The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Mayor Carter H. Harrison deserves no great credit for appointing William F. Childs Lieutenant of Police HE IS NOT PERMITTED TO DISCHARGE HIS DUTIES AS SUCH AT ANY OF THE POLICE STATIONS IN CHICAGO AND TO ISSUE ORDERS OR COMMANDS TO THE WHITE OFFICERS. ON THE CONTRARY HE IS KEPT STORED AWAY OR SMOTHERED UP IN THE DARK BOOMS OF THE BUEEAU OF IDENTIFICATION AT THE SOUTH CLARK STREET STATION. SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE WHO HAVE NEVER EVEN PAID DOG TAXES OR ANY OTHER KIND OF TAXES IN COOK COUNTY WHO CALLED ON MAYOR HABRISON TO PRAISE HIM FOR THIS ACT BELIEVED ONE PROMINENT WHITE GENTLEMAN WHO IS A HIGH MUCKY MUCK IN THE CITY HALL OF FIFTY BONES OF THE REAL COIN OF THE REALM. IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT THE AFRO-AMERICAN VOTERS IN THIS CITY MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR "THE MAN OF DESTINY" TO OCCUPY THE MAYOR'S CHAIR AND TO FILL THE CITY HALL UP WITH HIS POLITICAL FRIENDS AND WORKERS. THAT MANY OF THE BETTER CLASS OF AFRO-AMERICANS WHO LOYALLY SUPPORTED HIM HAVE NEVER RECEIVED THE SLIGHTEST CONSIDERATION WHATEVER FROM HIM. CAPTAIN MAX NOOTBAAR SHOULD BE SUSPENDED OR REMOVED FROM OFFICE FOR PUBLICLY ADMITTING THAT HE PERMITTED. THE CAPE DE CHAMPION AND THE SALOON TO REMAIN OPEN 19 NIGHTS IN SUCCESSION AFTER 1 O'CLOCK A. M. IN VIOLATION OF THE CITY ORDINANCE. Vol. XVIII. Mayor Carton deserves credit for William Lieutenant Poor HE IS NOT PERMITTED TO DISCHIEVE OF THE POLICE STATIONS IN OR COMMANDS TO THE WHITE ON THE CONTRABY HE IS KEPT IN THE DARK ROOMS OF THE THE SOUTH CLARK STREET S SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE EVEN PAID DOG TAXES OR A COUNTY WHO CALLED ON ME FOR THIS ACT BELIEVED ON WHO IS A HIGH MUCKY MU BONES OF THE REAL COIN O IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT THIS CITY MADE IT POSSIBLE OCCUPY THE MAYOR'S CHAIR WITH HIS POLITICAL FRIEND THAT MANY OF THE BETTER CLAYLY SUPPORTED HIM HAVE CONSIDERATION WHATEVER CAPTAIN MAX NOOTBAAR SHOOT FROM OFFICE FOR PUBLICLY A THE CAFE DE CHAMPION AND THE NIGHTS IN SUCCESSION AFTER OF THE CITY ORDINANCE. It may be that from henceforth his honor the Honorable Carter H. Harrison, will issue strict orders to John McWeeney, Chief of Police to inform us to keep moving and not to hang around the city hall as long as he is mayor of Chicago and it may be that some of his warm supporters who are subscribers to The Broad Ax may write letters or issue orders to "stop or discontinue sending the paper to them" but whatever, the result may be we propose at this time to "hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may" and adhere to the truth though the heavens fall. Several months ago Mayor Carter H. Harrison, solely for political effect, for the purpose of making himself solid again with the Afro-American voters in this city, appointed William F. Childs, lieutenant of police and right at the outset he deserves no great credit for this act, for Lieutenant Childs is not permitted to discharge his duties as such in any manner, shape or form at any of the police stations in Chicago or to issue orders or commands to the white officers. Not having the least desire to do Mayor Harrison an injustice and according to the daily newspapers at the time he appointed him his Honor the mayor, let it be known that "he would not assign him to active duty at any of the police stations where he would come in contact with white officers for the reason that his presence or that the color of his light skin might stir up race prejudice. His Honor the Mayor does not seem to be aware of the fact that race prejudice cannot be successfully combated by running or retreating from it in such a cowardly manner. So in accordance with his antiquated ideas in this respect, Lieutenant Childs is kept stored or hid away or smothered up in the dark rooms of the Bureau of identification at the South Clark street station and some claim that he has very little to do aside from pointing out or showing the many pictures in the regues gallery to the many visitors to it. Not very long after Mayor Harrison thrust this so-called high honor upon Lieutenant Childs a committee of prominent and leading Colored citizens none of them except one or two have ever paid one dollar in dog taxes or any other kind of taxes in Cook County and it is said that one of the members of this distinguished Colored citizens committee who called on his Honor the Mayor to praise him for his noble political act or trick, touched the White gentleman who is one of the high mucky mucks in the city hall, who lead the way and introduced the members of the committee to Mayor Harrison, for fifty bones of the real coin of the realm and some say that this White gentleman or the high mucky muck will in the future lay away from all the Colored citizens who form themselves into touching committees while invading the city hall to praise Mayor Harrison. It must be remembered at this time that the Afro-American voters in this city made it more than possible for "The man of Destiny" to occupy the mayor's chair for four years at eighteen thousand dollars per year and to fill the city hall up with his white political friends and workers, many of them not being able to make a decent living at anything while they were out in the cold from the time his Honor the Mayor left the city hall and returned to make his home in it for the next ten or twenty years. On the other hand the better class of Afro-Americans who loyally supported him have never received the slightest consideration whatever, from him. Whereas as long as the Afro-Americans made it possible for his Honor the Mayor to live on easy street for a long time, in our humble opinion there is only one way for him to have shown his high appreciation of that self-evident fact and that is he should have willingly and cheerfully appointed five or six high class and competent up-to-date Afro-American business men to the best positions within his gift, one of them ought to have been selected as a member of the Board of Local Improvement, one should have been permitted to serve as City Gas Inspector another one without any doubt about it should have been chosen as a member of the Board of Education, another one should be serving as one of the high officials at the Bridewall and other Afro-Americans should be holding down three or four of the five or six thousand dollar per year easy jobs in the city hall. Mayor Harrison, must get the idea out of his blushing head that he has paid the great political debt he owes to CHICAGO, DECEMBER 7, 1912 [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie, facing slightly to the right]. LAWYER WILLIAM G. ANDERSON. The expert and far famed Habeas Corpus lawyer who is making a national reputation for himself on being able and possessing the legal ability to confuse his opponents in a legal context and to secure the release or the freedom of his clients. the Afro-American voters, by simply appointing sergeant William F. Childs, Lieutenant of Police who stood at the head of the civil service list for promotion for a long time. For Cleveland, Ohio, Boston, Mass., and several other eastern cities, have without making any political fuss about; have had Colored men to honorably serve as lieutenants of police and they have issued orders to White officers, without causing racial friction or riot. Do you see the point, Mayor Harrison? Some one in authority in the City Hall, should remove or suspend Captain Max Nootbaar, from office. For it will be recalled; that during the race prejudice excitement, in relation to Jack Johnson, and Miss Lucile Cameron; that Captain Nootbaar, rushed into the columns of the daily newspapers and declared; "that Johnson had kept his saloon and the Cafe De Champion, open 19 nights in succession after 1 o'clock a. m. in violation of the city ordinance, respecting the closing of saloons, promptly at 1 o'clock. As the Cafe De Champion, was located in the district presided over by Captain Nootbaar, evidently, some one, must have failed, to pass one or two cigars over to him. AN IMPORTANT EXPLANATION. Mrs. Ida B. Welle-Barnett, founder and editor of The Negro Fellowship League Herald, 2830 S. State Street; bitterly complains in its last issue; respecting the fact; that The Broad Ax, and several other Afro-American newspapers in this city; failed to publish the resolutions which had been passed, by the mass meeting held by the citizens at the reading room of the League; Sunday afternoon, November 16. Once and for all time to come we wish to assure Mrs. Barnett, in the most friendly manner; that if she would have forwarded to our address a typewritten copy of the resolutions and even an extended account of the meeting; the whole subject matter would have cheerfully appeared without price or cost, in these columns Saturday November 23. One of the greatest faults we have to find with the majority of Afro-Americans who claim to be up-to-date and are at the head of societies, churches and so on is that they will persist in electing secretaries who place no value whatever on an editor's time and entertain the idea, that they have nothing to do, but to chase around after them, in order to get a bee line many times on some unimportant matter. corpus lawyer who is making a national able and possessing the legal ability to contest and to secure the release or the If the secretaries of the various churches, leagues, women's clubs, literary societies, lodges and other secret societies and so on, only had the sense to forward short typewritten reports of their meetings or proceedings from time to time to the editors of the various newspapers, so that such reports will reach them by Wednesday mornings; they would then be in a better position to condemn them if they failed to publish them. WHITES INTERMARRY "She's my wife. We have lived together thirty-eight years. The law cannot estrange us." Thus spoke Joseph Lawrence, a white farmer, in the second criminal court at New Orleans, La., recently, while he was waiting trial on the charge of marrying a Colored woman. Through the arrest of Lawrence and his Colored wife the police discovered a hard situation. All around Lee Station the white farmers and fishermen and other classes have intermarried with Colored people and reared large families regardless of the law against such. A number of arrests have been made, but it has been impossible to convict one for the reason that the White parties all went on the stand and swore they were Colored. Just what the prosecuting attorney can do remains to be seen—New Orleans Picayune, November 29, 1912. The above incident proves that White gentlemen are willing to swear a thousand times that they are real black, in order to hold onto their Colored wives.—Editor. Monster New Year's DANCE AND BALL EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS At the Seventh Regiment Armory Thirty Fourth St. & Wentworth Ave. New Year's Night, the famous 8th Regiment and their host of friends will hold the fort at the 7th Regiment Armory where they will give a grand military dance and ball. This will be the big and crowning event of the New Year's festivities. The full regimental band will give a concert from 8 to 10. Following this will come the Grand March, and these until the wee small hours the dancers will revel to their full in the masses of a varied program. Make no other engagements, for you must be numbered among those present New Year's night, Jan. 1, 1913, 7th Regiment Armory. Admission 50 cents Miss Lucile Cameron side stepped her mother Mrs. Cameron- Falconet after she Emerged from Prison SECRETED HERSELF AWAY IN THIS CITY AND ON TUESDAY AFTER- NGON SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN ARTHUR JOHN- SON THE CHAMPION PRIZE FIGHTER OF THE WORLD. THE WEDDING CEREMONY WAS HELD AT THE HOME OF THE JOHNSON'S, 3344 WABASH AVENUE AND WHITE AND COLORED FOLKS FREELY MINGLED WITH EACH OTHER WHILE SHOWER- ING CONGRATULATIONS AND KISSES ON THE NEW BRIDE. THE GROOM PRESENTED HIS BRIDE WITH A $2,500 DIAMOND RING A $5000 NEW MOTOR CAR AND TOSSED THE COLORED PREACHER A NEW HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL FOR MARRYING THEM. MRS. CAMERON-FALCONET HAS WASHED HER HANDS CLEAN OF THE WHOLE WHITE AND BLACK MESS AND HAS RETURNED TO HER HOME IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. IN UTTER DISGUST. Miss Lucile Cameron, absolutely permitted old man cupid to control her heart in her love affair with John Johnson, for shortly after she emerged from behind the prison walls at Rockford Ill., she side stepped her mother Mrs Cameron-Falconet, while they were stopping at the Wellington Hotel under sumed names and secreted herself away among some of the friends she had made while she was traveling at a fast pace in this city a few months ago and bright and early on Tuesday morning Jack Johnson rushed into the County Building and came very near falling over himself and the crowd of people who followed him in his effort to reach the marriage license window in the County clerk's office and on reaching it he loudly demanded a license to wed Miss Lucile Cameron from L. C. Legner in charge at that window the request or the demand took all the run out of him for a few minutes, then after consulting with Robert M. Sweitzer, the real and up-to-date county clerk, and after Johnson stating that he was willing to sweat that Miss Cameron was born Feb. 22, 1894, and that she was over 18 years old and that he was a widower and 36 years old he had no further trouble in obtaining his marriage license, and on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock Miss Lucile Cameron was united in marriage to John Arthur Johnson the heavy weight champion prize fighter of the world. The wedding ceremony was held at the home of the Johnson's 3344 Wabash Ave. and White and Colored folks freely mingled with each other while showering congratulations and many kisses on the newly wedded bride. Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Danielson, White, and Mrs. Tiny Johnson mother of the groom stood up close to the couple during the wedding ceremony, Joe Levy, "Sig" Hart, Barney Fury, and Mrs. Laura Wilson were among the other White persons present at the union of the two hearts which for the time being beat as one. The groom who looks upon his new bride as being mighty nice, sweet, very beautiful and ever so loving and charming presented her with a $2,500 diamond wedding ring, at the same time giving her a new motor car which cost $5,000, then he tossed the Colored preacher the Rev. H. A. Robertson a new one hundred dollar bill for marrying them and after enjoying a turkey dinner and assisting to drink their share of the twenty to thirty cases of real champagne which was on tap and flowed much freer than water and after having their pictures taken in several different poses they departed on a six day honeymoon trip. Mrs. Cameron-Falconet, mother of Mies Lucile Cameron, Mrs. John Arthur Johnson if you please has washed her hands clean of the whole White and Black mess and has returned to her home in Minneapolis, Minn., in utter disgust; some claim that she received a large bundle of money for doing so and giving up the fight in her effort No.10 Cameron need her Mrs. Cameron- at after she from Prison THIS CITY AND ON TUESDAY AFTER MARRIAGE TO JOHN ARTHUR JOHN FIGHTER OF THE WORLD. IS HELD AT THE HOME OF THE REVENUE AND WHITE AND COLORED WITH EACH OTHER WHILE SHOWER IN KISSES ON THE NEW BRIDE. BRIDE WITH A $2,500 DIAMOND RING AND TOSSED THE COLORED PREACHER BILL FOR MARRYING THEM. WASHED HER HANDS CLEAN OF THE MESS AND HAS RETURNED TO HER IN. IN UTTER DISGUST. to prevent her daughter and Jack Johnson from getting together, be that as it may; one thing is more than dead certain however, namely, that Mrs. Cameron-Faleonet made matters ten thousand times worse than they otherwise would have been by coming to this city and publishing the falling weaknesses of her daughter for Colored men, to the world through the columns of the daily newspapers, without stopping to think, that this falling weakness might have been imparted to her by her own dear mother. The fact that Mrs. Cameron-Falconet gave so much publicity to the whole affair through the columns of the public press and told a barefaced lie herself when she stated that "Jack Johnson boasted that he could buy her or any White woman he wanted with his money" made it impossible for her daughter to return to her former home in Minneapolis, Minn., to reside for if she had her past friends and old associates would have coldly turned their backs upon her, snubbed, insulted and cut her to the quick in every way and for all time to come they would have pointed the forefinger of scorn and contempt at her, for permitting herself to fall in love with a big Black smoke or a "Nigger" as the most of cultured White ladies and gentlemen take much pleasure in referring to all Colored folks when there are no Colored persons in sight. Being branded or marked for life in this respect and with the curses of her former friends and associates constantly ringing in her ears day and night, there was no way for her to escape or get out from under the heavy load or burden which had been thoughtlessly heaped upon her weak shoulders by her mother, even had she gone or winged her way to the most remote parts of the earth. No one person White or Black would have given her honorable employment for love or money or permitted her to tarry or remain around their home if they ever learned her true name for she could have never dwelt in peace any place under the bright shining sun and retained her proper name. And come to think of it White gentlemen who greatly delight to hug and kiss "Nigger" women as they call their Colored lady sweethearts, would have never felt like marrying Miss Cameron after it was once known that she was mixed up in a love affair with a real big black man. In conclusion, after all that has been said or done, in this whole affair, and that as Jack Johnson, seems to have been, the chief stumbling block, in the pathway of Miss Cameron, causing her to become an outcast forever, among her own people and race, he must be given the credit however distasteful it may seem to many; for having the courage and manhood, to stand by her and to lawfully marry her; after he had gotten her into so much serious trouble. Continued on Page 2 THE BROADAX THE BROADAX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and as all times uphold the true principle of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indiesen Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose principal aim is to claim 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. Qty. $3.00 Six Months $1.25 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 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 8, 1878. JACK JOHNSON AND MISS LUCILE CAMERON BECOME UNITED IN MARRIAGE Concluded from Page 1. As Jack Johnson, seems to be rather hard, for one woman to handle or to hold down; let us all hope, that the new Mrs. Johnson, will be able to successfully, handle or control him—that she will prove as true to him in the future, as she has in the past three or four months; that he will treat her kindly and with the greatest consideration and prove to the world of mankind; that he is not naturally brutal in his make up, when it comes to dealing with delicate and frail women and; that he can become or make a model and dutiful husband. URGES CURB FOR POWER OF NEGRO. Rev. Mr. Taylor Sees Danger to Country if Colored Man is Not Educated. NOTES IMMIGRANT PROBLEM. Hamline Pastor Declares Nation's Destiny Hinges on Public Schools—Asks Aid. That steps should be taken to outline the Negro's destiny before the Colored man gains the ascendancy, was a suggestion made recently in a sermon by Rev. John Taylor of Hamline Methodist Episcopal church, St. Paul, Minn., who expressed fear of the nation's decay. Rev. Taylor pointed out that the Negroes rapidly are growing stronger in numbers, and demand immediate attention. He called the Negro and immigrant the country's greatest problems, and urged the public schools as the solution. "While we owe a great duty to the immigrant, our duty to the Negro is doubly great," Rev. Taylor said. "Fifty years ago there were 400,000 Negroes in America. Today there are 10,000,000. A few years ago we were discussing what we should do with the Negro. If we do not adopt a different attitude toward the Negro, in a few years they will be discussing what they will do with us. We have got to learn to live with them, and be decent to them. They have souls to save. They are a factor in our civilization. It is our duty to do our utmost to lift them up to a higher civilization and higher ideals of living. "A new class of immigrants is coming to our shores. The old class naturally was of our temperament, their children were taken into our schools, and they were quickly amalgamated with the American people. But those of today are exclusive, living to themselves, rather than mingling with other people. Many come without expectation of remaining, their only ambition being to amass a few hundred dollars and go back home to end their days in 'luxury.' "The Protestant church should be ready to take hold of these problems. We need to be up and at it, or vultures soon will be smelling the decaying nation from afar. What is needed is money to back up those with the enthusiasm, courage and the ability to teach and relieve these classes. If the money is supplied the men will be found. "If we can only get these people into our public schools and can keep them there, we will have gone a long way toward solving this great problem. I am a firm believer in the power of the public school. Let us guard it jealously, and in time, I believe, it will solve many of the problems before America today." Monday evening, the united Colored Democracy, gave a ball at the Coliseum Annex. Music by the 8th Begiment Band. The ball was largely attended Fred Slaughter, John W. Eubanks, Efford Woodson, George Hayes, John H Coleman, E. Franklin Morrow, Clarence W. Puckett, Fred D. Bowens Ohas, Gaskins and William H. Clark, composed the reception committee Everybody present had a good time. DUST AND SMOKE. "Dust," says Dr. Wright in Canadian Public Health Journal, is made up of a thousand or more disgusting things, together with a thousand or more that are fairly clean but all more or less irritating. Here they are: excreta of horses and dogs on the streets, human excreta in tenement districts, human sputum, garbage, ashes, house sweepings, dust from buildings being constructed or torn down, earth from excavations, soot from chimneys, irritating powdered asphalt, dung and petroleum from automobiles and motor trucks and many other things too numerous to mention. In the dust made up or composed of the substances named may be found the germs of tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza, diphtheria, nasal catarrh, tonsilitis, scarlet fever, whooping cough and other of the communicable diseases. There can be no doubt that dust is a dangerous foe to health. In many of the industrial callings it is so harmful that even with the best and most up-to-date protective devices those who work in them are short lived and usually die from the diseases peculiar to the trades in which they work. --- Next to dust, if not indeed preceding it in point of material damage done to those who dwell in the big cities, is smoke. Pittsburg has long been called "The Smoky City;" and the people of Pittsburg, holding to that old and now exploded idea that a smoky city was a prosperous city, endured the smoke with all its discomforts until they finally woke up to the fact that the making of smoke meant the waste and loss of millions of dollars every year. Now Pittsburg is spending $50,000 a year to solve its smoke problem and to do away with its smoke nuisance. The people of Pittsburg have found out that the smoke from the mills and factories, laden with carbon, lamp black and sulphuric acid ate into everything it touched; the foliage of trees and plants, ruined fabrics in the stores and added $20.00 a year to the individual cost of living. And so that city has begun in earnest the study of its smoke problem and is determined to wipe it out and to save money, big money, all along the line. There are many other cities in the United States confronted with the same big economic problem. It costs the people of Cleveland $12.00 a year each to maintain the smoke nuisance in that city. In Cincinnati, it is estimated each family contributes $100.00 a year to the support of the smoke evil; and taking the country over it is estimated by competent authorities that the needless making of smoke costs the people the tremendous sum of $500,000,000 a year. These figures are only those covering actual money loss in visible damage done in fuel energy wasted. They do not include the money paid for sickness and disease due directly to bad air caused by smoke pollution. The lesson is plain; let us quit making smoke and let us, so far as we can, keep dust out of the air we are compelled to breathe. ILLINOIS STUDENTS QUALIFY. Two Candidates Pass Oxford Entrance Examinations. President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois, who is chairman of the committee of selection of a Rhodes Scholar for the state of Illinois, has just received word from Oxford, England, in regard to the Rhodes Scholarship examinations held in Chicago in October. Robert Valentine Merrill, a junior in the University of Chicago, passed the examination in mathematics, Latin and Greek, and Charles Conger Stewart, a senior in the same institution, passed the examinations in Latin and mathematics. These examinations are similar to the entrance examinations required by most American colleges. Students who pass the examinations are eligible to appointment as Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar is appointed for a period of three years and receives the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each year. A successful examination does not, however, insure the appointment of a candidate to a scholarship, inasmuch as only one scholar is selected in any one year. The state committee of selection will meet early in December to select a candidate. At that time the candidates who have passed the Oxford examinations this year, and those who have passed in previous years and are still eligible—ten men in all—will appear before the committee. The person who is chosen will begin work at Oxford in October, 1912. In accordance with the wishes of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the committee of selection, in selecting a student for appointment to a scholarship, takes into consideration: (1) his literary and schol Attorney William G. Anderson the expert and far famed Habeas Corpus Lawyer of Chicago AFTER A HARD FOUGHT LEGAL BATTLE LATELY SECURED THE DISCHARGE OF JOHN PAYTON AN IRISH-AMERICAN FROM THE ASYLUM AT CHESTER, ILLINOIS. JUDGE THOMAS G. WINDES HOLDING THAT THE AUTHORITIES THERE HAD NO RIGHT TO FURTHER DEPRIVE HIM OF HIS FREE- DOM. BANKER CHARLES W. SPALDING, CAPTAIN GEORGE WELLINGTON STREETER, JOHN DENNISON AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAD THE DOORS ON THE PEN AT JOLIET SWUNG OPEN TO THEM BY THE GREAT LEGAL EFFORTS OF ATTORNEY ANDERSON. THE PAST SUMMER HE WAS SIGNALLY HONORED BY BEING SENT TO VIRGINIA BY THE CHICAGO EXAMINER IN BEHALF OF VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN WHO WAS ELECTROCUTED IN THAT STATE IN AUGUST. John Payton, a prominent Irishman formerly in business on the west side in Chicago and who for the past two years has been held in the asylum at Chester, Illinois for insane criminals, has been released on a writ of habeas corpus issued by the Honorable Thomas G. Windes, Judge of the Criminal Court, on the application of his attorney, W. G. Anderson. A little over two years ago, John Payton, in a fit of anger and temporary insanity, shot his wife five times, nearly resulting in her death. On the trial his attorney pleaded temporary insanity, and the jury found that at the time of the shooting he was insane and had not fully recovered. Thereupon the Court sentenced John Payton to the Chester asylum for insane criminals where he was ordered kept until fully restored to his reason, and under the law the medical superintendent of said asylum, Dr. C. H. Anderson, was to be the sole judge of his recovery. John Payton had previously endeavored to get out on a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Foell, but was unsuccessful. Attorney Anderson had the county jail physician, Dr. Hogan; Dr. Reinhardt the coroner's physician, and Dr. Mercer examine Payton, all of whom testified that in their opinion he was perfectly sane. The physician of said asylum, Dr. Anderson, came up from Chester and bitterly opposed the discharge of Payton, claiming Payton was a paranoiac of the same type as Harry Thaw of New York. The case was bitterly fought by Wells Cook, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, who chal- tic attainments; (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, such as football and the like; (3) his qualities of manhood—truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Cor. 38th and Dearborn Sts., Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D., Pastor. Our services on last Sunday were fairly well attended considering the inclementy of the weather. Dr. Callis preached morning and evening. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Dr. W. D. Cook, pastor of Quinn Chapel preached a splendid sermon, the effect of which was so marked many in the audience were moved to tears. Our efforts in the rally were continued as announced. We are pleased to report that we have on hand $1,220.00 for which we are very grateful to the friends who so royally assisted us in this effort. Rev. R. P. Christian called by this week and informed us that our next Quarterly Conference will be on the 2nd of January and our 2nd Quarterly meeting on the 5th. The meeting of the National Council of Church Federation, being held in our city this week will bring many of our Bishops and General officers as well as prominent preachers and laymen. We are unable to say therefore just who will fill our pulpit on Sunday. But a cordial invitation is extended to the public, and we can assure you that interesting services will be held all day. —'C' FLAT FOR RENT Nine room flat for rent suitable for rooming house on Wabash Ave. near 51st St. H. Franklin Scales, Agent, 5111 State St. Phone Kenwood 4346. Auto. 74-875. lenged the right of the Court to overrule the judgment of the superintendent of the asylum. Attorney Anderson produced a great many decisions sustaining the right of a judge on habeas corpus to inquire into the sanity or insanity of a prisoner held in an asylum where he had been committed on a trial for a criminal charge and after an exhaustive argument, Judge Winder sustained Attorney Anderson. This case involved a novel construction of the statute relating to the discharge of a prisoner indicted on a criminal charge and sent to the insane hospital at Chester. Only recently Attorney Anderson secured the release of Charles Breitske from the same institution. The hospital authorities and their expert doctors all testified that "Breitske was incurably insane" but the Court after hearing from both sides held with Attorney Anderson. These are the only two cases so far as known where patients were discharged on writs of habeas corpus after having been committed to the insane asylum for criminals at Chester, and much credit must be given to Attorney Anderson who succeeded after a hard fight on the part of the State to hold the prisoners. The Broad Ax is watching the success of Attorney Anderson, who has secured the release of over a thousand criminals, under charges from murder down to being an insane person, and possibly Attorney Anderson might be of invaluable aid to Harry Thaw of New York, who has tried over a half a dozen times to get out of the same predicament as Payton and Breitske were in. MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON REV VOKED THE SALOON LICENSE OF FRED SLAUGHTER. The first of this week; Mayor Carter H. Harrison, revoked the saloon license of Fred Slaughter 2971 South State street and closing up the Eureka Clut, which was located on the second floor, which was supposedly to be conducted by Charles Gaskins. It is claimed that the owners of the saloon and the club, permitted women to be too much in evidence around both places, in violation of the city ordinance in that respect. Messrs. Slaughter and Gaskins, are among the Afro-American Democrat, who have always loudly tooted their horns for Mayor Harrison. Further comment is unnecessary. WHAT DO YOU WEAR ASKS PREACHER OF WOMEN IN VERSE. Columbus, Ind., Dec. 6.—Rev. F. L. Dimmitt, a Methodist preacher, created a sensation in this city by a sermon directed against the mode of dress now popular with women, which permits them to appear on the street in scanty attire. A special portion of Rev. Dimmitt's sermon was the quotation from the pulpit of the following lines: Little girl, you look so small! Don't you wear no clothes, at all; Don't you wear a chemise or shirt, Don't you wear a pretty skirt! Just your corset and your hose, Are these all your underclothes? The poem closed with a prediction that "After a while I do believes you will dress like Mother Eve." Will some of the fair and charming ladies, who resemble loving or fairy angels please move up another peg on the mourner's bench and make room for some one to stand up and say Amen! amen!—Editor. THREE COLORED BOYS HELD FOR BORBERIES. Three Boys Confess to Breaking Into Fiftieth Street District Markets. Three young Colored boys are held in the matron's quarters of the Hyde Park police station charged with committing burglaries in the Fiftieth street police district. The boys are John Turley, 13 years old, 5215 Armour avenue; Lee Davis, 14 years old, 5324 South Dearborn street, and Robert Hart, 13 years old, 5307 Armour avenue. They were arrested by Detectives O'Neil and Malloy. The detectives obtained confessions from the boys, who admit breaking into three grocery and meat markets. LAWYER COSEY INAUGUEAL COM MITTER CHAIRMAN. Lawyer A. B. Cosey, of Newark, N. J., has been designated by National Chairman W. F. McCombs as chairman of the sub-committee in charge of the arrangements for the participation of Colored citizens in the ceremonies incidental to the inauguration of Governor Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States. Mr. Daniel Murray, who has had charge of these functions for the past sixteen years, will be vice-chairman, and will have general supervision of many of the purely local features of this year's affair. The committee will begin work at once, and it is believed that "in-auguration week" of 1913 will not be less brilliant than in former years, even though the central figure happens to be a Democrat.—Ex. GIRL DEAD; MINISTER ARRESTED Suicide of Stenographer Causes Employer to Be Taken Into Custody. Joplin, Mo., Dec. 3.—J. A. Brownlee, a Negro minister and real estate dealer, was arrested and placed in jail here following the suicide of Pearl Augent, a 17-year-old White girl, who was employed by Brownlee as a stenographer. The girl killed herself in Brownlee's office. Another Negro, said to have been a frequent visitor at Brownlee's office, was also arrested. CHIPS. Mrs. Carrie Warner, and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Joe Warner 5223 Dearborn street; returned home Monday morning from St. Louis, Mo., where they spent Thanksgiving with relatives and friends. Col. Cary B. Lewis, who may be appointed to a fine federal position somewhere by President Woodrow Wilson after March 4, 1913, has for the past week been visiting his parents and friends at Louisville, Ky. Mr. George A. Schilling President of the Local board of improvements, continues to prove himself to be one of the best and ablest city officials, and the various contractors are forced to get up mighty early in the morning in order to put one over on him. 1. Bishop Benjamin Franklin Lee, of Wilberforce, Ohio, in charge of this Episcopal district of the A. M. E. Church, has been the guest this week of Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Carey, 3428 Vernon avenue. On Wednesday afternoon Bishop Lee, and Rev. Carey, dined with Dr. Louis Madison-Fenwick at 47th and State streets. Edward Carroll 6022 South Carpenter street; who at one time served as one of the Civil Service Commissioners, under Mayor Carter H. Harrison, has been selected as one of the new bailiffs of the Municipal Court by Chief Bailiff A. J. Cermak. Mrs. Frankie Holland, 3142 Forest avenue; claimed that her husband, spent most of his time in the flat of Mrs. Fannie Bartley, sister of Jack Johnson in the Mecca Apartment building 34th and State streets; and last Saturday Mrs. Holland, had Mrs. Bartley arrested and fined $25 and cost, before Judge Newcomer at the 35th Street Police station for conducting a disorderly flat. Congressman Martin B. Madden, lately gave $300 as a donation to the ladies of G. A. B. Fort Wagner Cirele No. 5, which enables them to complete the payment of $687 on burial lots, in Mt. Glenwood Cemetery. Nina Hall, who has worked faithfully to accomplish that object, deserves to be highly commended by the members of her race. Joe Roberts, who is a member of Olivet Baptist church, and who for some time conducted a small close cleaning establishment on Forest avenue near 37th employed Mrs. Carrie Thompson, 3141 Forest avenue, to assist him in his business and Mr. Roberts claimed that Mr. Washington Surfier. a nice looking Colored man, got too spoony with Mrs. Thompson, so Mr. Roberts proceeded to pound Mr. Spratler, mighty hard all over his head and face, with a brick bat, and on Tuesday Municipal Judge Courtney, at the 35th Street Police station fined Mr. Roberts $25 and cost, for possessing an ungovernable temper and for taking the law in his own hands in dealing with Mr. Spratler. President William H. Taft, submitted his last regular annual message to both branches of Congress Tuesday, and it is safe and sane and full of sound advice in touching upon some of the more important subjects or questions effecting more or less, all classes of Americans. Mr. Taft, has all in all made a splendid President and the country has been in a very prosperous condition in every way, under his administration. It is unfortunate indeed; that he became such a negative force in the Republican party and in many respects in the country at large. This condition of affairs as far as he was concerned, was principally brought about by, the wild mouthed tirades of his so-called friend; Col. Theodore Roosevelt. His Choice. Oh Helen's eyes are velvet black. Her brow is like the snow. And wonderful embroideries. Beneath her fingers grow. But Milly makes the lightest bread A man could wish to eat And knit while as poder puffs And muffins hard to beat. And Helen paints divinely too. Her water color scenes Are perfect in their tender tints Of restful grays and greens And warm and blue blues But Milly has no match With thread and needle when it comes To putting in a patch. Although I linger near entranced When Helen sings and plays, And though enraptured when we meet Upon her bed I tremble And often in her dainty ear I whisper speeches silly. Yet Milly makes delicious ple, So I'll propose to Milly. For Golfers. Mrs. R. H. Barlow, the eastern golf champion, was being congratulated at the Stockton baths on breaking the record at the Cape May Golf club. Mrs. Barlow, apropos of low scores, told her interlocutor a story about a wretched player. "He was a swaggering sort of chap," she said, "for all his wretched play. One day he was describing a medal competition he'd taken part in. "Do you know,' he said. I did the first hole in eleven, the second in fourteen, the third in twelve—and then, hang the luck, I went all to pieces.'"—Exchange Advice to the Fat, Sleep but little, never eat Anything that's fat or sweet; Snun tobacco, alcohol; not at all tall, full Beans, rice puddings, ples abber; Never pass your plate for more With your meals no water take Walk until your muscles ache; Exercise an awful lot. Especially if the weather hot. Use the table; Eat as little as you're able. If you're really faint for food Unbuttered toast is very good. Or if that does not suffice Two or three stewed prunes are also Milk and cream you must taboon. Try this plan two months or three And I'll give my guarantee The advice I give is true, And you'll lose a pound or two Hands Up! "You say you were held up this morning by a footpad with a revolver. At what time?" "Five minutes to 1." "How can you fix the time so precisely?" "Because I could see the church clock, and I noticed that its hands were exactly in the same position as my own."-Spokane Spokesman-Review. The Superfool. We know the man who cannot swim A stroke, but loves to float Upon the summer sea and thinks It smart to rock the boat, Though over his untimely grave, Beneath the blower cool. We drop the tribute of a tear. We class him as a fool. But now that we have learned at last The trick of how to fly And soar above the fleecy clouds And navigate the sky. When far below we spreads the sweep We pay the plight. What shall we call the passenger Who rocks the aeroplane? —Minna Irving in New York Sun Impossible. Fond Mamma—Here's a photo of my little boy when he was a baby, and I want you to make one of him as he is now. The College Here. The football field finds him sublime; He shines on tennis courts. It seems he has a lot of time For sports. He helps, to have his fellow loons, Helps loosen up their sails. Has time o'rights and afternoons For frat. At games he is a star, gadnooks! He's fond of frats and such. And what time has he for his books? Not much. THE CRISIS MAGAZINE Jessie Fauset Makes Her Debut as Novelist In Christmas Number. The Christmas issue of the Crisis, which made its appearance the last week in November, is the climax of many fine editions of this magazine. The cover, a winter scene of exquisite coloring, was painted by Richard L. Brown, the artist, and reproduced in three colors. Many think that it surpasses the Easter cover of this magazine in beauty. The chief feature of the magazine is the first installment of a novelette by Jessie Fauset. Miss Fauset here makes her debut as a writer of fiction, which, her friends have long known, is her strongest point. Emmy is a charming THE MIRROR EMMY, THE HEROINE OF JESSIE FAUSER'S STRIKING RACE STORY IN THE CRISIS. brown heroine and will be loved by every reader. The story is fittingly illustrated. Other features include an article on the "Women's Clubs of California" and an article on "John Jay Chapman's Coatesville Pilgrimage." "The Men of the Month" includes Will Marion Cook, the late Dr. A. C. McClennan and the new Chicago lieutenant of police. The editorials on the election and "The Truth" are unusually strong and timely. The circulation of the Crisis has now reached 24,000 copies each month, a circulation unsurpassed by any colored magazine in the past and unequaled by any periodical today among colored people. This publication is the mouthpiece of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, and it is gratifying to note the success of the magazine and the work of this organization, which is doing so much for the race. HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS AS CHURCH CORPORATION. Anniversary of Abysinian Congregation Reveals Work of Uplift. The pastor and members of the Abysinian Baptist church in New York recently held a series of meetings in recognition of the one hundred and fourth anniversary of the founding of the church. There were many distinguished visitors at the different services from out of town. Among those who came from a distance were President William A. Creditt of the Downingtown (Pa.) Industrial school and Mr. and Mrs. Watt Terry of Brockton, Mass. The Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of the church, received many expressions of confidence and esteem from his parishioners and the visitors for the great work accomplished under his four years' pastorate. The celebration concluded with an overflow reunion service at Young's Casino. The receipts reported up to Nov. 28 amounted to $1,000.48. It was Dr. Powell's aim to raise $1,500 during the anniversary exercises, all free will offering, but the amount already received has surpassed his calculation. The church is in a most flourishing condition, growing in membership and sending out a most helpful influence into the community. It is a congregation imbued with the spirit of missions, and many families and individuals in the community have been the recipients of the hospitality of the various organizations connected with the church. So eager has been the desire on the part of the pastor and congregation to reach the nongoing church people that, under the auspices of the church, three large mass meetings have been held recently at Young's Casino Sunday afternoons after the regular morning service of the church. These meetings have been very helpful. Successful Mutual Benefit Concern. The National Benefit association, founded in Washington about twelve years ago by Samuel W. Rutherford and a small group of men and women who are interested in all good movements for racial advancement, has grown to large proportions. The association is worth considerable money and property. It employs upward of 500 members of the race on salary and commission and is doing a much needed work as a mutual benefit concern among the masses of our people who cannot afford to carry large financial protection. KNAPP DAY CELEBRATION Hampton Institute Honora Memory of Well Known Agriculturallet. The movement recently started to make "Knapp agricultural day" a permanent fixture in the history of southern farm industry is worthy of the highest commendation. Dr. S. A. Knapp was the originator of farm demonstration work and boys' and girls' agricultural clubs. Wednesday, Nov. 27, was set apart as the day on which special exercises were held at the various industrial schools in different sections of the south in honor of Dr. Knapp. Hampton institute, of course, took the lead in the movement, inviting the children of the public schools also to observe the day which commemorates the work of a man who did more than any other person for the advancement of agricultural life in the south. It is gratifying to a degree to know that the influence growing out of this memorial day is to take permanent shape in the near future of a Knapp school and a Knapp farm near Nashville, Tenn., in connection with the Peabody college. The general education board has decided to give $250,000 for the endowment of this school of country life. The purpose of the institution will be to reach and help schools and farms in the south. It will be a veritable clearing house for the assembling of educational and industrial workers. No such institution of the kind is at present in existence. Therefore it will finally have demonstration schools in every state and county. A life sized statue of Dr. Knapp will adorn the principal building of the school of country life. FRANK BROWN'S INVENTION. Wave and Gravity Motor Machine Exhibited in Baltimore. Baltimore. — The number of useful inventions by Afro-Americans continues to increase year by year. While there is nothing startling in such a statement, it shows that the race is keeping abreast of the times along almost all lines of industry and in scientific knowledge. The most recent achievement by a member of the race above the ordinary is the wave and gravity motor, of which Frank Brown of this city is the successful inventor. A demonstration of the work of the machine was given here recently and caused quite a stir among the thoughtful and energetic PETER H. BURKE FRANK BROWN. citizens. The instrument is designed to eliminate the use of coal and reduce the cost of labor. The invention utilizes ocean waves and the force of gravity in generating electrical energy, which, the author says, will revolutionize industry, in that it will provide cheaper power for lighting purposes. Mr. Brown says his machine can be successfully used to transmit current at least 200 miles by being placed in the ocean on pieces of re-enforced concrete, which fortifies it against all conditions of tide variations. Buoys can be so placed in the ocean as to make the action steady and thus insure the best results at all times. A working model of the invention bears testimony to the claim which Mr. Brown makes for his machine. Mr. Brown is a native of Washington and is noted for his ambition to do something worth while. Sunday Schools to Publish Magazine. At the nineteenth annual meeting of the New England Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Young People's convention, held in Orange, N. J., last June, N. Barnett Dodson, president of the organization, in his annual address called attention to the need of a monthly magazine to be published in the interest of the schools and auxiliary bodies connected with the convention. The president's suggestion was inserted in the resolutions adopted by the convention. Plans are now being perfected by which the proposed publication may be started about the 1st of January, 1913. The field for such a magazine is large, and the need of an organ devoted to the doings of young people in church and Sunday school work is great. International Committee, Y. M. C. A. The thirty-fifth annual dinner of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian association was hest in the Waldorf-Astoria in New York recently and was largely attended. Chairman Alfred E. Marling presided. Among the speakers were J. E. Moorland, Charles R. Towson, Dr. George J. Fisher, Frederick B. Smith, John F. Moore, E. T. Colton, F. M. Robinson, Charles D. Hurrey and A. E. Roberts. THE MODERN IDEA CLUB. Mount Olivet Baptist Church Hes Thrifty Society of Young Man. The first public mass meeting and installation of the officers of the Young Men's Modern Idea club of the Mount Olivet Baptist church, in New York, which occurred recently, was attended by representatives from the various city churches, social clubs and neighborhood workers' organizations. The Rev. William P. Hayes, pastor of the church, was master of ceremonies. The literary program consisted of vocal and instrumental music. The address of welcome was delivered by Arthur L. Morris. The principal address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church, in Brooklyn. Dr. Moss delivered a timely and inspiring address, taking for his subject "Opportunity." The installation address was delivered by Eugene Kinckle Jones, field secretary for the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People. A brief sketch of the club was given by Frank E. Wallace. Tokens of appreciation for the services rendered the organization by Miss Richetta G. Randolph were presented to her by Clarence E. Williams. Mrs. C. Alimee Hayes and G. Gladstone Marshall were pianist and organist for the occasion respectively. The officers of the Young Men's Modern Idea club for 1912-13 are: Rev Dr. William P. Hayes, honorary president; Charles C. Allison, Jr.; president; B. Bray Purvis, first vice president; Clarence E. Williams, second vice president; Frank E. Wallace, secretary; Reginald Mitchell, assistant secretary; John E. Stokes, treasurer; Richard Bacot, chaplain, and Nelson Burge, sergeant-at-arms. MACLEAN MEMORIAL FUND. National Association Honors Memory of Mrs. M. D. Maclean. The movement recently started by the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People to raise a fund to be known as the "Mary Dunlop Maclean memorial fund" is worthy of the highest praise. This special fund is to be used for the publication of the literature of the association. Mrs. Maclean was devoted to the colored people and strove to improve their condition, and it is desired by the association to continue the work she loved. Miss Mary White Ovington is secretary of the memorial committee, and those interested may send remittances to her at 26 Vesey street, New York. NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION'S AMBITION. Secretary Boyd Outlines Big Campaign In Nashville Globe. The Nashville (Tenn.) Globe in its holiday number devotes four columns to the object and aims of the National Negro Press association. It gives the full list of the general officers and also members of the executive committee by states as far as possible, in accordance with the decision of the last annual meeting. Henry Allen Boyd, corresponding secretary, has already done a large work in communicating with editors, publishers and general newspaper correspondents with a view of having them enroll as members of the association. His efforts have thus far been eminently successful, and the outlook for a strong, effective organization is indeed bright. Farreaching in effect on the Negro newspapers, denominational and secular, will be the advanced steps now being made by the National Negro Press association, says the Globe. The election of Henry Allen Boyd as corresponding secretary, whose duty it is to keep alive the interests of the association, as well as keep in touch with the hundreds of newspapers now being published, will put the work of the association before a larger number of publishers. Secretary Boyd is already "on the job," sending out scores of letters, not only to the executive committee, but to the members and affiliated newspapers. All are showing a deep interest in the great plans that are being pushed for the enlargement of the association, which has for its motto, "For the Highest Development of Negro Journalism." "One of the first plans to be pushed to a successful culmination," says the corresponding secretary after a lengthy correspondence with the president and the chairman of the executive committee, "will be the compiling and issuing of a national Negro newspaper directory, a publication that will give the name of every Negro newspaper and magazine published in the United States. Other plans, according to President Thompson, will be the forming of a plate and reciprocal news service and standardization of advertising matter for the Negro press and papers in the United States. Underlying all of this, declares Secretary Boyd, before many years elapse will come the daily newspaper for the black man, with a complete news service that will handle news for the Negro daily press as is being handled now for the daily newspapers published by white men. Ministers' Wives Form Organization. The wives of the ministers of the Pittsburgh conference of the A. M. E. church have organized under the name of the Silver Cord association. At a meeting of the association recently held a permanent body was perfected with Mrs. Lucille Lewis as the corresponding secretary. The cabbage was adored by the Egyptians, who raised altars to it. Afterward they made this strange god the first dish in their repasta. The Greeks and Romans ascribed to it the happy quality of preserving from drunkenness and looked upon it as a sovereign remedy against paralysis. Our Lighthouses The lighthouse service of the United States costs about $5,000,000 a year. The greater part of this sum is used in caring for the lighting of the coasts. Wire. Wire was first beaten out by a hammer, but the artisans of Nuremberg, in 1350, began to draw it, which was the great step forward in that art. Unslaked Lime Unslaked lime is useful in preventing rust because of its extraordinary capacity for absorbing moisture. Some careful workmen who take pains that their tools shall always be in the best condition make a practice of keeping a piece of lime in their tool boxes to absorb any moisture which might otherwise cause rust. Tropical Plants Many tropical plants possess light giving qualities. Not only are their blossoms and stems luminous, but their juices are phosphorescent. Hudson River Bricks The brick made in the yards along the Hudson river in New York since 1901, if laid flat, would make a sidewalk twenty feet wide around the world. The Onion. Alexander found the onion in Egypt, where the Hebrews had learned to like it. He had it cultivated in Greece and given as food to his troops in the belief that it excited martial ardor. Whoseover wishes to preserve his health, says an ancient saw, should eat every morning before breakfast young onions and honey. But this does not sound like a very tempting preservative. There Are Others Among female Moors birthday celebrations are unknown. A Moorish woman considers it a point of honor to be absolutely ignorant of her age. Chloroform. Chloroform, the great anaesthetic was discovered by Guthrie in 1831 and was first employed in surgical operations in 1847. Care of Knives Nothing ruins ivory handled knives so quickly as putting the handles into water. Indeed, no knife should be put entirely into water. Wash the blades and wipe off the handles. If plunged into water the water is apt to work its way into the handle where the blade is fastened and in time will rust the handle so it cracks. Spanish Nobles Of Spain's population about one-fifteenth are nobles, of whom four-fifths are either paupers or on the verge of poverty. Watches Aboard Ship Ship's time is marked by "watches," afternoon watch being from midday to 4 p. m., first dog watch from 4 to 6 p. m., second dog watch from 6 to 8 p. m., first watch from 8 to midnight, middle watch from midnight to 4 a. m., morning watch from 4 to 8 a. m., and foreoon watch from 8 a. m. to midday. Lace. Lace was known in Venice at an early period. It was not unknown to the Greeks and Romans. To protect the native article its importation into England was prohibited in 1483. Women In Tibet In Tibet the work of carpenters and masons is done by women. Women transact also a large part of the business and perform much toll and drudgery of various kinds. Two-thirds of the Tibetan men are lamas. Travelers say that as a rule the men are immoral and very lazy. Wild Bees. Wild bees will attack blossoms that the tame bees ignore. The bee from the woods does not seem to care for propagated flowers, nor will it enter any hive that has been placed for it, no matter how enticing the food there. It is far more vicious than its cultured brothers. FOUR PLAT BRICK BUILDING FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. For sale, four flat brick building, at a bargain, located on Armour avenue, near 36th Street. Bent $60 per month. Price, $4,650. For further information, call on or address Julius F. Taylor, 5027 Armour avenue, Phone Drexal 4590. This is a good investment and good income property. FLATS TO RENT. 7240-7242 Wentworth Ave., first flat, 7 Rooms and Bath, $20.00. Second flat nothing better seven rooms and bath Bent $22.00. 5754 Wentworth Ave., 5 Rooms and Bath front flat $13.00 four room rear flat, Bent $10.00 Stone front Bath, $18.00 best resident district. House 6581 Stairs Street, 5 Rooms and 2811 Armour Ave., 2nd flat 5 Rooms and bath, $16.00. 2812 La Salle Street, 5 Rooms, $15.00. & BIGHARDSON, 169 N. 8th Ave. Room 808. Phone $15 Victor-Victrola IV You never thought of getting a genuine Victor-Victrola for $15—yet here it is. And it is of the same high quality and perfection which characterizes all the products of the Victor Company. Come in and hear it—any time. Other styles $25 to $200. Victors $10 to $100. Telephone Douglas 4558 Telephone Automatic 71-703 FRANK L. GALE PIANO CO. 3159 S. State Street : Chicago Bardown, 1962 Monument Flat Tidgham, Monroe 2714 Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law Suite 318-320 Ranger Blok Clark and Washington Streets CHICAGO Phone: Central 12497 Auto. 41-013 Phones: Office, Main 4153 Rn. Drusel, 7990 Auto. 33-736 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone: Central 6624. Rn. Phone, Doug. 4397. No. 508 East 36th Street. Suite 405, 145 Clark St. Corr. Randolph St. Tol. Central 3142 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 38 W. RANDOLPH STREET Suite 708 Delaware Building CHICAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Notary Public Office Phon: automatic 44-185 Res. Phon: Automatic 79-137 Suite 5, Methodist Church Block S. E. Cor. Clark & Washington St., CHICAGO Evening Office 3449 State St., 7 to 9. French Dunn and J. B. McCahon, Trenton Tel Oakland 1550-1551-1452 Established 1877 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVE. Rallyards 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Tel. Aldine 1820 In Office at Night C. H. KNIGHT, M. D., C.M. (Canada) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 9 to 11 A.M., 2 to 5 P.M. 3158 State Street, Chicago Office Hours—From 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sunday by appointment. DR. THEO. R. MOZEE DENTIST 4718 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO Phoenix, Oakland 46622 Automatic 75053 Victor Victor-Vic From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Torvalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. B. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phalps, 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. T. B. Hall, laundry office and news stand, 11 W. 29th St., near State. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 5532 State St. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, Cigars, Tobacco, Notions, Stationery and News stand, 3640 South State street. J. Hamilton, news stand, out of town papers, and shoe shining parlor, 3220 South State street. J. H. Roberts, barber shop and news stand, 3308½ State street. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Under State Government Supervisions. $100,000 deposited with the State.' Policies of all kinds, ranging from five cents to ten thousand dollars. Our industrial contracts give to the color- pride policy more than any other company for the same weekly premium. Colored Agents to Write and Collect Your Business. Information of rates and values at your age will be furnished free, upon giving your age, name and address. The American Life Insurance Co., of Illinois, Tel. Randolph S. 72 West Adams Street Telephones, CALUMET 4401--4428 AUTOMATIC 75-655 Artesian Pharmacy 2701 [Dearborn] St. CHICAGO Use Dorsey's fine Pomade for the hair. It will make it soft and glossy. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Phone your ORDERS Phone Douglas 8838 Rooms by Day or Week Room 22-85-60s The Douglas Hotel Batha, Steam Heat, Electric Light 2008 S. State Street, CHICAGO TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland [1760] Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR'& SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS 3.Tripe'Daily to AlliDepots 4706 IndianaAve. CHICAGO $15 Miss Constance Bantley of England is in the United States trying to wear out her grief for the death of a pet cat. The Rev. Miss A. J. Allebach, the first woman minister to speak at the conference of religious liberals, is president of the National Association of Women in the Ministry. She was ordained last year and is now preaching for the missions in New York. Miss May Robertson, claimed to be the only woman stage driver in the country, makes the trip regularly between Rifle and Meeker, Colo., a distance of thirty miles. She looks after the baggage, attends to the seating of passengers and gives attention to considerable transportation business along the route. She is a slender young woman, not yet twenty-one, and is credited with being one of the best drivers in the west. Mrs. Horace E. Soule, the second women wireless operator to sail out of an American port, arrived in San Francisco recently aboard the steamer Windber, eighty-four days out of New York. Mrs. Soule is the wife of the steamer's captain and became an operator that she might remain with her husband, whom she has accompanied on his voyages for nearly twenty years. They have made three complete cruises around the world together. The Royal Box. Ozar Ferdinand of Bulgaria is supposed to be the best dressed sovereign in Europe and to possess a larger wardrobe than any of his brother monarchs. Sultan Mohammed V. of Turkey in private life is very simple in his tastes. His meals are often frugal, his favorite dish being, it is reported, the so-called "nas-kebab," small bits of mutton, well seasoned and roasted over a slow fire. The king of Norway spends less on his attire than any other monarch and much less than many well to do private individuals. He keeps only about a dozen suits going at the same time and for some of his shooting and sporting suits does not pay more than $20. Altogether he does not spend more than $1,250 per annum on his ordinary dress. Current Comment. The Japs have taken to eating beef in order to grow tall, while we have quit eating it because we are short—Washington Post. The refusal of compensation by the railroad wage arbitrators for their labor of months is a splendid example of generous and disinterested public service.—New York Tribune. It is reported that American millionaires are being skinned by London art dealers. But any body that can skin an American millionaire is entitled to the peit—Cleveland Leader. New York has a fire college for teaching men to become firemen. Unhappily, that sort of knowledge seems necessary. But the best rule for fighting fires is this: "Prevent them!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sporting Notes. The neat sum of $25,000, Joe Mandot's winnings in the last nine months, shows that boxing must be a lucrative business. W. T. Englehorn of Spokane, Wash., a member of the class of 1914, has been elected captain of the Dartmouth football team for next year. Englehorn has played fullback for two years. Miss Dorothy Campbell, who has won the Canadian golf championship for the third consecutive time, will, it is announced, marry a Pittsburgh man and will not defend the title next year at Montreal. Goals From Field. This is one of the years when people don't get hysterical over football accidents.—New York Tribune. A slight increase in the number of deaths from football this year will not make the game less popular.—New York American. A football game between East and West would go farther toward settling the college championship, but even at that it would not compare with the game betwixt Harvard and Yale. It would lack historic interest.—Boston Journal. New Year Resolutions. Now is the time to take your New Year resolutions out of storage—Judge's Library. Add another clause to your New Year resolutions this time. Resolve to keep the resolutions you make—Exchange. How time flies! Here we are wondering again whether it would do any good to make another stab at New Year resolutions—Atlanta Journal. Recent Inventions A newly invented wheelbarrow dumps its load forward as its handles are pushed down, saving its user the labor of lifting it. For traveling salesmen there has been invented a valise with folding sides and legs with which it may be converted into a table. An anchor to be used on lifeboats has been invented which is hollow and filled with oil, which will still the waves after it has been thrown overboard. SIRES AND SONS. Dr. James T. Gelathmay, whose new anesthetic compound has been adopted by the United States navy, is an anesthetist of St. Bartholomew hospital in New York. Professor Zephaniah Hopper, dean of the faculty of the Boyr's Central high school, Philadelphia, is still teaching, though at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. He celebrated his birthday recently. A. T. Patrick, serving a life sentence at Sing Sing for the murder of an aged millionaire, has taken up the study of optometry and was permitted the other day to make notes of the examinations by the prison doctors of the eyes of the inmates. Dr. Alexis Carrel, winner of the Nobel prize for medicine this year, has been associate member of the Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research since 1909, when he came to this country from France. He is a native of France, having been born in 1873. Dr. Charles L. Metz, who has made some of the richest finds ever brought to light as to the early life in North America of the mound builders, has been engaged in that work for a quarter of a century. He is head of Harvard university research committee. The big, new personality of the war is M. Venezelos, the Greek prime minister. The man who in three years has not only reformed the Greek civil and military administration, but put through the political deal with the Balkan states, till they hostile, is something of a statesman. New Year Customs. In some parts of Italy the peasants hail the New Year by beating wildly on frying pans and shovels. Scottish people look upon the taking of money on New Year's day as a very risky proceeding, even though it is money which is owing to them. In Greece the first day of the year is a great tipping festival. A Greek gentleman is expected to visit all his friends, to all the servants of whom a piece of money must be given. To the Frenchman New Year's day is the most formal of all the year. He visits all his relatives, from his sixth cousins to his maiden great-aunts, leaving a card or a present. The Frenchman spends more on presents at this time than any other time of the year. Flippant Flings. "You can tell a consumptive by the way he coughs, remarks a Boston physician. Also a tightwad—Milwaukee Sentinel. A wise highbrow wants to teach wives how to spend money. Might as well teach dogs how to bark or ducks to swim—New York American. A Spokane jeweler is suing his physician for $15,000 because, on the statement that he had a fatal disease, he sold his business at a sacrifice and then, after all, got well. This should be a warning to physicians to see that their predictions of death are promptly verified by the event. It is the only safe way—New York Tribune. Town Topics. If it is anything to be proud of, New York can produce on short order as bloody a shooting affray as any frontier town—New York World. Chicago will be twenty hours from New York instead of eighteen hours through the winter months. That's plenty near enough—Boston Globe. For a city reputed to be materialistic Chicago is a wonder. For example, Chicago is quite able to supply the world's markets with every known variety of seer, prophet, reveler, healer and vender of cuts on a moment's notice—Chicago Record-Herald. Facts From France. Boulogne, France, has just completed after nine years of construction work a new tidal dock. In one street of Paris, the Champs Elysees, there have been during the last twelve months 580 accidents, of which thirty proved fatal. A group of prominent women in Paris have established a woman's rest called the Cantine Maternelle, where any woman with a baby in her arms may get all she wants to eat without any questions being asked. Pert Personals. Dr. Aked was right in refusing to give 1,000 reasons for becoming an American. He has more than 10,000—New York World. J. P. Morgan recently contributed $100,000 to the cause of church unity. J. P. Just simply has to trustify something—St. Louis Republic. 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