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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

lions have transformed 1t into a model
harbor for ships of battle.
KEEL also guards the eastern end OF
the Kaiser Wilhelm canal that was
built in 1905 from Kiel to the Elbe
across Schleswig- Holstein's neck. The
building of this canal was a strategic
rather than a commercial enterprise,
and 1t makes II possible for the war
ships to be transferred from the Bal
tic to the North sea without going
around Denmark. The whole thing
is a very good example of modern
German technique and hydraulic en-
gineering, and cost the kaiser 500 ,000,-
900. The canal is 113 miles long, 81
meters wide and nine meters deep,
making 1t possible for the largest war
ships to go through.
Since the Germans obtained pos
session OF the island, enormous sums
have been spent upon Notifications.
and so on, including $40, 900 spent
on protecting the coast from erosion.
Probably 1t will never be known
how many millions Germany has
spent in strengthening the place. But
1t is known that a million and a half
was spent in improving the har6or
as an anchorage for torpedo craft
Millions have been spent in forth
f1~cations and the construction OF pow
der magazines, while refugees have
been built for the inhabitants as a
protection against the island being
shelled by an enemy.
Two hundred feet from the water
there stand a series Of big gun bat
teries and armored turrets.
For purposes of protection, a clin
of granite was built, so that now the
island to a large extent possesses
cliffs which are purely artificial. In
addition, hundreds of tons of cement
were used to strengthen the face OF
the natural rock.
Most of the people depend for their
livelihood upon the lobster and other
fisheries, together with their harvest
from the summer visitors. They live
to long years, and have as their ma
tive tongue the North Tristan dialect.
Once Overrun With ~Smugglers.
In 1907 Great Britain obtained the
island from the Danes. When she
took possession Of the island it was
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
AER0-AMERICAN CULL|NCS

If one of three Negro boys can't ride
the animal, that horse will not see
service in the allies cavalry. The
British government, which continues
buying horses at the Kansas City
STOCK yards, says nothing about Ne
groes In its horse contracts, but un
der the clause well broken" the Brit
ish inspectors have to see the horse
ridden, and it is up to the man seil-
ing the horse to supply riders. There-
fore 1t falls to Negro cutters at the
horse barns to supply the nerve
touch" required by the British.
Sambo, Pete, Jake n day, 1t may
be Fred, "Willum," or "Toots" the
next. 1t makes little difference what
their last names are. They are heroes
among their fellow beings, and in ad'
dition to the receipt of three to i've
dollars a day, by risking their necks
oftener they may get a tip from the
boss.
The firm handling the horses has
tried cowboys and circus riders but
because riders are not allowed sad
dies real cowboys pass up the 1oo'
The uncertain gait and movements oil
the horses soon discourage the cir
Gus riders. But the Negro boys stick
An alley $50 feet long, flanked by
high board fences and brick paving
underneath, may be the horses last
run in America. Horse and Sambo
are at one end, the inspector at the
other.
Ready" calls the ring master, and
Sambo goes in the air, alights like a
spring clothespin on a new rope line
The horse may go all right, and then
he may go both ways at once, but II
he passes up and down the alley twice
without displacing his jibsail he goes
to the British.
The British government has accept
ed 500 horses at the Kansas City
stock yards barn. The animals had
all been measured, tested for sight
and soundnes, and the bulk of them
ridden by colored boys.
Most of them had been given the
"Mallein" test for CHAMBERS. d. H. B
Adair and his assistants in Kansas
City of th5 United States bureau Of
animal industry, applied that test tc
4,370 horses, during September, ant
1000 more are at Lathrop, Mo-, await
ing the test. The government test fol
CHAMBERS is free of charge.
After the rider has discharged hi:
duty the horse is turned to the brand
ers and when he gets through, there
is an arrow on the shoulder, and
number on the hoof. The horse is {
Britisher.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

the jumping ground" of a horde of
smugglers, there being practically no
room left on the island which was
free from kegs and human beings.
At the time the island was traded
to Germany there was great dissat-
isfaction shown in each country. 1t
was recognized by many f~ar-seoing
men that so long as we possessed
Heligoland the island was in the po-
sition of a menace to Germany.
Those Germans who objected to the
bargain were sore that Germany did
not obtain a much larger territory;
even Bismarck said they had ex-
changed a pair of trousers for a mere
button. 1t was then that the plateau
was fortified.
Quite recently some of the most
massive guns produced by Krupps'
were placed there, while provisions
were laid in sufficient to withstand a
siege of three years. Money, in fact,
was spent like water that the island
should become the North sea store
house of the German feet.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

In the Hampton Trade school, and,
indeed, in other departments, a stu.
dent is rated for speed, accuracy, judg.
ment, initiative, earnestness, neatness,
responsibility and conduct. OF course,
all of these factors do not receive the
same weight, but they do form the
basis for judging individuals. Hampton
applies, in its daily routine, the com
mon tests of everyday life used in the
outside world where men and women
must stand or fall according to the
standards which they attain in their
work.
Learning by doing, turning disad.
vantages into advantages, making the
best use of ones resources-these are
some of the fundamentals in the
Hampton idea Of education. Service
and self-sacrifce form the core of the
Hampton training. Results in good
citizenship and safe leadership char
acterize Hampton's work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Activities of Women.

Japan's empress is making bandages
FOR the Red Cross nurses.
Queen Elena of Italy is an Ideal
krue wife and mother.
The Swedish parliament has re-
hacted the suffrage bill.
paris dressmakers are now busily
engaged in making hospital garments.
Several hundred women industrial
workers in the state of Washington
nave asked the labor commissioners
sor nermission to work for less than
kha minimum wages prescribed by
paw.
Mrs. Laura c. Kellogg. a full-blooded
indian, acts as a lobbyist for her race
IN washington and always sees to ii
that the Indian gets a fair hearing
before congressional committees.
Tie percentages of failures among
women students at Leland Stanford
university is only from 2 to az per
cent. while that Of the men ranges
from II to 1874 per cent.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Jacob Estey, one of the pioneer max
ers of pianos and organs in America,
was born in Hinsdale, N. H, one hun
bred a ago.. His youth was one
of adversely, and 1t was only by the
hardest work and personal sacrifice
that he was able to obtain a common
school education. At the age of TWEEN
ty-one he bought with his savings an
interest in a business for the max
ing of m~elodeons. For 4 number OF
years thereafter he acted as his own
salesman, travelling through New Eng.
land and Canada selling his instru.
ments. With the profits thus obtained
he embarked in the manufacture OF
pianos and organs. His business grew
rapidly, and at the time of his death,
in 1890, it was the largest of it's kind
in the world. Mr.. Estey spent his
large fortune literally for good pur
poses. He was the chief founder Of
Shaw university for colored people
at Raleigh, N. G.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
G ONE time ago I read a story abou

G LONE time ago ] read a story about
a young officer in India who con-
suited a great physician because he
felt tagged from the excessive heat
and long hours of service. The ply
stefan examined him and said he
would write to him on the morrow.
The letter the patient received in
formed him that his left lung was en-
tirely gone, his heart seriously af-
fected, and advised him to adjust his
business affairs at once. "Of course,
you may live for weeks" it said, but
you had best not leave important mat
tiers undecided"
Naturally the young officer was dis
mayed by this death warrant. He
grew rapidly worse, and in "a hours
respiration was difficult and he had an
acute pain in the region of the heart.
He took to his bed with the convic-
ton that he should never rise from 1t.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Heroic Remedy.

A contributor to Everybody's Maya
zine tells how an irate woman cured
her husband of the drink habit after
he had spent money on booze" that
she had meant to use for getting
clothes for the children: 81 jest let
him go to bed, and after he's been
sleeping long enough TO be pretty ear
sober, l goes and sews him up in the
~bedclothes, takes the broomstick and
pounds the devil out of i'm, and I've
never had a days worry s%incei' After
reading stories of w~ife-beating, there
is a certain satisfaction in coming
cross the tale of a oma who
turned the tables to good purpose and
exercised her husbands devil"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

along swimmingly until the lawyer
attempted to bring out the important
points of the conversation. Now,
then, Pat" said he, e~ncouraglngly,
please tell the court what you and
the defendant talked about" "Yis,
sor," answered Pat, willingly. I'VE
talked about fifteen minutes" mo,
no. not" i~nterposed the lawyer, 81
mean what did you and the defend,
ant talk over?" "Yis, sor." was the
calm rejoinder Of Pat. we talked
over the telephone, sor."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

OR Id years England has been
laughing over the kaiser's bar
gain when he traded vast Ger
man claims in eastern Africa
for Heligoland, a tiny little tri-
angle in the North sea. The English
men boosted over their good bargain
n said the kaiser was crazy, and
that in a short time 1t would be
washed away by the sea.
One famous English author some
years ago wrote a book on Germany,
Heligoland, mostly making fun of the
kaiser. He says the only reason the
kaiser wanted 1t was so that 1t would
20 down in history and be taught in
the public schools that Wilhelm II had
annexed something during his reign,
hnd that the kaiser would swell with
pride every time he looked into a
German school textbook and read,
1850, Wilhelm II annexed Heligo-
land" The whole article was written
as though the joke on the kaiser was
n of the best ever pulled of, and
the chapter ends: Poor little He'll
goland melting away in the German
ocean"
But the kaiser did not let his little
island melt away. He got to work
and bolstered up it's sides and patched
it and built new and wonderful forti-
dcations, and today England is la
menting her loss and would give her
vast African territories and much
more beside If she had hung on to her
Heligoland and had not done so much
boasting.
Cosmopolitan Population.
Today Heligoland is counted as the
second strongest fort in the world, be-
ing second only to Gibraltar. Heligo-
land lies opposite the mouths of the
Rivers Elbe and Weser and guards
the harbors of Bremen, Hamburg and
the Kiel canal. Even the shape of the
Island, that of a triangle, helps 1t in
its strategical position. The town is
built on one corner of the island and
on a small plain on n side at the
foot of the cliffs, and a new landing
place has been built since it has come
into the kaiser's possession.
The population numbers between
two and three thousand people, and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Inquiries replies to which will dem
onstrate convictions pertaining to a
majority of the questions now of the
greatest Importance to the Negro race
have been sem to all candidates for
congress of the Republican, Demo
cratic and Progressive parties by the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, with head
quarters in New York. The candidate
is requested to make known his in
tention as to whether, If elected, he
will vote against any measure abro-
eating the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, segregation in the fed
eral service, residential segregation in
the District of Columbia, segregation
as regards Jim Crow cars in the
district and laws making racial inter
marriage in the district invalid. He
is also asked if, under any circum-
tances, he justifes l%ynching or favors
the enforcement Of clause 2 of the
fourteenth amendment of the Consti-
tuition.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

dialect, and means a mortar. such as
was used by the natives to pound up
their rice. The Spanish discoveries
of the island. who sailed. not from
Spain. but Mexico. first encountered
the natives squatting before their NOR
tars, pounding out their dinners. BY
signs the Spaniards attempted to ask
them the name of the country. The
natives, however, mistook their GEES
lures for inquiries as to the name OF
the utensil they were busted with,
and answered "Luzon." a name that
has chung to the island ever since.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24


During the night he grew rapidly
worse and his servant sent for the
doctor.
What on earth have you been do
ing to y%ourself?" demanded the ply
stefan. There was no indication of
this sort when l saw you yesterday"
ut is my heart, l suppose" weakly
answered the patient in a whisper.
Your heartl" repeated the doctor.
Your heart was all right yesterday"
my lungs, then" said the patient.
What is the matter with you, man?
You don't seem to have been drink
ing"
Your letter, your letter." gasped
the patient. You said l had only a
few weeks to live
Are you crazy?" said the doctor.
II wrote you to take a weeks vaca-
ton in the hills and you would be
all right"
The patient, with the pallor of death
in his face, could scarcely raise his
head from the pillows, but he drew
from under the bedclothes the doctors
letter.
Heavens, mani" cried the physi-
clan; this was meant for another
patient! My assistant misplaced the
letters"
The young officer sat up in bed i'm
mediately and was entirely well in a
few hours.
We are all at some time in our lives
victims of the imagination. The con-
viction that we are desperately i'll, or
that we have been exposed to a ter
rible malady, to some incurable, con-
tagious disease, completely upsets the
entire system and reverses the proc
esses of the various functions; the
mind does not act with its customary
vitality and power and there is a
general dropping of physical and men
tai standards all along the line, until
we become the victims of the thing
we fear.
When l was in the Harvard Medical
school, n Of the best professors
there, a celebrated physician, who had
been lecturing upon the power of the
imagination, warned the students
against the dangers of imagining that
they, themselves, had the disease
about which they studied. The profess
sor told me that once he got it into
his head that he was developing
'Bright's disease in his system. The
conviction became so strong that he
was in the grasp of this so-called fatal
disease that he preferred to die rather
than be told of his condition by anoth-
er physician.H He lost his appetite, lost
flesh rapidly, and became almost inca
pable of lecturing, until one day a med
ical friend, astonished at the change
In his appearance, asked what was the
matter with him.
81 have Bright's disease" was the
reply. II am sure of it, for l have
every symptom"
Nonsense" said his friend; you
have nothing of the kind"
After a great deal of persuasion,
the professor was induced to submit
to an examination, and it was discov-
cred that there was not the slightest
evidence of Bright's disease in his
system. He rallied SO quickly that
even in a day those who knew him
noticed the change. His appetite re-
turned, his flesh came back, and he
was a new man.
Medical history shows that thou.
sands of people have died the vic
tins of their imagination. They were
convinced they had diseases which in
reality they never had. The trouble
was not in the body, but in the mind
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Name Was a Mlatake.

The island of Luzon, the principal
M of the Philippine group, owes its
name to a mistake Of Interpretation
on the part of the early Spanish dis
coverers, according to Mr.. Kaloa, sec
rotary OF the Philippine commissioner
at Washington. There seems to have
been no name applied to the whole
island, as such. by the natives; each
tribe. such as the Tagalog. the noka-
nos and others, designated only their
own particular territory.
"Luzon" is a word In the Tagalog
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
a Social

What are you going to do with all
the money you expect to maker" asked
Miss Cayenne.
"Tm going to have a fine house and
entertain sumptuously," replied the
price-booster.
"Yes-but in the meantime you are
rendering yourself so unpopular that
no really nice people will come to your
parties"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Proud uncle. showing of small
nephew of sanity countenance and
seraphic eyes: Johnny. wouldn't you
like to be a angel?" Johnny, with
cold scorn: mot 80 long as there's
a show for me to become a baseball
pitcher"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Sure.

isn't 1t foolish for people to drink
out OF bottles in the dark without
knowing what they c~ontain?"
Yes, but before the pure food law
went into effect people were always
drinking out of bottles without know
ing what they contained"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
A Summer Hotel.

I'm having a slow time here"
you ought to mix more with the
other guests, my dear. I'm sur they
are willing to be friendly"
Jaw, what's the use of listening to
the scandals of a lot of perfect stran-
gers."--Louisville Courier,Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

San Antonio, Tex, is to try the ex-
pertinent of paving streets with mes
quite wood blocks. 1t is stated that
millions OF acres Of land in southern
Texas and northern Mexico are COW
cred with a thick growth of mesquite
trees. The wood. It is said, is Of re-
markable durability.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Met His Approval.

Passer-by Ito farmer leaning on
roadside fence)-"Do you approve OF
automobiles" Farmer-"Sure! Why
wouldn't l? Didn't l make over $50
clean cash haulln' 'em out of nov
drifts last winterf"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Last year the e cutter serv-
ice saved 327 persons from death
or peril, took 264 persons off ship
wrecked vessels, destroyed 81 dere-
licts and saved other derelicts to the
value OF $18, 900.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Puzzled.

81 can't make out my boys standing
in college"
whats the ~trouble?"
HE writes me that he's OF the left
end, and l can't tell whether that's
the top or bottom of his class"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

The total coal supply of the world
recently was estimated at 1897 $780,
900, 900 tons, of which nearly 1000, O0O,-
900, 900 tons are bituminous. Asia hav.
ing the largest quantity of any contr
nent.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
shlnqIes From Tree s.umps.

The stumps of the great trees which
have been cut in the Northwest are
now being utilized for shingles, Ten
thousand have been made from one
stump.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

More than 1858 900 young trees are
being set out on national forests in
Utah and southern Idaho.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Nearly FIVE hundred cities now have
public Fairgrounds and about half of
them receive municipal support.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

A~pplewood is the favorite material
for ordinary saw handles, and some
goes into so-called briar pipes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
About II and About

Pat was called into court to testify
90 a talk that he had with the defend
ant in a civil suit, and everything went
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

To the close of 1918 Alaska had
produced known mineral wealth to
the value of $24S, 300, 600.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Recently colored nurses have been
placed in responsible positions as at
tendants in the state hospitals Of Kan
sas.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Juniper from the Indian eserya-
lions of New Mexico and Arizona may
prove an excellent source of material
for lead pencils.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24

Mistake Some Of Them Make.
The reformer who undertakes to de.
rive profit from his activities is very
likely to transform the "uplift" into
the "holdups."-Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNDNYSGlOOL
LESSON

By e. o. SELLERS, Director Sunday
School Course, Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago.)
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
LESSON FOR OCTOBER rs
JESUS AND JUDAS.

LESSON TExT-Matt. 2s:14-zS. 47-5o: "a
$40.
GOLDEN TExT-woe unto that man
through whom the Son of Man In be-
trayed. Matt 26:n r. ".
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-12
Translation of "The History of Eight Days"

/ the Echo de Paris told Its readers
that Russia was preparing for war, IN
order that the events to come would
not be surprises.
An echo OF these preparations was
seen in an article in the London Morn
ing Post of July q. which stated that
England's duty as nation was to as.
sist friendly powers In case OF neces-
sity.
The kaiser returned from his trip
to Norway on July 20 and was wei
coined by a hypocritical telegram from
the car, indicating that the Russian
ruler wanted him TO be the mediator
in the trouble. The kaiser immediate.
ly took hold OF the mediation propo-
sails with Sir Edward Grey, while
Russia was making great preparations
for war, the French admiral, Lapey-
rere, was ordering the concentration
Of the Mediterranean feet at Toulon,
and the commander OF the English
fleet in the same waters had called
his ships, which were scattered all
over the Levant, to assemble at Nal
Ia.
1t was not until July 81 that Ger
many and the kaiser became ac-
quainted with the exact state of at
fairs and learned OF the manner In
which the triple entente had BULLDOG
ed the true friends OF peace In order
to gain time for their own prepare
tons for war. After this the ultima.
tum went to st. Petersburg and war
followed by a formal declaration of
war
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-12

pers--"wtth q broad smile on his
face" What occurred In that meet
ing the public does not know, but we
can give a pretty close guess. Mr..
Bemis Is not an expert. knows little
o. physical property values, and i pre-.
sumo Mr.. Hutchfns was consulted as
to who should be selected as the engi.
neers to fx values. as Mr.. Hutchins
could guide them In that In q manner
most satisfactory to the ID. u. r.
And Mr.. Hutchins Is evidently guild
Ing them. for see II announced In the
press that the ID. u. r. Is greatly aid
Ing the work by furnishing very
large part OF the information to be
used In the new inventory or course
this Is the same Information from
which, the obsequious experts OF the
ID. u. r. fixed vaiue or over S31 zoo, :
600 for the physical property and
about $5,000.000 for franchises. etc.
The mayors experts will probably not
be as lawless, but the chances are
they will have the nerve to fix price
double the actual value. And then the
people Will be asked to pay the ID. u.
r. compromise between that and
$3G.000,000
The taxpayers and street car pa
irons will refuse TO pay this outrage
GUS price-practically fixed by the d.
U. Rand then the mayor and the
ID. U, r. will rejoice. the latter mean
time continuing 10 do business"