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1,000 Men Should Hear Evangelist Howard at Y.M.C.A. Tomorrow Afternoon! VOLUME VIII. NUMBER 20. Say, have you a furnished or unfurnished room for rent? Advertise it in The Sun and let it be bringing you in something. LEISURE HOUR REFLECTIONS FROM A QUIET CORNER. By Dennis Thompson. Work is the keynote to permanent success, and few successes can be attributed to persons of untrained talents, and yet, here and there may be found one, who has come up through the storms of disadvantages, and have been set upon the pedestal of fame along with the chosen few. Nature has endowed the average individual with talent; some are fortunate enough to have received several, but whatever the gift with which you have ben endowed by Nature, it may, in course of time, prove of little or no value unless backed up by hard work. Sometimes you may be able to bring out the "unsuspected" talent in yourself through hard work, and the great pity is that so many of us abhor the idea of hard work, but the person who loves to work sometimes uncovers endowments in their own nature that they little dreamed of. Then, this should be one of the good excuses for hard work; we can never tell what we may be able to turn up by constantly digging. So many people are afraid of being busy, and are forever worried about being tired, when engaged at something worth while; but on the other hand, if they are doing things that are of no credit to them, they can spend a lot of time at it without a murmur. We should at all times bear in mind the importance of employing our time to the best advantage, which, if we do, we are not so apt to neglect the improvement of such talents os we may be endowed with. The person who labors to improve that which they have, cannot help but make a success of life, while those who are not training what talent they have, but are looking for more, are bound to prove a dismal failure. The great aim in life should be a steady growth in the things that make for the advancement of Christianity, the progress of the world, and the uplift of humanity, generally. When al l's summed up, we find that the answer is work—hard work. There is so much to be said about work that our minds should not be satisfied with the impression left by hard work. Then, again, there are so many times people grasp the wrong idea of how work should be done. The work that counts for success in this world is hard work, well done; a little while ago the world was praising us for hard work, but now, one gets credit for hard work well done, and this is the class of work most sought for. Ofttimes we meet with persons who have a great deal of work on hand because they have conceived in their minds the greatness of having interest in a large number of things. This is a thing that cannot be recommended from the fact that a person cannot be engaged at too many occupations and be successful. It is far better that we concentrate our powers on one thing, doing that well, than to have so much to do and not do half our work. One thing well done is more creditable to us than a dozen half done. These are things which should be looked after as we go through life, oD the little things right around us; do them well and when the time is ripe, greater things may seek us. The main point is to know that we can do it a little better than someone else. It is a matter of grave concern that as we go about from day to day to meet with so many people who stand high in the estimation of the world, who are dishonest from choice. If all parents would teach their children that to be successful, one must be grater than their work and that price cannot buy character, that they will always be rich as long as they retain it; in proportion to their strength and integrity, and weak and unhappy and a failure, no matter how much money they may have, just in proportion to the weakness of character, if they only started out with the conviction that but one real failure is possible, and that the loss of self-respect, the barter of character, either for pleasure or money; if children were taught that they cannot afford to deceive even a little bit in the quality of service, they give in working and dealing with people what a great change would come to our civilization! Dishonesty should have no part in our lives. It is the duty of everyone to be honest. The sphere of duty is infinite and exists in every station of life; we have it not in our choice to be rich or poor, to be happy or unhappy; but, it becomes us to do the duty that everywhere surrounds us. Obedience to duty, at all costs, is the very essence of the highest civilized life. Great deds must be worked for, hoped for and died for, now, as in the past. The old story of the conductor admonishing the new brakeman to keep his lantern by his side, instead of hanging up in one corner of a car, at the other end of the train, looms up before us each day. There are so many people of ability that are needed in the great battle of life each day, to help give counsel, and point out the smoother ways of life to those who are tolling up the ruged steps of life. But unfortunately they are absent-minded and careless like the brakeman; they keep their light hanging up in places where it is of no avail. We can never tell what will happen to us as we journey along the great pathway of life; on every side danger lurks; it is so important that we keep our light near our side in order that we may be able to signal and mobilize our forces for good. Keeping their lights under cover is one of the first things that the majority of persons who have abl The Kansas City Sun OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION GIFT! All of our Old Subscribers who are square and 2,000 New Subscribers can secure the SUN-the Best Negro Newspaper published in the West for $1.00 for the year 1916. Write for sample copies. NELSON C. CREWS, Editor Bell Phone East 999. 1803 East Eighteenth Street, Kansas City, Mo. ity and influence, glory in; this has ben one of the great hindrances to human progress. "Am I my brother's keeper?" some may inquire. We are to the extent that we can advise each other for the best; and to give help in any way, and anywhere it is needed. Having ability and influence and the comforts of life, it is our duty to appreciate these by so living each day that may be examples to those around us. Providence has not provided us with all of these comforts for our own satisfaction, but we must let our light shine, by helping those around us that are in need, not financial need always, but sometimes need of good counsel. Keep your lantern always by your side so you may be known for your good works. Mr. J. A. Wilson, Kansas City pioneer Negro jeweler, who has a very sensible and forceful article in this issue of our paper. Mr. J. A. Wilson, Kansas City pioneer Negro jeweler, who has a very sensible and forceful article in this issue of our paper. NOTICE. The B. L. I. P. U. of A., commonly known as the Hod Carriers' Union, will be the special guests Sunday afternoon, January 16."at the Negro community meeting at Lincoln high school, at which time an address will be delivered by Mr. E. E. Rouse, cashier of the Missouri Savings bank on, "Education Through the Saving Habit." Everybody invited. GRANT MEMORIAL. Bishop Grant Memorial day will be celebrated under the auspices of the Ministerial Alliance of Greater Kansas City Wednesday, January 26. In Allen chapel at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. A great program will be rendered. The public is invited. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15. 1916. Black man or white man, Yellowman or Jew; Lord can races matter If men's hearts be true. Can the clay give color To the spirit's guise? God do races differ In the righteous eyes? From one dust thou mad'st them, Climates gave them hue. Far apart their customs Changed their language, too. Isolation bound them Shut them from the view Of the common ideals They together knew. Yet thru all the ages Carving wood or stone. They, what'er they called thee Sought the great unknown In jungle, cave or temple, Pale, grove or church, All have sought to know thee, All have blundered much. Now the morning cometh, Walls are breaking down. Human seas they mingle Black and white and brown. In the world's four corners, Ancient kinships meet. Ocean tradeways clamor Like a city street. God! Jehovah! Allah! Thy high purpose prove Send upon the races Peace and joy and love. Teach them they are brothers, Teach them to be true— Black man and white man, Yellow man and Jew. THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE FEDERATED ALUMNI Will be given FEBRUARY 12, 1916, AT Y. M. C. A. All members are requested to be present at the regular monthly meeting Thursday evening. Jan. 20, at 8 o'clock, at the Y. M. C. A., to complete arrangements and pay the annual assessment. ANNA H. JONES, President. EVA M. SMITH, Secretary. Mrs. Nickens, 808 Charlotte street, left for New Franklin. Mo., Thursday, to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Mary Brown, of that city. THE GOLDEN WEST. AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE PEOPLE, TOWNS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE GREAT WESTERN SECTION OF OUR COUNTRY. The Colored Americans Making Good in the Far West and a Steady Stream of Desirable Immigration Now Pouring Into That Splendid Country With Its Wonderful Possibilities. Chapter 10. To one who for the first time views Seattle, with its magnificent buildings, broad thoroughfares and beautiful parkways, will have difficulty in believing that less than 25 years ago the city was devastated by a great fire that did damage amounting to more than $10,000,000, but with her splendid location, her vast resources and indomitable spirit, she has risen Phoenix-like from the ashes until she is the Queen City of the great North west. And she is destined to be one of the great cities of our country. One of the peculiar atmospheric conditions of that section is the Chinook winds, which blow in soft and highly perfumed from the Pacific ocean, and no matter how cold or how much ice and snow may be on the ground, in a few hours after these winds begin to blow they disappear like a miracle and 'tis as balmy as summer in our section. Seattle has a climate well adapted to the Southern colored man, and there is no doubt but what the next few years we are going to witness a wonderful immigration to that section of our country. Seeing the City. Early the next morning the grand secretary and myself started out on foot to see the business section of the city, and we visited the great wharves which are ultimately to be the greatest in America; saw hundreds of sailing crafts and many seagoing steamers, but strange to say nearly all were manned by Chinese and Japanese sailors, due largely, they say on the coast, to the workings of the berated and iniquitous LaFollette seaman's bill, which alleged discriminates against the American seamen. We visited the great market house, which unquestionably is the most beautiful, most complete and busiest public market we have ever seen. A great majority of the stall keepers were also Japanese and Chinese, with, we are pleased to say, here and there a colored man. And the wonderful bargains offered at the various stalls in the way of produce, fruit, poultry and fish made us heart-sick, as they were fully 100 per cent less than the cost on the Kansas City market. For instance, we could buy five large stalks of elegant, crisp celery for 5 cents, the same kind we pay 10 cents and 12 cents a stalk for here. Lucious naval oranges at 10 cents a peck, fresh from the grove; elegant Columbia river salmon, weighing from two to five pounds, for from 10 to 25 cents each. Clams 5 cents a quart, chickens from 25 to 35 cents each that would cost here 60 to 80 cents, and many other things in proportion. The highest thing we saw in the way of food stuff was eggs, which sold from 40 to 60 cents per dozen. While strolling down the principal thoroughfare window shopping we were unceremoniously bumped into by some one in a rough manner, and as our anger arose we turned to see who had been so rough in their jostling, and behold, it was our niece and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Shanon of Butte, Mont, who were visiting friends in the city and whom we happened to meet by the merest accident. To say that were glad to meet them goes without a question, and after introducing them to the secretary, we all had a delightful stroll and chat. Mr. and rMs. Shannon were looking exceedingly well and were enjoying themselves immensely, and contemplated visiting the exposition at Fresco before returning to their home. After bidding them goodbye for the afternoon we returned to our hotel for luncheon, where we found Brother Burr Williams, R. L. Tutt, Walter Bates and Shack Harris waiting for us with a big touring car and we were given a 50-mile drive over the city, where we had a chance to view the lake, the ocean, the harbors, the cascades, the snow covered mountains from a faraway distance, the harbor defenses, the beautiful park system, the state university, Chinatown, homes of the prominent and prosperous colored people of the city and many other places of interest. In the evening we were taken to one of the foremost theaters where the grand secretary had an opportunity to laugh to his heart's content over the antics of Charlie Chaplin, the comedian, and thereafter wherever we saw a movie house and the picture of Charlie Chaplin there was no peace until the grand secretary had had an opportunity to see that particular play. We met several former Missourians out here who were doing nicely. And yet they all hope some day to have a chance to visit the old home place again. Finally on Friday evening we decided to pack our trunks and start for the next point on our itinerary and after calling a taxi, making the rounds to residences and business places of our various acquaintances, and tucking divers and sundry nourishments and refreshments and so forth provided by our generous hosts, we boarded the train for our next stop, the historic and beautiful city of Spokane. Miss Lillian Tolley furnishes delicious biscuits made of the famous I-H flour to all the churches, lodge and other entertainments, free of cost. FIRST NEGRO 'UNCLETOM' DEAD Samuel Lucas of Boston Played Role in Civil War Days. New oYrk, Jan. 10.—Samuel Lucas, a Negro who played with the famous old Boston Museum Stock company and was said to be the first man to have played Uncle Tom in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when the novel was dramatized in Civil War days, died today at his home. He was 75 years old. The Cadet Corps of Western university was formally mustered in by the adjutant general of the state of Kansas, last Thursday. In spite of the extremely cold weather, the battalion, headed by the university band, gave a highly creditable drill and parade, which was enjoyed by all present. We want good reliable Agents in every city and town in the country. Write us for terms. PRICE. 5c. HOME FOR NEGRO GIRLS. It is with great interest that we are watching for the opening of the industrial home for Negro girls recently erected at Tipton. On a recent visit to Tipton I visited the institution then nearing completion and was surprised and pleased indeed to see the splendid buildings being erected for this purpose. No pains seem to have been spared to meet every requirement. The sanitary floors and walls, the beautifully appointed baths and lavatories numbering twenty and more, the dormitories, class rooms, dining room, kitchen modernly equipped, serving pantry—all bespeak for the committee on building careful foresight and consideration for the purpose intended. It is gratifying also to know that the board of directors have decided to install colored officers to have charge of this splendid institution; there will be a lady superintendent and her assistants, consisting of a matron, housekeeper, cook, etc., to help carry on the great work of training these girls and making them good citizens. The position of superintendent is an important one and should fall on the shoulders of a responsible and competent woman; one who has the interest of these poor girls at heart and will do all within her power to direct their lives that they may yet become useful and respected women. Such a woman we firmly believe would be found in the person of Mrs. Estelle Weaver of Kansas City, an applicant for the position. Mrs. Weaver is an unusually intelligent, bright and energetic young woman, full of the right spirit and ideas to be conveyed into this work. In reply to my question as to what suggestions she would offer relative to the training given to these girls, she said emphatically, "Teach them to work—to learn to do well everything about a home; the laundering of clothes, cooking a clean, wholesome meal, serving a table, care of a kitchen, dining room and pantries, the care of a bedroom—everything pertaining to a well cared for home. I have been engaged in this work before," said Mrs. Weaver, not with what was termed incorrigible girls, but with girls who had not had any home training, and it was very interesting to watch them develop and the pride they took in the tasks set before them." We feel that Mrs. Weaver has the right idea and strikes the keynote when she says: "Keep the girls busy learning useful things; get them interested and you have sent them a long way on the road to being useful and respected citizens." Mrs. Weaver has our hearty support in her behalf. She is a bright, Christian little woman; the mother of several small children and recently widowed. The state would do well to secure so well equipped and efficient a worker. Not only is she splendidly equipped mentally and physically for this position, but she came from one of the most illustrious families of color in America, being a sister of Mrs. Dr. J. E. Perry and Mrs. Dr. T. A. Jones of this city, and a granddaughter of the immortal and illustrious Frederick Douglass. NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE The League will meet Sunday night at Second Baptist church. All business and professional people are invited to come out and get acquainted. Memorial services in honor of Dr. Washington will be held Sunday afternoon, February 13, at Central High School, Eleventh and Locust. The following persons will appear on the program: Hon. H. M. Beardsley, Prof J. R. E. Lee, Hon. W. C. Hueston, Also a musical program will be furnished by, Prof. R. G. Jackson, with a chorus of 100 voices selected from the choirs of the various churches. Other features will be the Lincoln High School Glee Club, the Lincoln High School Orchestra and Prof. Reynolds of Sumner High, Kansas City, Kas. Annual election of officers will be held next Thursday evening at Y. M. C. A., at 8 p. m. sharp. All business and professional people invited. A GREAT BOOK. The new book, "My Work and Public Sentiment," by Mrs. Maria P. Williams, one of our foremost women, who resides in this city, is creating more interest and discussion than any other book published by a Colored person in recent years. It contains matters of much interest, not only to the race, but to all the people of this country, and is beautifully illustrated. Mrs. Williams has done possibly more than any of the other Colored women in the West, both as an editor and orator, and upon the political platform she has proven herself an able and courageous defender of the rights of her people. As one brother said to us concerning the book, "It's a humdinger," and if you don't believe it, just read it. Mrs. Williams is receiving orders from all parts of the country for this work and if you don't secure a copy and enjoy its interesting and illuminating contents, then you're not right. QUARTERLY MEETING. QUARTERLY MEETING. At the Paseo C. M. E. church, 1815 Pasee, Sunday, January 16. All are invited. Come and enjoy a spiritual feast. Come early so you can get a good seat. D. J. R. Ransom of the First A. M. E. church, Kansas City Kansas will preach the Sacramental sermon. J. R. McClain, pastor. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the School of the Moody Bachelor Institute, Chase's PETER'S SERMON AT PENTECOSTA LESSON TEXT: Acts 2:14:47 LESSON TEXT—Acts 2:14-47. GOLDEN TEXT—Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.—Acts 1:1. Comparing verse one (R, V.) with the last clause of verse 15, we conclude that this was one early morning prayer meeting which drew a crowd. In this crowd (vv. 9, 10) and on this occasion we see in miniature the evangelism of the world. What Peter hoped to accomplish is an interesting speculation and is answered by his manner and mode of testimony. His famous "sermon" consists of 12 verses, and the balance in quotations from Joel, Psalms, etc. I. The Empowered Witness, vv. 14-36. (1) Peter testified that Jesus is alive. (a) These men, speaking by the power of the Spirit, are not drunken, but are speaking in soberness of a great fact. (b) This that they hear "is that" prophecied by Joel (2:28, 28). This Jesus of whom they have been speaking had fulfilled this prophecy by mighty deeds (v. 22), by having risen from the dead (v. 23) and of this the disciples were all witnesses (v. 32); he had also been "exalted" (v. 33), and his glory Peter had witnessed upon the mount (II Peter 1:16-18). (2) Peter asserts that whosoever believes in Jesus as Lord and Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, shall be saved (vv. 21, 36). (a) He shall be saved from sin and misery in this world; (b) saved unto a life eternal; (c) he shall receive this same power the disciples had received. Peter's witnessing is the same as Jesus has a right to expect of us, the testimony of personal experience, backed up by the word of God. Jesus was indorsed by his miracles, the testimony of those who had seen him as the risen Lord and by his fulfillment of Messianic prophecy. He was also exalted in the testimony given in all tongues by the empowering spirit. II. The Powerful Result, vv. 37:42. The truth of Peter's words was carried home by the Holy Spirit producing deep conviction of sin. (1) Conversion. The question of verse 37 was a result. They had seen the place of Jesus in the plan of prophecy of God. They saw the boldness of these disciples and they also saw their sin. (2) Confession. Peter's answer to their question was plain and simple. (a) "Repent," i. e., change their minds and their attitude towards Jesus, from that which had caused his crucifixion, to one of absolute surrender, of repentance and renunciation of sin; the surrender of the will to Jesus as Lord. (2) "Be baptized." Outward water baptism is involved, but it is the symbol of the inward change of heart, of the renunciation of sin, death to self (Rom. 6:4) and the putting on of Christ (Gal. 3:26, 27). (3) Continuance (v. 42). Accepted and confessed Christ, they were to teach others, to have fellowship with believers in prayer and in breaking of bread, to continue "in the way." III. Added Evidence of Power, vv. 43-47. This passage is not a brief for communism. It is interesting to note that this communism was among believers (v. 44). It was for a special occasion, for they had "tarried at Jerusalem" many days, and beyond doubt had not provided for a long visit. It was according as each "had need". It was purely voluntary (5: 4, 9). The Holy Spirit, however, does bring unity and altruism among believers which expresses itself in social relations and service. There is a difference between the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's gifts (I Cor. 12). The baptism of the Holy Spirit or "the gift of the Holy Ghost" is always dependent upon real rementance and is accompanied by remission of sins. This experience is the blood-bought right of every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. To "receive" is to take or to claim, and by simple prayer and faith that to which we have a right (Acts 4:31; 8: 15, 16; Luke 11:13; I John 5:14, 15). By making Jesus Lord and Christ we shall receive the promise (v. 39) which, Peter declared, was for Jewish believers, their children for coming generations, and "all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call." i. e., gentiles of every coming century. In other words, Pentecost was but an episode which ushered in an age, the age of the Holy Spirit, and he is for every child of God, Jewish and gentle, in every age and in every church. The result is not necessarily some spectacular demonstration; there was none with Timothy or with Lydia, but the individual must enter into the experience alone. Believers who have thus been baptized will find fellowship with other believers, will have power in testimony and will produce results upon the community in which they live (Gal. 5:22). During that apostolic age every new manifestation of the spirit through its accompanying addition to the number of believers—"The Lord added day by day those that were saved . . . many believers; believers were the more added . . . multitudes of both men and women . . . the word of God increased; a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith." These and similar references indicate the steady and rapid progress of the Spirit-filled church. Peter's sermon honors the Scripture, Christ and the Holy Spirit. The spirit can and does use the living word in preparing men for the kingdom of God. It might be well to ask, is there any limit to the promise of verse 39? Are we conscious of the Spirit in our lives? AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Major Robert Russa Moton of Hampton, whom a subcommittee of the board of trustees of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute unanimously selected as successor to the late Booker T. Washington, said in an interview that he intended to carry on the work of Tuskegee along the same rational lines which Doctor Washington had followed. "I accept this new responsibility," said Major Moton, "with anxious humility. Doctor Washington was truly a great man, viewed from every angle. I cannot fill his place, with the guidance and support of Tuskegee's wise and sympathetic board of trustees, and with the earnest co-operation and loyal help of the faithful and efficient corps of workers whom Doctor Washington gathered about him at Tuskegee. I shall endeavor to the best of my ability to carry on the work to which he gave his life with the same spirit and with the same rational methods which he so wisely and so successfully used." Major Moton, it is known, was Doctor Washington's choice as his successor as leader of Tuskegee's work. The two men were intimate friends, held the same views as to the best methods for helping their race to a fuller citizenship, and often spoke from the same platform in the North and on the "educational tours" of the Southern states. The subcommittee which chose Major Moton was composed of Seth Low, Frank Trumbull, W. W. Campbell, Victor H. Tulman, and Edgar A. Bancroft. Mr. Low gave out the following statement: "The trustees of Tuskegee institute at their meeting in Tuskegee, December 13, appointed the under-signed committee with power to select the principal, provided it could act unanimously. The committee today has, by unanimous action, appointed Major R. R. Moton to be principal. His installation will take place at the commencement next May. In taking this action, the committee has not been unmindful of the long devotion and many qualifications of Emmet J. Scott for the position. The problem to be dealt with is a many-sided one, and it has seemed wise to seek a solution of it that will bring to the work of Tuskegee another forceful personality." The late Booker T. Washington, in his book entitled "My Larger Education," had this to say of the man who is to succeed him as principal of the institution which Doctor Washington built up from a log cabin, and to which he devoted his life: "It has been my privilege to come into contact with many different types of people, but I know few men who are so lovable, and, at the same time, so sensible in their nature as Major Moton. He is chock-full of common sense. Further than that he is a man who, without obtruding himself and without understanding how he does, it makes you believe in him from the very first time you see him and from your first contact with him, and, at the same time, makes you love him. He is the kind of man in whose company I always feel like being, never tire of, always want to be around him or always want to be near him. "One of the continual sources of surprise to people who come for the first time into the southern states is to hear of the affection with which white men and women speak of the older generation of colored people with whom they grew up, particularly the old colored nurses. The lifelong friendships that exist between these old 'aunties' and 'uncles' and the white children with whom they were raised No financial achievement which St. Louis has put to its credit in the past half century is more significant than the success of the colored citizens of St. Louis in raising $50,000 for a colored Y. M. C. A. building. But a scant half century ago the colored citizens of St. Louis had just emerged from slavery; and, as Booker Washington put it, their sole assets consisted of a few bed quilts, pumpkins and fowls "miscellaneously gathered." Today the race numbers many men of substantial means and big civic spirit. A large proportion of the people of St. Louis, including the writer of these words, come of Southern stock. Our ancestors were tended in their infancy, served in their mature years and tenderly cared for in their old age by the strong hands and warm hearts of American Negroes. This obligation thus accumulated through the generations is one which we can never fully discharge. The opportunity to help in the work so nobly started in the interest of an institution whose function is to make colored boys into good citizens, who might otherwise develop in bad ones, is one that we cannot af- Nice shiny bugles may be bought very cheaply up in Manitoba, where a large consignment intended for the troops has been cast aside because in a wee sma' nook on the inside was found these words: "Made in Germany." King Alfonso has reigned longer than any other European sovereign, with the exception of the king of Montenegro and the emperor of Austria. He was born a king, and so has reigned just over 29 years. "STOLE MY WIFE AND NAME" A charge that Warren Wunder not only stole the wife of Herman H. Roecker, but Roecker's name as well, is made in a suit for $1,500 damages entered against him in a municipal court. Roecker, who lives in Pine street near Sixtieth, accuses Wunder of alienating the affections of Mrs. Roecker and inducing her to live with him as man and wife. "He even went so far as to assume is something that is hard for strangers to understand. It is just these qualities of human sympathy and affection that endeared so many of the older generation of Negroes to their masters and mistresses, and which seems to have found expression, in a higher form, in Major Moton. Although he has little schooling outside of what he was able to get at Hampton institute, Major Moton is one of the best read men and one of the most interesting men to talk with I have ever met. Education has not 'spoiled' him, as it seems to have done in the case of some other educated Negroes. It has not embittered or narrowed him in his affections. He has not learned to hate or distrust any class of people, and he is just as ready to assist and show a kindness to a white man as to a black man, to a Southerner as to a Northerner. The 90,000 waiters and kitchen attendants of the New York hotels and restaurants are being licensed. To do so they must pass a physical examination. ford, in view of past history and present needs, to pass by.—St. Louis Republic. From 1790 to 1870 the actual work of gathering census statistics was performed by the United States marshals, and the enumerations varied in length from ten to eighteen months. In 1880 there was adopted the plan, followed at all subsequent censuses, of having this work done by a large body of enumerators under the direction of supervisors. A recent investigation by Professor Haberlandt of Germany shows that living wood is of much food value, sapwood, twigs and branches containing large quantities of sugar, starch and oil, with some albumen. Soft woods contain much oil, hard woods much starch. An electrical smoke abatement device has been invented whereby the particles of soot are charged by current led through fine wires in a smoke-stack until they unite and become heavy enough to fall into a receptacle. A London railroad station has been equipped with penny-in-the-slot machines to sell tickets to persons who wish to accompany friends to trains. A California inventor's wave power motor utilizes the horizontal motion of the water instead of the vertical, usually the case in such devices. On a farm conducted by the municipality of Berlin cows are being milked in the fields by electrical machines deriving their power through cables. my name." Roeecker says, "and was known by it in the neighborhood in which he and my wife lived." The Roeecker's were married in June, 1909, in West Chester. They lived happily, the husband says, until Wunder became acquainted with Mrs. Roeecker. From that time on, he charges, his wife's love for him began to cool, and his home was entirely broken up in March, 1910. Judge Gilpin issued a caplas for Wunder's arrest.—Philadelphia North American. A Dressy Frocks for the Difficult Age When Paris determines to make use of a good, common-sense idea in creating the styles for womankind, we may be sure the idea will be gracefully handled. Among the recent importations are leather-trimmed tailored suits and separate skirts which promise to be entirely successful with American women, who are keen to appreciate the union of utility and beauty in their apparel. Among the best examples of the combination of fabric and leather are separate skirts made of strong, soft, woolen plaids, trimmed with a glace leather, matching the predominating color in the plaid. They are short, fitted smoothly about the hips, cut with a moderate flare, and faced up about the bottom with leather. A belt of leather and leather pockets, or leather-trimmed pockets, usually appear as finishing details. Entire skirts of leather or entire jackets of leather followed in the wake of these first models but are not Dressy Frocks for To choose clothes for a girl of ten, or thereabouts, is more of a task than confronts the mother of the very little girl, or presents itself in clothing the nearly grown miss. It happens that the child from six to fourteen is very likely to be too thin and, hence, angular and awkward. Sometimes she is considerably too fat. In either case the mother must select styles that will tone down her defects of figure and keep her unconscious of them. Occasionally a little girl grows up without the usual experiences of "the awkward age," and the chances are that she owes much to a judicious mother who clothed her artfully. Up to twelve years simple and almost straight lines are to be recommended in the garments of children. The skirt reaches the knee or a little below it. But in the matter of length there is very good authority for extending the skirt several inches below the knee, especially for the girl past eight. For a slender child a full long-waisted blouse and very short skirt is Beetles on Veils. Writing a very sensible and practical article entitled "The Comic in Dress," in the Woman's Home Companion, Grace Margaret Gould, fashion editor of that publication, tells how some women make themselves ridiculous by taking the new styles and applying them to themselves too rigorously. Veils worn by some of the women have beetles and bug woven in their meshes and at a little distance the effect is downright startling. in the following paragraph taken from so well received. While every woman will see the advantage of a leather protection for the bottom of a cloth skirt and the harmony of leather introduced in the details of finishing, all-leather garments are too cumbersome to be graceful, and there is no good reason for making them. One of the leather-trimmed skirts is shown in the picture given here. The leather facing about the bottom is joined to the cloth by a piping of leather and the top of the facing is shaped into very wide and very shallow scallops. On one of the best importations the leather facing was put on in four sections and these were laced together with a silk cord. Narrow leather bindings finish the pockets and belt. Skirts of this kind are cut very short, not reaching below the tops of high boots, which often match the leather trim in color. Never invest in an alligator hide pocketbook. It's a skin game. the Difficult Age good style, or the high-waisted bodice with full flaring skirt. Elbow sleeves and square-necked patterns look well on her. Two pretty frocks for the ten-year-old are shown here which will prove successful on almost any figure. One is of sapphire-blue chiffon made in one piece with a small bolero of net and embroidery like the chiffon in color. It is finished with a double flounce and worn over a silk slip in the same shade of blue. The dress of white net is made in the long-waisted style that is always worn. The blouse is laid in plaits on the shoulder and the full, plain skirt is finished with a group of narrow tucks. It does not quite reach the knee and is worn over a fine lawn petticoat edged with val lace and longer than the skirt by almost the width of the edging. her article, Miss Gould comments on the funny part a veil plays in the comedy of dress: "What can be the idea of a woman who ties over her face a veil with a huge crawling beetle woven into it? What is she thinking of? And wouldn't she scream and shriek if the beetle came to life?" Preserving Them. "Why don't you use your brains. Douglass?" "Because I want them to laut"—London Punch. HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS WINTER WINDOW REFRIGERATORS. A window refrigerator is one of the many conveniences which a boy can make for his mother. It may be a small affair like that shown in Fig. 1, to hold milk and cream bottles and a butter jar, or it may be built large like the one in Fig. 2, with shelf-room enough for meats and other foods. A grocery box will do for the small refrigerator. There is little work to the making of this. Nail a narrow strip across the top near one edge, to hinge the cover to, and fasten together the cover boards with wooden strips screwed across them as in the illustration. After hinging the cover in place screw an iron hinge-hasp to $\textcircled{1}$ it and an iron staple to the front of the box for it to hook on to; also fasten a piece of chain or heavy cord to nails driven into the box end and into the edge of the cover, to keep the cover from dropping back too far when opened. Fasten the refrigerator box upon the window sill, close to the window sash. Then, with the cover hasp, the box will be tramp-proof, because while the window is closed there will not be room enough between the box and the glass to raise the iron hasp. For the larger refrigerator shown in Fig. 2, get a grocery box that will $\textcircled{2}$ extend across the entire width of the window in which the refrigerator is to be placed, or take a longer box and cut it down to fit. Place this box upon its side (Fig. 3), cut two triangular pieces of equal size, and fasten one at each end of the box, as shown at A (Fig. 4). The front edge of these pieces should be six or eight inches high and the rear edge about two inches high. After nailing the pieces in place fasten a strip B between the rear ends. Cut boards of the right length and width to roof over the top, and nail them to the tops of pieces A and B, then cut two boards C (Fig. 2) to fit the open front of the refrigerator, and after fastening them in the positions shown, cut a strip D to fit between them. By making the pieces C wide enough, you can probably find two $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{4}$ boards of the right width for doors. Hinge them to boards C as shown. The simple lock in the illustration is easily made. Cut bar E as long as the width of one door, and screw it at one end to the center of one door; then screw two screw-hooks into the other door, with the hook ends turned up for the bar to drop onto. Screw a screweye or screw-hook into each end of the refrigerator box, twist a piece of wire around it, and fasten the other end of the wire to a hook or eye screwed into the window frame. Bore a hole through each end of the box into each compartment, for ventilation. For Stains. For stains on light dresses, etc., lay the garment flat on a table and cover the stains with dry pipe clay. Leave for half an hour, then shake out, and apply a second lot if necessary. Take out stains as soon after they are made as possible, for if they are allowed to dry in they are more difficult to remove. Daily Thought, The word "tomorrow" was invented for irresolute people and for children. —Turgienleff. THREE HOMEMADE GAMES. If you have never played the game of fish-pond (Fig. 1) you have missed a great deal of fun. Get a cardboard box for the pond, and cut down its depth to 1 inch (Fig. 2). Then cut rows of slots through the cover, as shown, for the fish to stick into. Draw the outline of a fish upon a piece of cardboard, as shown in fig. 3. Make it two inches long. Then cut it out, and use it as a pattern for marking one fish for every slot in the pond. Punch a small hole through the head of each fish, to provide for hooking it. Number the fish 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25. Each player must have a stick for a fishing hole, with a short piece of $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{1}$ FISH·POND string attached to the end for a line, and a bent pin tied to the end of the line for a hook. In fishing, the line must be lowered and the fish hooked out of the pond without allowing the hook to strike any part of the fish. In the hook strikes, the turn passes to the next player. The points scored as determined by the numbers upon the fish. The solitaire board (Fig. 4) should be eight inches square. Divide the edges of this into eight equal parts, and with ruler and pencil draw lines across from side to side, connecting $\textcircled{5}$ $\textcircled{4}$ SOLITAIRE BOARD the points or division (Fig. 5). Then with a large nail and a hammer (or, better still, with a gimlet, if there is one in the house), make holes at the intersections of the lines indicated in Fig. 5. When the holes have been made, cut enough wooden pegs to fit all but one. The game is played by one person. The pegs are stuck in all but the center hole, and the game is started with a peg second from the hole, jumping it over the peg between it and the hole, into the hole. The peg jumped over is removed. Then, one by one, the pegs are jumped over and removed. The object of the game is to 6. TENPINS Jump the pegs in such an order that, finally, all but one will have been removed. Fig. 6 shows a quickly made set of tenpins. The spools for the bases should all be of an equal size. Arrange the ten pins upon the floor in the positions shown in Fig. 6, and use three rubber balls with which to bowl them over. Each player in her turn should roll the three balls at the pins. One point is scored for each pin bowled over. Time to Lie Still: "Can you play dead in a battle scene?" "Dat's easy." "Not so easy as you think. You mustn't jump when the cannon are fired over your prostate body."—Louisville Courter-Journal. Great Deeds Call for Application. He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such concentration of his forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.—Francie Parkman. THE KANSAS CITY SUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY. All communications should be addressed to Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th St. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 12, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa B. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 50 ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Bernardial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kansas. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Vine St. Baptist Church 1825 Vine St. Woodland A. M, E. Church 11th and Woodland. Blue Valley Baptist church, 1120 Crystal avenue. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Bellevue. Saveth Day Adventist, 23rd and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Bellevue. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. St. James A. M. E. Z. Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Third Baptist Church, Roundtop. People's Mission, 30th and Genesee. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Baptist Church, 19th and Akew. Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lyda. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 409 Mill St. St. James Church, M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 556 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1643 Madison Ave. First A. M. E. Church, 3th and Neb. First Green Church, 1st and spitting. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland Protropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Soomon Baptist Church, 3rd and 4th. Quindardo A. M. E. Church, Quindardo Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosedale Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. A. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salter Mission, A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart Church, 1st and Ruby Wesley Chapel Church, 16th St. Paul A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 *adams* Betha A. M. E. Church, Resalee, Kan M. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virginia Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont. Houston Primitive Baptist Church Westport avenue and Tangent street, Rockville, MD EDITORIAL Because of color segregation which prevents Dr. C. V. Hinds from living in a suitable house in Trenton, N. J. he will remove from that city. Uncle Isham Griffin of Chattanooga has records to show that he is 105 years old. He is older than the telephone, the phonograph, the motion picture, the telegraph or the fireless cooker. President Wilson has written a note to Major R. R. Moten congratulating him upon his appointment to the principalship of Tuskegee. It I shoped that Major Moten will so conduct himself that in case he should die the president will be sorry. Of the sixty-one lynchings in 1915, fourteen were white men and three were colored women. Only eleven of the number were accused of rape and four of these were afterwards found to be not guilty, a serious defect in the southern plan of administering punishment in advance of trial. The appalling accident of last Sunday morning, in which a whole crowd of people were run down by a speeding automobile is only relieved by the fact that the driver was not a Negro. Yet it should be an example to all colored drivers who are ever tempted to drink or dally with bad women, while in charge of their employers' property The better class of people in Kansas City are tired of the rule of graft and crime which has marked this community for the last two years, but by dividing their support between the two old parties and the two new parties of the Star and the Post they will end up just where they are now. The repeaters and pie followers will get together just as they have always done and the Democrats will win. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The Master Mind of A Child of Slavery. (Memorial Edition by Frederick E Drinker, editor and author.) Containing an accurate and interesting account of the life an dtimes of one of the world's greatest men. A description of his trip abroad, with photographs of him in the various large European capitals; profusely illustrated with photographs of buildings and students, operations at Tuskogee. Handsomely bound, containing 350 pages. Price $1.00 and $1.50. Orders promptly filled. But order early as hundreds of these books will be sold within the next few weeks. Address E. E. Vaughan, 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas., exclusive agent for Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Betty & Sam's Little Corner A —That the wages of sin is death and I believe it, too. —That if you don't advertise your business you'll soon have no business to advertise. —That if you can make it through this weather with B. V. S.'s and low cuts, you can live always. —That one old borther was hear dto exclaim: "Don't care nothin' about chicken, just give me chin bones." —That one poor sinner who has been attending the revival until the cold snap, when asked by a good brother if was going to attend the meeting a very cold night this week, replied, "No, I've done asked the Lawd to excuse me tonight." Wonder if he'll excuse him when he goes to die? —That a certain brother who came up from Louisiana on the excursion last summer was standing on the corner last Thursday morning when the thermometer was 30 below zero, singing to the top of his voice. "Let me go, let me go, let me go back home to Dixie," and when the police came and took him away and put him in the station house where it was nice and warm, all they could get him to say was, "Let me go back home to Dixie." Well, this cold weather will make you do most anything you are not used to. TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE TO BE HELD JAN. 19. 1916. In order to put new life into the Tuskegee Negro conference, Booker T. Washington's last suggestion to the conference committee was that there should be a variation of the usual program. Accordingly, the exercises to be had at the conference at Tuskegee Institute on Jan. 19, 1916, will be very much different from former programs. The regular conference session, instead of convening at 10 o'clock a. m. as formerly, will be held in the chapel in the afternoon, beginning at 1:30 o'clock and continuing until 4 o'clock. The main topics to be discussed by visitors and delegates will be: (1) "How I Am Managing to Keep Ahead of the Boll Weevil;" (2) "Crop Diversification," and (3) "How Our Community Built a Schoolhouse." To all this will be added special addresses by experts. Members of the United States department of agriculture, the governor and other state officials of Alabama, and members of the Auburn college staff will be specially invited to be present. The workers' conference will be held in the academic assembly room on January 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The subject will be: "The Better Housing of Negroes." The topic will be divided into two parts: (1) Urban or City Housing Conditions, and (2) Rural Housing Conditions. Under the first will be discussed: (a) Housing Conditions and the Urban Death Rate for Negroes; (b) Some Examples of What Is Being Doed to Improve Urban Housing Conditions, and (c) Agencies Which Can Assist in Improving Urban Housing Conditions. Under "Rural Housing Conditions" will be discussed: (a) Housing Conditions and the Rural Death Rate for Negroes; (b) Housing Conditions and the Rural Labor Supply; and (c) Agencies Which Can Assist in Improving Rural Housing Conditions. Health demonstrations will be held by Tuskegee Institute health department. HOLDEN, MO. Brown's Minstrel Show has been in for two weeks on account of the illness of the manager. Walter Brown, who has been very sick, is recovering....Mr. Tony Atkins, who has been sick, is getting along nicely....The sisters of the Circle met last Friday at Mrs James Honeley's, and had a nice program. The news came from Chilhowe that Brother Duncan was very sick....We wish him a spedy recovery....Mr. Ed Lee, who was called to Lexington last week to the bedside of his sick mother, returned home last Sunday and said that he left his mother and daughter, Miss Hortence Isam, much better....Mrs. Fannie Miller who have been paying a visit to Mrs Hannah Jacobs....Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown returned to Kansas City last Sunday, saying they had a splendid visit here....Mr. Charles Pratt, who has been in Kansas City a week, returned home last Saturday and reported his friend much improved....Mr. Walter Hanley, who is sick in bed, is much better at this writing....Mr. Howard Harden, who went to Kansas last wek, looking for work, came home last Thursday and said all jobs were taken....Mrs. Robert Gilmore of Chilhowe, was called to Holden this week on account of her sick mother, Mrs Jane Adams....We hope the old subscribers of Holden will take advantage of the rate on the paper this month and that as many persons will subscribe as see fit. Call Charles Pratt, 276, and he will call to see you. The Sun from now until January 31 at the special rate of one dollar. Y. M. C. A. NOTES Y. M. C. A. NOTES Mr. A. Frank Neal, formerly a manager of the Paseo Y. M. C. A., now residing in Salt Lake City, Utah, will make a few remarks at the Men's meeting, Sunday. Dr. L. E. Bailer, L. A. Knox and Dr. J. E. Perry were nominated at the member's meeting Thursday, December 11, to succeed themselves for the next three years, to fill the positions of managers. New faces are showing up constantly in the gymnasium classes and each member is enthusiastic about his work. Zero weather outside is no proof against the comfort of the Y. M. C. A. The weather effects the attendance very little... The boys that went to "Camp Inspiration" last summer had a camp reunion last Friday night. After ter singing the camp songs and doing the camp stunts all over again, each boy received his honor blank from camp last year. Each bay had with him a boy friend who enjoyed the camp song "Sal Jones" as much as the campers. The boys are asking of the coming summer camp already. Six men making decisions to live the Christian life, was the result of the mine's meeting on last Sunday, addressed by Rev. S. L. Howard, secretary of the Evangelistic Bureau of the A. M. Church. The address, "Seeking the Pight Way," was replete with illustrations that went directly to the hearts of the men. When the invitation was given to those who wanted to see the right way, through the help of Christ Jesus, six clean-cut decisions were the result. Two of these men are to connect with Allen Chapel, one with Ebenezer and one with the Vine Street Church. Two were undecided as to which church they would connect themselves...Next Sunday a meeting that is expected to eclipse all former men's meetings is planned by the churches and the association. A thousand men in attendance is the goal of this meeting. The manner in which the high school boys are taking old of the class work in the gymnasium is highly gratifying to the boy's work and the physical directors, and this branch LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL EXTENSION The regular monthly School meeting of the Lincoln High School January 16, at 3 p. m. Mr. E. E. Missouri Savings Bank Association Thru the Savings Habitat High School Orchestra. The end to be present. DR. L. L. DEN Announces the opening of a d. and Vine streets, over McCampbell would be pleased to make an o. mate on your work. The regular monthly School and Community Improvement meeting of the Lincoln High School will be held Sunday, January 16, at 3 p. m. Mr. E. E. Rouse, Assistant Cashier of the Missouri Savings Bank Association, will speak, subject "Education Thru the Savings Habit." Special music by Lincoln High School Orchestra. The entire public is invited and urged to be present. DR. L. L. SHELTON DENTIST Announces the opening of a dental office at corner of Howard and Vine streets, over McCampbell & Houston's Drug Store. He would be pleased to make an examination and submit an estimate on your work. Office hours, 9:00 A. M to 6 P. M. Sundays by Appointment. A FEW WARM, STEAM HEATED ROOMS FOR MEN PASEO Y. M. C. A. BUILDING $1.50 PER WEEK AND UP of the work will make some wonderful strides in the coming year. feelings, devotions in which alone men really live are the poetry of life and TABLE TALK Bv 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 consumate 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, $20,000 GIVEN TO THE OLD CITY HOSPITAL. By way of celebration of the passing of the city bonds and the good that will result therefrom for the old city hospital, the mayor was entertained at that institution Saturday evening with a "possum" supper. Other guests were the members of the hospital and health board, the health commissioner, the superintendent of the general hospital, city comptroller, the mayor's secretary. The "possum" was accompanied by such delicacies as sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie that served to make it a real Southern repast. The hospital staff is very jubilant over the fact that instead of the seven thousand dollars originally asked for through the earnest solicitation of Dr. Thompkins and the efforts of Mr. Flinn, president of the hospital and health board, the city comptroller succeeded in raising that amount to twenty thousand dollars. This sum will mean the accomplishment of many improvements to the advantage of our people, some of which are granitoid walks from the street to all the buildings, electricity in the nurses' home, an X-ray machine, the conversion of all the porches into sanitioriums, which will mean the accommodation of one hundred more beds, the remodeling of the tuberculosis pavilion and the transference of all such patients there; a completely equipped children's ward, linoleum for all the wards and hardwood floors for the halls; besides complete redecoration of the building, passenger elevator installed in the building. It is expected that all this will be completed before the meeting here next summer of the National Medical Association. and Community Improvement School will be held Sunday, Jan- dury. Rouse, Assistant Cashier of the station, will speak, subject "Edu- nit." Special music by Lincoln entire public is invited and urged SHELTON TIST mental office at corner of Howard Bell & Houston's Drug Store. He examination and submit an esti- Sundays by Appointment STEAM HEATED FOR MEN C. A. BUILDING 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 moss nigh here!" INDEPENDENCE, MO. Mrs. Henry Clark, Mrs. Geo. Clark and Miss Anna L. Law of Omaha spent the holidays visiting friends and relatives in Independence and Pleasant Hill....Mr. Lionel Turner is very ill at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Turner....Mr. P. C. Turner, who is principal of the public school of Harrisonville, spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Turner....Mrs. Mary Raglan is very ill at her home on South Crystal avenue....Mrs. Emma Lee and Mrs. Ida Copridge are still on the sick list....Mr. David Meade and Miss Melia Taylor were quietly married December 26 at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Beckham....The Avondale club gave an informal reception and dance Tuesday evening, December 28, at the U. B. F. hall....Mr. H. S. Parker of Washington, D. C., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott. Mr. Parker is in the government service in Washington....Miss Hattie Hughes and Miss 'bble Pollard entertained the afternoon of December 30 at the residence of the latter, complimentary to Mrs. Henry Clark, Mrs. Geo. Clark and Miss Anna L. Law. Whist was indulged in. Many out of town guests were present....Misses Flora Kyle, Alberta Chinn and Cozetta Pollard of Lincoln institute, who were home for the holidays, have returned to Jefferson City....The Avondale Whist club met with Miss Eda Rhodes January 5. Prizes were awarded. 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 phone E. 4788. MRS. CADDIE WITCHER, 1708 Michigan Ave. Madam Hair and Scalp Treatment. Bell phone, East 4167X. CAFES. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, East CARPET CLEANERS. EUREKA CARPET CLEANING CO., 1718-20 Euclid Ave. East 3555; Home, East 4169. COAL AND FEED. W. W. PAYNE, 1902 1-2 Vine St. Bell phone, East 559; H 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. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone. East 618. CARPET CLEANERS. RUPET CLEANING CO., 1718-20 Euclid Ave. Bell phone, Home, East 4169. COAL AND FEED. E, 1902 1-2 Vine St. Bell phone, East 559; Home phone, 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 WORTHAM BROS., 1831 Paseo DRUCK THEODORE SMITH, 1301 East Home Main 5467. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, 18th Home East 4082. R. W. FOSTER'S PHARMACY, Bell phone East 272, Home DRY GOODS TAYLOR-HOLMES & CO., 2409 EXPRESS S THOS. JACKSON, 1816 Highland FLOR CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 272. Home phone, East 407. GRID M. R. WILSON, 2644 Woodland. INSV STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE, Grand 2666J. T. A. Ross. JEW J. A. WILSON, 1616 West 9th S. LAST C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware 448. Legal advice. Practice. GEO. T. WASSOM, Attorney at Bell phone East 2727. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney s City, Kas. Bell phone. MILL MRS. T. A. HOLLAND, Fashion phone, East 4600. 1706 East CALDWELL CHAPMAN, 18th PHOTO C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor phone East 1643. PHY DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Therapeutic 523, Rosedale, Kas. PRIX C. A. FRANKLIN, 1008 East 18 N, 1650 East 18th St. Bell phone East 539. BROS., 1831 Paseo. Bell Phone East 701. DRUG STORES. SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 4591, Bin 5467. DRUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell phone East 1814, Bin 4082. ER'S PHARMACY—18th and Woodland. East 272, Home phone East 4070. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. HAMES & CO., 2409 Vine Street. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. SON, 1816 Highland, Bell phone, East 2377J. FLORISTS. T FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East phone, East 4070. GROCERS. N, 2644 Woodland Ave. Bell phone, East 1493. INSURANCE. LIFE INSURANCE CO., 1507 East 18th St., Bell phone 66J. T. A. Ross, JEWELERS. N, 1616 West 9th St. Bell phone, Main 6248R. LAWYERS. WAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main services in all courts. SON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main al advice. Practices in all courts. SOM, Attorney at Law, 307 Walnut street. East 2727, Home phone East 4070. LEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kan- Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. MILLINERY. DOLLAND, Fashionable Dressmaking and Tailoring. Bell ast 4600. 1706 East 19th. CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home phone East 4009. 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. 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 2377J. 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. 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. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone. West 3866. MRS. T. A. HOLLAND, Fashionable Dressmaking and Tailoring. Bell phone, East 4600. 1706 East 19th. PHOTOGRAPHERS. ANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell st 1643. PHYSICIANS. BERT, Theraptics, P. O. box 90A, Bell phone, Rosedale dale, Kas. PRINTERS. LIN, 1008 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 2988. C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell phone East 1643. DR. R. J. LAMBERT, Therapeutics, P. O. box 90A, Bell phone, Rosedale 523, Rosedale, Kas. C. A. FRANKLIN, 1008 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 2988. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. AFRO-AMERICAN REAL EST. nished. 911 McGee street. Bell Phone 751 Main. C. W. NELOMS & CO., 500 Mi Kans., Bell phone West 1743 COLORED PEOPLE'S INVEST East 1011, Home East 4011. ICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO., Help fur- 11 McGee street. e 751 Main. Home Phone 7555 Main. IS & CO., 500 Minnesota Ave., upstairs, Kansas City, l phone West 1743, Home phone West 1036. OPLE'S INVESTMENT CO., 2427 Vine St. Bell Phone Home East 4011. Sol Smith, Pres AFRO-AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO., Help fur nished. 911 McGee street. Bell Phone 751 Main. Home Phone 7555 Main C. W. NELOMS & CO., 500 Minnesota Ave., upstairs, Kansas City Kans., Bell phone West 1743, Home phone West 1036. COLORED PEOPLE'S INVESTMENT CO., 2427 Vine St. Bell Phone East 1011, Home East 4011. Sol Smith, Pres SECOND-HAND GOODS W. G. HOPKINS, 2122 Vine St. UNDER ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th C. H. COUNTEE, Licensed Embra- 3336, Home East 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia Main 7989. Res., Bell East CALDWELL Hair and 18th and Pased Home Ph Scalp Treatment a Specialty. C Grows Hair. Try it. and any old Hair Matched From Samples. Blocked. Agents for Spirella Co WORK GUARANTEED. MANICURING We teach UNDERTAKERS. S. & GREEN, 19th and Vine Sts. Both phones E. 4349. ELE, Licensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine St., Bell Phone, East East 3341. ROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Grand 987, Home . Res., Bell East 3281. CALDWELL & CHAPMAN Hair and Millinery 18th and Paseo, Kansas City, Mo. Home Phone East 4009 iment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really news Hair. Try it. Save your combings, cut hair and any old hat you may have. d From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and agents for Spirella Corsets. Mail orders answered promptly GUARANTEED. LIVE AGENTS WANTED URING FACIAL MASSAGE We teach the work we do 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. 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 Corrents. Mail orders answered promptly Say Friend! CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE Drugs, Toilet A Prescript FOSTER'S 18TH AND W By the way, they fill and deli city; they will call for them, to BOTH PHONES: Bell When not Conveni Remember the Place TELL ME WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO BUY igs, Toilet Articles and have Prescriptions Filled? Sure —AT— OSTER'S PHARMACY 18TH AND WOODLAND AVE. they fill and deliver prescriptions to any part of the I call for them, too. PHONES: Bell East 272. Home East 4070. then not Convenient to Come. Call Us Up. FOSTER'S PHARMACY 18TH AND WOODLAND AVE. By the way, they fill and deliver prescriptions to any part of the city; they will call for them, too. Remember the Place EIGHTEENTH and WOODLAND FLORISTS. GROCERS JEWELERS LAWYERS. MILLINERY. PHYSICIANS. PRINTERS. 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 Masonio Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Deputy Grand Hizh Priest—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand King—A. L. Thomas, Jefferson City. Grand Scribe—J. P. Moffett, Sedalia. Grand Treasurer—Chas. Griggsby, Liberty. Grand Secretary—E. S. Baker, Kansas City. Grand Lecturer—W. H. McAdams, Springfield. Grand Chaplain—Rev. R. Barber. **Knights Templars:** Right Eminent Grand Commander—Willis G. Moseley, Kansas City Deputy R. E. . C—Peter Kincade, Kansas City. Grand Inspector—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand Captain General—James W. Beard, St. Louis. Grand Generalissmo-Joseph H. Cherwood, St. Paul, Minn. 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, T. R. Coles, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lacey, E. G. Miller, Robt. Wiley. Lodge Directory G M. J. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. P. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Cecil Thompson, W. H. SPIGENER, Secretary. G MASONRY Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. F. Lodge No. 26, A. F. and Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing M. T. J. McCambell, Scey. G MASONRY M. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 3rd Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are wel-lled by Sandy Myers, W. M. Frank. Baltimore Ave. 161 Baltimore Ave. G Liberty Lodge No. 37. A. F. Liberty Lodge meets the second, and fourth nights in each month. V. T. Nelson Master Nelson Wallar, Secur. Nelson Nelson Wallar, Secur. Queen Esther Court No. 43. Hale from the I. O. I. meets the first and third Mondays in each month at 10th and Campbell Sts., Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Bettie Davis, M. L. Q.; Rosa L. Jones, Chron., 1406 North 3d St., Kansas City, Kas. U. B. F. King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 59th Grand avenue. C. F. Wilson, W. M.; D. M. West, 1713 Euclid Ave., Secretary. SAY BROTHER! Have you seen the beautiful tri-colored cards, letter heads, bill heads and beautiful artistic work A. W. Harris, the commercial printer, 1515 East 18th st., has been putting on the market recently? It's the finest ever. His phone is Bell East 2782. Call him and he'll tell you all about the cost of them. THE BISHOP the forceful and tireless missionary worker spent a delightful Christmas and New Year with her sister, Mrs. Grace L. Clark, 1831 McGee street, and with her many other friends in this city. Sister Pearl received many presents from friends both in and out of the city. She left here January 5 in answer to a call in Battle Creek, Mich., where she will conduct a series of meetings. Reservation and traveling expenses were forwarded her and her lady traveling companion. Sister Pearl is an extensive traveler and her noble work and achievements for good have merited fame and admiration from some of the foremost men and women and not unfrequently whites to whom she has preached. The following are some forceful and helpful Scripture lessons which Sister Pearl would be pleased to have her many friends read while thinking of her: Luke 9: 49, 50; Matthew 23: entire chapter. CUT THIS BLANK OUT, FILL IT IN AND MAIL OR SEND TO OUR OFFICE. $1.00 Special Rate Offer $1.00 I herewith enclose One Dollar to pay the Special Rate for one year. Respectfully, --- Order the Sun now. Bell phone East 999. The Sun for one dollar for 1916, if orderd now. Mrs. S. F. Price, 1022 Michigan, has bene confined to her bed for a week with Lagrippe. Dr. J. R. A. Crossland of St. Joseph, one of the race's most prominent physician's, was a business caller this week. Mrs. Francis J. Wilson, 913 Woodland avenue, is still confined to her bed and wishes to see her many friends. Mrs. Sadie Cline, 1707 E. 9th St. entertained nine of her friends last Thursday in honor of her cousin Mrs. Minnie Garrett of Omaha, Nebr. OWNERS AND CHAUFFEURS can be supplied with applications for license to operate automobiles by calling on C. H. Calloway, 601 Delaware St. Word reached here that Mrs. Mary Partee, the mother of Mrs. V. L. North Hueston, formerly of this city, died last Tuesday morning of dropsy, at San Francisco. Miss Agnes O. Clark, 3955 Warwick Bldd., left the 12th for Vicksburg. Miss, her home to visit relatives and friends. Miss Clark will remain about a month. CUT THIS BLANK OUT, FILL IT IN A $1.00 Special R The Kansas City Sun, Nelson C. Crews, Editor, 1803 East 18th Street, Kansas C Sir: Please enter my name City Sun for 1916 per your Sp paper on December 31, 1916, un I herewith enclose One Dol one year. Res Name..... Town..... Date.... Phillip Ross of Argentine, Kansas has been quite ill since his return from California where he visited his children recently, but is improving nicely. Albert L. Rummons of 1306 Highland avenue is slowly improving after a very serious illness of general Peritonitis. Mrs. Jane Wingo, a nurse of Platte City, Mo., is still assisting the family in caring for him. Misses Cassie Fleming of Colorado Springs and Izene Smith of Topeka were the guests of Miss Claudia L. Quarles during the holidays and were the guests of honor at a formal dinner party given by their hostess December 29. REWARD. LOST—A diamond screw earring with black pendant, suposedly in Allen Chapel last Sunday morning. Libera reward for return—Mrs. Fannie Morton, 19003 Paseo. IN MEMORIAM In sad and loving memory of our dear son and brother, William G. Allen, who passed away two years ago January 10, 1914. Without a murmur he bore His pain, afflicted sore His willing hands can work no more He has gone, but not forgotten. Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, mother. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Mesdames Yocum and Cubia have been sick for some time, but are somewhat improved at this writing....The Sunday School and Mission Circle are doing fine....The B. Y. P. U. held their election last Sunday and the following officers were elected: Mr. Warren, president; Miss Warren, secretary; Nettie Cooper, treasurer. We hope they will do much for the betterment of the B. Y. P. U....Dr. T. H. Ewing will give one of his famous lectures Sunday evening. Subject, "The Value of a Dime." Don't fall to hear him. Come early and secure a good seat. Dear Editor: It is, with great pleasure that we report the almost complete recovery of Mr. A. W. Johnson, 1202 East 17th street, who has been ill with Pneumonia, and although given up, he was through the efficient care of Dr. J. E. Dibble, restored and put on the road to recovery. He is a member of New Era lodge No. 40, K. of P., whose members visited and sat up with him night and day and great thanks are extended the lodge....Mr. Johnson has lived in Kansas City all of his life of 46 years, and has been in the ice and coal business here for 17 years at 118 West 7th street. During his illness many white business men of the city visited him and cheered him with laughable stories, which worked wonders in bringing him to the front and kept him with the living. --- CITY NEWS. Women's Clubs. Oak Leaf club members enjoyed the trip to Kansas City, Kas. The club will meet with Mrs. W. D. Lewis, 321 West Armour boulevard, January 21. MRS. TONEY, Pres. E. WANZER, Secy. PROGRESS STUDY CLUB. The Progress Study club meets with Mrs. Jessie Novel, 1515 East 12th street, Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock, January 19. MRS. EMMA VAUGHAN, Pres., MRS. JESE NOVEL, Secy. THE CLIPPERS The Misses Hutchings entertained the Club members and friends at an informal dance at Miss Overal's Studio on the evening of Saturday, January 8. it was a leap year dance and needless to say a very jolly affair. WANTED. Five hundred refined young ladies and gentlemen from high schoolis, churches and so forth for big production in moving picture Ethiopia. Apply at 600 State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. ARTHUR A. ANDERSON, Manager Mrs Randall Lilliard, 622 Steptoe Ave. took suddenly ill last Sunday evening. SEND MAIL OR SEND TO OUR OFFICE. Rate Offer $1.00 City, Mo. Me as a subscriber to The Kansas Special Rate Offer and stop my less otherwise notified. Dollar to pay the Special Rate for spectfully, State SECOND BAY ISTY CHURCH Miss Marguerite Davis read an excellent paper in the B. Y. P. U. last Sunday after which about thirty were elected and appointed. Officers were installed with the addition of Mr. Becks as vice president. Mr. Ross as instructor and Miss Burnside as assistant secretary. The attendance was 110. Next Sunday, January 16th, Prof. Cook of the Lincoln High School will address the B. Y. P. U. Don't miss this fine talk. Come early. The services last Sunday were up to the high standard. Dr. Coran delivered an excellent sermon at 11:00 o'clock and the Sunday school was interesting and well attended. In the evening Dr. Bascote's discourse was greatly enjoyed by the congregation. There were seven additions to the church. NEGROES AT THE THEATERS. Many writers, orators and poets of our race have praised highly the light-heartedness and mirth-loving qualities of Negroes, and have argued that it is owing to these qualities that the race has been able to endure so patiently and well, the depressing and galling prejudice to which it has been subjected. I have for some time doubted the wisdom of this assertion and my opinion was strengthened on last Friday evening at the Shubert theater. The occasion was the performance of a play called "On Trial," which was a powerful melodrama, dealing with the actual tragedies of domestic life and affording useful lessons and food for thought to both young and old. The section of the theater that is reserved for Negroes was filled to overflowing. It was what is called a representative audience of Negroes, being composed of doctors, lawyers, professors, teachers and seemingly a large number of the "light-hearted" and "mirth-loving" type, the kind that frequents club rooms, pool halls, low theaters and lounge around barber shops and street corners. During the progress of the play, some lines were spoken which indicated the betrayal of a young, innocent, trust girl by the usual sharp, d-wresses, olly-tongues libertine. It was a highly dramatic moment, tense with emotion, when to the antonishment and disgust of that part of the audience which knew better the light-hearted" and "mirth-loving" class broke out in a coarse, loud laugh, as if it was quite familiar with the circumstance and laughed in glee and approval of the cunning of the gay libertine, and in derision at the lack of worldly wisdom of the betrayed girl. The careful, painstaking and artistic work of the actors was marred by the thoughtlessness and lack of decorum of this class of Negro. Another quality must be added to this class, viz. the light-minded. It is this lack of good manners and of proper public department that helps to retard the social recognition of the race. I am sure that the thoughtful Negro would hall with approval any means or methods that could improve this condition. J. A. WILSON. Heart Letters. No letters written for a multitude to read can ever have that close contact with the inner consciousness of a human being, and so I want you to make a resolution to send me, at least, a "heart letter" every month for 1915, so that we can have the book ready for next New Year, and as a matter of course, everyone whose contribution is selected will receive an autographed copy of the new book as it comes fresh from the press. Let us make "Heart Letters" the one distinctive feature of Uncle Sam's mall service for 1915. "Let's Talk It Over," in National Magazine. Why Teeth Chatter Although the muscles which affect the action of the jaws are especially under the control of the brain, the chattering of the teeth is really a spasm caused by chill or fear, and all spasms act independent of the will. The muscles which operate the jaw act in a series of involuntary little contractions which pull the jaw up and permit it to fall of its own weight. This action is quick, and the chattering occurs from frequent repetition. The cold has a similar effect upon the jaw muscles to that which some poisons have in causing spasmodic action in other parts of the body. A Bit Twisted. Paddy one day became the proud father of twins. The christening ceremony arrangements were made and Pat was instructed by his wife, Moya, that the babies' names were "Kate" and "Sidney." While making his way to the church, repeating the names, "Kate" and "Sidney." Pat was met by several friends, who wished to drink to the babies' health. By the time all had paid for a round Pat was a wee bit mixed. He arrived at the church in good time, but when the clergyman asked for the names of the children Pat replied: "Steak and Kidney."—Young's Magazine. Birds' Nest Industry. An important feature of the export trade of Siam is the birds' nest industry. According to figures furnished by American consular officers in that country, the shipments for a recent year amounted to nearly twenty thousand pounds, the value of which was in excess of $100,000. For the most part the Siamese nests are sent to China, Hongkong and Singapore. It is scarcely necessary to add that the value of these nests lies in the fact that they are edible. In the far East birds' nest soup is deemed a great delicacy. Early Days of Lead Pencils Early Days of Lead Pencils. It is not easy nowadays to find a lead pencil that is not too old at forty, as it were. In the early days of lead pencils the produce of the Seathwaite mine was deemed so valuable that strong guards of soldiers were engaged for its protection, and a special act of parliament was passed penalizing illicit traffic in plumbago, which then realized from three to five shillings an ounce. Although the miners were stripped and carefully searched when leaving off work, says the London Chronicle, they managed to smuggle a good deal of produce out of the mine. How Billiard Balls Are Constructed. Do you who play billiards ever wonder how the balls are made? The best material is the tusks of cow elephants. Their tusks are not so curved as those of the male, and the fine "nerve passage" cannot be traced so clearly. When ivory dries, say those who make the balls, it shrinks. The shrinkage is greater in width than it is in length, in the case of the tusk. Billiard balls, after being turned in the rough, are kept in a warm room for a long time, sometimes for two years. After shrinking they are turned again and to the "true." Something Gained. For everything you have missed you have gained something else. The whole story of earthly existence is one of compensations. Many a gift we craved and were denied, held in its train ills we are glad to have been spared. Many a sorrow that has darkened our way, though its memory may still remain bitter, has wrought some change of character or conditions that we would be unwilling to give up. The allotment of joys and griefs is more carefully measured than we are accustomed to think, and the lives of men more nearly equal. Somewhat Mixed. A careful estimate has been made recently of the proportion of citizens of foreign birth and descent throughout the United States which proves of especial interest at the present time. According to Prof. Albert B. Faust of Cornell university, who has made a special study of the subject, the country contained in 1910, 32,243,382 people of foreign birth, or 35 per cent of the entire white population. Of this number 13,345,545 were foreign born; 12,916,311 had been born in America of foreign-born parents, and 5,981,526 had one such parent. According to the statistics a large proportion of the foreign-born population, or at least those of foreign birth, are of German origin. There are 8,282,618 Germans and some 4,504,360 of Irish descent and 3,231,953 classified as English, Scotch and Welsh. Canada contributed 2,754,615 to the so-called foreign population; Austria-Hungary, 2,701,386; Russia, 2,541,649; Italy, 2,098,360; and the Scandinavian group, including Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 1,743,378. All the other countries totaling some 1,177,932—The Christian Herald. 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 publicistst. Some of the foremost citizens of the state and nation attended the memorial services, which were presided over by Seth 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 waist 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." Saying From Old Feathers Saving From Old Feathers. One of the most astonishing things accomplished by the new conservation is the gathering up of the fragments of feathers, writes Lewis Edwin Theiss in the Outlook. Our grandmother used to pluck the hens and geese, sun the feathers and use them for beds. But science has shown that these sun-cured feathers were really very unclean. Today the pillow manufacturer takes out tons and tons of dirt from similar feathers. This is partly dust, but mostly it consists of small pieces of flesh and skin that adhere to the feathers. For years pillow makers paid teamsters so much a load to haul away this waste. Now it is known that this waste is rich in nitrogen, and so is a good fertilizer. Now it sells for $10 a ton. What would our grandmother think if they knew the inside story of their feather beds? Bad as the Cat The news from Abysinia. The world at large surprises, And just the same demises. And just the same demises. The Combination. 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. The World's Three Greatest Books By Sidney C. Tapp, PhB. BY STANLEY C. TAPP "The Book of Bible," Tibbitt, about five hundred pages, $3.00. "Why Jesus Was a Man and Not a Woman," three hundred pages, $2.00. "Sexology of the Woman," five pages, $2.00. "All cloth-bound, These books treat of the sex of the Bible, and show that the Bible is a book of sex and a book of spirit, and that sex is the diary of spiritual worlds." They show that disease, sickness and insanity are within the sex, and that sex-just was the origination of arresting the attention of the medical, scientific, philosophical and theological worlds and people of all classes as no other profession probably do more to shape the thoughts of the human race than any books ever they are in the history of the world. They are all the great that the books of all parts of the civilized world. "I would rather be the author of the Truth About the Bible, by Sidney C. Tapp, than be the author of the United States. His sex interpretation of the Bible, as therein contained, is so daring and his conclusions are so unconventional that staggers under the ideas presented. For ideas, it is the world's greatest book. 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MUSIC EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS Home Phone East 4082 WASH SEATED IN COMFY CHAIR Bell Phone East 1814 START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT. WHAT IS THE USE OF YOUR WIFE WEARING HERSELF OUT DOING A LOT OF HARD LABOR WHEN IT IS SO EASY WITH THE "SHOW-ME" WASHER Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. ELECTRIC LIGHTED RES Rarer ata AT THE OPEN BRIDGE “Fve made tho mistake ot my life!” announced Gerald Dyke, “Love spat with Clio Barrett, 1 sup Pose?” intimated his close friend, Wil Mampden. “Quite the reverse,” declared Dyke. “There's no more Clio Barrett for me. ‘That dream is endod. It's her father who has come upon the scene as the Andignant and immovable destroyer ot amy tife's happiness!” Will Hampden looked interested and sympathetic, “You see, { made a bad break in sup porting our mutual friend, Dodd, for mayor, The progressive element felt that two terms for one man, even as Sop 8 toa an Mr, Darrett wes enoueh Put up Dodd. L electioneered for hing, as you know, Will—one little spebch.” “But Rarrett carried the day.” “¥es, but by so small a majority that the eels piqued. Somehow he heard of my; campaigning effort. That settled Ht. Just es Clio and I became engaged he grdered me from the house—Clio in teats, myself in despair.” “What are you going to do about it?" intgrrogated Hampden. “e's what he will do. He's an unfor syving, pig-heated man in his likes and dislikes. I'm blacklisted in his books and, he'll carry Clio away, or hide her away, but he'll outwit me, She is Ipractically under guard. 1 betleve he {las emissaries watching me, It's ta lken me a week to get a note to Clic ‘and a reply.” “she's true blue? “Yos, but terribly despondent.” “Want my advice?” inquired Hamp. ‘den deliberately. “What is it?” “Run away with her.” Dyke had thought of that. So had ‘Clio. He thought of it more than ever as he started off on a lonely medita itive stroll. It was not so easy, how. ever, he realized. He was satisfied aN i, oy : ANY of EH £ RESIS Y 8 gs “nl?” Oy 4 Poe. oie ie Be er SCO Preosayv C Sy TTC es |) ey ae LB 5|| =F (ee ee II I I Siceaen ee LA ao S— ee Sas a eo They Were Through the Town and Coan that Mr. Barrett was keeping an eye on him. He knew that Clio was under the constant gaze of a trained chap- eron, He had never yet passed tie Barrett grounds but the gardener, or the steward, or the hostler was. vis. ible, A bridge swung by steam power ‘spanned the broad Vermilion river and ithe Barrett home was on the west side ‘ot the stream. From its center the ‘Barrett home was in pretty clear view and Gerald had the doubttul consola- tion of posting himself there occasion- ally, to mournfully survey the spot where ue bad formerly been a welcome visitor. 4. ON this especial day he strolled to ithe bridge. His heart fluttered as he ‘made out in the distance x white-robed form among the distant flower beds. He had just written a note to Clio. He {took it out of his pocket wondering fhow he would get it to her. A hand ‘touching his shoulder, he looked up ewith @ start. “Bxcuse me,” said the bridgetender, for it was he, “but I want to thank you,” “Oh yes—you are Fenton. Got the Job, did you?” “Yes, sir, and your recommendation {€ was that did it.” Fenton, a rough and ready young fellow, tad been sent by a friend to Geraid and he on account of his activ- ity in the mayoralty campaign had been able to exert some influence with the county board. Now, it seemed, his recommendation had borne fruit. “Glad you got placed,” said Gerald heartily. “Yes, sir," spoke the man humbly, “Will you exuse me if I say somo: thing?” Gerald nodded agreeably. “Well, sir, I've got eyes and I've SUBMARINE OF QUIET POND Snapping Turtle Often Sinks a Swim- ming Duck and Makes Lelaure- ly Meal. Ever see a duck, swimming along a pond quite peacefully, suddenly disap- pear beneath the surtace of the water? ‘You may have suspected that the duck had some enemy submarine lurking in the pond—and you were right, The name of tho attacking submarine is snapping turtle. He lives in rivers and lakes through- out the United States, usually in deep water, He has a big head and a long tail—the long tail providing a very tafe and convenient handle to pick Tim up by. At least, you'll find tt ‘safest {€ you ever come in contact with his jaws. ‘Tho snapper's jaws are fitted with & pair of sharp blades which come to- get 2 8 i ea viel Seay A egy fete gs gy suficient er in i fa puta sass ger As for the duck, sha bates him like _ mapper vill sonet —_——— en been heating things. You know thin bridge appointment is county business, so the mayor has nothing to do with it, 1 was again the mayor. He'd fire me if he could. Ho hates me and 1 don’t Uke him. He's treated you mean and that makes less liking between us, ‘That pretty girl of his is a jewel, though. Say, could 1 venture to guess,” pursued the shrewd follow,” that you want a letter taken to the little miss? Oh, sir, you can trust me.” Now that was just what Gerald wanted done. He engaged in a conf: dential talk with his new ally. He felt confidence in his protestation of fealty. He was surprised to find the man full of clever suggestions, and when he left the bridge an hour later he was sure that the letter would reach Clio safe: ly, and found himself the center of a deep laid exciting plot. “You see, the bridgetender had said, “I run up to the Barrett place often, ‘The steward fs an old friend of mine. T'll see that little miss gets your letter, And, say, when you want to loiter around up there, drop into my watch house here and slip on some togs there that will disguise you lke a high-class detective.” ‘Thereafter for two evenings @ slouching figure, suggesting some tramp wayfarer looking for free lunch and lodging, meandered by the Bar- Fett home. On the first occasion Clio, {n the garden, managod to slip a note over the fence. On the second she was near enough to the stroller to catch the words: “Be on hand," and her pretty lips whispered the agreea- ble response: “Every evening at this hour.” So ft was that those two had a prot- ty thorough understanding of the situ: ation, when, one evening Just at dusk, Mr. arrett drove up to the curb in his automobile. He was an active public officer and attentive to his duties, and was bound back for his office as soo as dinner was over. Mr. Barrett attended all fires, courts and public meetings so as to keep in touch with everything affecting the civic interest. He had a regular alarm bell attached to his machine, its tones 80 familiar to the general public that the people cleared the way promptly when {ts signal tones echoed out, What happened two minutes after Mr. Barrett had left the car, was that Gerald sprang into the vacated driver's seat from beliind a tree. At the same moment Clio squeezed her way through the hedge. Just as she got into the rear seat of the machine her father appeared unexpectedly, He had left a package of papers in the au- to and had returned to secure them. Gerald with a leap sent the machine forward, disregarding the amazed and threatening shcuts of the infurlated mayor. Hy the time the bridge was reached, Mr. Barrett had rushed to the stables, secured a horse and was in hot pursuit of the fugitives. "Good!" shouted the bridgetender, as the machine whizzed past him and his keen wits took in fully the merita of the situation. Then he stared back the road and made out the chief official of the town in the near distance, “This won't do,” decided the bridge: tender, and then—the instant the horse Teached the end of the bridge the loyal friend of the lovers touched the lever and swung the bridge open. ‘The mayor raved, the mayor scent- ed complicity. In vain he menaced the bridgetender, who feigned the neces: sity of an olling process in connection with the swinging apparatus. | Clang! clang! clang! not knowing all that had happened behind him, and taking no risks, fearing that a tele phone warning might head them off right industriously Gerald plied the alarm bel! on the auto. In five min- Utes there was a clear course, they Were through the town and beyond it “Regular wedding bells!" he chor. tled gayly, as they shot down a smooth country road in the direction of the home of the nearest rural minister, (Copyright, 196, by W. G, Chapman) If They Told the Truth. “How homely your wife grows!" “My dear, what do you suppose my Score was this morning? One hun: dred and forty-nine for eighteen holes.” “1 won't be home till late tonight, darling. I'm going to paint the town red with a couple of old collego chums.” “Yes, sir, the hotel fs pretty full, but 1 can give you what we consider the worst room in it for a little more than the same price you would pay for a good one if we weren't so crowd: ed."—Life. Obsolete in Albion. Another form of footgear has be come wellnigh obsolete. Rubber ga- loshes, called in the United States simply rubbers, when first introduced were regarded as a most welcome ad dition to comfort, and for many years had a great vogue; but few people wear them now. The prominent part played by the Rev, Robert Spalding s galoshes in “The Private Secretary” helped to bring them into discredit. And where are those “elastic-side boots” beloved by the men and wom- en of years ago.—London Daily Chronicle. completely under water to eat at his leisure, A common size for snappers is about fifteen inches, including head and tail, with @ shell about nine inches long. ‘They lay their eggs in a hole scooped out in the sand. Both the eggs and the flesh of this turtle are excellent food— ‘80 good that they often masquerade on restaurant menus as “terrapin.” Millions Spent for Twine, ‘Twine costs the post office depart: ment $2,000,000 a year. Postmasters who eave all the strings, tle them to- gether, roll them up into neat balls and use them a second time are high- ly commended by the department. Io these days strict economy ts a high Virtue cn the part of all officials. Pick up the pins, wind up the strings, fold and put away the wrapping paper, and several thousand dollars can be saved {in the course of a year, este eer : A man may be judged by the com pany. he keeps, but it might be ungen 2rous to judge sowie of us by the king ah glvenere| no’ ta boa! ELABORATE DEVICE TO DECEIVE ENEMY AVIATORS ia a: < ba AF anit eat an : e : oe Se . PY ee m®& eee. GRO: ge TM olga tS ; ‘ om . Py ti ova P | ee A SETS: ey ! H at | .< ) ~ Se Br ha a Wee a, Ses eae, ae esd eK bi a ee Sa 8 Se ee This is probably the most elaborate deceptive device used by any of the belligerent armies. The French have posted a large number of their 220-centimeter mortars tn woods and other ‘places, where they are hidden from the enemy's “air eyes,” In order to deceive the German aviators, the French have placed very clever fake guns around the real mortars. They are substantially built of wood and metal to look genuine, and uniformed figures are placed about to represent the gun squads. When an aviator appears overhead, soldiers a long way off pull strings to make the figures move. Smoke also comes out of the gun muzzle. ¢ a when I was arked my name I spelled | ed, and my gun went across. By this it ‘Tressler,’ because I didn't want | time the glare from the burned town anybody to know that I couldn't recall | was dying down, and | was wondering where I came from or who I was. just what was ahead of us when an Is Reported Missing. aeroplane high above dropped a star “Consequently “T. F. Trusler’ went | shell. This was followed by a perfect on the rolls of the missing. Conse-| hurricane of shells, and the last gun ? quently also, I failed to get mail from | to attempt the crossing went into the my flancee and my parents. It was | water. Emerging from a wood, we not until last summer when I was/ran into a murderous gunfire from wounded in the leg so badly that I was | German infantry and machine guns. sent to England that I made any at-| My gun and others of our battery ee ee tempt to find out who I was. 1 con-| were hurled into this open fire-swept i 7 fided my story to an Englishwoman | fleld, swung around and in less than Canatiian, Mind Made Blank by! cc Sign rank who was interested tn | two minutes opedes tee en ets) Ger Shell Concussion, Does Not | the hospital. She made inquiries mans among the officers of my brigade who “Each of our shells contained 300 Know Parents. remembered ‘Truster’ who came out | bullets, and at a range of 250 yards with the contingent. one can readily imagine how the Ger- | "My parents were communicated | mans fell. Finally we halted them, with and my mother remembered an | but the German infantry remained hid- IS STRANGER THAN FICTION old scar on my foot. Sure enough }den behind a deep fringe of trees Saas the scar was there. Even when || with their own dead piled up against returned to Montreal 1 didn't recog-| them. Our guns could not do effective Thomas Trisler, Gent: Back to: Front igs my mother and don't yet. 1| work because of the trees. Therefore From Hospital, Fails to Recall His | iearned 1 was engaged to be married | wo were ordered to use high explosive Name and Is Reported Missing | pefore I left for the front and on my | shells, —Forgets Sweetheart and return home my fiancee was at the “I shall never forget how those Falls in Love With Her station with my mother and father. | shells were brought to us. ‘The horses “AW Over Again? I didn't recognize any of them, but|on the ammunition supply wagon be. New York.—Fate has played manj strange pranks with the men fighting in Europe, but none perhaps is moré curious than that in which Thomas F ‘Trusler figures. Mr. Trusler, who is stopping at a hotel, was a gunner in the Third brigade, Canadian field ar tillery, ‘The concussion from a shell which struck the ground near him last win: ter caused him to lose all recoliection of the past. Consequently, his flancee jin Montreal mourned him for dead. and even after he learned his identity through a scar on his right foot he did not remember her or his parents. However, as he explained recently, he took his parents’ word that they were his father and mother, and, al: though he does not recall his dirst pro. posal, he said he has fallen in love all over again with the woman he was }to have married and soon he hopes to make her his bride, Although Sir Frederick Treves, King George's surgeon, is said to have at- tempted to restore his memory by means of hypnotism, Mr. Truster, who is twenty-one years old, recalls noth- ing of his past prior to the day his mind became blank from the concus: sion, and when he returned to Canada in the early autumn because of his wound it was necessary for him to relearn the way about his native city of Montreal and to be introduced to lifelong boyhood friends and school- mates. Under Fire at Ypres. ‘The young gunner went with the first Canadian contingent — whieh reached France a year ago. At that time the German general staff was per- fecting {ts schemes to break through to Calais by way of Ypres. Mr, ‘Trus- ler first came under fire near Vlamar- tinghe, Just west of Ypres. His divi sion was acting as a reserve force “I have been told by men who served with me on my gun that we all saw a huge German aeroplane fly over us,” Mr. Trusler said, “Soon thereafter there came a rain of high explosive shells from a big German gun. Several of our boys were killed, and the fact that I was not was a miracle. One of the shells fell within ten or twenty feet of me, I was told, but did not explode. The concussion, however, was terrific, and it dazed and stupefled me, “I remember awakening in a base hospital with the wounded all about me. I felt myself all over and could find nothing smashed, so I sat up tn ‘my cot. Then I got out of it and stood up and asked why I was there, A physician told me what had happened to me and sent me back to my brigade, which he located by the insignia on my uniform. When I got back | didn't seem to recollect anything or any- body. “Some of the men of my gun com- pany saw me and took me back to my quarters. If was necessary for me to make friends with companions again. ‘They called me *Howie'—a nickname —and soon I became known as ‘Howie ‘Trusler ‘That fact made ft dificult for my parents to locate me, because VICTIM OF AUTO DISEASE Petromortis, or Automobile Gas Pols- ‘ening, Kills a Chicago Lawyer. Chicago—Eugene M. Bumphrey, a lawyer, is dead at his home here of what physicians term petromortis, or automobile gas poisoning, According to physicians, It is the first fatal case im Chicago from that cause. An idea of the violence with which petromortis stiacks its victims was. gy WD GRe CAT Beene ara ce it ‘Tressler,’ because I didn’t want anybody to know that I couldn't recall where I came from or who I was. Is Reported Missing. “Consequently “T., F. Trusler’ went on the rolls of the missing. Conse quently also, I failed to get mail trom my fiancee and my parents. It was not until last summer when I was wounded in the leg so badly that I was sent to England that I made any at tempt to find out who I was. I con: fided my story to an Englishwoman of high rank who was interested in the hospital. She made inquiries among the officers of my brigade who remembered ‘Truster’ who came out with the contingent. | “My parents were communicated | with and my mother remembered an old scar on my foot. Sure enough the scar was there. Even when | returned to Montreal 1 didn't recog- nize my mother and don't yet. 1 learned 1 was engaged to be married before I left for the front and on my return home my fiancee was at the station with my mother and father. I didn't recognize any of them, but they took me home." Here Mr, Trusler admitted that he had fallen in love “all over again" and with the same girl. Although the gunner cannot remem- ber what happened before January of last year, he has a vivid recollection of what has happened since, and his description of the battle of Ypres in April and of the effect of the poison gases used by the Germans is most vivid “About five o'clock of the evening of April 23," he sald, “we were get- ‘ting quite bored, for we were in the reserve force along the Poperinghe road, three miles west of Ypres, The dull monotony was rudely broken by. the sudden appearance of swarms of French colonial troops, Singhalese and Zovaves, rushing in from the front trenches, clutching at their throats, holding their sides. rolling on the ground, gasping for breath, eyes blood: shot and staring, many of them bleed. ing at the mouth, but most of them unable to explain tlie cause of their peculiar actions. Asphyxiating Gas Cloud. “Along with them came scores of refugees, men, women and children, bearing with them all they could take from their burning and wrecked homes. At that time we had never heard of asphyxiating gas and were at a Joss to make out what it all meant. ‘The order ‘stand to your arms’ was quickly passed along to the reserves, The Montreal Highlanders were the first to get on the ‘move, It takes longer to get artillery wagons on the move, and while we were working at feverish haste the Highlanders went by, each man singing and smiling, although they must have known that many of them would never return, “At seven o'clock the artillery forces were all ready and waiting for the order to move forward. { shall never forget the scené at the moment. From the city of Ypres there arose high in the heavens huge jets of flames, while overhead shells burst by the hundreds, and in our ears was tho din of falling watls and all sorts of indescribable noises. “When the order came to move for- ward we urged our horses with a cheer and a song. [t was necessary for us to make @ detour south of Ypres in order to get to thé main road lead. ing to our damaged front. Jt also was necessary to cross the Yser cauai, about half a mile south ‘ot the town, on a pontoon bridge, ‘The first gun got over safely, when along came a German shell and destroyed it. “Under a deadly fire, for the Ger- mans had the range, we waited while the engineers worked to construct an- other bridge. Two long thick poles were placed across the narrow canal and crossways on them timbers and logs were piled. ‘The second gun went across precariously, but the third was upset by @ rolling log, the cannon carriage falling on one side of the narrow bridge afd the six horses on the other, While the cannon and horses seemed to be seesawing this way and that across the bridge a shell put an end to all the trouble. “Thea a third bridge was construct. siven by Dr, John D, Bilis, head of the department of occupational diseases of Rush Medical college, “The thing is new to sctence in some aspects,” sald Doctor Ellis. “Per- sons who are subject to vertigo may be attacked when in @ close, small garage, The danger lies in a failure of certain elements in the gasoline to oxidize. In any event, there is a quick suffuston of a violent gas that renders the vietim faint. Thus {f the exhaust of an automobile continues, the result is almost instant death, ed, and my gun went across. By this time the glare from the burned town was dying down, and I was wondering Just what was ahead of us when an aeroplane high above dropped a stat shell. This was followed by a perfect hurricane of shells, and the last gun to attempt the crossing went Into the water. Emerging from a wood, we ran into a murderous gunfire from German infantry and machine guns My gun and others of our battery were hurled into this open fire-swept field, swung around and in less than two minutes opened fire on the Ger mans. “Each of our shells contained 300 bullets, and at a range of 260 yards one can readily imagine how the Ger- mans fell. Finally we halted them, but the German infantry remained hid- den behind a deep fringe of trees with their own dead piled up against them. Our guns could not do effective work because of the trees, Therefore we were ordered to use high explosive shells, “I shall never forget how those shells were brought to us. The horses on the ammunition supply wagon be- came crazed and ran away. ‘They dashed within a few yards of the Ger. man lines, and one brave rider—no one ever knew who he was—shot the first two horses dead. ‘The wagon rolled over them and him, Then there was an explosion, for the wagon, hit by a shell, was blown to bits. The explosion wrought havoe among the Germans and our infantry, quickly fol- lowing up the advantage, drove the ‘Teutons out of the woods, “Meantime our line was badly pressed near St. Julien, and after the arrival of fresh British and Canadians our battery was ordered there. We went right into the town, But on and ‘on came the German infantry, and the retreat was sounded, Spying Is Dangerous, “Spying at the front is the most dangerous of all occupations,” Mr. ‘Truster continued, ‘The Germans are very clever at {t, and one method of sending news be- tween the lines is by trained dogs. One night one of our sentries saw a dog dart past him. He called to the animal, thinking the dog would make an excellent mascot for the battery. The dog came back and wagged his tail and the sentry took him to his quarters, “The following morning one of tho men remarked on the thickness of the plain leather collar worn by the dog. An examination revealed that the col- lar was hollow, and in it we found a message in cipher. Instantly an ofi- cer was summoned, the dog was put on a long wire Jeash and driven out of camp. He went direct to a barber shop, where the men were in the habit of lounging and talking when off duty, ‘The barber, whom we thought to be a. Belgian, was a German spy and after. ward was put to death.” MISS GEORGIA SCHOFIELD Re “pl ie ee “ Se <4 LS / ae BF Sa wie oie oN Dae as fa Ray teak a ER Boas uname ie Miss Schofield’s recent entrance into the society of the national capital was welcomed enthusiastically, for before her debut she had been one of the most popular of the younger leaders, “The post-mortem showings are those of brain and lung congestion.” Bumphrey went to his garage last night to get his automobile, in which he intended to deliver a number of Christmas gifts to poor families. An hour later his body was found on the floor of the garage, the engine of the automobile was running, and the ‘small room was filled with gas fumes. ‘The street trees of Paris number 56,000, 26,000 being planes, 16,000 chestnuts and 14,000 J vi) WASHINGEON CITY i (ant Fa SIDEEIGUTS ee vis ANNA — C94 Wey _— > oe Cee Oe 0 Sa Ta eel Mi La Ka FN ae Ethos 1 A ae a allatatotalolp APE AS TN! No Law Forbids Spies to Sketch Our Defenses We co are United States has no law which prohibits spies of foreign countries from making sketches, photographs and plans of the Agucarines. dt \fortthentins and the” tonoEraOh? Of tua lak ueORnl may be apprehended, but so far as the outward aspects of forts are con- cerned, spies of any country are welcome to all the information they can get under present laws. f ‘This state of affairs is regarded by some persons as especially danger- ous with relation to aviation fields. A foreign spy could make complete plans of aviation fields of the United States government, showing where hangars and other buildings are situated without violating any existing law. It has been suggested that congress this winter make sdme provision for more adequately protecting American niilitary secrets from foreigners, and this idea may be incorporated in national defense legislation. Annual Animal Social Register of Washington Te annual animal social register of the United States government has appeared. Only about fifty names were added to these bipedal and quadrupedal elite. The list forms a group as exclusive as that contained in three pages of itemized animals at the park (called by proletarian humans the “Zoo"), and each animal therein is mentiened by name, and the state of health of many of them is reported upon. The document contains much chatty comment, not to mention a birth register, of our most elite zoological families. Other mere “zoos” may get into reports, but they are not printed at the government Printing office, and stamped with any such high approval as that of the Smithsonian regents. Social affairs at the Washington zoo during the last year became vastly more cosmopolitan, it appears, though no less exclusive, because of the ad- vent of Mrs. Diamond Rattlesnake, whose jewels dazzled the horseshoe at the Snake Cage opera. Mr. Great Horned Owl added much zest to the night life, and Miss Whistling Swan and the Misses Mocking Bird were in great demand at the afternoon musicales (given when animals are fed at 3:30). At every first night, especially when Miss Silver Pheasant sang, was old Mr, Bald Eagle, and he caused much gossip among the older set by his attentions to the petite Miss Grass Parrakeet. Likewise there was much whispering behind fins and wings when Mr. Black Snake, a villainous-look- ing gentleman, arrived in company with Miss Barred Owl, a beauty of the sleeply oriental type. Mr. Gila Monster has become quite the cock of the walk, and struts ‘t off every sunshiny afternoon with Mr. Mersanger. At first the three Misses Spermophite were not invited to the more exclusive red‘meat aflaira because their family was new to most of the older social crowd in the small animal cage. Several deaths marred the midwinter season, the report intimates. The Misses Waterfowl, vivacious debutantes of the early autumn, suffered the Tavages of aspergillosis. The elderly Messrs. Prong-horn Antelopes, who were seen much togetter, both died of necrotig stomatitis, Washington Man Qwns Famous Maximilian Opal E VER since the late Gen, Mare Antony, triumvir of Rome coveted an opal owned by a senator of that empire, who prized the stone so highly that he left Rome rather than give it to Antony to carry around to Cleopatra. pane eee te eemerrts e mete) | new te ee Browne's way because he got three chiploads of ammunition to General Carranza’s agents in time to turn the tide in favor of the constitutionalist cause ‘The Maximilian opal, as famous among those versed in historic gems as is the Hope diamond, was owned by Emperor Maximilian, was given to General Miramon, his chief of staff, and was found on the body of the latter after the two were executed at Queretaro, an incident that marked the final chapter in the romantic history of the empire of Mexico, In the early summer of 1914 New York papers carried 8 little item to the effect that “some of the ammunition which is being supplied General Car- ranza is being taken out of Galveston on vessels chartered by someone who has assumed the name of Herbert J. Browne, a well-known Washington newspaper man.” Herbert J. Browne's abilities as a skipper, it would seem, were not even known to his friends in the newspaper business. But it was he who, in his own name, took out papers as captain of the vessels, gave Havana as his destination, and when he reached open water turned their prows toward Mexico. In all the Sunshine and the Wright, his two sailing vessels, carried an abundance of rifles, and about fifteen million rounds of ammunition into Tampico. White House Collection of China Is Notable f 0“ of the most interesting pieces in the White House collection of presi- dential china is an old plate recently given by Miss Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee, This plate is one that was used by George Wash- eee ine yee tee use collection of presidential ware is one of the nigat interesting historical collections in the country, and an interesting story 44 attached to the acquisition of every piece of it. ‘The collection was begun with parts of sets of dinner services found tm the White House used by seven presidents, It was placed in two cabinets in the lower east corridor of the mansion, which were designed by Mra, Theodore Rodsevelt. Eight shelves were filled with china used during the Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley and Rooseyelt administrations, This original collection has been augménted by gifts trom descendents op friends of the various presidents until it now fills four cabinets and ap- proaches completion, One shelf fs filled with pieces from the state dinner set which Mra, Roosevelt ordered, and which is still used as the state set. It {s of beautiful Wedgwood, decorated with a simple colonia! pattern in wold and the obverse of the great veal of the United States enameled in colors on each plate, ‘This set contains more ae twelve hundred pleces, and froin these were selocted © dinner platter, dinner, breaktast, tea and youp plates, with a tea, and coffee cup and their saucers, for the collection, 4 wR Ry ae T= vm . SN a s a f ii b ake A tl Ko CEA PLN, May be apprehended, but so far as cerned, spies of any country are welc under present laws, This state of affairs is regarded ous with relation to aviation felds, plans of aviation fields of the Unit hangars and other buildings are situs It has been suggested that cong tor more adequately. protecting Ame and this idea may be incorporated in | Annual Animal Social Te annual animal social register appeared. Only about fifty nam quadrupedal elite. The list forms a ¢ Sc ae Ce Bee nomi RE not even the state department's diplo- matic list is censored by the chiet Justice of the United States Supreme court, not to mention a vice president, members of the senate, and private citizens of national note, When that grave scientific body, the Smithsonian regents, with Chief Justice White as their chancellor, as- sembled in Washington they received the annual report of the National Zoo- logical park. That report contains Bie <> THANK G ke iS E98 YOU CRD) <o'T m pee 7. 1) Basch Lr yh ee art) fy A nd eS <2 Browne's way because he got three Carransa’s agente in time to turn the cause ‘The Maximilian opal, as famous a: is the Hope diamond, was owned by General Miramon, his chief of staff, ar after the two were executed at Queret chapter in the romantic history of the In the early summer of 1914 New ' effect that “some of the ammunition ranza is being taken out of Galveston has assumed the name of Herbert . newspaper man.” Herbert J, Browne's abilities as a known to his friends in the newspape: own name, took out papers as captai destination, and when he reached of Mexico. In all the Sunshine and the \ an abundance of rifles, and about fifte Tampico. White House Collection 0“ of the most interesting pieces i dential china is an old plate rece daughter of Robert EB. Lee. This plate ington, and aside from being of ines- timable value historically, is of greater age than any other piece in the whole collection. It is a dinner plate of the well-known and famous set usually re- ferred to as the Cincinnati china, Miss Lee came into possession of it through her maternal grandfather, George Washington Parke Custis, whose grandmother, Martha Washing: ton, willed it to him. The presenta: tion of this historic piece was made to Miss Margaret Wilson for the collec: tion. ‘The White House collection ot interesting historical collections in th: attached to the acquisition of every pi ‘The collection was begun with pai the White House used by seven presi in the lower east corridor of the ma Theodore Roosevelt. Eight shelves were filled with cl Hayes, Arthur, Harrison, Cleveland, Mc This original collection has been aug friends of the various presidents unt proaches completion, One shelf fs filled with pieces fr Roosevelt ordered, and which is still u Wedgwood, decorated with a simple co of the gréat seal of the United State ‘This set contains more than twelve | seers a peony platter, dinner, rs Ke sete 2a? aftahiadeay 4 thelr saucers, tor ¢ Pips ah er ps pike pean gE tase ey out by the department of justice the other day. In time of war martial Jaw prevails as to the treatment of foreigners or agents of foreign gov- ernments engaging in such occupa- tions. ‘any person inthe government service giving out information regard- ing the interior of fortifications may be punished by law and any private citizen who makes drawings or pic- tures of the interior of fortifications the outward aspects of forts are con- ome to all the information they can get by some porsons as especially danger- A foreign spy could make complete ed States government, showing where ted without violating any existing law. ress this winter make sdéme provision Hean military secrets from foreigners, national defense legislation. Register of Washington of the United States government has es were added to these bipedal and sroup as exclusive as that contained in om ee eE is WT RITS Ee aT COTTE Ce Se Opals have Seen more or less in the limelight of dynasties, emperors and nations. Today there walks ‘about the streets of Washington a man who can reach into his left-hand vest pocket, 1f he will, and show you the dazzling, opalescent gem, famous in Mexican history as the “Maximilian opal.” The man is Herbert J. Browne, whose hob- bies include sailing boats, the single ‘tax, and collecting opals, a) Kiet) (NGS CAS) ~ ret NWA c/ A A) HOT —— oD presidential ware is one of the bugat > country, and an interesting story i 260 of it ‘ts of sets of dinner services found wm dents, It was placed in two cabinets naion, which were designed by Mra, 1ina used during the Lincoln, Grant, ‘Kinley and Roosevelt administrations. mdated by gifts from descendants or il it now fills four cabinets and ap ‘om the state dinner set which Mra, sed as the state sot. It is of beautiful lonia! pattern in kold and the obverse 8 enameled in colors on each plyte, hundred pieces, and from these were. fast, tea and soup plates, with a tea né<ealtnation’