The Broad Ax

BROAD AX The Annual Banquet at the Appomattox Club was Transformed into a Regular Old-Time Republican Love Feast THE HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT WAS THE FIRST SPEAKER OF THE EVENING AND DURING HIS UNTIMELY AND UNELOQUENT BEMARKS HE HAD THE NERVE AND THE BRASS TO PROCLAIM HIMSELF "ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT LEADERS OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE." HIS SUBJECT WAS "FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB," BUT INSTEAD OF ADHERING TO HIS TEXT HE SPENT MUCH TIME IN BITTERLY BANTING AGAINST THE ENEMIES AND TRAITORS WITHIN THE BANKS OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB, AND RIGHT THERE AND THEN WITH HIS LARGE LEGAL EYES BRIGHTLY SHINING HE LOUDLY CALLED ON ITS ENEMIES AND TRAITORS TO RESIGN FROM THE CLUB. ACCORDING TO THE WAY THAT THE BLIND MAN SITTING HIGH UP IN THE TREE FIGURED IT OUT THERE IS NO GREATER ENEMY AND TRAITOR TO THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS THAN THE HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT. HON. B. F. MOSELEY SPOKE ON "LOYALTY AND HARMONY," AND WHILE MUCH WAS SAID BY HIM ALONG THAT LINE, BUT COME TO THINK OF IT THERE IS NOT ONE ABLE ATTORNEY BELONGING TO THE APPOMATTOX CLUB—NO NOT ONE WHO WOULD ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO KICK IN AND CONDUCT A LAW SUIT AGAINST ANY ONE OF ITS LAY OR COMMON MEMBERS PROVIDED THEY WOULD RECEIVE A FAIR SIZED FEE FOR THEIR LEGAL SERVICES. THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY, PH. D. D. D., WHOM THEY CLAIM AT ONE TIME JOINED THE APPOMATTOX CLUB, BUT NEVER PAID ONE CENT IN DUES, IS FEEDING AT THE PUBLIC CRIB AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL THE TAXPAYERS IN THIS CITY AND COUNTY AND PRACTICALLY DOING NOTHING TO EARN THE EASY MONEY WHICH HE WREAPS His TRICKING POLITICAL HANDS AROUND EACH MONTH, WAS THE NEXT SPEAKER ON THE PROGRAM, BUT FOR SOME CAUSE OR OTHER HE FAILED TO SHOW UP. HON. CHARLES SMITH, WHO CLAIMED TO BE THE MAYOR OF BERWYN, WAS THE NEXT IN LINE FOR SOME TALKING AND AS HE IS A TALKER FROM AWAY BACK HE SURELY DID SOME TALKING. HON. CHARLES C. HEALEY, CHIEF OF POLICE OF CHICAGO, SIDE STEPPED THE REPUBLICAN MEETING OR BANQUET AND NOT BEING PRESENT HE WAS ABLY AND BRILLIANTLY REPRESENTED BY THE HON. OSCAR DE PRIEST, WHO CAME VERY NEAR CAUSING MANY OF THOSE SITTING UNDER THE SOUND OF HIS ELOQUENT VOICE TO JUMP RIGHT SQUARE OUT OF THEIR SEATS WHEN HE DECLARED WITHOUT THE LEAST WARNING THAT "RECENTLY HE CARRIED COL. JOHN B. MARSHALL, THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB DOWN TO THE CITY HALL AND HAD HIM SWORN IN AS A SPECIAL OR EXTRA POLICEMAN." THAT "HE IS NOW SERVING ON THE STAFF OF CHIEF HEALEY—THAT AS A MEMBER OF HIS STAFF HE WILL BE HIS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OR POLICEMAN AT THE APPOMATTOX CLUB AT ALL TIMES," ALDERMAN DE PRIEST INTIMATED THAT IN THE FUTURE THAT NO MORE ARRESTS OF ITS MEMBERS WILL BE MADE—THAT IF THE OFFICERS OF THE LAW ATTEMPT TO RUSH INTO THE PARLORS OF THE CLUB AND ENDEAVOR TO YANK OUT THOSE WHO MAY BE ENGAGED IN PLAYING CARDS—THAT THEY WILL BE ARRESTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB, WHO WILL BE KNOWN FAR AND NEAR AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THAT FAMOUS CLUB TO BECOME AN ACTIVE POLICEMAN IN ORDER TO PREVENT ITS UNFISTICATED MEMBERS FROM FALLING INTO THE CLUTCHES OR THE HANDS OF THE LAW. HON. HARRY B. MILLER, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF CHICAGO, WHO IS AT ALL TIMES THE OFFICIAL MOUTH PIECE OF MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, FOLLOWED THE HON. OSCAR DE PRIEST AFTER PRAISING HIS CHIEF FOR APPOINTING SO MANY ABLE COLORED MEN TO OFFICE IN THE PERSONS OF REV. A. J. CAREY, HONS. LOUIS B. ANDERSON AND EDWARD H. WRIGHT. HE PROCEEDED TO TELL HIS COLORED FELLOW CITIZENS THAT HE DID NOT ENTERTAIN ANY BACE PREJUDICE AGAINST THEM—THAT ANY TIME THAT THEY GOT INTO ANY TROUBLE WITH HIS END OF THE CITY LAW DEPARTMENT THAT THEY WOULD RECEIVE A SQUARE DEAL AND SO ON. S. A. T. WATKINS, THE RETIRING PRESIDENT, STATED THAT THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CLUB WAS COMPOSED OF BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, BUT ONLY DYED IN THE WOOL REPUBLICANS WERE PERMITTED TO RAISE THEIR VOICES ON THAT FESTIVE OCCASION. IT THEREFORE REMAINED FOR MR. WATKINS HIMSELF TO STATE WHAT HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED THE PAST YEAR AS PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB—THAT FOR THIRTEEN YEARS HE WAS PROMINENTLY CONNECTED WITH THE LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO AND REPRESENTED ITS TWO AND A HALF MILLION CITIZENS IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Vol. XXI. THE HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT, EVENING AND DURING HIS MARKS HE HAD THE NERD HIMSELF "ONE OF THE MOST AMERICAN RACE." HIS SUBJECT WAS "FIFTEEN YEARS BUT INSTEAD OF ADHERING IN BITTERLY RANTING AGAIN WITHIN THE RANKS OF THE THERE AND THEN WITH HIS SHINING HE LOUDLY CALLS TO RESIGN FROM THE CLUB. ACCORDING TO THE WAY THAT HE IN THE TREE FIGURED IT AND TRAITOR TO THE ETERN HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT. HON. B. F. MOSELEY SPOKE ONE WHILE MUCH WAS SAID BY HE TO THINK OF IT THERE IS IN THINK TO THE APPOMATTOX ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO KNOW AGAINST ANY ONE OF ITS LAWS THEY WOULD RECEIVE A HIS SERVICES. THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JAMES CLAIM AT ONE TIME JOIN NEVER PAID ONE CENT IN CRIB AT THE EXPENSE OF A AND COUNTY AND PRACTICAL EASY MONEY WHICH HE WAS AROUND EACH MONTH, WAS GRAM, BUT FOR SOME CAUSES. HON. CHARLES SMITH, WHO CLAIMS WAS THE NEXT IN LINE FOR TALKER FROM AWAY BACK. HON. CHARLES C. HEALEY, CHIESTEPED THE REPUBLICAN BEING PRESENT HE WAS ABLE BY THE HON. OSCAR DE PRING MANY OF THOSE SITTING QUENT VOICE TO JUMP RIGHT WHEN HE DECLARED WITH "RECENTLY HE CARRIED OPRESIDENT OF THE CLUB DO HIM SWORN IN AS A SPECIALIST. THAT "HE IS NOW SERVING OTHAT AS A MEMBER OF HIS REPRESENTATIVE OR POLICY AT ALL TIMES," ALDERMAN IN FUTURE THAT NO MORE ARE MADE—THAT IF THE OFFICER INTO THE PARLOWS OF THE CHOSE WHO MAY BE ENGAGED WILL BE ARRESTED BY THE CLUB, WHO WILL BE KNOWN PRESIDENT OF THAT FAMOUS POLICEMAN IN ORDER TO BE BERS FROM FALLING INTO THE LAW. HON. HARRY B. MILLER, PROSECUTOR IS AT ALL TIMES THE OFFICIAN LIAM HALE THOMPSON, FOLLOW AFTER PRAISING HIS CHIEF COLORED MEN TO OFFICE IN HONS. LOUIS B. ANDERSON AXE. HE PROCEEDED TO TELL HIS COORDIDATES NOT ENTERAIN ANY BET THAT ANY TIME THAT THEY END OF THE CITY LAW DEPENDEVE A SQUARE DEAL AND S. A. T. WATKINS, THE RETIRING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CLUB LICANS AND DEMOCRATS, BUT PUBLICANS WERE PERMITTED FESTIVE OCCASION. IT THEREFORE REMAINED FOR WHAT HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED OF THE CLUB—THAT FOR NENTLY CONNECTED WITH THE OF CHICAGO AND REPRESENT CITIZENS IN THE UNITED STATTON, D. C. The annual banquet at the Appomattox Club which was held in its parlors last Saturday was attended by about one hundred of its members out of the two hundred and fifty-three members and it was just as plain as your nose on your face that long before that evening it had been well planned to transform the affair into a regular or a good old time Republican love feast; as the list of speakers will bear out this assertion, for the HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY first speaker of the evening was the Hon. Edward H. Wright, who seemingly has no use for two classes of the members of the Appomattox Club, they contend that he dislikes that class of its members who never buy a big stack of stud poker chips and he looks down with scorn and contempt upon that other class of its members who refuse to bow down real low and worship him as the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. CHICAGO, JANUARY 15. 1916 The Hon. gentleman who had the nerve and the brass to proclaim himself "one of the most eminent leaders of the Afro-American race," was called on to speak on "fifteen years of the Appomattox Club," but instead of sticking to his text he spent most of his time in bitterly ranting and spitting out fire and brimstone against what he called or branded as the "enemies and traitors within the ranks of the Appomattox Club and right there and then with his large legal eyes brightly sparking or shining he called on its so-called enemies and traitors to forthwith resign from the club. According to the way it looked to a blind man sitting high up in the tree there is no greater enemy and traitor to the eternal fitness of things than the Hon. Edward H. Wright. It also appears to that same blind man sitting high up in the tree that it is that small number of the members of the club who will persist in playing cards for money are doing more lasting harm to the club than all the other agencies combined. Can you see this point the Hon. Edward H. Wright? If so will you please stand up and lead us in prayer! Hon. B. F. Moseley who is one of the big lawyers of Chicago and one of the most eloquent orators in this country was the next speaker "Loyalty and Harmony" was his subject and he said a great deal along that line but some one has said and rightly too that "there is not one able lawyer belonging to the Appomattox Club who would absolutely refuse to kick or butt in and conduct a law suit against any one of its lay or common members provided that they the lawyers would receive a fair sized fee for their legal services" so that knocks "Loyalty and Harmony" into a cocked hat. The Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. d whom they claim that at one time joined the Appomattox Club but was never known to pay one cent in dues or fees, who delights to feed at the public crib at the expense of all the taxpayers in this city and county and practically doing nothing to earn the easy money which he wraps his tricky political hands around each month who is known as the greatest political pastor of the age who could if he would tell an interesting story in connection with his latest trip to Milwaukee, Wis., some years ago, was to succeed brother Moseley but for some cause or other the distinguished Rev. gentleman failed to show up. Hon. Charles Smith who claims to be the Mayor of Berwyn was the next speaker and as he is a fine talker from away back—he simply done some talking. Hon. Charles C. Healey, Chief of Police of Chicago, like his eminent friend the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. side stepped the Republican meeting or banquet, so he was very ably and brilliantly represented by the Hon. Oscar De Priest who came very near causing those sitting under the sound of his voice to jump right square out of their seats when he exclaimed without the least warning that "lately he carried Col. John R. Marshall the new president of the club down to the city hall and had him sworn in as an extra or special policeman; that he is now serving on Chief Healey's staff—that he will be his personal representative or policeman at the club at all times." Alderman De Priest strongly intimated that in the future that no more arrests of its members would be made—that if the officers of the law attempt to rush or brake into the parlors of the club and endeavor to pull or yank out those who may be engaged in playing cards—that they, the officers may or will be arrested by the president of the club who will be known far and near as the first president of that far famed club to actively assume the duties of a rough and tumble policeman in order to prevent the unsophisticated members of that famous club from falling into the clutches or hands of the law. Hon. Harry R. Miller the eminent pro- M. C. State Senator from the first Senatorial district of Illinois, who is more than likely to be selected as one of the delegates to the Republican National Convention from the first Congressional district. secuting attorney of Chicago, who is at all times the head official mouth-piece of Mayor William Hale Thompson followed the Hon. Oscar De Priest and after highly praising his chief for appointing so many very able Colored men to high positions in the persons of the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D.; Hons. Louis B. Anderson and Edward H. Wright—he proceeded to tell his Colored fellow citizens that he did not entertain one particle of race prejudice against them (who said hog wash!), that anytime that they got or rushed into any trouble with his end of the city law department that they would receive a square deal and so on. To say the least his talk in that direction was entirely uncalled for, for the Colored people have been taught to believe "that all White Republicans are their true friends—all Democrats are their natural foes and enemies." Hon. S. A. T. Watkins, during his remarks stated that the membership of the club was composed of both Republicans and Democrats but as the 'old saying goes he was round over' and only dyed in the wool Republicans were permitted to raise their voices on that festive occasion. Therefore it remained for Mr. Watkins himself to recount or to state what he had accomplished the past year as president of the club—that for thirteen years he was prominently connected with the law department of the city of Chicago and represented its two and half million citizens in the United States Supreme Court at Washington, D. C. Our highly esteemed friend the Hon. Henry S. Anderson, informed the writer a short time ago that Dr. Anderson accused F. Gillpe of using marked cards at the time that they got or become mixed up with the one hundred and fifty dollars. Saturday evening, Jan. 22, the Appomattox Club will give a smoker and card party in honor of Bert Williams and Prof. Just of the Howard University, Washington. D. C. HON. GEORGE F. HARDING. KANSAS CITY SELECTED. National Negro Business League t Hold Seventeenth Annual Session August 16, 1916. After a most careful consideration of the several invitations received from different sections of the country for the next meeting of the National Negro Business League, we are authorized by the members of the Executive Committee to announce that the League has decided to accept the invitation extended by the Local Negro Business League of Greater Kansas City. The meeting will be held August 16th, 17th and 18th, 1916. It appears that the Business League has selected a most opportune time to hold their meeting in Kansas City, for as Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, President of the Kansas City Local League says: "These dates fit just right, as the Masons will hold their Grand Lodge in Kansas City during the second week of August and the National Medical Association comes during the fourth week." These two meetings in addition to the Business League session, will offer best possible inducements to the railroads to make special reduced fares and will afford delegates to the Grand Lodge and the Medical Association an opportunity to attend some of the sessions of the Business League. The Executive Committee has also decided that it will be most appropriate and fitting that the first night's (August 16th) session be devoted to Memorial exercises in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder and first President of the National Negro Business League. Further announcements regarding the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Business League will be made from time to time through the press. For further information write to J. C. Napier, Chairman Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee; Emmet J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Charles Banks, First Vice-President, Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Mrs. Alminta Black and niece, 3664 Forest, are visiting relatives in Cleveland, Ohio. No.17 ATTORNEY CHARLES L. RICE, MASTER-IN-CHANCERY OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PULASKI COUNTY, ILLINOIS, STILL STANDS BY THE BROAD AX. For more than eight years Attorney Charles L. Rice, of Mound City, Ill, who has honorably served for a number of years as master-in-chancery of the Circuit Court for Pulaski County, being the only Colored lawyer in this state to serve its citizens in that capacity, has been a constant reader and supporter of this paper, and the following short letter speaks for itself: Mound City, Ill., Jan. 6, '16. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor The Broad Ax, Chicago Ill. Dear Sir: I herewith inclose you my check for the sum of four ($4.00) which is for my subscription to The Broad Ax as per your bill recently sent me. You may continue to send me the paper as I regard it as the most fearlessly edited of any paper of our race. Yours truly, Chas. L. Rice. THE JOHNSON-FARMER ELOPEMENT AND WEDDING AT WAU-KEGAN, ILLINOIS. There is an old saying that wonders will never cease and this being true and the greatest wonder to many people in this city and St. Louis, Mo., is how did it happen that Miss Lillian Johnson and Attorney Walter M. Farmer, who always appears as though he is ready and waiting to be transported right on to heaven, lately sneaked away or eloped to Waukegan, Ill., by the light of the moon where they lovingly joined hands for better or worse and were pronounced husband and wife by one of the local preachers of that city, thereby slyly putting one over on their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, after enjoying a brief honeymoon, are now at home to their many friends at 4832 Langley Ave. PAGE EIGHT TEENAN JO TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most BUFFET and CA Side. First-Class HENRY "TEENAN" A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. 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"Soon the twilight grew to night, and the large lamp on the table cast its orange glow over the room and the long table filled with steaming dishes. "You have a large family, madam,' I remarked, as they gathered about the table. "Oui, monsleur, we are sixteen. It is a good gift to le bon Dieu, n'est-ce pas?' she said, turning toward the cure. "G'est vral, mon enfant. It is. There is no better gift than that of another child to his kingdom." "I could not but remember that the law has also encouraged large families by passing a bill at Quebec giving ten acres of land to any family having from that time forth twelve or more children, and how in two years the law was repealed because the demand on those ten acres lots was in excess of the supply." Strawberry Nose. The most distressing of facial deformities, rhinophyma, which is characterized by a much swollen and redened tip of the nose, making this look like a huge strawberry or a piece of cauliflower that has been dipped in beet juice, may be cured by a simple operation. Sir William Milligan of the Royal infirmary, Manchester, England, describes this in the London Lancet. The operation consists in cutting off all the hypertrophied tissue, while the nasal passages are kept extended with absorbent wool in order to preserve their contour. Care is taken to avoid injury to the lateral cartilages, and only two insignificant blood vessels require tying. The raw surface is covered with two thin grafts of skin cut from the patient's thigh, over which a sheet of gold leaf is placed and a dry dressing fastened with adhesive plaster. It should be possible to remove the dressing in five days. Races Within Races In the Balkana. Races Within Races in the Balkans Language and religion are not the only basis of the intense subdivision of feeling in the Balkans. The whole region is parceled out among race fractions, some of which are no larger than a hamlet. Roumanians, Bulgarians, Servians and Greeks have a sharp consciousness of race persistence, and at the same time every state is intent upon breaking up the race units of other peoples which exist within its borders. If Greece were peopleled only by Greeks and Bulgaria by Bulgarians and Servia by Servians, the task would be easier. It is a curse to the peninsula that the villagers have pushed this way and that wherever there was vacant land or wherever they could make a vacancy by driving out the previous holders. The result is the creation of race islands in the midst of angry race seas.—Albert Bushnell Hart in Outlook --- most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South Entertainers. ' JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72.379 State Cafe BUFFET CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer BLOCKI & SON CUMERS TO SLER, Druggist State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS Carefully Compounded A FULL LINE OF BLOCKI'S FLOWER PERFUMES Reconciled. We observe that our friend has a bad cold in his head, and of course we tell him exactly how to cure it. From his pocket he takes a large memorandum book and enters our prescription on one of the final pages thereof. Then he snaps a rubber band about the book, sneezes and smiles happily. We observe to him that we are glad our instructions for a cure have made him so happy. "It isn't that," he says. "Since I got this cold I have written down every cure cure recommended, and whenever the cold gets so bad I feel as though I couldn't stand it another day I read over all the cures and think how much better is is to have the cold than to endure all the remedies."—Judge. Spring Flows on Holidays In a picnic ground in the Passaic valley there is a spring that flows only on Sundays and holidays. It used to flow always. Robert E. Horton, in the proceedings of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, explains this strange performance. When the great silk mills spring up in the Passaic valley numerous artesian wells were bored into the red sandstone; pumps draw out so much water that it now normally stands below the level of the spring outlet, but on Sundays and holidays the pumps are not working, the water rises above the level of the spring, and this flows again. Helping Uncle. She came down to the drawing room to meet her special young man with a frown on her pretty face. "John," she said, "father saw you this morning going into a pawnbroker's with a large bundle." John flushed. Then he said in a low voice: "Yes, that is true. I was taking the pawnbroker some of my old clothes. You see, he and his wife are frightfully hard up." "Oh. John, forgive me!" exclaimed the young girl. "How truly noble you are!"—Exchange. Expert Samoans. The women of Samoa often fish in the sea without nets, boats or hooks. They simply wade into the water and form themselves into a ring. The fishes being so plentiful, they are almost sure to have imprisoned some in the ring. These women are very quick and active, and every time they catch a fish with their hands they simply throw it alive into the basket on their back. Considerate. "Have you ever done anything to make the world happier?" asked the solemn looking person with the unbarbered hair. "Sure," answered the jolly man with the double chin. "I was once invited to sing in public and declined." Out of the Mouths of Babes. "My grandpa had a perplexity fit the other day," said small Dorothy. "Perplexity fit!" echoed Edward. "You mean a parallel stroke, don't you?"—Buffalo News. Reconciled. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916. ERNEST WILLIAMSON If wusning is praying some people are praying nearly all the time and without getting their knees dusty. Few things are necessary for the wants of this life, but it takes an infinite number to satisfy the demands of opinion. Yale university is almost a million dollars richer than a year ago, says an exchange, again illustrating the power of knowledge. At least they were good enough to wait until the American doctors cleaned up the typhus in Servia before they resumed fighting. Spain has submitted a bid for the peace conference, but it may be barred by the statute of limitations before the date for opening the bids arrives. Echoes of the War. The sights of many famous European cities are now spelled "sites."—Memphis Commercial Appeal. The declarations of war since the first one in August, 1914, are now twenty-five.—Boston Herald. Why not put Europe's trenches to some good use? They would be an excellent place to bury the hatchet.—Chicago News. "War is a disguised blessing," says a preacher. There may be two opinions about the blessing, but only one on the effectiveness of the disguise.—Wall Street Journal. Lord Kitchener now says that it is a struggle between Birmingham and the Krupps. The man behind the guns has given way to the man who makes the Fashion Frills. Some women wear comfortable clothes, while others dress in style.—Macon News. Short skirts for general wear are still cutting in upon the business of the burlesque shows.—Chicago News. But, at that, perhaps with the women going in for trouserettes the men can't be blamed if they turn to near corsets.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. "Women in America dress better than men." remarks a woman writer. Uh, huh, and at last accounts water was still running downhill.—Philadelphia Inquirer. "Fashion," says an authority, "is a state of mind." What horrible mental disorders some of those designers of late styles must be suffering from.—Detroit Free Press. Indian Statistics Canada's Indians number about 100,000, or, including Eskimos, 107,221, a decrease of 2.716 compared with 1913. Since 1800 the Indian population of this country has increased materially. There are now 300,000 members of various tribes compared with 254,300 in 1800. They own lands valued roughly at $600,000,000. Over 3,000 students have been fully graduated from government Indian schools and several hundred from mission schools of various denominations. The majority of these are well known and respected citizens in their respective communities. Flippant Flings. At any rate, this administration may go down as the weddingest administration in our history.—Chicago News. If this war keeps on for another year we'll probably find out how far a kilometer is.—New York Evening Sun. Possibly it would be the correct engineering thing to roof over the Panama canal and make it a subway.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A flag for the vice president being demanded, we suggest an emblem with that imperishable device, "Hope springs eternal."—Washington Post. Pert Personals. Schwab has bought another steel company. Charley believes in doing his early.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Just as though the president did not have troubles enough, his daughter has told the reporters that he has a "really beautiful tenor voice."-Boston Herald. Rudyard Kipling must be the greatest of modern poets, since he is the only one for whose works a glossary and concordance have been issued.-Chicago News Thugs of India. Among the countless varieties of criminal which infest the large cities you are doubtless familiar with the one commonly designated by the name "thug," a ruffian who would stab a person in the back for a few cents. The name "thug" is derived from the old religious order that flourished in India unmolested up to about 1836. Thuggee was practiced by religious fanatics, whose creed prohibited the shedding of blood. Any human sacrifice which might be offered to the goddess Kall must be slain without the breaking of the skin or the appearance of one bloodstain. Usually the thugs masqueraded as pilgrims or peddlers, got the confidence of their victims and then strangled them by means of a rope, a handkerchief or an unwound turban. They were then buried in shallow graves, dug with a consecrated pickax, and a third of the plunder was laid on the altar of Kall, their barbaric deity.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat Taking an Impression The original point of view of Stephen Hawlews, the English painter, is seen in the following fable, which was included in a letter to a friend: The artist peeped into a window of a room where a retired merchant sat, doing a jigsaw puzzle. "Whose is that strange face?" the merchant asked anxiously. "I saw no one," his wife said. "I did. I saw a strange face distinctly" -but before he reached it window the artist was gone. "Do you think it was a burglar?" he wife said. "We will see if he has taken anything." Investigation showed that nothing was missing, but the artist had taken away an impression which he sold to that particular merchant for £100.—Kansas City Times. The Penetrating Stare. Can a stare be felt? A woman who has conducted many experiments says it can, that "no matter how deep her absorption, the stare at her back will always disturb her. All girls feel a stare." Dr. Coover, "a psychologist," says a stare is not felt and that he has tested it a thousand times. It is probably all imagination on the part of the woman, for it is easy in such cases for what one imagines to become real to her. Where she passes a man, and he stares at her, she can doubtless feel that stare a block away, for it will take awhile for the impression of a stare to pass away. Stares are no doubt a great annoyance to women, but there is no way to prohibit them. The only way to do to abolish the stare is for women to dress simply and go modestly about their business. —Ohio State Journal Nickel In Soapmaking. It will probably be news to the average ablutionist that the metal nickel is used in making his soap. And further, perhaps, he will be glad to learn that although the nickel, finely ground, is mixed with the other soap ingredients the finished product contains none of it. This is so because the nickel acts as what the chemists call a catalyst—that is, its presence causes certain desirable changes to occur, although it takes no part in the chemical reaction. Offensive oils and those too thin for satisfactory use when mixed with finely divided nickel and subjected to the action of a current of hydrogen become deodorized and harder and suitable for the soapmaker's use. Cottonseed oil, for example, after the nickel-hydrogen treatment, makes a satisfactory soap—Pittsburgh Press. Elephant Skin. Elephant skin is beautiful and durable, but it is very hard to get. The price of a live elephant is large, and a leather manufacturer who promised to provide a number of elephant skin bags at short order would find himself facing a big problem. Almost all elephants, after they die, fall into the hands of the leather manufacturers, or else they are stuffed and put in museums. She Was Right. Teacher—Now, Dorothy, tell me how many bones in your body? Dorothy—Two hundred and eight. Teacher—That's not right. There are only 207. Dorothy (with great delight)—But I swallowed a fish bone this morning! Indianapolis Star. Ruttenberg's Dry Goods Store 3534 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2824 The Craig Building The finest building e Steam heat, electric light 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. 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Cost you only two dollars and a quarter, which you can pay in installments, seventy-five cents a month on your gas bill. One Amber Glow light gives approximately 160 candle power and consumes about 1-4 of a cent's worth of gas per hour. 300,000 already in use in Chicago. Why grope around in a dim, sight-destroying Light. Spend your evenings at home, happy, comfortable and contented. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. s Gas Building Telephone Wabash 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 Open Evenings One for an Ordinary Size Living Room rd Apartment 3600. Wabash Ave. opened to Colored tenants in Chicago baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. New Lights Are living Lights by Likes Them use they give such a huge volume Mother likes them because they agreeable. use they unquestionably enhance the color harmonies of her dress right in your living room, right finally judge of its advantages. No unbash 6000, or drop a postal card and install the light. and a quarter, which you can pay cents a month on your gas bill. Nemo Nº326 LASTIC CURVE-BACK SELF-REDUCING Two for a Big Living Room PAGE EIGHT TEENAN JO TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and BUFFET and CA Side. First-Class HENRY "TEENAN A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The Elf AND E 3030 STATE STREET JOHN BLOCKI, President JOHN BLOCK PERFECT C. E. KREYSS 5057 South NOT ON THE FOR HIGH GRADE DR MEDICINAL The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO FOR HIGH GRADE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOW IN BOTTLE PERFUMES BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER IN BOTTLE PERFUMES Rhinoceros Horn. In Sumatra the horn of the rhinoceros is esteemed as an antidote to poison and on that account is made into drinking cups. The Land of Large Families. In his article on the winter life of the French Canadians in Harper's Howard E. Smith tells of the extraordinary large families of these simple folk. "Soon the twilight grew to night, and the large lamp on the table cast its orange glow over the room and the long table filled with steaming dishes. "You have a large family, madam," I remarked, as they gathered about the table. "Oui, monsieur, we are sixteen. It is a good gift to le bon Dieu, n'est-ce pas? she said, turning toward the cure. "C'est vral, mon enfant. It is. There is no better gift than that of another child to his kingdom." "I could not but remember that the law has also encouraged large families by passing a bill at Quebec giving ten acres of land to any family having from that time forth twelve or more children, and how in two years the law was repealed because the demand on those ten acres lots was in excess of the supply." Strawberry Nose The most distressing of facial deformities, rhinophyma, which is characterized by a much swollen and redened tip of the nose, making this look like a huge strawberry or a piece of cauliflower that has been dipped in beet juice, may be cured by a simple operation. Sir William Milligan of the Royal infirmary, Manchester, England, describes this in the London Lancet. The operation consists in cutting off all the hypertrophied tissue, while the nasal passages are kept extended with absorbent wool in order to preserve their contour. Care is taken to avoid injury to the lateral cartilages, and only two insignificant blood vessels require tying. The raw surface is covered with two thin grafts of skin cut from the patient's thigh, over which a sheet of gold leaf is placed and a dry dressing fastened with adhesive plaster. It should be possible to remove the dressing in five days. Races Within Races In the Balkans. Races Within Races in the Balkans. Language and religion are not the only basis of the intense subdivision of feeling in the Balkans. The whole region is parceled out among race fractions, some of which are no larger than a hamlet. Roumanians, Bulgarians, Servians and Greeks have a sharp consciousness of race persistence, and at the same time every state is intent upon breaking up the race units of other peoples which exist within its borders. If Greece were peopleled only by Greeks and Bulgaria by Bulgarians and Servia by Servians, the task would be easier. It is a curse to the peninsula that the villagers have pushed this way and that wherever there was vacant land or wherever they could make a vacancy by driving out the previous holders. The result is the creation of race islands in the midst of angry race seas.—Albert Bushnell Hart in Outlook. --- most UP-TO-DATE DAFE on the South Entertainers. "JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 ite Cafe BUFFET T {CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer DOCKI & SON CUMERS O TO SLER, Druggist State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS A FULL LINE OF & BLOCKI'S FLOWER E PERFUMES Reconciled. Reconciled. We observe that our friend has a bad cold in his head, and of course we tell him exactly how to cure it. From his pocket he takes a large memorandum book and enters our prescription on one of the final pages thereof. Then he snaps a rubber hand about the book, sneezes and smiles happily. We observe to him that we are glad our instructions for a cure have made him so happy. "It isn't that," he says. "Since I got this cold I have written down every sure cure recommended, and whenever the cold gets so bad I feel as though I couldn't stand it another day I read over all the cures and think how much better is is to have the cold than to endure all the remedies."—Judge. Spring Flows on Holidaya. In a plenic ground in the Passaic valley there is a spring that flows only on Sundays and holidays. It used to flow always. Robert E. Horton, in the proceedings of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, explains this strange performance. When the great silk mills sprang up in the Passaic valley numerous artesian wells were bored into the red sandstone; pumps draw out so much water that it now normally stands below the level of the spring outlet, but on Sundays and holidays the pumps are not working, the water rises above the level of the spring, and this flows again. Helping Uncle. She came down to the drawing room to meet her special young man with a frown on her pretty face. "John," she said, "father saw you this morning going into a pawnbroker's with a large bundle." John flushed. Then he said in a low voice: "Yes, that is true. I was taking the pawnbroker some of my old clothes. You see, he and his wife are frightfully hard up." "Oh. John, forgive me!" exclaimed the young girl. "How truly noble you are!"—Exchange. Expert Samoans The women of Samoa often fish in the sea without nets, boats or books. They simply wade into the water and form themselves into a ring. The fishes being so pleniful, they are almost sure to have imprisoned some in the ring. These women are very quick and active, and every time they catch a fish with their hands they simply throw it alive into the basket on their back. Considerate. "Have you ever done anything to make the world happier?" asked the solemn looking person with the unbarbered hair. "Sure," answered the jolly man with the double chin. "I was once invited to sing in public and declined." Out of the Mouths of Babes "My grandpa had a perplexity fit the other day," said small Dorothy. "Perplexity fit!" echoed Edward. "You mean a parallel stroke, don't you?"—Buffalo News. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916. ERNEST WILLIAMSON In wissing is praying some people are praying nearly all the time and without getting their knees dusty. Few things are necessary for the wants of this life, but it takes an infinite number to satisfy the demands of opinion. Yale university is almost a million dollars richer than a year ago, says an exchange, again illustrating the power of knowledge. At least they were good enough to wait until the American doctors cleaned up the typhus in Servia before they resumed fighting. Spain has submitted a bid for the peace conference, but it may be barred by the statute of limitations before the date for opening the bids arrives. Echoes of the War. The sights of many famous European cities are now spelled "sites."—Memphis Commercial Appeal. The declarations of war since the first one in August, 1914, are now twenty-five.—Boston Herald. Why not put Europe's trenches to some good use? They would be an excellent place to bury the hatchet.—Chicago News. "War is a disguised blessing," says a preacher. There may be two opinions about the blessing, but only one on the effectiveness of the disguise.—Wall Street Journal. Lord Kitchener now says that it is a struggle between Birmingham and the Krupps. The man behind the guns has given way to the man who makes the Detroit Free Press. Fashion Frills. Some women wear comfortable clothes, while others dress in style.—Macon News. Short skirts for general wear are still cutting in upon the business of the burlesque shows.—Chicago News. But, at that, perhaps with the women going in for trouserettes the men can't be blamed if they turn to near corsets.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. "Women in America dress better than men." remarks a woman writer. Uh, huh, and at last accounts water was still running downhill.—Philadelphia Inquirer. "Fashion," says an authority, "is a state of mind." What horrible mental disorders some of those designers of late styles must be suffering from—Detroit Free Press. Indian Statistics. Canada's Indians number about 100,000, or, including Eskimos, 107,221, a decrease of 2.716 compared with 1913. Since 1800 the Indian population of this country has increased materially. There are now 300,000 members of various tribes compared with 254,300 in 1800. They own lands valued roughly at $600,000,000. Over 8,000 students have been fully graduated from government Indian schools and several hundred from mission schools of various denominations. The majority of these are well known and respected citizens in their respective communities. Flippant Flings. At any rate, this administration may go down as the weddingest administration in our history.—Chicago News. If this war keeps on for another year we'll probably find out how far a kilometer is.—New York Evening Sun. Possibly it would be the correct engineering thing to roof over the Panama canal and make it a subway.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A flag for the vice president being demanded, we suggest an emblem with that imperishable device, "Hope springs eternal."—Washington Post. Pert Personals. Schwab has bought another steel company. Charley believes in doing his early.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Just as though the president did not have troubles enough, his daughter has told the reporters that he has a "really beautiful tenor voice."-Boston Herald. Rudyard Kipling must be the greatest of modern poets, since he is the only one for whose works a glossary and concordance have been issued.-Chicago News Thugs of India. Among the countless varieties of criminal which infest the large cities you are doubtless familiar with the one commonly designated by the name "thug," a ruffian who would stab a person in the back for a few cents. The name "thug" is derived from the old religious order that flourished in India unmolested up to about 1838. Thuggee was practiced by religious fanatics, whose creed prohibited the shedding of blood. Any human sacrifice which might be offered to the goddess Kall must be slain without the breaking of the skin or the appearance of one bloodstain. Usually the thugs masqueraded as pligrims or peddlers, got the confidence of their victims and then strangled them by means of a rope, a handkerchief or an unwound turban. They were then buried in shallow graves, dug with a consecrated pickax, and a third of the plunder was laid on the altar of Kall, their barbaric deity.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Taking an Impression. The original point of view of Stephen Hawlews, the English painter, is seen in the following fable, which was included in a letter to a friend: The artist peeped into a window of a room where a retired merchant sat, doing a jigsaw puzzle. "Whose is that strange face?" the merchant asked anxiously. "I saw no one," his wife said. "I did. I saw a strange face distinctly"—but before he resisted it window the artist was gone. "Do you think it was a burglar?" he wife said. "We will see if he has taken anything." Investigation showed that nothing was missing, but the artist had taken away an impression which he sold to that particular merchant for £100.—Kansas City Times. The Penetrating Stare. Can a stare be felt? A woman who has conducted many experiments says it can, that "no matter how deep her absorption, the stare at her back will always disturb her. All girls feel a stare." Dr. Coover, "a psychologist," says a stare is not felt and that he has tested it a thousand times. It is probably all imagination on the part of the woman, for it is easy in such cases for what one imagines to become real to her. Where she passes a man, and he stares at her, she can doubtless feel that stare a block away, for it will take awhile for the impression of a stare to pass away. Stares are no doubt a great annoyance to women, but there is no way to prohibit them. The only way to do to abolish the stare is for women to dress simply and go modestly about their business. —Ohio State Journal Nickel In Soapmaking. It will probably be news to the average ablutionist that the metal nickel is used in making his soap. And further, perhaps, he will be glad to learn that although the nickel, finely ground, is mixed with the other soap ingredients the finished product contains none of it. This is so because the nickel acts as what the chemists call a catalyst—that is, its presence causes certain desirable changes to occur, although it takes no part in the chemical reaction. Offensive oils and those too thin for satisfactory use when mixed with finely divided nickel and subjected to the action of a current of hydrogen become deodorized and harder and suitable for the soapmaker's use. Cottonseed oil, for example, after the nickel-hydrogen treatment, makes a satisfactory soap.—Pittsburgh Press. Elephant Skin. Elephant skin is beautiful and durable, but it is very hard to get. The price of a live elephant is large, and a leather manufacturer who promised to provide a number of elephant skin bags at short order would find himself facing a big problem. Almost all elephants, after they die, fall into the hands of the leather manufacturers, or else they are stuffed and put in museums. She Was Right Teacher—Now, Dorothy, tell me how many bones in your body? Dorothy—Two hundred and eight. Teacher—That's not right. There are only 207. Dorothy (with great delight)—But I swallowed a fish bone this morning! Indianapolis Star. January Clearing Sale All goods must be sold at cost price Nemo Corsets $1.89 and $2.89 Ruttenberg's Dry Goods Store 3534 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2824 Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabasack building ever opened to Colored to electric light, tile baths, marble entrances The Craig Building The finest building e steam heat, electric light 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. WAS-INGTON STREET. --- --- A Amber G Sight-S r Glow Light ht-Saving Liq Amber Glow Lights Are Sight-Saving Lights Everybody Likes Them Father likes them of light for so little m are so steady, cheerful Daughter likes ther complexion and the room decorati Get an Amber G now and let the who trouble to you—just c to and our men m likes them because they give such a litle money. Mother likes them litle ly, cheerful and agreeable. or likes them because they unquestionation and show the color harmonies in decorations. Amber Glow light in your living set the whole family judge of its advice just call Wabash 6000, or drop a Father likes them because they give such a huge volume of light for so little money. Mother likes them because they are so steady, cheerful and agreeable. Daughter likes them because unquestionably enhance her complexion and show the color harmonies of her dress and the room decorations. Get an Amber Glow light in your living room, right now and let the whole family judge of its advantages. No trouble to you—just call Wabash 6000, or drop a postal card to us and our man will call and install the light. Cost you only two dollars and a quarter, which you can pay in installments, seventy-five cents a month on your gas bill. One Amber Glow light gives approximately 160 candle power and consumes about 1-4 of a cent's worth of gas per hour. 300,000 already in use in Chicago. Why grope around in a dim, sight-destroying Light. Spend your evenings at home, happy, comfortable and contented. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. s Gas Building Telephone Wabash 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 Open Evenings One for an Ordinary Size Living Room Colored Help Employed ford Apartment 3600. Wabash Ave. opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. New Lights Are Living Lights We Likes Them are they give such a huge volume Mother likes them because they agreeable. use they unquestionably enhance the color harmonies of her dress right in your living room, right only judge of its advantages. No bash 6000, or drop a postal card and install the light. and a quarter, which you can pay cents a month on your gas bill. Nemo Nº326 LASTICCURVE-BACK SELF-REDUCING Two for a Big Living Room PAGE TWO A Beautiful Bas-relief of a Suffrage Pioneer. [Image of a bust of George Washington, a founding father of the United States.] SUSAN B. ANTHONY. The historical department of the Smithsonian institution at Washington has just accepted and placed on view a bronze bas-relief of the late Susan B. Anthony by Michael Jacobs, a painter and sculptor of note residing in that city. The bas-relief, which is in the "modern style," being of the school of Rodin, is a noteworthy example of the present tendency in sculpture, which is to keep the relief as low as possible. The relief on the medallion of Miss Anthony is only one-fourth of an inch high. The picture is that of a thoughtful idealist, with just a suggestion of the unconquerable fire which shone out through the bold personality of the great suffrage leader. As a compliment to the National American Woman Suffrage association, of which Miss Anthony was president from 1892 until her death in 1900, Mr. Jacobs has had cast a second copy of the bas-relief, which was formally presented to the national association during its forty-seventh annual convention in Washington Dec. 14 to 19. Mr. Jacobs is well known as a portrait painter, having executed many commissions for titled Europeans during his stay abroad. Intant's Knitted Afghan This is a beautiful robe, consisting of five strips, two blue and three strips white, length 32 inches, with crocheted shed border to finish. Materials—Five hanks white, 4 fold Geometric; 4 hanks, color blue; 2 hanks lafting needles, No. G; 1 bone crochet hook, No. 4. With white yarn cast on 30 stitches, knit plain until strip is 32 inches long. Bind off loosely. With colored yarn cast on 31 stitches. First Row—Knit plain. Second Row—Knit 1. * yarn over, knit 3, pass the first over second and third stitch. Repeat from * to end of row. Third Row—Knit plain. Fourth Row—* knit 3. pass the first over the second and third stitch, yarn over, repeat from * to end of row. Repeat these four rows until strip is 32 inches long. Join strips by working one row of sg. c. down both sides of each strip with white yarn. With colored yarn join the strips together with sg. c., taking up back stitch of each strip. Border—With white yarn work a row of shells of 6 d. c. Fasten, shell down with 1 sg. c. Finish with picot edge of colored yarn. Rubber Plant's Winter Cure. Rubber plants need a sun bath every day. Their feet should be kept damp, but not wet. The leaves should be washed twice a week in good soapsuds and rinsed in clear water. When the pot gets too full of roots repot the plant. Also give it a dose of diluted ammonia occasionally. With regard to the housewife's potted plants generally, Uncle Sam says she should chase the woolly white mealy bugs and the little red ants away from them with a toothpick. She may drown the red spider with a squirt gun. If the bugs and spiders shatter your preparedness program you are advised to cut the plants off within an inch of their lives and throw the cuttings away. The plants will grow again. The green fly, which is not so green as it looks, won't bother your plants if you keep them well bathed and fed. For Dry Cleaning In cleaning any fabric with gasoline or similar fluid it sometimes happens that a ring is left around the garment in process of cleansing. To prevent such a ring it is recommended that by adding common table salt to the gasoline used spots can often be removed from delicate fabrics in a most satisfactory manner. If, however, a ring has been left the place cleansed should be wet again and immediately covered while still damp with fuller's earth, extending just beyond the ring. Let this remain on for some time, and when brushed off the spot should have disappeared. Gypsum may be used in like manner instead of the fuller's earth if preferred. 1916 Is Baby Year The facts about American babies, the needs of American babies and America's responsibility to her babies will this year be known as never before, because the first week in March will be baby week throughout the country. More than 400 communities, representing every state in the Union, are already laying their plans for baby week, according to the children's bureau of the United States department of labor, in order that during those seven days the needs of the babies may be so presented that all the parents in those communities will learn a little better how to care for their babies and all the citizens will realize that they have a special obligation to safeguard the conditions surrounding babies. It is confidently believed by those who are interested in this nation wide baby week that the remainder of the year will be marked by a strengthening of all community activities for saving babies' lives and giving them a better chance to grow to a healthy maturity. The baby week idea originated in Chicago not quite two years ago. Then New York had a baby week and Pittsburgh and other cities. Such practical benefit has in each case resulted that the General Federation of Women's Clubs has undertaken to promote this nation wide observance. State health officials and national organizations interested in public health and child welfare have taken up the plan and in various ways are giving it not only their sanction, but their active cooperation. The extension divisions of the state universities have promised special assistance in interesting and helping baby week in rural communities. Baby week will give more parents a chance to learn the accepted principles of infant care and will awaken every American to his responsibility for the deaths of the 300,000 babies who, according to the census estimates, die every year before they are twelve months old. FOR THE TODDLER. With Its Bolero, This Small Gown Is Smart as Anything. Cut of white broadcloth on boxy lines, this small gown for the small girl is modish with hand embroidery A 1916 MODEL. done in pale blue worsteds. The belt, cuffs and bolero are of pale blue broadcloth, and ruches finish the flat collar and cuffs. For Contagions. It is important that the mother or nurse who is attending a child ill with a contagious disease should take a walk in the fresh air every day. The best way to arrange this is for her to keep a change of clothing in the next room. She should also bathe before leaving the quarantined room. If a bathroom has been set aside for quarantine she can use this; if not, a screen and a basin in the sickroom will have to answer. Then she can slip into the next room and put on fresh clothing. She should leave the house by the back way preferably or, at any rate, avoid coming in contact with any of the occupants of the house. Once in the street she should not use the street cars nor enter any other house and avoid as much as possible touching any one. The fumigation of a sickroom after a contagious disease is done by the board of health upon request in most cities, or it can be done by the family under directions of the physician. Eskimo Sets. For the littlest boy on his wintry rambles there come the comfiest brushed wool and knit sets that incase him from head to toe in frostproof armor. They consist of a little round cap topped with a pompon of wool or a woolen tassel or even a bit of fur, a close buttoned sweater, long tights and leggings combined and a pair of mittens or woolen gloves. The young hopeful rigged up in these garments looks like a very small cinnamon bear or a snow man, according to the color chosen. Chestnut Dressing. Boll a quart of shelled chestnuts in salted water until tender. While warm mash to a paste, adding a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of paprika and half the quantity of breadcrumbs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a teaspoonful of poultry dressing. Blend the ingredients thoroughly, and if a moist dressing is required add a cupful of boiling milk. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JANUARY 15. 1916. 1970 A SATISFACTORY DESIGN. This simple frock is made of navy blue and red plaid garerdine and trimmed with white pearl buttons. A red patent leather belt matches the smart little four-in-hand of red velvet ribbon. The collar and cuffs are of white plique. KITCHEN CUES. Simple Ways of Doing Simple Things Intelligently and Well. To prevent potatoes becoming black when cooked put them into cold water and when brought to the boll squeeze a little lemon juice in. They will then keep a good color and be of good flavor. Before using tinware of any kind rub it well over with fresh lard. If treated in this way it will never rust. Slip a thimble on the curtain rod when running it through the hem of the curtain. The tops of pale covered evening gloves make very dainty shoes for bubbles. For a homemade coal box procure a wooden lard bucket from the grocer. Remove the wire handle and clean thoroughly inside and outside with strong soda water, one pound to a gallon of boiling water. Purchase a three penny bottle of oak varnish and when the bucket is dry apply over evenly and quickly. Leave for several hours. Get two penny bronze handles and screw one on each side, and the article is complete. The outside cost of this is a quarter, and it looks as well as one costing several times that amount. White satin shoes should always be kept in blue paper to prevent them from becoming discolored. After fowl of any kind is cleaned the inside should be rubbed thoroughly with a piece of lemon before the dressing is put in. When ivory handled knives look yellow rub them with fine sandpaper or emery. It will take off the spots and restore the whiteness. If clothespins are dipped in white enamel paint and dried in the sun they can be kept perfectly clean and will not split or mark the clothes. Tin that has become rusty of stained may be cleaned by dipping the cut surface of a raw potato in fine brick and rubbing well with this. Unbleached Mualin Spread Every woman likes to own a handmade spread, but the majority of spreads call for such expensive materials that few women can afford to indulge in the luxury. However, here is a spread which is within almost every woman's reach. It can be duplicated for about $5. The spread is made of unbleached muslin. All over its surface conventional scrolls are outlined by means of huge French knots. On the spread in question white knots are used, but there is no reason why one could not use colored cotton to carry out the color scheme employed in one's bedroom. The edge of the spread is finished with cotton fringe. In place of a quilting party why not have a spread party? The work will then be quickly and pleasantly done. A Kitchen Hint. Keep a piece of pumice stone in the kitchen to clean the irons with. It will instantly remove those particles of starch that adhere to the iron and will also remove rust or dirt. A careful rubbing with pumice before you put the irons on to heat will prevent any possibility of dirty marks on the delicate linens and laces. Built on Good Lines and Slightly Dressier Than a Topcoat. A AGAIN NAVY BLUE. Fashioned of navy broadcloth, fastened with novelty buttons, banded, cuffed and collared with Hudson seal and belted in a tier, this coat, so warmly lined with heavy taffeta, makes a serviceable winter garment for walking. The jaunty turban, so suitable for this kind of coat, has a background of osprey feathers. FIRST AID ESSENTIALS What Mothers Should Keep In the Bathroom Medicine Closet. Accidents will happen as long as we are human, and particularly so while we are children. But the irritating part about accidents is that we do not expect them and that they all have one thing in common—they happen at the wrong time. When you have no peroxide you cut your finger. When Charlie burned his hand at the bonfire you were without olive oil or ointment to soothe the pain. So, the wisest thing to do is to be prepared for war in time of peace, to talk in the language of the day. A good many serious results have been avoided by having a wound dressed properly in the nick of time. Every household, and that means every mother, ought to have a little box, cabinet or other safe place always filled with a few essentials which will prevent unfortunate consequences. Antiseptics for small wounds should be the first essential. A small bottle of linseed oil and lime water oil comes next. And you know that it is the open blister which sometimes causes tetanus. Boracic acid to wash out sores before putting the dressing on is not to be dispensed with. Turpentine is also a splendid thing against infection of sores from rusty nails. Do not let us forget the almost inevitable bottle of castor oil or milk of magnesia in case of fever and indigestion. A small quantity of essence of peppermint and spirits of ammonia should also be added, because sick stomach is a frequent occurrence with the little ones. A box of bicarbonate of soda and one filled with epsom salts are indispensable. French Coffee One quart of water to one cupful of very finely ground coffee. Put coffee grounds in bowl, pour over about half a pint of cold water and let stand for fifteen minutes. Bring remaining water to a boll, take coffee in bowl and strain through a fine sieve; then take French coffee pot, put coffee grounds in strainer at top of French pot, leaving water in bowl; then take boiling water and pour over coffee very slowly; then set coffeepot on stove for five minutes; must not boil; take off and pour in cold water from bowl that coffee was first cooled in to settle. Serve in another pot. The French, who have the reputation of making the best coffee, use three parts Java to one part Mocha Skating Corset. The skating vogue has been responsible for all manner of dress accessories from shoes to caps, with the inclusion of jackets and suits between. And now comes the skating corset, designed especially for the devotees of that exhilarating sport. This particular type of corset has silk webbing over the hips, and the fact that there is no steel down the front makes every movement exceedingly easy and graceful. The corset comes in pink, delicately trimmed. Its price is a little over $5. An Impossible Ideal? Perhaps, after all, the real danger is not that women will ever forget the value of the home and their obligation to it, but that men will never entirely learn them We are indebted to that gifted and charming essayist, Elizabeth Woodbridge, for the following: "To say that it is woman's task to make the home is to miss its most exquisite meaning. No one of the group can make the home, though any one can mar it. It must be made by all for the uses of all." Well, if it is one thing for all to use the home, it is another thing for all—and by that we mean every one under the rooftree—to help make the home. And we will probably never learn the true significance of this difference unless we first distillly understand that making a home is more, far more, than a matter of cooking food and making beds, of fetching and carrying and running the vacuum cleaner. There can be no quarrel with that division of labor which makes household tasks very largely a woman's business and breadwinning outside the home a man's business. But after both men and women have accomplished thus much there still remains the finest part of the task of homemaking. It lies in heart interest, in love for the home as an institution and in a thorough belief in its sacredness. A woman once said, "I can conceive of such a fine interpretation of the meaning and value of home that in case of difficulty or disagreement between two people the very ideal of the home itself would outweigh the personal element and conserve unity." The idea that two people might be willing to submerge personal differences to the larger ideal of home itself may be an ambitious conception, but surely not impossible. And in this role of homemaker a man may serve as largely and as truly as a woman. A NOVEL HAT. This Chapeau Has All the Winter Hallmarks of Style. Brimless, tall crowned and of black velvet, this interesting hat answers two other dictates of fashion, in that G JANUARY READINESS. it features a stickup of glazed leather edged with fur. This kid wing is secured by two black velvet buttons natty placed. Chiffon Powder Puff Bags It is not a difficult feat to manufacture a wide mouthed bag from pink, blue or lavender chiffon gathered on to a round or oval embroidery ring. Hangers of satin ribbon to match the bag should be fastened across like the handle of a basket and tacked to the ring on either side with rosettes of the ribbon and small chiffon or satin roses. Within the bag put a dozen small puffs made of absorbent cotton, drawn in at one side like a made puff by a string of narrow ribbon. Hung in the guest room or on any dressing table these individual puffs will prove useful where there are visitors, and the puffs can be replaced as those used are thrown away. Welsh Rabbit Cut one or two slices of white bread about a quarter of an inch thick, toast on both sides and butter well. Take half a pound of cheddar cheese, grate it and put it into a small pan with two tablespoonfuls of cream, a teaspoonful of mustard, a dust of pepper, and stir these all together over the fire till the mixture is like cream. Cut the toast into square pieces and place them on a hot dish. Pour the cheese mixture over them and serve at once Club Sandwiches On a slice of bread put a lettuce leaf, next slices of thin crisp bacon, next slices of chicken and mayonnaise; then cover with a slice of bread and toast lightly on either side. Little Miss Robbins Coasting In New York. A girl sits on a sled. Photo by American Press Association. Snow in Central park. New York city, is a great source of pleasure to the little people who live in the vicinity of the city's greatest playground. The young miss in the picture, who is so gayly taking advantage of the fun provided by a fall of snow, is Miss Frances Robbins, daughter of Mr. Henry Pelham Robbins. She is making the most of the snow. Lying flat on her speedy sled, she is dashing down the hill, shouting to those in her path to clear the way. Such scenes are very common in New York city this winter, as old King Boreas has been kind enough to send his snow sprites to distribute his favors in the big town. Grown people don't care so very much for snow in the city, but the little people think it's splendid fun. "The Trades of the Dumb." Any number of children can play this game, and it is amusing and interesting. Let one player repair to the hall or to another room and decide what trade he will represent. When ready he knocks on the door and enters. Without a word or a smile he begins by motions to show what his chosen trade is. Perhaps he is a carpenter. Then he pretends to hammer nails, to saw or plane a board. Perhaps he is a coachman. In that case he makes believe to drive a horse, to turn a carriage or make the steed go. A tailor sews and cuts imaginary cloth and tries on garments. A painter goes through the motions of painting, dipping an unseen brush into a pretended pail and spreading the paint on wall or floor. There are other trades. One may be a musician, a policeman, sweeper, dressmaker, milliner, farmer, butcher, baker, grocer or sailor. If the player laughs or answers or speaks he must pay a forfeit when the game is over. The other players try their best by making funny remarks to cause him to laugh and lose his dumbness, and he has to be very alert not to get caught answering some question or suggestion. "Parcel Post." Players sit in a circle. Each person is supposed to be a package and is given a number. One person blindfolded is in the center. If there are more than fifteen players there may be two or more players blindfolded. When the players in the center call two or more numbers the players answering to those numbers shall exchange places and are liable to be caught by the center players during the exchange. When the center players become tired trying to catch any one they may call, "General delivery!" At once every one jumps up and runs for a new seat. When a player is caught he becomes the blindfolded one. Each one keeps the same number throughout the game. Potato Peeling Race A potato peeling race is good fun if the party is informal and the guests not too daintily clad. The hostess provides a clean potato for each guest, and at a signal all start peeling at once. The one who gets through first and produces an unbroken peel gets the prize. This is more fun than an apple peeling contest because of the little knots and eyes in the potatoes. The Cooky Cat Bobby Cat. Grandmamma made a cooky cat. Brown and spicy and round and fat. She set it up on the pantry shelf. Safe and sound, and said to herself, "Tomorrow morning when Bobby comes I'll give him that cat and some sugar plums." And grandmamma smiled and felt very glad. For Bobby was such a dear little lad. But, alas, when the house was dark and still The cooky cat felt a sudden thrill, For she heard the patter of tiny mice. Neater and nearer they slyly came. The cooky cat trembled through all her frame. They climbed to the shelf on which she sat. Alas, alas for the cooky cat! She pleaded for mercy. The mice said: "Nay, For 'turn about' is, you see, fair play. A cat will always eat mice, and that Makes it fair for the mice to eat the cat!" —St. Nicholas. THE REAL HEAD OF RUSSIA'S ARMY Though the czar is the nominal commander in chief of the Russian armies, it is no secret that the real man at the head is General Michel Vassilevitch Alexeff, who is the chief of the general staff. He seems to be the man who has come through the close sifting of time and stress. Since he took charge there has been a new spirit in the Russian armies. No one knows that better than the katser and Field Marshal von Hindenburg. The allies know it, too, and the French government has conferred on him the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. It was [Name] Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL MICHEL ALEXFFE GENERAL MICHEL ALEXEFF. General Alexeff who foiled the attempt of the Germans to trap the Russian army during its retreat. This was previous to his promotion as chief of staff. General Alexeff is a studious man. He works hard, and for many years he was a professor in the military academies of Petrograd, Moscow and Nicolaiieff. In his manners he is democratic, and in addition to being popular in the army he has close contact with the leading spirits of the now dissolved duma, which, after all, represents the Russian people better than the autocratic government. His military career dates from the Russo-Turkish war in 1877-8, when Russia tried to break her way through to the Golden Horn in vain. Young Alexeff had been graduated from the Military academy at Moscow in 1874 as a subleutenant, and during the war with the Turks he was wounded three times. In 1890 he was attached to the general staff. In the war with Japan he was one of those whose reputations were enhanced rather than the contrary. He was in command of the Third army in Manchuria, and the Japanese recognized him as a worthy opponent. When the war was over the czar gave him a jeweled sword as a mark of his regard. It had not been Alexeff's fault that things had gone wrong. STRANGE WINTER SPORT. Members of New York Clubs Enjoy Surf Bathing In Midwinter. New York city contains clubs of all kinds and devoted to various purposes. There are thus clubs whose members plunge into the surf during the midwinter season. These are known as Polar Bears, Arctics or Snowbirds. THE BAYSIDE HOCKEY CLUB Photo by American Press Association. "SNOWBIRDS" CLEARING SNOW FROM BOARD WALK. The illustration shows three Snowbirds showing snow from a board walk at a beach near New York—cold winter sport assured, but the members of these organizations seem to be none the worse for exposure to the cold air and water. They run in and out of the surf on days when the temperature is below the freezing point and are watched in their antics by spectators clad in furs and heavy overcoats. SIRES AND SONS. Colonel P. W. Ostrander, eighty-five, Brooklyn, is still actively practicing law. Percival Lowell, the noted astronomer, is a brother of the president of Harvard. With him astronomy is a profession, a business, as it were, but for pastime he delves into Japanese occultism. Dr. Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese minister to the United States, is now seventy-five years old and recently, after announcing his intention to live to the age of 150, declared that the remaining seventy-five years would be given over to literary pursuits. Judson Harmon, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912, was country born. He earned school money by picking blackberries at 5 cents per quart. He harvested during the vacation. While in college he worked for a collection agency. Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, one of the men whose work has contributed to make possible the achievements of wireless telephony, is a native of New York. His grandfather was the philanthropist, Peter Cooper, and his father was a member of congress and a mayor of New York city. The Writers. The name of Stanislaw Przybyzwszewski, the Russian writer, is pronounced Pshee-be-sheff-skee. Herman Bernstein, back in New York from Europe, refers to the war as "panic in a madhouse." Dr. Charles W. Ellot, president emeritus of Harvard university, has been awarded, by unanimous vote, the first gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters "as a recognition of special distinction." Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist and playwright, wavered between two or three professions in the early days of his career. He has been in turn professor at a deaf and dumb institution, lecturer in English literature at a Canadian university, associate editor of an Australian paper and a writer. Current Comment. Will pan-Americanism ever pan out? —New York Sun. Will our house and senate be known as the Sixty-fourth or the safety first congress?—Brooklyn Eagle. When the time comes that everybody will ride in automobiles—and it is about here—there will be nobody left to get run over.—Philadelphia Press. What we need worse than a law making "America" the national anthem is stern legislation that will enforce the proper tone among those who try to sing it.—Washington Post. Automobile Runs The number of automobiles registered in the United States the past year was more than 1,700,000. An automobile jack that is now in use automatically lifts all four wheels of a car clear of the floor when they are run upon a track. When a recently patented automobile fender touches any object it shuts off the power of the car to which it is attached and drops a curtain to prevent the object being crushed by the wheels. Echoes of the War. The European war loans are launched easily enough, but none of them float very long.—Houston Post. What a glorious time European cities will have later on in boasting of what their population was in 1914!—Washington Post. America will not begrudge Europe an industrial boom immediately after the war if it enables the prompt payment of the enormous sums that will be due neutral countries.—Washington Star. BRIGHT BRIEFS. Inventors of excuses seldom require the assistance of a patent attorney. If it takes two to make a quarrel it also takes both sides to keep the peace. A good many fellows can grasp an idea without being able to hang on to it. It is better to lose than have the fruits of victory leave a bad taste in one's mouth. Some folks are so used to looking for trouble they don't recognize joy when they meet it. Europe has long been noted for cheapness. Now she has made human life the cheapest thing. Even Norway has borrowed $5,000,000 in New York. Pretty soon everybody will be owing us. Occasionally the charity that begins at home never gets through warming its shins at the radiator. Nearly all of us do without things we actually need in order to be able to afford a luxury now and then. Prince Firman Firma is the new Persian premier. There should be nothing unstable about his government. Under present conditions Europe sees nothing paradoxical in the simultaneous promotion of a war loan and a moratorium. A German has invented an instrument which measures the ten-millionth of a second. The trouble is that after it is measured it is too much of a back number to be useful. --- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916 ADVENTURES OF OLD KING PETER Brave Monarch Insisted on Sharing Army's Dangers. THE valiant old king, Peter of Servia, has found a warm welcome in Greece, where he has arrived after many adventures. Some of them are described by Signor Fraccaroti, the correspondent of a Milan paper, who says: King Peter was ill even before the war. It is because of his illness that the supreme command of the operations had to be intrusted to his son Alexander, the heir to the throne. The king was undergoing medical treatment at Topola. As soon as he felt convinced that Bulgaria would attack Servia the old king, ill as he was, declared his intention to proceed immediately for the frontier against the Bulgars. His physician opposed him and forbade him to go. The king resisted at first; then he answered resigned. "Very well," he answered the doctor. Two days later he left without telling the doctor. He arrived in Nish in a motorcar and went to find Pasitch in his bare study of the palace and ask him permission to visit the front. Pasitch was amazed to see the king so ill and anxious, with eyes like burning coals, the face thin and drawn. And the question astonished him. Why should the king ask for a permit? "I am a soldier," explained King Peter. "There is a volvode in command of our armies; hence I must ask for permission." They telephoned to Kraguyevatz. Putnik was still in Kraguyevatz then. The doctor was also summoned. The volvode begged the king, the doctor commanded him, not to go. But he went nevertheless. Perhaps the old king was hoping for another miracle. Last December Photo by American Press Association. KING PETER AND SERVIAN OFFICERS. It was he who had put new courage in his soldiers when they were retiring before the dense masses Austria had poured across the Danube and the Save. He had to be carried to Lazarevatz, in the first line of Stefanovitch's army, where he went into the trench of the Second regiment, the famous "Iron Regiment," helping himself along with a stick. There he exchanged the stick for a rifle and said to his soldiers: "My children, I know you are very tired. You have fought like heroes. But our country is in danger. He who can resist no longer can go home again without fear of being punished. But the country is in danger, and I have come here with you to die for our country. Let those remain who wish to die with their king for Servia." Then he lifted his rifle and fired. The words of the old king who had left his bed of pain to fight in the trench electrified the soldiers. They threw themselves forward without hesitation, and twelve days later not an Austrian was left on Servian territory and Belgrade was retaken. Now, the king was hoping for a repetition of the miracle. Again he visited the first line trenches, remaining with his soldiers for two hours, lifting laboriously the rifle to fire. But he appeared very sad on his return to Nish. The ministers had already departed. He decided to return to Krallevo. At Krusevatz he saw the car which was carrying the Generalissimo Putnik, the old, never beaten volvode, whom all Servian soldiers call affectionately "grandfather." Putnik was coming from Kraguyevatz, which the Germans were on the point of entering, and the old volvode, ill, like the king, but untiring, had to abandon the place. The two cars met and came to a stop. At the time Krusevatz was stricken by the fear carried like a contagion by the columns of refugees from Nish and from the north. The road was obstructed by the people, the peasants' carts, the oxen. Some one recognized the cars, and two names passed along the crowd, "The king, the volvode!" And suddenly that crowd was silenced as if by magic. They made a road for the cars to pass, lining the sides. The men lifted their caps; the women looked on with heavy, fascinated eyes. None said a word. Not a cry was uttered. The two motorcars moved on slowly, and it seemed as if a funeral procession were passing. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS Miss Minnie Hill of Washington recently completed a trip by foot from the national capital to the Pacific coast. Mrs. Caroline Weldon of Jersey City, N. J., recently received a legacy of $73 willed sixty-one years ago to her. It had grown to $1,620. Miss Rebecca Mason, a co-ed at the University of Minnesota, who recently won first honors for women in the national chemistry competition, has decided that she will be a candy and sugar tester. Mrs. Frederick Gillman of Vallejo, Cal., widow of a gunner on the submarine F-4, which sank in Honolulu harbor, has been appointed flagmaker at the Mare Island navy yard by order of President Wilson. Dr. Helen Sexton has had the rank of major conferred on her by General Joffre, the head of the French army. This is the highest honor that can be conferred on a British medical man or woman. Major Sexton is directress in chief of the hospital at Auteuil financed by four Melbourne women. Flower and Tree. The sycamore tree bears fruit after twenty years' growth. It has been found that the olive will live longer under water than any other tree. Flowering plants should never be watered with cold water. It chills the plants. The cactus and other desert plants have thick stems instead of leaves in order to reduce the loss of water by evaporation to a minimum. Nicotine is found in only one plant besides tobacco—a large shrub known to botanists as Duboisia hopwoodii, which is native to the interior of Australia. PITH AND POINT. A temptation well resisted is the best tonic a man could have. Many a good reputation has been stabbed by a pointed tongue. As nearly as can be figured out, a savant is a scientist on foreign soil. It is better for the drowning man to clutch a life preserver than a straw. Even persons who never tried it will tell you that honesty is the best policy. Many a man who prides himself on his physical strength cannot even hold his tongue. Aren't there enough peace palaces? A common sense palace seems to be the great need. Copper is the one basic necessity of the war, making it a copper bottomed war, so to speak. If the New York restaurants only charge extra for it the horse, meat supply won't equal the demand. The high cost of living ceases to command attention when the high cost of destroying life is computed. There is one don't in this grip business worth all the others—"don't worry" and don't let others worry you, either. It's all well enough to warn us about getting the grip, but the trouble is that we never know we've got it until it's got us. Breathe through the nose and keep the mouth shut, says a doctor, giving advice on the subject of health. Lots of people owe a ripe old age to keeping the mouth shut. The Royal Box. Princess Henry of Battenberg, governor of the Isle of Wight, is the only British woman ruler. King Peter of Servia is not a military man at heart. Rather he is a scholar and philosopher, as is shown by his admiration of John Stuart Mill, whose works he has anonymously translated into Servian. King Gustav of Sweden is a teetotaler, and he and the entire royal family of Sweden are at the head of the temperance movement in Sweden. His mother for over forty years devoted her time and money and influence to the cause of temperance. Flippant Flings. France forbids the export of nuts. We show a welcome disposition to encourage it.—Wall Street Journal. Judging from the number of generals Joffre has retired, one would say he was bent on a general cleaning up.—Chicago Herald. Horse meat has been placed on the New York bill of fare by the health board. A saddle of colt ought to be palatable.—Detroit Journal. New York warehouses are full of cold storage food for Europe. If anything can make them quit fighting this prospect ought to.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Fashion Frills. Women don't object to old fashioned things if they are in style.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Hosley manufacturers, it is said, are making tremendous profits, and nowadays it is easy to see where our earnings go.—Baltimore American. The news that women are wearing the farthingale doesn't distress us in the least. It's so much better than loops.—New York Sun. One of the most perplexing phases of the sinking of the P. and O. liner Persia is the fact that the Persia mounted one 4.7 inch gun. This was disclosed in a dispatch from United States Consul Garrels' statement at Alexandria, Egypt. The consul, however, did not state where the gun was mounted. The Hague convention provides that a merchant ship may carry a gun mounted on the stern for purposes of defense without being considered an armed ship. The application of the principles of international law to the limited arm- THE TRAVELER STERN OF BRITISH MERCHANT VESSEL CARRYING SMALL ARMAMENT. ing of merchant vessels has been defined by our state department as follows: A merchant vessel of belligent nationality may carry an armament and ammunition for the sole purpose of defense without acquiring the character of a ship of war. The presence of an armament and ammunition on board a merchant vessel creates a presumption that the armament is for offensive purposes, but the owners or agents may overcome this presumption by evidence showing that the vessel carries armament solely for defense. * * * The result of the investigation must show conclusively that the armament was not intended for and will not be used in offensive operations. It is explained that the caliber of the guns must not exceed six inches, that they be few in number and that no guns shall be mounted on a forward part of the vessel. Against the application of these general rules the German foreign office filed a protest and took the position that a merchant vessel is not permitted to defend itself against a war vessel and that a distinction could not be made between defensive and offensive armament. The official view here is that the question of whether a gun was mounted on the Persia will depend entirely on where it was placed. If mounted forward officials realize that a contention can be made that the Persia was armed for destruction of submarines and had instructions to ram or destroy the submarines. NEW WARDEN OF SING SING. George W. Kirchwey, Noted College Professor, Is on the Job. George W. Kirchwey, former dean of the Columbia University Law school, is now Warden Kirchwey of Sing Sing prison. New York. He will serve at least until after the trial of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, who is under 1930 indictment on various charges by the Westchester county grand jury. Mr Kirchwhey is a friend of Mr. Osborne, and it is likely that he will carry out many of the ideas of the latter regarding prison reform and the treatment of prisoners. These have attracted the attention of penologists throughout the country. PAGE THREE SHORT AND SHARP. European affairs are one war loan after another. On all sides the food for powder supply seems to be unlimited. Rags are going up in price, but nobody is wearing them blatantly. When you talk of maintaining a principle be sure that it is not a prejudice. The man that feels like being kicked seldom allows another the pleasure of doing it. Unless all signs fail, this year will be a record breaker in the making of world history. Next June will give both Chicago and St. Louis new opportunities to pose as summer resorts. Everything can be overdone. Many a fellow has been fired with enthusiasm by his boss. The drug shortage is so acute now in England that many chronic invalids are rapidly becoming convalescent. If every man who was "a little odd" had to be arrested there wouldn't be enough men at liberty to enforce the law. Saying the right thing at the right time is equivalent to keeping your mouth shut when you have nothing to say. In another year the nation will again be giving earnest thought to the question of whether there is going to be any inaugural ball. It couldn't have been the landlord class that agitated the war as some would have us think. People in Europe are many millions of dollars behind in their rent. Political Quips. No lack of preparedness anywhere for presidential nominations.—Atlanta Constitution. Politically speaking, the rising temperature bulletin is already out for next June.—Washington Star. Some of the presidential candidates now in the race won't get much for their run except the exercise.—Philadelphia Press. It is wonderful how clearly a public officer can see what ought to be done—after his term of office is over.—Pittsburgh Post. Ohio has six native sons in the United States senate, not to mention the long waiting list for the presidency.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Science Siftings. Jupiter has a mass nearly three times as great as the combined masses of all our other planets. There are five quartes of blood in the human body. One-half of this can be lost before death is inevitable. The United States produced twenty-nine of the sixty-six epoch making inventions, England seventeen, France ten, Germany five, Italy two and Brazil, Austria and Sweden one each. When a man breathes he uses his muscular strength to draw in the air, and it is afterward forced out automatically. With insects, as a German investigator has just discovered, this process is just reversed. Electric Sparks. An electrical process is being tried in Russia for the manufacture of gold leaf, heretofore made only by hand. In a new electrical device for medical purposes the current is regulated by passing it through a moistened sponge inclosed within a glass tube. German electricians who experimented decided that they obtained better results by placing the carbons in arc lamps horizontally and one slightly below the other. Insulated with a specially prepared paper, an electric cable carrying 10,000 volts in England was found in perfect condition after more than twenty-three years of service. Chips From China. Thus far Emp Yuan has given no indication of an intention to introduce the open house in China.—Washington Post. The former boy emperor of China is said to be a rather dull young man. He must be if they've noticed it in China.—Detroit Free Press. China may get so weary of trying governments of its own that any suggestions Japan may have to offer will be welcome.—Washington Star. Emperor Yuan wants a new constitution for China. A constitution seems to be about the most useless thing China could have.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Town Topics. Boston's population is now 745,439, compared with 670,585 in 1910. The sacred codfish has put on 74,854 new scales.—New York Sun. Chicago can't show such a mighty gain in the next census, being bordered on the south by the Indiana state line and on the north by Evanson, which remains equally inflexible.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Pittsburgh reports that every building that can be used as a factory is now being put to that service, and there is a growing fear that Pittsburgh may become more vulgarly prosperous than ever.—Indianapolis News. Agents and Correspondents Wanted to Handle THE BROAD AX. Liberal Commissions to Live Agents. Address, Julius F.Taylor, 6532 St. Lawrence Av., Chicago Agents a BRO Addr THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Criticizes, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Turtles, Repubilicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $3.00. Six Months. 1.00. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 6533 ST. LAWRENCE AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1902, at the Poet Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1879. IGNORED AGAIN. Chicago Colored people have renewed cause to complain against the spirit of discrimination which constantly works injury to their moral and civic welfare. They are not surprised when this discrimination comes from persons avowedly antagonistic but it is a matter of both surprise and regret when humane and sympathetic movements proposing work for the welfare of the public absolutely refuses all consideration of Colored people. And yet this discrimination is persistent, unreasonable and undeserved. No matter what the civic movement starts in Chicago for the public welfare the result is always the same—the Colored people are ignored. Every hyphenated nationality even the Alien is considered—only the Colored man is ignored. Why? Is it indifference or prejudice? If it is the former is it inexcusable if it is prejudice it discredits the democracy of our day and time. Recent manifestation of this injustice is to be found in the public welfare movements in the behalf of criminals and delinquent boys. These movements which have agitated the public mind under direction of our judges, police authorities and social welfare leaders purpose extended investigation of conditions which make adult criminals and which produce bad boys and plan constructive work for both prevention and cure. The movements are worthy ones and should work for all people and with all people. A welfare committee appointed several weeks ago contained a list of many prominent citizens and not a Colored person was mentioned. Later as an after-thought a Colored person was named. During the past ten days the "Baby bandits" have engaged public concern and a new movement is started to solve the bad boy problem. The movement results with that end in view and two judges confer and appoint a committee of sixty-seven representative citizens for consultation and co-operation. This committee apparently recognizes every phase of our diverse citizenship, its membership representing various nationalities and persons prominently identified with welfare work and yet in all this list the Colored people are ignored. We have our problem with the boy who is denied work because he is black and then punished because he is idle. No one of the committee knows that problem as a Colored person knows it—no one of the committee could feel it as we feel it. Strange indeed that wherever crime is committed by Negroes, every detail is published broadcast and the fact of color is most prominent in the details, but when uplift and preventive measures are planned our welfare workers are neither consulted or considered. Seventy-five thousand Colored citizens are studiously ignored. Again the question, is it indifference or prejudice? or both. And echo answers, which and why. Mr. Champion, the husband of Mrs. Hattie Champion, of Bethel Church, was buried last Wednesday. The funeral was held in the beautiful chapel of Emanuel Jackson's undertaking establishment with a large number of Bethelites present. He was one of our local politicians of the second ward; a factor in the 9th precinct. --- MRS. AMANDA C. MITCHELL LAID TO REST IN OAKWOODS CEMETERY BY THE SIDE OF HER LATE HUSBAND, ROBERT M. MITCHELL. On Monday morning funeral services were held over her remains at the Grace Presbyterian Church, which was filled by those who knew her best in this life the heads of the two societies and the Old Settlers' Club of which she was an honored member took part in the funeral service; Madam Talbert sang a beautiful solo. Rev. Moses M. Jackson spoke tender words of consolation to Dr. A. A. Wesley and the other sorrowing friends who had assembled there out of respect to her worth and memory. Dan M. Jackson was in charge of the funeral and at the conclusion of the services Mrs. Ida M. Dempsey, representing the Old Settlers' Club, read the following concerning the life of Mrs. Mitchell. Amanda C. Mitchell, Born March 22, 1855; died January 6, 1916. 1800, died January 6, 1910. Amanda Catherine Mitchell first saw the light of day in Fayette County, Iowa, a short distance from the city of Fayette. She came to Chicago as a little girl a short time before the great fire and found a home with Mrs. Blanks, whom many of our older residents will remember. This city has been her home ever since. After the great fire, which swept away so many places of abode, the young girl made her permanent home with the mother of Dr. Allen A. Wesley. It was from that home that she was first given away in marriage to Mr. Alfred Coleman; but after being wedded only a few months she met her first great misfortune in the loss of her husband by death from smallpox. In October, 1891, death also claimed her foster mother, and Doctor Wesley, sorrowed and disturbed by the same visitation, rightly felt that he could do no better than to make his future home with one who had practically grown from girlhood to womanhood at his mother's fireside and one whose qualities he knew. In 1878 she was again joined in wedlock to Lawyer Robert M. Mitchell, with whom she lived happily until Sept. 18, 1908, at which time her home was again visited by death and Mr. Mitchell fell a victim to grim disease. Knowing that his beloved "Cricket" would soon be left with no adviser and protector, he on his death-bed fondly and fully committed her to the care of Dr. Wesley, who had been the close and life-long friend of both; and the Doctor determined that the woman whose native goodness of heart had given him the comforts of a home should have all the protection he could throw around her. Peculiarly domestic in her tastes, "Home" was the watchword of Mrs. Mitchell's life, though she was never blessed with children; and the nameless, countless, priceless little things she did to make home what it should be were but the outward signs of her inward grace. She loved to work for others, and that without ostentation. In a simple, womanly way she was always doing and giving what she could to make others happy. For several years she worked to keep up what is called the Oak Leaf Room in Provident Hospital, and only relinquished the work when physical disability compelled her to do so. Calumny, hatred and unrelenting enmities were unknown to her. She had a kind word and a smile for everybody, and to those who knew her best she was always the sunny-tempered sister and steadfast friend. Thus, if it be true that to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, she is not dead. Mrs. Mitchell united with Esther Court of the Masonic Order many years ago and was one of the charter members of Hannibal Court of the Pythian Order. Both of these Courts are represented here today, to pay their departed sister. For several years past Mrs. Mitchell's health had been failing, and by reason of that fact she had remained quite closely at home. She usually attended the nearest church, but did not directly unite with any. She felt that her time was growing short and for that reason was especially desirous of meeting a few friends at her home on Christmas Day, which she did; and she said she never had a more pleasant time, even though she was unable to have present many of her most intimate friends and acquaintances. Saturday morning, January first, she was stricken with pneumonia, and until the end came was a great sufferer at times. She closed her eyes in death at eleven-thirty, Thursday morning, Jan. 6, 1916. She leaves a niece in this city, a few relatives scattered throughout the states, and many sor- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916. P. S. S. THE LATE FATHER REV. J. B. MASASSAIAALI, PASTOR OF ST. THOMAS CHURCH. 38TH STREET AND WABASH AVENUE. Early last Monday morning, Rev. Father J. B. Massaiah, pastor of St. Thomas church, 38th street and Wabash avenue, passed away at his home, 3817 S. Wabash avenue. Double Pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death. Funeral services were held over his remains, in the church which he was the pastor for the past ten years on rowing friends beside the brotherly physician who had for years been her principal shield and comfort in a sometimes unthinking world. Throughout her brief illness she bore her sufferings with an uncomplaining fortitude. She was ready and willing to pass beneath the rod when summoned. And finally, when those most dear gathered around her and wept at the footfall of her parting soul, she endeavored to soothe them by saying: "Do not weep; remember, we are not put here to stay always. I go without fear, and it is well with my soul." Those were the final words of a brave spirit, a loving foster sister, and a dear woman. With Amanda Mitchell the king of terrors was the prince of peace, and when she had passed it seemed the ceasing of music. She had literally obeyed the beginning even as she will some day comply with the ending of the poet's admonition and the trustful bidding of her dearest earthly friend. And that was to— "Choose thine own time. Give little warning. Say not good night, but in some bright on clive." THE FOWLER-BOWLING WEDDING Wednesday evening, Jan. 19, at eight o'clock, Miss Katie Fowler, sister of Mrs. Geneva Smith, 5363 South Dearborn Street, will become united in marriage to Prof. A. J. Bowling, assistant pastor of the Institutional Church, and member of the moving picture censorship board of Chicago. It will be a strictly home wedding, and only a few of the close friends of the contracting parties will be on hand to witness it. Rev. A. J. Carey will tie the wedding knot. Miss Fowler represents the highest type of young Afro-American womanhood to be found anywhere in this country and in every way she is worthy to become the dutiful wife of any man. For seven years she was employed at the Model Cloak Co., on State, in various capacities from cashier to sales lady and she has the distinction of being the only young woman of Color to be so employed in any of the large stores in the downtown district. During all the seven years she was employed there she was never late one minute; that fact alone spoke volumes for her, which was readily noticed by her employer, Mr. Kupper—hence her promotion from time to time, each time to a better position. It must be said to her everlasting credit that she made friends with the very best class of white ladies and numbered them among her customers without denying the fact that she was Colored; the same thing was true as far as the other sales ladies were concerned they loved her not because she was Colored but because she was a woman full of keen business ideas like unto themselves. As an evidence of how well she was liked by her companions, when she gave up her position shortly after the first of the year, they all chipped in and presented her with a very rich and beautiful silver combination cake stand and Mr. Kupper gave her five dollars in gold and informed her that any time she wished to return to the store to Bid me good morning." Thursday morning. Bishop Anderson, and fifteen or twenty other bishops and high priests of his church participated in the funeral services. The church was crowded to its fullest capacity by its many friends and its nine hundred members. F. A. Rawlins was funeral director. His remains were shipped to Detroit, Mich., for interment in the family lot of that city. work a place would be made open for her. Very few young Colored women and few white ones for that matter can leave a place with such a splendid business record behind them. Miss Fowler has hosts of warm friends everywhere who wish her much joy and happiness in her new and very important departure in life. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comment on Men and Women. WEALTHY COLORED PEOPLE TO HAVE GOLF COURSE NEAR ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Atlantic City, N. J.—An exclusive residential colony for wealthy Colored persons of this city, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, with pretentious summer homes surrounding a golf course and tennis courts with a handsome club-house completely equipped, is the dream of leaders of the race here who are about to organize a second Country Club of Atlantic City. Already a site has been selected at Douglass City, the future model community, a large tract lying between built-up sections of Pleasantville and Absecon, on the mainland, within easy reach of the Shore road, a paved section of the Ocean Boulevard. B. F. Garrison, a real estate promoter, who is acting for a committee of Colored hotel men, lawyers, physicians and other well-to-do members of the race here, added today to the announced fact that a nine-hole golf course is assured, the further information that the new country club will have at least 150 members living in Atlantic City, who are willing to take stock in the holding company and pay $50 annually toward the support of the enterprise. JUSTICE HOLMES MENTIONED FOR PRESIDENT Boston, Mass.—In the midst of the discussion of Republican Presidential possibilities, the name of Justice Charles E. Hughes of the United States Supreme Court, has been well to the front, his name being mentioned particularly by New York Republicans. New England Republicans are also discussing going to the Supreme Court bench for a candidate, namely: Justice O. W. Holmes, son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." The efforts of William J. Bryan, Senator Vardaman, and a number of Southern Congressmen, their satellites, to stir up sentiment favorable to the passage by Congress of a National Prohibition Bill, make the suggestion of Justice Holmes timely, in view of the attitude of his father, the genial poet, whose attitude with reference to the whole subject is set forth in his "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" series. In reply to a divinity student's question, whether he believed in a diet of "rum" the old autocrat was quickened to say: "Rum I take to be the name which unwashed moralists apply alike to the product distilled from molasses and the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy 'in all its sunset glow' is rum. Champagne, 'soul of the grape of Eastern France,' is rum. Hock which our friend the poet speaks of as: 'The Rhine's breast-milk, gushing cold and bright; Pale as the moon and maddening as her light,' is rum. Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism.' "I believe in temperance. But let me tell you there are companies of men of genius, into which I sometimes go, where the atmosphere of intellect and sentiment is so much more stimulating than alcohol that if I saw fit to take wine it would be to keep me sober. Among the gentlemen I have known few, if any, were ruined by drinking.' To those who cling to the Bryan and Hobson fallacies, the above forceful views of Dr. Holmes, father of the Supreme Court Justice, who was a man of deep learning and insight, are worth the consideration of the thoughtful. SOME INTEEESTING COMPARI SONS. New York, N. Y.-The Amsterdam News, published here in New York City, in the interest of the Colored people, printed an article recently, emphasizing the general results which have followed the freedom permitted persons to lawfully purchase alcoholic drinks in large quantities despite state laws. The article in briefed form follows: The ratio of increase with the adoption of statewide prohibition in several states offers a most interesting comparison for careful study, the figures used being from the official record of annual per capita consumption of liquors. When there were two prohibition states (in 1850) the per capita consumption of liquor was a little more than four gallons a year. When there were four prohibition states (in 1880) the per capita consumption of liquor was ten gallons a year. When there were seven prohibition states (in 1890) the per capita consumption of liquor was sixteen gallons a year. When there were nine prohibition states (in 1910) the per capita consumption was over twenty-two gallons a year. The same ratio prevailed in 1914. One of the explanations offered for the fact that prohibition has not had a more marked effect in the matter of reducing the per capita consumption of liquors is that it is lawful for persons living in prohibition states to receive shipments of liquors from license states. For instance, the prohibition laws of some of the Southern states provide that each citizen may receive, lawfully, twelve gallons of whisky a year, whereas the national per capita consumption of whisky is only about a gallon and a half. Of the twelve prohibition states in 1915, one state, Arizona, has a law forbidding the shipment of liquor for any purpose. Not even has a Catholic priest the lawful right to receive a shipment of wine for sacramental use, nor has a physician the lawful right to receive a shipment of spirits for medicinal purposes. PRESIDENT WILSON CONGRATU LATES MOTON. Tuskegee, Alabama, Jan. 3.—Major Robert R. Moton, Principal-elect of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, founded by the late Booker T. Washington, has received the following letter of congratulation from President Woodrow Wilson, now on his honeymoon at Hot Springs, Virginia: Hot Springs, Virginia, December 28th, 1916. The White House, Washington. My dear Principal Moton:— I am sure I am giving voice to the feeling of the vast majority of those interested in education in this country, and particularly in the education of the Negro, when I express my gratification at your election as Principal of Tuskegee Institute. I have known something of the special work you have been trying to do for the people of your race and of the spirit in which you have undertaken it, and I believe that your selection as the head of Tuskegee Institute means the promotion there of the best, most practical, and most hopeful ideals for the development of the Negro people. I take pleasure in extending to you my sincere congratulations. Very truly yours, (Signed) Woodrow Wilson. Principal R. R. Moton, Tuskegee Institute Tuskegee, Alabama. Rev. G. N. McDaniel, Pres. of the Enterprise School, 37th and State, who has been confined to his home and room, is up again. HYDE PARK NEWS. By L. W. Washington. The Hyde Park church raised over $800 in their Rally. The Rev. W. H. Griffin fell and was injured Sunday. We learn that he is getting along fine. The mother of Mr. Davis departed this life in Nashville last Saturday and was brought here by her son for burial. Mrs. Davis we learn met with an accident dislocating her ankle. It is often said "That it never rains without it poured." The Broad Ax extends its sympathy to the bereaved family. Mr. and Mrs. Davis lives at 5528 Engleside Ave. The political situation in Hyde Park is shaping up into tremendous proportions. The Wm. Hale Thompson's forces are holding council at the Frollie Hall with a complete organization in the sixth ward. Alderman Nance is to have an opponent. Mr. Roy A. West is to have also some opposition in the person of Mr. Chase for ward committeeman, in fact it looks like war to the knife. THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON CLUB. The Sunday Afternoon Club met at the Institutional Church at 4 P. M., with the president in the chair. After the transaction of the regular order of business a short program by local talent was rendered. The club adjourned to meet next Sunday at which time the following program will be rendered: Instrumental, by Club pianist; Installation of officers, by Dr. A. J. Carey; Vocal selection, by Mrs. Tyree; Current events, by Kary Monte; Address by James G. Cotter. B. W. Fitts, President. Miss Katie Fowler, Secretary. THE EIGHTH REGIMENT BALL AND HOUSE WARMING WILL BE HELD AT THEIR NEWLY PLETED ARMORY, 35TH AND FOREST AVE., MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 21ST. Monday evening, Feb. 21st, the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards will hold their ball and house warming in their newly completed armory, 35th and Forest Ave.; by that time all the finishing touches will have been placed on the out and inside of the building and if any one have never danced a step in their lifetime it will be time well spent in visiting the new armory on that occasion; for it will make your bosom swell with pride to behold it for it is one of the finest and most extensive buildings in the world to be occupied by Colored soldiers. On the night of the house warming and ball the price of admission will be fifty cents. PHYLLIS WHATELEY HOME NOTES The House Committee held an interesting meeting Tuesday, Jan. 11. Plans were made for a Valentine party Feb. 14. Donations were reported as follows: 75 books, Mrs. A. Friedlander; one typewriter and a number of books, Mr. Sercombe; a large picture of Phyllis Wheatley, from a friend. Miss Helen Johnson, of the University of Chicago, will be the speaker at the Social-Educational Meeting Sunday, Jan. 16, 5 P. M. The Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club will meet Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2 P. M. Important business program; music The Phyllis Wheatley Home Association will hold its first public meeting Wednesday, Jan. 26, 3 P. M. Reports will be heard from the various Boards, Standing Committees, and Sec.Treas. The public is cordially invited to visit the Home, 3256 Rhodes Ave., and to attend all meetings. E. L. Davis, Pres. J. G. Johnson, Sec.Treas. CAN'T LIVE ACCORDING TO HIS MEANS-WILL MOVE. Trenton N. J., Jan. 10.—Special.—Dr. C. V. Hinda, a former State Senator in Mississippi, has announced that he will move from the city because real estate owners and agents refuse to let him occupy a house in keeping with his station in life solely on account of his race. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College and has also received degrees from other institutions. He has traveled in Europe and other foreign countries and is a deep student. He was one of those who helped to frame the law granting pensions to Union soldiers. Mrs. Fay Crumb, a life long friend of Mrs. Hayes R. Brown, of St. Louis, entertained for her last Monday. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. DRIVER 3300 So. State Street Phode Douglas 3617 THE PRACTICAL PERSON AND DAMAGED GOODS The person who possesses a practical mind will witness the great epoch making play "Damaged Goods," now being shown at our motion picture theatres with deep concern. It is not only provocative of circumspection but also of introspection. It is good for the nation that such a disease as is depicted by the play be shown up so that the individuals that are the strength of the nation may know the need of careful examination by the reputable physician. Ignorance of the characteristics of such a prevalent disease is not a desirable condition. This age demands to know the hideous, fierce, bald, bare-faced, exact and eternal truth. Humanity has spoken against a silence that causes locomotor ataxia, deafness, insanity, imbecility, "rheumatism," blindness, hemiplegia, and the various peculiar manifestations of the greatest actor of all diseases. The people are demanding of the doctor that he speak plainly in order to save them for useful and healthy life. CARD OF THANKS. Not being able to see everybody personally I wish to express through the press, my heartfelt thanks and great appreciation to the members of Esther Court; Hannibal Court, and the Old Settlers Club, for the very great services rendered by them on the occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Amanda C. Mitchell. I also wish to thank her many friends for the many and beautiful floral tokens sent, and also those who gave the beautiful song service. Sincerely and fraternally yours, Dr. Allen A. Wesley. It takes two people to make a quarrel, but one can often make more trouble than two can settle. As a last resort we could commander the annual output of the American hen and defy the world. Do you eat it isn't nothing like Cafes, Restaurant Then come and give the best meals, give the best goods guarantee that I anywhere in the E. A. Hoffman, is located at 211 of the elevated come and eat will come again. Miss Ora Harn taught twenty-four for the blind. Miss Mary S. department of the Woman Suffrage as "the woman Getting along with your neighbors is a comparatively simple task. All you've got to be is a good neighbor. Thousands of young husbands will welcome with shouts of joy the news that dish wiping has been pronounced insanitary. A woman writer says flirtation is one of the greatest games in the world. It is one of the few games in which both players can lose. Animal Oddities The biting apparatus of a flea is only one-twelfth the diameter of the finest needle. Ducks carry oil in a little pocket near the tail. With this they oil their outer feathers and so make them waterproof. Kangarooos, of which there are fifty-six species, can sometimes leap as much as twenty feet. The male kangaroo stands from six to seven feet high. A rhinoceros rolls in the mud because little insects get between the folds of its skin and worry it. If it gets its body covered with mud they are unable to reach the skin. Recent Inventions. An attachment for scissors has been patented to enable them to be used to sharpen lead pencils. A new serving fork has a piece which can be pushed down along the lines without the fingers touching the food. Made of a flat steel spring, a quickly adjusted belt has been invented to take the place of strings on kitchen or laboratory aprons. For copying drawings or writings a device has been patented that follows the lines to be copied and at the same time guides a pen or pencil. Current Comment. California has taught the world how to make an exposition pay.—Philadelphia Record. We'll get some straw votes on the presidential candidates soon, and then we will know no more about it than we do now.—Philadelphia Press. Miss Liberty in New York harbor is to have a fine suit of paint and gold leaf. But, alas, she will charm very few newcomers nowadays.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. BY Sturgeon have no teeth. [Name] When the people fully understand that only a Wasserman blood test will prove the absence of the terrible disease, more of them will ask to be given the test. Treatment and cure are easy if the patient will place the case in the complete care of the doctor in the early stages and for the requisite time. Unfortunately hither to the average patient discharged himself as cured with one twelfth as much treatment as is required. The play "Damaged Goods" shows the danger of insufficient treatment. Those who believe in preparedness will take heed. They will follow the old adage: "Ask able advice and act accordingly." The ostrich type of person will shrink from the task until the facts are brought out by the educational campaign so that even the poorest intellect understands. The ramifications of syphilis cause symptoms of various kinds. The medical world considers cancer, tuberculosis and syphilis as probably of identical relationship. THE QUEEN CAFE SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNERS. Do you eat at home? Then home isn't nothing like this. Do you eat in Cafes, Restaurants, or Lunch Counters, Then come and see us. We cook the best meals, give the best service, buy the best goods in the market, and guarantee that our prices can't be beat anywhere in the city. My name is E. A. Hoffman, my place of business is located at 21 E. 33rd St., just east of the elevated station. If you will come and eat with us we know, you will come again. Miss Ora Harris of Pittsburgh has taught twenty-five years in a school for the blind. Miss Mary S. Boyd, chief of the data department of the National American Woman Suffrage association, is known as "the woman who answers questions." Mme. Rejane is one of the quickest "studies" among great actresses. She can commit a long passage to memory by reading it over twice. But it may take her weeks to decide how to render it. Dr. Laura M. Riegelman, attached to the New York board of health, will not live opposite a vacant lot, have carpets or wall paper or rent an apartment without studying the soil upon which it stands—health precautions; that is all. Mrs. Mary Warren has the job of looking over the wastebaskets of the treasury department. For more than thirty years she has sat at her desk in a small back room in the treasury building, carefully examining every bit of refuse taken from the offices. Echoes of the War. If there is an "emperor of Europe" he'll have a throne of ruins.—Atlanta Constitution. The sultan of Turkey has a wonderful system of letting the other man walk the floor.—Washington Star. Kings will be fortunate in becoming sick of war before the common people become sick of kings.—Washington Post. King Alfonso is still firm in his contentions that Spain is neutral—and how earnestly he hopes that neither side will have cause to doubt it!—Detroit News. The war is costing the European nations $25,000,000 a day. And the people, who have little say about it, pay the freight in blood and cash.—Baltimore American. PITH AND POINT. You will never be accused of cheating at cards as long as you lose. Being square with a man is quite different from getting square with him. It is noticed that most of the dunces in the school of experience are night pupils. When you get to the point where you are able to make both ends meet splice the ends. If people consulted their consciences more they would have to consult lawyers less. When you find that the truth is in your way you may be sure that you are on the wrong road. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15. 1916 The Tuskee Negro Conference to be Held January 16,1916 In order to put new life into the Tuskegee Negro Conference, Dr. Booker T. Washington's last suggestion to the Conference Committee was that there should be a variation of the usual program. Accordingly, the exercises to be had at the Conference at Tuskegee Institute on Wednesday, January 19, 1916, will be very much different from former programs. Farm Demonstrations and Exhibits. It has been the custom to have the visitors to the Conference go to the Chapel at about ten o'clock in the morning on Conference Day and listen to the reports made by delegates from various communities. Instead of this, visitors will be taken to the Agricultural Department and to Dorothy Hall from nine until twelve o'clock, a. m., to witness special demonstrations and exhibits. While the exhibits and demonstrations in the Agricultural Department will be intended for all, the exposition at Dorothy Hall will be specially intended for women. A Real School Day for Older People. The following morning program will provide a real school day for the older people and other visitors to the Conference. The Agricultural Department will offer: Plant Group: Demonstration, (1) in farming; (2) trucking and canning; (3) fruit growing. Animal Group: Demonstration, (1) care of dairy cattle and the manufac CHIPS CHIPS Mrs. Alice Jackson is spending a few weeks in Buchanan, Mich. Col. F. A. Denison has been confined to his home the most of this week from the effect of a severe cold. Mrs. Hattie Arrant and sister, Mrs. Hayes Brown, were entertained Tuesday at the home of their cousins, 136 N. May, Aurora, Ill. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 6438 Eberhart Ave., returned home Thursday morning from Chatman, Canada, where she went to attend the funeral of Mrs. Addie Lawrence. Mme. Gezella Carter, 3600 South Wabash Ave., arrived home this week after a three months tour through Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Mrs. N. A. Arrant entertained her sister, Mrs. H. R. Brown, of St. Louis, at her home, 3220 Calumet, Sunday. The evening was happily spent from 2 to 7. Mr. H. Buchannan charmed the house with his sweet melodies. Mr. Johnson Emanuel also favored us with several of his favorites. Among the number present were Mrs. W. C. Casey, Miss M. Roberts, Prof. and Mrs. W. M. Emanuel, Lawyer and Mrs. E. H. Wright, Mrs. M. J. Bowman, Dr. Lewis, Dr. Lowe, and others. The doors of opportunity are swings ing wide to-day, especially in St. Louis. Mo. Quite a number of the large business establishments have employed colored girls as wrappers. Such positions were never held by them before. May ability, honesty, and efficiency keep them opened. One of the stores has a young colored man as sales manager of one of its departments which is well patronized by his people. He is making good. The Sculptor's Art. Bowls—Yes. I know I'm ugly, but there is one great consolation. Bigga—What is that? Bowls—if ever I should become great and the people should resolve to erect a statue to my memory they won't be able to make me out any uglier than I am.—London Telegraph Preparedness on the Farm. To my way of thinking, that's the best thing about farm work—you've got to be prepared for all manner of emergencies that you can't possibly prepare for. Maybe that sounds like an absurdity, but it isn't—William R. Lighton in "Happy Hollow Farm." Old Fashioned "No; she has never gone out much." "How do you know?" "Why, when she joined our sewing club she actually expected to do some sewing!" - Houston Post. Good Reason. "Why do you write articles on how cheaply people can live if they try?" "In the hope of getting enough money to avoid having to live that way." —Brooklyn Eagle. Unflattering. He (earnestly)—The fact is as plain as the nose on your face. She (pouting)—Everybody but you says I've got a pretty nose.—Baltimore American. ture of dairy products; (2) selecting and feeding farm animals; (3) diseases of farm animals and their treatment. Dorothy Hall will offer: Handicraft Division: Demonstrations with shucks, door mats, re-seating chairs, mattress with shucks or cotton, picture frames, table mats, horse collars. Box Furniture: Washstand, dresser, kitchen table, cupboard, chairs, etc. Curtains: Fight on cheap lace curtains. Pictures: How to select and how to hang best. It is thought that each kind of work be given to a group of girls with some older girl in charge to explain, and that the Instructor talk and demonstrate every hour. Cooking: Table setting, table manners, etc. Question of table cloth, napkins, knives, forks, glasses, flowers, etc. Menus of country produce for each month. Preparation of menus to include: Greens, cornbread, sweet potatoes, turnips, pork, ham, eggs, coffee, bacon, custards, cabbage, peanuts, sorghum, cane-syrup, simple house canning. Following these demonstrations, dinner will be served to the farmers and visitors near the Chapel from twelve-thirty to one-thirty o'clock. Miss Cornelia Bowen, of Waugh, Ala., and Mr. Scales, an Alabama farmer, among others will be the Colored speakers on Wednesday. Checkers The German name for the game of checkers or daughs is "damenbrett"—ladies' board—probably "damen" for short. Some form of "dame" is used in almost every country where the game is played, except the English speaking countries, and the Scots still speak of the "dambrod." "Dames" was the name in England for a time, and we find it in an English book toward the end of Elizabeth's reign. The first use of the word draughts in existing literature is about 1400. At a later day "checkers" became another name, and this went to America with the early English emigrants and there became the usual name. In England in the sixteenth century the game had three names—"dames," "draughts" and "checkers." At an earlier period "checkerle," "chekar," etc., had been English names for chess.—London Mirror. Snails Are Queer Creatures. Snails Are Queen Creatures. The snail is found everywhere, over 3,000 species being known. Some of the large tropical snails, as bulimas, form nests of leaves, their eggs being as large as a pigeon's. The snail is extremely skillful in mending its shell, and some curious experiments may be made with them. Thus I have seen a helix of a yellow species attached to another shell of a reddish hue by cutting off the top whorl of the latter, when the snail will proceed to weld the two shells together and occupy both, using the addition as a door and possibly wondering at this sudden extension of its house. In the winter some of the snails hibernate or lie dormant until warm weather. A snail of the Philippine Islands has a faculty of throwing off its tail when seized. This is also true of a West Indian variety, stenophus.-London Telegraph. Euclid's Lost Books. "I was very much amused at the comment of a young friend who recently went up against the board of examiners for the naval service," said a Philadelphia man. "Speaking of the questions in geometry which were propounded to the bogs, this youngster said in a dry way: "‘History tells us that the old discoverer of the science of geometry, Euclid, who lived 300 years before Christ, wrote something like twenty books, which he called “Elements,” and that of this number seven were lost. The examining board of the marine corps has found those books, for the questions it put to us two weeks ago clearly demonstrated that it dug up some theorems which had not been seen in the last 2,000 years.’"—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Repelling Fire With a Drum. A fire of a strange nature appeared in Wales in 1693. According to the most intelligible account concerning it now in existence, it came up from the sea near Harlech. At several places near that place and all over Merionethshire it did much damage, burning hay, houses, barns, etc. A person writing of it said: "The grass over which it moves kills all manner of cattle that feed upon it. But what is most remarkable is that any great noise, such as the beating of a drum or sounding a horn, effectually repels it from any house." Excusable. Judge—Why did you hit this gentleman? Defendant—Well, judge. I haven't had a vacation for six years, and this boob has been sending me picture postals from Palm Beach, Thousand islands, California and the orient all these years!—New York Globe. Humora of Indexing. Quite as bad as the cryptic alphabetical headings under which important subjects are sometimes hidden in an index are the delusive cross references that lead to nothing. The present writer, looking up the subject of silver plate in an index, read "silver plate, see gold plate," then "gold plate, see plate," then "plate, see hallmarking," then "hallmarking, see plate marks," and finally "plate marks, see silver plate," which brought him back to where he had started. The most curious freak of indexing in my experience, writes a correspondent, was detected in the course of revising and arranging a collection of obituary articles, which had been neglected. I searched in vain for Queen Victoria in that index, though it was certain that her majesty's life was included in the collection. But neither under "Q" nor under "V" was it to be found. Finally it was discovered accidentally under "T"—"The Queen!" — London Chronicle. The Soft Answer "Yes, I'll take Jim's note for a hundred any time," said a banker when an offer to sell a note to the bank was made. "I want to warn you, though," said the man in whose favor the note had been drawn, "that Jim is a good promiser, but a poor payer. I don't want you to have anything against me because of this note." "Jim's honest, and I'll take his note for a reasonable amount any time," said the banker. "I had some trouble with him once over an overdraft, and it turned out that the bank was at fault and that he had not actually overdrawn. I'll admit I was pretty nasty in my talk to him about it, because I was so sure the bank was right. The average man under those conditions would have 'cussed' me out at least, but all Jim said, although he was madder than thunder, was, 'I don't see why your wife ever married you!" —Indianapolis News. How the Milliner Got Even. A local business man, who has a friend in a nearby town who is a milliner, told a story of how the latter once got "even" with one of the leading social lights of the place after she had tried to be unfair with him. The husband of the woman in question had a bit of hard financial sledding, and during the "reconstruction" period she had to go light on clothes. So one day she had the milliner send up some of his best hats on approval, which he did. She sent them all back, but in a few days appeared on the street with a duplicate of the most expensive one of all, which she had evidently made herself. In that town there is a middle aged woman of uncertain mental qualities and unquestionable poverty who is more or less of a town character. To her the milliner gave the original of the duplicated hat, much to the discomfort of the social queen, who apparently saw the point - New York Times. The Capitol Dome. The capitol dome at Washington is the only considerable dome of iron in the world. It is a vast hollow sphere weighing 8,000,300 pounds. How much is that? More than 4,000 tons, or almost the weight of 70,000 full grown persons, or about equal to 1,000 laden coal cars of four tons each, which, if strung out one behind the other, would occupy a mile and a half of track. On the very top of the dome the allegorical figure "America," weighing 13,985 pounds, lifts its proud head high in the air. The pressure of this dome and figure upon the piers and pillars is 14,477 pounds to the square foot. It would, however, require a pressure of 755,286 pounds to the square foot to crush the supports. Appropriate. Lord Dunraven in his younger days, when he was known as Lord Adare, speculated in the theatrical enterprises, but his success in this direction was not unfortunately equal to his enthusiasm. One day a certain well known wit was asked to give a title to one of his lordship's plays. "Well," he answered, "why not call John Adair?" Mental Dyspapsia "Reading maketh a full man." quoted the philosopher. "No doubt that's true," replied the cynic, "but the result is not always satisfactory." "Why not?" "I've met a great many people in my time who were crammed full of undigested literature." — Birmingham Age-Herald. Russian Wolfhounds The swiftest dog in the world, the borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, has made record runs that show seventy-five feet in a second, while the gazelle has shown measured speed of more than eighty feet a second, which would give it a speed of 4,800 feet in a minute if the pace could be kept up. Anxious Father—Can you tell what asks my daughter? Doctor—She does not take enough outdoor exercise. Father—She does not feel like it. Doctor—True, so she needs toning up. Father—What do you recommend? Doctor—A new hat!—Exchange. The Way of Bride Pride had just fallen. "Well," he exclaimed as he shook the dust of the road off himself, "that was some fall, anyhow."—Detroit Free Press. Easy places do not make for growth anywhere, and he who ceases to grow begins to deteriorate. PAGE FIVE Effect of Familiarity. "What we see constantly we cease to see vividly. The faces we notice least are those we know—and perhaps really love—best. Our eyes are a bit jaded by following the familiar lines. "The same is true of pure color," says a writer in the Atlantic Monthly. "Water and sky are very beautiful, and you may suppose that you are duly appreciative of them, but on the deck of a catboat and look at them with your head in an unaccustomed position—sideways and upside down—and note how the colors flare out upon your vision. "Or stay indoors for a few weeks in a room where you do not get much outlook and then go out. You will be blinded by the glory of the world, but not for long. The glory, alas, indes quickly, and habit settles upon you once more! "With our friends' faces somewhat the same thing happens. When we first meet them they plque us pleasantly with their unfamiliar line and color. Gradually we grow used to them. The first lysion has passed." Mounting a Horse. In mounting take the reins in the left hand. At the same time grasp a little mane halfway up the neck. Now turn the stirrup slightly toward you with the right hand and place the ball of the left foot in it. Grab the horn with the right hand and swing on. Don't pull yourself on, but swing on. Settle into the saddle easily; don't flop into it. If you want to get "your neck broke" some time mount by taking the horn in one hand and the cantle in the other, and the time will surely come when you will not be disappointed. Just a word in regard to dismounting. First withdraw your feet from the stirrups to the ball. Take the horn in the right hand and swing off, letting the left foot slip easily and quickly from the stirrup. Remember this, for many a man has been dragged to death because his foot stuck in the stirrup. Your feet will nearly always come free if thrown from a horse, but the left one is prone to stick in dismounting unless the above precaution is observed. -Outing. An Analysis of "Ain't" "Ain't" is an improper abbreviation of "are not." British writers spell it "a'n't," which properly indicates its derivation. Americans make it an inclusive offense, using it for "am not" and "is not," as well as for "are not." It is unquestionably the worst instance of sloveniness in the common speech of today. Yet it is by no means of universal or even of common use. It will slip occasionally from refined lips, always with a jar to the enunciator as well as to the hearer. But the habitual user of "ain'ts" is careless of refinement. He may be an excellent citizen who never beats his wife or kicks the cat. But there is likely to be something slipshod about him somewhere for "ain't" is needless as well as cacophonous; it fills no void and supplies no need—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mark Twain as "Attraction." A girl who was a stranger to Mark Twain once found her way into his Bermuda home with the hope of getting a sight of the author. She came suddenly in contact with him and frankly explained her errand. "Have you seen the crystal cave yet," he asked, "or the aquarium?" "No; I came to see you first," she answered. "Well, you shouldn't have seen me first," he answered. "I run in opposition to the crystal and the aquarium. But they're not shucks to me. I'm lots better. I give them their money's worth. But you should see them. Then you'll appreciate me." This was said in his most earnest drawl and with only a sparkle of humor in his keen blue eyes. The Real Thing. Fred, aged three, had been a naughty boy, and his mother had punished him. He felt very much hurt and complained to his auntie about mamma's spanking him. Auntie said, "It is not you that mamma spanks, but a little devil inside of you who makes you do naughty things." After sitting very still for five minutes he said, "It beats all how it hurts me when that devil gets spanked."—Delineator. A Great Copper Mine. For nearly 700 years copper ore (chalcopyrite) has been taken regularly from a mine in the province of Dalecarlia, Sweden. The mine contains the largest copper ore deposit in Sweden and is supposed to be one of the greatest chalcopyrite properties in the world. Our Trials "You know, my dear boy," said a sympathizing friend to a man in trouble, "that we really gain by our trials in life." "That depends altogether on the kind of lawyer you get to conduct them," replied the sufferer. Different Methods There are two different kinds of men. Give one a piece of rope and he will hang himself; give a similar piece to the other and he'll form a cordage trust. —Washington Star. A Real Artist: "Is he good? Why, he not only can draw pictures that are good, but he can draw checks that are good."—Pittsburgh Post. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.—Shakespeare. PAGE MIX 1Industrial Courts As long ago as 1806 France created industrial courts, and the example has been followed by Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. A president, who represents the public, and an equal number of workers and employers sit as a jury rather than as a court. Lawyers are barred. The parties to the dispute take turns relating grievance and defense, and in consequence of this simplicity 90 per cent of the cases are adjusted without formal hearings. In event of threatened strikes or lockouts the courts have the power to sit as boards of arbitration, and it is only in rare cases that satisfactory agreements are not reached. Compare the simplicity of this procedure with the American method of frequent trials, frequent appeals, reversed decisions, remanded cases, court costs, lawyers' fees and months of delay, a gantlet that no poor man dares to run. The dollar out of which an alien is cheated may mean to him the difference between a bed or a park bench, and certainly his sense of injustice will not inspire him with respect for democratic institutions—George Creel in Century. A Thief's Answer The secretary of the New York Prison on association tells of the answer a thief gave to the question, "Is honesty the best policy?" It was in the Elimira reformatory, where a class was undergoing instruction. A young man asked permission to answer the question. "I believe honesty is the best policy," said he, "because of a case where I knew it to work that way. See? There was two young fellows in New York, and they was crooked. See? And they didn't succeed. They went to Philadelphia, and they turned over a new leaf and agreed to be square and honest. They opened a clothing store. See? And they prospered. They got everybody's confidence, and they borrowed $100,000 to enlarge their business, and then they failed and got away with every cent of the money, which they never could have done if they hadn't been honest. See?" Jefferson's Letter A few lines written by Jefferson to a friend in a foreign country ruined the warm friendship which had existed between him and Washington. The letter is known historically as "Jefferson's letter." Jefferson sent a letter to Phillip Mazzel, an Italian, in April, 1796. Mazzel published an Italian translation of it in Florence the next year. It was retranslated into French and published in French newspapers, from which it found its way into the British papers and to America. In this letter Jefferson opposed the Jay treaty and commented freely against Washington and his administration as Anglican, monarchical and aristocratic. This letter destroyed Washington's faith in Jefferson. Italy's Marriage Brokers: Mortgage brokers are a regular institution in Italy. In Genoa there are several marriage brokers who have pocketbooks filled with the names of the marriageable girls of the different classes, with notes of their figures, personal attractions, fortunes and other circumstances. These brokers go about endeavoring to arrange matrimonial alliances in the same offhand mercantile manner which they would bring to bear upon a purely business transaction, and when they succeed they get a commission of 2 or 3 per cent upon the dowry and sometimes a bonus as well. Fussiness In Architecture A great vice that is creeping into American architecture of interiors today is an exaggeration of tiny details. Moldings are multiplied until they become liney and disturbing. Every little plain surface is paneled in most tiresome fashion. It is as if draftsmen had come to hate a white spot on a piece of paper or a blank space on a wall and to feel obliged to cover every bit of their drawings with something, preferably mere lines. As a result the architecture as executed is endlessly tricked out, fussy and finicky—mere virtuosity.—Architectural Record. China, Japan and Religion The religion of China is Confucianism, an ethical system founded by Confucius about 550 B. C. Another religion which has a large following is Taoism, and a form of Buddhism is followed by many. In Japan the chief religion is that of Buddha, which is, however, comparatively modern. Another and older faith exists, called Shinto or Shinsyu. The word shinto is equivalent to spirit worship. Her Chance. Mrs. Suphrage—Our society has appointed me chairman of a committee whose object it is to bring about a reduction in rents. Mr. Suphrage—I'm very glad to hear it, my dear. When we get home you can begin on my trousers—Philadelphia Ledger. Mysterious Disappearance Mysterious Disappearance. "Ma, did I eat the hole in the doughnut too?" "No, dear; a hole cannot be eaten." "Well, then, what became of it?"—Boston Transcript. Eals. A student of fish culture says that two pounds of newborn eels will yield in three years about six tons of edible fish, worth $1,000. Yesterday's successes belong to yesterday, with all yesterday's defeats and sorrows. Make today count. Beautiful Land of Alsace This land of Alsace is in many respects the most beautiful that I have ever seen. Strung along the horizon, like sentinels wrapped in mantles of green, the peaks of the Vosges loom against the sky. On the slopes of the ridges, massed in their black battalions, stand forests of spruce and pine. Through peaceful valleys silver streams meander leisurely, and in the meadows which border them the cattle stand knee deep amid the lush green grass. The villages, their tortuous, cobble paved streets, lined on either side by dim arcades, and the old, old houses, with their turrets and balconies and steep pitched pottery roofs, give you the feeling that they are not real, but that they are scenery on a stage, and this illusion is heightened by the men in their jaunty berets and wooden sabots, and the women whose huge black silk headdresses accentuate the freshness of their complexions. It is at once a region of ruggedness and majesty and grandeur, of quaintness and simplicity and charm.-F. Alexander Powell in Scribner's Magazine. Japan's Dragon Lamps. Japan abounds with sacred places—Shintoist and Buddhist—formerly reputed for the appearances of the so called "dragon's lamp." This is a mysterious light that comes out of a pond, lake or sea and alights on a certain tree, mostly on a certain night. It was held that the light was dedicated by a dragon dwelling in the water to a god whose shrine stood near the trees. For example, the famous Ryuto of the temple of Avalokitesva on Nagusa hill, province of Kili, made its annual ascent from the sea to a pine tree in the precincts every ninth night of the seventh moon. At the midnight of the 16th of every month a Ryuto came from the northeast offing to the so called "dragon's lamp pine," near the shrine of Mandjusri at Kiredo, province of Tango, whereas on the same tree another light, named "Celestial lamp," made its descent from the heavens every sixteenth night of the first, fifth and ninth months.—Exchange Last Chance. "It is said," he remarked reflectively, "that women's hands are growing larger." "Well?" she returned inquiringly. "Well?" she returned inquiringly. "Yes," he asserted. "And the worst of it is that there is every likelihood that this tendency will continue." "Yes?" she said in the same inquiring tone. "Yes," he repeated. "You see, driving and golf and tennis and other sports that women have recently taken up are responsible for it." "In that case," she said, with a glance at her own dainty hands, "you'd better speak quick if you want a small one." He realized that it was the opportunity of a lifetime, and he spoke promptly.—Chicago Herald. Leaping Treason. King William III. of England was passionately fond of the chase and made it a point never to be outdone in any leap, however perilous. A Mr. Cherry, who was devoted to the exiled Stuarts, took advantage of this to plan the most remarkable design which was ever formed against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost and took the most desperate leaps in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently dangerous that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back. It is said that Mr. Cherry at length broke his own neck and thereby relieved the king from further hazard. Salt In Roumania Veritable mountains of salt are to be seen in some sections of Roumania, for the salt deposits cover an enormous area and have a thickness varying from 600 even to 800 feet. At Sarat, there is a mountain of salt, and steam shovels can be used to load the waiting cars. In other cases the gallery system is employed, and electrically driven machines turn out blocks a cubic yard in size, like great pieces of granite. Not Necessarily. "You say this motorist took you to a hospital after he ran you down?" "Yes." "Nothing could be kinder." "Maybe not, but he didn't have to run me down, did he, just to show me he had a kind heart?"—Birmingham Age-Herald. The Arabic Language The Arabic used in the Koran differs as much from the Arabic used in ordinary conversation and intercourse in the east as Latin differs from Italian. The Koran Arabic is that of the literary classes; colloquial Arabic is that of the common people. A. Helpful Wife "Now, hubby. I want to be helpful." said the bride. "Bless my little wife!" "So whenever you have any coupons to be clipped you may turn that work over to me."—Louisville Courier-Journal Not Clear to Paw Little Lemuel—Say, paw, can any one see through glass? Paw—Certainly, son. Little Lemuel—Then why can't Uncle Joe see through his glass eye?—Exchange. A Reason. "Why do writers always talk of angry flames?" "Because, if you notice, flames are usually put out."-Baltimore American. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916. Fire Versus Life Insurance. Of the 12,000,000 or so dwellings in the United States 96 per cent are protected—at least to some extent—by fire insurance. But of our 100,000,000 inhabitants only 18 per cent have taken out life insurance policies. Men seem to be more uneasy over the mere possibility of the burning of their houses than over the stern certainty that death will some day overtake them. This is a strange contradiction in human nature. To safeguard the nation's material possessions is well, but how much more valuable than the homes are the human lives of the country! In this age, when the principles of life insurance are so well understood, there should be no such discrepancy between the number of homes and of lives insured. In many instances the former could not be saved from foreclosure were the earners of incomes to pass away leaving the families unprovided for. It is as much the duty of every man to insure his life as to insure his property, and if he has no insurable property there is all the more reason for insuring his life—Leslie's. How to Ride. In riding sit erect and don't slouch along. Don't try to be a cowboy if you are not. We have the real simon pure cowpunchers and broncho buusters; also we have the tin horn variety of the same species. Steer clear of the latter; also be careful not to get into this category yourself. Remember that a horse is only flesh and blood and not a machine. He gets tired, hungry and thirsty, and for goodness' sake, treat him accordingly. Because he is a lively horse and you are paying his hire, treat him white just the same. Remember that some one else rode him yesterday, and another will probably do so tomorrow. Give your horse the same kind of a deal you yourself would demand if you were in its place. Even a broncho has feelings and will appreciate your thoughtfulness.-Outing. One Misery of Anglo-Indian Life. One Misery of Anglo-Indian Life. Every night at dinner the Anglo-Indian holds a kind of levee. The insects which attend dance gaily round the lamp, and one has to watch one's plate and glass carefully lest some of the insects should dance into them. There is one insect—a little, flat, brown, shining creature—which emits the worst odor in the world. If one of these touches your food the whole is tainted and rendered inedible. You dare not kill these pests, for if one be squashed the whole room becomes filled with its disgusting smell and is uninhabitable for the next half hour. So these abominable insects fly about with impunity, while the poor Anglo-Indian must perforce look helplessly on and inwardly sigh "spero mellora."—London Saturday Review. If a Naturalist Painted. If I were to paint the short days of winter I should paint two towering icebergs approaching each other like promontories, for morning and evening, with cavernous recesses and a solitary traveler wrapping his cloak about him and bent forward against the driving storm, just entering the narrow pass. I would paint the light of a taper at midday, seen through a cottage window, half buried in snow and frost. In the foreground should be seen the sowers in the fields and other evidences of spring. On the right and left of the approaching icebergs the heavens should be shaded off from the light of midday to midnight with its stars, the sun being low in the sky.—Henry David Thoreau. The Lyre Bird. The fully developed male lyre bird is one of the handsome and notable of the forms of bird life of Queensland. The contour of the bird, with its long neck and stout gallinaceous feet, is by no means unlike that of a peacock, and the wonderful tail, possessed only by the male birds, fulfills a corresponding role of vain display. The bird executes antics for a train of female admirers on a raised earthen mound. For a short period of the year, about January, the lyre bird loses its characteristic plumes and has to be content with the sober plumage of its mate. Internal Portraiture An art patroness was gushing over a portrait in the presence of the artist. "I do not know how it is," she said, "but when you paint a portrait you seem to put more into it than any one else can see." "Madam," he exclaimel in a rhapsody, "it is not faces alone that I paint; it is souls!" "Oh," she replied cuttingly, for his enthusiasm was too warm, "you do interiors, do you?"—Exchange. Cold Mixtures. One of the coldest mixtures known is made by adding three pounds of murate of lime to one pound of snow. Three pounds of snow added to one pound of salt make the mixture fall thirty-two degrees below freezing point. Easy Saving. In Argentina a postal savings bank account can be opened by depositing one paper dollar, but after that sums of mere fractions of a cent may be entered by purchase of a stamp. Who Knows? A little girl, finishing her breakfast, looked up and asked, "Mother, what is hash when it is alive?"—Chicago Herald. The lucky man is the one who sees and grasps his opportunity.—Old Saying. Exploding Ice. To make a piece of ice explode the first step is to put on a plate a lump of clear ice about as large as your first. Then with a reading glass or the lens of a magnifying glass focus the sun's rays so that the bright spot of light is exactly in the center of the lump. In a little time the ice will begin to melt from the inside, and after a few moments a small cavity will appear, for the ice, having expanded in freezing, will not take up so much room when melted. The cavity, being entirely surrounded by ice, will be a partial vacuum, filed with a watery vapor of very low pressure. When you have melted a large cavity lay the glass aside and let the ice melt in the sun. Turn it occasionally so that it will be sure to melt evenly round the cavity. After awhile the cavity will be surrounded by a thin shell of ice. Then, because of the great pressure on the outside (about fifteen pounds to the square inch), the thin walls will suddenly collapse, and the ice will fly in all directions. Youth's Companion. The Colder Hemispheres. Dr. George C. Simpson of the Indian meteorological service at Simla, in India, who asserted that the southern hemisphere is much colder than the northern, gives in the Scientific American the reasons on which he bases his opinion. The air is warmed not by the rays of the sun, which simply pass through it, but by the earth, which absorbs the rays. Now, in the northern hemisphere there is much land to absorb the energy of the sun and to give heat to the air. In the southern hemisphere there is much less land, and all the land within the antarctic circle is permanently covered with ice, which forms a virtually perfect reflector and which sends back into space most of the solar energy that falls upon it. Five million square miles of the earth's surface in the southern hemisphere reflect into space a large part of the energy received from the sun—a fact that in itself is enough to account for a considerable difference in temperature. A Painter's Broken Arm: A friend once entered the studio of George Inness, the American landscape painter, while he was at work and remarked that the picture on the easel seemed to him much better than certain former works of the artist. "Right!" said Inness. "This is going to be one of my best things, and the reason is that I have had the good luck to break my right arm and am obliged to paint with my left hand. You see," he added, showing his right hand in a sling, "this hand had become so darned clever that I could not catch up with it, and it painted away without me. while this hand"—showing the left, with which he held his brush—"is awkward and can do nothing without me." In the Same Boat. Sam had come home from school, hungry, as usual. Tossing his spelling book on the kitchen table, he hastened to the pantry and began an investigation of cake box, cupboards and cooky jar. Suddenly the back doorbell rang. Leaving his unprofitable search, Samuel went to answer. On the steps stood an unshaven, long haired man whose clothes needed a tailor and a laundry worker. "I'm hungry," began the stranger in a low, aggrieved tone. "and should like somethin' to eat." "Well, so'm I," confided the boy, "but you know I've been a-huntin' for ten minutes an' hain't found a thing!"—Judge. Too Late. After the guests had waited for half an hour in a Berkshire church for the bride to arrive messengers were dispatched to the livery stable to try to discover what had happened. The liveryman, made to understand that he had omitted to send a carriage to her house, acknowledged that all the blame rested on him and apologized in many fashion, but when they suggested that he should proceed to remedy the delay he failed to see the point. “What'll be the use o' fetchin' 'er now?” he argued. “The service 'll be 'arf over."—London Globe. Those Who Ride. In all situations of life into which I have looked I have found mankind divided into two grand parties, those who ride and those who are ridden. The great struggle in life seems to be which shall keep in the saddle. This, it appears to me, is the fundamental principle of politics, whether in great or little life.—From "The Young Man of Great Expectations," by Washington Irving. Appearances. It is the appearances that fill the scene, and we pause not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn and burst into broken sobs how few then knew that it held the ashes of his son!—Bulwer-Lytton. Caught. "Er—what makes you think that, darling?" "I asked you if you could let me have $100, and you smiled and said, 'Yes, dearest.'"—Life. One Thing Left Wife—Have you shut up everything for the night? Husband (meekly)—I'm sorry to say, dear, that I haven't—New York Sun. Oh. life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.—Bacon. How Brussels Was Reforested. There was no need of celebrating Arbor day in Prussia in the days when Friedrich Wilhelm I. was king, for that monarch had a plan all his own by which he replenished the forests and kept the country well supplied with fruit trees. According to Das Buch fur Alle, the king, having observed that there was a great dearth of fruit and oak trees in Prussia and not being willing to undertake the tremendous expense of reforesting the country himself issued an order to all clergymen that, after June 21, 1720, they should refuse to perform any marriage ceremony unless the groom could produce evidence that he had just planted six fruit trees and an equal number of oaks. If it was in winter or in the middle of a dry summer, when plants would not grow, the groom had to produce and lay aside a sum of honey sufficient to cover the cost of the trees and promise to plant the required number when fall or spring came. The edict worked wonders. The next generation in Prussia had no lack of fruit and oak trees. Naming a Novel "The thing to do," said the literary man, "is to call your novel after the name of the leading character." "Why?" asked the youngest novelist. "Because the best and the most successful novels always have such names," the other replied. "Take the great novelists. The greatest book of each gets its title from the leading character's name. "Instances are easy to give. What is the best novel of Dickens? It is 'David Copperfield.' What is the best novel of Thackeray? It is 'Henry Esmond.' What is the best novel of Scott? It is 'Ivanhoe.' What is the best novel of Thomas Hardy? 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.' Of George Meredith? 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.' Of Rider Haggard? 'Allan Quatermain.' Of Tolstoy? 'Anna Karenina.'"—New York Post. Only One Athens Now. There is and has been for many centuries only one Athens. But antiquity knew no fewer than nine cities or towns of that name in various parts of Greece, and even in the time of Plautus it was sometimes felt necessary to distinguish the great one as "Attic Athens." It was natural that Greek cities should take their name from Athena, the goddess of wisdom, warlike prowess and skill in the arts of life, who, according to some legends, herself founded the City of the Violent Crown. Others ascribed the naming of the city to Theseus or other mythical kings. The "s" of the termination is a real plural, for the city was given a plural name (Athenal), as being made up of several constituent parts.—London Chronicle. Courting In Spain. In sunny Spain etiquette is so very restrictive in the matter of courtship that it is a wonder that young people ever manage to get married at all. Even when, after many difficulties, the engagement is accomplished, the parents have a deciding voice in fixing the date, and, as they prefer long engagements, the wedding day is usually fixed somewhere in the dim future. The best man and maid of honor are expected not only to fulfill the usual duties, but to contribute—sometimes very substantially—to the expenses of the wedding feast. Wedding cake is unknown, but instead packets of sugared almonds are distributed among the guests and sent by post to those who are unable to be present.—Kansas City Star. A Tiger Story. There is a story current at Kuloang, central China, about a tiger which gave trouble in that quarter. A missionary and his wife had been worried by the tiger prowling nightly around their home. They determined to be rid of it and one night tied a cow up in the back yard and a dog at the front of the house. Then they armed themselves with guns and kept watch. The tiger appeared. The missionary fired and killed the cow. The wife rushed to see what had happened, and in her absence the tiger ate the dog—Exchange. Lazy Idleness. Beware of laziness. It will have its effect on your whole system. It brings on degeneration of the muscles and the internal organs, sometimes resulting in an unhealthy accumulation of fat and sometimes in internal adhesion. In some constitutions it results in shrinkage and premature old age. Within Reason Mistress—Jane, didn't you hear the doorbell? New Servant—Yes, mum. Mistress—Then why don't you go to the door? New Servant—Deed, mum. I can't expectin' nobody to call on me. It must be somebody to see yourself. mum—Passing Show. Evil Enough There is evil enough in man, God knows, but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity. Dr. John Hall. Different. Larry--My wife went away yesterday morning. Harry--Is that what makes you look so glum? Larry--No she came back last night.-Exchange. "He blows the megaphone on a sight seeing bus." -Club Fellow. Instinct of Blackbirds. While residing in the country some years ago and walking out one evening, I found a nest of young blackbirds. The young birds were almost fledged. Taking them home with me, I put them in a cage and the next morning hung them out under a tree, and in about an hour I saw the old birds at the cage, evidently delighted to find their young. The old birds came regularly every two hours and fed them with worms and grubs. This continued for two days, the old birds trying all in their power to get the young ones out. On the third day I noticed the old birds bring a berry, which they gave the young ones, two of which died that evening and the rest next day. The old birds then left off coming. The berries on examination proved to be the seeds of the Atropa belladonna or deadly nightshade. This convinced me of what I had heard about these birds destroying their young if allowed to feed them in imprisonment. I am told that other birds have the same instinct.—Liverpool Post. Sincerity In Art. Only an honest book can live; only absolute sincerity can stand the test of time. Any selfish or secondary motive vitiates a work of art, as it vitiates a religious life. Indeed, I doubt if we fully appreciate the literary value of the stable, fundamental human virtues and qualities—probity, directness, simplicity, sincerity, love. There are just as much room and need for the exercise of these qualities in the making of a book as in the building of a house or in a business career. How conspicuous they are in all the enduring books—in Bunyan, in Walton, in Defoe, in the Bible! It is that they that keep alive such a book as "Two Years Before the Mast," which Stevenson pronounced the best sea story in the language, as it undoubtedly is.—John Burroughs. How to Soften the Elbows. Sometimes a woman who has a pretty arm is troubled with dark, rough elbows and coarse skin on the back of the arm just above the elbow. In either case it will take some time to restore the original soft white flesh. Purchase some liquid green soap, which is really yellow in color, make a good lather with it and rub it well into the skin. Leave it on for about five minutes, then rub it off thoroughly with warm water and dry very carefully. Careless drying of this part of the arms is the usual cause of the roughened skin. After the cleansing apply a skin food, rubbing it in well. If the harsh surface does not yield readily rub the rough place with a pumice stone, then treat as described. —Woman's World. Saved the Scene. John Galsworthy, the English playwright, tells of the wit of an actor named Littledale, who in one play had to leap into a river to escape a wild beast. "The stage was so arranged that the river was invisible. Littledale's leap usually ended on a soft mattress in the wings, while a rock was dropped into a tub of water to create a splash. Everything went on all right at rehearsal, and the night of actual performance came. When poor Littledale jumped he fell eight feet and landed on an eaken floor with a crash. "The audience set up a titter. But the heroic Littledale was quite equal to the occasion. 'Heavens,' he shouted, 'the water's frozen.'" Much the Simpler Plan. Mr. Newedd—Well, we are beginning housekeeping, and I presume the simplest plan will be for me to give you a regular amount every week for expenses. Just figure up what it will cost. Mrs. Newedd—I could never do that in the world—so many things to count. you know—but let me see. Oh, I have it! I have thought of a much simpler plan. "All right, my angel! What is it?" "You figure up what it will cost you for car fare and lunches and give me the rest."—New York Weekly. Florence Nightingale. There is a story that after the return to England of the troops from the Crimea Lord Stratford at a dinner suggested that those present should write on a piece of paper the name of the person whose Crimean reputation would endure longest. When the votes came to be examined it was found that not a single soldier had received a vote. Every paper bore the same two words—Florence Nightingale. La Politesse The Fair One-Oh, I wished I had lived a hundred years ago. The Other One-But then you would be a long time dead and would not be sitting here happily by my side. The Fair One-True, true! So I couldn't! Forge me, dearest!-New York Post. The Greatest Financier "Who was the greatest financier ever known?" "Noah, because he floated his stock when the whole world was in liquidation." Accommodating Jinks—Have you got quarters for a dollar, old man? Winks—My vest pocket is rather crowded, but pass it over and I'll try to make room for it. Hope When Thales was asked what is most universal he answered hope, for hope stays with those who have nothing else. —Epictetus. The normal school turns out professors of philosophy. Only the school of life produces philosophers. PAGE SIX Industrial Courts As long ago as 1806 France created industrial courts, and the example has been followed by Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. A president who represents the public, and an equal number of workers and employers sit as a jury rather than as a court. Lawyers are barred. The parties to the dispute take turns relating grievance and defense, and in consequence of this simplicity 90 per cent of the cases are adjusted without formal hearings. In event of threatened strikes or lockouts the courts have the power to sit as boards of arbitration, and it is only in rare cases that satisfactory agreements are not reached. Compare the simplicity of this procedure with the American method of frequent trials, frequent appeals, reversed decisions, remanded cases, court costs, lawyers' fees and months of delay, a gantlet that no poor man dares to run. The dollar out of which an alien is cheated may mean to him the difference between a bed or a park bench, and certainly his sense of injustice will not inspire him with respect for democratic institutions—George Creel in Century. A Thief's Answer. The secretary of the New York Prison association tells of the answer a thief gave to the question, "Is honesty the best policy?" It was in the Elimira reformatory, where a class was undergoing instruction. A young man asked permission to answer the question. "I believe honesty is the best policy," said he, "because of a case where I knew it to work that way. See? There was two young fellows in New York, and they was crooked. See? And they didn't succeed. They went to Philadelphia, and they turned over a new leaf and agreed to be square and honest. They opened a clothing store. See? And they prospered. They got everybody's confidence, and they borrowed $100,000 to enlarge their business, and then they failed and got away with every cent of the money, which they never could have done if they hadn't been honest. See?" Jefferson's Letter A few lines written by Jefferson to a friend in a foreign country ruined the warm friendship which had existed between him and Washington. The letter is known historically as "Jefferson's letter." Jefferson sent a letter to Philip Mazzel, an Italian, in April, 1796. Mazzel published an Italian translation of it in Florence the next year. It was retranslated into French and published in French newspapers, from which it found its way into the British papers and to America. In this letter Jefferson opposed the Jay treaty and commented freely against Washington and his administration as Anglican, monarchical and aristocratic. This letter destroyed Washington's faith in Jefferson. Italy's Marriage Brokers Marriage brokers are a regular institution in Italy. In Genoa there are several marriage brokers who have pocketbooks filled with the names of the marriageable girls of the different classes, with notes of their figures, personal attractions, fortunes and other circumstances. These brokers go about endeavoring to arrange matrimonial alliances in the same offhand mercantile manner which they would bring to bear upon a purely business transaction, and when they succeed they get a commission of 2 or 3 per cent upon the dowry and sometimes a bonus as well. Fussiness In Architecture A great vice that is creeping into American architecture of interiors today is an exaggeration of tiny details. Moldings are multiplied until they become liney and disturbing. Every little plain surface is paneled in most tiresome fashion. It is as if draftsmen had come to hate a white spot on a piece of paper or a blank space on a wall and to feel obliged to cover every bit of their drawings with something, preferably mere lines. As a result the architecture as executed is endlessly tricked out, fussy and finicky—mere virtuosity.—Architectural Record China, Japan and Religion. The religion of China is Confucianism, an ethical system founded by Confucius about 550 B. C. Another religion which has a large following is Taoism, and a form of Buddhism is followed by many. In Japan the chief religion is that of Buddha, which is, however, comparatively modern. Another and older faith exists, called Shinto or Shinsyu. The word shinto is equivalent to spirit worship. Her Chance Mrs. Suphrage—Our society has appointed me chairman of a committee whose object it is to bring about a reduction in rents. Mr. Suphrage—I'm very glad to hear it, my dear. When we get home you can begin on my trousers—Philadelphia Ledger. Mysterious Disappearance "Ma, did I eat the hole in the doughnut too?" "No, dear; a hole cannot be eaten." "Well, then, what became of it?'—Boston Transcript. Eols. A student of fish culture says that two pounds of newborn eels will yield in three years about six tons of edible fish, worth $1,000. Yesterday's successes belong to yesterday, with all yesterday's defeats and sorrows. Make today count. Beautiful Land of Alsace This land of Alsace is in many respects the most beautiful that I have ever seen. Strung along the horizon, like sentinels wrapped in mantles of green, the peaks of the Vosges loom against the sky. On the slopes of the ridges, massed in their black battalions, stand forests of spruce and pine. Through peaceful valleys silver streams meander leisurely, and in the meadows which border them cattle stand knee deep amid the lush green grass. The villages, their tortuous, cobble paved streets, lined on either side by dim arcades, and the old, old houses, with their turrets and balconies and steep pitched pottery roofs, give you the feeling that they are not real, but that they are scenery on a stage, and this illusion is heightened by the men in their jaunty berets and wooden sabots, and the women whose huge black silk headdresses accentuate the freshness of their complexions. It is at once a region of ruggedness and majesty and grandeur, of quaintness and simplicity and charm.-F. Alexander Powell in Scribner's Magazine. Japan's Dragon Lamps. Japan abounds with sacred places—Shintoist and Buddhist—formerly put for the appearances of the so called "dragon's lamp." This is a mysterious light that comes out of a pond, lake or sea and alights on a certain tree, mostly on a certain night. It was held that the light was dedicated by a dragon dwelling in the water to a god whose shrine stood near the trees. For example, the famous Ryuto of the temple of Avalokitesvara on Nagusa hill, province of Kili, made its annual ascent from the sea to a pine tree in the precincts every ninth night of the seventh moon. At the midnight of the 16th of every month a Ryuto came from the northeast offing to the so called "dragon's lamp pine," near the shrine of Mandjusri at Kiredo, province of Tango, whereas on the same tree another light, named "Celestial lamp," made its descent from the heavens every sixteenth night of the first, fifth and ninth months.—Exchange. Last Chance. "It is said," he remarked reflectively, "that women's hands are growing larger." "Well?" she returned inquiringly. "Yes," he asserted. "And the worst of it is that there is every likelihood that this tendency will continue." "Yes?" she said in the same inquiring tone. "Yes," he repeated. "You see, driving and golf and tennis and other sports that women have recently taken up are responsible for it." "In that case," she said, with a glance at her own dainty hands, "you'd better speak quick if you want a small one." He realized that it was the opportunity of a lifetime, and he spoke promptly.—Chicago Herald. Leaping Treason. King William III. of England was passionately fond of the chase and made it a point never to be outdone in any leap, however perilous. A Mr. Cherry, who was devoted to the exiled Stuarts, took advantage of this to plan the most remarkable design which was ever formed against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, put himself foremost and took the most desperate leaps in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently dangerous that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back. It is said that Mr. Cherry at length broke his own neck and thereby relieved the king from further hazard. Salt In Roumania. Veritable mountains of salt are to be seen in some sections of Roumania, for the salt deposits cover an enormous area and have a thickness varying from 600 even to 800 feet. At Sarat there is a mountain of salt, and steam shovels can be used to load the waiting cars. In other cases the gallery system is employed, and electrically driven machines turn out blocks a cubic yard in size, like great pieces of granite. Not Necessarily "You say this motorist took you to a hospital after he ran you down?" "Yes." "Nothing could be kinder." "Maybe not, but he didn't have to run me down, did he, just to show me he had a kind heart?"—Birmingham Ace-Herald. The Arabic Language The Arabic used in the Koran differs as much from the Arabic used in ordinary conversation and intercourse in the east as Latin differs from Italian. The Koran Arabic is that of the literary classes; colloquial Arabic is that of the common people. A. Helpful Wife. "Now, hubby. I want to be helpful." said the bride. "Bless my little wife!" "So whenever you have any coupons to be clipped you may turn that work over to me."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Not Clear to Paw Little Lemuel—Say, paw, can any one see through glass? Paw—Certainly, son. Little Lemuel—Then why can't Uncle Joe see through his glass eye?—Exchange. A Reason. "Because, if you notice, flames are usually put out." Baltimore American. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916. Fire Versus Life Insurance. Fire Versus Life Insurance. Of the 12,000,000 or so dwelling in the United States 98 per cent are protected—at least to some extent—by fire insurance. But of our 100,000,000 inhabitants only 18 per cent have taken out life insurance policies. Men seem to be more uneasy over the mere possibility of the burning of their houses than over the stern certainty that death will some day overtake them. This is a strange contradiction in human nature. To safeguard the nation's material possessions is well, but how much more valuable than the homes are the human lives of the country! In this age, when the principles of life insurance are so well understood, there should be no such discrepancy between the number of homes and of lives insured. In many instances the former could not be saved from foreclosure were the earners of incomes to pass away leaving the families unprovided for. It is as much the duty of every man to insure his life as to insure his property, and if he has no insurable property there is all the more reason for insuring his Life—Leslie's. How to Ride In riding sit erect and don't slouch along. Don't try to be a cowboy if you are not. We have the real simon pure cowpunchers and broncho busters; also we have the tin horn variety of the same species. Steer clear of the latter; also be careful not to get into this category yourself. Remember that a horse is only flesh and blood and not a machine. He gets tired, hungry and thirsty, and for goodness' sake, treat him accordingly. Because he is a lively horse and you are paying his hire, treat him white just the same. Remember that some one else rode him yesterday, and another will probably do so tomorrow. Give your horse the same kind of a deal you yourself would demand if you were in its place. Even a broncho has feelings and will appreciate your thoughtfulness. Outing. One Misery of Anglo-Indian Life Every night at dinner the Anglo-Indian holds a kind of levee. The insects which attend dance gayly round the lamp, and one has to watch one's plate and glass carefully lest some of the insects should dance into them. There is one insect—a little, flat, brown, shining creature—which emits the worst odor in the world. If one of these touches your food the whole is tainted and rendered inedible. You dare not kill these pests, for if one be squashed the whole room becomes filled with its disgusting smell and is uninhabitable for the next half hour. So these abominable insects fly about with impunity, while the poor Anglo-Indian must perform look helplessly on and inwardly sigh "spero mellora."—London Saturday Review. If a Naturalist Painted. If I were to paint the short days of winter I should paint two towering icebergs approaching each other like promontories, for morning and evening, with cavernous recesses and a solitary traveler wrapping his cloak about him and bent forward against the driving storm, just entering the narrow pass. I would paint the light of a taper at midday, seen through a cottage window, half buried in snow and frost. In the foreground should be seen the sowers in the fields and other evidences of spring. On the right and left of the approaching icebergs the heavens should be shaded off from the light of midday to midnight with its stars, the sun being low in the sky.—Henry David Thoreau. The Lyre Bird The fully developed male lyre bird is one of the most handsome and notable of the forms of bird life of Queensland. The contour of the bird, with its long neck and stout gallinaceous feet, is by no means unlike that of a peacock, and the wonderful tail, possessed only by the male birds, fulfills a corresponding role of vain display. The bird executes antics for a train of female admirers on a raised earthen mound. For a short period of the year, about January, the lyre bird loses its characteristic plumes and has to be content with the sober plumage of its mate. Internal Portraiture An art patroness was gushing over a portrait in the presence of the artist. "I do not know how it is," she sald, "but when you paint a portrait you seem to put more into it than any one else can see." "Madam," he exclaimel in a rhapsody, "it is not faces alone that I paint; it is souls!" "Oh," she replied cuttingly, for his enthusiasm was too warm, "you do interiors, do you?"—Exchange. Cold Mixtures. One of the coldest mixtures known is made by adding three pounds of muriate of lime to one pound of snow. Three pounds of snow added to one pound of salt make the mixture fall thirty-two degrees below freezing point. Easy Saving. In Argentina a postal savings bank account can be opened by depositing one paper dollar, but after that sums of mere fractions of a cent may be entered by purchase of a stamp. Who Knows? A little girl, finishing her breakfast, looked up and asked. "Mother, what is hash when it is alive?"—Chicago Herald. The lucky man is the one who sees and grasps his opportunity.—Old Saying. Exploding Ice. To make a piece of ice explode the first step is to put on a plate a lump of clear ice about as large as your first. Then with a reading glass or the lens of a magnifying glass focus the sun's rays so that the bright spot of light is exactly in the center of the lump. In a little time the ice will begin to melt from the inside, and after a few moments a small cavity will appear, for the ice, having expanded in freezing, will not take up so much room when melted. The cavity, being entirely surrounded by ice, will be a partial vacuum, filed with a watery vapor of very low pressure. When you have melted a large cavity lay the glass aside and let the ice melt in the sun. Turn it occasionally so that it will be sure to melt evenly round the cavity. After awhile the cavity will be surrounded by a thin shell of ice. Then, because of the great pressure on the outside (about fifteen pounds to the square inch), the thin walls will suddenly collapse, and the ice will fly in all directions—Youth's Companion. The Colder Hemisphere. Dr. George C. Simpson of the Indian meteorological service at Simla, in India, who asserted that the southern hemisphere is much colder than the northern, gives in the Scientific American the reasons on which he bases his opinion. The air is warmed not by the rays of the sun, which simply pass through it, but by the earth, which absorbs the rays. Now, in the northern hemisphere there is much land to absorb the energy of the sun and to give heat to the air. In the southern hemisphere there is much less land, and all the land within the antarctic circle is permanently covered with ice, which forms a virtually perfect reflector and which sends back into space most of the solar energy that falls upon it. Five million square miles of the earth's surface in the southern hemisphere reflect into space a large part of the energy received from the sun—a fact that in itself is enough to account for a considerable difference in temperature. A Painter's Broken Arm: A friend once entered the studio of George Inness, the American landscape painter, while he was at work and remarked that the picture on the easel seemed to him much better than certain former works of the artist. "Right!" said Inness. "This is going to be one of my best things, and the reason is that I have had the good luck to break my right arm and am obliged to paint with my left hand. You see," he added, showing his right hand in a sling. "this hand had become so darned clever that I could not catch up with it, and it painted away without me. while this hand"—showing the left, with which he held his brush—"is awkward and can do nothing without me." In the Same Boat Sam had come home from school, hungry, as usual. Tossing his spelling book on the kitchen table, he hastened to the pantry and began an investigation of cake box, cupboards and cooky jar. Suddenly the back doorbell rang. Leaving his unprofitable search, Samuel went to answer. On the steps stood an unshaven, long haired man whose clothes needed a tailor and a laundry worker. "I'm hungry," began the stranger in a low, aggrieved tone. "and should like somethin' to eat." "Well, so'm I." confided the boy, "but you know I've been a-huntin' for ten minutes an' hain't found a thing!"—Judge. Too Late. After the guests had waited for half an hour in a Berkshire church for the bride to arrive messengers were dispatched to the livery stable to try to discover what had happened. The liveryman, made to understand that he had omitted to send a carriage to her house, acknowledged that all the blame rested on him and apologized in manly fashion, but when they suggested that he should proceed to remedy the delay he failed to see the point. “What'll be the use o' fetchin' 'er now?” he argued. “The service 'll be 'arf over."—London Globe. Those Who Ride In all situations of life into which I have looked I have found mankind divided into two grand parties, those who ride and those who are ridden. The great struggle in life seems to be which shall keep in the saddle. This, it appears to me, is the fundamental principle of politics, whether in great or little life.—From "The Young Man of Great Expectations," by Washington Irving. Appearances. It is the appearances that fill the scene, and we pause not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn and burst into broken sobs how few then knew that it held the ashes of his son!—Bulwer-Lytton. Caught. "Herbert, you weren't listening to what I said." "Er—what makes you think that, darling?" "I asked you if you could let me have $100, and you smiled and said, 'Yes, dearest.'"—Life. One Thing Left Wife—Have you shut up everything for the night? Husband (meekly)—I'm sorry to say, dear, that I haven't—New York Sun. Oh, life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.—Bacon. New Brussels Was Reforested. There was no need of celebrating Arbor day in Prussia in the days when Friedrich Wilhelm I. was king, for that monarch had a plan all his own by which he replenished the forests and kept the country well supplied with fruit trees. According to Das Buch fur Alle, the king, having observed that there was a great dearth of fruit and oak trees in Prussia and not being willing to undertake the tremendous expense of reforesting the country himself issued an order to all clergymen that, after June 21, 1720, they should refuse to perform any marriage ceremony unless the groom could produce evidence that he had just planted six fruit trees and an equal number of oaks. If it was in winter or in the middle of a dry summer, when plants would not grow, the groom had to produce and lay aside a sum of money sufficient to cover the cost of the trees and promise to plant the required number when fall or spring came. The edict worked wonders. The next generation in Prussia had no lack of fruit and oak trees. Naming a Novel. "The thing to do," said the literary man, "is to call your novel after the name of the leading character." "Why?" asked the youngest novelist. "Because the best and the most successful novels always have such names," the other replied. "Take the great novelists. The greatest book of each gets its title from the leading character's name. "Instances are easy to give. What is the best novel of Dickens? It is 'David Copperfield.' What is the best novel of Thackeray? It is 'Henry Esmond.' What is the best novel of Scott? It is 'Ivanhoe.' What is the best novel of Thomas Hardy? 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.' Of George Meredith? 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.' Of Rider Haggard? 'Allan Quatermain.' Of Tolstoy? 'Anna Karenina.'"—New York Post. Only One Athens Now There is and has been for many centuries only one Athens. But antiquity knew no fewer than nine cities or towns of that name in various parts of Greece, and even in the time of Plautus it was sometimes felt necessary to distinguish the great one as "Attic Athens." It was natural that Greek cities should take their name from Athena, the goddess of wisdom, warlike prowess and skill in the arts of life, who, according to some legends, herself founded the City of the Violent Crown. Others ascribed the naming of the city to Theseus or other mythical kings. The "s" of the termination is a real plural, for the city was given a plural name (Athenai), as being made up of several constituent parts.—London Chronicle. Courting In Spain. In sunny Spain etiquette is so very restrictive in the matter of courtship that it is a wonder that young people ever manage to get married at all. Even when, after many difficulties, the engagement is accomplished, the parents have a deciding voice in fixing the date, and, as they prefer long engagements, the wedding day is usually fixed somewhere in the dim future. The best man and maid of honor are expected not only to fulfill the usual duties, but to contribute—sometimes very substantially—to the expenses of the wedding feast. Wedding cake is unknown, but instead packets of sugared almonds are distributed among the guests and sent by post to those who are unable to be present.—Kansas City Star. A Tiger Story There is a story current at Kuloang, central China, about a tiger which gave trouble in that quarter. A missionary and his wife had been worried by the tiger prowling nightly around their home. They determined to be rid of it and one night tied a cow up in the back yard and a dog at the front of the house. Then they armed themselves with guns and kept watch. The tiger appeared. The missionary fired and killed the cow. The wife rushed to see what had happened, and in her absence the tiger ate the dog—Exchange. Lazy Idleness. Beware of laziness. It will have its effect on your whole system. It brings on degeneration of the muscles and the internal organs, sometimes resulting in an unhealthy accumulation of fat and sometimes in internal adhesion. In some constitutions it results in shrinkage and premature old age. Within Reason Mistress—Jane, didn't you hear the doorbell? New Servant—Yes, mum. Mistress—Then why don't you go to the door? New Servant—Deed, mum. I can't expectin' nobody to call on me. It must be somebody to see yourself, mum.—Passing Show. Evil Enough. There is evil enough in man, God knows, but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity.—Dr. John Hall. Different. Larry-- My wife went away yesterday morning. Harry--Is that what makes you look so glum? Larry--No she came back last night. Exe-ha- "He does a roaring business." "What's his line?" "He blows the megaphone on a sight seeing bus." -Club Fellow. Instinct of Blackbirds While residing in the country some years ago and walking out one evening, I found a nest of young blackbirds. The young birds were almost fledged. Taking them home with me, I put them in a cage and the next morning hung them out under a tree, and in about an hour I saw the old birds at the cage, evidently delighted to find their young. The old birds came regularly every two hours and fed them with worms and grubs. This continued for two days, the old birds trying all in their power to get the young ones out. On the third day I noticed the old birds bring a berry, which they gave the young ones, two of which died that evening and the rest next day. The old birds then left off coming. The berries on examination proved to be the seeds of the Atropa belladonna or deadly nightshade. This convinced me of what I had heard about these birds destroying their young if allowed to feed them in imprisonment. I am told that other birds have the same instinct.—Liverpool Post. Sincerity In Art Only an honest book can live; only absolute sincerity can stand the test of time. Any selfish or secondary motive vitiates a work of art, as it vitiates a religious life. Indeed, I doubt if we fully appreciate the literary value of the stable, fundamental human virtues and qualities—probity, directness, simplicity, sincerity, love. There are just as much room and need for the exercise of these qualities in the making of a book as in the building of a house or in a business career. How conspicuous they are in all the enduring books—in Bunyan, in Walton, in Defoe, in the Bible! It is they that keep alive such a book as "Two Years Before the Mast," which Stevenson pronounced the best sea story in the language, as it undoubtedly is.—John Burroughs. How to Soften the Elbows Sometimes a woman who has a pretty arm is troubled with dark, rough elbows and coarse skin on the back of the arm just above the elbow. In either case it will take some time to restore the original soft white flesh. Purchase some liquid green soap, which is really yellow in color, make a good lather with it and rub it well into the skin. Leave it on for about five minutes, then rub it off thoroughly with warm water and dry very carefully. Careless drying of this part of the arms is the usual cause of the roughened skin. After the cleansing apply a skin food, rubbing it in well. If the harsh surface does not yield readily rub the rough place with a pumice stone, then treat as described. —Woman's World. Saved the Scene- John Galsworthy, the English playwright, tells of the wit of an actor named Littledale, who in one play had to leap into a river to escape a wild beast. "The stage was so arranged that the river was invisible. Littledale's leap usually ended on a soft mattress in the wings, while a rock was dropped into a tub of water to create a splash. Everything went on all right at rehearsal, and the night of actual performance came. When poor Littledale jumped he fell eight feet and landed on an eaken floor with a crash. "The audience set up a titter. But the heroic Littledale was quite equal to the occasion. 'Heavens,' he shouted, 'the water's frozen." Much the Simpler Plan. Mr. Newedd—Well, we are beginning housekeeping, and I presume the simplest plan will be for me to give you a regular amount every week for expenses. Just figure up what it will cost. Mrs. Newedd—I could never do that in the world—so many things to count, you know—but let me see. Oh, I have it! I have thought of a much simpler plan. "All right, my angel! What is it?" "You figure up what it will cost you for car fare and lunches and give me the rest."—New York Weekly. Florence Nightingale. There is a story that after the return to England of the troops from the Crimea Lord Stratford at a dinner suggested that those present should write on a piece of paper the name of the person whose Crimean reputation would endure longest. When the votes came to be examined it was found that not a single soldier had received a vote. Every paper bore the same two words—Florence Nightingale. La Politesse The Fair One—Oh, I wished I had lived a hundred years ago. The Other One—But then you would be a long time dead and would not be sitting here happily by my side. The Fair One—True, true! So I couldn't! Forge me, dearest! New York Post. The Greatest Financier. "Who was the greatest financier ever known?" "Noah, because he floated his stock when the whole world was in liquidation." Accommodating Jinks—Have you got quarters for a dollar, old man? Winks—My vest pocket is rather crowded, but pass it over and I'll try to make room for it. Hope When Thales was asked what is most universal he answered hope, for hope stays with those who have nothing else. —Epictetus. The normal school turns out professors of philosophy. Only the school of life produces philosophers. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEND FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SOAP THOROUGHLY CLEANSSES THE SCALP QUINACOMB HAIR STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINADE 25¢ QUINACOMB50¢ QUINASOAP25¢ AT ALL DRUGLISTS SEEBY DRUG COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. THE SANITARY and SHIP CANAL Length - - - - - 32 Miles Depth - - - - - 22 Feet Width - - - 162 to 290 Feet THE CANAL OFFERS: Industrial Locations, Dock Facilities, Water Transportation, Railroad Connections, Electric Power, Concrete Building Material. Direct Connection with St. Louis via the Illinois River and Direct Connection with the Gulf via the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Electric Energy Created from Water Power for the Modern Factory Means Efficiency and Economy. THOMAS A. SMYTH, President JOHN McGILLEN, Chief Clerk F. D. CONNERY, Comptroller Karpen Building 900 So. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO WALTHAM WATCHES 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WALTHAM 60 30 15 10 7 5 4 3 2 1 0 Leach's S Main Office 4430 So. St. J ELGIN or WALTHAM 20 and 25 year cases, 7 and 15 jewels $7.95 and $10.95 C. L. LANDE 518 S. State St. Tel. Douglas 7587 C. L. LANDE 3518 S. State St. Tel. Douglas 7587 SPECIAL RATES ON STORAGE of Household Goods, Pianos and Trunks For the next thirty days to fill our New Warehouse we are giving Special Rates FIRST MONTH STORAGE FREE PIANO in room alone with dust-proof cover on each one. Household goods in private room, each piece burlapped before putting away. We guarantee your furniture to come out of storage in just as good condition as it went in, whether it be one month or one year. Storage Warehouse State St. All Phones Oakland 3784 PHONE DOUGLAS 6626 GABRIEL FRANCHERE, Jr. SHOES FOR LADIES, MEN AND CHILDREN SHORT VAMP SPECIALTIES 3109 S. State St. Chicago THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1916. Living on Schedule The man who is living this life on schedule time deserves to be an object of pity. I know of one creature who is so precise in his appointments that he is actually living a month in advance of himself. You say to him, "Whatchergonado tomorrow noon, Bill?" and he'll consult his little vest pocket engagement book and inform you that he is filled up as far as next Wednesday at 10 p. m (meaning engagements, of course). Then you say, "I wanted you to lunch with me tomorrow at 12." "Let me see," says he; "I have a fifteen minute canceled engagement at that time, so I'll accept your invitation. Meanwhile you'll excuse me, dear boy, for I have a directors' meeting on at 4:22 and leave for Goplunk, N. J. at 5:48, but I'll be on hand at 12 sharp." And he records it in his book. This schedule crank has everything prearranged except his funeral, and if he happens to have a previous engagement I'll wager he'll disappoint the mourners by postponing that—Cartoons Magazine. Using the Expression "I Think." Using the Expression "I Think." A man was referred to as one who in his conversation never says "I think" so and so. The "think" is a mere expletive. A positive, clear headed man says what he thinks without saying he thinks. Besides, when a person premises with an "I think" it weakens his assertion because thinking is by no means an assurance of truth. If one should say "I think it will rain tomorrow" the very expression carries a doubt because mere opinion is a lame matter, and the world is chock full of opinions. If, however, he should say "It will rain tomorrow" it carries some assurance even if it is, after all, an opinion. So the man referred to in the first place doesn't say "I think," for it is entirely superfluous, and he adds force and dignity to what he says in omitting it entirely. And then when one looks at the situation calmly he will conclude that "think" is much under a cloud since very few people think exactly alike. There are ten thousand instances of this character.-Ohio State Journal. Beauty In the Mexican's Voice Beauty in the Mexican's Voice. Next to the love of dress, I was most struck with the fineness of the voice and the beauty of intonations of both sexes (of the Mexicans). It is a pleasure simply to listen to the sound of the language before I could attach any meaning to it. They have a good deal of the creole drawl, but it is varied, with an occasional extreme rapidity of utterance, in which they seem to skip from consonant to consonant until, lighting upon a broad open vowel, they rest upon that to restore the balance of sound. A common bullock driver delivering a message seemed to speak like an ambassador at an audience. In fact, they sometimes appeared to me to be a people on whom a curse had fallen and stripped them of everything but their pride, their manner and their voices.—"Three Years Before the Mast," by R. H. Dana. Curious Golf Shot The late lord chief justice, Lord Alverstone, being one of the judges at the Birmingham assizes, in the intervals of business had several rounds of golf on the Edgbaston links. On one of these occasions he was playing with the local professional and got rather badly bunkered at the second hole. It was necessary, in order to get the ball out, to make it rise almost perpendicularly into the air, and for this purpose Lord Alverstone, or Sir Richard Webster, as he then was, took his niblick and made a mighty stroke. No conjurer on earth could have done a trick more neatly. The ball not only leaped into the air, but dropped as clean as a whistle into the judge's baggy right hand pocket! -London Mall. Asphalt Paying. Asphalt as paving is the commonest commercial use of the mineral today, and yet its successful employment in the field of road making is of comparatively recent date. The first compressed rock asphalt roadway was laid in Paris in 1854, while it was 1876 before the first similar type of road making was used on Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington. The Luxury of Disdain. "He hasn't any," replied Mr. Growcher. "That's why I keep him around. I'm shy on distinguished ancestry myself, and I enjoy having a creature at hand whom I can contemplate with supercillious superiority."—Washington Star. Reversing the Usual Order. "Do you know, Jones does some uncommonly queer things—anything to be different from other people." "Like what, for instance?" "Why, he's just put a mortgage on his limousine to have repairs made on his house."-Baltimore American. Shapes. "I purchased a lovely round oak dining table this morning," said Mrs. Hasher. "That being the case," rejoined the star boarder, "I suppose we need expect no more square meals."—Indianapolis Star. Thaws and Cold. It is colder in a thaw than in a frost because when water freezes it parts with its heat to the air, which thus feels warmer. In a thaw heat is absorbed from the air. Accommodating. Diner—I'll have an order of chicken. Walter—Very sorry, sir, but the chicken is out. Diner—Well, I will wait till it returns. I'm in no hurry. — Boston Transcript. Life Struggle of the Trees An interesting light is thrown on the longevity of the trees that grow along the timber line of the Rocky mountains by Mr. Enos A. Mills in his "Rocky Mountain Wonderland." He says: A few timber line trees live a thousand years. But half this time is a ripe old age for most of the timber line veterans. The age of these trees cannot be judged by their size or by their general appearance. There may be centuries of difference in the ages of two arm in arm trees of similar size. I examined two trees that were growing within a few yards of each other in the shelter of a crag. One was fourteen feet high and sixteen inches in diameter and had 337 annual rings. The other was seven feet high and five inches in diameter and had lived 492 years. One day by the sunny and sheltered side of a bowler I found a tiny seed bearer at an altitude of 11,800 feet. How splendidly unconscious it was of its size and its utterly wild surroundings! This brave pine bore a dainty cone, yet a drinking glass would have completely housed both the tree and its fruit. Conversing With "Ghosts." Some scientists of real eminence have accepted the postulate of the individuality and self consciousness of the soul after the death of the body and have attempted to demonstrate their belief by asserting communication with these disembodied spirits. Sir William Crookes, a profound deliver in chemistry pertaining to radio-activity, asserted years ago that he had communication with souls of dead friends, but for several years he has been silent anent this matter. Camille Flammarion, a rather speculative and sensational astronomer, declares that he has seen and conversed with the "ghosts" of dead friends. Professor William James, brother of Henry James, the novelist, promised before he died that if possible he would communicate with his friend Professor Hyslop, both eminent psychologists, but at last accounts the soul of Professor James had not spoken—Exchange. Fangs of a Snake. Examine the finest cambric needle under a high power microscope and its point will look rough and blunt. A snake's fang similarly inspected appears perfectly smooth and sharp. In each fang is a groove which connects by a tube with a sort of bag—the poison gland—just beneath the eye. When the snake strikes a muscular contraction simultaneously forces the venom out of the bag through the tube and along the groove into the flesh of the person attacked. Snake poison, generally speaking, has two distinct effects. It destroys in some mysterious way the fibrin of the blood, thereby causing the latter to behave as if diluted and to filter through the walls of the veins and arteries. In addition, it paralyzes the nerve centers and so affects the heart, sometimes bringing death by suffocation. Pantomime Performances. Most pantomime characters were originally borrowed from the Italians. The first real English pantomime was produced at a theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1720. It was called "Harlequin Executed," and its subtitle was "A New Italian Comic Scene Between a Scaramouche, a Harlequin, a Country Farmer, His Wife and Others." The performance was very successful. About the middle of the eighteenth century the character of pantomime performances was completely altered. chiefly because of the genius of the famous Grimaldi, who made the clown the first figure in the pantomime. Grimaldi first appeared at Sadler's Wells theater, where he played the part of a monkey. He was actively engaged on the stage for forty-nine years. Odor of Iodoform. It is said that the odor of iodoform can be removed from the hands and utensils by mustard. While the hands are wet (molsten them with cold water) place a small quantity of dry mustard powder in the palm and rub it well over the hands and then wash off with soap and water. For utensils the mustard must be made like a paste and allowed to remain spread on them for several hours. The Needless Needle "Now, ma," said the young man who was showing his visiting mother the wonderful sights of the city, "would you like to go into the park and see Cleopatra's Needle?" "I didn't know that hussy ever used a needle. She didn't spend much time sewing, from the scanty wardrobe she had in all the pictures of her that I ever saw."--Judge. "I used to think I would know just how to manage my wife when I got ber." "Has your system proved to be a failure?" "No; the system is all right, so far as I know. She has never let me try it."—Stray Stories. Four Counties Inn. In the Four Counties inn, in England, it is possible to eat in Leicestershire, sleep in Staffordshire, drink in Warwickshire and smoke in Derbyshire without leaving the building. Horses and Music. The musical acuteness of horses is shown by the rapidity with which cavalry horses learn the significance of trumpet calls. Friendship may and often does grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 CAPITAL, $200,000.00 A DOLLAR BANK BAND A GUIDE TO THE COINS NICKELS CENTS This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors: will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth, OPEN one with US. NOTARY PUBLIC Faustin S. Delany Attorney and Counselor at Law 312 S. Clark St., Suite 422 CHICAGO COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY Res. 4510 St. Lawrence Ave. Tel. Drexel 5260 PHONES: OFFICE. 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DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Nothing but an American. Nothing but an American. When I look back on the shifting scenes of my life, if I am not that altogether deplorable creature, a man without a country, I am, when it comes to pull and prestige, almost equally bereft, as I am a man without a state. I was born in Indiana, I grew up in Illinois, I was educated in Rhode Island, and it is no blame to that scholarly community that I know so little. I learned my law in Springfield and my politics in Washington, my diplomacy in Europe, Asia and Africa. I have a farm in New Hampshire and desk room in the District of Columbia. When I look to the springs from which my blood descends the first ancestors I ever heard of were a Scotchman who was half English and a German woman who was half French. Of my immediate progenitors my mother was from New England and my father was from the south. In this bewilderment of origin and experience I can only put on an aspect of deep humility in any gathering of favorite sons and confess that I am nothing but an American.—From "The Life and Letters of John Hay" in Harper's Magazine. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEND FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SOAP THOROUGHLY CLEANSES THE SCALP QUINACOMB HAIR, STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINADE 25¢ QUINASOAP 50¢ QUINASOAP 25¢ AT ALL DRUGSTORES SEEBY DRUG COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. THE SANITARY and SHIP CANAL Length - - - - - 32 Miles Depth - - - - - 22 Feet Width - - - 162 to 290 Feet THE CANAL OFFERS: Industrial Locations, Dock Facilities, Water Transportation, Railroad Connections, Electric Power, Concrete Building Material. Direct Connection with St. Louis via the Illinois River and Direct Connection with the Gulf via the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Electric Energy Created from Water Power for the Modern Factory Means Efficiency and Economy. THOMAS A. SMYTH, President JOHN McGILLEN, Chief Clerk F. D. CONNERY, Comptroller Karpen Building 900 So. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO WALTHAM WATCHES 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WALTHAM Leach's S Main Office 4430 So. St. C ELGIN or WALTHAM 20 and 25 year cases, 7 and 15 jewels $7.95 and $10.95 C. L. LANDE 518 S. State St. Tel. Douglas 7587 C. L. LANDE 3518 S. State St. Tel. Douglas 7587 SPECIAL RATES ON STORAGE of Household Goods, Pianos and Trunks For the next thirty days to fill our New Warehouse we are giving Special Rates FIRST MONTH STORAGE FREE PIANO in room alone with dust-proof cover on each one. Household goods in private room, each piece burllapped before putting away. We guarantee your furniture to come out of storage in just as good condition as it went in, whether it be one month or one year. storage Warehouse ate St. All Phones Oakland 3784 PHONE DOUGLAS 6626 GABRIEL FRANCHERE, Jr. SHOES FOR LADIES, MEN AND CHILDREN SHORT VAMP SPECIALTIES 3109 S. State St. Chicago THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JANUARY 15. 1916 Living on Schedule. The man who is living this life on schedule time deserves to be an object of pity. I know of one creature who is so precise in his appointments that he is actually living a month in advance of himself. You say to him, "Whatchergonado tomorrow noon, Bill?" and he'll consult his little nest pocket engagement book and inform you that he is filled up as far as next Wednesday at 10 p. m (meaning engagements, of course). Then you say, "I wanted you to lunch with me tomorrow at 12." "Let me see," says he; "I have a fifteen minute canceled engagement at that time, so I'll accept your invitation. Meanwhile you'll excuse me, dear boy, for I have a directors' meeting on at 4:22 and leave for Goplunk, N. J., at 5:48, but I'll be on hand at 12 sharp." And he records it in his book. This schedule crank has everything prearranged except his funeral, and if he happens to have a previous engagement I'll wager he'll disappoint the mourners by postponing that—Cartoons Magazine. Using the Expression "I Think." Using the Expression "I Think." A man was referred to as one who in his conversation never says "I think" so and so. The "think" is a mere expletive. A positive, clear headed man says what he thinks without saying he thinks. Besides, when a person premises with an "I think" it weakens his assertion because thinking is by no means an assurance of truth. If one should say "I think it will rain tomorrow" the very expression carries a doubt because mere opinion is a lame matter, and the world is chock full of opinions. If, however, he should say "It will rain tomorrow" it carries some assurance even if it is, after all, an opinion. So the man referred to in the first place doesn't say "I think," for it is entirely superfluous, and he adds force and dignity to what the says in omitting it entirely. And then when one looks at the situation calmly he will conclude that "think" is much under a cloud since very few people think exactly alike. There are ten thousand instances of this character—Ohio State Journal. Beauty In the Mexican's Voice Beauty In the Mexican's Voice. Next to the love of dress, I was most struck with the fineness of the voice and the beauty of intonations of both sexes (of the Mexicans). It is a pleasure simply to listen to the sound of the language before I could attach any meaning to it. They have a good deal of the creole drawl, but it is varied, with an occasional extreme rapidity of utterance, in which they seem to skip from consonant to consonant until, lighting upon a broad open vowel, they rest upon that to restore the balance of sound. A common bullock driver delivering a message seemed to speak like an ambassador at an audience. In fact, they sometimes appeared to me to be a people on whom a curse had fallen and stripped them of everything but their pride, their manner and their voices.—"Three Years Before the Mast," by R. H. Dana. Curious Golf Shot. The late lord chief justice, Lord Alverstone, being one of the judges at the Birmingham assizes, in the intervals of business had several rounds of golf on the Edgaston links. On one of these occasions he was playing with the local professional and got rather badly bunkered at the second hole. It was necessary, in order to get the ball out, to make it rise almost perpendicularly into the air, and for this purpose Lord Alverstone, or Sir Richard Webster, as he then was, took his niblick and made a mighty stroke. No conjurer on earth could have done a trick more neatly. The ball not only leaped into the air, but dropped as clean as a whistle into the judge's baggy right hand pocket! -London Mall. Asphalt Paving. Asphalt as paving is the commonest commercial use of the mineral today, and yet its successful employment in the field of road making is of comparatively recent date. The first compressed rock asphalt roadway was laid in Paris in 1854, while it was 1876 before the first similar type of road making was used on Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington. The Luxury of Disdain. "He hasn't any," replied Mr. Growcher. "That's why I keep him around. I'm shy on distinguished ancestry myself, and I enjoy having a creature at hand whom I can contemplate with supercilious superiority."—Washington Star. Reversing the Usual Order. "Do you know, Jones does some uncommonly queer things—anything to be different from other people." "Like what, for instance?" "Why, he's just put a mortgage on his limousine to have repairs made on his house."—Baltimore American. Shapes. "I purchased a lovely round oak dining table this morning," said Mrs. Hasher. "That being the case," rejoined the star boarder, "I suppose we need expect no more square meals."—Indianapolis Star. Thawa and Cold. It is colder in a thaw than in a frost because when water freezes it parts with its heat to the air, which thus feels warmer. In a thaw heat is absorbed from the air. Accommodating. Diner—I'll have an order of chicken. Waiter—Very sorry, str, but the chicken sn is out. Diner—Well, I will wait till it returns. I'm in no hurry. —Boston Transcript. Life Struggle of the Trees. An interesting light is thrown on the longevity of the trees that grow along the timber line of the Rocky mountains by Mr. Enos A. Mills in his "Rocky Mountain Wonderland." He says: A few timber line trees live a thousand years. Out half this time is a ripe old age for most of the timber line veterans. The age of these trees cannot be judged by their size or by their general appearance. There may be centuries of difference in the ages of two arm in arm trees of similar size. I examined two trees that were growing within a few yards of each other in the shelter of a crag. One was fourteen feet high and sixteen inches in diameter and had 337 annual rings. The other was seven feet high and five inches in diameter and had lived 492 years. One day by the sunny and sheltered side of a bowler I found a tiny seed bearer at an altitude of 11,800 feet. How splendidly unconscious it was of its size and its utterly wild surroundings! This brave pine bore a dainty cone, yet a drinking glass would have completely housed both the tree and its fruit. Conversing With "Ghosts." Some scientists of real eminence have accepted the postulate of the individuality and self consciousness of the soul after the death of the body and have attempted to demonstrate their belief by asserting communication with these disembodied spirits. Sir William Crookes, a profound deliver in chemistry pertaining to radio-activity, asserted years ago that he had communication with souls of dead friends, but for several years he has been silent anent this matter. Camille Flammarion, a rather speculative and sensational astronomer, declares that he has seen and conversed with the "ghosts" of dead friends. Professor William James, brother of Henry James, the novelist, promised before he died that if possible he would communicate with his friend Professor Hyslop, both eminent psychologists, but at last accounts the soul of Professor James had not spoken.—Exchange Fangs of a Snake. Examine the finest cambric needle under a high power microscope and its point will look rough and blunt. A snake's fang similarly inspected appears perfectly smooth and sharp. In each fang is a groove which connects by a tube with a sort of bag—the poison gland—just beneath the eye. When the snake strikes a muscular contraction simultaneously forces the venom out of the bag through the tube and along the groove into the flesh of the person attacked. Snake poison, generally speaking, has two distinct effects. It destroys in some mysterious way the fibrin of the blood, thereby causing the latter to behave as if diluted and to filter through the walls of the veins and arteries. In addition, it paralyzes the nerve centers and so affects the heart, sometimes bringing death by suffocation. Pantomime Performances. Most pantomime characters were originally borrowed from the Italians. The first real English pantomime was produced at a theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1720. It was called "Harlequin Executed," and its subtitle was "A New Italian Comic Scene Between a Scaramouche, a Harlequin, a Country Farmer, His Wife and Others." The performance was very successful. About the middle of the eighteenth century the character of pantomime performances was completely altered, chiefly because of the genius of the famous Grimaldi, who made the clown the first figure in the pantomime. Grimaldi first appeared at Sadler's Wells theater, where he played the part of a monkey. He was actively engaged on the stage for forty-nine years. Oder of Iodeform It is said that the odor of iodoform can be removed from the hands and utensils by mustard. While the hands are wet (moisten them with cold water) place a small quantity of dry mustard powder in the palm and rub it well over the hands and then wash off with soap and water. For utensils the mustard must be made like a paste and allowed to remain spread on them for several hours. The Needless Needle "Now, ma," said the young man who was showing his visiting mother the wonderful sights of the city, "would you like to go into the park and see Cleopatra's Needle?" "I didn't know that hussy ever used a needle. She didn't spend much time sewing, from the scanty wardrobe she had in all the pictures of her that I ever saw."—Judge. "I used to think I would know just how to manage my wife when I got ber." "Has your system proved to be a failure?" "No; the system is all right, so far as I know. She has never let me try it."—Stray Stories. Four Counties Inn. In the Four Counties inn, in England, it is possible to eat in Leicestershire, sleep in Staffordshire, drink in Warwickshire and smoke in Derbyshire without leaving the building. Horses and Music The musical acuteness of horses is shown by the rapidity with which cavalry horses learn the significance of trumpet calls. Friendship may and often does grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET CAPITAL, $200,000.00 COLLEGE TRADE BANK A DISTRICT OF THE UNION NICKELS CENTS This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. OPEN one with US. NOTARY PUBLIC Faustin S. Delany Attorney and Counselor at Law 312 S. Clark St., Suite 422 CHICAGO COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY Res. 4510 St. Lawrence Ave. Tel. Drexel 5260 PHONES: OFFICE. MAIN 4153 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7990 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wahash Ave. Oakland 4662, Auto. 73-058 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 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago 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. 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. 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Phone Main 2017 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. 361h 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 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Nothing but an American. When I look back on the shifting scenes of my life, if I am not that altogether deplorable creature, a man without a country, I am, when it comes to pull and prestige, almost equally bereft, as I am a man without a state. I was born in Indiana, I grew up in Illinois, I was educated in Rhode Island, and it is no blame to that scholarly community that I know so little. I learned my law in Springfield and my politics in Washington, my diplomacy in Europe, Asia and Africa. I have a farm in New Hampshire and desk room in the District of Columbia. When I look to the springs from which my blood descends the first ancestors I ever heard of were a Scotchman who was half English and a German woman who was half French. Of my immediate progenitors my mother was from New England and my father was from the south. In this bewilderment of origin and experience I can only put on an aspect of deep humility in any gathering of favorite sons and confess that I am nothing but an American.—From "The Life and Letters of John Hay" in Harper's Magazine.