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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The Commissioners Appointed by Gov. Edward F. Dunne to Arrange to Celebrate THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF FREEDOM AMONG THE AFRO-AMERICANS IN THIS STATE IN 1915 ARE STILL FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES IN RELATION TO MONEY MATTERS. THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JACKSON CAREY, IT IS CLAIMED WILL REVIVE THE OLD CONSERVATOR AND START UP HIS LITTLE PRINTING PLANT LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. IN ORDER TO GOBBLE ONTO SOME STATE PRINTING AND TO GATHER IN THE $3,000 TO BE EXPENDED FOR COMPILATION IN THE FORM OF A BOOKLET FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION. SHOWING THE PROGRESS THUS FAR ACHIEVED BY THE AFRO-AMERICANS RESIDING IN ILLINOIS DURING THE PAST FIFTY YEARS. TWO OR THREE HUNGBRY COLORED NEWSPAPER MEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN TURNED DOWN BY REV. CAREY, AND THEY WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO OCCUPY SEATS AT HIS PIE COUNTER. VICIOUS AND UNCALLED FOR ATTACK ON MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON, BY AN AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER EDITOR WHOM HE HAS REPRIENDED AND ASSISTED IN THE PAST. Vol. XVIII. The Commiss pointed by F. Dunne to Cel THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ERICANS IN THIS STATE IN THEMSELVES IN RELATION TO THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JACK REVIVE THE OLD CONSERVA PRINTING PLANT LOCATED IN TUTIONAL CHURCH. IN ORDER TO GOBBLE ONTO SOME IN THE $3,000 TO BE EXPENDED OF A BOOKLET FOR FREE DE SHOWING THE PROGRESS THUS ERICANS RESIDING IN ILL. YEARS. TWO OR THREE HUNGBRY COLOR READY BEEN TURNED DOWN NOT BE PERMITTED TO OCCU VICIOUS AND UNCALLED FOR AT SON, BY AN AFRO-AMERICAN HAS BEFRIENDED AND ASSISTED Last Thursday the commissioners appointed by Governor Edward F. Dunne to arrange for the Colored people in this state to celebrate their 50 years of freedom in 1915, and they the commissioners are all White persons except three, two Colored which does not include the Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. who so they say claims to have more royal White blood coursing through his veins than he has Colored blood, met with Governor Dunne at Springfield and they were not in session very long before they had another set to in relation to money matters, the White commissioners like the majority of the Colored folks are not in favor of trusting each other to handle the money, for seemingly they are fearful that it might get mixed up with their own some way or other and that they will never see the color of it again. So at the last meeting it was decided to leave the question open for awhile and not chuck all the money into one of the banks at Springfield, Ill., and it is contended that several of the heads of one or two of the banks in this city desire to cut in and receive their share of the rake off in handling the money which will flow into the pockets of the commissioners before winding up its business for the remainder of the summer the commissioners let it be known that Colored solicitors will not be sent out in the field to beg money until later on in the fall. The Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. who boasts that he is able to make the commissioners do his bidding for the simple reason that they meet in his church and pay him rent for it, it is claimed will revive the old conservator which went stone dead on his hands several years ago after he had gotten himself out of that position where he could exclaim good Lord and good devil at the same time, and start up his little printing plant located in the basement of the Institutional Church, so that he can more successfully pull the wog over the eyes of Governor Dunne and gobble onto some of the state printing at the same time he has an itching desire to gather in the three thousand dollars, which section two of the bill appropriating the $25,000, for the celebration, which is to be expended, "for collection and printing for free distribution a suitable compilation showing the progress thus far achieved by the Afro-Americans of Illinois during the past fifty years." It is that sum of easy money aside from the state printing that the Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. is reaching out after with both hands. Last week it was suggested in these columns that in as much as the Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. should make an honest effort to have the names of all the members of his HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY family entered on the payroll of the commission and assist to eat up the $25,000 appropriated for the celebration in short order, as it is he is charging the commission stiff rent for its headquarters in his church, that he cried like a big red faced baby while he was engaged in requesting or commanding the commissioners to place the name of one of his highly accomplished daughters on the payroll as assistant secretary at seventy-five dollars per month; that every time that he turns around in the name of the commission he must have his per diem and it is evident to our dull mind that the Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. is like Col. Edward H. Morris, ex-attorney for the "Gamber's Trust" that he is "money mad," and that he is more than past master in the art of hogging everything in sight. Two or three real hungry Colored newspaper men, who have been for some time tagging close behind the heels of the eloquent pastor of the Institutional Church, with the expectation of receiving some of the money which he has promised to permit to come their way, the money coming from the tax-payers and which he would like to have the Colored newspaper men to receive, so that they could boost him through the columns of their publications as the lord of lords and the king of kings, and the chief or the head ruler of the universe. But for some cause or other, the two or three hungry Colored newspaper men have been turned down cold and they will not even be permitted to get on the outside of a bowl of soup, without salt in it, nor to occupy a seat at his pie counter. Last week a vicious and uncalled for, attack was made on Major Robert R. Jackson, in one of the newspapers in this city, whose editor it is claimed he has assisted and befriended in the past. It was stated in the poorly written article that "Major Jackson, would never do anything for anybody, except for himself; that he was endeavoring through his scheming to break up the 8th Regiment; that he was very unpopular; that he would not contribute any of his money to assist the various wives enterprises and so on." race statements are all false. On the contrary, Major Jackson, as it can be easily proven, has freely contributed his money to many of the Colored churches in this city; to the Colored charitable institutions, to race enterprises and in other directions for the benefit of the race which he is identified with and it is far from his intention to assist in any manner, shape or form, to break up the 8th Regiment. On the other hand he is anxious to have it, to keep up the reputation of being the greatest Colored Military CHICAGO, AUGUST 2. 1913 [Name] HON. JAMES C. DENVIR. The able and brilliant editor of Standard Opinion, who has been selected by Governor Edward F. Dunne, as one of the West Park Commissioners. When it was definitely announced, that Major Jackson had won out in his contest, as a member of the legislature, he received more than 2000 letters and telegrams, telephone messages from all over Chicago, heartily congratulating him, which is undisputed evidence of his popularity, worth and standing in Chicago and throughout the country. HEALTH NOTES If there is a fly-breeding manure pile in your vicinity and the owner will not remove it, send in a complaint to the Department of Health and it will be given attention. . . . During these summer days when the country is more than beautiful and inviting, city dwellers should manage some way to take an occasional day's outing in the woods and fields. There are many of the trolley cars that will take you far beyond the city limits for a ten-cent fare. So pack your lunch basket and take the children and all take a trolley ride. You may come home tired, but the kind of weariness that comes from a day spent under sun and sky is the kind that will make you sleep good at night and have pleasant recollections of a day spent in close communication with birds and trees and flowers, and in breathing the clean, fresh country air. Besides, for the little ones a day amid such surroundings is worth a whole week in school in the new and instructive lessons they will get from the greatest of all teachers, Nature. So, we say, try the trolley for your day's outing. Of course on Sundays and holidays the cars are nearly always badly crowded and traveling for women and children under such conditions is not at all pleasant or enjoyable. But on week days the cars are not likely to be crowded and the outing on such days can be made without discomfort of any kind. And that's why we say again, try the trolley. Then for those who cannot possibly go to the country even for a day on the trolley cars, there are the city parks. Chicago has many beautiful and scenic parks, any one of which can accommodate thousands every day. Our city parks are open and breathing places and are beautiful hits of God's country brought right into the city for the benefit of those who dwell in portions where air, sun and elbow room are hard to get. It is a good plan to visit the parks in the forenoon; in fact, as early in the day as possible, for then they are almost deserted and there is plenty of room for the children to play and have a good time generally. Of course, the point to all this talk about trolley rides and city parks is the importance of getting out of doors as often as you can. The month of August is usually a hard month on babies. Of course, bad food and wrong feeding have a great deal to do with causing sickness among the babies. It is most important then that the baby's milk be clean, fresh and pure. It is scarcely less important, too, that along with good milk and proper feeding that babies have plenty of good air and exercise. By exercise we mean the kind that babies like to take when they are loosely and lightly dressed and given a chance to roll and kick and thus exercise their limbs. This sort of freedom and exercise helps to make them grow strong and vigorous. So, don't keep the little ones swathed in long clothes and confined to the crib or baby carriage all the time. Make a pallet on the floor and let them have the ease and freedom that they enjoy and that will keep them good-natured and well. It is a good plan, too, to take the babies out of doors, being careful not to expose them to the direct rays of the sun. An Amusing Incident. Last Saturday noon, while Attorney Walter M. Farmer and the writer were passing the City Hall, on their way to lunch, a White lady approached the editor and requested him to inform her where the Record-Herald building was located, and when it was pointed out to her, she turned around and exclaimed, "I want to tell you that Chicago is a heap bigger than Nashville, Tennessee!" We agreed with the lady as she went on her way rejoicing. His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons Celebrates His 79th Birthday HE RECEIVED A GREAT FLOOD OF CONGRATULATION MESSAGES FROM THE POPE AT BOME AND FROM OTHER CARDINALS. AND FROM RULERS OF ALL THE COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE. HE HAS LONG BEEN THE WARM FRIEND OF THE COLORED PEOPLE IN AMERICA. In a modest chapel at the home of T. Herbert Shriver, at Union Mills, near Westminster, Carroll county, Cardinal Gibbons will celebrate this morning the mass of thanksgiving that will mark the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birth. Only the immediate family of the host will be present. The rest of the day the Cardinal will pass in quiet and repose, perhaps taking a stroll or an automobile ride. A few friends will likely call to extend congratulations, but there will be no formal observance of the day. The Cardinal desired that there be no particular ceremonies. services have been to your church has in many ways been attested by the evidence of their gratitude during your period of service. To but few men in our times and of your eminent position has the good fortune come to have so willingly rendered so much and so great a service to the needy, the down-trodden and oppressed of this land more than to yourself, and from the lips and pen of no living man in our times have come more effective messages in condemnation of the wrong and earnest enjoining to do the right at all times and forever than have emanated from Telegrams and letters of felicitation have already begun to arrive in large quantities at the Cardinal's home in Baltimore. Some of the telegrams are from fellow members of the Cardinal in the Sacred College of the Catholic church. The Pope's message is included in the cablegrams, as are congratulations from some of the rulers of Europe. His Baltimore friends also shower him with letters and some send flowers. Last year the hallway leading to his room was banked with cut flowers. The Cardinal is in good health and is already planning an active autumn. It is expected that he will preach several times at the Cathedral before Christmas. These sermons attract great crowds each month, and all who attend marvel at the prelate's strong voice and vigorous delivery. One of the letters of congratulation received by the Cardinal came from Harry S. Cummings, Colored, City Councilman from the 17th ward. It was as follows: To His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, Cardinal's Residenee, North Charles Street, City: Greeting—To-day marks the seventy-ninth anniversary of your birthday. For more than a half century you have served your great church as an earnest, eloquent and devoted messenger of its doctrines to many, many thousand souls, and for more than twenty-five years of this period your able and eminent services have been rendered as Cardinal with the sole responsibility and destiny of your church in America in your hands until a few years ago. What your personality and your An American Negro painter who has won the plaudits of the artistic world is Henry Ossawa Tanner, who was born in Pittsburgh fifty-four years ago. He was the son of Benjamin T. Tanner, Afro-American Methodist bishop of Philadelphia, and his youth was spent in the Quaker City. A born artist, the little Colored led began his career by sketching the animals in the Philadelphia Zoo. His ability attracted the attention of Thomas Eakin, and through his influence young Tanner was enabled to take a two-year course at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His next step was to hold an auction of all his canvases, from which he derived $300. With that sum he went to Paris and almost immediately the Negro youth became the favorite pupil of the great Benjamin Constant. Later he studied under Jean Paul Lawrens. After two years in the City of Light his funds were exhausted and he went to Brittany, where living was cheap. A Brittany landscape won a place in the Salon in 1894, and attracted favorable comment, but the young artist was put from the exhibition of his exhibition. His first religious subject, "Hannah in the Garden," was hung in the line of honor No. 44 The Cardinal celebrates His birthday OF CONGRATULATION MESSAGES AND FROM OTHER CARDINALS. COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE. FRIEND OF THE COLOBED PEOPLE MERICA. services have been to your church has in many ways been attested by the evidence of their gratitude during your period of service. To but few men in our times and of your eminent position has the good fortune come to have so willingly rendered so much and so great a service to the needy, the down-trodden and oppressed of this land more than to yourself, and from the lips and pen of no living man in our times have come more effective messages in condemnation of the wrong and earnest enjoining to do the right at all times and forever than have emanated from your lips and your pen. So that, regardless of race, creed or condition, the oppressed of this land have and do rightly look upon you as their true friend, and therefore as one whose long life and continued service are a matter of the deepest concern and of earnest prayer. You will therefore permit me, as an humble representative of my race in this city, knowing as I do their sufferings and their hopes, their heart beats and their yearnings, their eternal gratitude and devotion to you regardless of their religious leanings, to congratulate you on this the seventy-ninth anniversary of your birthday, and assure you that our sentiment is a reflex of that of the more than 10,000,000 Negroes in this land. It is our earnest desire and prayer that your long and useful career may be extended over many more years to the blessing of your church and the good of mankind generally. These flowers are but a small token of our affection and esteem, and only a tender and gentle reminder that as you have been and are our friend, so are we yours. Very sincerely yours. Harry S. Cummings. Baltimore, July 23, 1913. —Baltimore Sun, July 24, 1913. In 1901 Cardinal Gibbons contributed an article to the North American Review against mob and lynch law, which was reproduced in these columns at that time. And in common with the other ten million Afro-Americans in this country we wish the Cardinal much happiness on his seventy-ninth birthday and hope that he will live to enjoy many more like it.—Editor. at the Salon on the insistence of Gerome. This was followed by the "Resurrection of Lazarus," which won a gold medal, and was purchased by the French government for the Luxembourg. From that time on Tanner devoted himself to Biblical subjects, and soon attained eminence as the most powerful religious painter of his generation. Fourteen years ago, in London, Tanner married Miss Jessia Macauley Issen of San Francisco, whose intelligence and grace have made her the favorite feminine model of her Negro husband. Mrs. Tanner met her husband while studying singing in Europe, and abandoned a promising operatic career when she married the artist. Tanner's religious works are now to be found not only in many of the great public and private collections of Europe, but in the Carceran Gallery at Washington, the Carnegie Institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the Chicago Art Institute and other galleries on this side of the Atlantic. "Christ and Nicodemus," in the Philadelphia Academy, is considered among the best of his works.—Ex. The Home Club on Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Tennis Brown, 3242 Calumet avenue, gave a dance and reception in honor of Mrs. Lottie M. Cooper of New York City. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indigents, and others, can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even 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. Offer is available on Six Months. L90 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX PHONE DREXEL 4500. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18 1802, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. ANTI-NOISE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO DO GOOD WORK. Concluded from Page 1. STAMPING OUT OF TUBERCOULOSIS DEMANDS MORE HOSPITALS. Hardly One Bed for Every Eight or Ten Consumptives Provided—Four States Have None. Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Mississippi are the only states in the United States which have made no hospital or sanatorium provision for consumptives, says The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in a bulletin issued to-day. At the same time the Association asserts that, while there are 33,000 beds for tuberculosis patients in other states, this number is very inadequate, hardly more than one for every eight or ten needy patients being provided. Some states have less than thirty beds, and in not a single one is there a sufficient number available. The bulletin points that, although the death rate from tuberculosis has declined steadily for the last twenty-five years, a marked increase in hospital and sanatorium beds must be made before a rate of even 4 of 5 deaths per 1,000 population can be reached. At the present time the city death rates in this country range from eight or nine per 1,000 living to as high as 35 or 40, with the average around 15 or 16, according to the latest reports of the Bureau of the Census. The National Association estimates that there are over a million consumptives in the United States, of whom probably at least one-third are unable to provide for themselves the necessary treatment at home. Most of these cases are a menace to the health of their families and associates, and should be in special hospitals. At the present time, however, even if every case were known, it would not be possible to provide accommodation for more than one in eight or ten. The removal of these foci of infection demands more and better hospital and sanatorium provision. NEGRO YEAR BOOK. 1913. The "Fiftieth Anniversary Edition" of the Negro Year Book will be on sale on or about August 15th. An attempt has been made to make this edition of the book a miniature encyclopedia of the Negro race. The author, Monroe N. Work, who has charge of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, has enlarged, revised, indexed and brought all the facts about the Negro in America down to date. Every name, fact or event which any one interested in the progress of the race needs to know will almost certainly be recorded or referred to in this book. A new and complete index makes all these facts which were formerly sometimes lost sight of under chapter headings easily accessible. An enlarged and carefully classified list of articles and publications on the Negro furnishes the reader with references to any phase of Negro life or the Negro problem. If there is anything about the Negro which you want to know and do not find recorded in this book, write to the editor, enclosing a stamped envelope, and he will either tell you what it is or indicate where the information may be found. Some special features of the 1913 Negro Year Book are: A review of the progress of the race during the past fifty years. The Negro in 1862 and 1912. Fifty years of Negro progress. A summary of current events. The race problem in America, Europe and Africa. Progress of the Negro in the church, education, business and the professions. The latest census statistics. The movement and dislocation of the Negro population. The Negro and disease, vital statistics in town and country. Negro crime and Negro lynchings. Negro farms and farmers. Directories: Names and locations of Negro banks, schools, periodicals, hospitals and beenvolent and fraternal, and national organizations. The Negro in history: The principal names and dates in the history of the American Negro. Legal definition of a Negro in different states. Civil status in different states of Negro in slavery and freedom. Legal discriminations of the various states against the Negro. The price per copy will be the same as for the 1912 edition, 25 cents; by mail, 30 cents. A considerable reduction will be made to persons desiring ten or more copies. Address the Negro Year Book Co., Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. LYNCHINGS DECREASING SAYS B T. WASHINGTON. Colored Alabaman Finds Encouragement in Another Decrease of Number of Mob Murders in 2nd Three Months of 1913—This Under A Democratic Administration Which Some Colored Said Would Increase Them—Only One for Rape Charge. To the Editor of The Herald, Boston, Mass. At the end of the first three months of the present year I called attention to the fact that 14 lynchings had taken place. Six months have now passed and 10 additional lynchings have occurred. For the same period a year ago there were 36 lynchings, making a reduction of 12 as compared with last year. The smaller number indicates a growing regard for law and order. In connection with two of these lynchings the conduct of the mob, according to the newspaper reports, was exceedingly barbarous and inhuman. In one case it is stated that the mob went so far as to cut off the ears, fingers, toes and lips of the individual in order to keep them for souvenirs. In still another case it is stated that the mob dragged the victim along the streets, beat the body with a crowbar, then boiled the body in oil, then set fire to it, then strung the body up to an electric light pole in the centre of the town in the glare of the electric lights and shot over 1000 bullets into the body. It is further stated that 5000 persons, including many young women, witnessed these acts. So far no person has been arrested. Booker's List. The crimes for which individuals were lynched since I last called attention to this matter were as follows: April 5, a Negro at Mondak, Mon., for shooting officers attempting to arrest him. May 5, a Negro at Appling, Ga., for firing pistol and creating disturbance. Date unknown, a Negro at Issaqueana, Miss., attempted murder. Date unknown, a Negro at Springfield, Miss., murderous assault. Date unknown, a Negro at Hickory, Miss., murderous assault. June 4, a Negro at Beaumont, Tex., accused with two others of attacking a party of white men. June 13, a Negro at Anadarko, Okla., for murder. June 19, a Negro at Hot Springs, Ark., for rape and murder. June 21, a Negro at Americus, Ga., for shooting an officer. Out of the 36 lynchings, in only one case was the crime of rape charged against the individual that was lynched. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee, Ala., July 22 AMERICAN FORESTERS HELP PALESTINE. An agricultural colony in Palestine has just applied to the United States forest service for help in planting trees to bind the drifting sands of the Mediterranean. The colony is near Jaffa, or Yafa, the ancient Joppa of the Bible, and there is being developed in connection with it a seaside resort, with hotel, villas, bath houses and gardens. The experts of the service point out that the reclamation of sand dunes is not a serious problem in the eastern United States because the prevailing winds are from the land and the sand is blown into the sea. On the west coast the situation is more serious. The most notable example of reclaimed sand areas there is furnished by Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, where grasses, acacias, and, later, trees and shrubs have converted sand wastes into pleasure grounds of great beauty. The attention of the Palestine colony is called to the wonderful reclamation of the Landes, France, where a wealth-producing forest of maritime pine, the source of the French turpentine, has been grown to take the place of shifting dunes. The American foresters also give the address of the French needman who furnished this government with the maritime pine seed which has been used in planting experiments on the Florida national forest, near the Gulf Coast. A DOUULE HEADER. THE TWO TIMES CHAMPION GRACE PRESBY, V. S. THE FAST 2ND UNITED PRESBY WHITE AND THE DOCTORS AND DENTISTS, V. S., THE EMERGENCIES JULIUS AVENDORPH'S WINNING TEAM. The Doctors and Dentists to Play Ball For the Old Folks Home. Another Great Society Overflow. Aug. 16 at American Giants Base Ball Park, 39th street and Wentworth avenue. A society event among the Colored People of Chicago only equalled by the N. Clark Smith Home Coming and Tuskegee Band,—Promises to excel all other big affairs among the race in Chicago. The Old Folks are in great need of a larger building. Funds to carry out this project are in the great plans outlined by the Executive Board. This occasion should prove to be a most interesting and attractive effort of Chicago's professional men to help a great cause. It is predicted that 10,000 seats will be filled when the umpire says Play Ball at Rube Fosters Base Ball Park. Tickets will be on sale at following drug stores, Rankins and White, State and 36th St., Labestide, 3704 State, Harlay and Helfane, 3512 State, Porters Pharmacy, 19 W. 31st St., C. C. J. Myers, 2840 State, R. M. Stokes, 4750 State, Members of the Ladies Aid and all the Doctors and Dentists. DR. J. H. PLUMMER, Mgr. WAYMAN CHAPEL NOTES Sunday, August 3rd, will be a great service all day at the church, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. The pastor will preach at 11 a. m. and at 8 p. m. will be given as illustrated sermon. These sermons have been given for the last four years at the church, but this will be the last one of this conference year. The views are all life size and the theme will be one which will give great encouragement to the Christian people. Illustrated songs, "Abide With Me," "Rock of Ages," etc. The pastor is winding up the work for the year and will preach Sunday morning on the theme, Great Reunion. The young people are giving on the 11th of August a very fine exercise. On August 18th will be given an affair by the trustees of the church. Every number will be furnished by some member of the board." "S." CATHOLICS TO BUILD HOME FOR COLORED GIRLS. It is said that a building costing $250,000 will be built on the Newburg road for Colored girls by the Catholic church. The building will be the largest of its kind in this part of the world and will do away with the Home of the Good Shepard at Eighth and Madison.—The Defender, Louisville, Ky. July 26, 1913. CHIPS Mrs. Birdie Parish will entertain at whist Saturday afternoon, at the Appomattox Club. Mrs. Mary Brown is now comfortably situated at 3540 Wabash Ave., residence of Mrs. H. Bowser. J. N. Blackshear has removed his place of abode from 3324 Wabash avenue to 3815 Vernon avenue. Mr. and Mrs. S. Dresdon of 3547 Wabash Ave., will leave soon for Denver, Colo., for a two weeks stay. Mrs. Wm. Johnson and daughter Viola of 67 E. 36th street have arrived home after a very enjoyable 3 weeks visit to St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Marshall Leland of Georgetown, Ky., arrived in the city Sunday evening to visit her mother and sisters for the remainder of the summer. Mrs. Martha B., Anderson, 6450 Champlain Ave., will leave next Thursday evening for the West Michigan resort where she will spend a short vacation. Mrs. Ida Gray-Nelson, 3652 Wabash avenue, left Thursday morning for the west Michigan resort near Benton Harbor, where she will spend her two weeks' vacation. Dr. Henry R. Smith, 3401 State street, will forego the pleasure of a vacation trip this year, as he expects to spend a part of next season in traveling through Europe. Mrs. James H. Johnson, 3650 Prairie avenue, will leave this evening for Lexington, Ky., where she will spend two weeks in visiting with her mother and other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Shook of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived in the city Wednesday morning the guest of Mrs. India Deming Wilson of 3546 Wabash Ave. They motored over in their car "The Studobaker." Mrs. Nora E. Les made a most splendid exhibit of fine hand painted china at the exhibition at Berran Baptist Church the latter part of last week, she and Mrs. Margaret H. Anderson, conduct a china painting studio at 3522 S. State street and they make a specialty of filling orders for card parties and wedding gifts, they give instructions daily. Phone Douglass 8805. The Advocate of Portland, Oregon, which is owned and ably edited by E. D. Cannady, celebrated its eleventh anniversary last week. The Advocate is the best paper published among the Afro-Americans on the Pacific Coast, and its brilliant editor has done himself proud in keeping it afloat for eleven long years without missing one single issue. Mrs. Dolly Jennings of 3648 Prairie Ave, entertained 24 ladies on last Saturday afternoon at luncheon in honor of Mrs. Lottie Meridith Cooper, of New York City and Mrs. Hattie Curtis Hall of Boston, Mass. After an elegant luncheon was served, whist was then the next feature of the afternoon. Mrs. Harry Brown was winner of the 1st prize and Mrs. Marie Wheeler carried off the booby prize. All spent a merry, enjoyable afternoon. Miss Ethelyn Jefferson who possesses much rare talent in the way of artistic oil painting deserves much credit in assisting to arrange the creditable art exhibit which was held at the Berean Baptist Church last week, the following artists participated in it: Prof. Frederick Lee, Prof. J. C. Stubbs, S. C. White, Crayon; John J. Grose, Wendell Martin, Maurice Hughes, Mr. Green, Leroy Page, Frederick Christian. Misses and Mesdames. Ethel Worthington, China and Colours, Ethelyn Jefferson, oil, Nellie Toler, Bessie Floyd, Mrs. F. E. Cook, Mrs. Lee, China, Mrs. Bertha Lewis, Oil, Helen Hayes, Cartoons, Laura White. It would be well indeed if these art exhibits were held in the various parts of the city several times each year for they would go a long way in helping to educate the Colored people up to higher ideals in every way. Lady of the House—Been out of work for six months? Dear me! How were you employed before that? A Jaded Jaunter—I posted a letter for a gent—Exchange. A cat can lose nine lives, they say, And yet it isn't in it With Mr. Frog, who any day Can croak nine times a minute. —Cincinnati Enquirer. First Urchin—Say, Tommy, would you rather be a zebra or a giraffe? Second Urchin—A giraffe, er course. It'd be a cinch fer lookin' over de fence at de ball.—Boston Transcript. He was an infant prodigy; At ten he could read Greek. But now he's twenty-five, and he Is making ten per week. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Nell—He had the audacity to say he was the light of my life, so I turned him down. Belle—I suppose he felt quite put out about it.—Philadelphia Record. Say a kind word to the groom In his nobby suit of black. Don't forget he's in the room. Say a kind word to the groom; Help to drive away his gloom. He it is who hires the hack. Say a kind word to the groom In his nobby suit of black. —Detroit Free Press. "Your husband is very quick at repartee, isn't he?" "Yes, indeed. He picks up all those new games very readily." — Detroit Free Press. He had stolen a lock of her golden hair, And, alone in his room, he kissed it. But he had naught on the maiden there, For, alone in her room, she missed it. "That boob has been clipping my switch!" she said, Then giggled and spoke, "To think, That lock that he fancied once grew on my head Came off of the bean of a Chink!" —Chicago Daily News. 'Arthur was spending a day with his aunt. "I am going to do something to please you on your birthday," she said to the little boy, "but first I want to ask the teacher how you behave in school." "If you really want to do something to please me, aunt," said the boy, "don't ask the teacher."—Lippincott's. Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tufted Hoping her sweetheart would stay, But along came her mother, Her father and brother And frightened her suitor away. —Judge. Church—According to a German medical authority, fifteen minutes' exposure to the sun's rays during an airship flight at high altitude will kill all the tuberculosis germs in a man's system. Gotham—To tumble out of the airship at a high altitude we suppose would only jar the microbes.—Yonkers Statesman. The radishes are sprouting now On the suburban hills. Mongoloes on the marshland are A-polating up their bills. While doctors are preparing stuff For careless people's chills. —New York Press. I've once loved it. I take my pen in hand— I do not know your proper name— To let you know you've got my nanny. You know, I've seen you sorely tried When, as the visitors seemed winning. And so, Fanette, my female fan. I know you'd help me be a winner Or anyhow you would not scold If I the truth about it told. Just as I would to any man When baseball made me late for dinner. Los Angeles Express. A. Lett Opportunity. "It's a great pity," said the convicted burglar to his counsel, "that you couldn't have made that closing speech of yours at the opening of the case." "I don't see how that would have improved matters," said the advocate. "It would, though," explained his client; "then the jury would have been asleep when the evidence came in, and I'd have stood some chance."—Fun. The Laziest Chap He wouldn't help the toilers That plowed the fields for bread, "And landing a fish every minute Is too much like work." he said. And if ever he gets to glory, Where many an angel sings. He'll tell 'em, "I'm jes' too tired To flap them heavenly wings." —Atlanta Constitution He couldn't beat the rug, not he; He couldn't water flowers; His back was very weak, you see, But he'd dig bait for hours. —Cincinnati Enquirer. "No; she refuses to cook."—Kansas City Journal. "Man's a man for all o' that," Honest, crooked or shady, But neither poet nor Bible Tells us what about a lady. —Hazel Green Herald. "What do you want with this immense knife?" "That's a hunting knife. I'm going camping. Want something suitable for skinning wild animals." "Better follow my advice and take something suitable for skinning potatoes."—Louisville Courrier-Journal. In the street you'll find him, On the corners—anywhere— Boasting he's still hanging on To his winter underwear. —Philadelphia Press. Matrimony will not always reform a man, but it will make him more cautious.—New York American. To be looked on with kindly view. —New York Sun. Medical Officer (at maneuvers)— What did you do first of all? Medical Officer—Quite right, but what would you have done if you hadn't any brandy? Ambulance Man (promptly)—Promise 'im some.—Punch. FOR RENT. Modern apartments, steam heat, hot water the year around. 3 rooms, $22.00; 4 rooms, $27.50; 6 rooms, $32.00; 8 rooms, $40.00 to $42.50. AMERICAN APARTMENTS, 2728 Wabash Ave. FLATS TO RENT S. Richardson, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 160 N. 5th Ave., Room 506, near Randolph St., phone Main 2133, Automatic 33-201, has the following fats to rent: 2410 La Salle St., 5 rooms $12. 2720 Dearborn St., 7 rooms, $19. 3002 Armour Ave., 5 rooms, $14. 5521 Shields Ave., 5 rooms, $18. 3818 Armour Ave., 7 rooms, $18. FOR RENT. Desk Room for business purposes in branch law office of W. G. Anderson & L. A. Newby, 35th and State St. N. W. corner. Phones Douglas 8078 and Auto. 72-384. Hours 10 to 12 a. m., 8 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M. Dr. MacENRY J. BROWN Physician and Surgeon Oculist. Practice limited to Diseases of Eye and Ear. Office and Residence, 3502 S. State St. Chicago. FOR RENT. For Rent, 4451-38 South State Street, four (4) room apartments. 4510-38 Evans Avenue, six room apartments. 8208 Rhodes Avenue, Wine street. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter of President Wilson, is enthusiastic over the work of the University of Wisconsin's bureau of social center development. Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, wife of Vice President Marshall, made forty-five calls in ninety minutes recently, scoring the social speed record for Washington. Mrs. Strong, wife of the new governor of Alaska, is quite a cultivated woman, having studied music in Europe five years after her graduation from the schools of Seattle. Sarah Bernhardt has already decided upon the new play in which she will appear in Paris in October or November. It is by Tristan Bernard and will give the actress a fantastic role. Its name has not yet been announced. Mme. Melba has built for herself a delightful retreat at Lilydale, one of the most picturesque localities near her native Melbourne. She has hinted more than once that she would soon make it her permanent abode. She is keenly interested in the conservatorium of the University of Melbourne and has lectured to its students. Electric Sparks. A new telegraph cable is being laid from England to Hongkong, said to be the largest ever made. Twelve billion horsepower—that is the combined electrical power output of the 7,500 central stations in the United States. Rudolph Drambourg, a consulting electrical engineer of Brooklyn, says he has about solved the storage battery problem. He has invented a single cell six volt storage battery of from 100 ampere hours up that, he claims, is three times more powerful and two-thirds less in weight than any battery in existence. Aerial Flights. The international commission of scientific aeronautics will hold its next triennial meeting in 1915 in London. The roof of the new German hangar is made in two sections, which are swung apart, permitting a dirigible balloon to rise directly from its anchorage. Aeroplane manufacture in Germany is far from a flourishing condition financially. At present there are thirty-five aeroplane construction works, not counting amateur construction, but in nine out of ten cases the orders come from the government and go to only two or three leading firms. Town Topics. "A city in overalls," says a New Zealander visiting in Pittsburgh. Yep. The other kind have gone on to New York.-Washington Post. A New York paper speaks of Brooklyn as a "baby carriage suburb" of Manhattan. Then the quiltage of Brooklyn is a myth?-Louisville Courier-Journal. The mayor of Chicago is puzzled to decide what sort of new uniforms to select for his policemen. From all that we have heard of the Chicago force it might be well to equip some of them with the kind now being worn by a number of New York's ex-finest.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Pert Personals. Though Mrs. Catt was re-elected president of the international suffrage body, no one was rude enough to say that she came back.-Chicago News. When Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is in prison the officers can't get her to open her mouth, and when she is out of prison the officers can't get her to close it.-Kansas City Star. Sarah Bernhardt says that she has retained her youthful appearance because she always did just as she pleased. Her chief pleasure seems to have been to come to the United States on farewell tours.-New Orleans Picayune. Tributes to Mother. A mother is a mother still—the holiest thing alive.—Coleridge. All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.—A. Lincoln. Make much of it while you have that most precious of all good gifts—a loving mother.—Macaulay. A man never sees all that his mother has been to him till it's too late to let her know that he sees it.—W. D. Howells. Women and Pockets. Pistol pockets in skirts are the newest. Next we suppose there will be half pint pockets. - Pittsburgh Dispatch. The promise of a return to pockets for women is sensible, especially when accompanied by the paradoxical specification that they are called "pistol pockets," because the women will not carry pistols in them—Exchange. Science Siftings. Apparatus by which gas lamps can be lighted and extinguished by wireless waves is a German invention. For testing the structure of metals a German scientist has invented a microphotographic apparatus which magnifies 2,500 times. According to experts, the force of the rotation of the earth on the gyroscopic compass which has been adopted by the United States navy is 291 times as great as the force of magnetism on the magnetic needle. SIRES AND SONS Secretary of the Navy Daniels believes in mineral water as a beverage. The Duke of Westminster owns 400 of the acres on which the city of London is built. Carlos D. Clisneros, well known for his work in connection with the Lima Geographical society, has been made a fellow of the Royal Geographical society of London. Prince D'Arenberg, for many years president of the Suez canal council, has resigned, but his connection will not be entirely severed, as he is to be made honorary president of the council of administration and will also remain on the directorate. Gallard Hunt, official heraldist of the United States government, has devoted forty years to the study of his art and has produced most of the government seals and designs usually seen stamped on official documents. He is also a historian of international reputation. George Anderson Cooke, recently elected chief justice of the Illinois state supreme court, succeeding Frank A. Dunne, is in point of service the youngest chief justice in the history of the state. He was elected to the supreme bench to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Guy C. Scott, with whom he had been a law partner. He was a member of the Illinois house of representatives for four years, beginning in 1902. Flippant Flings We are disgusted at the criticisms of statuary hall in the capitol. It is perfectly beautiful and is a great credit to the stone mason's trade.—Houston Post. According to Miss Anna Sumner of Chicago every human soul has a tree affinity. There may be something in it. The partiality men have for the peach has often been noted.—Kansas City Journal. A man went into a Kansas City restaurant and ordered a meal. While the waiter was filling the order the guest walked away with the cash register. Some men will take almost anything in preference to a restaurant meal.—Kansas City Times. Current Comment. A medical publication says that gambling results from a diseased mind. In a short time there will be no vices. There will be only aliments.—Washington Star. At home and abroad there is much complaint that tips are not as lavish as they used to be. Unfortunately for the practice, the public has learned how seldom the tip is held by the man that earns it.—Boston Herald. They have an official playmaster in Chicago, and he proposes to teach boys to be good losers, which he says American boys are not now. If that is so it must be because they do not often lose.—Philadelphia Press. Forest Notes. Canada's forest area is about 800, 000,000 acres. Four launches are used in patrol and transportation work on national forests in Alaska, which include many small islands and inlets. On the best German forests the annual expense is $13 an acre, but the gross returns are as much as $24. Thus they yield a net return of $11 an acre each year. Motion picture companies are making films of all of the activities of the federal forest service, including planting, cutting timber, patrol and lookout work. Already at least two fire fighting "movies" are being exhibited. Three Strikes. Any American boy might become president, but many of them know from experience that there is no hope of their becoming baseball pitchers.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Perhaps one reason why it has rained so seldom in St. Louis this summer is because nobody cares whether the ball game is interfered with or not.—St. Louis Times. A New Jersey baseball fan has nine carrier pigeons which bring him the returns of distant games by innings. In case of extra inning games the poor fellow has to wait till the papers come out.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Equal Rights. Speaking of reversals of form, shall we now begin to write it "wife and husband?"—Chicago News. What will be the status of the right to alimony when lovely woman secures perfect equality with man in all things?—Cincinnati Enquirer. The entrance of women into politics may work changes in phrasiology. Hereafter the "dark borse" candidate may have to be referred to as the "brunette nax"—Kansas City Journal. African Proverbs The dawn comes twice to no man. It is easy to cut up a dried elephant. The sword shows no respect for its maker. Covetiness is the mother of unsatisfied desires. Wherever a man goes to dwell his character goes with him. A one sided story is always right. Ear, listen to the other side. He is a fool who can't lift an ant, yet tries to lift an elephant—From the Yoruba an African Tribe. Rush Postal Cards In Paris. In Paris you can buy for half a franc at any postoffice a postal card which will hold 200 words of small writing and which will be delivered to any address in the city in about fifteen minutes, projected to its destination through a pneumatic tube. Minuteness of Molecules If we try to count the number of molecules contained in one cubic millimeter of hydrogen gas, first arranging them in groups of a billion each, it would take a thousand years to count these groups. So writes M. Boll, a French physicist, in illustrating the powerlessness of figures. Wide Apart In Horses The Argentine has as many horses as people, while Switzerland has only three horses to every hundred inhabitants. Cork Paper Half a million dollars' worth of cork a year is used for very thin paper. This is supplied in sheets about four inches wide by six to ten long, and nearly all of it—about 100,000,000 sheets—is used in automatic machines for applying as tips to cigarettes. Bark For Tanning Quebracho bark, one of the chief exports of the Argentine, will tan leather at least three times as fast as the bark of the oak or the hemlock. Nearly a million tons of the wood or the dry extract are sent to the United States and Europe annually. The growth of the tree is of the slowest, and it is estimated that a thousand years are required for it to reach maturity. Fast Cycling. An eminent doctor says that he has found a cyclist's pulse to beat as high as 250 times a minute immediately after making a fast mile. This illustrates the danger of "scorching." Table Linen. If you wish your table linen to look nice do not put it through the wringer, as it makes creases that will not come out even if the cloth be ironed when very damp. In fact, any clothes that you wish to look very nice when ironed will be better if they are wrung by hand. Ice Lined Rivers Some of the rivers of Siberia flow over ice many years old and almost as solid as rock. A tributary of the Lena has a bed of pure ice over nine feet thick. Vanilla Orchids The vanilla orchid is now grown commercially in the island of St. Vincent, West Indies, being 'introduced from the Seychelles. It grows there up to an altitude of 1,500 feet, with a yearly rainfall of 120 inches. The plants thrive best when planted on stems of the tree fern, Cyathea arborea. Long Jumps The kangaroo readily jumps from sixty to seventy feet. Heat and Cold and Ante Ants can stand extremes of heat and cold. Forty-eight hours' exposure to frost will not kill them, and one sort has been observed to build its nest in chinks in a blacksmith's force. Pigeons of St. Mark's. Nothing is more amusing than to watch on a winter's day the marvelous intelligence with which the pigeons of St. Mark's, in Venice, can discriminate between residents and visitors in the Grand square of that city, the Piazza of St. Mark. The moment a foreigner shows his face in the piazza the pigeons set upon him in crowds, hoping to be fed. They do not trouble the natives, who may be sunning themselves by the hundred in the square. Goats' Milk In Russian and German hospitals for children much use is made of goats' milk as being more nourishing than cows' milk and also free from the risk of spreading tuberculosis. A Little Bird Told Me The words "a little bird told me" have their origin in Ecclesiastes x. 20, "Curse not the king—no, not in thy thought—and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." Hides and Skins The United States is the world's greatest importer of hides and skins, notwithstanding the fact that it has a larger number of cattle than any other country except India, and it draws upon every part of the world for some of the numerous kinds of hides and skins which it requires. Cattle, horse, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, kangaroo and even fish skins are included in the material of this character imported, and several other animals would be included in the list if the tanned skins imported were taken into consideration. Frogs and Bacteria. Frogs survive a pressure of 300 atmospheres, but at 400 atmospheres their muscles become disorganized. Bacteria are killed by a pressure of 2,000 atmospheres. The wool of which the Persian carpet is made is taken from the hustrous wool of a special breed of sheep or from the goat, which is dyed by means of certain plants and shrubs. It would be a criminal offense for persons to wove a carpet according to a European design, for a law has been made which should be forbidden this And This From England Smith was a constant worry to his friends. They never knew when to and when not to treat him seriously since, as he frankly admitted, he delighted in pulling other people's legs. One day he and Brown met casually in the street and stopped, as friends often do, to gossip for awhile. "Big blaze—that fire at the factory on Johnston street last night wasn't it?" asked Brown. "Yes," replied Smith. "I went down to have a look at it. And, my word, there were several mighty narrow escapes there too." "Escapes!" cried Brown excitedly. "But the morning paper said that there was no one in the building." Smith nodded. "Oh," he said, "the firemen brought the escapes down with them! So long, old chap!"—London Answers. Just Deliver the Goods. A slang expression's going around That's about the best motto I have found, Although it hasn't a lofty sound— Just deliver the goods. We hear so much fine talk these days Of schemes to set the world ablaze, But we ought to say before we praise, Just deliver the goods. There are plans to bring reforms about, To kick the trusts and grafters out; But, son, before you raise a shout Just deliver the goods. Don't talk about what you can do, For other folks can splutter, too, But if you can put something through Just deliver the goods. —Florida Times-Union. Their Lazy Neighbor Mrs. Dingbat—Our neighbor, Mrs. Grimes, is the laziest woman I ever saw. Dingbat—Why do you think so? Mrs. Dingbat—Well, all this afternoon she sat in her window watching Mrs. Jones hanging out the wash. Dingbat—How do you know? Mrs. Dingbat—Gracious! How could I help knowing? I sat in our window watching her! — Springfield (Mass.) Union. As Strikingly Evinced. "I tell you," the man with the goats was saying as there came a slight lull in the game. "what brings the fans here is the certainty that they're going to see a good game of ball. They want their own team to win, of course, but it's the fine play that"— "Bosh!" interrupted the man with the white hair and black eyebrows. "They don't care a darn about the fine play. All they want is to see the home team win. I've seen them applaud the other team's errors when they helped to"— "Rot! They cheer a brilliant play, no matter which side makes it. There are 20,000 people here today not because they are stuck on seeing their own side win, but because"— Just then everybody rose to his feet, uttered a wild yell and began a rush for the outside. Only one man was out, and a sure better was at the bat— But the man on third had sneaked in with the winning run. The home team had won.—Chicago Tribune. Father's New Straw Hat. Father has a new straw hat. Paid two dollars for it too. Mother sadly tells him that Was a foolish thing to do. Mother murmurs with disgust At the way dad has behaved; Says that his new hat is just Like the old one that she saved. Father listens with a smile Or attempts sometimes to show Mother how they've changed the style. She will not believe it, though. Mother thinks it is a shame. Dad can never make it clear Why he shouldn't wear the same Straw hat that he wore last year. Father says: "I never soold When you get a hat that's new. I don't tell you that your old Hat is good enough to do." Mother sadly asks him then Why he cares what people say Or should still be stylish when He is married anyway. —Chicago Record-Herald. They say that jokes are never new. Let us admit with and surprise To some extent the same is true Of things purporting to be wise. We'd cheer with general consent A man equipped to come before "How splendid it was of Mrs. Willoughby to leave $50,000,000 to the old ladies' homel. I never supposed she would do it." "Oh, did she? I hadn't heard about that. What did she leave you?" "I inherited her cook."—Chicago Record-Herald. SIRES AND SONS Norbert Weiner, formerly in the front rank as an infant prodigy, has, at the age of eighteen, been made a doctor of philosophy by Harvard university. Walter P. Brent has beaten the plano playing record at Lithgow, New South Wales, with a nonstop performance of seventy-six and one-quarter hours. Joseph M. Baker, the new secretary of the United States senate, is a lawyer. He was formerly a librarian in the senate and is familiar with its proceedings. John M. Simonda, believed to be the oldest bookbinder now working at the trade, is actively employed in Boston despite his age of eighty-five years. He has been a bookbinder for fifty-four years. Zue Sun Blen, recently appointed assistant secretary of state of the new Chinese republic, is thoroughly Americanized. He was graduated last June from Brown university, where he made a good record as a student. Sir Leander Starr Jameson, just elected chairman of the British South Africa company, led the historical raid on the Transvaal Dec. 29, 1895. He served as premier of Cape Colony for four years, beginning with 1904. Bishop Charles Edward Cheney, who has just completed his fifty-third year as rector of Christ's Reformed Episcopal church, Chicago, has set a mark for continuous service with one house of worship. Christ's church was his first charge, and he was its first rector. Bishop Cheney is a native of New York and was ordained in 1838. The Writers. Frederic Villiers has been a war correspondent for thirty-six years for London papers. George Bernard Shaw, the famous dramatist, certainly does not suffer from mock modesty, for the other evening he announced publicly that he was "one of the most celebrated men in Europe." Owen Wister has appointed a member of the committee to raise a fund for a memorial to Samuel Gilman, author of "Fair Harvard." in the church at Charleston where Gilman preached for twenty years. The Marchioness Townshend, the first peeress to become an editor, is the author of a book of verse. "In the King's Garden." She has been selected as editor of the new magazine, Our Dumb Friends, which will be published weekly in London. It will be the official organ of Our Dumb Friends' league. Flippant Flings. Archaeologists announce that Egypt fought a money trust 4,000 years ago. And look what happened to Egypt—Chicago News. "Port" has been abolished as a nautical term in the navy, as the steward could never tell whether the captain was bringing his ship about or ordering a drink—Boston Transcript. It is said that there are in the United States 735 coal mines, each of which produces 200,000 tons annually. You wouldn't have believed it last winter, now, would you?—Manchester Union. Current Comment. On with the dance: let joy be unrefined.—Boston Transcript. The demand for the cookbooks issued by the department of agriculture has run into the millions, but good cooks will be as scarce as ever.—New York World. Simplified spelling is the final deathblow to real poetry. Now give us nothing but simplified music—ragtime, simplified art—the cubists and then chloroform.—Baltimore Sun. Fashion Frills. Answers to the questions- indicated by the plumes in the form of an interrogation point on women's hats can be found in the bills.-Albany Journal. As long as the better half doesn't insist on the other half wearing two of her old hobble skirts for trousers we don't think the clothing question will cause much trouble.-Baltimore Star. Everything depends on the point of view. A few years ago a boy whose trousers reached only halfway to his ankles was considered a jay. Now they roll them up that far and think it looks fine.-Cimarron (Kan.) Jacksonian. Aerial Flights. The Japanese government has invested $200,000 in airships. Professor W. J. Humphreys of Washington says the assertion of aviators that there are "holes" or "soft spots" in the air is pure nonsense. Experiments with a German war dirigible have shown that it is possible to drop 1,200 pounds of explosives while in flight without disturbing the balloon's equilibrium. Short Stories. Chinese are admitted to New Zealand on payment of $1,500 per head. Once the president answered his own letters. Today the White House staff includes forty secretaries. During the last six years 2,000,000 colonists have been domiciled in Sierra and over 78,000 acres of land put under cultivation. Los Angeles (Cal.) chief of police obtained a salaried job for the wife of a man he recently was compelled to arrest and send to prison. PROGRESS IN EDUCATION. Agricultural College In Normal Closes Two Students Win Prima Normal, Ala. — The thirty-eighth annual commencement of the Agricultural and Mechanical college in this town of which Walter S. Buchanan is president, has closed what is to all intents and purposes the record breaking year in the history of that famous institution. After four years of his administration young Walter S. Buchanan is able to present Normal to the public in much of its same glory and popularity it enjoyed in the best days of its founder, the well known William H. Councill. Although this young educator found the plant in a much run down condition after the death of his distinguished predecessor he has been able to add many facilities and improvements, to erect four buildings in four years and to re-establish the institution on much of its former basis Fifteen young people received diplomas from the normal or academic department and eighteen from the various trade divisions. All of the graduating exercises centered in a discussion of the rural school, each speaker from the salutatorian to the valedictorian taking part in the symposium of the subject. Increased interest in rural school education for Negroes was heightened by the fact that every subject was illustrated by actual demonstration. "Plans For the Rural School" was the subject of the salutatory presented by Joseph W. Falls, who exhibited a model school-house containing a cooking room, a sewing room and two cloak rooms. Three other graduates, William Fenoy, James H. Herbert and James H. Hunter, demonstrated "Building a Schoolhouse." "Plastering a Schoolhouse" and "Painting a Schoolhouse" respectively, each doing the actual work before the audience. "Sewing In the Rural Schools" was undertaken by Rosalyn V. Harris, while Elias J. Murdock took for his subject "The School Farm as a Means of Extending the School Term." Rosa Belle Black, in demonstrating "Cooking In the Rural School," prepared an appetizing lunch for six at an itemized cost of 75 cents. On account of the inability of Rev. Richard Carroll to be present and deliver the annual address, Dr. R. S. Gavin, pastor of the First Baptist church (white) of Huntsville, spoke to the graduates and emphasized the importance of loyalty to self, to others and to their religious creeds. "No matter what your life's calling may be," said Dr. Gavin, "make up your mind that you are going to grasp every opportunity that comes your way." He commented upon the advantages of the kind of education given in a school like Normal, where young people are not only educated, but trained, and declared among other things: "The plan of the work proposed in this school is ideal. It is not possible to overestimate the value of an institution like this." The nurse training department of the school offers superior advantages to young women. It has comfortable quarters in the new Virginia McCormick hospital, of which Dr. W. L. Council is surgeon in chief. Dr. Willis E. Storrs delivered the annual address to the students of this department. The annual musicale was a splendid success. Mrs. Ida C. Buchanan presided. Editor O. W. Adams of the Birmingham Reporter delivered the address to the preparatory department. Prizes in the speaking contest were awarded to Dorsey E. Payne and Armola Whitfield. THRIFTY BUSINESS CONCERN. National Benefit Association In Washington Has Rapid Growth. The National Benefit association at Washington, operating in six states, owning property valued at $200,000 and embracing a membership of 20,000, is doing a phenomenal work for the commercial uplift of the race. It began business fourteen years ago in a six dollar per month room. The association now owns the building in which it was then a humble tenant—a modern office building with twenty-seven finely appointed rooms, valued at about $50,000. After using much of the space for its own offices the association collects $1,800 per annum from its tenants. It has regularly employed in its home office twenty-seven clerks and stenographers, making with its army of field agents, etc., a total of 750 persons earning a good living through the National Benefit association. Long Island Baptist Summer Session The Long Island (N. Y.) Baptist association held its summer session in the First Baptist church in Flushing, New York, week ending June 21. The association is composed of about seventy churches in Brooklyn and on Long Island. Among the speakers were many distinguished pastors who have had the oversight of the work for many years. One of the most helpful addresses was that of the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. Lucas in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Mr. Clarence Edward Lucas, head bookkeeper at Howard university in Washington, has been made a member of the Beta chapter. Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Young Lucas is a law graduate of Howard. He was made a notary public during ex-President Taft's administration. Mr. Lucas is a graduate of the public and high schools of Brooklyn and is held in high esteem by the people of Brooklyn, who admire him for his ambition and many bearing. ZION HONORS DR. BOLDEN. Emergente Young Minister Goes to Switzerland to Church Revbk Switzerland at Church's Behest. New York.-Rev. Dr. R. M. Bolden, one of the most prominent of the Zion churchmen and for four years pastor of the Mother Zion A. M. E. church in this city, has been appointed as a delegate to represent the Zion church of America at the seventh world's Sunday school convention to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, July 8 to 15. Dr. Bolden has been granted a sixty-five days' leave of absence from his church. He sailed for London Saturday, June 21. Before returning to America Dr. Bolden will visit Geneva, Genoa, Florence, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Antwerp, Brussels and The Hague. The selection of Dr. Bolden to represent his connection at this great gathering is a signal honor for the young pastor, who has made such a commendable and distinct record as a pastor in this city. Mother Zion church is proud of the honor that has come to its pastor, and the congregation has assumed the entire responsibility of the expense of the trip. Dr. Bolden has maintained the high standard which the Mother Zion church has held in the connection for many years. He has taken in the church over 500 members and has raised in collections for the support of the church $25,000. The church has under its control property valued at $275,000, all of which was secured under the pastorate of Dr. Bolden. The church is well organized and is the pride of the Zionites. Dr. Bolden is one of the most energetic men in the ministry here and is ever ready to encourage and help the young men of his church. He has been the means of inspiring many of them to enter the ministry. He is a strong and forceful preacher. He is a graduate of Livingstone college, the connectional school in Salisbury, N. C. Mother Zion church, which was founded 117 years ago, is one of the most historic church institutions of the race and has back of it a long and interesting history. Around the church has grown up a most worthy tradition, and the church has been the means of inspiring many of the well known professional people on the beginning of their career. The church was founded in 1797 by a committee of nine pioneer religious workers of the race, who withdrew from the White M. E. church. The first service was held in Miller's cabinet shop. Afterward the first trustees of the church were granted a corporate charter under the Zion A. M. E. church in New York. In 1860 the general conference made the name "Zion" part of the corporate title. The growth of the church necessitated its moving to larger quarters. It is now located in its handsome new home, with every convenience, on West Eighty-ninth street. UTOPIA NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB MAKES ITS ANNUAL REPORT Raises Large Sum and Aids Many Needy Persons in New York. The Utopia Neighborhood club in New York was organized in November, 1911. The object of the club is to do social settlement work generally among the people of the community and city. It has concerned itself for the past year with raising funds in aid of the movement to establish a home for delinquent colored girls. The club had a small beginning, but has steadily grown in membership and usefulness. Meetings are held weekly on Monday evening. The meetings are divided into two groups or classes, business and social. At the June business meeting the annual report was made public. It showed a membership of seventy-five active persons, who are constantly working for the relief of the masses in the thickly settled sections of the city. Their efforts have not been confined to their own race alone, but to the white people of the community as well. The report also showed that the organization has given assistance to twenty needy persons, secured homes for two infants and raised the sum of $1,076 toward the delinquent home fund. The money was placed with the National League on Urban Conditions, of which Dr. George E. Haynes of Fisk university is chief director, assisted by Professor Eugene Knickle Jones, who has charge of the work at the league's headquarters on West Fortieth street, New York. The officers of the Utopia Neighborhood club are greatly encouraged over the success of the work and are planning for an active campaign the coming fall. The general officers of the club are: Mrs. A. S. Reed, president; Mrs. Ella McCall, vice president; Mrs. Prince D. Smith, corresponding secretary; Mrs. William H. Tyman, financial secretary; Mrs. C. Franklin Taylor, treasurer, and Mrs. Mary E. Terrell, chaplain. Bessamer's Thrifty Business Man. The Grand Benevolent association in Bessmer, Ala., is engaged in an enthusiastic membership campaign. The organization is proving its right to exist by the actual good which it is accomplishing for and among the masses of our people in various parts of the south. Grand Master J. F. Thomas is one of the most thrifty business men in his town and knows how to get results. The grand lodge of the order will hold its annual meeting in Meridian, Miss, beginning the second Tuesday in November. P62 RE SR eS = at ee tad ¥. Terr ie nen ot ae " Sedat Moin aioe of tes wn at aim aa SW Oe BG sear State. ‘BM Baryey’s barber shop sad news stand, 392% Btate street, . ‘Mra. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 15 W. Sigs St, near — : | W. 8. Cole, cigars, tobscco and news stand, 94 W. Sst Bt, near Dearborn. B Davis, cigars, tobacco and news wtand, 3532 State ‘Bt. ‘W. MC Maxwell, notions, cigars, to- decco, confections and news stand, 5244 Btate Bt. ‘Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 80th Bt. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 8 W. 27th St, near Btate. Sylvester MeGloffin, news stand and Isundry office, 4122 State St. j ‘Wiliam Gaughsn, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State Bt. ‘Mrs. 1, B. 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