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Watch for the SUN'S Big Annual Subscription Campaign January 1st, 1916 Watch for the the apostle, the purpose of that has for its aim the making of the three, the same in essence. In the language of another, "Do not correct the grammar and spoil the sense," but discern what he means when he says: "Now abideth faith, hope and love;" for he means that hope and love come out of faith and without faith they are useless, and that without hope and love, faith is dead. Paul teaches that faith is the rightful attitude of self and our neighbor to God; hope is the recognition and welcome of God's purpose for self and our neighbor; love binds God, self and our neighbor in the perfect bond of the divinely purposed harmony. These three are inseparable companions. They are triplets. Have all the faith possible, but without hope you are lost. Hope without faith and love is an idle dream. What is love without faith and hope? Truly, if love believes not, it must die; and if it hopes not in the same measure it loves, it is then the source of unparalleled suffering. Thus, whichever of these triplets or sistersher we would separate from the others, in so doing, we have subscribed their death warrant. Naay, even if two of them remain the brightness of their beauty is dimmed. "Faith believes the word of God. Hope trusts in that which the Word of God promises the believer. Charity does good unto her neighbor through the love which she has for God." T. ```markdown ``` [Portrait of a man with a mustache and a suit, facing forward. The background is plain white.]] REV. S. W. BACOTE, D. D. Who delivered a powerful and impressive sermon on Second Baptist church last Sunday, which is re- of the Sun by the courtesy of the students of the ment of Western University under the supervisi- ter, instructor. sive sermon on "These Three" at the day, which is reproduced in this issue the students of the commercial departar the supervision of Prof. J. H. Fos- Who delivered a powerful and impressive sermon on "These Three" at the Second Baptist church last Sunday, which is reproduced in this issue of the Sun by the courtesy of the students of the commercial department of Western University under the supervision of Prof. J. H. Foster, instructor. graces, each occupying a distinct field in the uplift of the individual, yet co-operating together. Like the separate organs in the human body, each exercising its peculiar functions, yet dependent upon other distinct functions to complete the work of the whole. "These three," why are they so important in the eyes of the apostle? Because they furnish the backbone of all Christian graces, and each plays a distinct and separate part in the development of spiritual life. Faith and hope are twin sisters. The one is the substance of the other. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen." Faith inspects while Hone expects "These three abide." They do not leave us even when time like death, must be destroyed. Principalities and power may vanish, these activities of the soul must continue, they are indestructible. Some great writers contend that only love abideth forever. Some preach: "Faith will vanish into sight; hope will be emptied into light; love in heaven will shine brighter." This looks plausible but it is at variance with Paul's teachings. He declares that all three abide; and by abide he means that they have not the changeable character, the transitory nature prevalent in other things which he had been speaking. While love is greater, it nevertheless has as eternal companions faith and hope. The Christian who thinks that his faith will cease when he enters the paradise of God is quite mistaken. A large number of believers have an idea that faith will be lost in sight. While in a sense faith is called the antithesis of sight, because, "We walk by it and not by sight." This refers only to a portion of faith's mission; as a mere opposite of sight of course it will cease when we shall know as we are known and see Jesus as He. But the extract of faith will sustain the redeemed when they shall have been present with God 10,000 years; this extract will abide, and the joys of heaven to which they will be admitted will be in proportion to the exercise of faith, in the present life. But the great writer to the Corinthians tells them faith can not share all of the glory; will not be alone responsible for the achievements of the believer. True it is that the bard transmits the blessing of eternal life to the recipient, but "hope" co-operates with faith, grasping the ideal so-called an "asbestos robe of eternity" with her sisters keeps other spiritual gifts from decay. Whether there be prophecies they shall fail; whether there be tongues they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away; but hope, faith and love shall abide forever. Hope is the expectation of greater, nobler and mightier things to come. If, as some theologians contend, faith is not lost in sight, hope is not lost in fruition. "It shares prerogative and dignity of love to stand on the wreck of worlds and gaze on the eternal face which sinners may not see and live." The external works of God shall pass away, or at any rate there shall be a readjustment of things. Death or decay shall sweep everything before him. "It is said the law of decay is not more plainly written on our mortal bodies than on the mightiest star that walks the frozen verge of heaven." But "hope shall survive the wreck and abide through eternity. We are told: "We can imagine only --- Say, have you a furnished or unfurnished room for rent? Advertise it in The Sun and let it be bringing you in something. An Impressive Sermon SUBJECT, "THESE THREE." The following sermon, delivered Sunday, Dec. 12, 1515, by Dr. S. W. Bacote, pastor of Second Baptist church, Kansas and second apostographically reported by Misses Myrtle Brown, Ruth Walker and Messrs. F. D. Coffey and Joseph W. Rollins, students of the compartment at Western University, Quindarro, Kas. "Now abideth Faith, Hope and Love, these three, and the greatest of these is Charity." 1 Cor. 13: 13. This is one of the master messages of Paul to the world; while specifically to the Corinthians, it is equally so to modern times and people. We are told that among the ancients four virtues—Justice, Prudence, Forgiveness and Temperance—stood out most prominently. Paul promulgates three graces—graces which are more than virtues, three spiritual activities—faith, hope and charity. And what the cardinal virtues were to the ancients these graces are to the Christians. When we imitate the life of Christ we are 'enjoying the fruits of faith, hope and charity'. These three graces, the trinity around which must cluster all that makes for the good of man, the protection of society and the moral, intellectual and spiritual development of the world, are like peaks in the mountain range against a clear sky; and the apostle boldly links and compares them as three separate graces, each occupying a distinct field in the uplift of the individual, yet co-operating together. Like the separate organs in the human body, each exercising its peculiar functions, yet dependent upon other distinct functions to complete the work of the whole. "These three," why are they so important in the eyes of the apostle? Because they furnish the backbone of all Christian graces, and each plays a distinct and separate part in the development of spiritual life. Faith and hope are twin sisters. The one is the substance of the other. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen." Faith inspects, while Hope expects. Hope shivers in expectation, but faith is steady possession. In the "Life That Now Is," Mr. Collyer says: "The trouble with some men is that while they hold onto the faith, they have lost hold on the hope of their religion; and so they inspect, but they do not expect. They believe in what has come, but not in what is coming. Faith nerved Columbus on to the unseen and kindled in his breast the hope to reach a land somewhere on this side of the Atlantic. But the apostle couples faith and love; he makes it energetic love, self-surrendering love. Mr. Fields of England tells a story of personal observation that well illustrates this thought. For the third time he called upon an unsaved woman. She said: "I do not love God." He answered: "What have you to do with loving God? How can you love until you apprehend His love to you? This you can not do until you believe." It is folly to think of loving God until you obtain pardon. Tears gushed from her eyes, and she said she had never understood it before. She at once accepted Christ. Paul not only linked faith with hope and faith with love, but hope with love also. It is this kind of hope that maketh not ashamed. "For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts." It is this element in hope that makes tribulations sweet and turns sorrows into joy. It leads the soul from hope to hope, from the faint uplifting of the wearied, weeping eye, to the hope, full of immortality. It turns bitters of life into sweets; or night of despair into day. It looks beyond the present and sees through the breakers faith in God and hope in immortality. Taking these three words—faith, hope and love—making them the subject of a single verb, would lead the reader to charge Paul with the use of bad grammar, but upon a closer examination is revealed the purpose of The Kansas City Sun KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1915. one condition from which hope is shut out forever, but one place over the portal of which is inscribed: "All hope abandoned, ye who enter here." But in heaven where the spirit shall be refined and quickened an dexalted to the utmost, shall be the keenest of all its pleasures; the life of all its delights, the spur of all its exertions, be absent. Hope disappointed, there shall be none, for hope shall be based on certainty and the eyes of the soul shall rest not on the flitting visions of earthly bliss but on the clam qualities of perfect knowledge. Hope deferred, there shall be none. No more sickness of heart at long waiting for the state of trial will be over, the perfect work of patience will be accomplished and the hand which is here, often stretched out until it wearies and stiffens and can not grasp the object it has reached will here have but to open and be filled. Hope in all its blessedness, in all its fullness of joy, shall abide forever." Faith and hope are not alone eternal. Love abides. It is the eternal for the human relation to God. If faith and hope remain so shall love. From God it sprang and to Him it shall return. In each lover of God through Christ flows this eternal stream back to the Creator the boundless ocean of love where each believer shall have a fullness of joy at His right hand forevermore. Love is the climax of man's nature here and of the spiritual nature hereafter. It is the fulfilling of all duty. It is the crown and jeweled clasp of all perfection. "And so abideth forever faith, hope and love, these three. But the greatest of these is charity. Paul casts no shadow over faith and hope when he loves love to a place of preeminence. When this declaration fell hot from the mouth of the great apostle, it was considered by the educated classes of Greece, as inordinate and unwarranted to think of love as the greatest of all virtues. But passing years have brought men of modern thought largely to Paul's view of this principle. It excels faith which looks through the present; it excels hope which shines like a star upon things to come; glorious things which remain for the people of God. Looked at from any angle, . . . is acknowledged today by the most prejudiced minds of Christianity that love of mankind is the greatest principle of this life at least. Even the villain on the streets may break every statute of the state; he may be a dirty rogue; if he has a kindly nature, an affectionate disposition, a sympathetic nature, you will find his victims ready to give him another chance. But the man that is hissed and chased from public gaze, is the man that has no feeling, no sympathy or love. The popular verdict of today is that sobriety and honesty are great things; but a greater than these is love. The greatest of these is love because it is more like God. In fact God is love. Faith and hope are human elements dependent upon love. God is independent of either or both but He is love. This is one of this attributes here and hereafter. Faith is not faith; faith and hope belong to the finite; love belongs to the infinite. God is not faith; God is not hope; but He is love. It makes us love God. It is not faith nor is it hope that makes us like God. They are but the hands extended to God in which the blessing of eternal like is placed. We are like God; partakers of his divine nature through love. It is the pattern by which God expects us to shape our conduct, the source of good; the center of diffusive benevolence; the fountain whose streams irrigate the earth; the sun whose light and heat dissipate the rigors of night and winter and dispense the blessings of day and summer. Love was the beginning of redemption and it is its end. It extracted God's son from this bosom and ofered Him as a ransom for all. It brings Go ddown to man; it lifts man up to God. Paul, the master of Mars' Hill, considered love the greatest in influence. Forgetful of her own interests, charity goes forth as an angel of mercy carrying healing in her wings to all suffering humanity. Her monument is not in bronze but in the hearts of her beneficiaries which shall survive the crash of time. She seeks not her own glory. Love is greatest because it secures obedience. "If ye love me keep my commandments." The slave served or obeyed his master because he feared him; the Christian obeys the Lord because he loves Him. Faith can not make men obey; nor can hope; but love can. "For the love of Christ constrainth us." We are witnessing the most dreadful exhibition of brute force in the history of the world. In its wake kingdoms are disappearing; empires are being dismembered; the precious landmarks of antiquity are crumbling before the fury of the European conflagration. And the end is not yet. A prominent banker, an infidel of this city, met me in Paris in 1910 and pointed out the glories of the old world. To my surprise he invited me on a trip at his expense. He lauded the French and praised the English and idolized the Germans because he was of the latter extraction. A few months ago I met the same man on Walnut street. I inquired about Europe and the great war. He asked me if I had been back to Europe since 1910. I told him no. He then called Second School and Community Improvement Meeting LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, AT 3 O'CLOCK P. M. MR. FRED C. TRIGG, Associate Editor of the Kansas City Star Will Speak. Subject: "The School and Good Citizenship" The entire public is urged to be present. Good Music by the Lincoln High School Orchestra. By the way, they fill and deliver prescriptions to any part of the city; they will call for them, too. 1 Mother of African Methodism this side of St. Louis. The first quarterly meeting of the conference year will be held Sunday, December 19. Dr. A. A. Gilbert will preside. Dr. J. R. Ransom will preach the sacramental sermon at 3 p. m. Everybody is invited. Life of Christ in Motion Pictures 2,700 FEET OF FILM Taking Two Hours Twenty Minutes to Show For the Benefit of the Westren Baptist College, property located at 33d and Jackson, which will be sold under the hammer January 15, 1916, unless we are prepared to meet our obligations in full. Shall this Property be Lost to the Church and the Race? Dr. Bacote saw this famous play at Oberrammegau in Europe several years ago where thousands sat breathless and in tears during its portrayal, and says it's one of the most gripping and impressive dramas he has ever witnessed and that every person in this city should see it. Remember the date! ADMISSION 25 CENTS to my attention the number of lives which had been lost in this great war and at the same time calling to my attention that they were all civilized nations. He then stated: "Where is your Christianity? See what your Christian civilization amounts to. If the war in Europe is the result of your Christianity then away with it. Twenty million soldiers fighting like demons among themselves and they are from the best blood of your Christian nations." "Yes," I said, "you have as much right to declare at the time of His death at the hands of the mob that Christ's mission had been a failure, Revolutions and wars are no signs of decay, but evidences of throbbing life seeking to extricate itself." Out of the European catastrophe, born in greed and lust for power, will come love's opportunity for men to beat their swords into plo wshares and declare war no more. It extracts the sting out of prejudice; disobes race segregation; meets every man on the square and raises him to a living perpendicular in Jesus Christ. "And now abide faith, hope and charity; these three, but the greatest of these is charity." We want good reliable Agents in every city and town in the country. Write us for terms. DR. A. A. GILBERT. The new presiding elder of the Southwest Missouri Conference. For many years a prominent pastor in this city who will hold his first quarterly meeting at Allen chapel Sunday, December 19. Many old friends will greet him at these services. XMAS SPECIALS At Weaver's Fruit and Flower MISTLETOE, HOLLY & WREATHS at lowest prices Special prices on Xmas trees and decorations for Sunday Schools, public schools and societies. Order early. Reports reach this office that some one is collecting for the Sun without authority. PAY NO ONE BUT OUR AUTHORIZED AGENTS, who are Mrs. Sallie Jackson, Mrs. Zenobia Nelson and Mrs. Rosa Morton Jones. Mrs. Ophelia Jackson. Pay no one else. WILLA M. GLENN, Manager. NELSON C. CREWS, Owner. THE JONES STORE CO Gift Handkerchiefs! YOU never saw a Christmas want list without Handkerchiefs, did you? We never—so we've gathered the finest Handkerchiefs we could—hundreds of them from all parts of the world. Women's 25c Handkerchiefs—of plain and initiated crepe de chine, hand, art and Madeira embroidered linen, real Irish lace, Armenian lace and handmade princess lace trimmed. In white and colors. Each. 25c Has She a Warm Scarf? Has She a Warm Scarf? 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Home Phone 3277 Main Subscribe for The Sun RICHARD FULLBRIGHT, D. D. G. M. Who is organizing a new Golden Jubilee Masonic Lodge in this city. NOTICE. 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 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 Sites 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 declamation 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, 325 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, Corresponding Secretary. 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 to $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, despite 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 colord man's is $350. 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 he be forced to sacrifice everything to complete payment on that home. The usual colored man beings 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 leaves his family to pay them as best they can, with no means left behind with which to pay. R. F. Green Somebody remarked "there are very few 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 being 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 deadly. How would your affairs look if put under the microscope of the administrator or receiver? George W. Vanderbilt insured his life for $1,000,000 when he first began building his famous Baltimore 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 million Charles Netcher left in life insurance. 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. STANDARD INSURANCE CO, T. A. ROSS, Supt. 1507 East 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. St. Stephen Baptist Church OLD-FASHIONED SOUTHERN Revival Meeting SING, PRAY, AND SHOUT ONE LIKE OUR FORE-PARENTS ENJOYED IN DAYS OF OLD BEFORE STYLE AND PRIDE WERE EVER KNOWN. DON'T FAIL TO ATTEND THIS GREAT MEETING. STOP AND CONSIDER THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR OWN SOUL. REV. J. W. HURSE, D. D., PASTOR Sunday, Dec. 19, 6 a. m.—Twilight Prayer Meeting, led by the Trustees, 10:45 a. m.—Song Service by Choir. 11:00 a. m.—Subject, "Benefits Derived from Religion." 2:30 p. m.—Sunday School. 3:30 p. m.—An Old-time Speaking Meeting. 6:30 p. m.—B. Y. P. U. 8:00 p. m.—Subject, "True Religion and the Lord's Supper." Monday, Dec. 20, 8 p. m.—Subject, "Satan at Church." Tuesday, Dec. 21, 8 p. m.—Subject, "Unity of Faith and Work." Wednesday, Dec. 22, 8 p. m.—Subject, "The Year of Jubilee." Thursday, Dec. 23, 8 p. m.—Subject, "The Dead Standing Before God." Friday, Dec. 24, 9 p. m.—Service will be held all night. CHRISTMAS SERVICES. Christmas Tree under the auspices of Sunday School. Brother Jess Harris, Superintendent. Remainder of night will be devoted to prayer service. At 5 a. m., December 25, the Pastor will preach. Subject, "The Birth of Christ." Sunday, Dec. 26, 6:30 a. m.—Twilight Prayer Meeting, led by four Clubs of church. 11:00 a. m.—Subject, "The Christian Sabbath." 12:00 p. m.—Sunday School. 13:00 p. p. U. P. 8:00 p. m.—Subject, "Judgment." Monday, Dec. 27, 8 p. m.—Subject, "The State of the Soul After Death." Tuesday, Dec. 28, 8 p. m.—Subject, "The Harvest Truly is Great." Wednesday, Dec. 29, 8 p. m.—Subject, "Christ is Our Sun." Thursday, Dec. 30, 8 p. m.—Subject, "The Might of Jehovah." Friday, Dec. 31, 8:30 to 11 p. m.—Watch Meeting, Praise Meeting, 11:00 to 12:00—Sermon by Pastor. Subject, "The Goodness of God Toward Us." Sunday, Jan. 2, 1916, 6 a. m.—Twilight Prayer Meeting, led by Rev. Jesse Harris, Rev. J. G. Glover and Rev. C. S. Nicken. 11:00 a. m.—Subject, "Sanctification in Its True Sense." 2:30 p. m.—Sunday School. 6:30 p. m.—B. Y. P. U. 8:30 p. m.—Subject, "Perseverance of Saints." Say, were you ever a member of the church? If so, what are you doing out? No one has the right to call himself a Christian when living out of God's Church for our blessed Lord only promised to come back after His Church. The Scripture says in order to be saved all men must be born again. The same blessed Book teaches that all men ought to pray. Not man, but men. And our beloved Pastor, whom we believe to be a God-sent man, will do the preaching. And he is a firm believer in the old-time religion. And he declares that no one can get forgiveness of his sins without faith and prayer. After January 2 the state of the meeting will determine whether we continue in our usual way or not. SPECIAL CALL—TO THE MASONS FROM BLUE HOUSE TO 33D DEGREE. ODD FELLOWS ALL. K. OF P. FROM CASTLE HALL TO SUPREME. U. B. F. FROM SUBORDINATE TO NATIONAL. AND OTHERS. THE BARBER THOMAS L. GREAR'S TONSORIAL PARLOR 2211 $ _{2}^{1} $ Vine Street ELECTRIC LIGHTED GOOD SERVICE BARBERS: T. E. GREAR, Proprietor. J. R. SHIELDS, O. W. WALKER, Artists. 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. Home Phone East 4082 CALL US UP (At Eighteenth & Paseo) Bell Phone East 1814 Toilet Articles Delivered (Prescriptions filled accurately and promptly by Graduate Registered Pharmacists. Anything in Drug Line Peoples Drug Store Everything for the Toilet TAILORING AND CLEANING G. V. GOLDEN 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 retaining 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 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 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 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 spoiled 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. Dry cleaning does not clean every article perfectly, because benzine loosens the dirt held by greasy matter only, but 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 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 1608 East Eighteenth Street near Eighteenth and Vine, and our Bell Phone is East 539. A share of your business will be appreciated. "SHOW-ME" PATS. PEND'G. GIVE YOUR WIFE A MAS GIFT. WHAT I ING YOURSELF OUT Hard Labor When It "SHOW-ME" to do TWICE as mu week EARNING tw and use LESS SOAP. We GUARANTEE better COLOR. WASH SEATED IN COMFY CHAIR Ask Mrs. Nannie Fields, Simms, 1915 Oak St. Mrs. Haley, 1890 Oak St. Mrs. Emmia Jenkins, 1810 E pia Lewis, 4861 Wornall Road 1009 Euclid Ave. Mrs. Minn St. Mrs. Medcalf, and Hicks, 1177 Woodland Ave. GIVE YOUR WIFE A PRACTICAL CHRIST- MAS GIFT. WHAT IS THE USE OF WEAR- ING YOURSELF OUT DOING A LOT OF Hard Labor When It Is So Easy. With the 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 Sims 119 Oak St. Mrs. Jeffrey Johnson 1806 East Howard St. L. B. Almanac Field Mrs. Emma Jenkins, 1810 East Howard St. Mrs. Georgia Lewis, 4861 Wormall Road, Mrs. Amanda Slaughter, 4861 Wormall Road, Mrs. Amanda Slaughter, St. Mrs. McGary, 1416 East 24th St. Mrs. W. M. Hickls, 119 Woodland Ave. All are experienced launchers. Mrs. W. M. Hickls, 119 Woodland Ave. All are experienced launchers and say they can do more WASH-ME WASHERS and say they can do more WASH-ME and are not so tired. Mrs. C. Crews, 2624 Highland Ave. Is well pleased with the 'SHOW-ME' as is also Mrs. L. B. Almanac, 345 Lydia Ave. 4961 Wornall Rd., KANSAS CITY, MO. You Should Use Madam P. M. Dabney' dam P. M. Dabney's XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATIONS And Have Good Hair Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing O Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil is an ideal hair dressing, having properties which protect the hair from wind, weather and disease, make it soft and glossy; improves the quality of the hair and promotes straightening without irons. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c PER BOX PRICE 50c. PER BOX Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil Six Weeks' Treatment $1.25 One jar Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower One box Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil And one bottle Madam P. M. Dabney's . . . . . . . XXth Century Shampoo . . P. M. Grow- pleas- itching start- Make a course of treatin- which will last six weeks enclosing P. O. money or by parcel post prepaid, or w mation to Make a course of treatment for the hair and scalp which will last six weeks. Send us an order today enclosing P. O. money order for $1.25 and receive them by parcel post prepaid, or write for literature and information to Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century HAIR PREPARATIONS CO. 1806 E. 24th St. Kansas City, Mo. It Folds In A Roll ention that meets with instant approval. ted, thoroughly efficient and absolutely in truth a God send to humanity. HOME WITH A MODERN BATH ROOM the landlord but can move with you wher- by calling on D. M. West, 1718 Euclid phone, East 4169; Bell phone, East 3555. cid Avenue, or call up and I will bring The Tub That Folds In A Surely a rare happy invention that meets with instant Extremely simple, easily adjusted, thoroughly efficient and satisfying in every respect. In truth a God send to humani $10.00 SUPPLIES YOUR HOME WITH A MODERN BAT which you do not leave for the landlord but can move with ever you go. Investigate this by calling on D. M. West, 17 Avenue, Agent, or call Home phone, East 4169; Bell phone, You can see them at 1718 Euclid Avenue, or call up and I one to you for your inspection. 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. $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 Palace of Fashion and Beauty and Beauty Parlor ```markdown ``` Palace of Fashion and Beauty Parlor Palace of Fashion and Beauty Parlor MME LILLIE JOHNSON HAIR DRESSER AND BEAUTY SPECIALIST Scalp Treatment a Specialty Latest and Most Approved Methods —in— Manicuring and Massaging Northwest corner 18th St. and Highland BELL PHONE-EAST 4788 Expert Dental Special OF KANSAS CITY Our work has stood the test. We have been doing high class guar tal Work for the past 29 years. We have thousands of satisfied 8th St. and Highland Ave. MONE—EAST 4788 Metal Specialists KANSAS CITY have been doing high class guaranteed Den- We have thousands of satisfied patients. Northwest corner 18th St. and Highland Ave. BELL PHONE—EAST 4788 Expert Dental Specialists Our work has stood the test. We have been doing high class guaranteed Dental Work for the past 29 years. We have thousands of satisfied patients. REMEMBER, IN BUSINESS 29 YEARS All work kept in repair free of charge. SAVE MONEY EXAMINATION FREE All work guaranteed 20 years. GET THE BEST The doctor who extracts your teeth here has undoubtedly had more experience in this line than any other dentist in the city, so you get the most expert service ice. BRIDGE WORK INATION FREE guaranteed 20 years. GET THE BEST which here has undoubtedly had more experience in the city, so you get the most expert serv- BRIDGE WORK SAVE MONEY EXAMINATION FREE All work guaranteed 20 years. GET THE BEST The doctor who extracts your teeth here has undoubtedly had more experience in this line than any other dentist in the city, so you get the most expert service. BRIDGE WORK Spaces where from one to ten teeth have been lost we replace with bridge work. It looks the same as natural teeth, lasts a lifetime and requires no plate. Broken down teeth we restore to beauty and usefulness with crowns of porcelain and gold. WHITE CROWNS, $3, $4 AND $5 SET OF TEETH, UPPER AND LOWER, $5.00 AND NEW YORK DENTAL 1017-19 Walnut Street Over Jaccard's Jewelry Store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thay CROWNS, $3, $4 AND $5 UPPER AND LOWER, $5.00 AND UP K DENTAL CO. Walnut Street e, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. Over Jaccard's Jewelry Store, 1 door north Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower promotes a beautiful growth of hair, stops falling out and breaking of hair, removes dandruff and relieves itching of scalp. It will make YOUR hair grow. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER JAR Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower TESTIMONIAL "This is to certify that the writer suffered for four years with danduff and itching of the scalp until practically bald, trying many remedies but of no avail. About six months ago I began to use Madam P. M. Dabney the XXth Century Hair Grower, the results up to date are pleasing. Dandruff removed, itching stopped, good growth of hair started. The remedy is O. K. Yours for success, Rev. L. W. Harris, Mod. Mt. Zion Baptist Association, Carrollton, Mo." We Alter and Repair Clothing ```markdown ``` TESTIMONIAL "With the use of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations my hair has grown four inches in six months. I would not be without them." Mrs. Henderson, 1721 Forest Ave. Kansas City, Mo Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo is the best cleaner for the washing of the heads of colored people. It contains no astringents or other ingredients harmful to the scalp. It promotes hair health and vigor. For woman, man or child. PRICE 50c. PER BOTTLE Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo FASCINATING CROCHET AND EMBROIDERY For Holiday Gifts. Handkerchiefs, Wash Cloths, Towels, Cuffs, Collars—anything for anybody who admires art needlework. Place your orders now. Prices right. MRS. W. T. SUMLIN, 2822 Pine St. St. Louis, Mo. * Mme. Benton Dean, the popular * * milliner, resides at 1010 Troost * * avenue, where she is elegantly loc * * cated and will be extremely pleas * * to meet her many friends and * * customers at that number. Bell * * phone Main 2102J. ENGLISH FOR A LIFE THE BEST W. C. MOON. Moon's New Market MOON'S LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY FRESH FROM THE COUNTRY. What time is the clock striking now? Half million in Greater Kansas City. What time is the clock striking now? Half million in Greater Kansas City. The estimated population of Greater Kansas City within the five-cent car fare limit is 525,000. The City Directory estimates the population to be 367,139. Kansas City has 425 miles of pavement, 480 miles of sewers, 565 miles of water mains, 336 churches, 131 elementary and high schools, 1,250 factories employing Colored persons (44,000). Moon's New Market with the Best of Produce, products fresh from the country, is a Kansas City Institution, and has been in all things for the general good of this city incidentally building up a store of the highest class where you get the maximum value for minimum cost with personal care and good service included. Give us your order for Christmas and we will serve you properly. Bell phone Grand 1746W. MOON'S Poultry and Provision Co. 1335 East 18th Street, at Lydia. Bell Phone E. 4394Y THE Moder A. E. E Genera Repairi Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty THE Modern Builders Co. THE Modern Builders Co. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED We call for you with our 5-passenger car to show you our Markers and Monuments Prices ranging from $15.00 them up before wi GEO BELL Collector KANSAS CITY Directly opp. 4801 EAST 15TH ST., ranging from $15.00 up. Let us show you that you may have them up before winter. Make your appointment with GEO. W. LITTLE BELL PHONE MAIN 2967 Collector for Highland Cemetery Co. and Agent for KANSAS CITY GRANITE & MONUMENT CO. Directly opposite Elmwood Cemetery Co. EAST 15TH ST., KANSAS CITY, MO Prices ranging from $15.00 up. Let us show you that you may have them up before winter. Make your appointment with 4801 EAST 15TH ST., KANSAS CITY, MO MILK STAFF BROWN J.EMP BREWING CO. BELSUIS, U.K. G. GODRON, Manager --- NOTICE! Only a few more of those Clean, Electric-lighted Steam Heated Rooms May be Had at the Paseo Y. M. C. A. The Moses Dick 1211 Regaliass HEROINES OF JERICHI ORDER Badges and Emblems for The Moses Dickson Regalia and Supplies Co 1217 WOODLAND AVENUE Kansas City, Mo. Regalias, Rituals and Ceremonials for HEROINES OF JERICHO ORDER EASTERN STAR MASONIC BODIES ORDER OF TWELVE Badges and Emblems for U. B. F. & S. M. T. Special Catalogues for Each KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C. U.S.A. Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. Drink "Falstaff" THE CHOICEST PRODUCT OF THE BREWERS' ART Families Supplied Telephones No. Grand 350 Bell Main 529 Home NOTICE! Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City 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. 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. 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. G. V. GOLDEN, 1650 East 18th St. Bell phone East 539. WORTHAM BROS., 1831 Paseo. Bell Phone East 701. 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. 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. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. TAYLOR-HOLMES & CO., 2409 Vine Street. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. THOS. JACKSON, 1816 Highland, Bell phone, East 3485W. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 272. Home phone, East 4070. GROCERS. 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. STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO., 1507 East 18th St., Bell phone Grand 2666J. T. A. Ross, JEWELERS. STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO., 1507 East 18th St., Bell phone Grand 2666J. T. A. Ross. JEWELERS. J. A. WILSON, 1616 West 9th St., Bell phone, Main 6248R. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. 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. MRS. T. A. HOLLAND, Fashionable Dressmaking and Tailoring. Bell phone, East 4600. 1706 East 19th. CALDWELL CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home phone East 4009. PHOTOGRAPHERS. C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell phone East 1643. PHYSICIANS. DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Theraptics, P. O. box 90A, Bell phone, Rosedale 523, Rosedale, Kas. PRINTERS. C. A. FRANKLIN, 1008 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 2988. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. 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. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. MILLINERY. MRS. T. A. HOLLAND, Fashionable Dressmaking and Tailoring. Bell phone, East 4600. 1706 East 19th. CALDWELL, CHAPMAN. 18th and Passo. Home phone East 4009 PHOTOGRAPHERS C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell phone East 1643. PHYSICIANS. DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Theraptics, P. O. box 90A, Bell phone, Rosedale 523, Rosedale, Kas. PRINTERS. C. A. FRANKLIN, 1008 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 2988. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. 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. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine Sts. Both phones E. 4349. 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. CALDWELL & CHAPMAN Hair and Millinery 18th and Paseo, Kansas City, Mo. UNDERTAKERS ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine Sts. Both phones E. 4349. 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. CALDWELL & CHAPMAN Hair and Millinery Home Phone East 4009 Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combings, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirella Corsets. Mail orders answered promptly WORK GUARANTEED. LIVE AGENTS WANTED MANICURING FACIAL MASSAGE We teach the work we do Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combbings, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirel Correets. Mail orders answered promptly MANICURING FACIAL MASSAGE 1 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 straightening irons. 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. THE KANSAS CITY SUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to the Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Stre Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 22, 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 Charleston. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charleston. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kearney. Ebesser A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Tracy. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1335 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. Bay Baptist church, 1120 Crystal avenue. St. Jehovah A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belieview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23rd and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. St. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1832 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. Cary Baptist Church, 19th and Akswe. Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lyda. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. C. L. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James' Baptist Church, 4095 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 556 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. Prairie M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Splittig. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oldest Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bathel A. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Rockefeller. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and State. Quindardo A. M. E. Church, Quindardo Pasval Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale, Kan Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E. 106 Shawnee. St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Roselale, Kan. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virgil. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church, Westport avenue and Tangent street, Rosedale. EDITORIALS. Those of the "I don't care" class have freely patronized the alley entrance of the Orpheum this week to hear the brilliant Eva Tanguay. Up to this time no colored Democrat has offered an excuse for the ignoble silence of the President anent the death of Dr. Booker T. Washington, and the only way these misguided black men can wholly atone for their chagrin is to return to the Republican party where they naturally belong. The honor tendered to Dr. T. C. Chapman and Dr. E. C. Bunch in being unanimously elected to membership in the Kansas City Dental Association is shared by every member of the race in this community. The honor came to these two gentlemen as a recognition of their professional zeal and ability. If the board of trustees selects Maj. R. R. Moten to be the successor of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee they will certainly make no mistake. Major Moten is now the most distinguished school man of our race and his work at Hampton during nearly twenty years has earned for him the reward of a wider field for his genius—Herriford. The friends of Hon. Walter S. Dickey, candidate for United States senator, are making things lively and are organizing in every ward in the city. One of the remarkable things about his candidacy is that men are taking an active part who have not been active in politics in years, and they come from all classes from the capitalist to the honest laborer. Among the many things which Kansas City Negroes should contemplate for next year's achievements are the building of a first class hospital, the erection of a home for the Y. W. C. A., the establishment of a closer bond of race union in the patronage of race business enterprise and the making of the Kansas City Sun the real organ of the race's interests in the community. This latter achievement, if realized, will lead to all the others, for it has been fully demonstrated that a brave, fearless newspaper supporting the needs and rights of a people is its very highest and best asset. The big charity event rendered by the public school children is over and in all points of interest and brilliance surpassed even the most sanguine expections. The gratitude of our school patrons is due to the supervisors of the different departments who so freely and faithfully gave themselves up to working out the success of this project. To the principals and teachers upon whom fell the drudgery of endless drills and rehearsals is also due the highest appreciation. The race made a big showing for charity and a big showing for itself and the occasion will be long remembered as such. As urged before in these columns, such affairs are always attended by an expense and sacrifice of time wholly out of proportion to the tangible results attained. The school work has been seriously interrupted and the schedule for the year can not be well gone through. These big affairs are very good in their way but they should be held very, very seldom. Betty & Sam's Little Corner —That there's no use to stop work ing just to pray, altho lots of us do it —That good judgment isn't of much value to anybody unless you make the right use of it. —That one bank mailed out 12,000 Christmas savings checks this week. Did you get yours? —That white folks are not half as mean to us as we are to each other. Some truth in that, sister. —That there was not a colored child born in Kansas City last week. Well, the stork must be getting ready for Christmas. —That Kansas City will entertain the National Business League as it has never been entertained before. Well, let's get busy. —That when three or four Negro women get together over a pot of— well—cooked cabbage, there's hell popping the next day. Lawd he p. —That there are 1,000 subscribers who are patiently waiting to take advantage of our special rate. All right, friends, it will be announced in a few days. —That the Sun is arranging to secure husbands for all the girls who are not married by 1916. Line up, girls, and tell us what kind of a man you want. —That a certain bunch have said they're going to stay up all night Christmas eve to be ready for the Christmas morning services. Oh, you apple jack! —That a certain colored man got paid $12 for his week's work last Saturday evening and all he had when he got home was 15 cents worth of chine bones and two loaves of bread. Now what could have happened to this brother? DELINQUENTS READ THIS! Revelations 21:3-8 "And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and he shall dwell with God Himself shall be with them, and be their God; and he Shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be their God; either shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor crying, nor things are passed away. And He that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make these words are faithful and true. And He said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beating of the end, and give unto him that is faithful, a foundation of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolators, AND ALL, LIARS, their part shall be in the lake that burns and brimstone; which is the second death." NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE The Negro Business League held a rousing meeting at Zion A. M. E. church. The following men made short talks: J. J. Allen, district manager of the Clover Leaf Casualty Company; Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal of Lincoln High school, and J. Malone. We received a very cordial welcome from the most pleasing and cultured pastor and members. There will be no meeting this coming Sunday night on account of the big meeting at Lincoln High school Sunday at 3 p. m. at which time the editor and staff of the Kansas City Star will address the Negroes of Kansas City. The out section has been reserved for business and professional people and their families. Watch the Sun for next week's announcement. CLOVER LEAF AGENTS ENTER. MR. J. J. ALLEN, general superintendent of the Clover Leaf Casualty Company, entertained his agents at the Paso Y. M. C. A. Friday evening, December 10. The object of the meeting was to perfect plans for a greater work in health and accident insurance for 1916. The Clover Leaf is writing both weekly and monthly insurance and is placing the most liberal contracts among our people than any other company doing business in Kansas City. It is the only company writing weekly insurance that goes into full benefit in one month, where in the National and Missouri policies are in force in six months before they are in full benefit. The Clover Leaf, altho a white company, has about 20 of our own young men at work in Kansas City selling and collecting insurance. We think every colored person in Kansas City should carry a policy with the Clover Leaf Casualty Company. 1507 East 18th street, Bell phone East 4955. Y. M. C. A. NOTES The boys' department has a Victoria promised for the near future. Three palms were donated the association last week. It is hoped that some person or club will donate a piano for use in the educational rooms. The big event early in the year will be the band concert and drill by Major N. Clark Smith's Western university band and military cadets. The high reputation of Major Smith as a band master and music writer assures the success of this concert. In line with the other high schools of the city, the Lincoln High boys are planning a Y. M. C. A. club. Preparations are on foot for extensive holiday entertainments. A track meet and baseball tournament for the boys and a volley ball tournament of singles for the men is being arranged. All of the entertainments are open to the public. On Monday following Christmas day and continuing through the week both afternoon and evening, a checker tourney, preliminary to the big January tournament will be held. The following checker experts have already signified their intention of entering: A. V. Pepp, champion; E. Headley, E. Jackson, the Theodore Clay, F. Malone, D. Howard, M. W. Wilson, F. J. Work, A. J. Starnes, J. D. Bowers and W. E. Griffin. The men received a treat last Sunday in the address by Dr. Frank G. Smith which will long be remembered. Next Sunday's meeting will be in harmony with the Christmas spirit. The meeting will be addressed by Rev. W. H. Taylor of the West Side Branch, First Baptist church. Between 3:30 p. m. and 5 p. m. Sundays during the men's meeting men are not called to the telephone unless on most urgent business. The men's anniversary campaign closed Wednesday evening with team No. 5, captained by W. Grant Moore, in the lead. Team No. 4, led by G. A. Page, ran a close second. Team No. 1, composed of the Kansas City, Kas., men held third place, captained by J. C. Branche but directed by the first lieutenant, Prof. Shelton French, who said that Kansas must be placed on the map. Team No. 3, led by H. O. Cook, and team No. 2, led by C. H. Calloway, took fourth and fifth places, respectively. Mr. L. W. Spencer of team No. 3 brought in the largest number of new members of any individual worker. His count was eight new members. Members from cities in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri were added to the membership roll. The boys' contest does not close until Christmas. TABLE TALK. By BENJ. V. LONGDON "I des won't try to reason out De reason why folks strive an' plan A dinnah fu' a full fed man, An' shet do do' an' cross de street From one dat raaly needs to eat." Doubtless my companion felt justified in quoting from Dunbar's "De Way Tings Come," while unfolding his napkin at the home of Deacon Jones last Sunday evening. We readily confess that lovers of poetry are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why. But the whence or whily is this: Poetry is written for its message for the truth that it can kindle into a glow of beauty and truth. Intellectual, quick to catch the color of other times and places, finding meaning in all the facts of life, able to seize at once upon what is dramatic and significant in any situation, for realers who are prepared to acknowledge kinship with them, poets have more of refreshing and quickening power than any class of writers. When we think of Mrs. Katherine Tillman. Mr. Charles Starks and Mr. Roscoe Jamison and their poetic work, here comes over us a wish for the ability to express all that we think and feel. Mr. Longfellow quotes one knight as saying to another: "A poet? Why man, that is as much as one should say. A poet!" But nonetheless we like to say what this trio means to us. And when we know members of our race so consummate in poetic abilities the wish to speak our full appreciation becomes almost an irresistible command. Yet some one may ask: Why this high appreciation of them? Because we are told that all men need the aid of poetry as a refuge against work and care and routine, as a witness to the reality of their highest hopes. The love of man for woman, of the mother for the child, of friend for friend; the passion for freedom, justice, truth, nature, beauty, country; the care for the unfortunate, the search for the ideals—these emotions, feelings, devotions in which alone men really live are the poetry of life and the material of which the poetry of art is made. Money itself could never soar high enough to touch any of these. Yes, we have a high appreciation of our poets. Back of St Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Santa Claus and of the other good old saints their "infancy knew" they see in new and clearer vision the one divine person, the giver of all good gifts and in the light of His countenance may they continue to sing for their own people as they rise with rapture to a larger revelation of His goodness and His love. "Mercy sakes! It does seem queer, Christmas day is the most nigh here!" ROCHEPORT. Mrs. Jhon Arnold, formerly of Rocheport but now of Wakoner, Qk, is visiting relatives and friends here . . . Miss Marie Cayton is convalescing. . . Miss Mayne Smith is ill with the grip....Mrs. Daisy Griffin, who underwent an op eration, is getting on nicely. . . Mrs. Myrtle Douglass and little daughter are visiting their mother and grandmother. . . Miss Josephine Bradford last left Friday night for St. Louis, where she will spend the winter...Mrs. Nannie Burrough returned from Sedalia Saturday where she has been visiting her daughter...Mrs. Josie Griffin is ill and her daughter of St. Louis is at her bedside. VIN ESTREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Mrs. Anne Flond is very sick and has been for two weeks or more, but is somewhat improved....Dr. T. H. Ewing is also sick and was unable to preach last Sunday....Rev. Cohron, state missionary, preached in the morning. It was indeed a fine sermon. We hope he will come to see us again. The Sunday school gave a liberal contribution to Rev. Cohron for educational purposes....Mr. Chas, Harris, Mrs. Sarah Jones, Mrs. S. C. Pitts and Mrs. Mary Skidmore are better at this writing. Don't forget the Sunday school will have a fine Christmas tree as usual Friday, the 24th. Come and bring the children. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. During the past few days the Albany hotel has been highly favored with some distinguished guests, among whom were Bishop Parks of Chicago and Presiding Elder Gilbert of Kansas City, Mo.. Mr. Jack Broomfield and field of Omaha, Neb., were also guests here. He claims this water has hoodooed him. We are always glad to have him with us.....Mr. Bob Roberts of Omaha is here with us for a short stay. Wehope that he, too, will be hoodooed leaving.....Mr. B. L. Donglass of Mexico, Mo., is with us again with that broad smile that brings happiness to those with whom he comes in contact.....Mrs. Wells is visiting her sister in St. Joseph, Mo., where she will undergo an operation.....A large number of guests from Liberty, Mo., danced at the Albany hall Monday night. A banquet was given after the dance. Mr. Joe Pruit and bride were the center of attraction.....Mrs. William McKnight spent the week end.....Mr. H. B. is known as Unghe Hueghe ...Mr. Wm. McKnight has been ind disposed for several days but is at his post of duty...The Albany hotel has all modern conveniences. Come over ...Mrs. H. B. White's trip to California has had its effect. She is very well pleased with the results. Men A Women will Beauty Hair NELSON HAIR DR. will make you p It is unsurpassed for stubborn hair—soft, gloss It not only beautifies th in good condition. Price, 25 and 50 NELSON MFG. CO. Men Admire Women with Beautiful Hair! NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING will make you proud of your hair It is unsurpassed for making harsh, kinky and stubborn hair—soft, glossy and luxurious. It not only beautifies the hair—but also keeps it in good condition. Price, 25 and 50 Cents Everywhere NELSON MFG. CO., RICHMOND, VA. SOMETHING NEW! WRIGHT'S DAN SOMETHING NEW! GREAT! PLEASING! WRIGHT'S DANCING ACADEMY 14TH and MICHIGAN BIG DANCE CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON AND NIGHT Dancing Every Thursday Afternoon Hall For Rent at Any Time Very Low Price Biggest in the City for Colored The funeral of Mrs. Ida May Brown was held from the Pleasant Valley Baptist church December 68, of which the deceased was a faithful member, under the auspices of Busy Bee H. H. of Ruth No. 3541, G. W. O. of O. Mrs. Brown is survived by four sons, four daughters, three sisters and other relatives. Mrs. Brown was treasurer of the Household and also the Sunday school. The Sun extends to the beaved family much sympathy. Memorial services will be held by the Pleasant Valley Sunday school at the church Sunday afternoon, December 19, to which the public is invited.... Helen, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Young, 909 Division street, has recovered from her recent illness ...Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pearson have returned to their home in Monroe, La., after a very pleasant stay with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Tuppence, 4010 Adams street. Just before their departure Mrs. Tuppence entertained a number of friends in their honor...Roy, the small son of Mr. and Mrs. Brazile Strickland, 4052 Adams street, who has been very ill, is convalescing. Mrs. Eliza Billy is ill at her residence...The funeral of Mrs. Nellie Jackson was held from the Pleasant Valley Baptist church Wednesday morning. Besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Douglass, she is survived by a husband and son...Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Collins, 3921 Lloyd avenue, entertained Rev. M. L. Clay and Chas. Walker and Jas. Everett at dinner Sunday...Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Schooler, 118 Lafayette, wish to state that they have not adopted the 5-weeks-old baby girl they have in their care. The child has parents who have engaged them to keep her. Her name is Gladys Mercedes Phillips. Admission 25 Cents ROSEDALE. BACK TO THE FARM. "Back 'to the farm" proposzeech Ain't what it's cracked up to be. Hoe cake and 'lasses is a good old dish, But are sometimes sea'ce, you see. Sometimes the hens forget to lay And the pigs just won't get fat, You get your smack or two a day, And must be satisfied with that. Old Bess and Sal, those dog-gone mules, Will aggervate a preacher, And Widow Johnson who borrows your fuels, Makes you almost cuss the crea- ture. I'd rather stay 'round city haunts Or list to a rural liar ST. JOSEPH. MO. The Francis Street church will give a Cantata during the holidays.... Jimmy Kimbrough was pronounced insane and sent to State Hospital No.2... Jessie Jennie King died December 13 and her funeral was held at the C. M. E. church, 18th and Beatty She leaves a mother, daughter and a host of relatives to mourn her loss An uncle, Andrew Love of Kansas City, attended the funeral...Mrs Ada Robinson, who underwent an operation at the Sisters' hospital, is improving nicely...Dr. Ollie N. Goins, 35 years old, a prominent dentist of this city, died last week at the local hospital of blood poisoning. Dr. Goins had been located here for two years, coming here from Coffeyville, Kas He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and of the Knights of Pythias. The body was taken to Kansas City for burial...Sarah Geary was seriously by Ben Williams Sunday night in South St. Joe, and was carried to the city hospital.... The A. M. E. church will have a Christmas school for the Sunday school children on Christmas eve...Mr. Silas Wallace has announced his wedding, which will take place December 22 in Kansas City, Kas...Dr. Straw is on admire men th beautiful air SON'S RESSING proud of your hair making harsh, kinky and y and luxurious. he hair—but also keeps it Cents Everywhere RICHMOND, VA. GREAT! PLEASING! CING ACADEMY the sick list, but is improving.... Mrs. Maria Cole who was visiting in Kansas City, has returned home and reports having had a nice time.... Miss Curry of Chillicothe is visiting Mrs. Bettie Clark on Twelfth and Highly. HELENA, MONT. Mrs. J. W. Crump, Mrs. Jackson Anderson and two sons, Mother Kelley, Andrews Green, Mrs. Albert Napper and son Jack, Mrs. N. Walker, Mrs. McGinnis, have recovered from an attack of the grip.....Rev. C. N. Douglass stopped off in Helena last Monday and spent two days with Mrs. A. E. McGinnis....The sisters of the Easter Star are to give a social on December 22 at the Germania hall, and they hope that all sisters and Masonic brothers will be out and help to make the social a grand success ....Mr. R. Houston and Mr. Charles Oliver are to leave on the 18th for an extended trip East to their native homes. They will return in March ....Mr. J. H. Hilliard, deputy S. C. of Montana, was glad he reorganized the Pride of Montana on December 6 and elected officers as follows: John Williams, C. C; A. E. McGinnis, V. E; James Crump, P. C; Rev. I. S. Wilson, president; Gus Mason, M. E. A. G. Dorssey, M. F.; J. E. W. Clark, K. R. and S.; Leon Terrell, I. G. A. Hampton, O. G....The D. S. C. will be ready January 1 to receive the Court of Calante. He also expects to canvass the state of Montana for Knights of Pythias....Mr. Tony Williams and wife and daughter will leave Tuesday for Amonda, Mont ....Mrs. Alice Walker left Sunday for Marie in Texas...Miss F. V. Ford has returned home from a visit in Butte, also Mrs. Adal Salburn has returned from a visit in Red Lodge....A party was given Friday in honor --- Admission 25 Cents Very Low Prices of Miss Annette Williams, who will leave with her parents on Tuesday.... Last Sunday was Juvenile Mite Missionary day. The program was short but to the point. A vocal solo was sung by Miss Alice York and Mr. Julius Lee addressed the society on Missions, which was enjoyed by all, and was good for the young as well as the old. We are proud of this young man. TROY, KAS Rev. E. C. Malone of Elwood, Kas., was in Troy this week....Prof. A. O. Coffin, advance agent for the Blind Boone Concert Company, was in the city the first of the week and made an engagement for the company to paly in this city January 11. It has been four years since they have been here and I am sure everyone will be glad to hear them....Miss Lizzie Lightle returned home Sunday from Topeka to stay indefinitely....Albert Walker of Elwood, Kas, was visiting friends in Troy Sunday....Mr. Robert Swinney of Hawthwaa was in the city Monday....Mrs. Lillie M. Webster and children of St. Joseph spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schumache....Mr. George Wakefield continued very ill ...Mrs. Maude Butcher and daughter visited in St. Joseph Saturday and Sunday....Mrs. Marcy Schumache took suddenly ill Sunday evening but is somewhat better at this time....Mr. Roy Robinson continues quite indisposed and it seems quite strange to all around town not to hear his voice, as he is always jovial, and especially do we miss him at church services, where he is an active worker....Mr. Jullus Butcher spent Sunday in St. Joseph....The Ladies' Aid entertained at the home of Mrs. Mary Schumache the past week. It will be at the home of Mrs. Florence Lair next....The A. M. E. Church is making preparations for the Christmas holidays and will have a program of some kind and lunch each evening during the week....Mr. Luther Irwin of Fairbury, Neb., was in the city Saturday....Mrs. Millie Pennel and children have returned from Elwood, Kas., after having spent several weeks with her sister, Mrs. M. A. McCurry. We were certainly glad to hear the church and school bells ringing after being silent two weeks on account of scarlet fever and diphtheria. WHY DR. JAMESON LAUGHED Really Amusing That Offended Individual Should Make Such a Complaint to Him. Sir Leander Starr Jameson, still better known to thousands as "Doctor Jim," has been predicting a great change for the better in South Africa as a result or the stirring events that have been taking place there. A good story is being told about the days when "Doctor Jim" was administrator of Rhodesia. One of the officials under him was a very pompous individual who rejoiced in a high-sounding double-barreled name. He was very much upset because his colleagues would ignore his real title and persist in dubbing him "Muggins." At last he could stand it no longer, and went straight to his chief before whom he made a long and indignant complaint. "I think you will find," said "Doctor Jim," "that you only get called this name when you are inclined to put on 'side.'" "Put on 'side'!" spluttered the other, now thoroughly angry. "I sincerely hope, sir, that you do not give countenance to people calling me. by this unseemly name?" "Well, to tell you the truth, my dear boy," replied "Doctor Jim," laughing genially, "I am afraid that I invented it myself!" Disappearing Island. The most famous disappearing island in the middle ages was the island of St. Brendan. The saint for whom it was named was an Irish worthy, who is said to have sailed, with a number of monks, in search of a fabled paradise and to have landed on an island in midocean. St. Brendan's was believed to be visible at times from the west coast of Ireland, but it always disappeared when explorers were sent out in search of it. When one of the Portuguese kings ceded the Canary islands to the Castillian crown the treaty was reported to have included St. Brendan's, which was described as the island that has not yet been found. Lesson in English An illustration of the awful possibilities of the misuse of "gotten" for "got," says a correspondent in The Writer, is given by the story of the man who telegraphed to his wife: "Have gotten tickets for the opera tonight. Meet me there at 7:45." She met him there at 7:45 with eight friends, for the telegram when it reached her read: "Have got ten tickets." The use of "gotten" for "got" is a mark of ignorance, rather than refinement. "Gotten" is used by those who desire to be thought "gentel." Comparative Proportions "That isn't a wave," protested the policeman. "It's only a ripple of interest." "Why do we always speak of the slivery moon?" asked the Boob. "On account of its quarters and halves, I suppose," replied the Cheerful Idiot. Accounted For. Accounted For. "I hear so many society women find themselves in deep water." "Why?" "Because they fall down on their bridge work." "Yes," replied Mr. Cassius Chex. "It's likely to be especially ruinous to the man who lends the money." N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Deputy Grand Master, Richard Young, Lincoln, Neb. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Mo., Grand Senior Warden. Crittenden C. Clark, St. Louis, Grand Junior Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonic Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Gran Lecturer. Royal Arch Masons: Grand High Priest—Geo. Bloomfield, St. Louis. Deputy Grand High Priest—T. G. McCambell, Kansas City. Grand King—A. L. Thomas, Jeffcron 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: Grand Inspector—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand Captain General—James W. Beard, St. Louis. Grand Senior Warden—Geo A. Johnson, Kansas City. Grand Generalissimo—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. Herrford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Willey Lodge Directory G M. J. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 4th Monday in each month. AB Master Masons in good standing welcome. Cecil Thompson, W. M. J. H. SPIGENER, Secretary. Rone Lodge No. 23, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 2nd Monday in each month. AB Master Masons in good standing welcome. J. J. Orangar, W. M.; T. J. McCampbell, Secy. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M. meets the 4th Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are welcome. Sandy Ave. W. M.; Frank Mayer, Secretary, 181 Baltimore Ave. Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F. and M. Liberty, Mo., meets the second Saturday nights in each month. Starks, S. W., Acting Master; Nelson Wallar, Secy. Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F. A. Second and fourth, second and fourth, Saturday nights in each month. V. T. Master; Nelson Wallar, Sec. 3. 1. 0. 1. Queen Esther Court No. 43. Bale from the F. O. I. meet the sister and third Month in each month at 2:30 p.m., m. at the hall, 10th and Campbell St., Kansas C. F. Wilson, J. L. McMahon, M. B. Q.: Rosa L. Jones, C. 1406 North 3d St., Kansas City, Kas. U. B. F. King of the West Lodge No. 43. days in each month at 68 Grand avenue. C. F. Wilson, 1718 Euclid Ave. Secretary. * PRINTING? * Why Certainly ! SEE FRANKLIN. * Bell phone Grand 2988. * Everything it takes to make * Printing pleasing and attractive— * why he's got it. * "He Delivers the Goods." * 1008 East 18th Street. * (Near 18th and Troost). Quinoleum Is Queen THE FILM MAKES A SUCCESS OF THE FILM "THE FILM MAKES A SUCCESS OF THE FILM " Ours are the finest made preparations for the hair and face. What We Manufacture— Hair Preparations. Face Preparations. Quinoleum Face Bleach.....25c Quinoleum Face Cream.....25c Quinoleum Camphor Ice.....25c A liberal sample of our new preparations, a fragrantly perfumed toilet powder and a velvety face powder in pink and flesh colors (brown) sent free with any order. Call Bell Phone West 1757. 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas. QUINOLEUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY. #& CliY NEWS. You are cordially invited to attend ‘i the Holiday Entertainment given under the Auspices of Emanuel Commandery No. 25 K. T. at Armory Hall, 14th and Michigan, Dec. 30th, 1915. Plenty of good Music and Refreshments. Hall opens at 7:30 o'clock. No drilling. Dancing begins at 8:00 P. M. sharp. SANDY MYERS, E. C. R. J. GREAR, SEC. ADMISSION, 25 CENTS. ADMISSION, 25 CENTS : Big Dance Christmas Night and New Year Eve COME DANCE OLD YEAR OUT AND NEW YEAR IN DANCING ACADEMY—14th and Michigan BIGGEST HALL BEST MUSIC FINEST FLOOR FOR COLORED ALL THE TIME Mrs. Frances J."Wilson, 913 Wood- land avenue, is quite Ml. Mrs. Edna Herndon Lee arrived from Pittsburg, Kas., to visit parents. Mr, W. H. Shelton of this city was in Topeka consulting business men fo plan a.new hotel for Kansas City. ‘Mr. A. Hall, a prominent grocer of Oklahoma City, is in the elty buying goods and is being royally entertained by Mr. Martin Young. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gaines passed ‘through Kansas City Thursday morn- ing, December-16, enroute to Califor- nia where they will spend the win- ter. ‘Thos Herhion, Jr., who is a stu- dent in the Guardian Angels’ Home, a Catholic school for boys at Leaven- worth, Kas., will spend the holidays with parents. : ‘Mrs. Emma 1. Goodlow of Bufaula, Ok, isthe guest of Mrs. C. Diggs the past week. She returned to her home: and reported her stay a delightful one’ and the people of Kansas City very Wepitable. -* To those that know there is more Joy and satisfaction in a perfect job of printing than in any cheapness of price, Yes, see Harris the Commercial Printer at 1515 E. 18 st. and he will cheerfully exptain to you all about it. The public says: “Harris has no equal.” Mrs. Emily M. Key, 29 years old, widow of the late Dr. H. M. Key, died Jast Sunday and was buried Wednes- day at 2p .m. from Allen chapel. The Body was taken to Louisiana for bu- rial. Dr. Thomas, her pastor, assist- ed by Rey. Bacote, officiated. She left three sisters, a brother and moth- er and many friends to mourn her Tien Mrs. Rachel Clark, wife of the late Rev. G. ¢. Clark and mother of Mrs. Percy Glass, died last Friday after fa brief illness of pneumonia at the residence of her daughter, 2627 Vine street, and was buried from the First ‘A. M. E. church at Kansas City, Kas. of which she was a member and dea- coness, under the auspices of the Or- der of Immaculates. The Sun ex- tends its sympathy to the bereaved family. ‘The Christmas’ morning service at Allen chapel this year promises to be the most brilliant and inspiring in the history of this historic church. ‘The full surpliced choir, augmented by added talent, will render new and special music, ‘The pastor will preach Defitting the occasion. Remember these services begin promptly at 5 o'clock. Mr. James Spraygles, one of Kan- sas. City's best known colored cit zens and city scavenger under sev- eral Republican administrations; died after three days’ illness of pneumonia at his residence, 1816 Vine street. The faneral was held from Ebenezer, of ‘Which he was a member, Fridiy. He Jeaves a wife, six children, of which James (Shad), is the older, and a brother. xe eahn OF THANKS. ‘We desire to extend our baie) thanks to those friends and neigh: ors: who so kindly assisted us dur- ing the illness and death of our moth: | er, Mrs. Rachel Clark, and also for the beautiful floral offerings. Espe- cially do we wish to thank Dr. J.’R, Ransom, her pastor, who officiated, and the members of both choirs who ‘were present. MR. and MRS. PERCY GLASS, and gon, GEORGE FRANKLIN. Afesmnch foemed feomechifoswah foe Mrs, Bena Bvans of Lincoln, Neb.,| ‘Mr. John Denny of Omaha, and Mrs. Ed Gilbert and father, Mr. Denny of Chillicothe, Mo. have returned to their respective homes. ‘They were in the city attending the funeral of|~ Mr. James, Woodson, 948 Oakland aye- nue, Kansas City, Kas. ¢ “THE ALLEN” by is 7 Passenger 7Passenger AUTO CONVEYANCE Special Rates to Couples and Parties | for the entire Holiday Festivities | Is Phones—Office, both E3336 tl Résidence, Bell H-1029 e ©. H. COUNTEE Prof. Foster and the stenographers | p who, reported the sermon of Dr. Ba-| n cote Sunday, December 12, wish to| a make special mention of the beauti-| ful singing of the choir of the Second] ¢ Baptist church under the direction of Mrs. Bacote, The processional and recessional were perfect in every de-| y tail and the solo by Mrs. Hightower | filled the room as well as the souls] j; of the congregation with divine spirit.| q, eee atertela. athe. ou | On Tuesday evening of this week ‘a number of the friends. of Blijah Hendricks gathered at his residence, 1802 East 24th street, upon the in: vitation of his wife, Mrs. Nellie Hend- ricks, to celebrate his birthday with ‘a surprise stag party. An elegant din- ner was served to eleven guests at 11 o'clock. The menu was as follows: Oyster cocktail 3 Radishes Olives. Pickles Roast young turkey O Cranberry sauce Mashed potatoes French peas Biseiifts: Butter Coffee Ice cream Cake Cigars. Other refreshments incident to such occasions were served during the pe- riod after dinner while several of his friends in happy speeches felici- tated Mr. Hendricks, At the conclu: sion of the evening, or more properly speaking, after the beginning of the next morning, souvenirsgconsisting of a briar pipe with a card bearing the name of the person to whom it was to go, were presented to each mem ber of the party. Those present were N. C. Crews, Porter Carmack, Dr. M H. Lambright, James C. Reeve, Dr. J. E. Dibble, George Thomas, Dr. How- ard Smith, P. L. Pratt, Theodore John- son, B. Hendricks and Fred W. Dab- ney. Mrs, Hendricks was assisted by Mrs, Lola Williams, Miss Mary Craig, Mrs. Nellie Reeves and Mrs, Pearl Dabney. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, President E. W. Thompson’ and his assistants are sparing no pains to make the B. Y. P. U. a success. Last Sunday Dr. Bacote made an excellent address to the Union. Sunday, Decem- ber 19, Dr. Perry of Oklahoma will speaw, and Sunday, December 26, Law- yer Hueston will address the B, Y. P, U. Don't miss these grand talks ....'There © will be moving pictures ‘shown In this church December 29. Admission 25 cents....A large congre- gation was at the services last Sun- day morning ‘to hear Dr. Bacote's splendid sermon on “These Three”... ‘Sunday at 11 o'clock the pastor’s sub- ject will be “All Things to All Men,” BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, before death, wrote his own life book, 450 ‘pages, selling price $1.25. $100 al ™ month easily made, one agent sells 31| 4 first day with circular; another makes $5.78 in one hour; a million copies will be sold, Agents wanted everywhere; outfit free;, postage 15 cents. Anybody can sell; we pay express. Act quickly.| Mallikin, Jenkins Co.,. Washington, Dc. dose ea , 4 ’ $ = Women’s Clubs. | ‘The City Federation held its annual election and Mrs. Crosthwait was re- elected president for the ensuing year. ‘The whole slate was re-elected. The Junior Athenaeum entertained Jast Saturday afternoon at 2624 Wood- land, It was quite a swell affair and the little misses proved themselves equal to the occasion, The Ladies’ Céterie club will meet December 20 at 915 Vine street. Busi- ness of. importance to be transacted. MNT lacealere are seanecieg to Occrege ent. Special meeting —Mrs. America harploasunsloate ies, twa Dalranthqitay 0 th wife of the editor that they are en- joying good health and having a de- lightful time on their California trip, and that she can fully appreciate the articles of the editor entitled “The Golden West.” The Lyceum Art club met with Mra. Mary Wheeler at the residence of Mrs. Fannie Carson, 1621 East Thit- teenth street, Friday, December 10, After business was transacted we were served with a dainty luncheon by the hostess. We then adjourned to meet with Mrs, Mabel Weatherly, 2814 Highland avenue, Friday, De- cember 177—Mrs. Addie Allen, prest dent; Miss Mabel C. Smith, secre- tary. ‘The Woman's Home Missionary So clety of Centennial M. E. church was royally entertained by Mrs. J. W. Gooch at her residence, 730 Holmes street. She was assisted by Mrs. Sa rah Davis andsher daughter, Miss Edith Gooch. Rey. Wheeler, district superintendent, was present and de- livered a very inspiring address, Next meeting December 23, at the resi- dence of Mrs. Rebecca Ralston, 1628 Lydia—Mrs. Anna B. Long, presi- dent; Miss Cherry McGill, correspond- ing secretary and reporter. THE CLIPPERS. Clipper Bessie Hawkins was host: ess at a very delightful dinner for the ‘Clippers at tle Y. M. C. A. De- cember 11. Covers were laid for 20. ‘The occasion was thoroughly enjoyed antl appreciated, Following a busi- ness meeting Clipper Newson enter- tained at tea on Sunday evening. A GRAND SUCCESS. ‘The musical and gymnastic exhib tion given by 2,000 children of the Colored. schools at Convention Hall, Friday night, was a decided success and was largely attended. More than 6,000 people witnessed the program. Much credit is due both teachers and pupils for the excellence of the pro- gram. HOME COOKING SHOP, Mrs. B, T. Lewis has opened a neat, appetizing, home cooking shop at 1507 Yq East 12 st, near the Paseo where she will be pleased to meet her friends and the public. Lunches of all kinds nicely served. Customers given strict- est attention. Giive us a call. Remember the place. Mrs. B, T. LEWIS, 150714 East 12 street. ‘Try to Prove Gas Kills Microbes. Gas companies, faced with the peril of seeing their product supplanted by electricity, are struggling vigorously to find arguments that will prove the su- periority of gas over electricity for lighting, cooking and heating. ‘The advocates of electricity urge that electric lamps do not pollute the air with the products of incomplete ‘combustion and do not form hot com- dustible gases that must be removed. ‘The advocates of gas reply that the great production of heat by gaslight fixtures brings about a natural ventt- lation effect through the air currents it Produces, so that the deleterious gas- eous products of combustion are never allowed to accumulate in the air. They also assert that microbes tn the air are destroyed by the gas flame and by the traces of combustion like sulphurous acid, which exbibit an antiseptic ac tion. iy Dr. K. Ahiborn reports to a German medical magazine on experiments made in the Hygientc institute of the University of Munich. In a room of 57 cuble meters’ capacity with artl- ficial ventilation the number of bacte ria in a unit volume of air decreased 24 per cent in one hour. Under sim- Mar conditions, but with three large gas flames burning, the number de creased 40 per cent in the same po riod. ‘This leads the Journal of the“Amer. fean Medical association to remark that such a difference, “amounting at dest to only 16 per cent, is too small to possess any serious significance from the point of view of practical hygiene.” Politiclan—1 see that you men tioned, my name as that of a possible candidate. Statesman—Yes; I wanted to give them a quiet hint as to how muck worse they guight do if they don’t take me. Vobacco. Tobacco injures many a man. Tis use ts surely not a joke. And yet it's rather better than ‘The substitutes we sometimes smoke. ‘The Treatina Habit. “Did you ever treat a man for a big head, doctor?” asked the caller. “Why, that's what everybody treats ‘a man for,” replied the pill man. To the Public. By MR. AND MRS. J, 0. KINGS- BERRY, On the evening of Nov. 5, 1915, & colored woman whose name ix Ce- cil Hillman, was arrested and taken to No, 4 police station, She gave the name of Cozette Kingeberry to the desk sergeant and was booked under that name, ‘The report was circulat- ed that Miss Cozetta Kiagsberry, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Kings- berry, who reside at 1007 Aracy ave- nue, was the one that was arrested, ‘We desire to state that our daugh- ter, Cozetta Kingsberry, was at home on this particular evening and those with the serpent tongue who circu- lated this report without knowing whether it was false or true, are do- ing our daughter a great injustice. ‘We realize that it is impossible to stop people from wagging their tongues and cfroulating lies, but we feel that the fair minded public should know the facts. ‘The alleged author ‘of this false report has a wife and baby for whom we have sympathy, but for him we have nothing but ‘con: tempt. We have investigated this matter thoroughly and succeeded in finding the woman who was arrested and her affidavit follows: ‘State of Missouri, County of Jack- ton, Ht Cecil Hill, of lawful age, being by me duly sworn, deposes and states: ‘That she was arrested on the night ‘of November 5, 1915, and was booked ‘a tNo. 4 police station under the name ‘of Cozetta Kingsberry? that she gave the name of Cozetta Kingsberry as an alias; ‘that T am hot acquainted with the young lady who is known ‘as Cotetta Kingsberry; that I have discovered since that there is a young lady by that name, who resides at 1007 Tracy, Kansas City, Mo., and that the report has been circulated that she was the one arrested; that I de- sire to state further that she was not ‘the one arrested and there has been a great wrong done her in my using her name, I make this affidavit to clear thé name of the young lady, feeling that there has been a great injustice done. CECIL HILL. Subscribed and sworn to before me a notary public this 11th day of De- cember, 1915. CHAS. H. CALLOWAY, (Seal) Notary Public. My commission explfes September 15, 1918. e Note—The editor hag known Cozet- ta Kingsberry since er birth, and knows that she is ome of the most accomplished, courteous and upright #GuNE women ihstAlaabiy and feats that a grave Injustice Ras been done her good name by the Malicious gos- sipers of this city, and we cheerfully give space for the publication of this article because we belfeve it is the duty of the public press as well as parents to protect the good name of the monieniot the rape 5. A MASTERPIECE FOR 25 CENTS. Booker T. Washington Painting made in 11x14 copies by Robert E. Dell. 500 Samples on Sale at THE LEAGUE ENTERPRISE. Bell phone East 1521, Bast 18th St. “OFFICIAL CALL, Western Negro Press Association to Meet in Kansas City During the ‘iolidave, Officers and Members of the West- ern Negro Press Association, Greet. ing: By authority of the power vested in me as president of your association, I hereby request you to assemble in the 15th annual convention of the associa tion on the 28th day of December, 1915, in the assembly room of the Kansas City Sun, in the Masonic Temple build- ing, 1803 East Eighteenth street, Kan- sas City, Mo., for the purpose of trans- acting business of the ‘organization, and discussing and taking action upon important questions concerning the welfare and peace of our people. We expect a good attendance and much good to result from the meeting. All newspaper or magazine publishers, edi- tors, agents’ and correspondents are invited to attend. Further information concerning’ the W. N. P. A, and the meeting at Kan- sas City next month may be had by addressing J.D. COOKE, Milwaukee, Wis., Sec., or H, R. GRAHAM, Kingston, Mo., sta- tisticlan, or NELSON C, CREWS, Editor The Kansas City Sun, Kansas City, Mo. Very truly yours, A. J, SMITHERMAN, President. Raitor ‘The Tulsa Star, ‘Tulsa, Okla. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS ! The Sun is making arrange- * * ments to inaugurate January ist ‘ * its annual special subscription : * rate for the benefit of both old : * and new subscribers, but only ‘ * those old subscribers can take ad- * vantage of the rate who are‘ * SQUARE on our books. ; * Hurry—Square up—Be ready for ' ® the rate. S Cheap John’s Place 2122 VINE STREET WM. HOPKINS, Proprietor New and Second Hand Furniture Bought, Sold and Exchanged Great Bargains in stoves, $2.00 and $8.00 and up. Bell phone East 3851. reat Bear ea Ieee Winter Shoes FOR Men, Women, Children Dependable Footwear Prices are Right Come in now G. A. 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HARNDEN SEED CO. 605 WALNUT 8ST. —Two STORES— 1418 GRAND AVE Both Phones 1618 Main Bell 1618 Grand XMAS TREES, 50¢ AND UP, WIT Woodland, & rooms, $1,800; 9100 ‘ouck Farm on, Bonner Springs line— 1 heren, deroom house, lots of fruit, AGEs ate and’ $80" every. she "2631 Euclid, 5 rooms, modern, brick oungaicw, Price $2,200; $200 down, $20 ber tnouth. Vacant Jot on Highland between 24th and Howard, 765x180, Price, $1,250. Vacant lot, 1918 Agnes, 25x135—$600.00; $50.00 down, $10.00 per month. Sy 1015 B. 17th St—F-room cottage, néw- ly decorated and painted. Price, "91,200; Hod "down and's1s?per months © Persong renting oF buying from us wilt ve elven preterence on all employment in ous employment deparupent. #11 McGee St, Phonea:—Home, 7555 M; Bell, 151 M. Mike and His Job BY GEORGE MUNSON (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) At six o'clock Mike Donahue's alarm clock went off with bang and Mike arose, dressed, and had his coffee, and took the lunch which Nora put up for him to the mill. He entered as the whistle blew, and worked there, except for the unch hour, till the whistle dismissed him at six. That was Mike's life, with the exception of Sunday, when he got up to help his wife with the washing of dishes, and then went back to bed again. He lay in bed all day, reading the Sunday paper. He finished it by night, had supper, and went to sleep till Monday. In appearance he was a clean old man of sixty. He had once had those ambitions which are supposed to be the birthright of every American, but he had lost those when Eilery died. Ellery had been the founder of the mill. It was Mike Donahue who, in those early days, soon after the Civil war, came from Belfast with the new flax-weaving process, not then in use in the United States, and interested Ellery. He could have had a partnership, but he was too simple and ignorant to understand that, and Ellery was not above turning the advantage when the opportunity was so patent. Mike had come to him and said: "Mr. Ellery, I don't know how much this process is worth to you, but if it's worth what it ought to be I'd look for a job in the mill for the rest of my days." Mike had just married Nora Brady, and the thought of unemployment haunted him. Besides, there was a baby coming. If he could secure a life position—well, what more could any man hope for? He could save a dollar a week even at the start, and Ellery would certainly advance him. And this was done. Confronted Jim Ellery With a Pistol. Mike became foreman at twenty-five a week, and he and Nora and little Kathleen lived quite comfortably. Times changed. The mill prospered. Ellery became a very rich man indeed. The sight of Mike, and the knowledge of the unfair advantage that he had taken, haunted old Ellery. His only son, who would inherit the mill, was a worthless scamp. The thought that it should have been half Mike's, that his own son had gone to college on what he had squeezed out of the old man, was gall to him. He offered Mike five thousand dollars—the utmost that his availance would permit—if he would leave. Mike Donahue proved amazingly obdurate. He liked the work, he loved the old mill, he would not know what to do with himself if he left. He refused the offer—and then Ellery died. Jim Ellery's first act was to discharge the old employee. When Mike, furious, confronted him with the agreement, he took him back as a hand. Mike worked on at twelve dollars weekly. Jim had his own reasons for wanting to get rid of Mike. They developed about three months later, when Jim Ellery married Kathieen, who had been educated with the last penny of his father's savings. She had the airs and manners of a lady. She was in no way inferior to him. No sooner was Kathieen married then she dropped her parents. The final interview was memorable. Mike and Nora were in tears, Kathieen, in her new ball gown, shifted herself uneasily from one satin shoe to the other. "Won't you never come and see us, then, kitty?" asked Mike, unable to realize the impending tragedy. "You are acting unfairly, father," answered the girl. "I owe a duty to my husband and to myself. If we let it be known that my father works in the mill, and is an ignorant, illiterate old man, I shall have no social standing in the town at all. At present they don't know. And if you have any affection for me—" "Sure, you're the only one I ever bore!" welt Nora. "What'll we do now we're old?" "If father likes to leave the mill and settle somewhere quietly in the country, not less than hundred miles distant, my husband will pay him fifteen dollars a week for life." "I'll see you in -in the mill first, Kathleen," answered Mike. "You won't leave the mill? You insist on working here for ten dollars a week to spite me?" "Easy, easy, my girl! This is my job, and I'm not going to leave it to take that scamp's money." "James is not a scamp!" "And it seems to me, Nora, darling, that if our own girl is that bad, why we've got to make up our minds to lose her," said Mike to his wife. Kathleen took herself, satin slippers and all, out of the cottage. Her heart was bursting with shame and also with self-condemnation. But was she to be tied forever to that old, ignorant laborer and his wife—she with expensive tastes? The town was just large enough for her story not to be widely known. By steering her way cautiously, and inventing a tale about an old couple whom she had befriended, she managed to shake her skirts clean of her parents. Her husband, in his rage, threatened to put Mike out of his job; but the stubborn old man threatened to sue, and that would mean wide publicity. 30 Mike remained. This win; on for years after Kathleen's marriage. He had never heard of her. He had seen her once, riding in her car. She was gowned like a princess and splendidly bejeweled. Then a lawyer came to see Mike. There had been rumors for some time of extravagance in the management of the mill; it was thought things were not going well. But everyone knew Jim Ellery had no business head. Mike should have been manager, if his father had been an honest man—Mike, who, working as a laborer, nevertheless knew the complicated process from the foundations up. Mike could have told Jim Ellery what was wrong, why the cheap flax was unable to take the aniline. But Mike was only a laborer, remember. The lawyer came on a Sunday, and Mike got out of bed to receive him, apologizing for his flowered dressing-gown, which Nora had made for him the last Christmas. The lawyer waved his apologies aside. "Listen to me carefully, Mr. Donahue," he said. "You should by right have had better treatment from Mr. Ellery than you had." "I don't know," said Mike, stubbornly loyal to the memory of the Ellery he had once known and loved. "He kept his word by me." "He repented on his deathbed," said the lawyer. "He left you a half share in the mill and made you manager for life. That will was suppressed by Mr. James Ellery. He is at your mercy now, for all has come o'light. I represent an interest which wants to buy the mill and give publicity to the at-fair." "Yes, sir," said Mike. "A warrant can be sworn out for Mr. Ellery's arrest. We can get an injunction tying up the money—" "What for would you be tying up the money?" demanded Mike. The lawyer started to explain all over again. Mike listened patiently, "Well, you see," he explained, "my daughter's married to him. So it wouldn't do to bring her into disgrace, would it?" "But she has neglected you," said the lawyer, "It is a scandal. And the mill is half yours. We want to buy your interest. It is worth four hundred thousand dollars at least. And you will have the position of manager—" "Well, you see," said Mike, "I have a life job here. And a manager is sort of uncertain. And then, what would we be doing with four hundred thousand dollars at our age? No, mister, nobody's going to jockey me out of my job. I earn my ten, and I will go on earning it till I die. And say! If there's any trouble about Jim, just remember that he's a good boy, and I stand by him to the last penny of my four hundred thousand. Remember that, will you?" It was Ellery's lawyer who came next. He came humbly, to beg Mike to consent to an agreement whereby he could wriggle out of his liabilities and escape the charge of fraud. Mike signed the papers without looking particularly. He only assured himself that his job was not being taken away from him. "You see," he explained to the lawyer, who had the grace to look ashamed, "now that there's only the wife to take care for, I guess my ten a week will provide for us—won't it, Nora, girl?" And all his anger against his daughter died. It was his money, after all, that was buying her those gowns, had bought the car, was providing for her every minute. If he had pressed Ellery he would have been a rich man, but life would have been utterly empty for him. Because he relinquished all, he gained all. For the day came when his daughter kneeled before him and Nora, imploring for forgiveness. "All that we have is yours," she said. "Forgive us! Jim wants you to live with us, and—and you can keep your job if you want to, and—and when baby comes we're going to name him Michael, or Nora, if it's a girl. Won't you come, father? mother?" "Sure and I'll come," said Mike, clapping on his hat, to find vent for his emotions. "But I keep the job, Kathleen!" Circumstances Alter Cases Circumstances After Cases. Pat Cassidy purchased a new automobile, and while still inexperienced in the handling of it he drove down one of the crowded thoroughfares of the city. Coming to a crossing where traffic was held up, he lost control of the car and ran squarely into a handsome limousine. The crowd which gathered found the situation amusing, and to add to Pat's discomfiture, the crossing policeman, a big Irishman, commenced to berate him. "Since when did you learn to drove a car?" demanded the officer. "What's yer name?" "Cassidy," answered Pat. "So?" said the policeman, interestedly. "And where are you from?" "Count Clare," said Pat. "Say," said the cop, "how the divil did that fellow back into you?"—Chicago Journal. Anniversaries of Snakebite A curious fact, and one not generally know, is the recurring symptom of snakebite on or about the anniversary of a bite. The victim of a snakebite may have these recurring symptoms for ten or twelve years, and there is a case on record where the recurring symptoms lasted for twenty-five years. Naval and Military Terms. Most of our military terms are French, and naval terms are Anglo-Saxon. Queen Ants That Lived Long. Queen ants have been known to live fifteen years. A ```markdown ``` THE FILM "THE FILM" BY JOHN H. HARRISON AND JOHN H. HARRISON One of the handsome long coats of plush which dealers prefer to call by its new name—"fur-fabric"—is shown in the picture above. It merits the consideration of the woman who wants a coat to serve many occasions, and is entitled to be called "sasalette," by which name the manufacturers have christened the fabric used in it. This is a rich, glossy plush of so dark a brown that it might be classed among the various blacks. The coat is long, nearly covering the dress, and hangs almost straight at the front. It is semifitted at the back, but loosely adjusted to the figure. There are wide revers at the front which may be rolled forward when the turnover collar is brought up close about the neck. Large covered buttons, like the material of the coat, are used for fastening at the front—and one is set at each side of the back at the waist line. The wide collar and deep cuffs of white fur are made separate and fastened to the coat when it is to do duty for evening or dressy afternoon wear. They are not intended for the workaday world of every day, but to convert a very practical coat into a rich-looking garment suited to special occasions. There is nothing Something New Something new in neckwear has lately been added to the array of crisp and dainty pieces that came in with the fall season. The new arrivals are made of the same materials but have taken their cue from the high collars of wraps and street gowns, and their foundation is a band, fitting close about the neck, and as wide as it can be worn. To this band of thin material, wings, tabs, and flaring pieces are added in a variety of shapes and finish that seems unlimited. Fine embroidery on sheer fabrics makes them elegant, but their crisp daintiness is a fragile quality, and hence it is necessary to replace them often, for it is just these qualities that they are expected to lend to the costume. Two good examples of these novelties are pictured here and they serve to show the essential features of all of them. The design at the left might be made, apparently, from embroidered handkerchiefs. It is merely a fitted band of organdle finished at the edges with small buttonhole-stitched scallops and having a flaring piece of the same kind set on at each side. The surface is decorated with scattered embroidered dots and little flower sprays. Braid Embroidery. A fancy braid is being used a great deal to embellish designs on table runners and cushions. The braid comes in a variety of colors and is used in connection with herringbone, buttonhole, skeleton and many other embroidery stitches. A very good illustration of the effect the braid and various stitches give is noticed on a table runner of natural linen exhibited by an excellent shop. On either end a conventional floral design is stamped. The leaves and stems of more durable than a coat of this kind in a good quality of the landsome pile fabric used for making it. With the addition of the white fur collar and cuffs, white gloves and white-and-black shoes are dennel, and a smart, dressy hat finishes a toilette quite up to the demands of full dress. Dresses for Girls. High waist lines are the rule for the little girls' thin dresses. Like grown-up dresses, the skirts of these dresses are very flaring and frilly. The skirts of tulle and chiffon dresses or those of lingerie, batiste or very thin silk are often finished at the hem with three little ruffles. These are only about three or four inches in width and are not gathered very full. A pict edging is used often instead of lace to finish them, or a very narrow satin ribbon, perhaps in a double lengthwise stripe. Little puffed sleeves that come only halfway to the elbow are considered very correct, and they go well with the general empire contour of the gown. In linen dresses the empire waist line has a belt of the same that has a slot inset in the middle of it of another color. w in Neckwear The collar at the right is one of several designs in which a double row of tabs is set on about the top. In each of these designs the upper and under row of tabs are unlike in shape and length. Both are finished with fine embroidery, and the effect of the two thicknesses of sheer material is very dainty. All of these new collars set up very close about the neck and only a few of them are suited to the short-necked figure. These are those having a wide standing band shaped to apparently lengthen the neck, and a flaring portion that extends only about the sides and back. But the girl who cannot wear the wide standing collar may console herself by reflecting on how well she can wear the fashionable evening bodice, which leaves neck and shoulders and arms uncovered. One should not fail to notice, when considering neckwear, the "choker" of narrow black velvet ribbon, about an inch wide, which is worn so effective with evening gowns. It is fastened with a little flat bow and a small sparkling jewel in a pin is sometimes set against it. the flowers are covered with the green braid. The petals of the flowers are worked in yellow skeleton stitches, while the centers of the flowers are filled in with brown French knots.—Boston Herald. Discouraging. The woman who marries a man to reform him must be discouraged to see how much work one small specimen requires when an evangelist can arise and have them biting the trail by the hundreds. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- Because of a late ruling of the county clerk in which the owner of an oil lease is forced to turn over to the lessee the royalty oil instead of its equivalent, Sarah Rector, the richest Negro girl in Oklahoma, and probably in all the world, now is receiving in royalty $2,000 more a month than formerly. Six hundred dollars a day was her income from one of the most valuable oil land allotments in the entire Oilton district. Her tract of land, which is operated by B. B. Jones, millionaire oil man, is now producing in the neighborhood of 160,000 barrels of crude oil a month. For her share, one-eighth, or 20,000 barrels a month, she was getting 90 cents a barrel, or a total of $18,000 a month, giving her a daily income from her oil royalties of $600. An additional ten cents a barrel premium for her oil was obtained through a decision by Federal Judge Campbell of Muskogee, holding that an oil company operating a tract of land must pay the royalty in oil instead of money if the landowner demands it. The market price for oil is 80 cents, but a premium is being offered for oil as the demand is now greater than the supply. By demanding the payment of the royalty in oil Sarah Rector has oil her to the Pierce Oil corporation for 90 cents a barrel, or an increase of $2,000 a month, or $64 a day. The deal was made for her through her guardian T. J. Porter. The Sarah Rector allotment has always been a good revenue producer. It has been producing oil for about two years. She has received from her land in royalty approximately $60,000 in cash up to May 1 of this year, and on that date her royalty oil that had accumulated during the previous four months was said at the then market price, 40 cents a barrel, netting her an additional $65,000, or a total of 125,000. The sale at that time was made to B. B. Jones, the operator of the land, and the contract was continued in force to sell the royalty oil as it accumulated subject to termination at ten days' notice. The Sarah Rector land reached its high tide in production during the spring of this year. It was estimated to be making 20,000 barrels a day during April or 600,000 barrels for the month, of which the little girl's share was 75,000 barrels. For February the Rector production from the deep sand or Bartleville was 300,000 barrels, and for March it was 325,000 barrels. During the spring months it was the biggest producing property in the field. Prior to getting the deep sand production the Rector land produced oil from the Layton or shallower sand, and during the last months of 1913 this amounted to about $15,000 a month. When the deal was made last spring whereby the accumulation of royalty was sold to B. B. Jones, it was estimated that the Rector land would yield to its owner anywhere from $100,000 to $125,000 in royalty during the succeeding four months, and it was said that the tract would be a big money maker for her for many years to come. With the recent increase in the price of crude oil, going to 80 cents a barrel from 40 cents within a six weeks' period, and with the federal court decision separating the royalty from that of the producing company, the income of Sarah Rector began again to increase, and for October she received "Uncle Isham Griffin, who will be one hundred and five years old next March, was born near Augusta, Ga., and lives now in Chattanooga. Penn. He was ten years old when Napoleon died. He was born before the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, or the motion picture. The aeroplane and the fireless cooker are ninety years younger than Old Isham." J. D. Clemmer, in the Chattanooga Times, writes of him: "Thirty years ago in my 'teens, I stopped at his cabin and he was then the oldest looking darky I had ever met. Since then at every election in Benton, except the last one, I have noticed a crowd gathered around him after he had voted the ticket that he always called upon Daniel Lillard for "The crowd always had him calling turkeys, imitating the gobbler, and crowing like a rooster. These he did to a finish, even completing the gargling sounds following their most strenuous efforts. The glass of cider or other kind of drink handed him on such occasions, was too sacred a custom for the law against treating on election days to be thought of by any- There are twice as many people in the United States as in 1880, three times as many as at the outbreak of the Civil war and five times as many as in '49. The increase between 1910 and 1915 is said to have been equal to the entire population at the time of the Revolution. One baby out of five dies before it is a year old. Australia yearly produces 225,000 tons of cane sugar. Not Copied From the Jews. Undoubtedly our present Thanksgiving day has its prototype in the Plymouth thanksgiving festival of 1621. It has been asserted repeatedly that the Plymouth festival was suggested to the Pilgrims by the Jewish "Feast of Ingathering." That is not probable, as the differences between them are more striking than the likenesses. They were of the same duration, each lasting a week; and in common with all other harvest festivals they had the same intent. But in the approximately 18,000 in royalty for her 20,000 barrels, while for April she received 30,000 for 75,000 barrels. In clearing away their agricultural exhibits from the courthouse, says a dispatch from Normal, Ala., the Negroes of Madison county wound-up one of the most significant agricultural meetings which has ever been held in this section. The meeting was called to order by Prof. P. C. Park, director of agriculture at the Agricultural and Mechanical college for Negroes at Normal, and agents for the Smith-Lever extension fund in the Tennessee valley. The courthouse was decorated with the choicest products of the Tennessee valley and the walls were placarded with pointed epigrams which indicate that the Negroes are waking up to the latest ideas in farming. The object of the conference was, "Alabama Must Feed Herself." The audience was made up principally of Negro tenants and land owners, but there was a large number of white people present also. Speeches were made by prominent white landlords, among them Mr. Roe of Triana. From Mr. Roe's address it would appear that the large land owners of the Tennessee valley are anxious to join in any movement which will tend to improve the efficiency and happiness of their tenants. The meeting was opened by David A. Grayson, chairman of the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Normal, who introduced Ed Johnston, who in turn presented Congressman B. B. Almon, who delivered the principal address. Congressman Almon spoke at length upon the natural resources of the Tennessee valley and the superior agricultural advantages which it offers. He said that the one-crop system has throttled the South since the Civil war and caused the southern farmers to be borrowers instead of lenders. He said that only 15 per cent of the western farm lands are under mortgage, while 85 per cent of the southern farm lands are under mortgage. Congressman Almon favors a rural credit system with low interest and long term payments. He seems to regard rural credit, crop diversification and intensive farming as the salvation of the South. Dr. W. H. Mixon, presiding elder of the Huntsville district of the African Methodist Episcopal church, made a very brief and apt response to the address of Congressman Almon in which he urged more friendly relations between the races and paid high tribute to the friendship of the white man for the Negro. In closing the conference, President Buchanan called attention to the fact that in the Tennessee valley alone are about 17,000 Negro tenants, 1,500 Negro farm owners and about 25,000 Negro boys and girls of school age who must be the future Negro farmers of this valley. This great host of 25,000 Negro farm workers must be taught to improve their own efficiency and the productive power of the soil which they cultivate and be made better satisfied with life upon the farm. To this end he expressed great satisfaction in the fact that Negro tenants and owners had assembled in this conference and discussed in the most encouraging manner the most fundamental problems of rural life, namely, better farming, better religious and educational facilities and better relations between landlords and tenants. body. No one attempted to influence his vote because everybody knew that he voted the same kind of ticket 'Uncle Dan Lillard' did. Justice McCoy of the federal Supreme court dismissed an amended bill of complaint filed by H. N. Johnson of Louisiana and other colored men against Secretary McAdoo of the treasury department. The plaintiffs sought to establish a lien for themselves and the descendants of former slaves on an alleged fund of $68,072,388.99 said to have been collected by internal revenue officers on the cotton picked and prepared for the market through the services of their ancestors, as slaves. Secretary McAdoo, through United States Attorney Laskey and Assistant United States Attorney Archer, moved to quash the proceeding on the ground that Mr. McAdoo had no personal interest in the fund in question, and that the proceeding was an attempt to sue the United States for property in its possession. If the plaintiffs had any right, the defendant claimed, they had lost it by delaying too long their effort to establish it. There is more gold in the United States than in any other country in the world. The latest treasury figures show that on August 2 there was $2.066,399,539 in gold cash and bullion. The total wealth of the United States, according to the last published figures, is more than one-fourth of the aggregate of all the nations, and it is rapidly increasing, and there is every indication that it will long remain the leading nation, financially, commercially and industrially. Jewish festival sacrifice and worship were the prevailing characteristics, while in that of the Pilgrims they were entirely wanting. Slow to Find Favor in South. In the South Thanksgiving day was practically unknown till about 1855, when Governor John of Virginia urged the observance of the day in a letter to the legislature; but the idea met with hot opposition, on the ground that it was a "New England superstition." INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course of Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright 1915. Western Newspaper Union.) (Copyright, 1915, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 19 FALL AND CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL LESSON TEXT-II Kings 17:7, 14, 18 (23). GOLDEN TEXT-He that after being reproved hardeneth his neck shall sud- denly be destroyed-Prov. 29:1. In the sweep of our six years' cycle of study we prefer to consider this lea- sion first and use the Christmas story (Luke 2:1:20) to illustrate the love of God which Israel (the last ten tribes) so basely outraged it was passed into oblivion. 1. The Stiff-Necked People, vv. 6-13. The fact (v. 6) of Israel's captivity has always appealed to the interest and the imaginations of men. The cause of the captivity was threefold (1) They "had sinned" (v. 7). It was not a single offense but a course of action which was performed (a) openly, "walked" (v. 8). For 215 years following Solomon's reign they had been openly idolatrous and trespassed upon God's grace. (b) "Secretly" (v. 9). Hosea's reign was the same as that of his 18 predecessors. Doubtless he was a good diplomat and politician, though his vacillation between Egypt and Assyria brought ruin, but in God's sight the secret acts and practices of the people were open and known (Ps. 139:1-12, Besh. 1:5). Many today do in secret things "that were (are) not right." $\angle$ clearer line of demarcation between the church and the world is sadly needed. (2) They were consecrated to evil (vv. 10, 11). To cover our sins is not to prosper (Prov. 28:13), but if we confess our sins God's Son will cover them by the forgiveness of his atonement (Ps. 32:1-5; I John 1:9). Israel cared not, however, for his forgiveness, despite the fact it was he that "brought them up out of the land of Egypt." It is passage strange that Israel should so fully violate the commands of God (Lev. 26:1; Deut. 26:21; Ex. 20:3-5, etc.). Some claim they did not possess the law, it being of a later date, a self-evidently foolish proposition, but even so, how can men of our time violate so many of the plain precepts of the word of God? Does this prove that the Bible does "not exist? The answer to this query is a sufficient answer to the destructive critics. Israel "sets up idols" (v. 10) and "burst sacrifice" (see Deut. 12:31) which they did "to provoke the Lord to anger." (3) They abandoned themselves to evil. As though to remove all possibility of reformation they not alone "served idols" (v. 12) but "they sold themselves to do that which was evil" (v. 17). To summarize their part in this transaction their conduct was "as did the heathen" (v. 11). Many professing Christians cannot be distinquished from the world and the judgment of God may be deferred for a season, but it will ultimately be revealed (I Tim. 5:24) or his word is not true. II. The Sovereign God, vv. 14:18. God's character and will had been fully set before the nation (Ex. 20:3-6). Repeated warnings (v. 13) had been given by faithful prophets, also repeated forgiveness, yet Israel is (1) willful, "they would not bear" (v. 14), but deliberately followed in their fathers' footsteps. (2) Proud and vain (vv. 14, 15) and (3) utterly abandoned (v. 17), and hence must receive the judgment of God's righteous anger (see Ex. 20), or else God is not righteous. He repeatedly sought to turn them aside, but they slew his faithful prophets (Matt. 21:33-39). God is calling in mercy with long suffering in this present evil age; unbelief in God and his word is still prevalent; skepticism and loose morals everywhere abound, and shall God go on and call forever? (Prov. 29:1; 1 Pet. 3:9-10). Men need to realize the downward course of sin and beware lest in continuous transgression of God's love they suffer the anger of Divine righteousness. III. The Savior of Men, Luke 2:12:00. God's love for Israel was manifest (made plain) through his loving acts and the messages of warning proclaimed by his prophets. But we have a more marvelous revelation of his love in the person of his Son whose birthday we are about to observe. Samaria lost its "crown of pride," but we may receive a crown of righteousness as the "sons of God" (John 1:2; II Tim. 4:8), but not so unless we obey (John 14:23) his word. The coming of Jesus was the greatest event in history—he is "Immauel"—God with us, the living word, the unchallenged fact of all facts. Born in the center of the Roman world, at the exact date of prophecy, at a time of universal world peace (about the only such), and under a governmental system which made easy the propagation of the Gospel by language, roads and civil authority. It was also a time of religious unrest and of intellectual and moral awakening. Let us therefore take up the angelic praise (1) "Glory to God in the highest;" highest heavens, highest degree and quality of praise of him who is infinitely wise and loving. (2) "On earth peace" with God, with man, in the individual heart and among the nations. Peace of conscience because of sing forgiven, in fact, all blessings, happiness and prosperity because of peace due to victory over sin which is the destroyer of peace. (3) "Good will toward men," those with whom God is well pleased, and God has good will only toward all men. He loved sinful Israel and he loves us so that he "gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth need not perish but have everlasting life." Even as the shepherds "found" the Savior (v. 16) so may all men who truly seek him (Heb. 11:6; Luke 19:10). HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS A HOMEMADE WRITING DESK. A boy usually has more papers, catalogues and other "valuables" to take care of than correspondence; there $\textcircled{1}$ fore, in planning the homemake desk shown in Fig. 1 I have made a special feature of storage space. Two grocery boxes of identical shape and size must be secured for the desk. Your grocer will likely give them to you. One box forms the desk portion, the other the safe. Before fastening the two boxes together it is best to finish them. Make the desk pigeonholes of thin box boards, cutting them to fit as shown in Fig. 1. The box-cover boards should be battened together with cross strips placed near their ends, on the inside face, as shown in Fig. 2; then this battened cover should be hinged to the desk box with a pair of two-inch hinges placed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to form the drop-leaf of the desk. Screw $\textcircled{4}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{5}$ a screw-eye into the outer end of the battens, and another into the underside of the top of the box. In line with each of these, and connect the screw-eyes with brass chain or heavy cord so the drop-leaf will not drop below the proper level. Figures 1 and 3 show a simple catch for holding the drop-leaf closed. Make a short latch with a notch and bevel cut on one end, and a hole bored through it near the other end, like that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and pivot this with a screw to a block B. Then nail B to the top of the box in the right position so when the drop-leaf is closed the catch will drop over its top edge as shown in Fig. 3. The dotted lines in Fig. 3 indicate how the drop-leaf will strike and lift the catch in closing. To complete the bottom safe, it is only necessary to nail a hinge-strip $\textcircled{6}$ across the top along the rear edge (C, Fig. 5), and another strip to each end edge (D, Fig. 5). Then batter the cover boards together as you did those of the drop-leaf, but on the under side, and hinge to the hinge-strip with a pair of two-inch hinges. Strips D are provided to shorten the cover boards so they will not strike the end uprights of the desk when the cover is opened. Castors are not necessary, but inasmuch as the desk will be heavy when filled, they will make it easier to move. Two blocks (E, Fig. 6) must be nailed across the bottom box to fasten the castors to. Figure 6 shows how the two boxes are connected with four corner uprights. Cut these one inch thick, three inches wide and four feet long and nail or screw them to the box ends. Fasten the lower ends of the uprights even with the castor blocks E, and the upper ends so they will extend six inches above the top of the desk. Two coats of paint will add the finishing touches to the desk. Putty all cracks and nail-holes. Deserving His Nickname. Three days after the storm struck Potatch, Okla., Jackrabbit Smith, a prominent citizen, was discovered two counties northeast in a somewhat rumpled condition. "Were you blown here by the cyclone?" he was asked. "Heck, no!" he replied. "I outrun it!" —The Argonaut. Not Conducive to Sleep. "Porter, this berth has been slept in!" "No, sah; I assugh you, sah. Merely occupied. It's the one over the wheels, sah."—Puck. ENTERTAINING ON CHRISTMAS BACK IN COLONIAL DAYS FOLKS HAD GREAT FEASTS HONORING THE OCCASION : HERE'S HOW - HE Christmas season brings to mind the many Christmas days gone by, with their four great features—turkey, cranberry sauce, plum pudding and mince pie. It was a good old English custom, not to be rejected by the American colonists, although modifications were necessary to suit the religion and conditions of living in the colonies, the Christ-spirit being substituted for the pagan yuletide, the famous "boar's head" was omitted, and the Christmas pie became known as mince pie. However, many old observances were kept, including the mistletoe and holly, and Christmas was a day for family gatherings, with a feast prepared by the women of the house. It is quite possible that we would not like their flavorings today. They used a variety of spices, wines and seasonings in even their plainest dishes; but as everything was prepared in the home, either under the supervision of the mistress or by her own hands, the mixtures were wholesome. became known as mince pie. However, many old observances were kept, including the mistletoe and holly, and Christmas was a day for family gatherings, with a feast prepared by the women of the house. It is quite possible that we would not like their flavorings today. They used a variety of spices, wines and seasonings in even their plainest dishes; but as everything was prepared in the home, either under the supervision of the mistress or by her own hands, the mixtures were wholesome. Everything was turned to account in the season with a view to future use, so in this way preparations for the holiday were going on long before the day. In cherry time, a supply was carefully packed in hay and kept for Christmas. The Christmas cookies, with coriander seed in them, were baked six months before and kept in an earthenware jar in the cellar. Mince Meat Recipe. The rich plum pudding and cakes were made early in the fall and put away to mellow and ripen. --- A JAPANESE GARDEN. Do you own a Japanese garden? If not, you should get one right away, because it is the latest fad to have one. First of all, you will need a shallow baking pan in which to plant the garden. This may be round or square. For soil you must have sand, and you must also have some coarse pebbles or pieces of broken stone. This can be had for the asking some place where a building is in course of construction. Half a panful of sand and several handfuls of pebbles will be enough. In addition, you must buy some bird seed or Japanese grass seed to plant in the soil. The rest of the garden material can be picked up at home. There are any number of arrangements for the garden that can be worked out, and you can replant your garden from time to time to make it different. Fig. 1 shows a good plan to follow for your first one. Pile up the sand around the sides of the pan, forming hills and hollows, and leave an irregular-shaped space in the cen- ter, and extending over to one side of the pan, for a pond. Make a shore line of pebbles around the pond, and scatter other pebbles here and there over the sand. One of the hills must be selected as a site for a little Japanese house. This house may be made of cardboard. Fig. 2 shows patterns for the walls. The dotted lines indicate where the pieces are to be folded. The strips outside of the dotted lines are to be turned in and pasted to adjoining surfaces, in fastening the walls, foundation and roof together. Fasten the walls upon a cardboard foundation (Fig. 1), and glue another piece to their tops for the roof. A high arched bridge must be built over a narrow portion of the pond, as shown in Fig. 1. Make this of a piece of a peach-basket handle (Fig. 3), with a cardboard railing (Fig. 4) tacked to each edge. The arch of the handle will determine the curve of the rallings. The pair of lamps at each end of the bridge (Figs. 1 and 5) have four sides and a bottom, cut in one piece like the pattern shown in Fig. 6. Cut an opening in each side as indicated, and punch a hole through the bottom for the supporting post to fit in. Fold on the dotted lines, and paste the turned-in edges together. There must be a bird house similar to that shown in Fig. 1. Cut and fold the sides in the same manner that you did those of the lamps. Make the roof of a square of paper (Fig. 7), fold from corner to corner as indicated by dotted lines, and pinch up the corners as in Fig. 8. There must be a number of ducks in the pond, and these are easily made as shown in Fig. 9. The bodies are halves of corks (Fig. 10), and the necks and heads are made of card board and fastened in slots cut in the round side of the halved corks. With these suggestions to show you how easily a garden is built, you can use your own ideas for devising other garden accessories. Not Hard to Make. A homemade desk set, mounted in moire silk in green, brown or the color or predominating in her bedroom, is a gift the schoolgirl would be delighted with. Sheets of blotting paper may be bought to match, and a penwiper and small blotter backed with pieces of cardboard covered with the silk and tied with narrow ribbon in the same color. Optimistic Thought. A hale cobbler is better than an ailing king. SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT HE Christmas season brings to mind the many Christmas-days gone by, with their four great features—turkey, cranberry sauce, plum pudding and mince pie. It was a good old English custom, not to be rejected by the American colonists, although modifications were necessary to suit the religion and conditions of living in the colonies, the Christ-spirit being substituted for the pagan yuletide, the famous "boar's bead" was omitted, and the Christmas pie Mince Meat Recipe. The mincemeat was then made, the recipe for which was recently found in an old Philadelphia cookbook. We copy all but the spelling: "Four pounds veal, four pounds suet, two pounds raisins, one pound currants, six apples, some rose water and sack half a pound, no more of sugar, three-fourths pound cloves, mace, nutmeg and cinnamon, some candied orange peel, lemon peel, citron and blanched almonds." They made a puff paste for their pies different from ours. One recipe called for flour, one pound butter, ten eggs and some milk or water. Some housewives made their winter supply of mince pies before Thanksgiving and reheated them before using. For the lemon tarts, the lemons had to be first soaked in salt water for two days. Then every day for fourteen days they were put into fresh cold water. When they were made, apples, oranges and sugar were added. A few days before Christmas the mistress went to market, the maid carrying the basket. She would get her turkey, cranberries, celery, oysters, and a little pig for roasting whole. The day before Christmas the real excitement began. The stuffing was made, and such stuffing: Bread crumbs, beef suet, liver, lemon peels, nutmeg, savory, pepper, salt, cream and eggs. The little pig, only four or five weeks old, was filled to his utmost capacity with mashed potatoes or apples. Not the least to be considered were the green decorations. Ground pine for festoons and wreaths, mistletoe to hang, and holly everywhere were the necessities. When Christmas morning came the excitement was at the highest pitch. The housewife, her daughters, and her maids were up early. The brick oven was heated and the mince pies put in. The turkey was dredged with flour and put on the spit, with a small unwilling child to watch and turn it as it browned. Another child was set to cracking nuts and polishing apples. Roasting the Little Pig. The little pig was put before the fire to roast in the dripping pan, in which were three bottles of red wine for basting. While the things were cooking a long table, the length of the room, was spread with the white linen cloth, napkin, china and silver or pewter. In the middle of the table was the famed Christmas bowl. Here are the quaint directions for making it: "Break nine sponge cakes and half a pound of macarons in a deep dish; pour over one pint raisin wine, half pint sherry. Leave them to soak. Sweeten with two ounces of powdered sugar candy and pour over one pint and a half of custard. Stick with two ounces sliced almonds. Place on a stand and ornament with Christmas evergreens." The tankard with the Christmas brew was put on the table, and all the sillabubs, jellies, pickles, lemon tarts, red apples, nuts, the cookies and the cherries fresh from the hay. The fireplaces were now blazing, and the red berries and green leaves of the holly were shining in the light. The mistletoe was waiting for the unwary, and the good smell of the brown turkey, savory stuffing and applesauce was everywhere. Don Their Best Frocks. After the housewife and her daughters had seen to everything they hurried to put on their best flowered silks, with white whims around their necks and the most secret beautifiers on their faces. Then the dinner being nearly cooked, they took the little browned pig, raised him gently and put two small loaves of bread under him, and added more wine; an anchovy, a bundle of sweet herbs and a halt a lemon was put into the sauce, which was poured over him hot. They had him sitting on his haunches looking lifelike. Then they put For many years one Sunday school has had a giving Christmas instead of a receiving one. The pupils bring gifts instead of receiving them. The favorite method is for a class to plan a Christmas dinner. Each one in the class brings something for that purpose. One of the boys or girls can march forward dragging a turkey or a chicken, and other member or members of the same class following with articles for a Christmas dinner, not forgetting cranberries, mince pie and celery. Still others like better to flourish a paper with PERHAPS YOU WANT SUGGES TIONS ABOUT DISTRIBUTING THE GIFTS·HERE ARE SEVERAL WALTERS a red apple in his mouth, which, alas! he could never eat, and garnished him with holly. At last the company came, the mistress preserving a calm exterior, but with an inward anxiety lest something be burned or spilled at the last moment. When all is ready the beaming host says, "Friends, will they join us in the Christmas feast?" And with great dignity he leads them, with the guest of honor on his arm, followed by the older people and the children. The Table Decorated. The table is a picture to cheer the hungry. The large turkey is at one end and the pig at the other end of the long table, with everything they are to eat between, excepting the plum pudding. After the silent grace, which stills the noise for a moment, the carver takes his knife, and with a deliberation born of steady nerves carves under the fire of twenty pairs of eyes. The directions in "Gentlewoman's Housewifery" says: "Raise the leg fairly of the turkey and open the joint with the point of the knife, but do not take off the leg. "Then lace down both sides of the breast bone and open the breast pinion, but do not take it off. Then raise the Merry Thought between the breast bone and the top of it," and on so till the turkey is boned. While this is being done the "Christmas bowl" is passed. After they are helped to turkey and pig they pass the vegetables and delicacies, and even the mince pie is eaten when they have the desire for it. The Correct Manners. The proper conventions are strictly adhered to. The book of etiquette says: "A gentlewoman must not lean her elbows on the table, nor by a ravenous gesture discover a voracious appetite, nor talk with her mouth full, nor smack her lips like a plig." The children were kept in order. In all the feast was decorous, but merry for all that. At last, when they have eaten to the extent of their capacity, the plum pudding, blazing and with a piece of holly stuck in the top, is brought in and eaten with brandy sauce. Then the toasts are drunk with the good home-brewed wine, and the feast is done. HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS Christmas, originally Cristes masse ("the mass or church festival of Christ"), is the English name for the season in which the birth of Christ is commemorated. It is apparent, however, that a festival was celebrated at this season long before it was held sacred as the birthday of Jesus of Nazareth. The Saturnalia of the Romans and the winter festival of the heathen Britons were both celebrated about December 25; and later, the Roman festival in honor of the sun god, Mithra (instituted 273 A. D.) From the latter the day became to be known as the "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun;" and after its adoption by the Christian church in the fourth century as the anniversary of Christ's birth, this name was given a symbolic interpretation. A study of the customs associated with this period also reveals a heathen, if not invariably a solar, origin. The lighting of the Yule log (la buche de Noel) on Christmas eve, once a widespread European custom, is or is a function of such predominant importance among the Lithuanians and Letts that their words for Christmas eve literally signify "Log evening." The sports of the "Lords of Misrule" in England are thought to be an inheritance from the Saturnalia. The decoration of churches with the once sagred mistletoe and holly is a pagan survival. an order for a ton or half a ton of coal. This may be given by the united contributions of a class. A novel and successful Christmas entertainment was given in an eastern Sunday school. After prayer, Scripture responses and carols, sleigh balls were heard, announcing the coming of Santa Claus. He appeared upon the platform shaking an empty bag, and lamented he had no gifts for some needy children. "Little Beginners" hastened to their friend with packages of sugar and "sweet" little rhymes; primary chil- LL gifts, carefully marked, should be consigned the day before to the one in charge, and she must purchase a quantity of clothesline and clothespins. The line should be stretched back and forth across the living room, and each gift, wrapped in tissue paper and tied with red ribbons, should be fastened to the line by a clothespain, decorated with wings of red and green paper. I In the bay window a table should be arranged on which is placed a "Jack Horner" pie, containing a Christmas souvenir for each member of the family. The ribbons attached to the packages in the pie should be carried up to a holly-decorated hoop suspended over the table, each ribbon tagged with the name of the one for whom it is intended. When the "family wash" has been taken down—each person seeking his or her own gift—the gather around the pie, and at a signal "pull out their plums." Hidden in Egg Shells. When the family is all present at breakfast start to serve the meal of coffee, bread and butter, ham and soft-cooked eggs without any mention of gifts. At each place have an eggcup or saucer, on which you put an egg, the contents having been removed previously through a small hole in the end; partly fill with sand, and let each contain a small paper with a suggestion in poetry of where or how to find their gifts. As each person thinks he is cracking his egg he finds the puzzle inside. Much merriment and good cheer will be the result. Serve original content" of eggshells in omelet with the ham. Hide one person's gifts in bookcase, paper in egg to read: If you are either wise or smart You'll find me in a hurry. Are you gifted people now, dwell: Frost King and Snowballs As this is the time for the clever woman of the family to devise some unique way of distributing Christmas gifts, she may decorate the living room with evergreens, holly and mistletoe, and then place in one corner a table covered with a white cloth, hidden from view by a screen of generous size. On this table is placed snowballs. These snowballs, made of white cotton batting and tied with white robbon, contain each designated present, and are heaped in a pyramid, thus obtaining a mass of snowballs of varied size. The pile is scattered freely with diamond dust, in order to give it an attractive sparkle. If there is a small boy in the house he may be dressed as a Frost King, in a costume of white wadding, sprinkled with diamond dust; leaves and holly berries can be sewed here and there upon the robe. At a given signal the screen is removed, disclosing the tiny Frost King, who, with a few words of Christmas greeting, gathers the snowballs into a pretty basket, and as each ball bears a small tag he finds no difficulty in distributing the gifts to those assembled. A Holly Pie. A novel way of distributing Christmas gifts on Christmas morning is to make a big pie in the center of the table of holly branches, and arrange it so the gifts can be easily drawn from under it. Each gift must be tied with a narrow red ribbon and one end lead to each place at the table. This is great fun, and of course everyone is anxious to see who gets the most ribbons, the lucky one being declared the most popular. The pie is not "opened" until end of breakfast. A Christmas Trail. One member of the family should take charges of the gifts, and when the coast is clear should lay the "trail" with them in all of the available downstairs rooms. Start from a tiny Christmas tree on the living room table by fastening to it a card for each person, marked, for example, thus: "Card No. 1, father. Look for card No. 2 in umbrella stand in hall." In the stand he will find a package tagged in this manner; "Card No. 2, father. Look for card No. 3 in your hat in hall closet." The third card will be found on a gift in the spot designated, "with further instructions, which are followed on to the next, until all his presents come to light. Everyone pursues his or her trail at once, and a merry scene of confusion is the result. These cards may be prepared before hand, and no difficulty will be experienced if in placing the gifts, each trail is finished before starting to lay another. The last cards should direct the family to their places at the dining room table, where they will find amusing souvenirs of the occasion. Cobweb Method. A rather novel and entirely inexpensive way of distributing Christmas gifts is to employ the "cobweb" method. Suspend a rope diagonally across the room, over which the strings may cross, each string to be labeled at its source with the name of the member of the family or the friend for whom it is intended. A sheet can be hung across one end of the room, hiding the gifts from view until time for winding the strings. Let all begin the quest at once, it being necessary to find the beginnings of the strings where the names are attached. This will afford considerable amusement, as the strings should be run through keyholes, under beds, over transoms and even out of doors, if possible. Aside from the element of mystery contained in this method, there is the added value which attaches to those things which have been really earned through one's own efforts. dren followed; then representatives from every class in the school, even the Bible union. Offerings were accompanied by specially prepared recitations, songs or dialogues, and givers dressed to suit their gift. Children bringing cereals appeared as "Quakers;" rice suggested Chinese costume; tea, Japanese; "pure" products, the Puritan style, each. Songs were set to popular airs, making drill work easy. Finally, Santa Claus had a valuable supply of provisions for an orphan asylum. The happy givers then received remembrances from their teachers. All found " it is more blessed to give than to receive." HOME TOWN HELPS CITY HAS ARTISTIC LIGHTS Alhambra, Cal., Sets Example Which Other Places Will Be Likely to Follow. Instead of the unsightly and often unheeded traffic sign, the city of Alhambra, Cal., has adopted a more striking and ornamental device for warning pedestrians and vehicle drivers. In the accompanying illustration, one of these guideposts is shown on duty at a point where a wide boulevard turns and becomes parallel to the private right of way of the electric An Architectural Guidepost. railway. Accidents might be very numerous at this point were it not for the fivelight electrolier with both red and white frosted globes, the white lights overlooking the boulevard side, and the red illuminating the electric road. This pleasing device is conspicuous day and night, and a driver is indeed reckless who would overlook this warning.—Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance. POINT FOR ROAD BUILDERS Not Always Well to Deviate From Straight Line, Even in an Effort to Get Variety. The guiding principle in designing the position of roads and walks is utility. Nature forms no roads. They are the work of men and animals, and would undoubtedly always proceed in nearly straight lines from point to point if obstructions of various kinds did not interfere and cause deviations. Necessity will therefore suggest where and how they should be introduced. So far as regards approaches and walks to and from buildings, the object of their introduction is sufficiently apparent; but, in laying out pleasure grounds, it is a too common practice to introduce walks for the mere purpose of variety. This is a very questionable reason at best, and not always successfully accomplished, but even in cases of this kind, they should appear to aim for some definite object, or lead to points of sufficient importance to suggest their utility. Know Your Garden Flowers. The true way to enjoy flowers is to get on intimate terms with them. Know them by name, know their characteristics. Learn to love them and make them a part of your life. Then the flowers breathe their secrets, and you learn little by little that they are living things—boon companions and friends. Those who work with flowers know of other things than seeds and bulbs—hope and faith and love; strength, inspiration and happiness. They gather in more than the blushing flowers themselves. They gather health and wealth and nature's revealed secrets. How natural it is, then, that those who work with flowers should be big and strong and good and kind. They are very close to the heart of life—and nature. American Academy of Arborists. American Academy of Medicine, New York city is official headquarters for an organization bearing this title, and a most exclusive membership, for, be it known to all men (we presume women are barred) that "this is not a society to which anyone may belong who contributes a membership fee," but one wherein the members may feel justly proud of their certificate of membership. The ordinary tree-lover will, therefore, be up a tree, figuratively speaking, for which reason we will not ask for a local branch, for here, where the trees of the whole world find a home, we must include in the membership all who will join. Sulphur In New Zealand Sulphur deposits are found on White island, in the Bay of Plenty, on the coast of the North island of New Zealand, about 30 miles from the mainland. This island, which covers about 600 acres, attains a height of 900 feet on one side and opens to the sea on the other. Its topography indicates an old crater, and the boiling lake on the island, which is one of the awe-inspiring sights of New Zealand, is a further evidence of volcanism. After the New Zealand Sulphur company had spent $10,000 in preparation for mining sulphur in this locality a volcanic disturbance wrecked the camp and killed ten men. Need of Co-Operation: No town can prosper as it should unless its business men will co-operate with each other in bringing business to the town. Get them here and if you cannot sell them, let the other fellow do so. The man with the hammer has a proper place, but it is in building more houses, not in tearing down. -Kilgore Chronicle. Valuable Unused Land. Experts estimate that unused land lying at either side of the country roads is capable in many cases of bearing 500 bushels of corn to the mile strip. Thousands of miles of the best European roads are only a rod wide, but Uncle Sam's edge trimming still is largely a matter of theory. Justice. Justice is a habit of the mind which attributes its proper dignity to everything, preserving a due regard to the general welfare—Cicero. THE HANDY COLORED STORE OUR HAIR GOODS DEPT. Transformations, Bangs, Stem Braids, Pompadours and Switches. Poro Hair and Scalp Treatment —by— MRS. 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Ladies' Cashmere Gloves, Ladies' Silk Gloves. Men's Leather Work Gloves, Men's Dress Gloves. BEDDING. Cotton Blankets (extra large), in White, Gray and Tans. Comforters, Silkaline and Satteen, Coovers. Pillow Cases and Sheets. Christmas Bells, Wreaths, Cards, and Holiday Goods High Brown Soap Sayman Soap High Brown Powder Air Float Tal. Powder Toilet Cream Rozaal (Bleach) Alda Pomade Elite Pomade Blue Seal Vaseline White Vasilene, etc. Ladies' Angora Scarfs All Colors 50c to $1 MENS 25 c au 50 c TAYLOR HO MRS. ANNIE H 2409 Vine Street GIVE US GOOD NEWS TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. The Sun is preparing to inaul SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION RATE loyal faithful readers, 4,000 in rate as well as the 2,000 NEW SU obtain. But, dear subscriber, you by being SQUARE WITH THE BG pay up? Send your balance due beter still, call us up, Bell phone collectors come at once. WON'T build up a great big, Negro newspa is preparing to inaugurate January 1 BSCRIPTION RATE, and we want ever readers, 4,000 in number, to have the is the 2,000 NEW SUBSCRIBERS we are dear subscriber, you can only get the bene ARE WITH THE BOOKS. Won't you youd your balance due in a letter or by the ill us up, Bell phone 999 East, and we at once. WON'T YOU DO your duty The Sun is preparing to inaugurate January 1 our ANNUAL SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION RATE, and we want every one of our loyal faithful readers, 4,000 in number, to have the benefit of this rate as well as the 2,000 NEW SUBSCRIBERS we are expecting to obtain. But, dear subscriber, you can only get the benefit of this rate by being SQUARE WITH THE BOOKS. Won't you come by and pay up? Send your balance due in a letter or by the children. Or beter still, call us up, Bell phone 999 East, and we will have our collectors come at once. WON'T YOU DO your duty and help us build up a great big Negro newspaper here to defend our rights. We have a number of out of town subscribers to whom we mailed statements some time ago—but until now we have failed to HEAR FROM YOU. AREN'T YOU HONEST? Don't you want to be on the square? Then why not answer our letters or PAY UP? Christmas Packages and Parcels Delivered 111 Just being completed, six new houses. Everyone different just the place for six select colored families to have exclusive homes. Close to Colored Churches and Schools. JUST THE PLACE FOR A COLORED PHYSICIAN, MUSIC TEACHER, PROFESSOR OR ANY HIGH CLASS COLORED MAN. These homes are nicely decorated. Oak finish with white enamel bedrooms, electric lights, bath, china closet, sun porch and everything exclusive. Ranging in price from $2750 to $3200. A cash payment down and terms to suit on the remained. Take Sunset Hill car. See agent on ground or call Main 3468, either phone. LADIES' and GENT'S TOILET ARTICLES Depth High Brown Soap * Sayman Soap * Powder Air Float Tail. Powder Air Float Tail. Powder Jet Cream Rozaal (Bombilla) Alda Pomade Alda Pomade Blue Seal Vaseline White Vasiline, etc. FUNKISH HILL KE228 FUNKISH Sent; Latest uptodate Novel K SHIRTS, DRAWERS LADIES' SHIRTS LADIES' MEN'S SILK MEN'S MEN'S Silk Gloves. Dress Gloves. Cotton Blank Tans. Comfort Pillow Cases Wreaths, Cards, and MENSCAPS BOX OR HOLMES RS. ANNIE HOLMES, Mg GIVE US A CALL Rate January 1 our ANNUAL and we want every one of our number, to have the benefit of this SCRIBERS we are expecting to only get the benefit of this rate DKS. Won't you come by and a letter or by the children. Or 1999 East, and we will have our OU DO your duty and help us or here to defend our rights. We ubbers to whom we mailed state- we have failed to HEAR FROM you want to be on the square? or PAY UP? EAST 18th STREET USE Messengers and Parcels Delivered Santa Claus any time any place THE 25 cents and 50 cents OUR HARDWARE DEPT. Enamelware, Pocket Knives, Fire Shovels, Iron Handles, Padlocks, Coal Hods, Stove Pipe, Elbows, Nails, Curtain Rods, Hinges and Hasps, Bolts, Screws, etc., Window Shades, Fitures, Moulding, Hooks, Brass Cup Hooks, Mouse and Rat Traps. Help Make Our Store Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends. ties, Alarm Clocks, Watches LADIES' ARTICLES. MILK BOOT HOSE, LADIES' OUT SIZE HOSE LADIES' LISLE HOSE, K HOSE, N'S LISLE HOSE MEN'S WHITE FELT HOSE N'S MIXED WORK SOX BEDDING. kets (extra large), in White, Gray and ters, Silkaline and Satteen, Coovers, and Sheets. And Holiday Goods YS CAPS 25 cents and 50 cents DRY GOODS DEPT. Outing Flannel (in all colors) White Muslin India Linen Long Cloth Cambric (in white and all colors) Apron Ginghams & CO. Kansas City, Mo. "LISTEN!" "LISTEN!" Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Wanted! One thousand good fellows to assis- sion in the good cheer and happiness into the good cheer less fortunate hundreds of families in Kansas City to receive their children. We want to send Good Fellows while thousands of destitute children flock to the Mayor's Christmas Tree which no cante or color and made possible only by public subscription. Those who desire to have a part in making 10,000 happy souls christening in Kansas City. We please send your contribution to the Chief Good Fellow No. 200 B.J. Bigg, Kansas City, Mo. or to the Palo Pinto Y. M. C. A., care Edward Ross. SMITH'S HAIR GROWER Madame C. A. Smith announces to the public that her marvelous hair grower and scalp treatment has been tested out thoroughly and proven to be the MOST WONDERFUL TREATMENT FOR THE HAIR She has ever used or seen used. Every ingredient safe and harmless. Patients received from 8:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. Bell phone East 4975. 1100 Highland Ave. --- of Masonry By JOE E. HERRIFORD, P. M. Chapter 13. Springfield had built up two excellent lodges and these had made ample preparations for the entertainment of the Grand Lodge when it convened in that city Aug. 17, 1886. Interest in Masonry and the delights offered through a visit to the Ozark section combined to bring out a fine delegation from all parts of the jurisdiction. Preliminaries were perfectly dispatched and early in the afternoon of the first day the Grand Master delivered his annual address. In this a beautiful and fitting tribute was paid to the memory of Past Grand Master W. R. Lawton, who had died during the year. He had lived a life of the highest Christian example and as a Mason he will never have a superior in these tents which really typify the teachings of the order. The Grand Master recommended that a special secretary be chosen for the relief department, that work having hitherto been done by the Grand Secretary and greatly taxing the time of his office. But it should not be understood that this recommendation was made with any particular sympathy for Grand Secretary William H. Jones. It appears that the friends of Jones had A. B. been urging him to cast his hat into the ring as a candidate for the grand mastership, and had carried the matter so far as to attract the serious attention of Brother Pelham. Brother er Jones was not so aggressive himself, but must have allowed his friends to work with too little caution. So, the one thing left for the Grand Master and thing which years proved him most capable of doing, was to eliminate Jones by taking away all or part of his opportunity for coming into close contact with the lodges and thus becoming more popular with the brethren. So from the Grand East came a quiet little idea of this sort and it was deemed advisable to stop the Jones boom then and there. It was hinted to Brother A R. Chinn that he might be made Grand Secretary without the asking even if he went on grooming Jones for the head of the order. Brother Ricketts, who had returned fresh from an absence of four years at school, was also a Jones supporter. Chinn was also nominated for Grand Master but declined in favor of the brother of his choice. Before nominations had ended Brother Jones for some reason also declined, leaving Grand Master Pelham to compete only against Brother John W. Wheeler, who stood pat and was beaten by a majority nearly ten times as great as the number of votes he received. Brother Jones had simply been rushed away from a certainty and when it came to filling the office of Grand Secretary all the proxies and votes held by the Grand Master and his friends were thrown to Brother Chimp and he was elected, thus for a few years at least leaving Grand Master Pelham in undisputed possession of the East. William H. Jones had made a good secretary, and his honesty as well as his Masonic zeal stood far above reproach, but he was too ambitious and his friends were too zealous. Read a certain speech made in the Roman Senate after the death of Caesar. If a change in the office of Grand Secretary must needs be made, no better man could be found than was A. R. Chinn. He possessed a rare degree of energy, poise and modest durfulness, and though within a very short time afterward the Grand Master had reason to become quite jealous of the rising power and popularity of his new Grand Secretary, he was never able to dislodge him, as he had done other aspirants. Chinn at this time was identified quite prominently in a new organization which had been instituted by Past Grand Master Moses Dickson, and which had spread with great rapidity over Missouri and neighboring states. It is charged with a great deal of evident reason that the Grand Master held this out prominently before the Masons as a dangerous state of affairs and one that would result calamitously to the craft if Chinn should be further advanced. It was a political tactic all too iniquitous, but it worked for a long time and sufficed for the purposes intended. The new office of relief secretary was voted to Brother Amos Johnson, a man of high intelligence, persistence and who had the backing of the Grand Master and his proxies. Under the secretaryship of Amos Johnson the relief department took on a higher and more businesslike tone and he justly earned the title of the founder of the system which is now operating so well. Upon the urgent appeal made by Brother Ricketts the next meeting was voted to Omaha. Mrs. George W. Little, 813 Charlotte street, who has been under the care of a physician and nurse the past week, is improving nicely at this time. NATIONAL BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE HERE. It is all settled now that Kansas City will be the seat of the 1916 meeting of the National Negro Business League. The executive committee, in session held, at Tuskegee Institute, unanimously agreed upon the metropolis of Western Missouri as the place and the third Wednesday in August next as the time. T. R.'S TRIBUTE TO BOOKER T. The Late Negro Educator's Memory Honored in Tuskegee. Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 12.—Ex-President Roosevelt, addressing a large gathering at Tuskegee Institute, paid tribute to the memory of Booker T. Washington, Negro educator, author and publicist. Some of the foremost citizens of the state and nation attended the memorial services, which were presided over by Beth Low, ex-mayor of New York and president of the board of trustees of Tuskegee Institute. Col. Roosevelt declared Dr. Washington directed his life work toward making Tuskegee Institute, which he founded, an asset to the state and nation. He also asserted that when he was in the White House Dr. Washington was one of the few men to whom he returned for advice because he "knew that he would not give me one word based on a selfish motive but because he would state what in his best judgment was for the best interests of the people of the entire country." "Booker T. Washington realized that the respect of the Southern white man wae the greatest asset he possessed in his work," said Roosevelt. "His sole purpose was to handle Tuskegee Institute so that it would be an asset to the South and in this he succeeded. "Booker T. Washington did justice, loved mercy and walked humbly. His every step helped others. His monument lies in the minds and memories of those whom he has served and uplifted. "The nation profited by Dr. Washington's work because he believed economic fitness was the greatest asset that can be possessed by the Negro race. He taught honesty, cleanliness and efficiency." AN APPRECIATION. Mary Eliza Clinkscale was born in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 25, 1854. In early life her mother, who finally became Mrs. Harriett Lee, moved to Chillicothe. Mo. It is one of the peculiar coincidences of their lives that, both she and her mother were stricken by the same fatal malady at about the same age. She passed her girlhood and a large share of her early life in Chillicothe. She followed the admonition of the wise man and remembered her Creator in the days of her youth. Over forty years ago she became a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus. She was baptized by Rev. D. S. Sawyer and has been a consistent Christian ever since. Hers was the life of devoted service. She bent her back to her burdens and cheerfully bore the load of one who had become a servant of her Lord. More than forty-two years have passed since she became the wife of Mr. Essic Clinkscale. They have traveled the road of life together in storm and calm, in clear and cloudy weather till death did them part. She was the mother of two children, Lulu and Hattle, the latter of whom by more than thirty years in infantile loveliness and innocence preceded her to the "house not made with hands." She had a heart full of sympathy for the misery and anguish of the poor. To the erring one she lent the ear of pity and offered the helping hand. She was one of the founders of the Colored Orphan's Home. Hers were busy hands, but she always had a spare moment to give to charity. She was a member of three fraternal orders, loyal and faithful to her obligation and her trust. For thirty-five years she has occupied a pew in the Baptist church of Topeka. No night was too dark or storm too wild to deter her from attendance at its service. Hers was a presence never missed in the Sunday or the weekly service so long as health remained. Hers were the nobler virtues acted out in common life. The warp and woof of her character were of the texture from which woven the hero and the martyr. She was sweetly resigned and patient in her sickness, and at 7:15 on Tuesday evening, November 9, suddenly appeared the pale horse and his rider. She mounted without a tremor and fearlessly rode out into the darkness but to her dawn. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Easic Clinkscale, a daughter, Mrs. C. S. Smith of Kansas City; two sisters, several nephews and nieces and a host of friends to mourn her loss. May she rest in everlasting peace. GORHAM COMPANY DISPLAYS SCULPTURE. New York, Nov. 30.—A head of Booker T. Washington, modeled at Tuskegee by Leila Ushe, acupitress, has been exhibited at the Gorham Silver Company, Fifth avenue and 36th street. The whole north window has been used for the display and thousands have viewed it. The Gorham Silver Company vies with famous Tiffany's in prestige and importance. This was a notable tribute to the great leader of the Negro people. A CORRECTION. In the last week's issue of the Sun appeared an article that Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Schooler, 118 Lafayette street Rosedale, Kas., had adopted a little girl, but it was a mistake, as Mrs. Schooler is only taking care of the baby for its mother for awhile. ANNOUNCEMENT. * Miss Eva P. Washington is no * longer connected with the Kansas * City Sun. The editor will collect * hereafter from all Kansas City, * Kas., subscribers. Take due no * tice. ..... Grand Christmas Sale Fine Suits and Overcoats at $15 Come to the Palace and take advantage of the savings afforded by this sale. Overcoats include the dressy Kersseys, novelty Scotch mixtures, swell new overplaids, as well as plain color overcoatings, with fancy plaid backs; in all the smartest overcoat models of the season, staples as well as the snappy new short, close fitting Overcoats and the popular Balmoral, with plain or velvet collar. The suitings include fancy worsteds, silk mixed worsteds, Scotch mixtures and blue serges; in every smart model of the season. Suits and Overcoats worth $20 and $22.50. 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