho president materially in writing j| the note to Germany which was penned June 9 | It was the tone of this note which Mr. Bryar ,| thought was too militant, and it was this note tr | a way which caused the Nebraskan to resign bi .| position as chiet of the president's cabinet, ,| When ft is said that a man {s grave, a goo || stener and not overgiven to talking, the 1m s| pression recelved is perhaps that he ts lacking GATHERED FACTS Sudan grass ylelds from one to eight tons of cured hay an acre. J Two Bnglish scientists who are ex- '| perimenting expect to solve the prob- | lem of producing electricity directly from coal without using a steam ¢n- gine and dynamo, Porto Rico is producing & wood that 1] is only half as heavy as cork and that | can be used in life preservers and life | rafts and for inswiation against beat | and cold, 1 el iia aaa ie. iach sea a tn era i \ 9) \ ‘ \ \ SV x , ») b) \\ oe SH) VADAN i ZAA4 Ss . « a. | a he y \ a cdward BS JNA mn 7 t DA 1 +—D>)WYF Sal) 3 Clark. ¢ ® LY g . Loy 7 Cy \ ZA Dis ~~ tabmenn inser @ 4 cL S wtarean newseareg: “Ses > ee Sn NS SS fi ‘os Ww NG more than a score Mie aN Sago James G. Blaine G iis position as secre- ks i state in the cabinet of Fa * é ‘ t Harrison, He was . @ by Gen, John W. Fos Jia o da ew months ago William oo tron resigned is position a 9 the cabinet of President e Be isk ber on by mebert, Lanelle: 7 ih fe {fact are put together s eS MEY fam fod by ths Gemma (eee eee oN an tin the fact that John x “$ ‘ ca nlaw of Robert Lansing. . ies ye 3 sine two men more entirely { VAL fy tan tn tna feetteel Vk ff eit ia n William J. Bryan and ' eS j Oat Robert Lansing, Mr. ASS roi eaei inclined to be hail fel- C . ie sel Mr, Lansing has little a Ad ’ ago, met in him, but ‘never aah AN Al et ibid) eeslil ani Alnoan SS ae oo t stener that the state Py ~~ yy bout Meatnusy youre I NS ioe) ot tly that the man who ts JA 0% 7 wa apt to get results than yr al tt shall not say a good, oN ol an 336 who know the pres: oe - é roo! y that there is no chan- rae & } bie is ears with the other ie | We ae y of expressing the fact ie te aa COU the ito one of Mr, Lansing’s ae at. ; of 2 other. He holds fast a & ake ‘ q hie + he acts on his know! 4 of 7 be m it as seems better to e £ ee q 0 case. ie ; Eo 7 his persons like to hear ie FY 24% sibl gh positions. It 1s prob- ae 4 and > say that there are a . ale p the Mr. Bryan, about Mr. ] Po : cab and about one or an- -_ - e 2 Par 1 in office of the present 12 vel the present incumbent Ag 4 a ms Stories, of ooeroa, he — i? oes nd humorous stories. Mr. a . ¢ hee J a4 the imself readily to the ex- ee a a 4 . He is a grave man, a oe cer efore not at all an ex 2 ES can e of humor, however, is ae ‘4 2 to] ood story well told and 2 a z sec nt, if qulet, showing ot art CU: Robt Lansing — in interest in what are called the human things of life. Robert Lansing is a baseball fan; he is also a painter of no mean ability; he knows how to handle the rod and reel and can land with neatness and dispatch a brook trout or a small- mouth bass, Moreover, Mr. Lansing likes the social life, and not infrequently he is to be seen at afternoon affairs when state department duties aré not pressing, and still more frequently at eve- ning affairs where, as one might say, he loosens up a bit and talks in a way to draw his auditors and to hold them. Oswald Garrison Villard has written in the New York Evening Post this little description of Mr, Lansing’s personal appearance: “The contrast between Mr. Bryan and his suc- cessor is nowhere more marked than in their personalities, Mr. Lansing is a handsome man, with notably fine eyes and a winning countenance that lights up most attrictively when he is amused. ‘He smiles with his eyes as well as otherwise,’ writes a Washington reporter about him, and there is a keenness in their expression which indicates an able and a nimble mind. He is altogether of grave and dignified presence, which is enhanced by his prematurely gray hair —he {is only fifty-one. He is well groomed, stands up straight and looks directly into the eyes of his questioners. Usually he is wearing the black ¢utaway of statesmanship. You feel instinctively that he is - man to tie to, the kind which shrewd, intuitive women would naturally seek as a counselor. Indeed, this title which he has hitherto borne in the state department fits him like a glove.” In the paragraph which is quoted something ts said about the secretary of state being a hand- some man. Some Washington residents declare that he is the handsomest man in the cabinet. Others do not agree to this, but all admit that the secretary's way of carrying himself 1s all that it should be, It is perhaps probable that Mr. Lan- sing knows that he carries himself well. At any rate he alone is responsible for his carriage, while his tatlor 1s responsible in considerable measure for making the secretary admittedly the best-dressed man in public life in Washing- ton. It may be asked who {s, or, rather, who was, Robert Lansing? While the answer is not to be given in a few words, it is probable that the secretary of state was comparatively unknown until he came into prominence in connection with our delicate dealings with Mexico anéd with the other powers, little and great, which re- cently have been at trouble among themselves or within themselves, and have been directly amd in- Airectly causing trouble to the United States. Robert Lansing was born in a small city, Wa- ‘This country annually makes use of about 60,000,000 gas mantles and 10, 000 mantles ‘or gasoline and kerosene lamps. An English authority has decided that lather applied to a man’s face for shaving has such high antiseptic valuo as to destroy even the typhoid bacillus. ‘Hawalt, with a population of 200,000, had a foretgn trade last year of $76, 000,000, ‘The ‘trade total was but $6, 800,000 in 1897, the year before an- nexation to this country. EI es gett AEN OM ETN SD at ahs NYigtieas Saat ies SP tie) Sa Suniel at et. Weoiee eR Sf ete Meigen Par ess 8 une HI A a aE ER TS bik Oi SS a aie an cit Pe SR ae ia ie Ue TGS et oa Ns eae RS UE TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES A furnace of a special type has been installed In the Bank of France to de- stroy all cancelled bonds and damaged or returned paper money. Rey. Arthur Goodenough of Win- chester, Conn., has been pastor of the Congregational church in ‘that town for 45 years. For continuous active service in @ single Congrogationa: burch, Mr. Goodenough ts second in ‘his state, and sixth in the United States. ca aa eS Oa Re ee ee a a ial from the St. Lawrence river, from the waters of which it s probable that as a boy he drew many a pickerel and bass and laid the foundation of his love for the sport which Isaac Walton made famous, He entered the state department as counselor one year ago last March, succeeding John Bassett Moore. For thirty years, that is since he was twenty-one years of age, Mr. Lan- sing has been studying and practicing interna- tlonal law. He was connected in behalf of the United States with a great many arbitration cases. He was this government's associate coun sel in the fur seal arbitration twenty-two years ‘ago, and later he represented the government before the Bering sea claims commission. He was counsel for the government in the Alaska boundary dispute and he has served Uncle Sam in China, Mexico, Venezuela and at The Hague in various arbitration matters. It {s said that Robert Lansing slipped easily and gracefully into the big chair in the cabinet room, which stands at the right hand of the bigger chair which ts occupied by Woodrow Wil- son. A good many men of note have occupied the chair. When a man ceases to be secretary of state history invariably makes an estimate of him and of his services. What will the verdict be concerning Robert Lansing? ‘One thing is certain, Mr. Lansing entered upon his great office duties at a time when it ts pos: sible for a man to win his spurs or to lose them, and that quickly. There are heavy burdens on the shoulders of this present incumbent of high cabinet office. When the corner stone of the Pan-American building was laid Theodore Roose- yelt, then president of the United States, deliv. ered an address in which he said that there had been many great secretaries of state, but that there had been none greater than Elthu Root. ‘At the laying of some corner stone or at the ceremonies attending some other memorable oc- casion will {t be Woodrow Wilson's part to rise to his feet and say, “There have been many great secretaries of state, but none greater than Rob- ort Lansing?” In writing this sketch one very important mat ter came pretty near being overlooked. Robert Lansing, secretary of state, is a poet. Some peo ple say that he is “a writer of exquisite verse.” Poetry 1s poetry; verse is either near poetry oF no kin to poetry. Mr. Lansing does not claim to be a great poet. It is probable that he writes poetry as a diversion. At any rate, it is gener ally conceded that he is a pretty fair poet, and that he also {s much more than a pretty fair painter. ‘So when the American people have a secretary of state who can make other nations sit up and pay attention, who can fish, who can play base ball, who can dress well, who can paint, whe ‘can write poetry, and, what is better, exceedingly forceful prose, ought not the said American peo ple to be satisfied with the man who has taken Upon himself a large part of the burdens o! state at a time when those burdens are heavy? His Host—By the way, what do you think of the Mexican imbroglio? ‘Mr, Malaprop—To tell the truth, I like old: fashioned American fruits the best.—Judge. “How is it you always pick out a bachelor to Msten to your hard-luck story?” “A married man has troubles of his own usu- ‘ally "Louisville Courier-Journal. She—I suppose you know I came near marry- ing Jim before I married you? He—Now I know why he shakes hands 80 warmly when we meet.—Judge. “A tortune teller told me yesterday that I would meet with a financial reverse.” “And did you?” “Yes: she charged me $2.” “Do you promise to love, honor and cherish this woman?” “Yes,” said the politician, “whatever the plat: form 1s 1 subscribe to it.” Golfer (proudly)—1 play with my head, m, doy." His Rival—Yes, I notice that you are partial to wooden clubs. WAS CONSERVATIVE. t—By the way, what do you think of an imbroglio? laprop—To tell the truth, I like old: American fruits the best.—Judge. WISE HOBO. tt you always pick out a bachelor to our hardluck story?” ed man has troubles of his own usu- uisville Courler-Journal, SELF-CONGRATULATION. suppose you know I came near marry: sfore I married you? w I know why he shakes hands so hen we meet—Judge. CAME TRUE, ine teller told me yesterday that I would | @ financial reverse.” id you?” he charged me $2." STRICT PARTY MAN. u, rorhins to. Lees, honor and cherish ‘nt said the politician, “whatever the plat: subscribe to it.” ONE ON THE SoCo. aay B. 0. LESSON. of Sunday. Senoot Courye of Moody ‘ible Institute of Chicago) Copyright, 106, Wentern Nowapapee Unlon) LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 28 AMOS, THE FEARLESS PROPHET. Rieti ot ae a nase Penta de ean pe hs Ta Tor, 23:28, Among the prophets Amos bulks large. His message (B, ©. 787 ?) is most thoroughly modern and {ts ap- plication to our present day problems deserves careful consideration. Read the entire book prayerfully. Chapters 1 and 2 enumerate the sins of the nation and of Israel: 3-6 contain ad- dresses of the prophet: 7:1-9, 10 reo ords his visions and the conclusion, 9:11.15 {9 a Messianic prophecy, The modern prophet of social service and those who neglect a proper consider ation of “applied Christianity,” both ‘ought to ponder well this passage. |. Jehovah's Lamentation, vv. 1-8. The words of this lesson are thoso of Je- hovah spoken to the house of Isreal but apply to all people of all ages. Verse one is a prophecy of the mas- ter's grief over the holy city (Luke 18:84; 19:41), Outwardly rich and opulent, in Jehovah's sight tho na- tion had already fallen (v. 2 R. V.) and there “is none (present tense) to raise her up.” Israel 1s personified a8 a maiden sorely wounded. Spoken decades before, Israel did fall and has |risen no more, But there ts a posabil. |ity of mercy, ‘There is here a com- mand and a promise and those who Jobey the command will obtain the | promise of life. | To “seek yo me” (¥, 4) ts to turn jthe face to him rather than to turn |the back. It implies the forsaking Jot all evil thoughts, yea, our own thoughts and ways and to turn unto him who will abundantly pardon (Isa. | 55:6-7; Deut. 30:28). There ts life for jthe most outbrenking and outrageous sinner if he will seek the Lord, | 1. The Prophet's Exhortation, vw. 4.9, |The places mentioned in verse five |had each been made sacred by God's | Presence and subsequently degraded by Idolatry. Bethel especially 80. (Gen, 12:8; 28:10-18; 1 Kings 12:29-29). These new religions and the false worshiping were bogutling even the sincere and unwary, hence the warn- ing. We need to beware of the mant- fold “new cults” lest we depart from the faith of our fathers, America is today standing upon a social and re- ligtous crater in many ways similar to ancient Israel. God is either a con- suming fire (Heb. 15:28:29; Mark 9:48-49) to the impenitent or else a minister of grace to those who repent. Verse seven is a suggestion regard- ing tho rulers of that day and finds far too many counterparts in our own times. In verse 4 Jehovah exhorts the people to “seek him and live.” In verse 6 the prophet utters the same cry. Now (v. 8) the appeal {s to seek him because to do so is wisdom. (a) It is he “that maketh the stars,” the earth, yea, everything, and it is well to be on his sido (Ps. 19). (b) He “turneth the shadow of death into morning” (R. V.) (see Ps. 30:5). Who can comprehend the vast host of his saints for whom this has been done? (c) He “maketh the day dark with the night” (R. V.). This he is doing repeatedly, The God who set the day in its turn can also turn it aside; he bas done it both past and present. (@) He “calleth for the waters—and Poureth them out upon the face of the earth.” ‘This is both poetical and sclentific. God delivers the rain and upon him we all depend. It is the part of wisdom as well as of life to be on the side of the selt-existent, eternal-Je- hovah against whom man’s strength 4s as nothing (v. 9). ‘What man creates, man can destroy, witness Liege and Louvain—and is God any less able? M1, The Word of Application, vv. 10-15, Sinners always hate the man who rebukes their sin. Scripture ts not needed to prove this fact, for we fee It today. We are specifically warned against the praise of the wicked (Luke 6:26) and any true and upright witness for Christ knows that he is abhorred by those whose lives are crooked. (John 3:18, 20). Verse 11 (A. V.) sounds very much Uke Sinpy of the strictures that are being made regarding the acts of some of the rich of today. How frequently we behold mansions built from the pro- ceeds of oppression deserted by the ones who anticipated their occupancy. How few fortunes are really expended and enjoyed by those who make the accumulation. The manner by which we accumulate, our conduct towards the just (Acts 7:52), our acceptance of bribes, and our neglect of the needy ‘and the poor fs all know to God, (v. 12). “Therefore,” even as today tt 18 dimeult and costly to get Justice in our courts, even as iniquity is rapid: ly growing in the earth, about all the ‘| prudent man can do Is to hold his peace, to wait upon God and watch for ‘|him, He it is who must call with trumpet voice (Isa, 68:1) even though he does now speak with human lips. ‘The fourth exhortation to “seek” (wv, 14) {s to search after the good, though the time be an “evil one.” ‘The individual 18 to seek good, to hate evil, and do all in bis power to “establish justice in the gate.” viz; 80 far as in his power lies, exalt to | the positions of rulers end governors ,| those who also “seek good, not evil.” | ‘The result will be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, “will be with us" even in | this evil time (See Gen, 39:2, 3. 23: "FINDERS KEEPERS" By AVA JOYCE RINGOLD. The Gardners were poor people, and they were poorer than ever after the county fair had come and gone. That was late in September. The grounds used for the great annual exhibition were only half a mile away from the humble little home. It was the first time they had been used for that purpose, so Ruth Gardner, the mainstay of the family, devised, as she thought, a sure way to make some money out of it. "Yes," her crotchety grandfather had agreed, "it looks likely and I will supply the two hundred dollars to stock up, although it's my very last cent." "I am sure I can pay you back and make a nice, tidy profit," enthused the optimistic Ruth. There were four in the family—old Mr. Gardner, his widowed daughter, Mrs. Warren, Ruth's mother, and Ruth's younger sister, Netta. Ruth had been working as clerk in the big store of the town on extra rush days when the farmers came to the county seat. It was poor pay that she received, but it helped to fill out. A vast splurge, to her modest way of thinking, was possible when the fair came along. Her mother was a wonderful cook. Her pies, doughnuts and cookies were famous. Ruth got a new idea in her mind—to start a little lunch booth on the fair grounds. She was awarded a most promising spot, right near the entrance gates. It took two hundred dollars to secure a coffee steamer, knives, forks, spoons and the cooking outfit, and the day the fair opened she and her mother took in nearly $50. Alas, for their simple hopes and fond calculations! That very night a fire caught in a building next to their A man in a hat and coat stands in front of a window, looking at a turkey. Gloated Over the Prospective Feast. little booth, and equipment, eatables, and all they had was licked up in the flames. Ruth went back to her erratic employment at the town store. Grandpa Gardner fumed and fussed and fretted over his loss. It was harder work than ever getting along now. Mrs. Warren, however, made a little supplying homemade cakes and bread to a few village families, which Netta delivered, as well as caring for quite a brood of chickens. It was just after the county fair closed that Netta came running into the house one morning and startled the helpless, brooding old grandfather into a state of irritability by betraying vivid excitement of manner and voice. "Oh, Hr!!" cried Netta, "what do you think? Come, quick! There's a great, beautiful turkey has flown into the chicken yard!" "Eh! what's that?" exclaimed Grandfather Gardner, spurting up the energies of acquisition and appetite, "a turkey? Don't let it get away. Pen it up. Feed it up. Why, I haven't tasted turkey for a whole year. It will make a famous feast." "But, grandpa, it is not ours," remonstrated Ruth. "Make it ours!" shouted the selfish, avaricious old man. "Finders keepers!" Ruth joined her sister in a hurried rush to the chicken yard. Sure enough, there, huddling down in one corner, was a turkey. The roosters were resenting its intrusion by half-circling the stranger, with spurs set and eyes pugnaculously aslant. It was as Netta had reported, a great, beautiful turkey. Ruth had never seen so royal a bird of its species. It was of unusual size, stately and graceful, and its plumage had the rare iridescence in still blues and glossy blacks attractive as the hues of a peacock. "Why," abruptly spoke Ruth, after a cursory inspection of the fowl, "it's foot is injured." This was plain to the view, for one member was bedbedled with blood. The turkey was weary-eyed and pant- "I," said the fly, "I saw him die." But this business of seeing him die, or locating him alive so that a gunner can make him die, has resulted in a field glass famine in Philadelphia. One of the largest optician houses in this city reported recently that it didn't have a field glass of any kind and couldn't get one. "What has happened to the field glasses?" was the natural question. "All shipped to Europe at an advance in price of from 25 to 50 per cent."-Philadelphia.Public Ledger. Did Service to Society In the years 1649-50 there arose a strange party in England called the Diggers. They might be seen in large numbers in some localities, diligently digging up and cultivating the waste lands and out-of-the-way places. They objected to the land being held by a few proud covetous men, "to bag and barn up the treasures of the earth from others." Yet, as one of their leaders said, "they intended to middle ing, as if it had come quite a distance. Its foot had seemingly caught in some barbwire and was badly lacerated. "The poor thing!" exclaimed gentle-hearted and pitying Ruth. "It won't do to leave it among the chickens." "Oh, no, the roosters are ready to peck at it now," joined in Netta. Finally they decided to carry it up into the barn, where there was a partitioned-off room. As Ruth lifted the turkey it made no demur or resistance. It fact, it seemed to recognize her as a kindly spirit and quite cuddled up in her arms. They got some hay, and in a very brief space of time the gobbler had a comfortable bed, its wounded foot salved and bound up, and a platter of corn and a pan of water within ready reach. As the days went on it became a regular pet to Ruth. She nursed it, fed it, and the grateful bird seemed to greet her morning and evening visits with pleasure. Every day Grandfather Gardner gloated over the prospective feast, demanding to know how the coveted fowl was fattening up. "Next Sunday, Ruth," he suggested, at the end of a few days, and Ruth's heart sank. Somehow the pretty fowl had appealed to her protection. She could not think of having it killed and eaten, but the old man was imperious and obstinate. He would hear of no respite. It was Saturday afternoon and Ruth was walking slowly home from the store. The turkey was on her mind and she scarcely noticed that a handsome, well-dressed young man had caught up with her, was walking by her side and had lifted his hat courteously, until he spoke the words: "Excuse me, miss, but am I headed right for Hubbard road?" "I am going in that direction myself," explained Ruth. As if he valued the tacit invitation to keep her company, the young man fell into her step, keeping up a chatty, pleasing conversation that made her feel interested. His talk was of the county fair. He had been one of the exhibitors. Ruth was quite reluctant to pause and inform him: "This is Hubbard road." "Ah, thanks," he bowed, "and can you further direct me to the Gardner home? It is for there I am bound." "As Mr. Gardner is my grandfather and I live with him, I think I had better continue to be your guide," explained Ruth with a smile. "You are Miss Ruth Warren, then?" spoke the young man, in surprise and with pleasure. "Why, then, my business is with you. It is about—a turkey, Rhodame, the prize fowl in its class, which escaped when the county fair broke up, and worth—a hundred dollars for its recovery, and if you still have it, as I learned in the town you did have it—" "You have come just in time," spoke Ruth, eagerly and gladly, and then she told the story of the bird in its entirety. Mr. Paul Rivers told his in turn. The lost虎尾 was a rare fowl of a valuable breed. The chit-chat of Netta in the village had been the means of his tracing down Rhodame, and Netta received a check for one hundred dollars two days later. A week after that young Rivers came himself again to the humble Gardner cottage. And after that, and then again. The kindness of Ruth to his pet and prize helped her beauty in winning his heart, and Ruth was asked to share his wealth and his name. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) She Doesn't Need Upliftor to Direct Her Mental Energies, is Writer's Opinion. "It is time that the country girl were getting her share of attention in the effort to advance the conditions of rural life." This is the announcement of one of those critics of rural conditions who exist in such large numbers in the large cities, whose self-complacency is equaled only by their ignorance of everything rural, and whose condescension is almost as irritating as their assumption of superiority—if such a thing can be imagined. The particular specimen of the obnoxious species whose words we have quoted finds that the country girl has been terribly neglected in the scope of the rural uplift, the Rochester Democrat observes. Only think of it, state universities send out scores of lecturers to men, but none to women. Crop demonstration cars do not contain a single exhibit to show the country girl "the real possibilities of enriching her home." Isn't it shameful? Naturally, it would never occur to a critic of this type that there might be a reason for such significant omissions, and that this reason might be the ability of the country girl to carve out her own career without the help of busybodies masquerading as uplifters. The fact of the matter is that the typical country girl needs assistance in directing her mental energies about as much as a German business man needs a training in efficiency. only with what was common and untilled, and to make it fruitful for the use of man." Gerard Winstanley, their chief leader, urged that the poor should be settled on the common or waste lands, and that in this way the country would yield much larger crops, the hungry be fed, and times be made better for everybody. The Diggers were very peaceable people, and not at all disposed to make trouble, but the movement was suppressed by the authorities. Nevertheless it had its influence in later years, for from 1760 to 1830 more than a thousand acts of parliament were adopted for enclosing and utilizing waste lands. Might Have Known That Before. "When a man goes around lookin' foh advice," said Uncle Eben, "about all he finds foh certain is dat opinions is bound to differ." Expect Too Much. The trouble with most "supersensitive" children is that they are not satisfied with their parents after growing up—Washington Post. THE HAT Bespeak Comfort for Small Wearers --- Although one may choose almost any shape in hats, the progress of the season has given precedence to certain types. Hats inspired by the Puritan model are many and smart. Small high-crowned shapes with narrow curving brims followed naturally in the wake of the Puritan, and have been developed into brilliant millinery, combining rich brocades or velvets, in covering the shape, with fur in narrow bands outlining the brim edge and crown. The small turban has blossomed out in wintry materials (velvet and fur and other rich stuffs) in styles more varied than ever, and is the acme of dash and grace. Trimming remains simple, either for these chic small hats or in the wider-brimmed shapes. And it seems that every one strives for novelty in it. Either the flower or feather must be something new and strange—and beautiful—or it must be oddly placed. An example of this is shown in two views of a dress hat which are given in the photographs reproduced here. This model is made of velvet shirred in one circular piece, to cover the upper brim and side crown. The top crown is a small scant puff of the velvet, and the underbrim has a plain velvet facing. The shape lifts to a point at the front and flares upward at the back, where the brim widens. Bespeak Comfort f The outdoor garments made for little lads and lasses in the wintertime are first designed for warmth. This essential is taken care of and after that they achieve what measure of grace and style the material and the season's modes will allow. Overcoats for the small boy are cut a little shorter than in previous seasons, of very heavy close-woven woolens. Dark blue is a favorite color for them, but there are many dark mixtures, indistinct checks and a few crossbars. They are double-breasted, with ample collars that may be rolled up about the neck and ears. A very good model is that shown in the picture, which provides large but inconspicuous patch pockets for the convenience of the most appreciative of all possessors of pockets. A cozy coat for a little girl, with cap to match, is pictured, with collar and cuffs of plush. It is made of a heavy wool-knitted material and is soft and warm. The stitched belt, shaped to include pockets, reflects a popular treatment of the belt in coats for older girls. With cap to match, which may be pulled down over the ears, a trim, smart outfit makes the youngster look as comfortable as she feels. For the little miss who has arrived at the dignity of going out to parties, pretty coats are made and childish furs are designed to re-enforce them. White Iceland fox and other inexpensive white furs are prettiest for the little girl. The next best choice for her are the little gray squirrel sets. There are several other furs suited to children, and all of them are intended for the little miss to wear up. Shaded Silk Hose. Shaded silk stockings are among the importations this season, with fancy embroidered stripes, the embroidery carrying out the dominant color of the stocking. A variant from the stripes running round and round is the vertically-striped stocking of white silk, with vertical stripes embroidered in black or a color. Thin Fabrics Worn. As the season progresses the vogue of transparent fabrics for evening The width across the back is greatly accentuated by a drapery of velvet lined with soft satin, which has the appearance of a high bow. Very odd satin and silver poppies are set over the drapery at the back, and one single blossom brightens the brim at the front. In passing, it may be noticed that millinery blossoms are very brilliant, made mostly of silk or satin of bright luster, and without pretense to being faithful copies of their prototypes. In the picture a wide-brimmed shape is shown with a round crown. It is covered with hatter's plush. A fringe of ostrich feathers is set about the edge on both the upper and under brim, and a fan, of ostrich fibers also, is posed against the crown, completing the adgment. Millinery generally is characterized by better style this season than in the past. Women insist upon simplicity in trimmings, and this results from an advance in good taste. Good workmanship is another feature which tells the same story. The Stocking Bantalette A novelty is white silk stockings with three little frills above the ankles in simulation of pantalettes. These frills are of silk, edged with lace. for Small Wearers on "dress-up" occasions. The warmth of furs goes without saying, and luckily the fur sets for children are modest in price, so that all may have them. Julia Bottomley For House Wear. White linen modified middies with collar and cuffs of color, and just a little smocking on each side to support the necessary fullness will be worn in the house all winter. The smocked stitching and collar and cuffs may be of horizon or delft blue, pink or lavender. A dainty negligee of fine nainsook with half sleeves and eton effect has a belt of three narrow pink ribbons braided together. Valle and insertion are used with dainty empire wreaths in blue, pink and green on each side. Another nainsook blouse has scalloped edges, trimmed with balls of two shades of blue silk and irregular motifs. Sweaters at All Hours Oddly enough, sweaters are worn with frocks of white silk, as well as with all other frocks, and dainty enough are the little affairs of knitted silk that as sweaters hold such an important place in Palm Beach wardrobes. The silk sweater has been passe in Deauville for eighteen months, but it is being worn here. All sweaters are long enough to cover the hips, and all are made with pockets; skirts are also pocketed. Separate blouse coats are of heavy crepe de chine.—Vogue. frocks increases. There is nothing prettier for the debutante's first ball, or for the opera, than a frock of white tulle, soft and billow, with flounces and frills, and with panniers of mother-of-pearl palleled net. Silver and gold lace and fine net embroidered in gold or silver form flounces on many charming frocks. The pompadour silks are still used and a black one, figured in pale paste shades, is especially effective when smartly made up. SALADS TOO LITTLE USED Really They Should Be Given a Very Prominent Place in Meals Served to the Family. Salads are capable of infinite variety, so when fish and cheese fail vegetables which approach animal foods in nutrition may be served, and either the oil in the dressing or the fat in the cream or melted butter of a boiled dressing be depended upon to supply the necessary oil. Try a corn salad. A pound of this vegetable contains as much protein as is found in half a pound of lamb chops or half a dozen eggs. Cool freshly boiled corn, also some rice (dried in the oven until the grains separate), salt slightly and mix them in equal quantities; fold in some stiff mayonnaise and serve very cold in lettuce cups. Beans, peas and lentils, which are all so rich in protein, are very desirable for salads in place of meat. Cover two cups of cold baked beans with French dressing and let stand a half hour; drain, sprinkle with half a teaspoonful of onion juice, mix with cream dressing, arrange on lettuce leaves and garnish with parsley and hard-cooked eggs. Lentils combined with onions, peppers and parsley, and served on cress with French dressing, make a hearty and tasty salad. A fruit salad has the added advantage of being very healthful, for nearly all fruits hold acids and salts in solution which are cooling to the blood, and there are so many fruits available that none needs to become tiousme. Pears, as a salad possibility once tried, will appear often this way: Peel large pears, halve them, remove the cores and drop them into cold water in which is a tablespoonful of vinegar to keep them white. Fill the core cavity with either grated cheese or cream cheese balls and serve on lettuce with French dressing. Purple egg plums may be used instead of pears, with lemon juice substituted for vinegar in the dressing. The stone cavity of peaches filled with chopped nuts and arranged on lettuce with mayonnaise is very tasty. A pretty salad can be made from watermelon or cantaloupe by scooping out with a small spoon pieces from the ripeest parts draining, chilling and serving in lettuce cups with French dressing. When mayonnaise is used with fruits, leave out the mustard and pepper put in a little sugar and use lemon instead of vinegar always. In no case should a boiled acid dressing be used with fruit salad. Chocolate Rice Pudding Wash and soak a large tablespoonful of rice, then cover with a pint of milk and add a pinch of salt and place in a very moderate oven. Cook slowly for an hour stirring in the crust that will form once or twice during that time. Then add a pint of milk which has been brought to the boiling point with a square of unsweetened choco late and a cupful of light brown sugar flavor with half a teaspoonful of vanilla and continue baking for an hour longer. Do not stir the last half hour Serve hot or cold. "Oil" With Kerosene When a sewing machine works heavily, take out the thread and oil every part of the machine thoroughly with kerosene. Work briskly for some minutes, so that the kerosene may do its work of loosening all the old oil and grime, and then wipe carefully with a soft, old duster. When the kerosene has been removed, oil the machine again with lubricating machine oil, and it will then work perfectly. Be sure and use the lubricant oil after using the keroene. Spanish Fish Pie. Cold fish, olive oil, one clove of garlic, red pepper, tarragon vinegar, tomatoes, catchup. Bone the fish warm it in olive oil with the garlic, pepper and tarragon vinegar. Butter a pledish, put in some sliced cooked tomatoes and a little tomato catchup; lay the fish on this. Put into the oven for five minutes until quite hot, then serve. French Erled Sweet Potatoes Pare and cut raw sweet potatoes in to slices lengthwise, making the slices about half an inch thick. Prepare two pans of fat, one of moderate temperature, the other boiling hot. Drop a few of the potatoes at a time in the cooler fat and cook through, then skim them out and place in the hot fat to brown. Drain on paper, sprinkle with salt and serve hot. For Kitchen Floors Take a cloth and pour on it some denatured alcohol, enough to wet cloth, then pour on some linseed oil, then on that pour more alcohol. Then take your cloth and rub it together just as you do when starching clothes and use it on your kitchen floor. It is excellent for cleansing and polishing. Better Cookies Sheets of Russia iron cut to fit the oven are very convenient for baking cookies as well as giving a better condition by rubbing lightly with paraffin, rather than greasing with butter or lard. Whipped Cream Pie Bake three crusts on separate pie plates; put together with whipped cream and sprinkle with powdered sugar; do not let it stand before serving or the pastry will soften. Onions Cooked in Milk. Onions soaked for an hour in cold water and then slowly cooked until tender in milk and served with melted butter make a very delicate vegetable for a meal. Good Silver Polish Use a little peroxide on a flannel, then rub on a little soap, and polish with a soft cloth. This is an easy method, and one that will keep silver clean much longer than most polishes. For Solled Matting. Dissolve ten cents' worth of oxalic acid in two quarts of water and apply with a scrubbing brush. Wash after ward with clean water. Island of Enchantment A N ISLAND of fragrant spices, a land of enchantment that fulfills the romantic dreams of youth, a veritable paradise of emerald verdure, bordered by the sheen waters of a tropical sea—that is Ceylon. And of Colombo, what can be said? It is there that the world travelers from the four winds meet; it is there that one hears the languages of almost every land in the two hemispheres spoken, writes W. D Hornaday in Grit. In no city of the world is there to be found day by day a more cosmopolitan transient population than in Colombo. It is a port of call for many steamships that ply regularly between points in the far East and Europe, and between Australia, New Zealand and Europe. It is there one meets elephant and tiger hunters of India, tea planters, spice buyers, officers of the army and navy of many nations, wool buyers who pass to and fro between England, France and the far-off lands of Australia and New Zealand. The island kings—the coconut princes—from the coral dots of the Indian ocean and the South Seas gather there for a season of social pleasures; the American millionaire comes into the harbor in his yacht and lends to the gayety of the scene ashore by the prodigal way in which he scatters his money around. Every Singalese man and boy is a natural merchant and trader. From the youngest to the oldest they ever have an eye to business. Even the street arabs—little fellows not yet in their 'teens—have an ability to size up the white visitor with a degree of accuracy that is almost uncanny. On the way to the post office I was surrounded and followed by crowds of men and boys, all wanting me to step in their shops. It is remarkable how shrewd and smart these natives are. How they could tell I was an American I can am unable to say, but it was not unusual for one of them to say: "Marster, step in and let me show PHOTO by E.W. PICKARD STREET SCENE IN COLOMBO you things very fine; make moss' beautiful present for mamar's family in America." "I said to one of them: "What do you mean by calling me an American? I live in Bombay." The youngster smiled knowingly and replied: "Oh, no; me know marster is Amer ican—me can tell." "How can you tell?" I asked. The fellow shrugged his shoulders and smiled, but did not explain the secret. Coming to a long row of waiting rickshaws, I selected one. The puller of the vehicle could talk some English and I gave him directions that I wanted ed to go to Mount Lavinia, the Cinnam mon gardens, the Buddhist temple and through different parts of the city. The charge was a shilling an hour. He started off at a brisk trot and kept it up for several miles. QUESTION EASY TO ANSWER Inquiry Presented No Problem at All to Children Still in the Lower Grades. Dr. Samuel McGaughey of Irvington was one of the many school inspectors selected to give ten-minute talks to school children on Disease Prevention day. He had made talks to the seventh and eighth grades at school No. 47, which were assembled in one room, and to the fifth and sixth grades. His third and final talk was before the children of the third and fourth grades, where he had planned a one-syllable talk. "Now, children," he said, as he began his talk, "how many of you know what day this is?" With one record every hand in the room was raised. The doctor was astonished to think of the teacher who had been so careful as to inform her pupils, and who had so carefully explained all about disease prevention. "Then," continued the doctor, "you may tell me what day it is." Beggars beeecheed me for coins along the route and once in a while a boy would throw a flower into my lap and then trot along for some distance begging for a coin. The first stop was at the Maligakande Buddhist temple. I alighted and went to the temple where I was met by a man in long, white robe and several bright little boys, each of whom was expectantly awaiting a tip. I started to enter the temple when the man informed me in broken English that I must take off my shoes. Instantly a boy was down untying my shoes and when they were off I entered the holy place. In the first room was an image of Buddha. It is about twenty-five feet long and in a reclining position. Upon the walls of this and other rooms of the temple are paintings representing various phases of the religion. From the temple I was escorted to another building that is used as the Oriental college and library. It was a stuffy, ill-smelling room where I was shown ancient emblems and relics and shelves of books There are motor cars to be had for hire in Colombo, but the favorite way of riding is in a man-pulled rickshaw or in a little cart which is pulled by what is known as a "racing hackery." This animal is a little bullock that travels about twelve miles an hour. The rickshaw men have wonderful endurance. They are quick to discover, however, whether their passenger is a hard master. I found this out when I allowed my man to slow down and begin loafing on his job. Unless I kept urging him to keep up his pace he killed as much time as possible. Kandy, the "Hill Capital." Besides the many beauty spots in and around the city there are strangely interesting things to be seen in the native town of Pettah and along the drives that run through the tropical jungle. No visit to Ceylon is complete without a sojourn in Kandy, the "hill capital" of the wonderful island. It is there at an altitude of 1,602 feet above PHOTO BY E.W. PICKARD the sea level that the white residents of Colombo go for rest and recuperation from the enervating effects of a prolonged stay in the low-lying metropolis. During the winter season the climate of Kandy is tempered with just enough coolness to make it a resort for health and pleasure seekers. The town of Kandy does not occupy the most altitudinal point in Ceylon. The wonderful town of Nuwara Eliya, which is located in the mountains 6-240 feet above the sea, attracts many visitors who have plenty of leisure in which to view and thoroughly enjoy the magnificent scenery and strange attractions that the island possesses. There are a number of buried cities in the northern part of Ceylon, and these mysterious remains of a bygone age are of unfailing interest to the traveler who has a liking for archeological research. The most famous of these ruins is that of Anuradhapura. And with one accord the children shouted: "Friday!" — Indianapolis News. "If I had all the money, men and munitions I wanted I probably could achieve several notable victories," stated old Festus Pester. "I believe I could get my steak in a restaurant cooked almost to my liking, be elected chairman of various committees, have my inconsequential utterances chronicled by the press and wear as rowdy a waistcoat as my perverted taste might dictate, but I'll be dadburned if I could prevent the sunny-souled don-johnkey who habitually does such things from joining me on the street when I wish to be alone, grasping me heartily by the arm and calling me 'brother' in endearing accents."—Kansas City Star. In a Way. "Here's Jiggins been boasting to me that he is a great factor in the movie field. Is that so?" "In a fashion, I know he's changed his residence six times this year." --- One Impossibility. THE FILM OF "THE LOVE OF A FRIEND" BY JOHN H. HARRIS, WITH A PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN H. HARRIS. Rooms to Rent FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. House strictly modern. Steam heat. In quire at the Sun Office. FOR RENT—Four room cottage. Good repair. City water. 1609 Myrtle. Wanted—A responsible person to take charge of my house; furnished; modern. Bell phone East 2010, or call in person at 2002 Eales ave. For Rent—Room, furnished or un- furnished; men preferred. Call Bell phone South 1117W. For Sale—Mahogany library table almost new; cost $35; will sell for $16. Colonial, 1910, East 24th st., sec ond floor. For Rent—Nice furnished room; house strictly modern; private family; with or without board; on car line. Mrs. S. McWillianms, 343 Greey ley ave., Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone West 2367M. To Rent—Furnished rooms, bath and gas. 1206 Woodland. Mrs. B Hampton, Bell phone E289W. 7-Pasenger Automobile. As a pleas ure car the Clipper has no equal Driven by owner. 24-hour service Stick this near your telephone. W. H. HUBBELL. Bell Phone East 2013W. Home phone East 4159. FOR RENT 1604 E. 10th, 7r mod . 25.00 1735 37 Lydia, 3r . 15.00 2638 Woodland, 4r . 12.00 2724 Lydia, 4r opairs . 7.00 1907 Va. 5r . 15.00 2203 Michigan, 6r . 15.00 2803 Michigan, 6r . 15.00 1894 Norton, 4r, mod 1 fl . 15.00 2203 Cottage, 4r mod . 15.00 111-13 E. 8th, 30r . 15.00 111-13 E. 8th, 30r . 15.00 2430 Flora, 3rd fl . 15.00 2218 Michigan, 7r . 15.00 2638 Euclid, 5r, part modern . 17.50 2638 Summit, furn or unfurn . 15.00 2430 Flora, 3rd fl . 15.00 2218 Michigan, 7r . 15.00 2638 Euclid, 5r, part modern . 17.50 2638 Summit, furn or unfurn . 15.00 20.00 or 15.00 3032 Terrace, 4r . 8.50 3032 Vine, (rear) 4r . 8.50 3032 Vine, (rear) 4r . 8.50 3032 Woodland, 6r part mod . 16.00 1405 7 Campbell, 20r mod . 16.00 510-12 E. 6th, 40r . 15.00 510-12 E. 6th, 40r . 15.00 2457 Belfontain, 5r . 16.00 619 Locust, 3r . 10.00 2457 Norton, 7r mod . 15.00 FOR SALE. 1221 Woodland, 7 rooms, strictly modern, pressed brick. Price $3,000; $200 for $3 per month. Now renting for $3 per month. 1017 Woodland, 5 rooms, $1,800; $100 down. Truck Farm on Bonner Springs line— 4 acre, 4-room house, lots of fruit, $1,000; $50 down and $50 every six hours. 2621 Euclid, 5 rooms, modern, brick bungalow. Price $2,200; $200 down, $20 per month. Vacant lot on Highland between 24th and Howard. 75x130. Price, $1,250. Vacant lot, 1618 Agnes, 25x125—$600.00; $50.00 down, $10.00 per month. 1515 E. 17th St—5-room cottage, newly adorned and painted. Price $1,300; $100 down and $12 per month. Persons renting or buying from us will be given employment on all employment in our employment department. 911 McGee St. Phones:—Home, 7555 M; Bell, 751 M. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS On Sunday morning, November 14, the pastor of the Wayman Chapel, A. M. E. Church, Rev. H. H. Jones, delivered a most soul stirring and inspiring sermon. Those present were made to say did not our hearts burn within as he talked with us. We are giving God the glory and thank the bishop for sending us such a distinguished and able man as Pastor Jones. Our church has already shown a marked increase of taking on new life—Sunday being a very cold day the attendance was not what it might have been but the collections were good. We were also blessed with the presence of Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley of St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday, November 9, who gave a stirring lecture on "The Call of the Hour" and held the audience spellbound for more than thirty minutes. She delivered some selections from our own poet Paul Dunbar which were interesting, amusing and inspiring. The A. M. E. Church Boosters Club will meet with Mrs. J. C. Brown Thursday. Rev. Crutchfield of the Baptist church is preparing to do some repairing on the church property. The members of the C. M. E. church are anxiously looking for their new pastor, Rev. A. D. Wilson of Leavenworth. The ex-pastor went to Oklahoma. Miss Bertha Williams of Pitsburg and Miss Jackson, both teachers in that city spent Sunday night here enroute from Kansas City. The teachers of the schools here visited the Kansas City schools Thursday and Friday of this week. Mr. Joshua Morgan is in town on business. The Hill-Ayers wedding takes place Thursday at 8:00 at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ayers. Mrs. Grace Brown is very ill at this writing. HELENA, MONT. Our harvest home rally was a grand success. We realized $109.50, for which we cordially thank all who helped us so royally. Quarterly meeting was held at St. James A. M. E. church November 14. Rev. C. N. Douglass, the presiding elder, was present and preached an inspiring sermon....We bow our heads in grief over the death and loss of our great and noble leader, Mr. Booker T. Washington. Memorial services were held at the St. James A. M. E. church. Rev. I. S. Wilson, pastor. We wish to state that we are proud of our young people of Helena, who have organized a literary society and we weep that all who can will give them their presence and talent....The Ladies of Ebenezer Baptist church mission will serve Thanksgiving dinner....The Bright Star Club met their president. Mrs. J. A. Anderson, at her home Tuesday, also the Busy Bee with their queen, Mrs. Ed Johnson, 56 South Ewing. We regret to say that Mrs. Ada Saulsburg, proprietress of Broadway, has discontinued her business on account of ill health....Mrs. A. Walker of Seattle is the guest of her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. E McGinnis, 914 Cannon street....News has been received from Mrs. E. Boules of Detroit, Mich., that there is no place like Montana, and to look for homeward flight in the springtime....Mother Kelly, Mr. Ed Johnson, Mrs. Sarg, Smith and Mother Warren are on the sick list....We are glad that Mrs. J. Ingram is still improving....Mrs. Jennie Seals is quite sick at Toppea, Kas, the home of her niece.... ...Mrs. Major Green was a delightful hostess at her residence on Center street Thursday evening. About 16 friends were invited...Mrs. Wm. Mason gave a formal dance Tuesday night on her home for young people ...Mr. Robert Houston and wife are expected home from their ranch...Mrs. L. T. Day of Livingston and nephew, Master Raymond Grear, of Chicago, are expected in the city Friday to be the guests of Mrs. A. E. McGinnis...Mrs. A. Brown had as dinner guest last Sunday Mrs. A. Walker of Seattle, Wash. HOLDEN, MO. M. E. Daniels, Thomas C. Younger and Sam M. Winston of Kansas City, Mo., were visitors of Jessie Smith and Charles Pratt last week. They spent two days hunting and carried home with the 100 fat rabbits and 30 quail. While hunting Brother Winston fell into an old well, breaking his gun. We, the hunting club, extend to these gentlemen an invitation to return.... Mrs. Emma Akers was the guest of Mrs. James Ewing last week....Mr. Richard Sinus made a short trip out of town last week on business.... The Ladies' Club met last Friday at Sister Fannie Ewing's and had a splendid did meeting. The services closed last Saturday night at the Baptist church. We feel that the meeting was a great success. The people of this city were deeply pained on account of the death of our leader, Booker T. Washington ...Mr. Bud Curtis and friends are the guests of Mrs. Mattie Harden of Blackwater this week....The birthday party of Little Richard Dodd last week was a delightful affair and he was the recipient of many presents from his choolmates. The evening was spent in skipping and hoop rolling....Mrs. Maggie Dodd and husband went to Kansas City to see the former's mother, who received a serious bruise from a fall. We wish for her a speedy recovery....Refuge lodge No. 78 had an possum supper and had a splendid time. Many out of town visitors were present....Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Brown entertained T. W. Goodman, Rev. Keeleey and Charles Pratt last week at dinner while on a hunt in their neighborhood. The dinner was fine and after the dinner they were brought to town in Mr. Brown's car and invited back again....Mrs. Eva Taylor spent a few days in Kansas City last week shopping and visiting Mrs. Joseph Ewing, Twenty-first and Holmes street....Mrs. Kate Butler, who was sick, is out again. GLASGOW, MISSOURI. Several persons from here attended the funeral of Mr. Marshall at Richland last Thursday.....Mrs. Fannie Mesley came in from Armstrong to spend Thanksgiving.....Mr. Wm. E. Buttner returned from Kansas City Monday, where he had been visiting relatives and friends.....We are sorry to report the serious illness of Mr. Leonard Cason, one of our highly esteemed young citizens.....The "Gray Concert Company" is making good. Where they have given their entertainments their return has been solicited. We are proud of this company and wish for them much success. The majority of this company is Glasgow product....The rally at Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church on last Sunday was quite a success. Rev. Thornley is doing a good work here. WESTASKIWIN, ALBERTA, CAN. ADA. The literary society of the Dixie Jubilee Company met in Holden, Alberta, at the King George Hotel after the regular routine of business a very interesting programme was rendered. The following are the subjects discussed: Etiquette, Mrs. Neale G. Buckner; How we can improve our Company and Literary Society, Miss H. Small wood; Hygiene, Mr. Louis Morris; The Young Man of Today, Mr. Brown Allen; Self Government, Mr. Edgar Shupe; Recitation, "Mammy's Way," Miss C. Dickerson; "Miscellaneous Remarks, W. C. Buckner; Closing, Mizpah. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. Thelma Henderson and little Elmer Reed who have been quite ill are consalves at their home 3836 Lloyd Ave....Mrs. Brazzie Strickland, 4052 Adams street, has returned after a WEAVER FRUIT AND We Carry a of Choicest Fruits an Send out One of Our Special Fruits. We meet all Fair Con Flowers for A BESSIE M. WEAV 1510 East Bell Phone E. 4798 MRS. T. A. HOLLAND, Fashionabl phone, East 4600. 1706 East 1 NOTE Only a few m Clean, Electric-lighted Steam Send out One of Our Special 50c Baskets of Assorted Fruits. We meet all Fair Competition in Price and Quality Flowers for All Occasions MRS. T. A. HOLLAND, Fashionable Dressmaking and Tailoring. Bell phone, East 4600. 1706 East 19th. at the Paseo V. M. C. A. very pleasant stay with relatives in Oklahoma....Miss Sophia Bates of Leavenworth, Kansas, who underwent a successful operation at the Bell Memorial Hospital has been removed to the home of her cousin, Mrs. Lulu Boaz, 714 Steptoe, Kansas City, Mo. The Speakwell Club was entertained Friday by Mrs. W. G. Pinkard... The Chariton County Ministers' Union is now in session at Pilgrim Rest Baptist church...Mrs. Annie Brown is now on the sick list...Mrs. Adeline Brown who has been sick for several months, is reported slowly improving at this writing...Mrs. J. S. Swancy is quite ill...Mr. Merritt Quinn departed this life November 20, leaving a sorrowing widow, three sons, one daughter, two brothers, a host of relatives and friends. The funeral was held at the residence on West Coates street. The deceased was highly respected by both white and colored. Obsequies were under the auspices of Masonic lodge, Rev J. K. Ponder officiating...Mrs. Mary Chenaworth is convalescing. Mrs. Louise Jones and Mrs. Mattie Colley entertained Friday night, November 19, at the home of Mrs. Jones on South Eighth street, complimentary to Mrs. Juanita Redus of Tullahasse, Ok. Mrs. Redus is the daughter of Mrs. Jones, and has been teaching in that city for some time. While there teaching Cupid claimed her and she became the wife of Mr. Andrew Redus. Mrs. Redus is quite amitable and was very useful here in church work, as she played for the church about three years. The people took advantage and availed themselves of the opportunity of showing their appreciation. Many valuable presents were received which space will not permit us to print....Mrs. Lucy Thirkles Wiggington of Kansas City spent a few days in the city last week, the guest of her sister and relatives. While here she was entertained by Mesdames Bates and Hawkins....Mrs. Workcutt returned from Topeka yesterday morning where she was called to attend the funeral of her aunt. Water Power of the World The tremendous water power of the world which will some day take the place of fuel, is shown in recently compiled statistics from various countries. The authorities prepare these statistics believe that with the exhaustion of the world's coal supply this water power would be sufficient to continue the lighting and heating of the world by means of electricity. Some of the statistics follow: France has an estimated horsepower of 4,500,000, of which 800,000 is now in use. Italy with the same total horsepower has about 30,000 utilized. The United States has an estimated horsepower of 1,500,000, while Japan has 1,000,000 and Russia's resources are believed to be about 11,000,000. Norway has 900,000 horsepower and Sweden about 750,000. In India 50,000 horsepower is already being used, in Great Britain 70,000 and in Spain 65,000. --- ROSEDALE. KANSAS MOBERLY, MO LEXINGTON, MO. THE PROPER AMOUNT OF LIFE INSURANCE YOU SHOULD HAVE. Nearly every colored man in America carries a weekly policy. Fully two-thirds of the men over 21 are members of some secret order whose death benefits are from $5 0to $300. There are a very few hundred colored men who have over $5,000 life insurance in legal reserve life insurance companies. In fact, one insurance publication said: "The amount of life insurance carried by Negroes is so negligible that it is left out of all consideration in this book." This, too, despote the fact that the total amount of insurance carried in America amounts to billions of dollars, and every year the life insurance companies of America pay to the heirs of deceased Americans millions of dollars in good current United States money. Even the average white man who dies leaves his family in better condition. Whatever else he has neglected he has been thoughtful of his life insurance. On the other hand, many well-to-colored men die and leave their families poorer than when they lived. The average white man's life insurance is $2,500. The average colored man's is $550. The white man begins to buy a home for $3,000; he protects that obligation by taking out the amount of life so that if he dies before he finishes payment his family will not lose the place, nor will they be forced to sacrifice everything to complete payment on that home. The usual colored man belongs to buy a home and immediately declares he is unable to carry any life insurance. Then when the interest has accumulated on his notes and it is really a burden for him to pay these notes with all his efforts while he lives, he dies AND FLOWER SHOP A Full Line and Flowers. Let us Special 50c Baskets of Assorted Competition in Price and Quality All Occasions VER, MANAGER Last 18th Residence: Bell E. 4852W The Dressmaking and Tailoring. Bell 19th. ICE! more of those In Heated Rooms May be Had and leaves his family to pay them as best they can, with no means left behind with to which to pay. Somebody remarked "there are very dead rich Negroes." You know estates crumble. You know how surprised you have been when So-and-so died and left nothing but a lot of debts. Everybody thought he was rich while he lived. His family lived and dressed well. Apparently he had lots of money and property. When he died it took all his money and property to pay his debts. He failed to PROTECT HIS ESTATE WITH LIFE INSURANCE. He might have kept on in prosperous if he had lived, but he failed to leave anything in his place at death. A few thousand dollars in immediate cash, such as a life insurance policy provides, would have saved to his wife and family the estate of many a man who was rated as rich while he lived. You know of such a case in your own community. Have you ever stopped and seriously thought of YOUR own affairs? Are you as well protected as you should be? Today you are sound and well. Tomorrow—accidents are frequent and dealy. How would your affairs look if put under the microscope of the administrator or receiver? George W. Wanderbilt insured his life for $1,000,000 when he first began building his famous Blitm more estate. He was a rich man, but he wanted if he died that there should be no lack of funds to complete the project. The Great Boston store of Chicago is the result of the half milion Charles Netcher left in life in surance. You need every dollar in life insurance you can carry. We can protect you, no matter where you live, in amounts from $250 to $5,000. The cost is negligible compared with the protection. T. A. BOSS Any Number of Shakespearea. The Leicester bookeller who wants a mere £50 for "a newly-discovered portrait of Shakespeare" looms large in the English news of the moment. The evidence of identity, and the picture's history, however (for these things may be known and reasonably proved) will be awaited with interest. Shakespeare was one of the most frequent of Warwickshire names in the Sixteenth century. There were Shakespearea, as Sir Sidney Lee has pointed out, in no less than two dozen Warwickshire towns and villages; and as a Richard Shakespeare is mentioned in connection with the picture, it may be remarked that three men of that name have been identified in the course of recent researches, all of whom were the fathers of sons named William, all of whom, in their turn, were contemporaries of the great poet. - Pull Mall Gazette Bickens Didn't Know. Charles Dickens said somewhere in his "American Notes" that American cornbread is "about as digestible as a kneaded pincushion." Pretty nery that, for a citizen of a country that doesn't know how to cook anything as good as a johnny cake or corn pone! Cornbread not only is so good that it makes the mouth that knows it water, but, Dickens to the contrary notwithstanding, it is one of the most wholesome "rough stuff" foods there is. 1507 East 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. The New Dance School Frederick L. Conley, Kansas City's leading dancing instructor, has organized a new class at the Armory hall, Cottage and Vine streets, teaching the very latest dances of the season, also introducing a new method of dancing for the benefit of the dancing class of people of Kansas City. Come out and learn the new dances and the new way of dancing by the new music conducted by the new man. The dances, including the one step, hesitation waltz, Broadway glide, fox trot, Blue Danube waltz are now being taught having quite a few in number in my classes every Thursday evening. Learn the new dances from a man that can dance and can teach dancing and will guarantee to teach you to dance even if you never danced before. Grand Opening On November 25 there will be a grand opening ball of the new dance class, dancing the new dances and whatever you want to dance. Try and attend the classes before that time, so that you will be a qualified attendant of that night. There will be exhibitions o the latest fancy dancing of that night, introduced by Frederick L. Conley, the proprietor of the grand opening. Come out and see demonstrations of the fancy dances. Special Notice to the Readers of the Kansas City Sun Who Are Interested in Dancing. We teach by careful demonstrations explaining every step and motion of the dance and you can accomplish more in half the time than any other school of dancing in the city. Why can we do so? Because we teach in detail every part of the dance so that you may not only dance correctly, but know how to do them. Because we teach the head to know and direct the feet, and do not pull or haul you around. Because by our method it is impossible to conflict dances as we teach the motion as well as the steps. Come out and hesitate. HANCEFORD BEARD, Assistant. Excellent Opportunity After giving five years of hard study and hard work amok my people in the insurance capicity, one year of thime time has been given to the people of Kansas City, and I am very pleased to say that I have been into over 1,000 homes in this city who state they would much prefer having young men of their own race calling to their homes collecting their insurance than white agents collecting their insurance, and only wished that some old line responsible company writing weekly insurance would employ colored men as agents. After learning that our people are so very anxious to have colored collectors, I have taken up this subject with the home office, and they have willingly consented to give colored agents an opportunity, providing I can find ambitious men who are willing to work and learn the business. This is the problem that confronts me now is finding the men who are willing to work. We will pay you well for your services. We are also writing monthly insurance. Experience is not necessary, as I am willing to teach you the business. If you are not in position to take advantage of this opportunity, I will appreciate it if you will advise a friend whom you think has the ambition to make good in the insurance business. Call at my office and let's talk it over together. Call any day before noon or by appointment. CLOVER LEAF CASUALTY CO. J. J. Allen, Superintendency, 1507 E. 18th street, Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone East 4955. 1926 Fresh from the country. We can help you. We've got the goods, the service and a history "chock full" of satisfaction to all concerned. Thanksgiving Turkeys, Geese and Ducks Are here—the cost is no more. For quick service call Bell Grand 1746W. Dressed young hens ..... 15½c Dressed springs ..... 16½c Dressed broilers ..... 17½c TO THE PUBLIC: We want you to come to us for DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET A BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER, STRAIGHTEN. We recommend and guarantee exactly as represented. WE DO take other brands than you ask we want you to have it. OUR PRICE All down the line. We give care by courteous and fair treatment customers. When you think of it THEO. SMIT No demand is too difficult for to come to our store, phone us Mall Orders Solicite Theo. Smith Bell Phone 4591 Grand. 1301 E. 18th St. Palace of Fashion you to come to us for everything carried by a D MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, MADAM WALKER HAIR-GROWER-DRYING STRAIGHTENING COMBS, ETC. commend and guarantee everything offered for represented. WE DO NOT "SUBSTITUTE" nor brands than you ask for. You "want what you you to have it. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT the line. We give careful attention to all orders us and fair treatment to give perfect satisfaction. When you think of Drugs think of THEO. SMITH'S PHARMACY. and store, phone us your wants and we will do our store, phone us your wants and we will do Mail Orders Sollicited and Promptly Filled. Theo. Smith's Drug Store. All Phone 4591 Grand. Home Phone 5467 Ma- th St. KANSAS C We want you to come to us for everything carried by a Drug Store. DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMB8, BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER HAIR-GROWER-DRYING COMB8, STRAIGHTENING COMB5, 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. --- --- Palace of Fashion and Beauty Parlor MRS. BIRDIE JACKSON DESIGNER AND DRESSMAKER Latest Styles We Alter and Repair Clothing Northwest corner 18th BELL PHOTO THOMAS TONSORI 22111 first corner 18th St. and Highland BELL PHONE—EAST 4788 THOMAS L. GREAR'S INSORIAL PARL 2211 $ _{2} $ Vine Street VICE ELECTRIC --- THE BARBER'S CHAIR THOMAS L. GREAR'S TONSORIAL PARLOR 2211 $ _{2}^{1}$ Vine Street BARBERS: T. E. GREAR, Proprietor. J. R. SHIELDS, O. W. WALKER, Artists. First class shaves, hair cuts. Do not take your money down for it at home. You will always serve. GIVE US A CALL. If You are Pleased Tell You MUSIC EVERY WEDNESDAY FIRE FI Protect your h property. Call Home Mutual They will mess shaves, hair cuts and shampoos. Best shave your money down town when you can get time. You will always find us at our post US A CALL. are Pleased Tell Your Friends, and If Not EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY FIRE FIRE FIRE protect your home and personal property. Call Jackson County Home Mutual Fire Insurance they will do the re First class shaves, hair cuts and shampoos. Best shop in the city. Do not take your money down town when you can get good service for it at home. You will always find us at our post and ready to serve. GIVE US A CALL. If You are Pleased Tell Your Friends, and If Not Tell Us. MUSIC EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. Protect your home and personal property.Call Jackson County Home Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 630 N. Y. LIFE BUILDING HOME PHONE 9814 MAIN THE DELUX CO. FURNISHED ROOM Hot and Cold Baths — All C Luncheon served at 339 RICH STREET ALSO NEW HOTEL PAN Rooms With or Without Board Baths, Running Water in H All Outside Room Hot and Cold Baths — All Out Luncheon served at m 339 RICH STREET ALSO NEW HOTEL PAN Rooms With or Without Board, Baths, Running Water in Eve All Outside Rooms 422 Brannan St., SAN FRANCISCO Mrs. V. L. North Hueston HUESTON A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESSER Hot and Cold Baths — All Outside Rooms. Luncheon served at night. 339 RIGH STREET Rooms With or Without Board, Hot and Cold Baths, Running Water in Every Room. All Outside Rooms. 422 Brannan St., SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Mrs. V. L. North Hueston, Prop. ```markdown ``` A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESSER AND GROWER. One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. We want agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straight- neck fashions. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFGR. 1113 Clark Street. Evanston, Ill. SOLD AT COOPER & CAMPBELL'S DRUG STORE, Eighteenth and Pasco. Phones: Home, Main 73434; Bell, Easton. --- GOOD SERVICE MRS V.L. HUESTON everything carried by a Drug Store. MICLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMBS, MAIR-GROWER-DRYING COMB8, COMBS, ETC. everything offered for sale to be T "SUBSTITUTE" nor ask you to You "want what you want" and ARE RIGHT attention to all orders, and alm give perfect satisfaction to our as think of PHARMACY. is 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. and Beauty Parlor MME LILLIE JOHNSON HAIR DRESSER AND BEAUTY SPECIALIST Scalp Treatment a Specialty Latest and Most Approved Methods —in— Manicuring and Massaging St. and Highland Ave. EAST 4788 GREAR'S L PARLOR ne Street ELECTRIC LIGHTED al shampoos. Best shop in the city. When you can get good service find us at our post and ready to Friends, and If Not Tell Us. AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. FIRE FIRE me and personal Jackson County Fire Insurance Co. Do the rest THE DELUX COZY FURNISHED ROOMS Cold Baths — All Outside Rooms. uncheon served at night. 339 RICH STREET ALSO NEW HOTEL PANAMA Bath or Without Board, Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room. All Outside Rooms. Man St., SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. V. L. North Hueston, Prop.