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Nominate Theodore Roosevelt and He Will Carry Every Decent State in the Union Say, have you a furnished or unfurnished room for rent? Advertise it in The Sun and let it be bringing you in something. VOLUME VIII. NUMBER 36. Nominate Theo DOWN ON THE The Editor Person Border and the Famous Tent Crack Colo Fort Hua THE COLORED TROO FEARED Under the Gallant Co Major Charles Young nized as One of the Marksmen in the Soldiers are D Chaplain Geo. W. Prioleau, w fifth at Honolulu t Men The Editor, Accompanied by So for the West, and Illustrious W der K. T. of Missouri, and Douglass, Arizona, assis District Deputy, Insti in the Tent Dinate Theodore DOWN ON THE MEN Editor Personally Border and the Heath Famous Tenth Cave Crack Colored Fort Huachuc COLORED TROOPS BOTH FEARED BY N the Gallant Colonel for Charles Young, Our ized as One of the best T Marksmen in the U. S. Soldiers are Doing W in Geo. W. Prioleau, who Lea fifth at Honolulu this month. Men of the R or, Accompanied by Sovereign In the West, and Illustrious W. G. Moss, K. T. of Missouri, and Illustrious Douglass, Arizona, assisted by Ill District Deputy, Institute a Net in the Tenth Regimen DOWN ON THE MEXICAN BORDER The Editor Personally Visited the Mexican Border and the Headquarters of the Famous Tenth Cavalry, America's Crack Colored Regiment, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona THE COLORED TROOPS BOTH RESPECTED AND FEARED BY MEXICANS Under the Gallant Colonel Brown and the Brilliant Major Charles Young, Our Own, who is Recognized as One of the best Tacticians and Expert Marksmen in the U. S. Army, the Colored Soldiers are Doing Wonderful Work Chaplain Geo. W. Prioleau, who Leaves the Tenth for the Twenty-fifth at Honolulu this month, Beloved by All the Men of the Regiment. The Editor, Accompanied by Sovereign Inspector General E. S. Baker, Deputy for the West, and Illustrious W. G. Mosley, Rt. Eminent Grand Commander K. T. of Missouri, and Illustrious Sargent James Weatherly, of Douglass, Arizona, assisted by Illustrious Geo. W. Prioleau, District Deputy, Institute a New Consistory and Shrine in the Tenth Regiment While There. On Sunday, April 23, the Editor left for the Mexican border to ascertain personally the foundation for the many contradictory reports concerning the punitive expedition under General Pershing and whether the apparently imminent danger of open hostility between the two countries was so serious as reported. We left in company with Mr. Edw. S. Baker, Grand Chancellor of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction, and at El Paso, Texas, we were joined by Sir Willis G. Mosely, Grand Commander of Knights Templar of Missouri jurisdiction. We left El Paso on Tuesday morning and arrived at Douglas, Ariz., late in the evening, where we spent the night with Illustrious James Weatherly, retired Sergeant of the Ninth Cavalry. On Wednesday morning, accompanied --- The Kansas City Sun Jay; and with Chaplain Geo. W. Prioleau, who is the ranking Chaplain in the United States Army, and who has attained the ranak of Captain with a possibility of reaching the rank of Colonel before his retirement, have won for the Negro soldiers and officers a place in the estimation of those in control of army affairs that is most enviable. After changinig at Lewis Springs onto a mixed train for the Post, we arrived there about 11:30, and to our agreeable surprise were greeted by the famous Tenth Cavalry Band lined up in parade formation at the depot, playing as only they can play "Under the Double Eagle" march. Also about a hundred troopers were present to receive us, as well as Chaplain Prioleau, who after informal greetings and introduction escorted us to his elegant Oldsmobile, the best car at the Post, and placing us in the care of his excellent chauffeur, William Ross, a former member of the Ninth Cavalry, he mounted his magnificent full-blooded Arabian charger and carried us to his official residence, one of the most imposing at the Post, where we were warmly greeted by the madam, who has become extremely popular by her gracious manner and pleasing disposition, and their two beautiful children, Mary and Sue. After removing the stains of travel we were called to an elegant dinner, over which Mrs. Prioleau presided with that grace of dignity that has made her dinners famous in army circles. On Wednesday night we conferred the Scottish Rite degrees, Sovereign Inspector Bake* presiding, from the fourth to the thirtieth inclusive, and on Thursday after driving over the KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY 6. 1916. [Portrait of a man in a military uniform with a star badge on his chest]. Tenth Cavalry United States army, who has served more than twenty-one years as chaplain, and who leaves on the 1-5th for Honolulu, where he has been assigned to the Twenty-fifth infantry. Chaplain Prioleau is one of the most active, intellectual and popular men of the race, and is idolized by the men of the army with whom he has labored so many years. surrounding country, which is very beautiful, we were the dinner guests of Sargeant and Mrs. Vance H. Marchbank. Sergeant Marchbank is one of the most intellectual men at the post Tenth Cavalry United States army, v. on the 1-5th for Honolulu, whee one of the most active, intellect with whom he has labored so m and is a clerk at headquarters, has seen 21 years of service since he enlisted at his former home, Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday night we conferred the 31st and 32d degrees on the class, which we can truthfully say was of a higher intellectual order than any class we have ever had the pleasure of initiating in the past. After the conferring of the degrees the different houses proceeded to the election of their officers, which resulted as follows: Venerable Senior Grand Warden— Joseph C. Battise. Venerable Junior Grand Warden— Charles C. Smartt. Grand Orator—Vance H. Marchbank. Master of Ceremonies—James Campbell. Captain of the Guard—E. T. Thompson. Hospitable Brother—Joshua R. Johnson. Senior Grand Expert—Green Boston. Junior Grand Expert—William Bailley. Grand Tiller—Jos. Rodgers. House of Rose Croix. Most Wise and Perfect Master—B. J. Lafferty. Most Excellent and Perfect Knight —S. W. Green Boston. Most Excellent and Perfect Knight —J. W., Elmer T. Thompson. Most Perfect Knight Orator—Jas, C Campbell. Most Perfect Knight Secretary—Middleton W. Sadler. Most Perfect Knight Treasurer—Ola C. Marshall. Most Perfect Knight Tyler—William Bailey. House of Kadosh. Very Eminent Commander—William Payne. First Lieutenant—Joseph Rodgers. Second Lieutenant—Wm. H. Lewis. Excellent Chancellor—Elmer T. Thompson. Excellent Orator—Green Boston. Excellent Almomer—Joshua Johnson. Excellent Recorder—Ola C. Marshall. Excellent Treasurer—Middleton W. Saddler. Venerable Master of Ceremonies—Joseph Batiste. Valent Turcopiller—Alfred J. Thomas. Worthy Draper—Benj. J. Lafferty. Worthy First Deacon—William Bailey. Worthy Second Deacon—Vance H. Marchbanks. Bearer of the Beauseant—James F. Hendricks. Bearer of the First Standar1—James C. Campbell. Bearer of the Second Standard—Charles Smart. Lieutenant of the Guard—A. Badran. Sentinel—Mitchell A. Harris. Consistory. Commander in Chief—Vance H. Marchbanks. First Lieutenant—J. F. Hendricks. Second Lieutenant—Wm. Bailey. Sergeant—Middleton W. Saddler. Treasurer—Ola C. Marshall. Grand Minister of State—James Campbell. Grand Chancellor—M. A. Harris. T CHAPLAIN GEORGE W. PRIOLEAU. who has served more than twenty-one are he has been assigned to the Twenty- tual and popular men of the race, and any years. Grand Hospitaler—Joshua R. Johnson. Grand Master of Ceremonies—Alf. J. Thomas. Grand Standard Bearer—Elmer T. Thompson. Grand Captain of Guard—Wm. H. Lewis. Grand Sentinel—Joseph Battiste. THE MYSTIC SHRINE. Albert J. Thomas, Imperial Potentate —Other Officers' Names Not Received. On Friday we were carried in the chaplain's car to the target range where the Tenth has made the proud record of having more sharp shooters and expert marksmen than any other regiment in the army. After which we visited the ice plant, the new electric light plant, the water plant, which is situated high up on the mountains; the gymnasium, the Post exchange the quarter master's department, which is as complete as any wholesale house in this country; the va- rious barracks, the riding hall and many other places of interest. At night we conferred the Shrine degrees amid much hilarity and excitement on the candidates, and at their completion were entertained at a delightful smoker and luncheon, arriving at our stopping place happy but tired, at an early hour in the morning. On Saturday after mailing cards to our friends back East and paying our respects to several of the officers, left at the Post, we were notified thru the chaplain that we were to be serenaded by the Post's band upon the lawn of the chaplain's beautiful residence, and to our surprise the following program was passed around, having been handsomely printed, by the men of the regiment: Concert by the Tenth U. S. Cavary band in honor of Ill. E. S. Baker, 33' and K. T. Grand Chancellor E. H. Su TROOPER GEO. A. HUDNELL of the Tenth Cavalry, the first soldier to lose his life in the Mexican puni- tive expedition. e years as chaplain, and who leaves fifth infantry. Chaplain Prioleau is idolized by the men of the army preme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction Orient, at Washington, D. C.; Ill. Nelson C. Crews, 33' and K. T. Most Worshipful Grand Master Masonic Jurisdiction, Mo.; Ill. W. G. Mosley, 33' and K. T. Grand Commander, Kansas City, Mo.; Ill. James Weatherly, 32' Joppa No. 45; Ill. George W. Prioleau, 33' and K. T. Dist. Deputy Masonic Dist, No. 20, chaplain Tenth cavalry. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., 4 p. m., April 29, 1916. The program: March—"Stars and Stripes Forever" .... Sousa Hungarian overture, "Csokonay" .... Keler Bela Waltz, "Adly" .... Hall Trombone solo, "The Holy City" Adams Pearl Bouncer Medley overture, "Remick's Hits" No. 15 .....Lampe Absurdity Rag, "The Booster...Lake Chief Musician Alfred J. Thomas, director. The roster of this splendid band is as follows; (Continued on page 8). SIR JOHN LANGE. Kansas City's best known Colored citizen, for 36 years the manager of the world-wide known Blind Boone Concert Co., who came home two weeks ago physically indisposed, but has fully recovered under the careful nursing of his charming wife, to the pleasure of his myriad friends. Long may he live. VINE STREET'S NEW MARKET Harris and Batrick Open Up-to-date Sanitary Pure Food Market On the back page, upper right-hand corner, our readers will each week find the advertisement of Harris and Batrick, the firm that recently opened a large first-class sanitary grocery and meat market at 2415-2417 Vine street. They propose to cater to the demands of the Colored trade, being in a Colored neighborhood. This market is indeed offering the best quality of goods at prices that mean a saving of many dollars to their customers. Each week will find new bargains. Among their present specials is a 30-cent brand of coffee which they are retailing at 20 cents the pound. Their store is clean; for their cooked meats and cheese they have new slicing machines; groceries delivered on time; in fact every agency that goes to give first-class accommodation and service is a part of the operating plan of this store, and brings to a large number of progressive Colored people a long-felt want. They offer "satisfaction or your money back," as their policy. The store——HARRIS and BATRICK'S CONSUMERS' CASH MARKET, 2415-2417 VINE ST. ALFRED J. THOMAS. Chief musician of the famous Tenth Cavalry Band and Imperial Potentate of Malta Shrine. FLOWERS FOR DECORATION DAY. Tuesday, May 30, we are making special preparations to take care of our many customers on this memorial day. By ordering early you will get much better prices and be sure of getting just what you want. Get our prices on Flowers for all occasions. We also carry a full line of the very choicest flowers. Deliveries made to any part of the city free. Weaver Flower and Fruit Store, 1510 E. 18th street. Bell phone E-4798; Home phone 802 East. We want good reliable Agents in every city and town in the country. Write us for terms. PRICE, 5c. DR. UNTHANK APPOINTED SUPER-INTENDENT OF COLORED HOSPITAL. At a meeting of the hospital and health board Dr. Thomas C. Unthank was appointed superintendent of the old city hospital, a long merited appointment. He is a native son of North Carolina and this grand old state has given many illustrious sons and daughters to the race. He received his academic training at Benedict college and his professional training at Howard university. Soon after graduation he came to Kansas City and began the practice of medicine and for eighteen years he has responded to the call of suffering humanity. Six years of that time he was in the employ of the city, having served under Mayors Jones, Neff and Beardsley. While engaged as physician at the old work house he saw the necessity of someone to investigate and recommend to the mayor the pardon and parole of prisoners, and it was from this recommendation that the mayor appointed a pardon and parole board out of which grew the Welfare Board with its various activities. Besides being one of the most successful and efficient physicians of the city, he is one of the most public spirited men in the community. No movement inaugurated for the betterment of his people that does not enlist his support and co-operation. When DR. T. C. UNTHANK. The dean of the Negro medical profession in this city, who was appointed this week superintendent of the City Hospital for Negroes, succeeding Dr. Wm. J. Thompkins, who has made a great reputation there during the past two years. prejudice forced us to cease patronizing soda fountains operated by the whites he, with several other physicians, opened a drug store and from that beginning we now have seen well appointed drug stores operated by our people. It was largely through his efforts that the Douglass hospital was established in Kansas City, Kas. He was chairman of the committee that raised $2,200 for the buying of Masonic hall. He is now one of the most active members of the Federated Charities, a body composed of colored citizens who look after the charities of the Negroes of Kansas City. While he has found that he made no mistake in his calling from a financial standpoint, it must be conceded that he has the true professional spirit which bids him answer the call from which he expects no remuneration whatever as willingly as that from which he hopes to collect a large fee. Many a person's name has been entered in his books from whom the only fee collected has been a smile of gratitude and a prayer to our all Father to bless Tom Unthank. His wife is indeed a help meet, and will contribute largely to his success in his new field of endeavor. His daughter Louise is a charming Miss and will graduate in June from Lincoln High school. His two nephews, Edgar and DeNorval, whom he rather regards as his sons and who have for several years shared the protection and comforts of his home, will also receive their diplomas from our high school at the approaching commencement. The doctor goes into office with the good wishes of his own people for his success. They feel confident that his administration will be all that close application, conscientious work and ability of a high order can make it. It will be gratifying to his many patients to whom he has administered so faithfully and efficiently in the past years to know that they will not be deprived of his professional services for he will be pleased to serve them at his office, Independence and Harrison streets, at the usual hours. BUSINESS MEN WANTED OUT WEST. Great Falls, Mont.—We have 600 colored people, with one church, three lodges but no hall to meet in. We have no restaurants or business houses of any kind among the race people. There are possibilities for men of the race to make money by investing in business ventures here. We need a drug store, ice cream parlor and soda parlor, and above all that there is need of a hall for entertainments of various kinds. Montana is looking forth for a more prosperous year than ever history has known. Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City AUTHORS. MRS. MARIA P. WILLIAMS, Author and Lecturer, 1204 Highland Avenue, Bell phone East 4735. BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. MRS. MARION STIRMAN, Hair Dressing, Poro Treatment, 903 Independence Avenue. dependence Avenue. MESDAMES JACKSON & JOHNSON, 18th and Highland Ave. Bell phone E. 4788. MRS. CADDIE WITCHER, 1708 Michigan Ave. Madame Walker's Hair and Scalp Treatment. Bell phone, East 4167X. CAFES DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. 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. THEODORE SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 4591 Home Main 5467. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell phone East 1814 Home East 4082. DRUG STORES. THEODORE SMITH, 1301 East 18th St. Bell phone Grand 4591 Home Main 5467. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, 18th and Paseo. Bell phone East 1814 Home East 4082. R. W. FOSTER'S PHARMACY—18th and Woodland. Bell phone East 272, Home phone East 4070. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. TAYLOR-HOLMES & CO., 2409 Vine Street. EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE. THOS. JACKSON, 1816 Highland, Bell phone, East 2377J. MOVING VANS, F. W. DAVIS. Moving, packing and storing hold goods. Bell phone, East 529; Home phone, East 21 dence, 1229 Woodland. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell ph 272. Home phone, East 4070. JEWELERS. MOVING VANS, F. W. DAVIS. Moving, packing and storing house hold goods. Bell phone, East 529; Home phone, East 2158. Residence, 1229 Woodland. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 272. Home phone, East 4070. JEWELERS. J. A. WILSON, 1616 West 9th St., Bell phone, Main 6248R. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnesota A sas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. LAWYERS. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. LUNCH ROOMS. THE LITTLE CHICAGO LUNCH ROOM. Mrs. Clara Mo 1512 East 19th St., Bell Phone East 3485. MILLINERY. CALDWELL CHAPMAN, 18th and Paseo. Home phone PHOTOGRAPHERS. C. BRUCE SANTEE, Proprietor The Fad, 1607 East 18th phone East 1643. PRINTERS. C. A. FRANKLIN, 1309 East 18th Street. Bell phone, Gran THE LITTLE CHICAGO LUNCH ROOM. Mrs. Clara Mosely, Mgr. 1512 East 19th St. Bell Phone East 3485. MILLINERY. 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 AFRO-AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO. nished. 911 McGee street. Bell Phone 751 Main. Home Phone 7 ABC EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Minn. (upstairs) Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 172 phone, West 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. COLORED PEOPLE'S INVESTMENT CO., 2427 Vine St. N. East 1011, Home East 4011. Sol Smith, Pres SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 East 18th street. B East 1328. THEATRES. OLD KENTUCKY, 1702 East 12th Street, J. L. William tor, Bell phone East 4735. 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 SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 East 18th street. Bell phone East 1328. THEATRES OLD KENTUCKY, 1702 East 12th Street, J. L. Williams, proprietor. Bell phone East 4735. UNDERTAKERS. H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence Avenue. Bell phone Main Home phone Main 3341. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine streets. Bot East 4349. C. H. COUNTEE, Licensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine St., Bell P 3336, Home East 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Grand Main 7989. 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. YOU CAN BE BEAUTIFUL LET US HELP YOU WE SPECIALIZE IN HAIR GOODS AND SELL ALL THE LATEST STYLES IN WIGS, PUFFS, SWITCHES, ETC. 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When the students gather at the Mounted Service School in the fall they receive raw colts from the remount station at Fort Royal. At the end of the year the colts, now transformed, are promoted to training colts. At the end of the second year they are promoted to schooled horses, and after a third year they go out to serve their enlistment. Education does no less for horses than for men. Animals that were unbroken mongrel colts, fresh from the farm last summer, already are sleek, haughty and highly disciplined. And the mongrel colts of two years ago stepped like high school horses of the bluest Kentucky blood as they went through their paces yesterday in the riding hall. Caste is no barrier to educated horseflesh. Few Civilians There. The graduating exercises included fencing, mounted saber drill, riding hall drills with the breaking colts, training colts, school horses and the jumpers, riding over an outdoor obstacle course with the training colts, and a cross-country ride with the jumpers. It was the showy part of a winter's hard work at what is very valuable, but at most a not very ornate cavalry task. Only a handful of civilians saw the two days' work. "It is to be regretted," Captain H. R. Richmond, acting commandant of the school, commented, "that our great military establishments like Riley are not within five or ten cent rides of great cities. If the people of the United States could get better acquainted with their army there would be fewer misunderstandings. A little exhibition like this, for instance, would clear up many false notions. In time of trouble the American is apt to declare that we have the finest army in the world, the best officers, the bravest men and such, and in long periods of peace he is just as likely to argue that the army is worthless, the officers overpaid loafers and the men worse." HOWARD DREW SETS A NEW RECORD. Howard P. Drew, the Los Angeles spinner, on April 29 created a new world's record for ninety yards when he won one of the feature attractions of the annual games at the Smart Set Athletic club in the Thirteenth Regiment armory, Brooklyn, in nine seconds flat, clipping one-fifth of a second off the former mark, which he established himself in 1914. The Negro flyer won by more than a yard from Frank Stephens of the Trinity club. P. GRAND MASTER NELSON C. CREWS. Who just returned from a visit to the Mexican border. Our Asphalt Ornamental Roofing Costs one-third Less Than Shingles. Wears Longer. Cash or Payments. WILBERRITE ROOFING & MFG. 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Ten of them, picked men who looked the part, were graduated today from the Mounted Service School, the second non-commissioned class in the history of the mounted service. They went through a program marking their successful completion of a highly technical and rigorous course. After the final number a cross-country race, which should have been perpetuated in the movies, but was not, they came to attention beneath a great bluff at the forking of Forsyth and Coyote canyons, and received their diplomas from Col. Charles A. P. Hatfield. The ten were chosen for character, intelligence and soldierly qualities and were sent to Fort Riley last September to take their master's degrees. For seven months they have studied equitation, horse training, hippology, horse-shoeing, swordsmanship and the pistol in the esame school and under the same instruction as the student commissioned officers. They now join theier regiments, all but one of which are in Mexico or on the border. The army is being increased to war strength and legislation is now before congress to increase its strength. As a result raw recruits are pouring into the army hoppers and will come in increasing numbers. Their metamorphosis from farm boys and factory hands to enlisted men require more than the manual of arms and a uniform. There is more than that to the enlisted man's job as conducted now on the American plan. The Task of the Officials. The Task of the Officials. The officers, therefore, face a big task in training the new army. But in the cavalry branch of the service they are going to have the expert assistance of the class that graduated today and its predecessor of last year. These graduate noncoms, know the best ways of teaching the rookies to ride, to care for horse in stable or in the field, how to use the saber and the pistol, mounted and dismounted, everything a trooper needs to know. But they will be more than valuable assistants to the officers of their regiments. Each will be a capable militia instructor and in case of war a commission will be waiting for him. In a hastily organized volunteer regiment his experience and skill would show to special advantage. One of the ten is a negro, Sergt. Priceer Sharp, Troop I, Tenth Cavalry. Another is Top Sergt. Hurley Richardson, who has been non-com. boss of Troop C. Sixth Cavalry, for more years than his superior officers remember and who will be a fixture of the Sixth until he goes on the pension rolls. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN Undertaking Establishment 19th and Vine Sts., Kansas City, Mo. 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STES, President Contracting ing a Specialty RENCH DRY CLEANING of Altering Ladies' and Gents' Garments. T, TAILOR-MADE TO FIT YOU Call on L. HOPKINS 2326 Vine St., Kansas City, Mo. delivered to Any Part of the City. THE Modern Builder A. E. ESTES, President General Contract Repairing a Special STEAM AND FRENCH DRY CLEAR We make a Specialty of Altering Ladies' Garments. IF YOU WANT A SUIT, TAILOR-MADE Call on R. L. HOPKINS Bell Phone, East 1207J. 2326 Vine St., I Goods Called for and Delivered to Any Par Palace of Fashion and Beauty MRS. BIRDIE JACKSON DESIGNER AND DRESSMAKER Latest Styles MME LIE HAIR DRESS SR Scalp TRE Latest and M Repairing a Specialty IF YOU WANT A SUIT, TAILOR-MADE TO FIT YOU Call on R. L. HOPKINS Bell Phone, East 1207J. 2326 Vine St., Kansas City, Mo. Goods Called for and Delivered to Any Part of the City. 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'A FULL LINE of Hair Brushes, Nets and Tail Articles is illustrated and can be bought for less than offered elsewhere. tweet two times, him for book today GREEN, GREEN 181-357 Park, BOW, COMPANY, 181-357 Park, BOW, COMPANY, CHAPTER 31. Grand Master A. R. Chinn rounded out his fourth year of service at the thirty-eighth annual communication, which was held in the city of Carrollton, beginning August 16, 1904, and refused to be a candidate for re-election. During his service he had accomplished several things which had a real, tangible value. He had, above all other things, reduced the workings of the Relief Department to the most satisfactory and practical state in its history. He had directed the revision of the constitution and had collected three hundred dollars of the amount due from the shortage of Past Grand Treasurer Bruce, whose financial troubles had occurred several years previous and to which we have previously alluded. The World Masonic Congress held at St. Louis in 1904, was also an achievement in which he took no little pride and reflected his ability to do things upon a big scale. In stepping down from the Grand East even before the rule limiting the tenure of office effected him, he showed a rare degree of unselfishness and a fine spirit toward his brethren. His last annual address was a brilliant resume of his efforts and was full of profound Masonic enthusiasm reflecting the ideals of the old Masonic fathers, Clark, Lawton and Dickson, at whose feet he had learned his first lessons of the craft. Carrollton proved to be a most happy place for the assembling of the members. The local craft was at this time harmoniously directed under the JOE E. HERRIFORD. amiable and courageous leadership of Brother W. L. Elliott, now deceased, but at that time one of the brightest lights of the fraternity in points of young, Christian manhood. The mayor of the city delivered a most cordial address of welcome and was responded to by Brother R. T. Coles, Grand Treasurer, in a most delightful manner. The Grand Lodge was soon down to hard work upon plans which the Grand Master had carefully laid out in advance. There was not much of constructive operations, but a great deal of refining and finishing. The brethren were delighted to learn that the Masons of Kansas City had purchased a commodious building to be used for a Temple and that the same had been consecrated during the year with imposing ceremonies in which visiting grand masters had participated. In his annual address the Grand Master had recommended that the Heroines of Jericho be asked to hold their annual meetings at the same time and place with the Grand Lodge. It was doubtless an oversight that he did not include the Order Eastern Star and when this omission was pointed out it brought up such dissension as finally resulted in the matter being passed over without action. Our Grand Lodge fortunately has at all times exercised great caution in all matters which might create a false impression of our idea of jurisdiction. It has never assumed any monitorial rights toward either the female rites or those so-called higher degrees among the brethren. It has at all times encouraged both and upon a few occasions has been compelled to break up contentions among them, but it has never attempted to influence their actions so long as peace and quiet prevailed. This is wholly attributable to the solid balance and conservatism of the ruling spirits of the Grand Lodge who have never been able to be stamped or moved by impulsiveness. Thus a great deal of trouble has been averted and the kindred rites have fared all the better. Many grand lodges of the country have made the mistake of assuming the right to control the affairs of associate and connected bodies and in no case has such meddling ever produced anything short of ludicrous confusion. So long as a dignified and reverential oversight is practiced toward the symbolic degrees it is very likely that the mere example will be sufficient to render all necessary control over the allied organizations, granting that these are recognized as such. In the election of grand officers Brother Charles G. Williams, who had distinguished himself as secretary of the Relief Department, was the unanimous choice of the brethren for Grand Master. He was one of the most aggressive young Masons of the jurisdiction, with fine constructive ability, excellent scholarship and business tact. He most capably carried out his own and the Grand Master's ideals in perfecting the work of the charity service of the Grand Lodge and established a system that made it very easy for his successor, Brother W. W. Fields, who had been his assistant during several years, and who still most acceptably fills the position. Brother M. S. Bryant became Deputy Grand Master; Brother Sonny Vaughn was advanced to the West, and after a spirited contest Brother Thomas A. Jordan, a high class man and Mason of the city of St. Louis was elected to the South. Boonville was the choice for the next meeting place. Letters, circulars, etc., done quickly and neatly at prices that you will appreciate. Office hours 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. 1022 Michigan ave. Home on Sundays after 1:30 p. m. Bell phone East 3918W. When you think of your Spring Sewing and a duplicate of your own body on which you can MAKE AND FIT EVERYTHING from the top of your collar to the hem of your skirt without trying on yourself, think of us. 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We give you a binding guarantee to refund your money if you purchase a Cream Hair Grower and are represented, fails to improve your hair. Persian Cream is one of the quickest actress hair growers known—impa- pare and burns. Free Soaps. U-N-E-E-D-A DANDERCIDE AND SHAMPOO For Dandruff, Scales, Itching and Roughness. A growth affecting the roots of the hair, causing the hair to lose its luster, grow thin or fall out. For Dandruff, Dandrude is a Science remedy for scalp troubles. It is a simple way. It prevents dandruff and stops itching of the skin. It also strengthens the hair and helps maintain a scalp condition so that the hair ceases to fall out. It prevents any unpleasant odor of the scalp or hair. MID-WEST Tailors, Cleaners and Dyers Little do millions of people realize that the garments they wear may be laden with germs which carry and spread disease of every kind and nature. A moment of earnest reflection upon this subject will at once disclose the fact that one's outer clothing comes in almost continuous contact with germ elements that have their source of entry to the body through the clothes we wear. CHAPTER 10 Pressing clothes by hand with the half rotten sponge or dirty press cloth is adding fuel to the fire of contagion, but This process of pressing also raises the nap, brings out the color, sets, cures and dries the fabric, producing a newness in appearance as well as lengthening the life of your wardrobe. 'THE HOFF-MAN' Boards of Health and Physicians have time and time again recommended and endorsed the Hoffman Sanitary Method of pressing wearing apparel. And the particle of information that Clothing Manufacturers have taken the precaution to Hoffman Press and Sterilize their product is more than ample justification to warrant you in patronizing us. 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THE KANSASCITYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa B. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .75 Three Months ..... .50 ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charlotte Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and Kansas. Elsevierer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracey. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. Blue Valley Baptist Church, 1120 Crystal avenue. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview. Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1832 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine, Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. James A. M. E. Zion Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Third Baptist Church, Roundtop, Stephenson Mission, 20th and Genesee, St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pligrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Baptist Church, 19th and Askew Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lydia. Progressive Baptist Church, 29th and Summit. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. Luke's Church, M. E. Church, 43rd and Prosper Place. A. M. D. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st and Shrine. Elight St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington, Bethlehem, M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and Stadium. Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro, Heasley Valley Baptist Church, Rose- dale M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland, A. M. Church, 10th and Oakland, Salter Mission A. M. Church, South Park, Kaff. Second Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart, Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby, Wesley Chapel M., 106 Shawnee. Scalai A. M. E. Zion Church, 4000 Adams. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rosedale, Kan. ginha, ginha, Bethel A. M. F. Church, Seoul and Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and Tremont Mc-Zion Primitive Baptist Church Waterton avenue and Tangent street Kossei EDITORIALS At Richmond, Texas, last week, a Colored preacher and one of his reaons were drowned in the Brazos while about to immerse a number of candidates. This is not necessarily an argument in favor of sprinkling. Colored teachers who wish to maintain a standard of efficiency should take advantage of summer schools during the vacation. A low standard of work means a low standard of results, both to teacher and pupil. Kansas City needs a first class civic organization among the Negroes. It should be made up of men who really stand for something and who really desire something besides political office and empty honors. George W. K. Love, grand secretary of the Masonic fraternity, has been reappointed to his old position as recording clerk in the city treasurer's office. The entire Masonic fraternity is proud of this recognition of the worth and ability of their grand secretary, who is one of the most expert accountants, regardless of race, in this city. Those Negroes who are devoting their time in trying to stir up trouble at No. 11 Fire Department, are either animated by sinister motives or are not capable of appreciating the splendid condition that pervades that locality as well as the courteous conduct that should characterize every city employee which is due wholly to the vigorous, firm and praiseworthy quality of Captain John Todd and his able and efficient lieutenant Eugene G. Lacey. Both are Christian gentlemen, Masons of high degree and deserve the respect, encouragement and support of every progressive and respectable Colored citizen in this city. They have the endorsement of such representatives as Doctors J. E. Perry, J. F. Shannon, Mr. F. J. Weaver, Nelson C. Crews, Chas. A. Starks, Dr. M. H. Lambright, Hendry Compton, Robert DeFrantz of the Y. M. C. A., Rev. Ewing of the Vine Street Baptist church, Willis Brown and hundreds of other Negroes who stand for the best in the race. The rough element must not get control of our fire department nor must rowdyism again be allowed to prevail there. CAUGHT AT LAST Oh, look, caught at last. A well known gentleman, who is liked by all who know him, was in New York last August on business and happened to see the Shriners turn out. As they passed his hotel he noticed those grand warriors in line, Geo. W. McKolin, Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, F. J. Brown, J. L. Henderson, S. Groves, J. Patterson, John W. Sykes, S. McNair and many others. He says he could not help from giving that Western warhoop, when he saw those St. Louisaans in line and said the ladies in the autos looked granad. He said it was the grandest sight he ever saw among our people and he made up his mind that he would like to join the Masons as soon as he came home. So he succeeded in getting District Deputy Grand Master J. L. Henderson to say that he would set up a new lodge. Now he is going around telling the boys to come and join him in riding the goat. It will be in the near future, and there will be a hot time in the old town that night, see!—St. Louis Argus. Betty & Sam's Little Corner EVER CORNER THEY SAY —That those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. —That the man who professes religion is a real disciple of "Safety First." —That prices for material for women's clothing are high. Well, they are not using much of it. —That a certain Republican alderman is anxious to segregate the Negroes. Can that be true? —That a political party that will alienate its supporters on the verge of election is a fool and unworthy of support. —That if any of you girls contemplate wearing the new hoop skirt stay away from the corners where the wind blows. —That to get a delicious, refreshing soda or sundae the White-Wood drug store, Nineteenth and Vine streets, has no equal. —That all these bad Negroes around Kansas City who want to fight have now an opportunity to join the army. Will they do it? —That a certain lady ran so fast the other night that she knocked the heel off a new $12 pair of shoes. What was she running for? —That two or three well known men about town early lost their eye sight at the Billiken ball last Monday night. How? Ask the boys. —That while the prospects are good for an unusual number of June brides the lawyers are also smiling at the prospects for divorces later on. —That the following conversation took place between two colored ladies the other day: "Some un sick at yo' house, Mis' Carter?' inquired Lila. "Ah seed the doctah's kyar eroun' dar yistiddy?" "It was for my brother, Lila." "Sho! What's he done ot de matter of 'm?" "Nobody seems to know what the disease is. He can eat and sleep as well as ever; he stays out all day long on the veranda in the sun, and seems as well as anyone; but he can't do any work at all." "Law! Mis' Carter, dain't no disease what you brothah got. Dat's a gif!" Lawd hep! A PLAIN SPEAKING METHODIST BISHOP. Boston, Mass.—Bishop John W. Hamilton of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, has decided to retire from active service when the General Conference of his church meets at Saratoga Springs, ... Y, next month. Bishop Hamilton has always been a strong friend and advocate of the Negro. In an address some years ago in Washington, District of Columbia, at the National Capital, when he was Bishop of San Francisco, he created a sensation by declaring that the typical American of the future would be born of the amalgamation of all the races that now inhabit this continent. Anglo-Saxons of today, he declared, would be the grandparents or great-grandparents of men and women partly Chinese and Japanese and Russian Jew and Southern European and African. His theory was received in absolute silence and many of the audience, suppressing their resentment, abruptly left Metropolitan Church, in which he was speaking. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. Mable D. Wilson, 1106 Highland avenue, wishes to thank her many friends for their floral offerings and the kindness shown her during her recent illness. WEAVER FLORAL CO. All Kinds of Fruit. Cut Flowers and Potted Plants Phone East 4798 Bell. Phone East 80 2Home. We Please the People. 1510 E, 18th St. Kansas City, Mo. Lincoln High School Extension MONTHLY Free Musical Concert Final for the School Year, May 7, 1916 3 P. M. PROGRAM Assisted by Miss Beatrice S. Lee, Mezzo Soprano; Bruce, Violin; Mrs. Emma Payne, Contralto; Male Quartet, Mrs. Alpha Hollmes, Sopran —and— WESTERN UNIVERSITY CHORUS Prof. R. G. Jackson, Conductor F. J. Wo PROGRAM Joy Miss Beatrice S. Lee, Mezzo Soprano; M. Miree, Violin; Mrs. Emma Payne, Contralto; T. Male Quartet, Mrs. Alpha Holmes, Soprano —and— WESTERN UNIVERSITY CHORUS I. Jackson, Conductor F. J. Work Assisted by Miss Beatrice S. Lee, Mezzo Soprano; Mr. Roland Bruce, Violin; Mrs. Emma Payne, Contralto; Tutt's Male Quartet, Mrs. Alpha Holmes, Soprano—and— WESTERN UNIVERSITY CHORUS Prof. R. G. Jackson, Conductor F. J. Work, Director A. Who has had remarkable success in the music department of Lincoln Hih school this year. 1. “William Tell,” overture. Orch. 2. “Steal Away”... W. U. 3. Violin Solo. Mr. 4. Vocal Solo. Miss 5. “Leed Us, O Father”... Tutt’s 6. Vocal Solo. Mrs. L. 7. “Danse Macabro”... Orch. PART 1. “Semiramide Overture”... Orch. 2. “Seems Lak’ to Me”... Mrs. 3. Quartet. Western 4. “Wedding of the Winds” Orch. 5. “Going to Ring Them Heard” W. U. 6. “Star-Spangled Banner” Orchestra a One of Mrs. Prioleau's gymnasium or Fort. William Tell," overture... Orchestra Al Away"... Adapted by N. Claire W. U. Chorus In Solo... Mr. Bruce In Solo... Miss Lee Us, O Father"... Tutt's Quartet. In Solo... Mrs. Holmes. Se Macabro"... Orchestra PART II Cirramide Overture"... Orchestra Ins Lak' to Me"... Mrs. Payne et... Western University adding of the Winds"... Orchestra ring to Ring Them Heavenly Bells"... W. U. Chorus Spangled Banner"... Orchestra and Assembly Prioleau's gymnasium classes at Fort Huachuca, 1. “William Tell,” overture.....Rossini Orchestra 2. “Steal Away”.....Adapted by N. Clark-Smith W. U. Chorus 3. Violin Solo.....Selected Mr. Bruce 4. Vocal Solo.....Selected Miss Lee 5. “Leed Us, O Father”....._____ Tutt’s Quartet. 6. Vocal Solo.....Selected Mrs. Holmes. 7. “Danse Macabro”.....St. Saens Orchestra PART II 1. “Semiramide Overture”.....Rossini Orchestra 2. “Seems Lak’ to Me”.....Johnson Mrs. Payne 3. Quartet.....Selected Western University 4. “Wedding of the Winds”.....Hall Orchestra 5. “Going to Ring Them Heavenly Bells”.....Folk-song W. U. Chorus 6. “Star-Spangled Banner”....._____ Orchestra and Assembly THE MUSIC OF THE MUSICIANS One of Mrs. Prioleau's gymnasium classes at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., composed of the best ladies residing at the Fort. MARVEL AT NEGRO SOLDIERS. from the South, whom they understand and respect thoroughly. Perhaps it is because the Negroes do look to them more forcissive. WILLIAM STRAUGHTER DEAD. He Was a Well Liked Colored Man- Furnished Tomorrow. for Black Troops Than White. The Mexicans marvel at the Negro regiments, of which there are four, or parts of four, in the expedition. The Negroes, by the way, make splendid soldiers. They are, on the whole, more proud of the uniform than the white men, they are more amenable to discipline, less inclined to grumble, and they are fully as brave and enduring as the whites, although they have less individual mentality and initiative. Most of them are Negroes from the Southern states, and most of them are commanded by officers WHITE-WOOD ITE-WOOD DRUG ST WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE THE QUALITY STORE. Nineteenth and Vine Sts. (Transfer Point) Fresh drugs and pure chemicals. Prescriptions are specialty. Our prescription department is one of the complete in the city and is in charge of graduate, exe care-taking and registered pharmacists. Other sun sodas sell at the same price, but don't have that fruity taste. Come where your nickles and dimes have the m PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641 with drugs and pure chemicals. Prescriptions are our prescription department is one of in the city and is in charge of graduate, ex- ing and registered pharmacists. Other sur- d at the same price, but don't have that m e where your nickles and dimes have the m PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641 Fresh drugs and pure chemicals. Prescriptions and sodas a specialty. Our prescription department is one of the most complete in the city and is in charge of graduate, experienced, care-taking and registered pharmacists. Other sundaes and sodas sell at the same price, but don't have that refreshing fruity taste. Come where your nickles and dimes have the most cents. PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. RAM Lee, Mezzo Soprano; Mr. Roland Payne, Contralto; Tutt's pha Holmes, Soprano d— ERSITY CHORUS F. J. Work, Director Rossini estra Adapted by N. Clark-Smith Chorus Selected Bruce Selected Lee Quartet. Selected Volmes. St. Saens estra T II Rossini estra Johnson Payne Selected University Hall estra Fenly Bells' Folk-song Chorus And Assembly Masses at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., compos from the South, whom they understand and respect thoroughly. Perhaps it is because the Negroes do look to them more ferocious and formidable than the white soldiers, or perhaps it is because they have learned the contempt of familiarity for the white Americans, having done as they pleased with American civilians in Mexico for several years, that the Mexicans are much more in awe of the Negroes than of the whites. In their half savage minds, the peons have already concocted a mythology about the Negro, which paints him as a terrible creature, tireless and almost invulnerable, whose favorite food is tender Mexican baby. DRUG STORE micals. Prescriptions and sodas a department is one of the most charge of graduate, experienced, pharmacists. Other sundaes and but don't have that refreshing and dimes have the most cents. AST 2293, BELL E. 641. PROGRAM A bird's eye view of Fort Huachuca down on the border line in Arizona, where the famous Tenth Cavalry is now located. MOTHER AND CHILD MRS. JAMES WEATHERLY Of Douglas, Ariz., and Mary, the eldest daughter of Chplain and Mrs. Prioleau. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. On account of continual rain the services were poorly attended all day last Sunday.... The topic lesson 'in the B. Y. P. U. was well discussed and a fine program was arranged, the attendance was 30.... Next Sunday the B. Y. P. U. choir will begin its processional promptly at 6 o'clock. An excellent program has been prepared and special music will be rendered. The topic: "Jehovah Can Fulfill His A bird's eye view of Fort Huachuca here the famous Tenth Cavalry is now Promise,"...Sunday, May 28, the City Conquest Union has invited the Kansas City, Kas., Union to hold a joint meeting in the auditorium to which everybody is invited...The pastor, Rev. Bacote, delivered two grand sermons last Sunday, both in the morning and evening...We are sorry that more people were not out to hear him...The public is invited to worship with us...The Second Baptist Senior B. Y. P. U. meets every Sunday in the lecture room of the church at 6:30 p. m. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. The following program will be rendered: Paper by H. C. Bross; vocal solo, Mrs. Amy Ward, and vocal solo, Miss Lessie King. ed of the best ladies residing at the WILLIAM STRAUGHTER DEAD. He Was a Well Liked Colored Man— Funeral Tomorrow. William Straughter, 30 years old, colored, died at his home, 210 East Logan street about 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after an illness lasting several weeks. He had been sick about ten days. Tumor of the brain caused his death. The deceased was one of the best known and well liked colored men in Ottawa. He was industrious and he and his family took an active part in colored church affairs. He was born October 25, 1885, at Kansas City, Kas., and was the son of Mrs. Mary Hudson, 1508 East Twenty-third street, Kansas City. On July 6, 1909, he was married to Cora Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, now of Denver. Mrs. Straughter died April 30, 1914. Mr. Straughter is survived by a mother and a foster brother, S. F. Straughter, 1206 The Paseo, Kansas City. He and his wife are here. Straughter lived here seven years and was an active member of the African Methodist Episcopal church. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock at the A. M. E. church with Rev. B. R. Ross, pastor, in charge. The body will be taken to Kansas City for burial. Pallbearers will be D. E. Johnson, George Pendleton, Frank Holbert and Ernest Washington.—Ottawa Herald. The family thanks their many friends for the kindnesses and floral offerings. Y. M. C. A. Mr. R. P. Hamlin, the International Secretary, who visited our Association last week, on leaving, stated that he was highly pleased with the general condition and especially the fine loyalty of the membership. A fine audience of men braved the rain storm of Sunday afternoon to hear his address on "Making Good." Recently a distinguished man (Colored), a friend of Mr. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, made a two-day stop and inspection of our building. On returning home he wrote the following letter to our great benefactor: Dear Mr. Rosenwald: I cannot refrain from writing you this letter with reference to the Y. M. C. A. building in the construction of which you played such an important part in Kansas City. I have just returned from a rather long trip and during my journey I stopped at the Y. M. C. A. building in Kansas City. The building is splendidly constructed and scrupulously clean, orderly and is the civic center for the Colored people of Kansas City. In the two nights which I spent in Kansas City I attended the following meetings: An organization composed of the Colored chauffeurs, comprising a number of young, ambitious men. A meeting of the Local Negro Business League. Classes in Bible Study. A dinner for perhaps 400 persons. A class of boys in the gymnasium. In addition to these there were a number of other meetings of various character which I was unable to attend. I am simply designating these to show the variety of meetings which are held. There are 46 bedrooms; every one of which was taken by a splendid down on the border line in Arizona, w w located. group of young men, a number of whom I met personally; in fact, the building was so oerowled that one of the young men very kindly gave up his room to me. There are more than 600 members, so I was informed. The whole atmosphere and surroundings impressed me so much that I am taking the liberty of writing you this personal letter about it. LA GRANGE, MO. Mrs. Bessie Coleman of Springfield, Ill., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mollie Holder in this city...Miss Carrie Turpin is going to Macon the last of the week for a short stay...Miss Onie Allen, Hannibal, Mo., visited grandparents in this city last week...Our public schools will be out Friday.... John Emerson is growing weaker.... Frank Turpin was called to Galesburg last week to the bedside of his son, who is ill, and to attend the funeral of his grandchild...Club No. 4 will give a supper tonight. Lee Hickman, captain, is putting forth every effort to raise a sum of money for the church rally which will be the first Sunday in June..Mr. Charlie Holder went to Galesburg Monday morning to work ... Rev. E. D. Green will take charge of the Green chapel church and will be with us every Sunday... Mr. Oscar Bailey of* Canton visited his relatives in this city last week...Ed Bailey has been quite sick for some time... Joseph Wilson and Mrs. Myrtle Phoenix visited their friends in Quincy over Sunday. THE WEEKLY NEWS REV. SISTER PEARL, D. D. The following are some forceful and helpful scripture lessons which I would be pleased to have my many friends read while thinking of me: Psalms 37: 1-2-9-17-24-37.—Rev. Sister Pearl. Did you give her a lift? She is a sister of man and bearing about all the burden she can. Did you give her a smile? She was downcast and blue, and a smile would have helped her to battle it through. Did you give her a hand? She was slipping down hill and the world so fancied was using her ill. Did you give her a word? Did you show her the road? Or did you just let her go on with her load? Do you know what it means to be losing the fight, when a lift in time might set everything right? Do you know what it means just a clasp of a hand, when a woman's borne about all a woman ought to stand? Do you ask what it was, why the quivering lips, why the half suppressed sob and the scalding tears drip, were you sister of her when the time came of need? Do you offer to help her or didn't you heed? A. F. and A. M. Missouri Jurisdiction Officers—1915-16. N. C. Crews, Kansas City, Grand Master. Deputy Grand Master, Richard Young, Lincoln, Neb. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Mo., Grand Senior Warden. Crittenden C. Clark, St. Louis, Grand Junior Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Grand Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. W. W. Fields, Secretary of Masonic Relief, Cameron, Mo. P. L. Pratt, Kansas City, Mo., Grand Lecturer. Royal Arch Masons: Grand High Priest—Geo. Bloomfield, St. Louis. Deputy Grand High Priest—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand King—A. L. Thomas, Jefferson City. Grand Scribe—J. P. Moffett, Sedalia. Grand Treasurer—Chas. Griggsby, Liberty. Grand Secretary—E. S. Baker, Kansas City. Grand Lecturer—W. H. McAdams, Springfield. Grand Champion—Rev. R. Barber. Knights Templar: Grand Inspector—T. G. McCampbell, Kansas City. Grand Captain General—James W. Beard, St. Louis. Grand Senior Warden—Geo. A. Johnson, Kansas City. Grand Generalissimo—Joseph H. Cherwood, St. Paul, Minn. Grand Junior Warden—B. F. Gray, St. Joseph. Grand Prelate—Henry Roan, St. Louis. Grand Recorder—James T. Cannon, St. Louis. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. W. G. Mosely, Chairman. E. S. Baker, Secretary. R. W. Foster, Treasurer. W. C. Mallory, Sandy Meyers, Wm. Washington, L. P. Porteet, T. W. H. Williams, R. T. Coles, J. E. Herriford, E. G. Lace, Geo. Johnson, Robt. Wiley. R. Y. Adkins. Lodge Directory G WESTMINSTER Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M., meet every 2nd and 4th Monday in each month. All Master Massons in good standing welcome. C. Thompson, W. M. M. J. H. SPIENER, Secretary G WESTERN MASONRY Rone Lodge No. 25. A. F. and Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing Welcome. McCarthy in good standing. W. McCarthy. Seymour. Mc. McCarthy. Seymour. G MASONRY Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53. A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Fathers in every month. Visiting Master Masons in your come. Sandy Myers, W. M., Frank Lowe, Secretary, 1512 Baltimore Ave. Lebanon Lodge No. 126. A. F. and A. M. Lincoln, New meet the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in month. All Master Masons in good standing are welcome. John C. Gulbreath, W. M.; Willie W. Mosely, Secy. 1335 Rose St. Liberty Lodge No. 87. A. F. and A. M. Liberty, Mo. meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. V. T. Starke, S. W., Acting Master; Nelson Wallar, Secy. Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F. and A. M. Liberty, M. mo. meets the night in and each 6th Saturday nights in each month. V. T. Starks, S. S. Acting Master Nelson Wallar, Secy. I. O. I. Queen Ester Court No. 43. Hale from the O. I. mo. meets the month in and each day in months at 2:30 p. m. 10th and Campbell Sts., Kansas City. Mo. Mrs. Bettie Davis, M. Q. Rosa L. Jones, Chron. 1406 North 3d St., Kansas City, Kas. ```markdown ``` King of the West Lodge meets first and third Monday morning, noon 563 Grand Avenue, C. 10178 Euclid Ave, Secr 1718 Euclid Ave, Secretary Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Re- Wm. Alpine of Fort Worth, Texas, preaching. Class Domestic Training School for Girls. Hours 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Employment for members only. Bell phone East 3259Y. 1323 Jackson Ave. Kansas City, Mo. OLD HATS MADE NEW CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIR SHOP. HARRY J. BROWN, Prop. Work Called for and Delivered to any Part of the City. First Class Work. Ladies' Work a Specialty. Bell Phone Grand 3013J 1808 FOREST AVE. Factory to Fireside Before you place your order for furniture you should see us. We know that we can save you money. Terms. Home Main 1484. Bell Grand 484. DR. A. D. BRADBURY Physician and Surgeon. Office, 821 Indep. Ave., Bell Phone Main 4438. Residence, 531 Tracy Ave. Office Hours, 08:00 - 17:00 HE GUIDES the NATION'S EWTON D. BAKER," I had been told by a man well acquainted with him, "is the kind of thoroughly good citizen we all approve of highly—and fail to imitate! He has lofty ideals. He has high principles. He is utterly sincere. He is simple and unaffected both in thought and life. He has a clear, well-disciplined mind. He has an extraordinary command of concise and effective speech. Without being in the least effusive, he is a good NEWTON D. BAKER," I had been told by a man well acquainted with him, "is the kind of thoroughly good citizen we all approve of highly—and fail to imitate! He has lofty ideals. He has high principles. He is utterly sincere. He is simple and unaffected both in thought and life. He has a clear, well-disciplined mind. He has an extraordinary command of concise and effective speech. Without being in the least effusive, he is a good mixer. You will find him full of charm. Out in Cleveland he lived in a modest frame house with his wife and three children, smoked flake tobacco in a 25-cent pipe, drove his own Ford, and for amusement read Greek and Latin books on the street cars." Thus runs an article by Rowland Thomas in the New York World. "It is interesting to notice," my informant added, "that he is the second of Tom Johnson's disciples to be lifted into prominence by President Wilson Brand Whitlock is the other. It is hardly exaggeration to say that Brand Whitlock, in Belgium, has proved himself a great man. Will Baker be as successful in the war department? Frankly, much as I like him personally, I am wondering whether he will measure up to the job. What he has done he has done well. But—he has never been tested out in really big affairs. Has he the capacity for them? You know a .38-caliber revolver may be a perfect weapon—as a revolver—but fall lamentably if pressed into service as a seacoast gun! Is Newton D. Baker big enough to be secretary of war at a time like this? That's what I'm asking myself. That's what the country is asking itself, I think." Naturally those remarks run through my head as I talked with the new secretary of war last week. I saw him twice, once in his modest bedroom at the university club, where he is living for the present as a bachelor "because the children are in school in Cleveland and we don't want to break into their year." The second time he was in his office in the war department, the office to which one penetrates that dread ante-chamber where hang the portraits of all the previous incumbents of the office. On both occasions I got the same impression of the physical man. Nature, in molding his body, did a neat job. He is a markedly small man, but in proportion all the way through. His littleness carries no suggestion of the dwarfish. His head is large, but not enough so to make him look top-heavy. His hands and feet are of moderate size, well formed and muscular. He has a chest big enough to breathe in, a waist which carries no adipose luggage. His skin is swarthy, his hair black and straight. A pair of hazel eyes full of life, but comprehensive rather than keen; the wide mouth of an orator or actor, mobile yet firm of tip; the brow of a scholar; a face in general in which the perpendicular lines of strength are accentuated, a manner at once dignified and friendly, a bearing which I should call attentive rather than alert—these are the characteristics of the outward man. His mentality is not so easily characterized. I shall have to try to bring it out for you in a serif of rather detached glimpses, as he himself revealed it to me in the course of our conversation. Our talk ranged over many topics. He had, for instance, been speaking of the extraordinary amount of reading of standard English authors he had done before he was twenty years old, and I asked him whether the familiarity of his mother tongue thus acquired had not been an important element in his various successes. He said: "I think that is true. Ability to express myself effectively in speech has been of great value to me." This led to a brief sketch of his personal history. Mr. Baker was born in 1871 in Martinsburg, W. Va., a community of 5,000 persons, wherein his father was the leading physician. He was the second of four sons. At the age of twenty, in 1891, he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins university, having completed the four years course in three years. Followed a year of graduate work in Roman law, comparative jurisprudence and economics, and then his law course, which he took at Washington and Lee university, completing the two years' work in one year. "That compression," he told me, "was done for family reasons. Money was not plentiful in a country doctor's family, and there were other sons to educate." After his graduation in 1893 Mr. Baker hung out his shingle in Martinsburg to indicate that he was "willing to practice law," as he puts it, and remained in that receptive condition until 1896, the last year of the Cleveland administration, when Postmaster General Wilson called him to Washington to be his private secretary. "I divided my two cases between the other members of the local bar," he told me, "and went." In 1899 Mr. Baker was invited to come to Cleveland, O., as a partner with Foran & McTigue, one of the city's leading firms of trial lawyers. He went there, met Tom Johnson and was magnetized; by that association was drawn into local politics and had fourteen years of active campaigning there, serving four terms as city solicitor under Mayor Johnson and two terms as mayor after his chief was deposed. He declined to run for a third term, and had just resumed his law practice at the beginning of this year when he was called to Washington. Returning to our topic, I asked him to what other qualities besides his ability as a speaker he felt indebted for what he had accomplished. He pondered that and said: MAKES WORK FOR LAUNDRIES. It would naturally be expected that the owners of laundries would oppose any device that would tend to make washing of clothes at home easier. On the other hand, it has developed that the laundry owners are in favor of the electric iron and credit a good deal of increased business to this appliance. In numbers of cases the housekeepers are ridding themselves of a weekly bugbear by sending their work to the laundries to be returned "rough dry," finishing it at their leisure. In this way the laundries get considerable work which otherwise would never come to them. Secretary Baker "Looking at myself impersonally, I am inclined to think I have a very patient mind. I mean by that a mind which moves slowly, which plods forward instead of dashing or leaping. There is nothing brilliant about it. A brilliant mind, it strikes me, is like a thoroughbred horse, for a race but afterward needing to be stabled for a day or two. My mind is like a plow horse. It cannot spurt, but it can go on turning furrow after furrow. That lets me get through a lot of work. "By a patient mind," he went on. "I also mean a mind which does not leap to attitudes and decisions, but feels its way. And a mind which does not get its back up easily. Opposition does not make my mind bristle. A difference of opinion is not a personal thing with me. "And I think," he said, his dark eyes twinkling and his wide lips quirking with fun. "it has been a very decided advantage to me to be so little and to look so young. I really mean that." he hastened to add and cited two instances in illustration. One was his argument before the Supreme court of the United States in the Cleveland traction cases, an argument which attracted the flattering favorable comment of the learned justices. The other was a speech which was one of the outstanding features of the Baltimore convention which nominated President Wilson. "Neither of those," he commented, "could by any stretching of words be called a great speech. The natural fairmindedness of men was what pulled me through in both cases. I looked so handicapped that my hearers said instinctively, 'Give the boy a chance!'" Such cool, almost academic self-analysis led me to ask him how life struck him, to speak—what ambitions it stirred in him. "I'd like to practice law," he said. "That is my one ambition. There is no office or position that I care for. But I'd like to practice and practice law." Further talk along that line developed the rather interesting fact that the new secretary of war is one of those men who seem to have been moved forward by the urgings and propulsion of their friends instead of fighting forward of their own accord in response to an inner impulse. Postmaster General Wilson all but dragged him from his briefnessness in Martinsburg to get his first taste of cabinet laws and duties and responsibilities. Martin Foran dragged him to Cleveland to become a trial lawyer. Tom Johnson dragged him into politics. And Woodrow Wilson has just dragged him to the war department. The circumstances of the Foran case are unusual enough to partake of the romantic. In 1897, when the young and still younger looking attorney was returning from his first visit to Europe, he was table mate of the late W. T. Stead and a mild-mannered, retiring English barrister. One day Baker came on deck to find the barrister in a peck of trouble. A stalwart, lawyerish, six-foot Irishman, full of Gaelic fire, had waylaid him and was charging him, in his own person, with all the wrongs England had ever perpetrated on the distressful country. "I happened to be rather familiar with the Irish land laws," so Mr. Baker tells it, "and contrived to substitute myself for the barrister in the argument. The upshot of it was that my opponent and I became good friends and spent the rest of the voyage playing ches together. We parted in New York. I went back to Martinsburg, and no word passed between us for two years. Then the man—Martin Foran—wrote me the firm's business had so increased that another partner was required and that he wanted me. I had long felt I should be in a larger community than Martinsburg, and I liked Cleveland, but I knew they wanted a trial lawyer, which I was not. So I went on full of excuses, prepared to thank him and be dismissed in friendiness. Before I could get my first excuse out Mr. Foran had ushered me into an office and said, 'Here yours,' and before I caught my breath he had sent some clients in for me to talk with. I stayed in Cleveland and learned to be a trial lawyer." His enlistment as an active fighter in the Johnson camp was equally casual. "Tom" was sick one night, and the young lawyer was pressed into service to fill his place at a rally. "Tom's sick," said the man who introduced him. "This is Newton D. Baker, who's going to speak in his place. COATING STRUCTURAL STEEL. A new process of coating structural steel or any other exposed metal with zinc is being introduced to those who are interested in such matters, and it is attracting considerable attention because of the ease and thoroughness with which the operation is performed, even after the metal has been put in place. Powdered zinc, compressed air and heat are the three elements which are used in the process, and the zinc is driven through a gas burner by the air, where it is instantly reduced to a liquid state, and as it strikes any surface capable of sustaining the force it adheres and cools at once. He's a lawyer. That's all I know about him. Go ahead, boy, and tell them what you know." Baker told them, and so began the activities which led to four terms as solicitor and legal leader of the antitraction combine forces and two terms as mayor. I asked Mr. Baker how the mayor of Cleveland's job compared with that of the secretary of war. "I love personal relationships. One of the pleasantest things about being mayor of a city the size of Cleveland is the great number of people with whom it puts one into touch. At the war department I find a large part of my duties is taken up with seeing people. I am very glad that is so. I like to see people constantly. Of course," he explained, "I don't mean that flocks of casual visitors drop in to see me here. But the business of the department brings many people to me daily." I had meant to ask him how the two positions compared in size and difficulty. He was noncommittal on that point, and I suggested that at least he did not seem appalled by the size of his new task, even though the Mexican situation had given him a baptism of fire for a greeting. He said: "I am not appalled. No man can hope to escape mistakes. Mistakes are inevitable. I know I shall make some. But the only things one need be really afraid of are insincerities and indirectness. Also, it is well to remember that unfamiliar tasks have a way of looking mountainous. Familiarity reduces their proportions. At present I am working here from half past eight in the morning till midnight to become familiar with mine. That slow mind of mine," he said smilingly, "compels me to put in those long hours." "What is your idea of the functions of the secretary of war?" "The duties," he said, "are largely legal. Almost all the secretaries have been lawyers. (He cited the names of many, from Stanton down to his predecessor, Garrison.) Strictly military affairs are not my province. Experts must care for those things. Legal questions—touching the conflicting rights of state and federal governments, the navigability of streams, the proceedings of courts martial—such things comprise the problems I have to settle. I am an executive. Congress has made laws governing my department. It is my duty to see that they are carried out conscientiously." About "preparedness" he felt obliged to decline to say a word, and I reminded him of an interview in which he was recently quoted as saying that he was "for peace at almost any price." "So I am," he answered stoutly, "because peace seems to me the reasonable thing. I do not say that war is always avoidable. It seems to come sometimes as earthquakes come—a natural cataclysm. The French revolution, I think, was such a war. But war is always regrettable. Peace is what spells progress. We have to advance step by step. I do not think we can hope to force advancement by violence. And I believe that sometimes we shall have a court of nations, and no more wars. Was it Lowell said: "The telegraph gave the world a nervous system?" As our world gets better co-ordinated by intercommunication, we shall cause fewer of the misunderstandings which cause wars." Constantly, as we talked, alike in his domicile and in his office, the new secretary's unpretentious pipe was in his mouth. Constantly his knees crooked and his feet curled up to comfortable positions on radiator top and desk top. Though there was always dignity about him, we might have been two undergraduates chatting together. His attitude was not suggestive of lounging or of affected carelessness. It was, I thought, the bodily ease which is apt to reflect outwardly the mental states of self-unconsciousness and serene self-confidence. As city solicitor of Cleveland, in the traction matters, he fought the mobilized legal big guns of Ohio to a standstill. As mayor he forced the people to retain him until he had done what he set out to do. To be secretary of war just now, to be lifted at one step from local into national prominence at a critical moment like the present, is a far more searching test of his capacities than any he has yet undergone. Lots of men go up in the air with the aid of airships. Death has evidently traded his pale horse for an aeroplane. The man with a boil on the back of his neck derives no pleasure from scanning the heavens for aircraft. The Overbearing Lawyer—Ignorance of the law excuses no one! The Culprit—I'll be sorry for you, then, if you ever get in trouble.—Browning's Magazine. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS For 15 years O T. Jackson was the only Negro farmer near Boulder, Colo. He was industrious and was well liked by his white neighbors, but in the planting and harvest times when there was a dearth of farmhands they could generally outbid him in the labor market, leaving him without assistance at the crucial times. He found it impossible to keep colored farm hands for any length of time because, with no other members of their race near at hand, they found it a lonely life. In 1906 Jackson began to think about the situation and decided that what was needed was a community of colored people which would be large enough to be self-sufficient. Having come to a decision he started to work out his plans. Since then there has grown up on former government land in Weld county, Colo., a settlement of 250 Negro men and women fairly started toward independence. The name of the settlement is Dearfield, and the force behind it is the Dearfield Developing company, organized on a cooperative basis and preaching self-help. The story of the struggles which the founder and the small group of pioneers which he gathered around him had, and of the momentum which the movement gained as it became successful, is told by W. J. Harsha in an interview with Jackson in the Southern Workman. Efforts were first made to obtain suitable land from the state land office, but none was found available. Then attention was directed to the federal authorities and locations were offered in three different counties in Colorado. Jackson and the two or three men whom he had associated with him finally selected the Weld county site because of its fertility, availability of water, and good railroad connections with the large markets of Denver only 70 miles away. The Jackson family was the first to settle, in May, 1910, and a home was established a year later. Of the first settlers Mr. Jackson says: "I met most of the first cettlers in a casual way—in restaurants and barber shops and on street corners. I was invited to speak at our Denver church on the importance to our people of getting land before it is too late; after the meeting people crowded around me asking for particulars. After several men had filed they sent their friends to me. Woman claimants—wildows, spinsters, deserted wives—were particularly active. We publish a little paper and mention in it all filings made, and this attracted attention. I am now receiving lots of mail and many callers asking for homes. "The Dearfield settlers were as poor as people could be when they took up homesteads. Their advancement has been something wonderful for our people, who know nothing of pioneer life. Some who filed on their claims had not enough money to ship their household goods and pay all their railroad fare. They paid their fare as far as they could and walked the balance of the way to Dearfield. Soon after arriving in Dearfield they secured work with the wealthy white farmers in the district and began to build houses on their claims. Some lived in tents, others in dugouts, and some in natural caves in hillsides. "The first year there were only seven families in the settlement, and we had only three teams. We managed to get in some garden corn, melons, pumpkins, squash, Mexican A big piece of work done at Daytona by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was the clearing up of the turpentine districts. Such places have an evil reputation in the South. A man will buy a large tract of pine forest for the purpose of getting the turpentine. He puts up a few shanties and a distillery and gathers together the riff-raff that he can find on the streets and sets them to work at small pay and large promise of rum. Women are sent out as cooks, and the place is soon unavailorily spoken of as a "turpentine camp." "We are changing conditions down there," Mrs. Bethune declared. "Once a week two or three workers or students of the school are sent to the various camps to speak to the women and children. The people are shown the right method of living, the dignity of the home, and the error of their ways. The children get three months of schooling every year. The men get higher wages and have learned how to spend and save judiciously. We have established a temperance sentiment in everything, and have driven out strong drink. We carried the polls when Day- A new method of using coal in competition with oil fuel has been tried at Vancouver, British Columbia. Those conducting the experiments say that crushed coal can be supplied to steam-producing furnaces by the same method in use for oil. It is proposed to use the new process for smelting in the big mining plants. Japan is planning to adopt an alphabet of 47 letters, including most of the Roman characters, some Russian and the rest original symbols. A separate book should be kept for household hints. These, too, should be placed in alphabetical order. If the housewife pursues this policy she will find her scrap book a great aid and comfort, for she can turn to it whenever necessary with the assurance that the desired knowledge will always be there. Pretty Package. A pot of jam sent to a sick friend was doubly acceptable because of its beans and potatoes. We cleared a few acres for hay ground, removing the sagebrush by band, the women and children wielding grubbers as industriously as the men, though not as sturdily, perhaps, and after grubbing we plowed, harrowed and burned the remaining brush." Suffering in the little community was intense during the first winter. There were only two frame houses. Firewood had to be carried from three to seven miles. Three of the horses died from starvation, and the other three were too weak to pull even an empty wagon. Mr. Jackson continued. Yet the little group managed to keep up their own and each other's courage, and after the first winter was weathered, further problems and hardships were more easily met and overcome. Now, in addition to having settled all the available claims, a small Negro town is growing up at Dearfield, where professional men, tradespeople, artists and manufacturers on a small scale serve the needs of the farming community. From the inception of the settlement Jackson and his colleagues tried to advertise their movement for a Negro farming community in such a way that white people would not hear about it and come in and take up the land where it was hoped that colored farmers would settle. These efforts were only successful in a measure, and many of the best locations were taken up by white settlers. At the same time Mr. Jackson speaks with considerable satisfaction of the type of white man who came into the community, and of the fact that most of them have shown a willingness to sell out their holdings at reasonable valuations to prospective Negro settlers. Owing to the laws governing the taking up of homesteads it was not possible for the settlers to gather together and clear one common plot for cultivation. Instead, the method of co-operative help used was for a group to collect on the homestead of one settler after another and clear away enough land on each claim to start the prospective owner. In this way each colonist soon had under cultivation the amount of land required by the government for proving up his title to the homestead. After the first few years, during which it was absolutely necessary to devote all the tillable land available to the cultivation of the commonest staples and forage for the stock, the farmers gradually began to add various kinds of vegetables and fruits, including the inevitable watermelon, not only for home consumption, but also as a surplus, was raised, for sale in the markets of Denver. Then attention was turned to improving the yield of the crops, particularly hay, until now the colony has passed from the stage of bare self-sufficiency to increasing prosperity. The scarcity and high price of coal in Spain has become a problem as well as a menace to all man-facturing industries in that country. With lessened importations of British coal and soaring prices for freight more attention is being paid to domestic coal, of which there are large undeveloped deposits. According to returns, 1,595,028 tons of coal were imported into Spain and 167,795 tons of coke during the first 11 months of 1915, in contrast to 2,313,630 tons of coal and 328,107 tons of coke in 1914, a decrease of 718,602 tons of coal and 160,312 tons of coke. tona had to vote on the drink question. Three hundred and fifty of our children marched through the streets singing songs of prayer and faith. I was waiting at the poll and as the men passed me I begged them in the names of their families and the citizenship with which they could do so much, to vote dry—and they did. "I consider the Daytona school a civilizer. I do not know of a better name to give it. The spirit of efficiency is instilled into the minds of the people. I want to bring about a dignity of labor and service. The work has grown a good deal since I first began. We have added truck gardening, poultry raising, dairying, and chair caning to the curriculum. Our girls go out and become efficient workers, among whom are numbered dressmakers, laudresses, teachers, and students in higher schools. A great deal of stress is laid on moral and religious training. I believe that that is the only foundation." The United States public health service maintains a loan library of stereopticon slides. A Californian has patented a document envelope with an inner lining of asbestos covered with carbon paper to receive and retain copies of inscriptions written on an outer paper covering should the latter be destroyed by fire. The government is encouraging experiments in France with a device to protect against hall, essentially a large lightning rod of pure copper, which is said to so affect atmospheric electricity that hallstones cannot form. dainty wrappings. It was inclosed in dark green crepe paper tied with red and green silk threads. Round the neck of the jar the paper stood up in a high frill, and rising above the frill were several leaflike bits of crimson paper, giving the effect of a bright flower among foliage. Daily Thought. Christmas time 1 have always thought of as a good time; a kind, forging, charitable, pleasant time.—Charles Dickens. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERB, Acting Director of Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago). (Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR MAY 7 THE MISSIONARIES OF ANTIOCH. LESSON TEXT-Acts 11:19-30; 12:25; 13:3 LESSON TEXT—Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all nations.—Matthew 28:19. An interesting introduction to this lesson would be to review the outstanding features of the life of Barnabas up to this time. His attractive character, introduction, and associations with Paul are full of rich and suggestive lessons. Following Peter's deliverance of last Sunday's lesson we read of the end of the vile Herod (12:20-25). The origin of this Antioch church was perhaps in A. D. 40, following the dispersion after the death of Stephen (11:19-26). These converts gave proof of their new love by ministering to the brethren in Jerusalem (11:27-30). It was perhaps four or five years subsequently when the events of this lesson occurred. I. A Great Church (11:19-30). (I) Their testimony. This new sect, "Christians" (v. 26) made a deep impression upon this great city though as yet its testimony was to the Jews only (v. 19). The first evangelists to this city from the home of Judeaism at the outset, however, spoke to Gentile Greeks. (a) They "spake the word" (v. 19), as travelers and fugitives they carried the message wherever they journeyed. (b) "They preached Jesus," the only message that will reach and entire city. (c) They did it in a conversational way (v. 20 R. V.). (D) the workers (3:1). It is an amazing array of names mentioned as one of the results of this Antioch revival. Step by step God has widened the sphere of activities of those who accepted the gospel, and with every step the stamp of divine approval was seen. (11:21). Those who "turned unto the Lord" not only believed but gave evidence of repentance and under the leadership of Barnabas, who had brought Saul with him from Tarsus (v. 25), large numbers were assembled and taught (v. 26). This ministry of teaching is a commendable type of evangelism and while the term "Christian" is applied to these followers of Jesus (not of Barnabas and Saul), it was doubtless first applied in derision, and it has become the accepted and glorious title (often abused or confused with Christendom) of those who follow our Lord. II. A Great Commission (13:1:3). The separation which took place after Barnabas and Saul had resided in the city for a year's time, (11:26), and while they were meeting with such outward success reminds us of the way the spirit separates Philip from his work in Samaria (8:6, 26, 27). The Holy Spirit knew what was best for these followers of Jesus as the results demonstrated. Among the great leaders the Spirit separated two for this particular task, and the quietness with which it was done as suggested by the text, is in marked contrast with most of our modern plans for "advanced steps." No "dollar dinner" or committee luncheons and meetings. This duty was presented: (1) While in the discharge of their regular duties, "as they ministered" (v. 2). Just the form of this ministry is not accurately stated, but it included fasting and prayer (v. 3): and it "was to the Lord." There are plenty today who can do "church work," but far too few who can minister to the Lord (not to people) and who can by fasting and prayer know what the mind of the Spirit is relative to any advance steps needful in the church. (2) Under the Spirit's direction. Just how the Spirit spoke to this people we do not know nor much care, but his message was unmistakable, whether audible or in the deep recesses of their hearts. (3) It came while they prayed. An overly-filled stomach is apt to divert a Spirit-filled mind. But an attitude of prayer is the only one which can render us susceptible to the Spirit's voice. He is ever ready to speak and if we supply the open heart and the ready mind there will be no vague, uncertain impulse such as men often call "the Spirit's voice"; rather a definite task, (4) It brought a united blessing. The whole body of believers had a part in the fruits of this journey. III. A Glorious Conquest (v. 4.12). (1) The journey (v. 4). It was but natural for the leader of this expedition to direct his steps first to his home (4:36). If our testimony will not receive a hearing at home it is not of any great value. (2) The work (v. 5). They followed the same plan as before, entered the synagogues where teaching and discussion was the order of service and, to the Jews, gave the "word of God" (Matt. 5.17). Are we able to thus teach the word, how Jesus "fulfilled" and what the result is in that he did fulfill "all righteousness" (3) The resistance (v. 6-8). Bar-Jesus, or "Elymas the sorcerer," must not be confused with our modern necromancers or sleight-of-hand artists. He was a leading scientist of his time and his position in the Roman deputy's household is significant. He readily saw that for the deputy to hear the gospel would destroy his power and influence (v. 8). Paul, now first so-called (v. 9), knew the blight of blindness, physical and spiritual, and caused this man, temporarily (v. 11) to be smitten even as he had been (9:8, 17, 18). The deputy had desired to "hear" (v. 7) the Word. Now he "saw" (v. 2) a manifestation of the power of the Spirit and as a result he "believed" (v. 12). Thus the punishment meted out upon Elymas worked out for good to the deputy (Rom. 8:28). Whoever shall review his life will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment—Johnson. The spacious and imposing residence of Chaplain Prioleau at Fort Hua-chuca, Ariz. HELENA, MONT By Mrs. Mattie McGinnis. Sunday was quarterly meeting and Rev. Roseman of Great Falls held the meeting for Rev. C. N. Douglass, the presiding e'der, who left for the general conference in Philadelphia.... The Tuskegee quartet are in the city and are singing at all the leading white churches, also a concert at the A. M. E. church, the capitol building and auditorium....Rev. and Mrs. I. C. Wilson, Mrs. George Lee, Mrs. Lucas, Lena Dorsey and Mrs. C. C. Mathias attended the S. S. district conference in Butte last week. Word comes from Mrs. M. E. Green that she has arrived in Honolulu and is having a delightful time....Mrs. Ella Simmons, who underwent an operation, is doing nicely ...Mr. John Gaines is quite sick....Mrs. Ella White is ill....Mrs. Johnson, who recently came from Oklahoma, is ill at the residence of Mrs. Powers on State and Ewing streets....Tom Ashby, an old pioneer of Montana, died at the county hospital....We are glad to have Miss Fannie Fitzgerald, the elocutionist, back with us after four years' absence in the East. She recited Easter Sunday....The colored Giants ball team gave a swell 20th century cabaret dance Wednesday evening. A large crowd attended....May 7 the Giants play at Butte, Mont...James Dorsey of Livingston is expected in the city soon on a visit. The spacious and imposing residence of chuca, Ariz. MOBERLY, MISSOURI. Owing to the rain a very small crowd was in attendance at all the churches last Sunday....The Chariton County Church Union which convenes at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, closed a very successful session Sunday night. Maany interesting papers were read and the day's collection was $28.47....Rev. Pettigrew, pastor of A. M. E. church, Glasgow, Mo., held quarterly services in the absence of Rev. P. C. Crews, P. E....Rev. L. C. Curtis filled the pulpit Sunday at Second Baptist Church....The banquet given by Queen Esther Temple was largely attended. Mrs. Rachael McClure won the beautiful art square....Miss Ruth White has returned from Kansas City....Rev. L. C. Curtis was presented with a handsome Bible by the members of his church....Rev. Downey will take charge of Second Baptist Church, Sunday....Dr. and Mrs. Gatlin of Carrollton, Mo., were the guests of Rev, and Mrs. W. H. Davis, Easter....Mrs. G. Woods of Brunswick, Mo. spent a few days in our city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. 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Harris, Mod. Mt. Zion Baptist Association, Carrollton, Mo." for the day at Grant Chapel he $39 Rev. G. W. Reeves held his first quarterly meeting Sunday at Gilliam Chapel el M. E. Church...Mrs. Celle Carter of Rock Island, Ill., is in the city the guest of her parents...Rev. J. Robinson spent a few days in our city last week and preached at Pilgrim Rest Baptist church Tuesday night. OUR GREAT ASSEMBLIES We know some things to our credit or advantage, some things we wish we didn't know. Again there are many things we would like to know that we don't know. But we do know that our great assemblies, religious and secular, held in the cosmopolitan cities of the country, have been too often overlooked by the masses of our people. And with the race-old tendency to generalize from exceptional instances, many estimable people of the opposite race have comfortably convinced themselves that the Negro has no reason for trying his strength in respect to self-government, assertiveness and progress. To these our great assemblies are revelations. By a happy accident the meeting of a state or national convention of any organization confers a benefit not only upon the members that attend, but also upon the community that acts as host. Like mercy, it seems that hospitality "bleddeth him that ce of Chaplain Prioleau at Fort Hua- gives and him that takes." In the provision which it makes for strangers, Kansas City, Mo., is unsurpassed by any city of its size in the country, and the meeting of the National Negro Business League in that city will be the greatest concrete advertisement of Negro progress that has ever been conceived. 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The public doesn't believe a word of that stuff you write about the talents of your star." "Don't worry about my salary. She believes it." TROY, KANSAS. By Mrs. Nelle E. Howard. Albert Walker of Elwood, Kas., was transacting business in Troy Thursday....The men's rally at the A. M. E. church Sunday was quite a success financially as well as spiritually despite the inclemency of the weather. The pulpit was filled in the afternoon by E. D. Holland, and while he has been a good class leader to ra number of years, we have never before heard such good words of encouragement as he gave to us on that day. He is a preacher indeed. All the other men did well their part and showed the ladies that their choir could compete with the ladies' choir. We are sorry more could not have been present. God bless the men....Mrs. Maggie Armstrong of Wathena transacted business in Troy Monday....Mrs. Kathalea Snoddy and daughter, Sallie Mae, visited in St. Joseph from Saturday until Monday evening, the guest of Mrs. James Saunders....Mr. Bert Snoddy spent a few days in Atchison visiting relatives....M. A. Stillman and family of White Cloud passed thru there Friday evening en route to Wathena with the body of Mrs. A. Stillman, who passed away Wednesday after a long illness. She was the mother of Mrs. Ira Wilkinson of this city and she has our deepest sympathy in these hours of bereavement....Mrs. Adda Wakefield, Mrs. Oshea Butcher and Miss Rosa Snoddy and Rev. Wm. Hancock attended the funeral of Mrs. A. Stillman in Wathena Saturday....Mrs. M. W. Webster and children of St. Joseph visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schimac, from Saturday until Monday and attended the men's rally....There are several cases of measles yet among the school children, and Miss Verna Lightle is quite indisposed with pneumonia in connection with the measles....Mr Ed Pennel visited in Kansas City Sunday and Monday....George Lighte was a St. Joseph shopper Monday evening....Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin attended the "Thought Night" reception in St. Joseph last Thursday night....The Ladies' Aldet met at the home of Mrs. Dora Lee last Thursday night and the Mite Missionary met at the home of Mrs. Francis Pennel TESTIMONIAL "With the use of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations my hair has grown four inches in six months. I would not be without them." Mrs. Henderson, 1721 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo Madam P. M. 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Fruit and flowers were sent to the sick of the town as an Easter greeting from the club. The next meeting was May 5 at the residence of Mrs. Arthur Carter....Avondale club met the evening of April 26 with Miss A. H. Pollard....P. C. Turner of Harrisonville, Mo. spent the week-end with his parents last week....Joseph B. Brown, Jr., of St. Louis is visiting his mother, Mrs. Brown, Edison Jackson departed this life April 26 at the age of 27 years. The funeral was held from the St. Paul A. M. E. church April 28, the Rev. Sage officiating....Miss Anna Laurie Hlecox of California, Mo. is the guest of her grandmother, Mrs. Anne Yarnell....Mrs. Malinda Noland is quite ill at her home on East Pacific street, suffering from a broken wrist and several ribs, caused from a fall....Young school will hold its annual bazar in connection with patrons' day May 12 Both teacher and pupils have worked earnestly to make the exhibit a success....The members of the Phyllis Wheaty Art club surprised Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Worten last Monday evening. Many useful and valuable pres ents were received....About 14 members were present. Mr. and Mrs. Worten were recently married. Mrs. Worten was Mrs. Minnie Wilson. 1920 EX-SERGEANT JAS. WEATHERLY. Retired after thirty years of honorable service in the Ninth Cavalry and now living contentedly at Douglas, Ariz. A Mason of high degree and a member of Joppa Military lodge. HUSBAND WANTED. A widow lady wants a middle aged gentleman. Was married twenty years, husband has been dead two years. Write or call Kansas City Sun. LINCOLN, NEB By W. W. Mosely. Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall entertained friends at their home last Monday evening in honor of their fifth anniversary of marriage. A goodly number of the friends attended bringing them a number of presents.... The men's rally at the A. M. E. church next Sunday will be conducted by the men....Mrs. Laura Johnson returned home Saturday after a two months' trip to visit her daughter and son in Chicago. She also visited Los Angeles and other points, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. J. Sherman Jones....Miss Goldie Kelly returned from Atchison, Kas., Monday and was accompanied by Miss Ida Ingraman of that city....Robert Henry Hucless Consistory No. 3" elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Trago T. McWilliams, C. M. C.; Mosely Moore, secretary....The son of Mrs. Effie Beard was injured accidentally last week while riding with its mother in a buggy....Rev. B. Hillman continues to improve in health....Miss Ada Hemphill entertained friends last Tuesday evening in honor of Miss A. Russell of Omaha, Neb....There was baptizing at Mt. Zlon Baptist church last Sunday night and two persons were immersed. A week's meeting is being held this week. AUTO DIRECTORY AUTO DIRECTORY BLUNK'S PLACE 1518 East Eighteenth St. Fills a long felt want among the Color and Perv. We ed People of this city. Headquarters for Auto Service. Also a fine line of Cigars, and an ele- gant shoe shining parlor. For Auto or Taxi stop in or call Bell, East 782, or Home, East 802. UP TO THE MINUTE AUTO LIVERY Best Cars Best Service Best Chauffeurs Call Bell Phone, Main 3597 FRED MAHAN 578 Harrison St. TRY US! 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 tele- phone. W. H. 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Bell Telephone, West 1757 BOOKER T.WASHINGTON The Master Mind of A CHILD'S SLAVERY Memorial Edition Chicago, Ill. Grand Opening Electric Park, May 6 Lincoln Electric Park, 20th and Woodland K.C.Mo. O. H. McDANIELS, Mgr. New Attractions, New Concessions, New Surprises New $2,000 Swimming Pool has been added. Madame "Billy" Kersands, the Phenomenal Soprano of Universal Fame; The Rising Popular Knights Templar Band, in Park and Splendid Street Parade. Madame Kersands will be Supported by an Excellent Company of ON THE BORDER LINE. (Continued from page 1). Chief Musician—Alfred J. Thomas cornet. Drum Major—Mitchell A. Harris Drum Major—Mittchell A. Harris, snare drum. Principal Musician—wm. H. Lewis, baritone. Chief Trumpeter—Louis C. Butler, cornet. Sergeant—John L. Grinnell, Bb clar inet. Sergeant—Richard I. Quander, EB clarinet. Sergeant—Jerome C. Nichols, BB clarinet. Corporal—John H. Malone, alto. Coralpor—John H. Malone, alto. Coralpor—James F. Hendricks, alto. Coralpor—Thomas C. Hammond, Bb cornet. Coralpor—Perc" Forby, Bb cornet. Coralpor—John Clarke, bassoon. Coralpor—oshua R. Johnson, Bb cornalt—Albert Howard, Bbb bass. Coralpor—Harry Porter, base drum. Private—Henry A. Broady, Bb clarinet. Private—Herbert T. Brown, Bb clarinet. Private—Pearl Bouncler, trombone. Private—Clarence B. Cooper, trombone. Private—Forest Gaskins, alto. Private—George M. Jones, trombone. Private—Frank M. Liston, Bb cornet. Private—John P. Moody, flute and piccolo. Private—Walter T. Steward, Bb clarinet. Private—Charles D. Warner, alto. Private—William C. Fansler, Eb saxaphone. Private—William L. Chester, Eb bass. The chief musician of this inspiring band is Alfred Jack Thomas, a young man only 32 years old, but unquestionably one of the foremost musicians and composers not only of his race but of the country, and holds numerous letters of congratulation and recommendation from the best musicians in the world. He was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 16, 1884; is a graduate of the academic schools of his home city and has had the following musical courses: Two years and two months at Manila, P. I., under Prof. E. Cook, Dr. Mus., at one time dean of Musical Critics' Association of America. Four years at Conservatory of Music of Pittsburgh, Pa. Graduate of a four years' course which he completed in two years from the Conservatory of Music, Institute of Musical Art of New York City, Dr. Mus. Frank Damrosch, director. Only chief musician at the present date in the United States army to receive a band master's diploma. Mr. Thomas has studied under the following noted musical personages: Dr. Walter Damrosch, conductor of New York Symphony orchestra. Dr. Frank Damrosch, chorus, orchestra and military band ensemble conductor. Arthur A. Clappe of Knellar Hall, England; practical playing of all band instruments. Waldo Selden Pratt of New York City, musical history. Dr. Henry E. Krehbiel of New York City, appreciation and the understanding of music. Franklin Robinson of Columbia university of New York City, ear training. Percy Goetschins and Frederick I Andrews of New York City, theory harmony, phonic forms, counterpoint composition and transcribing and or chestrating for any musical combination. Dr. Frank Damrosch, pedagogy. Mr. Thomas was appointed band master Sept. 25, 1909, and in October will have completed 15 years of service in the United States army, all with the Tenth cavalry. On their return from foreign service the band was invited to perform at Singapore on the Ceylon Island, Aden, Arabia, Port Salod on the Suez canal, Alexandria, Egypt, Malta and Gibraltar. While stationed at Fort Ethan Allen the band gave concerts in a number of Eastern cities and was spoken of in the highest terms by the press of that section of the country. One paper said that "Band Master Thomas easily takes place in the fore ranks of the music masters of the day." Another said: "In Rochester this band played before more than 4,000 people by actual count in the afternoon and in the evening before 4,000 or 5,000 people, and it was the largest crowd ever assem- bled on a similar occasion in this city." The Metronome, the leading musical journal of America, has an article by Eminent Gustav Saenger in which he gives a review of a recital at the training school for band masters, in which he says: "This recital was principally intended to demonstrate the results accomplished by the students who are bandsmen in the United States army, all of whom won their scholarships in competitive examinations and entered the school in 1912. Their names in order of rank and organization are as follows: "Alfred J. Thomas, chief musician Tenth cavalry. "George A. Horton, principal musician Third cavalry. "James B. Prewitt, corporal band Twenty-sixth infantry. "Einar V. Sorensen, private fifth band C. A. C. "William C. White, private tenth band C. A. C. "The recital gave great satisfaction to those present which was tendered in honor of Gen. R. K. Evans and officers and ladies of Governor's Island on the evening of June 2. Applause was liberal and appreciative comment on the versatility of students was universal." As an evidence of Band Master Thomas' ability it is only necessary to say he was offered in 1914 $1,200 per year and a furnished residence to take charge of the department of music and military training at the famous Tuskegee Institute by the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, and received congratulations from all parts of America on the date of his graduation. But he wisely decided that the best interests of the race demanded that he remain in the army and he has done that, rising step by step until he has reached the enviable heights that he occupies today. On Saturday night we were guests of Malta Military lodge No. 138 at one of the most lavish banquets in one of the most beautifully decorated halls we have ever attended anywhere, and the really beautiful women and elegant, up-to-date costumes they wore can not be surpassed in Kansas City, Chicago or New York; and the handsomely embossed invitations were as neat as could be gotten up in the shops of our Franklin or Harris, who have two of the best print shops in America. It was as follows: You are Cordially Invited to Attend a Grand Reception At the Barracks of Troop C In honor of II. E. S. Baker, 32d Degree Grand Master, Chancellor H. E. and Deputy Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction U. S. Orient at Washington, D. C. ILL. NELSON C. CREWS 32d Degree Grand Master, Masonic Jurisdiction of Missouri. ILL. W. O'RELLY. 32d Degree Grand Commander, K. T. of Missouri. Missouri CHAPLAIN L. PRILOLEAU, 39d Degree and K. T. Dist Deputy, Arizona and New Mexico, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, And other visiting Brethren at Fort Haichuca, Arizona. SATURDAY EVENING, FRI 29, 1910 shark chart (Please present your invitation at door.) MENU. Sandwiches Turkey Lettuce Chicken Potato Salad Olives Ice Cream Coffee Shrimp Salad Pickles Cake Cigars Wine Cigarettes Punch COMMITTEES Arrangement—A. J. Thomas, W. C. Payne, M. A. Harris, V. H. Marchbanks, James Campbell, Jos. O. Battise, B. J. Lalley, Refreshment—Green Boston, W. H. Lewis, J. R. Johnson, Jo C. Marshall C. S. Smartt, William Wailey, William Ross. MALTA MILITARY LODGE No. 133 A. F & A. M Officers—E. J. M. Officers—E. J. M. F Hendricks, S. W.; A. C Sandridge, J. W; B. J. Laffertry, S. D.; N. J. Benton, J. D. Banks, T. R. Small, S. S.; James Phoenix, J. W.; Watts Frierson, Tyler. Members—Jos. Rodgers, James Campbell, E. S. Wiley, Ygreen, Boston, E. S. Wiley, Wynne, Boston, J. T. Penny, J. C. Battie, E. A. Badran, O. C. Marshall, H. Beni, F. Preston, Steven Barrows, H. L. C. Butter, R. T. Penny, H. Panny, C. Payne, Thomas Jordan, E. T. Thompson, M. A. Harris, J. R. Johnson, S. Dockery, A. J. Thomas, W. Ross, E. M. Battie, W. Lewis, I. H. Reeves, H. Peter Bigstaff, I. H. H. R. Reeves, H. William Hogue, I. Thomas Brown. Visiting—Middleton Saddler, John Turner, Lodge No. 101. Music was furnished by a superb orchestra selected from the men of the Tenth cavalry band, and there were 24 numbers on the dance program, which was really enjoyed by those who delight in tripping the light fantastic toe. But promptly at 12 o'clock taps were sounded and to the music of "Home, Sweet Home," all left for Season 1916 The famous Tenth Cavalry Band now stationed at Fort Huachuca, giving a concert in honor of the visiting guests. THE FIRST WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP The basket ball team, composed of the ladies of the Tenth Cavalry. their quarters, declaring it had been the most enjoyable evening the Post had ever known. During the evening the following brilliant toast in honor of Chaplain Prioleau was delivered by Sergeant Marchbanks: Ladies and Gentlemen: This post has been installed with an electric light system, but we are still in darkness insofar as the electric lights are concerned. Man is constructed on the same principal. We will compare him with a big electric light system like the one at this point. His head is the power house, his brain the dynamo; his arteries and veins are the wires and the bones in his body represent the poles that support these wires; The famous Tenth Cavalry Band no the buildings that are to be lighted represent the many occupations in life which man is adapted to fulfill The electricity lights the churches where the minister goes to perform his sacred duties; it lights the banks where the bankers go to perform their various duties; it lights our homes and places of amusement where we go to enjoy ourselves; it lights our congressional halls, where the laws are made, and chambers of justice where the law is dealt out to man with squareness regardless of creed or color, and places of misery with the same equal regularity. The light shines as brightly behind the prison wall as a light of equal power shines in places of amusement and worship. It is the power that makes the light and not the place where it is situated. Just so it is power that makes man. All men are constructed on the same principal, but will power, education, manhood, moral uprightness, sobriety and squareness with your fellowman makes the difference. Men are divided into three classes: First—1 e men of will power (the leaders). Second—The men of desire (those whose intentions are good but who fail to put forth the necessary efforts to win out. They are men who wish instead of demand). Third—The men of fate (those who give up all the glory of human achievement because they say its all no use— Singers, Dancers and Vaudevillians. Orchestra under Direction of Prof. Chas. T. Watts. Dancing Pavillion and Academy in Charge of Prof. W. C. Clark. $500 Bowling Alley erected for your supreme pleasure. Up-to-Date Merry Go Round. All Amusements. COME AND SEE! things will never come my way). This remark is correct, it will never come, but they can be appropriated, and that is what the men of will power do. Most men belong to the second class. Some of us belong to the third class and we can't deny it. Our chaplain belongs to the first class. He is the completed electric light system, the power that generates the lights that has been turned on in his body—he is a live wire. All men may have been created equal, but all men are not equal, and never will be. So long as ambition enters into the measures of man and free will exist there will be leaders and followers. There will be the great and the small. Chaplain Prioleau new stationed at Fort Huachuca, giving a came to us only a short time ago; the ink is hardly dry on the order that assigned him to the Tenth cavalry, and he has to leave us. Upon his arrival here he went to work; in addition to his church work and school work, he organized a Masonic lodge here. He found many helpers and a plenty of material. He went at the work with a vim, and he has indeed accomplished a great deal. He will be remembered in the Tenth cavalry a long time. The building that he has started here will be continued. Remember. I do not speak of a material building like this barracks. It is the building of manhood, square sand uprightness that I speak of. He found in the enlisted personnel at this post a plenty of rough timber, and he started a system whereby the rough corners may be knocked off that they be better ritted for the builders' use. Undoubtedly the seed sown here will yield an abundance of good fruit and long after his ship has been anchored safely, in the harbor of peace and rest, and he has been called from labor to reward and received just compensation for his labor here on earth where he has been daily accosted with the roughest element and has met with trials, troubles and temptations, the result of his labor will still be ripening. Mrs. Prioleau has been tried in the balances and has not been found wanting; she has let her light shine among 1 us; she has devoted much of her time trying to develop the physical as well as the morals of our women. As they go to a new station and regiment we hope they will meet as many admirers, friends and co-workers there as they have here. Although we are sorry to see them go, we hate to lose such able teachers and willing workers; but as soldiers we must obey orders, therefore we wish them a successful and pleasant sojourn at their new station and a long, happy and useful life. In conclusion I wish to thank the Noble Sons of the Desert for their presence. I believe their work here will have an everlasting effect; here they have met a few of the represen- concert in honor of the visiting guests. tatives of the famous Tenth cavalry, the best regiment in the world, and a few of our non-commissioned staff officers who are fine representatives of the typical professional soldier. I wish to say to them as a farewell greeting: Here they found me and here they will leave me. This is my home; I, as well as many of my comrades, have chosen the following of arms as a profession; having already stayed here twenty-one years; the government has fed me, clothed me, housed me, and give me medical attention when I was sick, and in addition to all o fthis, it has paid me. I have enjoyed the hospitality of the army in time of peace, and now that a cloud of war is hanging over us I stand ready to take refuge on the firing line. I have but one life to lose, and, regardless of the prejudice that exists against the colored people in the United States, I am willing, if it is God's will, to lose it in the defense and honor of the flag under whose protection 10,000,000 of my people are hovered. At the residence of Sergeant March banks we had the pleasure of meeting the widow of Trooper George A. Hudnell, who was the first man to lose his life after the invasion of Mexico. It / a peculiar coincidence that the first man to lose his life in the Spanish-American war was Corporal White in the Tenth cavalry, and the first after the invasion of Mexico was Trooper Hudnell. Trooper Hudnell was called the best saddler in the army. He was a graduate of Oberlin and was born in Oberlin, O. He had been twenty years in the army, and besides his widow, a talented lady, who is the organist for the chapel services, and who before her marriage was Miss Mary E. Turner of Falls River, Mass. He leaves four sisters and three brothers. His body is buried on the Las Paras ranch near Musica in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Mrs. Hudnell has not only the sympathy of the officers and men of the Tenth cavalry but of the race on account of the loss of her gallant husband. On Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, at the request of the chaplain, Sir Mosely, and the Grand Master spoke to officers and enlisted men and their families comprising an audience of more than 300 persons, in the chapel, Sacred music was rendered by the band and the Scripture lesson and prayer were offered by Brother Mosely. After an inspiring service we were the guests of Sergeant Wm. Payne and wife and Sergeant Middleton Sadler and wife at a sumptuous dinner at Sergeant Payne's residence. Sergeant Payne, who is chief clerk in the quarter master's department, is a native of Tennessee, retires next month after completing 30 years of service, as also does Sergeant Benj. J. Lafferty, formerly of Ohio, who has completed his 30 years. Our little crowd was augmented on Friday by the arrival of Mrs. Weatherly, wife of Sergeant Weatherly, from Douglas. She is an excellent Christian woman, a true soldier's wife and with her husband has visited all parts of the world during his thirty years of service. During our stay we met many intelligent and interesting people among whom was Sergeant J. C. Batiste, who has been 17 years in the service and who skillfully operates the moving picture machine in the amusement hall; Mrs. Sadler, wife of Sergeant Sadler, who is a niece of Mrs. Millie Jett of this city, both of whom are well known in Kansas City; Sergeant J. F. Hendricks, a courteous, polished gentleman who has served 28 years in the Tenth cavalry band; Mrs. S. L. Gross, who was formerly matron GREENFIELD, MO. Rev. R. G. Smith of the M. E. church has been returned here from conference for his fifth year, and the outlook is for a better and more prosperous year for the kingdom of our Lord during his stay....The Easter services here were all good and a powerful sermon was preached66Rev. R. G. Smith mounted the train at 6 p. m. for Mt. 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Among the interesting members of Malta lodge is a Syrian by the name of E. A. Badron of Bisbee, Ariz. who at one time lived in Kansas City. He is a native of Jerusalem and tells many interesting stories of King Solomon's Temple, the Sphynx, the Pyramids and many other interesting scenes in the old world., and invited the Grand Master to accompany him to a visit of his home and view these scenes for himself. At 4 o'clock, accompanied b ya host of friends and our distinguished chapain, we wended our way to the depot where we were to embark on our long journey home. After loading our baggage and paraphernalia on the cars and a general hand shaking all around as the train signaled its departure and the band played sweetly and plaintively, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." we passed over the plains and down by the foothills of the majestic Sierra Nevada on our journey HOME. We stopped Monday afternoon at El Paso, Tex., and witnessed a parade in honor of Generals Scott, Funston and Obregon, paid a hurried visit to Fort Bliss, where more than 4,000 white soldiers are in camp, and to the quaint historic old city of Juarez, then boarded the Golden State Limited and arrived home, to be greeted by our wife and official family as a long lost wanderer. ALL HONOR TO THE GALLANT BOYS OF THE FAMOUS TENTH CAVALRY. Our toast is: To those in Mexico and those in our own land may no misfortune overtake them; may they continue to make history for their country and their race, and finally may their shadows never grow less. ered on Easter Sunday by the Sunday school....Mrs. Emma Sadon and Orland Perker of M. Vernon, Mo., spent Easter here....Mrs. Nate Murrill and Miss Neva and Finis, her son, have moved to Sparta, Ill., where they will reside. Mr. Murrill is in the Pullman service....The exercises of the Washington public school were enjoyed by all of both races who attended. The church was packed to its utmost cais on the sick list