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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
IN
DARKEST BORNEo
Norwegian Traveller Tells of In
teresting Experiences Among
Natives.
HEAD HUNTING IS STOPPED
Men Possess Fine Muscular Develop
ment and WomengASe WeIl-F ormed
and Graceful-PeopIe Are Trust
worthy and Industrious.

London.-Quaint customs in darkest
Borneo are described by DR.. Carl Lum-
holtz, the famous Norwegian traveller,
in u letter just received here. Doc
tor Lumholtz says in part:
1--WE met six natives who had been
hunting the rhinoceros in the west.
The horn of the animal when powdered
is in great demand by the Chinese as
a medicine, and fetches n high price.
Such an expedition may last for two
months. The hunters carry no provi-
sions, and live on sage and what ami
mails they can kill. When there Is a
scarcity of food they frequently go
three or four days merely on water,
and stay the pangs of hunger with to-
tackle a rhinoceros with a spear sin
gle-handed, though the beast is very
difficult to kill.
Zone day we were surprised by the
arrival of a Saputan chief with two
companions in q boat. They brought
with them a dog. a blowpipe for darts,
and a recently killed pig.
mot far from the Muller mountains
we calnped upon the upper Kasao
river, which is inhabiated by Saputans.
They nre a crude, friendly people, who,
a hundred years ago, were mere cave
jewellers in the mountains to the east.
Piercing Chiefs Ears.
AT Saputan l had the good fortune
to take a cinematograph picture of
the ceremony of the piercing of a
chiefs ears. 1t is their privilege to
wear a tigers tooth inserted in u hole
in the upper part of each ear.
'The chief was seated, and a board
was placed behind his head. Friends
and supporters assisted at the opera
tioI, which consisted of an empty rifle
cartridge being forced through his ear.
Blood streamed down, and the man,
apparently of a very robust type,
seemed to be near fainting. A medi-
cine man was hurriedly summoned,
and he clapped his hands over the
ears, and then, opening them, pro-
dueed a small stone. This he threw
into the river.
81 was told that this stone was the
supposed cause of the chiefs illness.
The scene was brought to a dramatic
conclusion by the exhausted chief be-
ing ANONYMOUSLY carried away on the
back of a young man. During the
afternoon more pebbles were produced
by the same sleight of hand, and a pig
was killed in order to apease the bad
spirit which had caused the chiefs
illness.
"The Dyaks of the upper Mahakkan
are friendly to strangers. and as the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
W for Neglect.

Someone asked what flowers viii
grow without any ARE whatsoever,
What a question for a resident of Cal
ifornia What is the matter with our
state flower. eschscholtzia, the Cali
fornia poppy? Surely it needs no care.
and the result is never in doubt. We
have many, very many more A bed
of petunias is recalled that bloomed
every day throughout the summer
without a drop Of water being applied.
The finest neglected floral display in
midsummer known to the writer was
a fence covered with climbing nastur-
tiums fianking a wide bed filled with
dwarf sorts. And such a variety of
colors as may now be had is almost
wonderful.-LOs Angeles Times.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Nellie's
Legacy
~A~e
By Carl Ardmore Bennett
Copyright, 1915. by W. q, Chapman.l

NoSstas"t' 1910 ~ W. ", ChapmAn.b
"And this is for you, Nellie" an
nounced old Peter Briefly. Better
get 1t away at once, for I'm going to
pack up the rest of the things today"
THANK you, Uncle Peter" respond
ed s~weet-voiced, gentle-faced Nellie
Willett. 81 certainly prize this me-
mento of dear Aunt Janet"
"She left nothing of her own, you
know, Nellie?" pursued g%rasping, close
listed old Peter, "and I'm not overbur-
dened with this worlds goods. l gave
her brooch to your cousin, Mary. She's
Il liking for gimcracks and II pleased
her. You're more practical, so the
work basket will suit you best, seeT'
Yes. Nellie did "see." She made no
complaint, nor did she harbor any re-
sentiment against this niggardly do
nor. 1t was the contrast of this sordid
relative with the angel-splrlted wife he
had lost that saddened her. She won
dered, now that Uncle Peter was I'M
trammeled by the careful, economical
regime of his sensible better-half, how
500 he would make ducks and brakes
of the savings of years. for all he had
was due to the hard work and practi-
cal sense Of Aunt Janet.
What he had given Nellie was his
wife's old work basket. Nellie be-
dewed it with her tears as she re-
ceived it. How often had she sat by
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

to army tradition, is the great cure-an
of the hospital corps.
There came the conventional scene
in which the heroine is sent from her
home into the cold, cruel world by o
heartless parent. AS the stern father
slammed the door, an artilleryman
yelled:
Hey, old man, give her the regular
three-days' rations !"
Professional criticism became harsh
when a weary %prospector, leading a
patient burro, finally found a spring
and drank. He neglected to give the
burro q drink. Once more the cavalry
burst forth.
take care of your best friend,
Jack !" called a man with a yellow hat
cord, "Give Sue a drink, tool"
Talk Gets Peppery.
One trooper vas very much i'm
pressed with the cleverness of a for
ger, depicted in the first reel in his
prison uniform. who plotted as he
signed false names.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

"He sure is one smart hombre," said
he.
"Yeh, he's smart all right" dryly
responded a negro in~fantryman. you
can tell that by the convict fatigue uni
form he had on in the last scene!'
Sometimes the talk gets very pep
perry indeed. But perhaps the choice
comment of all came during the prob
lem play. The heroine, Of doubtful
past, had for some reason failed to
impress the hero. He rejected all her
advances. Then one day she learns
that he is married. She used all the
stock methods and a few others to
register shock, woe, broken heart, grief
and sorrow. She took deep, convul-
sive breaths; she bit her lips; she
clutched at her throat she tore her
hair; she passed her hand over her
eyes as if in great pain; she seemed
to faint and finally staggered off the
scene.
"My, my" said a negro trooper, just
in front of u.s., "She seems dissatisfied,
don't she?"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Day Of Progress.

Glenn H.. Curtiss, the airman, was
talking in New York about the 1000
horsepower triplane and what may be
expected of II.
"The day of skeptics in flying and
most other things" he ended, "are past.
Today is no day for the skeptic.
' 'Things move SO rapidly today. in
fact, that the skeptic who says 1T
can't be DONE is continually being in
terrupted by some chap doing It."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Swedish ship OFF the Farallon is
lands and taken to Seattle. He wired
his wife. who had given him up for
dead, but she didn't get the message,
and she tainted when he walked into
her home a few days ago.
The Swedish crew had to pick Pea
cock and the spar from the water and
cut 1t away from Peacock's bruised
and bleeding body, he said. They APP
piled ~restoratives, but he did not come
to his senses for several hours. Then
ne found no n on the vessel spoke
English. He said he couldn't make out
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
COAL IS $50 A TON IN ITALY
Resumption of Submarine Warfare
TrebIes Freight Rates on Other
Products.

Rome.-Resumption of Austro-Ger-
man submarine attacks is causing
grave concern in Italy, where the
prices of coal, wheat, lumber, scrap
iron and other imports have trebled
within a year owing to the prohibitive
freight rates.
Coal now costs $50 a ton. The rail-
roads have a stock of 100000 tons,
however, and are not likely to be in
terrupted during the winter.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
COUGAR SHOT ON HIGHWAY
Providing Animal Crosses Road and
Man Sitting on Front Porch
Fires One Shot.

Chehalls, Wash.-When a prowling
cougar crossed the Pacific highway,
near the north end of Jackson Prairie,
eleven miles southeast of Chehalis, it
fell a victim TO a rifle shot fired by
George Blattner, who was sitting on
his front porch. One shot near the
heart caused the animal to give a wild
lunge into the air and fall dead. The
cougar measured 7 feet 3 inches from
tip to tip, and was a hungry-looking
female. 1t is thought that lack of
food emboldened it to come out into
the open.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
NOTES OF THE GARDEN

Parsnips for winter use should be
dug and stored before the ground
freezes.
In 1914 the value of the output of l.
124 fertilizer plants in the United
States. was $16S, 1888, 400.
Cut mint for winter use and tie 1t In
small punches. Hang 1t in airy. shady
places to dry.
There is always much pleasant
weather after the first cold spell. and
1t will be well to protect tender plants
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
MAN is GIVEN UP FOR DEAD
Peacock Floated to Sea on a Spar and
Was Picked Up of the Far
alton Islands.

San Francisco. Cal.-Clarence #.
Peacock, a young mechanic, went
swimming In August in San Francisco
Bay. just inside the Golden Gate. and
was carried out to sea on a spar he
grasped when caught by the undertow
end floated. partly unconscious, 81
b0urs before he was picked up by a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Heads of colleges and secondary
schools for education and training of
Negroes in the United States have been
invited to a conference, lasting from
November 81 t "a, at the National
Training school, Durham, N. G. They
will be entertained at the National
Training school, where 1t is planned
to hold three conferences a day during
the session, and speakers of promi-
in educational circles and men
who have devoted themselves to the
advancement of colored people, have
been invited TO make addresses.
Among the subjects and the speak
ers announced for the conference are;
Race Preparedness" an address by
Bishop George w. Clinton, d, D., of
Charlotte, n. c.; "A General Clearing
House for Aid for Negro Schools" by
Harry Andrews King, president of
Clark university "A Study of the Ru-
raj Schools of, North Carolina" by DIR.
A. NJ. Moore, secretary of the Associa-
ton for Improvement of Rural Con
ditions Among Schools; Preparedness
of Negro Teachers" by III. J.. Joyner,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton in Raleigh, n. c., and what the
State of Texas Is Doing for the Educa-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
ny somethIna EIse.

If You don't like a thing and you,
cannot help it, forget all about it and
go about something else. Some people
spoil their lives because OF something
they cannot remedy. The failure fills
their hearts with regrets and enmities
and leaves their lives a swampy waste.
Failures of this kind give place to good
deeds II they are rigidly used-oo-
lumbus Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

the vessels name, but learned she had
come around Cape Horn from Europe.
Peacock's clothes were found after
he disappeared and turned into the po-
lice headquarters. Notices were pub
lished in local newspapers of his death.
When he got back he walked into the
property clerks room at headquarters
to get his wearing apparel.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
When Eqos Were Hloh In Eoypt.

"Will you have another pearl dis
solved in your BEVERAGE" asked the
attendant.
Certainly not" responded Cleopatra.
"a pearl represents no great pecuniary
recklessness- This time you may make
II a poached egg"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

ton of COlOred Youth" by Prof. ]. E.
Clayton, principal of the Clayton In
dustrial high school.
The subjects for discussion have
been announced at follows: Religious
Instruction in Schools" Standards of
Universities" Colleges and Secondary
Schools" Duplication of Work in
Schools Teacher Training" Rural
Schools"
A commission will be appointed by
the conference to offer a concrete plan
and present it to the public.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

The present demand for ships has
accelerated the shipbuilding industry
at P~arrsboro, N. S. Ship carpenters
and wood workers are in demand.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

To carry smaller boats within large
craft a Dutch inventor has patented
a vessel with hinged doors at N
end of the hull, through which boats
can be fioated.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

In the seven months from February
l to September l, 1916, American yards
entered into contracts to build 229
steel vessels of 576,S57 gross tons,
and completed 50 such vessels of 2O6,-
545 gross tons.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Norway's cod fishery has closed
with a total of 81. 100000 fish. The
official value is $2o,1O 900. England
has bought the entire catch.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

During the kaiser's visit to Mltau
two Russian airmen few over the
town and dropped a number of
bombs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Helena. Mont.-Newly-bor twins in
a Helena home have been named re-
spectively Woodrow Wilson and
Charles Hughes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Japanese scientists are searching
for an explanation of an apparent re-
%lationShip between the frequency of
earthquakes at Tokyo and the mount
of rainfall and snowfall in other parts
of the empire.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Bohemian brewers have perfected n
process that natures beer and makes
1t ready for use In from s to II DAYS
instead of the usual three months.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

A New York inventors motorcycle
streetsweeper does the work Of five
men with brooms and does it more
quickly and thoroughly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

In an encounter nea Lewiston, Me-,
between a bald-headed eagle and a
porcupine, the latter succumbed, but
the eagle bore off several trophies in
the shape of quilts.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

with a demand for the Negro In
the industries there will be a lessen
Ing of Negro congestion in the big CEN
ters like New York, Chicago, Baltl-
more, Philadelphia, Washington and
st. Louis" writes Wilson Jefferson,
from the Negro point of view, in the
New York Evening Post. with all
of the ostracism Of the trade unions,
and the Indifference of employers,
there have still been more oppbrtuni-
ties for earning a living in the big
cities than in the towns and smaller
cities. There were always openings
in the big cities for Negroes as house
like. And more important still there
was always Il large circle of friends to
fall back OF If temporarily out of a
job. With Il greater demand for his
services i'm the smaller Industrial
towns and in the manufacturing dis
tricts around the big cities, there will
spring up that community and neigh
bOrhood life which he so dearly loves.
Besides, the employer will have him
present In large enough numbers to
fight any competition which might
arise over any question of race or ma
tionality. There will not be much in
centive to complain about ten or IF
teen Negroes in an establishment If
there are other capable Negroes to
take the places of those complaining.
ITO get a glimpse of the possibilities
wrapped up In Negro labor one has
only TO investigate the more progress
sive of the manufacturing cities of
the South. Birmingham, Ala, depends
almost wholly upon the Negro for its
unskilled and semi-skilled labor.
Nashville, Atlanta, Memphis and Jack
sonviue do likewise. But in all of
these towns, save in some instances in
Birmingham, wages are too low, hous-
ing conditions are poor, and the ad.
vantages for recreation and pleasure
exceedingly limited. 1t will be from
these localities that Negroes will emf.
CRATE to the middle West and East
and to localities where wages are good
and where there are opportunities fol
pleasure and self-improvement. Nc
class of labor remains satisfied indef.
nitely under oppressive conditions
The Negro laborer is no exception tc
the rule. He has tried the South. He
is willing to try the East and middle
West. All he has awaited is a genu
inc call, based upon a real and last
ing need.
This movement eastward and west
ward of unskilled Negro labor will
both directly and indirectly help thu
Negro. The younger element, those o.
ambition, and of some training In til,
schools, will be constantly emergin,
from the unskilled to the semi-skilleC
classes, with a consequent increase fl
their pay rolls and q betterment fl
their methods of living.
"A decidedly better treatment of tn,
Negro, both in the North and in tn,
South, will grow out of this scatterini
of the race. The old condition grew
out Of the fact that the demand TO
his labor has been limited and the sun
ply unlimited. Other influences, som,
sinister and some not so sinister, hav,
worked against him"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

in beds with newspapers or a sheet
spread over them.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

According to a Vienna physician In
somnia a be cured if a person will
grasp the head of his bed and null
backward until fatigue deyelnns
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
SOLDIERS HAVE
FUN With MOVIES
Reels Run off at Pershing's
Headquarters to Accompani-
ment of Lively Comment.
CHEERS FOR THE VAMPIRE
Pictures Are Shown out-of-Doors and
the Audience Brings Its Own
Seats--ProfessionaI Criticism
Becomes Harsh.

Headquarters, American Punitive
Expedition, Mexico.-The smart young
man who first called the movies" the
silent drama" coined u worthy
phrase, but he never heard our movies
at Colonia Dublan.
The moving pictures shown ut expe-
dictionary headquarters are run off to
an accompaniment of conversation and
comment that would shame a chatty
problem play.
The comment Is more or less point
ed, too. Seven months away from
civilization gives n rather a keen
perspective. Our heroes down here
have to do something finer than wear
open-throated shirts and put restorer
on their hair. Our heroines have to
have more than a cute pout and n sim
pie little frock.
Otherwise, the audience is quite like.
ly to cheer loudly for the villain and
the vampiFe-the vampire especially.
The movies" are shown out-of-doors
under these limitless Mexican skies
They are thrown against a specially.
prepared screen that resembles moth.
ing so much as a billboard. The audi
ence brings its own seats-Oil cans
boxes and the like serving very well
1t Is q dull night when there are less
than a thousand officers and men seat
ed in front of the screen.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Automobile service for both pas
sengers and freight over the Andes
mountains between Chile and Argen-
tina is contemplated in opposition to
the present railroad.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

The ordinary year ends on the same
day of the week as that on which 1t
begins.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Pure music for the children of to-
day is an important factor in a ma
TONS scheme of preparedness, in that
it will make for a strong and brave
race of men and women tomorrow.
Such is the conclusion Of David
Names, the vlollnist, who owes his
start in his profession to an old col
pred musician in the Tenderloln of an
earlier New York, and who has devot-
ed his life in large part to guiding and
developing the musical genius of the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Starts With a Laugh.

The program always starts with a
laugh. The operator throws on the
screen the following legend;
Ladies will please remove their
bats |"
Then the audience is at attention.
For the last night or two we have had
some sad, sobblng films. Last night
a wasted woman died through the first
five hundred feet of film. Our SYM
pathy didn't last more than one hun
bred feet.
"Give her some iodine, medicol ~
cried a cavalryman.
The hospital corps officers in the
hrst row frOwned. Iodine, according
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-08
TEMPERANCE AND
PROHIBITION HEADS
JOIN FORCES FOR
COUNTRY FIGHT

Washington, Dec. 7.-Leaders of prohi-
bition and temperance organizations,
gathered here today for series of con-
ferences to plan cooperation in a fight
for nationwide prohibition and bills to
bar liquor advertisements from the mails
and to make the District of Columbia
dry. The National Temperance Council,
federation of all anti-liquor organiza-
lions, will meet tomorrow. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the National
Woman Suffrage Association, and DR..
Harvey W. Wiley are among the speak
. Other organizations represented are the
Anti-Saloon League of America, Prohi-
hilton party, Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, Temperance Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Com
mittee of Sixty which is trying to induce
all political parties to include nationa,
prohibition in their platforms.
The dry forces had planned a confer
ence with President Wilson Saturday to
ask his support for a federal prohibition
amendment. but II was found impossible
to obtain An audience then.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-08
HIGH WIND CAUSE
OF EXCITEMENT
AND SOME DAMAGE

People who happened to be on Main
street shortly after noon were treated
to an imitation airplane flight that
looked for minute like the real thing.
The American Clothing Co. had just
placed a large sign of oilcloth on the
front of their store when the wind
took 1t and 1t made a fine flight
through the air, part way across the
street. then did beautiful dip and a
spiral and headed back for the COM
pany's store. A couple of men who
were walking along the street did a
ducking act that was the real thing
and the sign clearing their heads by
a few inches went to pieces in APP
proved airplane fashion on the side
walk just missing the windows The
wind was also responsible for the de-
struction of one of the large plate
glass windows in the w. w. Berry
store, tearing the awning from it's
fastenings and dropping one of the
braces through the side of the window,
badly SCATTERING it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-08

that they would be unable to obtain
their usual supply. Cases have been
found, it was said, where families
which usually buy few tons Of coal
at a time, had stocked their cellars
with supply sufficient to last from
two to three years, bought at top
prices. @ ...s
Another phase Of the investigation
has developed a conviction among off,
Gals that the present high price Of
flour would be much higher were it
not for the unusually large holdover
Of wheat from last years crop. The
advance in the price OF beans is said
to have been caused to some extent
by unusually large shipments Of can
ned beans to Belgium by the commits
sion for relief in Belgium. Butter has
advanced to price to which it might
normally be expected to advance, the
investigation has disclosed, but eggs
are said to be unwarrantably high.
Roughly, the officials estimate the
advance In foodsturs during the year
at Al per cent.