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DUNBAR'S LAST POEM Hear Bishop Parks Sunday at Allen Chapel The Sun Goes to 36 States and Canada. Are Your Relatives and Friends Getting It? VOLUME IX. NUMBER 27. Hear B M. B. REV. F. F. MOTEN "The Texas Tornado" who conducted such a in this city and Marshall, Mo., some weeks ago, a wonderful revival which has stirred the city f in Columbia opened a great revival at Lexington, pects to do a great work. Dr. Moten is indeed a "The Texas Tornado" who conducted such a wonderful series of meetings in this city and Marshall, Mo., some weeks ago, and who has just wound up a wonderful revival which has stirred the city from center to circumference in Columbia opened a great revival at Lexington, Mo., this week where he expects to do a great work. Dr. Moten is indeed a wonderful preacher. NEGRO HIGH SCHOOLS MENTIONED. Lincoln High School of This City and Sumner High School of Kansas City, Kansas, as Officially Rated. In a beautiful and most elaborate souvenir booklet a copy of which was presented to each member of the N. E. A. visiting in Kansas City this week a number of the local educational institutions, white and colored, are shown by cuts and described at more or less length. Negroes will be interested especially in the writups of the Kansas City High Schools. NEGRO ENGAGES IN HARDWARE AND KITCHEN FURNISHING BUSINESS. William H. Bright, a member of the Boston Negro Business League, has recently opened a hardware and kitchen furnishing store at 9341-2 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mr. Bright's wares consist, among other things, of window shades, gas burners, mantles, chimneys, tin, enamled, brass and glass ware, and crockery. This is a unique business enterprises, being the first and only one of its kind, it is said, conducted anywhere in New England by a Colored man. Sumner High School for Negro students has 14 teachers and 293 pupils. It is one of the very few accredited high schools of its kind. Eleven of the fourteen teachers have A. B. degrees from standard universities and colleges. Two have Master degrees, one from Chicago University and one from Indiana University. The faculty of the school has learned to keep in touch with the life of the pupils and has been brought into full sympathy with all student problems and student activities. Principal and teachers have endeavored to build up a high school. The joy, interest and enthusiasm of the student body in all their tasks, both academic and industrial, indicate the proper motivation in all their work. Motivation is the characteristic and outstanding fact about the school. Lincoln High School. For the colored children of Kansas City the Lincoln High School is maintained. This school was formerly largely devoted to the teaching of college preparatory subjects. Recently this condition is being reformed and increasing stress is placed upon industrial subjects. Good courses are now given in woodwork, gas engines, sewing and cooking. This change in direction of development should make this school a growing influence in the solution of the city's educational problems. B. M. STIGALL, Vice-Principal of Polytechnic Institute. MRS. MARY GLENN DEAD. Mrs. Mary Glenn of Galena, Kans., mother of the Business Manager of a company, of pneumonia after a brief illness at her residence in at city nursery morning. Miss Villa, although just recovering from severe ack of laryngitis, left Thursday night for home accompanied by her cousin Miss Nenelle E. Norman. Mrs. Glenn was a devout Christian and an active member of the A. M. E. Church, a member of the Eastern Star, the S. M. T. and Court of Calanthe, a devoted wife and mother and was loved by all who knew her. She leaves a mother, a grandmother, a husband, two daughters, other relatives, and a multitude of friends to mourn her loss which will be keenly felt in the community where she has lived for so many years. The Sun extends its deepest sympathy to the bereaved family in this their hour of deepest sorrow. Sumner High School. Lincoln High School. NEGRO ENGAGES IN HARDWARE AND KITCHEN FURNISHING BUSINESS. William H. Bright, a member of the Boston Negro Business League, has recently opened a hardware and kitchen furnishing store at 9341-2 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mr. Bright's wares consist, among other things, of window shades, gas burners, mantles, chimneys, tin, enamled, brass and glass ware, and crockery. This is a unique business enterprises, being the first and only one of its kind, it is said, conducted anywhere in New England by a Colored man. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY AFRAID OF THE BLACK RACES. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, in a recent magazine article, says that the present European war is nothing to the coming war between the white and black races of the world. The black races, he says, will triumph. This is probably the reason why he opposes Negroes in the army and navy of the United States. He is afraid that the Negro may learn to fight too well. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. (By Mrs. Gladys Young.) The T. E. O. club will meet this week with Mrs. Anna Williams, 401 Reese street....The Rally at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Sunday, was a decided success....Mr. Adam Tolliver is improving rapidly....Mr. Massey has returned home after undergoing an operation in Kansas City....Mrs. John Baker is better....Mr. Geo. Lyman entertained the Sunflower Rifle club Wednesday evening at his home, 420 Kiowa street. Those present were Mr. Wm. Shelton, Mr. C. B. Carter, Mr. Lovell, Mr. Weatherly and son. The guns have arrived and were inspected by Rev. Sanders....Mrs. Geo. Walker entertained Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Lovell, Rev. and Mrs. Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe and Mrs. Townsend Sunday evening after church services, at her home, 417 Kiowa street....Rev. J. W. Hayes is in Atchison, Kansas, assisting Rev. Hill in a revival meeting....Miss Fay Dawson is able to be up after two months' illness....Mrs. Susie Henderson is sick and her many friends hope for her a speedy recovery....Send your news to Mrs. Young's publication....Mrs. George HART Memorial services for Past Grand Master M. O. Rickettts were held by Hannabai W. M. and Ernest Kennedy, secretary, last Sunday, and the following program was rendered: Song, Lead Kindly Light; prayer, Stephen Steward, Chaplain, song, Nearer My God To Thee; remarks, E. J. Cradock W. M.; song, A Sleep In Jesus; remarks, J. H. Kenner, Grand Dist. Dept.; duet, H. Dollie Salls and Madison M. D.; song, God Be With You Till We Meet Again. Mrs. T. A. Higginbotham, who has been ill is improving under the care of Dr. J. E. Dibble. The Kansas City Sun KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917. Lincoln High School Extension Lincoln High School Auditorium, Nineteenth and Tracy Sunday Afternoon, March 4, at 3:15 LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA (Augmented to Twenty-five Pieces) Program 1. Tone Poem, "Apple Bloo 2. Intermezzo (a) Cavalleria Rustican (b) Traumerei. 3. Tenor Solo. 4. Piano Solo. 5. Loin Du Bal. Orchestra 6. The Colored Prima Donna Miss Vera Patton 7. Kansas City Folk Song. Quartet—Messrs. Schupee. 8. Pizzicato Polka. 9. Anthem, "Steal Away to Lincoln High School 10. Sextette from "Lueia". Orchestra 11. Star Spangled Banner. Orchestra and J. R. E. Lee, Principal. Lee Poem, "Apple Blossoms"... Hermezzo ) Cavalleria Rusticana... M ) Traumerei... M Mor Solo... Mr. Edward no Solo... Mrs. P n Du Bal... P Orchestra. Colored Prima Donna Song... M Miss Vera Patton and Orchestra. Lasas City Folk Song. "Dear Eyes"... A Arranged by set—Messrs. Schupee, Smith, Boatner and C icato Polka... M Solo... Mrs. L Them. "Steal Away to Jesus"... L Mincoln High School Chorus and Orchestra tette from "Lucia"... O Orchestra. Spangled Banner... O Orchestra and Audience. E. Lee, Major N. Clark St nuncipal. Director. 1. Tone Poem, "Apple Blossoms".....Roberts 2. Intermezzo (a) Cavalleria Rusticana.....Mascagni (b) Traumerei.....Schuman 3. Tenor Solo.....Mr. Edward Schupee 4. Piano Solo.....Mrs. Fulbright 5. Loin Du Bal.....Gillet Orchestra. 6. The Colored Prima Donna Song.....Smith Miss Vera Patton and Orchestra. 10. Sextette from "Lucia".....Donizetti Orchestra. 11. Star Spangled Banner.....Orchestra and Audience. J. R. E. Lee, Major N. Clark Smith, Principal. Director. DR. J. EDWARD PERRY One of the race's most distinguish of a kind and sympathetic disposition and a zealous but untenatious tion of his people, the founder and but Wheatley-Provident Hospital, and wit and successful surgeons regardless of the race's most distinguished and successful physi- sympathetic disposition, dignified and scholarly salous but unstentious worker for the bettermen people, the founder and builder of the Perry Sani ident Hospital, and without question one of the surgeons regardless of color in this city today. One of the race's most distinguished and successful physicians possessed of a kind and sympathetic disposition, dignified and scholarly in his deportment and a zealous but unstentatious worker for the betterment of the condition of his people, the founder and builder of the Perry Sanitarium, now the Wheatley-Provident Hospital, and without question one of the most skillful and successful surgeons regardless of color in this city today. HIGH NEGRO DEATH RATE AROUSES CITY FOR ACTION. Baltimore, Feb. 19.—To meet a situation of "alarming gravity," Mayor Preston announced tonight that he had called a meeting of 150 physicians, social workers and representative citizens for next Friday to devise ways of improving the health of the Negro element in this city. The Negro death rate is 28 to 32 a thousand, while the white death rate is 16 to 18. LEWIS C. SHEAFE SINGER—LECTURER Will give his famous lecture "A NATION IN THE MAKING" Monday Night, March 5, at the Second Baptist Church' Tenth and Charlotte streets, Kansas City, Mo. EVERYBODY INVITED BETHEL NEWS. The Rt. Rev. Bishop H. B. Parks will preach at Bethel on Sunday evening, March 4th, at 8 p. m. We extent a cordial invitation to the general public to worship with us. Emanuel Commandery K. T. No. 25 Will give their annual Easter Party manuel mandery No. 25 give their annual r Party Emanuel Commandery K. T. No. 25 Will give their annual Easter Party Monday Night, Apr. 9th Armory Hall, 14th and Michigan No Drills Dancing Admission 25c Program: Soms".....Roberts a. Mascagni b. Schumau c. Mr. Edward Schupee d. Mrs. Fulbright e. Gillet f. Ostra. g. Song. Smith h. and Orchestra. i. "Dear Eyes"..... j. Arranged by Smith Smith, Boatner and Coates. k. Strauss l. Mrs. Fulbright Jesus".....Smith chorus and Orchestra. m. Donizetti Ostra. n. Audiencee. Major N. Clark Smith, Director. ed and successful physicians possessed dignified and scholarly in his deport- worker for the betterment of the con- didor of the Perry Sanitarium, now the out question one of the most skillful color in this city today. LEWIS C. SHEAFE SINGER—LECTURER Will give his famous lecture "A NATION IN THE MAKING" Monday Night, March 5, at the Second Baptist Church' Tenth and Charlotte streets, Kansas City, Mo. EVERYBODY INVITED 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. SIGNS OF THE TIMES OR PROPH ECY FULFILLED. (By Samuel Steele.) Apostasy Signs—There are many who hold that the world is to be converted during this age by the preaching of the gospel. This is an unscriptural, unrealized optimism. The scriptures hold just the opposite for these last days. Note Paul's statement to Timothy, 1 Tim. 4:13, 13: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times"some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and dictices of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. These things command and teach." Our Lord also said (Matt. 24:11, 12): "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." Paul also stated in 2 Thes. 2:13: "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, not by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of perdition." The son of perdition." It is the Holy Spirit in the hearts of true believers that has been the power conserving the earth, called "The salt of the earth," but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewithal shall it be salted? Matt. 5:13; Luke 18:8. The majority of the so-called Christian world today, has become "wise in their own conceits," "neither hot nor cold" for the Lord; consequently as our Lord said of them, "they have lost their savor, thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men. Isaiah the prophet cries out (Chap. 1:2), "Hear, O heavens (powers of spiritual control), and give ear, O earth (powers of civil control), for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me; the ox knowth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel (christendom) doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupted. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should we be sick and any more? We will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and infiltrating sores; they have not been closed, so they have not been nullified with ointment. And the daughter of Zion (the true Church, "The Little Flock" of true believers), is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged plant. Again in 1281: 8 "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim (the teachers of false doctrine), whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys—the lucrative position of government, both civil and ecclesiastical, of them that are over come with wine: The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet: for all tables (the places where we should find spiritual food), are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. They have erred through wine—self conceit, and through strong drink—false conception of God's word and are out of the way: the priests and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine—selfish pride, they are out of the way through strong drink, they err in vision, they stumble in judgment." When the Son of Man cometh will He find faith on the earth? Dr. Campbell Morgan renders Heb. 12:1: "Lay aside every weight and the popular sin." Unbelief is the "popular" sin of today, it debars from no society, is no reproach, but some consider it an evidence of progress and intellectual power. Not long since a New York pastor arose in a mass meeting of men, and that man could go to heaven a believing Jesus Christ." This was a pastor of a leading orthodox church of New York City. The Pastor must have forgotten Peter's admonition given in Acts 4:10: "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom we crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light—morning, in them." Is 8:20 [Name not visible] RT. REV. H, BLANTON PARKS, D. D., The distinguished Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal district, North Missouri, Southwest Missouri, Kansas, Colorado Puget Sound Conferences, the largest district in America at Allen Chapel Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock. Hear h The distinguished Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal district embracing Missouri, North Missouri, Southwest Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California and Puget Sound Conferences, the largest district in America, who will preach at Allen Chapel Sunday morning at 11:00 o'clock. Hear him. NEW POEM BY NEGRO LAUREATE HELENA, MONT. Paul Lawrence, Dunbar sent the Verses to a Kansas Citian (By J. H. Hilliard.) An unpublished poem by the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, greatest poet of his race, has come to light in Kansas City. N. Clark Smith, supervisor of music in the Negro schools, received it as a personal gift in 1906 from Mr. Dunbar, who designed the lines for a musical setting. The first two stanzas was sent April 20. In the following June, Dunbar was on his deathbed in Chicago when he received the music for the song. Whereupon he wrote a third stanza, which he forwarded to the composer, written on a postal card with these words: "Your music, my dear sir, is very pretty. I add another stanza which I think is not so good as the others." The poem complete follows: The lark is silent in his nest, The breeze is sighing in its flight, Sleep, Love, and peaceful be thy rest, Good-night, my love, good-night, good-night. Sweet dreams attend thee in thy sleep, To soothe they rest till morning's light. And angels round thee vigil keep, Good-night, my love, good-night, good-night. Sleep well, my love, on Night's dark breast, While speed the hours in somber flight. Lie thou in silent slumber blest, Good-night, my love, good-night good-night. MEMORIAL SERVICES The twelve Masonic lodges of this city held memorial services for Past Grand Master M. O. Ricketts last Sunday at Centennial M. E. Church. A procession headed by the Knights Templers and the Knights Templer band and about three hundred Blue Lodge members marched from the hall at three o'clock to the church where the following program was rendered: Song.....Choir Invocation.....Rev. T. G. McCampbell Solo, selected .....Horace Conway "Station In Life" .....Dr. W. H. Bruce Music.....Choir "Basonic Character" T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P. Song. Choir Lodge of Sorrow Services by Kansas City Lodges Solo, "Asleep In Jesus" Eulogistic Resolutions on behalf of Kansas City Lodges Kansas City Lodges W. C. Hueston, J. E. Herriford, N. C. Crews, P. G. M.; R. T. Coles, P. G. M. Music.; Knight Templer Band Benediction.; Rev. R. Davis E. G. Lacey; D. G. M. The Eastern Star Chapters after holding their memorial services in the hall marched to the church in a body to pay their respect to the brethren. Miss Melba Shears, of Nashville, Tennessee, will visit Mrs. Sanford M. Patterson, 1624 Cottage avenue, March eighth. Good-Night. Do You Know That Advertising is the Life of Trade and the Only Real Business Getter Chapel fifth Episcopal district embracing Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California and district in America, who will preach 00:00 o'clock. Hear him. HELENA, MONT (By J. H. Hilliard.) Unity Lodge A. F. & A. M., held their Chapter of Sorrow at the St. James A. M. E. Church Sunday the 25, in memory of the late Past Grand Master M. O. Rickettts. Rev. Geo. F. Martin, a life long friend of the Grand Master, was speaker of the evening. The services were opened by singing, and the subject of the sermon was, "A Great Man Has Fallen." At the conclusion he asked all Master Masons to fit and shape their lives that they would be wholly acceptable to the Grand Master above. ...The Busy Bees met at the residence of Mrs. K. C. Smith's last week. ...Mrs. W. E. Wilson of Missoula, Mont., will assist Rev. Martin in a ten days' meeting commencing the 13. All are invited to come and let us make this a great mid-winter revival. ...Mrs. Albert Napper will entertain the Bright Stars the 5th at the residence of Mrs. Judge Hart, 109 State street. You are invited. ...Mrs. A. L. Stittwell entertained the Ladies' Auxiliary this week. ...There will be a Turkey dinner at the St. James A. M. E. Church the 14th. ...Arthur Hampton will entertain the Willing Workers club at her residence next week with a big dinner. ...We had one of the heaviest snow falls for years last week. VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH Our services were well attended Sunday. Two additions were made to the Church. Rev. Moore preached a fine sermon in the morning. We hope the Rev. will call to see us again. ...Mrs. A. Goins are very sick. We hope she will soon recover. ...Mrs. A. Johnson and Mrs. M. E. Jackson have returned home from Centralia, Mo., where they attended the funeral of their mother, Mrs. Anna Harris, who departed this life February 9. We extend sympathy. We are carrying on a revival meeting and all are invited. Rev. Alford is conducting the services. ...Mrs. P. L. Blackwell left Monday night for St. Louis. Her daughter, Miss Werdie Blackwell, is very sick. We hope for her speedy recovery Miss Blackwell is a teacher in one of the public schools in St. Louis, and is a lady who deserves much credit. ...The Sunday school held its election of officers. Quite an interesting program and luncheon were the features of all entertainment given by the ladies of the W. H. & F. M. last Thursday afternoon. ...Last Sunday the pastor preached a soul stirring sermon at morning services, followed by a beautiful and spirited address in the evening. ...The members of St. James are looking forward to a great rally on the last Sunday in March, the proceeds of which are to be used for reroofing the church edifice...Mrs. J. S. Cannon fell last Monday and sustained painful bruises. ...Mrs. Lucinda Russell continues very ill...Mrs. F. Martin, of Olathe, Kansas, was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Wilson last Thursday. ...Mr. Samuel Russell, lately with "Buckners Virginian Singers" will give a couple of concerts in Richmond, Mo. PRICE, 5c. 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Second Baptist Church, 10th and Charles Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. 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, 331 Vine, Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis, Mo. olls. Mo. Woodland Ave. A. M. E. Zion Church, 1823 Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland. St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Taylor Avenue. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Akron. Biglow A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lydia. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4050 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect A. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and 10th Street. Wesleyan. B. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruly. First Baptist Church, 6th and Neb. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and 4th. Qinardar A. M. E. Church, Quinardar Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rose dale, Kan. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. A. M. E. Church, 4th and Oakland. Salter Mission A. M. E. Church, South Park, Kan. Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby Way Baptist Church, 25th Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rosedale, Kan. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Virgina. Benedeser A. M. E. Church, Sanford and T emont. EDITORIALS The editor is again able to be at his desk. The great hubbub raised over the alleged unpatriotic aphorisms of a local school teacher will at least serve to suggest to other instructors the fine art of saying less than one thinks. It is claimed that Kansas City is freer from lawlessness than any other large city in the country. If so, then life must not be worth living at all in the other large cities. A colored man over at Wichita was arrested this week for wearing underneath his overcoat a belt made up of eight quart bottles of whiskey. Kansas people should not wear their whiskey on the outside. The fact that Rev. Wm. H. Thomas now into his third year as pastor of Allen Chapel, continues to grow in popularity, not only as a preacher but as a reliable spiritual adviser and Christian example, is a fine example of real merit as opposed to the transient, unstable personal qualities so frequently found in public leaders. HOLDEN, MO. (By Chas Pratt.) Mr. and Mrs. Orb King entertained last Saturday night at a three course luncheon...Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Taylor have moved from the farm to their home in West Holden...Mrs. Chas. Pratt and others attended the funeral of Mr. John Harvey who died in Kansas City and his remains were laid to rest at Centerview, Mo., last Friday...Miss Melvina Johnson left for St. Joseph last Saturday...Mr. Zack Taylor and Mr. Edd Lee spent last Monday in Sedalia, Mo.,...Mr. and Mrs. Freeman of Kansas City were the guests of Mrs. Clarica Smith, her mother, last week...Mrs. Stella Combs entertained Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pratt last Tuesday evening...Our Sunday school is still improving. THE NEW CHARTER. The Sun is publishing this week a full page advertisement paid for by the Advocate of the New Charter or Good Government League and while the publication of this article in no wise affects the position of the Kansas City Sun, yet we feel that it perfectly proper to give publicity to both sides of a matter as important as this. And for that reason we are giving that much space for the reasons why the new charter should be adopted. We advise every Colored voter of this city to read carefully the opinions of the representatives expressed by each side and then exercise your right as an American citizen and a sensible voter by voting that way your conscience dictates without fear or favor. --- W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master. Wm. Green, Plattsburg, Mo., Dep. Grand Master. C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Senior Grand Warden. Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Junior Grand Warden. H. H. Walker, St. Joseph, Mo., Grand Treasurer. Geo. W. K. Love, Kansas City, Grand Secretary. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L. 2nd District. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION W. G. Mosely, President. T. G. McCampbell, Vice President Wm. Washington, Treasurer. E. S. Baker, Secretary. Board of Directors: T. G. McCampbell, S. H. P. Edwards, E. G. Lacy, J. E. Rhodes, T. W. H. Williams, E. S. Baker, Wm. Washington, R. V. Adkins, Geo. Johnson, W. G. Mosely, S. Myers, Richard Harris Edw. Thompson, R. Fulbright. Meets fourth Tuesday in each ```markdown ``` Mrs. V. L. Heuston wishes to announce that the proceeds so far from the baby contest at Ward Chapel, is $94.00, and due to her illness she has not been able to award the prizes. Mrs. Fannie F. West was hostess to the P. & P. P. Council No. 2. S. M. T. Monday, February 26. After business an elaborate luncheon was served. Covers were laid for 16_. Monday, March 12, Mrs. Maggie Pefferson will entertain the council. To the ladies of the clubs comprising the City Federation, the regular meeting will be held Friday, February 9, at 2:00 o'clock, at the Garrison Field House. At 3:30, Mrs. G. W. Addison will address the assembly on the need of a parental home for our boys and girls. The Progress Study club met Wednesday, February 28, at the residence of Mrs. John Lange, 912 Park avenue. Visitors present were, Mrs. Elmer Green, Mrs. James Stewart, Mrs. C. H. Calloway and Mr. Harry Miller. Very interesting remarks were made by Mr. Harry Miller. After a very interesting meeting the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Jessie Novel, 2440 Montgall avenue The revival services have closed at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. Although there were only about seven or eight additions to the church, the pastor and members feel that much good was done and do not feel discouraged. Rev. D. P. Jones D.D., of Chicago, delivered a soul stirring sermon Sunday morning. In the afternoon covenant meeting was held and the congregation felt very much lifted up. In the evening communion was administered...Mrs. Alice Coleman is ill at her residence, 266 Valley street...The Pleasant Valley Mission circle met at the residence of Mrs. Charles Jackson...Mrs. Henry Gentry, of Denver, Colo., and two little daughters, Phyllis Wheatley and Juanita were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. Rndolph, 124 Washport avenue. Thursday. nude, thursd --- EARTH CORNER —That it takes Dr. Theo. Smith to expose forcibly and clearly a lot of Negro shams. Well it does that. —That the Negro who will not pay an honest newspaper bill is unworthy of trust or respect by business people. —That this so-called Governmental Civil Service, as far as the Negro is concerned, is a humbug and a farce. Speak up, boys. Ain't that so? —That there are some political monstrosities holding office now who will never be heard of after their term of office expires. That's no lie. —That there is a great deal of grumbling among teachers and patrons of the shabby treatment being accorded the Colored schools along certain lines in this city. —That the frantic efforts being put forth by the Star to secure the adoption of the New Charter will result as all the Star's political activities do, in an overwhelming defeat. —That a rather loud sister was heard to remark on the street car the other day. "Ise ben sleepin' col' all dis wintah." Now what did she mean? Was she shy of covering? —That with six well equipped, up-to-date Negro drug stores in this city, nearly one-half of the Negro physicians are sending their prescriptions to white drug stores. Are you afraid to trust your own race, boys? Y.M.C.A. Notes Thursday, February 22, the Kansas team of the Senior Volley Ball leabue, was defeated by the Vine street champions, 3-1. The juvenile members of the association entertained their friends on last Thursday with a special motion picture and lecture in the department lobby. The Y. M. C. A. Bible classes in conjunction with the churches of the city are planning a big Bible Institute under the direction of Dr. S. N. Vass of Raleigh, N. C. "Christian Responsibility" will be the subject of Dr. L. C. Sheafe's closing lecture, Sunday, March 4th, 3:30 p. m., to the Y. M. C. A., before his trip to Florida. Three new members have been added to the Tuesday night gmy class, making the total enrollment 10. The new members are, Messrs, James Steward, Jno. Lange and F. J. Weaver --- The checker match between W. E. Griffin and E. Jackson, resulted in favor of Mr. Jackson; score 10 to 4. About the middle of April, Mr. Jackson will play Mr. A. V. Pepp for the championship of Kansas City. In one of the most exciting and brilliantly played games of the year, the Bethel Basketball team defeated the Lawrence athletics in the Paseo Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium last Friday. The final score was 22 to 13. The game was full of thrills from start to finish and the audience was kept busy cheering the brilliant playing of both teams. The superior team work and deadly goal shooting of the Bethel boys gave them their lead over their larger and stronger opponents, while the passing and floor covering of the Lawrence boys was superior to that of any other team seen on the "Y" floor. Captain Williams, of Bethel, was the individual star of the game, shooting 'em from all angles of the court. The work of Hayes at guard for Bethel was very good. A very large and enthusiastic crowd attended the game. The score in detail: Bethel. F. G. F. G. Williams, f. 3 2 Burns, f. 4 1 Day, c. 2 2 Winfry, g. 1 Lawrence. F. G. F. G. Taylor, f. 1 1 Baker, f. 1 W. Clark, c. 1 L. Clark, g. 2 Peterson, g. 4 Total score, Bethel 22, Lawrence 13. Time of game, 50 minutes. Referee, Hawkins. COLORED Y. M. C. A. Famous Showman and Owned of Al G. Fields' Minstrels Handsomely Remembes Columbus Association. Al G. Fields, the veteran minstrel showman and owner of Al G. Fields Minstrels, last week donated to the Colored men's branch of the Y. M. C. A. $1,000.00 cash. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917 A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction Lodge Directory G Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M. meets every 2nd and 3rd Master Masons in good standing welcome. Wm. Hopkins, W. M. M. J. H. SPIGENER, Secretary. Rene Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M. meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Wm. Sprague, W. M.; C. H. Countee, Secy. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in every month. Visiting Master Masons are welcome. Wilson, Secretary, 1820 Highland. Lebanon Lodge No. 126, A. F. and A. M. Lincoln, B. M. meets the 3rd month. All Master Masons in good standing are welcome Young, Wm. M. 1315 Washington, B. M. Shipy, Secy. 617. S. 20th St. G MASONIC SQUARE Liberty Lodge No. 37, A. 1, and A. M. Liberty, M. moe's the 2nd and 4th Saturday, nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y. St. Stephens Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Masons, Liberty, Mo. Meets first Tuesday in H. P. W. Mans, Records, H. P. W., Wm. Caps, Records ```markdown ``` St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, M. moe William Cappa, E. c.ight William Cappa, W. H. Robinson, Rec. Sec'y HOC IN GARAGE CHAPEL HCTCP King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Mondays in each month on C. F. Wilson, W. M. H.; C. Conway 588 Tracy Ave., Seyc. D. OF T. Primrose Tabernacle meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each month at all Daughters and Sir Knights in good standing are welcome. Susie Dotson, H. H. F. and Estella Pitts, C. R., 1815 E. 17th Women's Clubs. E. BERRY, W. E. E. LYNN, W. Secy MRS. T. G. McCAMPBELL, MRS. CORRINE SMITH, President, MRS. JESSE NOVEL, Secretary. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. (By Mrs. Rosa Jones.) FOR BEAUTIFUL HAIR TRY THE SLAUGHTER SYSTEM and LYDA'S HAIR BEAUTIFIER Guaranteed to grow hair in six treatments or money refunded. THE WORLD'S FINEST HAIRDRESSER "Actual results from the Slaughter System and Lyda's Hair Beautifier." A guaranteed cure for any Scalp Disease. Mr Facial Massage, Braids, and all kinds of Hair Goo Madam J. H. WARREN 1608 EAST 18TH STREET Bell Phone, DON'T FORGET for any Scalp Disease. Manicuring, and all kinds of Hair Goods. 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COAL--COAL--COAL PLENTY OF COAL Coal Ordered Today Delivered Today. 1902 Vine St. Don't wait for cold weather, order while the weather is good. PAYNE'S COAL AND FEED STORE Bell Ph. East 559. H. Ph. East 4132. Criterion stands for qual- ity, 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. MAST Scalp Specialist and 2533 Woodland 2533 130 Residential Work a Specialty 1605 Virginia Street Finds Cure for Epilepsy After Years of Suffering My daughter was afflicted with epileptic fits for three years, the attacks coming every few weeks. We employed several doctors but they did her no good. About a year ago we heard of Dr. Miles' Nervine, and it certainly has proved a blessing to our little girl. She is now apparently cured and is enjoying the best of health. It is over a year since she has fitted. We cannot speak too highly good. About a year ago we heard of Dr. Miles' Nervine and it certainly has proved a blessing to our little girl. She is now apparently cured and is enjoying the best of health. It is over a year since she has had a fit. We cannot speak too highly of Dr. Miles' Nervine. Mrs. FRANK ANDERSON, Comfrey, Minn. Thousands of children in the United States who are suffering from attacks of epilepsy are a burden and sorrow to their parents, who would give anything to restore health to the sufferers. Dr. Miles' Nervine is one of the best remedies known for this affliction. It has proven beneficial in thousands of cases and those who have used it have the greatest faith in it. It is not a reliable remedy for nervous diseases. You need not hesitate to give it a trial. Sold by all Druggles. If the first bottle fails to benefit your money is returned. MILES MEDICAL GO.2 Elkhart, Ind. 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. --- Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City BAKERIES. DOWENS, 2331 Vine street. Bell phone, E. BARBER SHOPS. BENEN'S BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonne venue. BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSER. W. HOGAN, 1006 Woodland Ave. Poro ing and Facial Massage. Bell phone. East E DOYLE, Poro Hair Dresser, 2732 High e, East 1346W. E. WILSON, 1008 Woodland. XX Bell phone, E. 5469W. H M. S. DOTTREY, 1102 Highland avenue. GENFORD, 1305 Michigan avenue. Poro e, East 2221J. D. WILLIAMS, 1714 East 13th St. Bell Poro Hair Dresser. BOOK, Poro Hair Dresser, 1226 Vine St. CAFES. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th. Bell Phone, E. CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, 331 Vine street. Bell phone, East 5017. BARBER SHOPS. BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558. DELORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. L, 1006 Woodland Ave. Poro Hair Dressing al Massage. Bell phone, East 2155M. Poro Hair Dresser, 2732 Highland avenue W. ON, 1008 Woodland. XX Century Hair E. 5469W. DUTTREY, 1102 Highland avenue. Poro Hair 1305 Michigan avenue. Poro Hair Dresser J. MS, 1714 East 13th St. Bell phone, East Dresser. Hair Dresser, 1226 Vine St. Bell phone, E CAFES. 105 East 12th. Bell Phone, E. 2214. 2 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. FLORISTS. CO., 1501 East 19th. Bell phone, East 272 LAWYERS. Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main courts. Delaware, Home phone M58, Bell phone Main Practices in all courts. Attorney at Law, 511 Minnesota Ave., Kan- phone, West 3866. MRS. SUSIE OWENS. 2331 Vine street. Bell phone, East 5017. BARBER SHOPS. LABORING MEN'S BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558 Grand Avenue. BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. MRS. MARY W. HOGAN, 1006 Woodland Ave. Poro Hair Dressing, Manieuring and Facial Massage. Bell phone. East 2155M. MRS. MINNIE DOYLE, Poro Hair Dresser, 2732 Highland avenue. Bell phone, East 1346W. MRS. ETHEL E. WILSON, 1008 Woodland. XX Century Hair Dresser. Bell phone, E. 5469W. 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. 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. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th St. Bell phone, East 618. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1501 East 19th. Bell phone, East 272 LAWYERS WAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, B actices in all courts. ON, 601 Delaware, Home phone M58, B al advice. Practices in all courts. LEFORD, Attorney at Law, 511 Minnes Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. 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. 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. PHOTOGRAPH J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 East 18 PRISE, 1521 East 18th Street, Charles A e, East 1521. PHOTOGRAPHERS. STUDIO, 1622 East 18th Street. Bell p 1 East 18th Street, Charles A. Starks, Prop 1. HOTOGRAPHERS. 1622 East 18th Street. Bell phone, E. 91. THE ENTERPRISE, 1521 East 18th Street, Charles A. Starks, Prop. Bell phone, East 1521. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 (uptairs) Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West phone, West 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East 21st St. Bell phone, Grand. SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 East 18th street East 1328. UNDERTAKERS. H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence Avenue. Bell phon Home phone Main 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Gr Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281. YMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Kansas City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. R, 918 East 21st St. Bell phone, Grand BUND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Minnesota Ave. City, Kans. Bell phone, West 1743; Hom. W. Nelows, Mgr. St 21st St. Bell phone, Grand 2303R. 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. H. L. Neloms, Mgr. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East 21st St. Bell phone, Grand 2303R. SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 East 18th street. Bell phone East 1328. UNDERTAKERS 4, 1031 Independence Avenue. Bell phone one Main 3341. ROS., 1729 Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Gr 9. Res., Bell East 3281. dependence Avenue. Bell phone Main 3398W 341. Lydia Ave. Bell Phone Grand 987, Hom ll East 3281. SHOE REPAIRING ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP 18th street. Bell phone, East 495 "If you have good hair, ca If you have a diseased sca If you have little or no hair and a good reason for Madame M. B. 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CITY NEWS Miss Lelia Elmore, one of our teachers, is quite ill. Mrs. F. B. Davis of 1229 Woodland is reported very ill. Mrs. E. C. Bunch, spent a few days in St. Joseph, Mo., this week. Mrs. T. B. Watkins, of 1209 High land, has been seriously indesposed the past week. Stop that bad cold. Smith's Vim and Vigor Cold Tablets will do it. Price 25 cents. 18th and Tracy. Mr. Brenton P. Andrews, 2461 Montgall avenue, who was severely injured about six weeks ago is convalescing. Dr. J. R. A. Crossland of St. Joseph passed through the city Wednesday en route to Keytesville on professional business. Stop that bad cold. Smith's Vim and Vigor Cold Tablets will do it. Price 25 cents. 18th and Tracy. Mr. W. Frederick Fairfax, Kansas City's popular reader, has been quite ill with tonsillitis during the past week. Bryant James Blackburn, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Blackburn, 1019 Vine street, died Friday, February 23, with Pneumonia. Bishop H. B. Parks will hold the Presiding Elder's Council at Ebenezer Church, Wednesday, March 7. Preaching at 10:00 A. M., by Dr. J. D. Barksdale. The public is invited. Mrs. Katie Brooks, of 2112 West Prospect, entertained Mrs. Mamie Young and Mrs. Naomi Kyle, of Independence, Mo., last Friday afternoon with a delightful four course luncheon. Rev. Jno. E. Allen of Hutchison, Kansa, is visiting relatives and friends in the city this week. He has just closed a most successful revival in his church at Hutchison with some thirty additions. 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. Mrs. Clara Rodgers, 1021 Tracy avenue, received the sad news from her sister in Everett, Wash., announcing the death of her mother, Mrs. Emma Patterson, formerly of Leavenworth, Kansas, February 15, 1917. Parents and friends are invited to visit the Dental Infirmary being held daily at the Attucks School, Nineteenth and Woodland, under the supervision of Dr. T. C. Chapman, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Come and see what we are doing. The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of greater Kansas City will meet at the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday, March 7, at 1:00 p. m. sharp. Matters of a civic nature are to be considered and all members and pastors are urged to be present. Mr. W. D. Allen, wife and three children, proprietor of The Golden West Hotel, of Portland, Oregon, and one of the most prominent men of the state, stopped off en route home from the south to visit last Thursday, Prof. and Mrs. D. M. Crostwait. The Editor is in receipt of a letter from Dr. E. B. Ramsey, one of our most successful physicians who is visiting in company with Mrs. Ramsey in the East in which he says, "I attended Bethel A. M. E. Church in New York City, heard a great sermon from Dr. Ransom, also met many former friends from West Indies. The madame is enjoying the trip immensely. We go to Washington to the inauguration and to visit Howard University." Prof. Roscoe White will continue in Kansas City as manager of Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets, with Fred Harris as assistant. Prof. Roscoe White and manager, Fred Harris, invite all parents to visit their dancing academy and see for themselves. Mrs. Janie White has charge of all those who desire to learn how to dance. Phone East 2690. Dancing every Wednesday and Saturday night at Armory Hall, Cottage and Vine streets. Prof. Roscoe White spent a few days in Topeka, Kansas, this week and manager, Fred Harris, was also called to Lawrence on business. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends, the Bates, Auxiliary G. U. O. of O. F., Odd Fellows Choir, Second Baptist Church, Rev. S. W. Bacote, Dr. T. A. Fletcher, Amazonia Household of Ruth No. 2692 for their loving kindness and sympathy during the illness of our dear husband, father, son and brother also, for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Nora Ferguson, wife, Clarence Ferguson, son, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ferguson, Father and mother, Mrs. Jane White, Mrs. Mattie King, sisters. MRS. MAMIE HILL the Hairdresser desires to announce that she is now located at 2301 Vine Street and will be pleased to meet her friends and patrons. Little Alberta Bean, 1009 Euclid has been quite ill for several days She is still confined to her home. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Last Sunday the weather being ideal for church-goers, the services were well attended all day. In the morning services Dr. Cohron of St. Joseph, Mo., representing the State Mission work, preached a grand sermon on "Missions." The Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. are progressing. In the evening services Captain Throckmorton, representing the work of "The Volunteers of America," under the leadership of General and Mrs. Maud Booth, preached a fine sermon on "Slum Work in the Large Cities." There were 15 additions to the Church, of which number three received the ordinance of baptism. ST. STEPHEN'S BAPTIST CHURCH At the St. Stephen's Baptist Church at 11:00 a. m., the Rev. J. J. Glover preached an excellent sermon on "The Great Judgment Morning." After the sermon the pastor baptized 16 This makes a total of 53 baptized from our last revival. We hope to finish baptizing the remainder of our can candidates on the third Sunday in March. At 4:00 p. m., Rev. E. M. Cohran, state missionary, preached at 6:30 p. m., the B. Y. P. U., held their regular service. At the evening service the Rev. Dr. I. J. Beason, of Tennessee, gave an illustrated sermon on the canvas, subject: "Steps To Holiness." Our pastor is preaching in Independence, Mo., at the Second Baptist Church this week. Had six conversions the first two nights. The pastor's mother and son, Billie, are still on the sick list. * ALLEN CHAPEL. (By Delia H. Mosce.) Many were in attendance last Sunday. Rev. Sheafe, the evangelist-singer, preached two eloquent sermons. In the morning sermon his subject was; "The Key to the World's Problems;" in the evening, "The Signs of the Times," both of which stirred the very souls of the congregation. He sang several beautiful hymns as he alone can sing them. There were five additions. Three N. E. A. visitors (white) attended Sunday school, and two deaconeses from the Deaconese Training school (white) were present at the Christian Endeavor and evening services and expressed themselves as being much impressed with the services, especially the singing. We will have with us next Sunday, Bishop H. B. Parks. Our revival will begin the second week in March, conducted by the Rev. J. D. Robinson D.D. IN MEMORIAM. In fond memory of our loving hus- band and father, Chas. Pullam, who died two years ago today, March 2 1915: More and more each day we miss you Friends may think the wound is healed. But they little know the sorrow That lies within our hearts con- cealed. MRS. EMMA PULLAM, wife, P. E. PULLAM, W. H. HOUSTON, IN MEMORIAM. In loving remembrance of our dear husband and father, Geo. Pigeon, who passed away five years ago, March 2, 1912: Gone, but not forgotten, Never shall your memory fade, Sweetest thoughts shall always linger Around the spot where you are laid. Sadly missed by, MRS. LAURA PIGEON, wife, MRS. POPELIA SCOTT, MISS ZOLA PIGEON, MISS MARY PIGEON, MASTER ROBERT PIGEON, Children In loving remembrance of my beloved ones, husband, Isaac W. Smith, who died 8 years ago, January 12; daughters, Ida B. Carter, who died 7 years ago, December 18, and Emma F. Smith, who died 3 years ago, March 4: All gone and I am left alone, They've crossed the river to the other shore; They saw a light and bright it shone, So they went where sickness is no more. But I am not alone while Jesus lives, He sends the peace that none other gives. Josephine Smith, wife and mother. IN MEMORIAM. In sweet and fond remembrance of our beloved mother, Mrs. Frances L. Watson, who departed this life two years ago, February 26, 1915: "O, mother, the days we have been missing you, But when we leave this world of care We shall find one missing loved one In our father's mansion fair." Sadly missed by, Mrs. Marguerite Watson and family, Miss Ellen Watson, Miss Sallie Watson, Mr. Walter M. Watson. Children. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917 KANSAS CITY. KAS. By Mrs. Zenobia Nelson. Rev. Prince, of St. Joseph, Mo., was in the city attending the funeral of Mrs. Calloway. Mr. M. Pope, of 1514 North Ninth street, left for St. Louis, Mo., to see his son who is seriously ill. The Eighth Street Congregation held its meeting at the M. & O. hall Sunday to an appreciative audience. Mrs. L. W. Love, of Coffeyville, Kansas, was the guest of Mrs. Sarah Parks, 712 Everett avenue last week. The Band of Hope Sewing circle met at the home of Mrs. Anderson, 1030 Everett avenue, Thursday, with a number of members present. After being royally entertained by the hostess they adjourned to meet at the home of Mrs. A. J. Seymour, 117 Greely avenue. Mrs. Frances Calloway departed this life Saturday, February 25, at 1:00 p.m., at the age of 55 years. She was a charter member of the Metropolitan Church. The services were impressive but bief. The floral designs were numerous. Friends were out to express their sympathy. She leaves to mourn her loss, husband, two sisters and two brothers, three nieces and a host of friends. A very good crowd attended the Forum Sunday owing to the illness of the speaker who was not able to be present. The president suggested that the subject of "What can Kansas City, Kansas, do to help the young people of our city to prepare to fight life's battles more efficiently," be discussed. The subject was discussed by several able speakers. Among the important things to be kept in mind was first to seek the kingdom of God and all things shall be added and it was resolved that young people cannot be efficiently trained without they have before them some task in which they will throw themselves with earnestness and consecration in order to show by their lives that Christianity is something to be manifested as well as talked about. ARGENTINE, KANSAS. (By Mrs. Ophelia Jackson.) "Manners should go with knowledge and smooth its way through the world." Mrs. Millie Hamilton, who has been very sick, is improving....The muscle given by the choir and choral society on Friday, February 16, was a great success. The attendance was very good and there were quite a few present from the twin cities....Mrs. Maud Ross is sick....Mrs. Wm. Freelain, who has been sick, is able to be out again....Mr. and Mrs. John Oden, of Kansas City, Mo., spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Freelain....The citizens of Argentine met in Davis hall Tuesday night to dis cuss plans for the purchase of a ball Dr. N. S. Jenkins has ordered a car to be delivered March 15...Mrs. Betty Norman, who has been complaining for some time is gradually improving...Mr. Rheuben Chism is sick with a gripe...The Needlecraft Club met with Lillie Lacy on Thursday afternoon. Two new members were received, Mrs. Shields and Mrs. Lockridge. Their next meeting will be with Mrs. Strater, 242 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kansas...Mr. Gonzalas is on the verge of pneumonia...The Parent-Teachers' Club of Lincoln school had charge of a concert given by the pupils at the Second Baptist Church March 1. The proceeds went to improve the playground...Mrs. Lizzie Perry, mother-in-law of Rev. H. D. Harris, is with the family for an indefinite stay. She recently returned from Chicago...Rev. H. D. Harris, who has been suffering for some time from a nervous disorder, does not improve very rapidly...There are hosts of people who have a gift of telling them this is no evidence of illness...Mrs. Catherine Shields is genius to her bed on account of illness...The birthday anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richards was celebrated at their home on South 26th street Friday, February 23. Forty-eight guests attended at different hours from 5 to 12 o'clock p.m. P.unch, fruit, salad, ice cream and cake were served, ending with a midnight luncheon of fish mayonnaise dressing, chicken, cheese and pie ala mace. Pieces of huge birthday cake were given as souvenirs. Presents were received consisting of cut glass, linen, hanoi painted china and silverware. The guests ex pressed their wish to Mr. and Mrs. Richards of many happy returns of the day...Mr. Harry Balthrop is very sick...The attendance through out the day at the Second Baptist Church Sunday, February 25, was very good. Rev. Ephraim Green preached two soul stirring sermons and the collection was $12. * FOR SALE. * On easy terms, 4 new, modern * 5-room cottages on Highland avenue, between 27th and 28th streets. Money to loan and insurance. D. A. Willis, 2610 Highland. CLOVER LEAF INSURANCE COMPANY SHOWS THAT THEY RESPECT HONESTY AND ABILITY, NOT COLOR. J. J. Allen, district manager for the Clover Leaf Casualty Insurance Company for Kansas City, Mo., who has been in the employ of the company over five years, is the only Colored man working for the company who is furnished with the company's check book and writes his own checks in settlement of claims. I would like to impress upon the minds of our policy holders and to the people of Kansas City that I have worked hard to secure this privilege not for the honor that might be attached to it, but for the fact that it has always been my desire to be able to give my people the very best service in any line of business that I may be engaged. J. J. ALLEN, District Manager. I don't think it necessary to say that the Clover Leaf is an old line company whose financial standing is unquestionably safe, for that fact has been established years ago in Kansas City. The Clover Leaf is issuing the best policies for business and professional men and women, and for all men and women in various occupations of any company in Kansas City, and if you are not carrying a policy with us at this time I would like for you to give one of our agents an opportunity to explain our contract to you. Our agency force is composed of men and women of our own race who are well known and respected by all, and I would like to secure the services of other persons, who are ambitious to make more money. Fall in line with your friends and carry your Health and Accident Insurance with the Clover Leaf. STATEMENT. Mr. J. J. Allen, District Mgr. Clover Leaf Casulty Insurance Co. Dear Sir:— I accept draft for $23.00 in settlement for a week's disability of Lagripe. I am well pleased with the settlement and will take great pleasure in recommending the Clover Leaf Insurance Company to anyone wanting Casulty Insurance. I must admit this is my first time to know of a white insurance company to give one of my race authority to adjust claims and write a draft in settlement of same. To the Kansas City Sun; It certainly is too bad to be involved in such a nasty scandalous affair. It is irritable and when one is forced to involve women into it, it is carrying things too far. As long as the cliques can hand me hot shots as they have been doing these last two or three years, everything was all right, but when I throw a bomb and it hits its mark everything is all wrong. Youens and weens started the game and you have used every_device possible to humiliate and annoy me. Youens and weens had an object in view and youens and weens used both men and women of all races to injure and endanger my life. My character didn't amount to anything with youens but it did to me. It amounted to so much that I intend to stake my life on it. let come what may. Why jeopardize one's life and liberty any way? Why didn't youens and weens fight a fain fight, boldly and openly. It's just naturally in you it is? Just naturally curish, always was, always will be Sure I know that you rule and govern everything except one and I happen to know what that one thing is. I am awfully sorry to have women mixed up in this for her character is always at stake anyway. But at that we all are trying to win: youens and weens are trying to win over me and I am trying to win over all of you. J. R. RHODES GLASGOW, MISSOURI Just before the close of the Second Quarterly Conference on Monday evening, February 19, each minister and wife was invited to a 5 o'clock dinner at the cozy and beautiful home of Prof. and Mrs. A. R. Chinn. We were led to the dining room by the hostess, the Presiding Elder, P. C. Cress, leading the way to the nicely arranged table. As we were seated before the nice and palatable dishes our eyes beheld the beautiful articles made by the hostess. These are surely generous people, always striving to make the ministers and wives happy. We say to them: I wish you wealth, I wish you health I wish you a prosperous life in store I hope you heaven after death— How could I wish you more? Those present were Rev. P. C. Crews, P. E.; Rev. B. M. McCaine and wife, Rev. Thorntly and wife; Rev. Willis and wife, Rev. G. E. Pettigrew and wife, Mother Lewis and Roberts. LINCOLN, NEBR. (By W. W. Mosely.) Lebanon Lodge No. 126 A. F. & A. M., will hold memorial services in their hall Sunday afternoon in honor of the late Dr. M. O. Rickett P.G.M. . .Messrs. Frank Christman and J. W. Bedell are recovering from recent illness. . .Mrs. L. B. Moore is reported quite ill at her home on East O street. . .W. R. Cooley has sold his property near Collegeview, and will leave this week for Detroit, Mich., to locate. . .S. A. Venerable is recovering from recent illness. . .Daddy W. Chinn has recovered from a recent illness. . .Geo. W. Pleasant, an aged father, well known by both white and colored particularly by his exhortations from steps at the Government Square on Sunday afternoons, died at the home of his daughter in Omaha last week after a long illness of old age. The body was brought to this city for burial. The deceased is a half brother to Major Moore, of 2226 O street, and several daughters and other relatives survive him. The funeral was held in the A. M. E. Church Monday afternoon. Rev. T. J. Payne preached. A large crowd attended. Mr. and Mrs. Cross, daughter and son-in-law, and Mrs. Tiller, of Omaha, accompanied the remains. Mrs. Nettle McDonald was reported sick the last week...Mrs. Lulu B. Moore who has been ill for the past few weeks is recovering slowly at this time...Frank Christman is out after a number of days' illness...J. T. Bedell is yet confined at his home with rheumatism...Samuel Smith died at his home, 128 North Nineteenth street Monday night, after several weeks' sickness of stomach trouble. The body is being held at the undertakers pending word from relatives in Oklahoma, his former home...Next Sunday is Women's Day at the A. M. E. Church, women will conduct all services; concluding with their rally ....The remodeling of the A. M. E. Church has been completed and the dedication will take place second Sunday in March, the eleventh.....Rev. John McWilliams is reported quite sick at this writing.....Lebanon Lodge No. 126 A. F. & A. M. meld memorial services in their hall last Sunday afternoon in honor of the late Dr. Matthew O. Ricketts, Past Grand Master. The services were carried out in ritualiaca form interspersed with songs, Eulogy by S. B. Smith, secretary; resolution by P. L. Moore S. W. Music by Amaranth Chapter O. E. S. Mrs. Georgia Flippin, pianist. WELLINGTON, MO (By Hattie Hanna.) Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Watson visited in Kansas City City Sunday....Mr. James Hanna and Mrs. Carla Hanna who have been visiting in Richmond for two weeks returned home Saturday....Messrs. Herbert Carey, Jas, Hanna, Pleasant Rathman and Geo. Page spent Sunday in Kansas City....Mr. Ocia Cooper who has been working in the mines gave it up and returned to Kansas City last Saturday....Messrs. Walter Woods and Henry White were passengers to Kansas City, Saturday....Misses Mary Tripplett and Abbie Jackson returned to their home in Odessa, Saturday....Mr. Edgar Hanna carried 500 pounds of fish to Odessa for market Monday....Mr. Budd Garvin, of Independence, spent a few hours in Wellington with home folks....The men employed at the Lanning Harris coal mine had a lay-off Tuesday. WOMAN'S MITE MISSIONARY MEETING. (By Mrs. Ida C. Lee.) There was never a time in the history of our lives that we felt more happy than on Thursday morning, Feb. 22, when the Woman's Mite Missionary Society of Greater Kansas City met at Ebenezer Church to observe their annual day of prayer and praise service. Mrs. Rosetta B. Green, the faithful president who labors so earnestly to make the work a success, called the meeting to order and after several fervent and earnest prayers by the women, Rev. John Williams, pastor of the West Bottoms Mission, was introduced and preached the Missionary sermon. We shall never forget that wonderful sermon, and I am sure that everyone who heard this very interesting and instructive sermon will go into the work with a different spirit. The afternoon meeting was conducted by Sisters Glmore and Abernathy. The subject for this meeting was "Personal Evangelism," led by Mrs. Louise McDonald. I never saw a body of more earnest and devoted Christian women consecrating themselves to bring at least one soul to Christ during the year. We were ably assisted by Revs. W. C. Williams, Ransom Thomas and McDonald. The meeting will be at Allen Chapel, Thursday evening, March 29, at which time the sermon of Rev. John Williams will be repeated. FOR RENT—Furnished roo mfgr gentleman. Mrs. Swann, 1514 East 17th. FOR RENT—Furnished room; mod- ern. 2631 Highland. Bell Phone, East 4139-M. FOR RENT—Four-room flat; stric- tly modern, steam heat and electricity. See Kinsler, Bell Grand 2303R. FOR RENT—Six apartments, five rooms each, hot and cold water, heat and combination gas stoves. Loundy and lockers, janitor service. 2417 Highland; twenty-two dollars; and twenty-six dollars in the winter. Closet in each room. Call Bell phone E. 2941. FOR RENT-2447 Woodland Ave., 5 room cottage, bath, electric lights, gas stove shades, hot and cold water, large cement basement with laundry conveniences. Apply 2445 Woodland avenue after 5:00 p. m. Bell phone East 1551W. NEW CHARTER BENEFITS PEOPLE Charter Out-of-date and Should be Replaced by the date Plan of Government. Everyone concedes that the old Kansas City Charter. That is the reason the mayor appoints Freeholders to write a new charter. He proposed new charter to rour city is written of placing the government of the city of the people. contains the initiative, the referendum and the three provisions place the government of the city in the hands of the people. They can who are not doing their duty, and in case the action to an ordinance that is passed by the people can demand that it be voted on by the voters. colored population of Kansas City are a part. They are as progressive as other voters and opportunity to demonstrate to the people of the city stand for real progress. under the new charter—the city manager plan employed because they are capable of doing they are assigned to do—be they white or color a system like this there is real justice over what their creed or color is. is the duty of every voter to study this charter the polls next Tuesday and vote in an intre No one can ask more. --- Old Charter Out-of-date and Should be Replaced by Up-to-date Plan of Government. Everyone concedes that the old Kansas City Charter is out-of-date. That is the reason the mayor appointed the Board of Freeholders to write a new charter. The proposed new charter for our city is written with the intention of placing the government of the city in the hands of the people. It contains the initiative, the referendum and the recall. These three provisions place the government of the city absolutely in the hands of the people. They can recall officials who are not doing their duty, and in case there is an objection to an ordinance that is passed by the council the people can demand that it be voted on by the voters of the city. The colored population of Kansas City are a part of the whole. They are as progressive as other voters and this is their opportunity to demonstrate to the people of the city that they stand for real progress. Under the new charter—the city manager plan—men will be employed because they are capable of doing the work they are assigned to do—be they white or colored, and under a system like this there is real justice for all, no matter what their creed or color is. It is the duty of every voter to study this charter and go to the polls next Tuesday and vote in an intelligent manner. No one can ask more. WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE THE QUALITY STORE. Nineteenth and Vine Sts. (Transfer Point). with drugs and pure chemicals. Prescriptions and treatment. Our prescription department is one of the in the city and is in charge of graduate, expre- ting and registered pharmacists. Other supe- rnal at the same price, but don't have that re- quirete. Where your nickles and dimes have the mans PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 6411 MRS. G. W. TUCKER Only authorized agent for NAME C. J. WALKER'S HAIR PREPARAT in Argentine, Kansas. Pressing, Scalp Treatment Guaranteed to Grow or Money Refunded. Bell Phone, Argentine 467. 3510 BARBER AVENUE. Separations on sale also at 1317 Independence Peoples' Drug Store Nearst corner of Eighteenth Street and the B Fresh drugs and pure chemicals. Prescriptions and sodas a specialty. Our prescription department is one of the most complete in the city and is in charge of graduate, experienced, care-taking and registered pharmacists. Other sundaes and sodas sell at the same price, but don't have that refreshing fruity taste. Come where your nickles and dimes have the most cents. PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. MRS. G. W. TUCKER Only authorized agent for MADAME C. J. WALKER'S HAIR PREPARATIONS in Argentine, Kansas. Hair Dressing, Scalp Treatment Guaranteed to Grow Hair or Money Refunded. Bell Phone, Argentine 467. 3510 BARBER AVENUE. All preparations on sale also at 1317 Independence Avenue. Peoples' Drug Store Northeast corner of Eighteenth Street and the Paseo For twelve years we have served you. We have never substituted nor given you an inferior article. We carry everything in the Drug line; all the latest and best toilet articles. We deliver anything to any part of the city -- promptly -- call us up. PHONES All East 1814 Home East 4 BALTIMORE SHIRT STORES 8TH & WALNUT. 12TH & BA 9TH & WYANDOTTE. 12TH & WA BALTIMORE SHIRT @ STORES ALL CORNERS 8TH & WALNUT, 12TH & BALTIMORE, 9TH & WYANDOTTE, 12TH & WALNUT. GOOD TREATMENT PLEASANT CLERKS "My Friend"— We wait on and satisfy more wearers of good Haberdashery among colored people of Kansas City than any other store —There's a Reason INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Ny E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course of Moody Bible Institute. (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR MARCH 4 JESUS FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND. LESSON TEXT - John 6:1-14. GOLDEN BREAD - Give us this day our Bread - Matt. 11:17. This parable marks the high level of the year of our Lord's popularity. It is such an important miracle as to be the only one recorded in all four gospels. Be sure to use a good harmony. The returning twelve (Matt. 11:1) are taken by their master to a desert place that they might find rest (Mk. 6:31) and that he might comfort their hearts over the death of John the Baptist (Matt. 14:1-12). The multitude would not grant them the right use of their leisure, but flocked to this retreat in the desert. They followed that they might listen to his gracious words, and perhaps behold some new wonder (v. 2). Carlisle said he saw in England "forty millions, mostly fools" Jesus saw the multitude, and was moved, not with sarcasm, but with compassion which took a tangible form of service. Mark tells us (6:34) that Jesus was first of all teaching the multitude. It is better to teach a man how to help himself than to help the man. We also infer from this that the soul of a man is of more value than his body. It is not enough, however, to say "Give bless you, be warm and fed" when a man is hungry. St. John is the only one to tell us of the conversation with Philip. Philip lived in Bethsaida near by, yet to feed this multitude was to him too great a task, even with his knowledge of the resources (vv. 5,6). We should not be surprised at Philip's slowness of faith. Moses in a lauterna was once nonplaced as to how to feed the multitude in the wilderness (Num. 11:21-23). It is not so much how great the need nor how little we given over to God? And, that little given over to Jesus unto discovers as though in desolation a boy whose mother had thoughtfully provided him with a lunch, consisting of five barley biscuits and two small herring (v. 9); at least that much remained. This is a great commentary upon the tide of interest at this time, that the boy should not have eaten his entire lunch, for the boy's hunger is providential. It seems as though Jesus emphasizes the helplessness of the disciples in order that he may show his power. His command "Give ye me" (Mk. 6:37) teaches us that we are to give such as we have, and not look to others nor to do our charity by proxy (Prov. 11:24-25). Again the Savior asks his disciples as though he would teach them the resources of his kingdom. Give what you have, and he will bless and increase it to the supplying of the needs of a multitude. The secret of success was when he took up the loaves, and, "looking up." God also saw that day and blessed it. We need to observe the systematic procedure. The people are seated or reclining upon the ground in ranks or in companies, the master blessing and breaking the boy's cakes, giving first to the disciples. God works miracles through human agencies only. The result of this systematic procedure was that they were all satisfied, "filled" (v. 12). Luke adds that "all did eat" (Lk. 9:17). Not alone, however, was there divine order and invisiveness, but there were economy and thrift as well, for Jesus gave careful direction as to the fragments. The invisiveness is shown by the fact that the baskets into which the fragments were gathered were each probably large enough in which to sleep. This conservation process was a stinging rebuke to the improvident orientals and to present-day prodigals of that wonderful bounty with which God has blessed our land. God gives to us that we may use for other. Joy dies unless it is shred. Jesus is the living bread (John 6:48), and will satisfy hunger and life even as bread generates in the human body heat, vitality and power; so he would still feed the hungry soul of mankind. We have at hand the word, and it is for lack of it that men die in the deepest, truest sense of that word. The poverty and perplexity of the disciples in his presence and in the presence of this great need are being repeated over and over today, and yet it is absurd. We have not enough to feed the multitude. Our few leaves of amusements, mental activities and social service will not feed them, but when we break into them the Living Bread, they have enough and to spare. The difficulty with the distribution of material bread for the needs of mankind is not that there is not enough grain, but rather that in the process of distribution certain companies of men can control the fruits of the earth, and withhold them from the consumer for their own profit. There is not a parable in this for the church in that it is so much concerned with its own joys, pleasures and profits that it is withholding from the mass of mankind, especially in the foreign field the bread which alone can bring life and immortality to light? The word of the late Dr. Matthie Babcock are appropriate in this connection: "Back of the loaf is the snowy flour, and back of the flour the mill, and back of the milk is the wheat and the shower, and the sun and the Father's will." Summary: (1) The hope of the world's salvation is in the wonderful power of God in multiplying the little we give to him in the way of service. (2) If we bring no gift, how can God bless man? Compare this boy's service with the service of the little maid in Nannan's household. (3) Conservation of the fragments, using well or wasting the fragments of time, of opportunity, etc., makes all the difference between success and failure. (4) Let nothing be lost. The refuse of petroleum is today worth more than the oil product. RAT MANKIND'S GREAT ENEMY Rodent's Extermination Would Be of Inestimable Benefit to the Whole Human Race. The bubonic plague of today is identical with the black death of the middle ages. Primarily a disease of rodents, caused by a short dumb-bell shaped microscopic vegetable, the pest bacillus, it occurs in man in three forms, the pneumonic, which has a death rate of almost 100 per cent; the septicemic, which is nearly as fatal, and the bubonic, in which even with the most modern methods of treatment the mortality is about 50 per cent. It is a disease of commerce, spreading around the globe in the body of the ship-borne rat. It is estimated that every case of human plague costs the municipality in which it occurs at least 87,500. This does not take into account the enormous loss due to disastrous quantitaries and the commercial paralysis which the fear of the disease so frequently produces. The disease is now treated with a serum discovered through the genius of Yersin. This is used in much the same way as is diphtheria anti-toxin. Plague is transferred from the sick rodent to the well man by fleas. The sick rat has enormous numbers of plague bacilli in its blood. The blood is taken by the flea, which, leaving the sick rat, seeks refuge and sustenance on the body of a human being, to whom it transfers the infection. Since plague is a disease of rodents and since it is carried from sick rodents to well men by rodent fleas, safety from the disease lies in the exclusion of rodents, not only exclusion from the habitation of man but also from the ports and cities of the world. Those who dwell in rat-proof surroundings take no plague. Not only should man dwell in rat-proof surroundings, but he should also live in rat-free surroundings. The day is past when the rodent served a useful purpose as the unpaid city scavenger. Rats will not come where there is no food for them. Municipal cienliness may be regarded as a partial insurance against plague. The prayer that no plague come nigh our dwelling is best answered, however, by rat-proofing the habitations of man. Modern sanitary science has evolved a simple and efficient weapon against the pestilence which walketh in darkness and strikeeth at noonday, and the United States public health service has put this knowledge into practical operation and thus speedily eradicated plague, wherever it has appeared in the United States. Eate Inevitable Harry Shunk, an Ohio product, who has long been prominent in minstrel and vaudeville circles, is fond of employing his leisure moments in hunting out characters and gaining odd side-lights on human nature. At a carnival in a southern town two colored boys stood near the edge of a crowd that had assembled to watch a high diver. As the during athlete slowly mounted a tall pole to a tiny platform 60 feet in the air, a brass band on the ground played "chills-and-fever" music. When the diver left his perch, plunged head downward into a small tank on the ground, and "scooped" out onto the ground like a flash, the music broke into a lively strain. The colored boys held their breath until the dare-devil feat had been accomplished, then one said to the other, as they turned to go: "Some time dat ban am gonna play, and dat man ain't a gona heit." Man's Few Wants. "Man wants but little here below." He wants his meals cooked just right, and composed of the particular things he likes to eat. He wants his clothes kept in perfect order, and the buttons sewed on. He wants to get up when he gets ready, and then he wants to swear because he misses his car to the office. He wants to be cross when he comes home and not have it mentioned. He wants to leave his coat and hat and shoes just where he happens to take them off when he comes in. He wants his slippers right in a certain place where he can find them without effort. He wants to put the ashes from his cigar in the most convenient place while he smokes. He wants to yawn and go to bed when his wife wants him to go out with her and make a call. He wants everything as he wants it, and he wants no talk about it.—Judge. New Year Custom in China The Chinese have a custom of celebrating the advent of New Year's, either by paying off old debts, or, if they are creditors and the debtor is unable to pay, then by canceling the debt. Thus the new year begins with a clean slate. Communities are all alike in many respects and the problem of our city is the problem of a thousand others. We have too many unpaid accounts on our books. Why not profit by the Chinese idea and have a pay-up week the country over, when the slate shall be wiped clean and the new year started free of debt?—Argonaut. New Method for Removing Rust. For removing rust from iron or steel, Pascal Marino of London has patented a method in which the metal is made the cathode in a phosphoric acid electrolyte. It is claimed that this acid, unlike others, dissolves away the rust without attacking the solid metal and also tends to prevent subsequent rusting. The electrolyte may be a 10 per cent solution of phosphoric acid in water or a 10 per cent solution of sodium phosphate with 10 per cent of the acid added. The Commonest Generosity Some men are not only eager to give the devil his due, but they insist on adding a fat bonus. It is the Lord who usually finds collections poor.—Houston Post. Seems the Same Few men are reformed by marriage, although many are regulated.—Milwaukee News. More Metamorphosis. Man used to have a hobby. Now if he has a hobby, it is a bug. THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. MARCH 3. 1917 What Well Dressed Women Will Wear Now that Lent is here, the family may settle down to quiet days of devotion to spring sewing. The bulk of this work may be out of the way when Easter arrives and out-of-doors calls to everyone who has eyes and a heart for spring. Styles for spring and summer, especially those to govern in the realm of sports clothes, are established, and there is no guesswork about them. Separate skirts and blouses of wash fabrics are among the things that are A UN UK UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD SERGE FROCK FOR GENERAL WE AR to be disposed of before Easter. Materials for skirts come in patterns designed for street and for sports wear, and new patterns for skirts, in a great variety of designs, make it possible to dispose of this item of the wardrobe requirements. The same is true of blouses. A one-piece frock of serge (good for all-round sports wear) like that shown in the picture, gives the home dressmaker no unensiness. It is the most livable of dresses and is developed in unbleached linen for everyday wear and in heavy cotton as well as woolens. It is made with a loose blouse, having a sailor collar, and a plaited skirt with panel at the front. The sleeves are plain, with two rows of white braid at the wrist, in keeping with three rows on the collar. The O I THE WOMEN'S FASHION skirt fastens with bone buttons at one side of the front panel. A dickey for the neck and a smart four-in-hand tie furnish the equipment of this practical dress. For the daily wear of the schoolgirl it would be difficult to find a model better than this, with which we are all familiar. There is no question as to its good style, for it is always good style. Some of the new shapes for spring seem to be particularly well adapted to hats made of crape. The shapes, to begin with, are graceful and unusual, and the trend of fashion is set strongly toward fine and intricate work in millinery. Ornaments made by hand, and showing the most careful workmanship, are favored above all other trimmings, for all sorts of hats. wings, set in dull-jet bead English crape fore one of rics. Front Blue is rare for evening blue, or anything but use this bondion sometime briefly of it, with a star fully attracts it apt to have the arm. Her Hat Merely Accessory "You are going out?" exclaim the friends of a French actress who appears hatted. "Oh, no, but my gown is so much more becoming with the hat," she quietly rejoins. The gown is of an ivory white silk crepe, very short waisted, with a bright poinsettia red Japanese collar and embroideries of a repetition of zigzag lines in the same red across the front and back of the blouse and covering the side panels which have a 3-inch border of red at the bottom, red --- Crape, of all fabrics, lends itself most perfectly to fine work in the making of hats and their trimmings. In the best mourning hats almost no other materials are used, and the correct hat for first mourning employs this fabric for covering the shape and for making its trimmings. The hat at the center of the group is one of many models for deep mourning that are faced with white crape. This fabric, used only for mourning UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD wear, gives the hat its character and signifies its purpose, so that the hat may be all black, all white, or black and white combined. The white facing is very becoming and is a feature of many crape hats. The hat pictured is entirely plain except for the ornament at the front. This consists of a small pair of wings, made of crape, set to the center of a big, flat rosette, also made of crape. At the center there is a single big dull-jet bead. The turban at the left is covered with narrow folds of crape, and the fan-shaped ornament at the side is made in the same way, with strands of small dull-jet beads at the center. At the right a narrow-brimmed hat of black silk has a collar of the same material, but the crown is draped with puffs of crape, and a pair of crape M wings, set in a cabochon of crape and dull-jet beads is used for trimming. English crape is waterproof, and therefore one of the most durable of fabrics. Julia Bottomley From Green to Blue. Blue is rapidly becoming the color for evening gowns—electric blue, midnight blue, dark blue, bright blue, everything but pale blue. Black gowns use this bright blue color for decoration sometimes, and a dress made entirely of it, or else trimmed up a bit with a starry silver stuff, is wonderfully attractive. And any evening gown is apt to have mallows wound the length of the arm.—New York Evening Post. pompons, placed at either side of the blouse at the waistline give the effect of almost a child's model. The hat which was inseparable from this frock was a little affair of white straw, round and coming close over the head, faced with red, a curved turned-back brim of the straw caught over the ears at either side with bright red cherries. Linon Bumper for Spring Shoes and pumps for the spring will be of linen, if those being worn at Palm Beach are an indication. CUSTOMS IN WEST INDIES Theodore Roosevelt Writes Entertain ingly of Life "Where the Steady Trade-Winds Blow" When the ship was coated, the workers were sometimes men, sometimes strapping women as strong as the men, who chattered and sang as they toiled, while their white teeth flashed in their dark faces. Queer fishing craft, sometimes with russet salts, danced over the foaming combers which broke the azure of the deep. Rows of tall, slender-stemmed palms stood back of the shining beaches, their fronded tops threshing endlessly in the trade-wind. On the edge of the blue ocean, at the foot of brilliant green mountains, half hidden in the tropic vegetation, stood little towns, clusters of low white or red houses. After nightfall the town gallants sat at small tables on the sidewalks outside the taverns or under the trees in the open squares. Powerful, finely built black women and lithe, comely brown women strode along the paths and highroads, erect and supple, all their burdens, great or small, polished on their heads. Sometimes these burdens were extraordinary because of their bulk or weight, at other times they were comic because it seemed incredible that such small or peculiar objects should not be carried in the hand: once, for instance, we saw a woman carrying on her head a solitary white shoe, and another time, of all things, a single egg. In all the islands legal and political discriminations based on color have been done away. In some the social discriminations are giving way. In others sharp social lines are drawn not only between white and colored—as all shades of cross-blood are called—but between colored and black. The whites everywhere composed most of the upper class, although it also included many of the colored; the colored folk made up most of the middle class, and just as they extended into the class above them so their class was entered by the blacks below them; and the bulk of the laborers, in the towns and especially in the country, were blacks, although many were browns.—From "Where the Steady Trade-Winds Blow," by Theodore Roosevelt, in the February Seribner. A Dog in Court. Mrs. Blanche Pierce, stylishly attired, appeared in the men's night court before Magistrate Brough to demand the punishment of Joseph Brown of No. 201 East Sixty-sixth street, New York, who she said inhumanly exposed a toy poole to the cold and storm at night in front of the Biltmore hotel. Mrs. Pierce told the court that she was leaving the Biltmore in the storm when Brown with the little animal in his hand offered the dog for sale to passers-by. "I had him arrested," she said, "because such treatment and exposure to a dumb animal is cruel and inhuman." "Where is the dog?" asked the court. Brown drew the dog from his coat pocket and placed it on a table in front of the judge. No sooner had Mr. French Poodle landed on his feet than he rushed for the affidavit in his case and chewed a corner off it, bit into a policeman's hat and barked defiance at the spectators. "That dog seems healthy enough," remarked the court when Brown captured his dog and order had been restored. "I can't see that he has been badly treated. I discharge the prisoner."—New York World. Wants Education to Be Practical Wants Education to Be Practical. Thomas W. Churchill, former president of the New York board of education, said in a recent address that he was opposed to any education that harked back to a "cultural past" or allowed its "weather vane to be blowed by the breezes from antiquity." "This old cultural stuff is not going to help any mother's son make a living," he said. "I am not in sympathy with the views of college professors intrenched in the marble halls of colleges endowed by some rich benefactor. Until recently they have paid too much attention to the white shirt front and ignored the overalls, and they found their graduates starved to death. Culture is a good thing, but it can be picked up in spare moments where the need may be. I admire your pretty vase, but my youngster needs a soup plate. The man who stands on the corner and spouts Latin may get a reputation for being erudite, but he won't bring much of a salary home to his wife on Saturday night." "One by One" Little Mollie was seated at the tea table with a plate of cakes opposite her. She was waiting impatiently for the meal to commence, and ventured to touch one of the cakes with her forefinger. "You must eat that cake now, Mollie!" said her mother, severely. "Nobody will want it after you have touched it!" Mollie took the cake and placed it on her plate. A few minutes later she said, plainly: "Oh, mummie, I've touched another one!" Sugar From Wood. Now they're making sugar out of wood. Chemists have found that they can take a ton of sawdust and get a quarter of a ton of sugar out of it. The process consists of putting the sawdust into a closed retort and subjecting it to digestion with a weak solution of sulphurous acid under a pressure of from ninety to one hundred pounds to the square inch. Eighty per cent of the sugar thus obtained is fermentable. The product is called "sacchulose." To Keep Baby Quiet. To keep an ever-restless youngster quiet and from crawling away all the time, get a large soft, gray blanket and cut gay designs from the nursery books and sew on the blanket, the pictures to be of linen cut from children's linen-books sold in all the shops. The bright pictures attract the child's attention, and he will sit for hours looking and picking at them. A baby fence around it completes the outfit. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Renewed discussion of the Negro "question" may be expected as a result of Mayor Mitchel's appointment of Dr. E. P. Roberts to membership of the board of education of New York. Indignation will be expressed in quarters which are given to outbursts whenever recognition in accordance with their deserts are given the Negroes, but enlightened, tolerant and progressive people will applaud Mr. Mitchel's action and wish Doctor Roberts well in the honorary post to which he has been appointed. It may be taken for granted that he is qualified for the work, and it is a fair assumption that the very strangeness of his position and the inevitable opposition to his selection will prompt him to greater diligence and more intelligent effort than are given to the school service by some of the other nearly half a hundred members of the board. If he does, he will confound the critics of the mayor and considerably advance the members of his race in popular estimation. By the last census there were only 91,709 Negroes in Greater New York, not quite 2 per cent of the population, but a number sufficient to command recognition in the selection of public school managers, especially in a community that is given to affording representation to almost all of its varied elements in the conduct of public affairs. But the main point for consideration is that the Negroes are with us on an equality of citizenship with the whites, and if justice is to be done them and the more numerous Caucasians are not to pile up great trouble for themselves in the future they must be treated in accordance with their merits. It is important not only that they be made good citizens, but that it be made worth their while to be good citizens. Neither can be hoped for if the Negroes are to be discriminated against so that honorable ambition on their part is forever impossible of achievement. — Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Monroe Henson, a very successful Negro farmer, who lives near Muldon, is the first Negro in Fayette county to own an auto. Here is an example of progressiveness and thrift that is seldomly shown by our colored friends and should be held up to them by those of their race who believe in making better citizens. Monroe Henson has been a reader of the Journal for the past 25 years, during which time he has never been presented with a bill, or had to be notified that he was in arrears. Following closely the example set to him by his good white friends, he has worked hard, saved his money and tilled the soil on his farm. It must be a pleasure to him, now that he is past the best years, to be able to enjoy the fruits of his labors and remain an immune to the wiles and pitfalls which are ever ready and which are so generously promoted by those who seek to prey upon the ignorance and superstition of the Negro.—Ia Grange (Tex.) Journal. The Supreme court has been asked to decide whether the federal government shall pay $68,000,000 to former slaves and their heirs for cotton picked in slavery times. Their claims are presented in an appeal by H. N. Johnson of Muskogee, Okla., and other former slaves and their heirs and "all others similarly situated."⁸ The suit is directed against Secrete Leading colored men and women from all parts of the country are expected in Washington early in March to attend the celebration of the fiftyth anniversary of the incorporation of Howard university, for which elaborate plans are being made. The anniversary of the incorporation of the institution by congress, alumni associations of the university from New York to Texas and from the District of Columbia to California will hold exercises simultaneously with the big celebration in that city. A feature of the celebration will be the presentation of a fund of $10,000 to the university by the alumni. The fund is being raised by having each alumnus contribute $1 for every year he has been away from the institution, up to ten years, and $1 for every five years thereafter. These contributions are expected from old students throughout the country. The tentative plan is to have the celebration open with a big public meeting in Convention hall. Historical night will be observed in the First Congregational church, when the history of the institution from its organization Establishment of an international park embracing both banks of the Niagara river at Niagara Falls, with the organization of an international committee to regulate the use of the waters and banks of the fall and the river, was advocated at a meeting held here by the Niagara state reservation commission. Cotton cloth is produced in Nicaragua only in small quantities, and the amount imported practically represents all that is used in the country. Fire Extinguisher. According to an American technical journal aqua ammonia—t. e., the common liquid ammonia—forms a most efficient fire extinguisher, and several instances are given of its power to arrest incipient conflagration. In one case the vapor from a tank of benzene caught fire in a laundry, the room being filled with flame. The fire was at once annihilated by throwing into the room a bottle containing a gallon and a half of ammonia, procured from a chemist's shop which happily was tary McAdoo as custodian of the government funds and recites that the slaves were held in involuntary servitude and forced to gather the southern states' crops. They received no return for their labor, while the government collected the $68,000,000 in taxes on raw cotton. An accounting for the labor performed and a pro rata distribution of the money among those entitled to remuneration for the labor are asked. The District of Columbia courts dismissed the suit. John D. Rockefeller has subscribed $10,000 toward the Robert C. Ogden memorial building which is being erected at Hampton institute, Hampton, Va. This makes a total of $140,000 subscribed toward the necessary fund of $200,000. Among the other large contributions are the following: Miss Harriet Blanchard, $10,000; Simon Guggenheim and brothers, $10,000; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harknesses $7,000; E. H. Van Ingen, $7,500; George F. Baker, $5,000; Mrs. Edward Bok, $5,000; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, $5,000; Arthur Curfitt James, $5,000; Mrs. Willis D. James, $5,000; V. Evert Macy, $5,000, and Mrs. Russell Sage, $5,000. Ground was broken on the memorial site in November. Four conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America united in celebrating the fifty-ninth birthday anniversary of the Bishop Charles Henry Phillips of Nashville, Tenn., at Miles Memorial church, Louisville, Ky. In May Bishop Phillips will have served 16 years as bishop in the Tennessee conference, nine years in the California mission conference and eight years in the two Kentucky conferences. He was born at Milledgeville, Ga., January 17, 1858, and was licensed to preach at Barnsville, Ga., in 1878. He was a pastor in Louisville from 1891 to 1893. He has held many offices of distinction, one of them being the secretaryship of the Ecumenical conference held at Toronto, Can., in 1911, being the first and only Negro who was ever so honored. The message of the Tuskegee Negro conference to the black men of the South is that "right here in the South are great and permanent opportunities for the masses of our people. This section, we feel, is just entering upon its greatest era of development. Here your labor in the future is going to be in still greater demand." But there will still be many Negroes who leave the South to go to the cold northern states on the promise of better wages and a fancied equality with white people which will never exist in any section of this country. The Negro who stays in the South and secures for himself a home will be far on the road to prosperity and to the respect of his neighbors—both white and black—and he will not have to worry over $12-coal when winter comes around.—Houston (Tex.) Post. The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes offers fellowships of $35 a month for ten months and tuition of $100 at the New York School of Philanthropy, New York city, and also fellowships of $150 at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. These fellowships are open to those who propose to engage in social work. North Carolina has three Negro normal schools. as a theological seminary in 1886 down to the present day will be related by speakers. March 3 will be Almuni day, when the various classes will hold reunions. In the afternoon there will be a general alumni rally. The celebration ends on the evening of March 3 with a reception tendered by the university. Negroes in Texas have been called to meet towards the end of February, for the purpose of conferring and discussing industrial, economical, fraternal, educational, political and sanitary subjects or problems affecting the Negro race. The restless and migratory sentiments among Negroes must be studied and an honest, patriotic leadership be asserted and a selfish, immoral and corrupt leadership, wherever such is found, must be weeded out and put into the background if the Negro race is to become a factor in the righteous uplift of humanity in the future. Chicago is to have a stringent law to prevent tey sidewalks. The advance now being made by the Spanish language in the commercial world, brought to notice through propagandas and other forms of publicity, is indicated in the large enrollment for this course at American universities. At the University of Illinois those registering in Spanish fails yet numbered 620, as compared with 35, in 1915-16. Using benzine for fuel, a new cigarette lighter is a close facsimile of a cigarette. situated next door. The chemist, in reporting the matter, stated that the effect was instantaneous, the flames giving place to torrents of black smoke, and in a moment every trace of fire was gone. The most surprising feature of the occurrence is that the tank of benzoline remained intact, although the vapor from it was the initial cause of the outbreak. China annual, imports from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 eggs, nearly all of them from the United States. John Lawlor, Detective By KATHERINE HOWE (Copyright, 1917, by W. G. Chapman.) "You see Stella don't just exactly like my business," said John Lawlor to the comfortable looking matron who sat opposite to him in the tidy little living room of her home. "Don't like your business?" she exclaimed. "Why, aren't you one of the best detectives on the force?" "Well the chief as good as told me that last week, and they raised my pay. But being on the police force doesn't strike Stella as being quite high toned enough. She asked me if I couldn't get into the bank, or go into brokerage or something." "Brokerage!" sniffed his sister, "She'd rather you'd make money—or rather ripe somebody else's money—that way than get it honestly the way you're doing." "Mary!" he flashed out. "You know I won't stand hearing a word against Stella! You've got it out of me, and you've known all along she's the only girl in the world for me." "O dear!" thought his sister, as he went out, "I just wish something would happen to bring him to his senses." Meanwhile Stella Barker, all unconscious of the wish hanging over her, went her way with the thoughtlessness and inconsequential ways of youth in general. She loved John, but not with the understanding and depth of a woman of more experience in the world might have done. Only about two weeks after the talk between John and his sister, a letter came to Stella telling her she had inherited about forty thousand dollars through the death of a distant relative. It was not an enormous sum, as fortunes go these days, but enough to draw around the girl a good many new acquaintances, and would-be suitors. There had never been anything more than a kind of tactic understanding between John and Stella, but the young man had never given up his determination to win her. A new admirer of Stella's named Cecil Brent began to pay very assiduous attention. Mrs. Barker regarded him with favor. His manners were so polished, "so English" she was sure he must belong to a very "high family." John felt that the time had come for an understanding. If Stella preferred this man to him, he must know it. He came in his usual straight-forward way, and asked her if she was engaged to Brent. Stella looked a bit conscious, then she laughingly asked: "What makes you think so? "Well you're going about with him a great deal, and—" "Why John!" she parried. "Does it really make much difference to you?" "Does it make much difference to me?" he repeated in slow amazement. "Why you know it does!" "I—don't know how I was to 'know it,' she again parried. "And anyway suppose I did. What is the harm in having a good time?" "No harm," said John. "But with him—I don't see how you can." "What have you to say against Mr Brent?" she asked indigently. "He doesn't ring true, he is not what he seems!" "Oh!" she answered with pointed sarcasm. "Is that your acute detective talent, or just simple, unadulterated jealousy?" Stella realized after he had gone that she had not meant to really send him away for good and all; but Cecilia Brent's attentions becoming more persistent they were engaged, and she became the proud possessor of a diamond ring. John in his efforts to forget his heartbreak, applied himself more steadily to business than ever. One day at police headquarters he was introduced to a young lady, and was told she had become a valuable assistant in the detective service. "Miss Remson," said the chief, "thinks she has a clue to those counterfeit tens and fifties." "One of the men I have my eye on is an elderly man masquerading as a clergyman," said the girl detective. John Lawlor and Miss Remson were detailed to work together. They found where the "elderly clergyman" lived, and kept a close account of his going and coming. One day John saw him leave the house with a dress suit case. He followed him to the station, and took the same train, not meaning to lose sight of his man for one instant. Had he only been aware that an automobile was leading the train a close race, and had seen the occupants, he might possibly have lost sight of the man in clerical clothes. As the train slowed into the first station, the automobile whizzed past. If John had not been so intent on watching his man, he might have seen the people in the car. The reverend gentleman walked to a small hotel, with John closely in his wake. He saw him assigned to a room, and as soon as he went up with the bellboy, contrived to get a room for himself quite near the other. He read on the register the name of "Rev, Joseph Baker," and concluded he had not come to this little town for nothing. John intended to find out what that errand was. He had been in his room about half an hour, the short winter day had drawn to a close, he had lighted the gas and was reading a paper, when he heard speaking in the hall. The voices were so subdued he could make out nothing, and almost instantly a door closed shutting them off. He went out softly to investigate. Pausing at the minister's door, he heard low conversation within. As he paused to listen, he heard someone coming down the hall, and was obliged to go on. When the coast was again clear, he glided up to the minister's door. Though the tones were low, he heard Inaugural Balls of the Past RESIDENT WILSON called attention very widely in 1913 to the ancient and honorable custom of holding an inaugural ball to welcome the new president to his job by refusing to sanction the affair. And owing to "pressure of official business" there will be no inaugural ball this year of 1917. In other words, American officialdom is in no mood for gayray. The inaugural ball, says the Kansas City Star in a historical article, is not a state function, financed by the Nation, as most of the Nation believes. Undertaken at first as a welcome to the new president by Washington society it has become of late years the business venture by which Washington merchants recover the money they spend to hang the capital with bunting and hire bands and fireworks to make the occasion lively. While the ball costs a large sum of money, the profit from the sale of tickets, priced nowadays at $5, is estimated at $20,000, and this profit is distributed among the men who subscribed the funds to make the celebration a success. City Star in a historical article, is a function, financed by the Nation, as a Nation believes. Undertaken at first come to the new president by Washington it has become of late years the business by which Washington merchants in money they spend to hang the capital and hire bands and fireworks to mansion lively. While the ball costs a lot in money, the profit from the sale of the nowadays at $5, is estimated at $20,000 profit is distributed among the men described the funds to make the celebress. But the inaugural ball does cost something, because it discommodes its pardement of state lends its building, and a vast deal of trust peace has gone into the organization gayety. There has been balls in the past, likely first beauty that welcomed Presidet notable for the brilliance of the assessee and wit and fashion displayed social occasions, worthy of the dignity sion they celebrate. And there have of which old timers in Washington notable for the widespread inconvenience have caused. For instance, there is Lincoln inauguration ball, when Hot lost his hat and standing on the stewardship building put a curse on the cifton burlied enough to set fire to the cifton burlied it; then to be the bloomed President Grant, held in a vow of muslin, unheated, whose walls froin an ice blast that froze dainty tips—yes, and noses—and put a dainty merrymaking not to be forgotten. March 4, 1890, was the sort of child comfortable day Washington expects in identical inauguration, but in this veniences of bad weather in the new were far worse than they could possible The sprawling, ragged, unfinished a pavements. Roads were so deep in muin a coach was mired as it carried its tinguished persons to witness the inaugae were few hotels and boarding houses were crowded to suffocation on the gren But the society of the capital and far and near were determined to o handicaps of weather, for this drear to mark the first presidential inauguration of young men, the "Dancing assembly," formed seven yeah had the affair and had seassemly room of Long's hotel on Capitol The "four hundred" in America only this first presidential ball. Washing represented the best of the Nation. The of the Southern families of aristocrat was strong. There were few people but many of culture; and society was ostentation. The men of the dancer who drew up the list of those who wore to buy tickets to the inaugural ball four hundred would include all personing and worth. When George Washington and Thom were inaugurated they were glad to bed after the day of ceremonies, but a ex-President Jefferson, personally orientation, appeared in the ballroom, seven o'clock, the time of its opening smiling and happy, glad to see his fi him in the direction of the Nation, having the burden off his own shoulders fided to a friend during the evening. The orchestra played "Jefferson's the ex-president entered." "Am I too early?" asked the great "You must tell me how to behave, for than forty years since I have been to Soon after the musicians played March," and the guests flocked about greet the new president, a slight, of a man, whose gray hair was brush back from his high forehead and tied a ribbon. His small hazel eyes were rer en a humorous twinkle, for Madison, in enjoyed a good joke and sprightly long, pendulous nose came low over a lip. His teeth were noticeably white. The new president wore plain black at the throat and wrists, with black silk stockings. There were big silver his shoes. But it was to Dolly Madison, formulating Widow Todd of Philadelphia eyes turned. The new mistress of House was a center of attraction went. Without great beauty of face o had a manner which won friends in ready tact, her good humor, her vivacity easily a social leader and the best and beloved of the many "first ladies Mrs. Madison wore pale buff velvet plain, with a long train and no trim head was surmounted by a turban fr pale buff velvet and white satin When America's first "four hundred the Madison ball the air of the assemblame very close and the guests finding not lower the window sashes broke to ventilation. That is the only recordse, aside from the universal inc But the inaugural ball does cost the Nation something, because it discommodes whatever department of state lends its building for the festivities. Recent balls have been held in the pension building, and a vast deal of trouble and expense has gone into the organization of their gayety. There has been balls in the past, like that stately first ball that welcomed President Monroe, notable for the brilliance of the asserubilages, the beauty and wit and fashion displayed, truly great social occasions, worthy of the dignity of the occasion they celebrate. And there have been balls of which old timers in Washington still talk, notable for the widespread inconvenience they have caused. For instance, there is the second Lincoln inauguration ball, when Horace Greeley lost his hat and standing on the steps of the treasury building put a curse on the city of Washington hurd enough to set fire to the snowdrifts that blanketed it; then there is the ball that welcomed President Grant, held in a vast pavilion of muslin, unheated, whose walls swayed to and fro in an icy blast that froze daimy ears and finger tips—yes, and noses—and put a damper on the merrymaking not to be forgotten. March 4, 1890, was the sort of chill, damp, uncomfortable day Washington expects for the presidential inauguration, but in this year the inconveniences of bad weather in the new little capital were far worse than they could possibly be today. The sprawling, ragged, unfilled city had no pavements. Rounds were so deep in mud that many a coach was mired as it carried its load of distinguished persons to witness the inaugural. There were few hotels and boarding houses, and these were crowded to suffocation on the great day. But the society of the capital and notables from far and near were determined to overcome all handicaps of weather, for this drear evening was to mark the first presidential inaugural ball. An organization of young men, the "Washington Dancing assembly," formed seven years before, had the affair in charge and had secured the assembly room of Long's hotel on Capitol hill. The "four hundred" in America originated with this first presidential ball. Washington society represented the best of the Nation. The influence of the Southern families of aristocratic tradition was strong. There were few people of wealth, but many of culture; and society was gay without ostentation. The men of the dancing assembly who drew up the list of those who would be asked to buy tickets to the inaugural ball found that four hundred would include all persons of breeding and worth. When George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were inaugurated they were glad to go early to bed after the day of ceremonies, but on this night ex-President Jefferson, personally opposed to ostentation, appeared in the ballroom prompt at seven o'clock, the time of its opening. He came smiling and happy, glad to see his friend succeed him in the direction of the Nation, happy at having the burden off his own shoulders, as he confided to a friend during the evening. The orchestra played "Jefferson's March" as the ex-president entered. "Am I too early?" asked the great Democrat. "You must tell me how to behave, for it is more than forty years since I have been to a ball." Soon after the musicians played "Madison's March," and the guests flocked about the door to greet the new president, a slight, short figure of a man, whose gray hair was brushed smoothly back from his high forehead and tied with a black ribbon. His small hazel eyes were remarkable for a humorous twinkle, for Madison, in private life, enjoyed a good joke and sprightly banter. His long, pendulous nose came low over a long upper lip. His teeth were noticeably white and even. The new president wore plain black, with ruffles at the throat and wrists, with black smalls and silk stockings. There were big silver buckles on his shoes. But it was to Dolly Madison, formerly the fascinating Widow Todd of Philadelphia, that all eyes turned. The new mistress of the White House was a center of attraction wherever she went. Without great beauty of face or figure, she had a manner which won friends instantly. Her ready tact, her good humor, her vivacity, made her easily a social leader and the best-remembered and beloved of the many "first ladies." Mrs. Madison wore pale buff velvet made very plain, with a long train and no trimmings. Her head was surmounted by a turban from Paris of pale buff velvet and white satin When America's first "four hundred" danced at the Madison ball the air of the assembly room became very close and the guests finding they could not lower the window sashes broke the glass for ventilation. That is the only recorded inconvenience, aside from the universal inconveniences THRONES FAMOUS IN HISTORY Some of Them of Such Magnificence That They Stagger the Ordinary Imagination. A throne of great magnificence seems to be associated with the golden age in the history of many nations of antiquity, says the Christian Science Monitor. Solomon's throne was of Ivory, "overlaid with the best gold," on either side of it were two lions, and there were two other lions on each of distinctly the words of the marriage service. John had never felt quite so follled and foolish in the course of his detective career. Here he had been taking a wild goose chase after an innocent old gentleman who had evidently come out here at the solicitation of some friends to marry them, and the dress suit case had probably contained his cassock and prayerbook. The detective was leaving the door in disgust when he noticed that no light came through the keyhole or under the door. Why was this marriage ceremony being performed in the dark? The next instant he heard the words: "I, Cecil, take thee, Stellain—" John rapped loudly on the door. The voices ceased. There was no response. He knocked again still louder. Then a man's voice asked: "Who's there?" "A friend! To warn!" said John. The door was opened by the clergyman, and carefully closed. Dark as it was, he at once recognized the couple going through the marriage service. They were Stella Barker and Cecil Brent. "Friend!" sneered the bridegroom, "John Lawlor, you've only come here to stop this ceremony, but you can't do it. Now go!" When his name was mentioned John had noticed the look that came into the clergyman's face, also the nervous way his hand went to his head. He was wearing a wig. "I will go, but I shall have to trouble you to go with me," said John to the minister. "I am at a loss to understand," he said with dignity. Then seeing the business end of a revolver looking towards him, he added resignedly: "Very well. But Mr. Brent, as I could not finish the ceremony, I will hand you back your fee." John was a bit too quick for Brent, and snatched the money. "One hundred and twenty dollars," he said. "Rather a large fee. Mr. Brent I'll have to ask you to come too." After John had handcuffed his two men, and safely locked them up pend- W. W. WALTERS He Added Resignedly, "Very Well." ing the departure of the next train, he sought the frightened girl in the hotel parlor. "I will see that someone takes you to the train," he said. "I've got two of the slickest counterfitters in the business to look after." "I haven't any money for the ticket. He has six hundred dollars of mine." "No he hasn't. Here it is." And John passed her the notes. "O John!" she sobbed. "Forgive me! I want you!" "Not for—just gratitude. There must be time to think," he said. Stella must have thought hard, for in less than three months the wedding cards were out. Canary Islands. The Canary islands represent one of those lands whose history is all in the past, says the Christian Science Monitor. The first mention of them comes through the elder Pliny, who tells how the Romans learned of their existence through Juba, king of Mauretania, and he gives an account of an expedition which the king made to the islands about the year 40 B. C. Pliny talks of "Canaria, so called from the multitude of dogs of great size," and speaks of its palms and pine trees, while he mentions also Nivaria, probably Teneriffe, the land "covered with clouds." Thereafter the Canary islands, save that they may possibly be the Isles of the Blest of Ptolemy and Plutarch, sink back into the unknown for over twelve hundred years. Growth of Bananas. The banana is a huge herbaceous plant, not tree, which grows from an underground root-stock and sends up a stem 15 or 20 feet high that throws out wide-spreading leaves and bears great clusters of fruit. The plant is perennial, propagating itself from year to year by suckers, some of which are transplanted to take root and others left to bear the next year. The fruit matures in three or four months after the plant flowers and after the fruit is ripe the plant dies to the ground and the younger shoots take its place. Bananas are planted in rows eight feet apart and the plants in adjoining rows alternate at a distance of nine or ten feet. Time for Self-Improvement The great thing to remember is that the day is not over at six o'clock if there is any smoldering ambition for self-improvement and advancement in your makeup. In fact the day is just beginning for you then. The best part of it is coming, and it should find you on the qulive, ready and waiting to pursue those inner yearnings that are a part of every intelligent man and woman. Playing Him. June—"I will let you know my answer tomorrow night, Freddle. If I am wearing violets it will mean 'Yes,' and don't order over a dollar's worth sent to me tomorrow afternoon. It is time that you were beginning to economize." THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. MARCH 3. 1917 How shopkeeping Washington evened up on campaign expenses : : Comedy, Tragedy and Splendor have been mingled in this spectacular affair RESIDENT WILSON called attention very widely in 1913 to the ancient and honorable custom of holding an inaugural ball to welcome the new president to his job by refusing to sanction the affair. And owing to "pressure of official business" there will be no inaugural ball this year of 1917. In other words, American officialdom is in no mood for gayety. The inaugural ball, says the Kansas --- face Greeley steps of the city of Washington snowdrifts that will last pavilion eyed to and fused finger on the top of a damp, unor the presen the inno-nittile capital be today. City had no need that many load of disastral. There and these day. Tables from "The air throughout perforated with a fine daze that you were taking a murvived homeopathic do stone. The agonies of the ten. There are mortals caused of it. There are and swear, and sigh at are diamonds, and peace that are naught to their scenes in their cloak be forgotten by any white colored messengers, can the treasury to do duty hats and wraps with peo them in loopholes as it h "But to give them back was impossible. Not I numbers and those who wildered, overpowered, nent under the hosts that cloaks and hats. as Jefferson go early to on this night closed to os- promptly at it. He came end succeed appy at hav- as he con- March" as Democrat. It is more a ball." "Madison's the door to short figure d smoothly with a black markable for private life, hunter. His long upper and even. with ruffles smalls and buckles on early the fas- ta, that all the White therever she figure, she antly. Her made her remembered made very mings. Her from Paris of danced at very room be- they could the glass for inconven- conveniences "Poor Horace Greeley wrath on the stairs and as a place that should h of the universe, strode next day and the next people searching for the erial Chipman says he manding articles lost at One would suppose the coln ball would have when the inauguration h ident Grant, four years form was notable, a com- wraps was devised, but guest parted with his wif- for as it was, noses and the Grant inaugural things were expected o- long, with a ballroom 3 in Judiciary Square. The light boards, roofted with pink and white mu- can eagle." to quote the wings over the president pinions spread streamer up on either side by co- dent's reception platform feet wide. Twelve pla- gold figured, red and blu of blooming flowers. I richly carpeted and ther were placed toward the to the music. Tickets tainment cost $20. Then came inaugural cold wave so severe the gural procession dropped cold! The north wind muslin palace and rattle til the roof was swayab- looned out in another, loose boards rose in the far and wide. President Grant recov- exposure of the inaugur- at the ball, arriving at it. He and his brilliant suit foreign diplomats, and th the six steps which led up to the throne itself. Then there was the throne of rock crystal, the remains of which were found in Sennacherib's palace. There was the Persian throne made for Abbas the Great, and fashioned out of white marble; throne of Czar Michael Feodorovitch, grandfather of Peter the Great, whose "golden throne was set with 8,000 turquoises, 1,500 rubles, four great amethysts and two large topazes." The most famous throne in all history, however, was the great "peacock throne," one of the sh- m- m- dor his these notables experienced in getting to Washington, but the bails held in later years made a less enviable record. Probably the ball held to celebrate the second inauguration of President Lincoln was one of the most notable for the universal distress it caused. Mary Clemmer Ames, in her book "Ten Years in Washington," says of this exciting capital: "The air throughout the entire building was perforated with a fine dust, ground until you felt that you were taking in with every breath a myriad homeopathic doses of deslocated grind-stone. The agonies of that ball can never be written. There are mortals dead in their graves because of it. It there are mortals who still curse, and swear, and sigh at the thought of it. There are diamonds, and pearls and precious garments that are caught to their owners because of it. The scenes in those cloak and hat rooms can never be forgotten by any who witnessed them. The colored messengers, called from their posts in the treasury to do duty in these rooms, received hats and wraps with perfect facility, and tucked them in loopholes as it happened. "But to give them back each to its owner, that was impossible. Not half of them could read numbers and those who could soon grew be wildered, overpowered, ill-tempered and imprintered under the hosts that advanced upon them for cloaks and hats. "The air throughout the entire building was perforated with a fine dust, ground until you felt that you were taking in with every breath a myriad homeopathic doses of desiccated grindstone. The agonies of that ball can never be written. There are mortals dead in their graves because of it. There are mortals who still curse, and swear, and sigh at the thought of it. There are diamonds, and pearls and precious garments that are mought to their owners because of it. The scenes in those cloak and hat rooms can never be forgotten by any who witnessed them. The colored messengers, called from their posts in the treasury to do duty in these rooms, received hats and wraps with perfect facility, and tucked them in loopholes as it happened. "But to give them back each to its owner, that was impossible. Not half of them could read numbers—and those who could soon grew bewildered, overpowered, ill-tempered and imprentient under the hosts that advanced upon them for cloaks and hats. "Picture it! Six or more thousand people clamoring for their clothes! In the end they were all tumbled out 'promiscuous' on the floor. Then came the siege! Few seized their own, but many snatched other people's garments—anything, something, to protect them from the pitiless morning, whose wind came down like the bite of death. Delicate women, too sensitive to take the property of others, crouched in corners and wept on window ledges, and there the daylight found them, Carringges, also, had fled out of the scourging blast, and men and women who emerged from the marble halls, with very little to wear, found that they must 'foot it' to their habitations. One gentleman walked to Capitol hill, nearly two miles, in dancing pumps and bareheaded; another performed the same exploit wrapped in a lady's son-tag. "Poor Horace Greeley, after expending his wrath on the stairs and cursing Washington. anew as a place that should be immediately blotted out of the universe, strode to his hotel hattles. The next day and the next week were consumed by people searching for their lost clothes, and General Chipman says he still receives letters demanding articles lost at that inauguration ball." One would suppose that the lesson of the Lincoln ball would have resulted in great reform when the inauguration ball, which welcomed President Grant, four years later, was held. One reform was notable, a complete checking system for wraps was devised, but on this occasion not a guest parted with his wraps. They did not dare, for as it was, noses and ears were frozen. The Grant inaugural ball cost $20,000 and great things were expected of it. A pavilion 350 feet long, with a ballroom 300 by 100 feet, was built in Judiciary square. This pavilion was made of light boards, rooftop with tar paper and sealed with pink and white muslin. "The mighty American eagle" to quote the official report, "spread his wings over the president's platform and from his pinions spread streamers 100 feet long, caught up on either side by coats of arms. The president's reception platform was 60 feet long and 30 feet wide. Twelve pilasters supported alternate gold figured, red and blue stands, which held pots of blooming flowers. Platform and steps were richly carpeted and thousands of canary birds were placed toward the ceiling to add their chorus to the music. Tickets to this magnificent entertainment cost $20. Then came Inaugural day with a blizzard and cold wave so severe that marchers in the inaugural procession dropped by the way, overcome by cold! The north wind swooped down on the muslin palace and rattled its flimsy grandeur until the roof was swaybacked in one place and ballooned out in another, while the tar paper and loose boards rose in the gusts and rattled down far and wide. President Grant recovered sufficiently from the exposure of the inauguration to spend a short time at the ball, arriving at 11 o'clock in the evening. He and his brilliant suite of guests, many of them foreign diplomats, and their brilliantly clad ladies, "Poor Horace Greeley, after expending his wrath on the stairs and cursing Washington.anew as a place that should be immediately blotted out of the universe, strode to his hotel hattles. The next day and the next week were consumed by people searching for their lost clothes, and General Chipman says he still receives letters demanding articles lost at that inauguration ball." One would suppose that the lesson of the Lincoln ball would have resulted in great reforms when the inauguration ball, which welcomed President Grant, four years later, was held. One reform was notable, a complete checking system for wraps was devised, but on this occasion not a guest parted with his wraps! They did not dare, for as it was, noses and ears were frozen. The Grant inaugural ball cost $80,000 and great things were expected of it. A pavilion 350 feet long, with a ballroom 300 by 100 feet, was built in Judicary square. This pavilion was made of light boards, roofed with tar paper and sealed with pink and white muslin. "The mighty American eagle," to quote the official report, "spread his wings over the president's platform and from his pinions spread streamers 100 feet long, caught up on either side by coats of arms. The president's reception platform was 60 feet long and 80 feet wide. Twelve pilasters supported alternate gold figured, red and blue stands, which held ports of blooming flowers. Platform and steps were richly carpeted and thousands of canary birds were placed toward the ceiling to add their chorus to the music. Tickets to this magnificent entertainment cost $20. Then came Inaugural day with a blizzard and cold wave so severe that marchers in the inaugural procession dropped by the way, overcome by cold! The north wind swooped down on the muslin palace and rattled its flimsy grandeur until the roof was swaybacked in one place and ballooned out in another, while the tar paper and loose boards rose in the gusts and rattled down far and wide. President Grant recovered sufficiently from the exposure of the inauguration to spend a short time at the ball, arriving at 11 o'clock in the evening. He and his brilliant suite of guests, many of them foreign diplomats, and their brilliantly clad ladies. --- The entire building was last, ground until you felt in with every breath a ses of descloced grind- ball can never be writ- dead in their graves be- mortals who still curse, the thought of it. There is and precious garments owners because of it. The and hat rooms can never be witnessed them. The led from their posts in in these rooms, received perfect facility, and tucked appeared. Ik each to its owner, that half of them could read so could soon grew be- tilt-tempered and imperti- advanced upon them for The first was that he inaugurated and the co- struction, the then 316 b ticket sale It is plea- augural but which web in the per- building w gold. Not oration of orate elec- huge foun- room. Ju bill was c- cally. Mrs. W book: "Po after expending his cursuring Annew the immediately blotted out on his hotel hattles. The week were consumed by dril lost clothes, and Genst still receives letters deat that inauguration ball." At the fession of the Lin-resulted in great reformos all, which welcomed Preslater, was held. One replete checking system for on this occasion not a haps! They did not dare, years were frozen. The bulk cost $80,000 and great it. A pavilion 350 feet 100 by 100 feet, was built his pavilion was made of tar paper and sealed silin. "The mighty Ameri-liclore spread "spread his's platform and from his 100 feet long, caught rats of arms. The preslater 60 feet long and 30 meters supported alternate stands, which held pots platform and steps were thousands of canary birds selling to add their chorus to this magnificent enter- day with a blizzard and that marchers in the inau- by the way, overcome by swooped down on the its flimsy grandeur unked in one place and while the tar paper and gusts and rattled down bereed sufficiently from the action to spend a short time 1 o'clock in the evening. of guests, many of them their brilliantly clad ladies, lined by the long timings had the low-curriably a haps in m descended the entrance. "The pegacular of 4, 1000, an entrance to the dresses. I see the cause that its wume than occasion marked the administration to do very and I queced on being a strance of everyday office. "A brilf spread between portions, pinned in space see and the glo or harmic uni- full regular men in it. It was a nifcient the sible to di dirciely be I saw a seemed to din of flam band proce heard. But faces that happy that whelmed." glories of Delhi before the hosts of Nadir Shah sacked the city and carried the throne of the Great Mughals back into Persia, over the Hindu-Kush. Much has been written about its glories; how it was ascended by silver steps, and stood on feet of gold set with all manner of jewels, and how behind it all were two great peacock tails studded with diamonds, rubles and other precious stones. Then was the throne of that mythical monarch of the middle ages, Prester John, supposed to rule over a vast remained huddled in voluminous wrappings, looking down upon the guests dancing in overcants and wraps, dancing like mad in order to keep from freezing to death. The canary birds did not sing. They tucked their heads under their wings and shivered pitifully. The elaborate refreshments froze into blocks of ice. The ball ended before midnight. The first inaugural ball in the pension building was that held to honor President Cleveland's first inauguration. The building was then unfinished and the courtyard was roofed by temporary construction, elaborately decorated and lighted by the then new electric lamps. The ballroom floor was 316 by 116 feet, and it was crowded. The ticket sale for this ball brought in $40,000. It is pleasanter to contemplate more recent inaugural balls. A notably brilliant ball was that which welcomed President McKinley. It was held in the pension building, and for that night the building was transformed by bunting of white and gold. Not a particle of woodwork or original decoration of the building was left uncovered. Elaborate electric lighting (elaborate for 1897) and a huge fountain were notable features of this ballroom. Judging by contemporary accounts this bill was a complete success, socially and financially. Mrs. William Howard Taft, in her charming book, "Recollections of Full Years," tells the story of the last inaugural ball. Mrs. Taft's account of how the Taft family moved into the White House is thoroughly captivating because of its many bits of domestic color, bits that find an echo in common experience everywhere. It was at the close of a very busy day that Mrs. Taft put herself into the hands of her nervous hairdresser and sat looking at her new ball gown, spread out on the bed. The ball gown had arrived at the very last minute and the new "first lady" had wondered for several anxious days what in the world she would wear to the ball if the dressmaker failed her. Mrs. William Howard Taft, in her charming book, "Recollections of Full Years," tells the story of the last inaugural ball. Mrs. Taft's account of how the Taft family moved into the White House is thoroughly captivating because of its many bits of domestic color, bits that find an echo in common experience everywhere. It was at the close of a very busy day that Mrs. Taft put herself into the hands of her nervous hairdresser and sat looking at her new ball gown, spread out on the bed. The ball gown had arrived at the very last minute and the new "first lady" had wondered for several anxious days what in the world she would wear to the ball if the dressmaker failed her. "It was made of heavy white satin which I had sent to Tokyo to have embroidered," writes Mrs. Taft, "and the people who did the work surely knew their art. A pattern of goldenrod was outlined by a silver thread and cleverly fitted into the long lines of the gown, and no other trimming had been used except some lace with which the low-cut bodice was finished. It fitted me admirably and I hoped that, in spite of all the mishaps in my preparations, I looked my best as I descended from the White House automobile at the entrance of the pension office. "The pension office was not built for balls, inaugural or otherwise, and on the evening of March 4, 1900, after a day of melting sleet and snow, the entrance was not especially inviting. Neither was the dressing room which had been assigned to me. I suppose that for years it had rung with the ceaseless click of scores of typewriters and that its walls had beheld no more elaborate costume than a business blouse and skirt since the occasion of the last inaugural ball which had marked the beginning of the second Roosevelt administration, four years before. But as I needed to do very little 'prinking' it really didn't matter and I quickly rejoined the president and proceeded on his arm to the presidential box, this being a small round gallery above the main entrance of the great ballroom, which is itself, in everyday life, the principal workroom of the pension office. "A brilliant, an almost kaleidoscopic, scene spread before us. The hall is of tremendous proportions, pillared with red marble and with walls tinted in the same color. Every inch of floor space seemed to be occupied. The bright colors and the gleam of women's gowns met and clashed or harmonized with the brighter colors of diplomatic uniforms. Officers of the army and navy in full regalia met and mingled with the hundreds of men in the plain black of formal evening dress. It was a wonderful, glittering throng, more magnificent than any I had ever seen. It was not possible to distinguish individuals except in the space directly below the box, but there, as I looked down I saw a great semicircle of faces—thousands, it seemed to me—smilingly upturned toward us. The din of human voices was terrific; even the loudest band procurable had difficulty in making itself heard. But the scene was so gay in color, and the faces that gazed up at us were so friendly and happy that I felt elated and not at all over whelmed." "The pension office was not built for balls, inaugural or otherwise, and on the evening of March 4, 1900, after a day of melting sheet and snow, the entrance was not especially inviting. Neither was the dressing room which had been assigned to me. I suppose that for years it had rung with the caeseless click of scores of typewriters and that its walls had beheld no more elaborate costume than a business blouse and skirt since the occasion of the last inaugural ball which had marked the beginning of the second Roosevelt administration, four years before. But as I needed to do very little "prinking" it really didn't matter and I quickly rejoined the president and proceeded on his arm to the presidential box, this being a small round gallery above the main entrance of the great ballroom, which is itself, in everyday life, the principal workroom of the pension office. "A brilliant, an almost kaleidoscopic, scene spread before us. The hall is of tremendous proportions, pillared with red marble and with walls tinted in the same color. Every inch of floor space seemed to be occupied. The bright colors and the gleam of women's gowns met and clashed or harmonized with the brighter colors of diplomatic uniforms. Officers of the army and navy in full regalia met and mingled with the hundreds of men in the plain black of formal evening dress. It was a wonderful, glittering throng, more magnificent than any I had ever seen. It was not possible to distinguish individuals except in the space directly below the box, but there, as I looked down, I saw a great semicircle of faces—thousands, it seemed to me—smilingly upturned toward us. The din of human voices was terrific; even the loudest band procurable had difficulty in making itself heard. But the scene was so gay in color, and the faces that gazed up at us were so friendly and happy that I felt elated and not at all overwhelmed." --- domain in the integer of Asia. This throne the veracious chronicler, Sir John Mandeville, would have made one of the wonders of the world. To Protect the Scissors Every woman has experienced the annoyance of scissors in her work bag. Take a cork of medium size and crochet a covering of some dainty colored slik—leaving the flat upper surface uncovered. Slip the points of the scissors into the cork and thus protect your workbag. HOMETOWN HELPS Information That Would Be of Impense Value to the Man Who Is Planning a Home. The home-maker, with facilities at hand, could choose wisely what to plant in his own home grounds. Lectures, instructive and helpful though they are, can hardly accomplish for the amateur planner in the course of half a year what a single visit to a shrubbery or a perennial garden would accomplish for him in half an hour. And, in addition, as everyone knows, the parks themselves would be all the more interesting and delightful for these garden sections. The average person knows few shrubs and few flowers. To tell one of these that the snowball with which he is familiar is only one of a score or more of available viburnums; that the shrub he knows as a "illic" can be had in numerous varieties, some growing even into tree form, or that what he calls the "syringa" or the "mock orange", can be had in dwarf bush that is a mere pygmy beside its robust cousin—to recount facts of this sort is to surprise him. Yet it is important that facts of this sort be brought before him. There is too much uniformity in the planting of city yards—too much use made of the same material. Public gardens, exhibiting not only the common varieties, but the uncommon as well, those not so often met with but despite that, quite as beautiful as the others, would serve to overcome the tendency toward monotony already only too apparent. There are many purposes, as a matter of fact, that these gardens would serve, all of which the park board might do well to consider. MAIL BOX OF RUSTIC DESIGN Minnesota Farmer Had Good Idea When He Placed Ornament in Front of His Home. A rural mail box, rusty and dilapidated, such as one occasionally sees fastened to the top of an insecure post at a distressing angle, presents a sharp contrast to the mail box which a Minnesota farmer has erected in front of his home. The box itself, which is of the ordinary metal type, is inclosed in a miniature log cabin with a gable roof. The post supporting the box and cabin is sur- top of an insecure post at a distressing angle, presents a sharp contrast to the mail box which a Minnesota farmer has erected in front of his home. The box itself, which is of the ordinary metal type, is inclosed in a miniature log cabin with a gable roof. The post supporting the box and cabin is surrounded with short sticks which have been laid crisscross. The rustic effect is very pleasing.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. Fire Prevention Education Fire prevention in public schools and fire prevention in homes are matters naturally of keen interest. In the first case the question is largely one of proper legislation regarding the construction and protection of school buildings; in the second case it is largely a matter of individual education. It is estimated that 60 per cent of fires occur in homes, though of course 60 per cent of the fire loss does not result therefrom. Perhaps it is education which must be relied upon to furnish the chief weapon in the fight for fire prevention. Legislation is important; so is inspection of the construction and condition of buildings so that legislation may be backed up. But, speaking broadly, the co-operation of the individual, due to his "enlightened self-interest," is probably the essential factor in fire prevention as it is in the other activities of the Safety First federation—Baltimore News. Owning Home Gives Sense of Security Owning Home Gives Sense of Security Ownership, like faith, affords a sense of security—and the whole conception of home is based on a feeling of security. You can close the door and the world is shut out. You can go away from it, and it will be there when you come back. Now the tenant, the man who lives in other people's houses, can never be sure that it will be there when he comes back. In fact, that is one of the reasons why he lives in another man's house—he doesn't want it there when he comes back. And he sets forth on an eternal quest after an elusive, visionary something whose absence makes this present dwelling a whited pulsifer. Need Not Endanger Sewers Complaints are heard of tree roots entering sewers, but if the joints are perfect no such thing is possible. Roots are attracted only by soil moisture and cannot partake of food through any other medium. Therefore no moisture, no roots. Concrete is never waterproof, but may be made so by asphalt and other coverings. If so treated and a good job is done, no tree roots will ever enter a sewer through a joint in the pipe. Soak 'Em. Anyhow. "I remember when we were kids mother would sometimes give us a spanking when we hadn't been doing anything serious." "Huh?" "Sometimes a kid would catch it whether he was guilty or not. She figured that a spanking now and then was not amiss." "What are you driving at?" What are you driving at? Oh, nothing. Some judges around the town only obey the same rule to firing speeders." —Louisville Courier Journal. Wholesale and Retail LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY, EGGS and GAME Most verbal appeals fall down because people are indifferent to them. Inattention becomes a habit, in one ear and out the other. The very existence of the phrase proves the point. Visual impressions get there and stick. MOON BROS' Live and Dressed Poultry, fresh from the country, can give you the impression through the eye that stick. If you see for yourself, you are sure to become a customer. GEESE, DUCKS, HENS E GRAND 3765 for SPECIAL PRICES East Eighteenth Street FE--------1223 BALTIMORE AVE. LY ONE City records but one real, legitimate, Negro jeweler, and he is . Wilson Half block west of Wyoming St. TURKEYS, GEESE CALL BELL PHONE GRAND 1335 East E GO TO MOON'S CAFE ONLY The history of Kansas City re competent, established Negro J. A. W at 1610 W. 9th St. Half Mr. Wii Diamonds, Watches, Cl Guarantees to the public satis KEYS, GEESE, DUCKS PHONE GRAND 3765 for 1335 East Eighteenth St. 'S CAFE 1223 B NLY O Kansas City records but o published Negro jeweler, and North St. Half block west o TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, HENS CALL BELL PHONE GRAND 3765 for SPECIAL PRICES 1335 East Eighteenth Street GO TO MOON'S CAFE 1223 BALTIMORE AVE ONLY ONE The history of Kansas City records but one real, legitimate, competent, established Negro jeweler, and he is J. A. Wilson at 1616 W. 9th St. Half block west of Wyoming St. Mr. Wilson sells Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Staple Jewelry :: and :: Guarantees to the public satisfactory and proper treatment. hes, Clocks and Staple Jewelry :: and :: lic satisfactory and proper treatment. Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Staple Jewelry Guarantees to the public satisfactory and proper treatment. BELL PHONE MAIN 2868W Bell Phone E. 4394Y Office 2460 Waldrond A The Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROW Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. n Builders Co. ESTES, President I Contracting ing a Specialty INDIA HAIR GROWER Bell Phone E. 4394Y THE Modern Builders Co. A.E. ESTES, President General Contracting Repairing a Specialty THE Modern A. E. ESTE General C Repairing THE EAST INDIA THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER A. If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a jar of EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. The remedy contains medical proprieties that go to the roots of the Hair stimulates the skin, helping nature do its work. Leaves the hair soft of a thousand flow Heavy and Beautiful Gray Hair to its Near Iron for Straighten Price, Sent by M the hair soft and silky. thousand flowers. The be by and Beautiful Black Ey Hair to its Natural Color. for Straightening. Price, Sent by Mail, 50c; 10 Sample less. S. D. LYONS, Gen hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm and flowers. The best known remedy for Beautiful Black Eye-Brows, also restores to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot lightening. Sent by Mail, 50c; 10 cExtra for Postage. S. D. LYONS, Gen. Agt., 314 East 2d St., Leaves the hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for Heavy and Beautiful Black Eye-Brows, also restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price. Sent by Mail. 50c: 10 cExtra for Postage. 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. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR course in this school you will be equipped tractor engines successfully. Also special electricity and Vulcanizing. you to make good wages as a chauffeur or you wear overalls and use tools. We ha is in the business. In this school will be f cylinder down to the Ford. in driving for ladies and men. We teach effeurs are in demand at good salaries. Ne themselves for better wages. will open about March 15th AUTO TRAIN After taking a course in of automobiles and tractors Welding Ignition, Electricity This will enable you to We use no books, you w of the best instructors in the ranging from the 12 cylinder A special course in drive Competent chauffeurs a tunity and prepare themselves Our 1917 Class will op TO TRAINING ing a course in this school s and tractor engines suc sion. Electricity and Vulea enable you to make good books, you wear overalls directors in the business. I the 12 cylinder down to the course in driving for ladi t chauffeurs are in deman separe themselves for better Class will open about M AUTO TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGROES After taking a course in this school you will be equipped to drive and repair all makes of automobiles and tractor engines successfully. Also special course in Oxy-Aceytelene Welding Ignition, Electricity and Vulcanizing. This will enable you to make good wages as a chauffeur or repair man. We use no books, you wear overalls and use tools. We have secured the service of some of the best instructors in the business. In this school will be found all types of motor cars, ranging from the 12 cylinder down to the Ford. A special course in driving for ladies and men. We teach you to drive in five days. Competent chauffeurs are in demand at good salaries. Negroes should grasp this opportunity and prepare themselves for better wages. Afro-American Auto Training School Temporary Office 1510 E. 18th St. AGENTS' OUTFIT. 1 Hair Grower, 1 Tample Dressing Oil, 1 Face Cream and Dressing Oil for $2. 2 Extras for $2. I Will Promote a Full Growth of Hair. Will also Restore the Strength. Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If your Hair is Dry and Wiry Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER Oklahoma City, Okla. Franklin's, 1309 E. Eighteenth. Bell Grand 2988. PRINTING. When you want it Where you want it As you want it THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. MARCH 3. 1917 Boxing SPORTS These columns are devoted to anyform of atheletics interesting to our readers. Chicago, Ill. Feb. 22.—The marriage of Mrs. Antoinette Smythe to Dr. Harry Ward Garnes took place Wednesday of last week at the home of the bride, in the presence of a few select friends. The marriage ceremony was performed by Bishop C. T. Shaffer, of this city. The matron of honor was Mrs. Annis Hackley and the best man, Dr. N. G. Daily. Mrs. Smythe is the widow of the late Rev. Smythe, who was pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. church and was pastor of the leading A. M. E. church at Indianapolis, Ind., before coming to Chicago. LATHROP, MO Mr. H. W. Hicks has sold 11 cars of iron and has on hand about 30,000 pounds, besides a car of rags and several hundred pounds of bones and copper per which he will dispose in the near future.....Prof. B. B. Tully is on the sick list. Mrs. B. B. Tully transacted business in Lexington this week.... Mr. Frank Miller, an old resident here died this week and we extend to the bereaved family our deepest sympathy.....Dr. P. H. Moss, a graduate of Edwards, Miss., was in atroph, and he delivered a good discourse in biblical work at the Second Christian Church Sunday evening, February 25.... The members of the Second Christian Church gave a supper that was called, "Can rushing," as everything was served in cans. Not being familiar with can rushing, everybody expected something that they could not see, but they realized $13.00 after all expenses were deducted. Our motto should be to stick to one another and all our business will be kept together. Toronto, Can., Feb. 18.—More than two-score former New Yorkers then as now subjects of Great Britain are in the colored platoon of more than one hundred and fifty men which will sall with their regiment for the fighting front in France on March 1. The Canadian Observer whose editor, J. R. B. Whitney, is in New York for a visit, was instrumental in raising the platoon. For the first time a colored commission officer is in the English army. Captain Ligoure, formerly of New York, a medical doctor, and E. L. Cross, formerly assistant editor of the News, is a sergeant. BIRTHDAY OF LINCOLN CELEBRATED AT CHURCH. Excellent Program Is Carried Through by Colored People—Hold Banquet Afterward. Butte, Mont.—The Lincoln birthday celebration at the Bethel Baptist church, corner of Idaho and Mercury streets last night, was attended by a large number of the colored people of Butte. The program was in charge of Jesse H. Smith as chairman of the evening and consisted of the following: Invocation by Rev. E. B. Reed. Song, "Star Spangled Banner," by the audience. Recitation, "Fifty Years" Freedom of the Negro," by Mrs. Frank M. Shannon. Paper, "Abe Lincoln," by Mrs. Ollie Fenter. Song, "I've Something to Tell Lou," by Mrs. W. H. Olden. She was compelled to respond to an encore. Paper, "Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass," by Mrs. Jesse Smith. Address by L. C. Foreman, who said that if Lincoln, Washington and Booker T. Washington were alive today they would advise the negro to fight for the Stars and Stripes. Song, "America," by the audience. The organist was Mrs. E. B. Reed. After the program was completed a banquet was* served. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. In accordance with the proclamation of Grand Master Fields, Capital City Lodge No. 9 assembled in their hall Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock and rendered the following program in memory of the late Past Grand Master, O. M. Ricketts: 1. Call to order. 2. Song—"Savior, More Than Life to Me." 3. Remarks by the presiding officer. 4. Extracts from the Kansas City Sun on Dr. Ricketts. 5. Song—"Nearer My God to Thee." 6. Remarks by Past Masters Thomas and Sanderson and J. W., M. E. Clark; also by the Matron of Tabitha Court, Mrs., Ida, King and others. 7. After the concluding song, "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown," the meeting was dismissed. B. F. ALLEN, W. M. J. W. DAMEL, Sec. FISK UNIVERSITY IS GIVEN AN OTHER $50,000. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 23.—Word has reached this city that three weeks after Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn., was given $50,000 by the General Educational Board, that the Carnegie corporation gave another $50,000. These gifts are conditional on the university raising a total of $150,000 for a general rehabilitation of the plant. Jackson, Tenn., Feb. 24, 1917.—The fourteenth session of the Lane College Farmers Conference was held here Thursday and Friday. The attendance was larger than ever before, farmers, teachers, doctors, ministers and others came from almost every county in West Tennessee. Reports showed that great progress is being made. Popular addresses were made by Mr. S. M. Roberts of the Experiment Station; Dr. R. H. Boyd, of Nashville, and Mrs. McDonald, of Nashville; Dr. S. A. O'Neal, of Kentucky; Bishop N. C. Cleaves, and Dr. W. T. Vernon, of Memphis. Bert Williams, the world's best comedian, is still with the Ziegfeld Follies and doing excellent work which none but him can do. He is one of the few high-salaried Colored men on the stage today. Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 23.—The Chicago American Giants and the New York Linecoln Giants fought out a 2 and 2 tie and failed to break the deadlock. Chicago, Feb. 11.—William C. Buckner, Negro, trainer of the Chicago Americans, is to be retained for the 1917 season. "Buck" is well known for his rubbing powers among American leaguers. He has been with the team for five years. McCULLOGH SCORED HIS NINTH STRAIGHT KAYO. Young McCullogh sustained his reputation as a knockout king Wednesday night by stopping Kid Yellow of St. Louis in the fourth round of a scheduled 15-round bout before the Old Turner Hall A. C. The bout was fast while it lasted but it was seen early that McCullogh had it on the St. Louis dark boy. It was McCullogh's ninth straight knockout. Billy King's Stock Co., playing a long engagement at the Strand theater, Jacksonville, Fla., all is well. The weather has been a little democratic, but they are coming out in droves, however. Mrs. King is fast recovering from the fire accident which occurred just before she left Chicago. Quinoleum Is Queen YES, I Use Quinoleum, and like it fine JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. Ours are the finest made preparations for the hair and face. Quinoleum Hair Grower.....50c Quinoleum Hair Tonic.....50c Quinoleum Hair Shampoo.....25c Face Preparations. Quinoleum Face Bleach.....25c Quinoleum Face Cream.....25c Quinoleum Camphor Ice.....25c A liberal sample of our new preparation, a fragrantly perfumed toilet powder and a velvety face powder in pink and flesh colors (brown) sent free with any order. Call Bell Phone West 1757. 26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kass. QUINOLEUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY. A SALE Price on a Gas Range A SALE Price on a Gas Range You can save money if you buy this Special Banner Gas Range NOW Only $27 Best value in the city. "Compact" Cabinet style; large oven; removable stainless oven linings; deep broiler; black enamel finish. This Range is a bargain at $27.00. See our large line of Combination Ranges and Coal Heaters. BATHURST STOVE CO. 1232 Walnut St., K, C. Mo. 514 Minnesota Ave., K, C., Ks. 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 SPECIALTY. 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. 54;7£. Bell P. M. 4591 KING COLE The Aeroplane Since the ordinary car does the ordinary things, to take a ride in KING COLE 8 one comes out of the past into the present :: :: :: Our car is Steam Heated. PHONES: Bell, E. 2013. Home, E. 4349. W. H. HUBBELL. MISS LILLIE WILLIAMS MODISTE Graduate of Royal Pattern Co.. New York City Dressmaking, Cutting, Fitting, Designing Fancy Gowns a Specialty 2418 VINE STREET Bell Phone East '798J. KANSAS CITY, MO. The Handy Colored Store 2409 Vine St. Ladies' and Gent's Furnishing Goods and Notions VISIT OUR DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE DEPT. BARGAINS FURNISHING GOOSE & BROTHERS SPECIAL BARGAINS IN OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT AND HAIR GOODS. Help Make Our Store, Your Store, Our Customers Your Friends Special Values in Furnishings for Men, Women and Children. GIVE US A CALL. $2.50 In Goods Free. WE GIVE SURETY COUPONS. Taylor Holmes & Co. Mrs. Annie Holmes, Mngr. 2409 VINE ST., Kansas City, Mo. Bell Phone East 4221J Vaughan's Values 5-room, modern, (Mo.) .....$2,500 12-room, partly modern, (Mo.) .....3,750 8-room duplex, mod. ex. heat .....3,500 10-acre farm, (Kansas) .....2,000 5 acres, near car line, (Kas.) .....1,600 6-room, partly modern (Kas.) .....1,650 One 2-story modern, brick; pavement; garage, with 4 living rooms above; 37½ feet; near 3 car lines; Miss- souri-$400 down .....$4,250 5-room, modern except heat; 50 feet ground, in Kansas; costs $2,900; sacrifice for. .....$2,400 15 acres, 2-room house; Kansas; to rent. Payments may be arranged. Bell, W. 1757. 26th and Parkway MONEY—MONEY—MONEY. 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A Suit to suit every man's taste, and sixty expert tailors insure Perfect Service, Fit, and Satisfaction. Every Suit dependable; every Suit a saving, so don't fail to join this great drive. DOUBLE-LIFE SUITS, $16, $20 and $25. THREE BUSY STORES 220 East Twelfth Street 914 Main Street 204 West Twelfth Street THREE BUSY STORES Twelfth Street 914 MA 204 West Twelfth Street THREE BUSY STORES 220 East Twelfth Street 914 Main Street 204 West Twelfth Street A TIMELY REVIEW. (By James Arthur Hamlett.) One of the things aimed at of the South, has been to edu inferiority of the Colored race the almost universal practice to the Negro's weaknesses, to exaggerating his vices; at the in many cases, no attention to respectability and worth as the headlines told of his unparable there have been a few notable profoundly grateful. That the race has been abditions and facing such host white press and acquiesced in the tonishing degree, is one of the the race has been so slow in of its own, and so derilect and the same, has been amazing have endeavored to serve in has ben able to build up paperful in their circulation financial returns; for the invest without the support of the Negro has become rich in the not had an introduction to a average Negro newspaper ju j of whole-hearted, loyal supp own press which seek so unser the people—The Christian In A POINTER You endeavor to have the it when in need of an under the humiliation of inexperience All worry is eliminated wh C. H. CO UNDEE of the things aimed at by the white press, the truth, has been to educate the public as to the city of the Colored race. This has been evident in universal practice of giving the widest of Negro's weaknesses, unduly stressing his cunning his vices; at the same time paying no cases, no attention to his virtues, his prowess and worth as a citizen; seldom having told of his unparalleled achievements. Overseen a few notable exceptions, for which greatly grateful. The race has been able to do so well under and facing such hostile sentiment, fannedness and acquiesced in by the white pulpit, degree, is one of the wonders of the work has been so slow in recognizing the impermanence, and so derilect and half-hearted in its success, has been amazingly disappointing to the evoved to serve in that direction. The wristable to build up papers that are not only in their circulation and influence, but later returns for the investment made, and this the support of the Negro. On the other hand has become rich in the newspaper business, an introduction to him. As a matter of fact, newspaper just barely exists; due to hearted, loyal support the race should give which seek so unselfishly and sacrificingly—The Christian Index, Jackson, Tenn. POINTER endeavor to have the best in life. Why is there need of an undertaker and be protected by theiation of inexperience and unreliable people is eliminated when you entrust your work. C. H. COUNTEE UNDERTAKER One of the things aimed at by the white press, especially of the South, has been to educate the public as to the alleged inferiority of the Colored race. This has been evidenced by the almost universal practice of giving the widest publicity to the Negro's weaknesses, unduly stressing his crimes and exaggerating his vices; at the same time paying but little, in many cases, no attention to his virtues, his progress, his respectability and worth as a citizen; seldom have glaring headlines told of his unparalleled achievements. Of course, there have been a few notable exceptions, for which we are profoundly grateful. That the race has been able to do so well under such conditions and facing such hostile sentiment, fanned by the white press and acquiesced in by the white pulpit, to an astonishing degree, is one of the wonders of the world. That the race has been so slow in recognizing the imperative press of its own, and so derilect and half-hearted in its support of the same, has been amazingly disappointing to those who have endeavored to serve in that direction. The white man has ben able to build up papers that are not only large and powerful in their circulation and influence, but large in the financial returns for the investment made, and this, too, not without the support of the Negro. On the other hand, if any Negro has become rich in the newspaper business, we have not had an introduction to him. As a matter of fact, the average Negro newspaper just barely exists; due to the lack of whole-hearted, loyal support the race should give to its own press which seek so unselfishly and sacrificially to serve the people—The Christian Index, Jackson, Tenn. You endeavor to have the best in life. Why not have it when in need of an undertaker and be protected from the humiliation of inexperience and unreliable persons. All worry is eliminated when you entrust your work to Either Phone, East 3336. This COMBINAT you have This is the COMBINATION RA you have been wanting It has the bake with- out the 'AKE' No More Stooping Interchangeable for coal in one moment. SEE Avery Fu 1308 and 131 Subscribe SEE ONE AT Avery Furniture Co 1308 and 1310 Grand Avenue scribe for The Avery Furniture Co. 1308 and 1310 Grand Avenue Our Specialty intrenched" in One of Our LIFE SUITS in Our Own Shop). three busy stores and you will splendid array of Spring and so suit every man's taste, and Perfect Service, Fit, and Satis-able; every Suit a saving, so drive. USY STORES 914 Main Street Twelfth Street that by the white press, especially accentuate the public as to the alleged race. This has been evidenced by of giving the widest publicity andly stressing his crimes and the same time paying but little, to his virtues, his progress, his a citizen; seldom have glaring redeemed achievements. Of course, the exceptions, for which we are able to do so well under such con- tile sentiment, fanned by the man by the white pulpit, to an as- sue wonders of the world. That recognizing the imperative press and half-hearted in its support of only disappointing to those who that direction. The white man- ters that are not only large and and influence, but large in the instment made, and this, too, not negro. On the other hand, if any the newspaper business, we have him. As a matter of fact, the best barely exists; due to the lack short the race should give to its selfishly and sacrificingly to serve dex, Jackson, Tenn. the best in life. Why not have wartaker and be protected from race and unreliable persons. When you entrust your work to COUNTEE ARTAKER 2220 Vire Street. is the TION RANGER been wanting Champion ONE AT Furniture Co. 100 Grand Avenue for The Sun