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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

Mrs. Laura Chrisman, mother of
Miss Florida Hutchinson one of our
loyal subscribers and both faithful
members of Allen Chapel, was seri-
ously burned last Friday morning at
1916 Harrison street. Although quite
aged the doctor holds out hope for
her recovery. Miss Florida herself
has just recovered from severe burns
inflicted last fall. The Sun hopes for
her speedy recovery.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
Total
Personal Service.

Mrs. F. Pryor made W. two skirts;
Mrs. Spencer gave II days work. 81.
Mr.. ]. D. Bowser put In window
panes and put on door knobs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

Mrs. Jordan Allen, wife of the Rev.
Jordan Allen, a retired A. NJ. E. min
listed died at the home of her daughter
Mrs. McClain, 1920 Woodland Avenue
and was buried from Centenniel NJ.
E. church last Tuesday, funeral be-
ing conducted by her pastor, Rev. j,
r. Ransom of the First A. M. E,
church, Kansas City, Kans. Mrs. AL
len leaves a husband, two daughters,
a son, other relatives to mourn her
loss. She was always a splendid
worker for her church and race and
the Sun extends its sympathy to the
bereaved family. .
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

The Portia Gays are planning their
spring party.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

For Rent-Apartment upstairs; 4
rooms, gas and water; S12 per month.
VIM. H. Bradford, 2517 Michigan.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
A.. FRANKLIN RADFoRD
Pbveician and Suroaon

A. FRANKLIN RADFoRD
Physician and Surgeon.
716 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Office Hours-10-12 a. m. 3-5 (; rs
p. m. Office phone, Bell Grand 2553W.
Residence phone Bell East 1898.
Residence-2447 Highland Ave.
DR.. A. D. BRADBURY.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office, S21 Indep. Ave, Bell Phone
Main 443S.
Residence, 531 Tracy Ave.
Office hours-10:O0 to 1900 a. m.
800 to 500 and 700 to 500 p m.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
to Rent

FOR RENT-Furnished room in pri.
waite family. Bell phone Grand 474S.
Major Wright, 1912 Forest, End floor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

FOR RENT-Neatly furnished mod
ern rooms, Bell phone East 391SW.
Mrs. Virginia Price.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
KANSAS CITY, KAS.
(By Mrs. Kitty B. Davis.)

Mr.. Tilford Davis is still i~ndisposed
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

Mr.. Thos. Jackson hauled the toys
from Schmelzer's.
Thanksgiving Donations in Cash.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
RUPTURE EXPERT HERE
Seeley, Who Has Supplied U. s.
Army and Navy, Called to Omaha.

F. H. Seeley Of Chicago and Phila-
delphia, the noted truss expert, will
be at the Paxton Hotel and will re-
main in Omaha this Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday only, August IA,
Is and Is. Mr.. Seeley says: "The
Spermatic Shield as, supplied . the
United States Government will not
only retain any case of rupture per-
fectly, but contracts the opening in
10 days on the average case. This
instrument received the only award
in England and in Spain, producing
results without surgery, injections,
medical treatments or prescriptions.
Mr.. Seeley has documents from the
United States Government, Washing
ton, D. C. for inspection. All charity
cases without charge, or if any in
terested call, he will be glad to show
same without charge or fit them if
desired. Business demands prevent
stopping at any other place in this
section.
P. S.-Every statement in this ad.
vertisement has been verified before
the Federal and State Courts.-F. H.
Seeley.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Autoists Fined for
Rule Violations

The following violators Of traffic
rules appeared before Judge Foster
this morning and were fined:
William Bayer, 20l4 North Twenty
sixth street, pleaded guilty to running
a truck on the boulevards and paid 81
and costs.
Robert Rasmussen, Benson, passed
a street car on the wrong side of the
street and was fined 81 and costs.
L. D. Willis, lll9 City National
Bank building, violated the parking
rules and paid 81 and costs.
c. O. Lind, 1910 Douglas street,
passed car on the wrong side of the
street; 81.
The following were fined $3.50, with
sentence suspended, for speeding: H.
Hudson, 2842 Farnam, and George
Coaley, 29l4 Nicholas street.
Garland Latta, 1872 St. Mary's ave-
nue., who speeded on Farnam street
and did not stop when signaled, was
fined SIS and costs, with sentence
suspended.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
$1,000 TO
>BRICKLAYERS' UNION
Hugh Murphy in His Will Also
Remembers Nurses and
Other Employees.
BULK GOES TO HIS FAMILY

Being journeyman bricklayer
and, once bricklayer, always brick
layer to bricklayer, hereby give
and bequeath to Bricklayers Union
No. | of Nebraska the sum of 81 DOC
to be used and expended in such man.
ner as said union sees proper reads
the will of Hugh Murphy, pioneer
paving contractor, just filed for pro-
bate.
The estate comprises property of
estimated value of more than $780,
900.
Mr.. Murphy orders $1,000 paid to
Mary |. France, 1869 Fort street,
Omaha, his stenographer.
Among the other requests are the
following:
For the removal of the body of
his mother from the old cemetery at
hElgin, ILL.,, to the new cemetery at
Elgin, $1,000. The grave is to be
marked with a marble monument and
inscribed with the identical markings
on the old monument.
To Mrs. Mary Barr, a sister, 1852
North California avenue, Chicago,
$4,000.
To Richard Murphy, a brother, 81
South Broadway, Denver, $4,000.
To Miss Anna Barnay of Omaha,
for faithful service as nurse during
his illness, $1,000.
TO Dominic Anemy, S57 South
Twenty-eighth street, Omaha, $1,000
for faithful services.
To Roy M. Hutton, 2710 Bristol
street, Omaha, another faithful en-
ploye, $1,000.
To Vernon N. Short, l113 Pacific
street. for constant and loyal serv-
ices, $1,000.
To Carrie A. Kolarik, another
nurse, $1,000.
To R. c. Yant, Louisville, Neb.,
$1,000.
Abraham L. Reed is made executor
and is instructed to provide a home
for the remainder of their days for
George Duncan, Mr.. Murphy's vet
eran foreman, and his wife. A be-
quest of $1,000 is provided for the
purchase of desirable home for
them.
The remainder Of the estate goes in
undivided fifth parts to the widow,
Ellen, and his four children, Mary,
Richard, Helen and Hugh.
John C. Brodie and w. H. Herd
man are witnesses of the will, which
is dated March IA, 1916.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Small Towns Fear
Bandit Who Held
Up Florence Bank

Complaints from the vicinity OF
Springfield that houses were being
broken into by man suspected of be-
ing the gentlemanly bandit who held
up and robbed the Florence bank,
sent deputy sheriffs scurrying to the
scene.
Reports are being received at the
sheriff's office from towns through
out the surrounding territory telling
of the believed activities of the Gen
tleman Bandit" in innumerable local
tiles.
Post cards giving the description Of
the robber have been sent to all Of
hcers and other interested parties in
Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado,
Nebraska and the Dakotas from the
sheriff's office.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Omaha to Try for Meeting of
Bohemian Catholic Turner'S

In 1919 Omaha wants the national
meeting Of the Bohemian Catholic
Turner's association.
The meeting this year is to be held
in Milwaukee the fore part of Septem-
Der. Some eighty Turner's from Ne
braska will attend in Milwaukee. No
less than twenty are expected to go
from Omaha. Charles NJ. Fixa of
Omaha is to head the Nebraska dele
CATION. Mr.. Fixa and other local b.
rfiemians have been in conference with
+. V. Parrish of the bureau OF pub
licity with regard to the campaign
they will make at Milwaukee to land
the next convention for Omaha. The
association meets every three years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Omaha Minister breaches in Some
Historic Churches While on Vacation

Rev. L. Groh, pastor of St. Marks
Lutheran church, preached in two
very old and historic churches dur
ing five weeks trip to Pennsylvania,
from which he has just returned.
One of these was an old church in
Schaefferstown, Pa. Schaefferstown
is a little place, seven miles from a
railroad. Some of the houses are
built OF logs. Some OF the people have
lived there ninety years and have
never travelled ten miles away.
The church was established in l740.
DR.. Groh attended there when he was
child. In the early days they had
a little bell on each contribution
basket and if any parishioner was
asleep when the collection was taken
up the bell was rung until he awoke.
DR., Groh also preached for some of
his former members at the old
Swamp church. This congregation
was organized by Rev. Harry Mel
chior Muhlenburg very carly in the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16

eighteenth century and his church
records, written partly in Latin, are
still extant. Rev. DR.. Muhlenburg
was one of the foremost patriots in
the American colonies.
The church is not very far from
Valley Forge and was used as a hos
pital during the Revolutionary war
DR.. Groh preached also at the old
St. Johns church, Boyertown, Pa,
where he was pastor for twenty-five
years. with a membership of over
1000.
Major Thomas L. Rhoades, United
States army. now in charge of the
United States hospital at Colon, and
one of DR.. Groh's confirmants dur
ing his pastorate, was home on a
vacation. DR.. Rhoades is a surgeon
in the army and operated on William
H. Taft in the Philippines and after
wards became Taft's military aide fol-
lowing the death of Archie Butts on
the Titanic.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Milwaukee May Name
Crack Train Ak-Sar-B

Another effort is to be made to have
the Milwaukee's crack train between
Omaha and Chicago named the ak
Sar-Ben Limited"
About a year ago the attention of
the officials i'll Chicago was drawn to
the fact that of all the names for the
Omaha Chicago night train, that of
Ak-Sar-Ben would be the most ap-
propriate.
Local Milwaukee men argue that
the other crack trains OF the system
the Pioneer Limited, Southwest Limi-
ted, Olympian, Columbian-are ex-
pressive of the territories they trav-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Mayor Jim Shakes
Hands With Prex,y

Eyes, shook hands with President
Wilson and he remarked he was glad
| called" said Mayor Dahlman upon
his return from the east.
Il told the boys down at Washing
ton," he added. that Omaha would
be the logical and proper place to
hold the federal bank hearing in
this territory. Mr.. McAdoo told me
before | left he would wire me on
the subject"
The mayor says Congressman Lo-
beck knows every nook and corner
of the national capital
1T is a real comfort to go sight
seeing with Lobeck," declared Iayor
lin.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Cannot Tell Red from Green
And Would Join the NAVY

The most color blind, or the color
blindest man that Lieutenant w. w.
Waddell of the navy recruiting sta
ton ever saw applied for enlistment.
He had absolutely no sense of color.
Given a skein of bright red yarn and
told to select other skeins of the same
color from bask et, he picked yellow,
green, brown and purple ones, but
none that matched the red one. He
was Harry Beam of Birmingham, Ala,
and, of course, he didn't get into the
navy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Sent to Jail for
Abusing Family

Dan Shea, 300S Sprague street, got
a thirty days sentence to the work
house because his wife and four
children have been unable to live with
him of late. Mrs. Shea was advised
TO advertise in the city newspapers
warning saloonkeepers to refuse to
sell liquor to him. The court awarded
the wife $40, which Shea possessed
when he was arrested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
Police and Firemen
May Now Go Coatless

City Commissioner Jardine secured
the adoption of resolution by the
city council permitting policemen and
hremen to work without their coats
in hot weather.
The resolution asks business men
OF the city to popularize this coatless
movement.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16

erse, and that it would also be the
case with the train between Chicago
and the Nebraska metropolis.
Eugene Duval, general western
agent of the road, is planning to take
the matter up with the Chicagoans.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-16
PAYERS GIVE NEW
EXCUSE FOR DELAY
9. w. Hull Says There is Short.
age of Both Cement and
Stone.
CONTRACTORS GIVEN WEEK

There's another alibi," declared
City Commissioner Hummel when C.
w. Hull appeared before the city.
council to explain the paving situation
from the standpoint OF material man.
Mr.. Hummel opened up the paving
situation anew and announced he
would give the contractor in Miller
park district just one more week in
which to show signs of life.
Mr.. Hull explained there is a short
age of cement and crushed stone, due
largely to lack Of railroad equipment
at this time. He said stone mill at
Lake View, Ia, broke down and new
machinery could not be secured for
repairs, thus causing a delay.
Commissioners Hummel and Jar
dine were appointed as special COM
mittee to see what can be done to
arouse the paving contractors"
ut is high time that the city coun-
ell takes some notice of irresponsible
paving contractors and in the future
invite bids from contractors out of the
city to compete with these local men
who are favoring their contracts out
side of this city and sighting their
work here" was another statement by
Commissioner Hummel.
Commissioner Jardine announced
that the contractor on North Twenty
fourth street actually had moved
concrete mixer to this job.
DIR. Kings New Life Pills.
Regular bowel movement Is essential to
your health. Take DR.. Kings New Life
New Britain herald., 1916-03-15
As tO Boys Being Bows.
tNew Haven JournaI-Co,1rier

tNeW iaven urna1-Courier)
 1t would have been difficult to find more important subject for dis cuss1on than the problem of the boy, winch was chosen for last Sunday evenings Center church forum meet Ing. The boy is one of the things we nave always with us! From more than one point of view he is a prob = lem. From one particular point of view, that of the communitys fu- tufe' he is an exceedingly importa nt problem. Upon what he makes of himself and is helped to do for him sell depends in no small measure the depends In no small measure the character Of the coming generation. It is. therefore, reassuring, to realize that the boy problem is being tackled with energy and with intelligence and that the general interest evidenced on Sunday evening is being shown in him.
 In the war plagued country the story runs otherwise. There some thing has entered into the boy prob lem and aggravated it till verita ble epidemic of juvenile law-brealzing has broken out, especially in Germ any and England. The undisguisedIy per turbed query from abroad runs: Prom every part of England comes the tale that the boy Is getting out Of hand. that something has got into his blood and set him wild. What is that som mcthing?" The guess that the answer is to be found in tho movies (which have been In exis- tence for some time) seems to be farther from the probable truth than that the war Is working such a change. When one thinks of tho primitive boy instincts. is 1t a far cry to fancy him as uneasy. excited yearniCg for adventure. perhaps va gucly d.sirious of destroying and otherwise trying his strength? While his elders are busy with the unedi- fying business of war. which the boy is aware even if he does not express it is an ugly thing, is it strange that he should fall victim of his primi- tive. wild. predatory instincts? It seems not Tt seems that so long as war continues to Dc the approved method of settling differences and the flower of manhood must be sacr~ feed In that sort of strife, an added price in the spiritual endangering of boys must be paid.
 For after all. the problem in Eu- rope at war and in this country in peace Is different only in degree. The same tendencies to err exist and arc manifested in the New Haven boy and in the boy of London. The prob lem is serious one, and as much as we might like to cannot dismiss it on the comfortable theory that when all is said and done boys will he boys.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-15
A Real Argument. (Sprjngfield Republlcan.)

If guns are potential resistance,
 then why are not rropellers potential
 escape? At this point the logic of
 the German contention needs some scrutiny. The pledge not to sink liners unWarncd, we are told' pre- stunned that they would not resist or attempt to escape, but if they are armed the presumption is that they will resist But by the same reason
 ing the presumption is that If they have speed they will use it in running away. Moreover. ship may attack by ramming as well as by gunf1re,
 and 1t will not be forgotten that in
 tention to ram was pleaded and dis
 allowed as an excuse for sinking the
 Arabic. It was also alleged, dulte
 early. that British merchant ships
 had received orders from the ad-
 niralty to sink submarines by ram
 ming If either guns or speed. then,
 may be used to defeat a submarine
 attack, it would appear logical next
 step to limit the pledge once more, and to make it apply only to unarmed liners which are too slow to outfoot a submarine. It must not be for | gotten that a. merchant ship has under the existing law a right either to resist capture or attempt escape. While resisting or while attem pting l escape it is open to attack. When 1 it ceases resistance of flight it is ,v be treated according to the estab- : 1;shcd procedure for the visit and
 search of merchant ships. If, then,
 neither actual flight nor resistance is
 6 crime carrying a penalty, "poten- 1 t,al" or "prcsumptiVe' flight or re- i sistancc can hardly be viewed as such | d crime.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-15
Ships of War Range From
 Ratts 70 Floating Palaces

drcd such skins are used to give the boat the desired buoyancy.
 "The cargo is loaded on to the kelek just as though it were a flat bottomed barge, after which the craft begins lis journey down the Tigris or the Eu- pirates propelled or guided by oars. Wnen it's reaches its journeys end It is broken up and sold as skins ana timber.
 The two great rivers of Mesopo- tania are very crooked and very tr- regular in their depths. The air lines distance betwe cen Diarbekir and Bag dad is four hundred miles. while the water route via the Tigris is about one hundred thousand miles. At many places the river is deep enough to ac- Commoda1e boats of considerable draft but at others 1t is so shallow that a man has difficulty in swimming. But even over shadows where man cannot go as Q swimmer, a. well Ia den kelek will float without accident
 For thousands of years this buoy ant boat has helped the people Of Me- sopotamia to move their commerce over the shoals and shadows of two of the earth's moodiest rivers and mas now come to play it's small part Tn the greatest war of human history.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-15
Good Opinions on Lynching. (Mcriden ReCOrd.)

Here are three eminent Georgia opln- ions on lynching: Judge George Hill yer of Atlanta, The best way to stop 1ynchings is to stop the crimes that provoke lynchings.' The Augusta Chronicle, The best remedy is the medication of d moral sentiment that lynching is plain, flat, unadulterated murder, and will have, in that dread full day to be answered for as such.' Judge w. w. Lambdin of the federal court for the southern district. "One sheriff who shows real grit and courage will forever put an end to lynchings in his county, and a few hangings of lynchers would stop this crime in our statc."
 There is a cuphnous sound to all the opinions but we imagine when it comes down to real prevention the last one would be most effective.
 Last year Georgia had enough dis agreeable experience in the lynchins business to warrant her in wishing for a demand on the part of the people for a new deal which would take her out of the list of states which forever had to make excuses for her conduct
 There is more than the ethical feature lnNOlNCd as anyone WnO HdS watched the development of condi- tions in Georgia must admit. There comes a time when lawlessness acts as boomerang. The state which is so lax in it's morals as to permit lynchng with their subsequent ap- peals to blood lust, is bound to find something that it's material adVan- tages as well as it's moral reputation are imperiled
 No one has a particular desire to locate in a place where people are allowed to take the law into their own hands and to execute it as 1t happens to suit them. irrespective of order or decency.
 If a few of the lynchers were hang ed or imprisoned it would he a com paratively easy business to stop lynch ings. Where lNnchings are frequent the leninecy of the auth critics is re- cognized and the grewsone deeds are accomp1ishe ed in the knowledge that the good old scapegoat "came to his death at hands of unknown" will do duty.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-15
}. MCMILLAN 199-20f-2O3 MAIN STREET.
SLIvERS, THE DEAD CLOWN.
Who Was for Many Years With the
 Barnum & Bailey Circus.
CNew York Evening Post.)


 Perhaps in his death may be read
 additional evidence that in personal
 ities whose dominant characteristic is
 e proclivity for funmaking are -b be found deep, underlying strains of
 morbidness. Grimaldi and George l.. . FOX, two of the greatest clowns of 1 all time. were this way. Sitting be- 1 hind the scenes of Barnums circus with Slivers before he had begun to l put on his makeup, he was not at 1 all the sort of person the visitor had 1 expected to see. He was a blinking solemn. low-spcaking. lanky yoQsg man, with an extremely sensitive mouth, and a diffdent, retiring man ner. His first words then--in the light of today-seem significant ss indicating his temperament and trend of thought.
 "I never see the lights go up and hear the band strike up for the grand procession. but I think of Dan Luby,'' he said. "TIe was a great clown, good friend Of mine, my side part ner About 10 years ago in the big tent in some place in Indiana we marched out together behind the ele- phants. Dan was feeling kind of low-spiritcd and had been talking all day about a hunch Ire had that some thing was going to happen to him. That kind of talk always makes me shaky, but I cheered him up, and w@ frolcked along behind the big beasts until the grand entry was over. Then they brought out the elephants again and Dan and l began to jump over their backs At least Dan did he was good jumper-I was the fakcr, the fellow who tries to jump and makes all sorts of funny tum bles. or course, Dan had to horse his act. too, but just the same he had to put over his thriller-you know the sort of stuff We'll, the time came for him to make his jump from the sprinb-board over four elephants backs.
 "IIe got away in good shape, but in clearing the last back he didn't right himself as he should. He s4nit the tanbark flat on his back. The crowd yelled with laughter-funny stuff, see. I knew what had happen- ed; we all knew. But 1t was the first night of a three-days' stay. and we couldn't do anything to make that bunch unhappy. I flip p-fapped up tn the best friend I had on earth. He lay there with his back broken, dead. Up came the other clowns. We picks cd him up and carried poor Dan or doing funny stuff every minute. while the spectators roarcd with laughter. When we got Dan behind the scenes. we cried over him. That's two sides Of q clowns life all in a nutshell"
 Slivers eyes were soft as he turn- ed away to his dressing table. He painted his face so s1illfulIv that you smiled when he turned if toward you. He put on his baggy black and white costume, his prepostero.a shoes, and his familiar bonnet of tfe ciVil-war period with it's array of ribbons and chicken feathers.