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Growing, Thank You! $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy Cheering Crowds Send Off Draftees Patriotic Omahans Give Selectmen Customary Ovation as They Start on the First Lap of Their Journey Towards Berlin. U. S. BEHIND HER SOLDIERS Mayor Smith Eloquently Urges Men So to Conduct Themselves That Their Bravery Will Become Historic. NEARLY one hundred Omaha boys left last Sunday morning for Camp Lewis, Washington. A cheering, patriotic crowd accompanied them to the depot, following the usual brief, but hearty and soul-stirring program at the Douglas county court house. There were the customary patriotic airs by the band and that means Desdunes' band; a song by the old soldiers' quartette; two addresses, one by a clergyman and one by the mayor. The Rev. W. F. Botts, pastor of Zion Baptist church, was at his best in the splendid address he gave to the draftees. He emphasized the fact that the men who were answering their country's call were highly honored in being privileged to help free the world from autocracy. America was in the war not because she sought it, but because in God's plan for the liberation of the world she could not possibly stay out. The war is going to bring incalculable good to the world and in that universal good all races of men are to share and none more than our own. "Back of you on the firing line," said the speaker, "stand praying fathers and mothers; twelve million black people and ninety million white people, a solid phalanx are behind you trusting in the God of batles because their cause is just, and with such a power as that there can only be one outcome of this war. We are going to watch you go over the top, across the Rhine and into Berlin." Mayor Smith has never spoken with more earnestness and feeling than he did on Sunday morning: He said in part: "The city of Omaha has sent me to bid you Godspeed as we send you forth, as a part of the flower of our manhood, to win this fight for liberty for the world. Lincoln said, 'This country cannot exist half free and half slave,' and America is now engaged in maintaining this principle for the world, saying that the world cannot exist half free and half slave. It is to maintain this principle that we are fighting the Hun who would enslave the world. It is for this that Nebraska has sent over 40,000 of the flower o fher young manhood. It is for this that you are going. "I know what it means for fathers and mothers to send their boys. My son is over there and I am proud that you and he and the thousands of our Nebraska boys and Omaha boys will be fighting side by side. We are proud of all the boys who are going. We want you to so conduct yourselves that when the record of the war is written it can be truthfully said that among the bravest and the best of the American troops were the Colored boys and the white boys from Omaha. And so we bid you good-by and give you a return ticket from Omaha to Berlin." Comfort kits and other gifts were presented to the men at the station. A delegation of Colored women presented each of the boys with flowers. As the train pulled out with its cheering crowd the band played "Over There" and could Herr Kaiser have heard the cheers he would realize that "the Yanks are coming" and it soon will all be over there. Transportation in Hankow. Within foreign concessions of Hankow there are 2,357 licensed jinriksjus, 67 public carriages and 83 private motor cars. We are glad The Monitor pleases you. It will also please your friends and neighbors. Show them your copy and get them to subscribe. Help us double our circulation this year by getting one of your friends or neighbors to subscribe. THE MONITOR Midnight Ramble, Boosters' Club, St. Louis PHOTO BY AW SANDERS Between 18 and 45 inclusive, except those previously registered MUST REGISTER For the SELECTIVE SERVICE DRAFT September 12th PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER is one year imprisonment and no man can exonerate himself by the payment of a fine. BE SURE TO REGISTER. Great National Baptist Convention Ten Thousand Delegates Awaken St. Louis to Enthusiasm; Monitor Representative Witnesses Great Occasion; Roscoe Conklin Simmons and Other Orators Thrill Vast Audience ST. LOUIS awakened Tuesday, September 3, to find its streets filled with strangers, intelligent and enthu- Midnight PHOTO BY AW SANDERS SATURDAY night, August 31, I was in St. Louis and as I turned east into Market out of Jefferson avenue my ears were greeted by a dull roar that quickly told me of the mingling of many voices, the gathering of a crowd. I stopped and asked a question, "What is it?" The answer came, "Oh, just the crowd gathering for the midnight ramble." And then I remembered that tonight was the night that the Boosters, an organization of business and professional men of the city of St. Louis, had gathered together all of the talent of the city at the Booker Washington theater to entertain the public at 35 cents per head for the benefit of the National Bundy Defense league. And so well had the preliminary plans and advertising methods of the Boosters' publicity department, of which Mr. Charles Turpin, the owner and manager of the Booker Washington theater, is the head, been carried out that the streets for a block each way were filled with Between For th OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 siastic delegates to the thirty-eighth annual session of the National Baptist convention, held at the Coliseum, corner Jefferson and Washington avenues. It was a big event, big for the race and big for the nation. It was a testimonial of the race's consciousness of its own power and of its devoted patriotism to the great cause which now holds the hearts of all the world's liberty-loving peoples. The program opened with the immense strong singing, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee,' 'after which Dr. P. W. Dunavent gave the invocation. Then the wonderfully trained chorus sang, ight Ramble, Bo people as early as 10 p. m., awaiting their opportunity to enter and prove their loyalty to that champion of human rights, Dr. Leroy Bundy. At exactly midnight the curtain rose for the opening act, which was greeted by a house crowded to the rafters, filled to overflowing, with equally as many more in the streets outside who failed to gain admittance. The program was a long but entertaining one. Crittenden Clark, well known lawyer and president of the Boosters' organization, welcomed the crowd, and thanked them for their demonstrations of appreciation. Then he introduced Dr. Leroy Bundy, who in a short and telling speech told the people that he was trying to measure up to their standard of approval, and the one thing that he wished them to remember, that when he faced the charges that were filed against him in the Monroe county court at Waterloo, Ill., on Tuesday next, that as a member of his race he was no coward EVERY "O Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," and thrilled the mighty crowd to patriotic enthusiasm. Dr. H. H. Harris was master of ceremonies and after a few brilliant remarks Dr. J. Francis Robinson delivered a remarkable address. Several other numbers afforded much entertainment and presaged the great patriotic address delivered in the evening by Dr. C. T. Walker, the black Spurgeon. Dr. Walker's address was a wonderful piece of oratory and left no doubt or haziness respecting the course to be followed by the millions of Colored Americans. Wednesday was spent in welcoming osters' Club, St and that if he was martyred to the cause of human rights he hoped his race would "profit by the sacrifice." A word here about the Boosters. As I said before, they are an organization of the business and professional men of St. Louis, who are willing and ready at all times to promote the interests of the race in that community. Charles A. Mills is the central figure and "king of the Boosters." He is of that aggressive type who never quits on the job. Mr. Mills was formerly messenger of the Lincoln Trust company for eleven years in that city. Later he became an amusement promoter, being the owner and manager of the famous Black Giants of St. Louis. He still promotes an amusement park at Compton and Lawton avenues, but that is only a side line. His real business is manager of a distributing depot for a large brewing corporation, which cares for big family trade. Mr. Mills is equal to the task of holding his own with the other Y MAN Vol. IV. No. 10 (W1. io. 166) addresses by the governor, mayor and other dignitaries. Thursday was largely taken up with reports of various committees and boards. Reports continued on into Friday, but in the evening the crowds packed every available inch of space to listen to Hon. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, the great Negro orator. Mr. Simmons, as is his custom, held the vast audience spellbound for more than two hours. The orator attested his faith and constancy to the purpose of the great convention by quoting his famous, "I'm a Baptist bred and a Baptist born, and when I'm dead there'll be a Baptist gone." . Louis managers of this same concern. His friends say that he is something of a power in politics, but when I found him busy at his desk on the second floor of his place of business at Compton and Lawton, he greeted me in his cheery manner and invited me to a seat with "I shall see you in a moment." After checking up his business with his several assistants, he suddenly turned to me and said, "Well old man, what can I do for you?" My first direct question was, "What about politics?" For you know St. Louis has a big campaign on this fall, with one Colored candidate, Charles P. Turpin, for constable, and probably another in the person of Homer Phillips, lawyer, for justice of the peace running independently. "Well, I'm not in it, but one thing sure, I am going to stand by the party that will do the most for my people in general and do everything for my two friends, Turpin and Phillips." FRED C. WILLIAMS. pt those DRAFT Nurses Threaten Walk Out Object to Colored Women Being Trained at County Hospital—Nurses Say Question Must Be Settled Now. CHAIRMAN HAMILTON'S STAND "We Are Waging War for Democracy, for the Principal That All Men Are Created Equal—Colored Men Are Laying Down Their Lives in France for Our Protection, and It Would Be Undemocratic to Deny Them Equal Opportunity in This Field." (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 15.) LOS ANGELES, CAL.—If Colored women are admitted to the training school for nurses at the county hospital it may result in a general walkout of practically all the white women uses and internes. It was stated today that an agreement had been signed by about 120 nurses and doctors now employed at the institution to refuse to work if Colored women are admitted to the school. The next contingent of applicants for nurses will enter the school Thursday. Recently the supervisors, at the request of a Colored attorney, agreed to let down the bars and permit Colored women to enter the training school. Two Colored women were declared to have since applied for admittance and were believed to be on the list of those who will enter this week. It was contended that, because of the crowded conditions of sleeping quarters for employees, it would be necessary for the white and Colored women to occupy the same rooms, and this was objected to by many of the white nurses. It was also stated that in case the Colored women qualified as nurses they would be placed in charge of a large number of white students under existing systems. Chairman Hamilton of the board of supervisors made the following statement: "I believe that on taking second thought, those who have signed the agreement to quit work if Colored nurses are admitted to the hospital will reconsider their action and loyally remain at their posts of duty. "We are waging a war for democracy—for the principle that all men are created equal. Colored men are laying down their lives in France for the protection of our homes, our women and our children. "There is a crying need for nurses, both at home and abroad. Our high schools are graduating numbers of Colored girls who are in every way fitted for this self-sacrifice service. "It would be undemocratic and unpatriotic, not to say unchristian, to deny them equality of opportunity in this field. "I am sure our nurses will see their duty and do it in kindly spirit. The board of supervisors would be recruit to its obligations to the country if it would yield to this demand." A committee of nurses met with the supervisors to consider the question. It was pointed out that Colored people of Los Angeles pay $1,000,000 in taxes. It was also suggested that a section of the hospital be set aside for Colored nurses. This suggestion proved unpracticable, because patients are divided according to diseases, and it would be necessary to build a new hospital to put this plan into effect. The Roman occupation of England was recalled by a discovery made a few days ago at Stalbridge, Dorset. Working in his garden, a man dug up a skeleton. Examining it he found it to be in a perfect state of preservation, the teeth being quite sound. In the mouth was a coin bearing the inscription of Caesar Augustus. TO OUR ADVERTISERS We appreciate your patronage and are pleased to know that The Monitor is bringing you good results. It could hardly be otherwise, since our circulation reaches the best class of buyers in the world. 2 Dr. Craig Morris Weds Miss Russell Dr. Craig Morris Weds Miss Russell Simple Ceremony in St. Philip's Church, Where Groom Was Baptized as a Child Twenty-three Years Ago-Large Reception at Bride's Home. Dr. Craig Morris and Miss Lillian Oletha Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Russell of 4023 Seward street, were married in the Church of St. Philip the Deacon at half past six o'clock Wednesday evening in the presence only of their chosen witnesses. There were no attendants. The bride, who is one of Omaha's finest young women, presented a charming picture in her simple, yet beautiful, bridal gown. She entered the church on the arm of her father, who gave her away. The quiet, simple ceremony was most beautiful and impressive. The Rev. John Albert Williams, who had baptized the groom as a child in this church twenty-three years ago, and presented him for confirmation, and also had known the bride from her infancy, solemnized the marriage. From 8 o'clock until 11 a reception was held at the residence of the bride's parents. The house was beautifully decorated for the occasion with flowers and the national colors. A large heart-shaped bridal cake was in the center, of the attractively decorated dining room table. Mrs. Russell was assisted in receiving the large number of guests who came to extend their felicitations to the happy pair by Mesdames David Ferguson, Senora Gray, S. Warden, M. Logan and Miss Blanche Montgomery. The presents were many, beautiful and costly. Dr. Morris is one of Omaha's most successful dentists. Mrs. Morris is an expert stenographer and has been in the employ of the Western Real Estate company for a number of years. She is active in religious and philanthropic work, being one of the most efficient workers and Sunday school teachers in St. John's A. M. E. church. Dr. and Mrs. Morris will be at home to their friends in a cosy cottage at Twenty-eighth and Ohio streets. The Monitor joins with their many friends in extending sincere congratulations and best wishes. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE IN NEW BUILDING The People's Drug Store has now moved into its new location at 111 South Fourteenth street. This is the building which was originally fitted up by Mr. J. H. Broomfield at a great expense and was recently used as the Monarch Pool and Billiard Parlors. The floors are of costly tile and the ceilings are beautifully decorated. The People's Drug Store is one one of the handsomest and best appointed in the city. A costly soda water fountain has been recently installed. Dr. T. S. Ross, a graduate and registered pharmacist, a cultured, affable and refined gentleman, who has been manager for some years has built up a splendid business. Mrs. F. Stewart is his assistant. The rooms above the drug store have been fitted up for offices and three of them are now occupied by Dr. J. H. Hutten, physician and surgeon, and Dr. C. H. Singleton, dentist, who have just removed their offices from the former building one door north. FRED C. WILLIAMS HAS RETURNED TO CITY Fred C. Williams, the traveling representative of The Monitor, returned Wednesday after an eleven month's absence from the city. Mr. Williams had an extensive trip through Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Miss'sissippi and Missouri where he was most successful in securing subscribers to The Monitor, which was everywhere most favorably received, and in securing MAJORS Oxford Hair and Elastics Preparations MAJORS Oxford Hair and Elastics Preparations MAJORS Oxford Hair and Elastics Preparations agents who will push the circulation. He also closed a number of satisfactory advertising contracts. Mr. Williams is looking well and feeling well despite the fact that he had a serious fall recently in St. Louis. He will do local work for The Monitor for the present, chiefly as circulation manager. ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE There is considerable activity among our people in real estate deals. Among the recent deals handled by the Western Real Estate company, Eugene Thomas, president, was the purchase of a beautiful home by Dr. J. H. Hutten at Thirty-third and Franklin streets for $7,100; a beautiful modern bungalow for Mrs. Ivy, formerly Mrs. W. D. Taylor, at 2718 Binney street, and the sale of the lot on Florence boulevard belonging to Miss Mary Goodchild to Mr. Reikes. DR. BRITT MOVES OFFICE TO SUITE OF DR. SAWYER Dr. Leonard E. Britt has moved his office to Thirteenth and Farnam streets, where he and Dr. P. W. Sawyer, the dentist, have a nice suite of rooms. The offices have been renovated and redecorated. The physician and dentist have a neatly furnished reception room in common and private and convenient consultation rooms. CHARITY WELL WORTH WHILE How Tennessee Community Built House and Presented It to Poor but Deserving Widow. You are all familiar with the story of "the house that Jack built." But I wish to tell you of a house that neighbors built in a small town in the South, says a writer in Christian Herald. It was obvious to this community that if a certain family only had a home, they could be self-supporting; while, as it was, every cent they earned went for rent. Two kind, practical men took the matter up and evolved a plan whereby such a home could be made by small contributions, no burden being placed on any one. Personal calls were begun, and help solicited, consisting of money, material or labor. So hearty was the response that within a month a lot was purchased, then a three-room house with two porches was erected, outhouses for cow and chickens were built, a garden fenced, and a well bored, with windlass set up. Good material was used—concrete foundation, and brick flue and chimney. The lot had been set in fruit trees when bought, so there was a ready-made orchard. And when the painter was through with the buildings an insurance agent gave a three-year policy in case of fire. Every bit of the labor was voluntary work. The most eager helpers, however, were the men who went in wagons to move the family home. The matter had been kept secret from them, and you can imagine their surprise and joy. They were a little black-eyed widow and three children, whom misfortune had pursued relentlessly for many sad months. In their new home they were very happy, and this made it all immensely worth while. Now this didn't happen just before Thanksgiving or Christmas, but during the blazing hot days of midsummer, when "sunny" Tennessee was a burning reality. RAISING FOXES IN ALASKA Animals Are Bred There for Their Fur, and the Industry Is a Remunerative One. There are ten or twelve fox farms in Alaska. One of them, situated in the Tannana valley, a mile and a half from Fairbanks, consists of ten acres of cleared land, the greater part of which is covered with pens in which the animals live. From a distance the fox farm looks like a huge chicken yard, with walls of woven wire and hecrops of various sizes inside. Each pen is 50 feet long, 8 feet wide and about 10 feet high. The wire is tough steel and is sunk about four feet in the ground and is then bent so that it runs inward underground for about two feet to prevent the foxes from digging out. At the top the wire has an overhang of two feet to prevent the captives from climbing over. Each pen has a kennel made of boards, like a dog kennel, the entrance to which is a chute or a wooden pipe a foot square. Only one pair of foxes live in each pen. They are very timid and have to be handled carefully. Most of the fox farmers will not allow strangers to enter their property for fear they will frighten the animals. The foxes are fed with salmon, moose meat, horse meat, rabbits, carrots and turnips. A common feed is rice and rabbits cooked together in a stew. LET POTATOES FIGHT They Save Wheat. When you eat Potatoes don't eat Bread U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION THE MONITOR It all began by my following an impulse to ride on the merry-go-round at Old Orchard last summer. I felt extremely foolish after seating myself on one of the prancing ponies and glanced around at the people standing near, hoping I should see no one I knew. Carefully I inspected the crowd and recognized none of them, so proceeded to enjoy my ride. Soon a young man walked around the corner of the ticket stand and stopped in front of the now moving horses. It was Tom Campbell, the very same tall, good-looking Tom I had chummed around with in Lawrence a year or so before. Through a slight misunderstanding, before my return to Maine, I had lost track of him, which fully explained my surprise on seeing him at this summer resort. In spite of our disagreement I still held a friendly feeling toward him and thrilled with pleasure at seeing him once again. "As soon as this merry-go-round stops I will go and speak to him." I reassured myself. Thus thinking, I kept my eyes on him at every turn, waiting for him to glance in my direction. He soon spied me in my ridiculous position, and I smiled toward him. Again he looked at me, then turning walked to the end of the pler. This was too much for my reasoning ability and utterly unlike Tom. Therefore I felt inclined to think he still remembered our difference of the previous year. Otherwise how could he have failed to recognize me. The fault having been mine, I hastened after him as soon as the merry-go-round slowed down, intent upon becoming friends again. He was soon found leaning idly against the pler ralling, watching the waves on the beach below. "Won't you speak to an old friend, Tom?" I began. "Yes—er—indeed; of course I am glad to speak to you, Miss—er—" This last was followed by a significant pause. At his first words I had looked at his face again. Looking at him at close range showed me not Tom Campbell but a darker looking young man, greatly resembling Tom. I was frightened at my mistake and couldn't speak. "Really you must pardon my forgetfulness, but your name has actually slipped my mind." His voice stirred me and I hastened to apologize, explaining how I had mistaken him for Mr. Campbell, a friend of mine. Very politely he told me his name, that his home was far from Lawrence—in fact, he lived in Canada, and while he was sorry he wasn't the original Mr. Campbell, he had no grievance against being mistaken for him. Perhaps it was his frank, good-natured smile that won me. At any rate, I soon found myself laughing over my mistake, and he appeared so little like a stranger that I told him my name and where I was staying. With that I dared not prolong the scene further, for fear he would mistake my intent. Joining my friends again, I returned to the cottage, my thoughts far from their ever-cheering chatter. Several times during the following week we passed on the beach. At first he merely tipped his hat, while I acknowledged his greeting with a smile, and as I thought, very proper "How do you do?" The situation amused me, and when he stopped me on one of my morning walks to ask permission to accompany me, I put formality aside and gave him permission. A few such meetings left me firmly convinced that if there wasn't such a thing as love at first sight there surely was at second or third sight. Fate befriended us and we were formally introduced at one of the cottages where I visited now and then. Then followed a series of walks, excursions, boating trips and dances, ending in my return to town at the end of the season the proud possessor of a bright new diamond ring and his return to Canada to prepare for an early wedding. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate). He Had Proof. Bobby is three years old. He has a new pair of white shoes, and on first denning them last Sunday insisted on being taken to his aunt's house to exhibit the spotless footgear. Auntie lives several squares from Bobby's home, and before half the distance was covered Bobby gave evidence of waning enthusiasm. Finally he asked to be taken home. "Tm awful tired," he declared. "Oh, no," father answered, "you're not tired already." "Yes, I is," Bobby answered, beginning to snivel. "I is too tired. You feel my feet daddy, and see if I isn't." Fish Flour in Norway. The royal Norwegian provisions department has officially announced that recent experiments at Bergen to produce bread containing 20 per cent of fish having proved successful, a trial in the same direction will now be made in Christiania. It is the intention of the provisions Department to co-operate with the state for the purchase of the necessary machinery for the preparation of the fish, which will be mixed with bread grain in order to make the rations larger. The bread prepared in this manner is said to be good and salatable. He Had Proof. RECRUIT BALKS AT THE JO Declared He Had Only Agreed to Get Kaiser and Couldn't Take On Whole Germany. "Are you willing to go across and fight the Germans?" asked an interviewer in the mustering office in former cafeteria No. 2 of a young Florida negro at Camp Dix, whose personnel record he was completing, the query being one of the formal questions put to every recruit. "Ah don't know 'bout dat, boss!" answered the colored boy. "Ah thought yur jes' wanted me to go get the kalser. Bin a-hankerlin' to fix that ole Rat Face, but does yuh mean yuh want me to lick da whole gang?" The interviewer explained the situation. The young negro's home board had told him they were going to send him to Europe to "get the kalser" and he came to camp thinking it was a single-handed job. His face brightened when he found that in his personal part he would have the backing of several million allies. The personnel questionnaire made out in the mustering office brings some amazing answers from the southern negroes recently brought there for training. One couldn't remember where his father was born. "Well, was he born in the United States?" asked the interviewer. "No, indeed, suh, no indeedy!" replied the recruit. "He was born in Virginny!" The same recruit wanted to show that he could qualify under every question. "Are you a member of any lodge or fraternity?" was a query put to him. "Good Lawd, boss, I. should say I was! I use a palebearer." New uniforms are being issued to these Florida recruits and they are the proudest soldiers in the camp. They have taken to the military game like ducks to water, and officers are amazed at the cleverness they are showing in learning drill orders in elementary army work. TO DRIVE AWAY MOSQUITOES Kansas Professor Makes Public Preparation He Claims Is Effective Against Pests. Campers and tourists who are harassed by mosquitoes can find relief by use of repellants, points out George A. Dean, professor of entomology, Kansas State Agricultural college. Where time and circumstances will not permit of sanitary means of control, an effective repellant can be made by the use of one ounce of cedar oil, two ounces of citronella and two ounces of spirits of camphor. A small amount of this solution applied to the face and hands or on a handkerchief tied around the neck will keep the mosquitoes away. Equally good results may be obtained if the liquid is applied to a cloth and hung near the face when mosquitoes are troublesome at night. An announcement has appeared in the newspapers so insignificant that it has almost passed unheeded. The size of the item was altogether out of proportion to its importance. The single paragraph was to the effect that the swinging bridge over the Suez canal at El Kantara, about 35 miles south of Port Said, had been completed. Yet that bridge affords direct railway communication between Cairo and the cities of Palestine; it conquers the desert which separated Egypt from Palestine, and which has for centuries barred the march of nations; it joins Asia to Africa, and it assures the world that the Holy Land will henceforth be under Christian guardianship. Xerxes bridging the Hellespont is nothing to the British bridging the Suez canal! Surely the bells of Christendom ought to have been rung when that insignificant announcement crept into the corners of the papers!—Christian Science Monitor. Some one with an eye to business has had the good idea of establishing, outside a munition factory in Great Britain, a milliner's shop with the latest in hats and blouses for girls. After long hours of work, it is easy to imagine how attractive such a shop window would appear to the girls; the difficult is, probably, to find sufficient shop attendants at the busy hours to sell hats and blouses to eager buyers. The idea is the same, of course, as the tuck shop outside the school gates. —Christian Science Monitor. Besides being good fighters, the French are keen-witted and observing. In Normandy there is a sign up at the entrance of a field: "Horses taken to grass. Reasonable rates. Horses with long tails, 1 france a day. Horses with short tails, 50 centures a day." On being asked why he made this strange distinction, the farmer explained that a horse with a short tail is so worried by flies that he hasn't time to graze, while a horse with a long tail can flick off the flies and eat grass at the same time. Americans Open Korean Mine. The Seoul Press announces that an arrangement has been made to work a gold and silver mine at Chaldong-Kuyongmyon, Yangtok district, South Pyongando, with a capital of 1,000,000 yen, 200,000 yen being subscribed by Koreans and the rest by Americans. Preparation is now being made to erect a refinery. The mine is believed to be exceedingly rich in gold and silver, the vein of ore being from 11 to 23 feet in thickness, and the concession being 8,000,000 tsubo in area. An Unheralded Event. Good Business. An Observing Frenchman. 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Telephone Webster 880 --- GENERAL CONTRACTORS. 2709 Leavenworth Street. SOUTH SIDE GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. MME. JOHNSON AND SOUTH ```markdown ``` NOTARY PUBLIC. Second Floor. OMAHA, NEB. ```markdown ``` COOK GETS OFF BOAT IN HURRY "Sub" Gives Him Ten Minutes Two Was Plenty. "Gwine Ter Keep Fah, Fah From de Oshun fo' Evahmo," Declares Negro Who Was on Schooner Edward H. Cole Which Was Sunk by U-Boat—Will Do All His Traveling by Train in Future. Daniel Giro was the negro cook of the schooner Edward H. Cole, which was sent to the bottom by a U-boat off the Jersey coast; but there'll be no sons of sea cooks in the Giro family—not if Daniel Giro knows it, and Daniel's "gwine ter keep fah, fah from de oshun fo' evahmo." Daniel has gone to Maine, the home of his ancestors. Not on the ragged coast do Daniel and his family abide. He comes not from a family of the sea. He comes from a family of cooks and has always lived in the interior. Daniel went to the barge office to get his discharge after he, with the rest of the crew, had told his story to the United States authorities. He said to a reporter: "Boss, what am de best way to get to Maine? Mah folks don' all live dere and dey may have heard about mah accident and be worried." "Why, by way of Boston," was the answer. "Sure, I know dat; but what am de best way ter get to Boston?" "Go on one of the Fall River bonts." "Bowl!!" And a greenish hue overspread the bronze of the Giro frontis-piece. "Did yo' say bowt, boss? Nevah no bowt, no mo' for muh." The cook gazed reflectively out of the window toward Battery park, where a squad of naval reserve sailors were drilling. A new light came into his eye. Cars for Him. "See dem sailors?" he asked, "over dere in de park. I'll nevah see sailors on the onshun any mo'. Dem sailors dey know sumpfin. Ahm gwine to Boston same way dey go. I'm gwine in de cahs." "What were you doing when the U-boat hove in sight, Daniel?" "Twas on a Sunday aft'noon, about fo' o'clock, boss, ah was gettin' dinner ready for de crew. I done kill fo' chickens and I was gwine to have fried chicken fo' de sailors. De stove in de galley was red hot. An' de cap'n put his face down in the companyun way, and sez to muh: 'Yo' done got ten minutes ter leave de bowt.' "De cap'n done used to kld me off; but when I done look up dey was no lie on dat face in de do'. I see de cap'n he ain't kiddin' muh dis time, an' I clum on deck. Suh nuff, boss, bess, was de U-bow right off our bow, an' a little boatbaw a-comin' for us. I just donn' couldn' berleve muh eyes, dat' all. I dun run down de ladder quick again and Ah shut my eyes and put muh finger on de red hot stove. "Den Ah know 'twasn no dream. I run up the companyun way to de deck, and den de rowbow came 'longside and de cap'n he jumped on deck, and says to muh in English just as good as I spoke: 'Yer done got ten minutes ter get off de bowt,' and he held up his ten fingers. "All I want is two, mistah! Ah done tole him, an' I held two fingers. Den de sailors came over de side and dyed all hed bomms. Dey tole mule ter go down in the fo-castle and get muh duds. I looked at dem bomms, and I丹 tole 'em Ah hed all de close I needed right dere on de deck. "No, suh, I done get right in de lifeboat wid de cap'n, and de German sailors put de bomms down on de deck—two in de front of de schoonah an two in de back. We was right between de schoonah and de U-bowt. Say, boss, doan let 'em tole yo' dose U-bowts am little. Dat U-bowt was suh the biggest thing Ah ever saw in my life. I nevah pulled an oah in mah life. Saw Another Sunk. "We was off de schoonah 'bout five minutes when de bomms went off and de schoonah, wit' all her sails up sailed right to de bottom of de oshun Den we knew we was gwine ter get ft nex', but we jess kep' pullin' or de oahs. Den we see smoke on de horyzon, and de W-bowt, he seen it too. Fo' de fust time we felt safe De U-bowt put right fo' de smoke, an twenty minutes later, by de cap'n's watch, we saw de steamer turn up an go down, les like our own schoonah. "We was picked up by a steamman about eight o'clock dat night, an' we was mighty happy when de cap'n done tole us we was bound fo' New York. Den he tole us dey was short of stokahs. Say' boss, Ah doan nevar shuvel coal in all mah life, but Ah was the fust ter volunteer mah services. An' de whole crew follored muh to stokehole. An' ever' time I don' open de furnace do Ah don see dat U'lowt, an' Ah shuveled coal like coal neber was shuveled befoh. "No mo' bowt fo' me, boss. I wanna get back to Maine, ter see mah folks pow'ful bad, but not by de bowl, boss, or by de bowl. Ah wanna go by de cahs. An' Ah nevah want to see no mo' sailors on de sen, nevah mo'. I like de sailors on de land, like dem sailors oval dere. Dey know sumfin, boss; dey know sumfin." "LOVE THAT SUBDUES EARTH" Robert G. Ingersoll's Beautiful Tribute to Women Has Been Surpassed by Few Writers. It takes a hundred men to make an encampment, but one woman can make a home. I not only admire woman as the most beautiful object ever created, but I reverence her as the redeeming glory of humanity, the sanctuary of all the virtues, the pledge of all perfect qualities of heart and head. It is not just nor right to lay the sins of men at the feet of women. It is because women are so much better than men that their faults are considered greater. A man's desire is the foundation of his love, but a woman's desire is born of her love. The one thing in this world that is constant, the one peak that rises above all clouds, the one window in which the light forever burns, the one star that darkness cannot quench, is woman's love. It rises to the greatest heights, it slinks to the lowest depths. It forgives the most cruel injuries. It is perennial of life and grows in every climate. Neither coldness nor neglect, harshness nor cruelty, can extinguish it. A woman's love is the perfume of the heart. This is the real love that subdues the earth the love that has wrought all miracles of art that gives us music all the way from the cradle song to the grand closing symphony that bears the soul away on wings of fire. A love that is greater than power, sweeter than life and stronger than death—Robert G. Ingersoll. WORD THAT IS OVERWORKED Swiss Visitor in England Somewhat Puzzled Over Constant Use of "Up" in Conversation. The use of the word "up" as applied to railroad destinations reminds a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian of some observations of a Swiss friend. "When I go back to my country," she said, "I shall tell them that they must use 'up' to everything. Everything is up. I are roused up in the morning. I wake up, I get up, I button up my dress. Why 'up'? I button it down. Then I eat up my breakfast, I drink up my coffee, and then somebody washes up the pots and cleans up the house. I pick up my umbrella and go out of the house, and when I see a friend in front I catch her up. How can I catch her up? It is ridiculous! It is all up. You lie up when you are ill, and you save up for a rainy day. Your English language is very funny. My employer put his head in at my office the other day and said, 'I want you to stop tonight.' So I got up and put my cloak on. When he saw me he got quite worked up. He said, 'Why have you got your cloak on? I told you to stop.' I said, 'I have stopped.' Why was he angry? I look into the dictionary, and 'stop' means 'leave off,' and he meant me to go on." Strong Seasoning Harmful. In an article about food and growing fat, a well-known doctor says in American Magazine: "When you continue to pour strong mustard and other seasonings into your food day after day and week after week there can be no question that their effect is injurious. It is exactly the same as if one used a drug of some sort. Constant use creates the desire to increase quantities until the amount used becomes positively harmful. "For example, every one knows that when mustard or pepper is put on the skin the skin reddens and in a few minutes a blister is caused. And, since the skin can stand a great deal more than the membrane of the mouth and stomach, you can well imagine the effect upon it when you pour strong mustards and peppers into your stomach. So if you are prone to indigestion and gastritis see if you are not using too much seasoning in your food. Feather Convicted Thief. A green feather decided a curious case at Bishop, Auckland, Australia, recently. A man was charged with the theft of a carny, but declared that he had bought the bird. In the course of evidence it was stated the prosecutor's bird had a green feather. Examination failed to uncover a green feather on the bird in question, but it was pointed out that it might have been plucked. Accordingly the case was adjourned to see if the feather would grow again. The bird was handed to the care of a well-known fancier, and each party agreed that the case should be decided on whether the feather grew or not. A few days later the fancier produced the bird, and it was observed that the dark green feather had grown again. Defendant was then fined five dollars and costs. Church Many Centuries Old. The church of St. Martin, at Canterbury, is claimed by some to be the oldest church in Great Britain now in use. The building, in excellent repair, contains many features attributable to Roman and Saxon architecture, and was the scene of St. Augustine's preaching and the baptism of Ethelbert, king of Kent. After the departure of the Romans from Britain in 409, the church was still used by a small band of Christian worshipers till St. Augustine's mission in 597, and within the walls of this cradle of English Christianity Divine service has been celebrated for at least 13 centuries without any apparent interruption. THE MONITOR SOLDIER AT FORT OMAHA DISCIPLINED FOR INSULTING CITIZENS Thursday evening, August 29th, after Messrs. William Pierce and W. H. (Bob) Robinson had finished drilling the draftees on the vacant grounds at Twenty-first and Charles streets, they went to Krug park. While they were seated in a crowded street car returning from the park a corporal from Fort Omaha came to them and insolently ordered them to give up their seats. This corporal evidently was from the south. These gentlemen unwilling to have any scene obeyed the order under protest and promptly reported the case to the commanding officer. The following courteous letter in self-explanatory: United States Army Balloon School Fort Omaha, Nebraska September 1, 1918. From the commanding officer to W. H. Robinson, 111 South 14th street, Omaha, Neb. Subject: Improper action by military police. 1. Replying to your letter of August 30th, I wish to say that I have investigated thoroughly the incident which you report and find that this soldier, who was a member of the military police, was evidently in the wrong. He had no right whatever to order or even request you to give up your seat. 2. He was a noncommissioned officer and I have directed that he be reduced to a private as a matter of discipline. 3. I regret very much that you were annoyed in this way and you may be sure that while we will sustain the military police in all action which is right, that we will not for one moment permit them to impose upon anyone, regardless of race or color. H. B. HERSEY, Lieut. Col. Signal Corps. 18 TO 45, THE WINNERS Our friends are gone before us, And now it is our time; Our duty is bending o'er us, So boys, let's get in line. "Uncle Sam" advised his craft, As sure as we're alive, To get real fighters, we must draft, 18 to 45. It's up to us to waive the cost, And shoulder us a gun, To do our best to get across, And grab us off a Hun. The Allies, next Spring will say, Before that "mighty drive." It's up to you to win the day, 18 to 45. H. F. M'CLURE. 2904 North 26th St. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th St. Tel. Web. 4983. ARKANSAS KINGBIRD Tyrannus verticalis ```markdown ``` Length, nine inches. The white edge of the feather on each side of the tall distinguishes this from all other flycatchers except the gray and salmon-colored scissortail of Texas. Range: Breeds from Minnesota, Kansas, and Texas to the Pacific ocean and from northern Mexico to southern Canada; winters from Mexico to Guatemala. Habits and economic status: The Arkansas kingbird is not so domestic as its eastern relative and seems to prefer the hill country with scattered oaks rather than the orchard or the vicinity of ranch buildings, but it sometimes places its rude and conspicuous nest in trees on village streets. The bird's yearly food is composed of 87 per cent animal matter and 13 per cent vegetable. The animal food is composed almost entirely of insects. Like the eastern species, it has been accused of destroying honeybees to a harmful extent, and remains of honeybees were found to constitute five per cent of the food of the individuals examined, but nearly all those eaten were drones. Bees and wasps, in general, are the biggest item of food (38 per cent), grasshoppers and crickets stand next (20 per cent), and beetles, mostly of noxious species, constitute 14 per cent of the food. The vegetable food consists mostly of fruit, such as the elder and other berries, with a few seeds. This bird should be strictly preserved. --- Wadesboro, N. C., Aug. 30.—Dr. J. W. E. Bowen of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., one of the race's ablest speakers, addressed a monster patriotic meeting at Wadesboro, N. C., with more than 6,000 persons in attendance from Anson and adjoining counties. Dr. Bowen was introduced by the Hon. L. P. Robinson, member of congress from the Wadesboro district. He pointed out in a most luminous manner the duty of the race in support of the war policies of the government and urged the people to respond cheerfully to the call to the colors, to buy Liberty bonds and war savings stamps, to contribute generously to the funds for the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., and to engage heartily in all of the activities designed to aid the nation in the winning of the war. $110,000 RAISED IN PORTO RICO RED CROSS DRIVE San Juan, Porto Rico., Aug. 29. Final figures for the second war fund drive for the American Red Cross show the subscription of approximately $110,000 throughout the island. These figures were made available this week by the Porto Rico chapter. Of this sum $104,000 has already been collected. JAPAN RICE RIOTERS DESTROY FOOD STORES Tokio.—Rice stores in twenty houses have been destroyed in the prefecture of Yamaguchi by a mob of several thousand persons. Twelve riots were killed and seven were slightly wounded. In Tokio there have been 1,000 arrests since the beginning of the rice riots. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Service Webster 4443 24th and Grant DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Automobile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES & CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. AUGUST ANDERSON GROCERIES AND FRUITS Good Goods—Fair Prices Webster 2274 24th and Clark. Res. Colfax 3831 Douglas 3181 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 3807 Camden Avenue. Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled NOUTH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE Auction Every Saturday R. B. Rhodes Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold Rental and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 Annie Banks Cecil B. Wilkes BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming Street Res. Doug. 4379, Office Doug. 3718 Graduate of N. E. Conservator of Music, Boston, Mass. Florentine F. Pinkster Teacher of Pianoforte, Harmony, Solfeggio Webster 2814 Boston Studio 2214 No. 28th Ave. Omaha. Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women WARDEN HOTEL STEAM HEATED ROOMS—HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER—BATHS By Day for One.....50c, 75c, $1.00 By Day for Two.....$1.00, $1.25, $1.50 By Week.....$2.00 to $4.50 BILLIARD PARLOR IN CONNECTION FOR GENTLEMEN WHO CARE EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO HEART OF CITY Douglas 6332. Charles H. Warden, Proprietor. BUY THRIST STAMPS Open For Business Nicely Furnished Steam Heated Rooms, With or Without Board. 523 North 15th St. Omaha, Neb. Office Douglas 7812. Dr. C. H. Singleton DENTIST Office Hours 109 S. Fourteenth St., 9 to 12 A. M. .1 to 6 P. M. Omaha, Nebraska First Class Work Guaranteed. First Class Colored Laundry. CLOTHES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. Webster 5322. 25th and Grant Streets. Ware Candy Kitchen 1415 North 24th Street HOME MADE CANDIES, FRESH EVERY DAY. ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS Ice Cream, 40c a Quart. ARTHUR A. WARE, Prop. House of Mystery BENEFIT OLD FOLKS HOME AT N. W. C. A. HOME 3029 PINKNEY ST. SEPTEMBER 9TH AND 10TH Admission 10c. MRS. FLORENCE JOHNSON, Chairman OSBORNE West Side, 2 Shirts, Men's Arrow Brand, $3 Shoes, Men's Dark Brown, $10. Women's Black K'd, High Top Buster Brown Children's Shoes Corsets, all sizes and styles, just Women's Waists, special $1.25. Men's Dress Pants, $3.50 Millinery, Bungalow Aprons, Ch 25 PER CENT UND Shirts, Men's Arrow Brand, $3.00 value for.....$1.98 Shoes, Men's Dark Brown, $10.00 value for.....$7.95 Women's Black K'd, High Top Shoes, $8.50 value for.....$6.50 Buster Brown Children's Shoes, all sizes. Corsets, all sizes and styles, just arrived, Special Sale. Women's Waists, special $1.25. Boys' Wash Suits, sizes 2 to 6.....$1.45 Men's Dress Pants, $3.50 value for $2.75 Men's Hosiery, pair.....25c Millinery, Bungalow Aprons, Child's Wash Dresses, Hosiery, Notions. 25 PER CENT UNDER DOWNTOWN PRICES The Kashmir Beauty Shop FOR LADIES We Also Make a Specialty of TREATING MEN'S SCALPS 220 S. 13th St., Upstairs 13th and Farnam. JESSE HALE, MOSS, Manager Douglas 7150. WEBSTER 1412 And Lake Sts. Value for.....$1.98 Value for.....$7.95 $,8.50 value for.....$6.50 sizes. Fed, Special Sale. Wash Suits, sizes 2 to 6.....$1.45 2.75 Men's Hosiery, pair.....25c Wash Dresses, Hosiery, Notions. DOWNTOWN PRICES Smell Sweet Anything in the line of Toilet Articles, Perfumes, Soaps, Face Powder; also Household Articles, Olive Oil, Extracts, etc. Mrs. E. Britton AGENT A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests ef the Colored People of Nebraska and the West. with the desire to con, tritute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race. Publishes Every Saturday. *" Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1916, at the Post Office at Omaha. Nob. under the act of March 5, 1813. AE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Luctiie Skaggs, Edwards and william Garnett Haynes, Aseociate, Editors, George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor. Bert Patrick, Business ‘Manager. Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.00 6 MONTHS; 60c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates, 50 cents an Inch per issue. Address, The Monitor, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha. ‘Telephone Webster 4263. . COMMUTES SENTENCE WwW are gratified at the action of President Wilson in commuting the death sentence of 10 soldiers im- plicated in the rioting at Houston last August to life imprisonment. The death penalty in the case of six others has been affirmed, because the con- demned men had been found guilty of having wilfully and deliberately mur- dered civilians. With this decision no fault can or will be found. The drastic punishment meted out to the thirteen soldiers who were hanged at Houston provoked tremen- dous resentment, which was absolute- ly justified because of the almost in- decent haste with which it was done and which savored more of vengeance and reprisal than of justice. More- over there was the justifiable feeling that in the case of some of those men, concerning whose guilt there was a question of doubt, had an opportunity for a review of the evidence been given, the penalty would have been lighter. That was our contention. We dia not condone the guilt of the ac- cused or minimize the gravity of their crime, We contended that opportunity for an appeal should have been given and mitigating circumstances might be found. The fact that President Wilson, whom we do not believe would wink at injustice, found this to be true in the case of ten of the sixteen resting un- der the same condemnation whose cases he reviewed would seem to add weight to the justness of our former contention. It is gratifying to us to have our position vindicated. The Monitor's outspoken condemnation of that hasty act strained the friendship of some of our dearest friends, whose friendship we highly prized, and led them to question our loyalty. They could not understand our psychology, nor we theirs. The president’s commutation of ten out of sixteen cond>mned men shows our position sound, and this is a source of much gratification. If upon the review of the evidence President Waison had uffirmed the verdict of all the sixteen, regrettable as it would be, there would have been cheerful acauiescence in his finding because there would have been the conviction that the accused had been accorded their constitutional rights. ‘That is ali any loyal American should ak. LENYOL The Colored people of the United States take more than a passing pleas- ure in the defeat of Vardaman and Blease. and when one considers what the race has suffered at their hands, their pleasure is to be ex- pected. But always remember that the greatest enemy of the race is not always the blatant talker. It is the silent menace of prejudice that is the most hurtful, the most crushing, the most despicable. We can extend « warm welcome to an open enemy; but the enemy we fear worst is the enemy that stabs in the back. Ins‘dious are the methods of secret prejudice and they are more rife today than at any- time in the history of our nation. Even in this war for liberty, pre- judice is forever rampant and it hurts. It hurts for the Colored draftee to learn that he cannot enlist in the regular army, in the navy, in aviation, in wireless work and in numberless other branches of the service. It is not pleasant for him to read that the government wants men of all occupa- tions and that it wants “white men.” In Canada a Colored man may enlist for any branch of service he desires, but in this great country he is lim- ited in military life as he has always been, limited in civil life. It isn't right and all the powers of govern- ment can never make it right. ‘These are some of the insidious methods of prejudice that outrank a thousand Vardamans and a thousand Bleases. If the government means to be sin- cere to its Colored citiens who are willine end have. always been willing to do their part and more, then let there be no discriminction in any branch of the service. A Colored mar make as good a marine as a white man; a Colored aviator can fly and fight in air as well as a white man; ‘a Colored sailor can man a gun as well as 2 white sailor. Let's have fair play all around. BETTER HOUSING CONDITIONS Hundreds of our people have come from the south. Many of them are living in houses which are a disgrace to this community. The authorities ought not to permit human beings to occupy some of the unsightly and unsanitary shacks from which prof- iteering landlords are receiving high rentals. When cold weather comes on these tenants will be exposed to great suf- fering which will bring on sickness. ‘A concerted effort should be made to secure better housing conditions. It can be done and should be done. GOVERNMENT AND LIBERTY If all individual initiative be trans- ferred to the realm of government, we have no opportunity for that in- dividual life which has been the glory of our modern world, If we transfer ull the fundamental elements of a well-ordered government over to the realm of liberty, we have national dissolution and political death. The American patriot, keeping his heart open and his mind free from preju- dice, seeking friendships everywhere in this world and enmities nowhere, keeping his eye fixed on this line be- tween government and liberty, will ask himself how, as one of the keep- ers of the democratic conscience, can he act in a given crisis, in the pres- ence of a given problem, before a given issue—how can he act, my friends, so as to protect the aim and the ideals of the American Republic? Nicholas Murray Butler. The Building of a Race c the construction of a race, like in the construction of a country, nation or business, there must be some fundamental essentials adhered to as a standard. A race, like the individual, must have a standard to build its character around if it would erdnre and enjoy the blessings of civilization. In the creation of the human family. the Creator intended that every individual, race and nat‘on chou'd fill a helpful and useful place in the world’s economy. He left’ no’ place for slackers, drones and de- struetionists. A race may succeed as individuals in acquiring wealth, in- telligence and morals; but if there is not a unity of purpose, a commurt® ity of action and understanding and ‘a uniting of the forces that win, the race will never be felt in these es- sential elements of the country as a potent factor. The Negro people pos- sers the same qualifications, aspira- tions, ambitions and useful elements common to all other races, but: these essentials are not so grouped and united as to be felt in the community and national life asx factors to be reckoned with. We believe that the two funda- mentals ind’spensably nazessary in the building of a race are the pulpit and the press—the pulpit first, to set the standard of morality, to construct a morale among the people for a unity of movement and a concert of action. ‘The pulpit necessarily has a stronger hold on the people than any other fac- tor or institution building character or creating sentiment. Therefore, the pulpit is the greatest power for good or for evil. Its influence is far reach- ing, its matters not whether it is in- telligent or ignorant; and unless the pulpit addresses itself not only to the religous side of our life but to the economic, industrial and frugal as well, the race is in construction and will never reach that place along side of the Caucasian, Our failure will not be at all chargeable to inherent inferiority, but to a lack of unity of the forces that have won for the white man in the world’s civilization. The Lord never intended that the ‘preacher should use all of his time in sentimental re- ligion, but for the reason that He says in Holy Writ that “Six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day thou shalt rest.” ‘This rest, presupposes service to God. ‘The pulpit must address itself to ‘building up the political, econom‘c ‘and ‘social character of the race, It must unite in one giant effort to bring race, grit and greenbacks into the Negro’s life. It must address itself more to living on earth, more to the solving of the problems of every day ie than to going to heaven and wear- ‘ng long wh'te robes and silver slip- ‘ers on golden streets. All those “hings sentimentally may elp but practical purposes it my not help THE MONITOR ‘Relprul race. The clergy can do more to educate the Negro to thrift and morality than any other factor. It can do more to teach him that no man is a real man who does not register and vote, who does not try to have a home and who does not recognize his civic re- lations to his county, state and coun- try; that, the accumulat‘on of wealth, character and responsibility on earth is a necessary fundamental to saving grace. The press ought to be united and in co-operation with the pulpit to bring about these essentials. It should teach, first, respectability, race pride, race appreciation and race conscious- ness. It should teach that no man fills the purposes for which he was created who does not own a home for his family and claim some country as a home, filling equally the respon- sibility of carry the burdens of his country. Rights, whether they are conferred or inherent, do not come to man be- cause they are his, but because he earns them—because he pays for them with useful and helpful service to God, countxy and neighbor. A united pulpit and press could remove seven- ty-five per cent of all the discrimina- tion and proscriptions against the Negro in America, in the army, navy and elsewhere, if the efforts of the pulpit and press could raise them- selves above selfishness, greed and camouflage. : The forces of essentials which will [brine the Negro along side of the: | white man in the enjoyment of his po- | litical, industrial and economic rights | are not without the race but within it. The efforts of the white man | to block the Negro, to discourage and | keep him in poverty and obscurity | will prove futile if the Negro will | corral the forces within the race. We ‘have virtue, morality, religion, ambi- | tion, aspiration and every capability of usefulness that the white man has; and if we will unite these virtues under a standard of racial conseious- ness that we are determined to build a race, there is no force without that can succeed in counteracting our united effort, There is nothing that succeeds like a little success, and if we would convince the enemies of our | permanent progress that we are going? jto succeed without them, they would help us to succeed, | We want nothing from the legis- |latures or congress except equal | rights, equal opportunities and equal | protection before the law in the en- | Joyment of life, liberty and happiness | in common with other people. Politics ‘cannot confer the enjoyment of any. | political rights now denied us inde- |pendent of our own self-help. We Sant equality under the laws, recbg- | niging the fundamentals that in order | to enjoy life, property and happiness and to kill off discrimination, we must be a political factor in every commun-— ity in which we live. Do not expect the | war to do any more for us than you |expected the republican party to do. |You have depended upon the repub- | lican party to hand to you all of your | rights until you have lost nearly every | | political right and a great abridge- ment of your civil rights. Pay no at~ tention to the camouflage of the rab- | ble press and the cheap preacher. who |tell you of the glorious millennium | that shall come after the war. When | the war is over, d’sfranchisement will | still be on the books, jim crow cars will be operated, segregation will be. in vogue and every other sin against Christian civilization, unless we qual- ify to meet the requirements of the laws, whether they are fair or un- fair. We can build a great and useful race if we will depend upon ourselves; if we can get the pulpit and press | together; if we can unite them in the assembling of the forces within the race to fight a race’s battle—not an | individual’s battle, but a race’s strug- gle. The white man has not reached | the pinnacle in the world’s civilization | without great struggle, ard we need | not expect it, Let the pulpit and the | press unite in making the world fit to live in und there will be no question about our reaching heaven.—The At- lanta Independent, For The Monitor. Little black jewel, Daughter of night, Dark-eyed laughter, Dusky-hued sprite! Heir of song-makers, Dialect bard, Banjo-child poet, Smiling so hard; Pickanin’ chile! Cottonfield fairy, Wooly-haired gnome, Sweet singing blackbird, African poem! Sun-footed dancer, Strewer of birth, Coal-glossy _mocker, Baby of earth; Pickanin’ chile! , —M., Eugene Konecky PICK ANIN’ CHILE Obvious Observations We never thunked that a parvel of Germans could get scared and run so fast, One thing that college men should be thankful for and that is the sub- ject of economics has been shot ali to pieces. Any man who would have the nerve to write a treatise on eco- nomics nowadays surely belongs in a buggery. ‘These chilly mornings are just high signs that winter is throwing out to let us know that he will be all on the job pretty soon. Hurrah for pancake and waffle time! That's one edge we've got on the butcher, Next July the next national name will be Sahara. General Foch isn’t half started yet. Wait until he swings Pershing’s Yanks into battle! Believe muh, the boches will do some tall hustling. The only sore spot w've got is that we can’t get enough sugar to make a few jugs of good red wine. Dean Ringer is a wise goop when he says that he is going to load Mr. Eberstein with every ounce of police responsibility. Dean didn’t know what he grabbed when he grabbed and now he begins to realize that he grabbed a hot potato. So many magazines are quoting The Monitor that we are thinking of bor- rowing a tape line and measuring our bust development, ‘Thanking you earnestly for your kind attention, we will now tackle our pot of beans and bones. SKITS OF SOLOMON gf ‘The Shipyards. The shipyards, according to Senor Dan Webster, are places where men build ships. Just as the present ahora, howevah, the shipyards are places where thousands of men are hiking to ayoid toting a gun. Where anyone ever nabbed the idea that ship work avoided gun toting is a mystery, be- cause Unk Sam can’t find any such order for his army book. Just last week Mr. Charles Schwab tore out for the capital city and asked Gineral Crowder why in the heck he was tak- ing all his skilled ship makers and sticking them in the tramp tramp squad. Mr. Charlie tried to show the Gineral a deep point where there wouldn't be nary a ship if he didn't have men to put the ships, together. Gineral Crowder agreed that the point was well balanced, but neither Charlie nor the Gineral have said a word about unskilled workers. ‘The trouble with unskilled workers is that there are 0 many of them that they get in each other’s way. They aren't a whole ’ UNCLE SAM’S PARTNER rer, \Mgy _ Se ' a \ fi -z < ? Sy en! Aes WW BAN ART HE eo yy A Bh a vA re ee 5 sf fl | a Wicca | Vgc el A ie) \ uu bs aoe ae \ i eg wy pal (Re ee es ES CN SRNR 7, f(s i) ‘ ii We Off Xe ilh\ WY ia » ey, eee a NN Te Me Pa IX VN ~ Ma OZR SINS Yaa Bis WN WHS iy Ns , ; OBE <6 ee N ‘Sy -& Mh Pa HI MA a brome = Z| \ % el ey 2 = Fe. Ee ee Hs a Py ue aN yr e Pe RRR Sa &: EN apt 4 “2 a (Courtesy ef Life and Charles Dana Gibson.) Planting home gardens, producing more food, and saving food are all war-time efforts of this government in which the women of America have co-operated loyally. We are all in the home army; the home army here must help the fighting forces and home armies over there; 120 million Allies must eat. peta ft ARMY DRIVE starts September 9th for funds tor help our toys at the front. Of course you'll | elp. ANOTHER TIMELY TOPIC for all men between 18 and 45 who have not previously registered. Register Promptly 1 = th SEPTEMBER Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. lots of good to anybody and no one knows it better than the Gineral. So if you are just a lumber toter or an iron hauler, don’t figure that by tear- ing out to Old Virginy you can keep out, of hopping trenches. If Unk Sam wants you, Unk Sam is going to get you and that’s all there is to it. A whole parcels of dudes who thought that they were wiser than Old Stripes and Whiskers, are finding out that they slip a cog in their cogitations. ‘There's: no ducking the draft if you belong to it. As to the shipyards, Unk knows that no where else under the blue canopy of St. Peter would he find a nicer bunch of slackers, all ready to pull out and shoot over to- wards Berlin. So, son, if you figure that the shipyards are going to keep you off the firing line, get hep and stay around where your riends live so that if Unk does say, “Lend a hand,” you'll have somebody to tell you Adios. FRANCE AND BELGIUM GET AMERICAN SUGAR Ninety-five per cent. of all refined sugar sent from the United States te the Allied nations went to France and Belgium during the first five months of this year, France got 72 per cent,, or nearly 83,000,000 pounds, and Belgium receiv- ed nearly 11,000,000 pounds, or 28 per cent, In each country this sugar was doled out by a strict rationing organization, ‘The entire amount to the Allies in these five months—23.701 tons, almost huif of which was shipped in May—Is only about one-half of 1 per cent. of our total annual consumption. FORMAL OPENING OF WALKER MANSION Notable Members of Both Races Guests at Social Function at Man- sion Built by Progressive Woman, Who by Her Own Splendid Ability Has Risen From Poverty and Ig- norance to Wealth and Culture. EMMETT SCOTT HONOR GUEST TRVINGTON-ON-THE-HUDSON, N. HL Y., Sept. 6.—The formal opening of Villa Leware, the new home of Madam C. J. Walker at this place Sunday, August 25, was the most no- table social function in the history of the Colored race. Many notables were present, including white men and women who are active in the work for the advancement of Colored peo- ple. Mr, and Mrs. Emmett J. Scott were the guests of honor. All New York, seemingly, was present, also distin- guished individuals from various states including J. P. Napier, of Ten- nessee, and Prof. Scarborough, of Ohio. ‘The great room, the salon, of che home was the scene long to be re- membered where a program was ren- dered, including such notables as Rosamond Johnson, Joseph Douglass and Mrs. Martha B. Anderson of Chi- cago, Thos. E. Taylor, the well known Y. M, C. A, worker closed by leading “America.” Emmett J. Seott was the principal speaker. He was preceded by the distinguished hostess, Madam C. J. Walker. Both were felicitious in their well chosen expressions, earn- ing the liberal applause that was given them. Other speakers followed. | Lincoln News MRS. SARAH WALKER. N. A. A. C. P. MAKING PROGRESS The N. A. A. C. P. held a very interesting meeting last Wednesday at Masonic hall, with a large attendance. Six new members were reported. Four were brought in by Rev. Mr. Burkhardt, among them being the membership of Congressman Sloan. Mr. J. E. Jeltz was fortunate in securing the memberships of Mr. C. P. Peterson, food administrator, and Mr. Charles Matson, who is chairman of the war activities. The N. A. A. C. P. donated to the Ada Young unit, the local Red Cross society, a neat little collection for the defraying of small expenses. Mrs. Maude Gates, chairman of the organization, reported great success from that department. Mr. Lawrence Gates, chairman of the war savings branch, presented his plans to the association, which were met with approval, and a drive is expected to be made soon. The association was greatly dissappointed upon not hearing the Rev. N. H. Jeltz of Cheyenne, Wyo., a brother to Mr. J. E. Jeltz of this city, who was to give a lecture, but on account of conference convening there very soon he was unable to be here. Misses Nondus and Mabel Scott of Beatrice, Neb., arrived in the city Saturday morning as guests of Miss Viola Walker. The Misses Scott expect to be visitors at the state fair, in addition to visiting their many friends. The following men entrained early Sunday morning for Camp Lewis, Wash.: Sam Jones, Joe Gibson and William M. Ward, who was leader of the squad. Mr. Rasmus Curtis left for Sioux City Friday afternoon. Mrs. Virgie M. Miller was baptised during the morning service at the First A. M. E. church Sunday. Mr. Arthur Johnson departed Saturday morning for Omaha, where he will enjoy a short vacation. Miss Opal Ashford entertained at dinner Sunday for Misses Nondus and Mabel Scott of Beatrice. The following attended the grand session of the Sons and Daughters of Bethel at Omaha: Mrs. Laura Johnson. Mrs. Alice Grant and Mrs. Jennie Sellerr. Mrs. Delia Alexander, who has been ill for some time, was able to attend church Sunday. Mr. Jackson Spicer and son Wesley departed Sunday for Bedford, Ia., their old home, where they were heartily greeted by their many friends. Mr. Spicer and son expect to be gone about two weeks. Mrs. Falling left Sunday for Peoria, Ill., where she will spend about two months visiting at the home of her daughter. Mr. Robert Johnson is on the sick list this week, having an attack of la gripe. Mrs. Stella Cruse and daughter, Miss Valeria, returned home last week from different points in Kansas, arriving there from Denver, where they had spent several months enjoying JOHN BAKER'S POOL and BILLIARD PARLOR Rooms and Taxi Line. 117 E. Front St. Tel. 321 GRAND ISLAND, NEB. The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Sundries C. D. ENNIS First-Class Rooming House Billard Parlor, Cigars Soft Drinks. —Barber Shop in Connection— 422½ West Fourth. Tel. 2083 GRAND ISLAND, NEB. The Only Way Is THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAY Miss Flossie M. Patrick and Mae Burdon the scenic grandeur of that state. the scene grandfather of the same. Miss Odessa Hillman of Chillicothe, Mo., and Mr. James Arthur Patrick of Lincoln were married in Omaha, last Thursday by Rev. W. F. Botts at the parsonage. The happy couple arrived in Lincoln Tuesday evening, where they will be home to their many friends. Mr. Patrick is a resident of this city and is well known as a prosperous and industrious young man. His bride is not as well known, but she has many friends, having visited here two summers ago. She will be remembered as a talented young lady, having taught school for many years. Mr. Roy White of near Richfield, Neb., is the guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson and sister, Mrs. Sarah Walker. Mrs. J. W. Cooley entertained at breakfast Saturday morning for Miss Virgil Gaskin, Miss Ruth Collins and Mrs. Fannie Young. Mrs. J. M. Cooley also entertained Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williams and Miss Flossie Patrick at 6 o'clock dinner. Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick drove from Aurora, Neb., to Lincoln, Tuesday evening, to be guests at the reception given Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Patrick. Miss Flossie Patrick will give a reception Wednesday evening in honor of her brother, James Patrick, who was married last Thursday to Miss Odessa Hillman of Chillicothe, Mo. PUBLICITY AND CRITICISM "Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech or of the press," so reads a clause in our Constitution. This is a wise provision. The citizens of a democracy should at all times know of and be able to criticise the management of their affairs. Investigation and criticism in the present war have been of great benefit in hastening our preparation by pointing out errors that have been made. There is no doubt whatever that the great safeguards in the conduct of the war are almost unlimited publicity and the right of criticism. We are told that constructive criticism is always welcome, but who is to decide what is constructive? Why not criticism without the adjective? Most citizens believe that Universal Military Training as a corrective of our unpreparedness would have been constructive, and yet it was not adopted. Who can tell, if it had been accepted when first proposed, what the result would have been on this war! If we had had more publicity upon the production of aeroplanes, shipping and ordnance, the suggestions of thinking men would unquestionably have stimulated the rapidity with which these articles were being produced, and the delays that have occurred might have been avoided. There are things the Government cannot make public, and these the people do not ask to know. But in the main full information concerning the progress of preparation can safely be given to the people. It is the people's war; it is a war supported by the people, financially and physically, and suggestions by them should be sought and considered. Thoughts Mightier Than Armies. Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or charlots.—Rev. Dr. W. M. Paxton. OurFlags BEAT GERMANY Support EVERY FLAG that opposes Prussianism Eat less of the food Fighters need DENY yourself something WASTE NOTHING UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION THE MONITOR The Second Line Of D, fense (Written by Miss Madre Penn, graduate of Omaha High School, Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, of Howard University, Washington, D. C. Since her graduation Miss Penn has taught school in Washington, D. C., and Sedalia, Mo. From the Department of Languages in Lincoln High School, Sedalia, Mo., she went to Training School for Secretaries in New York City, and for the past year has been engaged in special war work under the War Work Council Y. W. C. A. in North Carolina and Virginia.) Sixteen months ago when war broke out between the United States and Germany, the United States threw all her energies into the gigantic task of assembling a force which she might hurl against Prussianism, in order that government by the people, for the people and of the people might not perish from the earth. To create that first line of defense, consisting of land army, sea army, air army might seem to have been a task suf- THE WOMEN'S HOLIDAYS Miss Madree Penn ficient for even American statesmanship. But with wisdom and foresight truly remarkable, she did not forget the conservation of the custodians of a nation's greatness—its girls and women. The care of the men composing the first line of defense was the work of the department of government. The care of the women and girls composing the second line of defense was delegated by teh United States to the Young Women Christian Association, which for fifty years had been carrying a constructive program to the girls and women of the country. The National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association of America, in response to this S. O. S. call of the nation, created a war work council which in turn raised a budget last year of $4,000,000 to be spent on work in communities affected by the war; club work, recreation, housing, social morality, hostess houses, patriotic leagues, in fact, for anything that would help the girl, behind the man, behind the gun. The American Girl! Nothing "that a democracy made safe for the world" can give, is too good for her! There is no girl of no group with a deeper Americanism than is hers in whose veins flows the blood of the first patriotic American to shed blood for his country—Crispus Attucks. There she stands, that dusky American with eyes bright with unshed tears as she sends off her men to do their part, bravely, nobly and well. The War Work Council appropriated $200,000 of its $4,000,000 for work among Colored women and girls. Colored women leaders direct all work of the War Work Council for work among Colored people. They are women chosen for their training in social activities. Most of them are college graduates. Through the summer session of the N. W. C. A. Training School in New York City these leaders have been trained. In June, 1918, there were thirty-two secretaries who utilize all features of the Y. W. C. A. war work program to teach high ideals and the practical advance in standards of living, made possible in these days of changing conditions. It is through club work under direction of trained leaders, that the Y. W. C. A. is helping our girls to find their places in war time service. Industry is calling women by hundreds of thousands as men leave the factories for the army. In this invasion all women must stand together to keep wages up, overtime down and standards of living high. Girls—whatever race or clan or creed—are more alike than different and so the Y. W. C. A. in its program for all girls has led the way in teaching this truth. And American womanhood shall come into its own just as American manhood shall come into its own. America dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could not have stayed out of this war if she had tried, but, constrained by a power quarter Chen himself who was compelled to enter in -skirts muddled though they are—for, "tied in working our purpose out, as "God is working his purpose out, as year succeeds to year; God is working his purpose out, and the time is drawing near— Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be, When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God, as the waters cover the sea." AN APPEAL TO ALL PATRIOTIC WOMEN AN APPEAL TO ALL PATRIOTIC WOMEN Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr. (Formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland) Urges Women of Nation to Stand Firm. "We can win if America can be held steadfast and unswerving, and the women of America can hold her steadfast. Against all temptations to compromise the women of America should stand firm and united," says Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr. (formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland), in a message to the women of America, made public through the National Security league. Mrs. Preston is By League work. She was the first woman to become a member of the League's National Executive Committee, and is secretary of the League's Committee on Patriotism Through Education. Mrs. Preston's message to the women of the country reads in full: "Proclaim Liberty." "Proclaim Liberty throughout ALL THE LAND unto all the inhabitants thereof." "These words were written about 1490 years before Christ, as part of the Law of Holiness in the Book of Leviticus. Our fathers inscribed them upon the Liberty Bell which called our mighty nation into life. "Today 'all the inhabitants' enjoy Liberty, the Jew and the Gentile, the rich and the poor, the native and the alien-born, the weak and the strong. The old Liberty Bell is silent, for its voice has been heard 'throughout all the land.'" "But Liberty is not safe. It is mamed along the battle fronts of many nations, our own among them, and America requires a new motto for her old Bell: 'Proclaim liberty throughout ALL LANDS unto all the inhabitants thereof.' Until liberty is safe in all lands, it can not be safe in our own. Hence the task to which America has reverently and unselfishly dedicated herself. "Make Motto Real." "The Fathers of this Republic, men of many races, with a common love of liberty, wrought into law our ancient motto, thus giving liberty a chance to enlighten the world. "Today we, their descendents, are called upon to make real the new motto, and thus to give liberty the undisputed right to bless the world." "This can be done but only after heroic struggle and self-sacrifice. A premature peace would mean failure. It would be only less disastrous than complete defeat. Against all temptations to compromise the women of America should stand firm and united. "Peace and Safety." "Victory means peace and safety for our children; defeat means humiliation and practical servitude for them; while a negotiated peace, with the military machine of Prussia unbroken, means that everything in their lives must be subordinated to the task of preparing for another war with Germany. We can win now if America can be held steadfast and unswerving, and the women of America can hold her steadfast." ITALY HAD FIRST PAWNSHOP From That Country the System Gradually Spread Over the Rest of the Civilized World. The French call them monts-de-piete, but no satisfactory explanation for this nomenclature is forthcoming. The establishment of municipal pawnshops in France was attended with more difficulty than was the case in other countries. It is from Italy that the idea of municipal pawnbrokers spread over the rest of Europe. A municipal pawnbok was set up in Madrid in the year 1705, when a priest with very little capital opened up as an "uncle." The system was tried at Avignon in 1577, but it was not until the year 1777 that Paris itself was provided with a mont-de-piete. The national assembly upset the monopoly and the business passed into private hands. The extortions of the pawnbrokers in time led, however, to a deand for the re-establishment of the governmental institutions. In 1800 Napoleon re-established the monopoly, regulating it by laws that are still in force. The interest charged amounts to about 7 per cent. In Paris the mont-de-piete is in effect a department of the administration, but in the provinces it is a municipal monopoly. fast. Against all temptations to compromise the women of America should stand firm and united," says Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, or (formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland), in a message to the women of America, made public through the National Security League. "Proclaim Liberty." "Make Motto Real." "Peace and Safety." Among the Churches BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. T. A. Taggart, Pastor. Sunday morning service, preaching 10:45; Sunday school, 1:30; B. Y. P. U., 6 p. m.; preaching Sunday night 8 o'clock. Visitors welcome. The Mission Club met Thursday af- ternoon with Mrs. Lula Whidby, 2919 R street. Mother Drungels, who is past the one hundred mark, is quite ill at the home of her grandson, 2513 South 26th street. Miss Madree Penn will give a lecture for benefit of Bethel Baptist church Thursday night, September 12th at A. O. U. W. Temple, 25th and M streets, South Side. Public invited. Admission 25 cents. Adv. MT. MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. M, W. Wilkinson, Pastor Services were very enjoyable all day Sunday. A few additions. Mr. Damond Maxwell and Miss S. B. Drewe were married at 2536 Hamilton street, by the Rev. M. H. Wilkinson. Quite a few friends and relatives were present. They are from Pensacola, Fla. The barbecue dinner at church Monday was a grand success. Everything was sold off. Aunt Fanny Harvill certainly knows her business. There will be another barbecue dinner on Saturday the 14th at the church. Cooking by Aunt Fanny Harvill. Mr. H. L. Anderson and Mrs. M. H. Wilkinson returned from the Iowa Association, Des Moines, where they enjoyed a fine session. Preaching by the pastor next Sunday morning, "Success Brings Joy." At 3 p. m. pastor and congregation will visit and preach for Rev. P. C. Parker, Council Bluffs, Ia., Beulah Baptist church. Rev. Kelly from Pensacola, Fla., will preach at night. NEWS OF ST. JOHN'S Miss Corinne Thomas, niece of Mr. and Mrs. William Rickes, was crowned queen of the 1918 carnival Monday evening, September 2. The crown was very beautifully inserted with blue and white brilliants. The queen's procession was led by six pretty little flower girls and her attendants, Mrs. Alice Sherwood, Mrs. N. Morris and Miss Ray L. Middle REMEMBER SUNDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS MONDAY ALL MEALS WHEATLESS TUESDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS WEDNESDAY ALL MEAL WHEATLESS NORTH SIDI NORTH SIDE BOOSTERS Six Chairs Sergt.-Major E. W. Killingsworth At O. T. Camp Pike, Ark. R. C. Price At Home on the Job The Alamo Barber Shop a The best equipped shop in the city. Baths, plain and she KILLINGSWORTI R. D. Jacks Phone Webster 5784. Special Show Fall Mi You will find that our freshly just arrived from New York, are discerning taste. Each hat repres Best Attention Special Showing of New Fall Millinery You will find that our freshly unpacked assortments, which have just arrived from New York, are large enough to satisfy the most discerning taste. Each hat represents a new expression in millinery. We Make and Retrim to Suit the Customer. THE RELIABLE MILLINER Latest Creations at Popular Prices. 1615-17 North 24th Street. ton, after which the following program was rendered: Selection—By Choir. Prayer—Rev. W. S. Metcalf. Reading—Mrs. M. Hubbard. Solo—Miss Pearl Ray. Reading—Mrs. M. Johnson. Solo—Mrs. R. Rafferty. Recitation—Mrs. L. Wilkerson. Selection—By Choir. Report—Mrs. Alice Sherwood. Solo—Miss Ray L. Middleton. Piano Selection—Madame S. McCoy. Each participant rendered her part well. Special mention should be given to Mrs. Alice Sherwood, who worked so faithfully and intelligently to make the carnival a success. CONFERENCE TO MEET The 43d annual session of the Kansas conference, Fifth Episcopal district, will convene in St. John's A. M. E. church, this city, Wednesday, September 18, at 9 a. m. Annual sermon by Rev. B. R. Ross. Bishop H. B. Parks, presiding. The Rev, Samuel R. Skelton will preach Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and evening at 8 o'clock. W. C. WILLIAMS, Minister. Miss Covington of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. C. E. Russell of 4023 Seward street. She came to attend the Morris-Russell wedding. Mrs. Wyatt Williams and Mrs. U. B. Young of Lincoln were Omaha visitors this week. They came to attend the Morris-Russell wedding. Lieutenant Elmer Morris, who was recently commissioned at Camp Pike, arrived in the city Friday on a brief furough. He had to leave Tuesday night for Camp Sherman, Chiliicothe, Ohio, where he had to report for duty Thursday. The Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Botts left Monday for St. Louis to attend the National Baptist convention. Last Monday night selects of draft district No. 5 met in the lecture room of Grove M. E. church, and listened to instructive talks from Mr. Glover of the draft board and Dr. L. E. Britt. These talks are to be given every Monday night and men subject to call are invited to attend these and the drills which are given on the circus grounds. The Rev. John Costello, pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist church, left Tuesday for St. Louis to attend the National Baptist convention. THE DAYS THURSDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS FRIDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS SATURDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS E BOOSTERS R. C. Price At Home on the Job and Pocket Billiard_Parlor in the state. Leading shop of power. Cultured barbers. & PRICE, Props. n, Foreman. ving of New millinery unpacked assortments, which have large enough to satisfy the most nts a new expression in millinery. Given to All. Webster 2556 PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF THE RACE SERVICE BUREAU To Make Friends Among the White People for the Race. To Seek New and Better Opportunities for Men and Women of our Race. To Fight Color Prejudice. To Teach Race Unity. To Eliminate the Use of the Term "NIGGER." To Aid Those Who Merit Aid. To Teach Negroes How to Conduct Themselves, In Order to Gain the Respect of Both White and Colored People. --- P. H. JENKINS The Barber my location at Twenty-fourth and Burdette are plenty, of room. Everything strictly with all modern conveniences. My shop that is right, and what the people demand. Date methods, with latest improvements. With my business. My shop is open to, with due courtesy and respect to all colored people are growing and improving demands. They want the best and we must so come. I solicit your patronage. SODA FOUNTAIN AND ICE CREAM PARLOR CONNECTION as Soda Dispenser and Manager of all ladies, gentlemen and friends. drinks and delicious Cream. WE OPEN SUNDAYS. 24th and Burdette Sts. President Policy With a Company Is On the Square! We are now in our new location at streets, where we will have plenty of sanitary and up-to-date with all mod stands on its merits for what is right. A first class place, up-to-date method. No pool hall in connection with my bu ladies as well as gentlemen, with due young boys as well. The Colored people and we must meet their demands. They deliver. I have it for you, so come. I VISIT OUR SODA FOUND CREAM PAR IN CONNECT With Miss Hazel Hall as Soda I We solicit the patronage of all ladies Try our refreshing drinks at WE ARE OPEN SU New Location, 24th a Get a Sick and Accident Pol That Is On the We are now in our new location at Twenty-fourth and Burdette streets, where we will have plenty of room. Everything strictly sanitary and up-to-date with all modern conveniences. My shop stands on its merits for what is right, and what the people demand. A first class place, up-to-date methods, with latest improvements. No pool hall in connection with my business. My shop is open to ladies as well as gentlemen, with due courtesy and respect to all young boys as well. The Colored people are growing and improving and we must meet their demands. They want the best and we must deliver. I have it for you, so come. I solicit your patronage. VISIT OUR SODA FOUNTAIN AND ICE CREAM PARLOR IN CONNECTION With Miss Hazel Hall as Soda Dispenser and Manager We solicit the patronage of all ladies, gentlemen and friends. Try our refreshing drinks and delicious Cream. WE ARE OPEN SUNDAYS. New Location, 24th and Burdette Sts. Get a Sick and Accident Policy With a Company That Is On the Square! A man is running away from a car. A man is handing a ticket to a woman. to the adjustment of all claims. LLS PARKER, Agent Phone Harney 5737. 1 personally attend to the adjustment of all claims. GEORGE WELLS PARKER, Agent Hotel Cuming 1916 CUM Comfortable Douglas 2466 Obee-Hunter-Wakefield (People's Undertak North Side 2101 C 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor akefield Funeral Home 's Undertaking Co.) Side, 2101 Cuming St. Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Funeral Home W. Wakefield, Secy. NAT. HUNTER, Treas. phone South 2614 Res. Tel. Web. 4740 K GOLDEN, Auditor. Invest In Michigan G. W. OBEE, Mgr. J. H. Wakefield, Embalmer Phone South 2 FRANK GOLDEN, UNIFORM TAXI G. W. OBEE, Mgr. J. H. Wakefield, Secy.NAT. HUNTER, Treas. Embalmer Phone South 2614 Res. Tel. Web. 4740 BRANK GOLDEN, Auditor. UNIFORM TAXI CO. Calls Answered Day or Night. Rates $2.00 Per Hour. New 5-Passenger Car. Office For FIRST CLASS CLEANING AND PRESSING. Neatly Done. Work Guaranteed. LEE AVERETT 2414 North 24th St. Tel. Office Web. 5220. Res. Web. 2219. Invest In Michigan Orchards Fortunes in It. Easy Terms. $10 Down; $7.50 a Month SEE JESSE HALE MOSS, 13th and Farnam. Douglas 7150 HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MORE? JAY BURNS BAKING CO. 6 M. B. 933 North 27th Street. M. ST. LOUIS, MO. A policy with the Home Casualty Company is the one you want. Take no other The protection is for working women as well as for working men. DON'T DELAY. PETER H. HARRIS THE MONITOR ORIGIN OF THE HOE CAKE Southern Negroes Credited With Having Started This Delicacy on Its Way to Popularity. Did you ever hear of hoe cake? If you have ever been in the southern part of the United States of America you have surely heard of it, and perhaps you have eaten it, too, for this dish originated in that part of the world. Long ago, in the days before the Civil war, when great plantations flourished in the South and many negroes were owned by the planters, the slaves were usually sent out to work all day in the fields and given a lunch to take along with them for their midday meal. Wishing something hot to eat, they acquired the habit of mixing a butter, generally of cornmeal and water, with a little salt stirred in, and baking it upon their hones on the hot coals of a fire which they built. It was the same thing which the women in their homes cooked on the hearth before the cabin fire, only, in the houses, they usually added about a teaspoonful of butter, lard or bacon drippings. They used just enough water to moisten the meal, so that they could spread it out upon their tins or boards. Later on, so a Southern woman says, the white people, the plantation owners, made a similar dish, with variations, and liked it very well. They added or, rather, substituted, milk for water, and added baking powder and more shortening, mixed the dough thoroughly, rolled it out, cut it into diamond-shaped pieces and baked it in the oven.—Christian Science Monitor. WHEN JIM CLAIMED ANNIE Maid Was Sorry to Leave, but, as She Put It, It Was a Matter of Duty. Ellis Parker Butler, the well-known humorist, has a story in the American Magazine in which the main character says: "Well, Jimmy had been with the Burtons six years and Annie, our hired girl, had been with us five years. I guess everybody thought she hadn't any other name at all until one evening when Jimmy came over and knocked at the back door and asked mother if Miss Dornbacher was home. She wasn't, because she had gone to the Evangelical Lutheran church, but after that Jimmy used to come over, and Annie would put two chairs out in the yard under the apple tree and they would sit and talk. Or Jimmy would talk. He would talk and talk and talk, and every once in a while Annie would say, "Yes," and, after she learned it, "No." So, after a couple of years, Jimmy began to hold Annie's hand when he talked to her, and in a couple of years more they got engaged. I guess they liked each other. "I was in our dining room one day, looking to see if Annie had put any fresh cookies in the jar in the closet, when I heard my mother say, "Oh, Annie!" in the kitchen, as if she was sorry about something. So then Annie said: "I bin sorry to go avay, too, ma'am, but it is right everybody should get married once or twice." "I know,' my mother said; 'but I don't know what I will ever do without you, Annie.' "So then Annie cried, and there were no cookies, so I went out." What Makes Thunder Rumble. Why does thunder rumble? The path of a lightning flash through the air may be several miles in length. All along this path the sudden expansion of the heated air—a true explosion—sets up an atmospheric wave, which spreads in all directions, and eventually registers upon our ears as thunder. Since the lightning discharge is almost instantaneous the sound wave is produced at very nearly the same time along the whole path. But the sound wave travels slowly through the air. Its speed is approximately 1,000 feet per second. Thus the sound from the part of the lightning's path that is nearest to us reaches us first, and that from the other parts of the path afterward, according to their distance. Intermittent crashes and booming effects are due chiefly to irregularities in the shape of the path.—Popular Science Monthly. Eggs One Hundred Years Old. A strange find was made at Northallerton, Eng., recently. While workmen were sawing through a large elm tree they came across in the very heart of the tree five dried-up starling eggs. The eggs were 18 inches from the external bark, and from the concentric ring it is estimated that they must have been deposited about one hundred years ago. It is surmised that when the tree was young a pair of birds had made their nest in a cavity, and for some reason the eggs were forsaken, and in course of time the wood grew around the hollow. Frogs and Their Eggs In the manner of disposing of their eggs many species or frogs exhibit remarkable peculiarities. One of the most curious, a tree frog, native of Paraguay, makes its nest in a bush overhanging a pond. The lower ends of a number of leaves are drawn together and fixed in that position by a number of empty egg-capsules. The eggs are also covered with a shield of empty capsules, to protect them from the sun and air. When the eggs are hatched the plug at the bottom appears to fall out and the tadpoles tumble into the water. AMERICAN FOOD SAVINGS LARGE United States Sent to Allies 141,000,000 Bushels CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. Allies Got 844,600,000 Pounds More Meat and Fats in 1917-18 Than in Year Before. AMERICAN FOOD SHIPMENTS TO ALLIES MEAT. 1916-17. .2,166,500,000 lbs. 1917-18. .3,011,100,000 lbs. 1916-17.....250,900,000 bu. 1917-18.....340,800,000 bu. In spite of a subnormal food supply in this country the American people have been able to ship to the Allies as well as our own forces overseas 141,000,000 bushels of wheat, besides 844,000,000 pounds of meat, during the year ending June 30 last. This has been made possible by the wholesouled co-operation of the people, who, besides practicing self-denial, have speeded up production and responded nobly to the appeal from abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, in a letter to President Wilson, gives a brief summary of the results of food conservation in the United States and of the activities of the Food Administration to this end. The conservation measures have been put through practically on a voluntary basis which is regarded as a splendid tribute to the patriotism of the American people. Meat shipments were increased 844,000,000 pounds during the first fiscal year, as compared with our meat exports during the year before America entered the war. "The total value of these food shipments," Mr. Hoover wrote President Wilson, "which were in the main purchased through or with collaboration of the Food Administration, amount to, roundly, $1,400,000,000 during the fiscal year." In 1916-17 the United States sent the Allies 2,166,500,000 pounds of meat. In 1917-18, with voluntary conservation practiced in America, and aided by extra weight of animals, we sent the Allies 2,011,100,000 pounds of meat, an increase of 844,600,000 pounds. When the Food Administration began operations in the summer of 1917, this country was facing a large deficit in wheat. Counting in all carry-over wheat from the 1916 crop, we had at the beginning of the 1917 harvest year just enough wheat to take care of America's normal consumption,—not a bushel of surplus. At the close of the 1917-18 harvest year the Food Administration's official reports showed that our total wheat shipments to the other side had been 141,000,000 bushels. Every bushel shipped was wheat saved by the American people from their normal consumption. In cereals and cereal products reduced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations were 340,800,000 bushels, 80,900,000 bushels more than the amount sent in 1916-17. Included in these figures are 13,900,000 bushels of rye and the 141,000,000 bushels of saved wheat. In addition we sent the neutrals dependent on us 10,000,000 bushels of prime breadstuffs. "These figures do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the whole American people," the Food Administrator wrote. "I am sure that all the millions of our people, agricultural as well as urban, who have contributed to these results should feel a very definite satisfaction that in a year of universal food shortages in the Northern Hemisphere, all of those people joined together against Germany came through to the new harvest, not only with health and strength fully maintained, but with only temporary periods of hardship. "It is difficult to distinguish between various sections of our people—the homes, public eating places, food trade, urban or agricultural populations—in assessing credit for these results, but no one will deny the dominant part of the American women. SUGAR SHORTAGE HITS SPAIN AND PORTUGAL In Spain and Portugal sugar prices are soaring. Both countries have been seriously affected by the short beet sugar crop in Europe and the lack of ocean tonnage to move stocks of cane sugar isolated in far away ports. Granulated sugar, home grown, was being sold in Barcelona, Spain, during the early summer at 19 cents a pound. The price of brown sugar in Lisbon, Portugal, fixed by governmental order, was $1.04 to $1.12 a pound. By comparison the price of beet sugar in Sweden is 14 cents a pound. ```markdown ``` of Wheat. Increase. 844,600,000 lbs Wheat Saving Enormous LEGAL NOTICE In the Justice Court of H. Glenn Moran Within and for Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. Allen Jones and Henry Chiles, partners, doing business under the firm name and style of Jones & Chiles, plaintiffs, vs. Shadrack J. Johnson, defendant. Shadrack J. Johnson will take notice that on the 25th day of June, 1918, H. Glenn Moran, a justice of the peace, of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, is issuing a motion for garnishment for the sum of $159.00, in an action pending before him wherein Jones & Chiles are plaintiffs and Shadrack J. Johnson is defendant. The property of the defendant consisting of $154.65 in cash in the hands of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company has been attached under said order and notice of garnishment. Said cause was continued until the 9th day of October, 1918, at 9 o'clock a. m. of said day of The E. L. Garage 24th and Lake. General repairing, storage and accessories. All work guaranteed. Open Day and Night. Tel. Webster 630. SOFT DRINK PARLOR Cor 24th and Hamilton Get Acquainted With Joe Krug Luxux on Tap. WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO OMAKA Telephone Douglas 5712 PACIFIC Pool Parlor C. BRANCH, Proprietor BOB JOHNSON, Mgr. Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks LAUNDRY OFFICE 1014 SOUTH TENTH STREET (Opposite Pullman Hotel) OMAHA, NEB. Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. Mrs. R. F. Bolden PORO HAIR CULTURIST Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Phone Webster 3003. 2307 North 27th St. C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. Want to Buy or Rent a House? Then Get in Touch With A. J. DAVIS & CO. Real Estate and Rentals DRUGS, CIGARS AND SODA Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We Carry a Full Line of Face and Hair Preparations. Nelson's Hair Dressing.....25c Elite Hair Pomade.....25c Aida Hair Pomade.....30c eXelento Hair Pomade.....25c Plough's Hair Dressing.....25c Hybridic Hair Grower.....60c Ford's Hair Grower.....25c Palmer's Skin Whitener.....25c Palmer's Skin Success.....25c Black and White Skin Oint.....25c Rozaal Bleach.....25c We appreciate your patronage. Phone Douglas 1446. F. WILBERG BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best is None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 Nearly Furnished Rooms Modern Conveniences With or Without Board Telephones, Doug. 8727, Doug. 8703 The Booker T. Washington Hotel Mrs. Laura Cuerington, Propr. In Connection with THE WASHINGTON CAFE 1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 Work called for and delivered All Work Guaranteed Gent's Suits to Order Ladies' and Gents' Suits Remodeled, Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. We loan money on clothing, hats and shoes. 2022 N. 24th St. Web. 3320 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE Open All Times. Reasonable Prices The Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home Webster 248 2518 Lake St. The Place for Quality and Service Licensed Embalmer in Attendance ----BUY A HOME---- y We had a good rain here last Saturday and things are looking up. All the churches had good services last Sunday. Mr. B. F. White was in Houston on business for the U. B. F. last week and reported a good time. Rev. J. E. Wilson was in town recently. Rev. T. W. Daley and Attorney S. J. Williamson have gone to St. Louis to attend the National Baptist convention. Rev. S. M. Bolden held the quarterly conference for the Rev. J. E. Wilson and reported as having good success. : Mr. I. H. Bland has returned from Corsicana, where he went last week. Mrs. Francis Watts died last Friday after a long illness. Another big crowd of boys have gone to Camp Travis and all seemed to be in good spirits. The New Era drug store has put in free air, so you boys can come and get your oil and free air; no excuse now. Mrs. Lizzie Tippit is doing very nicely with her foot, which was injured last week. Dr. W. R. Roberts is getting along fine. He is able to downtown, but still has his arm in a sling. Rev. D. J. Crawford left last week on business. Dr. F. F. McClennan is under the weather and has been for some few days. The Colored ball team had a game of ball here last week for the Red Cross and netted $177.30. We think that was good and on Saturday the Colored people had an auction sale and sold fish and got for the Red Cross $28. Mr. Lee and Mr. G. Walker of Tyler were in The Monitor office on business. Mr. H. L. Price was a welcome visitor to The Monitor representative. NEBRASKA CITY NEWS (By Mrs. Charles Rollins.) Mr. Fred Richardson of Lincoln, who at one time made his home with his cousin, Mrs. Lulu Clay, spent Sunday in the city visiting Mrs. Clay. Mr. Harry Letcher and wife of Kansas City, who have been visiting the Bert Letcher family, have returned Diamond 24th and Lake Sts. SPECIAL FEATURE PICTURES ALL WEEK AT THE Franklin WEEK 24th and Franklin Streets DON'T FAIL TO SEE OUR FEATURE FILMS THIS WEEK GOOD GROC C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Fruits 2005 Cuming St. Five-room house, 3219 North 26th Ave., $1,800; $100 cash and $18.00 per month; large lot with garage. Ten-room modern house on 22d and Charles Sts., $3,500; easy terms. Two four-room cottages, 1832-34 North 22d St., $2,800; $200 G. B. R REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, FI Phone Douglas 2 home. Miss Edith Robinson left Sunday morning for Kansas City, where she taught school last year and will teach again this year. Mrs. Sarah Gonzales will entertain for our beloved pastor, Rev. J. W. Stapleton, next Thursday night. Come and spread joy with us and spend a dime for a good cause. Mrs. Margaret Ferguson of Kansas City, who spent a few days in the city visiting her brother, Bert Letcher and wife, has returned home. Hodge Ellis returned from Camr Pike, being unable to pass all examinations. Ray Turner passed and will make a good soldier. Ray is a mighty fine, hard-working boy—but he would not be his mother's son if he wasn't. His mother, Mrs. Letcher, has promised the first interesting letter about camp life to readers of The Monitor. Charles Rollins was quite painfully but not severely injured while assisting in unloading autos. He soon recovered, however, and is again on the job. Mr. Douglas Ellis, who was badly injured at the Morton-Gregson packing plant, is again at work. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stewart have moved to Omaha, where Mr. Stewart has work. Mrs. Stewart was Miss Arfura Bell and was reared and educated by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harding Hampton. Miss Winona Robinson is house guest of Miss Ella Mason of Nehawka. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Smith spent Labor day in St. Joseph. Mr. Smith returned, but Mrs. Smith will stay a few days longer, possibly visiting Kansas City and other points before returning. In speaking of modern inventions Mr. Philip Gonzalas has Henry Ford backed off the map. Phil has a car be built all alone and she is some car. The writer accepted an invitation for a joy ride some few nights ago and must say she is some nifty little speed boat when Phil steps on it we eat no man's dust. He and Mr. Rollie Shafroth are going hunting in the near future and it will be good-by rabbit. What Rollie fails to hit Philip's bound to get. Mrs. Sarah Capps, an invalid for the past three years and beloved by all is still living. Mrs. Hattie Richards, who has been very ill indeed is able to be up again. We hope she gets well soon. Boost for The Monitor. Written by Colored people about Colored people. Is there a nation in the world more important? If you haven't got two bones send one for six months. Alhambra 24th and Parker. SEE YOUR FAVORITE PICTURES HERE ALL WEEK. Phones: Office, Doug, 7812. Res. Webster 6231 Office Hours: 10 to 12 a. m., 3 to 5 P. M., 6 to 7 p. m. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office N. W. Cor. 13th and Farnam Over Pope's Drug Store Entrance 220 So. 13th Street Res. 2519 Maple St. Omaha, Neb. RIES ALWAYS GROCERY CO. fats and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 HOME--- cash and $25.00 monthly; now renting for $28.00 a month with barn. Three-room cottage, large lot, close to car, 3212 Pinkney St.; $1,000; very easy terms. Six-room modern house at 2428 Lake St., $3,000; easy terms. OBBINS RE AND TORNADO INSURANCE 442 or Webster 5519 TRE MONITOR Events and Persons Mrs. Larry Peoples gave a theater party at the Orpheum Saturday afternoon, complimentary to Miss Oletha Russell. Mesdames Simon Harrold and W. P. Sawyer were the other guests. Second Lieutenant John Franklin Bobo of the Camp Pike officers' training school, enroute to Camp Funston, stopped over in Omaha a few hours Wednesday. Mrs. Joseph P. Lewis and children returned Monday morning from a pleasant trip to Emporia and Topeka, Kan. The White Star Social club will give its first social entertainment at the home of Mr. William Bailey, 2304 North Twenty-ninth street, Saturday evening, September 14.—Adv. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. Miss Ella Robinson, who has been spending a few days in our city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Fannie Crow, left Monday evening for Kansas City, Kan., to take up her duties as principal of the Dunbar school. The Pleasant Hour club gave a delightful dancing party at Hanscom park pavilion in honor of Dr. Craig Morris and Miss Oletha Russell, Monday evening, September 2. The club members were out in full with their invited guests. A very enjoyable evening was spent. Mrs. George Henderson Scott of Chicago is the house guest of Mrs. B. A. Pegg, 2006 Grace street, for a few weeks. Mrs. Austin Serrant and baby of Chicago are the guests of her sister. Mrs. J. E. Brown, 2883 Miami street. Mr. Serrant came over for the Morris-Russell wedding. He returned Wednesday night. Corporal Claud Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Walker, 2016 Charles street, was called to the city last week by the death of his wife, Sadie Page Walker. Corporal Walker left Omaha for Camp Funston with the contingent that went August 5. Immediately on his return to camp after burying his wife he was sent to Camp Upton, N. Y. Furnished rooms. Strictly modern. 2705 Douglas street. Harney 6829. Mrs. I. Falls. The Crispus auxiliary to the Red Cross will meet at the N. W. C. A. Home Tuesday, September 10. All members and friends are urged to attend. The auxiliary is very much in need of another machine. Any one having one to loan or rent will please call Mrs. I. Bailey, Colfax 3798. The Woman's auxiliary of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon met Thursday with Mrs. J. Brown. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Crawford at 2214 North Twenty-eighth avenue, Thursday, September 11th. We wish to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our beloved wife, daughter and sister, also for the beautiful flowers.—Corporal Claud Walker, Mrs. S. Page, Miss Fannie Page, Miss C. Page, Mr. William Page, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Walker. FROM PALACE OF PHARAOH University of Pennsylvania to Have Pillar That Once Adorned Ruler's Throneroom. The first word in a long time from the Eckley B. Coxe expedition to Egypt has been received at the University of Pennsylvania museum from Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, its leader. Doctor Fisher reported excellent success during the winter explorations at Dendereh, the ancient capital of Egypt, up the Nile. In April he returned to Memphis and continued his work of uncovering the palace of Merenptah, who is identified by many Biblical scholars as the Pharaoh of the Oppression, whose stubbornness brought on the plagues. If this is correct, the great hall and throneroom of the palace, which has now been completely uncovered, was the scene of the appearance of Moses and Anron before Pharaoh, and where the signs and wonders were performed. The throne is said to be in good condition, but Egypt will not permit it to come to this country. Fortunately, Doctor Fisher has worked over the pieces of the 12 colossal pillars which upheld the roof and has recovered enough to make one complete pillar, which will be brought to the university museum and set up. It will be the most notable specimen of Egyptian architecture in this country. The pillars were six feet in diameter, 80 feet high, covered with inscriptions and pictures inlaid with gold. Much of the paneling of the room and the lintels of the doors also were inlaid with gold, and these will be brought here. The natives of Egypt, it is said, call the palace "The Temple of Moses," as they have an idea that is where he was reared. CARD OF THANKS We are glad to add the names of Misses Delpine Oakes and Sallie Williams to the list of our townsmen who were successful in the Summer Normal examination here. The La Grange Colored city schools opened this morning with the following teachers: Prof. G. A. Randolph, principal; Mrs. L. E. Moore and Miss Juanita Sawner present. Enrollment good. Mrs. L. E. Franklin is back from a short trip last week. Mmes. Arie Howard and Mamie Prince and Rev. G. L. Mills and Miss Juanita Sawner report a splendid session of the A. M. E. church held at Winchester last week, Rev. J. V. B. Gains, presiding. Privates James Henry Williams and Charley Ellis spent a few days here on a furlough to see friends and relatives last week. Mrs. Alice Newsome Hunt spent a few days here last week on business. Mrs. Mollie Dobbin and grandson, little C. L. Hatch, will spend a few months in Hill county. News comes today of the death of Mr. Archie Hill's wife at Center Union. Regular monthly services were held here Sunday morning and night at St. James' M. E. church. Rev. J. W. White, pastor. Rev. W. F. Fletcher conducted services at Ebenezar Baptist church by preaching. Revs. G. L. Mil's and S. A. Tillman preached at Bethlehem and Eagle Lake, respectively. Sick: Julius King, Anna Moten, Clementine Riley. Mr. W. J. Hunt left last week for Okiahoma City to spend a few months. The visitors and students at the opening of the Colored city school here witnessed also the raising of a service flag on the school ground. The Spirit of '18. The World Cry- food! Cultivate the Soil. WELLS & NORMAN Garment and Hair Factory All kinds of fancy ladies' garments made to order. First class line of hair goods. Less- ons taught in hair manufactur- ing. Old wigs made new. Send us your combings. 1409 N. 24th. Web. 3943. PHILIP'S 4935 The Fastest G Saturday sales of unus from our Shoe Department ladies, misses and boys, reg choice for, a pair Amongst this stock you Men's straw hats, regular Chalmers two-piece garment Men's ivory supporters, reg Wellington Pipes, the kind PHILIP'S DEPARTMENT STORE Saturday sales of unusual importance in this Economy Center. We have gathered from our Shoe Department every pair of white canvas shoes, slippers or pumps, for men, ladies, misses and boys, regardless of price, regardless of cost, and placed them at your choice for, a pair.....99c Amongst this stock you will find shoes as high as $3.95 a pair. Men's straw hats, regular price up to $2.00—our price.....10c Chalriers two-piece garments, specially priced for Saturday, at.....43c Men's ivory supporters, regularly sold at 29c, on sale now.....10c Wellington Pipes, the kind that sell at 75c each, while they last.....39c In the Cocoa, per can..... Washington Crisps, per bo 6 large rolls toilet paper..... California brown beans, per Sanotoy, per can..... Hominy, large cans.... Cocoa, per can.....5c Washington Crisps, per box.....7 1/2 c 6 large rolls toilet paper.....25c California brown beans, per lb.....3c Sanotoy, per can.....20c Hominy, large cans.....8c LA GRANGE, TEX. L. V. Vincent. LLS & NORMAN EAT A Elizabe wigs made new. and us your combings. N. 24th. Web. 3943. PHILIP'S DEPARTMENT 4935-37-39 South The Fastest Growing Store Saturday sales of unusual importance from our Shoe Department every pair of dresses, misses and boys, regardless of price for, a pair Amongst this stock you will find shoes men's straw hats, regular price up to $2 shalrers two-piece garments, specially men's ivory supporters, regularly sold at Vellington Pipes, the kind that sell at The Fastest Growing Store in Omaha---Watch Us Grow Just stop and think what you can do. In the Econ cocoa, per can..... 7% Washington Crisps, per box..... 2% large rolls toilet paper..... 2% california brown beans, per lb..... manotoy, per can..... 2% dominy, large cans..... In the Economy Basement Mr. R. L. Woodard, who was indisposed last week, is able to be at work this week. Among those who left Sunday for Camp Lewis were Mr. Webster Alston and Mr. Ralph Mitchell. Mrs. Frankie Redd, who under went an operation last week at South Side Hospital, is doing nicely and expects to be able to return home soon. The annual picnic for Allen Chapel Sunday School was held last Thursday at Elmwood Park. We are glad to note that the opening of the South Side High School found four of our girls ready to continue, namely: Misses Sirildia Tucker, Coreasia Broomfield, Theresa Orvin, and Lydia May Owens. Mrs. Tempy Ervin, who has been FLOWERS OCCA Alfred D (Establis Phone Douglas 1001. "SAY IT WIT South Side Hair MRS. POLK JO Phone Douglas 1001. 1622 Harney Street. "SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" Uses Mmes. South and John Growing GIVE US 1927 South 25th St., South Si Busy Bee Cafe Uses Mmes. South and Johnson's Wonderful Magic Hair Growing System. GIVE US A TRIAL. GOOD HOME COOKING Meals at All Hours. Baths 25c EAT AND BE CLEAN Telephone So. 2793 4917 So. 26th St. So. Side. MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. DEPARTMENT 37-39 South 24th St., South Growing Store in Omaha--- equal importance in this Economy every pair of white canvas shoes readless of price, regardless of co will find shoes as high as $3.95 a price up to $2.00—our price its, specially priced for Saturday, ularly sold at 29c, on sale now that sell at 75c each, while they 4935-37-39 South 24th St., South Side Economy Bank 5c Electric wall x 7½c No. 3 can Win 25c No. 3 can Dill lb 3c Asparagus, p 20c Washington 8c DWERS FOR A OCCASIONS Alfred Donaghue (Established 1866) Dglas 1001. 1622 Hair "SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" Side Hair Dressing MRS. POLK JONES, Proprietor. FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS HAIR AND SCALP SPECIALIST. s. South and Johnson's Wonderful Growing System. GIVE US A TRIAL. 25th St., South Side. Telephone Harry N PROM Elizabeth Clark, Prop. RTMENT ST 24th St., South Side in Omaha---Watch Us Grow Electric wall paper cleaner, per can.....5c No. 3 can Windmill Tomatoes, per can.....20c No. 3 can Dill Pickles, per can.....14c Asparagus, per can.....11c Washington Coffee, per can.....24c sick for some months, died Monday morning at two o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Laura Jefferson, 2639 Z street. Her funeral was held from Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church Wednesday afternoon. She said she was only waiting on the Lord and left the song that she wanted them to sing. Rev. J. A. Broadnax officiated. Jones and Chiles had charge of the funeral. EAT POTATOES SAVE WHEAT FOR ALL SIONS Donaghue ed 1866) 1622 Harney Street. FLOWERS" Dressing Parlor TES, Proprietor. son's Wonderful Magic Hair System. A TRIAL. e. Telephone So. 1126. The Moon CAFE GOOD HOME COOKING MEALS AT ANY HOUR 2605 N St. Tel. South 2962 Harry Norman PROMPT Taxi Service AT ALL HOURS Pool Hall and Billiard Perlor in Connection. Phone South 2962 2603 N St. South Omaha. Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 NT STORE Side Watch Us Grow