Kansas City Sun

MOTHER'S DAY-SUNDAY White Woman Kills Negro Husband The Sun Goes to 36 States and Canada. Are Your Relatives and Friends Getting It? VOLUME IX. NUMBER 37. DAN SHAY, MURDERER One of the most brutal and unprovoked crimes in recent years was the murder of Clarence Ewell, a colored waiter in a cafe in Indianapolis, Ind., last Thursday night by Dan Shay, the manager of the Milwaukee Baseball Club of the American Association'and former manager of the Kansas City Team of the same Association. Shay had a reputation here of being impulsive, hot headed and an inveterate "gun toter." Many persons have predicted that he would have trouble ere this. The Kansas City Star of last Thursday says: Dan Shay was brought to Kansas City as manager of the Kansas City Blues in July, 1909, when George Tebeau, owner of the baseball team, signed a contract with the then Stockton, Cal., player at San Francisco. He had played previously with the St. Louis Cardinals. Intermittently from that time until September 23, 1916, he has been with the Kansas City club. He and Roy Talpey, salesman for a brewing company, operated the Jefferson Hotel. They took a 7-year lease on the hotel in 1911. Shay sold his interest later. Tebeau's explanation of his dismissal of Shay last fall was that he had not been giving his best services to the Kansas City club. Shay's contract expired October 1, but he was relieved a week earlier. Tebeau said the manager had been away from the team too often. There had been differences between Tebeau and Shay for weeks before the dismissal, when the Blues were declining. Shay recently sued Tebeau for alleged nonpayment of balance in salary. When managing the Kansas City Club Dan Shay seldom was without a revolver, and especially was this true when his club was on the road. Shay was a frequenter of cafes and cabarets and had a wide acquaintance among the saloon keepers and cafe owners in all the cities he visited. Few were the nights when the Blues were on the road that Dan didn't make the rounds. He considered a revolver a necessary adjunct. "Self protection," Dan termed it. Frequently members of the Blues would call attention to the bulge in the manager's hip pocket as Shay strolled through the hotel lobby in the evening. Shay is a high tempered man and at times overbearing. His quarrels with waiters have been frequent. In many hotels there is a tendency to look lightly on the ball player. "Sirloin steak—for a ball player" is the way the waiters give the ball player's order to the chief in numerous hotels. The players and managers, knowing this condition, are quick to resent and hotel proprietors that cater to ball clubs probably will confess that ball players register more complaints than any other class of trade. HOW TO DRINK WHISKY AND SAVE MONEY To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks, the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of his habit: First—Start a saloon in your house. Second—Be the only customer, and you'll have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey, and remember there are 69 drinks in one gallon. Third—Buy your drinks from no one but your wife, and by the time the first gallon is gone she will have $8 to put in the bank, and $2 to start business again. Fourth—Should you live ten years and continue to booze from her, and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have money enough to bury you decently, educate your children, buy a house and lot, marry a decent man and quit thinking about you. NEGROES RE- CEIVE JOFFRE The city council Saturday appointed Dr. Allen A. Wesley, formerly major in the Eighth Regiment, and Col. Franklin A. Denison, head of the regiment and now assistant attorney general of the state, as two representative citizens on the committee of one hundred selected to entertain Gen. Joffre of France, and his staff, who will arrive in the city Friday. The Kansas City Sun MRS. GOFF ACQUITTED. Mrs. Goff, a white woman was acquitted in the district court of St. Paul for killing Garfield Goff, a Negro. Goff was a deacon of St. James A. M. E. church, and employed as a porter at the Union Station. County Attorney R. D. O'Brien made a strong case against Mrs. Goff. He was assisted by Attorney W. T. Francis. Letters and testimony of persons of both races were evidence of Mrs. Goff's relation with men, her white lover was shown up in the case. Mrs. Goff is the daughter of the Treasurer of Grand Forks, N. D., and had been married ten years. She was dressed in deep morning during the trial, but it is reported that she tore off her widow's veil when she reached the street after her acquital. In the death of Senator Jos. B. Foraker, the Negro loses a loyal and devoted friend, one who never bowed the Knee to Bourbon democracy or ever ceased in his demand for justice to the Negro. His profect concerning the party has been fully verified when he said: "What has befallen the party it is difficult to contemplate with composeure. It was unnecessary and willful. But the greatest trouble is that nobody any longer knows what Republicanism means. The party was led away from basic principles by an effort to outdo Bryan by adopting and carrying out in the name of reform and a moral uplift a lot of his wild vagaries. "The net result has been to give him and his Socialistic isms a transient respectability, while we have been demoralized, weakened and unhorsed. It may be found harder to get in than it was to get out. At any rate, the man to lead us back is not yet (August, 1915) in sight, or at least not, generally recognized." Peace to his ashes. GRESHAM—NOT GUILTY. Negro Ex-Police Officer Acquitted of Charge of Murdering White Man. Wesley Gresham, ex-police officer, was acquitted of the charge of murdering Martin Larson, a white man, in District Court, St. Paul, May 1, 1917. It was claimed that on the night of March 24, 1917, after the closing hours of the saloon, Gresham went into the saloon, corner Carroll and Western streets, and demanded that he be served a drink and refused to pay for it and shot the bartender, Martin Larson, who died instantly. Gresham proved that he went into the saloon, bought and paid for a drink, and that the proprietor locked him in the saloon and that he was attacked by three men. One of the men struck at him with a policeman's billy. They threw bottles at him and the proprietor shot at him with a revolver. Mr. Gresham was defended by attorney J. Louis Ervin, of St. Paul. The decisio in quite a victory for Attorney Ervin. The case is the first in many years, if not the very first in the history of St. Paul, where a Negro was accused of kinilling a white man and defended by a Negro attorney unaid by a white attorney, and where the verdict was an acquittal. WANTED! ONE THOUSAND NEGRO MEN 'AND BOYS To learn to be expert automobile mechanics and chauffeurs. Positions waiting. Special course in driving for ladies and gentlemen. We teach you to drive any make of car in ten days or full mechanical course in eight weeks. Our night class opens May first. For full information as to terms and so forth, address Afro-American Automobile Training School, 1420-26 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. The largest automobile training school for Negroes in the world. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917. On Mother's Day O MOTHER, I remember, The smile, the tender look— Thy grown-up child remembers How in your arms you took A fretful babe and soothed him, Crooning a cradle song— OO Mother, I remember, Across the years so long. O Mother, I am losing So many precious things, I've known and loved since childhood, Feebly their memory clings. Yet when this mind lies wasted, Neath TIME'S slow shifting sands, Thy song shall be remembered, And the touch of thy sweet, brown hands! AM T.I. AMERICA'S GR Bandm A. Clark Smith AMERICA'S GREAT COLORED Bandmaster. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, May 7, 1917.—May 24 has been set aside as the day for the commencement exercises here. The commencement sermon will be preached on Sunday, May 20, by Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans, Louisiana. On Monday, May 21, the commencement exercises of the Phelps Hall Bible Training School will be held, the principal speaker being Rev. C. C. Alleye of Charlotte, North Carolina. On Tuesday evening, May 22, the annual Boston Trinity Church Prize Contest will be held. On the 23d the annual Class Day exercises. Thursday, May 24, Commencement Day, commencement address: Prof Kelley Miller, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University Washington, D. C. --- —Roscoe C. Jamison. RICA'G. GREAT' Bandmaster N. A. A. C. P. Final arrangements have been made for holding the annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Washington, D. C., on May 16 and 17. Mr. Moorfield Storey, the national president, will preside at the evening meeting on the 16th to be held at the First Congregational church, Tenth and G streets, which will be addressed by Dean William Pickens and Charles Edward Russell. The outstanding interest of the evening, however, centers in the presentation of the third Spingarn Medal for distinguished service during 1916, which will be presented this year by Hon. Wesley L. Jones United States senator from Washington, a staunch friend of the Negro. MUNICIPAL PARADE. The Municipal Parade last Tuesday composed of all the units of the city government, was an eye opener to the average citizen and was really a remarkable as well as entertaining pageant. Few Kansas Citians knew that Kansas City employed thousands of men and women to manage its affairs and knew but little of the activities of the city government. The Colored people were especially proud of the showing made by those departments in which a large number of Colored people are employed and the showing made by the Negro Hospital under the irreestible Dr. T. C. Unthank, superintendent, and the Colored nurses and internes was generally conceded by white and black alike to be one of the most striking features of the parade, which consumed two hours and fifteen minutes in passing. Mayor Edwards deserves much credit for giving this object lesson to the citizens of Kansas City and to the hundreds of delegates from all over the country who were attending the City Planning Convention. COLORED The name of the candidate to whom the medal is awarded is not given out until the evening of the presentation. Last year it was awarded to Lieut. Col. Charles Young for his services in reorganizing the constabulary of Liberia; and the first medal was conferred upon Dr. E. E. Just for his original researches in biology. The afternoon of the 17th will be devoted to a nopen conference on the exodus and the pressing problems growing out of the war. Not only our own branches, but leaders and organizations of all kinds are cordially invited to take counsel with the N. A. A. C. P. See "The Island of Regeneration." It's great. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If you've a gray-haired mother In the old home far away; Sit down and write the letter You put off the other day. Don't wait until her weary steps Reach heaven's pearly gates ; But show her that you think of her Before it is too late. If you've a tender message, Of a loving word to say; Don't wait until you forget it, But whisper it today. Who knows what little memories May haunt you if you wait; So make those you love happy Before it is too late. The tender words unspoken, The letters never sent; The long forgotten message, The wealth of love unspent; For these some hearts are breaking— For these some loved ones wait; Show them that you care for them Before it is too late. SIMMONS SPELLBINDS. The patriotic meeting held at Allen Chapel last Sunday morning was splendid and timely demonstration of the Negroe's love for home and country and was filled with enthusiasm and inspiration. Excellent music was rendered by the Allen Chapel Choir and ringing addresses were delivered by Charles H. Calloway, Esq., Prof. J. R. E. Lee, Nelson Crews, Prof. W. S. Scaraborough, President of Wilberforce University and Roscoe C. Simmons the noted Orator of Louisville, Ky. The Cadets of Lincoln High School under Major N. Clark Smith Commandant attended in a body and presented a very trim and pleasing appearance. On Monday night Roscoe C. Simmons addressed a wild enthusiastic audience of more than 1,000 people at the Old Armory Hall, 14th and Michigan Avenue under the auspices of the Uniform Rank K. of P. Preceding the speaking an imposing parade was given, participated in by the Uniform Rank, the High School Cadets, the Colored Fire Department, the Colored Police Officers and the First Regiment Band and High School Band furished the music. Mr. Simmons made one of his usual eloquent addresses and left immediately to go to the Station for New York City where he speaks before the Union League Club. WINS 160 ACRES Mrs. Clara B. Franklin, after spending three years on her homestead in Dearfield, has received her patent from the government giving her 160 acres of Colorado land. She has been offered a flattering price already for it by several persons. RELIEF BOARD MEETING Grand Master W. W. Fields has offi cially called the meeting of the Relief Board at Hannibal, Mo., May 14 at 10:00 a. m. SHAY HELD WITHOUT BOND FOR SHOOTING. Indianapolis. May 10.—Dan Shay, manager of the Milwaukee baseball club, today is being held to the grand jury without bond as a result of arraignment yesterday afternoon when he waived preliminary examination on the charge of having shot and killed Clarence Ewell, a Negro waiter. BABY WEEK. Baby week wound up in a blaze of glory with the demonstration at Allen Chapel last Sunday night and a splendid address by Dr. Katherine Richardson founder of Mercy Hospital. A wonderful display had been arranged by the Nurses of the City Hospital under the direction of Dr. T. C. Unthank, Superintendent, which was viewed by hundreds of interested parents and others. Mrs. T. G. Mc Campbell presided at the Sunday evening meeting and rendered valuable assistance in the success of the week's program. Messrs. C. H. Calloway, W. Clarence Hueston, L. A. Knox and J. Silas Harris accompanied Colonel Roscoe C. Simmons to St. Joseph last Sunday afternoon where he delivered an address. While there they were the guests of St. Joseph's most distinguished physician Dr. J. R. A. Cross land, former minister to Liberia and himself an orator of Nation-wide reputation. Do You Know That Advertising is the Life of Trade and the Only Real Business Getter PRICE, 5c. NEGRO PROGRESS IN BUSINESS. When the census reports for 1910 were published, it was found that in the ten years, 1900 to 1910, the Negro had made about as much progress as he had made in the previous thirty-five years. The first indication of the remarkable progress which the Negro had made in this decade was revealed when the returns for agriculture were made public. From these it was found that in these ten years the value of farm property owned by Negroes had increased from $177,404,688 to $492,892,218, or 177 per cent. In the field of business the number of Negro bankers increased from 4 to 56; restaurant keepers, from 3995 to 6369, or 59 per cent; wholesale merchants from 149 to 241, or 61 per cent; retail merchants from 9098 to 20,653, or 127 per cent; hotel keepers from 481 to 973, or 102 per cent; undertakers from 453 to 973, of 114 per cent, excluding 10,600 guarding and lodging-house keepers, there were, in 1910, 38,382 Negroes engaged in business enterprises of various kinds. This did not include those operating barbering, blacksmithing and shoe shops, or various classes of business connected with trades for which separate returns of proprietors were not made. Probably 5,000 more should be added for persons operating these businesses, making the total number of Negroes engaged in business, in 1910, about 42,000. A survey of fifty years of Negro business enterprises shows that remarkable progress has been made. There were, in 1887, Negroes in some 40 different lines of businesses; they numbered about 4,000. The total capital which they had invested was probably not more than $1,000,000. In 1917, Negroes are in 200 lines of business. They number about 50,000.—Southern Workman. TUSKEGEE'S HERITAGE At twenty-five years of age Washington was installed in charge of Tuskegee, a school which had indeed an appropriation of $2,000 for teachers' salaries, which but which not a dollar for other purposes, and which had neither land nor buildings nor teachers nor students. * * * From this small beginning the material progress of the school was little short of miraculous. Starting with absolutely nothing, the physical plant and equipment at the end of Dr. Washington's thirty-five years of service represented a value of abut $1,500,000, while the endowment fund had increased to nearly $2,000,000. Morever, during this thirty-five years, at least $3,500,000 more had been raised and expended for current expenses, so that it is safe to say that not less than $7,000,000 had been invested in this great enterprise through the efforts and influence of one man, born a slave and reared in the depths of poverty and ignorance. This then is the rich heritage of Tuskegee Institute, not only this great plant of land, buildings and equipment free from debt, not only the two million dollars of nodement fund, not only the host of friends North and South who may safely be trusted to carry forward the work, not only its widespread influence and confidence among the best people of both races, not only the loyalty and enthusiastic devotion of its faculty, alumni, and students, but, above all and crowing this great monument, the character, T. Washington—Southern Workman. WESTERN UNIVERSITY SPRING RECITAL —Piano and Voice— Tuesday, May 15—Misses Carew, Tillman and Etta G. Moten. 11:30 a. m. Mr. Cogswell in voice recital. 8:15 p. m. Friday, May 18—Misses Saunders, Young, Holmes and Gotier. 3:30 p. m. Mr. Neil Herriford and Mrs. Isabrooks, assisted by Lincoln High school orchestra and Mrs. Blanche Yancy Mason. 8:15 p. m. Tuesday, May 22—Miss Monette Moore, Mr. Wrice. 3:30 p. m. Misses Jones and Broadus assisted by ladies quartette. 8:15 p. m. May 24—Misses Zenobia Keith and Arlene Jackson in graduating recital. 8:15 p. m. The public is invited to attend all these recitals. Admission free. From Our Foreign Correspondents A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction 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. Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City, Reilief Secretary. P. L. Pratt, Cameron, Mo., G. L. 1st District. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L. 2nd District. Lodge Directory G MASONIC ORDER Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. and A. M., meets the 1st and 3rd Monday in each month. All Master Masons in good standing welcome. Emmett Spruell, W. M.; C. H. Countee, Sec'y. G MASONRY and A. M. , Liberty, Mo., meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays in every month. Visiting Master Masons are welcome. W. H. Brown, W. M.; A. H. Wilson, Secretary, 1820 Highland G St. Stephens Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Masons, Liberty, Mo. Meets first Sunday in each month, H. H. Robinson, H. P. Wm. Capps, Recorder. St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets the third Saturday night. William Capps, E. C.; W. H. Robinson, Rec. Sec'y. HOC IN WRECCD King of J. B. F. West Lodge No. 216 meets first and third Wednesdays in each month at 10th and Campbell. C. F. Wilson, W M.; H. Conway, 586 Tracy Ave., Secy. D. OF T. Primrose Tabernacle meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each month at Tabor Hall, 1413 Vine street. All Daughters and Sir Knights in good standing and Sworn St. Suzanne H. H. P. 1705 E. 12th; Estella Pitts, C. R. 1815 E. 17th. 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, S. 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 T. G. McCampbell, E. G. Lacy, T. W. H. Williams, Wm. Washington, Geo. Johnson, S. Myers, Edw. Thompson, Meets fourth CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte St. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 19th and Charl Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Woodland. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Mining Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 Highland. Agriculture. Centropolis A. M. E. Church, Centropolis oil St. James A. M. E. Zion Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland St. Paul's Baptist Church, 19th and Highland. Friendship Baptist Church, 17th and Tracy Avenue. Pulgrim Baptist Church, 614 Charlotte St. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Independence Avenue and Tracy. Calvary Baptist Church, 19th and Askew. Brewery A. M. E. Mission, 5th and Lydia. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4039 Mill St. St. Luke's A. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place A. M. E. Mission, 565 Grand Ave. CLARK CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, 1664 Madison Ave. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9th and Washington. Bethel A. M. E. Church, Water and Steward Streets. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, 21st and Ruby. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neh. King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and State. Quindaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rosea Protestant Episcopal, 3rd and Stewart, Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby, Wesley Chapel M. E., 106 Shawnee, Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rosedale, Kan. Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Vir- rale. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Sanford and T. emont. Mrs. W. I. Colley, experienced dressmaker, 911 Michigan avenue. Bell Phone, East 5326. MME. A. MOORE, TEACHER OF PIANO and VOICE For Engagements, Phone Studio, 1905 East 19th Street. Bell East 5407. Dressmaking, Cutting, Fitting, Designing Fancy Gowns a Specialty 2418 VINE STREET Bell Phone East 1798J. 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 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. Taylor Holmes & Co. 2409 VINE ST., Kansas City, Mo Bell Phone East 4221J Constipation, if Neglected, Causes Serious Illness Constipation, if neglected, leads to almost innumerable complications affecting the general health. Many cases of typhoid fever, appendicitis and other severe diseases are traceable to prolonged clogging of the bowels. Regard the effects of constipation, C. E. Ayers, 6 Sabin St., Montpelier, Vt. says: PETER H. "I was afflicted with constipation and biliousness for years, and at times became so bad I would become unconscious. I have been found in that condition many times. Physicians did not seem to be able to do me any good. I would become weak and for days at a time could do no work. Not long ago I got a box of Dr. Miles laxative. I had never tried anything that agged in such a mild and effective manner. I believe I have at last found the remedy that suits my case." Thousands of people are sufferers from habitual constipation and while possibly realizing something of the danger of this condition, yet neglect too long to employ proper curative measures until serious illness often results. The advice of all physicians is, "keep your bowels clean," and it's good advice. Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablelets are sold by all drugists, at 25 cents a box containing 25 doses. If not found satisfactory, your money is returned. MILER MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917 The city is on fire! The Evangelist F. F. Moten has been thundering for fifteen nights against the walls of sin and it seems that the enemy is about to surrender. Sixteen have deserted the camp of Satan and joined the Army of God. Last evening we had an unusual incident that reminded us of days of old. A young man about 23 years of age stopped by the church outside on the vestibule and heard the sermon "The Power of the Blood," and when the evangelist called for those who woul drust the blood came in and knelt down for one hour after which he arose, happily converted. He was on his way to enlist in the United States army but joined the Army of God. Dr. Moten baptized him after 11 o'clock. The meeting will not close until the 13th. CALCINE CINDERS. Anaconda Mont.— Abraham Lincoln Bohon, one of our most respected and beloved brothers, passed away Monday night at 9:00 o'clock at St. Ann's hospital. He had been in poor health for several months from an incurable malady. He was a member of Unity Lodge, Helena. His brother, A. R. Bohon, of Hannibal, Mo., has been notified. Every one who knew Abe held him in the highest esteem. He was of a gentle and kind disposition, always striving to please, perfectly gentlemanly to the ladies and fatherly to the children with whom he was a favorite.....Mr. Frank A. Yarner, president of the Silver City Club of Butte, paid his old friends and acquaintances a visit Sunday. The boys are always glad to meet him for Frank is a congenial fellow.....Mrs. William Johnson entertained a few friends Tuesday evening, the occasion being her 27th birthday.....Mr. J. W. Duncan of Butte lectured to the Theosophical Society Sunday evening, subject "The Messiah's Return," acquiring himself with glory and praise. He held his audience spellbound for an hour.....W. J. Brown has made application to the Secretary of War for a position on the secret service commission. Mr Brown is eligible and has served as Corporal in the 24th Infantry, U. S. A. We wish him success....Don't forget I am soliciting for The Sun. Now is the time to subscribe. There are four things we can never recall, first a sped arrow, second, spoken words; third, the past; fourth, neglected opportunities. Bear well the last and seek to take advantage of every opportunity if you aspire to succeed in your undertakings.....Mr. W. J. Brown, applicant for the secret service commission received a very favorable reply from the War Department .....Mrs. Mollie Hammond still remains indisposed.....Mrs. Geo. Robinet of Helena, has cast his lot with the Caline Smoke eaters.....Mrs. Lane's sister, Mrs. Parker of Sedalia, Mo., returned home after spending several weeks in our city.....Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so cheer up, Checkers, old chap, you must remember it's a long way to Oklahoma.....Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Leatherbury wish to thank all friends who so kindly assisted them during the sickness and death of Brother Abe Bohon. LAGRANGE, MISSOURI. Miss Carrie Turpin is on the sick list....Miss Emile Calsaw and Miss Mattle Henderson visited in Quincy, Ill., last week....Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clay of Canton visiting in this city for a few days....Mr. Henry Smith and wife attended the funeral of Mr. Carl Majors of Canton visited at the home of William and Charles Sprague Sunday....Mr. Alfred Benton died Sunday at the age of 60 years. He leaves a wife, three daughters and one son to mourn his loss. The funeral was preached Tuesday afternoon by Rev. W. W. Wilson....Mrs. Olie Dansey, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brooks, Mr. and Msr. Elmer Davis of Quincy, attended the funeral of their grandfather Tuesday....Mrs. E. D. Green is very sick at this writing....Rev. E. D. Green will fill his pulpit Sunday....The church is preparing for a big rally first Sunday in June. BUTTE, MONTANA. Mrs. Samuel Jones of Basin, Montana, has been quite ill at her home but is somewhat improved now.... Rev. Carter of Seattle, left Wednesday morning for his home....The Sunshine Mission held a reception Tuesday night in the Baptist church.... Mr. Abe Bohon, an old time resident of Montana died in Aanconda last week. He was buried from the Methodist church....Rev. Parsons of Helena was very successful in organizing a Baptist church in Great Falls having twelve members....The annual thanksgiving sermon of the G. U. O. of O. F. and Household of Ruth will be preached Sunday night at Bethel Baptist church....Mrs. J. W. Brown has returned from Helena much improved in health....Mrs. Charles Poague has accepted the position of maid at the new Rialto Thearter....L. C. Foreman has accepted a position at the Silver Bow Club....E. W. Lee is now night man at the Westside garage....C. F. Jones & Co., have opened an office at 115 West Broadway, dealing in real estate and mines....The book agent is still busy with his books, papers and magazines; help us to grow, patronize race industry. Although it is springtime, there is no change in the weather throughout Montana, Easter is a pretty day but it snowed before morning and has been very cold ever since. Seven months of winter is too much; we long for warmer days.....Mrs. Georgia Vass died in this city and was buried from the Bethel Baptist Church.....Mrs. Charles Poague has undergone an operation on her foot successfully, being able to mingle with us again.....Mr. James Warren died Wednesday morning at his residence, 621 E. Front street. He was buried Saturday from the Bethel Baptist Church of which he was a member.....Buckner's Jubilee Singers entertained Thursday night at the auditorium. They also returned to the city for sacred services this afternoon at the First Baptist Church and tonight at the Mountain View Methodist Church.....Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Brown, formerly of Omaha, Neb., are returning to that city to reside permanently.....Frank Thompson was tried in the district court last week and convicted of manslaughter, he having shot and killed Frank Campton of Denver. He was given from two to five years. The murder was committed two years ago in the Afro-American Club in this city.....Mrs. Wesley J. Brown is expected to arrive home this evening from Helena....Jessie H. Smith, our agent, is somewhat indisposed but he expects to be out soon. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. The Annual Thanksgiving service of Bee Lodge No. 7457, G. U. O. of O. F. and Busy Bee Bee Household of Ruth No. 4341, will be held at the pleasant Valley Bautist church Sunday, May 13. Rev. J. R. Williams, the pastor, preached the sermon. An excellent program was rendered....Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mason, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., are now occupying their residence, 3910 Adams street....Mrs. William Tillery and little daughter, Irene, and Mrs. Gus Watson, visited friends in Mayville, Mo., Saturday and Sunday....Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Collins, 3921 Lloyd avenue, entertained Rev. and Mrs. J. K. Williams at dinner afternoon. PLEASANT HILL, MISSOURI. On Wednesday, May 16, Douglass school will have commencement exercises at the Tucker Theater. Prof. B. F. Allen, president of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., will deliver an address and present the diplomas ....The Bautists met with much success in the rally Sunday. Pastor Reed preached morning and evening. Rev. O. H. Burbridge, pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached in the afternoon. Prof. G. W. Wood of Oklahoma, visited Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wood, Sr., last week.....Mrs. Dotson of Texas, is visiting her sister and mother at the home of Mrs. Leech.....Mrs. Cornelia Mamiller of Larned, Kansas, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Russel Baker.....Miss Blanche Bryant is at home on a visit with her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Bryant.....Mr. Wayman Bryant visited friends in Kansas City last week.....Mrs.Hattie Clark was home in business last week.....Mrs. Bettie Baker is on the sick list.....Mrs. Cook of Oregon an dMr. W. Tucker of Kansas departed for their homes Sunday, after a very pleasant visit in the Glipson home.....Mrs. Stanley Nelson is visiting her mother-in-law. HOLDEN, MISSOURI. The Lincoln Literary Society had its usual program last Friday, opening by singing, "Blest Be the Tie That Bind." Visitors: Mrs. Eva G. Taylor, Mrs. Mattie Pratt, Mrs. Flossie Taylor, Miss Lillian Adkins and Mrs. Edd Green. It was a beautiful program and the last for this term of school ...Mrs. Sherman Brown entertained at dinner last Sunday Mrs. Myrle Brown and Mrs. Norman Little. Mr. Edd Dodd and Mr. Norman Little went to Kansas City Sunday morning ...Mrs. W. O. Harden of Kansas City is visiting her father, Mr. R. W. Sims ...Mrs. Leona Dodd left last Tuesday for California, where she will join her husband, Willie Dodd. ...Word was received here last Sunday that Mr. General Taylor passed away in Manhattan, Kansas. He was an old settler of Holden and leaves a wife, one daughter and many friends to mourn his loss....Charles Pratt gave a lecture at the school last Friday....Every Negro should read The Sun. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. The drama presented at Mt. Zion Baptist church last Thursday night by friends of the church was very good. A good audience greeted them. Miss Opal Cohron received the prize, a gold wrist watch for selling the greatest number of tickets.....Mr. Eugene Bowman left the city this week going on a tour.....Remember the mens' rally at the A. M. E church next Sunday....Covenant and Communion at Mt. Zion Baptist next Sunday.....Mr. Lon B. Thomas is yet confined with illness ...Messrs, D. C. Nichols and S. A. Venerable are able to be out...Municipal election was quiet; all old Commissioners were elected and in addition Mr. John E. Miller of Miller and Paines' Dry Goods Co., was elected Commissioner of Public Affairs or Mayor...Rainy season is yet on in Lincoln and vicinity...Street car strike is on in the city and night travel has been difficult. Hopes of set element soon. 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. 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AGENTS' OUTFIT. 1 Hair Grower, 1 Tempel Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Pressing Oil, 1 Face Cream and Direction for Selling, $2. 25c Extra for Postage. Either Phone, East 3336. Hours: to 9 a. m., 12 to 1 p. m. Hall phones, Home Main 2783, Bell Grand 3352, Residence, 2624 Euclid Ave. Res. Phone, Bell East 3429W. 2220 Vine Street. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 12. 1917 AMONG THE CHURCHES Only 10-Days Cure on the Market MACKEY'S WONDERFUL RHEUMATIC CURE 75 Cents per Bottle It is International—Sold by 7000 Agents in every State, Territory and Foreign Country. AGENTS WANTED! Ten days for Rheumatism—Immediate relief, two hours for Neuralgia—Forty-eight hours for Lumbago—One week for Throat---Ten days for Lungs in 1st and 2nd stage---- Ten days for Asthma and all Pains and Stiffness in the Body. Fine destroyer of Appendicitis. Guaranteed Under the Pure Food and Drugs Act, Serial No. 44,333. PERSONS WHO HAVE BENEFITED M. REV, J. R. RANSOM, The popular pastor of the First A. M. E. 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I cheerfully recommend this splendid liniment to all who have this complaint. Deacon of St. Stephen Baptist Church. Kansas City, Kans. I suffered with rheumatism and was unable to walk at times. After using one-half bottle of Mackey's Liniment I could walk and go anywhere. I recommend Mackey's Liniment for anyone who suffers with rheumatism. LEBANNA PORTER. I used one bottle Mackey's Liniment for rheumatism in the foot, and am no awable to walk and go anywhere. I will recommend Mackey's Liniment to all who have this complaint. Kansas City, Mo. I had rheumatism so bad I could not raise my arm. I used one-half bottle of Mackey's Liniment and now I have no pain or stiffness. MRS. T. SHEPARD. 526 Clairmont. Persons ordering n REV. J. W. HU 800 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE Office Phone Bell Main 3786 ALLEN CHAPEL. A large congregation assembled at Allen Chapel last Sunday morning to pay homage to the "Old Flag' which has never touched the fround" and all that it represents in listening to the patriotic service participated in by such eminent speakers as Lawyer C. H. Calloway, Editor Nelson C. Crews, Prof. J. R. E. Lee, Dr. W. S. Scaraborough of Wilberforce University and the peerless orator Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons. A fine showing was made by the uniformed Cadets of Lincoln High school and the students of Western University who attended in a body under their commands. A splendid solo was sung by Mrs. Gladys Humbert. The services of the Christian Endeavors were largely attended and much interest was manifested by those present. The observance of Baby Week was brought to a close Sunday night at Allen Chapel under the supervision of the Federation of Womens' Clubs. An address was made by Dr. Katherine Richardson of Mercy Hospital. Reports by Clubs on Baby Week meetings and by the Secretary of the City Federation. The exhibit in the basement conducted by Dr. T. C. Unthank of the General Hospital, the talk on "Teeth and their care," by Dr. T. C. Chapman and a demonstration by the children from the Dental Infirmary of the Attucks school ended the activities of the week. All are invited to attend the annual reception to be given the new members, at which the old members will be honored guests, Friday evening, May 18. Allen Chapel choir maintained its usual high standard in the rendition of the program at Lincoln High school last Sunday afternoon, which marked the closing of the music concerts for the season. always Cure on th CKE WONDERFUL MATIC Cents per Bo nal—Sold by 7000 A territory and Foreign AGENTS WANTED Immediate relief, two hours week for Throat---Ten days for L Pains and Stiffness in the Bod the Pure Food and Drugs Act, S WHO HAVE BEEN Kansas City, MO. 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MARY JACKSON, 1520 McGee Street. ng medicine must send postage to c Sold by HURSE, Gen. Agen NUE ST. STEPHEN'S BAPTIST CHURCH. The services were well attended all day Sunday. At 11:00 a.m., the pastor preached a glorious sermon, subject "Walting on the Lord." The Sunday School at 2:30 was well attended and we can see by its growth that the Superintendent together with her coworkers have the Sunday School at heart. At 6:30, we enjoyed discussing a splendid subject in the B. Y. P. U. The pastor preached again at 8:00, Subject "Holiness in Its True Sense." Everybody seemed to hev been benefitted from these sermons. The Mission Sewing Circle meets every Thursday afternoon. Visitors welcome. Miss Sophia Lyons, president; Mrs. Ophelia Jones, secretary. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH The Sunday school has increased in interest since holding its sessions in the mornings. On account of remodeling the auditorium for the new pipe organ the regular church services are being held in the lecture room. In the morning services, Dr. S. W. Bacote's soul stirring sermon on "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions" was followed by several minutes of continuous shoutings and hallelujahs last Sunday. The evening services were devoted to covenant meeting and the Lord's Supper, which was partaken of by an unusually large membership. During the day there were ten additions to the church. The Friendship Club held an interesting meeting last Friday at 3:00 p. m. in the lecture room. Last Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. a meeting was held in the lecture room in the interest of local missionary wark. Next Sunday at 6:45 p. m. the B. Y. P. U. will observe "Quiet Hour" to which the public is cordially invited. the Market CY'S FUL CURE Bottle Agents in every Country. O! s for Neuralgia—Forty-eight Lungs in 1st and 2nd stage--- dy. Fine destroyer of Appen- Serial No. 44,333. NEFITED I suffered with pleurisy and also had sore feet. I heard of Mackey's Liniment and secured one bottle, and I must say it gave me immediate relief. MRS. MARY THOMPSON, 4019 East 14th. I took a severe pain in my neck, and having a bottle of Mackey's Liniment in the house, I tried rubbing my neck with it and I received immediate results. I have suffered with rheumatism for the past two years, sometimes having to walk with a cane. I heard of Mackey's Liniment and secured one bottle of it for 75 cents, and it gave me complete relief. J. H. WILLIAMS, Deacon St. Stephens Baptist Church, 1615 Troost Ave. Kansas City, Mo. I have suffered with rheumatism for years and could find nothing to give me ease until I heard of Mackey's Liniment and it gave me quick relief. I recommend Mackey's Liniment to be a sure cure for rheumatism. CHARLES McBETH. at for Missouri 1228 MICHIGAN AVENUE Res. Phone Bell East 4880 HOW TO SAVE TIME and MONEY IF YOU WISH TO RENT, BUY, SELL OR EXCHANGE REAL ESTATE OF ANY KIND, SEE Square Deal Realty & Inv. Co. Samuel R. Hopkins, Pres. M. E. Oden, Sec'y and Treas. C. R. Groves, General Manager. If you want work or a good job or a Position of any Kind call at the Employment THE NEGRO PROGRESS SOCIA 1315 East 18th Street. Mer Negro Element Associ Employment Bureau of THE NEGRO WAITER'S PROGRESSIVE AS- SOCIATION 1315 East 18th Street. Men, Women, Boys Wanted at Once Negro Elementary Athletic Association Lincoln Amusement Park Saturday Afternoon, May 19 2 o'clock sharp General admission, 10 cents Relay Races, Dash Races High Jump, Broad Jump, Basket Ball Throw and other features THREE THOUSAND SCHOOL CHILDREN Jce. E. Herriford, Sec'y. A. M. Wils MOON BRO THREE THOUSAND SCHOOL CHILDREN Jce. E. Herriford, Sec'y. A. M. Wilson, Pres. MOON BROS. Wholesale and Retail LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY, EGGS and GAME Fresh from the country. IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER 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. TURKEYS, GEESI CALL BELL PHONE GRANDE 1335 East Eight GO TO MOON'S CAFE TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, HENS CALL BELL PHONE GRAND 3765 for SPECIAL PRICES 1335 East Eighteenth Street GO TO MOON'S CAFE--------1223 BALTIMORE AVE. THE BEAUTIFUL IN LIFE Follow the true course of your life, but keep your eyes open for all beautiful sights and the ears responsive to all harmonious sound, as you go steadily forward. AZID NOW! is the time to get your Monu FOR DECORATION DAY. Prices right to put into a stone. TERMS TO SUIT KANSAS CITY GRAN We call for you and your party. B days or Bell Phone, East 2952. NOW! is the time to get your Monument or MARKER. HAVE THEM UP FOR DECORATION DAY. Prices right—$15.00 and up to as much as you care to put into a stone. TERMS TO SUIT. Call G. W. Little, agent for the KANSAS CITY GRANITE MONUMENT CO. Bureau of NO WAITER'S SSIVE AS- ATION Men, Women, Boys Wanted at Once entary Athletic ciation A. M. Wilson, Pres. BROS. Y. JESH FOC HE BEST ESE, DUCKS, HENS AND 3765 for SPECIAL PRICES Eighteenth Street 1223 BALTIMORE AVE. TITFUL IN LIFE life, but keep your eyes open for all beauti all harmonious sound, as you go steadily [Picture of a man in a suit with a white shirt and a black tie]. monument or MARKER. HAVE THEM UP night—$15.00 and up to as much as you care. SUIT. Call G. W. Little, agent for the FANITE MONUMENT CO. . Five-passenger car free. Call week or Sunday. 1013 MICHIGAN AVE G. W. LITTLE THE KANSASCITYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 Eighth 18th Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered as second-class matter, August —, 1908, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C. Crews.....Editor and Owner Willa M. Glenn.....General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .75 Three Months ..... .50 ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. U. S. NEWSPAPER LAWS. Below is the law in regard to newspapers: First—Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. Second—If the subscriber orders discontinuance of periodical the publisher may continue to send the same until arrears are paid. Third—if a subscriber neglects or refuses to take the periodicals from the postoffice to which they have been directed he is held responsible till he has settled his bill and ordered the paper discontinued. Fourth—If the subscriber moves to other places without informing the publisher and the paper is sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. EDITORIALS Elaborate preparations are being made by Allen Chapel for a reception to be tendered new members on the evening of May 18. Industrious Negroes from the South are finding all sorts of remunerative service in the big northern industries. Idle, shiftless Negroes, if they come, will find all sorts of trouble. Here's our best wishes to Chief Flahive. Also, here's our oft repeated prayer that all the joints in the Negro sections of the city be speedily cleaned out. Let the Negroes now rise to their opportunities. Patriotic, unselfish devotion to the country's needs just now will give us an entirely different civic status after this war is over and our services have been recorded. The annual Patrons Day exercises of the Lincoln School will take place this year in the form of an out-door carnival on the afternoon of Thursday, May 17. The reported arrangements are quite unique in their conception. Lessons of economy in food and clothing should be emphasized in every home of our people. The necessaries of life are going to be more scarce and the prices higher. Waste and prodigality now simply means want and suffering later on. Save by eating simpler foods, wearing simpler clothing and cutting off all luxuries. A GOOD SPRING TONIC A bottle of Vim and Vigor, kidney, liver, blood and rheumatic remedy is what you need. Let us send you a bottle today. Price $1.00 per bottle. LINCOLN. NEBR. By W. W. Mosely. Mr. Eugene Bowman of this city and Miss Josie Smith, formerly of Junction City, Kans., were licensed to marry at Council Bluffs, Ia., last Wednesday....Rev. A. L. Warwick, formerly of this city, is sojourning here this week. Rev. Warwick is just from Illinois and is figuring on locating in the West again. He preached for Rev. Olman's Church Sunday night and is a good speaker and a Christian gentleman....M. A. J. Sellers and Mrs. McKenzie were married in the city last Friday....Lon B. Thomas is confined at home by illness....Mason Todd now of White Cloud, Kans., spent a few days in the city on business....Next Sunday is Mother's Day in Lincoln. Every man should wear a flower in honor of his mother....Prof. S. M. McGhee of St. Joseph, Mo., teacher in the Manual Training Department of Schools of this city, was the only representative of our race in the National Education Convention which convened in Lincoln last week. Prof. McGhee was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Smith....The men's rally was held at the A. M. E. Church last Sunday and an excellent program was rendered. Dr. B. Holman of M. Tzion Baptist, Rev. L. D. Young of White Presbyterian, Rev Jeffery of St. Paul M. E. Church, Mr. Wolfenbarger, Dry Federation, Mayor J. E. Miller, Ex-Gov. C. H. Aldrich, Paper by Mr. Toby Jones; solo by Mr. Jeffs, Collection, $240.50. NEGRO PUBLICATIONS Remember that the Kansas City Sun, Dallas Express, Chicago Defender, Indianapolis Freeman, Boston Guardian, and Crisis can be bought at SMITH'S DRUG STORE 1301 East 18th St. Betty & Sam's Little Corner) A THEY SAY —That worry is the undertaker's advance agent. —That more failures in life are due to lack of will than to a lack of strength. —That those people who have nothing to do are the ones that keep the devil busy. —That when a woman begins to notice every act and word of a man, she has begun either to love him or hate him. —That the "big Negroes" of St. Joseph had their usual cat and dog time over the visit of Roscoe Simmons. Too bad. --- — That those people who always tell our collectors "I will come to the office and settle" either get lost or are mighty big liars. THEY DON'T COME. — That when a certain brother "fetched" his frau an old fashioned haymaker on the jaw she grabbed a gun and never quit shooting until everybody in the neighborhood knew there was "sumthin' doin'." — That a certain well known brother goes out in his garden every morning to see whether there is anything big enough to eat has developed during the night. —That a certain well known colored lawyer will never, no never, again ask a witness to illustrate a scrap in court. This well known lawyer was prosecuting a case in a local court the other day and was putting the defends ant through a very severe cross examination in which said defendant stoutly maintained "dat I only shoved dat man." But the aforesaid lawyer, to thoroughly convince the court that said defendant was guilty, said to the witness, "Step down here, please, use me for a subject and illustrate just how hard you "pushed" the man. The witness descended as instructed, approached the attorney, grabbed him, slapped him in the face, kicked him in the belly, jabbed him with his elbow, seized him bodily and with a supreme effort lifted him high from the floor and flung him prostrate and dazed across the counsel's table. After the court had come out of its paroxysm and regained to a certain extent its dignity, he said, as sternly as possibly "What are you doing?" and the witness meekly said, "Dat's jes de way I shoved dat fellah jedge and foh de Lawd sake dat's all I don to "im." That lawyer is awfully "techy" on that matter until yet. Y.M.C.A. Notes Y.M.C.A. Notes The Tuesday night gym class for men is growing rapidly. Some of the new members are: Messrs. Wm. Lamb barber; R. A. Lewis, mail clerk; A. J. Bouldin, Tailor. The boys are now enjoying the privilege of the big swimming pool. The Association is looking forward to the work with boys and young men during the vacation period. Special work to keep the boys off the streets will be carried on during this period. Rev, Harrabellio A. Marangeopa, a Malay missionary, will address the men's meeting Sunday at 3:30 p. m. From press reports he is undoubtedly a wonderful character. An Iowa daily paper has this to say of him: "A Christian character never before met and very seldom read or heard of." Rev Marangeopa will tell of his travels among all nations, tribes and n peoples of the earth. All men are welcome and urged to be present. Biggest Gift Denver's Churches Ever Gave—Zion Gives Rev. D. E. Over Fine Auto. In a few well chosen words, Officer U. H. Baker, heading a committee of gentlemen representing the membership of Zion Bautist church, presented Sunday morning Rev. D. E. Over, personally, a $2,900 beautiful six-cylinder 30 horse-power Franklin automobile of good, strong durability. It has some of the latest necessary equipments and it is a beauty to behold and ride in. This big token was in a way to recognize his great achievements for him after they had been brought up out of the Land of Egypt (off Arapahoe street). THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. MAY 12. 1917 Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City BAKERIES. 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. CORA D. WILLIAMS, Poro Hair Dresser, 1714 E. 13th Street. Bell phone, East 3610J. MRS. SUSIE P. GIPSON, 1725 Michigan avenue, Poro hair dresser. Bell phone, East 3058J. 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. DELILAM M. S. DOTTREY, 1102 Highland avenue. Poro Hair Dresser. MRS. F. A. COOK, Poro Hair Dresser 1226 Vine street. Bell phone, E 2820. CAFES. MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th Bell Phone, E. 2214. DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th street, Bell phone, East 618. COAL AND FEED. W. W. PAYNE, 19th and Vine streets Bell Phone, East 559. Home Phone East 4132. DRESS MAKING. MRS. W. I. COLLEY, experienced dressmaker, 911 Michigan Ave. Bell phone, East 5326. FLORISTS. CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1501 E Ninth. Bell phone, East 272. LAWYERS C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware, Home phone M. 58, Bell phone Main 448. Practices in all courts. W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home phone, M58, Bell phone Main 448. Legal advice. Practices in all courts. E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at Law, 511 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866. JEWELERS. J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone, Main 6248R. PHOTOGRAPHERS. J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 East Eighteenth street. Bell phone, E. 91. REAL ESTATE and EMPLOYMENT. SQUARE DEAL REALITY & INVESTMENT CO., Samuel R. Hopkins, President; M. E. Olden, Secretary and Treasurer; C. R. Groves, General Manager. 1315 E. 18 Street.—Bell Phone, Grand 317. COLORED PEOPLES INVESTMENT CO., Solomon Smith, Pres., 2122 Vine St. Bell Phone, East 1011. Home Phone, East 4011. A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT CO., 500 Minnesota avenue. (Upstairs) Kansas City, Kas. Bell phone, West 1743; Home phone, West 1036. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East Twenty-first street. Bell phone, Grand 2303 R. SHOE STORE. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E. Eighteenth street. Bell phone, East 1228. SHOE REPAIRING. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514½ East Eigh teenth street. Bell phone 4939 TAILORS. RALPH WORTHAM, Cleaners and Dyers, 19th and Paseo. UNDERTAKERS. ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, Nineteenth and Vine streets. Both Phones, East 4349. I. G. OLIVER, 415 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Bell Phone, West 4183. H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence avenue. Bell phone Main 3398W. Home phone Main 3341. WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia avenue. Bell phone Grand 987, Home Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281. Williams Investment Co. To our friends and patrons: If you are looking for a home we are offering something new and something different. Come and get our new and easy plan of buying. WE HAVE FOR RENT Some of the most up-to-date three and four-room boulevard apartments in the city from $11.00 to $14.00. Gas stove furnished. Also some classy cottages. Let us show you. WANTED Six girls for general house work. Wages $6.00 to $8.00. We also have positions open for porters, maids, housemen and kitchen help. WILLIAMS INVESTMENT CO., 1704 E. 12th St. Home, East 1415. TO BE PROSPEROUS LOOK PROSPEROUS In Other Words Be Masonized —Man, if you want to get on in this busy old world, you just got to look prosperous, and you can't look the part in a saggy, baggy, ill-fitting suit of clothes, and nothing can "straighten you up" better nor quicker than a (for the price of one suit) —Better Come Down Today you. —Hundred of Patterns; A Backs Our Specialty. Come Down Today. Three busy stores care for of Patterns; All Styles of Tailoring, and Box our Specialty. —Hundred of Patterns; All Styles of Tailoring, and Box Backs Our Specialty. DOUBLE-LIFE SUITS, $20, $25 and $30. (All Suits Made in Our Own Shop). MASON & MASON ASON & MASON 2th St. 914 Main St. 204 W. 12th St. MASON & MASON Furr Furniture New and slightly used Furniture, Stoves and Rugs One-half Price and less Buy here and Save money. We take in old furniture. here and Save money. We also take in old furniture. Buy here and Save money. We also take in old furniture. Very Easy Payments Auction Fur 810-12 E. 12th Street uction Furniture Company 9-12 E. 12th Street Home Phone M. 7793 Auction Furniture Company 810-12 E. 12th Street Home Phone M. 7793 Instead of mere flour, order I-H Flour You will be delighted with the improvement in bread, biscuits, cakes. I-H Flour comes from highest grade of clean Kansas hard wheat, milk advanced sanitary methods and is extra whole delicious and economical. It pays to specif at your grocery. I-H Flour will be delighted with the improvement in your hand, biscuits, cakes. I-H Flour comes from the finest grade of clean Kansas hard wheat, milled by advanced sanitary methods and is extra wholesome, delicious and economical. It pays to specify I-H your grocery. I-H Flour You will be delighted with the improvement in your bread, biscuits, cakes. I-H Flour comes from the highest grade of clean Kansas hard wheat, milled by advanced sanitary methods and is extra wholesome, delicious and economical. It pays to specify I-H at your grocery. Ismert-Hincke-Milling Co., Kansas City, U. S. A. BELL PHONE E. 1978 HOME PHONE E. 5210 J. THOMAS BLACK AUTO LIVERY PACKARD SERVICE J. THOMAS BLACK AUTO LIVERY PACKARD SERVICE J. THOMAS BLACK AUTO LIVERY PACKARD SERVICE STAND 18th & PASEO KANSAS CITY. A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower ONE thousand agents wanted. Good money made. THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to 1113 Clark Street. Evanston, Ill. / 一 220 E.12th St (1) 204 W. 12th St 914 Main St. HOME PHONE E. 5210 KANSAS CITY, MO. THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFRS. Clark Street. Evanston, Ill. DRUGS AND PRESCRIPTIONS We do Not Deal With the Crooked Doctors who Demand Percentage for Their Prescriptions. Bell East 5050,—1744 Home East 4250 WE ARE SOLE DISTRIBUTORS OF WONDERFUL 707, the Medicine which makes Rheumatism LOOK FOOLISH 12TH AND WOODLAND AVE. The Bedford Hair Grower INTRODUCED BY Will promote the growth of stubborn hair, restore vitality and beauty; will grow hair on bald heads and leaves the hair soft, long and silky. If the hair has disappeared from the temples, Bedford Temple Grower is a matchless restorer. THE WOMEN'S WEEKLY Mme. Marie Waters is the only graduate of the Bedford System in the city. Try her Shampoo and Face Massage. She also weaves hair and makes transformations. Consult her for prices. Course in hair culture taught and pupils given a diploma at graduation. Bell phone East 5385. 1309 Michigan Avenue. "If you have good hair, care for it. If you have a diseased scalp, treat it. If you have little or no hair—it's your own fault and a good reason for quick action." Madame M. B. Jackson's Wonderful Hair Grower is not a new discovery, but has been used for years with the best results. Both temple grower and grower sell for twenty- Madame M. B. Jackson's Wonderful Hair Grower is not a new discovery, but has been used for years with the best results. Both temple grower and grower sell for twenty-five and fifty cents per box. Also a pressing oil at twenty-five cents per box. Madame M. B. Jackson's Hair Grower can be used with or without straightening the hair. A complete course taught by mail or personal instruction. Work guaranteed. Years of experience. Hair matched by sample. We sell all kinds of hair goods. A six weeks' treatment of Madame M. B. Jackson's Wonderful Preparations will be mailed to any one for one dollar and a half. Mail orders promptly filled. Send two-cent stamp for return mail and literature. Agents wanted. Liberal discount. A KANSAS CITY AGENTS: Mrs. Anna Roberts, 1418 East 24th Street. Mrs. Florence Fisher, 1611 East Tenth St. Send all money orders to Madame M. B. Jackson. For further information call Mmg. M. B. Jackson BELL PHONE. E. 3237W or write MME. M. B. JACKSON, 1913 East Tenth St., KANSAS CITY, MO. HOURS: 8 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. MME. M. B. JACKSON, 1913 East Tenth St., KANSAS CITY, MO. HOURS: 8 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. BOTH TIME AND MONEY SAVED AT BOTH TIME AND MONEY SAVED AT LADIES AND GENTS FURNISHING STORE CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN ALSO LADIES AND GENTS FURNISHING STORE CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN ALSO W. L. MARTINS 1318 East 18th Street FALL AND WINTER GOODS NOW ON DISPLAY 1,000 AGENTS WANTED FALL AND WINTER GOODS NOW ON DISPLAY 1.000 AGENTS WANTED 1.000 AGENTS WANTED You have tried the rest now try the Best. The Criterion Hair Grower will cure Scalp or Eczema and Tetter, remove Dandruff, stops Itching and Burning, Stops Hair from Failing immediately, promotes a growth of long, thick, glossy hair for man, woman or child. What we manufacture: Criterion GROWER Criterion TEMPLE GROWER Criterion SHAMPOO Criterion HAIR TONIC The Criterion Hair Grower will cure Scalp or Eczema and Tetter, remove Dandruff, stops Itching and Burning, Stops Hair from Failing immediately, promotes a growth of long, thick, glossy hair for man, woman or child. What we manufacture: Criterion GROWER Criterion TEMPLE GROWER Criterion PRESSING OIL Criterion 11701 CURE Criterion SHAMPOO Criterion HAIR TONIC Criterion BEAUTY CREAM Criterion SKIN BLEACH Criterion GROWER Criterion TEMPLE GROWER Criterion PRESSING OIL Criterion CURE Criterion SHAMPOO Criterion HAIR TONIC Criterion BEAUTY CREAM Criterion SKIN BLEACH Write today for agents' price list, literatures and information. Enclose stamps for same. Criterion Hair and Toilet Preparation Company 2533 Woodland Ave. Bell Phone E. 1358 W. KANSAS CITY, MO CITY NEWS Miss F. A. Hayes has moved to her new residence, 2317 Lydia avenue. Capt. Leon H. Jordon is reported quite ill to the regret of his many friends. Miss Millie Hicks of 2719 Vine street left for Chicago Wednesday. She will remain indefinitely. Mr. Napolean Railey still remains in the Wheatley Provident Hospital although considerably improved. One of the greatest photo dramas of the day is "The Island of Regeneration," by Cyrus Townsend Brady. Miss Cozetta Kingsberry of Sapulpa, Okla., spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Kingsberry. It's not the uneducated that eat dirty food. It is the one that knows better—Hole in the Wall—Every week is health week. 1412 East 18th St. Col. Neal Range of 1407 Lydia avenue, has purchased the property at 1327 Michigan avenue, and will move to his new home about the twenty-first. Don't rail to see the "Island of Regeneration under the auspices of the Colored Womens' Study and Civic Club at Vine Street Theater, Friday, May 18. Miss Alma Jamison, a student of Langston University, Oklahoma, a sister of our brilliant poet, Mr. Roscoe C. Jamison, is quite ill at her home, St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. M. Vaughn of 1741 Lydia Ave. entertained Miss Lizetta Swain of Denver, Colo. at lunheon Tuesday afternoon. The guests were limited to the friends of Miss Swain. Western Queen Court No. 5, Mrs. Lucy Waldron, M. A. M., sent the office force a quantity of cream and cake last Monday, the occasion being their annual election of officers. Mrs. Blanche Hill Watts and Mr. C. E. Hill received word of the sudden death of their brother and uncle, Mr. James A. Hill, 2607A Walnut street, St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday May 2. The Daughters of Isis initiated 22 candidates last Tuesday afternoon from among the prominent ladies of the City preparatory to the benquet to be tendered them by Allah Temple No. 6 next Wednesday night. Miss Nelle Johnson, a teacher in the Lincoln School, was called to her home in Albuquerque, N. M., this week on account of the death of a brother. This is the second death loss sustained by the family within one year. The Sun received the announcement that Mrs. Alice Kimbrough, formerly of this city, now of Denver, Colo., met with an accident and is suffering from a fractured rib. Her many friends of this city will regret to learn this sad news. Mr. W. C. Mallory left Thursday night for Jacksonville, Ill., to be at the bedside of his brother, Frank Mallory, who is reported dying. The Mallory Brothers, a few years ago, were the greatest Negro team on the American stage. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Reed formerly of this City but now residents of Carthage, Mo. after spending the past three months in Southern Cities visited enroute to their home their daughter Mrs. W. M. Jordan and family of 2039 East 19th Street. Miss Irene Martin, the neice of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, 1004 Virginia, had the misfortune to fall down the steps and break her shoulder bone. she is a student at Lincoln High school and was to have participated in the exhibit at Convention Hall Friday. The eighth grade pupils royally entertained the Patrons of the Douglass School Wednesday. Mrs. H. O. Cook of Kansas City, Mo. read a very interesting paper on "How Women Should Prepare for War." Mrs. Dwiggins responded in a very able manner. Prof. Neely made instructive remarks. The automobile raffled by the O. E. s. last week was won by Chas. Smith, Colored saloon porter at 1517 East 12th street, with ticket number 1250. Smith immediately sold the car for $380.00 while the other 1400 purchasers have their tickets and chagrin as evidence of their sporting proclivities. When your thoughts dwell on home things, remember that at the AVERY FURNITURE CO., 1308-1310 Grand Ave., you will always be able to find a satisfactory combination of Quality and Price. Whether a kitchen chair or a whole house full of furniture is needed they can always fill the need. You will be delighted with your pur- chase. The prices are right. The goods are right. The terms are right. Madame Anita Patti Brown of Chicago, the race's most famous Coloratura Soprano, was in the city week filling engagements. She sang to crowded houses at the first A. M. E. church, Kansas side Tuesday night, and at Ebenezer Thursday night. She will rest here Saturday and leave Sunday for St. Louis. Madame Brown was the recipient of many social attentions while here and as the house guest of Miss Eva Sweatman Moore of 2306 Lydia avenue. A member of the Sun staff is in receipt of a letter from Miss Agnes P. Morris, the former popular pharmacist at the People's Drug Store, saying she is having a delightful visit since leaving this city. She was royally entertained in St. Louis and also had a very enjoyable stay at Memphis, where she met many warm friends. From there she went to Nashville and attended the commencement at Meharry, her Alma Mater, and then left for Atlantic City, where she is now spending a few days. Miss Morris is one of the most efficient as well as popular pharmacists every employed in our city, and Kansas Citians in general regret her leaving and hope that at some time she will come back to locate permanently. [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. REV. WM. H. THOMAS, D. D., The brilliant pastor of Allen Chapel who will preach a special sermon on "Mother" Sunday morning. At Lyric Hall Monday, May 14 Good Music At a call meeting at the Paseo Y. M. C. A., the colored residents of Kansas City, effected a Civic Association, to be known as the Kansas City Civic League; its object being to "Promote the general welfare and especially the civic interests of the colored people of Kansas City; and to create a greater spirit of public enterprise, and a higher standard of social and industrial efficiency; to safeguard the rights, privileges and immunities which are already enjoyed, and to secure others which properly inhere in citizenship." The following officers were elected for one year: Dr. Jos. F. Shannon, Pres.; Rev. Fr. VanLoo, Vice-Pres.; Jos. A. Butler, Sec'y; J. J. Allen, Asst. Sec'y; Prof. J. R. E. Lee, Treas. Hon. Hale H. Cook addressed the organization last Monday evening at the Paseo Y. M. C. A. on "The School Bonds." You should be more particular about eating clean food than wearing clean clothes. The first will save your health and beauty—Hole in the Wail—Clean all the way through. 1412 East 18th St. CARD OF THANKS Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Brookins desire to thank their many friends and the physicians of the city for the kindnesses rendered, the many beautiful flowers, fruit and words of cheer during the recent illness of the former. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to express my sincere thanks to the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted me at the illness and death of my husband, Frank Hopkins, Jr. MRS. LAURA HOPKINS. MRS. MAMIE HILL the popular hair dresser desires to see her old as well as new ones, at her new residence. 1921 Howard St. (2d floor) Bell Phone, East 2472W. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The services were well attended, interest good, fellowship fine, visitors many, added two to the church, collection "bully." "Mother's Day" will be observed Sunday at 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m., with a specially ar- invited to all the services. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917 In loving remembrance of my father Henry H. Brown, who died May 13 1913. Dear father how we miss you, With a wound too deep to heal; For that grief is ours forever, To lie in our hearts concealed. Sadly missed by HARRY J. BROWN, Son MRS. ANNIE E. FLOYD and Family CARD OF THANKS We sincerely thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy extended during the illness and death of our beloved husband and father, Oscar Chouteau, also for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Ella Chouteau, Mrs. Pearl Chouteau Steward, Daughter and Family. ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Georgia B. Coleman wishes to announce that she has moved from 1810 Woodland Avenue to 1824 Woodland Avenue. Same telephone, Bell East 2600. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks to our Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, friends for their kind words of sympathy and beautiful floral offerings at the death of our dear mother, Mrs. Caroline Rollin, in Springfield, Mo., April 25. MRS. J. H. BOWMAN, MRS. J. J. ABERNATHY, MRS. HATTIE SHELTON, H. N. Rollin, Jessie Rollin. Many of the readers of this paper are buying their furniture at THE AVERY FURNITURE CO., 1308 GRAND AVENUE, where the prices are said to be the lowest in the city and the terms the most reasonable. CARD OF THANKS. The ladies of the Pleasure Seekers' Study and Art Club of Kansas City, Kansas, wish to thank the public for their generous attendance at their exhibit and dance last Monday evening at Armory Hall. Mrs. D. G. Emery received the prize (25 lbs. flour) for holding the chance bearing the lucky number and Mrs. S. S. Dilbert received the beautiful centerpiece for selling the most tickets. MRS. ANNA E. CRUMP, President. Carnegie can write a few words on a piece of paper and make it worth $1,000,000—That's capital. The United States takes an ounce and a quarter of gold, stamps an eagle on it and makes it worth $20.00—That's money. A mechanic takes material worth $5.00 and makes watch springs worth $1.00—That's skill. My competitors try to imitate the Cole 8 and tell you they have cars just as good—That's gall. Just to show that they are wrong, take a ride in the King Cole 8.—That's good judgment. W. H. HUBBELL. Bell Phone, East 2013. SYLVESTER TEMPE NO. 29. Sylvester Temple No. 29 celebrated its 27th anniversary Monday night, April 30, at the U. B. F. Hall, 1903 E. 14th street. The hall was beautifully decorated with ferns, cut flowers and the Temple colors, purple and white, and the affair was grand. The selections rendered were high class and the rendition of each number was excellent. The audience showed their appreciation by tremendous applause. Refreshments were then served and the menu consisted of two courses: Chicken salad on a bed of lettuce with saratoga flakes, ice cream of the Temple's colors, cake and coffee. The ladies who served on the committee did their best in making this one of the grandest affairs of the U. B. F. and S. M. T.'s. Among the guests were; Grand Master, J. H. Williams; Rev. J. W. Hurse, 3rd member of the Board of Management; R. A. Moten, District Deputy Grand Master; Wm. Saunders, Most Noble King. Sylvester Temple is in good condition and boasts of 91 members and a treasury containing $303.26. Too much praise cannot be given the Worthy Princess, Sister Maggie Hopson, who is trying to make the Temple one of the best in the Jurisdiction. God bless Sylvester Temple. The guests departed at a late hour declaring that they were royally entertained. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Mr. Leon Fullbright, who left to join the 10th cavalry, reports that they are now enrouts to the Philippine Islands. Mrs. John Gregg, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. H. V. Wilburn, left for her home at Jackson, Fla., last Monday. Mrs. A. J. Bolden of 1606 North Fifth street, entertained at breakfast Monday morning for Mrs. Dishman of Denver, Colo. Rev. W. E. Warfield of the A. M. E. church, is attending Board meeting at Jackson, Tenn. Mrs. Dishman of Denver, Colo., enroute to St. Louis and Chicago, visited with her son at 2119 Walnut street last week. Wednesday evening, May 9 one of the best plays ever witnessed was given at the Sumner High School by the Senior students. Mme. Anito Patti Brown sang to a large and appreciative audience, Tuesday, May 7. The concert was a grand success. Every selection received an encore. The son of Mrs. Mollie Cox, G. W. C. of the Sunflower Grand Court, O. O. C. is seriously ill at their residence 629 N. 12th Street. Mrs. Norene Davis, G. R. D. and Mrs. Mollie Cox, G. W. C. visited Bright Eagle Court Wednesday, May 9. Mr. E. E. Ewing who has been confined to his home with illness at 1851 N. 5th Street is able to be out again. A large crowd attended the A. M. E. Church services Sunday morning. Rev. J. R. Ransom preached his farewell sermon Sunday night. He will leave for Wichita, Kansas to pastor the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. "Religion" was the subject of the Rev. D. A. Holmes' discourse last Sunday, at 11:00 a. m. and many hearts were touched. There were four additions to the church. At 3:00 p. m., Rev. J. R. Ransom delivered the annual sermon for the K. of P. Lodge, and a large representation was present. Rev. Callaway of Téxas, preached a very sermon in the evening. Women's Clubs. The Swastika Entertainment Will be Tuesday Evening, May 15th At Lyric Hall THE OFFICIAL CALL. The State Federation of Colored Womens' Clubs will meet in Sedalia, Mo., Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26. All Womens' Clubs in the State of Missouri are entitled to representatives upon the basis of one delegate for every ten members. The fee for enrollment is 5 cents per member. Each Club is requested to send at least one delegate, also exhibit all art work. Mary E. Goins. President. Gertrude Ball, Cor. See'y. The Colored Womens' Study and Civic Club seeing the need of a better class of pictures are presenting at the Vine Street Theater, Friday evening, May 18. The Island of Regeneration, a high class 7 reel photo drama by Cyrus Townsend Brady. Admission 10 cents. We hope the patronage will justify a continuance. MRS. CORRINE SMITH, President The City Hospital Mission Board met with Mrs. R. W. Foster, 1215 Paseo, Tuesday, May 8; several graments were finished for some needy children. The Twelve Charity Girls Club donated to the Board some fruit for a very sick child. It was quite a surprise to the child and its parents and highly appreciated. The next meeting will be May 22 at 815 Euclid avenue with Mrs. Moore. All members and friends are requested to be present. MRS. LUCY JACKMAN President MRS. WHEELER 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. Style is important. Yes. And Crossett Shoes have style. But more important is this: The present extraordinary conditions in the leather market have nowise lowered Crossett quality. Comfortable Crossett Spring models include handsome two-tone effects. Model below has dark-tan vamp and light-tan upper. LEWIS A. CROSSETT, INC., Makers North Abington, Mass. CROSSETT SHOE "Makes Life's Walk Easy" Stock No. 132 Holeproof Hosiery The Original Guaranteed Kind Crossett Boot Shop 1005 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. W. D. WALLACE, Mgr. Rooms to Rent Rooms to Rent FOR SALE, eight rooms. Water, gas and sewer. One family or two. Upstairs rooms rent for $8.00. This can be bought at a reasonable price. Owner, 2115 Bellefountaine. FOR RENT—Two story frame house, 2018 Olive street. Six rooms, gas, bath, water paid. Gas stove furnished. $18.00. WANTED—A wheel boy to clean the office and run errands. 1315 East 18th street. Samuel R. Hopkins. FOR SALE—A strictly modern rooming house very nicely furnished, reasonable, 16 rooms. Both phones: Bell, Grand 15463; Home, Delaware 464. Call Mrs. Guy Marshall for further information. 1207-9 East 16 street. FOR SALE—1 cabinet grand piano taken on a mortgage. Will sell at a bargain. See Kinsler. Bell phone, Grand 2303R. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room for one or two gentleman. Bell phone, East 2047J. 1327 Woodland. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room for one or two gentlemen with good morals. Call Bell phone, East 5326. FOR RENT—2418 Vine street. Modern 3 room apartments, just finished, arranged for housekeeping—Baths, toilets, hot and cold water, gas stoves. $11.00. Inquire of Madone at storeroom, 2416 Vine street. THE WILLIS REALTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY. Modern and partly modern homes for sale. One thousand dollars up to ten thousand dollars on easy terms. Fire insurance rentals and collections. Money to loan. Estates economically administered, if you have a house for sale, rent or exchange. Come in and let us talk it over. D. A. WILLIS 2610 Highland Avvenue Bell Phone, East 3440. CHEAP JOHN'S PLACE Open Under New Management New and second hand goods bought, sold and exchanged. Mrs. J. E. HOPKINS, Proprietress Bell Phone, East 3851. 2224 Vine St. Thousands of Pairs of the Smartest Boots for Women at Saving of $2 to $7 Per Pair Note These Exceptional Values: am's Booteries 1025 TE-WOOD DRUG ST Abram's Booteries 1025 Main St. WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE THE QUALITY STORE. Nineteenth and Vine Sts. (Transfer Point). Fresh drugs and pure specialty. Our prescriptive complete in the city and is care-taking and registered sodas sell at the same pri- fruity taste. 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's' Drug Store of Eighteenth Street and the Paseo PHONES Home East 4082 INDRESS SELF A SLAVE TO THIS WASH TUB THE OLD SCRUB BOARD? with all this back-breaking drudg- got let the EDEN MACHINE do and let you supervise same, elimi- ark that is attached to the wash method? The EDEN in every ordinate all this drudgery and tired day. Ask the people that you they have an _____ EDEN WASHING MACHINE The EDEN Electric Washing Machine can be placed in the home for $2.50 Cash and $5 a month—the cost to operate same per hour $1 1/4 c or four hours for 5c. The Davis Electric Co. 10 Scarritt Arcade Home, Main 2054 Bell, Main 3242 be for The Sun The Bassett Will By ALICE E. IVES (Copyright, 1917, by W. G. Chapman.) The will had been read, and the disappointed nephew and niece, who had received much smaller legacies than they expected, rose to take their departure, each trying to assume a decent air of friendliness to Richard and Esther Stone, the more fortunate heirs, but inwardly raging at the injustice of Uncle Charles, the testator. Charles Bassett had not been possessed of a large fortune to leave. The home where he died had for several years been occupied by his niece Esther, and her husband Richard Stone, his board being considered an equivalent for rent. Richard earned a small salary as a bookkeeper, and they had not been able to save much. He was steady and reliable, but with the small confidence in himself, and the lack of initiative which keeps a man traveling in a rut to the end of his days. He, as well as Esther had high hopes once of getting on in the world, but they were now both over forty, and their financial progress was scarcely perceptible. They had settled down to the conviction that any greater degree of prosperity was not for them, their very attitude of mind helping to keep them there. But if they were ignorant of this, they were to be pitied rather than blamed; such a large share of humanity are in the same boat. They had made a comfortable home for Cured Charles Bassett, and had cared for him in his last illness, and certainly had some right to hope he might leave them the house. It was a two-story brick building, in good repair, and with pretty grounds in one of the best neighborhoods of the small, western town. The will gave them this house and all furniture that had belonged to Charles Bassett, the residue, after funeral expenses, to be divided equally between the other two heirs. This amounted to only about fifteen hundred dollars apiece, and was deposited in a city bank. All the heirs were surprised that so small an amount had comprised the old man's fortune. The lawyer who had drawn up the will some five years before, when Mr. Bassett had first gone to live with the Stones, also wondered, because he inferred the old gentleman had considerably more; still it was known that he told nobody about his affairs, and was considered eccentric. But what was still stranger was the 1895 Was Just About to Hold a Paper to the Flame. lawyer's statement that he had always understood a later will had been made, having been drawn up by another attorney who was shortly after killed in a railway accident. The probating of the will had been delayed some time in the effort to find the later one, but as all search proved fruitless, it was thought Bassett had destroyed the missing document, and wished the other to stand. Melvin Bassett, the nephew, was for contesting the will, but Jennie Marvin, the cousin, opposed it. "That property wouldn't fetch five thousand, if it had to be sold," she reasoned. "And the most of that would go to the lawyers, so we wouldn't be much better off, after all." Bassett saw the logic of this statement, though neither of them were possessed of much, they being poorer if anything than the Stones, and the money looked large to them. Esther Stone wondered also about this other will. She had not had any knowledge of it, and she knew her husband had not. She had never in her life had cause to doubt the honesty of Richard. His fine integrity had been the rock upon which her respect for him was built. If that should ever fall? "No," she said to herself, "that would be impossible. Richard could never do a dishonorable thing." Then she thought of the saying that there is some point of temptation at which every human soul will yield. "No," she said to herself, "Not Richard! He would not yield." Now that they were alone in the house, which had more room than they needed, Esther conceived the idea of adding to their income by taking some boarders. She began to overhaul, and renovate the bedrooms. In the room where the old man had died was an old-fashioned secretary, a desk and bookcase combined. It had been thoroughly ransacked in the search for the missing will, and Esther with a touch of tenderness began removing the contents of the drawers and pigeon holes. She found nothing she had not seen before. Last of all she took off the sheet of soiled blotting paper fastened with thumb tacks to the writing desk. At one side, as though shoved in hastily, she saw a folded paper. She opened it. It was the missing will. In it the house and lot, and all money in bank were to be divided equally between the three heirs. A codiciel disposed of some small articles of personal property which she scarcely noticed, so stunned was she with the benumbing blow of the discovery. The pleasant home she had learned to think of as her own, the plans she had laid for adding to their income with boarders all suddenly melted into nothing. It was too horrible to consider with reason and calmness. She had only removed two of the tacks, and putting the will back, she replaced them. She felt she must have time to gather her wits, to be able to think. Then came the temper. Why should she give up that which was really hers? Had she not taken care of this old man as though he were her own, never leaving undone anything she could do for his comfort. Had she not, at the last spent days and sleepless nights ministering to him? Yes, clearly it was hers. He had seemed to grow more and more to regard Richard and her as his children, and she had come to love the old man almost as a father. But why had he made this will? She remembered now that before he had lapsed into unconsciousness, when she had thought him delirious, he had several times asked her to take up the tacks, and she had thought he had meant the carpet as he had intended to have a new one. Perhaps he wanted to destroy the will. Then she would only be carrying out his wish if she did. She heard her husband coming in, and rose hastily, leaving the room. She did not mean to tell him just then. If she decided to destroy the will, he must never know. She was sure he would never consent to such a thing. But the most unthinkable of all was the idea that he should know she had even thought of doing such an act. His condemnation would be the unbearable thing. That evening she went to a committee meeting. She could not spend the time alone with him till she had decided what to do. She came in quietly, thinking he may have gone to bed, but he was not there. She saw a light upstairs. Something prompted her to go to the old man's room. The door was ajar. She looked in. Richard sat at the desk, he had lighted a candle, and was just about to hold a paper to the flame. She rushed into the room, and he quickly thrust the paper into his pocket. "Richard!" she cried. "Give me that paper! Give it to me!" "What paper?" he asked, trying to put her off. "The one you were about to burn! You have no right, unless I see it!" He looked at her, his face dropped, he sat an instant, not speaking, then he handed her the will. "God!" he cried. "You came just in time to save me! Suppose I had done it—what an awful thing to carry with you through life!" "Yes," she answered. "What an awful thing!" There was to her now no waiting to decide. "We will go together tomorrow, and hand it to the lawyer," she said. In the codicii among some little keepsakes was a small box in a safe deposit drawer, the contents of which were willed to Esther. "Some old jewelry, perhaps," she said to the other heirs at the second reading of the will. The contents of the little box turned out to be seven thousand dollars in good bonds. Lived in Cellars Two Years. Between 7,000 and 8,000 of the inhabitants of Lens, which is in the occupied territory of France, remained there and lived in their cellars for more than two years, says Elie Reumaux, manager of the coal mines there, who recently arrived in Paris. The former population of Lens was 40,000. All the cellars in the town. M. Reumaux says, have been armored with cement by the Germans, so that they constitute so many little fortresses. The entire civilian population is obliged to work at road mending and railroad building, according to M. Reumaux. The coal mines of Lens, which are among the most important of the region of the Pas de Calais and produced 20,000,000 tons a year before the war, have been idle since the invasion and have suffered immense damage, says M. Reumaux. Corn Belt Pushed Northward. Securing a gain of a week or ten days in the ripening of corn means a great gain for farmers located near the northern limit of the corn-growing districts of this country. A new variety of corn which has been bred for early maturity by the Wisconsin experiment station is thought to be about ten days earlier in maturing than any other strain of corn that has been produced by this state.—Farm and Fireside. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917 Fads And Fancies Of Fashion If you sigh for the slim silhouette, and long, straight lines in a summer frock, consider the virtues of the simple model pictured above. Artists always approve these things and just now art and fashion are of one mind; for fashion applauds slenderness above all things. Let the plump girl convince herself that she can achieve it by picking out one of the new striped cottons or silks and making a faithful copy of this dress. She will realize what startling illusions can be wrought with stripes in the hands of an expert designer. The blouse is to be made of plain, thin, wash silk or of georgette crepe with the silk preferred if the dress is to be of cotton goods. It has a sailor collar and jabot flounces at the front, full sleeves gathered into deep cuffs and is very plain—all proclaiming it the last word in summer blouses. The cuffs are of the same fabric as the I THE LADY OF THE MUSEUM dress. The waistline is a little lengthened by a wide belt which does not set close to the figure. Through a slash at each side wide suspenders come through the belt and are lost under similar slashes at the back. These slashes are buttonholed about the edges to keep them from fraying. There is very little fullness in the wide yoke made with stripes running round the figure, but plenty of it in the lower part of the skirt which is plaited into the yoke. The plaits are pressed flat and the plaits almost conceal the plain space between the groups of stripes. The skirt is cut shoe-top length and might be a very little longer and add to the apparent length of the figure. There is nothing unusual or particularly original in this companying picture tative shapes and truter hat is the always coming tricorn, in combination of silk to great advantage exquisite workmans. Its only ornament is brodery in silk an left a hat with de advantage of its come beloved by an of lace hair braid sure to be becomin appears again at the held in place appare satin ribbon finish at the front. Spra curl about the side At the right a ```markdown ``` THE HAT MAKER model but it is in a nice sense of proportion that it is excellent. The adroitness with which the designer has used familiar modes to accomplish his results, proclaims the artist. This is a simple dress, appropriate to midsummer wear at any time of day, and so well suited to the plump figure that we must believe it was made with that end in view. Just the most chic and reliable of all hats is the little black hat that makes its appearance each season, to be welcomed by a waiting world of women. For styles may come and styles may go, but the vogue of the little black hat goes on forever. Those who create it are confronted by the to its heir braid who of the bri algrette a tribute n little mod Wool White to adorn A white p collar also mad --- difficulty of avoiding the commonplace, because a large proportion of the buyers of black hats are women of conservative taste. But there is no direction in which successful effort in designing meets with so much profitable appreciation. Not all little black hats are conservative in shape and trimming. Shapes that are daring, or even a bit rikish, are permitted in black, and admired. So that there is a little black hat for everyone, and everyone wants one and should have one, if for no other reason than appearing occasionally in all-black. There is nothing somber about black in millinery this season, because of the brilliance of braids and trimnings, nearly all little black hats are of lisere—a braid with a highly polished surface—lacquered ribbons, jet beads and other shiny ornaments add luster to the shape. The group of three hats in the ac THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY companying picture includes representative shapes and trimmings. The center hat is the always sprightly and becoming tricorn, in which the popular combination of silk and straw appears to great advantage. Simplicity and exquisite workmanship distinguish it. Its only ornament is a motif of embroidery in silk and beads. At the left a hat with drooping brim takes advantage of its opportunity to become beloved by adding a double frill of lace hair braid to its brim-edge, sure to be becoming. The hair braid appears again at the top of the crown, held in place apparently by a collar of satin ribbon finished with a prim bow at the front. Sprays of burnt ostrich curl about the side crown. At the right a round turban adds BLACK HATS to its height by an edge of lace hair braid which helps out the ambitions of the brim in this direction. A brush agrette and lustrous black ribbon con- tribute much style to this stunning little model. Julia Bottmanly Wool Balls Trim Jersey Suits. White and purple wool balls help to adorn a sports suit of wool jersey. A white wool jersey coat has deep purple collar, cuffs and belt. The skirt is also made of purple. CHINA'S "BATTLE-AX" COINS Small Models of Various Utensils Used as Medium of Exchange in 2255 B. C. Haskell Oriental museum at University of Chicago has recently been presented with a remarkable collection of coins by Jacob Spelecher of Shanghai, China. Chinese coins, medals and amulets to the number of 844, arranged in historical sequence, are supplemented by coins of Annam and Korea, with a few from the old regime of Japan. Altogether, 1,068 specimens are included. The donor was engaged in their collection some twelve years in China. After being on exhibition for three or four years at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, they are now permanently located in Chicago. Our adjective "pecunary" still bears witness to the cattle which served early Rome as measures of value. In China likewise, but far earlier, actual commodities had constituted the first medium of exchange. The Chinese, however, seem to have preferred metal objects, especially battle axes and knives. As government credit became established, it was found more convenient to coin small models of these utensils. The exhibit begins, then, with "battle-ax" coins, some of which date back traditionally to the period 2255-1122 B. C. Even with the adoption of a later date this would probably give China first place in the study of numismatics. "Knife" coins form an interesting group. Their round handles, with holes in the center, two of which are distinguished by a square perforation, are supposed to have furnished the pattern for the round cash with square holes so regularly used later. Other peculiar shapes are "bridge" and the pebblelike pellets called by the Chinese numismatists "ant" coins. All these oldest, most brittle copper specimens are mounted in handsome trays of camphor wood. The largest object in Mr. Spelcher's collection is a magnificent medal with dragon decoration, bestowed as a reward for loyalty by the ruler, Wu Tsung (1525 A. D.).—Boston Transcript. Characters of "Macheth" The names of some of the leading characters in the play of "Macbeth" were borne by real persons who figured in Scotch history, but the characters themselves and the events of the play are imaginary. Macbeth was a Scottish king and Macduff was a Scottish nobleman of the middle ages. History states that Macbeth slew Duncan in 1039 because he had usurped the throne to which Macbeth had the better claim. But the circumstances of the slaying were entirely different from those described by Shakespeare with large poetic license. Banquo has a Scotch sound, but no person of that name figures in Scotch history and Shakespeare seems to have created him mainly in order to name a ghost. In the play he is killed by order of Macbeth and in one of the most powerful scenes of the play his ghost appears at a banquet, visible only to Macbeth, and terrifying him while unseen by the other banqueters. Shrine of Health-Seekers. The age of miracles is over, but the little French town of Lourdes is not aware of the fact. This is today the leading shrine of Europe, and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims annually visit it, many of them in search of a cure for incurable ills. There have been many surprising instances of healing performed by the waters of Lourdes, and scores of physicians come every year to watch and investigate the cures. Everything is done with a scientific thoroughness that is characteristic of the French, whose passion for clear thinking is such that they will investigate even what some of them consider supernatural phenomena with the microscope. Invalids coming to Lourdes are registered at a bureau, and examined by eminent physicians before and after they have visited the shrine. Insomnia Only a Habit. One of the reasons why insomnia is so much dreaded is that it is wrongly conceived by many of the laity to be a disease. There is no such disease and in its simple form, where there is no positive disease in the background, it is merely a bad cell habit, kept alive by some fault in the manner of living, some breach of brain discipline, or some disturbance in the functions of the body that results in insistent messages being sent to the brain centers during sleep or while we are trying to sleep. Trying to sleep is a pathetic and futile task, and much better results usually can be obtained by not trying to sleep. World's Work. No Excuse for Being Late. "I see a Chicago woman is the inventor of a dressing table with detachable legs, the whole affair folding so that it can be carried like a suitcase." "No use for her being late at the opera now. She can take along the dressing table and finish when she gets there." Correcting an Abuse. Mrs. Homebody—I've noticed that a pound of your bulk coffee doesn't anywhere near fill one of our pound cans. The Grocer—You'll not find that trouble again, madam. I'm just getting in some new-sized pound cans. Diplomacy. Hokus—Well, I admit I made a mistake. Pokus—You made two. Hokus—What was the second? Pokus—Owning up to the first—Judge. WASHINGTON CITY SIDE LIGHTS Woman Makes Patriotic Offer to Serve Red Cross WASHINGTON.—Washington's most patriotic woman has been discovered by Mrs. W. E. Harvey, chairman of the Red Cross civilian relief committee. She has two sons in the Third regiment, N. G. D. C., who saw service "Dear Mrs. Harvey: I have been reading in the papers that you are asking the women of the District to do their part. I wish to say I would like to do my part, be it ever so little. I have no money I can give, and although I have a little eleven-month-old baby to look after, still there may be something I could do. "I am a seamstress using the power machine, also a very good nurse. If it was not for my baby, I would go tomorrow morning and enlist. I have two boys in the Third regiment, who have been down on the border; also I have a third son, who, if the president demands, will go. Now, although with my little baby, I may do my little bit for my country and our president, even if it is only to take my baby on one shoulder and our flag on the other and march down Pennsylvania avenue. If there is anything I can do I hope you will call on me." Mrs. Harvey announced that this was only one of many similar letters she has received, and if possible she would find a place for the writer. Mrs. Harvey said: "Children are, of all sufferers through war, perhaps the most pathetic. The work of minimizing their suffering is one of the most important that anyone can undertake—for they are the future, these little ones, and vain is our tremendous sacrifice if they be not preserved to benefit by it. A great organization will be required for this work, and the women who engage in it will find themselves grappling with many of the most vital problems that war brings." "What we want saved out of this cataclysm we must work with all our might to save. There is work in abundance for everyone of us—and will be, for long time to come." Speaker Clark Might Have Become a Millionaire Speaker Clark Might Have Become a Millionaire NEARLY everyone can tell a story of how near he, or she, came once upon a time, to stepping on the high road to great wealth. Some will tell of being offered stock on the ground floor of some infant industry which has is no exception. When he was twenty-three years old and president of the Bethany college of West Virginia—the youngest college president in history—he was urged by a friend to invest his savings of $600 in coal lands in that neighborhood at 80 cents an acre. Everyone knows that the coal lands of the West Virginia panhandle are now worth thousands of dollars an acre. But young Clark had heard about Missouri, and to Missouri he went, turning a deaf ear upon the pleadings of his investor friend. "But," he says, "I've got a piece of walnut cut from the first log cabin Daniel Boone ever built in Missouri, and a 'toddy' stick used by Colonel Benton." The speaker will have the walnut cut in two pieces and made into penholders, one for his son, Bennett, and one for his daughter, Mrs. Thomson. Girls Replace Marines as Telephone Operators THE Washington navy yard has the distinction of being the first service station in the United States to employ girl telephone operators. This change took effect only a few days ago, and now six young women are called central, could not understand why a feminine voice answered. With the mystery cleared, however, no trouble is being experienced, as the girls have come from various telephone exchanges throughout the city and are capable of filling the positions held so long by men. Cots have been placed in the room occupied by the exchange for the girl's use. It is thought probable that the change will become permanent, as excellent service is being given by the young women. Two are on duty at all times. These young women, who are enlisted in the Naval Reserve corps, will be uniformed. The uniforms are expected to arrive in the near future. War Now Holds Center of Stage at Washington GRIM-VISAGED war has the nation's capital in its grasp. The evolution of the United States from a peace to a war basis is manifested in many ways. Cabinet officials and responsible bureau chiefs no longer adhere to any certain hours of work. Theoretically, they are always on the job. night. The capitol building is bathed in wonderful illumination that makes it an object of general admiration and instills patriotism in all who have the privilege of seeing the giant dome in a flood of light that makes it visible for many miles. Powerful searchlights were installed on the roofs of the senate and house wings of the capitol and at night these are trained on the dome, with very inspiring effect. Of course, a tense situation like the present is conducive to all kinds of wild stories, and a day seldom passes when someone does not hear, or dream, of a plot to blow up the capitol. These reports travel with seven-league boots, gathering momentum as they travel. As a result the police department is kept constantly on the qui vive. Secret service operatives and police in plain clothes are stationed at the various important department and other buildings throughout the city, while a detachment of soldiers remains constantly on guard at the White residence. A Woman Carrying a Baby and Waving American Flags "Dear Mrs. Harvey: I have been asking the women of the District to do it to do my part, be it ever so little. I have I have a little eleven-month-old baby to thing I could do. "I am a stressmess using the power it was not for my baby, I would go to boys in the Third regiment, who have a third son, who, if the president demand little baby, I may do my little bit for it it is only to take my baby on one shoulder down Pennsylvania avenue. If there is call on me." Mrs. Harvey announced that this was has received, and if possible she would Harvey said: "Children are, of all sufferers thre The work of minimizing their suffering anyone can undertake—for they are the fur tremendous sacrifice if they be not pre organization will be required for this wo will find themselves grappling with man brings. "What we want saved out of this I might to save. There is work in abundance for long time to come." Speaker Clark Might Have NEARLY everyone can tell a story of a time, to stepping on the high roof being offered stock on the ground floor since become one of the financial rocks of the country; some will tell of oil leases selling for a song and developing a veritable sea of the oozy fluid; while others will tell you how they sold a horse of the "Dobbin" class at a "guaranteed-to-be-gentle" price, which developed into a famous racer and captured all the big purses and blue ribbons in the country; all will tell of some bonanza which lay inviting but unopened at their feet. Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri is no exception. When he was twenty Bethany college of West Virginia—the he was urged by a friend to invest his neighborhood at 80 cents an acre. Ever West Virginia panhandle are now work young Clark had heard about Missouri deaf ear upon the pleadings of his inv "But," he says, "I've got a piece Daniel Boone ever built in Missouri, anton." The speaker will have the walnu holders, one for his son, Bennett, and Girls Replace Marines THE Washington navy yard has the station in the United States to e change took effect only a few days A woman typing on a keyboard. A man stands behind her. called central, could not understand w the mystery cleared, however, no trou have come from various telephone ce capable of filling the positions held so Cots have been placed in the room use. It is thought probable that the clent service is being given by the young These young women, who are enlist uniformed. The uniforms are expected War Now Holds Center GRIM-VISAGED war has the nation of the United States from a peace ways. Cabinet officials and responsible certain hours of work. Theoretically, they are always on the job. Most of the members of the cabinet are steady church goers, but Sundays now find them in their offices instead of in their church pews. A deeply religious man is Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, but he fractures the Sabbath regularly nowadays and congratulates himself that he is doing so in a good cause. Visitors at the capital are struck by the transformation of the city at night. The capitol building is bathed in an object of general admiration and a privilege of seeing the giant dome in a many miles. Powerful searchlights were installed wings of the capitol and at night they inspiring effect. Of course, a tense situation like the wild stories, and a day seldom passes of a plot to blow up the capitol. These gathering momentum as they travel. A constantly on the qui vive. Secret service operatives and police various important department and other detachment of soldiers remains consta patriotic woman has been discovered of the Red Cross civilian relief regiment, N. G. D. C., who saw service on the border, a third "who, if the president demands, will go," and an eleven-months old baby. Yet she has written to Mrs. Harvey offering to work for the committee, and to do her "little bit" for the country and the president, "even if it is only to take my baby on one shoulder and our flag on the other and march down Pennsylvania avenue." The name of this woman is withheld, but this is her letter to Mrs. Harvey: on reading in the papers that you are to their part. I wish to say I would like have no money I can give, and although to look after, still there may be some-other machine, also a very good nurse. If tomorrow morning and enlist. I have two been down on the border; also I have hands, will go. Now, although with my country and our president, even if order and our flag on the other and march is anything I can do I hope you will was only one of many similar letters she could find a place for the writer. Mrs. through war, perhaps the most pathetic thing is one of the most important that future, these little ones, and vain is our preserved to benefit by it. A great or work, and the women who engage in it any of the most vital problems that war is cataclysm we must work with all our endeavour for everyone of us—and will be. Have Become a Millionaire of how near he, or she, came once upon road to great wealth. Some will tell ofoor of some infant industry which has YOU KNOW I HAD A FINE CHANCE TO GET RICH ONCE IF I'D ONLY BOUGHT LOTS FOR SALE THESE WILL MAKE YOU RICH SOME DAY ASK KING irty-three years old and president of the youngest college president in history—his savings of $600 in coal lands in that everyone knows that the coal lands of the north thousands of dollars an acre. Butari, and to Missouri he went, turning a investor friend. Of walnut cut from the first log cabin and a 'toddy' stick used by Colonel Benut cut in two pieces and made into pen and one for his daughter, Mrs. Thomson. as Telephone Operators one distinction of being the first service employ girl telephone operators. This ago, and now six young women are occupying the positions formerly held by marines. The change was a surprise to the many persons calling through the switchboard at the navy yard, and it was with difficulty at first that the operators explained to those who did not know of the change that girls are now operating the board. Familiar with a masculine voice answering their calls, a number of callers desiring connections with various lines operated through the switchboard, not having why a feminine voice answered. With double is being experienced, as the girls exchanges throughout the city and are too long by men. In occupied by the exchange for the girls' exchange will become permanent, as excelling women. Two are on duty at all times, listed in the Naval Reserve corps, will be led to arrive in the near future. of Stage at Washington on's capital in its grasp. The evolution face to a war basis is manifested in many bureau chiefs no longer adhere to any KING OF THE ROADS In wonderful illumination that makes it instills patriotism in all who have the a flood of light that makes it visible for called on the roofs of the senate and house these are trained on the dome, with very the present is conducive to all kinds of when someone does not hear, or dream, use reports travel with seven-league boots. As a result the police department is kept police in plain clothes are stationed at the other buildings throughout the city, while a instantly on guard at the White residence. Will You Raise a Garden This Summer —and help increase the national food supply so that living costs may be reduced and a victorious peace be assured : : : This is a matter of vital importance to every one of us W AR MAY end that great American anomaly, high cost of living in a land of plenty. It probably will be the means of bringing into cultivation practically untouched arable land, of awakening the country to the value of native food staples of which many are still ignorant, and of enforcing a system of distribution which will supplant the wasteful and inefficient methods now in vogue. It is unlikely that the United States will ever be in the position of the belligerent countries in Europe, especially Germany, where land is scarce as compared with the farm acreage on this continent. The problem of feeding the more than 100,000,000 of inhabitants of the United States as well as supplying Great Britain and France can be solved by means of the enormous agricultural resources at the disposal of the American nation. Prudence, foresight and efficiency are needed. National policy decrees that there should be a big increase in our acreage, and this being so, the nation as a whole and not the farmer as a class should and must assume the major part of the risk involved. Each section of the country must become as nearly as practicable agriculturally independent. This is a good policy in time of peace and is a vitally important policy now that we have entered the war, with every prospect that our transportation systems will eventually be chiefly occupied with the transportation of soldiers and military supplies. From Washington comes the call of the national emergency food garden commission, which would see a million food gardens planted throughout the United States. This plan is similar to that which was followed in Germany when the lawns of private houses, the parks and the grounds about hospitals alike were subjected to the spade and hoe. The Germans are given to the intensive development of every inch of soil; as for that matter are other European nations. The call to the garden, however, will undoubtedly have some effect in providing food for those who are thrifty and patient enough to look after their own gardens. Benjamin F. Albaugh, known nationally as an enthusiast in the subject of city lots gardening, and author of several books on the subject, says that the "gardenette," or back yard farm, is one of the surest means of combating the rapid rise in the price of foodstuffs. In his book, "The Gardenette," Mr. Albaugh has pointed out the possibilities of unoccupied building lots, and he is now taking an active part in the general campaign which has been inaugurated to educate the city dweller up to the potential worth of a few square rods of ground. If one has an unoccupied area in the rear of his home, even if it is only 25 by 50 feet in size, then he has the means of cutting down the cost of summer foodstuffs almost two-thirds, says Mr. Albaugh. The soil need not be particularly fertile to yield satisfactory returns in garden crops, if treated right. And the soaring equations on all varieties of vegetable foodstuffs make the effort well worth while. The backlot garden has been tried successfully in the East and in many other sections of the country. At first the backyard gardening in the larger centers of population was undertaken by people of foreign birth, who from a desire to effect practical economies, or from an inherited penchant for the work, began industriously spading up the small areas of unoccupied ground around their homes. Two or three months later these thrifty intensive agriculturists were selling hundreds of bunches of celery, radishes or lettuce about the neighborhood, and receiving the full market price for their wares. Housewives augmented the family income with a strip of garden land 15 or 20 feet in width and 40 or 50 feet in length. The amount of vegetables that can be grown on such a lot, when intelligently cultivated and carefully tended, is astonishing. There is a threefold incentive to city lot gardening. The first is a handsome saving if the vegetables are consumed by the family, or a neat profit if they are sold in the neighborhood. The second is the incomparable superiority in crispness and flavor of garden-grown produce. The variety purchased after several days of transportation and exhibition in stock is often tough, leathery and flavorless. Mr. Albaugh is authority for the statement that three square rods or a space of ground, say 18 by 45 feet, can be made to produce a large part of all the vegetables needed to supply the table of a family of five or six persons, throughout the season. : He, himself, has repeatedly produced on such a plot, but containing four square rods, the following: Thirty dozen green onions, one bushel dry onions, ten messes green peas, 15 dozen beets, 22 dozen radishes, 200 heads fine celery, 25 choice egg plant fruits, 25 extra fine squashes, 50 messes lettuce, 20 messes endive, ten messes kohlrabi, eight dozen sugar corn, ten messes green beans, 25 heads finest cauliflower, 25 heads cabbage, 20 messes spinach, ten messes chard, 20 messes asparagus, ten messes salisfy, ten dozen carrots, ten dozen parsnips, 50 fine muskmelons, 200 pickling cucumbers, ten slicing cucumbers, five bushels tomatoes, two bushels early potatoes, eight quarts lima beans, three bushels turnips, three quarts okra, and three dozen sweet mangoes. At a low estimate, these crops were worth well over $50. Often they would cost much more to buy. Yet the plot was cultivated in Mr. Albaugh's THE CABBAGE GARDEN --- odd moments, without in any way interfering with his usual pursuits. For the business or professional man, who toils all day in office, bank, factory or shop, the change to the light physical labor in the open air and sunshine, gives just the needed change necessary for health of both body and mind. Such employment will be found restful and soothing to the overtaxed and wearied mind and nerves. For city lot soil that is hard, impoverished or rocky, Mr. Albaugh has invented a new system of gardening. From it he has achieved such surprisingly favorable results as to augur a great future for the new "sandwich" method of city lot cultivation. The "sandwich" garden is, in a sense, an artificial creation. It may be constructed on brick or cement pavement, or even the tarred or tile surfaces of the roofs of buildings. By this method of growing vegetables, the products of the garden are always earlier, and at the same time of better quality than can possibly be produced in any other way. In making a "sandwich bed," Mr. Albaugh first places a layer of straw or stable litter or leaves, about five inches thick, upon the surface selected and then tramps or packs it rather smooth and firm. Over this he spreads about one inch deep of rich, fine stable manure. Another layer of stable manure about two inches thick goes over this, after which a hose is turned on and the mass given a thorough soaking, care being exercised to stop before leaching begins. The next step is to spread evenly over the bed at least four inches of street scrapings, avoiding, however, streets that have oil or asphalt in their make-up. If street scrapings cannot be readily obtained, a composition of equal parts of fine river sand, rich garden soil and old, fine stable manure may be used instead. This should be thoroughly mixed by shovelling over in a heap, and then, after it is in place, tramped until it is firm. The bed is then ready to plant. In some instances the real "sandwich bed" is not possible or practicable. If this be the case, and the soil is yet reasonably fertile, and in good condition, excellent results may be obtained by the following method: Procure one load of rich stable manure for each square rod of ground (a square rod is 16 by 16 feet) and dump it near where the beds are to be made. Then with a spading fork, beginning at one end of the bed, spade a furrow across the bed, fill the furrow nearly full of manure, and tramp it down firmly. Now spade another furrow, throwing the dirt from this over the tramped-down manure in the first furrow. Fill the second furrow with manure and tramp it down as before, and throw over this the dirt from the third line of spading, and so on until the entire bed is spaded. Finest vegetables, says Mr. Albaugh, can be grown on hard, stony, or alkaline soils, where or- "Suppress the cat!" was a recent demand made on the legislature of New York state according to a bill for licensing felines. Connecticut and other commonwealths also are crusading against outlaw Grimalkn. Millions of cats are leading lives of vagabondage. They roam the wilds, seeking what they may devour. Birds are slain by them in large numbers. They do harm in other ways. The cat has an ancient history. Tradition has it that the creature appeared in Egypt about 1500 B.C., and being highly regarded there as a fireside Sphinx snuggled down near the seats of the mighty and made himself very much at home. Mummy cats are found in the pyramids. The first cat is believed to have been of African origin. Travelers from Greece seeing the cats so comfortably ensconced in Egypt saw to it that some of them were brought to Athens, and from the ancient seat of culture the cat is supposed to have spread over Europe. The animal in Europe was adopted by man as a pet about the ninth century. There is something so inherently wild about the cat that even when he reposes on silk cushions and has his fur combed with celluloid and has cream every day he has within him the old spark of savagery. The cat is of the race of the saber-toothed tiger and is credited with an insatiably bloodthirsty disposition. He torments his prey. He has no abiding affection for those whose hands have fed him. Chateaubriand said to his friend, M. de Marcellus, that there is in the cat an ungrateful spirit which prevents him from being attached to anyone. The principal goad of the nationwide crusade against the "villainous, false cat" comes from the THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. MAY 12. 1917 dinary cultivation would be utterly fruitless. For best results plants need aeration at the roots. If air cannot penetrate to the roots the plant languishes and dies from suffocation. When the surface of the ground is covered with water, the plant suffers in the same way and for the same reason. The "sandwich beds" can neither be drowned nor smothered. The air circulates through the several layers of material, and if too much water is applied, it readily passes through the fibrous beds and does no harm. Other advantages of these beds are that the fertility is placed just where it can be easily absorbed and assimilated up earlier than does the natural soil, and the decaying mass of fibrous material retains moisture to stetch an extent that only a nominal quantity of hydrant water is required. A steel garden rake, spading fork, small garden trowel, a long handled shovel, a manure fork, and a small hand sprayer are about all the tools that need be purchased. Mr. Albaugh uses a small hand sprayer which is cheap and very satisfactory. It has a quart Mason glass jar for a reservoir, and has the advantage of blowing the spray at right angles from the barrel of the machine. With it the under side of the leaves can be effectually reached, and this is often essential to success. The barrel should be of brass as many spraying compounds are corrosive on iron. With this little machine, and a supply of bordeaux mixture, hellebore, tobacco extract or tea, paris green, aphine, etc., the careful gardener is well fortified against attacks of insects and fungi. The provisioning of the country will be much aided by the educational work among boys and girls of the United States which has been carried on through the co-operation of the department of agriculture and the rural school garden clubs of the various states. The younger generation has been stimulated in the raising of vegetables and fruits on waste land and in the backyards in the cities and towns. An example of what can be accomplished by the pupils of rural schools was strikingly demonstrated last year by the Cook County, Illinois, Garden club which had a membership of 2,387. The club cultivated over 260 acres of land, upon which grew nearly $48,000 worth of vegetables. After deducting expenses the club members had a net profit of $41,629.28. If these 2,387 boys and girls had not grown these gardens, probably 75 per cent of them would have been idle—doing nothing—throwing away time and energy. The gardens gave helpful exercise, stimulated interest, and encouraged thrift and ownership. The economic side of the problem is astonishing, but greater still, and of far more importance, is the wholesome, moral influence brought to bear upon the lives of these young people who are receiving most excellent training in doing worthwhile things. friends of the birds. The cat is a crafty bird catcher by nature. Cats have been seen lying in wait for the winged victims which are attracted to the feast so bountifully spread. They have even been accused of decoying birds within the reach of their paws by imitating the note of the feathered songsters. They climb the trees by night and day in quest of eggs and fledglings. John Burroughs declares that cats kill more birds than do any other animals on this continent. It is also charged that the cat kills squirrels and hares and rabbits, moles and shrews and fish and useful insects, while as a ratter he is greatly over-rated. Rat traps, when well handled, are credited with surpassing the cat in efficiency. The other day there was put on exhibition an illustration of the efficiency of the cat. The cabin of a steamship was fumigated with the result of a mortality of one cat and 24 rats, which the cat was supposed to keep away. When the cat is right on the premises the mice play just as much as when he is away, say the enemies of the cat, only they keep out of sight. "Few, persons in a normal lifetime," insists Dr. A. K. Fisher, who is in charge of economic investigations for the bureau of biological survey of the United States department of agriculture, "run across more than half a dozen cats that habitually attack rats." When the cat is permitted to run wild the experts decline to give him the slightest excuse for living. The known facts are that the domestic cat, straying into the fields and woods, whether a pet, a vagabond or a wild dweller in the open, is a menace to wild life and a detriment to the general welfare. As a further argument against the cat the charge is made against him that he disseminates disease by becoming the playmate of sick children and that he carries microbes in his fur, look jaw in the scratch of his claw, and rabies in the bite of his teeth.—New York Sun. The Church of Acoma. BEFORE Jamestown was founded, before Puritans began their train. It is the largest of the central conquest of New England for easily reached by either automobile or train. It is the largest of the central New Mexican Indian villages, the cen the sake of their religious freedom, a century and a half earlier than their wonderful story was begun in California, the Franciscans had entered upon their work for the conversion of the finest race of aborigines in the United States, the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The Puebloes were already far on the road to civilization and were a peace-loving, town-building people, so that it is not strange that progress among them was rapid, even though martyrdom was the lot of many of the earliest missionaries. As monuments to this first Christian work on this continent there are standing today nearly thirty old churches, which are unquestionably the most interesting group of buildings in America, from an antiquarian and tourist standpoint. Yet they are practically unknown to the mass of travelers, even of the more intelligent class, writes Jessie McMillan Strong in the Los Angeles Times. The chain of missions established by the Franciscanes, under the leadership of Padre Junipero Serra, along the mission highway from San Diego to San Francisco, are justly revered and visited annually by many thousands of tourists. These little-known missions of New Mexico surpass their famous sisters on at least three counts—the New Mexico missions are from 150 to 200 years older than those of California; their history is more varied and most of them are still in actual use by the descendants of the very folk for whom they were originally founded, whereas the environment of those of California has changed until many of the missions have become merely interesting historical landmarks. The missions of New Mexico are easily accessible. The Ocean-to-Ocean highway, over which motorists pass in constantly increasing numbers, goes directly through many of the towns and villages where the missions are located, while no less than four of them may be seen from the windows of transcontinental trains over the Santa Fe. The tourist to the western coast will be well repaid for the short side trip from the main line of the Santa Fe railway required to visit the quaint old city of Santa Fe. No other town in the United States can look back upon a history so varied. No other town is so quaint in its composite of medieval ancestry and modern utility. It was primarily as missionaries to the Indians that the Franciscans accompanied the Spanish conquerors. And it is the little church built in the Indian quarter of Santa Fe, as a mission to them, that today claims the distinction of being the oldest place of worship in the United States. Old San Miguel was built in 1606. In the Pueblo rebellion of 1680 the church was burned, but, so solidly were the massive walls of stone and adobe brick constructed, that only the woodwork was destroyed. Small repair was necessary to make it again fit for use when the reconquest of New Mexico was accomplished by De Vargas in 1693. These repairs were only temporary. Under the next governor the rebuilding was completed in 1710, as an inscription carved on a massive timber, which supports the gallery, bears witness. From that time the church has been in constant use, since 1859 serving as the chapel for the Christian Brothers' college. Twelve miles distant from Santo Domingo, plainly visible from the trunk, is the pretty Indian village of San Felipe, with its trim, well-cared-for mission church, erected early in the eighteenth century, exact date unknown. It has always been served by clergy stationed at the more populous Santo Domingo. It is interesting to know that the followers of St. Francis, who founded and served all these missions until expelled in 1823 by the Mexican government, have recently resumed charge of all the missions in this part of New Mexico. Albuquerque was the third town established by the Spanish in New Mexico. Its church, beautiful San Felipe de Nerl, was from the first a parish church for the Spanish settlers themselves, never a mission. But it was built at the same period as the restoration of the mission churches after the Pueblo rebellion, having been erected in 1706. Mission of Isleta. From Albuquerque the Indian village of Isletn is only 12 miles distant and In Old Santa Fe. Mission of Isleta. easily reached by either automobile or train. It is the largest of the central New Mexican Indian villages, the center of a rich agricultural country. The people are progressive, successful farmers, but have mingled freely with their Mexican neighbors to the detriment of the picturesqueness of their village. Isleta was one of the most important of the early missions. In 1620 there was already built at Isleta a handsome church and convent, ministered to by a resident priest. When the country was reconquered by the Spanish after the rebellion, it was found that all which could be burned of the old church had been destroyed and the massive walls used for a corral for goats. The church was rebuilt in 1603 and since that time has been in constant use. It is 27 by 110 feet in size and is adjoined by extensive buildings originally a convent, now used as a home for the priest, any quaint customs and legends center around this mission. Acoma, the famous "City of the Sky," the most wonderful town in the United States, is built upon the top of a wind-swept island of rock, rising precipitously 350 feet above the surrounding sandy plain. Its location gave it wonderful defense against the savage tribes that in pre-Spanish times preyed upon the peaceful village Indians. Until very recently its top was reached only by one trail so steep that at places it consisted merely of hand and foot holes in the face of the cliff, where a misstep or a stone rolled from above would hurl a foe to almost certain destruction. Here the inhabitants made a stout resistance to the Spanish, but were conquered, and the great church, in many ways the most wonderful building in America, was built in 1629. It was partially destroyed in 1680, and rebuilt in 1693. The church is of great proportion, 150 feet long, 40 feet high and very massive. Not only was every particle of adobe used for the walls carried up the ladder-like trail, for there is absolutely no soil on the rock of Acoma, but the great timbers for the roof beams were brought from the 20-mile-distant mountains by men alone, for the horse had not been introduced to New Mexico at that time. Nor is this all, for adjoining the church is a considerable convent, and in front of the church the burying ground, held by a retaining wall along the cliff's rim at places 45 feet high, all made ground, carried up that hazardous trail on the backs of men. Was ever a monument raised to the zeal of the converts to a new faith? MIGHT OFFEND HIS "FOLKS" Militia Colonel's Reason for Ordering Release of Prisoner Amazes Officer of Regulars. It is generally believed that the old differences between the regulars and the National Guard have been wiped out long ago, and that the hot and dusty summer weeks in maneuver camps have made the National Guardsman the equal of the regular army man. There may be a lot of truth in this assumption, too, but there is one lieutenant in the regular army who will never believe that the militia will amount to a row of beans until officered by regulars, says a writer on military affairs. This is partly accounted for by his experience on the Mexican border a few months ago. There had been considerable rowdyism on the part of enlisted men begging and stealing rides to and from town on the running boards of automobiles, and orders had gone forth to stop the nuisance. Consequently, when one large and pugnacious militiaman was arrested by the guard for disobeying the order, this lieutenant of whom I write ordered the pugnacious one immured in the guard tent. The lieutenant happened to be officer of the day and in charge of the situation. The militiaman showed fight, so the lieutenant told the guard to sit on the man's neck, if necessary. It was just a detail in the day's work. But later on there came marching over to the lieutenant a full fledged colonel commanding the pugnacious militiaman's regiment. "I understand," he said, "that you have Jim Dumps arrested here for hopping on an automobile running board." "Yes, sir," replied the lieutenant. "Well, now," the colonel explained, "you just let him go. His folks and mine are pretty thick, and his being arrested might make it kinder hard for me at home." And the utterly amazed lieutenant had to obey the orders of a colonel. City of the Sky. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody -Bible Institute.) (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR MAY 13 JESUS THE TRUE VINE. LESSON TEXT—John 15:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT—I am the vine, ye are the branches.—John 15:6. This lesson chronologically follows that of last Sunday. Christ had risen with his disciples from the supper table (14:31), and the remainder of his discourse may have occurred in an upper room, or in the courtyard of the house before they left the city, or on the way to the garden of Gethsemane. I. THE ABIDING LIFE (vv. 1.4). Under the figure of the vine Jesus teaches spiritual truth by natural analogy. The vine is composed of roots, stem, branches, tendrils, and fruit. There is no separate life: the branches are one with the vine. Christ is the head of that body which is the church to its least member. The life lived by the Christian is Christ's life humanized, the purpose of which is fruit bearing. Discipline is in order to fruitfulness. "He (My Father, the vine-dresser) cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit" (Moffat's translation). Paul tells us that "no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." The Word is the cleansing agent (17: 17). Verse four suggests a double abiding—we in him, and he in us—the branch depending upon the vine for life, and the vine depending upon the branch for fruit. Jesus had just been talking about his approaching death, and his disciples were full of anxiety. He tells them not to be troubled, and by this figure assures them, that, though he would leave them, he would still be joined to them. Although they had been made clean, they are taught that the only way to keep clean is by "abiding," which is to be continued through the eternal spirit after his decease and assent to the Father. "It is given to us to hold fellowship with both the root that twines itself about the cross and the tendrils which stretch upward to glory."—A. J. Gordon. No long as we think of ourselves, and not of Christ, as the source of power, we shall miss the secret of fruitfulness. II. The Fruitful Life (vv. 5-8) If we abide in him we will bring forth much fruit. Note the progression: "fruit," "more fruit," "much fruit." If the branch does not bear fruit it is fit only for fuel (Isa. 27:11). "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (v. 7). Our first fruit is to glorify God (v. 8). The vine does not consume the fruit which it produces, though it does exist for its production, thus glorifying God through its fruit-bearing function. The Bible uses many figures to illustrate the intimate relationship between root and fruit. "Without me," emphasizes Christ, "ye can do nothing." The "word" of verse three is equivalent to the word "I" of verse four. "Now we are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you" (v. 3). Our fruit bearing is for God's glory because it is an expression of his grace and power, and it is made possible through our identification with his dear son. Our fruitfulness attests our Christian character. We have not yet attained perfection in our conduct, but we are making progress. Progressive deliverance from the power of sin is counterbalanced by corresponding fruitfulness. III. The Permanent Life (vv. 9-13). "Fruit," "more fruit," "much fruit." Even as the life of Christ has increasingly manifested itself through the ages, so our individual lives are to increase in the fruitfulness which assimilates them to his character and expresses his graces. As the Father has loved him, so has he loved us, and this love he communicates to those who abide in him. The evidence of our abiding is manifested by our joy in keeping his commandments, just as he delighted in keeping his father's commandments. Obedience and joy are correlated terms. The fuller the obedience the greater the joy. Bushnell said: "Heaven is nothing but the joy of a perfectly harmonized being filled with God and his love." Instead of minute, detailed instructions regarding their conduct, the disciples are here presented with love, the governing principle. Love was to be the one sufficient impulse for both divine and human relationships. Our Lord would have the world know his servants by the fruit they bear. Three things are mentioned as resulting from the abiding life; power to bear much fruit; transform lives and change circumstances through answered prayer; and fullness of joy—a "joy unspeakable and full of glory." The world with its poor counterfeitss has nothing like it to give, but all of these gifts are contingent upon our "abiding" in Christ, the source of every blessing. The personal pronoun suggests peculiarly intimate relationships: "My Father," (vv. 1, 8, 10); "My love," (v. 9); "My disciples," (v. 8); "My commandments," (v. 10); "My joy," (v. 11). Music-Baseball-Gym-Theatre-Boxing KANSAS CITY MUSIC SCHOOL PIANO, ORGAN, VOICE, HARMONY, COMPOSITION and HISTORY of MUSIC All persons wishing to do work in any of the above branches are asked to enroll now. SIX WEEKS COURSE — BEGINS MONDAY, JUNE 11 All persons desiring catalogs or wishing further information may address R. G. Jackson, Box 170 or phone: TEACHERS— R. G. JACKSON, Bell phone, West 1032. MISS BUELAH DOUGLASS, Bell phone, West 2297 W. MISS ARLENE JACKSON, Bell phone, West 1102 W. Sunday Evening Promenade EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT AT ACADEMY HALL, 14TH AND MICHIGAN Given by the COLORED MUSICIANS' UNION—LOCAL No. 627 14-PIECE ORCHESTRA Best of order. Elegant floor and just fine—that's all ADMISSION 25 CENTS Open, 8 o'clock. Dancing, 8:30 p. m. HARRY ST. CLAIR, Pres. CHARLES WATTS, Sec'y WALTER WILLIAMS, Treas. Flowers for all Occasions. Our specialty is funeral designs We guarantee our work to be absolutely satisfactory or money refunded. FRANK J. WEINAND, President ALFRED E. FARMER, Manager and Buyer MONROE $15 CLOTHES SHOPS Home Phone Main 2232 Bell Phone Grand 1121 OUR ELEVATOR SAVES YOU $10 ALWAYS 2ND FLOR CHAMBERS BLDG. S. W. CORNER 12th and WALNUT 1917 Styles Now Showing 1917 Styles Now Selling MONROE $15 MONROE CLOTHES SHOP THE HOUSE OF $15 CLOTHES HURRAH! HURRAH!! For the Grand Opening of Lincoln Electric Park 20th and Woodland SATURDAY, MAY 19 Lincoln Park Emblem. This will be the biggest opening in the history of the park. The public schools will hold their annual field day exercises from 1:00 p. m. to 6:00 p. m. Flag raising at 12:30 a. m. Major N. Clark Smith's Cadet Band will furnish the music. Every minute of the afternoon will be something doing. The finest roller skating rink in the West. Special free playgrounds for the little tots. The moving pictures will be the best on the market. The park is entirely under Negro management. Admission: Children, 5 cents; Adults, 10 cents. Do not forget the date—SATURDAY, MAY 19, 12:30 to 11:30 p. m. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917 BECINS TO-DAY Shirt Sale! 50,000 Fine Shirts in the Greatest Shirt Sale of the West, Offering All Sizes from 13 1-2 to 20, None Worth Less Than $1, at . . . 67¢ 50,000 Shirts None Worth Less Than $1 67¢ 50,000 Shirts None Worth Less Than $1 Guaranteed Fast Color! Laundered cuffs or soft turnback cuffs; of madras, soisette, percale and other fine shirting fabrics. Every shirt is brand new, perfect and immaculate THE JONES STORE CO MAIN, TWELFTH AND WALNUT STS ALL NATIONS BEAT INDIANS. The Schmelzer All-Nations took the Nebraska Indians into camp for the second time Sunday afternoon at Association Park by a 5 to 4 count. The Indians scored all their tallies in the opening round, but, after that, John Donaldson, the noted Negro hurler, made them look helpless at the bat. The All-Nations scored their first counters in the fourth frame, when Rogan tripped with a runner on and a moment later he stole home. They put over two more runs in the fifth frame and the winning tally was made in the sixth, Donaldson struck 12 and Myers, his opponent, whiffed 11. "Y" HAS 1025 MEMBERS Indianapolis, Ind.—The annual April membership campaign closed Monday night, April 30 at 9 p.m., with a very successful campaign. The goal that was aimed at in the beginning of the campaign was 150 members, but when the final count was made on Monday evening, it was found that instead of 150 members being secured, 177 had been brought in to the Association. The captains and workers went into this campaign with a determination to be successful. The membership to date is 1025. HARRY WILLS WINNER OVER JACK, THOMPSON. New York, May 3.—Harry Wills, the New Orleans heavyweight, easily defeated Jack Thompson at the Vanderbilt Athletic club last Monday evening, in a fast and interesting bout. Thompson was a willing mixer, but stood little chance against the clever Southerner, who out-fought him in every round. Wills weighed 200 pounds and Thompson 200. St.Louis, Mo—Sam Langford, sometimes called Boston Sam and now known as Chicago Sam, breezed into town Tuesday morning and rested enough during the afternoon to put a knockout on Big Bill Tate at the Future city A. C., in the evening. The blow came in the sixth round of their scheduled twelve-round bout, when Sam landed a right hook to the jaw. Round one, two and three even; fourth found was tame. Langford scored heavily in the fifth and sixth, when the bout was ended. The Sun received a card from Dr. J. E. Perry stating that he is having a delightful time among old friends and acquaintances and that they have been coming to see him from all sections of the county in every thing from the Limousine to an Ox-Cart. He is now spending a few days in Paris, Texas. SCOTTISH RITE MASONS TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA The 36th annual and 12th triennial session of the supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, which is to convene in Philadelphia, for two days, May 14 and 15, is attracting widespread attention and a large attendance in forecasted. Representatives of the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction will be present and share in a grand reception, in connection with the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Masonry. MME. PORTER SCORES. Madame Mae Caesar porter appeared at the Wesley M. E. church, Vicksburg, Miss., Friday evening, April 20, under the auspices of the Cherry Street High School Library Association. Mrs. Porter has a voice of large volume and sweetness and she delighted and thrilled all of her hearers, she is unsurpassed in her child-life delineation. Everyone is anticipating with delight her next visit to Vicksburg, which she has promised to make on her next tour. FISK DEFEATS HOWARD IN INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE. ville, Tenn., defeated Howard University in an intercollege debate Friday of last week. The subject was: Resolved, That the National Government Should Require Compulsory Arbitration Between Capital and Labor, the Constitution Being Waived. Affirmative, Fisk: C. N. King and H. H. Jackson and J. S. Hesilp. Drs. Hale and McMillan of Nashville attended the debate. Among our new subscribers secured in the "Get One" Campaign now being conducted by The Sun, are Mrs. Ada Herbert, Mrs. Ben Woods, Mrs. W. R. Colley, Mr. H. P. Johnson of Lees Summitt, Mr. Wm. Lee of Eudora, Kans.: Miss Bertha Johnson, Mrs. M. Vaughan, Mason Morris, Lawrenceville, Ill., and G. P. Simms, Minneapolis, Minn. Next week we hope to have an even larger list. See Geo. W. Little before buying a monument and save money.