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f. THE ict v7Mt VOLUME 1. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917. NUMBER 1. SUICIDES IN DAY OF BACHELOR HORRORS OF KILTS PAID FOR HIS RID Local Briefs A Blind Man u-pgr.

There are at times quite a deal of Explained by Large Number of Health War Brings a New Dignity to Unmarried Man. Proposed Dress Reform Doesn't Appeal to This Britisher. Soldier Had No Complaint to Make About Price. Mrs. Louise Alexander and daughter, Mary Azaline, left Tuesday p.

m. for Wichita. They will stop in Joplln to visit relatives before concluding their journey. They were guests of relatives gossip about the association of the races and equally as much about other things of as little import. And when it is summed up, one comes to the con elusion that nothing: has really been accomplished worthy of note.

The questions of social equality and intermarriage and matters of that sort de- pend not alone on the trend of public sentiment, and should not be so con sidered; in fact it is a matter appar ently without a solution anyhow, so let us turn to the more profitable pos sibilities; to things which, if carried out by every individual, regardless of race, would add materially to the uplift of society and the general better ment of our communities. We need to pay strictly more attention to these three great principles of self govern ment: "Live honestly; hurt no man render unto every man his just Question yourself constantly and see If you are conducting yourself properly in the doing of any of the above named three. We have just "oodles" to learn if we should take the time and quit meddling in other people's affairs. It is all good to be inquisitive about the other fel low's business, if it concerns you or if you have yours attended to, but "safe ty first." We are proud of the fact that the colored populace of this part of Bourbon County are not the worst but improvement can be made in many different ways and along many lines. No race of people in the known parts of the world, live happily without some kinds of industries of its own; it shows thrift, push, rigor and worth.

Then next but not least comes decent and moral places of rest, recreation and amusement, so that the so-called race discrimination does not obtain which now seems so distinctly but surely drawn. We are living in an age ol reason and relative dependence, as a whole, but that does not discredit the fact that we should push onward in the paths of usefulness, honesty and betterment. The achievements of yester year are not those of today. Because we have enough provision for today is no reason why we should stop until that bit is consumed before we start again; but tv. must keep going until we have spent our last energy, and by a careful, economic and frugal conservatiop we shall look upon our past career with much satisfaction and pleasure, to know that we have not spent our lives more useful though they might have been, for aught.

We have Borne very prudent men and women in Fort Scott, but with the amount of wealth possessed by them, kept in such an unproductive, unfruitful, miserly, selfish and stingy manner, denies within itself, the very object and purpose of such accumulated values of American coin to the "forward march" in advancement and progress and civilization of the Negro in America, and most especially in Fort Scott. Let's do something worth the while and pull our face out of the ditch. We can do it. Decline of English Dp to about the year 1886 all went well with English agriculture and the value of land and rents constantly increased. Then came a few wet, ruinous seasons, largely lncreaslnglmports of grain, beef, bacon and cheese from the United States and a heavy fall In prices of all kinds of farm products.

What was the cause? Simply that the Western prairie lands were opened np by railroads and thos big ranch owners sent their products East What was not needed in the Eastern states was shipped to English free-trade markets, with the inevitable outcome of low prices. In a comparatively short while thousands of English farmers were ruined, land fell 40 per cent in price, rents bad to be lowered fully one-third and the rural population decreased. Much Used. "Don't you think your wife bas got a wonderful voice "Tea; it's wonderful tt hasn't given out before this." The Texas Way. As a matter of fact, eating watermelon so as to enjoy it most is not a very graceful proceeding, and personally we would rather take a 50-pounder out in the back yard and go to it than have swell company present and make a spectacle of ourself gorging into an emaciated slice with a fork.t Houghton Post More Than a Matter of Appearanoe.

"I don't see so much difference between the way Gladys dresses for the street and the way she dresses to go swimming," remarked Mr. Cumrox. "But taere is a great difference," replied bis wife. "The bathing suit bas to be made of material that won't shrink, or fade." Sponged. "Mrs.

Flubdub wants to borrow some eugar, some eggs and some flour. Evidently going to make some sponge cake." "Sponge cake Is right But why does she sponge entirety on niT Mrs. Nelson (Grandma) la yet on the sick list ghe lives In the east end of town and Is. reported as betng about the Mif "'in. and Fortune Seekers Who Go to That Section of Country.

-The most suicidal city in the United States is San Diego. Cali, which had a suicidal rate In of 6M.3 per 100,000 people; the least is Holyoke, Mass, where the rate for the same year was 8.1, says World's Work. In 100 cities the suicide rate for 1915 was 20.3 per 100,000 people. Figures running back ten years show precisely the same or tier of precedence In different parts of tlx United States. The enstern states have the lowest rate from 1910 to 1914 it was lfi.fi the southern states come next, and then the rate increases progressively as one goes west, reach Ing the highest rate on the I aclfie coast, and especially In California.

Certain explanations come immedi ately to mind. California attracts many Invalids, and despondency over their physical condition may Increase the suicide percentage of the state. The Rocky mountain and Pacific states also draw thousands of men who are seeking their fortunes and a large proportion fall In the quest. The East and South lire Wire settled In their ways, less subject to sudden business and social upheavals, and consequently more the home of steadygolng people. The West Is more adventurous and still attracts a considerable number of people whose varying temperaments and varying fortunes might easily ex- plain its greater tendency to self- murder.

SAYS FILIPINOS ARE LAZY Writer Doubts Whether He Will Ever Work Very Hard to Make Something of Himself. The Filipino strikes me as unbear ably lazy, writes Maynard Owen In the Christian Herald. He has had roads built for him, schools run for him, good government and peace secured to him, and an unusual measure of confidence pluced In him. He has graduated from ulmost no clothes Into spotless white, with patent leather "kicks," a clean shirt and a resplendent tie, so fliat he looks like the swell member of a pair of black-face comedians. He has "sitting-down" Jobs crented or dis covered for him and has taken with remarkable alacrity to the Ice-cream- sotht huhlt, Just like nny other cultured being.

He learned to speak English very well ami has been trained into a eally good athlete. But as far as I an see, so fur he Is not much hnngt'd since the days when he daw- lied into school, followed by a serv ant to carry his books and Ink bottle. doubt very much whether he will work as hard or as Intelligently to make something of himself and the Islands as Uncle Sam has worked for him. Solving Solar Heat Though the-problem of utilizing so lar heat In place of eoalhaa engaged scientific minds at various times ever since the early part of the seventeenth century. It Is only within the last 15 years that really promising results have been obtained.

Today, according to Mr. Ackerrminn. the problem Is very nearly solved, at least where sunshine, Is plentiful and coal dear. Where, for example, coal costs as much as $17 a ton coal costs a great deal more than that today In Italy It already pays to resort to the latest methods of using the sun's rays In the production of mechanical power. The Improved plant tested In Egypt In 1913 brought results ten times as great as any that bad been previously obtained.

The practical side of the problem Is the proper concentration of solar beat This requires reflectors, mirrors, lenses and other apparatus at once complex and extensive. All the necessary apparatus, however, bas been greatly simplified by ingenious engineers, and further simplification Is said to be reasonably certain. Chicago News. War Takes "Curse" Off Wrist Watch. The wrist watch for men Is coming Into Its own, In the opinion of Jewelers, who declare that the use of this class of timepiece by the boys In khaki bas removed the "curse" on the watch, which caused a smile whenever seen Just below a man's cuff.

There is no indication to snicker at the wearing apparel of the men who are to enter the fight in France, and the facf that nearly every one of them wear a wrist watch Is, in the opinion of the jewelers, the salvation of the watch which one time was worn exclusively by "women." Can't Count Them. Two aviators, one American and the Other Irish, were discussing the best position for the propeller with relation to its strength. "Mine," said the American, Is in front and gets up to 10,000 revolutions minute." "Hare," said the other, "I can't say which is best, because mine is at the ick, and so I can't count Item." Roman Costumes Also in Disfavor for One Could Never Keep His Toga In Place, He Fears. Godolphin G. Glnkle, who arrived recently from a British port to buy soft socks for soldiers, said that conditions In the couutry were fairly tollollish when he left there two weeks ago, says the New York Times.

"Apurt from the war and the soul-destroylng Irish conundrum," Mr. Gin-kle continued, "the chief excitement la Loudon Is the fight over the proposed dress reform. A lot of silly blighters a refrain from using a stronger term insist that men and women should wear kilts and short jackets with the old-fushloncd Glengarry oap and feather and leather broguns. Of course the kilts are quite all right for fellows built on the plan for an Apollo, but what about the people who are bow-legged and knock-kneed? "I was never intended to wear kilts, and I swear that I never will again after a.1 experience I had, even if I should be compelled to adopt the costume and customs of a Hottentot ou Africa's burning sand. "Shortly before I left London I was invited to go to un al fresco luncheon given at a house In the country, and all the guests, men and women, were to wear kilts.

The house was close my own villa, not far from town, and the luncheon in highland costume was the Idea of our rector, one of those kindly, portly, white-haired, dear old' things with a red nose, who always look as If they were giving away things to all mankind and keeping their hands in theii pockets. "I did not like the look of the grounds where the luncheon was laid out, because there was gurgling brook on one side, and that meant Insects of a savage type. With my usual luck I had to sit on the side next the water, on one of those -silly cane settees that are constructed to turn over when they are sat upou suddenly. "I was at one end and the rector's wife, who weighed at least 250 pounds, sat at the other and looked as graceful In her kilts as I tild in mine. I fancy that was why they placed us away from the giddy throng, so as not to cast gloom over the affair.

Just as I was helping myself to some lobster salad splny-tulled gazeka bit me on the right knee, while a double-horned flying goozog stung me on the left leg. As I sprung Into the uir with a wild yell I heard a fearful scream and saw the rector's wife go over into the ill tch. Ileal ly 1 don't know whut happened afterward, except that the rector called me a villain and everyone said that I had done itttas a practical Joke. I managed to reach London somehow and got out of the dreudful kilts, and did not go back to my home uguln before sailing for America. "In addition to the kilt revival crowd, another lot of dodos have formed a society to have men and women dress like the ancient Romuns.

You know the kind of thing I mean toga for the men and jacket with 'a sarong like the Dutch women wear lu Java, no hats and sandals for all, without socks." Mr. Glnkle looked sad when he related the details of the proposed dress reforms, and asked plaintively how he could ever keep a toga in its place. "I couldn't really, you he added, "and one never can tell tvhut will happen la Kngland these days." In view of these dress reforms Mr. Glnkle threatens to come und live the rest of his days in America. Concerning Ices.

The storage of Ice for summer use has been practiced from the earliest times. The Greeks, fur Instance, constructed Icehouses hundreds of years before the Christian era, and we know that Alexander the Great, when at Pera, In India, had large pits dug and filled in with snow, which was covered over with layers of leaves. The Ice or frozen snow was used as occasion required, both as an Iced drink Itself and also to cool other drinks. The Romans also enjoyed the luxury of Iced drinks, but they generally Iced them by putting Ice or snow Into tlu liquid. At a later period the Turks, improving upon Alexander's method, had well-constructed vaulted cellar in which they stored large blocks of Ice, filling up the Interstices with snow, so that the whole formed solid block or small Franc followed this plan for ages, but It war not until the end of the sixteenth century that the rench learn etl how to freeze water nrtlf.flally Shaped and molded water Ice vert eaten In France In 1000, and were soon afterwards Introduced Into England.

Cream lees were the luxury i.f a later day, and when first Intr sriuced were very primitive compared with the daintily flavored, colored and shaped Ices of the present time. while in Fort Scott. For dry goods' of quality, we have them. The W. J.

Calhoun Dry Goods Co. Boost, don't knock. Read The Messenger. (let the habit, Every known fabric in dry goods. Calhoun.

Mr. Asa Davis of 402 Barbee street, has lost a few useful days on account of Illness. He is able to be out again, however. For pure milk and cream, stuff that Is fresh and clean, go to the City Dairy, 18 S. National or call phone 224 lou will get it.

The mention of persons and firms in this paper are friends to our cause, and why should we not stand by our friends? Mr. Jeff Richard, who has been ail ing for some years, is getting along fairly well. He is able tos arise early and his appetite Is fairly good. To save Kress. nickels and dimes, go to Tallman has lumber, laths, shlnghs, to sell, not keep.

Cor. National Ave. and Third street. Tt is reported that Mrs. Anna Smith and Mrs.

Lulu Davis contemplate trip to Joplin to attend the celebration on tne btn or August. They were down to Pittsburg a few days ago to see the circus. Mrs. Leota McNier of Omaha, Is visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mc- Nler, of Fast Elm.

street. For flowers, wreaths, or any funeral designs, see Parker Son, or call phone 348. Mr. Rufus Maxie is on the sick list yet and has been for a long, long time, His condition is pitiable. For good things to eat, see Gauggel.

Everything fresh in the bakery line. There are many opportunities for the one incessantly tries to do. How about you? There was quite an exodus of our people the 27th of July to witness the big show way down in Pittsburg. Yet they complain of hard times and the high cost of living. Mrs.

Bessie White of-Quincy, 111., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Rufus Maxie. The Baptist Association will convene at Mt. Zion Baptist church August 13th. See Davis for ice cream, candies, cigars, bread, cakes and pies.

Every thing fresh, at 110 S. Main street, or phone 499. We need your aid. Will you lend it? Messenger. We have the ice cream with a repu-ition.

You know what it is, Bach mann, 10 N. Main street. Read The Messenger when you are really itching for good, wholesome mental food. When you have read this paper don't stop until you have placed your name on the subscription list. Do not forget Kress when you want what you want.

Send In your subscription to The Messenger right now. Get on the list. We need you. Mr. Walter Wright's mother and sis- er, from Oranby, were visiting him.

They left Wednesday for Salina, to visit another relative there. Mrs. Ed Saunders is home again. She visited her father in Kansas City, for two weeks. Mr.

and Mrs. Pitts, from Colorado Springs, are visiting Ardell Wright, her brother. Mrs. Redmond of South Ransom street, is listed with the sick St this writing. A Lesson for Him.

First Burglar I cracked a lawyer's house the other night and he wo there with a pun ter meet me. He advised me ter get out. Second Burglar Yer got oft easy. First Not much I didn't. He charged me S-5 fer Je advice.

A "A practical politician, Is like a street monkey la one respect." "What Is thotr "Both have to have an ergon. to support thrm." BehitiU the ears. "How kng you In forf" asked the new convict. "Six months," was the reply. "I see.

Just doing BtUa ehr a He Who May Be Merely Tolerated In Time of Peace Is Lionized When Call to Arms Comes. War has given the unmarried man some of the dignity which he lacked In peace. Ordinarily the bachelor is tolerated for what he may become rather than for what he is observes a writer in the San Francisco Bulletin. Mothers would not welcome him Into society nor girls take pleasure in his attentions if it were thought that he would always remain a bachelor. Toe hope of converting him into a married man furnishes one of the main incentives of all social activities.

As this hope declines he becomes more and more a misfit In a world which prides Itself on finding an exactly shaped eorner for everyone of its Inhabitants Who Is worth troubling about. His socks are not darned, his buttons are not sewed on, and 'the number of lumps of sugar which he likes in bis coffee, the degree of bolledness which he demands in his eggs, are nobody's business but his own. He is free, a condition which in youth makes him the envy of bis married friends, but in later years makes him envy them. He can go anywhere he pleases at any time he pleases without having even to argue the matter with a woman, but the reason that.no woman cares what he does. He Is free because no one is Interested enough in him to care to put shackles on him.

There is no fixed place for him. He stands free of the burden of the bene dict's endeavors, but at a cost. He sees men and women doing things for motives which he cannot understand. Social forces of various sorts perplex him because be does not see, their hid den origins. What is plain enough to any mediocre husbr.nd is often a hope- less puzzle to ru tito most thoughtful bachelor.

He cannot fully understand any Intangible loyalty because he is no longer in contact with the source of loyalty the relations between parents and children. For certain ad venture i he can be depended upon to furnish dash and enthusiasm, but for the steady, grinding work of everyday life he is inferior to his married neighbor. Civic progress relies princi pally upon the man whose interests carry over into the next generation and are not confined to his own corporal welfare. But this somewhat pathetic figure of the bachelor is wonderfully dignified by the advent of war. The married man, In most cases, is handicapped from fighting.

His business is to raise wheat and children, a necessary task, but lacking the appearance of glory. Chivalry beyond the dreams of medieval knighthood may animate the man who helps his wife take care of the babies, preparing their bottles and banging out their domes, but in times of war he is not a heroic figure. The demand then is not for men who have found their places In the world, but for those who huv not. The wifeless, landless, footfree person is the stuff of which armies can be made with the least possible social loss. Because be was so forlorn in peace he is lionized in war.

He marries war and. the government sews his buttons on and darns the boles in bis socks. Knew Ho Had Gone for Good. Hannah Thompson, whose husband until recently had been employed as a Pullman porter, interrupted the proceedings in the Harlem court in a hurried effort to obtain a divorce, says a New York news letter. She was quieted down until a case then being beard was disposed of, and then questioned by the magistrate.

When she had explained that her husband had left the previous morning it was suggested by the court that there was no reason to believe that he would not reftfrn, and that Mrs. Thompson had better wait before considering any such move as a divorce action. "But I knows that man ain't never comln' back," explained the excited Degress. "I was in bed this mornin' when I beard him gettln' out very quiet and creepy. He put on bis best clothes new suit, straw hat, patent-leather shoes and a light coat over bis arm and I lay very still makin' out I ain't awake yet He walks right to the door, makes a big low bow towards me and says "Good-bye, cold feet, goodbye.

Judge, tbat nlggec ain't agoln to come back." Recoil. A recently invented shock recoil pad to protect the shoulders of gunners la featured by a long air chamber interposed between a hard rubber base and a soft rubber cushion. Has Deubtiess Helped. "Do yon believe that eating carrots Improves the criplexlon?" "As to that I can't say. But I do tbluk thht belief has Iwught the carrot prominently luto the market" Was Glad He Stopped Bullet Which Might Have Hit Driver of Car Loaded With Wounded.

In the course of the battle of the Maine, the Germans fought a stiir, rcur-guurd uetion at Priez. At its height, Mr. Frederic Coleman, who narrates his experiences in his book, Troiii Mons to Ypres," found himself and his automobile involved la the proceedings. One of the Susses men, says Mr olernan, came running hack with the news of a general retirement. Ititi tire in front, rifle fire from our left tain snrupnei everywhere, made us Wiiiuler whether retirement was not le-is wise than staying where we were, But orders are orders; so we neurit' down the slope for the village, where had left the automobile.

Presently we reached fiO-foot gap in the bank ut the roadside; that part of our-journey must be taken in ful sight of the enemy. Two soldiers rushed at it, ouly to 'fall before they had got across. While we paused, a herd of some twenty cows galloped bellowing, down the hedge side in th field beside us. Blessed with an In spiration, we sprinted down the road In the lee of the barrier thus provident tally provided. "We're all right so long as the beef holds out punted a Tommy.

In a few seconds I had reached the car. A major asked me If I would, take back a load of wounded. I believed that any occupant of a car that tried to pass through the village and up the slope in plain sight of the enemy would stand little chance of escape; but the wounded were tossed Into the tonneau, into the front seats, on the folded top at the rear, wherever space could be found. I Jumped Into the driving seat. The running board of the car was lined "HldHrs, aud one, the only one unhlt, was mounted on a mud guard.

Up the hill we crawled. My load was eleven, some badly Two cyclists in front gave promise of blocking the way as we gathered speed, but a shell that burst over us knocked one of the pair off his wheel. He careened Into his fellow, and the pair rolled into the ditch together. Hang! went another shell, seemingly a few feet over us. Four men from a group ahead of us were hit.

Bullets sang all about. Someone hanging on the running board was hit, and cried as he dropped off. As the slope became less steep, I overtook and passed nn ammuiltion limber, with the team minus a driver in full flight toward the rear. A mile or so farther on we found a hastily improvised hospital, where I delivered my load. "Wounded?" asked an orderly a I drove up.

"Yes," I answered. "All but one," and I turned to look back at 1dm. "I stopped one, coming up the hill," he said, with a grin. "I stopped one proper, I did!" And he opened his tunic and showed me a blood-soaked side. "Might have got you if I hadn't been there," he added, "so perhaps it was Just as well.

I couldn't have brought the bthers back in this thing." And he grinned again. "Good luck, son," I said, with a rump In my throat. Ills teeth were set as he was borne away by two orderlies, but the corners of his mouth twitched in another half smile, and he said "Thanks. Don't you worry about me. I'm all right.

It's nothing I have often thought of hlra since, and hoped that he came through In good shape. Ills spirit was so very, very fine! Youth's Companion. High Standards for Air Schools. High standards of scholarship are to fe maintained in the sir government schools In military aeronautics which have recently been opened at the universities of Illinois. Ohio.

Texas, California, Cornell and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a special incentive, those who attain a rertain grade will be awarded a certificate marked "Passed With Honor." During the first eight weeks of the course, while the pupils remain on the ground, they will study such subjects as the care and operation o. engines far air craft, the theory of flight, cross-country and general flying. Including meteorology, astronomy and photography, as well as gunnery and bombing, signaling and wireless. Each student will be required to pass a written examination before he graduates.

Popular Mechanics Magazine. Color Blind. "How Is your sick husband?" "Oh! He Isn't very good and I discovered last night "that be Is color Wind." "Tell me about It." "He got delirious find talked about his little girl with the blond hair." "What makes you thiuk he Is color blind?" "Why, my hair is black." Froth..