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The Conduct of the Colored Men Election Day was a Credit to the Race VOLUME VIII. NUMBER 32. The Cond Hubert Eaves R to Salute Youngster, Eleven Years Old osophy of American Patriot Dudley that Flag is a Dirty H Protect its Citizens---Precocio the Thoughtless Throughout t Hubert Eaves Refuses to Salute U. S. Flag Youngster, Eleven Years Old, Starts New Philosophy of American Patriotism---Tells Judge Dudley that Flag is a Dirty Flag that Will Not Protect its Citizens---Precocious Mind Awakens the Thoughtless Throughout the Country. --- Say, have you a furnished or unfurnished room for rent? Advertise it in The Sun and let it be bringing you in something. Des Moines, Iowa, March 24.—Hubert Eaves, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Eaves, who lives on West Third street, has startled the country by his new philosophy of American patriotism. The youngster has a precocious mind and has read the history of this country and other countries and knows the name of every Race man who exhibited bravery in the wars of the United States. He knows about the 3,000 men of the Race who were pressed into service under Alexander Hamilton and George Washington's order to authorize the enlistment of Negro troops in 1775 and the 400 who stood at the Battle of Rock Island, August 20, 1778; Peter Salem, praised for his work at Bunker Hill; the 775 brave boys of his Race who were in regiments in 1778 under Alexander Scammel, Adjutant General; the two battalions that were with General Jalckson at New Orleans; the names of the brave soldiers during the Civil War at Milligan's A. Bend, Port Hudson, Ft. Pillow, Bull Run, Antietam and Shiloh. He knows of their bravery in the Spanish-American war; 24th and 25th Infantry, 9th and 10th Cavalry, 8th Regiment of Illinois; the battle at El Caney and the surrounding of Roosevelt and saving the day for the United States. All this he knows, but what has this country paid my people for the loss of their lives, for their bravery and heroism? These are the kind of questions this developed mind has put before the country where his parents are denied the protection of the flag. Several days ago at the school which he was attending he refused to salute the flag. It even loomed up in his mind at the time when our troops were returning from Cuba, white men threw stones at our soldiers. All this rising in his mind, he did not salute the flag; he was arrested and taken before Judge Dudley and tried. The case attracted national attention, because he is thinking just as thousands of others of the younger generation. He is thinking why should any man of the race fight for a country or a flag that will not give him protection. To a Chicago Defender reporter, he said: "Isn't it wrong to have me bowing and worshipping a flag that is a dirty flag; one that does not give my mother and father protection; a flag that represents a government that allows 'Jim Crow' cars, segregation in all public places in the South and other parts of the country; denies us a voice in state government and who practices Grandfather clauses and lets mobs take our people out and hang them without trial; show us no mercy in the courts, deny us the proper school education, disfranchises our people, winks an eye at Southern concubinage, ostracizes us in every way." The Defender reporter was writing as fast as he could, but he had to stop and look at the boy and ask him about his mother and father. Young Eaves said: "I have a good mother and father and I have been very obedient. For a long while I have been thinking about these things. I have heard men who were old soldiers talk—some living today who fought for this government, cry because of the ill manner of which they have been treated." He said he had even talked to some of his little white playmates and they said they did not blame him. "I want to say," said the boy, "that my mother did not tell me to do this—she left it with me—I would lie in my heart if I say I love the flag when I hate it." He was asked about his relatives. He said the family lived near and could all be reached by telephone and was known for their unity; all being up on The Kansas City Sun currents and well versed in the Bible Treatment to Foreigners. Treatment to Foreigners. "The members of the Race have done everything to help the United States become prosperous. They have helped build the railroads, till the soil, raise the cotton, tunnel the mountain, dig in the mines, fought for the country and now are the least in its consideration. Foreigners can come here and get protection of the United States government and never raised their hands for its protection but are given choice places in all public offices and best positions. My father has been a railroad porter for twenty-five years and has stripes on his arm from his wrist to his shoulder, but is still a railroad porter," said young Eaves to the reporter. "In the white papers they said I stayed away from school to avoid saluting the flag; that is not so, I was away to have my picture taken for the Chicago Defender," he said, continuing his story. The "Birth of the Nation" came to this city with all its damnable influence and left its prejudice and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had done everything to keep it from showing. Since the show left here Mrs. Eaves has been trying to get one of her sons work but with no avail. There are nine children in the family and five dead. The parents came from West Virginia. It is said that there is a strong racial feeling in the family; thinking for the best interest of themselves and the Race that has caused the boy to have such a determined mind. When Will He Salute? "When will you salute the flag?" was asked young Eaves by a Defender reporter. He said: "Look at the boys who are members of the 10th Cavalry. They are now in Mexico fighting a race of their own color against this country—newspapers now are giving them space. When they return they can't get anything to eat in a country whose flag they fought for; not even a decent place to lay his head. Then the worst of it all is that after the Mexican has fought this country, he can come to the United States and get the best hotel accommodation. I will salute the flag WHEN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT GIVES THE RACE THE SAME PROTECTION THAT IT GIVES EVERY OTHER CITIZEN. When 'Jim Crowing,' segregation and other forms of injustice are stopped then it will be time for our Race to salute the flag." Hubert Eaves was ordered back to school by Judge Dudley. He has looked into the matter and can not find any law to effect the boy's schooling and there is no crime done for not saluting the flag. The boy's action, however, has caused many a one to think seriously if they will salute the flag or not.—Defender. A NOBLE WOMAN GONE Mrs. Janie K. Hurse, wife of the pastor of St. Stephen's Baptist church, passed away. Mrs. Janie K. Hurse, the wife of the popular and eloquent pastor of the St. Stephen's Baptist church, died at their residence, 1228 Michigan avenue, last Tuesday morning, April 4 at 10:25 o'clock. The illness which resulted in her demise covered a period of more than three months. Mrs. Hurse was reared in Lawrence, Kans., having gone there when but a small child with her family. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, five children, a mother, father, brother, five sisters and a mother-in-law. The funeral services will be held from the St. Stephen's Baptist church of which she had been a faithful member, at 1 p. m., Sunday, April 9, under the aposses of St. Stephen's Temple, S. M. T., and R. W. Foster Chapter O. E. S. The Baptist Twin City Alliance will conduct the services and the Rev. J. B. Beckham, D. D., of Independence, Mo., will officiate. Hundreds of telegraphs expressing sympathy have been received from different sections of the country. Interment will be made in the family lot at Highland cemetery. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Hear Rev. Wm. Alphine of Fort Worth, Tex., Sunday, Sunday, at Second Christian church, 24th and Woodland avenue. Morning subject: Communion or Church Ordinances. Evening subject: Conversion of a Business Woman. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Rev. Wm. Alphine of Fort Worth, Texas, preaching. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916. THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL GIVES ITS AnnualSingularlyHighClassOperetta Polytechnic High School Auditorium CORNER 11TH AND LOCUST STS. — FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 14 (The above is a group of the more than one hundred persons to take part in the Operetta.) Will be rendered by the Pupils of Lincoln High School, Friday evening, 8 o'clock, April 14. The proceeds are to go for the purchase of a $300 set of Band and Orchestra Instruments. COL. ROOSEVELT AND MAJOR MOTION IN WEST INDIES. Kingston, Jamaica, W. I., March 17. —Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, expresident of the United States, has been here several weeks and the whole island has been eager to give him a "look over." The greatest man of America has been quietly located about twenty-five miles away at a private and secluded camp. Several days ago Major R. R. Moton and wife arrived at the port and the newly-elected principal of Tuskegee Institute was met by the colonel and family. The educator came here for rest and study. He was surprised to see the colonel, and when ex-president Roosevelt drove him out to his camp twenty-five miles from here, Major Moton felt his stay would be exceedingly pleasant. The friendship of the two distinguished men dates back many years. It has just become known that Colonel Roosevelt was as friendly to Major Moton as he was to the late Booker T. Washington. The two have served on a number of philanthropic and sociological committees in the East. They have spoken on platforms at the same time for the past twenty years, and their associations have been cordial and pleasant. It is said that when the colonel wanted to have a conference on grave matters and wanted an unbiased, true and conscientious opinion, he would call upon Major Moton, newly-elected principal of Tuskegee Institute. When the ex-president and the new principal of Tuskegee came to the city yesterday and drove through the town, all eyes were upon them. When they stopped to enter the postoffice great crowds assembled and yells went up: "Long Live Roosevelt;" "Long Live Major Moton!" The colonel is a member of the trustee board of Tuskegee Institute, and Colonel Roosevelt will attend the installation in May. HEADQUARTERS UNIFORM RANK KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAHS. Jurisdiction of Missouri, 3510 Cozens Avenue. St. Louis, March 23, 1916. SPECIAL ORDERS NO. 3. 1. Pursuant to Special Orders No. 8 from the office of Major General Jackson, commanding U. R. K. P., dated Chicago, Illinois, March 11, 1916; 2. An election for Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, and such other vacancies in Battalion Officers as may occur in the Second Regiment of Missouri, is hereby ordered to take place on Sunday afternoon. April 9, 1916, at 2:30 p. m., at their Armory, 18th and Troop avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 3. The Regimental Battalion Staff Officers' Band, Captains and Lieutenants of Companies A, C, D, E, and Troop B, of Kansas City; Company F, Bowling Green; Company G, Richmond; Company H, Sedalia, will assemble at the Armory on the above date and will appear in Fatigue Uniform, Side Arms and White Gloves. Folger-Cin JEPTHA'S DAUGHTER This delightful play will be reproduced by special ber of people on next Thursday night, April 16th and Lydia. Those who missed the other sure to see this one. All Past Officers and Sir Knights | TWO HIG special officers be reproduced by special text Thursday night, Apr who missed the other Sir Knights TWO HIGH This delightful play will be reproduced by special request of a large number of people on next Thursday night, April 13, at Ebenezer chapel, 16th and Lydia. Those who missed the other performance should be sure to see this one. All Past Officers and Sir Knights TWO HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS ARE especially invited to attend. HONORED. especially invited to attend. 4. Capt. Edward Marshall, Regimental Adjutant, and Sergt. Geo. Brinkely, Troop B, Serry. Thos. Lyons, Company D, are hereby detailed for duty as Recorders for this occasion. 5. Capt. T. F. Horton, Company F, Capt. Otis Campbell, Company G, Capt. Luther H. Mason, Company H, will notify Colonel L. A. Knox, 1419 East 18th street, Kansas City, the number of men that will come, and the time of their arrival. 6. Colonel L. A. Knex, commanding the Second Regiment is hereby ordered to assemble his entire command for duty at 5 p. m. at the Armory. He will arrange for the presentation of the Regimental Colors and Dress Parade. 7. The Brigade Commander, accompanied by members of his staff, will arrive Saturday morning, April 8, and will be pleased to greet each and every Sir Knight while in the city. By order of General Butler, FRANK FERGUSON, Assistant Adjutant General. LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL GIVES ITS regularly High Class —IN— Technic High School Audi- tion AND LOCUST STS.—FRIDAY EVEN HIGH SCHOOL HighClassO School Auditorium FRIDAY EVENING, "THE DRUM MAJOR" A High-Class Musical and Literary Play Pupils of Lincoln High School, Friday even or the purchase of a $300 set of Band and ADMISSION: ENTS SCHOOL B Special Director. MISS CARRIE E. B. School, Friday evening, set of Band and Orche N: SCHOOL PUPILS S CARRIE E. BRYDIE Miss Edna Hammett and Mr. Roland Bruce, pupils of Lincoln High School Orchestra, had the honor of playing for a private reception at the Kupper Hotel on Friday night, March thirty-first. MISS EDNA HAMMETT announces that she is open for engagement as PIANIST for Receptions. Bell E. 2943. Home E. 802. NEW BUNGALOWS. We are going to build four strictly modern homes on Flora between 23d and 24th streets. Will build according to your plans. Two have already been ordered. See us at once if you would like to order one. AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO. A. Rivers, Manager. A. Rivers, Manager NEW LOCATION—1516 E. 18th st. Phones—Bell East 782; Home East 802. BOONE DREW BIG AUDIENCE. The Ladies' Aid of the First Methodist church made real money in bringing Blind Boone and his concert company, Miss Marie Jackmann, soprano, and Miss Marguerite Boyd, mezzo-soprano, here in concert. Over 2,000 people were in Convention hall and over $700 was taken in. That means over $300 for the women, who are paying for the parsonage by their own efforts. And the big crowd that heard the unique program enjoyed it. John Lange announced the numbers and they ranged from the serious efforts from the big composers to the plantation songs, full of swing and rhythm, that the composer-pianist sang with his two singers. The young women, and they seem very young, indeed, won encore after encore and earned them, as did the big pianist, who was in the best of good humors. His work is remarkable, and an evidence of his effort and persistence. One incident of his stay in the city was his instant recollection at the Forum of the Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon of a girl whom he had not seen or heard since her babyhood. She shook hands and said: "I am Nona Wilkerson, Mr. Boone." Back came the answer instantly: "Oh, yes, and you lived with your aunt down in _____, Mo., and I held you on my knee many a time."—Hutchinson Gazette. GREAT EIGHT-DAY REVIVAL OR MISSION AT ST. MONICA COL- ORED CHURCH, 17TH AND LYDIA, APRIL 9 TO 16. Next Sunday, April 9, at 10:30 a.m. the Very Rev. Chrysostom Theo bald, O. T. M., D. D., the most eloquent Catholic missionary of Lincoln, will open a week's revival or mission in St. Monica's colored church 17th and Lydia, for the colored people, Catholic and non-Catholic. A series of interesting sermons and instructions will be given and every colored person is kindly invited to attend. The opening sermon will be preached at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and every evening promptly at 8 from April 9 to 16 there will be a mission sermon. Admission, of course, will be absolutely free and there will be no collections taken at the evening services. Father Chrysostom is the most eloquent missionary of the Catholic church not only of this country but of the entire community. His fascinating eloquence was admired at Rome and in many European cities whehe he preached. The distinguished orator is accustomed to preach before large audiences in the East, where thousands of attentive hearers greet him and it is the greatest honor and favor to have this most noted preacher come to Kansas City and preach to the colored people at St. Monica's church. I cordially I cordially invite every colored person of good will to come and hear this wonderful speaker. Everyone is heartily welcome. I kindly invite those especially who may in any way be misinformed about the Catholic church or have any ill will or hostile feeling against her Come to hear and see what we really have. mSt. Monica's church and school was established by the Catholics of Kansas City to help the colored people and the good work being done there is a clear proof that the Catholic church is and always has been a true friend and protector of the colored race. No sincerely upright person can deny this as a well meaning friend of the colored people. I kindly invite and ask everyone to come and hear the most interesting sermons every evening promptly at 8 o'clock from Sunday, April 9 to 16. Come and bring your friends. FATHER CYPRIAN, O.F.M., St. Monica's Colored Catholic Church, Seventeenth and Lydia. Mrs. Rosa B. Scott, who has been ill for many months, is recuperating slowly at her new address, 915 Vine street. Mrs. Scott would be pleased to see her many friends at this number. STEWART & SMITH APPPOINTED AGENCY DIRECTORS FOR THE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY The standard Life Insurance Company, with a view of increasing its staff and extending its field of operations in the West, have selected the above named firm as its Western representatives. Hereafter the business of the Standard Life Insurance Company will be handled from the office of Stewart & Smith, 1515 East 18th street, in connection with their already large business of real estate, loans, rentals and insurance. The firm of Stewart & Smith has had an uninterrupted career of success in their line in Winnipeg (Canada) and Kansas City for the past fifteen years. The Standard Life considers itself fortunate in securing such a strong firm to represent it. The Standard Life Insurance Company is now increasing its capital from $100,000 to $125,000 and expanding in all directions. They are now operating in eight states and giving employment to over 100 people. STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO We want good reliable Agents in every city and town in the country. Write us for terms. PRICE. 5c. "WHERE McGREGOR SITS." (The following from the Kansas City Star is unanswerable and voices the sentiment of the people of the West.) Theodore Roosevelt has just returned from a voyage through the West Indies. The New York Sun, which can not be suspected of partiality, devotes a three-column editorial to his journey under the title "The Flight of a meteor." His reception, it says, affords new evidence of "the enormous impression that "this remarkable man has made upon his times. * * * He sets out as a private citizen, but he can not escape from his own fame or from the eager interest that his career excites among all men. His journey takes the semblance of a triumphal progrue instantaneously his ship drops anchor in the island port. Honors, civil and military, are heaped upon him at every opportunity. His visit lights up the slow, dull, backwater existence of 500,000 of scattered people like the passage of a meteor. He leaves blind him impressions of spiritual thrill and material pomp and splendor which will be talked of in superlatives so long as the toddling children of today may survive to recall his visit." He lands in New York and at once be comes a leading figure in the news of the day. Ex-presidents usually are soon forgotten. Here is a man who has been out of office for eight years and yet still in the storm center of American life. More persons today are interested in what Roosevelt says than in the words of any other man now living. It is literally true that since his return from Africa he has determined what the American people shall think about and talk about. Beginning with his speeches on the new nationalism in 1910, down through his great campaign for social justice in 1912, and his work for preparedness in the last two years, he has influenced the entire mental life of this country. He did the same thing for the seven years of his administration. He has continued to do it since he became a private citizen. The reason is evident. Roosevelt has shown a unique combination of idealism and practicality of comprehension of national problems and energy in finding and urging the next step in their solution. He is at the same time a man of vision and a man of affairs. There are many prophets in the country and many fighters. But the great prophet, who is also a great fighter, does not appear more than once or twice in a generation. When he does appear he naturally become the leader of his age. In the present world crisis brought on by the war, when old standards have been destroyed and nations have been forced to readjust their policies and modes of thought, it was inevitable that the course of the United States should have been profoundly affected by Roosevelt. He was the one man before the public who comprehended the new problems and their significance to this country. While President Wilson was still assuring the nation that its isolation prevented it from having any vital concern in the affairs of Europe, while congress was asleep, while presidential aspirants were dodging, and while th industrial leaders were devoting themselves to making financial profit out of the situation, one voice was raised and one only, for preparedness. By virtue of his sincerity, his information and his understanding, he made himself heard, and gradually brought the government to a partial acceptance of his program. He still remains, however, the one conspicuous man who has grapped the real meaning of preparedness as part of one great national policy. While others are urging this or that preparedness measure in a fragmentary way, he is proposing a comprehensive program of social justice which will give every citizen a stake in the country, and which will make military training contribute to national efficiency. He has learned the lesson of Germany, where all citizens are expected to cooperate to do away with misery and want, and to make a country worth fighting for, in the eyes of even the poorest. He has made a practical application of this lesson to the United States. Because he has a program which the country needs at this time, and because he is courageous enough to urge it, not for political effect, but because he believes it is right. Roosevelt is the country's real leader today. His position does not depend on the caprice of politicians or conventions. He has won it by continuing the value of his services to the nation. It makes no difference what the political manipulators do. Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table! MASONIC NOTICE The final initiation of the John Lange lodge, U. D. A. F. and A. M., will take place Saturday, April 7, at 9 p. m. All candidates must be ready at that time. All Masons invited. R FULLBRIGHT LINCOLN ELECTRIC PARK. Open to public tomorrow night, Saturday, April 8, for one month by Ethiopia Film and Stage Production Co. All kinds of attractions. Rain or shine, plenty of cover. Admission 10 cents. Arthur A. Anderson, Impressario. Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. 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. COAL AND FEED. W. W. PAYNE, 1902 1-2 Vine St. Bell phone, East 559; Home phone East 4132. CLEANERS, DYERS AND TAILORS WORTHAM BROS., 1831 Paseo. Bell Phone East 701 DRUG STORES. SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone in 5467. RUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell phone 4082. ER'S PHARMACY—18th and Woodland East 272, Home phone East 4070. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. JAMES & CO., 2409 Vine Street. THEODORE SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 4591, Home Main 5467. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell phone East 1814, Home East 4082. R. W. FOSTER'S PHARMACY—18th and Woodland, Bell phone East 272. Home phone East 4070. TAYLOR-HOLMES & CO., 2409 Vine Street. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE THOS. JACKSON, 1816 Highland, Bell phone, East 2377J. MOVING VANS, F. W. DAVIS. Moving, packing and storing household goods. Home phone, East 2158. Residence, 1229 Woodland FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 272. Home phone, East 4070. 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. WAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Practices in all courts. ON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bai al advice. Practices in all courts. LEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnes Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. 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. MILLINERY. CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home ph PHOTOGRAPHERS. ANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East st 1643. CALDWELL CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home phone East 4009 PHOTOGRAPHERS. C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th St. Bell phone East 1643. PRINTERS. C. A. FRANKLIN, 1309 East 18th Street. Bell phone, Grand 2988 REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. ICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT 4011 McGee street. E 751 Main. Home Ph PAYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West est 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. OPLE'S INVESTMENT CO., 2427 Vine 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 A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Minnesota Ave. (upstairs) Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1743; Home phone, West 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. 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. Bell phone East 3851 SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 East 18th street. Bell phone East 1328. UNDERTAKERS , 1031 Independence Avenue. Bell phone one Main 3341. ROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine streets. EE, Licensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine St., B Vine East 3341. ROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Gra D. Res., Bell East 3281. H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence Avenue. Bell phone Main 3398W Home phone Main 3341. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine streets. Both phones East 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. Say Friend! CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO BUY Drugs, Toilet Articles and have Prescriptions Filled? Sure —AT— 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. BOTH PHONES: Bell East 272. Home East 4070. When not Convenient to Come, Call Us Up. Remember the Place EIGHTEENTH and WOODLAND Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Caldwell's Pomade and Tonic really Grows Hair. Try it. Save your combings, cut hair and any old hat you may have. Hair Matched From Samples. Feathers and Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Blocked. Agents for Spirella Corsets. Mail orders answered promptly CAFES. Our Asphalt Ornamental Roofing Costs one-third Less Than Shingles. Wears Longer. Cash or Payments The Moses Dickson Regalia and Supplies Co RECORD OF T. W. H. WILLIAMS, IN THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY FROM 1880 TO 1916. Years Past Noble-Monarch Independent Order of Immaculates.....2 Past National Deputy Organizer Independent Order of Immaculates dates. Past Recorder Knights of Tabor. Past Chief Mentor Knights of Tabor. Past State Deputy Knights of Tabor. Past National Deputy Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem. Past Secretary Wildows' Sons Lodge A. F. & A. M. Past Junior Warden Wildows' Sons Lodge A. F. & A. M. Past Senior Warden Wildows' Sons Lodge A. F. & A. M. Past Master Pritchard Lodge A. F. & A. M. Past Secretary Pritchard Lodge A. F. & A. M. Past Treasurer Pritchard Lodge A. F. & A. M. Past Secretary St. Paul Chapter. Past Scribe St. Paul Chapter. Past King St. Paul Chapter. Past High Priest St. Paul Chapter Past Recorder Far West Commander Knights Templar. Past Generalissimo Far West Commandery Knights Templar Past Assistant Rubban Allah Temple Mystic Shrine ..... Past Grand Illustrious Potentate Allah Temple Mystic Shrine ..... Past Grand Chancellor K. C. Commandery ..... Past Grand Minister of State K. C. Consistory ..... Past Grand Illustrious Commander-in-chief K. C. Consistory ..... Past Noble Father Gate City Prof. T. W. H. Williams the esteemed principal of Bruce School and one of Kansas City's most valued educators. Lodge G. U. O. of O. F..... Past Keeper of Records and Seal K. of P..... Past Master of Work Lucullus Lodge K. P..... Past Grand Captain of Hosts R. A. C..... Supt. St. John's A. M. E. Church Director Choir A. M. E. Church.. President St. John's Literary Society. Editor and Owner Kansas City Enterprise (paper of D. V. A. Nero) Editor and Owner Kansas City Dial, bi-monthly magazine..... General Correspondent American Citizen, owned by C. H. J. Taylor..... Correspondent The Rising Son... Correspondent and Agent The Enterprise, Omaha, Neb..... Correspondent (limited to "Back to the Farm" and "Booker Past Grand Captain of the Most Grand Chapter of Missouri..... Past Grand Special State Deputy Grand Lodge of Missouri..... First Chairman on Recognition of Negro Masons Grand Lodge of Missouri..... Past Chairman Committee State or Condition of the Country Grand Lodge of Missouri..... Member and Chairman of every Committee of the Grand Lodge of Missouri; also Knights of Tabor and Independent Order of Immaculates not including many other positions of importance held in Independent Orders of Oddfellows, Knights of Pythias and other Secret Societies. Royal Patron Zorah Chapter O. Royal Patron Zorah Chapter O. E. S. ..... AT PRESENT Grand Captain of the Host Grand Chapter of Missouri. Member University Extension white).....Only Negro Principal State Teachers' Association (white). Member Masonic Building Association Pritchard Lodge A. F. & A. M. Chairman Auditing Committee Masonic Building Association, Pritchard Lodge A. F. & A. M. Minister of State K. C. Consistory. Chairman Committee of Repairs Masonic Building Association. Treasurer Masonic Building Association. Chairman Committee on Erection New Masonic Temple, Masonic Building Association. Past Grand Patron Order Eastern Star. Member Paseo Yung Men's Christian Association ..... Member Negro Business League. Public School Teacher in Tennessee. Principal and Teacher in City Public Schools (Nov. 2, 1882). Principal Bruce School WANTED AT ONCE! To establish agency in every city and town. We have an attractive article for a reliable, hustling agent, a good side line; exclusive agency to right person. Write for particulars and free samples. R. H. PARKER CO., 1824 Tenth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. HENRY H. SCOTT Interior Decorating, Painting, Paper Hanging. HOUSE PAINTING. Old English process of Hardwood Finishing. Bell E. 1762W. 2013 Bellfontaine. HANDSOME AUTOMOBILE is here. The car of class, driven by owner. W. H. HUBBELL. Both phones— Home East 4159. Bell East 2013. COLORED PEOPLE'S PROGRESS. A new race history soon to be placed on the market at $1.50. The publishers, Austin-Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C., Warder building, are now placing agents. Anyone wanting to secure the agency may get a fine prospectus FREE for 15 cents in postage. 3 Sunday School at 8:45 a. m. Preaching at 11:00 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. 4 Christian Endeavor at 6:45 p. m. R. C. Pierce, pastoring. 5 Ex-Judge Mayo of Chicago will preach Sunday evening. All invited. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN Undertaking Establishment 19th and Vine Sts., Kansas City, Mo. 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Cure Hog Cholera, Chicken Cholera, Worms, Gapes, Etc. Made and Sold only by E. Flournoy 723 Tracy Ave, Kansas City, Mo. FOR HOGS: One-half pint to one pint for Cholera, two to three times a day. FOR CHICKENS: Put one pint in one-half gal lon of water. H. P. 7555 Main. B. P. 4798 East. WEAVER FLORAL CO. All Kinds of Fruit. Cut Flowers and Potted Plants For all Occasions, From the Cradle to the Grave. We Please the People. 1510 E 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. Chapter 27. By a worthy coincidence Joseph H. Pelham began his career as Grand Master at a meeting of the Grand Lodge in the city of Sedalia, and it was there at the thirty-fourth annual communication that he gave up the reins of administration. There is no doubt that he might have continued to hold the office had he so desired, even in the face of his declaration of a year previous. He had served sixteen years as the head of the order, during which time the fraternity had prospered in numerical strength as well as in financial resources. He was a man of fine scholarship, refined manners and lovable disposition. He was not great in constructive ability and seldom showed great strength in JOE E. HERRIFORD, P. M. crises, though he always held about hi ma strong support from those who did not oppose his policies and was unrelentingly watchful of those whom he found to be to any degree arrayed against him. Being midly upositive he constantly had opposition and it was this force which doubtless weared him to the point that forced him to voluntarily retire from the Grand East. Grand Master Pelham did not retire, however, without dictating the terms of his retirement. He devised that his toga should fall upon A. R. Chinn rather than upon William H. Jones, whose bold stand against him had been made the year before, and he further arranged that he should fall into the secretaryship which Chinn should relinquish. There were 120 proxy votes on hand to perfect this arrangement even if a majority of the representatives present might be against it. The opposition, dazed by the sight of the Grand Master stepping down, fairly held its breath until the whole thing was put over to a queen's taste. At the beginning of the session the mayor of the city delivered a most cordial address of welcome and was responded to by Dr. M. O. Rickettx. In his annual address the Grand Master took note of the loss by death of Brothers Louis Tutt, Felix H. Bolton, John Rone and Henry Rowan. Brother Bolton was a St. Louis member characterized by a fine presence, high ideals and industrious disposition, and his influence for good had made a living impress upon Masonic life in his home city. Brother Rowan was a man of much the same spirit and in the southeast section of the state where he lived he was justly honored and beloved. Henry Rone was a resident of Kansas City and was a pioneer Masonic workman. Those who were fortunate enough to know him still point to the grandeur of his character and the honest uprightness of his life. And that was not, the end of sorrow for the year. For while the Grand Master was reading his address a message was received announcing the death of Brother W. Brent Ousley, a pioneer christian minister and one of the very corner stones of the Grand Lodge. He had been with the organization almost from its very beginning. He had assisted in the establishment of many lodges, aided in hundreds of initiations, corner stone lay-ins, consecrations and funerals of the brethren. He was in many ways a remarkable man, always happy, always hopeful, always helping. As a mark of respect to this beloved brother it was voted to send a telegram of sympathy, a floral offering and the Grand Lodge was closed for the remainder of the day. On the following day the Grand Lodge settled down to work in earnest. There was great tension due to the approaching election of Grand officers and the partisans of rival candidates were so active that they almost lost sight of other work to be done. The proxy lists were a matter of constant concern for those who did not possess them and a source of great comfort to those who knew all about them. When Dr. Ricketts asked whether a proxy could be delegated to a member other than the one to whom it was sent, the Grand Master ruled that "it could not be done," not saying at all that it had not been done, perhaps that very day. So other resolutions were adopted and other speeches made upon the subject covering exactly the same ground that had been gone over the year before and really having little effect upon the evil complained of. In those days proxies only looked bad to those who did not carry them. No one was ever known to refuse one, no matter how many times it had been transferred and credentials committees were never very communicative. How the election came out has already been stated. Upon the new roster appeared also the name of Brother E. W. Perkins, who had for several years served in most painstaking clerical war for the Grand Lodge. He was a young Mason of unusual devotion both at home and at the meetings of the Grand Lodge. In this way and by his congenial manners he won a host of friends and these rewarded him in part by electing him junior Grand Warden, from which position he advanced during the next two years to the place of Deputy Grand Master and was later elected Grand Lecturer. * PRINTING? * SEE FRANKLIN. * Bell phone Grand 2988 * Everything it takes to make * Printing pleasing and attractive * —why he's got it. * "He Delivers the Goods." * 1309 East 18th Street. * (Near Tracy Avenue) 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 Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions MR. 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ORCHESTRA OF 16 PIECES Under Direction of Major N. Clark Smith E. EFFIE GRANT, Soprano EMMA COLLINS PAYNE, Contralto F. J. WORK, Tenor LEMUEL RUSSEL, Baritone BUELAH DOUGLASS, Organist EVA MOORE, Pianist JOYCE DORSEY, Pianist ed by the Senior and Junior Ushers' B Program begins promptly at 8:15. The Foremost Colored Magazine in America Colored American Review 2305 SEVENTH AVENUE New York, N. Y. Annual Monthly Magazine of Inspiration contai Poetry Literature Sports Politics Fine Arts Music Religion ALL WITH The Kansas City Sun FOR $1.75 YEARLY. of the Review and Advertising Rates will request to any part of the United States. T. Major N. Clark Smith. I, Soprano INS PAYNE, Contralto Senor BEL, Baritone GLASS, Organist Pianist EY, Pianist r and Junior Ushers' Board. ns promptly at 8:15. Fred Magazine in America.' American Review ENTH AVENUE New York, N. Y. 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Best service in the city can be had by calling for Blunk's auto. Bell phones East 782 and East 4059; Home phones East 802 and East 4059. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis and Mr. Lemuel B. Davis of 1821 East 16th street, have returned from Eudora, Kas., where they were called to attend the funeral of their father, Mr. Milton Davis. Wm. Blunk guarantees first class service with his 7-passenger Chalmers. Call him day or night. Home phone East 802 and East 4059; Bell phones East 782 and East 4059. Mr. and Mrs. David Allen, 2313 Highland avenue, are the proud possessors of a seven-passenger Cadillac motor car with which they were very generous Sunday afternoon with an auto ride for relatives and friends. The car was driven by Mr. Allen Moore, a driver for the Cadillac Motor Car Company, at 16th and Grand ave. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH The Senior B. Y. P. U. meets in the lecture room of the church every Sunday at 6:30 p. m. All are invited. The attended last Sunday was 62. The program for next Sunday, April 9: Vocal solo, Miss Lessie King; paper, subject, "If," Miss Godfrey; instrumental solo, Mr. Gilmore; vocal solo, Mr. R. F. Quinn. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Mrs. Laura Wells has been sick for some time, but is somewhat better at GOOD TO THE END CROSSETT SHOES this writing.....Mrs. Alice Wagner is much improved.....All services were well attended last Sunday. About twelve candidates were crowned and given the rites of the Baptist church. ..Mrs. Matilda Derrick has been very sick, but is somewhat better. We hope she will continue to improve.... All the officers of the Sunday School were re-elected by acclamation, which shows they have done great work. The report shows three hundred and sixty dollars in the treasury, which is indeed grand....The ladies of the church are holding special meetings every Sunday. Wonder why? Prof. Joe E. Herriford, Dawley, Jr., Prof. J. R. R. T. Coles. Allen Endeavor $4.00 Mrs. L. A. McCampbell John Turner Lodge $2.00 each—Nelson eph Butter, Fred W. Jordan, McCampbell & T. C. Chapman. $1.00 each—Dr. McD. Howard Smith, Dr Dr. E. B. Ramsey, Ad Harvey Roberts, Re Walter Howard, Prof. C ALLEN CHAPEL. The men did will in their rally last Sunday, and it is to be continued Sunday. Last Sunday was a very beautiful day and Allen's audience was up to its usual high standard. The minister preached at the morning, afternoon and evening services. Rev. Dr J. W. Hurse to have preached in the afternoon, but owing to the critical illness of his wife, he was unable to be with us. Allen extends to Dr. Hurse her deepest sympathy. On Good Friday evening Hiawatha, a cantata of high merit, will be rendered in Allen chapel by the Allen chapel choir, assisted by the students of Western university. Don't miss this. Prof. R. G. Jackson has it in charge. Mr. T. A. Dickson, the Special Representative of the Standard Life Insurance Company, is in Kansas City reorganizing the agency force. He is very much pleased to find that the Standard is meeting with the hearty co-operation of the best people in this section. The company is planning to increase its agency force in Missouri, and has secured the services of the firm of Stewart & Smith as agency directors for the Northern and Western Division of Missouri. The firm of Stewart & Smith is well rated and their name is synonymous with success. The Standard Life is to be commended for having secured the services of this hustling, wide awake firm. Parties who might be interested in stock of the Standard Life Insurance Company might get in touch with the company's Special Representative at 1515 East Eighteenth street, Kansas City, Mo. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. The B. Y. P. U. held a very interesting session last Sunday. The topic was well discussed and the music was excellent. The attendance was 82. Next Sunday will be covenant meeting for the members and friends, also a special musical program will be arranged. Everybody is invited.... E. W. Thompson has invented and made a church choir bulletin which indicates not only the number of the hymnals but also the invitational songs and anthems to be sung by the choir. This bulletin is used by our church choir every Sunday.... Last Sunday morning the past, Dr. Bacote delivered an excellent sermon to a large congregation.... The Sunday school was interesting and well attended. The evening worship was devoted to covenant meeting and the Lord's Supper, which was partaken of by a large membership...Mrs. Fannie B. Oath Jackson has returned to her home, 1810 E. Tenth, from Wichita, Kas, where she was called on account of the death of her niece, Mrs. Pansy W. Kelly. TRIBUTE TO PROF. T. W. H. WILLIAMS. Prof. T. W. H. Williams is a splendid representative of that class of Negro men who have been foremost in all movements looking to the elevation of the race. 'He has given the best years of his life to fitting the Negro youth for the responsibilities of citizenship, and he has made good. His record is without a blemish and his character will pass muster at the bar of public opinion. His ability is best evidenced by the material that he has turned out. He is in the prime of vigorous manhood. If these qualifications are not sufficient for the promotion of any man, then human effort has no compensation. MRS. McCAMPBELL SPEAKS. Through the Kansas City Sun, I wish to thank my friends, churches, lodges and Fidelity Court for helping me raise money for the Charity Fund. We lack quite a sum before we raise one thousand dollars. Is your name on my list or some other for the same purpose? If not I will try to see you. Should I fail to see you, please call me up and tell me how much you will give. Bell phone West 1454. Thanking you for what you have done and in advance for what you will do, I am truly yours in helping a good cause, $5.00 each—Green Pasture Lodge Westport Lodge, Fidelity Court, John ston's employees, Prof. J. D. Bowser Prof. Joe E. Herriford, Prof. Wm. H. Dawley, Jr., Prof. J. R. E. Lee, Prof. R. T. Coles. Allen Endeavor $4.00. Mrs. L. A. McCampbell $2.80. John Turner Lodge $2.50. $2.00 each—Nelson C. Crews, Joseph Butler, Fred W. Dabney, L. H. Jordan, McCampbell & Houston, Dr T. C. Chapman. $1.00 each—Dr. McQueen Carrion, Dr. Howard Smith, Dr. Theo, Smith, Dr. E. B. Ramsey, Adolph Williams, Harvey Roberts, Raymond Knox Walter Howard, Prof. G. A. Page, Mrs. G. A. Page, Mrs. Bell Edwards, Mrs. Effie Watkins, Mrs. Mary Johnson, Mrs. Thos. Flood, Mrs. Sallie Jackson, Mrs. Kate Martin, Mrs. Corrine Wells, Mrs. Edmonia Brown, Mrs. W. H. Hubbell, Mrs. L. Moseley, Mrs. Jean McCampbell, Mrs. A. E. Estes, Mrs. Emma Payne, Mrs. E. C. Bunch, Mrs. Cora Williams, Miss Sadie Thornton, Rev. Richard Davis, Horace Conway, Wm. Phillips, Mrs. Janie Johnson, WM. Hopkins, Mrs. Wm. J. Thompkins 50 cents each—Mrs. B. O. Crane, Mrs. Pinkie Jones, Mrs. Amy Willis, Mrs. Geo. Jones, Mrs. Lola Word, Mrs. Mamie Webster, Mrs. Midge Moore, Mrs. Paul Whitworth, Mrs. Fidella Mitchell, Mrs. Barney, Mrs. J. F. Shannon, Mrs. Bessie R. Taylor, Mrs. Pauline Hoffman, Miss Amanda Moore, Mr. Willis Mosely, W. S. Lewis, Mrs. Lizzie Bennett. 25 cents each—Mrs. Addie Smith a friend, Mrs. Lena J. Whibby, Maggie Buford., A. C. Tolson. 20 cents each—Mrs. Louise Penn Mrs. Maxey, a friend. A friend 15 cents. A friend 10 cents. A friend 10 cents. Total, $131.34. BISHOP GEO. L. BLACKWELL. The Great Preacher and Scholar is in the City—Speaks at 3:00 p. m. Sunday, April 9. Men and women in all walks of life will meet at the St. James A. M. E. Zion church, 1805 Woodland avenue. Sunday afternoon, April 9, at 3:00 o'clock, to hear the eloquent and scholarly Bishop G. L. Blackwell preach. A cordial invitation has been extended by the church through the minister, the Rev. W. W. Matthews, to all the city pastors and their several congregations and to the people at large to turn out in full force and hear one among the brainstem men of the Negro race. Bishop Blackwell has a message to Kanasas City. The choir of Centennial church, of which Rev. R. Davis is pastor, has been invited to render the music for the entire service of the afternoon. Come early for everybody wants to hear Bishop Blackwell. Unwelcome Tribute. "Why didn't you vote for my reelection?" "We wanted you home for a little white," replied Farmer Corn tossel. "We regard you as one of the finest speakers in the country, and there's no sense nor justice in letttn an unappreciative congress monopo lize your eloquence forever." J. SILAS HARRIS. Women's Clubs. LADIES' COTEBIE CLUB LADIES COTTERIE CLUB. The Ladies' Cotterie club will meet April 12 with Mrs. Boyd, 915 Vine st. All members will be expected. OAK LEAF ART CLUB OAK LEAF ART CLUB. The Oak Leaf Art Club held its last meeting with the president, Mrs Tony. The next meeting will be held April 14, with Mrs. Blanchard, 2028 Woodland avenue. MRS. TONY, President. THE TIVOLA CLUB The Tivola Club met Friday with Mrs. Thomas Greer, 535 Tangent street, Rosedale, Kas. Fourteen were present. The hostess served an elegant lunch. MRS. CRAIG, President, MRS. GREER, Vice President, LULU MARSHALL, Secretary THE CLIPPERS Miss E. Naomi White was hostess at a most unique card party for the Clippers on April 1. The party "progressed" backward, causing much meriment. Before leaving each guest was presented with a handsome souvenir. The Past and Present Counsellors' Council, O. O. C., met with Mrs. Mary Boyd, 915 Vine street, with a large attendance. There being nine courts represented. It was decided by a unanimous vote that we give a union Calanthan bazar. All present and past counsellors, representatives, juvenile matrons and members are urged to be present at our ext meeting. Mrs. Kate Martin, G. W. matron, was elected general chairman of the bazar. Mrs. Elliza Lynn, P. W. C. secretary, and Mrs. Clara T. Knox, P. W. C., treasurer. Next week the council will meet with Mrs. Lillie Johnson, 1508 East Eighteenth street, April 11, at 3 p. m. THE COSMOS CLUB The Cosmos Club, a social service organization, organized three years ago for the laudable purpose of providing a Friday night dance at the M. and O. hall for the young people of the two cities, adequately supervised and chaperoned under the leadership of that prince of good fellows, Tilford Davis, Jr., has been persuaded to go on the second of its now famous outings to Leavenworth. The date is set for Tuesday evening, May 9. Like the one last year this affair is unique, in that it guarantees a seat "gwine and comin" as Uncle Mose would say. President Davis informs us that while the Trolley Party of 1915 was the best ever taken out of Kansas City, the club has profited some by that experience, and proposes to make the coming event better still in several ways; although the Order of last year can hardly be improved on—it was so near perfect. The fact that the Club does not try to carry anybody and everybody, and Tom, Dick and Harry, is one of its strongest recommendations to our good people. Another thing we like about this Club is that it promises no more than it can perform and sets a good example by keeping its promise, as some of our readers found out to their chagrin last year when they tried to get tickets after the date set for them to be withdrawn from general sale, which is May 6, for this year—and found it difficult to get hold of one. Tickets on sale at the People's Drug Store, Slaughter's and Home Drug Company, exclusively. ANNOUNCEMENT Standard Life Insurance Company Enters State of Mississippi Doing Big Business. It is a plaesure to announce to the public that the Standard Life Insurance Company, the first and only Negro Old Line Insurance Company, is meeting with such phenomenal success. They have recently entered the state of Mississippi, which gives them an opportunity to draw from more than a million Negroes. The company is now operating in eight states, siz.: Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. They have now at work more than one hundred men who are producing for the company, an average of two hundred thousand dollars worth of business per month. The men and women who own stock in this company are indeed fortunate because this is destined to be the greatest financial institution ever organized and fostered by Negroes. At the close of business December 31, 1915, the Standard Life Insurance Company had two million dollars' worth of "live business" on its books. The company is well managed and has the favor and respect of other similar companies and Insurance Commissioners throughout their entire jurisdiction. Their contracts are well gotten up, provide for the same conditions of Loan, Cash Surrender and Extended Insurance that is given in all first class Insurance Companies. All their literature is strictly high class and up to the top notch. You make no mistake in buying insurance in the Standard Life Insurance Company. KANSAS CITY, KAS. By Mrs. Kitty B. Davis. Mrs. James Collins is very ill and confined to the hospital. Dr. Radford's entire famill has moved to Kansas City, Mo., to reside with him. The Spanish class met at Sumner High school Wednesday night with a good enrollment. Dr. Montgomery has moved his office from Fourth and Armstrong to 421 Minnesota avenue. The Merry Matrons' club met at Mrs. Herrington's today and had an enjoyable evening. The S. R. B. club met at Mrs. Nettie Wilson's on New Jersey, Thursday evening and spent an enjoyable evening. We are very proud to learn that quite a bit of improvement and street paving is contemplated or this summer in colored districts. The Graeco Art club met Thursday day afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Kittie B. Davis, on Freeman avenue. A dainty luncheon was served. Joe Radford was painfully injured by a knife wound in the face Saturday night on Ninth street between Washington and Everett avenue. All of the train porters of Greater Kansas City attended the funeral services of one of their co-workers at Emporia, Kas. The Citizens' Forum opened Sunday at 4 p.m. The address by Mr. Junius Gray on "The Oak and the Vine," was well delivered and the audience was well entertained by discussions. Solo by Arthur Saunders. Miss Brown also recited. Bv MRS KITTY B DAVIS BY MRS. RITTY B. DAVIS. Mr. Robert Booker, who until two months ago lived at 210 Lafayette street, this city, died March 28 at Colorado Springs, where he went to regain his health. The body was shipped to his former home and laid to rest April 2. Mr. Booker was an employee of the Santa Fe Railroad Company. The Porters' Protective Association attended in a body. Rev. Morrow officiated, assisted by Rev. Jacobs of this city. Mr. Booker leaves a wife, infant baby, mother, brother, two sisters and a host of friends. ARGENTINE, KANSAS. By MRS. O. JACKSON. Cecil Luster of North Argentine is suffering from an ulcerated tooth and throat trouble. Mrs. Laura Grant of Bonner Springs, Kas., sister of Zebile Anderson, is in the city for an indefinite stay. Mrs. Anderson of Pleasant Hill, Mo. spent a few days last week at the home of her brother, Mr. Evans. Mrs. Dollie Baldwin is confined to her bed from a fall she received on alighting from an automobile last Friday. On March 9 Elmer Jackson went before the commissioners with a request for street lights at the intersection of Thirty-fifth and Thirty-seventh and Barber avenue. In less than a week the lights were installed. This being the fact, it will take but little effort on the part of the men on South 37th to have lights installed thereon. The banquet at the Baptist church last Saturday evening was the greatest affair of its kind that ever occurred in Argentine. It was largely attended, and the church was beautifully decorated with colors and flowers. Music was furnished by an orchestra from Rev. Bowen's church in Kansas City, Kas. Toasts were responded to by prominent doctors and lawyers, insurance men and ministers from Kansas City, Kas., and Argentine. An elaborate menu was prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Middleton and served by waiters in full dress. The proceeds will be used to remodel the church of which Rev. Bowles is pastor. ROSEDALE. KANSAS. Bv MRS ROSA JONES The program rendered by members and friends of the Pleasant Valley Mission Circle at the church Sunday was very good. The pastor, Rev. M Williams, delivered a splendid sermon on mission work and the music rendered by the choir was good, also.... The neat sum of $12 was raised in the collection....Mrs. Ardellas Moore is president of the Mission Circle and Mrs. Permella L. Collins is vice president....Oliver, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Riley, 907 Division street, has recovered from a recent illness.... The Pleasant Valley Mission Circle was entertained by Miss Edith E. Simpson at her residence, 3908 Lloyd avenue, Monday. After the regular routine of business the hostess served dainty refreshments....The funeral of Mrs. Martha Perkins Gibbs was held from the Shiloh Baptist church Sunday. She is survived by her husband, George Gibbs, three sisters and brothers and parents....The Texas Jubilee Singers will be at the Pleasant Valley Baptist church April 11. BROWN CLIPPER 40-Horse Power 7-Passenger Automobile. As a pleasure car The Clipper has no equal. Driven by Owner. 24-hour. Stick this near your telephone. W. H. HUBBELL Bell Phone East 2013 Home Phone East 4159 18th and Paseo FRESH HOME-MADE CANDY Home-Made Candy a Specialty 10c a pound. COME! Kansas City Missouri COME! Shoes Given Away For one-half their value to make room for Easter Stock. Forty pairs of Womenn's Shoes in cloth top, patent, kid and gun; $4 values at .....$2.50 Forty pairs Shoes for 5, 6 and 7 year-old children; patent and gun spring heels; $2.50 values at.....$1.78 Forty pairs Girls and Boys' Shoes; $2.50 values; in gun metal at.....$1.75 Twenty pairs of Men's $3 and $4 values at .....$2.25 COME IN AT ONCE. WE MUST MAKE ROOM FOR OUR SPRING GOODS. Bell phone East 1328. G. A. PAGE, 1507 East 18th. Rooms to Rent FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room —modern—with telephone. Bell East 4139-M. 2626 Highland. For Rent—One furnished room to single man; $1.00 per week; room to couple $2.25 a week. Mrs. Haney, 1712 Holmes st. For Rent—Nicely furnished rooms; home comforts. 2002 Bales. Bell phone East 2010. FOR SALE—Cottage; large rooms; 637 Georgia avenue, K. C., K.; 2 lots; terms. J. H. Litton, 1214 Pacific ave., Kansas City, Kas. For Rent—Furnished rooms with home comfort. 1704 Howard st. Mrs. Sallie Smith. FOR RENT MR. F. J. WEAVER. FOR SALE 2735 Norton, 6-room 2-3 frame; $50.00 down $12.00 per month, including interest—$700.00. 29th and Norton, 5-room cottage, $1,000. 8th and Brooklyn, 6-room modern frame $2.000; $200 down terms easy as rent. 2642 Highland avenue, 5-room modern, brick; $2,400.00 We have several vacant lots on which we will build to suit customers for $300.00 down, balance on easy terms. Vacant lot 26th and Woodland, 25x130; $650.00. 1751 Holly, 5r stone and frame, $1,500; $10 down and $1 per month and interest. 1118 Vine, 4r, part modern cottage, $1,700; $200 down and $12 per month. Truck Farm on Bonner Spring line—4 acres, 4-room house, lots of fruit, $1,000; $300 down and $50 every six months. 2621 Euclid, 5 rooms, modern, brick bungalow. Price $2,200; $200 down, $20 per month. 1515 E. 17th St.—5-room cottage, newly decorated and painted. Price, $1,300; $100 down and $12 per month. Persons renting or buying from us will be given preference on all employment in our employment department. AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTMENT & EMPLOYMENT Co 911 McGee St. PHONES—HOME, East 802, Bell 782 TO THE PUBLIC: We want you to come to us for DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET LEVELS, BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER, STRAIGHTENMENT. We recommend and guard exactly as represented. WE DO take other brands than you ask we want you to have it. OUR PRICE All down the line. We give care by courteous and fair treatment customers. When you think of THEO. SMIT No demand is too difficult to come to our store, phone us Mall Orders Solicite Theo. Smith Bell Phone 4591 Grand. 1301 E, 18th St. The Pass- word of PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs. Amberdunbo Malawi GREELE SCHNEIDER FOR DANDRIFT FALLING IN TOWING COAT GIVING LIPS BEAUTY, COAT AND ABUNDANCE GROWTH 3100 Pine Street, D home to us for everything carried es, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBEN RAM WALKER HAIR.GROWER. STRAIGHTENING COMBS, ETC. and guarantee everything offered. WE DO NOT "SUBSTITUTE" than you ask for. You "want we ve it. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT We give careful attention to a fair treatment to give perfect you of drugs Think of THEO. SMITH'S PHARMACY. too difficult for us to supply. If are, phone us your wants and we Orders Sollicited and Promptly Leo. Smith's Drug Store 4591 Grand. Home Phone KA We want you to come to us for everything carried by a Drug Store. DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMBS, BRUSHES, MADAM WALKER HAIR-GROWER-DRYING COMBS, STRAIGHTENING COMBS, ETC. We recommend and guarantee everything offered for sale to be exactly as represented. WE DO NOT "SUBSTITUTE" nor ask you to take other brands than you ask for. You "want what you want" and we want you to have it. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT All down the line. We give careful attention to all orders, and aim by courteous and fair treatment to give perfect satisfaction to our customers. When you think of Drugs think of THEO. SMITH'S PHARMACY. No demand is too difficult for us to supply. If you are too busy to come to our store, phone us your wants and we will do the rest. Mail Orders Solicited and Promptly Filled. ~ PORO TRADE MARK POROI HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY the Amphibian Society Milton ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI FOR HANDY FALLING HAIR GROWING SOLUTIONS GIVING LIGHT, CLEARNESS AND BUBBLE GROWTH Street, Dept. G., St. CALL US UP At Eighteenth & Paseo) Articles De- tons filled accurately and graduate Registered Pharma- ticians Drug Store DNESS--The Issue of WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORAGE NOW PREPARED lie with a complete line of hairgars and Soda Water. Press compounded. Everything fr DOORS OPEN SUNDAY APRIL our Nickles and Dimes have THE-WOODS DRUG STORE. s. (Transfer point) A WONDERFUL HAIR DRIVE One thousand agents want We want agents in every THE STAR HAIR GROWER preparation. Can be used w ening irons. Sells for 25c per box—on value. Any person that will convinced. No matter wh your hair just give THE STAR trial and be convinced. Se If you wish to be an agent, send you a full supply tha with at once; also agents' by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR G 1113 Clark Street. PORO REGISTERED BY P.A.C. HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs. Amelia Pipkin Melrose BY LEVY HISSEY FOR BANDR FALLING H TOWING SO GIVING L BEAUTY, CO AND ABUND GROWT ALCOHOL PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs. Amelia Pipkin Melrose BY LEVY HISSEY FOR BANDR FALLING H TOWING SO GIVING L BEAUTY, CO AND ABUND GROWT ALCOHOL All Good Hair Dressers 3100 Pine Street, Dept. G., St. Louis, Mo. Toilet Articles (Prescriptions filled at by Graduate Reg Anything in Drug Line Peoples PREPAREDNESS- THE WHITE-WOOD NOW I to serve the public with a c Toilet Articles, Cigars and S cialty, accurately compounded facturer. OUR DOORS OPEN Come Where Your Nickles WHITE-WOOD 19th and Vine Sts. (Transfer PREPAREDNESS--The Issue of the Day THE WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE IS NOW PREPARED to serve the public with a complete line of Drugs, Sundries, Toilet Articles, Cigars and Soda Water. Prescriptions a specialty, accurately compounded. Everything fresh from manufacturer. OUR DOORS OPEN SUNDAY APRIL 2. Come Where Your Nickles and Dimes have the Most Cents. WHITE-WOODS DRUG STORE 19th and Vine Sts. (Transfer point) Kansas City, Mo. A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESSER AND GROWER. One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. We want agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straight- ening irons. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFGR. 1113 Clark Street. Evanston, IL. For Biscuits Fine And Cakes Divine Bakes Perfect Bread All The Time Corn Meal Too ISMERT-HINCKE MILLING CO. Subscribe cribe for The Home Phone East 4082 ```markdown ``` everything carried by a Drug Store. PARTICLES, RUBBER GOODS, COMB8, HAIR-GROWER-DRYING COMB8, DRESS COMB8, ETC. We are everything offered for sale to be not "SUBSTITUTE" nor ask you to or You "want what you want" and S ARE RIGHT Fearful attention to all orders, and aim to give perfect satisfaction to our drugs think of S PHARMACY. Us to supply. If you are too busy your wants and we will do the rest. and Promptly Filled. S Drug Store. Home Phone 5467 Main. KANSAS CITY, MO. RO" All Good Hair Dressers US UP Bell Phone East 1814 Dies Delivered accurately and promptly registered Pharmacists. Drug Store Everything for the Toilet The Issue of the Day OD DRUG STORE IS REPARED complete line of Drugs, Sundries, Ala Water. Prescriptions a spec- Everything fresh from manu- IN SUNDAY APRIL 2. And Dimes have the Most Cents. S DRUG STORE (oint) Kansas City, Mo. PERFUL HAIR DRESSER AND GROWER us and agents wanted. Good money made agents in every city and village to sell HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful Can be used with or without straight as. 25c per box—one 25c box will prove it any person that will use a 25c box will be No matter what has failed to grow just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER be convinced. Send 25c for full size box to be an agent send $1.00 and we will a full supply that you can begin work- ance; also agents' terms. Send all money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFGR. Bark Street. Evanston, IL ISMERT-HINCKE MILLING CO. I-H BEST PATENT HARD WHEAT FLOUR. KANSAS CITY. U.S.A. I-H for The Sun INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. Q. SELLERS. Acting Director of Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago). (Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR APRIL 9 AENEAS AND DORCAS. LESSON TEXT—Acts 9:32-43. (See also Prov. 31:26-31.) GOLDEN TEXT—In all things showing thyself an ensample of good works. Titus 2:7. Step by step the Gospel can be traced, spreading itself, but "begining at Jerusalem." Paul's conversion is one of the greatest evidences of Christianity. The two miracles of today's lesson are additional evidence that it is of God. L At Lydda (vs. 32:35), Caligula, emperor of Rome in A. D. 39, ordered his statue to be erected in Jerusalem that he might be worshipped as a god there as elsewhere. The excitement and conflict which arose in opposition to this sacrilege lasted for two years, during which time Christian persecutions ceased. Following Saul's visit at Jerusalem, and during this time of quiet, Peter made this tour of visitation. Lydda (modern Ludd) is about twenty-five miles northwest of Jerusalem. Here dwelt certain saints (v. 2) literally "holy ones," converted disciples of Christ, not ones of special honor, for all who are members of the body of Christ, are "saints" (Phil. 1:1). Here also dwelt Aeneas, "a certain man," possibly not a believer, but having great need (v. 26:3:2; 10:1, 14:8; 9:10), and of years standing (v. 33). Notice Luke, the physician's careful record. Peter must have seen many such, yet this man is one Peter "found"; he was evidently looking for him. Peter's pity was not sentimental but practical and his sentiment powerful, for back of them was the Living and Powerful Christ. He knew who could work a cure. The long weariness is to be relieved. Yet those illness of is gave time for meditation and probably prepared the man's heart to respond in faith to Peter's words. Peter does not attract attention to himself, but rather to Jesus. His was but to be the instrument of the cure. The healing was a means to an end, for when those who dwelt in Lydda and Sharon (v. 35) heard of the miracle, or saw this healed man, it was to them a demonstration of the power of the risen Christ, and they "turned to the Lord" (v. 35). There is no comparing Peter with modern "healers." Peter's words and actions were a long demonstration, not for profit, of the power of Jesus in his life and testimony. If we of this day would show more of that same nearness to the same source of power there would be more turning of men and women, boys and girls, to Jesus, and more healing of broken hearts. Our power is in inverse ratio to our nearness to Jesus. II. At Joppa (vs. 36:143). Joppa was the only seaport the Jews ever possessed for themselves. It was and is still a rather insignificant town, and now marks the beginning of the railroad leading to Jerusalem, 35 miles distant. No name is recorded of any of its rich or prominent citizens, only that of an humble woman. The record of her life, however, is inspiring (v. 36), and her name is a common one adopted by organizations of women. Like her master her life was full of "good deeds"; like him she was not ministered unto, but ministered. This is real greatness and it is open to all of us. Her name "Tabitha" (Hebrew), Dorcas (Greek), means gazelle, which in the East is a favorite type of beauty. This "certain disciple" was beautiful in life as well, for she was first a believer, then a doer. We believe in order to do, not in order to believe. This woman is an example of the wise and capable woman mentioned in Prov. 31:10-31, a picture well worth studying in these days of the "feminist movement." She is a good type to be followed by church women, and by us all in the fact that her reputation rested upon deeds "which she did" (v. 36), not ones she was about to do, nor did she wait for some great opportunity of service. The life of Dorcas reveals one of the causes of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman empire. It was a source of wonder that those early Christians should so love each other. The reason why Dorcas was allowed to die lies in the providence of God. He loved his work and this recorded incident has served to raise up multitudes of other Dorcases. Her death also reveals that being "full of good works and alms deeds" does not exempt his servants from sickness and death, and that God evidently has other purposes in sickness than to chasise our sin or to humble our pride (John 9:3, II Kings 13:14). The friends of Dorcas were folks of faith, for as yet there was no case of apostolic power to raise the dead so far as we know, and it was now about ten years after the resurrection of Christ. Doubtless they had heard of the curing of Aeneas, and hence dared to appeal to Peter on behalf of the one they loved so dearly. Dorcas had built a monument with a needle, and in that upper room (v. 39) it was shown to Peter as a visible evidence of her life work. "Post mortem benefactions do not count much with God."—Torrey Peter followed the example of his Lord (Luke 8:2, 54), dismissed all spectators and "prayed" (v. 40). The way to revive a dead pastor, church school, personal experience, or person "dead in trespasses and sins," is by prayer. Peter also did as he had seen his Master do to his mother-in-law (Mark 1:30, 31), and gave Dorcas his hand to help her arise. This gave an opportunity for fruitful work among the converts (v. 41) and the enlistment of many new believers (v. 42), so that Peter abode in Joppa for some time in the house of "Simon, a tanner." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A few days before he died Booker T. Washington wrote to the editor of the Forum magazine suggesting the printing of an article dealing with "the definite, indisputable facts relating to the Negro's progress as a race." He enclosed what he called a rough outline of such an article, which, of course, was never completed. What he wrote is presented in its unfinished state in the current issue of the magazine. Just he presented striking figures to show Negro progress toward literacy. On emerging from slavery, he wrote, the Negro was not more than 5 per cent literate. The census of 1910 shows that the Negro has reduced his illiteracy from 95 per cent to 30.4. Contrasting the percentage of illiteracy among Negroes with that of other people, Mr. Washington wrote that "If the Negro had done no more good than lead Greece and Italy in the matter of literacy his showing would have been profoundly significant." His figures show the comparative percentage of illiteracy as follows: Negroes, 30.4; Bulgaria, 65.5; Greece, 57.2; Hungary, 40.9; Italy, 48.2; Poland, 59.3; Portugal, 73.4; Russia, 70; Serbia, 78.9; Spain, 58.7; Chile, 49.9; Cuba, 56.8; Mexico, 75.3; Porto Rico 79.6; India, 92.5; Philippine islands 55.5; Cape of Good Hope, 65.8; Egypt 6.7. Figures were not available for all of the Negro's wealth, but the census burcau gave the value of the Negro's farm property alone as $1,142,000,000, or $116.20 for each Negro in the United States. Comparing this with the statistics of the wealth of nations, Mr. Washington said that, with the exception of Argentina, whose money wealth is $135 per capita, the Negro's per capita wealth is more than twice that of any nation on earth. Negroes, he wrote, operated 893,370 farms in 1910, having an acreage of 42,279,510, and the value of these farms increased 128.4 per cent during the period of 1900-1910 alone. As against an estimated value of about $1,000,000 of the 550 Negro churches owned in 1863 he set the value of $56,636,159 of buildings alone of the 36,421 churches and halls owned in 1906. This, he held, indicated not only economic progress but a continuing and increasing devotion to religious life. Starting in 1863 with about 2,000 business enterprises, the Negro has developed in some fifty years over 43,000 business concerns with an annual volume of business of about $1,000,000,000. Fifty-seven banks are operated by colored people with a capitalization of $1,600,000, and an annual business of about $29,000,000. Among indications of progress in the standard of living Mr. Washington cited the increase in the southern states alone of the percentage of homes owned free from incumbrance from 20 per cent in 1900 to 22.4 per cent in 1910. Another indication of the rising standard of living cited is the recent widespread legislation to prevent Negroes from buying property in desirable localities. Progress in health is indicated in a death rate of 3.9 per cent in ten years in a registration area embracing 19.7 per cent of the Negro population. Mr. Washington also quoted census figures to show an increased percentage of Negroes entering skilled industries. In general, he argued that when it was considered that the progress made in the last fifty years by the American Negro had been largely in the face of obstacles, it was great progress. O. T. Jackson, founder of the Dearfield Settlement of colored farmers located in Webb county, Colorado, is a big man of broad views, determined purpose, and tremendously vigorous personality. His outlook is distinctly practical, according to the Southern Workman. He lives to put as many of his race as possible on their feet. At this moment he has a bunch of 250 of them fairly started toward independence. He is deeply conscious of the fact that colored people are of the soil in tastes and capacities; he is getting them close to the soil. In a word, he is, in a way and to a degree, a Booker Washington in conviction, purpose and endeavor. $H^s$ band of settlers is the pluckiest lot of agricultural toilers of whom I have any knowledge. "The first year there were only seven families in the settlement," says Mr. Jackson, "and we had only three teams. We managed to get in garden corn, melons, pumpkins, squash, Mexican beans and potatoes. We cleared a few acres of hay ground, removed the sagebrush by hand, the women and children wielding grub. Louis Merriman, a Negro, who was born when George Washington was president of the United States, died at his home in Kansas City, Kan., a short time ago. Merriman was the oldest man on the United States penton rolls, and claimed to have substantiated the fact that he was born 121 years ago on the Sopher plantation, in Virginia, in 1795. A cutter which can be kept strung on a ball of twine, ready for use, has been patented by a Maryland inventor. Potted Plants. With potted flowers regular attention is quite important. So many women are unable to keep flowers growing because they are overzealous in their care of them for a few days and then leave them during the rest of the week without a bit of nourishment. Geraniums and primroses are the most satisfactory flowering plants and last well through the winter. If dead leaves are kept picked off and blossoms removed immediately they become faded new blooms will appear The late Dr. Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton, and his work was the direct result of Hampton's influence. Maj. Robert R. Moton, successor to Doctor Washington as head of Tuskegee, who spoke in Carnegie hall, Pittsburgh, on the occasion of the Hampton singers' visit March 27, is another product of Hampton. The hearty indorsement of well-known public men and educators has been given to the work done there. President Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Everett, Charles W. Eliot and many others have enthusiastically indorsed the work. The Hampton quartet, known from coast to coast as the best Afro-American quartet in America, famous for singing of the plantation melodies or spirituals of the South, are the picked musicians from the big choral of 900 voices at Hampton institute, Virginia. Unique and inimitable, it is the only music of this country, except that of the Indians, which can claim to be folk music. These singers make tours to all parts of the country in the interest of the school, and during the past summer won the gold medal at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. Hampton is neither a state nor a government school, and must depend largely upon voluntary contributions for its support. It was founded by Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong in 1868, and was designed to instruct Afro-American youth in morality, industry and thrift, as well as in earnest and practical Christianity. Ten years later Indians were admitted to the Hampton school, which from a humble beginning, with two teachers and 15 students, has gradually developed into an industrial village, with over 1,300 students, 200 teachers and other workers, more than 140 buildings, and an instruction farm of 600 acres. Hampton has sent forth over eight thousand young men and women, equipped to earn honorable livings as teachers, farmers and skilled tradesmen. It has imbued in its students a desire to be of service, and by their own homes, their work and their daily life, to act as examples and teachers to the less fortunate among whom they live. Many of its graduates have been tremendous forces in the struggle for advancement. The New Orleans public school board has arranged for a summer normal school for Negro teachers to be held at Straight university, June 12 to July 21. Superintendent Gwin has appointed Prof. A. Lawless director with the following advisory committee: Mrs. Sylvia Williams, Prof. J. W. Hoffman, Prof. A. Priestly, Mrs Hattie V. Feger, Florence Lewis and Key H. H. Dunn, registrar. An unusually strong faculty will be secured. Many applications are coming in from rural teachers and from all indications the attendance will be much larger this year than last. Now Orleans enjoyed the distinction of having the largest summer normal in the state in 1915. New Orleans offers many superior facilities and advantages in its public and private libraries and the splendid lectures given by some of the finest educators in the country, who are instructors in the Tulane summer normal. Pacific island of Midway is importing shiploads of soil in order to produce land capable of feeding cattle. bers as industriously as the men, though not as sturdily perhaps; and after grubbing we plowed, harrowed and burned the remaining brush. Our sufferings were intense, as we had scarcely any wood to burn. Three of our horses died from starvation and the other three were too weak to pull an empty wagon. Now we have 20 teams, 28 cows and calves, 32 breeding hogs, 100 chickens, and all kinds of farming implements and tools. We have 595 acres planted to crops and 300 acres in native hay. Conditions point to a very favorable season and we hope to prove our worth to the soil and the community in which we live by raising a bumper crop, so that our success may be an inceptive to thousands of others of our race to come back to the land in some part of this great divide region." With less than half her available farming land utilized, the United States produces one-sixth of the world's wheat, four-ninths of its corn, one-fourth of its oats, one-eighth of its cattle, one-third of its hogs, and one-twelfth of its sheep. A recent invention provides an umbrella frame or skeleton and any suitable number of interchangeable covers therefor, whereby a new cover may be substituted for an old, worm or damaged one, or a cover of one color or figure may be substituted for another, according to the costume of a lady carrying the same. A dinner table reaching around the earth 16 times would be required if the inhabitants of the world sat down at a meal together. very frequently. Changes in temperature, so disastrous to most potted flowers, will not affect these two varieties to any great extent. Don't Put Oil Into the Ear. In an address on diseases of the ear Dr. S. MacCuen Smith of Philadelphia gave an earnest warning against using blisters or pouttices to relieve acute earache, as well as putting oil or anything else into the ear. Either may do irreparable damage. In Woman's Realm Tailored Costumes Continue to Be Conservatively Cut and in the Simplest Styles—One of the Best of the Prevailing Models Pictured—Alluring Handkerchief Novelties Offered for the Approval of Femininity. BY JULIA BOTTOMLEY. While in other departments of dress extremes of style and more or less eccentric fashions present themselves, the tailored costumer is conservative. The tailor in his work seems to cling to a happy medium, a middle-of-the-road course. He takes cognizance of the latest ideas as to form and outline, but refuses to be beguiled by the extravagance of crinoline effects and a tendency to overtrimming. The cleverest tailors are showing both two and three-piece suits that are V D NOVELTIES PREGENTED BY THE TAILOR. very conservative. The models sent over by French tailors depend upon cleverness of cut, correctness of lines, and perfection of workmanship for distinction. Perfect fit and finish contribute to their fine effect. They ignore fussiness. American women are very partial to navy blue—"the gentlewoman's color," as the French term it. Therefore a large proportion of model gowns are made up in this becoming and serviceable shade. The majority are dark in color, but many of them are brightened by vests of brocaded or plaid silks. the springtime in one handkerchief. Butterflie blossoms are reproduce colorings and with bea ship. Similar designs tional flowers in one with white. Four of these new id here. A springtime fancy clover blossom in pink leaf in greenish blue black. The bee has a b orange stripes and his are merely outlined wit stitches. A model that is interesting from several standpoints is shown in the picture. The fullness of the skirt, a concession of the season's mode, is appropriately disposed in plaits. The coat is cleverly cut and easy fitting, with peplum pointed at the sides and back, and laid in plaits to give it fullness. The sleeves are plain, with deep, slightly flaring cuts. A kirdle extends I 胸 肩 背 头 NOVELTIES IN HANDKERCHIEFS. across the front and back, but is lacking at the sides. It is finished with a bit of embroidery, which is repeated on the standing collar. A vestee and high turnover collar of satin, with cuffs to match, may be made in plaid silk if more color is preferred. Or they might be of plque or organdle, since they are separate pieces. "The world is filled with a number of things," as is usual with the return of spring, designed to captivate the fancy and the favor of the beauty-loving summer girl. Among them are Bows and Bands of Straw. Colored as well as black straw is used for bands and bows instead of ribbon. In fact, this idea is already so overworked that it is probable that we shall be tired of it before spring comes. All these novelties are quickly run to ground, especially when they start so early in the season. Collar Sets of Leather With the new vogue for leather trimmings and accessories of all kinds there is now being offered sets of pretty novelties in handkerchiefs to be worn in the pocket of the tailored coat. After glimpsing them in the quickly passing throngs on the streets one is apt to run them down for a better view. In the shops their beauty is flaunted in the eyes of appreciative womankind. There are small handkerchiefs of colored linen lawn, with narrow hems in contrasting color, to be worn with the new colored checks. They are plain and chic. Next in the favor of admirers are white handkerchiefs with colored embroidery, in a design that suggests G the springtime in one corner of each handkerchief, Butterflies and bees and blossoms are reproduced in unusual colorings and with beautiful workmanship. Similar designs show conventional flowers in one or two colors with white. Four of these new ideas are shown here. A springtime fancy appears in the clover blossom in pink with stem and leaf in greenish blue outlined with black. The bee has a black body with orange stripes and his gauze wings are merely outlined with the tiniest of stitches. A butterfly with outspread wings is a marvel for its faithfulness to nature. It is in tan, black, white, and orange, and everyone has seen the same beautiful insect flying about. Another butterfly pattern shows gold wings spotted with blue and white. The body is white and it and the wings are outlined with black. A conventional rose is shown in nattier blue, tan, and white, outlined in 1 black. The work on all these is exquisitely fine. Portieres From Leather Scraps. Very pretty portieres can be made from leather scraps, known as 'binders' scraps.' The scraps of leather are cut in strips one-half inch wide and tied in knots, as carpet rags are tied. The more knots the more effective the portieres. A beautiful shade of green leather can be purchased at a bookbinder's for ten cents or so per pound. Six pounds will be sufficient to make a good-sized portiere. leather articles which consist of stock collar, gloves and tie to match. Painted Designs. Little soft felt hats for children, in white and pastel shades, have, by way of trimming, birds painted around the crown. On the white hats bluebirds fly; on the tan hats robin redbreasts are painted; other hats have carrier pigeons, orloles and a number of other brilliantly colored birds. There are sugarloaf crowns and rolling brims. HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS JUMP STANDARDS. Two poles six or seven feet in length are necessary for the uprights. Clothes poles will do nicely, and likely you can borrow a pair, as they are not to be damaged in the least, and can be slipped out of their bases in an instant, for use on washday. Two small boxes are needed for the bases. Fig. 3 shows one completed standard, and Figs. 4 and 5 how the inside of the box bases are prepared to sup- 1 2 port the uprights. The upper end of a clothespole has a right-angle notch cut in it for the clothesline to fit in. This notched end of the pole is used for the base end of the jump standard, and fits over a cross strip A (Fig 4), fastened between the sides of the box, in the center of the bottom. Cut a pair of sticks to fit lengthwise between the ends of the box (B, Fig. 5), and fasten them just far enough apart to permit the clothespole to slip down between them. Then cut the pair of sticks C of the same length as stick A cross them over the pair of sticks B and fasten between the box sides with just enough space left between to 7 6 4 3 5 allow for the width of the clothesphep upright. It is not necessary to mark the height measurements upon the uprights. You can have an additional pole so marked, for the purpose of adjusting the cross bar or rope to heights desired. Still, it simplifies matters to have the poles graduated. Rule the "foot" divisions across one face and edge, the "half-foot" divisions across the face, and the "inch" divisions half-way across the face. Mark the "foot" divisions "1," "2," "3," etc. The adjustable supports for the cross bar or rope are made of tin and wood (Figs. 6 and 7). To make the wedge-shaped blocks D and E first cut a block of wood about 3 inches 8 long, 1 inch wide and 1 inch thick; then saw it in half diagonally. Cut a strip of tin about $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches wide from a tin can, for the sleeve F, tack one end of this to the straight face of block D, bend it around the pole, make the other end meet the first end, and tack to block D. Make the sleeves fit loosely so they will slide up and down the poles easily. To fasten them at the desired point, it is necessary to slip the wedge E between the pole and block D, and push it up until the sleeve fits tight. Use a light-weight stick, or piece of clothesline with weight attached to each end (Fig. 2), to hang across the uprights. Fig. 8 shows a boy rope-vaulting. If you have never tried this form of leaping you must do so, because it is lots of fun. Looking Ahead. My little niece had been made happy by being asked to be a ring bearer at a friend's wedding. A few evenings later we noticed her looking with a speculative eye at her older sister and the young man who was calling, and then she announced with a pleased expression: "I expect he will maybe ask me to be in his program, too."—Chicago Tribune. Optimistic Thought. Wit is desirable, but wisdom more excellent. BASKET MAKING WITH GRASSES. The baskets are built of coils of grasses, each made of several strands of grasses, and upon the care with which the grasses are assembled and the turns of the coil joined to one another, depends the success of the basket. In gathering the grasses, pull long ones, because less splicing will be necessary with them. To prepare the grass rope for the basket coil, lay together enough $\textcircled{1}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{4}$ grasses of equal length to make a thickness a trifle less than the diameter of a pencil. Then grasp these grasses in your left hand, and take a long strand of grass, wrap it around the bunch from stem ends to blade ends, bringing the turns close to one another as shown in Fig. 1. When you reach the ends of the grass blades, take another bunch of equal thickness and splice them on to the ends of the first bunch, lapping the ends about an inch (Fig. 2), and binding them together with the covering strand of grass (Fig. 3). An 18-inch rope is long enough to begin the basket with. Fig. 4 shows how to start a basket bottom. Coll the end of the rope over on to itself, to form a small button, and coil several turns $\textcircled{6}$ $\textcircled{7}$ $\textcircled{5}$ of the rope about this; then with a coarse needle, threaded with the stem of one of the gresses, sew the turns one to another, using a plain over-and-over stitch. Splice other bunches of grass on to the rope as you need them, and sew each turn of the coil to the preceding one, as you build. If you haven't a coarse enough needle, you can use linen thread to sew with, instead of strands of grass. Draw the stitches tight, to make a firm structure, and, while building one turn upon another, pull in or spread them according to how much and where you want the sides of the basket to flare. When the rim of the basket has been formed, cut off the end of the coil, and trim back the grass blades to different lengths so the coil will bevel off on to the rim. The basket in Fig. 5 has a handle, and the making and attachment of $\textcircled{8}$ $\textcircled{10}$ $\textcircled{9}$ this requires explanation. A piece of wire—electric bell-will do—forms a center core of the handle, to give it stiffness, and several strands of grass are placed outside of the wire to add thickness; then all are bound together and concealed by a strand of grass (Fig. 6). To attach the handle, bend the end of the wire core around the rim of the basket, as shown in Fig. 7; and fasten the ends of the grasses to the rim, also. Fig. 8 shows a basket with another style of handle made in the same way. Square baskets (Fig. 9) are not substantial unless re-enforced by other material. The best scheme is to use a cardboard box as a foundation, and to coil the grass rope around the sides (Fig. 10), and glue it to the box. The inside may be lined with silk instead of grass. Once Brilliant Capital. Cordova, Spain, was a brilliant capital of the world with half a million population when the rest of Europe was clouded by the deepest lethargy of the middle ages. In the year 950 Cordova was considered the world's fountain of learning and science and Christian Europe turned to her for instruction in "everything from tanning leather to charting the stars." Worth While Quotation. "All words are pegs to hang ideas on."—Selected. OLD BOTTLE-GREEN By HAROLD CARTER. "This was where the tide of battle first began to turn," said old Bottle-Green to Peter. "This was where we hammered and broke 'em. Set 'em up, and we'll fight it all over again. You can be the Rebs." "Maybe I'll beat you this time, old Bottle-Green," thought Peter, but he said nothing and began to set up the lead soldiers. For an hour and longer the opposing forces fought tooth and nail with spring guns and chips for shells. Surely enough, the Yankee army reeled back in sore disaster, reeled back as far as the edge of the table, and there died to a man rather than surrender. "That's because I didn't have Stone-wall Jackson," said old Bottle-Green. "You killed him early in the game You remember. Next time I'll beat you." Peter crept guilly out of the house. It was strange how he had first come to play soldiers with Bottle-Green. When Peter's mother first went to live in the village everybody despised Bottle-Green. He wore a bottle-green coat, he tapped his stick fiercely as he went down the street, and everybody was afraid of him. The old man had no friends, and he lived all alone in the white house, except for his negro servant, Amyas. Peter, fascinated by the old man, crept up to a window and looked in. He saw a big table and a wonderful array of soldiers and artillery. The old man was busily playing one force against another. Smash, smash! 15 Crept Up to a Window and Looked In. went the guns, and whole lines went toppling over. Just then old Bottle-Green looked up and saw the little boy. Peter, too terrified to run, stood with bulging eyes. He expected nothing less than to be caught and eaten. Old Bottle-Green came charging out of the door. "Want a game of soldiers, little boy?" he asked. Peter nodded. Old Bottle-Green carried him inside, and the terrified Peter soon found himself playing with zest and having the time of his life. That game the Yankees knocked some word Peter didn't understand out of the Rebs. But the next time they played the Rebs gave as good as they got. And so the fortunes of war swayed for many critical games. "Mind you, don't tell anybody about it," said old Bottle-Green. "Swear by the password." "I swear by the Continental congress," answered Peter, lifting up his hand. "Now you're sworn in, and a soldier," said old Bottle-Green. "Any morning you're passing, step in and have a battle." Peter's mother never knew what became of Peter on those days. She thought he was playing with some of the boys, Peter kept his fearful secret. conscious that the destinies of the nation depended upon him. "How is it you haven't any little boys of your own to play with, old Bottle-Green?" asked Peter one day. Old Bottle-Green scowled fearfully, and opened his gold watch with a snap that sounded like the discharge of a whole park of artillery. Inside was the face of a beautiful woman. It seemed vaguely familiar to Peter, though he did not know where he had seen it. "She wouldn't have me," answered old Bottle-Green. "She said she was going to be true to her country and marry a Reb, although she loved me better. When you don't get married you aren't allowed to have little boys. So I never had any." "Oh!" said Peter, thinking he understood. "So that's why I have to play with you," continued the Bottle-Green. Run away now, and come back tomorrow." Peter ran away. But he did not Mystic and Moneymaker. Art is the encompassing of the ideal within the limits of the human faculties, and in this sense every Jew is an artist. It is his quality to discern unexpected possibilities in things—to bring out what is in them, whether the subject of his interest is a piece of music or a gold mine. That is the key to the paradox of the Jewish character and explains why he is at once a mystic and a moneymaker—a dreamer with an eye to the main chance. Where the Chauffeurs Go One very cold night a small boy attending a church lecture was deeply impressed by that part of the lecture which referred to good boys going to heaven and bad boys ending up elsewhere. On his return home he surprised his mother by saying: "Mother, I don't think the chauffeurs want to go to the good place. When I was coming home from church I heard one automobile driver say to another: 'I know where I am going; I am going where I can keep this old motor hot.'" come back on the mowrow. He did not come back during the week, though every morning old Bottle-Green had the soldiers out ready to play. "I wonder what's become of Peter?" said old Bottle-Green to black Amyas. "They do say, sah, that there's a mighty lot of scarlet fever in town," said Amyas diplomatically. "You blackguard!" roared old Bottle-Green. "How dare you tell me that? Take a week's wages!" "All right, sah," answered Amyas with a grin. "Wait! On second thought, run downtown and find out where Peter lives." "He lives in the big house at the corner, sah," answered Amyas. "There's a sign up over the door." "What does it say?" demanded Bottle-Green." "Scarlet fever, sah," answered Amyas. Ten minutes later old Bottle-Green, attired in his bottle-green tail coat, was interviewing the doctor at the door. The doctor was very grave. Peter had a bad attack, and it was doubtful if he could live through the night. All that night old Bottle-Green sat under the lilac tree at the gate, waiting. When at last the doctor came in the early morning he saw tears on Bottle-Green's withered cheeks. But when he came out his expression set old Bottle-Green to capering—he, Bottle-Green, the recluse, who had glared and tapped so fiercely at the boys and girls at play. "He'll live now," said the doctor. "Thank God!" said Bottle-Green reverently. At last there came a day when Peter was allowed to see visitors. And among the first to come was Bottle-Green, with an enormous box of soldiers under his arm, followed by Amyas, with a folding table, Peter, at an upper window, saw him coming. "In the name of the Continental congress, peace!" he cried. "In the name of the Continental congress," answered Bottle-Green. grass answered, and in the doorway stood a smiling young lady. "I know who you are," she said, holding out her hands. "But I don't know who you are," retorted Bottle-Green. "unless you're Adelaide Cannon, come back to me after these fifty years." "She was my mother," answered the lady, mystified. "She was the grandmother of Peter. She often spoke of you, of Mr. Clarence Hargreaves—Captain Hargreaves. But surely you are not be?" "I used to be," said Bottle-Green. And the years seemed to fall away from him, and he straightened his shoulders and felt ashamed of his old coat. There were tears in the young lady's eyes, and she put her hands in his. "She loved you, Captain Hargreaves," she said. "And she was sorry. As my father's daughter, that is all I am allowed to say. And to think Peter found you!" "Oh, yes, Peter, of course," mused Bottle-Green. "You must come often now," said Peter's mother. "Yes, yes," said Bottle-Green, nodding his head. "Of course." And he ran up the stairs, shouting, "Peter! Peter!" And just as soon as the folding table could be set up by black Amyas the Rebs and Yankees were fighting a furious battle all over its surface. IS LAND OF MISFORTUNE Beautiful Vale of Kashmir Has Through the Ages Had a Record of Natural Calamity. Beautiful and unforunate is the wonderful vale of Ka.1.mir, lying high among the Himalayas, ringed with gigantic peaks, "clothed in evergreen fir and deodar, the light-green bed of Jehlam strung across its dun breast like a jade necklace, blushin' with the ghostly pink of peach and plum blossoms." Kashmir has a persistent record of natural clamity. Jehlam overflows its banks at intervals and sends destroying floods that wipe out whole districts. The giant peaks around the valley stir now and again in their sleep of ages and shake the flats with mighty earthquakes. Famine and cholera kill more than the river and the trembling mountains. Fire frequently sweeps the fields and cities. As one looks up at the hills on either side from the bed of Jehlam it is seen that one slope is covered with cool, dark forest, while the other grows nothing but long grass. A spark in this grass starts the blaze. Among the Himalayas the air is biting cold and the Kashmiri carries a little charcoal brazier under his robe to warm his body. These peripatetic furnaces start many a flame. With a history dotted with such calamitous landmarks, the people of Kashmir have acquired a pessimistic expression and disposition. They are superstitious, too, ascribing all manner of miraculous attributes and fairy inhabitants to the mountain springs. End of Romance. No more shall I hear his footsteps on yonder walk just as the clock strikes eight." "Gracious, Jeannette!" "And the old parlor light will never burn low for him again." "You don't mean it?" "I do; and, furthermore, he will never sit on this sofa three nights a week and call me pet names, as he has been doing for two years." "I am astonished." "And tonight I am going to burn all the old love letters in my chest of drawers." "B-but why? Are you going to discard him?" "Discard him! Why, you goose, I am going to marry him!" Spain's Fish Production The annual production of fish in Spain amounts to nearly $20,000,000 yearly in value. There are 586 steam, and 15,194 sailing vessels engaged in the industry. The annual production or tinned fish is 3,500,000 cases of tinned to the case. The pack of Portulaf is about 1,500,000 cases, and that of France in normal times about 1,000,000 cases. Large quantities of Spanish fish are sent abroad under French and Italian labels. BREAD MADE IN A HURRY Just as Good as When Done in the Ordinary Way and Quickly Ready for the Table. Break two cakes of yeast into one cup of water at blood temperature. Put a tablespoonful of sugar on the yeast to stimulate its quick growth. While this soaks, warm two cupfuls of milk with one cupful of water. This, with the water over the yeast, makes a quart of wetting, sufficient for four loaves. In a large mixing bowl put several sieves of flour and make a depression in the middle of the flour, into which put a level tablespoonful of salt and a heaping tablespoonful of lard. Pour the liquid and the yeast upon the flour and mix with the hands, working the flour from the outside into the liquid in the middle of the mass. Make a stiff dough and lift the ball out, putting away any remaining flour for future use. If the flour is granular, let the dough lie on the board for ten minutes, covered with a warm bowl, that the flour may properly absorb the moisture. If the flour is not granular, this wait is not necessary. Now shape the dough without kneading, lay the ball in a buttered bowl, and butter the surface of the dough to keep it soft. Cover and let it double in a warm place, an hour to an hour and a half. If you wish still further to hurry it, set the bowl in warm water and place a smaller bowl of warm water on the lid of the large bowl containing the dough. When doubled, shape quickly into the baking pans for the second rising and bake when again light. This recipe is excellent for use when one must have bread in a hurry. Half of the dough may be made into crusty rolls. TO WASH WINDOWS QUICKLY As in Most Other Cases, There Is' a Right and a Wrong Way of Doing It. Take a large cloth, a yard long, pat it into a close swab like a sponge. Wet soppy, but not dripping, with water. Dent the center and pour in kerosene and sop it into the face of the cloth. With this swab quickly wash the outside of the windows to loosen all flyspecks, dust, old paint or alkaline deposit. Follow at once with a large, soft and dry cloth. The first cloth leaves it smear, but the polishing will make it very clean and shiny. This first swab will clean a large number of windows, simply turning so as not to scratch the glass with the dust on it. The polishers need not be renewed until damp. The windows become very brilliant and clean and there is no freezing of water, or wetting the hands, as gloves can be worn. Especially good in cold or windy weather. The same method can be used inside. Pure kerosene can also be used, but the above combination appears to more quickly soften the varieties of deposit. Keep Cupboards Clear The majority of women do not seem to realize the danger there is in accumulations in closets. The dust and lint from old clothes are very inflammable. Lighting a match to look for some article in a crowded closet, or taking a candle into such a place often causes fire. Old clothing, rags, waste paper and every sort of rubbish should be cleared out of closets. A spark in a dusty closet has been known to ignite a whole building; even an accumulation under bureaus and sofas is dangerous. If you do discover a fire in your closet close the door and get a bucket of water and a broom. "A wet broom is the best fire extinguisher ever invented," said an official of the fire department. "You can throw a solid sheet of water with it or only a spray; you can beat a fire out with a broom or you can pull down a blazing curtain with it." Nut Gingerbread. Cream together one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of lard and one cupful of sugar; add one cupful of good molasses and one cupful of sour cream (one cupful of sour milk may be used in place of the cream); beat thoroughly, then add one tablespoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful cinnamon and a cupful of nut meats that have been cut into small bits; dissolve a small teaspoonful of soda in a little lukewarm water and stir in; use enough flour to make a soft dough that can be rolled; flour the pastry board well and roll out to the thickness of about an inch (if you do not wish a thick cake); cut into squares and cover the top with chopped nuts and a little sugar; bake in a quick oven. If desired, an egg or two may be added to the batter. Stuffed Onions. Place eight large Bermuda onions peeled and washed, in a baking dish. Cover with boiling water slightly salted. Bake them half an hour or till a wire will pierce them, then turn on the water, then with a sharp, thin bladed knife take out the heart with out breaking the outer walls, fill the cavity with minced cold chicken and fine bread crumbs, seasoned with melted butter. Sprinkle crumbs, but tered, over the dish until it almost touches the top of the onions. Cover them and bake half an hour. Silver Parfait Boll one cupful of sugar in one cupful of water until it threads. Pour it over the beaten whites of three eggs and beat again. When cool add one pint whipped cream, flavor with two teaspoonfuls of any kind of flavoring desired. Pack in ice and salt and let stand until firm. One day for a company dinner I picked a tew choice strawberries, mashed in a sieve and added whole, have also added cherries whole, and the effect is very pretty.—Exchange. Bread Budding With Onions Mix half a pound of breadcrumbs with a teaspoonful of sage, two ounces of onions, pepper and salt, with three quarters of a pint of milk. Add two eggs well beaten and bake in a quick oven. TRIPOLI IS FLOURISHING IN OUTSKIRTS OF TRIPOLI CITY TRIPOLI, the highly-inflammable land of Arab and Berber, has exchanged its peace-time in dustries for the industry of war, and according to a statement prepared by the National Geographic society, the newer industry adds little to the normal hazard of Tripolitan life. Danger is the daily bread and meat of the dweller in Tripoli, and, in this country fleeced with occasional oases and fringed with narrow strips of coastal vegetation, even the principal native pursuits for wealth and happiness are accompanied by hidden terror and grave risk. The principal sources of income to Tripolitans are those of sponge gathering, of espartic picking and of carrying on the trans saharan caravan trade. Whether the native son seeks to make his "pile" searching the slimy bottom of the Mediterranean for sponges, or gathering sparto grass in the morning mists of the desert, or following the caravan of a thousand camels back from the coast through 1,500 miles of Saharan desert to the distant Sudan, he takes not only his labor and capital for profit but also his health and life. More often than not he reaps disability or death as his reward. Perils of Sponge Gatherers. The wild seas that now and again boll over the northern coast of Africa are the smallest part of the sponge diver's hazard. Paralysis is always just ahead of this venturesome laborer who, day by day making foolhardy rapid ascents from the sea bed under press of keen competition, sooner or later experiences the return to shipboard in terrific dizziness, which forms the usual prelude to partial or complete paralysis. Strange as it may seem, many partially-paralyzed divers are able to continue their calling, and the unfitted, helpless cripple in the upper air feels normal circulation return to arms and legs when lowered into the sea on the sponge grounds. And the Arab divers of Tripoli, believing the disease indispensable to the vocation, and inured to hazard in their peculiar fatherland, dive phlegethically through a few fat seasons until crippled or killed by their chosen trade. Back in the plateau lands of the Sahara, behind the coastal greens in the silent, treeless, untenanted desert wastes, where the alluring mystery of the desert broods under the blighting heat of day and backonns in fanciful shapes over the dunes at night, stretch vast fields of wiry esparte grass, from which, paper is manufactured in great mills in England. In these fields, working for the starvation wage of twenty cents a day or less, picking the grass and tying it in large bales to be loaded on camel trains for Tripoli City, the port of Tripolitania, is another corps of workers who adventure their safety in their work. Pickling the espargo grass. Day begins for the espargo picker in the moonlight of early morning. In the chill of desert morning the picker leaves his nearby shack for the field, and begins his rapid task of breaking the longest wry blades, leg high, from the most mature clump. And in the heart of these clumps ever and again lurks his danger in the form of his arch enemy, the deadly viper. In the clumps, also, are hidden the venomous North African rock scorpions, whose stings now and again prove fatal. It is the poisonous viper, however, that make the work of espargo picking a sporting game with death. Of the $2,000,000 of export trade enjoyed by Tripoll before the war, one-fifth of it was produced by the sponge divers, more than one-third of it by the espargo pickers and considerably more than one-sixth was brought over the wide, treacherous desert from the Sudan. Many caravans, some of a few and some of thousands camels, it New War Game. Playing war got three small boys into the Columbus (Ind.) city court. They had been reading the newspapers. They knew eggs were cheaper and also about the latest things in gas bombs. They armed themselves with eggs, playing that they were hand bombs, then lay in ambush to await the coming of the enemy. Just any sort of an enemy would satisfy them. John J. Hosea, manager of the Citizens Telephone company in Columbus, happened to come along with his newly-washed touring car. Clarence Keley, a friend, was riding with him. The boys decided the car was a battleship or a Taube or something like that, and they opened fire. Eggs spattered the sides of the car. Keley jumped out of the machine and gave chase. He captured one boy, who confessed and gave the name of his confederates. They were loaded in the car and taken to the city court, where Mayor Volland lectured them. Printing in Mexico in 1536. Of almost more interest than anything connected with the Church of ted out in Tripoll, undertook the danger-fraught journeys to the great marts of Sudanese trade—Timbukit Kano, Kanen, Kuka, Bornu and Wadu. These journeys sometimes lasted two years around, and brought their undertakers into every species of danger that the desert affords. Robbers infest all the lanes across the desert, and, besides these, all the inner desert lies subject to the vengeful caprice of the masked. Tuaregs, the strange people who are at war with all who cross their paths and do not pay a sufficient tribute. The bones of the camels and men of a myriad of caravans of the past bleach along the desert trails, caravans that mostly came to harm in the hands of maurauders; but there are some among them destroyed by thirst, by the sand storm or by the water of wells poisoned in inter-tribal wars Of all three risky Tripolitan trades, the caravan trade is the most risky; and the old caravan men will find litte in the newer industry of war for which their peace-time labors have not fully prepared them. HELD ACT WAS JUSTIFIED Judge Put Himself in the Prisoner's Position and Felt He Would Have Also Slain. If there was one thing Ossup Mango was partial to, it was a good moving picture. So he settled down in an aisle seat with a sigh of expectation as the eighty-seventh episode of "The Hazards of Hannah" began on the screen. Just as the note explaining the villain's motive was flashed on, a stout man with all his hair in his whiskers wedgeged himself in front of Ossup on his way to an inside seat. "Pshaw, I missed the note!" thought Ossup. "Ah! He's going to blow up the bridge!" Half a second before the dynamite went off, a thin woman with three babies in her arms got in front of him on her way in. "And I love explosions, too!" muttered Ossup. But a few minutes later he brightened, for the aeroplane chase started. All during the chase Ossup was gazing at the back of a fireman who had got wedged between Ossup's knees and the seat in front. "I know!" thought Ossup. "I'll wait for the second show and see the parts these people have made me miss!" And he did, and during the note scene the thin woman stood in front of him on her way out, the fireman blocked the bridge explosion and the stout man hid the aeroplane chase. It was then that Ossup Mango killed the two ushers who came down to chide him for complaining aloud. But later, the judge who tried him, being a movie fan himself, discharged him with words of commendation.—Indianapolis Star. "Can you tell me whether or not our navy is a good one?" asked the anxious citizen. "Not yet," replied the sarcastic man. "There is such a hopeless difference of opinion regarding our navy that I am going to reserve my own opinion until it goes out and tackles a hostile fleet." Hits American Trade. Chinese are becoming so adept in the manufacture of biscuit and crackers that the Hongkong product is beginning to compete with the imported articles, having already worsted competition from Shanghai. This will affect the United States, from which the major portion of biscuit, crackers and cakes for China have been imported. British Guiana gold mines last year produced 60,733 ounces of gold. Santa Teresa de la Antigua in the City of Mexico is the fact that the first printing press in the new world was established in the corner house adjoining the sacred edifice. It was brought from Europe at the request of Bishop Zumarraga in 1536 by Viceroy Mendoza. The first printer was Juan Paoli of Brescia, Italy, who was sent to Mexico by Comberger, Mrs John Wesley Butler writes in the Abingdon Press. The Spanish missionaries made good use of the press which was active nearly a century before a similar establishment was set up in the United States. The Charlotte Observer says that "there hasn't been a red petticoat in North Carolina since the big sleet." That's entirely too much for any one editor to know—Nashville Tennessee. The happiness of your life, and its power, and its part or rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now—Ruukin --- The Final Test. Uncanny Knowledge Dally Thought WHY HE POSTPONED INQUEST Pompous Coroner, With Magnified Importance, Could Not Make Slav Understand Him. There had been a fatal accident at the railway crossing in a town in Iowa, and the coroner, a pompous old chap, who magnified both his office and its incumbent, had impaneled a jury for the inquest. There was only one witness of the accident, an illiterate Slav laborer, who could understand no English. With him the coroner began to struggle. "Can you speak English?" he asked. The man shook his head. "Can you speak German?" Again the man shook his head. "Can you speak Italian?" The same response. "Can you speak Russian? Can you speak Swedish?" were the next questions, to both of which the man signified in the negative. "It's no use, gentlemen," said the coroner, turning to the jury. "We can't proceed with the case. I've spoken to this man in five different languages and can't make him understand me."—Harper's Magazine. A New One. Here is another one about these little flivver automobiles that receive so much free advertising. It is going the rounds of a western vaudeville circuit. The first comedian scratches his left arm violently. "What is the matter?" asks the second comedian. "I was out to the — plant the other day," replies the first one. "Do you suppose one of those things jumped on me?" Both Satisfied. "The best thing that ever happened to me," sneered the young man to his former employer, "was when you fired me. I went out and got a regular job." "That's all right," replied the old boss, "I'm glad you're satisfied. Firing you didn't hurt our firm a particle." A News Center. New York Girl—Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives. Uncle Jabez! Uncle Jabez—Praps not in New York. But all yew gotter do in East Windsor Hill is ter drop inter Risley's store fer ten minutes and listen!—Judge. A Smooth Approach "You seem hard worked, sir," said the affable stranger. "I'm half dead." "Then I called in the nick of time. I'm selling life insurance. If you're half dead you can't get a policy any too quick." Something Cheaper "How much are these baby carriages?" asked the woman in the store. "Those are forty-six dollars, ma'am." "Too expensive." "But that's a fine carriage, ma'am." "Well, haven't you anything in baby carriages in the fliver class?" Ineffective. First Native (in western town)—I guess that chap won't stay here long; we've insulted him in every way possible since he located here. Second Native — Nonsense! He doesn't know it. He's been living in New York.—Judge. Easy Game. "That dog of yours seems fond of chasing trains." "Yes." "I wonder why?" "Well, he isn't much of a fighter. Trains are about the only things he gets a chance to chase." Seeks a Stimulant. "Jack, I wish you'd come to see me occasionally." "Why, Vanessa, I thought you were engaged to Algeron Fitzwhistle." engaged to Algernon Fitzwhistle: "No; but I think I could be if I could organize a little brisk competition." THE SAME WAY. "How did you feel when you were walking down the church aisle to be married?" "Do you remember how you felt the first time you got in a barber's chair to be shaved?" "Never will forget it." "That's the answer." The French soldiers now occupying Getting Down to Cases. "I would go to the ends of the earth for you." "Let us have some plain talk," said the girl. "Am I to understand that you will take me around the world on a wedding trip?" Hair Topic Needed Lodger--I wish you would put another mattress on my bed. Landlady—Why, that is a genuine hair mattress you have. Lodger—Well, perhaps it was once, but it's baldheaded now. Balm for His Conscience. Fuzzzy—Yes, she's a nice girl, but if you marry her in the hope that she'll one day come into a fortune, won't your conscience trouble you? Sportlove—Oh, no! Not if she really gets the money. HOME TOWN HELPS BOOST Boost your city, boost your friend, Boost the lodge that you attend, Boost the street on which you're dwelling, Boost the goods that you are selling, Boost the house that you own; They can get along without you. But success will quicker find them If they know that you're behind them. Boost for every forward movement, Boost for every new improvement, Boost the man for whom you labor, Boost the neighbor, Cease to be a chronic knocker, Cease to be a progress blocker, If you'd make your city better Boost it to the final letter. COLOR SCHEMES IN GARDENS Matter in Which America Might Profit by the Example Set by English Landscape Artists. Little attention is paid to garden color schemes, less in California than elsewhere, for the reason that everything blooms so riotously here that we deem attempts at control quite unnecessary, says the Los Angeles Times. The English are the great color artists of the garden and they have garden books upon this subject alone. Sometimes colors are used for effects not necessarily allied to harmony, as when yellow is used on points thrust forward to shorten the apparent distance and blue is used to deepen the recesses and make them appear farther in the distance. Many of the good-sized local gardens have long borders where color schemes could be wrought with annuals or perennials, or with both. Remember two points which may be called fundamentals: White is the one great neutralizer or harmonizer in flowers and gray performs a similar office in foliage. Borders in which white flowers and gray foliage heavily predominate may have any and all colors in harmony so long as they do not mix, but have between them a mere touch of white. Such a peace-maker is often more necessary between shades closely allied than in marked contrasts. Thus with two shades of pink the lighter appears washed and faded in close comparison with a deeper and therefore stronger hue. Even great masses of white relieved by an occasional touch of any color never appear monotonous MAIL BOX THAT IS NEAT Californian Has the Right Idea in the Erection of Receptacle at His Country Home. Permanency and sightliness are two of the attributes incorporated in an attractive mail box that has been erected by a Californian in front of his country home. The receptacle itself is about eighteen inches square, is made entirely of copper and fitted with a small door on one side. It is supported on a substantial brick pier, approximately four feet in height, which tapers slightly toward the top. Inso much as the residence is a brick bungalow, this type of mail receiver is most appropriate. — Popular Mechanics Magazine. Arrangement of Street Lamps. Arrangement of Street Lamps. A recent investigation of the relative merits of parallel and staggered arrangement of street lamps is most interesting, since it discloses that from an ornamental viewpoint the former is preferable, while, from a utilitarian viewpoint, the latter is preferable under certain conditions. By parallel arrangement is meant the placing of lamps so that they come opposite each other, while staggered arrangement means that the lamps on one side of a street are placed so as to come half way between those on the opposite side. In general, the staggered arrangement furnishes more uniform illumination. However, where the street width is not much greater than the distance between lamp standards, the parallel arrangement is preferable. In instances where the street width is considerably greater than the spacing of the lamps, the staggered arrangement will give the best results.—Scientific American. Just to Help Out "Well! Well!" exclaimed Mr. Dubson to a flustered acquaintance who rushed into a railroad station carrying two large suitcases. "Going away on the choo-choo?" "Oh, no," answered the acquaintance, in a surcastic tone. "My sole idea in buying a railway ticket and hastening hither with all the baggage I could stagger under was merely to increase the stir and bustle of this great city." Indolence. Hewitt—Gruet is a terribly lazy fellow. Jewett—Right you are; when his watch stops, he waits 12 hours before he starts it again, to save the trouble of turning the hands. The Difference. Bangs—What is the difference between a woman's whist club and a man's poker club? Wangs—Why, in one you get home to dinner and in the other to breakfast. SPECIAL DRUG SALE The following are a few of the good things he is offering his customers only for a short time. Everyone should take advantage of this Special sale at once. Black Draught 25c size .15c Wine Cardui $1.00 size .85c Wild Rose Soap 10c 2 Cakes for .15c Haye's Hair Health 50c size .45c Three S. S. S. $1.00 size .85c Peroxide Soap 10c 2 Cakes for .15c Parker's Hair Balsam 50c size .45c Three S. S. S. $1.75 size $1.50 Toilet Soap Box 25c 3 Cakes for .20c Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin 50c size .45c Bromo Seltzer $1.00 size .85c Nipple 5c sellers, 3 for .10c Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin $1.00 size .85c Bromo Seltzer 50c size .45c Fountain Syringes $1.25 value for .89c Peruna $1.00 size .85c Three Boxes Tooth Picks .10c Alarm Clocks $1.00 value for .75c Mumford Navy Blood $1.00 size .85c Pebecco Tooth Paste 50c size .45c Tooth Brushes 25c value for .15c Swamp Root $1.00 size .85c Lydia Pinkham Veg. Compound $1.00 size .85c Seven Big Rolls Toilet Paper for .25c Swamp Root 50c size .45c Lydia Pinkham Blood Purifier $1.00 size .85c Two Bars Sayman's Soap for .15c Malted Milk 50c size .45c Doane's Kidney Pills 50c size .45c Three Big Boxes Matches for .15c Malted Milk $1.00 size .85c Gas Mantel-Reliable 10c 3 for .25c Home Phone Main 5467 THEO. SMITH'S DRUG STORE Bell Phone Grand 4591 Cafe The beautiful and attractive Drug Store of Dr. Theodore Smith, located at 18th and Tracy avenue. Dr. Smith is the Pioneer Druggist of this city and brings to his business an aggriveness and rich experience that makes him one of the most successful business men of the race. OFFER NO. 1.—One 50c box of Madam Walkers' Hair Grower free with one Straightening Comb and one Alcohol Cleaner. OFFER NO. 2.—One Tube A. D. S. Tooth Paste free with a 25c Special Tooth Brush. OFFER NO. 3.—One box of Palmers' Success Ointment, Hair Dressing or one bar of Palmers' Soap free with one Straightening Comb. 30 per cent off on all Hair Goods, Wigs, Braids, Transformations, Bangs, Switches, Etc. COR. 18th AND TRACY Here is your Opportunity to go West--- Missouri Pacific Denver Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific Liberal Stopovers Tickets and Information 901 Main Street; Union Station, Kansas City, Mo., and Missouri Pacific Depot, Kansas City, Kas. Bell Main, 6740 Home Main, 6327 R. T. G. MATTHEWS, Assistant General Passenger Agent MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN NEWS AND PERIODICALS Chicago Defender, New York Age, Kansas City Sun, Freeman, Cricis Dallas Express, Guardian, Plaindealer, Kansas City Star, Kansas City Post, Kansas City Journal, Magazines and Novels, Etc. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY [WINS A GLORIOUS VICTORY Mayor—Geo. H. Edwards (R)...8,260 Comptroller—Eugene H. Blake (R) 7,550 Judge South Municipal Court— Joseph F. Kiernan (R).....2,235 Upper House. Albert I. Beach (R) ..... 31.480 George L. Peterson (R) ..... 30.821 James H. Frame (R) ..... 30.482 E. B. Harrington (R) ..... 29.288 L. L. Adams (R) ..... 30.540 Chas. O. LaRue (R) ..... 30.448 John H. Speas (R) ..... 31.045 Lower House. MUSIC WITH YOUR SODAS EVERY SUNDAY FROM 4 P.M. TO 11 P.M. HOME COOKING—Meals served at private residence. Bell phone, East 4732J. 1805 E. 11th st., Mrs. Drummons. PERSIAN CREAM HAIR GROWER If a Beautiful Head of Hair is Your Pride, then Try the Real Hair Grower, the Most Wonderful Discovery of the Century. PERSIAN CREAM Affair Grower and Straightener The New Way of Treating the Scalp and Growing the Hair. For Dandruff, Scales, Itching and Roughness. Dandruff is a germ disease. It is a paradigmally grown skin root that causes itching the hair to itch its lustre thin or fall out or out. U-N-E-D-E-A Dandruce is a Scientific remedy for it. It also cleans the scalp in a hydrosol way. It prevents dandruff and stops itching of the scalp. It also maintains the scalp in a healthy condition so that the hair ceases to fall out. It prevents any unpleasant odor of the scalp or hair-and leads a delicate perfume of its own. Price 25 Cent. U-N-E-D-E-A SKIN BLEACH Clears and Bleaches the skin. Immediately Makes Dark or Brown Skin Whiter. Will Not Grow Hair. Price 50 Cent. Manufactured only by the RANKIN MANUFACTURING CO. Hair, Tailor and Household Preparations. Your attention is called to the THEO. SMITH'S DRUG STORE. The best stocked Negro Drug Store in the United States, barring none. A visit will convince you that he is fully prepared to take care of your trade. He absolutely runs a first-class legitimate Drug Store, free from liquor selling, loafers, crap shooting and dice shaking for cigars. A safe, clean place tosend your women and children to trade. Every prescription that comes in the store is carefully compounded by the proprietor, who is a regularly Graduated Registered Pharmacist and who has filled tens of thousands of prescriptions and not a single mistake has ever been made. He is a graduate of Howard University Pharmaceutical Department and is registered in the State of Missouri and the District of Columbia. The Wholesale Jobbers, Credit Men, Bradstreet and Dunn gives him the best record of any Negro Druggist in the State. HOME PHONE MAIN 5467 We carry Madam Walker's Hair Grower, Whites' Specific Face Cream, Hair Nets, Checkers, Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Waters, Face Powders, Stage Makeup, Manicuring Sets, Silk Sponges, Powder Puffs, Knives, Eye Glasses, Nail Brushes, Tweezers, Breast Pumps, Ice Caps, Hot Water Bags, Bed Pans, Oils, Paints, Varnishes, Brushes, Stationery of all kinds. Hypo Syringes and Needles. Miss Cozetta Kingsbury. HOME PHONE Everyone should take advance .85c W .85c Po $1.50 T .85c N .45c F .10c A .45c T .85c S .85c T .45c T .25c T to satisfy. Try them. .25c W Hair N Makeup .75c Nail Br .25c Oils, P .10c Needles .25c .75c .50c .25c .10c .10c .25c any part of the City. MAIL ORDER DRUG S BY SUNDAY ODICALS City Sun, Freeman, Ar, Kansas City Star, Magazines and Novels, Etc. Quinoleum Is Queen YES, I Use Quinoleum, and like it fine. JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. Ours are the finest made prepara- tions for the hair and face. What We Manufacture— Hair Preparations. Quinoleum Hair Grower.....50c Quinoleum Hair Tonic.....50c Quinoleum Hair Shampoo.....50c Face Preparations. Quinoleum Face Bleach.....25c Quinoleum Face Cream.....25c Quinoleum Camphor Ice.....25c A liberal sample of our new prepara- tions, a fragrantly perfumed toilet powder and a velvety face powder in pink and flesh colors (brown) sent free with any order. Call Bell Phone West 1757. 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas. QUINOLEUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Miss Claudia Quarrels and Miss Cozetta Kingsbury two of Kansas City's most charming and cultured young ladies are employed by Dr. Smith and are giving most efficient service. They are High School graduates, highly intelligent, are "home" girls and are a valuable addition to Dr. Smith's clerical force. Those who believe in creating opportunities for our boys and girls must give credit to Dr. Smith for his consideration along this line. E MAIN 5467 BELL PHONE avantage of this Special Sale at Wild Rose Soap 10c 2 Cakes for ... 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Sodas and Sundaes serve the best Sodas and Sundaes in 57 MONE GRAND 4591 Special Sale at once. boxes for .....15 boxes for .....15 boxes for .....20 10 value for .....89 for .....75 for .....15 per for .....25 for .....15 for .....10 Hair Grower, Whites' Specific Face Cream, Soaps, Toilet Waters, Face Powders, Stages, Sponges, Powder Puffs, Knives, Eye Glasses, Pumps, Ice Caps, Hot Water Bags, Bed Pans, Stationery of all kinds. Hypo Syringes and and Sundaes Best Sodas and Sundaes in town BELL PHONE GRAND 4591 Sodas and Sundaes We serve the best Sodas and Sundaes in town Fine Candies all Kinds ORDERS SOLICITED AND PROPERLY STORE KANS LINCOLN MRS. FRANKLI 1131 East 18th Four Doors East of Smith's Drug Store Be DR. A. D. BRADBURY. Physician and Surgeon. Office, 821 Indep. Ave., Bell Phone Main 4438. UNITED AND PROPERLY CARED FOR. ORE Bell Grand KANSAS CITY LINCOLN CAFE MRS. FRANKLIN, Prop. 1131 East 18th Street of Smith's Drug Store Best Place to EAT A. D. BRADBURY. 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