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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE Cleanliness and Fresh Air Are the Strongest Weapons toUse in Exterminating This Dreaded Disease. In Its Most Important Aspects the Problem of Tuberculosis is a Home Problem. By Dr. W. J. Thompkins. In its most important aspects the problem of tuberculosis is a home problem. In an immense proportion of all cases the scene of the drama is the home; on its stage the acts are played, whether to a happy issue of a recovery, or to the dark ending of a tragedy, so commonplace as to have dulled our appreciation of its magnitude. In more than 500 homes of this country there are lamentations and woe to night; husbands for their wives, wives for their husbands, parents for their children, children for their parents. A more repetition of yesterday's calamities, and if the ears of your hearts are opened you can hear as I speak the beating of the wings of the angels of death hastening to the 400 appointed for to-morrow. That this appalling sacrifice of life is in a large part unnecessary, that it can be diminished, that there is hope even for the poor consumptive—this represents a revulsion of feeling from an attitude of Oriental fatalism which is a triumph of modern medicine. There is no disease of all races of people that is so destructive to a race as the Great White Plague (tuberculosis) is to the American Negro. No disease tends to exterminate a class of people as it does the Negro race. Now what is the cause? In the poverty stricken districts of our communities you will find five or ten persons living in one room, poorly clothed and fed. The room may or may not have a single window. In this room cooking and sleeping are done. What is the result? The occupants constantly inhale each others exhaled air. In this air is a poisonous gas, C. O. 2, in which one cannot live. For one in breathing constantly, gives off waste matter in this form and takes in C. O. 2 which is essential to life. A room 12x14 feet occupied by one person, should be renewed with fresh air every 20 minutes, when ventilation is not complete. Sunlight is an essential factor. The room occupied in the day should not be occupied for sleeping at night. What is the result? These people so segmented and huddled together constantly deprive their lungs and systems of fresh air and the proper metabolism or upbuilding of tissues go wanting and the occupants for want of proper nourishment begin to pine away as a plucked flower before the rays of a noonday sun, due to the ever prescient poison (C. O. 2) in the person of foul air. As this condition continues, the vitality of the occupants decrease; the powers of the tissues decrease and are not capable of throwing off or withstanding the action of the ever wasting germ, tuberculosis. The result is, one of the members of the family begins to cough; loss of appetite, night sweats, followed by rapid wasting. In the meantime, the occupant who is absolutely ignorant of the hygienic importance, expectorates in the corners of the black room into bucket, on the floor. Here the germs its until they become dry, when after a short --- time the air will be polluted and flooded with the germs of tuberculosis. Then another member falls into line and into his footsteps falls another and another victim until the whole is fondled in the arms of this grave melady. These members go about the street expectorating here and there. These germs are carried by the dresses of the women; they visit the churches (and I must digress here and say too, are poorly ventilated) and the children to the school rooms, and these pollute the air, which is inhaled by other children. And these children in turn carry these germs to their homes and if the hygienic conditions are not what they should be, they will await alike the inevitable hour their turn in the footseps of the others. Thus, in this brief way, I have taken you from home to community, and when you have added the community, you will have the reaction upon the race. Indirect Causes:—In all of the cases of tuberculosis, a large percent is due to syphilis. Why? Because syphilis is always considered by the laymen to be cured when the initiatory leason disappears This being the case, it's hygienic conditions are poor and the virus attacks his lungs, rendering them in a short while easily susceptible to the ever prevalent germ of consumption. Since this is the case, we need to extrimate syphilis, and I regret that time will not permit me to give you what I consider a good method. Now as to the Negro emigrating from the south, most of them that come are of the poverty stricken type, who live solely by their daily earnings. In the north this Negro finds greater competition for labor than he does in the southland; he therefore gets principally that drudgery type of work which exposes him most in all kinds of weather. This Negro by birth and inherited tendencies, is un fitted for this climate. His compensation do not warrant him to obtain comfortable homes and he must pay double the amount that show, that as per cent of the deaths per annum among the Negroes are due to tuberculosis. Now, what are we to do to rid our he paid in the south for an inferior shanty. To protect him from the cold he must house his family from 6 to 10 members in a 1 to 3 rooms, without fresh air or sunshine. Such conditions are conducive to an excellent harvest of the Great White Plague. While in the southland, you find a similar segregation or housing of a large number, but in addition you have Mother sun, with her penetrating rays of heat and light linked with the ever prevalent noon day zephyr, permeating every hole and nook, giving purity and sweetness of Nature, to everything and destroying even the tendency of that grave malady—tuberculosis. Statistics. Statistics of the last census report CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 22, 1908. MILTON J. DIVINE MILES J. DIVINE. Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, warm friend and supporter of William Jennings Bryan, popular with the great mass of his fellow citizens, who would make a successful race for States Attorney of Cook county, this coming November. selves of these conditions? We are to instruct the mothers and fathers to get larger homes, to isolate one member so afflicted, to get more sunlight, more fresh air, more wholesome food in the form of eggs, milk, steaks, broths; less beer and whisky, and cheap perfume, and more water and soap and towels. Ventilate your churches and your school rooms. To bring this about it is necessary that the teachers, the preachers and the doctors wage war upon the people and impress upon them the necessity of better hygiene and teach them to covet pure air and plenty of pure water. Teach them the absurdity of expectorating in the corners of the rooms, on the floors. I had the pleasure, while at the University of Colorado, as a student and in the U. S. Marine service, in performing a number of experiments on guinea pigs. The sputum from a known patient was taken and injected into the pig, after 24 hours' exposure to the sunlight. These pigs died about six weeks after. The same sputum was exposed 36 hours longer and the same experiment repeated. They were found to live about 8 weeks. After 48 hours' exposure the sputum seemed to produce no special effect upon the guinea pig... Thus we learned that the tuberculosis germs cannot live or thrive in the sunlight. We further learned that a part of the sputum that was kept in the dark was virulent several months after. This shows that oxygen sunlight and lighted corners are essential to the extermination of these germs, rather than foul air and dark corners, which are culture beds for the germ of the Great White Plague. Then I would say, let there be light. Yes, I would implore you to covet deepness, fresh air and light. Make your homes clean and sweet, and when you shall have done this, there will be such a showing that the statisticians will be compelled to ratify that statement; the Negro is not rapidly being exterminated by the Great White Plague, but he is fastly multiplying and with dividends and compound interest.—The Mirror, Kansas City, Mo. In honor of his — birthday, "Pop" Henry Smith, 3417 Dearborn street, entertained the following gentlemen at a stagg dinner last Saturday evening: Drs. E. S. Miller and I, Lewis, Messrs, J. L. Parks, S. W. Thompson, Geo. R. Arthur, Henry Whitfield, Edw. Thurston and Noah D. Thompson. Cards were the pleasure feature after the dinner. Some Helpful Hints from the Health Department. The matter of proper ventilation is of great importance; for without a plentiful supply of pure air there is no such thing as perfect bodily health and vigor. In a recent talk we had a few words to say about bad air in street cars. This week let us talk about ventilation along a little broader lines. For while it is important that street cars and all public conveyances should be ventilated, the home, the factory and the work shop, where by far the greater part of our time is spent, should also be supplied with fresh outside air at all times. And, to the places mentioned should be added the theaters, the churches, and all other indoor places of public assembly. The eminent Dr. Parkes tells us that "Air is the prime supporter of life; health, even life itself, is dependent upo nits purity." He also says that of the causes of death which are usually in action, impurity of the air is the most important. Another authority says: "Anything which has passed through the human body ought to be treated as excreta and rejected; just as sewage is thrown away into the drains, so air that has passed through the human lungs should be got rid of at the earliest possible moment without allowing it to go through the lungs of some one else." This means that it is just as foolish and dangerous for us to breathe the same air over and over again as it would be for us to go to the sewes for our drinking water. And while none of us would think of doing the latter, there are thousands of people who every day of their lives, either ignorantly or wilfully, poison themselves by using air that has already been robbed of its lifes-sustaining and health-giving properties. It is said that ventilation is the most difficult of all sciences to practically deal with in such a manner as to satisfy every one. This is due to the varying temperaments and ideas of the human race. But it is pretty generally admitted that the system of ventilation which insures the required change of air in the simplest manner is the one most to be desired. Most systems of artificial or mechanical ventilation are faulty to the extent that they are of but little practical value. It follows, then, that a system of VENTILATION THE AFRO-AMERICAN DOCTORS IN CHICAGO Have Often In the Past Neglected To Warn Their Patients Against the Dangers of Contracting Tuberculosis. They Have Moved on the East Side of State Street In Order to Get Away From the Great Mass of the People Who Support Them, and They Fail to Instruct Them to Improve Their Sanitary Surroundings. In all this discussion, which has been carried on through the columns of the public press, within the past few weeks and on the lecture platforms by some of the ablest and lead ing M. D.'s of both races in this city, in relation to the fearful high death rate among the Afro-Americans in Chicago, from tuberculosis, so far one important point has been overlooked and that is that the majority of Afro-American doctors in Chicago, have in many instances in the past neglected to warn their patients against contracting tuberculosis. This fact can be accounted for in many ways, chief among them is the great amount of jealousy and enviousness on the part of the Afro-American doctors, in the majority of cases they will avoid telling the truth when they come in contact with those who are entering into the first stages of tuberculosis; it may not sound very well, but it is the truth nevertheless, and that is if one doctor really believes that he can gain a new patient by taking the patient away from another doctor, he will start in by telling the consumptive that the "other doctor does not know anything, that he never treated a case of consumption; that he is not even a third grade horse doctor; that he or she has only caught a slight cold which has effected one of the lungs, which will soon be as sound as a dollar and the cold will pass away in a very short time; that it is extremely risky for anyone to consult any other doctor in this respect, but him." So the new patient honestly believes that the doctor is telling the truth, and after the untrutural doctor has made his new victim, believe it is nothing more than a slight cold, he will for the next six months, or one, two or three years as the case may be rake in all the money he can natural ventilation is the one that can be best depended upon to do the important work required of it—which is to carry off the impure air and to furnish a constant and unfailing supply of fresh air to take its place. Dr. Parkes, whom we have already quoted in this talk, says: "Incessant movement of the air is a law of nature. We have only to allow the air in our cities and dwellings to take share in this constant change, and ventilation will go on uninterruptedly without our care." Here is your system of natural ventilation in a nutshell. Nothing complex or difficult about it at all. Now note what Houghton, another authority on this subject says: "Science proves that there is not a moment of time but when there is a movement of the air and this movement, properly utilized, is sufficient at all times to change the air in a building and secure ventilation." Scientists also tell us that the air that we call still is in reality moving at the rate of from one to to one and a half miles per hour. So you see it No.20 AMERICAN S IN CHICAGO the Past Neglect Their Patients Dangers of Con- erculosis. in the East Side of State to Get Away From the People Who Support Fail to Instruct Them Sanitary Surroundings. from his helpless victim, until the patient stumbles into his or her grave from tuberculosis. On entering the homes of that class of Afro-Americans who sadly need their advice, the doctors seldom warn them against the awful danger of contracting tuberculosis, neither do they admonish them that they must let plenty of fresh air enter their houses; that they must keep their homes in a clean and healthy condition; that no one can live in fifth and dirt all the time and reasonably expect to be strong and healthy; that the key to the whole situation in this respect is in the hands of the Negro; that no one else can or will unlock the door but he, himself, to improve his sanitary surroundings; that plenty of sunlight, good fresh air, regular habits, abstaining from all kinds of disipation, will go a long ways in assisting to lower the high death rate among the Afro-Americana in this city from tuberculosis. By falling to impart similar advice or information to the Negro, the Afro-American doctors are guilty of committing two double crimes, one against the race which they are supposed to represent, and the other against the medical profession, which is the most honored profession in the world. Within the past few years, with a few honorable exceptions the Afro-American doctors, have felt their rich oats to such an extent, that they have moved, on the east side of state street, from among the great mass of the people, whom they are compelled to look to for support, thereby lessening their influence in instructing them in the way of right living and to adhere, to a higher sanitary plane, and to live plain and simply lives, thereby outwitting to a great extent the germs of tuberculosis! is an easy matter to secure proper ventilation of the average building by a proper use of the coors and windows. Also we can see that in churches, schools, theaters and other buildings of a similar character it should be a comparatively easy matter to have them well ventilated. But the main point is to have a plentiful supply of good air. And in our homes, stores and work places, including also the street cars and all public conveyances, this should not be, nor is it, a difficult matter. Do not be affraid of taking cold if a little cold air strikes you. Never sleep in a room with all the windows closed. Open at least one, top and bottom, pile on the cover if you need it, and you'll sleep soundly and feel refreshed and vigorous when you get up in the morning—"P." Mrs. Blanche Neusome White left the first of the week for Paris, France, where she will join her husband, Dr. James White, who is in the drug business in Paris. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true guarantee of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Presbyterian, Indiehold, Parmaur, Parmar, cane, cane, cane, may any one else can have responsibility is fixed. The Broad is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. The Year. $0.00 1.00 JAMES F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. "Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois; under Act of March 3, 1879. ANOTHER VOICE FROM ARMOUR AVE. After listening with no small degree of interest to the different suggestions and plans at the recent ant-tuberculosis meeting at Fullerton Hall. I met a lot of my friends and patients. I am hoping that much is to be accomplished along the lines so beautifully planned and that this great undertaking will not dwindle into air like all the great and good things we start. We as a race are such excellent beginners, but such dreadfully poor finishers. Of course there were some things, said that were not just exactly true but then we are all likely to make mistakes. I have noticed that our platforms both on state and the L, are not much more thickly occupied than they were before the meeting. My advice to my patients white and black is too for the next few days anyway, to take chances, on being in the "inside of the cars looking out and not outside looking in." To say that more Negroes die from tuberculosis than any race on the globe, all things being equal is absolutely false. The Negro properly housed with the same modern appointments, proper clothing, proper food, and born from healthy parents, has the very same resistive power, as any race. Disease per se is no repector of persons environment and prenatal influence play a part in any disease. It was my fortune or misfortune to have watched the epidemic of 1888 at Jacksonville, Fla. having been quarantined there myself, during which time the white people in large numbers died from Yellow Fever and very few Negroes. To aid in the prevention of tuberculosis there must be rigid inspection of the foods sold in this neighborhood; which is so thickly populated with Negroes and measures taken to prevent the renting of unhealthy houses, a very careful inspection of the plumbing in so many of our houses. There are quite a few of our friends who live east of State St. who might afford to build us a modern flat building and teach us how to take baths and to lead good healthy lives. I have often wondered why in expending the money on Wabash ave., on an old fashioned building, that the Douglass Centre did not get right over on Armour avenue or State St., and teach us how to live proper lives. "Christ really came to save those who were lost, the righteous did not need a Savior." But we are all expecting great things of the several committees and we hope the meeting is going to be the means of much good toward eliminating this disease in the city. I had hoped to have heard Mrs. Clifford Johnson spoken of as a member of the committee, for she lives over in the "Black Belt," and has the means at her command to be of wonderful assistance in carrying on these plans and one whose charity among the poor in this region is well known. In conclusion, I would say, let our Eastern friends come over and see us, we appreciate now and then a bath and fresh air over here, not anyways particular about hot air—Another "Voice from Armour Avenue." THE SEARCHLIGHT CLUB, AND ITS FRIENDS. Dear May—You will forgive my negligence in answering your letter, but I have been so thoroughly taken up with the scandal, of the "Searchlight Club," that I have not had the time. Of course I know you went to the ball for spite, to show every one that you did get an invitation in spite of the Black balls. The fatten member present they tell me did more black balling than anyone and behold just a few short years ago, they arrested his wife because her fingers just would not be have. Now May I have feared to go down shopping because, we never so much and I always go to Marshall Fields. By the way have you heard that rumor claims that the wife of the High Monkey Monk" of the Club, or with white folks at the The image provided is too blurry and low resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a surface with some markings or text. Woodstock. She is a great one to rule the committee on invitations. Poor Laura was led to believe until the last moment, that she was going but Billy, the committee boy said she had talked about the "Faded Dresden Doll," whose husband is a lawyer by the way. May dear, they even black balled a black millionaire and wife, but you know they are not catering to the leader of the Searchlight club, and her beauty and diamonds would eclipse every one present. Of course our Black Harry Lehr will lead the grand march with the home made blond, so graceful we are, and that million dollar gown. If you see Laura tell her I wish she had my invitation for I will not go and my husband has promised me faithfully to draw out of such a club. They say the chairman dodged behind the backs of the committee because there would have been some sport if certain folks were not invited. I heard you were at the Charity Ball and queened it, with your charming friend in her elegant gown. Confidently did she have it made abroad? Go May and tell me all when you see me. If not before, I will see you at the wedding. Love and kisses. Bell. MAYOR BUSSE AND HIS REFORM WITH A VENGEANCE. The "Bedslat" Statesman Secures An Increase of Salary For Some of His Pets. While Favoring Reducing The Police men's Pay. The Finance Committee, of the City Council, have for the past two weeks been laboring on the city budget, for the coming year, and after figuring on the expenditures, they decided to reduce the salaries of the policemen, from $14.00 to $12.00 per year, in order to raise up on the high salaries already enjoyed by the following fat members of Mayor Busse's cabinet: 1907. 1908. William A. Coleman, purchasing agent ... $4,000 $6,000 Henry S. Dietrich, presi- deent board of local im- provements ..... 4,000 5,000 Eiton Lower, president civil service commission ..... 3,000 5,000 B. J. Mullaney, mayor's private secretary ..... 3,600 5,000 Paul Rediecke, deputy commissioner of public works ..... 3,600 5,000 John Kjellander, city sealer ..... 3,000 3,600 William B. Burke, gas inspector ..... 3,000 3,600 Miss Fannie Specter, sec- retary track elevation committee ..... 1,200 1,600 This is surely reform with a avengence one year, ago, it was declared by the mouth pieces of the present Mayor of Chicago, that in case he was elected, he would not favro any salary steals or grabs, but the actions of the finance committee which he seems to control, proves that he was incinsere, for his own private secretary B. J. Mulaney, had his salary raised from $3,600 to $5,000 and this extra $1,400 will go in his pocket each year for doing nothing. The committee, also expressed its regrets, at not being able of adding on to the salary of Max Nootbear, who acts as private secretary to Chief of Police Shippy, while secretary Markham quietly sits in his chair, looks wise, and draws his pay as the real secretary. Other favorite pets make unsuccessful attempts, to rake in a few thousand dollars to their unavailable services to the city. Many of the policemen, have no right to kick if their salaries are cropped off, several hundred dollars a year. For they worked for the election of Fred Busse and his sham reform administration. WHITE MEM WHO LIVE WITH NEGRO WOMEN BITTERLY DENOUNCED Canton, Miss. Feb. In its final report to Judge W. H. Potter, the Madison county, grand jury, bitterly, denounced the white men, who are living with Negro mistreatment. The report is in part as follows. We find that the disgraceful vice of white men living with Negro women in unlawful cohabitation has grown to an alarming extent, and threatens our commonwealth with a mongrel race which will be, a menace to our country. We find that the various of foes of the law throughout the county, and especially the mansor of the city of Canton, who especially neglects his duty in this behalf have apparently ignored the existence of this vice. Specially here we found this to be the case within the city of Canton, where we and in many instances the mansor have been fired by the mansor small sums and nor white par- If you need to contact us for more information mour shilded, or let go free, or his name held out for fear or exposing him. We condemn this without terms, and we earnestly recommend that white men who have Negro women concubines be dealt with to the full extent till the vice is broken up or such undesirable citizens find it more congenial to seek other places. We find that the city of Canton is honey-combed with "white gentlemen" who have their Negro women, or wives, with whom they reside after night, but because of insufficient evidence to secure a conviction we have passed up several instances for the consideration of the next grand jury."—Vicksburg Evening Post. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Ben Tillman, Old Jim Vardaman, John Sharp Williams, and others entertaining their insane views on the "Race Problem" should hike themselves to Canton, Miss., and other parts of the South, and implore their so-called white skinned brethren not to put themselves on social equality with "Nigger" women.—Editor. TWO WHITE SOUTHERN MEN AS-SAULT LONE WHITE WOMAN. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 13.—A special dispatch from Newborn, N. C., gives particulars of an outrage perpetrated there early this morning. The city is greatly excited over the affair. Two WHITE MEN called at the residence of S. L. Buck. After asking Mrs. Buck if they could secure lodging, and being told that she was not conducting a boarding-house, the men asked if her husband was in. Unguardedly, Mrs. Buck told them no, whereupon they grabbed her and dragged her into a room, where they cruelly attacked her—Ex. NOTICE The Ideal Publishing Company, 2605 State street, wish to announce to their customers and the public in general, that Mr. B. F. Edwards, formerly associated with the Company as manager, is no longer with the above named company, and he has no right or authority to accept or transact any business for or in the name of this company. The above named company will not be responsible for any agreement or other business made or transacted by Mr. Edwards in the name of the company after January 1, 1908. The Ideal Publishing Co., 2605 State street, Chicago, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. John French are living in Seattle, Wash. Dr Stafford, of St. Louis spent a day in the city last week on business. Mr. W. R. Sobers who has been confined to his bed for the past week or so is able to be out again. Mr. Harry Settles, 4206 Langley ave., is still confined to his house with illness. Miss Jessie Williams, of Indianapolis, Ind., is revisiting the city a few days, stopping at 3442 Wabash ave. Mr. Wm. Hill of oMntreal, Can. is spending a few week in the city, stopping at 3308 Rhodes ave. Miss Maud Jackson, 4728 Dearborn street, after a month's visit to Milwaukee returned to the city Monday. Mr. Richard Kelly...6345 Rhodes ave. has been confined to his home sick for the past two weeks. Messrs. Manning and Knox, of Indianapolis, Ind. spent a few days in the city last week en route home from the East. Mrs. John Smith, 4314 Forestville ave. presented her husband, with a 10 pound baby boy, Tuesday, a 20 Mother and baby doing well. Mrs. Vella Bunidy, 3851 Rhodes ave. leaves the city next week to spend a month in St. Louis and Cleveland visiting relatives. Mr. Robert Smaller, of New York, City, in visiting his mother Mrs. Cora Smaller, 2042 Prairie Ave, Mr. Smaller was formerly a Chicago boy. Messra, Frank and Ed Mallory, of Jacksonville, ill spent last week in the city on account of the illness of their brother Clay Mallory who is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. Miss. Georgia Gibean one of the prominent young school teachers of St. Louis well known in Chicago Society died at her home last Thursday. Miss Eilee N. Huffman, Professional nurse has given up her profession temporarily and accepted a position as stenographer in one of the large theatrical concerns down town. We understand that Mr. Gusty Dress one of our society young men will soon wed a wealthy New Orleans belle who has visited Chicago and is well known here. Miss Elizabeth Slaughter,3544 Dearborn street, left this week for her old home Louisville, Ky., where she will spend some time in visiting her mother and other relatives and frineds. Mr. M. H. Watts, 211 Cruger ave., New York City, has been confined to his home from sickness for the past two months, but a line from Mrs. Watts a few days ago, states, that he is improving and will soon be able to be out and look after his business. Col. James Hamilton Lewis, who so gallantly defended Mrs. Dora McDonald in her recent trial, has been forced to bring suit against the estate of her late husband Michael C. McDonald, for his fee of $25,000 and also asking in his suit an additional fee of $10,000 so as to enable him to pay his associate counsel P. H. H. O'Donnell and to wipe out other debts incurred during the trial. It was thought by many that Col. Lewis was sharp enough to have got his out, long before the case came to trial, but it seems that such was not the case, and since regaining her freedom Mrs. McDonald is no concerned, whether he succeeds in getting his fee. Father John Burke, who established the Colored Catholic parish in New York, has been made director-general of Negro missions in the South. Father Burke has issued a bulletin to the clergy of this country, in which he says that "not half of nearly 9,000,000 of Colored people have ever been baptized; that fully 4,000,000 of them belong to no church and profess no creed; that to multitudes of them the teachings of the Catholic Church are a sealed book; that in the Southern States there are more than 1,000,000 children who never enter a school room because there is no school within reach, and finally that less than 200,000 are Catholics. TOPEKA GETS A DRINKING FOUN TAIN The public drinking fountain for dumb animals, particularly horses and dogs, donated by the National Human Alliance, Hermon Lee Ensign founder, is now in place at the intersection of Sixth and Quincy streets, Topeka. It is located in the middle of the street and is ornate in appearance. Facing the south is this inscription in bronze: 1907: Hermon Lee Ensign. Founder. The entire fountain is of gray Vermont granite. The drinking basin for horses is ample, extending all the way around the base. Water pours into this basin from the wide-open mouths of four bronze lions' heads. At the foot of the fountain are four places where thirsty dogs may satisfy themselves with their favorite beverage. HUMANITY,TO ANIMALS. The Indianapolis Humane Society calls upon its members to supplement the work of the officers of the executive committee, by taking an active part in the effort to lessen cruelty to animals. All that is, said to members applies, with equal force to the general public—to all persons at least who have a kindly feeling, for the dumb creatures whose comforts and welfare depend wholly on the care that man gives them. At this season the horse is an especial victim of carelessness and anger on the part of ignorant or headless owners. It is allowed to stand on the street unblanketed for hours in all weather, it is often overloaded and with sleep and snow on the pavements is not rough shod. Much suffering results from such treatment and wherever cases of the kind are noted a remedy is applied, for the law imposes a penalty on persons guilty of this cruelty. As a mating of course it is impossible that all the cases of cruelty shall come under the eyes of the officers especially assigned to this service, and it is a matter of simple humanity and a duty belonging to every citizen to speak a word of warning to the offenders, or, if this does not bring results, to call the attention of the authorities. While the horse is an especial object of solicitude at this time, stray and starving dogs call for notice. These animals are numerous and should be reported whenever found, in order that they may be humanely disposed of. The manner of treating domestic animals is a test of civilization and much progress is yet to be made in that direction in every community. Education is chiefly what the public needs, however, and sometimes BADGER HUMANE SOCIETY HAS BUSY MONTH. Supt. R. D. Whitehead of the Badger State Humane society has issued a report of the work accomplished by the society in January. Twenty-eight cases of inhumanity to persons were investigated and all of these except two were well founded. Fifteen drunken and cruel parents were reprimanded, two children were placed in homes, employment was found for four people, and food and clothing furnished to three. In the interest of animals there were ninety-five complaints and investigations. Fifteen horses lame or with open sores were stopped from work and there were twenty-three cases of overloading. Seven persons were reprimanded for cruelly beating horses, and five for not providing sufficient food and shelter. Whips were taken from twelve drivers; fifteen horses were sent to be shod, and six were killed. In many instances dogs and cats were rescued from cruel treatment, and nineteen of these animals were killed to put them out of punishment. There is a long list of other commendable acts of humanity. The Way It Would Have Toyed With the Spanish Armada. Speaking of the fleet of American battleships now on its way to Pacific waters as an "armada," as some writers appear fond of doing, is comparing very great-things with things very small. It is true that the Spanish armada in 1588, to which allusion of course is made, filled a large place in history and was a very spectacular affair in its day, but its power as compared with that of the fleet under Admiral Evans was the power of a crow compared with that of an eagle. The "invincible armada" of Spain, which set out to invade and capture England in 1588, was a formidable demonstration of naval power for that period, though it met with complete disaster. The armada consisted of about 180 vessels, some of them of great size, but all wooden and without any protection against even the feeble artillery of that day. They carried in all 2,431 guns and more than 19,000 men, besides the working crews. As the soldiers could not help work the ships, they were really in the way and much more helpless on shipboard than modern marines. The cannon which formed the armament of the ships were mere toys compared with those of the present day. Finally the ships were all sailing ships, cumbersomly built, hard to maneuver and liable to be put out of action by adverse winds. Torpedo boats and monitors were unknown at that day. The American fleet consists of, sixteen first class battleships, eight armored cruisers, nine protected cruisers, six gunboats, six torpedo boat destroyers and three monitors. The ships carry a total of 2,184 guns, any one of which could sink the biggest ships in the Spanish armada, with one shot from a distance that the heaviest gun in the Spanish fleet could not cover half the way. The concentrated fire of all the ships in the Spanish fleet would not make a dent in the armored sides of one of the American ships, while a single broadside from the latter would sink or disable the entire armada. Finally the American ships, being worked by steam and electricity, are entirely independent of wind and weather. After they had steamed through the Spanish armada, once from end to end, coming out seafath, there would be nothing left of the armada—Kennebec Journal. How the World Grows. In a little more than a hundred years, according to government figures, the population of the world has grown from 640,000,000 to 1,600,000,000, an increase of 150 per cent. At the end of so many, hundreds of centuries, in other words, there were in the world in 1800 only 640,000,000 of persons, and in 106 years, from 1800 to 1906, to this number had been added 960,000,000. The total commerce of the world in 1800 was about $1,600,000,000. In 1906 it was more than $200,000,000,000. Other figures show that in wealth and the growth of various industrial agencies the increase has been far swifter than that of population. The overpopulation of the world is not a present occasion the thickness of today, but the thickness of a period when there were less than half as many people in the world as there are now, suddenly debated the imminence of the catastrophe that the overcrowding of the earth would produce—Boston Globe. Twenty years ago a famous work on "Solar Heat" was produced by Professor Bernard Mouchot. This clever old gentleman has just been discovered sturbing in Park, eighty-two years of age, and on the point of being tamed out of a poverty stricken home for employment of sorts. At the age of seventy-five he married a young woman, who subsequently passed off a relative as the protector in order that after his death the young man could continue to draw his pension. Unhappily the impostor came first and as Bernard Mouchot was supposed to have died the pension ceased. The professor could not claim the pension without exposing the fraud of his wife, hence his pension slight. Dates thrive on the Colorado desert. In Holland fifteen out of every thou- sand inhabitants are foreigners. The newly formed Chinese cabinet has decided on the regular publication of a government newspaper. The great Guadalupe artesian well at Guadalupe, Mexico, which used to squirt a hundred feet high, is tired and only goes half that now. There is one American book which should be counted among the best sell- ers. Over 3,000,000 copies have been sold. It is "The Horse Book," issued by the government. Judge Tuthill of Chicago decide- that it is as much the duty of a father as a mother to walk the floor with a crying baby and warm the infant milk bottle at night. Rockingham Junction, N. H., until recently a thriving railroad center, has practically ceased to exist. The railroad station cafe has been closed and the telegraph wires taken out. Few persons realize the amount of work required to give an automobile body its completed dress. To obtain new blue finish, for instance, it stated that no less than thirty-two painting operations are required. English Etchings. Deaths from hunger and destitution in the United Kingdom average more than 500 every year. A letter addressed to "The Man Who Wears the Tallest Hat In Bristol" has been correctly delivered in that English city. A London physician asserts that cigarette smoking is increasing among women to such an extent as to be causing a change in their diet. They now want spiced and highly seasoned dishes where they used to take creams and ices. An interesting experiment is in progress at Sunderland, England. The thousands of unemployed continue to suffer more from the cold than from hunger. To mitigate this the elementary schools are opened every evening and provided with light, fires, reading matter and games. Modes of the Moment Shoes are to be much observed this spring, for the street skirts are shorter, and shoes are more elaborate. Bright colors are promised for spring and summer millinery to give tone to the darker shades, which are prophesied for gowns and suits. The negligees of the season are very shiny, which means that one must wear very fine underwear, and this indicates that the petticoat must be of lace and the corset cover of equally beautiful material. A touch of gift is upon the gowns of the season, and the prettiest costume both for the house and the street are those unilvened by a little gold to waken them from their dullness and make them accord with the brilliancy of the modes—Brooklyn Eagle. Tales They Tell A live snake five feet eight inches long kept in the barber shop of Louis Schults of Trenton, N. J., is petted by the barber's customers. Ivins H. Whaley of Galestown, Md., ate two ounces of black pepper on a wager, but the services of a physician were needed immediately. Adolph Goldblatt of McKeesport, Pa., has a boy nineteen months old who weighs sixty-five pounds and who is said to eat more than a pound of meat a day. John Smith of Traverse City, Mich., set out a trap for mink recently. When he went to see what he had got, he found a trout-ten inches long securely caught by the lower jaw. Plays and Players Ams Ricard is to be a member of the cast of "Pald In Full" Edgar Selznoy has written a play called "The Energetic West." William Morris is to head a western company to play in "The Witching Hour." Albert Park has replaced Nan Hunsalmeier. Wheeler in the cast-of "Tom Jones." Arrangements are being made to produce "The Secret Orchard" in England, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Germany began to make the plate. The demand for aluminium still exceeds the supply. Prisons also rather produce half the ring of the world. A plant will be established at Hillwakee, Wis. to make gas from old straw, cornmeal, cornstarch, etc. Germany takes the credit for having the largest trade union in the world. It is composed of metal workers and head members of $35,000, a large proportion of whom are women. If sounds doubly bad when a smiling man is profane, If you go along, you must do well today, you can't always be waiting until tomorrow. After a man has made a mistake and someone but how he does song for you hardly. When not sure what another follow the first one, it will silence, costing you anything, you have made a good investment—Achievement Globe. THE HALL OF FAME. Jeremiah Meeker of South Orange, N. J., is ninety-three, but never misses a local baseball game. B. J. Lang, the Boston organist, is seventy years old. He began playing in churches when he was only fifteen. Peter O'Connor, aged eighty-seven years, of Fliht, Mich., who is averse to cold weather, goes to bed late in the fall incased in blankets and remains there all winter. Mark F. Hoffman is one of the most agile mail carriers in New Hampshire. With a 100 pound bag on his shoulders he made his trip from Manchester to New Boston and Bedford on foot, beating his schedule over the same route with a team. The French Academy of Sciences has elected as corresponding member of the geographical section Sir George Darwin of Cambridge. Sir George, who is the second son of Charles Darwin, is professor of astronomy at Cambridge. Dr. George Alexander, pastor of the University Place Presbyterian church of New York, acting president of Union college, has declined the permanent presidency of the institution. He says he is too far on in life to hazard a step demanding the efforts of a younger and more active man. John B. Martin, proprietor of the life Martin, in New York, who offers money to his employees who would marry and who agreed to give pre-immunies for children, has been compiled to pay out in a year $5,150. There were twenty-six marriages, fortune babies and one-pair of twins. The venerable W. J. Rolfe is hard at work upon a volume of Shakespearean proverbs and also upon another work relative to Shakespeare about which he is silent at present. At eighty years of age Mr. Rolfe is a robust and vigorous personage. One of his comfortable morning walks is from Cambridge to Boston and back again. William: James Bryan, the new senator from Florida, is just one year older than the law requires to make a man eligible to a seat in the United States senate. He is tall and of athletic build, with a frank smile and of the type which has made the drawings of Howard Chandler Christy famous. He is a fine lawyer, a splendid speaker and a hard worker. The Sporting World. The Buffalo Derby, run at the Kenilworth track, will be worth $5,000 this year instead of $3,500. Way Sutton, the tennis champion of the world, is now famous. A brownie has been named after her in California. George B. Illiff, the noted legless athlete, succeeded in lowering the world's walking record at Akron, O., not long ago. He covered the mile in 12 minutes 12 seconds. At the Castleton stud in Kentucky, the property of James R. Keene, are now three stallions each of which has won more than $100,000 on the turf. They are Peter Pan, Kingston and Delhi. Dr. Joseph H. Reilly has been selected as the track team leader of Georgetown university for the present season. Dr. Reilly was on the Georgetown team for several years and has carried the blue and gray colors to victory in many contests. Flippant Flings. If the raw food fad prevails, these many soon be enough, cooks to go round—Baltimore Sun. Positive, dodging street cars; commu- native, dodging automobiles; super- diving, dodging the wagon—St. paul Globe-Democrat. They called comic opera in 1905 lil- atto and score; in 1906, words and music; in 1907, chatter and tunes; in 1908, drivel and slush—Washington Road. Women have pledged themselves to wear no wings on their hats but those of crows. We will soon discover that the crow is a bird of amazing plum- age in size, shape and color.—Washington Times. Church Work It took thirty five years to build up a church of six members in China, but since 1900 5000 natives have been converted to Christianity. The new Caryatian Episcopal church of Philippus is handsome architecture, was recently opened. The chancel furniture alone cost $15,000. An original plan has been developed for repurposing the Holy Trinity church in England, jamaica, destroyed by the earthquake a year ago. Five young men are to take out twenty-year endowment insurance policies aggregating $1,000 in favor of the church, the building to be paid by 200 members in weekly installment of 40 cents each. May Be Held by the Dutch For Military Purposes. To the casual observer viewing a Dutch landscape there is nothing to arrest the attention in the fact that possibly one or more out of a dozen windmills in sight are to all appearances simply standing idle while the others continue their never ending task. If one watches the sails of the idle mills closely, it may perhaps be noticed that they move slightly from time to time and then remain for awhile at a different angle. If this is so, the miller is in all probability engaged in holding a conversation with the proprietor of the other mill, which may be miles away—in fact, possibly barely visible on the horizon. Quite recently the Dutch government carried on a series of experiments in order to ascertain the value of windmill signaling for military purposes and were surprised to find that communication could readily be established with far distant centers and that confidential messages could be sent on from one mill to another and so forwarded throughout the length and breadth of Holland in an incredibly short time by means of secret codes known only to the millers themselves. These codes have been handed down from generation to generation and jealously guarded from outsiders with all the intense conservatism for which the provincial Dutch are proverbial. Apart, however, from these secret codes, understood only by the millers and local groups of mill owners, there exists a series of windmill signals with which every one of the inhabitants of the country districts is familiar. At times, for instance, a mill may stop working suddenly and the miller be seen to come out and with the aid of a long pole with an iron hook at the end, like a gigantic boat hook, reach up and drag down the descending sail until the arms assume a certain position. Every one knows immediately that some accident has happened to the wooden machinery of the mill and that the services of the local carpenter are required.—Windsor Magazine. Old Moraeshoe. Vice Consul Ernest Vollmer reports that one of the constantly growing imports into the Chinese province of Shangtung through the port of Tsingtao is old horseshoes, which leads him to give the following particulars: "One steamer alone in November brought 200 tons of this scrap iron from Hamburg. The market for these wornout shoes seems to be almost without limit. Chinese Iron Shoes buy the horseshoes and sell them to knife and tool manufacturers all over the province. It is claimed by the Chinese that the temper of this class of iron makes it the best obtainable for knives and cutlery and also good for other tools. The reason ascribed for this is that the constant beating the shoes have received under the feet of horses has given them a peculiar temper absolutely unobtainable in any other way and that tools made from them are superior to all others." New Way to Collect Fees There is a new wrinkle in New York on the ten cent automobile buses of Fifth avenue which is warranted to give any one a start the first time one meets it. It is an automatic coin receiver, looking more like a revolver than anything else, though which the conductor is required to receive all fares. When he comes along and instead of holding out his hand for the dime shoves the muzzle of the nickel plated weapon in your face the shock is considerable. The contrivance is of course designed to prevent the conductors from dipping into the cash. A mile is passed declaring that the conductor may not touch anybody's face. If you need change, he is authorized to return the full amount, and then you must suck the dime into the slot of the machine yourself—New York Sun. ```markdown ``` This story may not be true. The downtown motor car dealer on whom it is late denies it, but a certain polignancy still remains. The dealer got out of his car at Nighth and Main streets Friday morning to buy a toy motor car from a hawker who has a stand under the vault. "Til take that car," said the dealer, pointing at a toy which was spinning around on the table. The hawker reached in his sack and drew out another. "That one isn't for sale," he said, grinning. "It's my demonstratin' car." He so relates that after that the hawker and the motor car dealer finally shook hands, but no sale was made—New Orleans Picayune. A Theatrical Experiment. An interesting experiment has been initiated at Bournemouth. A grand hall has been built on to the Theater Royal in which people can wait before the theater does open for the performance, and for others the audience are requested to retire between the acts to permit of the theater being thoroughly ventilated. Tea will be served in this hall, and the orchestra will play there during the intervals.—London Globe. THE BROKER'S VALENTINE. I send you herewith, by a messenger small, Who's dressed in the scantiest style. A large batch of stock—you may have it on call, In case you should think it worth while, It's issued by me as a share in my heart. And, though listed at par, my advice is to buy it dirt cheap, as you may at the start. I know we won't split on the price. You ask if I ever have offered before. The stock that I'm offering you here. Ahem—well, the truth is I'm offering you more. That I've offered for many a year. In fact, you may have what is known on the street. As "a controlling interest." How strange? You insist on the price for the issue complete? Just a share in your heart in exchange—William Wallace Whitelock in Lippincott's. The First Nature Fakir. A. B. B. On the Job. A Baltimore man who was recently a passenger on a Cunard tells of an incident of his trip that led him to the conclusion that your average seaman is not apt to waste much thought on his personal troubles. This sailor had met with an accident the second day out, the result of which was a bad cut on the head. The Baltimore was most solicitous in his inquiries as to the seaman's welfare when he next saw the captain and would undoubtedly have continued his sympathy had not a rough sea called to mind his own sufferings. Several days later, when he emerged, white and weak, from his stateroom, he suddenly remembered the poor sailor. In the course of the day the Baltimore man saw the man with a strip of plaster on his forehead. "How is your head?" he asked sympathetically. "West by south, sif," was the reply. —Harper's Weekly. Ways and Means A couple of girls, after the manner of girls since the world was young, were recently discussing the affairs of their various friends. "I don't see why in the world Clara lets that little smb Charlie Blank come to see her so often!" the dark haired one said. "They are together almost constantly." "Hum!" the blond commented, with a worldly wise little smile. "Well, I don't. I wouldn't," her friend asserted. "He is not good looking and has such ugly ways." "Well, perhaps he has ugly ways, but such handsome means," the other said, and something very near a sigh got past the piece of fudge she hastened to put into her mouth.—St. Louis Republic. Warned. "My friends," said the campaign orator, "beware of the unscrupulous heeler. [Applause.]" "There are men so lost to shame that they will offer you, a dollar for your vote. [Hisses.] Do not listen to them. Spurn them. Be on your dignity. Demand more. [Continued applause.]—Philadelphia Ledger. --- They Tried It. "I read in the papers of a professional debate where one team refused to meet the other team while they kept a feminine member on the ground that they could not argue with a woman. "The objectors must be a married men's team."—Baltimore American. Superficial. Irate Wife—But what is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Do you hear? (Bang!) What is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Threat Husband—On the contrary, Jeans, it was only because I was listening to you that I dosed off—Judge. Real Skin Game. "These men a man who has been working a skin game all his life." "Ever been arrested?" "Nope!" "That strange. What kind of a skin game does he work shall game?" "No, he is a tattoo artist."—Pittsburgh Post. Good Colored Tenants Appreciated I have stone heated floors to unit every man's income. I am no agent, I rent only my own property, you will save many a useless step when you want a flat if you first call on me! Samuel! Richardson, 142 La Salle St. $JW. Cot.; Madison Room 1, Tel Main 2133. Ots Block. TO the Readers of The Broad Ax I wish to announce to my many friends I have from 4 to Sarcoma stony treated here to run on the South and West Side, call if you are deprived and has not the cost. I will loan on your personal effects. See the Rev. T. A. Clark, 3742 State St. Please look this out. Dr.J.William McDowell Physician & Surgeon OFFICE: 3102 STATE STREET. Hours, 8-10 a. m., 2-4 & 6-8.30 p. m. Sundays by appointment. Phones Residence, 4792 Douglas. " Office, 4796 Douglas. Dr. W. t. MACKEY 3111 STATE STREET Phone Dour. 4101 HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M. RESIDENCE: 4545 ARMOUR AVENUE Phone Blue 6971 HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M. and Nights CHICAGO. City Office, 500 Burton Bldg. 39 State Street Hours 4/7 P. M. Phone Central 3207 W.D. Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street FOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 Telephone, Calumet 194 Dr. A. B. Schultz Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 9 to 12 A. M. 8 to 5 CHICAGO and after 6 p. m. C. E. Kreyssler 5059 STATE STREET N. E. 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Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone: Douglas 1230 ZIDA 217 Waiters and Cooks Prefer Dur Makes JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREB. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 300 State St., CHICAGO. ing and Storage WOOD Three Trips Daily to and from Frelght Houses. Telephne Douglas 2338 Tel. Central 4660 HER MESSAGE. It Would Take a Load Off John's Mind When He Got it. After a bitter family quarrel the husband had declared that he wouldn't speak to his better half again in five years. As usual, she went him a few better and retorted that it would be a good ten years before he would hear her gentle voice again. A few days later the wife called up her brother on the telephone, and the following conversation took place: "Hello! Is this you, John?" "Yes. What is it, Sis?" "You know, John, that Dick and I have quarreled?" "What! Again?" "Yes, and it's all his fault." "Oh, certainly! What's the trouble this time?" "Why, he got angry just because he received a bill for a fifty dollar hat I ordered." "I don't bl- That is, the wretch!" "I isn't he? We are not going to speak to each other again for years and years." "Bosh! Slap him on the back and call him old sport and make it up. You folks can't go along that way." "We managed all right until the hired girl left last night, but now there is no one to deliver our messages to each other." "Gee, it must be tough to have to call in one of the neighbors to ask your husband for car fare to go shopping." "Oh, it's not as bad as that. He sees that I have plenty of money without asking for it. Now, John, I want you to give Dick a message from me." "Sure! I'll come up tonight and spank both of you for acting so childish." "No, the message can't wait that long. I want you to phone him immediately after I leave the instrument. I hurry upstairs so he will have to answer it." "All right, Sis. Where is he now?" "He's trying to cook himself an egg. You know the girl left." "Poor dev- I mean the fool! Well, what shall I tell him?" "Tell him, John, that there is a can of sardines in the pantry and that I will make the coffee just as soon as he gets out of the kitchen."—A. B. Lewis in Judge. It Was a Stage Brand: Gertrude, aged four, had been to the matinee. Later she tried to describe the play to a grownup friend. "They drank wine," said Gertrude. "and then they all went out." "Well," said the friend expectantly, "and what happened next?" Gertrude worked her small brain hard. "I guess," she said, "they spit it out"—New York Press. A Cordial Cook. "How do you like that new cook of yours?" asks the neighbor. "Is she nice?" "Nice!" enthusiastically echoes the other. "Nice! Why, she treats me as though she considered me her equal." With a sigh of envy the neighbor changes the subject—Lippincott's. His Difficulty. "You wrong me," said Plodding Pete, "when you say I ain't willin' to work. I'm jes' dyn' to work." "Then what's the trouble?" "Tm too conscientious. Whenever I gitt a job I'm so anxious to fill it well dat I gits stage fright"—Washington Star. But Not For Paying Back. "I see Slickman has bought an automobile. I didn't think he had sufficient means to spend money that way." "Oh, he has all kinds of means of borrowing and spending money."—Bohemian Magazine. "Yes, Genevieve!" Selections One Ball Served a Busy Postal Employee Seven Years. Though it handles some thousand million dollars a year, the United States government is not unappreciative of the value of small things, such, for example, as a piece of secondhand twine. Perhaps the ordinary rapgirler wouldn't regard it as a good business principle to stoop for a discarded twelve inch string when he is hurrying through the city at dawn in keen competition with all classes of rapgickers for what there is of commercial value in the ash barrels and scrap heaps. But that may be due wholly to his inability to foresee some of the future possibilities in the practice of noticing such trivial things. Similarly it may be that a certain government employee who attached himself to the New England division of the United States railway mail service six or seven years ago did not pin much faith in little dingy string pieces, for he was some grades above the trained rapgicker in the social scale. Yet he stooped to pick up such string pieces as came under his observation in the ordinary routine of his business, and it resulted in the bestowal upon him of a distinction which has not come to his companions of less economical tendencies. How much it counts toward his promotion in the service is problematical, but it has carried his name and fame with favorable comments to the attention of the United States postoffice authorities, says the Boston Transcript. When this man reaches the next step up and his salary is increased accordingly, he will have some difficulty in dissociating his luck from the little string pieces he has picked up in his years of service, and his mind may be coached by a little justified pride in the following official paragraph clipped from the most prominent position in a recent general order of the New England division of the United States railway mail service, over the signature of his superintendent: "A clerk in this division, appointed in 1901, with the exception of having been furnished with one ball of twine, has never made a requisition for an additional supply, having reused the twine which he saved from packages received by him." Fight For Moonlight Under the headline "A Fight For Moonlight" the Morgenpost of Berlin says: "Artists and all lovers of the beautiful are arrayed against the municipal authorities of Venice, by whom it has been proposed to illuminate the Grand canal with gas. The canal has never been brilliantly lighted except on festival occasion, but who knew? The moonlight has been sufficient. Modernism in all its forms has been at work along the waterways, and now the moon is to be eclipsed, probably because it frowns upon the motor boat. The charm of the Venetian night, the indescribable light and shadow effects, the mystery, romance and imagination lurking in the dark corners of the palace walls, all these will vanish before the loud, shrill, poetry destroying light." The protest movement has taken the form of a monster petition to the city authorities, and the artists, authors and lovers of the beautiful who have signed it say that this is a "fight for Venetian moonlight." Paris Not a Gay City. It is a fixed idea in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon that Paris is the gay city, the home of engaging frivolity, the spot where the grasshopper perennially chirps and dances in prosperity, defying the fabulist. The truth is far different. The visitor may figure the gay city to himself as a siren in pink, but the resident knows her as a shrewd old lady, stuffing an old stocking with fat coppers or fatter silver pieces. She is, indeed, enriching herself at the expense of her long suffering inhabitants, for "everything is becoming dearer" is the cry of the housekeepers in Paris. Articles of consumption and other necessities have increased alarmingly in price since the year 1902. In five years bread has risen 15 per cent, beef 22 per cent, veal 14 per cent, mutton 25 per cent, pork 27 per cent, butter 14 per cent, cheese 25 per cent, fish 50 per cent, etc.-Modern Society. A Showman's Proposal A Showman's Proposal. "Have I had many proposals?" laughed Blanche Bates when she was labyaby asked the question by an inquisitive acquaintance. "I should think I had! Got lots of fun out of some of them too. The most cemical one I ever had was from a man who owned a traveling show. I didn't care for him one atom, but he was extremely importunate. One day he made a frantic appeal to me, using, as he thought, an unanswerable argument. "You'd better have me," he urged. Now, think over it. Take a few days, but think over it. You know you won't have to go in the parade."—St. Louis Republic. It is the ambition of every up to date Jap to learn English at the first opportunity. At one of two of the Japanese hotels I was rather puzzled and a little flattered by the eager and almost anxious politeness with which Japanese youths offered to come for a walk with me. But I discovered that they only wanted a free lesson in English—Strand Magazine. $9,000—3444-3446 Wabash Ave., 8-9 room stone front residences; will sell separate. Make terms. $5,000—4033 Dearborn St., 2-fist brick building, stone foundations, 6-6 rooms. JESSE BINGA, 3637 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 1565. Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing Park For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With Its Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions, together with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 guests, at its present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in the Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it. Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come!买 and build one of your own by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. which I am sending as Part (or infill) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. I agree to pay $ _____ per month until the full amount $ _____ has been paid, at which time I am to recieve my stock certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Account must be made to the order of Beasley and 23 Mooreley, Treasurer 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock- holders are entitled to prefer- ance as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their inten- tions to apply for employment. For further information ad- dress Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. 6258 Halsted St. Chicago, Ill. Name _____ Address _____ City _____ State _____ LINES TO LOUISA. [The same being our forty-seventh male] [we have has gone to smell elsewhere.] At other times they did not lean When carried by our kitchen queen (Whose other name was Dennis). But rose as straight as spire or tree, And then her model seemed to be The campanile, Venice. The leaning tower was first to go. And when it hit the floor below The havoc was appalling! At once another crash occurred. And then, alas, we knew we heard The campanile falling! I see its shattered remnants yet. Twas half our wedding dinner set— The other half was Pisa. My chateaigne her protest filed. "Pray leave," she cried, "ere I go wild, Pray leave on Ossa, piled Would be you, your soulaf" —Earle Hooker Eaton in Harper's Weekly Evidently. She-This wine doesn't seem to go to your head as quickly as it does to mine. He-No. That is probably because it has farther to go. Modern Archaeology. Pat was having an argument with a friend who was well posted in ancient history. "How foolish of you to contend that the ancient Irish were more advanced." have even understood electricity, as wires corresponding to our own telegraph wires have been found in Egypt." "That may be," answered Pat, "but the fact that no wires have been found in Ireland proves beyond a doubt that the Irish were in the habit of using wireless telegraphy." —Philadelphia Ledger. Prejudice "Robert, this spelling paper is very poor," complained the small boy's teacher. "Nearly every word is marked wrong." "It wouldn't have been so bad," protested Robert, "but Annie corrected my paper, and she's mad at me, and for every little letter that I got wrong she crossed out the whole word."—Lapincott's. Catching the Wayfarer Cogger-The good parson told me I should always be trying to lift up my fellow man. Motorwood-What did you answer? Cogger-I told him I would put a scoop on my automobile at the earliest opportunity-Chicago News. Accounts For It "The star actress in the play was a discovery by the manager. He found her working in a laundry." "That accounts for it." "Accounts for what?" "The way she manglea-her part."—Baltimore American. As Times Change. interesting," said the observer. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "It is mighty interesting; bit, between you and me, it isn't near so much of an investment as it used to be."—Washington Star. The Nibblers. Hiram, Eyetop—So the checker, club argued here on the Panama canal, hay? How long did they argue, Jeff? The Strokesper—Let's see. Halt a wedge of choice, peek of prunus, gint of dried pinches and a pound of crack- ing. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Imported and Domestic Wines LIQUORS & CIGARS Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. POOL AND CIGARS AND BILLIARDS TOBACCOS WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB 239 E. 22ND STREET Phone Callnet 2940 CHICAGO Sandy W. 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