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to Ride = WOULD RE-THRONE KING COTTON itizens of Everywhere,” by Deed and Threat Recall Post-Civil War Days When Famous “Klan"-of 550,000 Dominated Southland. ' By Marguerite Dean. . Again? 7 ILL the ghostly, avhite night-raiders of the Ku Klux Kian ride again? ine, even upon the rank and file of thern business men? ‘According to reports Just received, ht riders are patrolling Georgia, : a, South Carolina and Texas n effort to end all operations in ton until the price goer back to orty cents, “We the citizens of ev- here,” read the new threats hich the members of the new In- isible Empire are nailing to the cot- on ginneries under cover of dark “kindly ask that this ginnery cloned until November, 1920, uns further notified.” To emphasize he warning, cowential machine parte removed from the ginneries, eats of firing them and the mer- tle establishments are made and t least one such establishment, fn ceville, Ala. has been burned to ground with considerable low of on, A letter from Col. William K. Sim- mons of Atlanta, Ga, Imperial Wi: ard, with the heading, “Imperial Pul- ace, Invisible Empire, Knights of the » Ku Klux Klan, Inc.” had just reached Kentucky, announcing the forthcom- ing arrival of Klan organizers in that State, The letter gives a detailed ac- ount of the revival of the order, sa: ing that a charter was granted fiv ‘Years ago dy whe State of Georgia in response to the petition of one Sim- mons, professor at Lanier University, and thirty-four of his friends, “The organizers,” according to this account, “assembled on top of a stone mountain near Atlanta and there at midnight, under a blazing, fiery crows, they took the oath of allegiance to the Invisible Empire, as Knights of the Ku Kjux Kian,” A small beginning, but #0 was that of the first Invisible Empire three years after the Civil War, in 1868. A group of young mgn in Pulaski, ‘Tenn., with too much {dle time on thelr hands, thought they could add (to the gayety of life by forming a secret society which would mystify and terrify outsiders by a series of more or less harmless practical jokes. Thus came into existence the drat “Den” of the Ku Klux Klan—the name’ seems to bave been a corrup- tion of the Greek word “Kuklos,” meaning “cire! An outlandish costume Klansmen from the atart—the till cardbount hat, the mask, the all- enveloping gown which will be re- jmembered by the thousands of this generation who saw “The Birth of & Natio ‘The gown, apparently, was sometimes while, sometimes black. Klansmen usually draped tho horses they rode and muffled the animals’ feet, The general appear- ance of @ troop was undeniably ghostly and terrifying to the super- * stitious, and at that time practically all Southern negroes were ridden with superstition Almost before the organizers rea- tized {t, they found that they were @ power in a land and a time of bit- ter powerlessness for them and theira. Rightly or “wrongly, South- erners felt during the era of reocon- struction that they were being ex- plolted by Northarn "carpet-baggers” #0 called, because they were sup- posed to have come South with noth- ing but arcanpet-pag—who stirred up and manipulated for thir own ends the newly enfranchised, uneducated colored men, _ “Dens? of Kiansmen sprang up over night throughout the South. It has been estimated that no leds than 950,000 men were at one me enrolled, which means that practically all aduit males who survived the Con- federacy must have Joined what has been called “the underground rebel- ion." The Grand Wisard—chief officer—~ ef the Klan was Gen. Nathan Bed- ferd Forrest, He was followed in rank by the Grand Dragon, Other officers were designated as Grand Ti- vans, Grand Giants, Grand Cyclops, Furies, Gobling, Night Hawks, and or- dinary members were Ghouls, Abso- lute secrecy was the first law of the order. Visitations from the Ku Klux Klan took place at night, Perhaps a hun- Gred white-swathed, masked nen on shorseback would surround the cabin of a negro who had fallen under the + distayor of the native whites ia the vicinity He would be summoned fort. in hoarse sovents. A favorite eo a disguised --trick during the more harmless Klan aids Was for one of the ghostly fig- ures. te ask for a packet of water ding to drain it at a gulp, he myptied it into a rubber bag d beneath his uniform, then handed back the bucket to the tre: bling colored man with the re: marie that tha 4 the first water h tasted wince bo fell at the battle of Manansas Other activities of the Ku Klan are still a matter of dispute Houthern apologists ingat that the Klan, proper, composed of the sons of leading families, rarely resorted to actual vivlence and then used it only against disreputable characters, white or black, who bad refused to Klux Veton to past warnings aad mend Wielr ways or leave the community. Many Northerners, however, have boen brought up 1M the belief that the Klan was the logical anerator of the lynching Mobs which, to this day, distigure Southern civilization; that the Ku Klux whipped and even bung : Ellabelle Mae Wik the ghouls of the Invisible Empire once more make the South safe for Southerners (white preferred) and impose an tron rule aliko pon colored citizens, upon invaders from north of Mason ear Dixon's DIAMOND TESTS. O you know how to tell a real diamond? ' Here's how you can fipd out, Draw your nail file along the edge of the stone, A false glass imita+ tion will be cut, but a diamond will remain intact. If the diamond {» flat-topped— “table cut"—a «mall globule of water placed on tg will retain ita globular form even if moved about with a pin, On glass the water spreads, If the diamond tw what fs known 48 a doublet or triplet you can dia- cover these facts by putting the stone in oll and looking at it from the mide. Another teat Involves firxt clean- Ing the surface of the stone with a moistened cloth dipped in whiti Then, if you can procure it, mark the diamond with «n aluminum pencil, If a real diamond, the mar, may be removed easily by rubbing: with @ moistened cloth. A glass stone will be marked indelibly, Doolittle By Bide Dudley. ~ LE Beauty Section of the Wom- en's Department League of Delhi met in Hugus Hall Thore- day night and discussed iactal blem- ishes. Mra, Bingo Johnson took the stand that freckles are dikgraceful inasmueh as her husband, who runs the Crow Drug Store, has « prepara- jon guaranteed to remove them, “This preparation was discovered by Bingo by accident. But 1 want to say it ls a godsend. And, ladies, {t costs only $1 a bottle” “Polnt of order,” sang out .Mrs. Cutey Jones, "This lady seems to be here to boost her husband's business. If that’s to be the way we run things I'd like to say a few words about the Jones ment market.” A hubbub followed. Finally Promp- tress teas | auieted the ladies by in- troducing Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the noted pocteas, Mien Doolittle had « rhyme on “Freckles,” and all settled back in their seats to hear it. The fair girl tripped to the front of the rostrum, dressed in Gilligan ging- ham trimmed with little imitation och berries, She held up one hand to cut off the applause and then read the poem, as follows: > Freckles are not @ disgrace, They are just beauty spots, People who acog at them—ah me! Do much to make me hot. Freckles are not to be deplored, They add much to beauty, Men who se@ you will often say “Doesn't Miss 80-and-So cutely” look My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Threw a rock at the butcher, Stop thut, Teeney, or into jatt The Policeman will put you, But getting back to the freckles— 1 have several, maybe ten, And it is sufficient to say, girls, J am not hated by the men. Finighing with an accent on “men,” Miss Doolittle surprised the assem: blage by singing a strain from “The Pig-Pen Blues.” Then she gracefully did a goose step to her seat. The ladies applauded with great gusto. All were pleased. or shot colored folk who, In it lon, did not “know their pla that it conducted a wholly unware ranted persecuton against Yankee school , teachers, even — tnoluding of the devilish deeds of the Klan were brought to Nght by the Congressional inyest!- gat.on Inatituted,” says one au- thority, “but no ehronicle has yet appeared to depict the horrors of midnight warfase upon weak and ext Negroes and thelr families, the outrages by men in ghostly dis n guises, the bomes destroyed, and the general terror spread over the South ern States where colored people were most thickly settled.” Thene deeds of horror, accord'ng to defenders of the Klan, were perpe trated in most, if not in all Inatances, not by Klanaimen but by lawless ruf ver of the Klan name Two years after its or ganization the Kian was ordered for mally to digband by_the Grand Wie ard, But only after Congress onal in gation, a spec message froth President Grant, the passage of the Force bills” and the gradual exodus of the carpet-baggers and scalawage td Ku Klux methods practically d's appear becaune they were no long asary with the restor- ation of natve white sipremeacy throughout the South. Yet now the organizers of the hew Ku Klux Klan declares: "While conditions to-day are not the same as they were whon the original Klan was organiaed, the need for an or- ganizat on of this character ix just Qs pressing now as it ever was.” Just what js that “need?” The question will be asked by those who have watched our colored citizens living, year by year, a more edu- cated’ and orderly [ife--and dying bravely forgour common country overseas, | DON'T WAN T GO OuTt. You 'tt STAY HONE ! You CAN'T Go OuT WITHOUT STOPPING IN ALL THE BARS You SAMPLE Las Hone BRew FABLES For The FAN2 WHATS tie MATTER With WORK? NBY MARGUERITE” MOOERS MARSHALL © ND thus spake the Siren to the Aner Sweet Young Thing: “Of the making of love there is no end— Yet much kissing is no weariness of the flesh. ‘There is the kiss that seals love, The Judas kiss that betrays {t; There is the kiss of desire, And the kins of duty; The kisa that {s Paradise, And the king that is bread-and-butuer: The kiss that means nothing And the kiss that m werything; ths nou! kiss, the oe kiss, the kiss you give your dearest woman for; The first kiss—and the LAST; The kiss of cite the kiss of WAR! All kisses are good, but some are bet- ter than others. oN And may you discover them al!l— In Kissing every woman should be her own Columbus, A kiss {s no sin— And yet there are Seven Deadly Sins of Kissing! Hearken, little one, lest you should” fall Into these grievous errore- Or allow any Man to offend! Never So long as you value your privilege of looking the Recording Angel aquarely tn the eye, And of protesting, ‘It wasn't my fault he STOLE it!’ Never allow any man to ASK you for a kisa And get AWAY with it! That erime should carry its own pun ishment—prohibition. Never ask any MAN for a kiss, It is asserted that white oll paint will efficaciously mend china, cut juss or pottery,’ Use a tube of good white off paint in the same manner as YOU would use (ube paste and ap ply along broken odge, then fit the severod portions together and let stand until dry Do not try to clean your raincoat with gasoline. It will onjy spoil tt Lay the garment on « flat surface and nerub lightly with soap and water Deo not wring. Put jt on a cowl-banger and hang !t out to dry. Especially not your husband. You may get it, but {t will be deliv- ered about as enthusiaetioally as an income tax. Remember that—for amateurs any- way Kissing is a private sport and not a public performance. The fourth sin of kissing |e exclu- sively masculine— The sin of the man who kisses with his bat ON; \ Even as the fifth ain is feminine— ‘That of the woman who kisses with rouge that comes OFF, Sixthly, dearly beloved, she Is a Fool- ish Virgin Who puts a kins to the question Asking |f he ever kissed anybody be- fore, or like that— There's always the chance that he'll tell the TRUTH! But the last, the unforgivable ein of kinsing, ‘For which excommunication from the faith of all true lovers is too small a penalty— The crime of crimes— Is to kiss and TELE!" “he continued, ¢ BY SODHIE IRENE LOEB BUSINESS man complained bit- terly about what he termed “the conditions of the hour.” he situation is getting impossible, People won't work. In all my expert- ence I have never seen such a disre- gard of work. Workers seem to have lost all sense of responsibility and their relations to responsibility, “They don't seem to care. Their tusks don't seem important to there They seem to be working for wages rather than giving full value, They don't take the mame pride in thelr ef- forts as they ,ild. “It bn an intolerable state of affairs,” “Hut there will be an awakening,” he prophesied. The workers who awrume that attitude to- day will fall by the wayside to-mor- row, "Juat at present any kind of worker is in demand, and has been for some Lime past, They have grown Indepen- dent—too independent for their own good, But the day ts not far distant when the old prophecy will work over- Ume, THe who bas been faithful over & few things will be made ruler over many. “The employer Ws going to choose his Early Pictures of Stage Notables PICTURE NO. &-GUESS WHO THBY ARE. ERE are two more pictures of the thirty which ‘The Evening World will present of stare of the stage or sereen, tuken tn days gone by, Do you recognize them? % tieme pictures daily, and Sutuniay night send in a complete list for the week to The Editor, Magazine Page, The Kvening World, You'll find it a fascinating game. Every Wednesday the correct list for the preceding woek will appear with the namew o toe euccoveful contestants, the —---- > beat peoplo—thowe who are interested in thelr work and will shoulder ro- sponsibility, ‘Che others will have to we. fp “If you don't ne r believe it, go Into rly every industry fd see bow are cutting down and doing with few workers as pow) The pyo- ces of elimination is on, and the shiftiens worker, the one who is care- Jess about results, will make his own doom on doomaday. “This is true from the ground up in every kid of work,” he cancluded. ‘The pinnacle haa been reached, and the care-free attitude of the worker at large ia being met by outting him our ae fast aa porsibie ‘This business man weged me to write something about it In order to give encouragement to the worker who works atid warning to him who shirke, There iw a great deal to be said on this subject. This business men has struck a dominant chord. Somehow or other our promperity has #ent forth a wave of Irrewponstbillty that has crept Into every corner and crevice of industry And who | going to suffer when all is vald and done? The worker bim- wolf, Naturally my sympathies are alwayn with bim who how to earn his living in modest ways, And in many in- cen in the past the worker hag not nooordance with bie To-day, as a general propo- worth sition as pay runs, the worker ts boing paid as never before, But this does not may that he ta worthy of his hire, Ae a wise soul has put it, “He who only doos what he is paid for never gets paid for any more than he does.” In other words, working for money, even for the prime tm of live: \hood, is nut the only consideration in the line of progress. There ina great divUnotion between work and workmanship. The man who la willing to shoulder responsibility and looks ahead to the interest of bis work is rarely over- jwok’ » la the day whe any one needa hide Din light under a bhuenel rhers who shift from one ther because of 4 and do louk 3 travelling the line of least reaistan: and rarely find themselves on the fir where tho big work Is done, ines# man whom L quote one of hundreds who have but mame opinion about the prevalent fad the of only doing #0 much for #0 much Just as 9000 as people work for y only and have ne love of th itwalf, have no Joy in the ac ent of the thing Itwelf, ” they are The minute we low plnaause in a thing well, that minitte we have aoinetliing thac ia worth while Jn the human game This is some thume for reflection Giving satisfaction in work (& bein " with one's seif and hae ite ¢ wtion in the final suming p of dollary and conte. ‘"Phinig At over, By Fa Who would you nayt Corneliua Vanderti or Hetty Grew SCIENCE NOTES A shaving brush intended to be thrown Away after being used & single time is made of scraps of sponge and soap bound by waure to the end of a wooden handle Tt has been demonmrated by three Kingtie) xolentinte that ra- dium ean be extracted from the waste that remains after vie nadium haa been removed from ite ore, Apparatua haa been {avented for aneesrins smal ur diox- ide on abipboard and pump. ing fe to all parts of a vessel to Crtinguiee, fires or for ftumign+ tion ‘The tread of ao Kngiish inven- tors Butomobile tre at numerous small pleces of @tee! so Inserted in the rubber that the latter does not touch the round. The Jarr Family By Roy L. MeCardell Copyright, 1000, ty Tor Prem Puhiishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 66] wanna go out on the #trest, kin 1, maw?’ whined Master Jarr. Not when you ask me that way,” replied hiv mother. jenee, kin I go out, thenT’ anked the boy. "Can't you say ‘cam’ Willie, in stoad of *kin'T It sounds dreadful, What sort of school teachers do we have these days, anyway?’ "But kin I go if T say ‘can't’ Im quired Young Hopeful. “1 kin say ‘ean’ Kin I go for saying ‘can’? “Jf you can my ‘can,’ not if you ‘kin’ say ‘can’, replied hin mother. “But I kin say ‘can’,” the boy re- plied. “Why can't T go now? 1 ain’ done nothing, and I seen Insy Slavinsky and Johnny Rangle from the winder, Thetr mawa let them out to play after supper.” “Can I go too, mamma?’ asked the little girl, observing the niceties of dition, “Yeu, you may go, and Willie can fo too If he remembers to say ‘can’ and if ho will be more careful in his granimar, and not say ‘f done it" or ‘L aeen it’ or ‘I ain't done nothing and ‘window, not ‘winder’ No after me; ‘I saw it, did it’ "TD have done nothing, ‘window*.” “Hut 1 ain't done nothin’, maw," walled the boy, “Did you tell on me, tattle tale?” And he turned flercely on hin dear little sister, “No, I didn't,” whimpered the little girl, “I didn’t say a word about what you did.” Mra. Jarre affected not to hear this. Whatever it was the boy had done ahe would learn in good time If it were anything very bad, and if it were only @ small offense, the lesa a mother sees of minor juventle Irreg- ulariies the better Anyway, Mrs, Jarr %an correctinte faults of expression at chia time and she did not wish to complicate mat- ters by an investigntién into irregu- larities of action. “Kin we, | mean ‘can’ we, go out: maw?’ repeated the boy “Yes, seeing you have so thought- % fully considered your litte sister this time, you can mv out.” “Hooray!” cried the boy. “Where's my roller skates?” And there ensued a search for these adjuncts of joyous boyhood that led the seekers under sofas and beds, in various closets und corners, The roller #kutes were Onally found in the ice box @ ple that had been burglariously entered without the ald of a knife Her newer waa the thing that little sister had “seen when he done it,” but the courtmartial, ohatges disminmved with a reprimand Lithe Mins Jurr er were anwe had found her nkutes in the clonet, where she had put them safely after last uning them, and was gone. Perhaps whe tad diva pe red quietly: not wah ne to testify at the court murtis garding the ravished pt For, while she had not bean an ac complice In the forcible entry of the pie, abe had bon a receiver of & por on of the plunder and an accessory after t Well said Mew. Jaen, waving spotled and the ple you couldn't wall depy '{ Secaume you left your rol Kates in the leo bow, Mowing you Had just cone in wit when you took the pie without pers mission, 1 will forgive it thia time, wifey you Any you're sorry? So Muster Wille Kissed his mother ugain and was son heard going down (he stairs op his rolieg shales, Taxpayer Is a WOMAN, Mrs. Isabel W. Tilford John D. Rockefeller Is Taxed on $2,000,000 Personal Estate, and Louise Vanderbilt on $1,000,000.° Stevenson, F you were aoked to name the hithest personal taxed person In New York Now, please don’t all shout Join L, Rockefeller, » Viheent Astor son, beenure you are Ab, rea —_ T the Whitney the Warburgs: wrong. est personal tapay New York is 4 woman, he is lenbe) W. Tiiford, wiow of Mi M. Tilford, the oll capitaliat, Wi the publication of the new renity as somwimnont rolls, the personal tas rolls were made public a few days Mt was discovered that Myr. of leada them fil, Following ts a hat (home whos names are listed by the Asscawors a® ownlog taxable {in excess Of $100,000 and we 95,000,000 Laadet ot Tilford. $2,000,000-Jonhn Rockefeller. $1,000,000 - paral ‘Bhret, Hareid Vanderbilt, Louise Vanderbilt, &e. How many country esta ety homes or motor cam Mra. maintains bd how ry bey le ing ahe owns could no! UP, RECO et Jace C Canton j- a ot Board. ‘All we know Is that = ontire sonal ealate is valued Mr, Cantor sald, “and ry we AU at just one-half the Tt mitat have been correct, Mrs. THfonMd bag made no complaint. Most of the estate te and te arts members of Ma ae ls on exeoutors, Mrs. $1,200,008 ts eran fa be Gam Mr. Tiitord’s * taavter ameter, until . Of forty years, when votregave Gal wal One tion threw Can trust under similar conditions "» Mra. Katherine HH Mortimer, daughter; 992,000,000 ia in trust Sy the anges Sppahiec, Miss of New York ered, 1912 Mra, Menr; dinner dance young matrona, “tne the guests numbering more At the time the affair was prot in completeness of detail as one of important events of wi Henry M. Tilford, whose tandard O11 Company, died at hie home No, 24 Weat 63d Street, after an {ness of two weeks. Mr, Tilford Was one of the important witnesses with Joha:D. Rockefeller and John D. Aretbola tn the various legal pre- credings brought by the Government and several of the States against the reat combine, To-day thei are two very inte esting features to Mr. Tilford’s en tate: 1, The fact that his widow pays the highest personal tax in Mew 0 2. ‘That his heirs are not to. er oolve the principal of bia fortune until they have reached the staid aad Gincreet age of forty. ,fouRTsHIP AND MARRIAGE BETTY VINCENT) EAR Mies Vincent: | am in love with # young lady have every reason te that she is in love with ma However, almost gt time | call upon her @ the oon a ce is or or her ener nar and inte 1 must erowd IP everything t 1 want to tell fam in 2 quandary as to hethet | tell her mother that | am oe be on the family or ov widing to lot This emi W t seems to me that you should be Allowed to have raake fair the conversation a family af- Why not Invite the young Y ea? out fo some entertainment and some but pwo Ucketa? Or, better still, have « little talk with the mother. Dear Mise Vincent: © tell me what to nineteen and have gone with a chap for a couple of dearly, jo y and last week my escort brought th irl home and brought ma ome, Now, girl goes with a steady fellow, but since then my @: cort hasn't taken me home, so | have to go alone. | have tried hard to for get him, but | can't, Everybody ashe me why | look so worried, but wh: Ido to win him back? BETH.” ‘Thia laa frequent query, Beth, and iny only answer to you is NOT to run after him. It may be that i F « fasotaation tor this you iet him alone he ‘wel y tire of her, but it youltry win him back" you will onlyipue~ pustiog him further y Do not try to to go gbout with another boy “just to aplte him,” but aimply walt, and if he reall; for you he Wl see hin mistake and come back of his own accord, ESeanene Sits ee } ij } nee eee eer re ee