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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

formed, and these give performances.
but never without serious prepare
ton. They know their audience would
not tolerate ~amateurish efforts. When
the instruments cannot be obtained
from outside they are made in the
camp, and some are weird enough to
arouse the envy of a futurist COM
poser! The bandsmen are dressed in
full German military uniform, made in
the camp; ever the fabrication OF a
'pickelhaube' offers no difficulty when
pots and pans are at hand. Silver pa
per from chocolate and tobacco pack
ing is never wasted, and plays an i'm
portant part not only in the making of
uniforms but in the staging Of plays.
These also are well rehearsed before
being offered to the public.
Every performance is announced
by a band marching through the
grounds and playing loudly to attract
attention. One of the greatest sue
cesses in the show line was the cir
Gus; one day there was an elephant
made of gray blankets and four or
five men, which would have deceived
anyone. Its antics were so truly ele-
phantine that prisoners, English
guards and officers alike, all were in
fits of laughter, especially when the
penny a ride part began and the
trunk disclosed a broomstick as found
dalton.
The Poem That Was Rebuked.
Then we had recitation evenings.
A poet among US recited his own work.
A significant incident occurred dur
ing that evening. The first numbers
were of a comic character. but the
chief item of the program vas a patri-
otto poem--a jubilant recital Of how
thousands of Russian soldiers had
been lured into the Masurian boys and
drowned like rats. 1t was received
with stormy applause. ! felt indig-
nant. and, seeing that some of my
table companions also looked Uneasy.
| got up and asked permission to say
a few words. 1t was granted. l first
congratulated the poet on his skill. but
protested against the spirit of the last
poem, which invited us to gloat over
the death agony of soldiers probably
as brave as any others. l reminded
the public that hundreds of German
soldiers were drowned in flooded
Flanders-terrible incidents of war.
but not subjects for epics. A growing
applause showed me l had not ap-
pealed in vain to the thinking portion
of my fellow prisoners. The poet him
self came to me a few days later and
said, You know, Father Ludwig, |
have been thinking over what you
said, and | will not have the poem
published
81 became sincerely attached to my
fellow prisoners, who showed me all
consideration in spite of the fact that
my opinions were often Numerically
| opposed to theirs. When the order
for my release came the governor
shook hands With me and thanked me
for the good suggestions and improve
ments which we had made in our
camp"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

two sticks (B. Fig. 81 to hold them to-
gether. Then at the ends of sticks B
fasten the legs A Gig. 81. 80 the
shelf will come ten inches below their
tors. These leg sticks iced not be
over two feet long.
The top of the ove is covered with
a wooden platform made of short
boards nailed to two sticks @ (Fig.
10). Fasten this platform to the tops
of legs A. With the oven framework
up, the next thing to do is to bank up
earth around the two sides and one
end, and over the top. as shown a
Fig. z. Dampen the earth SO 1t will
pack easily. One end of the oven must
be enclosed with earth. the other pro
vided with a board hinged to the plat
form by means of leather or heavy
tape Gigs. Z and III.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

at the ends as in Fig. 5, to extend
down into the cans.
Fig. 6 shows how a similar stove
can be made by emitting the cans,
and fastening the cross wire supports
to nails driven into the tops of stakes
placed along each side of the stove.
Fill in around and between the stakes.
to the height of their tops, to protect
them from fire, and bank up the earth
to enclose n end, as in Fig. 4.
The bake oven in Fig. Z is a unique
homemade stove which is easily con-
structed. The oven shelf is made of
sheet iron, for which the open sides
of tomato cans may be used. Tack
the ends of three pieces of cans to
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
BOY, 10, ENTERS UNIVERSITY
indianapolis Sends Second Young GEN.
ius to Chlcaeo-Wins Scholar
arship by Ability.

Chicago.-Students and faculty OF
the University of Chicago are expect
ing much of Benjamin Perk of Indi-
annapolis, thirteen years and four
months old, who has registered as a
freshman. Perk was graduated last
spring from the Indianapolis Manual
Training high school and was awarded
a scholarship at the university. He
is enrolled in the junior college of phil
losophy.
Perk follows in the footsteps OF Har-
old Fisbein, who came from IndiAnapo.
lis a year age at the age of fifteen and
has continued his remarkable record
at the university. Perk Is the young
est student ever m~atriculated at Chi
cago.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Fortunate is the woman who is too
busy to have that kind of a tongue.
ter was written into a colonization
scheme, headed by Alfred Charles
Sam, said to be chief of an African
tribe, to transport Negroes from the
United States to the west coast Of
Africa.
The project, as described by Sam,
was to enable Negroes to go to West
Africa, join a colony, and live in COM
parative luxury.
The Liberia, financed, it was said,
by Negroes, left Portland, Me-, in May
and, after stopping at Norfolk, Va,
proceed I'd to Galveston, Tex, where 1t
was reported to have taken on 40
Negroes and started on its voyage to
the west coast of Africa.
At Anamabu, on the African coast,
the Liberia was seized by British au.
thorities, as the owner was a British
subject. While there the crew was
stricken by fever and removed to a
hospital. After their recovery they
were discharged. They then went to
Liverpool, whence they were sent
home as consular passengers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Bank earth around and over them as
shown in Fig. 1. Then, to provide for
hanging cooking utensils over the fire,
drive a three-foot stick into the ground
each side of the fireplace. and cen
meet nails in the tops of the sticks
with wire. Pots are to be suspended
from this wire by mean of pothooks
bent out of wire Gig 81.
Fig. 4 shows a camp stove with
sides built of earth REINFORCED with
tin cans. The walls are straight in
stead of round, and they are placed
about four inches apart at one end
and ten inches apart at the other.
1t is best to provide cross wires to
support the utensils on. Bend these
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

fish by using all sorts of shapes and
sizes of spools, and by varying the
form of the head and tail. After max
ing the fish. mark each with a number
Gig. %. Then make poles u of
long sticks, with string fastened to one
end for a line, and a bent hairpin tied
to the end of the string for a hook
Gig. 81.
With a fishing pole for each player,
it is not necessary to take turns fish
ing. The object of the game, of course,
is to see who can make the largest
score by hooking the fish-hook through
the loops upon the fish heads.
Bean-bag and ball tossing are al
ways lots of fun. The skill of the
players can be determined best by u.s.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
astoIsn. Notes Arc Found.

Topeka, KAMA postcard received
from Adam Becker. a Meridian. Kan,
farmer and banker, who reported to
the Topeka police that he had been
robbed of $4,000 worth of negotiable
notes a few days ago, stated that he
has found the valuable papers in the
lining of his coat.
There was a hole in the pocket and
the wallet worked through the hole.
Becker discovered he had not been
robbed when he reached McAlester.
Okla. from which point he wrote the
postcard to Topeka
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

One OF the most SlgnllCant OF the
many hopeful tendencies in the South
today is the spirit of cooperation be-
ing manifested on every hand between
the white and colored people. Never
in the history of the South, it is safe
to say, has there been so keen an in
terest on the part of the white popula-
ton in the condition and welfare of
the Negro. In almost every large city
below the Ohio river, from Galveston
and Houston up to New Orleans, Biz
mingham, Atlanta and even Washing
ton, there has been an awakening in
some n or all of the phases of Negro
life. In the agricultural districts of
southern states there has been a re-
valuation of the status of the Negro
and a new attitude with regard to
him is being formed.
OF the many causes to which this
awakening is to be attributed two
stand out most prominently. First,
the publication of census statistics
showing the appalling death rate from
tuberculosis and other diseases
among Negroes and the absence OF
any well regulated effort looking to-
ward sanitation in Negro quarters.
The interest which many people have
taken has been, no doubt, the sort of
interest one would take if a mad dog
were loose in the neighborhood; but,
regardless of the motive of self-pres-
ervation, the cleanup" movement
hoe ham racpope;hIa For oraot nod
In the second place, the colored peo-
pie themselves have been so untiring
in their efforts to bring to pass a new
er and better era in the land of which
they are in indispensable economic
part that their labors are now bearing
fruit. There is a larger confidence in
the future of their race, because they
themselves are responding more rap
idly and more satisfactorily now than
aver before.
The South in the next few decades
will become n of the richest sections
of the nation and of the world. 1t is
therefore important not only that la
Dor and capital should work in har-
mony, but it is even more important
that there should be an interracial
sympathy and cooperation in all econ
omic and civic endeavor. The laborer
can be kept skillful and efficient only
as his environment is wholesome and
strengthening, and not weakening and
demoralizing. 1t is in the spirit of this
paragraph, reflected in an address de-
livered by Mai. R. R. Motion of Hamp-
ton institute, that the leading white
people of the South are coming to re-
gard the Negro problem. That a large
share of their concern in the matter
lies on the side of the economic is
shown by the interest taken in the eff
forts of a number of state and city
health officials to improve the sanitary
conditions in which the Negroes of
their respective districts are forced to
live.-Chicago Daily News.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
slacksnake Steals Eggs.

Spring Grove, Pa.-Although Ralph
Hivner had heard his hens cackling
with clockwork regularity the last
month, he was receiving no eggs. He
kept watch and discovered a six-foot
blacksnake creeping stealthily from a
crevice in the henhouse. 1t then
started working its coils in such a
manner as to throw the eggs to the
floor, where they were broken. The
snake was shot.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST

The gray wolf of Montana is the
hardest animal to trap. 1t is destruc-
tive to cattle.
The population Of Montana on March
1 was 622,s15. Silver Bow was the
most populous county with 1880 peo-
pie.
Among those who have joined the
British army during the present war
are 10000 Durham miners, 10000 South
Wales ministers and $4,000 Yorkshire
miners.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Constantinople is a city of mosques
and minarets. There are about 800
mosques i n it, many of them being
buildings of the most beautiful and
picturesque sort.
Physicians of Crane, Mo-, are puz-
zled by an ailment which strikes w.
H. Hilton dumb when he attempts to
address persons near him. but per.
mits him to speak plainly when ad.
dressing persons at a distance. or
when talking 10 animals.
The mar who runs along on an even
keel never sta5e-manages a revolution.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

ing a target to throw at, and three
boxes nested-that is, placed n in
side another-as shown in Fig. 6,
makes an excellent target. A bag or
ball thrown inside of the center box
counts rs points, one thrown in the
next larger box counts is points. and
IN in the outside box five points.
Probably you will not find three boxes
of the proportions shown in Fig. 6. but
this will not matter.
The swinging target shown in Fig.
Z requires greater skill in throwing
than the stationary target. If there are
but two players, they mist take turns
throwing and swinging the target. The
target is a barrel-hoop suspended from
a tree branch by means of strong
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

You can play fsh-pond in the back
yard, where the sidewalk can be the
m~ake-believe pier from which to fish.
and homemade dummy fish a be
scattered about in the grass to stock
the m~ake-believe pond Zig. u.
First prepare a large enough supply
of fish to made a worthwhile Catch"
Fig. 2 shows an idea for a queer
though easily made variety. This fei-
low has a spool body and a cardboard
head and tail. Cut the head by the
pattern of Fig. 3, and the tail by Fig.
4. Punch a hole through the head
and tie a loop of string through it,
as shown in Fig. 3; then mark eyes
and a mouth on the head. You
can make different varieties of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
BACKYARD CAMP STOVES.

The place for a boy to learn the
building of campfires and camp cook
ing is at home, and the back yard is
as good a location as any for the home
made camp stove.
The fireplace in Fig. 1 is started b.
i~nclosing a space about Is inches in
diameter. except on one side, with to-
mato cam or cans of hat size, filled
with earth. for the hre-pot Zig %.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
GETS v. c. AT AGE OF 10
Lance Corporal Dryer Held Trench
Single Handed During Fight at
Hill No. go.

London.-The youngest soldier OF
the British army TO receive the Vic
toria Cross is Lance Corporal Dwyer.
who is only nineteen years old He
won the v. C. for holding, single hand
ed. a trench against the Germans dur.
ing the fighting around the famous
HIl No. 60. He is now back in Lon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
s-hakespeare,s Leos.

There is no authority for the opinion
that Shakespeare had one OF his legs
broken in a drunken brawl outside OF
a sonnet written by Marlowe. himself
a brilliant d~ebauchee and notorious
liar. Apart from Marlowe's dia-
tribe. there is nothing TO show that
the great dramatist had a broken or
deformed leg.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
AFRO-AMERCAN CULL|NCS

In reply to the very interesting let
ter in the Times, referring to the es-
say on Southern music, by Prof. AL
bert Mildenberg. as published in your
Sunday Magazine, l venture to add a
few words, the result of great interest
and much research in my personal &C
quaintance of many years with the
well-known English Negro composer,
Coleridge Taylor, and the famous
American authority, Harry T. Burleigh,
both of these men being grave and
earnest musicians, yet each pursuing
entirely different paths in the deyel-
opment of their art, writes Albert j..
Weber in the New York Times. In
the ease of Coleridge Taylor it has
been a steady advancement of a great
talent for composition along serious
lines, with no leaning toward develop
ment of a race popularity or special
influence, it being simply the following
out of the classical as well as lighter
forms of musical compositions follow
ing those of all of the modern cele-
brated European composers.
Regarding Mr.. Burleigh, his work has
been a development of an idea which
has had as its main inception and es.
sential character the bringing out of
peculiar and individual Negroid quail
ties, so far a. the themes and rhythm
are concerned, of course, seriously
treated, but nevertheless with the idea
of establishing a splendid and delight
full color in his work, and the exis-
tence of a characteristic that he attrib.
utes solely to the Southern plantation
Negro. 1t is but just and fair to pre-
sumo that the charming melodies sung
by the Southern plantation Negro,
such as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
and Steal Away to Jesus and the
numerous other spirituals that l have
heard unlimited times during my in
vestigations in the South, throughout
that glorious Land of Dixie are of
absolutely pure Negro origin, and this
fact no doubt re-enforces the conten-
ton of Prof. Albert Mildenberg's argu-
ment that we must look to these fun
damental principles of melody and
rhythm produced by these very South
ern Negro singers, and maintained by
them to this YER day in their orig
inal form, for the very essence of the
material upon which our American
folk-song exists and may be further
developed.
The treatment they will under
go at the hands of the trained and
skilled musicians the further away
from their intrinsic value they will be
drawn, the more will they lose their
entire individuality. The natural mel.
odies in their original form, free from
harmonic treatment by technical mu-
s~icians, will of themselves be a potent
factor in our future musical develop
ment.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
h Della Scored.

Former Mistress-"l would like to
give you a good recommendation,
Della. but my conscience compels me
to state that you " got the meals
on time. l wonder how | can put it in
a nice sort of way" Delia-"Yez
moight list say thot Oh got the meals
the same as Oh got me pay."-Puck.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

wrapping cord, and it is swung by
a cord tied to the side of the hoop.
Possibly you know how to make
bean-bags. but, inasmuch as a few of
you may not know. have shown in
Figs. 5 and 8 how two squares of cloth
should first be sewed together along
three edges, chen turned inside out,
the bag filled with beans. and the
edges Of the fourth side turned in and
soWed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

don on a short leave from the front
and is devoting this time. which has
been granted to him for a rest. to re-
cruiting work. He appeared the other
day in Trafalgar square and delivered
a stirring appeal for more recruits.
which was loudly applauded.
Acting Corporal issy Smith of the
Manchester regiment is the first sol
der OF Jewish faith to receive the
Victoria Cross. His reward was given
him for having assisted a wounded
comrade over $50 yards OF ground I'M
der heavy shell fire at Ypres.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Mrs. Ella D. Rowland of Zillah.
Wash, owns a vast apple orchard
upon which 1t is claimed that she
raises the finest apples that are grown
in the United States.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Ezra Meeker wants the Oregon
trail appropriately marked. Inasmuch
as Mr.. Meeker appears to have more
idle time than anyone else. why not
let him mark IL?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

German scientists have utilized pho
tomicrographs of disqualification forms
of various chemical solutions to pro-
vide new patterns for various arts and
crafts.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
Caused by overheatIno.

Blowholes and pinholes IN castings
are caused by o%verheating the metal
while melting. Pinholes are nothing
but smah biz wholes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

With the arrival at New York on
the steamer Norseman from Liverpool
of is distressed Americans, forming
what was left of the crew of the Brit
fish steamer Liberia, a dramatic chap
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

For carrying a policeman's club
there has been invented a strap to be
worn over one shoulder and extend
through an opening in the coat, obvi-
ating the necessity for a belt.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

In giving little Willie a present you
can greatly facilitate matters by also
giving him a hammer with which to
break 1t up.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Farmers in England are now pre-
pairing to pay women the same wages
as given to the men called away to
war.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

"Auntie" Mahaley Gibbs. aged nine
ty-nine years, according to city health
statistics, is dead at Memphis. Tenn.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Statistics show that $4,000 of the
$4,000 people in Birmingham are Ne
groes. The school census Of 1912
showed 21,336 Negro children of
school age. The annual report of the
Birmingham public schools of 1913
has 1860 Negro children enrolled in
the schools, 1854 of whom attended
regularly. This report shows 5,445
seats for these children, a lacking
of 439 seats to accommodate them.
Our schools are sadly crowded; many
drop out for this reason, and | o
der to what extent are these condi-
tions responsible for the large
amount of work left for the juvenile
court officers, for the restless, ignor-
ant young Negro who crowds the
dives, jails and mines, for the spread
of infectious diseases.-Mrs. Sidney
NJ. Ullman, in the Birmingham (Ala.)
Age-Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

If you know a good recipe for max.
ing raspberry jam, keep it to your
self. Do not let it be said of you that
you held a grudge against the world.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

A correspondent of a Washington
newspaper suggested that the United
States create a Negro army of from
$780, 900 to 100000 men for carrying
on the reclamation work and other in
dustrial undertakings in peace, and do
our fighting in time of war. This is
a most undemocratic and abhorrent
suggestion. Mercenary armies and
vicarious fighters were in fashion $50
years ago, when %despotic kings used
them as their tools of oppression. The
odium that attaches to the term Hes
sian, in our own history, is the result
of the intense feeling among our own
%forefathers against hireling soldiers
The revolutionary fighters were will
ing to risk their fortunes, their ener-
gies and their lives in the struggle
for liberty, and the English king
brought into the field against them
hired troops. U%nprepared and undis-
ciplined as the Americans were, their
superior morale won for them victory.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

In proportion to population, japan
has more suicides than any other civ
ilized nation
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

The British Royal Navy reserve was
established in 1859; the Royal Fleet
reserve in 1907.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
Different In lamar

In Japan. If a bride dislikes taking
her husbands name she may adopt
him into her own farsily.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06

Fortunate is the woman who is toe
busy to have that kind of a tongue.