The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann Seems to Have Some of The Members of the Illinois State Commission on the Dead Run, For They Are Anxious to Have Him Resume His Duties As Its Secretary; They Are Unable to Draw Funds Out of the Bank Without His Signature to the Checks COL. SWANN CONTENDS THAT HE HAS BEEN ON THE SQUARE ALL THE TIME; THAT HE HAS HAD A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE GOOD; THAT THE BROAD AX WAS SO HOT AFTER HIM THAT HE HAD NO CHANCE OF GETTING AWAY WITH ANY MONEY OR ANYTHING ELSE OF ANY VALUE. THAT WITH VOUCHERS PROPERLY ENDORSED OR SIGNED UP HE CAN ACCOUNT FOR ALL THE MONEY WHICH HE HAS EXPENDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMISSION AND WILL DO SO AT THE PROPER TIME. THE REV. HON. A. J. CAREY, PH. D. D. D., IN ORDER TO PROVE THAT HE IS ONE OF THE MOST EXPERT DOUBLE CROSSERS IN THIS COUNTRY VOTED TO REMOVE HIS CHUM, COL. SWANN, FROM THE COMMISSION. IN THE NEAR FUTURE SOMETHING MIGHTY HEAVY MAY DROP ON THE HEAD OF THE POLITICAL PREACHER. IN SPITE OF THE WRANGLING AND FIGHTING AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, BEEMINGLY, THE EXPOSITION AND THE FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM AND LINCOLN JURILEE CELEBRATION WILL PROVE A SUCCESS. THE BIOT AND WILD SCENES PREVAILED IN THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. ON THURSDAY MANY POLICEMEN WERE STATIONED IN THE FIRST REGIMENT ARMORY TO PREVENT THE BRETHREN FROM CLUTCHING EACH OTHER BY THE THROATS. THE WARRING FACTIONS RUSHED INTO CHIEF JUSTICE PREDERICK A. SMITH'S COURT, WHERE AN INJUNCTION WAS OBTAINED TO PREVENT REV. E. C. MORRIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CONVENTION TO HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER TO DO WITH ITS PROCEEDINGS. HONS. F. L. BARNETT, W. L. MARTIN, S. A. T. WATKINS AND HENEY M. PORTER REPRESENTED REV. MORRIS AND HIS FOLLOWERS. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE HONS. B. P. MOSELEY, WILLIAM G. ANDERSON AND P. W. HOWARD OF VICKSBURG, MISS., REPRESENTED REV. E. P. JONES AND HIS ADHERENTS, WHO CLAIMED THAT HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE CONVENTION. SHORTLY AFTER THREE O'CLOCK JUSTICE SMITH DESOLVED THE INJUNCTION IN THE MIDST OF THE GREATEST EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION IN HIS COURT ROOM. THE JUDGE AND HIS BAILIFFS GAVE UP THE ATTEMPT TO RESTORE ORDER AND QUIET THE SHOUTING AND FIGHTING PREachers. FINALLY REV. MYRON ADAMS, PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF THIS CITY, 31st STREET AND SOUTH PARK AVENUE, SUCCEEDED IN QUIETING THEM DOWN AFTER HE HAD TALKED TO THEM STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER, AND IT WAS DECIDED TO PERMIT HIM AND JUSTICE SMITH TO SETTLE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WARRING PACIIONS WITHOUT THE AID OF THE LAWYERS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, THE NOTED WIZARD OF TUSKEGEE, ALA., ADDRESSED THE CONVENTION LAST EVENING. Vol. XX. The Hon. The Deadly His D Fund Check COL. SWANN CONTENDS THAT HE THE TIME; THAT HE HAS MAKE GOOD; THAT THE BROAD HE HAD NO CHANCE OF GET ANYTHING ELSE OF ANY VA THAT WITH VOUCHERS PROPERLY ACCOUNT FOR ALL THE MOST CONNECTION WITH THE COMPROPER TIME. THE REV. HON. A. J. CAREY, PH. HE IS ONE OF THE MOST COUNTRY VOTED TO REMOVE COMMISSION, IN THE NEAR MAY DROP ON THE HEAD OF IN SPITE OF THE WRANGLING AGE OF THE COMMISSION, SEEM FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM AND WILL PROVE A SUCCESS. THE RIOT AND WILD SCENES PRESIST CONVENTION WEDNESDAY, MANY POLICEMEN WERE STARRY TO PREVENT THE OTHER BY THE THROATS. THE WARRING FACIIONS RUSHE A. SMITH'S COURT, WHERE A PREVENT REV. E. C. MORRIS TO HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER. HONS. F. L. BARNETT, W. L. MARSH M. PORTER REPRESENTED R ON THE OTHER HAND, THE HONS. SON AND P. W. HOWARD OF REV. E. P. JONES AND HIS ADWAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SHORTLY AFTER THREE O'CLOCK INJUNCTION IN THE MIDST OF CONFUSION IN THE COURT BOGAVE UP THE ATTEMPT TO SHOUTING AND FIGHTING PET ADAMS, PASTOR OF THE FIRE 31st STREET AND SOUTH PARKING THEM DOWN AFTER HE FROM THE SHOULDER, AND AND JUSTICE SMITH TO SET THE WARRING FACIIONS WITH BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, THE NO ADDRESSED THE CONVENTION The members of the Illinois State Commission have been for the past week fighting and agoing on among themselves like unto a pack of old wet hens and they are more than distrustful of each other and while they were in that frame of mind they engaged two fly-cops to stand guard around the headquarters of the exposition and it is said that those two fly-cops were instructed to grab or very softly lay their hands on the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann if he attempted to break into the meeting of the commission and it appears that some of the commission were in favor of seizing him and rushing him off to some mad house and failing in that attempt they made up their minds that the next best thing to do was to unhorse him to the secretary of the commission and that feat was skillfully accomplished before any one had time to count one, two, three. Not long afterwards it flashed across their minds that they had made a grave mistake for Bishop Samuel Fallows and no one else connected with the commission can draw one dollar from the bank without the signature of the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann to the checks demanding the money and from that very hour to the present time the commissioners have been more than willing to have him to resume his duties so as to enable them to feel and han- die the money for they are all money mad, but so for he still holds aloof from them and he feels that he has some of the commissioners on the dead run. It is contended by some of the friends and supporters of Col. Swann that he has been on the square all the time, that he fully realized that he had the golden opportunity to make good that the writer was so hot after him that he had no chance of even attempting to get away with any money or with anything else of any value; that being armed with vouchers properly endorsed or signed up he can account for all the money which he has expended in connection with the commission and that he will do so at the proper time. Col. Swann has spent much of his time the past four or five years in cussing out those who have failed to fall down and worship at the feet of the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D., and to repay or reward him for his trouble in that respect the expert double-crossing political preacher voted to remove his chum Col. Swann from the commission. In the near future something mighty heavy may fall or drop on the head of the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. In spite of the wrangling and cross-firing among the commissioners, seem ingly, the exposition and the fifty years of freedom and the Lincoln celebration will prove a success. The delegates attending the National Baptist Convention struck town on Monday and Tuesday many of them with bad blood in their eyes and some of them felt that some one was endeavoring to run over them and that the only way to prevent them from doing so would be to start a riot, and Wednesday and Thursday so much disorder and so many wild scenes were enacted that many policemen were stationed in the 1st Regiment Armory to prevent the brethren from clutching each other by the throats and thereby bring everlasting disgrace upon the whole shooting-match. Most of the delegates are preachers but up to this writing they have conducted themselves ten thousand times worse than the common pothouse, tinhorn or ward politician who are ever ready to start a rough-house and to knock down and drag out those who may happen to differ with them. The warring or contending factions rushed into Chief Justice F. A. Smith's court where an injunction was obtained on Thursday morning to prevent E. C. Morris, president of the convention, to have anything further to do with its proceedings. All the biggest Colored lawyers in town were mixed up in the court end of the fight: Hons. F. L. Barnett, W. L. Martin, S. A. T. Watkins and Henry M. Porter represented Rev. Morris and his followers. On the other side the Hons. B. F. Moseley, William G. Anderson and P. W. Howard of Vicksburg, Miss., represented Rev. E. P. Jones and his adherents who claimed that he was elected president of the convention. After the army of able lawyers had fought around among each other and among the preachers who crowded in the court room Justice Smith decided to desolve the injunction and in doing so the greatest excitement and confusion prevailed in his court room, the preachers making more noise than their camp followers. Judge Smith and his bailiffs gave up the attempt to restore order and quiet the fighting and shouting preachers. The Rev. Myron Adams, pastor of the First Baptist Church, 31st and South Park ave., must be given full credit for succeeding in quieting them down and after he stood and talked to them straight from the shoulder and it was finally decided to permit him and Justice Smith to settle the differences between the warring factions without the aid of the lawyers. Last evening Booker T. Washington, the far-famed wizard of Tuskegee, Ala., addressed the convention. National Baptist Publishing House Located at Nashville, Tennessee Makes Exceptional Display at Lincoln Jubilee Celebration. Thousands of people in attendance at the Lincoln Jubilee Celebration have viewed the splendid exhibit being made by the National Baptist Publishing Board of Nashville, Tenn. The exhibit is in charge of an experienced display man who is employed constantly at the Publishing House. One of the most attractive features of the exhibit is the uniqueness with which it is arranged and installed. It shows a graduation in efficiency in the art preservative, having on display their productions in P. R. President of the National Colored Democratic League who appears to have gotten in bad with President Woodrow Wilson and the members of his cabinet. mechanism and literary art from the smallest postal card to a mammoth leather or morocco bound book, the entire exhibit being the work of members of the race employed in the institution. Spectators have already lingered long and admiringly at the skill and mechanical perfection displayed in these articles. Their admiration increases when they are told by the instructor that every one of the vast number of people employed at the Nashville institution came to work without experience at any firm or institution in their particular line of work. The exhibit shows samples of twenty-three different song books, in which, in most cases, the music was written, composed, arranged, printed, bound and sent out by members of the race. Every line of Sunday-school requisites and church helps needed for their denomination is also shown. In connection with this, there is a Church Supply Exhibit showing that members of the race have actually been taught the art of cabinet making. In their Church Supply Department anything can be made of wood from a collection plate to the most expensive church pews, pulpits and pulpit furniture. The upholstering, the cut of the furniture and the finish of the same have attracted no little attention. There is also a complete display of Negro Dells ranging in size from the tiniest 12-inch doll, which is well dressed, to 12-measuring about 3 feet in height. Free literature is given those who stop to view the display. It has already been pronounced BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS. National Colored Democratic League w with President Woodrow Wilson and the as the most unique exhibit at the Celebration, where it is learned that it will remain until the Exposition closes. The governor of Michigan in viewing this exhibit pronounced it the best arranged and most complete he had seen. The Chicago Daily American paid especial attention to it through its news column. HYDE PARK NEWS. Captain Brown has returned from Michigan, where he spent the summer. Mrs. Annie L. Shelby of 5807 Blackstone ave., gave an automobile party, touring the city with her invited guest. A very pleasing social affair to be sure. Mr. and Mrs. Blair of 5334 Kenwood ave., have moved to 42nd and Evans ave. Mr. E. H. Brown has returned to Indiana Harbor to work in a bank. We wish him success. No. 51 Some of the from Resume to Draw secure to the who appears to have members of his cabi- THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. The Alpha Suffrage Club has resumed its regular meeting at 3005 State st., every Wednesday evening. All visitors in the city, who are interested in the study of the women's political movement in Chicago, are invited. At the meeting this week the club plans to have at least four of its members take the Policewomen's Examination. All interested are urged to come to the meeting next Wednesday night and get the facts. The club is planning to open its fall work for the reception. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT, Pres. WILL LIVE AMONG NEGROES. Englishwoman Will Test "Dream of Brotherhood." San Francisco—Miss Florence MacFarlane, a delegate from London, England, is going to live among Negroes, she announced today in an address before the New Thought Congress, to test the practicability of universal brotherhood. "If I can Have happily among the Blacks," she said, "if I can love them as I love the people of my own race, then I will know that our dream of brotherhood for all races may come true." Booker T. Washington, while in the city, will be guest of Dr. and Mrs. Hall, 3408 S. Park ave. PAGE TWO ♥ IDEAL FOR SPORTS. Corduroy, covert or serge will develop well this practical suit for the outdoor girl. Strong bone buttons, belt and sensible pockets are its only garnishings. Please note how every accessory—boots, gloves, tie and hat—carries out the idea. Proper Lighting. Add immensely to the attractiveness of your home by diffusing the lights instead focusing them on one point. Eye sts will be relieved and shadows and outlines will be softened, especially when amber lights are used. The new indirect lighting fixtures are replacing old fashioned ones, making the lighting problem more artistic and less expensive. Much the same effect may be produced with less expense by frosted bulbs and globes, gelatin films and glass diffusing plates. There are various types of this indirect lighting suitable for all rooms, from the kitchen to the parlor, and it is to be recommended as a blessing to the busy eyes and the tense nerves of today. ```markdown ``` COHORT FOR AFTERNOONS With all the gauzy coolness demanded by warm weather, this hat nevertheless suggests fall with its fur edged brim and bright colored flower on the front of the crown. It is both elegant and simple. Concerning Women on Juries. "Do women have to sit on juries if they vote?" Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, was recently asked: "Not necessarily," said Dr. Shaw, "but I have seen a lot of juries which needed to have some one sit on them, and I have known women who have had to stand up at most difficult and disagreeable employments who would be glad to sit on juries and receive about double the price they can get by standing. And these men and women who peep upon the virtue of girlhood and boyhood would rather face Satan himself than a jury of mothers. Yes, we need women on some juries." Activities of Women. Philadelphia has a woman barber who has a lacrative business. The British war department now recognizes women to the extent of giving them rank as noncommissioned officers in the army. Women have, so far supplanted men in some of the large industries of Germany that there are now 7,000 doing the ordinary work of their husbands and brothers. Out of this total 8,000 are in the iron works and have to do work constantly considered too heavy for women. Paderaowski could play the piano when he was three years old. General August von Mackensen of the German army was born in 1849 in Saxony. Antonio Salandra, Italy's premier of war, was not so long ago professor of public law in the University of Rome and is described as simple, modest and domestic in his tastes. James Ford Bell, the Minneapolis miller, whose ancestry goes back to England through Philadelphia, is the sixth of his name in direct descent to be engaged in the milling business, and he proposes bringing up his infant son to be a miller. Henry Suzallo, professor of philosophy in the Teachers' college of Columbia university, who has been elected president of the University of Washington, is well known as a public lecturer, author and contributor to educational magazines. Professor W. G. Foye of the Harvard division of geology has been sent by the Sheldon fund to study the coral reefs, the uplifted limestones and the volcanic rocks in the Fiji islands. His investigations will occupy the better part of a year and are expected to add materially to the scientific knowledge of the regions covered. Echoes of the War. A year of war has ended and a century of regret begins.—Chicago Herald. Would it be a surprise if the war should stop as quickly as it began?—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Write on the credit side of the war ledger; An increased knowledge of the proper care of wounds.—Chicago News. The war is in its second year, and there never was a more terrible youngster of its age.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. One drawback to cutting war melons in Europe is that each slice has to come out of some other fellow's melon.—Washington Post. When the number of trading ships that have been sunk is considered it is clear that the United States is not the only country that is going to need a new merchant marine when the war is over.—Indianapolis News. Train and Track. The Erie Railroad company has put up signs telling the names of the rivers it crosses and of the railways that it intersects. The Southern Pacific company now has on its veteran corps' roll between 600 and 700 and has paid out in pensions over $2,000,000. The value of railroads and their equipment in the United States is placed by the federal census bureau at $16,148,000,000; of street railways, $4,596,000,000. So that baggage cannot fall out on passengers' heads a new rack for railroad cars is almost completely inclosed, access being provided by sliding doors. Flippant Flings. International law is like Colonel Sellers' eyewater. The more you take the more you need.-Pittsburgh Dispatch. Favorite sons in the different states are beginning to be as virtuous as the small boy just before Christmas.-Chicago News. The frequency of Culebra cut slides suggests that its name originally should have been "Kelly."-Albany Knickerbocker Press. A St. Paul man announces that he will not have his hair cut until the European war ends. Barber shop war prices must be awful in Minnesota.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. SHORT AND SHARP. It seldom pays to think unless you intend to act. The man looking for trouble can close his eyes and find it. A man seldom knows what he doesn't want until after he acquires it. Nobody can know how many lives that new sea wall saved Galveston. A self made man generally thinks that he has accomplished a real work of art. In the confusion of greater clashes the dundrum bullet seems to have been lost sight of. It is an easy thing for a man to resist temptation if he has something better in sight. Some people never put off till tomorrow what they can get somebody else to do for them today. When a man is old enough to know better doing a foolish thing won't make him look young. Do not blame the ass for being stubborn. He would not be a perfect ass if he were otherwise. When you have to take back things that you have said you are likely to THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. SEPTEMBER 11, 1915. PREMIER VENIZELOS MAN OF THE HOUR Holds the Scales of Peace or War in Balkans. In the very center of the huge kaleidoscope which the war god is moving before the gaze of the world stands at present the Greek statesman, Eleutherios Venelios. He is in the completeest sense the man of the hour. His recent recall, after five months of voluntary exile, to the premiership has fixed the eyes of the world upon him. During the past months the psychological moment for all the Balkan states has been approaching with a continual growth of its own importance, not to the Balkans alone, but to the world. Now it seems to have come. A steady stream of propositions has flowed to Bukharest, Sofia and Athens from the Teutons on one side and the entente powers on the other, all striving to induce the governments seated in the three capitals to abandon their policy of hesitation and to adopt one P. Photo by American Press Association. ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS. of definite action, be that a formal promise of enduring neutrality or participation in the world struggle. The world has been looking to Venizelos to cast the die, to bring about a solution of the problem. Cabled dispatches from Europe state that Venizelos agreed to resume his position as head of the Greek government and director of his country's foreign policy on condition that the king should not oppose armed intervention when it might become opportune nor eventual territorial concessions, if adequately compensated, that might be demanded by Servia, Bulgaria or the entente powers; also that Constantine use his influence for the re-establishment of the Balkan league, which Venizelos so well organized in 1912, after the Balkan war, and which he considers absolutely essential for the welfare of all the Balkan states—as opposed to the Mohammedan empire—for their future peace and for their economic development. Venizelos therefore has practically the power of deciding the plan of governmental conduct. So the fate of Greece, of the Balkans and, to a degree, of Europe is in his hands. CROSS AND CRESCENT MEET. Prisoner at Dardanelles Pressed Into Service as a Hair Cutter. The illustration shows a Turkish soldier, a prisoner of war, trimming the scalp of a British "Tommy" in the Dardanelles. The allies now appear to be quite optimistic over their operations in the Gallipoli peninsula and THE HANDS OF A MAN IN A SUNSHINE TURKISH SOLDIER BARBER. prophecy that they will enter Constantinople before long. Perhaps the British "Tommy" is getting sprused up in the belief that he will shortly march into Constantinople. Anyway, he looks cheerful while his locks are shorn, and the barber also seems to enjoy the operation. BRIGHT BRIEFS. About the only experience a man ever profits by is his own. Any time somebody walks in triumph somebody else's neck is hurt. One way to become a satisfactory guest is to postpone the visit. China's experience is showing that republics are developed, not made. What is called killing time is, in fact, neglecting opportunity for useful activity. Keep at it. There is only the difference of one letter between rest and rust. If your conversation is of the heavy kind be careful where you drop your remarks. The things that we need the least are usually the things that we try the hardest to get. About the time a fellow begins to think he is a budding genius along comes the frost. Too many persons are unable to distinguish the difference between argument and assertion. The meek may inherit the earth, but if the strong keep at it much longer the heritage will not be worth much. Man was made to mourn, but probably it was never intended that he should spend much of his time at it. If you want to know yourself observe other men's conduct. If you wish to know other men look within yourself. Pen, Chisel and Brush. Mr. William de Morgan published his first novel when he was sixty-six years of age. Mrs. Alice Mumford Roberts, the well known artist and portrait painter of Philadelphia, never sketches, as is the custom with most painters, but conceives the work as a whole and goes to work in the spirit of staking or losing all. Albin Polasek, whose recent effort, "Aspiration," was awarded the Widener medal for the best work in sculpture at the Pennsylvania academy, was born in Moravia, but came to this country at the age of twenty-two years. Later he began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In due course he was enabled as a Prix de Rome man to study the old masters of Italy. Recent Inventions. A shirt has been invented with a neckband adjustable to fit several sizes of necks. An apparatus for automatically spraying oil from the bow of a vessel upon a rough sea has been invented in England. The outer walls of a new safe are perforated to permit the gases of an explosion to escape and thereby thwart a burglar who tries to blow it open. Gasoline locomotives have been invented in England that are safe to use in coal mines, their ignition taking place within tight boxes and their exhaust through water. Pert Personals. George Bernard Shaw declies the purchase of war bonds and buys them himself. How typically Shavian—Detroit News. Though in many respects an untutored man, Pancho Villa makes better progress than Carranza in learning his A B C's.—New York Sun. What's in a name anyway? Governors Rye of Tennessee and Brewer of Mississippi are stanch prohibitionists.—Albany Knickerbocker Press. Gabe d'Annunzio threatens an aerial bombardment of Europe with his poems, thereby putting all previous atrocities in the background.—Washington Post. Short Stories. "Tabby" cats are so called after a street in Bagdad. Asbestos has been spun into thread so fine that it requires 32,000 feet to weigh a pound. "Gentlemen are requested not to comb their beards at table" is the notice posted in a hotel in Switzerland. An Alaskan cable was put out of commission recently by a whale becoming so completely entangled in it that the wire proved a death trap. Enough portland cement is manufactured in the United States each year to build concrete forts at every needed point on the entire coast of the United States. Telephone Calls. After five years of work all the telephone lines in Melbourne have been put underground. Telephone lines are to be extended to Trömsoe, Norway, 200 miles north of the arctic circle. The business of the New York police department last year required 5,890,000 telephone calls. The French language has been found much better adapted to long distance telephoning than the English, and expert operators in Paris have succeeded in transmitting messages to London at the rate of 190 words a minute. It has long been known that Edwin Booth felt deeply the grief that it was one of his own family who took Abraham Lincoln's life. This little story, which the editor of a well known magazine is fond of telling, emphasizes that fact: When I was a boy I lived in Chicago near Lincoln park. Once when Edwin Booth was playing in the city I went with another boy to hear "Hamlet." I was permitted to spend the night at my friend's house, but went home for breakfast. At that early hour Lincoln park was deserted, but as I drew near St. Gaudens' great statue of Lincoln I saw a carriage approach, driven by a negro coachman. It stopped before the statue, the door opened and out stepped Edwin Booth. Curious to see what would happen, I stepped behind a clump of shrubbery where I might watch unobserved. The great actor stood for a moment before the wonderful bronze with his head bared. Then he took a rose from his buttonhole and laid it at the base of the statue. He entered the carriage and was driven away, utterly unconscious that the incident had been witnessed by one who would ever after cherish its memory. Youth's Companion. Many Uses of Graphite. Few people begin to realize the range of uses to which graphite is put, says the Scientific American, for it is an essential though minor ingredient in a great number of unsuspected connections as common as that of lead pencils. With many of these the graphite man is himself unfamiliar, beyond the simple fact that this or that manufacturer purchases from him, for in such uses it is apt to represent part of a secret process. Lead pencils, lubricants, electrical conductors and black polishes and paints are prominent conventional uses, but it is liable to be present pretty much anywhere that anti-friction, unfading blackness, heat resistance, electrical conductivity or noncorrosiveness is a desirable property, and the fact that without graphite the derby hat, as we know it could not be, is an example of its importance as an incidental ingredient. A Wonderful Railway Journey For picturesque variety and romantic appeal the panoramas running like double cinematograph films past the car windows on the great African trunk line can never know a rival. Six thousand miles, across sixty-five degrees of latitude, a score of climates and the lands of a hundred different peoples or tribes; the second longest of the world's rivers and two of its largest lakes; the greatest dam ever built, conserving water for the world's richest lands; the most imposing and ancient of all temples; the greatest waterfall and the most important gold and diamond mines, and finally one of the last great expanses of real wilderness, the only place in the world where the wild beasts of the jungle may be seen in their primitive state from a train—all these are seen, traversed or experienced in twelve days. Dirty Patagonia. "Patagonians are not giants, as some have supposed and as the geographies teach," said a man who has traveled. "They are large in comparison with the other South American natives; that is all. Everything is relative, you know. But they are very fat. That is why they can stand the cold so well. I have seen Patagonian men and boys running around unclad while I was wrapped in warm garments, with the snow falling upon them in quantities and the wind blowing bitterly. They are kept warm by their fat and dirt. Patagonia is one of the driest places imaginable. Don't go there if you hate dirt. That is my advice to all who contemplate a journey to the jumping off place of South America." A Bright Prospect. "For five years," said the commercial traveler, "I had called upon a certain draper in Scotland and never got an order. I mentioned it to the head of the firm. 'We aye deal wl' B. & Co,' he said. 'Their traivler ca'd for twenty years before he took an order, and if ye'll continue to call for twenty years I'll no say but ye may get one.'"—Manchester Guardian. Firedamp. Firedamp is the ordinary name for the carbureted hydrogen which issues from "blowers" or fissures in coal seams. It is infilmable and when mixed with air in certain proportions is highly explosive. Its ignition is attended by the danger of an attendant explosion of coal dust. "With people cooking with electricity, one can no longer heap coals of fire." "Never fear. Assuredly they will perfect an electrical apparatus which will answer the same purpose."—Louisville Courter Journal. His New Job. "I've got a new job. I'm a barber at a soda fountain." "A barber at a soda fountain?" "Yes. I shave the ice."—New York World. Just the Other Way. Frost—It cost me $75 for the week end. Snow—Entertaining friends, weren't you? Frost—Great Scott, not Being entertained—Life. Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power. —Bovee. A COOL HERALD. A New Model For the First "Colder" Day. A A LUXURIOUS COAT With warm weather and vacations still with us it seems farfetched to bring in our furs. But furs and more of them are the coming note, and this handsome design of black seal, in rippling fullness and edged with skunk, suggests one new design. Please observe the smallish size of the nuff. New Towel Ends. The ends of the newest embroidered towels are surely trying to emulate the latest of dress fashions, for they are showing every variety of scallops. Where one was once content to hem-stitch the ends of a huck towel and place a simple embroidered letter in the middle of one end, to be strisher up to date one must now slash the towell into some new cut of scalloping. There are square scallops, pointed ones, wide and shallow and deep rounded scallops and scallops within scallops. And they are embroidered in colors, often with a finish of a second buttonholing of another color or a crocheted plot edge. Fillet crochet inserts are quite the thing now for towel ends; sometimes one sees a piece of fillet insertion with three initials of the intended owner crocheted in the mesh. Cutwork initials or solid initials with an oval background of cutworms are very effective and are not difficult when one considers the results obtained. The plain woven ends of Turkish towels are now being embroidered, most often with a flowered border of darned work or French knots. --- EVENING GOWN. A Simple, Tasty Frock For Fall Dances. ```markdown ``` V A GIRLISH DESIGN. This simple frock is developed with white net or chiffon over pale pink. Its shortish skirt is finished with a wreath of roses, which also complete the unique sleeves, while two rose clusters finish the corsage and belt line. The Cotton Net on New Handkerchiefs. Sheer linen lawn is the material of which most of the handkerchiefs are made with the exception of the glove handkerchiefs, and they are usually made of crepe de chine. Cotton net or tulle forms the border band on which is gathered a plaited frill of the net, one inch wide. So it would seem that the frill has invaded even the realm of mounchairs. Linen lawn in rose, straw and blue with rounded corners are the handkerchiefs that boast the net or tulle frill. Square corners are reserved for those with the hemstitched finish. 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" later 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, Vesuvins, 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 suitan 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 whichever 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. Haliit 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 babies were live stock and not malabile. 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 rails with a minimum of waste. 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. 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. Miss Katherine Brown Five-year-old Swimmer A young girl stands on a diving board in a lake, arms extended forward. The background features a building and trees. Photo by American Press Association. One of the features at a recent water carnival held at College Point, N.Y., was the swimming feats of Miss Katherine Brown, the five-year-old daughter of Commodore Al Brown, the champion long distance swimmer of the world. The little tot not alone swam a hundred yards in fast time, but performed some remarkable diving stunts from a thirty-five foot stand especially erected for the occasion. Miss Brown has been swimming since she was three years old and is considered a water marvel for her age. She does not alone use the breast stroke while swimming, but can use the crawl and the trudgeon as well. The illustration shows Miss Brown on the diving board showing some of her little friends how to begin the breast stroke. No need to say the listeners are paying strict attention to her advice. A Potato Race Children of all ages (except the baby) enjoy greatly a potato race. Two rows of potatoes are laid along the ground for a distance of a hundred feet or so about five feet apart. A basket or pail is placed at the end of the row from which the contestants start. Two persons begin together, each having a spoon, and they must pick up the potatoes, one at a time, on the spoon without touching it with the hand, and carry it safely and drop it in the basket. One may select the potatoes in any order one pleases, but must make a separate trip for each potato. Sometimes they fling the potatoes from a distance, but if it falls short it must be picked up and placed in the basket. Whoever gets his potatoes in first is the winner of these two; then two others enter the contest. After all the company have had their turn the winners are pitted against each other until there is only one remaining, who is pronounced the champion. Hidden Pet Puzzle. By taking the initial letter of a one syllable word from each of the following sentences and writing them together correctly the name of a certain kind of four footed pet will be spelled: Aim at the sun and you'll reach the moon. Few gems are as rare as the pearl. Art is a long and tedious study. A gentle nag is the children's friend. When given an inch do not take a mile. Sweet is the bread one can earn for himself. Always look well before leaping. Answer—Spandel. Riddle. I may be made of brass, paper or wood. I may live for a century or be easily defaced and lost. I am given as a token of love, and yet the sight of me may cause sorrow. Sometimes I hold a stream, a tree, a bird and a bush; sometimes I hold only a face. I may look like you or like your friend. I may be black or white and so small I may be seen in your eye. Fern Dust. We tinted through the forest One bright midsummer night, And there we found a clearing Aglow with fairy light. We spied a little elf man, With a tiny, shiny pail. And he was shining "Pern dust, Pern dust for sale!" He sold us each a palish To sprinkle in our shoe. We paid him for it, gladly. With a bunch of meadow rus. And then we heard a rustling. A whispering breeze. And the laughter of the fairies Who danced beneath the trees. We plitter pattered homeward, And my, but we felt queer! For not a soul could see us And not a soul could hear As, fairy-like, we tripped it And scaredly, we touched the ground— The magic dust hid us And stilled the smallest sound. But when we woke next morning, The fern dust all had gone; Had vanished with the fairies In the misty light of dawn, But we shall find that elf man With his tiny, shiny pail. For we'll hear him singing, "Fern dust, Fern dust for sale!" —St. Nicholas. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 11. 1915 Beautiful Ex-Queen of Portugal Does War Work as Trained Nurses. Mary AMELIE, PORTUGAL'S EX-QUEEN. Concealing her identity in cap and stripe for several weeks, Portugal's ex-queen has been working as a trained nurse in the Third London general hospital at Wandsworth, England. Entering the hospital as a probationer and insisting that her identity be kept secret, her majesty has been working eight hours a day, performing all the heavy work assigned to other nurses. Every morning she motors to the hospital from Richmond. For weeks her patients, not recognizing the ex-queen, addressed her as plain "ma'am". Only the sister in charge of her ward knew the secret till recently. USES FOR OLD LINEN. How Frenchwomen Use the Tops of Old Evening Gloves. Never throw away old linen in any shape or form. Cotton sheets and pillowcases when old and worn are soft and splendid for bandages and other sickroom needs. No new bandage ever equals old bed or table linen for such purposes, as they will tell you at any hospital, but it is understood it must be sterilized before being used. Housekeepers are apt to overlook this use for old linen unless there is really sickness present in the house, but a store of such pieces laid away will never come amiss even if they are only used for ironing boards and for wrapping up bundles in the storeroom, for in a contagious disease old sheets must be hung over the doorways to the sickroom and kept wet with disinfectant. When the weather is hot wet sheets hung about the room will cool the air. The linen should have been washed clean without starch, and the hands that roll it should be very clean. For an open wound sterilized gauze will be a necessity, but clean linen may be used to protect the bandages underneath. At the hospitals the old linen so utilized is baked in the regular oven to sterilize it before using. When the bandages are rolled they should be placed in a clean covered receptacle until needed. A glass jar or a covered box will do for the purpose. The width of the bandages depends upon their use. About one inch is wide enough for a finger, and from that the widths vary. For an abdominal bandage six or eight inches may be too wide. The tops of old evening gloves have their use too. An appeal recently came from Paris for them, to be sewed together as interlinings in vests for soldiers in winter trenches. Hundreds of poor women are kept employed making these winter comforts. Nurseries. In the scheme of living where appearances must be maintained at all costs, where the keeping of servants is regarded as an absolute essential, where the whole aim is to impress one's acquaintances, children are too often regarded as needless luxuries. Where they are permitted to intrude, they come, as a usual thing, in single numbers, one child being considered enough of a burden. In Europe the women who have followed this theory have in many cases seen their entire family swept away and the sad condition has made the mothers of America pause and reflect. When one comes to think of it, how very few houses are built with nurseries. Even large homes, rented at orbitant rates, seldom have a nursery. One of the bedrooms has to be given over to the kiddies, but it can never be made to look quite as useful and pretty as if it had been designed for the purpose. The ideal nursery ought to be tiled all round halfway up the wall, not cold green tiles, but a warm shade of tan or a deep pink. The room ought to have fitted cupboards in it, so that not an inch of space is wasted. There should be fitted guards in front of the windows, so that there is no danger of the babies falling out, and the fireplace ought to be large and open, not the abound little affairs that one finds in the bedrooms of the ordinary modern house. Character forming In Youth. It was a saying of Froebel's that the character of a man or woman is fixed at six years of age, thus putting the formative period very early in the de- velopment of the child. Most mothers do not believe this dictum or ignore it, as they intrust their children to nurses more during those first six years than at any other time. There are, however, an increasing number of women who realize that good habits are more easily formed and good impressions more easily made in very early childhood than later on. So now careful mothers are arranging to supervise as thoroughly as possible the nurseries of their babies and to take an active share in the training of the little ones. One modern mother, though possessed of ampie means, refuses to employ a regular nurse. She takes entire charge of her two little children, a girl of four and a boy of two. This is not the result of theory on her part, but an outgrowth from her own experience. Brought up in a luxurious household, waited on "hand and foot" by an attentive nurse, she was suddenly sent off to boarding school at the age of fourteen. "I shall never forget," she says, "my terrible mortification at not being able to dress myself properly or even to comb my own hair. I used to cry my sleep to sleep at night and dread getting up in the morning to encounter that awful problem of getting neatly into my clothes." Determined that her children shall never be helpless, she has taught these little mites to look after themselves in quite a wonderful way. Some years ago Punch had a picture of two small boys and a young lady asking one of them, "How old is your little friend, Tommy?" To which Tommy replies, "I do not know, but I think he must be pretty old, because he can blow his own nose." Judged by this standard, the boy of two referred to above would be "pretty old," while the girl would be positively aged. It has taken an infinity of patience to get these children to the point of efficiency which they now enjoy, but it has certainly paid the mother for all her trouble. It is much easier to take a child and dress it than it is to sit by and see it fumble itself into its garments. These two children are still bathed in the tub, but otherwise, as the Scotch say, they "sort" themselves. There are many practical details to be considered in such work. Clothes must be made simple, so as to offer as few difficulties to little fingers as may be. The faucets in the bathroom are not only an obstacle to a child, but also a temptation to play with water and mess clean frocks, so a washing apparatus must be arranged. The particular mother whose methods are quoted above obtained a kindergarten table such as that on which the children play their games. It has the advantage of being exactly the right height and at the same time of being both solid and stable. Painted white this answered for a washstand. Then came the question of utensils. Stoneware was too heavy, and china, though light enough to be easily handled, was quickly broken by inexpert little hands. The answer to this problem came from enameled ware, which is made nowadays in a number of attractive colors. Pretty enameled basins and pitchers, not too large to be lifted even when full, make implements the children can safely manage. Soap dish, toothbrush mug and slop pall complete the outfit. Nothing can be broken, nothing is heavy, and yet all is clean, fresh and inviting. The little girl worked her initials on her little face cloths in cross stitch, and "brother" will do the same when sufficiently advanced. Supper is always eaten in the nursery, and these tots set their own table, another kindergarten table, and their table utensils are also enameled ware in attractive colors, so that cups and saucers, plates and pitchers can be manipulated with at risk. They are very earnest about this task of setting table, and woe betide the child whose dishes are not set in the proper order by the waitress or waiter of the day! Visitors say, "How cunning, how clever the dear little things are!" but not one in a dozen realizes the work and the patience that are put in the training. Rich will be the reward when the children are older. The independence they have acquired will be more valuable to them than a fortune, for it will be a fortune that cannot be lost. For the Housekeeper's File. According to the September Woman's Home Companion September is the month for all housekeepers: "To make the acquaintance of your children's new teachers. "To plan varied and healthful school lunches. "To see that the furnace and pipes are in working order. "To do all necessary painting around the house and fences. "To have the roof examined and repaired if necessary. "To choose and order any new wall paper. "To look over the winter bedding, sover comforts and mattresses." Woman's Enlarging Sphere. At twenty-five a man used to begin to live, but a woman was on the shelf. Up to a few decades ago the woman of twenty-five, married or single, was usually passee. If married she for swore romance and spent her days in dull and commendable faithfulness to "kinder, kirche, kueche," if unmarried and minus an independent income, heaven help her! She passed gently into the maiden aunt stage—household helper in general to any married sister, brother, cousin that ever wanted her; subject to call when there was illness, dire need, a new baby or busiling preparations for some important event; to take errors and omissions meekly and without complaint. Sometimes she persisted in being young even at twenty-seven and curled her hair and squeaked her voice to a childish treble and trained in a set of kittenish manners for social purposes. She hated to give up the thought of ever being married. And here's her twentieth century substitute who is an undeveloped child under twenty-five. She is perfectly willing to marry, but she has plenty of interests to occupy her if she doesn't. Moreover, she has plenty of interests in addition to home and family when she does marry. For there is one thing that business and professional interests have done for the modern woman which makes them beyond price—that have protracted youth and deferred recognition of old age indefinitely. Business and professional life do for women what they have done for men. It takes a man about ten years to put a business on the level of substantial success. Sometimes it takes more, occasionally less. The well planned business life of the average man makes the years between twenty and thirty hard plugging. At thirty he begins to have a secure footing, and if he has really lived, if he has the rich human experience that falls to the average normal individual, he is a well rounded personality and in the prime of life at forty. Interesting occupation has showed ahead woman's prime of life similarly. The young bud of nineteen or twenty is only pleasant to look at or to play with for a little while. From twenty to thirty, if she is actively engaged in doing something worth while, she is developing continually. She is enriching her mind and personality by actual contact with life, more real than that viewed from the safe walls of a comfortable home. She is building her business life, facing conflict daily, learning self reliance. Her soul goes unshielded through the fires of experience. At thirty she is in the prime of life, rich in interest and human sympathy and understanding. For it is not alone the patting of baby curls that develops womanly sympathy, but working in the world and seeing and experiencing what other men and women endure. Woman's life used to be mainly retrospective. Before thirty she was already engaged in the gentle occupation of reiterating again and again her youthful experiences and conquests. The modern woman with an occupation looks ahead. The past is to her only a foundation, and her days are filled with planning for next month, next year and ten years ahead. Sandwiches and Sandwich Fillings. Honey Sandwich.—Spread thin slices of bread with very thick honey that will not run readily; spread other side with butter stirred with cream. Press one slice of each together and cut into fancy shapes if something tasty is desired for an afternoon tea. Baked Bean Sandwich—Reduce the beans to a pulp (red kidney beans preferred). Mix pulp with melted butter, onion juice, a pinch of dry mustard, a few olives or pimentos chopped and a dash of tomato ketchup or chili sauce. Spread the mixture between slices of brown bread. Chili sauce is generally used. Deviled Ham Sandwichea—To make deviled ham chop very fine one pint of boiled ham (more fat than lean), six hard boiled eggs, one teaspoonful of mustard (the made kind), season and press in a mold. This will keep for weeks and is a good filling for sandwichea. Fillings for sandwiches are numerous and nearly always on hand. First there come the sweet fillings, such as creamy fudges of all kinds, mashed chocolate creams, maple fillings, creamy maple fudge, caramel fudge, candied ginger as a garnish for outside of sandwiches, also as a filling; raisins chopped and mixed with fudge or chopped and mixed with butter, etc. They make a good filling. They do not attack digestion quite so harshly when used in this manner and may be used between crackers, cookies or bread with good results and are always liked by those who use them. Second come the cheese fillings, American cheese and Swiss cheese, and they may be cut wafer thin and served in many ways with pimentos on buttered bread. Nuts and raisins are popular now as sandwich fillings, as are also the meat chicken and vegetable fillings. Darning Hint. When darning run the thread around the hole first, drawing the hole up until the edges lie flat on the darner. The hole will seem much smaller, and the darn can be made more satisfactorily. PAGE THREE SWITZERLAND'S CITIZEN SOLDIERY NOW that there is so much agitation for an enlarged and stronger national defense there is special interest in an examination of the army of Switzerland, for here is a "citizenry trained and accustomed to arms" such as Washington advised for the United States and an idea which has been advocated by President Wilson. On Aug. 3, 1914, forty-eight hours after the Swiss federal council had issued orders for the mobilization of the entire army of Switzerland, 300,000 men stood at their appointed posts, ready to defend the neutrality of their country. The accomplishment of this feat won the admiration of even the much engaged belligerent nations, for it furnished eloquent proof of Swiss military discipline and efficiency. Switzerland, with a population of 3,800,000, maintains the largest armed forced proportionately of all European lands. France comes second, Germany and Sweden next. The per capita cost is relatively small because of a rational military system which is both economic and democratic. The army of the Swiss confederation is a citizen army. Every Swiss citizen is liable to military service from his twentyth to his forty-eighth year. The federal forces consist of three divisions—i.e., the so called auszug, the landwehr and the landsturm. To the auszug, or elite, belong the young men up to the age of thirty-two; the landwehr, or first reserve, comprises the soldiers from thirty-three to forty years of age, and in the landsturm, or second reserve, are incorporated the men from forty-one to forty-eight years of age. No Swiss citizen is excused from military duty unless he is physically unfit or under the stipulated height of five feet one and one-half inches. Citizens who are liable to do military service and who are prevented from ful- THE BLOOD & BLOOD A COMPANY OF SWISS SOLDIERS, filling their duty on account of their residence in a foreign country are obliged to pay a regular military tax. Military instruction is imparted at the expense of the Swiss confederation by a special instruction corps, aided by the officers of the higher and lower ranks. The year's recruits are immediately sent to one of the schools for recruits established in different cities throughout the country. Those intended for the infantry receive a preliminary training lasting sixty-five days, cavalrymen have to remain for ninety days, field and mountain artillerymen seventy-five days, engineers seventy-five days, transport men forty-two days and ambulance men sixty-two days. Since the year 1907, when a new military organization took place in the Swiss army, both the cavalry and all the forces of the ausung have to attend a yearly repetition course lasting eleven days. There are special courses and training for those desirous of advancing to a higher grade. There is a central military college at Thun for the instruction of officers of the general staff and another for regimental officers. Infantry instructors receive their training in a school of that description at Basel, and there are, furthermore, courses for shooting (especially for officers), also for ambulance work, etc. Every soldier is, moreover, obliged to do a certain amount of rifle practice each year, and a record of his capacity in this line is carefully kept. It has been generally admitted by military experts that Switzerland, among the nations of second rank, possesses the strongest and best drilled army—a veritable model of democratic organization. The fact that a small neutral nation like this is obliged to maintain such an elaborate military system does not indicate in the least that the people are advocates for militarism. On the contrary, Switzerland is ever active in the spreading of peace propaganda, but the present war has already proved the immense value of her military system in safeguarding her territory from invasion and a violation of her neutrality. Entered on Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1893, at the Post Office on Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1879. REMOVAL NOTICE. From on and after this date, all letters or other mail 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 2997. ADDRESS IN PART OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BEFORE THE NATIONAL NEGRO BAPTIST CONVENTION, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 8 P. M. My only excuse for accepting your invitation to appear before you at these annual gatherings from year to year, is that I am deeply interested in all that this National Baptist Convention stands for. It is the largest and, in my opinion, the most representative body of Colored people anywhere in the world. I came here this year because I believe in the principles for which this organization stands. I believe in the men who originated and now control this convention. I believe in Dr. E. C. Morris, in Dr. R. H. Boyd, in Professor R. B. Hudson, and in the other leading spirits of this convention. I believe most profoundly in the work of this convention because it represents the masses of our people—the so-called "common" people who are the foundation of our success as a race. I believe in you because you do not pretend to represent the classes but the masses of our people. I came here, too, because the Baptist Church among our people, throughout the country, is affording them the opportunity of getting lessons in self-government, true of but few other organizations. You, who control this great convention, have before you a great opportunity and along with this opportunity a tremendous responsibility. It is given to you, as to all men, to pursue one of two courses in life; to be "big" leaders or "little" leaders. You can tear down or build up; you can construct or you can destroy. The time is now at hand when in each individual church organization, in each district association, in each convention, and in this great National Baptist Convention, when the little man should give way and let the big, broad, generous man take his place. Nothing is ever gained in business, in education, or in religious work by our being little, narrow, or jealous in our sympathies and activities. We must also remember that we cannot prosper in education or in religion without our race having an economic foundation. The Race's Opportunities. There are only fourteen nations in the world whose population exceeds the number of Negroes in the United States. Norway has a population of only 2,400,000; Denmark, 2,700,000; Bulgarin, 4,000,000; Chile, 4,000,000; Canada, 7,000,000; Argentine, 9,000,000. When we contemplate these figures, and then remember that we in the United States alone are 10,000,000 Negroes, we can get some idea of the opportunities that are right about us. Let me be more specific in pointing the way to these opportunities. If you would ask where you are to begin I would answer begin where you are. As a rule the gold mine which we seek in a far off country is right at our door. Over a million of our people live in the Northern and Western states. In these states at the present time our people operate about 4,000 business enterprises. There are opportunities in the North and West for eight thousand business enterprises or doubles the present number. In the Southern states where the great bulk of our people live we have about 40,000 business concerns. There should be within the next few years twenty thousand more business concerns. In all this we should never forget that the ownership and cultivation of the soil constitutes the foundation for great wealth and usefulness among our people. I have already indicated that we operate about 600,000 farms. With in the next decade let us try to double the number. To indicate a little more in the directions in which we should seek. There are now 4,000 truck farms operated by us; we ought to increase this number to 8,000. We ought never to forget that in the ownership and cultivation of the soil in a very large measure we must lay the foundation for our future. A landless race is like a ship without a rudder. Emphasizing again our opportunities, especially as connected with the soil, we now have for example 122 poultry raisers; the number should be increased to 1,500. We now have 200 dairymen; the number should be increased to 2,000. Too Many Negroes in Cities. At present there are far too many of our people living in the cities in a hand-to-mouth way, dependent on some one else for an uncertain job. Aside from what the soil offers there are other opportunities in business. For example, we now own and operate 75 bakeries; the number can be increased to 500. From 32 brickmakers the number can be increased to 3,000. From 200 sawmills we can increase the number to 1,000. From 50 furniture factories, the number can be increased to 300. Where we now have 4,000 dry goods stores and grocery merchants we should have in the near future 15,000. Few people are aware of the fact that we now have in our race, after only fifty years of freedom, 200 newspapers and other publications, 55 book stores, 18 department stores, 14 five and ten-cent stores, 81 hardware stores, 200 ice cream dealers, 100 insurance companies, 20 jewelry stores, 790 junk dealers, 13 warehouses and cold storage plants, 153 wholesale merchants, 200 launderers, 350 livery stables, 953 undertakers, 400 photographers, 10 opticians, 75 hair goods manufacturers, 111 old rag dealers, 12 buyers and shippers of live stock. With our race, as it has been and always will be with all races without economic and business foundation, it is hardly possible to have educational and religious growth or political freedom. We can learn some mighty serious lessons just now from conditions in Liberia and Haiti. For years both in Liberia and Haiti literary education and politics have been emphasized, but while doing this the people have failed to apply themselves to the development of the soil, mines and forests, and the result is that from an economic point of view those two republics have become dependent upon other nations and races and in both the control of finances is in the hands of other nations. This is true notwithstanding the fact that the two countries have natural resources greater than other countries of similar size. In the United States there is no hope for us unless in an increasing degree we teach cur young people to apply their education to develop the natural resources and to the promoting of human activities in the communities where they live. More abstract unused education means little for a race or individual. An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. We must not be afraid to pay the price for success in business—the price of sleepless nights, the price of toll when others rest, the price of planning today for tomorrow, this year for next year. If some one else endures the hardships, does the thinking, and pays the salaries, some one else will reap the harvest and enjoy the reward. To accomplish what I have indicated, we must have a united race, men who are big enough and broad enough to forget and overlook personal and local differences, and each willing to place upon the altar all that he holds for the benefit of the race, and our country. Sometimes it is suggested that some of us are over optimistic concerning the present conditions and future of our race. In part answer it might be stated that one on the inside of a house looking out can often see more than the one on the outside looking in. No one enjoys riding in a Pullman car so much as the one who has ridden in a freight car. No matter how poor you are, how black you are, or how obscure your present work and position, I want each one to remember that there is a chance for him and the more difficulties he has to overcome, the greater will be his HOW TO PREVENT CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. The annual crop of measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever harvested in Chicago during the vacation season was large enough to show that the vigilance of the Health Department, with the cooperation of the public, must be extended into the fall and winter when thousands of children are to congregate in our public schools. presence of those who strive to correct lives, bedecked with jeal and clad in the best clothes money buy and advertise the fact that men are entirely responsible for they so flagrantly and audacious stand for. Everybody knows these things. No one tries to disguise the fact still these same people are for preaching and extenuating upon For example, in July and August there were 1,217 cases of measles reported, 259 cases of scarlet fever and 661 cases of diphtheria; while in June, a school month, there were 2,737 cases of measles, 255 cases of scarlet fever and 475 cases of diphtheria—so that the total number of these three diseases in both July and August was 2,137 cases as against a total of 3,467 cases in June alone. It should be very plain that the Health Department is here to help the people to escape these and other dangers to health and life. But "to help" them implies that the people shall themselves do their part. Some of these contagious diseases continue to reappear season after season because many persons, apparently well, carry the active germs and communicate them to others who are susceptible. It is very important, therefore, that all school children should be carefully examined to discover whether they are sources of danger. If a child carries these contagious disease germs it is dangerous, especially dangerous when it mixes with a school full of children. A thorough examination of the mouths and throats of all children, now, is a sensible thing to have done, because it means the saving of many lives during the next few months. For the sake of the health and happiness of each family and the safety of the whole community, each parent should do his or her utmost to help the Health Department stamp out contagious diseases. The Health Commissioner asks all the people to help save the lives of their children. The best way to help is to have the family physician or neighborhood doctor come in without delay and examine the throats and mouths of every child in your family before they enter school. You would not think of neglecting your automobile; its engine and batteries, its wires and tires need to be inspected and overhauled to prevent a breakdown. Who will treat his child with less consideration than he does his car! Every parent has a duty to his neighbor in this matter, but a first duty to his own boy or girl. Call in the doctor now before school opens. He can obtain a specimen of secretion from the child's throat by a simple swab for examination. He can, at the same time, find out whether there are any physical defects or conditions that are handicapping its growth and development, or menacing its life and health. An ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of pills and powders. Your doctor is the key to prevention. It will cost you less to keep your family well than to meet the expense of sickness that is preventable. There is no reason why the coffin and cemetery should be worked overtime, when means are at hand to save the children from premature death. JOHN DILL ROBERTSON, M. D. A SERIOUS QUESTION. It is such a remarkable thing—prejudice. Indeed it is manifested in so many peculiar ways, you don't exactly know when you are right, or when you are wrong, and we think after all that it is best to try to adapt our conduct and peregrinations to a common sense view of things. At the last meeting of the Negro Business League of this city the question of the morals of the Negroes of this community was gone over very thoroughly. There is always a hue and cry by certain people, about the separation of the races and yet nobody seems to take an unprejudiced view of the affair, except those who at times see some opportunity to gain a little cheap notoriety. No person who has taken the time and the pains to consider the moral conditions in Newport News, but is well aware that there is no such thing as separation of the races, especially as to morals. When it comes to the association of Negro men with White women, there the line is drawn so acute, that such an association is sufficient to kindle a fire of wrath, which would end in the worst sort of riot and anarchy, but when the question of Negro women and White men associating is considered, it takes the phase of a matter of course and nothing is thought of the matter at all. Sometimes when White men become a little too brazen with their Negro consorts, an attempt is made to restrain them, but the matter soon blows over and the same old thing goes on as before. Negro women keeping assignation and hawdy houses exclusively for White men, and they are so well supported that such Negro wenebes are the most haughty and arrogant beings in the city. They haunt themselves in the presence of those who strive to live correct lives, bedecked with jewelry and clad in the best clothes money can buy and advertise the fact that White men are entirely responsible for what they so flagrantly and audaciously stand for. Everybody knows these things go on. No one tries to disguise the facts, but still these same people are forever preaching and extinguating upon the loose morals of the Negroes. If there is anything in the whole world that a woman craves, it is dress and display, and if there is anything which has damned the races in the South, it has been the studied habit of the White men to supply the means to enable Negro women to buy diamonds, silks and satins which they used as a catch net for other Negro women to sell themselves to the unprincipled lust of common White men. Does anybody dare intimate that these affairs are conducted under cover? Has anybody ever tried to discourage or destroy this open flagrant intimacy of the races. We would like to know why this despicable state of affairs is allowed to exist—From the Star, Newport News, Va. The above article is full of solid thought and there is only one thing for the Colored men throughout the Southland to do and that is to wage an unrelenting warfare on that class of White gentlemen who will persist in consorting with Colored women. Editor. THE THIRD WEEK OF THE LIN- COLN JUBILEE CELEBRATION AT THE COLISEUM. By L. W. Washington. The things specially featured this week were as follows: Concert and exercises Sunday afternoon, including the addresses of the advanced guards of the National Baptist Convention. Sunday evening was an all star concert. Labor day was a big day, likewise Tuesday night, when the Foresters captured the exposition. Thursday night with the Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythians taking the prize for the largest demonstration during the existence of the exposition up to the present time. In spectacular production, Mr. Tom Brown, the European wonder, is the one great feature of this exposition. And now as we commend the side lights of the exposition, let us present to you the more serious side of this celebration. We find the commissioners entrenching for the sake of economy. One of the main features of the exposition has left the city and that is the wireless telegraphy. This exhibit is missed very much because it was the leading exhibit of the celebration. We are pleased to mention the exhibit of the Poro College of St. Louis, Mo., an institution which has produced over 3,000 women of the race and gave them the splendid qualification of seizing the opportunity of making money and being independent. The National Baptist Publishing Board has a splendid exhibit of pulpit furniture, church fixtures and church literature, that makes this institution a competitor with the best manufacturers in their line of business. Mr. Wesley Barley, architect of Gary, Ind., may rank with the best architects of any race. His exhibit is to be considered as one of the leading arts of the exposition. The demonstrations of the Baldwin Tea & Mercantile Co., blenders and grinders, is not understood by the visitor as one of the most important features of the exposition, because Mr. Baldwin is the only tea tester in this country of Color. The National Protective Association for Colored Women and Girls, located in Madison, Wis., has a nice exhibit. Madame L. Dean of Louisville, Ky., is an expert hair culturist and demonstrates this fact on the ground. She has a worthy exhibit. Mr. J. E. Allen, inventor, is contemplating having on exhibit his wonderful Allen Dirigible Airship, Harrah & Stewart of Des Moines, Iowa, have a specialty in a toilet soap, called "Thumbo." Among the various college hospitals the Lincoln school, the Maharry Medical of Nashville, Tenn., the Wilberforce University, the Howard University have fair exhibits. Of course Wilberforce stands in a class by itself as far as exhibits goes, of which we will treat next week. And now as to the exhibition of exhibitions, the largest display of manufacturing material, the most systematized and the better arranged and advertized exhibit of the exhibition. The Overton-Hygienic Co., with an exhibit which takes up 40x20 feet, with several beautiful girls demonstrating this truth, that they can sell goods and serve the Public in a business sense if only given the opportunity to do so. No doubt at all that Mr. Overton has given inspiration to more boys and girls who have attended this celebration than any other exhibitor. The business system shown here alone is worth much to the race. Miss E. H. Ellis of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, now taking several courses at Burnham's College will be here several weeks. [Phone Douglas 3617 The deadly air polluting method of warfare now being waged on the European battle fields by our Teutonic contemporaries serves a good purpose in at least one particular. It forces even the poorest observer to realize the possibility of poisoning the human anatomy by the inhalation of "bad" air. We need only to bring home to them that all air is "bad" for breathing purposes that contains foreign gases. Our German brothers have not lost much time in searching for chemical learning. Prussic acid, which bears the scientific name of hydrocyanic acid is so deadly that to breathe a concentrated solution means instant death. Its name Prussic acid suggests that our Prussian brothers probably know more about it than all the rest of the component parts of the brotherhood of man. It is probably the gas that has killed so many of the soldiers of our allied brothers in the present conflict. It is the deadliest of all gases hitherto known. It is one of the gases found in tobacco smoke. It has a deleterious effect on the respiratory center in the brain. Wilcox in his text book, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, says it is "A violent protoplasmic poison, toxic to all forms of life. There is at first stimulation and then depression and paralysis of the central nervous system (brain), especially of the medullary centers, and death results from INTERESTING EXHIBITS The Patent and the Census Bureau Exhibits at the Lincoln Jubilee and Half Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom, at the Coliseum. One of these most interesting features of the exposition now running at the Coliseum is the display of patents granted by the United States Government to Colored inventors. This exhibit is in charge of Mr. Henry E. Baker, an assistant Examiner in the United States Patent Office at Washington, who has been detailed for this duty by the Commissioner of Patents. The Commissioner of Patents had so many requests from people throughout the country for information as to the number of patents granted to Colored inventors and the character of their inventions that he caused to be printed nearly 8,000 letters which were addressed to Patent lawyers throughout the country asking them to inform the office which, if any, of their clients were Colored people. This was made necessary by the fact that the office does not require an applicant to state his race, and therefore the Patent records furnished no clue as to the race identity of a patentee. The answers to these letters disclosed the fact that more than 1,000 patents had been granted to Colored inventors, and these patents show a wide range of mechanical skill, and embrace improvements in domestic devices, electrical appliances, aerial navigation, land conveyances, and railway appliances. The patents granted to Granville T. Woods for his inventions in electrical appliances formed the largest display of any single inventor of the race, there being more than sixty of them, many of which are of great value, a fact fully attested by their being sold to such important corporations as The American Bell Telephone Co., The Westinghouse Air Brake Co., the General Electric Co., and the Electric Magnetic Traction Co. The next in the number and importance of his inventions is Mr. Elijah McCoy of Detroit, Mich., who is regarded as the pioneer in the art of lubricating machinery by cap which automatically applies the oil to the machine while the latter is in motion. A very interesting invention is that of J. E. Matzeliger, who though born in Dutch Guiana, emigrated to this country while very young working as an apprentice in Lyon, Mass. He made the first practical machine for attaching soles to shoes, and his invention finally became the basis of the great industry now known as the United Shoe Machinery Company. Among the patents shown are those granted to a Chicago man, R. R. Robinson, on trollay wheels, switches, axles, and rails. A. E. arrest of the respiratory function (breathing). A considerable rise is followed by a marked fall of blood pressure, and the cardiac (heart) muscle is directly affected by the depressing action of the drug. The tissues are unable to absorb the oxygen brought to them by the blood cells; consequently, the oxyhaemoglobin is not reduced in the capillaries, and the venous blood has the same bright red color as the arterial.'' Other poisonous volatile or gaseous substances found in tobacco smoke are pyridin compounds, such as conim (hemlock), egonin of cocain and other alkaloids which are capable of producing death by paralysis of the heart as well as that of the breathing center of the brain. Aside from the pollution of the air by the poisons mentioned above, the most frequent danger is breathing air that has been deprived of its oxygen. There are two ways of taking that element oxygen from the air; one is by the process called combustion, represented by a burning of anything, as a lamp, or any process requiring fire. Thus it is readily understood that the practice of smoking tobacco fouls the air in two distinct ways. We cannot live without oxygen. If any animal be enclosed in an atmosphere containing no oxygen, it quickly dies. The breathing apparatus' diseases cause more deaths than any others. Breathe Pure Air! The Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, is represented by Mr. Robert A. Pelham, on detail from that Bureau. Mr. Pelham, in addition to explaining the statistical methods and machinery and the system of tabulation by means of punch cards and incidentally demonstrating the use of two of his own inventions used as adjuncts in duplicate tabulation and the arrangement of statistical tables, also tells "A Story of the Census," in which the work of efficient Colored clerks is explained and photographic reproductions of the work of these clerks exhibited. These two exhibits are counted as among the most interesting features of the exhibition. Mr. Pelham is also in charge of the Howard University, Washington, D.C. exhibit, a very creditable college exhibit which is attracting much attention and proving very pleasing to a large number of the alumni of that noted educational institution. THE 35TH NATIONAL BAPIST CONVENTION IS HELD AT THE FIRST REGIMENT ARMORY, 16TH STREET AND MICH. AVE., WITH 5,000 DELEGATES IN ATTENDANCE. THE LADIES NATIONAL BAPISTIST MISSIONARY BOARD HELD THEIR SESSION AT OLIVET BAPISTIST CHURCH ON THE CORNER OF 27TH AND DEARBORN ST. A WONDERFUL GATHERING FOR ONE DENOMINATION, AND A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH COMBINING THE UNITS OF ITS MANY INDEPENDENT BRANCHES, CONSTITUTING 15,000 CHURCHES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. There are two Christian factions striving for the mastery, for control. One represented the Chartered believers, and the other represented the Independent Baptist Idea. So after the Devotional exercises on the opening session the convention was made to appear very stormy on the account of the presentation of a resolution to accept the certificate of the Authority of the Charter of Incorporation, as they say, constituting seven men. This fight set aside the official program and those who were to appear upon the program were unable to be seen or heard. For 8 long hours nothing definite was accomplished and disorder was arrayed in the robe of her hostile pride. The delegates became disgusted, it was bedlam. Pandemonium reigned while the police looked on waiting to be called to quiet the disturbance at any moment. We would be doing an injustice to the Christian church and the Public as well if we failed to express the truth as we saw it. Two sister delegates had to be separated, for a free-for-all fight took place here in the eyes of everybody. The ministers, who had the most intelligence, were the most unruly. They acted like mad men instead of Christian gentlemen. The world has but very little encouragement from such as these. Their action was the work of the Devil, and not that of the Christian ministry. Their actions made one think that these never knew their Saviour, neither their God. Their conduct was deplorable. It would have been better that this convention had never come to Chicago, for the awful impression it has made upon the minds of the non-Christian people. It can not be commended. If anything, it was a disgrace. ST MARK M. E. CHURCH The first Quarterly Communion ever held in the new auditorium of St. Mark was in every way a historic day. The district superintendent, Rev. Gloster B. Bryant, D. D., preached at the morning service. He used as a text, "My Grace is Sufficient for Thee." The Communion Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. J. N. C. Coggins, So. Atlanta Field Agent of the Temperance Society, at 3 o'clock service. We appreciate the presence of Rev. H. M. Carroll, pastor Fulton St. M. E. Church; Rev. H. C. Cooper, pastor St. Luke; Rev. H. J. Callis, pastor of "Walters" A. M. E. Zion; Rev. Mr. Powell, Zion Mission, and Rev. J. C. Peters. The evening service was largely attended and the Rev. Geo. R. Jackson, an Evangelist, preached. There were 13 additions and 5 conversions for the day. Next Sunday morning Madame Anita Patti Brown will sing a solo. At the evening service the pastor will preach a sermon to the Elks. Miss Lucile B. Robinson, daughter of the pastor, spent a delightful afternoon last Saturday at Washington Park. Her guests were a party of friends from Washington, D. C., and Miss Fredrecia Brown of Liberia, Africa. THE LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO. (Under State Government Supervision.) At the State Government of Business Sept. 3rd, 1915. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts.....$421,848.38 Bonds and Stocks.....142,006.25 Bank Building.....40,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures.....5,650.00 Interest Accrued on Loans.....5,353.77 Cash on Hand and Due from Banks.....78,677.81 Total.....$693,536.21 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock.....$200,000.00 Surplus.....20,000.00 Undivided Profits.....2,412.07 Reserved for Taxes and In- terest.....997.92 Dividends Unpaid.....10.00 Deposits.....470,116.22 Total.....$693,536.21 THE CITIZEN'S MAGAZINE THE CITIZEN MAGAZINE, published in Boston, announces the following interesting features in articles and fiction, for the September number: The second installment of T. Montgomery Gregory's essay on "The Race and the Fine Arts;" the first act of an impressive and distinctive drama called "The Gift," by Dereth Byrd; a clever and thrilling short story, "What Was It," by "Stoughton;" another short story of high literary merit, "The Price," by Olive Jones; a comprehensive critical study of our famous poet called "The Mission of Dunbar," by George W. Ellis, and poems by such prominent and appealing poets as James W. Johnson, Benjamin G. Brawley and Fenton W. Johnson. THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOME ASSOCIATION. The Phyllis Wheatley Home Association begs to announce the formal opening of the new Phyllis Wheatley home, 3256 Rhodes avenue, Chicago, Ill., Sunday, September 12th, 1915, 1 to 10 P. M. The Public is cordially invited. A silver offering will be appreciated. ELIZABETH LINDSAY DAVIS, President. JESSIE TAYLOR JOHNSON, Secretary-Treasurer. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB NOTES The Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club will hold its regular meeting at the Home, 3256 Rhodes ave., Wed., Sept. 15th, at 2 o'clock; business of importance. ELIZABETH L. DAVIS, President. BEBERH HENSLEY, Secretary. NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE FOR SALE—A first-class music store and cigar est. at 5511 State st. $100 license paid; everything in good shape. Apply to Steve. Don't apply unless you have the cash. A CARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank the friends and mourners who contributed to the floral designs to Mrs. Anna Riley, deceased, of 3637 South State st., Sept. 3, 1915. CHIPS Mrs. Oscar DePriest, 3815 Vernon avenue, returned home Monday from a six weeks' visit with relatives and friends at Zanesville, Ohio. Col B. J. Riley, Commanding First Regiment of Missouri, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, visited Major General R. R. Jackson, recently, on important business. Mrs. Daniel H. Williams will address the ladies at the Coliseum on Tuesday evening. Many prominent women of both races will be present. The affair will be in charge of Mrs. A. J. Carey. Miss Jaunita Cooper has returned to Chicago, her home, 5438 Normal ave. She graduated with honors as a trained nurse from Provident Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Her friends wish her much success. Mrs. Nicholas Hunt, wife of former Police Inspector, Captain Nicholas Hunt, passed away the latter part of last week from heart failure. Captain Hunt has the sympathy of a large circle of friends over the loss of his constant and devoted wife. Hon. Roger C. Sullivan, former mayor John P. P. Hopkins, County Recorder Joseph F. Connery and John J. Corbett returned home the first of the week from an extensive trip to the Pacific Coast, attending the Panama Exposition at San Francisco, Cal. Dr. C. A. Terrell, surgeon-in-chief of the Negro Baptist Hospital at Memphis, Tenn., is in the city stopping with his niece, Mrs. Sadie Shepherd, '3347 Forest ave. Dr. W. A. Driver will probably return to Memphis with him for a short stay after his visit to the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. James H. W. Howard of Harrisburg, Pa., and their son are on a visit to this city. They are stopping at 6250 Sangamon street. Mr. Howard has the distinction of Deputy United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. For many years he has been one of our old friends. He is representing Uncle Sam at the Lincoln Jubilee Celebration. SIX BOOM BRICK COTTAGE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN ON EASY PAYMENTS. Beautiful six room and bath, cement basement, furnace heat, hardwood floors and trimmings, one and a half story brick cottage located on St. Lawrence avenue, near Marquette Road, 66th street Boulevard at a bargain, if purchased at once, small amount of money required. For further particulars, address Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence avenue. Phone Wentworth 2597, no agents wanted. FIVE BRICK HOUSES FOR SALE AT A GREAT BARGAIN. We have for sale a group of five brick houses that are offered at a bargain, they are to be sold all at once, and on easy payments; three to five hundred dollars down and the balance the same as rent, they are located on South Park Boulevard near Thirty fourth street. Do you want to be a member of a syndicate that will purchase these houses? If so address X care this paper. Illustration. "That girl ahead of us reminds me of a flower, but I can't recall just what one." "Oh, look! She's just-tripped on a banana peel!" "Now I know. She's a lady slipper." —Baltimore American. Congratulations. "What a beautiful woman!" "I'm glad you think so. That is my wife." "I congratulate you, old man. It must be a pleasure to lose every argument to a woman like that."—Detroit Free Press. The Explanation. "Dr. Curem is going every day from bad to worse." "Hasn't taken to drink, has he?" "Oh, no; merely visiting his patients."—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Not Severed Quits. "He told me that the bullet had severed his vocal cords." "But how, could he talk?" "Oh, he spoke brokenly, to be sure." —Buffalo Express. The danger of pride is that if shut the door to real greatness coming in—Frederick Lynch. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 11, 1915 DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Dr. Anna Howarl 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 specialists 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 52,799 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. SIRES AND SONS John McClanahan of Louisville, Ky. has twenty living children. Lieutenant Wirko 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 planist, is held in Germany a virtual 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 decollate 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 totter 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 £35,000 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 8. 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 fatirons. 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. 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. 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"Now, my good man, before we start out in your machine let us understand each other perfectly." "Well, what is it? "I am not destroys of seeing how fast you can drive this car; it is the scenery I wish to see."—Detroit Free Press. --- PAGE FIVE $2 Hats nth season selling Men's Fall values even for my three hat selling organizations and their profit on each sale. SERVICE time in good condition. I deliver fully refund money without any use of experienced salesmen for all instance. This means the kind of deserves. STORES Buren Street (ain Store) 11 W. Madison St. MRS. A. STEPHEN'S CAFE AND RESTAURANT. There is no better and no more up-to-date business woman in Chicago, who is more widely and favorably known than Mrs. A. Stephens, whose place of business is at 2913 S. State Street. All of her patrons receive the very best and most courteous treatment and are served with wholesome food, at the lowest and most popular prices. Home cooking a specialty. She also successfully conducts a furnished rooming house for men only at 2927 S. State Street and her places of business are worthy of the patronage of the public. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 ite Cafe BUFFET T CHICAGO Some people travel for a change of scene, when all they need is to stay home and have a change of thought. Some people keep right on eating fat meats in hot weather, and then they wonder why they feel uncomfortable! When there is sunshine enjoy it, and when there is not enjoy thinking how you will enjoy the next appearance. If income tax collectors could only recover on the lost gems of actresses the treasury deficit would soon be removed. A man has invented a bomb for finding the ocean's depth. Still, an easier way would be to travel on a steamer in a fog. --- aie: eee one ee Sa BERS ers sees RMON Sp enc soar “Margaret HN at ninety-three ‘ ports bavett te. Washagson. Dale 39 keeping # noticn store, ~ Dr, & Josephine Baker, director of vig segemayeg a= xreisre New York board of by bes under ber over 300 nurses and. 100 doctors. ‘Mrp, Isabella N. Goodwin, 2 police matron of New York city, has been placed in the honor regiment of the New York police force becuse Of con- spicuons bravery in the performance of ‘duty. ‘Mrs, ‘Thomas & Robie of New*Yort ‘went to work at the age of sixty-eight as shoppers’ guide for @ monthly maga xine. At seventy-seven abe started tr business for herself as corresponding ome decorator. Dr. Marjorie Kimlau of San Fran isco is said to be the youngest woman dentist in America and the second ‘Chinese woman to be graduated from the ‘San Francisco College of Physt clans and Surgeons. Though she is s native of the United States, her par eats are both Chinese. Current Comment. ‘Mexico's right to self government i# freely conceded. Its right to persecute law abiding foreigners is what is de- infed.—Chicago News. ‘It begins to look as if the American dollar were becoming almost as timpor- tant to the world as it is to the United ‘States —Indianapolis News. _ ‘The eleven cent stamp has entered our postal life. Even the task of put- ‘ting on stamps is being reduced to a ‘minimum these labor saving days— ‘Baltimore American. ‘Worth is to close his London shop be- ‘cause to economize Englishwomen are buying no new dresses. America’s de- sire for economy hasn't yet reached ‘that stage—New York Tribune PITH AND POINT.” ‘Envy has torpedoed many a friend- ship. (Calling « man « liar is never an ar gument. A well wisher is good, but a weil doet is better. Good luck and bad habits are very seldom on speaking terms. ‘If a man got all he wished he'd have more than he knew what to do with ‘Wise men are always donbtful about the man who is dead sure of every- ‘thing. It ts as safe to judge a man by the excuse he makes as by the company be keeps. ‘There is as much trouble over Mace- donia now as there was thousands of years ago. When it comes to pacifying Mexico ‘the other powers seem willing to let thelr Uncle Sam do it. ‘There are two classes of busy people —those who are busy in fact and those ‘who are busy in appearance. ‘You can't satisfy some people, They are always looking for trouble and are never happy when they find it A bey may be proud of his father end still not take much comfort in swearing the old man's castoff clothes. ‘When you hear a man say that he has never made a mistake just ask him if he has ever made anything else, German Gleanings. > Germany's population has grown 18 per cent in a century. ‘The goose step of the German soldier was adopted with an object, that of making the peasant conscripts mor sure footed in a. charge. In Germany it is said to. indicate good tuck if a spider spins-its wel downward toward you. if the opers ton is reversed that means misfor tune. R In Germany the prefix “von” means “court wortby.” It is granted by ‘the sovereign, who alane can raise © iain from the rank of a citizen to that ef-s gentleman. Aes The Royal Box, = P igpa dag Stats, Sas bite annuity from the British - of about $360,000. see _ King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, itke ate nd King Gaorer en ee / ; — sof Pema Ee eee ee ee ‘The alr craft indwtry. to France te confined almost entizely to aeroplanes An English inventor's seroplano can be Converted into e teut wherever its pilot mey happen to stop by the add tion of curtains between Ap aeroplane that its two New Jer sey inventors Gaim ts it stabilizing hes four sup) . oe ae EW PLP ih. are taoty suit to Ditgroce "You wo Mees oa eae ae ‘been baay plowing that field. I hea: ‘Ingenuity has fgvented a plow driven ‘by steam, Why not get one to plow for you while“you sit with me in the shade and enjoy ite?" ‘Diligence bought the plow which would plow # field in a fraction of the St bad taken him to do it But |fmstead of sitting in the shade be put more fand into cultivation. and it took ‘il his. time to attend to the plow and ‘see that It worked properly. ‘When harvest ‘time came he tnd more to do than ever on account of the new Jand be had cultivated. ‘Harvest over, ‘Bloth went to pay Dil- igence a visit, saying to himself, “Now be will have a little more time to talk to me.” But be found him conferring with Ingenuity in regard to a larger. more powerful plow, that be might next season put still more land in cul- vation. ‘Moral.—There is no cure for dili gence—Boston Journal. Dies an Wateidecs, In some parts of Mexico the wild hogs, which the natives call jabalis (Qhab-bab-lee), savage beasts in thelr maturdl state, are used at watchdogs ‘If they are caught young and brought ‘up with goats they will go out into the Bilis with the herd and fight off coyotes or other wild animals; if they are raised with chickens they will pro- ‘tect them, and round a ranch bouse at night they are as useful as any dog. Although fierce by nature, they can be tamed until they follow their mas- ter round like a dog. ‘The landlord of @ hotel in one of the border towns even keeps one of the wild bogs as a Playmate for his baby son. ‘The jabali is only first cousin, how- ever, to the domestic pig. Swine are ivided into two main branches. In ‘one line is the farmer's pig, descended from the wild hog of Burope, and in the other is the jabali, which is really @ peccary, But the jabali ts quite “piggy” enough with his small fexibie ‘spout, long mottled bristles and long sharp tusks. ae ee or Some call it the butcher bird, but the real mame 1s shrike. It is one of ‘the oddest birds we have, because it represents a creature that is changing tts type. Shoald you happen to walk through the country and come across a thorn tree with a small garter snake ‘or a mouse impaled on 2 spike you may know that a shrike ts around. Originally the bird was insectivorous ‘and spent its time eating grasshoppers and such like. Somehow it got a taste of mouse or perhaps a smaller bird that tt killed in a fight. It liked the meal, and naturally the bill of fare ‘was extended to incinde mice, snakes and lisards. Very foxy is the shrike ‘It ha@ no talons to tear ‘ts prey apart. so-it hit on the plan of impaling the ‘Yietim apon-a thorn. where it could ine leisurely and on the installment plan. ‘The butcher bird is about nine inches long and looks something like a mocking “bird.— Philadelphia North American “The Tyranny of Wills, Many petty tyrants have sought tc tmmpose their will on posterity. Henry Budd, who died in 1862. gave proof in his will of s prejudice against mus taches. “In case my son Edward shall ‘wear mustaches.” be stipulated, “then the devise hereinbefore contained ip favor of him of my estate called Pep- per Park shall be void, and i devise ‘the same estate to my son William, his ‘appointees, heirs and assigns. And tn case my said son William shall wea: mustaches then the devise beretabefore contained in favor of him of my estate called Twickenbam Park shall be void, and I devise the same estate to my son Bdward." Presumably the sons accept ed that close shave for a fortune—Lon — LA Mighty Workman, Mrs, McTavish (to neighbor)—Is tt ‘true that your Jock startit to work in {her toe lowing wih. pesio—Guls true, Mrs, M, and, what's mair, I see ie: Oh palen| ek roey heen, Som i —————— eo ee ee ey | Mires of any sise efe #0 scarce in Holland that the city of Rotterdam. - with a population of over 400,000, bas practically no fire Gepartment, while ‘the prevalence of canals offers an ever -feady water supply to fight any fires “whieb might occur. Ss eng aid Bhort of te. ‘Mr, Blinks,” sald abe, “do yoo think {et enchtin a era than Fab ation?” . “Well,” replied. Mr. Blinks, “antici- ee ee es ones eee ee A Battie car gin 2 a ome a ‘that the ee + and compare thelr eympioms.” eee > {wir lates of the mit ees abost.sisonm fast long.” ‘Die eos Ra) * ¥ aoe TBE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 2, 191: ——————— iy “The God Old Times. = Grater Lake's Gamy Trout At one time in Rome political offices} Whether it be frum the tempe “were auctioned off in public to the high-| ar the quality of the water est bidder. In ancient Greece theft was | known, but it ix the testimony not considered so much of a disgrace as | perieiced anglers that. poun ‘Deing caught at it. pound, Crater luke trout are Our ptisons are not ideal, but we! fighters than trout found elsewh have made progres in dealing with| “Around the edges of the lfke rime. There were formerly fourteen | the genera! superintendent of th ‘offenses in Delaware punishable by| “there is uv foliaze to entang! hanging. In the early history of Con-| book and live. aud it ts the Idea Recticut lying, “that foulle and gross| for the amateur tisberman, W sip,” was punishable with five stripes | was there the lake was so cles ‘at the whipping post and confinement | you could see to a deyh of fort tm stocks; people were imprisoned in| The first fixb I caught I saw ta ‘wful dungeons for debt. In Rome| fy. I saw every motion of bit men were sold into slavery to pay| until I finally landed bim on the debts; creditors could tear the body of | which I only did with the aid of the debtor to pieces, each receiving a| the concessioners in the park. ploce according to the size of his credit.| not know of any otber place ‘Poday is the best’ day creation has} world where an umateur fisherm ‘ever seen. For 2,000 years the Sermon | swing bis ly in any direction w on the Mount, like leaven, bas been| danger of catching ft on some permeating the hearts of men. At last) and when he books his fish only that which is good can endure.| every motion us he fights for fr ‘The fires of ttme burn out the dross. | I agree with Emerson Hough in ‘There is “one faroff divine event, to-| word that he has said about fist ward which all creation moves.” It is| Crater lake.” perfection—but it is not here—Leslie’a, — ——————— District of Columbia. Scttine a Fashion. ‘Sin waiteines aadesement ¢ ‘Some years ago the coral fishers of ‘Torre del Greco, near Naples, were in hard straits. ‘The value of coral bad fallen so low that they were no longer ‘able to find purchasers for their har ‘yest. At last in their despair they be sought the qneen to come to thelr aid. At the first great court ball that was eld thet year at the Quirinal the queen, to the surprise of all beholders, ‘Wore about ber neck a collar composed of six rows of coral instead of her su- perb collar of pearis, and her black hair was crowned with a diadem of coral ‘and beilliants. From that evening the mode changed. Old coral ornaments that had been hidden away for years and years were again displayed at the Jewelers’ and were snapped up by ‘eager purchasers. Queen Helena's ob- fect was attained, and that court ball marked the beginning of more prosper- us days for the coral fishers of Torre del Greco. ‘The Chinamen’s Wardrobe. in “Home Life in China” Isaac Taylor Headiand tells the following Story to illustrate the conveniences of the Chinese costume: ‘A Chinese government representa. tive who was new to American ways came to the bome of an eminent New ‘York banker for a week's visit, It was winter, but be came without luggage, and"yet every day he appeared at din- er with a change of garments. At first his hostess wondered how he man- ‘aged it, but soon she discovered that hig body was his trunk and that fn- stead of putting his clothes into his trunk be put his trunk into his clothes. His garments were like the layers of an onion, except that any layer might be worn on the outside, and as some of his gowns—for such they might be called—were of silk, lined with fur, or fur, Med with silk. he could wear them either side out at will. A Rare Bird. ‘The Jowest form of bird life which exists is believed to be the kiwi, or Apteryx nantelli, of New Zealand. It is s0 scarce, however, that scientists consider themselves lucky to get a spee- fmen in any condition. It is without Wings or tail; its legs are short, bat ‘Very strong, and are used for digging. The chief food of the bird is earth- worms. The body covering is a cross between hair and feathers. The kiwis develop great speed and make a des perate fight when attacked. A pecul- far characteristic is that during the Gay they conceal themselves under rocks or roots of trees and when at rest resemble to some extent a hedge bog when it is curled up. Efforts to breed them in captivity bave utterly failed, and only a few museums can boast of specimens. Explained. ‘When be came in late he said to his waiting wife, “See the nice present I Drought you.” “Where is it?” “Here it is. A point lace handker ete” “Oh, ain't it beautifull” “Yes, it cost a dollar, marked dewn to 9 cents” “My, what 2 horrible odorf” - “Oh, that's the scent off the dollar! —Exchangé. 2 Chesterfield on Drees. “When you are once well dressed tor the day,” wrote Chesterfield, “think ho’ more of it Always and without any stiffness or fear of discomposing ‘that dress iet all your actions be as @esy und natural es if you had no ‘Gotbes on at all.” An Unkind Retort. “You made a foo! of me!” exciatmed the angry husband. “Call yourself a fool if you wish, my, Gear,” calmily rejoined his tantalizing- 4y placid wife, “bot remember that you! Abgve always claimed to be a self men” Honest, Anyhow. | “So you are marrying the man Jour choice?” : exactly the man of my choice; i the man I could get.”—Detzolt ‘Bree Pree Ba ee Mt > aft ah Acie ing! Tommy on) = ater ee aa ean aaa S ae ean s * Bomea eee Wee atied wy capicoe "5 Grater Lake's Gamy Trout “Whether it be {rom the temperature er the quailty of the water Is not ‘known, but it is the testimony of ex- perieiced anglers that. pound for pound, Crater lake trout are harder fighters than trout found elsewhere. “around the edges of the ldke,” said the genera! superintendent of the park, “there is uv foliage to entangle your book and live, and it ts the ideal place for the umateur tisberman, Whea I was there the lake was so clear that you could see to a deyih of forty feet ‘The first fish I caught I saw take the fy. I saw every motion of bis body until I finally Janded him on the bank, which I only did with the aid of one of the concessioners in the park. I do not know of any other place in the world where an amateur fisherman can swing bis fly in any direction without danger of catching it on some twig ‘and when be hooks his fish wateh every motion us he fights for freedom. I agree with Emerson Hough in every word that he has said about fishing tn Crater lake.” Dietrice af Galumbia. ‘The municipal government of the District of Columbia, including the en- tire city and adjoining territory, is vested by act of congress in three com- missioners. two of whom are appoint- ed by the president from citizens of the district having bad three years’ residence therein immediately preced- ing their appointment and confirmed by the senate. The otber commission- er ix detailed by the president of the United Stutex from the corps of engi- neers of the United States army and must have lineal rank senior to cap- tain or be a captain who bas served at least fifteen years in the corps of eng!- gineers of the army. The commission- ers appoint nearly all the subordinate official service of sald government ex- cept the beard of education. which ts appoluted by the supreme court of the District of Columbia. There is not an elective officer In’ the District, and the people living there have no vote in a presidential or other election. Lecends of the Red Roses. As to the orizin of the rose there ts ‘2 legend that a Jewish maid of Beth- lehem (whom Southey names Zillah) was beloved by one Ham'ull, a brutish sot. Zillah rejected bis suit, and Ham'ull vowed vengeance. He gave out that Zillah was a demoniae, and she was con¢emned to be burned, but God averted the flames, the stake bud- ded, and the maid stood unharmed un- der a rose tree full of red and white ‘Toses, “then first seen on earth since paradise was lost.” From other sources it would appear that the rose was first white, and the ‘Turks say {t was colored with the blood of Mohammed and will never suffer the flower to lie on the ground, while, contrary to this, the Greeks hold that tt derived its color from the blood of Venus when she trod on a thorn of the white thorn When going to the as- ‘sistance of the dying Adonis. ‘The Jocoes Goda. ‘What bumor could be wider than that of life itself? Franz Schubert on his deathbed read the complete works Gf J. Fenimore Cooper John Milling. ton Synge wrote “Itiders to the Sea” on a secondhand forty dollar typewrit- ee and wore « celluloid cular. Ricb- ard Wagner made « tivins during four Jean years arrancing {tallan opera arias for the cornet. Thomas Henry Huxley's wife called him “Hal” Her- bert Spencer sang bass in a harber shop quartet and was in love with George Eliot William Shakexpeare was 2 social pusher and bought bim ‘a bogus coat of arms. Bismarck wus afraid of his mother. The greatest sol- @er in Hungarian bistory was named Hungadi Janos. —Owen Hatteras in Smart Set. at ee A New York bellhop who bought a hotel had a code for the art of getting tips which ts as follows: Play the honeymooners hard. New: ly wed men like to make a splurge be fore their brides. Don’t waste time on “big bugs.” ‘Shower attention on the women. I they tip at all they tip liberally. Don't “stall” Do your part and then leave it to the guest. Don't persecute tightwads, Shame them with faultless service. Don't make yourself obnoxious by ‘greed for tips. “Above all, save—Exchange. His Choten Profession. “And what do you expect to be when you grow up, Bobby,” asked a minis ‘ter, “a lawyer, like your father?” _*No," Bobby replied. “Mother says ‘Tm too much like papa to make @ suc- cessful lawyer. 1 did think I'd be a @ram major, but I guess T'll be « on tamer.”—Chicago News. Egypt's Desert. "It has been discovered that the air ‘the Egyptian desert is as free from ct life as the polar regions of Sa ae S08 ok ciao eople suffering trom rhev- a consumption to take up thelr abc ‘Telegraph. / Kiek of an Ostrich. An angry ostrich is a great Oghter. He strikes ont with bis feet, and his being immensely strong, he can With no great amount of exertion, kill aman aed Her Prize. 4 —Did you have to tsb Tamme, before you canght ‘Mother—Fish, my dear—Gsb! 1 ‘Dear bunting—London M. AP. Sel at parieys is near surren ix Belf Sacrifice. No man has ever sacrificed himself fm the common meaning of that phrase, which Is elf sacrifice for another alone. Men make dally sacrifice for others, but it is for their own sake first. ‘They must content their own spirit Grst. A man must feel better for doing a duty than he would for shirking it ‘Take the case of the Berkeley Cas tle, a British troopsbip crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. ‘There was room in the boats for the women and children only. The colonel! lined up bis regiment on the deck and said, “It is our duty to die that they may be saved.” There was no mur. mur, no protest. The boats carried away the women and children. When the death moment was come the colo- nak aes ee ere posts, the men stood at ” and #0, a8 on dress parade, with their flag fiying end the drums beating, they went down, a sacrifice to duty for duty’s sake. They were soldiers with @ soldier's pride—a soldier's self re- spect. They had to content a soldier's spirit—Mark Twain. Beudkh Yaur Tancus. = Brush your teeth By all means brush your teeth religiously and well but for pity’s sake brush your tongue too. Wield your brush backward and forward, under and over, to the north to the south, to the east and west scour it with fervor, for it is in truth a tiny forest of dense foliage wherein lurks the unseen enemy. Every time you open your mouth a whole regiment of lttle microbes charge through the aperture and take up quarters somewhere in the confines of your chewing apparatus. Seek them out and annihilate them before sleep enfolds you. for, fortified with an enor mous capacity for work, they rest not, neither do they weary, and you may awaken in the morning to find whole companies firmly intrenched in the middie of your tongue. If you can't conceive of your own particular organ being so invaded take a microscope and mirror and get busy—Philadel- phia Ledger. A Terrible Abves. ‘The greatest ocean depth yet sound- ed 1s 31,200 feet, near the island of Guam. If Mount Everett, the world’s highest mountain, were plucked from its seat and dropped into this spot the ‘waves would roll 2,000 feet about its crest. Into this terrible abyss the wa- ters press down with a force more than 10,000 pounds to the square inch. The stanchest ship ever built would be crumbled under this awful pressure Uke an egg shell under a steam roller. A pine beam fifteen feet long which held open the mouth of the trawl used im making a cast at a depth of more than 18,000 feet was crushed flat as if ft had been passed between rollers ‘The body of the man who should at- tempt to venture to such depths would be compressed until the flesh was fore- 4 into the interstices of the bone and ‘his trunk was no larger than a rolling pin. Still the body would reach the bottom.—Pearson’s Weekly. Gee Sens Oe ‘That plants die like animals we all know, but we do not know the exac moment when they die. For hours a dead plant seems alive. There is no ‘twitch, no death spasm. A scientist has, however, succeeded not only tn noting the precise moment when a Plant gives up its life, but in recording its death spasm. ‘The plant is heated Very gradually so a8 to avoid all exct- tation. This is done by placing the plant in a water bath the temperature of which is continuously raised by the ‘application of a gas or spirit flame. At © degrees C. a spasmodic extraction takes place. All attempts to obtain response after this fail, even though the plant is cooled down to its normal temperature. This death temperature of €0 degrees is constant for all plants Eyes of a Bird. Fishes and birds have an advantage over human beings in their ability to see on both sides éf them. Ther eyes ‘are set not for looking straight ahead, but for looking out on each side. ‘That is because they balance their bodies to right or to left, while we balance forward and backward. A bird can watch the tips of both wings at once. ‘The pilot of an aeroplane has to turn his head from side to side to see his felting 9 he ‘Sinseatedinesed * | eels — Why Ge you: thew tim over? Mabel—He would have been a ‘Very parsimonious husband. Madge— But he fairly lavished money on you ‘@uring the engagement Mabel—Yes; bat as soon as we began to talk honey- ‘moon the first thing he did was to look ‘Up excursion rates.—Judge. Incensistency. Mrs. Bacon—He’s a very inconsistent An | ‘Mrs. Egbert—Indeed? “Yes. Why, be tried to, break his Doy of being left handed, and he could only punixh the little fellow with bis deft hand."—Yonkers Statesmen. A Great Effort. “Quiet, children, quiet!” says the German mother in Fiiegende Blatter. ‘“Bather is tired to death. He wrote a Jetter today that will go so very far— ‘all the way to America.” Take Along 2 Hammer, soe pre bese te fn. Dat Ibtead with the new bride and groom yet? _He—No! I'm not feeling very ‘strong-—Boston Transcript. - = F oft aes’ The vets oe carey Harvest Time in Shantung eee, Come A 00 a cree Sbantung. Here, too, it 4 the thine of ‘Supreme interest to th: whole famity Life in the country js Practically mess. Gred by so many wheat harrests ey every old man and woman hopes to Hive to see one more. For weeks be fore all plavs are made with reference fo it Carpentry, wusoury, worg ot every kind must either be tnistat ye fore “palling wheat time” or init ase at that time to wait unt the hares 4s over. No matter how important the eyes of a foreign resident the Work to habd may tecome, be caee beg or buy his workmen to continue when once the wheut is rive In the hospitals all the paticuts wane to ge well ‘by wheat pulling tine Some must stay on, but many a ove ineapan Stated fu band oF foot for real ors goes home to take his oF her place ig “watching the gate.” that all the ret of the family may Zo to the feld and thrashing tloor.—Christian Herald, —<——___ ‘The Irish of the Batkans ‘The Servians are the Irish of sonth. eastern Europe, with all the virtues and some of the weakuesses of the Irish people. They are especially proud of thelr national poetry, which they pos. se88 as no other antion possesses in modern times, for they still Lave thelr national bards—men who live by mak. ing national song, not highly cultured poets, but men in the street. They do not go to & newspaper to report what they hear, but to the next iun or cof. fee house, and there take up their ip struments (> recite what they have tp say. Virtually our bands are ancient reporters. The old ones sing. Those of the present day stenograph. The Servian language {s the richest and ‘most musical of the Slav dialects. The Russian language has that reputation, but it is not so musical and clear and Fich—Miyatoviteb, Servian minister to England, in the Manchester Guardian Cia Many people have a window or a part of one which they would like bar Ted to the tvo curious gaze of passers by oF, possibly, of neighbors ‘This can be managed by pretty crystallizing the window siass as f0: Jows: Fill a Jam pot one-third full of gum arabic and add a little hot water. Let this soak for some hours ani when the gum has quite dissolved adi the same quantity of epsom salts Then stand the jam pot in a basin of hot water and stir well until the sal has quite dissolved. Apply the mic ture to the glass quickly with a camels hair brush. The effect is like crystallized ground glass, and, while light is admitted, no one can see through it The ellect o plain ground glass is obtained by using @ linen rag instead of a brush and putting the preparation on thinly —Ex change. ee a Genera! Sir John Younghusband, the well known writer on military sub Jects, was once cleverly victimized by some Indian natives. At a villaze where be was encamping the dusky inhabitants brought to his tent a nun ber of sapphire-like stones which thes stated had been dug up at a spot some distance from the village. Sir Join was convinced that be bad luckily bit on a treasure mine. He bousht every stone the natives possessed. “I had dreams of boundless wealth.” said Sir John when relating the story, “and on wy arrival at Calcutta I has tened to have the stones talvel “Lovely color, light, perfect, not a daw. worth 50 guineas apiece—if they wee not made of Birmingham paste” wss the expert's crushing criticism.”—Lox don Tatler. pS ny Don’t despise the badly written post al card, moralizes a writer in Bust ness He received a card that was written in a scrawl and showed sizus of having been in the writer's pocket for some time after he bad sizned it But it was answered just as if it hal been written by a reputable business man. And it was It seemed that the card had been hastily written on the ars, put into the merchant's pocket, ‘discovered several days later and then ‘mailed. “We have since,” concludes ‘the writer, “done a very nice business with this man.” His Music Room. “And you cail this your music room?” “Yes” “But there are no musical instr ‘ments in it?” “No. It's so constructed that I can't hear any of the surrounding music that ‘may be turned on from time to time.” —Violin World. A Lesson In English. ‘Teacher—Now, Clarence, can you tell ‘me what “can’t” is the abbreviation of? Clarence—It's the abbreviation of “cannot.” Teacher—That's right. Now Edgar, what is “don't” the abbrevis- tion of? Edgar—“Donghnut."—Chice- go News. . ‘Tew ta Neserve it. a Contentment in old age Com by him alone who has not lost faith in ‘what 1s good. his persevering strenst) ‘of will and his desire for active em ployment. —Turgenieft. Splendid Scheme. Mother (of ber son)—He bas & Des {if voice, and we have bad him taught the flute so that be can sccom pany himself.—Exebanze oi ane He Did. Simkine get any damases ease?” - ‘My dear fellow. you ought face” | LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. OPEN one with US. Beautiful Autom FUNERA Auto Hearse, Two L persons, black-broad clo plush, Grave, Out Side Auto Hearse, Two Limousines carrying twelve persons, black-broad cloth casket, or any color in plush, Grave, Out Side Box and Embalming. Calls answered at any hour, day or night, to any part of city or suburbs F. A. RAWLINS, Undertaker JAMES DAUGHER 4821 S. State S Phone Oakland 1328 TELEPHONE KENWOOD 1233 J. B. Clith Real F. A. RAWLINS, Undertaker and Funeral Director JAMES DAUGHERTY, Assistant Funeral Director. 4821 S. State Street, Chicago Phone Oakland 1328 Automatic 72-185 RENTING, INSURANCE MORTGAGE LOANS 7 West 51st Street Flexible Stone Iaculumite is a peculiar stone which is found in Brazil. When flexible itaculumite is cut into thin plates, and when examined with a microscope it is found to be composed almost entirely of fine grains of sand of peculiar shape, with indented edges which interlock like the fingers of clasped hands. The flexibility of the material results from this interlocking of the grains of sand, of which it is chiefly composed. Although but few persons know that this stone can be anything but hard, the flexible stone is not so much of a curiosity as it seems, for it is found in North Carolina, and there are specimens of it in a case at the Philadelphia collection. The sensation of handling a piece of stone which bends like a piece of rubber is a strange experience. If handled too roughly the stone breaks.-Indianapolis News. 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, hairy 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 America. Next Door to It. An acquaintance of the late Josh Billings was one day talking with him about the remarkable increase of imitations and substitutes for original articles, as oleomargarine for butter, celluloid for ivory, and so forth, "and," said he, "many of the substitutes go ahead of the real thing. I guess in time there will be a substitute for everything, though I don't know about wisdom." "No," replied the humorist, "up to the present time at least there is no really good substitute for wisdom. But silence is the best that has so far been discovered." SURPLUS, $20,000.00 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3 Per Cent Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent, Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, Illinois. mobile $65.00 ALS Limousines carrying twelve both casket, or any color in Box and Embalming. er and Funeral Director RRTY, Assistant Funeral Director. Street, Chicago Automatic 72-185 hero & Co. □ Estate A Disgusted 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 alt."—Louisville Courier-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. Business. 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. The Curious 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. Raking Observatory. Peking 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. Chicago, Ill. A Detail. Business THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 11, 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 piazza 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'm dead 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 midocean 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; "I by till morning." In an hour the lights of the ill fated 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." or "What was it?" he demanded ex- ctedly. "What's your idea or 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. 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 coinage 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 Priniett, 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 Ingulsitive Jaws. 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. "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. 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. Tranches 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 knaps and ask to be forgiven."—Puck. No Truth. "They say diet has much to do with people's character." "Nothing of the sort. I saw that your Miss Turt the other day dilling up on angel cake."—Baltimore American. An Outdoor Sport. "Why do you beat the rugs with a golf club?" "It looks more like I was doing this for exercise and not under compulsion."—Kansas City Journal. Discretion of Speech. 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H, Faulkner, news agency; 3109 8 State strest. George 1 Martin, maker of fine cig are and news stand, 18 W. Sisy, 8. agar State, BR. M. Harvey’s barber shop and news stand, 8924 State street.“ ‘W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to bacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State Bt. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 80th Bt. F. Bishop, cigars, tobscco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St, near Btate. Sylvester MeGlofin, news stand and laundry office, 4123 State Bt. William Geughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco nd news stand, 9636 ‘State Bt. EM. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. S0th Street, near Beate, A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobscep, notions stationery and news stand, 2640 6. State Bt George MeFaro, shoe parler sag neve snd.” s200%)ptate oeet T. B Hall, Laundry eflee, cigan, tobacco and news stand. S618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, ciga.., tobacco. votions and news stand, 6202 South ‘State strest. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobscce and news stand, 8342 8. State street. Mise BM. MoCiain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 30th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobsceo, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. ; Karlsruhe’s First Family. | aeey Rates 1s comtesty 60 pleted by Sir Horace Rumbold, whe pomes <. Seth part of hip Mplocnati career there. He found Karlarube so- ciety entirely composed of half dozen families of long descent and small means, who bad tntermarried for gen- erations, Whoever was not a Gem- mingen was a Hardenberg or 2 Duerckhelm or an Amerongen. Talley- Tand had a tale of his first ywisit to the Katisrube theater. “Who ts that lady tm the third box on the first ter?” “That is a Gemmingen.” said the young native who accompanied him. “and that general in the stalls?” “Also a Gemmingen.” At last Talley- tand 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 ex tent. 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 exten- sive 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 fn a library. Asfar as known, only one of these chairs was ever actually constructed for his own particular use. and this ts owned at present by the Philosophical society of Philadelphia. Reln ‘There are so many things worse than fain 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 ived ‘ext door and practiced regularly we should compiain; if bills were sent in once a week instead of once a month; if bores never went bome; if all friend- |sbip were mercenary and false in ad. versity; if sickness visited us oftener and stayed longer than bealth; if ma- Hicious people were many and the kind We might justifiably be miserable ‘and remain so. not Pt But so long as so many worse things rey day if 1 ants to” Most aloe every ‘wants to, Jey is weather proot—Detroit Free ‘Pres. - eeee menses Cotteetee Nicholas Copernicus was the founder of modern astronomy. He was born tm Poinnd in 1478, Hise father was e Pole, and his mother whs a German. ‘He went to the university at Ozmcow. Where he studied medicine, thealogy. ‘mathematics and astromomy. Later be dovoted his whole attention to as tromomy and developed the “Copernt: an” system, whith is the one now ‘Universally accepted. It regands the un 2s the center of the solar aystem ee ooo one, 8s around ft, while ‘ground the majority of these. y me or more secondary ‘as moons, revolve. ‘The ; as ees ce a ae ee SHORT AND SHARP. Some men do no wrong and yet do ittle that is right. ‘The man who tries to get rich in a hurry usually stubs bis toe, Unfortunately, the safety first move- ‘ment cannot be made retroactive. ‘There is nothing wrong in being @ 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 dis- play murderous instincts when {t comes to killing time. ‘Many a fellow gets the reputation of Deing fast when his creditors think he ts mighty slow. By the time many 2 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 & pretty heavy life insurance. Don't grumble at the man who talks exclusively about himself. Some peo- ple do worse when they talk abvat others. An interesting question may arise as to what the United States is going to Go with all the gold that European na- tone keep putting out. Over in Spain they are said to be hoarding gold. Spain is pretty old to take up the savings habit, but it's ever too late to economize. | Town Topics. : Jersey City’s population of 270,000 ts ealy another brigade of New York's (great army.—Boston Herald. Milwaukee has emancipated itself from the cabaret, preferring to take ft 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 ee rem eens ee Newspaper alarmists assert Philadel- phia is practically without defenses, Dut what nation would be so foolish fs to bombard such a quiet place?— Albany Knickerbocker Press. Dress Hints. ‘When pressing tucks in crepe de ehine, thin silks and such materials be fare to use tissue paper between it Hand the iron, as scorehing is easy. Don't wear brilliant colors if you have red hair and brightly colored jebeeks. You will look far better in ‘certain shades of brown, im navy bine and ip light colors for evening White ‘and black will also be good choices. If buttons tear away on woolens, try gewing them on with a small linen Dutton 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 mat ter what the garment. Household Helps. If you wish to place a dish directly ‘en the ice put a rubber ring under it te Keep it from slipping. ‘Tbe 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 maks ‘them heavy. - Wear loose chamois gloves for all Girty work whenever possible and oc- easionally sprinkle a little flour inside, ‘as this prevents the heat from harw- fag the skin. Train and Track. Australia bas 18,391 miles of govern. ‘ment railways. As a rule, one mile of railway ts Great Britain takes 270 tons of raila, Photographic means bave been in ‘Vented for measuring the blows dealt ‘Dy fat car wheels to tracks under ve. ous conditions. _ Raflway extension work is at pres ‘€nt practically paralyzed in Argentina, Dut thiere are hopes that « bill author. king's branch line from Santa Fe to Puerto Reconquista will be introduced ‘at the next legislative session. ‘ Three Reels. | Whe motion picture business is rated as the fifth largest industry of, the ‘Wulted States. This inciudes merely the making of the films. —& morine picture machine, built to prove rare fan ane es maw 94 side by side. and as the end of one bs re the otber is thrown into 5 aasegie ede es ee ee 300,000.00 of more than es. of film are used up yearly to ‘A STORE LMAN HILLMAN eee ee aa ee one Tt ry a tt rt 7 aa Se ae The- Cranford Apartmeit Building. 9600. 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