The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Lincoln Jubilee and Fifty Years of Freedom Celebration Is Now Running at Full Blast at the Coliseum and Will Continue Each Day Until September 16th TO THE GREAT REGRET OF ALL SOBER MINDED AND THOUGHTFUL COLORED PEOPLE IT HAS BECOME PUBLIC GOSSIP THAT THE HON. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN, SECRETARY OF THE ILLINOIS STATE COMMISSION, ATTEMPTED TO COMMIT AN ASSAULT ON BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION. THAT THE REV. A. J. CAREY, PH. D. D., RUSHED IN BETWEEN THEM AND PREVENTED MR. SWANN FROM STRIKING BISHOP FALLOWS. AT 6 O'CLOCK SUNDAY EVENING, JUST AS THE RELIGIOUS EXERCISES WERE DRAWING TO A CLOSE AT THE COLISEUM, THE HON. JAMES HALE PORTER, WHO IS STYLED THE FATHER OF EXPOSITIONS, AND THE HON. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN ENGAGED IN A WORDY WARFARE AND SETTO FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. LIEUT. W. F. CHILDS, WHO HAS CHARGE OF THE COLORED POLICE, THREATENED TO PLACE THEM UNDER POLICE CONTROL FOR FAILING TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES LIKE FIRST CLASS COLORED GENTLEMEN. IT SEEMS THAT SOME OF THE COMMISSIONERS AND OTHERS CONNECTED WITH THE EXPOSITION ARE LABORING UNDER A SEVERE STRAIN OR CASE OF BRAIN STORM. THE 17TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN THIS CITY WAS WELL ATTENDED. MANY BRILLIANT RECEPTIONS AND OTHER SOCIAL FUNCTIONS WERE GIVEN IN HONOR OF THE VISITING M. Ds. THE CROWNING SOCIAL EVENT WAS THE GRAND BALL AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY THUESDAY EVENING. Vol. XX. The Lincoln Is Now Continu TO THE GREAT REGRET OF ALL COLORED PEOPLE IT HAS BEEN HON. THOMAS WALLACE SWA STATE COMMISSION, ATTEMB BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, O THAT THE REV. A. J. CAREY, PH. AND PREVENTED MR. SWANN AT 6 O'CLOCK SUNDAY EVENING, WERE DRAWING TO A CLOSE A HALE PORTER, WHO IS STYL AND THE HON. THOMAS WALLA WARFARE AND SETTO FOR THE W. F. CHILDS, WHO HAS OR THREATENED TO PLACE THE FAILING TO CONDUCT THEMSI GENTLEMEN. IT SEEMS THAT SOME OF THE O NECTED WITH THE EXPOSITION STRAIN OR CASE OF BRAIN S THE 17TH ANNUAL MEETING OF TION IN THIS CITY WAS WE RECEPTIONS AND OTHER SO EONOR OF THE VISITING M. WAS THE GRAND BALL AT THURSDAY EVENING. From August 22nd to September 16, the Lincoln Jubilee and fifty years of freedom celebration will hold forth at the Coliseum and the indications are the affair will in every way be a complete success, many home people and others from all parts of the country are attending it each day, which should be very pleasing to the commissioners and those in charge of it. Monday was "Chicago Day" and well onto ten thousand people were present on that day which was the largest number so far to pass through the doors during any one day and evening, Tuesday the delegates attending the State Federation of Women's Clubs were present in large numbers and an interesting program was rendered by them. Mrs. E. L. Davis and Miss Hallie Q. Brown of Wilberforce, Ohio were the leading speakers on that pleasant occasion; Thursday was "Michigan Day" and Governor W. N. Ferris and many of the most eminent citizens both White and Colored were present from that state on that day, Gov. Ferris and United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis were the leading orators for that day and evening. Right at this point it can be truthfully stated that on the whole the exhibits are very creditable indeed and the great majority of them tends to show steady progress or advancement on the part of the Afro-Americans in this country, the only disappointing thing to us is the small number of exhibits, for the commissioners had led us to believe that exhibits would be on hand from 32 states, and from countries far beyond the deep blue seas and naturally we expected to behold the greatest collection of that handiwork of the Colored race that had ever been thrown together or exhibited in any one building, but in our humble opinion such is not the case, more will be said in these columns later on along the same line. There is no desire on our part to do the least bit of knocking at this time for we want to see the exposition and the Lincoln Jubilee and the fifty years of freedom celebration a grand success and not one rough stone will be thrown in its way by the writer at this time, and to the great regret of all the sober minded and the best thinking Colored people it seems that some of the commissioners and others prominently connected with the exposition are fully determined to bring everlasting disgrace upon themselves and the celebration, for it is common or public gossip around the Coliseum that the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, secretary of the Illinois State Commission attempted to commit an assault on Bishop Samuel Fallows, Chairman of the commission; that the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. just in the nick of time rushed in between them and prevented Mr. Swann from striking Bishop Fallows. On last Sunday evening at the close of the religious exercises at the Coliseum many hot and very loud words passed between the Hon. James Hale Porter, who is styled the "father of the exposition" and the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, which was staged for the benefit of the public and their conduct so many maintain who beheld their set-to was so disgraceful that W. F. Childs who has charge of the Colored police who are doing duty at the Coliseum threatened to place one or both of them under police control, it is said that Major Robert R. Jackson and the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann came mighty near going to the mat all in heap over some trifling affair. It appears that some of the commissioners and others highly connected with the exposition are laboring under a very severe strain and that they are badly effected with an awful case of brain storm. The 17th annual meeting of the National Medical Association, held forth in this city this week, and on the whole, the sessions were largely attended, about 400 M. D. being present, many of them with their families from all parts of the country. Numerous brilliant receptions and other social functions, were given in their honor. The crowning social event, was the ball at the Eighth Regiment Armory, Thursday evening, which was attended by more than two thousand and when it wound up more than fifty automobiles stood ready, to convey many of the elegantly costumed ladies and the merry dancers to their homes. Dr. U. G. Dailey, who was elected President of the Association for the next two years and Dr. Thomas S. Officer, who has ably served the local Medical Association, both labored hard night and day for the past two months in order to make the affair a complete success; which it was in every detail. Mr. James H. Anderson, editor of The Amsterdam News, New York City, N. Y., who is a prominent Elk, arrived in the City Wednesday morning. Mr. Anderson is here to attend the Elks Convention, which meets in this City August 29 to September 4. He will make his headquarters while here with Editor R. S. Abbott of The Defender, 3159 S. State street. CHICAGO. AUGUST 28. 1915 THE LINCOLN CELEBRATION. By L. W. Washington. The Lincoln Celebration Representing 50 years of Negro Freedom; Now going on at the Coliseum, 15th street and Wabash Ave. Threw open its doors last Sunday at 3 p. m. To the public free. Dedicating the event with religious exercises. Those who were prominently in evidence, were; His Excellency, Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Gov. of this State. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen of Gamon Theological Seminary, The Hon. David Shanahan, Speaker of the House of The General Assembly, Senator Dailey, Member of the Commission, Major R. R. Jackson, Representative of the 49 general assembly, and member of the commission, Right Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallow, President of the commission Hon. E. H. Wright and wife, Rep. His honor the Mayor, William Hale Thompson, Hon. S. Laing Williams and wife, Dr. J. T. Jenifer, D., Dr. E. A. Smythe, D. D., Mrs. S. B. Turner, Mrs. F. B. Waring, member of the commission and Dr. A. J. Carey. A chorus of a thousand voices, accompanied by an Orchestra, directed by Prof. Kemper Herald, one of Chicago's noted musicians, were in their seats at 2:30 p. m. waiting for the raps of the baton of that eminent chorus director, Prof. James Mundy, housed in a structure model after the residence of our martyred president, Abraham Lincoln, located in the south end of the building. To the north end of the building we saw our famous 8th Reg. Ill. Nat. Guards Military Band directed by Bill Berry a musical master in his profession. At 2:30 p. m. five thousand persons were in the gallery, one thousand more on the main floor, then in keeping with the City Ordinance a Negro Lieutenant of Police, Officer Childs and a Negro fireman of company 21 ordered the doors closed, with three thousand more on the out side too late to get in. The speaker of the day was Dr. Bowen, who said that "The Negro should not be judged by the American people on the progress they have made in fifty years; give them a hundred, a hundred and fifty, yea, two hundred years, if you please." When Governor Edward F. Dunne, arose to speak, the audience rose and gave him the Chanqua Salute, whose address was most encouragingly received and most heartily applauded after he had taken his seat the writer heard many say; that man has a White heart in his bosom for humanity. We ought to have more like him, he is alright, he is alright. He is a good man. The Coliseum for this occasion, was decorated by M. E. Gordon, which gives the exposition a patriotic hue; the woodwork on the main floor drained with white enamel, and bordered with olive green is a dream; with Lincoln's Statue 16 feet high standing erect in the center of a marble looking dome, greeting the patrons as they enter this gigantic structure is to say the least; an inspiration of that magnanimous spirit of gratitude displayed by the Negroe's presence upon this occasion, in recognition of the Freedom espoused by Frederick Douglass; confirmed by Abraham Lincoln in his famous emancipation proclamation, ordained of heaven, and commanded by God. At 3 P. M. the chorus stood and sang "Halleluia" amidst tremendous applause; then Bishop Samuel Fallows officially opened the services by presenting a gavel to Dr. A. J. Carey, chairman of the day, made from a tree in Lincoln's yard. The band played "My Country 'Tis of Thee, sweet land of Liberty of Thee I. Sing," accompanied by the voices of six thousand men and women after which Bill Berry bowed to their cheering. One could not help feeling thankful to Almighty God, when he or she ARGENT ARRHER KERSINGTON LONDON One of the most efficient musical instructors in this country, who was in charge of the great chorus which sang at the Coliseum Michigan Day, Thursday, August 26. looked into the faces of men and women once slaves and sons and daughters of ex-slaves, portraying in their very features, the dominant characteristics of the most intelligent; displaying in their very faces, that spirit of Hope against Hope against a most trying ordeal of fifty years of semi-freedom in this country. If the Negro in America is to be judged by the artistic feats of his ability to handle musical instruments, the Exposition is a success. If it is to be measured by the successful organization of the vocal talent of the race then the exposition is a success in no small degree. If the exposition is to be judged by the exhibits here in evidence, we must admit it is a success. But if we could stop here and say to our critics, let thy judgment rest here; and with one united people proclaim to the world. Long live America with the Negro. Long live the Negro with America. We would of all men be the most happy. But we realize that we are not to be judged by these elements alone, but by the greatest of all the moral and business relationship of which the Negro must give an account of himself after this exposition is over. If we can be justly measured in the future by the success of these other things exhibited, then we will say well done, we have been mistaken. It is now up to the commissioners to watch the details, let the last end be the best, and the glory you can have and we shall count you worthy of your foes. The exhibit of Adelbert Lee is prominently in a class by itself; he may be classed as among the finest cabinet makers, White or Black in this or any other country. His exhibit is worthy of the highest praise, he has a creditable exhibit worth the price of anybody's efforts in visiting the exposition to see. The exhibits in action, by 16 boys of the public school ranging from 14 to 16 years with one of their own number acting in the capacity of supt., is a wonder of our industrial age. These boys are not conjugating the verb, but the trees of the mighty forest, actually demonstrating, ability, in the art of wood turning, planing and the art of scientific industrial construction; when you see them you will not regret that you are identified with the race. Here in your very presence you have 16 young girls each at the machine turning the dry goods material in splendid garments, that would sustain the virtuous of the most acceptable. The children are doing more by their public demonstrations to tell the story of deliverance than any thing else I could say. The revelation of the Gospel they are teaching the observer daily, is greater than could be expressed by voice or pen. Truly the Negroes from the various states have brought the story home to you my White brother, my White sister, are you magnanimous enough to hear it by the eye of the soul at first hand. This exposition will fail utterly if you do not attend, you are the ones to see what the Lord has wrought, Tis for you. The W. A. Wallace of Wallace Bakery Co., making rolls, cakes and bread in front of your eyes. Can you tell me of a more inspiring scene than those tiny boys in the Louise Training School, mending the boys shoes, and the other one doing fancy needle work. Look for The Broad Ax next week. Do not fail. The nine Catholic Schools of this country with their exhibits taking up one eighth of the building is marvelous and show what the Catholic church is doing to uplift the Negro. WIRELESS STATION AT THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Through the efforts of Mr. Dixon Williams, Postmaster Genl. Burlison, granted special leave of absence to J. C. Edwards of the Atlantic City Post Office to install at the exposition build- No.49 celebration n and Will , who was in charge agan Day, Thursday, ing, the Coliseum, 14th and Wabash Ave., a regular wireless station, this attraction alone is worth the visit to the exhibition. The operator Alonzo E. Thomas, of Jersey City, though only twenty years old holds a U. S. Government license, signed by Chief Radio Inspector, L. B. Dayton of New York, in a class of five, he was the only one to pass the examination beginning at 8:30 A. M. and close at 6 P. M., no recess for meals. J. C. Edwards the general manager has been connected with the Atlantic City Post Office twenty-three years and is also member and director of the Negro National Press Association, he has just returned from Richmond, Va., where his exhibit the Atlantic City Boardwalks received first prize. Postmaster Wm. Loudenslager of Atlantic City on New Jersey day at that exposition was the orator of the day. TO BOTH WHITE AND BLACK. For the past many years Judge K. M. Landis who is one of the most fearless and one of the most honorable Judges of the United States District Court has sat in judgment on many important cases and one of them was the Standard Oil case in which he finally fined the highest officials of the Standard Oil Co., twenty-nine million dollars for violating some of the provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and the Inter State Commerce Laws. No doubt strong efforts were put forth to induce or influence him to change his rulings or decision but Judge Landis was just as firm and as unmovable as the northern star has been in its course for lo these many years. Many Colored men in the past have been tried before Judge Landis as well as many White men and it is freely admitted that he has the untarnished reputation of dealing out even handed justice alike to the rich, the poor, the high and the low regardless of the race or nationality. or Authority. Fifty young girls who have been making a home on the ocean wave, as it were, have been thrown into consternation at the prospect of losing a home they have been very happy in. These are working girls who are employed in New York city and have been making their home on an old SAMSUNG Photo by American Press Association ship, the Jacob A. Stammler, moored at the foot of East Twenty-third street, New York. This ship was purchased by the late John Arbuckle and opened as a hotel, where young girls who earned small wages could obtain a good home and good food at minimum cost. So far as the boarders were concerned, the experiment has been a successful one, but there has been a deficit each year, and the Arbuckle heirs decided to close the institution and sell the ship. It is likely, however, that the annual deficit will be made up by popular subscriptions, and a band of philanthropic women are working in this cause. HONOR FOR KING ALBERT. Citizens of Paris to Present Him With a Unique Sword. The sword to be presented by the people of Paris to King Albert has been completed by the sculptor Fetu. "No Thoroughfare" is the inscription upon the guard at the foot of the hilt. The guard is made of massive gold, bearing the arms of the city of Paris in blue and red enamel, with the cross of the Legion of Honor and the device, "Fliunct nec mergitur" and the date 1614 in diamonds upon an oak branch KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM. in green enamel. On the other side of the guard, in golden letters upon blue enamel, is the inscription, "The People of Paris to His Majesty Albert L, King of the Belgians." The inscription on this side is surmounted by a laurel wreath set with emeralds and rubles. The blade of the sword is in steel of St. Etienne, ornamented with panoplies of steel upon gold, with these lines by Jean Richeoln: SIRES AND SONS. John McClanahan of Louisville, Ky., has twenty living children. Lieutenant Wirico of the Austrian army, having lost half his face in battle, refuses again to see the girl he was engaged to marry. Although Josef Lhevinne, the Russian pianist, is held in Germany a virtuol prisoner, he nevertheless has ample opportunities to keep up his practice and even to fill a few concert engagements. Sylvester Long Lance, who has been appointed to West Point, is the first full blooded Cherokee Indian who has been so honored. He is a graduate of the Carlisle Indian school, which he entered when he was twelve years old. Henry William Blair, author of the first prohibition amendment in congress, in 1876, is still practicing law at the advanced age of eighty-one years. His offices are in Washington. He is a native of New Hampshire and has represented his state in both houses of congress. The Earl of Norbury, one of England's well known citizens, has taken work at 14 cents an hour as a fitter in an aeroplane factory in Surrey. He takes his meals with the other workmen in the factory and is in all respects on the same footing in the works as they. Lord Norbury is fifty-one years old. Fashion Frills. It is also hard to remain neutral on those decollete shirts for men.—Boston Herald. It is announced that gowns will button up the back next year, thus saving a new lease of life to a well worn wheeze.—Birmingham Age-Herald. Though women have sternly emancipated themselves from tyrannically tight skirts, many of them still toter around on skyscraper heels. — Chicago News. Clothing experts announce the return of the velvet collar for men's overcoats this fall. Incidentally the return of the overcoat for a new velvet collar about six weeks later.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Pen and Brush. James Lane Allen, the novelist, is a confirmed bachelor and lives down near old Washington square, in New York city. Millais, the painter, earned about £5,000 a year by his magic brush, and one year, at any rate, he exceeded that amount by £5,000. Sir Gilbert Parker was the recipient of one of the six baronetics conferred by King George on his birthday, June 3. His services to the empire are not only those he renders as a member of parliament, but he may be said to be one of the writers who have helped to crystallize imperial sentiment by means of his novels. Tales of Cities. Chicago now has a booster association. Constantinople fairly swarms with beggars. There are about a million houses in London. Apartments in Buenos Aires cost 50 per cent more than in New York, Chicago or Washington. The "Queen of the Adriatic," as Venice has been called, is built on seventy or eighty islets. Its Grand canal is two miles long and is connected with 146 lesser canals, a railway viaduct just over two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. BRIGHT BRIEFS. In guarding his reputation every man should be his own watchman. Who's who in Mexico is yet one of the unsolved puzzles of the times. Cheer up! Probably next summer somebody will invent a substitute for the "sport shirt." There are no old maids in Turkey. No wonder, then, that country has so many unhappy men. Chicago women fought a duel with flatirons. We take it that each of them was hard pressed. If a Haitian president were really sure of a single term that sort of a plank would be good enough for him. History has not been kind to Warsaw, as this is the seventh time the city has fallen since the middle ages. That Christmas toy famine will not worry young Americans, most of whom want Uncle Sam to bring them an automobile. A Johns Hopkins doctor asserts that there is no such thing as rheumatism. This is going to make a lot of people awfully mad. Japan is to have a coronation in November. It is luckier than most of the nations in knowing what it is going to have about that time. A newly invented electrical device measures off the ten millionth part of a second accurately. But after you have it measured it's too late to utilise it. The government says that we are going to have the greatest wheat crop that ever happened, and everybody knows that there is going to be the greatest need for it. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, AUGUST 28, 1915. ENGLAND PLANS GREAT AIR FLEET Reported Preparations For Vast Attack on Germany. THE astounding development of the aeroplane both for scouting purposes and as an offensive weapon is one of the most striking features of the first year of the great war. Military men as a result of the year's lessons consider an army not equipped with aeroplanes as absolutely at the mercy of a similar force using air scouts. It is a blind man fighting a man who can see. At the beginning of the war all the principal combatants had big air fleets, those in France and Germany having been raised largely by popular subscription, because sufficient funds were not available in the usual way for this untried weapon. The British air fleet flew in a body to France to join the expeditionary army. But the air forces of a year ago were insignificant compared with those of today. No figures are, of course, given out. But it was officially stated several months ago that Great Britain had increased her aeroplanes tenfold, and there is talk in London of raiding Germany with a division of 10,000 flying machines. Larger aeroplanes are coming into use. Great Britain is following the Russian Sikorsky idea in constructing giant machines capable of carrying twenty men, while Germany is said to be about to bring forth a triple decked machine armed with four machine guns and it revolving cannon. The great costly Zeppelin dirigibles, while proving of much utility, have been overshadowed to some extent by the cheap, quickly built biplane. The latter has proved superior to the monoplane because steadier, and the military air pilot cannot choose his breeze. The English author, H. G. Wells, has been advocating an attack upon Ger- AIRCRAFT Photo by American Press Association. ENGLISH WAR AEROPLANE. many with a huge fleet of a thousand aeroplanes. In an interview Wells said recently: "The war has caused aviation to make enormous progress. Experience shows that my idea is possible if applied methodically with sufficient resources. Two classes of aeroplanes have been evolved—light and swift for reconnaissance and heavy and slow for bomb throwing. "We ought to multiply 'flying batteries,' which combine the qualities of both. When this is done we are certain of mastery over earth batteries, which are practically firing blindfold." "After months of extraordinary effort Great Britain has assembled the greatest fleet of aeroplanes in the world," says a correspondent of the New York Sun. "An aerial campaign of unprecedented scale is, it is believed, about to be launched against Germany with her squadrons of Zeppelins and taubes. "Certain it is that the supremacy of the air will be decided aloft, aeroplane against airship, for this war has conclusively proved that every form of air craft is almost immune from attack from below. "Under Secretary of State For War Tennant in the British house of commons recently let in a little light on the situation when he said that Great Britain now had ten times as many aviators as she had at the outbreak of the war. As a year ago in August there were in the country about 750 airmen, it must follow that their number has since been increased to somewhere around 7,000. "England is not building up with feverish haste a mighty fleet of aeroplanes for the purpose of defense only. She is, I have been authoritatively informed, planning to carry the campaign into the enemy's country—or, perhaps it would be more correct to say, enemy's skies. I have a relative in England who tells me that 'every body' is talking about the 'forthcoming raid on German cities.' "My informant also tells me that he has received a war office contract to build 100 aeroplane wings a week until further orders and that other firms in his neighborhood besides his own have received similar orders. As these firms are in normal times engaged in erecting small suburban homes it may be seen that unusual efforts are being made in Great Britain to get together an air fleet of overwhelming proportions. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the veteran national suffrage leader, is sixty-eight years of age. Miss U. L. Poinkalsky has charge of a school on Ellis island to teach immigrant children quartered there by the government. Paris has many women physicians of distinction, and the greatest among them is Mme. Klumpke-Dejerine, celebrated for her researches in neurology. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Helen Keller, Jane Addams and Winifred Holt are the women vice presidents of the new national committee for the prevention of blindness. One of the ablest woman specialist in the government service is Miss L. Bernie Gallaher, who for some thirty years has been doing expert work in photography for the United States National museum. Besides being one of the greatest emotional actresses, Sarah Bernhardt is also a sculptor and painter, having received a silver medal for the former in 1900 and having exhibited paintings at the Paris salon. She has written several books and plays. Industrial Items. St. Paul factories turn out all the grass carpet and rugs made in the United States. The wages for skilled laborers in Norway, working fifty-five and a half hours a week, average $7.50. Eighty-two per cent of the brass industry of this country is in the territory in and around Waterbury, Conn. The United States brass industry comprises nearly 60 per cent of the world. There are 2,723 foreign firms, employing 52,790 persons, in China. Japanese naturally predominate, with the British in second place, with 606 firms and 10,265 employees. Germany is fourth in rank. PITH AND POINT. The more money a man has the more he can refuse to lend. If the war continues to drag it will be "an old man's war" for all of them. How rapidly a man loses all interest in politics when he shuts the door on his own thumb! Life is one continuous hurdle race to the people who make a habit of jumping at conclusions. There are times when a 42 centimeter mouth can do more harm than a gun of the same caliber. Japan's reputation for idealistic devotion to its government is somewhat marred by the current reports of grafting. That Chinese girl who is looking for the perfect man and came to this country to find him knows where to seek him. A Chicago psychologist says men are crazier than women, which provokes a crabbed male to remark that there's a reason. Leadership in Mexico is as uncertain and transitory a distinction as the possession of a baseball pennant in this country. That husband who bet his bride she couldn't live with him for six months and wasn't sued for divorce until twenty-two months later evidently underated his charms. The model husband is being discussed again rather extensively, or perhaps it's a continuation of the same old discussion, just as if there were such a thing as a model husband. Town Topics. Chicago had a "better babies" week. But how can a baby hope to be any better if it has to grow up in Chicago?—Boston Advertiser. Davenport, Ia., beat Cincinnati out for the next convention of the Knights of Columbus, which is quite an achievement for a young fellow like Davenport—Indianapolis News. The Boston Globe calls ple the "gastronomic poem of the ages." If Bostonians think that much of ple how can words be found to describe what they think of beans?—Albany Argus. Pert Personals. Justice Hughes has now ten LL. D's. Nobody will ever be able to accuse him of doctoring laws without a license.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Henry James has become so pro-British lately that it is understood he may decide to do all his writing in the future in the English language.—Boston Transcript. Miss Marlowe declares she doesn't want condolences on her retirement. But these may be safely showered on the public that knows her so well—New York Tribune. Woman's World. United States' policewomen have formed a national organization. Every Swedish girl who is not born to wealth is taught a trade of some kind. Women are not allowed to work at night in Massachusetts, Indiana and Nebraska. Several St. Louis girls, all daughters of wealthy parents, have gone into various trades in preference to the social whirl. VASQUEZ TAGLE MEXICO'S HOPE Regarded as Available Man For Provisional President. Manuel Vasquez Tagle has been prominently brought forward as the one man who can pour oil upon the troubled waters of Mexico and perchance lead that strife torn land out of the house of bondage. He was minister of justice in the cabinet of Madero and has never resigned that position, while other ministers of that cabinet resigned their portfolios. As the Huerta regime was never recognized and as Vice President Suarez was killed with Madero, Tagle is regarded by many as [Image of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a suit and tie.] Photo by American Press Association. MANUEL VASQUEZ TAGLE. the rightful provisional president of Mexico by the automatic operation of the Mexican constitution. It is said that President Wilson and Secretary Lansing have convinced themselves that the best solution of the Mexican problem lies in the elimination of Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa and the elevation of Vasquez Tagle as provisional president. Mr. Wilson is understood to have been much struck with the constitutional advantages of placing in the executive office—pending the settling of the country, the disbandment of the contending armies and the holding of a legal election—a man who not only has not been identified with any of the military factions, but who, under the Mexican law, is legally entitled to sit in the national palace in Mexico City until the people of the country have had a chance to elect a successor to Madero. Tagle was born in Mexico City sixty-one years ago. He is a leading lawyer and jurist, and the breath of scandal has never touched him. He is the most highly respected man in all the contending factions in Mexico and appears to be the one man upon whom the contending factions could unite. IN THE DARDANELLES. British and Turkish Losses Are Reported to Be Very Heavy. The illustration shows a big English gun which British soldiers have succeeded in transporting to the Gallipoli peninsula. They are covering it with coats to conceal it from the Turks. The fighting at the Dardanelles has been terrific, and the British losses are THE CAMEL MACHINE BIG ENGLISH GUN INTRENCHED AT DAB DANIELLES. said to be appalling. One Australian regiment of 1,000 men is reported to have returned from a charge but sixty-seven strong. These were wounded, and their comrades were dead. Additional troops have been landed by the British at Suvia bay, but the Turks have also been enforced. They also have lost heavily daring the constant and severe fighting. SHORT AND SHARP Here investments relate to finance. In Europe they refer to forts. Be prepared for an emergency, and ten chances to one it won't turn up. The man who doesn't tell all he knows gives people the privilege of guessing. War has brought down the cost of radium. This will cause a gasp of popular relief. Another disagreeable thing about the weather—people are always wanting to talk about it. Predicting the end of the war is like predicting the end of the world. Nobody knows anything about it. It'll be a hard matter to make the real fighters take any very deep interest in a "war pageant" lister on. Why do bankers continue to talk of "idle money?" Reach out for a dollar and watch it amble in the other direction. Quite possibly the war which the kaiser says will end in October is the same one that Earl Kitchener said would begin in May. The rest of the world will welcome the day when Europe is confronted with the serious question of what to do with its ex-trenches. There wasn't trouble enough on top of the ground so, of course, Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli had to contribute a little Gehenna from within. It seems particularly appropriate that the exoneration of Eve based on Philadelphia's tablet declaring Noah caused the fall of man should come in this era of feminism. Echoes of the War. The sultan is no longer called the Sick Man of Europe. There are too many other brother royalties who feel the same way.—Pittsburgh Gazette Times. The Poles may get autonomy which ever side wins. But if the fighting goes on much longer there will be nothing else left for them.—Philadelphia Ledger. The war news bristles with "staggering blows." But most of the staggering will be done by the generations that must pay the bills.—Cleveland Leader. Every one of the countries at war demands "a lasting peace" as the price of the cessation of war. If there should be a lasting peace the cost of the war, stupendous as it is, might be considered none too great.—Detroit News. Current Comment Haiti is an example of what may happen to a country whose government is all politics and no statesmanship.—Washington Star. The man of the hour will be the man who cuts either with the pen or the sword the gordian knot into which the world has succeeded in tying itself—Baltimore American. There is no gayety in European capitals now, and the reason is plain—the American tourist is touring America this year. And America will be a hundred millions or so the richer for it, while the tourist will gain something on his own account.—Philadelphia Press. Short Stories. Rainwater is "soft" because it contains no mineral matter. Four-fifths of the halibut of the world are taken on the Pacific coast banks. The only thing which the parcel post has refused to carry is a baby. The postmaster at St. Paul ruled that tables were live stock and not malicious. Macedonia grows the richest opium of all countries. The export of crude opium from the Saloniki district to this country ranks second to tobacco in value. The product is used solely in the manufacture of morphine and is not the quality used for smoking. Household Helps. Always scrub a floor the way of the grain of the wood. When powdered sugar gets lumpy run it through a food chopper instead of trying to crush the lumps with a rolling pin. In an emergency one may manufacture waxed paper by melting paraffin in a shallow pan and pulling strips of tissue paper through it. To prevent newly painted windows from sticking open and run them up and down two or three times a day for three or four days. Unless this is done the windows are almost bound to stick. Train and Track. The Northern Railway company has 400 miles of tracks in Costa Rica. A French engineer has invented a sandbox for locomotives in which a stream of water carries the sand to the trunk with a minimum of waste. rails with a minimum of April for some reason not entirely clear is a month in which railway accidents are at their lowest ebb, according to the railway Age-Gazette. ing to the railway the subway and elevated trains in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York city, travel every day a distance equal to more than twice the circumference of the globe. Woman's World The Duchess of Marlborough and Her Devoted Work For War Relief. THE DUCHESS OF MARIBOROUGH. Consuelo, duchess of Mariborough, like so many of England's noblewomen, is still doing her full share of relief work for soldiers. In charge of the American women's relief fund, which has its hospital at Peighton, England, in co-operation with Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Paget and Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, and assisted by her mother, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, she has intently helped bear her share of the burden put upon patriotic women all over the world today. INTERESTING BUTTONS Plain Storm and Outing Coats Are Enlivened by New Fall Trimmings. These four big buttons in either contrasting or harmonizing colors them ```markdown ``` NEW FALL TRIMMINGS selves give an added attraction to fall sport coats. The odd, small ones will prove useful for girls' school dresses. To Whiten Towels. Oftimes the towels become gray and dingy looking. Treat them in this manner and they will become white again: Place them in a kettle and cover with cold water. Add shavings of pure white soap and the juice of a lemon. Place on the back of the stove and allow the water to gradually come to a boll. If very much soiled the process may have to be repeated, says the New York Times. Rinse in tepid water, then in a slightly blue water and hang in the air to dry. ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN. Women's clubs of Havana have joined to a petition against bullfighting. Rather than take a civil service examination Mrs. F. H. Schmidt, who has been postmistress at La Mott, Pa., for the past thirteen years, has resigned. Queen Mary is the only woman in Great Britain who does not come within the scope of the married woman's property act. Therefore if she contracted debts in her husband's name he would not be responsible for them. Miss Katherine Minehart, a Philadelphi woman, has patented a new form of hand bag which is capable of being converted into a seat. When opened one part of the contrivance serves as a seat while another forms a support for the back. During the present year $10,000,000 will be paid out to mothers in the United States for the support of their children in their homes. This sum represents public money distributed in twenty-five states that have adopted mother's pensions Personality In Clothes One could write a book of directions to women on what not to wear. The atrocities which some women put on their backs in the name of dress are almost too fearful to describe. The great trouble is that it is really impossible to give out any set rules on how to dress, for what one woman may wear with impunity another cannot appear in without secret and sometimes open ridicule. And the same suit which will be called smart on one girl will be characterized as dowdy on another. Therefore no rigid rules for dressing can be given or should be followed. The selection of suitable clothes is more a matter of following one's personality or appearance than certain directions given out by others, no matter how great authorities they may be. Girls who wish to look their best should never take the advice of outsiders, especially saleswomen, on what to wear. They should give careful, considerate study to their own appearance. Then when they enter a shop to buy they should try on different styles, discarding this, approving that, until the field narrows down to two or three particularly attractive models. Never try to buy in a hurry, for you are almost certain to repent at leisure. Remember what you buy has to be worn for months and certainly deserves a few hours' careful consideration in the selection. Do not be a rigid devotee of Dame Fashion, for styles are as variable as woman's supposed moods, and where one may be very becoming another may be hideous. Usually there are enough different styles to afford room for a wide selection, so that if you search far enough you can generally find something to fit your type. Color is another matter to be studied seriously by the girl who wishes to appear well dressed. It is much easier to decide what colors become you than to know what style is peculiarly your own. But even colors are sometimes confusing. For instance, it is a generally accepted fact that red rose and all the rich tones of this hue are particularly well suited to the brunette. The shade is undoubtedly becoming to most brunettes, but nevertheless should only be worn by the brunette of the dashing, vivacious or coquettish type. There are dark haired girls who come more under the head of quaint and demure. To them rose or red is a forbidden color, for there is nothing of the quaint or demure about either of these shades. You must select your wardrobe with an eye not only to your appearance, but to your personality as well. And yet even here there may be confusion, for one often finds the tall, queenly woman who likes to be vlvacious and the little, perky girl who would love to be stately. In such cases to fit their desired personalities would be extremely dangerous. Then it is often easy to be dazzled by the color of a frock into overlooking its style. The saleswoman shows you a dress in a shade which you recognize at once as being most becoming to you. You try it on perhaps, and the shade brings out your good points to such an extent that you never notice the fact that the model accentuates your worst features. Such a mistake is very common unfortunately. Dressing is not only an art; it is a study as well. You cannot watch your own type too carefully, and the woman who dresses well not only knows her own appearance by heart, but does not allow herself to be misled by colors, by fashion or by the words of the saleswoman. The Well Groomed Woman. This is distinctly a period of good grooming among women. The slovenly though perhaps artistic looking woman is no longer in the running. The woman who has the features of a Greek goddess and yet neglects to have her hair properly shampooed and dressed creates more adverse comment than the woman of irregular, even poor features who shows the good effect of careful grooming. Good grooming is simply immaculate cleanliness and exquisite attention to details of the person, but in their anxiety to acquire this effect women are prone to adopt cosmetics or to employ means for reducing defects wherein the remedy is more undesirable than the defect itself. The wise woman is she who emphasizes all her good points so that they may outshine and distract from her defects. When a defect is so deep rooted as to require radical treatment it is far better for a woman to ignore its existence than to endanger her personal appearance, and perhaps her health, by trying to treat herself. If the defect is one which requires surgical treatment, go to an expert or endure the annoyance of the defect rather than risk what beauty you have by using an acid, the needle or electricity yourself. Raspberry Sherbet Two quarts of raspberries, one cupful of sugar, one pint of water, the juice of a large lemon; tablespoonful of gelatin. Put the berries and sugar together, let them stand two hours, gelatin in cold water to cover, add one pint of the water to the berries and strain. Dissolve gelatin in half a pint of boiling water, add this to the strained mixture and freeze. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 28, 1915 IDEAL FOR THE JUVENILE Serge, navy or brown will retain these plaits well. Patch pockets and a belt fitted in a novel way constitute a natty, if a simple, finish of the coat. The buttons are serge covered. A jaunty toque goes well with this trim suit. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. Recent Death of Longfellow's Daughter Recalls Old Poem. Mrs. Richard Henry Dana, daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who died at her home in Manchester, Mass., recently, was the "Edith with golden hair" of Longfellow's "The Children's Hour." The poem, which was written about his three daughters when they were children, Miss Alice Longfellow. Mrs. Dana and Mrs. James G. Thorpe, is one of Longfellow's most appealing poems and shows clearly why children loved him so: Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower. Comes a pause in the day's occupations That is known as children's hour. I hear in the chamber above me The matter of little feet. The sound of a door that is opened And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice and laughing Allegra And Edith with golden hair. A whisper and then a silence, Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall! By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall. They climb up into my turret, Oceans the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me intwine, Till I think of the bishop of Bingen In his mouse tower on the Rhine! Do you think, oh, blue eyed banditt, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you sill? I have you fast in my fortress And will not let you depart. But put you down into the dungeon In the round tower of my heart. And there I will keep you forever— Yes, forever and a day— Till the walls shall crumble to ruin And mould in dust away. Red ants will speedily leave if the infested places are soaked with pennyroyal oil, powdered cloves or borax, camphor gum or anything that has tar in it. A white ring on a polished table may be removed by rubbing with a fannel cloth dipped in camphor. If the bottoms of dishes that are set over the fire are first rubbed with soap they will afterward clean easily. A white felt hat may be cleaned with warm cornmeal to which a little borax has been added. When a suede belt or purse looks soiled and greasy rub with a fine emery paper, and it will look like new. A A SCHOOL ACCESSORY. Before this child needs a fall suit a wool sweater in brown or navy will prove both cozy and serviceable. Her tam-o-'shanter is also knitted and matches the sweater in color. The overlapping front protects the chest well. WAR'S EFFECT ON FURS. Paris Depending on Russia For the Fall Output. The precious furs from nearly all over the world always went to France and found their way back to the lands that had produced them. Whether or not Paris can take care of this trade this summer remains to be seen. She has handled the clothes question with all her old time skill and not left the rest of the world in doubt concerning the silhouette or materials to be adopted, although she will not attempt to produce her usual immense personal trade for the women who have always gone to her for their clothes. This work she leaves practically to America. the only country except the Argentine where fashionable clothing is sought and bought. It may be that America will supply the Argentine, and it is rumored that several of its buyers are coming to New York to buy French models or their copies. The nonfreedom of the seas has kept the great bulk of American travelers away from France, and there is no reason to doubt, therefore, that the women will buy all their clothes, including furs, from the American merchants who have representatives now in France going their usual two a day rounds of the dressmaking houses. Callot and Cheruit, the two houses that always have a significant influence on American fashion, are not yet open. The latter house always defers its openings until the others have finished their business, although some of the buyers do not wait for the event. It is quite safe to assert, however, that when this is the case the buyer who leaves will receive all the Callot models he desires. So as the huge auction sales in London are not held this year and the Paris openings are not yet over the furriers here are uncertain which way the wind will blow by October, and this may be the reason that even the most important fur houses here are selling fur garments at unusually low prices. It is a good time for the purchaser who merely wants fur, but the woman who fears being saddled with a garment that is not in keeping with the fashions will go warily about buying peltry now. To clean varnish and paint rub with a cloth dipped in a weak solution of vinegar and warm water. Polish with a wash leather. To clean marble rub with a slice of lemon dipped in salt. Leave for an hour, then wash off. All stains will be removed and a nice gloss secured. Before sweeping carpets take an old round tin, pierce holes in the bottom and fill with common salt. Sprinkle this over the carpet. It prevents the dust from rising, brightens the colors and prevents moths. When cleaning mirrors and windows sprinkle a few drops of metal polish upon a cloth and rub over the glass. Leave to dry, then polish with a clean cloth. To remove smoke marks from ceiling mix a thick paste of starch and water and with a clean flannel spread it over the mark. Allow it to get thoroughly dry; then brush off with a soft brush and the marks will have disappeared. Hot water marks can be removed from japanned trays by rubbing with sweet oil. When the marks have disappeared rub with dry flour and a soft cloth. Advice to Girls Who Work Do you possess a bank account? If you are the wife of a man of affairs or the daughter of some well paid worker you may answer in the affirmative without a thought as to the destruability of this possession. If, on the other hand, you are one of the thousands of working women who can depend only upon their own brains to bring in their daily portion of bread you may be forced to admit that a bank account has been the object of your dreams for many a year, but that you have never been able to make it a realization, try as hard as you could. Few business women know how to save money. "But," perhaps you remonstrate, "how can I put anything away when all my salary goes to pay my way in the world?" Saving is no doubt difficult when the weekly stipend is small, but even under these circumstances something should be put away if for no other reason than the one of cultivating the saving habit. Hundreds—no, thousands—of women have enough intelligence to make money, and good sums of money, too, but few have enough sense to save even a small portion of their earnings. And yet a bank account is their only protection against sickness, old age or loss of position—the only means of giving the worker any independence and personal freedom. The girl who has no bank account is forced to put up with all sorts of inconveniences; she cannot give up employment which is uncongenial, because she has nothing to draw upon while looking for another opening. If she becomes ill she must call upon friends or relatives for aid, and if she is so fortunate as to be alone in the city she may even be forced to become the object of charity. With this possibility in view one would think that every feminine worker would realize the importance of saving. But apparently few wage earners do. You find the girl behind the counter spending her nickels and her dimes on candies and the movies just as you find her sister in a higher scale of endeavor throwing away her hard earned dollars on innumerable new hats, blouses and theater tickets. Both have the happy optimism which is characteristic of many women who earn their living. They live in the present, refusing to look into the future. Begin now to put away something every week. Perhaps it will be only 25 cents if the pay envelope is pitifully small, but 25 cents every week amounts to a fair sum at the end of the year. The point at the beginning is not how much you save, but the fact that you save consistently. After awhile the sum will increase, and, having acquired the saving habit, you will have at your disposal a sum of money that is quite respectable in its proportions. The greatest drawback to saving is that once a woman has a good position she believes she will go on holding it indefinitely. Unfortunately, prosperity brings optimism with it, and few women who are making more money than usual can persuade themselves that they may are long make less. Then to the prosperous woman saving is unattractive; its returns look to her to be so insignificant. (We are referring now to the wage earner and not to the woman who can put by a $100 at a time.) For the wage earner saving is saving pure and simple. Four Interesting Dishs For Lunchon. Creamed Toast With Cheese Sauce. —This makes an excellent breakfast dish. Make slices of toast from whole wheat bread. Make a white sauce in the proportion of two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour added to one cupful of milk. To each cupful of milk add one-half cupful of grated cheese. As soon as this is melted pour over the toast and serve. Two or three dates, pitted and shredded, may be added to this dish. Creamed Chicken.—Breast and thighs were served for Sunday's dinner; the rest is picked and put in cream sauce and served around riced potatoes. To one cupful of cream sauce add two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped pepper. One quart of potatoes are washed, pared, boiled and put through the rice or fruit press on to center of hot plate, the creamed chicken around the edge. Sprinkle the potatoes with cut parsley and dust with paprika. The chicken can be served on toast and the potatoes separate. Covered Eggs—Make a paste with one cupful of fine white breadcrumbs, one beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of minced ham or other cold meats and enough milk to moisten. Line buttered cups with this mixture and drop an egg from its shell into the center. Bake or steam until the eggs are firm. All the better if the yolk is hard. Loosen from the cup and turn each out on a small square of buttered toast. This quantity is sufficient for four to six eggs. Hot Cheese Sandwiches—One roll snappy cheese, one egg well beaten, one tablespoonful Worcestershire sauce, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoonful mustard, bacon, rounds of bread. Cream the cheese, add the egg and seasoning and spread on the bread, which should be cut about a half inch thick. Place a slice of bacon on each round and bake a few minutes in a quick oven till the bacon is done. Serve with a green salad. PAGE THREE A boy holding a chicken. Quite an unusual pet is that possessed by a Pennsylvania boy. It is a big Cochin rooster, and it is very fond of its master and follows him about when permitted to do so. Since a little chick just out of the shell the boy has fed and cared for the bird, and of course the little chick learned to love its master. Now that he has grown to be a big rooster he shows the same affection and likes to be petted. The hen family is said to be lacking in intelligence, but this big fellow is said almost to understand what the boy says to it, and will obey when ordered to go to his coop and do other smart things. Of course it has always been treated with kindness, and that goes a long way with all creatures. Legend of the Daisy. According to the Celtic belief, every newborn baby that died became a spirit and to comfort its sorrowing parents it would scatter some kind of flower from the sky. A woman named Malvina lost her little son and grieved so long and so hard that her friends tried to turn her thoughts some other way. Her friends made up a song, which was sung to her by a number of young women. The song told about their seeing her little son on a light cloud which hung near the earth. He had a lot of new flowers, one of which was a gold circle with silver leaves, tinted with red around it. When it waved in the wind it looked like a little baby playing in a green meadow. The baby in the cloud threw this pretty little flower to the ground, where it took root and grew, according to the song. The women took a bunch of daisies to Malvina and said these were the flowers thrown by her son. Since then the daisy has been called the flower of innocence, because it is supposed to have been the flower of the newborn. About the Umbrella. There is a very general belief that umbrellas were invented and first used by Jonas Hanway, the celebrated English philanthropist. This is an error. Hanway was perhaps the first man who walked the London streets with an umbrella over his head to keep off the rain, and we are told that "after continuing to use one for thirty years he saw them come into general use." He died in 1786, so that the date when he introduced them must have been between 1750 and 1760. The earliest use of umbrellas, however, dates back 2,000 or 3,000 years before this. On one of the bas-reliefs brought from Nineveh by Layard and now in the British museum there is a representation of a slave holding an umbrella over the head of the king as he rides in his chariot. Overheard In the Hall. "You all think yourselfs really more than you really are!" exclaimed the riding whip, which was hanging on the top peg of the hatrack. "If I had a mind to I could whip the whole crowd of you, and I'll do it, too, if I hear any more boasting." Fishing In Madagascar. The fisherman of Madagascar sprinkle the lakes and streams with a polsonous substance which paralyzes the fish and causes them to float to the surface, where they are fished out by hand and eaten without ill effect. A Sale of Airships. You want to buy an airship? Which make do you prefer? The dandelion's out of style. But thistle makes a stir. You want to travel swiftly? To see the loveliest things? And go quite safely? Seems to me I'd try the swallow's wings PAGE FOUR PUBLISHED WEEKLY. : (WH promaigate end at all times aphelé ‘he tree petectpies “of Democrncy, bet Cathetion, Protestants, Priests, Inddela, Bingis Texors, Repsblieans, er eayene eles qm hove their cay, eo tong a0 their lan- guage is proper and responsibility ts Axed. ‘The Booed Ax ts = newspaper whee piatterm te tread enough for all, ever ‘Geiming the ofitertal right te epeak tte own mind. \ Teeal commaniontions wil recetre atten- ton, Write only on ene side of the peper. Sebecriptions must be paid tn efranes, one Reto tierce can | Advertising rates made knows en appil- sation, Address afl communtentions te THE BROAD AX 4532 ST. LAWRENOE AVE, CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE WENTWORTH 2507. JULIUS ¥. TAYLOR, Béiter and Publisher ‘Emtered as Seson4-Class Matter Aug. 18, ‘1902. 6: the Fest Oiler a: Chicage, Ilimeis, under Aes ef Marek & 1ST (a REMOVAL NOTICE. From on and after this date, all letters or other msil matter intended for Julius F. Taylor or Mrs. Annie E ‘Taylor or The Broad Ax, should be addressed to 6532 St. Lawrence Ave, Jackson Park station. Phone Went worth 2597. eeaLes Ure How to munition and carry on the war against tuberculosis during the coming year will be discussed st five sectional conferences on this subject being called by The National Associa- tion for the study and Prevention of ‘Tuberculosis in Indianapolis, Ind.; El Paso, Tex.; Columbia, 8. C.; Spring- field, Mass, and Albany, N. Y. ‘The Indianapolis meeting to be held September 29th, 30th and Oétober Ist, will be known as the Mississippi Valley ‘Tuberculosis Conference and will take in the States of Ohio, Indiana, TMiinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ten- nessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Iows, Min- nesota, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dako- ta, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming _and Colorado. Alamance County, ‘N. C., has awak- ened to the importance of conserving the health of its school children and im co-operation with the North Caro- lina State Board of Health will have health days for every school in the country. Briefly, the plan is to have a competent inspector make a thorough physical examination, especially of the eyes, ears, teoth and throats of all the children and where physical defects are found, to have them remedied. There will also be an inspection of the school grounds and house, the lighting, the ventilation, the water, the sewage dis- posal, ote, followed by @ health pro- gram of speakings in the afternoon and an illustrated health lecture with lan- tern slides for the public in the even- ing. 4 During the spring and summer months and in fact until the begin- ning of winter, milk is delivered dur ing the very early morning hours. Very few families provide a receptacle for protecting the milk from cats and dogs, ‘or from the sun, until it is taken in and placed in the refrigerator. Milk ‘thus exposed is not as safe as it should be. ‘With very little cost and isbor a box may be provided thst will ef- feetively safeguard the milk. Why not do it nowt i ee Siw ‘Flies, cockroaches, beé bugs and rats ‘are carriers cf disease. They have no place in good society. At TR colget | ~ fo safeguard public health is the ee ae eae ‘Department $6 the right arm a service in minimizing preve dis Ba 1g eee ee ard The Ddattle is on between 1 Fada ead ees ose a Recs a aaa ee ee en eat ee Cee eck yard, slleys, and < . ree at lote Se Pear an 4 ath ea pee POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM. Interesting Statistics Showing the ‘Rapid Increase and Advantages of ‘this Service im Chicego—Ser- vice is Handicapped. ‘The popularity of the Postal Savings |Bank-among Chicago's foreign-born is forcefully brought out in statistics deal. ing with the nationality of postal sav. epositors just “compiled by the Post Office Department at Washington. On July Ist, the total deposits st Chi- ‘ago amounted to $3,267,532—a ‘net gain during the fiseal year ended June 30th of $961,000 or 42 per cent. The foreign-born own nearly three-fourths of the total deposits with $2,348,160 standing to their credit. The accounts of American-born depositors total $919,, 372 ‘The Russians lead all other foreign-born depositors with $518,502 to their credit; then follow the Austrians with $337,737, the Germans with $298, 246 and the Italians with $258,083. Representatives of every nation of Europe are among the depositors. One thousand five hundred and ninety-three depositors have reached the $500 limit, and can deposit no more, despite their ‘appeals to do so. Of this number 1150 sre foreign-born. ‘The postal savings service at Chi: cago bas been seriously handicapped from the start by unfortunate restric: ‘tions im the original Postal Savings Act, which forbid the acceptance of ‘more than $100 8 month from a deposi- tor and fix $500 as the maximum amount that may be accepted from him, The restrictions have proven par- tjeularly disappointing to the foreign- born, who often insist on depositing their entire savings at one time and can not understand why the United States Government, in which they have implicit confidence, is willing to safe- guard a part of their savings and not all of them. Vast sums of money, earned by honest labor in Chicago, have ‘thus been driven back into hiding and lost to local channels of trade. In a recent report to the Post Office ‘Department, Postmaster Campbell said: “We bave had numerous inquiries from intended patrons who desired to deposit more than $100 each month and a great many who desired to deposit more than $500 in all. These inquiries come principally from people who have sold real estate and are receiving more cash than ean be deposited with us. Frequently patrons desire to deposit $800 or $400 or more at one time, and when they learn that they cannot do so, they are-very apt not to start any account with us. They do not desire to. deposit .$100 each month and keep the remainder at home.’’ HYDE PARK NEWS. By L. W. Washington. BENEVOLENCE. Mr. Mets, one of our large (White property owners.in Hyde Park) was protected from ‘‘a frandulent deed’’ by the "Hom. A. L. Williams bis attor- ‘ney, secording to our daily press. Quite ‘aa honor to be sure. oa ‘Mr. ‘William ‘Clemens of 5622 Lake Park Ave, returned from the sum- nai ach fa emeeny_f X THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 28, 1915. TROUBLE BREWING OVER ‘THE | Connecticut: Mr. Seott employ GILES B. JACKSON ONE-MAN|twenty to thirty persons, and EXPOSITION EECENTLY ‘EELD | aval business is said to amount t AT RICHMOND, VA. than $25,000. ‘The Affair to be Investigated by Oon- An excellent opportunity is | ee be offered to a well-qualified | signs fail, there is going to be Srou® over the alleged “exposition”? fostered ‘by Col. Giles B. Jackson. The race at large feels that it is not in any way responsible for the fiasco, since Jack- ‘son ‘‘vest-pocketed’? the enterprise and made it a ‘one-man affair,’’ and there is s general disposition to side- step the concern and leave Jackson to “tread the wine-press alone.’? Al- though there is now a cloud in the sky scarcely larger than s man’s band, that @ark spot is nothing to what will be athwart the horizon when the official reports are asked for by Congress. The ‘cloud’? just spoken of has tak- en the form of a complaint lodged with the State Accountant of Virginia by Dr. B. E. Jones and William Miller, two of the officers of the ‘‘Negro His- toriesl and Industrial Exposition.”’ These gentlemen were supposed to be ‘officers’? of the corporation, but after the money hove into sight it is said they were completely ignored by Jack- son and knew nothing of what was go- ing on. No meetings of the board were called and Jackson attended to every- thing in person, giving no accounting to anyone nor taking anyone into his confidence. Getting wise, however, by means that have not yet been disclosed, Dr. Jones and Mr. Miller sought out Governor Stuart and laid before him charges against Jackson, claiming that his ac- counts were in an unsatisfactory shape and that several large items indicated extravagance, if not worse. The Gov- ‘ermor instructed them to file a written statement of what they had to say with the State Accountant. They did this and the papers are in the State ar- chives, awaiting the return of Account- ant Smyth to his office. ‘The concessionaires, all of whom lost money because of the poor attendance, after paying big prices for privileges, are as mad as wet hens, Exhibitors were compelled to pay fancy prices for space, and they are sore when they think how little they got out of it by showing their goods to from thirty to fifty persons a day. New York and ‘New Jersey are having nothing to say, and the report they will make to the folks who voted them appropriations for exhibits will make interesting read- ing. The big Colored papers are piling ‘on to Jackson on the one hand, or let- ting him severely alone on the other. ‘The masses of the people prefer that the “promoter”? get a good roasting all around, for they claim that if the race assumes responsibility or apologizes for the farce, the failure will be charged up to the race. If the press lambasts the whole thing, the shame is fastened on the shoulders of the one individual who made the affair a mess. In fact, there is « disposition in some quarters to blame the press for its misplaced leniency from the outset, in view of previous performances on the part of the ‘*promoter.’? ‘The plot thickens. It is stated that the facts concerning the “exposition”? are to be laid before President Wilson, for his information, and a similar state- ment is to be placed in the hands of the chairmen of the committees on in- dustrial arts and expositions of the two Houses of Congress. The report Jackson is to make to Congress will be rigidly scrutinized, and the movement inaugurated at Richmond by Dr. Jones and Mr. Miller will be watched with interest. From such signs as these, there is reason to believe that the big. gest part of the Jackson. “ exposition’? will be its aftermath. ‘The life of an exposition manager is not ‘‘one grand sweet song.—Richard W. Thompson, in the Freeman, Indian- spolis, Ind., August 21, 1915. NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. Reported by the National Negro Bust ness League, The. National Association of Negro Mechanics with Robert W. Fearing as President has been organized in New York City. ‘The object of the associa tion is to provide better working eondi- tions for its members. A rural educational mass meeting was recently held in Millen, Georgia. three hundred or more represent- ‘stives from adjoining States and coun- ties were present to parteipate in the iscussion for better edueational con- ditions. T. M. Campbell, Farm Dem- ‘opstration Agent, with headquarters at | Tuskegee Institute, gave a stereopticon on farming. ‘MeOarter Byrd of Lawrence, Kas- Bay is doing « large aa oe 2 ae hs aekae com teas oie Bik ets A Nel Ss Soe condect 2 very succesatul Gasp wate eee Connecticut: Mr. Seott employs from twenty to thirty persons, and his an, nual business is said to amount to more than 625,000. An excellent opportunity is said to be offered to a well-qualified Colored dentist to locate in a thriving Southern city. Write the Secretary of the Na- tional Negro Business League, at Tus- kegee Institute, Alabama, and enclose stamp for reply. ‘The Associated Charities of Cincia- nati, Ohio, have employed Miss Martha Fletcher, 8 young Colored woman, as special worker and investigator among the Colored people. Since last report, Local Negro Busi- ness Leagues have been organized and chartered in the following cities: Thi- bodaux, Louisiana; Reidsville, North Carolina; Bradentown, Florids; Harris- burg, Pennsylvania, and Montelair, ‘New. Jersey. Within the past six weeks, State Negro Business Leagues in three States have held their annual meetings. The meetings were well attended and have been followed by a wave of increasing interest in Local League work. Texas, Louisiana and Virginis are the States where these meetings have been held. COLORED WOMEN ENDORSE THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF ‘WOMEN When the Distriet Grand Household of Ruth No. 7, held its annual meeting August 3rd, 4th and Sth at Ebenezer Baptist Chureh, Poughkeepsie, the sub- ject of woman suffrage was earnestly discussed and strong resolutions, en- dorsing votes for women, were passed at the close of the meeting. The House- hold of Ruth was organized June 22, 1897, and is the feminine auxiliary to the Distriet Grand Lodge No. 2, of the United Order of Grand Odd Fel- lows of New York. The men were hold- ing their sixth biennial meeting at the same time as the Household of Ruth, and they took like action in passing resolutions endorsing woman suffrage. At the close of the meeting, the Household of Ruth wrote the Woman Suffrage Party of New York the fol- lowing official letter, stamped in raised letters with the official seal of the or- der: Woman Suffrage Party, 48 East 34th St., N. Y. City. Greeting: ‘We, the officers and members of the District Grand Household of Ruth No. 7 Grand United Order of Odd Fellows At our meeting held in Poughkeepsie, N, ¥, August 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1915, do hereby endorse the following resolu- tion and wish for you much success on November 2nd, 1915. Yours in Peace, Happiness and Pros- perity. Mrs, Lena M. Johnson, District Grand Most Noble Governor. Mrs. Phoebe A. Green, District Grand Recorder. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH. Woman Suffrage Resolution. WHEREAS, the Women of New York are seeking political emancipa- tion at the hands of the men of the State by a Constitutional Amendment giving the Right of Suffrage to women, to be voted on November 2nd, 1915; and WHEREAS, It is as unjust to gate people on account of sex as on account of color; and = WHEREAS, the women of our race are largely wage-earners in industry and their labor needs the protection of the ballot; and by the successful passage of the Suffrage Amendment we Will be able to vote on equal terms with men without hindrance by reason of race, color or sex; and WHEREAS, THE GREAT EMANCI- PATOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN, whom we all revere as the liberator of our race, preached equality for all, men and womdn alike, and said ‘‘I GO FOR ALL SHARING THE PRIVILEGES OF THE GOVERNMENT WHO AS8- SIST IN BEARING ITS BURDENS, BY NO MEANS EXCLUDING WoO- MEN!"?; and WHEREAS, 4,000,000 women, both White and Colored in twelve states al- ready vote on equal terms with men; and because women are as patriotic, intelligent, educated, industrious and law-abiding as men; and because they are obliged to pay taxes and obey the laws the same as men and suffer equal punishment if they break the laws; BE IT RESOLVED, That the House- hold of Ruth endorses the esuse of — Buffrage and urges ofr hus. brothers, sons and friends to help win our political emancipation by eas ‘Woman Suffrage Amend- ment, November 2, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bings, 3324 Ver non avenue, on Wednesday evening, gave a reception in honor of Miss Bish- ep, Dr. Atkins, Miss Atkins and Mr. ‘and Mrs, Cole. A musicale was a part of the pleasure of the evening. Many ‘the most prominent social leaders Present to greet the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Binga. Rev. Pather J. B. Maseniah, pastor . Thomas Church; spent the past Talks ~ Health, Cleanliness _ Proper Living Sanitation, Etc. by Dr.W.A. DRIVER 3300 So. State St. On account of the convening this week, in this city at the Young Men's Christian Association Building, of the National Medical Association the at tention of the populace is focused upon these two kindred professions. Both are the guardians jointly of the health of the people. Both are co-workers in the preservation of health and the preven- tion of disease. Both are friends to suffering humanity and foes alike to ‘the disease processes that cause pain, decay, destruction and death. The two represent the highest development men- tally for the care of our bodies. They have dedicated their lives for the pre- vention and cure of disease. They are the custodians of our most precious Possession in the physical world. Each profession requires of its members suffi cient preliminary educational require ments of a high order and years of at- {tendance in a medical or s dental col lege. After the diploma is secured the state requires of each that every aspi- rant pass an examination before granted a license to practice. The re- quirements are high and rightly so; the result ig that persons who attain the DEFENSE OF MOBS STIRS UP ROW IN GOVERNOE BANKS. Blease Gets Tart Reply from Maryland ‘Executive; Dunne Assails Hanging. Boston. Mass., Aug. 27— A state- ment by former Gov. Cole L. Blease of South Carolina that ‘‘when mobs are no longer possible, liberty will be dead,’’ brought forth an instant chal lenge and heated debate during the conference of governors here today. Gov. P. I. Goldsborough of Mary- land said: “I cannot sit silently by and permit such statements to go unanswered. If capital punishment be wrong, how much more so is capital punishment at the hands of a mob.’ Oppose Death Sentence. Papers advocating abolition of the death penalty were read by Gov. W. G. P. Hunt of Arizona and Gov. Edward F. Dunne of Ilinois. Others who favored abolition of the death penalty were former Govs. Haines of Maine and Adams of Colorado. Gov. Richard I, Manning of South Carolina said that when a lynching took place in his state the county had to pay $2,000 to the family of the victim. Cite Disgrace of Tlinois. ‘Tilinois was disgraced by 651 homi- cides in 1910, after a century of en- foreement of capital punishment,’’ Gov. Dunne said, ‘‘while in Wisconsin, where it had been abolished, the homi- cides have not been much over 50 per cent per capita of those committed in Tinois.”? “‘Bociety becomes criminal when it seks by violence and the blood of its vietim to right = wrong committed against it by such product of its own neglect. For this class we cannot con- ceive of execution performing any func- tion. The hanging of hundreds of thousands of men, even the massacre of their young, would not decrease the crime that springs from the slums and the tenements, so long as the slums remain under the tolerance of an intel- ligent society. ‘Another evidence that execution is not effective is afforded in the records of lynchings and mob violence. Whether these have occurred in the north or in the south, they have not had any appreciable influence in re- dueing crime of the character which sroused public fury. Lynchings and burnings at the stake are but too com- mon today.”? THE SUPREME LODGE OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS THROUGHOUT THE > WORLD RE-ELBOTED ALL OF ITs | OLD OFFICERS AT ITS GATHER ING AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. | ‘The following were re-elected asthe head officials of. the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythiag throughout the world, at their mecting last week at Columbus, Ohio: 8. W. Green, Supreme Ctianeellor; La., Jos. L. Jones, Supreme Vie Chancellor, Ohio, L. M. Mitebell, Supreme Lecturer, Texas, Rev. L. W. J. Wi Waddy, Supreme Master of | b, BB Saree Eos pedrds and Deeds, Ky, A. B. Lot Be ek ee "= he ee 2 27 ae e ong aoe a right to practice are respected. They Delong to the people: wom they serve, they are verily the servauts of the people. They are allied professions; one isde. pendent upon the other. The one cay, not do the work of the other. Tay ‘one must cooperate with the other, It requires the skill of both working in bar- mony to restore and maintain the body health. The physician often dircets his Patient to see the dentist in order tg secure proper conditions in the bedy anatomy under the special care of the dentist and the dentist in the same manner instructs his patieut to see the ae The service rendered by these allies are not as well known 33 they stould be. Consult them to keep well, as well as to get well. Modern life re quires us to be eflicient physically; the physician and the dentist are ex perts in that line. They co-operate with all humanity; they sympathize with friend and foe. They are the servants of all, of master and man Ask them able advice and act aceon ingly. Their power for relief needs no eulogy; it speaks for itself. tie, Supreme Taner Guard, N.C, E A. James, Supreme Outer Guari, Fla, & ‘A. Watkins, Supreme Attorney, I, E A. Williams, Past, Supreme Chancel, Ohio. ‘Temple Commission: M. M. Rodgers, Texas, Geo. N. Stoney, Georgia, Jos I Jones, Ohio, E. A. Tidrington, Indi ana, John N. Harris, Mississippi, C. W. ‘Wade, Arkansas, B. G. Collier, Pen sylvania, H. G. Fordham, South Care lina, E. E. Underwood, Kentucky. 8. W. Green, La., Pres. E. D. Green, Il, See. ST. MARK M. E. CHURCH. ‘The sermon by the Rev. N. D Shamberger, D. D., pastor Clark Mem orial Methodist Church, Nashville, ‘Tenn., was greatly enjoyed by the com gregation last Sunday morning. The sermon was full of helpful and practi eal suggestions and the minister evi denced familiarity with his subject His subject was ‘The Gospel of the ‘Second Mile’? at the evening service Dr. Johnson, Covington, Va., delivered an address on ‘‘Health and Sanits tion.”? Sunday August 29th the Rev. J. M. Harris of Sedalia, Mo, will preach. Mr. A. M. Beakley is away on his vacation. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. D. Boyd have returned from Cincinnati where they attended the funeral of the late Rev. Dr. M. C. B. Mason. The Rev. John W. E. Bowen, Vite President of Gamon Theological Sex inary, Atlanta, Ga., visited St. Mark last Sunday night arriving after the services had closed. Dr. Bowen pre nounces St. Mark one of the greatest of our Colored Churches. SIX ROOM BRICK COTTAGE FOB SALE AT A BARGAIN ON EAST PAYMENTS. Beautiful six room and bath, cement basement, furnace heat, hardwood floors and trimmings, one and » balf story brick cottage located on St Lawrence avenue, near Marquette ‘Boad, 66th street Boulevard st s ber gain, if purchased st once, small ‘amount of money required. For further particulars, addres Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence avenue. Phone Wentworth 2597, 20 agents wanted. FIVE BRICK HOUSES FOR SALE ‘AT A GREAT BARGAIN. Wo have for sale s group of fre ‘brick houses that are offered at 2 bar ‘gain, they are to be sold all at once fand on easy payments, three to Sve fhamdred dollars down and the balance the same as rent, they aro located om South Park Boulevard near Thirty fourth street. Do you want to be # member of = syndicate that wil PY hase these houses? If so dares X care this paper. ror saLzE. A 2 story 7 room frame house” Iherdwood floors, brick and stove fom astion. All in good condition with 2 lawn fn front and rear, with good 2 emant floor and runsing 0 prge For farther information Br e59 Bast Grd St. Phooe 0" 1748. The Following Business Places Are Highly Deserving of the Patronage of the Visiting Elks Who Will Meet in Convention in This City from Sunday, August 29th to Saturday, September 4th The Lincoln Gardens, 12 E. 29th, near State; centrally located; surface and elevated cars adjacent; largest available hall for seniors of the Grand Lodge; donated through the courtesy of several Grand Lodge officers. Jackson's Hall, 2959 State St., headquarters of Morning Star Lodge No. 40, Wash., D. C., 2nd largest lodge numerically operating under our jurisdiction. Donated by the United Negro Voters' League, 2971 State St., Robert Vance Ridley, pres.; headquarters of Ind. Delegation. The Brunswick, 3004 State St., Geo. W. Holt, prop. Fine wines, liquors and cigars; Hotel (Stag) in connection. Fred Holt, mgr. Calif. Delegation. The Keystone Hotel, 3022 State St. Fine wines, liquors and cigars. David McGowan, prop; James (Boston) Claxton, mngr. Headquarters of Ky. Delegation. The Elite Cafe, 3030 State St. Fine wines, liquors and cigars. Codozoe Whiston (Lovie Joe) prop. Cabaret in connection. Headquarters Tenn. Delegation. When in need of drugs and toilet articles visit the Crown Pharmacy, 31st and State St. The largest and best stocked pharmacy south of the Loop. Visit the Grand Theatre, State St. near 31st. The coolest and most up-to-date vaudeville house south of the Loop. The Elite No. 2, 3445 State St., Henry (Tenan) Jones, prop. The most elaborate emporium on the stroll. Fine wines, liquors and cigars; cafe and cabaret in connection. Chas. (Givadarn) Fowler, mngr. The Minion Buffet and Billiard Hall 3504 State St., Geo. W. Holt, prop. and mngr. Fine wines, liquors and cigars. Headquarters of St. Louis Delegation. Dunn and Hight's buffet and cafe, 5050 South State street, will be the headquarters for many of the Elks who will flock to this city. NATHAN KAPLAN'S FAIR STORE One of the nearest little general faints stores on South State is conducted by Nathan Kaplan at 2974 South State St. and his well selected stock of ladies' and gents' furnishings and house furnishings are up-to-date and it is just the place for all visiting Elks to do their trading in that line. THE STAR AND FORD HOTEL The Star Hotel, 2901-2903 S. State street, phone Douglas 4560 and the CHIPS. Mrs. Eva Roman, of Montana, is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Barnett, 3656 Prairie avenue. Harrison Stewart is now in charge of the famous Pekin Theatre as he started from here. He ought to be enspired and make good. Mrs. S. J. Carter has got nicely settled in her new home, 3316 Calumet avenue; where in the future the Carter villa will hold forth. Dr. Higgins of Providence, Rhode Island, Dr. and Mrs. Ramsey and Dr. and Mrs. Ferguson of Richmond, Virginia, are guests of Dr. and Mrs. Driver, 3344 Calumet avenue. Our friend Chas. Stewart passed through the city enroute to New York City, and will return shortly to look after the exposition news for the associated press, so we learn. Mrs. Etta Conway, of Peoria, Ill., and Miss Josie Conway, are in the City visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley Ford Hotel at 2953-2955 S. State street, phone Douglas 808, are both centrally located, for the visiting Elks. Rooms which are electric lighted, can be obtained for 50-75-$1.00 per day. The street cars on State street pass both hotels and the elevated trains by getting off at 29th street station will land any one seeking rooms, within a few feet of the hotels. MAX J. SCHMIDT, SOUTHEAST CORNER OF 29TH AND STATE STREETS. Max J. Schmidt, dealer in imported liquors and cigars, whose Buffet is under the Star Hotel, Southeast corner 29th and State streets. He is assisted by Arthur Currie, big Elk and Charles B. Davis. They are prepared to extend the right hand of friendship to the visiting Elks. SAM BRAUER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF IMPORTED WINES AND CUGARS. Sam Brauer, 2644 S. State street, corner 27th street, opposite the Pekin Theater, dealer in all kinds of imported and domestic wines, liquors and cigars, with the assistance of Bud Jones and L. Page, will be on hand bright and early from early morning until late at night to greet the visiting Elks. KAPLAN'S BUFFETS East 28th street, near Wabash avenue. Phones, Calumet 694; Auto. 74-509. 2900 S. State street, corner 29th street. Phones, Douglas 50; Auto. 72-334. I. S. Kaplan, proprietor; Harry C. Goldstein, manager. Finest kinds of liquors and cigars on hand and the visiting Elks are welcome at both places. THE JACKSON PALM GARDEN AND BASEBALL HEADQUARTERS EXTEND A HEARTY WELCOME TO THE VISITING ELKS. The Jackson Palm Garden and Baseball Headquarters, 2936 S. State street, Mrs. A. Jackson, proprietor; George H. Shaffer, manager, extends a hearty welcome to the visiting Elks, who will be in evidence in this City this coming week from many parts of the country. WELCOME TO OUR CITY. Visitors to Chicago during the celebration of the Lincoln Jubilee, can profit by inspecting the largest apartment building in the U. S. occupied by Colored people. While in the building don't fail to call on Goodman Bros., dealers in wines, liquors and cigars, The Mecca Bldg., 3360 South State St. and Miss Bertha Mosely, 6248 S. Sangamon street. They will visit the Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee Celebration during their stay in the City. The Grace Presbyterian vs. Havana Stars will give a Base Ball benefit and track meet at White Sox Park, 35th streets and Wentworth Ave., Tuesday Aug. 31, for the benefit of the Old Folk's Home. This is a worthy cause and should be largely attended both by visitors and citizens of our city as well. The Physicians convention held at at the Y. M. C. A. 38th and Wabash Ave., was an intellectual treat. But was much wanting with National interest because of the disinterestedness of Dr. Geo. C. Hall, Dr. Daniel Williams and Dr. Bentley. These men would have added much to the dignity of the occasion. The surgical display was par excellence. The papers were educating. The reception and ball was grand in fact the committee of arrangements is to be complimented, they have done well, with a little bigger heart, and a broader consideration of one; another, a National Organization of Physicians would be most helpful to all. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 28, 1915 American Possessions. The "possessions" of the United States are as follows: Alaska, purchased from Russia in 1867, price, $7,200,000, area, 590,884 square miles; the Hawaiian Islands, annexed by the request of the inhabitants in 1898, area, 6,449 square miles; Porto Rico, area, 3,606 square miles; Guam, area, 210 square miles, and the Philippine Islands, area, 115,026 square miles, ceded by Spain in the treaties of 1898 and 1900 on payment of $20,100,000; American Samoa, area, 77 square miles, acquired without money payment in 1899, and the Panama canal zone, which is not actually owned by the United States, but to which the country in consideration of the payment to the Republic of Panama of $10,000,000 and in addition an annual "rental" of $250,000 has acquired perpetual right of occupation, use and control. The canal zone is ten miles wide, and its area is 436 square miles. No payment was made for the territory of Hawaii, but the United States assumed the public debt of that country to the amount of $4,000,000. He Understood His Profession The professor of jurisprudence in a western university was lecturing to a hundred embryo lawyers. He asked whether every one in America could own property. One fellow answered, "No; a criminal can't own property." But the professor said: "Suppose a man owns a ranch, gets into trouble with his neighbor, assaults him and is put into the penitentiary. Does he still own the ranch?" The class was unanimous that he did. "If he did not continue to own it," went on the professor, "what would become of it?" That was supposed to settle the discussion, but one boy called out, "The lawyer would get it!" There was a hearty laugh, of course, and the professor added: "We learn two things from that apt remark—be a lawyer, and don't be a criminal."-Youth's Companion. Neuralgia. Severe neuralgia can be cured by injecting alcohol into the nerves, but the cost is terrible, for the price is the death of the nerve, with paralysis as the result. Such, in brief, is the conclusion which Dr. Williams B. Cadwalader reports to the Journal of the American Medical association after experiments made at the laboratory of neuropathology of the University of Pennsylvania. The alcohol kills not only the nerves of sensation, but the motor nerves as well. In a nerve like the sciatic this would be serious. For the nerve may remain paralyzed for a year after the injection of the alcohol. In trifacial neuralgia, which is caused by a purely sensory nerve, this action is of little importance. The cure is not permanent, however, but affords freedom from pain for several months, perhaps as much as a year. The nerves regenerate just as they do when severed. A Traveling Opinion Mr. Fazakerly, an eminent counsel, was once stopped by a country gentleman, a neighbor, who asked him about some point then very important to him and got the opinion verbally. Some time after the gentleman called on the counsel and said he had lost £500 by his advice, as it was a wrong opinion. The counsel said he had never given an opinion and, turning to his books, said he was confident of that. Being reminded that it was given during a drive the neighbors had one summer's day near Preston, the lawyer replied: "Oh, I remember now! But that was only my traveling opinion, and, to tell the truth, neighbor, my opinion is never to be relied upon unless the case appears in my fee book"—Case and Comment. Wood Screws. Of the many varieties of screws that known as the wood screw (from their exclusive use in wood) is the most common, and it has been made by machinery for many years. At first such screws had blunt points, and therefore it was necessary to bore a hole for their reception, but about 1850 Thomas J. Sloan, a native of the United States, devised the well known glimlet 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 Jardid. 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 morsah, 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 Falls (skeptically)—What's that? Farmer Barnes—Why, ye don't have to play if ye don't want to—London Scraps Contradictory Science. The infinitely little and infinitely vast alike baffle 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 Bobble 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. Hopeless Case. Optimist—Cheer up! There isn't a cloud on your horizon! Pessimist—That's just my lack! I'm even cheated out of the silver linings! Oh, what's the use!—Chicago News. 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 experi- enced man reflectively, "never esti- mate a woman's age by the date of her birth."—Woman's Home Companion. Anti-Air Craft Shells 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 actual 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 Siza. A curious item in the trade slang of hostlers 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, 84 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 hostlers, 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 Talier. Brummel's Friendst Wardrobe 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 boarding. 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 Superstition: A Geographical Superstition. Durazzo owes its name to superstition, for it was originally called Epli damnus up to the time of its capture by the Romans, 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 "loss"—London Standard. "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 Described. "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. Bilton. PAGE FIVE 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 Hero. 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 180.324 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 rectal 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: "John, have you any candy?" "No, ma'am." he replied. "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."—Ladies' Home Journal. "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 bogie"—Judge. It All Depends. "Does your wife object to late dinners?" "Depends on whether it's due to my meeting a friend or her being at the matinee." - Omaha Bee. "What did old Rastus git married for?" "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. PAGE SIX Animals at Play. "That the lower animals do not laugh, that they have no sense of humor, is hard to understand when we think how thoroughly they love to play. From the highest to the humblest they show the keenest joy in sport, but they cannot laugh. If they could perhaps the power would bring with it other mental gifts, such as to upset the whole order of things. Be that as it may, the watcher of wild life never gets used to the sight of their mirthless sport, for in all other respects their play is entirely human. "A great deal of human play is serious—desperately serious on the football field and at the card table, especially when a lonely player at solitaire, for instance, is trying to 'kill time.'" "I have watched a great ungainly hippopotamus trying by the hour to do the same solemn thing—cuffing a croquet ball back and forth from one end of his cage to the other. His keepers said that without the plaything the poor caged giant would fret and worry himself to death. It was his game of solitaire."—Dallas Lore Sharp in St. Nicholas. Famous Dams. The construction of the gigantic storage wall, known as the Burrinjuck dam, the most interesting part of the New South Wales irrigation scheme, was a clever, piece of engineering work. Indeed, it ranks as one of the greatest dams in the world, both in regard to height and volume of water impounded. It is 236 feet high, 168 feet thick at the base, tapering to 18 feet at the top and some 780 feet in length. The famous dam at Assuun, on the Nile, has a total height of only 156 feet, while the great Croton and Roosevelt dams in America eclipse the Burrinjuck structure by only a few feet. It is a massive wall of concrete over thirty feet higher than the London monument. This colossal structure, however, had to be built across the bed of a river subjected to floods, in a deep gorge whose sides were so steep that it was impossible to establish workshops upon them—London Mail. Thackeray's Appetite Thackeray, telling of a dinner he enjoyed at Antwerp, said it consisted "of green pea soup, boiled salmon, mussels, crimped steak, roast meat patties, melon, carp stewed with mushrooms and onions, roast turkey, cauliflower, fillets of venison, stewed calf's ear, roast veal, roast lamb, stewed cherries, Gruyere cheese and about twenty-four cakes of different kinds. Except five, thirteen and fourteen I ate all, with three rolls of bread and a score of potatoes." Those twenty potatoes remind the reader of the dreadful disillusion of Charlotte Bronte when she came to London and sat opposite her literary Mon at dinner. "Oh, Mr. Thackeray!" she cried in shocked surprise as she watched him eat. She had never imagined a hero who ate potatoes by the score. Followed Suit. In the highlands of Scotland a chieftain is always addressed by the name of his estate. An amusing story in connection with this custom is told of Sir Frank Lockwood. On one occasion when Maclaine of Lochbule and his wife arrived at a social gathering they were announced quite correctly by the butler as "Lochbule and Mrs. Maclaine." Sir Frank and Lady Lockwood happened to arrive at the same time, and Sir Frank, having overheard the other announcement, whispered hurriedly to the butler. The man hesitated, but apparently Lockwood convinced him, for when he flung open the door to admit the Lockwoods the butler announced, "No Forty-three, Portman Square, and Lady Lockwood."—London Tit-Bits. Languages In Switzerland. There is no Swiss language as such. By the federal constitution of 1848 and 1874 French, German and Italian are formally recognized as national languages. Debates in the federal parliament may be carried on in any of these languages. All laws and federal acts appear in three versions. There is a historical dialect called the Romansch, or Latin, which is still used by some of the people, but this dialect is not recognized politically. A Matter of Weight A Matter of Weight. Mrs. Jonsing—Dis hyah new minister am a fine preachah, but he am de lean- est an skinniest young man I ebahb see. Mrs. Black—Yes, an' he done tole mah husband, what weighs two hund- ard and fo'ty, to bewar' les' he should be weighed in de balanc' an' foun' wantn'.—Puck. Tough Lodgings. Some of the cheap lodging houses in London are called "penny buc". They provide mere benches with wood- an backs. Each lodger places his arms on the back of the bench before him and then, resting his head on his arms, tries to sleep. --- Wedding Presents in the Orient. With modern Arablans the bridegroom makes the bride presents, which are sent a day or two before the nuptials. As soon as the bride reaches the bridegroom's house she makes him presents of household furniture, a spear and a tent. In Persia the bridegroom is obliged to give a certain sum of money in addition to other presents. If he is in moderate circumstances he gives his bride two complete dresses, a ring and a mirror. He also supplies the furniture, carpets, mats, culinary utensils and other necessities for their home. With the celestials the family of the bridegroom make presents to the family of the bride of various articles a few days before the day fixed for the marriage. The presents generally consist of food, a cock and hen, the leg and foot of a plg, the leg of a goat, eight small cakes of bread, eight torches, three pairs of large red candles, a quantity of vermicelli and several bunches of firecrackers. More Effective Than Cursing Babylonian tablets, declared to be the oldest writings in existence, relate how farmers of 8,000 years ago fought locusts and caterpillars in their fields. The translator avers that they called in a necromancer, who thus brought his artillery in to play: "He broke a jar, cut open a sacrifice, a word of cursing he repeated, and the locusts and caterpillars fled." It must have been a powerful "word of cursing" he repeated. Pity it is that it has been lost. These plagues have been "cussed out" good and plenty in all modern tongues, but they have calmly continued their work of crop devastation. Possibly through the centuries they gradually became hardened to such verbal warfare and declined to abdicate until the man came with the insecticide spray. Then is the time for disappearing certainly.—Breeder's Gazette. The Elderly Safety Pin. The safety pin and the hook and eye are generally supposed to be modern inventions. The former, in fact, has been credited to Queen Victoria. She may have improved upon it, but certainly she is not entitled to the distinction of having invented it. Numerous specimens of the useful contrivance have been found in the ruins of Crete. Some of them are in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, and the museum has also a hook and eye from the same place. Both the safety pins and the hook and eye now in the museum were made at least 900 hundred years before Christ. Some are made of bronze, but amber or some other material was often used on the more elaborate pins. Some were even made of finely wrought gold.-Youth's Companion. Fish Swarm In the Reservoir Of all its many descriptive epithets, ancient and modern, none has clung with more persistent tenacity than the simple, early adjective of "fishy" Bosporus. Seventy edible varieties of fish, familiar to connoisseurs, sport in its waters. Some have their permanent haunts within the stream. The most are migratory. The instinct of the seasons moves them northward or southward with the birds. The strait is their only possible highway between the Black sea and the Mediterranean, their summer and winter homes. From March until June and from August to December men, poised in the quaint perches high on plies above the water and constantly on the outlook, watch for the flash of their gliding scales.—From "Constantinople," by Dr. Edwin A. Grosvenor. Barbed Wire In the War In war barbed wire is used in various ways, but its main object is man stopping. It is interlaced with ground pegs in front of trenches for the purpose of tripping charging troops, it is strung across bridges and main roads to prevent the passage of cavalry, and it is used for fencing in camps to guard against rushing tactics on the part of the enemy. Whenever possible barbed wire entanglements are hidden in long grass or in hedges, so that advancing troops will be trapped while the enemy rake their lines with shot and shell. Barbed wire concealed in undergrowth is particularly deadly where cavalry is concerned, for the wire grips the horses' hoofs, causing them to fall on the spike strenu ground—London Times. White Animals Among the Japanese. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 28, 1915 His Magic Bank Account. His Magic Bank Account. At one time the famous author Rudyard Kipling always used to pay his bills, no matter how small they happened to be, by check. After awhile he discovered, to his amazement, that his banking account showed a much bigger balance than the counterfolls of his check book warranted. In fact, although he was drawing checks for small amounts almost daily, his money at the bank did not seem to dwindle in the least. For a long time he was at a loss to account for this astonishing fact until one day, happening to visit an office where the principal was an enthusiastic autograph collector, he saw one of his own checks framed and hanging on the wall. Then it was that the mystery was solved. It appeared that the local shopkeepers found that they could get more for Kipling's checks by selling them to autograph hunters than they could by cashing them at the bank, and thus it was that, although the author kept on drawing money, his capital remained almost stationary. The Wounded Foes. Here is a beautiful hospital story recorded by the Rev. William Sellers in his book "With Our Fighting Men." An English colonel's wife was making the round of a military ward when she noticed a wounded soldier toying with a German helmet. "Well," said she, "I suppose you killed your man?" "Well, naw." quietly responded the soldier. "You see it was like this. He lay on the field pretty near me with an awful bad wound an' bleedin' away somethin' terrible. I was losin' a lot of blood, too, fra my leg, but I managed to crawl up to him an' bound him up as well as I could, an' he did the same for me. Nawthin', o' coarse, was said between us. I knew no German an' the man it not a word o' English, so when he'd dun, not seen' hoo else taek him, I just smiled an' by way o' token handed him my Glenarry, an' he smiled back an' giv' me his helmet." Airsickness and Aviators. The budding aviator is not prone to seasickness. Airsickness undoubtedly does sometimes trouble pilots of the bad sailor variety during long and stormy voyages, when the machine rocks and pitches to excess, but it is comparatively rare and generally means the flier is exhausted or out of condition. The airsickness that is akin to mountain sickness only makes its appearance at heights very unusually attained by flying machines. In the matter of the "controls" these are now more or less uniform and standardized, to the great advantage of the beginner, who, apart from being relieved of the necessity of learning many different systems, is called on by the system now employed to do in flight just that which his natural instinct would suggest.—Westminster Gazette. Ascension Island. The island of Ascension, in the Atlantic, belonging to Great Britain, is one of the most unique places in the world, in that there is no private property in land, no rents, no taxes and no use for money. The flocks and herds are public property, and the meat is issued as rations. So are the vegetables grown on the farms. When an island fisherman makes a catch he brings it to the guardroom, where it is issued by the sergeant major. Practically the entire population are sailors, and they work at most of the common trades. The climate is almost perfect, and anything can be grown. The island is 8 miles by 6 in size and has a population of about 450. It is 250 miles northward of St. Helena and is governed by a captain appointed by the British navy. Our Elastic Arteries Our arteries are constructed to withstand enormous pressure from the blood that courses through them, and they naturally possess very great elasticity. However much the blood pressure is increased by rapid heart action, a perfectly healthy artery does not give way, but stretches as the blood is forced through, and then regains its proper size. As old age approaches the arteries begin to lose elasticity and grow more rigid. On Second Thought. "Those men for whom you failed to get government positions were rather indignant." "Only for a little while," replied Senator Sorghum. "Since they found how much more they can make in private employment they're honestly grateful." —Washington Star. The fiber of manila hemp varies in length from six to twelve feet and occasionally attains a length of eighteen feet. It is said to possess greater tensile strength than any other fiber known. In True Proportion He (rapturously)—Miss Sweetthing dances as lightly as the ocean foam. She (sweetly)—Indeed she does, and her head is just as light as her heels.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. your father's condition?" "He says he ought to be well enough tomorrow to start kicking again."—Detroit Free Press. Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect—La Bruyere. Work of the Ground Mole Work of the Ground Mole There is a popular belief that the ground mole is a destructive animal. Like many popular beliefs this cannot be substantiated by facts. Ground moles do not feed upon roots and are not destructive. The ground mole is a subterranean animal. It builds its nest, rears its young and hunts its prey beneath the earth. It is well adapted to its subterranean life, the shape of its body being cylindrical, gradually tapering to a point at the extremity of its nose. Ground moles visit only those localities where the earth is infested with insect life. Where they are numerous the ground is interlaced with "runs" or passageways that lead from one feeding ground to another. These little animals deserve protection because they prey upon all kinds of underground insects, among which are the larvae of some of the most injurious insects which pass their pupa or chrysalis stage beneath the earth.—Country Life In America. The Remedy For Anger The greatest remedy for anger is delay; beg anger to grant you this at the first, not in order that it may pardon the offense, but that it may form a right judgment about it; if it delays it will come to an end. Do not attempt to quell it all at once, for its first impulses are fierce; by plucking away its parts we shall remove the whole. We are made angry by some things which we learn at second hand and by some things which we ourselves hear or see. Now, we ought to be slow to believe what is told us. * * * If you were about to give sentence in court about ever so small a sum of money you would take nothing as proved without a witness, and a witness would count for nothing except on his cath. You would allow both sides to be heard; you would allow them time.—Seneca. Fire In a Cotton Bale. Kerosene oil has been used successfully to extinguish fire in baled cotton. A cotton bale is subjected to a very heavy pressure. Water will penetrate it but an inch or so, whereas kerosene will go clear to the center. A fire in a cotton bale does not blaze, but simply smolders and eats its way into the bale. At the comparatively low temperature at which cotton burns, and where there is no flame, kerosene does not ignite, but smothers or extinguishes the slow, creeping fire. After the fire is extinguished the bands are removed from the bale and burned portions of the cotton stripped off. It is said that the use of kerosene has practically no detrimental effect on the cotton, and after it has been spread out and nired for a few days all odor of the oil disappears.—Argonaut. Colored Evidence A well known lawyer was trying to make clear to a legal student the significance of the term "colored evidence," meaning that evidence which has been tampered with. "The best illustration I can think of came within my observation not long ago," said the lawyer. "A physician had said to a fair patient: "Madam, you are a little run down. You need frequent baths and plenty of fresh air. and I advise you to dress in the coolest, most comfortable clothes; nothing stiff or formal." "When the lady got home this is how she rendered to her husband the advice given to her by the doctor: "He says I must go to the seashore, do plenty of motoring and get some new summer gowns." — New York Times. Obsolete Trade Names Some obsolete names of trades survive as surnames—e. g., Webster, Lister, Walker. In the fourteenth century the weaver was known as "the webster," the dyer was "the lyster" and the workman who trod the cloth in the dye vat was "the walker." The arkwright made the arks or chests in which clothes or meal were stored, and the smith was frequently dubbed "the faber." this later being one of the rare cases in which the Latin translation of a craft has become a common surname. When the cotteler had forged an edged tool the blomer finished it off or put the bloom on; the chapman traveled with goods from door to door and the coke baked cakes and sold them—London Tatler. The Pace. The rhinoceros surveyed the world complacently. "After all, I set the pace in a manner of speaking," goeth he. "Well, it's a fact," the rhinoceros insisted. "Tell me, please, where would civilization be if it were not for men with blides like mine?"—Boston Journal. Two Rivers. One of the most sharply defined watersheds on this continent lies on the Minnesota - South Dakota boundary. From Lake Traverse the Red River of the North flows to the arctic, while from Big Stone lake, immediately adjacent, the Minnesota river finds its way into the Mississippi—Argonaut. A Mean Retort. Bertha—I'm sorry you asked me to marry you. It pains me to refuse. Will (cheerfully)—Oh, don't worry! Perhaps you know best what I'm escaping. Morris and Red Lion Mary. It is a pity that more domestic servants have not taken to authorship, for some of them could have written most entertaining reminiscences. Foremost among these stands Red Lion Mary, who looked after Burne-Jones and William Morris when they shared a studio at 17 Red Lion square. We are told that one morning after breakfast Morris came out on the landing and roared downstairs: "Mary, those six eggs were bad. I've eaten them, but don't let it occur again." Morris was in the habit of lunching daily off roast beef and plum pudding, no matter at what season of the year, records F. M. Hueffer, not a domestic servant, and he liked his puddings large. "Do you call that a pudding, Mary?" he shouted when served with one about the size of a breakfast cup, and, having added some appropriate objurgations, he hurled it at her. This anecdote should not be taken to evidence settled brutality on his part. Red Lion Mary was one of his loyal supporters to the end of her days.—London Chronicle. First Great American Painter The first portrait painter of the United States to win general fame was Thomas Sully, who was born in 1783. One of the first celebrated American historical paintings, "Washington Crossing the Delaware," was the product of his genius. Sully established himself in Richmond as a portrait painter in 1803, but soon removed to New York and in 1810 to Philadelphia, which city was afterward his home. In addition to "Washington Crossing the Delaware," his famous historical paintings include "The Capture of Major Andre" and "Miranda." As a portrait painter his most notable subjects were Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, James Madison, John Marshall, Fanny Kemble and Queen Victoria. He visited England to paint the girl queen in her coronation robes. Sully lived to an advanced age, dying in Philadelphia in 1872. Lowering the Topmast. Lord Chelmsford once related that a friend of his at the bar was engaged in a nautical case, in which it appeared that a vessel, in a severe gale of wind, had been thrown upon her beam ends. The barrister, who appears to have had a smattering of nautical matters, asked a sailor who was in the witness box how it was they did not lower the topmast, upon which the witness replied, with a sneer, "If you knew as much of the sea as I do you would know that that is not an easy matter in a gale of wind." This incident led the counsel to turn his attention to the subject, in consequence of which he invented an apparatus for lowering topmasts, for which he obtained a patent and earned upward of £20,000 by his invention. — London Globe The Tragedy of Old Age That tragedy of the old—the being laid aside from life before the spirit is ready to resign; the feeling that no one wants you; that all those you have borne and brought up have long passed out on to roads where you cannot follow; that even the thought life of the world streams by so fast that you lie up in a back water, feebly, blindly groping for the full of the water and always pushed gently, hopelessly back; that sense that you are still young and warm and yet so furbelowed with old thoughts and fashions that none can see how young and warm you are, none see how you long to rub hearts with the active, how you yearn for something real to do that can help life on and how no one will give it you. John Galsworthy in Scribner's. Human Frailty. Let a bishop appear and members of his church will be preached a great sermon. The appreciation is for the man's reputation and position. Thousands of books actually worthless receive what is called appreciation because they are written by noted men, printed by noted publishers. You laugh at the jokes of a clown, but you would not smile at the same nonsense offered by a neighbor. How the children laugh at the teacher's jokes! How an agent laughs at your jokes when he thinks he has you in a buying humor! We are actually honest about nothing.—E. W. Howe's Monthly. A Four Story Drop Ritter, the Swiss writer, as we learn from his "Letters," went so wild over George Eliot's works that he learned English in order to read her in the original. Subsequently he read her biography by Cross and wrote, "I had the sensation of falling from a fourth story window into the street" The man glanced at the clock. It was verging on the hour of midnight. He sighed and was silent—Boston Journal. "How are you getting along, Jones, since you got married? Saving any money?" "Yes, but for heaven's sake don't tell my wife."-Exchange. As Shakespeare Said "Sweet Will Shakespeare's" influence is still with us, and many of the phrases which he used have become part of our language. Among these phrases are "Bag and baggage," "dead as a doorrail," "hit or miss," "love is blind," "selling for a song," "wide world," "fast and loose," "unconsidered trifles," "westward hot," "familiarity breeds contempt," "patching up excuses," "milsery makes strange bedfellows," "to boot," "short and long of it," "dancing attendance," "getting even," "birds of a feather," "Greek to me," "that's flat," "packing a jury," "mother witt," "killed with kindness," "mum" for silent, "ill wind that blows no good," "wild goose chase," "scare crowns," "row of pins," "vice," "give and take," "sold," "your cake is dough." Shakespeare was the first author to use the words "man in the moon" or mention the potato or use the term "eyesore" for annoyance. In a Japanese School In "A Wanderer's Trail" A. L. Rodger, the author, says: "In Tokyo I gained my living as an English teacher. This task of teaching English in Japan is not a very difficult one. It is, however, a rather tough occupation. The one qualification necessary is tact. Discipline in Japanese schools is very lax. It is no exaggeration to say that the student virtually rules the school. His power is ridiculously great. Should a class dislike a teacher they either boycott him or they boldly proceed en masse to the school authorities and demand his dismissal. And the almost inevitable result is the teacher's dismissal! To the authorities the only warranty of the efficiency of a teacher is a full classroom. Needless to mention, I was an efficient, for my class room was always full. That is why I say the only qualification needed was tacet." Wonderful Linen Branches A. O. Bunnell of Dansville has in his possession a petition which was circulated in his village in 1878 and signed by well known people, remarks the Utica Press. The petition appeals to a prominent citizen to wear his linen breeches. It seems that this gentleman had a pair of linen breeches, and every time he wore them rain fell. In 1878 there was a long continued drought in Dansville and thereabouts, and the citizens decided to appeal to Matthew McCartney to wear his linen breeches "in order that the parched up earth, low streams, dry wells and cisterns may be replenished with a bountiful supply of water." Mr. McCartney graciously consented to don his linen breeches, and on the original paper in Mr. Bunnell's possession is this endorsement: "Rain commenced falling the same night." Saluting the Quarter Decks In response to an inquiry as to why officers and men of the navy "salute the deck" and civilians remove their hats when going aboard a naval vessel it may be said that, though commonly called a "salute to the deck," the salute in question is really a salute to the flag. For instance, at night on reaching the quarter deck or upon leaving it no salute is required, as the flag is, of course, not flying. The fact that this salute is rendered upon reaching the quarter deck from below or when coming on board and upon leaving the quarter deck, as when leaving the ship, is probably responsible for its having been known as a salute to the deck; but, as has been stated, it is really a salute to the flag. Men should when rendering it stop, stand erect and face the flag—Philadelphia Press. Stevenson's Cheerfulness "I shall never forget Mr. Stevenson," said a captain who commanded a ship on which Robert Louis Stevenson sailed. "The ship had broken her shaft and was delayed. He cheered everybody up by telling funny stories that were better coming offhand from his lips than most literary men could write if they worked over them for weeks. He knew, too, that it was only a question of a short time before he would die of consumption and that he could never again go home for more than a brief visit. It was simply wonderful what a difference that one man made among the passengers, and I guess almost all of us would gladly spend the time to make port under sail, with machinery disabled, if we could have a Stevenson aboard." Sprucee was Noncommittal. The Rev. W. Williams, in his "Personal Reminiscences of C. H. Spurgeon," tells an anecdote concerning the great preacher as a smoker. Some gentleman wrote to Mr. Spurgeon, saying: "He had heard he smoked and could not believe it was true. Would Mr. Spurgeon write and tell if it really was so?" The reply was sent as follows: "Dear —, I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds. Yours truly, C. H. Spurgeon." Making It Clear. "Now, my good man, before we start out in your machine let us understand each other perfectly." "Well, what is it?" "I am not desirous of seeing how fast you can drive this car; it is the scenery I wish to see."—Detroit Free Press. Elevating. Wigg—The man who loves a woman can't help being elevated. Wagg—and the man who loves more than one is apt to be sent up too.—Philadelphia Record. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is goillike.—Mann. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. OPEN one with US. 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A Museum's Worst Enemy: A Museum's Worst Enemy One of the worst enemies curators of museums have to contend with is a tiny beetle, which works so neatly that there is no evidence of its woeful work until the specimen is found dismembered or otherwise ruined. Neither in America or England has any effectual remedy been found. The tiny mischief worker is the Anthrenus museorum. The adult measures only or even less than one-eighth of an inch in length and is convex in form. The female lays eggs in specimens, and the larvae feed on them—the valued butterfly and the magnificent beetle—brought from afar. These larvae are small, plump, halry grubs, and the sole sign of their presence, likely to be overlooked by the amateur, is a few specks of brown dust in the case—Scientific American. Next Door to It. 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Street, Chicago :-- Automatic 72-185 hero & Co. Estate Chicago, Ill. A Disusted Lover. When James IV. of Scotland went to London to propose for the hand of Margaret, the daughter of Henry VII., he was somewhat disgusted to find her at their first meeting so busily engaged in a game of cards that she was scarcely able to give him any attention. A. Germ Crank The Author (describing his play)— And then the villain is made to bite the dust. The Lady—How very insanitary!—Boston Transcript. For all the disorders of the tongue the remedy must begin in the heart. Not For Her. "I don't see how you can tolerate that man." "Oh, but he is a foreign nobleman, my dear!" "I don't care," said the other girl. "I'll be jiggered if I'd marry a man who does his courting with a bored air."—Louisville Courter-Journal. Enthusiastic Aviator (after long explanation of principle and workings of his biplane)—Now you understand it, don't you? Young Lady—All but one thing. Aviator—and that is? Young Lady—What makes it stay up?—New York Times. Madge-Why don't you tell him frankly that you don't like him as well as you do Charlie? Marjorie—How can I dear? I'm not just sure that Charlie will propose.-Judge. The Curious Pair. Mrs. Rubba-I wonder why that woman keeps watching me so? Mr. Rubba-Perhaps she's trying to find out why you are staring at her—Philadelphia Press. Baking Observatory It is believed that the observatory at Peking is the oldest in the world, having been founded in 1279 by Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Mogul dynasty. Covent Garden. Covent garden, London's greatest vegetable and fruit market, was once a convent garden owned by the monks of Westminster. A Detail. Business. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 28, 1915 At Balaklava. The total Russian forces, infantry, cavalry and artillery, at Balaklava has been variously estimated at from 30,000 to 50,000 men, while the English force was much smaller in numbers. The two famous charges of that day were that of the heavy brigade of about 900 men against 3,000 Russians and the still more renowned charge of the light brigade of about 600 men against the Russian guns. No accurate figures seem to be recorded, as those given by various authorities differ greatly. The result of the first charge was the break of the Russian cavalry, which fled back to the protection of their artillery and were not pursued very far by the British. The second charge was unsuccessful as a military measure, for, though the Russian gunners were momentarily driven from their guns, they returned and fired upon friend and foe alike, while a superior force of cavalry engaged the British. It is said that evening parade saw only ten men mounted out of the 600 who had ridden in the charge. Sights In Italian Cities Genoa and Rome are the most beautifully lighted cities in Europe because their streets are narrow enough to allow of the slinging of white electric globes across from house to house. There are no disfiguring lampposts, but at intervals down the middle of the street swing the globes of light of the tint of moonlight. Venice, on the contrary, is terribly overlighted and glitters distressingly and inappropriately. Ruskin complained that the gas in the great plaza had grown so dazzling in his day that walking or sitting there he could no longer see moon or stars. What would he have thought of the horrid exaggeration of the clusters of electric lights? Without being a Ruskin one longed to switch off nine out of every ten.—London Globe. How Very Annoying! Just as the young man raised his hat in response to a bow and a smile from the beautiful girl who was passing by his foot struck a banana peel and flew out from under him. He landed on the back of his neck, his hat flying in one direction and his cane in another. "Are you hurt?" asked a friendly policeman as the victim of the accident sat up and began to swear volubly. "Hurt!" he exclaimed. "No, I'm not hurt. I was dore sore; that's what I am. That bonehead camera man across the street forgot to turn the crank, and now I've got to do that fall all over again." Then the policeman realized that he had been privileged to see a moving picture comedy in the making. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Putting Off. When the ship Central America sprung aleak in midcocean a steamer, seeing her signal, drew near and asked, "What is amiss?" "We are in bad repair. Lie by till morning," was the answer. "Better let me take your passengers on board now." "No," said the captain; "lie by till morning." In an hour the lights of the ill filled steamer were not visible. She had gone down, and all had perished. Mr. Moody once closed a meeting in Chicago, saying, "Think this matter over till next Sunday." On their way home from church that evening a light suddenly flashed across the sky. It was the beginning of the great Chicago fire. That congregation never assembled again—Christian Herald. Hurrying Up Melancholy Aunt Clara from the country had the habit of listening to the big clock on the town hall in the village where she was visiting and exclaiming every time it struck: "Eternity draws one hour nearer." Clarence was very much impressed with that solemn reflection. One day the big clock got out of order. While repairing it the workmen made it strike every few minutes. Clarence heard it with bulging eyes. "Oh, Aunt Clara," he said excitedly, "eternity has got a move on today!"—New York Times. His Excuse. Justice of Peace—Your wife says you struck her. Have you any excuse to offer, uncle? The Prisoner—Ah suttinly has, jedge. While I wuz prayin' fo' rain fo' mah gyardin she starts in prayin' fo' fair wedder 'case she was gwine to wash.—Boston Journal. Swiss Cowbells The cowbells used in Switzerland have a peculiar sound, rather mournful in its droning prolongation. It has been discovered that tigers fear it and run when they hear it. Therefore Swiss cowbells have been introduced into the Himalayas as a protection for cattle. Her Little Joke "Henry," she exclaimed as he came home to dinner, "I heard something early this morning that opened my eyes." "What was it?" he demanded excitedly. "What's your idea of luck?" "Well, I've noticed that the fellow who works most of the time to earn his way seems to get what luck there is about."—Detroit Free Press. He Might Shrink. Mother—I've just washed a jacket for my little boy, and now it is too short. New Maid—Well, wash the boy. It is right to be contented with what we have, but not with what we are. All Money Good in Canada. There is no place in the world where money is under less supervision than in Canada. The coins in circulation there are not confined to the Dominion. British halfpennies and pennies circulate as freely as the cents, and United States coins of all descriptions are accepted as equal in value to the Canadian coins, though the United States refuses to handle the coins of the Dominion on its own side of the border. In the course of a busy day in Canada you are not surprised to meet collage of many nations. Sometimes you get finds. A correspondent who is an amateur coin collector tells me he got among his change a beautiful specimen of a farthing of the reign of George III, and an hour or two afterward he became the possessor of an old Irish halfpenny over 100 years old with the harp on one side. Probably these two coins had been carefully preserved, but poverty induced the proprietors to part with them.—London Chronicle. Then There Was a Shakeup. Some years ago the Italian minister of foreign affairs, Signor Prinetti, asked his majesty King Victor Emmanuel to sign a decree for the augmentation of the staff of the foreign office. The king promised to think the matter over and the next morning set out alone on foot to pay a visit to the office. Arriving at 9 o'clock, he found no one there. A long search unearthed a solitary clerk who was smoking cigarettes. "What are the hours of this office?" asked the king. "From 8 to 12." was the reply. "And when may I expect to see your colleagues?" "They generally turn up about 11." "Very well. When your chief comes tell him the king has been here." And then his majesty sent for Signor Prinetti and suggested that instead of asking for more clerks he should make it his business to see that those already on the staff attended to their duties. The Inquisitive Japs. The Japanese have a lively desire to know all about you. They are actively interested in your health, your business, your habits, your wealth, your personal affairs, how you like your eggs for breakfast, what your clothes cost, where you are going, when you are going and why you are going; what you intend to do after you get there, what your excuse for existing is, how often you get your hair cut, how many children you have or have not and why, what your watch cost, who is your tailor, how often you wash your teeth, how much you owe, whether you have any birthmarks and what was the occupation of your grandfather. These and all other topics that are personal to you they are anxious to discover. Their curiosity is unbounded; but, my sakes, how polite they are about it!-Samuel G. Blythe in Saturday Evening Post. Hunting Trouble. When a man just naturally wants trouble it is mighty easy to find an excuse for making it. According to Mike Hogan, Casey and O'Brien were having a personal argument of their own. It had progressed to the extent that each had forgotten what it was about originally, and they were wholly oblivious of the gathering crowd until an urbane and genteel person in a frock coat put in. "Come, come, my man," he said, gently plucking Casey by the sleeve. "You don't want to fight. I can tell it by your looks. Your face is too benign"—"Two be nine! Two be nine, is ut, ye scut?" bellowed Casey. "Me face is two be nine, is ut?" And there was where the real trouble began—Louisville Times. Longinas. A well known essayist and connoisseur of New York attended recently an artistic tea in Washington square. Near artists of all sorts—near poets, near sculptors, near painters and near novelists—attended the tea. The ladies wore djibbahs of green burlap. The gentlemen wore sandals. The collation was vegetarian. Looking calmly at that mass of freaks, he said, with a smile: "Artistic longings consist invariably, it seems, of long hair, long teeth and long faces--everything but long purses, in fact."-Washington Star. Trenches In War The Romans, who were the first to make war a real art (if one forgets a certain Alexander), were in consequence the first to use trenches. Their main line of intrenchment ran across southern Germany from the east bank of the Rhine to near the present Stuttgart. Cynical. "But be sure you're right," exclaimed the confident philosopher, "and then go ahead." "Be sure you're right," protested the married man, "and then get down on your kn^s and ask to be forgiven."—Puck. "It looks more like I was doing this for exercise and not under compulsion"—Kansas City Journal. THE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY !BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES Boys! Do you want this dandy BICYCLE? No Money Needed This is not a Prize Contest. 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JONES' PLACE and most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South Class Entertainers. NAN" JONES, Proprietor. Automatic 73-277 TONE HOTEL ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY STATE STREET Pros. CHICAGO DOUGLAS 8971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 Elite Cafe D BUFFET STREET CHICAGO AUTOMATIC 72-588 CAFE AND BUFFET 0 p. m. to 1:00 a. m. every evening CAFE UP-STAIRS T. CHICAGO THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 28, 1915 THE BROAD AX CAN BE POUND ON SALE AT THE POLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. B. Jones, magazines, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 248 E. 35th St. N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, notion store and news stand, 5012 S. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, S. E. corner 51st and State streets. L. E. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 51 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St. near State. E. H. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, bacce, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. SHORT AND SHARP Some men do no wrong and little that is right. The man who tries to get a hurry usually stubs his toe. Unfortunately, the safety first ment cannot be made retroactive. There is nothing wrong in slave to habits—if they are good. Much unnecessary trouble is no persons who always say just what think. The riskiness of being preside Haiti suffers no abatement as the roll on. Always let the other fellow the getting excited; thus you have advantage. The man who is stuck on the seldom sees very much that is other people. A good many real nice men will play murderous instincts when firing time. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St., near State. Sylvester McGlofin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shee shining parlors and news stand. 3800½ State street. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3805 State street. Karlsruhe's First Family. Sleepy Karirrueh is amusingly depicted by Sir Horace Rumbold, who passed a dull part of his diplomatic career there. He found Karirrueh society entirely composed of half a dozen families of long descent and small means, who had intermarried for generations. Whoever was not a Gemmingen was a Hardenberg or a Duerckheim or an Amerongen. Talleyrand had a tale of his first visit to the Karirrueh theater. "Who is that lady in the third box on the first tier?" "That is a Gemmingen," said the young native who accompanied him. "And that general in the stalls?" "Also a Gemmingen." At last Talleyrand exclaimed, "Why, you all seem to be Gemmingens!" "Yes," said the youth in German-French, "but all are not good Gemmingens. I am a good Gemmingen-Gemmingen-Gemmingen-Gutenberg!"—London Standard. Ben Franklin's Chair. In his old age Benjamin Franklin's health failed him to a considerable extent. He suffered from gout and the stone, which, with complications, eventually carried him off. But he was always exceedingly cheerful, even when suffering, and, as one of his friends has recorded, "full of anecdotes and learning." Even at this time in his life he added to the already extensive list of his inventions, contriving among other things a most curious chair which, when desired, could be converted into a stepladder for the purpose of reaching the higher shelves in a library. As far as known, only one of these chairs was ever actually constructed for his own particular use, and this is owned at present by the Philosophical society of Philadelphia. Rain. There are so many things worse than rain that we refuse to fret about it. If we had the toothache every other day for two months straight we might growl. If an amateur cornetist lived next door and practiced regularly we should complain; if bills were sent in once a week instead of once a month; if bores never went home; if all friend-ship were mercenary and false in adversity; if sickness visited us offence; and stayed longer than health; if malicious people were many and the kind few we might justifiably be miserable and remain so. But so long as so many worse things that could be don't arrive it can rain every day if it wants to. Most of our joy is weather proof.—Detroit Free Press. Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus was the founder of modern astronomy. He was born in Poland in 1478. His father was a Pole, and his mother was a German. He went to the university at Cracow, where he studied medicine, theology, mathematics and astronomy. Later he devoted his whole attention to astronomy and developed the "Copernican" system, which is the one now universally accepted. It regards the sun as the center of the solar system and the planet, of which the earth is one, as revolving around it, while around the majority of these primary, one or more secondary orbs, known as moons, revolve. The first stars are regarded as suns, each with its own planetary system. Some men do no wrong and yet do little that is right. The man who tries to get rich in a hurry usually stubs his toe. Unfortunately, the safety first movement cannot be made retroactive. There is nothing wrong in being a slave to habits—if they are good habits. Much unnecessary trouble is made by persons who always say just what they think. The riskiness of being president of Haiti suffers no abatement as the years roll on. Always let the other fellow do all the getting excited; thus you hold the advantage. The man who is stuck on himself seldom sees very much that is good in other people. A good many real nice men will display murderous instincts when it comes to killing time. Many a fellow gets the reputation of being fast when his creditors think he is mighty slow. By the time many a fellow arrives at a conclusion he is so tired he never gets away from it. There isn't much use in telling a girl you would die for her unless you carry a pretty heavy life insurance. Don't grumble at the man who talks exclusively about himself. Some people do worse when they talk about others. An interesting question may arise as to what the United States is going to do with all the gold that European nations keep putting out. Over in Spain they are said to be boarding gold. Spain is pretty old to take up the savings habit, but it's never too late to economize. Town Topics. Jersey City's population of 270,000 is only another brigade of New York's great army.-Boston Herald. Milwaukee has emancipated itself from the cabaret, preferring to take its nourishment in comparative peace.-Chicago News. The greater Baltimore means a greater Maryland, for the city is the heart of the state, and as one beats the other will grow.-Baltimore American. Newspaper alarmists assert Philadelphia is practically without defenses, but what nation would be so foolish as to bombard such a quiet place?-Albany Knickerbocker Press. Dress Hints. When pressing tucks in crepe de chine, thin silks and such materials be sure to use tissue paper between it and the iron, as scorching is easy. Don't wear brilliant colors if you have red hair and brightly colored cheeks. You will look far better in certain shades of brown, in navy blue and in light colors for evening White and black will also be good choices. If buttons tear away on woolens, try sewing them on with a small linen button on the under side. The needle may readily be passed through both buttons at the same time. Buttons sewed on this way look well, no matter what the garment. Household Helps. If you wish to place a dish directly on the ice put a rubber ring under it to keep it from slipping. The brush should be removed from the carpet sweeper once in awhile and thoroughly cleaned and scalded. Cakes should not be placed in a cold place or at an open window to cool. The steam will condense and make them heavy. Wear loose chamois gloves for all dirty work whenever possible and occasionally sprinkle a little flour inside, as this prevents the heat from harming the skin. Train and Track. Australia has 18,331 miles of government railways. As a rule, one mile of railway in Great Britain takes 270 tons of rails. Photographic means have been invented for measuring the blows dealt by flat car wheels to tracks under various conditions. Railway extension work is at present practically paralyzed in Argentina, but there are hopes that a bill authorising a branch line from Santa Fe to Puerto Reconquista will be introduced at the next legislative session. Three Reels. The motion picture business is rated as the fifth largest industry of the United States. This includes merely the making of the films. A moving picture machine, built to prevent delays, has three reels mounted side by side, and as the end of one is reached the other is thrown into action. It has been estimated that nearly 300,000,000 feet, or more than 55,000 miles, of film are used up yearly to satisfy the world's demand for moving pictures. "A STORE FOR EVERYBODY" HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Everything to eat, to wear and for the home. Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. Make it a point to visit this store every day and take advantage of the special bargain offerings that we give in all departments. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. 'Phone Randolph 803 Phones Douglas 8653 Auto. 74-292 The Brunswick Hotel & Buffet 3004 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO LINCOLN Plan) GEO. W. HOLT, Proprietor HOTEL LIN (American or European Plan) TEL LINCO American or European Plan) UNDER! HOTEL LINCOLN HOPE LANCASTER ESTABLISHED 1877 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR A FRANK DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL TY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. OAL RETAIL and ARMOUR AVENUE St. and L. S.|& M. S. ARMOUR AVE. FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. DUNN CHICAGO BLOCKI, Prec. F. W. BLOCKI, Treas. JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCKI, Treas. JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO C. E. Kreyssler, Druggist 5057 S. 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