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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

consent to this, giving utterance to his celebrated
and historic phrase. No, the possession of Con-
stantinople by Russia would mean the mastery
of the world"
1t was this question about Constantinople that
caused the break of the friendship of the emper'
ors and an enmity which resulted in Napoleon's
disastrous invasion of Russia, with his grande
armee, in the destruction of Moscow b. fire. in
the coalition of Russia with Great Britain, Prus'
STA, Sweden and Austria against France, in the
invasion of the latter country by the allies, in
the disastrous defeat of Napoleon at Leipsic
and at Waterloo, in the loss of his throne and in
his exile, first to Elba, and then to st. Helena.
The will" is probably less authentic than that
famous mot of the Gar Nicholas, who just be-
fore the Crimean war in 1853 said to the British
ambassador, apropos of Turkey, that I'VE have
on our hands a sick mana very sick man. It
will be, i tell you frankly, a great misfortune If
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Beauty spot In Garden.

A beauty spot may take the place
of any eyesore this summer II you
SOW some seeds In time. Where the
outlook from q window or gallery 10
marred by something unsightly, raise
a high green wall between you and It,
Drive into the ground slender poles
and between them pass a wire or
cords. At the foot SOW seeds of rapid
growing vines, such al morning glory.
scarlet Strings from the wire
to the ground will lead the vines up
n there IL q fence or tree near by, this
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

At Baldwin Farms, some dozen
miles from Tuskegee. a few northern
capitalists have secured possession of
1000 acres or more of land, which
they are selling in small lots OF rea-
sonable terms to ambitious home
steaders, helping them build the initial
cottage, lending them a little money
with which to get started. Here col
lege graduates and city bred young
husbands and wives are settling down
contentedly to the task of making
homes on the farm.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
chanak-kales

Chanak-Kalesi. the struggling town
near the "narrows' of the Darda'
nelIes. which figures frequently in the
latest operations, means carmen
ware castle" In Turkish. n is So
called from a celebrated pottery on
the Asiatic side of the strait An
agent from this pottery used to be al
ways on the lookout for a wandering
European. and hooked on to every
passing ship. His boatload OF gaudy
crockery was generally more re-
markable for gliding and tawdry color
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
ThInks He Has Made Discovery

Prof. T. J., J. See. who believes that
he has discovered the hitherto IN
known cause of gravitation. is in the
government service. being mathema-
tician and astronomer in charge OF the
naval observatory at Mare island. Cal
ifornia. He was commissioned last
August as a relative captain in the
navy. the highest rank in the naval
corps Of mathematician
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

one of these lays
he should slip away
from US; especially
before all the neces-
sary arrangements
have been made"
The English ambas-
sador was strictly
~noncommittal Q e n
after the car had
pointed out the hor-
rors of a general
e p e a war
which might ensue
IL the great powers
we're not careful, so
the Russian auto
crat repeated his re-
mark about the
sick man" to Prince
Metternich, the eel
ebrated wit, who
was the Austrian
ambassador, and 1t
was Metternich who
cynically turned the
tide against any Eu-
ropean cooperation
with Russia in han
ding the Turkish
situation, by re-
m MARKING CURLY
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

chemically equipped barges, which are
used in pairs as a rule, are capable
Of giving a continuous delivery OF
300 tons per hour. A record was
made, however, when these barges
put 1900 tons of coal into a steamer
in seven hours. this time including de-
lays and stoppages for trimming.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

than for taste. But the forms of the
vessels we're often graceful, even
classical; and specimens of the tall
water jugs he sells, or once sold, can
be seer throughout the Levant,
though seldom in London.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Rapid coaIlna at Havana.

Coaling vessels at Havana is IA
cilitated by automatic devices, accord
ing TO a m report. A cargo
Of 5000 tons can be discharged and
stacked for storage at the wharf or
loaded into barges in 16 hours. Me
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

Next to the search for a good time,
that of striving for comfort is the
most marked human characteristic.
Sim Heckle has a cushion on his
wheeibarrow.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
CLOSE QUARTERS.

YES. for the last two months I've been pest,
lively living within my income"
Don't you feel rather cramped?"
"Cramped? Say. lend me $40. will you? !
want to stretch myself"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

II you are not particular about the
way you get it. a good living can be
made off those whom the doctors
have failed to cure.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
HARD TIM Es.

What's become of the oldfashioned joker
who used to answer, when asked II he was mar
ried: No, I'm in business for myself"
The last time 7 heard of him he was still at
1t, but his salary had been reduced"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

A man goes back to his old home
town and discovers that the girl he
mistakes for the n he used to know
is her granddaughter.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
Monaco.

Monaco, which is arranging an ex-
hibition to illustrate its history, Is
one of the most c~uriously constituted
states In the world. since Of It's $4,000
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

When l consider the cost of this
war; when l think of the blood that
has been shed; of the property that
has been destroyed and the misery
that has been causedI am sometimes
inclined to thank God that am not a
member of a superior race. Rather ]
am disposed to thank God that l be-
long to a people that cannot hope and
does not desire to prosper at the cost
Of any other race.
There is a certain advantage in he
longing to a race that has to make ITS
way peacefully through the world: a
race hat prospers, If it prospers at ell,
because it has made friends rather
than enemies Of the people by whom
it is surrounded. There is a certain
satisfaction, also. in belonging 60 a
race whose hope Of success in the
world consists of making itself use
full to the world, and it is not wholly a
disadvantage to the Negro that, though
he should fight in every war as he has
in this, it is not to maintain his own
superiority, but that of some Other
race that he ights.-Booker T. Wash
ington in the North American Review
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

On the McMssters farm in Rich
mond, Me-, there are two families of
tame foxes, numbering 10 in all. They
were brought up on a bottle and have
become pets of the family.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

cent and the green flag of
islam desecrated the holy
places as the conqueror
rode into the city through
the gate of St. Romanus.
And, as he entered the
palace the new ruler was
heard to reeite. so tradi-
ton has it, some lines of
Persian poetry running as
follows:
The spider has spun her
web in the palace
of the Caesars,
THE owl has sung her
watch song on the
towers of Afrasiab."
Supersaturate with his
tory as is the city, its
present-day aspect, as the
long revenge of time
hastens to its final salts.
faction, and the crosses
that will replace the cres-
cent are already in the
making, is one that is
more redolent and reflec-
tive of the immediate
down-at-the-heels Orient
than of the earlier CEN
turtles. 1t is a medley of
mosques and minarets, of
magnifcence and squalor,
of kiosks and cafes. Pal.
aces jostle miserable huts,
and enchanting kiosks, in
Saracenic style, gay in
color of stone. stucco or
tile, and with superb
metal work, are seen side
by side with the cheapest
of frame houses and mean
cafes. Broad open squares,
like unkempt back lots
where tin cans and goats
most do congregate, how
ever, are contrasted also
with the narrowest of i'll
smelling alleys doing duty
as streets, and yet above
all this meanness, all this
huddlement of cheap and
unpretentious buildings,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

The first funds for the Manassas
Industrial School for Colored Youth
were collected in and around Marion.
Mass, during the summer Of 1891.
Jennie Dean obtained work as a cook
in a boarding house in Marion, and
when her days work was over. she
went about talking of her school in
churches or to any one that would
listen to her. She also went to Wash
ington, where she managed to interest
in her scheme several prominent men
and women, who formed a board of d.
rectors to promote the work. Miss
Dean then went to Boston with let
tiers to DIR. Edward Everett Hale, who
helped her by sending out an appeal
for funds from his own Office, with the
result that Jennie Dean returned to
Manassas in the following spring with
the necessary amount.
Since the early days of the single
frame schoolhouse to its present state
of a number of substantial buildings,
there have been desperately hard
roads to travel, and the end has not
been reached yet. Through all these
years there has always been the same
cry for more funds to carry on the
work, for the cause of Negro education
does not always call forth the largest
contributions. Through all Miss
Deans untiring efforts and struggles.
up to the time had the fullest SYM
pathy of the Negroes of her section
of Virginia. Many of them were too
poor to give money. but there were
few who did not give in some form,
varying from a barrel of apples to a
days labor.
There could never be a moments
question of the real need of an insti-
tuition of this sort, the natural out
growth of a deep and fervent desire
of a people fully appreciative of their
lack of all that would make them of
value to the white mans world, of
which they were now a part. The in
terest Of the Negroes of this district
in the school has increased year by
year, and while their contributions are
of necessity very small, they manage
to raise annually something over a
thousand dollars toward an endow,
ment fund through personal gifts,
church entertainments, picnics, and
frequent church collections.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

For misinformation concerning any
incident apply TO a bystander.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

Rev. H. H. Dunn of New Orleans In
a sermon has outlined the progress
of the colored people of New Orleans
for the last year. The first public
playground for colored children was
opened; $500 was raised by the col
ored citizens for it, and white citi-
zens contributed $4,000 in addition;
white and colored physicians met to-
gether to discuss Negro health; public
library for Negroes has been start
ed; the city council has purchased
a site at a cost of $4,000 and appro-
priated $4,000 annually for mainte-
nance; a building valued at $4,000
is nearing completion. The public
school system still lacks a high school.
but there are S,164 pupils enrolled and
155 public school teachers, Of whom
eight are white. One new school
building has been opened. The eighth
grade has been restored in three
schools, and will be started in an
| other this month. There are a mum,
Der Of patrons and parents clubs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

framework can be more steadily Sc.
cured by being attached to 1t.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

No institution of learning Is now
complete without it's extension de-
partment, and a recent exhibit" in
this direction was varied, dramatic and
full of that humor that borders on
pathos. Two men at Tuskegee were
brought in from the adjoining country
to tell how they acquired land and
we're now tilling their own farms, trac-
ing their inspirations, of course, to
the farmer conferences and to the ra-
dating influences of Tuskegee. One
woman told of how she secured a bet
ter schoolhouse for the "chillun." Egg
selling, chicken raising, and many 9TH
er ways too well known to the women
of the North, which often indicate an
nuriousness, here became high general
ship and splendid courage. But more
eloquent than the farmer parsons or
the soliciting schoolhouse builders was
the stern Angelolike ~countenance of
the wife who said to the preacher,
You go to school and l will take care
of the blowing and the children" She
said not a word. She received no
plaudits, but she, not the parson,
moved the silent depths of the soul.
One slip of a girl. from the honor
three months of required cadeting in
a country school, told how she not
only washed up the schoolhouse but
cleaned up the homes in which she
boarded, brought in the cook stove
that was all right except that it had
lost one leg, and taught them how
to enlarge their dietary list. The ex-
tension department of Tuskegee goes
far afeld and there were thrilling sto-
ries of achievements in South Carolina
and other adjoining states.-Exchange,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

days of Alexander the Great, of Xerxes, Of Darius.
the jump Of centuries to that most celebrated Of all
milestones, the inauguration of the city as the CAPT
tai Of the eastern empire by Constantine on the
eleventh Of May. $50. was not uneventful, though
nothing like the story told by the eleven hundred
and twenty-three years of imperial %splendor before
1t fell into the hands of Mohammed II, on May 20.
1853, on that most fateful of all days when the cross,
under Constantine XII. went down before the cres-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
INTERNATIONAL
LESSON
tBy e. o. SELLERS, Acting Director OF
Sunday School Course, The Moody Bible
LESSON FOR MAY 9
FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JON
ATTAIN.

LESSON TEXT Samuel ao:s2-42.
GOLDEN TEXT-A friend loveth at all
;imes.-Prov. I7:17.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

Recently there was erected at the
Hampton institute a two-story brick
building to be used as a social center
for the boys. Contracts were award
ed to the trade school departments
and student tradesmen did the con-
struction work. Today the building
stands completed. It is known as
Clarke hall. 1t is used by the Young
Mems Christian association. To ap-
preciate the meaning of these three
examples of construction work done
by the Hampton tradesmen, n must
see the -Nmpleted structures and real
ize the building problems which the
young Negro and Indian tradesmen
met and successfully solved.
While construction work calls for
ability to read working drawings and
follow detailed specifications, the de-
mands made by repair problems are in
many instances even more taxing. To
make a repair quickly, s%killfully and
economically, requires unusual abil-
ity. Hampton institute is indeed an
industrial village in which there is
constant demand for men who can
do good repair and construction work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

So long as his mother lives there
is no probability that anyone in our
town will be permitted to forget that
LATE ~Swisegood has a good job in
New York.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08

- STAMBOUL." the place over there
<6w as this modern perversion Of the Greek
phrase Sin the city" is often translated,
has been sung by poets and painted by
8E7sSFE artists and been the theme Of almost
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6annn&4% Incorporate eulogy since its early days
8LlMN when. as the picturesque little Greek
lEH# city of Byzantium, it stood for the east
AMMS ernmost settlement of Greek culture in
MINIMIZE Europe, a tower Of light shining over
NIllNAN the barbaric Orient that lay within its
assAAssA1@ sight across the way. From these early
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
SCORES GIRLS FOR
BEING FRIVOLOUS

Los Angeles, May 13,-With the
fifth national Y. W. C. A. convention
over, the visiting delegates returning
10 their homes, Los Angeles officers
of the association have turned their
attention to campaign to educate
the American girl to be less frivolous.
This campaign will be prosecuted with
vigor all over the country. 1t was
suggested by Miss Louise Holmquest,
one of the leading Y. W. c. A. work
ers Of the East.
That the American girl is too frivo-
lous is Miss Holmquest's contention;
she lives her life too fast; her appe-
tite is too highly seasoned; she does
not take life at all seriously. Accord
ing to Miss Holmquest, this frivolous
disposition is not conducive to making
good wives and mothers, and a CAM
paign of education is the only curative
measure.
i Women who have made a study of
girls-clubwomen, Y. W. c. A. lead
ors and women educators all over the
country-have joined in the campaign.
These women Investigators will spend
the year getting facts about the Amer
lean girl. They will go from the
ballroom to the factory; into churches.
schools, the home, and wherever girls
are found. When the facts have been
collected and a working basis secured,
the campaign will begin to teach
Americans girls to be rated more as
women than ladies, and to giggle less
and think more"
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
Health Is Greatest Asset,

Without the aid of good health, no
person can achieve the maximum of
efficiency. Great strides have been
made by the medical profession the
last decade in discovering or perfect
ing methods by which better health
and longer life can be brought to man
kind Probably no institution in the
West Is quite as advanced in the mat
ter Of equipment and methods used as
the sanitsrium situated at Long Beach,
California The electrical and me
rhanical Swedish departments are said
to be the most complete and elaborate
to be found anywhere and include the
latest and most powerful static. gal
vanio, faradic, sinuoidal. high-fre-
uuency. diathermlc, condemnation
'tical and horizontal Horoscope screens.
stereoscopes and &-ray machines. The
famous Battle Greek methods are pur-
sued and the house physicians and
surgeons are all specialists.
Unlike most sanitariums. which are
generally thought of as hospitals, this
California resort has a homelike at
mosphere and many seekers of rest
and recreation go there to spend the
summer months, for there is every
manner of healthy outdoor diversion,
including golf, tennis. surf bathing.
boating. etc. The social life is de
hghtfnI and the guests are largely
from the refined and cultured walks
Of life.
A handsome descriptive bookle.
giving complete information, special
summer rates, etc, may be had by
writing direct to the Long Beach
Sanltarium, Long Beach, Gel.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
DISCOVERY MADE
BY AN EMINENT PHYSICIAN

When +. c. S. Sanders, an eminenl
physician and author Of Tropical Dis
eases of the Skin and Kidney Wis
tied Arrowhead Hot Springs, South
orn California, recently, to secure data
for his new work, "Calfornia as a
Health Resort" he saw the miracu-
lous cures being effected by these wa
ters and at once suspected the natural
presence of arsenic He was led to
this opinion from his comprehensive
experience with the waters Of La
Bourboule, France. which were con
sidered the only arsenic waters IN the
world. DR.. Sanders proceeded to yer
ify his belief and had the water ana
lyzed by chemists, whose report es-
tablishes the presence of arsenic a.
fact. He went even still further
and had the French government ana
lyze the water and this official analy
sis was similar to that of the Amer.
can chemists.
In commenting upon the discoverv.
Dr.. Sanders says:
The water, when cooled sufficient
ly, IS palatabIe and pleasant, and will
be found of sovereign service medici-
naliy in the hands Of skilled phvsl-
clans. Di-sodium arsenatc in natural
mineral water acts a. an altertive
1t increases the appetite and diges-
ton, and improves the whole nutri
ton of the body Such rare waters
as these are especially valuable IN tho
treatment of aenemic and certain 5,-,n
diseases. The waters at Arrowhead
are well blended and the ingredients
are in right proportion "
Il is said that if these springs were
located IN the old country sll Furope
would flock there for the tonic bene-
fit 10 be derived
Immediately upon the discovery Of
this rare ingredient hundreds of let
ter' were received at the springs re-
questlng detailed information about
the waters. A booklet has now been
prepared which gives this desired IN
formation and describes di-sodium ar
senate and its many uses. A conv
may be had tree by writing to the Ar
rowhesd Hot Springs. Arrowhead
Gal.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
CITY-BRED HOPPERS
INVESTING PHOENIX

Phoenix, Ariz., May 13.-PhoeniX is
almost overwhelmed by a plague of
grasshoppers, but, curiously enough,
they are city-bred and well broke to
street cars and automobiles. The sub
lrban and ranching districts adjacent
to the city are as free of the pest as
4 gopher is of brains.
The choppers" appear when the
shades of night have fallen and the
electric lights are on. Literally bill
hons of them, they carpet the pave
ment, cause automobiles to skid into
each other, and gum up the street car
tracks so the brakes refuse to work
They jump out at the unsuspecting
pedestrian, fall down his neck and
hide within his pockets.
The picture of a man or woman
madly beating it down a street,
clutching wildly at different parts
Of their anatomy and yelling like d
rooter at ball game, has become a
common sight during the past few
DAYS. Every morning the street clean
ing department hauls away wagon
loads Of the little pests. During the
cay they are not in evidence, but at
night they are back in apparently un-
diminished numbers and renewed en-
thusiasm in the well lighted shopping
and theatre district. No country life
for them.
Bug experts are at loss to ac-
count for the visitation, but give as
surance that it will soon be over.
Phoenix, Ariz., May 13-A petition
Is being prepared for presentation to
1he city council to have all street
lights discontinued during the preva-
lence of the grasshopper pest The
streets are filled with thousands Of
insects today. The farmers are pre-
pairing to oppose the petitions on the
ground that if the lights are extin-
guished the insects will take to the
country, running the crops. House
holders are reporting to the humane
society that many cats, gorging them
selves on the grasshoppers, went
crazy.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13

F ortifie G d
Tires. built by
the same high
standa ards.
Any dealer
will supply
you. (2376)
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
Why Pay More +?

One way fare between Ell Centre
and Holtville, 35c; round trip, 60c.
Ride in comfortable motor cars on a
good roadbed.
Leave Bl Centre, $50 a. m, 1900
H., 100, $40 and $3.50 p. m.
Leave Holtville, 700 and 600 a
m; 1870, 4:45 and 7:15 p. m.
HOLTON INTERURBAN RAILWAY
COMPANY.=AdV.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
FL CENTRIC DRUGGIST
PlfASES CUSTOMERS

) Z. Davis. druggist, reports Gus
toners greatly pleased with lhe
QUICK action of simple buckthorn
bark, giycerine, etc. as mixed ~ Al
let-l-ka This simple remedy drains
the old foul matter from the bnwei9
SO THOROUGH that ONE SP0oN
FOl relieves almost ANY CASE
o1 constipation, sour on gassy sloln-
ach. 1t IS so powerful that il is
used successfully IN appendicitis. Ad-
ier-i-ha heYel grlpes aud the IN
SLANT action is urprisinP.--Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
Fratcrnal brotherhood Dance

May 13 will perhaps be the la6l
dance gwen hJ the lodge. ii You n,a.
tins You VIII miss a GOOD time. Davis
hall. Dancing, 8:30.-Adv, II
Imperial Valley press., 1915-05-13
Street l.ailMnY GtriI.e

Detroit Ma 13-Twenty-two hun
dfsd platform men on the street rail
ways struck at this morning with
cut notice Thousands of people
walked to work. The carmen demand
better conditions.