The Broad Ax

BROAD AX The Hon. William C. Niblack, Receiver for the LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank ---William Lorimer's Rotten Bank, Has Obtained Judgments Against the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph.D., D.D. and the Hon. J. Gray Lucas for $850.00 MOST OF THAT SUM OF MONEY WAS OBTAINED ON VALUELESS PAPER IN 1911 TO ENABLE THE HON. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN TO SPLUDGE OR TRAVEL ABOUND OVER THE COUNTRY AND TO HUNT UP WITNESSES IN AN EFFORT TO GRAB OR GOBBLE ON TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE ROBERT T. MOTTS. IN 1914 AFTER THE PAILURE OF THE LA SALLE STREET TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK MR. NIBLACK WRUNG A NEW NOTE FROM MESSERS. CAREY AND LUGAS WHICH HE SUED ON AND THE EXECUTIONS HAVE BEEN PLACED IN THE HANDS OF COL. JAMES MILLER ONE OF THE BAILIFFS OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO GO OUT AND BRING IN THE MONEY. AS REV. CAREY IS WORKING FOR THE CITY AS ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS IN THE CORPORATION COUNSEL'S OFFICE HE MAY BE CITED INTO THE DEBTORS COURT AND FORCED TO PAY HIS PART OF THE JUDGMENT. TAG DAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ILLINOIS STATE COMMISSION AND FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MRS. MARY F. WARING BROUGHT IN ABOUT $700. SEVERAL WHITE LADY FRIENDS OF BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS ENGAGED IN A WORDY TILT WITH SOME OF THE COLORED LADIES IN RELATION TO COUNTING AND DIVIDING UP THE MONEY. IT MAY NOT BE TRUE BUT IT IS CLAIMED BY SOME THAT BISHOP SAMUEL PALLOWS CHAIRMAN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE COMMISSION STATES: "THAT $1,000, HAS MADE ITS GETAWAY" AROUND THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE COMMISSION, 128 N. LA SALLE STREET AND SO FAR NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO FIND OR LOCATE IT. Vol. XX. The Hon. Trust Bank Arch Luca MOST OF THAT SUM OF MONEY PAPER IN 1911 TO ENABLE THE TO SPLUDGE OR TRAVEL ARCH HUNT UP WITNESSES IN AN IN THE ESTATE OF THE LATE E IN 1914 AFTER THE FAILURE OF AND SAVINGS BANK MR. NIE MESSERS. CAREY AND LUCAS V CUTIONS HAVE BEEN PLACE MILLER ONE OF THE BAILIFE INSTRUCTIONS TO GO OUT A AS REV. CAREY IS WORKING FOR TIGATORS IN THE CORPORATION CITED INTO THE DEBTORS COU OF THE JUDGMENT. TAG DAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF AND FIFTY YEARS OF FREED MRS. MARY F. WARING BRO WHITE LADY FRIENDS OF BEN IN A WORDY TILT WITH SOM LATION TO COUNTING AND I IT MAY NOT BE TRUE BUT IT IS SAMUEL FALLOWS CHAIRMA MISSION STATES: "THAT $ ABOUND THE HEADQUARTER SALLE STREET AND SO FAR OR LOCATE IT. It will be recalled that at the time of the failure of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank, William Lorimer's old rotten bank, in 1914, that it was stated in the daily newspapers that the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. who would like to make it appear that he is the boss or the head god of the universe, was relied on by a certain class of cheap White Democratic and Republican politicians to control the Colored voters of this city and to make them vote to suit himself, that is either Republican or Democratic, that he was one of the very few Negro preachers in this city who understood successfully how to work both ends and the middle at all times, that he is all things to all men whenever there is any real political money in sight, that in company with the Hon. J. Gray Lucas he boldly entered the bank of his bosom friend and old pal in political tricks and scheming the Hon. William Lorimer and walked away with almost one thousand thousand dollars belonging to its stockholders and depositors. It seems that all the political aids of Senator Lorimer possessed the right to rush into his bank and pull out all the money they wanted to blow in on wildcat paper and finally his bank went to the wall and the Hon. William C. Niblack whom the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swain claims that he can absolutely control when it comes down to money matters was appointed receiver for the La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank and in time he started suit in the Municipal Court against the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. and the Hon. J. Gray Lucas, in an effort to recover eight hundred and fifty dollars from them, Mr. Niblack was wise enough to make them sign up on a new note after he had assumed his duties as receiver for the bank. It has been contended by many of those who have been in a position to know that most of that sum of money which was secured on valueless paper in 1911, when Lorimer's bank was still under the control of the federal government and was therefore a national bank finally found its way into the dishonest pockets of the Hen. Thomas Wallace Swann who has been mixed up in many doubtful coldblooded schemes since he blew into this town in 1908, without much money in his pockets and who had no visible means of support until he connected up with the Illinois State Commission and with the money which was secured from the bank on the strength of the glowing prospects that it would be paid back out of the small or large part of the money which would roll into their pockets from some of those who claimed to be connected with Robert T. Motts, the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann was enabled to spludge or travel around over the country in grand style and hunt up witnesses right and left in an effort to grab or gobble onto everything in sight and everything not in sight which the late Robert T. Motts had left behind him. If anyone will take the trouble to walk into the office of the chief clerk of the Municipal Court located in the south end of the city hall on the eighth floor and call for index number 517044, they will have no trouble in learning that in the first part of May this year, that receiver Niblock obtained judgments against Messrs. Carey and Lucas for the amount of money mentioned above, that the executions have been placed in the hands of Col. James Miller, one of the bailiffs of the Municipal Court with instructions to land on them and bring in the money and on or about the first of September he will report back to his head chief whether or not he was successful in pulling in any money on his executions. It is reported around the city hall that the Hon. William C. Niblk, through his attorneys may cite the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. into the debtors court in an effort to collect a part of the judgment which is running against him as he is working for the city as one of the investigators in the corporation counsel's office and is said to draw down two hundred per month as the great and only living political-preacher in Chicago who has lost the respect of many members of his small flock and it seems that as they withheld their dollar money from him that he was really forced to seek a political job in the city hall and as the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. holds a good paying political snap and resides in a fine home of his own at 3428 Vernon Ave., the Hon. Mr. Niblk ought not to experience much trouble in forcing him to come across with the money. CHICAGO, AUGUST 14, 1915 And as the Hon. J. Gray Lucas holds forth in an elegant home of his own on East 36th street and frequently lavishly entertains the leading social lights among the Afro-Americans in this city we feel reasonably sure that he will pay his part of the judgment without the least hesitation. HON. MILES J. DEVINE EX-CITY ATTORNEY OF CHICAGO AND MANY OTHER LEADING LAWYERS OF THIS CITY SPEAK IN THE HIGHEST TERMS OF JUDGE HARRY MORAN. Some evil minded people for the past two or three weeks have been busily engaged in an effort to convey the idea, that it was the height of the ambition of the writer in the issue of this paper of July 17, to scatter the impression broadcast that Judge Harry Moran, in deciding the issues and the law points involved in the case of the People of Illinois vs. Julius F. Taylor, Monday, July 12. That he was influenced to rule or to decide the case in the manner in which he did by State Senator John Dailley of Peoria, Ill. Bishop Samuel Fallow and Circuit Court Judge, David M. Brothers. In all fairness to Judge Moran, as we always believe in being fair, it was far from our intention to convey to the minds of the many readers of this publication such a false impression. As we are fully convinced after consulting with the Hon. Miles J. Devine, Ex-City Attorney of Chicago and with many of the other able and leading lawyers of this city, that Judge Moran, is thoroughly conversant with the law; that he is scrupulously circumspect, fair and honorable and far above reproach in dealing with his fellowmen, while sitting in judgment on their acts. THE ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUES WILL CONVENE AT ST. MARK'S M. E. CHURCH TUES. AUG. THE 17TH AT 2 P. M. TO BE CONTINUED UNTIL FRIDAY EVENING MANY OF OUR MOST PROMINENT WOMEN OF THE STATE WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE. THE POLLOWING IS THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM. Program of the Ill. Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Tues. afternoon, Aug. 17th, 1915. Ex. Board Meeting.—Tue. evening, 8 P. M., opening chorus, St. Mark's choir, invocation, Rev. J. C. Anderson; Piano Solo, Miss Baker. Greetings Miss Jessie Johnson, Pres. of City Fed. Response, Mrs. Lillian Jamison, organ recital selected Miss Pauline James Lee. Offerotory.—Welcome to St. Mark's Church, Mrs. J. W. Robinson. Response Mrs. Sarah Shepherd, Peoria. Vocal Solo, Miss Maud Roberts, welcome to Chicago Hon. William Hale Thompson, Mayor. Vocal Solo, Madam Clara Nelson; Annual Address, Mrs. Theresa G. Mason, State Press. (Wednesday) morning 8:45 A. M. devotional exercises led by Mrs. Julia Duncan, chaplain; 9 A. M. public called to order; Roll of officers; Roll of clubs; Enrollment of delegates; Appointments of committees, Credentials, Press; Report of executive board; Report of state officers; Report of standing committees, Transportation, Printing. Offerotory.—Adjournment (Wed. Afternoon 2 P. M.) Prayer, Mrs. Desdomonis Sublett; chorus, Federation ode; minutes of the morning session; call for resolutions; Re- M. J. Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, Grand Marshal of the famous Cook County Democratic Marching Club, who has many friends among the Afro-Americans, who would be delighted to see him selected one of the judges of the Superior Court in 1916. Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, Grand Marshal of the famous Cook County Democratic Marching Club, who has many friends among the Afro-Americans, who would be delighted to see him selected one of the judges of the Superior Court in 1916. port of standing committees. All papers limited to 15 m. discussion; discussion to 5 m.; Offertery; simposium. "The responsibility of a community to its children." (a) "Physically" Dr. Mary F. Waring; (b) "Intellectually" Mrs. Antenette Cone; (c) "Spiritually" Mrs. J. M. Morton—Reports of special committees reports to clubs (Wed. Evening 8 P. M.) Prayer Rev. Braddan organ recital, Prof. Gossetz. An evening with Past State Presidents, Mrs. Jennie C. McLain, 1901-2; Violin Solo, selected Prof. Kemper Harreld, Mrs. Fannie Hall Clint, 1903-4. Vocal Solo, Mrs. Clara Hutchinson, Mrs. Lenora Kenebeso, 1905, Mrs. Eva Monroe, 1909-10, Offerotory—Reading "Aux Station" (by Meredith) Mrs. Carrie Lee Hamilton; Mrs. E. L. Davis, 1911-12 Mrs. Ella Groff, 1914; State Pres. Annual Address (Thurs. morning) 9 A. M.; Prayer, chaplain, Mrs. Julia Duncan, minutes; Reports of clubs continued; Unfinished business; New business election of officers at 10:30 A. M. Thura afternoon 2 P. M.; Prayer Fede; Minutes of morning session; Report of elba continued; Reports of committees; M. resolutions, memorial hour; (Thurs. evening 8:30 P. M.) Inst. of Off. And Reception in honor of visiting delegates at Johnson's Dreamland Hall, 3520 So State St., Friday 9 A. M. Ex. Board Meeting. Miss Olivia Ward Bush Banks, editor of The Citizen Magazine, Boston, Mass.; Mrs Julia A Gibson, Treasurer of the Illinois Federation; Mra. Lillian Jones Brown, President of The Women's Council and daughter Elizabeth will be guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Davis, 3226 Prairie Ave., during Federation Week. Aug 16-21. THE HOPE PRESBYTERIAN DAILY VACATIONAL SCHOOL HELD IN INTERESTING CLOSING EXERCISES. Thursday evening, interesting exercises of the Daily Vacational School, were held at the Hope Presbyterian Church 61st and Loomis street; Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, pastor. The exercises were somewhat as follows: Patriotic song. Invocation by the Pastor, Rev. Jefferson; Salute the Flag, Flag song. Calistheinics, or physical culture exercises. Kindergarten, song, America. Address, Julius F. Taylor. Song. Dixie. Remarks by Rev. Jefferson. Song, Stand up for Jesus. At the conclusion of the program, the audience repaired to the basement where refreshments were served free and where many of the articles which had been so artistically wrongt out by the children, were on exhibition or display, many of them being sold to visitors. It was very remarkable to behold so many fancy and useful articles which had been made by the children. Even by little tots, in the kindergarten department, and Miss Marie Jefferson, Mrs. Enos Bonds and others must be given full credit for the work accomplished in that direction. Rev. Jefferson, is doing a splendid and lasting work in his section of the city and he will have many of the best products of the children, on exhibition at the Lincoln Jubilee Celebration, at the Coliseum. No.47 NEGRO OFFICIALS OF BROOKLYN, ILL., ARE SENTENCED. Mayor, Chief of Police and Six Others Found Guilty of Murder and Given Terms of Fourteen Years in the Penitentiary. J. H. Thomas, mayor of Brooklyn, Ill., Anthony Speed, chief of police, and George Campbell, George Rowe, Joseph Doss and Emmet Dorman were found guilty of murder by a jury in the Circuit Court in Belleville last week, and all were sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Oscar Bletson, William McCoy and Geo. Park, indicted with the convicted men, were acquitted. On the night of April 27 last Robert Jackson and Louis Perryman were killed in a riot in Brooklyn. The dead men and Thomas Costley, who was chief of police under Mayor Cole, who is contesting Thomas' election were stopped by Thomas and his squad of policemen and a shooting bee, in which more than fifty shots were fired, followed. The case had been on trial since Thursday of last week. All the convicted men are in jail, except Mayor Thomas, who is at liberty under bond of $10,000 pending the disposition of a motion for a new trial for all the dependents. Brooklyn is an incorporated town inhabited almost entirely by Negroes, who hold all of the public offices. Giles B. Jackson has at least one thing to his credit—a distinction that no one will have the slightest desire to rob him of. He has made—single-handed and alone—the most conspicuous exposition failure on record. PAGE TWO LEADER OF ALLIES IN THE DARDANELLES One of the most brilliant soldiers in the British service is General Ian Hamilton, who is commanding the allied forces which are operating in the Dardanelles. Much of his life as a soldier has been spent on the firing line. Fresh from Wellington, a military school near Aldershot, England, he entered the service in 1873 and took part in the Afghan campaign of 1878-80. Almost immediately he went to South Africa and fought with distinction in the first Boer war. In 1884-5 he served with the Nile expedition in north Africa and at the close of the war was sent to India, where he took part in the Burmese expedition of GENERAL IAN HAMILTON. 1896-7. Then came further experiences in the Chitral relief expedition of 1895 and in the Tirah campaigns of 1897-8. The outbreak of the second Boer war at the close of 1899 saw him again in South Africa, where he took part in the battle of Elandslate, the defense of Ladysmith and the conflict of Diamond Hill. In 1901 he became military secretary and chief of staff to General Lord Kitchener and held an independent command in the western Transvaal. In this campaign he was promoted to the rank of major general and in every war in which he had a part he was mentioned in dispatches to the government for bravery on the field. During the Russo-Japanese war he was the military representative of the Indian army with the Japanese. The task which General Hamilton has before him is far more difficult than any he ever before encountered. If General Hamilton, with the aid of the allied fleet, succeeds in silencing the forts guarding the Dardanelles and taking Constantinople, he will come out of the great struggle one of the most commanding figures. A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK Teddy 3d, Grandson of Colonel Roosevelt, Makes Himself Heard. The voice of Colonel Roosevelt is frequently uplifted and heard in the land, but the sage of Oyster Bay is not the only one of his tribe to make himself 167 heard. A guest at Southampton, N. Y., who attracts considerable attention on the beach is Teddy Roosevelt 3d, son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In the picture he is discovered hanging on to a lifeline at the water's fringe and lifting up his voice in protest at a wave that has washed him and retreated. SIRES AND SONS. Dr. W. N. Steele, ninety-one, of Brooklyn, is an expert golf player. According to French philologists President Polnare's name means "clenched fist." Major General Wood is fond of boys and if he can find one who can shoot well he is as pleased as a child with a new toy. If he meets a boy who doesn't know how to shoot he tells him he should learn at once. William A. Durst, said to be the only man now living who served aboard the Monitor when that vessel attacked the Merrimac in the first battle of ironclads, is a resident of Philadelphia. He is more than seventy-five years of age, but retains his physical and mental strength to an unusual degree. Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, on whom the honor of titular archbishop of St. Leucia of Isauria has just been conferred, is rector of the American college in Rome. He is a native of Pennsylvania. His education was finished in Rome, and in 1887 he was ordained a priest. Since 1901 he has held his present office with the American college. Flippant Flings. Whenever the time is ripe for peace the president should let Jane do it.—Exchange. When you see "A. D." on a public library building it doesn't necessarily mean "Andy, Donor."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When we get a telephone that can be seen through every woman will have to look into the mirror before she answers a call.—Toledo Blade. Mr. William A. Brady foresees the movies making an end of talk on the stage. Can't some one devise a way of using them in real life?—New York Sun. Echoes of the War. War always has been a breeder of atrocities.-Detroit Free Press. Every day brings the war that day nearer the end, whenever the end is to be.-Philadelphia Press. The war is one year old. It gives promise of being a lively youngster when it gets its teeth cut-New York World. Cannon that may be fed and fired by machinery mark a distinct advance in warfare. In the advance notice of some future forty inch gun will be found the recommendation, "A child can operate it"-New York Sun. German Gleanings Germany's total steel production in 1914 amounted to 18,579,643 metric tons. It is regained as a death warning in some parts Germany to hear a cricket's cry. Berlin firemen use asbestos screens to protect them from heat when fighting fires at close range. In Berlin the number of women between the ages of seventy and eighty years is 25,304 as against 12,898 men. Three out of every four nonagenarians are women. English Etchings. Grimsby, England, is the fishing capital of the world. Originally Hyde park, London's great playground, was inclosed for a hunting ground for royalty. After the members of the royal family, the archbishop of Canterbury is the first peer of the realm. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, takes its name from a castle which was erected on the banks of the Tyne in 1080. SHORT AND SHARP The easiest thing in the world to get --is discouraged. _____ Pay as you go and the road will be smoother when you come back. _____ One thing to put off until tomorrow is "getting even" with some one. _____ You will never strain your eyes by looking at the bright side of things. _____ History in the making has a revolt- ing habit of showing its seamy side. _____ Some fellows imagine that they are heroic when they are able to harbor a grudge. _____ No wonder the war automobile has a rough time of it, bouncing over skulls and crossbones. _____ Those who put everything on their back shouldn't complain of the heavy load they have to carry. Perhaps the most interesting of current cereal stories is to be found in this year's crop estimates. Some persons waste experience upon thoughts of what they would have done if they had only had it sooner. Sometimes the weather man doesn't look which way he is guessing, and then the weather gets away from him. Once more the European statesmen assure the world that they did not want this war. Who wished it on them? Golf as a cure for insanity is to be tried out in an insane asylum. And this in face of the fact that a lot of people consider golf itself a "crase." THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO AUGUST 14, 1915. PASSING OF THE PORTSMOUTH Picturesque Old Sloop-of-war Had Honorable Career. NOTHER picturesque craft of the old navy is to be scrapped. For a small sum the navy department recently sold the sloop-of-war Portsmouth to a shipbreaker, and now she will be cut up for firewood and her timbers split for the long copper bolts which for decades held her oaken body together. The history of this ship of bygone days is of especial interest now that California is celebrating the opening of the Panama canal. Indeed, there is a connection between the past of the Portsmouth and California's presence in the Union. The Portsmouth was the first naval vessel to unfurl the American flag at the Golden Gate. Had she not arrived when she did it is possible that a portion at least of California would have been claimed by the British. However, Commodore Sloat was quicker than his English rival, and in July, 1846, her commander, Captain John B. Montgomery, took possession of Yerba Buena, now San Francisco, and there hoisted the stars and stripes. It was in recognition of this act that the chamber of commerce of San Francisco asked congress three years ago to fit the old ship for sea and to turn her over to the state of California for a permanent exhibit after she should head the national fleet in its triumphal parade through the Panama canal en route to the exposition. Congress failed to grant the request, and now the Portsmouth is doomed to destruction. The Portsmouth was built at the navy yard, Kittyery, Me., in 1834 and rated as a first class sloop of twenty guns. During her cruise from 1845 to 1848 she was at sea for 490 days, sailing nearly 64,000 miles. It was while on this trip that the Portsmouth played her important part at Terba Buena. The old sloop-of-war was a very useful unit of Commodore Sloaf's Pacific THE MASTER U. 8. S. PORTSMOUTH. squadron and on more than one occasion during the war with Mexico gave the enemy a taste of her power and the character of the men behind her guns. From September, 1848, to May, 1851, the Portsmouth was the flagship of the African squadron. She returned to Boston in June, 1851, after nearly three years of hard service on the African coast, and about six months later, having refitted, was ordered to the Pacific again. In 1854 she was once more requisitioned for service in connection with Mexico. Later, while on the East India station, she won fame when she humbled China's Gibraltar, the Barrier forts, below Canton. In our own war the Portsmouth took part in the operations upon the Mississippi directed against Forts Jackson and St. Philip. In 1872 she refitted at the navy yard, Brooklyn, for a long cruise and was ordered to the Pacific on surveying duty. In 1875 she performed a spectacular service by aiding in putting King Kalakaua on the throne of Hawaii. He had just been elected to the throne but was opposed by a revolutionary party. At an opportune moment the captain of the Portsmouth and the commander of another American naval vessel present notified the authorities that they would land sailors and marines to preserve order in case of need, and the ships were warped about so that their broadsides could sweep the approaches to the palace. This display of support for Kalakaua surfeed. He was duly crowned and the revolutionary party subsided. After many years of useful service of a varied character in the United States navy the Portsmouth was turned over to the New Jersey Naval Militia in January, 1895. Later the old sloop of war was assigned to the United States Marine hospital service for quarantine duty. The ravages of time made her no longer fit for even this field of usefulness, and after being tied up for many months at the navy yard, Norfolk, she was condemned and ordered to be sold, though the old sea dogs of the navy were reluctant to see her go. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Dita M. West directs over 100 trains entering and leaving Atlanta, Ga., every day. Miss Grace Breed of Denver earned all her expenses for one year at the Colorado Agricultural college by raising chickens on a vacant city lot. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has for years had a curious business custom. She insists on being paid, not, as is usual, at the end of each week, but after each performance. Miss Elsie De Wolfe, the noted decorator of New York, has been engaged by a large automobile concern to design the inside decorations for their high priced cars. Miss Alberta Read is the official tea tester for the United States government. Miss Read is said to condemn more tea every week than was destroyed by the Boston tea party. As soon as the war is over Miss Genevieve Caulfield, a teacher at the Pennsylvania Institution For Instruction of the Blind, will sail for Japan, where she will devote her life to teaching the blind there. State Lines. The state census of Massachusetts shows a total population of 3,640,768, an increase of 8.3 per cent in five years, and some of the newcomers are of native birth.-New York Sun. What Alabama needs more than anything else is the application of common sense business methods in the conduct of the state's affairs whereby income and outgo are brought close together.-Birmingham Ledger. Maryland has discovered that she is paying for seven court clerks where one is all that is necessary to do the work. If she is not suffering from any greater proportion of deadwood than that she can't hope to compete with all the states.-Philadelphia Press. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Any of us could draw the salary of a $10,000 a year job. Sooner or later the wise fish runs across a bait that fools him. Sometimes a man reveals how little he knows by how much he talks. There are 4,400 Indians in New York state. And, just think! Once they owned it all. Blessings of poverty are appreciated, especially by those who have never been blessed that way. International law is that body of rules of warfare which are counted good usage in times of peace. Now we have a jitney financier. A subtreasury clerk who was substituting pennies for nickels in coin bags. Haven't heard of the sea serpent anywhere this summer. Must have been scared away by the submersibles. Orders for steel foreshadow an enormous part to be taken by the United States in rebuilding the war shattered industries of Europe. "Don't worry" is the recipe a centenarian gives for attaining her length of years. It is not novel advice. But only the very fortunate can follow it. A woman glances into a mirror to confirm her impression that she looks all right; a man stares into one in order to bluff himself into thinking he does. Pen, Chisel and Brush. Alexander Pope, the poet, was four feet six inches high, a hunchback and unable to dress or undress himself. Michelangelo began his career by burying in the earth a statue which he carved and thus turning it into a valued "antique." Sir Joshua Reynolds' picture "The Five Cherubs" is said to be really five pictures of one little girl painted from five different points of view. Titian, the painter, missed a century of life by a single year. His dates are 1477-1576. In his ninety-eighth year he painted his famous "Battle of Lepanto." Town Topics. Cleveland claims a population of 718,790. Cleveland must have heard Detroit's figures.—Detroit Free Press. Thinking it all over, one marvels that any one should seriously suggest any other place besides Chicago for the national political conventions.—Chicago News. Ventilating the subways is again worrying New Yorkers. Driving the foul air up through the sidewalk gratings is offensive to both pedestrians and storekeepers. Where in Gotham is the foul air to go?—Cleveland Plain Desier. Current Comment. And why shouldn't an American become Poland's queen? Any number of Poland's queens become Americans.—New York Tribune. As soon as one army moves out another moves in, and thus the City of Mexico is always assured of tenants—such as they are.—Indianapolis News. China's latest misfortune in the form of disastrous floods comes at a time when the greater part of the world is too busy with its own disasters to lend any great assistance to her.—Detroit News. FAMINE THREATENS UNHAPPY HAITI Country Suffering as a Result of Frequent Revolutions. For several years there has been hardly a day in Haiti when a revolt against the government was not in progress. There has been a rapid succession of presidents, each basing his title on a revolution, and none served more than a few months or a year of his term. The revolt which recently culminated in the downfall of Sam began last March after Sam had overthrown President Theodore, who enjoyed the fruits of his revolution only a few months. Rear Admiral Caperton, commanding the cruiser squadron in Mexican TOMMY HUGHES ADMIRAL CAPERTON AND CRUISER WASHINGTON LANDING MARINES. waters, has been at Cape Haltien for several weeks on board the cruiser Washington observing developments there. He was sent there from Mexico because the United States was caught unprepared when Dr. Bobo made an attack upon Port au Prince. Rear Admiral Caperton landed a force of marines and has established a semblance of order after the fearful scenes that preceded the killing of President Guillaume Sam. The unhappy black republic, racked by revolution and mob rule, is now also threatened with famine. For the time being negotiations to perfect a treaty between this country and Haiti are at a standstill, but it is expected that as soon as order has been restored they will be renewed. This government is understood to desire not only control of revenue collections, but also the right to intervene whenever necessary to restore order in Haiti. A PRINCESS IN EXILE Pen Picture of Marie Jose of Belgium by Larz Anderson. A real princess beautiful is the little royal exile of Belgium, daughter of King Albert, Princess Marie Jose. Larz Anderson, one time United States minister to Belgium, writes of her as follows: "I knew the little princess when I was minister at the Belgian court, and she was like a fairy princess, the ideal A. PRINCESS MARIE JOSH OF BELGIUM princess of one's dreams. In our drawing room there is a photograph, a gift to my wife, signed in her childish but strong handwriting as 'Marie Jose de Belgique,' and in it she appears the little royal princess out of a story book, for her wonderful hair is all aglow with the light from a window by which she stands, and her dress seems to recall medieval times. I do not exaggerate her wonderful charm, and there is enough suggestion of mischief in the charm to prove her a little girl as well as a royal princess." PITH AND POINT. Carelessness may be as deadly as the torpedo. Ready money is seldom ready when you want to borrow some. Blessings in disguise too often take too long to throw off the disguise. After awhile Europe will have no neutral ground for peace to prey on. The boy beginning on tobacco always bites off more than he can chew. Politeness yields large dividends, but it is an investment frequently overlooked. Japan's efforts to benefit China might start with an engineering program to prevent floods. Many a man who has a steady aim in life forgets to pull the trigger at the right time. Sometimes it happens that a man is above suspicion only because suspicion does not go high enough. When the history of these blood stained times comes to be written the censors will have lost their jobs. John Bull is also to have a scientific auxiliary in his navy. But it is Uncle Sam who has the superscientists. We are going to have a new submarine that can cross the ocean. But let us hope that it never will have to. Sometimes facts form better arguments than reasoning. It is wise to argue with facts in addition to reasons. An unidentified repentant has paid $10,000 to Uncle Sam to ease his conscience. Some men would give ten times as much to still the voice of the inward monitor. Tales of Cities. Seattle may two years hence hold a fair to celebrate the semi-centennial of the Alaska purchase. Italian authorifies say that Trieste should be pronounced "Treesta." Besides being a great port, it is famous as a center of the meerschaum pipe industry. Constantine the Great founded Constantinople in 330 A. D., making the city now 1,585 years old. The interest of its history is surpassed by that of very few other places. Liverpool's streets and roads, irrespective of courts and passages, amount to $501\%$ miles. Of these $48\%$ are illuminated by gas, $8\%$ by electricity, $4\%$ by oil and $3\%$ by flat flame burners. Recent Inventions. An alarm clock for the deaf that awakens a sleeper by administering light blows with a paddle has been invented in England. A novelty for fishermen is a hook equipped with a clip to hold a living fish as bait without injury so that it can swim naturally. A New York inventor's spring clothespin grips a line with one end and a garment with the other, so that the two are not brought into contact. For washing dishes without wetting the hands a California woman has invented a mop which may be connected with a sink spigot, the water passing through a soap container. Fashion Frills. Clothes sometimes speak louder than words.—Nashville Banner. Striped stockings are said to be coming back into style. Fashion springs about as many atrocities as war.—Detroit Free Press. Life is not all thorns. The men who set the shoe styles of the country announce that autumn will see a return to the safe and sane in footwear.—Detroit News. An up to date sartorial authority announces that a man's tie ought to match his hair. By a strict adherence to this rule a good many of us would have to wear a shoestring for a tie.—Providence Bulletin. The Royal Box. The king of Italy speaks a greater number of languages than any other European ruler. King George of England is famed as a marksman. In fact there are few men in the world who are his equal as a crack shot. Queen Victoria lived 20,928 days, or five days longer than the oldest of her predecessors, George III. They were both born on May 24. Like Queen Amelie of Portugal, the queen of Italy is a properly qualified nurse and has done much of late years to perfect the hospitals of Rome. Pert Personals. There are 9,000,000 unmarried women in the United States, and yet the governor of Massachusetts is a bachelor.—Boston Advertiser. As the photo of John Hays Hammond, Jr., doesn't show his chin resting in his palm, there may be something to his claims of wireless torpedo control.—Washington Post. It has been understood that in recognition of his becoming an English citizen Henry James' later books would be made the basis for the secret code system of the British army.—New York Post. Beautiful Young Widow of John Jacob Astor Seva Foe Charity. P Photo by American Press Association Mrs. John Jacob Astor, like so many other society women, is busily engaged in sewing for charity these days. Besides deyoting some time each day to various outside interests, Mrs. Astor spends much of her time with her young son, John Jacob Astor, who is now three years old and who was born after his father was drowned in the terrible Titanic disaster. That no need or comfort for John Jacob Astor is overlooked or neglected or will be as long as his mother is his general guardian is indicated from her statement in her report to the surrogate's court not long since. "By the provision made in the will of my late husband," says Mrs. Astor, "for the creation of a trust fund of $3,000,000 for the benefit of each child of mine that might survive him it clearly appears that it was his intention to provide a sum for the maintenance and support of such infant ample to secure everything for the comfort, welfare and education of such child that money could provide." Little John Jacob, like any other baby, has had his pleasures, which to him have been not the least bit less enjoyable because of the need in his young life of legal services. In the schedules which have been filed by his mother there is a suggestion of hobby horses, rubber balls and all the other things that make children happy. When Surrogate Fowler appointed Mrs. Astor as general guardian of her son on Nov. 8, 1912, the court fixed $10,000 a year as the amount which she was to expend on his support, maintenance and education for three years thereafter. This order was amended on Aug. 5, 1914, increasing this allowance to $20,000 a year, and the accounting of Mrs. Astor shows how inadequate was the first provision made for the Astor heir. The guardianship will continue until John Jacob is fourteen years old. MILITARY MOTIF. Smart Blouse Employs Embroidery Designs With Warlike Suggestions. The blouse of today comes in many guises, and it is not to be wondered at that many of them show the effects of P CHIC SHIRT WAIST. the military. The one pictured here is built of white crepe de chine, combined with navy blue. The military motifs are used on cuffs and shoulder seams. Fish and Rice Croquettes. Put a quarter of a pound of rice into a saucepan with an ounce of butter and a pint of milk, simmer slowly for an hour and a half, by which time the rice will have absorbed all the milk, and do not stir it while it cooks. When cooked add a seasoning of salt and stir in the yolk of an egg. Turn on a plate to cool. Have ready some cold cooked fish mixed with a little thick white sauce (previously seasoned). Take portions of the rice, roll into bails, make a hole in the center, fill with the fish mixture, close up the hole and brush over with the white of the egg. Roll the balls in the breadcrumbs and try in hot fat. Drain and serve with sauce. Playroom for the Kiddies Because the rich man fits up a playroom with every expensive mechanical toy, that ingenuity can devise or talent invent there is no reason why, for lack of these luxuries, there should be no playrooms at all in the home of the average breadwinner, a place which can be in every sense the children's own special domain. Very little money will go a long way in fitting up a playroom that will adequately answer all of the reasonable demands of the children. The first thing to be considered is plenty of light. A room with a southern exposure is, of course, preferable, but not essential. The walls should be a plain, restful color with a few attractive pictures, hung rather low, showing harvest scenes, country fairs, dogs, horses, sheep and rabbits. Some attractive playrooms have dadoes of Kate Greenaway pictures, with the upper walls plain. Besides these, there are also charming playroom wall papers illustrating Mother Goose rimes and fairy tales. The stained floor should have its rug tacked to prevent tripping and falling over upturned edges. New furniture is an abomination to the children's sanctum, and by a little effort of the imagination they convert an old sofa into an automobile, a steam engine or whatever the moment demands of it. A cheap pine table of the kitchen variety should have the legs sawed off five or six inches and the chair legs reduced to conform to it. Having these of a comfortable height is most restful and satisfactory to the little ones. The table should be placed against the side wall and its drawer contain slate, drawing book, colored pencils and a box of paints. Keep some back number magazines and weeklies here and offer the children a prize of bat and ball or doll for the most artistically colored print, the contest to last a month. The time spent in coloring the pictures saves the grownups many an hour of nagging. Even the cheap and commonplace clothespin may be converted into an absorbing playroom diversion for very little children. With a pen and ink features may be drawn on their wooden heads, movable pasteboard arms fastened on with pins, and with bodies clothed in colored tissue paper, assisted by the paste pot, they evolve into beruffled maidens or brave looking soldiers. A kaleidoscope costing a quarter is a never ending source of wonder and entertainment, and the playroom should also have a checkerboard. Each child may have his own postcard album for 10 cents, and a soap bubble pipe costs but a penny. But of all inexpensive playroom treasures the lump of modeling clay is the most fascinating and holds the attention of the players longest. The possibilities of the clay as a means of amusement are almost infinite. Even the tiniest child may be pacified and kept spellbound with interest if he may "make something" out of the plastic material. It is a delight to children to illustrate a familiar fairy tale or nursery rime by modeling the characters and grouping them on the table as if enacting the scene. They will consume hours in shaping the forms of Little Red Riding Hood, her old grandmother and the hungry wolf, and in this way many of the better stories, like "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White" and "The Ugly Duckling," may be indelibly impressed upon the memory. Inscriptions also serve a good purpose in the playroom. Cut large capital letters from a publication and paste them on the playroom door in the form of this inscription: "Who slams me hurts everybody." You should paint these letters red—nay, vermillion—so that he who runs may read. Plain Yeast Bread. There is a universal formula for yeast bread, four loaves, which is: One ounce of yeast, one quart of tepid liquid half milk and half water, one tablespoonful of shortening, which may be either lard or butter; one tablespoonful of sugar or up to three, a tablespoonful or a little more of salt and about three quarts of warmed and sifted flour. The milk is scalded and cooled till lukewarm. If dry yeast is used a pint of the flour is used with the liquid for a sponge, which is set overnight. If condensed yeast the whole of the flour is used at once, kneaded and allowed to rise, then kneaded again and made up into leaves, which are allowed to rise to twice their first bulk, after which they are baked. It is best to dissolve the yeast or test it in a little tepid liquid to which a teaspoonful of sugar is added for it to feed upon. It may then be added to the remainder of the lukewarm liquid. About three-quarters of the flour can be stirred into the liquid and the rest kneaded in. Long kneading makes the bread of inner grain. It should be kneaded until elastic—very much so is best—and until it will not stick to anything. Yeast works best at room temperature or a little above and should not be forced. One-fourth of this dough may be used for a pan of rolls. The loaves will need to bake from fifty minutes to an hour. Small ovens are better for baking bread if several bricks are put into them. These even the heat and hold it so that it is more even. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO AUGUST 14, 1915 A GIRLISH CREATION. Smart trotteur frock of navy serge featuring a jumper bodice and circular skirt. A deep flounce with corded top is a feature of the skirt, while a short peplum lends a novel detail to the bodice. The gulpe of plaid silk finishes at the neck with a smart faille collar. A smart felt hat goes very well with this trim outfit. WARTIME PARIS. How the Women of France Endure These Trying Days. War Paris is like a beautiful widow just recovering from the first shock of a great sorrow and wondering if her black gown is becoming. So is the war Parisienne. She weeps for her lost, mourns with the fine dignity of a Roman matron, but the light for life and beauty is still in her eye, where, indeed, it will shine forever. She is that sweetest of all things, a woman between tears and smiles, because the one opens her heart and the other mirrors her mind. Let us consider her a little as she trips along the Rue de la Paix, for she really won't object. Why should she? That might be her arch reply, but she would say nothing, knowing the eloquence of silence under admiration. The Parisienne is naturally sensitive, sympathetic, not merely to her surroundings, but to atmosphere, a more delicate element. Therefore she is wearing a vivandiere skirt, a coat or blouse with a high military collar, a hat having the air of a tattoo and long legged boots in brown or gray cloth. That is the general picture she makes, and if Napoleon, who understood women, could see her he would find her very appealing to his sense of generalship. Not an Amazonian touch, not the suggestion of it, for such would be a clumsiness unworthy of the Parisienne. And still there she is, with the war all over her, in plains and tucks, and she never looked more taking. If the Parisienne were placed in a new, strange world she would seize its fashions in a day and make them part of herself. That is her wonderful secret in the mysterious affair of dress. She never lets its vagaries trynnake over her, but by some heaven system of sap and mine reduces them to her own characteristics. You don't notice until you stare that she has annexed the mode militaire, because there is no evident advertisement of the fact about her. But you know instinctively that she is dressed in the note of the time, and that means reverence, graciousness, imagination, a salutation to many chivalry in the trenched field from beauty at home. There is no set intention of this and no desire to achieve a picture; simply natural feeling takes artistic expression as if by the wave of a fairy wand. NECKWEAR NOTES. Neckwear always has a fascination notwithstanding that a woman may possess dozens of collars, fichus or jabots. Among the newest effects is the double decker collar of organdale made in the Quaker or cavalier style and finished with broad revers. The latter breaks the broad line across the shoulders and offers a chance for hand embroideries or a thiny lace frill edging. For the slender girl there is a collar fashioned on the lines of a baby's bib, rather small and round and fastened down the back with small buttons. This collar has the semblance of an impromptu yoke and in many instances gives just the needed touch of freshness to a taffeta or linen frock. For the athletic girl there are sport stocks of plaited batists, combined with folds of handkerchief linen. These in a way take the place of the old time Ascot and four-in-hand. They are worn with linen or silk shirt waists. PRACTICAL OVERCOAT. A Garment Which Will Be Found Indispensable In Cold Weather 1 IDEAL FOR MOTORING. This practical overcoat is indispensable during the coming cold weather. Aside from that, it is an ideal motor or rain coat. Featured in mohair mixture, with velvet collar and cuffs, it is smart and sensible. Fulness develops from the inserted pleat in the center back, falling in deep folds at the bottom. The raglan sleeves and semi-belt effect are notable features. A taupe velvet hat and cloth topped button boots are correctly worn. SPORTS SHOES. For the First Time In History Women's Feet Are Emancipated. Sports clothes are good looking, they are comfortable, they give freedom to body and to lungs. Sports shoes, for the first time in woman's history, allow her feet to be set on the ground in that healthful and satisfactory way which men have known for years. This very matter of foot furnishing is in itself a boon, since it not only makes the foot itself symmetrical, but the body is held right, hips and shoulders are well polished, the woman for once may walk as a human being and not as a mincing feminine creature. This correct pose of the foot and body is something that conserves the strength, whether one walks or stands, for walking is made easier and more pleasurable, the heart has less work to do, there is no wrong pressure upon nerves or the bony structure. Osteopathy of late years has proved that this last named mistake sometimes affects the general health or health of the various organs of the body, and certainly that which affects or harms the general health will not add to the beauty, to the good looks of the complexion, the contour of the face nor the brightness and pleasing expression of the eye. To hark back to the matter of the correct and mannish last used for sports shoes for women, it has doubtless surprised many to find out how becoming these shoes are to the feminine foot. Indeed, any correctly shaped foot needs neither pointed toe nor French high heel to appear to advantage, for these indeed are supposed to hide or disguise defects, as well as to heighten good points. But the human foot, the natural human foot, is possessed of its own beauty and looks well in any shoe which has a good last as its foundation, and women as well as men view with surprise that trim, dainty member in a sports shoe, with low heel, broad toe, well laced ankle, so truly good looking is it and with a coquery all of its own, as distinguished from the deformed, pinched and cramped pedal extremity, tottering about on its ridiculous heel, which was once considered the only way for a woman's foot to be seen in public. Accessories The latest novelties in artificial flowers are those in tinsel tissue and the huge transparent ones in white gauze with each petal modeled and outlined with a firm, invisible wire incased in the twining at the edge. A cluster of yellowish pistils represents the heart. Butterflies are treated in a similar artistic way. Dainty sachets are edged with light puffings in green gauze. The embroidered center is also shaded with a velling of green gauze. A coattee of taffeta or chiffon is an appropriate accompaniment to the summer dress of volle. The newest silk purse bags have no tassel at the bottom. To Clean Lace Yoke 18 Glam Lac Lace yokes may be cleaned by an application of any white paste (not liquid) for cleaning white shoes. Rub paste on smoothly, allow to dry and then brush it off. Do not use any cleaning preparations which require water for mixing. Care of the Baby In Summer [Prepared by the children's bureau, United States department of labor.] "Swat the fly!" This legend should be written on the wall of every mother's room, to remind her constantly that one of the great services she can render her baby is to protect him and his food from flies. Every female fly may lay about 120 eggs at a time, which hatch in ten days into full grown flies, so that every female fly which is not destroyed will be increased many million by the end of the season. It is an impossible task to destroy them at this stage or to protect the house and family against them. The only really effective results are secured when the eggs are destroyed. The favorite breeding places of the common housefly is in horse manure. In a pile of a thousand pounds there may be half a million maggots ready to hatch, unless they are destroyed in the larval stage, as the eggs are called. Various substances have been suggested for use upon horse manure in order to destroy the fly maggots. Among these are iron sulphate, kerosene, chloride of lime, hellebore and borax. The United States department of agriculture has recently recommended powdered hellebore as a cheap, safe and effective substance for the treatment of manure. "One-half pound of powdered hellebore mixed with ten gallons of water is sufficient to kill the larvae in eight bushels, or ten cubic feet, of manure. In most places hellebore is obtained in 100 pound lots at a cost of 11 cents a pound. This makes the cost of the treatment a little less than seven-tenths of a cent per bushel of manure. A liberal estimate of the output of manure is two bushels a day per horse." After the summer has advanced the effort must be made to keep each in- THE MOTHER'S WORLD A HAPPY BABY IS ONE PROTECTED FROM THE FLIES. A HAPPY BABY IS ONE PROTECTED FROM THE FLIES. dividual home as free from the pest as can be done with screens, fly papers, traps and swatters. Garbage pails must be kept covered, and no refuse of any sort should be allowed to accumulate about the premises to provide breeding and feeding places. As in most other things, prevention is far better than cure. The time for preventive measures to be most effective is in April and May, when the fly crop is small. Fly swatters should be used continually if files get into the house, and poisonous and sticky fly papers will help to rid it of these pests. There are a great many kinds of fly traps on the market. Such traps can be made at home with little trouble, and the department of agriculture, Washington, will send directions upon request not only for traps, but for methods of destroying the eggs before they hatch into flies. (A homemade fly trap and a copy of Bulletin 245 are sent for 20 cents.) It is certain that typhoid fever is distributed by flies, and it is probable also that the germs of other diseases are carried in this way. It is, therefore, possible that the fly which falls into the milk or walks over the baby's mouth or alights on the nipple of the bottle may leave there the germs. The baby, like the rest of the family, should be protected by having the doors and windows of the whole house screened, if possible, and by having a screened porch on which to play and sleep. If this cannot be done at least the bedroom should be screened. If wire screens are too expensive cotton netting may be had for a few cents a yard, which will serve the purpose temporarily. Cleopatra Salad. Despite its imposing name, Cleopatra salad is one that any family of moderate aspirations can indulge in frequently and with impunity. Its component parts are any leaver cooked vegetables, lima peas, corn, peas and bits of beet being especially eligible. Have all the ingredients very cold, cut in neat shapes, so they do not look "messy," and dish on lettuce leaves, either the crimped or brown edged being most decorative. Over them cut little ribbons of sweet red or green peppers. Serra with French dressing. For Young Folks Miss Genevieve Fox Dressed For Tableaux. 1 © by American Press Association. The sweet little girl here pictured is Miss Genevieve Fox, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lyttleton Fox of New York city and Southampton, N. Y. Recently she took part in a series of tableaux at Southampton, where she lives in summer. There were many other children in the living pictures, which were given to help the poor children of the east side of New York and enable some of them to take a brief vacation at the seaside or on some of the many farms in New York and New Jersey that throw open their doors to these little folks. As the photograph shows, Miss Genevieve made a very attractive picture. The Lloyd Lindsay Race. Two or more pairs of pails are placed in a row thus: Each set of pails is represented by a team of two players. The teams start from a point twenty, thirty or fifty yards away (as space will permit) from the pails. Each pair runs hand in hand till it reaches a line drawn about eight to ten feet in front of the pails, thus: 0 0 0 . . . . . . On this line, opposite each pall, are placed three potatoes or tennis balls. placed three potatoes or tennis balls. Each player tries to throw the potatoes or balls opposite his pall into his pall, one at a time. If he misses he must retrieve his potato and throw it again from the balk line until he has all three in the pall. He may do all his retrieving of misses at one time or as he misses, just as he prefers. As soon as either partner succeeds in this, but not sooner, he can help out his teammate by going behind his pall and throwing back to him his missed potatoes or balls, but not otherwise assist him. A team cannot race back to the starting point till it has all its potatoes in its palls. Then it goes back hand in hand, and the first team crossing the starting line wins—Scouting. Wohelo, Wohelo1 It sounds like an Indian cry, but it is not. It is a call made up of parts of three important English words, and it is addressed to American girls of the present time. This woheo, "wo-heo" is a new word composed of the first two letters of the important watchwords of the Campfire Girls—work, health, love—these really comprising about all there is to life. The call, therefore, is not only euphonious, but is followed by a long, rolling echo when sung in the right tone where the echoes live. St. Nicholas. The Sly Little Man. I know of a dry little, sly little man, Who comes o'er our threshold whenever he can; Though little he cares for the sunshine and light, He haunts our library when it is night. When papa is reading his paper with care, And I'm dosing all snug in the cushioned armchair. When mamma looks up from her sewing— "My dear, Perhaps you don't know that the sand- man's been here!" Then I hunt round the curtain, on top of the books, "Neth table and table, in all sorts of nooks. And out on the stairway and down in the hall, But I can't find the sly little sandman at all. PAGE FOUR THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 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Taylor or The Broad Ax, should be addressed to 6532 St. Lawrence Ave., Jackson Park station. Phone Wentworth 2597. HEALTH NOTES Lake Michigan is a mighty fine bath tub these August days and tens of thousands of Chicago people are availing themselves of the refreshing and invigorating pleasure of a daily dip in its cooling waves. It is a fine thing that the boys and girls of Chicago can learn to swim. It is also a very important part of their physical training and education. Too many parents are afraid to have their children "go near the water." This is both wrong and foolish. The average boy has learned to swim long before his mother discovered that he had acquired this most important accomplishment. It is barely possible that the average boy has lied a little, rather than boast to his mother that he had learned to swim. But "spoken" he did, no harm was done; besides, "boys will be boys" anyway. It is said that Yale University will not graduate a student who is not able to swim 300 yards. If this be true, it would indicate that Yale places a pretty high educational value on the art of swimming. --- It is easy for almost anyone to learn to swim. But beginners should not attempt to learn without the assistance of some good swimmer. It is important too, to avoid swimming in filthy water containing sewage pollution. (A little clean mud won't hurt), but filthy water is liable to be swallowed; to use horse-sense about going in over one's depth or out too far and about staying in the water too long, also about plunging into the cold water when overheated, especially with a weak heart. Finally, don't go in for about two hours after meals. One more caution to lake bathers: All the water near the shore is more or less polluted and is, therefore, dangerous if taken into the human stomach. Bathers sporting in the water are very liable, unless extremely careful, to swallow some of this polluted water. This should be avoided. The open air sleeping poreh is rapidly becoming an indispensable adjunct of the modern home. Time was, only a few years ago, when the sleeping porch was taken to mean that there was a consumptive patient in the home. Today it only means that the family has learned the health giving value of fresh air in its sleeping quarters and has found out how to get it. Health knowledge should be made as "catching" as disease. The open air class room for the children in the day school should suggest the open air sleeping porch for the home. One of the first fundamentals of good government is good health for its people. If when your friends come to see you, they find your house swarming with flies, do not apologize for the flies, but at once organize a searching party for the nearby filth that breeds them. The removal of the filth will mean the speedy disappearance of the flies. Mr. Montgomery and wife is here for a season. Mrs. and Mrs. Montgomery are prominent citizens of Wisconsin. NEGRO EMPLOYMENT — THE THOMPSON ADMINISTRATION. Why the Employment of Negro Labor by the City Administration is made a special feature in the articles of our daily papers is very strange indeed when we consider the fact that the Negro is a patron of the same in no ordinary way. It seems very clear to our way of thinking that the Daily Tribune is constantly striking its probe into the Negroes side and that to no good purpose. It was announced that some complaint was raised with reference to some 300 men being employed upon the dumps or at the garbage plants of the city, with impaces on Negro Employment taking the place of Poles and Bohemians, and that a strong protest had been made against said appointments for the reason, that many homes of the above named complainants were jeopardized and was bound to work hardship upon the community where they reside. And as far as this statement is true, we are sorry, indeed. We wish that there was a plenty for all and enough to go around. The enemies of the administration and the friends as well, but we know and well do The Tribune know as you know this is impossible. Andrew Jackson said "To the Victor belongs the spoils," and another prominent character said, "If you have it to spare, give to him in need." But remember that "He that does not first look after his own household is worse than an infidel," heretofore Negro citizens have been voting and our White friends have been working, Negro Homes have been forfeited because of unpaid mortgages. While our foreign brothers, without citizenship have been able to pay for their homes. Negroes have given his life's blood for this country in more battles than one, while a vast number of our foreign brothers have rung the sweat from the coffers of money interest, sent it abroad, and bought guns for their country, to be turned back upon the land which gave it. No Brothers, we may as well meet these issues squaresly in the face; we are not all asleep. All that the Negro can make, beg, borrow and steal will be spent here, and the White man will receive the greatest portion of its benefits, so he is the least to fear, as to getting employment, which is only a just compensation of reward for his stewardship. The old adage, "Turn about is fair play" hold good here. We have been sufferers for low these many years, and we have been loyal to our country without complaint. Surely these who complain today can stand it for a season, and then we will see such a prosperous country that all will have something to do, and enjoy its blessings—"T" NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE Mr. Thomas M. O'Dea, B, Sc., a teacher in our public school and assistant editor of The Irish Voice, will address the Negro Fellowship League, Sunday, August 22nd on "My Relations With The Colored Man." This is a subject which will interest the race. All are cordially invited to be present. Meeting begins at 4 o'clock and is held at the Reading Room, 3005 State Street. Last Sunday Mr. Carter W. Woodson delivered a very eloquent address. The Reading Room was crowded to its doors and greatly enjoyed the literary and historical treat that Mr. Woodson gave. Many were introduced and spoke. After the meeting Miss Lucille Williams, Miss Lucille Wright, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Frank Stephens were the guests of the president at dinner. During the past week the League has rendered assistance to one young fellow nearly blind, sent from the Boy's Court; one young woman who was despondent and almost frantic because she had no work and was out of money, finding work for her; and one young colored woman who has served a White family in this city for fourteen years at a dollar a week and was never allowed to associate with other Colored people to go to Colored church. The League president got her clothes and money from the White people to whom she had been in slavery for all that time, and saw that she had a good home with an excellent Colored family who will pay her good wages. Visitors to our Reading Room the past week have been 77. Ida B. Wells Barnett, President. When I left or rather moved from the residence of Mrs. Mary Pope, 6204 Throop St. I missed my graphophone needles, one barrel of hand painted china, my daughter's wedding presents and glass ware. I had several boxes broken open, with my rugs, and pillows taken out, the expressman claims that he found them in that shape when he received them. Will you kindly advise me how to go about it, in getting my things would you put it in the hands of a detective or what would you do in my case. Respectfully, MRS. E. W. GLADDEN, 5465 Kimbark Ave. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO AUGUST 14, 1915. The Program of the National Negro Business League Has Been Issued. It Embodies Many Important and Interesting Features---Enthusiasm Runs High in Connection with the Forth Coming Meeting of the League which Promises to Reach High Water Mark Boston, Mass., August 12, (special to The Broad Ax.—To those who have watched the development of the National Negro Business League since its organization fifteen years ago, it has been to them something in the nature of a barometer of Negro progress. The program for this year, which has just been issued, indicates what rapid advancement the race has made along lines of commercial endeavor and shows that more and more the business men of the race are getting to the basic principles of modern business. An analysis of the subjects included on this 1915 program finds the general thought behind the discussion falling into three great groups representing three important factors in business, viz.: production and manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing. The subjects are so arranged as to show the relative interdependence of each factor upon the other and the importance of their successful operation upon the future of the race. During the past ten months the League's Secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, who is responsible each year for these programs, has had his draget spread over the country searching for successful exponents of the several important factors of business operation, and his painstaking care is rewarded with one of the best and most comprehensive programs in the history of the League. When our business men and women can assemble each year and discuss such subjects as Department Store Management, the Wholesale Poultry Business, Wholesale and Retail Merchandising, Merchandising Manufactured Goods, Railroad Building, Handling Real Estate, the Relation of Store Appearance to Store Development, Soap Broom and Cigar Manufacturing and how to meet the Competition of Chain Stores, it is a sure sign that the race is getting away from the haphazard in business and getting down to the fundamental. Aside from the addresses of welcome by His Excellency, Governor David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, His Honor, Mayor James M. Curley of Boston; and His Honor Mayor Timothy Good of Cambridge, and the annual address of President Booker T. Washington, there are other very important subjects to be discussed by men and women of national reputation. Among them are Dr. John E. White, Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia who will discuss, "The Negro and the New South;" Dr. James H. Dillard, Major R. R. Moton, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. An added feature this year will be "Remarks of encouragement" from representatives of some of the leading business publications of the country. Mr. F. W. Spice, Vice-President of The Fourth Estate, a newspaper man's mag- ST. MARK M. E. CHURCH. azine of New York City; and a representative of "System" are expected to be present. These gentlemen will bring a message of good cheer and encouragement from organizations doing a similar work among the White business men. Among the more important social features as announced on the program are the following: On Thursday, August 19th, 2:30 P. M. to 5:00 P. M. A Trolley Trip has been arranged by the Boston League to Historic Points in and about Boston, including Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. From 5:00 P. M. to 7:00 P. M. Reception by Citizens to Delegates and their ladies at the Unity Social Club, 228 West Canton Street. At 9:35 P.M. Reception by the Cambridge Negro Business League (B. H. Poucher, President; J. T. Harrison, Secretary, at the State Armory in Cambridge, just across the Harvard Bridge). Address of welcome to Cambridge by His Honor, Honorable Timothy Good, Mayor. Friday, August 20th. At the close of the morning business session, through the courtesy of the management, a tour will be made through Filene's Great Department Store, Washington and Summer Streets, Boston. Friday Evening.. August 20th. A Reception and Banquet will be tendered delegates and visiting friends by Boston Negro Business League and Citizens of Boston, in Convention Hall, Garrison and Saint Botolph Streets. Music will be furnished by Toy's Orchestra. Caterer, James H. Madison. Saturday, August 21st. The Boston Negro Business League has arranged for a trip down Boston's Famous Harbor on the palatial Steamer. "City of Boston." The following information has been issued for the benefit of the delegates: Delegates and other persons intending to be present should send early notice of such intention to the Chairman of the Housing Committee, Mr. Benjamin F. Jones, care of Boston League Headquarters, 121 Kendall Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Delegates' mail should also be sent care of the Convention Headquarters. Boy scouts in Khaki uniforms will assist the Housing Committee and Bostonians generally in welcoming visitors at railroad depots, and directing them to CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS and BUREAU OF INFORMATION at the BOSTON NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, 121 Kendall street (fourth street west of Northampton street), Roxbury. All visitors are urged to REGISTER at 121 Kendall Street upon arrival in Boston, also to register at the convention hall besides. 27th. The pastor attended the funeral of the Rev. Dr. M. C. B. Mason, held in Park St. Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, Wednesday August the fourth. The Union picnic was held at Glenwood park on August 11th, a large crowd attended. Sunday Sept. 6th is our quarterly meeting day. FOR SALE A 2 story 7 room frame house with hardwood floors, brick and stone foundation. All in good condition with fine lawn in front and rear, with good garage, cement floor and running water in garage. For further information call at 639 East 63rd St. Phone Englewood 1748. Phone Douglas 3617 NERVOUS DISEASES. The functional brain disorders are often exceedingly difficult to recognize clinically. The symptoms of faulty brain action are often obscure, so much so that incipient insanity is the subject which has been the refuge of the erring rich from time immemorial. The reason for the difficulty of recognition lies in the multiplex physiological phenomena of the anatomical structures contained in the nervous system. The essential and determining factor is to differentiate the physiological from the pathological nervous manifestation. The great question is to determine what is normal. Humanity has digressed so far from the normal that custom has decreed many false standards. "Back to nature" propagandists would probably aid us more by adopting the slogan BACK TO THE NORMAL. The normal is the true; the abnormal is the false. The causes of functional nervous disorders like the symptoms are not easy to determine. For obvious reasons it has been conceived that the causes may be divided into two great classes, namely, those from within the brain and those from without the brain. Those from within the brain may be considered as voluntary, under the control of the will. The other class is composed of those not under the control of the will, the involuntary. Under the one from ideas inimical to the welfare of the body morbid changes are produced in its function. Predisposing causes to the above are heredity and education. Certain families have HYDE PARK NEWS. Mrs. E. W. Gladden one of the old settlers of Hyde Park, has returned after a long absence and is now residing at 5465 Kimbark Ave. 2nd flat. She is now training the children of Bethel church for a grand concert, to be given there in the near future. Miss Edna De Moss of 1515 E. 52nd St. is at this writing a very sick woman. She is one of the most industrious young women in Hyde Park, for some years she has been in charge of the Wayte Building, and looked after this property while she was in Europe. The Rev. John Williams of Hyde Park was called a few weeks ago to take charge of Mt. Carmel C. M. E. Church, Englewood. He has surpassed the expectation of his congregation. He is doing a great work there. --- The Bathing Beach at 51st street and the Lake is now open to the Public, this means you, as well as "he" or "her." The city has provided every thing complete for your comfort. If you are a citizen and conduct yourselves as ladies and gentlemen your right to enjoy these blessings, is the equal of every other man or every other woman. If the other fellows abuse their privileges, let us, at least, refrain from doing so. Free bathing suits will be given you, if you call at the proper place, for them. If your friends can not swim, they can sit on the seats along the beach, prepared for them and enjoy the advantage you have over them. This is a Public Beach. Madam Caratha the "Prophetess" of Kansas city has now taken up her residence in Hyde Park, 5624 Lake Park Ave., Flat L. Mrs. Estella Davis of 5624 Lake Park Ave. gave a private picnic at Lincoln Park, in honor of Mrs. J. T. Merritt. The Two daughters Misses [Name] marked neuropathic tendencies. We do not all have the same amount of nerve capital at the start of our earthly careers. "The potential energies of the higher constellations of their association centers have been squandered by their ancestors," said van Gieson. The education that inculcates the habit of self control is often sadly neglected. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" shows on its face what faulty education at home will do to the nerves. Among acquired causes are fear, faulty environment which invites petty irritations off, repeated, rest, excesses of various kinds, lack of rest, use of certain drugs and abuse of the same, namely, nicotine, tobacco, morphine, laudanum, alcoholic intemperance, coffee, tea and certain other beverages. Severe mental strain or injuries and shock may be causes of grave consequences to the nervous system, even terminating in death. Disturbances of motion as well as of sensation are found in functional nervous illness. To the loss of motion is applied the term paralysis; it is well to bear in mind that functional paralysis may be permanent or periodical. It will doubtless be permanent except the cause is eradicated. Likewise it will be periodical if the cause is periodically applied. There is sufficient ground in such cases to apply the law of cause and effect. Functional disturbances are the result of irritative forces which ultimately may cause destructive lesions. Organic nervous diseases often follow the functional and are the outgrowth of the same. The symptoms are more easily noted because of the chronicity of the disease and of the destructive nature of the lesion. The exact cause if often shrouded in mystery; the history affords little aid in some cases none in many, much in a great minority. The symptoms will often lead to a determining of the cause. The consideration of both are essential. The chief causes of the immediate variety are tumors, hemorrhages and degenerations. Arteriosclerosis is also an immediate cause. The above named lead to a consideration of the remote causes which are to be considered under toxemias and chronic pathological processes producing hypertension. Katie and Nettie, and a few friends were present, they had a very delightful time a fine luncheon specially prepared was served. The Rev. J. T. Merritt was also in the city a few days ago, and christened the Baby Edward Merritt. Godfather was Cornelius Merritt, Godmother was Mrs. Estella Davis. He has returned to his post in Kansas. There will be a home coming week at the Hyde Park A. M. E. church soon, the announcement will be made in the near future. SIX ROOM BRICK COTTAGE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN ON EASY PAYMENTS. Beautiful six room and bath, cement basement, furnace heat, hardwood floors and trimmings, one and a half story brick cottage located on St. Lawrence avenue, near Marquette Road, 66th street Boulevard at a bargain, if purchased at once, small amount of money required. For further particulars, address Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence avenue. Phone Wentworth 2597, no agents wanted. FIVE BRICK HOUSES FOR SALE ALABAMA, GREAT BARGAIN. We have for sale a group of five brick houses that are offered at a bargain, they are to be sold all at once, and on easy payments, three to five hundred dollars down and the balance the same as rent, they are located on South Park Boulevard near Thirty fourth street. Do you want to be a member of a syndicate that will purchase these houses? If so address X care this paper. Ernest Tidrington, who has for the tenth time been re-elected State Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana, was in the city last week visiting his brother, Edward Tidrington. An excellent program was rendered at the meeting of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, Wed., Aug. 4. Miss Wallace of Louisville, Ky., was among the visitors. The House Committee met Tuesday, Aug. 10 at 3607 Forest Ave. Splendid reports were made for the donations given to the New Home 3256 Rhodes Ave. The Trustees and Board of Directors met and transacted important business at the New Home, Wednesday afternoon. The work is progressing rapidly and will be ready for the formal opening in the near future. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, President, Bertha Hensley, Secretary. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB At the call meeting of the Alpha Suffrage Club last Wednesday evenings, delegates were elected to the State Federation which meets in this city beginning Tuesday, August 17th at St. Marks Church. As the Alpha Club is the first suffrage club among Colored women, many members and friends were present to aid in the plans to make a good showing at the Federation. CHIPS CHIPS The delegates and visitors to the State Federation will be entertained by the Trustees and Members of the Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club at the New Home, 3256 Rhodes Ave., Friday evening, Aug 20. Miss H. Alda Auter, of Harrisburg, Pa., is visiting her brother, Attorney John R. Auter, of Evanston, Ill. Miss Auter, is very much pleased so far with her visit to Chicago. S. M. Francis of Philadelphia, Penn., is in our city visiting, he is one of the few men who is fostering the sales of Colored newspapers, magazines and periodicals. The Broad Ax wish him a pleasant stay. After interviewing Father John S. Morris, we learn that St. Monica's church, 36th Sts. and Dearborn, will give a Banquet to the visitors here who are prominent in the Catholic Church at the School Hall 37th and Wabash Ave., in the near future, independent of the exposition. Admission will be 35e. Attorney S. T. Clanton, Jr., who was born and raised at Decatur, Ill., has located in Chicago and has opened a law office at 3023 S. State street. Phone Douglas 7392, in the office of James T. Brewington and Company, dealers in South side real estate. Mr. Clanton, is young, active and extremely courteous and he is bound to get some share of the law business which is constantly floating around in this city. 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 olden 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. A Possimist "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's"—Judge. Sorry He Spoke. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "I know. What place have you been kicked out of now?" -Chicago Nets. American Possessions. The "possessions" of the United States are as follows: Alaska, purchased from Russia in 1867, price, $7,200,000, area, 500,848 square miles; the Hawaiian Islands, annexed by the request of the inhabitants in 1898, area, 6,449 square miles; Porto Rico, area, 3,006 square miles; Guam, area, 210 square miles, and the Philippine Islands, area, 115,026 square miles, ceded by Spain in the treaties of 1808 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 Screwz. 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 morsass, which, according to an authority, is as much as 1,200 feet deep in places. The Game of Golf. Farmer Barnes — There's one good thing about golf anyhow. Farmer Follows (skeptically)—What's that? Farmer Barnes—Why, ye don't have to play it if ye don't want to—London Scraps. A Possible Solution. "How can a man be as stupid as that fellow and 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 backbitter."—Baltimore American. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO AUGUST 14.1915 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 of his day in the brushing of his teeth and the oiling 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 hard substance whatever, which always rub away the gums and destroy the varnish 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 whalera-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 mud 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'm 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. Think of your wonderful immunity from harm if you mind your own business-Loomis 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 filled with a nicety that can be duplicated only by skilled woodsmen. 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 elder 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." Hia Raal 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 we'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. "There is one thing, Mary; I do hope you are not wasteful." "Wasteful, mum! Why, Lor' bless you, I'd eat till I busted rather than waste anthink."—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 the 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, sir. Nobody can get tired as quick as I can.—Boston Transcript. Self control, however difficult at first, becomes step by step easier and more delightful. The camp 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, Fishkill Plains, drew many thousands of spectators. There have been encamped at Fishkill Plains 5,000 guardsmen 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 FORTRESS OF THE NORTH 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. Nickalla is an M. Englishman and is the brother of Guy Nickilla, rowing coach of Yale, whose varsity eight won a notable victory over Harvard this year. Vivian Nickilla has accepted a commission in a hunter regiment and will call for England about the middle of August. PAGE FIVE SHORT AND SHARP. When you undertake to study human nature begin on yourself. Some people who ask for a crust invariably want it over a pie. 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 1866. 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 10,453 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 "bls coctus" (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 worn out and have to be sent to the foundation to have a new case inserted. --- Flag Funerals. Britain is probably the only country that has ever allowed historical regimental flags to go in the pawnshop or auction room. As an instance, the First battalion Gloucester regiment in 1886 recovered from a pawnbroker at York four flags which the regiment had borne from 1795 to 1810 through the Egyptian and peninsular campaigns. Another flag which for three years had proudly waved over the gallant Thirty-ninth foot during the great siege of Gibraltar was actually found covering the soft cushions of a tradesman's sitting room. In the year 1888 a pair of old colors belonging to the Second battalion border regiment were rescued by Lord Archibald Campbell from a London upholsterer who had advertised them for sale as if they had been mere window curtains. These flags were afterward preserved at Kendal Parish church, and probably they are there still. To prevent old colors meeting similar fates to the foregoing many of them have been cremated with great ceremony and the ashes carefully preserved in a box. Others have been buried with full military honors.—London Globe. Harmless Flowers What a freedom from cares and perplexities one finds among the flowers! They are never unkind. You may be with them from morning till night and not have one bitter memory or disagreeable thought to take with you to your pillow. A tiger lily won't dig its claws into your breast, the calla lily will not prolong her call indefinitely. The sweet William's honeyed personality is honest and sincere; sweetness that will not under fancied provocation turn into vinegar revenge. The snowdrops will not chill you with cold words and looks. The dogwood will not bark at you or dog your footsteps. Jack-in-the-pulpit does not preach too loudly or make awkward gestures, taking your mind insensibly from the heavenly message he is striving to deliver and which your soul earnestly desires to grasp, the mind being willing, but the body weak. — Christian Herald. Jupiter's Belt. It has been suggested by Lau that the reason Jupiter has belts instead of zones of spots is to be found in its rapid rotation. The material forced upward from the lower strata of the planet, bringing with a smaller linear velocity than that of the surface streams eastward and assumes the appearance of elongated streaks. If the centers of eruption are sufficiently numerous belts are formed, and it is suggested that, were the sun's rotation much more rapid than it is, the solar surface at spot maximum would also present dark streaks or belts. In accordance with this theory of belt formation the Scientific American notes that the great revival of Jupiter's north equatorial belt in 1012-13 began with the outbreak of a few isolated dark spots, which quickly spread out around the planet. Ghost of the Castle Hurstmonceau castle, about the "restoration" of which antiquaries appear to be perturbed, is strictly a fortified mansion—what Cromwell called "a strong house"—rather than a castle and probably the only English stronghold since Roman times that was built of brick. It once possessed the tallest and noisest ghost in Europe. He was nine feet high and used to stride along the battlements on stormy nights beating a big drum. Some kill joy skeptic seems to have discovered that this ghost was really a gardener signaling to Pevensey smugglers, with whom he was in league. Whoever he was, he achieved dramatic immortality through being introduced into a play by Addison—Westminster Gazette. Hymns at $500 a Yard. A musical composer once said to Mr. Sankey with more frankness than courtesy that he could write such tunes as those of the "Gospel Hymn Book" by the yard if he were willing to come down to it. "Well, sir, all I have to say is that I am willing to pay $500 a yard either to you or to anybody else for all the tunes you can bring me like those in our 'Gospel Hymn Book.'" The infinitely little and infinitely vast alike battle the understanding, developed as it is by our concrete finite life. Creation is typified by the sphere. A circle is a straight line that at every point ceases to be a straight line, and the earth's surface is a plane that every moment ceases to be a plane. Following the surface of the earth does not carry us to the under side, because there is no more an under side than there is an upper side. There is only a boundless surface. But if it were possible for us to build a globe on the globe as large as the one we inhabit, would it not have an upper and an under side? The rain causes the grass to grow, and the sun causes the snow to melt, but we cannot apply the idea of cause in this sense to nature as a whole, but only to parts of nature. Gravitation caused Newton's apple to fall, but what causes the earth to fall forever and ever and never to fall upon the body that is said to attract it?—John Burroughs in Atlantic Monthly. International Questions. International questions constitute one of the greatest known boons of the human race. International questions are so broad that they do not require any close reasoning in order to express opinions about them. That is their great beauty. One can strike in almost anywhere without any great danger of hitting bottom, and one can say almost anything about an international question without being called to account except by some one who is equally unreliable. Local questions are quite different in that respect. Local questions are much more prosaic and less romantic. One must be surer of his data and more consistent in his conclusion. In explaining local questions there is always danger that the man you are explaining to knows more about the matter than you do yourself. If you must make ignorant statements do it in the way that best conceals your ignorance—Life. When the World Was New. The world is biggest when we are young enough to conceive of the pasture as an empire and the city block as a republic. Time is longest when we are young enough to see a day as an epoch, a week as an era, a summer vacation by seaside or lake shore as eternity itself. As we grow older the world grows smaller, and so does time. Space and time are nothing for boy or man save as he holds measures for them in hand or in memory. The boy understands ten feet because that is three long strides, and ten years because he has just lived them. Now we have lived another ten and yet another, but the first ten were the longest and are the truest measure, for the more years we are granted the more scornful of the gift we grow, though the more insistent, too, in our demand for more—Collier's Weekly. Why the Genius Is Born It is a strange and perhaps sad fact that most men and women endowed with the finest sense and apprehension for good literature have no gift or talent for effective expression in letters, and it is as strangely and equally true that many of those who love music most cannot play any instrument or sing even the simplest song. The world is crowded with people who have the acutest eye for form, color, motion and linear grace who cannot either draw or paint. And it is that he may serve all of these superior—and yet unfavored—people that the writer, the musician or the painter is born and equipped. At his best even a genius is only the involuntary mouthpiece, interpreter, illustrator of his time—Minneapolis Journal. Gargoyles of Notre Dame. The gargoyles of Notre Dame are commonly associated with the medieval spirit and queer obsessions of old Paris. As a matter of fact, most of them were executed under the direction of Vollet le Duc when the cathedral was restored, no earlier than the middle of last century. Mr. Henry Hems, who is an authority on architectural subjects, declares that most of the gargoyles carved for Notre Dame at the time of the restoration were done by an Englishman named Frampton. "though I believe this fact is now remembered by very few."—Pall Mall Gazette. The Frankness of Youth Callers were at the door and Bobbie was told to show them to the parlor. He did so, and while his mother was fixing herself up he sat there rather embarrassed. Presently glancing around the room, he said: "Well, what do you think of our stuff, anyway?"—Kansas City Star. Optimist—Cheer up! There isn't a cloud on your horizon! Pessimist—That's just my luck! I'm even cheated out of the silver linings! Oh, what's the usel—Chicago News. George Washington Outdone. "Pop," said little Rollo, "why are parlor ornaments called ornaments?" "My son," replied Rollo senior, "I cannot lie! I don't know."—Philadelphia Ledger. One Kind of Egotist One Kind of Egotist. Tommy—Pop, what is an egotist? Tommy's Pop—An egotist, my son, is merely a man who thinks we are better than we are.—Philadelphia Record. Good Advice. "My son," said the aged and experienced man reflectively, "never estimate a woman's age by the date of her birth."—Woman's Home Companion. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO AUGUST 14, 1915. Special shells have to be used in anti-air craft guns, for the ordinary shell fired into the air cannot be seen in its flight, and the gunner would have no idea whether he went near his target or not. So "tracer" shells are used in anti-air craft guns. This shell leaves a trail of smoke by day and fire by night, so that its flight can clearly be seen, and the gunner is able to observe how far off his target he is. The "tracer" has in its base an inflammable composition which is fired as the shell leaves the gun. The actus base of the shell has in it a number of holes, through which the smoke streams as the shell makes its way through the air. At night a firework attachment to the base of the shell takes the place of the smoke composition. The shell itself is a high explosive shrapnel—that is to say, it is a shell with a thick steel high explosive head and a thin steel body filled with bullets. When it bursts the flying fragments of thick steel from the head smash up the aeroplane or Zeppelin, while the flying bullets kill or wound the aviators.—Pearson's. The Greek Language. In ancient times, before the conquest of Alexander the Great, there were many differences in the dialects spoken in different parts of Greece About 330 B. C. a common dialect, sometimes called Hellenistic Greek, arose. This is the Greek of the New Testament. By 800 A. D. the differences between the spoken and written language had become so great that the literary language was supplanted by the spoken. From this time the language has been further changed in grammar, inflection and by the introduction of loan words from other languages, notably from the Italian and Turkish. Since the Greek kingdom was established in 1830 there has been a movement toward the ancient idiom. This has resulted again in a gap between spoken and written Greek. The new movement has made such progress, however, that it is not too much to say that a modern newspaper would be now intelligible to Plato. Glaciers of 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. Naming a Vest Size A curious item in the trade slang of hosiers is the term "pope's size," applied to vests. They classify the scale of chest measurements for these as: Small men's, 32 inches; slender men's, 34 inches; men's, 36 inches; pope's, 39 inches; out size, 42 inches. The origin of this term, which has been current for nearly a century, was discussed some years ago in Notes and Queries, when it was stated on good authority that it had no connection with the successors of St. Peter. It appears that the head of an old firm of west end hosiers, Messrs. Pope & Plante, ordered this size to be made specially for his own personal use, and the manufacturer called it after him for want of a better name.—London Tatier. In George IV.'s wardrobe were found many things that could not be offered for sale—countless bundles of women's love letters, women's gloves and locks of women's hair. These were destroyed. And 500 pocketbooks came to light, all containing sums of money—£10,000 in all was thus collected. For the king was a great hoarder and yet systematic in his hoarding. He carried the catalogue of his wardrobe in his head and could, it is said, call for anything at any moment. He would have made an ideal curator of a museum—London Chronicle. A Geographical Superatition Durazzo owes its name to superstition, for it was originally called Epidamus up to the time of its capture by the Romana, from whom it received its present name on the ground that the old title sounded like an evil omen to those in whose language "damnum" meant "loa."—London Standard. Picking Up Gossip. "My wife thinks these are strenuous times." "What's the trouble?" "She can't be in two places at once. If she listens at the air shaft she'll miss what is going on over the party wire."-Louisville Courier-Journal "What sort of a fellow is Jibworth?" "Very impractical. He's the sort of man who would elect to take a sight seeing trip in a submarine."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.—Sir P. Sidney. Yellowstone Park Fossils. Yellowstone Park Fossils. Of the fossil forests which have so far been discovered probably the most remarkable is to be seen in Yellowstone park, where the greater part of the trees stand upright in their natural position instead of being recumbent and scattered about the ground, as in other parts of the world. In Arizona the fossilized trunks have evidently been carried a long distance from where they originally grew. In the Yellowstone the trees now stand where they grew and where they were entombed by the outpouring of various volcanic materials. Now as the softer rocks surrounding them are gradually worn away they are left standing erect on the steep hillsides just as they stood when they were living. In fact, it is difficult at a little distance to distinguish some of these fossil trunks from the lichen covered stumps of kindred living species. It should not be supposed, however, that these trees still retain their limbs and smaller branches, for the mass of volcanic material falling on them stripped the trunks bare. Our First Naval Here The first naval hero of the United States—now almost forgotten—was Jeremiah O'Brien, a Maine man, whose racial descent is clearly indicated by his name. He commanded an American vessel in the first naval battle of the Revolution, which was fought near Machias, Me., June 12, 1775. Some little time before an English schooner, the Margranetto, was at Machias, and a number of people of the town, led by Jeremiah O'Brien and Benjamin Foster, conspired to capture her. The attempt was successful, and, with O'Brien in command, the Margranetto made a voyage to the bay of Fundy. An English schooner and tender were sent out to look for the Margranetto, and when O'Brien returned to Machias he found them awaiting him. The first naval battle of the United States was fought then and there, and O'Brien and his men added the schooner and tender to their prizes.—New York World. Speed of Light. The specific speed of cosmic energy as adopted by the United States government and published in the National Almanac is 186.324 statute miles per second. It is well for the reader to pause and think of this fact and permit the mind to again revert to it during the day and during life. This number, 186.324, cost 220 years of arduous labor, beginning with Roemer, the Danish astronomer, in 1675, in his now classic and historic researches on the motions of the moons of Jupiter to determine the velocity of light. This final result is that obtained by the great masters, Newcomb and Michelson. And as this value of the speed of light has also been adopted by the Paris conference of astronomers and physicists it is final.-Edgar Lucien Larkin in New York American. Advice to Young People Be not a counterfeiter, my boy. Counterfeits don't make good. Seek public office if you will, but where many things occur, few take place. My daughter, always give the census taker your present husband's name. Why confuse him with a recital of past divorce or future alimony? Ability, my children, is not all of one kind. One man gets what he wants because we like his amiability; another because we fear his irritability. Some professors are accounted wise because of their incomprehensibility, and I know a man who draws a pension for total disability. My boy, I hope they'll call you "the salt of the earth;" but have some ginger and pepper on your mental premises, too.—Judge. Willing to Oblige. John's father kept a candy store, and the little fellow often carried candy to school to divide with the other children. One morning the teacher noticed a strong smell of peppermint and began to investigate in order to stop eating during school hours. Unable to detect the culprit, she bent over small John and whispered: "Have any of the other boys any?" "No, ma'am." As she turned away he touched her hand and said, "I will bring you some at noon."—Ladles' Home Journal Cause For Regret "Do you regret, my good man," said the judge. "having killed the pedestrian with your golf ball?" "Yes," said the confirmed player, with tears in his eyes. "I do. If he hadn't got in the way I'd have made that hole in one less than bogle"—Judge. It All Depends. "Does your wife object to late dinner?" "Depends on whether it's due to my meeting a friend or her being at the matinee."—Omaha Bee. "Goodness only knows, chile. He keeps right on workin'."—Boston Transcript. His Place in School. Aunt—Is it true, Johnny, that you are at the foot of your class? Johnny—Not quite. I'm just above the ankle. Philadelphia Bulletin. Misunderstandings and neglect cause more mischief than even malice and wickedness.—F. W. Robertson. Hamburg's Unique Ferry. Hamburg possesses a steam ferry of a somewhat original type, for the main deck can be raised and lowered by suitable machinery in order to take up a difference of level of some sixteen feet. The large structural framework rises to a considerable height and is intended to guide the whole platform in its vertical movements. By the use of powerful electric winches it is possible to raise and lower the deck as a whole, even when it is loaded with numerous heavy vehicles, such as are used in landing material at the port. The reason for adopting this arrangement of the deck lies in the fact that at the Hamburg port the difference in tidal level is considerable, so that when the boat lands at the wharf it is by no means on the same level at all times and in the ordinary case the heavy vehicles would be obliged to mount or descend a steep incline. It is in order to avoid this drawback that the present type of ferry was constructed, and as the movable deck can always be brought flush with the level of the dock, the vehicles can now run off in the ordinary way. Lawyers and Liars The eminent cross examiners of New York city have their favorite methods of knowing when a witness is telling the truth or lying. One lawyer says he can tell when a witness is lying by the movement of the lips. Another declares the hands form the best barometer, and another declares the twitching of the muscles of the cheeks is a sure sign that the witness has been trapped in a lie. Still another discipline of Blackstone says that facial expression always helps him, as well as watching the feet, which are usually shifted uneasily when the lie is apparent. Then another declares that by keeping constant vigilance on the eyes of the witness he knows when he has his man "going." If taken as complete formula it would mean that a perjurer to escape detection would have to school his face to be impassive, keep his hands in his pockets, hook his feet in the rounds of the witness chair and shut his eyes.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Still They Wonder Why. The two women were discussing that never failing theme—the incompetency of domestic servants. And the bit of the conversation we overheard gave us a line on a possible reason for many a disappointment in that line. "Well, I am looking for a new cook," said one of the women, "and I am at my wits' end. They come to you as experts, well recommended and all that, and they turn out to be lazy and incompetent. I declare I can't understand it!" "What became of the cook you had last week?" asked the other. "My dear, she was positively the limit. She couldn't cook, she broke dishes, she wasted food, she wasn't neat, and she was impudent. I have reason to believe that she drank. Oh. I had to get rid of her. Honestly, she was so bad in every way that I could hardly think of a thing to say when I wrote a recommendation for her."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Shirking the Responsibility. "Now, this is the way I like to be treated in a hotel," said the breezy drummer as he sat down to breakfast in the Pikesville House. "The morning paper is lying beside my plate." "I beg your pardon, boss," said the head waiter in considerable agitation. "You's in Judge Hornbuckle's seat. He's been settin' there for twenty years an'-an'-he's due here at any minute." "I should worry," was the drummer's only reply. "Well, maybe you kin take keer of yo'self, boss. I guess you ain't never been befo' de judge like I has. Dat's why I' s gwine out an' stay in de kitchen till de rucus blows over."—Birmingham Ace Herald. Could Not. "Now, what does your young Mr. Brown make by lectures and readings you talk so much about?" "Nothing, papa. Virtue is its own exceeding great reward." It shows how good he is." "Tut, child! How can you expect my consent to your engagement with a man who, as you say yourself, is absolutely 'good-for nothing'?"—Philadelphia Record. Probably Sally Gay—I have just been reading that a well known scientist predicts that man will reach a condition where he will be toothless and hairless and walk on all fours. Jack Swift—and will woman continue to pursue what is left of him with the same avidity as of yore?—Boston Journal. A Church Canon The word "canon" is Greek for "rule" and is itself derived from "canna," a reed, which was selected by carpenters on account of its straightness. Hence from a measuring rule it became a figurative rule for measuring and regulating church doctrines. Balm For Little Women. The fine little woman who weighs only a hundred pounds can thank her stars that she is on earth. If she resided on Mars she would weigh only thirty-eight-Galveston News. This Is Rather Thin say, old chap, tell me, what is anger nonsense? "Why, don't you know? It's the kind you can see through easily."—Cornell Widow. Mr. Safroni-Middleton, in "Sailor and Beachcomber" makes several references to Robert Louis Stevenson, whom he saw on different occasions in Samoa. In one place he writes: "Stevenson was one of those men with a keen face that made you feel a bit reticent until he spoke, and then you discovered a human note in the voice that put you thoroughly at your ease, and as he spoke to a German sailor he picked up my violin and started to try and play some old folk melody. * * * He seemed fond of looking over the ship's side, gazing out to sea, and up at the stars. He was very friendly with all the sailors, went into the foe's stile, talked to the crew and was greatly interested in ship life." In another place he says: "I if I had seen and spoken to R. L. S.' without knowing who he was I should have thought he was a skipper or mate of some American or English ship. His manner was easy—in fact, almost rollicking at times." Red and Green Lights It is strange how the color of a light makes it more or less visible, irrespective of his actual brilliancy. To test this place two lights of the same power—two candles of the same size will do—in two tin boxes and in each box perforate a pin hole. Cover one pin hole with green glass and one with red and place them in a perfectly dark room. To a normal person the green light will appear five times brighter when viewed obliquely than when viewed directly, but the red light behaves in the opposite way. Most people will pick up the green light when looking in some other direction and will be quite conscious of its presence, but when they turn their eyes directly toward it they will not see it at all. The faint red light, on the other hand, will not be noticed at all until looked at directly, when it appears quite bright, but the instant the eyes are turned away from it it is gone—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lucky Thirteen: Once there was a man who found the number 13 most lucky for himself. His name was John Hatfield, and he was a soldier in the army of William and Mary, doing guard duty at Windsor castle. One morning he was arrested on a charge of having fallen asleep at his post before midnight. The court condemned him to die in spite of—or possibly because of—the fact that he declared he had heard the great cathedral clock strike thirteen times when it trolled off the hour of midnight. After the death sentence had been passed a score of persons came forward with the statement that on the night in question the clock had actually blundered in its count, including the single stroke for the quarter hour with its hour stroke. It was reported to the king, upon investigation, that the striking apparatus was weak and John Hatfield was promptly garrisoned—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Monkeys and Microbes In the zoological gardens in London the anthropoid apes have been kept alive during recent years by shutting them in behind glass not to protect the visitors from them, but to protect them from the visitors—that is to say, from the microbes that man harbors in his mouth. Man has more or less successfully learned how to disarm those invaders, but they will readily destroy those near relatives of his whose bodies have not learned how to resist them. Mankind has no better friends than those who, like Metchnikoff, teach us what to do and what not to do in arming and hurting ourselves against these sleepless and implacable but assuredly doomed enemies of our kind—Dr. C. W. Saleeby in Youth's Companion. Seeing Backward. The hare can see objects behind as well as in front. Its eyes are large prominent and placed laterally. Its power of seeing things in the rear is very noticeable in touring, for, though the greyhound is mute while running, the hare is able to judge to a nicety the exact moment at which it will be best for it to double. The giraffe, which is a very timid animal, is approached with the utmost difficulty on account of its eyes being so placed that it can see both ways with equal facility. This faculty enables it to direct with great precision the rapid storms of kicks with which it defends itself. The Turkish Fez. All through the markets of every Turkish city and village are little shops where the fez can be pressed and troned for a few cents. At his prayers a Moslem could not use a hat with a brim, as his head must press the prayer rug a certain number of times during each prayer. As the head must be covered at all times, a fez or some other brimless covering must be used. He Used It. Schoolteacher - Now, children, can any of you make a sentence using the word "indisposition?" won't in Rough. Pupil (throwing off his coat on his hands) - Please, me'mam, if you want to fight you stand in the position. Giving Father a chance. "I hear they have a lot of children." "Why, they have such a lot of children that the father has even been permitted to name two or three"—Pittsburgh Post. A man does his best when he is cheerful. A light heart makes nimble hands and keeps the mind free and alert. LWGOLN STATE. BANK OF Ghcngo 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET] CHICAGO, ILL. CAPITAL, $200,000.00 oe SURPLUS, $20,000.00 FESS |] Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts k [= = i Foreign Exchange 4% | Safety Deposit Vaults Be te Mortgages and Bonds ita ae | Se 3PerCent _ eee Interest on Savings Eales Deposits : i \| | Your Patronage Solicited | SS ee This Recistering Home Bank Scere | eee rome ioe vou at BA Sevag National Bank of Chicago, Aes OPEN one with US. Hlinois. 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It is evident that the Lumbricidae Hike water. ‘The oth- ef recently discovered fact about them fs that they also like air and cannot live without ft, When it bas rained Until the earth is thoroughly saturated Mr. Anzieworm has to erawl out of the fund in order to Keep from drow® ‘ng.—~St. Louls Globe-Democrat. PITH AND POINT. Remember the longer you live the older sou get. The polite term “casualties” covers & ‘Bultitude of horrors. ‘Tomorrow is the date of things that We never accomplished. In Mexico bullets are regarded a5 & ‘Decessity and bread as @ luxury. 4 new affiiction has been discovered ~the automobile eye. Keep it peeled. the About the only person who Iikes ‘andid truth is the person who tells it Taking a filer continues to be more Gangerous in Wall street than elec Where. It is al right to follow your incline- tons if they are going in tbe right ab Reetion. S b aim Many a man has a. steady tte forgets to pall the tigger at 2 Right time. : © The war bas id |B e famps, Which may. - Ne vay ee ee Among the compensations 0! a Wotan eee World’s Finest Equestrian Group. London's statues are generally the laughing stock of foreign visitors. ‘They are called “jokes in stone” and other rude names. It is all the more gratifying to find one at least of these generally despised objects gaining the ‘applause of qualified judges. A party ‘of Belgian sculptors and artists on a recent visit were moved to proclaim ‘thelr conviction that the quadriga of “Victory” on the arch at the top of Constitution hill was not only the finest equestrian group in England, bat in the whole world! The sculptor, Cap- tain Adrian Jones, once told the writer that it was twenty years after the first sketch was made that the group was finally put in position—London Stand: ard. Sgt ge oa OO, Bide, ‘In 1439, when the Venetians were & ‘war with the Milanese they brought halt a dozen war galleys with twenty. five smaller craft up the Adige river ‘as far as Mori, some miles above Als. Then came a feat which reminds us ‘of the Turk's extraordinary achieve- ment fourteen years later at Constan- Hnople. By means of rollers and 2,000 men the Venetians hauled these suis fp to the mountain saddle and lowered {hem on the other side to the Lake of Garda. “It was o task of fourteen days.” says J. J. Stoddard, “and cost an enormous sum of money. but the result justified the boldness and ex: travagance of the undertaking, for ir the following year the Venetians, #38 ‘ef by thelr imported galleys, vanquish Sion of the lake.”—London Chronicle. —— wu, desl Soup Kettle. One of the woeful aspects oF making in the pre-epameled ware 87s ‘was the cleansing of the heavy ire Jette, for washing 2 kettle bg enous te bold a shin bone of beef with trim mings was no joke. ‘Today, however, one can have th trim entmeled kettle in any sise, HES For strong, and.all 3t needs ts hot soe Jee a good rinsing to make st besntt folly clean and sanitary. If, in 608 ‘Boo, there 1» a collander of coarse are for the straining ot the soup 8 ‘pun to mateh the equisment > tee for clnubiness,cuekness 824 FSI ee Louis Post-Dispatch. — ai a ‘The use of the term “athletic heart* adie Seep es ems bas led to more misunderstandings the capital, and the young peo Som, Peably any other one expres: | tho president's tamfly—he sion. Laymen or parents, provided they Gsughter and séveral sons—mat aici tiene medical profession, set | White House gay. Mrs. Gran & picture from this expression which ts | Data in appearance, unpretentl anything but correct. If they were | Sanner, but genuinely hospitab told that their boy's thigh had inéreas- | Cuicker’witton than ane wae ge ed half an inch in girth under the ex- | Sven ‘credit for being. ercise that he bad been doing in the | ".Garessed in French by & you! symnasium they would be pleased, but | iomat at one of her receptions When they are told that the size of | Sonded in English, his heart is increased they are at once |"™:n7 aia the bumptious for Nery mmnch alarmed. Active participe- | setempting to be facetious, “Bl ton in almost any sport which causes | Sos mot speak Frosch? How s the heart to beat more rapidiy will | ‘og ‘In Burope all the ladies Produce an increase of size of that | oper class speak French and g muscle as in any other muscle, and &|}) two or three other languse ‘certain amount of this is unquestiona- | a0". bly nature's normal and proper way |” «1 know,” said Mra, Grant dry! of taking care of her economy. Some | can understand why this must People, it ts true, believe that any €n- | 5 continent divided into so many largement 1s abnormal, but Dr. Mey-| kingdoms, some of them smalle Jan and most of the physicians who | Sar amaliest states, each, spet have followed the athlete closely would | Gierent language, but in our mat agree with this—Outing. united country, one language < a spoken from end to end of it. W Erratic Recerd In Golf, epoken fre ‘The world's record fot unsteadiness probably goes to a certain California golfer. There was a team match sched- led between two clubs, each club plek- tng 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 8 club member with a handicap some- where around sixteen or elghteen 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 bis own amazement an¢ to the confusion of bis opponent, he was out in 34, eleven strokes better than he bad ever played the course be fore for the first nine holes. ‘This was an upset, but no worse than the upset that followed, for, after being out fr 34, he was back in 68. He got his 97 but as no 97 was ever got before— Jerome D. Travers in American Maga ‘zine. : ‘sie and etek Turtle and farina taken together rep- resent to those who live on the Ama- zon, 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 plent tude of farina, or vice versa. A failure of both turtles and farina in the same year brings great and widespread dis tress. Farina is a crode, locally made product of the root of the manioc, @ further refinement o* which results tn the tapioca of commerce. Farina um der 2 number of different names is faaees ot ons at se ee tives in all of tropical America from ae es mit dendeieie Mbeeda’ In an attempt to illustrate graph cally the relative values for summer and winter wear of different colors in dress materials an interesting expert- ment 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, yel low, red and black. ‘The result show- ed in a striking way how white re fiects the sun's rays, while black ab sorbs them. ‘The ice covered by the piece of white cloth was not melted to any ap preciable degree during the test, tha ‘under the yellow strip was slightly-de pressed, a deep cut was formed be neath the ted cloth and a groove ap proximately twice as deep as that cov ered by the latter was melted unde the black fabric. Pinched. Perhaps the origin of our slang term “pinched,” meaning arrested, is in De- foe's poem “Hymn to the Pillory.” Im- mured in 1703 in Newgate, Defoe con- soled himself with the reflection that, having meant well, he suffered unjast- ly. This is the passage: ‘The first intent of laws ‘Was to correct the effect and check the cause, ‘And all the ends of punishment ‘Were only future mischiefs to prevent. “But justice is inverted when ‘Those engines of the 1™, Instead of pinching vicious men, ‘Keep honest onés in swe.” —Exchange. ‘The Earliest Lens. ‘The earliest known lens is one made of rock erystal unearthed by Layard ‘at Nineveh. This lens, the age of “which is to be measured by thousands of years, now lies in the British mu- seum with its surface as bright as when it left the maker's hands. By the side of it are very Tecent speci- mens of lenses which have been rained by exposure to London's fogs and one. Following Principles. “Did you see Bibles disappear a9 soon as be saw his wife coming with. ‘out even waiting to see what she want ear” “He wasv't taking any chances on that. You see, be belongs to « ‘safety ‘@rst’ society.”"—Baltimore American. Real Reason. Friend—I suppose the bank exam inet comes around to find out what t on hand? Banker (grimly}—No; more ‘often to find out what's on foot!—Bos- ton Journal. Sapte a te 1 i cificlt to permuade masta that the love of virtpe is the love of Cramactves.—Cicere. 4 Advertise in The Broad Ax ‘Mire. Grant's Retort. ‘The Grant administration brought a brilliant throng of military officers to the capital, and the young people of the president's famfly—he had 8 dsughter and séveral sons—made the ‘White House gay. Mrs. Grant was plain in appearance, unpretentious in ‘Banner, but genuinely hospitable and quicker witted than she was generally given credit for being. Addressed in French by a young dip Jomat at one of her receptions, sbe re sponded in English. “Ah! said the bumptious foreigner, attempting to be facetious, “Madame does not speak French? How surpris ing! In Europe all the ladies of the upper class speak French and general er eis ee “I know,” said Mrs. Grant dryly, “and ¢an understand why this must be on & continent divided into so many smal! kingdoms, some of them smaller thar our smallest states, each speaking « different language, but in our great united country, one language only { spoken from end to end of it. We nee no other.” ‘The abashed foreigner retired —Ex change. ‘The “Dominion” of Canada. ‘We are accustomed to take the ex- pression of the “Dominion” of Canada for granted, but the original of that somewhat unusual word ts known to very few. When at length the great scheme of Sir John Macdonald was realized, and the nine provinces group- ed themselves together into one great -onfederation, a serious difficulty was resented by the choice of a suitable ame. For a time almost a deadlock sued, i At length one old member of parlia. nent rose from bis seat and told bis colleagues that he had read in his Bi ble that very morning the words, “Eis dominion shall be from the one sea tc the other.” Accordingly he suggested that Canada should be known as the Dominion, or God's Land. The sug gestion selzed upon the bearts and im aginations of those present, and it was Promptly acted upon—Pall Mall Ge | @n Gn Qe, In Engiand 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 in- temperate habits and was fixed in the stocks for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. “Twenty-six years had elaps- ed since the stocks were last used,” states this account, “and thelr reap- pearance created no little sensation and amusement, several hundreds of persons being* attracted to the spot where they were fixed.” The “amuse- ment” does not appear to bave been shared by the prisoner, who was Te leased after four hours and “seemed anything.but pleased with the laughter and derision of the crowd.” Seat Parciate. The prejudices of one age are com demned even by the prejudiced of the succeeding ages. The truth haters of every future generation will call the trath haters of unother 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 con- sidered as a gentle spring or water course, warm from the genial earth ‘and breathing up into the snowdrift that fs piled up and around its outlet. It turns the obstacle into its own form and character and us {t makes its way increases its stream. And should it be arrested in {ts course by @ chilling season it suffers delay, not loss, and waits only for a change in the wind to awaken again and rol! 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 be be absolutely without eye for paint- ing or ear for music—that in bis heart be prefer the popular print to the scrateh of Rembrandt's needle, or the songs of the hall to Beethoven's C minor aymphony. — James MacNeill Whistie, Bediv Shrunk. ‘The loser of an election bet In Sa) timore one time had to wheel the win- ner several miles in 2 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, Patroon Van der Donck, in the years after 1642, lived such a serene and ro- bast life on his Hudson river estate that the Dutch villagers called. his manor farm “De Jonkbeer’s landt"—the gentleman's land, later compressed by the frugal English into Yonkers. A Mighty Splash. Tees op tele hher faa ter apa higher ‘a battigship’s mast. This “splash” weighs about 2,000 tons, enough to Grownacmaliship _ TELEPHONE DOUOLAS 518, WILLIAMADAMS TAILOR 3101 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO cpu heen iat All Eye Trouble SEE , Dp. Love USSELMANN } The Practical Optician ——_—_—_—— THE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY at coos at THe LowesT Prices Consultation or examination || 3150 S. 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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 the 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 in George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St. near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. 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. 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Much of the credit of the home relief work done in Philadelphia during the last winter is due to the hard work of Mrs. J. Willis Martin, wife of Judge Martin. Miss U. L. Poinkalsaky has charge of the unique school maintained on Ellis island by the United States government to teach immigrant children quartered there. Miss Helen Lozonitch, who has come to this country to co-operate with the Servian 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. English Etching 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 Galicia 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- 1914 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 FORTY-FOURTH STREET The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. HOTEL LIN (American or European Plan) HOTEL LINCOLN CHELSEA COUNTY Arverne, L. I. Phone 1417 Hammel Phone 1417 Hammel ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAILI SHORT AND SHARP. A great many men avoid doing wrong by being so lazy. Emperor William possesses 324 decorations. King Constantine of Greece is known as Tieo. his family. 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 railroads of the United States carry more than 1,000,000,000 passengers a year. 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 by the Pennsylvania railroad. Comets will have to develop more than two tails to attract the notice of a world on fire. Some men climb up in the world, and a lot more remain at the bottom because the elevator isn't running. by the Peninsula 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 Fukushima, a distance of 412 miles. 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. 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