Obvious Observations I
I
Yes, son, the Allies are still in the
lead.
Who said porterhouse steak ? M is
ter, you must be dreaming. There
ain’t no sich animuls. Pass that kid
ney stew and fried mush. Also, fare
well dear pie and cake and pudding;
may yon be with us again soon.
When Unk Sam gets through gath
ering in public service corporations it
is almos*, a certainty that he won’t
let them w ander around loose any
more.
Why not rechristen our city hall
the House of Hate?
Wonder what the Kaiser dreams
about at night?
Have you got that job yet? Hustle.'
brother, hustle.
Big visitors have hail such nice
things to say about The Monitor, that
the tape measure says our bust has
developed five inches in the last
month.
A German prisoner says the Kaise,
told them that half the American
army were Sons of Ham. He couldn’t
have thrown a scare into them any
easier.
What’s hapened to J. P. and John
P., anyway? They' haven’t broken
into print for some moons.
Have you renewed your subscrip
tion to *he hottest little weekly that
ever -ame down the journalistic pike '
Then get busy and save a half a
bean.
Thanking you kindly for these two
minutes, we will now proceed to mend
our i i-t and onliest shirt.
Dance with the Western Beatttv
Girls.—Adv.
SKITS OF SOLOMON.
Opportunity.
Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas,
now a member of the choir celestial,
once wrote a great poem as to how
opportunity had a Sherlock habit of i
snooping past each man’s door and
giving it the gentle tap, tap. If you
i were asleep and didn’t hear it, then
1 bye and bye the big change, automo
miles, palaces and so forth; but if
vou did hear it and grabbed old man
opportunity by the coat tails, Henry
Ford wouldn’t have anything on you.
That was some days ago. Things
aren’t as they used to was. Oppor
tunity is yelling at1 you from every
street coiner and every housetop. If
you can't hear it there is something
the mailer with the tin pan in your
ear and you should consult an aurist
or a blacksmith. Never since the
old U. S. was knee high to a duck
ling have so many opportunities been
turned loose on the dear public. If
you can’t rake in some of the floating
mazuma these days, it must be be
cause your rake has lost all its eye
teeth. There’s an infant fortune in
handling anything from rags and old
irbn to cultivating squashes and tur
nips. Some guys stand around a la
Oliver Twist waiting for something
to turn up and things are turning
up so fast that they have stopped
making i.oise. They merely hum. It
isn’t the question belore the house
to grab an opportunity, but the ques
tion of trying to grab a whole armful
at once. Nothing like it has ever
hapened since Old Man Noah let out
bids for building the ark. If you don’t
have h fat wobbly bank account in the
next few years its because you are
too slow to catch cold. Tip your bon
net on the side of your bean, sand the
track so you won’t slip, and then grab.
Gnb with both hands and hold on like
sixty. It’s your chance and every
body rise’s chance and there is s.r
many chances that nobody need be left
in the. chair holding a pair of deuces
Vou will be far better pleased with
your cleaning and pressing, dyeing
pd repairing by Young’s Tailoring
company. Phone L-7664.—Adv.
Don’t wait to be urged to join the
W. S. S. army. What if our men in
the trenches waited to be urged ?
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AT ALL HOURS
Pool Hall and Billiard Pallor in
Connection.
Phone South 2962 2603 N St.
South Omaha.
The Moon j
CAFE !
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GOOD HOME COOKING
MEALS AT ANY HOUR
2605 ti St. Tel. South 2962 j
i GLASPER’S
j Shining Parlor
AND SOFT DRINKS
jj: Any Color of Shoe Dyed Black
4830 South 26th St.
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Hardware Co.
GOOD HARDWARE
: 12408 N St. Tel. South 162
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MRS. POLK JONES, Proprietor.
HAIR AND SCALP SPECIALIST.
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Uses Mnies. South and Johnson’s Wonderful Magic Hair
Growing System.
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! Leadership in Africa
Offered by the War
War Service Is the Key Which Is
' Opening the Door of Opportunity to
the Race in the Dark Continent.—
A CHILD wandered into a “Y” hut
in East Africa. He was big
and broad shouldered and black as the
ace of spades. Six feet in his stock
ings he stood, straight as an arrow
and muscled like a prize fighter. Ho
wore the uniform of the King and also
a long scar on his face won in hand-to
hand melee with German troops.
None the less he was a child. Just
now he longed desperately to be at
home with his tribe in Somaliland.
I He wanted to strut around in his
khaki before the dusky maidens, and
his heart ached for the feast of the
hunters home from the kill.
A Colored young man in the uni
form of a “Y” worker came forward
and welcomed the trooper in Swahali.
His friendliness went to the child
| heart as straight as rain to the thirsty
j roots of flowers.
Then a miracle took place—and
1 curiosity banished homesickness.
I From out of a little box came the
| voice of a man talking. The grown
’ up child examined the box eagerly to
I see where the man was hidden. Hut
! there was no room for even a dwarf
| in that box, so of course it was
| magic.
More Magic.
Presently the secretary, a graduate
of Shaw university, Raleigh, N. C.,
led the shy native into a dark room
where there was more magic. A lit
tle man with funny feet and a cane
was walking about on a white screen.
The six-foot child began to grin. The
last of his homer,ickness vanished.
for Charlie Chaplin was doing antics
for him.
War service is the key which fc
opening the door of opportunity to
the Negro race.
The latest evidence of it comes from
darkest Africa. Into the jungles o'1
which the ideals of democracy are
slowly pushing their way. The Col- j
ored troops of Nigeria. Somaliland !
Zanzibar, Mysaland and the Gold
Coast are looking eagerly for light, j
and their eyes are-turned to the Negro
of the United States.
A chance for leadership—one full
of immense potentalities—has come to
the Colored race of this country. II
has been given him to lead the na
tive of Africa into the light of the new
day that is dawning for him.
Max Yergan was the first Colored
Y. M. C. A. secretary sent to serve:
with the British troops in South Af
! rica. Before he had been in the field j
1 long General Van de Venter, com
mander of the British farces, wired
to ask for more of Yergan’s race to
help in the work. Already some of
these have gone to the front and oth- ■
ers are to follow.
A Stiff Campaign.
When the war began the Germans
| were very strongly situated In East
Africa, the only one of their colonies:
I that has not yet been captured by t' ■
| allies. For three years they have of
1 fered a most stubborn resistance to
the British, Belgian. Portuguese and
Colonial armies. They’ had a very
j thorough military system and had or
| ganized the tribes in their territory t "
i remarkable efficiency.
The country exceeds the area of
Germany itself. Its chief products
; arc ivory, cocoanut fiber, rubber, wax
1 and sisal for the manufacture of rope.
Parts of it wonderfully fertile,
hut there are also large stretch*.; of
: dense jungle and low lying swamp
(lands. Two railroads run east and
; west across it.
The British recruited and drilled
i natives from their colonies. At fir t
one-third of the troops used by the
allies were blacks, now 90 per cent
i of them are of that race. African
Negroes make very smart, teachable
! soldiers. In addition to the fighting
units several hundred thousand por
ters and carriers are used to build
| railroads and ' transport supplies
i through a terrain inaccessible to mo
tors and pack animals.
The mobilization of these native- is
| affecting the whole life of Central and
Eastern Africa. Each one believed
that his tribe was the most powerful
| cne in the world, and he now learns
of the existence of many races pre
I viously unknown to him. For the first
I rime he ers motors, ships, airplanes,
His horizon is wider, life becomes big
ger, and his plastic nature yields rap
idly to the impressions of civiliza
tion.
No Climate for Whiles.
T)urin'>- 1015 the British found out
that white men could not stand the
hardships of su h a climate. Except
ing the South Africap fighting units,
some regiments of Indian Sepoys and
the white personnel of departmental
services, the forces engaged are drawn
from the Negro tribes. Thirty bat
talions of the Kings’ African Rifles
have been raised in East Africa. Regi
ments from Nigeria. Zanzibar, the Gold
Coast, Somaliland and other parts are
bearing the brunt of the fighting. The
Germans driven from the railroads
and out of the important ‘ towns by
General Smuts, have led their pur
suers into a jungle country where
more deaths result from malaria, dy
• sentery, black water fever and other
such diseases than from casualties in
action.
1 Since they are of the same race,
these Colored Y. M. C. A. secretaries,
all of them graduates of American
colieges for Negroes are able to get
into closer touch with the simple Afri
can troopers than are white workers.
Naturally their sympathy is closer
and their understanding of them
j greater. Yergan learned Swaheli
I within six months and so was able
1 to talk to the men in their own
tongue. Others among the workers
have developed a remark:.ble aptitude
| for service in that field.
Boss Boys Learn to Write.
The huts are provided with port
able cinemas, lantern slides, gramma
phones and games. The educational
I feature of them is perhaps even more
1 important. To see the patience with
i which a native porter after a hard
day’s work will try to study English
with a slate and pencil is almost pa
I thetic. Talks with lantern slides on
sanitation, hygiene, and the preven
I tion of disease are given to the head
men of the villages. “Boss boys” are
shown how to keep accounts and write
letters to officers. One of the Col
! ored secretaries conducted a class for
| native noncommissioned officers to
make clear to them the ideals, for
■ which the war is being fought. Ev
erywhere there is an impulse toward
larger life for the natives. They are
coming into touch with the world
thought. They turn eagerly to men i
of their own color to lead them into
the light.
With the simple faith of children
they come to these “Y” secretaries
j for all sorts of service, for instruc
tion in a hundred phases of our com
' plex lifry They are given religious
instruction. They are taught the
J fundamentals of civilization. When
j they are ill they are comforted, when
, wounded they are cheered.—Indianap
| olis Ledger.
Our Women
and. Children
Conducted by
Lucille Skaggs Edwards
A TOAST TO I HE FLAG
T TURK'S to the red of it!
XI There’s not a thread of it.
No, nor a shred of it
In ail the spread of it,
From foot to head.
Hut heroes bled for it,
Faced steel and lead for it.
Precious blood - tied for it,
Bathing it red.
H ere s’ to the white of it;
Thrilled by the sight of it.
Who know* the right of it
But ha* felt the might of it
Through day and night!
Womanhood's rare for it
Made manhood dare for it;
Purity's prater for it
Kept. it so white.
Here’s to the blue of it,
Heavenly view of it,
Star-Spangled hue of it.
Honesty’s due of it.
Constant and trap!
Here’s to the whole of it.
Stars, stripe* and pole of it;
Here’s to the soul ef it,
Red. White and Blue!
—John Daly.
PR WER FOR OF It LAND
O Almighty Lord, who fashionest
I the hearts of men, and considerest ;dl
{their works; grant, we beseech The",
to us and to ail the people of this land
the spirit of obedience to Thy cottl
‘
Thy fear we may, under Thy might/
protection, possess our liberties in
righteousness and peace; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THE DEAD TO THE LIVING
O- YOU that still have rain and sun,
K'sse.s of children and of wife,
And the good earth to tread upon,
And the mere sweetness that is life,
; Forget not us, who gave all these
For something dearer and for you!
Think in what cause we crossed the
seas!
Remember, he who fails the chal
lenge
Fails us, too.
j Now is the hour that show's the
strong—
The soul no evil powers affray—
. Drive straight against embattled
wrong;
Faith knows but one, the hardest,
way.
i Endure, the end is worth the throe;
Give, give, and dare and again dare’
On. to that wrong’s great overthrow!
We are with you, of you; we the
pain and
Victory share.
—Lawrence Binvon,
in London Times.
TRUNKS
THE BETTER KIND
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Made from good dear lumber,
covered with fibre; well bound
on edges. Durable corners and
braces where necessary. Sturdy
lochs and hinges, 2 trays nicely
cloth lined.
Priced at $10.00. *12.00. $13.50
and *15.00.
Freling & Steinle
{ “Omaha’s Best Baggage Build
era”
1803 EARN AM STREET
The People’s
Drug Store
109 South 14th Street
DRUGS. CIGARS AND SODA .
Toilet and Rubber Goods
Special Attention to Prescriptions
We Carry a Full Line of Face and
Hair Preparations.
NteUon’.s Hair Dressing.. .25c
Elite Hair Pomade .25c
Aida Hair Pomade .30c
eXelento Hair Pomade .25c
Plough's Hair Dressing .25c
11 ygienic Hair Grower ........ 60c
Ford's Hair Grower . ...25c
Palmer's .Skin Whitener .25c
Palmer's Skin Sure« is .25c
Black and White Skin Olnt....25c
Mosul Bleach .25c
We appreciate your patronage.
Phone Douglas 1446.
WATERS
BARNHART
PRINTING CO
jo M A H A |
| Telephone Douglas 5712
PACIFSC
Pool Parlor
C. BRANCH, Proprietor
BOB JOHNSON, Mgr.
| Cigars, Tobacco and Soft
Drinks
LAUNDRY OFFICE
: 1014 SOUTH TENTH STREET
; : (Opposite Pullman Hotel)
OMAHA, NEB.
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C. S. JOHNSON
1 Sth ajui Izard fel. Dougins 1702
ALL KINDS OF COAL nnd COKE
nt POPULAR PRICES.
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♦ Established 1800
j C. I. CARLSON ;
| Dealer in •
{ Shoes and Gents’ Furnishings t
11514 No. 21th St. Omaha, Neb. {
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We Have a Complete Line of f
FLOWER,GRASS
AND GARDEN
Bulba, Hardy Perennials, Poultry j
Supplies
Fresh cut Gowers always on hand j
Stewart’s Seed Store j
119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office f
Phone Douglas 977 j
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Press while you wait.
Ladies’ work" a specialty.
Men’s and Children’s suits.
All guaranteed full satisfac
tion.
Cal! in and see us. We will fix
the price all right.
Clothes called for and prompt
ly delivered.
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By Good) car System. Sewed ❖
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Neatly Furnished Rooms *
Modern Conveniences With or
Without Board
Telephones. Doug. B777, Doug. 8703
The Booker T.
Washington Hotel
Mrs. Laura Cuerlngton, Propr.
In Connection with
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1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha
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J. A. Edlioim E. W. Sherman
Standard Laundry
24th, Near Lake Street
Phone Webster 130
C. II. MARQUARDT J
t ash market j
Beta I Dealer in Fresit and Salt }
Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. I
2003 Cuming St. Doug. 383 it
H ' lie Rendered Lard. V. e SmioH-I
ai'd Cure our own Hams and Ba on. J y
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♦ I wtinl voter trade sojHy upon the
♦ < i- rtI.. of m; fft-otJrt.
♦ You will profit b\ finding here
H. E. YOUNG i
j \ Webster 515 21! 1-16 N. 2 4th St. |
GOOD QROCERJKS ALWAYS . .. * ’»
C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO.
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Sergt.-Major E. W. Killingsworth p. c. pnce
At O. T. Camp Pike, Ark. At Home on the Job.
I The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor
The best equipped shop in the state. Leading shop of the city.
Baths, plain and shower. Cultured barbers.
KILLINGSWORTH & PRICE, Props.,
C. B. MAYO, Foreman.
Phone Webster 5784, 2416 North 24th Street
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