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Mayor William Hale Thompson Closes His Eyes Tight and Has Ordered All the Saloons in This City to Close Up at 12 O'clock Sharp Saturday Evening and Remain Closed Until Monday Morning; Great Consternation Prevails Among the Saloon Men and Their Followers THE MAYOR WILL ENFORCE HIS PROCLAMATION CLOSING UP THE SALOONS ON THE LORD'S DAY BY THE AID OF CHIEF OF POLICE CHARLES C. HEALY WITH THE ENTIRE POLICE FORCE AT HIS BACK AND UNLIMITED POWER AT HIS COMMAND. EACH SALOON-KEEPER WILL BE PROMPTLY ARRESTED AND FINED $200 IF HE ATTEMPTS TO SELL WHISKY OR BEER ON SUNDAYS. MAYOR THOMPSON STARTED OUT TO BECOME A WORLD POWER IN POLITICS SHORTLY AFTER HIS ELECTION AND NOW HE CLAIMS THAT HIS POLITICAL ENEMIES IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THREATENED TO HAVE HIM INDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY FOR FAILING TO ENFORCE THE LAWS, THEREBY COMPELLING HIM TO CLOSE THE SALOONS ON SUNDAYS. DOES SEEM TO ALL FAIR-MINDED MEN, WHETHER THEY BELONG TO THE WETS OR THE DRYS, THAT MAYOR THOMPSON ACTED BATHER HASTILY IN THAT DIRECTION; THAT THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO SHOULD HAVE BEEN PERMITTED TO VOTE EITHER FOR OR AGAINST THAT PROPOSITION BEFORE HE ACTED SO RASHLY; THAT AT ALL TIMES LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT SHOULD PREVAIL IN THIS GREAT METROPOLITAN CITY. Vol. XXI. Mayor Will Has O'12 O'Until Amor THE MAYOR WILL ENFORCE HIS SALOONS ON THE LORD'S DAY CHARLES C. HEALY WITH THE BACK AND UNLIMITED POWER KEEPER WILL BE PROMPTLY ATTEMPTS TO SELL WHISKY C. MAYOR THOMPSON STARTED OUT POLITICS SHORTLY AFTER HIS THAT HIS POLITICAL ENEMY THREATENED TO HAVE HIM FOR FAILING TO ENFORCE THE HIM TO CLOSE THE SALOONS. DOES SEEM TO ALL FAIR-MIND TO THE WETS OR THE DRYS, RATHER HASTILY IN THAT D CHICAGO SHOULD HAVE BEEN OR AGAINST THAT PROPOSITION THAT AT ALL TIMES LOCAL VAIL IN THIS GREAT METROPOLIS Mayor William Hale Thompson, at the meeting of the city council Monday evening, without the slightest warning issued the following message which will for sometime to come close all the moons within the city of Chicago on Sundays. MAYOR'S MESSAGE TO COUNCIL CLOSING SALOONS ON SUNDAY. I have recently received communications from citizens of Chicago that liquor is sold in this city on Sunday in violation of the state laws. I referred these communications to the corporation counsel for an opinion as to what is the law in regard thereto. He advises me that the state law provides that "whoever keeps open any tipping house or place where liquor is sold or given away upon the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, shall be fined not exceeding $200," and that the city ordinance permitting under certain restrictions saloons or dramshops to remain open on Sunday does not and cannot nullify the state law. This being the law, as I am advised, and it being my duty as mayor to take care, so far as lies within my power, that the law is faithfully executed in the city, I hereby direct that saloons or dramshops shall comply with the law and close on Sunday. And the city collector is hereby ordered immediately to notify in writing all persons to whom he has issued licenses for saloons or dramshops that such persons must comply with the requirements of the state law. WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, Mayor. The action of Mayor Thompson in that respect was like unto a clap of real thunder from a clear sky, even his closest friends among the saloon men those who loyally supported him against the Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer did not know what was in store for them before the meeting of the city council on Monday evening and to say the least many of his warm admirers among the saloon men have not yet fully recovered their breaths from the effects of the severe body blow which they received from their friend Mayor Thompson. Before departing for the far west on his special train that same evening Mayor Thompson instructed Chief of Police Charles C. Healy to enforce his message of proclamation closing the saloons in this city on the Lord's day or on each and every Sunday here after right up to the letter and with the entire police force at his back and with unlimited power at his command each and every saloon keeper will be promptly arrested and fined not less than two hundred dollars if he even attempts to sell one glass of beer or whiskey. It seems that Mayor Thompson wantonly brought all of his political troubles upon himself for just as soon as he had invaded the city hall he started out to become a world power in politics, the very first thing he attempted to do after becoming mayor of this city with the aid of the democratic supporters of Mayor Carter H. Harrison, was to force the leaders of the Republican party in this city and county to bow down real low unto him and nominate a lot of unknown democratic lawyers for Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County, in order to carry out a secret understanding which he had with Mayor Harrison and his followers shortly before the spring election. On that simple proposition the Hons. Charles S. Deneen, Roy O. West and their aids bitterly fought Mayor Thompson to a dead stand still and they won out electing 17 or 18 of the Republican Judicial candidates, earning everything high handed against Mayor Thompson and his Democratic shouters and retainers, after being run over and defeated in that direction he started out to unhorse the Hon. Roy O. West as the Illinois member of the Republican national committee and as an excuse for closing up the saloons on Sundays. Mayor Thompson claims that his political enemies in the Republican party had for sometime past threatened to have him indicted for failing to enforce the laws closing the saloons on Sundays, which is all hash! It should seem to all fair minded men and women too for that matter it makes not the slightest difference whether they belong to the wets or the drys, that Mayor Thompson acted rather hastily in that direction, that the people of Chicago should have been permitted to vote either in favor or against that proposition before he acted so rashly in that respect, that at all times local self government should prevail in this great cosmopolitan city. COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL IS STILL HOLDING FORTH AT THE U. S. MILITARY TRAINING CAMP AT FORT SHERIDAN, ILLINOIS. Col. John R. Marshall, who for many years headed the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards and commanded that regiment when it was in Cuba in 1898 during the Spanish-American War, is one of the most conspicuous figures at the U. S. Military Training Camp, Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He has the distinction of being the only Afro-American in that camp, many of the most prominent citizens in Chicago including Congress Martin B. Madden, Judge Charles McDonald, Judge Harry Dolan and others are members of that camp and they all greet and treat Col. Marshall, as a true brother or like a real soldier of war. CO-OPERATIVE COMPETITION. A short Cut to Bacial Prosperity. Business League Talk No. III. "If the Colored grocerymen could in some way co-operate to protect themselves from bad creditors, it would do much to help them to greater success." This statement was made at a recent meeting of the Local Negro Business League of Tuskegee, Ala. Progressive White merchants in many localities are now co-operating to regulate the extension of credit and to extend their business through joint advertising plans and uniform systems of prices and store service. Colored men can perfect similar local organizations through their Local Business Leagues. In some localities, our business men who happen to be in the same line have petty jealousies among themselves which tend to weaken their efforts. Instead of "knocking" and trying to undersell one another, they should combine for the common cause—reaching the strings of the Colored family purse which is constantly open to purchase food, clothing, and other necessities. Such co-operation would eliminate duplication of effort and thereby increase returns at decreased cost of selling. If our business men in each community would come together in accordance with this suggestion, the following plan would, if put into operation, do much to reduce losses from bad debts: 1. Call a meeting of all the Colored business men and instruct each man to bring in a list of his customers. 2. Combine these lists alphabetically into one complete list and opposite the name and address of each customer place some symbol to indicate their rating. For instance, "A1" might represent "Good Risk;" "B3" might represent "Slow Pay, but Responsible;" etc., until every person in the town has been listed and rated so as to protect these business men. 3. Each merchant could then keep a complete list of these names for reference when about to extend credit to a customer. Great care should be taken, however, in keeping the meaning of the symbols confined to the knowledge of the business men who have co-operated under the plan. This list being nothing more than a confidential understanding between these men for their mutual protection. Access to this list would be of great value to grocers, tailors, shoemakers, doctors, dentists and all business and professional men of the race. In somewhat the same way these merchants could co-operate to advertise their business. A half-page in the local Colored paper may be purchased and several forceful and pointed advertisements of the "reason-why" style could be inserted in this space to show the many reasons why Colored people should patronize Colored business enterprises and somewhere in the advertisement the names of all the local merchants who have taken part in the plan should be inserted, and would in that way be associated with an idea which is both novel and progressive. An endless variety of these advertisements can be prepared on account of the breadth of the subject and the many reasons which may be advanced. At the same time this plan would secure more active co-operation from the Colored publisher to the mutual benefit of all members of the mutual. In case no Colored paper is published in that community, the matter may be put into the shape of a circular or a letter and sent direct to every Colored person in the city. Co-operative buying should be considered under this discussion, but we shall reserve it for a separate Talk, since its field is somewhat complicated and it could be best accomplished after the credit and advertising plans are worked out and confidence between the merchants established. Detailed information concerning these plans will be furnished to the business men of any community FREE OF CHARGE if a letter is addressed to Emmett J. Scott, secretary, The National Negro Business League, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Local Negro Business Leagues should take steps to organize committees at once, to organize these credit and advertising clubs, and in communities where no Leagues are in operation a letter should be addressed to the Secretary of the National League who will forward information concerning them. THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS SHOULD SAVE DOUGLASS HOME. In spite of the fact that Dr. Booker T. Washington, a year or two ago, led an effort to raise $4,000 to cancel the mortgage on Cedar Hill Anacostoa, D. C., Frederick Douglass' home, left to the race by his wife (white) when she died some years ago, the mortgage still stands against the property. And Douglass, the greatest Afro-American. This is a sad commentary on this race of ours—Cleveland Gazette. We donated a bit of type to that effort at a time when we were type paupers. If Hon. Harry C. Smith wishes, the Leader believes, that under his captaincy, the Press in the various sections of the country could be interested enough to secure by public subscription. Whatever sum may be needed and clear this home. Was not the immortal Douglass one of our first Colored editors if not the first? Then would it not be well for the press to interest itself in saving this home. Should 200 of our editors print in their columns an appeal for a 10 cent contribution. Each paper pledging itself to raise at least $20; the mortgage would be lifted before Emancipation Day. (Jan. 1, 1916.) The Leader herewith nominates the three deans for a committee on arrangements and it awaits orders how to send a dollar on demand to form a part of the fund necessary to defray initial expenses. The names of the nominees are: Harry C. Smith, J. R. Clifford and W. H. Steward. Speak up gentlemen. Shall the Press demonstrate to the race that it can do things? Do them in record time? What is the power of the Press? Let us show!—The Leader, Detroit, Mich., October 2, 1915. The writer stands ready and willing to join in the movement to help to save the home of Frederick Douglass—Ed. COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON, COMMANDING THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS CHOSEN ONE OF THE CRIMB COMMISSIONERS. The first of this week, Harry Olson, Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago and his associates chose Col. Franklin A. Denison, commanding the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, as one of the members of the Crime Commission much to the delight of the many friends of Col. Denison, who is in every way thoroughly capable to serve the people of Chicago, in that capacity. 1 HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN. The popular member of Congress, from nois, who is serving as one of Unc nois. The popular member of Congress, from the First Congressional District of Illinois, who is serving as one of Uncle Sam's soldiers at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. The popular member of Congress, from the First Congressional District of Illinois, who is serving as one of Uncle Sam's soldiers at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. DISTINGUISHED PARTY AT CODEN. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Allen of Mobile, Alabama, are at this time entertaining a distinguished party of well known Colored men for the last fifteen days in September at their summer home, Coden-on-the-Bay, 28 miles below Mobile. A large gasoline launch is at the disposal of the party, and each day finds them fishing on the waters adjacent to Coden, enjoying their vacation season. In the party were Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder and Principal of Tuskegee Institute; Dr. George Cleveland Hall, the well known surgeon and physician of Chicago, Illinois; Dr. John A. Kenney, Medical Director of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee; Mr. V. H. Tulane, Cashier of the Alabama Penny-Prudential Savings Bank at Montgomery, Ala.; Major J. B. Ramsey, Commandant of Cadets at Tuskegee Institute, and Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of Tuskegee Institute. During a part of the time Mr. Nathan Hunt, stenographer and Capt. A.D. D. Foster, of the General Stores Division, both also of Tuskegee, have been at Coden. EDWARD D. GREEN, EX-MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLI-NOIS BECOMES ONE OF THE REAL ESTATE EXPERTS FOR THE CITY OF CHICAGO. The latter part of last week Mayor William Hale Thompson, selected Edward D. Green, Ex-member of the legislature of Illinois as one of the Real Estate Experts for the city of Chicago, and Mr. Green started in to work shortly after his appointment and he is now on the job every day. It is said, that he will draw down about $2,000 bones per year. THE NEW OFFICERS OF THE OLD FOLKS HOME WILL BE INSTALLED AT THE Y. M. C. A. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12. The installation of officers of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People will be held at the Y. M. C. A., Wabash avenue and 38th St., Tuesday, Oct. 12th, 1915, 8 P. M. Speaker, Dr. Frank Gunsaulus. Musical programme in charge of Madam Anita Patti Brown. This opportunity to become interested in the "Home" should not be missed. It is the hope of those concerned to awaken a general interest in this institution and a cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present at this meeting. Admission free. WHITE GIRLS RUN AWAY WITH COLORED LOVERS. Columbus, O.—Probate Judge Black last Saturday delayed and perhaps prevented the marriage of two Colored men to two white girls, all natives of Kentucky. They are Joe Billingham, aged 33, a laborer, who sought to marry Beulah Snowden, aged 21, a seamstress; and John Palmer, aged 21, a tailor, who wanted a license to marry Pearl Young, age 21, seamstress. All gave their residence as Columbus. It is suspected, however, that they came to Ohio from Kentucky because the laws in their State do not permit the two races to intermarry. Not knowing whether to issue the licenses, Clerk Bert Peer called Judge Black. The latter told the quartet to bring their parents to give consent to the marriages. They did not return. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, 3252 S. State street; returned home this week; from attending a Tuberculosis Conference at Indianapolis, Ind. No. 3 PAGE TWO HERO OF TURKEY IS ENVER PASHA To Him Is Due the Great Defense of Dardanelles. Enver Pasha, Turkish minister of war, is reported to have asserted recently that Turkey had now 2,000,000 men under arms fighting in the Dardanelles and guarding the approaches to Constantinople. Undoubtedly the supreme power behind the Turkish defense is Enver Rey TURKISH WARS Photos by American Press Association. ENVER PASHA AND TURKISH CAVALYBENE Enver PASHA now. He has had an almost entirely free hand in Turkish military affairs, and to him, as much as to the German officers, is unquestionably due the magnificent resistance the Turks have offered the allied fleets and armies in the Dardanelles operations. He has been styled the Napoleon of Turkey. He is the one strong personality that Turkey has had since Abdul Hamid was overthrown by the Young Turk party in 1908. Enver, then little more than a boy, led the revolt against the sultan. Today Enver is only thirty-three years old. Enver is a marvelous swordsman, a fluent linguist, a man of ascetic simplicity of life, possessed of a remarkable combination of the qualities of idealism and practicality, of the mystic and the man of action. Of his forceful personality an Englishman said before the war: "He is without a single exception I can recall offhand, save possibly Lord Kitchener, the most forceful individual I have ever known and for sheer magnetic attraction stands absolutely in my experience. In any other country besides Turkey—in England, Germany or the United States—he could not fall of a great cureer. Here the higher a man climbs the surer he is to be marked for a fall, and Enver Bey has been in danger of assassination ever since his progressive spirit began to manifest itself in/his early teens." THE WRECKAGE OF WAR. Poland Devastated by the Terrible Battles Waged Over Its Territory. War is no respecter of persons or places. The illustration shows the wrecked interior of a church in a Polish village after the invading hosts had swept through the place. The dev- A Photo by American Press Association. WRECKED CHURCH IN POLISH VILLAGE. astation in Poland has been something almost beyond human comprehension. Whole villages and towns have been swept out of existence by the terrible fire of siege guns. In all its sad history Poland has seen no sadder day than the present war has brought it. Counting Pulse Seats. "It is strange how few people know what their normal pulse is," said a physician. "They know the average pulse is about seventy, and imagine that they are well or otherwise as their pulse approaches or departs from this standard. It is true that an average of all pulses would give a result of about seventy beats, but in no other physical peculiarity is there such a wide individual variation. "I had two students in my office at the same time, both very strong and remarkably healthy young men. The normal pulse of one was forty-seven and the other ninety-three. This difference is unusual, few pulses falling below sixty or rising above eighty in a healthy subject, but an unusually slow or rapid pulse is no indication whatever, of disease, as is popularly supposed to be the case. "Most people overestimate their pulse, as they often count its beats when talking about the matter, and it is a fact well known to physicians that the excitement of conversation will quicken the pulse from five to twenty beats. The best time to arrive at the true normal is shortly after waking in the morning, when the nerves are unexcited."-Pearson's. What Modern Guns Do. The Scientific American makes an interesting calculation on the force of explosives in the largest German guns. Their 40.6 centimeter (sixteen inch) gun represents on firing a force of 300,000,000 foot pounds, "equal to the impact that would result from the fall of a block of granite thirty feet long, thirty feet wide and twenty feet thick dropped from a height of 110 feet." The 30.5 centimeter (twelve inch) Krupp gun fires a projectile weighing 445 kilograms (981 pounds), which leaves a barrel with a velocity of 2,690 feet a second. Its maximum range is twenty kilometers, or about twelve and a half miles, and the shot covers this distance in ninety-five seconds. If one of these guns is fired in a due north and south direction the projectile will deviate a distance of 160 meters, or 525 feet, from its true direction owing to the revolution of the earth. Two Men Who Think as One In his book, "Contemporary French Dramatists." Barrett H. Clark, writing of the famous collaborators, Flers and Calllavet, quotes the latter in describing how their work is done: "Our system of collaboration works so well that I am really unable to say which part of a play is my own and which my partner's. In fact, we talk a plot over, one of us rejecting an idea, the other arguing in its favor. It is curious, but often one of these discussions ends by my accepting my confere's proposal and rejecting my own, while he does the same with mine. When we come to the dialogue we talk it to each other. Thus it is made, not written. We have come now, partly as a result of our constant working together, partly as a result of our common tastes, to think as well as write as a single being." An Easy Surrender "The trouble with my wife," said Blathers "is that she always insists on having the last word." "Ha-hum!" said the philosopher. "Let's see—what is the last word?" He turned to the dictionary. "The last word here." he continued. "is zyxomma," meaning an Indianibelhuld dragon fly, having a large head, narrow face and very large eyes. Seems to me, Blathers, that, considering how little call you have in the ordinary conversation of the ordinary day for a word like that, you might, for the sake of peace, let her have it. I am sure that if I had a wife and she wanted a word like "zyxomma," rather than give rise to zymotic disturbances in the family I'd give in."—John Kendrick Bangs in New York Times. Sweet Taste of Frozen Potatoes Sweet Taste or Frozen Potatoes. Many times during the winter and spring the housewife may find that the potatoes are sweet and unpalatable when cooked. This she may not know is because the potatoes have been frozen and boiled by dropping them in hot water. Frozen potatoes will not develop a sweet flavor when cooked if they are placed in cold water to be cooked. The cold water will then be gradually brought to the boiling point and the potatoes boiled until thoroughly done. Boiled in this manner frozen potatoes will not taste sweet. Sunday. The perfect Sunday is thus defined by Judge B. B. Parker: "Rest, quiet, a little prayer, a bit of a sermon, a deal of heartfelt worship, a hearty tightening of family ties, some contemplation of man's duty to God and his neighbor and the citizen's duty to the state and a deed or two of kindness." Weight Variations A man weighs less at noon and midnight than at sunrise or sunset at the time of new moon and full moon. owing to the moon's and sun's attraction then acting together. In fact, he is subject to the same force which causes the tides. Presumption. "Those new neighbors have very presumptuous children," said he. "Yes," replied she. "They think they have a perfect right to get out in the street and make as much noise as ours do."-Washington Star. Hia Suggestion. Wigwag—I never knew such a fellow as P Jones. He is always looking for trouble. Henpecked—Then why doesn't he get married?—Exchange. The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.-John Lyly. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 9, 1915. General Frederick Funston has a difficult duty to perform upon the Mexican border. He has full authority from the war department to take any steps necessary to protect American lives and property north of the Río Grande and has more than 20,000 troops under his command; he has, however, no authority to cross the border, though if he deems it necessary he is empowered to fire across the river. All along the border are great number of Mexican marauders who are constantly making raids into American THE CHINA WAR Photos by American Press Association. GENERAL FREDERICK FUNSTON AND MEXICAN RAIDERS. territory. General Funston has reported to the war department that 500 bandits inhabit the country opposite Progreso and that if Carranza does not stop these bandits from making raids into American territory he would recommend that American forces be permitted to pursue the marauders across the international line when beaten back upon a raid. The situation is complicated by the fact that information has been sent to Washington that much of the trouble along the border has been deliberately instigated by Americans on this side of the boundary line. Until authentic information is obtained as to the cause of the raids the policy of the American government will be unchanged, and while raiders will be driven off American troops will not be permitted to cross into Mexico in pursuit. GAFFNEY TO LECTURE. Asked to Resign From Munich Post, He Will Take to Platform. T. St. John Gaffney, American consul general at Munich, Germany, who was asked to resign from his post by direction of President Wilson as a result of complaints that he had displayed partisanship in favor of Germany, will, it is reported, soon return to this country and go upon the lecture platform. Mr. Gaffney has also been in charge of the British consulate at Munich. He PETER H. HARRIS T. ST. JOHN GAFNEY. was subjected to criticism because he entertained Sir Roger Casement at dinner. Sir Roger was formerly a member of the British consular service, but resigned when the war started and led a movement in Germany in favor of the liberation of Ireland through Teutonic means. Mr. Gaffney is a naturalized American citizen and was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1894. He came to this country at an early age, studied law and practiced for some years in New York city. He became active in Republican politics and was appointed by President Roosevelt consul general to Dresden, Saxony, in 1905. He was transferred to Munich in 1913. He has been an extensive traveler and a frequent contributor to the press on international topics. CHIEF OF STAFF ROSE FROM RANKS General Robertson, French's Right Bower, Worked Way Up.. LITTLE is known to the outside world about General Sir William R. Robertson, K. C. V. O., K. C. B., D. S. O., whose remarkable career from the ranks to chief of staff of the army is so well known to the British army itself. His work in relation to that of Sir John French, the commander in chief, has been described as that of the general manager of a great corporation to that of its president. It may be taken for granted that his work is being felt in the fierce fighting that General French's troops have been engaged in. General Robertson is known as a man who gets things done. Throughout all the vicissitudes of the campaign from Mons to the Aisne and then to the Ypres-Armentieres line the soldiers never went short of food. Regardless of red tape and other obstacles, he saw that in some way or other their rations reached them. Today his efficiency is again making itself felt both in regard to food and munitions of war. The way he rose from the ranks by sheer persistence is a sample of the direct way he goes about it to get things done. A powerfully built country boy, he went to London at the age of nineteen and enlisted in the Ninth lancers. Promotion from the ranks is not frequent. The majority of officers come from the military school at Sandhurst. But the door is kept open for a private of good education and character. By passing a stiff examination he may secure a commission. Young Robertson had had only an elementary education, but set out to make up for the deficiency by study. He used to have [Name] GENERAL SIR WILLIAM R. ROBERTSON. a comrade read his lessons to him while he carried his horse and cleaned his equipment. He studied at every spare moment. But not until he had served ten years did he pass his examination which gave him a commission in the Third Dragonon guards. He was then twenty-nine, and the average second lieutenant had about eight years the start of him on the army list. Clearly he would have to hustle if he were to attain a high rank before he reached retiring age. In the course of lineal promotion he could never hope to be more than a major. Special promotion could come only through distinguishing himself. Ergo, he must distinguish himself. Four years after he had received his commission he had won enough attention to be assigned to the intelligence branch of the quartermaster's department in India. There he found his opportunity. Rewards are given officers for learning native dialects. He set himself assiduously to work and mastered several of the native dialects. He are long became known as an expert in the Indian languages. When the Chitral trouble came his linguistic accomplishments and his knowledge of the country were invaluable. He came out of the Chitral campaign with the distinguished service order for services which included gallantry in action when he was severely wounded. On the staff throughout the South African campaign he earned the praise of Roberts and Kitchener by his capacity for getting things done when others sometimes failed. When in 1910 he was placed in command of the army staff college even those who agreed he had shown himself to be the man for the place were amazed at the thought that a man who had been for ten years a private without any groundwork of regular academic education should become the director of an institution which gathers the ablest officers of the army for instruction in the higher branches of war and gives the character to army organization in time of war. But the staff college improved under his direction. As director of military training at the war office he had much to do with the preparation of the British expeditionary force. He went to France with it as quartermaster general and was responsible for keeping that army overseas supplied. His success in this capacity led to his appointment as chief of staff. Lord Chief Justice and England's Premier Financier. Baron Reading, formerly Sir Rufus Isaacs, lord chief justice of England, heads that country's mission for arranging a huge war loan for the allies. Of the leading financiers of England and France appointed to arrange the loan the most remarkable personality is that of Baron Reading, and he has had a most remarkable career. The son of a London Jewish family, he has mounted to a position never before held by a Jew. He made a false start in life by running away to sea and so greatly disappointing his family, with whom for some time he was in disgrace. Soon tiring of the sea, he M. H. Photo by American Press Association. BARON READING. attempted stockbrokering and at twenty-six years of age was officially declared a bankrupt, and the pathway of finance was closed to him. He then studied law and quickly rose to a high place in that profession. He soon became a master of intricate figures and details, a characteristic which has distinguished him ever since. As an advocate and cross examiner he became famous. In 1898 he became queen's counsel and was recognized as the actual leader of the English bar. Honors fell on him thick and fast. After serving in parliament he was made solicitor general in 1900, and the following year he became attorney general and was knighted. He was also made a member of the cabinet, the first attorney general in the history of England to be so honored. In October, 1913, Sir Rufus became lord chief justice of England and Baron Reading. And because since the beginning of the war he has been the government's chief adviser in fiscal matters, being regarded as the ablest financier in the service of the crown, he was placed at the head of the mission sent to New York to arrange if possible a credit of a billion dollars. Thus he was intrusted by England with the task of putting through the most stupendous monetary deal in all her history. ARMSTRONG DREXEL RETURNS Young Millionaire Has Been Serving as General French's Chauffeur. J. Armstrong Drexel, who has been serving with the English forces in France in the capacity of chauffeur to General French, has returned to this country on sick leave. Mr. Drexel was one of the first Americans to enlist with the allies. Of worldwide fame as an aviator who held the altitude record, gained by a A Photo by American Press Association. J. ARMSTRONG DREXEL. flight from the Point Breeze track in Philadelphia, young Mr. Drexel was kept out of that service because the allies were not then taking Americans in the aerial arm. In August, 1914, Mr. Drexel volunteered for service in the motorcar division, was accepted and assigned to the position of chauffeur for Sir John French. In modern warfare, says Mr. Drexel, the motorcar plays a vital part. Dashing from one end of the 150 mile battle line to the other, it keeps the leaders in close touch with the battle's every move and, with the telephone and telegraph, aids in co-ordinating the movement of forces. UNHAPPY ARMENIA UNDER THE ROD Long Persecution One cf the Tragedies of History. Of all the people affected by the great war the condition of the inhabitants of Armenia is perhaps the most hopeless. The whole history of the land for many centuries is one of depair. In that dim period of human development lying between myth and history, which in the case of Armenia was about the middle of the sixth century before Christ, Armenia took definite political form and was an independent kingdom under its own kings. Later it became subject to the Assyrians and the Medes. Later still it was conquered by Alexander the Great, passing after his death under the rod of other rulers and despoilers. Christianity found an early home in Armenia, and dearly have the Armenians paid for their loyalty to their faith. THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICIANS ARMENIANS IN CHUBCH PRAYING FOR SUCCOR. The most savage persecutions that have ever disgraced the relations of man to man have passed over it. Turks and Kurds and Persians and numerous other despoilers have visited horror after horror on the unhappy people, and the ancient territory, which stretched from the Caucasus down toward Mesopotamia, is now partitioned among Turks, Persians and Russians. Nearly 1,000 years have passed since the fall of the last definite political state of the Armenians, and during all this period and for many centuries before the Armenians have lived under the shadow of violent death. And now it is said that the Turks are planning a clean sweep of this ancient and cultured people, for Armenia is the seat of the oldest civilized people living in the world today. So pressing are the conditions confronting the Armenians that it is said Ambassador Morgenthau has offered to raise several millions of dollars in the United States to bring the people of Armenia to new homes in this country. There are many Armenians in this country now, for persecution has driven them forth from their ancient home. All over the world the Armenians may be found. There is no greater tragedy in history than the story of the Armenian people. NEW SUFFRAGIST EMBLEM Mrs. Havenemeyer Displaying Ship on a Tour of New York State. Mrs. H. O. Havenemeyer, the venerable advocate of woman suffrage, who was the bearer of the suffragist emblem, "the torch of freedom." has now a new emblem, which she is taking with her on an extended speaking tour in New York state. The new emblem is called "the ship of state" and HOTEL JEWEL Photo by American Press Association. MRS. H. O. HAVEMEYER AND "THE SHIP OF STATE" is a replica of the Mayflower. It is the desire of the suffragists to help pilot the ship of state which gives the new emblem its significance. Mrs. Havemeyer evinces all the enthusiasm of youth in her advocacy of votes for women, as she is billed to make a number of speeches throughout New York state, which will vote upon woman suffrage in the November election. Agents and Correspondents Wanted to Handle THE BROAD AX. Liberal Commissions to Live Agents. Address, Julius F.Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence Av., Chicago DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mme Tetrazzini once refused an offer of £1,500 a week to sing on the music hall stage in London. Lady Juliet Duff, the honorary secretary of the women's thrift movement, is the best woman shot in England. Her best record is thirty-eight brace of grouse in one day. Miss Alice Purington, in the patent office, has the task of passing on all dolls, toys and games for which patients are sought. Her business is to see that dolls, toys and games work as represented. In the department she is called the first assistant to Santa Claus. Maude Adams made her first appearance on the stage at the tender age of nine months. That debut, which Miss Adams fails utterly to recall, was made in "The Lost Child." She played the title role. The leading part, however, was played by the baby's mother, Anne Adams, a famous actress in her day. Fashion Frills New styles in women's hats show many changes, but the prices are still on the "What have you?" basis.—Chicago News. No lack of imported dyestuffs will ever prevent new fashions from looming with their accustomed fascinations.—Washington Star. The new skirts are to be very short and very full, and the new waists, of course, will be very low. This limits speculation to the permissible narrowness of the belt.—Baltimore American. New York men who affect to be walkers carry tiny pedometers on their wrists. The pedometer-on-the-wrist man should go walking with the watch-on-the-ankle girl.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. PITH AND POINT. It's a poor rule that won't work your way. Have you picked out your Thanksgiving turkey yet? Kind words never paid a bill, but they can often stand off the collector. You may not believe in luck, but just the same you are lucky to be in luck. People who suffer from ennui usually are tired of doing nothing and don't know it. "Fashion," declares an authority on that subject, "is a state of mind." And ain't that the truth? That the auto loosens teeth is the assertion of a Philadelphia dentist. Even so, a good dodger has little to fear. The Dutch are buying aeroplanes here. The world generally is getting nervously anxious about preparedness. Hopes of another year now constitute the important features of the baseball situation for a large number of cities. The Peruvian plan for new taxes is not "well received" by those who are to pay the imposts. The tax collector is universally unpopular. Discovery in New York that many motorists are being cheated by short measure gasoline is not so startling as the discovery that none have been would be. According to a New York observer, the rich need more uplifting than the poor. Unhappily this will not deter the poor from offering to change places with them. Flippant Flings. A New Yorker is said to have "paid $1,000 to have the devil knocked out of him." Salvation used to be free—New York Sun. By deciding not to hand out campaign cigars the suffragists advance one more argument for their cause.—Philadelphia Press. When Princess Marie Louise of Orleans weds Prince Philip of Bourbon-Sicily only a few of the relatives of the contracting pair will be present. The others are out in the European back yards fighting with the neighbors.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Royal Box. The Italian Crown Prince Umberto who is eleven years old, is a most enthusiastic boy scout. The king of Denmark is a nephew of Queen Alexandra and a brother-in-law of the German crown prince. The queen of Norway is the most economically attired queen in Europe. Her majesty spends £200 per annum on her dress. The king of Italy has conferred the Order of Annunziata upon the Prince of Wales. The order comes next in antiquity to the Garter and the Golden Fleece. SIRES AND SONS. General Von Hindenburg is a great chess player. Dr. Joseph Leldy is leading a movement for military instruction in Philadelphia public schools. General Roger A. Pryor, ex-justice of the supreme court and a leading figure in the Confederacy, recently celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday in New York city. George D. Pratt, whom Governor Whitman selected to supervise the conservation of the natural resources of New York state, is a very wealthy man who has made a study of forest preservation and wild animal life. Sir Clements Robert Markham, explorer, traveler, archaeologist, who introduced the cultivation of the quinine yielding cinchona trees from Peru into British India, an act of incalculable value to the world at large, is now eighty-five years of age. Max Bruch, the German composer, who, on his seventieth birthday in 1908, declared, "I shall write no more, for the source of my inspiration has dried up," has just completed, in his seventy-eighth year, a new work, a concerto for two pianos and an orchestra. It is the only composition of this kind which has ever emanated from his pen. Echoes of the War. Peace talk is said to be in the air. That is where the peacemakers are, too, alas!—Chicago News. Somehow the torpedo boat destroyers do not seem to make an impressive figure in the present war.—Chattanooga Times. We continue to look forward hopefully to the day when Europe will invite every one to the grand barbed wire rummage sale.—Washington Post. "Thrift, thrift!" is now the cry in Britain, France, Germany, Hungary. Every one must save pennies so that millions can be shot off in powder.—Detroit Journal. Speculations as to what the relations of governments will become after the end of the war will have importance in time, but at present they are premature.—Washington Star. The Royal Box. Queen Alexandra refuses to wear ospreys on account of the cruelty to birds which the collecting of the feathers involves. The Grand Duke Nicholas is famous as a sportsman. Coursing wolves with borzois may be regarded as a national sport in Russia, and it is one which the grand duke has made his own. The queen of the Belgians recently celebrated her thirty-ninth birthday. A member of the royal house of Bavaria, the Princess Elizabeth was born on July 25, 1876, at Posenhofen. In October, 1900, she married at Munich Prince Albert of Belgium, who succeeded to the throne of that country on the death of his uncle, King Leopold II., in December, 1909. Short Stories. The United States has 1,903,000,000 acres of land. Taploca is poisonous in its raw state, but is purified by roasting. The United States income tax in the last fiscal year yielded $79,828,675. It is said that Nero once paid a sum equal to about $250,000 for two cups of transparent glass. In some parts of China it is considered a high virtue for a wife to commit suicide after the death of her husband. Never before in history has the price of horses been so high in Holland. The evident cause is the great demand for horses resulting from the war. SHORT AND SHARP. Live wires should not waste time on dead issues. Take your pick of Mexican "situations." That country has them to burn. It's the easiest thing in the world to convince the average man that he is smart. Stand up for your rights, but do not obstruct the view of those sitting behind you. Sensitive New Yorkers were pained when a clergyman recently described their city as "worldly." Though the cost of living is high and the price of funerals is going up, one still prefers America to Europe. The theory that weeds cause hay fever may explain why some charming young widows discard them so soon. What a fine opportunity the old pirates of the Atlantic missed in not waiting for these modern gold ships! Little girls may be as averse to school as are little boys, but they have the diplomacy of their sex, and so they con- THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. OCTOBER 9. 1915 Looks as though it will be some time before the tourist business in Mexico will amount to much. About the only man who can afford to believe everything he hears is the man who is stone deaf. The discovery that the batteries of the F-4 were corroded explains how it happened, but not why it was allowed to happen. It is now said that the Thanksgiving dinner will be cheaper this year. But that's just the way they lure us on every year. Whoever invented the word "if" placed a movable but persistent obstacle in the way of most things that we want to do. In conquering epidemics against great odds Servia has won one of the most notable and lasting victories of the entire war. The scientists who invent deadly engines of war are keeping medical scientists very busy finding remedies for the hurts they cause. Europe after lingering for many years on the verge of war is making rather a lame struggle to get headed toward the verge of peace. Scientists say the north pole has shifted its position. Let's hope we are not in for another wordy squabble if it should happen to be rediscovered. Echoes of the War. The war is being fought with golden bullets.—Baltimore American. Here is the great debate of the twentieth century: Is he the sick man of Europe or the terrible Turk?—Chicago News. The way the income tax is to be boosted in Great Britain will bring the horrors of war home even to the wealthy.—Indianapolis News. European nations have begun to call out their schoolboys for the war. Everything is grist that comes to the mills of Mars.—Detroit News. We are informed that the high cost of war grows prohibitive, but it is having no appreciable effect in facilitating the diffusion of brotherly love.—New York Sun. Pen and Brush. Before painting his celebrated "Snowstorm" Turner had himself lashed for four hours to the mast of a Margate steamer in a tempest. George Barr McCutcheon, author of twenty popular novels, is a collector of first editions. The author's hobby, however, extends only to first editions of English authors. His collection of these is large and valuable and contains many that are extremely rare. The dean of American illustrators is Reginald Birch. He was born in 1862. Two years younger than he is A. B. Wenzel. Both studied in Munich. A third American illustrator who studied in Munich is Arthur I. Keller, whose age—forty-eight—is the same as that of Charles Dana Gibson. Town Topics. Soon Baltimore will have a new boulevard. The city is making progress with seven league boots.-Baltimore American. Somebody has discovered that Chicago's prisons are pretty poor. This discovery is just as important as if it were new.-Chicago News. Philadelphia isn't so terribly worked up over the coming election. She has 100,000 assessed voters who failed to register.-Pittsburgh Dispatch. The Toledo Blade claims its city "ranks third among the railway centers of the country." That will make a lot of big towns either envious or dubious.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Fish Tales. For short distances, the salmon is the swiftest of fish. The ribbon fish derives its name from its curious shape. Though many feet in length, it is only an inch or two thick. The anableps is a Brazilian fish that has two sets of eyes, one for seeing in water and the other for seeing in air as it swims at the surface. There is a fish in China that will travel a mile overland from one stream to another. Land journeys are known to have been taken at night by eels in England. Current Comment China is rapidly becoming up to date in its civilization. It is to have an income tax.—Baltimore American. Now it's the price of coal that is charged to the war, but the consumer pays the increase as usual.—New York Sun. Although Cupid seems to be working overtime, he has yet to catch up with 9,000,000 unmarried women of marriable age in America.—San Francisco Chronicle. Portland Cement. In the manufacture of portland cement, clay or shale and limestone are ground together and "burned" in rotary kilns. The cement comes from kilns in the form of hard, black, semilitreous lumps, or "clinker." When pulverized this clinker becomes a grayish powder, which is the familiar article of commerce employed for a great variety of purposes in practically every type of building construction. It has long been known that the fineness to which the cement is ground is one of its most important characteristics, and consequently specifications require that 75 per cent or more of commercial cement shall pass through a No. 200 sieve, which has 40,000 openings per square inch. This is the practical limit of mechanical sieves in respect to fineness, for although finer sieves can be manufactured the necessary uniformity in size of openings cannot be attained. It is well known, however, that the minute particles of cement, which are just capable of passing through the openings of a No. 200 sieve, are still too large to be of value as cementing material when mixed with water. Hence the really valuable portion of the cement consists in the extremely fine powder, the amount of which can only be inferred from the sieve test. Sacred Mushrooms. The "sacred mushroom" of the Aztecs, which was called by them teomaicatl and used as an intoxicant, was according to investigations recently reported, not a mushroom, but the narcotic cactus. Lophophora williamsii now well known for its use by the American Indians in religious ceremonies. It is popularly called "mescal button," though a better name is peyote Early writers on Mexico described it as a mushroom, and this notion as to its botanical status still survives. The mistake is due to the fact that in one of the two principal forms in which it is prepared the head of the plant is cut off transversely, and when dried it bears a close resemblance to a mushroom. In its other form it is cut longitudinally or in irregular fragments and was described by early writers as raiz diabolica, or "devil's root." Analyzing a Master De Quincy, who wrote the "Confessions of an English Oplum Eater" and other works now considered classics, was a strange, ill balanced person. Vernon Lee says of him that he had an incapacity for holding his tongue on irrelevant matters, which is a sign of intellectual weakness. He had also a marked incapacity for keeping his irrelevant emotions (especially the vituperative ones) to himself, which is a mark of moral vulgarity. He had a manifest tendency to talk big and at the same time to mix slang with grandiloquence in situations where no humorous effect could be obtained by this proceeding. Yet withal these traits are redeemed by his great subtlety of thought, his tragic depth of feeling and occasionally his marvelous power of seeing and saying.—New York Telegram. Breslau's Checkered Career. This history of the possession of Breslau shows that it has changed hands very often. Early in the eleventh century it was made the seat of a bishop and after having formed part of Poland became the capital of an independent duchy in 1163. In 1335 it was purchased by John, king of Bohemia, who retained it until 1460. It then changed hands and became subject to Bohemia once more in 1490, passing with the rest of Silesia to the Hapsburgs in 1526. It came under the authority of Frederick the Great in 1741 and was recovered by Austria in 1757 and regained by Frederick in the Seven Years' war. It has since been Prussian, except a few days in 1807 and again in 1813, when it was held temporarily by the French. Our Army Rations The average daily field ration of the United States army is made up as follows: Bacon, 12 ounces (or fresh meat, 20 ounces); bread, 18 ounces; beans, 2.4 ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces; prunes or preserves, 1.28 ounces; coffee, 1.12 ounces; sugar, 3.2 ounces; evaporated milk, 5 ounces; vinegar, 16 of a gill; salt, .64 ounce; pepper (black), .04 of an ounce; lard, .61 of an ounce; butter, 5 of an ounce. At the Zenith. "Pa. what does it mean when a public man is said to be at the zenith of his popularity?" "It means, my son," replied the defeated candidate ruefully, "that he is about ready to hit the toboggan."—Birmingham Are-Herald. Love's Progress. Nickler—How can you tell how long they have been married? Bocker—By whether she wants him to stop smoking to save his health, his money or the curtains—New York Sun. Scant Courtesy. Opportunity came knocking at the door. "I'll give him two minutes to explain his proposition," said the great magnate.—Kansas City Journal SIRES AND SONS Mr. I, a fisherman in Hawaii, has the shortest name in the world. He wins over General O of Mexico by a valid technicality, as headline writers can attest. Admiral Albert G. Winterhalter, the new commander of the Asiatic fleet, succeeds Admiral Walter C. Cowles at his new post. For some time past Admiral Winterhalter has served in the navy department at Washington as aid of the secretary for material. Dr. Louis Renon, who has created a stir in medical circles by his announcement that he is able to prove, after long research, that tuberculosis must be treated by chemical means and not by serum, is a member of the medical faculty of the University of Paris. Frank L. Polk, who has just been appointed counselor for the state department, received his A. B. from Yale in 1894 and his LL. B. from the law department of Columbia university in 1897. He was appointed corporation counsel of New York by Mayor Mitchel on Jan. 24, 1914. Crop Statistics. In the past five years the corn crop of the United States has averaged about 2,708,000,000 bushels annually; oats, 1,131,000,000 bushels; barley, 182,000,000 bushels, and cultivated hay, 66,000,000 tons. The year 1914 saw the largest apple crop ever produced in this country. Government estimates placed it at 259,000,000 bushels, or more than double the crop of 1913. New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan ranked. The largest cotton producing county in the United States, Ellis county, Tex., yielded 143,714 bales last year. This is more than six times the amount produced in the whole state of Virginia and more than was raised in either Missouri or Florida. Three Reels. Seventy-five per cent of all American motion picture films are made in Los Angeles county, Cal., and 88 per cent within 100 miles thereof. One of the big motion picture studios in New Jersey is using a stage mounted on a turntable, so that it can face the sun at all hours and eliminate undesirable shadows. Of 6,282 kinematograph films, with a total measurement of 6,881,614 feet, submitted last year to the British board of film censors objection was lodged on various grounds of public morality to 148. After alterations 130 of these were passed. State Lines. Indiana's state charges number 13,208. Wisconsin is able to send outside of the state a trainload of cheese every day in the year. Florida is the leading producer in this country of fuller's earth, and last year the average price paid for its earth was $10.07 a ton. Ohio leads the world in the production of maple sirup. The value of maple sirup and sugar produced in Ohio is more than three times the value of these products of New England, if the single state of Vermont is excluded. Wireless Whispers. Warships can talk to submarines at sea by wireless. United States army officers are testing a wireless transmitting outfit that has sent messages as far as twenty miles without the use of antennae. Time signals sent out by wireless from the Eiffel tower, in Paris, are received at one point 250 miles away by a strip of wire netting supported only about twenty inches from the ground. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Scatter sunshine and you will also enjoy its rays. A stitch in time will often save one from embarrassment. The more money a man has the more he is abused, and the less he cares. So live that your creditors won't have to bother to find out when your pay day comes. If winter shows no more winter than summer did summer what sort of a winter will it be? Cotton experts foresee an enormous demand when the war is over. It seems a long time to wait. No trouble to find a man who is willing to stop his own work to tell some other man how to keep busy. Stefansson has a heroic task before him when he starts in to read up on what's happened since he lost himself. Much as a man would like to show his appreciation, he's so constituted that he can't pat his best friend on the back. ndle THE ve Agents. v., Chicago People may be physically fit, but if they have no imagination they are cripples. Many a toller would be glad to raise an income that would have to pay an income tax. If we could boost with the persistence that we knock a lot of good could be accomplished. In spite of his luxuriant whiskers Carranza is constantly displaying his immense cheek. Have you ever noticed how much larger your troubles appear at night than during the day? Contentment is a fine thing when accompanied by enough ambition to keep the blood in circulation. Some of the feats required of diplomacy are as startling as those of the air men who loop the loop. Every once in awhile some one mentions The Hague tribunal. It is well to remember that it still exists. Astronomer Mellish, who has discovered his fourth comet, deserves much praise, though we could have worried along with the conets we had. Pen and Brush. Arthur Brisbane, the well known editorial writer for the Hearst publications, is a very fast writer. He once wrote thirty-two editorials in one day. Mr. Henry James, the famous novelist, who has renounced his American nationality and become a British subject, has lived and worked in England for about forty years. Mr. John Richard Lowndes French, elder son of Sir John French, has exhibited in the Royal academy, and five of his pictures have been shown at exhibitions of the North British academy. President Louis W. Hill of the Great Northern railway system and son of James J. Hill, is an artist as well as a successful railroad president. He takes great pleasure in painting in oil and has painted some really excellent canvases. Church and School. The Church of Scotland has 1,800 ministers. New York state Presbyterian preachers receive an average annual salary of $1,526. There were 216,493 students in colleges, universities and technological schools in 1914, according to the annual report of the commissioner of education, just issued. This is an increase of 14,262 over 1913. The school savings bank of public school No. 77 of the borough of Queens, New York city, has had $4,300 deposited in it in the three years of its existence. More than half of this amount is still on deposit either with the school bank or with a state savings bank. The Cookbook Sausages will not burst if rolled in flour before frying. All clean bread scraps should be saved. They are useful for crumbs and may be used in puddings, forcemeats, hot cakes and escaloped dishes. A nice way to serve onions is to make a ring of mashed potatoes, put the plain boiled onions in the center and pour over some melted butter and put into the oven to get piping hot. When reheating meat place some gravy in a deep frying pan, season it and make quite hot, put in the meat and simmer gently, but do not allow to boil, as boiling makes the meat tough Train and Track. Electro-pneumatic brakes are soon to displace the air brakes on the passenger trains of the Pennsylvania railroad. More than 35 per cent of the mileage of German railroads is laid upon iron ties, one state which is rich in forests using them almost exclusively. The British system of railways in Nigeria, West Africa, has been remarkably rapid in growth. It now extends nearly 800 miles into the interior. The Japanese government has adopted a plan of railway building that will require ten years to complete and add more than 1,200 miles to existing lines. Town Topics. Chicago knows that it is the best city in the country for the holding of conventions, but it likes to have this view shared by others.-Chicago News. There is a law in Philadelphia against throwing any kind of waste into the streets, but nobody pays any attention to it, not even the police.-Philadelphia Press. New York is not satisfied with a census which gives only a little over 5,000,000 inhabitants. But the state line that separates it from Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne and Newark cannot be ; ib TE NRE ee ae oe ee Pre Se Tee eT Pee a eee ee - an a : = PAGE FOUR FUBLISHED WEEKLY. ‘Will promaigate and at all times upheld the true’ principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Intdels, Bingic Taxers, Republicans, or anyone cise ean hove their say, as long us their inn- guage ls proper and responsibility ls Axed. ‘The Broad Ax is = newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever aiming the editerial right te speak ite own mind. ‘Local communications will receive atten- tom. Write only om one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance ‘Advertising rates made known om appli- cation. Address all communications te THE BROAD AX 6538 ST, LAWRENCE AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1908, at the Post fice at Chicage, Hilinets, under Ast of March 2, 1879. see 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 2597. NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS Reported by the National Negro Busi- ness League. A Thought for the Week.‘ Adver- tising is governed by no law—control- Jed by no creed. It is so elusive a thing that the clutches of monopoly have never been able to throttle it. There is so much of it that it knows no lim- its nor boundaries. It is the greatest of all commercial forces, and yet all that is positively known about it can be told in a few words. One thing actually known is this: Every form of advertising is good for somebody and some forms are good for every- body.’*"—Bert M. Moses in Advertis- ing and Selling. ‘The local Negro Business League and the Civie Improvement Society of Rentiesville, Oklahoma, are co-oper- ating in promoting a County Fair. The Amsterdam News of New York City has inaugurated a unique service for its readers. They are co-operating with certain local organizations to as- sist skilled Colored mechanies to obtain employment. The Citizens’ Commercial League of Beaumont, Texas, was recently organ- ized to stimulate the trade of the Ne- gto merchants now in business and to encourage the establishment of more enterprises. Later on they plan to af- filiate with the National Negro Busi- ness League. Major R. R. Moton of Hampton In- stitute and a party of distinguished educators are touring the State of Virginia in the interest of the Negro Organization Society. One hundred and thirty-five Colored families of Evansville, Indiana, com. peted in a recent contest held in that city for the most beautiful front yards and the best home gardens. Al: though this is an annual event in Evansville, the Colored people have never before participated. Mr. Logan ‘H. Stewart, president of the Evans. ville Local League, says interest in the contest was stimulated by the Na tional Negro Health Week conducted last spring. The Local League in Action—On Sunday afternoon, September 26th, the Local Negro Business League of Co lombia, South Carolina, held a mast meeting to stimulate intorest in the League’s work and to hear reports of the Boston meeting from Mrs. L. J Rhodes, Superintendent of the Good Samaritan Hospital, and Mr. I. 8. Leovy, the successful merchant tailor ‘The published announcement of sthi meeting says: The Iast Census gave use as = Ne- gro population of more than twenty-nine thousand in Richland County—a little more than half the population. The money spent by this host of individuals for food and clothing yields a substan- tial profit and if Negro merchants were sufficiently established to take care of this business, it would enable them to enlarge their stores and em- ploy many more of our young men and ‘women as clerks, bookkeepers, stenog. raphers, etc. In addition to this, it would enable the members of the race im this community to do more for the ‘education of the youth, to build better homes, to elevate their standards of living and to do more for churches schools and charitable institutions. THE COLOR LINE DRAWN BY A¥- OTHER HYDE PARK THEATRE. Mrs, Bertha Smith and Mrs. ‘Alice Adams went to the Harper’s Theatre on 53rd St. Monday evening, where they have the first and second Baleony, these ladies went early, so as to get a good seat and found only at that time four persons in the first balcony, the general admission is 10e which they had paid. But the usher requested them, without saying anything to the other four (White) persons who were sitting there, to the second baleony, they refused to do so and went to the box office and demanded their money back, and left. The usher said he was sorry but he had his orders, and he had to do it. It was the orders of the management. The house being under new management. It seems to us, that it is crime for a child to be born Black in this country from the treatment we are receiving at the hands of men and women who think more of the dollar, than they do of their rights toward their neighbor. CONCERNING COCKROACHES. Cockroaches are an unmitigated household pest as all good housewives will agree. It will be accepted with out argument that they are the com: monest as well as the most offensive of the many kinds of insects that in- fest human habitations. Also it is now pretty well understood that they are dangerous as carriers of disease. Cockroaches, the kind we all are familiar with, belong to a very large family, most of which fortunately have not become domesticated. The En glish call them ‘‘black beetles”’; but the two kinds most familiar to Am- eriean housewives are the big brown fellows and the little German roach, called in New York City the ‘Croton water bug.’’ But outside of these two familiar types it is estimated that nearly 5,000 species of this big family have been described and preserved in collections in different parts of the world. . Roaches, as is well known, infest pantries and kitchens and have a special liking it seems for the oven rooms of bakeries, on account of the warmth, and from which they ean al ways find the best of foraging grounds. In dwellings they conceal themselves during the day behind baseboards, cracks in the floors and walls and other convenient hiding places. ‘The domestic roaches are practically omnivorous, that is they will feed on almost any dead animal matter, food- stuffs, such as bread, cake, pies and cereal products of every kind. It is also asserted that they will eat their own cast off skins and egg cases and that they attack and eat other species of roaches. They also eat or gnaw woolens and leather and frequently do much damage to book bindings. They are especially fond of the paste or siz- ing in eloth bound books; also of sea biscuits, entire supplies of which, it is recorded, have been ruined or almost wholly devoured by roaches. But the damage done by roaches is by no means confined to the amount of foods they consume, but is found in the fact that they pollute and render nauseous and dangerous everything in the line of human food, everything with which they come in contact. As is well known, wherever roaches run in large numbers, they create a fetid, sickening odor which clings persistent- ly to pantry and kitchen shelves and furnishings and which can only be removed by a through cleansing with soap and boiling water. According to a bulletin, issued by the Bureau of Entimology of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture, this odor comes partly from the excrement, but chiefly is due to a dark colored fluid exuded from the mouth of the insect, with which ft stains its runways, and also in part from the scent glands which secrete an oily liquid, which possesses a very characteristic and disagreeable odor. One of the simplest and most effec- tive means of ridding premises of cockroaches is that of dusting their runways with commercial sodium fluorid, mixed in equal parts with flour. Numerous tests with this agency have been made by the Bureau of Entomol- ogy of the U. 8. Department of Agri- culture in bakeries, lunch rooms and milk depots and with satisfactory re- sults. A good way to apply the mixture of sodium fluorid and flour is with a dust gun or powder blower, which can be purehased at any drug store. The mix- ture should be thoroughly dusted over the shelves, tables, floors and runways. The immediate effect will be noticed that the insects will come out of their hiding places and after rushing about in a frantic manner for a time they become paralyzed and soon die. The dead or paralyzed roaches may then be swept up and burned. As a rule premises can be ridden of roaches by this method in twenty-four hours. The government experts are of the opinion that the sodium fuorid acts as a con- tact insectitide and as a stomach poison. Also it or ‘deen found that it will kill cat that have fed on foliage, that has been dusted with the same mixture, ‘ THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 9, 1915. Charles E. Stump, the Kansas Farmer News- paper Man, Visited the A. M. E. Conference at St. Joseph, Missouri Where He Met Bishop and Mrs. Parks and He Is Loud in Sounding Their Praises HE ATTENDED THE SESSIONS OF THE BAPTIST CONVENTION AT| LAWEENCE, KANSAS, AND THE NEXT ISSUE OF THIS PAPER WILL CONTAIN SOME OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE BAPTIST BRETHREN AND THE PEOPLE OF THAT SEC- TION OF THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL. HE SETS FORTH HIS IMPRESSION OF THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX AND STATES THAT IT WAS AN IN- ‘TERESTING NUMBER. Lawrence, Kans.—It was just like the day when I got religion when 1 saw your paper with my name in it. It was a great thing to me, and I know other people were proud to see me in there because it looked so good. I wonder if all men who write for papers feel like I did when I saw my name. I don’t think I will ever go back to the farm now, but will just go around getting my name in the paper. I may leave Kansas, although I do not see how I am going to live. I have saved a little money, but with it all going out and little coming in it will soon be empty. But then it is worth some- thing to get in print. T had the pleasure of meeting Bishop H. Blanton Parks, who lives in Chi- cago, Il. He is out in this part of the country presiding over conferences. He is one of the best preachers and presiding officers I have ever met since T have been a member of this race, yet I have never passed for any other race yet, and if I should I will let you know about it. I have been satisfied to be with your people and mine. But I must not forget to tell about Bishop Parks, for they tell me you must not forget things if you are going to be a reporter. Bishop Parks has made many friends in this part of the country, and he is now doing what ‘the boys would call making a ‘“‘home run,” This year will close up his work in this section as a bishop unless the general conference sends him back for another four years. He has accom- plished much. He is loved. I wish that he lived out here in Kansas for we need a few men like that in this section of the country. Bishop Parks is accompanied by his wife, and she is some worker herself. She has just gone right into the hearts of her people in this country. They ean all reach her and she is a friend to every woman in the district, and is so motherly to the young women. Mrs. Parks is a woman who will go out of her way any time to reach and help a. young woman, and for this she is Praised by the world. She has made some good common sense talks to the women of the district and each time received an ovation. I remember when she lived in Kansas City, and then I think of the three girls. I regretted much to learn of the death of one of them. | I talked with Mrs. Parks, and told her about my visit to Chicago, and the ‘big convention, and about some of the people’ I met. She was not in Chicago, but was with Bishop Parks holding his conferences, and I could not blame her. He is a great man and she was proud of his work in the West. I accepted an invitation to go to the North Missouri conference and see it through. I went over there, and saw them when the meeting was called to order. Rev. C. 8. Bowman, D. D. of Liberty, preached the sermon. It was fine. It is wonderful how these preach- ers living so far apart can get the same thoughts. It is the Lord’s plans; and we must not have anything to say about it. For the Lord can make a doz- en men think the same thing at the same time. So that the man who lived some years ago and died, no doubt is in the spirit world, and you must not be sur. prised to note that he is no more, but there is a man thinking just like him. Is it any body’s business about the thought of men? I should say not. Reaching St. Joseph at night, I was introduced to the pastor, Rev. N. ©. Burden, D. D, by Bishop Parks, and he assigned mo to stop with Mr. and ‘Mrs. St. Clair Beard. They came to ‘the place from Chicago. He was a ‘mail toter in Chicago and exchanged with a man. He has purchased a nice bome, and is still toting mail. He is one of the old Chicago men. Mrs, M. Beard, has invented some- thing that will make hair grow. She is just kept busy all the time, because hair has something to do with the iaaui, of women, and she is using it to some great big result. She can make hair herself and those whose hair has passed beyond redemption, she just makes some for them. She is in- deed a busy woman. I am sure the people of Chicago will be pleased to hear of their success along any line. |The delegates were elected to gen- eral conference, and resolutions were passed by which Rev. J. C. Caldwell was nominated for the episcopacy. ‘The delegates elected were Revs. P. C. Crews, M. 8. Bryant, N. C. Buren and J. W. Cross. They will have something to say about the next business of the ehureb. Every session was full of interest. Rev. R. C. Ransom, D. D. was there representing the A. M. E. Chureh Re- view, of which he is editor. He is taking care of himself in it. I was so proud to have the pleasure of see- ing him and being with him in the convention, I shook hands and he treated me like I was one of the big men. Does being a reporter bring you up to these big people like that? I am sorry that I did not meet you long ago Mr. Editor. You ean have my time. I remained until the conference closed. Heard a lecture by Mr. Stewart from Chicago Saturday night. I talked with him and he told me much about this reporting business. I will not tell you all he told me, but I will try to use some of the things. Rev. E. R. Vaughn preached Sunday morning, and the appointments were read out Sun- day night. I have read your anniversary num ber with much pleasure. It had some good pictures in it. Dr. Booker T. Washington; Dr. George C. Hall, Ma- jor R. R. Jackson; Oscar De Priest, Charles E. Morrison; Rodger M. Wood- fork; Richard Hill, Jr.; Rev. Father J. B. Massiah; Dr. Thomas 8S. Officer, Dr. W. A. Driver, George J. Terrell, Alonzo J. Bowling, W. B. Clark, Osear Javoid Buckner; Frank L. Hamilton, J. N. Higginbothan, A. L. Williams, Rev. J.C. Anderson; A. J. Nimrod. They helped to make the paper look well. Some day I will get my picture in the Paper. I am now in Lawrence attending the session of the Baptist convention here. You may expect to hear from me again soon. CHARLES: E. STUMP. ene rane conan Boca ‘MEMBER IN COURT. Judge Says He's Tired of Persons Ap- Dearing ‘‘to Get Arrested Poople Out of Trouble."? Judge Uhlir had a few things to say to State Representative S. B. Turner, Colored, Thursday, on the subject of getting people out of trouble. Mrs. Sophie Turner, also Colored, ap- peared to ask leniency for her son, held on minor charge, He was released, but later, however, Mrs. Turner said she had agreed to pay the politician $35, to obtain which she had been com- pelled to mortgage her furniture, ‘Turner declared the $35 was to pay a fine, if there should be any, and Mra Turner admitted her $35 had been re- ‘turned. Whereupon Judge Ublir said: ‘I ‘don’t want any one coming into my court getting people off and charging for it, Girls have to} me that you can get them’ out any time they are ‘arrested.”?”* toe rs STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETS, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, of THE BROAD AX, publishel weekly at Chicago, Ilinois, for October 1, 1915, Name of— Post-offiee Address, Baitor, Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence Ave, Chieago, I. Managing Editor, Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St, Lawrence Ave., Chicago, TH Business Manager, Julius F. Taylor, 6582 St. Lawrence Ave., Chicago, Hil. Publisher, Julius F, Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence Ave., Chicago, Tl. Owner: (If a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock. If aot a corporation, give names and addresses of individual owners.) Julius F, Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence Ave. Chicago, Ill. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: (@E there are none, so state.) \ None. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of October, 1915. [Seal.] MICHAEL J. 0’MALLEY, Notary Publie. (My commission expires March 8, 1916.) i Note—This statement must be made in duplicate and both copies delivered by the publisher to the postmaster, who shall send one copy to the Third As- sistant Postmaster General (Division of Classification), Washington, D. C., and retain the other in the files of the post office. The publisher must publish « copy of this statement in the second issue printed next after its filing. SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE|NEGEO COLONY PLAN FAILS; LOUISE TRAINING SCHOOL Foe SURVIVORS OF CREW IN U. 8. COLORED BOYS. ie a3 ‘The program of the Anniversary. We will celebrate the second Anni- versary of the Louise Training School for Colored boys, at 3:30; Inspection of the Home at 4 o’elock. The Boys Mili- tary Drill at 6 o’elock. Light luncheon served. : Speakers of the evening, as follows: Mr. W. F. Reynolds, ‘‘Invocation’’; Mrs. Delia Carey, Supt. of Home and Aid Society; Judge Pinckney, J-- venile Court; Miss Cora Cavend, Prin- cipal of Copernicus Sehool; Dr. Daniel Williams; Rev. Wilson, Pastor of St. John’s A. M. E. Church; Mr. Wm. Mooney, Attorney for 49th General As- sembly; Instrumental Solo, Miss Vei- della Casel; Music by Entire House band, Mr. Edward Smith, Director; Julius F. Bunnfield, Neighborhood, Speaker; Mr. L. I. Stone, Master of Ceremonies, See’y Boys Dept. Y. M. C. A.; Report of the Year’s work by the Supt., Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald. Silver Offering will be received. ‘We extend a cordial invitation to everyone. THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. ‘The Negro Fellowship League has planned a meeting the coming Sunday, October 10, 1915, for the consideration of the Campbell ease. All interested are urged to help raise funds for this unfortunate man and also urged to be present. This ease has been set for trial October 28, and not a cent has been raised to assist in the necessary expenses, save a few dollars contrib- uted by the League and twenty dollars by the Colored people of Joliet. Mr. F. L. Barnett, who has charge of the case will make the prineipal address. Last Sunday the meeting was well attended. A much earnest discussion pro and con was held over the ques- tion. ‘‘Whether the Lincoln Jubilee Exposition really portrayed the pro- gress of the race.’’ Six new members were added. Three Colored boys were taken care of by the League the past week, and arrangements have been planned to sed one who is penniless to Mobile, Alabama to his people. The total attendance of the League the past week has been one hundred. Three jobs has been found. MRS. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT, Pres. EVIDENCES OF NEGRO PROGRESS. Fifteen years ago the National Ne- gro Business League was started in Boston. There were many who scouted the idea. Since then the progress of the Negro in business, as in all walks of life, has been phenominal. Let the facts tell the story: In 1900 there were 20,000 Negro business enter. prises; in 1915, over 45,000. In 1900, ‘Negroes operated two banks; 1915, ‘over 50. In 1900 there were 10,000 Negro retail merchants; 1915, over 25,000. Negro farm property during 15 years hax~advanced in value by leaps and bounds. Value of domestic animals has increased from $85,000,000 to $17,000,000; poultry, $3,800,000 to $5,000,000; implements and machinery, $18,500,000 to $36,800,000; land and Duildings, $69,600,000 to $273,500,000. ‘These figures are simply given in round numbers. What is more significant is ‘the fact that the percentages of in- ‘crease are extraordinarily high, rang ing from 36 per cent to 293 per cent, HAITIAN MARRIES A VIRGINIA WHITE GIRL. Baltimore, Ma., Special to The Broad Ax—Maryland’s law against the mar- rying of persons of African and Cav- casian descent evidently does not sp- ply to foreigners. This is evidenced by the fact that Maurice Menos, son of Solon Menos, a Black man, the Hai. tien minister to the United States, was married in Baltimore, to Miss Lillian Burgess, of Culpepper, Va, but recent- ly attending a business college in Washington, where she met young Menos.. A white Presbyterian minister sitet, naples es scene, ot group of white friends and relatives. NEGEO COLONY PLAN FAILS; SURVIVORS OF CREW IN U. 8. Highteen Sailors of Ship, Carrying Colored People to Africa and Held by British, Arrive in New York. New York, Oct. 8—Special to The Broad Ax.—With the arrival here te- night on the steamer Norseman from Liverpool of eighteen distressed Am- ericans, forming what was left of the crew of the British steamer Liberia, « dramatic chapter was written into « colonization scheme, headed by Alfred Charles Sam, said to be chief of am African tribe, to transport Negroes from the United States to the west coast of Africa. ‘The project, as described by Sam, was to enable Negroes to go to West Africa, join a colony, and live in com- parative luxury. The Liberia, financed, it was said, by Negroes, left Portland, Me, in May and, after stopping at Norfolk, Va, proceeded to Galveston, Tex, where it was reported to have taken on forty Negroes and started on its voyage to the west coast of Africa. At Anamabu, on the African coast, the Liberia was seized by British au- thorities, as the owner was a British subject. While there the crew was stricken by fever and removed to a hospital. After their recovery they were discharged. They then went te Liverpool, whegce they were sent home as consular passengers. THE WEBER COMPANY, THE UP- TO-DATE TAILORS. ‘The Weber Company the up-to-date ‘merchant tailors at 27 West Washing- ‘ton street, bank floor, Max Weber, manager, make to order all kinds of fine clothes which they will turn over to their regular customers on easy payments, see their ad in another col- umn of this paper. THE CHICAGO GUARDS AND. UNITED STATES BOY SCOUTS WILL LISTEN TO THEIR AN- NUAL SERMON. Sunday, October 17, at 3 P. M. the Chieago Guards and the United States Boy Scouts, will attend and listen to their annual sermon at the original Providence Baptist Chureh, Walnut and Leavitt streets. The band will be under the direction of Prof. W. W. Williams. It is ex- peeted to be a great day for the mem- bers of the above organization. OLD SLAVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. ‘Martha Washington, 72 Resolves te ‘Win Diploma on Merit. Cincinnati, Ohio—Martha Washing- ton, aged seventy-two, a former slave, has been enrolled in the West Night High School here. She has been at- tending the evening classes from the first year they have been organized, fifteen years ago, and says she will not quit until she has been awarded a diploma on merit.. ‘The superintendent says one for per- sistency will be given to her if not for anything else. IT’S A LONG WAIT TO WAIT TILy MONDAY. It’s a long wait to wait till Monday It’s a long wait for me We can’t‘touch it at all on Sunday For he made it dry you see Good bye Tom and Jerry Farewell Rock and Rye It’s a long long wait to wait till Mon- aay For Sunday is ary. one EEE Henry Teenan Jones, 3445 8S. State street, A. F. Codozoe and J. H. Whit- son, 3030 8, State street; David MeGow. an, 3022 8. State street; Joseph Duna, and George Hight, 5050 8. State street; Thomas Cole and H. C. Catlin, of the ©. ©. Hotel, were all very much sur prised at the Sunday closing hubbub, but they will all endeavor to adjust themselves and their places of busi- ness, to the new order of things and their Buffets and Cafes will close up as tight as a drum promptly at 12 o’elesk, this coming Saturday evening and will THE ITINERARY OF MAYOR "BIG BILL" THOMPSON AND HIS FOLLOWERS ON HIS SPECIAL TRAIN TO THE PANAMA EXPOSITION AND RETURN. Health, Cleanliness Proper Living Sanitation, Etc. by DR. W.A. DRIVER 3300 So. State St. Phone Douglas 3617 THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE. The fact that the attendance at the recent annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Disease which was held at Rochester, Minnesota, was greater than the attendance at the last annual meeting of the American Medical Association may be taken to indicate that humanity is beginning to get at the real issue. The people, lay as well as the doctors, who attended that meeting deserve to be heard, because they believe in locking the barn BEFORE the thief visits it. The Society for the Prevention of Disease is evidence enough of the millenial dawn. It has often been said by the foremost thinkers of this as well as preceding ages that the best service that science can give is the prevention of disease. We have not apparently given as much thought to the prevention of disease as we have given to the cure of disease. It is easily understood that to cure a disease it is necessary to prevent the further application of the cause. To prevent the further application of the cause is to prevent disease itself. It is evident then that we can best serve humanity by ascertaining the causes of disease and by prevention of the causes of disease. The master minds of the medical world are seeking diligently for the HYDE PARK NEWS BY L. W. WASHINGTON Mr. George Bender, The Brother of Mrs. E. H. Brown and Mrs. Emma Coleman has left for Asyka, Miss., to visit another sister who is sick, his visit here was a long one and he spent a very pleasant trip. *** The first annual Ball given by the Hotel Employes Benefit Association at the Masonic Temple, 39th and State Sts., was a success from every stand point, it was well attended, and a well conducted affair. Mr. F. D. Manney (Beach) Pres. Mr. C. M. White (Del Prado), Vice Pres., J. H. Webb (Beach) Secy., J. I. Cross (Del Prado) Treasurer, these boys have organized a splendid organization and one which every waiter should become a member. --- Miss Alberta Brown, 3223 Vernon Ave., is still on the sick list and we are in hopes of an early recovery. * * * Mr. J. A. Bell of 2611 Philips 'St., New Orleans, La., was here on a short visit to his sisters and had a pleasant time while in our city. He thinks well of Chicago and expects some day to make it his home. THE ITINERARY OF MAYOR "BIG LOWERS ON HIS SPECIAL TRAIN AND RETURN. Lv. Chicago Monday, Oct. Ar. Omaha Tuesday, Oct. Lv. Omaha Tuesday, Oct. Ar. Denver Wednesday, Oct. A. E. causes of the greatest scourges of the flesh save two. The cause of those diseases when discovered will aid materially in the finding of a cure. In fact every one seeks to know the cause of his misery for obvious reasons. If we know the cause it is more or less easy to find the remedy. The finding of the causes of tuberculosis have solved the problem of the treatment of that disorder. The finding of the cause of typhoid fever has aided materially in the treatment as well as in the prevention of that disease. When the cause or causes of cancer are definitely and generally known cancer should be driven from the bodies of our contemporaries. We shall then be able to guard against the production of cancer. So it will be with every disease of every character, whether it be organic or functional in its nature. The causes of diseases must be known if we would rid the world of the suffering, the misery that some of us know. If we are to be successful in eradicating disease all of us must cooperate and organize lay and professional organizations to ascertain the best ways and means to prevent sickness. Is it folly to assume that men will finally devote as much time, energy and money for protection against disease as we now spend to hurl humanity into hell! Mrs. Merritt has returned to the city from visiting her relatives in Racine, Wisconsin, she had a delightful trip. Mr. William H. Cobb of 5212 Lake Park Ave., is now resting easy and comfortable in Westley Hospital after undergoing a serious operation conducted by Dr. Mossley, he was expecting his brother but owing to his splendid condition did not get here, not having to come. Mr. John Lowe, Jr., of 5210 Lake Park Ave., of the Postal Department an efficient clerk is indisposed because of a cold. The members of the St. Paul Baptist Church, 56th and Harper Ave., are again quite active, and are working hard for their church. HYDE PARK NOTES The thought of "lifting as we climb" was never more beautifully portrayed to our vision, than by what we saw the other day and of which we write. A lady was passing the Blackstone Library with an umbrella, a package and two large satchels, her burden had become to heavy for her, she was compelled to rest them on the ground, just then a Chesterfield, a gen- THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. OCTOBER 9. 1915 Attorney J. Gray Lucas, In Order to Recover the Money Due Him From Bishop Samuel Fallows and the Illinois State Commission, Has Filed Suit in the Courts of Cook County to Recover the Money Due Him RIGHT REVEREND SAMUEL FALLOWS, D, D, LL-D, Parameter REV. A. J. CARRY, Pr.D., D.D. HON. W. DUFF PIERCY HON. R. R. JACKSON HON. MEDDILL MCCORMICK MRS. MARY FITZBUTLER WARING, M. D. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN, SECRETARY JAMES HALE PORTER, CRISP FIELD AGENT Make All Checks Payable to W. R. DAWER, GENERAL TREASURER 125 W. Monroe St. DEPOSITORY: CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY OF ILLINOIS Mr. J. Gray Lucas, 25 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: it will standing it will be impossible for the Commission to adjust any outstanding accounts for at least 15 days. As "Chairman and Manager of the Department of Music" of the Illinois Commission Half-Century Exposition of Negro Freedom and Lincoln Jubilee, our well known Atty. J. Gray Lucas has not been paid the remainder of the money due on his contract, which was payable by the Commission at the beginning or at the end of each week of the Exposition, twenty-tleman of culture came by, going her way. And said "Madame, Pardon me, I am going your way, can I help you. (Taking the heavier part of her baggage), I might as well," She smiled a smile of recognition, and was happy, because her burden was made lighter by the thoughtfulness of her neighbor. This is lifting as we climb. The Hyde Park A. M. E. Church's Congregation was very much pleased to have their Pastor, Rev. W. H. Griffin, return to them, he filled his pulpit Sunday, both morning and evening in the evening service he took for his text the first chapter of St. John, subject: "Voice of Life." Collection for the day, $20 odd dollars. St. Paul Baptist Church has taken on new life. They have been carrying on revival meetings for two weeks, and much good was accomplished Monday evening The Passion play was shown and every one present enjoyed it very much. CHIPS Everybody is talking about the last issue of The Broad Ax and had the dealers crying for more. A young child was burned to death at 2950 La Salle St., Wednesday morning while the mother was out toiling, the neighbors tried to save the poor little thing but came to her rescue too late. At 36th street and State an attempt was made upon the life of the owner of a lunch car, by shooting him, but after his wound was dressed he was able to walk home without assistance. Caldwell Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, 3332 Calumet avenue; has entered the law depart- PATRON: THE PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS In reply to your letter it be impossible for the big accounts for at least Ver In reply to your letter I am directed to say that five per cent. The additional delay impliedly asked in the above photographed letter to him, apparently has brought this money no nearer his possession. Mr. Lucas expected to pay off the remainder of his talent, chiefly left unpaid are the choirs of the various churches, who as the "Grand Jubilee Chorus" rendered such wonderful ment of the Chicago University and in time he will be associated with his father in his law business. Harrison Emanuel, son of Prof. and Mrs. William Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes avenue; through the great legal ability of Attorney B. F. Moseley, was last week cleared of all charges which had been hanging over his head in the criminal court of Cook county. Alderman Oscar De Priest and Alderman Hugh Noris, are both accompanying Mayor William Hale Thompson on his special train, to the Panama Exposition and the second ward for the first time in many years past will be minus of its alderman for the next twelve or fifteen days. Col. Tom Allen, who is one of the greatest living orators in Chicago and who worked mighty hard for the success of Mayor William Hale Thompson, may very shortly be landed in a good job by His Honor the Mayor. Mrs. Nora E. Lee, 5259 S. Dearborn street; still possesses the beautiful china vase which is extremely large and which she painted herself and which she had on exhibition at the Coliseum and at the close of the Exposition winning a blue ribbon for her fine artistic work. Miss Ethel Moss the efficient stenographer and bookkeeper of Travis Real Estate Co. and her sister Miss Dora are visting New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and Atlantic City and are having a glorious time, we mention them because they are deserving, young women of the race. As we passed Logan's monument on Michigan Ave. we counted 14 White men lying sprawled upon the green spotting its mound in the beautiful sunlight, resting, sleeping, taking their ease, we looked again still upward toward its base, we saw sitting on its stoney foundation 2 Colored men, discussing the Civil war, and we ask ourselves the question what care these about future preparation. THE LINCOLN JUBILEE "Let us help step to the Music of the Republic."—A. Lincoln Illinois Commission (NATIONAL) Half-Century Anniversary Exposition 128 N. LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A. TELPHONE FRANKLIN 3686 PATRON: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES letter I am directed to sa the Commission to adjust an least 15 days. Very respectfully yours, Amnel President. choruses, together with the regular musical organizations of the city of Chicago, who were paid up to the end of the third week, as well as all soloists and performers. Nothing seems left to do but bring suit and to use the very strong arm of the law and let the Commission tell their unsatisfactory excuses to the court. Mr. Lucas says the poses to attack by "land whatever that means when strued, forthwith! He desires the above statement to serve to notify ested in any way, who may wise be reached. Ere t reaches the public, suit will Now they say that the deadly upa tree is not deadly, and another cheris- hed tradition has been blown sky high. And now some one is complaining that we have too few army surgeons. Nevertheless, it is to be hoped we will not need any more. Pajamas have been abandoned in the navy because the sailors persisted in using them for overalls. It's hard to teach an old seadog new tricks. Fashion Frills. It is likely that by another summer the "sports shirt" will have a bit of lace insertion.—Boston Herald. What with tall shoes and short skirts the height of fashion is finding it difficult to make both ends meet.—Washington Post. "Immodesty is not a matter of dress," says a fashion writer who is evidently trying to boost some immodest garment.—Detroit Free Press. As we expected, fashion greets the approach of winter with the edict that the fur neckpiece is due to be supplanted by the chiffon ruff.—Milwaukee Journal. Flippant Flings. Missouri has begun a war to terminate groundhogs. But, no matter; there will still be plenty of other weather prophets left.—Philadelphia Press. By the time the war is over medical science will have reached the point where it can reconstruct a satisfactory man from an undamaged appendix.—Washington Post. A Philadelphia woman is suing for divorce on the ground of "literary cruelty." Possibly her husband compelled her to read some of the magazine stories to him.—Cleveland Leader. Health Hints. Keep your body up to normal. The sickness germ has an uphill fight in a normally healthy body. A severe coughing paroxysm can very often be relieved by taking a teaspoonful of glycerin in a swallow of hot milk. Tight lacing prevents the free circulation of the blood, which is so important for young girls. Good circulation is necessary for sound health, and September 20, 1915. To Recover the Michael Fallows man, Has Filed any to Recover EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE VICE-PRESIDENT THE TREASURER REV. A. J. CARBY HON. R. R. JACKSON y that y out- , Gallows court. Mr. Lucas says that he* proposes to attack by "land and sea," whatever that means when legally construed, forthwith! He desires the above letter and statement to serve to notify all interested in any way, who may not otherwise be reached. Ere this edition reaches the public, suit will have been filed. There is absolutely no other human occupation that requires the accuracy of observation and the delicacy of touch that are requisite for the making of the finest lenses. These are the most perfect products of human hands. It may convey some idea of the labor required in the making of a large lens to say that at least one year's time is required for the grinding and polishing of a thirty inch object glass. A little lens two inches in diameter requires the unremitting care and attention of a skilled workman for two or three days. It is easy, then, to see why it is that even lenses for high class photographic work are costly. A forty inch object glass for a large telescope cannot be made in much less than four years' time, and if everything does not go just right it may require much longer than that. In technical journals considerable discussion has taken place as to who invented the circular saw. The claim is made that this kind of saw was invented and used by a wood turner named Murray at Mansfield about the year 1820. The first saw is described as having been about six inches in diameter and was used on a wood turning lathe operated by water power. James Murray, the inventor, is said to have been the son of old Joe Murray, the favorite servant of Lord Byron. Little Johnny was sorely troubled one morning. Prohibitions great and small met him at every turn. It was "no" to this and "no" to that till at last he began to cry, angrily exclaiming to his mother between sobs, "I wish 'no' was a sweater word, mamma, so you couldn't say it."-American Boy. Firmness of Purpose Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. Expectation. Montague—So the Jimson girl eloped with young Perkins? Are her parents much worried? Melissa—Awfully. Every day they are expecting a letter asking for money.—Judge. These Funny Stories. A well known trouble with conversation is that you can't talk to some men half a minute without reminding them PAGE FIVE Making Lenses. The Circular Saw If It Only Were Expectation. PAGE 8IX 1 © by American Press Association. The interesting young couple here pictured represented a bride and groom leading the wedding march at the annual baby show at Asbury Park, N. J. Also they won the prize in the fourth division of the parade. That means, of course, that the judges considered this bridal couple the best feature of the whole division. Quite a compliment for the youthful pair! The groom is bashful looking, as is usually the case in a real grown up wedding, while the bride is demure and serene. That also is the usual demeanor of brides. A handsome couple they are, and they won the prize on their merits. That's what everybody who saw the parade said. Russian. "Follow the Leader." Russian boys and girls have a form of "follow the leader" that is well adapted to the fall and winter months in northern latitudes. Since it requires fast running, it offers a good way to get warm on a cold day. Any number of players can take part. A circle large enough to contain all of the players without crowding is drawn in the middle of the playground. That is the goal. The choice of a leader is made by "counting out." The boy who is chosen starts the game by running about in the circle and tagging one after another of his comrades. Each one falls behind the leader, at the same time tagging another player, who also falls in line and tags another. This is continued until every one is in line. The leader then starts away, followed by the rest of the players, running in Indian file. The run continues at the discretion of the leader, who finally halts at a point some distance from the starting place and calls out, "To the goal!" At this signal the players break from the line and run, leader and all, helter skelter, pellmell, back to the circle. The player who reaches it first has the privilege of leading the next run—Youth's Companion. Brooklyn and New York An enjoyable and interesting out of door game is entitled Brooklyn and New York. At least eight players are required. Two sides of an equal number of players are chosen, one called Brooklyn and the other New York. A space is marked off at one end of the playground, called home. Once in this space a player is safe. One side retires while the other plans what to have, such as mowing grass, dressing for a party, etc.-something of action each time. Then the other side is called, and both stand in line with about five feet between them. The side decided upon to give the phrase gives the first letter of each word in it, such as for mowing grass, "m g," etc. Then each member of that side makes the action the phrase indicates, and the other side tries to guess the phrase, and, if it does, the other side runs for home, trying not to be caught by any one on the opposing side. If any one is caught he is then a member of that side. A. Bundle Race: The following is a very exciting and amusing game. It is called a "bundle race" and is very appropriate for a party: Several small gifts are wrapped up in paper and stuffed with excelsior or cotton wadding so as to make them large and bulky. The players are each given a spoon and a bundle and told to make the circuit of the room five or ten times, carrying the bundle on the spoon without dropping it. The player who completes the rounds successfully wins the small prize contained in the bundle. The others compete over and over till each has successfully made the rounds. Walk the Rope. "Walking the tight rope" is an interesting game for indoors. Lay a piece of white twine along the floor, give a person a pair of opera glasses, let him focus the glasses on the string, then reverse the glasses, looking through the large end of the glasses, and try to "walk the rope." The resulting attempts are often very amusing, and a favor may be given to the one doing it best. Charade. Both together make trade's greatest ban. Answer.-Boy. cot-boycott. A Campaign Of Interest for Suffrage The "seeing New York" motor bus tourist never really sees the side of New York which is familiar to every downtown suffrage worker. The Chinatown megaphoned by the guide with its alleged "murderous alleys" warranted to send thrills down the tourist's back is neither so real nor so interesting as the Chinatown which sends its children to kindergarten and follows suffrage banners. Little Chinese girls in long trousers, who look like little boys, and small boys one can't tell from girls learn to hop like birds and be butterflies and crusaders "allee samee Melicans" in a kindergarten on Mott street. Over on Washington street small sized Syrians just imported from Palestine climb up rickety stairs to a dingy little room where a sweet voiced woman explains to them in Arabic how to tell a green ball from a red. She teaches them to sing about "merry sunshine" in the language of their new land and to salute their new flag. These are the sections Miss Lavinia Dock's new squad of suffrage workers knows by heart. Here suffrage banners written in languages old in the days of the Tower of Babel but translated by cordial residents into suffrage slogans traverse the crowded streets. On several excursions to Chinatown to canvass voters, Miss Dock says, she and her squadron carried the Chinese banner, which met with great interest and amusement. The wife of a Chinatown native missionary, who is heir to all the Chinese traditions about women, even to her little bound feet, believes in votes for women. Her daughter has been to an American university. A full blooded Chinese voter, born in this country, expressed the new ideal for women. "I would like my wife to be a citizen," said he. The Turkish banner was written by a liberal young Turk and has been carried in the suffrage parades by a Turkish-Jewish girl who works in a factory. A Turkish woman came to a suffrage meeting only a short time ago and asked if she might take the banner home so that all her people could read it. "We ask for the women to have the vote given them in 1915." The Syrian banner was translated at the office of a Syrian paper, Al Boyan. Most Syrian men with oriental ideas oppose votes for women, but Americanization softens their prejudices. Those who have learned modern ideas want their wives to vote. They have even permitted their women to form a Syrian Woman Suffrage association at 126 Pacific street, Brooklyn. The Greeks make domineering opponents of woman suffrage, but their wives want the vote just the same. "The liberal Greek often becomes anarchistic in his thought and considers the vote useless and undesirable for any one," comments Miss Dock. Against this slight respect for the franchise his vote respecting wife will make a good offset. Armenians are usually strong for suffrage. In spite of the seclusion in which their women have always lived they want the vote for them. In this district, which Miss Dock so ably covers, it is said that every nationality in the world is represented. To most of them suffrage banners have spoken in their own tongues. Week End Screen. A hospitable little woman who loves dearly to entertain, but whose domicile is too small to accommodate many guests, has contrived a very sensible way to put up the occasional guest who can "bunk in anywhere"—the anywhere usually being the living room couch. Out of an ordinary wooden clotheshorse, the largest size obtainable, this hostess has evolved a sightly and practical screen which turns that corner of the living room in which the couch is located into a very comfortable and perfectly private bedroom. Opened out, the clotheshorse, which has three sections, completely hides the improvised bed from view, and the screen, moreover, is almost six feet high, so that the ordinary individual, dressing behind it, is quite hidden. The three panels of the clotheshorse screen have been covered with shirred cretonne, the material overlapping at the joints of the screen so that there shall be no crannles to afford unsought and unwelcome glimpses into the screened off space. The cretonne matches the curtains and cushions of the living room and when the screen is set up at bedtime the rest of the room still presents a cozy and tidy appearance. On the inner side of the screen are several hooks and many large and small shirred pockets, made of the cretonne. On the hooks garments may be hung and into the pockets will be slipped toilet articles, shoes and small belongings. An oval mirror hangs from a stout hook in the center panel of the screen. Clam Bisque. Remove twenty-four soft shell clams from shells; chop and add to liquor; then add one small sliced onion, two cloves, sprig of parsley and blade of mace. Simmer one-half hour. Scald one quart of milk and thicken with two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, diluted with two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Cook in double boiler ten minutes and add clam water strained through a double thickness of cheesecloth. Season with salt and serve with whipped cream; sprinkle with a little lobster coral. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. OCTOBER 9. 1915 This Charming Design Attracts by Its Graceful Lines. FOR THE DEBUTANTE. This beautiful gown is of white tulle and silver metal cloth over a foundation of nile green pussy willow satin. The simple bodice of tulle has a crush girdle of metal cloth and is beautifully finished with a garland of flowers extending from the left shoulder across the girdle, trailing over the right front. A rich lace finishes the bottom of the short skirt, over which the tunic falls in four points finished with narrow silver braid. KNITTED COIN PURSE An Attractive Gift That Will Please Any Young Girl. Materials and directions for making coin purse: 1 ball crochet silk of desired color. 1 steel crochet hook, No. 7. 1 brass ring one inch in diameter. Ch. means chain; S. C. means single crochet; D. C. means double crochet; * is sign of repetition. The purse is begun at the lower edge and worked round and round. Ch. 75, join to a ring. First Row=Ch. 3, * skip 1 Ch., 1 D. C. in next Ch., Ch. 1. Repeat from * around ring. Now make 1 D. C. in loop of Ch. 3 at beginning of previous row, * Ch. 1. 1 D. C. in space between next 2 D. C. Repeat from * until the work is 16 rows deep. Then make 1 S. C. each in next 2 spaces, * Ch. 30, make 1 slip stitch in brass ring, Ch. 30, skip 1 space in edge of purse, 1 S. C. in next space. Repeat from * until you have made 8 slip stitches in ring, being careful not to twist the strands of Ch. 30, then Ch. 30, skip 1 space, 1 S. C. each in next 3 spaces, Ch. 4, lay the last Ch. 30 made over the edge on which you are working and make 1 D. C. in next space (the Ch. 30 will come through the space just made), * Ch. 1, make 1 D. C. in next space, Ch. 1, lay the next 2 strands of Ch. 30 over edge, make 1 D. C. in next space. Repeat from * which brings the double strands through every other space across edge, with a single strand each in first and last spaces. Ch. 4. turn. Make 1 D. C. in last space of previous row, * Ch. 1, * 1 D. C. in next space. Repeat from * to end of row, making 1 D. C. in third Ch. at beginning of previous row, Ch. 4, turn. Repeat this row until you have 6 rows in all. Finish by making 3 D. C. in first space, * 1 S. C. in next space, 3 D. C. in next space. Repeat from * across edge, making both ends to correspond. Cover the ring with S. C. Hold the two edges at the bottom together, fasten thread in first space, * Ch. 3, 1 S. C. in next space, working through both edges. Repeat from * to end of row. To make the fringe, cut thread into strands, 5 inches long, tie 6 strands into every loop of Ch. 3 on lower edge, then cut, so that the fringe is a full inch long. Ironing Made Easier If on ironing day the iron stand is nowhere to be found do not waste time and patience hunting for it, but use a block of wood in its stead. The result will surprise you, for the iron will keep hot nearly twice as long. The block retains the heat, while the openwork iron stand allows it to escape. A heated brick will be found even hotter than the block. To make ironing less tiresome take a rug or piece of carpet and fold it twice, thus making a pad to stand upon. The feet will be less tired after ironing a few hours. When necessary to iron some clothes in a hurry and you have no time to dampen them in the usual way try wringing a clean Turkish towel in lukewarm water. spread over the article you wish to dampen. roll up for a few minutes or wring all together and the moisture from the towel will make the article ready for ironing in a very short time. Effects of fear On Children Most of us are familiar with stories of the bogey nurse of long ago, but few realize that her type survives even in these enlightened days. It seems probable that from very earliest times there have been people whose only idea of ruling children was to employ a discipline of fear. One hundred years ago Napoleon was the favorite bogey, especially among English speaking people, and terrifying were the tales which nurses and probably many foolish parents invented of the horrors he perpetrated on small children who cried in the night, soiled their Sunday frocks, or were guilty of any of the hundred and one smallaughtiness children unthinkingly commit. A word that "Boney is coming" would send many small girls and boys covering beneath the bedclothes, there to spend hours of shivering terror, while the real bogey who had so scared them employed the time cheerly gossiping in the servants' room. But that was all very long ago. Nowadays we study hygiene, eugenics and what not and take the bringing up of our children very seriously. There is one fact, however, we often overlook. A 1915 incarnation of the bogy nurse is still among us. Today for weapons of terror she uses the policeman. Now, this is very wrong, for the child who lives in the city should be taught that the policeman on the corner, in the park or anywhere one finds his brass buttons and gold braid is a person to be welcomed as a friend and protector of the kiddies, not an enemy or a bogy to be feared. If this idea of the law is instilled into the youngster's head he will not forget it should he become lost from his mother or nurse. Instead of wandering along the streets or park helpless and bewildered he will run confidently to the nearest policeman, explain his troubles as best he can and stay content with the big man decorated with many brass buttons until aid arrives. The child who is taught to fear the policeman, on the other hand, shuns him in time of trouble, with effects which are sometimes disastrous both to the little fellow and his parents. A stroll through the park any pleasant day will bring you in contact with the foolish nurse who holds up the policeman as a terrible bogey. "Come along, Master Bobby!" she will say. "The policeman will come and catch you if you hang behind like that." The little fellow gives a scared glance, over his shoulder before he hastens on, frantically pulling at her hand. Two little girls were playing in the park the other day. In the game one slipped and fell, covering her diminutive skirt with green grass stains. "Now, whatever shall I do with you, Agatha?!" cried the nurse. "The police man will get you and no mistake. They always look out for dirty little girls!" So wee Agatha's play was spolied by the fear of another tumble and the dread consequences that would surely ensue. Many nurses are not ignorant; thoughtless women, but there are a few who by these means do irreparable harm to sensitive and timid children. Nor are nurses by any means the only offenders. Mothers have been known to trifle with the nerves of their children—that delicate mechanism governing both the body and the mind. While children may beg for exciting stories and display a tremendous interest in the war, it is far from wise to tell them too much and to excite their imagination by descriptions of gory encounters. It is natural for little boys who want to hear the details of the conflict from their fathers to beg daddy for "a story of the war," for a certain love of the military is ingrained into the masculine character from the moment the little lad begins to play with tin soldiers. However, if one cares to preserve the tiny fellow's nerves the story telling will be restricted to deeds of valor. A Clear Skin. Good health is the only lasting prescription for a good skin. Cosmetics and lotions will do no good if the real trouble is lack of exercise or indiscretion in eating. Indigestion is the cause of many pimply skins and sluggish dispositions. Your stomach and its health will reflect on your beauty. Many girls lunch daily on a dish of ice cream or some candy. A sallow, muddy complexion is the inevitable result. You should make every meal as substantial as possible, and do not eat between meals. Women who form the habit of getting up late, then rushing off without any breakfast or none to speak of will soon show the results of this in their faces. The midday meal need not be heavy; a salad, a patty, a light dessert and a glass of milk are enough. Brown Betty. Half a cupful of melted butter, one pint of sifted breadcrumbs, half a teaspoonful of cinnamon, one quart of sliced apples, half a cupful of cold water, half a cupful of sugar. Stir the butter into the breadcrumbs. Into a buttered baking dish put a layer of sliced apples, sprinkle with the cinnamon and sugar and continue until the materials are used, having the last layer of crumbs. If the apples are juicy use less water. Bake about one hour in the fireless roaster. Serve with cream. ```markdown ``` A CORRECT JUVENILE. This new fall design is developed in navy velours de laine. The semibelted effect and high snug collar, which buttons, as does the front, with self buttons, give smart finishes. The pannier pockets depending from the belt and rolling cuffs with narrow cordings are interesting details. The tricorn hat is of navy velours felt banded with beaver fur. CARE OF YOUR HANDS Some Hints on How to Protect Them While at Housework. "But I don't like to do housework—it spolls my hands." This is a complaint frequently laid at the door of domestic travail. But is it always necessary to have unsightly hands, simply from performing the various tasks of housework? Sweeping is generally hard on the hands because it makes callous places where the broom or mop handle is held. Dishwashing is hard because of the grease and the hot water which roughen and open the pores. Scouring of any kind, as cleaning a bathroom, is also bad in its effect, but the secret of well kept hands is the use of different kinds of gloves—gloves and a good oil or cold cream. Have three kinds of gloves—first, a couple of pairs of the large white cotton, so called teamster's gloves; next, a very good pair of rubber gloves, and last a pair of yellow oilskins, which are more difficult to find in stores, but which are used by certain workmen and can sometimes be found in the stores. Before using any pair of gloves oil your hands thoroughly with cold cream or with almond oil, of which keep a small bottle standing on your kitchen shelf. After covering your hands plentifully with the cream, draw on the white gloves and proceed to sweep or dust. The friction of the work causes your hands to be moist, so that the cream is absorbed. Similarly, before washing dishes, cream your hands; then pull on the rubber gloves and wash as usual. The oilskin gloves keep especially for very dirty tasks, like blacking the stove, scouring the garbage can, etc. After taking off any pair of gloves when through with work, wash your hands in pure soap and water and rub in an astringent, such as benzoin. This helps close the pores and keeps the skin from being coarsened. Muslin "Petties" Return: Petticats of muslin are back again in the feminine wardrobe after an enforced retirement of several seasons' duration. They are shaped somewhat differently from their predecessors, having been influenced by the changing lines in outer apparel. Some of the new models incline to close fitting hip lines and a flaring flounce. There are others that are only moderately wide through the hem. One reason advanced for the maintenance of the comparatively narrow petticoat is that with the revival of the very wide outer skirt, particularly as advocated for dance purposes, the need for the clinging foundation skirt is at once apparent. Lingerie makers in Paris have not been seriously disturbed by the war. Naturally this work is done by women, and the greater trouble has been to get it transported to this country and other countries. Removing Wall Paper. To remove old wall paper—and this should always be done before putting on new—make a thick pasty solution of flour and a few spoonfuls of salt in boiling water. Then add a few ounces of acetic acid, which is cheap, and apply with a brush to the old paper, which will, after a few minutes, readily peel off in large strips. M. MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN. New York has just stepped into the ranks of those states putting indigent widowed mothers on its payrolls. The law took effect July 1, and it is estimated that in New York city alone there are upward of 1,500 widowed mothers and perhaps three times as many children to be provided for. No larger sum may be given to any mother, according to this law, than would support her children in an asylum. This means $10 a month for each minor child, for that is the amount of board paid by the state for the board of each orphaned boy and girl. This law does not include cases where the family has resided less than two years in the county or where the father was not a citizen at the time of his death. Besides New York, the mothers' pension law goes into effect this year in Tennessee, Wyoming and Arizona. In these four states at least 2000 families will be reunited and three times as many children taken from public institutions. Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Jersey, with varying limitations and allowances, already had such laws. Mrs. Harriman has been appointed to serve as a member of the new state child welfare board of nine members for the term of eight years after having served for the past two as a member of the federal commission on industrial relations. This principle of pensioning indigent widowed mothers Denmark, the country of economists and scientists, finally arrived at as the one solution to the problem of dependent children. It has alleviated community charge to the satisfaction of that government. In other countries it has been similarly successful. Just before the war France appropriated $10,000,000 for one purpose—home care of dependent children. A MODERN HOOPSKIRT. A Twentieth Century Hoop Designed For Bouffant Skirts. 10 FOR FLUFFY RUFFLES. This new hoopskirt, designed to wear over a regular petticoat, is made of net, elastic bands, tape and featherbone. The elastic bands form the belt and support the deep flounce of net. The featherbone is cleverly concealed by three rows of gathered net made to look like tiny ruffles, while so arranged that the featherbone can be slipped out when the skirt is laundered. Homemade Dustless Duster. Use wormout hoslery or old underwear and wring out of a mixture made in the proportion of three tablespoonfuls linsel oil to one-half plat kerosene. After saturating wring dry and hang on out line for thorough airing. SIX ROOM BRICK COTTAGE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN ON EASY PAYMENTS. Beautiful six room and bath; cement basement, furnace heat, hardwood floors and trimmings, one and a half story brick cottage located on St. Lawrence avenue, near Marquette Road, 66th street Boulevard at a bargain, if purchased at once, small amount of money required. For further particulars, address Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence avenue. Phone Wentworth 2597, no agents wanted. FIVE BRICK HOUSES FOR SALE 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. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. B. Jones, magazines, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 248 E. 35th St. N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, notion store and news stand, 5012 S. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, S. E. corner 51st and State streets. S. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 51 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St. near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St., near State. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shoe shining parlors and news stand. $3800\frac{1}{2}$ State street. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Lincoln's Fees: As a rule, Abraham Lincoln's fees were less than those of other lawyers of his circuit. Justice Davis once demonstrated with him and insisted that he was doing a grave injustice to his associates at the bar by charging so little for his services. From 1850 to 1860 his income varied from $2,000 to $3,000, and even when he was recognized as one of the ablest lawyers of the state his fee book frequently shows charges of $3, $5 and $1 for advice, although he never went into court for less than $10. During that period he was at the height of his power and popularity, and lawyers of less standing and talent charged several times those amounts.—"The True Abraham Lincoln." Couldn't Tell. Saturday afternoon a woman rushed up to one of the gatemen at the South station and asked: "Will I have time to catch my train if I wait for my husband?" "Where is he?" said the gateman. "I don't know," she replied. "Well, neither do I," said the gateman. She walked away. The incident was closed—Boston Record A Drop. In the new British pharmacopoeia a "drop" is defined as coming from a tube of which the external diameter is exactly three millimeters, twenty such drops of water at 15 degrees C. being equivalent to' one millimeter or cubic centimeter. Society. Mrs. Climber-You will find society is made up of two classes, my child. Daughter-What are they, mother? Mrs. Climber-Undesirables and people we don't know.-Life. Women and Willa. Some women break their husband's will long before he dies. And it isn't the kind you put on paper, either.—Macon News. Tolstoy and the Resistance Tolstoy and the Peasants. Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist, spent his whole life in a close communion with the peasants and was persuaded that all the wisdom he might have attained concerning life, its true meaning and its true aim, was due but to this fact. He knew the peasant soul; he spoke and he wrote, especially in his religious and moral works, the language of the peasants. He always says, speaking of truth, that he means "the simple peasant truth." He considers the work of the peasant the only dignified labor, and he never ceased to investigate the simple thoughts and the clear judgments of the true workers—the peasants. At the very end of his life, when he left his home he walked with his daughter through a village and said to her: "I don't yet know our peasants. I will take a stick and wander from door to door, knocking at each house. Then, perhaps, listening to the answers they will give me, I will penetrate into their true minds."—Exchange Color Schemes In Rooms When following out a color scheme in furnishing a room a little touch of an entirely different but harmonizing color produces an excellent effect. This was brought out by a professional decorator who was discussing the furnishings of her own home. One room which was furnished in green and had a green velours couch cover was especially noteworthy. "The room needs something to break the monotony," she said, "and some pillows with a bit of old rose coloring will do it." A bedroom where the color scheme is blue and white is attractive, but requires another color to give it warmth. A straight color scheme is easy enough for any one to carry out, but it calls for considerable skill to make it distinctive, as in the practical application of a little variety is usually necessary to make the furnishings really charming.-Good Health. Don't Be Radical. The sooner young folks learn not to be radical the sooner they will find themselves floating serenely down the stream of life without friction. To be radical takes lots of trouble; you have to be continually ripping off veneers, scratching surfaces, engaging in original research, applying acid tests, lifting lids, making analyses, tearing off masks, demanding proof and so on illimitably. But it is all permicious activity. The leaders and makers and sellers of earth fix things up so that they will seem to be so and so; their leadership and their fame and their profits depend upon our being perfectly credulous and accepting things for what they seem. Why, then, ask embarrassing questions and thus incur the everlasting ill will of those who are trying to hoodwink us? It is much better to take things as they come (paying cash, of course) and be humbly grateful—Life. Poe and the Literary Messenger. Poe and the Literary Messenger. With his stories and his criticisms during the meager two years of his connection with the magazine Poe was certainly able to reflect that, as at no time in her previous literary history, he had put Richmond on the map. But the letter he wrote to Anthon when projecting the Stylus was somewhat flamboyant. "I had joined the Messenger, as you know, then in its second year, with 700 subscribers, and the general outcry was that because a magazine had never succeeded south of the Potomac therefore a magazine never could succeed. Yet in spite of this and the wretched taste of the proprietor, which hampered and controlled me at all points, I increased the circulation in fifteen months to 5,500 subscribers, paying an annual profit of $10,000 when I left it."—Algernon Tassin in Bookman. Gamboge. Gamboge is one of the artist's most important yellowells. It is the gum resin of a tree which bears yellow flowers and leathery, laurel-like leaves. The name of the pigment indicates the country from which it comes, for gamboge is simply a corruption of Camboja or Cambodia. In this far eastern country the tree grows wild and sheds those sticky tears which help the artist to paint the sunrise and the autumn tints of the woods. Gamboge was brought to Europe by merchants from the east toward the end of the sixteenth century.-London Answers. The Height of It. "They tell me," said the professor, "that Mrs. Highroller is a very sympathetic woman." "I should say she was," said Harkaway. "Why, when her husband eloped with Mrs. Gayboy she immediately sent Mrs. Gayboy a telegram of condolence"—New York Times. Couldn't Talk. De Style—You say that loving pair of deaf mutes were sitting in the parlor and didn't carry on a conversation? Gunbusta—They couldn't, for they were holding hands—New York Press. Even Virtues. "She can cook a dinner without burning it, and he can eat one without roasting it."—Baltimore American. His Reason. "Why do you always leave the house, James, when I begin to sing the old songs?" pouted Mrs. Howit. "Fresh air," said Howit--Harper's. Another Way. "I don't see how young Bentley can sidestep all his bills." "He doesn't; he sidesteps the collector."—Louisville Herald. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. OCTOBER 9. 1915. THE TRAVELER'S BOOK WILLA TAILORING CO. Willa Tailoring Co. Special rates and suits made to order. Watch these styles of the latest designs. Our agents will call and STATES MIL 3332 South St A. DANIZIGER LADIES' ATTENTION:— The next time you are to call in and SEE our LA millinery, designed and trim RECENTLY FROM PARI The next time you are out, it will pay you to call in and SEE our LATEST MODELS in millinery, designed and trimmed by Miss Roberts RECENTLY FROM PARIS. Scott's Romantic Home If any other literary man ever owned a home more magnificent than Abbotsford, the romantic palace of Sir Walter Scott, the globe trotters haven't heard of it. From everywhere in Scotland came stones and carvings and metals to adorn it, and the construction of Abbotsford went on slowly and fantastically, after the fashion of a rumbling cathedral. Scott became the sheriff of the county, the king's local representative, and delighted to have the place always crowded with guests. The armory and the drawing room are so rich in curios that many visitors describe Abbotsford as the most interesting museum in Scotland. The novelist's study and his library are just as he left them. The 20,000 books which bank the walls of these two rooms from the floors to the beams of the cellings did not lose their usefulness at his death. To persons with the proper credentials they are available for circulation.—C. P. Cushing in Travel. Immensity of Alaska. Alaska's immensity impresses one beyond belief. It embraces the picturesque, the sublime, the material and the beautiful. It reveals to the visitor, multiplied one hundred fold, the beautiful Thousand Island region of the St. Lawrence, the snow covered Alps, the flords of Norway and the volcanic and glacial wonders of Iceland. It has the sweetest flowers, the most luxuriant vegetables, the finest grazing and timber lands, the richest fisheries and mineral deposits and a most healthful climate, with the warmth of the middle states in winter along southern and western Alaska and the dry, healing cold of the arctic in the highest latitude of the territory. Extending from our Pacific coast 3,000 miles toward the orient, Alaska is the glittering diamond of America's diadem.—John A. Sleicher in Leslie's How Yeast Makes Bread Rise. How Yeast Makes Bread Rise. In the dough from which bread is made there is a lot of sugar, which contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. It is necessary to ferment this sugar-to make bread edible, and yeast is used because it has the power to do this. It is made from a plant having this quality. Fermenting sugar is equivalent to burning it, and there are two results. One is the formation of carbonic acid gas. A great deal of this gas is caught in the dough in the form of large or small bubbles, and some of it escapes into the air. The part that cannot escape causes the dough to rise and makes the bread light. The holes in bread are the little pockets which held the carbonic acid gas. The effect of the bubbles is to lift the body of dough so that the heat can penetrate readily and bake it properly. Perception Outruns Talent. Our perception far outruns our talent. We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach, and, further, the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be. A deep sympathy is what we require for any student of the mind, for the chief difference between man and man is a difference of impressionability. Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is the keynote of philosophy thenceforward. But I am more interested to know that, when at last they have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man on the street. If it be not it will never be heard of grate - Empson. serve you at once. It matters not where your location may be. Don't forget the place; let us hear from you today. A. W. KNIGHT, Mgr. J. E. CHESMAN, Ass't. MILLINERY State Street BAGER, Prop. are out, it will pay you LATEST MODELS in trimmed by Miss Roberts PARIS. Greased the Wheels. Some years ago an American business man, wishing to get freight through a Russian port, approached the government agent with a request for expedition. He was told delivery might be made in some weeks. The American protested that he must have those goods immediately. "Have a cigar," said the Russian official, pushing a box toward the American and leaving the room. The American opened the box, found it empty and dropped in fifty rubles. The Russian came back, looked at the box, pushed it toward the visitor and, as he again left the room, remarked, "Have another cigar." The American dropped fifty more rubles in the box. The Russian official returned, looked at the cigar box and politely remarked, "Your goods will be delivered tomorrow, sir."—Wall Street Journal. A Famous Statue. The great temple of Zeus Olympus at Olympia. Greece, was 354 feet long and 171 wide. The columns of this famous shrine were sixty feet in height and six and a half feet in diameter and are the largest which now remain of ancient architecture in marble. Sixteen of the wonderful columns are still standing and are among the most imposing in the world. In this temple stood the colossal statue of Zeus, forty feet high, on a pedestal of twenty. This statue was the masterpiece of Philias, the world's greatest artist, and so famous was it that it was considered a calamity to die without seeing it. The immortal work was removed to Constantinople by Theodosius I. and was destroyed by fire in the year 475 A.D. Blackwell's Island. The price of Blackwell's island when it was purchased by New York city was $50,000, paid to Robert Blackwell, the owner, who had married the daughter of the English captain Manning, who in 1673 surrendered New York city to the Dutch. When the English resumed control Manning retired to Blackwell's island, then known as Hog island, and after his death it became the property of his daughter and son-in-law. It was sold in 1838 to New York city and since has been in use for various correctional and charitable institutions. Ventilation Changing of the air in a room once or twice a day is not sufficient. Ventilating a room while it is not occupied is not sufficient either. Two or three occupants of a closed room will vitiate the air in it in a few minutes. Ventilation should be most active while a room is occupied by people. An Important Consideration. "Poverty," said Mr. Dustin Stax, "is no disgrace." "No," replied Mr. Growcher. "Poverty is like wealth in one way. The amount of respect attached to it depends entirely on how you came by it." —Washington Star. "A soft answer turns away wrath." "Don't you believe it. My wife asked me yesterday how I liked her biscuits, and I said they were mush."—Baltimore American. Follow One Another Things always bring with them their own philosophy—that is, prudence. No man acquires property without acquiring with it also a little arithmetic.—Emerson. Exceptions LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO A DOLLAR IN THE BANK 24 MONTHS UNTIL THE POUND NICKELS CENTS A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 NOTARY PUBLIC Office Phone Automatic 44-185 W. G. ANDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Room 40. 143 North Dearborn Street Cor. Randolph St. CHICAGO McCormick Bldg Evening Office, 3458 State Street Phone Automatic 77 574 NOTARY PUBLIC Faustin S. 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We have 28 different ways of testing the eyes and guarantee to give satisfaction. 3150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO Boys! Do you want this dandy BICYCLE? No Money Needed This is not a Prize Contest. Every boy who fills out and mails the corner cou- pon can earn this high-grade Bicycle for very little effort during spare time. ASK "The Bicycle Man." Mail this coupon TO-DAY. "The Bicycle Man" % The McCall Co. 236 W. 37th Street New York City Dear "Bicycle Man": Please tell me how to get one of your high-grade Bicycles, without money, and for very little effort. Name Address CAPITAL, $200,000.00 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. Phone FRANKLIN 2217 PAGE SEVEN 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. RESIDENCE 1262 MACALISTE LACE TELEPHONE, MONROE 2114 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 311-230 REAPER BLOCK CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. PHONES CENTRAL 230 AUTOMATIC 41-916 Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO Suite 708 Delaware Bldg. Tel. Geatral 3142 Office Phone: Res. 5133 So. Watash Ave. Oakland 4682, Auto. T3-758 Phone Drezel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Phone FRANKLIN 2727 AUTO. 41-543 Phone Res. 508 E. 36th St. FRANKLIN 2727 Phone Douglas 4397 AUTO. 41-543 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborn St. Union Bank Building Suite 311 CHICAGO A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago CHICAGO PAGE EIGHT a eee eae * E> JESSE BINGA RS 5c. Gu, Sta at 3600 Pas, chcagy 2g 4 Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT ‘As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-resi- dents, including payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Money to loan en Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men, TEENAN JONES’ PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET : Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY “TEENAN” JONES, Proprietor. Phone Douglas 1360 Automatic 73-217 “2349 KEYSTONE HOTEL BILLIARD PARLOR ' Tee Ee NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY 3022 S. STATE STREET DAVID Mc@OWAN, Prop. cHicaco: A miiocueeaseers [FPOCREEIOOCEESIOOCEESIOOCEEEEEIO OCEEESEIOC R ° The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET OCS OCS 00S OSES 0S 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO PLAS a ae Pe ee ae JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. F. W. BLOCKI, Treas. JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS C. E. Kreyssler, Druggist 5057 S. STATE STREET NOT ON THE CORNER For high grade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blockli’s Ideal & Blocki’s Flower In Bottle Perfumes bce PER WEEE "$1.00 PER WEEK WEBER COMPANY kes | TAILORS | Hin. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SUITS AND COATS MADE TO ORDER AND READY TO WEAR Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing 27 W. WASHINGTON STREET, Bank Floor ‘TEL. CENTRAL 6757 MAX WEBER, MOR. $1.00 PER WEEK 81.00 PER WEEK THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 9, 1915. jes alan aan .3 vA 1 ae n ee pp = eres 26-Passenger Auto Funeral Coaches Carries Complete Te (http Fen] Coroctery andReturn Greater Elegance, Half the Cost Sar eres eee oe ee fee ee 6 ae toe Oa re Sree arene one ee toto eee wt tape as Save More than Half the High Cost of Carriages and Automobiles Tel. Kenwood 455 Calle Promptly Answered Day or Night Auto. 73-867 ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON PRIVATE CHAPEL UNDERTAKER NOTARY PUBLIC 5028-5030 S. State St, Astonstie for at Oxuioes Chicago, Ill. Beautiful Automobile $85 00 FUNERALS ; eS 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 and Funeral Director JAMES DAUGHERTY, Assistant Funeral Director, 4821S. State Street, Chicago Phone Oakland 1328 ot Automatic 72-185 ) vs ZZ ! SS ; [TA I <& TS. “\ N EAN ~~, / Sey Wy, ma WA s Lav Ze 7 Re == SF ut \\ af > Arthur’s $2 Hats Set This Season’s Styles AM celebrating my fifteenth season selling Men’s Fall I Hats that are remarkable values even for my three hat stores, with their large selling organizations and their consequent small margin of profit on each sale. MY SERVICE I keep the hats you buy from me in good condition. I deliver to all parts of the city. I cheerfully refund money without any questions. I have an extra force of experienced salesmen for all rush occasions—for today, for instance. This means the kind of service your money rightfully deserves. MY STOCKS are practically unlimited, so you can buy a fall hat of any color, size or shape with the positive aséurance that you are going to like your selection—GUARANTEED BY ME, PERSONALLY. ARTHUR’S 3 LOOP STORES 34 West Van Buren Street (Main Store) 109 So. Dearborn St. 11 W. Madison St. a A deartioainthaRenad A; nL MAN HILLMA The: Cranford Apartmeit Building, 3800 Wabash Ave g Bete. SaaS ce . h ae é ees pcs ; re bo | ee NES Fe io r ee a eee teak Ls F ber 1K ee ; Es i na fF: oe I a is = | ied 4 | "9 7 ite j = 4 ii Bi 2 b = eq a = sot i = ae ce cee oe . ‘ie { ae a as Sa The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, *Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WAS ANGTON STREET. ‘TELEPHONE KENWOOD 1233 J. B. Clithero & Co. Real Estate RENTING, INSURANCE 9 MORTGAGE |LOANS 7 West 51st Street ae Chicago, Ill. lL ee oe ee ee | | |_— 2, Yee ae AS | || ae My Sh g Vee od Ce] anne O_o \ wae): \\ fea) | \ a l uo eee —! How About Your Kitchen—Does “The Heat” Reach It In Cold Weather? If Not How Would You Like to Have A Little Kitchen Heater | Like The One In The Picture These little kitchen heaters are but 14 iriches wide— they set right alongside the range—they eat an in- significant amount of fuel eatae built to burn all sorts of sweepings, wrappings and refuse. We sell hundreds of these little heaters at this season of the year and install them in the best built homes inChicago. Order yours at any of our branch stores or our big salesroom downtown. If you have a coal stove now in use in your kitchen (four [EST re S| kitchen heater, allowing $5.00 on the purchase price. |___ The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company FRANK DUNN : ESTABLISHED TEL. OAKLAND J.B. MoCAHEV 677 1660, 1651, 15 tee ae JOHN J. DUNN ; WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRSt STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE ; RAILYARDS Siet St. and LS. & M.S. Gilet St and ARMOUR AVE. PRANK DUNN CHICAGO