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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Skilled Labor,

The following is an excerpt from the
expert testimony of a negro delegate
of a local bod carriers union, given In
the municipal court of Cincinnati, o.,
who testified that he had been a hod
carrier for 81 years.
Question - State whether or not
there is any apprenticeship in the Hoe
Carriers union.
Answer-No, sab; when I larn'd to
be a hod carrier, it took me bout half
a day.
Question-What are the require
ments necessary for a full-fiedged hod
carrier?
Answer-Well, fust, you must pay
youah dues in de Hod Carriers union,
and den all it takes is a weak mind
and a strong back to be a fust-class
bod carrier.-The Docket.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

voice in the selection of her numerous
husbands. She is sold like a horse or
q COW to the highest bidder.
The rites of death and burial are
very curious. When a chief or other in
fuential member of a tribe dies his
body is fastened to a stake and ex-
posed to the attacks of beasts and
birds in the belief that all the evil
parts of his body will be consumed.
After that, what remains is cremated
and the ashes placed in magic bowls
mixed with charms and portions to be
used as medicines.
The most disreputable quarter of
Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is occupied
by the famous tribe of Ragyabas, or
beggar s~cavengerS, the men whose re-
pulsive occupation is to break up the
bodies of the dead. A more brutal
lied type of humanity cannot be imag-
ined, and they live in the foulest of
novels. Filthy in appearance, half
naked, clothed in obscene rag these
people live in houses unfit to house a
hog.
The veil which has for centuries hid
den Tibet from the rest of the world
has been lifted, but the spectacle re-
vealed has not been a particularly sa-
worry one.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
MAN IS TAKEN AT OWN VALUE
Humility Is Called a Virtue but 1t
Ceases to Be One II II is Car
ried Too Far.

Humility Is called a virtue. 1t is so
unless carried too far. A man is u.s.
ually taken at his W value. If he
makes too little of himself, he is like
ly to be thought of little worth. The
unduly humble man will lack the
strength of character needed for sue
cess. He will have little influence in
society and will not be fitted to hold
responsible position.
While too great opinion of one
self stands in the way of progress, too
great humility is worse, says the Mil
waukee Journal. Conceit receives
many knocks in life and may be taken
out of a man; too much humility sell
dom receives the needed encourage
ment. Conceit in a child is soon cor
rected when he comes to mingling
with other children in schools. Too
great humility gives his schoolmates
a chance to put upon him and treat
him as al inferior-a chance which
Will seldom be neglected. A child may
become crippled in spirit for life in
this way. Even teachers sometimes
fail to see what is the trouble with the
child and to give him the encourage
ment he needs. Beware of breaking
down a child's self-confidence. Irrepa-
rable injury may thus be done him.
Train him to feel that he is of value
and is able to do what there is for
him to do. Think well of yourself If
you would have others think well of
you.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
After
the Years
By Veronica NJ. Maher


Copyright. 1917, by W. G. Chapman.)
$50 you want to purchase an inter-
est in the ~business?" ]propounded AL
win Brooks.
eff my modest means will allow it,
Mr.. Brooks" responded Pierce VALID
ron. 'Tve been your travelling sales
man for eight years. I have done
moderately well and have saved
money. 1 want a home job now, for
l have just been married. Even if my
little fund covers only q small inter-
est, 1 would be glad to pay it in"
Alvin Brooks studied the bright,
eager face of his most faithful and
successful employee sympathetically.
His rare good heart showed in his
homely, but honest face.
"Waldron," he said, "you come ut a
favorable juncture. Ten years ago
when after Il hard, struggling life 1
started in business, 1 made up my
mind that when 1 was worth twenty
five thousand dollars l would retire {:
first, because 1 do not care for money
next, because that sum will be sufl-
Gent to keep me for the rest of my
life. 1 was just thinking Of retiring
from business"
"Oh, sir, after that fine foundation
that should be a pride to you!"
II have decided" declared Brooks
definitely. "Now then, I'll make you
a proposition. You keep our little
capital to run on, take over the bust
ness, pay me ten per cent of the net
profits for a like number of years and
Brooks and Company passes into your
hands,"
OF course Pierce WaldrOn was de-
lighted and Alvin Brooks strolled from
his hotel the next day feeling like a
boy let out Of school. His life up to
t~wenty-one had been one of depriva-
ton and trial. He had been the sole
support of his mother and sister from
early boyhood. Both had died. Then
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

It has. been noted that cold chicken
and 'The Church's One Foundation" is
the fare provided for bishops at their
episcopal visitations. But a mission
airy preacher once declared that he al
ways got bread and cheese and From
Greenland's Icy Mountains" On one
occasion at a ~vicarage, after the eve
ming service, he vas gratified to see
the maid bringing in a nice hot chop.
While he was regarding this unusual
sight with anticipatory pleasure, the
vicar entered, and said: Help your
self to bread and cheese, old man; the
doctor has ordered me to have a chop
every day."-London Daily Chronicle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

four feet In width and four and a half feet In height for a n officer between the
grades of major and brigadier general; Or seven feet in length. FOL od "a
half feet in width and five feet in height for an officer above the anil of
brgader general For enlisted men the dimensions shall OF exceed six feet
in length, three feet in width and three feet in height.
Several leading architects sin this country recently have eratntouslv trr
nshed the quartermaster general Of the army who has charge o. the EN-
terry, various designs conforming to the prescribed dimensions. These designs,
which meet artistic requirements will be recommended by the fine arts com
to those desiring to erect memorials in the cemetery as Desirable
types from which to make q selection.
Primarily the new rules are designed to govern the character of monu-
N markers to b e erected in the newly opened section of the cemetery
IN TN general vicinity of the Arlington Memorial amphMheater, which has
been selected IS the southern terminal of the proposed memorial bridge across
the Potomac, from the site of the Lincoln memorial in West Potomac park
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

he had shaved and saved. At twenty
one he was able to start in business
IN a small way. He had made money
fast. How he would like a life of rea-
sonable leisure and ignore and forget
the hard grind Of the intense years
devoted to business.
At the end of a week Brooks was at
his wits end as to how he could spend
his time. Inactivity palled upon him.
Through all the years his one fond
memory was Of the old home, humble
but cherished. He decided to visit the
old town and did so. He left it dis
appointed, depressed. It's character
had entirely changed. The old house
had been torn down to make place for
a factory. His old friends were scat
tered or dead.
There seems to be no cozy corner
for me in the whole world" he told
Himself with distressing candor. 1--WE
missed it, somehow"
Then Alvin Brooks got down to a
dull jog trot existence. He moved to
a boarding house to have companion
ship. 1t did not suit him. He rent
ed a fiat and hired a neat, practical
old h~Ousekeeper. 1t was not home.
He Joined a club. 1t became a bore.
He never stopped to analyze that
what he needed was home interest and
home comfort.
Alone and serious in his lonely fiat,
Brooks would dream of the old days.
Even its hardships were sacred and
welcome to him. 1t had been happi-
ness to work for others. Tender mem
cries of the old homely village life
came to him persistently. The scent
of an apple would make him choke up
as he recalled the ripe pippins his old
mother was won to wrap in cloth in
the old bureau drawer. Once he came
across a ragged urchin munchlng at a
piece of new homemade bread and
butter and 1t brt ught tears to his eyes.
Only circumstances and discoveries
suggesting the old home life were en-
dearing To him.
One day Brooks halted before the
Windows of an isolated little candy
ana stationery shop near a public
school. Its display was of the hetero-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
WIDE SWEEP OF RED CROSS
Emblem Recalls to Workers Myriad
Deeds Of Mercy on Fields Of Blood
and Amid Scenes of Suffering.

The sign of the Red Cross, to one
who has worked under 1t, calls up
countless images, says Marian Bousall
Davis, former volunteer worker in
France. Sometimes it is old shoes
shoes so old they let in the mud and
water of the trenches. The owners,
coming In on stretchers and in stock
inged feet, guard them protectingly,
thinking they must do duty again.
How many professions there are, OF
pale faces and old shoesl
Sometimes an image that comes to
n is a giant negro, John
Brown from Texas, whom she found
in a French hospital. John Brown
had come over to France as a groom
to several hundred cavalry horses. Ar
rived there, he said he thought ut was
up to him to do his bit" He Joined
the Foreign Legion, fought bravely,
and was severely wounded.
Very often the image is Of a pa
trician woman, wearing the Red Cross
on her arm, performing the humblest
services for private soldiers, even car
rying their poor shoes; for other dark
people, sharing the agony of the fight
the S~ingalese.
The Red Cross flag flying from the
schoolhouse that is now a hospital in
the main street Of the village that
looks so sound asleep without its men;
the emblem on the arm of a surgeon
working miracles of science on shat
tered bodies; that red badge on the
cases Of relief supplies unloaded at
the docks; IN the sides of the motor
ambulances; over the cantines where
homeless soldiers may sleep; over this
shelter for chlldren-the sign multi
plies into a myriad banners.
The Red Crosses are there and will
be there in greater numbers, because
little children have emptied precious
pennies from their savings banks,
young girls gone without their treats;
young boys given money hard earned;
men and women given generously and
t%houghtfully.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Didn't Appear at Box Office.

Things looked black for the dramat-
list. For the fourth time in one season
a play had been withdrawn after a
weeks run.
Cheer up, old man." said a consol-
ing friend. perhaps posterity will rec
ognize the genius displayed In your
plays"
Maybe" said the dramatist, bitter
ly, "but the difficulty is that, so far
as I am concerned, posterity is on the
free list"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
HEAVEN IS EMPLOYERS HOME
Curious Information Is Brought to
Light by the Military Gen.
sus in New York.

Albany, N. Y.-The New York state
military census is going to show some
curious information. For instance, an
unmarried, nineteen-year-old Albany
girl gave these answers on her blank:
What is your business?"
"Colporteur."
"Are you in business for yourself? ?"
mo-
"If not, what is the name Of your
employer"
"The Lord"
"What is your employers business"
"Forglving sins"
"What is your employers address"
"The heavenly sanctuary"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

geneOus mass of candy, gum, pencils,
paper and the like of it's class, But
In a corner stood a jar, dust covered,
obscure. 1t held half a dozen slabs
of what in his early days had been
called "beefsteak candy"
In his youth that had been the
browning triumph of the candy-mak-
er's trade. He had not seer its like
for over twenty years. He stood as
n under a spell of fascination, star
Ing at that old ~discolored jar and its
shrunken, col0r-faded contents, and
there rushed into his mind all the
years Of his unsophisticated boyhood.
Then he entered the little store.
THAT beefsteak candy" he said, tax
ing out his pocketbook.
The prim, neat little lady who pre-
sided yer the humble establishment
stared at him uncertainty. She was
puzzled until he pointed at the isolated
jar.
"Oh, is that it's name?" she spoke.
81 never knew it. No one has ever
called for 1t and 1 fancy my predeces-
sor carried it for years, just as 1 have.
One slab, sir?"
"All of it," said Brooks, a strange
catch in his voice, and the little store
keeper regarded him in wonder. She
stood staring vaguely after this erratic
purchaser of her old and faded stock.
1t was the next day when Brooks
returned.
II don't know what brought me
back" he Numbered clumsily. II
guess it is because 1 am lonely and 1
wanted to talk to you about that beef
steak candy. Most people would laugh
at my fancies, but you've got a kind
face. Truth is, miss, that candy is an
old timer, like myself"
"Yes?' e~ncouragingly smiled the
lady, not averse to a chat with this
well-appearing, respectable-looking Wis
itor.
you see, the one vivid thing I re-
member best in my early boyhood
days is just such a jar of just such
candy in my native village" narrated
Brooks. ut used to fascinate me. 1
would stand and look at it for five
minutes at a time, dreaming how the
first twenty-five cents I earned I would
buy n of those slabs and luxuriate
1t. Often, too, l treasured the
that when I got rich 1 would
buy a whole jar of it and feast upon
It. Well, 1 tried it yesterday-alas!
now l can have all I want of it the zest
If youth is gone"
You are too young a man to say
said the little lady.
FINALLY, away back in that early
'oyhood l earned a quarter chopping
wood. All how I fastened to buy one
If those slabs of beefsteak candy! 7"
ireamily ran on Brooks. "And then
lon't laugh at me-there was a dainty
miss I loved. I presented it to
Ter and-she kissed me, the only girl
hat ever did"
His auditor had become strangely
lgitated.
"Who-what was her name?" she
lsked softly.
Lucy Graham"
why, she is my cousin! You must
Alvin Brooks. I have heard her
speak of you and the incident you re-
ate many a time"
"She is living?" pressed Brooks.
"Oh, yes. She is a stenographer
md m to see me every day, I'M
married., and as good and beautiful
S ever. Why, there she is now!"
And Alvin Brooks once more pressed
he hand of the gentle maiden who
vas destined to fill the void in his life
through all his happy later days.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

"House' end; Secretary Tumuty, of course, handles all matters that III taken
strictly a House affair.
Hoover will either tell you "te president Cor soandso) would be pleased
to see you at the White House tomorrow. Could you arrange to be there at
ten oclockT'
Then Hoover in great detail will instruct you to call at the east or north
entrance. If it is the easter entrance you may know that the White House is
anxious about everyone knowing that you are to call; and Hoover will go on
to tell you to tell the policeman at the gate to mention your name.
When you get there the next morning you do it; the policeman tells you
to go to the big carriage entrance and repeat; you do. Then a whtehaired
police sergeant tells you he's pleased to meet you, and will you please walk
down the semisubtrranean hallway until you u into a secret service nan
You do this, too, and the secret service man probably Jack Sye OF Dick
Jarvis, picks you up at the end of the hall and the foot of the stairway lead
ing to the massive main entrance hall, where the suave, punctHous, perfectly
CARRIED and smiling Hoover greets you like a lost brother.
Hoover conducts you 20 a small" adjoining reception room that is a 8
big as most folks front parlors, where you at last find the person who wants
to SCI you. The way out is the way in, reversed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

which re not to be had in camp. Regardless of Mr.. Hoovers warnings. a
100000 men, re being eaten in Washington every night, and a great many
of those enjoying them are the army men, hence they figure no real harm
is done.
The theaters also feel the impetus and especially the large "movfe"
houses. They are packed. The newcomers require entertainment. Several
large theaters are to be rushed to completion before the arrival If autumn
AS for hotels, Washington, which has a great many of them, has not
enough of them. They have been crowded Ito. the doors since inaugural day,
March 4 They have never been s 10 prosperous IS now. Several large new
hotels are to be added to the number now finding themselves very busy and
occupied, both old and new. None is to close during the summer, IS has 81
been the case in years past.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Edwards Taste.

~Can any little boy" asked the new
teacher, "tell me the difference be-
tween a lake and an ocean,"
81 can" replied Edward, whose wis
dom had been learned from experience.
lakes r much ~pleasanter to swal-
low when you fall in."-Christian Reg
lister.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

is followed in such an instance. If it
Is only a social matter or if it Is a
matter of not pressing business you
would get a telephone call along about
eight or nine o'clock at night. The
first voice on the other end would say,
after asking for you:
"This is the White House, Mr..
Hoover would like to speak to you"
Hoover is the major domo ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the White House. He handles
everything that emanates from the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

or markers shall be erected there here
after unless the designs have been pre-
viously approved by the commission on
fine arts. Generally it is desired to CON
fine all such memorials to designs of
dignifed and simple architecture.
To that end it has been prescribed
that the dimensions of a monument
above the level Of the ground shall in
no case exceed seven feet In length,
three and a half feet in width and four
feet in height for an officer below the
rank Of major; or seven feet In length,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

anu at every one, Whether IN Motel OF
home, public or private, the boys in
khaki predominant.
This Is especially true on Saturday
afternoon and Sundays, when f street,
Pennsylvania venue and other down
town streets are crowded with Wash
ington's prettiest girls clinging to the
arm of a man In the uniform of Uncle
Sam who has volunteered to do his
bit, but who, in the meantime, is going
to take in some show or a dance, or
narha NO hIlr annna ~MnnndInrii "a aa4
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
At the Wild West Show.

Surprised to see me here, Smith,
I'd rather have a quiet smoke at home,
but my wife bullied me into coming
to take care of the boy, you know"
Hes a fine little fellow, aren't you,
SOM"
dumping Jupiter, that's not my
boy. Where In thunder is that lid"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
His lanuuaue.

"Your true lover is often at a loss
for words"
"But nature makes that up to him
by supplying him with an extensive
vocabulary of gurgles, snifies and
sighs."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

detectives at police headquarters,
where he was held on a charge of
breaking and entering In the night
time, that two men attacked him,
robbed him of his money and jewelry
and then stripped him of all his cloth
ing save an undershirt. from which
the bandits took pains to tear Off the
buttons.
His face bespattered with mud,
the multi-colored blanket draped In
dian fashion on his slender frame and
h~Annnnffad Lost ha chonld nnnAon4 -
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Much Easier.

Betty-Jack says he will stop drink
ing If / marry him.
Mrs. Wyse-Well, be careful, dear.
It's easier for him to begin again
than 1t is for you to get unmarried.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

Io.I-- -I-I - T'7-""co rr M sn0m1 pTWTst WIZ
ienV against a spin In TIT chilly morning air, he vas seated in the poIce
nyer taken to the hrstp precinct station, where he managed. between
ns OF sneeAng coughing, to tell the story of his misfortune.
hen tn young AN had explained that the holdup men bd tatonh t,
o a room in a boarding house after stealing his clothes and tbot In 49,. ~
OF a barrel he had taken the blanket from the he'd 10 cJotbo htaaos
ne va reieased after relatives had brought clothes. The victim had VERNE,
himself with hot coffee furnished by the police. At ""fmeu
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Would Ra HarroMInn.

II wonder why we seldom see a
woman running a department store?"
"a woman could never bear to part
with all those bargains"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21

TIBET has had for centuries a fas-
cination which has led many
explorers to their death. 1t &C.
cupies an immense area of the
oldest of the continents, and it is in
habited by strange Monoloid people
who have vainly tried to live q hermit
existence. Several centuries ago a
law was enacted and made part of the
Tibetan religion prohibiting any Euro
pean entering the country, and this
law was rigidly effective until the Brit
ish expedition under Colonel Young
husband captured the capital of Tibet
several years ago. The remoteness of
Tibet, the hardships to be met in cross
ing the immense ranges of mountains,
the hostility of the barbarous tribes
of the country and the jealousy of the
lamas or priests aided in keeping this
region unknown to the rest of the
world, writes Henry L. Peterson in
Grit.
Tibet is practically treeless and Bit
terly cold, for the mountains here
reach great attitudes and nature pre-
sents her widest and most repellent
moods. The ruggedness of the land
scape is reflected in the people them
selves who are very low in the scale of
civilization. One explorer of this lit
tle-known country says in describing
the inhabitants:
Among the varying scales of hu-
mankind the Tibetan is entitled to
the lowest position it would be impos-
sible to imagine a people more unen-
lightened and barbarous, savage and
degraded in all the terms savagery and
degradation imply. One who has never
seen a Tibetan nOmad on his native
heath can have no conception of his
unpleasant appearance; the swarthy
complexion, long black hair, piercing
coal-black eyes, half-naked figure with
an enormous spear slung on his back
and a rusty matchbox in his hand,
makes the best figure for a painter 1
ever saw. When opportunity presents
itself to attack and plumber a small
caravan without chance of resistance
he is a perfect embodiment of vain
glorious bravery, but at the first show
of aggression, or even the feeblest of
real dangers, he is the veriest cow
ard"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-21
Ennui a Thing Unknown in National Capital
EnnuI

r OR some reason the capital of a nation at war is always a seem of unusual
4 gayety, and this very condition exists sin Washington today. More Dances
muscales and entertainments of every orta IRE heing given THAN ever hsfnre