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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
coLoRED ARTIST PAINTS coLoRs
Works of Merits on Sale at Home and
at the LEAGUE Enterprise.

Among many other good things
which we enjoy by way of men of
genius and talent may be mentioned
r. ]. Rice, who is putting out works
of merit that please and command the
attention of those who really pat
ronize the fine arts. BY this we mean
those who will pay $1.50 for a beau
tiful landscape up to $3.50 and $500
and as high as $50 for painting that
according to merit should bring 800.
You didn't know we had such an ar
tist, did you? Well we have. Mr..
Rice is more than ordinary and has
the technique in painting which is
necessary to meet the demands of an
exact as well as .tempermental art
Up to dat the artists Lion Painting
is his strongest plea for recognition
among the patrons and critics. He
has rather departed in some respects
from the old school which has fire.
quently delineated THE Master
Beast" and gives a much stronger
power to the lion in his natural ma.
jesty than many of the socalled mas
ters.
In landscapes, fruit effects, charac-
ter settings, and ocean views, the
painter reaches a state of high per.
fection and in his Visiting Minister
he shows slight tinge of the comic
as well as degree of sarcasm, (by
the way.) This picture is on exhibit
ton in the show windows of the
League Enterprise on Eighteenth
street. Few pass that place without
stopping to give the painting a few
thoughtful moments of study. Sever
al of the Rice collection are on sale
at this place. And attendants are al
ways glad to show the merits of the
paintings as well as give any facts
about the young artist who lives at
1915 Tracy and whose telephone is
Main 2016 Bell In the absence of
the artist, Mrs. Rice, his cultured wife
will kindly show you all of the paint.
ings which are kept at their resi-
dence. The collection there includes
tn elton, every lover art should at
least see. Remember you can buy q
modest painting for your parlor or
dining room for two or three dollars
and have the satisfaction of knowing
it to be from one of your race. Mr..
Colored man what kind of pictures
have you got in your house? Caucas-
ian or Colored?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
SEND IN YOUR NEWS.

Quite a few of our patrons com
plain that news of their doings, par
ties, receptions. visitors and so forth
do not get into our paper; that is
because you do not write or telephone
us. Although we know great many
things, we do not know everything
that takes place socially in the two
Kansas Cities, and unless you notify
us we cannot insert it in our paper
but we will cheerfully do so If you
will send 1t in. Take due notice and
govern yourself accordingly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Bethel A. M. e. Church, Gath and Flora.
st. stephens Baptist Church, 6O4 Char
Christian Church. 18th and Tracy.
Centennial M. e. Church, 19tn and
Woodland.
Second Baptist Church, 10th and Char
Allen Chapel A. M. e. Church, 10th and
Kansas Ave. Baptist Church, 46th and
Kansas.
Tracy.
ST Augustine's P. E. Church, 18th and
croost.
Vine st. Baptist Church, 1925 Vine st.
Ward Chapel A. M. u. Church, 11th and
glue Valley Baptist church, 1920 Crys-
al avenue.
seventh Day Adventist, 2Srd and Wood
ANA.
81. Monicas Catholic, 18th aud Lydia.
Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine.
Highland Avenue Baptist Church, I'LL
Highland.
Centropolis A. M. e. Church, centrop-
Ills. Mo.
st. James A. NJ. e. z. Church, 1929
Woodland Ave.
Third Baptist Church, Roundtop.
Peoples Mission, Both and Genesee
st. Paurs Baptist Church, 18th and
Friendship Baptist Church, 18th and
Tracy Avenue.
Pilgrim Baptist Church, GA Charlotte
Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Inde-
| oendence Avenue and Tracy.
Calvary Baptist Church, 18th and
Askew.
Bigeiow A. M. e. Mission, 9Th ant
lydia
Progressive Baptist Church, 2sth ant
summit.
c. M. E. Church, 1917 Flora Ave.
st, James Baptist Church, 1858 Mil st
St. Luke's A. NJ b. Churcn, 4Srd ant
Prospect Place.
A. NJ. d. Mission, Sos Grand Ave.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. CHURCHES.
First A. NJ. e. Church, sth and Neb.
Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1st anG
4p.itlog.
Eighth 81. Baptist Church, Sth ant
Metropolitan Baptist Church, 9Th ant
Washington.
Bethel A NJ. e. Church, Water ant
St Paul a. M. E. Church, 21st ant
Ruby.
First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb.
King Solomon Baptist Church, 3rd ant
state.
Quindaro A. M. e. Church, Quindaro
pleasant Valley Baptist Church. Rosedale
"A. e. Church, 9Th ard Oakland.
A. M. e. Church, 4tfr and Oakland.
Salter Mission. A. M. E. Church, Soutf
Park. Kan.
Protestant Episcopal, Bird and Stewart
| Wesley Chapel M. E., los Shawnee.
ST. Paul A. M. g. Zion Church, 400
Adams.
Bethel A. NJ. e. Church, Roselale. Kan
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 4th and Vir-
ginia.
EDenezer A. M. e. Church. Sanford ant
| fremont
Mt. Zion Primitive. Baptist Church
Westport avenue ana Tangent street
| ROSedale.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
REVEREND HAWTHORNE
WILL RECOVER
Left Arm Amputated.
Nashville is Greatly Stirred Over the
Tragedy, Both Parties to 1t Being
Well Known

The Nashville News says:
The shooting of Rev. e. w. Haw.
thorne on Cedar street last Thurs
day by Mr.. Andrew NJ. Irving, is the
all-absorbing topic of the streets OF
this city. Wild rumors are flying in
every direction, and many are the
versions. There is a general regret
that the trouble came about, and pin
ion is well divided, as is always the
case on occasions of this kind.
Mr.. Irving has lived in this city all
of his life, and has always been a
hardworking man who cared for his
family in a most commendable way.
He has lovely family. and those who
know Mrs. Irving give her a very ex.
cellent reputation.
Rev. Hawthorne came to this city
a few months ago and took charge of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
COLoRED CHAPLAIN IN UNITED
STATES ARMY GETS PRO-
MOTION.
Captain Oscar j. W. Scott of 25th
Infantry Raised From First
Lieutenant to Captain.

Captain Oscar ]. w. Scott of the
25th Infantry has been raised from
the grade of First Lieutenant to that
of Captain. He was formerly a min
lister in the A. M. E. Church and just
before his appointment to the army
was pastor of the well known Metro.
politan Church of Washington. He
was appointed Chaplain by President
Roosevelt and confirmed April II,
1907. He has served with his regi-
ment in Texas, in the Philippines, in
the state of Washington and is now
in Hawaii. He has been a successful
preacher and has worked hard to i'm
prove the social and physical condi-
tion of his soldiers.
1t is a matter of deep congratula-
tion to the Negro race in America
that their army chaplains have almost
without exception had so good re-
cord for manliness and morality.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

the First Baptist Church in East
churches in this city. 1t was founded
by the late DR.. Venable, who was the
pastor until his death a few years ago.
He was succeeded by Rev. Sutton L.
Griggs, who was subsequently sue
ceeded by Rev j. d. Bushnell. Rev.
Hawthorne is the fourth pastor of
this church. He came to this city
with a very high recommendation
and it was predicted that he would
do a great work at that church. 1t
is said that Mr.. Irving, who is mem
Der of the church, was very obliging
to him when he arrived and always
made him welcome to his home, and
that the friendly relations continued
until the trouble grew up that culmin-
ated in the shooting last Thursday.
1t is said that the ministers OF
other Baptist Churches advised Rev
Hawthorne to leave the city, which
he consented to do, but for some
reason he did not go.
Every kind of rumor is afloat. One
that seems most absurd is that Rev
Hawthorne read the Bible to Mrs. Ir
wing to prove that his advances were
in keeping with the Scriptures
After the shooting Thursday, Ir
wing did not try to escape, but walked
calmly to the station house and gave
himself into the custody of the law.
Aa.a 81
the News, he said he did all he could
to avoid the trouble, and seemed
sorry for the deed.
Rev. Hawthorne was removed Il
Hubbard Hospital in the private am
bulance of the Johnson Undertaking
Company.
Rev. Hawthorne was shot three
times, but none of the wounds will
prove fatal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
OLD FOLKS AND ORPHANS HOME
ASSOCIATION,

The Old Folks and Orphans Home
association, 2446 Michigan avenue
desire to thank their friends for the
following donations received In Jan
uary 1915: Vine street Baptist church.
$3.50; Pritchard Lodge A. F. & A. NJ
$780, r. T. Coles Lodge A. F. & A
M. So; Rome Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
50; John Turner Lodge A. F.'& A. M.
$1.6O; Geo. w. Seegers, IS; Mrs
Kate Jordan, IS; ]. F. Downing, So;
Jones Store Co.. groceries, IS; A. e
Estes labor. So; Mrs. Ralph Goodlett
groceries 50; Robert Keith. 2 chairs
1 bashel of potatoes; Friends church
Thirtieth and Bales avenue, aprons
2dresses Mrs. Bessie Evans, bread
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
A TERRIBLE DEED.

On last Saturday Mr.. Chas. F.
Davis, prominent and we'll liked citi-
zen of Council Bluffs, Iowa, shot and
killed his wife. He then shot his only
12-year-old\ son and then shot the
roomer, Mr.. ]. Brown, and then killed
himself. The little son and the room.
er are not yet dead and may live. He
was insane at the time. He had been
sent to the asylum last spring at
Clarinda and was pronounced cured
and left the hospital last September
Since that time he was a porter on
the railroad. Mr.. Davis at one time
was a well-to-do man, a life member
OF the National Business Mems
League and a Mason of high stand
ing.-The Bystander.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
COULD DEPEND ON HER.

The Judge, hoping to impress him
with sense of his responsibility as
man Of family, said to. him kindly:
''Rastus, do you think it's right to
leave your wife at the wash-tub while
you pass your time loafiing up town."
"Yassah, yassah, jedge," said Ras-
tus. TITS all right. Nah wife don
need no watchin.' She'll sholy wuk
jes' as had as If Ah was thah. =
Ella M. Tarbet, Illinois.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
the MASONIC RELlsF BOARD

will hold its second quarterly meet
ing in the Office of the Grand Master,
Nelson c. Crews, 1903 q. 18th street.
Saturday. February 1S. at 800 a. m.
All Masons and others with business
before the Board are invited to be
present.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
Cot Church Sunday is February 9TH Lets Everybody Close Up and Go

the reaction curve of individuals does
not seem wholly feasible. Educa-
tion must mean tho broadest possible
cultural developmets of the soul, the
heart and the conss' enc
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

THE JOLLY SET will give a VAL
ENTINE BALL FRIDAY NIGHT, Feb
ruary 12 at Armory Hall, Corner Cot
tage and Vine Streets
Admission 25 Cents.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

The Misses Goldie and Hazel
Crouch adm Messrs, Watt Morris and
Charles S. Bettis of Wichita. Kansas,
attended the Bettis-Garrett wedding
last week.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

Rev. Holmes has closed series of
revival meeting at the Metropolitan
Baptist Church with an addition of
twenty-eight members.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

The Past Counsellors' Council will
meet at Mrs, A. B. Robinson's. 11l5
Campbell street, Tuesday. February
8, at 2:3O p. m.
MRS. FLORENCE BIRCH,
President,
MRS. S. F. PRICE.
Secretary.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
THE oDEN TESTIMONIAL,

The ODEN TESTIMONIAL.
Quite a few of the courageous and
race loving colored people have re-
sponded to the suggestion of the Sun
that a fund be raised to reimburse
Kenneth Oden, the high school boy
who trashed a white masher for in
sulting his cousin on the street car,
But there are still a few jelly-flsh-
spineless-mollycoddles, or as they use
to term them in other days in inele-
giant but forceful terms white folks
niggers'' who have deprecated the eff
fort and one who has even gone so
far as to say that white man never
flirted with a Negro woman unless
she gave him cause, for which we
told him that he was a plug-ugly liar
and several other things that are not
found in the prayer-book of the
Church to which we belong. He and
those of his, ilk would endorse the
action of this jury as recorded in the
following clipping taken from We'd
nesdays Star even if the woman
herein described had been his own
mother. Read it:
A jury in Judge Burney's court this
morning refused to grant damages to
Mrs. Rose Jones, who sued the
Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Rail-
road because she was forced, she said,
to stand up on a 6O-mile trip from
Kansas City to Plattsburg, Mo-, Aug.
s, 1914. Mrs. Jones, a negro, said the
white travellers on the train would
not share their seats with her, and her
appeals to trainmen were fruitless.
She sued for $4,000"
And yet, this same scoundreI would
say, to curry favor with the white
plain, that she ought to have stood
till somebody gave her a seat, even
if she was a sick, poor, weak and
helpless women. God ought to kill
all such "Niggers" without delay.
What this race wants and needs is
epitomized in the following article.
clipped from the columns of the
courageous Atlanta Independent:
Negro Leadership.
"The Independent of Atlanta, Ca,
of which B. j. Davis is the able edi-
tor, in a recent issue, paid it's re-
spect to the race leaders in the fol-
lowing language:
There is nobody a coward but the
Negro there is nobody that kisses
the hand that smites him but the Ne
gro; there is no race so divided
against itself and is such a consum-
mate band of bootlickers, towards
and sycophants as black educated
| leaders. What we need is a manly
! leadership, one full of moral, courage
and intellectual bravery. Men who
will tell the race of indignities that
they ought not to endure, and how
they may rid themselves of the agen-
cies that seek to crush and undo it. ."
If you believe in upholding the
womanhood as well as the dignity of
the race, then you will give for a
cause like this. And if you are not
able to give you will at least be too
big to knock on something that is
for racial advancement. We are go-
| ing to continue this list until next
Saturday night and if you want your
name enrolled as one who believes in
justice and fair play send anywhere
from five cents to one dollar to help
buy modest and suitable testimonial
for this splendid lad Those who
have contributed are as followse:
Mr.. A. w. Harris, of the Harris
Printing Co. had the honor of eing
the first subscriber. Subscriptions are
as follows:
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

The boys of No. Fire Department,
Kansas City, Kansas, will have new
automobile fire truck in a few days
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

All credit for this splendid change in
the treatment of the Negroes, de-
serving, sick and poor should be
given to Hon. Thos. M. Finn, the
big-hearted and broad-minded Presi-
dent Of the Hospital and Health
Board, and his associates, Hon.
Bailey Steele and Mr.. Widemann, as
we'll as Henry L. Jost, who is indeed
a Mayor of All the people.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06

Miss Cecil Permission. of 1926 High.
land, is quite Ill with malarial fever
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-06
THE NEGRO CITY HOSPITAL.

A remarkable change under the bril-
liant and painstaking management
of Dr.. VIM. J. Thompkins, Super
intendent in charge and his highly
cultured wife, who It Matron.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06
BARRETT II. CLARK.

Barrett II. Clark. before he wrote his
Continental Drama of To-day; Outlines
for Its study gained practical knowl-
edge of the theatre with Mrs Fiskes
company In the season OF iql2-l3 In the
double capacity OF stage manager and
actor.
Mir Clark has had further experience
In putting on plays FOR the University Of
Chicago Dramatic club and at Chau-
tauqua summer school In New York
state, where his lectures also have been
extremely popular. Not content with
this, he is spending two years on the
Continent, studying it, drama at first
hand. and lis book shows the benefit OF
this study, particularly In its treatment
OF French dramatists. Mr.. Clarks
soJourn in France Is to be further sig
naliled as already announced, by the
issue late In August by his publishers,
Henry Holt and Company, OF three mod
ern PLAYS from the French, In which Mr.
Clark has furnished sketches of Lave
dan. whose The Prince d'Aurec" he
translates lie Maitre, whose The Par
don" he translates and Donnay, whose
The other Danger" is translated by
Charlotte Tenuey David. Clayton Ham
ilton will supply the preface TO this vol
ume. Though Mr., Clark is sim well to
the good side OF 30 he has translated
series OF amateur plays for Samuel
French and II now abroad, busily en-
gagged ON books on Modern French
Dramatlsts" and The Contemporary
European Stage"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06

Mr.. Brady cast up in a few words the
probabilities here offered. It's the
grandmother" he said; "she has come
to spend Thanksgiving with her son
and daughter and the little girl is
the grandchild." lie looked at the
author and added with emphasis
Those are the things that count"
So In this providential way, after
much travel the play found its name.
Those copious genluses the news
paper headliners need to be much more
expeditions.
Readers OF Laurence Eyre's story
VIII find that the title selected for il
was suitable Things that were askew
are here set right. Misconceptions
are smoothed away. Wrong pre- u-
dices are sOftened and abolished. In
a word loving Kindness is the domi-
nant note OF the tale. The story let's
US see how Mrs Hannaberry of North
washington Square was something OF
a tyrant in her household: how her
husband, jacob was not a little afraid
OF her; how her sister, Flora, was less
afraid, how the son, Frank. delicate
and now dead, had married an actress /;
given this misalliance: how Beulah.
the widowed young .wife OF Frank.
lived with her little daughter. Dulcie,
in jackson street, a far different
neighborhood from North Washington
Square; how Mrs. Hannaberry's hus-
band and her sister and her servants,
Abraham and Ingeborg "a Swedish
damseD, favored Beulah and forgive
ness and conspired against the seem
ingly implacable mother law; how
Frau Bundefelder. after a prosperous
period in life punctuated grandly
with red automobile. came TO be A
dweller in jackson street. with lodg-
ings to let; how DR.. Marshall, most
worthy young man, cared for
Dulcie professionally and wooed the
widowed Beulah successfully. how
Micky O'Donovan and Signora Vannl
and other aliens belonged in the
premises and added to their pic
turesque interest: how Mrs Hanna
berry came down into the sums. with
the consequence OF a great soften ing
of her North Washington square
nature; how Beulah, remembering
proud, resisted her mother-in-law for
while and embraced her finally: how
things may terminate as they should
If only the author has the necessary
kind heart and good will.
Much as We like the story, its
amusing quality. its Kindly provisions
We cannot help remarking the wooden
aspect Of the people in the illustra-
tons. These are photographs, and
they catch truth; and the truth is
that these stage groupings, accom-
pllshed for the purposes OF climax and
the camera, would be a good deal bet
ter II they could be shaken up.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06

FUNNY old woman. continually bent
AZ her gardening, who Ii known to the
| English officers as Mrs Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" In Sidmouth on the
coast or South Devon In another: and
wherever Mrs. Rice may GO she is apt
To be met by some duplicate OF her own
| lneorrglblc optimist." In India one
| Christmas Day--after morning on the
ianges, after hours Of Vedlc hymns
chdhted by Brahman priests. and after
"a terrible vision OF the bodies on the
burning ghats-she was suddenly called
from the Orient and jerked back into
modern life by billboard near Be
mares. Mrs. Wigs" would he played
there that night by an English company
travelling In lndiai
The Nces, however. are not merely
travellers they are home loving folk.
ana they spend the greater part of each
wear IN their beautiful house I'm St
James Court A lovely court Il is, by
tho way-with trees, bushes, great
spaces OF grass and fountain that ac-
tuhlly plays. At home Mrs Rice Is ~
very husy womau--and dearer than her
writing ~ her phllanthropic work, n
which she has been Interested for more
than twenty years The Cabbage Patch
! settlement It's most recent outgrowth,
| ~ perhaps her greatest JOY, and TO this
/ she gives time and personal effort as
well as other aid. For many yrars-in
fact until very lately-her chief and alb
sorbing Interest was with lads who were
just growing up, and at l6 years OF age
she founded club for the boys OF this
neighborhood. which held it's weekly
meetings az her home. For the past few
years. however. her attention has been
given mainly 10 the Womau's Club Of
IN" Cabbage Patch Settlement. a club
which she never fails, no matter how
brilliantly tempted Sought for continu-
ally as she is-hldden to luncheon. 10
dinner, to reception--she remembers her
settlement and gives II precedence. she
Is indeed practical altruist. one who
denies herself a motor car In order To
I make dreams come true"
Mrs. Rices workroom Is her den, q
snug little place on the second floor of
the house, and here through quiet morn
ings she has written her later storles
Just how she finds time for corresponds
ence--a big and terrifying thing is
not known even 10 her friends but And
II she does. and her letters are letters
worth receiving, fun OF her own delight
full personality.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06

produced work different from that Gus
tomarily offered for Irish consumption.
While visiting Messrs. Constable. the
English publishers Of his latest novel, The
RafL' Conngsby Dawson met with the
son OF the late George Meredith and from
him received curious piece Of nforma-
ton II was contained IN a letter written
to Mr. Meredith by a French correspondent
and has reference to the day OF crisis when
the splendid strategy Of the British Gen
eral shattered the advancing wedge OF
Germans and saved Paris from the horrors
OF Siege and invasion. The Information re-
ferred TO II contained In the following pas
sage; 1t appears that Jonre gave the
simple countersign Jeanne d'Arc' to his
troops on the critical day when the point
Of tho Prussian arrow, nying straight
toward the northeast gates OF Paris, was
blunted on your British front The use of
the words Jeanne dare for an Anglo
French army " one OF the miracles of his
tory. But II 10 not more extraordinary
than the fact that the ghost OF Napoleon
was seen the other night stalking arms
uplifted and outstretohed, on the top of
his tomb In Les Invslldes, and crying,
'Vive rAngleterrer