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Western University beat Lincoln Institute 28 to 10 MEANS WAR? The Fraudulent System Prevailing in the Southern States During the Past Thirty Years is Causing Much Heated Discussion through the Leading Newspapers of the United States THE REPUBLICAN'S AWAKENING? Through All These Years Negroes and Fair-minded White Men Have Been Pleading with the Government to See That Justice was Done in the Southland But Until Now Their Prayers Were Unheeded WHO WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT NOV. 7th? The New York Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Kansas City Journal, Los Angeles Times, Ohio State Journal, Philadelphia Ledger and Hundreds of other Stalwart Newspapers are Vehemently Demanding that the Searchlight of Investigation be Turned on Conditions in the South The Sun Goes to 36 States and Canada. Are Your Relatives and Friends Getting It? VOLUME IX. NUMBER 14. Western MEAM The Fraudulent System States Durd is Causing M through the ers of THE REPUBLIC Through All These Years Men Have Been I to See That Southland Praye WHO WAS ELECT The New York Sun, the Chicago City Journal, Los adelphia Ledger and H are Vehemently Do vestigation be Tu WHAT WILL The unconstitutional and high-handed methods that have been used by the South during the past thirty years to intimidate and deprive the Southern Negro of the Rights of Suffrage are at last to be investigated and what the final results will be we cannot today predict. The South has openly and swaggeringly boasted during the recent years that it has deprived the Negro of the Right of Suffrage that it intended to continually doing so and asked the Government at Washington and the rest of the country what were they going to do about it. And a few chicken-hearted, spolish-hunting Republicans whose only desire was to feather their own nests acquiesced in this wanton and reckless disregard of the rights of a million American citizens with the result that today we have an administration the recountal of whose "achievements" makes the average American blush in shame. That the powerful Metropolitan Press is becoming thoroughly aroused is demonstrated by the following editorial taken from the pages of the staid and conservative Kansas City Journal which, while it has no particular concern for the Colored people, realizes that a great and grave injustice not only to the Negro but to the Constitutional law of this great country. Read it carefully: THE "SOLID SOUTH" FRAUD. While federal investigation of alleged election frauds, which under the circumstances must have been relatively minor in scope, goes forward with vigor at Cincinnati and some other centers, why is not the department of justice equally concerned with the conditions which prevail in the South? With the tacit consent of the remainder of the country, that portion of the United States which lies south of the Mason and Dixon line disfranchises the majority of its legally qualified voters because they are Negroes. There are reasons for following this course which the white voters of the South believe sufficient. To allow the Negro to exercise the full and equal right of suffrage which, in theory at least, he possesses would be The Kansas City Sun to turn over to him all of the machinery of government in those commonwealth in which his race is in the majority; his would be the deciding voice at all local elections. The terrible lesson of the reconstruction period in this regard is not forgotten. The North sympathizes with the situation of the South to the extent that no attempt is made to bring pressure to bear to force compliance with the law. There is no reason, however, why the South should be allowed to continue to cast an inflated total of electoral votes based upon the supposition that the Negroes are permitted to exercise the franchise, when all the world knows they are not. In the election of 1916, for instance, the electoral ballots have not yet been cast. If the "solid South" were to be permitted only that number of electoral votes to which it is fairly entitled Mr. Hughes and not Mr. Wilson would be the next President of the United States. The constitution gives to each state as many members of the electoral college as the sum of the number of its senators and representatives in congress. Each state has two senators and the number of its representatives is determined on the basis of its population as given in the last census. So far, the South would seem to have a right to all of its congressmen and consequently to all of its electors, whether the Negro were permitted to vote or not. But the second paragraph of the Fourteenth amendment specifically deals with such a condition. It says: " * * * But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President nad Vice-President of the United States, representatives in congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to SPECIAL FOR TODAY. A one-pound box of fine chocolate candy for 50 cents and a 25 cent bottle of Penslar face free. Can you beat it? AT SMITH'S DRUG STORE, Corner 18th and Tracy. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1916. any of the male members of such state, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state." That language is clear enough. If all of the male citizens over legal age are not permitted to vote, then the electors shall be apportioned with regard to the number who are permitted to vote. If only white men can cast a ballot in the South, then the South is entitled by the authority of the Fourteenth amendment only to a number of electors in proportion to the total white voting strength. The Negro should not be barred from the polls and then have his vote counted in the electoral college as though it had been cast. The Fifteenth amendment is violated in the South because the North makes no adequate objection. The Fourteenth has been safely disregarded for the same reason. With the Democratic party in an apparently hopeless minority elsewhere, in times past it made little practical difference if the South were allowed-to cast more electoral votes than the number to which it was entitled. Even in 1912 little attention was paid in the Republican ranks to this matter; the defection of the Progressives was the thing that gave the Democrats the victory. The result in 1916 has been too close and too hard fought for it longer to be possible to overlook the discrepancy between the South's popular vote and its electoral vote. It is a fraud which has resulted in turning the election. Mr. Wilson will receive in the electoral college many ballots 2 which can be counted only in violation of the constitution. If these were thrown out, as they should be, he would be defeated. To choose the PPresident by popular vote is one way to prevent the South from exerting an influence in national elections to which it is not entitled; the electoral college is antiquated. But in the meantime the display of righteousness which the administration is making in going after only those election thieves who operate on a comparatively infinitesimal scale in Cincinnati and elsewhere is amusing. Why not prosecute the fraud that is practiced in the South on a colossal scale and which the perpetrators do not take the trouble to deny or even try to conceal? Why not scale down the "solid South's" representation in the electoral college until it is in honest proportion to the popular vote cast? Why strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? You owe to your wife, mother, daughter or sweetheart a box of delicious fresh chocolate, candy or a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream at Smith's Drug Store, corner 18th and Tracy. KANSAS CITY CAMP NO. 5 OF AMERICAN WOODMEN ORGANIZED AT Y. M. C. A. In the banquet room of the Y. M. C. A. building Tuesday night, November 28, Kansas City, Missouri, Camp No. 5 of American Woodmen was organized. Deputies Geo. C. Martin and H. L. Billups have in the past three weeks let up a camp of 75 members—both men and women. It is really a remarkable achievement and fully demonstrates the fact that our people are progressive and are fully appreciative of modern twentieth century methods of doing business because the American Woodmen represent the modern idea of Fraternal societies. It is truly a 2010 Century organization. Tuesday night in less time than it takes to "make" a member under the old order of doing business about 60 men and women were instructed in Woodcraft enjoyed. A excellent menu, prepared and served by Mr. Harris one of the "Y" Secretaries elected officers and heard excellent talks by several speakers. It was an eye opened to those present, and demonstrates the efficient manner by which the American Woodmen does business. Deputies Martin and Billups conducted business with a smoothness and efficiency that proves the modern system of doing business is as a 1917 model automobile compared to a two wheeled ox cart. The following officers were elected at Tuesday night's meeting. Commander—Jas. A. Baker. Vice-Commander—W. Lee Whibby. Clerk—(Not filled). Recorder—Mrs. Josephine Aber nathy. Ch. Sick Com.—Mrs. Sarah S. Perkins. National Deputy Geo. C. Martin appointed Mr. L. D. Hines and Mr. T. A. Ross as salaried deputies for employment in Missouri. The Installation Banquet will be graced by the presence of Hon. C. M. White on the 19th of December who will conduct the Installation ceremonies. The camp is still operating under the dispensation and members pledged 200 new ones by the coming of the Supreme Commander. The American Woodmen Banquets are all free to members and guests it being against Woodcraft to charge extra or to raise funds by admission fees. DIGNIFIED CHRISTMAS GIFTS At the Harris Printing establishment, 1515 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo., will be found as usual this season a line of Christmas cards which will not be shown by other small establishments in this city. To those who have learned that value in Christmas gifts are by far the secondary consideration. That sentiment is all in all, we would ask to look over this line and place their orders prior to December 5 in order that their deliveries may be made in ample time. This beautiful line of embossed engravings can be seen daily at the above named establishment. It costs you nothing to view these beauties even should you fail to order. You will find the customary courteous attention in evidence. The management invites you to come. THE ALUMNI ENTERTAINMENT. The benefit entertainment to be given on Friday night, December 8th, for the benefit of the scholarship fund will be one of the most enjoyable of the season, despite the elaborate dances that are given during the holiday season. One should also remember that the proceeds go to a most worthy fund, that of helping some boy or girl complete his or her education. So "Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe." Place: Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine Street. Date: December 8th. Admission, 25 cents. Good music. Dancing. Send your orders in early for Quinoleum face creams, bleach, tonic and hair grower. Liberal sample on all orders of 50 cents or more. See advertisement for price list. Y. M. C. A. Notes Rev. S. W. Bacote and Rev. William H. Thomas will be the principal speaker at the Men's Meeting Sunday, December 2, at the Y. M. C. A. The great membership campaign is nearing its close. The score is a tie as we go to press between the Reds and the Blues. Campaign Dates, November 22-December 4. Special Rate, Men, $3; with physical privileges, $5. Special Rate, Boys, $1; with physi cal privileges, $2. THE ROMANCE OF YESTERDAY. By Chas, Starks. Looking back on past rich experience Of the heart, is like playing with embers. Romance has sweet thrills long after season Long passed, and it may be in soft pathos Or joy welding by fond recollection, Reminiscences of the yesterday, Or thru the long labrynth of pulsing soul, But even today has power to move And will not be downed by Time's circ- umstance. Love has been hurt but its God not dethroned. But can we sing if we see or feel not? Song without sympathy is blank dis- cord. And life without romance is life not But poor existence, it is faint and sad. There is sweetness in fondling o'er the past Though which essence can never be recalled, Its sad ghost we might scarcely see flitting Away into night's gloomy recedence. REV. F. D. WELLS The powerful preacher and popular pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora, will hold his first quarterly meeting next Sunday at which time the "Texas Tornado," Dr. F. F. Moten will preach. QUARTERLY MEETING BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH. 23th and Eliza We will hold our first Quarterly Meeting for the Conference year at Bethel on Sunday, December 3, 1916. We hope to make this one of the most enjoyable meetings held in our Zion. Our Presiding Elder Rev. A. A. Gilbert will be with us this quarter. Our dear Brother and State Evangelist, Rev. F. F. Motten, will preach the Sacramental Sermon at 3 p. m. We extend a most cordial invitation to the pastors and members of the various churches to worship with us. Bethel is about the youngest daughter of Mother Allen, and of course we are expecting historical Allen Chapel to be with us as usual, with all of her daughters, if possible. A THANKSGIVING CONFESSION. By Beni V. Loydson At this time of the year two sentiments very properly find room in our hearts, a sentiment of sorrow and a sentiment of gratitude. As we look back upon the past twelve months we find much to regret, much to sorrow for. At times we have been weak, timid, cowardly and even perhaps mean. All this, of course, makes a dark picture and we shall sorrow for it but we shall not be sad. Sadness is never helpful. It enervates, weakens, discourages. Sorrow strengthens, cheers and aids to reparation for the past and the mending of our lives for the future. The second sentiment that should animate us at this time of year is gratitude. "A certain widow was so poor that she out the one thin bed covering by laying an old door over herself and her children." "Mamma," said one of the children one bitter night, "what do those children do who haven't got a door to cover them?" Our hearts should be full to overflowing for the tens of thousands of favors and graces given us since last Thanksgiving Day. This gratitude will show itself not in useless ripenings, not in discouragements but in loving energetic fidelity to daily duties in the unborn years that are in God's Providence to come to us. We begin today with a tear of sorrow and a smile of courage, with a sigh of regret and a song of joy. "I have a room whereinto no one There sits a blessed memory on a throne, Thereby life centers." ANTHONY CRAWFORD ANTHONY CRAWFORD. [Portrait of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a mustache]. New York, Nov. 22.—Gov. Richard I. Manning, of South Carolina, as a result of the recent lynching of Anthony Crawford, at Abbeville, has taken a stand which promises to clear the name of his state of the stigma which attached to it during the administration of his predecessor, the notorious Cole Blease. Governor Manning, in a statement given out to the press on the day before election, says: "I was out of the state when the Abbeville lynching occurred. As soon as I learned of it I called Solicitor R. A. Cooper and Sheriff R. M. Burts of Abbeville to the office and called on Coroner F. W. R. Nance of Abbeville county to comply with the law and furnish me with a copy of the testimony taken at the coroner's inquest. I found that the coroner held an inquest, but took no testimony. "Solicitor Cooper and Sheriff Burts came to my office and I requested them to secure the names of all parties connected with this affair, those who took part in the whipping, in the taking of the Negro from the jail, in the lynching, and all those who were at the meeting reported to have been held on the following Monday. I have requested Solicitor Cooper and Sheriff Burts to make a complete investigation of the whole matter and get the names of all parties concerned and to swear out warrants and arrest them. "I intend to do everything in my power to uphold the law and let the offenders know that such acts will not be tolerated, and that those guilty of violating the law must suffer for it. I have requested Solicitor Cooper as the state's representative and Sheriff Burts as the highest peace officer in the county, to leave no stone unturned in order to vindicate the law and all the powers of the governor's office are at their disposal in bringing the guilty ones to justice." The lynching referred to occurred on October 21 in one of South Carolina's most beautiful and progressive cities. Anthony Crawford, the victim, was a Negro fifty-one years old worth over $20,000. He got into a row with a white storekeeper named Barkskale over the price of cottonseed. It is reported that Mr. Barkskale called him a liar and the Negro cursed him roundly in return, whereupon a clerk ran out to give Crawford*a beating with an ax handle. He was saved from this by a policeman who arrests Crawford and took him to the municipal building, but when they let him out on bail a crowd of men took after him again intent intent on punishing him for daring to curse a white man. "The day a white man hits me is the day I die," Anthony Crawford once said to a friend. When he saw the crowd coming after him, he went down in the boiler room of the gin, picked up a four-pound hammer and waited. The first man who came at him, McKinney Cann, received a blow in the head which fractured his skull, but someone hurled a stone which knocked out Crawford before he reached anyone else. While he was down, they knifed him in the back and kicked him until they thought they had finished him, when they permitted the sheriff to arrest the unconscious Crawford on condition that he would not take his prisoner out of town until they knew whether Cann would live or die. Cann wasn't hurt as badly as they thought, but nevertheless a mob went back to the jail at four o'clock that afternoon, took their keys and guns away from the sheriff and jailor, dragged Crawford through the streets of the Negro quarter with a rope around his neck, hung his mutilated body to a pine tree at the entrance to the fair grounds, and expended a couple of hundred rounds of ammunition at it. On Monday a meeting was called in the Abbeville courthouse at which it was decided to order the sixteen sons and daughters of Crawford and their families to abandon their $20,000 home and get out of the state by November 15. After the meeting this mob proceeded to close up all the Negro shops in Abbeville. The Columbia State, in a powerful Do You Know That Advertising is the Life of Trade and the Only Real Business Getter 28 to 10 editorial, pointed out that in view of the exodus of Negro labor from the South to northern industrial fields and the approach of the boll weevil, South Carolina's problem was to keep her colored men instead of serving notice on them that no matter how industrious or successful they might be, their case was absolutely hopeless. It so convinced the business men of Abbeville that they had lynched their own pocketbooks, that on November 6 another meeting was held in the court house at which the following resolutions were unanimously passed: "We, the citizens of the city of Abbeville, in mass meeting assembled, do hereby express in unqualified terms our disapproval of the recent violent acts of certain persons committed in our community, and the spirit of lawlessness that seems rife in the county, resulting in continued acts of lawlessness it is, "Resolved: That the Sheriff of Abbeville county, the Mayor of Abbeville, the Police Force, and every officer of the county and city, be urged to use every effort to enforce the law and to protect the citizens of the town and county regardless of condition or color. "Resolved Further, That we do hereby pledge ourselves as individuals to give to the officers of the law our physical support in maintaining the law. "Resolved Further, That if, it be necessary to carry out this determination that the aid of the State and Federal Government be called in order that every citizen may enjoy his rights under the constitution. "Resolved Further, That a committee with Capt. J. L. Perrin as chairman, be appointed for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done towards the organization of a local military company for the protection of the citizens of this county and for maintaining order in our midst. That this committee be empowered to act in the premises. "Resolved Further, That every citizen of the town of Abbeville be assured the protection of the men of this meeting as long as he obeys the laws of the state, and pursues only his own legitimate business. "Resolved Further, That a meeting of the law-abiding citizens of Abbeville county be called to meet in this court house on next Monday at noon to perfect an organization for enforcing law and order in this county, and that every community in the county be represented at this meeting, and that steps be taken to show to the people of the state and United States that the men of Abbeville county will defend the law, and protect the citizens of the commonwealth in the enjoyment of all rights, guaranteed by the law." At the meeting on November 13 the above resolutions were endorsed by prominent citizens from all parts of the county, and a committee of twelve men are to be appointed, "who shall have for their duties the furtherance of the ends sought by the meeting, by taking up with the citizens of the county the matters discussed and endeavoring to bring about a proper understanding between the people of the county, and a due observance of the laws of the land." As a further guarantee that the Crawford family is to be defended in their right to live in South Carolina and enjoy the property accumulated by three generations, Governor Manning has written Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as follows: "I realize the gravity of this offense and am determined to do everything in my power to bring the offenders to justice. I have called on the Sheriff of Abbeville county to take the necessary steps to prevent any unlawful action with regard to the expulsion of the family of Crawford. "I am giving serious consideration to this matter with a view to making recommendations to the Legislature, so as to be able to deal with such conditions when they arise." PRICE, 5c. 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GLENN, Manager INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright 1918, Western Newmaner Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 3 JESUS CHRIST THE FIRST AND THE LAST. LESSON TEXT—Rev. 1. GOLDEN TEXT—Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the living one; and I was dead, and behold! I am alive for evermore—Rev. 1:17, 18. The lesson committee have departed, seemingly, a long way from anything like chronological order. Paul had nothing to do with the writing of the Revelation, yet this lesson illustrates the pre-eminence which Jesus Christ had in the mind and labors of the great apostle (Col. 1:18). 1. Introduction. (vv. 1:3.) We would suggest that all Bible students and teachers, if possible, read the introduction to the Book of Revelation in Scofield's Reference Bible. The book proper is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." John, the beloved disciple, who wrote the Gospel and Epistles, was the one who saw the visions recorded therein. Many of the things are historical, others are prophetically set forth. The latter are "shortly to come to pass." (See also II Peter 3:8.) John tells not only what God said but what he himself saw. The late Doctor Brooks of St. Louis omitted this book from his study for many years until he saw the comments recorded in verse 3. The time of the writing of this book has variously been stated as from A. D. 60 to A. D. 96; the writer was certainly John the Beloved. The place of writing was the island of Patmos in the Aegean sea, not far from Ephesus. The real author, however, is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 11. Salutation (vv. 4-S). "The servant of Jesus who records his message was John, and the message was to be to "the seven churches which are in Asia;" that is, the western portion of Asia Minor, of which Ephesus on the Aegean sea was the principal city. These churches are definitely named in verse 11. There is good reason to think that these churches represented the seven successive epochs of church history. If so, no age is exclusively Ephesian, or Philadelphian, or Laodicean. The grance, favor, loving kindness, is a free gift from Christ, who is here giving a threefold title, namely: First begotten from the dead, witness and prince. He it is, which is love, and which is to come. (Eternal I am.-Ex. 4.4.) His work is also set forth in verse 5, and the results in our lives in verse 6. We have here the real humanity and the certain deity of our Lord and Saviour. 111. Vision (vv. 9-18). What John saw on the isle of Patmos he was to write upon a parchment roll and send it to the seven churches, each of which needed a message. Under the figure of seven candlesticks are enumerated seven churches. Into the midst of these churches, actually present in them, is one like unto the Son of Man. (See also Matthew 18:20). Like a human being, Jesus was, but now clothed with the garment of his eternal glory, girded about with the girdle worn by priests and kings, a symbol of his power and strength (Isaiah 11:5; Eph. 6:14). His head and his hands, his feet and his eyes are all referred to, each having its symbolical significance. In his right hand are the seven stars (v. 16), the angels of the churches, pastors or leaders, possibly guardian angels (v. 20). They are held in his right hand, signifying that they are protected, upheld and controlled by his wisdom and power. (See Jeremiah 22:24). From his mouth goes a sharp, two-edged sword; the spirit of the Word of God sharper than any two-edged word (Hebrews 4:12). And his countenance was as the sun shining in its strength, the glory, such as was manifested in the transfiguration, such as Paul saw near Damascus, is here referred to. It is the symbol of the glorious nature of our Savior King, eclipsing all other beings, as the sun eclipses the stars. He who is victory over the darkness of ignorance and sin and who is the prince of all powers. Is it to be wondered at that John fell at his feet as one dead after having seen such an overwhelming vision? The greater the discoveries we have of the glory of Christ, the more we shall be humbled in the dust before him. Jesus laid his right hand upon John, a gentle, brotherly touch, which aroused him to consciousness and encouraged him by the words, "Fear not; I am the first and the last." The same divine Jesus, whom he had known on earth and whom he had seen crucified and risen from the dead, ever liveth. (v. 18) And he also has the keys of power and the control of death; has the power to preserve from death and to raise to immortal life even as when he raised the body of Lazarus. IV. The Command. John had enjoyed a tender intimacy with the Lord during his earthly life and yet he was tricken down with the overpowering majesty and glory which had been revealed. Now he realized, as perhaps never before, the significance of the ever-living Christ, and he is hereby specifically commanded to record this vision as he had seen it and the messages which the Lord had for the churches. The word mystery (v. 20) has reference to something which has hitherto been hidden to men and which is now about to be revealed. The revelation was to these churches, and it is to us also. Jesus is not a mere vision but he is a living reality, unvelled for the time from the unseen. Jesus is a living fact which we are to communicate to men. The seven stars (v. 20) are messages in his own right hand. The churches are the lamp stands. Christ himself is the light, the sun (v. 10). Either "Aitch" or Shinbone May Be Used—Vegetables in Plenty Requisite for Success. Use an "aitch" bone for this and reserve part for a roast, as the whole bone would make stew enough for 15 people. However, shinbone can be used if you prefer. Take off enough of the fat to brown the meat and vegetables and let it be trying out while you are preparing the meat. If there is no fat use a little pork fat or drippings. Cut your meat into dice about an inch large each way, dredge them well with salt, pepper and flour and brown in hot fat. Put in your stewpan. Cut two onions, one small turnip and half a carrot into dice and brown; add to the meat, cover with boiling water and cook until the meat is tender. Remove bone and skim off the fat; add six or eight small potatoes, which have been pared and parboiled. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook until nearly done and then add dumplings. Dumplings.—One pint of flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Mix thoroughly. Add enough milk to make a soft dough. Shape and cook ten minutes in the soft dough. Add salt and baking powder to the flour, and sift all so as to mix them thoroughly with enough milk to make a dough you can handle; it will take about a cupful; they can be dropped from the spoon or shaped a little with the hands. The stew should be boiling rapidly when the dumplings are added, and continue to boil rapidly while they are in. Do not have so much water or broth in the stew that the dumplings cannot rest on the meat or on the potatoes. If they do not they will be heavy. And do not put in so many that they will crowd each other, for that makes them heavy also. JOHN BULL PLUM PUDDING Recipe That Has Been Popular in England for Many Generations—Sauce to Accompany Dish. One pound each of suet, sugar, currants, raisins, sulitama raisins (seeded), mixed candied orange and lemon peel; one-half pound each of bread crumbs and flour, one teaspoonful each of salt and mixed spices, eight eggs, a wineglassful of brandy. Chop the suet finely and mix in the following manner: Put the two-sifted flour in a large bowl, add the salt, spice and sugar, then the chopped raisins and currants and fruit peel, then the bread crumbs and the sulitama raisins, which are not chopped. Bent the eggs together for ten minutes, then strain and add the brandy to them and pour into the bowl. Stir and beat well for 25 minutes. Put the pudding into a well-buttered mold, which must be tied up in a white napkin which has been thoroughly boiled, just before using, and floured over the top. Set the mold in a large kettle, cover with boiling water and boil for 13 hours. Pudding Sauce.—One wine-glassful of brandy, two ounces of fresh butter, a cupful of powdered sugar. Set the butter and sugar near the stove, where they will dissolve, add the brandy and beat thoroughly with an egg-beater. Just before serving set in the top of a teakettle and serve boiling hot. Dove Chicken. As cooked by the West India creoles, it is most delicious. Boil a large chicken in just enough water to cover it. When tender remove from the fire and add to the chicken water, a half can of tomatoes, some minced parsley, two red pepper cones, two chopped onions, a little black pepper and enough salt to taste. Stew down to a rich gravy. Then make a stuffing of mashed Irish potatoes, moistened with this gravy, adding a teacupful of ralsins; stuff the chicken and brown in the oven. When done, serve with what was left of the tomato gravy. Lamb and Asparagus One neck or breast of lamb, one can asparagus, celery salt or seed, one onion, one sprig parsley, pepper and salt to taste. Place the meat in a stewpan, cover it with cold water, and a pinch of celery salt or seed, the onion chopped, sprig of parsley, pepper and salt to taste. Let all simmer till the meat and vegetables are tender; two lumps of sugar improve the flavor. Remove the meat and vegetables, reduce the liquor a little, take any fat off, place the meat in the center of a hot dish, pour the gravy over, and arrange the asparagus, which has been heated previously. Lemon' Pudding. Beat two egg yolks with two cupfuls of sugar. Dissolve four tablespoonfuls of cornstarch in enough water to dissolve it, stir into four coffee cups of boiling water (not lot, but it must be boiling), add juice and grated rind of two lemons, then add the sugar and eggs. Bake in a buttered dish about twenty minutes, then cover with the beaten whites and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Brown in the oven and serve very cold. Cold Bean Croquettes. Here is a nice way of using cold beans in croquettes: Get them ready at night, so it takes just a moment to cook them for breakfast. Mash two cupfuls baked beans, yolks of one or two eggs, one tablespoonful melted butter, pinch of salt. Form into cones. Roll in cracked crumbs. Do not coat with egg, as they are rather moist, and the cracker crumbs stick on all right.-Boston Globe. Pickled Eggs. Boil fresh eggs one-half hour, then put intq cold water. In the meantime have beets holled until tender, remove skins, cut in dice form and covered with spiced vinegar, Shell the eggs and drop into the pickle jars. This is an ornamental pickle and considered very good. Butter Substitute A great saving may be effected by mixing equal quantities of good margarine and fresh butter. The mixture tastes quite as well as fresh butter. THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1916 In Woman's Realm Coat Models That Were Shown Early in the Season Retain Their Popularity, and There Is Little or No Indication of Changes Smart Overgarments Are Worn With Big Muffler Collars of Cloth—Pretty Millinery for Small Girl. The story of coats for this season has reached its closing chapter with the presentation of styles for midwinter and styles for driving. The drift of popular approval was too definite early in the season to encourage any radical new departures. Early models showed a beautiful adaptation of design to materials and were so excellent that they could hardly be improved upon, and there are no distinctly different lines or details of construction in the latest arrivals. In coats for midwinter long sweep- [ ] 崇 A HANDSOME COAT OF FUR-FABRIC. ing lines, ample width, and muffler collars continue to be featured. Wool velour, tweeds, bolivia cloth, plush and fur fabrics are fur-trimmed and made up on the same lines as all-fur coats. Where fur is used on cloth garments it often appears in an all-fur collar with bands of fur to match bordering cuffs of the material. Plain plush and fur-fabrics make the warmest of wraps, excepting those that are made entirely of fur, and are of all things most serviceable for midwinter wear. The coat of fur-fabric pictured here may be taken as representative of the styles that stand approved. It is handsomely trimmed with genuine fur 1920 THE FASHION OF THE TIME J STYLES IN CHILDREN'S MILLINERY. and as rich looking as fur coats made in the same way. Many less expensive coats of velour, or other cloths, are trimmed with bands of fur-fabric, and some of them have collars of it. But the smartest cloth coats have big muffler collars of cloth and huge buttons matching their own color. Some of the buttons are two and a half inches in diameter, and two or three of them are quite enough for one coat. It doesn't make any difference just how the headwear of tiny girls is fashioned, it is sure to look pretty on its little wearers. For some time its inspiration has been drawn from the millinery of grownups. Small replicas of mature styles have the charm of miniatures, and the simpler hats of Pouch Pockets for Sportswoman. Each designer has an original manner of using pockets as a trimming on skirts. There are pockets shaped like flattened cornuplas, inserted between box plats, two being used on each side. When the skirt is a model with cartridge plats over each hip, one of the plats is made deeper than the rest, and within it is hung the pocket of a contrasting color. This produces a decidedly pleasing effect, as the colored pocket shows --- their mothers have been copied for little misses. Their headwear has been a happy afterthought. Shapes for small ladies are not greatly varied, and follow rather closely a few of those designed for grown people. Besides these there are several types that are staple shapes for children, including the poke bonnet and the "baby" hat, with ruffled brim. The really new departure in children's millinery appears in the manner of trimming, and is illustrated in the picture given here. Figures in A flat appliqué, of objects that they love—silhouettes of small animals and birds, outline pictures drawn with needlework in colored yarns, garden and field flowers, embroidered in prime order—all presage a new season of distinctly childish millinery for little ones. These trimmings are simply made, as the hats in the picture demonstrate. In one of them a band of black velvet ribbon is drawn about a light felt shape and serves as a background for a procession of little chicks and geese, cut from colored felt, which are applied to it. They are fastened down with varnish or silk which serves to out- I line the feet and eyes, wings, or even the feathers, if desired. A dark velour hat sets off flying birds cut from silk or other fabrics. Printed silks furnish many figures of birds, butterflies, bees, and other things that make the work of the milliner simple. Feathers or other details are done in embroidery stitches on them. The third hat shows a bit of landscape done in outline with yarn, which looks like a scene set with the contents of the time-honored Noah's ark. Julia Bottomley Just enough to give the impression that the skirt is lined. On other attractive skirts, there are patch pockets applied with buttonhole stitching, featherstitching or with a narrow embroidered band of the same material of which the frock is made. Sports skirts and coats abound in pockets. When pongee satin or one of the fashionable silks in a striped design is the material chosen full pouch pockets, gathered at the bottom and shirred at the top over one or two cords, are favored. RULES FOR ROASTING PORK Prepared in This Way, the Meat WILL Be Found Both Appetizing and Digestible. After carefully wiping the meat with a wet towel, lay it on a rack in the dripping pan and place it in a very hot oven, where it will quickly sear over on all sides. Then reduce the heat of the oven and pour into the pan with the fat, which has come from the roast, a cupful of hot water. Now cut in small pieces two large tart apples and put these into the pan where, cooking, they will give up their acid. Baste the meat very often with this liquid, adding water when necessary, letting the pork cook slowly and thoroughly. Season with salt and pepper when half done. A little flour may be dredged over the roast at intervals and a few sage leaves powdered may be sprinkled over it. Sage and pepper scorch easily and must be frequently basted. Apple sauce and horseradish may accompany the roast pork as usual. When the roast is done take it up and pour off all the drippings except two large tablespoonfuls, being careful to retain the brown substance at the bottom. Add two tablespoonfuls of flour, letting this cook for a minute with the dripping. Add a pint of cold water, stirring well. Add a slice of onion, letting gravity cook a few minutes to extract the juice, then remove the onion. Strain gravy. This gravy is free from grease and has a good flavor. EGGS WITH ANCHOVY SAUCE Method of Serving Is Something of a Novelty—Makes Delicious Luncheon Dish. At most delicatessen shops or large grocery stores may be bought tiny little cans of anchovy paste. These sell, as a rule, for 10 cents apiece. To make the sauce, melt one rounded tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour, heaped high. When thoroughly blended, add one cupful of milk and the contents of the tiny can of anchovy paste. When the sauce has boiled up, remove it from the fire, stir until very smooth and pour it over hard-boiled eggs that have been shelled, cut in half and laid face down on the plate on which they are to be served. Pour the sauce over the eggs evenly, sprinkle with a little finely-chopped parsley or celery and dust with naprika. For luncheon, as an entree, it should be served hot and then the sauce should be poured in an individual cassoleer or, should this not be handy, in a baking dish. Fresh eggs, carefully opened, are dropped in this hot sauce and a little cheese grated over the top, and paprika, and the whole put in a very hot oven long enough to "set" the egg. This may be served as a course by itself with thin biscuits. Pilaff of Rabbit Having cut the rabbit in pieces, put it in a saucepan in which you have heated two or three ounces of butter or lard. When the meat is slightly browned, season with salt and pepper and add a medium-sized onion chopped in. Allow it to cook ten minutes, then add tablespoonfuls of good rice soup. (Rice used in soups is parboiled in water for ten minutes, and after water is drained off clear consome is added.) Molten with about one and a half pints of boiling water and reduce by boiling. Cover pan and finish cooking in oven or on a slow fire 20 minutes. Banana Cake. Make any one-egg cake, or generally make a sponge cake and bake in round tins, two layers; slice banana on cake and cover with whipped cream; simply lay another layer of cake on first and cover again with bananas and cream. Whipped Cream—Take one cupful sweet cream, add the white of an egg to give it body, small pinch of salt and whip all together until thick, sweeten to taste and flavor with vanilla. Keep Oven Scrumpously Clean Keep Oven Scrubbed肃清. An oven that is in constant use should be kept scrumpily clean if you want to get the best results from it. The shelves should occasionally be scrubbed with strong soda water, and, in addition, they should be painted with quicklime two or three times a year. An oven treated in this way never becomes coated with grease, and there is no unpleasant smell when it is being used. Broiled Swordfish With Sauce Wash and wipe dry and season with salt and pepper slices of swordfish or halibut. Broil ten or twelve minutes (over a charcoal fire if possible). Serve with a horseradish sauce. Cream one-third cupful of butter, add two rounding tablespoonfuls grated horseradish, one teaspoonful made mustard, one saltspoonful of salt and two tablespoonfuls of hot vinegar. Tiny Chicken Pies To make individual chicken ples (and incidentally to use up bits of leftover chicken) line gem pans with a rich pastry, leaving crust enough to fold over a tablespoonful of well-seasoned chicken hash. Bake in a quick oven and serve with currant or cranberry jelly and French fried potatoes. Ginger Loaf. One cupful each molasses, sugar, butter and sour milk, one teaspoonful each soda, ginger and cinnamon. Benten yolks two eggs, four cupfuls flour. Last add well-beaten whites of the eggs. Use raisins or currants chopped or whole. Make one large loaf or two small. Mock Lobster Salad. Mix two cupuits flaked boiled haddock with two teaspoonfuls finely-chopped pimento, season with salt, pepper and paprika, add two cupuits finely-chopped celery and two spoonfuls mayonnaise dressing. Stir lightly, pile on crisp lettuce leaves and cover with a good dressing AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The following figures showing the number of Negroes leaving the various southern states, indicate the extent of the transfer of labor from the South to other sections of the country: From Alabama, 40,000; from Tennessee, 22,000; from Florida, 12,000; from Georgia, 10,000; from Virginia, 3,000; from North Carolina, 2,000; from Kentucky, 3,000; from South Carolina, 2,000; from Arkansas, 2,000; from Mississippi, 2,000. It is estimated that 95 per cent of the Negroes who have left the South in this movement are men. The demand is for laborers for freight and section-hand work on railroads, miners for coal and iron states, and unskilled workmen for general outside work at industrial plants. Last spring, when the business of the railroads and mines began to prosper as it had not done in years, the demand for unskilled labor increased rapidly. The freight congestion in and about New York and other large cities caused a pressing demand for truck hands. In former years the railroads had called on Europe and Asia for extra supplies, but this year, when they could not get men from the war zone, they turned to the South. Many of the first Negroes to migrate have written back and told of the glorious land into which they have come. The higher wages of the North East and West are being advertised in almost every Negro home in the South. Negro preachers and Negro women have been paid to urge the men to go North and get better pay and treatment. Yet many of the black men, carried out of the South, have found that the glowing promises did not materialize, and have returned to their old homes. They declare they have had enough of the country above the Potomac river and are glad to get back. They say the pay is all right, but the temperature is severe, and working among white laborers and living among white people is not all it was cracked up to be. --- Much excellent work among its own race has been done by the Colored Social Service bureau since its inception in August. This bureau was established by M. A. Turner, superintendent of the Houston Foundation, to supersede the old colored branch of the Houston foundation. Prof. T. J. Hodges as the head of this organization and Prof. J. D. Boggan handles its finances. One of the principal objects of the bureau is to take up and carry on relief work among Negroes that was formerly held in charge by the Negro branch of the foundation. Aside from the relief work, the bureau has undertaken to inmigrate constructive measures that would tend toward the betterment of the living and moral conditions of the colored population of Houston. With these ends in view the following committees were appointed: Health and sanitation; rescue and safeguarding the Negro youth; home economics; social service center; kindergarten; relief; finance; employment bureau; church co-operation; case committee. Superintendent Turner, who is keenly interested in the Negro problem of the South, is gratified at the deep and earnest response his efforts have received from some of the representative Negroes of the city. In fact, he hopes to be able to present to the country at large a tangible example Unusual interest is being shown this year in the Indianapolis night schools for colored people. H. S. Gruver, assistant superintendent, is placing special emphasis on having the evening schools meet the needs of the various communities in which they are located. The directors are W. A. Hacker, head of the attendance department, and A. S. Hurrell, head of the vocational work of the city schools. The courses in the schools depend on the demands for certain work. Classes are offered in all academic subjects, with special classes for those who have completed public school work, and desire to enter the civil service, and in plain sewing, dressmaking, cooking, millinery, embroidery and crocheting, cleaning, pressing, repairing and tailoring for men and women, shoe repairing, electrical work, carpentry and cabinet making. The original idea of the night school was to decrease illiteracy, and this object has not been lost sight of in the present demand for industrial education. Illiteracy among colored people in Indianapolis is perhaps greater than in many northern cities, because the central location of the The output of the bureau of fisheries in stocking the waters of this country amounted to more than 4,000,000,000 specimens last year. Chicago, quoting from a newspaper of August 3, 1851, "now has the enormous population of 38,000, an increase of 10,000 in the last year." An instrument has been invented to check quickly and accurately the alignment of automobilewheels to ascertain if they track correctly. It is remarkable how few events or situations permitting mental exercises there are in our histories; how little exercised we have been in our minds; how few experiences we have had. I would fain be assured that I am growing space and frankly, though my very growth disturb this dull匀amity—though it be with struggle through long, dark, muggy nights, or seasons of gloom. It would be well if all our lives were a divine tragedy instead of this trivial comedy or farce. of the good to come to the Negro by leading and encouraging him to self-help. It is the desire of the foundation's head to demonstrate the effectiveness of co-operation between the white man and the Negro in those things so essential to the uplift of the Negro and the general health and welfare of the community.—Houston (Tex.) Post. The necessity of Negroes at all times realizing the importance of friendship with the southern white man, the Negro's neighbor and friend, was stressed by N. S. Adkins in an address at Shiloh Baptist church, Houston, Texas, reports the Post of that city. Adkins compared the Negro who seeks betterment in foreign fields to the crew of the vessel that was dying of thirst when their ship had drifted from the ocean into a river of fresh water. "Whatever sinks the South may be called upon to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world," he said. "Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands, and that we fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations. No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin and not at the top, nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities." The white people of the South who took to foreign immigrants to help develop the South, he said, should also cast down their buckets and take advantage of the opportunities afforded in assisting the $000,000 Negroes of the South to make the country bloom. "As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past in nursing your children watching by the sickbed of your mothers and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to the grave, so shall we stand by you in the future with a devotion that no foreigner can ap reproach," he said, addressing himself to the white men of the South. Death continues to exact its heavy toll among Alabama's Negro population, while the black race at the same time is less prolific than the white population of the state, according to statistics for September, published by the state board of health. However, the Negro race cannot be counted as dying out, as the birth rate exceeds the death rate nearly 8 per cent. For the month of September there were reported 4,703 births. Of these 3,688 were white and 1,618 colored. The total birth rate of the month was 24.3 per 1,000 of population. The white birth rate was 27.1 and the colored 29.4. There were 2,119 deaths reported. Of these 1,086 were white and 1,033 were colored. The total death rate was 10.9. The white death rate was 9.5 and the colored was 12.7. Hampton institute cannot begin to meet the demands made upon it each week for trained teachers and other leaders. Yet the school during the last year has been filled to overflowing. Enlargement of the institute's facilities seems to be essential. In the year 1918 Hampton will have completed 50 years of its existence. city attracts a transient element of the colored people from all over the United States. Many persons are talking the message of the night schools to these people, who would not be reached by any publicity. Because of the great number of colored persons who have come to Indianapolis this year from various parts of the South, the social welfare organizations among the colored people will join with the schools in an effort to aid them. Through the co-operation of the colored and white women, special efforts are being made, with much success, to care for delinquent colored girls in Virginia. A Negro named Andrew Alley, living four miles north of Columbus, Tex., sent a small farm for $135, planted 28 acres in cotton, from which he gathered 33 bales and received approximately $3,300, besides having his corn, potatoes, poultry and stock to further increase his income. Similar occurrences can be found over Colorado county this year. More than 50 feet of tin tubing, filled with peas, is used by an English inventor to filter the scratching and metallic sounds from phonograph music. To lessen the shocks a new detachable tandem seat for motorcycles is equipped with both horizontal and vertical springs and has a back rest. Air-cooling methods of the rapid-fire guns now in use have proved inadequate and the soldiers seem to think that water cooling is superior. When at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then indeed the cars go by without his hearing them. But soon by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return.—Thoreau. For Packing Tree Seedlings Oiled paper has been found to be an excellent material for packing tree seedlings, when shipped in crates. When crates are not used, paper-lined burlap makes a particularly satisfactory wrapper. 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 ..... .60 ADVERTISING RATE, 50 CENTS PER INCH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Carriage Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Char- le Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte Chapel A. M. E. Church, 17th and Tracy Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Woodland. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belleview view. Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Mining Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. St. James A. M. E. Zlon Church, 1823 Woodland Ava. Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Town Square Tracy Avenue Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Adamsville. Bigelow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lydia. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. A. M. E. Mission, 555 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL, M. E. CHURCH, BROOKLYN, NY 11201 EDITORIALS. Assuming that the Negro Democrats of Missouri by virtue of their having furnished the majority which elected the new governor will have a great deal of influence with the powers, it is hoped that our race will receive a little better deal in the matter of treatment of wayward girls. It is claimed that notwithstanding the school provided at Tipton, Jackson county officials refuse to commit wayward colored girls, the claim being made that the expense is a burden too heavy for the county. Many of our unfortunate girls who from lack of proper home training and parental care are constantly falling into evil ways, as do the girls of all other races. Our girls, however, are either ordered to attend the public schools to be reformed or are given some other orders equally as impracticable. The authorities do not appear to reason that an incorrigible running loose in a community, especially among others of her age, is more expensive in the long run than if she were committed to a reformatory for special care and treatment. It is claimed that the Jackson county funds are low and that economy must be practiced, yet it is noted that the superflous number of officials and subordinates still eat bountifully from the erib and that money is spent lavishly in all other directions. The old idea that Negroes pay but an insignificant part of the taxes can no longer be held up. There are over one thousand Negroes in Kansas City whose individual taxes average three dollars per month to say nothing of the remaining thousands who pay smaller sums, and it certainly is poor encouragement for good citizenship that all works of public economy should begin always at our end of the string. It is true that Negro folk melody possesses a charm unsurpassed by the music of any other race and that this particular lore should be carefully fostered as one of the cherished elements of American civilization. It is not true, however, that colored musical programs intended to be heard by white people should be given over entirely to this sort of music. It savors entirely too much of the catering spirit to be constantly singing back to Anglo-Saxon ears the wailings of slavery days and the lamentations of a thraldom which both blacks and whites should be ashamed of and forget. Our singers are just as capable of higher classical conceptions in music as are the singers of any other race and their ears should be trained as much to the sublime and the beautiful even if the efforts do not make such a decided hit with those who shed tears over the recollections of "Ole Black Mammy." "Ole Black Mammy" is dead—peace to her ashes—and these singers are the children of the deceased who are living for better things than she ever dreamed of. SAVE YOUR FACE. It always means much to anyone who can turn back the days of yesteryears by turning to photographs of self and friends. In the quiet hours of contemplation and reflection they help bring back the happy moments of the past. You will want a lasting picture, and you ought to get it right away. Order a dozen for your friends and send them at Xmas time. The best place in town to get them is at J. E. MILLER'S STUDIOS Photographer 1622 E. 18th St. Bell Phone E. 91 The Kansas City Sun can be found on sale in Chicago at A. D. Hayes, 3640 State Street. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION W. G. Mosely, President W. G. Mossey, President. T. G. McCampbell, Vice President. Wm. Washington, Treasurer. E. S. Baker, Secretary. Board of Directors: S. H. P. Edwards, J. E. Rhodes, E. S. Baker, R. V. Adkins, W. G. Mosely, Richard Harris R. Fulbright T. G. McCampbell, E. G. Lacy, T. W. H. Williams, Wm. Washington, Geo. Johnson, S. Myers, S. Myers Edw. Thompson, Meets fourth month. Tuesday in each Lodge Directory Lodge Directory G MASONRY Pritchard Lodge Nb. 42, A. F and A. M., meets every 2nd and 4th Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Wm. Hopkins, W. M. M. J. H. SPIGENER, Secretary. G Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F, and Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Emmett Spruel, W. and Monday in each month. G MASONRY Mt. Olive' Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 3rd Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are wel- lesting Merys, Myers, W. M. Frank Love, Secretary, 1215 Baltimore Ave. G MASONRY Lebanon Lodge No. 128, A. F. and A. M., Lincoln, Neb., meets with the Master Masons month. All Master Masons in good standing are welcome. Xiang, W. M., 1315 Washington St., B. S. Smith, Secy, 617. S. 20th St. G Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. F. and A. M. Liberty, Mo. 37, the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Secy. St. Stephens Chapter No. 37. Royal Arch Masons, Liberty, meets first Tuesday in each month at H. P. Masonry, H. P. W., Cmps. Records. PMEH HOC IN HINES HINES St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets the third Saturday night will be held at 11:30 a.m. H Robinson, Rpse, Ss'V. ```markdown ``` King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mondays in each month at 582 Grand Avenue, C. P. W. M. D. M. W. West W. 1718 Euclid Ave., Secretary D. OF T. Primerose Tabernacle meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each month at Tabor Hall, 1413 Vine street. All Daughters and Sir Knights in good standing and welcome at Dodson, H. P., 1706 E. 12th; Estella Pitts, C. R., 1815 E. 17th. Send in your news for publication. Our phone is Bell E. 999. Betty & Sam's Little Corner —That there are some people so mean that they really hate themselves. —That the sidewalks on Eighteenth street are the dirtriets in town. Why? —That a forty dollar overcoat and an empty stomach don't make good combination. —That turkey was as hard to get Thanksgiving as whiskey in a dry town. —That the one who is always telling what he has done is usually a has been. Hush, man, hush. —That there's got to be some tall hustling done to get ready for Christmas and that's no dream. —That those Negroes who are us- ing furnaces and buying coal by the basket are having a h—l of a time just now. You can't do it brother, you can't do it. —That a certain brother who had to have an automobile every warm day last summer in order "to get the air" is still wearing his B. V. D.'s. —That the prettiest and most cultured girls of the race are going to assist in making Negro tag day a success. That's right, girls, brush up and get ready. INTER-STATE LATERARY ASSOCIATION. The Inter-State Literary Association of Kansas and the West will hold its 26th Annual Session in Topeka December 27, 28 and 29. This session will be in the nature of a celebration as the society was organized in that city 25 years ago. The principal officers this year are Dr. G. G. Brown, president, Wichita, Kans.; Mrs. Ella M. Guy, Cor. Secy, Topeka, Kans.; Mrs. F. M. Goodson, Rec. Secy, St. JoJseph, Mo., and Hon. Jas. H. Guy, Chairman Executive Committee, Topeka, Kans. This is expected to be a banner session. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1916 M. CHARLES T. WATTS Teacher of violin, piano and saxaphon e; piano tuner; modern and thoroughly efficient methods. "Beginners and disgusted pupils my hobby." 1320 Vine street. Phone Bell, Eaat 2346. Attention! Please Out of our large number of subscribers there are about one hundred and twenty-five who have neglected to pay all or a part of their subscription for the year 1916. We are sending our collectors to you during the coming week and we urge you who are delinquent to please settle in full that you may be enabled to take advantage of our SPECIAL RATE during January. Our collectors are: Mrs. Sallie Jackson, Mrs. Rosa Jones, Mrs. Ophelia Jackson, Mrs. Zenobia Nelson, Mrs. Genevieve Fields, Miss Nenella Norman and Miss Birdie Allen. One of them will call on you sure. AMERICAN WOODMEN The Great Fraternal Insurance Society Now in Kansas City. Among the great fraternal insurance societies of this country stands the American Woodmen, with headquarters at Denver, Colo. This society was founded in 1901 under the laws of Colorado, where the Mobile bill is in force and whose insurance laws are recognized as being the best in existence for the protection of policy holders. In the beginning, the founders of this society recognized the fact that insurance, under whatever name, to be permanent and safe must adopt a system and operate on a plan that the best insurance experience teaches as safe. The American Woodmen was from the beginning an adequate rate society. It gives the National Fraternal congress table of rates—a rate that is known to be adequate and safe. As a result of this wise policy the American Woodmen is on a safe and sound basis, with a legal reserve, and its valuation is the highest of any fraternity doing business among colored people. This society accepts both men and women in the same camp, and issues certificates from $250 to $2,000. In addition to the insurance, this society protects its members against sickness, accident, old age pensions and burial. The insurance department of Missouri approves of this society and every certificate is guaranteed. Insurance is business, whether given by a society or by a company. Business recognizes certain principles. It is not business to collect taxes, extra assessments and other fees in addition to regular premiums. In the Woodmen, a member pays the same each month—never a tax of any kind. Nearly all of our secret societies have recently adopted the insurance feature as a permanent part of their organization. It has grown to such proportions that the colored secret societies alone carry over half a billion dollars on the lives of men and women. Because of this tremendous business and its far reaching power, nearly every state in the Union has passed laws generally known as the "Mobile bill." Its aim is to make these insurance institutions as sound and safe as the old line companies. The salient features of this law require that societies carry a rate of premium sufficient to meet all present obligations immediately and accumulate a reserve capable of taking care of the future increased death rate. These rates are generally known as the National Fraternal Congress rates, and are based on a graduated system, charging according to age. All funds are required to be invested in gilt edge securities as recommended by the commissioner of insurance. An annual valuation is the chief method of determining whether the business is being conducted along safe lines or not; also an annual examination by the Department of Banking and Insurance of all books and accounts. Some secret societies are known as fraternal benevolent—others as fraternal insurance. The latter have always complied with these laws. Such societies never resort to extra assessments of any kind. No grand lodge taxes or local taxes. Among the most conspicuous are the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America, Bankers Union, Yeomen of America and American Woodmen. The American Woodmen is the only society operated by colored people that is offering true Woodcraft to our race along these safe and sound lines. Read this letter from Hon. John H. Upton, head of the valuing board of Colqrado. Then read our folder No. 2 and if you are not in a position to become an American Woodman, at least rejoice that our people have the advantage of such an institution. June 9, 1916. I. L. H. Lightner, Supreme Clerk, American Woodmen, Denver, Colo. ON! Please of subscribers there are about one have neglected to pay all or a part year 1916. We are sending our col- leg week and we urge you who are all that you may be enabled to take TE during January. Our collectors Rosa Jones, Mrs. Ophella Jackson, avieve Fields, Miss Ophella Norman them will call on you sure. Dear Sir—In completing the valuating of your certificates in force at the close of December 31, 1915, as required by the insurance laws, I find that you are seven and seventhhs per cent in advance of the statutory requirement of ninety per cent. The American Woodmen, with its very low death rate of less than seven per thousand, is now in such condition as to meet every requirement of the most stringent of the present laws of every insurance department of the various states. ... I find that the phenomenal growth of the society, and its most splendid accomplishments have been obtained by reason of the wisdom of your officers as exhibited in the management and conduct of affairs of the institution, and the fact that your membership is on an adequate rate basis, being that of the National Fraternal Congress. Your officers and members are to be congratulated on your showing, which is exceedingly commendable from every view point. I hope the present year will be as prosperous as the year 1915. (Signed) JOHN H. UPTON. Stop that cough. Smith's Egg Emulsion will do it. Made fresh every week. Price 75 cents. Let us send you a bottle today. 18th and Tracy. It was to a large and appreciative congregation that the pastor Dr. Wm. H. Thomas delivered his edifying soul stirring sermon on last Sunday morning; his subject was "Things by which men live." It is impossible to listen to such sermons and not grow spiritually. His Sunday, night sermon was equally as uplifting. There were three additions. Among the visitors present were Miss Effie Weir of San Antonio, Texas; Mr. Geo. Carr of Chicago, Ill.; W. S. Riley of Muskogee, Okla.; and J. F. Ellison of El Reno Okla.... The Thanksgiving spirit was much in evidence. Service at 11:00 a.m. and dinner served all day. The Douglass Hospital Cl. b had their initial concert Thanksgiving night, at Allen Chapel and the ladies are very grateful to their patronage. The great Rally—Allen's loyal men and women lined up on opposite sides. Now we shall see who are the real leaders. Are you doing your share? A. MME. McCLELLLAND TODD 1826 Woodland Bell E. 4302J. Kansas City, Mo. For a limited time only I will give away absolutely Free with every Straightening Comb (Price $1.00) one beautiful braid of natural hair. Out of town orders promptly filled. Send postage. Hair Grower 25c; Straightening Oil 25c; HaHir Straightening 50 and 75c. Poro System if desired. ALLEN CHAPEL Madame Page's Criterion Hair Preparations YOU'VE TRIED THE REST, NOW TRY THE BEST. MADAME B. R. PAGE Scalp Specialist and Manufacturer of the Criterion Hair Grower 2533 Woodland Ave. Bell East 1358w Kansas City, Mo. MME. A. MOORE, TEACHER OF PIANO and VOICE Also directress for the Dixie Jubilee Singers For Engagements, Phone Bell Grand 3319-W. M M E. A. MOORE, TEACHER OF PIANO and VOICE Also directress for the Dixie Jubilee Singers For Engagements, Phone Bell Grand 3319-W. THE A. M. E. EPISCOPAL CHURCH —BIGELOW'S MISSION. Will hold services at 230 Garfield, third and fourth Sunday of each month. Sunday school at 9 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 7 p. m. Every Wednesday 2 p. m. prayer meeting; 7:30 preaching. New mission connected at 534 Lydia. Every Tuesday evening class and prayer meeting. Also Friday, 1st and 2nd Sunday. Preaching all day and Sunday school at 2:30 every Sunday. Take the Fifth Street car going east and get off at Garfield. Walk one block north. You will see the sign. All are cordially invited. REV. MRS. L. B. ALEMAN, 534 Lydia avenue. PILES AND OTHER RECTAL DISEASES CURED WITHOUT SURGERY BY MY PAINLESS DISSOLVENT METHOD No Hospital Expense or Detention from Business. Absolutely Safe. A. A MONTH OF YOU NEED NOT PAY ONE CENT. Consultation and Examination Free. It is not required to pay one cent. 321-322 Missouri Building, 1021-1023 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. (Over Physicians' Supply Co. The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions VISIT OUR DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE DEPT. BARGAINS SPECIAL BARGAINS IN OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT AND HAIR GOODS. Help Make Our Store, Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends Men's FLEECED UNDERWEAR 45c a garment. Taylor Holmes & Co. Mrs. Annie Holmes, Mngr. MONEY—MONEY—MONEY. Furniture loans made to honest people. Pay back in weekly payments. Business strictly confidential. Bell Phone, Grand 2303-R. Criterion stands for quality, as "Sterling" stands for Good Silver. Criterion has been tested thoroughly and proven to be the most wonderful of all hair preparations. AGENTS WANTED. GOOD PROFIT. MA Scalp Specialist and 2533 Woodland Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City NS, 2331 Vine street. Bell BARBER SHOPS. S BARBER SHOP, W. F. LABORING MEN'S BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558 Grand Avenue. BARBECUE STANDS Bobenee Stand, 1747 Forest a e Street. PARLORS AND HAIR D TON, Poro Hair Dresser, 10 Bell phone, West 3741. OGAN, Poro Hair Dresser, 5M. VLE, Poro Hair Dresser, 2 1346W. JACKSON, Manufacturer, East 10th street, Bell phone WILSON, 1609 E. 14th Stre phone East 1871W. S. DOTTREY, 1102 Highland ORD, 1305 Michigan avenue 2221J. N, 1725 Michigan Ave. P 5J. 07 East 17th street. Poro B and 1025W. ELLIAMS, 1714 East 13th St Hair Dresser. Poro Hair Dresser, 1226 VI A. D. TURNER, Barbecue Stand, 1747 Forest avenue. H. WINN, 2315 Vine Street. MISS PEARL WELTON, Poro Hair Dresser, 1010 North 4th St., Kansas City, Kansas. Bell phone, West 3741. MRS. MARY W. HOGAN, Poro Hair Dresser, 1603 A. E. 14. Bell phone, East 3805M. MRS. MINNIE DOYLE, Poro Hair Dresser, 2732 Highland avenue, Bell phone, East 1346W. MISS MAE BELLE JACKSON, Manufacturer of Wonderful Hair Grower, 1913 East 10th street, Bell phone East 3237W. MRS. ETHEL E. WILSON, 1609 E. 14th Street, XX Century Hair Grower, Bell Phone East 1871W. MRS. DELILAH M. S. DOTTREY, 1102 Highland avenue. Poro Hair Dresser. MRS. LUCY BENFORD, 1305 Michigan avenue. Poro Hair Dresser. Bell phone, East 2221J. MRS. SUSIE GIBSON, 1725 Michigan Ave. Poro Hair Dresser. Bell phone, East 3058J. MRS. F. BETTS, 1507 East 17th street. Poro Hair Dresser. Bell Phone, Grand 1025W. MRS. CORA D. WILLIAMS, 1714 East 13th St. Bell phone, East 3610J. Poro Hair Dresser. MRS. F. A. COOK, Poro Hair Dresser, 1226 Vine St. Bell phone, E. 2820. CAFES. MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th. Bell Phone, E. 2214. JONES' CAFE, 2110 Vine Street. Everything to satisfy. WOODLAND CAFE, Charles E. Gilliam, Prop., 1804 East 12th St. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. JONES' CAFE, 2110 Vine Street. Everything to satisfy. WOODLAND CAFE, Charles E. Gilliam, Prop., 1804 East 12th St. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. COAL AND FEED W. W. PAYNE, 1902 1-2 Vine St. H. East 4132. FLORIS CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 272. Home phone, East 4070. LAWY C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, H 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, H 448. Legal advice. Practices E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney a sas City, Kas. Bell phone, West W. W. PAYNE, 1902 1-2 Vine St. Bell phone, East 559; Home phone, East 4132. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1801 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 272. Home phone, East 4070. 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, 511 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware. W. W. DESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. E. SHAKIRA LADIES' TAILORING t. MRS. ELNORA MOSS, 1300 Wood JEWEN J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. 9th street, Main 6248R. SS, 1300 Woodland Ave. JEWELERS. W. 9th street, Kansas City MRS. ELNORA MOSS, 1300 Woodland Ave. Bell phone, East 4438. JEWELERS. J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. 9th street, Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone, Main 6248R. MESSENGER SERVICE THE ENTERPRISE, 1521 East 18th Bell phone, East 1521. PHYSIO A. D. BRADBURY, M. D., 821 Index 4438. PHOTOGRAPH J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 East 11 REAL ESTATE and A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVEST (upstairs) Kansas City, Kans. phone, West 1036. C. W. Nelom COLORED PEOPLE'S INVESTMENT East 1011, Home East 4011. Sol Sm SHOE ST G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 East 1328. UNDERTA H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence A Home phone Main 3341. C. H. COUNTEE, Licensed Embalmer 3336, Home East 3341. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia Ave Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281 THE ENTERPRIS, 1521 East 18th Street, Charles A. Starks, Prop. Bell phone, East 1521. PHYSICIANS A. D. BRADBURY, M. D., 821 Independence Ave. Bell phone Main 4438. PHOTOGRAPHERS IO, 1622 East 18th Street. ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT T AND INVESTMENT CO. s City, Kans. Bell phone . C. W. Neloms, Mgr. S INVESTMENT CO., 242 4011. Sol Smith, Pres SHOE STORE. STORE, 1507 East 18th REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. 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. UNDERTAKERS Independence Avenue. Belt n 3341. Emensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine 3341. REEN, 19th and Vine Sts. 729 Lydia Ave. Bell Pho Bell East 3281. H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence Avenue. Bell phone Main 3398W Home phone Main 3341. C. H. WILSON G. R. COUNTEE, Licensed Embalmer, 2220 Vine St., Bell Phone, East 3336, Home East 3341. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, 19th and Vine Sts. Phones, East 4349. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Grand 987, Home Main 7989. Res. Bell East 2381 SHOE REPAIRING. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP 18th street. Bell phone, East 49 EAR Co. BOTH TIME AND M LADIES AND GENTS FURNISHING STORE CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN ALSO FALL AND WINTER GOOD Madame Page's ion Hair Prepar YOU'VE TRIED THE REST, NOW TRY THE BEST. REPAIR SHOP, J.C. Bank phone, East 4939. AND MONEY S AND GENTS ING STORE CHILDREN ALSO W. L. 1318 East INTER GOODS NOW Page's Preparation THE REST, REST. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP, J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514½ East 18th street. Bell phone, East 4939. BOTH TIME AND MONEY SAVED AT LADIES AND GENTS FURNISHING STORE CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN ALSO W. L. MARTINS 1318 East 18th Street FALL AND WINTER GOODS NOW ON DISPLAY JOHNSON AND MARY MADAME B. R. PAGE and Manufacturer of the Criterion and Ave. Bell East 1358w Kan R. PAGE the Criterion Hair Gr 358w Kansas City, 47 Forest avenue. UND HAIR DRESSERS. Dresser, 1010 North 4th St., N. West 3741. Dresser, 1603 A. E. 14. Dresser, 2732 Highland ave. Manufacturer of Wonderful Bell phone East 3237W. E. 14th Street, XX Century L. W. 1102 Highland avenue. Poro D Rigan avenue. Poro Hair Dress An Ave. Poro Hair Dresser. Eet. Poro Hair Dresser. East 13th St. Bell phone, L ser, 1226 Vine St. Bell phone ES. Bell Phone, E. 2214. Everything to satisfy. William, Prop., 1804 East 12th St. Bell phone, East 618. FEED. Bell phone, East 559; Home ph STS. East 18th St. Bell phone, L ERS. Home phone M58, Bell phone M58. Home phone M58, Bell phone M58 in all courts. L Law, 511 Minnesota Ave., K t 3866. and Ave. Bell phone, East 44 ERS. Kansas City, Mo. Bell pho MANS. Dependence Ave. Bell phone M. PHERS. 8th Street. Bell phone, E. 91. EMPLOYMENT. TMENT CO., 500 Minnesota A. Bell phone, West 1743; Ho- s, Mgr. T CO., 2427 Vine St. Bell Pho- th, Pres. ORE. East 18th street. Bell pho- KERS. venue. Bell phone Main 3398 , 2220 Vine St., Bell Phone, E. Vine Sts. Phones, East 4349, Bell Phone Grand 987, Ho- AIRING. J. J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514½ Ea- 39. MONEY SAVED AT W. L. MARTINS 1318 East 18th Street DS NOW ON DISPLAY rations WHAT THEY WILL DO. The Criterion preparations will make kinky stubborn hair soft and glossy, cure the scalp of tetter and eczema, remove the dandruff, stop itching and burning of the scalp, stop hair from falling out, promote a growth of long, thick, glossy hair. For man, woman or child. In Hair Grower Las City, Mo. BAKERIES CAFES. FLORISTS LAWYERS CITY NEWS TAG DAY $1000.00 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th for the Colored Poor Don't forget the Negro Tag Day. Mr. M. W. Wooden, 1814 Woodland avenue, who has been ill for several weeks, is improving slowly. Religious services, dinner and concert at night was the program in most of the churches Thanksgiving Day. Stop that bad cold, Smith's Vim and Vigor Cold Tablets will do it. Price 25 cents. 18th and Tracy. Many Knights Templars of this city attended the annual conclave at Topeka Thanksgiving Day and report a delightful time. Miss Viola Kinney, one of Sedalia's most popular teachers-and a musician of acknowledged ability was a Thanksgiving Day visitor in the city. She attended the football game and was the guest of Mrs. Mitchell, 1426 East 24th street. A great crowd witnessed the football game between W. U. and Lincoln Institute Thursday among whom were many strangers. W. U. Band and Glee Club enlivened the occasion with music and yells. TAG SATURDA for the Go to Wm. Johnston's if you want a shine, a cigar, an automobile or information. He's got 'em. 1516 East 18th Street. Mr. and Mrs. Chas T. Phelps of St. Joseph motored over to the football game Thursday. Stop that cough. Smith's Egg Emulsion will do it. Made fresh every week. Price 75 cents. Let us send you a bottle today, 18th and Tracy. CARD OF THANKS. The B. L. I. P. U. of A. wishes to thank the Graeco Art Club for a most successful benefit dance given on October 31. There was $50.27 clear of expenses turned into our treasury, for which we feel very grateful. The efforts and generosity of the ladies shall never be forgotten. CHARLES H. HARRIS. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. K. Love and son, Mrs. Addie Allen, Mrs. D. N. Crosthwait and Mrs. N. C. Crews returned last Monday from Maryville, Mo., and report a most delightful visit. They were banqueted and dined almost every hour during their stay and are loud in their praises of Mr. and Mrs. Smart their hosts and the good people of Maryville. Other out-of-town visitors who met them there were Mrs. Virgle Walden and Mrs. Williams of Columbia, Mo., and Mrs. Ella Hines of St. Joseph. The occasion was the dedication of a new chapter. You owe to your wife, mother, daughter or sweetheart a box of delicious fresh chocolate candy or a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream at Smith's Drug Store, cor. 18th & Tracy. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our thanks to our mary friends for their kindness and many beautiful floral offerings, during the brief illness and death of our beloved little daughter and granddaughter, Mary Elvira Foster. We especially wish to mention The Ladies' Covenant, Pleasure Seekers' Club, Crosthwait Floral Co., Johnson Floral Co., Willing Worker Camp and Mrs. Jerry Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Foster, Parents Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Segars, Mrs. R. W. Foster, Grandparents. An Memoriam In loving remembrance of our dear Mother, Lucy Morton, who departed this life December 3, 1915: She is gone but not forgotten. One year has passed and oh! we miss her; Friends may think the sorrow is healed; Little do they know the sorrow That lies within our hearts conealed. By her children, Lida McEihaney, Myrtle Wadley, Georgia Abernathy, Everetta Reid, Charley Morton, Mary Morton. Go see Johnson, 1516 E. 18th street for anything. Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Motin will entertain six guests at a 6:00 o'clock dinner Sunday, December 3rd. UNBEATABLE BARGAINS. 5 rooms, 25 ft. in Quindaro.....$ 700 3 rooms, 1318 Spruce.....1,050 5 rooms, 100 ft. chicken yard.....1,850 4 rooms, 1½ acres, fruit, etc.....2,500 Payment down as low as $50 or $100 on some of these places. Call Vaughan, Bell West 1757, 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kans. Every Colored person in greater Kansas City should help make Negro Tag Day an unqualified success. The entire force of The Sun attended the football game and then spent the evening at the Editor's residence. Misses Glenn, Jackson and Norman, Mrs. Morton-Jones and Mr. E. E. Vaughan of the force are all Alumnus of Western University. Special rates to Clubs and social organizations desiring to publish accounts of their proceedings and entertainments. Call Bell E99. 999. DAY AY, DECEMB olored SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Last Sunday our pastor, Dr. S. W. Bacote, preached two inspiring sermons to appreciative audiences. In the afternoon he took his choir and congregation to Ebenezer's A. M. E. Church, 16th and Lydia, and assisted Dr. Williams in his rally. This is only a beginning of a great series of exchanges of pulpits and choirs. Let the good work go on. There were seven additions to the Church last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E. Turner, 1031 Highland avenue, have returned to the city after residing in Omaha for the past three years. VINE STREET BAPSTEAT CHURCH. Good services all day last Sunday. There were two additions to the Church. Our pastor Rev. T. H. Ewing was again with us after being very ill....Miss Dorphine Coles has been quite ill....Miss Nora Rhodes is reported much improved....Rev. J. Richardson of Kansas City, Kansas preached a noble sermon Tuesday to the Woman's Mission Circle. We hope the Reverend will visit us again. ....Mrs. M. Hale of Davenport, Ia. has returned home after visiting her cousins Mrs. D. Barrett and Mrs. Cora Palmer, 1302 Michigan Avenue for the past five weeks. Mrs. Hale reported an excellent visit. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Last Monday evening was the scene of a very spectacular Mock Gypsy Wedding. Beautiful decorations were in evidence. The costumes of the participants were very elaborate. Master Sylvester Lowe officiated. Miss Eula Brown played the wedding march. Little Alice Hutchinson was the bride and Melvin Johns was the groom. Reea Hutchinson represented an Indian and Charlie Killough a Japanese. Solo was rendered by Margie Smith. The bridal procession was composed of a number of children the leader of whom carried a banner representing purity. THE SUN FROM NOW TO JANUARY 1ST—15 cents. Call Bell Phone East 999. NOTICE TO SOCIAL CLUBS If you are interested in having your Christmas invitations, dance programs, door cards and so forth turn from the very latest novelties in paper line you should see the two Eastern lines now being carried by the Harris Printing Co., 1515 East 18th street, Kansas City, Mo. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1916 By Mrs. Zenobia Nelson. Mr. James Addison, 1000 Freeman avenue, is very ill with tuberculosis. Miss Lola Terrill and mother have moved to 1509 N. 9th street. Dinner will be served at Metropolitan church Thanksgiving. Madame Demby will appear in a song recital at night. The Pullman Porters' Auxiliary, which gave a Benefit Dance at Lyric Hall, was a grand success. The Pierian Reading Club will render the program for the Citizens' Forum Sunday, December 3. Last Friday evening a large crowd gathered at Sumner High School to listen to an address and views on "Safety First." Mrs. J. R. Rhodes and little daughter, Catherine, of 942 Washington boulevard, spent Thanksgiving with her parents at Odessa, Mo. Mr Rhodes will meet them Saturday and they will return home Sunday. $1000.00 ER 16th Poor Mrs. Callie Edwards of St. Louis, Mo., is the house guest of Mrs. I. F. Bradley, 400 Haskell avenue, this week. Mrs. G. S. Turner and Mrs. Mae Jones, 1114 Washington boulevard, spent Thakksgiving with their aunt and sister at Leavenworth, Kans. Prof. and Mrs. S. C. James of Quindaro left for Liberia last week to do electrical work. Mr. W. E. Hart, 1143 Grandview boulevard, who was confined to his home with malaria, is able to be out again. Little Ida Mae Swancy was pleasantly surprised with a birthday party last Saturday afternoon. Forty-eight guests were present. Ida Mae was one of the little girls who raised $5.00 for the Sunday School Rally. Mrs. Swancy and Mrs. Hulsey were hostesses. Mrs. E. H. Hamilton, 2106 North 3rd street, returned from a three weeks' stay in Little Rock, Ark., where she was called on account of the death of her brother, George Moore. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Turner of Denver, Colo., is the guest of their sister, Miss L. J. Harlan, 1114 Washington boulevard. Mr. James A. Scott of K. U., spent Thanksgiving with his aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Thompson, 321 N. 8th street. Mrs. Fannie Thomas and little granddaughter of Fort Smith, Ark., will reside here permanently with their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thomas, 730 Everett avenue. The Citizens' Forum enjoyed a rare treat when the Vice-President and Cashier of Commercial National Bank addressed them on "Thrift." It was a masterpiece. Miss Orpheus Scott sang her sweetest when she rendered a beautiful solo. The attendance was unusual. Prepare to attend the Pipe Organ recital given for the Forum December 15. Prof. R. G. Jackson and others will compose the numbers of program. CHRISTIAN CHURCH Last Sunday was Educational Day at the Christian Church. A special program was rendered at both services. Prof. Henly L. Cox of the Wendell Phillips School and Prof. J. R. Lee of Lincoln High School took part on the program. The Church with the help of friends raised by far its largest sum for education. Next Sunday will be Woman's National Day and a special program will be rendered at each service. At 8:00 P. M. a Symposium "The Woman's Part in the World's Task" led by Mrs. Wm. Alphin. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 24th and Woodland Ave. Bible school at 9:30 a. m.; preaching and Communion at 11 a. m.; Y. P. S. C. E. at 7 p. m.; preaching at 8:15 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday at 8:30 p. m.; Christian Woman's Board of Missions Thursday at 2 p. m. WILLIAM ALPHIN, Pastor. J. H. Winkler MEATS & GROCERIES 1625 E. 18th St. GIVE HIM A CALL Women's Clubs. SECOND ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP ENTERTAINMENT. The Federated Alumni Association will give its second annual scholarship entertainment December 8 at Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets. Admission 25 cents. Proceeds for the benefit of some worthy student whom the association assists each year to attend college. Good music and dancing. THE LYNNHURST CLUB. The Lynnhurst Club dances at the Eighth Ward Musical Hall, 12th and Tracy, every Monday and Friday. Steve Lane, Pres. Marshall Rogers, Secy. Roy Dorsey, Treas. Bennie Moten Orchestra. All participants in the Cantata Queen Eater of 1915 and others that wish to come are requested to meet Wednesday, December 6, at St. James A. M. E. Church, 1805 Woodland, at 8:00 o'clock for the purpose of perfecting a permanent Choral Society for winter programs. Refreshments free. E. R. Robinson, Pres., Mrs. L. M. Caswell, Secy. Dr. A. Franklin Redford, Director. DEMOCRATIC PRAYER Most Worshipful Woodrow Wilson, President of all these United States and Shepherd of the Democratic flock; thou who holdest great juicy slices of pie in the hollow of thy ample hands, when not holding thy new wife, and dealeth it out according to thy righteous will; we, thy poor, weatherbeaten and unworthy constituents, come tumbling down on our tummies to pour out our political devotions to thee and bless thy glorious Democratic name and to wish thee a large family of little Democrats in due season. Give ear unto our supplications, Great Political King. "We will confess that it is not as well with us as it might be. By some unaccountable reason several of us have not got jobs worth speaking about. And thou knowest a Democrat with no office and no work is in a devil of a fix. We simply can't hurrah for "Wilson Prosperity" under such circumstances. It makes us feel like sheep-killing dogs. We could stand it to be without work, and have our rations run short and see times get hard, if it wasn't for the infernal Republicans making fun of our lot and saying "we told you so." Master Wilson, that hurts like blue blazes. "Mighty Master, thou knowest we can't be Democrats without reward. Thou knowest we voted for thee with the understanding that we inherit the offices and the emoluments thereof. Yet we see Republicans holding over everywhere while we are down in the gutter. Again, we declare that w are ready. We will take anything that thou hast. We would be dogcatcher for the back districts of Hepsidam. We would be tick inspector. 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She stood just outside the fence where Reuben had been raking hay, so pretty in her modest muslin garb that his eyes expressed his open admiration. Her own drooped at the ardent glance but not until she had detected the sincere sentiment of sympathy and interest in his clear open face. "I wish I knew why and how," spoke Reuben truthfully. "I hope I may be of help, for Mr. Blake has been a good friend to me." "I can hardly make it out," proceeded Netta, "but I fear it has something to do with Mr. Drew. He and uncle have never been friends and you know Mr. Jomas Drake's reputation for trickery and malice. He has hired away every man uncle had working for him that he could bribe or coax. Why!" and Netta looked up again, "he tried to get you to desert us." "That is true," nodded Reuben, "but he couldn't have been aware of the good treatment I was receiving here." Netta smiled her approval of the loyalty and appreciation expressed. Then she went on. "Mr. Drew, you know, hired away that Jim Dover. A week afterward Jim broke into the house here and stole a lot of things, including some private papers belonging to uncle. He was arrested, but Mr. Drew came around and had a talk with uncle and Jim wasn't prosecuted. And ever since then uncle bus acted strange and worried, just as if there was some mystery under it all and as if he was afraid of Mr. Drew." "It won't do for me to intrude on Mr. Drew with what he might mistake FISHING Saw Him Shake His Whip in the Di rection of the House. for idle curiosity or impudence," observed Reuben. "But I will watch and see if I can't find out what is troubling him." The speaker glanced tenderly after the fair girl as she sighed, nodded an adieu and woot on her way. A victim of hard luck in the city, six mouths previous Reuben had struck out for the country. He had found a home, indeed, at the Drake farm. More than that, he had found Netta and life had taken on a new and inspiring guise for him. Reuben placed himself in the way of his employer without arousing suspicion or resentment. The dark cloud, however, did not leave the brows of the sturdy farmer and he never opened his lips on his personal affairs. One day Reuben made a discovery that star-tied him. He learned in the village that Mr. Drake was arranging to mortgage the farm for five thousand dollars. Reuben did not tell Netta, for he knew the intelligence would grieve her. He was sorely mystified himself, for he could place no reason why his employer should borrow money, unless for some secret purpose. Then twice he saw Mr. Drake come from the direction of the Drew farm, each time looking broken and depressed, and once, as Drew drove by, not observing Reuben standing in the shadow of some bushes, the latter saw him shake his whip in the direction of the house and grin and chuckle as though vastly enjoying some spiteful triumph over the man who in the far past, it was said, won his wife against the efforts of his rival. Reuben went into the sitting room late one afternoon, to find Drake at his desk counting over a great heap of banknotes, his face colorless and drawn with some mental anguish. He uttered a deep groan and Reuben caught the muffled words: "In the grasp of that villain, and I dare not defy him, No, no, for Netta's sake I will make the sacrifice." "Mr. Drake," spoke out Reuben, startling the farmer with his sudden and unexpected appearance and intensely moved at the old man's deep distress, "I must speak out." "What about, ind!" questioned Drake, trying to disguise his emotion with the friendly hall. "You are in trouble, sir," responded Reuben, manfully. "I have noticed it; your niece has, too. Let me help you, if I can, and Netta—" "Netta!" repeated Drake, with a slight trown. "She's that to me," declared Reuben stunchily, "for I love her. Oh, sr, do not fear! I have not told her so. You have kno' n it first. Leaving that aside, you have made of me a loyal friend and my heart aches for you." A quick moisture came into the eyes of Drake. He made an impulsive movement and his lips moved as though he was about to award some confidence. Then they compressed again. "Thank you, Black," he said huskily, "but you can be of no service to me in this case. I must bear" my burden alone. Maybe inter I will tell you; just now all you can do is to drive me over to the Drew farm after supper." Reuben bowed and retired. Two hours later Drake got up on the seat beside him. Neither spoke during the dreary journey. It had begun to rain and as Drake alighted Reuben drove the horse under the shelter of some trees. He watched Drake enter the house. Then he made him out through the open window of a lighted room, seated at a table opposite Drew. Reuben got down from the vehicle and crossed the farmyard. For a moment he stood in the shelter of a haystruck, watching the two men in the house. Then, almost irresistibly, he was drawn toward the open window. He had lighted his pipe. This he set on the ground, so that no taint of tobacco smoke might arouse the suspicions of the wily Drew. Within the room Drake, stern, pale, a desperate look in his eye, was saying: "I've brought the money." "Hand it over," pronounced the evil-eyed Drew, glibly. "Not till I know I am going to get the notes in return." "Oh, I've got those in a safe place. Don't get saucy, Drake, or I'll call the deal off. I owe you something for marrying the only woman I ever cared for. Revenge might be sweeter than money." "You are a monster!" spoke Drake, unrestrainedly. "And you are a forger!" was the mocking rejoinder. "Yes," admitted Drake, to save the farm years ago I forged some notes; but I paid them like a man and no one knew save you, through theft of the papers" "I'll go and get them," said Drew, and he arose and then with a stare outside uttered a sharp cry. Some sparks from the pipe carelessly placed on the ground near the haystack had ignited it, and it was all in a blaze. "My hiding place—the papers! The notes!" fairly screeched Drew, and, dashing out, he flew toward the stack, but, stumbling over a log, fell prostrate, stunned. Reuben, striving to pull out the blazing hay, suspended that operation. He dragged Drew out of danger from the blaze. "Let it burn," he said calmly to Drake, as the latter appeared. "The papers this wretch hold over you are hidden in that stack." Drew raved like a madman when he recovered and found his power gone and himself harmless so far as Drake was concerned. "It's a trick, a plot! You set the fire!" he raved to Reuben. "I'll have you arrested for arson." "All right," replied Reuben. "You utter a peep and we'll have you arrested for attempted blackmail." They left the baffled wretch to his misery and Drake went home a happy man, the dread of his life removed through the unconscious efforts of the loyal Reuben, his soh-in-law that was to be. Dressing for the Party On the trolley the other day there were two winsome damsels hanging to straps and entertaining each other in sparkling conversation about what they were going to wear at some function that was soon to happen. They told of their shoes, their stockings, their lingerie, their skirts, their bodices, their neckwear, their hats, their gloves, and every item of their garb and the material thereof, and their conversation seemed almost a symphony in velvets, silks, jewels, that one could imagine them entering the drawing room in pink tulle and flowered volle, the objects of the admiring gaze of all the company. We would have given a $5 banknote if we could have caught that conversation on a dictagraph. By the way, why don't the record people get a couple of these fascinating damsels together and have them tell what they are going to wear to a party? It would be very interesting talk, as one might imagine if he had seen that whole car using their articles in every sort of fashion to catch the mellifluous accents of those gentle maidens telling what they were going to wear.—Ohio State Journal. His Share. Billy glowed with rapture. He had won the girl of his heart, and in the sanctity of his bed-sitting room he was discussing his rosy prospects with a friend. "Yes," he said, while his shirt front expanded many inches; "I think Molly and I are starting married life under the rostest auspices. Her father is giving us a little, creeper-clad cottage; her mother will furnish it for us; her grandfather is giving us a motor car, and, in addition to this, Molly has a snug little income of her own." "Excellent!" said his friend, inspired by the young man's enthusiasm. "And you—what are you bringing to the happy union?" "Me? Oh—er—I'm giving my name!" Legal Brethren. "Gabe," said the lawyer to the amazed negro witness, who had been listening to a heated discussion as to the admissibility of certain testimony, "you have followed carefully this intricate discussion touching on the various aspects of medical jurisprudence involved in the issues we have before us for adjudication; and in view of that I now desire to know the theory advanced by my learned brother." The witness cast a triumphant side glance at his own attorney. Then he puffed out his lips and his chest. "Most doubtless," he answered.—Everybody's Magazine. Wicked Pilot Snake The pilot snake is this country's boldest, badest nest robber, which, despite the fact that he is entirely nonvenomous, makes him a not particularly desirable resident, especially to the mind of the black snake, resemblance between the two being so close that wickedness of the first frequently redounds to the discredit of the latter. THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1916 Wives Are Real Home Lovers By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. I leave thee? home. I forget the tree roam." ten had their step, from the to their own names. It is the dream of all that every woman to have a place such she can call very own. They are not as ambitious as other. A tiny cot he would suffice he dear to the one who craves a of this school and place them in another one or possibly go to a new place altogether. She endevors to make her husband realize the disadvantage of having no home of his own. The disadvantage of the life he is forcing his family to lead never really dawns on him until misfortune, on account of it, strikes himself. If he has a hacking cough, his landlord, suspicious that he might be getting tuberculosis, raises his rent to such a figure in order to get rid of him that he is obliged to pack up. The same hacking cough is a decided hindrance with other agents. They turn him down. He realizes as he never did before what it would mean to have a home of his own where he could cough at will, with no one to interfere. When a man weds and he has succeeded in getting even a small start in the world, it should be his ambition to get a home. If success attends his business career, it is always an easy matter to move from an unpretentious home to a more commanding one. A wise man knows that all the money he pays out for rent is lost to him in the after years. All that he invests in a home is laying up a good investment for the future. He can beautify it as much as he will; make it a veritable Eden. Children who grow up in an atmosphere of their own home have the love of home inculcated in them. It is sad enough to move about or board where there are young sons. It is sadder still if there are daughters growing into womanhood. Modern Izaak Walton Uses Electric Lights as Aid in Making Raid on Finny Tribe Luring fish by electricity is simply a new and very efficient stunt to which a few batteries and an electric light may be applied. In a recent patent for this purpose an Inventor has provided a device, which is intended to induce timid fish to venture from their hiding places in drifts, into the open water, where they may be easily caught by the patient and persistent fisherman, says the Electrical Experimenter. The device consists merely of an electric lamp incased in a strong glass container, a float to regulate the depth of the glass, a coil of wire and a few batteries to energize the lamp. The wires are insulated from the water by a length of rubber tubing and the batteries stored in a portable box on shore. The flexibility of the tubing however, does not permit it to bend under the stress of flowing water. A small switch mounted on the outside of the box completes or opens the circuit to the灯 at will. When the fisherman is ready for operations he sets his float at the proper place and drops the lamp into the water. He then allows his line to hang alongside the lamp and proceeds to make himself comfortable. The fish soon crowd around to view the electrical display and when one attempts to relieve the hook of its lift, the angler pulls him in. After all of the fish at one place have been drawn from their hiding places, the fisherman turns off his light and draws it shoreward. The tubing is now coiled and placed with the lamp and float in the box containing the batteries and, pickling up its box and fishing tackle, the merry angler proceeds to invade another choice spot where the fish have as yet not been introduced to the wonders of electricity. Differences of opinion regarding the meaning of the woman at the open gate, on one of the new United States silver pieces, are numerous. One writer has it that she is out looking for the children who had promised not to "stir from the yard;" another that she is looking for the coming man; another that she came out to see the new furniture a neighbor across the road is getting in, and so on. Of course, what it really means is that, in this progressive twentieth century woman is emerging from cramped environment into larger opportunity. There is eloquent symbolism in the woman at the open gate.—Christian Science Monitor Many new fruits, flowers, vegetables and trees, believed to be adaptable to the United States, have been gathered during a three-year expedition to China made by Frank N. Meyer, plant explorer of the department of agriculture. Mr. Meyer went through central China 1,500 miles on foot to the borders of Tibet, touching some sections never before visited by a whitman. The most important discovery, probably, was the jujuge tree, which bears a heavy crop of brownish fruit, delicious when fresh and forming when dried a confection similar to the Persian date. Among the most curious of trees is the gigantic boobab, which flourishes in central Africa, the trunk of which sometimes attains a diameter of 40 feet, according to the Los Angeles Times. This trunk serves as a natural cistern, retaining rain water in large quantities in a cavity formed at the top. The Arabs artificially hollow out the trunks of large boobabs and fill them with water during the prevalence of rain as a provision against the dry season. These cisterns are in many cases 20 feet in height and eight or ten feet in diameter. China Gets American Plane. An airplane of American manufacture, purchased by the Chinese military authorities for army use, has arrived at Swatow, China. A Chinese aviator trained in the United States has been engaged to operate it. Tallest Race in World. As a race, the tallest people in the world are the Bororos of the southwest of Brazil. They average six feet four inches in height. "Home! home! Why did I leave thee? Dear, dearest, loved home. Home, home, I cannot forget thee Though I may far from thee roam." If nine wives out of ten had their way about it, they would step from the altar to their own homes. It is the fond dream of almost every woman to have a place which she can call her very own. Many are not as ambitious as others. A tiny cottage would suffice and be dear to the wife who craves a home, be it ever so humble. It always seems as if the women who yearn for a home most get husbands who don't care a rap about owning the roof which covers them—men who get restless if they live in a place over twelve months, and want to pick up and leave, declaring they'll stagnate unless they go to "fields new and pastures green." Such wives are always moving from post to pillar. They feel so sure that they'll be on the move that they do not attempt to make new acquaintances or even to put their best foot forward in a social way. Such a wife loses courage when she's obliged to take her children out Wise and Otherwise. There are about 1,300 gas plants in this country. Oil of cedar is one of the anti-mosquito drugs. New York is spending $330,000,000 on subway construction. The white poplar has been used as a natural lightning rod. About 1,100 kinds of insects make their homes in the oak tree. Serbia is said to lead in centenarians, and Ireland is a close second. Rural schools in Ohio are to introduce courses in etiquette and table manners. Argentina is constructing a single irrigation system which will cost $60,-000,000. A factory in France drives turbines with water from a reservoir on a mountain 600 feet above it. A burglar on being frightened from a building in Exeter, N. H., fled, leaving an automobile behind him. It requires more than a century for a cedar tree to grow large enough to yield a thirty-foot telephone pole. One hundred and fifty hosery and knit goods mills in Philadelphia produce $15,000,000 worth of material annually. E. H. Berry, of Atchison, Kan., who is past middle age and is not a clergyman, says he never uttered a profane word. A motion picture camera that uses glass plates instead of films and also can be used to project pictures has been invented in Europe for amateurs. The Republican vote in Eldred township, Penn., has increased 100 per cent; last year the township had one Republican and this year it has two. A new French three-handed watch tells both twelve-hour and twenty-four hour time, one hour hand being used for each kind on separate dials, while a single minute hand does for both. Minnesota, which has kept a thrifty hand on many of its natural resources, will receive for a quarter just ended $250,000 in royalties from iron ore mines, the money going to the permanent school and other state trust funds. How "Rubbers" Were Produced "Rubbers," as Americans have named them, were the invention of Charles Goodyear, father of the man who helped produce the Goodyear welt machine. In 1833 it was found that India rubber, dissolved in turpentine and mixed with hampack, would give a waterproof surface to leather. But the leather so treated was subject to atmosphere changes, heat causing it to melt and cold to crack. Mr. Goodyear mixed sulphur with the other combination and produced rubber. Vers Libre. "Vers libre" (free verse) is so called because of its freedom from the formal laws governing poetic rhythm. It is by no means "new." Walt Whitman wrote almost entirely in "free" cadences, and Milton, to quote one classic example, used what we would call "vers libre" in the choruses of Samson Agonistes. The demand for "complete metrical freedom" stands out, however, as the most obvious element in "the new poetry." We Have. R. J. S. wants to know if we have ever met the people who never go to bed, but retire; who never sleep, but slumber; who never get up, but rise; who never eat, but dine; who never drink, but indulge; who never talk, but converse; who never read, but peruse; who never buy, but purchase, and who never get sick, but become ill?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Fireweed's Good Work Fireweed, otherwise known as the "great willow-herb," seems to have been created as an antidote for one of the ugliest sights a landscape may offer—burnt-over ground. The fireweed is a genuine cosmopolite, for it sends its consoling shaft above the ashes of burnt forests not only throughout America but in Europe and Asia. Egyptian Philosophy. If thou art successful and lovest the wife of thy bosom, then fill her stomach and cloth her back. . . Make glad her heart during the time that thou hast. She is a field profitable to its owner—Ptab Hotep. (Copyright, 1916.) Woman at the Gate. Finds New Plants in China. Trees Used for Cisterns China Gets Ameriçan Plane SOME SMILES a or possession. The "atrs some people put on!" "Yes?" M. "There's Dub- walite." "What about him?" "He has only $7 deposited in $30,000,000 institution, yet he speaks of the president as 'my banker.'" Easily Located. "I have an engagement to meet my wife downtown." "Did she name the place?" "No." "The time?" "No." "Then how do you expect to find her?" "My wife's a methodical little woman. She's usually at the same movie theater at the same hour every afternoon." A Real Innovation. "You can get almost anything in one of these big department stores." "Yes. They are wonderful places, I wouldn't be surprised if they were to add matrimonial bureaus and furnish mates for single persons." "That would be a fine scheme, provided they also had an exchange department with a competent divorce lawyer in charge." Expediency. THE BIG MAN IN THE CASE "Your honor, I don't need a lawyer." "You'd better have one. You may be convicted, you know." "What I mean, your honor, is that I can be convicted just as well without one." Usual Explanation. "Before, the recent election Mr. Twobble said his victory was assured." "Yet, he was badly defeated. How does he account for that?" "He says it was due to a combination of circumstances over which he had no control." "Meaning," "He didn't get enough votes." Gratitude. "My friend, I fear you are slightly in error." "Permit me to shake your hand, sir." "But why?" "You are the first man I ever argued with who didn't tell me I was all wrong." The Way of the Amateur. "How is Biggins getting on with his vegetable garden?" "He's enthusiastic about it—works in it every day himself. By the way, he asked me not to forget to give him the address of the market huckster I ideal with." At the Wedding. "I see. He was her rain beau and that is why she carried a shower bouquet." The Happy Life. "Mrs. Gadder never seems to have any servant problem." "She's never at home long enough to find out where she has or not." A. Punctured Enterprise "So the submarine is going to make a dash home." "Yes, if the enemy does not put a period to its trin." Just Facts. Fliir's laugh at love and love laughs at flirts. Of two evils choose neither; both will turn out bad. Being a yellow dog isn't as bad as being called a cur. The muscles of the human jaw exert a force of 534 pounds. The Brazilian coconut palm lives from 600 to 700 years. The reputation of many a puffed up elgar goes up in smoke. It's a wise boy who knows enough to laugh at his father's jokes. Most men's intentions are several laps ahead of their actions. If a man is afraid to think for himself he should get married. It's well to investigate an oil well that won't bear looking into. Rats every year destroy about 5 per cent of the growing sugar cane in Jamaica. A bed that folds into a wall and is hidden by a pair of doors is the idea of a Colorado inventor. Love is responsible for some hard frosts in summer and some hot waves in winter. To have been one of the mechanics who helped build the Monitor was a distinction of Peter A. Floyd, who recently died at La Grande, Ore. Floyd served as a fireman on the frigates North Carolina and Pensacola during the civil war. Motorcycle production in the United States in 1914 amounted to 62,793, valued at $12,306,447, against 18,628 in 1900, valued at $3,015,988. This is an increase of 237.1 per cent in number and 308 per cent in value. Forty-one women out of every 100 marry between the ages of twenty and twenty-five. The United States pays rear admirals $8,000 a year; Japan pays hers $1,643 a year. A gold coin loses 5 per cent of its value during 16 years of constant use. The rose soon fades, but the thorn continues in business at the old stand. HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES "Low Bridge" Is Often Heard in New York Now NEW YORK—David Harum, was it not, who said in the company of wealthy and entirely fashionable men of New York that it would be fun to see how many of them would duck if he said "Low bridge." Right here a shivering halt. "Now, then," says the conductor, "all of you be careful. Here is where we go under the elevated railroad, and this company has been running these stages up here for a long time and we ain't never lost a life. It's safe, all right, if you keep your head down and don't get absent-minded, any of you, and raise up to smooth out your dress or anything like that. If you think of it, forget it." Perhaps there is several feet or more of space above the head of the person of ordinary dimensions as the fall auto makes its dip under the elevated girders, but it doesn't seem like it. The lady from afar who has invested in the highest creation in millinery extant feels that there is not half an inch to spare. She bends down until the mass of felt and feathers crunches against the rail of the stage. "That's right; look out for your head, madam," says the all-seeing conductor. "Don't you mind my head," says she: "I've had it for 35 years, but this hat I got today and I'm going to save it." The stage again dives under the elevated structure at this spot, but the conductor usually sings out: "Low bridge again. Now, every mother's son of you, low bridge, and if anything happens don't forget that I told you to stay where you was put." Portland, Ore., Boasts of Only Carp Hound PORTLAND, ORE—Dr. Alan Welch Smith and his fellow owners of a duck pond on Sauvie's island have presented to the world a new species of animal, to wit, the carp hound. This dog eats fish and fishes on taking them party. As if to prove his hypothesis a 'big fish just then insolently swung into the wheat field and went away with his mouth full. Another of the party had a dog. He was an intelligent dog, and when his master took him to one side and confided to him the dirty tricks the fish had been playing the dog took it to heart. He barked his sympathy and decided to sacrifice himself at the altar of Nimrod. The next carp that started for the wheat met an untimely death. The carp hound let out a yell which frightened the fish out of its wits, then, while the carp was still dazed, sank its teeth gently but firmly in the enemy's back and took him out of his native element. The dog continued his raids until the pond was nearly vacant, so far as carp were concerned. At the end of a week the hunters found their wheat practically intact. Chicago Tries New Punishment for Bad Boys Chicago Tries New Punishment for Bad Boys CHICAGO.—Punishment of a new brand is being imposed upon Chicago's boys. It is punishment without bars, fences, locks, or prison walls. Sunshine is substituted for solitary. Now, when the juvenile court starts its About 200 educators, lawyers, judges, and business men took part in the dedication of the Chicago and Cook County School for Boys. In place of the grim walls and barred windows of the house of correction, the boys have a group of buildings resembling a private school or college. The main building was designed by Arthur F. Hussander, school architect, in the same manner that he designs school buildings for ordinary boys and girls who have no occasion to consider the law unfriendly. The building cost the board of education $75,000, and there are 75 acres of land. A low hedge, which the boys will care for, takes the place of the usual iron fence or stone wall. There are no physical obstructions to prevent boys from running off. But the men and women who have worked for the idea have no fear that boys will run away. Putting Sixteen Tons of Genius Up On a Roof NEW YORK.—When "Dick" Healy bossed the job of boosting a wooden nutmeg figure up to the top of the state capitol in Hartford, Conn., he said he and Nutmeg had the time of their lives. Now Healy has been having a what with electrical donkey engines to do the pulling; but to stand the winged gentleman on his feet on a platform just large enough for himself was something else again. Evelyn Beatrice Longman designed the statue and William Welles Bosworth executed it. Genius grasps what looks like a lot of live wires with one hand, but the idea is that they are sections of lightning picked right out of the sky. The other hand holds a coll of wire which winds around his legs, representing the means by which the 50-word night letter telegrams are sent. LOW BRIDGE. a shivering halt. "Now, then," says the Here is where we go under the elevated running these stages up here for a long. It's safe, all right, if you keep your head any of you, and raise up to smooth out it you think of it, forget it." Perhaps there is several feet or a person of ordinary dimensions as the tainted girders, but it doesn't seem like it invested in the highest creation in milliners an inch to spare. She bends down until it against the rail of the stage. "That's right; look out for your hector. "Don't you mind my head," says she hat I got today and I'm going to save it. The stage again dives under the ele conductor usually sings out: "Low bridge of you, low bridge, and if anything hap stay where you was put." Portland, Ore., Boasts PORTLAND, ORE.—Dr. Alan Welch Spond on Sauvie's island have preserved to wit the corn bounty. This animal to wilt, the carp hound. This dog alive right out of the water. When Doctor Smith and his friends visited their pond a short time ago they found most of the wheat they had carefully planted as duck bait was gone. The evident size of the mouthful quantities in which it had been taken away, added to the scarcity of ducks, led the hunters to believe all was not right; they suspected the objects of their charity had been robbed. "Carp," said a sage member of the party. As if to prove his hypothesis a into the wheat field and went away with. Another of the party had a dog. His master took him to one side and con had been playing the dog took it to he decided to sacrifice himself at the altar. The next carp that started for the carp hound let out a yell which frightened the carp was still dazed, sank its teeth and took him out of his native element. The dog continued his raids until the carp were concerned. At the end of a week the hunters four Chicago Tries New Pun CHICAGO.—Punishment of a new bra boy. It is punishment without bars shine is substituted for solitary. Now I WONDER WOT'S TH BIC IDEER slower half miller try to maintain the e About 200 educators, lawyers, judge dedication of the Chicago and Cook Coun In place of the grim walls and barre the boys have a group of buildings re The main building was designed by Art the same manner that he designs school who have no occasion to consider the h board of education $75,000, and there a A low hedge, which the boys will iron fence or stone wall. There are no from running off. But the men and w have no fear that boys will run away. Putting Sixteen Tons of NEW YORK.—When "Dick" Healy b nutmeg figure up to the top of the s he and Nutmeg had the time of their tussle with Genius of Telegraphy, a 30-foot tall, 16-ton weight gentleman with wings, up on the tip of the building at Broadway and Dey's street. It required only about an hour to raise Genius 26 stories to the roof, but it was a week before Healy and his ten riggers got the statue perched on the eight-foot base at the top of the tower, about 32 stories above the street. Moving sixteen tons of Genius on skids across the roof wasn't much, what with electrical donkey engines to a gentleman on his feet on a platform just thing else again. Evelyn Beatrice Longman design worth executed it. Genius grasps what hand, but the idea is that they are set the sky. The other hand holds a coll representing the means by which the 5 Genius will wear a $1,000 suit of doesn't get a look in for gaudy raimen BITS OF INFORMATION. Switzerland in June and July had the heaviest, most continuous rains known for 50 years. The Argentine government is reported as gradually transferring to the Caja de Conversion the gold deposits in its foreign legations. More than 100,000 acres of nipa palms are in the Philippines, and the insular government is endeavoring to produce cheap sugar and alcohol from the sap. To get the full sensation of "low bridge" ascend to the very top of the stage somewhere in the neighborhood of St. Patrick's cathedral. You will thus be composed and prepared for anything when it takes a swift detour to the west at Fifty-seventh street and plunges along in front of Mrs. Vanderbilt's house and then comes to the conductor, "all of you be careful, ed railroad, and this company has been time and we ain't never lost a life, lead down and don't get absent-minded, at your dress or anything like that. If more of space above the head of the fall auto makes its dip under the elec it. The lady from afar who has inery extant feels that there is not half the mass of felt and feathers crunches head, madam," says the all-seeing con-she; "I've had it for 35 years, but this it." elevated structure at this spot, but the edge again. Now, every mother's son appends don't forget that I told you to of Only Carp Hound Smith and his fellow owners of a duck sented to the world a new species of dog eats fish and insists on taking them a big fish just then insolently swung with his mouth full. He was an intelligent dog, and when confided to him the dirty tricks the fish heart. He barked his sympathy and ear of Nimrod. The wheat met an untimely death. The feared the fish out of its wits, then, while gently but firmly in the enemy's back. The pond was nearly vacant, so far as found their wheat practically intact. Punishment for Bad Boys Brand is being imposed upon Chicago's wars, fences, locks, or prison walls. Sun-ow, when the juvenile court starts its corrective machinery, the sentence is a course in intensive cultivation of onions, or, if the culprit prefers, fruit growing, or chicken raising, or a trade. If the boy is unusually well behaved while serving his sentence, he will be permitted to drive the motor bus which meets visitors at the car line. If he insists in smashing institution regulations as he has city ordinances, he will be forced to watch a less formidable left-hander than himself pitch for the "dorm." championship or a track supremacy of his house. Higges, and business men took part in the county School for Boys. Armed windows of the house of correction, resembling a private school or college, Arthur F. Hussander, school architect, in pool buildings for ordinary boys and girls the law unfriendly. The building cost the are 75 acres of land. All care for, takes the place of the usual no physical obstructions to prevent boys women who have worked for the idea. Of Genius Up On a Roof bossed the job of boosting a wooden state capitol in Hartford, Conn., he said our lives. Now Healy has been having a to do the pulling; but to stand the winged just large enough for himself was some- named the statue and William Welles Bos- hat looks like a lot of live wires with one sections of lightning picked right out of oil of wire which winds around his legs, the 50-word night letter telegrams are sent, of gold this winter. Ordinarily Genius ment. Waterproof electric flash lights, to be attached to life preservers for night use, are a recent invention. Natives of Porto Rico make a fairly permanent yellow dye for textiles from the roots of turmeric, which grows up over a considerable part of the island. Dr. G. T. Neal has a razor said to be about 200 years old. It was used by Gen. George Washington's bodyguard in shaving the general at the time he was president of the United States. Doctor Neal uses the razor frequently. --- MAKING THE PRISONER It has been the habit of brutal police officers to wring a confession of crime from a suspected person by torturing him until in desperation he told something just to get relief. The newest practice in this method is called the "silent third degree," described here UPPOSE that you went to a strange city next week to hunt a job, and that by sheer accident you were picked up by the police as a suspected murderer. Inasmuch as you would have no acquaintances, it would be very hard for you to prove an alibi. So likely as not the police, being quite as eager to give evidence of their alertness by securing a conviction as to get at the truth and secure justice, would give you what they call the "third degree." According to a writer in the New York Herald, with the third degree the public is well acquainted through short stories, articles, novels and the drama, but there has developed of recent years a test more grimly nerve racking, more crushing and relentless—the "silent third degree"—to the study of which penologists and psychologists are giving much time and thought. In the opinion of some it is more unjust than the older form of bullying questioning Others declare that it is a true test—one which wrings the truth from the subject more certainly than all the questioning in the world, and he goes on to explain how the silent third degree works: The McNamara Case. One of the most notable cases of the practice of the silent third degree was in the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. James B. McNamara was on trial. The prosecution had developed a strong case against him, but the man's nerve was wonderful. One of the most notable cases of the practice of the silent third degree was in the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. James B. McNamura was on trial. The prosecution had developed a strong case against him, but the man's nerve was wonderful. One of the most notable cases of the practice of the silent third degree was in the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. James B. McNamara was on trial. The prosecution had developed a strong case against him, but the man's nerve was wonderful. It was Samuel L. Browne, chief of the Los Angeles secret service bureau, who directed the grueling daily presentation of witnesses who spoke not, nor were spoken to, but who merely filed into the court room, caught the eye of J. B. McNamara, shot him a glance of recognition and then, unquestioned by counsel for either side, left the room. Women with hotel clerks will false names, places where fellow consign these were maid and paraded by Vividly, realing picture filmer's journey each stage of it to his mind, no suggestion that time three or f knew could tered the course the thou his mind that known. Women with whom McNamara had associated, hotel clerks who had seen him register under false names, cabmen who had driven him to places where detectives contended he had met fellow conspirators in the dynamite plot—all these were marshaled by the secret service men and paraded before the prisoner. Vividly, realistically, almost as if with a moving picture film, each step in the accused dynamiter's journey from Indianapolis to Los Angeles, each stage of development of the plot, was called to his mind, and, what was worse, there was the suggestion that the prosecution knew all. Every time three or four witnesses who J. P. McNamara knew could testify damaging against him entered the courtroom and bowed to him in recognition the thought was crushingly impressed upon his mind that another step in his career was known. Women with whom McNamara had associated, hotel clerks who had seen him register under false names, cabmen who had driven him to places where detectives contended he had met fellow conspirators in the dynamite plot—all these were marshaled by the secret service men and paraded before the prisoner. Vividly, realistically, almost as if with a moving picture film, each step in the accused dynamiter's journey from Indianapolis to Los Angeles, each stage of development of the plot, was called to his mind, and, what was worse, there was the suggestion that the prosecution knew all. Every time three or four witnesses who J. P. McNamara knew could testify damagingly against him entered the courtroom and bowed to him in recognition the thought was crushingly impressed upon his mind that another step in his career was known. One of these silent witnesses was the mall clerk who had time and again handed mail to McNamara at the general delivery window and had known him as J. B. Bryce. Imagine the effect on the guilty man when he saw that the mall clerk recognized him. There were cabmen who had driven McNamara about, and one of them had quarreled with him. Finally a woman, plain and rather shabbily dressed, white and timid, was ushered into the courtroom. She sat in one of the front seats and gazed at J. B. McNamara. How the Silent Third Degree Works. That woman had sold him wrapping paper in her store, and in her presence he had wrapped sticks of dynamite in it. As the supreme test, the crushing denouement; McNamara was confronted by the last living person who had seen him before the dynamite explosion. It was the bartender who had sold McNamara a drink just before he slipped through the swinging door of the saloon back into Ink alley and placed the dynamite which destroyed 22 lives. "I'll tell you what this 'silent third degree' does. It wakens a man's conscience. That's the underlying principle that makes it effective," said George S. Dougherty, formerly in charge of the New York police detective bureau. "Look here, I'll tell you how it works. "A man is arrested for a grave crime—murder, perhaps. He sees no witnesses when he is arrested. He is at bay, desperate, fighting for his liberty and maybe for his life. He steels himself and throws about him an armor of bravado or unconcern or taciturnity. His nerves are like steel fibers, and you can't shake them. If you should bully him he would become sullen and resistive. If you should threaten he would become defiant. He might be open to reason, but suppose he were not. "When he there may be recognizes and When he has mother and h innocent. The when he sees nected with hi to realize the guilt and that him out a li a who have stu of the break, can't bully or So On July 27, of New York, the Joquois trict of New I strangled and reform was fo "When he is arraigned before a magistrate there may be several witnesses there whom he recognizes and who, he knows, will recognize him. When he has been first arrested he has told his mother and his wife and his friends that he is innocent. The lie means nothing to him then, but when he sees all these witnesses who are connected with his crime in different ways he begins to realize that he may be forced to admit his guilt and that these persons are going to make him out a liar before the friends and relatives who have stuck by him. That is the beginning of the break, and it reaches a type of man you can't bully or hoodwink into a confession." Setting Stage for Geidel. On July 27, 1911, William H. Jackson, a broker of New York, was found murdered in his room at the Troquois hotel, in the heart of the club district of New York city. He had been beaten and strangled and a bottle which had contained chloroform was found on the premises. "When he is arraigned before a magistrate there may he several witnesses there whom he recognizes and who, he knows, will recognize him. When he has been first arrested he has told his mother and his wife and his friends that he is innocent. The lie means nothing to him then, but when he sees all these witnesses who are connected with his crime in different ways he begins to realize that he may be forced to admit his guilt and that these persons are going to make him out a liar before the friends and relatives who have stuck by him. That is the beginning of the break, and it reaches a type of man you can't bully or hoodwink into a confession." Setting Stage for Geidel. On July 27, 1911, William H. Jackson, a broker of New York, was found murdered in his room at the troquods hotel, in the heart of the club district of New York city. He had been beaten and strangled and a bottle which had contained chloroform was found on the premises. INTERESTING ITEMS A revolving steel barrel tests the relative durability of different paving bricks. October 2, at Philadelphia, the International Association of Hent and Frost Insulator and Asbestos Workers will meet in convention. Ireland has 84,809 landholders having plots not exceeding an acre, 61,730 who hold more than one acre and not more than five acres; 153,200 under 15, and 138,058 not exceeding 80. he was the mail. Every McNamara at him en- in recog-essed upon career was mail clerk to McNam- ary and had the effect on mail clerk McNamara with him, or shabbily into the seats and seats and Dougherty told Mrs. Kane that he wished to speak to her alone on an important matter. The other men said nothing, but two of them went into adjoining rooms, each with one of the two boys. They each attempted to question their custodian, he would not speak, not even admitting that he was a detective, although the youths must have known it, and this silence multiplied their fears. Mrs. Kane in a very frank manner admitted that she had bought the chloroform and said that she used it in the treatment of hair. "Have you still got that bottle of chloroform in the house?" asked Dougherty. "No," she said; "it has gone." "Where?" asked Dougherty. Mrs. Kane at first hesitated, but by adby questioning the commissioner learned from her that it had disappeared from the shelf in the bathroom. After learning all that he cared to Dougherty produced the bottle. large of the Look here, e—murder, he is ar- ing for his hels himself wando or un- like steel you should ad resistive. some defiant. else he were magistrate whom he organize him. Stepping to the table, Dougherty turned down the oil lamp, which had a red shade. Then he drew the curtains, shutting out the twilight, which heightened the effect of the red-shaded lamp. Every bit of furniture was placed by the detective so that the effect he was striving for would be enhanced. No stage director could have exercised greater care in the arrangement of details. He sent for Geidel. Reilly came in with him. The bellboy was seated in a chair which directly faced the door to the bathroom, where Dougherty had already replaced the empty bottle of chloroform. "Mrs. Kane," said Dougherty, "did you purchase a bottle of chloroform from a druggist in Newark about ten days ago?" he begins he admits his ing to make relatives the beginning of man you ofon." "Yes, he did," admitted Mrs. Kane, who was so seated that the light from the lamp shone on her head and features, making them the most dis- tinctive things in the room, and Geidel seemed unable to take his eyes from her face. He smiled with a certain amount of bravado as the ques- tioning continued. "Did Paul ever say anything about the drug? What were his words?" Mrs. Kane looked imploringly at Geidel, but either she did not dare to answer or her wish to tell the truth was stronger than her sympathy for the boy. The first American linetype machine in Tripoli recently was installed by an Italian newspaper. Because it is difficult for a man aiming a searchlight to see the object at which it is pointed, a French naval officer has invented an electrical aiming device to be operated from a distance. Of a staff of 2,000, 752 clerks of the British railway clearing house have enlisted and 342 have attested under the Derby scheme. In the post office 75,000 of a possible 85,000 have enlisted or attested. UPPOSE that you went to a strange city next week to hunt a job, and that by sheer accident you were picked up by the police as a suspected murderer. Inasmuch as you would have no acquaintances, it would be very hard for you to prove an alibi. The McNamara Case SS Walter. About the only information the police were at first able to develop was the fact that the murderer must have entered the room from the fire escape. There did not seem to be the slightest evidence as to the identity of the intruder. The bottle which contained the traces of chloroform bore a label, however, and detectives working on the case traced it to a druggist in Newark. This man stated that he had sold the drug to a Mrs. Kane, and gave her address in New York city to them. Meanwhile police working in the city had become suspicious of Paul Geldel, a bellboy, who had been discharged from the Iroquois a few days previously. When they learned that he was living in a room which he rented in Mrs. Kane's apartment their suspicions were strengthened, but there was as yet nothing on which to hold the boy. He had not been seen by anyone on the premises where the crime was committed since his discharge; still, certain information which came to the hand of George S. Dougherty, at that time deputy police commissioner in charge of the detective bureau, led him strongly to believe that Geldel was the murderer. The deputy commissioner himself, together with Detectives Thomas Van Twister and Dominick Reilly, went to the apartments of Mrs. Kane, a pretty woman, who earned a living as hairdresser. As they entered Mrs. Kane's sitting room Geidel and Patrick McGrane, another bellboy, were sitting with her. Dougherty told Mrs. Kane that he wished to speak to her alone on an important matter. The other men said nothing, but two of them went into adjoining rooms, each with one of the two boys. They each attempted to question their custodian, but he would not speak, not even admitting that he was a detective, although the youths must have known it, and this silence multiplied their fears. Mrs. Kane in a very frank manner admitted that she had bought the chloroform and said that she used it in the treatment of hair. "Have you still got that bottle of chloroform in the house?" asked Dougherty. "No," she said; "it has gone." "Where?" asked Dougherty. Mrs. Kane at first hesitated, but by adroit questioning the commissioner learned from her that it had disappeared from the shelf in the bathroom. After learning all that he cared to Dougherty produced the bottle. "Was that yours?" he asked. Mrs. Kane said that it was and became very much alarmed. The detective reassured her. "All I want you to do," said Dougherty, "is to answer my questions again, just the way you have this time." Then he sent for McGrane, who was in the next room with Geldel. After a few unimportant questions he said to McGrane: "Now, all I want you to do is to sit here quietly. Don't say a word, and if Geldel looks at you make no sign or sound unless you want to get into trouble yourself." McGrane, thoroughly frightened, took his place on a chair the detective offered to him. Stepping to the table, Dougherty turned down the oil lamp, which had a red shade. Then he drew the curtains, shutting out the twilight, which heightened the effect of the red-shaded lamp. Every bit of furniture was placed by the detective so that the effect he was striving for would be enhanced. No stage director could have exercised greater care in the arrangement of details. He sent for Geidel. Reilly came in with him. The bellboy was seated in a chair which directly faced the door to the bathroom, where Dougherty had already replaced the empty bottle of chloroform. "Mrs. Kane," said Dougherty, "did you purchase a bottle of chloroform from a druggist in Newark about ten days ago?" "Yes," said the woman. "Why did you get it?" "I use it in dressing hair," Mrs. Kane replied. "Did Paul know that you had this drug?" "Yes, he did," admitted Mrs. Kane, who was so seated that the light from the lamp shone on her head and features, making them the most distinctive things in the room, and Geidel seemed unable to take his eyes from her face. He smiled with a certain amount of bravado as the questioning continued. "Did Paul ever say anything about the drug? What were his words?" Mrs. Kane looked imploringly at Geidel, but either she did not dare not to answer or her wish to tell the truth was stronger than her sympathy for the boy. "He asked me if there was enough chloroform american linotype machine recently was installed by newspaper. is difficult for a man aimlight to see the object at pointed, a French naval off-loaded an electrical alining operated from a distance of 2,000. 752 clerks of the prisoner. "Nothin' McCarthy. "What alarmed. "The gr "My hea My mind see Burns Next da Rueff trick turned to broke dow you've got It is believed to be no rare occurrence for a condor to soar 4,000 feet above the earth. An electrical process to prevent boilers corroding and scaling has been invented by an Englishman. Turkeys derived their name from the fact that they were imported first into Europe through Turkey. With a view to enabling war mutilated soldiers to become teachers in the elementary schools, the French government has opened special colleges for their rapid training. "Was that yours?" he asked. "Yes," said the woman. THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1916 in the bottle to kill a man," she said. "I told him there was, and asked him why he wanted to know. 'Oh, I might want to take some if things don't go right with me,' he replied, laughing, and I thought that he was merely joking in a grim way." "Is that bottle still in your possession?" asked the detective. "It is," said Mrs. Kane. "At least, I have not used the drug, and it must be there." "Where?" "On the shelf in the bathroom." "Turning to Dominick Reilly, the detective asked him to look for the bottle. Geidel's face showed the first signs of alarm. "Here's the bottle," said Reilly, "but it's empty!" "I thought you said you hadn't used it," said Dougherty to Mrs. Kane, sharply. The bellboy's eyes started from their sockets. He had believed the bottle destroyed or lost. He sank in his chair. McGrane did not return the glance of inquiry his friend shot toward him. How much did the detectives know? Geidel looked first at one face, then another. The reddish glow on Mrs. Kane's features showed the anguish she was in. Paul knew she was fond of him. She must be suffering so because she had been obliged to tell all she knew about the chloroform. McGrane's features were stolid. Geidel knew what he had told his friend, and to him this meant that the friend had betrayed him. Reilly handed the bottle, not to Mrs. Kane, but to Paul Geidel. His tongue clove to the roof of his mouth—he tried to speak, but could not. "So that's where you got the drug to kill Jackson with, is it?" queried Dougherty. "You are under arrest." Every glance, every movement of the prisoner told of his guilt, yet he did not speak. The detectives did not press him with questions. Dougherty was content to let the setting he had aranged—the silent third degree—work on his mind. Reilly took back the bottle which Geidel had been examining with the horror he would have shown had a deadly adder been placed, wriggling, in his hands. They took him to police headquarters. All the way downtown Geidel was living again the scene in the little room, lit by the reddish gleam from the lamp. A score of times he lived again that moment when the detective, with horrible dramatic force, had stepped out of the bathroom, in his hand that bottle which the youth had forgotten to destroy. Before he was sent to his cell Geidel said to Reilly: "I did it. Can they hang me for this?" Geidel was convicted. "Abe" Rueff's Experience. An early form of the silent third degree, in that no questions were asked, was practiced on "Abe" Rueff, the San Francisco political boss, who was convicted of graft. Rueff was in prison awaiting trial. William J. Burns was handling the case and was making every effort to wring a confession from the prisoner. There was a keeper in the prison named McCarthy, who was on duty near Rueff's cell. Burns discontinued his calls and instructed this man to waken Rueff every night at two o'clock sharp. This McCarthy did by banging on the wall with a heavy stool. Rueff, the first few nights, did not pay much attention to the disturbance, merely turning over and going to sleep again. At last it got on his nerves. He would jump off his cot at the first sound and demand, "what was that?" McCarthy would make no reply, and Rueff would run to the barred door of his cell and look out, to see the keeper apparently asleep. Sometimes he would waken the keeper and say, "Didn't you hear anything?" "Not a sound," McCarthy would answer. This formula was gone through night after night until on one occasion Rueff leaped from bed, to find McCarthy wide awake. "Didn't you hear anything at all?" asked the prisoner. "Nothin' but you talkin' in your sleep," said McCarthy. "What was I talking about?" said Rueff, alarmed. "The graft cases," said McCarthy. "My heavens!" cried Rueff. "Am I going crazy! My mind must be getting unsettled. I want to see Burns tomorrow." Next day the detective called on the prisoner. Rueff tried to bring up the graft cases, but Burns turned to other subjects until at last Rueff broke down and half shouted: "Look here, Burns, you've got to listen to this! It's my confession!" "Abe" Rueff's Experience. Demand for Imitation Pearls. Imitation pearls have become an important article of manufacture, recently in Barcelona, Spain. During 1915 they were manufactured there to the value of over $21,000, as against $4,000 in 1914. "I see where the barbers are meditating increased rates." "Couldn't be done. In the nature of things they'll have to stick to cut prices." Straight, full skirts, a bit longer rings. FOR EVENING WEAR SMART FROCK DESIGNED ALONG ORIENTAL LINES. Blue Tulle and Silver Sequins Employed to Get the Desired Effect—Will Look Best on Tall, Rather Slender Figure. Oriental, in name at least, is the smart little evening frock shown in the sketch. The "Assyrian" bodice is of blue and silver sequins, and the gown proper is of blue tulle in the same shade over cloth of silver. The long, straight panel-shaped train is of royal blue velvet lined with cloth of silver and adorned with silver and blue sequin mofits, the same decorative touch appearing on the front of the skirt. This is essentially a gown for a tail, slender figure, and while it is youthful, like most apparel of the present day, the gown is not designed for a debutante. The tendency is to omit the train when designing an evening gown for a very young woman, and the clever little empire models featured by a number of American, as well as European, designers are decidedly popular. In no class of apparel is the question of skirt length so difficult as it is in evening gowns. While modest ankle length is recorded as entirely correct in all tailored garments, evening gowns run to extremes, the smartest models being either very short or very long and sweeping. Glittering spangled effects appear more and more as the season advances in the trimming or construction of evening gowns. Silver-and-gold cloth, metal embroideries, either forming the entire gown or the bodice, as shown in the sketch, or set on in bands of varying widths, are well thought of, and THE MERMAID Evening Frock of Tulle and Sequins. some of the more elaborate frocks are trimmed in bands of rhinestones. Many hundreds of French costumes have been brought over to America this season, despite the discouraging effects of the war on European business generally, but a pleasant commentary on American progress in fashion development is that American interpretations of these foreign-designed costumes are in the majority of cases better looking than the originals. Spanish Modes Find Favor. A Spanish chapeau shown by one of the best known Parisienne milliners caused much favorable comment and many copies this fall. It is a dashing, effective mode and one that is most becoming to the majority of women. Not many women, however, could wear the little silk scarf that is tied around the head in true toerand fashion, topped by the chapeau, that is usually black. But the Spanish hat has influenced the sports hat, and many will be reproduced for wear with sports clothes this season. Not only is the hat the only Spanish note to be observed in this realm of fashion, for quite as often is seen the mantilla of lace, used in various ways by the Paris couturiers in their latest offerings. Chantilly lace has been revived, both in black and white and also reproduced in the various metallic threads. Filipino Embroidery on Silk. For some years Fillipno embroidered lingerie has been steadily gaining recognition, and now that so much of the French work is no longer to be bead, women are reconsidering their opinions about the dowdy shapes of the island handicraft. As a matter of fact, the models so beautifully embroidered are now being made by skilled designers in this country who superintend the work in the Philippine schools. And these models are not only of finest nailsock but are also carved out in washing satin and crepe embroidered in silk. It was a difficult task to get the native women to work on silk, but the task has been accomplished successfully and now the most beautiful underclothes can be had at a price which, while not to be reckoned cheap (it certainly ought not to be cheap, for the work is exquisite) is still less than the imported work. Keeping Attractive. An important step in keeping attractive is to see that your neckwear and than those we have been wearing, also carry out this idea and the pointed bodice frequently seen in evening frocks for this winter's wear, is another note of importance. 'Jaces' such as the Spanish women wear are easily made at Lyons and will probably be much in evidence for spring. There will also be a revival of the high carved comb, so typical of the Spanish modes. Three-Piece Skunk Set. UNDERWOOD A. UNDERWOOD An attractive three-piece set of furs is the newest combination. The set is adaptable for all outdoor wear, and looks particularly pleasing to the eye on dark material such as velvet. An attractive three-piece set of furs is the newest combination. The set is adaptable for all outdoor wear, and looks particularly pleasing to the eye on dark material such as velvet. Excellent Idea for Gift. Here is a splendid idea for a quickly made gift, but one should send a card proclaiming its use or also the recipient will be at a loss. The gift is a laundry bag made of a square of material. Since everyone aims to have one's belongings as bright and as attractive as possible, the bag should be made of cretonne, which is pretty decorated and which is heavy enough for the purpose. Hem the four sides of the square. Turn back each corner and embroider the recipient's initial on one corner. On each of the blunted corners fasten a loop of tape. By the four loops the square is hung on a nail in one's closet. The result is a bag in which one can easily tuck soiled clothes. Similar bags for smaller articles can be made in the same way. Lighter materials can be used for this purpose. Large silk handkerchiefs would prove useful. Pretty and Useful Gift. One of the most useful Christmas gifts and one which will be appreciated by any of your friends who knit, is a knitting bag like the one illustrated. One yard of cretonne, silk or any material desired, two oval embroidery hoops, which are used for handles, three yards of inch ribbon and two large brass rings are all that you need to make the bag. It is best made of French cretonne in the Dresden shades and lined with rose-colored silk. First wind the embroidery hoops with the rose ribbon, then carefully line the yard of cretonne with the rose silk. ```markdown ``` Knitting Bag Completed. Now folded cretonne in two cross-wise, gather top on one side to one hoop and other side to other hoop, finishing neatly at top. Next cover the two large brass rings with single crochet, using rose silk-finished cotton, sew to cretonne about four inches from the top of bag on each side, then gather bag and sew neatly to these rings. accessories are fresh. Always put your hat and veil on with care. Choose the most becoming colors for your gowns and suits. The well-groomed woman has the advantage over her sister who is untidy. The knowledge gives her self-confidence and with self-confidence rightly gained one can accomplish anything. For Needleworkers. To make dainty handkerchiefs, cut the hem off from plain hemstitched handkerchiefs just outside the hemsitching, then crochet an edge on it. The hemsitching makes a place to put the needle through, and you also have a body over which to crochet. Ball-Trimmed Sailor Hats. Sailor hats of velvet are shown for wear with tailored suits; these have fairly high crowns and narrow brims. A row of little velvet balls may trim the edge of the brim, or even little round disks hang all around. This trimming is also seen on some of the dresses—Harper's Bazar. Home Town Helps Something That Is Never Forgotten No Matter How Far Wanderings May Carry One. Most people grow up with the home-town feeling for the old town, the town where they were youngsters, where they knew every kitten and puppy, every street and every alley, every cracker barrel and every candy counter, everybody and everything at least for many a block around. It was not of course a feeling of which you were uncomfortably conscious. As likely as not you never knew that you had it until you came back after the summer in the country or perhaps came home from school for the holidays. It was then that the home-town feeling grew large within you, a fine, big, warm spot of feeling. If it happened that you lived in a medium-sized town in those days, the sight of the station was a deeply satisfying thing. It seemed as you rattled along in the little old hack, past the courthouse square and across the one street car line, that you had come back to yourself, a very comfortable sort of feeling indeed. Perhaps you lived in or near a much smaller village, but it was the same home-town feeling you had as you climbed under the heavy, horsey-smelling robe into the buggy and rode down the street. The general store, the white church, the brick house where the one rich family lived and the patched-up cabin where the one poor family lived were so familiar to you that you were immediately conscious of every new sign in the window and every new patch in the cabin roof. And if, perhaps, you lived in a much larger town, the distant smoke, the insistent clamor, the crowds and the rush of traffic were the things you were looking for and the things that satisfied the home-town feeling. The home-town feeling for the new town, the town where you go after you are grown up, the town where you work, the town that adopts you or that you adopt, is, of course, not so natural or easy a thing. At least it is not a thing which can be deliberately acquired along with a new job or even with the actual purchase of a new house. It is not a thing that comes with friends or with pleasant associations. It seems to come just of itself and it comes, some day, all of a sudden. You may be standing in a crowded street car, you may be pushing your way through the market, you may be sitting on your own back step while supper is cooking. It is certain to come when you are not thinking or caring particularly about it, and when it comes it has come to stay. PLEA FOR BETTER SCHOOLS improved Methods of Education and Hygiene Are Urged Upon Country's Smaller Communities. The federal school extension agent, Mr. McBrien, wrote recently in a special statement: "In educational opportunity the city boy and girl have privileges far superior to those of the farm boy and farm girl. In funds, in length of term, in equipment, in buildings, in administration and supervision, in courses of study, in efficiency of the teaching force, and in salaries paid, the superiority of the city schools is so far above that of the rural schools as to make the situation in many sections of the county deplorable. It has been so desperate in many instances during the past 25 years, when contrasted with the splendid opportunities of the city school, that it is given more times than any other reason by fathers and mothers for moving from the farm to the city." Other critics are laying stress on rural sanitation and hygiene. Senator Ransdell, chairman of the senate committee on health and quarantine, has been urging a special inquiry into the methods of preventing disease in rural America, particularly such diseases as malaria and typhoid, which are wholly preventable. The senator's measure proposes systematic co-operation between local and national authorities, and is based on the idea that "the problem of rural sanitation is not a local problem, but one which concerns the health and physical integrity of our entire nation." The two diseases named, it is estimated, cost the country $900,000,000 a year. To Imitate Thatch Roof Of the various attractive roof effects which can be achieved with either the asphalt or the wood shingle, none are more popular at present than that of the imitation of the old English thatch. This effect is obtained by what is known as the woven shingle method, whereby the shingles are laid in courses varying in width from one inch to seven inches. While undoubtedly a roof of this sort lends charm and distinction to houses of a certain style of architecture, from the nature of the workmanship required in its construction, the roof cannot be considered a cheap one. To those who do not have to consider expense closely, the soft finish of the imitation thatch must make a strong appeal. "What sort of a town is Chiggers- ville?" "It boasts of a ghetto." "Nonsense!" "It's a fact. A Russian immigrant settled in the town last month, with his wife and fourteen children." Limited Experience. He (of Indianapolis)—Are you fond of repartee, Miss Blank? She (of Cincinnati)—I don't believe I ever drank any. We always use "Oolong." OPERATE UNDER GOVERNMENT INSPECTION NEUER ED. NEUER r Bros. Meat WE OPERATE UNDER GOVERNMENT INSPECTION ERNEST NEUER ED. NEU Neuer Bros. Meat Neuer Bros. Meat Co. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in HIGH GR Manuf Pure Home M No.1326 TELEPHONES: Home, 1328 Main; H GRADE MEAT Manufacturer Especially of Home Made Sausage and B No. 1326-1328 Main Street e, 1328 Main; Bell, 85 GRAND Kansas City Manufacturer Especially of Pure Home Made Sausage and Lard No.1326-1328 Main Street TELEPHONES: Home, 1328 Main; Bell, 85 GRAND Kansas City, Mo. FOR RENT 1516 E. 18th St. 1108 Woodland 2414 Flora 1619 Norton 2430 Flora 2434 Woodland 1922 E. 11th St. 2635 Euclid 2457 Bellefontaine If you must rent, the above list is the best we have. We advise that you buy. Let us show your our fine list of homes that can be bought for a small payment down, and the balance like rent. Afro-American Investment Co. Home Phone, East 802. KANSAS CITY, MO. Bell Phone, East 782. WHY PAY RENT? 1900 1604 East 10th Street house will pay for itself in nine years and give ment living to an ordinary family, after it is paid how it can be done. The price of this seven house is $2750; will sell for $300.00 down and ath. The family who lives in the house at the lives in three rooms and rents out four fours seek each or $40.00 per month. This amount up the payments and leave $15.00 per month taxes and so forth, besides giving free rent. After it is paid for you will still have the $40. come, the natural increase in the value of the no rent to pay. Can you beat it? Wake up. For particulars see the AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO This house will pay for itself in nine years and give an independent living to an ordinary family, after it is paid for. This is how it can be done. The price of this seven room modern house is $2750; will sell for $300.00 down and $25.00 a month. The family who lives in the house at the present time lives in three rooms and rents out four for $2.50 per week each or $40.00 per month. This amount would keep up the payments and leave $15.00 per month for interest, taxes and so forth, besides giving free rent to the family. After it is paid for you will still have the $40.00 per month income, the natural increase in the value of the property and no rent to pay. Can you beat it? Wake up and get Busy. For particulars see the AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO. 1510 East 18th Street KANSAS CITY, MO. 1 Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes. Auerbach & Guettel The Palace CLOTHING CO. 909-921 Main Street ED. NEUER Great C in MEAT of Lake and Lake Streat Kansas City, N ..... $ 8.00 ..... 8.00 ..... 8.00 modern ..... 14.00 ..... 8.00 - THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1916 NOTICE! NOTICE! Remember you are never too far to deal with us. We send and ship goods throughout the United States. Phone us or write us, your wants and we will do the rest. We carry a full line of everything that can be found in a first class Drug Store. Fine Manicure Sets, Combs, Brushes, Toilet Articles, Watches, Clocks, Eyeglasses, Straightening and Drying Combs, Curling Irons, Wigs, Transformations, Syringes and Hot Water Bottles, Madam Walker's Hair Grower, Shampoo, Glossine, Temple Grower, Tetter Salve. All kinds of Hair Growers. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTYe We fill and send them by parcel post or express. We carry the leading Negro Newspapers and magazines, such as the Kansas City Sun, Chicago Defender, Indianapolis Freeman, Topeka Plaindealer, Omaha Monitor, Crisis, Kansas City Independent, Dallas Express, Boston Guardian, New York Age. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. THEO SMITH'S DRUG STORE 1301 East 18th St., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Home P. M. 5467; Bell P. G. 4591 WE ARE Whom we accept, but even fraternal insurance and We AMERICAN W Only society extending Colored people able to con- States. Our rates are those is what we furnish. WE ARE A LITTLE PARTICULAR Whom we accept, but every honest temperate, industrious man and woman can obtain fraternal insurance and Woodberd protection in the AMERICAN WOODMEN of DENVER, COLORADO Only society extending Wooderaft to Colored people and only society operated by Colored people able to comply with every requirement of the Insurance laws of the various States. Our rates are those of the Nationl Fraternal Congress Table of Mortality. This is what we furnish. Death Benefit to Beneficiary Sick Benefit to Member Accident Benefit to Member Old Age Annuity to Member Permanent Disability Benefit to Member Burial to Member In One Combined Certificate No foolish horseplay in to work confusion. You paradees. The State Insure the American Woodmen. $1,000.00; $1,500.00; $2,000. Kansas City Camp No. and affiliate in same camp. fee now is $2.50 and that par Office 1309 E. 18th St. Geo. C. Martin and H. L. Dr. W. H. Bruce, Medi Mr. T. A. Ross and No foolish horseplay initiation, no annual, biennial, triennial Grand Lodge or other tax to work confusion. You pay the same each month. No gorgeous regalia to buy, no annual parades. The State Insurance Department of Missouri places its stamp of approval on the American Woodmen. Every certificate guaranteed. Certificates of $250.00; $500.00; $1,000.00; $1,500.00; $2,000.00. Kansas City Camp No. 4 now being organized for men and women. All meet together and affiliate in same camp. By special dispensation of Supreme Commander the joining fee now is $2.50 and that pays for Medical Examination. Mr. T. A. Ross and Mr. C. A. Franklin, Special Deputies. HAIR REAL HUMAN CREOLE HAIR NETS HAND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MADE CATALOGUE FREE COLORED WOMENS HAIR LAMP CAP FREE THIS COMBS BRUSH BRUSH SEND FIRST FAIL FOR BO CENT SEND FIRST FAIL FOR BO CENT Showing all the latest styles of creole Hair goods. Straightening Combs Toilet articles Hair by the lb we show the largest variety and sell more hair goods than any other manufactures in the United States send two cent stamp to-day for Catalogue HUMANIA HAIR © Dept. 109 23 DUANE ST NEW YORK Rooms to Rent Rooms to Rent FOR RENT—Furnished or unfurnished room; 916 E 17th street. FOR RENT—2100 Charlotte Street. Steam heated apts. Three and four rooms, strictly modern. Don't worry about heat or high priced coal. See Kinsler. Bell phone Grand 2303R. FOR RENT—9 rooms, modern, 1315 Lydia Ave. John M. Day, 1419 E. 18th St. Phone Bell Grand 1413. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms; modern, with heat; $2 and $2.25 per week. 918 East 21st street. Mrs. H. L. Kinsler, Bell, Grand 2303R. FURNISHED ROOMS—Modern, except heat. Private family. First class people desired. 1306 Michigan avenue. Bell Phone East 4777J. 2t FOR RENT—Front room, strictly modern. 1327 Woodland. FOR RENT—Front room for married couple or man. 1805 E. 11th street, 3rd floor modern. Phone East 2426W. Stop that bad cold. Smith's Vim and Vigor Cold Tablets will do it. Price 25 cents. 18th and Tracy. FOR RENT—A fine large four room modern flat and two small four room flats. Call Mrs. A. E. Jenkins. 1324 Vine St. Bell Phone. East 4067J. 4t Five and Seven-Passenger Cars for trip or hour. Day or night. Stand—1516 E. 18th Street. Bell, East 4939. Home East 802 WM. JOHNSTON, Mgr. At the Closed Gate of Justice Subscribe for The Sun iation, no annual, biennial, triennial by the same each month. No gorgere ance Department of Missouri place Every certificate guaranteed. Cee 00. 4 now being organized for men a By special dispensation of Supra- sors for Medical Examination. reet. Bell Phone Grand 2988. Billups, National Deputies and Or- nal Examiner. Mr. C. A. Franklin, Special Deputi Hotel Paseo Cafe Furnished Rooms in Connection. Bell Phone, East 3744. Meals and Lunches at All Hours. Special Attention Given to Parties. What You Can Get for 10c, 15c, 20c and 25c Just Around the Corner At MRS. KING'S. MENU: Tea, Coffee or Milk Served With All Meals. Brains and Eggs . . . 20c Bacon and Eggs . . . 35c Liver and Bacon . . . 20 Fried Chicken . . . 25c Stewed Chicken . . . 25c Baked Chicken . . . 25c Teabone Steak . . . 25c Pork Chops and Eggs . . 25c Ham and Eggs . . . 35c Turkey . . . 30c Duck . . . 30c OPEN ALL NIGHT. MRS. MARY KING, Prop. 1737 PASEO, KANSAS CITY, MO. BUCKNER & McELROY TRANSFER CO. Furniture and Plano Movers, Express and Baggage. Goods stored, packed and shipped by experienced men. The right price with truck and wagon service. 1404-6 Holmes Street. Bell phone Grand 1566-W. Home phone Main 9172. KELLEY'S FLOUR BEST HIGH PATENT Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C., U.S.A. —James D. Corrothers. ARTICULAR us man and woman can obtain VER, COLORADO and only society operated by the Insurance laws of the various Congress Table of Mortality. This In One Combined Certificate penniel Grand Lodge or other tax georgealia to buy, no annual places its stamp of approval on Certificates of $250.00; $500.00; men and women. All meet together supreme Commander the joining Organizers. cauties. MOON'S Live and Dressed Poultry, Eggs and Game; fresh from the Country. Continually Making Good Taking best care of our customer's interests is the best way to take care of our own for in the final analysis they are identical. We like to see our customers get the best of every transaction because when the customer prospers so do we. (MOON) With his exposition of poultry products fresh from the country has had long experience and has the reputation that was not created by the whirlwind process. Our percentage of good satisfied customers is what counts. Quality aims to succeed by continually making good and if in any instance we fall down we will gladly refill the order or do anything else to maintain our standard. For Thanksgiving Turkeys, Geese, Ducks and Hens, see us for special prices. Phone Bell Grand 3765. Moon's Poultry & Egg Co. 1335 E. 18th Street Kansas City, Mo. Go to Moon's Cafe 1223 Baltimore Ave. For your Thanksgiving feast. All kinds of poultry will be served at this spread for the special price of 25 cents. Are you taking the Kansas City Sun? Why not send it to your friend? 15 cents from now to January 1st. Since the ordinary car does the ordinary things, to take a ride in KING COLE one comes out of the past into the present: PHONES: Bell, East 2013 Home, East 2293 W. H. HUBBELL. FLOUR Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Come to K.C. at Our Expense! Jones' Christmas Fairyland Exploits this year the Broadest Variety of Gift Things ever assembled under one roof in the Southwest. Toys without number as well as everything for Gifts for Men, and Women, Boys and Girls. 12th, Main and Walnut Kansas City's Profit-Sharing-Store VISIT "KANSAS CITY'S LARGEST AND HANDSOMEST JEWELRY STORE" OPPENSTEIN BROTHERS 1124-1126 WALNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. If you have trouble with your feet If you have consult the foot specialist at Crossett's. They will "Make Lifes Walk Easy" Ask to see the new "Parkway"— SEE ME FOR YOUR CHOICE Fine Line of Diamond A small deposit will JOSEF 812 Grand Ave. For Biscuits Fine And Cakes Divine Bakes Perfect Bread All The Time Corn Meal Too finest for dress, service and comfort SEE MORINO SEE MORINO FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS Fine Line of Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry A small deposit will hold any article 'till Christmas JOSEPH MORINO 812 Grand Ave. Opposite Post Office ISMERT-HINCKE MILLING CO. ES STORE CO ain and Walnut Profit-Sharing-Store AS CITY'S LARG- HANDSOMEST RY STORE" T STEIN BROTH 126 WALN NSAS CITY, I trouble w CRO SHOE BROTHERS WALNUT ST. CITY, MO. ouble with your feet CROSSETT SHOE STORE 1005 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. W. D. WALKER, Manager ess, service and comfort MORINO FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry It will hold any article 'till Christmas SEPH MORINO Opposite Post Om service and comfort MORINO CHRISTMAS GIFTS Bells, Watches and Jewelry hold any article 'till Christmas MORINO Opposite Post Office ISMERT-HINCKE MILLING CO. I-H BEST PATENT HARD WHEAT FLOUR. KANSAS CITY, U.S.A. I-H Everything to wear —Every to make home more home like.