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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. The Night Riders of Tennessee Committed Horrible Crimes Against Innocent and Peaceful Men and Women Revolting Details of Their Night Raids Are Coming To The Surface at Their Trial in Union City, That State. There Are More Bloodthirsty Savages in America Than Any Other Country in the World. Vol. XIV The Night Rid Tennessee C Horrible Cri Innocent a Mer Revolting Detail Raids Are G Surface at The City, That Sta There Are More Bloodthin Than Any Other Countr The trial now going on at Union City, Tenn., of some of the members of the gang of night riders, who have been apprehended in their bloody work of murdering and beating up innocent and peaceable men and women, is indeed revolting to read. The crimes which they committed against their defenseless victims in the dead hours of the night, is the outcome of the reign of lawlessness, and we might say anarchy, for many years. Several of the ring leaders of the bands of night riders have turned state's evidence, and so bitter is the feeling against them and the other witnesses for the state, that they have to be handcuffed, and escorted into the court room by officers with drawn weapons, and while the trial is proceeding, armed soldiers and other minions of the law are stationed around the room in order to overawae the savages and the sympathizers of the night riders, and to prevent the witnesses from being shot down in cold blood, right in the court room. As an evidence of the brutality of the night riders, Mrs. Emma Thurman Johnson, one of the witnesses, testified that, "last August, owing to the cruelty of her husband, she left him, taking her little child with her, and brought suit against him for separate maintenance. That early in September, the night riders visited MANY DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ALREADY IN THE FIELD FOR MAXOR IN 1911. The contest for mayor of Chicago in 1911 is already lining up the politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, in favor of their respective candidates, and much wire pulling is going on right now among the big fellows who control ward delegations. Carter H. Harrison, who, if we remember rightly, served as mayor of this big town for eight years prior to 1905. Col. James Hamilton Lewis, John E. Traeger, former Mayor Edward F. Dunne, Andrew J. Graham, the West Side banker, Judge Charles M. Walker, Miles J. Devine, John P. Hopkins, ex-mayor of Chicago, Judge Lockwood Honore, Alderman William E. Dever, Francis S. Peabody, the coal king; Alderman Frank D. Connery, Charles F. Gunther, the more than successful candy merchant; Hon. John M. McGoorty, the home of her father, where she was stopping, and left word that she must withdraw her suit against her husband. This she failed to do, and on September 30th they made a second call on her at the home of her sister, about 11 o'clock at night. She was sound asleep, with the little child at her side, and when she woke up, her bedroom was full of masked and armed men." "The ring leader of the masked men whom she recognized, approached her bedside, and in a disguised voice, again commanded her to withdraw her suit, which she again refused. He let her know that she would do so before they got through with her. At that instant she was seized by the arm by those brutal night riders, dragged out into the darkness, stripped to the waist and lashed unmercifully across her bare back until she finally, of exhaustion and loss of blood, promised to withdraw the suit against her husband." When white men will treat their own women in such a brutal manner, what can you expect of the treatment they will bestow upon Colored men and women?" The details of the crimes which the night riders committed in Tennessee, is positive proof that there are more bloodthirsty savages in America than any other country in the world. Thomas Carey, the former chief of the Stock Yards district; Mr. Roger C. Sullivan, the "True Reformer" and member of the Democratic National Committee, and Mr. Charles H. Wacker, are among the Democratic candidates for mayor in 1911. Fred W. Upham, Edward J. Brundage, John F. Smulski, John J. Hanberg, Alderman Frank I. Bennett, Oscar Hebel, the hight hand bower of Mayor Fred Busse; Alderman John H. Jones, and Col. Milton J. Foreman are the most prominent Republican candidates for mayor of Chicago in 1911. United States Senator Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, has been selected to serve as Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Taft. For years Senator Knox has been attorney for many of the leading trusts, and as their heads have put up considerable money to help to carry the day for President elect Taft, no doubt they feel that they have the undisputed right to place some of their tools in his cabinet. CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26, 1908. EDWARD D. GREEN. Ex-member of the Legislature of Illinois, Prominent K. P. and a hard worker in the ranks of the Republican party, who should be selected by President Taft, after March 4, 1809, for Postmaster of Chicago. Importance of Correct Breathing. Pure Air. Pure air and correct breathing are of the utmost importance in maintaining bodily health and vigor. A noted physician has made the statement that only those who are too lazy to breathe have consumption. All doctors, too, are agreed that people who habitually breathe full and deep, that is, use their lungs to their full capacity, seldom have this disease; and further it is asserted that persons stricken with consumption and who begin at once to breathe as they should, frequently recover. Improper breathing means that the lungs, not being supplied with the life-giving oxygen, lose their vitality and soon become ideal beds for the development of consumption germs. According to Dr. D. H. Kress, a prominent physician of Washington, D. C., the human body may be compared to a furnace. The food we eat is the fuel needed to produce heat and energy; but oxygen is needed to keep active the vital spark. The more oxygen we admit, the brighter the fires will burn and the more pronounced is the energy experienced. When only a small amount of oxygen is admitted the fires in the body burn low and this means the retention of unoxidized products. These products clog the system and cause depression and lack of energy. When this occurs it is not more fuel or food that is needed, but more air. In the lungs, says the same authority, the oxygen is absorbed by the blood and conveyed to all parts of the body. The gases formed as a result of the oxidation which takes place in the tissues are brought to the return flow of the blood to the lungs and are exhaled. In this way the vital fires are kept burning, the blood and the tissues of the body are kept clean, good bodily health is maintained and disease prevented. Then, too, we should remember that breathing, like eating, is a matter that each individual may control. In other words, it is left entirely with each one of us just how much or how little of life-giving air shall be taken into the lungs and how much of the life and health destroying products shall be exhaled. For those who work outdoors it is an excellent thing to take a few breathing exercises in the morning and then again at night the last thing before retiring. Be sure to throw open the windows in order that the air you take is good, fresh, outdoor air. If possible, the morning exercises should be taken out of doors. In taking breathing exercises care should be observed to breathe slowly the nostrils. Exhalations may be either through the nose or mouth. Breathing exercises in which the lungs are overtaxed, that is, forced to take in more air than is required, may be injurious rather than beneficial, and especially if the inhalations are vigorously and rapidly taken. A brisk, cheerful walk in the open air, with an erect posture, and the chest well forward, is stimulating and affords one of the best of breathing exercises. Climbing hills, swimming and rowing are excellent ways of increasing lung capacity but should not be overdone. Finally, it is important to maintain an erect posture, no matter whether sitting, standing or walking. In order to breathe properly it is necessary to keep erect and thus allow free expansion of the lungs. By following these simple directions the greatest amount of benefit may be obtained. "P." "PEACE, GOOD WILL TO MEN." A service of sacred song, by the choir of Quinn Chapel, A. M. E., 24th street and Wabash avenue, Sunday evening, December 27, 1908., under the direction of Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson. Miss Elizabeth Williams, accompanist; Rev. D. P. Roberts, D. D., pastor. COLORED CATHOLICS A Model Colony on an Island Near Mobile, Ala. The Community is Composed of Gentle, Kindly People, Devoted to Their Faith and Earnest in the Observance of Their Religious Duties. Under the title "A Model Catholic Colony of Colored People" Father Tobin of Mobile, Ala., has issued a booklet devoted to a description of the Colored community on Mon Louis Island, Alabama. Father Tobin writes: The location of the community is on the west shore of Mobile bay and is cut off from Alabama mainland by the Fowl river, thus forming a little island called Mon Louis Island and commonly known as "the Island of Saints." The people of the community of which we are writing are Colored people, be it well remembered, but we reiterate they are also Catholics of the strictest kind. As to their sterling faith, the testimony is not that alone of the writer, but also that of four bishops of the Mobile diocese and of all the missionary priests who have at different times attended what I insist on calling the model community. The first trip the writer made to this place will never be forgotten because of the exemplary faith there manifested and the like of which he never before witnessed in any other place in his missionary career. When he got off the train some thirty odd miles from Mobile city he found himself at a small station. There were no cabs to drive through the woods to the model Catholic settlement of which he writes and to which he was sent to say Mass, and he went by launch. After an hour we reached a shipyard at the mouth of the Fowl river, and thence the writer was directed to a small house in the distance. Thither he directed his steps and on his arrival was joyfully welcomed by a Colored family of Mon Louis Island. The father was at work, but the mother, leading the family, came to the priest and, kneeling, asked his blessing for herself and her children. This certainly was the most welcome address any priest could desire. This house formed, as it were, the outpost of the settlement, which was reached by a short jaunt through the woods. Approaching our point proper, the people came forward and, with glad smiles, welcomed the priest and asked his blessing. The houses are all clustered together, not, however, too close to prevent each family from having a small yard for a garden. From house to house the priest went simply by leaving one and entering another through gates which opened each into its neighbor's yard most conveniently. Everywhere neatness and cleanliness were noticeable. The countenances of these good people reflected the purity of their hearts. Coming to a small church shaped building, the priest was told it was DUAL SCHOOLS IN KANSAS. Negroes Must Have Equal Facilities With Whites. Topeka, Kas., Dec. 19.-Cities of Kansas may provide separate schools for white and Negro children in the grades below the high school, but the schools for Negro children must have equal facilities and be as easy of access as those provided for white children. This is a decision of the State Supreme Court, rendered to-day, in the case of certain Negro children in Parsons, who were compelled to attend a school surrounded by railroad tracks. They had petitioned the court CATHOLICS y on an Island Ala. used of Gentle, Kindly Peo* Faith and Earnest in the Religious Duties. the "oratory." On the walls were small sized stations, a small altar in front and the statues of the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph. The inner roof of the building was bare, and the rafters bespoke their age. This was the first church these good people put up, some seventy years ago. Over the door was the cross and near it the bell. At present this so-called "oratory" is used for daily prayers and devotions. Every morning at 6 the bell calls the people to morning prayer, at midday the Angelus is rung and again at 6 o'clock in the evening all the year around. The third bell ringing calls every one for the recitation of the beads. Some years ago a neat little church was built by the people under the direction of Father O'Grady, a missionary of the Mobile diocese. The oratory of the first church, however, was left standing and is used daily for regular prayers. The new church, dear reader, always-give manifestations of the sterling Catholic faith of these good Mon Louis Island Colored people. Every Saturday night at 7:30 all go to this church and sing most devoutly the Litany of the Blessed Vrgh. After this prayers are said for: the Pope, the bishop, the poor souls in purgatory and for the conversion of simmers. At the close of this picus exercise the De Profundis is slowly recited and the church bell is tolled as if there were a funeral. This tolling is called the "De Profundis bell," and all who are unable to attend at the church silently recite the prayers for the dead. The first Saturday the writer was there he heard about seventy penitents, all that could possibly get these, and to say the confessions were a source of edification is only to express the fact mildly. If the priest remains a few days Mass is attended by the people at 6 o'clock. Some of the men work their farms, some are engaged on the river, others in the woods and at the shipyard. The women and girls have all that Christian modesty and refinement about them which are so characteristic of a good Catholic maiden or mother. Sunday is a typical Sabbath resting day wherein all are happy. The children are delighted to receive a holy picture or medal from the priest. Their little rosary beads are intwined on their fingers or hung around their necks. In every house are the crucifix, holy water, blessed candles, religious pictures and very often the photos of missionary priests who have visited the place during the last seventy or eighty years. The chalice used by the writer when saying Mass was one presented to the Mon Louis people by Bishop Quinlan, the second bishop of Mobile—Er. to be allowed to attend the white school. It will be recalled that several years ago this separate school law for the "Sunflower" state, was enacted by a Republican state legislature, signed by a Republican Gov. and now it has been declared constitutional by a Republican Supreme Court, but Wm. T. Vernon and the other so-called leading Colored men in that state, and throughout the nation were such moral cowards during the recent presidential election that they did not have the courage to condemn the actions of the leaders of the G. O. P. for "Jim Crowing" the Colored school children of Kansas—Editor. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Priest, Infidel, Single Taxa, Republicana, or anyone else, because their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all even diminish the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertising rates made known on application. 50328 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS 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. LIBRARIAN 15 APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR. On Tuesday, Governor Dawson issued the commission of State Librarian to John C. Glimer, editor of the Charleston Advocate, for the unexpired term made vacant by the death of S. W. Starks, which would make the appointment expire with the term of office of the Governor. There were a number of applicants for the position, but the final choice of the Governor, in the selection of the editor of the leading organ of the Colored race in West Virginia, and in fact one of the leading journals representing that race in the entire country, is regarded as eminently a deserving one. The appointee has been a resident of the city of Charleston practically all his life. He was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, Pa., graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1897, and in 1900 with the degree of A. M. During his term in college he was one of the editors of the University magazine and gained a splendid reputation as a clear and forcible writer on all questions. He has been the editor of the Charleston Advocate for the past five years, succeeding Prof. J. J. McHenry Jones, principal of the West Virginia Colored institute, who in turn succeeded the late S. W. Starks, who was the founder of the paper. During the time Editor Gilmer has had editorial control of the Advocate that paper has grown in strength and influence, is widely circulated throughout the entire country, and is regarded as a journal of the highest standing and representative of the highest ideals of that race. Since it was the desire of the chief executive to bestow that appointment to a representative of the Colored race, no better selection could have been made, and he will discharge the duties of the position with ability and great care.—The Mail, Charleston, W. Va. DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS R. G. B.—If a person subscribes for a newspaper to be sent by mail, paying in advance for a specified period, and the publisher continues to send it after the subscription period has expired, is the subscriber liable for the additional papers if he does not notify the publisher to stop sending them? Is there any precedent in the way of a judicial decision covering the case? There is no judicial decision pertaining to the case in question that is accepted in all states. A considerable difference, in fact, exists in different states. For the most part it may be said that if the subscriber breaks the wrappers of the papers sent after the lapse of the subscription period he makes himself liable for collection thereon. If the wrappers are not torn and he refuses to accept delivery of the publication, he is not liable.—New York Times. NOTES CONCERNING THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE AFRO- AMERICANS IN HELENA, MONTANA. Mrs. A. Bigford, of Virginia City, owns and operates the municipal water plant of that city. Julius Anderson of this city has invented and procured a patent on an automatic mail pouch holder. It is said that with it railway mail clerks are able to take a pouch from the crane and deliver one at the same time. This obviates the necessity of throwing; mail on the platform of stations at which fast trains do not C. F. Jones, of Butte, is the principal promoter of a claim of mines near that place which promises to be a great producer. Among them is one named after Nelson Crews of Kansas City, the orator. Sam Jones, also of Butte, is the owner of a mine which is producing pay ore and bids fair to become one of the paying properties of that section. Mrs. W. R. Dorsey of this city, conducts a mercantile establishment which does an annual business of more than $40,000. Edward Glenn, of this city, is the only Colored man in the northwest who holds a position as stage manager. He is employed at the Family Theatre of Helena. O. R. D. Welbore, of Havre, Mont., runs the leading cafe of that city, and while it is known that his prices exceed those charged at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, he has the trade of the town and does a thriving business. There are in Helena three electricians, three plasterers, one plumber, undertaker, two chauffers, and, and three engineers.—From The Plaindealer, Helena, Mont. WHO IS A CHRISTIAN? The following stanzas are taken from quite a lengthy poem, "Who is a Christian?" written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Who is a Christian in this Christian land Of many churches and of lofty spires Not he who sits in soft, upholstered pews Bought by the profits of unholy greed, And looks devotion while he thinks of gain. Not he who sends petitions from the lips That lie tomorrow in the street and mart. Not he who fattens on another's toil, And flings his unearned riches to the poor, Or aids the heathen with a lessened wage, And builds cathedrals with an increased rent. Who is a Christian? It is one whose life Is built on love, on kindness and on faith; Who holds his brother as his other self; Who tolls for justice, equity and peace, And hides no aim or purpose in his heart That will not chord with universal good. A special feature of the service Sunday will be the sermon of the pastor who will conclude a series of sermons that he has preached for the last month. Subject, "The Human and Divine in Jesus Christ." At 7:45 will be a review of the year and report of the work of the Institutional Church. An old fashion Watch Night Service will be held at the church New Year's Eve. Service will begin promptly at 7:30 p. m. and a recess will be taken at 10 o'clock at which time a free lunch will be served, hot coffee, etc. Quite a number of new features will be added to the work for the year 1900. The A. M. E. churches of the city have prepared to enter upon an aggressive campaign for righteousness upon many lines the center of the firing line is to be the Institutional Church. Full information will be given out to the press the first of the year.—"S." Waycross, Ga., Dec. 19.—To wreak vengeance for the arrest of a companion on the charge of being drunk, six young white men rode into the town of Beach, nineteen miles north of here, last night and fired 500 shots, riddling buildings and terrorizing the town. Four young women who were walking on one of the streets were fired at, and Maggie Taylor, the 14-year-old daughter of Leonard P. Taylor, was fatally ousted. EDUCATE THE NEGRO Every southern state should have within its borders a large school for the industrial education of the Negro, for in his industrial education lies not only the steady improvement in the Negro himself, but the opportunity to shift a large part of the burden of taxation, support and help from white shoulders to his own. To-day the Negro race in the South is largely dependent—overwhelmingly dependent. Such a situation is at once a handicap to himself and a load for the white population. By making him self-dependent he is made better in himself and by making him a producer he is made a positive benefit to society.—The Courier-Journal, Loulsville, Ky. SCORNS RELIGION ON GALLOWS. Condemned Man Says He Wants to Visit Devil—Chicken Flying Near Scaffold Amuses Him. Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 18.—Henry Harvey, a Negro, hanged at Rockingham, N. C., for murder, refused the attentions of ministers, telling them that he desired to go to hell for a special purpose. In the march to the gallows a chicken flew over the heads of the party and the condemned man exclaimed laughingly, "Somebody catch that chicken." Harvey's crime was the slaying of Hugh Price, a Negro. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1ST, 1909. The ladies of the Phyllis Wheatley Club Will be pleased, you to see At a progressive tea. Phyllis Wheatley Home, the first place you call. Come yourself, bring friends and all. A lunch will be served including tea. Bring a silver offering. Don't you see? From Phyllis Wheatley Home, across the way, To Mrs. Endora-Fisher-Lockett you may stay. It's 1909, please bear in mind A glass of wine will be just fine. The hours from one to twelve Lockett's is the place to dwell. From 3530 Forest to 3528 Don't forget Place ann Date. William Brown, 40 years old, Colored, was found guilty yesterday of stealing a communion service from the Ebenezer Baptist church, where he was formerly employed as janitor, and was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary by Judge Tuthil. FURNISHED ROOMS. Elegantly furnished rooms in a modern steam heated flat building. Third flat, 3400 Wabash avenue. CHIPS Mrs. Geneva Smith, 5363 Dearborn street, will be at home to her many friends New Year's Day—Jan. 1, '09. Mrs. Jenkins, 4764 Dearborn street, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, Atlanta, Ga., and she will spend two weeks in the southland. Mrs. Lulu Williams, 2415 Wabash avenue, who is a real widow, will with much pleasure greet her friends on New Year's Day. Robert J. Roulston, President of the Public Library Board, and one of Chicago's best business men, would make a tip-tip candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago in 1909. The Phyllis Wheatley Club will receive their friends Friday, January 1st, at the Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3530 Forest avenue, from one to twelve. Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue, the most popular and the sweetest song bird in Chicago, will remain home. New Year's Day to graciously smile upon her hosts of warm friends. Dr. M. J. Brown, 2708 Dearborn street, has been under the weather for the past two weeks, and after drinking in considerable medicine, he is improving and regaining his health and strength. Mr. J. W. Anderson, 79 E 32nd St. is in New York City spending the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Rachael Anderson, at 440 W 163rd street. She expects to sail for her home Jan. 2, 1909. George M. Porter, the popular druggist, 29th and Armour avenue, who is sluggie and very handsome, left last evening for St. Louis, Mo., where he will spend the remainder of the holiday season. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Conner, 2452 Dearborn street, left last Friday over the Illinois Central for New Orleans, La., Pensacola, Fla., and Greenville, Miss. They will be absent one month. Mr. Conner has worked for the Illinois Central for fifteen years and this is the first time he has had a vacation. It is expected that the Aldermanic fight in the 30th ward this spring will narrow down between Alderman Michael McInerney and former State Senator Patrick J. McShane, and after the primaries, February 22nd, they will have a rough and tumble fight to see who will win out at the polls election day. The Mechanic Savings Bank, located at Richmond, Va., in a recent annual statement of its financial condition shows deposits amounting to $481,243.65. This bank is one of the strongest of the forty-six banks controlled and owned by the Negroes of the United States. John Mitchell, Jr. is president. As further evidence that the people in Chicago have not fully recovered from the effects of the 1907 panic and hard times, marriages have greatly decreased in this city. In 1907 more than 28,000 couples secured license to marry, and in 1908 23,000 and some odd were married, showing a difference of almost 5,000 less marriages in 1908 than in 1907, which is quite a falling off in the matrimonial market. Q. L. Gilmore, a funeral director of Denver, Col., has been offered the management of the Metropolitan Undertaking Company of New York City. This establishment is opened by the Metropolitan Insurance Company and they intend to place such establishments in all the large Eastern cities where there is a large Colored population. These firms will have in connection with them a carriage and automobile line, which will use only Colored drivers, and will be one of the largest of its kind in the world. HUMOR OF THE HOUR Obeying Instructions. A milkman who lives in a town of New England and collects milk from the neighboring farmers had in his employ a boy whom he sent about with a wagon every morning picking up his supply. There is a rather dangerous railroad crossing on the road, and when the boy began work for him the milkman said, "When there's a train coming just stop and sit still in your wagon till it gets by." The boy went about his task, but instead of collecting the milk in about an hour and a half, as should have been done, he took at least two hours and sometimes more. The milkman grumbled a little, but the boy said nothing, and as he seemed honest nothing was done. One evening the milkman went over his route to see some of his customers. "What alls that boy of yours?" asked one of the farmers. "Why, nothing, only that he's rather slow," was the reply. "Slow! Well, I guess you'd think he was slow if you saw him resting for half an hour in his wagon down there by the railroad track every morning." "Is it true that you stop half an hour every morning down at the railroad track?" the boy was asked. "Yes, sir; I have to," said the boy. "Have to! What do you mean?" "Well, sir, you told me to stop when there was a train coming and to wait till it got by. There's a crook in the track there, so 't I never can see whether there's a train coming down the track or not. So I just stop an' wait till there's one goes by anyway, an' then I just skip ever lively!"—Harper's Weekly. How Johnny Managed It "You and that little Wattles boy seem to play very nicely together," said Johnny's mother. "I am glad there is one boy in the neighborhood that you can get along with." "Yes," replied Johnny. "I lick him every morning, and then he's nice to me all day."—Chicago Record-Herald. Admirable. FACTS IN FEW LINES The British salmon is said to be worth $550 a ton. Denmark has a population of 2,598,000. Of these 500,000 are in Copenhagen and its suburbs. There is a great shortage of officers in the Russian army. In the infantry alone it amounts to 3,000. During each month for the last two years about 21,000 Russian immigrants have entered the port of New York. Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand had to pay a deficiency of $311,810 on last year's working of the Pacific cable. An air gun of large size, working on the principle of the pneumatic hammer, has been devised for killing animals in a humane manner. On her preliminary trials the British destroyer Swift maintained for several hours a speed of 38.3 knots, or nearly forty-five miles an hour. She is the fastest vessel ever built. Seven hundred of the persons who died in Ireland last year were stited to be ninety-five years of age or upward, and no fewer than 145 were reported to be centenarians or upward. The British built but German owned ship Columbia, dismasted by a hurricane off Cape Flattery, has been purchased by Americans and converted into the first six masted barkentine in the world. Lassa, the mysterious capital of Tibet, is beginning to show longings for the amenities of western civilization. It has just placed a contract with a Calcutta firm to supply a large number of European band instruments. Mme. Poppova is a Russian woman who has invented an airship and has called it the Annulated Dragon, which gives one an idea of its shape. There is a system of hoops that serves to steer it, and the ship is said to adapt itself to every sort of wind very readily. A Pittsfield (Mass.) business house has adopted the policy of having a young woman bill collector. The girl is meeting with more success than three men, it is said. Her favorite form of salutation is to smile prettily and ask, "Don't you want to pay your bill today?" The answer is nearly always yes. A few years ago the currency of Austria was changed from gulden and kreutzers to crowns and hellers. To deceive customers figures are still sometimes placed in shop windows in such a way that florins are mistaken for crowns and bills made accordingly. By a recent ordinance this has been made a punishable act. There has died in the workhouse at Dorchester, England, a woman named Harriet Hammett, a native of Tolpuddle, who was admitted to the workhouse in 1844. As her age at death was sixty-nine, she must have donned workgarb when five years old. The only home she ever remembered was "the house." The beneficial effect of storage on the sanitary quality of water now seems to be well established, and a further contribution to the data on the subject has just been made by one of the experts of the London water board. He has shown that typhoid bacillus put in river water gradually disappear as the water remains longer in storage. Sweden has three factories building imitations of American mowers and reapers. The largest of these' built 6,000 to 7,000 machines for the season of 1008, copying almost exclusively one of the best selling American mowers. Their rear is an exact copy of the American original, Swedish made parts fitting American built machines. The new Turkish minister of education says: "We have compulsory education at present, but we lack primary schools. We shall establish them. We shall develop the existing higher education. The study of history will now be allowed. We want a regime of liberty of the press, even with all the evils it means, for it is a necessary evil." There has been opened in Mannheim, Germany, a tuberculosis museum, the object of which is to educate the public as to the causes, cure and prevention of consumption. The museum is opened three times a week for a period of two hours, and during that time physicians are present, who instruct visitors in the manner of fighting the disease. While the clock industry of the Black forest has held its place in the markets of Europe and America for over two centuries, the introduction of modern methods has given it so great an impulse that within six years France has more than doubled her import of Black forest clocks, the Argentine Republic has tripled her imports, and the United States has more than quadrupled here. It has been found that underlying the plain of Sharon, in Palestine, at various depths, ranging from eighteen to eighty feet, there is an inexhaustible supply of good water for all purposes. For ages the inhabitants have utilized this knowledge, pumping up the water with primitive arrangements. Now, however, these methods are being supplanted by modern engines and outfits, and a new period of prosperity is at hand. The maharajah gaekwar of Baroda has melted down and converted into bullion the celebrated gold and silver cannon of Baroda. Of these costly but uneless toys the silver guns were the inspiration of a former gaekwar. In order to "go one better" than his predecessor the late gaekwar had the gold guns cast and mounted at a cost, it is sold, of £100,000. They reposed in the state armory and were the wonder and admiration of all visitors to the capital. THE NEGRO QUESTION SOLVED THE NEGRO QUESTION SOLVED Lynching, mob violence, Negro crime and the industrial extraction all find a simple and logical explanation. Comperising his treatise, WHY CRIME INCREASES AMONG MENORS, and THE NORTH HOLDS THE KEY TO THE SKATE QUESTION, formerly published in booklet. Your treatment of the question is remarkable. You have certainly found the true solution" Hon. Wm. H. Berry, ex-State Treasurer to Humma. By mail 27c. Per doz. $2.50. More liberal terms to agents. Address. James Samuel Stemons 524 S. Hieks Street Philadelphia Selections SUNKEN REEFS. Sweeping the Ocean Floor Instead of Sounding. The mishap of the cruiser Yankee brings forth the comment that it is the more remarkable as occurring on the coast "perfectly charted." Premising that the Yankee got off her course in a dense fog, it may be said that, while our coast is as well charred as that of any nation, "perfect" is not the characterization yet to be employed. The methods of surveying the ocean floor to locate reefs and shoals are now undergoing a revolution which when fully accomplished, will reveal to the mariner many danger points which have heretofore escaped record. The old way of finding out reefs and rocks not evident to the eye was by sounding. Now the coast survey proceeds by "sweeping"—that is, by sinking to the depth a pipe bar, which is trailed along by two boats, one at each end of the cable passing through it. Any obstruction encountered is immediately perceptible and is at once noted, located and observed. Coastal waters are carefully "platted" and each plat is thoroughly gone over. The superiority of "sweeping" over "sounding" is made evident by the fact that in a comparatively limited area of the Maine coast, covering rather more than forty linear miles, fifteen reefs have been discovered heretofore uncharted. It often happens in sounding that the lead line avoids some narrow spindle of rock whose point is just below the surface of the water and which goes uncharted. When the cruiser Brooklyn was gashed by one of these unsuspected pinnacles on our coast a few years ago it was found to be isolated and surrounded with deep water up to within a few feet of its sides. Sweeping will minimize the probability of repetitions of such accidents.—Boston Transcript. ABOUT MABEL Mabel puzzles me a lot. Mabel's changeable, I ween. Pretty Mabel, who is not Any more than fair eighteen. Mabel has such ruby lips She has them many! Last year she had rounded hips. This year Mabel hasn't any. Mabel's eyes are azure blue. Mabel's cheeks are rosy pink. She would draw from you If she only smiled, I think. Yet a fickle maid she trips Through the world in ways un- canny. Last year she had rounded hips. This year Mabel hasn't any. Mabel's smile is still the same. Mabel says her heart is mine. Seeing her you would not blame Me for kneeling at her shrine. But the changes Mabel slips Over me are far too many. Lady has rounded hips. This year Mabel hasn't any. —Detroit Free Press. She—Why don't you marry, Mr. Scratch? He—I'm too nervous, and a faint heart never won a fair lady, don't cher know. She—Yes, but I'm dark.—Tatler. Getting a Substitute "Never get out of trouble by bringing it on some one else," remarked a man on the train the other day. "I remember," he continued, "when I was a small boy I was one day going along the road when I came upon a man holding a ram by the horns. As I came up he said, 'Here, sonny, hold this ram till I climb over the fence and unlock the gate.' I took hold of the ram, and he went over the fence. When safely over he said: 'Thanks. I've been holding him for an hour. I hope you get rid of him as easily as I did.'"—Lippincott's Magazine. Not Fit For Publication. "Isn't it scandalous about the Wappelsz?" "What about them? I understand that Mrs. Wappaley has secured a divorce, but I haven't learned any of the particulars." "Nobody else has. The case is such a nasty one that the records have all been hidden." — Chicago Record-Herald. Fiction By GARFIELD MACNEAL. Lillian Treadwell awoke on the morning of her thirtieth birthday to the sickening consciousness that she was an old mald. She parted the cretonne curtains of her bed, curtains covered with red roses, suggestive of summer sunshine, and turned her eyes toward the window. Rain beating against the panes and dull gray sky proclaimed a cheerless November day. She sighed. Then, stretching out a shapely arm, she took a silver hand mirror from the nearby dressing table and carefully studied her features. In the language of Shakespeare, she saw "no deeper wrinkles yet," face long and oval, patrician in outline and expression, skin rather olive, eyes brown, deep and luminous, a mouth generously molded and a wealth of brown hair. On the whole, it was a notable face and one of character. Dropping the mirror on the bed, she called "Lois!" A French maid, neat, trim and smiling, appeared with the breakfast tray. "Ah, ma'm'selle! A thousand congratulations on your birthday." "My thirtieth, Lois. But thank you just the same." "Ma'm'selle is still young, and already fame has come to you. And when your novel is published the world will be at your feet," said Lois, with a comprehensive sweep indicating the world. "Oh, yes, the novel!" murmured her mistress, sitting up and starting in on her coffee and rolls, while the maid laid a bundle of letters and manuscripts on the bed. Miss Treadwell opened the one bulky package and looked at the accompanying letter. It was from a great publishing house formally expressing regret that they were unable to accept her novel. She gulped down something in her throat. Her novel declined—her first really original work, to which she had given the leisure hours of six years! Truly, this was a most delightful birthday gift. “Lois,” she said, and her voice trembled—“Lois, my novel has been declined.” “Ah, ma'melle, I am too sorry”—with quick sympathy—“but some other publisher will accept it.” Her mistress shook her head. “I shall not send it out again. I shall stick to back work. I can at least make a living at that.” Then she added reflectively, “My life has been a failure.” Lois protested. She worshiped her mistress. “Ma'melle has been successful. You have a pretty apartment and everything you want.” “Other women, too, have pretty apartments and everything they want.” "Ah, yes, but they did not work for them," said Lois, with a worldly shrug, as she went in response to the electric bell, which at this moment buzzed loudly in the hall. She reappeared with a huge white box. "Flowers, ma'm'selle, and a note," she said gaily. Miss Treadwell cut the ribbon that held the box and disclosed a mass of violets. They seemed to look up at her tenderly, yet shrinkingly, as she bent over them. With a sigh of pleasure she took the note and studied the bold handwriting of the superscription. Her heart jumped. Surely it was Jack's! Dear old Jack, had remembered her! She hilt across the end of the envelope while her fingers trembled and eagerly unfolded the paper. "Dear Lillian," she read, "may I hope that this remembrance of your birthday will prove that I have not forgotten you? I have been in town two days. I secured your address from C.'s Magazine and send these flowers to warn you that I am coming to invade your sanctum sanctorum and talk over old times. Always your friend, Jack Alnsworth." She started up, scattering letters and manuscripts on the floor. "Lola," she said decidedly. "I want you to lay out my new morning gown, the sea green one with the train." Sitting down at her dressing table, she began a careful toilet. Her thoughts were busy with the past. Jack had been her girlhood friend in the little inland town where they were both born and bred. Again she was twenty-four and he was twenty-six. Why had he never spoken? She knew he loved her, and perhaps she had loved him, too then. But when her mother's death left her alone in the world she was seized with the desire to come to New York to try her fortune. Jack had advised against it, but a strange perversity made her deaf to his warnings. At first they had kept up a correspondence. Soon even that link was broken as she was drawn more and more into the absorbing whirl of newspaper and magazine work. For five years no letters had passed between them. To be sure, she had heard of him indirectly—how he gradually forged ahead from clerk in the railroad office to manager of the whole system, and she had been glad for his sake. And now, after all this time, they were to meet. She wondered what he would be like. Doubtless he had lost the fresh boyish beauty she so well remembered. He was past thirty now, she reflected with a sigh. Doubtless, too, his career as a man of affairs had made him bruise and cold. She had rides of bearded cheek and chin and perhaps glasses, Horrors! Had it really come to that? Well, she would live in the old days and pay no attention to externals. When at last Lois announced that Mr. Ainsworth was in the drawing room she swept to her mirror and surveyed the graceful figure reflected there. Her pown of sea green fell in shimmering folds, Her hair was done beautifully, and some of the violets were clasped in the silver girdle at her waist. She could not fall to be satisfied. This consciousness helped her to enter the drawing room with the perfect self possession of a woman of the world. With outstretched hand she greeted him as if they had parted but yesterday. "Jack! How good of you to some to see me on my birthday and to send me these lovely flowers!" turning to a center table where the violets were displayed. Jack Alnsworth gasped. Could this elegant woman, with her perfect hair and silvery voice, be his old friend? "Lillian," he said, still grasping her hand, "is it really you?" She smiled, and it was her old smile. "Yes, Jack, it is I. You see, I am going the way of the world." "Nonsense! You are perfect!" he cried vehemently. She was no less charmed. There was no evidence of beard or glasses, though the boy had grown into the man—tall, athletic, clean shaven, with strong jaw and deep voice. His honest gray eyes feasted on her beauty. She flushed. "Tell me what you have been doing all these years, Jack," she said finally. "Oh, working hard and following your career!" "Yes," she said, "you have done well for yourself, and I am proud of you. As for my career, it has not amounted to much." "Lillian," Ainsworth said, leaning forward eagerly, "do you know that you have not written a line I have not read! You ceased to write to me, but I did not forget, dear." Miss Treadwell had forgotten the rain and the unfeeling publisher. "Tell me, Jack, what brings you to New York?" she asked. "I have been elected vice president of the road and must live here," he replied. "Then I suppose you will marry and keep up an establishment?" with a pretense of lightness. "I don't know," he said dubiously. "There never was but one girl for me, and she—she has achieved fame. She would not think of giving up glory to become the wife of a railroad man." A feeling long dead woke in the woman. "But she might be willing, Jack, if you asked her," she said almost wistfully. "She might gladly give up all her false glory to find real happiness." "If I thought that," said Ainsworth breathlessly, "I'd ask her in a minute." She thought of the novel, of the hack work, of the loneliness of her life which this friend of the past brought sharply before her. "Jack," she said, "I've decided"—she paused, then went on rapidly, fingering the violets in her belt—"to give up literature for good." Ainsworth started forward. "Do you really mean it, Lillian?" "Yes, I do," she replied bravely. "But why?" he inquired, doubting, puzzled. She looked up at him, and he.read it in her shining eyes. He leaped forward and folded her in his arms, crushing the violets in his eagerness. "My darling!" was all he could say in trembling tones. As for Miss Treadwell, with that embrace came the realization that woman was not made to live on mind alone. "Lola," she called after a little, "bring me the manuscript of my novel!" She took it from the wondering maid and turned to Jack, with a radiant smile. "Come," she cried gaily—"come to my study fire and help me make dust and ashes of my literary pretensions." Courtesy In Business The man who solicits your advertisement, the salesman who has samples to exhibit, the life insurance agent whose hair trigger tongue pleads eloquently for your family, even the eloquent canvasser who tries to invigle you into buying a history of the world in twenty-five volumes, can be listened to for a courteous minute or two and politely dismissed without seriously clogging the wheels of business. Perhaps they may really have something worth while to offer. Above all, the tellers and the cashiers of every bank need a course in the art of gracious expression. Why should the depositor of money be regarded with frowning suspicion and why should his mistake in indoring checks wrong side up or his failure to have his books balanced regularly call forth shouts of correction instead of a few words of kindly instruction? After all, he is only ignorant or only forgetful. No dark scheme for defrauding the bank lurks behind his failure to follow the bank's rules. Courtesy is its own reward. It pays in personal satisfaction, in minimizing friction, in making friends and in raising you in the eyes of your business associates—Scientific American. Howell—Three hundred men attended a dog fight last Sunday, and there were less than fifty at our church. Powell—It's no wonder they say that the country is going to the dogs—New York Press. A thousand times listen to the counsel of your friend, but seek it only once—Hardy. WM. D. NEIGHBORS & CO REAL ESTATE AT LOWEST PRICES Easiest Terms to be had in Chicago Loans on first and second Mortgages Fire Insurance placed in any company Main Office: Branch Office: Suite 64, 95 Washington St., CHICAGO, ILL. 3220 State Street 'PHONE 4366 CENTRAL CHOICE MISCELLANY Smart Boys of Long Age. It is often asserted nowadays that our young men and women attain intellectual maturity much later than did their parents and grandparents, and in support of this theory the precocity of distinguished personages who flourished a generation or two ago is cited. Now, somebody who has probably been bored like the rest of us with this yara about the phenomenal brightness of the old fashioned boys has looked up the records of eleven leading colleges to see what changes have taken place in the age of graduates. From 1850 to 1860 the average age at graduation was 23 years 1.3 months. From 1890 to 1900 it was 28 years 1.9 months. In 130 years at Dartmouth the average age at graduation has fallen three months. This average age, it appears, has changed as little as the average weather. Thus one or two precocious youths of the long ago are sufficient to endue all their contemporaries with the same qualities. But the fact is the twentieth century boy is smarter than any of his predecessors, and (unfortunately) in nine cases out of ten he knows it—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. A Fatal Paraphrase General Sheridan, says the Philadelphia Ledger, used to take delight in telling the following: "A young man seated at dinner one time said to his wife: "Ellen, if you are good at guessing here is a conundrum for you. If the devil should lose his tail where would he go to get another one? "After some time spent in guessing she gave it up. "Well,' said he, 'where they retail spirits." "Eager to get it off, she hastened to a lady friend with: "Oh, Marian! I have such a nice conundrum. Joe just told me of it. I know you can't guess it. If the devil should lose his tail where would he go to get another one? "Her friend Marian having given it up, she said: "Where they sell liquor by the class." "Marian couldn't see the point of the joke." Once Chinaman Always Chinaman. China is yet a land and a people ruled by ancestors. A Chinaman belongs, soul and body, to his home land because his ancestors belonged there. The wandering Mogul who dies in a strange land has paid tribute all his toiling years to a brotherhood whose sacred duty is to coffin his bones and send him back to his native land for burial. Not even after death will his country relinquish her claims to him. Why should the Chinese government be interested in keeping American born Chinese familiar with the reading and writing of the old language when it is presumed that they and their children will remain in America henceforth? The answer is that such is never the presumption. The government's theory is that a Chinaman is here only by the accident of birth or to get money, and when it becomes possible he will take his money and go to live and enjoy it in the Flowery Kingdom—Washington Post. Chicago's Malden Aunfa Chicago is boasting of its "five malden aunts" and deciding that they have done more toward securing better industrial conditions in that city and in the country at large than any other like number of citizens, men or women, in the world. The "five malden aunts" are Jane Addams of Hull House, Julia Lathrop, a charity expert; Mary McDowell of the University settlement; Margaret Haley, who organized the Teachers' federation, and Dr. Cornelia De Bey, a practicing physician, who secured the settlement of the great stockyard strike by arbitration. Dr. De Bey has also been prominent in investigating factory violations of the child labor law and is a member of the Chicago board of education. One of the objections urged against turbine engines has been their inability to run backward as well as forward. John Ogg of Aberdeen has invented a form of turbine which avoids this difficulty. The steam enters the machine through a hollow axle and thence acts upon the wings of the rotating disks mounted upon the axle. When it is desired to reverse the motion a new set of disks, having their wings set at a reverse angle, are brought into play, and by means of grooved valves the steam is projected against them, thus producing a backward motion. The reversal of motion can be produced instantaneously. THE IRISH BIRD CHARMER. Wild more or less o' tuneful grace, As fits a Celtic singer, I've praised the "great bird of our race." The stork, the blessin' bringer. When first to my poor roof he came How sweetly he was sung to! I called him every dacent name That I could lay my tongue to. But glory be, that praise from me So, the simple acture. His visits here have come to be A sort o' second nature! I glad to see him now an' then, But, glory be to heaven. If here he isn't back again, An' this is number seven! Och, though this gift o' song may be In manny ways o' tussin', In beige wool's popularity, That gets to be disdressin' Now, mind, I love this Irish bird— We couldn't live wildout him— An' shure, I'll not take back a word I ever said about him. Begor, if they were round these days An' I could make them hear me I'd sing them such a song o' praise 'Twould keep them always near me! -T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard and Times. Careless Fellow. "Do be careful, Ernest. There won't be any wine left for luncheon."—Pele Mele. Uncle Hiram's Deduction "Who are them people livin' next door?" asked Mrs. Gadsby's uncle Hiram. "I don't know," she replied. "I s'pose they've just moved in." "No. I think they have lived there for a good many years." "Aln't they decent?" "I really don't know. I have never heard anything about them." "Hm! Gosh, you people must be mighty well off!" "What has our financial condition to do with the people who live next door?" "Why, you don't seem to ever have to borrow anything."—Chicago Record-Herald. Must Have Meant Him. "I wish I knew," said Cholly Saphead, "if I have any show of winning Miss Roxie Swellman." "Well," replied Miss Pepprey, "from a remark of hers I think you're her choice." "Aw! Really? What did she say?" "She said nobody was good enough to be her husband"—Catholic Standard and Times. His Explanation A boy was asked to explain the difference between animal instinct and human intelligence. "If we had instinct," he said, "we should know everything we needed to know without learning it, but we've got reason, and so we have to study ourselves most blind or be a fool." What He Wanted "Well, what do you want?" queried the stereoscopic lecturer as a stranger appeared before him. "Oh, I merely came to get your views," replied the stranger—who proved to be a constable—as he proceeded to levy on the outfit—Chicago News. Reverberating. "He, Mrs. Taukaway, I'm not the only one who snores. I just heard you sawing wood." "You're mistaken again, Mr. Taukaway. That was the echo of your own snoring that didn't die away for some seconds after you woke up."—Kansas City Times. He started back with indignation. "I am a gentleman, sir." he hotly said, "and I never could demean myself by washing windows. But if you'll hold the job open for a half hour I'll see if I can't get my wife to do it." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. Saving the Pieces. "Why did you steal the horse?" "I was drunk." "Confess the circumstance, and ask the mercy of the court." "Never! The only thing I have left now is my reputation for sobriety."— Cleveland Leader. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO JAMES J. GRAY ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1518 Ashland Block RANDOLPH AND CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Tel. Central 4728 Residence 5V Muncilister Pines Telephone Ashland 263 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE Suite 312-320 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 320 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 966 CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. Musically Expressed. Westend—What did your wife say when you got home from the stag the other night? Broadway—Nothing at all. She just sat down at the piano and played "Tell Me the Old, Old Story."—Puck. Partinent Query: Partnership Query. "Man's work is from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done," quoted her husband's wife. "Well, why doesn't she stay home occasionally and do it?" queried his wife's husband.—St. Louis Republic. Something In Luck. "Do you believe there is anything in luck?" asked the young man. "Yes," answered the home grown philosopher. "There is a lot of intelligence and perseverance in it."—Detroit Tribune. A. प्रभावी शाखेक House. A Phipho Snack House. A fine little shack can be built in the Philippines for about $50, one that will last for seven or eight years and even longer with proper care. Bananas and rice grow while you wait. The law requires a native to wear a certain amount of clothing and no more. It never gets cold, so there is no need to save up and provide for long, hard winters, and the sun shines on the just and the unjust alike over there.—Travel Magazine. Relative Values In Testimony. If Split Finney and Dr. Lyman Abbott differed diametrically in their relation of an incident observed on a race track the issue might well be decided in favor of the testimony of Finney upon the presumption that he would be the more accurate observer of an occurrence within his special sphere of knowledge.-Law Notes. The New Topcoat. Among the smart models shown for a service coat is one of thin tweed in a two toned stripe of gendarme blue. It is not fastened all the way down, but has extra wide fronts and is fastened slightly double breasted from the brooch to within four inches of the waist. Large buttons are used with braid buttonholes for ornament. There are many pockets, two of which are in the sleeves just below the elbow. A Pleasant Winter Evening. ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? Then Visit the "Chateau," 5324 State Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture Show, Roller Skating, Dancing and superb music, refreshments and a jolly good time for good people. No prescription. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents—one dime LELAND GIANTS' BASEBALL AND AMUSEMENT ASS'N. --- Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. Bail Yard: 12nd St. & L. S. & M. S. Rp. 12nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Dr. W. E. MACKEY 4842 Armour Avenue. Phone, Blue 6571. CHICAGO. Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p. m.; and Nights. C. E. Kreyssler Chemist and Druggist 5059 STATE STREET N. E. Cor. 51st St. CHICAGO Telephones: Oakland 246 and Oakland 245 Arthur Johnson Merchant Tailor Strietly First Class and Up-to-Date Work at Reasonable Prices Special Attention Given to Orders for Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Repairing Goods Called for. Orders Delivered. 134 W. 51st Street, Chicago J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 330 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIGSORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1828 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Dougins 1820 THE BROAD AX. !s for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Geo. I. Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 East 31st St. C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 321 39th St. Mrs. Alma A. Simpson, news agent, 1255 State street. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, 'robacco and News Stand, 388 B. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 2704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parior and News Stand, 2803 Armour ave. R. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionary, 2823 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Halley 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Standard News Company, 42 W. 188th street, New York City, N. Y. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 3512 State Street. The Inferior News Co. 188 Banc- dolph St., Detroit, MN. The Standard News Co 181 W. 51st st., New York City, M. Y. tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5928 Armour ave. 1st A THRIFT TOWN. Athol's Old Financial Contract WITH Lymen Jennings. By the terms of a contract entered into thirty-one years ago between Lyman Jennings, then fifty-nine years old, and the town of Athol, in Massachusetts, he gave the town $9,000 outright on his agreement to pay him interest on it at 6 per cent as long as he lived $540 a year—and then to continue after his death to pay to his widow $180 a year and to each of his three children $120 a year, an amount equal to that which Jennings would receive yearly during his lifetime, as long as each of these four heirs might live. The results of the contract are being widely commented upon as a reluously reckless deal by that thrifty New England town. The selectmen decided to take up with Jennings' offer after applying the figures of a life insurance mortuary table to the five proposed beneficiaries. Jennings lived thirty years instead of the fourteen and a half years that they had credited him with. The town meantime had paid out to him $16,200. His wife and one daughter now survive him, and the town is paying them together $300 a year and must continue to pay one $180 a year and the other $120 so long as each lives. In other words, it is now getting the use of $2,000 for only about 1 1/3 per cent interest. If it invested the principal properly there ought to be a good profit in this. But, supposing Jennings had put that $9,000 in a good savings bank back in 1877, he would have drawn $540 a year on it for at least fifteen years or so and after that only 5 per cent or 4 per cent or perhaps as low as 3½ per cent at times, but on an average interest of 4½ per cent for the full period he would have drawn $12,500 in all, and his widow and daughter would now be drawing 4 per cent on it, or $800 a year instead of $300, and, besides this, they, not the town, would own the $8,000. Lyman Jennings wasn't nearly as good a "figgerer" as the town of Athol was, after all—New York Commercial. A Lucky Investment. John Roberts of Watkins, Schuyler county, a well driller, recently purchased of Angelo Dupree, a junk dealer, an old pump for 10 cents. It was apparently of no value, but he thought there might be some parts that he could use in his business. When Mr. Roberts and his assistant took the pump to one of the wells they were drilling and started breaking it up, they were greatly surprised to see gold coins drop out of the holes they made. They at once finished the job and found $4,000, nearly all in twenty dollar gold pieces. Whom the pump belonged to at the time the money was hidden or how long it had been there is a mystery. The latest date of any of the coins was 1888. Mr. Roberts at once deposited his find in the Farmers and Merchants' bank at Watkins.—Utica (N. Y.) Press. A King In a Hurry. Before leaving for France, after his recent visit to England, King Alfonso made a call on a well known firm of jewelers in Regent street, London. After a cursory glance around the showrooms he looked at his watch and exclaimed: "I wish to buy a few things, but am in a great hurry." He purchased a number of sets of game bird menu holders in silver and enamel, a gold elephant charm, some handsome diamond ornaments and other pieces of jewelry, then, remarking that he had only ten minutes in which to catch his train, suddenly swept up all the articles from the counter and, without waiting for them to be put in paper, thrust them into his pockets and was gone, the visit occupying just three minutes. Ceylon a Camphor Trees. It is estimated that the planting of between 15,000 and 20,000 acres to camphor trees in Ceylon would develop a production of 8,000,000 pounds, which, according to most authorities, is the quantity of camphor demanded annually at present. The camphor tree naturally grows to a height of forty feet, but in Ceylon it is being kept at the more convenient height of four to five feet. Japan's Enormous Debt. The public debt of Japan amounted on March 31, 1908, to about $1,105, $1,875. Her population, exclusive of her island colonies, Formosa, the Pescadores and Sekhalin, is about 48,000,000. The national debt, therefore, amounts to about $24 per capita, the greater part of which is owed abroad, and the cost of her civil and military establishments is enormous. Eggshell Gas Mantles. Eggshell as gas mantles is an idea from Germany. The contents are drawn or blown out, the ends are neatly cut off, and the body of the shell is fixed in position like the regular article. The light thus obtained is very good, while the new form of mantle is durable. The New Game. They say that there is a new game in the academic department. It is called the James game. You read a chapter of Henry James and count one for Mr. James when you can't understand a line and one for yourself when you can—Xale Alumni Weekly. Europe's "Slick Man." It has been the custom to refer to the sultan of Turkey as "the sick man of Europe." It has been moved and seconded that the word "slick" be inserted in place of the word "sick." Are you ready for the question?—Buffalo Times A Hat That Makes a Picture. The huge hat that settles bandeauless about the head is relieved from any suggestion of heaviness by the upturning side roll which shows the hair. Over the brim of this big hat of satin in the deep electric or Edison blue falls a superb black willow F feather. About the low crown is folded a wide scarf of silver tissue, on which are embroidered motifs in the rich blue color. A hat for ceremonious wear could scarcely be more simple, yet the very simplicity of this lovely model forms its chief distinction. Feathers and Velvet. The feathers of last year's chapeau can be freshened up by holding them in the steam from boiling water. This loosens up all the fatty particles, and if on colored feathers salt is sprinkled it cleans them. They should then be dried with hot air and for this purpose can either be held in front of a register or over a hot stove. When the latter method is used be careful not to shire the ends. After this each strand should be placed over the back of a silver knife and drawn between it and the thumb of the right hand. Put through this process, they will have a slight curl. The Popular Moleskin. the extraordinary popularity of molekulin nowadays sets people wondering how they ever got along without it. In the past it was called iron or elephant gray, and there was a great rage some dozen years ago for suits of mole color in covert coating, a material which, except for covert coats, is seldom thought of in these times. Mole seems to have taken an established place among the colors. Young Girl's Dancing frock. A dainty accordion plaited dancing dress for a little girl is fashioned of fine china silk. The skirt is afforded a decorative finish by three graduated tucks and is set on to a tiny decollete yoke of the silk, that is enhanced by a trailing floral embroidery, flanked by delicate feathersitching. For the guimpe and elbow length pouf sleeves—an entirely separate affair—a fine net is used. Black and Green. The dead black coat suit has returned to its own. It will not be left alone, however, as the triple revers and cuffs on it will be of the brightest apple green. Some tailors go so far as to add a three inch shaped band of green on the skirt. It is prettier without it. Jst Ornaments Popular. Every type of ornament imaginable is reproduced in brilliant and dull jet. For the collure are coronets. Mercury wings, butterflies, serpents, combs, pins and barettes, some developed wholly of the fascinating composition and others mingled or set with rhinestones, seed and fresh water pearls or opals. Frequently the center of an M. BRILLIANT JET HAIR AND CONSAGE ORMAMENT. ornament is of jet and its border of gems, or the colored stones are set at regular intervals among the black cuttings. When the smooth jet is used pearls and diamonds are sunken into it precisely as in the case of gold or silver settings. Brackets, dog collars, chains necklets and plastron decorations of jet repeat all the different types of settings used for hair decorations. The Dialogue. "We have imported a few directoire gowns," announced the conservative merchant. "Only the more daring will wear these advanced garments, but we are ready to supply them." And about three of the gowns were sold. "We have received a large importation of directoire gowns," announced his rival. "Only the prettiest women can wear them to advantage." The next day all the women in town GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Va REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on or dents, including payment of taxes and j on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patro Office Phone, Douglas 727 E. JA FUNERAL 2959-61 STAT Branch: 1310 Bingh Fine Carriages for Hire ROBERT FUNERAL 2821-23 Archer A Telephon FIRST CLA Recent allowed on Savings Acc. Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments, Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business ne, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Dou E. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECTOR 59-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Marriages for Hire to Parties and Wedd BERT K. SLO GENERAL DIRECTOR 3 Archer Ave. - C Telephone Yards 721 FIRST CLASS LIVERY Old Sol is at his merriest, jolliest best right now in California Why not take a trip on there this Winter? R booklets on California write Union Pacific SouthernPacific E. L. LOMAX, Gen. Pass. Agent Omaha, Neb. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. E. JACKSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR 2959-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings. Old Sol is at his merriest, jolliest best right now in California Why not take a trip out there this Winter? For booklets on California write Union Pacific SouthernPacific E. L. LOMAX, Gen. Pass. Agent Omaha, Neb. A MEMORY OF THE PAST. The Unalloyed Joy That Came With the Little Red Scarf. "I was wondering the other day what one thing had given me the most pleasure in the world," said the village deacon. "I had to go back a long ways—clear back into the blessed Santa Claus days—but I recalled it. It was a scarf I found in my stocking one bright Christmas morning. I got a red one, and my brother got a blue one. I was a mighty proud boy that morning as I trudged downtown with that red scarf around my neck. I wore it every day until the birds began to sing in the springtime and the kids were hunting up their marbles. I don't now remember who gave it to me nor what became of it, but I do know that the memory of it still elings like a benediction. "Since the days of that little red scarf I have had things of far more fabriatic value. I have worn lodge ambience of high degree; I have had a gold watch and chain; I once had a pair of shoes that cost $5 and a necktie that; cost twice as much as the little red scarf. Nay, more, I once tackled a plug hat. But among these things do I recall none that gave me such genuine and unalloyed pleasure, such a swelled up feeling, as did that little red scarf way back in the days when the wolf sat out in the rood and howled. 'Tis the little red scarf days that stir the memory with 'It might have been.'"—Osborn (Kan.) Farmer. ```markdown ``` Jesse Binga BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciate Colored Tenants Always Appreciate Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Stove H. TO SUIT ME I am no Agent. I will save many if you MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL Samuel Richard Telephone Main 2183 (Plea Frank H. Lewis, Prop. Photograph THE RA Imported and Liquor Cafe N. E. 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I Rent only my own Property You will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PROPERTY Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 2188 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK (Please cut this out) THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, M. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SJILIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO --- With Each Leaf, 2000 Pounds T preciated Flats own Property a Flat AL PROPERTY Salle Street TIS BLOCK Leu Seldon, Mgr. INN Wines