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The Washington times., 1914-10-04
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Fumed Oak Buffets. plain de-
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cupboard space. Fourth Floor.
The Washington times., 1914-10-04

Washable Chenille Bath Rugs,
light blue and white, green and
white. dark blue and white.
fringed ends. size Gox6O inches.
Fourth Floor.
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Lace Curtains
$2.98

'luny. Marie AnIOinette. Irish
Point. Brussels. Scrim. Sunfast,
long. Values. $3.50 to $40 pair.
Fourth Floor
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Dining Room Tables. fumed
oak; 4S-inCh top; square pedestal,
extends to six feet. Fourth
Floor.
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Superior quality Cards. Three
packs for the price of one. For
sale in stationery department,
new building, first floor.
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Finest quality Wilton Rugs,
solid colors. seamless. alI-over de-
siSns-medallion centers. shaded
and medallion borders. Size 9xi2
feet Fourth Floor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
THE INDIVIDUAL IN YOUR CHILD

When | was a little girl" a friend
OF mine once told me, Il was ALWAYS
so glad when company came to the
house. My mother would change so.
She would be cheerful and kind TO
company and would stop scolding and
crittcizing me. Sometimes l used to
wish | could just be company all the
time-she would have been SO kind
to me always then"
How long could we hold the conf.
dence and affection of our friends If
we treated them as many of US treat
our children? Most fathers and
mothers do not seem to realize that
the qualities which attract children to
them and which secure their conf.
dence are the same qualities which
attract their friends and the good
faith OF the people with whom they
associate. A father might as well
pummel and abuse a friend every lit.
tie while and then expect him to re-
spect and love him as to pound and
abuse a child and expect to gain his
love, Just because he belongs to him.
Many parents seem to think that
because their own children are de-
pendent upon them for their food,
clothing, shelter and education. that
they own their respect, gratitude and
love, regardless OF how they are
treated. The sense Of relationship has
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05

President Wilson gave strong en-
couragement to southern colored men
who are. promoting an exposition in
Richmond next year commemorative
the tiftieth anniversary of the enamel
patton Of the Negro by accepting an
invitation to visit the exposition and
make an address.
A large delegation, headed by Giles
Jackson of Richmond, president of the
exposition. and Judson w. Lyons Of
Augusta, former register of the treas.
ury, representing the Negro Historical
and Industrial association, under
whose auspices the exposition is to be
held, called on the president and ex-
tended the invitation.
In accepting, the president said that
he wished the exposition every sue.
cess. The president was told thai the
progress of the Negro in the last so
years would be ittingly celebrated at
Richmond, and that this progress was
shown in the fact that In the state of
Virginia alone the Negroes pay taxes
on $34, 900, 900 Of property, church and
school and similar properties not in
cluded.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
Italians Are Neaetarlans.

Being newcomers the Italians are
doing the heavy, unskilled work
which was once the prerogative Of the
Irish. The shovel is now as firmly as
ISOLATED in our minds with Tonic as
formerly with Barney. The northern
Italians go much into mine and quarry
and silk mill, but the others stick
close to railroad, street and construc-
ton work. or our railroads it has been
said that italians build them, Irish
run them and Jews own them" Nearer
to the truth. perhaps, is the New York
mot. Houses nowadays are built by
Italians, owned by Jews and paid fos
by Irish tenants" Being small and
vegetarian, the Italians are not pre-
ferred in earthwork for their physical
strength, but because of their endur.
ance of heat, cold, wet and muck. As
one contractor put 1t, They can stand
the gaff."-The Century.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
The Faults of Others.

Charity does not require of us that
we should not see the faults of others,
but that we should avoid all needless
and voluntary observing of them; and
that we should not be blind to their
good qualities when We are so sharp.
sighted to their bad ones. What II
others are weak. is that a reason for
your no longer keeping any measure
with them? You, that complain OF
their troubling you, do you give nobody
any trouble? You that are so shocked
at the faults you see-if all to whom
you have been troublesome should re-
turn the trouble they have had with
you, you would be oppressed with the
weight, And. besides, even supposing
that men had nothing to reproach you
with, yet consider, further, what obli.
cations you be under from God to show
forbearance toward others for which
you know you have such abundant &C.
casion at his hands-Fenelon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05

nothing whatever to do with a child's
feelings towards his father. 1t is just
as impossible to compel the respect OF
ones child as 1t is to compel some 9th.
er person to love us. You must earn
his respect, Just as you would earn the
respect of a friend. It costs you some
thing to keep the good will and friend
ship of your children.
The greatest hold the parent has
upon the child is its companionship
now often we hear fathers and moth
ers say that they no longer have
any control over their son; that he
mas passed beyond their reach, and
tney 90 not know what to do with
him. Now, my parent friends, have
Q ever tried to make a companion
OF your boy; tried to make him feel
mat you were his best friend, by
sy~mpathizing with him In his little
troubles and trials? Do you take an
interest In his hopes and ambitions?
Have you tried to encourage him
wnen he was d~own-hearted, had made
a serious mistake. Have you SYM
pathfzed with him in his struggles for
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self-control? Any business man
would be Mortified at the suggestion
mat he was running his son by
neglect, that his absorption in bust
ness would result in the undoing of
his W son.. But If you have been
In the habit of driving him away
o you because you did not want
to be bothered every time he asked a
question or came to you with his
little h~eartaches for your sympathy
and your help, you cannot expect to
have much influence over him. One
of the bitterest things in many a
business mans life has been the dis
covery, after he had made his money,
that he had lost his hold upon his
boy, and he would give a large part
of his fortune to recover his loss.
Every father should think of the
child as a sacred trust, bringing into
the world with him a sealed mes
sage, which he is bound to deliver
like a man and a hero, and that this
sealed message within him is sacred.
1t may not be even for the father to
read; but it is each fathers duty to
help his boy to live up to it.
1t is comparatively easy for you
to gain your boys confidence, II you
begin early enough. From infancy,
he should grow up to feel that no
one else a take your place, that
you stand in a peculiar relation to
him, which no one else can fill. Every
boy is going to have a confidant, some
one to whom he can tell his secrets
and whisper his hopes and ambitions,
which he would not breathe to others,
and this some one should be his ia
Their.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

Forty Tom Watson watermelons,
ranging In weight from as to 62
pounds, recently attracted and held
my attention in Muskogee, Okla, while
was passing through a splendid ag.
rlcultural and industrial exhibit, writes
william Anthony Aery Of the Hamp-
ton institute.
Fred Hawkins, a young, slim, dark
skinned Negro of East Muskogee, who
Is a share tenant, working a dozen
acres of rich Arkansas bottom land,
raised these melons. He had caught
the idea Of growing fine fruit and 9th
er farm crops from seeing his white
n~eighbors reap large profits from their
few acres.
he a done his best in farming and
had won, thereby, both for himself and
Tor his race, the confidence and re-
spect OF many white and black bust
ness friends. Law-abiding. hard-work-
ing' and thrifty, he has not been seri-
ously troubled by any pressing prob
lem OF race adjustment. He has
solved the problem through advancing
the best interests of his own commu-
nifty.
n he was a child he lost his
mother and father and was brought
up, along with one sister, by his grand
parents. Though they were ignorant
OF booklearning they taught him to
work, to save and to be honest.
Hawkins is still a renter and lives
In a two-room huose on a small planta.
tlon, but he is on the road to becom-
ing an independent farmer. He has a
kind and foresighted landlord man
VINO furnishes his tenant a team of
strong mules, good farm implements
and a comfortable house. Hawkins is
also making hundreds of dollars for
himself, as well as for his boss man,
from his cotton, corn, sweet potatoes
and watermelons.
have told, in some detail, the story
OF Hawkins and his success to show
That this young Negro is worth help
ing and worth understanding, that he
is really succeeding, and that he is a
real asset to the white man. The best
Southerners know and believe this.
What Hawkins has done in East
Muskogee to cement more friendly
race relations through his thrift and
good farming, the National Negro Bus
mess league has been doing on a large
scale, during fourteen years, for the
whole nation.
What Negroes in Oklahoma have
lone to earn bread by the sweat of
their brow may be readily repeated by
Negroes throughout the United States,
provided they are willing to pay the
city for the blessings of the open
country and make their essential in
terests harmonic with the interests
of the best white people.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
Bank Notes Of SILK.

Bank notes made of silk of a par
ticular shade that will battle the bank
note forger are now possible. AS Is
known, most Of the expert banknote
forgers use photography to obtain
their best results; but a recent inven-
ton makes it possible to manufacture
silk of a particular shade that can
not possibly be photographed.
Discovered by a woman, this inven-
ton is a new process Of w~aterproofing
fabrics without rubber and dyeing
them In the same operation. Linen,
cotton or other materials to be treat
ed by this process are placed white
into one end of the machine and
brought out at the other end a few
minutes later colored. w~aterproofed,
and dry. Fabrics so produced, the in
ventor maintains, can be used in hun
dreds of trades, from aeroplane build
ing to banknote making.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
Are foxes Venetariana2

Foxes are not generally accredited
with vegetarian instincts. You never
see their tracks, as you see those of
the rabbits, around a young oak-tree
shoot which has been nibbled down to
the tough stem. But Esop evidently
thought otherwise when he wrote his
fable of the SOU grapes, and there is
plenty of testimony that Esop was
right. Foxes do eat wild grapes, as
many observers have testified, climb
ing a considerable way to get them;
and probably at times they eat berries
and perhaps apples. l have found
their tracks, at any rate, beneath
apple-trees. have also been conf
IDENTIFY assured hat they eat the per-
simmons in Virginia; that the "ol'
houn' dawgs" know how good this
fruit is, too. and If you wish to find
the very best tree, take a "dawg"
with you.-Walter Prichard Eaton, In
Harper's Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05

the two chums aimed to dislodge and
discredit Rolfe. if possible.
Tn on a still hunt" Harold Graves
told his crony one day. "Ditson is
mighty mysterious and secretive. He
lives at the next town hotel, he says,
but he does not appear there more
than once a week. He disappears
regularly. I'm shadowing him, I'll
have some news soon that will GUST
the fellow, trust me-"
And, sure enough, one afternoon in
a great state Of excitement young
Graves sought his sister in the garden
She was seated in a hammock, dream.
ing tenderly Of the absent Rolfe. She
was trustful and proud Of his atten-
tons, and although he had been very
reserved as to his business in the
town and its vicinity, she felt that
he had some good reason for that
policy.
I've found QUIT" proclaimed Harold
In a tone Of exultation.
Found out WHAT" inquired Minna.
About Ditson. never liked his
evasive ways. Neither did my chum.
Humph! l fancy after this you'll
value tried and true friends like him,
instead of picking up with a Snug
gler."
"A smuggler?" repeated Minna.
vaguely.
That's just what Ditson is. A regu-
lar member of the Black Ribbon gang,
down at Bottle Point"
For a moment Minna's face
%whitened, then confidence and loyalty
came back into her eyes.
Nonsense" she said simply.
rs it," retorted Harold. ~yiciously.
I'll show you. I'll have him arrested
the next time he sets his foot on
these grounds"
You dare!" flared up his sister.
DO you think l would believe such a
thing as you intimate against a true
gentleman who saved my life, and
who has the confidence and respect
Of our father and mother? You have
never liked Mr.. Ditson, and this is
some plot of yours, because Of your
preference for that chum OF yours"
ITS true, just the same" persisted
Harold, angrily; Il tracked him
down. saw him meet a regular
rough crew of the fellows who are
making the revenue service people SO
much trouble, smuggling goods over
here across the Canadian border. He
acted cheek by jowl with them. Went
OF with them In their boat. I've told
the revenue people about it. They're
going of after the gang tomorrow"
You will have to prove more than
o tell before o make me believe
that Mr.. Ditson is anything but a true,
honorable gentleman said Minna,
stubbornly.
"All right. Wait a day or two and
seel" Wanted Harold.
Minna tried to be steadfast in her
faith In young Ditson, but the intelli-
gence she had received made her un-
easy. Perhaps there was some dark
plot against Ditson, she reflected.
Her brother and his chum, she felt
assured. were equal to that. She
wrote a brief note to Rolfe. addressed
10 his hotel in the next town, warn
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
Old Maids Opinion Of Boys.

In the Woman's Home Companion,
iona Gale, writing a story of an old
maid who suddenly found herself face
to face with the responsibility of TAX
ing care of a small boy, presents the
old maid as making the following OBJ
servation:
Though l love the human race
and admire to see 1t took care OF, l
couldn't sense my way clear to taking
a boy into my house. Boys belong to
the human race, to be sure, Just as
whirling egg beaters belong to ONE
lets; but much as l set store by ONE
lets, I couldn't invite a whirling G
beaten into my home permanent.
land l don't ever rent to 'em.
They amt got enough silence to EN-"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05

Inc second annual meeting of the
Philadelphia branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People was held at the
Friends Meeting house, Fifteenth and
Race streets, Philadelphia. The re-
ports OF the work of the association re-
vealed that considerable had been ac
complished during the year in behalf
Or the colored race in that city. 1t
was shown that in several cases dis
elimination in moving-picture shows,
theaters and restaurants efforts to
safeguard the Negro had been met
with success and in one instance a
damage suit had been won against the
proprietor of a moving-picture show.
The meeting listened to addresses by
Miss K. M. Johnson, travelling repre-
sentative Of the National association,
and Miss May Childs Nerney, national
secretary Of New York.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year: President, Ellwood Heacock;
vice-presidents. DR.. ]. Max Barber,
Mrs. S. w. Layton; secretary, Isadore
Martin; treasurer, R. R. Porter, Brad
ford. Executive committee. Hon.
George H. White, R. r. Wright, Mrs.
Mary Murdah, James G.. Davis, Rabbi
Eli Mayer, Bishop ]. s. Caldwell, Rev.
e. w. Moore, Miss Francis Bartholo-
NEW, Mrs. Addie w, Dickerson, DR.. j.
Max Barber, Ellwood Heacock, Mrs. s.
w. Layton, Isadore Martin.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
ROLES SITUATION
BY ROBIN STA



A rustic bridge with a frail railing,
a charming young lady resting upon
At. a creak, a splash and Minna Graves
uttered a shrek and sank beneath the
surface Of the brook.
A 1.-THE. carelessly-dressed figure,
that of a young man coming up the
bridge approach, a shout Of interest
n alarm and as he plunged boldly
into the swirling current, Minna came
up choked. blinded and frantic.
Don't struggle" spoke gentle but
resolute tones in her ear, so conf
denceinspiring that Minna obeyed
orders and came ashore dripping,
flushing at the ridiculous figure she
made. Her rescuer warded off her ex-
pressions of fervent gratitude with a
light laugh owe their mutual predica-
ment, and she grew coherent enough
to indicate that a park-like place in
the near distance was her home.
Rolfe Ditson conducted her to its
open gateway, solicitously made sure
that she was able to get to the house
unaided, derided the idea that he
might catch cold from his wet gar
ments and went his way after an in
vitation to call and meet her people.
Rolfe Ditson swung on his way with
frightened eye, for he worshiped
beauty and goodness. AS to Minna,
she could not get that strong intel
iectual face out OF her mind readily.
His first call led to a second. These
two were fast approaching a state
of mutual love.
Minna saw in him a handsome, we'll
bred gentleman. Her father and
mother rather liked his direct. yet
unobstrusive ways. Not SO Harold
Graves. This son and brother had a
chum he had tried to thrust upon the
attentions of Minna. His sister dis
liked him intensely. When Rolfe ap-
peared upon the scene the rejected
sutton scented a rival. Thenceforward
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
BIZ Mo- Meana the Elrst sulm

At considerable expense a certain
Scottish town council had erected
public swimming baths, and they were
opened by n Of the leading men OF
the neighborhood. or the proudest
there was Sandy. who had been ap-
pointed bath superintendent. Sandy
had two hobbies-dog breeding and
swimming. Just prior to the opening
ceremony M OF the local councillors
slipped and fell into the six-foot end
Of the bath. Come DOT o. thati"
roared Sandy. leaning over and catch
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
Reported Loss Of His Arm.

While walking along the railroad
track in the Mill Creek yard, John
Wise Of Port Carbon, Pa, fourteen
years, was jostled by a man unknown
to him and he fell upon the track just
as a trip of cars came which ran over
him. severing his right arm above the
elbow.
Wise walked to the dispatcher's Of
fee, several hundred yards distant,
and coolly told the men in the office
he had lost his arm, which they might
find on the tracks. He was hurried
to the office of a physician where he
was given first aid and brought to the
Pittsyille hospital. The severed arm
was found as he had stated.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05

Booker T. Washington and other
Negro leaders took part in the open
ing ceremonies for the Paseo Y. M. C.
A., which was opened for Negro men
November %. The new building,
which is on the Paseo between Eight
eenth and Nineteenth streets, repre-
sented a total cost of about one hun
dred thousand dollars, and is thorough
ly modern and complete. R. B.. De-
Frantz, the secretary of the new build
ing, worked out an elaborate OPEN
ing ceremonial that lasted from No
vember % to 20.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05
A Long Huzzah.

The new pontiff, If in, stature he
matches the shortest monarch In the
present world, his contemporary In
Rome, has at any rate a longer name,
in Italian, than any of his predeces-
sors for many a day. 1t is almost un-
manageably long for acclamation.
"Vivi Pho Decimo." used to go off like
artillery, and viva Pho Mono" was
even a sharper shot. But viva Bene-
detto Decimoquinto" does not, 1t must
be confessed, linger and rumble. It
is longer than the shout for Leone
Decimoterzo."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-05

ing him that enemies we're seeking tc
get him into trouble.
Rolfe did not get the note for he
was ~away-with the smugglers, in
truth and verify II Minna could
have seen him the next evening
shortly after dark at a cave on the
lake that was a headquarters for the
smugglers, she would have ~shuddered,
He seemed to be one Of the grizzled
rough looking crew who were await
ing the arrival Of a skin carrying
c~ontraband goods from the Canadian
shore.
Rolfe sat on an upturned keg Just
within the cave, when he was in
tensely startled. One Of the band
came into view, forcing before him
a prisoner.
Il found him spying on u.s." the
smuggler explained. 'In his pocket l
found a note showing that he has put
the venue officers on to our den
here"
Settle him!" hoarsely commanded
the leader Of the crowd. Here, you"
to the captor and to Rolfe-"take
him over beyond the rocks yonder and
settle him"
Her b%rotherl" breathed Rolfe, as
he recognized Harold Graves.
Harold was the worse for a severe
struggle and did not notice Rolfe. who
with hts captor started to obey the or.
ders Of the smuggler chief.
This will do" said Rolfe's snug
gler companion, as they got out of
slghto Of the cave. Join in, mate, and
help finish him." and he drew his
revolver.
Run for your life!" whispered
Rolfe quickly in the ear of the startled
Harold Graves.
In that flashing second the latter
recognized Rolfe. He, uttered a cry
OF profound amazement. but was quick
to avail himself of the offered Cd
p%ortunity for escape.
He saw Rolfe strike the leveled
weapon from the hand of the SNUG.
gler. He saw the latter grapple with
Rolfe. There were loud cries for
help, and Rolfe, denounced as a
traitor to the band, was borne by
some of its members back to the cave.
1t was an excited, pitiful story that
Harold told to his sister when he
reached home. Even to his crude
mind the indication was irresistible
that Rolfe could not be one of the
smugglers in reality, and oppose their
counsels at the forfeit Of his life.
He saved me, that's all | know, and
I'm sorry for him." said the subdued
Harold.
And your work has brought him
to his DOOM" sobbed his sister, bit
terly.
Then came news that the e
Officers whom Harold had led to the
den of the smugglers, but had got
separated from, had made an on.
slaught in time to save Rolfe from
the vengeance Of the band. All had
been captured.
With a great cry, the next morning
M1nna sprang from the porch to greet
a brisk, smiling visitor, Rolfe Ditson.
Soon he explained to her the complete
situation.
Il was employed as a government
agent to get at the inside affairs OF
the ~smugglers," Rolfe told Minna.
The action Of the revenue officers
finished my work. l have come
say good-by, for l must return to
Washington"
"But-you will come back, some
time?" faltered Minna.
'Is that your wish?" asked Rolfe,
quickly.
Her two trembling hands, resting in
his own, made answer, and when
Rolfe Ditson left her. Minna Graves
was his promised wife.
Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman)