The Broad Ax

Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, Secretary of the Illinois State Commission and the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph.D., D.D., Failed to Receive a $150,000 from Either Branch of Congress, to Assist Them to Celebrate Their Fifty Years of Freedom COL SWANN WAS AMBITIOUS TO BECOME THE NATIONAL COMMISSIONER SO THAT HE WOULD BE IN A POSITION TO GOBBLE ON TO MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF THE MONEY AND EITHER HOLD ON TO IT OR BLOW IT IN TO SUIT HIMSELF. THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS SHOULD NOT APPROPRIATE ANOTHER DOLLAR BELONGING TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE TO BE RECKLESSLY EXPENDED BY THE COMMISSION UNTIL AFTER MESSRS. SWANN AND CAREY ARE DISCONNECTED FROM THEIR PRESENT POSITIONS ON THE COMMISSION. SWEITZER TELLS WHAT HE WILL lice department and keep the police DO IF CHOSEN MAYOR. out of politics. Vol. XX. Hon. Thor Commis Ph.D., I Branch Fifty Y COL. SWANN WAS AMBITIOUS TO SIONER SO THAT HE WOULD BE MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLL HOLD ON TO IT OR BLOW IT THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLAT PROPRIATE ANOTHER DOLLAR THIS STATE TO BE RECKLESS UNTIL AFTER MESSRS. SWAN FROM THEIR PRESENT POSITI It will be recalled that last June a bill was introduced in the lower branch of congress seeking to secure one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—that vast sum of money was to be turned over to the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann and the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph.D., D.D., so as to enable them to celebrate their fifty years of freedom in grand style. At that time both branches of congress were flooded with hundreds of copies of The Broad Ax containing the first detailed report in relation to the expenditures of the Illinois State Commission, which caused the bill to fall fast to sleep in the committee room and at no time after that was any member of congress able to pump any life into it, so it was never dragged forth to the light of day and it finally died a most horrible death and there was much weeping and some side cussing on the part of Messrs. Swann and Carey. At that time the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph.D., D.D., even journeyed to Washington, D. C., at the expense of all the taxpayers in this state and delivered a speech before the committee in favor of its passage and made a desperate effort to force the members of the lower house to pass the bill, but as the die was cast and as the dice was loaded against him he simply spent his time in barking up the wrong tree. Not long after the first of the present year the Hon. L. Y. Sherman introduced a bill in the United States senate asking for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Messrs. Swann and Carey; then we got busy again and on February 6, 1915, the second detailed report of the expenditures of the Illinois State Commission appeared in the columns of The Broad Ax and a copy of the paper containing the report in question was sent free to each United States senator and that SWEITZER TELLS WHAT HE WILL DO IF CHOSEN MAYOR Efficiency His Motto—Which He Calls Chief Need of Chicago Rule Chief Need of Chicago Rule. Efficiency is the keystone of the platform on which Robert M. Sweitzer, Democratic nominee for mayor, asks the votes of Chicago citizens at the April election. In disclosing this platform to the public the first of this week, in his vocabulary efficiency was no empty word. Repeating his primary statement that the Chicago "I Will" was his motto, and that he would carry out faithfully every promise he made, Mr. Sweitzer made this enumeration of the things he will do: "I will take up the entire local transportation question at the beginning of my term. "I will exhaust every power of existing ordinances to force good service from the transportation companies. "I will get new ordinances for enforcing the public's right to good transportation if the present ones are inadequate. "I will present to the people of this city a concrete conclusion, a constructive program, upon which to base their action upon subways. "I will kick politics out of the po settled it; but that fact did not faze the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, who has always been classed as a third-rate political tramp, for he entertained the no idea in his small, tricky head that he was a greater or a bigger man in every way than all of the United States senators combined, and with that no idea in his shallow mind he made his way to Washington, D. C., at the expense of the taxpayers of this state, for he does not pay ten cents worth of any kind of taxes within its borders, not even dog taxes, in order to rub up against the senators while bossing them and telling them where to get off at in reference to the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which he wanted them to turn over to himself and the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph.D., D.D., but there was nothing doing what he was thinking about on the part of the United States senators, for they turned him down flat and cold and he never had the slightest chance in the world of coming in close contact with that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Col. Swann had the unmitigated gall and nerve to want to become the national commissioner so that he could be in a position to get away with many thousands of dollars of the money and charge it up as extra expenses for himself and brother Carey. But the senators were on to his highhanded game and it came a long ways from working out to perfection or according to his scheming way of thinking. As it has been stated in these columns many times before that the members of the legislature of Illinois should not appropriate another dollar of the people's money to be expended by the Illinois State Commission unless it is reorganized and Messrs. Swann and Carey are removed from all connection with the Illinois State Commission. To Oust Police Politicians. "I will give the police force a chance to do the legitimate police work it is paid for doing, and policemen unwilling to do legitimate police work faithfully will quickly give way to willing ones. "I will drive the professional crooks and criminals out of Chicago and rid our citizens—men, women, and children—of their ever-present fear of the burglar, the pickpocket, and the hold-up man. "I will place the best men and women I can find at the head of the various departments of the city government, and while holding them individually responsible for results in their respective fields, I shall not try to shirk final responsibility. "I will see to it that public improvements are promptly pushed to completion, to give employment to thousands, and without lagging to meet some political contingency or to suit the convenience of some contractor. For Park Development. "I will give all the support that a mayor can to the development of public playgrounds, small parks, bathing beaches, and every other legitimate [Portrait of a man in formal attire, with a serious expression. The background is plain and dark, emphasizing the subject.] Ex-compromissioner of Cook county, big republican politician, who favors the election of Hon. Oscar DePriest to the city council in the second ward. means of providing wholesome recreation for the youth of our city. "I will give every faithful city employee full opportunity to discharge his duty as a public servant, unhampered by political interference and unopressed by political assessments on ticket peddling tasks. "I will choose for the board of education the best men and women I can find for carrying out the one purpose of making the public school system serve, in the highest possible degree, the educational needs of the city's children. "I will give the best that is in me to promoting, for all citizens of Chicago, the fullest measure of individual liberty, of personal freedom, that any one can utilize without offense and injury to his neighbor." HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT FAVORS HON. OSCAR DEPRIEST FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD. Dear Mr. Editor:—Please permit me to state my position on the aldermanic question in the second ward, through the columns of your valuable paper. So many unfounded reports have been circulated and so much discussion has been indulged in, it seems my attitude, at this time, is a matter of public interest, because of my many years of effort to secure the election of a Colored man to the city council. Another season is that I don't want to be misrepresented in this matter. Last year I supported Griffin, the Colored independent candidate because my political experience and my knowledge of conditions in the second ward convinced me that the fight was be- tween Norris, the republican nominee, and Griffin, and that the democratic nominee had absolutely no chance to win. This year I will not support an independent candidate, because in my judgment an independent candidate cannot win against the republican nominee, who is a Colored man, but a division of the republican vote can result in the election of the democratic candidate. The conditions last year and this year are vastly different. Last year there was a White republican nominee and a Colored independent candidate, and between the two the full republican party vote was polled, but this year both the regular nominee and the independent candidate are Colored men and past experience, I regret to say, shows conclusively that a certain percentage of the White republican vote will not be cast for any Colored candidate. The full republican vote of the second ward can be divided between two candidates and both divided beat the democratic candidate by a small but safe margin; but deduct even a small percentage of the republican vote and add it to the democratic and the probabilities are that if the rest of the republican vote is evenly divided between two candidates, both will get less than the democratic candidate. I have always fought for Negro representation. I will do nothing that may result in defeating the Colored regular candidate and electing the democratic candidate. For these reasons I shall support Oscar DePriest. Col. William Randolph Cowan Has Tossed His Old Kentucky Hat in the Ring for Alderman of the Second Ward. It is Reported that Former Alderman Milton J. Foreman, State Senator George F. Harding Col. Chauncey Dewey and Several Other Big White Politicians Will Chuck Ten Thousand Dollars Into His Campaign Fund ATTORNEY CHARLES E. WARD, WHO IS PART LAW PARTNER OF CAPTAIN LOUIS B. ANDERSON, WILL MANAGE THE COLORED END OF THE ALDERMANIC CONTEST FOR MR. COWAN—THAT CAPTAIN ANDERSON WILL STAND ABOUND AND LOOK WISE, HOLDING HIS EAR CLOSE TO THE GROUND SO AS TO BE ABLE TO DETECT WHICH WAY THE POLITICAL WINDS ARE BLOWING. TWO HEADQUARTERS, ONE ON STATE STREET AND THE OTHER ONE ON EAST THIRTY-FIRST STREET, WILL BE OPENED UP FOR MR. COWAN AND A TEN DAYS' CAMPAIGN WILL BE MADE, THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN BEHOLD IN THE SECOND WARD—MONEY WILL FLOW AS FREE AS WATER. AND A DESPERATE EFFORT AND A HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT WILL BE WAGED TO DEFEAT HON. OSCAR DePRIEST AND TO DOWN CONGRESSMAN MARTIN B. MADDEN. Mighty hard times are ahead for the big and small fry republican politicians in the second ward until after the election Tuesday, April 6th, and the main thing that is causing them to feel like jumping at each other's throats like so many fighting and snapping bull deeds is that Col. William Randolph Cowan, who feels that he is the head strutting peacock of the walk and that he totals all the voters of the second ward around in his hip pockets, has tossed his old Kentucky hat in the ring for alderman of that ward, for he has fully decided to make the race as an independent candidate; that at this time he is perfectly willing to prove himself a rank traitor to the best interest of the entire Colored race residing in this city in order to reprove it to the world of mankind that for money some Colored men can be found who are willing to play the part of a good White man's "Nigger" and that are ever ready to sell their birthright for a men of rotten pottage. It may not be true, but it is reported that former alderman Col. Milton J. Foreman, who never has in the past entertained the alightest bit of love for his Colored brother; that State Senator Gee. F. Harding, Col. Chanacey Dawey and several other big White politicians have or will chuck ten thousand dollars into his campaign fund. 7 a z ‘PAGE TWO ———————— + Who-bas not felt the sensation which ‘the French call “deja va" or “deja en- ‘tendu,” meaning that he is doing or seeing or hearing something he has ex- Petienced before? + "Sin a perfectly new situation,” writes ‘8 physician ‘in the Government Hoe pital For the Insane, in the Popular ‘Science Monthiy,‘“in & place which be has never before visited, 2 person be- eves that be has been a visitor there ‘at some previous time. These feelings of having already experienced such at ‘tuations are frequently due to memory Gafects. “Tt is probable that what takes place fe that one or several elements in the presetit situation are lke those which ‘ad been experienced in the past, but ‘that the dissimilarities in the situation ape not observed. The individual hase miemory defect in that he parallels or ‘Mantifies a complex present experience swith a similer complex past experience, ‘although in the present experience the umber of elements which are the ‘game as those in the past may not be very great” House Chimneys. (Chimneys were scarcely Known @ Wagiand in the year 1200, One only was allowed in a religious house, one tm © manor house and one in a great hall of 2 castle or a lord's house, but fm other houses the smoke found its ‘way out as it could. The writers of the fourteenth century seemed to have considered them as the newest inven- tion of luxury. In Henry VIL's reign the University of Oxford had no fire lowed, for it is mentioned after the stodents had supped, having no fire in ‘winter, they were obliged to take a good run to get heat in their feet be fore they retired for the night. Holim shed in the reign of Elizabeth de sexibes the rudeness of the preceding generation in the arts of life. “There were,” says he, “very few eftmneys. Even in the capital towns the fire was inid to the wall, and the smoke tasned out of the door, roof or window.” In the year of 1689 a tax of 2 shfl ngs was laid on chimneys—London Strand Magazine ‘Weeds We Use in Our Toys. “Tt must not be considered that doll are the only wooden toys in the manv- facture of which American industry bes been progressing.” says the South- xn Lamberman. “Among the toys made tm this country from American ‘woods are toy animals, blocks, boats, cannes and forts, children's chairs, cir- xs sets, dolls, dol! furniture, games, Christmas tree holders, swing Jumpers, @xddrents pianos, pastry sets, babies’ lay yards, toy shooting galleries, hob- ‘Ryfomees, popguns, toy wagons, toy utes and wheelbarrowa Basswood is the pstncipel material for wooden toys and for wooden parts of metal toys Maxt to basswood, sugar maple, beech, ‘Meh and white pine are the principal woods used for toys. The amount of woods used annually in the United States for toy manufacture is nearly 199,000,000 feet.” A Beohibited Ineceicticn. In the west cloister of Westminster abbey, in the oldest part of the build tug, tmbeided in the pavement is a sisb of marble marking the grave of Jobn Broughton, who was a verger in the abbey for more than thirty years and before he obtained the situation was the champion prizefighter of Great Britzin, holding the belt for more than twelve years. The guides who show ee ees ener ‘was baried in the cloister some of Bis admirers wanted to immortalise ‘him with an appropriate epitaph, and they indicate 2 biank space under his mame which was left for the inscrip- fen, “Bor twelve year champton petsafighter of Engiand,” but tt was oe “Landiady* ‘The Gistinction which the possession of land used to give is still exempll- fied in the tities of “landlord” amd “eniiaty.” Persons are amused st the colored washerwoman, for i> stanea, who insists on the term “Sady.” ‘Bot let the same women run & room fing bouse of whatever description enti te bs not a “landwoman,” but a “iand- Indy.” Kansas City Star. Geeaiiien “Zhe phrase ‘He hates himseif t to tended for sarcasm when apptied to an eqotint, I believe.” “Quite right, but ifs the unvernish- of treth when applied to a man whe (tarts to tell « funny story end for oe bow 2 oe Semtenem bee Seif Protection. I stways take my wile with me tee L bay » sew bet ‘consiéersta” Sh 8 ert. Ie 1 bey coe by me ‘att she tiames me for the way I look Manes ‘Star. ©. Te Fantiie. © SE impose you ave famifier with the works of Bobby Burns?” -SOestainly, and slso with the works @ Billy Shakespeare, Georgie Byron au Jack Miton."—Boston Transcript. Dont Be Conceited. _3f you make yourself the center of ‘the universe ail’ your pampestive t skewed. There is only one morsl eum ter of the universe, and thet ts Get ed ae Seared ten. thn nm Gi yon secapt hie. oh grace be sald ‘St wedld be the inst aero as ronys f Fy °° Fizstes fn Mathomation = ~~” A Mew York engineer was surveying ‘the route of a branch line for a rail way aystem. An old beckwoodemen with whom he stopped for a time ad- mitted one day when he saw the eng! peer figuring in the field that mathe- matics always seemed « wonderfal thing to him. ‘Belng young and enthusiestic, the engineer begun to enlarge upon tts ‘wonders, telling the farmer how we could measure the distances to differ- ext plancts and even weigh the planets; how we could foretell the ‘coming of « comet or an eclipse years fm advance of its actual occurrence, Getermine the velocity of the swiftest projectiles, ascertain the heights of mountains without scaling them, and many other things meant to astonish the of man “Tes, them things does seem kinder exrious,” said the old man, “but what always bothered me was to under stand why you have to carry one for every ten.. But tf you don't,” he con- tinued with conviction, “the darned thing won't come out right”—Every- body's Magazine eke es eae Mele Str J. 3. Thomson is authority for the statement that when a body is heated above the temperature of boll- ing water it ordinarily begins to be faintly visible, especially by averted Yision, but no definite color is dis cerned until the temperature has risen considerably higher. This suggests that the first e‘fects are felt by the “rods” and not by the “cones,” which together form the retina. The cones are speci- ally concerned with the perception of color. From this one would infer that animals which see in the dark must have retinas particularly rich in rods, ‘and physiology shows that this Is nota- Diy true of the owl, whose retina is remarkable for the extremely great proportion of rods to cones. In a faint light, states Professor Thomson, the ‘ew! sees no color, but he sees some- thing, which is good enough for bis Purposes where we would see nothing ‘at ell—Philadelphia Record. ‘e Giemtenhte Tent ‘The toad of Surinam, Dutch Guiana, fs very remarkable in one respect. It first awakes to life while on its moth- e's back. When the eggs are laid the male takes them in his broad paws and contrives to place them on the back of its mate, where they adhere by means of glutinous secretion and by degrees become embedded in a se- ries of curious cells formed for them im the skin. When the process is com- Bleted the cells are closed by a kind of membrane, and the back of the female ‘toed bears a strong resemblance to a Plece of durk honeycomb when the cells are filled and closed. Here the ‘eggs are hatched, and in these strange ‘Feceptacies the young pass through thelr frst stages of life, not emerging nti] they have attained thelr lmbs and can move about on the ground. Over 120 eggs have been counted upon ‘the back of « single Surinam toad. Sie Mnew Reva, ‘The Employer—If my wife calls up say that I've just gone out. ‘The Office Boy—Yes, sir; Il say # every time she calls up. ‘The Employer—You mustn't do that My wife would have 2 poor opinion of your truthfulness. ‘The Boy—Yes, sir; she has tt now. ‘The Employer—What do you mean? ‘The Boy—Why, she called up this morning and asked me if I was the new boy, and I said, “Yes, ma'am.” ‘And she said it was no place for s truthful boy. She said you bad ne ‘use for a truthful boy. ‘Then she said “Did you ever tell a Me?” And I said “Mo, ma'am.” “And what did she say?” ‘“Bhe said, ‘You'll dof "—Clevelant Pinta Dealer. Porte Rice’s Telechone Plant. Porto Rico has one very unique kind ef “telephone plant,” says the Western ‘Mlectric News. It is an air plant some- ‘hing like an orchid. It has no roots, but Gertves its nourishment from the fs, the seeds evidently being carried Dy the wind or birds and insects to ‘mime @ubstance where they lodge and qpeout. This growth is found most frequently on insulated wire, although 4% has been observed on bare fron wire fiat has rusted. It has never been ‘seen on new bare fron, copper wire or ‘cable and causes little trouble, as the ‘mass is seldom large enough to cross two wires. Way of a Woman. “Bo be won her by fighting with his wQval I shouldn't think such a Little Sirtmp of 2 fellow could pat up much 0 battle” “Oh, he got licked; that’s what made es reenter ae SE you know."—Florida ‘Times- ‘Dution. Mines In Naval Warfare. ‘Fhosting mines, under various names, eve figured in naval warfare for nearly 850 years, but they were frst ‘Weed with really deadly effect in the ‘BussoJepanese War of 19045. nasilie Setek wii” A fine yellow dye is produced from he roots of nettles dolled 2 sium Zhe fuico of the stalk and leaves is Weed to dye woolen stuffs a brilliant m8 permanent green. Paper in Arable. Paper was made from rags in Am fet bee troueht So Saree Ss Se ‘itstesnth century. Ake apn 8 sid ind voy orc re sg THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1915. ~—— peed of Raltwniy Theins, ~~~ | “— Nose Ark and Other \ iamseng the aot seceele of Sbway ‘It ts generally agreed that trains for short distances are the fob-| measured about 450 fect in lowing: New York Central and Hué- | feet in breadth and 45 feet gon river, one mile in thirty-two sep-| The Greeks and the Re ends; Pennsylvania, five and a belf| structed several large vesss miles in three minutes; Burtingtgm | ing upward of 500 feet.” route, two and one-fourth miles in one | built for the emperors oF | minute and twenty seconds; Plant ays- | were little more than enovs tem, five miles in two and one-balf| without any means of prop minutes; Philadelphia and Reading,| 4 vessel 420 fect tn lengt four and eight-tenths miles in two and | by Ptolemy, which was py ‘a balf minutes. 500 rowers, arranged in | ‘The fastest time on record for a die | using cars fifty-seven feet tance of over 440 miles was made by| The fume of the Thala: the Lake Shore and Michigan South-| ves. This boat. which me era from Buffalo to Chicago, im June, | fest im length, 40 feet tm b 1905, when the distance of 525 miles @ feet in depth, was said tc ‘was covered in seven hours and fifty | the most beautiful craft tx minutes. The fastest long distance ran | end was used exclusively | Jess than 440 miles was on the New | Peror. York Central, on Sept. 11, 1895, trom | 4 King of Syracuse is al New York to Buffalo, 486% miles, in| with baving built a very Ds 407 minutes. The average speed was | Whose cabins were hung | sixty-four and one-third miles an hour, | silks and decorated with rs with two stops and twenty-eight alow-| After the decline of the 1 ups, and on Jan. 1, 1908, from Albany | Pire no great ships were | to Buffalo, 302 miles, in 295 minutes. | for more than 1,000 years- Philadelphia Press. SEMA PTS ae Wisdom of « Czar Akitas: the hs Gate About a hundred years 4; In Biblical times the strong man “girded up his loins” when about to undertake some feat of physical en- @urance. And the custom ts by no means obsolete among .certain ort- entals at the present time Thus in preparing for a fatiguing journey the oriental winds a piece of cloth about fifteen feet long and twelve to eighteen inches wide tightly around the ab- domen and back. It is put on by hav- img @ person bold one end while the wearer winds himself up tightly in tt and the orientals believe that this girdle relieves fatigue and guards against intestinal troubles by prevent- ing chilling This explanation of the sustaining effect of the girdle is prob- ably incorrect, although the good effects themselves cannot be doubted. In all probability it 1s the support given the abdominal muscles, rather than the protection to the skin. that explains the beneficial results.—Los Angeles Times. ‘Odd Sheets of Note Paper. A good way to use up odd sheets of note paper for which you have no en- Velopes is to make them, with the aid of your sewing machine, into a pack- ‘age of correspondence sheets that need no cover. Cut the note paper into halves along the folded edge and fold each half again. Remove the thread from your sewing machine needle and carefully run the paper under the guide of the machine, leaving an accurate quarter of an inch margin on: three sides. The fold of the paper should re- main untouched. That makes a double sheet, three of the four edges of which are perforated. When you are ready to send a letter write on the inside of the folded sheet, then moisten the edges with clue, seal them and write the address on the outside of the foid- ed sheet. The person to whom the let- ter is addressed can open it by tear ing off the margins that seal it— Youth's Compenton. Unauestioning Obedience. Much trouble as well as much amuse- ment was caused during the early stages of the Panama canal work by ‘the inability of the Jamaican negroes to take any except a strictly literal view of orders. In unloading a vessel &t Colon # rope in a pulley at the head ef the mast got jammed, and a Jamat an was ordered to climb up and re lease it He did as ordered. Some minutes Inter the boss of the gang missed him and asked with some tm- Patience where he was. He was point. ‘ef out sitting calmly at the masthead. “What are you doing up there?” reared the boss. “You told me te come up here, sah,” the man answered, “but you haven't told me to come down!"—Joseph B. Bishop, Secretary of Isthmian Canal Commission. in Youth's Companion. A Chicago Milk Story. A family living im South Chteago found a good deal of cream on a bot tte of milk which had been standing overnight, and when the driver called fm the morning the pleased servant held it up to the light and said, “Look here; I have never seen anything Mke this before on your milkr" ‘The'man looked at tt for a moment scratched his head and replied, “Well I Gon't know what's the matter, but you can throw it out, and I'll give you & fresh bottle in its placa”—Chicage Can You Beat Itt Bhr—Oh, Jack, do excuse me for get- timg here so late! You poor fellow, you've had to wait an hour for mei ‘Be—Ob, no; it's all right! I've only fust come. ‘She—What! So that's the ‘way you treat me, is it? If I'd come at the time agreed you'd have made me ‘wait « whole hour—Boston Transcript. Named the Bird. Irate Diner—Hey, walter, there's not a Grop of real coffee tm this mix- tase. Fresh Waiter—Gome Uttie bind told you, I suppose. Irate Diner—Yes, & swallow —Princeton Tiger, ‘The. Mertferd Constitution. ‘The frst written copstitution im America governed the people of Hart- ford, Conn. This incinded the neigh- boring towns. ‘The year was 1659— Magazine of American History. Pais ‘Boag — ‘are inexeusably wasteful of writing paper... Blogge— ‘Thats co. I've got ereditom who Write to me every week —Cieveland Piain Dealer. Jinow si ss sista sen srt techie Ark and Other Vessole. NN a ke oe, nen eee It is generally agreed that Noah's ark measured about 450 feet in length, 7% feet in breadth and 45 feet In depth ‘The Greeks and the Romans com strocted several large vessels measur- ing upward of 500 feet. These were built for the emperors or rulers, and were little more than enormous scows, without any means of propulsion. ‘A vessel 420 feet in length was bailt by Ptolemy, which was propelled by 500 rowers, arranged in five banks, sing oars fifty-seven feet in length. ‘The fame of the Thalamegus still fives. This boat, which measured 800 fest in length, 40 feet im breadth anq @ feet in depth, was said to have been the most beautiful craft in antiquity, ‘and was used exclusively by the em peror. ‘A King of Syracuse ts also credited with having built a very palatial boat, whose cabins were hung with costly silks and decorated with rare statues. ‘After the decline of the Roman em- pire no great ships were constructed for more than 1,000 years—Pearson’s Wiedem of @ Canr- About a hundred years ago the Em- peror Alexander I. of Russia returned to St. Petersburg after an absence of many months, during which time be had taken an active part in the war against Napoleon. Alexander was one one of the wisest and most magnant mous rulers of his time. It was tos great extent his firmness and wisdom that led to the overthrow of Napoleon. and after that event bis magnanimity preserved the city of Paris from the fury of the Russian soldiers, Hberated 150,000 French prisoners of war con- fined fn Russia and sought to obtain for his fallen foe the most liberal terms compatible with what he deemed the safety of Europe. One of the first acts of the emperor after his return to Rus- sia was to grant an absolute pardon to all bis subjects who had taken part against him in the late war—Pitts- burgh Press. David Garrick. Feb. 20, 1716, was born David Gar- vick, the greatest actor who ever ap- peared on the English stage, for he was equally great in comedy and trag- edy. Bvery one who saw bim came un- der his spell. The actress, Mrs. Clive, who averred she hated him, stood in the wings one night watching Garrick and alternately crying and scolding. At last, disgusted with her exhibition of emotion, she stalked away, exclaim- ing, “Hang him, he could act a grid- iron!” But an even greater compliment was paid by Rousseau, in whose honor Garrick gave a special performance. The first part of the bill was a tragedy, the second part 2 comedy, both in Eng- ligh. At the end of the evening Rons- seau said to Garrick, “I have cried all through your tragedy and laughed all through Your comedy, without know- Ing a single word of your language.”— London Chronicle. ‘Burne’ Cottece. ‘The Burns cottage at Ayr is under the charge of trustees, who purchased it in 1881 from the Ayr Shoemakers' tucorporation for the sum of £4,000. The birthplace of the post had up til that time been in use as a public house. ‘The trustees abandoned the license and after a time removed the hall and other extraneous buildings which had been added to the premises and restored the ae buildings as nearly as possible to Yhe state they may have been in in Burns’ time. A new museum was built at the northeast corner of the grounds. Most of the relics were removed to the minseum, which now contains a price less collection—e first or Kilmarnock edition of the post's works, for which £1,000 was paid, and Burns’ family Bible, acquired at « cost of £1,700— ‘London Answers. Weak on Geography. Geography floors most of us occa- sionally, and Dean Hole has recorded ‘an instance when even a bishop nod- ded. Hole and Dean Spence were staying with Dean Pigou at Chiches ter, and their host began to talk about Korea. Suspecting some ignorance, he asked if they knew where it was Hole said he thought you booked for Charing Cross and Spence that you got out at Baker street. There was laugh ter, and a bishop who had been listen- ing asked in perplexity wherein ay the joke—London Standard. Great Famines. ‘The worst famines of modern times ‘were the famine in Ireland in 1846, fm which 1,000,000 people perished; the Indian famine in 1868, which laimed 1,450,000 vietims; the Indian famine in 1877, in which 500,000 peo- Die perished, and the great famine in China in 1878, in whieh 9,500,000 died. When It Broke, Ba@—Did you ever try to stand on an ccs? ‘JH—Oh, yes. “and what did you learn?” “That the inside of the egg was stronger than the outside.”—Yonkers Stateaman. Plenty of Practice. “I wonder how Mrs. Inkleigh got hes stat 43 0 writer of fiction.” “Composing references for her dis gharged help, 1 understand.”—Boston ‘Pranseript. Cheerfulness. ‘Zo be free minded and cheerfully Spt st bows ot meat, ot deep of exercise is one of the best pre empt of long lasting Baca, ‘Mra. Crawford — Do you tell your aetoer 28 row Deals sitet = reer 5 eta a. VOTE FoR Be) Oscar DePrieg Regular Republican Cendidate for ‘ALDERMAN oF THE ma warn Endorsed by the Regular ang Warg (c==0 Republican Organizationoceny Depending from the base of the brain Mike @ berry on its stalk is a capsule about the size of a cherry. Tiny and obscure as this organ is, its derange- ments may have the most amazing ef- fects upon the mind and body. Should it become superactive the body may ‘suddenly shoot up to the stature of @ giant. Should its functions become feeble in childhood the victim in old age will retain the stature and men- tality of a six-year-old child, along ‘with all the organic and decrepitades of senility. This gland is called the pituitary body. This suggests the fan cifal possibility that ancient legends asserting the existence of giants may have had a scientific basis in pathol- ogy. Goliath was perhaps the vietim ef deranged pituitary body, and in the ravages of the malady may lie an explanation of his falling so easy & prey to a rock slung by a shepherd boy. ‘The Greek Titans may have been & tribe in which there was an epidem- fe of thyroiditis.—Exchange. “I have something for you here, my love.” said Mr. Darley, as he proceeded to open a large round box. “What is it, precious” “Wait and see.” Darley carefully unwrapped the a» ticle and disclosed a lady's bat. “Imv't it a beauty?” he asked. “I bought it myself as a surprise to you. Don't you think It is a perfect dream?” Mra. Darley gased at the hat and burst into tears. “I can't wear it,” she blubbered. “Tt @cemn’t suit me at all. You meant to please me, I know, but it isn’t my style at all.” “Don't cry, dear. The milliner said you coukl exchange it, and if you'll agree not to buy any ties for me here- after Tl let you select your own bats and bonnets.” ‘An agreement was concinded on that besis—New York World. ‘The Chilean people are a combina- thon of the original Indian population, a large and virile race, with thd Span- fh conquerors. This combination has produced a fine race of large stature, which takes readily to fighting and to an energetic devolopment of the re- sources of the country, but which has been singularly deficient in the branches of literature and art which require a vivid imagination. Although the wealthy Chileans, especially those living in the capital, follow faithfully the slightest fluctuations in European fashions, the manto remains the dis- tinctive headdress for street use by the Chilean women. This is a plain black cloth which covers the bead, is caught fm a loose knot behind the neck and then falls over the shoulders, some- times almost to the ground. The mante {a said to be unusually becoming to the ‘Chilean type ‘The Helgoland light is an electric one ‘and the most powerful. in Germany and is ¢laimed by the Germans to be the most powerful light in existence. The light consists of a cluster of three revolving lights, having a lighting pow- ‘er of 40,000,000 candies, a magnitude of light which from figures alone is hard and difficult to realize. The lights are on the starchlight principle, and the cluster is surmouuted by a single light, of the same kind and size, that can be revolved independently and three times as fast as the three lights ‘The single light is put into use in case of accident to the cluster of three. The electric power is generated by two steam engines and bollers, ronning belt driven electric generators —Lon- Gon Opinion. ‘True Humility. ‘The late Thomas Flint, professor of @ivinity in Edinburgh university, was the son of a Dumfriesshire shepherd ‘When he moved to Edinburgh his fa ther went with him and remained the head of the house. In this cireumstance Professor Flint's biographer finds “something touching and beautiful:* “One of the greatest scholars of his day, © man of worldwide reputation, the leading theologian of Scotland, sits bambly at the family table and kneels reverently at prayer while his aged father, a simple peasant, conducts the Gevetion of the household.” 3m. Stxlor—John, don't you think I need 2 new gown? This one ts begin- ting to look shabby. Mr. Stalor—I don't see anything the matter with it, You look weil enough tm it to suit me, and why should I pay money to make you momo ettractive to other men}-Ex “Wpese my tee te Cety,”” sail the (ize boy in the elevator, “what buss fee's Sat of seen ‘You aint my but I'm betnging =." 70 Gurious Grain Organ. Bringing About an Agreement. BMeaddress of Chitesen Wemen. Meleclend’s Lichthoucs. ‘Teue Mumilitv. DBedctne tea Guscbian. Rhee? Cie bere Residence, 4630 Evane Avene Tel. Kenwood 5466 Dr. H. REGINALD sMIqy EYE GLASSes SCIENTIFICALLY FitTeO Bg Office, 3401S. State St, Chicago oa EA ae Phone Douglas 1243 Auto, 77818 ‘The Legion of Honor, | In 1802 Bonaparte proposed the te. ‘Mation of a legion of Louor which wag to include in tts ranks men of disine ‘tion from every walk in Ue, not aay soldiers, but savants, jurists and uy thors. “It is aristocratic in tts tendency said Berlier, a distinguished lawyer, “leading France back to the sncaat regime when crosses, badges and 1 bons were the toys of monary.” “Well,” replied Napoleon, “mea a led by toys. The French are not aj changed by ten years of revolutia; they are what the Gauls were-tee and fickle. They have one feellg- honor. We must nourish that feeling they must have distinction” ‘The oath taken by a new memberdt the Legion of Honor was to dere himself “to the service of the republt, to the maintenance of the integrity Ste territory, the defense of its govern ment, laws and of the proper:y which they have consecrated; to fight agit every attempt to reestablish the fer- dal regime or to reproduce the titles and qualities thereto belonging"—"Se poleon and the End of the Fred Revolution.” by Charles F. Warwick Weill Tempered Livin. | The statistics of insanity show tht the minds of men and women are fie made aberrant through the stexly @rive of environment, in which the stmple life aud the spurring city lle are equally at fault. The figures show the per capita of insanity differs lite fm city and country. Bural solide and the abnormal life of the cy a” alike responsible for mental disesse It ig as bed for man to be too mut alone as it ts for bim to be surroanied Dy perfervid lifa The history of te Face, the inquiries of investigators sal ‘the judgment of specialists in the ds eases of mind and body tell us tt the well tempered life, roid of & ‘ceases, is the plane upon which na and women best endure tn mental sof Dodily health, a temperance of thougtt and a temperance of action fo a2 & vironment in which the individu # neither submerged by buman sey or detached from it — Seattle Put Intelligencer. a ‘The map who wishes to econ” was advised by a friend to go tose tain restaurant “Mighty cheap,” said the friend. & the would be boarder went there. Meat day be met that friend. “Pretty cheap place, eT” sit Intter. “Not on your lifer” “What do you mean? Can you 5 good soup elsewhere as you can Ge for the price?” “Certainly not.” “and did sou ever get such me Deet at another pince for whst paid at this one?” “I never did.” "Well, then, why do you my & place isn't cheap?” “Because,” said the man who wail to anve, “while I was eating sometetl stole my hat and ‘overcoat! —e¥ ‘York Times. eae Silent Tragedio® 0 lat It fs only the life of violence Oo iy ef bygone days that is percavel Searty all our tragie writers, 008 OY foe may any that anachronia Sates the stage, and that drama Rees peck cs many years as the a sculpture. ‘To the tragic author #3 Sam, the violence of the exectite Ot Speeaie, "And be imagines, 15% tae we shail delight im winestne Tes "came acts that beonght #7 © the bearts of barbarians, with “Os Tomrder, outrage and treche S fmatters of daily occurrence, wy as it ts far away from Sonny nnd sword throst that te BS ee at us flow on, and man's She erent toaay, and tnvisiie 62 most spiritual —Masterttoc® ren ' Breaking tt Gentiy> one you poeson, amine” OS an a eT nae mote, TS pen and ink for you t0 607% Tye ah on the nursery table. WX7 you tse that instead of * PAS case “Well, you see,” Benjemis 07 a wt, “I want 2 pencil t ws Pie fhe eaiiar bow more 3 2 carcet.” : Woman's World How a Great Dancer Teaches and Mothers "Her Children." ANNA PAVLOWA Pavlowa dances. Surrounded by chattering coryphees, hand on hip, head to one side in a pose of anticipation, she works out a terpsichorean problem. She has succeeded. The group parts, and she steps forth, leading a tall girl in shimmering blue classic dress. Pavlova reiterates the steps, the music breathing soft accompaniment. The girl imitates. Over and over the steps they work, Pavlova snapping her slender fingers, tossing her head, forcing into the figure the spirit which makes great dancing. And when the coryphee succeeds an approving pat on the shoulder rewards the radiant girl. In rehearsal when the music is a bit uncertain, when the lights are blatant when the vast orchestra and the vague balconies beyond are chilling in the unresponsive mustiness, the joy of Pavlov's dancing is as apparent as when she dances to crowded auditoriums. She colors the ballet, the director and the strangely gentle conductor of the orchestra. The final twirl is not coincident with the final chord. She steps out of the musical picture and shakes her head at the conductor. "Last four hars," orders Mr. Theodore Stier, and again the final twirl, still out of beat. Over and over she does that difficult twirl, the ballet does its intricate tableau and the orchestra its tempestuous finale. All watch her. She snaps her fingers. "One, two, three, four," marks time with her arms and smiles because it is art to achieve the difficult. "She is the hardest working woman in the world," her agents, her directors and the rest of her adorers declare fervently. And to watch her and talk with her during an hour confirms the extravagant statement. Far more than merely the director and teacher of these girls, she is their mother, speaking of them as "my children." They live with her. She sees it to that their other studies are not neglected. She watches them; will not allow them to go to parties or go out at night. Their street clothes are as quiet and unexaggerated as her own. Never do they wear silk stockings on the street, for, besides being very bad for the feet, they are extravagant, and children must be taught not to be improvident. And most important is their work. But that she teaches them less by word than by example, for they cannot fail to imitate the ardor with which she pursues her art all day and every day, to the exclusion of every other pleasure. CHIC EASTER CREATION Oquettish Little Hat of White Straw For the Small Girl. The small fry are by no means forgotten in this season's offerings of millinery. The hat shown in this illustration. 1920 SPRING CHAPEAU. To Keep Silver Bright. An easy way to keep silver bright in to put a handful of boxex in a dishpan of hot water with a very little soap. Put the silver in tink and let it stand the entire morning. Then rinse in clear water and wipe thoroughly dry with a soft cloth. You can treat plated ware in the same manner without the slightest injury to the plate. Milady's Mirror Fruit and Vegetables Beautify. Fruit is indeed the keynote of spring diet which shall help to improve the complexion. Apples, raw and cooked, baked or as sauce; any of the wholesome citrus family, in itself a whole pharmacopoeia of goodness; the lemon, the orange and the grapefruit—these eaten lavishly and freely are indeed health and beauty at any time of the year, as well as the springtime. Then, to augment all of this, such things as spring onions, chives and parsley are helpful, with crisp salads of romaine, endive or escarole, always with plenty of lemon juice and olive oil. These things, not forgetting plenty of water, take between meals should objate all necessity for physic. Internal medicines are not as essential as exercise, proper diet, rest, water drinking. All of these, as said above, will help to secure that improved and regenerated complexion so much desired when winter is a thing of the past. Then it must not be overlooked that a course of facial treatment is well worth its cost and very necessary if such a course is taken in reputable establishments, where knowledge and long experience have resulted in really helpful methods. Personal advice as to proper local as well as constitutional treatment is given, and the patient is sure of benefit from such a course. When later on that pretty chapeau, that dalty dress, are donned the wearer shall look into her mirror and have nothing to regret as she scrutinizes her reflection, for her complexion shall be as fresh and as flawless as her costume, and the ensemble will be entirely satisfactory. Beware of Headaches Headaches are much more serious in their hidden possibilities than most persons believe, and they work havoc with facial beauty. Middle ear disease, mucus and pus in the upper part of the nose, mastoid abscesses, fevers of various sorts, brain trouble, distempers such as tuberculosis, joint infections, or gout, eye disorders, tonsillitis, gastric crisis, constipation, dysenteries, pneumonia and almost the whole roster of human maladies may be preceded or accompanied by headaches. Further be it remembered that slowly breathing, overcating, poor ventilation, lack of exercise and an indoor life all have their accompanying headaches. There are different methods in the treatment of headaches. Each depends upon the source. Deep breathing and simple rations, sleep in the open air and muscular sport in the open may cure safely, if not quickly. Charcoal, olive oil, milk of magnesia and fruits eliminate the frontal throbs that come from constipation. Ice bags, and alkaline mineral water, a short diet with green vegetables may cure the headache of gluteony. Rational gymnastics, physical culture, graduated exercises in the fresh air and a cold bath may cure the headache due to sleeplessness. If a headache is persistent see a physician. For Brittle Nails. You can't make your hands look nice if your nails are very brittle, because they always break off and show rough, jagged edges. Brittle nails are often constitutional, or a sign of poor health. You can do a great deal toward curing them in the following way: Rub some pure cold cream or white vaseline all over the nails and well into the base at night. Once or twice a week apply a little olive oil, and never wash the hands in hard water or put them in strong soda water, for this aggravates the condition. The treatment described is a remedy for hang nails also, for it keeps the skin round the base of the nails pliable and soft. To Allay Pain of Burns. Burns on the hands and arms are of frequent occurrence to the housewife. Aside from the pain caused, they do not add to one's charms. In case of a burn at once apply linseed or sweet oil to the parts affected and then thickly cover with baking soda and bind with a soft linen cloth. In ordinary cases of burn this will shortly relieve the pain. Equal parts of linseed and linseed oil applied to the burn several times a day will keep it soft, allow pain and hasten healing. Whitening the Skin. Regular applications of equal parts of lemon juice and glycerin after washing do wonders in whitening the skin and preventing the formation of discoloration marks upon the neck from the constant wearing of furs. The glycerin helps to keep the skin pleasingly soft, also preventing it from getting that harsh, dry, shriveled up appearance which is so conducive to the formation of wrinkles on face and neck. Zinc Ointment For Red Nose. A red nose is often constitutional, or the sign of indigestion, but more often than not it is caused by a too thin skin. When the latter is the cause sine ointment is a splendid remedy. You should apply it to the nose every night. You will find it does wonders in hardening the skin, and in this way the tendency to redness will gradually disappear. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1915 SEASON'S COMBINATION. Necessity the Mother of New Modes in Gowns. SEPARATE BLOUSE AND SKIRT. The reinstatement of the blouse and separate skirt is sure. And be it known the utility blouse this season is very severe and exquisitely tailored, has a high collar and long sleeves and is buttoned straight down before and right up under milady's dimpled chin. Such a blouse is shown in the accompanying illustration. It is developed of cream white georgette crape, with a tiny turnover collar and turned back cuffs. Nothing could be simpler or smarter. And we cannot escape pockets if we would. Illustrated is a circular tailored skirt of covert cloth. Triangular pockets are placed at the front, finished with trimming of tiny self covered buttons. The skirt is short to display patent leather boots with tops of covert cloth. THE GROWING GIRL Fashions Seem Made For Her Special Needs This Spring. For the girl who is neither a child nor a young lady the present fashions seem made for her special needs. We all many time in the reign of the narow skirt have deplored the fact that the young girl with her undeveloped figure should don such an unbecoming style. No longer will this be necessary, for the empire waist with the fuller skirt will beyond a doubt be a more graceful mode for her young ladyship. The skirt that is plain in the back and the front with the fullness at the sides will be a close rival of the gathered or plaited skirt. There is another style that bids for favor, and that is the gored skirt, well fitting at the top, but with a decided flare below the knees. The plaited skirts are invariably stitched below the hips, and from there they flare in the approved manner. Bolero and Eton jacket effects are to be selected by the wise parent for the growing girl. The high placed belt is also a becoming style. While the beruffed skirt is not a new mode for the young girl, there is a new method of disposing of the ruffles. In one girlish affair they were applied at each side of the front, leaving a panel. Worsted Embroidery. A shoulder scarf of green crope de chine is embroidered in worsted of dull green, blue, yellow and red. The work is very effective, and the color scheme worked out is highly striking. FEMININITIES Points For Mothers A Bad Habit Cured. A delightful experience is told by a teacher that touches upon a child, an imaginative boy of seven, who was ideally polite and obedient to his parents, but who would, in spite of daily admonitions, insist on putting on his shoes and buttoning them every morning before putting on his trousers which, of course, would not go on over the shoes. This daily blunder rendered him quite miserable as well as his parents. He would cry with shame and disappointment because he missed his breakfast with his father, promising to try to remember, but so regularly forgetting that his parents began to suspect some latent stubbornness if not deceit in the occurrence. The teacher was a friend of the family and often visited them. On the occasion of one visit the boy's mother asked her whether she should chastise him for this annoying habit. The visitor said she would write to him, which she did, but the letter was in the form of a story of General Bad Habit, who was quartered in his house. The boy was very fond of military displays and stories, and just here she held his interest. She said she was sorry General Bad Habit was there and that she greatly feared her little friend would be reduced to the ranks if he did not make immediate resistance, and she asked him to use her letter as a flag of truce, to be placed in his shoe overnight, informing General Bab Habit that he proposed not only to resist him, but to take away his title, sword and shoulder straps. The flag of truce was used in the shoe for two or three nights, then placed on the mantel and in less than a week entirely removed, and a letter from the triumphant child informed the teacher that Bad Habit was reduced to the ranks and the little friend was general and master of the situation. What an altogether charming way to help a child to overcome a failing! About Children's Teeth. If a child's second set of teeth remain abnormally short and doll-like it is wise to consult a doctor, as it may be because he is not developing properly owing to a lack of bone forming constituents in his food. One should change the diet in such a case and give something containing plenty of lime, such as haricots, lentils and milk; also they should have plenty of hard, well baked bread crusts. Little heaps of crusts are often left on a child's plate. A child should never be allowed to leave them, for too much soft food is often the cause of the early decay of second teeth as well as of their undeveloped and irregular formation. Man's teeth were given to him for grinding and chewing, and if they are never used for hard food they soon decay. Ridged or ribbed teeth are a sure sign of a system overcharged with uric acid. Rheumatism is latent; these ridges are warning signals. Do you know what these are? They are teeth that appear as though they had a "picot" edging or little sawlake edge to them, and they nearly always mean that the owner is below par. The serrated edge is really the commencement of a decay that will in time cause serious damage to the child's health. A Mother's Secret of Success. The well known proverb "Example is better than precept" is only another form of expressing the predominating power of sympathy, for example can have little influence except in so far as a sympathetic feeling in the observer leads him to imitate it. So that "Example is better than precept" means only that sympathy has more influence in the human heart than reasoning. This principle, so powerful at every period of life, is at its maximum in childhood. The child's thoughts and feelings are spontaneously drawn into harmony with the thoughts and feelings of those around him whom he loves, and this leads naturally to imitation, or reproduction, of their actions. The great secret of success for a mother in the formation of the character of her children is to make them respect and love her and then simply to be herself what she wishes them to be. Abbott says that to make them respect and love her is to control them by a firm government where control is required and to indulge them almost without limit where indulgence will do no harm. This is true, but we often forget the latter half and wonder at our failures. Hardening Boys' Shoes. "If you rub hardening oil into boys' shoes when you buy them," says a mother. "It makes them last twice as long, and renders them absolutely waterproof." You can make this hardening oil yourself. Put half an ounce of beeswax and half a pint of boiled linseed oil in a jar. Heat it over the store till the wax dissolves. Let it cool, then stir up and apply to the soles of the boots with a brush. Put the boots on trees till the next morning, when they will be quite dry and ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. One Easter eve I dreamed—iwas funny—I took a walk with an Easter bunny. He showed me, the Easter bunny did, Where all the finest eggs were hid. We had much fun, till I heard nurse say, "Wake up, wake up! 'Tis Easter day." Br'er Fox and the Bunny. Once upon a time there was a hen who, in order to be exclusive of her friends of the barnyard, built her nest up the road in a thicket under the fence and started in to raise a brood of chicks. Everything worked fine, but one moonlight night there came a sudden stop, for down the road came a fox, nosing from side to side, till all of a sudden he spied in the moonlight in the grass the head of Mother Hen on her eggs. Quick as a flash he grabbed her by the neck and dragged her off the nest, and away up the lane he went. Sooth to say, it looked bad for the eggs in the nest. But up from the barn in the lane came loping along, nosing from side to side, a little brown bunny, when suddenly he lighted on the vacant nest. Creeping closer, he took in the situation, the warm nest and nobody home. Instead of destroying them the dear little fellow just placed his warm body on the eggs and took the place of the poor mother, kept them warm all night, and the next morning, which was Easter morn, he brought forth a brood of chicks. The Egg and Easter. A province of the ancients is that "everything springs from the egg." Many writers assert that the custom of exchanging eggs was borrowed from the Jewish use of eggs during the feast of the Passover. Others say that it is traceable to the fourth century, when the church prohibited eggs during Lent. This gave an abundance of eggs at Eastertide, some of which parents gave to their children, decorating them to make them more attractive. In Italy, it is believed that a scarlet Easter egg, carried about the person during the year will bring good luck. The farmers believed that the land over which an egg had been rolled yielded plentiful harvests. Why Quassia Was So Called. Quassia, that exceedingly bitter drug so largely used for medicinal purposes, owes its name to a negro named Quassi, a native of Surinam or Dutch Guiana, who brought it into notice as a medicine about the middle of the eighteenth century. It was the wood of the quassia amara, a small branching tree or shrub, all parts of which were very bitter to the taste and which was used for tonics. From Surinam it was introduced into Stockholm in 1756 and in quite a short time became a popular medicine all over Europe. At one time so efficacious was it considered that drinking cups were made of it for the use of invalids suffering from dyspepsia or similar ailments. Easter Bells and Blossoms. The sweetest bells of Easter day Are not the ones that ring out clearly. Their Easter message blithe and gay. Although, of course, I love these densely. But sweeter than their music, steals a perfume on the sunlit air. Until undoubtedly one feels the hyacinth has bells more fair. PAGE THREE EASTER HAT. Bernyard Straw Crowned With Wreath of Flowers. SERPING CREATION. Variations of the sailor hat are many, and now is the time when women are making their selections of hats. Every woman loves hats. Every woman goes forth to buy a new hat with a pleasurable feeling in her heart which only the prospective purchase of a hat inspires. She likes to order a new suit. She likes to pore over fashion magazines and papers in search of a new style for her evening gown. The possession of new gloves, shoes, silk stockings or blouses fills her with joy. But hats stand alone in their glory. They occupy a niche in her mind which is theirs, and theirs only. That hat shown in the illustration is of brown barnyard straw, braided in wicker effect and worn with a decided slant. The crown is of sand colored velvet, encircled with a wreath of flowers and fruits in varied colors. WOMAN'S UNIQUE SPHERE What Casarini, the Futurist, Says About Her Clothing. Casarini, the clever futurist, who has made it his business or an important part of his business in America to study femininity, thinks that there is a needless amount of debate as to the sphere of woman. "Woman has a sphere," he says. "Fancy for a moment a world without the ornament of woman's art—the art of her hair, the art of her physical beauty, the art of her clothes. How stupid it would be, how unthinkable!" "Yes, I know that man once was the highly decorated animal, and you know what the world was then. Civilization really dates from the time when women became the decorative element. Man's clothes now are not 'dress' at all. Woman is the melody; man is the accompaniment. "Of course there always will be people who will insist that clothes are merely for utility. Foolishness! Even a man, and certainly a woman, on a desert island would think of clothes as something more than mere covering. "In human society clothes become a language. The rashest objector will be found following either a present or a past fashion—talking the clothes language of his kind. Not to do so is to be misunderstood, to be separated. In this language woman has charge of the elegances. It is she who adds the higher beauty. It is she who adds the whimsical. Whatever may be said of her sense of humor, she has a keen sense of humor as to clothes. She grasps the art value, the diversity and surprise value of the whimsical, never committing the absurdity of taking clothes solemnly, as so many man do." To Remove Fruit Stains. Fruit stains will be eradicated easily if one will wet them with a little camphor before washing. Then wash and the stains will disappear. Glycerin may be used in a similar manner, being sure in both cases to use it before water touches the stain. For grease stains there is nothing better than eucalyptus oil. This may be used on delicate fabrics without injury, as it will evaporate rapidly, leaving no mark. To Dry the Book Stripes of Turkish toweling cut out towels that are beginning to show wear may be used to pull back and forth across the back or be hammed into wash clothes and still give plenty of wear. WOMAN'S WORLD. Oregon has four women professional chauffeurs. In China the mother-in-law is the host of the house. It is claimed that women of this country spend 85 per cent of the wealth. In the field at harvest time in Poland for more women are to be seen than men. The University of New Mexico has established a department of household economics. There are 106 colleges in the United States exclusively for women, with nearly 20,000 students. Twelve women are making acess of the most remote parts of England for recruits for Lord Kitchener's army. Owing to the depression caused by the war female servants are the only kind of labor wanted in the British colonies. After women got the vote in New Zealand waitresses who were formerly paid 9 shillings a week received 25 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 Tuxers, Repubilicans, 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 broad enough for all, over 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.....$3.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 6027 FEDERAL STREET, CHICAGO, ILL PHONE DREXEL 4500. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1879. COL. WILLIAM RANDOLPH COWAN will run for alderman in the second ward. (Concluded on page 1.) It may be interesting to state that last Thursday evening a delegation of one hundred Colored women called on Mr. Cowan at his home, 3552 Forest avenue, to request him not to run with no other object in view than to defeat Hon. Oscar DePriest and make it more than possible to elect a White man to the city council. The ladies claim that when they were ushered into his finely furnished drawing room that he was reclining on a sofa; that he would not honor their presence to the extent of sitting up straight so that they would be able to look at him square in the face or in his eyes while they were engaged in conversation with his lordship; that at the end of their pleading with him not to run as an independent candidate and blast the hopes of the great majority of the Colored people residing in the second ward of securing a Colored alderman at this time after they had been manfully fighting with that object in view for the past twenty-six years, that he very plainly informed them, so some of the ladies claim, that "he had nothing for the Niggers" to do, that he cared nothing about them and that the rich White people residing in and out of the second ward who never at heart wanted to see a Colored man elected to the city council would look after his interest and cast their votes for him. It is said that Attorney Charles E. Ward, part law partner of Captain Louis B. Anderson, will manage the Colored and the aldermanic contest for Mr. Cowan; that Captain Anderson, who has already pledged his word and honor since the primaries that he would loyally support the successful candidate in that eight-cornered fight, Hon. Oscar DePriest, will stand around and look wise, at the same time holding his sharp cars close to the ground so as to be able to detect just which way the political winds are blowing. It is contended that two headquarters will be uped for Mr. Cowan, one on State street in the black belt, especially for that class of Colored men who are in favor of free beer and free whisky; that the other headquarters will be located on east 31st street, among that class of Whites who are bitterly opposed to permitting a Colored man to represent them and their kind in the city council; that a ten days' aldermanic campaign will be made, the likes of which has never been behold in the second ward; that easy money will flow like water; that a hand-to-hand fight will be waged between the followers of Messra. Cowan and DePriest; that a desperate effort will be put forth to defeat Mr. DePriest and to pull down Congressman Martin B. Madden and to lessen his influence and power in local and national politics. TO HAVE COLORED REGIMENT IN JERSEY'S NATIONAL GUARD. Ascendityman Whitman Father of Bills (Special to THE BROAD AX.) Trenton, March 16—Today was the last for the introduction of bills in the Legislature; except by unanimous consent, and the number now on the calendar is the largest on record for a Republican Legislature in this State. More than 1120 measures have been put in, of which 760 are in the House. Among the most important bills introduced was one by Mr. Whitman, of Atlantic City, providing for the organization and equipment of a colored regiment of the National Guard. ```markdown ``` HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS By Dr. W. A. Driver, S300 S. State Street. Phone Douglas 3617. It is a self-evident truth that cleanliness is essential to health. It is necessary to be clean in order to be healthy. It is necessary to be healthy to be happy. Therefore, the greatest effort should be made to secure and maintain that state or condition called health. Life is interwoven with health. Solomon says: "A man will give all he has for his life." Let us then imagine what we should give for health, which is virtually life. We cannot put too high a value on health, the most precious possession. Let us consider cleanliness in its relation to health. Cleanliness needs no defense; it speaks for itself. We are well aware of the fact that a clean mind is a healthy mind, a clean body is a healthy body, a clean home is a healthy one, etcetera. In order to fully appreciate cleanliness let us consider briefly the opposite condition. Bible students will remember that those persons who had in ancient times that most loathsome disease, leprosy, cried: "Unclean! Unclean!" when approached by other persons. Evidence is not wanting to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that filth breeds disease. Filth, like vice, is a monster of so frightful mien as to be hated needs but to be seen. It is said that those race varieties have achieved most who loved the bath. Water is a great cleaning agent as many a housewife will agree. Since the alimentary canal or gastrointestinal tract is the chief source of disease it seems logical that we should make especially great efforts to keep it clean. The mouth, being the port of entry to the alimentary canal and hiding within its labyrinth the teeth, demands first consideration. Nature suggests it. The nose, that faithful sentinel, situated upon an eminence like a double barreled gun or German Howitzer is eternally on guard watching over the less sensible mouth. It reminds me of a mother faithful who tenderly keeps vigil less the babe puts fire or other poison into its mouth. The nose then helps us keep clean by its function of detecting a foul smelling, unclean enemy via the sense of smell. The eye situated higher than its less sensitive neighbor, the nose, and having greater range, is also a valuable aid to the dangerous and dependent mouth in the battle for cleanliness and health aptly called the battle of life. To clean the mouth means virtually GLEAN TEETH, and there is the rub. Bad teeth, decayed teeth, are responsible for much suffering, disease and death. Notwithstanding the watchful waiting of the eyes and nose much that is unclean scapes detection (being invisible and odorless) and enters the human economy by way of the mouth. Micro-organisms, called germs, microbes and bacteria that feed upon decaying teeth colonize upon them, multiply themselves by millions daily and get into the circulation or swallowed with the food manifest their presence in various portions of the body as certain inflammations, called by the name of the organ attacked. The aforesaid germs prey upon dead matter in or out of the body. They love flth and they go where they are expected. If an organ is weak they attack it. If a person is unclean they attack him. They seek the unclean places and persons as well as those who eat too much and those who eat improper food. From the above brief and incomplete introduction it is readily seen that to prolong life cleanliness is required. If health is lost it must be regained by the same principle, CLEANLINESS, but that is another story. MASS MEETING IN TREMONT TEMPLE. Hon. Martin B. Madden was greeted by the largest crowd of Colored citizens that has ever gathered in Tremont Temple. Long before the doors were opened the crowd began to make their appearance on Tremont street in the vicinity of the temple. The doors were opened at 2:15 and by 2:45 seats anywhere in the temple were at a premium. Many crowded the doors and corridors while those who could not find accommodations remained standing on the sidewalks. The meeting was held under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People and a more orderly gathering never assembled in Tremont Temple.—The Reliance, Boston, Mass., March 13, 1915. KNIGHT TEMPLARS' BASTER BALL. Monday evening, April 5th, the Knight Templars will give their Easter ball at the new eighth regiment armory, 35th street and Forest avenue. Music by the eighth regiment hand. Admission 50 cents. Mr. Lampkins, who recently lost his wife, the father of Mrs. Susie Pershing and Mrs. Nannie Young, is now very sick in St. Luke's Hospital. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1915. [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit. The background is a plain, light color.] [The text is not clearly visible in the image. It appears to be a title or heading.] JUDGE EDWARD O. BROWN. President of the Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, who will be re-elected as one of the Circuit Court Judges at the June election. COLORED PEOPLE HAVE BIG MASS MEETING HERE. blow up the White House after President Roosevelt had received and dined Booker T. Washington. "Congress has no right to enact any law that discriminates agains Object to "Jim Crow" Legislation in Congress or Elsewhere. About 4000 Colored people from all over Greater Boston, with a few hundred White people, attended a mass meeting in Tremont Temple Sunday afternoon, called to protest against "Jim Crow" legislation of any kind, or under any pretext, in Congress or Legislatures, or any act that would minimize or contradict the spirit of justice and equality promulgated in the Declaration of Independence. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Moorfield Storey, president of the association, presided. The chief speaker was Congressman Martin B. Madden of Illinois, one of the champions of the Colored race in Congress. Mrs. Mary E. Wilson of this city and Dr. J. E. Spingarn of New York also made addresses. On the platform was seated Francis Garrison and a number of White men and women identified with reform and with the "Negro problem." An organ recital was given by Amos J. Fairbanks and Mrs. Mattie A. McAdoo sang. Prayer was offered by Rev. Walter D. McLane. Resolutions affirming the protest were adopted. Mr. Storey urged the necessity of complete organization of the Colored people to resist efforts at discriminating legislation. Congressman Madden said the great trouble with this country today was "Southern blight," caused largely through the power and influence of 125 Southern members of Congress, who were so powerful that they practically controlled National legislation, although they only represented one-fourth the population of the country. These men have power because they are continued term after term, and there is continual rotation in the North and West. In this way the Southern delegation has the chairmanship of nearly all committees in Congress. He cited one of the most important committees the three members of which were from small Southern towns, yet whose recommendations and power affected the business interests of the entire country. He said: "I'm the son of a mother who sent six of her boys to the battlefields of the Civil war for the preservation of the Union. I'm the last one left, and my life has been dedicated to the principles for which my brothers fought and to the cause of justice and liberty. For I believe it is proper that every man and woman who lives under the American flag should be treated justly. "Men of the Colored race fought in all our wars, from the Revolution down to the Spanish war. Gen. Jackson commended them because of their bravery at the battle of New Orleans, and when things looked gloomy in the Civil war 369,000 black men offered to fight for liberty, and of those 38,000 were left on the battlefields." "I feel that we owe a vast debt of gratitude to the Colored race in this country. Yet all that the black man and the black woman want is an equal chance, and men of my race will be untrue to their citizenship if they fall to give them an equal chance." He condemned the Segregation bill introduced in the last Congress, and the "Jim Crow" law, which, he said, had been "introduced by Tom Heflin of Alabama, who had threatened to (Boston Globe.) blow up the White House after President Roosevelt had received and dined Booker T. Washington.’ “Congress has no right to enact any law that discriminates against any man, and has no right to pass any law that will accord any privilege to one class that it does not accord to all. ‘You Colored people have made more progress in 50 years than has ever been made by any race under similar circumstances. It is our duty to help you to help yourselves. I believe every door in the industrial life of the people should be opened to you.’ Mrs. Wilson told of the great work which the National Association is undertaking to do for the race and urged all present to join. Dr. Spingarn also told of the work of the association. He said he came to Boston to protest against the wrongs which 10,000,000 in this country are suffering. He was afraid that not a little of this came from the apathy of the Colored people themselves. The Colored people will never get their full rights until they insist on them. No Colored people want to marry White people, and those that do are as fully tabooed by the Colored people as the Whites. But at the same time any special laws against such marriages are not desirable. For those who have looked upon the milk dealer as a very small factor in the commercial life of the country, here are some figures that will tend to correct any such notion and also serve to show that the milk business of the country is one of simply gigantic proportions. For example, it is estimated that the people of the United States use thirty million quarts of milk every day the year through. On a basis of eight cents a quart this means a daily milk bill of $2,400,000 and approximately the stipend total of $734,344,000 paid out each year by the people of the United States for milk and cream alone and exclusive of course, of condensed milk, butter, cheese and other forms of dairy products. Over four million dairy cows are milked each day to produce what may be called the nation's commercial milk supply. For the figures given only include the milk that is produced, marketed and sold daily. According to figures furnished by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, there are over twenty million milch cows in the United States which would mean a much larger amount of milk consumed daily by those producing their own supply than is produced and sold in a commercial way. By the way, too, Uncle Sam estimates the value of the milk cows in the United States at the tidy little sum of $1,118,481,000. So, it will be seen that the milk business of this country is one of the nation's very largest business enterprises. And that the milk dealer is an important unit in helping to make it rank as it does among the most important industries of modern commercial life. The Public Property Exhibition now being held in the rooms of the City Club. 315 Plymouth Court, is well worth visiting. It should be seen and studied by every citizen who is interested in the problems that are involved in the work of community betterment. The exhibition includes photographs illustrations of what the city is doing in the various branches such as education, communication, production, conservation, recreation, decoration and other departments. The exhibition will be open until April 15th and is free to the general public each day between the hours of 2:30 and 9 p.m. HEALTH NOTES QUESTIONS GLEANED BY DAILY CONTACT WITH THE PEOPLE. By L. W. Washington. The ban is put on political discussions in the incubator club. The new pass-word is Neutral. Members, govern yourselves accordingly. Pay up or shut up hereafter. Rev. H. J. Callis says we Negroes cannot afford to fight Mr. DePriest at this time, for to do so would split the republican party and defeat Wm. Hale Thompson for mayor, and that's what some White men want and we can't afford to do this at this time. "I tell you, Brother Washington, what we Negroes must do is to stand by Oscar DePriest whether we like him or not. We must do it. I can't see it any other way at this time." . . . It was quite funny to see two famous trotters meet as did Charley Stewart and Mr. W. R. Carter last Friday in the Crystal printing office, especially when Mr. Carter was trying to help Charley find Mr. Frank when he was told that it was Mrs. Frank "and not Mr. Frank, if you please." We were passing down the street the other day and we ran into Harrison Stewart and we wondered what was on his mind, why he looked so sad, for he didn't look as natural as he does on the stage. Mrs. Ada McKinley was elected president of the Oscar DePriest women's club. The ladies know a good thing when they see it. Mrs. McKinley was president of the Chas. A. Griffin women's club during the primary fight. Suffragettes, we congratulate you on the selection. --- I wonder where will this race feeling end up at. At first it was the White man against the Black man; now it is the Black management himself. “Do you get me, Steve?” * * * Dr. L. N. Harlan is an ardent supporter of the independent candidacy of Mr. W. R. Cowan. As an organizer let no one think him a fool. He is a foe worthy of recognition. * * * Chili Frank thinks Mr. A. N. Fields hit the nail on the head in his article last week. He thinks words well used and not abused are good. Keep it up. Mr. Fields says he will keep it up. Messrs. Coleman and Glanton of Coleman and Glanton's cigar store, 3330 State street, do not look with favor at this time upon an independent candidate entering the aldermanic contest. They feel that the standard bearer, Mr. W. R. Cowan, is making a mistake. . . . Mr. B. W. Fitts delivered some telling blows the other night in a public meeting held in favor of Mr. DePriest at the residence of Jack Johnson. He unmercifully took to task those who were neither "hot nor cold" in their support for Chas. A. Griffin, and who for the same reason are not supporting Oscar DePriest. --- Mr. Carey B. Lewis (the war correspondent) says, "I am for the regular nominee." "But," said the writer, "how about the Defender?" "The Defender editorially is for him." Of course, its pages are open for business. Mr. Charles Worthington, the noted photographer, who resides at 4738 State street, and a prominent member of the Peerless Club, stole a march on his many friends and has now settled down in wedlock. Our friend, James T. Brewington, Jr., is just recovering from the shock of the story "that a good run is better than a bad stand," especially when he knows that Parker has got one up his sleeve. James is no body's hay-seed. It is said that "politics makes strange bed-fellows." It is certainly strange, passingly strange, to learn of Mr. E. H. Wright making a speech in favor of Mr. DePriest in his headquarters as was told us by Mr. A. N. Fields. Kindly let the public know, gentlemen, what influence was sufficient to get these results. If it was race interest, then permit me to say to the Negro be of good cheer. We have not yet lost our bearings. Mr. Charles Morrison, the mayor's private messenger, says the fault was not in our stars but in ourselves; that many things that should have reached the throne were blocked on the way. But it is no use to grieve over spilled milk, for then it is too late. you, Try it, try it; He will save. Quotations from the graduation ordination of the secretary of state, the Hon. Wm. J. Bryan, Thursday, June 2, 1883, at Illinois, College, Jacksonville, Ill. "It is said of the ermine that it will suffer capture rather than allow pollution to touch its glossy coat; but take away that coat and the animal is worthless." We have enemies in higher life—those who love display. The desire to seem, rather than to be, is one of the faults which our age, as well as other ages, must deplore. "Appearance too often takes the place of reality—the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, 'I know not seem.'" Bishop B. W. Lee said to the members of the last annual conference held at St. Stephen's church, west side. "Let us eliminate the things which lightly keep us up; what we need is the more weightier things to keep us down." HYDE PARK NEWS. By L. W. Washington We are very sorry to hear of the resignation of the Rev. Barry, the pastor of the St. Paul Baptist church 5609 Harper avenue. The people of Hyde Park certainly have lost a Christian gentleman as well as an ardent pastor. The Broad Ax wishes for him a field of useful activity. * * * Mrs. Hunter, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Perkins, 5330 Kenwood avenue. * * * Mrs. Lucy Coleman of 56th street and Kimbark avenue, has moved to 5510 Lake Park avenue. The Willing Workers met at the residence of Mrs. Mathew Coleman. A very large membership turned out. Quotations from the Bible were read and refreshments were served. They are still adding new members to their roll, and among the new members was the name of Mrs. Mamie Johnson. The pastor, Rev. W. H. Griffin, of Hyde Park A. M. E. church, preached both Sunday morning and evening. There were three accessions to the church, Mr. Webb, Mrs. Simons and Mr. Jackson. His theme for the evening was, "Wilt thou be made whole!" (St. John. 5: 6). Mrs. Stella Davis who was very sick is now convalescent. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE The League is to be especially favored on Sunday afternoon, March 21st, with an address from Dr. George W. Prince, recently returned from Vienna, where he went to specialize in Pediatrics. A cordial invitation is extended to all desiring to hear his address on "My Experience Abroad." Meeting to be held at the Reading Room, 3005 State Street, at 4 o'clock. Mr. Lewis Johnson delivered a masterly address on "Loyalty," Sunday last. At 7 o'clock the B. Y. P. U. of the Berean Baptist Church will have a special meeting at the League. Miss Loney Connaday has for some time served as the proficient clerk for Wm. M. Maxwell, who conducts an up-to-date gents' furnishing goods store and news stand at 5244 South State street. [Name] MR. JACOB LEDFORD "I Have Searched the World for the Girl of My Dreams" is Mr. Jacob Ledford's latest composition. Being a high class sentimental song of unusual type, it has been highly complimented by some of the best musicians, both Colored and White, and is predicted to take its place in helping to revolutionise the musical field of today. It is rapidly selling, so order at once. On sale at 5412 Kenwood avenue, Lyon and Healy music store, Chicago; IH Price 25 cents. ST. MARK CHURCH "To whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life" was the text used by Rev. John Thompson, D.D., Secretary of City Missionary Society in St. Mark last Sunday morning, who preached a great sermon. This was his first official visit, a little more than the usual attendance were present. This was to have been dedication day but, owing to the delay in the building, the dedication was postponed until a later date; but the membership, however, conducted the rally, from which was realized one thousand dollars. There were two accessions to the church during the day. Sunday, March 21st, is the fourth quarterly meeting day. The Rev. Gloster R. Bryant, District Superintendent, will be present, and will preach morning and night. The commission sermon will be preached by Rev. H. J. Callis, Walters A. M. E. Zion Church. The choir of Walters Church will sing. Rev. J. C. Peters addressed St. Mark Lyceum last Sunday afternoon, giving a good practical talk. Sunday, March 28, is doctors' day at St. Mark Lyceum, which opens at 4:30 p.m. A good program is offered. All are cordially invited. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB The Alpha Suffrage Club made great preparation for its public reception to Congressman Madden for his splendid defense of Negro womanhood in the present Congress, at Quinn Chapel, 24th Street and Wabash Ave., on Thursday evening, March 18th, at 8 o'clock. In the receiving line were Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, Congressman and Mrs. Martin B. Madden, Mr. and Mrs. William Hale Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar De Priest, Mrs. Florence Lawrence, Mrs. Ada McKinley, Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Anderson, Mrs. Estella Majors, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griffin. The ladies of the club served refreshments. The Boys' Orchestra of the Y. M. C. A. furnished the music. The members exerted every effort to make this affair a success. E. K. THUMM, PITTSBURG, PA, AND JOHN W. SESSOMS, BOSTON, MASS., HAVE BECOME AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. E. K. Thumm, newsedaler aud stationer, pool and billiard parlor, 1400-1402 Wylie avenue, corner Townsend street, Pittsburg, Pa., has become agent for THE BROAD AX, in that city, and it can be found on sale, at his place of business, every Saturday evening and the remainder of the week. John W. Sessoms, barber shop, pool room and news stand, No. 17 Dundee street, Boston, Mass., has become agent for THE BROAD AX, in the city famous for its "baked beans." A MUSICAL TREAT. Another Free Recital at The Wabash Avenue Y. M. C. A. Thursday, March 25. On Thursday evening, March 25, there will be a Free Recital at the Wabash Avenue Association. Three excellent artists will appear on the program, furnishing two groups each. The public is cordially invited. These recitals have proven a brilliant and artistic success. In order to accommodate the large number of music lovers for high class art, the gymnasium will be used. Cary B. Lewis, manager. CHIPS Monday evening, April 19, the citizens' ball will be held at the Eighth Regiment Armory, 35th and Forest Ave. See announcement in another column of this paper. Dr. W. A. Driver, 3300 S. State Street, phone Douglas 3617, has a splendid article in this issue of the paper which is worth reading. The Hon. Martin B. Madden talks like another Lincoln and he comes from the same state as our lamented champion of justice.—The Reliance, Boston, Mass., March 13, 1915. Mrs. Laura Dailey, 3818 Rhodes Ave. is one among the many ladies in the Second Ward who is working very hard for the success of Hon. Oscar DePriest at the polls Tuesday, April 6. Rev. E. J. Fisher, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, and Col. W. W. Talley, addressed the Second ward Afro-American Woman's club, which met Wednesday afternoon at their headquarters, 3109 South State street. After the speaking a light luncheon was served to the hundred who were present to assist to boost Hon. Oscar DePriest into the city council. The second ward DePriest woman's republican convention will convene at the Olivet Baptist church, 27th and Dearborn streets, Thursday evening, March 25th, from 2 to 11 o'clock p.m. All precincts will be represented by their chosen delegates. Good speakers will be on hand during the evening. Meals will be served from 5 to 7 o'clock J. The regular Republican candidate for Alderman of the Second Ward, who will beat or defeat all comers at the election Tuesday, April 6. Col. R. S. Abbott, head chief of the Chicago Defender, spent Tuesday of this week at Danville, Ill. * * * On Friday afternoon, March 26th, at the Chateau Gardens a public reception will be tendered to Hon. Oscar DePriest under the auspices of the 19th precinct DePriest woman's club of the second ward. All are welcome. Mrs. Rita Carter, president; Mrs. Alberta Moore Smith, secretary. Don't tell your troubles if you are looking for an encore. The most unneutral thing in the world is a floating mine. It is better to forgive and forget than to forgive and remember. After all, if there was no curiosity nobody would ever learn anything. There is a fad for iron jewelry. Get engaged, young man, before the styles change! One-half the world knows too well how the other half lives—they have to pay for it. War measures now being taken are said to be without precedent. But then so are war conditions. The beginning of many family jars comes with the wife trying to jar a little money loose from the husband. Sermons by phonograph are the latest. They ought to be a boom to the lazy Christian who doesn't like to go to church. Health inspectors have found that the New York subway is full of germs. They must be very tough germs to live in that atmosphere. Statisticians some time ago presented figures which went to show that travel on the seas was safer than travel by land. But that was before the war. Health Hints. There is no excuse for a sallow complexion. Exercise and diet are the two things that will cure it. To cure hysteria wrap mustard plasters on hands, wrists, soles and palms and allow patient to rest. Apply glycerin to a scald directly the accident occurs and cover it up with strips of rag soaked in glycerin. Used in water as a daily gargle borax keeps the throat healthy. Used in water for cleansing the teeth it disinfects them and prevents their decaying. Current Comment Mexico continues to illustrate the old saying that nothing is so bad that it cannot be worse.—Boston Herald. Our national "back door" may be open, but anybody taking advantage of it should find plenty of us at home.—Wall Street Journal. It is gratifying that South America is beginning to see the wisdom of looking this way. She still hesitates a little, but curiosity has already given way to confidence, and soon she will be smiling.—Philadelphia Ledger. Recent Inventions. A machine for stringing beads by centrifugal force has been invented in France. To blow two soap bubbles at once, one within the other, is the purpose of a recently patented pipe. A Frenchman has invented a machine for dealing cards that is said to make middles impossible. A device consisting of jointed sections of veneered wood has been patented for pressing brooms without the danger of using hot frogs. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1915 The use of mules is being urged for cavalry puposes. If they could talk the horses would support the motion. Hereafter belligerent nations will best be geographically located by saying they are bound on all sides by misery. All the world now is turning a regretful glance back to the bread which mother used to make, with plenty of dough in it. After a man gets property he is afraid the people are not as honest as they were when he didn't have anything to lose. In Cincinnati a court has limited telephone gossip on a party line to five minutes. A first class gossiper, however, can do a lot of damage in that time. The Writers. Miss Marie Corelli is a skilled performer on the mandolin. Mr. J. M. Barrie lives at 3 Adelphi Terrace house, London, in a six room flat. Immediately underneath him lives Mr. John Galsworthy, and on the floor below that is Mr. Granville Barker, while just across the way, at No. 10, resides Mr. Bernard Shaw. Rita, whose real name is Mrs. Desmond Humphreys, never dictates. She writes everything in her own hand and it is afterward typewritten. She writes for five hours a day—three in the morning and two in the evening—and can produce a book of 90,000 or 100,000 words in two months if she is put to it. Pert Personals. In England it would have been Goethals of Panama.—New York Tribune. Neutrality, says Mr. Shaw, is an utter humbug. But George Bernard furnishes living proof that it isn't the only one—Washington Post. Dr. Sun Yat Sen has been pardoned by the Chinese republic, which is a bit like saying that George Washington has been forgiven by the United States.—Chicago News. Some one has called Margaret Foley the "pioneer suffragist." Wonder what Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe and a few others, more or less well known, would say to that—Lowell Courier-Citizen. Town Topics. Columbia announces that she will have a football team this year. Now, can't Cleveland announce that she will have a baseball team? -Cleveland Plain Dealer. The city of New York disbursed for its maintenance in 1914 the sum of $39,941,157. Father Knickerbocker can outspend whole nations without himself becoming the least bit spent -New York Sun. Detroit has been considering the purchase of the street car lines at $24,900,000. Why should there be street car lines in a city where even the baby carriages have eight cylinders? -Philadelphia Ledger. The Royal Box Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, is a keen fisherman and spends hour after hour with his rod. The German empress practices the most rigid economy, while her famous husband, the kaiser, spends money freely. Prince Ranjitsinhhj, now the jam of Nawanagar and serving with the British forces at the front, rules over 8,791 square miles of territory in India. The German crown prince will be thirty-three years of age next May. He married the Princess Cecilia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1305 and has four sons. SIRES AND SONS. Lord Kitchener is a keen collector of old china. Charles David Marx, who has just been installed as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, is head of the civil engineering department at Stanford university. Ambrose Swasey, who recently gave $200,000 to engineering societies to promote research in that field, designed and built the Lick, Yerkes and United States naval observatories. He is sixty-nine years old. General Jan Christian Smuts, minister of finance and defense in the Union government of South Africa, graduated from Cambridge, England, and became attorney general under the Paul Kruger regime at the age of twenty-eight. During the Boer war he fought against the British. He is now in his forty-fourth year. While his work and responsibility are as great as those of any of the commanders of the German army corps, Dr. von Schjerning, general staff surgeon of the army, is almost never heard of. He it is who is held directly responsible for the work performed by the surgical division of the army all along the lines of action. Flippant Flings Some former congressmen won't miss the roll call, but, oh, you cloakroom!—Washington Post. Life is just one swat after another. First it is candidates for office and then it is carpets and flies.—Chicago News. A Boston physician says that music makes the hair grow. Some of the new music makes it stand on end.—Providence Journal. Do you know Adam and Eve's telephone number? No? Mr. John L. Swayze of the New York Telephone company says it was "281 Apple."—Chicago Post. We are beset by a horrible thought: How is American neutrality to be maintained when the time comes to root for Hans Wagner and Napoleon Laide?—Manchester Union. Echoes of the War. No nation can be said to be too cowardly to fight, but after the close of the present conflict it is likely that some will be too poor to do so.-Detroit News. Those who go down in submarines appear to have about the same chance of coming up alive as those who go up in airships have of coming down and living.-Philadelphia Press. The cost of firing one of the monster guns employed in modern warfare makes the necessity of economizing in the use of meat and potatoes quite clear to the plain citizen.-Washington Star. Short Stories. It is estimated that the government's Grand Canyon game refuge in Arizona now contains about 10,000 deer. The world's most active volcano is Mount Sangay, in South America, which has been in constant eruption since 1728. One of the most luxurious private cars in the world has been built in England for the use of an official of a Chinese railroad. No metal coffins are made in Peru, but the law prescribes metal linings for wooden coffins where death resulted from contagious disease. SHORT AND SHARP. The longer the war the shorter the means. See America first is also a matter of safety first. Wonder who loses all the fault everybody seems to find. Silver and gold don't rime, but they make a pleasant jingle. As a general thing it is easier to point to a good example than to set one. Taking a trench now and then appears to be the routine of the fighting men. Most of us can plainly hear the echo of the knock of opportunity after it is too late. It appears that war has done what chance could never do—spoil the business at Monte Carlo. Those who have tested it find that the epigram "Revenge is sweet" is the most misleading of all. Charity AMATEUR MINSTREL CLUB For Benefit! Old Folk Home Monday, April 12th NEW 8th REG. ARMORY SECOND MONDAY IN APRIL VERA CRUZ AGAIN UNDER YANKEE GUNS When President Wilson ordered American warships to Vera Cruz for the protection of American interests in Mexico he brought that busy and interesting little Mexican city again into the focus from which it had been displaced by the European war. Vera Cruz was much in the eye last April, when nineteen American sailors and marines were killed there. Vera Cruz knows what it is to be captured. Five times has the city fallen before foreign arms, once to General Winfield Scott of the United 100 AVENIDA DE LA INDEPENDENCIA, VERA CRUZ. States in 1847, again to the United States in 1914, once to France and the allies in 1861 and twice to buccaneers. Vera Cruz has suffered more than any other city in Mexico. As far back as 1683, when it was a very small town, it was captured by buccaneers. Again in 1712 Laurent and Van Horn, buccaneer kings, seized the port and plundered it for ten days. From then until well along in the nineteenth century the city had comparative peace. But at the outbreak of the war between this country and Mexico it was inevitable that movements of troops against the City of Mexico must begin with Vera Cruz. So on March 7, 1847, a fleet appeared bearing General Scott and a small army. While the ships bombarded the defenses troops were landed. They succeeded in capturing the city after a siege of thirteen days, in which there was much bloodshed. PARIS LIKES T. ATKINS Fancy of the French Capital Captured by British Soldier and His Dress. In the severance of ties between persons of various nationalities the great war is saddening, of course, but in the bringing together of others its influence is good. For example, there is the fraternizing of Tommy Atkins with his companion at arms of the French army and the mingling of the two with the Belgian soldier on the battle line. It is an old saying that "good Americans when they die go to Paris." But Tommy Atkins does not have to die to D7934 get to the beautiful French capital. All he has to do is to get a leave of absence from the trenches or to get himself wounded—slightly, however, so that he can bear transportation. Paris has taken a liking to the British soldier, formerly looked down upon, and it smiles happily when it sees a bus load of Britsiders riding on the boulevards. The attire of the soldier of King George has had an effect on the fashion. Style creators have copied as closely as they could the highlander's bonnet and plaid, and they would like to take in his kit also no doubt if the dreammakers thought their customers would so far. PAGE FIVE Improving the Family Tree. "Look at this, my dear," said Mr. Newrich to his wife, displaying a fine case of jewels. "Oh, you have bought them for me, haven't you?" she exclaimed. "How sweet of you!" "No, my love; I have bought them for my grandmother." "Your grandmother?" "Yes, dear." "But she is a bedridden nonagenarian. She can't appreciate them." "True, dear. And she need never know anything about them." "What in the world do you mean?" "Simply this, dear: It is always advisable to have some heirlooms in a family that makes any social pretensions. These jewels now belong to my grandmother. When our daughter Ethel comes out in a year or two she shall have them, and when it is understood that they were once the gems of her great-grandmother just see the antiquity which our family will develop and all on account of my having a great head." And Mr. Newrich threw mental bouquets at himself with supreme lavishness. The Profession of Mayor In Germany, where efficiency has become a national passion, the profession of mayor of cities has been established. The people of the German cities reason in this fashion: "We have here a big corporation. It is a big business corporation and more. It is a big social organization as well. On its efficient management much of our comfort, our health, our success depends. Therefore we will get the best manager we can find. If he does not happen to be in the city we will go outside to get him." The cities pay well and employ the mayor-manager for a long term of years. After a preliminary trial he is retained indefinitely. In the larger Prussian cities his ability is so esteemed that he is usually made a member of the Prussian upper house. If he shows unusual qualifications he may be chosen a minister of state. The mayoralty in Germany really offers a career.-Kansas City Star. Left Over Roast Lamb. To use left over roast lamb take it and cut away all the bone and gristle and grind through a food chopper or chop fine in hash bowl; then mix with six sprigs of parsley and two stalks of celery. Add crumbled soda crackers, one tablespoon ul of softened butter, a little salt and pepper, one spoonful of minced onion and enough milk or water to make moist and then beat in one egg and form into a steak. Put in a buttered pan, place in a moderate oven and roast for twenty-five minutes, basting with melted butter or good drippings. Just before the last five minutes is up spread a generous layer of fine breadcrumbs mixed with egg yolk over the top and sides to brown, serve on a hot platter and garnish with sliced lemon or parsley.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Table Manners The good people of the church gave the poor children of the parish a bountiful New Year's dinner, and the delight of the youngsters was much more manifest than their table manners. One little fellow was discovered clutching a doughnut in one fist and a lump of steak in the other. He was reproved for his breach of etiquette and took the reproach very meekly. But a moment later he turned to the dinner next him and remarked regretfully, "The trouble about these here table manners is that they was invented by somebody who wasn't never really hungry!"—Argonaut. Just Let Her Talk "How did you happen to marry that man, Imra? Did he please you so well?" "Oh, on the contrary! But when I told him the reasons why I wouldn't marry him he listened to me without interrupting me for two hours, so at last I accepted him." An Eye to Business Drummer—And so our friend, your husband, is gone! He dealt with me for twenty years. Weeping Widow—Yes, and if you had come a fortnight earlier you would have found him still among the living. Drummer—Do you think he left any order for me?—Flegende Blatter. Great Bridges. The largest suspension bridge in the world is the Manhattan, between New York city and Brooklyn. The longest railroad bridge over navigable water is the one on the Norfolk and Southern line at Edinton, N. C., connecting Edinton with Mackays.—New York American. True to His Profession Physician—I'm sorry, sir, but we can't quite be sure as to what is wrong with your arterial system unless we put you under the X ray machine. Publisher—That's all right. I never made any secret of my circulation—Judge. The Remedy. Doctor—You must go away for a long rest. Overworked Merchant—But, doctor, I'm too busy to go away. Doctor—Well, then, you must stop advertising.—St. Louis Times. What It Was. "What's that loud talking going on up in your flat, Willie?" "Oh, that's just pa, losing another argument to ma."—Detroit Free Press. Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.—Broadle. BRITONS ON CAMELS FIGHT THE TURKS In the warfare with the Turks for the possession of the Suez canal the British have been employing not only artillerymen, infantrymen and soldiers mounted in the usual manner, but also men riding camels, members of the famous camel corps of the Egyptian army. At the beginning of the war England had plenty of men who were trained in this feature of desert warfare under Kitchener in the Sudan, men in whose experienced hands a camel corps could be raised and trained not only on the most reliable and THE CAMEL RACE Photo by American Press Association. SOLDIERS OF THE BRITISH CAMEL CORPS efficient lines, but in the shortest possible time, to take the field against the enemy. It was under the skillful direction of such men as these that Lord Kitchener's camel corps reached such a high pitch of excellence, and it is well known that the Egyptian force under the present secretary of state for war possessed the finest collection of hammers or riding camels in the world. The United States is not without experience in the matter of the use of camels in military preparations. Many years ago, when Jefferson Davis, later president of the Confederacy, was United States secretary of war, the matter was brought to his attention by a man who thought he saw great possibilities in the camel as a means of army transportation in the arid southwest. Some of the animals were imported, and attempts were made to domicile them in Arizona. But the humpbacked beast did not take kindly to American conditions, and the experiment failed. Explorers of the wilder regions of Arizona have told tales of seeing queer animals, which may be descendants of the imported stock. WILL BE GIFT TO NATION. Association Plans to Make Cleveland's Birthplace a Permanent Memorial. It has been announced by William H. Van Wirt, secretary of the Cleveland Memorial association, that the association plans to present to the United States government the house in Caldwell, N. J., in which Grover Cleveland was born. At a cost of $20,000 the house was purchased by the association several years ago and has since been repaired and restored as nearly as possible to the same condition as it was in at the time of Cleve- 1 Photo @ Progress Publishing Co., Cald well, M. J. The parsonage is a two story structure. It was there that Grover Cleveland was born on January 18, 1837. His father, Richard Palley Cleveland, was pastor of the Caldwell Presbyterian church at the time. Young Grover was named after his father's predecessor, the Rev. Stephen Grover. The old house has been used as the minister's manse in Caldwell for more than 120 years. Panama's Famous Arch. One of the most famous "flat archs" in the world is to be found in the ruin of the church of Santo Domingo, Panama City, and has stood for nearly three centuries. The arch has an unsupported span of thirty-six feet five inches and stands twenty feet from the ground. Tradition has it that the Dominican monks planned and built their own church. This arch was near the front of the entrance and supported the organ loft, and it fell down three times as soon as the supports were taken away. Then a monk who was neither an architect nor an engineer "dreamed" an arch and drew up a plan according to his vision. When the arch was for the fourth time completed the designer stood beneath it while the supports were removed, staking his life on his inspired work. It stood and still stands. The church was destroyed by fire in 1737, and now nothing remains but this marvelous arch.—Wide World Magazine. Burning Byron's Autobiography Burning Byron's Autobiography. May 17, 1824, witnessed a famous literary bonfire—the solemn burning of Byron's autobiography. The manuscript had been given by the poet to Thomas Moore on the sole condition that it should not be published until after his death. Moore sold the MS. to John Murray for 2,000 guineas, but after Byron's death in the spring of 1824 he and others began to doubt the propriety of printing it. Lord John Russell and Washington Irving, to whom it was submitted, declared it too gross and libelous for publication, and Murray, generously foregoing his claim to the money advanced to Moore, called a council of Byron's friends, which met in the publisher's drawing room at Albemarle street on the evening of May 17, and committed the manuscript to the flames—London Chronicle. Snake's Sixth Sense That the snake has a real sixth sense by which it finds its mate in the woods and unerringly trails its prey is the belief of a man who is a special student of snakes. The seat of this sense of direction is supposed to be the curious forked tongue, which can have none of the uses to which the tongue is usually applied, but is a feeler and more and is incessantly darting about as the snake travels. A lizard was seen to come from beneath a house in the woods, take a zigzag course and disappear under a box ten feet away. Two minutes later a black snake appeared, passed over the lizard's exact course, keeping the tongue constantly seeking the trail, and, darting under the box, quickly emerged with the lizard in its jaw. Many other observations seem to prove that the tip of the tongue is the guide—Exchange. Sandy's Test. A country parson in Scotland on first going to his parish resolved to farm his glebe for himself, and a neighboring farmer kindly offered to send a man to plow one of his fields. "If you're goin' aboot," said the farmer to the clergyman, "Sandy will be unco weel pleased if you speak to him and say it's a fine day or the like o' that, but dinaa say onythin' to him aboot plowin' and sowin', for Sandy is a stoopid body, but he's been plowin' and sowin' all his life, and he'll see in a minute that ye ken naethin' aboot plowin' and sowin'. And then," added the old farmer, with extreme earnestness, "if he comes to think that ye ken naethin' aboot plowin' and sowin' he'll think that ye ken naethin' aboot onythin'." When Cocoa Was Cash. Cocoa once figured very prominently in the war history of the nation of its birth, Mexico. We know that Montezuma levled his tribute upon the nations round in loads of cocoa, and on occasions his treasure houses were bursting with the accumulated mountains. Prescott assures us that the currency of Mexico consisted of "transparent quills of gold dust, of bits of tin cut in the form of a T, and bags of cacao containing a specified number of grains." So that in ancient Mexico to export cocoa was to deprive the empire of both food and cash—London Standard. Flatterer. "Everybody says that Jones has the finest mind, insight and sagacity he ever ran across. How did Jones get such a reputation?" "Easy. Whenever you make a statement he says: 'By Jove, that's so! Why didn't I think of that before?' "— Cleveland Leader. "Helping a child with his lessons used to mean that you wrote a composition or did a few suma." "Well?" "Now you may have to model something in clay or even go out and capture a live snake."-Pittsburgh Post. "I'd sooner be a criminal than be married to a woman like Peck's wife." "What do you mean?" "Why, a criminal gets one sentence at a time, but poor Peck gets a whole string of sentences every day."—Chicago News. This Worldly Stage Most of us are so obtuse that we never see the smears of life that are so much dilated upon by the magnitudes and depicted in melodrama.—Kansas City Journal. Good Exercise. "I was a book agent once." "How long did you stick to it?" "Until I had lost about thirty-five pounds."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. MARCH 20, 1915. Mexico's Soap Plant. Mexico soap plant The soap plant is a native of Mexico and also of Colorado and takes its name from the fact that its roots when placed in water form suds like soap and may be used in washing. The root is white, beet shaped and very long, extending into the earth to the depth of six to eight inches. The Mexican women use it for washing the most delicate silks, which are thereby neither injured nor discolored. The leaves of the plant are from six to fourteen inches in length and sometimes even more and half an inch in width, and of fiber so strong that a man of ordinary strength cannot break one with his hands. Much of the paper used in Mexico is made from these plants, being very fine and white. The plant looks like a clump of coarse grass, each blade being finished at the end with a hard, sharp point. Fine threadlike tendrils shoot out from the blades and curl among them. The blossom is described as being a spike of large white flowers, resembling those of the mandrake—Philadelphia Press. Enforced Politeness During his term at the Military academy General Fitzhugh Lee placed a dummy in his bed one night and went down to Benny Havens. The inspecting officer reported him, and he was hauled up and sentenced to walk ten extra hours of Sunday guard duty during the time cadets were allowed out of barracks. One Sunday afternoon, when all the world was having fun and enjoyment, young Lee was walking one of those extra hours when he saw General Robert E. Lee, then captain of engineers and superintendent of the academy, pass his post with his father-in-law, George Washington Custis. As they passed he came to a "present" and heard the general say to Mr. Custis, "Do you know that young man is walking extra hours for violation of the regulations?" "No," quickly responded Mr. Custis, "but he is very polite, is he not?" Japanese Paper Clothing. "Kamiko," as paper clothing is called in Japan, is made of the real Japanese paper manufactured from mulberry bark. The paper has little "size" in it, and, though soft and warm, a thin layer of silk wadding is placed between two sheets of the paper and the whole is quilted. Velvet shirts and drawers made in this way are more comfortable than flannels. The Japanese soldiers realized the value of this kind of clothing when they had to weather a Siberian winter. The only drawback to this clothing is that it is not washable. Paper clothes are extensively manufactured in Japan. The garments are made of tough, soft fabric, strong enough to hold buttons sewed on in the ordinary way, and are said to be very serviceable. Fic Indian Pudding One quart milk, three heaping tablespoonfuls cornmeal, one tablespoonful cornstarch, four eggs, one-half cupful sugar, one-half teaspoonful salt, one half teaspoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful butter, one cupful figs, chopped. Soak figs ten minutes in warm water before chopping; boil the milk and stir in it the meal and cornstarch, previously mixed with a little cold milk; cook ten minutes. Beat eggs, reserving the whites of two, with the sugar, salt and cinnamon; stir into milk; add butter and figs, dusted with flour. Beat the whites of two eggs with two tablespoonfuls of sugar and two of cream and stir lightly into the mixture. Bake slowly one hour. Serve with creamy sauce. The Matter of a Dash: A Russian military paper tells of a lieutenant who overheard a sergeant giving a recruit a short lecture upon his duties. "The military service," said the sergeant, "requires little prayer to God and a strict attention to the orders of a superior." Somewhat astonished at this singular definition of military duty, the officer ventured to ask the sergeant for his authority, whereupon the sergeant produced an ancient volume containing the following. "The military service requires little-prayer to God and strict attention to the orders of a superior." One of His Girls. An aristocratic papa, on being requested by a rich and vulgar young fellow for permission to marry "one of his girls," gave this rather crushing reply: "Certainly. Which would you prefer, the nurse maid or the cook?"—London Chronicle. Weaver Birds. The arts of weaving and rope and net making are practised by some of the lower forms of life, notably among caterpillars and spiders. The weaver birds of Africa and India, which are a species of finch, construct wonderful nests out of leaves by sewing them together. Where the Interest Lay. "I hear that Mrs. Van Wombat's beautiful essay on Shakespeare delighted all the ladies." "It did, indeed. It was written with pink ink/on lavender paper and tied up with the cutest violet bows."—Kansas City Journal. Two Points of View "Does your wife object to late dinners?" "Depends on whether it is due to my meeting a friend or her being at the matinee"—Omaha Bee. Worse Still. "Your father seems to look upon me with disfavor." "Not exactly that. More like curiously."—Buffalo Express. Then the Main Stopped/ Then the Rain Stopped Australia is the land of contrasts. A drought once lasted for seven years. But what is there in moisture to compare with the persistency of Australian rain when it does see fit to fail? For eleven weeks without stopping did the rain continue to moisten the dry places of Sydney some years ago, washing out most cruelly the brief, bright season of winter, when the Australian looks for living instead of existence and peace instead of pressure. And what rain! It shot from the clouds like arrows, and the whole world was a battlefield during that July. As the arrows darted into the earth the earth rose and dashed into the air, and rain and mud met and grappled with each other day after day, night after night, week after week. And the battle was neither to the rain nor to the mud. A strange and horrid situation arrived. Sydney ran clean out of galoches. For two weeks not a galoche was to be had in the rain drenched city for love or money. Then a fresh shipload arrived from somewhere or other. And then—the rain stopped! -London Mail Sickroom Clothing. Clothing used in the sickroom never should be put in the laundry bag after it is used. Place it in a clothes boiler at once and cover with boiling water and soap solution and allow to come to the boiling point. Clothing used in infectious diseases should be treated this way for three successive days. This not only kills matured bacteria, but any undeveloped spores as well. When the sickroom clothing is of thin, delicate fabric one washing in the soap solution and hot water, followed by rinsing in hot water, will be sufficient. In such material the heat of the iron in ironing will complete the sterilization. It is advisable always to have some of the soap solution ready for use. Cut the soap in small pieces, cover with cold water and set on the back of the stove to dissolve. For one boiler of clothes use enough solution to make a thick suds.—Today's Magazine. Sulphuric Acid and Civilization. Liebig said that we might gauge the civilization of a country by the quantity of sulphuric acid it consumed. The total output of this acid is now about 5,000,000 tons, according to the fourth edition of Professor G. Lunge's treatise on its manufacture. At least 1,000,000 tons a year have been made in Germany, and that country has been importing about 100,000 tons besides. Sulphuric acid is made principally from iron pyrites, but also from zincblende. It is essential in the manufacture of high explosives, but there is scarcely a process of manufacture into which it does not enter. It is said that there is no branch of chemical technology that has been more thoroughly developed than that of the manufacture of sulphuric acid, but so keen is the competition that improvements are taking place all the time. The Sneezewood Tree The remarkable sneezewood tree is a native of Natal and other parts of South Africa. Its funny name was given to it because one cannot saw it without sneezing violently. The dust of its wood has just the same effect as the strongest snuff and is so irritating to the nose that workmen are obliged to sneeze even when they are planing it. If a piece of the wood of this tree is put in the mouth it is found to have a very bitter taste, and no doubt it is this bitterness 'which prevents insects of any kind from attacking the timber of the sneezewood tree. The fact that insects find it so disagreeable makes its wood very valuable for work that is required to last a long time. Paper Bullets. Bullets of paper or tallow have been found to be productive of far greater damage than metal ones when used for short distance firing. During some experiments in this direction it was proved that, whereas a metal bullet penetrated a deal plank an inch in thickness and left a neat hole, a pasteboard bullet had a far greater destructive effect upon the target. A paper bullet passing through six pieces of tin placed at a distance of a foot apart buckled them up completely, whereas a metal bullet merely left a small round hole. Bound of Cure "My son," said the family man, "is anxious to become a pugilist. I'm doing my best to prevent him." "Let him go ahead," said the friend of the family, "and have some one pound him. You'll find a pound of cure worth more than an ounce of prevention."—Philadelphia Record. Soiled Photographs Photographs which have not been protected with glass and have become soled either by dust or fly specks may be cleaned very easily by wiping them off with absorbent cotton dampened with pure alcohol.—Woman's Home Companion. Mrs. Myles—What has become of that nurse you used to have for your pet dog? Mrs. Styles—Oh, she's married. "She ought to get along all right. She's used" to growling.—Yonkers Statesman. Large desires may swell up in small souls, but a sand grain never yet touched a star.—Arabiah Solomon. Chimneys and Potatoes. The greatest hindrance to a chimney drawing as it should is the accumulations of soot which cling to the interior of chimneys and flues and clog up stovepipes. Many fires have been caused by the burning out of the soot which accumulates, and disagreeable odors and an unhealthy atmosphere are frequently produced in houses where soot is burning in chimneys. All this danger and unpleasantness may be avoided by the use of small potatoes, which are, as a rule, almost worthless for any other purpose. If burned a few at a time every day or two, these will prevent soot collecting in the flues. Even the potato peelings, which are usually cast into the garbage, can be burned in a stove or furnace and will help keep the pipes and flues free from the usual accumulations of soot. Try this plan if you want to enjoy better health and protect your property from fire.—New York American. The Pansy. Plant historians have never yet settled to their satisfaction just how the pansy originated. It was known as a garden flower in England fully three centuries ago, and the probability is that it was developed from a certain species of violet with tricolored petals, which is still to be found growing wild along British waysides and in other parts of northern Europe. The old herbalist Gerade, describing the "pansie, or heart's ease," as he knew it, says quaintly that it has "flowers in form and figure like the violet and for the most part of the same bigness, of three sundry colors—that is to say, purple, yellow and white or blue—by reason of the beautie and braverie of which colors they are pleasing to the eye. For smell they have little or none at all. The root is nothing else but, as it were, a bundle of threedy strings."—London Graphic. Clever Gainsborough. The father of Thomas Gainsborough, the great Suffolk painter, added as much to the wealth of Sudbury as the son increased its fame, says the London Tatler, for the father introduced more than one new industry into the town from Coventry. The Gainsboroughs were indeed a remarkable family. One brother of the painter, known as "Scheming Jack," was clever enough to make himself a pair of copper wings, but not clever enough to fly with them; to make a cradle which rocked itself and a cuckoo which sang all the year round. Thomas himself at an early age startled his father by forging his signature to a message addressed to the local schoolmaster. "Give Tom a holiday," a message which provoked the parental prophecy, "Tom will be hanged one day." Tom was hanged—in the Royal academy. Not a Square Deal. Miss Mason was explaining to her Sunday school class the lesson for the day, the subject being the tares and the wheat. "Now, remember, children, the tares represent the bad people and the wheat the good ones." "Why, Miss Mason!" exclaimed a rosy cheeked boy, who had been listening through the lesson with deep interest. "Did you say the tares are the bad folks and the wheat the good ones?" "Yes, James," replied the teacher, pleased at the lad's interest. "Well, that's funny, I think," remarked the matter of fact child. "It's the wheat that gets thrashed; the tares don't."—Country Gentleman. Are You Crazy? "How do you know that you are not crazy?" was asked the accused in a lunacy investigation. A prize might well be offered for a convincing answer to the question from one's personal knowledge. Lombroso and other eminent alienists have held that there is a taint of insanity upon some subject in every human mind; that no mind is absolutely and correctly balanced. No man sane upon several subjects will admit that he is crazy at all. How, as a matter of fact, does any man know, of his own knowledge, that he is not insane?—Exchange. Helping Him Out Bookkeeper (beginning his plea for a raise)—I've grown gray in your service, Mr. Stone, and—Newspaper Owner (interrupting)—If you'll forward a self addressed, stamped envelope to our beauty column conductor she'll send you an excellent and perfectly harmless remedy!-Puck. Speaking For Herself Wildow—Mr. Oldboy, my daughter Mand has set her eyes on you most lovingly. Mr. Oldboy—Has she really? I always considered her a sweet girl. Widow—Yes, only today she said "that's the sort of a gentleman I should like for my papa."—Chicago News. Peru's Fog. A remarkable fog on the Petuvian coast is known as the "garua." It occurs in a region where rain is unknown and supplies sufficient moisture to support vegetation. With good air, good water and a good knowledge of the English tongue any man ought to be able to make his own way anywhere, and this, of course, includes woman too. The deep breathing man is the deep thinking man. In addition, man is just as old as his lungs, and so is a woman, for he looks always keep pace with her lungs. If there be any cure-all in her existence that cure-all is air—just air, simply air—the foe of disease and the friend of the weak, and by that it not means a mixture of air and various sunny gases, but pure outdoor air, sunlit when you can get it. Air is good for what alls you, whatever it is. The woman who uses this outdoor air need not fear for her complexion. She can throw away her box of paint and all her chalks and powders, for air is a master artist who needs no colors but his own and whose beauty parlor is all the great outdoors—David Herrert in Morgan Park (III). Post Homing Instinct In Crabs Every one has heard of the homing instinct of birds and of insects, but it is somewhat of a surprise to be told that animals as low in the scale of nature as crabs have a similar instinct. The experiment has been tried in England of capturing crabs, marking them for identification and releasing them long distances from their homes. The most interesting example was that of a male and female captured together in a trap and carefully marked and then taken long distances away into another county and released at different places far apart from each other. Later the two were caught together again in a trap in their original home, showing that they had not only returned to their home, but had found each other and had again mated. This homing instinct had enabled them to go from the county of Lincolnshire back to their original home in Yorkshire. Hymn Translation Problems It is not the translation of hymns alone that the missionary in Africa finds awkward. Mr. Dudley Kidd tells how an old Kaffir woman who was being taught the Lord's Prayer was wrong at "thy kingdom come," tuting for "come" a word that made nonsense. The missionary, a lady, corrected her. But again and again the hopeless word was persisted in, and the other Kaffir women present laughed. At last they vouchessed the explanation. It appeared that the word for "come" contained the emphatic syllable of the name of the woman's husband, and according to the Kaffir custom no married woman may pronounce such a syllable. The missionary herself, whose name was Green, caused terrible scandal by using that word in speaking of some gooseberries.-London Chronicle. Ginnamon Trees Although the cultivation of cinnamon on the plantations in French Indo China is constantly increasing, most of the product is obtained from a wild shrub (Cinnamomum lourou) growing in the forest. When a native discoverer a cinnamon tree he must make a declaration before the local administration which cuts down the tree and authenticates its product. The profits accruing to the discoverer of a single tree sometimes reach a large sum. This industry is almost exclusively in the hands of Chinese merchants of Fafo. The variety most prized is the wild royal cinnamon of Thanhao, which is thought by the Chinese to possess a high medicinal value. It brings as high as $80 a pound. Rentiles With 2.000 Teeth. Many herbivorous reptiles of the mesozoic period had enormously long hind legs, on which they were able to wade far out into the deep water after seaweeds and other food. These creatures were particularly extraordinary in point of their dental equipment, in as much as each of them had about 2,000 grinders to chew with, arranged in magazines of 500 each, like cartrides. Feeling of Security. Feeling of Security- Bill—Saw you out horseback riding today. Bill—Oh, did you? Pm—Oh, oh you. "I suppose you feel as safe on a Tantalizing. Husband—Can you make any more of that combination salad we had yesterday? Wife—I like it? Husband—should say not. One minute I dreamed I had all kinds of cars and no gasoline and the next I had all kinds of gasoline and no cars—New York Globe. Popular. "Pa, I was the most popular boy in our class." "Did you pass?" "No. That's just the reason. 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At first they were fired by the application of a lighted match to the touchhole by the hand. The match was a wick lighted and pressed against the powder in the pan. The invention of a lock to fire the powder in place of the hand was suggested by the trigger of the crossbow. The matchlock fired the arquebus, or harquebus, used by the soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in projecting a ball which welged nearly two ounces.—London Telegraph. A Rapid Calculation Trick. By means of a simple arrangement of numbers a calculation can be made which will easily puzzle any unsuspecting person. If the two numbers 41,096 and 83 be written out in multiplication form very few will endear to write down the answer directly without first going through the regular work. By placing the 3 in front of the 4 and the 8 back of the 6 the answer is obtained at once, thus: 41,096x83 equals 3,410,968. A larger number which can be treated in the same way is the following: 4,109,589,041,096x83 equals 341,095,880,410,968—Popular Mechanics. Tibetana and Prayers. The Tibetans are the most pre-eminent praying people on the face of the earth. They have praying stones, praying pyramids, praying flags flying over all the houses, praying wheels and praying mills and the universal prayer, "Om mani pad me haun," is never out of their months.—Exchange. Crystal Wedding Anticipated. "What did he send you for a wedding present?" "Out glass." "Ahl Tableware, I suppose?" "No; a necklace."—London Standard. Greased Torpedoes. It is not generally known that every torpedo is covered over with fine vase-line so as to make it run easily in its tube as well as to protect the valuable weapon from rust and sea water. Hard Luck. "Trouble predicament Jones was in." "What was that?" "Get in hot water and couldn't get anybody to hit him."—Malthus THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1915 THE GERMAN SYSTEM OF SECRET SERVICE Every Inch of Ground In France Carefully Studied. Probably no army ever had the benefit of so farreaching a system of secret service as that which the Germans developed in France. It is now known that every inch of the ground had been carefully studied, the ready money in every town estimated, every suitable horse and every ton of hay recorded and the plans of every bridge drawn. There is nothing particularly new in the stratagems employed by the German spies, but the patience thor- A ARREST OF SUPREPTED GERMAN SPY BY FRENCH SOLDIERS. oughness and hardihood with which they have worked are worthy of note. As long ago as 1887 the topography of the region in which the battle of the Marne was fought was carefully studied by spies, who presented themselves even at the mayors' offices and at the prefectures as engineers studying the ground for new railway lines. They got all the information they wanted. When it was discovered that the projected railway lines were myths it was too late. It is known that more than 3,000 German spies were arrested in Belgium, most of whom have been tried by court martial. How many have been arrested in France no one knows. The government has thrown an impenetrable vell over all these proceedings. ROYAL HEIRS TO TROUBLE. Children of Belgium's King Are, In a Way, Victims of War. While uneasy rest the heads that at present wear the crowns of Europe, the little heads on which last July the crowns were destined to shine understand but little of the significance of the awful struggle they know is going on about them. Innocent children born to kingdoms have become heirs to trouble. They A Photos by American Press Association. GROWN PRINCE LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM AND HIB SISTER PRINCESS MAJE. may be when the war ends as poor as the poorest, for the present war may be a cataclysm which will destroy the European throne. The map of Europe seems likely to be remade and what domains, if any, will fall to the children of royalty not even the diplomats profess to know. The children of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium are sad examples of the hard days that have fallen upon juvenile royalties. They are exiles from the land which has been so devastated by war and are now living in London. There is doubt that the Belgian throne will descend to the heir apparent. The kingdom has been claimed by the invader, and what will be the status of Belgium when the war ends is a question which only time can answer. Francisco Villa Holds the Key of Situation. The metamorphosis of Francisco (popularly known as "Pancho") Villa from a bandit of the mountains of northern Mexico to the dominant figure in his country has been accomplished in a little more than four years. He is both the enigma and the key of the present situation. Long ago it was reported that Villa intended to establish a separate republic in the north. He has already A. B. established a definite and distinct government which lacks only a name. At first Villa intended to maintain this government and let the Carranzistas and Zapatistas fight it out in the south. Now he is fully determined to gather in the whole of Mexico, but intends to take it at his leisure and not weaken any of his northern points or communications in order to wage his southern campaign. It is a campaign of resources more than of bullets, with the advantage clearly on Villa's side. Villa has declared that he would stand for no military leader elected to the presidency. He desires a civilian in that office, and as he will probably be in control of the situation his desires are likely to be carried out. He is confident of establishing peace inside of two months, or three at the most. Constructive Criticism He- Is your literary club progressing satisfactorily? She-Indeed it is. At our last meeting we had a perfectly fascinating discussion of style. He-Fine. Shakespeare or Shaw? She-Neither. Skirts.-Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Good Example. Father (in a lecturing mood): You never heard of a man getting into trouble by following a good example. Son (incorrigible): Yes, sir, I have—the counterfeiter. A Vision of Judgment? "Extremes met at our boarding house today," remarked the star boarder. "How so?" asked the innocent by-sitter. "I ate deviled ham and had angel cake for dessert." — Philadelphia Ledger. Measurement. "Remember," said the efficiency advocate, "that time is money." "I suppose so," replied the worried man. 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Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris, wife of the American minister to Stockholm, has organised a committee consisting of the American women residents of Stockholm to work for the American nurses in Europe. She says the Swedish Red Cross in Stockholm reports that it is not in need of any supplies. Mrs. Catherine Booth-Cliibborn, oldest daughter of the late General William Booth and often called "the greatest woman preacher," has come from France to the United States to plead for American intervention in the world war. Mrs. Booth-Cliibborn spent thirty years in France and Belgium, doing missionary work. She withdrew from the Salvation Army several years ago. Fashion Frills. There will be a revolution in this country if the tailors attempt to compel the men to be as beautiful as their fashion.—Chicago News. We are wholly unbridled by the prediction that men are going to wear silk gowns. Only a year or two ago the queen was silk trainee—Cleveland Leader. A year ago the woman's skirts were so long they scraped the sidewalk. This spring they will be long enough to brush the tops of their shoes aline.—St Paul Pioneer Press. The fashion decree says that five inches of unlucky ankle must be exposed, which leads to an anatomical essay as to the precise boundaries of the ankle.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. PATH AND POINT. A watch is no good do him who is at wages behind them. ```markdown ``` Phone: Douglas 3256 3030 State Street S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ties and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. A. F. CODOZOE ELITE and BUFFET F. W. BLOCKI, Trees. LOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO eyssler, Druggist ESTATE STREET IN THE CORNER Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations Options Carefully Compounded ARRY A FULL LINE OF Real & Blocki's Flower Little Perfumes Flippant Flings. It will be funny to see dignified office seekers tiptoeing around for fear of waking the baby.-Atlanta Constitution. George W. Perkins advises consumers to buy in bulk and save on the cost of living. How would you buy liver by the bulk?-Detroit Free Press. A Kansas man wants a divorce because his wife snores. Goodbye marriage if he gets it and a precedent is established.-Atlanta Constitution. Since the White House is the traditional goal of every American boy, what is now left for President Wilson's grandson to plug for?-New York Sun. BRIGHT BRIEFS. A grievance is never improved by secret nursing. Industry is the mother of success. Luck is merely a distant relation. Mexican generals are spectacular in everything except getting killed off. When a man writes his autobiography many interesting facts are omitted. Some men are so lucky that they even fall down when nobody is around to see. Swelled head is the only disease in which the suffering is done by other people. The greatest mistake is to become discouraged because you have made a mistake. Kipling insists that the English are the only humorous nation. If they can fathom that joke they are. Scientists are agreed that the old earth is cooling off. But the process doesn't extend to the firing line. It is sad to see family relics sold at auction, but the most painful thing under the hammer is generally your thumbnail. With its armed neutrality, its mounting deficits and its dearth of tourists, Switzerland finds its scenery less satisfactory than usual. Hussein Kemal, the new khedive of Egypt, has a larger mustache than the former khedive. Otherwise the government is not greatly changed. A census of the men who have been president of Mexico in the last four years is in order. A census of those who have tried to be president is hopefully impossible. Automatic 72-379 Chicago, Ill THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE POLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. B. Jones, magazines, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 248 E. 35th St. N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, notice store and news stand, 5012 S. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, S. E. corner 51st and State streets. S. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 51 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. CONSTANTINO MAY BE CZAR If Russians Rule The WHI Be Changed NAPOLEON THE GREAT said, "Constantino the empire of the Western Europe, above all, accepted the dict George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. E. M. 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Diffay, cigars, tobacco; notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Tiny German States. While it is well known that some of the German states are of lipputian size, few persons are aware that it is quite possible to visit seven of them, including two kingdoms, two duchies and three principalities in an easy walk of four and a half hours. A good walker, starting from Steinbach, in Bavaria, will arrive in half an hour at Lichtentanne, which is situated in Saxe-Melningen. Thence the road proceeds in one and a half hours to Rauschengesees (Reuss, elder branch), after which it is a few minutes Glemania in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, is reached. Half an hour's walk brings the pedestrian to Altengeesees (Reuss, younger branch). An hour farther on lies Drognitz, on Prussian soil, and the last stage is another hour's stroll, finishing up at Saalthal, Saxe-Altenburg.—Washington Star. Over Their Heads. Lady Southwark, in her "Social and Political Reminiscences," relates this experience of her father, the late Sir Thomas Chambers, during an election meeting in 1880, when Gladstone was speaking for him in St Pancras: "When my father arrived the crowd outside the building was so dense that it seemed physically impossible for him to get in. An inspector, realizing this, suggested that he shoul go over and not through the crowd. This extraordinary idea was carried out. My father was lifted up with a gentle shove and propelled along on the heads of the people on all fours. This, he said, was not so difficult, as most wore bowler hats. Willing hands assisted, and when he reached the inside of the door he was gently lowered to the g. d." One Exception. Mrs. Blanc said to her daughter one day: "I am certainly easy on shoes. Look at this pair of elastic sides. I've worn them three years, and they're as good as new. I'm easy on clothes too. There's my tweed—just as fresh as the day I bought it seven years ago. And hats, gloves, stockings—in fact, I'm easy on everything." "Except father, eh?" said the daughter.—Detroit Free Press. Bombs In Warfare It is claimed that during the siege of Paris in 1500 the Parisians invented the first bombs ever used. Being short of ammunition with which to reply to the artillery of the Bearnails, they set to fabricating it as best they could. Old nails and bits of wire, copper and other metals were rolled up in leaden envelopes, and the cannons were loaded with these improvised projectiles. Right and Left A writer says that probably in every language, as in English, "right" originally signified merely "straight." "straightforward" and thus "normal." "Left" at first was no opposition to "right," but meant "weak," "inefficient." More Worry. "Don't worry. Worry affects the duplexes glands of the body, thereby causing actual physical aliments." "Gosh, I'm sorry you told me that. It will make me worry."—Louisville Courier-Journal. CONSTANTINOPLE MAY BE CZARGRAD If Russians Rule There Name WHI Be Changed. NAPOLEON THE GREAT once said, "Constantinople means the empire of the world." Western Europe, England above all, accepted the dictum for a century and acted upon it. The theory of the supreme importance of Constantinople was the controlling feature of the British foreign policy for generations. Yet ever since the present war broke out British public opinion has been educating itself to an abandonment of Constantinople to Russia, and it seems within the bounds of possibility that the cxar will reign in ancient Byzantium and change its name to Czarggrad, "fortress of the cxar." To appreciate conditions in Constantinople it is necessary to understand the place. To come upon it by boat up the sea of Marmora and to catch a first glimpse of St. Sophia over the hill and then, after rounding the Golden Horn, to come upon Stamboul and Pera, white in the sunlight, is to see one of the truly artistic vistas of the world. The black and white shadows of the oriental mosques and their minarets hung upon the cypress covered slopes of the Bosporus pattern a rare picture for the eye of any man. The Turk always has loved that which is beautiful, and wherever he has builted he has selected the most attractive site for his city. Sloping hillside, blue sky and sun kissed stretch of semi-tropic sea, a silhouette of dark trees against the sky line, the mystic hush which is found only in this land, and you have what should be the true spirit of the place. Under all this there are avarice, passion, stealthy crime, intrigue and cringing servitude. In a place which to the eye is beautiful and in which we expect to find things worth while there are mas- LA MUSICA DEL CIVILIZAZIONE MUTINERERS IN CONSTANTINOPLE STREET. sacre, disease and filth, due mainly to misgovernment and the corruption of the Ottoman officials of high and low degree. In Pera, the city on the hill; in Galata, which is reached by the most wonderful bridge in the world, and in Stamboul, the old city, under normal conditions there are more people of different races than in any other place on the globe. Greeks, Germans, English, French, immigrants from the Balkan lands, Jews, wealthy Armenians, orientals from Asia, each with his own religion, each with his own motive, each with his own deep rooted fear, dislike and distrust of the other man, live in fear of their very lives. Picture to yourself a city with streets so narrow that the bay windows of the overhanging houses fairly touch each other and shut out the sky above the narrow roadway below. Picture this street rising sheer from the sea, flagged with stones centuries old and ending abruptly at its upper extremity in a veritable desert, and you have a fair idea of the thoroughfires of the congested section which rise from the water front in old Stamboul. Picture these streets teeming with people so close one upon another that they touch as they pass and you have some idea of the compactness of the place. The movement of people in Constantinople is as ceaseless as the fluttering wavelets of the Bosporus. The flow of humanity back and forth across the Galata bridge has no counterpart on the globe. Across this ancient and historic bridge, touching elbows, are the rich and the bitterly poor, the great and the small of almost every nation of the earth. Beside a Turkish officer in uniform laden with gold lace mumbles the ragged, crouchng baggar. Trotting behind a Pariskian equipage of the latest pattern is a turbaned Arab, hustling and bustling along the countless throng of water vendors, fresh meat venders, runners, children, velled women, Europeans, sailors of every nation, a weird composition of men who mingle and who will not miz. Picture to yourself a city, if one may call such a quaint group of "Amberian Nights" buildings people with such a rainbow people a city, wherein anything is possible, from the tenderest of romance to the most flandish set of brutality, and you have Constantinople. "A STORE FOR EVERYBODY" 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 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.W. WESTINGTON STREET. A WOMAN WASHING HER HOME The Way to "L Put the in the u Not any of that new cake stuff, but the brand—flaky, crispy-c filled with lots of but berries—to be crown "finishing touch" of m berries. COOK FOR ning short-cake, in th Compos —at the same time y the heat you now wa the COMPOSITE and an ancient, worn-out story. Then take him fifty shapes and sty Monthly payments wi The Peoples Gas Peoples Gas Building The Way to "Hubby's" He Put the short-cake in the upper oven Not any of that new-fangled, tasteless sponge cake stuff, but the good, old-time Mother brand—flaky, crispy-crusted, biscuit short-cake filled with lots of butter and luscious crush berries—to be crowned when served, with "finishing touch" of more and still more crush berries. COOK FOR HIM, just such a manw ning short-cake, in the upper oven of your Composite Range —at the same time you cook the meat—with the heat you now waste. In case you haver the COMPOSITE and are handicapped wi an ancient, worn-out range, tell Hubby the story. Then take him with you to inspect the fifty shapes and styles—at all our store Monthly payments with your gas bills. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co ples Gas Building Telephone Randolph JOHN J. DUNN The Way to "Hubby's" Heart Not any of that new-fangled, tasteless sponge cake stuff, but the good, old-time Mother's brand—flaky, crispy-crusted, biscuit short-cake, filled with lots of butter and luscious crushed berries—to be crowned when served, with a "finishing touch" of more and still more crushed berries. COOK FOR HIM, just such a man-winning short-cake, in the upper oven of your Composite Range at the same time you cook the meat—with the heat you now waste. In case you haven't the COMPOSITE and are handicapped with an ancient, worn-out range, tell Hubby the story. Then take him with you to inspect the fifty shapes and styles—at all our stores. Monthly payments with your gas bills. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Telephone Randolph 4567 WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVEN RAILYARDS Slot St. and L. S. & W. S. Slot St. and ARMOUR AVE. FRANK DUNN FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS Slot St. and L. S. & H. S. Slot St. and ARMOUR AVE. FRANK DUNN An Exception. Biz—No man ever succeeded in busi- ness who kept watching the clock. Ditz—Oh; I don't know. There's the train dispatcher—Brooklyn Eagle. Domestic Harm Louise—Does Howard g- pily with his wife? Julia of his opinions coincide w the others he keeps silent. Not one man in a thousand who roll down to the bottom of the hill can make the world believe he did it for exercise.—Atlanta Constitution. FRANK DUNN J. B. MOCAHEY TRUSTEESI J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET "Hubby's" Heart short-cake upper oven f-fangled, tasteless sponge- good, old-time Mother's crusted, biscuit short-cake, bitter and luscious crushed med when served, with a more and still more crushed HIM, just such a man-win- the upper oven of your Site Range you cook the meat—with taste. In case you haven't and are handicapped with at range, tell Hubby the m with you to inspect the styles—at all our stores. with your gas bills. Us Light & Coke Co. Telephone Randolph 4567 J. DUNN OAL RETAIL and ARMOUR AVENUE St. and L. S. & H. S. ARMOUR AVE. OM16A00 Domestic Harmony. Louise—Does Howard get along hap pily with his wife? Julia—Ken. Some of his opinions coincide with hers and the others he keeps silent about—Lith All Around Him. "I'm looking for spats." "You ought to have my job as awful," commented the weary footwalker—Louisville Courier-Journal TEL. OAKLAND 1880, 1889, 1892