The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Mayor William Hale Thompson and the High Priests of His Wing of the Republican Party Organize a New Municipal Voters League. "Big Bill" Starts on the War Path After the Scalps of the Aldermen Invading the Wards of Those Who Bitterly Fight Him in the City Council Vol. XXI. Mayor Wing of Voters the Scar Who B "Big Bill" Mayor William Hale Thompson has been very much wrought up over the last report of the Municipal voter's league—it heating him up so hot that in order to sleep real sound each night in the future he and the other high priests of his wing of the Republican party decided to organize a brand new municipal voter's league of their own so that they can boss it or run it to suit themselves. The old time or the regular municipal voter's league which in its last report or running off at mouth sat down rather hard on Mayor Thompson; this week issued the following statement in reference to him and his new league. "The Municipal Voters' league wishes to warn the public against the operations of a gang of political counterfeiters who have been unearthed in the city hall and who are making active preparations to 'shove the queer.' "It is thought that the departure of Sherlock Holmes from the city has encouraged this activity, and it is suspected by some that Prof. Moriarity is a member of this band. "The boldness of this gang is so great that they have, it is said, secured a state charter under the name of 'Chicago Municipal Voters League,' and it seems impossible that they can long hope to escape detection. Plan Aldermanic Reports. "Their plan appears to be to issue reports on aldermanic candidates which shall bear a label, including the words Municipal Voters' league. Unsuspecting voters might naturally accept these as genuine Municipal Voters' league reports. "No one counterfeits confederate money. It is because the reports of the Municipal 'Voters' league pass current in this community that such counterfeiting looks like a profitable enterprise. The counterfeiter tries to make his stuff look like real money, and the political counterfeiter does the same. Imitation is the sincerest flattery, and possibly the Municipal Voters' league should feel pleased. "We regret that we cannot at this time furnish the public with Bertillon measurements. We can, however, give some description of those members whose identity has been betrayed by the application for state incorporation papers. Takes Up 'Band's' Members." "Foremost stands Maj. Clinnin, in private life a lawyer, and in public life an assistant corporation counsel. The major has been devoting considerable time to the rather complicated matter of getting the new organization ALDERMAN WILLIAM R. O'TOOLE WILL COME BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL FROM THE 30th WARD. The aldermanic contest in the 30th ward between Alderman William R. O'Toole and former Alderman Joseph A. Swift, is becoming hotter and hotter and the indications are that Alderman O'Toole will successfully win out at the primaries Tuesday, February 29th. Martin J. McNally, who is very wise for his day and generation, Alderman William J. Lynch and all the other warm supporters of Alderman O'Toole, are more than confident that the little black haired alderman, who hustles day and night among his constituents will make another home run into the city council. incorporated. The press states that this has forced him to spend more or less time in Springfield. It is to be hoped that the public business of the corporation counsel's office has not suffered in his absence. "The second in command is Dr. E. B. Miller, brother of City Prosecutor Miller. Dr. Miller was until lately a city sanitary inspector on temporary 'sixty day' appointment. Last spring the doctor carried a precinct in the Thirty-third ward for Thompson. Just the man to look after the sanitary conditions of the political counterfeiters, 'den.' He could also see that the 'acids' and 'plates' and other headquarters paraphernalia are kept in a clean and nonpoisonous condition. "The third member is J. Lincoln Pfaff. As Mr. Pfaff is a tailor of wide experience, he will doubtless be assigned in charge of 'press' work. Pictures Guiding Spirits. "Who are the guiding spirits? We seem to see a shadowy form like one of the gods of Norse mythology brooding over a battlefield, but the mists hide his face. He has not been publicly incorporated yet. And we see also a large form, like the genie whom the fisherman saw in the 'Arabian Nights', and who before the fisherman's astonished eyes grew smaller and smaller and finally entered again in the metal can from which he had emerged. "We feel sure that there are other members, for there is much good material available. A careful search of the hotels in the vicinity of the city hall will doubtless reveal them. "Have the gentlemen forgotten the words of Lincoln: 'You can't fool all the people all the time?'" "By order of the executive committee. "F. B. JOHNSTONE. President." "WILLIAM D. BANGS, Secretary. After getting his league on its feet Mayor Thompson decided to start on the war path after the scalps of the aldermen who continue to fight him in the city council and then fade away from now until the primaries he will invade the 25th, the 3rd the 6th, the 7th wards and several other wards in his effort to unhorse Alderman Frank J. Link of the 25th ward, Alderman Nathaniel A. Stern of the 3rd ward; Alderman Willis O. Nance of the 6th ward; Alderman John N. Kimball of the 7th ward, and Mayor Thompson feels that he will never rest well at nights until he has the scalps of these and other aldermen who have greatly displeased him by voting against his pet measures in the city council, dangling to his belt. ALDERMAN HENRY P. BERGEN IS HOLDING HIS OWN IN THE 31ST WARD. As the Aldermanic primaries draw near, which will be held Tuesday, February 29th, the many friends and supporters of Alderman Henry P. Bergen, are leaving no stone unturned, in their efforts to return him to the city council. Neighborhood meetings are being held nightly among the voters and everything seems to indicate that he has smooth or clear sailing at the primaries. Editor C. J. Perry, of Philadelphia, Pa., spent a few days in this city the first part of the week, enroute home from Nashville, Tenn., where he attended a meeting of the National Negro Press Association and was chosen its president. HARRY HILDRETH, JR., DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMINATION FOR ALDERMAN OF THE SECOND WARD, TO BE VOTED FOR AT THE PRIMARIES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH. Harry Hildredth, Jr., who is well and favorably known to all the citizens of Chicago, the peoples or the Democratic candidate for the nomination for alderman of the Second Ward, to be voted for at the primaries Tuesday February 29th, was born in this city the latter part of July, 1866 receiving his education in its public schools. At the age of 16 years, he entered the service of Coxe Brothers and Company, wholesale dealers in Coal, where he remained for five years, working his way on up to the position of car accountant, later on resigning that position to accept a more important position with J. T. Rumey and Company wholesale Coal dealers, faithfully serving that company in various important positions until 1890. Then he severed his connection with it to become cashier of the South Chicago Brewing Company which position he held until he was appointed as assistant city treasurer of Chicago, by City Treasurer Ernst Hummel, in the spring of 1903. As assistant city treasurer Mr. Hildreth was a painstaking city or public official and was courteous in an eminent manner to all those whom he came in contact with, honorably and faithfully serving in that capacity under city Treasurer John E. Traeger until the spring of 1909. Mr. Hildreth can point with pride to the fact that his father James H. Hildreth, was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery and fought in the Union Army from July 1, 1862 to July 1, 1865, and the division which his father belonged to had the honor of capturing Jefferson Davis, the head chief of the Confederate states. For some years past Mr. Hildreth has been the manager and one of the owners of the Hotel Warner, 33rd street and Cottage Grove Ave., which is one of the best and most home like hotels in this city, as such he employs many Colored people and treats them with consideration, his head chef being a Colored man who has been with him for the past five years or long before the idea had entered his mind to become a candidate for Alderman of the Second Ward, many of the maids are also Colored and they always look neat and trim while in the discharge of their duties and the Colored help in the Hotel Warner speak of him in the very highest terms—claiming that he is a dandy boss and a high class gentleman. Mr. Hildreth left the city hall with a reputation for honesty and truthfulness which cannot be surpassed anywhere and his word is his bond in all business transactions, being at all times friendly disposed towards the Colored people, and being willing to give them a square deal at all times he is justly entitled to receive a healthy per cent of their votes and support at the primaries in his race for the nomination for alderman of the Second Ward. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley and the rest of the family moved into their beautiful new home this week, 6248 S. Sangamon street and in the near future they will give a house warming to their many friends. P. A. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF AARON J JONES, CANDIDATE FOR ALDER MAN IN SIXTH WARD. Aaron J. Jones, endorsed by the William Hale Thompson faction on the Republican ticket for Alderman of the Sixth Ward, in opposition to Willis O. Nance, the nominee of the Deneen-West crowd, has many things to his credit, beside his ambition to be the Aldermanic representative of the Sixth Ward. To begin with, he is not a politician, nor has he interested himself in politics heretofore. He is a business man pure and simple, having been a factor in business life in Chicago for over twenty-two years. He is still a young man of vim and vitality, having only touched his thirty-eighth HON. JOHN A. RICHERT THE Able AND HARD WORKING CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR RENOMINATION AND REELECTION TO THAT BODY FROM THE FOURTH WARD TO BE VOTED FOR AT THE PRIMARIES TUESDAY FEB. 29TH. Alderman John A. Richert who is a tip-top businessman was born in this city, November 28, 1869, he also received his educational training in St. Peter's Parochial School and business college, after which he studied for four years in Strassburg, Germany, on returning to this country he faithfully served as bookkeeper in one of the large banking institutions in this city from 1887 to 1897—since the last mentioned date he has been successfully engaged in the banking, real estate and insurance business—being for a long time secretary of the Halsted Street Safe Deposit Co., with offices at 2603 South Halsted street and he and his company stand A1 in the business world. Being very popular with all classes of his fellow citizens, he is a member of the Knight of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters, N. A. U. R. A. he is also an honored member of several year. For sixteen years he has lived in the Sixth Ward, at present his residence being the Hyde Park Hotel. He was born in Chicago, and educated in the public schools, attending the Springer School, at 41st street and Wabash avenue. He is educating his children in the public schools and has two boys at this time attending the Chicago University. He has been a tax payer always, his taxes having been large in recent years, owing to the number of theatres in which he is the guiding spirit. He has over five hundred employees under his direction, operating his business interests throughout Chicago. Mr. Jones was the instigator and builder of the White City, which proved a boon to business at the extreme south end of the Sixth other social clubs or societies. He has been one of the able and brainy members of the city council for the past twelve years—in fact he is one of its safe and sound leaders—reflecting great credit upon it and the people residing in the 4th ward as well as those residing in the various other wards throughout this city. For the past six or seven years he has honorably served as the chairman of the finance committee of that body, many times working day and night in an effort to keep or stir the old ship of Chicago into 'clear financial waters. Alderman and Mrs. Richert are happily married and reside with their three lovely children in a pleasant home at 2717 Emerald Ave. ALDERMAN JOHN TOMAN IS SLATED TO BE RETURNED TO THE CITY COUNCIL FROM THE 34TH WARD. The many friends and constituents of Alderman John Toman, of the 34th Ward are so well pleased with his labors in their behalf, that they will roll up a whopen majority for him at the primaries Tuesday, February 29th and at the election Tuesday, April 4th. No.22 Ward and to the south side in general. The present Aldermanic endorsement was not sought by Mr. Jones, but was brought to him and he was asked to accept by popular acclaim of business men in the Sixth Ward. Should he be nominated and elected to the Council, his only promise is to the voters. He has made no promises to Ward bosses or others than the rank and file of the voters. His promise is to be honest at all times and use strictly business methods in his office as Alderman. Mr. Jones, as president of the Jones, Linick & Schaefer Company is a large employer of Colored help. In his theatres in Chicago alone he has over thirty-five Colored men and women on his payrolls. THE FREDERICK-DOUGLASS CELEBRATION SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBUARY 20TH AT THREE O'CLOCK. This coming Sunday afternoon, at three o'clock, February 20, the 99th birthday of Frederick Douglass will be celebrated at Quinn Chapel, Hon. Frank S. Dickson, Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, will be the leading orator. A fine musical program will be rendered in connection with the celebration. Hon. A. H. Roberts, will be master of ceremonies. NOTES OF THE PERELESS CLUB By Carl L. Cotton, Cor. Sec'y. Monday evening the residence of Mr. Curtis Young was the scene of an enthusiastic meeting of the Peerless Club. Many topics were discussed and plans were made for greater accomplishments. A splendid repast was served. A special program is being prepared for the next meeting. Mr. Ben. Cornelius will deliver a lecture on social science. The Peerless Club feels very fortunate in having among its members such cultured and high minded young men. Lectures of this class is not only educational but advances the club socially as well as intellectually. THE HALL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL The image provided does not contain any text. It appears to be a blank or empty space with no visible content. ```markdown ``` COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON. Commanding the Eighth Regiment Ill with might and main the past two of the new Eighth Regiment Armo Commanding the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards who has worked with might and main the past two years to bring around the completion of the new Eighth Regiment Armory. BIG CELEBRATION—WASHING- TON'S BIRTHDAY. On the afternoon of February 22nd —Washington's Birthday, The National Security League, will hold a Monster Patriotic Celebration, starting at 2 P. M. A civic parade on Michigan avenue, followed by a mass meeting at the Coliseum at 3 P. M. All citizens are invited to attend the Coliseum mass meeting and unite in making this National Holiday a memorial one from a patriotic and civic standpoint, in arousing our people to the importance of our country's needs, and to the principles advocated by the League for National efficiency and Preparedness. Admission to the Coliseum is free. Doors open at 2:00 P. M. Briefly here is an outline of the Program. Parade is to form at Randolph and Michigan—start at 2:00 P. M., comprising bands, floats, National Guard Training Corps. Line of march south on Michigan to 16th street, west to Wabash and north to the Coliseum. After entering the Coliseum there is a presentation of colors. Band concert by Chicago Band—Wm. Weil, Conductor. Addresses by Gov. E. F. Dunne—Mayor Thompson John Temple Graves—Adj. General F. PAGE TWO S. Dickson, Illinois National Guard—Louis N. Hammerling of New York, President Association Foreign Language Newspapers. Flag Demonstration and singing. Thanking you in advance for your enthusiastic support. Yours for success, NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE. FATHER OF, 41 AGED 95, WEDS WOMAN 39 Plymouth, N. C.—W. D. Davis, 94 the father of 41 children, 33 of whom are living, married her yesterday, Mrs. Mason, 39. Twenty-six children of the bridegroom witnessed the marriage ceremony. This is Mr. Davis' fourth venture in matrimony. He says a man is never too old to marry and that old men should marry young women. Mr. Davis has 192 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren. Most of both witnessed the ceremony today and they almost filled the Church to the exclusion of friends. Mr. Davis is a farmer and is in good health. Despite his numerous relatives he said he was lonesome. Mr. Davis comes from the old stock and he is doing his part in helping to leave his foot prints on the sand of time. -Editor. The newly completed Eighth Regiment Armory, 35th and Forest Ave., the main building is two hundred and twenty-five feet long by one hundred feet wide—the Drill or the Dance Hall is one hundred and seventy-six feet long by one hundred feet wide. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. THE NEW EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY WILL BE READY FOR THE GRAND BALL AND HOUSE WARMING MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 21. The New Drill or Dance Hall is One Hundred Feet Wide by One Hundred and Seventy-six Feet Long. Three New Companies of the Regiment Will Be Formed Making Fifteen Companies in All Placing It on a War Footing. Work on the new eighth regiment armory, 35th street and Forest Ave., continues to move forward at rapid strides and everything in the main part of the armory will be ready for the reception, ball and house warming Monday evening, Feb. 21. Each and every member of the regiment as well as the citizens of this city and the State of Illinois should feel very proud over their new armory as it will stand for many years to come as a living monument to the onward march of the Colored soldiers in this country. The main building is 225 feet long by one hundred feet wide, three stories high and when it is fully completed it will be by far the largest and the most up-to-date building in the world of its kind to be occupied by Negro soldiers, the main drill or dance hall is one hundred and seventy-six feet long by one hundred feet wide, ladies and gents rest or comfort rooms are located on the main floor of the armory on the west side of the building, a commodious balcony constructed of solid concrete extends clear around the main drill hall—the band stand being located in the north end of the balcony, it will contain one thousand and five hundred new folding chairs, the ladies and gents check rooms will contain one thousand boxes, thereby making it possible for each and every one to get their belongings checked in or out without any trouble. Another hall 80 (feet) long by 45 (feet) wide is located on the second floor of the ar- JAMES S. NELSON. Captain and quartermaster of the Nighth Regiment Illinois National Guards who will stand at the head of one of the new companies of that regiment. mory and it will make an ideal hall for fair or large sized dancing parties, ladies and gents rest or comfort rooms are closely connected with it, a lovely little cooking room with gas range, with plenty of dishes and everything else needed to prepare and serve meals. Three new companies of the regiment are now being formed—one to be known as the headquarters company and it will be commanded by Capt. Louis B. Anderson, the second of the new companies to be formed will be known as the supply company and it will be commanded by Capt. John L. Fry, the third or last of the new companies to be created will be the machine gun company and it will fall under the control of the quartermaster's department and be commanded by Capt. James S. Nelson, and with the fifteen companies thus formed the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards will be on a war footing and at the drop of the hat it will be ready to rush or march to the front and assist to defend the stars and stripes. In this connection it must be said that no one has worked any harder the past two or three years in order to bring about the completion of the new Armory than Col. Franklin A. Denison, frequently during that time he has given his own notes which ran up into the thousands of dollars in order to raise the money for the purpose of keeping the various contractors moving ahead with the work—while waiting to obtain the funds or the money from Springfield, Ill., which had been appropriated by the state for its construction, during that same length of time he has neglected his law and private business to an alarming extent, for the sole purpose of enabling him to spend as much time as possible around the armory to look after or supervise every detail of its construction, for from its beginning down to the present time he wanted to be in a position to account for every dollar which had been appropriated for that purpose and to see to it that the contractors lived up to and carried out their contracts to the last letter or minute details so he must be given full credit for the hard work which he has willingly performed in connection with its construction without pay and for his good intentions in that direction. 1 M. MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON One of the head chiefs of the Eighth Regiment Illinois will this coming fall be re-nominated and re-elected Illinois from the Third Senatorial district. One of the head chiefs of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards who will this coming fall be re-nominated and re-elected to the Legislature of Illinois from the Third Senatorial district. LINCOLN-DOUGLASS DAY CELIBRATION UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB AT THE WENDELL PHILLIPS HIGH SCHOOL LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON WAS A GRAND SUCCESS. Last Sunday afternoon, the Lincoln-Douglass celebration was held at the Wendell Phillips High School, 39th street and Prairie avenue, under the auspices of the Appomatttox Club and every inch of space on the platform and in the large assembly hall was occupied by men and women, who were anxious to hear and learn about those two patron saints of liberty and justice. Lincoln and Douglass. The following program was rendered to the delight of the vast audience. 1. Introductory remarks by the President of the Appomattox Club, Col. John R. Marshall and presentation of the Chairman of the meeting, Hon. Oscar DePriest. 2. Invocation, Rev. A. J. Carey. 3. Selection, 8th Regiment Band. 4. Address “Our Duty” Hon. John Dill Robertson. 5. Solo, Mr. Hugh Buchanan. 6. Address “Frederick Douglass” Hon. Beauregard F. Moseley. 7. Solo, Mrs. Florence Talbert. “If God be for us, who can be against us,” from Handel's Messiah. 8. Address “Abraham Lincoln” Hon. William Hale Thompson. 9. “Star Spangled Banner” The Audience. Henry Bunch, 4719 Dearborn street, who was for a long time head bar tender for Harry J. Kelly, 310 State street, passed away the first part of this week. Funeral services were held over his remains Thursday afternoon, his body being shipped to Memphis, Tenn., for burial. 8th Regiment Band. For our part we are exceedingly proud of Col. Denison—proud of the new armory and doubly proud of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards. 4 Regiment Illinois National Guards who ced and re-elected to the Legislature of district. THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. In the "Celebration of the Birthday Anniversary of Frederick Douglass" Sunday February 20 at Quinn Chapel Church at 3:00 p. m. Last Sunday the League held no meeting at the Reading Room because of the celebration with the Federated Organizations in its "Linecoln Celebration" at Olivet Baptist Church. The Reading Room attendance during the element weather for the past week has been very large. The number that made use of the facilities being three hundred one. A number of persons were given employment. Sunday February 27, the League will have a discussion of the "boy problem." Dr. Lyon, Judge Harry P. Dolan, and Mr. D. G. Smith Big Brother have been invited to deliver the addresses. All parents who have boys and all who are interested in the boy problem are invited. THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. The Alpha Suffrage Club has resumed its regular meeting at the Reading Room 3005 State St. and will meet regularly every Wednesday night at the same place. Alderman Hugh Norris who was to be the speaker at last week's meeting sent word he was ill with la gripe and was unable to attend. The women heard the reports from the conference of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association on the occasion of Mrs. Catt's visit. They also heard reports of plans for conference recommended by Mrs. Catt. Prof. J. E. W. Bowen, of Atlanta, Ga., visited friends in Chicago the past week. --- A Prima Donna Giyes Her Home For War Sufferers. P. MME. MELBA. After sixteen months of personal service to war victims Mme. Melba recently gave the use of her apartment in Paris for an army hospital. Dr Jane Wells Craven of Pittsburgh is superintendent in charge. The apartment will be known as the Melba Home hospital and will be used for the benefit of all soldiers of whatever nationality. The gift of the hospital came as a surprise, topping the singer's systematic economies in dress, food and personal comforts. "See my tight skirt," she said, pointing to a much worn serge. "I have bought neither worn hats, hats nor blouses since the war began. I can't afford new garments until every suffering man, woman and child has food and shelter. "This war was declared without consulting women, but our jobs as women seem to be well laid out for us, and where there is a will there's a way. I have lost all my men folk in this war, either by shot or insanity." Mme. Melba said her apartment at 91 Avenue Henri Martin has large, airy rooms, with solarium and roof garden, and will accommodate 200 beds. Equipment for each bed will cost $25. Mme. Melba has pledged even the maintenance of the majority of these, in memory of Arnold Quilter of the Grenadier guards, who fell at the Dardanelles. TRAYS FOR EVERY USE. A Variety of These Useful Articles For Every Household. One of the most interesting details of the modern china closet is the tray. Trays for muffins, for sweets and services for tea and after dinner coffee are as popular as the breakfast tray. Whether or not the present status of breakfast as a movable feast is the result of the hectic existence mankind leads today it is hard to say. If this meal is to be served in bed a delightful individual tray would be one with folding legs. Such a tray naturally contains only service for one. A variety of designs, however, may be found in this style of tray with individual sets of china suited to every purse. For the member of the family who wishes only a cup of black coffee or tea with a dash of cream perhaps a small tray containing three pieces of silver to which is added the cup is a convenient service. The after dinner coffee set has its own tray and is easily carried into the drawing room or library. At the country house, where all sorts of impromptu meals are served in the garden, the pantry must be supplied with trays of every description—black or white painted ones to accord with old furniture and quaint cottons, glass covered chinz ones set in wicker; even perfectly plain white enameled trays may be used. The housekeeper's soul will delight in the variety and beauty of this practical adjunct to housekeeping, and her only difficulty will be in selecting. Eggplant Straws Cut into one-fourth inch slices an unpeeled eggplant. Salt each slice and press them for an hour or so under a heavy weight. Now cut the slices into equal lengths, about a fourth of an inch wide, discarding the skin; dry in a cloth and roll them in a mixture of equal parts of fine cornmeal and flour; season with pepper, salt and a slight dash of nutmeg. Drop a few at a time into salad oil (driot) and fry them until they are a delicate brown. Dry on a soft paper as you would French fried potatoes and serve at once while they are crisp and tender. Attractive Blotters Guest room blotters are covered with stiff chintz covers, the blotter leaves inside being held in place by narrow satin ribbons. The chintz is the same as that used in the hangings of the room. On the outside cover of the blotter a picture, clipped from a magazine or Sunday paper, is pasted, and then the entire cover is shellacked. These blotters are very handy for guest room use and may be renewed cheaply and often enough to keep them fresh and inviting in appearance. About Wedded Bliss The old fashioned diagnosis of rheumatism is coming into disfavor. Too many distinctly different types of ailments have been classed under rheumatism. The old fashioned verdict of incompatibility is bound, too, in time, to come into disfavor. Too much of martial infelicity that is caused by selfishness or unrest or unpreparedness for marriage or unpropitious circumstances in marriage is laid at the door of incompatibility. Of course incompatibility exists. It is present in every marriage in a greater or lesser degree. It is an inevitable concomitant of every marriage. But unless it is pronounced, as in some cases where a man and woman marry in haste, without any community of thought and interest, it does not cause serious trouble. The average couple are attracted before marriage not only by the call of sex, but by many attributes of mental and spiritual affinity. After marriage it is apparent that they are not as completely in unison as they were before marriage. Traits that were hidden by the glamour of courtship come into the foreground. For husband and wife are each the product of dissimilar environment and heredity, and, being so, many of their ideas, tastes and habits are bound to clash. Then, too, as they are man and woman, their inclinations and emotional natures are fundamentally different. Thus it is to be expected that at times the unlike natures of man and wife should cause discord. The couple who are idlers or one of whom is an idler find incompatibility a bugbear in their lives. With real work—with something serious to think about and something worth while to do—they would find little time to worry about their discrepancies in opinion and taste. To those who are unready for marriage, who are bad tempered, eccentric and shiftless in habit and management—to this type of people incompatibility is a scapegoat for all their misdemeanors. FOR TRAVELERS. Two Articles That the Girl Going South Will Like. This workbag is made of Dresden ribbon, the strap of which is re-enforced with silk braid and tassels. It is equipped with stocking darners. The ROSE USEFUL FAVORITES. box combines writing paper with all the necessary sewing utensils, thread, thimble, needles and scissors, with a pocket on the lid for odds and ends. It is compact, pretty, covered with leather and therefore durable. Conventionality. Woman is much less conventional than man. She does all the conventional things and attacks other women savagely for breaches of convention. But you will generally find that where a man may with impunity break a convention he will not do so, while if secrecy is guaranteed a woman will please herself first and repent only if necessary. It follows that a man is conventional because he respects convention, women conventional because she is afraid of what may happen if she does not obey convention. The typical Englishman of the world wrecked upon a desert island would get into his evening clothes as long as his shirts lasted; his wife alone in such circumstances would wear a low cut dress to take her meal of coconuts, even if her frock did up in front.—Atlantic. Oysters Roasted In the Shells Wash and scrub the shells. Cook in a hot oven or on top of stove over red-hot coals or in a steamer until the shells open. Always place them round shell down to retain the juice. Serve melted butter and vinegar or lemons with them. Cornmeal Fish Balls Take two cupfuls of cold white cornmeal meat, combine it with one cupful of shredded codfish, one beaten egg and one tablespoonful of butter. If the fish is too salty it should be soaked first. Dren on soypnuts into hot fat. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 19, 1916 This Hat Might Be a Modern Version of Moorish Taste. THE FEATHER HAT SO ULTRA. Headgear after this model resembles old Moorish styles somewhat. The jaunty high white feather is held by a knot of tan straw like the hat itself, which is of a pretty, fine weave. This design leaves no doubt in our minds about height being one of the season's features. SHINING TRESSES. A Doctor's Suggestions About Shampoos and Daily Care of Your Hair. Although it may not be possible or indeed desirable for every woman to have tresses of Godiva-like abundance. it is within the power of almost everybody to have a fine head of hair or to possess what looks like one, whether her locks are long or short, thick or thin, dry or oily, dark, fair or just mid-brown. The whole secret lies in the state of the health and the daily care of the hair. If the hair is in an impoverished condition, abnormally greasy or abnormally dry, showing a tendency to become brittle and 'break off short'; if it loses its color and bulk, then it is no good in beginning any hair treatment without first attending to the general state of the health. One should take sufficient exercise and rest and correct any indiscretions in diet. Where an anaemic condition exists a tonic often does wonders, so will a course of cod liver oil, while raw eggs and unboiled milk are articles of diet which directly beautify the hair. As to the general care of the hair, it should be washed as often as it requires cleaning. Once a week is not too often for a very oily type of hair, and about once in three weeks is a good average for ordinary hair. If it is washed at home liquid soap is the best thing to use. The hair should be thoroughly wetted with warm water, then a handful of the liquid rubbed in. If it does not lather at once use a little more water and a little more liquid till the whole head is in a perfect foam; rinse out the lather very thoroughly, take the worst of the moisture off with hot towels and dry by brushing and fanning. Do not on any account seek to dry it by the fire. The daily care of the hair is most important. It should be well brushed every night; the scalp being first of all treated with a rather hard brush to stimulate the circulation and the long hair afterward brushed with long, sweeping strokes, two brushes with rather long, stiff bristles being used. This is to keep the hair clean and give it a natural gloss. Some Tasty Sandwiches. The Midnight.—One cream cheese, twelve olives stoned and chopped fine, moisten and spread between thin buttered slices of white or entire wheat bread. The Boston.—Mash cold baked beans, add two tablespoonfuls horseradish to each cupful of beans, spread between thin slices of brown bread, buttered. Tomato catup or prepared mustard may be used to season beans instead of horseradish if preferred, seasoning to suit the taste. The Walnut.—Butter the bread, spread over each slice a layer of cheese, then a layer of chopped nuts. Sprinkle with salt and cover with another slice. Serve with olives. The Onion.—Soak finely cut Bermuda onions in ice water for an hour, the water being previously sweetened and salted. Drain and mix with mayonnaise and place between slices of white bread. Smurche.—Two packages of cheese. one hard boiled egg, a ten cent bottle stuffed olives, salt and cayenne to taste, one tablespoonful melted butter and a little chopped onion. Chop and mix all together and spread between slices of bread. Homemade Tea Wagon. A discarded gocart may be used for the purpose. Remove the seat part from the gocart, leaving the wheels and handle. Then saw the legs off from an old wicker table about five inches from the ground. Fasten the table to the gocart and paint all a dark green. Place on top of the table first a piece of cretonne, then a piece of glass over that. Hold both in place with four strips of molding nalled on firmly and painted the same dark green. One of the First Spring Turbans Yet Pictured. ```markdown ``` A LA MODE Brimless, high, springy, this new turban combines much of style. The piquant wing is of hello cerise velvet, a deeper shade than the five floppy roses at its base. The straw itself is a novelty in one of the new tan shades. Please observe the net vell with its attractive border in triangles and dots. THE ART OF DRESS. How Clothes Influence Character and Even Destinies. The influence of clothes on human destinies is enormous. We say "it is not the cowl that makes the monk," but that is another erroneous proverb. Its stamp always remains and molds the individual, body and soul, in a certain way. The prestige of the costume has a great deal to do with the sacerdotal or military vocation. Who will ever know how much Mile. de Montijo's dresses had to do with making an empress of her? She ordered her dresses for Compiègne from Worth, whose fame was just beginning, and, according to her own expression, they were her "battle horse." On them she won her victory, and we all know the effects of that victory. "The death of a delightful man of my acquaintance," declares Pierre de Coulevain in one of her sprightly books. "was caused by a hat being worn on one side. One of his mother's friends wanted him to marry a pretty girl she knew, who was very charming and well off. He happened to be staying at her house near Vernon when this young protegee was going through on her way to Rouen. "Anxious for her guest to see the girl, she persuaded him to go to the station with her. He went, saw the girl; but, alas, she had her hat on one side, in the most comical way possible. It was no doubt one of those odious hats, so badly balanced that no pin in the world could keep them straight. The harm was done, though. He never ered tell his mother's friend what his objection to the girl had been. He owned it to me later on, adding, "I should always have seen her like that!" Imagination plays tricks on Frenchmen as it does on no other men. This one married another girl who wore her hats straight, but whose head was rather turned. The marriage ended in a divorce and the divorce in sudden death, such sudden death that it was generally believed to have been suicide. Knitted Lace. Cast on fifteen stitches and knit across plain. First Row. K 2, o. o. purl 2 together. k 1, o. o. n. k 8. Second Row. K 9, k 1, loop, purl 1 loop, k 1, o. o. purl 2 together. k 2. Delicious Salad. Six medium sized cold boiled potatoes, three boiled beets, a small onion, a small pepper and any other cooked vegetables left from dinner diced together. Mix with the following dressing: One teaspoonful mustard, two teaspoonful sugar, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, a teaspoonful flour, blended into a table-spoonful soft butter; a well beaten egg, one-half cupful milk, one-quarter cupful vinegar. Cook in double boiler until thick. Have all ingredients ice cold and mixed some time before serving so as to be well blended. Serve on lettuce leaves garnished with hard boiled eggs. This makes a hearty supper for five persons. A Run On Icings Chocolate Icing.—Add two squares of chocolate melted over hot water just after the sirup has been beaten into the egg. Maple Icing.—Use one and one-half cupfuls of brown sugar and one-half cupful of granulated sugar in the boiled Icing. Coffee Icing.—Use one cupful of weak coffee in place of the water in the boiled Icing. Marshmallow Icing.—Add twenty marshmallows cut in fourths to the sirup, being sure that it is hot enough to melt them. If not soften the marshmallows first over hot water, or soften in the oven. Nut or Fruit Icing.—Add one cupful of chopped nut meats just before spreading on the cake. Add cocoanut or chopped raisins. Add a raisin or fig paste made by cooking one cupful of chopped raisins or figs with one tablespoonful of water and one tablespoonful of sugar. Butter Icing.—Butter, one-third cupful; confectioners' sugar, one cupful; cream, two tablespoonfuls; flavoring, one teaspoonful. Cream the butter, gradually add the sifted sugar, and beat until the mixture looks like whipped cream. Add the flavoring and cream until of the right consistency to spread. Do not put on a hot cake. Cocoa Icing.—Add two tablespoonfuls of cocoa to the sugar. Mocha Icing.—Add two tablespoonfuls of cocoa to the sugar and two tablespoonfuls of coffee in place of the cream. Chocolate Marshmallow Icing.—Slice marshmallows in thin slices and lay on the cake while hot. When cool spread over the chocolate Icing. Fudge Icing.—Sugar, two cupfuls; milk, one cupful; butter, one teaspoonful; chocolate, two squares; salt, one half teaspoonful; vanilla, one teaspoonful. Combine the sugar, cut chocolate and milk and let stand over a very low flame until the sugar is dissolved and the milk melted. Then boil hard without stirring until a soft ball is formed when dropped in cold water. Remove, add the butter and let stand until cold. Beat until creamy and spread on the cake. This will burn very easily. A QUAINT DESIGN. With This Model In Mind Matrons Can Make One Like It. Simple as it looks, this frock nevertheless conforms to fashion's dictates in that it masses the skirt fulness on the hips, has full sleeves and panniers. The material used is a silvery gray 1 A HOUSE GOWN. crepe de chine, with elaborate embroidery done in heavy silk of the same tone, but different weights, massed on the panniers and sleeves. The princess front is belted loosely with a heavy silk cord and tassel. This frock is exceedingly picturesque on a certain type of woman. Boiled Salt Mackerel In Cream Sauce. Boiled Salt Mackerel In Cream Sauce. Wash the fish in several waters, remove the head and part of the tail, scrape off the thin black skin and soils in cold water over night. In the morning tie the fish in a cloth, cover with fresh cold water, bring slowly to a boil, cook one-half hour, then take off the cloth, remove the backbone and lay the fish on a heated dish. Scald a cupful of milk, thicken with a teaspoonful of cornstarch wet in a little cold milk, add a teaspoonful of minced parsley, two tablespoonfuls of butter and pepper and salt to taste. Remove from the fire, add a well beaten egg, return to the fire, cook a minute longer, then pour the sauce over the fish and serve. Garnish with sprigs of parsley and slices of hard boiled eggs. PAGE THREE Two Playmates Out Having Fun on Roller Skates. ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. Children who live in the city often miss much of the fun that country youngsters enjoy. Soon as snow falls in big towns hundreds of men are sent out to shovel it into plies quite inconvenient for sliding downhill and snow men. So city children have to plan a blt, and one of the best loved sports is roller skating in the parks, where asphalt walks are good and smooth. The picture shows Helen Maxwell, daughter of Mr. Howard Maxwell, and her playmate, Virginia Smathers, roller skating in Central park, New York, just after the last snowstorm. The Daisy. Did you ever hear the story of the daisy which looks like a star? Once upon a time there was a little star up in the sky that belonged in no group of stars at all, but just had to wander around by itself all the time. Every evening it watched the evening star tow the new moon over the edge of the dark and enviwed it. It heard much talk among the other stars, some of them of less magnitude envying those of greater magnitude, and the little lone star thought to itself that no one saw it even to envy it. Down on the earth it looked so much easier to get into a group and have companions, so one day when the earth was swinging over from dark to daylight the little star did not try to preserve its equilibrium, but just dropped down, down, until it came to earth. It fell so far that it fell deep down into the earth, but some star seeds at its heart shot up from the earth, changed through the influence of the soil, and there stood a beautiful star flower, and never is it lacking for companions of its own kind. About Matches. Every boy and girl in the west knows who Lewis and Clark were and what great work they accomplished for the country, but they may not know that when they were starting on their great journey of discovery Dr. Saugrain of St. Louis made them what was called at that time chemical matches. He showed hem how they could make phosphorus for themselves, and you no doubt know the story of how these matches affected the Indians, who would not sell the "wapato" until they saw the miracle of the matches, and then they gladly gave it. Before these chemical matches were made it was necessary to draw fire by means of flint and steel, and it was often a very hard task to do it, so fires seldom went out, but were fed constantly or covered so that they could blaze up in a short time. Pencil and Notebook. There is a satisfaction and a very certain educational value as well in being able to record one's impressions by rough notes and sketches and to show others one's ideas in the same manner. Every boy, even though he possesses no talent whatever for drawing, ray learn to roughly sketch an outline if he properly develops a simple sense of proportions. The noting of interesting facts, read over often more than once later, fixes them in the memory and is good practice in expression if one tries constantly to set forth these notes clearly and correctly. Try it. Frost Cracking Trees. The traveler in the winter woods during extreme cold and especially after nightfall is sometimes started by sounds like pistol shots and as loud, near and far away. It is not difficult to locate these sounds as coming from the larger trees around, the frost so shrinking the wood as to cause the fibers to separate in the weakest places, and they do this in such a hurry as to resemble an explosion. Poverty of Language. Travelers tell us that there is a very wild tribe near the upper Amazon that possesses a language singularly devoid of needed words. For instance, they have nothing to express a number greater than three, but this word is one of nine syllables. Cheerful Molly. Oh, Molly put her bonnet on And started up the street, And who but Crippled Charlie was The first one she did meet. And Molly passed the time of day, And Charlie said "Wis getta!" And never gave the joyful pair In these United States St. Louis Globe Democrat. 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 72 72 ALDERMAN JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH Warm friend of the Afro-American race, member of the Lic other committees of the city council and Democratic nomination and re-election to that body from the 14th w Warm friend of the Afro-American race, member of the License, Building and other committees of the city council and Democratic candidate for renomination and re-election to that body from the 14th ward. Alderman Joseph Higgins Smith, Democratic candidate for re-nomination at the primaries Tuesday, Feb. 29th was elected to the city council from the 14th ward in 1914, and from the very first day that he entered it down to the present time its other members have been aware of the fact that they could not put anything over on him with his eyes wide open. ing a pleasant smile on his friendly face is not ashamed to let it be known that he came up from the ranks of the laboring classes—that he was engaged in working at his trade, that of blacksmith at the time he was elected to the city council in 1914; that he still keeps up his membership in the International Brotherhood of Blacksmith that he is still holding the office of Since becoming a member of that body he has accomplished a great deal of constructive work—not only for the people residing in the 14th ward but the people in general living in all parts of this city, at all times he has steadily forced himself to the front in behalf of all measures having for their object the improvement of the condition of the laboring or workingmen, he has shown a decided or firm interest in the establishment of small parks throughout Chicago for the special benefit of small children and for those who are unable to make long trips to the larger parks, he has worked hard early and late in favor of clean streets and alleys, and an up-to-date adequate lighting system. Alderman Smith who is a whole souled big hearted fellow always wear- THE LATE JOISIAH S. TANDY LAID TO REST. Last Sunday morning, the body of Mr. Josiah S. Tandy, who died February 9th, escorted by a brass band and the masonic fraternity, left the residence at 5145 Federal St., and funeral services were held under the auspices of Doric Lodge No. 77 at Masonic Hall. Rev. Moses'H. Jackson of Grace Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Tandy was a member, officiated, and the choir of the church under Mr. P. T. Tinsley rendered the music for the occasion. A large gathering of friends was present notwithstanding the heavy fall of snow. The funeral party went in automobiles to Rosehill Cemetery where the body was buried. Mr. Tandy was a native of Kentucky having been born at Pembroke Dec. 25, 1861; he had lived in Chicago for thirty-five years, and for thirty-three years had been a faithful and honest employee of the Pullman Company. He commenced to lose his health about two years ago and has gradually fallen until death very gently took him away. His wife, Mrs. Beatrice Tandy, to whom he had been married for over thirty years, cared for him during his long illness. Mr. Tandy leaves a brother and a sister and a number of other relatives in Kentucky; he was one of the old railroad men of our City, and his loss is deeply mourned by the men of the road. There were many beautiful floral designs, among which was a broken wheel from the railroad employees. --- PAGE FOUR ce, member of the License, Building and Council and Democratic candidate for rebody from the 14th ward. ing a pleasant smile on his friendly face is not ashamed to let it be known that he came up from the ranks of the laboring classes—that he was engaged in working at his trade, that of blacksmith at the time he was elected to the city council in 1914; that he still keeps up his membership in the International Brotherhood of Blacksmith, that he is still holding the office of president of that organization. He is a delegate to the C. F. of L. and a wise counselor to that body. He holds membership in the Garfield Park Aerie of the Eagles and in the Barry Council, K. of C. Always active in the affairs of the Democratic party, he has been precinct committeeman ever since he became of age. Serving in the capacity of supply clerk in the county clerk's office, he rendered that same conscientious service there that he is now giving to his constituents of the Fourteenth Ward. Mr. Sam, Taylor, 1728 Fulton street, and many other Colored people residing in the 14th ward know Alderman Smith from A to Z and they are working like true soldiers for his success at the primaries, Tuesday, Feb. 29th. PROF. CHARLES STEWART WILL LECTURE IN CHICAGO. The people of Chicago will be given an opportunity to hear Charles Stewart, A. M., D. D., next Sunday and Monday. Dr. Stewart, will visit home for a few days, and Sunday morning will speak at Bethesda Baptist Church, at 11 o'clock and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon will deliver a lecture to women and girls at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 35th and Dearborn streets. This will be his first time to deliver a set lecture to women only in Chicago, although he has spoken here a number of times. In this talk he has attracted large crowds of women all over the country, and it is said to be helpful to the race. During the Christmas holidays he delivered a lecture at Quinn Chapel to men only, and on his return to the city, he speaks to women. Perhaps there is no man in the race who is better personally known than Dr. Stewart, and then he is well posted on conditions in the south—in fact in all parts of the country. He has been a citizen of Chicago since 1884, but at late years he is kept out of the city most of the time. Dr. J. F. Thomas, and his people are planning to give him a large crowd Sunday afternoon. Ernest H. Williamson, the up-to-date and progressive undertaker, 5028 and 5030 S. State street, continues to forge ahead in his line of business and he renders first class service at the lowest prices. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. HYDE PARK NEWS By L. W. Washington. Mr. Garrett and Mr. Hannibal Washington, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Washington spent their vacation in Indiana Harbor. As the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Brown who catered to our every wants. The spreads were delicious from stuffed olives to sweet meats and plenty of it. The trip was fine and recuperative. Mr. and Mrs. Tinsly who own the beautiful modern stone residence where we stopped bestired themselves to make our trip a pleasant one. We were surprised to find so many of our old time, staunch friends had located there, and were doing constructive work. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb gave a musical reception which was very pleasant. We were very glad to meet mother Tinsly. Everybody here own one or more homes. We have been invited to call again of course we accepted the invitation. We found Mr. Tinsly is one of the most practical and philosophical thinkers in the State of Indiana, we spent four hours listening to his wisdom, and carried away with us the fruits of his knowledge. On Monday Hannibal Washington met with a very sad accident, having the thumb on his right hand crushed. He is now resting easy. He is doing courageously fine. * * * The Rev. Merritt has now become one of our residencers out here which adds strength and dignity to our community interest. BETHEL CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. In addition to theregular services held Sunday at the Old Folks Home a special program for the benefit of the ALDERMAN HENRY P. BERGEN. One of the most popular and valuable members of the city council; member of the local transportation, gas oil and electric light and the railway terminals committees who feels dead sure that he will be renominated and re-elected to that body from the 31st ward. Novel Use For Gumpowder. "Early in the sixties of the last century," writes Rev. Fuller Mills, a Welsh clergyman. "I was a boy behind the counter of what was known as the company's shop at Abertillery. Among the collier customers who came to the shop was a tall, well developed man known as Dick Stevens or Stephens. "He was a member of the prize ring or the pugilistic fraternity, which was very popular in those days. * * * Dick Stevens was matched to fight Ianto Catcham and was preparing for the fight when he came to the shop for his weekly requirements. * * * He generally asked for an ounce or two of gunpowder. I wondered at this, and my curiosity was aroused. "I asked what he used it for. His reply was: 'I mix it with my gravy when I have my dinner and swallow it. It prevents the flesh from easily puffing under the hard blows of an opponent. The cuts and bruises are not so hurtful and heal more easily." The Gentle Art of Smiling. A mother had a little girl, her first child, who seemed to have been born with a scowl. Perfectly well, still she had a morose disposition which it seemed as though nothing could alter. When a second child was born the mother made a rule that no one should look at the baby without a smile. With the imitation of childhood the baby at once began, even in her early weeks, to smile back, and as she grew, and the rule still held in the home, she developed into what every one who knew her called "the smiling baby" and grew up with the sunnest disposition, a joy to every one. Now, what that mother did any mother can do. A child may actually inherit a serious, even a sullen disposition, yet these may be crowded out while they are undeveloped by the habit of cheerfulness.—Woman's Home Companion. Home was rendered by the Bethel Christian Endeavor. Two poems were recited by Mr. William Parker. "God give us men." "We've fought every race battle but our own." CHIPS Attorney S. A. T. Watkins, spent Thursday afternoon in Evanston, Ill., in close communication with Bishop Alexander Walters. Bishop Alexander Walters, of New York City, spent the latter part of this week in Chicago and Evanston, Ill., where he attended conference. Olivet Baptist Church has called to its pastorage Thq Rev. L. K. Williams Th. B. of Forthworth, Texas one of the most aggressive ministers in the Baptist connection. Bishop Alexander Walters president of the Get-to-gether Conference held in the Harris's Hall at the Northwestern University Thursday. This was quite an honor for the Race. Monday evening Miss Bertha Moseley and forty other young ladies, gave a progressive leap year party in the parlors of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes avenue. They transported the young men in autos to and from the affair, defraying all the expenses themselves and it was out of order for the men to invite the ladies to dance with them. On the other hand each lady walked up to the man and requested him to dance with her. be members of the city council; member oil and electric light and the railway and sure that he will be renominated and 1st ward. In respect to its dentition the shark is a very remarkable creature. The white shark has seven rows of teeth, while other species vary in the number of rows they possess. It must be understood, however, that the shark only uses one row at a time. The other rows lie down inside the mouth behind the edge of the jaw, erecting themselves when it is time for them to take successively the place of the first row. When one observes how keen edged these incisors are it seems no wonder that they can bite off a big rope as readily as if it were thread. Light Reading. "Do you read much?" she asked of him. "A great deal," he replied. "But it's mostly light reading." And when some one told her that he read gas meters for a living she gnashed her teeth in wild but helpless indignation.—London Telegraph. "What came before the literary club this afternoon, my love?" asked Mr. Dibble at dinner. "Oh, 'The Merchant of Venice,' and some of the worst sandwiches I ever ate," answered Mrs. Dibble.—Birmingham Age-Herald. "Did Hammfatt make a hit when he appeared on the stage?" "No, but some of those in the audience displayed excellent marksman ship."-Richmond Times-Dispatch. Mrs. Stubbins—Do you like codfish balls, Mr. Fox? The New Lodger—I don't know, Mrs. Stubbins. I never attended any.—London Tid-Bits. Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.—Epictetus. Poor Fare. Ignorance. [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. ALDERMAN HUGH NORRIS Republican Candidate For Re-nominat who has been endorsed by the Re- has a solid backing of Congresss George F. Harding, Hon. Samuel A the other high chiefs of the Repub will be re-nominated at the prima the combined opposition to him. Republican Candidate For Re-nomination For Alderman of the Second Ward who has been endorsed by the Republican organization of that ward who has a solid backing of Congressman Martin B. Madden, State Senator George F. Harding, Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson, Alderman Oscar DePriest and the other high chiefs of the Republican party in the second ward and who will be re-nominated at the primaries Tuesday, February 29th in spite of the combined opposition to him. ALDERMAN NATHANIEL A. STERN Two years ago Alderman Nathaniel A. Stern was elected to the city council from the Third Ward and so far he has made good, he is a member of the committees on harbors, wharves and bridges, schools, fire, police and civil service and the health committee of the city council. The municipal voter's league in its report of February 8th, 1916 has this to say in favor of the past record of Alderman Stern. Third Ward Nathaniel A. Stern—Finishing first year in council with good record; voted for "budget board," for requiring monthly lists of "sixty day" men, for removal and prosecution of Nye and Civil Service Commissioners Coffin and Geary, for securing financial information from school board, for prohibiting alderman soliciting jobs from public service corporations and against Cullerton's order violating building ordinance. Coming fifth in the council roll call and following the "Bath," the "Dink," DePriest and Norris, Stern with no previous council experience has had to decide between right and wrong on council questions quickly and without the lead of reliable aldermen. This duty he has discharged with excellent judgment; has shown independence and firmness; a valuable alderman. The following business men are loud in their praise of Alderman Stern and they would be delighted to see him returned to the city council from the 72. 72 ALDERMAN NATHANIEL A. STERN. Republican candidate for re-nomination and re-election to the Third Ward. Republican candidate for re-nomination and re-election to the city council from the Third Ward. Action For Alderman of the Second Ward for publican organization of that ward who man Martin B. Madden, State Senator Ettelson, Alderman Oscar DePriest and public party in the second ward and who series Tuesday, February 29th in spite of THANIEL A. STERN Wallace G. Clark, Trustee, Sanitary District, Michigan Boulevard; Henry Mahan, Pres. South Side Trust & Savings Bank, 43rd & Cottage Grove Ave.; Lucias Teter, Pres. Chicago Savings Bank & Trust Co., Chicago Savings Bank Bldg.; Arthur W. Draper, 25 N. Dearborn St.; Fred Wilk, Vice-pres. Union Trust Company, Tribune Bldg.; Moses N. Greenebaum, Pres. Greenebaum Sons Bank & Trust Co., 11 S. La Salle St.; Burk Freisleben, Pres., Central Bag Mfg. Co., 1545 W. 35th St.; Charles A. Olson, Pres. Central Bag Mfg. Co., 57th & Armour Ave.; James D. Elsdon, Westminster Bldg.; Wells M. Cook, 916 New York Life Bldg.; Frank P. Schreiber, Cashier, Union Trust Co., Tribune Bldg.; Wm. Nathan MacCheesen, Stock Exchange; Geo. D. Wolf, Of Baker-Vawter & Co., Tribune Bldg.; John Fowler, Pres. Lake & State Savings Bank, Cor. Lake & State St.; George R. Carr, of Dearborn Drug & Chemical Works, McCormick Bldg.; W. O. Krohn, M. D., Heyworth Bldg.; Charles P. Abbey, Tribune Bldg.; Joseph Weissenbach, Tribune Bldg.; Joseph Schaffner, of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, 36 S. Franklin St.; Murray Wolbach, National City Bank Bldg.; Joseph Frank, 45th & Indiana Ave.; Louis M. Cahn, Vice-pres., Progress Tailoring Co., 155 W. Harrison St.; W. H. Onderdonk, Mgr. Tribune Bldg., Tribune Bldg.; Charles H. Sergel, 542 S. Dearborn St. PETER H. and re-election to the city council from d Ward. HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. DRIVER 3300 So. State. Street! Phode Douglas 3617 |. _ Early Signs of ~ TUBERCULOSIS. It is well for every one of us tc know the first signs of what is com monly ealled consumption. The reasor is that the disease is curable if the patient is given the proper treatment early. Here is where eternal vigilance is of the highest importance. Watch for the sign of tuberculosis, neighbor wateh for the first and earliest evi dence. The earliest sign or symptom of the presence of that dread disease is an inerease in the heart action which can be found by any person who take: the pulse. This sign or increase of the pulse rate is observed when the effect ed person is up and about. That is what is known as a probable symptom or sign, it should arouse the suspicion of the presence of the disease. It should cause increased watchfulness for other and cbnfirmative or convine- ing evidence. There are a number of signs that any person ean discover which are only presumptive and must be taken only as such. The positive signs can be found in the early stages of the dis- order by the physician, because he alone is technically trained for tha PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ‘Wal promulgate and at all times upheld the tone principles ef Democracy, but Cathelies, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Singhs Taxers, Republicans, or anyone else cam hove thelr ony, oc long as thelr lan- grunge te proper and responsibility is Axed. ‘The Broad Ax is = newspaper whose pistiprm 1s breed enough for all, ever iaiesing the editerial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive atten- tom Write enly on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be pald in advance, Advertising rates made known on appll- cation. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 4538 ST. LAWRENOE AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. PHONE WENTWORTH 2507. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Pest Office at Chicage, Iilinels, under Act of March 3, 1879. a AUTHORIZED AGENTS AND COR- RESPONDENTS FOR THE BROAD Ax. L. W. Washington, 5465 Kimbark avenue, B. W. Fitts, 3315 S. State street Phone Douglas 4049. The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the last named place and news items and advertisements left there will find their way into these columns. Grand Military | BALL and House Warming _ New 8th Regiment | Armory 3515 FOREST AVE. Monday, Feb. 2Ist 1916 SPECIAL BAND CONCERT from 8:30 to 9:30 ‘Admission 50 cents First opportunity for public inspec- tion of completed Eighth Regiment Armory | exacting procedure. The presumptive signs will suggest that the physician be consulted with a view to ascertain- ing if the suspicions of the observer are correct, and to have the doctor di- rect the proper treatment. The next most important sign is a constant increase of afternoon tem- perature. The mere mention of the ‘two most important signs suggest the importance of a knowledge of the’ read- ing of the bodily state by the use of the clinical thermometer and the taking of the pulse rate. There is a need for every person to know how to do those very necessary functions; but it is sur- prising how few of the people there are who have learned to even take the pulse. There is an excuse for not learning the use of the thermometer be- cause it has to be bought but the pulse like the poor you always have with you, The fat person can have the disease and not know the fact as well as the Jean person ean. For that reason, we are compelled to admit that early tuberculosis is no respecter of persons. There does not necessarily have to be a history of family taint. There may or may not have been tuberculosis in the family. Moral: Learn to take the pulse and to use the clinical thermometer. A Bird's Barbed Wire Fences. ‘There is in Central America a brown wren about the size of a canary which builds a curious nest. It selects a small tree with horizontal branches growing close together. Across two of the branches it lays sticks fastened to- gether with tough fiber until a plat- form about six feet long by two feet wide has been constructed. On the end of this platform nearest the tree trunk it then builds a huge dome shaped nest a foot or so high with thick sides of interwoven thorns. A covered passageway is then made from the nest to the end of the platform in as crooked a manner as possible. Across the outer end as well as at short intervals along the inside of this tunnel are placed cunning little fences of thorns with just space enough for the owners to pass through. On going out this opening is closed by the own- er by placing thorns across the gate- way, and thus the safety of the eges or young is assured. Mew Chai fe Fermed, Deposits of chalk are found on some shores of the sea. A piece of chalk, such as the teacher uses to illustrate something on the blackboard at school, consists of the remains of thousands of tiny creatures that at one time lived in the sea. All of their bodies, excepting the chalk—called carbonate of lime in scientifie language—has disappeared and the chalk that was left was piled up where it fell at the bottom of the ocean, each particle pressing over It all until it became almost solid. It took thousands of years to make these chalk deposits of the thickness in which they are found. Later on, through changes in the earth's surface, the mountain of chalk was raised until it stood out ‘of the water and thus be- came accessible to man and school- teachers, Not Afraid of Cold Steel. In her younger days Eugenie, when empress of the French nation, was noted for ber great courage, as the fol: lowing incident proves. At a brilliant dinner party a some- what tactless zencral told her majesty that women should not meddie in poll ties. “You know, madame,” he said, “that Politics lead to war, and if the worse came to the worst you would not have the nerve to face cold steel.” “Wouldn't 17” cried the empress. “Tl show you!” And, snatching a large knife from the table, she inflicted a deep stab on her arm. After that the general never broach: ed the subject of woman's lack of nerves again. Sharpening a Pocketknife. Cutlers bave certain rules for sharp- ening razors, pocketknives, ete. “A razor.” said one of the craft quoted by the Scientific American, “must be laid flat on the hone, because it 1s hol- low ground and requires a fine edge But a pocketknife requires a stiff edge, and the moment you lay it flat on a stone, so as to touch the polished side, you injure the edge. It must be held at an angle of twenty to twenty-five degrees and have an edge similar to a chisel.” es THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. SS Music In Shakespeare's Time. “To Calculate Congresses. Shakespeare's time was an age of To determine the years covered b music. “Catches” were sung by get | given congress double the number tles as well as by weavers and tinkers.| the congress and add the product Lute, cithern or virginals were in ev-| 1789. ‘The result will be the year ery barber's shop for the diversion of | which the congress closed. Take, customers. * * * Thomas Morley may|example, the Thirty-fifth congr be using the blessed argument of | Doubling it gives us seventy; add 1 music teacher when he tells us that a/ &nd we have 1859, the year in whi gentleman was counted but a boor if] n March 4, the Thirty-fifth congr he could not play the lute or sing a| Closed. To find the number of a c part in a madrigal, but there is no get-| &Tess sitting in any year subtract 1 ting over the craggy fact. that over| ffom the year. If the result is an e eighty collections of madrigals, ayres | MUmber half that number will give and songs were printed and published | Congress of which the year in quest between 1587 and 1630, in addition to| ®8W the close. If the result is an « which vast collections of early music/®¥mber add one, and half the res still remain in manuscript. With an| Will give the congress in which aristocracy fond of music and accup-| 7e@F in question was the first ye tomed to play and listen to music and| T#Ke, again, the congress sitting song, music in the theater was almost | 1808 Sebtract 1780 from 1858 and ae ievitable in England as in Italy, | Pesult is sixty-nine. Add one, mak says the London Musical Record. It | Se¥enty, and divide by two, show was considered a manly accomplish-| {at the Thirty-first congress was h ment to play the hunting horn. Every| ‘8 its first regular session in ¢ gentleman who kept hounds could wind | Feat , The year 1780 ts the basic nt it, A punctilious etiquette fixed the| phish “the Fist cones mee correct set of notes for each operation| Constitution convened Phinucip of the chase. Usually a play had at] prog. ronet— Fetately least one song. SEES ines Sain ieee , , [Ironing the Tablecloth. ‘We are accustomed to think that only we humans become pallid with fear or agitated with Joy,-but some ex- periments with perch in the artificial pond show that when their repose is suddenly disturbed by tapping on the glass the fish visibly tremble, and the bars which are characteristic of this species actually disappear for the time being, only to reappear when the dis- turbance is removed and the equanim- ity of the fish is restored. Sometimes a pike that is rapidly ad- vancing on kis prey becomes suspicious about the latter’s character. The pur- suer will suddenly stop in an attitude of doubt, bis back will arch, and he will remain suspended as though studying the cause of his suspicions. Only when he is thoroughly reassured does he become rigid, to advance to the final attack: if his suspicion is not al- layed he drops to the bottom of the pond or swims off in disappointment — Popular Science Monthly. Success. “One night at Lady Jeune’s house Joseph Chamberlain said to me that he believed any man of even moderate endowment could attain any given aim which he set before him with unre- mitting effort and ‘enduring to the end’ To my question, ‘Why, then, do so many men fall short of their ambi- tions? he answered: “They come to the place where they turn back. They may have killed the dragon,at the first bridge and at the second, perhaps even at the third. But the dragons are al- ‘ways more formidable the farther we go. Many turn back disheartened, and very few will meet the monsters to the end. Almost none is willing to have a try with the demon at the last bridge, but if he does he has won for- ever.’ "Princess Lazarovich in Cen- tury. eo tem Wid Very interesting are the phrases used by the various people of the worid to express “I love you.” Wherever there are human beings declarations of love are made. and there are a thousand languages in which the tender passion may be expressed. The Chinese say “Uo ugai ni.” the Armenian expresses his love with “Se siren as hez,” the Arab is content with the short “Ne habbek.” while the Turk murmurs “Sidi seveiorum."” In India “Main syne ka pisar karim” is the declara- tion. But the Greenlander holds the palm for the word love. When he does not stammer it has fifteen syllables and has been recorded phonetically thus: “Unifgracerndiainalerfironajunguarrig- ujak!” An Ancient Guild. The Cutlers’ company had probably existed long before the grant of the first charter by Henry V. Early in the previous century a flere quarrel is re- corded between the Cutlers and the Sheathers. who were accused of hav- ing discredited the Cutlers by supply- ing them with unworkmanlike sheaths for knives, daggers and swords, to which the Sheathers cruelly retorted that the Cutlers disgraced the sheaths by selling inferior foreign blades for English.—London Spectator. Cyprus. Cyprus was an extremely popular re sort for Britishers for a year or so aft ter the announcement, th 1878, that it had become a British. protectorate, but as the coast could not provide harbors to compete with those of Malta the Vogue of the island receded as quick- ly as it had'sprung up.—London Globe. Worms Used In Medicine. ‘The earthworm, or the common fish- worm, was utilized by the medical practitioners in Europe two and three hundred years ago. ‘The worms were for internal administration and some- times made into an ointment or em- brocation for external use.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Marengo. In the battle of Marengo 58,000 men participated, and of that number 13, 000 were killed or wounded, about 22 per cent. Napoleon thought Marengo his greatest victory. He always kept throughout life the uniform he wore on that day. Information Wanted. Most of the stock phrases of every day life are intelligible to us, and we know a jot. but we wish somebody would tell us what a tittle t:—Colum bia State. . Life without pursuit is a vague and languid thing.—Bacon. ~ To Calculate Congresses. To determine the years covered by « given congress double the number of the congress and add the product to 1789. The result will be the year in Which the congress closed. Take, for example, the Thirty-fifth congress. Doubling it gives us seventy; add 1789 ‘and we have 1859, the year in which, on March 4, the Thirty-fifth congress Closed. To find the number of a con- gress sitting in any year subtract 1789 from the year. If the result is an even number half that number will give the congress of which the year in question Saw the close. If the result is an odd number add one, and half the result will give the congress in which the Year in question was the first year. Take, again, the congress sitting in 1858 Sedtract 1789 from 1858 and the result is sixty-nine. Add one, making seventy, and divfle by two, showing that the Thirty-first congress was hold- ing its first regular session in that year. The year 1789 is the basic num- ber, because that was the year in which the First congress under the constitution convened. — Philadelphia Press. frenina the Tahleciath_ A tablecloth should be pulled into shape before being ironed. After it is pulled into shape. fold it together lengthwise through the middle, so that the wrong side will be outside; then turn back the edes at each side so that the eloth is in four long folds, each fold of the same width. The outer folds will now be rizht side out. Iron these two outer folds. then turn them inside and fron the (wo inner folds that are now outside aud are the right side of the tablecloth. When the four folds are thus finislied the long length ean be doubled back and forward the de- sired width, but the crosswise folds should not be froned in. Papers can be placed where the tablecloth hangs over on the floor from the ironing board. A little practice will soon make you per- fect. The old fashioned way was to first fron a tablecloth on the wrong side, but the tablecloths coming under my observation that look the best are froned in the n:anner above described. — Eunice Haskins in Independent Farmer, in chiens The island of Ascension, in the At- lantic, belonzing to Great Britain, is unique in many respects. There is no private property in land, no rents, no taxes and no use for money. The flocks and herds are public property, and the meat is issue@ as rations. So are the vezetables grown on the farms. When an island fisherman makes a catch he brings it to the guardroom, whence it is issued by the sergeant ma- for. Practically the entire population are sailors, and they work at most of the common trades. The climate is al- most perfect. The island is 8 by 6 miles in size and bas a population of about 450. It is 250 miles northward of St. Helena und is governed by a captain appointed from the British navy. = Hamadan tn History. Hamadan seems to be certainly the Ekbatana, the summer residence of the ancient Persian kings. where Alexan- der the Great stored his enormous loot from Persia, estimated at over £41,000,- 000. But there is topographical diffi- culty about identifying it with the ear Her and still more interesting Ekbata- na described: tis Herodotus. the city where the first Median king, Deloces, realized the ideal of royal isolation by shutting himself up in a palace on top of a hill, surrounded by seven fortified circles of different colors descending the slopes in order and allowing the in- habitants of these to communicate with him only by writing. Either this story is a myth or the Ekbatana of Herodotus is to be found on a hill be- tween Hamadan and Tabriz—London Chronicle. - Eating and Fighting. Ibis not creditable to a thinking peo- ple that the two things they most thank God for should be eating and Sighting. We say grace when we are going to cut up lamb and chicken, and when we have stuffed ourselves to an extent that an orang outang would be ashamed of We offer up our best praises to the Creator for baving blown and sabered his “images,” our fellow creatures, to atoms and drenched them in blood and airt—Lelgh Hunt. Pay To make a satisfactory cream sauce, first put the miik ou and while this ts getting warm rb the butter and flaur together until smooth. As soon as the milk comes to the boil gradually add the creamy mixture while the milk continues to boil, and the Gnished sauce will be quite smooth. Close Call. | “Pa,” said little Jimmie, “I was very ‘near getting to the head of my class today.” “How was that, Jimmie?" : “Why, a big word came all the way down to me. and if I could only have spelled it I should have gone clear up.” Exchange. Intelligent Lad. Employer—Poy. take this letter and wait for an answer. New Boy—Yes, sir. Employer— Well. what are you wait- ing for? New Boy—The answer, sir. —Boston Transcript. The Pessimist. “Pa, what is pessimist?” “My son, a pessimist is a man who when given his choice between two evils takes both of them."—Life. The Place For Him. “He's so reckless he's always taking chances.” “Oh, do send him to our charity basaar.”—Baltimore American. 3 es as e hop . i. ig ae 5 uae Da or oR THE IMMORTAL FREDERICK DOUGLASS. He was the-greatest of all of the great champions of human rit and thunderings against the institution of slavery contrib downfall and overthrow than any other human being ané his labors in that direction, his ninety-ninth birthday annive be celebrated in all parts of this country throughout the co ajyaus, wunien unde “prison fever” was o eae eee a He was the-greatest of all of the great champions of human rights. His labors and thunderings against the institution of slavery contributed more to its downfall and overthrow than any other human being and as a result of his labors in that direction, his ninety-ninth birthday anniversary is and will ‘be celebrated in all parts of this country throughout the coming week. Big Guns Not New. Modern howitzers and siege guns are giants of destructiveness, yet, making allowance for time and exxperience, we must still admire the good old burghers of Ghent. who 500 years and tore ago turned out an iron “bom- barde” that weighed thirteen tons. This prototype.of the up to date siege gun had a bore twenty-five inches in slinmeter, Out of it was projected a =tanite ball that weighed 700 pounds. Bronze guns as big were cast half a century later at Constantinople. And when only a little over 100 years since an earlier British fleet was fighting its way into the Dardanelles these big suns crippled six of the English men- of-war and killed or wounded 126 of those on board. One gun of this type weizhed eighteen and three-quarter tons. had a twenty-five inch bore and fired a 72 pound stone shot.—New York World. ‘Cetin: cit ehin Gil When the gypsies first appeared tn England in the fifteenth century the uame gypsy was given to them by the Enzlish people, who believed them to have come from Egypt. The French, by a similar mistake, called them Bo- hemians. But a careful study of this race. and especially of their language. shows that they came originally from India. The gypsy language is derived from the Sanskrit, as are the ether Ar- yan languages of India. A similar error was made by the English when they called a distinctively American bird a turkey. under the impression that it was an importation from the Ottoman empire. and by the French when they called the same bird coq d’Inde, be- lieving that it came from India — Christian Herald. Curious Manx Custom. On July 5 every year all the officials of the Isle of Man, including the cler- gy in their surplices, walk to the top of Tynwald bill, and from the top of it the laws made during the year are promulgated in Manx and English. ‘This promulgation of the laws on Tyn; wald hill is as necessary as the royal assent to the validity of all laws pass- ed by the Manx legislature. This is one of the many relics which the old Norsemen left behind, and it dates so far back that Its origin is lost in the tists of antiquity. — Liverpool Mer. a— Wonderful. It was in the Boston Musuem of Fine Arts. The little man with the hunted look on his face was standing before the mummy of an Egyptian princess. “Isn't it wonderful.” he sigh- ed, “to think that any one could make @ woman dry up and stay that way?” And silently wiping away a tear he hurried out and caught a car, for it was only twenty minutes to dinner time—Boston Post. ‘Young Efficiency Expert. Caller—So your son Willie has got Job a8 office boy. How is he getting on? Fond Mother—Splendidiy! He al- Teady knows who ought to be discharg- ed and is merely waiting to get pro- moted so that he can attend ta it— Boston Transcript. Well, Well. “Dia you ever aim at a deer in the Adirondacks and bag syenider” “I did more than that I aimed at a ear in a drawing room and bagged a bride.”"—Florida Times-Union. Experience. “Experience would be a wonderful asset but for one thing.” “What's that?” “You can never sell it for what it cost you.” Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness, but Fortune is not #0 Diind as men are—Samuel Smiles. , PAGE FIVE The village innkeeper had been per- suaded to lend a customer a pair of black trousers for funeral solemnities. ‘The sad occasion was long gone, weeks had passed away, and still Mr. J. look- ed in vain for the return of his gar- ments. “They became urgently neces- sary, and he sent a messenger to de- mand them back again. Said the messenger to the wrongful detainer of the goods: “Mr. J. must have ‘em. He's going to a funeral.” “They won't do for a funeral,” was the reply. “I've been -workin’ at the quarry in ’em.” “What will Mr. J. do, then?” asked the messenger. “Why, borrow a pair,” replied the other. “same as what I did.”—London Tit-Bits. © tans han ao ea ‘The largest hydraulic lift lock in the world is at Petersborough, Canada. It consists of two great steel boxes or pontoons, moving up and down be- tween guiding towers. When a boat moves into one of the two pontoons the lock gates are closed behind it, and water is pumped into the other pon- toon until it becomes heavier than that containing the boat, which then, being overweighted, rises bodily into the air until it reaches the level of the upper canal. The boats are lifted a total dis- tance of sixty-five feet, the gates and capstans beiuz operated entirely by hydraulic power. The time of lockage for boats is about twelve minutes, the actual time of the vertical lift being one and one-half minutes.—St. Nicho- las. ai eas Daniel We'stor once told a friend that his erst speech in reply to Hayne, which is the high water mark of modern eis) juence, but whieh at the time was stppsul ty have been deliv- ered without preparation, had been substantially prepared long before. When called upon sudden!y to reply to the fiery Carolinian’s attacks, which so alarmed the New Englanders at the capital. be was entirely at ease and ready for the fray. for, as he said, he had “only to turn to his notes tucked away in a pizeonhole” and refresh his recollection. “If Hayne.” he said, “had tried to make a speech to ft my notes he could not have hit them bet- ter. No unin is inspired by the ocea- sion. “T never was.” The Liberty Boys. The name of Liberty Boys is the name by which the Sons of Liberty of the American Revolution were famil- farly known. They were the men who fought the first battles of the colo- nists, who opposed the stamp act and participated in the Boston tea party. A flag hoisted upon the flagstaff that stood beside Liberty tree, in Hanover square, Boston, was the signal at which they assembled. kh Qieuk: Minette Gale . ‘Winfarthing oak, according to rell- able testimony, was 700 years old at the time of the conquest. William sur- veyed it closely before making his fa- mous remark, “Could I live to be but one-fourth the age of this tree the ‘world would be mine.” memati 05S A * Se PAGE SIX SHORT AND SHARP. Bad luck is often the result of trusting too much to luck. Russia asserts that all that remains of the vodka industry is the bar. The Lord will provide for the man who works as hard as he prays. A man will never find his right place in life if he thinks somebody else is in it. The war game is being played with a high hand, but nobody has yet seen a king full of bullets. With the trenches impregnable the only thing for the belligerents is to fight it out in the air. The Pasteur institute of Paris announces a certain cure for cholera. Why not for fighting? Another incongruity of the European conflict is the converting of church bells into war munitions. It seems that all the European nations know our secret diplomatic codes, but the question is, Do we know theirs? It is different in Argentina. The presidential election is due in three months, and there is not a candidate in sight. The Audubon society having declared that the dove is a fighter, it may yet be necessary to nominate the English sparrow as the emblem of peace. With the boys' colleges doing away with class fights and the girls' colleges abolishing daisy chains there is less and less inducement to leave home. Echoes of the War. Roumania does not seem to be showing anybody else aside trying to break into the limelight.—Baltimore American. Notwithstanding all the changes on the war front, they're recognized by the same brutal features.—Atlanta Constitution. As nearly as we can fathom it, the end in Europe will arrive synchronously with the irreducible minimum.—Washington Post. Switzerland in preserving neutrality may have a certain advantage in being neither very rich nor very aggressive.—Washington Star. It's a curious aeronautical law that the "enemy" aeroplanes always kill civilians, while "ours" always land bombs on ammunition works or barracks.—Rocky Mountain News. Current Comment. There is coming a time when the best seller will be an up to date geography.—New York Sun. Another aeroplane company has sold out to a syndicate. Looks as though aviation was not going to be neglected here much longer.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The churches of the United States report a membership of 40,000,000. An army of tremendous potentialities, despite the difficulties of mobilization before many pulpits.—New York World. Under the dye shortage two cent postage stamps are turning from red to light pink and eight centers are becoming olive green, but their carrying value is not diminished.—Syracuse Post-Standard. Flippant Flings. During an open debate the United States senate reminds one of the tower of Babel.—Wall Street Journal. Those Martians are nothing if not imitative. They've taught their canals the Panama slide.—Atlanta Constitution. Vassar having abolished the daisy chain, Harvard responds by putting the ban on the wrist watch. The war on student brutalities is to go on to a bitter finish.—New York World. The actors' fund wants an endowment of $1,000,000. If every man or woman who thinks he or she is an actor would contribute $1 the fund could be raised overnight.—Rochester Herald. Short Stories. Bables with more than one Christian name are taxed in Holland. Mica deposits sufficiently large to develop exist in twenty states. The 2,000,000 people of Tokyo annually spend $5 per head for fish. Fifty thousand voters can demand an alteration in the laws of Switzerland. Sugar cane in Cuba, set out in virgin land, may be cut for thirty years without replanting. More than half of those who, from one cause or another, perished in the Franco-Prussian war were not belligerents. The Royal Box. The Archduke Francis Joseph of Austria has fifteen Christian names. Queen Alexandrine of Denmark is probably the least known of European queens. Prince Albert of England, who recently celebrated his twentieth birthday, has been a middy in the royal navy since 1913. King George's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, has many accomplishments. She has mastered Norwegian perfectly, writes charming verses and is an adept at wood carving. BERNHARDT DELAYS AMERICAN TOUR Sarah Bernhardt will not be seen in America this season. William F. Connor, the French actress' American manager, received a cable from her recently in which she asked to be released from her contract to appear here in the spring and expressed her intention of coming to America in October. Mr. Connor cabled his assent. Mme. Bernhardt gave as her reason for postponing her visit the desire to MARIE Photo by American Press Association. SARAH BERNHARDT. acquire some new playlists suited to her infirmities. The plans for her appearance here this spring were made before she had entirely recovered from the effects of the amputation of one of her legs last summer. Then, with the indomitable will that has characterized her career, she outlined a repertore that embraced some of her best known roles and several new ones. But Mme. Bernhardt has since discovered that the loss of her leg presents a handicap that even her will cannot conquer. She has had to restrict herself entirely to playlets and scenes from plays which demanded little action on her part so that she might remain seated or standing during their performance. She acted for a moving picture a scene version of "Jeanne Dore," but the scenes of this were so arranged that whenever she started to move the scene was switched and the next picture revealed her at her destination. MEDAL FOR BAEKELAND. Inventor Honored by Chemists For Eminence In Chemical Research. The Perkin medal for eminence in industrial chemical research was recently awarded to Dr. L. H. Backeland, the inventor, by the New York section of the Society of Chemical Industry. Dr. Backeland is a past president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. If the move for preparedness takes definite, concrete shape few men will play a more impor- [Image of a man in profile, wearing a suit and tie]. DR. L. H. BAEKELAND. tant part than Dr. Baekeland, for he is chairman of the naval consulting board committee on ordnance and explosives. He is now busy with a plan to establish for the government a plant to make nitric acid out of the alr for use in manufacturing smokeless powder in case our supply of nitrates, which now comes entirely from Chile, should be cut off by war. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 19, 1916 DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. A. E. Magill of Philadelphia is now in her one hundred and eighth year. Mrs. McKenna, wife of England's chancellor of the exchequer, is well known among her friends as a musician and composer. Mrs. Mary Chaph, clerk of the probate court in Topeka, Kan., has officiated at forty weddings. Instead of the word "obey" she substitutes "protect." Dorothy Troud of Pittsburgh, age sixteen, laughed so hard at a joke she dislocated her jaw. When it was replaced she laughed so hard over the incident she dislocated her jaw again. Dr. Katharine B. Davis has resigned as commissioner of correction in New York to accept an appointment to the new municipal parole board in that city. Her salary is $7,500 a year. For the first time in the history of New York city, according to Charities Commissioner Kingsbury, three women have been appointed members of the medical staff of a public hospital. These three women are Dr. Mary L. Lines, Dr. Cornelia C. Brant and Dr. Mabel C. Sisson. Pert Personals. That magazine writer who declares the art of conversation is lost may have been recently up against Colonel House.—Pittsburgh Telegraph. Sir Edward Carson was overcome by the physical effort of uttering 252,000 words. He would never do for a filibuster in congress.—San Francisco Chronicle. Pictures of Louis D. Brandeis in the newspapers make him look like a good many different kinds of person, and perhaps that's what he is.—Philadelphia Press. Whoever writes a history of the Astor family, from the original John Jacob to Baron Bill, ought to see the propriety of entitling the monumental volume "From Steerage to Peerage."—Providence Journal. PITH AND POINT. People are prone to mistake self praise for self respect. Those who sow wild oats realize that the devil attends to the harvest. Some people can do a lot of talking about how they suffer in silence. Japan denies crowding China, but the denial is probably diplomatic. A woman who keeps house doesn't have to worry about getting to work. She is there. Traditions as to Turkish indolence may have to be revised as one of the results of the war. Judging from the way in which it is used, many a man's mind is merely something to guess with. Mr. H. G. Wells admits that he has failed, here and there, as war prophet. The others are not so candid. The shrapnel bonnet is the latest Parisian milinery creation. Some sort of aerial sky piece wouldn't be a bad idea. A judge has declared that a man's home is where his wife is. That would be all right if the wife was where the home is. The lack of German dyestuffs, for which almost everything is blamed, has actually made our postage stamps turn pale. Poverty may mean lower morality, as the investigators claim, but many a man has been kept out of trouble by not having the price. Fashion Frills. The new skirts are to be wider at the bottom. But are they going to be any longer?—San Francisco Chronicle. Do you remember a style the girls ever had that didn't make them look pretty?—Albany Knickerbocker Press. Speaking of the alleged horrors of war, consider the rumor that bustles and hoops are coming back into style!—Chicago News. The tailors' convention having issued its commands as to masculine attire for the coming season, the men will continue to dress exactly as they please.—Pittsburgh Telegraph. Recent Inventions. An electric room heater invented by an Englishman throws the warmed air directly toward the floor with a moving parabolic mirror. Two West Virginia inventors have patented a baby swing that also can be used as a high chair by hanging it on the back of an ordinary chair. Of German invention is a new thief alarm, small enough to be carried in a vest pocket, which explodes a noisy cap if any object under which it is placed be moved. Town Topics. Every man should know his home city, but there's such a thing as knowing it too well for your own good.—Louisville Herald. New York cabarets scornfully repudiate the imputation of excessive charges so long as it costs less than $10 to remain outside.—Washington Post. Philadelphia has started a crusade for hygienic waiters. It is not a part of the crusade, however, that the tips must be sterilized.—Baltimore American. War Brings Famous Albanian Into Limelight Again. ESSAD PASHA, the stormy petrel of Albania, has again come to the fore with the extension of the war along the Adriatic. Austrian troops from Montenegro and Bulgarian troops from Servia have been invading Albania from the north and east. Essad, the nominal ruler, holds Durazzo, the capital, a port on the Adriatic, with a more or less disciplined force of 10,000 armed and unruly Moslem Albanians, while the Italians are at Valona, a port farther south, with forces of unknown strength. In the first Balkan war of 1912 Essad Pasha achieved fame as the defender for Turkey of the Albanian city of Scutari, which eventually surrendered to Montenegro after a siege of six months, in order that he might be free to use the troops, the guns and the supplies of the beleaguered stronghold to enable him to proclaim himself ruler of Albania. He was persuaded to withdraw his pretensions in favor of William of Wied, the nominee of the great powers, whose minister of war he became when Wied accepted the throne in February, 1914. He rebelled against the king in the following May and was sent into exile. King William soon followed him, compelled to fly by the rebellious attitude of his turbulent subjects. Essad returned to Albania after the king's flight and assumed the duties and title of provisional president of the republic of Albania. Soon afterward the war broke out, and he was left unmolested until the present invasion by the Teutonic allies, whose advance he will resist as an ally of the entente powers. Essad is a sion of the ancient Albanian house of Toptan, which is de- Photo by American Press Association. ESSAD PASHA, scended from a natural son of that French royal Duke of Anjoi who took part in the crusades and so many of whose attendant nobles and knights settled down in northern Greece and Albania, founding Balkan branches of their families. In the time of Scanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, the head of the house of Toptan was Duke of Durazzo and married Scanderbeg's sister. He was killed along with Scanderbeg at the battle of Alessio. But his only son, although carried off into captivity, grew up to achieve fame as All Bey. Essad Pasha is very proud of his descent and keeps among his most precious treasures an illuminated genealogical table of his ancestry. Essad was at one time commandant of the gendarmerie at Constantinople. His brother, Gani Bey Toptan, an Albanian Nationalist, had been put to death by order of Sultan Abdul Hamid in the closing months of his reign, and when the Turkish parliament, on the occupation of Constantinople by Mahmoud Shefket's troops, proclaimed Abdul Hamid's deposition Essad was granted at his request the privilege of heading the deputation dispatched to the Yildiz klosk to announce to Abdul Hamid his fate. On April 27, 1900, Essad, accompanied by three other officers, presented himself before the sultan and pronounced the fateful words, in accordance with the fetvah of the sheikh ul Islam, "The representatives of the nation have decreed your deposition." Thereupon the ex-sultan was placed under arrest by Essad, this lineal descendant of the crusader royal Duke of Anjou and of the old time kings of France. Essad has declared that this day of sweet revenge was the happiest day of his life. Albania, now a bone of contention among European powers, lies on the west of the Balkan peninsula of southeastern Europe, the western boundary being the strait of Otranto. Long a Turkish possession, the independence of Albania was declared at the conference of London, May 30, 1913, at the close of the first Balkan war. In this war the kingdoms of Bulgaria, Servia, Greece and Montenegro wrested the western portion of the peninsula from Turkey. Albania's political neighbors are Montenegro and Servia on the north, Servia on the east and Greece on the southeast and south. It holds at present an important strategic position. SIRES AND SONS. Lord Astor became a British citizen in 1809. His properties in New York are valued at $60,000,000. Senators O'Gorman of New York and Phelan of California look more alike than almost any other pair of senatorial doubles ever placed before the public. Dr. A. J. de Olievelra Bothelo, who attended the recent pan-American scientific congress in Washington as a delegate from Brazil, bears decorations from the Spanish and French governments for his researches in tuberculosis. Captain Ewald Hecker, mentioned as a possible successor to Captain von Papen as German attache, owing to Von Papen's recall, is well known in this country. He is an officer of the Thirteenth Royal dragoons, German army, and director of the German Red Cross work in this country. Professor George H. Howison, former head of the department of philosophy in the University of California, has just entered his eighty-first year. Professor Howison is the second oldest living professor emeritus of the university. He is a native of Maryland, where he was born in 1834. Pen and Brush. Hugh Walpole, the writer, is at present with the Russian Red Cross. He is the cousin of the Earl of Oxford and son of the bishop of Edinburgh, but is not fond of society. Before the war Gabriele d'Annunzto, the Italian poet, who is now fighting for his country, used to be Rome's Beau Brummel. On one occasion when he visited Egypt for a holiday he took 150 neckties, ten sunshades and eight umbrellas. Willi Geiger, Germany's new wonder artist, has been in turn an etcher, bullfighter, painter-poet and soldier. In Berlin he has been called "the interpreter of world suffering," and his pictures have created a sensation throughout Germany. Woman's World. Brooklyn has a successful woman butcher. Cambridge (Mass.) women will vote for mayor at the spring election. There are more than 8,000,000 women wage earners in the United States. In England women are organized to claim their political rights as soon as the war is over. Women now work in all but forty-four of the 400 trades enumerated in the United States. One-third of the workers in the hat, suit and overall industries of the United States are women. Telephone Calls. Telephones transmit sounds at a rate of 56,000 miles a second. So that linemen testing telephone circuits will not be endangered by heavy currents a new English testing outfit is mounted on a steel rod for grounding. The Italian government, which several years ago bought most of the telephone systems of that country, has extended until 1923 the time in which some smaller companies may operate independently. Leap Year Musings. Don't refuse to wed a leap year girl because she can't cook. She may have money enough to pay your board.—Chicago News. As a matter of fact, gallantry will forbid mentioning that the bride proposed until the divorce proceedings.—Baltimore American. The mean man is the fellow who receives a leap year proposal of marriage and then brags how he declined it.—Spokane Review. BRIGHT BRIEFS. The man who courts trouble deserves to end by marrying it. Speed the day when we can begin to refer to it as the late war! It is just a man's luck to win every game when he's playing for fun. It is far better to be bent on economy than broke on extravagance. Every one admires a man of mettle provided there is not too much brass. "In the presence of love," says Vice President Marshall, "science is silent." And so is reason. Miss Jane Addams' assertion that Europe wants peace proves once more that a woman can't keep a secret. Both the kaiser and Lloyd-George are firmly convinced of victory. But neither side will gain it by talking about it. Genuine old masters will be readily identified after the war as consisting of an expensively framed hole in the canvas. Japan's attentions continue to be directed more to plans for China's future than to active participation in the European war. You can always tell a first class motorman by the way he stops his car across a crossing so that you have to walk around it. In New York last year 82,540 persons were convicted of crime, and it is confidently believed that even a larger number got away. --- Celebrates Discovery of Pacific and Completion of Canal. The national exposition of the republic of Panama has been formally opened by President Porras. It commemorates the completion of the interoceanic canal and achievements of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, who in 1513 discovered the Pacific and took possession of the "great south sea" in the name of his sovereign, Ferdinand of Spain, and was rewarded by being appointed adelantado of the south sea, or admiral of the Pacific and governor of Panama and Coyba. The exhibition buildings have been completed save for some finishing touches on the horticultural buildings. The army transport Logan and other BALKAN Photo by American Press Association. MAIN STREET IN PANAMA. vessels recently brought to the exposition the greater and better part of the United States exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Spain, Cuba and all the Latin American countries have typical exhibits in handsome buildings. The grounds are within sight of the heights from which it is said Balboa caught his first glimpse of the Pacific. The canal, too, can be seen from the grounds. The exhibition is open only during the "dry season," when the weather is the balmiest. It will continue for three months. Talk of an exposition was first heard some years ago when it was proposed as a private enterprise, for speculative purposes. Later it was decided that the exposition should have its present character, and invitations to participate were sent to the nations directly in connection with the events commemorated. The financial difficulties which Panama is undergoing have done much to delay matters, but the exposition is all ready now, and Panama has every reason to be proud of it. CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Fred B. Fisher, Missionary Worker, Mistaken For a Bartender. In his addresses at the conventions of the national missionary campaign Fred B. Fisher, the new associate general secretary of the laymen's missionary movement, has been telling a joke on himself. "I was standing in the lobby of a hotel in Indianapolis," says Mr. Fisher, "when a man with avoirdupois about like mine stepped up to me, put out his hand and said, 'Shake!' "I shook, whereupon he said, 'What time is the session this afternoon?' I replied that I knew of no meeting in [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. FRED B. FISHER. the city, when he said, 'Ah, come off! You know very well that you are the secretary of the Bartenders' association meeting here in the city. I saw you up around the tables this morning." "When I told him that I was secretary in a very different line of work and was interviewing prominent Indianapolis men preparatory to a great national religious convention, he looked me over and took his departure." 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St O 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 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. 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, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. Thackeray's Satire. Thackeray created quite erroneous impressions of himself by often indulging in irony in the presence of people who were incapable of understanding it. One curious instance which he gave was this: Thackeray had been dining at the garrick and was talking in the smoking room after dinner with various club acquaintances. One of them happening to have left his cigar case at home, Thackeray, though disliking the man, who was a notorious tuft hunter, good naturally offered him one of his cigars. The man accepted the cigar, but, not finding it to his liking, had the bad taste to say to Thackeray, "I say, Thackeray, you won't mind my saying I don't think much of this cigar?" Thackeray, no doubt irritated at the man's ungraciousness and bearing in mind his tuft hunting predilections, quietly responded, "You ought to, my good fellow, for it was given me by a lord." Instead, however, of detecting the irony, the dolt immediately attributed the remark to snobblishness on Thackeray's part and to the end of his days went about declaring that Thackeray had boasted that he had been given a cigar by a lord. Show Your Gratitude. Gratitude is one of the prettiest posies in the bouquet of human virtues. Cultivate it and it will bloom always. Gratitude costs nothing, but repays much, and yet it is a gem of character that is rare indeed. Never forget the friend who threw you the life line. To do that is treason of the rankest kind. Keep green in your heart the memory of every obligation and lose no opportunity to repay it. Show your gratitude for a kind act done you by doing a kind act for some one else. A grateful "Thank you!" for a seat in a street car reimburses the man who hangs to a strap. Silently accept the seat as a matter of course and you have started that man on the slide to selfishness. Kick out of your selfish shell and express your gratitude on the least provocation. If you never give gratitude never expect it. In proportion to your gratitude so will you be graded by your fellow men.—Boston Post. "Uncle Sam." The application of the term "Uncle Sam" to the United States had its beginning in Troy, N. Y., during the war of 1812. A commission contractor of Troy named Elbert Anderson had a shop in which the stocks were always examined and passed by a government inspector called Samuel Wilson, who was generally known as "Uncle Sam." When the boxes were passed they were always marked with the initials of the contractor and the nation, "EA-US." One day the man who was doing the marketing was asked what the initials stood for and replied jokingly that they were the initials of the contractor and of "Uncle Sam." The joke spread among the men, got into print and long before the end of the war had become known all over the country. Mr. Wilson, the original "Uncle Sam," died in Troy in 1854—New York Times. Match Sticks. Certain kinds of matches are shaved with the grain from sawed blocks. Others are cut both ways by saws. In still further varieties the blocks are boiled to make them cut easily. By some machines a boiled or steamed log is revolved on its own axis, and a shaving the thickness of a match is cut round and round. This shaving is at the same time cut into lengths and split into match sticks. It may be said that there is hardly a limit to the varieties of methods employed. Round matches are made by forcing them through dies.—Harper's. The Capacity to Sleep. Very enviable is the capacity to sleep in any position, which has been attributed to Chinese soldiers. In his "Chinese Characteristics" Dr. Arthur H. Smith, the American missionary, says: "It would be easy to raise in China an army of a million men—nay, of 10,000,000—tested by competitive examination as to their capacity to go to sleep across three wheelbarrows, with head downward, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside."—London Opinion. He Had Been There "I beg you to observe," said the talented pianist, displaying his technique to some of his admirers, "how exceedingly light is my touch." "I don't have to observe," muttered a saddened citizen on the edge of the group. "I know by experience."—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Not Much Difference Brown-Now, my wife always consults me about everything she buys for herself—dresses, hats, shoes, gloves—everything. Robinson-So does mine that is, she always asks me for the money. Comes to the same thing in the end. Rather Rough. "Flubdub's wife wants him to pay the income tax on the alimony he gives her."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Just Like a Man Mr. Baggie—Confound that tailor! These trousers are a mile too long. Mrs. Baggie—How much shall I turn them up? Mr. Baggie—About half an inch—London Answers. Of Course Not. "I wonder why the oldest person in the world was a man!" "Why, because no woman would ever have acknowledged it."-Florida Times-Union. Geography. Geography is the sum total of all the places in the map that we don't know about. Geography is made up of boundary lines, river lines, dots and dashes like a telegraph system and shaded places which represent the high spots. It is also colored to suit the taste and in such a manner that it takes a bacteriologist to make you know the difference between the sea and the dry land. Historical geography is ordinary geography with whatever you don't know about history added to it. Historical geography consists of migrations, ceddings and other flora and fauna to suit. To make a historical geography get a few races and distribute them according to your fancy over a pink area in various shades to show how they spread out. As a matter of fact, they did nothing of the sort. But that makes the historical geography all the more interesting. In the hands of schoolteachers geographies are frequently believed in for years by confiding pupils.—Life. Ballads as Newspapers. The ballad, or that form of it which is associated with the broadside, was one predecessor of the newspaper as a commentator on events. It was written for the people and sold to the people. Printed on poor paper and passed from hand to hand, copies of early ballads were seldom preserved. Fortunately several men of the seventeenth century began to make collections of ballads, and the copies of broadsides printed before 1700 that are now in existence are supposed to number about 10,000. Soon after 1700 the printed form of the ballad was changed, the "black letter" disappearing, but the ballad continued as a chronicler of happenings and a commentator on political, military and other public events until the middle of the nineteenth century and in the United States as well as England. The "topical" song of today perpetuates the satirical function of the ballad.—Springfield Republican. Belgian Kongo. Belgian Kongo, founded thirty years ago, is still in the early stage of development. So far practically no manufacturing industries have yet been established, and, aside from the important copper mines in the Katanga district, the only large industrial enterprises are the railways and river transportation services. It may be said that all business activities in the colony are devoted to the collection of tropical products—rubber, ivory, gum copal, palm oil and kernels, cacao, etc.—and the railway and river services are in reality only accessories to these activities, having been established primarily to aid in the transportation of these products to the seaports. The gathering of rubber in Kongo has never recovered its former activity, and in all probability will never again be so rich a source of income to the colony as it was previous to 1912. Ship Money. Charles I. was badly in need of money, and his attorney general in the course of his antiquarian researches discovered that in the dim ages of the past the crown had issued writs to the cities and towns on the coast requiring them to provide vessels for the royal needs, and he suggested that this ancient right might be brought into use again. Instead of the actual vessels a money contribution might be exacted instead. Thus the king would be able to tax a larger part of the realm while theoretically observing the laws. Writes for ship money were accordingly issued, but the patriot John Hampden declared that they were illegal and raised such a protest against them that they were practically nullified. Weed Pests. Of the 200 species of ferns native to this country a few have become more or less serious weed pests. The most troublesome are the hay scented fern and the brake. According to a bulletin of the department of agriculture, cutting off the tops close to the soil surface twice a year for two years will kill out nearly all ferns. The best times to do the cutting are just previous to sporing, or about the middle of June, and the middle of August. Life In Bermuda A feature of life in Bermuda which always impresses the stranger is the apparent prosperity of the natives, white and colored allike. Distressing poverty is unknown, and even the poorest families can boast of a stone house and a garden. -Argonaut. The Twins. We have heard of several cases wherein twins have borne a remarkable likeness to each other. But the most curious was the case of twin sisters who had to be told everything together because it was impossible to tell them apart. Corrected. "My husband tells me that he was out late last night with your husband." "That isn't so. I want you to understand that my husband was out with your husband."—Detroit Free Press. Put Out. "Because, if you notice, flames are usually put out."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Calendar Time Mr. Bacon—What are you doing with that old, faded calendar? Mra. Bacon—Oh, I just like to look into the dim and distant past!—Yonkers Statesman. A trick is at the best but a mean thing—Le Sage. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO CAPITAL, $200,000.00 A BETTER IN THE BANK OF MORTGAGE FOR YOUR DOGS 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. Wabash Ave. Oakland 4662, Auto. T3-058 Phone Drexel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. 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Maxwell, notions, cigars, to bacco, confectionz and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. George McFare, shee shining parlors and news stand. 88001/2 State street. PAGE SEVEN BANK OF CHICAGO STATE SUPERVISION TH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 SURPLUS. $20.000.00 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3 Per Cent Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago Illinois. A. D. GASH 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 616 PHONE MAIN 2214 Residence 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. 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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. PAGE EIGHT TEENAN JON TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most BUFFET and CAR Side. First-Class E HENRY "TEENAN" A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The Elite AND BU 3030 STATE STREET JOHN BLOCKI, President JOHN BLOCKI PERFUME GO TO C. E. KREYSSI 5057 South St NOT ON THE FOR HIGH GRADE DRUG MEDICINAL PRE All Prescriptions Caref ALSO CARRY A FU BLOCKI'S IDEAL & E IN BOTTLE P 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. 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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. Dr. and most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South s Entertainers. N" JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS.3256 AUTO...72-379 lite Cafe BUFFET ET CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer LOCKI & SON OF FUMERS GO TO SSLER, Druggist North State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS Carefully Compounded BY A FULL LINE OF & BLOCKI'S FLOWER SEE PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. LOUIE USSELMANN The Practical Optician OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY THE LOWEST PRICES 3150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO 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 lazy idleness. 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 ain'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. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. 26-Passenger Auto Funeral Coaches Carries Complete Funeral to Any Local Cemetery and Return Greater Elegance, Half the Cost 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 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 busi- worth all the others. 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 is he 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. Hosiery 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 hoops.—New York Sun. 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. still us flame b uses to CHIC still uses a car flame burner to uses to heat 35 CHICAGO still uses a candle and a flat flame burner to test the gas she uses to heat 350,000 flat irons CHICAGO The Peoples Gas Build The Peoples Gas Peoples Gas Building The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Telephone Wabash 6000 Ruttenberg's Dry Goods Store 3534 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2824 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. Cranford Apartment building. 3600 Wabash Ave. building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. CAGO handle and a flat to test the gas she 50,000 flat irons CHICAGO KNOWS THAT THE flame inside the Gas Iron is blue and hot While the flame of the open gas jet is white and comparatively cool. Gas for a hot, blue flame should be tested for its HEAT UNITS. Gas for a white, luminous flame should be tested for its Candle Power. The blue-flame appliances now form a big family. In addition to the flat iron, it includes the mantle light, the cooking range, the water heater, the space heater and the factory fire. All together, this family now consumes 98% of the gas manufactured. The one and only lone member of the luminous flame family, is our old friend, the flat-flame burner. In its palmy days the flat-flame burned 98% of the gas made—now it burns less than 2% and its finish is waiting. That is why Chicago must eventually line up with all of Europe's big cities and the eleven State Commissions in this country which have abolished the candle power test of gas and adopted the HEAT UNIT standard exclusively. Think of this—the next time you look into your gas flat iron. If your home cannot boast of one, your women folks are missing a good thing enjoyed by over 350,000 of their Chicago sisters. Light & Coke Co. Telephone Wabash 6000 Nemo Nº326 LAST CURVE-BACK SELF-REDUCING artment ash Ave. tenants in Chicago. trance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. at he ns D. ish 6000 Colored Help Employed