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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

Six hundred and n~inety-one names
have been added to the roster of the
colored Y. NJ. C. A. as the result of a
six-day membership campaign which
came to a close last night, says the
Washington Star. The organization
has set out to obtain 500 members in
six days, and at al enthusiastic meet
ing last night received the reports of
the various teams, which showed that
this number had been exceeded by
nearly two hundred. The total num-
Der of memberships provided for in
reality will be in excess of seven hun
dred, as a number of Washington bust
ness men, headed by H. S. Omohun-
dro, promised to contribute one mem
bership for every ten over FIVE hun
dred brought in by the campaign work
ers.
John r. Hawkins, general chairman
Of the campaign committee, presided
over the closing exercises, which were
held in the gymnasium of the coiored
Y. M. C. A., Twelfth and T streets
northwest. The festivities opened
with a banquet, after which the vari.
GUS membership teams made reports.
Early reports indicated that the 500
membership goal would be reached.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
peeeptIon.

1t many times falls out that we seem
ourselves much deceived in others be.
caVse we first deceived ourselves
Sir Philip Sidney.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

The idea of having their own church,
with their OWL pastor, with a Negro
presiding elder and a Negro bishop,
appealed to the Negroes many years
ago, and everywhere there were free
Negroes the church rapidly spread
into New England, into Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri and the West.
A church was started in New Or
leans in 1S4S. In fact, the church in
that city was the first one started in
the South. After the Civil war, how
ever, this organization grew by leaps
and bounds.
Soon it took not n bishop, or two,
but six, then ten, then twelve and now
fifteen to supervise the work. Churches
were organized in every state in the
Union and these at once became cen
ters of great uplifting influence for the
newly emancipated people. The preach
ers became the recognized leaders, so
regarded by both races, and much of
the progress of the Negro is due to
their intelligent and unselish aid.
But not only in America has the Az
AASoA N4NtIOiA0I EplSCOpdf CuuICu DCel
active, but in Africa, South America
and the islands AS early as 1920 Dan
iel Cocker, one of the members of the
first meeting in 1916. went to Liberia,
West Africa, and started a church. In
1924 a minister named John Gordon
went to Jamaica, Cuba, British Guinea,
South America, Sierra Leone and Gold
Coast West Africa, Cape Colony and
other parts of South Africa. So great
has the foreign work grown that it is
now looked after by resident bishops,
Bishop J. Albert Johnson is resident
bishop of South Africa, and has his
headquarters at Capetown. Bishop
William H. Heard, a native of Georgia,
is bishop of West Africa, and has his
headquarters at Monrovia.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

The coal required for one Journey
between New York and Liverpool by
a modern liner would fill % trains
each made up of 80 ten-ton cars
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

A few are g~eniuses. Others inherit
their bad and their disagree
able dispositions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

The custom has been started in
some western cities of printing the
maiden anne of a woman after that
of her husband in the directory.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
AFRO-AMERICAN CULL|NCS

Improved housing conditions and in
crease in individually owned homes
have decreased the death rate among
Negroes in the United States S9 for
each n thousand population, in the
last census decade, according to a
bulletin on Negro mortality Don to
be issued from the bureau of the
census at Washington.
In an area representing 1871 per
cent of the total Negro population of
the United States, from which COM
parative figures were available, the
department found that in 1910 the
death rate among Negroes was 25.5 to
each one thousand population, while
in 1900 the rate was 29.4.
The decrease in death rate among
the Negroes of the prescribed area
was greater than the decrease in white
deaths, although the death rate among
whites is much lower than that of the
Negroes, from 1900 to 1910.
The mortality rate for all races is
greater in southern cities than in
northern, the report shows, but every
city in the South except Memphis and
Key West showed a decrease in deaths
in the last decade. owing to improved
housing conditions.
1t is discovered that the diseases
which prove most fatal to Negroes
over the country are malaria, all forms
of tuberculosis, pneumonia and whoop-
ing cough. The other diseases and
causes of death, including accident,
homicide and suicide, are more evenly
distributed among the whites.
One of the chief causes of the de-
creased death rate among the Negroes
in the South is believed to be an in
crease of 91.4 per cent in home owner
ship. That increase, along with i'm
proved sanitary and housing condi-
tons, is believed to have been in di-
rect ratio with the abatement of dan
gerous epidemics.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

Much of the best wallpaper Is made
in part from leather waste.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

The families most closely tied by
relationship in st. Louis are those of
the Heuers and the Johnsons. Harry
Heuer, who is soon to be married to
Bertha Johnson. will be the fourth
Heuer brother to marry one of the
Johnson family. In addition, Minnie
Heuer, a sister of the four brothers,
is married to John F. Johnson, a
brother to the four Johnson girls.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
INTERNATIONAL
SUMYSGIOOL
LESSON

By e. o. SELLERS. Acting Director Of
Sunday School Course. Moody Bible In
stitute, Chicago.)
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
LESSON FOR APRIL II
DAVID ANoINrED KING.

LESSON TEXT Samuel 16:i-13.
GOLDEN TExT-Man looketh on the
outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh
on the hearth Samuel 1877 r. v.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-22

another caste. The extent to which
these, principles have been carried
can never be grasped by people in a
country where caste is practically I'M
known, but hardly in India itself has
caste gone further than in Great
Britain.
Without much reflection, with only
vague instinct about it, many of the
working castles are now making such
an application of the caste doctrine
as almost shakes the national foun-
dations.
The upper castles got the country
into this row; let the upper castles
get it out.
q. In times of peace the ways of the
upper castles and the ways of the
workers lie far apart
In Great Britain they lie so far
apart that in times Of war they do not
come together again.
The enlistments tell the story.
In Great Britain military service is
voluntary; in every continental coun-
try it is compulsory upon all. When
the war broke Great Britain had
about 10000 men under arms. From
Aug. 4 of last year to the present
time the British government has been
laboring with astounding effort and !
vast expense to secure enough enlist
ments to enable her to cope on the |
battlefield with Germany and Austria.
The recruiting campaign, therefore,
affords the infaIlible test of the real
interest the masses of the people, who |
are chiefly workers, take in this war.
This subject, with methods, details |
and results shall take up hereafter. |
For the present it is enough to point |
out that after nine months of this |
most extraordinary campaign, in
which every corner of the country
has resounded necessarily with every
conceivable form of appeal and in
ducement, the government conceals
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-22

fourth of the able-bodied coal miners
have enlisted and Yorkshire, for some
unexplained reason, has furnished
the most Of these. In other regions
the product has often been exceed
ingly meager; some mining towns
report nothing at ALL For instance,
Frampton Cotterel has among its
miners about 800 able to do military
service and not one has enlisted.
Among the railroad workers the per-
centage is nearly as large as among
the miners, but in some other trades
neither arguments, pleadings, in
creased allowances nor the coercion
of employers could move many of the
men.
They were looking first after their
own interests, as they had been
taught to look.
The comfortable and the weII-fed
are Mortified in such a national crisis
workingrnen strike for higher wages
and better conditions. In the last .
four months there have been u such
strikes great enough to retard the
making or handling of war munitions.
On, April 10 the Welsh miners voted
unanimously to strike for 20 per
cent increase in wages. Denuncia-
ton in a flood descended upon them
and all like them.
''Have they no patriotism?" was
Indignantly asked. Have they turned
traitors? To strike now is to help the
enemy"
Nobody said the coal mine owners
were traitors when they took advan-
tage of the urgent need for coal by
advancing prices. Nobody said the
contractors that have been gouging
the government were traitors. When
the name of traitor was reserved for
workingmen that had similar re-
gard for their own interests, many of
them were not particularly gratif1ed
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
GERMANS TAKE K0VN0
of Emperor William to Wilma,
Warsaw and Petrograd.

London, Aug 19.-Kovno, one of the
crucial points in the Russian defen
sive in the north, was captured by the
Germans and the road to the Wilma,
Warsaw and Petrograd railway is now
open to the troops of Emperor Will
lam. With the fortress of Kovno the
Germans have taken over 400 guns,
and, according to their account, an
enormous quantity of war material.
This, however, is not the most Sc
rous part of the matter to the Rus
slams. Besides opening the way to
Wilma, which is an open town and from
which most of the inhabitants and
everything that might be of use to the
invaders have been removed, the fall
of the fortress takes away the last
protection, with the exception of the
Russian field army, to the main line
railway to the capital and also places
the Germans i'll position to threaten
the flanks of the Russian armies re-
firing to the Brest-Litovsk line and
those operating in southern Courland.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
Revolt is at End, Say Governors.

Washington. - Simultaneously with
the forwarding of the pan-American
appeal, word was received from Ell
Paso that six states and one territory
of Mexico have declared through their
military governors that the revolution
is at an end in as far as they are
concerned Carranza and Villa or
other forces in arms would be met
by resistance should they attempt to
enter these precincts of Mexico.
Troops in these precincts will be re-
turned to peaceful pursuits. According
to the report, the declaration of the
military governors was made with
view to preserving the integrity of
the autonomy of their communal or
CARNATIONS to enable them to enter
peace negotiations without factional
allegiance as between CarranZa, Villa
or Zapata. The governors who thus
declared for armed neutrality are of
various shades of political affiliation.
The territory of Topic favors Villa;
Oaxaca state has maintained indie
pendence; Guerrero's present status
lis unknown:
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21

VESTON-Fourteen k W n
dead; unconfirmed reports give sew
eral hundred deaths in bay and vi
cinity; center of causeway bat
tered out; 1000 feet of sea wall
gone; property loss Sl5,00O,OOO;
martial law declared; fire adds to
horror as water mains are destroyed
and relief trains halted by rising
floods
virginia PoINT-Thirty lives
lost; entire vicinity is flooded.
TENAS CITY-Thirty two lives
lost; army camp completely de-
stroyed; property loss 100000,
MORGAN'S POINT-Eleven lives
HITCHCOCK-Seve lives lost;
many homes destroyed; property
loss considerable.
LA PORTE-Seven lives lost.
property loss not yet estimated.
PORT ARTHUR-Four lives lost;
town flooded; property loss $780,
600.
LYNCHBURG-Thre lives lost;
property loss 100000.
SYLVAN b h A c H-Three lives
lost; property loss 100000.
SEABROOK-Three lives lost;
water. supply gone; 100000 prop
erty damage.
HOUSTON-Three lives lost; ev-
$4,000. 600.
SHIPPING-Three hundred small
craft unreported; crews of two
dredges, amounting to ninety-eiSht
men, reported lost; death list from
smaller craft may swell total of
known dead several hundred.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21

through the winter season to get the
plants under way now. II some of
them are large, cut them back and al
low them to renew themselves wholly,
as to branches, during the months be-
tween now and winter.
Report now, If necessary, and shift
sncfl as seem to need larger pots. If
young plants are to be used, procure
them at once and keep them going
ahead steadily.
Do not be so anxious to secure rapid
development that you fall into the
error of overlooking. Simply aim to
bring about a strong, healthy growth,
and as long as a plant seems to be
making such growth do not make use
of the fertilizers.
1t is one of the hardest things /
know Of to make an enthusiastic anna
teur plant grower, satisfied to let well
enough alone" She is constantly
wanting to urge her pets on a little
faster, and in her efforts to do this
she gives them more food than they
can digest, and the consequence is
breakdown from overstimulation
nine times out of ten.
A plant that does not get as much
food as it can make good use of, will
long run, than the plant that gets so
much food that it doesn't know what
to do with 1t.
Some persons are under the impress.
sion that all plants for winter use must
be young ones. Such is not the case,
however. Year-old plants, as a gen.
eral thing, are much preferable to the
young ones.
There are exceptions as in the case
of Chinese primroses, Primula obconi.
ca and others of habit similar, in
some respects to our ANIMALS; but for
the majority of plants adapted to
house culture like geraniums, hello.
tropes, begonias, ADDITIONS, asparagus
in variety and carnations, older plants
should always be chosen.
This summer / start the geraniums
which intend to depend upon for win
ter flowers a year from the coming
winter. These will bloom some this
winter if i let them, but l shall hold
them in check to great extent for
future service.
The person who breaches young
plants for winter Towering" to you
does not take into consideration the
fact that plant started this season
from a cutting will have but few
branches by winter, and plant that
has but few branches cannot give
many flowers because ample towering
surface means many branches.
Therefore, instead of letting the ge-
raniums you start this summer bios
som in the winter, keep pinching them
back to produce a sufficient number
of branches to give the desired
amount of towering surface.
The more branches there are the
more flowers you may expect.
Cut your ferns apart now and use
each division of the roots that has a
piece of crown attached as the basis
of a new plant. Use leaf mold or
turfy loan for this class of plants, If
obtainable.
Hanging baskets should receive at
tention at once.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21

Houston, Tex, Aug. 10. - Direct
word from the stormswept communi-
ties of the southeast Texas coast
brought details of the tropical hurri-
cane which put Galveston, Houston,
Texas City and a score of other cities
and towns in dire peril. With large
sections of the district yet unheard
from, the death list was more than
200, the heaviest reported loss being
from Virginia Point, opposite Calves
ton. The property damage may ex
coed s3O,OOO,vOO with Galveston sus.
tanning a loss of half that amount.
Belated reports from isolated com
munities are coming in which may
swell the death list appreciably.
Thus far it has been impossible to
estimate the toll of death and prop
erty loss by shipwreck, although it is
known a number of vessels have
failed to reach the shore and their
wreckage already is strewn along the
beach.
There was an enormous loss to cot.
ton growers in the storm belt, some
eSllIudleS STATING lldl 20 per Ceul vi
the crop of central Texas was de
stroyed and placing the loss at mil
lions of dollars"
The oil fields also suffered severely,
and it is probable that it will take
100000 to replace destroyed derricks.
recap unroofed tanks and repair dam
aged machinery
Martial law was proclaimed in Gal
weston and Texas City and in the lat
ter place a large sanitary corps was
organized by the military authorities
That the death list did not approach
that of the storm of 1900 was due to
two cause.-the strength of the Gal
weston sea wall and the haste with
which residents of the coastal plains
sought places of refuge, in conformity
with the warnings of the governments
weather bureau.
Galveston, as in 1900, bore the brunt
of the storm, but this year was bull.
warked against the elements.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
THE WINDOW GARDEN
BY EBEN z. RExFoRD.


1t may not seem reasonable to the
eeader to treat of winter window gar
hens in midsummer, but a careful con-
6ideration of the subject from my
point of view will convince the flower
loving person, l feel quite sure, that
this article is timely"
Look over the window gardens of
your neighbors, in winter, when they
ought to be at their best to give the
Fullest degree of satisfaction, and l
think you will find the majority of
Them far from satisfactory.
! The plants will be small, much too
small to be ornamental; and if you
keep an eye on them throughout the
season you will find that few of them
reach the towering stage before
March, which is to say that most
specimens in the ordinary house col
lection of plants give few or no flow
ers at the period when window gar
den should afford us the greatest
amount Of pleasure.
What We aim at is flowers in winter
not in the spring, when the blossoms
of the outdoor garden are at hand.
Said a woman to me, not long since:
II don't see why it is that can't have
flowers in the winter. Some of my
friends have, and they don't take half
as good care of their plants as ! do.
Why, some of them don't repot their
plants at all, still 1 notice they have
flowers from them; and j go over all
my plants just before winter sets in,
and repot them and cut them back or
start new ones and take pains to give
them the best soil and am SO careful
about watering, and fertilizing, and
airing, but most of them will not bios
som for me. They look healthy and
they grow well, but one doesn't care
for just leaves.
Now, this woman's failure to obtain
Mowers from her plants was explained
by three words she made use of-"just
before winter" The attention she
gave the plants at that period came
several months too late.
The fact is, as anyone will readily
see when they come to think the mat
ter over, plant cannot be satisfac-
Itorily developed in two or three
months. Not much can be expected
from a plant that is not made ready
for winter until that season is about
upon US.
In order to secure a good collection
of good-sized plants for the winter,
one must begin to get ready during the
summer. By the term "good-sized.' l
do not mean large plants in the usual
sense of the word, but rather plants
of sufficient development TO justify one
in expecting flowers from them for the
holidays.
Age is often a more important factor
in plant culture than mere size. Young
plants seldom bloom while develop
ment is taking place most rapidly.
They must get their growth" SO to
speak, before we can expect them to
bend their energies to the production
of flowers.
Therefore, I advise the owner OF
collection of house plants from which
She wishes TO secure flowers all
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
Atlanta Mayor Warns slaton.

San Francisco, Aug. 19.-J. G.
Woodward, mayor of Atlanta, Ga, who
is visiting this city is on record as
declaring that Leo NJ Frank, who was
lynched Monday night, suffered the
just penalty for an unspeakable
crime. The Atlanta mayor, at the
same time, warned former Governor
John M. Slaton not to return to
Georgia. Mayor Woodward made his
declaration at banquet of the Cali.
fornia State Assessors Association
and their families.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
200 KNOWN DEAD
IN TEXAS STORM
BREAK OF 1000 FEET IN SEA
WALL AND 500 GALVESTON
HOUSES WRECKED.
FIRE ADDS TO HORROR
PROPERTY LOSS $4,000, ooo.-HUR.
RlcANE DAMAGES ALL THE
HOUSES IN HOUSTON.
OF STORM REPORT.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Dermott news., 1915-12-02
An Excellent Game
 Played Thanksgiving.

The football game between the War ren High School and the Lake Village High School which was played here on Thanksgiving Day to decide the championship of Southeast Arkansas resulted in a scoreless tie Russell Reeves. quarter back for the Lake side team, had the misfortune to suffer broken arm and was forced to leave the game when they had been at play less than five minutes. But for this accident, the I.akesiders would probably have won As 1t was, they put up an excellent fight and while unable to score for themselves, held their heavier opponents down to the zero mark. lt was an excellent game, and was wit messed by an enthusiastic crowd of on lockers representing practically every town in this section of the state.
 The following is the lineup and weight of the players
The Dermott news., 1915-12-02
A. o. U w. Organized
 at Dermott.

Dermott Lodge A, O. U. w. was or ganized Saturday night. Nov. 27th, with good class present and elected the following officers:
 Master Workman. M. kilgore
 Foreman. H, Edwards
 0verseer, W. Wallace
 Past Master Workman, J. Mckay Financier X Recorder. C. K. Smith Receiver. G. w. Ringgold
 Guide, J. NJ Brown
 Inside Watchman. II. Wallace
 Outside Watchman, R. II. Galloway. The meeting adjourned until Thurs day night, Dec 2nd at which time an other class will be installed The char ter is still open for any other worthy person ty join.
 A. B. Smith and F. F. Schultz of Pine Bluff instituted the lodge.
The Dermott news., 1915-12-02
Thanksgiving Day at
 the Public School.

he entertainment gwen for the ben eft of che Domestic Science room m the Public School uas a success. hot withstanonns the it..emeat weather and other hindranees.
 The s5 oo raised wil be invested ln shades In the future, other efforts viii he made to raise means for the purchase of other necessities Wheus We cali upon you please help us. for this department will help the commit nity to become iniependcut hl teach ing your girls and boys to Use their hands and realize the dignity of labor . Thrift and fruEallty will make any race independent
 Poor Richard says God helps those who help themselves So let us help ourselves and show to the representa- tivcs of the slater Fund that We appreciate what they are doing for us and are being benefited
 The Domestic Science teacher was materially assisted by Mrs Walker. Miss Jamison and the following pupils: George Holt, Johnnie Coleman. Emma Walter. Nora Parker. Vernon Vickers. Roberta Herring. Philip Norris. Lula Chapman. Carl Johnson. Hazel Nick. CTS. Ed Ransom and Lonnie Partee