The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Death a of Rev. Elij Pastor of O Church, 27 born Street HE WAS A PROMINENT CITIZEN IN GIANT WHO POSSESSED A M PRESIDED OVER ONE OF CHURCHES IN THE MIDDLE W HE WAS THE FIRST VICE PRESID CONVENTION. HE WAS PRES CONVENTION AND PRESIDENT CIATION. A VAST MULTITUDE OF MEN, WALKS OF LIFE ATTENDED The Death and Funeral of Rev. Elijah J. Fisher Pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, 27th and Dearborn Streets Since 1902 HE WAS A PROMINENT CITIZEN IN EVERY WAY AN INTELLECTUAL GIANT WHO POSSESSED A MASTER MIND WHO SUCCESSFULLY PRESIDED OVER ONE OF THE LARGEST AFRO-AMERICAN CHURCHES IN THE MIDDLE WEST. HE WAS THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND PRESIDENT OF THE ILLINOIS BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. A VAST MULTITUDE OF MEN. WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE ATTENDED HIS FUNERAL. BY L. W. WASHINGTON Last Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, Rev. Elijah J. Fisher, who since 1902, was the energetic and hard working pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, 27th and Dearborn streets, quietly and peacefully folded his arms in death, at his home 2940 S. Park avenue, after a long spell of illness and a general break down from overwork. When the end finally came he was surrounded by Mrs. Fisher, his constant and devoted wife, and the other immediate members of his family and Rev. Duncan assistant pastor of Olivet, and a few others of his close friends. To the everlasting credit of Rev. Fisher, he rescued Olivet Baptist Church, from its wreck and ruin in 1902, after it had been sold at Sheriff's sale to pay its debts and from that time to his death, he worked day and night, to get it on a solid financial foundation and paid off more than $30,000 of its indebtedness, practically leaving it free from debt. At the time he assumed charge of it, it was split in two, by two warring factions, both factions being fully determined to exterminate the other and more than half of its membership, followed its former pastor, the Rev. J. F. Thomas, to Arlington Hall, 31st street and Indiana avenue, later on establishing the Ebenezer Baptist Church at 35th and Dearborn streets and when Rev. Fisher, was forced to relinquish his duties as pastor of Olivet Baptist church, he left it with more than three thousand and eight hundred members, in the most flourishing condition. Funeral services were held over his remains Thursday morning. The body laying in state at the church all day Wednesday and on Thursday morning until near the time of the funeral and during that length of time fully five thousand people viewed the remains in sorrow. The members of the church held the evening sacred by all night devotional exercises. The many floral contributions caused the pulpit to look like one variatable flower garden. Rev. Dr. C. T. Walker "The Block Spurgeon" of America arriving from Angusta, Ga. Wednesday evening eloquently preached the funeral sermon. THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS LEFT FOR ENCAMPMENT AT CAMP LINCOLN, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, LAST EVENING. The Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, Col. Franklin A. Denison commanding, left last evening for one weeks encampment, at Camp Lincoln, near Springfield, Illinois, and the members of the regiment expect to have a good outing and to undergo rigid military training. Frank L. Hamilton, Alfred Anderson and Cary B. Lewis, will be among those who will join the regiment in Camp. Mr. Hamilton, has already been cited to appear before the high or the can- Vol. XX. His subject being "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, now am I ready to be offered up." Dr. Walker baptized as well as ordained Dr. Fisher and knew him from childhood, therefore none were better qualified to preach the funeral, which was an eloquent appeal in behalf of Christian Living. Two choirs sang the songs love and hope, which left the people's eyes filled with tears. The mighty has fallen, and the Colored people are made by his death, to once more acknowledge the presence of their God. Congressman Martin B. Madden, The Hon. Oscar De Priest, both very dear friends of his, Mrs. B. W. Fitts, Mr. J. F. McLorem, Stephen Griffin, Mrs. F. L. Barnore, Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson, Judge Horatio W. Wells, Rev. E. T. Martin, of Bethesda, Rev. Heywood of Salem, Rev. W. S. Braddan, of Barien Baptist Church and chaplain of the 8th Regiment, Rev. H. Knight, of the West Side, Dr. J. P. Brushingham, of 33rd St. and South Park M. E. Church, The Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor of Quinn Chapel, Hon. R. Cowan, Dr. W. M. Davis, Mat. Hulett, and a host of other prominent citizens were in attendance, Madame Clifford Johnson, was the funeral director, the funeral train conveyed the body to its last resting place at 1 o'clock from 47th St. to Mt. Forest Cemetery. The Western Star members were present with their badges of mourning to pay their respects of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The church was filled to its utmost capacity at 8:30 A. M. The fire department and the police department were on hand and creditably controlled the crowd. Some of the people stayed in the church all night, some went there as early as 3 A. M. while thousands filled the streets and building on the outside for 3 and 1/2 hours, satisfied just to review the funeral procession as it passed on. Rev. Fisher was one of our warm friends and was one of its financial supporters and our heartfelt love and sympathy flows out to the members of his family over his passing on through the valley of silent death into the next world. garoo court of the regiment, which meets every night at 12 o'clock. One of the charges lodged against him, is that he wears his hat with too much of a tilt on the left side of his head, which is in violation of the established rules of the army and that he fails to give, the proper military salute, when he comes in contact with his superior officers. Thursday, as is customary, will be Governor's day, at which time Governor Edward F. Dunne, accompanied by his staff will "troop the line" and review the regiment. We are very sorry indeed to learn of the death of our Friend and Brother, O. M. Henderson of Englewood. We have to say more about him next week. M. HON. FRANK H. GRAHAM. One of the popular and honorable judges of the Municipal Court, who would make a dandy or an ideal candidate for Attorney General of Illinois in 1916. One of the popular and honorable judges of the Municipal Court, who would make a dandy or an ideal candidate for Attorney General of Illinois in 1916. THEATRE VENTILATION. The work of enforcing the ventilation ordinance of Chicago in so far as it applies to the theatres has been practically completed. With the exception of a few isolated cases, all of the theatres in Chicago are equipped with a ventilating system that, if continuously operated during performances, will maintain a satisfactory air condition, in accordance with the requirements of the ordinance. This, however, is only a good beginning in the crusade to provide pure air for Chicago's citizens. To succeed in getting the theatres equipped was the first step; to see that the systems are operated is almost as difficult. This does not apply in all cases, for where a good equipment has been carefully designed to meet the particular requirements and properly installed, the theatre manager is invariably loud in the praise of the innovation; in fact theatre proprietors call at the Department of Health almost daily and state that they cannot do business when the equipment is not in operation. There were, however, entirely too many theatres where the owners felt that the enforcement of the ordinance was a hardship and where they complied, only under severe pressure. In many of these cases they bought the cheapest ventilating equipment that it was possible to procure. Many of them were installed by men unfamiliar with ventilation work and the result is, the operation is unsatisfactory and in some cases very expensive. Engineers from the Ventilation Division have been visiting theatres that fall under this category and are making a study of the situation. We find in many cases that a little careful study of conditions, with slight alterations, will make a satisfactory equipment of what was formerly very unsatisfactory. The Department wishes to cooperate with theatre owners in an endeavor to help them get their money's worth from the equipments that have been installed, knowing that a sanitary, well ventilated theatre is the only one in the present state of public alertness that is a money making proposition. An invitation is extended to all theatre owners who have difficulty with their equipments, to notify the Department of Health of the facts in the case. An experienced man will be detailed to study conditions and offer suggestions for improving the same. It is often possible to improve the distribution of the air; to increase, or in some cases reduce, the amount of air handled; to eliminate noise and to decrease operating expenses by means of simple changes judiciously made. It is also possible in some cases to install cool water sprays and materially reduce the temperature in the theatre in warm weather; also to provide a steam jet in the main duct that will increase the humidity of the air in dry weather and considerably enhance the value of the installation. Slight additions and alterations of this character can often be made at a minimum expense and will prove a money making proposition to the theatre owner. If we protect the pig, why not conserve the child? In the unscreened home the fly swatter availeth little. Luckily the few who always oppose progress have never been able to make the world stand still. BUSINESS LEAGUE CONVENTION NOTES. Boston, Mass., Special to The Broad Ax. In addition to the regular business sessions of the Convention to be held in Boston, August 18th, 19th and 20th, the Colored citizens of Boston, always hospitable are sparing no pains to make the coming and stay of the delegates and visitors a most pleasant one. A Guarantee Fund for the purpose of financing every feature of the reception and entertainment of the delegates and visiting friends has already been over-subscribed. The I. B. O. P. E. are preparing to entertain most fittingly their visiting Brother Elks. The New England Medical Association is making arrangements to entertain the Visiting brethren of the Medical Profession. The local members of the National Negro Funeral Directors Association have in store a rich treat for the visiting members of their Fraternity. Undertaker Basil H. Hutchins is Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. On Thursday evening, August 19th, a royal, monster reception in honor of the officers and delegates will be held in the State Armory in Cambridge, just across the famous Harvard Bridge. The Cambridge Local League is arranging for this reception which promises to be one of the leading social features of the whole Convention. The officers and members of the National Negro Press Association will be given a sumptuous breakfast during Convention Week. The local members of the Press Association are to be the Hosts. Editor Harrison of the Cambridge Advocate is Chairman of the Col. Giles B. Jackson and His Fifty Years of Freedom Celebration at Richmond, Virginia, Has Turned Out to be a Rank Failure The Star of Newport News, Va., of recent date sets forth its opinion of Col. Jackson and his Richmond fair or his fifty years of freedom celebration which lately closed down, which was a rank failure, in the following manner: THAT RICHMOND FAIR. Today ends the existence of one of the greatest farces that has ever been inflicted upon the people of this section of the country. Sometime ago the Congress of the United States appropriated the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars to assist in celebrating the fifteenth year of the Negro's freedom in this land, and that money was entrusted to Giles B. Jackson and some other men who we have never heard mentioned, for the consummation of the result named; but never in all our experience and observations have we seen a more miserable failure in projecting such an affair. Instead of enlisting the help of the Negro newspapers throughout the country in promoting this enterprise, Mr. Jackson essayed to advertise the affair by issuing a publication called the "Industrial Herald," which few people read, and fewer still remember anything in it which they read, and from the beginning to the end few people seemed to take sufficient interest in the Negro Industrial Exposition to even help it to make a decent headway. The Richmond people who usually make a success of any undertaking, in which any of the citizens of the progressive city is interested did not take the trouble to lose any of their time, in giving the concern the least consideration. The celebration was held in the grounds of the State Fair Association therefore, there was no necessity for the expenditure of any money for buildings or improvements and while there were a few things of interest on exhibition, there were so few that they were not of sufficient interest to command the attention of even the local people, let alone the people from other parts of Virginia or the country in general. A Banquet and Grand Ball will be given Friday evening, August 20th, in Convention Hall, by the Boston Business League, in honor of the officers, delegates, their wives and visiting friends. This Ball promises to be one of the most satisfactory affairs of its kind ever given in honor of the National Negro Business League. On Saturday, August 21st, will come the final climax to the "Big Week" in the form of a most delightful trip down Boston's famous harbor on the palatial steamer, the City of Boston. Boston's harbor is considered one of the prettiest along the North Atlantic Coast, and is filled with the invigorating ozone that prevails during the summer months. What is nicer than, with a mind free from business cares, to take the long draughts of the reviving salt sea breezes and live for a whole afternoon close to the heart of nature's "Great Big Ocean." Twelve of the astute Colored politicians met in conference at Hom. Geo. W. Ellis office 30th and State St., you may rest assure, they are not meeting there weekly, for nothing, there is something going to happen or "there is some thing dead up the creek." Jackson and years of Free- bration at, Virginia, d Out to be failure At no time during the existence of the exposition, were there more than a few — a very few—people in attendance. The more one inquired the cause of the terrible frost, the more you were met with the answer, the affair was entirely a one-man concern, and that since the success, if any success, would be credited to Col. Giles B. Jackson, the more determined was the public to show that the failure should be attributed to the same source. That the affair was most miserably advertised and more miserably managed goes without saying, and since it was in the hands of one man, the Negroes of Richmond, of the State of Virginia and the entire country, have no regrets at its failure. What a pity the Congress of the United States, or those authorized by the Congress, had not been apprised before the money was appropriated to exploit an exposition commemorative of the Negro's progress in this country, since slavery, that it would be necessary to enlist the services of Negro men and women, who not only had the confidence of the people, but who had the sense to know what would be necessary to be done to insure the success of such an undertaking. It is true some such men were named on the committee of management, but it turns out that they had no more to do with the management of the affair than some one in a foreign land. We are exceedingly glad that the Negro newspapers all over the country are hastening to make it known that the consumate farce was due to the utter mismanagement of those who directly handled the affair and that the intelligent Negro of Virginia had no possible part in either its promotion or its failure. This should be a lesson to the White men of the South, that the old anti-bellum Negro, of whom he is so especially fond, and who filled his place admirably and well, is not the kind of Negro who will suit nowadays, to foster and conduct great enterprises, which call for experience and wisdom of a commanding order. DEATH AND FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROBINSON. Last Sunday afternoon funeral services were held over the remains of Captain William Robinson, 3511 Federal street, who was at the head of Company A 12th Regiment Uniform Bank, of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows at the Institutional Church. All the prominent Odd Fellows as well as the lesser members of that order were in evidence at the funeral. Captain Robinson by hard work saved enough of money to buy the two flat building at the above mentioned number where he resided with his lowable and dutiful wife, Mrs. Robinson. Aside from her, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Maggie Strange of Pittsburg, Pa., and hosts of friends to mourn his death. His remains were laid to rest in Oakwood cemetery and Mrs. Robinson wishes to thank her many friends and all others who have assisted her in any way during her sad bereavement. The funeral of Mrs. Neabit, a member of Hannibal Court, No. 3, O. O. C. of K. of P's, was held at the house 3229 Cottage Grove Ave., last Sunday at 1 P. M. Rev. J. C. Anderson, of Quinn Chapel affiliated. --- PAGE TWO A. B. DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. When Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was speaking the other day she touched on the subject of the war, and a man in the crowd called out, "What does a woman know about war anyhow?" "Take the newspaper out of your pocket and hold it up," answered Dr. Shaw. "Five hundred and fifty thousand men already sacrificed to the war. You ask what a woman knows about war--550,000 men dead! No woman can understand the horror of the death of 550,000 men. Nobody understands this. But if you were to tell me that one man lay dead I might be able to understand something of its meaning. I might be able to go back over the years and remember that a woman whose heart throbbed with love and sympathy and hope of coming motherhood walked day by day with her face toward an open grave, with a courage so sublime that no man ever surpassed it. "And then after her child was born that woman in her young womanhood laid aside what every human being of us has—her ambitions for herself—that she might give her life to the life which she had given. And year after year her child grew until he became a man, and the mother looking into the face of that boy knew herself built into him, her life wrought into his life. Then in an hour that wonderful thing, that beautiful spirit, was called out, and he lay dead. And while that mother is looking into his dead face some one asks, 'What does a woman know about war?' " TRIMMED WITH BRAID. Military Effect Obtained In Smart Talleur by Braid and Fur. A smart suit is shown here in navy blue broadcloth, with dashing trimming of military braid. The belted effect is evident, disappearing now and then under a box plait. Skunk fur trims the metal braided collar and curls, and ball buttons lend a finishing touch. The trim sailor is of navy satin with out brim and silk tabs. Raspberry Syrup. This is a very refreshing drink and is especially recommended for the invalid, to whom a cooling drink with tart flavor is appetizing. Boll the raspberries and strain, and to one pint of the strained juice add one pound of granulated sugar. Get it stand overnight. In the morning bell it again for about ten minutes and then bottle. When serving put two tablespoonfuls in a glass of cold water. Hints for the Needle Worker Marguerite Lace and Insertion. Abbreviations: ch., chain; d.c., double crochet; tr., trechet; l.t., long treble; d.l.t., double long treble. Most simple to crochet, yet so very effective are these wheels when joined as an insertion for trimming casement window curtains, pillowslips, tray cloths, etc. Our design shows a pretty curtain for a window. This lace is worked in crochet cotton No. 24 with a No. 5 steel hook. Begin with the lace. For the first flower work 5 ch., join into a ring by a slip stitch. First round—4 ch. for long treble, 2 lt. (cotton twice over needle) over the ring (keep the first two stitches on the needle and work them off with the third), * 5 ch., 3 lt. over ring, work them off in the same way as first group; repeat from * six times. Second round—Into each of the eight spaces of five chain work 1 d. c., 0 tr., 1 d. c. This completes one pattern. Work a second pattern and join to the first by the third treble on one pattern to the same treble on first pattern. Join them by two leaves. Leave two PATTERN AND METHOD OF WORKING. free leaves on both sides of joining. On the corner leave four free leaves on the outer edge. The heading—1 d. c. into the first of two leaves on inner edge, 5 ch., 1 d. c. on next leaf, * 8 ch., 5 d. c. on first leaf on next pattern, 5 ch., 1 d. c. on second leaf on same pattern; repeat from *. On the corners, after working 5 ch., 1 d. c. on last leaf before corner, work 3 ch., 1 d. 1 t. (cotton three times over needle) between two leaves on corner pattern, 3 ch., 1 d. c. into first leaf on next pattern. Third round—* 9 d. c. over first space of eight chain, 4 ch. Turn back over four double crochet, draw the cotton through the fifth double crochet, over this small space work 8 d. c. 5 d. c. over same space as first nine double crochet were worked, 6 d. c. over next space of chain, 4 ch. Turn back over four double crochet, draw the cotton through the fifth double crochet and work 8 d. c. over this space; repeat from *. At the corners work 5 d. c. over each of the spaces of three chain on both sides of the double long treble on corner pattern. For the insertion—Work the patterns and join them in the same way as for lace. See illustration for the placing of patterns for insertion. The edgings of the insertion are done in the same way as for the lace. On the outside edge of the corner pattern work 5 ch., between first and second leaves, 8 ch. between second and third, 8 ch. between third and fourth. Pillow Slip Lace Abbreviations—Ch, chain; tr, treble. First Row—Tr, in tent st. (ch. 3 skips 3, 1 tr. in next st.) 8 times, mak- ing 9 spaces in all; 1 tr. in last st. turn. Second Row—Ch, 3 tr. in second tr., 7 spaces, 5 trs, 1 space, turn. Third Row—Ch, 9 tr. in tr., 3 under 3 ch. 1 in each of 5 tr. 3 under 3 ch. 1 in tr. 6 spaces, tr. in last tr. turn. Fourth Row—Ch, 3 tr. in tr., 5 spaces, 5 trs., 1 space, 5 trs., 1 space, space 5 trs., turn. Fifth Row—Ch, 12, 4 trs. over 12 ch. just made 5 trs. in 5 trs. 3 under 3 ch. tr. in tr. 1 space, 13 trs., 4 spaces, tr. in last tr. turn. Sixth Row—Ch, 3 tr., in tr. 5 spaces, 5 trs. made 5 trs. 1 space, 5 trs. turn. Seventh Row—Ch, 6, 13 trs., 6 spaces; tr. in last tr. turn. Eighth Row.-Ch. 3 tr. in tr., 7 spaces, 5 tr. 1 space, turn. Ninth Row.—Ch. 6 tr. in first tr., 8 more spaces, tr. in last tr., turn. Tenth Row.—Like the second row. When you have as much as you need, break and work a plott edge around each scallop, as follows: Fasten thread in first space of scallop; ch. 5, 11 d. c, 5 ch., 1 d. c, 6 ch., 1 d. c, 5 ch., 1 d. c.; in next loop, ch., 5 L, 1 d. c, 6 ch., 1 d. c, 7 ch.; 1 d. c, 6 ch., 1 d. c, 1 in center loop; ch. 5 1 d. c, 5 ch., 1 d. c, 6 ch., 1 in center space between two scallops, ch. 5, 1 d. c; in 1 st loop of second scallop, st. to end. Baked Basta Doats retain their sugar, delicate flavor to perfection if they are baked instead of boiled. Turn them frequently while in the oven, using a knife, as a fork allows the juice to run out. When done remove the skin and serve with butter, salt and pepper on the olive. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 7, 1915. AUTUMN HAT. White Heckle Makes a Smart Chapeau For Fall. SMART TAILLEUR Belted Effect Makes Chic Suit For the Girl AN ADVANCE MODEL. Featured is the latest creation in feather turbans. It is a smart winged affair of pure white heckle and may be appropriately worn with a suit or frock. VACATION TIME FUN. Why Don't You Begin Gathering Christmas Gifts Now? The "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early" signs, which make their appearance between four and five months from now, really ought to be tacked up in the summer, for that is the very best time to shop as far as the comfort that comes from uncrowded stores is concerned. So why don't you do your Christmas shopping now? If you are in the city look about the shops at your leisure and choose your gifts carefully. You will find uncrowded aisles and experienced and rested salesmen and saleswomen, a far different condition from that which prevails after the 1st of December. If you are traveling about the United States this summer buy your gifts on your travels. Make out a list of such friends as you wish to remember with gifts at Christmas, and whenever you find anything that would make a particular appeal to one of them buy it and make note of it. If you are spending the summer at the shore or in the country or in the mountains you can still do much toward getting your Christmas gifts together. Even if there are no shops near at hand there are lovely things to be had for a little pleasure giving exertion on your part. Suppose you have a summer home in the country. Why not make jams and jellies of the wild fruits in your neighborhood? Wild plum conserve, wild grape jelly, wild blackberry jam—all these have a delicious flavor if properly made. At the nearest country store you can probably get attractive little jam pots in which these preserves, jams and jellies can be packed. If not, you can send to the nearest city for a consignment of the right sort of glasses or jars. Half a dozen jars of jam packed into a little basket would make a most welcome gift to a young girl at college next Christmas. Four jars of assorted jelly daintily tied with holly and ribbons would be welcomed by an invalid friend, and the fact that they were made from wild fruits would carry a suggestion of freshness and health. If you cannot make these preserves yourself perhaps you can buy them at some farmhouse. And perhaps there will be jars of extracted honey for sale and cakes of maple sugar. Or perhaps you can make little net bags to fill with sweet lavender blossoms, first put in colored silk bags. Pillows filled with pine needles and covered with linen covers that may be appropriately embroidered or stenciled with cones are another dainty gift from the country. For a child in school a scrapbook filled with carefully mounted specimens of wild flowers would prove useful and interesting. And you might dig up some small ferns in the woods and start them growing in pots. Later they could be put in pretty basket holders for gifts. From the seashore bayberry candies, hand dipped, of course, are an appropriate gift. They can be given in sets of four or six, or one can be set in a candiestick of brass or pottery. Bundles of driftwood, too, are welcomed by the woman with a fireplace, And bags or boxes or unusual shells are liked by small children. Pumpernickel Sandwiches. Slice thin, butter, cover with slices of bologna and a little chopped dill pickle. Rye Bread Sandwiches. Between well buttered slices of rye bread spread a layer each of wafers thin slices of Bermuda onions, lightly salted, and bologna sausage. Cheese and Anchovy Sandwiches. Blend well together Parmesan cheese and anchovy, one part of the fish to two cheese. Add a little dill and spread between slices of swieback. Honey Sandwiches. Spread honey between slices of bread and butter, taking care that it does not run over the edges. Fig Sandwiches. Chop figs figs, add a little water and cook slowly until the right consistency for spreading. Add a few chopped nut meats and a little finely shredded orange peel and spread between thin slices of brown brand. 1 GIRLISH CREATION. The belted effect in misses' suit styles holds quite an important place among the autumn season's smart models. Here it is featured in navy mohair, with belt confining narrow plaits that show above and below the waist line. The high roll collar with metal embroidery lends a military note, and the oblong metal buttons afford a trim effect. Deep cuffs and an odd shaped yoke are interesting features. The flare skirt just escapes high button boots, and the trim fallle sailor is very girlish. MIDSUMMER CLOTHES Autumn Presses Closely Upon the Heels of Summer. Midsummer is usually the signal for changes and modifications in the summer fashions. Spring clothes begin to show wear, and to demand renewal, and our fickle minds begin to look for something different. Does it not seem strange that American men should not have adopted long since a more suitable August attire than blue serge and tan shoes? However, if men persist in conservatism in this respect, women make up for it, for no woman in the world indulges in summer clothes to the same extent as the American woman. The women of other nations from reasons connected with climate or temperament, or an inborn sense of economy, may wear silks or thin wool, but we insist upon our ephemeral materials, and every year produces new ones for us. This, of course, is a taffeta season, and we are all wearing it accordingly. In order to cater to both parties we combine it with net, lawn, muslin and organdie in the form of colored basques, coatées and the sleeveless jackets, which it is now possible to buy separately in the department stores. What are called "porch frocks" are sold in great variety. It is a good product for one of the principal products of our own country that we so generally adopt the cotton fabrics for summer wear. But regard we this, as the French say. Some months ago an active cotton crusade to "help the south" was inaugurated with great blowing of trumpets. It was demonstrated to us how many varied articles were made of cotton, and endless were the surprises of finding, for example, that one's white "London ivory" comb was really made of southern cotton We were urged to give up linen bed coverings and take to the less frigid cotton ones; even the superior lightness and washability of cotton blankets were pointed out to us. Ardent crusaders implored us to relinquish the silk petticoats, which widened skirts had just caused us to adopt, and take to cotton substitutes. Everybody talked cotton for a few weeks, and then the whole subject died a natural death until the Parisian designers, who know nothing about the south and care less, suddenly revived it with the decree of two washable petticoats under the summer's founced gowns. Care of the Stove To prevent your gas stove from rusting inside of your oven or outside surface use a few drops of linseed oil on a cloth and rub over thoroughly. This can also be used on coal ranges or other style iron stoves, after which you use stove paste to which a few drops of black coffee are added to molten paste, and then brush over. It will polish up quickly and reward you with a brilliant luster. Metal Polish. A high polish for metals is made by mixing two ounces of prepared chalk, three-quarters of an ounce of pipeclay, half an ounce of white lead, a quarter ounce of carbonate of magnesia and a quarter ounce of jeweler's rouge. Care of the Baby In Summer Out of Door Life. [Prepared by the children's bureau, Unit- Keep the baby out of doors. It is almost as important to feed the lungs on fresh air as it is to feed the stomach on fresh milk. Stale air is almost as harmful as stale food, and there is far less excuse for it. Fresh air and sunshine at all times of the year are essential to the baby's health and growth, but mothers too often fail to realize this fact. Babies are frequently kept on a starvation allowance of these two things, sometimes from unhappy necessity, when the home is in a crowded, unventilated apartment in a large city. When this is the case the mother must do her best for the baby by taking him as often as possible to the parks, recreation plers, playgrounds and other public open places provided for this purpose by the city. Outings for mothers and babies to the country or seashore are often given by churches and other organizations during the hot summer months in large cities. Many an infant's life has been saved by even a brief stay in the country, but where this is not feasible even brief changes of air such as are secured in the parks are of great benefit to a baby, as well as to the mother. In the smaller cities and towns and in the country there can be little excuse for depriving a baby of outdoor life and a constant supply of fresh air. In fact, in suitable weather the baby may practically live out of doors. In the hottest weather, when it is cooler in doors than out, the baby should be kept in until the heat is over, but at night and in the morning he may be out for several hours. A screened porch on the shady side of the house, where he may play and sleep, will afford the baby many hours of outdoor life. A sick baby especially needs fresh air, and when possible the crib should be set up on the porch, provided the baby can be protected from the hot sun and from files and mosquitoes. Experience has shown that sick babies stand a much better chance of life and recover much more rapidly if PROTECT HIM FROM FLIES. kept out of doors. Common sense should guide the mother in this as in all matters where the baby is concerned, and she will realize that if a high wind is blowing dust about or a sudden storm comes up and the temperature drops many degrees in a few moments the baby should be taken in or protected from a chill by suitable clothing and wraps. The young baby may be taken out when he is two weeks old for half an hour if the weather is warm and pleasant, gradually lengthening the time he stays out. Remember that the baby's eyes are very sensitive and must always be carefully shielded, not only from the sun, but also from direct light. Babies are often wheeled about in their carriages staring directly up into the sky. Try it yourself for a few moments and you will realize the cruelty to the baby, who may not even be able to relieve this strain on the eyes by turning his head to one side. When the baby is sent out with a nurse she should be instructed on this point and also how long she is to keep the baby out and be warned of the danger of allowing strangers to play with him or kiss him. The carriage outing should not be regarded as giving the baby enough fresh air for the day. In addition to this he should live on the porch in suitable weather. If it is necessary to bring him in the windows and doors should be opened, screening them as suggested in a previous article. The baby should sleep at night in a well ventilated bedroom, in a bed by himself and if possible in a room by himself. Keep the doors and windows open. Do not be afraid of the old superstition of the "night air." The fear of the night air likely came from the fact that it used to be thought that malarial poisons arose in the night before it was known that this disease is only carried about by mosquitoes, which fly chiefly after nightfall. In malarial regions screens are indispensable. If the house is provided with a screened sleeping porch there is no reason why the baby should not sleep out at night after he is three months old, provided, of course, he is carefully protected. Babies thus taught from the beginning of life to enjoy the open air will be far less sensitive than otherwise and much less likely to suffer from colds and similar troubles as they grow older. For Young Folks Teddy Roosevelt 3d Is a Happy Outdoor Youngster. 1920 © 1915, by American Press Association. As his picture indicates, Teddy Roosevelt 3d is a wholesome and robust little lad. He is a great favorite of his famous grandfather and spends much of his time at the ex-president's home at Oyster Bay, N. Y. He is the son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and is the third of his family to bear the well known name. The youngest Teddy is very fond of bathing and may frequently be seen sporting in the waves at Southampton, N. Y. It was at this resort that the camera man snapped Teddy 3d. He had just emerged from a ducking in the waves, but was good natural and willingly posed for his photograph. He is too young to swim as yet, but by this time next year, if he inherits the qualities of his grandfather, he will have acquired that accomplishment. Proverb Puzzle. In each of the following ten sayings a word of five letters is omitted. When these ten words are rightly guessed and placed one below another in the order here given the central letters reading downward will spell the name of a famous poet, who was born in February, 1807: 1. Idle — are always meddling. 2. A bird is — by its note and a man by his talk. 3. Make yourself all — and the files will devour you. 4. A — is a fool's argument. 5. — a fool your finger and he will take your whole hand. 6. A small leak will sink a — ship. 7. A person's — ought to be his greatest secret. 8. He that shows his ill temper — his enemy where he may hit him. 9. A rascal — rich has lost all his kindred. 10. Do as most do and — will speak ill of thee. Answer.—Longfellow. Words—folks, known, honey, fight, offer, great, folly, tells, grown, fewer. A New Way to Play With the Sea. The traditional way to play with the surf is to dive through the breakers. There is, however, another game that is still more riotous fun and gives the waves a fairer chance. The bather wades out to the line where the breakers begin to curl and the water is about shoulder deep and stands facing out to sea with his eye on the coming wave. Just before the wave begins to lift to form the breaker the bather throws himself on his back and floats in that way—head toward the shore, feet toward the sea. If he has judged time and distance correctly the curling breaker will pick up the bather, feet first, turn him heels over head, and leave him standing on his feet, ready for the next wave. If he misjudges the timing or the distance—well, that is the game—the wave scores. It takes large breakers to turn a grown man, as large breakers as people often bathe in, but ordinary surf will do the trick for a boy.—Youth's Companion. A. Strange Word. There is a word in the dictionary which you may read forward or backward without changing it one iota, either in meaning or letters. Write the word out in capitals and analyze it. The letters are now in procession. Mother is in the lead, sister Ada is conspicuous in the center, while poor papa—the father of us all—is in the rear. Again, if children resemble the first part of this word they will be crazy, and if their boats go over the last part they will probably be drowned. What is this mysterious word? Answer: Madam. Words: Ada, Adam, mad, dam.—Chicago News. At the Telephone. Hello, daddy! Is that you? This is little "Eyes o' Blue." How are you today? I am feeling very well. Going downtown with Auntie Bell To the matinee. Auntie says we'll see a show About a boy who wouldn't grow To be a man. Today bears and fairies, too— I can scarcely wait, could you? It's called "Peter Pan." Daddy, don't forget you said When you broke poor dolly's head, And I didn't cry. You would get me a new doll With a hat and parrot. Don't forget. Goodby! Philadelphia Record. = LT —— 7-2 -- ~~ e } “ ‘jee ‘ A ’ "|" SHORT AND SHARP. CONFERENCE ‘ON we Seen, (WARSAW SCENE. | M02 dren: THE NEW BniTisH [Siam Am safe.” Sir Edward Grey is the only com. ¥ Alice F. Rollins has completed thir- ; tteark NATIONAL DEFENSE) ass. "sic% rit mcs gmmreevmees ==) INVENTION BOARD = Henry Petier of Washington has OF MANY BATTLES | 222s. Wounded feelings keep fresh much hareaecans woods erelection Of 100 vateties of sail of becbeas, Cae ie. pamnor | — dengee thin Windy eps, ¢ _ Great Mosting 10 Bo Held tn} cee: ase ore tee eranne ee Siva nds een "| Sit Willam Grookes, Made) et» mc, ng none am Washington In October, | Revereless reat» 2 piace in wnicn to| H@S Boon Controlled by Vatl-| “tn as ctesc tens Seteee whol eo | sho Plans for the conference on national defense to be held at Washington un- der the auspices of the National De- fense league, Oct. 47, immediately fol- lowing the Grand Army of the Repub. lic encampment, ate under fall head- way. Many thotsands of the veterans who attend the G. A. R. encampment will remain in Washington for the ses- sions of the conference on national de- fense, which will be presided over by Representative Julins Kahn of Call- fornia, chairman, and United States Senator Robert F. Broussard of Louist- ana, vice chairman of the National De- fense league. While the conference will be held under the auspices of the National De- feuse league, it will not be a conven- tion of the league, but a great gather ing of representative citizens from ev- ery state in the Union, who will con- sider what measure must be taken by congress and the states to increase the navy, army, national guard and coast defenses—to put the country in a mili tary and naval position where it will be able to maintain its dignity and se- curity throughout the world. ‘The national defense conference 1s unique in that all citizens of the Unit- pfs os ve = sal es ay es fe: .): ré } A ‘ee fF Photos by American Press Association. REPRESENTATIVE JULIUS KAHN (ABOVE) AND SENATOR ROBERT ¥. BROUSSARD. , ed States are invited to attend the con- ference. Any citizen, man or woman, from any section of this country can attend the conference as an accredited delegate and participate in the delib- erations on national defense simply by sending his or her name and sddress to the National Defense league, Riggs building, Washington, with notifica- tion of his or her intention to take part in the conference. No other appoint- ment or credentials are necessary to participate in the conference. This will be the first great national gathering of any kind in this country where every- body is invited to attend. ‘A large number of members of con- gtess, governors of states, members of state legislatures, mayors of cities, of- ficers of commercial organizations, edi- tors of American newspapers, veterans and members of patriotic organizations and hundreds of prominent citizens from every part of the country already have signified their intention of attend- ing the conference. ‘The program, now being erranged, will last four days and will include as speakers men of national fame. ‘There is a nation wide interest in the national defense problem. A state ment issued recently by the National Defense league says: Sather smote tm. Serene 36 Tee ‘sistent propaganda and a large amount of work. by the National Defense league, which was the first and pioneer ithe people have at last waked up to ‘the necessity for adequate preparation. “The Wasbington conference will fo- cus the attention of the country cn what all patriotic Americans now de- sire ess to do—to put the country ona basis, | enough to protect our republic, our our terests an¢ snot of our fiag- We “We umst have a letger navy, @ larger army, 2 eae, more coast ' d =, more Bar ‘ships, mo sm dn atee alee = SOT EE STs eee SIRES AND Sons. ‘Sir Edward Grey is the only com. Moner who is a Knight of the Garter. Henry Petier of Washington has ‘Made & collection of 100 varieties of ‘Woods grown in Panama. ‘Vincent Astor owns more dwelling: ‘than any other man in New York, but five. Hie mn eats 8 Place in which te Tecently leased the house at 123 East Seventy-clghth street for the coming season. Harold McCormick, son-iniaw of John D. Rockefeller, takes his rest ‘by means of vigorous exercise. He is & skilled racket player and was one time an American champion. He has ‘2 hydroplane with which he skims over Lake Michigan. Adolphus Robert Talbot, who was ap- potnted by ex-Secretary of State Bryan a8 peace commissioner to represent this country in any litigation which may arise between this country and Bo- livia, is a lawyer of Lincoln, Neb., and head consul of the Modern Woodmen of America. Secretary of State Robert Lansing Was born at Watertown, N. ¥., on Oct. 11, 1864, and fs a collateral descendant of that John Lansing who represented New York in the constitutional con- Yention of 1787 at Philadelphia and who later became chancellor of the state of New York. Pen, Chisel and Brush. Mr. Israel Zangwill began his lt- erary career by winning a prize in a short story competition. Miss Neysa McMein, an illustratce of front covers for magazines, earns over $15,000 a year from her own work. Rabindranath Tagore, the poet of In- dia who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, has been knighted by King George of England. Miss Mary E. B. Langman, Miss Abastenia St. L. Eberle and Mrs. Har- ry Payne Whitney, three of the best known women sculptors in New York, have received commissions from the navy department to model three bronzes that are to serve as athletic trophies for the Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic fleets. Short Stories. Spain's national emblem is the pome- granate. Originally a yard meant the cireum- ference of the body. The necklaces worn by the native women of the Kongo are large metal collars, weighing as much as thirty Pounds. ‘Tides on the east coast of Central America are so low as to be practical- ly negligible. There are violent tides at many points along the west coast. ‘The last census, that of 1910, gives the German population of the United States as 2,501,338, or 2.7 of the total Population. These figures apply to Germans of foreign birth. Wireless Whispers. ‘With wireless stations powerful enough to reach vessels in all Chinese waters, the government of that nation ee The longest distance over which wireless has so far worked is that between the Pacific mail steamship Mongolia and Boston. The Mongolia was at the time near Hongkong. ‘Wireless apparatus that weighs but eight pounds yet will transmit mes- sages twenty-one miles and has re- ceived signals more than 300 miles, has been invented by a New Jersey man. PITH AND POINT. ‘Tt takes ammunition factories to keep @ good long war going. In an argument some people never give m and some never give out. ‘Some of those Galician towns seem to be easier taken than pronounced. ‘There is also a falling off this year tm the demand for seasickness cures. ‘Thinking about our own faults usual- ly makes us think less of the faults of other people. ‘There are different causes of popu- larity, but telling the sad story of one’s life is not one of them. While the inventors are inventing they might invent some cheap and sane substitute for war., If you don’t believe the more a fel- low does the more the world expects of him just study Tom Edison's career. ‘That Chinese girl who is looking for the perfett man and came to this coun- try to find him knows where to seek him. ‘akin ‘The latest forecast is that the war will end by October, which will prob- ably be none too soon for all com cerned. AEN Mount Vesuvius is. showing marked activity. This is probably in sympa- thy with the general voleante trend of affairs. People seem to have more time to ‘other ‘and Sunday 1 ‘od any . a ‘es apo a WARSAW SCENE OF MANY BATTLES Has Boon Controle by Vari- ous European Nations, 'ARSAW has been controlled at some time or other by most of the European na- tious, Since its inception as a city, back in the ninth century, Warsaw has appear ed frequently and in different roles on the page of history. Situated on the Dank of the Vistula in a fertile coun- try and a center for commerce, the cap- ital of Poland was desirable at a time when conquest was more the order of the day than at present. For a long time Warsaw was the capital of the @uchy of Mazovia, but upon the union of Poland and Lithuania, in the early Pert of the sixteenth century, it be came the capital of Poland. For more than 100 years afterward Warsaw flourished in comparative Peace. At only one time was it serious- ly menaced, and then John Sobieski, the Polish hero, saved it from falling into the hands of the Turks. In 1655, however, Charles Gustavus of Sweden took the city, and for the first time since becoming part of Poland Warsaw found herself in the hands of @ con- queror. Only for a year, however, did the Swedes hold the city. In 1656 the ey in eee SS ee Sa Bo ae ee a _ ae Saat. eee! | eee “a 6 Z Rg A GLIMPSE OF WARSAW. Polish took back their capital and held it for nearly fifty years. When it fell into the hands of the enemy the sec- ond time Sweden was again the victor. For many years after that Charles IL remained the ruler, and the city yielded its profits to Sweden. Again, however, the Polish threw off the conqueror’s yoke and became autonomous, By this time Russia had grown strong enough to look around for de sirable lands to conquer. Poland and ‘Warsaw were nearest and therefore came under the Russian influence first. ‘Upon the death of Alexander III. in 1763 Russia took a hand in Polish pol- ities and succeeded in having Stanis- laus Poniatowski chosen king. It was not until 1794, however, that the Rus- sians came into actual possession of the city. ‘Then it was taken by arms rather than intrigue. After an attack on Praga, a suburb across the Vistula, ‘Warsaw surrendered to the Russians. ‘The Russians had been in control of ‘Warsaw only twelve years when, in 1806, Napoleon's army took the city. By the peace of Tilsit, a year later, the city was made independent as the cap- ital of the duchy of Warsaw. In 1800 the city was again taken, however, and this time by the Austrians. Their oc- cupation lasted only two months, when the city was again made free and inde- pendent. In 1813 the Russians finally took the city and held it, together with the rest of Poland. ‘Warsaw has been said to be the most Deautiful and interesting city in east- ern Europe. The streets are lined with picturesque buildings, which express the Polish love of splendor. The pub- Me gardens are among the most beau- tiful in the world. The chief pride of the residents, however, is the Lazien- ‘ski theater, in the Lazienski gardens. Its mural decorations are said to be among the finest in all Europe. ‘The modern city bas a popalation of about 750,000, of whom 25,000 are Ger- mans and 200,000 Jews. It is a busy industrial center and is the junction of ‘atx important railroad trunk lines, ‘which connect it with all the impor tant cities of the continent, The city is divided into two parts by the Vis- ‘tala, Warsaw on one side and Praga on the other. They are connected by Se omens See ee Eee of more than ““tDhe fmportance of Warsaw, both Saesnaieihs. sn commentato ‘well be overestimated. the ‘Vistnla as well as the railroads the ‘city has access to all sorts of com- ‘merce and owes its eminence largely. to this fact. The rich wheat belt bas’ 8 sy Si Pa aoc oe Sane ) @ crop is mat : pb ngragred oo DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Alice F. Rollins has completed thir ty-five years of service as a teacher in Minneapolis public schools. Miss Estelle MacAuley bas been in stalled at Portland, Ore., as passenger agent for the Oregon, Washington Railway and Navigation company. In the absence of her husband, whe has been called to the front, Mrs George Kendall, wife of a Methodist minister in England, will have charge of six churches. An English suffragist, Miss M. H. Mason, has organized the women of her country for harvest work, and the movement has met with the approval of the board of trade of England. Mrs. Aletha Gilbert, who has served as policewoman in Los Angeles, is at the head of a city mothers’ burean, Where mothers ean tell their troubles, away from a curious, morbid crowd. ‘The “Betsy Ross of Minneapolis” is Mra. Lydia R. 8. Woodbury, who made the flag carried by the famous “First Minnesota.” Because of illness she has been unable to attend Memorial day exercises for the past ten years. Flippant Flings. Kansas farmers are raising beards to Protect themselves from the mosqut- toes. Poor, defenseless woman!—De- troit Free Press. ‘The war is now said to threaten a shortage of Turkish tobacco in the United States. We can see Connecticut trying to keep from laughing.—Provt- dence Journal. “Somebody's always taking the joy out of life.” Here's a chap who hos gone and invented an umbrella that can be opened only by its owner— Philadelphia Ledger. Probably it ts true enough that three battleships a year could be built for the money the people of this country Spend on chewing gum, but nobody could chew a battleship.—Philadelphia Press. BRIGHT BRIEFS. ‘Trouble ahead looks bigger than trou- ble we have passed. Time files, and no wonder when so many are trying to kill it. Each army that takes the City of Mexico drops it. It must be very hot. Excess baggage is the load that keeps many a man from getting there. The bird in the hand never sings as delightfully as the one in the bush any- how. Most heroes are products of combine- tions of circumstances which come by chance. You don’t need to fire statistics into the baldbeaded man in order to coax him into swatting the fly. Lots of people who compiain that they don't get all they deserve should really congratulate themselves. Reports that the smart set are stay- ing away from Europe this year ought to cinch their claim to the title. ‘The “better cantaloupe” movement is Ukely to have the enthusiastic moral support of the ultimate consumer too. Co-operation of American inventors 4s likely to do more toward making war too terrible to be tolerated than any- thing yet attempted. Japan claims to be cleaning up China, but there are two opinions about who 4s doing that. The United States sold ‘$1,700,000 worth of soap in China last year. Town Topics. A Chicago man boasts that Chicago 4s the most modest city in the world ‘Who says humor is dying out?—Detroit Bree Press. “Philadelphia is on the eve of 2 great awakening,” says the Philadel phia Telegraph. Sh-b-b! Be quiet Let it come easy—Pittsburgh Dis pated. ‘New York is still maintaining with ‘out boastfulness or adventitious ad: Yertising its reputation as the premier summer resort of the Atlantic coast— New York Tribune. Industrial Items. ‘Chilean mines produce about s mil Hon tons of coal a year. ‘Women are much more Hable to be polsoned than men in trades involving the use of lead and arsenic. Singapore, the greatest pineapple producing city in the world, uses Amer Jota teaninn: macttonry. $9 a pees Over 10,000 working people were em- ployed in the diamond industry of Arm- sterdam before the war. Now about 80 per cent are out of work and the others are working on short time. The Jitneur. Why “Sieur?” We have chauffeur Dat we Imported him from France The jitney came from Texas —Philadel phia Record. Among the horrors of civilization & Philadelphia's newly coined word “fit near,” applied. to the driver of a jitney bus Chicago News. In Philadelphia the word “itneur” has been coined to designate the drives of.a fitmey bus. In other towns he has been called shorter and ugiler things Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sir William Grookes Made a Consultant Member. A number of eminent English scien- tists and inventors have been appoint- ed to assist Admiral Lord Fisher, who ‘was recently selected as chairman of the invention board, the duties of which will be to co-ordinate and en- courage scientific work in relation to the requirements of the British navy. ‘The board consists of a central com- mittee and a number of consultants oy a + a who will advise the main committee on questions referred to them. Among these consultants is Sir William Crookes, one of the most distinguished of English scientists and the most ven- erable. He is eighty-three years old and is a past president of the Chem- feal society. of the Institution of Blec- trical Engineers, of the Society of Chemica! Industry and many other sct- entific bodies. He is famous as the discoverer of solenocyanides, of the ele- ment thallium and for various ad vances in the application of electricity. In a recent Interview he said: “A great thing for men to convince them. selves of is that the war will be won not by fury of attack and not by gal- lantry, but simply by hanging on. He who hangs on the longest will win.” A NEW CHAIR AT YALE. C.E.A. Winslow Appointed to Recently Created Professorship of Public Health. ‘Yele university this fall joins Micht- gan, Pennsylvania and Harvard by es tablishing a department of public health in its medical school. Professor C. E. A. Winslow, who has been appointed to the newly created Anna M. L. Lau- der professorship of public health, was Dorn in Boston in 1877. He was train- ed in the biological department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Professor W. T. Sedgwick, and taught public health in that institution for twelve years after his graduation i be a 2 oy teia i Oar mecedaete 4m 1808. From 1908 to 1910 he was in eharge of the sanitary research labora- tory of the institute, directing its ex- tensive studies on the purification of city sewage. In the winter of 1910 Professor Winslow served as exchange professor in the University of Chicago, and from 1910 to 1914 he was in charge of the work in biology and public healt at the College of the City of New ‘York. He resigned this position in 1914 to take part in the reorganization of the ‘New York state department of health under Commissioner Hermann M. Biggs as director of the division of publicity and education, and this work being now well organized he returns to academic life by accepting the call to Yale. Professor Winslow will continue to serve, as he bas done since 1910, as curator of public health in the Amert- can Museum of Natural History, New ‘York éity, where he is bailding up 2 permanent health exhibit, and as chair man of the New York state commis ston on ventilation, which is now near se oabgay pe opel george is a past the Bociety of American Bacteriologists "ne Am eebben ~ 7 SHORT AND SHARP.” ~ ——— a A man who loses his nerve never ads ‘vertises for it. ‘Wounded feelings keep fresh much Jonger than kindly ones. ¢ ‘With so much hunger in Mexico thers shouldn't be any need of forcible feed- ing. The crack in the old Liberty bell ts regretted even by the antinoise agita- tors. ‘The statement that women’s shoes ‘will be “normal and sane” does not re- fer to sizes. If Secretary Daniels grabs the brainy men of the country, what will the newspapers do? The reason two can sometimes live as cheaply as one is that the one used to spend enough to keep two, Inventor Lake's suggestion of sub- marine -cargo and passenger boats would seem the logical sequence. As to Mexico “holding her own,” it wouldn't take an expert auditor long ta figure how little that is at present. It seems remarkable that a deadly mechanical toy like the submarine should be regarded as essential to any- Dody’s comfort and happiness. ‘They have figured out that in modern ‘War it costs about $15,000 to kill a man, and it would be hard for anybody to devise 2 more foolish way of spending money. ‘The famous bronze and tron lions of Waterloo have been melted down and turned into cannon. It may be some relief to the silent beasts to know that at least-they can roar. Echoes of the War. Is there not some way for a war rid- den world to voiplane back to safety? —Chicago News. i. could show in advance a price tag marked in plain figures.—Washing- ton Star. ‘The war is certainly not getting any Detter, but it does look as if it were getting bigger all the time.—Indian- apolis News. Only one thing bigger than the war itself, and that’s the war debt—appar- ently full grown and still growing.— Atlanta Constitution. ‘The terrible expense of killing mil- Hons of men will surely have to be added to the high cost of living. There is no escape.—Providence Tribune. Current Comment. China has an open door, but not as much authority a8 she would like as to oe ee Se ee ‘The presidential chair in Mexico must tip back easily to dump occu- pants out so successfully —Wall Street Journal. If talk would get the South Ameri- can trade we'd have had all of it by this time. But that’s not the way we are going to get it, and everybody knows it.—Philadelphia Press. A glance at the prices in the live stock markets indicates that between the cow on the hoof and the beefsteak on the broiler there is considerable loose change—Topeka Journal. Fashion Frills. ‘The shoe manufacturers have given the fancy toe and side lacing the boot. —New York Sun. Next year's gowns will button up the back. ‘This will end the question of unemployment among married men— Chicago News. Every season’ must offer its sartorial surprise, for what would life be if wo- men, like men, were permitted to wear the same clothes all the year round?— New York World. ‘The shoe manufacturers announce that they will make no more freak ahoes for women. But how do they know that they can sel any other kind while the present styles in clothes con- tinue?—Philadelphia Press. Pert Personals. Somebody has got a medal for hitting 8 dollar at 200 yards. Will John D. Rockefeller contest it?—Kansas City ‘Times. Henry James, the novelist, has be- come a British subject. He long ago ceased to write “United States.”—Pitts- Dargh Dispatch. Now that Wizard Edison has entered the government service, all he has to @ is to go right ahead and wis—In- Gianapolis News: ‘Miss Jane Addams may not have exded the war, bat she has bad the re- ‘ward of those who are diligent. She has stood before kings and, what is even better, presidents.—New York World, English Etchings. Britain has 1,000,000 income tax pay - ‘Vagrants in England used to be pun- ished by having the upper part of the gtistle of the right car removed. 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TAYLOR, Balter and Publisher ‘Entered as Secend-Ciass Matter Aug. 18 ‘1903, at the Peet Vitec at Chieage, Iilinels unger Act ef Mareh & 15TR é a REMOVAL NOTICE. From on and after this date, al letters or other mail matter intended for Julius F. Taylor or Mrs. Annie E Taylor or The Broad Ax, should be addressed to 6582 St. Lawrence Ave. Jackson Park station. Phone Went ‘worth 2597. HYDE PARK NEWS By lL. W. Washington. - Mr. Walter Burke our old Friend is now at the new Gladstone Hotel, a splendid accession to the crew we are iat ten one Mr. Steven Griffin Head-Bellman ‘and Head-Porter at the Chicago Beach Hotel has received his 3rd gold stripe of honor, for good service, this is his 16th year in the employ of this hostelery. He has only lost 21 days im 22 years service. He holds the only position of its kind, in this coun try. Head-Bellman and Head-Porter. The Allian Christian Endeavor So- ciety of the Hyde Park AM E. Church -was conducted by: The Broad Ax correspondent, which was sppre- ciated very much by its members. ‘The smnouncement of the A. C. E. Conven- tion to meet at Institutional Church was made. ‘Miss Sallie Lyons of Louisville, Ky., one of our young school teachers is here visiting her aunt, Mrs, Wm. Clem- ons, at 5622 Lake Park Ave. ‘Mrs. Annie Sykes, of 5039 Lake Park Ave. is still on the sick list. Some people would like to know if the Waiters Benefit Ass'n of Hyae Park is a Benevolent or a Political organization? | ‘Women be more careful about wag- ging your tongues too much in other people’s houses, do not allow your- selves to follow the example of that dear sister who went into a man’s Deeps snd sesctved s-bestiog itt Sul ing too much, she did not only get herself into trouble but the man as well. Hereafter it is better to discuss good literature and to tesch good mor- als in the ‘home, than to poison the Acmicite with gossip. ae cece te | ‘Mrs. Thomas Woodward. of 5485 Woodlawn Ave. has taken charge of & 4 fist building on Kimbark Ave. eee Young men it is. better that you eave your weapons at home and not ‘be embarrassed by ‘having your pistol ‘to fall out of your pocket in church uring collection. It is hard for the ‘writer to fathom what protection a en oe =a en a epee ae en ia a a a eee ; in the country, they -had a ae y 5 = Ra eae ws eS & Mrs. Jeno Rosse, ono of the De- Rippete- sf shee Ek 6: Bh ee ee Sp ieisoed po Seg RO _, Dares says that old age in prea f] ‘ Ries cre Dye eae nae en ee eee sw oo =, tale ol ‘ST. MaBkK MR. CHURCR. Senin Fe |gregation last The eee Wane Oe Seen” eee full of point and: power. Five addi- ‘tious’ to the church were recorded. he sivie pi at 3. PuM. pre- ‘Won. BE Westbrook, Ba. D. Green, Alderman Oscar De Priest and Attorney Geo. Blockwell. St. Mark jgave them a cordial weleome and would be glad. to have them with us again. The bazaar just closed proved s suc- jcees. The All Star program arranged by (Dr. Robinson for the dedication of the Pipe Organ consisted of the following named persons, ~ Program of Pipe Organ Recital. Authem—St. Mark Choir. Organ—Miss Lillian Hunt, who's playing pleased us very much. Vocal—Miss Alpha Bratton, whe sang very sweetly. Organ—Miss Edna MeLean, who charmed us repeatedly. Vocal—Miss Gertrude Towsend’ work will be remembered. Organ—Miss Gertrude Jackson is ax artist of rare ability. Organ—Mr. W. E. Gossett swayed the andience with his marvelous play- ing. Solo—-Mrs. F. 8. Washington pleased us again and again. The Silver Star Quartette gave us s rare treat, THE BEV. HON. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY, PH. D. D. D. NOT INCLUDED IN THE LAW CASE OF THE HON. THOMAS WAL- LACE SWANN AGAINST JULIUS ¥. TAYLOR. ‘This article is for the benefit of number of people who havo been mis- informed. I have been asked within the last ten days by over fifty people in regards to the suit that the Hon. ‘Thomas Wallace Swann brought against the editor of The Broad Ax, ‘Mr. Taylor. So many people have been misinformed that Rev. Carey, too, had gotten justice in this mit. Rev. Carey had nothing to do with this suit at all, this was Mr. Swann’s suit. Rev. Carey has yet to take up his own suit and get justice for himself. I am tak- ing this opportunity to inform the many that are laboring under the false idea all over the country—Mra. 8. B. ‘Turner, from the columns of the No or the False ides, July 31, 1915. My good and very brilliant sister Mrs. 8. B. Turner, along with the rest of the followers of the Rev. Hon. Ar- chibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. you endeavored to convey the idea through the columns of your No Idea July 17, that the Rev. Hon. Political pastor of the Institutfonal Church 'was fully vindicated at the end of the lease in question and now it seems that you were perfectly willing to aid in giving publicity to an untruth. As far as we are concerned if the Rev. Hon. gentleman feels that he has any kick coming all he has to do is to tell his troubles to some policeman.— ‘Editor. ‘THE BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH CONTINUES TO BE CONSTRUCT- ED VERY RAPIDLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CONTRACTOR, J. M. HIGGINBOTHAM. ‘The new Berean Baptist Church, corner of 52nd and South Dearborn streets, which is being constructed, under the direction of J. M. Higgin- Dothan, the leading Afro-American eontractor of Chicago and its pastor, Rev. W. 8. Braddan, continues to make rapid headway towards completion and if nothing unforeseen happens it will be ready for ocenpancy by the first or es ipa Boren. ‘When com- pleted its ‘seating capacity will be, be- twoen 550 and 600. It will be. strictly. modern in every respect. Rev. Braddan,. started the Berean Baptist Church in 1901 coming here from Detroit, Mich, with » hand- ful of people and by working bard and paying strict attention to business in the :-way of gathering in souls for his Lora ana a little money ‘for temporal affairs, he ‘has suteeeded in building ‘up s good congregstion’ which is in the main composed of the substantial Kanes oe Consens eee ting on S08 THE DEATH OF DE. M ©. B. ‘MASON NOTED DEVINE OF THE MB ORURCH AND GENERAL ‘ ORGANIZER OF THE NATIONAL EQUAL .RIGHTS ASSOCIATION ‘WHICH OCCURRED AT BALTI- MORE: M. D, GAT, JULY sist. ie “The mighty, is filling, all sround us, Judgment singly, is begitming at the “house “af the “Tard, - Christians stand yo ia the Holy Pincts. ‘In these Perilous times, we deplore the death of Gtr beloved Brother, and realize that we heve lost am able counselor, an ardent “field worker, 8 race cham- pion, © Gospel preseber, » grest leader, a Christian ahd aman, being a na- ee eee See 5 “ cAGO, AUGUST 7, 191! —————— nee : oo Fm aA | oe Srnec a ae “Hear Mz, Carter @. Woodson speak] ',e employment, with 20 ded on “The Uplift of The Negro Prior tention of returning, is) bel to 1861, And Its Bearing on Problems| Tennessee case ®. of Today."” Mr. Woodson is the soo-|165 8. W. 232, annotated tn 1 nd'man af color to receive the degree| 12154. $2.39, tone the tro of Ph. D. from Harvard University.| sttachment, although he lea He is algo the author of one of tho| family in the state, and expec finest books written on the race. Do|turn there when secures not miss the privilege of enjoying thjs| ment which will Justity bin literary treat, A crowded bouse is expected. Meeting will be held this| Fooo—Unrrr—Liasmirr ros coming Sunday, August 8th, at the|1%o—A son living with his fai mother on his father’s farm \ Reading Room, 3005 State Street, 4| ving on the farming operatic P. M. All persons interested in this|srranged with his parents t subject are invited to be present. Last|his hands The plaintiff v Bentay the: committee “9 Steen og ployed by hiss se 8 laborer. 8 Unity Among the Race, made a very sod aie er . fine report giving the names of sov-| erred, meat ‘which, when, p ‘eral prominent clubs willing to cooper-|the table, was tainted and + ate. Ids B. Wells Barnett, President.|some. The evidence tended — SE ee IMPORTANT NOTICE TO DBLB-| "ils became sick by een GATES TO BUSINESS LEAGUE|{t It fs held in Malone be 4 CONVENTION. Kan. 815, 139 Pac. 387, L. R. A Boston, Mass., August 3rd— Dele- gates to the Natfonal Negro Business League Convention are requested to have their mail directed to Headquart- ers of the Boston Business League, 121 Kendall St, Roxbury District, Boston, Mass. All delegates and visitors are urged to register at 121 Kendall St. imme- diately upon arrival in Boston. Proper committees will be in attend- ‘ance at all of the railroad stations to weleome delegates and visitors and to direct them to Boston Business League Headquarters. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. The Alpha Suffrage Club had a splendid meeting on last Wednesday evening. Many out of town visitors were present. Having already heard of what Chicago women are doing along the suffrage lines, they were an- xious to see and learn about the work. Light refreshments were served dur- ing the social hour after the business session. Bi Ledtn reap ert afta Mega dissatisfied with the appointment of ‘Mrs. Gertrude Fowler and are giving Ser epee aan ee | Mrs, Elizabeth Hawkins Burtis, of Detroit, Mich., is visiting her mother and other relatives, at 6510 St. Law- rence avenue. She will remain in the city for two weeks. Mr. and Mra, P. T. Tinsley, Afiss ‘Hazel Harrison and her mother Mrs. Harrison of La Port, Ind, and Mrs. Theo. R. Mozee, will leave this morn— ing for Masondelac, Mich, where they will spend a two weeks vacation. Dr. Theo. R. Moree, 4709 8. State street, returned home Monday morning from Masondelac, Mich., near 8t. Joe, where he spent two weeks the guest of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. The doctor gained over seven pounds while out abing, and eating goed sich cvsttiy Perry Lillard, 2311 8. Wabash ave- nue, who was well known around town, passed away last Saturday. Funetal services were held over his remains Tuesday morning at Quinn Chapel. Its pastor Rev. J. C. Anderson officiating. F. A. Rawlins, 4821 8. State street was the funeral director in charge. Inter- ment in Lincoln Cemetery. The people are very desirous to know who were the Colored men and woman saved from the Eastland disaster and what were their business, we have the pleasure to state ‘that all three persons worked for ‘The Individual Towel and Cabinet Service Company.” ‘The names of the persons are William Johnson, 1548 E. Sind Bt, Paul Morton, 4102 W. Lake Sty. and Miss Eve Braxton of 2351 State Bt, Miss Braxton was also one of the sur- vivors of the Iroquois fire. i For the first time since its crestion, ithe 8th Beg. of Ill. National Guards, |goes to camp without one of its faith ful members and ardent admirers, who feel it very keenly having served the Reg. for 15 years, receiving his hon- orable discharge. None will miss the trip, nor be missed by the boys than Sargeant John Hightower of Compaay B. Attorney James W. Breen, with law offices in the City Hall Square Building who put up a gallant fight at. the pri- maries last September against ‘Thomas J. Healy, for committeeman of the 30th Ward, has recently been selected one of the assistant corporation coun- sel of Chicago, by his Honor “Mayor William Esle Thompeon. He will draw Ss tale age Uk ees nee an able lawyer, a sa'he sonaiy red i a sams capacity, ot She ate Stayer Bed A awe RE ely a eR Pe 2 eases 5 Bie: sail Ms: Seibert: Xe ee vaRTORE Fao Starz—A man of fam- fly who departs from the state to se- care emplayment, with no, definite in tention of returning, ts held in the Tennessee case of ‘o.. Graves, 165 8, W. 232, annotated in L. R. A. 1915A, 421, to lose his right to ex- ‘emptions, and subjects the property to attachment, although he leaves his family in the state, and expects to re- turn there when he secures employ- ment which will justify him fn so doing. Fooo—Unrrt—Liasiiirr ror Paovip- 1x6.—A son living with his father and mother on his father’s farm was car rying on the farming operations. He arranged with bis parents to board a es we ieee Oo eee ployed by him as a pu- lated wages and board. The father purchased, and the mother cooked and served, meat which, when put upon the table, was tainted and unwhole some. The evidence tended to show that the bad condition was apparent while the meat was cooking. The plaintiff became sick by partaking of it. It is held in Malone vs. Jones, 91 Kan. 815, 139 Pac. 887, L. R. A. 19154, $28, that the son is Hable for negli- gence in providing unwholesome food, and that the father and mother, hav- tng Jointly undertaken to provide the board, are equally liable for neglt- gently cooking and serving it. Foumes Jroranpy — Conraisurixe to Drtinquencr—Rare.—A conviction or an acquittal upon one indictment is no bar to a subsequent conviction and sentence upon another, un- less the evidence required to support a conviction upon one of them would have been sufficient to warrant a con- viction upon the other. The test is not whether the defendant has al- ready been tried for the same act, but whether he has been put in jeopardy for the same offense. A single act may be an offense against two stat- utes; and if each statute requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not, an acquittal or con- vietion under either statute does not exempt the defendant from prosecu- tion and punishment under the other. So where & person has been in jeopar- 4y upon an information or affidavit charging that he contributed to the delinquency of a female person, in violation of section 1654, General Code, such jeopardy, it is held in the Ohio case of State Vs. Rose, 106 N. E. 50, annotated in L. R.A. i915A, 256, cannot be successfully pleaded ‘as a bar to @ prosecution by indictment on a charge of rape under section 12413, General Code. The provision of the Constitution relating to jeopardy is in the following words: “No person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense. The offense charged in the information is not the same of- Tense and does not include the offense charged in the indictment, and hence the defense of Jeopardy must fail, Hussaxp ax Wire—Inguny sy Vicious Doo—Lianmirr of Husmann. ‘That a man is liable for injury com- mitted by vicious dogs harbored by his wife upon her property, notwith- standing he was absent from the coun- try and had no knowledge of their presence, is held in the Tennessee case of Missio v. Williams, 167 8. W. 473, L. R. A. 1915A, 500. Ixsvmaxce—Accwext—Potson Ivy. Chance contact with poison ivy which Tesults in death is held in Railway Mail Asso. vs. Dent,—C. C. A. —, 213 Fed. 981, L. R.A. 1915A, 314, to be within the operation of @ policy in- suring against death from accident, but providing that no sum shall be due unless the accident alorie results in producing visible external marks of injury or violence, nor unless the death results wholly from that injury. But it is further held that chance con- tact with poison ivy which results in the spread of an eruption over the body and death is not within a pro- ‘vision in an aecident insurance policy exempting the insurer from liability where death results from poison taken or administered accidentally or otherwise. | Ixgunction—Borcorr sy Lapon Op GANIZATION—VENDER OF MATERIALS ‘There is a conflict of opinion among ‘the courts as to the right of members ‘of @ labor union to agree not to han dle the product of an employer of re eee mnenen te whether ‘the purpose or it thereby to ‘de attained is justifiable. That mom- bers of a labor union may be enjoined from pong bandle materials ‘sold by one who furnishes supplies tc an employer of non-union labor, if players who purchase such. materisin is held in ‘the Massachusetts case of Burnham vs. Dowd, 217 Mass. 251, 104 N. B. 841, annotated in 51 L. R.A. (N. 8.) 778. Inguncrion — Dissovurion — Patos Vuoarion—Evvect. A final decree is held in the New Mexico case of Cana van oc. Canavan, 139 Pac. 154, annota- ted in 51 L. R.A. (N. 8.) 972, to dis solve a preliminary injunction which ig ancillary to the main case, unless the same is specially continued by the decree, and thereafter s litigant can- AA ee aE injunction prior to its dissolution. Insugance — Avromostte — Ostias- on To Dxrexp Cancxat. Paossov: tox. A policy of automobile insur ‘ance obligating the insurer to indem nity the assured against loss from the Usability imposed by law upon him for damages on account. of bodily injuries, including death, accidentally sus tatsed by any peceos by reason of the maintenance or use automobile, and to defend in the name and on be may at any time be brought Mim on account of such injuries, fs held in the Michigan case of Patter. son vs. Accel. Ins. Co., 144 N. W. 491, not to bind the insurer to de fend a inal prosecution for man- against the a» ee Sea A, Oe Oy i, he est matperiiee having beue presented: fo Talks on Health, Cleanliness Proper Living Sanitation, Etc. by Dr. W-A. DRIVER 3300 So. State St. “(As a man thinketh so is he.’’ The question of guilt or innocence is probably the greatest of all, the ques- tions of all the ages. The normal brain, like all normal anatomica: structures, produces the healthy, the physiological evidence. We are ad- vised to judge a tree by the fruit it bears. We have abundant evidence to prove that a healthy brain will mani- fest itself by producing what is read ily understood as the action of a phy- siological mind. The physiological, the ‘sane mind produces the opposite pro- duction of that displayed by the path- ological, the insane mind. The physio- logical mind manifests itself by the higher attributes; the pathological mind manifests itself by the exhibition ‘of base tendencies. The one is con- structive and the other is destructive. ‘One loves organization and the other — disorganization. Most persons ‘are willing to judge of the guilt or eecones of the accused by the state of the mind when the deed was com- mitted. While ignorance of the law excuses no man, even the law grants great consideration to those who are held to be of unsound mind. There are fow indeed who will sincerely say of all trangressors as did the lowly ‘Nazarene ‘Father forgive them for ‘they know not what they do.’’ That is too much humanitarianism for almost all persons, even those who profess to believe in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. But if it is true that as a man seweth that also shal he reap, then it is easy to under- stand that evil doers worketh their ‘own destruction and ‘‘know not what they doeth.’” ‘Medical nature study scientists have been urging those in authority to eon sider all defectives, all ‘‘criminals’’ as psychopaths, possessed of, diseased minds. Those master minds have suc ceeded in establishing here in Ohieago dollars to treat our erring so-called criminals who are fortunate enough to Insugance — Exexrrion — Loco morive Exorve. A clause in a fire in surance policy exempting the ‘insurer from loss by fire from or occasioned by locomotive engines is held in Mont. gomery vs. Southern Mut. Ins. Co., 242 Pa, 86, 88 Atl 924,51 L. R.A. (N.8.) 518, not to exempt from loss from fire communicated by buildings burning on the railroad right of way which were ignited by the sparks from a lo comotive engine. Istoxtcatine Liqvuoss — TAxINe Oxpexs ros Fousion Deatee—Lrasux Tr. Where a liquor house situated in another state has a representative in a town in Oklahoma, who receives or- ders for whisky, and writes letters to the house, directing that whisky be sent to persons who give such agent orders, and the whisky is sent to such persons, and the bill is sent to the agent of the house, to collect payment for the same, it is held in Landrum vs. State. 9 Okla. Crim. Rep. 599, 132 Pac. 830, 61 L. R. A. (N. S.) 607, that this in law constitutes a sale of intoxicating liquors in Oklahoma, and such agent is liable to prosecution and conviction for violating the probibit- ory law of the state. Playereunds. ~~" -~— I do not know of any better way to teach a boy to be honorable and straight than to give him a chance to play with his comrades. In the play- ground he learns without any sugges- tion of rebellion against instruction ‘and precept and preaching. He learns it because he does not want anybody else to cheat him and is “down” on the boy that does not play fair. And im the long run, because he is “down” on the boy that does not play fair, he ‘will establish standanis of conduct Which we must maintain in the com- munity and particularly in.our great cities. If there is one thing that we peed more than another it is the con- stant emphasis among our citizens of that spirit of fair play, that willing. ‘Bese to. give and take, that generosity fm defeat and that lack of assertive ‘ness in victory which we identify with sport and which is learted best of ‘all in childhood upon the playground — Tustion: Charles B. Hughes, United ‘Btates supreme court, ‘Mr. and Mrs.F. A McGinnis, of Wilberforce, Ohio, are in the city and will be for some time-'the guests of ‘M.-P. Clinkseale, 5652 S. State street. a pe eS oe es ag oe A : oe 5 Po ee : oem : - have attracted the attention of an jacute diagnostician. Tse dipsoman. ines, the morphinomanises, the ales. holies, the slaves of obscure narcotien ‘who have suffered the brutal «ystem of punishment stated in the oli dispen sation of an eye for an eve and a tooth for a tooth are abundst evidence that Wwe are today an un-Christian people, We fail to reason deeply enoush to as. certain the facts. Our system does not seek to cure the pathologies! mind by the gentle processes known to ther. peutists. Let us each of us and every fone of us who is not above the love of his brother, visit the Chicago Puy ‘chopathie Institute and learn how to detect pathological mental coniltions ‘and how to restore physiological braig action. ‘The single pathological mental state that has made one of our costempo- raries a ‘‘eriminal,’? that cused a respected neighbor to loose his rspec~ tability, that caused a little jealoas hatred to grow into a fatal murderous madness, grows and makes Tenple, Texas, contain enough psychopaths to lyneh, to hurl repeatedly a mere SUS. PECT into the deadly fire; it grow ‘and grows like an epidemic until the United States becomes psychopathie enough to fail to take any official no- tice, it grew and grew ani grew to pandemie proportions until all the xs- tions of the earth are preparing to react to the pathological minds of the perverted people and slay for the pree ervation of “‘honor.”? ‘That the physiological mind is meek is quiet, peaceful, forgiving and kind seems to be beyond debate. The phy- siological mind takes for its dictum ‘the golden rule, the rule that shines resplendent in the firmament of right Tt accepts the truths which give com fort, joy, equilibrium and peace. The heart of the person who is the forte- nate possessor of a physiological mind is not troubled nor is it faint in the hour of the greatest need. Since a funetions of the body are goversed by the brain, a normal brain will almost always determine the physiological in the periphery as well as in the central nervous system. NOTICE. Barber shop for sale, splendid locs- tion, well equipped. In first class con- dition. If you want 2 good bargain call and see me. 5618 Lake Park Ave. Knox. Guiding Principles. Equal and exact justice to all men, of ‘whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce and hon- est friendship with all natlons—entan- fling alliances with none; the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent adminis- trations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-repub- Mean tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; * * * freedom of religion; free dom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habets cor pus, and trial by juries impartially s~ Jected—these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us ‘and guided our steps through an ss° of revolution and reformation.—From first inaugural address of President Jefferson, Bteanath of Past Mistakes. Because our ancestors lived in Boe @led cities we go on building upon nar Tow and tortuous streets, sinking 00F capital in mistakes which age makes it more and more difficult to retrieve. ‘The original cowpaths of Boston bavé Become picturesque slums which 9m port innocent ladies and stife the health and the happiness of other Dee ple’s children. Attack these slums and you attack helplessness itself. 77 to widen and ventilate, and you will find that you have struck at the seu rity of the innocent. This is the ree! strength of the past and the over whetming grip it bas upon our ree It Lives on, not because intelligence c#> Getend tt, bat because it has become intimate a part of um that to cot it oat eems & little too cruel.,;Ner Republi Sa. eer Russi. yee Russia took its denoniination the Rossi, or Russi, 2 people of (be south of Russia, who possessed ‘Seo selves of the country tn the Gays of the Greek empire. Being ‘2s Desdonsoast tnbabiians, Der == “name on all the rest. Neighborlines Pays "Get acquainted with your neighbor; you might like him." This, from the letterhead of a western village improvement association, is excellent advice. What fine things a large personal acquaintance can do for us, provided we are worthy of it! Let us put aside any petty dislike, engendered perhaps by fancied faults in other people, and go out and shake hands with neighbors whom we probably have never really known. Let us talk over our common problems with them; discuss the welfare of our community, the state, the nation, so that we may all have a better understanding of our common hopes and aims. All this pays. Its returns come not alone in the help we can be one to the other, but in the greater discernment with which our personal business can be conducted, and in the better feeling and progress that follows in a town or city where all are working for the common good.—Countryside Magazine. Stage Fright Stage fright, if I may encourage startled readers, does not appear to have affected William Cobbett, whose maiden speech in the house of commons must have been one of the most astonishing performances that even that seasoned assembly had ever listened to. Here is the opening sentence: "It appears to me that since I have been sitting here I have heard a great deal of valn and unprofitable talk." By way of contrast, we have the case of Gibson Craig, whose abortive eloquence, on his introduction to parliamentary life, was thus described by Dusniell: "Gibson Craig, of whom the Whigs had hopes, rose, stared like a stuck pig and said nothing. His friends cheered, he stammered. All cheered; then there was a dead and awful pause, and then he sat down, and that was his performance."—London Spectator. The Dipper. That beautiful constellation, the Dipper, hangs, silent and solitary, amid the northern star lighted firmament, like a "certifiable sky dipper indeed, or a sky plow driven around and around Polaris, the north star. As we all know, the dipper's "pointers." Merak and Dubbe, indicate pretty accurately the whereabouts of the north star. There are five other stars in the Dipper. They are respectively in order from the end of the handle Bennetasch, Misar, Alloth, Megres and Phoca. Here in the United States we speak of this collection of stars as the Dipper, while abroad it is known as La Grande Oursie, Der Grosse Baer, Orsa Maggiore, and among the ancient Egyptians, who were not acquainted with the bear, it was known as the Hippopotamus.—New York Times. In Defense of Conscience The meanest thing ever said about conscience were the words put into Hamlet's mouth by William Shakespeare: "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all." This remark has caused many people to believe that conscience was nothing but a coward maker, and consequently they have refused to have anything to do with it. Never was anything more unjust. Shakespeare's assertion is true only on the assertion that we are all sinners. To be fair, he should have said: "Thus conscience does make cowards of all of us who have sinned or who are about to sin." Then he would have been more in agreement with Solomon, who was wiser, and who said, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion."—Life Curious Old Drink Theory One of the most singular views on drinking ever recorded occurs in a letter from Sir Henry Ingelby on Aug. 21, 1661, printed in "Pryings Among Private Papers." "Sir William is so ill," wrote the baronet, "one of his doctors told me yesterday there was no manner of hope. * * * I have been taught that Jupiter allows every man who comes into the world a different proportion of drink, which, when he has dispatched, there remains nothing for him to do but to die, and that the proportion and expedition make great difference in men's ages."—London Standard. The Earliest Lamps The most primitive lamps were probably the skulls of animals, in which fat was burned, while certain seashells were also employed for this purpose, says an exchange. When pottery and metal began to be used the principle of these natural lamps was for a long time retained, as seen in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman lamps and in the stone cups and boxes of northern nations. Clean as a Whistle. The origin of the saying "As clean as a whistle" is ascribed to the "whistle tankard" of old times, in which the whistle came into play when the tankard was emptied or "cleared out" to announce to the waiter that more liquor was required. Horticultural Note. "I see Philip is going in for intensive gardening." "You don't say!" "Yep; raising a mustache."—Philadelphia Ledger. "Papa, what is a pessimist?" "A pessimist, my son, is a man who does not believe that his make of motorcar is better than anybody else."—Judie "I know. What place have you been kicked out of now?" - Chicago News. American Possessions. The "possessions" of the United States are as follows: Alaska, purchased from Russia in 1867, price $7,200,000, area, 590,884 square miles; the Hawaiian Islands, annexed by the request of the inhabitants in 1898, area, 6,449 square miles; Porto Rico, area, 3,606 square miles; Guam, area, 210 square miles, and the Philippine Islands, area, 115,026 square miles, ceded by Spain in the treaties of 1898 and 1900 on payment of $20,100,000; American Samoa, area, 77 square miles, acquired without money payment in 1890, and the Panama canal zone, which is not actually owned by the United States, but to which the country in consideration of the payment to the Republic of Panama of $10,000,000 and in addition an annual "rental" of $250,000 has acquired perpetual right of occupation, use and control. The canal zone is ten miles wide, and its area is 436 square miles. No payment was made for the territory of Hawaii, but the United States assumed the public debt of that country to the amount of $4,000,000. He Understood His Profession The professor of jurisprudence in a western university was lecturing to a hundred embryo lawyers. He asked whether every one in America could own property. One fellow answered, "No; a criminal can't own property." But the professor said: "Suppose a man owns a ranch, gets into trouble with his neighbor, assaults him and is put into the penitentiary. Does he still own the ranch?" The class was unanimous that he did. "If he did not continue to own it," went on the professor, "what would become of it?" That was supposed to settle the discussion, but one boy called out, "The lawyer would get it!" There was a hearty laugh, of course, and the professor added: "We learn two things from that apt remark—be a lawyer, and don't be a criminal." Youth's Companion. Neuralgia. Severe neuralgia can be cured by injecting alcohol into the nerves, but the cost is terrible, for the price is the death of the nerve, with paralysis as the result. Such, in brief, is the conclusion which Dr. Williams B. Cadwalader reports to the Journal of the American Medical association after experiments made at the laboratory of neuropathology of the University of Pennsylvania. The alcohol kills not only the nerves of sensation, but the motor nerves as well. In a nerve like the sciatic this would be serious. For the nerve may remain paralyzed for a year after the injection of the alcohol. In trifacial neuralgia, which is caused by a purely sensory nerve, this action is of little importance. The cure is not permanent, however, but affords freedom from pain for several months, perhaps as much as a year. The nerves regenerate just as they do when severed. A Traveling Opinion. Mr. Fazakerly, an eminent counsel, was once stopped by a country gentleman, a neighbor, who asked him about some point then very important to him and got the opinion verbally. Some time after the gentleman called on the counsel and said he had lost £500 by his advice, as it was a wrong opinion. The counsel said he had never given an opinion and, turning to his books, said he was confident of that. Being reminded that it was given during a drive the neighbors had one summer's day near Preston, the lawyer replied: "Oh, I remember now! But that was only my traveling opinion, and, to tell the truth, neighbor, my opinion is never to be relied upon unless the case appears in my fee book."—Case and Comment. Wood Screws. Of the many varieties of screws that known as the wood screw (from their exclusive use in wood) is the most common, and it has been made by machinery for many years. At first such screws had blunt points, and therefore it was necessary to bore a hole for their reception, but about 1850 Thomas J. Sloan, a native of the United States, devised the well known gimlet pointed screw and machinery for its manufacture. Removing Tree Stumps A German method for removing stumps is simpler and less dangerous than our way. They bore a hole in the stump and pour into it equal parts of nitric and sulphuric acids. After a few weeks the largest stumps of hard wood are eaten by the acid and easily crumbled with a pick. The Shott Jerid. In southern Tunis lies an extensive salt marsh desert called the Shott Jerid, of which the Arabs stand in terror, for many a caravan has been lost in the salt incrusted morass, which according to an authority, is as much as 1200 feet deep in places. The Game of Golf. Farmer Barnes -- There's one good thing about golf anyhow. Farmer Failows (steptically)—What's that? Farmer Barnes—Why, you don't have to play it if you don't want to—London Scraps. that fellow who live. "Some of the men at the club have a theory that he was raised on a vacuum bottle."—Judge. The Reason. "I say, why did you name that dog of yours Gossip?" "Because he's such a backbitten."—Rattmow American. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 7. 1915. Fire Lands. The phrase "fire lands" originated in a passage of early history, which also gave rise to the term "western reserve." After the Revolutionary war, when the colonies consented to cede their claims to western lands to congress, Connecticut reserved from her cession a tract embracing a large part of northern Ohio. The tract thus reserved included the present counties of Trumbull, Geauga, Portage and Ashtabula and became known as the western reserve. It was settled chiefly by emigrants from Connecticut and was sometimes called New Connecticut. In promoting the settlement of the land Connecticut reserved half a million acres from the western end of the tract for bestowal upon her citizens who had suffered losses during the war. and the lands embraced in this special reserve were called "sufferers" lands" and later "fire lands," because most of the sufferers had been losers by fire. In early times the phrase "fire lands" was sometimes used in deeds in describing the location of land in the tract referred to. — Philadelphia Press. Love of Money. The love of money can hardly be the root of all evil, for it is only one perverse passion out of many. But there is a kind of decorum about money which makes the love of it peculiarly dangerous, since it conceals from the lover the nature and effects of his passion. If a man wants too much food, he is evidently greedy. If a woman wants too many clothes, she is evidently vain. But money is not a thing, like clothes or food, that can be enjoyed by itself. It is only a means of getting things that can be enjoyed, and so greed for money is not a direct greed, but indirect. It is a civilized means of conducting the struggle for life, which to a great extent conceals from those who use it the ugliness and the animal nature of that struggle. It is, in fact, a kind of diplomacy, politely conducted, behind which there is war. But the diplomats often do not see the war—London Times. - Chesterfield on Toothbrushes When did the English first adopt the toothbrush habit? In "Esmond" Thackeray makes Lord Castlewood spend "a tenth part of his day in the brushing of his teeth and the offing of his hair," and in doing so the novelist commits a double anachronism. During the first half of the eighteenth century all fine gentlemen wore wigs and had no use for oil on their hair, while the toothbrush was so late as 1754 unknown to Lord Chesterfield. Writing to his son, Chesterfield says: "I hope you take great care of your mouth and teeth, and that you clean them well every morning with a sponge and tepid water, with a few drops of arquebusade water dropped into it. I do insist upon your never using those sticks, or any other substance whatever, which always rub away the guns and destroy the varish of the teeth."—London Graphic. Porpoise Jaw Oil. Practically all the porpoise oil used in this country, even if not in the world, for lubricating watches and other delicate instruments is made near New Bedford, Mass., which many years ago was important as a whaling port. The product is taken from the jaw and certain other parts of the animal, which is caught especially for this purpose. When the industry was in its infancy whalers were depended upon to supply the porpoise, but now the manufacturers maintain a fishing department, which follows the schools of porpoise migrating along the coast and furnishes a continual supply of them. The history of the New Bedford industry reaches back to the early part of the nineteenth century to a watch tinker who regulated and cleaned the timepieces of the whalers.—Popular Mechanics. He Taught Him Yells from the nursery brought the mother, who found the baby gleefully pulling small Billy's curls. "Never mind, darling," she comforted. "Baby doesn't know how it hurts." Half an hour later wild shrieks from the baby made her run again to the nursery. "Why, Billy," she cried. "What is the matter with the baby?" "Nothing, muzzer," said Billy calmly, "only now he knows!" — Harper's Weekly. Injured Innocence Irate Parent—What do you mean by holding Willie Jones down in the mud and skinning his nose? Young Culprit—It wasn't my fault he got his old nose skinned. The mind where I had him was soft, but he kept wriggling around and hit his beak on a rock—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Swelled. Mr. Woggs—I through with Bump. I told him we are going to name our baby after some great personage and asked him for a suggestion. Mrs. Woggs—What did he say? Mr. Woggs—He said, "Name it after ours"—Boston Journal. Why They Sting. Bill—You never see a bee trying to extract honey from the artificial flowers on a lady's hat. Jill—No, because the bees know there is more sweetness under the hat. -Yonkers Statesman. "He's a devoted husband. "Very. When she's away he even washes the dishes after every meal he gets for himself."—Detroit Free Press. Think of your wonderful immunity from harm if you mind your own business—Looms. Cleverness of Beavers. Some beaver dams, if built by human beings, would be styled feats of engineering. They are by no means located haphazard. Each site is carefully selected and each dam accomplishes a purpose that seems as if reasoned out in advance. Trees are felled with a nicety that can be duplicated only by skilled woodsmans. And the beaver does not limit his tree cutting to saplings. In the Adirondacks the animals have been known to cut down trees twenty inches and more in diameter. They prefer yellow birch and poplar, though they will cut any tree that seems necessary to their purpose. The dams are built of alder sticks, mud and grass and are finally chinked with moss, making a solid wall that often must be dynamited to be effectually destroyed. The cutting teeth of the beaver are very sharp, and there is great power behind the little jaws. Ordinary beaver chips are about half the size of the chips made by the average woodchopper, and they much resemble chips made with an ax, so smoothly are they cut. A White House Fete. I know nothing more impressive in its dignity, more complete in its way, than the White House en fete. It embodies all our best tradition of hospitality and cordiality—of perfection without ostentation. Then there is something in the atmosphere which hangs about it—especially during the days of a closing administration—which makes one think of that serenity that seems to cling around the woods of Mount Vernon and which appears there almost like a material reflex from the calm and tempered ripeness of its owner's soul. There is, I imagine, an affinity, a certain likeness in the magnanimity of all generous, wise and simple men whether of ancient or modern times. Alas, too hard for our generation of egotists to follow or even respect! The only ideal which is preached nowadays is "one's duty to oneself."—"Pieces of the Game." His Real Victory. The writer has seldom witnessed deeper feeling or more enthusiastic applause from a student audience than that which greeted the confession of a southern student who arose before the men of his university and confessed dishonesty in debate. The young man had recently won the sophomore-junior prize debate, but later in chapel he asked permission to make a statement to the student body, saying: "I overheard my opponent rehearsing his debate in an adjoining room, and, although I stopped my ears and refused to listen, my roommate took down the points. Afterward the temptation was so subtle and strong that I took the notes and arranged my debate accordingly and won. But," said the student, with feeling, "I stole it, and I have come to plead the forgiveness of the student body."—Christian Herald. Mother Remembers. A hall bedroom, a battered suit case, a single bed, a cheap washstand, plaster falling from the walls, loneliness and— A post card from mother! Your birthday! Huh! Almost forgot Funny that mother didn't forget. No-o, she didn't forget. It isn't a mother's way. What, weeping? Let 'em come, boy. Tears more manly were never shed. Save the card. It's sacred. Twenty years from now you'll weep over it again and thank God for the chance. Say a prayer for its sender, the best mother a fellow ever had. And then sit down and write—well, write just the kind of letter she's been waiting to receive from her boy—Cleveland Press. Napoleon's Ocean Prison The iron duke was responsible for Napoleon's exile to St. Helena. Returning from India in 1806, Wellington's ship touched at St. Helena, and the soldier was heard to remark upon the utter barrenness and desolation of the place. Upon getting into the ship's gig after taking leave of the civil and military authorities of the island Wellington said to the governor, "If I had an enemy whom I wished to bury alive I send him to this island." The overthrow of Napoleon gave him the, "enemy" and the wish, and he did not forget the place. Would Waste Nothing. A woman was engaging a cook, and, having almost brought the interview to a successful termination, said: "There is one thing, Mary; I do hope you are not wasteful." "Wasteful, mum! Why, Lot' bless you, I'd eat till I busted rather than waste anythink."—London Tit-Bits. France The name of France is derived from the Franci, or Franks, a people of Germany who seized that part of the country nearest the Rhine and settled there. Later on they subdued Paris and made that t' royal seat of their increasing empire. Two In One. Suspicious Policeman (at entrance to side show)—What's that internal racket inside? Ticket Seller—It's only do two headed lady disputin' wid each other—New York Times. Where He Wasn't Slow. Boss (to new boy)—You're the slowest youngster we've ever had. Aren't you quick at any time? Boy—Yes, str. Nobody can get tired as quick as I can.—Boston Transcript. Self control, however difficult at first, becomes step by step easier and more foolishful. NEW YORK SOLDIERS AT WARFARE PRACTICE The camps of state militia have attracted unusual attention this year, and naturally so, for the question of national defense is looming large in the public mind. The encampment of the national guard of New York state at Camp Whitman, Fiskhill Plains, drew many thousands of spectators. There have been encamped at Fiskhill Plains 5,000 guardmen and 500 regulars. Never before had this particular section of the state witnessed such a scene, and one thing that every officer, regular as well as militiaman, commented upon, was the apparent fact that the people were much more interested than in former years in the military organization that would form the backbone of the land defense in the event of a national crisis. The men were put through the paces of up to date warfare. Trench work was featured, and the pick and shovel THE FIELD Photo by American Press Association. IN CAMP AT FISHKILL PLAINS. played an important part in the drills. There were pontoon building and crossing streams under fire. The men were taught how to advance under artillery fire and were hurled against barbed wire entanglements. The mounted forces were instructed how to perform services of screening and reconnoitering. The hospital units were practiced in the rescue and care of the wounded. Sham battles were fought, and a military aeroplane participated in the maneuvers. After fighting a sham battle on the morning of July 22 the national guardsmen and regulars proceeded to the reviewing grounds, where they were reviewed by Governor Whitman, in whose honor the camp was named. The review was the biggest military spectacle ever seen in that part of New York state and was witnessed by about 10,000 persons. Every man in the camp, regulars as well as militia, appeared in the reviewing line. The national guard of New York state is unusually active this season, and not a day will pass until the end of August without a portion of the guard being engaged in field service. The training has been arranged along new lines adopted from lessons learned from the grim warfare in Europe. VIVIAN NICKALLS ENLISTS. Well Known College Rowing Coach to Become an English Soldier. Vivian Nickalls, who is well known as a college coach and who is at present the coach of Pennsylvania university's crews, has declared his intention of abandoning his profession to join the British army. Mr. Nickalls is an 1930 Englishman and is the brother of Guy Nickalls, rowing coach of Yale, whose varsity eight won a notable victory over Harvard this year. Vivian Nickalls has accepted a commission in a human regiment and will sail for England about the middle of August. PAGE FIVE When you undertake to study human nature begin on yourself. Some people who ask for a crust invariably want it over a ple. A man can always find time to do a thing if he has the inclination. Hope is all right in its way, but men who try to live on it are hopeless. The Liberty bell has a crack in it, but fortunately its ring is no longer needed. The easiest way to commit suicide involuntarily is to walk upon a railroad track. "Safety first" is a good motto, but too many people wait until it's too late to be careful. A lot of men expect the bread they throw on the water to come back to them in the form of cake. During lulls in the fighting the belligerents ought to be able to think of some good excuse for quitting. If Uncle Sam ever has occasion to do so he will issue a red, white and blue book, and it is likely to be the final word. The changed national boundaries announced in Southwest Africa are manifestly subject to confirmation by the treaty of peace. When one notes how much food has been exported to Europe during the last eleven months one wonders what would have become of it all if there had been no war. The Royal Box. Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German emperor, has just received a patent for an apparatus for cleaning the wind shields of automobiles. King George V. must be the most widely traveled monarch in history. Beginning with a trip to Ireland at the age of eight, his majesty has visited Canada, the United States, Palestine, Egypt, the Crimea, Constantinople, Russia, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Australasia, South Africa and India. The Empress Carlotta, as the Princess Charlotte was known after her husband was made emperor of Mexico, became insane after a mental breakdown in 1806. In 1879 she was pronounced incurable and confined by her family near Brussels, where she has been kept ever since. She is the aunt of King Albert of the Belgians. Educational Notes. There are 18,600,040 pupils in United States public schools. A million and a quarter of dollars is on deposit in school savings banks in the United States, according to the national bureau of education. This money is distributed among 217,000 pupils, who thereby learn lessons of thrift for use in later life. Two out of every thousand public high school boys receive military instruction in school as compared with five in every thousand fifteen years ago. While the total number of boys in public high schools has increased since 1900 from 216,207 to 541,486, the number of boys taking military drill has decreased from 10,455 to 9,532. Wireless Whispers. Regular wireless business is daily handled between Long Island and Germany and between Boston and Norway. Massachusetts students of wireless have had good success with experiments in sending and receiving messages with aerials laid on the ground. The United States navy will establish a wireless station on Cape Cod especially equipped to guide vessels along the Atlantic coast in time of fog. Within a few months wireless messages have been sent from a station in this country to Paris. They are sent direct and not relayed from ships at sea. Short Stories. Biscuit comes from the Latin words "bis coccus" (twice cooked). Perfect eyebrows are found in no animals other than mankind. Of the 3,000 or more islands comprising the Philippines only about 400 are inhabited. Costa Rica is nominally on a gold basis, but nearly all its gold has either been collected by a few financiers or shipped out of the country. The Italian government has made strict regulations concerning the width of wheels on wagons and carriages. The breadth of its wheel depends on the gross weight of the vehicle. Shot and Shell. German soldiers carry small tin whistles to blow for medical aid should they be wounded. It is claimed that half an hour of the goose step does as much for the muscles of the legs as half a day's route marching. When shells are filled with shrapnel bullets there is poured in about a pint of boiling resin, which keeps all fixed until the discharge. Guns with a bore of twelve inches or more can only fire ninety full charges. They are then considered to be worse out and have to be sent to the foundation to have a new bore inserted. --- PACIFIC CITY English Military Offenses. There are more than a dozen different offenses for which a soldier may be sentenced to death while on active service. The first on the list of death offenses applies to a commanding officer and reads, "Shamefully delivering up a garrison when in command of troops, without due necessity—punishment, death." A soldier can be shot for throwing away his rifle or sword in the presence of the enemy, for cowardice or for leaving his commanding officer in order to plunder. If he forces his way past a sentry on active service he may be sentenced to death or for assaulting any one bringing up provisions for the troops. A soldier is expressly forbidden while on active service to commit any offense against a resident of the country in which he is fighting under pain of death, nor may he break into any house in search of plunder or discharge his rifle intentionally to create a false alarm on the march. A soldier while acting as sentry who is found sleeping at his post may be shot. Any man causing or joining in a mutiny is liable to be shot. Desertion or attempt at desertion while on active service is naturally a death offense—London Opinion. Dreams. What is the purpose of dreams? Dr. Isador H. Coriart answers the question thus in "The Meaning of Dreams." It can be shown through dream analysis that dreams subserve a definite function in our mental life in that they really act as protectors and not as disturbers of sleep. This guardianship of sleep by means of dreams is due to the persistent dynamic action of the sensor. In sleep the censor is exceedingly active, and its function is to protect sleep from the mass of repressed emotions which threaten to overwhelm the sleeper in the shape of a dream. This is done by means of the dream mechanisms, in which the dream thoughts are fused and displayed, thus undergoing such disguise and symbolization as to be unrecognizable to the sleeper and consequently not disturbing to him. When the censor nods or is evaded, when the literal dream thoughts bombard and invade consciousness in an undisguised form, sleep is disturbed and insomnia results. Benjamin Harrison "Do you think," Benjamin Harrison once asked Louis T. Michener, his campaign manager, "that I am a cold man?" "I don't think so," General Michener answered, emphasizing the pronoun. "because I am acquainted with you, but persons do say that I am the only living man who hasn't been chilled by a Harrison cold blast. I understand your habits and your moods, and when you pass me in the street and don't speak to me I know the reason." "Well," Harrison replied, "I do get into a subject when I am thinking about it and at such times may seem a little blind and distant." "But Benjamin Harrison," General Michener told the writer of this article, "was not a cold man. No man is cold whom children and dogs love, and all the children and dogs of Indianapolis knew Benjamin Harrison. He saw them always, and they saw him."—New York Sun. Agate and Onyx. The distinction between agate and onyx is not apparent to every one, as is indicated by the samples of the two minerals received by the United States geological survey with requests for information. Onyx marble, or Mexican onyx, is composed of calcium carbonate or banded limestone. True agate is a variety of silica. Onyx marble is much softer than agate and is rarely used for gems, but when onyx is obtained in pieces of sufficient size it is cut and polished for small ornamental objects like inkstands and paper weights, as well as for table tops and soda water fountains. Trick of the Smugglers Russia was once overrun with counterfeit notes. The police felt certain that the notes were imported, which proved to be the case. One day an accident solved the mystery. Some packages of lead pencils arrived there from England, and, while examining, one of the pencils fell out. On sharpening it to use the customs officer was surprised to find the lead, but a short piece, while the inner portion was hollow and contained a counterfeit note. Net Worth Quarreling Over- "Dubbs and his wife never have any arguments about money matters." "How fortunate!" "Yes, Mrs. Dubbs says that a mere trifle like Dubbs' salary should not be allowed to come between them, so she takes it all." -Birmingham Age-Herald. Glaciers in Nebraska. Many of the physical features of eastern Nebraska were produced by sheets of ice that invaded the region during and after the earlier stages of the great ice age. At the opening of the glacial epoch the great Keewatin glacier spread southward and covered large parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa and extended thence into eastern Nebraska, where it was probably several hundred feet thick. This first stage of glaciation was brought to a close by the melting of the ice in a warmer interglacial time or stage—the Aftonian. A remarkable assemblage of animals invaded the region after the ice had disappeared, and the bones and teeth of many of these animals have been found in the Aftonian deposits of western Iowa. The late Professor Samuel Calvin identified the remains of horses, camels, stags, elephants, mastodons, mammoths and sloths. When these animals lived in western Iowa the climate there must have been comparatively mild and vegetation very abundant.-Geological Survey Bulletin. Trollope's Cigars Anthony Trollope prided himself on having reduced the writing of novels—and good novels—to something like a mechanical process, devoting to the work so many hours a day and timing himself to an output of so many words an hour. His advice to the literary aspirant was to glue himself to his seat and write, but he himself had another source of inspiration. One wall of his library was devoted to rows of little cupboards or bins, each with a separate glass door and filled with cigars stacked across and across like timber to allow free circulation of air. A pointed stud in the wood above the door indicated the bin in use, and as soon as any one bin was emptied the stud was removed to above the next door and the empty receptacle refilled from the big chests which Trollope obtained straight from Havana—London Saturday Review. Walpole, Knight of Garter. When Sir Robert Walpole was installed knight of the garter in 1726 he was the only commoner, with one exception, to whom the honor had been given since the reign of James I. The honor apparently was regarded as so great that Walpole had to apologize for his audacity, which he did in this fashion: "Is ambition imputed to me? Why, then, do I still continue a commoner—I who refuse a white staff and a peage? I had, indeed, like to have forgotten the little ornament about my shoulders which gentlemen have so repeatedly mentioned in terms of sarcastic obloquy. But, surely, this may be regarded with envy or indignation in 'another place,' it cannot be supposed to raise any resentment in this house, where many may be pleased to see those honors which their ancestors have worn restored to the commons."—London Chronicle. Poisons In Warfare There are many substances which may be employed to poison or asphyxiate an enemy, either by tempering the wind or by use in projectiles. Hydrocyanic acid, known as prussic acid, is so poisonous that a mere breath of it means instant death. Sulphuric anhydride when brought in contact with air combines rapidly with moisture absorbed from the air, producing sulphuric acid. Thrown in a bomb with just explosive charge enough to disrupt the bomb and scatter the sulphuric anhydride, the air for a large space about the explosion would be at once converted into a dense fog of sulphuric acid. Liquid ammonia similarly employed would instantly so fill the atmosphere with ammonia as to strangle all persons in the immediate vicinity.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Heart of a Mouse A tiny mouse who lived near the house of a magician begged him to save her from the cat, of whom she lived in deadly terror. So the magician changed the mouse into a cat, and she went away delighted. In a few days she came back again in terror. "Oh, save me, save me now from the dog," she begged. And the magician changed her to a dog. A few days more and back she came, this time in deadly fear of a tiger. "Nonsense," said the magician. "You have only the heart of a mouse, and afraid you will always be. It is the heart that tells." Our Mice Mines Mica mining in the United States started early in the nineteenth century in New Hampshire, which state supplied all the domestic production until about 1868, when mining was started in North Carolina and subsequently in other states. At present the greater part of the sheet mica is used in the electrical industry, and most of the scrap mica is ground for use in the decorative trade, especially in wall paper. The Helping Hand. The Married Man—I tell you, it's when a man falls into misfortune that he appreciates a woman. The Single Man—You bet! It must be a handy thing sometimes to put all your property in your wife's name—Pittsburgh Press. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 7, 1915. The artichoke, which originally came from Barbary, is not a botanical species, but a variety of the thistle, which grows spontaneously all along the African coast of the Mediterranean from Morocco to Palestine. It is now cultivated extensively in France, where those which come from Brittany and Algeria are the species most highly esteemed. Even of these there are many varieties, such as the Camus artichoke of Brittany, the bronzed artichoke of Roscoff, the big green artichoke of Laon and the violet artichoke of Provence. There are also varieties which come from Italy, Spain, India and Canada, to say nothing of the Jerusalem artichoke, famous for the enormous size of its leaves. In the south of France when the crop is abundant the heads are carefully picked of all their leaves and the hearts dried in the sun, put up in sacks and stored away for winter use. These hearts when boiled in water or in a rich beef broth become soft and recover their form, color and flavor. They are then taken from the pot, the water and broth strained away, the center is filled with force meat, and they are then either fried or baked. Americans. A native of any part of North or South America is literally an American since he is a native of one of the American continents. Usage, however, has narrowed the term so that "an American" is generally understood to be a citizen or native of the United States of America, while a native of Canada, Mexico, Central or South America is known as a "Canadian," "Mexican," "Brazilian," "Guatemalan" or the like. The reason for the usage does not lie in any feeling that the United States pre-empts, stands for or overshadows the other parts of the western hemisphere, but simply in the fact that, while Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United States of Colombia, etc., are words which admit of adjective formation, "American" is the only adjective which can be formed from the name of our country to denote its citizens or to apply to its interests, industries, cities, etc.-New York Times. To the Swift. While the morning rush was on one day a young woman followed a trolley car down Broadway, running two blocks before she caught it. This she was able to do because of the jam of the traffic which retarded the car. Her efforts attracted attention on both sides of the street, and hurrying shop hands stopped to cheer her on. At Houston street, where she came panting up to the side of the car, she gasped to the conductor that she had left her pocketbook on the seat and wanted to get it. He obligingly held the car while she made a search. No pocketbook was found, but as she stepped off into the street again, her eyes filled with tears, there came a shout from behind. It was the motorman of the succeeding car, and in his hand as he leaned over his brake he held the pocketbook. "Here it is, lady," he said. "Don't cry. You only caught the car ahead."—New York Post. Meat In Middle Ages. Much of the medieval meat, which Cobbett says is plentiful and cheap, must have been poor stuff. Until the introduction of root crops in the eighteenth century cattle and sheep did not become even moderately plump till the end of summer, while lack of fodder made it impossible to keep much live stock during the winter. On St. Martin's day (Nov. 11) arrangements were usually made for slaughtering on a large scale, and for the next six months fresh meat worth eating was practically unobtainable. Until the spring grass was again ready there was a run on salted beef and salted mutton. Salted beef is excellent—for a change. But have you ever tried salted mutton?—London Graphic. Futility of Flattery. Nothing is ever gained by flattery. To the serious man flattery in the form of sincere praise makes him more responsible and only sadder because he knows how much he falls below what is expected of him and what he expects of himself. Lip flattery makes a real man feel as though his sex had been mistaken. He feels as though he had been given curling tongs instead of a razor for his morning toilet—New York Telegram. His Name Was In It. Lender—I've been told that Rivers' name is in old Rocksworthy's will. Friend—Yes, his name is in it. He signed it as a witness, that's all. And—good gracious! What's the matter? Lender—Nothing, only I've lent him £50 on the strength of it—London Express. "When you are at a loss for a suitable word do you ever apply to your wife?" "No," replied the writer; "I don't have to. Her entire vocabulary is coming my way most of the time."—Chicago Post. The discovery that freckles are caused by too much iron in the system may explain why some girls won't go within a mile of the kitchen range Washington Post. The use of the term "athletic heart" has led to more misunderstandings than probably any other one expression. Laymen or parents, provided they are not of the medical profession, get a picture from this expression which is anything but correct. If they were told that their boy's thigh had increased half an inch in girth under the exercise that he had been doing in the gymnasium they would be pleased, but when they are told that the size of his heart is increased they are at once very much alarmed. Active participation in almost any sport which causes the heart to beat more rapidly will produce an increase of size of that muscle as in any other muscle, and a certain amount of this is unquestionably nature's normal and proper way of taking care of her economy. Some people, it is true, believe that any enlargement is abnormal, but Dr. Meylan and most of the physicians who have followed the athlete closely would not agree with this. Outing. Erratic Record In Golf. The world's record for unsteadiness probably goes to a certain California golfer. There was a team match scheduled between two clubs, each club picking its five best men. When the match started it was discovered that only four men had reported for one of the teams. The captain of the team that had a missing man saw standing by a club member with a handicap somewhere around sixteen or eighteen strokes. His average game was about 98. As a rule he could be counted upon to go out in 50 and come back in 48. That day, to his own amazement and to the confusion of his opponent, he was out in 34, eleven strokes better than he had ever played the course before for the first nine holes. This was an upset, but no worse than the upset that followed, for, after being out in 34, he was back in 63. He got his 97, but as no 97 was ever got before.—Jerome D. Travers in American Magazine. Turtle and Farina. Turtle and farina taken together represent to those who live on the Amazon, be they white, negro or Indian or one of the numerous crossbreeds, what the salmon does to the Alaska Indian, the cocoanut to the south sea islander and rice to the Mongolian. A short run of salmon in the Alaska rivers, a crop failure in the paddy fields of China, a hurricane in the south sea islands, all reduce to the same thing—famine. On the Amazon a shortage of turtles may be tided over by a plentitude of farina, or vice versa. A failure of both turtles and farina in the same year brings great and widespread distress. Farina is a crude, locally made product of the root of the manico, a further refinement of which results in the tapioca of commerce. Farina under a number of different names is more or less of a staple with the natives in all of tropical America from the West Indies to Paraguay. Colors and Heat. In an attempt to illustrate graphically the relative values for summer and winter wear of different colors in dress materials an interesting experiment was recently conducted, says Popular Mechanics. Four strips of cloth made of the same material and weight, but of different colors, were placed on a cake of ice and exposed to the sun. The fabrics were white, yellow, red and black. The result showed in a striking way how white reflects the sun's rays, while black absorbs them. The ice covered by the piece of white cloth was not melted to any appreciable degree during the test, that under the yellow strip was slightly depressed, a deep cut was formed beneath the red cloth and a groove approximately twice as deep as that covered by the latter was melted under the black fabric. Pinched. Perhaps the origin of our slang term "pinched," meaning arrested, is in Defoe's poem "Hymn to the Pillory." Immured in 1703 in Newgate, Defoe consoled himself with the reflection that, having meant well, he suffered unjustly. This is the passage: The first intent of laws Was to correct the effect and check the cause, The Earliest Lens. The earliest known lens is one made of rock crystal unearthed by Layard at Nineveh. This lens, the age of which is to be measured by thousands of years, now lies in the British museum with its surface as bright as when it left the maker's hands. By the side of it are very recent specimens of lenses which have been ruined by exposure to London's fogs and smoke. Following Principles "Did you see Bibbles disappear as soon as he saw his wife coming without even waiting to see what she wanted?" "He wasn't taking any chances on that. You see, he belongs to a 'safety first' society."—Baltimore American. Real Reason. Friend—I suppose the bank examiner comes around to find out what is on hand? Banker (grimly)—No; more often to find out what's on foot!—Boston Journal. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.—Cicero. Languages. The verse found in Genesis ii, "And the whole earth was of one language and of one people," has given rise to much speculation as to the language spoken on the earth previous to the "confusion of tongues." According to many authorities, Hebrew was the language spoken by Adam, while others state that Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldea are simply dialects of the original tongue. The Persians assert that there were three primitive languages. The Arabic, being the most persuasive, was used by the serpent in addressing Eve; the Persian, being the most poetic, was spoken by Adam and Eve, and the Turkish, being the most menacing, was employed by the angel when driving the guilty pair from the garden of Eden. Herodotus says that Psammetichus, king of Egypt, wishing to learn the language that would naturally be spoken by a person, caused two infants to be carefully guarded and kept from all verbal intercourse. When brought before him the first word the children uttered was bekos, the Phrygian for bread, whereupon it was at once asserted the Phrygian was the primeval or oldest tongue.-Philadelphia Press. For the Ultra Precise Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury said at Cambridge in a talk on English: "But precision can be carried too far. The ultra precise, even when logically right, are really wrong. "An ultra precise professor went into a hardware shop and said: "Show me a shears, please." "You mean a pair of shears, don't you?" said the dealer. "No,' said the professor. 'I mean what I say. I mean a shears.' "The dealer took down a box of shears. "Look here, professor,' he said, 'Aren't there two blades here? And don't two make a pair?' "Well, you've got two legs. Does that make you a pair of men?' And the professor smiled at the dealer triumphantly through his spectacles. "He was logically right, but, really, he was wrong."—Philadelphia Bulletin. What It Is Like to Fly. In "Air Craft In the Great War," by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper, an answer to the question "What is it like to fly?" is brief: The question has lost novelty, yet it has never been answered—never, that is to say, in a manner wholly convincing. The reason is that the sensation is indescribable—"like nothing else on earth," has a passenger has said. If you can imagine yourself gliding over a smooth surface of ice on skates you cannot feel and which make no noise, that may convey some faint idea perhaps of the feelings you experience after leaving ground. You are supported on something, yet you are not supported. You look down, and there is nothing below you but an empty void. Yet the machine rides firmly and securely, as though you were in a motorcar on the smoothest road. What Is a Placer? A placer is an unconsolidated deposit accumulated by mechanical processes, carrying one or more minerals in commercial quantities. All placers are secondary deposits—that is, the material of which they are composed was originally derived by erosion of bedrock. Although it is undoubtedly true that under certain conditions nuggets of placer gold have been enlarged through chemical precipitation, yet this action is a negligible quantity in placers. Placers may be derived solely by rock weathering without water sorting, but more commonly are the result of water transportation, sorting and deposition. Many of the richest placers are those formed by the erosion of older placers and the reconcentration of their gold. George's Father. Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, was engaged in 1732 in making pig iron at Accoeke furnace, in Stafford county, Va., about fifteen miles from Fredericksburg, when his famous son was born. This furnace had been built by the Principio company, composed of English capitalists, as early as 1726 on land owned by Augustine Washington, aggregating about 1,600 acres and containing iron ore, Mr. Washington becoming the owner of one-sixth of the furnace property in consideration of the transfer of his land to the company. A Chinese Gutenberg. There is pretty good evidence of a Chinese Gutenberg, one Pi Ching, who in 1041 carved cubes of porcelain paste with Chinese characters, afterward baked them and "set" the porcelain type by help of parallel wires on a plate of iron in a cement bed. It is certain that the art of printing was known in the Celestial empire for centuries before it came to light in Europe. Feminine "Short and Ugly." "You say Mrs. Gadders and Mrs. Plimly exchanged the short and ugly word?" "No. 'Cut.'"—Birmingham Age-Herald. Paradoxical Condition. Mrs. Exe—Your maid is too familiar. You should make her keep her place. Mrs. Wye—If I made her keep her place she'd quit her job—Boston Transcript. "Missy loves company." "Yes, and some folks persist in acting as though they were married to it." —Dedict Free Press. Delights of Camel Riding It was my first experience of camel riding and therefore interesting if not altogether charming. The saddles used on this journey were formed of large pads, one in front and one behind the hump. The driver climbs into places in front, with a huge peaked pad to keep him from falling off when the camel rises. Then the passenger mounts behind the hump, and the camel is with difficulty persuaded to rise. This he does hind quarters first, and the passenger himself thrust up in midair as if on a tower. The huge pad offers no possible support, and he can scarcely overcome his desire to prevent a fall by putting his feet on the driver's shoulders. That worthy however, soon comes up to join him, and the expedition starts. The first sensation is of being astride a table and as the miles go by the table increases alarmingly in width, and the tyro on the back seat begins to despair of ever getting his less acquainted again. -Wide World Magazine. Discontent Success is a disease, if the reasoning of those who give the identical definition for poverty is to be followed. An excellent preventive is idleness or inertion; another is satisfaction. Find the man who is satisfied and you need look no further for human patty. Content breeds Indias and China. Discontent sends Mayflowers across oceans—not the sulen discontent that does nothing, but the discontent that manifests itself in striving to better conditions, the discontent that means hard work and plenty of it. Some firms are so contented with the volume of business they have that they do nothing to increase it. But the discontented competitor is doing something, as the first firm generally finds out before going into bankruptcy. You go ahead or you go back in this world. You cannot stand still. Satisfaction too often means just that—doing nothing—Philadelphia Ledger. June and Matrimony The first people to adopt the month of June as sacred to Hymen, the god of marriage, were the ancient Romans, who considered June the most propitious season of the year for entering upon matrimonial relations. The Romans held that June weddings were likely to be happier than alliances contracted in any other month of the year, especially if the day chosen were that of the full moon or the conjunction of the sun and moon. They also held that of all months May was to be most avoided, as in that month newlyweds would come under the influence of spirits adverse to happy households. These ancient marriage superstitions were retained by the Christians in the middle ages, and even today June is considered by many to be pre-eminently the month of marriages. — Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Pretty Thin Milk Old Captain Joshua Ketcham of Amityville, N. Y., was very much beloved by the summer residents who used to sail with him on the bay and catch bluefish. There was always a refreshing flavor of the sea in his talk. One day, when a party of city men were sailing with him, the conversation turned on the difficulty of getting good milk in Amityville, and they appealed to the captain to know why that was the case. "Well," said Captain Joshua, "it's been that way as long as I can remember. My wife made me buy a cow once. I bought her from Elbert Haff, up on the north turnip, and gave him $40 for her. Elbert said she'd give twenty quarts of milk a day, and I guess she did, but you could see bottom in six fathoms."-Youth's Companion. It Didn't Work. The crowded car was overflowing. "Get off the step," the conductor cried. "I've got to close the door." "Don't mind me," replied the man on the step. "Close it if you like. It's true that I have a couple of sample packages of dynamite in my overcoat pockets and the windows might be broken and the roof blown off, but don't hesitate on my account. I haven't many friends, anyway, and I don't think many would sorrow over my early demise. Go ahead and close your door." Then the conductor closed it—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her Reply. A gentleman, for what he called a lark, advertised for a wife and requested each candidate to inclose her carte de visite. A spirited young lady wrote to the advertiser in the following terms: "Sir, I do not inclose my carte, for, though there is some authority for putting a cart before a horse. I know of none for putting one before an ass."—London Tit-Bits. Clashing Dates. "It must take a deal of care, I should imagine, to arrange a baseball schedule." "Yes, so many attractions conflict. Now, in Boston we have a lot of trouble avoiding dates on which there are symphony concerts."—Puck. Semiofficial. City Editor—What do you mean when you wrote "The statement is semi-official?" Reporter—Mrs. Blinks wouldn't talk, so I got the story from her husband.—Philadelphia Ledger. It Always Is. Sympathizing Friend—Didn't you find it hard to lose all your money? Hardup—No; easiest thing in the world.—Town Topics. They serve God well who serve his creatures.—Mrs. Norton. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. OPEN one with US. Beautiful Automobiles FUNERAL Auto Hearse, Two Lin persons, black-broad cloth plush, Grave, Out Side B Beautiful Automobile FUNERALS $65.00 Auto Hearse, Two Limousines carrying twelve persons, black-broad cloth casket, or any color in plush, Grave, Out Side Box and Embalming. 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In a few weeks they show growth above the ground, the germ buds at the rings having begun to shoot out in the form of young cane, the ring having at the same time thrown out rootlets into the soil. The parallel trenches are made far enough apart, say at least three feet, to enable the workers when the wide spreading canes are getting ripe to go between the rows and remove the dying leaves which burden the ripening cane, thereby enabling the naked cane to mature faster. Our Universe. Simon Newcomb, one of the most eminent mathematicians, wrote: "Speaking roughly, we have reason from the data so far available to believe that the stars of the Milky way are situated at a distance between 100,000,000 and 200,000,000 times the distance of the sun. "It is not a chance. It is not even a collection of things, each of which came into existence its own separate way. If it were there could be nothing in common between two widely separated regions of the universe. But, as a matter of fact, science shows unity in the whole structure and diversity only in details. "The universe, so far as we can see it, is a bounded whole. It is surrounded by an immense girdle' of stars, which to our vision appears as the Milky way. While we cannot set exact limits to its distance we may yet confidently say that it is bounded." The Hof Air Furnace There was a young publisher who made a sudden fortune by appealing to that largely neglected class which we call society. Gaining riches, the young publisher retired and was seen less and less in his old haunts. "Where's Lawrence?" some one asked of "Mr. Dooley." Dooley answered, "Oh, he's uptown now, warming his hands at the social handkerchief." Valuation. "You say that dog has a pedigree?" "Yes." "How much is he worth?" "Well, the dog is worth about 20 cents, but the pedigree is valued at over a hundred dollars."—Washington Star. His Obligations "Going there this evening? "No. You see—er—that isn't all. 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His boss wonders how he can do it on the salary he is getting, but does not increase it. His wife wonders why it is that a little house takes so much time to look after. While a man himself is so excited all the time that he nearly loses his job—and doesn't realize it. - Indianapolis Star. Navy That Crossed a Mountain. Navy That Crossed a Mountain. In 1439, when the Venetians were at war with the Milanese they brought half a dozen war galleys with twenty-five smaller craft up the Adige river as far as Mori, some miles above Ala. Then came a feat which reminds us of the Turk's extraordinary achievement fourteen years later at Constantinople. By means of rollers and 2,000 men the Venetians hauled these ships up to the mountain saddle and lowered them on the other side to the Lake of Garda. "It was a task of fourteen days," says J. J. Stoddard, "and cost an enormous sum of money, but the result justified the boldness and extravagance of the undertaking, for in the following year the Venetians, aided by their imported galleys, vanquished their opponents and gained possession of the lake."-London Chronicle. The Ideal Soup Kettle. One of the woeful aspects of soup making in the pre-enameled ware days was the cleansing of the heavy iron kettle, for washing a kettle big enough to hold a shin bone of beef with trimming was no joke. Today, however, one can have the trim enameled kettle in any size, light yet strong, and all it needs is hot sunds and a good rinsing to make it beautifully clean and sanitary. If, in addition, there is a collander of enameled ware for the straining of the soup into a pan to match the equipment is ideal for cleanliness, quickness and results.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Time Required. "How long does it take you to go fishing?" "Well, if you consider the time I actually fish it takes only a few hours. But if you count in the time I consume waiting for conditions to be just right and arranging for bait it takes several weeks."—Washington Star. Catty. "Pa suggested that in conducting our club paper, each should take a department with which she was most familiar." "Then, dear, wouldn't you like to have charge of its make-up?"—Baltimore American. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 7, 1915. A Costly Client. Miss Bayley told me that Mr. Philps, the oculist, told a gentleman, who told her, the following anecdote of the late Duchess of Devonshire: Mr. Philps was sent for to Chatsworth to operate upon the duchess' eye. He stayed there some time and at parting received from the duke a fee of £1,000. Just before he stepped into his carriage a message from the duchess brought him to her chamber. She hoped the duke had done what was handsome by Mr. Philps. The gentleman protested: "Yes, and more than handsome." "It is an awful thing," continued her grace, "to ask, but really I am at this moment in immediate want of such a sum, and if you could, Mr. Philps— Mrs. Grant's Retort. The Grant administration brod brilliant throng of military officers the capital, and the young people the president's family—he daughter and several sons—made White House gay. Mrs. Grant plain in appearance, unpretentious manner, but genuinely hospital quicker witted than she was given credit for being. Addressed in French by a young lomat at one of her receptions, sponded in English. "Ahl" said the bumptious for attempting to be facetious. "M does not speak French? How ing! In Europe all the ladies upper class speak French and gaily two or three other language sides." What could the oculist do? He produced his £1,000, took his leave and never heard of his money from that day to this.—From "Recollections of a Long Life," by Lord Broughton. A Joke on the Lynx. Frequently during the winter nature plays a joke on the lynx. Mr. Lynx does his hunting at night and lies outstretched on some horizontal limb during the day. Some day, while the lynx is dreaming, the sun comes out bright and warm and softens the surface of the snow to such extent that when the animal climbs down and starts in search of his supper the soft snow collects in great clumsy balls on the long foot hairs. The lynx sits down and with his sharp teeth gnaws away the accumulated snow, gets up and starts on, only to find that the balls have collected again. Again he sits down, a little less patiently this time, and gnaws the snow away. In a short time it has accumulated once more. The infuriated animal tears at the persistent snow with his sharp teeth and wounds his feet until they bleed. You can often track the animal by the bloodstains on the snow. Youth's Companion. Oldest Bridge In England. Harold's bridge, said to be the oldest bridge in England, is near Waltham Abbey, which the Saxon King Harold founded. It consists of a single arch of sandstone surmounting stone foundations and spans a little stream, the river Lea. Across this bridge King Harold is said to have been borne to his grave in the abbey churchyard after having been slain by an arrow at the battle of Hastings in 1066. The sides of the arch have crumbled away, but the central portion is intact and seemingly as secure as it was when constructed. more than 850 years ago. The bridge is not in use today, but stands in a pasture adjoining the grounds of the ancient abbey, of which the chapel, now used as the parish church, and portions of the brick wall surrounding the grounds alone remain. - Springfield Republican. A Gramophone Trick The neatest thing in gramophone tricks is to offer a bet to any member of the company that you can play a record without the machine. It is a perfectly straightforward matter, says the Strand Magazine. Take a lead pencil and a piece of note paper and explain that this is all you are going to use. Then fix the lead pencil into the hole of the disk so that it can be set spinning on the point like a child's teetotum. Fold a piece of paper, which should be thin and crisp, and hold the sharp point of the paper in the groove of the record very lightly, so as not to disturb the equilibrium of the spinning disk. The record will be distinctly played, only very faintly, of course, as you are substituting a somewhat primitive "producer" instead of the patent sound box. Frohman's Generosity. Mr. Heyman said to Charles Frohman one day: "Do you know you are not doing right in sending money to all the people who write and tell you they are in hard luck? They may be imposing on you." "There may be some that are imposing." Frohman answered, "but I know that there are others in want, so I can't afford to make a mistake."—New York World. Patriotic James In some school not located—locate it to please yourself—the teacher was hearing the history lesson. Turning to one of the scholars, she asked: "James, what was Washington's farewell address?" The new boy rose with a promptitude that promised well for his answer. "Heaven, ma'am," he said.—Current Opinion. Old English Customs The ladies of Edward IV.'s time dined at 11 in the morning and were in bed shortly after 8 at night. Perhaps none of the old English customs has undergone such a change as the number of meals taken a day and the times of retiring to rest. Poisonous Fish. Poisonous fish are rare here, but common in the tropics. A Japanese fish, fugu, has deadly poisonous roe. Roe of pike and meat of sturgeons are poisonous when spawning. The bile and liver of many fish are poisonous. But most fish poison is due to decay. Madame—I don't know where our son gets all his faults from. I'm sure he doesn't get them from me. Monsteur—No, you're right there; you haven't lost any of youa. Man's chief wisdom consists in knowing his follies—Rochefoucauld. Mrs. Grant's Retort. The Grant administration brought a brilliant throng of military officers to the capital, and the young people of the president's family—he had a daughter and several sons—made the White House gay. Mrs. Grant was plain in appearance, unpretentious in manner, but genuinely hospitable and quicker witted than she was generally given credit for being. Addressed in French by a young diplomat at one of her receptions, she responded in English. NOTARY PUBLIC "Ah!" said the bumptious foreigner, attempting to be facetic. "Madame does not speak French? How surprising! In Europe all the ladies of the upper class speak French and generally two or three other languages besides." "I know," said Mrs. Grant dryly, "and can understand why this must be on a continent divided into so many small kingdoms, some of them smaller than our smallest states, each speaking a different language, but in our great, united country, one language only is spoken from end to end of it. We need no other." The abashed foreigner retired.—Exchange. The "Dominion" of Canada: We are accustomed to take the expression of the "Dominion" of Canada for granted, but the original of that somewhat unusual word is known to very few. When at length the great scheme of Sir John Macdonald was realized, and the nine provinces grouped themselves together into one great confederation, a serious difficulty was resented by the choice of a suitable name. For a time almost a deadlock issued. At length one old member of parliament rose from his seat and told his colleagues that he had read in his Bible that very morning the words, "His dominion shall be from the one sea to the other." Accordingly he, suggested that Canada should be known as the Dominion, or God's Land. The suggestion seized upon the hearts and imaginations of those present, and it was promptly acted upon—Pall Mall Gazette. In the Stocks. In England the punishment of the stocks has been inflicted within the memory of men now living. In the Manchester Guardian of June 14, 1872, there is an account of a man enduring this form of punishment at Newbury. He was a rag and bone dealer of intemperate habits and was fixed in the stocks for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. "Twenty-six years had elapsed since the stocks were last used," states this account, "and their reappearance created no little sensation and amusement, several hundreds of persons being attracted to the spot where they were fixed." The "amusement" does not appear to have been shared by the prisoner, who was released after four hours and "seemed anything but pleased with the laughter and derision of the crowd." Truth Persists. The prejudices of one age are condemned even by the prejudiced of the succeeding ages. The truth haters of every future generation will call the truth haters of another generation by their true names—for even these the stream of time carries onward. In fine, truth, considered in itself and in the effects natural to it, may be considered as a gentle spring or water course, warm from the genial earth and breathing up into the snowdrift that is piled up and around its outlet. It turns the obstacle into its own form and character and as it makes its way increases its stream. And should it be arrested in its course by a chilling season it suffers delay, not loss, and walts only for a change in the wind to awaken again and roll onward—Taylor Coleridge. Painting and Music. Whereas, while polish, refinement, culture and breeding are in no way arguments for artistic result, it is also no reproach to the most finished scholar or greatest gentleman in the land that he be absolutely without eye for painting or ear for music—that in his heart he prefer the popular print to the scratch of Rembrandt's needle, or the songs of the hall to Beethoven's O minor symphony. — James MacNeill Whistler. Badly Shrunk The loser of an election bet in Baltimore one time had to wheel the winner several miles in a wheelbarrow, with the provision that every time the man stopped to rest five inches were to be cut off the legs of his trousers. He stopped four times. Yonkers. Patrono Van der Donck, in the years after 1642, lived such a serene and robust life on his Hudson river estate that the Dutch villagers called his manor farm "De jonkheer's landt"—the gentleman's land, later compressed by the frugal English into Yonkers. 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When a piece of iron is slowly heated in a flame it at first radiates heat, and as the frequency of the wave motions becomes greater it radiates light—first red rays, then yellow and finally, if the heat is very intense, a white light is emitted. The red rays are longer and of less frequency than the blue. When white light is passed through a prism the waves are acted upon and are separated. The red rays are diverted less from their previous direction than the violet. This is exemplified by light from a clear sky. Refracted by suspended particles in the air, the blue rays are diverted more than the others and give a blue appearance to the otherwise colorless clear sky—Samuel S. Saddler, S. B., in "Chemistry of Familiar Thinners." On the last day of school prizes were distributed at Peter's school. When the little boy returned home the mother was entertaining callers. "Well, Peter," asked one of the callers. "did you get a ruse?" "Bahf" sneeered the blustery man. "Bluff is the thing. A man can bluff his way through life." "But," said the conservative, "if you couldn't swim and fall in you couldn't skiff the river for a second."—Livingstone Lance. PAGE EIGHT GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allow Safety Deposit cent allowed on Savings Acco y Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. As agent buy and sell Real Estate students, including payment of taxes on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites tha THE EL and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estate and payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Real Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business m THE ELITE NO.2 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most UP-TO BUFFET and CAFE on the Side. First-Class Entertainer HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Prop Phone Douglas 1360 " 2349 finest and most UP-TO ET and CAFE on the First-Class Entertainers Y“TEENAN” JONES, Prop The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. KEYSTONE HOTEL BILLIARD PARLOR NICELY FURNISHED 3022 S. DAVID McGOWAN, Pr FURNISHED ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN 3022 S. STATE STREET ID McGOWAN, Prop. CHICAGO NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY 3022 S. STATE STREET DAVID McGOWAN, Prop. CHICAGO A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE ST JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. JOHN B STATE STREET [CH] BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCKI Blocki's Ideal & Blocki's Flower In Bottle Perfumes WEBER COMPANY BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 Sowed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT State on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. LITE NO. 2 and most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South class Entertainers. NAN" JONES, Proprietor. ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY U.S. STATE STREET Prop. CHICAGO DOUGLAS 5971 re Phone DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 F. W. BLOCKI, Trees.] BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO Accounts Super Year SET estates for non-re- presents. Money to lo- ness men. NO. 2 SET 591 TO-DATE the South owners. Proprietor. Automatic 73-277 LEMEN ONLY T CHICAGO DOUGLAS 5971 15 DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 [CHICAGO] BLOCKI, Trees. SON THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 7, 1915. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. B. Jones, magazines, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 248 E. 38th St. N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, notion 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. WIFELY DEVOTION OF MRS. EDEN She Watches Over Him He Overtax Himself Thomas A. Edison, who has had a new honor thrust upon being selected by Secretary of Daniels to head the recently rated department of invention development for the United States is the man above all others who nation will look to for new George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St. near State. B. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St., near State. Sylvester McGlofin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 B. State St. George McFare, shoe shining parlers and news stand. 3800½ State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 89th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Rose A. Gray of Newark, M. J. has been employed in one position with the same firm for the last fifty years. In recognition of the devotion of Lady Ralph Paget the municipality of Uakuh, Servia, has decided to rename the finest street in that city after her. Much of the credit of the home relief work done in Philadelphia during the last winter is due to the hard work of Mr. J. Willis Martin, wife of Judge Martin. Miss U. L. Poinkalszky has charge of the unique school maintained on Illinois island by the United States government to teach immigrant children quartered there. Miss Helen Lononitch, who has come to this country to co-operate with the Survian agricultural relief committee, is the daughter of the former secretary of agriculture and commerce of Servia. She was decorated by her country for heroism and valor as a war nurse. She reads and speaks English well. Inhabitants of the Americas have a perfectly good hemisphere with plenty of room on it, and they should stick to it. Hatred in plants kills men, says a scientist. A toadstool, then, must be a mushroom in a highly peeved state of mind. Europe lingered on the verge of war for many years; more by far, it is hoped, than will be necessary to bring about a preparedness for peace. Train and Track The International and Great North ern railway, Texas, is about to spend $1,000,000 for improvements. In a new type of interurban car the engine runs at a constant rate, the speed of the car being governed by friction drive, which is applied to each of the eight wheels independently. Without stopping his train an engineer can move a lever in his cab and open a newly devised switch to enable him to enter a siding, the switch auto- matically closing when the last car has passed over it. The Royal Box The Prince of Wales, it is said, after the war will give his attention to agriculture. The kaiser is entitled to wear the uniform of every regiment in the German army. Every year the king of Siam sends a contingent of Siamese scholars to England to be educated at his expense. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy is a great numismatist and possesses a collection of over 20,000 coins, which is said to be the finest in Europe. Mylee park, in London, comprises about 380 acres. There were only 7,000,000 people in Great Britain in 1750. Less than a thousand Victoria cruises have been awarded since they were first fashioned in 1850. The original Greenwich observatory sent $500 to build, and the money was raised by the sale of some spelled gut-squares. She Watches Over Him Lest He Overtax Himself. Thomas A. Edison, who has recently had a new honor thrust upon him by being selected by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to head the recently inaugurated department of invention and development for the United States navy, is the man above all others whom the nation will look to for new inventions of a defensive nature. Chief among the problems it is hoped this department will solve is meeting the danger of submarine warfare with new devices that will assure peace to our country by their effectiveness. In announcing his acceptance of Secretary Daniels' invitation Mr. Edison said that he believed the proposal so important that it should be attended to at once, for the war in Europe emphasized the need of such a department. Mr. Edison, as is well known, is crowded with work, and Mrs. Edison, who has always been more solicitous M. © by American Press Association. MR. AND MRS. THOMAS A. EDISON. for her husband's health than is the great inventor himself, at first demurred to his accepting the new responsibility, but her scruples have been overcome. "I think he has too much to do now," said Mrs. Edison in a recent interview, "straightening out the plant after the fire, building a new carbolic acid factory and his other everyday work that is itself far more exacting than that of most men. He works steadily from 8 o'clock in the morning until midnight. However, he tells me he would act only in an advisory capacity in this new position and would have to do little or no active work. I suppose that being the case I shall have to put aside my preferences and consent to his accepting Secretary Daniels' offer. But." Mrs. Edison sighed anxiously, "he really has too much work now." Several times Mrs. Edison has "looked after" her famous husband when she believed "the wizard," who seldom sleeps more than five hours a night, was overtaxing himself. When the Edison record plating plant burned March 8 Mrs. Edison brought out to him a pair of overshoes and insisted on his putting them on while the fire was at its height. Several times she has refused to permit him to return from vacations when she feared he had not got enough rest, and many nights she goes out to his laboratory and makes him come in and get a little needed sleep. CZAR'S NEW WAR MINISTER. General Polivanov Appointed to Take the Place of General Soukhomlinoff. The reverses in Gallicia brought about the retirement of. General Soukhomlinoff, the Russian minister of war, and the czar has designated General Polivanov to succeed him. General Polivanov was assistant minister of war during the reorganisa- [Image of a man with a bald head and a white beard, wearing a dark uniform with a high collar. The background is plain white.]] Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL POLIVANOV. tion of the Russian army following the Russo-Japanese war. He has the reputation of being an excellent soldier and organizer and enjoys considerable popularity on account of his liberal views. Full power has been placed in his hands to conduct the Russian war office in Petrograd. "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 Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. THE BROADWAY The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 'Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. 'Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WAS HOTEL LIN (American or European Plan) HOTEL LINCOLN BROOKLYN Arverne, L. I. Phone 1417 Hammel Phone 1417 Hammel ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAILI FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and AR MOUR AVE. SHORT AND SHARP. A great many men avoid doing wrong by being so lazy. War is another thing that ought to be taken out of politics. Queen Mary of England, writing in a confession album, records that the quality she most admires in a man is that of modesty. The rule is that a good deal is taught and mighty little learned. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy as a youth was a weakling, but he has grown to be a fairly strong man, although he is the smallest living monarch, his height being five feet three inches in his boots. It is better not to be too indifferent. If you don't care no one else will. Of course blowing up the capitol would be an obvious way of ending the war. So far the submarines haven't put the floating national debts out of business. The successful man is one who is on the job when the main chance comes along. An all steel caboose, the first of its kind ever built, has been put into use. Durable and reliable railroad. Comets will have to develop more than two tails to attract the notice of a world on fire. by the Pennsylvania Railroad China has almost 6,000 miles of railroads open to traffic and more than 2,000 miles under construction. The projected government railway for Alaska is to run from Seward to Fairbanks, a distance of 412 miles. Some men climb up in the world, and a lot more remain at the bottom because the elevator isn't running. FRANK DUNN J. B. MoCAHEY TRUSTEES FRANK DUNN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Combines the restful quiet of the country and seashore with the galeries of a great city. Only a few minutes' ride by train separates New York City from this delightful spot. Hotel Lincoln is within three minutes' walk of the Beach, where there is boating, bathing and fishing; 26 magnificently appointed rooms, single or en suite. Every convenience to suit the most exacting. Excellent Cuisine, Moderate Rates, Best of Service. For information write C. A. BRECKENRIDGE Proprietor TEL OAKLAND 1560, 1591, 16 CHICAGO The Royal Box. Emperor William possesses 324 decorations. King Constantine of Greece is known as Timo to his family. Train and Track. The railroads of the United States carry more than 1,000,000,000 passengers a year.