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THE BROAD AX The Republican Cook County Convention, So Far, Has Failed to Elect a Chairman; It Will Make Another Desperate Effort in That Direction Monday Afternoon at the Hotel La Salle COL. FRANK O. LOWDEN, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, FAVORS "HOME RULE" FOR CHICAGO. COL. THEODORE BOOSEVELT STILL LOOMS UP AS THE MOST LOGICAL CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMINATION AT THE HANDS OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. GEORGE W. PERKINS, HEAD OF THE "BULL MOOSE" PARTY, HAS RENTED NINE FLOORS OF THE HOTEL LaSALLE, AT A COST OF $50,000 FOR TEN DAYS, AND HE AND HIS ASSOCIATES, WITH TWO OR THREE BARRELS OF MONEY, WILL BE IN A POSITION TO KNOCK OUT ALL COMERS AND PUT COL. BOOSEVELT OVER THE PLATE. JOHN T. RICHARDS, EX-PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO BAB ASSOCIATION AND BUSSELL WHITMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ASSOCIATION, HAVE BEEN NOMINATED BY THE PROGRESSIVES TO MAKE THE RACE FOR JUDGES—FULL TERM—THAT IS SIX YEARS—OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY. Vol. XXI. The Repu- to El- Effor- Hotel COL. FRANK O. LOWDEN, REPUBLI- ATION FOR GOVERNOR OF ILLI- CHICAGO. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT STILL CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMIN- PUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEN- UNITED STATES. GEORGE W. PERKINS, HEAD OF RENTED NINE FLOORS OF THE $50,000 FOR TEN DAYS, AND H OR THREE BARRELS OF MON- KNOCK OUT ALL COMERS AND PLATE. JOHN T. RICHARDS, EX-PRESIDEN- TION AND BUSSELL WHITMA- ICE REFORM ASSOCIATION, I PROGRESSIVES TO MAKE THE THAT IS SIX YEARS—OF THE S "Big Bill," Mayor William Hale Thompson, has been doing politics out of town this week. He will not blow into this, or his, town until either Monday morning or Monday evening, and the result is that his shouters and retainers—the followers, Hon. Edward J. Brundage and those who still march under the banner of Hons. Charles S. Deneen and Roy O. West, did not have the courage to go to the mat or come to a show down on Thursday afternoon at the meeting of the Cook County Republican convention and elect a chairman to preside over it for this coming year, for they were fearful that their actions would be very displeasing to Mayor Thompson in that respect, so they feel that if his Hon., the Mayor, enjoys his out-of-town vacation trip, sleeps well each night and has very pleasant dreams during his absence, that with his consent it might be possible to elect a chairman of the County Committee this coming Monday afternoon. Col. Frank O. Lowden, fully realizing that Chicago is rapidly growing into one of the largest and most progressive cities in the world, came out in an open letter this week in favor of "Home Rule" for it, in respect to her public utilities, also he declares himself in favor of a constitutional convention, and recalls that on March 23, 1915, he addressed the Illinois Legislature, convened in Joint Session in advocacy of a constitutional convention, favoring home rule for this city, which will greatly strengthen Col. Lowden's forces all along the line in his fight for the nomination for governor of Illinois. The followers and supporters of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, still dead sure that he loves as the most logical candidate for the nomination for President of the United States and with that end or object in view, Mr. George W. Perkins, the head chief of the "Bull Moose" party, has struck town, loudly shouting "Roosevelt for President; and for ten days prior to the opening of the National Republican Convention, THE INAUGURATION OF ROBERT RUSSA MOTON AS PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. This week the writer received from the trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute an invitation to attend the inauguration of Robert Russa Moton as the new principal of the institute, in connection with the 35th anniversary exercises, on Thursday, May 25. On that occasion the following program will be rendered: Sunday, May 21st, 2:00 P. M., The Commencement Sermon, by Rev. C. B. Wilmer, D. D., Rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia; Monday, May 22nd, 7:30 P. M., Annual Exercises of the Phelps Hall Bible Training School; HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY he has rented nine floors of the Hotel LaSalle, at a cost of fifty thousand dollars. He has also rented much space in several of the other hotels, and the Auditorium Theater, and he and his associates, with three or four barrels of real money, will be in a position to do business right off the reel or right and left, knocking out all comers and put Col. Roosevelt over the plate for President. The Progressives, or the "Bull Moosers," are also taking a hand in the forth-coming June Judicial election, and they have nominated John T. Richards, Ex-President of the Chicago Bar Association, who seems to be very popular with his fellow lawyers, and Mr. Russell Whitman, President of the Civil Service Reform Association, whom they claim is an able lawyer. They have been nominated by the Progressives to make the race for judges of the Superior Court—full term—that is six years. With Messrs. Richards and Whitman in the field there are now sixteen candidates seeking seven judicial positions with twelve thousand dollars per year in sight for each would-be judge. They are as follows: Democrats—Judge William E. Dever, Judge Charles A. McDonald, Judge William Fennimore Cooper, Judge Martin M. Gridley, Judge Richard E. Burke, Municipal Court Judge John J. Sullivan and Joseph B. David, to succeed Judge Henry V. Freeman, resigned. Republicans for the full term—Judge Robert E. Turney, former Judge George A. Dupuy, Municipal Judge Hosea W. Wells, Robert E. Crowe, Ex-Alderman Henry Uptatel, and Edward J. Heredlicks. To fill Vacancy—Andrew J. Redmond, Oak Park, (for place vacated by Judge H. V. Freeman). It is the solemn duty of each and every voter to cast his ballot for judges of the Superior Court regardless of their politics, whom they honestly feel will for the next six years faithfully serve all the people throughout Cook County. Tuesday, May 23rd, 7:30 P. M., Trinity Church Boston Prize Contest; Wednesday, May 24th, 7:30 P. M., Senior Class Day Exercises; Thursday, May 25th, Inaugural and Commencement Day; 9:30 A. M., Commencement Exercises; 2:00 P. M., Installation and Inaugural Exercises. Alderman Oscar DePriest, and Capt. Louis B. Anderson, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, left the city for the East on Tuesday. The first stop they will make will be New York City; then Washington, D. C., and Philadelphia, Pa., where they expect to arrive in time to assist to put the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D., over as one of the new bishops of the A. M. E. Church. CHICAGO, MAY 13, 1916 ok County chirman; It Direction CLEAN UP CONCLUSIONS. Clean up week has closed, but it should not be the closing week of Chicago's clean up effort. A clean up week is only the beginning of a community's efforts to be clean. Any com- munity that ceases its clean up work with the end of clean up week will soon be a dirty community. There has been splendid work accomplished during Chicago's clean up week just closed. Thousands of premises and back yards have been cleaned and renovated. Many hundreds of wagon loads of rubbish and cast-off material of every character has been carted away and properly disposed of. But the fact remains that filth and rubbish accumulate all the time. In just a few weeks the same premises now so tidy and attractive will become littered and unsightly. The cleaning up process is a continuous process; otherwise it amounts to but little. The great big value of clean up weeks lies in the suggestions that are given to people to clean up and to keep clean. And now that we have made such a good start, let us all unite in the effort to keep clean during all the summer months. Let us keep a careful surveillance of manure piles, dirty back yards and other places that require yards and other places. Let us not cease our efforts with the closing of clean up week. Let us continue clean up week during all the summer months to the end that we may have during this summer of 1916, the cleanest, brightest, safest city we have ever had. It is a fine thing to arouse people's interest in community cleanliness; to get people to work together for community good; to get people to working together to do the things that make for community beauty, community attractiveness and community safety. These things, it may be added, add to the front foot value of community property. In other words, it pays in many ways to be clean. * * * These sunny spring days should be taken advantage of to give your sleeping rooms a thorough airing every day. Open wide the windows and let the fresh air and sunshine do their share in promoting health and cleanliness. * * * Planting time is here. Have you started that little flower and vegetable garden yet? It is wonderful the amount of pleasure and profit that may be derived from tending and cultivating a garden. Try it and be convinced! What is more cheering and delightful than a bouquet of flowers on your breakfast table? Flowers speak a message all their own; they help to begin the day's tasks with confidence in yourself and good will towards everybody. And especially do they bring joy to your heart when they have been picked from your own garden. * * * A clean, normal heredity is a priceless legacy, but the best of parental gifts may be handicapped or destroyed by bad training and neglect of the daily needs of sensible dress, decent housing, wholesome food and free play for muscles. DR. J. W. McDOWELL WILL ADDRESS THE BETHEL LITERARY. This coming Sunday afternoon, May 14th, at 4 o'clock, Dr. J. W. McDowell will address the Bethel Literary Society, which meets at Bethel church. His subject will be, "The American Flag and the Colored Race." * * * * * * Convention Will Make on Monday President of the Co first-class busin trustees of the INSULT TO PRESIDENT WILSON? President of the Conroy Boiler and Tank Company, West 47th Street, who is a first-class business man and would make a dandy candidate for one of the trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago. When Mr. William Monroe Trotter used some very plain language to the President a year ago the press of the country heralded the fact that a Colored man had insulted the President. The Philadelphia North American publishes an account of a conference between the Chief Executive and members of the House and Senate Foreign Committees, in which President Wilson received far rougher treatment than at the hands of Mr. Trotter. Very few of the Dailies featured the story at all. Senator Stone, chairman of the Senate Committee, had assured the members of the Senate that he had the President's word that nothing would be done, which might precipitate war between this Country and Germany without consulting Congress first. At the beginning of the meeting called by the President, in order to say to the committees what he later said to both Houses of Congress in joint session, Mr. Stone was stunned to hear that the note to Germany had already been forwarded without any consultation. As the President talked Senator Stone occasionally looked, at his watch. When the hour for the appointment to close arrived, without waiting for the President to conclude or dismiss his guests, Senator Stone sprang from his chair, pulled out his watch and said: "Well, Mr. President, the time is up. Have you got anything more to say?" The President looked astonished. "Senator," he said slowly, "you look as serious as I feel." "And I feel a damn sight more serious than I look," snapped the Senator, as he turned and strode from the room. The other members of the party followed.—Ex. M. B. ME. THOMAS B. CONROY. Grover Boiler and Tank Company, West 477 ess man and would make a dandy candidate Sanitary District of Chicago. NEGRO EDUCATION. President B. F. Allen of the Lincoln Institute Spoke Before Large Crowd. DECLARED INSTITUTE WAS TURN ING OUT GOOD CITIZENS. Address Was Given at Concert by Pupils of the Lincoln Institute at Mexico, Mo. (Special to The Broad Ax.)—Asserting the aim of Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, Mo., is to turn out graduates who will be useful citizens and not idlers, Dr. B. F. Allen, president of the school, who is recognized as one of the leading Negro educators in America, in an address at the Lyric Theatre, offered proof by asking any of his hearers, who needed a chauffeur or all-around hand, to apply to him. Dr. Allen's address, which was heard by a large number of White people as well as by scores of leading Negro citizens, was said by many to be the most enlightening and inspiring on the subject of education for the Negro ever heard in Mexico. He spoke before a concert which was given by students of Lincoln Institute. The program included selections by an orchestra, vocal and instrumental solos. The numbers ranged from cottonfield melodies to opera. The interpretations of compositions by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Coleridge Taylor, both celebrated Negro composers, were especially meritorious, local music lovers declared. Lawyer B. F. Moseley has begun the construction of his fine summer home at Idelwild, Mich., of which town he is the mayor, and he successfully conducts its affairs by telephone from his law office at 6221 South Halsted street, this city. No.34 GIVES OFFICIAL CANVASS ON DELEGATES-AT-LARGE. Illinois Secretary of State Announces Primary Election Results for Candidates for Three Parties. Springfield, Ill., May 12.—The results of the canvass of the recent primary election made public today by Secretary of State Lewis G. Stevenson, show that the following were elected delegates-at-large to the Democratic national convention by the votes given: Robert M. Sweitzer, 118,919; Edward F. Dunne, 112,536; Roger C. Sullivan, 111,363; Henry T. Rainey, 108,740; Robert Emmet Burke, 88,714; Carter H. Harrison, 86,031; Jacob R. Creighton, 84,415; and Jackson R. Pearce, 82,616. The Republican delegates-at-large follow: William B. McKinley, 148,595; Medill McCormick, 147,641; William J. Calhoun, 143,637; William A. Rodenberg, 143,000; Isaac N. Evans, 140,569; Roy O. West, 138,634; William Hale Thompson, 137,941; and Garrett DeF. Kinney, 136,677. Only five names were on the Progressive tickets and as there are eight delegates-at-large, all were elected. Their names and the vote received follow: Raymond Robbins, 2,330; Frank H. Funk, 2,308; James R. Campbell, 2,272; Harold L. Ickes, 2,263, and John Maynard Harlan, 29. The April number of the Howard University (Washington, D. C.) Record issued as an Alumni number has been received. It is a 48-page edition with an illuminated cover in the college colors and contains much information of interest to the Alumni located in all parts of this and foreign countries. Any Alumnus can obtain a copy by applying to the Alumni Secretary of the General Alumni Association, care of the University. PaGE TWO PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 1 . WEE promulgate and at all times upheld tho tue princtples of Demecrecy, but Catieaties, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, iny® Taxers, Republicans, or axyene cise eam heave their cay, oc long as thelr lan- cunge te proper and responsibility ts &xed. ‘Hho Bread Ax is = newspaper wheve pintterm is bread enough fer all, ever Gatmiing the editerial right te speak ite own mind. ‘Leen! communiestions will receive atten tem, Write only ax one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance Advertising rates made known om sppli- ation. Address all commenteations te THE BROAD AX S593 ST. LAWRENOE AVE. CHICAGO, ILL. PRONE WENTWORTH 2591. JULIUS ¥. 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If there be left any part of the other a mold of that part also must be taken to assist in the fit- ting of the artificial, Manufacturers assert that no two ears are alike and thet it takes a skillful workman to Prepare an ear from the mold or molds. ‘When finished the new ear is pasted on the stump or simply set in the pos!- tion of the Jost ear. It is really only the first artificial ear that is expen- sive, the chief cost pertaining to the making of the mold. Vulcanized rub- ber, which can be bent and twisted, has been found to constitute the best material for the making of artificial ears.—Detroit Free Press. D Cuenta of Dien If old Garge Jones was the most in- quisitive man in the village, Tom Mor ton was certainly the surliest. One afternoon, as Garge perambulat ed slowly along the one narrow street, he paused at Tom's garden fence and gazed inguiringly over at Tom, whc was busily nailing a very large box to gether. “Afternoon, Tom!” said the old chap genially. “Whatever be ‘ee puttin’ that great box together for?” Tom paused in his hammering long enough to retort curtly: “To hold all your questions, if so be as it’s big enough!” Garge eyed him in pained silence for & few moments. Then he took ar empty matchbox from his pocket and threw it over to Sandy. “Then that'll do for yer civil answers if so be as it's small enough!” he re- torted quietly.—London Express. Satietes te Redo Lotteries for the purpose of raising money for the state have never caught on in England. But for definite ends of a semistate character, such as build ng canals or founding a British muse- tum, sanction has been readily granted. Our first recorded lottery 1s that of 1599, when the prizes were pieces of plate, the chances 40,000 for 10 shil- Iings each and the desirable object the maintenance of harbors. But, once familiar grown, lotteries corrupted the ancient virtues of John Bull, and by the time of Queen Anne the state step- Ped in and suppressed every private lottery as a public nuisance. By an act passed in 1823 sanction was given to a particular lottery, and that was the last. At the same time all sale of tickets for home or foreign lotteries was forbidden.—London Times. Fair Enough. “Yes,” we admitted, “it's a fine car, and we'd be glad to own ft, but we can't afford to buy it, and there's no ‘use wasting your breath trying to per- suade us.” “Listen,” pleaded the agent. “This war isn't going to cost you a cent. All you've got to do is to take out an ac- ‘ident policy in our favor and the car fs yours. We'll even pay the premium on the policy. Can anything be fairer than that?"—St. Louls Post-Dispatch. Se aS ‘A young wife remonstrated with her husband, a dissipated spendthrift, on his conduct. “Love,” said he, “I am Hike the prodigal son. I shall reform by and by.” “I will be like the prodigal son, too,” abe replied, “for I shall arise and go to gay father.” Sleepy Time Story About an Ex- tremely Ugly Looking Fly. DEVIL'S DARNING NEEDLE. Many Evil Deeds Attributed to This Insect Are Without Foundation—in- teresting Items For Little Folk—Puz- ales to Solve. Uncle Ben was ready with a story when bedtime came around. He told about: ; THE DRAGON FLY. ] Don’t be afraid of this wicked look- ing insect, no matter how many flerce and wild stories you have heard told about him. He isn't half so wicked as he looks. And, as for his voracious habits, the only things he eats are mos- quitoes and files and gnats, not to men- tion many other pests you would like the world rid of. He's called properly the dragon fy. Maybe you know him better as the devil's darning needle. Perhaps you've been told when you were a bad boy or girl that he would get in your hair and sew your ears shut, or maybe you've been calling him snake feeder. He gets this name probably because the female dragon fly when she lays her eggs glides down ontop of the stream or lake and drops them in the water, as if she were feeding water snakes. These eggs stick fast to water plants until the larvae hatch, crawl out of the water, split up the back, and, be- hold—other dragon files! It will take more time and patience than the amateur bug collector pos- sesses to get acquainted with the whole dragon fly family. There are something like 2,200 specimens, so au- thorities tell us, and 300 of ‘these fly around in North America. ‘What the hawks and eagles are to birds the dragon files are to mosqui- toes and files. Imprison a dragon fly in a room and the files and mosquitoes will disappear. So, you see, he isn’t such a bad bug after all. A Fur Clad Boy. ‘The young lad here pictured is a woodcraft boy, which means that he bas much knowledge of the lore of field and forest. The costume he wears is trimmed with muskrat, skunk and Log ih 2 é “e “av q a meee a, ar RS. ie, P . J “Soa ‘mela l ZS Fad Mu SU: yy fF ry 4 ft a i Na de a 4 es Photo by American Press Association. WOODORAFT BOY IN COSTUME, other furs caught by himself. He is a shrewd trapper and has learned the ‘ways of beast and bird, and he is also an expert on trees, plants and flowers. He lives in a suburb of New York city, and all bis furs were caught within twenty-five miles of the big city. Mere a Ghrewd Don. My Nero is very useful. He is some times sent on errands and brings par. cels from the shops very nicely. He goes alone to the market, writes a It tle girl in the Iowa Homestead. But Nero has an enems, a fierce bull: dog that lives on the road to the mar. ket. Nero is stronger than the bull- dog, but the sly rascal keeps out of sight except when Nero has a basket tn his mouth; then he runs at him, and Nero is too faithful to drop his burden. 80 he has to scamper. One day the scamp worried Nero all the way home. He came in much ex cited. I set the basket on the table and took out the meat. Then Nero leaped up, seized the basket with his teeth and ran out of the house. Nero went straight to the house where the ugly dog lives. ‘The dog saw the bas. ket and thought he had a good chance to bite Nero, so out he rushed. What then? Why, Nero dropped the basket in a hurry, and he gave that wicked og such a whipping that he never forgot it. ica “Why, Fido, I'm surprised to see You wear a muzzle too! ‘What foolish people they must be ‘Who are afraid of you!” ‘Thus cried the dancing bear one day ‘When he had chanced to mest 4 litde dog that came his way ‘Along the village street. But Fido growled at Mr. Bear ‘And glared into his eye, And flercer still became his giare ‘When thus he made reply: “They muzzle me, Td have you knew, ‘To save the likes of you! ‘Bach day, were I not muzzled so, —T4 eat & bear or two!” ‘=Zeutite Comensien, THE BROAD CHICAGO, MAY. 13, 1916. NEW LINES. H = ——]] | |] AN EMBROIDERED BLOt A Spring Frock of Beauty For Debutantes This Season. ices Si Lingérie Ie Rivaling Crap Apple blossom pink,’a taffeta com- SS eae caine _ For some time hand embr = | ) IN A Say 80 PICTURESQUE. the bouffant drape over the crape, which is used for the bobbed tunic girdled by tiny spring fowers pleced out across the back with pink gauze ribbon. The edzes are taffeta piped. YOUR FLOWER BEDS. How to Set Plants So That They Wil Thrive and Bloom. Where beds ure to be filled with a single plant they shou'd be planted in even rows an eu distance apart and the plants alteruited in the rows, which will give each plant consider- ably more room and light. It is well to have these lines laid out and the places for the plants marked before any plants are lifted from the hotbed, in order that the planting may go forward ‘as rapidly and smoothly as possible. board with chill: marks on the edge will accomplish this admirably for small beds, or cord with bits of white cloth tied at intervals, or chalk marks even will be useful in long beds or Ines. In planting make a hole in the earth with the trowel large enough to holt the root of the plant in a natural post- tion and place the plant therein, draw- ng up the earth about the roots and pressigg it suuzly down; pour in sufi ‘clent water to fill the hole,‘and when it has partially soaked away draw up the remaining earth and press firmly. Make a fine dust mulch about the plant by working the soil lightly with the trowel, and if any damp places show after the plant has been set a few moments go over the soil again or [a4 dry earth from another part of the ‘bed if necessary. The planting may be hastened by making a row of holes ‘across the bes before beginning to set ‘the plants, then placing the plants in each before applying water, but draw- ing up part of the earth; the water is then placed in all the holes, and by the time the last is filled the first has soaked away sufficiently to allow of filling up and finishing; this saves an appreciable amount of time when there 4s a large amount of planting to do. No shade or covering of any kind will be needed if the plinting has been well and thoroughly done, nor is it neces. sary or advisable to wait for signs of rain before planting, though planting at the edze of « spell of rainy weather has doubtless advantazes. But plant- ing before a sumer shower is to be avoided, as this Is usually followed by hot weather. and under the influence of a hot stn the moisture in the soil evaporates ripidiy, and the soil must be constantly cultivated to retain what water it contains. After the planting is completed go over the beds carefully and where any moisture has drawn to the surface re- store the dry mulch by cultivation or by adding dry soll from some other Place. If the planting has been well done the plauts will not need watering for several dys, indeed are far better off without it If the weather is un- usually dry :s soon as the plants begin to grow or show that they are becom- ing established by the way they settle themselves in the xround and turn to- ward the lic!'t water may be given in sufficient antity to thoroughly soak the ground and the following day the soll worke:! over with rake or trowel to restore the dust mulch. ‘This ts better than repe:tted waterings. How to Make a Dress Bag. Make a Laz of any kind of material Gesired (a pretty flowered cretonne fs suitable). the length of the garment to be covered with the back piece a ttle longer than the front, go it can be brought up and fastened to the ‘front side with buttons and button “holes or “snaps.” Draw up the front to St around the hanger, thus entirely inclosing the gar- ment. In the interior of the bag make two or three small pockets, fill with sachet. camphor or some other protec. tion against moths if garment is not in use. AN EMBROIDERED BLOUSE. It fe Said “That Handwork Lingérie Is Rivaling Crape. For some time hand embroidered blouses were kept under cover. It seemed a shame, too, for the hand work on blouse always showed to good advantage. However, there is no longer any need to lament about the matter, for once more women are priv- fleged to wear blouses which show the results of thelr labor in the embroidery field. But the embroidery is applied in a different manner. Instead of deco- rating the front of the blouse in plas- tron effect, dainty little flowers hang in garlands from the shoulder line. ‘The shoulders are outlined with a band of embroidery. One blouse showing this treatment was embroidered in blue, pink and green. It opened in the front, and the line of closing was fin- ished with featherstitehing and a few tiny white buttons embroidered in green also, 7 ‘The application of the embroidery on the sleeves was quite a variation. A separate cuff finished each sleeve and was edged with green featherstitching, but where the sleeve joined the cuff garlands of the flowers embroidered in the delicate colors suggested above were embroidered up the sleeve for a space of four inches. ‘A turnover collar of the blouse mate- rial was edged with featherstitching, and a tiny spray of flowers was em- broidered in each point in front. The colors of embroidery cotton can be changed to suit the wearer's taste. BATH_ SUITS. Tips About the Style and Ma- terial of Your Diving Duds. * Whether you elect to wear bloomers or tights with your + swimming suit this summer, whether you favor a kerchief knotted back of each ear or a + cap with a shady brim, whether you like to go down into the sea % stocking footed or equipped with bathing shoes, one thing you must have, and that is a pocket in your bathing dress. Two pock- # ets will be smarter, and there may be three or even four—two + on the skirt for the hands to be thrust into as you walk up the beach and two in the waist for the safe keeping of your bath % house key and handkerchief. A + sopping wet handkerchief is bet- ter than none at all—as every bather knows—after a wave has gone over one’s head, and after a plunge under water your hand- kerchief will be very handy but- toned securely into a breast % pocket on your waist. % Palm Beach bathing suits, + which, of course, foretell what % all other bathing sults are going % to be later on, are stunning af- + fairs. Most of them are of silk, and many are of silk Jersey. One + sees also a great number of pussy willow bathing sults. This * soft, beautiful taffeta silk has + proved itself in salt water. A pussy willow bathing sult worn + almost every day last summer in + the heavy surf on the south of Long Island shore came home in September without a tear or even a worn spot or a change in color. + _ Bathing suits of the most fash- % fonable sort now are in two sec- tions, a very short tunic, loosely + belted or sashed below the waist + line, and knickers or close bath- ing breeches to the knee. One cannot call them tights—they are % rather lke the close knee breeches small boys wear, and sometimes they are slashed up % the outer side for a few inches % and laced together with cord or silk braid. + a ok Gk lve ee HER WEDDING GIFT. ‘This Charming Jar Is a Welcome Dish at Breakfast. Cut glass silver mounted and lidded gives this attractive marmalade jar. fp ie Weno Wh Sa ee 4 Ns ae 0 AT ANC fs 2 MAN IAS THEE XBW KIND. On one side is a cut to accommodate the silver spoon handle. Condensed milk for coffee, jam and piccalilli are other contents that it might hold. Working Buttonholes. ‘To make beautiful buttonholes, even on the sheertst of summer materials, mark them first and stitch the outlines once around on the sewing machine. ‘This not only adds to the durability of the buttonhole, but makes the working of it far easier. War Work Occupies Another Beautiful Woman. POPULAR IN DUAL EMPIRE. Like So Many of Her European Sisters, ‘This Fair Austrian Is Interested In Relief—London Women of Title Go- ing In For Charity ‘Theatricals. - In every capital in Europe women of title and social prestige are busy with war relief. Hospital ships and supplies, ambulances, workshops and actual nursing of sick soldiers are only 2 few of their occupations. London society women have recently taken up charity theatricals, the Coun- teas of Essex (nee Miss Adele Grant a ) = ai = ee i oN COUNTESS VON SZAPARY. of New York) recently having given ‘an extremely successful charity matt nee at the Gaiety theater, with profes- sionals and society amateurs indiscrim- inately mixed up. Recently Mrs. Edith ‘Wharton, the American novelist, was decorated by the French government for her valoable rellet work Last win- ter the German kaiser decorated Mrs Gerard, wife of the American ambas- ‘sador, for the help given families of soldiers, | Like all the other feminine members of the Austro-Hungarian nobility, the Countess von Szapary is actively en- gaged in war relief work. She is con- nected with some of the most promt!- nent families in the dual empire. DON’TS FOR BUYERS. Some Restrictions Valuable For Those ‘on Shopping Bent. Don’t buy a suit with a plaited skirt unless you have an electric iron and lots of time or else a good maid. Don’t buy one that is a bit too small. for the present style coat, with its flar- ing hem, looks especially bad in a size too small. Don't, if you're over five feet six, get ‘up and down stripes. Don't buy a tan suit if you are sal- low. Some of the tan shades are again in fashion, and they are a pitfall for the unwary sallow woman, Don't buy a suit trimmed with a Ught color if you must wear it con- stantly; for nothing looks worse than soiled trimming. Don't, if the family Bible has you down for over forty—you needn't ad- mit it—get a suit because the saleswo- man tells-you it’s girlish. Don’t be a flapper at forty. Don't, if you're under five feet three, get round about trimming. Don’t get a jacket that has sleeves too short or too long, for misfit sleeves spoil what may otherwise be a very attractive jacket. Baked Shad Ras |, srboll the roe from a large shad for one minute, drain, place in a bak. ng pan, spread with one large table- Spoonful of butter, sprinkle with pep. Per, salt and a dash of cayenne, pour in one cupful of cream, bake covered for twenty minutes, then remove the cover, bake ten minutes longer and transfer to a heated platter. Beat the yolks of three eggs with one cupful of cream, add the strained sauce from the Pan, cook and stir until slightly brown. e4, place around the roe and garnish ‘with watercress and erisped bacon. Kitchen Kinks, Never allow fresh meat to remain in Paper, for it absorbs the juices. Always allow water to run from the Kitchen tap in the morning until all that has been in the pipes overnight bas run out. Never allow opened fruits or vegta- bles to stand in the tin can. Never stir anything in tin tf avoid- ‘able or at least use a wooden spoon. Never keep vinegar or yeast in stone rocks or jugs, since the acid attacks the glazing. Astonishing the Chinese, “when I was in China.” 8 freweet man said, “I was astonished to tq how little the people knew about pyry. techny beyond their own Chime erackers, They can make these cract ers much more cheaply than they couig be produced in America. But of sep Pleces, rockets and such like, the Gay nese know practically nothing, ang thelr attempts to make them are erngs in the extreme. “A Chinese cracker maker living negp Hongkong challenged me once to com. pete with him in a Greworks display and a friendly mandarin was calied ty to act as judge. My Chinese opponent set off a lot of gigantic crackers ang made a terrifying noise, but the man. darin had been used to that from tp fancy and wasn't at all impressed. My show, however, astounded him, a) though it was really a mean exhibit for I wasn't going to waste my bes pieces on a private competition. 1 go¢ the award easily enough.— Washington Star. Sicseeais Meee Oieteeee There are sixty-four distinct opera. tions necessary in turning out one of the plain steel helmets worn by Freneh soldiers. The first step is stamping out disks from large sheets of steel. 4 special machine is used for this pur. pose, exerting a pressure of 150 tons and capable of cutting out 5,000 steel disks a day. Each disk ts placed un. der a shaping machine, which presses the disk into the form of a helmet with a broad rim. Polishing and cutting machines remove all irregularities in the helmet, after which it has holes punched in the crown, some for ven- tilation purposes, others for fastening on the regimental crest. Each helmet is cleaned and dipped in a special mix. ture which makes it a dull, inconsple- uous bluish-gray. A lining and leath- er chin straps are then fastened on, and the helmet is complete—Pearson's, Pew Wastes Galk_ “The Wesley oak, according to the At- Janta (Ga.) Journal, stands on St, St mon’s island. less than @ mile from Fort Frederica. It is 200 feet high, and its cool shade rests like a bene- diction over an area of several acres. According to loca! tradition, this tree marks the exact spot on which the ‘Wesleys preached. Charles Wesley en- gaged himself to Oglethorpe as private secretary before leaving England, But he afterward took orders and devoted much of his time to preaching near Frederica. From time to time John Wesley came down from Savannah to join him. This famous oak stands at the gateway to the churchyard of Christ church. and several generations sleep within the inclosure that it geards. Mosses hang down from its limbs, and it is solemn and beautiful. LUnited States. If you should hear some stranger mention the United States are you pos- itive that yon would know what be meant? In the eastern part of South America the term “United States” is regarded as an unqualified designation of the republic of Brazil, while a little way to the north the term is taken to Tefer to Venezuela. In almost all parts of the southern continent the mention of a country in the northern hemis- phere called “United States” is likely ‘to suggest Mexico, whose official title 1s Estados Unidos Mexicanos. ‘There are still those who speak of the repub- Ue of Colombia as “the United States,” because during the period when its federal constitution was in force, from 1861 to 1886, it was called Estados Unidos de Colombia.”—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. na Self Reliance. ‘The spirit of self help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual, and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from with- out is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invig- orates. Whatever is done for men or classes to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves, and where men are sub- ‘Jected to overguidance and overgov- ernment the inevitable tendency Is to Tender them comparatively helpless.— Samuel Smiles. A Close Connection. “I'm tryin’ to get some information about a friend of mine named Fos, ‘who came out here.” said the stranzer from the east. “They tell me he ded of some throat troqble.” “I guess that’s about right." safd the cowboy. | “What was it? Bronchitis?” ~ “Bronchitis? ‘That's a new one on me, but I reckon I see the connection. He stole a broncho.” — Philadelphia Press. i “I was just thinking about that Hongevity record established by Me thuselah.” “What about it?” “If he hadn't set such a high mark maybe more men would go after $t"— Louisville Courier-Journal. Decided Change. ‘Mrs. A—How marriage changes ® man! Mrs. B.—Doesn't it? Take DY husband. He used to offer me a penDy for my thoughts, and now he offers me te shut up.—Boston Transcript. Find the Grouch. “Say, dad, what's bonds of matt mony?” “ “They ought to be bonds to keep De Peace, but they're not.” — Richmond ‘Times-Dispateb. Life, that ever needs forgiveness has, for its tirst duty, to forgive—Bal wer-Lstton. UNSOUND FOODS. Points For Young Housekeepers About Shellfish. HOW TO DETECT BAD MEATS. If the Caterer For a Family Knows the Difference Between Fresh and Stale Foodstuffs Ptomaine Poisoning and Other Serious Ills May Be Avoided. Smoked meats and fish are bad when they are flabby to the touch and have a rancid, sour smell. Glassed meat products are bad when they have a rancid, sour smell and when the color differs from the fresh product. Good fresh pork is solid, has pure white fat and pink flesh. Do not buy pork that is soft and yellow. Remember that lamb or mutton should be firm, close grained and light red in color, with fat that is white and hard. Beef should be of a rosy red color, with cream colored, firm, elastic fat and scarcely moist when touched with the finger. Do not buy wet, flabby beef that is pale and purple. All shellfish should smell fresh, and the shells should close firmly when put into water or touched with the finger. Shellfish should be alive when cooked. Fresh veal is pale red (unless milk fed, when it is light), with firm, white fat between the muscles and surrounding tissues and scarcely moist to the touch. Bad veal is soft, mushy, sticky and has a very red tinge, while the fat has a grayish lead color. Fresh fish should have red gills, moist, bright scales and clear eyes, and should be firm and rigid when handled. Stale fish is flabby, has dull scales, the eyes are sunken and covered with a film, the gills are pale or of greenish color, and the fish has a bad odor. All lumpy fish should be rejected as the growth may be cancer. To detect decomposing meats in cans before opening inspect the ends of the can and if they bulge, discard the can. This bulking is due to accumulated gases of decomposition that push the ends outward by force of pressure. Leaking and rust cans should also be discarded. Canned meats should be free from mold. The odor of such meats should be the same as when freshly prepared. If the meat is putrid exposure to heat will make it possible to detect the foul odor. FOR COOL DAYS. The Craze For Strips Has Girdled Even This School Child. These cozy new sweaters come in two shades of old rose, brown and tan; two shades of blue and black with gay 1930 contrasts if one pictured has patch pockets if tip and roll collar and comes in a weight Two cups of brown sugar, one cupful of water, three quarters cupful of milk, half a cupful of walnut and vanilla to flavor, half sugar and milk over moderately cold until it forms a soft ball in water. Remove from stove, add butter and buttoned pan. Beat until creamy and place in buttoned pan. Be sure and don't cook too long. Remove from stove as soon as it forms a soft ball in water. It itches very easily, so stir quite often, but not continuously. Carrot Pie. One cupful of sour cream, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of grated carrot, the yolks of two eggs, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg to taste. Bake in one crust and cover with meringue, using the whites of two eggs and four table-spoons of sugar. His Backbone Is a Spring. The snapping bug has a spring in his back, like a knife. When not in use as a spring it serves him as a backbone, so you see he is a believer in scientific efficiency and makes one part of his machinery do the work of two. His spring backbone, or backbone spring if you prefer, gives him power to jump, which in turn gives him his name. Nature probably gave him the spring to help him get on his feet when he's on his back. You've noticed how helpless some insects are when you lay them on their backs. Not this one, however. He slips his backbone out of its groove and then slips it back again suddenly. The spring pops him up in the air, he turns a somersault and drops right side up. Spring backbones are common in several other beetles. The beetle of the pestiferous wire worm, which destroys the farmer's crops, has a spring in his back. Other members of the family make their homes in trees or decayed wood. -Philadelphia North American. Resourceful Burglar A constable going the rounds of his beat in London a few nights ago noticed a light in a house from which the family and servants had gone out of town. After the officer had pulled the bell several times a man put his head out of the bedroom window to say that he would be down in a few minutes. He came down in a dressing gown and carrying a candle in his hand. The constable explained his suspicion, whereupon the man stated that he had just run up to town to see that all was right. After chatting for a little he invited the constable to have a glass of wine. He lit the dining room gas and produced a bottle of port. After they had drunk each other's health he let the constable out and bolted the door after him. The man lost no time in getting the "swag" together and left the house by another exit. Giving a Horse Its Name. The shire horse owes its name to Arthur Young's remarks, in the description of his agricultural tours during the closing years of the eighteen century, concerning the large old English black horse, "the produce principally of the shire counties in the heart of England." But long previous to this the word "shire" in connection with horses was used in statutes of Henry VIII. Under the various names of the war horse, the great horse, the old English black horse and the shire horse the breed has for centuries been cultivated in the rich fen lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire and in many counties of the west. Curiously enough, the Shire Horse society, which has done so much to promote the breed, was known for the first six years of its existence, which began in 1878, as the English Cart Horse society—London Chronicle. The First War. The first writing known to scholars was the account of a war waged between hostile nations in Mesopotamia, perhaps 3500 B. C. The first battle was that between Cain and Abel. Apparently men have always been quick to settle their differences by fighting. The first warlike king is said to have been Osymandys of Egypt, who passed into Asia and conquered Bactria in 2100 B. C. Palamedes Bacgos is mythically reported to have been the first who ranged an army in a regular line of battle, placed sentinels round a camp and excited the soldier's vigilance by giving him a password. This occurred during the siege of Troy, the date of which is variously estimated at about 2,500 years before the Christian era—Pittsburgh Press. Reversing the Compliment. A cashier of somewhat portly build was frowning over a statement of accounts just placed before him by his pretty typist. "As a young lady," he said, "I admire your type, but I can't honestly say I admire your typing." "How funny!" she replied smartly. "We are so different, for, though you are of course splendid at figures, no one could say you have a splendid figure!"—London Express. Quick Way to Drive Posts To drive posts quickly take a section of log about fifteen inches in diameter and two feet long, to which are attached two handles at an angle. Two men, one on each side, can use this hand power pile driver while a third man holds the post to be driven and keeps it in alignment.—Farm and home. Made Him Cross. "I made my husband cross this afternoon," said Mrs. Caller. "How was that?" queried Mrs. Homer. "He was on the opposite side of the street, and I beckoned him to come over," explained the other. Cause For Thanks. Guest—Look here! This mirror is so fearfully dirty that I can't see my face in it. Hotel Servant—It strikes me you ought to be thankful for that instead of making trouble about it.—Exchange. Rope and an Oath: In Assam an oath is taken standing within a rope circle, to imply a wish to perish as the rope does if the witness does not tell the truth. Unhistoric Youngster. "What was the result of the flood?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "Mud," replied the bright youngster. —Chicago News. They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. The rest is cruelty, not justice. —William Penn. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 13, 1916 STEPHENS BILL PROTECTS PUBLIC Almed at Dishonest Advertising and False Pretenses. TO AID HONEST BUSINESS. Measure Will Prevent Injury to Smaller Cities and Towns From Cutthroat Monopolistic Methods of Mail Order Houses and Big City Stores—Will Insure Uniform Prices and High Quality. Bv. W. BOB HOLLAND. "A bill to protect the public against dishonest advertising and false pretenses in advertising." This is the comprehensive title of a measure introduced in the present congress by Representative Dan V. Stephens of Nebraska. A similar bill has been introduced in the senate by Senator Ashurst of Arizona. No one can find fault with legislation that will achieve the objects stated in the titles of the Stephens-Ashurst bill. The public certainly needs protection "against dishonest advertising and false pretenses in merchandising." The bill now under consideration is the successor of the Stevens bill, a measure introduced in the last congress by Representative Stevens of New Hampshire. It was widely discussed and died in committee after several public hearings, at which its merits and demerits were considered. The Stephens bill embolizes the changes that seemed advisable after these hearings and discussions, and it is believed that in its present form it safeguards the producer, the merchant and the consumer. For many years the right of a producer to contract with merchants for the resale of his products at standard, uniform prices was generally recognized and its legality was not questioned. Then the supreme court of the United States held that such a contract was "in restraint of trade" and "against public policy." The court divided on the question, 5 to 4, and the majority found no specific law forbidding the practice that had long been common, but held that congress had intended the Sherman law to prohibit such business methods. Agency System Is Legal. This court made law upset long established custom, but it does not prevent the end sought from being reached by other means. Producers who wish to have no discrimination shown to favored individuals can insure uniform prices for their goods by establishing branch establishments or by appointing agents. This is the method followed by manufacturers of automobiles. Bakers who sell their products within a restricted area can also regulate their prices by making grocers their agents and thereby retaining title to their bread and rolls until they reach the consumer. Producers of other articles, goods sold in small quantities and which must depend on established merchants for their distribution, are denied the right that men in other lines have. The Stephens-Ashurst bill is designed to restore to these producers a protection they had before it was taken away from them by the supreme court. Cut rate department stores, so called "chain" drug and grocery stores in the large cities, and mall order houses use cut prices on standard, well known articles to draw trade away from small stores and small towns. The loss they may suffer on these standard articles is more than made up by the high profits on anonymous goods or goods put up under their own brands. In this way the producer is injured because the reputation of his product is ruined; the retail merchant is damaged because he cannot afford to advertise widely a special bargain "bait" to attract customers to whom other goods may be sold at a profit; the consumer is damaged because producers are not encouraged to maintain quality and because inferior articles are substituted. Ample Protection Afforded. The Stephens-Asburst bill is not compulsory. To take advantage of its provisions the producer must register his trademark or special brand with the bureau of corporations in Washington and must pay a fee of $10. He must not have a monopoly of articles belonging to the same general class of merchandise, and he must not agree with any competitor to control prices. The producer must also file a schedule giving the prices at which his listed article is sold to wholesalers, to retailers and to the consumer. This schedule of prices becomes a public document. The prices scheduled must be uniform to buyers under similar circumstances. This permits reduction in prices for quantity purchases and allowances to equalize freight rates. A merchant who decides to quit business, who wishes to discontinue any line of listed goods or who becomes bankrupt must first offer such listed articles to the manufacturers for redemption at the full price paid. Should the manufacturers neglect or refuse to redeem the goods then the dealer can sell them at any price he desires or can get. Damaged goods must also be offered for exchange or redemption, and if later offered for sale at reduced prices the reason for the reduction must be made known to purchasers. There is also a clause permitting seasonable sales. Youth Has Only Three Remaining of Original Seven In Locket-Hopes to Find a True Lover. Kansas City, Mo.-A well dressed young man walked into a loan office here. He brought forth his pocketbook and paid the interest on money he had borrowed on a locket. Then he asked Frank Nevin, appraiser, to be allowed to see the trinket. Nevin produced it. The young man examined it and grew confidential "That locket," he said, "represents four love affairs gone astray. You will notice four of the seven diamonds with which it was originally set are missing. It was four years ago that I became engaged the first time. The girl suggested I take a diamond from the locket for our engagement ring. I have been engaged three times since, and every time I have used one of the diamonds. The girls have broken their engagements and then kept the ring. "You see these three remaining stones? I hope to be able to find a girl that will keep her promise before they are all gone." Mr. Nevin said the diamonds in the locket were worth about $75 each. WAR EMANCIPATES THE TURKISH WOMEN WAR EMANCIPATES THE TURKISH WOMEN Veils Being Discarded or Modified, and Theaters Will Soon See Native Actresses Is Belief. Constantinople.—Since the allies abandoned the Dardanelles attack Constantinople has become normal and is now as far removed from the theater of war as any big city in neutral countries. The cafes and motion picture houses are well attended, and the theaters are crowded. Recently there was a big first night in the Petit Champs, the occasion being the performance of a French comedy. The actors were Turks, but the actresses were all Armenians, as Turkish women are not yet permitted to appear on the stage, but the general opinion is expressed by all thinking Turks that before long their women will make their first appearance as actresses. The emancipation of women in Turkey has made remarkable progress since the beginning of the war. In the best society in Constantinople the women no longer wear their vells when receiving their guests. Though vells continue to be worn by the Turkish women in the street, still the fashion has made them so filmsy and transparent that they might just as well be dispensed with. Consequently all the fascination and mystery that heretofore has surrounded the harem has suddenly disappeared. There is no longer any such thing, and in its place there is simply the usual family life. The Turkish woman is as much a housewife as her European sister, and in this war her resources have been taxed to the utmost. Despite the fact that the rich agricultural country of Anatolia is not far distant, the prices of all necessaries of life have increased enormously. Turkey has awakened from its long lethargy, and the war has brought a new life in the empire. Progress is now the keynote, and the indications are that within a few years Constantinople will be one of the most advanced cities in the world. WOMEN NOT REAL ANGLERS. New York Commissioner Pratt, Therefore, Would Let 'Em Fish Free. Albany, N. Y.—"Women," says Conservation Commissioner Pratt, "do not constitute a factor of importance in the fishing situation." Therefore Mr. Pratt recommends that the fair sex, as are children under sixteen years of age, be exempt from the provisions of his bill to compel fishermen to take out an annual license costing $1.10. "It is not desired." he adds, "to put any burden upon these young fishermen." Under the bill a license is not required to catch suckers, bullheads, carp or other plebeian fish, but to catch fish propagated by the state the $1.10 fee must be paid. WEDS LOSER OF PHOTO. Planter Traveled Throughout Middle West Six Months Seeking Ideal. Hudsonville. Mich.—George N. Howard, a planner of Birmingham, Ala., found a handbag on the Panama-Pacific exposition grounds at San Francisco last September. The bag contained the photograph of a young woman. On the picture was written the name "Wisconsin." Howard fell in love and for six months traveled throughout the middle west seeking his ideal. He found her here. The bride was Miss Nettie Telsma of Oshkosh, Wis. Flying Hen Drops Egg. Bluefield, W. Va.—What is believed to be the first time on record of a hen laying an egg in midair was the unusual accomplishment of a brown leghorn in the express office at Graham. The hen was in a coop of chickens. After the coop had been placed on a truck the brown leghorn escaped, and while flying dropped a snow white egg into space. John Jones, a colored roostabout, who was pursuing the hen, caught the egg as it dropped. STANDARD PRICES AID COMPETITION The Stephens Bill Encourages Rivalry In Quality. REAL BENEFIT TO PUBLIC. False Pretense In Merchandising as Practiced by Big City Stores Is Method Used to Injure Small Dealers and to Destroy Small Towns—Dishonesty Can't Benefit Consumers. The true competition is between rival articles, a competition in excellence, which can never be maintained if, through the purity of the retailer who cuts prices for his own ulterior purposes, the manufacturer is forced to compete in prices with goods of his own production, while the retailer recoups his losses on the cut price by the sale of other articles at, or above, their reasonable price. IT IS A FALLACY TO ASSUME THAT THE PRICE CUTTER POCKETS THE LOSS. THE PUBLIC MAKES IT UP ON OTHER PURCHASES. Fixing the price on all brands of high grade flour is a very different thing from fixing the price on one brand of high grade flour. The one means destruction of all competition and of all incentive to increased excellence. The other means heightened competition and intensified incentive to increased excellence. This language, used by the supreme court of the state of Washington in an unanimous decision of the case of the Fisher Flouring Mills Co. versus C. A. Swanson, clearly sets forth the interest the consumer has in maintaining the highest form of competition—that of quality. Competition in price results in inferior quality and the evil of substitution. Dishonest advertisers use cut prices on standard and widely known merchandise to lure customers into their establishments, where an effort will be made to sell anonymous goods. The genuine bargain is used as "bait" to spread the impression that all merchandise is sold at the same low margin of profit. If this impression can be created the cut rate merchant can sell unknown goods at as high a figure as his conscience will permit him to charge—and his conscience is elastic. Nearly every man's is more or less so where profits are concerned. A Bill to Protect the Public. Representative Dan V. Stephens of Nebraska and Senator William F. Ashurst of Arizona have introduced in congress "a bill to protect the public against dishonest advertising and false pretenses in merchandising." A similar measure was introduced in the last congress by Representative Stevens of New Hampshire. It ought to be axiomatic that the public cannot profit through dishonesty or through false pretenses. The individual may make a pecuniary gain; thieves, burglars and confidence men occasionally escape paying the penalty of their crimes and are pecuniarly better off. But the public, the victims of the successful criminals, loses. The Stephens-Ashurst bill provides for standard and uniform prices on articles sold under a trademark or special brand, with the widest possible publicity for buyers and sellers. Opponents of the bill—adherents of dishonest advertising and users of false pretenses in merchandising—have declared that it will encourage monopoly and prevent competition. They have tried to make consumers believe that it will increase the cost of living, that it will raise the price of everything sold in any sort of store. No Monopoly Possible. The bill does not encourage monopoly, because producers who have a monopoly of any particular line or who make an agreement with a competitor to maintain prices are barred from taking advantage of the privilege of preventing discrimination by contracting for the resale of their goods at uniform prices. A monopoly, no matter how it is gained, cannot do business under the terms of the Stephens bill. On the other hand, cutthroat competition in price has always been the chief weapon of monopoly. The bill will not raise prices and increase the cost of living. Producers already have the right to sell their goods at wholesale at any price they can get, at what they are worth. The proposed legislation merely permits the producer to control the retail price, and if he puts this too high—higher than the public is willing to pay—then his goods will not be sold and he loses. The cut price storekeeper that sells goods at a loss does not stand the loss; he passes it on to his customers. What he loses on one article is made up, or more than made up, on another. The use of cut prices on standard articles for the purpose of drawing customers into the store with the intention of selling them something else, that is where "dishonest advertising" is found and where "false pretenses in merchandising" injures the public. Cut rates by big department stores enable them to kill off the small store and the small towns. Those residents of rural communities, villages and the lesser cities who want to see their home folks injured that the large cities may grow richer and larger should naturally oppose the Stephens bill. Those who desire to see their own vicissitudes prosper should support the principle of uniform standard prices. PAGE THIRD SPAIN'S KING BUSY Acts as Medium In Sending News to Soldiers and Families. RECEIVES 1,000 NOTES DAILY. Affonso and Secretary Have Been Instrumental In Bringing About Communication Between 120,000 Families and Their Relatives Among Soldiers. Madrid.-The king and queen of Spain and their family have spent the past few months here, although the king has been on various shooting excursions, making visits to his friends in the country. Among his hosts have been the Duke of Tarifa, who has a great estate near Cadiz, and Count Gavea, who entertained his majesty at Santa Cruz de Mudela. Returning to Madrid from one of these excursions to a workmen's club, the king was saved from running over one of his subjects by the quick wit of the chauffeur. As the royal car was entering the Puerta Del Sol a man attempting suicide threw himself before the car. The same person, who had been declared a maniac, tried to enter the royal palace last November, telling the attendants that the king owed him a small sum of money, and he wanted to get it. The queen has been entertaining her brother, Prince Leopold of Battenburg, now returned to London after a visit to 1939 KING ALFONSO. Paris. He has been recuperating his health and was allowed to leave the army through the influence of his mother, Princess Beatrice, who has been inconsolable over the loss of her youngest son, Prince Maurice, who was killed on the battlefield in October. 1914. Prince Leopold is now staying with his mother at Kensington palace. London. Queen Victoria has not taken an active interest in social affairs during the winter and spring, having had some weeks of ill health and preferring to spend most of her time with her children. The youngest, Prince Gonzalo, eighteen months old, is a splendid big baby and the pet of the family. It is amusing to see the solicitude manifested for him by his eldest brother, Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias, who will succeed his father upon the throne. Prince Alfonso is nearing his ninth year, and while he formerly resembled his mother, there is now a striking likeness to King Alfonso. The prince spends about half of the day out of doors. He has been trained in various sports and is divided in his love for his pony and for his little motorcar, which he is sometimes allowed to run by himself around the avenues of the palace park. King Alfonso and his private secretary, Don Emilio Torres, have been instrumental in bringing about communication between 120,000 families in France and their relatives among the soldiers who are prisoners of war. The king receives from 800 to 1,000 letters every day in connection with this work, which he has voluntarily assumed, of getting news back and forth between the prisoners of war and their families. His offices are at the service of the humblest servant girl as well as the princess. CHAMPION HAND FISHERMAN. Penn Yan (N. Y.) Woman Catches Big Whitefish After Struggle. Penn Yan, N. Y.—Mrs. Jennie Pratt is probably the champion hand fisherman. Mrs. Pratt, who lives at the foot of Keuka lake, caught a big palatable whitefish with her hands after a considerable struggle, during which she struck her face on a cake of ice. She saw what looked like a piece of ice floating on the water. Investigation showed it was a whitefish swimming on the water surface. She caught it with her hands, but he wrigled away. Mrs. Pratt dropped to her knees, thrust her arm to her shoulder in the water, struck her cheek on a cake of ice, but caught that fish. Robs Prisoner In Jail Chester, Pa.-Posing as a "antiton," a stranger walked into the lockup the other night and flimflammed C. L. Bennett, a prisoner, out of $15 and made a safe getaway. He told the prisoner that the chief wanted the money for safe keeping. 71 HON. WILLIAM E. DEVER. The People's candidate for re-election as Judge of the Superior Court, who is extremely popular with all classes of his fellow citizens throughout Cook County. Six years ago, or in 1910, Judge William E. Dever was elected one of the judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, and so far he has served the people in that capacity with great honor to himself, the bench and bar, and during that length of time he has sat in judgment in many important cases—he has at all times been fair and square in his rulings. DEATH OF MES. GEORGE W. ELLIS. Clavender Sherman Ellis was born January 28, 1888, at Monrovia, Liberia. She was twenty-eight (28) years of age. She was a daughter of the Honorable Robert Sherman, Secretary of War and Navy of the Republic of Liberia. She is one of three children born to Robert Sherman, two girls and one boy. Her brother, the Honorable Reginald A. Sherman, is the Governor of the territory of Grande Cape Mount, Liberia. She leaves in America her husband, George W. Ellis, one cousin, Edwin U. McGill, and in Liberia, one brother, Reginald A. Sherman, and two aunts, Mrs. Corine A. McGill, Mrs. Lucretia Watson, and one cousin, Mrs. Eva Dennis. She descended on both sides of her parents from two of the most prominent families in Liberia; on her mother's side she is the great grandneice of Ex-President Payne. She was educated in the Liberian public schools and graduated from the college of West Africa with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1904. She began teaching in the College of West Africa upon her graduation and continued until she married, January 27th, 1906. She came with her husband to America in 1910, and resided with him at their residence, 3262 Vernon avenue, until her demise, May 8th, 1916, at 7:40 P. M. She took ill seriously, January 27th, 1911, and confined to her bed for nearly a year. She recovered enough to be about for a time. During her illness she was in Michael Reese Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, Post Graduate Hospital and three times in Wesley Memorial Hospital where she died. For four years of her illness, after many examinations by many physicians, it seemed impossible to tell the nature of her difficulty. When she was placed in Wesley Hospital for the first time it was ascertained that she had gall stones as the chief cause of complaint which was very much aggravated by inflammatory rheumatism. She was operated upon for gall stones, March 14th, 1916, and recovered from the operation and was discharged from the hospital about the middle of April, 1916. On April 27th, she had another attack of rheumatism and on May 4th she returned to the Wesley Hospital and very suddenly complications set in and she passed away on the evening of May 8th. She was a very devoted and faithful wife. During her illness she took up literature and wrote a number of short stories which were accepted by important publications and she had in course of preparation the manuscripts of several interesting novels, the first manuscript of some which had been completed. She was an educated woman of very fine culture and was devoted to her home and to her work. Mrs. Ellis was a strong Christian and was raised up in the Methodist Episcopal Church. During her long illness she constantly re-affirmed her allegiance to Christ and passed away fully confirmed in the Christian faith. Mrs. Ellis was buried from her beautiful home on Vernon avenue, on Thursday; interment at Oakwood Cemetery. The Reverend W. S. Braddan officiated. Although she was sick for five (5) years to the very last, every possible aid of medical and surgical science was secured by her husband to affect her restoration to health. She leaves her husband and a host of friends to mourn her great loss, both in America and in Africa. as Judge of the Superior Court, who is of his fellow citizens throughout Cook Judge Dever has many warm friends, not only among the Colored lawyers who frequently appear in his court and receive the highest consideration from him, but also among the Colored people in all walks of life, who will be greatly pleased to see him on Tuesday, June 6, re-elected to his present honored position. A WONDERFUL LIFE The fundamental principle upon which Booker Washington constructed his philosophy of life and built his hope of success is found in his own statement, frequently repeated in modified form, that "Every persecuted individual and race should get such consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded." He believed with all the intensity of his being that merit and merit only will win success, and that any man will be recognized and rewarded just in proportion as he learns to do something well; learns to do it better than some one else; learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to make his services of indispensable value. As a natural outgrowth of his abiding faith in the success which merit it is certain to win, he was able to say in the face of some of the most trying circumstances which ever confronted a human soul: "I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life, I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish. I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed." The success which he believed he could win by meriting it was not, however, in any sense, a selfish success. He earnestly strove to succeed in order that he might thereby be able to serve the better. In his autobiography we read: "From my early childhood I have had a desire to do something to make the world better, and then to be able to speak to the world about that thing."—Southern Workman. IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Laura Chilton, my dearly beloved mother, departed this life, May 14, 1915. She was a devoted member of the M. E. Church, a constant and upright Christian, scattering sunshine, flowers and happiness in the pathway of those she came in contact with; she was kindly disposed and charitable. As her dutiful and loving daughter I shall strive to perpetuate her memory and forever shiver and reverit it. NEGRO DELEGATE NAMED Jackson, Miss., May 12.—The convention of the Eighth Congressional District of Mississippi was held here today, being attended by a large number of delegates, Negroes predominating in numbers. L. B. Mosely of Jackson, Republican national committeeman for Mississippi, and Mike J. Mulvihill of Vicksburg, former postmaster, were the leading White men in the mixture. P. W. Howard, Negro lawyer of Jackson, was chosen as district delegate to the Chicago convention, with I. W. Hart, also a Jackson Negro as alternate. FOUR BOOMS TO RENT REASON ABLE. Four rooms with toilet, bath, gas and furnace heat to rent reasonable to the right parties. For further information, apply or address 3321 Vernon Avenue. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 13, 1916 Howard University Issues an Alumni Number of the Record for April. Howard University has just gone to press with the Alumni Number of the Howard University Record for April for the General Alumni Association. Special effort has been made in this number to set forth the activities of the Alumni, both at home, in the University and abroad. The definite aim and purpose of this issue is to lay a foundation for an accurate and complete record of the Alumni, now numbering between 2500 and 3000, for the Semi-Centennial publication, year 1917, when Howard University, which was chartered in 1867, will reach its fifteenth year of service and usefulness in the higher education of the Colored youth. This edition of the University Record will be limited and will be sent out, first, to the Alumni whose addresses have been verified as accurate, and afterwards an attempt will be made to supply the demand which is found after the issue has appeared. In order, therefore, that every alumnus may receive a copy, and if necessary, that the edition be increased, it is requested that every graduate of Howard University in each and every department verify their address immediately at the offices of the Alumni, 639 F St., N. W., Washington, D. C., those outside of the city, by card or letter, while those located in Washington may use the same means or 'phone M-3640. Preparations have already been begun for the annual reunion and Alumni Day, June 7. The committee of arrangements will be announced in a few days. The quinquennium feature, which has proved so popular for the past three or four years on account of its rotation in series of five years of those participating and having charge, will be used in the coming reunion. The list of those who will star this year as quinquennium will contain some of the most notable, successful, and distinguished graduates of the University, representing men and women who have stood foremost for advanced thought and action in every sphere of activity. LIEUT. GREEN GOES TO MONRO. VIA. LIBERIA. First Lieutenant John A. Green, who has been on duty with the Twenty-fifth regiment, United States infantry, on the Mexican border, was recently ordered by the Secretary of War to be detached from duty with that regiment and appointed as military attache to the American Legation at Monrovia, Liberia. This was the post held until recently by Major Charles Young, who is now in Mexico with the famous Tenth cavalry. Lieutenant Green, after paying his respects to the former Liberian Consul General, the Rev. Ernest Lyon, at Baltimore, went to New York and sailed for Liberia by way of Cadiz, Spain. A ARGENT HUGHER KENKINGTON LONDON MADAM E. AZALIA HACKLEY Who has just returned from a successful RETURN OF MADAM E. AZALIA HACKLEY AFTER AN ABSENCE OF THREE MONTHS ON A SUCCESSFUL MUSICAL TOUR IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. The latter part of last week Madam E. Azalia Hackley, who is one of the most noted songbirds of the Race in Among the many interesting women's conventions which are in preparation to be held this year, one very close at hand is that of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which will convene at Wichita, Kansas, June 7-9. A knowledge of the program indicates that they will be a very busy set of women, and will accomplish some very effective work for the benefit and advancement of the cause for which they are organized. Among the Northwestern states interested are Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Illinois. Meeting at the same time as the National Conventions in Chicago, the meeting takes on a peculiar importance and we are hoping for splendid results. Mrs. J. Snowden-Porter of Illinois, is president and Mrs. J. B. Rush of Iowa, is secretary. NATIONAL MEETING OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUES. The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, president, holds its next biennial in Baltimore, Md., beginning Sunday, August 6, with a mass meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church and the regular program, Monday, August 7, through the 10th. The last biennial was held in Wilberforce, Ohio, and was the most largely attended since the history of the organization, and it is expected that the Baltimore meeting will be even more largely attended. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Scott, have removed from 3023 South Wabash ave., to 312 East 30th street. Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Walsh, have removed from 4803 Union ave., to 823 West 50th Place, where they will be pleased to meet their many friends. Hon. John E. Traeger, the up-to-the-minute sheriff of Cook County, has many warm and influential friends who are planning to trot him out for mayor of Chicago in 1919. Mr. James O'Shaughnessy, president of the O'Shaughnessy Advertising Co., which occupies extensive quarters in the Westminster Building, is proving himself to be one of the best and keenest business men in Chicago. Mrs. George C. Hall, 3408 South Park avenue and Miss Hortense Hall, are the guests of Mrs. Booker T. Washington, at her beautiful home the "Oaks," Tuskegee, Ala. They will return home about June 1. GENT HALLER KENKINSTON LONDON singing tour through the East and West. this country, returned to her vocal institute at 3019 Calumet avenue, after being absent for three months giving successful musical demonstrations or concerts in Washington, D. C., and various other places in the East and several points in the West. Madam Hackley has no superior as an instructor along the lines of voice culture. CHIPS D. C. C. B. EMMETT Secretary of Tuskegee Institute, the I Secretary of the National Negro E Dollars Washington Memorial Fund EMMETT JAY SCOTT Secretary of Tuskegee Institute, the late Booker T. Washington's School, also Secretary of the National Negro Business League and of the Two-Million-Dollars Washington Memorial Fund. Secretary of Tuskegee Institute, the late Booker T. Washington's School, also Secretary of the National Negro Business League and of the Two-Million-Dollars Washington Memorial Fund. Emmett Jay Scott, who was the most trusted friend and intimate coworker with the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, for eighteen years, came into this grand old world in the far famed state of Texas, better known as the "Lone Star State." He is therefore a graduate of the Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, after rounding out his education he turned his attention to newspaper work and for the next four or five years he faithfully served in important capacities with the Daily Post, Houston, Texas. Later on in life he began his active public career as editor of the Texas Freeman. As the editor of the Freeman he soon forced himself to the front attracting the attention of prominent men in all parts of the country, which fact was largely responsible for him being selected as the hustling and wide awake secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington in 1897, and he more than faithfully served him in that capacity until he A. L. Harris, who is better known as Abe Harris around the City Hall, who is very popular with the ladies, has been looking very nifty the past week while sporting a large lovely American Beauty rose in the lapel of his coat. Dr. George C. Hall, 3408 South Park avenue, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. J. S. Tandy, will be among those to compose a party of thirty persons who will leave here on May 22nd to attend the commencement exercises at Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Major Robert R. Jackson is in Philadelphia, Pa., attending the A. M. E. Conference, and he is working day and night in an effort to secure the election of his bosom friend and chum, Rev. Archibald James Carey as one of the bishops of the A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Louise Webb, 3807 Vincennes avenue, will leave for St. Paul, Minn., this coming Monday morning, where she will spend ten days in the interest of the Order of the Eastern Star. On her return home, she will stop at Madison, Wis., in the interest of the same order. OFFICIAL CALL To the Members of the Western Negro Press Association: At the 17th annual meeting of the association in Kansas City, Missouri, Dec. 27th, 28th, 1915, it was voted that the 18th annual session of this organization should be held in the city of Chicago, on Monday and Tuesday, June the 5th and 6th, 1916. Therefore by the authority vested in me as president of the association, I hereby call upon each member of the association to be present at the Y. M. C. A., 38th and Wabash Avenue, at 10 o'clock Monday morning, June 5th, 1916, for the purpose of transacting the business of the association and discussing questions of interest, the race, state and nation. All newspaper, or magazine editors, editors, reporters, managers or correspondents not members of the association are cordially invited to attend this meeting. A. J. SMITHEMAN, President. Cor. Sec. Kansas City, Kans. passed on into the next world in November, 1915. Mr. Scott has and still continues to serve as secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, and he has been secretary of the National Negro Business League since its inception in 1900; he was a member of the American Commission to Liberia, in 1909; he was secretary of the International Conference on the Negro, in 1912. He is also the secretary of the two million dollar Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund. He helped Booker T. Washington in writing "Tuskegee and its People," published by Appleton & Company, in 1910; he also assisted Lyman Beecher Stowe in writing "Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization," published in 1916 by Doubleday, Page & Company. He is also the author of a highly interesting little book entitled "Is Liberia Worth Saving." For many years he has been a very brilliant contributor to many of the leading magazines and newspapers throughout the country. THE NEXT GOVERNOR FARMER LAWYER STATESMAN FRANK O. LOWDEN OGLE COUNTY, ILL. THE NEW FRANK O. LOWDEN CLUB. The Illinois Central Station Usher, of whom Sandy W. Trice is Chief, and the Illinois Central Train Porters and Pullman Porters, have organized a political club, to be known as The Frank O. Lowden Club. On account of Sandy W. Trice being so well qualified, and so well known in the Negro business circle, as well as being connected with so many Fraternal Orders and Churches, and having the respect of all of the Ushers and Trainmen, he was elected President of the Club, and the following subordinate officers: Sandy W. Trice, Pres; Wm. R. Ferguson, Vice Pres. and Treas.; Wm. Davis, Vice Pres.; R. L. Collins, Vice Pres.; Boysie Sheppard, Vice Pres.; E. G. Jordan, Vice Pres.; John Ferguson, Vice Pres.; James Tindall, Vice Pres.; Chas. Blake, Vice Pres.; W. J. Crawford 'of Centralia, Ill., Vice Pres.; Jas. L. Robinson, See.; Juan W. Bell, Corresponding See'y. The above club was organized last summer and it is still in line for Col. Frank O. Lowden for the nomination for governor of Illinois. COLORED PEOPLE'S PROGRESS. A new race history, soon to be placed on the market at $1.50; an inspiring volume, showing the wonderful advancement of the Colored American, reads like magic, so rapid has been their progress in every department—Industry, Science, Art, Religion, Literature. Imparts practical suggestions for self-improvement and teaches the way to success. The publishers, Austin & Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C., are now placing agents. Anybody can sell. SECURE THE AGENCY AT ONCE by getting a fine prospectus FREE for 10 cents in postage. AGENTS make $10.00 per day. It sells on sight. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. BY Dr. W. A. DRIVER 3300 So. State Street Phode Douglas 3617 PATENT MEDICINE There is a peculiar kind of philosophy that permits people to take a chance with the thin line between life and death just for the sake of avoiding payment for the proper medical treatment. Nearly every person of average intelligence knows that patent medicine is not the proper thing, but many of those who ought to know better than to use such medicine will foolishly take it. It should not be a difficult matter to understand that such a practice is dangerous in the extreme. The only excuse for taking patent medicine is that it is a cheap substitute for the real, the desirable and only proper treatment. It is an effort to cheat in the game of life. It is evasive and unreasonable to take a substitute for the original and proper. Kings and Shaving. The classic case of a king who knew better than to let anybody else shave him is that of Dionysius the elder, tyrant of Syracuse, who appears to have been unable to shave himself, for he is said to have resorted to the uncomfortable device of singing off his beard with hot walnut shells, says the London Chronicle. We may suspect that Napoleon's was another case of the kind. Rogers asked Talleyrand whether Napoleon shaved himself. "Yes," replied Talleyrand; "one born to be a king has some one to shave him, but they acquire kingdoms shave themselves." That way of putting it pleasantly emphasizes the practical superiority of the parvenu to the helpless, spolled child of heredity, but prudence probably entered into the matter also, if Talleyrand's statement was correct. A Queer Fish. A male fish which hatches the young of its mate is the Chromis paterfamilias. It is found in the lake of Tiberias, Palestine. Strange to say, this industrious fish hatches its young is its mouth. When the female has spawned in the sand the male approaches and draws the eggs into his gills, where they remain until hatched, when they struggle out of their confinement into the parent's mouth. As many as 200 perfect young are sometimes found in the mouth of an adult male. How the fish manages to feed itself without swallowing its young is a mystery. The grown fish is about seven inches long and one and three-quarters wide. Its back is olive green, shot with blue, and the belly is silver white, marked with green and blue. Reason For Complaint "I keep the best bread," said a certain baker the other day to a poor fellow who complained of the inferior quality of the article he had purchased of him the day before. "I do not doubt it," replied the customer. "Then why do you complain?" asked the baker. "Because I would suggest that you sell the best bread and keep the bad." was the reply—Pittsburgh Telegraph. Some Evidence. "You say that preparation will make the hair grow?" asked the thin haired man of the druggist. "Why, say," came from the drug man. "I know a customer who took the cork out of a bottle of that stuff with his teeth, and now he's got a hair-lip." Youkers Statesman. Part Often Overlooked "It is all right to pat yourself on the back occasionally," said the dispenser of sage advice. "Yes?" said the player up. "Oh," said the player up. "But don't forget to call yourself down when you need it, my boy."—Pittsburgh Post Treat For the Boards "Ma," queried the small daughter of the boarding housekeeper, "what shall I do with these basting threads?" "Give them to me and I will stir them into the frosting for the coconut cake," said her mother.—Youth's Companion. Lively Chaese. John—I'll bring you a fork, sir. The Customer—What for? John—The ca membert, sir. The Customer—A fork' ne good. Bring a revolver.—Exchange Sincerity's own realm is one's secret chamber; strong here, a man is strong everywhere.—Salgo. J. H. when the latter is available. False economy then, is the stimulus that lies back of the patent medicine using that can only be a makeshift. Ignorance is responsible for the patent medicine industry. Only those who are ignorant of the potency of drugs will try to use agents capable of the duality for good or ill without consulting some one who has been trained to prescribe after due examination to ascertain the true condition. It is obvious that the physician alone is really capable of advising the use of drugs and even the physician must examine every time before prescribing. It is a shame on our age that we have not adequately protected those ignorant of the potentialities of materia medica. Patent medicine in the hands of any person who will take it, is equivalent to placing a razor blade in the hands of a child or infant. Dolls as Scapegoats. The earliest dolls found were the "Answers" of the ancient Egyptians, which were buried with important personages in order that they might fulfill such duties as the rulers of the nether world might impose on the dead dignitary in his next incarnation. The more important the dead the larger the number of dolls buried with him. Even to this day the doll plays its part in the folklore of the banks of the Nile. When the river does not appear to rise properly a doll is thrown into its waters, representing the living virgin or boy who used of old to be thrown in to propipate the Nile god, and a similar performance takes place on the banks of the Tiber, where a doll made of platted rushes is used as a substitute for the human victim—Westminster Gazette. George Washington's Sobrigueta George Washington's Sobriqueta. Washington was called by many sobriquets. He was first of all "Father of His Country." "Providence left him childless that his country might call him father." Sigourney calls him "Pater Patriae;" Chief Justice Marshall the "American Fabius." Lord Byron in, his "Ode to Napoleon" calls him "the Cincinnatus of the West." For having a new world on his shoulders he was called the "Atlas of America." The English soldiery called him by the sarcastic nickname of "Lovely Georgius." Red Jacket, the Seneca Indian chief, called him the "Flower of the Forest." The Italian poet Vittorio Alfieri called him "Diverler of America." His bitter opponents sarcastically called him the "Stepfather of His Country" during his presidency. Death. Death, the dry pedant, spares nei- ther the rose nor the thistle, nor does he forget the solitary blade of grass in the distant waste. He destroys thor- oughly and unceasingly. Everywhere we may see how he crushes to dust plants and beasts, men and their works. Even the Egyptian pyramids that would seem to defy him, are tro- phies of his power, monuments of de- cy, graves of primeval kings—Hein- rich Heine. Simple. "Those twin boys of yours are so much alike that I don't see how you can tell them apart." "That's easy enough. When they're on their good behavior they answer to their own names, and when they've been in mischief each one answers to the name of the other."—New Orleans Times-Picayune. That Was All. "Marla," demanded Mr. Billus in a loud voice, "what have you been doing to my razor?" "Nothing," said Mrs. Billus, "except sharpening it again after shaving Fido's tail with it. It's all right, isn't it?"—Exchange. Courtesy. Courtesy in the mistress of a house consists in feeding conversation, never in usurping it. It is the guardian of this species of sacred fire, but it must be accessible to all.-Mme. Swetchine. Serious Intentions Nellie—Hasn't Mr. Feilewalley proposed yet? Nora—No, but he has gone as far as to ask what time we have breakfast and whether mother is a good cook.—Exchange. His Specialty. Hokus—Scribbler has had no less than nine plays rejected. Pokus—What is he doing now? Hokus—Writing essays on the decline of the drama—Life. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 13, 1916. Charles E. Stump Continues His Travels Through the South and East. He Visited Philadelphia and Attended the General A. M. E. Conference Where He Met Many of the Leading Candidates for Bishops and Other High Dignitaries of the A. M. E. Church Norfolk, Va.—I am still in the world and moving around a little bit, and I certainly enjoy my getting around and seeing the people. I tell you this is just a little better than getting down to it on a farm in Kansas, and I am sorry that I did not try to be a writer before. I wonder if all writers have such a nice time, and so much fuss made over them. My head has greatly increased since I have been writing for this paper, until I fear that it will be hard to find a hat that will fit me. Just think of the states in which I have been this year, and the various towns and cities and back out in the country, and then think of what I have been able to say, and the number of people who have met me through the paper. Well, I am enjoying life, and don't you forget it! It is hard for me to tell where I was when I wrote to you the last time, but I have been to many places since I wrote that letter. For instance, I have been to Knoxville, Jefferson City, Tenn., Roanoke, Va., Lynchburg, Danville, and High Point, N. C., and I was very much impressed with my trip to High Point, N. C., because I have never been there before and I saw just a few things there. I was there the guest of Rev. O. S. Bullock, pastor of the Baptist church of High Point. They have a few of our people there, and they seemed to be happy, and I was happy to see them so happy. I looked around and enjoyed looking at them. The First Baptist church of High Point is one of our finest churches, and it has grown so well, that they have had to put on some more and they are at it now. They are adding to the church and the people are helping them to do this. They are going to erect a Sunday school room. Rev. Bullock has been here about 19 years, and he is some preacher, believe me. I had the pleasure of meeting many people there, but the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute was brought to my notice and I was very much impressed with the high grade work being done there, and this is due to the fact that there is a man at the head of the school, and I shall never forget him. Prof. Alfred J. Griffin knows what it is for a young boy to earn an education, for this is what he had to do in order to reach the place where he is now: On the farm, in the school room, teaching, and being a student at the same time, and at times he was so poor that he could not pore any more. But he got there just the same. He graduated from the school in Raleigh, N. C., known as the St. Augustine college, and when he was ready to graduate, he went to the rag shop to get his graduating suit. He purchased from that place a coat and vest that was made for one three times his size, cut it down to his size, for $1.50, and he bought out of the same store and a pair of shoes that had been worn by another, for $1.50, and then getting some other second-hand doings, he was prepared for his graduation. He was then employed as one of the instructors at $25 a month, and made such rapid progress until he was called to this school in High Point, and has made wonderful improvements there. Right by his side is to be found his wife, and she is well educated herself. The Lord has blessed them with a good crop of children—I think about 9 make up the family. Associated with Dr. Griffin is to be found E. E. Curturgh, S. E. Miles, S. S. Whitted. Herbert Holoman, Misses M. M. Brooks, Bertha Fitts, Julia E. Bumry, Lillian G. Dancy, Mesdames, S. B. Curtis, and Obelia Griffin. From High Point, found me headed for Danville, where I spent a few hours eating some of the good things in Virginia, and returned by Lynchburg, where I spent another time there, and then I went out to Norfolk, and from Norfolk, I took a trip over to Hampton and had the pleasure of seeing that great institution there founded by General Armstrong. I had the pleasure of meeting the man who is to succeed Major R. R. Moton. Captain Allen W. Washington will not be captain any more after this month, but he will be the Major and Major Moton will take charge of Tuskegee Institute, one of the greatest schools in the country for the training of our young people. It is a great big plant in Hampton. From there I found my way up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, where I was the guest of Editor John H. Murphy at the Smith Hotel. I just had to shout right out there on the street and created some excitement. You see, I have been reading about the papers and their offices, but I did not realize what this was until I went into the office of the Afro-American Ledger. There I found on the first floor, the counting room, the business manager and his clerk; then up-stairs, I found the editorial rooms, editor in chief, managing editor, city editor and reporters. The machines were going, and there was some business being done there. In the composing room I found the foreman, Daniel H. Murphy, and he was sitting down to a machine just like a typewriter, and there his fingers were just flying across that thing, making the paper. They had just purchased the machine, costing somewhere near $4,000. It is the latest of its kind, and can set up three kinds of type, set up books, headlines and almost everything else to be set up on a machine. I spent a few hours in the city, and then started off for Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly-love. I have been hearing people talk about Philadelphia, and I thought that I would see it for myself, because men were there holding general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, and it was at this place where the African Methodist church started, and some of the people broke into the place where Richard Allen was buried, and stole a look at his bones. Richard Allen was made the first bishop 100 years ago, and they are now there celebrating it. Some good men want to be made bishop on this anniversary, and it looks like they will be. I got off in that great big stable where the Pennsylvania iron horses tote you, and I was all but lost there. But I found one who showed me the way to Bethel church. I had been so used to see the signs "For Colored Patrons," so when I got on the car I naturally looked for it, but did not see it. I went in, took my seat until I reached the church, and got off and went to see the preachers. They are there in large numbers, and I am proud that I had the pleasure of seeing them. Bishops and bishops, and then those who wanted to be bishops trying to puzzle those who are already bishops. The first man I shook hands with was Dr. W. A. Fountain, president of Morris Brown University. He was there, as busy as could be trying to GRANDMILITARYBALL Evening before the opening of the National Republican Convention Presentation of Long and Honorable Service Medals. :: :: :: New Armory, 35th St. & Forest Avenue ADMISSION 50 CENTS keep things in good shape. He is booked to be one of the bishops and if he is elected, I am sure he will make a good one. Then I met Rev. A. J. Carey, from Chicago, and he was pushing things. Dr. Bundy is there looking after his affairs, and I think is called the campaign manager or something like that. Dr. Carey has given his church service, and now they want to serve him. He will make good if elected. Dr. W. T. Vernon, who was Register of the United States Treasury, was there, and he had something to say and something to do. He is now pastor of one of the largest churches in the south, Avery Chapel, Memphis; and believe me, he is going to be one of the bishops in his church before he is called to the other world. To me, it was a source of pleasure to see this great man and to talk with him. I am not saying much about Philadelphia, just now. I walked into the office of Dr. B. F. Watson, and talked with him. He is some man, and some big man at that. He is secretary of the Church Extension of his church. After talking with him and his clerks, I met Dr. G. W. Allen, editor of the Southern Christian Recorder, Rev. R. R. Wright, editor of the Christian Recorder, and J. Frank McDonald, editor of the Western Christian Recorder, Secretary John R Hawkins, Secretary A. S. Jackson, Secretary Ira T. Bryant, Secretary J. C Caldwell, and many others. Meeting all these men, I was more than happy, and was delighted to see them and to be with them. I enjoyed this distinction. I shall never forget it. I went into some of them big stores, and just looked and looked until my eyes were sore. Well, I am going to have many things to say to you in my next. --- Origin of the Letter V. The letter V may be regarded as the mutilated remains of one of the symbols used by the ancient Egyptians in their hieroglyphics or picture writing. A common animal in their country was the two horned sandviper, a representation of which stood for V. The priests ultimately found that for the practical purposes of everyday life it was a waste of time to use elaborate hieroglyphics and invented a kind of shorthand to meet the occasion. In this the snake was reduced to a V with a dash (V-) to represent horns and body. The Phoenicians adopted this letter, and from them we get our V by loss of the dash, leaving only the two little horns of the original picture. This snake is still common in Egypt and is probably the one mentioned in Genesis xlix, 17, "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." Travelers tell us that it is still addicted to this unpleasant habit. Music of the Church Nothing is plainer than the seemingly hopeless decadence of the music of the church as compared with modern possibilities and realities of musical art today. It is now some 200 years since the spirit of music left the church—since the church could hold and spiritually feed a great composer as it had done in the preceding centuries. The spirit of music, emancipated from the materialistic and puritanical influences which overtook established religion, brought forth the great modern art of music, with Beethoven as its leader, says Musical America. What has happened to that art at the hands of composers less lofty and less spiritually minded than he the world knows only too well, especially of late. The divorce has become almost complete. Not only has music, in its greatest powers, forsaken the forms of the church latterly it has departed from spiritual vision and aspiration within its own artistic province. Factors That Determine Salaries In the Woman's Home Companion a successful business man says that salaries are fixed by the amount and quality of work that a man can deliver. "Pull," in his opinion, is a negligible factor in the business world. "And that applies to the man who is getting $30,000 a year just as truly as it does to the man who is getting $20 a month. The only way that I can be paid more money than I am getting is by delivering more work to my company than I am now delivering or by showing my company how to save more money and so have a larger profit at the end of the year." Everett, Wash.-F. D. Mack, teacher in the Central school, has spent about $40,000 in educating eighteen students, seventeen boys and one girl, during the last sixteen years, according to a story he reluctantly told a newspaper representative. Living on his school salary in a modest way both in Minnesota, his former home, and in Washington, he has earned the money to send students through universities by writing short stories and magazine articles. He has paid out between $2,000 and $3,000 on each of his "children." Some of the youngsters were orphans, and some had one parent, but all were eager to learn and were handicapped by lack of money. The thirteen boys who are alive are all actively engaged in the professions in which Mr. Mack has educated them. Two are druggists, one being in St. Paul and the other in Los Angeles. Two are instructors in the University of Minnesota, where they were graduated. One teaches mathematics, and the other is an instructor in German. This latter young man plans to be a physician and in 1914 married a girl who wished to go to Germany to get her master's degree, so he and his bride sailed for Germany to continue their studies, only to be turned back by the beginning of the war. Mr. Mack sent him through Normal school, the University of Minnesota and Harvard, where he received his master's degree. A young man who chose to be a broker received his education at the University of Illinois. He started out to be an architect, but changed his mind and took a commercial course. He was graduated four years ago and is now in Minneapolis engaged in the lumber brokerage business. He is the best money maker of the "family." In his four years out of college he has made $40,000. A mining engineer who was educated at the University of Minnesota is now working in a mine at Butte, Mont. The banker received a thorough commercial education, and then Mr. Mack set him up in business in a bank in Elgin, N. D. Mr. Mack says that if any of his boys wants to start in business he always gives them enough money to begin. He recently bought an eighty acre farm for one of them. A dentist lives in Chicago. He had four years at the University of Valparaiso. Mr. Mack says this boy married a rich nurse. One boy who studied to be a lawyer lost his health after his graduation from the University of Minnesota law school, so could not practice, and is now employed as chief of the Minnesota state fish and game commission, with headquarters at St. Paul. Self educated and quiet, Mr. Mack would not be thought responsible for one of the most unusual philanthropies in the world. NO PAINTER'S COLIC FOR HIM Bill For "Tint" Makes Bachelor issue "Leap Year Declaration. Elwood, N. J.—Robert W. Hunt, a retired college instructor, received a letter recently from a neighboring town containing a bill for 40 cents for "that" purchased by "Mrs. Hunt." Hunt is a good looking bachelor with a steady income, and the inquisitive element of Elwood at once interpreted the postoffice bulletin in terms of leap year possibilities. To quiet the buzzing gossip, Hunt has issued the following statement: "We have had several offers of marriage, and one or two ladies have assumed we were engaged without making any offer, and it is with fear and trembling we pass each day of this year, which is divisible by four. However, when Mrs. Hunt does arrive she shall come as nature painted her, with eyes like the heavens, with cheeks like the rose and with lips like the damp of crushed strawberry. She shall have no need of 'tint.' When we want a kiss we don't propose to mess through two or three coats of paint to get it." Dogs Tree Insane Man. Oregon City, Ora—Peter Brevio, aged forty-three, an Italian, was treed with the aid of bloodhounds arrested and brought back to Oregon City and committed to the State Hospital For the Insane. Brevio lived in a hollow tree, and his diet consisted of roots, berries and what food he could find around neighboring farmhouses. He stole an ax from a farmhouse and passed much of his time shopping down trees. A number of men of the district determined to arrest Brevio and went to his tree home. The Italian ran away. Dogs were then put on his trail. PAGE SIX The Right Not to Laugh. If one were to accuse you of poisoning your grandmother you would presumably smile in unruffled fashion and go about your affairs without feeling any burden of accusation. But if one accused you of lacking a sense of humor you would first of all resent it indignantly, and, furthermore, for an indefinite time to come you would be conscious of a desire to displeve the charge, scrutinizing anxiously every phrase that might conceal some subtle hidden test, emitting now and then forced laughs on suspicion. Perhaps you boast your emancipation in many fields where public opinion customarily rules. You wear a straw hat when you please; you object to the insignia of mourning; you faunt your readiness to discuss any subject in mixed company; you do or do not serve butter at your dinner table. Yet you are afraid you may not laugh in the right places. Many a one who proclaims his right to individuality of opinion fears to assert an equally inalienable right not to laugh. Deep in his heart he dreads the withering accusation that he lacks a sense of humor.—Burges Johnson in Harper's Magazine. Death and Life Masks. In the preparation of death masks the usual method is to cover the face of the dead body with oil and then apply plaster of paris. The oil prevents too close adhesion to the skin and makes it possible to remove the plaster when it has hardened. A mold is thus formed, into which fresh plaster is poured. The resulting cast is the death mask. Death masks are of course exact resemblances of the faces from which they are made, and their value is impaired only by the changes of contour which may have been caused by death itself. The custom of taking death masks is very ancient and widespread as well. The Romans made them of wax, the Egyptians of thin gold plate. A few specimens have been found among the American Indians. Life masks are similarly made, but mobility of expression is necessarily sacrificed—New York Times. Beaumont Greater Than Fletcher. of his colleague. In the Elizabethan partnership it was otherwise. Fletcher, though the elder man, outlived his friend for more than nine years and proved himself the lesser poet. Beaumont was laid to rest in the poets' corner of Westminster abbey, which he has sung in such noble verse.-London Globe. Berlioz Berlioz, the famous French composer, was made miserable by his wife. He married Miss Smithson, an actress many years younger than himself. She had prolonged fits of jealousy and ill temper, ruined him by her theatrical ventures and finally fell from a carriage and broke her leg, thus ending her artistic career. Berlioz bore with her in patience until she finally left him. He was a tall man, of stern aspect and very dignified. In spite of his immense musical abilities as a composer he could play no instrument except the guitar, and that very badly. Trees In Winter As Lincoln walked with Noah Brooks one snowy day he said he liked the trees best in winter because then he saw them clearly in all the details of their structure. So men are not fully understood unless we have seen them in periods of leafless revelation. The bright promise of the leaf and the first color of the fruit may deceive. Autumn and winter are the periods of proof—Tree Talk. Different Opinions Professor—Why did you come to college, anyway? You are not studying. Will Rarah—Well, mother says it is to fit me for the presidency; Uncle Bill, to sow my wild oats; sis, to get a chum for her to marry; pa, to bankrupt the family.—Puck. Stirrups. William the Conqueror introduced horseshoes into England. Stirrups were, however, unknown to the ancients, who had posts erected on their roads to enable horsemen to mount. ```markdown ``` PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Don't Kiss the Cat. Animal pets in the home are common, and some persons are unhappy without them. Still, these creatures should not be permitted to endanger human health, and this very thing they often do. It must be a terrifying revelation to those who kiss their cats that has been made by Professor Flocei, the Italian chemist. He has found by experiment that when a cat licks its lips it spreads over them a salva in which there are swarms of minute bacilli not free from danger to human beings. When he inoculated rabbits and guinea pigs with this noxious substance they died within twenty-four hours. And he has come to the conclusion that it is dangerous for any one to indulge in the habit of kissing cats. The Kind of Suit That Gives Service and Style. The material for this costume is mustard colored poplin cut with fullness over the hips, both skirt and coat. The A HER TAID'EUR. braid trimming and a cutaway front are good points. Four buttons close the coat, which takes a snug waist line. Poplin is one of the popular textiles. INTERESTING MENUS. If You Must Be Economical, Read This Food Schedule. Sunday.—Cream of pea soup, fricasseeed chicken, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, apple nut mayonnaise salad and fruit souffle. Monday.—Bouillon, ham en casserole, white potatoes, spinach, beet relish, taplaice, pudding. Tuesday.—Tomato soup, chicken potple (left from Sunday), peas, rice, egg-sardine salad, pastry. Wednesday.—Cream of potato soup, beef loaf, macaroni or white potatoes, carrots, lettuce-tomato salad, corn-starch pudding. Thursday.—Consomme, roast pork, white potatoes, parsnips, squash, onions, apple-celery salad, acid gelatin dessert. Friday.—Cream of onion soup, broiled fish, white potatoes, tomatoes, beets, lettuce, cheese salad, light steamed pudding. Saturday. — Vermicelli soup, baked beans, tomatoes, coldslaw, stewed fruits. On Monday the ham should be just enough for one meal. Tuesday the pot pie is made from leftover chicken from Sunday dinner. Wednesday there can be enough of the loaf left for a lunch on Thursday. the loaf left for a lunch on Thursday. Thursday buy a small roast of pork, some may be left, or two chops could be reserved and broiled for Friday's lunch. Fish on Friday. As we seldom care for leftover fish, enough should be purchased for one meal. If boiled fish is preferred extra may be purchased so as to have a leftover which may be creamed for lunch Saturday. Saturday there will be baked beans, and of course enough for one or two breakfasts or a lunch. These are considered perfectly balanced meals and are merely samples of what may be done if the woman will plan ahead and devote time and thought to her menus. Skirt Hangers. Nothing can be said against the ordinary skirt hangers of wood; but, as every woman likes useful things to be as ornamental as possible, there is a great daal to be said in favor of the strips of ribbon or linen that can be embroidered to form skirt hangers. Each strip has a brass ring attached to one end and a brass clasp at the other. The ring is intended to be slipped over the nail or hook from which the skirt suspends. In the teeth of the clasp the skirt is held securely. The hangers can be made for oneself or they can be made as a shower gift. Many Ribbons. Ribbons are used generously as trimming for afternoon and dance frocks these days. They are made into panels, loop upon loop, and are sewed around wide skirts in graduated widths. Very broad ribbons of soft brocade patterns are draped over the bodice under a velling of tulle, and very narrow ribbons are plaited and used as an edge trimming. Gay little bowknots and rosettes of ribbon flutter from dance frocks captivatingly. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 13, 1916. DOG HAS LUXURY. DOG HAS LUXURY. Lives in a Fifteen Room House in Boston and Has Valet. DAILY FOOD ALLOWANCE $1.50 Jap Sees That Large Bed Is Made Smoothly, That He Gets His Bath and Medicine and Awakes Him For a Tramp in the Woods. Boston.—Few persons in Greater Boston know that Cohasset is the abode of royalty. Yet down in Cohasset, off beautiful Jerusalem road, high up on a great estate, in a fifteen room house, with a splendid big bed for himself, with an allowance of $1.50 a day for meals and with a Japanese valet to attend him night and day, lives his imperial highness Prince, a monster Great Dane dog. The palace of Prince is situated on an eminence. Far above it towers the residence of Ernest G. Howes, who lives in winter on Commonwealth avenue and who is a wealthy Boston man. He is gracefully permitted by H. I. M. to occupy one of the finest homes in Cohasset, just above Prince's palace. This is in return for a favor done Prince by Mr. Howes. Mr. Howes, while still in his early days of youth, purchased him. Though the base mercantile transaction must have hurt Prince's dog heart, he never winced and swallowed the humiliation with royal fortitude and regal philosophy. Mr. Howes installed him in the palace just below, and Prince, out of gratitude, has permitted Mr. Howes' residence near him ever since. This was about a year and a half ago. Should you desire an audience with his majesty an interview first with one Toku Kobe, valet, is desirable. In fact, the prince's valet is quite talkative in regard to his majesty's tastes and customs. "It is pleasant to know that Prince likes one," said the reporter. "What does he usually desire for a repast?" he asked, with some apprehension. "Ah, the expense is great, sometimes $10 in the month for meat alone and only the best." "You provide"— "Yes; each day I travel to the town to purchase provisions. I buy the best of meat. Cost it 22 cents or 25 cents, it does not matter if it is only good. He eats sometimes more, sometimes less, than two and one-half pounds each day." "And besides?" "He is very fond of bone—just bone. Few people care for bone, but he likes it. I expend, it may be, 10 cents, 15 cents, 20 cents, daily for bone. But that is not all. Speaking of the table, he requires some fifty to sixty pounds of dog biscuit each month, for he is also very fond of dog biscuit. That is most expensive. I have paid 10 cents, even more, for each pound of dog biscuit that goes upon the table. "He will now go to the supper. Following that he goes to the bath, for he is most carefully groomed," said the Hon. Kobe, while the reporter thought of what they say about some folks' erosion to bulting. "After the bath," continued the Hon. Kobe, leading H. I. M. into the antechamber, then into the interior of the palace, "he wandered about the house—there are actually more than fifteen apartments in it—and then when he desires he retires. It is my duty to see that the bath water is not too hot nor too cold; that he receives the medicines prescribed by the physician; that the bed is made properly and smoothly, the linen changed and the lights extinguished. I awake him in the morning, bathe him and give breakfast, after which he goes for a tramp in the woods, usually attended by me. Thus the day passes and keeps me very preoccupied. As Mr. Howes had no other place at Prince's disposal, he has kept this house open through the winter season especially for Prince." JOURNEY OF AN EGG. Consumer Paid 20 Cents a Dozen More Than Producer Got. Russell, Kan.—A. J. Olson, a Russell county farmer, who sells hundreds of dozens of eggs annually, recently wrote on an egg a request for the consumer to write him and inform him where the egg was purchased at retail and what the cost was. Olson sold his product to a Russell dealer for 25 cents a dozen. The eggs were then shipped to Ellsworth, from where they were shipped to Pendleton. Ore., by express. The Oregon retail merchant paid 34½ cents a dozen, and they were retailed at 45 cents, that being the price paid by the women in Oregon who broke the egg bearing Olson's letter. Olson received a letter from her this week, and she gave the details of the egg's career and end in the far northwest. Trolling, Caught Baby Seal. Portland, Ore.—A baby white seal, said to be a rare speci linen, was presented to the cit park zoo here recently, the gift of United States Deputy Marshal Frank T. Berry. The seal was caught with a spoon hook in the Sluslaw river, near Florence, Ore., while Berry was toiling for trout. Dog Swailews Hatpin. Pittsburgh.—A harpin seven inches long has been removed from the stomach of Kink, a Boston terrier belonging to Miss Alice Stewart of Williamsburg, by a surgeon. The dog had been ill for several days, and an operation was decided upon. The pin lay lengthwise in the dog's stomach. Victim Was Released When Hole Was Sawed In Elevator. Elkhart, Ind.—Clarence Eddy, aged fifty-six, yard manager for Godfrey & Son, coal dealers, was held in a perilous position in the vortex of a big coal bin for six hours. He was freed when a hole twelve feet square was sawed in the sliding of the elevator, permitting the coal to drop out and relieve the pressure on one of his legs, which had been held knee deep in the constantly shifting coal. Eddy then climbed up a ladder to safety. He complained only of cold. The temperature was 20 above zero. During his "imprisonment" Eddy had been supplied with hot coffee from time to time. Eddy and Walter Lehman had been working at the gate at the bottom of the sixteen foot bin which contained 200 tons of finely crushed coal. Because a crust of ice had formed on the top the coal did not drop as fast as desired, and Eddy went to the top and struck the crust with an iron bar. The "roof" collapsed, and he went down with the mass ten feet and within six feet of the gate. BOY HAS 14 GRANDPARENTS. Unusual Wealth of Relatives Claimed For Indiana Youth. Delphl, Ind—Dean Overholser, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Overholser, who live in the eastern part of Carroll county, has fourteen grandparents, ten of them blood relatives and four grandparents by marriage. Following is the list: Grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overholser, George McManama and Mrs. James Bridge; great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Overholser, Mr. and Mrs. William McManama, Isaac Wagoner and Mrs. Rachel Richardson. George McManama and his first wife, who is now Mrs. James Bridge, separated, and each married again. Thus the little Overholser is entitled to four more grandparents because of the fact that one's grandfather's wife is his grandmother and one grandmother's husband is his grandfather. The second Mrs. George McManama, who was Orpha Johnson, and the second husband of Mrs. Bridge are also grandparents. Mrs. Bridge's mother, Mrs. Margaret Bridge, is living as well as the mother of Orpha Johnson, which gives Dean Overholser fourteen grandparents. FIND 20 INDIAN SKELETONS Supposition That They Were Buried Near Where They Fell In Battle. Oregon City, Ore.-While excavating for a basement near the river bank workmen employed by Frank Busch uncovered twenty skeletons of Indians in one hole. The bodies are supposed to be the remains of Indians killed in battle, for in one or two cases arrowheads have been found caught between the bones. The first trace of the bones was found early in the week, when the workmen uncovered a skull. It was buried by itself, and Mr. Busch, who had studied the find carefully, believes that it belonged to a chief or leader. To prevent disturbing the bones the workmen began excavating in another place, and they found a hole with a radius of about six feet which Mr. Busch estimates contains the bones of at least twenty Indians. The skeletons are lying like the spokes of a wheel with the skulls in the center. Over the top of the grave was a thick, hard crust of baked clay that was hardened like stone. EGG OF PET PARBOT. After Much Treatment Opal Finally Lays One. Riverside, Cal.-The hurried administration of red pepper pills under the orders of a veterinarian and the hurried application of hot fannel cloths and other family remedies, all designed to save the life of Opal, the pet white parrot at the Mission inn, occasioned great excitement among the patrons of that hostelry. Frank A. Miller, master of the inn, took personal care of the bird, which was found to be writhing in seeming paroxisms of pain and making the air vocal with squawklings. After submitting to the sympathetic treatment of its friends for a time the bird calmly laid an egg, Opal's first achievement along this line, although she is twenty years old. ABLE TO SHOE HORSE AT 90. Aged Blacksmith Kept Vow Made Years Ago. Parnell, Mo.-Josiah Collins of this place celebrated his nineteenth birthday recently, and to keep a vow that he had frequently made, he went to the blacksmith shop on his anniversary and shod a horse. Mr. Collins, who is a native of Ohio, began his trade when he was nineteen years old. He has followed the blacksmith business all his life and has often declared that, if he lived, he would shoe a horse or mule on his nineteenth birthday, no matter how unruly the animal might be. He kept his vow and was much pleased again to perform the familiar task. Clock 110 Years Old. Helena, Mo.-Mrs. Clarissa Furgeson of this place has a clock which she says is 110 years old. The clock was first purchased by a Mrs. Tunnison of Greenville, Pa., and after it had been in the Tunnison family sixty-two years Mrs. Furgeson bought it in 1868. It has been in Mrs. Furgeson's possession forty-eight years. It is still running and keeps good time. Call Upon American Women to Help War Victims. PLAN TO TEACH THEM TRADES Unceasing Activity of American People In Their Efforts to Alleviate Sufferings in Europe Has Met With Kindest of Appreciation From Abroad. New York.-The activity of the American people in their efforts to alleviate the sufferings in Europe has resulted in the saving of the lives of many persons who were on the verge of starvation and the receiving of profound thanks from both victims and rulers of the belligerent nations. Their unceasing work will long be remembered. Money and supplies in large quantities have been sent to both sides. One of the latest steps taken by the sympathizers of the allies is an appeal issued by the B. F. B. (British, French, Belgian) Permanent Blind Relief fund, with headquarters in this city, over the names of Lady Arthur Paget of the fund's executive committee and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, one of the honorary secretaries, calling upon the women of America for aid. The appeal says in part: "Thousands of wives, mothers and daughters in France, England and Belgium are speaking to you. Their husbands, brothers and sons, blinded in the war, are helpless and hopeless. They cannot see to work at their former trades. These brave, true women are now obliged to assume the entire burden of supporting them and their children, of supplying all their daily Mary Photo by American Press Association. material needs and of encouraging them constantly in their complete despair and continual distress. "Unless you act these thousands of women will be condemned for the rest of their lives to an existence of hopeless drudgery and hardship. "For humanity's sake help these European women. They are your sisters, even though you have never seen them. "Six months' training will educate the blinded men dependent on them in trades not requiring sight. Even your single donation alone will go far toward enabling one of these sightless men to support himself and partly support his family for the rest of his life. "These women stretch appealing hands to you from across the ocean. Make at least one of them permanently happy and her husband, father or son permanently useful by sending us a contribution. "The sooner you act the sooner one brave, good, faithful woman will be rescued from an existence of despair and crushing slavery and the sooner the man who is tragically anxious to support her will be saved from a life of uselessness and hopelessness." FOX IN PORCH SWING. Apparently Found Cushion Comfortable Sleeping Place. Duarte, Cal. — When C. A. Werner opened his house the other morning he found his swinging seat occupied by a full grown fox. With the cushion for a nest the fox was resting comfortably and evidently enjoying his quarters. When his presence became known the members of the family came trooping out to see the porch climber. Then the fox disappeared under the house, where his nature prompted him to hide until the spectators left the porch, when, finding the coast again clear, the fox gracefully jumped on the porch and into the swinging seat, and with an almost human air of comfort and satisfaction adjusted the pillow and settled down to complete the morning nap. When again interrupted the fox disappeared and headed for the mountains. Woman Will Be Undertaker St. Paul. - Miss Katherine S. Sleepy of 27 Croes place will continue the undertaking business left by the death of her father, William J. Sleepy. "Most of the work will be done by employees, however," she said. Miss Sleepy is sole heir to the $17,500 estate left by her father and the $9,000 estate left by her mother. Divine Tells Them to Think Carefully and Prayerfully About Their Wedding Day. Cleveland.—"Twelve Golden Rules For Young Ladies" was the subject of the sermon delivered by Rev. Thomas Hughes, pastor of the Rocky River Methodist church. The twelve rules are: "Be modest and virtuous. "Choose carefully your company of both sexes. "Open your eyes and ears, but keep your heart closed to the gush and nonsense from the so called lovers. "Be careful about your dress. Have it becoming and tasteful. "Be more careful about what is in your head than what is in your heart. "Don't be self conceited. "Don't keep company with a sinful young man. "Think carefully and prayerfully about your wedding day. "Be considerate about the time and money of your gentlemen friends. "Be true to the best ideals of womanhood." DRIVEN INSANE BY 100 CIGARETTES A DAY Sent to an Asylum Upon Saloon- keeper's Complaint and Doctor's Testimony. Detroit, Mich.-Frank Winters, the man who smoked a hundred cigarettes a day, was committed to the Pontiac asylum by Judge Hulbert recently in the probate court. The incessant use of the cigarettes was declared by Dr. S. L. Layton, who examined Winters, to have affected his mind. Frequenting a saloon at the corner of Chamberlain and Lawndale avenues, Winters smoked until his supply gave out and his money too. After that he begged smokes from the customers of the saloon, according to Joseph Berman, the proprietor of the place. Berman petitioned the court to have Winters taken to an asylum. A German by birth, Winters was getting along well in this country until the cigarette habit got the upper hand. Given jobs by Berman, Winters even lost his power of application to simple work. "No more work for me," he would say as he would sit down on the job, Berman told investigators. The nicotine undoubtedly had a deteriorating effect on his mentality, Dr. Layton declared. FEWER KANSAS FARMERS. There Are Not So Many Now as Ten Years Ago. Abillene, Kan.—Fewer people are engaged in agricultural pursuits in Kansas now than ten years ago, according to J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture. "In 1895 of those engaged in all occupations 55 per cent were in agriculture," he declared, "and in 1905 50 per cent and in 1915 46 per cent. It is a very discouraging sign in a state like Kansas, where agriculture is the overshadowing industry, that fewer instead of more people are engaging in it." Some of the serious problems that must be solved in Kansas are those of the home seeker, the ownership of lands, employment of capital, better farming and the improvement of conditions of rural life, Mr. Mohler asserted. WOULDN'T SPOIL HIS FINGERS Artistic Hands, Out of a Job, Refuses to Shovel Coal. Montclair, N. J.—If a man has "plano fingers" and is offered a job on a coal wagon should he accept the job to support his wife and six children, or should a philanthropic society place him in some position where his digital refinement would not be affected by manual labor? This is one of the questions propounded in the annual report of Mrs. Nettie E. Patterson, superintendent of the Altruist society. Mrs. Patterson mentions the case in referring to the difficulties that confront the society. She said that a man when offered a place on the coal wagon refused, saying he had been told he had "plano fingers" and did not wish to spoil them. UNABLE TO FIND A WIFE. Farmer Has Been Searching Sixteen Years, but So Far Has Failed. Bridgeport, Conn.—Joseph Cronan, a farmer of Derby, announced that he had searched forty-two states and two countries of Europe and that, while in a receptive mood, he had not found a girl suitable to be his spouse. "I am strictly temperate, a healthy and strong farmer, and I have been searching sixteen years for the right kind of a wife," he declared. "I have yet to find the woman, and I wish the newspapers would help me." Pig Ate Sixty Others' Tails Findlay, O.—Anson James, a Delaware county farmer, went into his hog yard and found sixty of his sixty-one pigs minus tails. He watched the drove for awhile and saw the sixty-first pig trying to eat his own tail. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEND FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SOAP THOROUGHLY CLEANSES THE SCALP QUINACOMB HAIR STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINADE 25¢ QUINACOMB 50¢ QUINASOAP 25¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS SEEBY DRUG COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. THE SANITARY and SHIP CANAL Length - - - - - 32 Miles Depth - - - - - 22 Feet Width - - - 162 to 290 Feet THE CANAL OFFERS: Industrial Locations, Dock Facilities, Water Transportation, Railroad Connections, Electric Power, Concrete Building Material. Direct Connection with St. Louis via the Illinois River and Direct Connection with the Gulf via the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Electric Energy Created from Water Power for the Modern Factory Means Efficiency and Economy. THOMAS A. SMYTH, - President JOHN McGILLEN, - - Chief Clerk F. D. CONNERY, - - Comptroller Karpen Building 900 So. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO An Artist's Ead. A Parisian artist in lieu of a picture gallery has a collection of great painters' palettes, some 500 in number, among them being Corot's, Isabey's and Theodore Rousseau's. On many of the palettes are sketches by the painters who used them. Wycliffe's Bible. John Wyliffe, completed the translation of the whole Bible for the first time into the language of the English people. He was born near Richmond, in Yorkshire, about 1324. A Case of Fifty-Fifty. "Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives." "That's the half that minds its own business probably."—Philadelphia Ledger. The smallest thing well done becomes artistic—William Matthews. Flower of the Air. There is a plant in Chile and a similar one in Japan called the "flower of the air." It is so called because it appears to have no root and is never fixed to the earth. It twins around a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily-white, transparent and odoriferous. It is capable of being transported 600 to 700 miles and vegetates as it travels suspended on a twig. Perfect Machinery "Their household seems a perfect piece of machinery." "Yes; the wife's the governor, the children safety valves and the husband a crank."Philadelphia Bulletin. His Views. "I imagine it won't make much difference. We won't miss one pickle fork."-Kansas City Journal Astronomy. Astronomy is one of the most exact of the sciences. The powerful telescopes, the spectroscope and other almost perfect instruments come pretty near telling the truth. Stevenson's Brownies. Stevenson maintained that much of his work was only partially original. His collaborators were the brownies who ran riot through his brain during the hours of sleep. He instances the case of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." "I had long been trying to write a story on this subject," he writes, "to find a body, a man's vehicle for that strong sense of man's double being which must at times come in upon and overwhelm the mind of every thinking creature. For two days I went about racking my brains for a plot of any sort, and on the second night I dreamed the scene at the window and a scene afterward split in two, in which Hyde, pursued for some crime, took the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuers. All the rest was made awake and consciously, although I think I can trace in much of it the manner of my brownies." Lordly Diaraeli. Disraeli once told a woman that two possessions which were indispensable to other people he had always done without. "I made," she said, "every kind of conjecture, but without success, and on my asking him to enlighten me he solemnly answered that they were a watch and an umbrella. 'But how do you manage,' I asked, 'if there happens to be no clock in the room and you want to know the time?' 'I ring for a servant,' was the magniloquent reply. 'Well,' I continued, 'and what about the umbrella? What do you do, for instance, if you are in the park and are caught in a sudden shower?' 'I take refuge,' he replied, with a smile of excessive gallantry, 'under the umbrella of the first pretty woman I meet.' A Warning. "Watch out how you holler fer de worl' ter look up at you when you gits ter de mountain top," said Brother Williams. "Of all time dat's de one time ter lay low, fer de worl' will find you when it gits good an' ready. An' dis other thing is what you got to consider: De minute you hollers old man Trouble locates you an' sets his traps ter trip you an' send you rollin' down ter de bottom, whar you come from!"—Atlanta Constitution. When We Feared the Indians. At a recent gathering of life insurance men one of the old timers exhibited a copy of a permit which had been attached to a policy issued in 1868. This permit read: "The within assured has permission to reside in any settled part of the states of California, Nevada, Oregon or Washington territory and while so residing to make trips (as a passenger only) on first class steamers plying between the ports of Washington territory, the states of California and Oregon and the Sandwich Islands and to proceed to and return from in like manner or by public conveyance overland; Changed Words. The English language prefers large number of words that has completely changed in their occurrence since they first came in. In some cases their meaning he exactly reversed. A conspicuous ample of this is the word "let," Shakespeare uses several times the meaning "to hinder." Hard claimed, "I'll make a ghost of he lets me," of course "him that me." The word is used in the same in the Bible, as in II Thessalonica 7—"He who now letetthe will he be taken out of the way." "Ravel" and "unravel" mean "Provided that written notice be given by the assured whenever any trip to the Sandwich Islands or to the Atlantic states is undertaken to the general agent of the company at San Francisco, Cal., and provided, also, that on the overland route the said assured to take his own risk by death from hostile Indians."—Wall Street Journal. A Natural Born Spender When a long forgotten cousin died and left Miss Mitfield a round hundred thousand the entire village, after having recovered from the shock, fell to wondering whether the faded little spinster, after having for sixty-three years pinched and scraped and plain sewed just to keep soul and body together, would, after all, get much comfort from her eleventh hour opulence. The state of little Miss Mitfield's mind was revealed when her next door neighbor inquired what she should do with her money—did she mean to save it? "Save it!" Her eyes flashed with new found scorn. "Listen to me, Betsy; all my life long I've wanted a pair of side combs with yellow glass beads onto 'em, and now I'm goin' to 'he' em; yes, ma'ma, even if I should hev to go as high as 50 cents!"—Youth's Companion. Coffee With Milk For many years after coffee was first drunk in Europe, says the Manchester Guardian, no one thought of mixing it with milk any more than the Turks and Arabs do now. The use of coffee au lait seems to date from 1687. Mme. de Sevigne, writing to her daughter in that year, said that a doctor much in vogue "has taught us to mix sugar and milk with our coffee. They make a most delightful compound, which will help to support me through the rigors of Lent." In a letter written seven years earlier she had mentioned as an eccentric proceeding on the part of Mme. de la Sabliere that "she drinks milk to her tea." Readers of "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" may remember that one of the Ainus thought it disgusting that Mrs. Bishop should drink milk and pollute her tea with a fluid having so strong a smell and taste. Van Winkle—Himself Joseph Jefferson used to tell a story of his visit to a village in the Catskill mountains. He was taking a cup of tea in the hotel when he heard a negro walter giving a detailed account of legends. "Yes, sah." he continued, "Rip went up into de mountains, slep" for twenty years, and when he come back hyar in dis berry town his own folks didn't know him." "Why," said the listener, "you don't believe the story's true." "True? Ob course it is. Why," pointing to Jefferson, "dat's de man." Boss Prevaricators "There goes a man who boasts that he has never bought a gold brick." "Reminds me of the fellow who says he has never told a lie." "Yes. He reminds me of the chap who says the upkeep of his automobile is next to nothing." "And he's in the same category with the man who says he never was sick a day in his life." — Birmingham Age-Herald. Fuel In Ancient Rome. The fuel of the ancient Romans was almost exclusively charcoal. This was burned in open pans without grate or flue and gave economical heat for living rooms and baths. The inconvenience of chimneys was avoided, and the heat could be easily regulated. Frenzied Finance. Short—I wish I were a rumor. Long— What's the answer? Short—Why, a rumor soon gains currency. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Treating a Sprain. A sprain is a straining or tearing of the ligaments and capsule which surround a joint by a sudden twist or wrench. There are pain, heat and swelling at the seat of the injury, followed later on by discoloration of the skin. The treatment is to put the parts affected at complete rest. If the sprain is in a joint of the upper extremity apply a padded splint to the inside of the limb, then place the forearm in a large arm sling. If in a joint of the lower extremity place the patient in bed, apply a padded back splint to the limb and keep it slightly elevated. After the limb has been put at rest apply bandages dipped in a saturated solution of epsom salts. Keep the bandages constantly wet with the solution. If the pain is severe and cold cannot be tolerated use hot applications of the epsom salt solution. ```markdown ``` Changed Words. The English language presents a large number of words that have been completely changed in their significance since they first came into use. In some cases their meaning has been exactly reversed. A conspicuous example of this is the word "let," which Shakespeare uses several times with the meaning "to hinder." Hamlet exclaimed, "I'll make a ghost of him that stops me." The word is used in the same sense in the Bible, as in II Thessalonians ii. 7—"He who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way." "Ravel" and "unravel" mean exactly the same thing, although at one time to unravel probably meant to reduce confusion to order. Compare the words "valuable" and "invaluable and" "loose" and "unlose." As used frequently in the Bible "prevent" instead of meaning to "hinder" means to "precede" or "go before", which is, of course, its etymological meaning.—Los Angeles Times. Holy Lands of All Religions Christians call Palestine the Holy Land because it was the birthplace of the Christian religion on earth as well as that of the Saviour, whose birth, ministry and death are inseparably associated with the history of Jerusalem and vicinity. To the Mohammedans Mecca, in Arabia, is the holy land, it being the birthplace of Mohammed, the saviour of the followers of that faith. India is the holy land of the Chinese and other oriental Buddhists, it being the native land of Sakya Muni, the supreme Buddha. Ellis, one of the several divisions of the ancient Peloponnesus, was the Mecca and the Jerusalem of the ancient Greeks. The temple of Olympus Zeus was situated at Ellis, and the sacred festivals were held there each year. The believers in the Shinto religion make annual pilgrimage to Sitsa Kara, the immense stone.pillar where their supreme ruler last stood while talking to men. Pigeons In Constantinople In no big city in the world are there so many tame pigeons as in Constantinople. In many squares in London there are small flocks of pigeons, but in the Turkish capital they are to be seen by the thousand. These pigeons are sacred, and, indeed, many a wealthy Turk leaves money to be devoted to buying food for them. The story of why they are sacred is rather interesting. When Mohammed, the Turkish prophet, was flying from his enemies he hid in a cavern. At the mouth of the cavern two pigeons built their nest, so tradition runs, while across the entrance a spider spun its web. The soldiers who came along some days later felt certain that no one had entered the cave, seeing the birds nesting and the spider's web, and so never troubled to enter it and search. Ever since then the Turks have held pigeons and spiders to be sacred. Gifts of the Grass. The grass is missed only by its absence. When we pass by a house which is minus a green lawn or grassy plot in front we exclaim, "What a blot on the landscape." In a vague way we realize that the grass gives tone and color to outdoor life as nothing else can; that no picture is complete without it. All the beauties of the seashore—the bold rocks, the crested surf, the dashing waves, the lights and shadows which play at sunrise and sunset beside old ocean—cannot compensate for the lack of the grass beneath our feet. Friends wintering at southern beaches have told us that they grew homesick for the grassy fields and meadows of home.—Margaret Woodward in Countryside Magazine. Naming the Baby. Give your baby a name that will suit him or her throughout life. Let it be a euphonious, well balanced name, indicative of intelligence, character and success and one so easily written or spoken that no nicknames will ever be found necessary. If there is available a family name with these good qualities, all the better. Do not indulge in levify, do not give way to sentiment, do not surrender to affection or romance in this matter, of selecting a suitable name, and avoid novel combinations and plays upon words without loading the child down with cheap commonplace--Dallas News. Starting the Tears. Her Husband—Do you know, dear, that I found my first gray hair this morning? His Wife—Oh, give it to me, John, and I'll keep it as a souvenir to remember you by. Her Husband— What's the matter with me keeping it to remember you by?—Indianapolis Star. When France Washed In Holland. In the sixteenth century clothes were sent from all parts of France to be washed in Holland, where the water of the canals was supposed to have special cleansing properties. The cost of transport was about ten times greater in those days than at present. Out of Sight. Country Cousin Of course pertaters grows underneath the ground. City Cousin—H'm! Ye-es, but what gits me is how you tell when they're ripe or not.—Farming Business. When She Sees It Quickly. "Can your wife see a joke?" "If it's in the shape of a bonnet or a dress that some other woman is wearing she can."—Detroit Free Press. Worry, whatever its source, weakens. takes away courage and shortens life LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors: will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. OPEN one with US. PHONES: OFFICE. MAIN 4158 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE. DREXEL 7980 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wahab Ave. Oakland 4662, Auto. 73-058 Phone Dresel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hérou 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago Household Helps. To cut butter in small even squares for the table use a coarse wet thread, as this leaves no ragged edges. It is a waste of gas to allow the flames to blaze up the sides of a kettle or saucepan. This does not cause the contents to boll any more quickly. Wooden ware which has any odor of the food which has been in it—and wood absorbs odors quickly—should be soaked in hot water in which soda is dissolved in the proportion of one tablespoonful of soda to four quarts of water. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, notion store and news stand, 5012 S. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, S. E. corner 51st and State streets. S. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 51 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to bacco, confectione 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. R. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shee shining parlors and news stand. 3800½ State street. 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 ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 616 PHONE MAIN 2214 Residence 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark & Washington Sts. Phones Central 239 Auto. 41-916 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 Phone Res. 508 E. 361h St. FRANKLIN 2727 Phone Douglas 4397 AUTO. 41-543 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborn St. Union Bank Building Suite 311 CHICAGO FRANK DUNN} Trustees Established 1877 J. B. McAHEY TEL. OAKLAND 1550, 1551, 1552 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. OHIOA T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Why Not Be Friendly? Less than a third of the people in the average American neighborhood are natives. In thousands of cases practically all the population was born elsewhere. So why stand off when some one moves in from another section? Why be niggardly with邻居liness? Of course one may make an occasional mistake, but for every undesirable acquaintance we find several good people worth knowing. You, your neighbor and the newcomer are problems of your community, and as each of you may be the other two the problem ought to be simple. If you are an older resident greet the newcomer. There is a double blessing in a welcome. In giving you get. If you are the newcomer—well, your duty was never better stated than in these words of Ruskin: "It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in any place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness or speaking a true word or making a friend." The way to fill the lonesome hours is to be friendly.—Country Gentleman. PAGE MGMT TEENAN JON TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most UP-TO BUFFET and CAFE on the Side. First-Class Entertainer HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Prop The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS, HARRIS, Manager The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET JOHN BLOCKI, President JOHN BLOCK PERFUME GO TO C. E. KREYSSEN 5057 South St NOT ON THE FOR HIGH GRADE DRUG MEDICINAL PRE All Prescriptions Caref ALSO CARRY A F BLOCKI'S IDEAL & B IN BOTTLE P C. E. KREYSSLER, Druggist BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER IN BOTTLE PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE DR. LOUIE USSELMAN The Practical O ticia THE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES Consultation or examination FREE. We have 28 different ways of testing the eyes and guarantee to give satisfaction. 3150 S. STATE ST Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO Some Exercise. Walking is the best exercise. Do some of it every day. Next to walking comes bowling. You can't throw a bowling ball without stooping clear to the floor, and every stoop stimulates the liver and exercises the intestines. Fifty per cent of the sickness in the world would be eliminated in everybody bowled. Walk or bowl every day. And at night lie flat on your back and raise your legs above your head slowly as many times as you can without fatigue. Then, anchoring your toes under a weight of some sort, raise and lower the body. These two exercises repeated fifteen or twenty times night and morning will do a lot for you. And you'll be surprised to find how quickly you develop endurance. Start with five times and increase each day or two until you reach twenty.—Woman's Home Companion. Something to Step On. We don't get very high in this world unless we have something to step on. That is why we put risers in stairs and rounds in ladders. When we were boys if we could stick our toenails into a crevice in the bark of a tree, be it ever so shallow, we could shin up to the top all right. When we got to the lowest branch we were all right. After that we could pull ourselves up easier. But it did seem a long ways to the lower limbs sometimes. That is the story of all life—getting the feet on something and then springing up. Life is fine, or it is a tragedy, just according to whether we see the meaning of the experiences which come to us and use them to climb up by—Farm Life. Her Lost Chance Mrs. B.—I wonder why Miss Singleton refused the curate when he proposed to her? Mrs. D.—All a mistake my dear, a sad mistake. You know, she has grown a little deaf, and she did not suspect he was at all "gone" on her. She actually thought he was asking her to subscribe to the new organ fund, so she told him she was sorry, but she had promised all her money in another direction. Mrs. B.—Then what happened? Mrs. D.—The curate felt himself insulted and departed in dudgeon, and she's lost the only chance she ever had.—London Telegraph. --- and most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South s Entertainers. N" JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO SSLER, Druggist North State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS Carefully Compounded RY A FULL LINE OF & BLOCKI'S FLOWER SEE PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. LOUIE USSELMANN The Practical O tician OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY IN THE LOWEST PRICES 3150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO "I Love You." Very interesting are the phrases used by the various people of the world 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 ugal nl." the Armenian expresses his love with "Se siren as hez," the Arab is content with the short "Ne habbek" while the Turk murmurans "Sidi sevelorum." In India "Main syne ka psar karim" is the declaration. 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: "Unifgraeerndlainerfironajunguarrigulak." An Ancient Guild The Cutiers' company had probably existed long before the grant of the first charter by Henry V. Early in the previous century a fierce quarrel is recorded between the Cutiers and the Sheathers, who were accused of having discredited the Cutiers by supplying them with unworkmanlike sheaths for knives, daggers and swords, to which the Sheathers cruelly retorted that the Cutiers disgraced the sheaths by selling inferior foreign blades for English—London Spectator. Cyprus was an extremely popular resort for Britishers for a year or so after the announcement, in 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 quickly as it had sprung up.—London Globe Worma Used In Medicine The earthworm, or the common fishworm, was utilized by the medical practitioners in Europe two and three hundred years ago. The worms were for internal administration and sometimes made into an ointment or embrassation for external use.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. In the battle of Marengo 58,000 men participated, and of that number 18, 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. CHICAGO --- Cyprus. Marengo. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 13, 1916. 26-Passenger Auto Funeral Coaches Carries Complete Funeral to Any Local Cemetery and Return Greater Elegance, Half the Cost SIRES AND SONS. J. D. Shoop, new Chicago superintendent of schools, a few years ago was a farm hand. Lord Selborne is England's most notable agriculturist and also the best judge of dairy cattle in Britain. Honus Wagner says that Rube Waddell, Kid Nichols, Clark Griffith, Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander and Jack Taylor were the six greatest pitchers he ever faced. Major George N. Evans during thirty-two years as disbursing officer, department of the interior, Washington, has handled $400,000,00 without error or loss either to the government or himself. The Duke of Norfolk is the shabblest of England's peers. At Gladstone's funeral he was taken for the abbey verger and quite recently was mistaken for the applicant for a job at a shop in Portsmouth. Sir Hiram Maxim, whose machine gun is a big factor in the present war, was a barefooted lad in the backwoods of New England sixty years ago. As a lad he worked a lathe in a coach builder's shop, the machinery of which was turned by a water wheel. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City bank of New York, has taken on $100,000 more life insurance and is now in what insurance circles call the "million and a half class," as his policies written by several of the old line life insurance companies amount to that figure approximately. Music In Shakespeare's Time Music In Shakespeare's Time. Shakespeare's time was an age of music. "Catches" were sung by gentiles as well as by weavers and tinkers. Lute, eithern or virginals were in every barber's shop for the diversion of customers. * * * Thomas Morley may be using the blessed argument of a music teacher when he tells us that a gentleman was counted but a boor if he could not play the lute or sing a part in a madrigal, but there is no getting over the craggy fact that over eighty collections of madrigals, ayres and songs were printed and published between 1587 and 1630, in addition to which vast collections of early music still remain in manuscript. With an aristocracy fond of music and accustomed to play and listen to music and song, music in the theater was almost inevitable in England as in Italy, says the London Musical Record. It was considered a manly accomplishment to play the hunting horn. Every gentleman who kept hounds could wind it. A punctillous etiquette fixed the correct set of notes for each operation of the chase. Usually a play had at least one song. Fish Exhibit Emotions We are accustomed to think that only we humans become pallid with fear or agitated with joy, but some experiments 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 disturbance is removed and the equanimity of the fish is restored. Sometimes a pike that is rapidly advancing on his prey becomes suspicious about the latter's character. The pursuer will suddenly stop in an attitude of doubt, his 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 allayed 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 unremitting effort and 'enduring to the end.' To my question, 'Why, then, do so many men fall short of their ambitions?' 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 always 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 forever.'"—Princess Lazarovich in Century. BATH The Best Spring Tonic Is a Daily Bath Doctors say it's the one and only antidote for Spring Fever. The prescription-for the whole family-always calls for a LITTLE GAS WATER HEATER. Without a means of easily heating water a daily bath for everybody is out of the question-and the hot-water-housework is twice as hard as it should be. For the few families not supplied, we offer this month a $1.25 Down. Balance $1.00 a Month With Gas Bill This is a reduction from our catalogue price of $21.00, for this sale. Literally thousands of these "Humphreys" have been installed in Chicago homes. You can inspect one at any of our branch store or see a working demonstration in the Water Heater Department of our big salesroom downtown. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Telephone Wabash 6000 A Country of Earthquakes. A Country of Earthquakes. Japan is peculiarly the victim of elemental forces. The only satisfaction its people can derive from living in a country which contains fifty-one active volcanoes and has an average of about 500 earthquake shocks yearly is that in all probability Japan would never have existed but for the seismic and volcanic agency which has elevated whole districts above the ocean by means of repeated eruptions. Ceres. In the classic mythology Ceres is the goddess of the harvest, or, to be more specific, of the cereals. According to Ovid, Meta, book 5, Ceres first taught men to plow the fields and also to have fixed laws, the meaning of which is that laws originated with the settled state known as agriculture. A Hard Question Modern Maiden—I wish advice. Old Lady—Certainly, my dear. What is it? Modern Maiden—Shall I marry a man whose tastes are the opposite of mine and quarrel with him, or shall I marry a man whose tastes are the same as mine and tire of him? Laws. The laws of a country must be like a large river and not like a small ditch. Men do not fall in a river because it is remarkably wide and deep, while they often fall into a ditch because it is so narrow and shallow.—Kyuso. Bad Arguments The best way of answering a bad argument is not to stop it, but let it go on its course until it overlaps the boundaries of common sense.—Sydney Smith THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent all Safety Deposit REAL As agent buy and sell Real B dents, including payment of u on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invite The Cra Building The finest building e steam heat, electric light 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 'Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. Telephone Douglas 1565