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RETURNSTOPRISON Our Special Rate of $1.00 Expires January 31st What can I do for the Colored Soldiers? Why send them the Sun Its better than a letter from home Bell Phone East 999 VOLUME X. NUMBER 21. Our Spe The World War and the Negro The Negro soldier and the whole Negro race behind him have a wonderful opportunity to serve both their country and their race in this world war. In the absence of any one outstanding leader, the intelligent younger men of every element of the race have a chance, through the press and their various organizations, to mold and maintain a uniform sentiment in the race that will give constant support and encouragement to the government and to our Negro soldiers. The Negro soldiers of today carry tremendous responsibilities. Just now they can do more for us, perhaps, than anyone ele among us. As one editor says, "If they prove themselves the equals of the white race in point of discipline, self-strain, and courage, they will do a lot toward diminishing race prejudice." Another white editor significantly adds, "Not alone in the army itself is this prejudice likely to raise its ugly head. * * * To eradicate this feeling is going to be the duty of the Negro soldier, both for the pride of his uniform and the future of his race. He will have to stand ready and hold his ranks firm under circumstances harder to endure than the enemy's fire." He will then need all the help that an intelligently interested, united race can give.—Southern Workman. Dr. W. H. Bruce one of the brilliant physicians of the younger set who was an ardent worker in the Wheatley-Provident Campaign and brought in many subscriptions. A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING. The marriage of Miss Minerva Akins, the only daughter of Mrs. Laura Akins to Rev. A. B. Harris was solemnized Tuesday evening January 8th at 9:00 o'clock at the Ebenezer A. M. E. church. The ceremony was read by the pastor, Rev. W. T. Osborne. The bride was beautifully gowned and carried a large bridal bouquet and was given in marriage by her brother, Mr. Leslie Akins. Only members of their immediate families and friends witnessed the ceremony. Rev. and Mrs. Harris will be at home to friends after January 25, at 1001 Oak street. To the Editor of the Kansas City Sun: On account of the segregation of the Colored people at the Star's "Seven Swan" show all of the Colored people in Kansas City, Kansas, are discontinuing their subscriptions to the Star. Let every Negro in the two cities do the same. Don't let us pay them to mistreat us. The show was for all of their patrons. A Subscriber, G. A. White. THIRD NOTICE Subscribe NOW if you want to secure our $1.00 rate. 1803 E. 18th Street Bell Phone East 999 and 2789 The Kansas City Sun WHEATLEY - PROVIDENT HOS PITAL CAMPAIGN PROGRESS- ING NICELY. PLEDGES BEING PROMPTLY PAID The Board Will Probably Leet. Contract For Work Next Week So That Building May Be Put Into Condition For Occu- The first payment on the pledges to the Wheatley-Provident Hospital fund which was due the 15th inst. have been most gratifying. More than $8,000 having been paid in at the time we go to press, and a large sum is expected today and tomorrow. The Hospital is now an assured fact and contracts on the plans and specifications for alternations will be let by the Board some time during the comink week. The Executive Committee has labored hard and earnestly to secure results and they are receiving quite a bit of praise for the skilfull and business like manner with which the proposition has been handled up to date. It is their hope that fully one-half of the pledges will have been paid on the first notice and they very much desire to have the building ready for dedication by the first Sunday in May, when the city officials, Civic bodies and fraternal organizations will be requested to turn out in mass and assist in the dedication of this institution which marks a memorable milestone in the progressive achievements of the race. The headquarters of the hospital are at 1803 East 18th street (18th and Woodland) Their telephone numbers are East 2789 and East 999 both on the Bell phone and persons who have not been solicited nor subscribed may if they so desire send subscriptions or secure information at this number. A number of belated pledges which did not appear in the official list printed two weeks ago have been received and are hereby reproduced. $25.00—M. H. Wagoner, A. R. Ewing, Bernard Zick. $10.00—Jos. M. Jones, Geo. V. Golden, Chrisman & Sawyer. $5.00 each; John Garlich, Dock Man. $3.00—L. A. Jackson, Mildred Bruce, sour, Edward O'Callahan, Frances M. Beecham, Frank Neal, R. E. Quinn, Sam Harper, McDonald Lumber Co, R. Lacey, Lottie J. Gamble, Mrs. O. L. VanLanningham, Mrs. J. H. See bree, E. J. Reardon, Mrs. Eva Nickleon, Ida Rogers, James Tyler, Floyd Stone, Ed Lee, Payton Jones, Bell Lee, Paul Bishop, Oliver Jordan, C. H. Countee, Mrs. Eliza Walker. $2.00—Sam Borone, A. W. Reynolds, R. L. Anderson, Grant Lee, Evan Y. Pillow, Clifford White, Mrs. M. Fisher, C. A. Holzer, Mike Doohan. $1.50—J. C. Brown. $1.00—Joe Segelbohm, C. L. Merry, L. F. Cochran, Mrs. Dora Gardner, Mrs. A. Miller, Floyd Adamson, Lucy Jackson. 50 cents—J. Wilson, Dink Davis. A splendid suggestion that it would be well for the various fraternities to follow has been set by Eureka House- hold of Ruth, No. 4744 which has given notice that it will furnish com- pletely one room in the new Hospital and will have a small silver plate made bearing their organizations name placed upon the door. Let others do likewise. THE PORO CLUB. The Poro Club entertained with a reception Monday evening from seven thirty to eleven thirty January 14-18 in the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Bradahaw, 2128 Highland Ave. in honor of Mrs. B. J. Hawkins of St. Louis, Demonstrator of Poro System hair culture, Poro College. Throughout the evening about one hundred and fifty guests were present. Music for the evening was furnished by: Mesdames Cozetta Kingsberry Graves and Belford. The house was beautifully decorated in the Club colors, green and white penhants. A delightful repast was served which was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Hawkins left immediately to take up her work in St. Louis, under Mrs. A. M. Pope Malone. THE INTER-CITY DAMES THE INTER-CITY DAMAGES. The Inter-City Dames will give their Soldier Benefit Dance at Lyric Hall Friday March 1. The severe weather caused the postponement and all outstanding door and coal tickets are good for this date. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918. A Famous Negro Sculptor The foremost sculptor of the Negro race in America at the present time is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Her work may be said to fall into two divisions—the romantic and the social. The first is represented by such things as "The Wretched" and "Secret Sorrow," the second by "Immigrant in America" and "The Silent Appeal." The transition may be seen in "Watching for Dawn," a group that shows seven figures, in various attitudes of prayer, watchfulness, and resignation, watching for the coming of daylight, or peace. In technique this is like "The Wretched;" in spirit it is like the later work. It is as if the sculptor's own seer, John the Baptist, had summoned her away from the romantic and esoteric to the everyday problems of needy humanity. There are many, however, who hope that she will not utterly forsake the field in which she first became famous. Her early work is not delicate or pretty; it is grewsome and terrible; but it is also intense and vital, and from it speaks the very tragedy of the Negro race. Benjamin Brawley, in the Southern Workman. The Negro's Physical Fitness. The Negro's loyalty in the past is being recalled everywhere, and his worth as a soldier is emphasized. His physical fitness has caused general comment, and has helped to refute many of the stereotyped charges made against him. It was admitted, in one of the leading cities of North Carolina, that in proportion to population the Negroes outnumbered the whites on the eligible list because the Negroes stood the better physical examinations. And only 5 out of 1,300 young Negroes examined at the officers' training camp at Fort Des Moines last summer showed any traces of venereal infection. I would not hesitate for a moment to place this record against that of any other group of young men anywhere in the world. In fact, the war is discovering that the Negro possesses most of the virtues common to men in general. This for the Negro is a tremendous gain. A common cause and a common danger are bringing black men and white men near enough together to discern their common qualities and to awaken mutual respect. The country's need is forging a brotherhood of all her defenders. The whole town of Woodsville, Ohio, turned out with a brass band to accompany its one Negro recruit to the railroad station. Georgia towns have given dinners to their black selected men as well as to the white. Call meeting of the City Federation Friday January 25, for unfinished business at Y. M. C. A. at two thirty o'clock. Please be present. L. A. Campbell, President. Lincoln High School Mr. C. Howard Mills, Dir. of Kansas City, Mo., will addr. Meeting at Lincoln High School Sunday Afternoon Subject, "Getting He will lead in some Ne He wants to say "He Lincoln High School Extension Mr. C. Howard Mills, Director of Social Center Work of Kansas City, Mo.. will address,the Monthly Community Meeting at Lincoln High School. NOTICE Wheatley Provident Host first payment of subscriptions to headquarters, 1803 East Eighteenth and Woodland A order or call in person, and thou may call Bell phones East 278 after it. THE EXE By NELSON C. CREWS, Chair Fred W. Dabney, Secretary. Wheatley Provident Hospital Building subscribers' first payment of subscriptions are now due and payable at headquarters, 1803 East Eighteenth Street (Masonic Temple, Eighteenth and Woodland Avenue). Send check, money order or call in person, and those in the city unable to do so may call Bell phones East 2789 or 999 and we will send after it. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. By NELSON C. CREWS, Chairman. Fred W. Dabney, Secretary. Judge Fred W. Coon the militant judge of the North side police Court a true representative of the Common people, a lawyer of exceptional ability and a fingher of the first quality whom many of the boys believe is the logical candidate for Mayor on the Republican ticket. Installation Exercises of the Officers of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance. The following program will be carried out Thursday, Jannury 24th 8:00 p. m., at Bethel A. M. E. Church 24th and Flora Avenue, Rev. F. D. Wells, D. D., Pastor. 1. Music.....Bethel Choir 2. Scripture Lesson..... 3. Invocation..... 4. Music.....Bethel Choir 5. Address.....Rev. E. J. Dodson Subject: "Christianity—Its Greater Possibilities—Viewed From the Oneness of Interdenominationalism." 6. Music.....Bethel Choir 7. Remarks: five minutes' talk from each of the following ministers: Revs. W. H. Thomas, D. D.; R. Davis, D. D.; William Alphin, D. D.; O. A. Johnson, D. D.; W. T. Osborn, D. D.; H. L. Bolden, D. D.; J. W. Hurse, D. D.; H. L. McKenney, D. D. 8. Installation of Officers: Rev. F. D. Wells, President; Rev. William Alphin, Vice-Pres.; Rev. O. A. Johnson, Sec'y; Rev. J. B. Beckham, Treas. Offertory and Benediction. Officer Oscar Hardin slipped on the icy pavement a few nights ago while walking his beat in the west bottoms, striking his head against the curbing rendering him insensible before help come or he recovered consciousness one of his hands had been badly frozen. He is quite ill at the present time. School Extension Director of Social Center Work address the Monthly Community col. n, Jan. 20th, 3:15 ing Together." New Community Songs. Hello" to everybody. hospital Building subscribers are now due and payable at seventh Street (Masonic Temple, avenue). Send check, money close in the city unable to do so 89 or 999 and we will send ECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Firman. (At the request of numerous readers, ministers, doctors and laymen we are reproducing this very timely and logical article from the pen of one of the race's greatest and most courageous writers and leaders and most root and develop into a reality. - Editor.) By Joe E. Herriford Most people agree that the customs which we continue at funerals are little short of ghoulish and that certain reforms in these ceremonies are long past due. Yet it seems that no great number of our people have had the moral courage to take a stand strong enough to accomplish any tangible changes. Other races, except those uncivilized, have long ago abandoned the grusome burial rites which we still cling to even in the face of our better intelligence. In the first place, we refuse to give up the notion that all funerals should be held on Sunday, even if the body of the dead must be kept unburied several days for this purpose. This is only the catering to a vain desire for show and for the attendance of as many curious, disinterested persons as possible. Our funerals are all too long, especially in the cases of persons in any way prominent in social or professional life. Bereaved relatives of the dead are put through the terrible ordeal of sitting sometimes for nearly a whole day in uncomfortable, illly ventilated churches while countless eulogies of doubtful sincerity are being poured out by apparently everyone whom the deceased ever met. Common sense strongly appeals against this sort of indulgence, but it is kept up just the same, supposedly with the idea that it measures the popularity of the dead. No one can explain just why our people believe that the spirit of the dead cannot repose in peace if the body is honored in a place open to the outdoor air. Suffice it that from the time breath leaves the tortured clay it is kept either closely shut up in a small room of a home or in the sacred precincts of a church into which no fresh air is allowed to enter. The embalmed body is kept in an embalmed atmosphere filled with embalmed germs of all sorts of diseases ostensibly to hurry up other funerals. The practice of opening the casket at the close of the services in order that the morbidly inclined may pass in review over the pallid features of the dead has long fallen into disuse by every body except the Colored people. No one will dispute that it is unsanitary and unholy. Ie serves no aim whatever that has the slightest claim upon a reverent treatment of the dead. Those who have any distinctreason for desiring to view the face of the dead could much better indicate the element of respect by calling at the residence of the family prior to the hour of the public funeral. There ought to be a law carrying the death penalty for those who insist upon lifting the suffering mourners up to take what they call "a last view" of the deceased and to display their soul's deepest anguish in the presence of many who happen to be present out of a curious desert for this very heartending climax. Nothing could be more inhuman and more lacking in good, common sense. There is no more reason why the family should be the last to view the body than that they should bt the first to meet the departed spirit in the other world. If certain secret societies insist upon holding ritualistic ceremonies over the dead at the unholly hour of midnight the attendance of the family should by no means be allowed and no place should be arranged for this display of physical endurance and dispair from those already bowed down in nerve-breaking grief. This all looks like barbarism, at least like mediaevalism. The long string of resolutions and condolences, all of which sound alike and are usually poorly read should not be imposed upon the ceremonies at all but might be sent to the mourning family to be read, if desired, at some future time and preserved for what they are intended to be worth. I have been asked many times to write such condolences for persons whom I never knew in life and concerning whom I could have no intelligent knowledge. All this is supreme vanity and all of it should have been discontinued long ago. January Lincoln High School Semi-Monthly Gatherings May Continue. The request from J. R. E. Lee, principal of Lincoln High School, that the semi-monthly community meetings at the Lincoln School be allowed to continue, was granted last night by the board of education. Professor Lee explained to the board that where hotels and clubs were open for the entertainment of white persons, his people had only such places as the community meeting at the school to divert them from their everyday routine. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, holding a sword]. F THE UNION REV. J. W. HURSE, D. D. Dr. Hurse is not only one of our foremost minis in the front rank in every movement for the material ple and who has for sometime been the distributor FUL RHEUMATIC CURE has recently PURCHASED for compounding the same and now has the SOLE nature and distribution of this wonderful preparation, is the only ten days' cure on the market taking ten hours and immediate relief for neuralgia, forty-eight day for throat trouble, ten days for asthma and all body, ten days for lung trouble in first and second remedy and destroyer of appendicitis, absolutely great Food and Drug Act, serial No. 44333. THIS SPLENDID PREPARATION IS SO REV. J. W. HURSE, D. D. AT HIS LABORATORY AND RESIDENCE, 130 KANSAS CITY, MO. BELL PHONE, by one of our foremost minin m movement for the material time been the distributor it has recently PURCHASED and now has the SOLE this wonderful preparation, on the market taking ten feet for neuralgia, forty-eight days for asthma and all trouble in first and second appendicitis, absolutely gu No. 44333. GID PREPARATION IS SO REV. J. W. HURSE, D. D. BURY AND RESIDENCE, 130 CITY, MO. BELL PHONE, Dr. Hurse is not only one of our foremost ministers, but is always found in the front rank in every movement for the material advancement of his people and who has for sometime been the distributor of MACKEY'S WONDERFUL RHEUMATIC CURE has recently PURCHASED OUTRIGHT the formula for compounding the same and now has the SOLE RIGHTS for the manufacture and distribution of this wonderful preparation. is the only ten days' cure on the market taking ten days for rheumatism two hours and immediate relief for neuralgia, forty-eight hours for lumbago, one day for throat trouble, ten days for asthma and all pains and stiffness in the body, ten days for lung trouble in first and second stage and a guaranteed remedy and destroyer of appendicitis, absolutely guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act, serial No. 44333. AT HIS LABORATORY AND RESIDENCE, 1302 EUCLID AVENUE, KANSAS CITY, MO. BELL PHONE, EAST 4880. Kansas City, Mo. I suffered with pleurisy and also had sore feet. I heard of Mackey's Lin- iment and secured one bottle, and I must say it gave me immediate relief. MRS. MARY THOMPSON, 4019 East 1th. Kansas City, Kans. I suffered with rheumatism and was unable to walk in times. After using ½ bottle of Mackey's Liniment and and go anywhere. I recommended Mackey's Liniment for anyone who sur- fers with rheumatism. Kansas City, M. I took a severe pain in my neck, having a bottle of Mackey's Lin- in the house, I tried rubbing my with it and I received immediate resi- ANNIE McGREW, 1617 Agnes S Kansas City, M. I have suffered with rheumatism the past two years, sometimes ha- to walk with a cane. I heard of Mack Liniment and secured one bottle and it gave me complete relief. WITH MARS Kansas City, Mo I suffered with lumbago for a long time and I heard of Mackey's Liniment. I used one bottle of this Liniment and was entirely cured, and I feel safe to say it is the best Liniment made and it cannot be beat. I must say Mackey's Liniment will do all it is recommended to do. JOHN SAULSBERRY, Deacon Morning Star Baptist Church, 2414 Highland Ave., Bell East 7577. $1.00 PER BOTTLE—AGENTS WAIS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FOREIGN COUNTRY. The Sun is pleased to give to its real for itself and is a tribute to the indomit distinguished citizen. DR. J. W. HURSE. This is to certify that Dr. J. W. H. some time, learning the art and science ment to mu full satisfaction. He is, the diseases mentioned. Therefore I am giving to the public AGENTS WANTED. SOLD INTERNATIONAL. SOLD IN give to its readers the follo- t to the indomitable energy J. W. HURSE, A GRADUA Kansas City, at Dr. J. W. Hurse has be- tart and science and treatin- on. He is, therefore, capa- gled to the public the knowle- which will come in a few d. (Signed) DR. N. $1.00 PER BOTTLE—AGENTS WANTED. SOLD BY 7,000 AGENTS. IT IS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. SOLD IN EVERY STATE, AND FOREIGN COUNTRY. The Sun is pleased to give to its readers the following letter which speaks for itself and is a tribute to the indomitable energy and perseverance of this distinguished citizen. This is to certify that Dr. J. W. Hurse has been a student of mine for some time, learning the art and science and treating of patients with my limiment to mu full satisfaction. He is, therefore, capable of treating any of the diseases mentioned. Therefore, I am giving to the public the knowledge of his efficienhy until he receives his diploma, which will come in a few days. (Signed) DR. N. A. MACKEY, New York City, N. Y. 133 West 131st Street HaveYouGotRooms,Houses or Flats Furnished or unfurnished ForRent? Advertise Them in the Sun CONSCIENCE BROUGHT HIM BACK TO PRISON. Jefferson City, Jan. 17—Robert Page Butler, 42 years old, who turned preacher after he escaped from the Missouri penitentiary 18 years ago, was "dressed in" at the prison today. The negro walked into the office of Governor Gardner late yesterday and surrendered. He came here from Youngstown, Ohio, where he is pastor of a negro church. He declared that the thought of being a fugitive was more than his conscience could endure. The records of the prison show he was sent here from Kansas City in 1899 to serve two years for assault with intent to kill. foremost ministers, but is always found for the material advancement of his people distributor of MACKEY'S WONDER-PURCHASED OUTRIGHT the formula as the SOLE RIGHTS for the manufac-preparation. Iet taking ten days for rheumatism two sigia, forty-eight hours for lumbago, one thalmia and all pains and stiffness in the first and second stage and a guaranteed absolutely guaranteed under the Pure MATION IS SOLD ONLY BY HURSE, D. D., SIDENCE, 1302 EUCLID AVENUE, ELL PHONE, EAST 4880. Kansas City, Mo. I took a severe pain in my neck, and having a bottle of Mackey's Lniment in the house, I tried rubbing my neck with it and I received immediate results. ANNIE McGREW, 1617 Agnes St. Kansas City, Mo. I have suffered with rheumatism for the past two years, sometimes having to walk with a cane. I heard of Mackey's Lniment and secured one bottle of it, and it gave me complete relief. J. H. WILLIAMS. Deacon St. Stephens Baptist Church, 1615 Troost Ave. Kansas City, Mo. I want to say I used one bottle of Mackey's Liniment and it has done me more good than any medicine I ever used. For 15 years I suffered with rheum- ism and for 15 years I suffered with severe throat trouble, but am now cured. For these complaints I find nothing to equal Mackey's Liniment. MRS. LIZZIE LOGAN, 800 Independence Ave. INTED. SOLD BY 7,000 AGENTS. IT AL. SOLD IN EVERY STATE, AND leaders the following letter which speaks itable energy and perseverance of this. E. A GRADUATE. Kansas City, Mo., January 2, 1918. Hurse has been a student of mine for e and treating of patients with my lin- erefore, capable of treating any of the ac the knowledge of his efficiency until time in a few days. PRICE, 5c. From Our Foreign Correspondents A. F. and A. M. Mo. Jurisdiction Officers—1917. W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand Master. C. C. Clark, St. Louis, Mo., Dep. Grand Master. Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Senior Grand Warden. I. H. Bradbury, St. Louis, 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. E. G. Lacey, Kansas City, G. L. 1st District. E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo., G. L. 2nd District. OFFICERS OF GRAND CHAPTER R. A. M. Missouri and Jurisdiction, 1917-18. T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P., Quindaro, Kans. A. L. Thomas, D. G. H. P., Jefferson City, Mo. J. P. Moffett, G. King, Sedalia, Mo. S. A. May, G. Scribe, St. Louis, Mo. Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty, Mo. E. S. Baker, G. Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. OFFICERS OF GRAND COMMAND ERY, K. T. W. G. Mosely, R. E. G. C., Kansas City, Mo. J. W. Beard, V. E. G. C., St. Louis, Mo. G W. Lewis, E. G. G., St. Louis, Mo. C. Brassfield, E. G., Captain General, Kansas City, Mo. W. A. Ashley, E. G. P., St. Louis, Mo. J. H. Kenner, E. G., Treasurer, Marshall, Mo. J. T. Cannon, E. G., Recorder, St Louis, Mo. George A. Johnson, E. G. S. W. Kansas City, Mo. Benjamin F. Graves, E. G. J. W., St Joseph, Mo. Lodge Directory G MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP 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, See'y. G and A. M., Liberty, Mo., meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday nights in each month. William Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar, Sec'y. St. Stephen Chapter No. 37, Paul Stephen Chapter No. 37, Mo. Meets first Tuesday in each month. W. H. Robinson, H. P. H., Wm. Caps, Recorder. ```markdown ``` St. Matthew Commandery No. 17, Liberty, M. moe, the third Saturday night William Capps, E. C.; W. W. Robinson, Rec. Sec'y. HRC IN WINCED King of the West Lodge No. 218 meets first and third Wednesdays in each month at 10th and Campbell. Thos. B. H. Washington, 725 Sculdil Ave.; Chas. Allen. Sec., 1424 Admiral Blvd., K. C., Mo. MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION T. G. McCampbell, President. E. B. Thompson, Vice President. W. H. Washington, Treasurer. S. H. P. Edwards, Secretary. Board of Directors: N. W. Jordan. S. Myers, W. H. Brown. E. S. Baker, W. R. Patterson. R. V. Adkins, B. R. Francis. Richard Harris Geo Johnson, R. Fulbright. Meets second and fourth Tuesday in each month. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora. St. Stephen's Baptist Church, 604 Charlotte Sc. Centennial M. E. Church, 19th and Woodland. Second Baptist Church, 10th and Char- lotte. Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, 10th and Charlotte. Ebenezeer A. M. E. Church, 17th and Troost. St. Augustine's P. E. Church, 11th and Troost Avenue. St. John's A. M. E. Church, 1743 Belle- ville. Seventh Day Adventist, 23d and Wood- land. St. Monica's Catholic, 17th and Lydia. Vine St. Baptist Church, 1823 Vine St. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, 11th and Troost. Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine. Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 1111 St. James A. M. F. Zion Church, 1823 Woodland Ave. Second Christian Church, 24th and Woodland. C. M. E. Church, 1817 Flora Ave. St. James Baptist Church, 4038 Mill St. M. E. Church, 43rd and Prospect Place. KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES. First A. M. E. Church, 8th and Neb. Eighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and Oakland. First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb. Beg Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd and State. cumdaro A. M. E. Church, Quindaro. Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Rose- sburg. M. E. Church, 9th and Oakland. Second Baptist Church, 24th and Ruby. Wesley Chapel M. E., 166 Shawnee Bishop, Kane. Temple Church Kan. Temple Church Baptist, 760 Muncie Bldd, Armstrong, Eans. Rev. D. Nor- se pastor. BOISE, IDAHO. By Leon B. Smith. The A. M. E. Church, under the efficient pastorate of Rev. T. J. Ross, B. D., is prospering splendidly....The Dr. Cones well recommended and is proving himself an valuable asset to our town. With his devoted wife by his side. We predict for them a bright future....Mrs. Anna Harris has recently returned after several weeks sojourn in Seattle, Wash., but at this writing is on the sick list....Mrs. L. E. Washington still charms the congregation with her excellent soprano voice. Our choir is second to none in the great north-west....Communication services at Bethel last Sunday night. Dr. Ross preached another one of those scholarly sermons to the delight of all. Master Leon Smith, the organist, is steadily improving musically. He played a few beautiful selections for the "Universal Club (White) last week...Mr. A. Bosley, our fellow townsman is again on the sick list....Miss Clara May Shukhardt was married December 26, to Mr. Charles Hubbard, of Salt Lake, Utah....Rev T. J. Ross officiated many of the brides. White friends were present and made the occasion joyous. She is a Native Boisian....Mrs. R. B. Smith the fortune teller, keeps busy. BUTTE, MONT. The cold wave has reached Butte at last and the mercury dropped to the bottof in a very few minutes.....Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Poague gave a Christmas dinner at their beautiful residence in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Washington, D. C. Covers were laid for nine; those present were Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Shannon, Mrs. Birthright, Miss Gertrude Galaway, Mr. Frank Hayes and the host and hostess.....Mr. J. W. Brown entertained at Christmas dinner in honor of Mrs. Cannon of Helena Mont.....Mrs. Wm. Brown entertained New Year's day at a beautifully appointed dinner at her residence on West Granite St. Mr. Eshmel Lacy, of Plaquime, La., is visiting his cousin, Mr. Jerry Larkins.....Mr. J. F. Lucas was severely hurt in an automobile wreck.....Frank Hayes middle weight knocked opt Bud Luncy in the fourth round.....Rev. G. S. Allen and wife are spending a few days in Helena. He says the A. M. E. church here is increasing both spiritually and financially, being very successful with the recent rally raising $500.... The Mite Mission meeths with Mrs. Howard this week.....R. C. Logan had the misfortune to slip and sprain his back recently. We extend our sympathy to him.....The Sunshine Mission met in the Bethel Baptist church Wednesday afternoon. It being their first meeting since the closing of the holidays, Mrs. Cunningham entertained....Mrs. W. E. Scott has been on the sick list, but is improved now.... Mrs. J. E. Campbell and little daughter are both confined to their home.... The home of Rev. E. B. Reed was brightened Tuesday afternoon by the birth of a son, but the little stranger soon took its flight, bringing sadness o'er the home. The mother is doing nicely at this writing....All the leading books, magazines and papers of the race can be had at "Everybody's News Stand." SOCIAL SERVICE LECTURES. There will be given at Old City Hospital, a series of lectures on Social Service, beginning Wednesday evening, September 19, and every Thursday thereafter throughout the year. These lectures will be given by experts along their special lines. as indicated by the following program. They will also be free, and anyone wishing to take advantage of them is invited to attend. They will be given in the nurses' Study Room of the Old City Hospital, and will begin promptly at 8 o'clock p. m. Jan. 24-31: Miss A. J. Sorta, Women's Reformatory. Subject, "Training and Care of Delinquent Girls." Feb. 7: Mrs. T. W. H. Williams. Subject, "The School for Servant Girls." Feb. 14: Mrs. Mary Green, investigator, Provident Association. Feb. 21-28: Mr. J. O. Stutsman, superintendent Municipal Farm. Subject, "Causes of Crime." March 7: Dr. E. L. Mathias, chief probation officer. Subject, "The Juvenile Court." March 14: Dr. Alberta Green, Women's Raformatory. Subject, "Girls." March 21: Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal, Lincoln High School. Subject, "The School and Social Service." March 28: Mrs. E. L. Bringham, Helping Hand Association. April 4: Miss Anna Jones, Lincoln High School. Subject, "The Working Girls' Home." April 11: Mrs. Margaret Barnett, investigator for Board of Health. April 18: Mr. James A. Lee, truant officer. Subject, "The Truant Child." April 25: Miss Beatrice Sydnor. R. N. and Miss Grace White, teacher. Subject, "The Fresh Air School." May 2: Miss Eva M. Marquis. Subject, "How to Develop the Social Life of the Community." May 9: Mr. O. J. Hill, president Federated Negro Charities. May 16: Mrs. Frances J. Jackson, County Home-for Negroes. Subject, "The County Home." THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918. ST. JOSEPH, MO. The weather has been very cold in the last few days. . . Rev. Mrs. Tally received a very bad fall last Saturday, was unconscious from Saturday until Tuesday, but is some better at this meeting. . . J. Blaine Walker, pastor, is holding Evangelistic meetings at the St. Luke A. M. E. church 19th, and Angeligus St. Every night come out and hear him. . . Mr. R. C. Jamison has been indisposed for a few days. . . Mr. J. R. A. Crossland Jr., from Camp Funston for an indefinite stay. . . Miss Ida Peterson is on the sick list. . . Preaching at Ebenezer A. M. E. church at 11 A. M.; at 8 P. M. Sunday school at usual hour. Mr. Lance Morton shot and fatally wounded his wife Saturday morning in a rooming house; afterwards he killed himself. Mrs. Morton was a former Chillicothian. . . Mr. John died at his home last Monday and was buried Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Tally officiated. . . Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Neil are the proud parents of a baby girl, which arrived at their home January 5. They have named her Virginia Emma. . . Mrs. John Robinson entered a few friends during the holiday last week. . . Mrs. Chas. Hair grow is on the sick list. . . Mrs. Bell Crews received a postal card from Mr. Chas. Birddustell, who is at Camp Funston doing nicely. . . Mrs. Nanna Martin who was operated on one day last week is doing well. . . Mr. W. W. Harrison was the esteemed guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Ramsey from January 1 to 3. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey are former pupils of Mr. Harrison. . . Rev. Maloney preached an excellent sermon at the C. M. E. church last Sunday afternoon. . . Rev. Blackshire is pastor of Halsey Chapel. . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson spent New Years in a Knasas City. Mo. . . Mrs. Benton Welch of Oregon. Mo., spent a few days in Ct. Joseph with her daughter. Mrs. Allen, accompanied by Mr. Thal of Oregon. ROSEDALE, KANSAS. By Mrs. Rosa Jones Mr. and Mrs. Louis Williams left Friday evening for Palm Beach, Fla., for an indefinite stay.... The funeral of Mr. Harris Woods was held from the Pleasant Valley Baptist church Tuesday afternoon. He is survived by a brother, sister and two nieces.... Mrs. Catherine Carter a member of the Wesley M. E. church died at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Davis and was buried from the Jones Undertaking Co., Kansas City, Kansas. Rev. J. E. Williams officiated. She is survived by a daughter and grandson.... Mrs. Gus Watson is convalescing from her recent illness...Mr. John Everett Young and Miss Mary Locke were married at the residence of the bride Mr. and Mrs. Walter Locke Henderson Friday. The ceremony was read by Rev. J. W. Williams. The marriage was witnessed by only members of the immediate families. Mr. Young is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles young. Mr. and Mrs. Young are at home 19 N. Wyandotte street....Mr. and Mrs. Victor Smith announce the birth of their son Saturday, January 12, at their residence in Quindora, Kansas....Mrs. Jerry Ferguson and Lulu Ferugos who are in Homosasssee, Fla., write that they are having a delightful time....The death of Frank Jones, a member of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, occurred last week at Dayton, O. He was born at Bryn Mawr, Pa., May 21, 1880 reared at Philadelphia, Pa., served nine years in the Spanish-American war and was married to Miss Rosa Morton July 14, 1915. Mr. Jones died at the National Home for Soldiers at Dayton, O., January 6. He leave a wife, son Frank Nelson Jones Jr., a father, three sisters and two brothers to mourn his loss. He was a devoted husband, a loving father a devout Christian and a member of the Rose. The Sun extends its deepest sympathy to Mrs. Jones who for several years has been one of our faithful collectors. ARGENTINE, KANSAS. Why stay at home January 20, 1918? Rev. R. S. Everett invited you to his quarterly meeting on that day. Don't fail to come for he will be looking for you. Special services aet 11 a.m. 3 and 8 p.m. Take Argentine car, get off at 23rd, and walk three blocks south....Mrs. A. E. Rogers was brought from the hospital last Sunday and is much improved....Mr. Robert Richards, while still confined to his bed, shows signs of improvement....The program rendered at St. Paul Chapel last Sunday was very good. The papres were full of inspiration and the remarks by Dr. N. E. Jenkins were exceptionally interesting....Rev. Ephraim Green, who has bee complaining is much improved. WEIR, KANS. By Mrs. R. R. Phillips. Miss Janie Somtunzi, native of South Africa, spent two days and nights in our town and lectured on customs and conditions in Africa. A large audience welcofed her message, which was enjoyed by all....Mrs. Annie Goodwin, of Topeka, and daughter Mrs. L. McIntosh of Pittsburg, visited Mrs. A. R. Phillips and attended the St. John's Baptist church watch meeting....Mrs. Connie Brown and Mrs. Jennie Hunter, of Columbus, spent New eYars' evening at the home of Mrs. A. R. Phillips, attended watch service which was enjoyed by all....Mrs. Phillips is expecting to go to Cherokee to solicit subscriptions for the "Sun." as soon as the weather is favorable. Cold weather prevails in our vicinity, but our work is progressing. DALTON, MO. Several hundred Negro farmers, professional and business men and women in their 11th Annual Conference of Negro farmers of Missouri, have been in session here at the Bartlett Agricultural, the "Country Life" School for Negro people, and have held one of the best and most sensible two days meetings ever held in the state. Among the many solid, progressive men and women attending were, Reuben Dameron and wife, the hogs and sheep and old time knitting and weaving farmers of Chariton County, Ephraim Rucker, Andrew Co., who had made two sows produce $700.00 worth of hogs sold for cash April 1st, 1917, and still had the sows. Henry Jackson, owner of 330 acres of Cooper Co., land, though a young man, has made farming pay also. He is president of the Cooper Co., Fair, Mathaniel Thornton, Festus Williams, Clyde Allen, Sid Buchanan, Robert Christopher and several other young men farmers of Chariton County, William Roy, Lafe Smith, Sam Scott, G. L. Gregory and others of Callaway county. J. H. Coleman and Alex Hicks business men of Columbia, Mo., merchant, H. A. Smith, St. Louis, Mo. Rev. E. M. Cohon, St. Joseph, Mo. Dr. Wm. J. Thompkins, Kansas City "Potato King," J. G. Groves of Kansas, the world's leading Negro farmer and his wife were here, the special guests of this year's Conference. The heart to heart talks on farming, crop yields, crops and kitchen and home wasts, how to select seed, how to save, how to plow, cultivate, produce more hogs, poultry and farm by products were practical and helpful to all. Judge W. F. James of St. Joseph, Mo., member of the Legislature from Andrew County and President of the Board of Trustees of this "Country Life" School for Negroes of Missouri and Western States was present and made a great speech. THE COMING DAY. Sing, Ethiopia! the day is nigh. When in this deep troubled land A mighty voice will sound on high ":Stretch forth now thy noble hand." No more shall weak-kneed palsy govern Thee. Head raised up-ward, you shall walk Straight on outward quite fearlessly And do more than fiery talk. Oh its coming, its coming in a day, Sooner, nearer than we dream, Let us be on watch for the ray, Yes, the long-long looked for beam. But God, are we only to watch and wait For the slow coming of the year? Say now, we may do something Great Great! to make our pathway clear. Fight on! he says, and learn to harmonize For one another, be strong, To your own, be patiently wise, And The Day shall not be long! SAY, YOU! —REMEMBER OUR SPECIAL RATE EXPIRES JANUARY 31. IF YOU ARE SHUT OUT, BLAME ONLY YOURSELF. 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. 1. Because it is an association of Colored people, operated by and for the protection of Colored people, and is not operated for profit. 2. Its rates are those of the National Fraternal Congress and therefore it is enabled to maintain a reserve sufficient to meet the increased mortality of its members in later years without resorting to taxes or extra assessments. 3. Because all certificates carry old age, permanent and total disability, accident, sickness, death, and burial benefits, thereby enabling any member to cover in a single policy such protection as otherwise would require the carrying of two or more policies in different companies at a cost in the aggregate far in excess of the rates offered by the American Woodmen. 4. Because there is no discrimination in rates. The humblest wageearner pays no more than the professional or business man; age regulates the rate. 5. Because your policy cannot lapse on account of illness or accident unless you so desire, for it pays benefits from beginning of illness or accident until the restoration to health regardless of the time, whether measured in hours, days, weeks, months, or years. 6. In the event of death from whatever cause, there is an amount varying from $250 to $2,000 to maintain and protect those who are left dependent. It has paid within the past sixteen (16) years to its members, $400,000. 7. Because, by giving employment to hundreds of Negroes, it opens the door of hope to you. Its clerical force is composed of young men and women of the race, thereby giving an opportunity to earn a livelihood in a creditable way. 8. Because it is the oldest and strongest fraternal life insurance society for Colored people in America. It has $150,000 for the protection of its policyholders, and its solvency is unquestionable, being valued at one hundred per cent. 9. Because it accepts the membership of women on the same basis as men, and allows them to affiliate in all matters affecting the camp to which they belong. 10. Because of its fraternal feature, large numbers of men and women are brought into personal contact, thereby learning to guard and respect each other's interest, which ultimately develops into a racial love that promotes business. Then you should waste no time to become a member. Local Office, 1315 East 18th St., Kansas City, Mo., L. D. HINES, Supervisor. Phones: Bell, Grand 317; Home, Main 3963. Vaughan's Values THE UNPARALLELED HEALTH RESORT FOR THE PAGE 11,000 lots, surrounding a lake two miles long, half mile wide, in which is an island park of 8 acres, with an excellent club house. Streets and boulevards all laid out. Pere Marquette Railroad right through the town. Has a tent city. Buy your family a rest home, in a resort that is being bought up by the best people throughout the country. Many cottages already built by both men and women whom we all have heard of. Environment and social contact assured of the highest. Lots $24.50 each. $6.00 down, $4.00 per month on one or two lots. Located near Chicago. A Fine Christmas Gift. Free information by EUGENE EDWARD VAUGHAN, General Agent, 26th and Parkway, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell Phone, West 1757. Along the river more than half the way to SAINT LOUIS ON THE Missouri Pacific —a delightful ride, day or night Lv. Kansas City Ar. St. Louis 9:00 a. m. 5:30 p. m. 11:10 a. m. 7:30 p. m. 10:10 p. m. 7:10 a. m. The Scenic Line Across Picturesque Missouri Tickets at 707 Walnut Street and Union Station MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN L. R. WELSH, Gen. Agent Either Phone, Main 6740 KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beat all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K.C.U.S.A. FORMULATED 1900 PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs Amelia Hurubo -Malone ST. LOUIS MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP; GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF BOX ADJUSTED JUNE 12,1915. PRICE: 50 CENTS 3100 Pine Street, Dept. G ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Bell Phone E. 4394R Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. THE Modern Builders Co. A. E. ESTES, President ONLY ONE ONLY ONE The history of Kansas City records but one real, legitimate, competent, established Negro jeweler, and he is J. A. Wilson at 1616 W. 9th St. Half block west of Wyoming St. Mr. Wilson sells Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Staple Jewelry :: and :: Kansas' Famous Wheat makes I-H FLOUR Hard, winter, 'turkey red' is the world's flour wheat supreme. Given the benefit of I-H modern milling, this fine raw product becomes a super-fine food—I-H Flour—the aristocrat of every grocery. Try it. Ismert-Hincke Milling Co. Kansas City, U. S. A. Office 2460 Waldrond Ave. My First Case By Margaret Estelle Anderson (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) The auto came to a dead halt with a softly dying echo of sound like the last expiring note of a musical threnody. I sprang from the seat and went over the machine. Then I removed a cushion, unscrewed the tank top, probed it with the measuring ruler. "Less than three-quarters of an inch of gasoline," I soliloquized ruefully. "There's nothing but sediment to draw from, and that below the strain pipe, Bother!" It was not a pleasant, hopeful, nor apparently mendable misadventure. I knew that the nearest town lay six miles behind me, the city twelve miles ahead. The road I was traversing had not shown an average of one farmhouse to the mile, and that sparse neighborhood could scarcely support a garage. I was thinking hard what was best to do, when a pedestrian came up. "Stalled?" he intimated. "What's the trouble?" "Gas gone. You don't happen to know where I could get any?" "U-m! Let me see," drawled my chance visitor musingly. "Why, yes. You see that grove of trees, sixty rods ahead? Well, it hides Lanyon's farmhouse. They have a machine and can help you out." I thanked the man, who went lumbering along on his way. Sure enough, as I got past the grove a farmhouse showed. It was dark and wrapped in gloom, and as I entered the gateway of its front yard I fared my pocket electric torch to guide me. I went up the steps, focussed the light rays to find no bell knob and knocked on the door. There was no response to my rapping, even after I had repeated it half a dozen times. "Nobody home," I muttered, disgustedly and disagreeably enough, and had a daring idea in my mind to visit the barn structure at the rear and burst my way in, if necessary, to explore for the possible gasoline surplus kept on hand, when I fancied I caught the echo of a voice inside the house. I descended the steps and, flaring the light as much to attract attention as to guide my course, descended them and walked slowly around one side of the house. Near to a small porch I paused. Again a cry, a call from inside, reached my hearing. I got up on the porch, ran my light across a low French window, and fixed the rays upon a chair against the inside wall. In it was seated a girl, pale, eager faced, with parted lips and wild eyes in which there lurked a haunted expression. Those lips moved. "Push in the window!" she cried out. I did so. "I have broken the catch," I said apologetically, as I stepped over the low sill. "That does not matter," spoke the girl rapidly. "You are a stranger. What brought you here?" "The need of gasoline." I told her. "Is there any about the place?" "Yes. Are you bound for the city?" "Yes." "And your supply gave out? If you will help me, I will help you." "Help you?" I repeated vaguely. "You mean—" "I am a prisoner, and those who have chained me here may return at any moment, so hasten, oh! please don't delay. Then I will show you where the gasoline is, provided you take me to the city." "Why, certainly," I replied, mystified and dubious. "Chalned? Why, so you are!" I was startled, I was thrilled. As I drew nearer to the girl I discovered that a chain encircled her waist. Through this ran another chain, and this was padlocked under the chair, holding the girl a helpless prisoner. "The key to the padlock is on the mantel. Oh, hurry! hurry! hurry!" pleaded the girl breathlessly. I could not analyze the situation coherently. Was she demented, and thus made helpless so she could not rove about and do mischief to life and property? Taking a risk, I released her. She seized a bunch of keys and told me to follow her, ran to the barn, unlocked a door, and pointed to a tank with a funneled zinc bucket beside it. I made two trips to the automobile, and had got the machine started when the girl, who had gone back to the house, came running up, dressed for the open air and carrying several parcels in her arm. These she threw into the rear seat and jumped in herself. "You said you would take me to the city," she spoke in a strained, eager tone. "I will keep my promise," I replied, "only—I don't understand." "You shall, when I am sure we are well on our way." I had left a bank note on top of the tank in the barn, so I was satisfied on all scores except the fear that I might be meddling in a dangerous business in giving this girl her freedom. I made a swift spin, to slow down only as the lights of the city began to appear in the distance. She leaned toward me. "You doubtless think I am some demented creature," she spoke into my ear. "Wrong. I have been kidnapped and held a prisoner for a reason I do not comprehend. "I am a lawyer," I announced, with the budding dignity quite professional. "Tell me your story." "No," she answered definitely. "The people who certainly were bribed to imprison me are distant relatives. I wish to make them no trouble. I am free, thanks to you. I have friends in the city. I shall be safe with them." She did not speak again until we were gliding along paved streets. Then she again leaned over towards me. "Please stop," she urged, in a calm, collected tone now, and I did so. She got out of the machine, leaning over to collect her bundles. Then she gave me a grateful glance. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart," she said, and somehow I longed to know more of her, as she vanished around a corner from my view. I longed to see her far more urgently an hour later. Why, I shall have to explain. I was a young lawyer and I was due at the city the next day on my first test case. Of course I represented my firm, but if I met with success it would be a great start in a promising legal career. Briefly, the case was this: Adam Moore, a lifelong client of the firm, had died, and the week following a disreputable mining promoter presented his note for thirty-five thousand dollars, due on demand, for a half interest in a patent of no value, hawked around the market unsuccessfully for some years. The promoter showed also a signed agreement proving the deal. This was duly attested by a stenographer and notary public, Miss Elsa Deane. There was no doubt but that Mr. Moore had held correspondence with the promoter, but the daughter and legatee of Mr. Moore declared that upon the day note and agreement were dated, her father was automobiling two hundred miles distant and could not have been in the city on that day. Further, although the signature was well counterfeited, it was a forgery. One contention was that the prom.ter, hearing of the death of Mr. Moore, had hurriedly set up a plot from which he hoped to reap a rich harvest. A singular circumstance was that we had not been able to locate this Miss Deane, who had given up her position by telephone the day after the agreement was acknowledged. And now for the climax! I had set my satchel and a roll of documents comprising copies of all the papers W It Read: "Send Officers." in the case in the rear seat of the automobile, and in the haste of getting away the girl I had befriended had accidentally carried the parcel away with her own bundles. I did not sleep that night. I saw the futility of locating a girl in hiding. I tried to secure a continuance of the case in court the next morning, but it was refused. The court was fairly in session when a ballill came into the rallied space, where I sat, gloomy and wretched, and handed me a note. It read: "Send officers to detain the man in a checked suit near the door, if he tries to leave. Meantime, see me." I lifted my eyes. A woman wearing a heavy veil had arisen and moved her hand as if to indicate that she was my mysterious correspondent. I went to her side. Her first actonishing act was to hand me the missing package; her next to lift her veil. She was the companion of my midnight automobile drive. "I am Elsa Deane," she said simply. "I fortunately looked over those papers and was fully enlightened. The man in the checked suit yonder is the one of the conspirators who signed the agreement which I certified." Her evidence sent the forger and the promoter to prison and saved my client thirty-five thousand dollars. We spared the relatives who had held her captive for a bribe. We needed a stenographer at the office and I told Miss Deane so, and the firm, appreciating her splendid part in the case, made her an unusual salary offer. And in four months I found I needed a wife, and who should I look to but Elsa, who had helped me win my first case. Gratitude Everywhere Livingstone, who spent most of his life in a hostile wilderness among villainous slave traders and cruel heatheath, nevertheless said: "A kind word or deed is never lost." There is no excuse in civilized surroundings, notes an exchange, for the complainer who insists that everyone is ungrateful. WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS HOW CAMEL W Beast, Resented Teakettle, and lieve Rider In 1866 camels f brought to Austra ice, says Norman "Australian Bywa experiment. A he arrived with their 1884. It is estim National Capital Really a City That Is "Slow" WASHINGTON.—America's war capital is no place for the woman who loves pleasure. Pleasure simply isn't here. For years Washington has slept, contented with itself and its social life. Former winter's have had and music for tired and strained nerves. Washington has nothing of the kind. The few restaurants that do offer music are managed by men who can see no reason why anyone should want to be out after ten o'clock at night. They lock their doors. Theaters in Washington—a city of 400,000 population—are limited to two houses playing legitimate attractions and one first-class vaudeville house. When a real attraction comes the demand for seats is so great that the box office finds no protest when the prices are boosted generously. Washington is still a village, in that its pleasures are family pleasures. Little social groups find enjoyment in each other's society, but they rarely venture away from the boundaries of their own little community. The wildest excitement that is offered to a girl in Washington is the afternoon promenade on F street. Up and down, up and down they go, all dressed up in their finery. Some of them tote little dogs along, and some of them tote mothers; but up and down they go. It is just a fashion show. Each girl goes out to see what her neighbor has in the way of new clothes. On the corners they gather to gossip for a few minutes and pass on. The time of the gay Lothario has passed. He used to be a part of this promenade, but now he has gone to war, or, if he hasn't, he finds no pleasure in the F street promenade. Serious Work All That Interests Washington AT THE White House, the hub around which the circle of war preparation revolves, there is no excitement at all. Mr. Wilson lives a most regular life and daily takes his exercise. In spite of the strain of a world-conflict he men. Not an hour, day or night, but the mansion is under the watchful eye of guards. Just outside of the White House grounds looms up the immense, whitish-gray state, war and navy building. No one is allowed to enter except employees, and they must each morning be identified by a passport, containing their photo. The rooms are full and the corridors take up part of the overflow. Hundreds of new clerks, mostly stenographers and typists, have been added to the force. At the door there are guards to examine one's pass and soldiers to guide a visitor to the room he seeks. All day long the hitherto silent halls echo to the ceaseless tramp of hastening feet and the bang, bang of the thousands of machines pounding out letters. And through all moves a ceaseless stream of khaki-colored men with stern faces. Nor does work stop at night. After darkness setters over the city a flood of light pours out of the windows, and into cool shadow of the gray silence there drifts the wang of the whirring machine and the glitter of electricity telling that Uncle Sam is still grinding his sword. All Are Brushing Up on the French Language STUDYING French is one of the great war industries in Washington. It divides honors with knitting. An interesting phase of this situation is that nobody really seems to be studying French, but is "merely brushing up" on it. ing how a language slips away from one, isn't it? The language seems to have merely "slipped away" from so many persons that there must have been a time when all Americans spoke French. Perhaps some of these persons who are merely brushing up their French are like the pool player who, after dramatically chalking the cork tip, misses the cue ball and tears the cloth of the table and then delivers himself of this: "There was a time when I played some pool—believe me, some pool! Man! there were no pockets too small or too far away for me to drop the balls into as fast as I could shoot 'em. I always had a great gallery when I played and men would walk ten miles on a muddy day to see me put 'em in. Once I played a game with De Oro, but I didn't give him a chance to shoot. But I haven't had a cue in my hand for some time and am a little out of practice." Life in Capital Not All One Glittering Joy THEY met near the market Tuesday. One of them might have been any other small-waged woman—with that worry line that comes from forever because she chewed gum and polished her nails on the back of her sleeve. But you have missed her. Where has she gone? Shade here in Washington. Salaries range from $1,000 a year upward. The consequence has been an inefficient stenographic corps for Washington. The rush of work is so great that it has been impossible to get efficient stenographers, and girls who never made more than $40 a month are now drawing from $90 to $150 per month. But life isn't altogether gay for the little stenographer, even though she works short hours for long pay. She has lost the gay life of her home city. No matter what the city, it is gayer than Washington. The town has not awakened to the possibilities thrust upon it by the war boom and consequently there is an utter lack of amusement facilities. So your little chewing gum friend is right here in the war capital, working at a salary that perhaps might even tempt you, her former contemporary of the stronger sex. THERE ISN'T MUCH HERE TO EXCITE ONE and music for tired and strained nerves The few restaurants that do offer musi no reason why anyone should want to b lock their doors. Theaters in Washington—a city of houses playing legitimate attractions When a real attraction comes the dem office finds no protest when the prices Washington is still a village, in the Little social groups find enjoyment in venture away from the boundaries of f The wildest excitement that is of afternoon promenade on F street. Up dressed up in their finery. Some of the them tote mothers; but up and down the girl goes out to see what her neighbor corners they gather to gossip for a f the gay Lothario has passed. He use now he has gone to war, or, if he hasn promenade. Serious Work All Tha AT THE White House, the hub around revolves, there is no excitement at life and daily takes his exercise. In sp appears to be in excellent health. The two great iron gates by which entrance is gained to the approach of the executive mansion and kept locked and within reach is constantly a sturdy cop. It is at these gates that the pickets have so often had their battle with an indignant crowd. There are few people about the house and only the family and a few friends enter. When the president takes his drive down Sixteenth street he is always accompanied by several secret service men. Not an hour, day or night, but of guards. Just outside of the White whitish-gray state, war and navy build employees, and they must each morning their photo. The rooms are full overflow. Hundreds of new clerks, not been added to the force. At the door and soldiers to guide a visitor to the resilient halls echo to the ceaseless tramp of the thousands of machines pounding ceaseless stream of khaki-colored men. Nor does work stop at night. After of light pours out of the windows, and there drifts the wang of the whirring telling that Uncle Sam is still grinding. All Are Brushing Up on STUDYING French is one of the great divides honors with knitting. An in nobody really seems to be studying Fre WANDERFILL— WHERE DIDJA LEARN IT? PASSEZ MOI DU PAIN— ing how a language slips away from on The language seems to have merely that there must have been a time w haps some of these persons who are m the pool player who, after dramatical ball and tears the cloth of the table an "There was a time when I play Man! there were no pockets too sma balls into as fast as I could shoot 'em played and men would walk ten miles Once I played a game with De Oro, b But I haven't had a cue in my hand practice." Life in Capital Not THEY met near the market Tuesday other small-waged woman—with t because she chewed gum and polished you have missed her. Where has she gone? She is here in Washington. What brought her here? War work. Washington today has some 20,000 more girls than it had at the outbreak of the war. The answer is plenty of government work and good wages. Government departments are crying louder every day for stenographers. The civil service commission is recruiting stenographers all over the country and bringing them to Washington. Salaries range from $1,000 a year upw efficient stenographic corps for Wash that it has been impossible to get effici made more than $40 a month are now But life isn't altogether gay for the works short hours for long pay. She No matter what the city, it is gayer awakened to the possibilities thrust up there is an utter lack of amusement fa So your little chewing gum friend at a salary that perhaps might even the stronger sex. their little dinners, their little dances and their little suppers, and the pleasure-seekers have gone to New York or Philadelphia for their pleasures. Washington slept on. Now the national capital finds itself in the midst of a great boom. There are hundreds of newcomers here who love pleasure and need it after the strenuous days. Washington has nothing to offer them. Other cities offer cafes and restaurants, where there are bright lights Washington has nothing of the kind. Music are managed by men who can see be out after ten o'clock at night. They are 400,000 population—are limited to two and one first-class vaudeville house, and for seats is so great that the box are boosted generously. What its pleasures are family pleasures, in each other's society, but they rarely their own little community. Offered to a girl in Washington is the up and down, up and down they go, all them tote little dogs along, and some of they go. It is just a fashion show. Each has in the way of new clothes. On the few minutes and pass on. The time of bed to be a part of this promenade, butn't, he finds no pleasure in the F street. What Interests Washington and which the circle of war preparation at all. Mr. Wilson lives a most regular spite of the strain of a world-conflict he PROPERTY the mansion is under the watchful eye the House grounds looms up the immense, riding. No one is allowed to enter except being identified by a passport, contain- and the corridors take up part of the mostly stenographers and typists, have there are guards to examine one's pass boom he seeks. All day long the hitherto up of hastening feet and the bang, bang out letters. And through all moves a with stern faces. over darkness settles over the city a flood and into cool shadow of the gray silence machine and the glitter of electricity ing his sword. on the French Language Great war industries in Washington. It interesting phase of this situation is that ench, but is "merely brushing up" on it. No doubt many persons at one time or another learned to repeat something like "Il fait beau temps," "passez mol du pain," "avec plaisir," "s'il vous plaît." Which, of course, constituted familiarity with the French language, a rather small and easily acquired language, to be learned sometimes in seven lessons or thereabouts. Current conversation runs something like this: "Oh, yes! you see, I'm just brushing up on my French; I find that I have become a little rusty; it is really amus- me, isn't it?" "Yey, 'slipped away' from so many persons when all Americans spoke French. Permerely brushing up their French are like chalking the cork tip, misses the cue and then delivers himself of this: Iaved some pool—believe me, some pool! full or too far away for me to drop the n. I always had a great gallery when I was on a muddy day to see me put 'em in. but I didn't give him a chance to shoot. I for some time and am a little out of All One Glittering Joy day. One of them might have been any that worry line that comes from forever her nails on the back of her sleeve. But A woman types on a typewriter. ward. The consequence has been an in- ingleton. The rush of work is so great client stenographers, and girls who never drawing from $90 to $150 per month. the little stenographer, even though she has lost the gay life of her home city. or than Washington. The town has not soon it by the war boom and consequently activities. is right here in the war capital, working tempt you, her former contemporary of HOW CAMEL WAS PERSUADED Beast, Resented Carrying Bushman's Teakeettle, and Was Lead to Believe Rider Did the Work. In 1866 camels from India were first brought to Australia for general service, says Norman Duncan in his book, "Australian Byways." It was a happy experiment. A herd of more than 600 arrived with their Afghan masters in 1884. It is estimated that there are now 10,000 camels at labor in the dry, back regions of the commonwealth. An Australian loves a horse and respects the sturdy worth of a bullock; he regards a camel, however, with tolerance rather than approbation, and will not employ so outlandish and perverse a beast except to the great advantage of his needs. "We used to think," said Jerry, the camel driver employed by the author, "that we couldn't get along without the 'Gans." "Surely they know how to take care of camels?" I asked. "No fear!" Jerry scoffed. "They had a lot of superstitions—like curing a camel with a necklace of beads—and that's about all. The government breeds better camels now. That's only natural; we're white. I don't mean to say, though, that we've bred the devil out of our camels. Sometimes I lose patience with the brutes. "A couple of years ago I was traveling to the north of this with a train of four pack camels. One morning when I was packing I found that I had forgotten to stow away a billy can (bushman's teakettle). When I picked that little billy can up and made for the nearest camel, meaning to hang it on his pack, he began to double and groan, as if it wasn't his billy can, and he wasn't going to carry more than his share, and what did I mean anyhow by proposing to overload a poor camel that way? So to make things easy I switched off to the next camel. And he began to groan. They all groaned. Not one of them would have that little billy can on his back. "Well, I was disgusted. Instead of hanging it on a pack I mounted my riding camel, with the billy can in my hands. He was horrified. Goodness, how he bawled! When he got up he was bawling still. Wouldn't move a step! And then I leaned forward and shook that billy can in his face. And that satisfied him. Off he went without a murmur. Why? I reckon he thought I was carrying that billy can." Ship of Mystery. The manufacture of a large part of machinery to replace anything broken is almost impossible in the limited space of the battleship's machine shops. But wondrous feats are performed in the repair ships that accompany fleets on stations remote from dock facilities, states a British war correspondent. The repair ship is a huge floating smithy and machine shop packed with everything that the wit of man can concentrate into the space for treating wounded battleships. These ships employ some of the best artificers from our naval dock yards, and are scattered in every quarter in which the British fleet is stationed remote from dock facilities. The Boche has nothing like them, and it has been stated that no inquisitive Boche has ever been allowed to intrude his nose aboard one to investigate its mysteries and take the information to his employers of how the strange feats performed by the repair ship are effected. The repair ship is the abode of secrets. Stopning the Ex-Czar's Ex The ex-czarina's belief in the unspeakable Rusputin proves that she was of a strongly superstitious turn of mind, and she is generally regarded as the true maker of the revolution in Russia, but an incident which occurred whilst the ex-czar was traveling from Petrograd to Moscow proves that the superstition is not all on her side. It appears, says a writer, that the ex-czar wears a ring in which he believes is embedded a fragment of the true cross. It was originally one of the treasures of the Vatican and was presented to one of the czar's predecessors for diplomatic reasons. The value he places on this suppositions relic was proved when he accidentally left it behind him when traveling to Moscow. He had the train stopped instantly, a special express chartered, and a trusty messenger sent post-haste back to fetch the missing ring, nor would he allow the train to budge an inch till his messenger returned, hours afterward, with the relic! Pay Shoeworkers More The female machine operators employed in the Birmingham and Walsall leather trades have been awarded advances in wages as from last October. Female machine operators fifteen years of age and over are to receive 10 per cent bonus on their actual earnings. The minimum rate for those of eighteen years and over, who have been engaged as machine operators for more than one year, is to be 13 cents an hour for hot-wax machines, and 11 cents for dry-thread machines. The time rate for female operators between the ages of fifteen and eighteen is to remain as at present, provided that after being engaged on machines for one year the time rate shall not be less than eight cents per hour. Time and a half has been settled as the overtime rate. Win Truth by Strength. We think that we shall win truth by striving after strength, instead of knowing that we shall gain strength just in the degree that we become true.—Phillips Brooks. TALES FROM BIG CITIES Asks "Why Wait?" When One Feels Love's Impulse LOS ANGELES.—After waiting 30 years before proposing to the sweetheart of his youth, Calvin Mitchell, now fifty-eight years old, feels competent to advise bashful suitors, and that advice is to "speed up." During the 30 years of Gold." In it he urges bashful suitors not to wait until they are gray for a marriage ceremony. Girl stenographers also he advises to make the most of the opportunities in their offices. For example, read of Annie, who typed an "Air Castle" in the "Crater of Gold." "Mother, I have fallen in love with Mr. Zackley, my employer. I could not help it. As I thought I had no chance to win his love and didn't wish to embarrass our relations, I haven't let him suspect my love. I might give way to tears and reveal my love; I fear to return to the office." "My dear child," replied her mother, "you are sweet and sincere. You have been doing your work so well it may be that Mr. Zackley loves you. Being an honorable man, he is afraid to declare himself for fear of a refusal. Such men would rather face a cannon's mouth than a thundering 'No' from a woman. "If you love him, my advice is that you go back to the office tomorrow and do not act so formal. Place your hand on his arm carelessly, let a little love light shine in your eyes and say in a cheerful voice, 'I am ready for work again, Mr. Zackley.'" "Instead of cultivating a deferential demeanor assume a companionable attitude. This will break the ice. If Mr. Zackley has serious intentions he will meet you half way and soon both of you will be happy in each other's love." Surely Here Is Story of Prize Bone-Headed Thief C LEVELAND.—Joe Elko, 507 South Sangamon street, wishes the emperor of Austria, his former lord and master of his soul, would hang an iron cross on Cleveland's prize bone-headed thief. A generous mood prompts Joe's thought, for he has his old shoes back. He had been living in the suburbs. He decided to broaden his field of labor and came to Cleveland. So he came, his worldly possessions in his arms. It was no difficulty to move—he had his extra pants and sweater in one parcel, and his old shoes in the other. His savings he had tucked in the toe of one shoe. On a preceding visit he had selected a lodging place at the Sangamon street address. Joe found the right building, but he inadvertently stepped into the wrong hallway—the one at 509 Sangamon street. He knocked at the door, and, receiving no response, laid down his bundles and went to the rear, with which he was better acquainted. Joe had no difficulty in finding the rear entrance at 507. He went upstairs, passed through the flat and went on the front landing. The bundles were not there. Joe was troubled, but decided to sleep over it. Then he informed Detective Sergeants Joyce and Smith of the police. It turned out that the detectives' deductions were correct, for they found the shoes in a pawnshop. And the money, all unconscious of its danger, was still in its hiding place. Authorities Had to Disturb This Young Girl's Plan NEW YORK.—A servant in the employ of Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell, wife of the rector of the Church of the Resurrection, answered a ring at the door of the Pell home at 22 West Fifty-third street and admitted a well-dressed "It is that," said the girl. "I just stopped in to tell you that your husband and I are to be married in about an hour. I thought you might like to know about it." The girl then calmly seated herself and said she guessed she'd have the rector perform the ceremony himself in the Pell home. Mrs. Pell called the East Fifty-first street police station. When Patrolman Geiman reached the Pell home, Miss Livingson jumped to her feet and exclaimed: "Oh, look at the pretty cop! Now I guess we all go to the police station." Patrolman Geiman took her to the station, where the lieutenant on duty telephoned Bellevue hospital for an ambulance. The girl asked what they were going to do with her, and when she was told she would have to go to Bellevue for a while she laughed and said: "Oh, I know. I'm going to be observed. Well, I'm not crazy, but go ahead and put me in the psychopathic ward. It'll be a fine psychological experiment." Chose Festive Season to Give Up Life's Struggle CHICAGO.—"Merry Christmas," said J. K. Kesl pleasantly to the clerk at the Marion hotel, as he left his key on the desk. He walked to the lake at the foot of Van Buren street, glanced at the cold, forbidding water a moment, and then plunged into it. The police recovered the body. so I've been giving my money away, almost freely. Without mentioning my name I gave many and many a dollar to the shivering kids and cripples, and I contributed to all good purposes. My parents are suffering in poor Bohemia. I have not seen them for 25 years. "Hurrah for Uncle Sam; free Bohemia, Belgium. Vive la France, Serbia, Cevna, Nora and the whole world's democracy." BOYS MY ADVICE IS—SPEED UP—DON'T WAIT 30 YEARS— of Gold." In it he urges bashful sulton marriage ceremony. Girl stenographer of the opportunities in their offices. For example, read of Annie, who of Gold." "Mother, I have fallen in love with not help it. As I thought I had no ch to embarrass our relations, I haven't le way to tears and reveal my love; I fear "My dear child," replied her mother have been doing your work so well it Being an honorable man, he is afraid fusal. Such men would rather face 'No' from a woman. "If you love him, my advice is the and do not act so formal. Place your I love light shine in your eyes and say work again, Mr. Zackley." "Instead of cultivating a deferential attitude. This will break the ice. If I will meet you half way and soon both love." Surely Here Is Story of C LEVELAND.—Joe Elko, 507 South of Austria, his former lord and m cross on Cleveland's prize bone-headed thought, for he has his old shoes back —also the $685 he had cached in one of them. Joe came from Austria a few years ago to the land of liberty. He soon found he was at liberty to work on the railroads as a construction laborer and he has been juggling ties, handling shovels and driving spikes with more or less freedom ever since. It was a fond notion with Joe that some time he would bring his wife to America. Recently he revised his plan to read "when the war is ended $655 in bills, real honest to goodness He had been living in the suburb labor and came to Cleveland. So he arms. It was no difficulty to move—one parcel, and his old shoes in the the toe of one shoe. On a preceding visit he had selected street address. Joe found the right into the wrong hallway—the one at the door, and, receiving no response, I rear, with which he was better acquainted. Joe had no difficulty in finding the stairs, passed through the flat and we were not there. Joe was troubled, but decided to detective Sergeants Joyce and Smith of it. It turned out that the detectives' of the shoes in a pawnshop. And the most still in its hiding place. Authorities Had to Distur NEW YORK.—A servant in the employ the rector of the Church of the Reof of the Pell home at 22 West Fifty-th I'M GOING TO MARRY YOUR HUSBAND HERE visiting cards," said Mrs. Pell. She "It is that," said the girl. "I just band and I are to be married in about know about it." The girl then calmly seated herself rector perform the ceremony himself in East Fifty-first street police station. Pell home, Miss Livingson jumped to "Oh, look at the pretty cop! N station." Patrolman Geiman took her to the telephoned Bellevue hospital for an an The girl asked what they were goe t told she would have to go to Bellevue "Oh, I know. I'm going to be obser and put me in the psychopathic ward ment." Chose Festive Season to CHICAGO.—"Merry Christmas," said the Marion hotel, as he left his ke at the foot of Van Buren street, gla moment, and then plunged into it. The police recovered the body. A letter addressed to the "City Authorities" was found in the man's clothing. It is believed financial difficulties had prompted Kesl to take his life. The letter read in part: "My house is gone—so is the money. About the latter I wouldn't care, because I could make it again, and make it honest, too. But what's the use of suffering? "I knew I couldn't last very long, so I've been giving my money away, a name I gave many and many a dollar I contributed to all good purposes. My I have not seen them for 25 years. "Hurrah for Uncle Sam; free Boho Cevna, Nora and the whole world's de "To h—— with the kaiser." mentioned Mr. Mitchell has been a prospector in California, with a residence here. Then one day, all of a sudden like, he realized his love was not dead, and forthwith he sent a query to Mrs. Katherine Gordon, 4016 North Pauline street. "Will you marry me?" he asked. At 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the knot was tied by Elder R. F. Mallott of the Maywood Church of Christ. Mr. Mitchell has a mysterious manuscript which he calls "The Crater urs not to wait until they are gray for a ars also he advises to make the most typed an "Air Castle" in the "Crater with Mr. Zackley, my employer. I could chance to win his love and didn't wish let him suspect my love. I might give er to return to the office." other, "you are sweet and sincere. You it may be that Mr. Zackley loves you. I'd to declare himself for fear of a re- a cannon's mouth than a thundering that you go back to the office tomorrow hand on his arm carelessly, let a little in a cheerful voice, 'I am ready for special demeanor assume a companionable Mr. Zackley has serious intentions he of you will be happy in each other's Prize Bone-Headed Thief Sangamon street, wishes the emperor master of his soul, would hang an iron thief. A generous mood prompts Joe's GEE! I'M GLAD THAT TIEF DIDN'T LOOK IN TH SHOE did." He saved his money until he had less currency of the good old U. S. A.ubs. He decided to broaden his field of the came, his worldly possessions in his he had his extra pants and sweater in the other. His savings he had tucked in erected a lodging place at the Sangamon building, but he inadvertently stepped 509 Sangamon street. He knocked at laid down his bundles and went to the hinted. The rear entrance at 507. He went upent on the front landing. The bundles sleep over it. Then he informed De the police. Reductions were correct, for they found money, all unconscious of its danger, was Curb This Young Girl's Plan doy of Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell, wife of resurrection, answered a ring at the door third street and admitted a well-dressed girl who said she wanted to see Mrs. Pell at once. She rose and bowed very formally when Mrs. Pell entered the room a few minutes later. "My name, madam," she said, "is Bertha Livingson, nineteen years old, unmarried, living in 25 East Ninety-ninth street. Do you recognize this, madam?" She held out a visiting card upon which was engraved "Alfred Duane Pell, D. D." "It looks like one of my husband's he then scrutinized her caller closely, just stopped in to tell you that your husat an hour. I thought you might like to self and said she guessed she'd have the in the Pell home. Mrs. Pell called the When Patrolman Geiman reached the her feet and exclaimed: Now I guess we all go to the police the station, where the lieutenant on duty, ambulance. going to do with her, and when she was for a while she laughed and said: served. Well, I'm not crazy, but go ahead. It'll be a fine psychological experi- To Give Up Life's Struggle and J. K. Kesl pleasantly to the clerk at they on the desk. He walked to the lakeanced at the cold, forbidding water a almost freely. Without mentioning my heart to the shivering kids and cripples, and my parents are suffering in poor Bohemia. Bohemia, Belgium. Vive in France, Serbie, democracy. THEKANSASCITYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th street. Bell Phone East 999. Bell Phone East 2789 Entered as second-class matter, August 1908, as the postoffice of Kayser City, Missouri, and act of March 1879. Nelson C. Crews, Editor and Owner Willa M. Glenn, General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. 80 Canada and Foreign Countries $1.00 ad- ditional. ADVERTISING RATES, $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. If the Y. W. C. A. is unable to pro- vide a new building for its needed ac- tivities why not rent suitable quart- ers temporarily and make a showing of its interest in the young women who want to live right? Judging from recent communications to this office nearly everybody endorses the idea of simplified funerals, yet practically everybody clings to the old, antiquated idea when the emergency arises. The horrible crime committed by a depraved white man at Camp Funston, is one more gruesome illustration of the fact that not all the danger to society rests upon the "Brutal, Burly Black Fiend" as the Star is wont to put it. The coal buyer should not only pay his bill but should watch the driver to see that he does not haul a part of the coal away. Complaints of this sort are becoming very frequent. Do not sign the ticket until you know the coal is all unloaded. A NEW CHAPTER: The establishment of Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Kansas University, on the 21st of December, 1917, affords to the Negro college young men of Kansas and the West, the opportunity of being fraternally associated with hundreds of the leading college men of the East, Alpha Phi Alpha, represents not only the oldest, but the best in Negro fraternities. And the new chapter at Kansas university, might pardonably congratulate its self on being the first Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, west of the Mississippi River. Mr. L. L. McGee, Theta, of Chicago, was the representative from the general organization, to make the chapter. He was assisted by Dr. Luther L. Peck, Rhô, now located at Kansas City, Kan., and Lieut. N. M. Sykes, Theta, and Dr. L. H. Norwood, Theta, both of whom are interns in the Kansas City General Hospital. After the initiation on Friday evening, December 21st, the initial banquet of the Chapter was had, followed on the evening of the 22nd, by an informal dance at one of the down town halls. Both banquet and dance were a success. The young men making the new chapter were formally known as Rho mega. Now as Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, they are endeavoring to prove a stor added to that cluster of radiences that are already illuminating this country, and making clear the path way of knowledge and brotherly love. WAVES OF PROSPERITY We are enjoying a wave of prosperity today as never before. It is true that in years gone by, we have had great waves of prosperity, but those were peaceful days, and the necessity of economy, conservation of the most pronounced type was not then as now a matter of great concern. The lesson of this was will benefit American people more than any of the others. Having a reputation as spendthrift, a habit acquired through the massive and unlimited wealth of our land, which has required the smallest amount of labor for the largest amount of production, we have more than lived up to this reputation. But now we come face to face with that same problem that many of the European countries have had to deal with, that of putting forth the greatest efforts for even the most ordinary yield. We therefore come to the problem not of hoarding, but of spending our money for those things, first which are our actual needs, and then if any be left, for those things which according to our position in life we term the luxuries. For instance, a man on $60 per month salary cannot afford to spend $100 per month, or to try to live with the man having an income of $100 per month. There is no reason on earth why these two calibre of men cannot exist on the same plane socially and be the best of friends, the one recognizing the financial ability of the other, but rather the character of the man. If we but take a much more diverse example, the millionaire and the professor, the truth of this situation comes home quicker to us. The millionaire recognizes the professor for his store house of knowledge and therefore his extreme usefulness and valuable asset to the community. If we are but careful than in these times to go so far and no further in our expenditures, not an industry will be greatly affected, and we shall ali be benefitted by even this universal catastrophe. Betty & Sam's Little Corner A THEY SAY —That you ought always to keep your pocket book where you can put your hand on it. —That if coal keeps advancing in price ladies will soon be wearing it for rings and ornaments. —That that was an awful scrap between two prominent society ladies the other day. Hair was scattered all around. —That some people in prominent life don't seem to care what they do nor what effect it will have on their future. Well it pays to be careful. —That what it takes to make men fight about their respective qualifications as charmers, Kansas City girls seem to possess. Well it ain't no different, believe me. —That some of those tramp preachers who are continually assailing the Sun are going to have their records printed in the very near future. Get us? --- —That if we have to go five days without coal such weather as we had last week, there's a whole lot of people will wish they were in——some warmer than Kansas City at the present time. —That it's the duty of every respectable Negro as well as every white friend of the race to show up and prosecute the horde of Negro Confidence men, panhandlers, fake preachers, and crooked newspapers publishers who are going about the city trying to fleece the public. Put them in prison where they belong. WANTED An intelligent and competent collector and manager for our Kansas City, Kansas, business. Only a capable, industrious woman need apply. The Kansas City Sun, 1803 East 18th Street. Classified Wants and Rooms to Rent FOR RENT—Furnished front room, steam heat, railroad porter preferred. Call East 3453J, 1415 Michigan. FOR RENT—Furnished room, modern, prices $2 to $2.25 per week. Bell Grand 4204. For Sale—Three chair barber shop. Old stand. Must sell at once. Have other business. $150.00 will obtain this shop at a sacrifice. 2211 Vine street. T. E. Grear. Large front room for rent with use of dining room and kitchen. Modern except heat. No objection to one child. Bell phone East 1654W. 1011 Michigan Avenue. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms, pantry, water in house, gas fixtures, exclusive use of kitchen and cellar, privilege of half yard, $3.00. Front furnished room, $2.25. All first floor. Inquire 1106 Michigan Ave. WANTED—Children to care for by the day or week. 1504 East Tenth street. Bell 'Phone East 1147J. FOR RENT—One apartment, 4 rooms and bath, first floor west in Alpha Flat, 22nd and Paseo. One apartment, 5 rooms and bath, 3rd floor east Omega Flat, 22nd and Flora Ave. Inquire Home phone Linwood 70. Burth Investment Co. FOR RENT. By the Willis Realty & Investment Co. 2610 Highland Avenue. 5 room apartment, 2607. Highland Ave., modern, $22.50 per month. For sale, 50 feet on Michigan Ave., between 26th and 27th, on easy terms, $500.00. 6 rooms on 24th street, lot 31x100, $17.50. $50.00 cash, balance $15.00 monthly. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918. Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City --- BAKERIES. MRS. SUSIE OWENS, 2331 Vine street. Bell phone, East 5017. HOME BAKERY. Mrs. A. Compton. Prop. 1717 E. 18th street. BARBER SHOPS LABORING MEN'S BARBER SHOP, W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558 Grand avenue. BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR DRESSERS. MISS ELSIE ROGERS, Poro Hair Dresser, 1244 Armstrong Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. MRS. CORA D. WILLIAMS, Poro Hair Dresser, 1319 Euclid Ave. Bell phone, East 1215-J. MRS. SUSIE P. GIPSON, 1725 Michigan avenue, Poro hair dresser. Bell Phone, East 3058J. CAFES. MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th, Bell Phone, E. 2214. FLORISTS. CROSTHAWIT FLORAL CO., 1501 E 19th. 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. 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 221. C. W. Neloms, Mgr. H. L. KINSLER, 918 East Twenty-first street. Bell phone, Grand 4204 3. G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E. Eighteenth street. Pell phone, East 1328. SHOE REPAIRING. ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP, J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514 $ \frac{1}{2} $ East Eighteenth street. Bell phone E 4393. UNDERTAKERS ADKINS BROS., Nineteenth and Vine streets. Both Phones, East 4349. East 4349. H. B. MOORE, 1104 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. All the musical talent of greater Kansas City, white and Colored, will hear Roland W. Hayes next Friday night. THE WILLIS REALTY & INVESTMENT CO., 2610 Highland Avenue. Bell Phone East 3440. HOMES FOR SALE For $1,000 up on Easy Terms. Estates Administered— Properties Taken Care Of Taxes paid for you, which you may repay by weekly or monthly installments. MONEY TO LOAN ON FURNITURE. To rooming house keepers and to honest working men and women who have an approved reputation of paying their obligations when due. Don't let your bills worry you; get a loan from us and pay them. You can pay us back in small weekly installments. Our business is strictly confidential Call Bell Grand 4204. Ask for Manager Home Phone E.4349 W. H. HUBBELL Since the ordinary car does the ordinary things, to take a ride in King Cole 8, one comes out of the past into the present. Our car is steam heated in winter, air cooled in summer. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! I want to sell the two following business enterprises— and its full equipment, including five automobiles. —ALSO— Three-fourths Interest in the Afro-American Investment and Employment Company The largest business of its kind in the world. I find that I have too much business to look after, so I have decided to get rid of some of it. Will sell on reasonable terms or will trade for Real Estate, Automobiles or secured notes. Parties who are interested, see FORTUNE J. WEAVER 1510 East 18th Street, Monday, Jan. 14th, 3 to 6 p. m. Colored People Intending to Come North or West--- Take Notice ditions. The M problem and is a Write at once close stamp for r The Monit and is able to te at once for camp for reply. The Monitor has taken up this and is able to be of service to you. Rate at once for information and en- amp for reply. Address. ditions. The Monitor has taken up this problem and is able to be of service to you. Write at once for information and enclose stamp for reply. Address. George Wells Parker, Business Manager of The Monitor, Omaha, Nebraska. A Wonderful I One thousand and THE STAR HAIR preparation. Can ening irons. Sells for 25c per value. Any person convinced. No m your hair just give trial and be convic If you wish to be send you a full s with at once; also by Money Order 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 use 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. THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a jar of EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. The remedy contains medical proprieties that go to the roots of the Hair stimulates the skin, helping nature do its work. The hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm and flowers. The best known remedy for Beautiful Black Eye-Brows, also restores it to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot straightening. Sent by Mail, 50c; 10 cExtra for Postage. e hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm and flowers. The best known remedy for Beautiful Black Eye-Brows, also restores it to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot straightening. Sent by Mail, 50c; 10 cExtra for Postage. Leaves the hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for Heavy and Beautiful Black Eye-Brows, also restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price, Sent by Mail, 50c; 10 cExtra for Postage. OUTFIT. 1 Temple 0.1 Press-Cream and Selling, N. E. Postage. S. D. LYONS, Gen. Agt., 314 East 2d St. Oklahoma City, Okla. Belle College and Hair Dressing Corium Manufacturers of Human Hair goods in all styles, viz: College and Hair Dressing The LaBelle College Emporium A Mme. S. E. L. KANSAS CITY, MO. S. E. LAIN S. E. LAING & CO. 1607 EAST 18TH ST. ```markdown ``` Leaves the of a thousand Heavy and Gray Hair Iron for Str AGENT'S OUTFIT. 1 Hair Grower, 1 Temple Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Pressing Oil, 1 Face Cream and Direction for Selling, $2. 28c Extra for Postage. FARMERS, farm laborers, skilled and unskilled workmen, who intend leaving the south should protect themselves against swindlers and chance con- THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFRS. Will Promote a Full Growth of Hair; Will also Restore the Strength, Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If your Hair is Dry and Wiry Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER Manufacturers of Human Hair goods in all styles, viz: Switches, Hair Puffs, etc., Wigs and Toupes made to order. French ventilating on net. Match any shade of hair. We guarantee to grow 4 inches of hair in six months with our Electric Scientific Method. We guarantee to cure all scalp diseases, viz: tetter, eczema, ring worm of scalp, etc., with our scientific preparations, if used according to directions. For all styles of artistic hair dressing for special occasions see Mme. Laing. We teach Hair Dressing, Wig Making, Hair, Manufacture, Manicuring and Facial Massage. Special inducements to apprentices. AGENTS WANTED everywhere to handle our La Belle Preparations and Hair Goods. Manufactured only by Oklahoma City, Okla. Bell Phone E. 1667W Home Phone E. 2192 Meyers Cleaning Co. KATZ & GERSHON Tailors Suits Made to Your Measure Cleaning, Pressing and Dyeing Auto Service 1518 E. 12th Street STORE BEAUTIFUL Quality are Paramount at the RED DRUG STORE Options to us and be assured curacy and Fair Treatment. COMPLETE IN ALL LINES and Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) N.E EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. THE DRUG STORE Service and Quality are P WHITE-WOOD DR Bring Your Prescriptions to of Absolute Accuracy and OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE N. W. Corner 19th and Vine S PHONES—HOME EAST 2 THE DRUG STORE BEAUTIFUL Service and Quality are Paramount at the WHITE-WOOD DRUG STORE Bring Your Prescriptions to us and be assured of Absolute Accuracy and Fair Treatment. OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE IN ALL LINES N. W. Corner 19th and Vine Streets. (Transfer Point) PHONES—HOME EAST 2293, BELL E. 641. Her Hair is Long, Soot and Fruity, Because the Girls Virt and VIGOR Hair Promoter Her Hair is Long, Soot and Fruity, Because the Girls Virt and VIGOR Hair Promoter YOUR MONEY! Martin Ladies' and Gents' Fishing Store to Save Money and Time Your Children's Clothing Here. 18th STREET. SAVE YOUR The W. L. Martin Lack Furnishing Will Show You How to Save Buy Your Child 1313 E. 18th S SAVE YOUR MONEY! The W. L. Martin Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Store Will Show You How to Save Money and Time Buy Your Children's Clothing Here. 1313 E. 18th STREET. Season Announcement 1217 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Everything For Every Lodge. Ask Every Lodge. Ask Us. Everything For Every Lodge. Ask Us. Have you visited the new, up-to-date Perfecto Hair Dressing Co If not, why not? Hair Dressing, Manicuring and Face Ma or Dressing College? not, why not?anicuring and Face Massage Hair Dressing, Manicuring and Face Massage PANE BAY WASHINGTON MARYLAND NENTLY AT 1636 EAST 18TH ST. PHONE, EAST 3955. LOCATED PERMANENTLY AT BELL PHONE, E. LOCATED PERMANENTLY AT 1836 EAST 18TH ST. BELL PHONE, EAST 3955. 1917 NO MORE SHORT, HARSH AND UNRULY HAIR Vim and Vigor Hair Promoter A new discovery—stops the hair from falling out and makes the hair long, soft and glossy. Thousands are getting results from its use. Are you? Get a box today and be convinced. Price 50 cents. For sale by all first class Drug Stores. If your druggist hasn't it, he will get it for you or you may send Money Order or 50 cents in stamps to THEO. SMITH Druggist and Distributor, 1301 E. 18th Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. Phones: Bell Grand 4591 Home Main 5467 All phone and mail orders promptly filled and delivered. We make switches and transformations from your combings. We guarantee to grow hair with our Perfecto System and Hair Grower in a shorter length of time than any other system in the United States or money refunded. We give diplomas to graduates. 5,000 agents wanted to sell our goods. Liberal discount to agents. Perfecto System taught by Mme. E. Floyd and Miss Willie Maniece, professional hair dressers and scalp specialists. CITY NEWS Triangular Oratorical Contest THE YATES BRANCH YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY, KANS., Three Cash Prizes to contestants, and a Lady Baltimore Cake, made by Miss Ethel Caution Davis, to the person selling highest number of tickets over 75. GENERAL ADMISSION, 10 CENTS PATRON TICKETS, INCLUDING GENERAL ADMISSION, 25 CTS. We ask the entire public's co-operation and support in this effort. Buy a ticket; if you cannot attend give it to a friend. Mr. Amos Randall of 2416 Montgall Ave., still continues quite ill. Have you ever tried the Spotless Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, the best place in town to eat? FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, 1514 East 17th street. Ball Bell phone Grand 3532W. The beautiful five room home of Mrs. Mary Hardy, 1620 Forest, was burned last week and everything was destroyed. Mr. S. K. Plummer the well known Chef of 2619 Highland Avenue, has been slightly indisposed during the week. Mrs. Lennie Hughes, 1111 E. 16th street entertained in honor of her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Boone Phillips of Denver, Colo., with a matinee party at the Shubert Theatre last Wednesday. Mr. Gene Rivers who was shot by a white man named C. O. Miles, some days ago died from his injuries and was buried under the auspices of Amos Johnson Lodge A. F. & A. M. last Tuesday. Mr. Frank Wilson, W. M., of Ideal Lodge 255 Independence, Mo., has been confined to his bed at 145 E. Nickel street, Independence, Mo., since December 22 with pneumonia. At this time he is somewhat improved. Miss Lizzie Wanzer of 1010 Woodland Avenue, niece of Mr. G. W. Teeters, and Mr. Will Reynolds, an employee of Jenkins Music Co., were quietly married January 6. Mrs. Lulu Slaughter, 16th and Lydia avenue, a former Chillicothean, met a very tragic death by being burned from a gas explosion. She leaves a husband, Fred Slaughter, a mother, brother, sister and two sons. The body will be taken to Atchison Kans., for interment. Mrs. Slaughter was a member of the Second Baptist Church at Chillicothe, Mo. IN MEMORIAM In memory of my beloved wife, Frances J. Wilson, who died December 1.3 116. 9 Oh wife, the days we've been missing you, Have lengthened into years And have left us many heartaches and tears But when we leave this world of care We shall find one missing love one In our Father's mansion fair. Sadly missed by husband and sister. Henry Wilson, Emma Lisbon. Triangular Orchestra THE YATES BRANCH YOUNG WORLD OF KANSAS in an endeavor to raise funds to carry contest and a rare music METROPOLITAN I Ninth Street and Washington JANUARY Contesting representatives LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL and WESTERN Three Cash Prizes to contestants by Miss Ethel Caution Davis, to the tickets over 75. GENERAL ADMISSION PATRON TICKETS, INCLUDING We ask the entire public's coo- Buy a ticket; if you cannot attend give MRS. THOMAS MRS. E. R. VAH MISS ORA WILL McKNIGHT BUYS DELMONICO. The Kansas City public and the traveling public as well will be delighted to know that the famous Delmonico Restaurant established by Mr. Henry Compton many years ago has passed into the possession of Mr. William McKnight, the well known head waiter, who is known from coast to coast, having had charge of the dining room of many of the most famous hostelries in America only recently leaving the Elms at Excelsior Springs where he has been for several years. He will renovate and remodel the restaurant, equip it in first class style and restore its old time prestige and reputation as the best Cafe for Coloried people in the entire west. The grand opening will be next Monday evening, January 21 and he invites all his friends as well as the old patrons of the establishment to call. The Cuisine will be up to the minute and the service Mack assures will be all that one could desire. Remember the number 1512 East 18th Street. Pianos and Victrolas Easiest Place to Buy is THE JONES STORE CO 3rd Floor 12th & Main Sts. Mrs. Katie Powell, 215 W. 37th St. who has been ill for the past three weeks is slowly improving. Chas, McQueen, 1418 Euclid Ave., has been appointed supervisor of Troop trains for the Pullman Co. [Picture of a young woman in a white dress with a belt and a hat.] Miss Alberta Collins the splendid little stenographer who did the bulk of the Clerical work for the Wheatley-Provident Hospital Campaign. Mrs. Will Hardy, 2611 Highland Avenue was called by teeyram to Walnut Grove, Missouri, to attend the bedside of her mother who is seriously ill. Mrs. Daisy Derritt, 5313 Prospect Avenue was accidently burned last Tuesday afternoon on face and head by an explosion of the stove. Her many friends are hoping that it will not result seriously. Mr. Nelson G. Porter of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the guest of his tenpenhew, Mr. Geo. Lee of 2447 Euclid Avenue last week returned home reporting a delightful trip. Mr. Porter is a graduate of the, school of Practipedes of that city and is employed with the Regal Shoe Co. A CARD OF THANKS. I wish to extend my sincere thanks to my many friends and relatives, also to the Ebenezer Choir and Amos Johnson Lodge 149½ A. F. A. M. for the many beautiful floral offerings and kindness shown me during the death and bereavement of my beloved husband. Laura Rivers. Historical Contest WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CITY, KANS., by on its work, will have an oratorical tical entertainment at the BAPTIST TEMPLE Boulevard, Kansas City, Kans. Y 25, 1918 is from these institutions: SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL UNIVERSITY is, and a Lady Baltimore Cake, made the person selling highest number of ESSION, 10 CENTS GENERAL ADMISSION, 25 CTS. operation and support in this effort. eve it to a friend. H. REYNOLDS, General Secretary. BUGHAN, President. WILLIAMS, Executive Secretary. IN MEMORIAM. In memory of our dear husband and papa, Howard Albert Anderson, who passed away five years ago today, January 14th, 1913. We laid our Howard dear away, To see again another day. His willing hands will toil no more, But wait in rest on yonder shore, Sleep on, dear Howard in your rest, We miss you most who loved you best. Mrs. Maymie R. Anderson and daughter, Martha, 2041 19th. St. A CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank Dr. Unthank and his splendid corps of assistants for their very kind attentions given me while in the hospital. I also extend my gratitude to my many friends in the city, especially Fred Dabney and Geo. Thomas for their kindness to myself and family. Gratefully submitted. Elijah Hendricks. Had Poor Opinion of Cooks. Heaven sends us ment, but the devil sends us cooks.—Garrick. Defined. Diplomacy is the art of being disagreeable in a polite manner.—Boston Transcript. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918. Habits of Crayfish. The crayfish may be described as a fresh water lobster, and usually lives a purely aquatic life, keeping to the river-bed. Some of the crayfish found in Australia, however, have forsaken the water and excavate burrows in damp soil. The tunnel leading to the heart of the burrow is free from water, but water is always present in the chambers at the end where the crayfish lives. They do much damage to artificial watercourses in the mining districts by riddling the banks and dams. Quila Board. The so-called ouija, board has no more intelligence than any other piece of wood and its movement or action in the supposed answering of questions is controlled or imparted to it either consciously or unconsciously, innocently or fraudulently, voluntarily or involuntarily, by the operator. It is practically the same thing under a new name as the planchette board, which had such a great run in the early days of the spiritualism craze.—Exchange. Mouth Decorations. It is amazing how ideas of beauty vary with latitude and longitude. In Japan, the professional beauty loves to appear with golden teeth, in India she prefers them stained red, but in certain parts of Sumatra no lady who respected herself would condescend to have any front teeth at all. They are removed the moment they appear, and strictly suppressed if they should try again. Utilizing Our Time We all need recreation, but we would indeed be acting most unwisely were we to give up all our spare time to the pursuit of pleasure. An evening now and then devoted to worthwhile study, or again utilizing a spare hour to the reading of a humorous story when we feel out of sorts, will without a question, prove a gilt-edge investment—Exchange. Waterproofing Concrete. To stop leakage through concrete, such as tunnel walls, clean the walls thoroughly and paint with a solution consisting of eight and three-quarter pounds of zinc sulphate dissolved in a gallon of water. The zinc sulphate will act on the lime in the cement, forming insoluble calcium sulphate and zinc hydroxide, which fill up the pores in the concrete. Important Discovery It has been discovered that large quantities of the dust that accumulates in certain portions of the apparatus used in making pig iron from iron ores—that is, in the blast furnaces—contains appreciable quantities of potash. The amount found depends on the kind of ore used in the blast-furnace charge. Origin of Collie's Name. The collie's name appears to be shrouded in mystery; but there seems to be a fairly reasonable foundation for supposing that it is from "coll" or "collar," on account of the broad white mark round the neck which is seen in the majority of these dogs. It Was Ever Thus. "The fair defendant will be acquitted, of course?" "I expect so," replied the prosecuting attorney. "As soon as she mounted the witness stand and smiled, the jury, nine out of the twelve began to fumble with their neckties and slick down their hair." Don-Id's Idea. Having been taken through the steerage on an ocean voyage, and knowing there were several "classes" on a ship, Donald, in his first conversation with the new English cook, asked, "Did you come over storage?" Born Together. Boldness and power are such inseparable companions that they appear to be born together; and when once divided, they both decay and die at the same time.—Henry Venn. A. True Pioneer Felling trees which he helped to plant eighty years ago is the unique experience of a man in Devonshire who is within three years of reaching the century mark. Bible Mention of Ebony. There is only one reference in the Bible to ebony. It occurs only in Ezra 27:15, as one of the most important commodities imported into Tyre. Out of the Mouths of Babes. "Papa," said small Harry, "if you and I were the same size, would you say and do things to me that make me fighting mad?" The Negro's Needs Now, about fifty-five years ago on the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, President Abraham Lincoln met, and supplied one of the greatest needs of the Colored American—that of personal freedom. In striking the shackles from more than four millions of slaves, he answered with one stroke of his pen, years and years of the white man's injustice toward the Negro. Reparation is made for wrongs and oppression and the Negro's possibilities take on a legitimate right in the social and political world. Truly in Lincoln, we found a great friend. The disadvantages and obstacles that the Negro has had to confront in his new life are now well nigh reaching over into three score years. But as innumerable as they are, the bow of hope stands out as we journey on, and reason teaches us that ours is a godly heritage, and was intended by the Heavenly Creator for every being made in his image. We are to be perfect in stature and mind, thus let us consider the requisites that will help us to attain this ideal. First, we should practice individual encouragement, and expect as much as possible from our white brother along this same line. True, he has organized in many ways for our spiritual and intellectual success, and we note particularly the work of the Freedman's Aid Society with its wonderful resources which have been used in a great measure to help the young Negro rise in the world of culture; yet on the other hand many bad examples have been set, and traitors have gloated in the fortunes made through the inability and ignorance of the Negro to cope with them in the world of industry. Since this is true we need encouragement from our own race before we can ever hope to succeed. I am sorry to say that there is a tendency among our members to be jealous of the achievements of the more intellectual, or in other words, instead of lifting up, they pull down. We can never rise as a race in the truest sense of the term, 'til we realize how disastrous this jealousy is to our racial development. Mrs. Chapman says: "Let but our people once unite, Stand firmly as a race. Prejudice, error, strong to fight, Each hero in his place." Second, let us speak of gratitude, something we very much need. One writer says: "Gratitude is the memory of the heart," and this is a good definition. Where there is no memory of the heart there is no possible chance of an amicable reconciliation and truly an absence of gratitude. The implied motives lie dormant, when there is no impulse to move one to gratfulness and this is essentially effective in our character as a race. We should be more thankful to our fellow man, and to our Creator, for the multitude of blessings that are constantly coming upon us. Without these true essentials in one's life, he is out of his place in the world, and of no service anywhere. Viewing these, our short comings, we have timidity in challenging others for the respect and homage that is due us from them. An ungrateful man is a curse to his race. "He that calls a man ungrateful, sums up all the evil that there is in him."—Swift. Let us conclude that he is not a noble specimen of manhood, and fit only to be consigned a failure. Reliance, the third essential to which we wish to call attention, stands today as a necessity to the Negro in the business world, far above the traversy seen in the white man's daily doings. We cannot stop with negotiating contracts with one another because of compulsion, but we should be glad to do so, and that with a certain trust, and confidence that will stimulate further activities along all lines of industry. By way of illustration we put a protection around the scion for support but if we let this remain too long the growth and also the usefulness of the tree will be forever ruined. So it is with the Negro race in our various pursuits and activities. There was a time when we had to help almost entirely upon the white man for all our accomplishments, but now the day has dawned when we must rely upon ourselves. This done, we will have a higher conception of life's responsibilities. When I said the necessity of the Negro in the business world should be above the traversy seen in the white map's daily doings, I simply meant that his business trust should carry with it at least as much religion as we find in James Martineau's fines under the caption, "Trust." "Strip us, O Lord, of every proud thought; fill us with patient tenderness for others, seeing that we are always in the same case before Thee, and make us ready to help, and quick to forgive. And then fix every grace. compose every fear, by a steady trust in thine eternal realities, behind the changes of time and the delusions of men. Thou art our Rock, we rest in Thee." SELF RESPECT should not be sent out as a harbinger to hail our enemies as to our virtues, with a mass of verbage, but on the other hand we should be self reliant and this backed up with a principle in every man of the race. If we want others to believe in us, let us believe and trust in ourselves. No man has reason to claim the respect of his fellows, unless he first respects himself. Self respect is never attained until an individual lives a clean life, physically—"For cleanliness is next to godliness." Morally, "For the body is the temple of God, and if any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy." A man cannot be self respecting who leads a double life; he must live openly, and righteously. Self respect is the noblest garment with which any man may clothe himself; the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. One of Phythogras' wisest sayings in his "Golden Verse" is, that in which he enjoins his pupil to reverance himself. Borne up by this high ideal, he will not defile his body by sensuality, nor his mind by servile thoughts. This sentiment carried into daily life will be found at the root of all the virtues—Cleanliness, Sobriety, Chastity, Morality, and Religion. To think meanly of one's self is to sink in one's own estimation, as well as in the estimation of others. As the thoughts are, so will be the acts. A man cannot live a high life who grovels in an immoral sewer, and his own thoughts are none inspiring, if he looks downward at all times. The very humblest man may be sustained by the proper indulgence of upward glances, and poverty itself may be lifted, and made light by self respect. With the loss of this element we are likely to lose all that makes manhood and woman-hood true, and ennobling. Let us consider lastly, but by no means least, the Negro's need of Justice. At the same time we can make it an appeal to our brother in white. In the words of Davis, we will say to hom first: "Judge us not by hights to which we have reached, but the depths from whence we came." At the words, we say that not a Negro in the land, need hank his head in shame. The Negro needs justice, not only from the South, but from the North, East and West. Our neighbors point to us from every side with a finger of accusation, saying; "We have less morality, less intelligence, less energy than they, and in fact less of every thing that tends to make the race progressive. This saying is in too many cases accepted, because of our teaching in the past—that the white man is superior in every thing. If they would only stop to think who's hands transformed the wooded continent to the beautiful garden that it now is, and how the springs of wealth, like back-waters, have found their way into the white man's coffers, by the Negro's brawny snows, these saying would die out and fade away like the morning dew before the rising sun. "To be perfectly just in an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."—Addison. "Man is unjust, but God is just, and finally justice triumphs."—Longfellow. "If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be just, he that doth no injury, fears not to suffer injury; the unjust mind is always in labor; it either practices the evils it hath projected, or projects to avoid the evil it hath deserved."—Quarrels. "The only way to make mass of mankind see the beauty of justice, is by showing them, in pretty plain terms, the consequence of injustice."—Sidney Smith. "Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind Shrewd Observer. Some ladies are willing to join any kind of an improvement society that plays bridge.—Louisville Courier-Journal. A FLYER AT ADVERTISING IN THIS PAPER IS NOT AN AEROPLANIC EXPERIMENT Our rates are right—they let people know your goods and prices are right. Run a series of ads. in this paper. If results show, other conditions being equal, speak to us about a year's contract :: :: :: THAT PLAN NEVER LOST A MERCHANT ONE PENNY 809-811WalnutSt Crossett's Annual Sale Regular Price Sale Price Lot 1 $5.00 $3.95 Lot 2 6. to 10 4.45 Lot 3 6.00 4.95 Lot 4 6.50 5.45 Lot 5 7.00 5.95 Lot 6 7.50 6.45 Lot 7 8.00 6.95 Lot 8 9. to 10 7.45 Ladies fancy striped silk hosiery $1.50 value, now $1.15 Crossett Shoe Store 105 Main St., K. C. Mo W. D. Wallace, Mgr. MATTHEW AND JOHNSON For All Entertainments — See — C. H. HARRIS, Mgr. 1731 Lydia Ave. BROADWAY ON LYRIC HALL FOR RENT 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. RATES REASONABLE. Found Wanting (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) "I say." Reeves Darlow, lolling against a tree trunk a few feet beyond a high stone wall, his sketching outfit lying neglected at his side, uttered the ejaculation sharply and sat up. His hand sought a certain spot on his forehead, with which suddenly, unexpectedly some flying object had come in contact. The blow had been a sharp one, broke the skin and evidenced the possibility of a rising lump. He wondered what had struck him, and why. Then he recalled the sound of merry grishtish voices beyond the wall. "Something thrown—of course not purposely," he sallooquized. "Ah, there's the missile—a slipper." As he arose he observed the object in question. It lay on the grass, white, small, high-heeled, dainty. He turned it over and over in his hand, somewhat admiringly. Then he roused at the echo of a rustling sound. Where a portion of the wall was gone and there was a breach like a gateway, a graceful feminine figure had appeared. One foot was slipperless. Here was the owner of the innocent missile. About to advance and tender the sipper, Darlow was a good deal disappointed as its owner uttered a scream and, turning, flashed back out of view like a nimble sprite. A great hubbub arose beyond the wall. "What scared you Norma—a bear?" cried out an animated voice. "Worse than that." "A horrid man?" "A man, but not particularly horrid, Rather distinguished looking, I judge, from the fleeting glance I got. But oh! me limping on my stockinged foot! Quick, Melba, grab the ball and let us vanish." There were mock exclamations of fright and dismay. Darlow reached the wall and waved the slipper over it, but, scurrying from the field, a group of half a dozen girls paid not the slightest attention, while with a shocked expression of face the denuded one, she who had lost the slipper, ran the fastest, her white silk-covered foot gleaming in and out of the grass entirely fascinating in its nimbleness and gracefulness of form. "Him!" observed Darlow, "she must have footgear galore to disdain the return of the slipper. I see, a bevy of girls playing at football, a wild kick, and hence the slipper. And my bump!" and Darlow ruefully rubbed the unaired spot. "As to the slipper, I keep it as a memento. It may suggest a romantic pencil sketch, or a story." He threw the pretty satin-bowed tride into his sketching case, closed it and pursued his way. Reeves Darlow's way just now was the way of an idle stroller off on a hit-or-miss jaunt. He forgot about the slipper by morning. Its owner ceased to fill his thoughts before the close of the day following. Meantime, she of the lost slipper, Norma Edgeworth, and her breathless associates cleared the field and settled down to rational progress. "It's a pity to leave that slipper behind, Norma," spoke one of her companions. "Oh, you know I'm bound with the morning for an environment where satin slippers and the like will be a negligible quantity." "Surely you have got that foolish scheme of yours out of your head, dear?" "Never!" dissented Norma with vigor. "It isn't a scheme, it's a test." "And you are bound to go through with it?" "Barring the possibility of some of you chatterers betraying the fiction." "Oh, we'll be true blue, Norma!" proclaimed an urgent chorus. All this would have been Greek to the unadvised. All would have been mystery for that same class, had they seen Norma Edgeworth twenty-four hours later. Whereas, she had borne the presentment of a fashionably dressed young lady and surrounded by companions suggesting the same order, the next day Norma was installed in an old-fashioned farmhouse ten miles distant, as pretty as ever, though arrayed in calico, but engaging in active housework, and seeming to enjoy it. It was lining a hedge that marked the farm limit on one side that Reeves Darlow found himself two days after the incident of the slipper. Was it fate, or merely natural and coincidental, that, glancing beyond it, he noted a graceful girlish figure hanging some handkerchiefs on a line to dry. A quizzical expression came into the face of this strolling artist as he discovered something else. The girl in view wore odd slippers. On one foot was a black slipper, and on the other one of white satin, the counterpart of the one resting within the sketching case he carried at that moment. "I declare" communed Reeves with himself, a token of rare interest in the autonation. "I've found the mate of my Ungerella acquisition." There could be no doubt of it. He had caught only a momentary, glimpse of Norma Edgeworth back at the town mendow. She was now in calico, whetens the malden of the field had been arruyed in silk, but he was sure, despite the puzzling transition, that this girl was the one who had caused that discolored mark just over the left eyebrow. "She is worth looking at," he declared. "I will supply the missing slipper and I hope to get better acquainted." Honk! Honk! Reeves glanced at the roadway in front of the house to discern that a handsome automobile had just halted there. A rather foppily dressed young man got out of the machine. The girl in calico observed the newcomer. She darted behind the kitchen of the house. She rumpled up her hair, she jerked her apron awry and picked up an old battered milk pail. Then she stepped again into the view of the road and exhibited, or rather feigned, vast surprise as the young man advanced toward her. "Then it's true?" Reeves heard him say, but no more, for the girl joined him and they walked to a bench under a great spreading oak. The appearance of a possible lover somewhat dampened the former exuberance of Reeves. Still, he was very much puzzled. The newcomer acted uneasy and embarrassed. The twain conversed for some time, then the girl arose. She removed a ring from her engagement finger. The young man accepted it, bowed profoundly and returned to his automobile. Honk! Honk! It was off and gone. The girl turned toward the house, her face once more in full view of the hedge hurker. She was smiling, as if enjoying some great joke. Reeves groped in his mind vainly to find some solution to this extraordinary circumstance. He fancied the moment had come to reveal himself. He had taken the slipper from his case. He penetrated the hedge with the slipper in his hand. "Pardon me," he said, "but I think this lost property is yours." Norma Edgeworth came to a quick halt. She stared blankly at the intruder. Then her quick mind worked out the problems of the moment. "Yes," she said, flushing slightly. "You are the gentleman who offered it to me once. Thanks, I will take it now." "It struck me there," observed Reeves craftily, exposing the abrasion on his forehead. "It sort of scattered my wits for the moment, or I would have tried to find its owner." She essayed a pitying look as he recounted his injury, she began to smile as he droly dwelt upon the oddity of the incident, and then the ice was broken, and somehow he lingered for an hour, and again somehow he was a visitor to the farmhouse the next day. A week went by. What could such harmonious companionship lead to but love—real, mutual love? Reeves affirmed it under that same broad spreading oak tree, and Norma did not seek to deny its existence. "Suppose some day you should realize the vast distance between a poor farm girl and a successful artist?" she suggested artfully. "I have money and love enough for both," he declared. "I think I had better confess," said Norma. "The young man who visited me here was a suitor for my hand—and fortune! I suspected that, and saw to it that he heard of my loss of wealth. You know the result. I never cared for him, but I have no father and mother, only money, and I felt lonely and helpless, and my friends urged me to try and like him, but I couldn't. It seems there was only one person I could love." "Only one?" "Yes, dear—only you." ANIMALS OF THE CAUCASUS Inhabitants Have Preserved Much of the Original Character of Their Stone Age Ancestors. The Caucasus lies on the road which links Europe to Asia and its high valleys offer a safe refuge to man and his herds. This explains both the mixed and archaic type of its domestic fauna, which shows some curious analogies with the human material of the curious living ethnographic museum of those regions, observes a writer. In all probability not one of the domestic animals of the Caucasus is autochthonous. The earliest epoch of the importation is prehistoric; the latest is contemporary with our own generation. Even the samples belonging to the stone age have preserved a good deal of the original character of their ancestors, owing mainly to the preservative character of the mountain region. Turkestan, the countries of the Cretan civilization, North Africa and America have each furnished their quota. From Europe hall the bull and the dog. The so-called Tartar dog especially, a descendant of the wolf, had its ancestral home in the plains of Volga. Natural Animal Camouflage Natural Animal Camouflage. If you would study camouflage by land go look at the wild animals, says a writer. See how the tawny lion and striped tiger are painted to resemble the tall, yellow bush grass of the jungle. The giraffe is painted with a quaint diamond pattern exactly like the flickering lights among the acacia trees on which he feeds. The leopard, the jaguar and all spotted cats, the spotted deer, and the dappled horse are painted to imitate light under a shady tree. The pig is patched pink and brown like the sunlight, and the shadow of the denser woods. The elephant is painted a hazy brown like the great trees of the deepest forest. So all the wild beasts are colored for concealment in their natural landscape, while many of them change their clothes with the seasons, wearing white for the snowy winters, brown for the torrid summer. THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918. Heathens of South America PORTRAIT OF A MEN AND A BOY IN A THATched HUT House of the Aimara Indians. NINFORMED persons often ask why it is necessary to send missionaries to South America en, where all the countries are Christian. Replying to this query, in the Missionary Review of the World, Rev. Dr. Gerhard J. Schilling of Buenos Aires says there are millions of souls in that continent who have never yet heard of the Christian faith, and other millions who have a very wrong idea of it. Few American Christians, he continues, have any definite idea of the number and condition of these unevangelized multitudes. Their numbers are not known. In the United States it is estimated that there are 200,000 Indians and many mission boards in North America which carry on work, among the various tribes. Contrast the conditions in the southern continent. In Ecuador, for instance, out of a population of 1,250,000, the Indians number S70,000. These are very low in the scale of civilization, and the majority of them are absolutely unevangelized. Moreover, 200,000 of the Indians in that republic have never as yet been politically subdued. They still roam in the forests, killing game with their poisoned arrows and bringing down birds with their long blowpipes. Any approach to them is unsafe, and no 'one seems willing to expose his life in an effort to win them to Christ. Half the People Indians. Look at Pern. The last census reveals the fact that 57.6 per cent of its population of 2,592,000 are Indians. Some of these have heard of the Christian faith and some will even salute a church when they pass, but 2,000,000 of them could not give a reason for the faith that is within them. In Bolivia we find 50.9 per cent of the people Indians, or 920,864; of the 486,018 of "mixed population" returned in the last census, almost all have little of Spanish and much of Indian blood in their veins. So we can safely add 1,000,000 Indians as the Bolivian contingent. No man living can tell how many Indians live in Brazil. Baron de Santa-Anna Nery, authority on the question of Indians in the Amazon valley, actually gives the names of 373 tribes in that region. I venture to say that there are from 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 of Indians in Brazil. In addition to these millions there are the unnumbered Guaranies and Lengunas, 25,000, as Rev. W. B. Grubb estimates, in Paraguay and the Gran Chaco of Argentine. There are the Patagonians of the South and the Auracanians of Chile. One could fill pages with only an enumeration of their tribal names and a guess at their numbers. The manner of living among these Indians is as varied as the area in which they dwell. Begin with the southernmost, the Onas of Tierra del Fuego. Although they are exposed for months during the rains to frost and snow, they go about almost naked, and entirely so in their poor habitations, which often take the form of caves dug into the side of a hill. Many of them are polygamists, and all show very little respect for the government. Not long ago a Chilean army officer stationed among them was found pierced by 25 arrows pointed with splinters of glass. A much sturdir race are the Aracanians. Among all the aborigines of the region now called Chile, they only have never been conquered, neither by the Incas who extended once their empire as far as Maule, or by the Spaniards who had to withdraw from them. It has been my privilege to preach to them in 1007, and I found among the family of Mapuches, near Carahue, a very kind reception. They live in large huts, called rucas, the sides of which are made of braches, straw and occasionally of hides. Some of these rucas are large enough to shelter all the members of one of the smaller tribes. Kill the Babes and Aged. The Indians of the Gran Chaco, the northwestern reserves of Argentine, and the Guaraníes are first cousins. Rev. W. E. Grubb, who knows most about them, says: "Although canni- balism is not practiced in the Chaco, the people have many stories about it, which may be only invented. But it is quite possible that they are the result of a long-forgotten habit. These cannibals are supposed to be located in the far West, and in that direction among a people of Guarani descent, such practices were evidently in vogue. The most prevalent crime among the Lengua-Mascoy (one of the Paraguay tribes) is that of infanticide, which they do not rank in the same category as the murder of a grown child or adult, and this evil is so general, that the very existence of the race is endangered. There are many reasons for infanticide. The strongest incentive to the crime is the difficulty of nurturing and bringing up a young family under the most unfavorable conditions, especially the shortage of food. Another feature of heathenism, found among the Lengua-Mascoy Indians, which is apt to strike one at first sight as extremely cruel, and indicative of a total lack of natural affection, is the habit of hastening the death of the aged and the victims of a serious accident or sickness. So long as there is any probable hope of recovery, the patient is kindly treated and attended to, but their attitude to these unfortunate at once changes when they realize that their efforts are in vain. Then they hasten death by starvation and neglect, sometimes even by violence, and wilful, premature burial is by no means an uncommon occurrence. In Bolivia there are even today a great number of distinct tribes of Indians. The two most prominent families are the Quetchus and the Aimaraes. Having lived several years in Bolivia, it was my joy to establish preaching services among the Aimaraes. The Quetchus belonged to the four original tribes which unitedly composed the Inca empire. The proud Aimara, once considering himself the lord of the eternal mountains, is now a shy and crushed servant. He evades the white man who so treacherously treated his forebears in the days of the Atahualpa, the Croesus of his time. With the Spanish political yoke the religion of the conquerors was enforced upon all natives. Many of them little cared whether one image, that of the sun or moon, or another, that of the cross or of the "mother of heaven," adorned their temples or surmounted the hills Cannibals of Bolivia. There are 25 more major tribes of Indians in Bolivia. On the official maps used in the Bollivian schools, drawn by Dr. Dan Bustamante, all these are called "salvajes" or savages. Some of these, as the Guanas who are bordering on Paraguay, or the Chacaros of the East Indies, are still cannibals. No one knows their language, and they hide in the marshes or climb into the trees at the approach of the white man. Lucky, indeed, the foreigner who, having been saved from their poisoned arrows, has been permitted to reach the outer border of their domains. I little wonder at the wild heathen rites and orgies after having seen several of the festivities and pagan dances performed by the so-called Christian Indians in Bolivia. These dances took place during one of their church festivals. I saw them gather for the dance, sewed into the skins of the alpacca, twitating bears, or wearing masks representing lions or rats. This consisted of stepping slowly to the weird sound of bamboo flutes, meanwhile describing large circles. Suddenly they stop at the sign of their leader, turn about and retrace in dancing step the circle just marked. At another signal they stop, altogether, when their squaws regale them with small tin cups filled with diluted raw alcohol, manufactured from sugarcane. In a few minutes dancing is resumed, and some of the men kept this up for forty or forty-eight hours, when they fell in death-like stupor to the ground. They never took off their masks or fancy dresses during all this time, and even slept out their debauch in the attire of their orgies. FINDING A DESIRABLE WIFE Lonely Young Pioneer Who Did Not Know How, Found It Was Really Rather Simple. In a new settlement in the thick forest, 20 miles or more from a city and ten miles from a railway, were located a sawmill and a few scattered homesteaders who worked at the mill when it was running and attended their little clearings' at other times, relates a writer in the Chicago Tribune. One day in the cook's camp, connected with the mill, the man and his wife in charge began joking the homesteader about being the only settler in the whole community without a wife and family. "How can I help it?" said he. "There are no marriageable women that I know." "Oh, there are lots of them that would be glad of a good home such as you could furnish," said they. "Well, you just find me one," said the homesteader, "and I will make you a present of the best cow on the place." Not to be bluffed, they accepted his proposition. Then they got busy, running over their list of acquaintances in the city, finally selecting, for their matchmaking expedient, an estimable lady of their acquaintance, living with her married sister in the city. The victim selected for the sacrifice had reached that age when unmarried women cease to celebrate birthdays and begin to regard the tapering end of statistical possibility with more or less concern. The homesteader was about the same age, and, evidently, just as much concerned about his future on earth. A friendly invitation was forthwith extended to the lady to spend a week with the cook's family at the camp. It was innocently accepted. The homesteader was conveniently invited to a Sunday dinner with the cook's family, and the tragedy was staged. A case of love and desperation at first sight. In the afternoon, chaperoned by the cook and his wife, the party casually strolled over to the homesteader's bungalow, where they found everything "spick and span," with just enough incongruity in the arrangement to make the fingers of an orderly housekeeper tingle with ambition to put things in their proper corners. A few months later the records in the county clerk's office gave a hint of further developments, which were staged at the sister's home in the city. The happy couple at once settled in their new home "and lived happily ever afterward." In the excitement the poor cow was crowded off the stage and forgotten by the matchmakers, but a short time later, looking out one morning, they saw Mr. Homesteader driving a cow into camp—as good as his word. South African Shoe Trade. South African Since Trade Cape. Province has numerous firms which manufacture boots and shoes. Many of these are engaged in the production of high-class footwear though, as a rule, the better class of footwear that is popular in this country, is obtained from overseas, writes Consul General George H. Murphy, Cape Town. The foreign producer, with his highly specialized factories, is able, with the aid of the importing merchant, to flood the market here with enormous quantities of boots and shoes, either made for the South African trade, or forming a part of his surplus output. The result is that the South African producer is unable to command a sufficient market to warrant extensions of his plant to meet large calls which may be made by the wholesaler. He must content himself with producing high-grade footwear in small quantities for the retailer. Large quantities of boots and shoes are being received from the United States, partly as a result of the impossibility of obtaining adequate supplies elsewhere. When the Doctors Despaired. There have been recorded during the war many being cured by accidental means, such as a sudden noise or an unexpected visitor, or as a startling question, and in one case at least a midnight fall out of bed. But one of the strangest cases belongs to a former war, observes a correspondent, where a soldier lay 15 months under the influence of catalepsy. Finally, in despair, the doctors ordered the bagpipes to be played near the patient's bed. That did the trick. There is a story told of a skipper who had a medicine-chest containing cures numbered one to seven. For dyspepsia he administered a stiff dose of No. 7. For sprains, No. 2 was the bottle, and for rheumatism, No. 5 seemed to work the oracle. But on a lengthy voyage the skipper ran out of No. 7, so when next a member of the crew had a pain in his middle he dosed him with a mixture of 2 plus 5. Nobody had another pain during that voyage, or, at any rate, confessed to having one. Will Purchase Foreign Hides. Will Purchase Foreign Hides. Ω Sole, published at Milan, contains an article on the formation of an association for the purchase of foreign raw hides. The directing committee, it states, met at Rome and nominated as president Commendatore Gennaro Maffetone of Naples. The seat of the association in Rome was fixed at the Hotel Splendid, where the wool association is installed. It has been possible to enable the office to begin without delay the admission of associates, and the organization of purchases, finances, insurance, freights, etc. A Bird in the Hand THE CHICKEN HOUSE A Double Yard—Alternating the Flock Allows Green Feed to Grow. PROCEED WISELY WITH CHICKENS MAKE START WITH PUREBRED Householders Usually Desire Not Only Eggs for Table, But Also an Occasional Chicken to Eat—Light Breeds for Eggs. You want to start a backyard hennery or improve the one you have—you have gone that far in your determination to help the meat and egg supply—how shall you begin? What kind of fowls shall you keep, how many and how shall you procure them? These are your next considerations. Here are the suggestions of specialists of the United States department of agriculture on these points. They will help the beginner especially, but should also help the town householder to make his flock more serviceable. First, the kind of breed. This will depend somewhat on whether you desire eggs, meat or both eggs and meat. Householders usually desire not only eggs for the table and for cooking, but also an occasional chicken to eat. If this is your desire one of the general-purpose breeds, such as Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red or Orpington, is preferable to the smaller egg breeds, such as the Leghorns. Not only do the mature fowls of these breeds, because of their larger size, make better table fowls than the Leghorns, but the young chickens for the same reason make better friers and rosters. Chickens of the egg breeds are suitable only for smaller broilers. Hens of the general-purpose breeds also are more "broody," making good sitters and mothers, which is a decided advantage when it is desired to hatch and raise chicks. Hens of the egg breeds seldom become broody and are in any event rather unreliable sitters and mothers. If, however, the desire for eggs outweighs that for an occasional table fowl the lighter egg breeds undoubtedly will be more practicable because they lay as many eggs and eat less feed, with the result that they produce the egg more cheaply. It is by all means advisable to keep some pure BEGIN WISELY WITH CHICKEN ENS—BUT BEGIN. If you have not kept chickens before ask advice from trustworthy sources before you launch the backyard venture. Get in touch with the local poultry association, the county agent and some successful poultrymen. Write your state agricultural college and the United States department of agriculture for bulletins on poultry raising. Don't be discouraged if the advice is a bit conflicting. There are several ways to succeed with chickens, as with anything else. This war is a test of nations even more than of their material resources and strength. The issue of it depends on the relative intelligence, moral qualities and attitude of the people engaged.—Secretary Houston. Chickens never wash, as many other birds do, but cleanse themselves of insects by wallowing in soil. For this reason every poultry house should be provided with a dust box. Start with pure stock—that will make the increase and eggs for hatching marketable at better prices. breed or variety. If this is done sales at a profitable figure often can be made of breeding stock which it is intended to market or of eggs for hatching. The size of the flock which can be most efficiently kept will depend, first of all, upon the space available, and, secondly, upon the amount of table scraps or waste which is available for feed. It is a mistake to try to overstock the available space. Better results will be obtained from a few hens in a small yard than from a larger number. The backyard poultry flock rarely will consist of more than 20 to 25 hens, and in many cases of not more than eight or ten, or occasionally of only three or four. For a flock of 20 to 25 hens a space of not less than 25 feet by 30 feet should be available for a yard. If less space is available the size of the flock should be reduced, allowing, on the average, 20 to 30 square feet for each fowl. A few hens sometimes may be kept successfully with a smaller yard allowance than this, but if the space is available a yard of the size indicated should be used. Ordinarily, the best way for the city poultry keeper to start a flock is to buy pullets in the fall when they are cheaper. Unless there is a scarcity in the community now, however, there is likely to be little trouble in securing a few hens at this time, although prices probably will be higher. Pullets obtained at this time will give better returns if eggs are desired, while if the intention is to raise chicks older laying hens may be used, or day-old chicks' can be purchased and a start made in that way. How to Buy Hens. When pullets or hens are to be purchased it is well, if possible, to go to some farmer or poultryman who is known to the prospective buyer. If there is no opportunity to go into the country for pullets, they often can be selected from among the live poultry shipped into the city to be marketed. The advice of some one who knows poultry should be sought in making such a purchase to make sure that pullets or young hens are obtained and that the stock is healthy. Often the local poultry associations are glad to help the prospective poultry keeper to get stock by putting him in communication with some of its members having stock for sale. Sometimes the local board of trade or chamber of commerce is glad to help in bringing together the prospective purchaser and the poultry raiser. In a later article suggestions as to how an inexpensive poultry house may be built or converted from an unused shed will be given. Feeding Ducks. Ducks may be fed on the rations recommended for fowls and chickens, but better results are usually secured by feeding more green and vegetable feeds and a larger proportion of mash. Eggs from Pekin ducks are used largely for hatching, and the profit is secured in producing green ducklings (ducks fattened and marketed at the age of eight or twelve weeks); therefore these ducks are fed a maintenance ration after they stop laying in the summer until about December 1, when a laying ration is given and the amount of mash increased. Indian Runner ducks have been introduced as producers of commercial eggs, so they should be fed laying rations throughout the year if kept for egg production. Don't keep a male bird unless you want fertile eggs. Hens lay just as well without a male. Don't overstock your yard. Twenty to thirty square feet for each hen is an average allowance. If you can get them, purchase well-matured pullets rather than hens. Keep the hens confined to your own land. Dry Pen for Sheep. Sheep want a dry, alrry pen with lots of sunshine. Merchant Ships and Yankee Gunners By RALPH D. PAINE. A RE American armed merchant ships really sinking any German submarines? If you care to believe the waterside rumors and fo'castle yarns, one of these devilish marauders is rammed or blown up on every voyage across the Atlantic. In saloons where merchant seamen seek haven and pound the bar with hairy fists strong liquors magnify the tales, and one concludes that the kaiser's undersea fleet must be wiped out by now. The navy's records are less fanciful, strictly adhering to the motto of the man from Minnesota Here is the account of an action fought by a cargo steamer which leaves no room for doubt that one very busy U-boat was suddenly removed from the active list of the imperial German navy. It is advisable to omit the name of the chief boatswain's mate who commanded the gun crews. He was promoted to warrant rank as a reward for the feat and is now stationed ashore, but he may go to sea again in charge of another lot of gunners, and if he should be taken prisoner the enemy would not love him for what he did to a missing submarine. In his official report he states: "Weather hazy. Saw a submarine firing on a topsail schooner, which shortly after blew up. Changed course to bring the submarine on our starboard beam about 5,000 yards distant and lost sight of her in haze. Continued on this course for two hours and then resumed our original course. At 2:55 p. m. the submarine appeared out of the haze at 2,500 yards on our starboard beam. She immediately opened fire. We changed course to bring her three points on the starboard quarter and returned the fire. "The engagement lasted 35 minutes, during which time the submarine fired about 40 shots, scoring one hit under our port counter a foot from the water, and causing a leak. We fired 27 shots. The twenty-sixth shot was seen to hit her just forward of the forward gun, and a cloud of flame and dark gray smoke burst from the hatches. The crew of the submarine left the gun and ran afi. Almost instantly the submarine sank, bow first, the stern lifting high out of the water, so that the propellers could be seen revolving. The steamer was leaking and temporary repairs were made by the crew." When the ship reached her foreign port of destination and reported the victory an official inquiry was ordered by the French-government. A naval lieutenant conducted it with great care and confirmed the verdict of the American gunners. The steamer fought with the American flag flying, he stated in his written opinion, firing 27 shots in half an hour. The distance increased about 100 meters for each shot. The twenty-sixth shot exploded, producing a thick black smoke, which was visible to all on shipboard. Such an explosion must have been produced in the submarine itself. He said, in summing up the evidence: "The result of the inquiry is that the fight has been very well conducted and that the men have shown a very fine spirit, doing honor to the American navy. The conclusion may be drawn that the submarine was hit and probably sunk." This was first-class shooting, the submarine steadily drawing away until when struck she was 5,000 yards, and more, or three land miles from the steamer. Blinoculars and telescope sights enabled the gunners to distinguish her with clearness and to note the effects of the shell which ended her wretched career. It was her commander's intention to move beyond range and continue the action on the chance that he had the bigger guns, but he miscalculated, and paid the price. It seemed a cruel slant of fortune that this American steamer, which so brilliantly bagged a submarine, should have accidentally burned at sea on her next voyage. There was no time to stretch hose or muster the crew. Ablaze in an instant, she was one vast furnace while the men raced for the boats with death at their heels. All hands got away, including the navy gunners, and their cruise in open boats was made without severe suffering. It was all in the day's work. Very similar to this successful encounter was the adventure of the steamer Silver Shell. In this instance also the French ministry of marine added its opinion that the submarine had probably been hit and sunk. The chief gunner won promotion shortly after this statement was issued by Secretary Daniels: "William J. Clark of New York, chief turret captain and commander of the naval gun crew of the Silver Shell, is deserving of promotion, which we are now considering. All the other members of the crew, as well, and what they have done, deserve great credit and distinction. The chief turret captain is a very capable man. He is an enlisted man who has seen nearly 12 years of service in the navy and has won successive promotions by proven capacity. For his work he deserves the very best that can be done for him." Here was a man fit and ready for his job, and he knew how to put his own spirit and experience into the team play of his gunners. An American naval officer of high rank detailed on special duty at a French post conducted an inquiry and found pleasure in writing to Washington that "the master of the Silver Shell was particularly enthusiastic over the splendid work of the turret captain and the entire naval gun crew; he also states that his whole crew displayed a most commendable spirit during the battle." This is precisely as it should be, bluejackets and merchant seamen standing together, fighting the enemy as one intrepid American crew, and the Stars and Stripes hoisted at the first shot by order of the skipper. Chief Gunner Clark had the honor to report to the navy department: "As the submarine displayed no flag and was coming nearer, we fired a shot. The submarine, which was then about 7,000 yards away, replied immediately with what seemed to me, on account of the range, a six-inch gun. Her first shot fell amidships about 100 yards short. We changed our course due west, increasing speed. The submarine followed us, keeping up fire. The fight lasted from 6 o'clock until about 7:30 p. m. We fired 25 shots. The submarine fired over 30, including some shrapnel toward the end, which exploded astern of our ship too high to do any damage. "Our last two shells seem to have hit the submarine in the forward part. A few seconds later her bow jumped up, and she went down, stern upward at an angle of about 45 degrees. The submarine did not come up again, and I believe it was sunk then and there. No damage was done to our ship, and there were no casualties." The steamer was still within effective range of the big guns of the submarine, which could have had no other reason than a sudden attack of acute illness for vanishing in this abrupt manner. It seems fairly conclusive that a shell blew her partly out of water, and then she weat lunging and foundering into the depths. The steamer did not stop to search for traces of the disaster, but sensibly continued along on her course. Tankers filled with millions of gallons of gasoline do not linger in the war zone. The American passenger liners, maintaining their service almost as regularly as in time of peace, would naturally run the gantiet much oftener than the same number of cargo boats. They sail on an express schedule and spend little time in port. It is no secret that they are fast and well armed, able to whip a submarine in a fight with guns. The deadly torpedo is another matter, but speed has so far been a saving factor. It is what the gunners on board call "the sporty life," nor can it be recommended to people with nervous systems as a restful vocation. For example, one of these liners, during the first six months of war, made only one perfectly tame and routine voyage. During all ner other trips across there were fights with submarines or escapes from torpedoes. Extracts from the navy department's reports of these steamers may be chosen almost at random as interesting reading with a thrill in it. These are fair samples of what it means to make the Atlantic voyage, which is no longer a commonplace, soothing "ocean ferry." "The lookout in the lower crow's nest, a coxswain of the naval guard, picked up an oil slick ahead, which veered off to port at right angles to the ship's course. Following the slick, which was about the width of a ship, he suddenly saw the periscope of a submarine appear at the end of it, about one foot out of the water. He instantly sung out, 'Periscope,' and the next moment, 'Torpedo,' for the submarine had been exposed scarcely more than a second when she fired a torpedo. The enemy was then about 900 yards from the ship and three-fourths point forward of the beam. "The torpedo was running straight, but apparently having trouble in maintaining its depth, for when about 200 yards off I saw a streak, then at a depth of about five feet. It dived and passed under the ship about 30 feet from the stern. Soon after heading away from the submarine we picked up an abandoned lifeboat two points off the starboard bow. The submarine had apparently been lying near the life boat, and on seeing us approach had headed off to assume a position for attack on our port side, probably expecting us to pick up the lifeboat and thus miss seeing him. Fortunately, however, the oil slick was sighted first. "The old hands among the gunners paid no attention to the torpedo, which was coming right for them, but made every effort to get the guns on the target, which was the submarine's periscope." What might be called a close shave befall another steamer on the return voyage. "There were several other ships in the vicinity," runs the report, "including two tankers and a destroyer and two or three tramps. Suddenly a periscope was sighted a quarter of a mile away, showing up plainly in the streak of moonlight on the water. The submarine seemed to be just coming up and had probably misjudged the speed of the steamer, having seen her some time earlier. Before a torpedo could be fired or the guns manned, the steamer was right on top of the submarine, which submerged. The chief officer threw the helm hard over and went straight for him, hoping THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918. to ram him. But no shock was felt when the ship passed over the spot, so in all probability the submarine was able to dive deep enough to escape being hit." There was precious little room to spare in this adventure, but it was surpassed by a liner, formerly a favorite ship among Atlantic pilgrims, now carrying cargoes to the allies. A "blanket of fog covered the sea in the early morning. It lifted a trifle, and a very much surprised submarine popped up dead ahead of the lunging prow. She let fly a torpedo in a wild flurry, at the steamer's side without exploding. A moment later the submarine itself went bumping and scraping along the other side of the vessel, whose officers, sailors, and gunners stared straight down at it and uttered the deep and hearty curses of the sea. They would have swapped their souls for a few bombs to drop in remembrance. Grimy stokers poked their heads through the open ports and spat at the conning tower, or passionately scrambled for lumps of coal and slice bars to heave at the blankety-blank thing. Then the fog swallowed it up and the incident was closed. For hard fighting and the dogged courage that we rightly ascribe to the men of the American navy, the story of the Moreni and Chief Petty Officer Andrew Copassaki, commanding the armed guard, is one of those which shines undimmed in defeat. German sailors cheered him and his men from the deck of a submarine when he finished with his ship on fire and a cargo of gasoline about to blow him to kingdom come. He was made a warrant officer for devotion to duty and determination to fight as long as she floated. A summary of his report to the navy department was given out shortly after it was received. For wanton brutality there is the report of the loss of the American schooner Childe Harold off the French coast. Unadorned, the episode is thus described: "At daybreak an object reported by the mate was believed to be the square sails of a ship hull down. The glasses showed it to be the superstructure of a submarine one mile away. (The Childe Harold was unarmed.) The submarine opened fire, and the shells ripped through the schooner's hull and sails. The master ordered the crew into the motorlaunch and lowered away. This was plainly visible to the submarine, which had come much nearer. She continued to fire, however, evidently at the boat in the water, which escaped being hit. The captain and his crew were ordered aboard the submarine and noticed that the cap ribbons of the sailors bore the letter 'U-19' and 'U-17.' Two of the officers spoke excellent English, and Captain Byrne of the schooner informed them that the firing was totally unnecessary and that he had not expected such dastardly treatment from any white men. "The conversation developed the fact that the commander of the submarine knew the date of sailing of the Childe Harold from an American port and was on the lookout for her. He had also received information of the departure of the fourmaster Alicia B. Crosby and the three-master A. V. Sherman on the same date, all three vessels having passed out to sea together. He wanted to know where the other schooners were. According to his schedule they should have shown up by this time. "The Germans looted the Childe Harold and seemed very hungry. They had only coffee and dry bread for breakfast aboard the submarine. After fetching all the stores in the launch, they put the captain and his crew in the boat again, which was stove and half full of water. The schooner was set on fire. Her people were rescued by a steamer. Captain Byrne is anxious to try it again." A robust American shipmaster, this skipper of the Childe Harold, who told the Germans to their faces what he thought of them and was eager to have another fling at it! AN ATOM A SMALL WORLD. In a paper concerning the functions of the minute electrical charges in the chemical combination of atoms, delivered by Prof. William Albert Noyes of the University of Illinois, before the National academy at Washington, he said that for a century the atom was the ultima thule of smallness for scientists. Now they know that each atom is a complex system similar to our sun and its planets, that is, with a central body and from one to a hundred smaller bodies revolving around it. The differences between hydrogen, oxygen, iron, gold, radium, etc., are all in the electrical charge of the central nucleus and in the number and arrangement of these little satellites of their atoms. UNACCOMMODATING WELLS. In the desert of western Australia there are wells which yield water only at night. Before the water begins to flow, weird hissings and the sound of rushing air may be heard. The phenomenon is believed to be due to a change in the form of the rocky channel through which the water flows, and to the extreme change in temperature between day and night which occurs in this region. The hissing is due to the escape of air before the advance of the water.—Popular Science Monthly IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (Hy E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR JANUARY 20 JESUS AT WORK. LESSON TEXT - Mark 1:21:45 LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:21.45. GOLDEN TEXT—We must work the works of him that sent me while it is done. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR TEACHERS-Matt. 4:23-25; Luke 4:16-22; 31:44; Matt. 9:35-48; 11:28-30; Luke 8:1-2. PRIMARY MEMORY VERSE—And he healed many that were sick—Mark 1:34. INTERMEDIATE TOPIC—The power of memory. MEMORY VERSE—Gal. 6:2. SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC—Jesus meeting human needs. At the risk of repetition we will once more call attention to the new plan of Sunday-school lessons. Its characteristics are: First, the uniform teaching. A general lesson title and the same general Scripture passages as the basis of study for all grades. One Golden text for all, although frequently a devotional Scripture lesson and particular text which is intended for the opening worship of the school or for departments of the school, with additional scriptural material for the use of teachers of the various grades. Second, the grades and ages. The grades recognized are: Primary, pupils from six to eight inclusive; Junior, nine to eleven or twelve inclusive; intermediate boys and girls, twelve or thirteen to seventeen inclusive; senior or young people, eighteen to twenty-four; adults, twenty-five and upwards. Beginners are not included in these lessons, as they have been provided for in the beginners' lessons of the graded courses. Third, the graded teachers. Different lesson topics or titles as adapted to the different grades. Again, memory verses for the various grades. Additional scriptural material intended especially for the graded lesson writers and teachers. Sometimes the lesson text for a certain grade is simply a small portion of the uniform or general Scripture passage for that day. The first six months of this year will be devoted to the Gospel of Mark. Every syllable will be covered during the course. Then there is to be a three months course of study in the Christian life on such vital topics as: The Beginning of a Christian Life, Reading God's Word, Praying to God, Obeying God, Growing Stronger, Speaking for Christ, Conquering Evil, etc., apparently disconnected, but really a vitally related course on topics dealing with Christian living. The Lesson for Today. I. The Man of the Unclean Spirit (vv. 21-27). Jesus was teaching in the synagogue, and the results were far different from those in Capernaum or Nazareth. (See Luke 4:16-30.) But as always, evil is present with good, and evil always recognizes true plenty, hence those present recognized that a God-sent man with a God-given message was speaking. Sunday-school teachers should also speak with authority, for we are as "the oracles of God." (I Peter 4:11.) Notice Christ's power over spiritual evil. (vv. 23-27). Demonical possession, we are told, is quite common today in China and other heathen lands. The terror of this demon at the words of Christ may suggest how evil men will feel when Christ shall come again. As always, evil desires to be "let alone," but Christ would not let him alone. The demon did not want to come out, but he was helpless before the power of Christ and had to come, and in coming he made himself so felt that the people were "all amazed." Neither astonishment nor amazement, however, is conversion. II. Peter's Mother-In-Law (vv. 28-34. In this next scene we have one of the homes wherein Jesus manifested his power over physical or bodily illness. Notice Christ was abiding with his own loved ones. Here is an example on the part of Christ of how to do personal work. Also an example and a testimony that service is a testimony of gratitude. The fact that this one was healed and that she began at once to serve, is also a testimony to the fact of the cure. There was sickness in that home, not "error of mortal mind," and they did what was best—brought the sick one to Jesus. Again in verse 30 is this keyword of Mark's Gospel, "straightway." Jesus could heal at a distance (John 4:50-53), but he liked to come straight up to the afflicted one. Notice he took her by the hand. This, too, is a lesson for us. The gospel of a handclasp is too often neglected. The "taking-by-the-hand" religion is much needed in our churches today. Notice he also "raised her up." People need to be lifted today. It is not enough to command them to rise; we must also help them to arise. Then it was that "the fever left her." Sickness, as well as demons, gave way before the Lord. The concluding scene of this day (vv. 32-35) is remarkable and presents a vivid and beautiful picture, "At even when the sun did set" (v. 32) they brought unto him "all" that were diseased. While all were gathered at the door, not all were healed, far the record says, "many were healed." We read, "many are called, but few chosen." All that city was gathered that eventide about Peter's door (v. 23), but the sad part of it was that not all received the healing touch of Christ. They had had a wonderful Sabbath day. They had seen proof of the power of the Master. Fads And Fancies Of Fashion 1 SMART FROCK FOR THE BUSINESS GIRL. In the drama of fashions, the part of the one-piece frock has grown in importance for three seasons. It made a triumphant entry this fall and has held the center of the stage ever since. The advent of the "bustle dress" (which hardly deserved its name), and the furore for velvet portends a brilliant finish for this season of a style that is sure to reappear in the spring. The bustle dress is given its name because it is caught up in drapery below the waistline at the back and merely suggests the bustle of other years. It is prettiest in velvet or heavy satin or crisp taffeta; best of all velvet. In the latest models skirts are narrow and drawn back from the front by the back draping. They have long, close-fitting sleeves and high necks. vogue—a special "Jan worn north or south, per of spring in their are not too summerl no hint of winter abo Three of these ca are shown in the gro place themselves at the highest class that cuse themselves for depth of winter. At group the large plett is made of panne we All its story is told b rials for its finish is to the velvet with a b One can imagine it concert or the brie heart of the northern as a dinner or after One-piece frocks of serge and other durable cloths have proven themselves the smartest sort of frocks for business women. This term includes about everyone these days when it is unthinkable that any well woman should be idle. The frock of serge shown in the picture is enough to reconcile the most inconsequent of idlers to a business life. Consider its good points and remember how entirely practical it is. In addition to being good looking it is new and original. The sleeves are set on to an underbodice and finished on the forearm with neat straps of the material. The overbodice fades over a separate vestee of washable white satin, which may be varied with vestees of other materials by way of change. A wide fold, instead of levers, on the bodice is placed high enough at the back to provide an unusually becoming neck finish, and a big trench W THE HAT CIRCLE buckle shows the resourcefulness of the designer in providing a unique fastening. The skirt has two box plaits at the back and front and cascaded drapery at the sides to lend it shapliness and interest. Trim rows of bone buttons on the plaits at the front consign this frock to the ranks of the tailor-made. Hats that reveal a "summer mind" have become fashionable for wear in January. They dare to be inconsistent and with true feminine unreason are worn with the warnest furs in northern latitudes as well as in sunny southern lands. It happens that December sees many hats, designed for southern tourist use, displayed in the shops of northern cities. They are irresistible and they are inspiring a new plained the inquisitive knows no more than s Anyway they appear to be the right background, in the hat and the wre for a bow of velvet in at the front. A Lemon on You Wet the hair with water rub the juice of a lemon Afterward rinse the h and dry with a soft tow juice will remove all d and leave the hair gloss vogue—a special "January Hint"—to be worn north or south, but with a whisper of spring in their designing. They are not too summerlike, but there is no hint of winter about them. Three of these captivating models are shown in the group above. They place themselves at a glance—hats of the highest class that need not to excuse themselves for appearing in the depth of winter. At the center of the group the large picturesque black hat is made of panne velvet and malines. All its story is told by these two materials for its finish is merely a collar of the velvet with a bow at the back. One can imagine it at the afternoon concert or the bridge party in the heart of the northern winter, or worn as a dinner or afternoon hat under southern skies, with equal satisfaction. At the left a small hat is shown made of fringed strips of black taffeta. These strips are braided or woven in and out to form the body of the hat. Taffeta proves itself sufficient for the completion of this model which is finished at the front with a bow of the silk, made of strips fringed along each edge. At the right a hat of deep blue satin is made with rows of blue braid stitched on the upper brim and crown. The blue is vivid, somewhat lighter than sapphire, and makes just the right background for the odd Japanese leaves and berries that form a wreath about the crown. It is hard to describe anything so unlike the usual millinery flowers. The colors are odd, grayish green and yellows and white. Only the Japs know what these queer leaves are made of and after they have ex- THE HAT plained the inquisitive fashion writer knows no more than she did before. Anyway they appear to have found just the right background, in the clear blue of the hat and the wreath makes way for a bow of velvet in the same blue at the front. Julia Bottomly A Lemon on Your Hair. Wet the hair with warm water, then rub the juice of a lemon into the scalp. Afterward rinse the hair thoroughly and dry with a soft towel. The lemon juice will remove all dirt and grease and leave the hair glossy and soft. Mid-Vale Oil & Gas Co. A limited amount of our stock is now selling at $1.00 Per Share. Money needed to develop our field. First Contract for one well let last week. Drilling to begin immediately. WHEN THE OIL BEGINS TO FLOW, IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO BUY OUR STOCK Gen'l Offices: 1507 E.18th STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. Bell Phone E.2766 Buy Now While You Can And while the stock is selling at a low price. If we need more money in the future our stock will be sold at a higher price. No less than ten shares sold to any person, but if you haven't all cash to pay for the stock you want, we will accept part cash adn the balance monthly until paid for. What and Where the Mid-Vale Is The Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Company is backed by some of Kansas City's most influential, successful and progressive Negroes—men and women who have put their money into the company and who are enthusiastic about its success. The Company has a lease on eighty acres of some of the most valuable oil land in the Mid-Continent oil and gas district. Notice the accompanying map which shows the exact location of this tract—right next to the Prairie Oil and Gas Company's tank farm, which will enable us to pipe our oil at the very minimum of expense. We have already been offered a large sum of money for this lease, but instead have let a contract for the drilling of our first well, and are going to drill twenty in all before we stop. The Mid-Vale is the Company for you to invest your money in for the largest returns on your money. Remember, we are headed toward the millions, and have no intention of stopping with this one lease. Mid-Continent Oil News Comment This magazine, which is one of the foremost oil publications in the country, has published this about our Company; "Mr. J. J. Allen and associates have organized a company to operate in Allen County. The Company to be known as the Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Co. "This lease is considered one of the most valuable leases in the Mid-Continent oil fields and will, without a doubt, when developed, be one of the biggest producers in that section." GET THE HABIT ELITE SHINING. PARLOR 24071/2 Vine Street Agent for Colored . Weeklies— We Clean and Dye Shoes of All Kinds. Work Guaranteed. HENDERSON & NEAL, Props. MME A. MOORE Teacher of Piano and Voice Bell Phone East 5407 1619 Cottage Service Satisfaction are what you get when you patronize C. A. FRANKLIN THE PRINTER 1309 East 18th St Bell Phone Grand 2988 Coal and Feed Don't wait—Order your Coal now. Full Weight—Quick Delivery. PAYNE COAL CO. 1902 Vine St. Phones, Home East 4132-Bell East 559 Tailored To Your Measure To wear, show your friends, tell who made it. Latest model, made in any style, a project fit, your choice of any goods. Not coolest. Not new. Our new liberal offer for a few hours work. Big cash profits for your spare time, $100 to $800 a month, introducing you to friends. No experience needed, matter where you live or what you do, or what your new, sell or this free offer at once. Every time you represent, send name and address, get book of both samples, latest 105 fashion pictures, all FREE. Everybody send now, today, this very minute, to us. Oil is now $2.00 per barrel, instead of 35 cents. A 25-barrel per day well will pay you 100 per cent. A limt Money neede Drilling Buy Now While You And while the stock is selling at a low future our stock will be sold at a higher to any person, but if you haven't all cash will accept part cash adn the balance more. What and Where The Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Company most influential, successful and progress have put their money into the company success. The Company has a lease on eight oil land in the Mid-Continent oil and gas map which shows the exact location of Oil and Gas Company's tank farm, which very minimum of expense. We have already been offered a lease instead have let a contract for the drill drill twenty in all before we stop. The Mid-Vale is the Company for largest returns on your money. Remains, and have no intention of stopping. Mid-Continent Oil This magazine, which is one of the try, has published this about our Company. "Mr. J. J. Allen and associates have Allen County. The Company to be kno- "They hold eighty acres in 10-26-18 tank farm and right on the inclair pipe. "This lease is considered one of the tinent oil fields and will, without a do-gest producers in that section." OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. PRESIDENT, J. J. ALLEN, District Manager, Clover Leaf Ins. Co. 1ST VICE-PRES., G. A. PAGE, Only Negro Shoe Merchant in K. C. 2D VICE-PRES., DR. H. M. SMITH, Gen'l Offices: ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. On Saturday night, January 19, Mr. J. T. Bradford of Chicago, expert checker player, will meet all comers in a simultaneous exhibition. Every checker player, will meet all comers Come one come all! Let's uphold the checked reputation and the "Y." All services were poorly attended on account of cold weather.....Mrs. Gertrude Tibbs was able to be out after a very severe illness. We hope she will continue to improve.....Mrs. P. L. Blackwell is also much better. There was an inspiring sermon delivered to an appreciative audience that had braved the very inclement weather to worship in Allen Chapel Sunday morning. There was no evening service. The fuel administrator requested that this service be dispensed with on account of the coal shortage. It is to be regretted that many are deterred from getting to church on account of the cold weather and the poor car service .... Strangers and visitors we heartily welcome you to all our church services and extend to you our church fellowship. On account of the severe weather, the services were not so well attended last Sunday....In the morning worship Dr. Bacote preached a grand sermon on "I am That I Am," which was enjoyed by all....During the day three additions were made to the church....On account of the conservation of fuel as a war measure, no services were held in the church last Sunday evening....The Friendship Club met at the Y. M. C. A. last Thursday evening in a joint session with the Sunday School teacher's meeting....The Mission Circle held a very interesting session at the home of Mrs Dismond, 1729 Michigan Ave., last Friday afternoon at two o'clock. ST. STEPHEN BAPTIST CHURCH. ST. STEPHEN BAPSTEH CHURCH. Although the weather was bad, all services were well attended....Dr. Hurse preached in the morning from the 1st Chapter of Rev. and the 8th verse....At 2 p. m. the funeral of Mrs. Smith was held....The car service being out of commission at nights and there being no lights until 9 p. m. the congregation was fair to hear the pastor preach from Jeshua 5th, chapter and 14th verse, taking for his subject, "Sailing to Glory"....Sister Lizzie Logan is on the sick list... Deacon J. H. Dyens is on yet indisposed Mid-Vale Incorporated under limited amount of needed to develop going to begin immediate BE Le You Can a low price. If we need more money in the higher price. No less than ten shares sold all cash to pay for the stock you want, weance monthly until paid for. Here the Mid-Vale Is company is backed by some of Kansas City's progressive Negroes—men and women who company and who are enthusiastic about its eighty acres of some of the most valuable and gas district. Notice the accompanyingation of this tract—right next to the Prairie, which will enable us to pipe our oil at the ed a large sum of money for this lease, but the drilling of our first well, and are going to pay for you to invest your money in for the Remember, we are headed toward the mil-stopping with this one lease. Oil News Comment of the foremost oil publications in the coun- Company: States have organized a company to operate in the known as the Mid-Vale Oil and Gas Co. 00-26-18, joining the Prairie Oil and Gas Co.'s air pipe line. of the most valuable leases in the Mid-Con-a doubt, when developed, be one of the big- Vale under laws, State o unt of our s elop our field mediately. W BE TOO LAT THE 2500 Wells on Humboldt field producing Oil HUMBOLD T T26S R 15 E Incorporated under laws, State of Missouri. Authorized Capital Stock $30,000,000 Physician-in-Charge, Jackson Co. Home for Aged and Infirm Negroes. 3D VICE-PRES., E. W. BROWN, For ten years with the Pullman Company. SECRETARY, H. C. CROSS, Knows Oil and All the Oil Men. es: 1507 E. 18 18th STR THE DAY WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL UNION. In view of the fact that living has increased 180 per cent in the last 18 months, the Colored working women of Kansas City have organized into what is known as the Day Workers' Industrial Union, under the American Federation of Labor, for a 50 per cent increase of wages, thus receiving $2.10 per day instead of $1.60 per day. The Union members are demanding the Union wage, $2.10 per day, and all are receiving it with little protest. We are making an earnest appeal to all women that do any kind of work by the day to join this union. Do not be afraid of losing your work, as no one is doing day work but the Colored women, and this is your opportunity to ask for what we want and receive it as well, as the high cost of living makes it necessary. Joining fee, 50 cents. Meetings every Thursday evening, 8 p.m. at the Labor Temple, 14th and Woodland avenue. Emily Drew, President. Anna Roberts, Vice Pres. Bethel Northcutt, Rec. Sec. Josephine Abernathy, Fin. Sec. Cheap John's Furniture Co. NEW AND SECOND HAND GOODS Bought, Sold, Exchanged TERMS IF DESIRED Bell Phone East 3851 2224 Vine Street Kansas City, Mo. Eyes Examined If you have discovered that you cannot see so well as you once did, or are troubled with headaches, or eye strain, come to us and we will examine your eyes and tell you whether you need Glasses or not. Broken Lenses Duplicated in Shortest Possible Time. ALCO OPTICAL CO THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. JANUARY 19. 1918. AMONG THE CHURCHES VINE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. ALLEN CHAPEL. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. ASST. SECY. H. B. MOORE. Fifteen years, successful Undertaker. TREAS., D. T. A. JONES. Official Ainnette Phyllis Wheatley Hospital. ...Brother John Craig is convalescent.... Wm. Hurse, the son of Dr. J. H. Hurse, is on the sick list again and has been for the past two weeks. We hope for him a speedy recovery as we all remember how sick he was last year, but through the goodness of God he has been greatly improved until the past two weeks.... Visitors and strangers are always welcome at St. Stephens....The pastor is always glad to shake the hands of strangers. HISTORIC ALLEN CHAPEL. Only one service and that at 11:00 A. M. will be held in historic old Allen tomorrow. Splendid music by the full surplus choir, powerful sermon by the minister, and a general welcome to all will be the feature of the service. Let's pack Allen to the door, and make the minister's heart feel glad in this crisis through which we are passing. TROTZY'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD. What is described as one of the most remarkable and most startling books on the war is announced for immediate publication by Boni and Liveright, New York, under the title, "The Bolshevik and World Peace." The author is Leon Trotzky, Russia's Bolscevik Foreign Minister, and the book is a keen analysis of the causes that led to the war and its meaning from the Bolshevik point of view, and also a forecast of the big changes that will come about as a result of the war. This forecast, the publishers declare, prove Trotzky a statesman of extraordinary foresight, for every prediction he made in the book has been fully borne out by subsequent events. "The Bolshevik and World Peace" besides being a masterly interpretation of world events and a striking prognosis of things to come, also disposes, once for all, of the myth that Trotzky is a pro-German. Written before the Russian Revolution, it is one Oil of Missouri. Auth stock is now old. First C WHEN THE O TE TO BUY PLAT SHOWING HOLDINGS IN ALLEN COUNTY KANSAS MID-VALE OIL & GAS 1507 EAST 18TH ST KANSAS CITY MA 466 A1 to Sand The Superior Oil Co. has 15 producing wells on this property THE MID VALE OIL & LEGEND: - OIL WELLS • GAS EET, KANS & Co. Authorized Cap Now selling it Contract E OIL BEG BUY OUR S OLDINGS KANSAS & GAS CO CITY Ma 62 COMPANIES PUMPING OUT OF H Departmenl Oil Co. producing on this property E OIL & GAS CO. The Diamond Lines it will pump oil from Pilot Oil Co. WELLS • GAS WELLS • FE CHAIRMAN BOARD DIRECTORS, DR. MARTIN G. BROOKINS, Successful Physician and Surgeon. AUDITOR, DR. D. M. MILLER, Successful Physician and Surgeon. of the most vehement attacks upon the Hapsburg and Hohenolbahn regimes anr German feudal junkerdom, and a scatching denunciation of Prussian militarism which Trotzky dissects and show ups in a masterly way as a reactionary and retrograde institution and as a menace to civilization. A good part of the bzook is devoted also to a powerful criticism of the German Socialists for supporting the German government in the war and helping it along in its imperialistic aims. After an analysis of past and present events Trotzky turns his gae to the future, and lays down the programme which he considers is the only road to the salvation of humanity. This is the part in which he proclaims his message to the world. And it is this programme which he is now translating into practice as minister of foreign affairs in Russia. Only nine months ago Trotzky lived with his wife and two children in a three-room New York tenement in the Bronx, a plain Socialist writer and lecturer, of admitted ability, it is true, but still one of the rank and file. Today he is Foreign Minister of Russia, fated as the Wall street Journal says, to exert a greater influence upon the destinies of the world than Napoleon Bonaparte. Trotzky knew that his stay in the United States would be brief, for he foresaw the impending Russian Revolution, and told his friends here that he would return to Russia immediately upon the outbreak of the Revolution. The Revolution did come as he predicted, and what Trotzky is now doing as Foreign Minister and what he expects to do in the longer future, is compellingly told in his book, "The Bolshevik and World Peace. OUT OF TOWN SUBSCRIBERS. We want all of our out of town subscribers to send in their Subscription AT ONCE if they desire to secure our reduced rate, and if the expect to be continued on our subscription list after January 31. The Sun has not missed an issue in ten years, and NEVER WILL under this management. Neither will we carry deadheads nor deadbeats on our subscription list. We serve this last notice that all OUT OF TOWN SUBSCRIBERS now receiving our paper who have not paid up by January 31 will be im- NOTICE W. J. Moore does not represent the Williams and Jackson Realty Company and never has. He is not concerned in the company. R. T. Williams, President. & Gas Historized Capital Sto selling at $ contract for o IL BEGINS T OUR STOCK GAS Co 6 5 4 7 8 9 X GAS CO. 18 17 16 Pilot Oil Co. 19 20 21 R 19E FEGALLIER MAP CO. KANSAS CITY MO SAS CITY, Peoples' Drug Store Northeast corner of Eighteenth Street and the Paseo For twelve years we have served you. We have never substituted nor given you an inferior article. We carry everything in the Drug line, all the latest and best toilet articles. We deliver anything to any part of the city -- promptly -- call us up. Bell East 1814 The Spo (All the 23 WEST The best place in K some PHONES East 1814 Home East 4 The Spotless Kitch (All that its name implies) 23 WEST 13th STREET first place in Kansas City for a Clean some, Satisfying Meal PHONES Bell East 1814 Home East 4082 The Spotless Kitchen (All that its name implies) 23 WEST 13th STREET The best place in Kansas City for a Clean, Wholesome, Satisfying Meal Special Dinner and Lunch at Noon for those employed down town MRS. PEARL RILEY, Manager MARTIN YOUNG Proprietor Why pay more than 50 cents to get a trunk hauled? AND LET LIVE AUTO BAGGAGE AND E T. T. TIVETT LIVE AND LET LIVE AUTO BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS Bell Phone Grand 1266 Stand, 2109 Campbell Street Co. 90,000,000 Per Share. well let last we LOW, IT WILL We Needs Your Money for Shopping This favorable situation we are offering stock at $1.00 per share. We need your money for devise other good leases and to develop them. Oil in pa- ter quantities than ever before. The market h the demand. This makes the oil investment the the Colored people can participate in today. Delay; Order Today Until tomorrow to buy stock. Buy it today! Tom- may have sold all the stock we need to sell for Use the coupon below, and order your stock, er arrangements may be made, if necessary, for OIL AND GAS COMPANY, 18TH STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. : Please reserve for me.....Shares of stock , for which I inclose herewith $.....as p ill. Balance (if any) to be paid by me in three equal in 00 and 90 days. Mid-Vale Needs Your Money for Developing Because of this favorable situation we are offering stock at the above-mentioned price—$1.00 per share. We need your money for developing this lease, and to buy other good leases and to develop them. Oil in particular is being used in greater quantities than ever before. The market has not the supply to equal the demand. This makes the oil investment the best industrial investment the Colored people can participate in today. Don't Delay; Order Today Don't wait until tomorrow to buy stock. Buy it today! Tomorrow may be too late. We may have, sold all the stock we need to sell for present development needs. Use the coupon below, and order your stock, of shares reserved now! (NOTE—Other arrangements may be made, if necessary, for paying the installments.) Gentlemen: Please reserve for me.....Shares of stock in your Company, for which I inclose herewith $.....as part or payment in full. Balance (if any) to be paid by me in three equal installments in 30, 60 and 90 days. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: MR. WILLIAM YOUNG, MR. LEWIS VARENO, MR. WILLIAM YOUNG, MR. LEWIS VARENO, MR. JOSHFINE HOPKINS, Bell Phone E.27 Y, MO. Bell ONES Home East 4082 less Kitchen (its name implies) 13th STREET Kansas City for a Clean, Whole- atisfying Meal MARTIN YOUNG Proprietor more than 50 cents trunk hauled? AUTO BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS TIVETT KANSAS CITY, MO. share. at last week. IT WILL Your Money for In we are offering stock at the above-need your money for developing this and to develop them. Oil in particular is never before. The market has not theakes the oil investment the best industry participate in today. Order Today stock. Buy it today! Tomorrow may the stock we need to sell for present deow, and order your stock, of shares be made, if necessary, for paying the NY, INSAS CITY, MO. me.....Shares of stock in herewith $.....as part or be paid by me in three equal install- MR. JAMES FURCRON, MRS. LESLIE F. AKINS. Each of the above named directors own one hundred or more shares, fully paid up. CALL OR WRITE. Phone E. 2766 Oil rig