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THE BROAD AX What Segregation Means Its Meaning Clearly Set Forth by Rev. Quincy Ewing, a Southern Caucasian Born and Reared in Mississippi HE CLEARLY POINTS OUT THE FACT THAT IT IS THE DETERMINED POLICY OF THE SOUTH OR THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE IS TO KEEP THE AFRO-AMERICAN IN AN INFERIOR STATUS. THAT AS LONG AS HE IS OF THE SERVING CLASS HE CAN RIDE IN PULLMAN CARS WITH THE WHITES BUT IF HE IS A COLORED GENTLEMAN SEEKING PLEASURE AND TRAVEL AND NOT SOCIAL EQUALITY AND ATTEMPTED TO OCCUPY A SEAT IN A PULLMAN CAR AS A FIRST CLASS PASSENGER ALONG WITH THE WHITES. HE WOULD BE MOBBED AND LYNCHED AND EJECTED FROM THE CAR AND HIS BODY RIDDLED WITH BULLETS FOR ATTEMPTING TO EXERCISE HIS CIVIL RIGHTS. Vol. XX. What Segregated Its Mean Set Forty Quincy Ewern Caucasian and Reared sippi HE CLEARLY POINTS OUT THE FP POLICY OF THE SOUTH OR THE AFRO-AMERICAN IN AN THAT AS LONG AS HE IS OF THE PULLMAN CARS WITH THE V GENTLEMAN SEEKING PLEASE EQUALITY AND ATTEMPTED CAR AS A FIRST CLASS PASSI HE WOULD BE MOBBED AND LY CAR AND HIS BODY RIDDLED TO EXERCISE HIS CIVIL RIGHT The following observations on the conduct of the Southern Whites and their dull sense of honor and fairness when it comes down to dealing with decent Colored men and women who have risen above the serving class, it is therefore worth anyone's time to read it. But we are very far from needing to rely upon any general consideration in support of the proposition advanced above. It is supported by evidences on every hand, waiting only the eye of recognition. Scarcely a day passes but something is said or done with this end in view, to emphasize, lest they forget, the conviction for both White man and Negro that the latter is and must remain an inferior. Let me instance a few such evidences. Consider, first, the "Jim Crow" legislation in the manner of its enforcement. Such legislation is supposed to have for its object the separation of the races in trains, street cars, etc., to save the White people from occasional contact with drunken, rowdy, illmelling Negroes, and to prevent personal encounters between the Whites and Blacks. Members of the different races occupy the same cars, separated only by absurdly inadequate little open-mesh wire screens, so tiny and light that a conductor can move them from one seat to another with the strength of his little finger. Needless to add, these screens would serve to obscure neither sound, sight, nor smell of drunken rowdies who sat behind them! In summer cars, Black and White passengers may be separated not even by a make-believe screen; they are simply required, respectively, to occupy certain seats in the front or the back end of the cars. In Birmingham, Alabama, the front seats are assigned to Negroes in all closed cars, and the back seats in all open ones. Why the front seats in the one case, and the back seats in the other, it is not easy to understand in the light of the letter and alleged spirit of the Jim Crow law! The underlying purpose of the law is clearly not the separation of the races in space; for public sentiment does not insist upon its fulfillment to that end. The underlying purpose of it would seem to be the separation of the races in status. The doctrine of inequality would be attacked if White and Black passengers rode in public conveyances on equal terms; therefore the Negro who rides in a public conveyance must do so, not as of undoubted right, but as with the White man's regulation. "This place you may occupy, that other you may not, because I am I and you are you, lest to you or to me it should be that I am I and you are you." Such is the real spirit of the Jim Crow laws. Why is it that in every Southern city no Negro is allowed to witness a dramatic performance, or a baseball game, from a first-class seat! In --- every large city, there are hundreds of Negroes who would gladly pay for first-class seats at the theatre and the baseball game, were they permitted to. It can hardly be that permission is withheld because the theatre and baseball games are so well attended by half the population that first-class seats could not be furnished for the other half. As a matter of fact, theatre-auditoriums and baseball grandstands are seldom crowded; the rule is, not all first-class seats occupied, but many vacant. Surely as simple as moving from seat to seat a makeshift screen in a street-car, would it be to set apart a certain number of seats in the dress-circle of every theatre, and in the grandstand of every baseball park, for Negro patrons. The reason why this is not done, is perfectly obvious; it would be intolerable to the average Southern man or woman to sit through the hours of a theatrical performance or a baseball game on terms of equal accommodation with Negroes, even with a screen between. Negroes would look out of place, out of status, in the dress circle or the grandstand; their place, signifying their status, is the peanut-gallery, or the bleachers. Consider further that, while no Negro, no matter what his occupation, or personal refinement, or intellectual culture, or moral character, is allowed to travel in a Pullman car between state lines, or to enter as a guest a hotel patronized by White people, the blackest of Negro nurses and valets are given food and shelter in all first-class hotels, and occasion neither disgust nor surprise in the Pullman cars. Here again the heart of the race problem is laid bare. The black nurse with a White baby in her arms, the Black valet looking after the comfort of a White inviolid, have the label of their inferiority conspicuously upon them; they understand themselves, and everybody understand them, to be servants, enjoying certain privileges for the sake of the person served. Almost anything the Negro may do in the South, and anywhere he may go, provided the manner of his doing and his going is that of an inferior. Such is the premium put upon his inferiority; such his inducement to maintain it. Unless the Southern Whites learn how to draw a sharp line between the good and the bad Negro and accord to the better class of Colored men and women their civil rights they, the Whites, can never convince the people residing in all parts of the civilised world that they are the best and only true friends of the Afro-American race--Editor. CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26, 1914 [Name] MR. JAMES A. QUINN The best and the most up-to-date city oil inspector that Chicago has ever had, he is one of the valuable aids to Mayor Carter H. Harrison and he is willing to flip up or lay down a little something that "Our Carter" will be re-nominated and re-elected Mayor of Chicago. FORMER COUNTY COMMISSIONER OSCAR DE PRIEST IS STILL IN THE LEAD FOR THE NOMINATION FOR ALDERMAN FROM THE SECOND WARD 8439 South State Street. He is the owner of several pieces of property and handles the real estate of many well-to-do clients. Mr. Oscar DePriest who seems now destined to be the first Colored member of the Chicago Common Council, has, in a short public career, made rapid progress upward. For a number of years after his arrival in Chicago about twenty years ago, Mr. DePriest worked as a journeyman painter and later engaged in the business for himself. He was quite successful in this line, securing among other large contracts several for public buildings of the city. In politics Mr. DePriest has served in the ranks of the republicans from precinct committeeman to the recognized leader of his people in the second ward. He served two terms as County Commissioner and during the contracting for and erection of the present County Building, and many other County public institutions. In contracting for the County Building he saved Cook County many thousands of dollars in one item, owing to certain requirements insisted upon by him and finally adopted by the board. He was a member of the Committee on Outdoor Relief, a member of the Finance Committee and served on other important committees of the County Board. Mr. DePriest's influence in city and county politics is wide. He enjoyed the personal friendship of the late Major John C. Buckner and he is today closely allied politically with Congressman Martin B. Madden and State Senator Samuel A. Ettelson. Mr. DePriest is a thorough race man. He is a man of strong convictions and fearless in campaigning along lines he thinks right. His insight into public affairs, the rights and duties of citizenship, is unerring and constant. What resources he controls or commands are always to be had in any matter affecting the integrity of those of his race and his race generally. As a parliamentarian, he is quick and positive; he knows at once the salient points in a law proposition. In his candidacy for alderman from the second ward on the republican ticket, Mr. DePriest has the endorsement of associations of ministers, lawyers, doctors, dentists, barbers, waiters and business men generally, also the unanimous endorsement of the Executive Committee of the Second Ward Republican Club. Mr. DePriest is a member of Golden Fleece Lodge, Odd Fellows, Oriental Lodge, Masons, and he has been identified with all movements for the betterment of his race in particular and progressive measures generally. Mr. DePriest was born in Alabama, spent his boyhood in Kansas and later came to Chicago. He is 48 years of age, married and has a family of a wife and two sons and resides at 8815 Vernon Ave. He is successfully enclosed in the real estate business at 3439 South State Street. He is the owner of several pieces of property and handles the real estate of many well-to-do clients. CHICAGO'S MENACE-BATS. The people of Chicago are entirely too indifferent as to the menace of the rat to the health and safety of the city. To be sure, they agree that rats are an unmitigated pest and a nuisance; that they destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property every year, and that rats are the means of spreading disease other than Bubonic Plague. But in the face of these well known and undisputed facts concerning rats, Chicago has failed to encourage a campaign of extermination; neither have any steps been taken to enact much needed legislation regarding the construction of the class of buildings that, because of their uses, are simply places for harboring and breeding these constantly present pests of city life. If this indifference to the importance of some decisive measures being taken for ridding Chicago of its excessively large and troublesome rat population is based on a sense of security from rat borne Bubonic Plague, then the people of Chicago are making a grave mistake. The facts are that the danger is by no means so remote as people may have been led to believe. Great trunk lines of railways connect the great cities of the North with the important cities of the South, and especially with the southern metropolis where Bubonic Plague has broken out during the present year. In the effective work that is being done by the United States Public Health Service to stamp out Bubonic Plague and also along the lines of protective measures it has been found necessary to thoroughly fumigate several hundred freight cars each week consigned from New Orleans to Chicago. Too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the important fact that no american city, both from the health and economic standpoints, can afford to maintain a rat population. Safety from a health standpoint demands this as do economic considerations. If you have a vacant lot what are you doing with it? Has it occurred to you that there is some better use it may be put to than to let it lie idle and pay taxes on it? Of course, this is not the growing season, but next spring will be; and then what are you going to do? If your lot lies out on the west, northwest or southwest sides of the city, the soil is good and it will grow all kinds of vegetables. Why not then, put the vacant lot to some good use? A great many thousands of bushels of potatoes alone could be produced on Chicago's vacant lots. Man is dependent on the soil for his living. Let us then make the Land productive. Special Coupon Offer Creates New Interest. BIG Prizes in Sight, by Extra Vote Offer The contestants are taking advantage of the special coupon offer, and are working very hard now to make tremendous gains. THE SPECIAL COUPON has started the new contestants, and "late comers" and it will make it possible for backward candidates to PROFIT BY BEING BACKWARD Strange as it may sound, it is a fact, new contestants and old ones who have not worked out the whole list of their friends may overtake the leaders SCALE OF VOTES. $ 2.00 One Year ..... 4.00 Two Years ..... 6.00 Three Years ..... 8.00 Four Years ..... 10.00 Five Years ..... $ 2.00 One Year ..... 1,000 votes 4.00 Two Years ..... 3,000 votes 6.00 Three Years ..... 6,000 votes 8.00 Four Years ..... 10,000 votes 10.00 Five Years ..... 15,000 votes NAMES OF CONTESTANTS. Rev. J. W. Robinson, 4925 Wabash Ave., Miss Hattie Winslow, 3535 South Wabash Henry Humphrey, 3607 State street..... Miss B. Forstor, 2962 Wabash Ave., Flat Mme. E. M. Scott, 3611 S. State St..... Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Ave. Rev. W. S. Braddan (chapplain 8th Reg.) Miss Pahline D. Owens, Mounds, Ill..... Miss Ethel Cole, 3600 Wabash Ave., Flat Alma G. Bowens, 3228 Calumet Ave..... Miss Katie Fowler, 5363 Dearborn St..... Miss Cora Mason, 11 E. 34th St..... Miss Amy Boger, Columbia St., Aurora, D Miss Marie Jefferson, 6119 Loomis St..... Miss Josephine Davis, 3244 Wabash Ave. Miss Elizabeth Clark, 3812 Wabash Ave. SPECIAL VOTE RETURN THIS COUPON ON OR BEFORE WITH FIVE DOLLARS, EITHER IN S MENTS, AND YOU W 10,000 SPECIAL Rev. J. W. Robinson, 4925 Wabash Ave., Pastor of St. Mark Ch. 42,000 votes Miss Hattie Winslow, 3535 South Wabash Ave. 37,000 votes Henry Humphrey, 3607 State street. 31,000 votes Miss B. Forston, 2962 Wabash Ave., Flat 6. 29,000 votes Mme. E. M. Scott, 3611 S. State St. 26,000 votes Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes Ave. 21,000 votes Rev. W. S. Braddan (chaplain 8th Reg.) 5008 Fifth Ave. 17,000 votes Miss Pauline D. Owens, Mounds, Ill. 10,160 votes Miss Ethel Cole, 3600 Wabash Ave., Flat 44. 9,000 votes Alma G. Rowens, 3228 Calumet Ave. 7,800 votes Miss Katie Fowler, 5363 Dearborn St. 6,340 votes Miss Cora Mason, 11 E. 34th St. 6,180 votes Miss Amy Boger, Columbia St. Aurora, Ill. 6,020 votes Miss Marie Jefferson, 6119 Loomis St. 5,020 votes Miss Josephine Davis, 3244 Wabash Ave. 5,000 votes Miss Elizabeth Clark, 3812 Wabash Ave. 5,000 votes SPECIAL VOTE COUPON. RETURN THIS COUPON ON OR BEFORE MONDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1915. WITH FIVE DOLLARS, EITHER IN SUBSCRIPTIONS OR ADVERTISEMENTS, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE 10,000 SPECIAL VOTES. Candidates name ... Address ..... Candidates name Address Each candidate is limited to ten coupons. Outdoor, winter air is good air. See that you get your share of it. Good health is good cheer always, no matter what else the trouble may be. Then why not look first after your health, and other good things will surely follow. JACKSON ELECTED TO NEW CITY COUNCIL. Newport, R. I.—W. H. Jack ored, for eight years assists keeper at the State House of P natives, was elected without o The sixth Municipal dance will be held Tuesday, December 29th, 8 p.m. at Lincoln Garden, 10 East 29th Street, under the supervision of the Department of Public Welfare, and a local committee composed of social workers of both races and prominent Colored citizens. The public statement made by one Dr. A. J. Carey, from the pulpit of the Institutional Church, Sunday, Nov. 29th, 1914, "that a self-constituted committee of women went to the Mayor and asked for a segregated dance hall," is false. As Commissioner of the Bureau of Public Welfare, I solicited the cooperation of MDmes. Maude Lawrence, Jessie Thomas, and Alberta Moore-Smith, and have placed them, separately, upon the various committees of the Bureau. This unverified statement, and undue notoriety, are to be deplored. Race, color or creed has no place in this Department. The Municipal dances are one of the many movements that will be inaugurated in the different sections of the city for social betterment. I shall be pleased to talk with any citizen, at any time, regarding local conditions in their community. (Signed) Leosora Z. Meder, Commissioner of Public Welfare. City Hall Square Blog, R. 802. --- (Fill out blank below.) BY USING THE SPECIAL COUPON and five dollars with each coupon you receive a ballot for 29,500 votes. By making use of the ten coupons we allow to each contestant you receive So do not miss this opportunity to gain a safe lead through this special offer. This offer expires Monday, Jan. 4th, 1915, at 9 p. m. And there will not be another offer that will allow you such an enormous amount of votes. OF VOTES. 1,000 votes 3,000 votes 6,000 votes 10,000 votes 15,000 votes Eve., Pastor of St. Mark Ch.. 42,000 votes Bash Ave.. 37,000 votes Flat 6.. 31,000 votes Flat 6.. 29,000 votes Ave.. 26,000 votes Ave.. 21,000 votes ( g.) 5008 Fifth Ave.. 17,000 votes Flat 44.. 10,160 votes Flat 44.. 9,000 votes Flat 44.. 7,800 votes Flat 44.. 6,340 votes Flat 44.. 6,180 votes E, Ill.. 6,020 votes E, Ill.. 5,020 votes Ave.. 5,000 votes Ave.. 5,000 votes NOTE COUPON. FORE MONDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1915, IN SUBSCRIPTIONS OR ADVERTISE- SU WILL RECEIVE SPECIAL VOTES. Cons. JACKSON ELECTED TO NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL. Newport, R. I.—W. H. Jackson, Colored, for eight years assistant door keeper at the State House of Representatives, was elected without opposition in the city elections last week to the City Council from the second ward by the Republican voters. Mr. Jackson has been on City Republican Committee for twenty-seven years and is senior member of the committee. He was elected to the Council for two years. He is a deacon of Mt. Olivet Baptist church. His son, W. H. Jackson, Jr., who is a Sunday School teacher, is stock clerk for one of the leading business houses in the city. EIGHTH REGIMENT BALL—PLACE CHANGED TO SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY, NEW YEAR'S NIGHT. The annual New Year's Ball given by the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard will be at the 7th Regiment Armory instead of the New Armory as advertised. This change is unavoidable due to recent cold weather which prevented the contractors from finishing the work as promised. Grand March at 10 o'clock. Admission 50e. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. It is with extreme pleasure that the writer wishes the many readers of The Broad Ax a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. No.14 325,000 VOTES. PAGE TWO Woman's World Mrs. Schall Managed Her Blind Husband's Campaign. Mary MRS. THOMAS D. SCHALL. One of the most interesting figures now in the public eye is the wife of the Hon. Thomas D. Schall, recently elected to congress from Minnesota. Like Senator Gore of Oklahoma, he is quite blind and depends entirely on the assistance of his wife to carry on his public work. The lady is not only eyes to him in his legal work in Minneapolis, where he is a successful lawyer, but she acted as private secretary and campaign manager when he appealed to the voters for election. The Schalls have been married for twelve years. Mrs. Schall frankly admits being thirty-five years old, two years her husband's junior. They first met when both were students at the University of Minnesota, where Mr. Schall won honors as an intercollegiate debater. He is said to be one of the finest speakers before the Minnesota bar. His blindness is due to an accident which occurred seven years ago. Many persons surmised that this accident would end his public career, but so ably did his devoted and brilliant wife come to his assistance that he has been able to carry on his law practice with success and score a signal triumph in a hot political campaign. Mrs. Schall is described as a charming as well as clever and cultivated woman, who will be a distinct acquisition to Washington's official society. Her husband's term, unless a special session of the Sixty-fourth congress should be called after the expiration of the present congress next March, will not begin until December, 1915. HORSE RING MODISH NEW TRINKETS. Jewelry in black enamel and set with small gems is seen in the shops. It is in accordance with fashion's leaning toward somber things this season. The set illustrated here is mounted in a pretty satin lined velvet box and is carried out in black enamel with small brilliants. For good luck is the little diamond horse shoe shown in its separate box. Ironing Day Hints. Don't rest your hot irons on the troning sheet. The best iron stand is an asbestos wire mat, and the best smoother in an old telephone book or magazine. Tear off the sheets as they get solled or scoured. Make it a rule to finish up your troning in one day. It wastes gas and fuel to have to reheat your irons the next day when you could easily have finished while the irons and stove were hot. Moisture in Jardinières. Only plants that demand a great amount of moisture should be kept in Jardinières. Excessive moisture causes roots to decay, and many flowers soon die unless given plenty of air. Milady's Mirror Food For Health and Beauty. Beauty must always be attended by a good complexion, and to have this the digestive organs must work properly. Much damage is done to the digestion by overeating, by eating of highly seasoned food or by eating food that is hard to digest. Among the many wholesome vegetables spinach ranks first, not alone for its palatableness, but because it contains many valuable medicinal ingredients. While spinach contains nine-tenths water, the remaining tenth contains iron, niter and mineral salts. It has been said that one who partakes freely of spinach will have no liver trouble and that constipation will be unknown, also the complexion will be clear and the eyes bright. Beet tops, too, are quite as beneficial as spinach. Oranges are healthful. Most persons do not eat enough of them to derive benefit. The proper time to eat oranges has been freely discussed, but the best way to decide this disputed point is to note carefully the effect of eating them at various periods of the day and govern oneself accordingly. An orange poulice is valued in India and recommended for use in skin diseases. Some women give credit for their beautiful and clear complexion to drinking the juice from at least six oranges each day, and then at night sponging the face with orange juice. Reducing the Neck. Too much flesh on the neck is a great obstacle to beauty. It is almost as bad in appearance as a scrawny throat and is much more difficult to remedy. It is a far simpler thing to put flesh on a woman's throat than to take it off, for if the tissues are fed with a good grease, such as cocoa butter, the neck will soon begin to take on flesh. On the other hand, only exercise of the most vigorous sort will reduce fat on the throat. For a tendency to double chin and to tighten the muscles which have become loosened in a flabby neck try this simple but efficacious exercise: Throw the head back as far as it will go, drawing the muscles taut. Now turn the head slowly as far to the right as it will go, then as far to the left. Repeat to the number of ten times, increasing as you become accustomed to the strain. Bathing the neck frequently with a piece of ice is excellent for keeping the flesh firm and for removing fabbiness. Harmless Face Powder While it may be questioned whether any powder is entirely harmless, a celebrated skin specialist commends this formula for face powder: Rice flour, six ounces; rice starch, six ounces; carbonate of magnesia, three ounces; pulverized boric acid, one and one-half ounces; powdered orris root, one and one-fourth drams; essence of citron, fifteen drops; essence of bergamot, thirty drops. Mingle the essences with magnesia and then smoothly rub all together. Apply the powder over a light coating of cold cream well massaged into the skin and put it on generously so that it may sink in. Then before going out wipe off the superfluous white with a soft cloth. In this way the powder is "kept on" and the skin protected from dust and wind. The Cold Shower. The woman who has been accustomed to taking a cold shower bath will find it is a great protection against the cold of winter. It should be taken the first thing in the morning in a well warmed bathroom. Some enjoy the shower tepid at first, afterward allowing it to run cold. The cool plunge is more taxing to the delicate woman, and if a shower bath is not to be had the cool sponge bath is its best substitute. All of these cold baths should be followed by a brisk rubbing with several rough towels so as to insure the healthy glow which imparts a glorious tingling over the surface of the body. How to Massage the Face. With the tips of the fingers massage the forehead from temple to temple with a rotary motion; then slide down to the chin and work upward from the chin close to the side of the nose to the eyes. Slide down again, each time a little farther back, and repeat the motion until the entire face has been covered. Next work under the eyes with the middle finger from the nose outward to the corners of the eyes. Remember that the movements should be rotary and always up and out toward the ears. Powder For the Feet No toilet article is more satisfactory than a foot powder, as this is both cooling and sweetening, the antiseptic qualities banishing unpleasant odors. In extreme cases of foot fatigue and offensive perspiration the powder must be rubbed on thickly with the hands after the bath and applied between the toes. Buttermilk For Red Skin One thing said to be very good for the skin. If unpleasantly slipped by the cold, is buttermilk. Some may not like this, not all can use it, but when used it is drained on plentifully, allowed to dry, then by and by washed off with water. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26, 1914. A CHARMING PARTY GOWN. From now until Lent society will make the best of its time. For the dances, dinners and theater parties with which the days before the penitential season will be crowded, the gown pictured here is a charming model. It is of pale green crepe. The gathered tunic is attached to the skirt on the hips. The smart sleeveless effect is used for one shoulder, which is draped with white lace and net and garlanded with pink roses. The girdle is of sequin embroidered net. WHEN BUYING FURS. Hints That May Help Solve the Problem of Many Shoppera. Coats for morning, afternoon, evening and for motoring are made of fur, from seal to astrakhan. Suits of indescribable elegance are fashioned of broadtail and caracal. Fur adorns evening dresses in both narrow and wide bands. ```markdown ``` Kolinsky is the new fur of the season for coats. It strongly resembles sable. It has the warm, soft coloring of Russian sable, but not the same quality of hair. 识识识 Fitch is the favorite trimming for fur. Skunk remains the choice of the conservative yet modishly gowned woman. Blue fox is very fashionable for bordering the high neck, sleeve edges and outlining the edges of wraps. ```markdown ``` Very tiny barrel shaped muffs are an interesting novelty. They come in sets that include tipet, hat and muff. ```markdown ``` Any one fur does not seem to take the lead in fashionable favor, as was the style formerly, and if there is a pelt that is left out of the fashionable scheme it must be accidental. 统统 This season monkey fur, that lovely long haired, glossy pelit, has been added to the already long list of peltry. INSPECTING THE RANGE. Timely Precaution That Will Inure Brisk Fires and Fuel Economy. Have your kitchen range examined regularly, for upon it depends much of the cook's success. Chimneys, drafts and grates should be in perfect condition, for not only is this a time saving necessity, but it also economizes coal and wood. Most apartments and many houses depend entirely upon the gas range for cooking purposes, and it should be thoroughly inspected from time to time. The various parts of a modern gas range can be replaced when broken or worn out, and this is of great advantage over the older makes that had to be discarded entirely when only partially worn out. All gas ranges are connected free of charge, which is another great saving. Old Bags Like New Shabby leather bags, etc., may be improved in appearance by being rubbed over with well beaten white of egg and then polished with beacawax and turpentine, the final rubbing being given with a soft, clean cloth. Save Odd Bite of Soap Keep a bowl or box in a convenient place and throw in all the odds and ends of soap. When sufficient quantity has been collected boil with water to a jelly. Set aside to cool. It is then ready for use. Grande Spots on Floors. No many women grieve because there are grease spots on their kitchen floors and water, with any amount of scrubbing, will not remove them. They should try alcohol to remove these spots. 1 The model pictured here is carried out in tete de negre gabardine. There is a three-quarter length coachman's coat, finished with large bone buttons, and a straight skirt buttoned in the front its entire length. Such a gown may be donned for walking, but it is an ideal costume for driving or for coaching when the spring season makes it possible to enjoy this sport. INDOOR PLANTS. Dry Air May Be Artificially Moistened For Their Benefit. One reason why many plants die in the house during the winter is because of steam heat. This is the driest of all kinds of heat, giving out absolutely no moisture, but quickly drying out all dampness in the air of a room. Even with the windows open the fresh supply of moist air coming in is not sufficient to combat the drying process of the steam heat. To remedy this the plant owner must provide the moisture for the air. By laying wet cloths on the radiators the heat coming forth will be moist heat, which is not half so harmful either to plant or to person as the dry kind. These cloths will have to be remoistened often. It depends largely on the amount of heat in the radiator. This will do much to keep the indoor plants alive through the winter. The rest depends on the watering. One woman says she has always managed to keep her Boston ferns for at least a year by placing the jar in a small pan of water. She does not give them any water from above, but leaves this little pan below so that the plant draws up water as it needs it. Another way, which has been adopted by many plant owners with great success, is to put the whole plant in the bath tub twice a week, let the water run until it just covers the top of the jar and then let it out, leaving the plant to drain off before resourcing to its stand. No other water is given it through the week, just these two baths. ORANGE SEEDLINGS. Must Be Grafted When About Two Years Old to Obtain Flowers. Orange plants thrive in a mixture of rich loam and old manure, but care is necessary not to disturb them or to give them too much water when not in a growing state. Oranges raised from seed will not flower for several years unless budded or grafted when about two years old. Plants propagated from cuttings can be stuck in sand with gentle bottom heat and will flower and fruit much sooner than any others, but scarcely ever attain a large size. Florists would pot two inch orange plants in thumb pots. These dry out quickly, and the amateur grower will probably do better by potting two or three plants in a three inch pot, later repotting separately when the plants are larger. It will do to pot them separately then if desired in three inch pots. Keep the foliage clean by frequent spraying or washing and watch for scale and lice. Airind Ironed Garments The importance of a thorough airing of clothes after ironing cannot be overemphasized—not only on the score of health, but on those of appearance and economy. Clothes put away damp do not look smooth and well finished when taken out for use, and there is a danger of their becoming damaged by mildew. Cheap Cushion Fillings. Clippings from cloth garments make excellent fillings for cushions. They should be finely shredded. Points for Mothers Care of the Children's Feet. Before you put on a child's stockings in the morning pass the hand over the bottom of his foot to brush off any particles of dirt or foreign matter that may have adhered to each moist little member in the scamper across the floor after the bath. You will be surprised to see how often you will find something that would have been a source of irritation if it had been allowed to remain. Before you put on the shoes shake them well to be sure that they contain nothing that will irritate the feet. Look carefully at the feet at night to see if any red or inflamed spot testifies to a badly fitting shoe or a too large wrinkled stocking. Wet and stretch the shoe if it seems to press upon some particular spot. Watch for ingrowing toe nails and insert a bit of cotton under the corner of the nail at the first indication of trouble. Teach the children as they grow older to take the same precautions, and they may avoid at least some of the minor ills of life. We all know how much discomfort to the square inch we can get from an undue pressure on the foot. Let us remember that when a healthy child is fretful there is pain or discomfort somewhere and it is "up to us" to find and remedy it. Self Reliance Important. Occasionally one finds a parent who when a child asks for help in solving a problem will say, "Do it yourself." Often a child keeps working away at a problem which he cannot possibly solve because he has not been trained properly. To say to such a child "Do it yourself" is often to discourage him and to cause him to waste time. There is a middle course between doing nothing for the learner and doing everything for him. This middle course is to cause him by appropriate questions to take the necessary steps to help himself. This is really what teaching means, whether it be in the home or in the school. Telling is not teaching, and refusing to give any assistance is not teaching. But to guide and stimulate the learner so that he can work his own way through problems is teaching. Reasonable Punishments Whatever reproach or privation we impose upon a child must be clearly connected with the offense. The child should always know just exactly why it is being punished. Moreover, the punishment should not be so long deferred that the child can lose the connection between its offense and the punishment. Nothing that affects a child's health, such as interference with meals or with sleep, should be used as a punishment. Nor should useful work or study be discredited by being used as a means of punishment. We must remember that punishment is like medicine. There is one punishment that fits all cases or all children. Each case must be studied by itself, and the punishment must be made to fit the offense and also the offender. Plenty of Sleep. Nine o'clock should be bed hour for all school children, with Friday and Saturday nights as the only possible exceptions. The hours from the conclusion of supper to retiring time should be sufficient for preparing lessons. Then, too, if the child comes in from play at 5 or half past there should be an hour before supper in which to study. It is an excellent rule to forbid the reading of any story books outside the school course, except on Saturdays and Sundays. The child who is fond of reading is apt to become so engrossed in a book that he will neglect exercise and study for the completion of the book. But if a strict rule is made and enforced that no reading shall be done through the week except that which is necessary for lessons the child will find time for fresh air and sleep. Children's Shoes. When next you buy a pair of shoes for the children take a hatpin or the point of a pair of scissors and score the soles and heels diagonally in lines about half an inch apart. Then start at the toe again and cross these lines, and you will find the child will not slip so often. If for any reason your children do fall and bump their foreheads rub the place at once with salted butter and there will be very little discoloration. Prolonging Dolly's Life. To strengthen a doll's head first remove the head from the body, then fill it with plaster of paris mixed to a smooth paste with water. Stand it to one side with shoulders up until perfectly dry and then fasten it on to the body. A doll that goes to sleep cannot be treated in this way, and one that has an open mouth and teeth will require a strip of paper pasted on the inside before pouring in the paste. Baby's Bath Set. A pretty and very practicable little bath set of Turkish towelling consists of wash cloth, towel and bath blakak, finished with machine edges of pink or blue. Each article is embroidered in cross stitch with letters of blue and tiny bunches of flowers in two shades of pink. For the Children Czarevitch of Russia In Military Uniform. © 1914, by American Press Association. Here is the latest picture of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia; the czarevich he is called. The title czarevich means the same as crown prince in English and means that the boy is heir to the throne of Russia. Alexis is just past two years of age and, of course, is too young to go to the war, although his latest photograph shows him cloaked in military uniform. The grand duke has English blood in his veins, his mother being a daughter of Princess Alice of England. Alexis has four sisters, all of them older than himself, he being the baby of the family. As the photo shows, he is a handsome little boy, but his health has never been robust. Boy Scouts Patrol Sea Coast There are 250,000 boy scouts in England. Before war was declared 50,000 were mobilized. They have been as their duties ever since. From the first day of danger seventy troops of sea scouts began coast patrol which will be permanent until the declaration of peace. Today 1,300 sea scouts are stationed from John o' Groat's to Dover keeping watch and ward along the east coast. They are only boys, but they watch the North sea through daylight and dark. Their job is to do their duty, to keep their mouths shut and their eyes open. They have won official recognition, the admiralty paying for their subsistence while they serve as volunteers. Each patrol of six sea scouts is living with two coast guards in an handy shelter. Tents, boathouses and shacks furnish emergency stations. Of duty patrols are building themselves winter huts, the handy "men" fashioning sleeping boards, lockers and men tables. The sea scouts cook for these selves. A Trick With a Watch. Borrow a watch from any person in the company and request the company to stand around you. Hold the watch up to the ear of the first in the cute and command it to go. Then demand his testimony to the fact. Remove it to the ear of the next and enjoin it to stop. Make the same request of that party, and on through the entire party. Explanation.—You must take care in borrowing the watch that it be a good one and goes well. Have concealed in your hand a piece of loadstone, which as soon as you apply it to the watch will occasion suspension of its movements, which a subsequent shaking and withdrawing of the magnet will restore. Rebbles For Gems. Among the many curious trades that rely upon cleverness in deception is that of the seaside lapidary or gem cutter, who trades in expensive gems for worthless pebbles. His business is successful at some of the English seaside resorts. The customers are shown gems which the cutter claims to have picked up on the shore and polished. Then they start out in search of gems and carry to the cutter pebbles which he convinces them are gems. They leave the pebbles to be cut, and he sends back, in return for the valueless pebbles, topazes, aquamarines and other inexpensive gems charging a price for cutting which gives him a fine profit on the transaction. Transpositions. In each line the words in the blanks are of the same letters. 1.—He and his — make a good — 2.—Some people — the danger others — 3.—The valley was — lovely; everything was so — 4.—The luggage was so old, they had to — some — of it. 5.—I hope lightning will not — the building. 6.—The — did his work well, but he had a — time than the reaper. Answers.—1, Mate, team; 2, dread, dared; 3, quite, quiet; 4, strap, part; 5, smite, times; 6, sower, worse. Philosophy The fat little squirrel up in the tree Sighed over and over: "Oh, dear me! Now, were a bird and could I I'd have some nuts, but food is high! Just then came a wind and Frisky sum The nuts lay thick upon the ground "Dear me!" he chattered. "Now, isn't this good? There has been a decided fall in food! "Ther ever so. When things hang high If they're meant for a wind 'll come So have it to young Frisky, the nuts are THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26, 1914. GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN IN BELGIUM. GERMAN RED CROSS CORPS ON FIELD. Photo by American Press Association American Press Association. CAMP. [Image of a large outdoor scene with a group of people standing in front of a building surrounded by trees. The building has a circular window and a door with a sign above it. The people are wearing hats and appear to be engaged in some activity. The ground is covered with large rocks or debris.] GERMAN ... Photo by American Press Association. In front of their temporary shelter in the woods they are going over battle plans. AUSTRIAN PRISONERS AT NISH, SERVIA. A AVES OF ENGLISH SOLDIERS IN FRANCE. Right, 1914, by American Press Association. Photos copyright, 1914, by A Photos copyright, 1914, by American Press Association. GRAVES OF ENGLISH SOLDIERS IN FRANCE. BAKING BREAD FOR ENGLISH SOLDIERS. ```markdown ``` + ```markdown ``` --- BRIDGE DESTROYED IN FRANCE. KING GEORGE VISITS SOLDIERS. ```markdown ``` THE Photo by American Press Association GERMAN CROWN PRINCE IN SERVICE. Photo copyright, 1914, by American Press Association. Future ruler of Germany is here shown congratulating offloom. Photo by American Press Association GERMAN OFFICERS IN CAMP. PAGE THREE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE AND SON. ALEXANDER PAGE FOUR THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is brand enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 5027 FEDERAL STREET, CHICAGO, ILL PHONE DREXEL 4590. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1996, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 2, 1879. TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.—The annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday, January 20, 1915. In addition to the meeting in the Institute Chapel an Agricultural Parade, to start from Millbank Agricultural Building at ten o'clock, will feature possibilities of agriculture as carried on by the Tuskegee Institute, and the Farm Demonstration work of the National Government. A series of contrasts will indicate the agriculture of the past with the present. A beginning in this direction was made last year but the parade for 1915 promises to be more thoroughly instructive and will include many features not included in last year's parade. The Conference program has been arranged with special reference to assisting the Negro farmers to get in a position so that they can best co-operate with the agencies which are, working to improve farming and financial conditions in the South. The morning session of the Conference will be held at eleven o'clock, in the Chapel, and the subject decided upon for discussion is: HOW I AM MEETING THE PRESENT HARD TIMES. I. By raising my own food supplies. What I am raising to eat: 1. In my yard. 2. In my garden. 3. In my orchard. 4. In my field. 5. In my pasture. II. By growing things to sell. What I am raising to sell: 1. In my yard. 2. In my garden. 3. In my orehard. 4. In my field. 5. In my pasture. III. Organized efforts: 1. To assist in growing food supplies. 2. To assist in preparing corn, oats, etc., for market. 3. To assist in getting better markets for crops other than cotton. The Workers' Conference. The Workers' Conference is to be held Thursday, January 21st. The subject selected for discussion is: THE SCHOOLS AND THE "HARD TIMES" SITUATION. 1. How the "hard times" situation has affected our community. 2. What our school is doing to help our community in the present financial situation. (a) To get temporary relief. (b) To get permanent relief. (c) The opportunity that the present situation offers to teach the saving habit. (d) The opportunity of the present situation for initiating and increasing school extension work. A number of special invitations have been extended important citizens of the South, White and Colored, to be present and speak at the Workers' Day Conference,—among others, Mr. J. T. Hollerman, of Atlanta, on the subject, "Cotton Raising and the Present Economic Situation." It is also proposed to invite a successful Colored cotton farmer to tell What he is planning to do with respect to cotton during the coming year. A representative of the financial interests of the South will be invited to address the Conference on, "The Financial Situation from the Standpoint of Credit." Invitations will be extended Mr. G. L. Comer, of Eufaula, President of the Alabama Bankers Association and Mr. R. M. Hobbie, a wholesale grocery merchant, of Montgomery, Alabama, through whose intelligent direction many Alabama farmers are planning to turn to wheat raising next year instead of cotton raising. It is planned in connection with the general subject of Credits, Advances, etc., to ask a Colored banker, Mr. J. O. Rose, President of the Atlanta State Savings Bank, himself a planner, to speak on the subject of: "Credits and Advances." A series of charts contrasting cotton and other crops in the South will be put on exhibition during both the Annual Farmers' Conference and the Warehouse Conference. A cordial invitation is extended farmers throughout the South, and those interested in their progress, Presidents and Principals of Colleges, Universities and Industrial Schools being conducted in the interest of Negro education, to be present and take part in the discussion of the important subjects mentioned above. FIFTH ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST HELD AT BETHEL CHURCH LAST SUNDAY. TWO THOUSAND OF THE MOST CULTURED PEOPLE OF THE CITY ATTENDED. KNOWN AS PRIZE WINNERS' CON TEST. Two thousand people gathered in Bethel A. M. E. Church, 30th and Dearborn Streets, on last Sunday afternoon, to witness the great Fifth Annual Essay Contest, known as the Prize Winners' Contest, held under the auspices of the Bethel Literary Club. Never before in the history of literary affairs in Chicago has so much interest been manifested by so many cultured people. The audience was made up of doctors, lawyers, preachers, school teachers, stenographers, newspaper men, business men, and in fact every line of business was represented in this large and enthusiastic audience. The idea of holding these contests was originated by B. W. Pitts, who is President of the Bethel Literary Club, one of the leading literary organizations of this city. They have been held for the past five years. The object is to create more interest among our young people in literary work and by searching through the archives of history bringing to us information that we could not get otherwise. The contest of last Sunday was considered by all to be the greatest purely literary treat ever witnessed in this city, and will be long remembered by those who attended. The prizes, two beautiful diamond rings, donated by the popular jeweler, Dr. Louis Usselman, 3150 State Street, was won by Mr. Carey B. Lewis and Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines. The entire program was good. The Burleigh Girls Chorus, under the directorship of Mrs. Eudora Fisher-Lockett was at their best. Mrs. T. A. Smythe, wife of the able pastor of Bethel Church, rendered a beautiful selection and Mr. Opal D. Cooper, the great baritone singer, captivated the audience, and Miss Ethet Minor, the accomplished pianist, who rendered one of her classical selections could not have been excelled; together with the essays, full of thought, read by Messrs. Frank W. Henry, Jos. A. Marshall, Carey B. Lewis, Miss Leonora T. Curtiss and Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines, those present went home feeling that an afternoon had been well spent. Much credit is due the Managers, Messrs. B. W. Fitts and James E. Mitchem, for the able manner in which they handled this affair. The very appropriate introductory remarks of Mr. Mitchem have received much favorable comment and praise. The pastor and officers of Bethel Church deserve credit for permitting the use of the Church for this grand Literary Feast, that is doing so much for the race. The judges of the contest were: Major John R. Lynch, Major Robert R. Jackson, Dr. MacEnery J. Brown, Attorney Albert B. George and Professor J. P. Faulkner. They deserve great credit for the efforts put forth by them in trying to make the contest a success. Mr. Taylor:—Kindly insert in your valuable paper and oblige, B. W. Fitts. RELIGION INJURIOUS TO MAN. Religion and its supernatural morality are fatal to the people, and opposed to human nature. We can judge of the merit of a system of morals but by its conformity with man's nature. According to this comparison, we have a right to reject it, if we find it detrimental to the welfare of mankind. Whoever has seriously meditated upon religion and its supernatural morality, whoever has weighed its advantages and disadvantages, will become convinced that they are both injurious to the interests of the human race, or directly opposed to man's nature. "People to arms! Your God's cause is at stake! Heaven is outraged! Faith is in danger! Down upon infidelity, blasphemy and heresy!" By the magical power of these valiant words, which the people never understand, the priests in all ages were the leaders in the revolts of nations, in dethroning kings, in kindling civil wars, and in imprisoning men. When we chance to examine the important objects which have excited the Celestial wrath and produced so many ravages upon the earth, it is found that the foolish reveries and the strange conjectures of some theologian who did not understand himself, or, the pretentions of the clergy, have severed all ties of society and inundated the human race in its own blood and tears—Ex-Priest Jean Medlier in the People's Press, Chicago, December 12, 1914. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 26, 1914. PETER H. BURGESS HON, WILLIAM M. TROTTER WILLIAM MONBOE TROTTER OF THE ORCHESTER Negro Fellowship League's Fifth A Proclamation will be held at Orchestra Eve, Thursday, December 31st, 1914, 7 titor of The Guardian, Boston, Mass., v Trotter is the brave young man who de in his plea against segregation. Every chance to show his appreciation of M Justice Harry Olsen will also speak. T one hundred voices will sing. One hun and $1.00. Tickets on sale at 3005 St WILLIAM MONBOE TROTTER OF BOSTON, MASS., WILL SPEAK AT ORCHESTRA HALL. Negro Fellowship League's Fifth Annual Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held at Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michigan Ave., New Year's Eve, Thursday, December 31st, 1914, 7:30 P. M. William Monroe Trotter, editor of The Guardian, Boston, Mass., will be the orator of the evening. Mr. Trotter is the brave young man who defended the race before President Wilson in his plea against segregation. Every Negro in Chicago should welcome the chance to show his appreciation of Mr. Trotter's work for the race. Chief Justice Harry Olsen will also speak. The Umbrian Glee club with a chorus of one hundred voices will sing. One hundred lady patronesses. Tickets 50c, 75c and $1.00. Tickets on sale at 3005 State street and Orchestra Hall. MANY NEW SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BROAD AX. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain the names of many of its new subscribers who are scattered from California to New York and as far south as Mississippi. If any of the new subscribers fail to receive their paper promptly they are requested to notify the editor. Here and there, there may be some delay in delivering the paper but such delays will pass away as soon as the names of the new subscribers are properly entered upon the mailing list. MR. BERT WILLIAMS A Progressive Whist will be given in the parlors of the Appomattox Club, 3441 Wabash Ave., Saturday evening December 26th, 1914, from 9 to 12 in honor of Mr. Bert Williams. Members may invite two guests. Entertainment Committee—Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Chairman; C. S. Washington, S. Buckner, A. A. Wells, Jos. Brent, Bert Jameson, Dr. H. Garnes, George Bundy, H. S. Gins, Mose White, John T. Morton, Harry Isaacs, Henry Allen, W. Martin and Delbert L. Lee. NEGRO CATERER LEFT $139,000 ESTATE. Philadelphia, Pa.—An estate valued at $139,000 was left by John W. Holland, the retired Negro caterer, who died last week. Mrs. Henry Jones, 6641 Evans Ave., will keep open house on New Year's day. Mrs. William Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes avenue, will be at home to her friends on New Year's day. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue, will receive her friends on New Year's day. Mrs. Ed Nixon, 2827 So. Wabash Ave., will entertain her many friends and callers on New Year's day. Mrs. Geneva Smith, 5363 Dearborn street, and her sister, Miss Katie Fowler, will receive on New Year's day. Captain Louis B. Anderson feels confident that he is gaining new recruits each day in his race for the nomination for Alderman of the second ward and some of his friends look upon him as a winner. The officers of the First Regiment U. R. K. P. of Illinois, gave a banquet Tuesday evening at 3856 S. State street, in honor of Major Robert R. Jackson, Col. H. H. Biggs, commanding. The affair was very nice and well attended. The Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wabash avenue, will hold an informal reception in the afternoon and evening New Year's day and those who desire, as it has been a custom in the past on such occasions, can while the time away by doing a little dancing. Miss Nellie Callaway, 3300 Rhodes avenue, has been confined to her home the past week through illness preventing her from doing much active work in connection with the popularity or automobile contest. Mr. Charles Weinfeld, member of the law firm of Schuyler, Ettelson and Wein. CHIPS BOSTON, MASS., WILL SPEAK AT TEA HALL. Annual Celebration of the Emancipation Hall, 220 S. Michigan Ave., New Year's :30 P. M. William Monroe Trotter, edi- will be the orator of the evening. Mr. defended the race before President Wilson y Negro in Chicago should welcome the Mr. Trotter's work for the race. Chief The Umbrian Glee club with a chorus of adred lady patronesses. Tickets 50c, 75c state street and Orchestra Hall. feld, who occupy an immense suite of law offices in the New York Life Building, spent several days in New York City last week on legal business. William H. Brown, who has been Sergeant-at-Arms of the City Council for many years, who is well liked by all of the aldermen and who is very popular with a large circle of friends, has been under the weather for the past few weeks although he is always in evidence to faithfully discharge his duties in connection with his position. Beautiful Kashmir. It has been said that India is the brightest jewel in the British crown. But one cannot realize the brightness of the gem to the full until one has so journeyed for a space in that veritable dreamland situated in the wedge of mountains forming the north center boundary of that peninsula. No other country in the world can boast of such a diversity of scenery or is so full of beauty spots as the valleys and uplands of Kashmir. Snow covered mountains, pine clad hills, rushing torrents, clear streams, limpid lakes and broad alluvial plains all combine to make up this wonderland, which forms the summer haunt of many jaded plainsmen from the sultry cantonments of India. Of late, alas, the ubliquous globe trotter has discovered it, and his excessive supply of cash brings higher prices, silk socks and white waistcoats into a paradise where "bolled shirts" and other apurentures of an evil civilization should never have been allowed to penetrate-Wilde World Magazine. Yes. He Was In. The collector was after a deadbeat, and there were rumors that he was in more serious trouble even than owing debts. The collector was told to get after him at once and run him down before anybody else got hold of him. So he chose a time of day when the deadbeat would be most likely to be at home and went to his house and rang the bell. The man's wife came to the door. "Your husband is in?" he said sternly—he made a statement rather than a question of it. She looked scared and answered, "Y—yes, sir." "I want to see him at once," he went on, very severely, "Why, you can't see him," she answered, "He's in, and yet I can't see him? I'd like to know why I can't!" "Because he's in for six months!" she sobbed, and shut the door in his face.—Argonaut. Lyddite, the powder that has enormous explosive force and can be fired from a gun easily carried about, does not, as has been widely supposed, take its name from a man, but from an ancient town near the coast of Kent, England, the town of Lydd, where there is a government artillery range, where the tests were made that resulted in the preparation of this explosive. Lyddite has extraordinary qualities aside from its explosive force, since its fumes are so suffocating as sometimes to be intolerable. Lydd shares the netoriety that attaches to the name of Dumdum, that other peaceful city in Bengal, where are manufactured the expanding bullets that attract so much unfavorable comment in war. Penetrated His Disguise. The last minstrel stopped at a back door and said to the housewife who greeted him: "Give me something to eat, fair dame, and I will tickle your ears with a merry tale of romance." "But why not tell me the tale first?" the dame suggested. "No. I must have the food and drink before I talk." Thereupon the dame slammed the door with the tart retort: "You're not a merry minstrel. You're an after dinner speaker."—New York Globe. Lyddite. BIG MUNICIPAL HOLIDAY DANCE AT LINCOLN GARDENS 10 E. 29th STREET Tuesday, December 29th at 8 P. M. ADMISSION 10 c. Falstaff and Yarmouth. Falstaff and Yarmouth have a claim upon all Englishmen quite independently of its associations with the breakfast bloster. For it was the home of Shakespeare's Falstaff, who appears to have been a man of exemplary piety. The Falstaffs were an old Yarmouth family. "A Falstofle or Falstaff," writes John Richard Green. "was a bailiff of Yarmouth in 1281. Another is among the first of its representatives in parliament, and from that the members of that family filled the highest municipal offices. John Falstofle, a man of considerable account in the town, purchased lands at the close of the fourteenth century in Caistor, and became the father of Sir, John Falstofle, who, after a distinguished military career, was luckless enough to give his name to Shakespeare's famous character. In Yarmouth, however, he was better known as a benefactor to the great Church of St. Nicholas."—St. Nicholas. Europe's Richest City. Europe's Richmond. The richest city in Europe is Basel, the great Swiss railway center, Zurich, in a neighboring canton, coming second. This is proportionate to the number of inhabitants. Basel's richest citizen boasts a fortune of £500,000, another has £300,000, while no fewer than sixteen residents pay income tax on a round million dollars. Eighty-two are "French millionaire" possessing fortunes of a million francs. The average wage earning capacities of the various professions form an interesting contrast. Basel's doctors—the place is flooded with medical men—are the worst paid, averaging only £240 a year; drudgists are good for more, and lawyers the same. Professors, on the other hand, earn something like £500 a year and bank directors anywhere from £1,000 to £1,200.-Pearson's Weekly. A Statue of Brick- Perhaps no other nation in the world save the inventive Germans would have thought of building a statue of brick. In the little city of Vegesack, near Bremen and in the district of the German clay fields, the citizens have erected such a statue to one of their number who won fame as an African explorer. The monument is of brick, thirty feet in height, including the pedestal. The architect molded the figures of a man and camel out of a solid mass of clay, which was burned in a great kiln and then sawed into brick sized blocks. A. Herculean Task The bridegroom was intensely serious. "My dear," he said to his little wife (they are always little), "you have a hard task before you. Now that we are wed, you will have to prove to my four sisters that you are worthy of me"—Philadelphia Ledger. Marciade In Jazz In Java when a man marries he goes to his wife's house, where the women sit in council upon all matters of importance and dictate the affairs of the home. Child's Day In Belgium. St. Nicholas day, which is Dec. 6, is the day on which the Belgian child expects a new toy. It is the Belgian child's Christmas. Charity. Charity does not demand of us that we should never see the faults of others, but she does ask us to avoid discovering them when there is no need. Children have more need of models than of critics. Jonbert. Europe will see America first in the matter of many household necessities when Europe returns to sanity.-Chicago News. The fact that the Monroe doctor bears the "Made in America" many does not prevent it from being universally regarded as a high grade product.-Washington Star. Given time, says a New York doctor, the medical profession will end its existence by diminishing disease. We move that the doctors be granted all the time they need.-Detroit Free Press. A St. Louis packer rises to predict cheaper meats in the not remote ture. But the other packers unfortunately seem to be all "from Missouri" on that particular proposition.-New Orleans Times-Picayune. Tax Talks. Those who dodge and do not pay will live to be taxed some other way—Philadelphia Ledger. The statement that there are 140,000 income tax dodgers abroad finds many an unsuspected citizen trying to look guilty—Washington Post. There are 23,551 single women who pay an income tax in the name of the bachelors of America, let that names be made public. Baltimore American. Forty-four Americans have incomes of more than $1,000,000. One who is obliged to spend that much must certainly be disqualified from the "hitrich"—New York Sun. Flippant Flings. German trained dogs that stand on attention on sighting French red muscles doubtless throw a fit when confronted with a highland regiment—Washington Star. Intermarriage of royal houses as means to peace might have been prevented by consulting the heads of large private families as to general results.—Washington Post. A Boston publisher whose name we withhold lest you be tempted to injure him says he has a method which will enable any one to learn to play on the cornet for 75 cents.—Florida Times-Union. Fashion Frills. We believe in being cheerful. The fall hats might have been considerably worse.—Louisville Courier-Journal Some of these patriotic women that that a cotton dress would look perfectly lovely under a sealskin coat.—Washington Post. Women's skirts will be shorter this season. This looks like a clever strategic move by the manufacturers of silk hosiery.—Chicago News. One thing; at least, men have to be thankful for. They don't have to wrestle with corsets that sit down the soon.—Lowell Courier-Citizen. Dress Hints. Lemon juice, applied first and allowed to dry into the leather, will ciliate the polishing of new shoes. To keep a placket from tearing down sew a hook and eye at the very bottom of the placket on the wrong side. Hook together, pinching the hook down tightly, and it will never come unfasted. In sewing on buttons, if the knot is placed on the right side of the cloth directly under the button, the thread will be less likely to break and become loosened and the button will remain on longer. PRINCELY PRIZES IN PRODIGAL PROFUSION Office of Gift Depart. with DePriest & DePriest, 3439 State Street Phone Douglas 7877 JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor of The Broad Ax, J. J. CARR, Contest Managers SPECIFICATIONS MOTOR--35 horse power. WHEELBASE--116 inches. TIRES--34x4 in. IGNITION-Magneto and dry cells. AXLES-Front axle "I" beam with ball bearings. Rear full floating with ball and roller bearings. WHEELS-Artillery type, demountable rims and one rim. BRAKES-Two sets, both operating on rear wheels. STEERING GEAR—Worm and gear type with four full positions to take up wear. Irreversible. 18-in. solid walnut wheel. FRAME-Dropped pressed steel, channel section. GEAR RATIO--4 to 1. TREAD--56 in. SPRINGS-Front semi-elliptic and rear full elliptic with scroll ends. CONTROL-Spark and throttle levers at top of steering column. CLUTCH-Multiple disc operating in oil in fly wheel housing. TRANSMISSION-Selective type, three speed forward and reverse. 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All your votes is to ask all your friends to give you $2.00 for a years subscription to The Broad Ax, and then you get 1,000 votes on every one you can collect. You can collect from anybody else just as well as your friends, as well as your own subscription to the subscriptions and votes that you can get. Advertisements count just the same as subscriptions. So if you know any merchant or butcher, business man who ought to advertise in The Broad collect for his advertisement and get the votes. You can get subscriptions and advertisements anywhere. Write to your friends in other states and make them subscribe to help you win. The proposition is absolutely on the square and a final candidate for prizes will have a fair opportunity to coast nothing to enter. The time is very short, not more than seven weeks. In that short time, with very little effort on your part, you win prizes worth many hundred dollars. CASH REGISTER ```markdown ``` These Rich Prizes Free For Popular Persons Any Man, Woman Or Child Can Compete "THE BROAD AX" GIFTS TO POPULAR PERSONS ALL PRIZES DELIVERED MARCH 1st,1915. Other Prizes SECOND PRIZE Stephen M. Meyers PLAYER PIANO Value $650. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26. 1914 Piano NOMINATION COUPON "THE BROAD AX" CONTEST Other Prizes SECOND PRIZE Stephen M. Meyers 59 East Van Buren Street CONTEST Ends on March 1, 1915 ate Street THE ELECTRIC STARTING MARATHON The Car you have long awaited! $1500 Fully Equipped Equipment Without Additional Cost CHIS CAR is fully equipped, not an extra need be bought best grade of silk mohair top, side curtains, top boot, adjustable windshield, speedometer, best grade mohair Seat Covers demountable rims, one extra rim, tire irons, tire straps, electric self starter, electric headlights, electric side lights in dash, electric tail light, cowl dash, pump, tire repair kit, tool kit, and other usual equipment. 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The person who scores the greatest number of votes, more than any other candidate, gets the $1,500.00 Marathon Automobile. No person who scores the second highest votes gets the $650.00 Stephen M. Meyers—Player Plano— Other prizes in like order, all prizes delivered on March 1, 1915. In case of a tie, Prizes of Equal Value will be awarded all tieing Candidates. Votes will be allowed on prepaid subscriptions to THE BROAD AX secured anywhere. tions to THE BROAD AX secured anywhere. Votes will be counted weekly, and held six days, no longer, to avoid possibility of error. Errors in scoring must be reported with six days or they will not be considered. To secure the special vote ballots, all money must be sent direct to THE BROAD AX Contest Department. Votes will be issued only at the office of the Contest Department, accordance with Published Schedules of Votes. THE BROAD AX will not be responsible for typographical errors, further than to make necessary corrections. In accepting nominations all candidates must accept and agree to abide by the above conditions. ```markdown ``` ne Douglas 7877 PAGE FIVE 弯 Read The Rules Enter Your Name Today PAGE SIX Late Names Needed. Latin Names Needed. What is called a cruiter in New York is called a doughnut in Boston, and what is called a cruiter in Boston is called a doughnut in New York. And so on through the list. There is no more certainty or fixity about the popular names of dishes than there is about the popular names of flowers and birds. At least thirty different flowers are known by the name of "mayflower" in the United States. The mayflower of New England is the arbus of New York and the wax myrtle of the south. To obtain certainty in such matters it is necessary to have a scientific classification and a Latin name. When you speak to a botanical agent about a "mayflower" be knows not what you mean, but if you refer to the Epigaea repens he knows exactly what you are talking about. Consequently we shall never have any certainty about what a dish is until we have a regular scientific classification, with Latin names, for all dishes. In that case the "botanical name" of Vermont hasty pudding would be something like muslin cornmealis and no chance for controversy.—New York Mail. Count Karolyi, according to the Vossische Zeitung, returning to his castle in Hungary, met one of his old servants who had just been sent back wounded from the war. "My good man, I bear you fought so vallantly at the front," said the count. "I would like to give you some reward. What shall it be?" The old servant replied: "Well, if you insist upon it, sir, just give me enough kronen coins to reach from one ear to the other." "That seems to be a very little reward," replied the count, smiling at the old request. "It's enough for me, sir," answered the servant modestly. As the count was beginning to comply with the strange request he noticed that the servant had only one ear and remarked upon the fact. "Yes, sir. I left the other ear on the battlefield at Shabatz," answered the modest man. Fire Averages. Following is an extract from an article in Farm and Fireside on preventing and fighting fires: Fires in our homes are so frequent that the insurance companies tell us that we have about one chance in sixty of being burnt out some time in the course of a lifetime. But in the same breath they tell us that more than half the fires could be prevented if people understood the commonest causes of them and knew just what to do when a fire starts. Smokers are responsible for thousands of fires, and rats and mice cause many others by nibbling at sulphur tipped matches. Fires which start in closets are often caused by matches being left in clothes or by oily cloths which have been stored away. Many of the floor polishing mixtures contain highly explosive oils, and spontaneous combustion may start from a nest of these cleaning cloths if placed in a closet near the chimney. Pigs' Feet In the Pit. Salaries at the early New York theaters were extremely small. But if the salaries were small so were the prices of admission. One shilling, 12½ cents, let you into the gallery or the pit, and if you didn't have the shilling the mercenary management forced you to pay 13 cents. So the boys got the habit of changing their money at a fishwoman's on the corner, who for 15 cents obliquely gave them a shilling and a pig's foot. They handed in the shilling at the door and during the course of the evening presented the well picked bone to the management by way of some unfortunate in the pit or on the stage. An Easier Method Not Handsome but Wealthy Bride (asking the question for the hundredth time or thereabouts)—Are you sure, perfectly sure, dear Albert, that you married me for myself alone, and not for my money? Dear Albert who is getting somewhat weary of answering the same old chestnut—Of course I am! If it had been only your money I wanted I would have tried burglary or some easier way of getting it. Mean Answer: "Fred, dear, why are some women called Amazon's?" "Well, my dear, you remember our geographies told us that the Amazon has the largest mouth"— But she went out and slammed the door before he could say any more. Henry—My, my, how you've grown since I've been calling on your sister Mae. Johnnie—Sure. His says she guesses I'll be a voter before you git around to propose—Boston Record. Booklover—Have you something for light reading? Librarian—Yes, ma'am. Here's the gas company's annual report.—Buffalo Express. A Warning. Today the boy who is sassing mother will grow up and marry a woman who will not stand for any pert talk.—New Orleans States. Knicker-Of what is society composed? Bocker-The under dog, the middleman and the man higher up-New York Sun. Duty is the only tabernacle within which a man can always make his home on the transfiguration mountain. Shilling Brook. Incidental Music One of the most tiresome, not to say exasperating, traditions of the theater is incidental music—particularly the music that is presumably intended to accentuate dialogue. It has been a conviction of mine that the expedient is a confession of actor weakness. No actor worthy of the name needs that kind of help. Some of you graybeards hark back to Edwin Booth and try to imagine him in the fourth act of "Richelieu," for example, delivering the curse of Rome speech in unison with the performers in the orchestra well. One difference between the theatrical performances in Germany and those in America is in this very incidental music. In our country every actor that holds a prominent relation to the play in hand must have music to bring him on the stage and more music to take him off. The music cue is ridiculously overworked. Many plays are made unintelligible by the obtrusion of untimely music simultaneously with lines that nobody could catch. - Detroit Free Press. Army of Ancient Roma. Consider the Roman army from the fifth century B. C. onward until the division of the empire. Its fighting organization was as complete as and possibly more practical than that of any army of today. It was based on a territorial system which maintained the comradeship of locality without bringing it into antagonism with that of the corps, for each of the thirty-five Roman "tribes" was required to furnish to each legion four "centuries" of 120 men each, each of which worked together as a local unit. The legion was divided into five cohorts or battalions, of which three were troops of the line, two were a kind of militia and the fifth was a depot battalion. For almost eight centuries the army thus constituted not only conquered the then known world, but acted as explorers beyond its limits and at the same time made and unmade kings and emperors in Rome itself.—London Opinion. Polar Nights Delight Eskimos The polar Eskimos, the most northerly dwelling people in the world, are said to exist only by the exercise of great ingenuity and the practice of social virtue. The cheerfulness, kindness and practical socialism of the Eskimos from eastern Greenland to Alaska may be regarded as much due to their environment as is the necessity of eating large quantities of fat. The Eskimos hail the first dark evenings with the same glee as the first daylight after the polar night. When a whole summer through the eyes have been bathed in light, day and night, they long to see the land vanish into darkness again. And with the idea of a change they associate all the good things the winter will bring—the frozen sea and the hunting on the ice, the swift sledge drives, far from the sweltering houses, after bears. — Exchange Thrift Versus Stinginess It ought to be easy to tell the difference between thrift and stinginess. But many folk don't know it. No tightwad does. A thrifty man is always a liberal man, though not a wasteful one. When he spends a dollar his face doesn't show spasms of pain nor does he tremble with avarice until his dollar returns, leading another dollar of profit. He spends intelligently and therefore willingly, and is content to await the outcome, because he knows that in the long run he will get back from society about in proportion as he gives. As with individuals so with communities, states, nations. Economy doesn't mean parsimony. It means when and how to be liberal. It means having foresight.—Cleveland Press. His Superiority. A mission worker tells how shocked she was to encounter this bit of cynicism in the slums. The conversation was between two women whose marital life had not been particularly felicitous. "Well," said one of them, "of course we has our troubles with all of 'em. But I'll say this for my second husband—he's better than any first. He's in jail so much that practically all I earn I has for myself."—Lippincott's. Lundy Island. Lundy island, at the entrance of the Bristol channel, has a queer record. It was owned in the eighteenth century by a Barnstaple man, who contracted to ship convicts to Virginia, but only took them to the island, where he profitably employed them, even in smuggling to the mainland. Ministerial Aspirants Statistics show that in the early days of American colleges about one-half of all the graduates adopted the ministry as a profession. At the present time it is different; only about 5 per cent of the college graduates become ministers. In Business. Attention, application, accuracy, method, punctuality and dispatch are the principal qualities required for the efficient conduct of business of any sort--Samuel Smiles. The Periscope The periscope, by which a submerged submarine is steered, is a kind of tube with mirrors in it whereby what is happening on the surface is reected below. An Explained Dislike. The first lord of the adultery sighed. "I do not like submarines," he mut-faced, and then he added, "too directress."—Philadelphia Lodge. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26, 1914. Before taking leave of Cuzco, Peru, we went to see the very interesting collection of Inca relics in the private museum of a Peruvian doctor who has devoted many years of his life to Inca research. Ranged round the walls were mummies which had been taken from rock tombs. All had been buried in a sitting posture, and judging by the horrible expression of agony on the parchment skin I should imagine that some of them—prisoners of war, I was told—had been entombed alive. The horror of those mummied faces and the awful contortions of the skeletons haunted me for a long time, nor shall I ever forget the sight. One or two of the skulls bore evidence of skilful surgery, star shaped pieces of bone having been cleverly fitted in to repair damage done by the star shaped stone weapons of the period. I did not measure those I saw in the museum, but one of the aforesaid stone weapons which we brought back to England from Cuzco measured four inches from point to point across the top—a truly formidable club. - Wide World Magazine. Fighting the Ret. The greatest enemy of man is man and next to him perhaps the rat. He is incredibly cunning. He can live in any climate. He sails the sea in ships. He forages in the open fields or burrows through walls and intrudes into the home. Man himself is no harder than the rat, and in the matching of wits against wits the rat has up to this time been the victor. He augments every famine in the world. If the depredations of rats could be prevented the cost of living certainly would be lowered. Active as he is in famine, the rat's most spectacular co-operation with death lies in his copartnership with pestilence. The study of method for the extermination of rats should be financed on some basis which will make it permanent. It is a fight which has not as yet been adequately waged notwithstanding the fine abilities of the doctors who are fighting the rat in combating bubonic plague. The business needs specialists.—Farm and Fireside. War and Aeroplane The art of war has been robbed by the aeroplane of the element of surprise which afforded Napoleon dramatic opportunity for the display of his genius. His object was to discover the weak spot in the enemy's lines and, having discovered it, to hurl upon it all the forces at his command. His success depended upon the speed and sureness with which the great blow could be struck. A premature revelation would have spilled all. But a coup of the sort is no longer possible, for a maneuver on the one side is met instantly by a maneuver on the other. War now consists in a series of parallel movements; its art has changed. It would be scarcely an exaggeration to say that it does not exist. The two armies turn about each other like boxers in the preliminary phases of a fight. They pivot clumsily to catch each other at a disadvantage and that is practically all the art of it—London Times. Heroio Mustache Probably no dog has ever rendered such signal military service or been so honorably recognized as the celebrated poole Mustache, who shared the victorious fortunes of the French army through most of the wars of the consulate and of the French empire. He won special honors at Marengo and was decorated on the battlefield of Austerlitz by Marshal Lannes as a reward for having rescued his regimental standard from an Austrian soldier when in the act of snatching it from the grasp of the standard bearer as he fell mortally wounded. The plucky poole drove off the assailant, and then, seizing the tattered colors in his teeth, dragged them triumphantly till he reached his own company. A Lucky Illness It was owing to an illness that Sir Laurence Alma-Tudema became a painter. He was educated with the intention of making him a lawyer, but sickness cut his studies short. When confined to his bed he relieved the medium by making little sketches. These showed so much ability that when he was well again he readily obtained his mother's permission to devote himself to painting. His Desire. "Where did you work last and how long?" demanded the colonel. "Did you quit of your own accord or were you discharged, and"— "Loogy yuh, boss!" sourly returned Brother Bogus. "I isn't puhosin' manage to yo"; 'Is ax'in for a job."—Puck The Way of It. "I proposed to my stenographer"— "You didn't" "Don't get excited. I only proposed she should be assist to me."—Baiti- more American. Cynical Silicus—Do you think it is possible for one woman to make another woman perfectly happy? Cynicus—Oh, yes; simply by envying herl—Philadelphia Record. Way of the Pessimist. No doing anything with a pessimist. When you find a bright side for him he won't look at it for fear the light might blind him—Atlanta Constitution. Our Ean Crop American hens iy slightly over $300,000,000 worth of eggs a year—that is, every person eats on an average $8 worth—Farm and Florida. Arthur's $2.00 Hats 23 ARTHUR d. ARTHUR FEILCHENFELD'S 34 W. Van Buren St. Advertise in Advertise in The Broad Ax As the waist line is now at the hip, high heeled shoes will again be the vogue in order that women's feet may be enabled to reach the ground.—Washington Post. If the general use of cotton is necessary to the country's welfare the public may even be reconciled to the reappearance of the old fashioned calico dress.—Washington Star. A fashion note predicts the decline of the slim girl, but we can't see how the slim girl, as we have known her recently, can decline much further without disintegrating entirely.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Among the unaccounted for are Doc Cook and Victoriano Huerta.—Baltimore American. Doubtless if the Boston fans had their way it would be Johnny Forevers.—Pittsburgh Press. General von Kluck should be able to land a nice postmastership when this wretched business is over.—Columbia State. John Lind, it is said, is "resting in a sanitarium." Perhaps it will be learned when he comes out that he has recovered his voice.—Philadelphia Inquirer. King George of England employs 1,000 servants. The wife of the crown prince of Sweden is the Princess of Connaught, daughter of the Duke of Connaught, present governor general of the Dominion of Canada. Born in 1868, the present czar ascended the throne in 1894 and a month later married Princess Alexandra Alix, daughter of Ludwig IV., grand duke of Hesse, by whom he has four daughters and a son. Pennsylvania mines one-tenth of the world's coal. Wisconsin has 10,000,000 acres awaiting settlement. Indiana this year has had one fire for every 435 inhabitants. Virginia furnishes about 95 per cent of our supply of soakstone. SHORT AND SHARP When money talks it never lacks an audience. Wealth doesn't bring happiness, neither does poverty. Arkansas is Arkansaw, but Warsaw is not spelled Warsa. Fashion Frills. Pert Personals. The Royal Box. State Lines. The Fall 'Heading' for you is an Arthur Hat---one like our "Green Top,"say. If you want to see this and about a hundred other down-to-the minute styles of consistent $3.00 quality; drop in to-day---and admit we're showing them at $2.00 R. FEILCHEN TWO HANDY LOOP STORES e in The B Though you have money, you cannot buy what is not to sell. Everything must be at sea when the nations can't even float a loan. When bad news travels it always throws on the high speed lever. Lots of royal kinsmen in Europe now do not speak to one another. The European situation is a reminder that cousins frequently quarrel. Some men are like mules—they have no kicks coming; they are all going. Many a politician has found it easier to make a record than to explain it. Belgium is bitterly opposed to being the international cemetery of Europe. Europe will find the bread box is more vital than the ammunition chest. The colleges' courses in European history will all have to be changed this fall. Some people's curiosity is as crooked as the interrogation point that goes with it. The great decisive victory will be won when General Starvation takes command. However, war has its compensations. Several poets have been sent to the front. Anyway, Holland should have no trouble in placing her enemies on the water wagon. America is at present enjoying a supremacy based on plowshares rather than on swords. It takes a good deal of care at the spigot to save a waste of $50,000,000 a day at the bung. A great many actors are said to be stranded abroad. Just as many are that way over here. No doubt it is worrying the czar a great deal these days to know whether his Poles are negative. They were so successful in localizing the war in Europe that pretty much every locality gets some of it. When this war is over there probably will be no complaint for some time that Europe is overpopulated. To say that the unexpected always happens is merely to confess our ignorance of what ought to be expected. As war is expensive Canada is probably sending those million bags of flour so that England may have the dough. ```markdown ``` Arthur's Arthur's $ 2. "GREEN TOP" ENFELD'S Dearborn St. Broad Ax What is the use of talking about the horrors of war when an army retreats in automobiles? "Millions for relief!" is almost a better cry than the familiar one of "millions for defense" A lady writer claims crime is rare among actors, but perhaps she has never seen some of them act. Pockets for skirts are predicted. In which case hubby may be able to recoup himself if he can find the pocket. Judging by recent financing, we are willing to lend Europe money on the condition that it doesn't try to take it away. An insurance company in London is taking wagers on the length of the world war. There are men who would bet on a funeral if they had a chance. For the first time in 214 years a spy has been shot in the tower of London. Incidentally, that is about as far back as the war has thrown European civilization. Short Stories. More than 800 Americans live in Barcelona, Spain. Helgoland was at one time the Greta na Green of north Europe. A gravity railroad will take visitors around the Panama exposition. The crater of an ancient volcano, in which there are numerous hot springs, is utilized as a sanitarium in Japan. To help the cotton situation in the south the members of the Indiana Equal Suffrage association have voted to wear only cotton stockings so long as the war in Europe lasts. Pert Personals King Albert of Belgium seems to be living up to the ancient standard of royalty. -Pittsburgh Dispatch. Dr. Wiley is seventy years old, which may explain why he's so fussy about what he eats. -Detroit Free Press. Carranza may have his failings, but he takes the best photograph of all the Mexican leaders. -New York World. "We now propose to render war in possible," says Mr. Carnegie. But war the delay, Andrew? -Cleveland Leader Town Topics Portland, Ore., and Portland Me are alike in having prohibition Boston Herald. New Yorkers are reported to be drinking less. The times there must be hard.—Detroit Free Press Philadelphia is considering the advisability of selling bread by weight. Then let Philadelphia look out for the cobblestone biscuit and the granite block loaf.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE NEW ATLAS THEATER 4711 SOUTH STATE STREET, EAST SIDE OF THE STREET THE FINEST MOVING PICTURE HOUSE ON THE SOUTH SIDE SHOW EVERY EVENING. MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NEW PICTURES EVERY NIGHT. FRESH AIR EVERY MINUTE. BEAUTIFUL LOBBY. EVERYTHING MODERN All Eye Trouble SEE DR. 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Address all com- test Department, 3439 South State St. Earthquakes An eminent authority on earthquakes believes that any great displacement of the crust of the earth makes the earth to rotate unevenly, or "wobble," and that that unevenness of motion has to be neutralized by displacements in other regions.—Exchange. Nought. "I tell you what, sir," said a Yankee of his opponent, "that man don't amount to a sum in arithmetic. Add him up, and there is nothing to carry."—Christian Register. An Exception. "How did he get his start?" "His uncle left him some money." "Hump! That's usually a young man's finish."—Detroit Free Press. He who aims at perfection in great things, but is willing to be imperfect in little things, will never reach any great height. Care of the Wounded in Battle. When the chief surgeon of an army is making arrangements for the collection of wounded during an impending battle he always bears in mind the fact that men will be wounded in different numbers at different ranges and, of course, he sees that the most efficient ambulance service is given where the losses are heaviest. To aid him in making arrangements, he knows roughly what the losses in these various "zones," as they are called, will work out at. Something Missing. When Irving wanted to be no longer be, remarked an old man hand once. His patience with the and file was extraordinary, but a rebuke was deserved Irving's sarcasm was quite up to the occasion. There was in one production who, though he had only a couple lines to speak, made his entreaty such a way as to lead one to be was sustaining the leading roo his behavior to his fellow actor. At a range of 1,000 yards he knows that about 20 per cent of the men engaged will be wounded, while between 1,000 and 400 yards as high a percentage as 60 are liable to be disabled. Only a comparatively small number of the soldiers who take part in the last "grand, glorious rush" are wounded, however, 10 per cent being the proportion, while somewhere about the same percentage of men are wounded during the pursuit of a retreating army.—London Tit-Bits. A Short Lived Race The average duration of life is shorter in New Guinea than in any other country, possibly owing to the peculiar diet affected by the natives, who devour with gusto the larvae of beetles, dug out of decayed tree trunks, and habitually drink sea water when near the coast. "The people die off at about forty," we are told in Mr. A. E. Pratt's "Two Years Among the New Guinea Cannibals." "We saw one very old man, who may have been about sixty years of age—the only example of longevity that we came across. He was bent almost double and had a long, white beard. His fellow tribesmen regarded him as a great curiosity, and brought him to see us. Despite the decrepitude of his body, however, there was no trace of senility. His senses were unimpaired, and the poor old creature showed great gratitude for a gift of tobacco." The Chimera. The chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's and a goat's head, a serpent's tail and a goat's middle, which inhabited the dreadful mountain of Lycia, in Greece, and defended itself against attack by vomiting fames of fire. It was at last conquered by Bellerophon, the god of war, who mounted it on the famous horse Pegasus. The strange combination of the form of the chimers was evolved from the fact that the terrible Lycia was partly a burning mountain, with here and there a desolate wilderness, the resort of lions, and occasionally a few fertile spots where goats did congregate, while at the foot of the great hill was a swamp infested with snakes. From this curious creation of superstition sprung the origin of the word "chimera," in designation of an idle fancy or a foolish creation of the brain. State Bread or Fresh Bread. Most persons don't like stale bread so well as fresh, though many consider it more digestible. As a matter of fact fresh bread is just as digestible as stale, if it be chewed as much, but its very softness is a temptation to chew it too little; hence it is swallowed without the admixture of enough salvia to digest its starch. Stale bread, on the other hand, is difficult to swallow unless thoroughly chewed. The difference between fresh and stale bread is merely a matter of water. In bread as it comes from the oven the crust is dry and crisp and the crumb is moist and soft, because all the water is in the crumb. As hours or days pass the crust absorbs water from the crumb and becomes soft, while the crumb becomes dry. A loaf can be made fresh again by slightly moistening it and placing it for a few minutes in a hot oven. The heat drives the water from the crust back into the crumb-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One Phase of Tolstoy. In the "Reminiscences of Tolstoy" by his son, Count Ilya Tolstoy, are shown many phases of the great man's nature, this one among them: "All exhibitions of tenderness were entirely foreign to him. I say 'tenderness' in contradistinction to 'feeling.' Feeling he had, and in a very high degree. During all his lifetime I never received any mark of tenderness from him whatever. Nearness and dearness with him were never accompanied by any outward manifestations. It would never have come into my head, for instance, to walk up to my father and kiss him or to stroke his hand. I was partly prevented also by the fact that I always looked up to him with such awe, and his spiritual power, his greatness, prevented me from seeing in him the mere man, the man who was so pitiable and weary at times, the feeble old man who so much needed warmth and rest." Hobart Pasha. The Turkish navy of the past owed almost its existence to an English sailor, Hobart Pasha, a bold buccaneer of the Elizabethan period, who by some strange perverseness of fate was born into the Victorian age. He retired from the English navy in 1863, and during the American war he became a blockade runner with hairbreadth escapes innumerable. After the war he entered the Turkish service, suppressed the Cretan rebellion by intercepting the supplies from Greece and then reorganized the Turkish fleet so well that the sultan appointed him marshal of the empire. Hobart Pasha also enjoyed the unique distinction of being twice struck off the British navy list for breach of the foreign settlement act and twice reinstalled there. And he died in 1886 with the rank of a British vice admiral—London Globe. Something Missing. When Irving wanted to be nasty he could be, remarked an old Lyceum hand once. His patience with the rank and file was extraordinary, but where a rebuke was deserved Irving's biting sarcasm was quite up to the occasion. There was in one production a super who, though he had only a couple of lines to speak, made his entrance in such a way as to lead one to believe he was sustaining the leading role, and his behavior to his fellow actors was equally unwarrantable. Irving soon got on the track of this man and ran him to earth at rehearsal. In due time the super entered, hangbly saving. "Let's have it louder," said Irving. The man repeated it in a louder tone, whereupon Sir Henry demanded that it should be repeated again still louder. Yet again did he make the super repeat it, and louder still, and yet again was the same demand made. The man was becoming enraged and at last shrieked out the words. "Very good," said Sir Henry, "very good, indeed, but couldn't you just manage to put a shade of temper into it?"—Pearson's. Great Seal of the United Great Seal of the United States. The great seal of the United States is kept locked up in a rosewood box in the vaults of the state department at Washington. Its custodian will impress it upon a document only on receipt of a formal warrant signed by the president. The use of it or indeed the possession of an impression of it without such a warrant is a grave offense, punishable like the most serious forgery. It cost $10,000 and is Uncle Sam's most sacred possession. When it is imprinted upon a document—a Thanksgiving proclamation, for instance; this is of parchment and beautifully engrossed—such document is filed in the archives and only printed or typewritten copies are sent out. Governors of states are entitled to receive copies signed by the president and secretary of state personally. Other persons unless specially favored receive only printed copies.—New York World. Man and His Dog. He lies in front of me curled up before the fire, as so many dogs must have lain before so many fires. I sit on one side of that hearth, as so many men must have sat by so many heartths. Somehow this creature has completed my manhood; somehow, I cannot explain why, a man ought to have a dog. A man ought to have six legs; those other four legs are part of him. Our alliance is older than any of the passing and priggish explanations that are offered of either of us. Before evolution was we were. You can find it written in a book that I am a mere survival of a squabble of anthropoid apes, and perhaps I am. I am sure I have no objection. But my dog knows I am a man, and you will not find the meaning of that word written in any book as clearly as it is written in his soul. G. K. Chesterton. Detecting Erasures If paper upon which erasures of writing have been made is exposed to the vapor or iodine the roughened surface takes a different tint from that portion which has not been tampered with. If the erasure has been lightly made, only the ink or pencil lead being rubbed away and the mark left in the fiber of the paper, iodine vapor causes the writing to reappear. This is because wherever the paper has been roughened more iodine is absorbed than by a smooth surface. This test is effective within three months after the making of the alteration—Exchange. No Bargain. The strap had been applied to a five-year-old unruly. "Now, the next time I have to punish you," said the stern parent, "you will go to bed for a day in the bargain." Whereupon the weeping unruly observed: "Is that what you call a bargain?"—Detroit Times. Tipping His Hand. Rankin - Uncle Sol Sodbuster pretends to be an experienced chauffeur, but I know he hasn't owned a machine very long. Phyl-What makes you so certain of it? Rankin-When he left home this morning he absently chucked a bag of oats in the back of the automobile.-Youngtown Telegram. "And what do they call themselves after, dad?" "Hush: It isn't fit for little boys to know."—Exchange. A man may be said to have done better than the average if, when he dies, the house in which he lived is in his own name and free from mortgage.—Philadelphia Ledger. Natural Result. "Mayme blushed when she found I was trying to read her face." "Well, people usually do blush when their faces are getting read."—Baltimore American. Mushands. There are two kinds of successful husbands—those who fool their wives and those who don't try.—Washington Herald. There is never any good to be expected of young men who confess their sins and repent and straightway fall into them again.—Babee. SUITE 519-529 REAPER BLOCK CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. PHONES CENTRAL 229 AUTOMATIC 41-916 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison NOTARY PUBLIC Office Phone Automatic 44-185 W. G. ANDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Room 40, 143 North Dearborn Street Ger. Randolph St. CHICAGO McCormick Bldg Evening Office, 3458 State Street Phone Automatic 77-574 A. D. GASH A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 1 18 North La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 Phone FRANKLIN 2717 Louis B. Anderson LAWYER Room 508 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St. :: CHICAGO Cor. 5th Ave. PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 415B AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7990 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARY PUBLIC CHICAGO CARL L. 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"The Bicycle Man" % The McCall Co. 236 W. 37th Street New York City Dear "Bicycle Man": Please tell me how to get one of your high-grade Bicycles, without money, and for very little effort. Name Address PLAIN and GROCERIES at reasonable FANCY Prices. PROMPT DELIVERY Theo. Salth's Meat Market in connection. 3601 So. Wabash Avenue Phones Douglas 4809, Auto. 71974 CHICAGO Prudence and Shaving. The classic case of a king who knew better than to let anybody else shave him is that of Dionysus the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, who appears to have been unable to shave himself, for he is said to have resorted to the uncomfortable device of singing off his beard with hot walnut shells. We may suspect that Napoleon's was another case of the kind. Rogers asked Talleyrand whether Napoleon shaved himself. "Yes," replied Talleyrand; "one born to be a king has some one to shave him, but they acquire kingdoms shave themselves." That way of putting it pleasantly emphasizes the practical superiority of the parvenu to the helpless spoiled child of heredity, but prodence probably entered into the matter also, if Talleyrand's statement was correct—London Standard. Noyon, in France, held peculiar attractions for Robert Louis Stevenson because of its cathedral, where he heard the "Miserere" sung one summer afternoon. Of the place itself he wrote: "It was but a stack of brown roots at the best, where, I believe, people live very reputably in a quiet way, but the shadow of the church falls upon it when the sun is low, and the five bells are heard in all quarters telling that the organ has begun. If ever I join the church of Rome I shall stipulate to be bishop of Neyon on the Oise."—Pall Mall Gazette. ```markdown ``` --- NOTARY PUBLIC Phone FRANKLIN 2717 Good Letters Pay Nevon Cathedral Suite 708 Delaware Bldg. Tel. General 3142 Phone Res. 508 E. 36th St. FRANKLIN 2727 Phone Douglas 4397 AUTO. 41-543 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborn St. Union Bank Building Suite 311 CHICAGO PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Office 3109 S. State Street The judge made jokes, the witnesses looked weary, the counsel declaimed and cross examined, the twelve good men and true twiddled their thumbs, and the usher ushed whenever necessary. Atogether it was a model court. "Now, ma'am," cried the cross examining K. C., "was the defendant's air when, as you allege, he promised to marry you perfectly serious or was it, on the contrary, jocular and full of levity?" "It was all ruffled," replied the plaintiff, "with 'im runnin' 'is 'ands through it'"—London Mail. The odor of iodoform can be removed from the hands by wetting them, taking a pinch of dry mustard, rubbing it well in and washing it off with soap and water. In the same way the odor of iodoform may be removed from utensils that have contained it, only in this case the mustard should be made into a paste, spread upon them and left for two or three hours. Evading Responsibilities. "I promised that girl never to smoke if she would marry me," said the discouraged looking man. "What did she say?" "She remarked that she did not care to be utilized as an excuse for any personal economist I might contemplate." —Washington Scar. Told You So. "It's the unexpected that always happens." "Oh. I don't know! Somebody always claims to have predicted it."—Louisville Courier-Journal. "Kep. I just saw him turn the motor into a lamppoet."—Buffalo Express. Let the gulled fool the toll of war purpose, where bleed the many to enrich the few.—Zhengstone. PAGE SEVEN RESIDENCE 1202 MACALIBYE PLACE TELEPHONE, MONROE 214 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabash Ave. Oakland 4052, Ante. 73-658 Phone Dresel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. " Phone Midway 5515 Chicago Hours 4 to 11 That Ruffled Air Oder of Iodeform- Evading Responsibilities PAGE EIGHT JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on co- dents, including payment of taxes and l on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patro Telephone JOHN J. Real / Lo cent allowed on Savings Access by Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Real Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business m Telephone Yards 693 JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate / Loans Borrowed on Savings Accounts Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Telephone Yards 693 J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. JOHN J. BRADLEY Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO arias 4482 73-974 74-478 ]HARRY P LA VERDO BUFFET AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGAR street arias 3256 Autor ERDO BUFFET DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES CHICAGO LA VERDOR IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC 3100 State Street IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street CHICAGO Phone: Douglas 3256 Automatic 72-379 HENRY JONES A. F. CODOZO THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET Finest Table d'Hote in the City 4 p. m., to 1 a. m. Street Chicago, Ill 3030 State Street JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. JOHN BLOCK PERF C. E. Kreys 5057 S. STA NOT ON T For high grade Drugs, Chemical All Prescriptions Co ALSO CARRY A Blocki's Ideal & In Bottle IN BLOCKI & S PERFUMERS GO TO S. Kreyssler, Drugs 057 S. STATE STREET OT ON THE CORNER Upgrade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Prep All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blocki's Ideal & Blocki's Flea In Bottle Perfumes BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO Keyssler, Druggist STATE STREET IN THE CORNER Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations Options Carefully Compounded HARRY A FULL LINE OF Real & Blocki's Flower Little Perfumes Scaling Fish. For high grade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blockl's Ideal & Blockl's Flower In Bottle Perfumes [Established 1890 Tel. Douglas 9069-3222 Office 1370 Douglas AL. RUSSELL RETAIL LIQUORS CAFE AND CHOP SUE IN CONNECTION 20 YEARS AT THIS CORNER N. E. Cor. 35th and State St., Chicago Cupid's Sherlock Holmes. A prominent alienist has presumed to put love on a scientific basis. He has issued a formula by which a doubling swain may ascertain without fail the name of his closest rival for "her" infections. Here it is: Carelessly hold "her" wrist, as if caressingly. Craftily place your forefinger on "her" pulse. Then name over in casual conversation the rivals you fear most. When you name the right one "her" pulse will jump scandalously. If it increases something like 100 beats you might as well quit the race. To offset this mean betrayal the alienist has issued some hints to the fair sex on how to avoid nervousness. "Scorn gossip," he says, "and don't attend to other persons' business or worry over their troubles and you will be all right." But he doesn't say a word as to how Dulcinea might have kept the fatal pulse jump from giving her away. Cleveland Plain Dealer. --- --- Phones { Douglas 4482 Auto 73-974 Auto 74-478 HARRY J. KELLY Prop. A. F. CODOZOE F. W. BLOCK1, Trans. Scaling Fish. A Mississippi woman tells as follows in the Woman's Home Companion how to scale fish with a minimum of discomfort: "Scaling fish as generally done is a disagreeable task, as scales fly in every direction. I have discovered that fish may be scaled without this trouble if they are held under water in a large pan during the operation. Have just enough water to cover the fish nicely." Sweet Return. She (tearfully)—Henry, our engagement is at an end, and I wish to return to you everything you have ever given me. He (cheerily)—Thanks, Blanche! You may begin at once with the kisses. They are married now.—London Telegraph. A Back Number. "I wouldn't dream of marrying him. Why, we said he would do everything to make me happy." "What is wrong about that?" "He ought to know that humans are put on earth to fulfill missions, not to be happy."-Philadelphia Ledger. Jerrold as a Cynic Uglest of trades have their momenta of pleasure. If I were a gravedigger or even a bangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment—Douglas Jerrold. Not the Same Thing. "I hear young Springgill has taken a partner for life." "Not necessarily, but he's married." —Livingston Lance. Automatic 72-379 Chicago, Ill THE BROAD AX CAN BE POUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. Mme. Rosa Lee Tyler, ice cream cafe; 3313 S. State St. George 1 Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St.. near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. PITH AND POINT Pacifying Mexico is a perp tion job. Everything in Belgium has up but its courage. Possibly the warring nation heated to mind the rigors of campaign. Another of the mysteries Why does a man want to be of Mexico? Opportunity rarely knocks door when there's a gloomy the window. W. M. Marwell, 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. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shoe shining parlors and news stand. $3800\frac{1}{2}$ State street. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Bell & Alford, cigars, tobacco and news stand. $3128\frac{1}{2}$ South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand. $3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. On Business Bent. "Can you make me a sheet iron mandolin?" "I might, but it wouldn't have much tone. What do you want of a sheet iron mandolin, anyhow?" "I'm trying to serenade a girl, and they have a bulldog. I've busted several instruments on him. Next time I smash him I want to smash him good." —Kansas City Journal. Oh. That's Different! "I thought you told me that you would not contract any new debts without my knowledge," howled Mr. Gabb as he tore up a bunch of dunning letters. "I haven't, my dear," replied Mrs. Gabb. "I merely expanded some of the old debts."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Cherry Wood. Cherry is the wood most used as a backing for the metal plates from which illustrations are printed in magazines and periodicals. It is chosen above all others because it holds its shape, does not warp or twist, works smoothly and does not split. The Greater Courage. Men have offered up their lives by the thousands upon the field of battle, but in the struggle for existence woman is continually offering up her life for man. If there is a mission of mercy to perform she undertakes it. If there is suffering or distress to succor her willing hand is always ready. If wretchedness and misery need a comforter she is present. The faintest whisper of pain brings her as a pilgrim to its couch, and in the chamber of death she takes her place, assuaging the hopeless sufferer with the comforting assurance that there is a home beyond the grave free from the agony of pain. She suffers herself without a murmur or complaint, and the man that would in the slightest degree add to it and increase the anguish that it is her lot to bear is beneath the level of the brute. If she should happen to possess defects and faults, which every human being has in a greater or less degree, let him compare them with her virtues, and especially with his vices, and every impulse of his better being will prompt him to overlook them and make due allowance therefor.—isidor Rayner. Belgium's Postmen A Belgian who has money owing to him often hands the account to his postman, who passes it through the office, to be presented to the debtor in whatever locality the latter may reside, and if payment be made the creditor receives it from his postman on the following day, with but a trifling deduction for commission. As to newspapers, almost all regular subscribers to a journal pay their money to a postman, and two or three days before the subscription expires that official presents the notice for the renewal of the subscription during a fresh term. All this makes of the Belgian postman a kind of ambulating general agency and bank of deposit, and the man is obliged to have a desk slung in front of him and to carry a locked and chained portfolio under his arm for valuables, but he gets through his work satisfactorily, because his rounds are short—Pearson's Weekly. PITH AND POINT. Pacifying Mexico is a perpetual motion job. Everything in Belgium has been shot up but its courage. Possibly the warring nations are too heated to mind the rigors of a winter campaign. Another of the mysteries of life is Why does a man want to be president of Mexico? Opportunity rarely knocks at the door when there's a gloomy face at the window. And think of the volumes of explanation of defeat that will be written after the war is over! Wood alcohol has too innocent a look. It ought to fly a skull and crossbones in its name. Old ocean's bed seems also to be paved with a fine assortment of armor plated good intentions. Holland behind its dikes and Switzerland on top of its glaciers may manage to keep out of the war. Now that they have carried the war into Egypt, the correspondents may be referred to the sphinx for news. The notion that artillery fire produces rain, as the basis of rain making experiments, is receiving a severe jolt. Thom. Edison remarks that "Our present civilization is only a thin veneer." Yes; and in a large share of Europe the veneer is entirely scratched off. In placing orders for hardware with this country, European countries continue to overlook our special facilities for producing plowshares made from swords. Current Comment. In order to have no further perplexities over the question, "What is whisky?" a number of states have decided that there will be no whisky.—Washington Star. The United States has in actual gold metal almost as much as any other two nations together. That illustrates the wisdom of not going to war.—Philadelphia Ledger. Is it a sign of the times that the Princeton students vote 960 to 190 against compulsory week day chapel, or is it a proof that boy nature never changes?—New York Sun. Some day there will be a fool proof, crook proof voting machine that will make voting an agreeable pastime and give the result as soon as the last ballot is cast.—Chicago News. Echoes of the War. European maxim, "There's gone enough for all"-Washington Post. He is a wise ambassador who keeps his trunks packed these days.—Chicago News. Turkey is making the mistake of thinking it can beat the other fellow's game.—Detroit Free Press. The people who had an idea that the European war, begun after breakfast, was going to end before dinner have long since revised their opinion.—Philadelphia Press. When the war began it was in Europe, but was not European. Today it threatens to develop into the nearest thing to a world war of which history has any record.—San Francisco Chronicle. Facts From France. Firing at its highest speed a French battery would take thirteen minutes to cover every square yard within range. The stores of Paris that are still doing business, even the big department stores, are reported now to be closed for an hour at noon because there are not enough clerks left for one to relieve another at lunch time. French candle makers have been detected saving wax by leaving three small holes around the wick lengthwise of the candles. Thin portions of wax at top and bottom cover the cheat. Melted wax fills the holes as the candle burns. Industrial Items. About one-third of Great Britain's telegraphers are women. Over 2,000 women belong to New York printing trade unions. There are about one and three-quarter millions of children between the ages of ten and fifteen engaged in earning their living in the United States. Before the war nearly all the copra produced in the Philippines went to France. That market being closed now local vegetable oil factories are being built to dispose of the coconuts. Tree Branches There are 500 recognized species of trees in the United States. The oak begins to rot at the heart at the age of about 300 years. A count of the annual rings of a California redwood tree indicated that it began its career in 550 A. D. The yellow poplar or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and ten feet in diameter. A STORE FOREVERBODY HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Everything to eat, to wear and for the home. Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. Make it a point to visit this store every day and take advantage of the special bargain offerings that we give in all departments. The-Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash Ave. THE FORTY-FOURTH STREET The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. Take a Second the Store-Full of Li Take a Second Look At— store-Full of Light Across th Take a Second Look At— the Store-Full of Light Across the Way. If the owner buys that light By Measure He Is Using GAS ARCS For a store-full of gas store-full of any other light-softest and most diffusive. A single Gas Arc actually and burns one cent's worth A Huge Volt for Little We RENT these Gas Arc lighted and most economically factories and warehouses in The Peoples Gas Peoples Gas Building for a store-full of gas arc light costs far less full of any other light—and gas arc light is best and most diffusive. single Gas Arc actually yields a volume of 400 burns one cent's worth of gas an hour. A Huge Volume of Light for Little Money RENT these Gas Arcs—95,000 of them, to aid and most economically managed stores, shops and warehouses in the city. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke C For a store-full of gas arc light costs far less than a store-full of any other light—and gas arc light is by far the softest and most diffusive. A single Gas Arc actually yields a volume of 400 candles and burns one cent's worth of gas an hour—that's We RENT these Gas Arcs—95,000 of them, to the best lighted and most economically managed stores, shops, lofts, factories and warehouses in the city. JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. UNN Handicapped. FIFTY-FIRSt STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILARDS 51et St. and L. S. & M. S. 51et St. and ARMOUR AVE. Handicapped. Dr. Curem—You will find your dyspepsia greatly alleviated, Mr. Peck, by cheerful and agreeable conversation at your meals. Mr. Peck—That's good advice, doc, my income will not permit me to eat away from home.—Terre Haute Express. Riga In Scotland In Scotland the corn and grass fields are divided into spaces twenty to thirty yards wide by a furrow made by a plow. These are termed rigs. Tropical Medicine In the order named quinine, calomel, castor oil, tincture of iron, opium and brandy are the medicines most used in the tropics. --- FRANK DUNN J. B. MoCAHEY TRUSTEES! FRANK DUNN J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WINSTON STREET ond Look At— ight Across the Way. s arc light costs far less than a —and gas arc light is by far the y yields a volume of 400 candles north of gas an hour — that's lume of Light le Money rcs—95,000 of them, to the best ly managed stores, shops, lofts, the city. s Light & Coke Co. Telephone Randolph 4567 ESTABLISHED 1877 and ARMOUR AVENUE St. and L. S. & M. S. ARMOUR AVE. CHICAGO The Night Writers. Writers who habitually work at night and all night, frequently get strange nervous fancies. Huxley said, "When I am working at night I not only hear burglaries moving about, but I actually see them looking through the crack in the door at me!" Wilkie Collins was a habitual night worker until he was frightened out of it by the appearance of another Wilkie Collins, who sat down at the table with him and tried to monopolize the desk. There was a struggle, and the inkstand was upset. When the real Wilkie Collins came to himself, sure enough, the ink was running over the writing table, proof enough of a struggle. After that Mr. Collins gave up night work. --- TEL. OAKLAND 1850, 1851, 1852 CHICAGO