The Broad Ax
Saturday, October 23, 1915
Chicago, Illinois
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THE BROAD AX
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis Starts His Boom for Vice President of the United States
Gov. Edward F. Dunne Is Not in Favor of Permitting Sheriff White of Murphysboro to Make a Holiday or Grand Celebration Over the Hanging of Elston Scott
"BIG BILL," MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, STRIKES CHICAGO WITH HIS PRESIDENTIAL BOOM. HIS HOME COMING WOKE UP ALL THE BIG AND SMALL FRY POLITICIANS.
SINCE STRIKING TOWN HE HAS SPENT MUCH TIME IN A NEWSPAPER BATTLE WITH A J. J. CERMAK, SECRETARY OF THE UNITED SOCIETIES FOR LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT, WHO HAS BEEN SHOOTING SOME MIGHTY HOT SHOTS AT THE PRESENT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF CHICAGO.
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In every direction the politicians and the leading statesmen throughout the country are beginning to whip themselves into shape for the great political contest, or struggle in 1916, and Illinois will be the chief or the main battle ground which will be fought over inch by inch by the Democratic and the Republican hosts, for the Hon. Lawrence Y. Sherman has already begun to put forth his best efforts to secure the nomination for President of the United States and many clubs throughout the State have been and are being formed for the special purpose of advancing his candidacy and so far he is far in advance of all the other Republican candidates seeking that high honor or position.
Senator Sherman has this to his credit and that is that he is not being fought by the followers of the Hon. Charles S. Deneen and they may be forced to stand solidly behind him in order to clip the political wings of the Hon. William Hale Thompson.
It is also interesting to note that the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis has started his boom for the nomination for vice-president of the United States and it seems that the cards stacked for him to be the running mate of President Woodrow Wilson and the Sherman-Lewis, fifty-fifty clubs are springing up in all parts of this state, no one in this country is more capable of presenting to the voters in a forcible manner the things or the policies which are uppermost in the heart of President Wilson than Senator Lewis and as he can easily count his friends by the thousands in all parts of the United States, he will make a live vice-presidential candidate.
The latter part of last week the sheriff of Murphysboro, Illinois, permitted well on to three or four thousand people including women and children to publicly witness the hanging of
NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS
Reported by the National Negro Busi ness League.
A new bank known as the Savannah Savings and Real Estate Corporation has been opened at Savannah, Georgia.
The Georgia Baptist, published at Augusta, Georgia, for thirty years by the late William J. White, is soon to be revived with Dr. C. T. Walker as its editor.
The Boston (Mass.) Chronicle, a new publication of that city is conducting a successful beauty contest to increase its subscription list. The Reliance of the same city has suspended.
R. D. Belton & Son, Colored contractors and builders of Camden, South Carolina, have just completed the erection of the Carnegie Library building in their city.
The Nashville Negro Boosters Club will hold their second annual Booster Week from October 17th to 23rd. The purpose of the Booster Week is to en-
HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY
a Colored man. It is said that the people for many miles around that town made a regular holiday of the affair which should have been very revolting to all those who claim to be fully or half way civilized.
Yesterday sheriff White fully intended to pull off the same public show or holiday at the hanging of Elston Scott who is also a Colored man, at that point Governor Edward F. Dunne decided to take a hand in the hanging and as the sheriff failed to inform him just how many people he intended to permit to witness the hanging, Governor Dunne on Tuesday granted a reprieve to Scott for thirty days.
It is not possible under the law for Governor Dunne to remove sheriff White for his reprehensible conduct but at the same time Governor Dunne whose heart is in the right place deserves to be highly commended for turning his manly back against the spirit of mob and lynch law in Illinois.
"Big Bill" Mayor William Hale Thompson, who was accompanied with his retainers and shouters, struck this big town on Tuesday morning with his presidential boom and from now on the rallying up of his friends and followers will be on to the White House in 1916.
Not many of his former friends among the saloon men were on hand to greet or to extend the glad hand of welcome to him when his special train pulled in at the railway station. Shortly after landing in town he started in to make the fur fly in every direction and most of the time he has been engaged in a battle through the columns of the newspapers with A. J. Cermak, secretary of the United Societies for Local self government and Mr. Cermak has been throwing or pumping some mighty hot shots into the sides of the present chief executive of Chicago.
courage more Colored people to patronize Colored business enterprises.
At the last meeting of the National Baptist Convention which was held in Chicago, September 6th to 11th, an automobile was presented to Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. This was the gift of admiring friends in all parts of the country.
The Star of Ethiopia, a historical pageant, written by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois of New York City, was presented to large audiences at Washington, D. C., on the evenings of October 11th, 13th and 15th.
N. C. Bruce, principal of the Bartlett Agricultural School of Dalton, Missouri, has been awarded a gold medal at the Panama Exposition as first prize for the largest yield of corn per acre in his State.
"Are We Making Good?" is the title of a very interesting article written by Mrs. Booker T. Washington for the Independent of October 18th. The article deals with club work among
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the Colored women of the United States.
William E. Buck of Galveston, Texas, a Colored representative of the American National Insurance Company has been awarded a free trip to the Panama-Pacific Exposition for writing the most insurance in his district.
At the recent El Paso County Fair held at Callahan, Colorado, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hopper were awarded first prize for the best oats, hay and potatoes exhibited. They were the only Colored people to enter the contests.
Thomas J. Pillow is regularly employed as demonstrator for the Western Motor Car Company of Los Angeles, California. His picture was shown in the last issue of "Motor" showing him with a group of representatives sent out by the California Automobile Club to mark the western end of the trans-continental highway.
The Royal Life Insurance Company of Chicago, Illinois, has inaugurated a department for Colored people with Frank L. Gillespie of Chicago as superintendent. In addition to giving him this responsible position, the officers of the company presented him with a gold watch as a token of appreciation for his long and faithful service with them.
JEWS STAND BY THEIR COLORED GUEST.
San Francisco, Oct. 19, Special to The Broad Ax.—Clay Ford, the tailor, 1318 Volenia street, and his wife, were invited to an entertainment given by a Jewish society today in the hall at Van Ness avenue and Sutter street, but the proprietor of the hall, a Southern White man, attempted to force them to leave the building, giving as his reason:
"I am a southerner and have lived among your people. They have several times tried to rent my hall and I refused because I did not intend for any of them to stand on this floor."
Mr. and Mrs. Ford had been cordially received by their hosts, and more than two hundred Jews present had shown every sign of friendliness. After they had participated in several dances, the southerner, who is the proprietor, approached them and said to Mr. Ford, "Here is a dollar; you and your wife leave the hall." Mr. Ford refused to accept the dollar and immediately went to the manager of the entertainment. The manager said to the owner: "That man has a card of invitation and he is as good as you are," and Mr. and Mrs. Ford remained to the end of the entertainment.
THE DOUGLASS MUSICAL RECITAL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PROF. B. EMMANUEL JOHNSON WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL.
Monday evening, Joseph H. Douglass of Washington, D. C., was the leading star in a musical recital at the Abraham Lincoln Centre, which was under the direction of Prof. B. Emmanuel Johnson.
Mrs. Douglass was the accompanist, for her husband. Mrs. Florence Cole-Talbert was the second star on the program and it is said that the playing of Mr. Douglass on the violin and the singing of Mrs. Talbert was first class in every respect.
Dancing followed the very fine pro
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President of the Sanitary District of Chicago, who should be renominated and re-elected to his same position in 1916.
President of the Sanitary District of Chicago, who should be renominated and re-elected to his same position in 1916.
HOW THE JEWS HAVE PROS
PERED.
First: The Jews believed in many gods and must have worshiped them since they believed they (all the gods) created man.
Second: Later they made Jehovah their tribal god and while he was intensely jealous of the others—the gods of other tribes—the people respected them and, in spite of any vote from Jehovah, had a law to the effect that the people should not revile the gods. (Ex. 22:28). This was a sensible law, for in the event of Jehovah's turning his back on the Jews, they had some of the other gods to fall back on, which they often did.
Third: Lastly the Jews came to absolutely repudiate all the gods except Jehovah and become absolute monotheists.
All this forward movement was brought through infidelity to former divine authority; but it was not good for the people in every way, as it gave Jehovah too much authority, making him an absolute monarch. During the conflicts between the gods the people had better opportunity to use their own brains; they could see that the gods could not altogether be depended upon. They could not altogether be infallible. Infallibility is the end of progress. When one gets perfect information he seeks no farther; he is in the condition of the fellow who thinks he knows it all. It gives him the big head and degrades his intellect. The fool has some chance, but the one who can't make a mistake in hopeless. But on the other hand—
One change impells another change and forces the people to think; thinking is dangerous to divine authority. First stand. We, the Jews, love all men because they, as well as we, being created by all the gods, are our brothers. Second. We, the Jews, are indifferent in love to those not Jews, because they are not the children of Jehovah, while we are his chosen people. Third. This indifference in love for others gradually grows into hatred and savagery. "Thou shalt destroy them and leave nothing alive that breatheth."—Jehovah.
Fourth. The wisest of Israel, some sears and prophets—for some had the good of the people at heart—could see that if one god created all he was the father of all and all were brethren. This was a beautiful doctrine, but it was infidelity. It would not be tolerated one moment by the people. The sears dare not undertake to put this doctrine into practice, but they could tell the people what Jehovah was planning on doing in the future, even though different from what he ever had done. But they dare not undertake to establish changes in present customs fixed by divinity, possible fearing they might be stoned to death should they even venture such predictions they could interpolate them in writings of some former prophet already dead who had since death, if not before, become popular.
"And it shall come to pass" that * * "The Lord's house shall be established * * and all nations shall flow unto thee." -Isa. 2:2, 3.
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This gave a start and later prophets added here and there until a new doctrine sprang up in Israel, but it appears that it never was universally accepted. But more anon.—A. A. Snow.—From the People's Press, Chicago, Oct. 16, 1915.
THE SECOND ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE LOUISE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR COLORED BOYS.
Last Friday evening, the second Anniversary of the Louise Training School for Colored Boys was held at the home, 6130 Ada street.
William E. Mooney, Rev. Wilson and Dr. Daniel H. Williams were among the speakers. Aside from the silver offering, $24.50 was lifted, which is to be expended in buying a new washing machine. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, founder and superintendent of the home, read her annual report for the year which was well received.
On Tuesday evening of the present week, at the meeting of the Trustees, Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, William O. La Monte and L. O. Phillips were elected Trustees for three years and Mrs. Morris Cummings were elected for the same length of time to succeed Mrs. E. J. Jenkinson, Will T. Davies was re-elected President for another year.
William F. Harra, the new Sergeant-At-Arms of the City Council is the right man in the right place. He is very affable at all times and he is extremely popular with all the city dades and with all others who frequent the council committee rooms as well as the council chamber.
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STABLE GOVERNMENT NEED OF MEXICO
Recognition of Carranza Fans Hope of Peace.
President Wilson having given formal sanction to the plan of the Pan-American conference to extend recognition to the Carranza government in Mexico, it is expected that all other American republics will take the same action. It is also understood that the European nations will follow the lead of the United States. Great Britain and France, it is known, have intimated that this would be their policy, and it is believed that Germany and Italy will do likewise. Carranza has guaranteed that the lives and property of aliens will be respected in accordance with the prac
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VENUSTIANO CARRANZA (UPPER) AND "PANCHO" VILLA.
tices established by civilized nations and the treaties in force between Mexico and other countries, and that, besides, he will recognize and satisfy indemnities for damages caused by the revolution, which shall be settled in due time and in terms of justice.
General "Pancho" Villa is still keeping up his fight against Carranza, although many of Villa's supporters have announced their determination to hold aloof from any guerrilla warfare. It remains to be seen whether Carranza has the strength, physical and moral, to control the situation and to overcome his foes. Mexico is in a terrible condition because of civil strife and is dreadfully in need of stable government.
DREYFUS COMMANDS FORT.
Hero of Spy Trial, He Volunteered For War.
Alfred Dreyfus, who was the hero of the spy trials that split France into bitter factions several years ago, is now commanding one of the forts surrounding Paris.
Dreyfus, who was a captain of artillery when he was convicted of having sold to Germany plans of a new French gun, was promoted to the rank of commandant (major) after his retrial and acquittal. He holds the same rank
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MAJOR ALFRED DENEFFU.
now. Though he is fifty-four years old, Dreyfus volunteered his services at the outbreak of the war.
The restoration of Major Dreyfus to active command in the French army at this time, when his country is at war with her arch enemy, must be looked upon as the most complete vindication of the French artillery officer from the charge that at one time he sold secrets to Germany.
SIRES AND SONS
W. L. Douglas, former governor of Massachusetts, is now seventy years old.
Robert Tuttle Morris, who claims that microbes are working out the destiny of each human being and so the destiny of the world, has been professor of surgery of the New York Postgraduate medical college since 1898.
Bernardino Machado, president of the republic of Portugal, has been prominent for years in the public life of Portugal, having been premier, provisional minister of foreign affairs, minister of the interior and minister to Brazil.
General Friedrich A. J. von Bernhardl, one of the best known military writers of Germany, has been assigned to a field command at his own request.
Before going to the front he served as commander of the Fiftieth army corps, which consists of home units.
Admiral LI of the Chinese navy is a Christian, and his firm adherence to his principles has of late months made his official life unpleasant. He incurred the displeasure of President Yuan by refusing to obey the order that all officials connected with the boards of the army and navy should go to the temple of the war gods to worship in the old Confucian manner.
Town Topics.
Mr. Harry Gordon Selfridge says that war is making London just like Chicago. "Orrors!"—Washington Herald.
Baltimore has officially adopted a municipal song. And it is not "Back, Back, Back to Baltimore!"—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
According to the Toledo Blade, "when it comes to ranking union stations, Cleveland's is the rankest." Hold on! Come and see ours.—Chicago News.
If New York city can really look forward to getting out of the taxation woods in fifteen years, as Mayor Mitchel promises, the citizens will be able to settle down to the task with patience. Jacob worked for Rachel only one year less than that.—New York Sun.
Fashion Frills.
A fat woman wearing one of those ankle watches ought to be worth seeing.-Detroit Free Press.
The new skirts look exactly like a balloon struck by lightning and trying vainly to reach the ground.-Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The most interesting race in the world is the mad pursuit of the shoe top to catch up with the retreating hem of the skirt.-Baltimore American.
The "best dressed woman of Petrograd," who advocates limiting facial makeup to the eyes and lips, will deserve a place among historic reformers if she can get that circus clown streak of powder off the feminine nose and chin.-New York Sun.
Curious Cullings.
An artist once painted a bright red lobster in a picture of the sea.
On a fine day a weather glass on a hill a thousand feet high will declare that the weather is stormy.
The bellows of the organ in Seville cathedral are worked seesaw fashion by a man walking up and down a long plank.
"Born between Eureka, Cal., and Pike county, Mo.," is the way a man described his birthplace in a government homestead application. He was born when his parents were crossing the plains.
BRIGHT BRIEFS.
About everything goes by wireless these days except politics.
Temptations are banana skins on the straight and narrow path.
A fresh outbreak of Balkan names will now intensify the horrors of war.
Perhaps the new high water skirts are based on advance information of coming weather.
Many a foolish girl specializes in heart breaking, while her wiser sisters run repair shops.
Silence is protection allike for men who possess knowledge and for those who are ignorant.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and the world does its best to get in out of the shower.
The man who attempts to get his living by his wits often finds that the world is full of rival humorists.
America may be the melting pot, but for real sizzling Europe has all other continents backed off the stove.
If we could have all our desires gratified some of us would still be discontented because there were no more desires.
Speculators say now that the water has been squeezed out of every American stock. This is a stock joke, designed to lure lambs to the trough.
As the great creditor nation of the world the United States should exercise an important degree of influence on the governments of the future.
An opera called "Mona Lisa" has just been produced in Berlin. It is in order to learn that the critics received the production with an inscrutable smile.
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 23, 1915.
SUFFRAGE WORK IN NEW YORK
State Has a Million Suffra-gists, Says Mrs. Catt.
BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT.
WHEN our campaign opened two years ago we investigated first of all the causes of opposition to woman suffrage. We found that our opponents had certain claims upon which they based their opposition. They are still standing by those claims and have never varied them much during the two years. They are, first, women do not want to vote; second, woman suffrage in operation in twelve western states has not brought good results.
We therefore set out to answer these two chief objections as best we could.
We urged the women in villages, towns and cities to canvass among women and to learn how they regarded the proposal to give them a vote. In all the campaigns to enfranchise men there has never been any phase which has illustrated devotion to a principle so clearly as this canvass of the women. They have taken their baby carriages and gone out of an afternoon, stopping house by house to make their queries. They have done their housework and washed their dinner dishes and gone out for the two or three hours in the afternoon they have for rest. They have gone without dinner in the cities in order to go to the homes of the great masses of women who are only to be found at home in the evening.
While New York state has not been canvassed to the last man or woman, we are yet in a position to know that a very conservative estimate of the number of women who want to vote in the state of New York and who will avail themselves of that privilege as soon as it is granted is not less than 1,000,000. The largest number of men registered in this state at any one election was 1,764,352. Upon the supposition that the number of women eligible to vote would be about the same, it is
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clearly manifest that a good deal more than a majority are counted in the million women who want to vote.
At no time in the history of man suffrage and in no country has there been so universal a demand for the vote as among the women of New York. We note that our opponents, despite the demonstration which they themselves must have found among women, are hammering away at the old objection.
To answer the second objection we secured long ago the testimony of every governor of an enfranchised state and from many other men who hold positions which would make their word of value.
To complete the testimony we have invited prominent men from suffrage states to come to New York during the month of October and upon the platform of 150 mass meetings to give their testimony as to suffrage in actual operation.
As soon as we win we shall reorganize for the purpose of training the women in the new duties of citizenship which will come to them, and we shall maintain our nonpartisanship in that work. We shall not teach women why they should be Democrats or Republicans or why they should belong to one of the other parties. We shall merely teach them the functions of citizenship, the object of our government, the duties of various political officers, and we shall teach them something of American history, and that history will be certain to include a phase not now taught in the public schools, and that is the evolution of woman suffrage in America. We shall teach them the sacredness of the ballot. We shall teach them that to sell a vote or to buy a vote or to get a vote by any dishonest means is a moral crime second to none in the Decalogue. We shall teach women to read the newspapers about all political matters and to learn how to sift and balance and judge whether statements are neutral or of political bias. We shall hold civic schools all over the state of New York for this purpose.
The flaw in the operation of man suffrage is that men are nowhere taught the sacredness of a vote, the patriotic service it means. Men ought to regard election day and the vote they cast as the hooliest and most religious service they ever perform. This is not taught them. We mean that it shall be taught to women, and to men too.
DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.
Mile, Marie Marvingt of France is considered the greatest female athlete in the world.
The New Mexico Medical society has elected for its president Dr. Evelyn Frisleyn of Albuquerque. This is the first time in its history that the society has elected a woman president.
Mme. Caillaux, the French pre-mier's wife, who was acquitted of the charge of murdering M. Calmette, is now in command of a nursing corps at the rear of the main French army.
Lady Scott, the widow of the explorer, is a keen motorist and a first rate driver. She is now driving a Red Cross car at the Anglo-French hospital near Chaumont, in the Marne canton.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the first woman in this country to receive the degrees of D. D. and M. D., is now in her sixty-eighth year, vigorous and forceful. She was brought to this country from England at the age of four years by her parents.
Miss L. Bernie Gallaher, one of the ablest woman specialists in the federal service, has for some thirty years been doing expert work in photography for the United States National museum. Miss Gallaher's X ray reproductions are said to be among the finest made.
Pert Personals.
No stickler for consistency will protest against the happy last act for Clara Morris' troubled life. drama.—New York Sun.
"Doc" Cook's arrest in Burma as a spy may have been staged as proof that he was actually there. — Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Jane Addams is only fifty-five, says a Pittsburgh paper. Nothing that has ever been printed about Jane probably has annoyed her as much as that.—Detroit Free Press.
Baroness von Rottenthal, famous classic dancer, says that Ty Cobb would make an ideal exponent of the barefoot dance. One distinctly hears the astonished Ty repeating the first syllable of the baroness' name.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
PITH AND POINT.
Things left unsaid avert a great deal of trouble.
It's almost as bad to say mean things as it is to do them.
A grudge nursed in secret will poison the system of any person.
Fighting the hookworm ought to displace fighting human beings.
It is difficult to convince the head of the house that two heads are better than one.
War is expensive without holding any respectable status either as a necessity or a luxury.
The imprudent man reflects on what he has said and the prudent man on what he is going to say.
It is human nature to want more. The minute a man is able to live comfortably he isn't satisfied to live that way.
With the human voice carrying from Washington to San Francisco there'll be no escaping the siren tones of our leading orators.
It is estimated that $750,000,000 a year is spent on education in this country. But you might not think so from the way some people act and talk.
A New York apartment house announces choice flats at $30,000 a year. Just think of having to pay 5 per cent on a capital of $600,000, or about $2 a day, for house rent.
Horses must go, declares Edison. But if he can invent a way to make one go which is constitutionally inclined to balk the world will be ready to spell wizard with a capital W for the rest of time.
Animal Oddities.
When elephants are in the vicinity of tigers they beat their trunks on the ground.
If a chimpanzee is wounded it stops the bleeding by placing its hand on the wound or dressing it with leaves and grass.
Ants have the faculty of crossing water by means of the surface tension of the liquid, but they resort to it only under great pressure.
The teeth of the badger are very peculiar, for instead of resting on each other when the animal's mouth is closed they fit into each other.
Wild pigeons are known to be the most voracious eaters of the animal kingdom in proportion to their size. One consumed a thousand grains of wheat in a day.
Short Stories.
Soda water siphons are filled through the spout.
Men have a stronger sense of taste than women.
Saws were first fashioned in imitation of the jawbone of a snake.
Some machine guns have a firing power of over a thousand shots a minute.
The size and value of the coconut industry in Ceylon may be gauged when it is considered that fully 60,000,000 coconut trees are under cultivation.
Turkey's remaining territory in Europe is 9,910 square miles, about as much as Delaware and New Jersey combined. The population is 2,348,000.
FRENCH WAR DOGS BRAVE SENTINELS
Also Valuable as Scouts and Dispatch Bearers.
"I have already three sons and a son-in-law with the colors; now I give my dog—and vive la France!" wrote one father when offering his dog. What that means one may not know until the real service dogs are rendering the tricolor in this war is told. When the story of the war is written the world may hear of canine herds as brave as the men in uniform. France has three classes of dogs at the front, patrol dogs, linking dogs and ambulance dogs. The first class are always of the sheep dog breed, chiefly from Picardy or Flanders. The sheep dog's sense of smell is wonderful. He
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FRENCH WAR DOGS.
easily detects the presence of an enemy a hundred or even a hundred and fifty yards away.
The training of the dog for sentinel and patrol work, when he is always accompanied by soldiers, is simple and speedy. Of course there is, first of all, a selection of specially intelligent dogs, but when the dogs selected have been sent to the front it requires only four nights' teaching to make them fit for their work. The chief difficulty is to make them learn not to bark, but only growl. Violence is never used; a tap or two on the head is enough when they start barking.
The training of dogs for linking purposes—that is, for keeping two bodies of soldiers in touch with each other—requires two months. The course for an ambulance dog is nearly a year. The ambulance dog, unlike the patrol or linking dog, must be taught to bark so as to give notice to the battlefield searchers when he has found a wounded man.
The patrol or sentinel dog works only at night. During the day he stays in the trenches with the men, most of his time asleep. Then when night descends he leaps with the patrol or listening party out of the trenches and passes the hours till dawn in the perilous work of patrolling the 400 or 500 yards of front the party is assigned to cover. Thanks to him, the party is insured against surprise by an enemy patrol.
KUROPATKIN REINSTATED.
Former Generalissimo In Manchuria is Appointed to Command Corps.
General Alexei Kuropatkin has been appointed chief of the Russian grenade corps. This shows a remarkable reversal of opinion in Russia regarding
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GENERAL ALKKEI KUROPATKIN.
a military leader who was disgraced because of Russian defeats in the war with Japan.
After the defeat at Mukden and the retreat of the entire Russian army to Tieling Kuropatkin resigned the command to General Linevitch, taking the latter's place at the head of one of the three armies in Manchuria. He was later retired from the army in disgrace. General Kuropatkin was born in 1848 and entered the army at the age of sixteen. In the war of 1877-8 against Turkey he earned a great reputation. In 1882, at the age of thirty-four, he was made a major general and eight years later a Heutenian general.
SHORT AND SHARP.
As the soldiers burrow the warring nations borrow.
It's still an open fight in Europe, and anybody can get in.
Advice is cheap because there is so little demand for it.
It's easy for the man who never suffered pain to talk of patience.
If a home conscience fund were established, how it would help our family expenses!
One naturally wonders what effect a sudden treaty of peace would have on a floating mine.
If this wild war stock gambling keeps up there'll be a lot of killed and wounded in Wall street.
Next summer the outdoor lecturer is in danger of being crowded off the platform by the campaign spellbinder.
War is said to be popularizing whiskers, but it is really an exorbitant price to pay for re-establishing facial foliage.
Habit is something which the person who has it strongest imagines he could break at any time if he wanted to, but never does.
Mr. Edison rises to remark that the naval advisory board does not invent; it merely advises. Inventions are not made to order.
The people in Europe are for peace, declares an American suffragist returning. And an increasingly large number of men are finding it.
Albeit in rather a querulous spirit, John Bull admits once again that in the making of a bargain Brother Jonathan is there with "the bells on."
The Royal Box.
Four out of the last nine czars of Russia have been assassinated.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was crowned emperor of Austria in 1848, when eighteen years old, and has reigned as such for sixty-seven years. When what is called the dual constitution was adopted in 1867 he became king of Hungary.
Prince Leopold of Bavaria, the man who, technically at least, captured Warsaw, is a veteran in military experience. His military education was received in the Austro-Hungarian army before Bavaria became a part of Germany. He took a prominent part in the Austro-Prussian Italian war of 1866. He fought entirely through that war and came off without a scratch.
The Writers.
William Dean Howells, the novelist and editor, as a boy set type in his father's newspaper office.
Boccacello, Byron, Dante, Dickens, Dr. Johnson, Lytton, Moliere, Shakespeare and Socrates all made unhappy marriages.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been intrusted by England with the writing of the official history of the war, a task which will occupy his energies for some years.
Charles E. Van Loan, the author, was for years a prominent newspaper man on various New York newspapers, where he was regarded as one of the country's greatest authorities on baseball and racing.
Flippant Flings.
It must be terribly trying on the eyes to be a European spy assigned to study American fortifications.-Chicago News. King George's order against treating will be loyally observed by all Scots who hae wi' Wallace bled.-St. Louis Republic. "Women in America dress better than women in Europe, but the men dress much worse," says a woman writer. Heavens, lady, we can't both dress well!-Detroit Free Press. Just to exercise his lungs the business man will soon be able to pick up his telephone and shout all the way around the world to the fellow in the office next door.-New York Sun.
Current Comment.
Our idea of a wise political movement in Haiti would be to run from office.—Washington Post. Americans continue to consider themselves bright, even while they permit ripe fruit to be wasted by the carload every fall.—Chicago News. It never rains but it pours in Wall street. Awhie back they had nothing to do, and now they've got cots in the offices and working all night.—New York Telegram. One rather gets the impression that the engineers are finding out a good deal more about the instability of Culebra cut than they had suspected.—Indianapolis News.
Echoes of the War.
Europe continues to demonstrate that war is waste.-Chicago News.
Spades are trumps in the European war.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
How prompt each nation is with its report of the enemy's losses!-Boston Herald.
There are 3,000,000 wooden crosses marking the graves of soldiers in Europe, and the end is not yet.-San Francisco Chronicle.
War loans are figured on a basis that makes it plain that Europe is expecting a long winter of unprecedented severity.-Washington Star.
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THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 23, 1915. u PaGE THRES
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‘The first canal opened in the United
States for the transportation of pas
Sengers and merchandise was the Mid
diesex canal, from Boston to Lowell, in
1804. Colonel L. Baldwin, the engi:
neer, removed the first turf Sept. 10,
1794. ‘The capal was thirty feet wide
and four feet deep, bad twenty locks,
seven agueducts and fifty bridges. The
route was from the Merrimac river,
near what is now Middlesex village,
through the Billerica and Concord riv-
ers to the Shawsheen river, through
Wilmington and Woburn to the Mystic
river and through Medford to Charles-
town.
Until 1836 the canal flourished, but
with the building of the Lowell and
Boston and the Lowell and Nashua
railroads about two-thirds of the busi-
ness of the canal was diverted to the
railroads, and the canal never paid aft-
erward. It was built for $130,000, but
in 1859 the supreme court of Massa-
chusetts issued a decree declaring the
franchise forfeited through disuse. Tbe
ruins of the locks and aqueducts are
still to be seen along the route.
Crab Locomotives,
‘The queerest locomotives are the
types used in mining and called
“crabs.” Gliding into the black gal
leries of coal mines and halting at a
crevice in the wall from which issues
the distant ring of pick and shovel,
the crab lets out a flexible tentacle (a
steel cable) for perhaps 200 or 800 feet,
drawing it back presently with a car
of coal in tow. Feeling into the holes,
first on one side, then on the other, it
moves along and never fails to secure
its prey. Finally, with a. dozen or
more cars in its wake, it proceeds to
the shaft or outlet and delivers its
booty to the crusher.
‘These crabs operate by trolley con-
ductors. They run through the main
passages of the mine. Each crab is
furnished with an electrically operat-
ed drum, on which are carried 200 or 300
feet of steel cable. This is hauled into
the side passages or drifts by a man
who couples the end to a loaded car,
then gives a signal, and the crab does
the rest.—George Frederick Stratton
in St. Nicholas.
Tubular Chimes.
Tubes instead of bells for chimes
came into use in England half a cen-
tury ago for three reasons—they have
a mellower, more musical tone; they
take up much less space than bells,
and they weigh much less. The sub-
ject of tubular chimes has all the in-
terest that pertains to bells generally.
In making a bell the most expert
founder cannot predetermine with ex-
actitude the tone of the bell. General-
ly bells and tubes have to undergo nice
modifications after they are finished,
and it is much easier to alter the tube
delicately to get just the pitch and tone
quality sought than to modify the bell.
Tubular chimes used in tower clocks,
organs and elsewhere are fundamen-
tally identical with the dangling gold
tubes upon which the gifted vaudeville
performer plays “Home, Sweet Home.”
—New York Sun.
Soler Heat.
M. A. Veronnet has attempted to cal-
culate the time the sun's activity could
be maintained by (1) chemical action,
@) intra-atomic energy (radium) and @)
the work of gravitational contraction.
For the first he gets 2,000 years, for the
second only 170 years, while for the
third he finds that gravitational con-
traction, according to the well known
theory of Helmholtz, would account for
several millions of years of solar heat,
as demanded by the geological record.
‘The fall of meteorites into the sun
could account, at most, for only the
four hundredth part of the sun's heat.
He Knew All About It. :
“Your shoestring’s untied, ma’am,.”
cried the little boy to the stout woman
who was moving majestically up the
street. “I'll tie it for you.”
‘The stout lady smilingly thanked him
and drew back her skirt in acceptance
of bis offer. ‘The small boy drew the
string tight and smiled back at her.
“You see,” he explained, “I know al!
abont it. My mother’s fat, too.”—La-
dies’ Home Journal.
‘dcnmeeestidin Stemanhibian:
“Some of those old Roman triumphs:
must have been magnificent exhibi
tions.”
“Yes,” replied the Philadelphia citt
zen. “Tut none of them could be quite
complete, Circumstances, you know.
didn't permit them to borrow our Lib-
erty bell."—Washington Star.
The True Intent.
Irate Patient (after the agony)—
What do you mean by proclaiming on
your sign, “Teeth extracted without
pain?" Snave Dentist—Exactly what
1 say 1 assure you the operation
doesn't distress me at all, One dollar,
please.— Richmond Times-Dispateb.
What Happened.
“What is the cause of the rumpus
over there?”
“A promising young playwright held
the mirror up to Nature. Nature took
one look and fell in a fit.”—Judge.
An Old Punishment.
David Leyes, a Scotchman, for strik-
ing his father was sentenced in 1754 to
appear “bairheddit and bairfuttit” tn
church with an apologetic placard at-
tached to bis cranium.
Own Up.
A man should never be ashamed to
own be bas been iin the wrong, which
te bnt saying, in other words, that he
4s wiser today than he was yesterday.
—Pope.
Good reasons must, of course, Bive
vince to better.—Shakespeare.
~~ Smokeless Powder, ~~”
A great advance in firearms was
made when smokeless powder came
into the field. Many kinds of the
smokeless variety have come and gone,
and from the elimination of ‘the un-
fittest the nitrocellulose and the nitro-
glycerin powders have survived.
‘The nitrocellulose type is used by
the United States army and navy, by
the French and German army. Nitro-
glycerin is used by the British army
and navy and by the German navy.
‘The principal ingredient in both kinds
of powder is guncotton.
‘The smokeless powder needed by the
United States army and navy is in part
manufactured by government plants
and in part purchased from private
manufacturers. The smokeless powder
4s made at all plants, both government
and private, in accordance with speci-
fications prepared by a joint board of
army and navy officers. The highest
grade materials and the most rigorous
tests are employed in all stages of the
Manufacture to insure a high grade
product—Brooklyn Eagie.
Hie Redeemine Trait.
A young man was sitting in a bar
ber’s shop looking at a magazine when
an old farmer, with little knowledge or
appreciation of literary people, stepped
up behind his chair and looked over
his shoulder:
“Who's them?” he inquired, pointing
to a group of portraits.
“Well known authors and play-
wrights,” was the reply.
“Humph!” ejaculated the farmer con-
temptuously. “Jist writin’ fellers, eh?”
Then he caught sight of an author
with a long, solemn face, and his eyes
sparkled. “That's the one I like,” he
said, with decision, putting his finger
on the writer’s mournful countenance.
“Oh, yes; nearly every one likes
him!” agreed the young man. “His
humorous writings are”—
“Don't know nothing ‘bout his writ-
tm’, but I like his face.”
“Why 207”
“Cause he's the only feller that
looks like he was sorry for what he'd
Gone.”"—Chicago Herald.
Bic Trees.
People generally associate ideas of
the California big trees with the Mari-
posa grove, near the Yosemite, and yet
it appears that there are in the Se
quoia National park 1,168,000 trees, 12,-
100 of which exceed ten feet in diame-
ter. Some idea of the immensity of one
of these big trees can be gathered from
the statement that “3,000 fenceposts,
sufficient to support a wire fence
around 8,000 or 9,000 acres, have been
made from one of these giants, and
that was only the first step toward us-
ing its huge carcass, Six hundred and
fifty thousand shingles, enough to cov-
er the roofs of seventy or eighty
houses, formed the second item of its
product. Finally, there still remained
hundreds of cords of firewood which
no one could use because of the pro-
hibitive expense of hauling the wood
out of the mountains.”—Manufacturers’
Record.
oO Bieecerstiie tin.
‘The most memorable ride in English
history was that of Sir Arthur Owen.
which placed the Hanoverian dynasty
on the throne of Great Britain. The
act of settlement by which in 1701
parliament elected the house of Han-
over to the British throne was passed
by only one vote, and this casting vote
was given by Sir Arthur Owen, the
member of parliament for Pembroke-
shire. He arrived at Westminster,
dusty and travel worn, only just in
time to record his vote, having ridden
with furious haste from Wales for the
purpose on relays of horses kept at all
the posting houses along the route. To
that ride Britain owes its Georgian
era; hence its Queen Victoria and her
descendants.
Home of Musical Fish.
Lake Batticaloa, Ceylon, has the
probably unique distinction of being
the home of musical fish. The sounds
emitted by these are said to be as
sweet and melodious as those which
would be produced by a series of aeo-
Man harps. Crossing the lake in a boat
one can plainly distinguish the pleas-
ant sounds. If an oar is dipped in the
water the melody becomes louder and
more distinct.
Beoks.
For the greater part of its life a
book is an article of furniture and
stands upon the shelf to decorate the
Worary with its patch of color and
giow of kindly associations, but from
time to time there occur those crises
of its existence when it is taken down
and read.—London Athenaeum.
Her Notion of Financ.
“Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Tor-
kins, “do you ever buy on a margin?”
“Never.” |
“Well, why don’t you? It seems to
me much safer to dabble around the
‘edge and avold getting in too deep.”—
‘Washington Star.
The Proper Tree.
Curious Charley—Do nuts grow on
trees, father? Father—They do, my
son. Curious Charley—Then what tree
does the doughnut grow on? Father—
The “pantree,” my son.—Purple Cow.
Ignorance No Excuse.
Ignorance of the lw excuses no
man—not that all men know the lew,
but because ‘tis an excuse every man
will plead, and no man can tell how
to refute him.—John Belden.
‘Beme Wiedom Lett.
“Zou didn’t tell the barber you were
tm 2 burry.”
“No. I didn’t want bim to tow #&”
—Pttteburrh Post.
Fight Word, but What Was It?
It had been a hard day, and Mr. K.
smoked in silence one cigar after an-
other. Mrs. K. was wondering how
Jong it would be until her husband
would say something. Jim is rather
quiet for the most part, she will tell
you. “I'll give him five more minutes,”
she agreed mentally, with her usual
generosity.
#Td give a hundred dollars to know,”
Jim remarked abstractedly.
His wife clapped her hands in de-
Hght. Jim never disappointed her.
“What?” she asked.
“Well, you see, it was this way: I
was talking over a business deal with
the head of the firm, and I got pretty
enthusiastic, I guess. I must have
used some big words. Suddenly the
boss’ hand came down on the table
with a crash. ‘You used the right word
that time, my boy. That's my idea ex-
actly,’ he exclaimed.”
“Well?” questioned his wife.
“Nothing, only I'd give a hundred
dollars to know what I said.”—Indian-
apolis News.
Three Qarente.
In the world as known to Baedeker
there are only two streets that can
compare with Fifth avenue, and these
are both on Manhattan Island. From
its source in the asphalt bottoms of
Washington. square to where it loses
itself in the coal middens of the Har-
ea} strer at One Hundred and Forty-
street the avenue runs @ course
of almost exactly seven miles. It runs
true to the North star, without a turn,
with only a single pause, grimly bent
on its business in a way calculated to
make the dowager metropolises of Eu-
rope lift their eyebrows and say, “How
American!” Its rivals are Eighth ave-
nue, a half mile to the west, which
may be some 900 fect longer, and still
farther west Tenth or Amsterdam ave-
nue, the titan of all urban highways,
nine miles up hill and down, as deter-
mined in the primeval blueprint shaped
by the clty fathers some time about
the year 1800. All three streets have
character as well as length, but Fifth
avenue alone has significance.—Simeon
Strunsky in Harper's Magazine.
Diiaste Ohataatia Aides.
No altar on earth vies in marble
majesty with the Altar’of Heaven—
Tien T’an—in the south of the Cht
nese city of Peking, which Emperor
Yung Le of the Ming dynasty reared
in A. D. 1420 with its triple balus
trades, stairs and platforms of pure
white marble carved miraculously, its
great circle covering a wide area in the
midst of a vast inclosure. Standing
alone, deserted under the blue Chinese
sky, it is a dream of majesty and beau:
ty. As the great setting of a scene of
ritus! pomp that calls for thousands
and thousands of robed celebrants
with music, incense, sacrifice, it is
transcendently imposing and impress
ing. There the emperor knelt 2
year and worshiped “the only being in
the universe he could look up to”—
Shang Tithe emperor of the world
above, whose court was in the sky and
the spear tips of whose soldiers were
the stars.
Leeses From Consumption.
The ecenomic loss due to tubercu-
losis is stupendous. Some years ago I
made a careful estimate and was as-
tonished to find that, counting the
earnings lost, the cost of medical at-
tendance and nursing, special foods,
institutional care and, above all, the
capitalized value of the lives cut off
in their prime (for tuberculosis kills at
thirty or thirty-five), the total annual
cost in this country alone from tuber-
culosis is over a billion of dollars. This
is merely the cold cash cost and takes
no account, of course, of sentimental
or emotional losses from the death of
loved ones.—Good Health.
Crabs In Conflict.
‘The most savage specimen of the
crab species is found in Japan. As
soon as he spies another of his kind
he scrapes his claws together in rage.
challenging him to combat. Not a mo-
ment is wasted in preliminaries. The
sand flies as the warriors push each
other hither and thither, until at last
one of them stretches himself out in
the throes of death, still feebly rub-
bing his claws in deflance of the foe.
Sand te Baan,
Mrs. de Style (fond of novels}—Did
you do as I directed, and tell every-
body who called that I was engaged?
Domestic—No one called, mum.
“What! Not one?”
“Not a soul.”
“Merey! Such heartless neglect is
outrageous!"—New York Weekly.
In Society.
“Well, I am forty-five years old to-
day.”
“My dear Indy, years mean nothing
to a beautiful woman.”
“I know. Still, 1 guess I'll have to
really move out of the younger set.”"—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
She Certainly Was.
Her eyes were not exactly straight,
and some one commented upon it and
asked Smith if he had noticed it
“Noticed it, man?” he replied. “Why,
she is so crosseyed that recently when
I sat next to her at a dinner she ate
off my plate!"—Exchange.
Bamboo Trees.
‘The bamboo tree does not blossom
enti] its thirtieth year, when it pro-
uces seed profusely and then dies. 4
famine was prevented in India in 1812
hy the sudden flowering of the trees,
‘when 50,000 people gathered the seed
for food.
‘The path of success in business Ys'te-
‘variably the path of common seme—
Banrvel Smiles.
“~~ The Calaveras Skull. “i
Of interest in connection with ter-
tiary gold bearing river grayels of
California is the story of the Calaveras
skull. For a time this skull attracted
Much attention not only from the pe
Ble in California, but from scientific
men the world over. It was reported
to have been found in 1886 near the
town of Angels, Calaveras county, at
a depth of 130 feet, in tertiary grav-
els underlying tertiary lava. The find-
ing of a human skull embedded in such
deposits was for a time believed to
indicate that man had been in exist-
ence in North America longer than had
been supposed. Strange to say, the
skull is of a higher type than skulls
which, although known to antedate his-
toric times, are known also to be much
younger than the tertiary. Although
Professor J. D. Whitney, then state
geologist, accepted the skull as a bit
of genuine scientific evidence, it is gen-
erally believed by students of the an-
tiquity of man that the Calaveras skull,
while undoubtedly old, probably did
not come from the auriferous gravels
at all.—Argonaut.
tn Goan
Once the capital of the kingdom of
Portugal, Coimbra possesses a number
of interesting monuments. Its cathe-
dral dates from the early period when
it upon the west, Toledo in the center
and Saragossa to the east were the
Christian outposts against the infidel.
Its color, a deep golden brown, is like
that of an old warrior tanned by the
wars. Squarely seated upon its plat-
form, its walls pierced only by narrow
windows that resemble loopholes, its
roofs and parapets embattled, it recalls
the day when praying and fighting
went hand in hand, and its rough
hewn stones sheathe it as in a bronze
cutrass chased with the delicate tracery
of its south door added ata later epoch.
Its interior, too, is severely plain,
though adorned with the only fine rere-
dos that I saw in Portugal, and with
side chapels that contain a notable ar-
ray of old blue tiles—Ernest Peixotto
in Scribner's.
Hidine Behind Smoke.
‘The accuracy of modern naval gun-
nery 1s so marvelous that the only
hope for a ship to escape being sunk
when within range of the guns is to
hide itself. That 1s easier said than
done, however, and there is only one
way in which it can be done, and that
is by means of a “smoke screen.” It
fs hard for one ship to hide herself
behind her own smoke unless the wind
4s favorable, but for a number of ships
te put a huge fog of black smoke be-
tween them and thelr pursuers is com-
paratively easy. ‘The smoke is caused
by oll fuel, and it can be turned off
or on at will by supplying more or less
air to the furnaces. It is so dense and
black that it 1s quite tmpossibie to see
more than a few yards through it—
Pearson’s Magazine.
inal aa i
Falconry, or hawking, was a favorite
sport with the nobility and gentry of
Europe down to the first half of the
seventeenth century. Hawks were
trained to mount and pursue game and
bring it to their masters and mistresses,
coming and going to the call of the
latter with marvelous docility. ‘The
hawks were tricked out with gay hoods
and held until ordered to pursue the
quarry, or game, by leathern straps
fastened with rings of leather about
each leg just above the talons, and
with silken cords called “Jesses” to
each of these leathern straps, or “be-
wets,” was attached a small bell. In
the flight of hawks it was often so
arranged that the bells made “a con-
sort of sweet sounds.”
Still Has Friends.
‘Two retired tradesmen residing in
the country were discussing matters
generally, when one asked:
“How is your son doing in the city?”
“Oh. he doesn't say much about his
business.” was the reply, “but be
writes me that he’s got a lot of
friends!”
“Phat's very encouraging,” remarked
the other, “for it shows that he hasn't
had to borrow money yet!”—Pearson’s
Weekly.
‘a email Shahid Teck.
“Does your boy take kindly to farm
Ife now that he bas finished college?”
“Oh, yes!" replied Farmer Cobbles.
“He says that after the strenuous four
years he's been through it's a pleasure
‘to loaf around Lome and watch the
hired men at work. ”—Birmingbam Age
‘Herald.
Silver.
‘The handie of a silver spoon gets hot
more quickly than that of a pewter
spoon when thrust into a cup of hot
coffee. In fact, this Is an easy and
quick way of detecting imitation silver.
Silver itself has been found to be the
best conductor of heat known.
His Ambition.
“How would you feel if the end of
the world came tomorrow?”
“Td be glad of it. I always wanted
to be present at a great historical
event.”—Detroit Saturday Night.
Happiness.
Mankind ts always happier for hay-
ing been happy. So that if you make
men happy now you make them happy
twenty years hence by the memory of
| tt—Sydney Smith.
P SS ee
In the fiords on the Norway coast the
flearness of the water is wonderful
Objects the size of balf a dollar may
‘De seen at a depth of twenty-five to
‘@iirty fathoms.
‘We thik a bappy ‘ife consists i
eranadiitity of wind.—Cicere.
Early Coai D.scoveries.
The first meution of coal in the ter-
ritory which afterward became the
United States bas Leretofore been cred-
credited to Father Louis Hennepin,
who showed on a map’ publisbed in
1689 the location of a “cole mine” along
Ulinols river near the site of the pres-
ent city of Ottawa. According to S. 0.
Andres of the Illinois state geological
survey. the credit for this frst mention
of coal does not belong to Hennepin,
as the discovery of coal in the Unitea
States by Europeans was made by
Joliet and Marquette in 1673. How-
ever, nearly a century and a half
elapsed after the discovery of coal in
Lilinois before mining began. The
Journal of the Franklin Institute for
1836 states that the first mining op-
erations conducted by white men were
at the Mount Carbon mines, in Jack-
son county, Ill. These mines were
opened in 1810 and worked to a small
extent for many years. The earliest
recorded production was in 1833. when
6,000 tons of coal is said to have been
mined.—Detrolt Free Press.
‘A Kindly Human Touch.
How rapidly nature repairs and beau-
tifies the torn places! The gash left
by the uprooted tree {s soon covered
with green, and moss and vines are
quick to make the old stump into a
thing of beauty. Humanity might well
learn a lesson thereby, to its own great
advantage. Sympathy may easily trans
form the unsightly and give it beauty.
If earth's soll responds to the touch of
nature in such a way it is reasonable
ty suppose that human life would not
be less responsive. Hundreds of lives
ut present barsh and repulsive are
vishin reach of every one, and they
ticht be wholly changed by a little
sympathetic seeding and kindly, cul-
ture. After all, what more is néeded
than the persuasion of the kindly hu-
man touch? There is no greater mira-
cle than that which is wrought by
love, and there is no man who may not
work it if he will.—Christian Register.
‘Sitcd Daddeanenn:
The old negro bad been arrested for
“having more than one wife.” the last
woman being the complainant. He
happened to be well known locally and
an orderly character.
“How many wives have you had?” de
manded the judge. :
“Six, yo" houor.” was the reply.
“Why couldn't you get along with
them?" the judge insisted.
“Well, sub. de fust two sp'lled de
white folks’ clothes when dey washed
‘um, de thud worn't no cook, de fo’th
was des nacherally lazy en’ de 6f'—I'll
tell yo. Jegde. de fit" she"—
“Tncompatibility?" the court sug:
gested.
“No, yo" honor.” sald the old negro
slowly, “it worn't nothin’ lik’ dat. Yo
Jes’ couldn't get along wid her onless
yo’ wuz somewhars else.”"—Case and
‘Comment.
‘Gucci: Gimate eel Gaetan
To remove grease spots from the
pages of books. gently warm the soiled
Page of the book. which should have
a plece of thick paper under it, by
holding a hot iron at a ttle distance
from the paper. Next press upon the
spots pieces of clean blotting paper,
one after another, so as to absorb as
much of the grease as possible. Have
ready some clear essential ofl of tur-
pentine heated almost to boiling point.
warm the soiled leaf again a little
and then with a camel's hair brush
apply the heated turpentine to botn
sides of the spotted part. If this ap-
plication is repeated the stain will
shortly disappear. Finally, take a clean
brush, dip it in rectified spirits of wine
and paint over the place.
Charles Lamb and May.
Charles Lamb did not like May.
Here is a fling of his against the mer-
ry month:
“{ do not mind the utmost rigor of
real winter,” he wrote to Bernard Bar-
ton, “but these smiling hypocrites of
‘May wither me to death. * * * What
Hes you poets tell about the May! It
1s the most ungenial part of the year,
cold crocuses and cold primroses; you
take your blossoms in ice—a painted
son—
“Unmeaning joy around appears,
And nature smiles as if she seers”
—Westminster Gazette.
Evidently He Was.
“Larceny” was the word given out,
and one man taking the examination
tried to peep at the next man’s paper
to see how he spelled it.
“What are you up to?” demanded the
examiner sharply.
“I don’t quite understand the word,
sir.”
“I think you did understand it. And,
furthermore, I think you are trying to
use it””—Louisville Courier-Journal.
One Way to Eat Bananas.
It is said that the best way to eat
bananas, which are now so common
@ diet, is to crush them with a fork,
squeeze a lime or lemon over them and
sprinkle them with sifted sugar. They
are often eaten this way in the tropics
and found to be delicious.—Pittsburg
Press.
Color Combinations.
Enicker—The novelist dresses his
heroine in some clinging white stuff.
Bocker—But doesn’t mention the cost
fm some vanishing green stuff.—New
York Sun.
Just For « Joke.
“She says I am dull.”
“You should crack a few jokes occa-
sionally. Ask ber to marty you oF
something like that.”"—Puck.
Fake fe as you find it. but don’t
Jeave it s0.—Anon.
~~ +” ~ Refraction of Light. ~
Refraction plays many magical tricks
with men’s eyes. It is responsible for
the extraordinary phenomenon called
mirage, which has excited the wonder
of mankind in every age. Owing to
differences of temperature, barometric
Pressure, etc. in adjacent parts of the
atmosphere, the refraction is some-
times capriciously varied so that the
most abnormal sights are seen. Parts
of the earth seem detached and set
afloat. Ships are visible, upside down,
in the sky; objects lying behind hills
are beheld apparently lfted above
them; lakes of gleaming water, sur-
rounded by palm trees and refreshing
vegetation, spring into view in the
midst of sandy deserts; unknown cities,
with towers and pinnacles, make thelr
appearance suspended in the air; aerial
animals appear, browsing in illusory
pastures; processions of men and
horses are seen, marching or galloping
where no foot has ever trod—such are
some of the recorded marvels that the
mirage has produced.—New York Jour
nal.
ienaiee ein
In the vicinity of Mayagtz, Porto
Rico, are several historically interest-
ing places. The little village of Rio
Guanroba, near Anasco, was the scene
of the unique experiment by which the
Indians in 1511 endeavored to discover
whether the Spaniards were immortal,
After holding a Spanish nobleman
under water six hours they were as-
sured that those intruders were just as
subject to death as themselves.
About seven miles from Mayaguez,
across a rough mountainous country,
is the famous sanctuary of Montserrat,
which is visited every year by many
pilgrims.
Situated conspicuously among its
wild surroundings, its large stone
church is visible for many miles. From
the mountain top we obtained a de-
lightful view of the beautiful plain
through which flow the Boqueron and
Guanajoba rivers—New York Tele-
gram. ae
Carried lt Through.
A teacher was one day explaining to
her class the degrees of comparison of
adjectives. To make sure she was un-
derstood she called on each pupil in
turn to give comparatives and super-
latives of adjectives which she named
and got good answers until she asked
one little fellow to name the compara-
tive degree of “sick.”
After thinking a moment he said,
“Worse.”
‘The answer puzzled the teacher, be-
cause, although it was not the one she
wanted, the pupil had given a compar-
ative. She decided she could best
show him bis error by letting him go
on and asked sweetly, “Well, if ‘worse’
is the comparative of ‘sick’ what would
you give as the superlative?”
“Dead,” came the answer without a
moment’s hesitation.—New York Times.
The Things That Count.
What, when our time comes, does it
matter whether we have fared daintt-
ly or not, whether we have worn soft
raiment or not, whether we have a
great fortune or nothing at all, wheth-
er we shall have reaped honors or been
despised, have been counted learned or
ignorant as compared with how we
may have used that talent which has
been intrusted to us for the Master's
service? What shall it matter, when
eyeballs glaze and ears grow dull, if
out of the darkness may stretch a
hand and into the silence may come a
voice: “Well done, thou good and faith-
ful servant. Thou bast been faithful
over a few things. I will make thee
ruler over many things, Enter thou
into the joy of thy Lord.”—Henry
George in Social Problems.
No Alleviation.
‘A belted earl was in the habit of
playing golf daily at Musselburgh.
‘This gentleman had contracted some
ailment which made his head always
shake a little. Frequently he had had
occasion to rebuke his caddie for ex-
cessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors,
and one day be spoke to him very
sharply. “Robert, you are drunk to-
day. It is a disgrace. You are very
drunk!”
“Drunk!” replied the caddie. “I know
Iam drunk, but I'll be sober tomorrow.
You're daft, and you'll never be right!”
—Dundee Advertiser. ,
Right Up to Date.
‘Mother—Are you sure you can give
my daughter all the luxuries and prive
leges enjoyed by the married women
of her set? Suitor—I can give her
town and country houses, motorcars,
a string of polo ponies and dancing les-
Sons at once. and a divorce and alimony
within two years.—Life.
The Inevitable Thing.
“Did you get any stock in that bal-
loon line project?”
“Yes, but I think F-paid for tt more
than it was worth.”
“That is what was to be expected.
An air line would naturally bave tm
fiated stock."—Baltimore American,
A Chance Yet.
‘Tom—Is it true that you proposed to
‘Alice and were rejected? Jack—Not
exactly rejected. She said when she
felt like making a fool of herself she'd
: me know.—Boston Transcript.
ee
Maud—Don’t you think there are just
as good fish in the sea as ever were
caught? Marie—Well, they're certatm
ly smarter.
All He Has.
‘He has « fortune in bis own nema”
“Worth a lot. eb?”
“No. Bat bis name tw Rich."—Detreit
Bree Press.
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the tree principles ef Democracy, but
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ean hove their say, as long as thelr lnn-
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‘1902, at the Pest Office at Chicage, Llineis,
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From on and after this date, all
letters or other mail matter intended
for Julius F. Taylor or Mrs. Annie E.
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HEALTH NOTES. .
Crowded conditions create commun-
ity dangers.
Plain food, good cooks and hard work
will save doctor bills.
The best time for you to take care
of your health is before you get sick.
‘The pneumonia season is at hand.
To escape it, don’t hibernate—ventil-
ate. And don’t dissipate.
‘When the windows go down the
death rate from the bad air diseases
goes up.
Fresh air, sunshine and a cheerful
disposition are good tonics; no drug
store sells them.
Chew your food until you can taste
it, Thorough mastication is both a
pleasing and important part of right
eating.
If you are not hungry, don’t eat.
‘When appetite calls, eat. Few people
in this land die from starvation, but
thousands dio every year from over-
eating.
Dirt and filth accumulate all the
time; and if neglected soon become
ugly, unsightly and dangerous. Cleanli-
ness and beauty can only be maintained.
by constant vigilance and labor. .
It pays to have clean, attractive sur-
roundings. It pays in dollars and cents
for the rehson that a tidy and well-
kept property will sell for more money
than will the property that is dirty,
untidy and neglected. It pays in com-
fort and satisfaction; in pride, joy and
self-respect.
Eyesight is one of the most precious
of human possessions. Many children
have defective eyesight. ‘The wise and
loving parent will see to it that his
children’s eyes are not neglected. Im-
paired vision is a serious handicap in
any calling. Consult your family phy-
sician; if he recommends the oculist,
see him without delay. :
‘The human body is a most wonderful
piece of mechanism. No machine, how-
‘ever complicated or intricate in its
parts, can be compared with the most
marvelous of all machines, the human
Dody. And as the skilled workman
operating © machine in the workshop
or factory is careful to keep it always
in good repair and in perfect working
‘order, so we should take the best of
care of our bodies. If we allow them
to get out of repair we cannot expect
to be able to use them to best sdvan-
tage in our daily life and work. In
other words, take care of your machine.
‘Mr. Dennis Williams of 63rd and
Langiey-ave, also has. fine boy. The
Face will not become extinct if such
‘men and women as these survive.
GRAND-DAUGHTER OF ONCE SLAV-
ERY FOE. BECOMES BRIDE
Miss Myra Bradwell Helmer was
married Thursday evening to Dr. J.
Stewart Pritchard, of Ontario, Canada.
‘The nuptial serviee, elegantly exelu-
sive and very rich in its setting of
palms and chrysanthemums, took place
in the gold and white ball room of
the Virginia Hotel. Dr. William P.
Merrill, cousin of the bride and pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church in New York officiated.
Only the relatives and a few im-
mediate friends witnessed the cere-
mony; but there was an aftermath of
gayety in the elaborate supper fol-
lowed by a series of dancing numbers
in whieh 400 guests participated.
Gifts came to this pretty bride from
every point of the compass. The sur-
passing feature of the wedding presents
was a large piece of marble statuary,
“The Slave,” from a distant relative
in the East, whose father was a friend
st the bride’s late maternal grand-
father, Judge Bradwell, of Chicago,
whose name has gone down in history
for the stand he always took on the
question of slavery. The Judge, too,
was a close friend of President Lineoln
and it was from Mrs. Lincoln
he received an autograph letter of the
martyr President on his definition of
Democracy. The missive had come into
the possession of an acquaintance of
Judge Bradwell and after a sort of
“endless chain’? trip, the valuable lost
letter came to light and was ‘bowed’?
with a piece of white ribbon to “The
Slave’? gift for the bride. It reads:
“<To Judge Bradwell, Chieago, DL:
“As I would not be a slave, so I
would not be a master. This expresses
my idea of Democracy. Whatever
differs from this to the extent of. the
difference, is no Democracy.
A. LINCOLN.””
| ‘The bride’s grandfather, James B.
‘Bradwell went down in history by per-
sonal views expressed on African slav-
ery in the South. In 1861 he was
elected County Judge of Cook County
and it was while in that capacity he
decided one very important question
presented in his Court; and that was
the question whether a marriage made
during slavery between ‘slaves was
valid upon emancipation. He ex-
pressed himself in a way that was
characteristic. He said: “Were there
a thousand of these decisions made un-
der this influence in favor of slavery
and against the conclusions I have come
to in this ease I would brush them
aside as I would a spider’s web and
decide this ease upon what I consider
to be the first principles of law, jus-
tiee and humanity.’?
The Bradwell’s have always ea
friendly to the Colored people, the head
of that name which will continue to
be written on the pages of the history
of the State of Illinois for many years
to come, Judge James B, Bradwell,
was the head and the front of the un-
der ground railway station in this see-
tion of the country and many a run-
away slave owed his liberty to him,
THE GRAND SYMPHONY ORCHES.
TRA ENTERTAINED MANY OF
THE MUSICAL LOVERS AT THE
GRAND THEATRE TUESDAY
AFTERNOON.
Messrs. Horn and Johnston managers
of the Grand Theatre delighted manj
of its patrons Tuesday afternoon whiek
was something new in the way of the
Grand Symphony Orchestra, which wa:
condueted by Mr. David B. Peyton, Jr
Miss Josephine De Vance, made the
hit of the afternoon. She was called
back four times to fascinatingly sing
“«Sympathizing Moon,’? which was
composed by Henry (Teenan) Jones
editor of his famous night book and
the head boss of his cafe, 3445 8. State
street and Miss De Vance at the end
of her fourth encore, was presented
with a large bunch of American Beauty
Roses.
Tho next recital will be Wednesday
afternoon, November 3. William Fos-
ter, is the business manager for the
orchestra.
‘The following was the program:
8 March—Thunder Cloud, Alford, b
Overture—Bridal Rose, Lanareau, ¢
Hungarian Bag, Lenzberg, Vocal Solo,
Selected. Mr. Isaac H. Young, a
Spring, Beautiful Spring, Lincke, b
Delicioso—An Indian Serenade, Dixon,
Bass Solo, Mr. John Turner, a Novel-
ette—Spooks, Alford, b Overture—
Light Calvary, Suppe. Intermission 10
minutes, a Mareh—Old Leather; b
Overture—Poet and Peasant, by special
request, Vocal Solo, Selected. Mr.
Hugh Buchanan, a Selection—The Glow
Worm, Lincke, b Operatic Bag, Remick,
Voeal Solo, Selected. Miss Jossphine
De Vance, a Overture—Zampa, Suppe,
b March—Plumed Knight, Lang.
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 23, 1915.
Charles E. Stump, The
Kansas Farmer News-
paper Correspondent, is
on His Way to the Land
of Sunflowers and Cot-
ton; He Will Continue
to Pen Letters, Pertain-
ing to His Travels, Back
to This Newspaper a _|
REV. W. SAMPSON BROOKS HEADS THE DELEGATION FROM MISSOURI
TO THE GENERAL A. M. E. CONFERENCE IN 1916.
REV. E. C. MORRIS, WHO WOULD LIKE TO HOLD ON FOR LIFE AS PRES-
IDENT OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, GIVEN A SLIGHT
DIG IN THE RIBS.
os 100m, Sass Se own oe
take my pen in hand, I have in my
Possession one first-class ticket t
Nashville, Tenn. so before you cat
read this letter I will have had the
new experience of riding in the Jim
Crow car. I thought that my lette
this week would continue it, but 1
will be so far from the office, until 1
think it best to say a few things this
week and then next week send you 1
letter from Nashville.
Last week I intimated to you that
there was a conference, here, but failed
to say that the Baptist had a big eon
vention here at the same time, so ]
just went from one to the other look
ing to see what I could see and how
I could see it. Now I don’t know
how to report three meetings at the
same time, although I saw Charles
Stewart doing it, and how he accom
plished it I don’t know, but I have
made up my mind that I am going tc
lay him in the shade when it comes
to this reporting business.
We have some trained young peo
ple who are willing to help. They got
education in their heads, and are wil
ling for it to come out for use. Among
this number I met Miss Beatrice Dyson,
of Quiney, I, a young woman of
ability and training. She was willing
to assist me in getting information,
and she just got so much information
on these things, that I did not know
what to do and how to do it. I don’t
know how to put it together. It is
hard for a man to say he don’t know
a thing, but no man ¢an come right
off the farm and go into a newspaper
office and be a star reporter, but I hope
to be able to arrange anything this
time next year.
Miss Dyson has the proper training
because she took so much patience
with me. She had the patience of Job,
and that is having some believe me.
I feel like just putting all this matter
in‘ letter and sending it to you.
As I told you Dr. W. Sampson
Brooks, one of the next bishops was
entertaining the conference, but it will
be over when you read this letter.
They did not fail to entertain these
people. I was so delighted to have
the pleasure of seeing her and talking
with her, and by this I mean the queen
of the parsonage, Mrs. Brooks. Every
Jay was full of interest.
Mrs. H. B. Parks has made some
friends on her rounds, and the women
look up to her as their leader. She
is the wife of Bishop Parks, and they
all love her for her intellectual and
spiritual worth: She will leave for
home from here, and when she gets
home her Chicago friends will be de-
lighted to see her.
‘The Baptist convention was just like
shat one in Kansas. It met in the
Tabernacle Baptist church of which the
Rev. Dr. S. A. Mosely is pastor. Dr.
Mosely is one of the leading preachers
yf the country in the Baptist church.
[ learned that he came from Arkansas
where he has been in some big charges,
und where he has made the world know
that he belonged to it He is a man
yvery inch of it. They highly enter-
ained the conference. Not a confer-
snce but convention. :
I had the pleasure of meeting one
Shieago preacher, the Rev. Dr. Wm.
aray, re ‘this rh of the
spoke of Bev. J. F.
rorid. He spoke of Rev. J. F. Thomas,
in Chicago. So much for that. I met
Dr. J. H. Garnett, president of the
Western college, Macon, Mo., a fine
man,
Speaking of educators, I would like
very much to be a man full of rea)
education that I could be a college
president. I imagine that I would
make a good one and the whole world
would be flocking to get in my school.
If it is not too late, I will go to schoo!
after I get through writing for the
paper, and get me just a little more
education and become a college presi-
dent or professor.
The Rev. Dr. J. M. Booker, 2
preacher from Kansas City, was much
in evidence during the session of the
convention. He has a preacher from
the villes of preachers, and he knows
his business. He has erected a church
and in doing so he has erected a mont-
ment for himself, I am sure a man
can do this if he desires to do so.
Going in the Baptist church on Sun-
day, I saw a man who looked like I
had seen him before some where. Pret-
ty soon he was introduced to us. It
was Rev. E. 0. Morris, D. D., presi-
dent of the National Baptist Conven-
tion. I remember of seeing him. He
was making an address when the depu-
ty sheriff served a paper of some kind
on him. I think they called it an
“‘interjunction,’? or some such name.
It stopped his mouth at any rate, and
they had to go before Judge F. A.
Smith and get straight. I think Judge
Smith ‘resolved’? it or he made it so
that Dr. Morris could finish his address
and hear reports. This paper was
‘signed by Rev. E. P. Jones, Dr. R. H.
Boyd, and another whose name I do
‘not remember.
_ Dr. Morris made a great big speech
here in St. Louis, but did not air the
‘Chicago trouble, but went on trying
to lift up the people and teach them
right and duty along practical lines.
He realizes the thing to do is to teach
cs people love and not hatred.
‘The women had their convention, too,
‘and it was presided over by Mrs. M.
Re Goins, of Jefferson City, Mo, and
she is some woman, and some presid-
ing officer. Mrs. C. R. McDowell is
‘to be found right by her side, and then
there were other women. Timo will not
Permit me to tell you about all of them
‘so I am not going to try, but they were
there.
__ I met Mrs. Rosa Gipson, of Pleasant
Hill, Mrs, A. J. Abington, of Clarks-
ville, Mrs. Cora Hackney, of St. Joseph,
and a host of others,
Perhaps I have said enough to you
for this time. You may look for an-
other letter from me.
Conference is just about to close
now, and the ministers will be assigned
by Bishop Parks. Ho is just a big
man and a good man at that, and I am
delighted to know him. They clected
delegates to general conference. Those
who were elected were: Revs. W.
Sampson Brooks, J. D. Barksdale, A.
A. Gilbert and J. F. Sage. These are
all strong men. -Dr. Brooks is the
leader of the delegation, and he is to
be the bishop if enough of the other
delegates will vote for him. As I go
into the south tomorrow, to ride in
Jim and James Crow cars and the world
will meet.me, I want you all to pray
te nee I may hold out and-hold
eo ood. God bles you.
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Re :
MR. J. GRAY’ LUCAS.
HON. J. GRAY LUCAS FIRES HIS
SECOND SHOT AT THE RIGHT
REVEREND BISHOP SAMUEL
FALLOWS AND THE ILLINOIS
STATE COMMISSION.
From the files of the Court, below
we furnish the present reply of atty.,
J. Gray Lucas. To the Illinois Com-
mission and the Right Rev. Bishop
Samuel Fallows, personally. In the Cir-
euit Court of Cook County, in the State
of Mlinois, J. Gray Lucas vs. Ilinois
Commission Half-Century Anniversary
of Negro Freedom, alias Illinois Com-
mission (National) Half-Century An-
niversary Exposition, otherwise known
as Illinois Half-Century Exposition
Commission, a corporation, and Samuel
JOSEPH CAMPBELL’S TRIAL NEXT
WEEK.
| ‘The public at large is interested in
the outcome of the trial of Joseph
Campbell which begins next Thursday
at Joliet and will last a week or ten
days. The sensational tragedy which
oeeurred at ‘the Joliet prison in June
is still in the minds of everybody and
it will be remembered that Campbell
was charged with the crime as soon as
the theory of Mrs. Allen’s death was
changed from accident to murder.
Campbell was a ‘trusty?’ in the pris-
on and expected to be paroled the next
day. No motive is assigned for the
murder but when a White person is
killed and a Colored person can be lo-
cated anywhere near the time and place
of the homicide, suspicion points its
finger at the Colored man.
Campbell has always declared he was
innocent and has appealed to the public
for funds to help him secure a fair
trial. Following his appeal a commit
tee was formed of the following per-
sons: Frank Hamilton, L. B. Anderson,
E. H. Wright, Daniel Jackson, 8. A. T.
Watkins, George ©. Jones, Robert
Lacey, S. L. Williams and Charles
Ward.
‘This committee has issued an appeal
and all who-are interested in giving
an innocent man a fair trial are invited
to make donation to the fund which
may be sent to Mr. Charles Ward, 184
'W. Washington Street or to the Fellow-
ship League at 3005 State Street. All
donations and expenditures will be, pub-
lished in the public press.
The appeal is as follows:
‘Joseph Campbell indicted for the mur-
der of the wife of Ex-Warden Allen
of the Iilinois Penitentiary appeals to
the publie for help to secure a fair
trial. The County Board of Will Coun-
ty voted the States Attorney Five Hun-
dred Dollars ($500.00) as a special fund
for the prosecution, but when Campbell
asked to be furnished a copy of the
Coroner’s minutes, by order of Court,
his request was denied. Yet our Con-
stitution provides that every person ac-
used of crime ought to have “‘Right
and justice freely and. without being
obliged to purchase it”?
cet ihn rin ts
His Appeal for Help.
Fallows. Case——Damages $10,000. The
clerk of said court will issue a sum-
mons, as above, directed to the sheriff
of the County of Cook, and returnable
to the December Term, 1915.
October 2ist, A. D. 1915.
Edward H. Morris and J. Gray Lucas
Attorneys for the plaintiff.
The above speaks for itself, and is
the second step taken by Hon. J. Gray
Lucas against the apparent repudiation
of their contract with him, for the bal-
ance of his contract money and their
public statement by Bishop Fallows.
There seems to be no lack of other
ereditors to hear from in the after-
math.
preparation of the case, and stenogra-
pher’s fees will be heavy and a Defense
Fund is being raised to meet these ex-
Penses and provide counsel. With the
grateful approval of the accused pris
oner, F. L, Barnett has been retained
as Counsel.
Joseph Campbell has protested his in-
nocence from the first and only asks an
opportunity to tell his story before a
fair aud impartial jury.
Will you help by donation to the De-
fense Fund? Your subseription will be
gratefully reeeived and faithfully ap-
plied. :
FRANK HAMILTON,
Chairman.
CHARLES A. WARD,
Secretary.
FRANCE TO USE 700,000 COLORED
WARRIORS
Paris—Deputy Pierre Masse has pre-
Pared for introduction in the chamber
4 bill providing that natives of French
colonies and protectorates be recruited
for service in the army. /
Tt is estimated that this step would
‘add 700,000 men to the forces in the
field by next spring.
The excellent service given by the
large number of natives now at the
front has resulted id the proposal that
they be used on a much larger seale.
Leading French statesmen have had
under consideration for some time the
Vast reeruiting field which lies open
to France in the colonies, especially in
China and Equatorial Africa. The
main features of the bill whieh M. Mas-
se will present to parliament when it
Teassembles were proposed by Gen.
Mangin, who has a distinguished record
of service in Moroceo and the Sudan.
If the plan is adopted the new army
of Colonials will"be composed largely
of Colored troops.
NEAT MILLINERY SHOP.
The State Milinery Shop, at 3332 8.
State street, A. Daniziger, proprietor,
is one of the neatest little stores of
its kind on State street,
All the latest styles or creations in
headgear, on display in the show win-
Hata trimmed free, See ad, in. an-
IS DISEASE DUE TO SIN?
One of our able contemporaries expresses a desire to find the stimulus that will move mankind to action so as to get them to put into practice the knowledge they possess. He informs us that the need is not knowledge but the execution of what they know. He said, all doctors are agreed that tobacco is a potential cause of nervousness, blindness and heart disturbance and although they say tobacco is a poison they do not practice what they preach. That is quite an indictment against the medical profession. If we confess that we play with a poison, we also confess that we wilfully sin. How can we expect the layman to heed our warnings under such circumstances? How can we expect to advance the cause of health with such conduct? Small wonder the so-called "Christian Science" decries the people into believing that matter is a misconception. Small wonder is it that the conscious mind is argued out of existence and the subconscious mind alone is taken as the only one. Is it sin to mislead the precious people?
When the leprosy was bestowed upon the servant of Elisha it was for his sin, and it was the curse put upon his descendants for the same reason. A certain Healer who used various therapeutic measures, such as hydrotherapy, psychotherapy and the like, having more success than any other recorded
HYDE PARK NEWS
Mrs. Leach of 620 East 42nd St. entertained a few of her lady friends Sunday, seventeenth inst., at a six course dinner in honor of Mrs. Patterson of Salem, Ala. The guests present were: Mrs. Price, Mrs. Emma Coleman, Mrs. Wingate, Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. Hendricks, Mrs. Wella Webb, Mrs. Sarah Washington and Miss Marie Brooks. The ladies expressed themselves as having spent a pleasant time and voted Mrs. Leach a splendid hostess.
The Willing Worker's Club meet at Mrs. Louis French's, 5622 Lake Park ave., they had a very pleasant meeting, this is indeed the most wide awake club in Hyde Park. They are planning to give several entertainments during the winter season. Miss Birdie Williams, president, Mrs. Hendrickson, secretary.
Mrs. Clarence Kennet of 5624 Lake Park ave., is having a lot of trouble with her eyes. We hope for her a complete recovery.
The Hotel boys are getting ready for another entertainment, watch for it.
· The St. Paul Baptist Church on Harper ave., is becoming active, aggressive and lively again under their new pastor.
The people of Maywood, Englewood and Hyde Park are going to Olivet Monday night to see the spirit of Tuskegee. Go early if you want a good seat.
"THE SPIRIT OF TUSKEGEE."
The Rage of Chicago. A Drama in Five Acts 21 Characters 21. Written by Our Newspaper Correspondent L. W. Washington.
Endorsed by Dr. Geo. C. Hall, M. D. Dr. M. A. Majors, and a number of professional men. It is optimistic, beautiful, instructive and classical. Monday evening, Oct. 25th, at Olivet Baptist Church, is the place, and date don't forget it. You can't afford to miss it. The members of Olivet are calling, give them a lift, tell your friends about it. Admission 25 cents. (buy a ticket). Given under the Auspices of "The Pastor's Aid Circle" Mrs. Bell Day, Pres. Stephen Griffin, Pres. of the Deacon's Board. P. A. Glanton, Secty.
Mr. L. W. Washington addressed the Christian Endeavor Society at Bethel Church last Sunday on the subject of "Citizenship." Next Sunday he will address the Star Literary Society on "Can we learn any thing from our Inferiors."
A. E. H.
in the history of all time, often dismissed the cured patient with the warning "Go in peace and sin no more!" Only one instance does the writer recall that the patient was afflicted that the word of God might be made manifest. The contemporaries knew that sin played a great part in sickness and hence asked the Master "Who did sin?" We instinctively look for the cause or causes of our indispositions, disabilities and our diseases. We know that we are either guilty of sins of commission or sins of omission. We instinctively know that laws of nature can not be broken with impunity. When we feel pain or other evidence of bodily discomfort, we try to recall the particular infraction of the great law of nature and nature's God, called sin. If for any reason we cannot recall the exact breaking of the law, we keep trying to fix responsibility in order to be on the safe side in the future.
The truth is we all have a good general idea of what is right and what is wrong as regards the natural law. The able contemporary is right, we do not act in accord with our knowledge. Europe knows the beatitudes but it does not harmonize knowledge with action. Hence the disease of Europe and it must be due to sin. Nations are like individuals in many respects. We are not proud of our diseases; "sin is a reproach to any people."
COLERIDGE TAYLOR PROGRAM AT
THE APOMATTOX CLUB.
Sunday afternoon, October 4, at 4 P. M., Coleridge Taylor day at the Appomattox Club.
Dr. Charles E. Bentley will be the leading speaker. Mrs. Willa M. Sloan, Dr. William C. Williams and William Henry Hackney will furnish the singing. Harrison Emanuel, violinist; T. Theodore Taylor, pianist.
On Monday evening, October 25, Halloween party will be given in the parlors of the Club, for its members and their families.
$6,500 PURCHASE UPSETS WHITES
Leonia, N. J.—Whites here are exercised because George S. Mills, a well-to-do Colored man, bought a residence in the exclusive residential section for which he paid $6,500. Rumor has it that two blocks on Grand avenue, where Mills' new home stands may be given over to well to do Colored tenants or buyers. A Colored real estate dealer of New York city is said to be behind this project.
$25,000 FOR NEGRO Y. M. C. A.
Julius Rosenwald Sends Check to Be Applied to Cincinnati Building.
L. Wilbur Messer, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, received the first of this week from Julius Rosenwald a check for $25,000 as his contribution to the Cincinnati Young Men's Christian Association building in Cincinnati for Negroes. The building is in progress of erection and more than $50,000 contributed in Cincinnati already has been applied to its cost.
COLORED ATTORNEY DECLINES
JOB
Columbus, O. — Former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Wilbur E. King, has declined the position of head of the loan shark department under the State Banking Superintendent. It pays $2,500 a year, and is one of the new positions created by the recent Assembly. He is rated as one of the most able lawyers in Columbus.
NEGRO HONORED.
Colored Student is Elected to Class Office—First Time in School's
Columbus, O., Oct.—For the first time in the history of Ohio State University, it is believed a Colored student was elected to a class office, last Friday. He is Daniel Ferguson of Columbus who has won laurels as a half-miler on the university track team. Ferguson had no opposition to his candidacy for orator of the senior class
THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. OCTOBER 23. 1915
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 column of this paper.
CHIPS
Rev. J. C. Anderson, pastor of Quinn Chapel, 3362 Calumet avenue; spent several days this week in St. Paul, Minn., returning home last evening.
Hon. Chas. A. Griffin is the proud father of a 12 lb. baby boy. Both mother and son is doing fine at this writing.
The spirit of Tuskegee is on for Monday night at Olivet Baptist Church. It is the talk of Chicago. It is the rage, it is written by our correspondent Mr. L. W. Washington.
Mr. Cary B. Lewis after having spent two weeks in Louisville, Ky., his home city with his dear mother has just received a telegram calling him home again on the seriousness of the attack of diabetes, we hope he will find her illness slight and that she will be permanently restored to health again.
Mrs. M. L. Clinkscale, 5652 S. State street, continues to meet with success in the catering business and Mrs. Clinkscale, is full of business and she always pays her bills without any humming or hawing and without getting into a long argument in reference to the bill of being too much and so on.
James Hale Porter, who was the advance or field agent for the Fifty years of Freedom Commission of Illinois, claims that he collected together well on to seven thousand different articles for the exhibit, during the late exposition and Lincoln Celebration at the Coliseum and that everything was returned to its owners without any loss to any one which was a very good record indeed considering the loose manner in which the whole affair was conducted.
Harrison Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes avenue, was the first of this week for the second time freed or acquitted in the Criminal Court of all wrong doings in relation to any young girl or woman residing in this county or state; which was very gratifying to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Emanuel and their many friends. Attorney B. F. Moseley, very ably represented Mr. Emanuel in all his troubles and successfully secured for him a clean bill of health against the crime or charge of bastardy.
Col. Cary B. Lewis is again back at his post of duty, as Chicago correspondent of the Indianapolis Freeman and as one of the head chiefs of The Chicago Defender after spending a week with his parents at Louisville, Ky. Mr. Lewis had a fine comment in the last issue of The Freeman on the 20th Anniversary edition of The Broad Ax and we wish to thank him for the same.
The Hon. Oscar De Priest has returned from the coast after spending his time visiting friends. He denies having any trouble on the coast on account of his color. He claims that on the other hand, the treatment he received was more than he could hope for from a grateful people. Delegations of his people met him at the various stations and presented him with many tokens of respect.
Pert Personals.
One thing to be thankful for is that nobody as yet has sent Henry James to report a battle.
Miss Farrar has told us herself that marriage is not for the artist. If she marries now will that be the end of her art, or is she simply defying consistency?—New York Sun.
Ambassador Morgenthau, at Constantinople, representing eight nations besides his own, would like the name and address of the person who says American diplomats don't earn their salaries—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
Inquisitive.
Edgar, aged six, was recently sent to school for the first time, and upon his return home he asked, "Papa, who taught Adam the alphabet?"
Lobster a la Newburg.
Lobster a la Newburg is a famous dish and a very popular one. Melt a tablespoonful of butter and stir in a tablespoonful of flour. When these ingredients bubble stir in a cupful of cream or rich milk. When this has cooked till nice and smooth add the lobster meat, previously cut into neat pieces, and cook till well heated. Add salt to taste and a very little cayenne pepper, the beaten yolk of one egg and two tablespoonfuls of sherry. Take care that the mixture does not curdle after the egg has been added and serve as quickly as possible.
Higher Than Pikes Peak
Higher Than Pikes Peak.
Ask any schoolboy to give the highest point in the state of Colorado, and nine out of ten will name Pikes peak. Pikes peak is 14.110 feet above sea level, but there are many higher peaks in Colorado. Massive mountain, in Lake county, is one of the two highest points in the state, whose height has been determined by the United States geological survey and is 14.402 feet above sea level. Elbert mountain, in the same county, has the same elevation. Blanca peak, in Costilla, Heurfano and Saguache counties, is 14,390 feet high; Castle peak, in Gunnison and Pitkin counties, is 14,259 feet high; Evans mountain, in Clear-Creek county, 14,260 feet; La Plata peak, in Chaney county, 14,332 feet; Quandary peak, in Summit county, 14,256 feet; San Luis mountain, triangulation station, in Mineral and Saguache counties, 14,149 feet; Uncompahgre peak triangulation station, in Hinsdale county, 14,306 feet, and Wilson mountain triangulation station, in Dolores county, 14,250 feet-all higher than Pikes peak.-Geological Survey Bulletin.
Sunset and Twilight.
Twilight is a phenomenon caused by atmospheric refraction. When the sun gets below the horizon we are not immediately plunged into the darkness of night. Although the sun is below our horizon, rays of solar light are bent or refracted by the terrestrial atmosphere and continue to furnish some slight illumination. The process continues with diminishing intensity until the sun is so far below the horizon that the refracting power of the atmosphere is no longer able to bend the rays enough to produce a visible effect. The time after sunset that the sun reaches such a position varies with the latitude of the place. There is less twilight at the tropic zone than at the temperature or frigid zone. This is due to less time taken by the sun's rays to pass through the atmosphere, at the tropic zone the sun's rays being perpendicular and at the temperate and frigid zones oblique.
Aeroplane Wings
Various kinds of material including linen, silk, cotton, celluloid films and aluminum foli, have been tried for covering the wings of aeroplanes, but none has proved so satisfactory so far as linen covered with several coats of a rubber solution. This coating increases the strength of the linen about 5 per cent, makes it more enduring under varying weather conditions and causes it to stretch to an absolutely smooth surface, a feature that is of the utmost advantage in fast flights. Silk, which would seem to make an ideal covering on account of its lightness and strength, has been found unsatisfactory, as it does not withstand exposure to sun and rain and does not lend itself readily to the application of coating compounds.-London Answers.
Dumas' Last Jest.
Dumas the elder was the son of a general of Napoleon Bonaparte, who would take his soldiers by the breeches and fling them over the palasades to an assault.
Dumas inherited much of that same spirit. It is said that Dumas left Paris for the last time taking with him a single gold piece, which he solemnly laid on the mantelpiece of his room at Puys. Toward the end his eye wandered across the sickroom to this coin, and, pointing to it, he said to his son: "See there! Fifty years ago when I came to Paris I had one louis in my possession. Why am I accused of being a prodigal? I have preserved and possess it still. See! There it is!"
When Jackson Dined.
When Colonel Davy Crockett was a member of congress and was at his home in Tennessee some one asked him about the dinner hour in Washington. He said the common people ate dinner at 12, the next above them at 1, the merchants at 2, the representatives at 3, the senators at 4, members of the cabinet at 5 and the vice president at 6. "But when does the president diner?" "What! Old Hickory?" said Crockett, anxious to fix a time that would suit his idea of Jackson's greatness. "Well, he doesn't eat till next day!"
Removing Stumps
The German method of removing stumps is simpler and less dangerous than our way. They bore a hole in the stump and pour into it equal parts of nitric and sulphuric acids. After a few weeks the largest stumps of hard wood are eaten by the acid and easily crumbled with a pick—New York Times.
Kent His Word.
Condemned Murderer (to lawyer)—
You said you could get me off with a
life sentence, and here I am to be
electrocuted in a week. Lawyer—That's all
right. You will be imprisoned for life,
won't you? And only a month, instead
of long, weary years. Be reasonable,
man—Boston Traveler.
His Cure.
A man who married a widow has invented a device to cure her of eternally praising her former husband. Whenever she begins to descent on his noble qualities, this ingenious No. 1 merely says, "Poor, dear man—how I do wish he had not died!"
A. Waiting Mansion
Perhaps there is a mansion in heaven that will always be empty—a mansion waiting to receive those who in their youth never snubbed their anxious parents—J. J. Bell.
Naturally.
Teacher—In the sentence I have just read tongue is a noun. Why? Observant Pupil—Because it is a part of speech—Raltimore American.
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One of the most popular exhibits in New York city may be seen at the headquarters of the Polish Victims' Relief fund, 33 West Forty-second street, where thirty-one Polish dolls hold out beseechful hands to America in behalf of their compatriots, war refugees in Paris.
Godmothered by Mme. Helene Paderewski, wife of the pianist, these waffles are undoubtedly doing the greatest service to mankind of all the inhabitants of dolom. Designed by refugee Polish artists and sculptors and dressed by Polish seamstresses who are paid for their work by the fund, these dolls actually incorporate the characteristics and even the expressions of Polish peasants, while their raiment, fashioned of bits of silk, ribbon, satin
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HALKA OF WARSAW.
and real lace, charmingly typify the quaint costumes worn in every province of Poland. These interesting, droll, wistful little people of all toyland now laid waste in Europe are the only dolls that promise to cross the Atlantic in time for Christmas. The tariff on each one is only $5, and they are delighting the hearts of American children all over the country while giving food to thousands of hungry Polish children.
Torn from her playmates, Halka of Warsaw greets you and hopes you will like to get acquainted with others of her friends. Halka is doing such a wonderful work that it seems almost unkind to remark that coming over the salt water took the curl out of her bang.
VELVETS FOR WINTER.
Any material with a pile will be most acceptable for the development of the winter modes. It may be argued that the materials in demand for the bouffant effects that are to be the winter's vogue should have more body than the velvets we know. This is true, but Rodier has taken care that his velvets meet all these requirements. They have not only had the approval of the leading couturiers of Paris, but large orders have been given for these very materials, and many gowns to be shown at the very earliest openings are fashioned of velvet. Not only are the velvets to be striped and checked, but they are made up in charming color combinations. Other materials are a combination of velvet and faille or taffeta, and many are further enriched with metal threads. It is said that never have novelties shown by Rodier been as marvelous as they are for the coming season.
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Pottary and Sacracy.
In the royal manufactory of pottery at Melsen, Saxony, the work was formerly carried on with the utmost secrecy to prevent the processes from becoming known elsewhere. The establishment was a complete fortress, the portcullis of which was not raised day or night, no stranger being permitted to enter for any purpose whatever. Every workman, even the chief inspector, was sworn to silence. This injunction was formally repeated every month to the superior officers employed, while the workmen had constantly before their eyes in large letters the warning motto, "Be Secret Unto Death." It was well known that any person divulging the process would be imprisoned for life in the castle of Koenigstein. Even the king himself when he took strangers of distinction to visit the works was enjoined to secrecy. One of the foremen, however, escaped and assisted in establishing a manufactory in Vienna, from which the secrets spread all over Germany.
Light and Sound and Glass.
Why doesn't the closed window shut out light just as much as it shuts out sound? Both light and sound travel through the air, and their waves come in contact with the glass. The light, after it has gone through the window, seems just as strong or stronger, while the sound seems ever so much weaker. Why is it? Many of us have wondered. The reason is that light is not a wave of air, while sound is. Light is a wave in the ether which is in the glass as well as in the air, so that light in passing through glass still has its natural path of ether. But when sound waves strike the window glass they must put the glass into vibration, and the glass in turn must make the air inside vibrate. All this lessens the strength of the sound waves, and they reach our ears capable of producing a less startling effect than are the light waves which reach our eyes.
The Measure of a Man.
At a meeting at which a prominent modern statesman, who is short in stature, was to speak the local chairman, endeavoring to be witty, observed that he was somewhat disappointed about the politician's physical proportions. "I had heard so much about this gentleman," he said, "that I naturally expected to meet a big man in every sense, but, as you see for yourselves, he is very small." Many an orator would have been upset by such an unfortunate beginning to the proceedings, but not so this one. "I am grieved to find," he said, with mock seriousness, "that your chairman is disappointed in my size, but this is owing to the way you have here of measuring a man. In my part of the kingdom we measure a man from his chin up, but you evidently measure him from his chin down."
Feared Premature Burial
The doctor who left instructions that a bell watch should be fixed to his wrist after death as a precaution against premature burial may have heard of the similar safeguards prescribed by Meyerbeer. Two men were to watch over him night and day for five days, he directed, and bells were to be hung from his hands and feet to give warning of the slightest movement. Finally, incisions were to be made in his throat.
Harriet Martineau also had a fear of burial alive and left directions for her body to be decapitated, while Lady Burton stipulated for a post mortem examination of her remains. Which, we may ask, is greater, the fear of death or the fear of life?-London Standard.
Ducks and Mosquitoes.
According to experiments reported by S. G.-Dixon, the most formidable animal enemy of the mosquito is the duck, and the introduction of this bird is recommended for eliminating mosquitoes and the diseases which these insects spread from marshy regions, where draining would be too costly. Two artificial poools were constructed of equal area, ducks being placed in one and fish in the other. The former pool was quickly freed from mosquito pupae and larvae, while in the other they continued to abound. Wild ducks are said to prefer mosquitoes to all other food.—Indianapolis News.
Natural Pottery.
Excellent natural pottery is manufactured by nature in the case of a certain cactus. Woodpeckers are apt to excavate nests in the trunk and branches, and in order that it may protect itself against these incursions the plant exudes a sticky juice, which hardens, forming a woody lining to the hole made by the birds. Eventually the cactus dies and withers, but the wooden bowl remains.
Dodging Trouble.
"My wife says I don't know how to handle the baby."
"I wouldn't get muffed over that, son," said the older man. "Take my advice and don't learn."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
A. Pertinent Question.
The Fond Mother—Nice girls never put themselves forward before the men. The Wise Daughter—Then how do the men find out that they're nice? —Judge.
Shading.
Belle—And when you went into her room you say she was shading her eyes with her hand? Beulah—No, only the eyebrows.—Yonkers Statesman.
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| Queen Eleonore was head of one of
the most efficient Red Cross units in
‘the Russo-Japanese war, as well as of
jhe Bulgarian‘Red Cross in the Balkan
‘wars.
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Ferdinand’s peculiarities. His
of infection amounts to an obses-
and when the queen was engaged
nursing and after she had returned
the hospitals she was by the
8 order placed in what amounted
quarantine, so far as the royal fam-
‘was concerned.
‘King Ferdinand is very fond of pomp
ceremony, but Queen Eleonore is
ted to have the air of disliking
splay and to prefer a simplicity not
the liking of her lord.
But her labors have been appreciated
her adopted countrymen.
‘A princess of Reuss, she came to the
of Bulgaria in 1908, then forty-
Years old, and has since mother-
King Ferdinand’s four children
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lease of need we shall be very short
lof such supplies, and it is necessary
ifor me to do all I can now to increase
‘stock. I used every influence I could
sy obtain supplies from Austria—our
musual source—but except for a few
small packages bought as if for my
personal use I have been able to get
nothing.”
Tips en House Plante.
| Palms are much used for interior
‘decorations where there is no direc
sunlight. Regular watering is essen-
tial, with especial care not to over
iter. It is better with most palms to
Ikeep them a little dry than too wet.
[Witte small, wash the foliage occaston-
‘ally with soap suds made from a good
ie Immediately follow with a
lorough rinsing. When too large for
|this, spray the tops frequently with
|clear water.
| Browning at the tips usually comes
(from overwatering at the roots. Trim
joff the brown tips, as they will never
recover. If the leaves turn yellow look
for seale on the underside and be sure
jyou are not overwatering. Wash the
cale off or spray with kerosene emul-
sion or Whale oil soap or some nicotine
[preparation. Do not repeat too often.
fit a palm grows three new leaves a
jyear it does well. Use the same treat-
jment for oleanders.
Rubber plants are especially satis-
itactory to grow where there is a good
light without direct sunlight. Water
often enough to keep the soll moist,
but do not under any circumstances
jpermit water to stand about the roots
nor allow it to become bone dry. A
potted plant set in a jardiniere needs
special care not to overwater. Wash
he foliage frequently with soapsuds
nd rinse at once. Repot occasionally,
the pot becomes full of roots. Feed
nee in two to four weeks with dilute
olution of nitrate of soda, a heaping
teaspoonful dissolved in water, or am-
monia water.
Your Shoes and Gloves.
Good shoes, fresh gloves, a becoming
neat and fresh neckwear of good
—these are extravagances which
any woman who makes 2 pretense to
well dressed should indulge in.
Good shoes do not simply mean ex-
shoes once bought. It means
provided with an endowment
that they may be always kept up
the heel, always kept clean and
‘The same ts true about gloves.
Nothing is poorer economy than to
Solled white gloves, no matter
how good their quatity.
A Bint for |
the
Needleworker
Crocheted buttons are extensively
‘used this season, and those that are
handmade have a distinctive charm
all their own. When you are clever
enough to make these buttons yourself
you solve the difficulty of shopping for
Unusual shades to match gowns and
coats, for twisted silk or skeins of silk
come in almost every color, as do wool
= ‘wooden
The crocheting is put over
molds, and these mold¢ome in various
shapes and sizes—square, round, ob
Jong or oval—and silk, wool or mer
cerized cotton can be employed with
equal success, the material used de-
pending upon the use to which the but-
tons are to be put. ‘Those that are cov-
ered with silk can be used for orna-
mentation, as well as for pure utility,
but handmade sweaters this season
are showing buttons covered with the
same material of which the sweater
itself is made, either wool or silk. But
tons covered with mercerized cotton
have infinite possibilities, for they can
be used on all wash fabrics, as they
Jaunder beautifully. These buttons are
quite simple to make, the main secret
being to crochet tightly, so there will
be no spaces between the stitches, re-
Vealing the wooden mold beneath.
Start with a chain of three stitches,
Join, and into this ring put eight single
erochet. Into every second stitch of
these eight stitches put three single
crochet. This will start the four cor-
ners. On the next row put three sin-
gle crochet into every fourth stitch,
which will bring it to the middle stitch
of the three stitches in the row be-
low. Continue around, increasing two
‘stitches on each side, until you have
made a square large enough to cover
the top of the mold. ‘Then crochet two
rows without increasing at the cor-
ners. Put in the mold and begin to
decrease by skipping every fourth
stitch. Do this for several rows. Then
skip every third stitch, then every sec-
ond one, until you reach the center. A
row of single crochet around the cen-
tral stiteh forms a fine shank and
makes it easier to sew on, as well as
to button.
For round buttons start with a
chain of three stitches, join, and into
the ring put eight single crochet. Into
each of these elght stitches put two
single crochet. On the next row put
two single crochet into every second
stitch, then into every third stitch, reg-
ulating this by keeping the circle per-
fectly fiat When you have crocheted’
enough to cover the top of the mold
crochet two-rows plain without adding
any stitches. Fit this on the mold and
begin to take off, skipping first every
fourth, then every third and then every
second stitch until you reach the cen-
ter. ‘The covering should fit the mold
very closely, so this may have to be
modified somewhat.
To make oval buttons start with a
chain of four stitches, turn and work
a single crochet into each stitch of the
chain. In the last stitch put three
single crochet and continue on around
on the other side of the chain, working
three single crochet into the middle
stitch on the other end. Work on
around, putting three single crochet
Into the middie stitch of each ené. If
it does not lie smooth put in four
stitches instead of three on each end.
When you have worked enough to cov-
er the top of the mold make two plain
rows all] around. Insert mold and be-
sin to take off by skipping every fourth
stitch, then every third and every sec- |
nd stitch until it is finished. Then |
vork one row around the middle stitch |
18 a shank. Of course these directions
nay vary a little, according to the ais |
if the button, but a little experience |
ielps to overcome any difficulties, |
Belts In Favor.
Belts are in high favor again, which
1s probably due to the fact that most
of the frocks and skirts have the trim
normal waist line.
The leather belts are more varied and
beautiful than ever before.
They range in width from two to six
inches and in many cases are much
wider.
Patent leather is much in favor for
the new belts, and it is shown in vari-
ous colorings combined with black or
white. One beautifal wide belt of soft
erushable white kid had a shaped in-
Set piece of blue patent leather at each
side. There was a long narrow buckle
of white kid.
Another wide belt of white kid had
& large buckle of white kid and red
patent leather trimmings. Another wide
belt of white kid had trimmings of
brown suede.
Pineanoie Shertnein.
_ One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of
powdered sugar, three cupfuls of flour.
‘one cupful of milk, the whites of fou
eggs and a little salt. Cream butter
and sugar, add milk and beat hard be
fore putting in the whites of the eggs
Sift two teaspoonfuls of cream of tar
tar and one of soda in the'flour, beat
ing lightly.
Filling and Icing.—Boll one cupfal of
granulated sugar and one-quarter of a
cupful of pineapple juice, strained,
for six minutes, after adding one tea-
spoonful of lemon juice. Beat the
white of an egg to a stiff froth, add
the boiled sirup gradually to it, whip-
ping the mixture as the sirup is added
with the egg whip. Beat six minutes
longer and ice the cake thickly. For
Alling add enough finely chopped pine-
apple to the icing to make it moist and
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treme fullness. The deep collar is of
beaver, which also bands the peplum.
Small metal buttons light up the
sleeves and belt.
THE CHIMNEY POT.
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| A stylish woman has a good poise
She stands well, and she walks well
and she carries her head well, and her
clothes take on the right swing. Put
the same clothes on the woman who
stands on her heels instead of on the
balis of her feet, the woman who sinks
down in her corset and by so doing
throws her abdomen outward, her hips
forward, lets her chest sink in and her
shoulders round forward, while her
back hollows below the waist line—
any amount of style in the costume
worn by this woman fs swallowed up
by the lack of style in the woman her-
self.
‘The lines of a woman's gown or
cloak are altered to their ruin when
by incorrect carriage of her body they
are turned and twisted out of place.
The woman who is admired for her
style in dressing looks—no matter what
the time or the occasion—as if what
she wears at that time, upon that oc-
casion, had been planned with refer-
ence to that time, that place and to
her.—Good Health.
Rehet Ghe Been,
Every household has large boxes ai
least for hats, sometimes for furs an¢
waists and other articles of dress an¢
many small bores for other belongings
In the hunt for something almost for
gotten the housekeeper often squan.
ders precious moments in searching
through every likely depository and
probably comes upon the object of her
quest in the last bor of the selected
group.
All this waste of time and energy
can be saved by the use of Iabels which
record the contents of each box. Some
recently noted captions of this kind
were “Bive Velvet Hat,” “J. B.'s Pan.
ama Hat,” “Small Tacks and Nails,”
“Empty Bottles,” “Corks.”
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‘Trimness is the first word about this
suit, and the snug military collar and
metal buttons are its points of interest.
Black velvet is used to re-enforce the
cuffs and collar, which are outlined by
bias bands, as is the front. ‘The irreg-
ular skirt of the coat hangs in a grace-
ful flare, and the skirt itself is a good
walking length.
ALMA INSERTION.
~ Easy Pattern For Towels and
Bureau Scarfs.
_ Abbreviations: Ch, chain; sLst, slip
stitch; d.c., double crochet; tr., treble;
Ltr, long treble.
‘Work the middle strip first.
Begin with 22 ch, 1 tr. in fourth
from needle, 18 tr. in the following 18
ch, 3 ch., turn (this 3 ch. forms 1 tr. at
the beginning of every row through
out).
First Row.—One tr. in second tr., 2
tr, in next 2, 2 ch, miss 2 tr., 8 tr. in
next 8, 2 ch., miss 2 tr., 4 tr. in last 4
tr, turn with 3 ch.
Second Row.—One tr. in second tr,
2 tr. in next 2, 2 tr. under 2 ch, 8 tr.
in next 8 tr., 2 tr. under 2 ch, 4 tr. in
end 4 tr., turn with 3 ch.
Third Row.—One tr. in second tr, 7
tr. in next 7 tr., 2 ch, miss 2 tr., 9 tr.
in next 9 tr., turn with 3 ch.
Fourth Row.—One tr. in second tr,
2 tr. in next 2, 2 ch., miss 2 tr., 3 tr. in
next 3 tr., 2 tr. under 2 ch, 3 tr. in
next 3 tr., 2 ch., miss 2 tr., 4 tr. in end
4 tr, turn with 3 ch.
Fifth Row.—Like the second.
Sixth Row.—One tr. in second tr, 2
tr. in next 2 tr, 6 ch, 1 Ltr. between
sixth and seventh tr., 6 ch., miss 6 tr.,4
tr. in next 4, 3 ch., turn.
Seventh Row.—One tr. in second tr.,
2 tr. in next 2 tr, 6 ch., miss 5 ch, 1
de. in next, 1 de. in 1 Ltr, 1 de. in
next ch., 6 ch., 4 tr. in next 4 tr, 3 ch.,
torn.
Eighth Row.—One tr. in second tr.,
2 tr. in next 2 tr, 5 ch, miss 5 ch.,
1 de. in next. 3 dc. in 3 dc, 1dc. in
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next ch., 5 ch., 4 tr. in last 4 tr, 3 ch,
turn.
Ninth Row.—One tr. in second tr.,-2
tr. in next 2 tr., 6 ch. miss 1 d.c., 3 dc.
in next 3, Gch, 4 tr. in next 4 tr., 3 ch.
torn.
‘Tenth Row.—One tr. in second tr., 2
tr, in next 2 tr, 6 ch, 1 Ltr. in middle
stitch of 3 d.c., 6 ch, 4 tr. in 4 end tr,
Sch, turn.
Eleventh Row.—One tr. in second tr,
2 tr, in next 2 tr., 6 tr. in next loop, tr
in4tr,, 3 ch, turn.
Repeat from first row for length re-
quired.
The following rows are worked along
each side of the strip:
First Row.—Two tr. in tr. loop at the
end of a row—draw. the stitch of sec-
ond tr. through the first throughout
this row, * 7 ch, miss 1 ch. turn, 1
alst, 1 dc., 1 short tr., 1 tr. 1 Ltr. and
1 triple tr. respectively into 6 ch., miss
1 tr. loop on strip, 2 tr. in next, and
repeat from *.
Second Row.—One de. in point of
first group. * 4 ch. 1 de. in point of
‘next, and repeat from *.
Row.—Three tr. in 1 dc. of Inst
row, ¢ 1 ch, 3 tr. in next de, and ze
peat a
A Chintz
Room for
Daughter
In the average home we iv
which the daughter of the house can
claim as her own is her bedroom.
‘This should be as dainty as possible,
signifying girlhood in all its freshness
and beauty. Unfortunately many girls
believe that daintiness costs money
‘and pass it by on the plea of a small
Pocketbook. Daintiness, as a matter
of fact, can be achieved for a very
small amount of money, provided one
is willing to spend some time and not
a little thought on the decoration of
one’s bedroom.
Pink and blue have been the colors
Jong honored as the young girl's, but
the young person of decided character
who feels that these pale tints do not
reflect her vivid personality may choose
in these very modern times cubist and
futurist colorings and, with the aid of
some of the new and artistic chintzes,
may achieve a very stunning effect.
‘The furniture par excellence for the
girl’s room is finished in white enamel,
and if you are not fortunate enough
to possess this sort you can easily
change what you have at hand by a
can of white paint and one of white
enamel. Painting is by no means easy
work, but it is work which many a girl
has accomplished successfully at home.
It will be necessary first to purchase
‘a can of paint remover so as to take
off as much as possible of the original
stain. ‘Then give the pieces of fur-
niture two or even three coats of
white or cream paint and finally one of
white or cream enamel. This should
be allowed to dry thoroughly before an
attempt to use it is made.
Now, if your bed is a wooden one
you can produce a very quaint effect
by pasting over the head and base
‘boards chintz in a pretty design. This
should be cut to fit the boards exactly
and edged with braid to match the
chintz, the whole being glued flat on
to the head and base boards, or brass
headed tacks placed at one inch inter-
vals can be used to hold the chintz,
Some girls have created a very pretty.
effect by cutting out flowers or birds:
from chintz and pasting these designs
at conventional intervals on the base
and head boards.
The dressing table can be made very
pretty by the aid of chintz, and if you
‘want a dressing table don’t despair.
Just make one. “How?” perhaps you
ask. It is really the easiest thing in
the world. If there is a fair sized ta-
ble somewhere in the house which is
not used for any particular purpose
claim it as your own and use this as|
the foundation for your dressing table.
First it must be coated with white or
cream paint or enamel. Then fit a cov-
er of the chintz over the top and sew
@ ruffle of the same around this flat
cover. The ruffle should be only three
or four inches long and should be quite
full, so that it will frill prettily. Over
the top of the table should be placed
a thick piece of glass, which you can
purchase and have cut to fit at any
glazier’s. This will be the most ex-
Pensive item in the making of the
dressing table—it will probably cost $4
or $5—but this money will be well ex-
pended, for it saves the top of the ta-
ble and the chintz from dirt and wear.
‘Now comes the question of the mir-
ror over the table. In the basement
of any of the big department stores a
cheap mirror can be purchased for
$1.50 or $2. This will have a brown
or imitation mahogany frame and will
not be a thing of beauty. But the glass
will be fairly good, and the frame can |
be covered. Remove the nails which |
hold the back of the glass and the front |
of it together, take off the frame and |
cover neatly with the chintz, gluing |
it fat to the surface and allowing an |
inch or two to overlap to the back on |
either side. When this is quite dry put
back on the glass and fasten the back
to the front with the nails which were
removed previously. Hang over the
mirror and complete the charming ef- |
fect by purchasing two white enamel
candlesticks which should be topped by |
dainty shades made from the chintz. |
‘To carry out the color scheme drape |
the windows with thin silk mull in a!
white or cream shade, at 25 cents a
yard, and sew a band of chintz to the
edge of the curtains, or use the mull
curtains plain, edging with a bit of
lace, and introduce the chintz effect in |
a short valance at the top of the win-
dow. Do not, however, leave over cur
fains of the chintz. They shut out too
much light and air, and a bedroom |
needs as much of these as possible. |
|_ American cooks use the egg white
‘More than the egg yolk, but how true
is the instinct of the European cook in
Preferring the yolk even if the white
cannot be utilized (he generally makes
lady fingers or some of the other so
called “biscuits” with it) can be seen
by studying some of our most recent
‘selentific books on foods.
An expert says of the egg yolk, “The
yolk is a much more concentrated food
material than the white, containing in
& given weight about seven times as
much energy. as well as larger
amounts of protein and of the chief
mineral matter.”
A great European doctor who recom.
mends yolks of eggs with oatmeal por.
Tidge has wonderful things to say
‘about the food and curative value of
eggs and especially recommends for
Saing copes ae mane
“taking expensive medicaments
artificial preparations of fron.”
For Young Folks
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‘New York society folks recently held
‘a circus on Long Island, New York, to
raise funds for charity. Piping Rock,
where the entertainment was held, is
a most exclusive place, and only the
most select are welcome. The circus
was @ pronounced success, and a large
sum of money was raised. Among the
many interesting exhibits was a group
of young girls who posed as cowboys
and performed in a most daring and
skillful manner the feats of horseman-
ship commonly attributed to the cow-
punchers of the plains. They rode their
ponies in rdces, jumped hurdles and
threw the lasso in real cowboy fashion.
‘The young girl here pictured is Miss
Helen Leeming, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Woodruff Leeming of New York
city. She is standing on the back of
her pony, the stirrup straps crossed
over the back of her horse. She was
saluting the grand stand occupants
when the camera man snapped her. -
‘Sianeli Weer Sie:
Provide each player with pencil and
paper and a penny. The hostess ex-
plains that the answers to the follow-
ing questions are things which are
found on each penny. An old fashioned
cent, not a Lincoln penny, must be
used. A prize may be awarded to the
person guessing the greatest number of
correct answers.
An emblem of victory (laurel wreath).
An emblem of royalty (crown).
An Arabian fruit (date).
A spring flower (tulip—two lips).
A portion of a hill (brow).
A portion of a river (mouth).
A messenger (one cent—sent).
A plece of armor (shield).
‘Mode of ancient punishment (stripes).
‘Means of inflicting it (lashes).
Something to be found in school (pu-
pil).
‘Three weapons (three arrows).
An animal (hare—hair).
A part of a stove (lid).
Plenty. of assurance (cheek). '
The first American settler (Indian).
Part of a duck (feathers). |
A place of worship (temple).
‘Two sides of a vote (eyes and nose—
ayes and noes).
Olds Deda
__,/m each sentence a term used in mu-
'sle or the name of a musical instra-
‘ment may be found. The letters spell-
ing the names are in order.
|. When was the club organized?
| 2 Violets have an exquisite odor.
3 The boy must be careful after his
“Aniife is sharpened.
4. He cast a net into the stream.
5. Did Lulu tell of the accident?
6. Pro and con certify whether you
are for or against the measure.
7. He sped altogether too fast for
such a busy street.
8 The lamb and the dog were com-
Panions,
_ Answers: 1, organ; 2, viol; 8, harp; 4,
‘castanet; 5, lute; 6, concert; 7, pedal; 8,
band.
| Weatherwise Birds,
‘The seagull makes a splendid lving
barometer. If a-covey of seagulls fy
Seaward early in the morning saflors
4nd fishermen know that the day will
be fine and the wind fair, but if the
birds keep inland, though there be no
‘haze hanging out toward the sea to de-
note unpleasant weather, interested
folk know that the elements will be un-
favorable.
_ When Willie Minds the Baby. |
"Aa Fatty Wie ee ie
An’ Fatty Wilson, too,
An’ Walter Gray an’ Oscar Ayer
An’ even Sissy Pugh
Are out there plannin’ somethin’
eee
rt wi
‘They're gonta have some fun.
I guess they're all a-eayin’:
“I wonder where he's at?
‘He ain’t been out this afternoon,”
Or somethin’ else like that.
Bat et “em Keep on whist’;
‘guess ‘an well
1 things up th’ way they ge
swears
‘Wisht Td been borned a orphant
‘Without no kin a” tall:
‘T wouldn't have t’ stick around
An’ hear @ youngen squall
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New York Times,
SIX BOOM BRICK COTTAGE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN ON EASY PAYMENTS.
Beautiful six room and bath, cement basement, furnace heat, hardwood floors and trimmings, one and a half story brick cottage located on St. Lawrence avenue, near Marquette Road, 66th street Boulevard at a bargain, if purchased at once, small amount of money required. For further particulars, address Julius F. Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence avenue. Phone Wentworth 2597, no agents wanted.
FIVE BRICK HOUSES FOR SALE
AT A GREAT BARGAIN.
We have for sale a group of five brick houses that are offered at a bargain, they are to be sold all at once, and on easy payments, three to five hundred dollars down and the balance the same as rent, they are located on South Park Boulevard near Thirty fourth street. Do you want to be a member of a syndicate that will purchase these houses! If so address X care this paper.
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.
bacco 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 McGlofin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St.
William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St.
E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State.
A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St.
George McFaro, shoe shining parlors and news stand, 3800½ State street.
T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street.
Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street.
Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClaim, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street.
Can You Go Straight?
The above question is not intended to be personal. We are quite sure that you are a good, steady going citizen; but, all the same, we are equally sure that you cannot walk straight without the help of your eyes. Naturally your tendency is to walk in a circle, and you would do this if your eyes were not constantly correcting the tendency. You may easily test this. Place two stakes in your garden about eight feet apart, take up a position some sixty feet away, get some one to blindfold you and then try to walk between the two stakes. You will find that you are going in a circle.
Why? The explanation is very simple. You walk faster with one foot than with the other. Everybody does One leg always takes a longer stride, with the result that you naturally walk more to one side than the other. Men who have been lost in the Australian bush have marked the trees they passed and found that they again and again returned to their starting tree after describing a complete circle—Dundee Advertiser.
Unique Bible Character
One of the few men in the Bible who have nothing recorded against them is Joseph of Arimathea. Every one of the evangelists has a good word to say for Joseph. One says he "was an honorable counselor," another that he "was a just man," another that he was "a rich man," another that he was a "secret disciple." Only one of the evangelists speaks of the birth of Christ, but all four of them erect a monument to Joseph of Arimathea. When he became a disciple we are not told. Dr. Andrew Bonar of Scotland says he can just imagine that Nicodemus may have been moved by Joseph of Arimathea to believe in Christ. At all events, Nicodemus didn't come out very boldly himself. He didn't get his discipleship out very clean. They were both members of the sandbed, but it is evident that none knew that Joseph was a secret disciple until a certain night—Christian Herald.
THE FASHION OF THE TIME
IDEAL FOR CALLING.
This charming gown is developed in navy pussy willow silk, with a "cuffed" skirt and deep embroidered yoke. The simple long sleeved bodice has a georgette crape yoke and cuffs. Please note how the girdle is laced with a blue velvet ribbon, finished with ball tassels. With this smart frock go white topped button boots and a navy velours felt hat set off with a jaunty white ostrich plume.
For Dripping Candles.
Everybody who has watched candles in a draft knows what troublesome things dripping candles are.
If they stand on the dinner table they make pools of melted wax on the cloth that later hardens. But unless it is very carefully removed after it has become absolutely cold it leaves a stain on the cloth for many days—perhaps forever.
If the burning candles stand on a wooden surface the inconvenience of splotches of melted wax, hardening into fantastic shapes, is equally great.
There are little disks of glass, pierced in the center with a hole the size of the ordinary candle, made to catch this melting grease. They are perhaps two and a half inches or three inches across, and they are made with edges slanting slightly upward, so that they serve as sancers.
To adjust them slip them over the candle after it is firmly secured in the candlestick or else thrust the lower end of the candle through them before putting it in the stick.
They come in several different designs—some with scalloped edges, some with a Roman key engraved as a border, some with a tiny star sprinkled over their surface. They cost from a dollar a dozen up and can be used on glass or silver candlesticks.
LONG WAISTED COATS.
The average woman is more interested in her autumn coat suit than she is in evening frocks, although the changes in fashions for the latter should enable her to alter whatever she has, if that is possible, in order that they may meet the social life of the early fall, when people come together in town again and one wants informal evening clothes, if no other kind.
Nothing is settled here in the way of any clothes until models are received from Paris, so far as the winter is concerned.
But some of the advance styles are belted exactly at the waist line, as they were in the late spring; others have an exaggerated point in the fronts somewhat after the manner of an Elizabethan bodice with a faring peplum attached and running high at the sides. This is a novelty, and whether or not it will be repeated frequently one cannot tell. There are many women to whom it will be very becoming. At least it is a decided change from what we have had, and there are rumors that it will usher in a variety of coats that run down to a point either in the front or back with high side lines. For the woman who is over fifty and whose hips have broadened the point will be good, and the side shaping can be managed accordingly to her requirements.
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THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 23, 1915.
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Da Vinci's Career
Leonardo da Vinci was a great Italian painter and sculptor, architect and civil and military engineer, a scientific inventor and a man of universal genius. He was born in Vinci, near Florence. in 1452. Two of his earlier productions are still extant-"The Adoration of the Magli," in the gallery of the Uffizi at Florence, and "The Virgin of the Rocks," in the British National gallery. His great painting of the "Lord's Supper" was finished in 1499. The original has been wholly defaced; but, judging from copies, this work is universally regarded as one of the greatest ever produced. In 1499 he painted his celebrated portrait of Mona Lisa del Glocondo. in 1507 he painted a Madonna and child. His extant works are few, and some of those attributed to him are believed to have been executed by his pupils. He died May 2, 1519.
Moths That Eat Your Clothes.
THE little clothes moth is grayish-yellow. It is not the winged moth that eats up clothing. The caterpillar is the real perpetrator of all the damage done to garments. All the flying moth does is lay eggs, for it has no mouth for food. But the winged moth is the source of mischief "higher up," for its eggs hatch hungry little worms. They are fancy little worms that eat our clothes, for each lives in a little case or jacket adapted to its growth in a curious way. Without leaving its case the clothes moth makes silts and inserts gores on the sides and also lengthens its jacket to meet its needs. The fresh material needed comes from the clothing wool, fur or feathers on or near which the crafty moth has laid its almost invisible eggs for this very purpose—Exchange.
His Handicap.
On his first visit he looked around for a possible partner at a game and approached a stout gentleman whose deportment suggested social standing. "Certainly, sir," replied the latter in answer to the newcomer's invitation. Then, as they approached the first tee, he went on: "By the way, I'm a four man. What are you?" The novice was startled, but after a minute's consideration he said: "Foreman, are ye? Well, I'm a straw hat manufacturer."—Bek's Weekly.
Giving Credit.
"Poor Tompkins never gets credit for what he does."
"That's the fate of some men."
"His secretary gets the credit for all the speeches he makes, his wife gets the credit for his manners, and his daughters get the credit for his ability to dance."-Baltimore Sun.
Between Girls.
"What are you reading so intently?"
"Balzac. I have to post up on Balzac because my beau is interested in Balzac. Don't you ever post up on the things which interest your beau?"
"I don't have to," answered the other girl. "My beau is interested in me."
—Buffalo News.
An Ancient Custom.
"I wonder if men have always complained about the food their wives prepared for them," said one woman.
"I guess so," replied the other; "Adam started it."
The New Cook.
Wifey—This pudding is a sample of the new cook's work. What do you think of it? Hub—I'd call it medicine. Wifey—No, dear; it's tapioca. — Excuse.
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Who Discovered the Kangaroo?
W. B. Alexander of the Western Australian museum at Perth, W. A., has recently corrected a popular mistake in the history of natural history. The discovery of the kangaroo family is generally credited to Sir Joseph Banks and is supposed to have occurred during Captain Cook's first voyage in 1770. This date, it appears, is nearly 150 years too late. When the Dutch East India company's ship, the Batavia, under command of Captain Pelsart, was wrecked on the Abrolhos islands in 1629 the survivors encountered among other strange things the Dama wallaby, the first member of the kangaroo family known to Europeans. Captain Pelsart described it as a species of cat about the size of a hare, noted its remarkable hind legs and described in considerable detail the abdominal pouch for the young and the use of it.
An Ancient English Inn.
Among the inns that put forward a claim to antiquity place must be found for "Ye Old King James and Ye Tinker," which still "carries on" its business at White Webb's Lane, near Waltham Cross. It claims to have been established well over a thousand years ago and came by its present unique title through King James I, visiting it during a royal hunt in Enfield Chase and meeting with a tinker imbibing his modest cup of malt who desired to see a king. His majesty promised his wish should be granted and took him on his horse to where his nobles were assembled, throwing off his incognito at the proper dramatic moment, to the great confusion of the tinker, whose embarrassment was solved by a knighthood and commemorated in a ballad.—London Chronicle.
We Should Not Worry.
"Worry would kill a horse," says Mrs. Clara Z. Moore, health expert. "There is no sickness more insidious, no drug more poisonous, than the continued effects of worry. "Proper physical exercise will remove the worry and the tired out condition that causes it. A sick body often produces a sick mind, and the opposite is also true that a sick mind causes a sick body. "The moral is, 'If you do not want to be sick do not worry.'"—Chautauqua News
Drunken Elephants.
The fruit of the umganu tree of South Africa yields a strong intoxicating drink. Elephants are said to be very fond of it, becoming quite tipsy, staggering about, playing antics, screaming so as to be heard for a mile and sometimes having tremendous and sometimes fatal fights.
Went Unnoticed.
"What is your opinion of Boston?"
"I was agreeably surprised on my first visit to that town."
"Yes?"
"Just for an experiment I split an infinitive, but there was nothing like a riot precipitated."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Cross of St. Andrew.
Russia's cross of St. Andrew has a remarkable peculiarity attaching to it. All who are decorated with it have the right once to demand a pardon for a Russian subject condemned to death.
The Outlook.
"That's first rate. How is it served?"
"In the shell."
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PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 415
AUTOMATIC 33-736
RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7990
Walter M. Farmer
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST.
NOTARYPUBLIC
CHICAGO
Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabash Ave.
Oakland 4662, Auto. T3-058 Phone Drexel 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 Main 2017 Automatic 32-395
A. L. WILLIAMS
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg.
184 W. Washington St.
Residence 5548 Jefferson Av.
Phone Midway 5515 Chicago
B
BANK OF CHICAGO
STATE SUPERVISION
WITH STATE STREET,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Douglas 200
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.
A. D. GASH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
118 North La Salle St., Chicago
Suite 615 to 616
PHONE MAIN 2214
Residence 1262 Macalister Place
Telephone Monroe 2714
MILES J. DEVINE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Suite 313-329 Reaper Block
Clark & Washington Sts.
Phones Central 239
Auto. 41-916
CHICAGO
Franklin A. Denison
ATTORNEY AT LAW
36 West Randolph St., Chicago
Suite 708 Delaware Building
Tel. Central 3142
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
FRANK DUNN Trustees Established 1877
J. B. McCAHEY
TEL. OAKLAND 1550, 1551, 1552
JOHN J. DUNN
WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL
Fifty-First and Armour Avenue
RAILYARDS
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JESSE BINGA BANKER
S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago
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-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on 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.
Automatic 73-277
KEYSTONE HOTEL BILLIARD PARLOR
3022 S. STATE STREET
DAVID McGOWAN, Prop. CHICAGO
A. F. CODOZOE, DOUGLAS 5971
J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors Phones DOUGLAS 3256
CHAS. HARRIS, Manager AUTO. 72-379
A. F. CODOZOE,
J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors
CHAS, HARRIS, Manager
The Elite Cafe
AND BUFFET
3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO
JOHN BLOCKI, President F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer
JOHN BLOCKI & SON
PERFUMERS
GO TO
C. E. KREYSSLER, Druggist
5057 South State Street
NOT ON THE CORNER
FOR HIGH GRADE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND
MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS
All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded
ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF
BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER
IN BOTTLE PERFUMES
$1.00 PER WEEK $1.00 PER WEEK
WEBER COMPANY
CASH OR
EASY
PAYMENTS
TAILORS
CASH OR
EASY
PAYMENTS
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, MGR.
$1.00 PER WEEK $1.00 PER WEEK
THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, OCTOBER 23, 1915.
26-Passenger Auto Funeral Coaches
Carries Complete Funeral to Any Local Cemetery and Return
Greater Elegance, Half the Cost
My Funeral Compartment Auto-Scar Are Revolutionizing Funeral Service in Ohio. They Are Tactfully Preferred to Single Carriages and Antes, as They Insure For Greater Elegance and Gentle, and Saddles
Save More than Half the High Cost of Carriages and Automobiles
Tel. Kenwood 455 Calls Promptly Answered Day or Night Auto. 73-867
ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON
PRIVATE CHAPEL UNDERTAKER NOTARY PUBLIC
5028-5030 S. State St. Automobiles for All Occasions Chicago, Ill.
Beautiful Automobile FUNERALS $65.00
Auto Hearse, Two Limousines carrying twelve persons, black-broad cloth casket, or any color in plush, Grave, Out Side Box and Embalming.
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.
4821 S. State Street, Chicago
Phone Oakland 1328 -- Automatic 72-185
W
Arthur's $2 Hats
Set This Season's Styles
AM celebrating my fifteenth season selling Men's Fall 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 assurance 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 STORE FOR EVERYBODY"
HILLMAN'S
STATE & WASHINGTON STS.
Everything to eat, to wear and for the home. Ready to
wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices,
quality and workmanship considered. Make it a point to
visit this store every day and take advantage of the special
bargain offerings that we give in all departments.
The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash Ave.
THE NEW YORK MUSEUM
The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET.
0000
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 inches wide—they set right alongside the gas range—they eat an insignificant amount of fuel and are 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 in Chicago.
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 hole or larger) we will take it in exchange for a kitchen heater, allowing $5.00 on the purchase price.
All Eye Trouble
SEE
DR. LOUIE USSELMANN
The Practical Optician
THE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY
BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES
Consultation or examination
FREE. We have 28 different
ways of testing the eyes and
guarantee to give satisfaction.
3150 S. STATE ST.
Phone Douglas 5308
CHICAGO