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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Gov. Woodrow Wilson and Gov. Thomas R. Marshall Nominated for President and Vice President of the United States AT THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION ON THE FORTY-SIXTH BALLOT AFTER A LONG AND BITTER FIGHT. DEFEATING CHAMP CLARK AND THE OTHER LEADING CANDIDATES THEREBY BREAKING THE UNPRECEDENTED DEADLOCK. COL. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN AFTER MAKING NUMEROUS GRAND STAND PLAYS IN THE CONVENTION, WHEELED INTO LINE WITH CHARLES F. MURPHY, PEREY BELMOT, THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN AND ROGER C. SULLIVAN. MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON SETS FORTH HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT HE RECEIVED AT THE HANDS OF THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. COL. THEODORE BOOSEVELT WHO IS DEAD ANXIOUS TO BOUGH RIDE HIS WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE WILL HOLD HIS PERSONAL THIRD TERM CONVENTION IN CHICAGO ON OR ABOUT THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST. Vol. XVII. Gov. Woodrow and Gov. T. Marshall for President Vice President the U. AT THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION AFTER A LONG A DEFEATING CHAMP CLARK AND D THEREBY BREAKING THE COL. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN STAND PLAYS IN THE CONVENE CHARLES F. MURPHY, PER BRYAN AND ROGER C. SULLIVA MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON SHE THE TREATMENT HE RECEIVE ERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATION COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHO HIS WAY INTO THE WHITE N THIRD TERM CONVENTION IN DAY OF AUGUST. On Tuesday, afternoon, after the longest and the bitterest fight in the ranks or in the history of the Democratic party, Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, was nominated on the forty-sixth ballot, at the Baltimore convention to make the race for president of the United States. He receiving 990 votes as against 84 for Champ Clark, and 12 for Judson Harmon, who remained in the race to the very last and marched on down to defeat with their colors flying; no one at this distance from the convention hall can describe the scenes that were enacted by the delegates and the other strong supporters of the victorious candidate when it was announced that he had finally succeeded in snatching the golden prize away from the grasp of his highest and lowest opponents, including the many dark horses which had been carefully groomed and ready to enter the race — thereby breaking the long and unprecedented deadlock of the convention. After a strong effort had been put forth to induce Champ Clark who had successfully led his rivals for many days and on many ballots, to become a candidate for vice-president, which honor he declined, promptly, Col. William J. Bryan, wanting to hog it all, placed in nomination for that office Governor Burke of North Dakota and Senator Chamberlain of Oregon and after two ballots the horse-laugh was on Col. Bryan for both of his candidates were defeated and Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana was nominated on the third ballot by acclamation. It will also be recalled that during the convention Col. Bryan made numerous grand stand plays, aside from the one he made on the last day of the convention, at one time during its proceedings he appeared on the platform, and while delivering one of his hair-raising speeches, he pointed his finger right straight at Charles F. Murphy, Perry Belmot, Thomas Fortune Ryan and Roger C. Sullivan, and declared that he would never vote for nor support Champ Clark or any other candidate who had the support of the gentlemen just mentioned—that if New York State, under their leadership and Illinois under the leadership of Roger Sullivan, John P. Hopkins, George E. Brennan and Co., should happen to cast the votes of their states in the convention for his favorite candidate that he would right then and there desert him and so on, he even went so far as to demand that Messrs. Belmot, Ryan, Murphy and Sullivan should be excluded from the convention claiming that they are not nor never had been true Simon pure Democrats. It was therefore, amusing to see Col Bryan, working for the nomination of his candidate Gov. Wilson, even after the breaking up of the delegates in their voting had arrived and it will be recalled that the 58 from this state led by Roger Sullivan were the first to be switched from Clark to Wilson, and the 90 votes of New York were also cast for him, notwithstanding these facts Col. Bryan, failed to call for his hat and withdraw from the convention hall, neither did he announce that he would refuse to support the successful candidate on account of the assistance rendered to him by Messrs. Murphy, Belmot, Ryan and Sullivan, on the contrary he intimated that he was well pleased with their actions and that he was ready to wheel into line with them, further proving that he does not mean everything that he gives expression to and that sometimes he simply talks through his head or the top of his hat just to hear himself talk. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, in setting forth his observations on the treatment he and his contesting delegates received at the hand of the leaders of the Democratic National Convention, states that he and his followers were offered up as a "sacrifice on the part of the progressive Democrats to meet a political exigency." The Clark forces flattened us out because they were afraid of incurring ennities which might injure the speaker's chance. The Wilson forces were willing to be our sponsors until we informed them we were instructed to vote for Mr. Clark until he released us. Then both millstones started grinding us between them. "To begin with, the Wilson progressives entered into a bargain with the Sullivan-Taggart-Murphy ring of reactionaries whereby they were to vote against us in return for the ring's votes on seating the Wilson South Dakota delegation. The Wilson men openly told us that they had exhaustively investigated our case and found it meritorious, but when they learned how our instructions read they ditched us in a hurry. All of the progressive spirit of fairness went glimmering." Mayor Harrison further states that not only did the forces of Clark and Wilson turn their backs coldly upon himself and the Heart and Harrison shouters, but the keenest cut of all came from Col. Bryan who had promised to make and lead the open fight for them on the floor of the convention hall, but when the time came to do so somehow or other Col. Bryan had lost the speech that he intended to deliver in their behalf, and in falling to fight manfully for them he lowered his colors and took to the woods. Being deserted on all sides even by William Randolph Heart, Andrew CHICAGO, JULY 6. 1912 GOVERNOR WO Ex-President of Princeton University- Nominated by the Democratic Na United States. 1 M. Lawrence and his henchmen the only thing left for Mayor Harrison to do was to pay his hotel bill and return to Chicago a sadder and a wiser local politician, as far as national politics are concerned. Col. Theodore Boosevelt, who is more than dead anxious to rough ride his way into the White House, will hold his personal third term convention in Chicago on or about the first of August, and with the aid of the Chicago Tribune he will boom himself for the sole purpose of knocking out William H. Taft for President of the United States. COLORED DEMOCRATS MEET IN THIS CITY. CALL ON COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. ARE TREATED WITH EVERY COURTESY. WILL USE EVERY LEGITIMATE EFFORT TO LINE UP COLORED VOTES WITH THE DEMOCRATS. forms of 1872 and 1876 which reads as follows: "We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of the government in its dealings with all the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color or persuasion, religious or political". Chairman William Jennings Bryan and other members of the resolutions committee were most courteous in their treatment of the delegation. The National Colored Democratic League, with which most of the visitors here this week are connected, held a convention at Young's Hall, and it was agreed that every effort would be made to lining up a large slice for the Democracy in November. Strong addresses urging the division of the Colored vote between the two great parties were made during the session by Bishop Alexander Waters, N. B. Marshall, James H. W. Howard, Charles L. Barnes, Peter Smith, James A. Ross, Sully James, N. B. Clark, Dr. W. A. Tiring of the existence of those conditions that have kept practically all of the Colored voters of the country within the ranks of the Republican party prominent Colored Democrats and Independents were here this week to try and get an expression from the National Democratic convention favorable to the race. A committee of gentlemen, consisting of Bishop Alexander Walters, chairman of the National Colored Democratic League; Robert N. Wood, chief of the United Colored Democracy; James D. Carr, Ferdinand C. Morton, James L. Curtis, James H. Howard, and Rev. J. Milton Waldron, the last named representing the National Independent Political League, made a plea before the resolutions committee of the convention Wednesday. The committee urged that with the growing intelligence and economic worth of the Negro came divergence of views as to what was best for the community, and, therefore, a desire to split this vote on the issues. The committee plead for the removal of that little barrier that kept many Colored men of independent minds from supporting the Democratic party and urged the adoption of a plank similar to the ones favoring the race in the party plat- WOODROW WILSON. —the Reform Governor of New Jersey— National Convention, for President of the forms of 1872 and 1876 which reads as follows: "We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of the government in its dealings with all the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color or persuasion, religious or political". Chairman William Jennings Bryan and other members of the resolutions committee were most courteous in their treatment of the delegation. The National Colored Democratic League, with which most of the visitors here this week are connected, held a convention at Young's Hall, and it was agreed that every effort would be made to lining up a large slice for the Democracy in November. Strong addresses urging the division of the Colored vote between the two great parties were made during the session by Bishop Alexander Waters, N. B. Marshall, James H. W. Howard, Charles L. Barnes, Peter Smith, James A. Ross, Sully James, N. B. Clark, Dr. W. A. Sinclair, of the Constitution League; and Rev. J. Milton Waldron, of the National Independent Colored Political League. A national committee and a campaign committee were selected and the draft of an address to the Colored voters of the country completed. The address to the country may be regarded as the platform of the league. It will be given to the country at a ratification meeting to be held in Washington. The planks in the league platform will contain references to the high cost of living; endorse the principle of the union labor movement, declare in favor of lower tariff rates and urge the Colored people the country over to divide their vote. The delegates to the league, headed by the Commonwealth Band, paraded Tuesday from Young's Hall down Draugh Hill avenue to Eutaw, to Hoffman, to Linden avenue, to Dolphin, to Park avenue, to Hoffman street, past the main entrance of Convention Hall; to Linden avenue, to Preston street, where the parade disbanded. The paraders were cheered all along the line.—The Afro-American Ledger, Baltimore, Md. June 29—12. The Sixty Six Afro- American Delegates to the Republican National Convention HELD THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE DELIBERATIONS OF THAT BODY. SEVERAL OF THAT NUMBER SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER IMPORTANT COMMITTEES. AND PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT COULD NOT SECURE THE RENOMINATION WITHOUT THEIR AID AND SUPPORT. BUT NO SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS HAVE REDOUNDED TO THE EVERLASTING GOOD OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN BACE BECAUSE OF THAT FACT. It is true, that, the 66 Afro-American delegates to the Republican National Convention who were the balance of power, in all of its deliberations, and who without money and without price stood like a solid stone wall, in favor of the re-nomination of President William H. Taft. But by reason of that fact they utterly failed to accomplish any substantial or lasting benefits, for the good of the entire Afro-American race. Some of those 66 delegates, served on the committee, on resolutions and other important committees in connection with the convention, but so far nothing has gotten out to the public, tending to show, that they had the courage or the manhood, to stand up at any time or place, and contend for better or more humane treatment of the Afro-American citizens, in every way, throughout the length and breadth of this country. It being absolutely impossible to renominate President Taft, without the votes of the 66 Afro-American delegates, as he only had 21 majority over his rivals, they should have had the manhood to have drove a hard bargain with President Taft, and his managers, and put him and them on record in black and white; that in consideration of their united support, that ONE BED FOR TEN. Hospital Provision for Consumptives Increases Rapidly, but Still Inadequate. Nearly 4,000 additional hospital beds for consumptives in 29 states were provided during the year ending June 1st according to a statement issued today from the records of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. This makes a total of over 30,000 beds, but only about one for every ten indigent tuberculosis patients in this country. In the last five years, the hospital provision for consumptives has increased from 14,428 in 1907 to over 30,000 in 1912, or over 100 per cent. New York state leads in the number of beds, having 8,350 on June 1st; Massachusetts comes next with 2,800; and Pennsylvania, a close third with 2,700. Alabama showed the greatest percentage of increase in the last year by adding 57 new beds to its 42 a year ago. Georgia comes next with 109 beds added to 240 a year ago. New York has the greatest numerical increase, having provided over 1,800 additional beds in the year. Only four states, Mississippi, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have no beds whatever in special hospitals or wards for consumptives. Eight years ago, when the National Association was organized, there were 26 states in which no hospital or sanatorium provision for consumptives existed, and the entire number of beds in the United States was only 10,000. "While these figures would indicate a remarkable growth in anti-tuberculosis activity," says Dr. Livingston Farrand, executive secretary of the National Association, in commenting on this subject, "there are still practically ten indigent consumptives for every one of the 30,000 beds including those for pay patients. In other words, we have from 250,000 to 300,000 consumptives in this country too poor No. 40 in case of his re-election that he would leave no stone unturned in an honest effort, to wipe out the infamous "Grandfather clause". Disfranchisement, "Jim Crow" car laws, peonage, lynching and burning of human beings at the stake which is contrary to the constitution of the United States, that as commander in chief of the army and the navy, he would use the great power invested in him, and see to it that each and every citizen, in this country regardless of his race and nationality would have the undisputed right to cast one vote at each federal election and have that vote honestly counted, and that each and every citizen must and shall have the full protection of all of the federal laws of this republic at any cost. The leaders of the 66 Colored delegates, failing to strike the iron, while it was extremely hot, and while President Taft, was thirsting for re-nomination and could not get it without their aid and support; find themselves and the race, in the same distressing situation, in relation to "Jim Crow" car laws, disfranchisement, and other disriminations, against the civil and political rights of the Negro, as they did prior to their becoming the balance of power in the Republican National Convention. to provide hospital care for themselves. If tuberculosis is ever going to be stamped out in the United States, more hospital provision for these foe of infection must be provided." Fitzbutler-Waring Nuptials. On last Wednesday evening at her residence, Miss Prima Fitzbutler and Champion James Waring, of Chicago, Ill., were united in the bond of holy matrimony by the Rev. Gorter, rector of St. John's church. Many guests were present from out of town, including the bride's sisters. Mrs. Myra Denison and Mrs. Mary Waring, her aunt Mrs. R. E. Mitchem and Miss Nancy Lee, of Versailles, Ky. The wedding was probably one of the most beautiful ceremonies ever witnessed in Louisville. An altar had been erected in the house, and during the ceremony it shone resplendent in lighted candles. The house was crowed with friends of the popular couple. The bride wore a handsome dress, made of white merole and chiffon cloth, with the regulation bridal veil and orange blossoms. Little Leona Denison and J. J. C. McKinley, Jr., carried the bride's veil. Mr. Frank B. Waring, of Chicago, was best man, while Mrs. J. C. C. McKinley acted as Matron of Honor. The bride was given away by Dr. Sarah H. Fitzbutler, who wore a handsome lavender chiffon over messaline. The presents which were numerous and beautiful came from all parts of the country, as Miss Prima is known from the pine forest to the Gulf. Mrs. Myra Denison wore a handsome embroidered gown, and Mrs. Mitchem a white crepe over messaline. The bride and groom left for Chicago on Thursday evening, and will be at home, 2302 South 42nd. Court—The Defender, Louisville, Ky. June 29—12. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX Will pronounce and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, an long in their language. The Broad AX is a newspaper where platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming 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. One Year. $2.99 Six Months. 1.49 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 8057 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher President Taft has just made considerable changes in National Forests in Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California through Presidential proclamations modifying the boundary lines. By these changes nearly 275,000 acres of land eliminated from the Forests, about 65,000 acres are added, and about 55,000 acres are transferred between two Forests, while a new Forest is created by the division of an old unit into two. The net result is to bring down the total gross area of the National Forests to about 187,400,000 acres, of which nearly 27,000,000 acres are in Alaska. To a considerable extent, however, the reductions, so far as land actually owned by the Government is concerned, are apparent rather than real, owing to heavy alienations in the tracts eliminated. Some 22,000,000 acres of the National Forest gross area are not owned by the Government. The high water mark of the National Forest gross area was reached in 1909, when the Forest boundaries included over 194,000,000 acres. It was then realized, however, that in making the examinations on which the Presidential proclamations creating the Forests were based the work had been too rapid to insure in all cases the best boundaries. Sometimes land which should have been included was left out, while at other times land was taken in which was not best suited to Forests purposes. Consequently a complete overhauling and rectification of the Forest boundaries was planned, and has been going on ever since. By successive proclamations President Taft has eliminated nearly 11,000,000 acres, while he has added about 4,000,000 acres. In Montana the new proclamations eliminated a total of 116,370 acres from six Forests—the Custer, Absaroka, Blackfeet, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, and Flathead—while 14,640 acres are transferred from the Blackfeet to the Kootenai and 40,640 from the Kootenai to the Blackfeet, to facilitate administration. In Arizona 106,540 acres are eliminated from the Coronado National Forest. In Nevada 49,840 acres are eliminated from the Humboldt and 55,840 acres added, of which 12,800 acres are included in the new Ruby National Forest, composed principally of that part of the old Humboldt lying south of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In Utah 1,340 acres are eliminated from the Sevier, while in California 8,680 acres are added to the Shasta and 480 acres to the California 8,680 acres are added to the Shasta and 480 acres to the Klamath. The Progress of the AFRO-AMERI .CANS OF ST. LOUIS, MO. The Negroes of St. Louis are making great progress. They have owned and managed by Negroes: 10 grocery, 5 drug stores, 5 large coal dealers, 5 funeral establishments, 1 splendid haberdashery, 7 merchant tailors, besides 30 or more pressing parlors, 4 newspapers, 2 insurance companies, 3 shoe shops, 10 hair dressing parlors, 4 second-hand stores, 2 photographers, 3 landscapes gardeners, 2 manufacturers, steam laundry equipped at $12,000. They have 5 halls—the Masonic, U. B. F., Pythian, Odd Fellows and Douglass. Colored St. Louisians own and occupy the finest Negro churches in America. The original cost of one was $175,000. There are 24 physicians, 4 dentists, 200 Colored teachers, 9 lawyers, scores of carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, paperhangers, plumbers, electricians, gasfitters, etc. It is estimated that St. Louis Colored people have $1,000,000 in real estate. Alderman Michael McInerney, 4541 Lowe avenue and his daughter, Miss McInerney, left Tuesday evening for Nigara Falls, where they will spend ten or twelve days in seeking pleasure and health for Miss McInerney. ( ) ROOSEVELT TELLS CAMPAIGN ISSUE. Promises to Make Vigorous Fight to Reduce the High Cost of Living in America. Declares Both Platforms Are Silent on the Unjust Burdens Placed on Consumers. Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 4.—Col. Roosevelt for the first time made a direct criticism of both the Republican and Democratic platforms today and let it be known on what lines his campaign will be fought out. He said neither the Republican nor Democratic platform showed the slightest understanding of the great social and industrial movements that is under way in this country. Both platforms, he declared, have taken up the same old policies and the same battle cries. Neither at Baltimore nor Chicago, he said, was there any apparent understanding of the kind of movement that all serious thinkers are dwelling upon—the effort to get better conditions of life for the ordinary wage earners. One of the principal features of his campaign, the colonel said, would be to ascertain what conditions are responsible for the high cost of living and remedy these conditions. He said he regarded that as one of the leading issues now confronting the people. "Some think the trusts are to blame and some think it is the tariff," Col. Roosevelt said, "and this is a matter which has got to be fairly met. It will be the big issue of the coming campaign." Looks for a Hard Fight. Asked when the progressive party movement would be fully under way and just what leaders he could count on to support him, the colonel said: "The call for the convention of progressives in Chicago will be issued on Monday and then you will be able to size up things better. We will see things shape up in a few days. It's going to be a straight, hard fight." Col. Roosevelt was in conference today for an hour with Charles H. Thompson of Vermont, who has for the present taken charge of his campaign in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Gov. Bass will lead the fight in New Hampshire. Mr. Thompson said: "The progressive movement in the New England states is stronger than before the primaries. Wherever it is possible the names of the Roosevelt electors will be placed on the Republican ballot. "There has been much to encourage us," continued the colonel. "Since Wilson was nominated I have received 500 to 1,000 letters and telegrams urging me to go on with the fight. These men realize, as we all should, that the need of a new party is more evident than ever before." All Classes Show Interest. The colonel also said he had received many contributions. One was from a man living on the east side in New York inclosing a check for $10. Another $10 came from a woman bookkeeper in Cleveland. These instances, he said, gave an illustration of the real feeling of the people, who were the ones vitally interested in the fight that is to be waged. Col. Roosevelt was asked how the organizations in the states where he won at the primaries were lining up and he replied that in several states he expected the Roosevelt electors would be on the Republican ticket He mentioned' South Dakota, Kansas, and California as states where he was already confident that the plan could be carried out. Gov. Stubbs, he said, was with him in the Kansas fight; Gov. Aldrich in Nebraska; Gov. Glasscock in West Virginia. Not Sure About Illinois Col. Roosevelt said he was not yet sure what the outcome will be in Illinois. He said he thought Gov. Deneen might remain neutral in the fight. "But it will probably be necessary to put up a progressive ticket in Illinois as well as Ohio," he added. In Pennsylvania, Col. Roosevelt said, he had with him ex-Senator Flinn, E. A. Van Valkenburg, and other leaders. There is practically the same situation there as when he began his fight at the primaries, he said, and he expects to win again. In Maryland former Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and Col. Carrington will lead his third party fight. In Ohio one Democratic mayor has come out for him since the nomination of Wilson, the colonel said. James R. Garfield is also in the fight. People Must Win the Fight. The colonel was just as vigorous as ever in his declaration that the progressive movement is to be carried on to the end. "This thing has got to be done by the people or it cannot be done at all," the colonel said, "and the people are going to win their fight. I have been amazed at the response from all over the country since the nomination of Wilson by the Democrats. "This is the time to fight," is the message that has reached me from nineteen out of twenty and there are [Portrait of a man in a suit with a mustache, facing left, set against an ornate decorative frame with intricate patterns and a small emblem at the bottom.] many who are against me in the primary fight who are for me now and declare they could not stand the manner in which the nomination was won at the Chicago convention. "The Republicans must get together," is what the others have to say. For the most part they are organization men, politicians, who would do anything in their power for political reasons to end this fight." CHICAGO POSTOFFICE SUPERIN TENDENT DIES. Paul C. Hull, Former Newspaper Man, Succumbs in Home of His Wife's Parents in Brimfield, Ill., to Illness That Lasted Two Years. PEORIA, Ill., July 4.—Paul C. Hull, superintendent of second class matter in the Chicago postoffice, former newspaper mah and for many years a prominent figure in the Chicago Press Club, died at the home of his wife's parents at Brimfield, Ill., today, at 1 p. m. Mr. Hull was taken ill two years ago and his health has been failing gradually ever since. Though he had been confined to his bed since last September, his position in the Chicago postoffice was being held open in the hope of his return to duty. The deceased was 58 years of age and leaves a widow and two children. Mr. Hull started his journalistic career as editor of the Princeton Independent, from which paper he went to the Chicago Daily News, working there ten years. He was also connected with the Chicago Times for several years, when he again started in business for himself by purchasing a paper in Arizona. Later he was correspondent for The Inter Ocean and other Chicago papers at Springfield. His political connections gained for him the position of private secretary to Postmaster F. E. Coyne of Chicago. Later he was appointed superintendent of second class matter, which position he held until his death. Funeral services will be held at the home of H. E. Charles at 811 Fayette street, Peoria, on Saturday afternoon. Interment will be in Springdale cemetery by the side of his parents. PROG LIVES IN WOMAN'S STOM ACH FOR 11 MONTHS. Tadpole swallowed in well water grown and nearly strangles victim as it climbs into her throat—extracted at hospital. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 4.—A live frog that crawled and clawed and croaked lived for nearly a year in the stomach of Mrs. L. V. King of Dean Wood. After clawing away at the lining of the woman's stomach until it was raw with pain, almost strangling her as it climbed into her throat and fairly reducing her to a living skeleton. It was finally extricated by physicians of the Emergency hospital. They used a large pump. The frog is now preserved in alcohol. It is a weak, colorless, wrinkled, chapeless specimen, and bears feal re- semblance to the normal frog. Its legs are long and scrawny and thin as toothpicks. It measures all told about seven inches. Just as it was breaking out of the egg the tadpole was swallowed by Mrs. King in well water last August. Weeks passed before the woman realized there was some living animal in her stomach. She consulted doctors, but they laughed at her. Last spring the frog, now reaching to its full growth, began to climb into her throat and nearly suffocated her. It clawed away at the membrane until she several times fainted with pain. Still the doctors, when she told them of her fears, laughed. Two months ago, Mrs. King declares the frog began to croak. She distinctly heard it many times, and her relatives bear her out. That determined her to leave the physicians of Dean Wood severely alone and consult "city doctors." She did so. She went to the emergency hospital and the frog was pumped out of its hiding place. The frog lived ten minutes in a tub of water. It croaked and sang just like any regular frog. Then it died. According to the physicians this is the first time on record that any animal of the proportions of a frog has ever lived in a human stomach, at least for the period of eleven months. It is a most remarkable case. THE ORIGIN OF ALL RELIGION How is that we have succeeded in persuading reasonable beings that the thing most impossible to understand was the most essential to them? It is because they were greatly frightened; it is because when men are kept in fear they cease to reason; it is because they have been expressly enjoined to distrust their reason. When the brain is troubled we believe everything and examine nothing. Ignorance and fear are the two pivots of all religion. The uncertainty attending man's relation to his God is precisely the motive which attaches him to his religion. Man is afraid when in darkness—physical or moral. His fear is habitual to him and becomes a necessity; he would believe that he lacked something if he had nothing to fear. In the name of religion charlatans take advantage of the weakness of men. He whom from his childhood has had a habit of trembling every time he heard certain words needs these words, and needs to tremble. In this way he is more disposed to listen to the one who encourages his fears than to the one who would dispel his fears. The superstitious man wants to be afraid; his imagination demands it. It seems that he fears nothing more than having no object to fear. Men are imaginary patients, whom interested charlatans take care to encourage in their weakness, in order to have a market for their remedies. Physicians who order a great number of remedies are more listened to than those who recommend a good regimen, and who leave nature to act—Ex-Priest Jean Meslier. In the People's Press, Chicago, June 29-12. CHURCH, 912 N. Franklin street. Rev. H. E. Stewart has moved to 869 North Franklin Street, his phone number is changed to Dearborn 6117. The Parsonage is just one square from the church. The Fourth and last Quarterly meeting for this conference year will be held next Sunday, July the 7th. Services at 11 A. M. and 3 P. M. and 6 P. M. Rev. T. Reeves will preside. All the churches and the Pastors are expected to assist in the services of the afternoon. The Annual Sunday School Convention and Allen Endeavor Convention will meet at Wayman, July 9, 10, 11 and 12. Wayman Chapel and St. Stephens will take their annual outing July 16th; they will go to Aurora Ill. The first Sunday in August will be held the third Annual Womans Day at Wayman Chapel. An excellent program will be rendered. The Stewardess are preparing to make this a great day in the history of the Church. A reception to all the persons who have ever been members of the church will be given in the afternoon as well as a platform meeting at which time some of the leading women of the city and race will participate. "S." HEALTH NOTES. The community with a high typhoid death rate is a community with low sanitary standards. As between the bedbug and the nasty, dirty fly, give us the bedbug every time. The bedbug is bad enough, but the fly is so much worse there is no talking about it. --- The old idea concerning house flies was that they were scavengers and for that reason were of service to any community. It is true that flies feed on filth and in that sense they are scavengers. They also breed in filth and thus their presence in any locality means that there is nearby fifth that should be removed. --- Air in the city parks, in the suburbs or out in the country is better than that in the industrial and the congested districts of the city. Trees help to keep the air pure; they also add much to the beauty and attractiveness of a neighborhood. 一 Because outdoor air is good we should spend all the time we can in the open, under sun and sky. Good air makes for good health, and sunshine is as good for human beings as it is for trees, plants and flowers. It is well known that the germs of disease are quickly destroyed when exposed to the direct rays of the sun. So, if we get plenty of fresh air and sunshine we shall be stronger and healthier than we would by spending all our time indoors. 一 When community interest supersedes personal interest then community problems are solved and the things are done that make for community good. Military Tournament and Sham Battle, by the 8th Regiment—White Sox Ball Park—July 21st 1 to 5 P.M. The annual Field Day exercises, and military tournament by the crack 8th Regiment, Ill. N. G., will be held at Comiskey's (White Sox) Ball Park, Sunday, July 21st. The program will begin at 1 P. M. with a concert by the famous 8th Regiment Band. At 2:30 the Regiment will appear in battle formation; vividly depicting war scenes. Wall scaling—shelter—tent pitching, and musical drill will form features of the exercises. This will be followed by the Regimental dress parade. The eighth Regiment is included among all other Regiments who will appear in Field Day exercise this year. Reserved seat box tickets are on sale at Rankin & White's, 36th and State—Porter and Prentice, 19 W. 31st St., Stokes' Pharmacy, 4740 State St., and E. H. Faulkner's, 3109 State St. General admission 25c—Box seats 50c SLEEPS NEAR WINDOW; FALLS. Man Who Sought Cool Breeze Found with Fractured Skull and Broken Spine. Frank Carter, a Colored man, moved his bed up to the window of his third floor room at 3156 Groveland avenue, Wednesday night in order to get every bit of cool air stirring. He went to sleep. The police found him lying unconscious on the pavement below his window. The fall had broken his spine and fractured his skull. He was taken to the County Hospital, where the surgeons who examined him said his injuries probably would result in his death. WILLIAM JONES, HEAD OF THE NEGRO STATE COALITION LEAGUE, FINED $25, FOR RUNNING A GAMBLING HOUSE. Tuesday, July 2, William Jones one of the headlights of the Negro State Coalition League with headquarters at 603 Wells St., was fined $25 and costs at the South Clark street police station by Judge Beitler, for running a gambling house and a dice game at the above number; eighteen of his associates and members of his Negro State Coalition League were discharged. Uncle Alex. Roman, Rev. William Gray and L. A. Newby are some of its head officials in this city. Col. Jones is one of the leading Colored Democrats in the 21st ward for sometime he has held a political position in the Cook County Jail. ST. Mary's A. M. E. CH. 5251 Dearborn St. Rev. Jas. Higgins, Pastor. Services 10:45—7:45. S. S. 2:00 o'clock. C. E. 6:45. Dr. J. T. Jenifer will preach at 10:45. Dr. W. A. Fountain, President of Morris Brum College, Atlanta, Ga. will preach at 7:45. Monday, July 8th, Grand June Rose Concert under auspices of J. J. Banks CHIPS. CHIPS. Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5223 Dearborn street, will on August 1, start on a two weeks vacation trip to New York City. Miss Norman Porter, 3333 State street, will leave this week for Denver, Colo., to become united in marriage to Mr. Albert Smith, of that city. Mrs. Hattie E. Milner of Rome, Ga., and Mrs. Florence Mathis of Knoxville, Tenn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. N. Penticost, 3537 Vernon Ave. The Appomattox Club, will give its annual outing at Glenwood Park, Tuesday, July 23. See announcement in another column of this paper. Ten Negroes will be ordained as Catholic priests in Rome next month. Two are natives of Chicago and led their class of over 200 members. Mrs. Anna A. Henley, of Jefferson City, Mo., is spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. Stephen Hamlet, 3359 Forest avenue. --- Mrs. Ophelia Walls Jackson, the late daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Walls, 4638 Dearborn street, died early Sunday morning. Funeral services were held over her remains at St. Paul C. M. E. Church, 4644 Dearborn street, Tuesday morning, Rev. T. L. Scott, officiated. The stork, has presented Capt. and Mrs. John L. Fry, of the Cranford apartments 3600 Wabash avenue, with a fine baby, and the captain is treating all of his friends with the best wet goods he has in stock, over its arrival. Jack Johnson, was declared the winner of the prize fight between him and Jim Flynn, at Las Vegas, N. M., Thursday, July 4, in the ninth round. It is claimed by many experts, who witnessed it, that it was a very brutal contest; that no scientific fighting was indulged in, by either Johnson or Flynn. It is high time, that a check should be put on prize fighting in this country. Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington street, on Monday afternoon, before Judge Charles M. Walker, secured an absolute divorce from his former wife, Lulu M. Farmer, of 4856 Langley avenue, on the grounds of cruelty and incompatibility. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer had been married for 19 years, and in separating, he gave her the deed to their fine home on Langley avenue. Attorney William L. Martin, represented Mr. Farmer, and Lawyer C. J. Waring, appeared in court for Mrs. Farmer. Col. W. T. Scott, editor of The Leader, Springfield, Ill., is on his way home from attending the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, called Sunday afternoon on Mr. and Mrs. Jule Taylor. Col. Scott, states that on the opening day of the convention, 200 Colored men headed by a band of music, after parading through many of the prominent streets of that city, marched to the convention hall-entered it on tickets furnished them by prominent Democrats, and that they were accorded the greatest consideration by the leaders of Democracy. FOR RENT 8-room flat, $35.00 per American Apartment Wabash avenue. Wm. and Company. Phone For rent, an month. The building, 2728 D. Neighbors Calumet 2018. Greatest Triumph for the Race in the Annals of Local History Two Big Weeks of Mirth, Merriment and Review of Enterprise AUGUST 17th to 31st 1912 Construction of arches, pillars, etc., to be a work of art. Designs for the street decorations will be a revelation of incomparable beauty. Over-head lighting, multicolored effects, a veritable blaze of glory. A Special Feature for Each Day's Program Every military organization, all secret orders, associations, clubs, institutions to be featured in this stupendous display of thrift. Daily Parades—Music Everywhere—Amusements Watch weekly papers for later announcements or call "Douglas 1565" FOR CONCESSIONS ETC. JESSE BINGA, Manager, - - Corner 36th Place and State St. Office Hours: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. 3158 State Street, Chicago Office Hours—From 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sunday by appointment. DR. THEO. R. MOZEE 4715 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone, Oakland 4662; Automatic 73053 Frank Dunn and J. B. McCahay, Trustees Tel Oakland 1550-1551-1552 Established 1877 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVE. Railyards; 51st St. and L. S. & M. 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A Special Fea The 11th Annual Outing OF APPOMATTOX CLUB AT GLENWOOD PARK Tuesday, JULY 23rd, 1912 Glenwood Park is situated on the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railroad, about 40 miles from Chicago, Trains leave Chicago at 5th Avenue and Jackson Boulevard at 9:00, 9:30, 10:00 and 11:00 o'clock a.m. MUSIC BY 8th REGIMENT BAND. OUTING COMMITTEE. H. S. Anderson, Chairman Col. J. H. Marahall A. L. McBride B. W. Cowan, President 3441 Wabash Avenue "Does your wife enjoy baseball?" "Very much. But she says if she was a baseball player's wife she'd embroider fancy initials on those cushions they use for bases."—Detroit Free Press. The gentle cow, with temper fine as silk, Is but a plant to manufacture milk Where, though conditions sometimes rouse dislikes. There is no talk of overwork or strikes. —Washington Star. "He was sentenced to prison for life, I thought." "So he was." "Then on what grounds was he pardoned?" "His lawyer succeeded in convincing the governor that if he were kept in prison any longer it would kill him."—Detroit Free Press. Assistant Editor—What kind of shot shall we hand the nominee of the opposite party? Editor—Just the same as we handed the opposition nominees of our own party before the nomination; only change the names.—Puck. "Whenever I see that a man is going to strike me I strike him first." "What would any man strike you for?" "A loan."—Houston Post. "John, am I all right for the theater?" "My dear, I hardly know what you consider all right. You have a dab of powder on each ear, but none on the tip of your nose."—Washington Herald. The porous plaster is your friend. And never plays you any tricks. It may go back on you at times. But you will find it always sticks.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Friend From the City (viewing henry)—I suppose they have a pretty good time pecking and scratching during the day, but how the deuce do they spend their evenings?—Life. "If you do good work your work will grow after you are gone." "That's a fact. Rubens left only some 2,000 pictures, but there are 10,000 of his pictures in circulation now."—Louisville Courier Journal. Young Mistress—Do you think my Ernest really loves me, Emmy? Daughter—I cried all through the play! Father—Was it pathetic? Daughter—Very! The hateful usher put Cholly on one side of the aisle and me on the other. Judge. the Race in the Ann AUGUST CA "And don't forget to make the doors of my new house only sixty centimeters wide." "Why so?" "My mother-in-law measures ninety." —Pele Mele. "On what grounds do you seek a divorce, madam?" "My husband has an artistic temperament, and I love to eat occasionally."—Satire. "Willie," said the mother sorrowfully, "every time you are naughty I get another gray hair." "Gee!" said Willie. "You must have been a terror. Look at grandpa!"—Ladies' Home Journal. A New York tailor says that riding in an automobile develops the chest, due to the deep inhalations taken. No; it's due to owning the car.—Washington Post. "Ill From Eating Pitomaines." My, How that headline clings! Say, I often wonder why People eat the things! —Kansas City Journal. She—George, you are trembling. Are you afraid of that cow? He-No, dear. That is only my heart fluttering for the love of you.-Philadelphia Telegraph. Mr. Grump (with newspaper)—Here's an odd case—a woman marries one man thinking he is another. Mrs. Grump-What's odd about that? Women are doing that all the time.-Boston Transcript. A merchant in the middle west advertises, "Outing shirts-soft as a government job—and not so hard to get."-Judge. Enoch Arden Explains Enoch Arden and Rip Van Winkle had just emerged from the canebrake and were making toward the nearest tavern. "What excuse are you going to give your wife?" asked Enoch of Rip. "I'm going to tell her the truth. I'm going to tell her I've been over in the mountains sleeping off a little toot." "Twenty years is a pretty long time. Reckon you can get by with it? "What are you going to tell your wife?" "I'm going to tell her the truth too. I've been over in the next county sitting on one of these change of venue murder juries."—St. Louis Republic. Some sing the tapestry drawing ale and calls the wine importer; I sing the damself with her pail, The farmer's winsome daughter. Each morn she goes with shining face, Fair Annabella or Mary, And calls the cows unto a place Adjacent to the dairy. No curse is on her useful art; By her no homes are broken; She fills with hate no human heart; Disgrace is not her token. Unto her charma tonight I bow. Louis may she keep her station! I toast the dairy maid and cow, God's greatest combination! —Detroit Free Press. Justifying the Figure. "Why, mamma," exclaimed the indignant daughter, "how can you speak of my splendid Reginald like that? He's a perfect oak." "An oak! I'd like to know what there is about that little shrimp that resembles an oak." "Why, you know the oak always leaves late, mamma." — Buffalo Express. nals of Local History ARNIVAL --- STATE STREET FROM- 31ST STREET TO- 35TH STREET Review of Enterprise 1st 1912 work of art. Designs on of incomparable acts, a veritable blaze SIRES AND SONS. Frank King Clark, the well known American singing master, whose studio is now in Berlin, has been honored by the French government with the insigna of an officer of the Order of Instruction. William R. Grace and Joseph P. Grace, sons of the late Mayor William R. Grace of New York, have acquired 800 acres near Manhasset, N. Y., in order that they may have a place to chase foxes without molestation. William Mickens, eighty-seven years old, has been for sixty-eight years a Sunday school teacher in New York city. For thirty years he taught in a Presbyterian church on West Twenty-eighth street, and for the past thirty-eight years he has been teaching at the Mispah chapel, farther uptown. Dr. Louis Lessage, to whom was recently awarded the first prize of $3,000 in the exhibition before the ninth international Red Cross conference at Washington, designed to lessen the sufferings of wounded soldiers, is a Paris surgeon, well known in the medical world. The winning exhibit was a huge automobile designed for X ray field service. Flippant Flings. Green wall paper, you may be thrilled to know, has been declared perfectly harmless by a New York chemist. So go ahead and eat all you want of it-Chicago News. There are now nineteen women colonels in the German army. The kaiser understands that it always arouses a man's fighting blood to be commanded by a woman.-Buffalo Express. An anxious correspondent wishes to know whether a lady who is sent by her constituents to a national convention should be referred to as a delegates or a delegatrix. Why not make a bid for the German vote by calling her a delegatesen?-Chicago Record-Herald. The Writers. C. J. Cutelleff Hyne, the English author, contemplates another long sea voyage. H. G. Wells has come into public view in a new aspect—as the inventor of an educational war game. It is intended for students of strategy and tactics and is said to be of an elaborate character. He is writing a book to accompany it. Pierre Lott, the French novelist, is coming to this country in August to supervise the staging of his Franco-Chinese play, "A Daughter of Heaven." He was last in the United States thirty years ago, when as a naval officer he visited San Francisco. Sporting Notes. Springfield, ill. is to have a $75,000 stable for the light hinder brigade. The Olympic Athletic club of San Francisco recently opened a new $600,000 clubhouse. A feature is the swimming pool, which is 100 feet long and 35 feet wide. A new world's record for 130 yards in foot races was established at Ponty-Pridd, Wales, May 28 by R. E. Walker of South Africa, who ran the distance in 12 3-10 seconds. Current Comment. With crops, labor and politics all to the fore, nobody can say that times are dull.-Chicago Inter Ocean. Plague or no plague, it is always a good thing to exterminate rats, which do less good and more harm than almost any other animals in the world. -New York Tribune. Well, well, and now two more railroads have been fined for rebating! it's queer how a thing that never existed continues to persist in the way the courts seem to be convinced that it does.-Indianapolis News. Electric Sparks. In all European Russia there are only sixty-two electrical distributing stations. A signal will pass over the 2,700 miles of the Atlantic cable in three-tenths of a second. Primarily for the use of physicians, a dynamo transformer has been invented in France which will turn out currents of various tensions and strengths at the same time if desired. Political Quips. Rivers sometimes run dry, political orators never - Chicago News. And, too, the high cost of politics may in the end fall heavily upon the shoulders of the already overburdened consumer - Atlanta Constitution. There was a time when the office sought the man, but that was away back when people rode high wheeled bicycles and played croquet - Grand Rapids Press. Train and Track No fewer than 2,500 trains, engines, etc., work into and out of Waterloo station. London, on a busy day. The success of the stepless car on the street railways of New York has led to the placing of an order for 150 cars of this type. On the railways of Belgium, which are owned by the government, firemen receive $15.20 to $22.80 per month, the higher wage only after fifteen years of service. In the United States they receive about $90 per month. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Doris Kean, daughter of a famous Philadelphia surgeon, recently completed the ascent of Mount Blackburn, in Alaska—over 16,000 feet. Miss Nancy Isaacs has just been appointed judge in the high court at Melbourne, Australia. She is a daughter of the late Judge Sir Isaac Isaacs and the first Jewish woman to occupy such a position. Miss Inez Milholland of New York city, who has been one of the most ardently active advocates of "votes for women," will take up the practice of law when she returns next fall from her summer vacation, which she is spending in Europe. Mile. Chandon, a young Parisienne, has been appointed to the important post of assistant to Camille Flammarion, the famous astronomer, at the observatory in Paris. Mile. Chandon, who is a mere girl, is the first to threaten seriously the supremacy of Mme. Curie in her own sphere. Education Notes. Last year Texas put up an average of two schoolhouses a day, the total bill being $3,000,000. It costs an average of 18 cents a school day per child to put the rising generation of this country through the elementary and high school, according to figures compiled by the United States bureau of education. "It is my belief," says Dr. P. P. Claxton, the United States commissioner of education, "that some means should be devised by which every child may have the advantages of the high school. As this institution is supported by public taxation we should see that it is truly democratic. In the past it has been too largely patronized by the rich." Aerial Flights. There remains much for the inventors to do before human flight will have been successfully achieved. That this will come in time may not be doubted, but the time is not yet.—San Francisco Chronicle. The fatal midair collision of two aeroplanes in France reveals unexpected perils of aviation. Is the danger of fog at sea to be paralleled in the conditions of hazardous air transit in a haze?—New York World. It is a familiar story, only learned by a few of the aviators, that the flying machine is still an uncertain vehicle and that the man who runs too much risk lets his life hang by a thread.—Philadelphia Times. Three Kings. The king of Norway is a capital carman. The king of Servia, in addition to owning several shops doing general trade, is said to promote the sale of a patent medicine and to run a motor car agency. Wherever King George of England dines, whether in the midst of a public assembly or in the house of an intimate friend, his own servants accompany him. They attend exclusively to him throughout the banquet, receiving the dishes from the servants and handing them to their royal master. Wireless Whispers. The wireless telegraph can now flash its message over the ocean fully 5,000 miles. Marconi messages can now be sent from any telegraph office in the United Kingdom to those in the United States and Canada. A wireless word can be transmitted over 3,000 miles for 10 cents. The Portuguese government has entered into a contract with the Marconi Wireless company for the construction of wireless stations at Lisbon, Oporto, St. Michael, Madeira and St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands. Pert Personals. With Lillian Russell married again, Nat Goodwin must look to his laurels. —New York Herald. "I am a has-been," says John D. Rockefeller, with tears in his voice. John, it seems, is preparing to take a fall out of somebody.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Miss Inez Milholland, one of New York's most beautiful suffragists, has decided to practice law notwithstanding the fact that the law she practices will be merely man made.—Chicago Record-Herald. Town Topics. Waco, Tex., boasts of a twenty-two story building. What is to be done with the rest of the town since it has been vacated?-Chicago News. Wise little old New York! Knowing that nothing so strongly attracts visitors as wickedness, it has turned loose 4,500 convicted lawbreakers under suspended sentences during the last six years.-Cleveland Leader. Laundry Lines. Silk handkerchiefs should be washed with borax in tepid water with little or no soap. Iron them before dry. On rainy days, when it becomes necessary to dry clothes within doors, use your theoretical knowledge that heat rises and hang them as high up as possible. Before washing face collars baste them closely on a piece of white cloth. They will not be stretched or torn. If no starch is put in them they will look like new. Rash Economy. When Jobson turned his face unto the streams where frisk the trout Hill and falls falls Past any sort of doubt. We'll have cheap fish, for who can beat This real economy When with my own fair hands I catch A meal—or maybe three? And Johnson fished with much success; Long sang his smoking steel. He pulled three pounders from the stream And filled his goodly creel. And home he fared with beaming face, And, with a smile elate. He sat him down with writing pad And cast his figures straight. "Twelve dollars for my railroad fare; The sleeper cost me five; The hotel bill was thirty straight; Tips seven—man alive!— Meals on the dinner cost me six"— Here Johnson poured the ground. For his "cheap fish" had figured up Three sixty-two a pound! —Denver Republican. Cheaper. Cheaper. "Why is it that you insist on giving your daughter a college education, while you are planning to make your son go to work as soon as he gets through the high school?" "Well, you see it's this way: I can't afford to send them both to college, and the boy can get his training just as well by joining some athletic club." —Chicago Record-Herald. His Share "Why did you emit that feeble yawp when our candidate's name was mentioned?" asked the master of ceremonies. "Why." replied the conscientious man, "I am one of those delegates with half a vote. I thought maybe I was entitled to only half a cheer."—Washington Star. Recommendation Unnecessary. "What's become of that young amateur aviator you used to have around here?" "Oh, he and his boss fell out over something." THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 Sate street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 15 W. 36th St., near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. B. 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More deluxe and more expensive patterns are available. None higher than 15 cents. Buy from your dealer, or by mail from McCALL'S MAGAZINE 236-246 W. 37th St, New York City Buffalo-Bingham Corp. Trustees, Consultants and Business Overseers Inc. as required A man travelling in Maine met a middle aged farmer who told him his father, aged ninety, was still on the farm where he was born. "Ninety years old, eh?" "Yep. Pop's close to ninety." "Is his health good?" "Tal'tn't much now. He's been complainin' for a few months back." "What's the matter with him?" "I dunno. Sometimes I think farmin' don't agree with him!"—Saturday Evening Post. Musing of a Motorist. "How silly our childhood sports seem!" said the superior lady. "Look at that boy rolling a hoop." "Yes," said Mr. Chuggins thoughtfully, "but sometimes I'm inclined to think that rolling a hoop isn't as unintellectual and undignified as fooling with an automobile tire."—Washington Star. The Amateur Fisherman. With a $10.00 rod And a 6.00 reel, With a 2.00 line And a 4.00 creel, A book of 2.00 And ..... 4.00 ..... files Away, with his ..... 12.00 ticket he hles. Thus he spends ..... $40.00 before he starts out And returns in a week with ..... 10 worth of trout. Of course he is tan- ned; but does this justify That ..... $$3.90—the sum he is shy? —Chicago Tribune. Shielding Her. She—And you say that you have always avoid blaming me. I'd like to have you mention one instance. He — With pleasure. I remember right after we were married I ate a pie you baked, and when the doctor came I told him it was clams.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. By Default Native—The Republicans have nominated old Hank Rooney this year. Visitor—Whom have the Democrats put up? Native—Nobody. Visitor—Afraid, I suppose? Native—Oh, no. But it wouldn't be any credit to a man to beat old Hank Rooney—Puck. The Brighter Side. A brick fell from a lofty wall And knocked him senseless in the street But he did not complain at all When others helped him to his feet. "What a mess!" he said. He asked them, "though I suffer pain? I might have cause to sigh or cling To frateful sadness if the thing Had fallen from an aeroplane." Then She Spoke. Tom—That Miss Bigges is the poorest conversationalist I ever met. His Hostess—Is that so? Tom—Yes. The only thing she said to me the whole evening was "No," and I had to propose to her to get her to say that—Boston Transcript. The Place For Them "These are my jewels." said Cornelia proudly as she lined up her children on the sidewalk. "For the land's sake!" exclaimed the Roman lady who had just moved next door. "I do hope you will keep them in the safe."-Galveston News. Keeping Busy. The navy is to have a lot of dentists young, but skilled. They all must bear a record line of molars pulled or filled. And when their other work is done they will be useful for The filling of the canine teeth that grace the dogs of war. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Apology. Lady (at fashionable ball)—Do you know that ugly gentleman sitting opposite us? Partner—That is my brother, madam, Lady (in confusion)—Ah, I beg your pardon. I had not noticed the resemblance.—Dundee Advertiser. Not So Hard as He Feared. Friend—I suppose it was hard to lose your daughter? Father—Well, it did seem as if it would be at one time, but she landed this fellow just as we were beginning to give up hope—Christian Intelligencer. In Bugville. Pantry Boach — What's this new thing they call "swat the fly"? Bedbug—Durned if I know. But I know this: What's the use of a Million Population club if everybody keeps knocking the place?—St. Louis Republic. Home Team Lost. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The baseball fan wends slowly home, poor dub! The prospect fills his bosom with dismay. For wife is waiting, and he's late for grub. —Milwaukee Sentinel. A Calloused Financier. "So your daughter married a very Big Spiders The body of the Trimidad house spider is as large around as a quarter, while its eight legs would spread out to the circumference of a small plate. Its principal prey is cockroaches. Cartridges. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, whose reign began in 1611, is credited by history with the invention of fixed ammunition. In his cartridge bullet and charge were united in a paper case. It was not, however, until 1850 that the first successful metallic cartridge was patented—by an American. Turnip Seeds. Turnip seeds have been known to be dormant for seven years through being planted too deep and after that time to sprout. All at the Head. Glass stands first of elastic substances, pearl is the heaviest of animal substances, mercury is the heaviest liquid, the heaviest woods are pomegranate and lignum vitae, cork is the lightest wood, and platinum is the most ductile metal, capable of being drawn so fine as to be invisible. Macklin, the Actor The oldest actor who ever appeared on the stage was Charles Macklin, who represented Shylock in 1789 at Covent Garden when past his hundredth birthday. China's Carrier Pigeons. An apparatus consisting of a framework of bamboo tubes is fastened to the bodies of carrier pigeons in China. During the flight of the birds the air passing through the tubes produces a shrill whistling sound which frightens birds of prey and keeps them at a distance. Deep Sea Life The Tonga basin, near New Zealand, is known to contain animal life at a depth of four and three-quarter miles, where the pressure is five and a half tons to the square inch. Date Palms. A single palm has been known to yield 4,000 dates at one bearing. Dew In England. The dew that is annually deposited on the surface of the earth in England is equal to about five inches of rain. Tough Eating. Those who have partaken of peacock declare that gorgeous bird to be decidedly eating, while it is said of the swan that the fact of its ever having been a familiar dish speaks highly in favor of ancient English cutlery. Moreover, it should not be forgotten that when bustards and boars' heads were as common as sirlons and saddles now are there were scarcely any vegetables to eat with them. Skyscrapers. The first skyscraper was planned, but not built, by a Parisian architect in the year 1001. It was to be over 300 feet high and provide room for 500 persons. An Acre. There are 48,560 square feet in one acre. The Giraffe. Besides its long neck, the giraffe has a useful tongue, which can be greatly elongated and in this state can be collared around branches for the purpose of drawing them down. The Live Sponga. When the sponge is in the sea alive the inside of the pores is covered with a soft substance like the white of an egg. This appears to be the flesh of the animal, and currents of water may be seen running into the sponge through the small pores and out of it through the large ones, and it is supposed that while the water is passing through the sponge the nourishment for the support of the animal is extracted from it. Overland Fish. There is a fish in China that will travel a mile overland from one stream to another. Land journeys are known to have been taken at night by eels in England. The Olive Tree. The olive tree is of extremely slow growth. The seed does not germinate until two years after planting, and the tree is fifty years in coming into bearing. There is a saying in Tuscany, "Plant a vineyard for yourself, an orange grove for your children and an olive orchard for your grandchildren." The Pottery Tree of Para. One of the curiosities of Brazil is a tree whose wood and bark contain so much silica that they are used by poters. Both wood and bark are burned and the ashes are pulverized and mixed in equal proportions with clay, producing a very superior ware. The tree grows to a height of 100 feet, but does not exceed a foot in diameter. The bark bark cuts like sandstone, and when dried is brittle and hard. Bracelets. Bracelets were originally the symbol of insanity. Before asylums were established armlets were a badge of the mentally diseased. An Afghan Custom. An Afghan is bound by custom grant a stranger who crosses his threshold and claims protection an, favor he may ask, even at the risk of his own life. Yet apart from this he is cruel and revengeful, never forgiving a wrong and retaliating at the first opportunity. 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LE 5059 Arrow Cor. 51st St Phone Douglas 4482 The La Verdo C 3100-2 STATE ST First Class Chinese and Am High Class Phone A Hotel Br Geo. W. BUFFET, POOL BILLE MEADE Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. LEWIS, Proprietor O Armour R. 51st Street, Chicago 482 Automatic Verdo Cafe and 0-2 STATE STREET, CHICAGO Chinese and American Restaurant in High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY 5059 Armour Ave Cor. 51st Street, Chicago The La Verdo Cafe and Buffet 3100-2 STATE STREET, CHICAGO First Class Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietor. Phone Aldine 3653 el Brunsw Geo. W. Holt, Prop. ET, POOL AND BILLIAR e Buffet and C Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. Elite Buffet 3030 S Elite Buffet and Cafe 3030 State Street 56 Chas. Premature. She—Have you spoken to papa? He—Not yet. She—When are you going to speak to him? He—Great Scott! Can't you wait until we are married to begin that sort of thing? The Difference. Willie—Paw, what is the difference between wages and salary? Paw—Well, if your wages are $15 per week you manage to live on $12. But if your salary is $30 per week your expenses are $35.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Happy Reprisal. The cad who fills the alley with feet and thinks he does it featly. Wiped off a shoe against a youth who looked down on him sweaty. Then kicked him in the ankle bone, and did it very neatly. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reprisal. Mule with feet and neat a youth who sweaty. Ankle bone, and and Plain Dealer. Accident. Oner's verdict in now cut his The evidence had been made —St. Louis Re- able wedding. "At this point you "Yes." "And here you sn have hired a cheap smash."—Pittsburgh Why He Is "I forgot somethi band as he came back "Yes." pouted the got to kiss me." "That may be. I be back for was my c ville Courier-Journal Clearly an Accident "What was the coroner's verdict in the case of the fellow who cut his throat last night?" "Death by accident. The evidence showed that the wound had been made with a safety razor."—St. Louis Republic. Kept it to Herself. Cynicus—It is impossible for a woman to keep a secret. Henpecke—I don't know about that. My wife and I were engaged several weeks before she said anything to me about it—London Opinion. Still Hoping. "Life is a series of disappointments." "Yeah. I know a man who has been hoping nearly all his life that he would some day come into possession of a coin worth more than its face value." —Birmingham Age-Herald. 3004 State Street A. F. Codozoe Phone Douglas S256 BRADLEY Estate ans Glass Insurance ALSTED ST CAGO MEADE CLUB and Cafe EWIS, Proprietor Amour Ave Street, Chicago Automatic Phone 74-478 Cafe and Buffet STREET, CHICAGO American Restaurant in Connection Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietor. dine 3653 runswick Holt, Prop. AND BILLIARDS. Chicago Henry Jones et and Cafe Chas. Harris, Manager He never dressed right up to date In most expensive clothes. He never paid the highest rate Admired to the shows. No wealthy club he ever sought, Where luxuries abound. A touring car he never bought In which to spin around. He never dined in swell cafe On rich and costly food. In mouth he held no wisp of hay, Nor were his manners rude. The luckless man with scant means Who came received a loan. For silver jingled in his jeans, And—it was all his own. Judge All Arranged. They were rehearsing for a fashionable wedding. "At this point you kiss the bride." "Yes." "And here you smash a camera. I have hired a cheap one for you to smash."—Pittsburgh Post. Why He Returned. "I forgot something," said the husband as he came back. "Yes," pouted the wife. "You forgot to kiss me." "That may be. But what I came back for was my overshoes."—Louisville Courier-Journal. A True Sport "Why do you live with your husband if you quarrel all the time?" "Well, my sister bet me a box of chocolates we would never celebrate our paper wedding anniversary, and I'm going to win it just to spite her." —Fliegende Blatter. Limitations. The makers of our language did full many things unless. Twen by and large, I think the job was executed bumly. How pliquantly might bards depict a sharp antithesis Did not the rules forbid their making "homely" rime with "comely!" —Chicago Tribune Henry Jones