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THE BROAD AX Everything Strongly Indicates that "Big Bill" Mayor William Hale Thompson Will Unhorse and Succeed the Hon. Roy O. West as the Illinois Member of the Republican National Committee. HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR WILL GIVE AN ELABORATE LOVE FEAST THIS EVENING AT THE HOTEL LA SALLE ALL OF THE DELEGATES FROM THIS STATE TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HAVE BEEN INVITED TO BE ON HAND. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE HONS. CHARLES S. DENEEN AND ROY O. WEST WILL BE PRESENT AND STICK THEIR POLITICAL FEET UNDER THE BANQUET TABLE. THE FIGHT FOR THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE REPUBLICAN END OF IT SEEMS TO BE NARROWING DOWN BETWEEN COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HUGHES OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. HON. FRED W. UPHAM HAS RUSHED OUT IN THE OPEN IN FAVOR OF THE FORMER ROUGH RIDING PRESIDENT, THEREBY PARTICIPATING IN A FIGHT BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE BOOSTERS OR SHOUTERS OF HON. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN. FORMER GOV. WILLIAM SULZER OF NEW YORK CITY, IS MORE THAN LIKELY TO BECOME THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF ALL REFORM FORCES INCLUDING THE PROHIBITIONIST AND THE AMERICAN PARTY. Vol. XXI. Everything Hale O. W Nation HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR WILL BE THIS EVENING AT THE HOT GATES FROM THIS STATE TOVENTION HAVE BEEN INVITEDPECTED THAT THE HONS. CHA WILL BE PRESENT AND STICK THE BANQUET TABLE. THE FIGHT FOR THE NOMINATION STATES ON THE REPUBLICAN ING DOWN BETWEEN COL. THE CIATE JUSTICE HUGHES OR COURT. HON. FRED W. UPHAM HAS BUSINESS OF THE FORMER ROUGH RIDER CIPATING IN A FIGHT BETWEEN OR SHOUTERS OF HON. LAWREN. FORMER GOV. WILLIAM SULZER O'LIKELY TO BECOME THE NEW REFORM FORCES INCLUDING AMERICAN PARTY. The strong political tide seems to be running strongly in favor of "Big Bill" Mayor William Hale Thompson who is proving himself to be a political fighter from a way back, for he is still holding his own against the followers of the Hon. Charles S. Deneen and the supporters of Edward J. Brendage, and if all signs do not fail nor fade away, he will unhorse and succeed the Hon. Roy O. West as the Illinois member of the Republican National Committee. In this connection it must be said to the credit of Mayor Thompson that he understands just how to get up close to the wisest and the biggest of the politicians and it appears that at all times he totes his lucky white rabbit's foot around in the left hand corner of his vest pocket, for this evening he will give a grand love feast at the Hotel LaSalle, in honor of all the delegates from this state to the Republican National Convention, aside from the delegates many of the leading politicians from all over the state will be present and it is expected that the Hons. Charles S. Deneen and Roy O. West will be in evidence and stick their feet under the banquet table. For everybody who amounts to anything will want to be on hand just to see what will be pulled off at the love feast or fish dinner which is supposed to cost fifty dollars per plate. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and associate Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court are both playing their strongest cards for the nomi- SKIRTS UP; STOCKINGS DOWN STYLES FIT THE MARKET. Manufacturers Pleased, Although a Bit Surprised, Because Woman Wants Both Garners Shorter. Philadelphia, Pa.—That skirts are going up and stockings are going down does not check underwear manufacturers; in fact, they are pleased about it, because materials are getting scarce. Shorter skirts and shorter stockings for women this summer is to be the rule. This fact was revealed at the opening meeting of the convention of the National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers, when manufacturers expressed surprise that women with their skirts about half way to their knees should at the same time demand stockings almost as short as men's half hose. In these piping times of war and the highest cost of living it is really enough to make the oldest hardened summers blush with shame, ten thousand and times each day to behold the dear ladies in their extraordinary effort to undress themselves in every way, while promenading up and down the most prominent streets of Chicago—Editor. --- HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY nation for President of the United States and at this distance from the scene of action the fight for that great honor seems to be narrowing down between those two eminent and distinguished sons of the Grand Old Party. This week the followers and boosters of Hon. Lawrence Y. Sherman for the nomination for President of the United States, have been engaged in holding forth red hot coals of fire upon the Hon. Fred. W. Upham, for rushing out in the open in favor of the nomination of the former rough riding President, evidently Mr. Upham feels that Col. Roosevelt is the best and the strongest man to make a home run and beat President Wilson in beating it back to the White House, at Washington, D. C. Our highly esteemed friend, ex-governor William Sulzer of New York City, who was a member of Congress for eighteen years from the 10th Congressional District, on the East Side of New York City, who is one of the best known and one of the most popular men in this country, with the masses of the people, for he has always labored and fought in their behalf, will become the presidential candidate of all the reform forces in this country, which means that he will become the standard bearer of the Prohibitionists and the American Party, and it is safe to say that at least several million of his fellow American citizens will at the proper time record their votes in favor of his election to the Presidency of the United States. HON. HOSEA W. WELLS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. At the April election, Judge Hosea W. Wells, Republican candidate for the Superior Court full term, to be voted for at the Judicial election Monday, June 5th, was elected as one of the Judges of the Municipal Court and it is not surprising to his numerous friends to state that he has more than made good in that position and the voters throughout Cook county will be honoring themselves in no small degree, by placing him on the Superior Court bench. THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY, PH. D. D. D. DEFEATED IN HIS RACE FOR BISHOP. The latest grapevine lightning message from Philadelphia, Pa., is that the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. was not elected as one of the Bishops of the A. M. E. Church, he only receiving 35 votes. NEGRO FILES FOR LEGISLATURE. Special to The Broad Ax—Atty. W. T. Francis has filed as a candidate for the Legislature from the 38th Dist. comprising parts of the 8th and 12th Wards of St. Paul, Minn. CHICAGO, MAY 20, 1916 THE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS The Tuskegee Summer School is to be conducted this year as in former years. Mr. E. C. Roberts, Director of the Academic Department, is to conduct the Summer School for the Institute. Arrangements are being made to accommodate a large number of teachers. The seventh annual session will be held, beginning June 12th and extending six weeks to July 21st, 1916. Each year has marked a steady growth in attendance and in the scope of the courses offered. Last year 437 teachers were enrolled, representing fifteen States. This list included Jeanes Supervisors, Principals, city and rural teachers, embracing many of the most progressive teachers of the Southland. Courses are offered in the review of literary subjects, in advance studies in general and special methods in education in business practice in sewing in domestic science in canning in manual training and in agriculture and school gardening. The instructors will be chosen from the regular school faculty and will also include Mr. A. H. Parker, Principal Industrial High School, Birmingham, Alabama, and Mr. George L. Hayes, Supervising Principal City Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana. Each day at 11 o'clock Round Tables will be conducted, or special addresses will be given by men of reputation in the educational world. The list of speakers include: Dr. George E. Haynes, Fish University. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Director, Industries for Girls. Major R. R. Moton, Principal-Elect, Tuskegee Institute Prof. Zebulon Judd, Head of Department of Education, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Dr. J. H. Phillips, Superintendent City Schools, Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. William F. Feagin, Superintendent of Education for Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. W. T. Sheehan, Editor, Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. James L. Sibley, Rural School Agent of Alabama. Mr. Jackson Davis, General Field Agent, General Education Board. Dr. James H. Dillard, President, Jeanes Foundation. The Sunday services will have special features. Means of recreation and entertainment will be provided for all. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comments On Men and Women. MUST FIX, ROY'S, FATE, AS, A Philadelphia, Pa.—Is a boy, to every appearance white, to have his life shaped in the less opportune channels of the Negro race; or, Shall his lot be cast with the white race, with the risk that fatherhood may disclose in him Negro blood? To scientists, humanitarians, legal experts and the public at large, Judge MacNeille, of juvenile court, propounds these questions. Central figure in the problem confronting the court is a 13-year-old boy, whose history was traced by probation officers, after he had been reported for truancy. He was found living with Negro foster-parents, who adopted him in infancy. Assistant District Attorney Fox offered the suggestion that the boy be allowed to remain with his foster-parents. A high-class Negro, he said, is preferable to a low-grade white man. If the boy has the right personal qualities, he said, his future is just as sure [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie and a white collar. The background is black. The man's face is pale with a serious expression. The image is oval-shaped with a white border.]] The able and eloquent Corporation Counsel of Chicago, who is readily conceded to be the Prime Minister of the Thompson administration, who is loyally supporting Hon. Lawrence Y. Sherman for President of the United States. if cast with the Negro race as with the white race. The foster-father, Judge MacNeille explained, is willing to give up the boy, provided it can be proved there is no Negro blood in him. The foster-mother, protesting her love for the child she has cared for since infancy, wants to keep him. All this has been kept from the boy himself, who knows only that he is being watched because he is somewhat inclined to "play hookey" from school. The lad has perfectly white skin, a finely shaped head and physique, and good features. Dr. Walter S. Cornell, an authority, made a blood test of the boy at the request of Judge MacNeille, but found nothing to indicate what his ancestry is. WHY A SPELLBINDER QUIT. WHY A SPEEHLINDE QUOT. Chicago, Ill.—That the "statistics" relied upon by orators are sometimes superficial and treacherous is contained in a letter recently published in the Chicago Daily News by Professor G. B. Foster, a former minister who occupies the Chair of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago. Here is what he is quoted as saying: "When I was a callow youth I stumped my native state for the prohibition party. I was your boy orator, filling the earth with homeopathic grains of thought in an Atlantic of utterance, as boy orators still do. My mind underwent a deep change, however. For one thing, I saw that high-minded and substantial citizens were not convinced by my arguments, but that they were grieved by my fiery folly. Then I began to look into the statistics upon which we temperance orators relied. I found how superficial and treacherous they were. I saw that it was not possible for their compilers to know that they were true. On the HON. SAMUEL A. ETTELSON. basis of these statistics I had thundered that drink caused our poverty; I now saw that it was probably more true that poverty caused drink. I had pictured how drink caused domestic unhappiness; I now saw that often domestic unhappiness caused drink. 'Pastor,' said a laborer to me a year later, 'when the 6 o'clock bell rings I quit work and go home, but would rather go the other way.' I knew why. Later I took to drinking. I knew why. In a word, I had been saying on the basis of lying statistics that the evils of frail and faulty humanity were due to drink; I came to see that drink was due to these evils—evils that can be cured, not by the "strength" of prohibition, with its parades and its policemen and its politics, but a "strength" that comes from otherwhere and in another way." WHITE ILLITERACY IN GEORGIA WHITE ILLITERACY IN GEORGIA. Atlanta, Ga.—There is admittedly a too high rate of illiteracy among the whites and the Negroes in Georgia. It has been discovered in a recent inquiry that there are thousands of adults of both races in the state who have never known how to read or write. Georgia is ashamed of this, but, wisely, is rather exposing than concealing the deplorable fact. Recently there have been conferences of state and local educationists in which plans have been formulated with the view of wiping out the disgrace at the earliest possible moment. Wherever the local authorities show a disposition to support the movement against illiteracy, the state board of education will cooperate. Certain other of the southern states in recent years have been called upon to meet and solve a similar problem. In the mountain and remoter agricultural districts in the South illiteracy among whites has always been prevalent. Only in recent years have the southern No.35 states possessed the means of dealing adequately with the question. White illiteracy does not seem to decrease and the present effort is to bring this within bounds. NOTES ON WOMEN'S WORK. 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, Kans., June 7-9. A knowledge of the problem indicates that they will be a very busy set of women and we are hoping for splendid results, looking to the benefit and advancement of the cause for which they are organized. Among the northwestern states interested are, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Illinois. Meeting at the same time as the National conventions at Chicago, this meeting takes on peculiar importance. Mrs. J. Snowden-Porter of Illinois is President and Mrs. J. B. Rush of Iowa, Secretary. Delegates will send their name and address to Miss Stella Turner, 518 N. Water St., Wichita, Kas., chairman of placing committee and she will send assignment. Delegates will be entertained free and the women of Wichita are sparing no pains to sustain their reputation for hospitality. When the convention is over each one will be glad to have had a part in it.—"C. Thomas Cole, head of the Cole and Catlin Hotel, 3439 South State street, is visiting his old home, Louisville, Ky., where he will be in evidence at the derby. PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Coffee-Hex, Protestants, Priests, Indelta Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance One Year. $3.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6533 ST. LAWRENCE AVE., CHICAGO, IL. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR. Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18 1903, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois. under Act of March 8, 1879. AUTHORIZED AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. L. W. Washington, 5465 Kimbark avenue. B. W. Pitts, 3315 S. State street. Phone Douglas 4049. The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the last named place and news items and advertisements left there will find their way into these columns. Artificial Ears. Artificial ears are so skilfully made that they may with difficulty be distinguished from natural ones, so it is claimed. When the person who has lost an ear applies to the manufacturer for a substitute there is made a mold of the remaining ear. If there be left any part of the other a mold of that part also must be taken to assist in the fitting of the artificial. Manufacturers assert that no two ears are alike and that 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 position of the lost ear. It is really only the first artificial ear that is expensive, the chief cost pertaining to the making of the mold. Vulcanized rubber, which can be bent and twisted, has been found to constitute the best material for the making of artificial ears—Detroit Free Press. A Question of Size If old Garge Jones was the most inquisitive man in the village, Tom Morton was certainly the surliest. One afternoon, as Garge perambulated slowly along the one narrow street, he paused at Tom's garden fence and gazed inquiringly over at Tom, who was busily nailing a very large box together. "Afternoon, Tom!" said the old chap genially. "Whatever be 'e peutin' 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 paled silence for a few moments. Then he took an 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 retorted quietly.—London Express. Lotteries In England. 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 building canals or founding a British museum, sanction has been readily granted. Our first recorded lottery is that of 1699, when the prizes were pieces of plate, the chances 40,000 for 10 shillings 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 stepped 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 it, but we can't afford to buy it, and there's no use wasting your breath trying to persuade us." "Listen," pleaded the agent. "This car isn't going to cost you a cent. All you've got to do is to take out an accident policy in our favor and the car is yours. We'll even pay the premium on the policy. Can anything be fairer than that?"—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Both Predigals A young wife remonstrated with her husband, a dissipated spendthrift, on his conduct. "Love," said he, "I am like the prodigal son. I shall reform by and by." "I will be like the prodigal son, too," she replied, "for I shall arise and go to my father." 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 lets me," of course "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 "unloose." 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. 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 levity, 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 Ses It Quickly. "Can your wife see it a joke?" "If it's in the shape of a bonnet or a dress that some other woman is wear- ing she can."—Detroit Free Press. Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage and shortens life. STEPHENS BILL PROTECTS PUBLIC Aimed 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 embodies 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 Ia 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 "hail" 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-Ashurst 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 seasonal sales. A D, M A D, E COST A DIAMOND FOR EACH TIME JILTED 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, appraisal, 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. X.—"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 Nettle Telma 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. MINISTER GIVES GIRLS TWELVE GOLDEN RULES 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: "Always remember to be a lady. "Don't be loud and boisterous. "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 conceived. "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. Laxton declared. FEWER KANSAS FARMERS. There Are Not So Many Now as Ten Years Ago. Abilene, Kan.—Fewer people are engaged in agricultural pursuits in Kansas now in 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. Nettle 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' Taila 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. When We Feared the Indians When We Pearled the Indiana. 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: "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 seewed 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 hev 'em; yes, ma'am, 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 Almus thought it disgusting that Mrs. Bishop should drink milk and pollute her tea with a fluid having so strong a smell and taste. Bin 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 waiter 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 hyarin ds 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 Euclid 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. ```markdown ``` 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 ``` STARTLED BY KISS Long Distance Courtship Rounds Up With a Mishap. WRONG FELLOW IS HUGGED. quiry When Prospective Husband Comes Along, and After Apologies He Hurries Her Off to Minister. Parsons, Kan.—Marcella Howland kissed the Wrong man. And inasmuch ae Marcella at the time of hee oscula- tory performance was engaged to be married and the man she kissed was not her prospective husband, she found herself in an embarrassing situation when the real groom hove to and made ansious inquiry as to ber affection for another man. If it had been in the good old days of rapiers and swords perhaps there would have been a duel, with much blood, but there was none of that, and ouly a few people at the Katy station were aware of the near tragedy. The story of the kissing and Marcella and the man she kissed and the man she should have kissed adds another chapter to the volumes that have been written about long distance love mak- ing. This episode might have been labeled “Courtship by Mail, or Wooing Ly Correspondence.” ‘The story is this, duly attested and sworn to by at least ne of the prrties concerned: Marcella lives near Joplin and is a helper ina xrocery store. A year ago she found the nane of James Vandyke na ease of exzs, the said James not joing a barber, as his nume might in- tivate, but a raiser of chickens and orn near Anadarko, Okla. Marella wrote to James. and James replied. Then followed a correspondence with cach sueceeding letter ripened into love. A month ago it was decided to oot by Porons ead have a minister hore perform the ceremony, an elope- ment being considered the proper thing to do. James arrived and spent a restless afternoon waiting for his bride, who was to come from Joplin on the even- ing train. Cane 745 o'clock, and with it the irain from Joplin and Marcella. James was a bit coufused i time and was uot at the station. Marcella, wearing 4 pink carnation by prearrangement, went to the waiting room and sat down to await the arrival of her hus- hand to be. Now enter the other side of the tri- angle, whose name for the present is uuknown, as he absolutely refused to divulge his identity. His name will be John Doe for this oecasion. John en- tered the station and gazed over the crowds. Marcella saw him, and after siving him time to discover ber trip- ped across the room and stood enrap- tured before the astonished man. “Well, here I am, James.” she said demurely, waiting for her fianee to take her in his arms. ete., ete. John gasped. but made no move to- wand her. “Why, you bashful thing.” the girl exclaimed, and with that bounded over to the man, threw her arms about him and planted a kiss upon his lips. John extricated himself as best he could—or would, and was mumbling sone Incoherent words of inquiry when in ezme a breathless Vandyke, whe had come up just in time to be- loll the performance, and, convinced that some one was making away with his bride to be, rushed up to thwart his. As he approached misgiving spread ever Mareelli's face. She had a faint suspicion that she had kissed the wrong main, and this suspicion grew with sich step of the excited Vandyke. He Mond hefore her. She looked at Doe wi then at Vandyke. Yes, the last hiny was cortuiuly the one sbe had vome te moet. How could she have mistaken tke other fellow for him, al- thoush their resemblance was quite marked ‘Then apolessies, explanations, assur tives by Doe to Vandyke that he was au inuiovent party and had no intention tw “cop” Marcella, and then Marcella Kissed the right aman, right there in the Nation, with a score of people wateh- ing her, The couple decided to take the 8:22 train back ty Joplin and be married there. ‘They hurried to a telephone, made an appointment with a minister there and left. GETS BACK HIS SIGHT. Blinded by a Fall, a Man Is Recovering After Eight Years. Piitatelphia.-Cnable to see for eight Sears. Edward Claycomb, a painter, = Mowat, Pa, is recovering his sight by decrees th 1208 he fell from a house be was Usinting, and in addition to bis other injuries tie detached the retinas of Wei men, He hecame blind. Speci Ms of a doze n cities were Col wal they all told him his ease was Inpelens For the last several weeks bis sight ‘Ss teen returning, and mow be can see ol road nse letters and distinguish Itoi colons Physiclans are pus Hel Claycomb is hopefal that his “St will become normal, Selis Hidden Money With Potatoes. Manitou, Cal -W, A. Cleland placed £30 in S20 gold pieces in a potato bin fir safe keepin. Forgetting about the Money. he sold some —— taahh for the cofm proved vieg tant now ehinks banks are a ‘Ser proposition than potato r Ay CITES... CROWTH Uncle Joe Cannon Tells of Some Changes In Forty-four Years. SHOWS AGE IS NO HANDICAP. Says Uncle Sam Is Two and One-half Times Bigger Than When He Broke Into Congress—Has Retained Sub- tleness Despite His Eighty Years. Washington.—Reclining on the sofa in his office just off the chamber of the house of representatives, ‘his well imown cigar at the proper angle in his mouth, Uncle Joe Cannon, who re- cently celebrated his eightieth birth- day, told a correspondent on that oc- casion of some of the changes which have occurred in the United States during the forty-four years be has been in public life, forty of which have been spent in congress. Taking his cigar out of his mouth, Uncle Joe squinted at the end of it a moment, and then. replacing it most carefully at its accustomed angle, he said: “I suppose you want to know some- thing about the changes wh’ -h have taken place since | first entered con- gress back in 1873. Why. my boy, the Re a) tans? te et ee £ oF y %, se oe . 3 Photo by American Press Association. catia son qaueen changes have been like those of an in. fant growing into a stalwart man or a sapling into a tree. “Uncle Sam is two and a half times as big as he was when I broke into congress. I mean by that in physical stature as measured by population. In other ways the country has multiplied four, five and even ten times. “We had thirty-seven states and less than 40,000,000 population when I came to congress. We now have forty-eight states and 100,000,000 population at home, with ten or fifteen millions more in Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philip- pines. Our total wealth then was given at $24,000,000,000, gold basis, or $30,- 000,000,000 currency, but now it is $187,000,000,000, without any distinc- tion as to the unit of measure. “This enormous wealth is not in Wall street or within a thousand miles of it. It is not gathered into banks or trust companies, but is scattered over the broad land—the prairies, the plains and the mountains as well as in the facto- ries and commercial centers. in fact, there is more of this wealth west of the Mississippi river than in New York and New England combined. So you can see that Uncle Sam has grown, and it has been something of a job for con- gress to keep up with the development of the country.” “What do you think has been con- gress’ most farreaching act during this period?” “I would hardly call it an act. 1 would call it a discovery,” replied Un- cle Joe. “It was the discovery of the general welfare clause of the constitu- tion. We used to have long constitu- tional arguments against any kind of internal improvements by the federal government, but now we just read the general welfare clause of that old doc- ument and appropriate money for any scheme that may be proposed. “This change of sentiment is pretty general, but it is marked in the delega- tions from the south.” ‘The correspondent met with this an- swer when he mentioned legislation: “I am not going to discuss politics.” Getting up from the couch, he stretched his arms, and then, just to show he is eighty years young, Uncle Joe kicked as high as his chin. “Can you do that, young man?” he asked. And then in reply he said: “No, and there aren't ten other men in the house who can.” ‘The correspondent expressed the be- lief that when a person reached the fourscore milestone it was time to take it easy, and Uncle Joe replied: “Well, I do take it easy. I'm entitled to it, am I not? I have things just about as fine as any man could wish. I have lots of friends, no enemies that I know of, and lots of hope and ambi- tion.” Although he has been mixed up in every great political fight since the election of Lincoln in 1880, Uncle Joe declined to discuss politics in the con- crete. | “It would be hardly fitting,” he said. “people insist I am a partisan. I am a Republican, but this isn’t a time for me to talk party politics. My friends ‘are in all of the parties.” SATS TES St IGNT ND iCARS AGO le oi . GAM, and y ~1g a Day ae New Albauy. | ol.—Germany, Austria and vilcr war rc ountries of Europe. which buve becun to conserve day- light, are thirty years bebind Indiana. A cable dispatch from Berlin recently spoke of the daylight conservation idea as having been adopted there. The tenor of the dispatch created the im- Pression that it was something new, when, in fact, the idea was adopted thirty years ago at the Speeds Cement mills, north of this city. It was about 1886 when David Cook, manager, who still has charge of the plant, which produces Portland cement. realized it was a sin to waste the fine daylight which permits work at 6 a. m., even on most winter days. He studied the matter, and soon the whistle for going to work sounded at 6 in the morning. It took some time for the men to get used to the change, but now they would not swap back to the old system. They begin an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier, and even dur- ing the winter the ten hour day can be made. CONSTRUCT HOUSE IN OHIO IN TWELVE HOURS Two Hundred Workmen Complete Structure, Gift to a Bride, While Thousands Look On. Toledo, O.— Seventy-two carpenters began to build a howse from the ground up at 4:30 a.m. At4 p. m. the same day it was completed in every detail and Mrs. Emmu Plessner-McCann was serving tea in it to Mayer Milroy and others. The house and lot were a wedding rresent from the Toledo Real Estate ord and contractors. Mrs. MeCann was Miss Emma Plessner until a few hours before the house was finished, when she bectme the bride of John J. Mctann. She was assistant secretary of the real estate board for several years. After the carpenter work had pro- gressed a short time plumbers, gas fit- ters, painters. paper hangers, elec- tricians and other workmen got busy and did their share of the building work within a given time. More than 200 workmen helped build the house. It is a five room house, with a batb- room. costing $4,000. Ordinarily it takes two or three months to finish such a house. ‘Thousands watched the construction work. Three hundred gallons of but- termilk and a cartload of sandwiches were served. In addition to the lot and house, built in less than twelve hours, considerable furniture was presented by friends, FAITH IN DIVINING ROD. Treasure Hunter Says “Tip” Is Right ‘and Keeps on Digging. Shreveport, La—Having discovered evidence of what he believes is buried treasure or a gold mine on a piece’ of ground on Fairfield avenue and owned by Dr. J. M. Comegys in the most ex- clusive residence district of the city, a Shreveport contractor named Farmer spent all day and part of a night dig- ging in the plot for hidden wealth. Farmer claims he was led to the spot by a divining rod, and he further main- tains that his divining rod hasn't play- ed him false because it leads him to the exact spot every time he moves. Farmer, with the assistance of three negro helpers, labored far ‘into the night in search of the treasure or mine or whatever it is, and spadeful after spadeful of dirt had been removed without results, Late bulletins from the scene indicated that no treasure had been disclosed as yet, thongh the hole measured four feet deep and as many feet in width’ when the search ‘was concluded temporarily. Shreveport is too far inland to have been the haunt of Captain Kidd or any other of our well known pirates, and the next best guess is that it is a gold mine. Farmer won't quit until be 4s either convinced to, his own satisfac- tion that his divining rod has pulled a “bone” or that there is really a treasure ‘at the spot. BIG ROOSTER CRIPPLES MAN. Resents Intrusion of Angler, Who Was Crossing Barnyard. Pendleton, Ore.—L. A. McClintock, local implement dealer, is among the wounded and helpless as a result of an encounter with an angry rooster. While he was crossing through a barnyard near the Furish dam, en route to the river with an angling out- fit, a big Buff Cochin rooster, resenting the intrusion, flew at him. Unable to pierce his rubber boots with its beak, the rooster jumped into the air and rove his spurs home just above Mc- Clintock’s knee, one on each side. ‘The spurs struck a tendon and crip- pled him. He was helped to an auto and brought home. Pushes Junk Cart Miles. Holton, Kan.—Sherman Crawford, an industrious junk gatherer of this city, loses none of his profits to the railroads. He loads his cart with 800 pounds of material and when weather ‘and roads are good pushes the cart to ‘Topeka. By leaving Holton at 8 o'clock in the morning Crawford can make the thirty-two miles to the capital city by sundown. “Up thant oy, “1916, a HEN 29 YEARS 0_D LAYS EGG. ‘Spanish Annie Breaks A\l Records, De- lighting tier Owner. Hartford.—Spauish Aunie, the grand old hen of twerlty-nine years (duly au- thenticated), owned by Colonel James Blanchard of Dayville, is quite content to die because recently she performed what is probably her last labor in this world, something beyond “all the king’s horses and all the king's men,” for she laid a nice brown eg. Spanish Annie, called because she is jot the black Spanish variety, hasn't laid an egg in years. However, within la year she got her name in the newspa- pers and her picture in many of them when she hatched out a fine brood of chickens and was hailed as the world’s champion Biddy. Colonel Blanchard, who is proud of his famous ben, has discovered from his poultry records that Spanish Annie was hatched July 4, 1887, and for years contributed generously fo the Blanch- ard dally egg supply. Some years ago her shiny jet black feathers began turning white and her eggs were fewer. ‘Then she lost her quick, dashing gait, Jand at present her feathers are a mot. tled gray. Spanish Aunie made no particular commotion after laying her egg, but her happy owuer arranged a special feed for her. | PEARL 5,000,000 YEARS OLD. Found on the Seacoast and Sent to ‘Stanford University. Stanford University. California. —A pearl estimated to have been formed 5,000,000 years azo nnd to be the oldest specimen of its kind in the world was found by Stanley C. Herold, a Stan- ford student, six months ago. The pearl will be presented to the Stanford museum. The pearl nd the cockieshell in which ft was imbedded came to Stanford in a consignment of xeolozic material from the coust of the state of Wash- ington. | According to university authorities, the pearl is of little value as a gem, ‘but the oyster in which it was found originated, they said, probably in the ‘paleozoie perio: “We have uo record.” siid Herold. the time this one was created. It re tains considerable luster and when thoroughiy polished will regain more, but its 5,000,000 years of existence has taken out about 50 per cent of its luster. “At the time this pearl was made the dinosaur, mastodon and sabre toothed | tiger were in existence.” oe ROBINS ACCEPT HUMAN AID. Man Replaces Fallen Nest and Birds CGenume-se. | Seattle, Wash.—“I had always under- stood,” said Crawford E. White, the attorney, who lives at 4203 Mead street, “that birds would invariably abandon a nest which had been disturbed by human hands. “Something that happened in my ‘yard the other day is a distinct excep- tion to this rule. Two robins bad a nest in the branches of a cedar tree. The cross limb which held up the nest fell away and let it down on the ground. “1 thought that would be the end of that nest. but the two birds stayed near it all the next day, and finally 1 got the idea of rebuilding it. I took a foot ladder and fastened the nest back securely in place with some ordinary bay baling wire. “The robins apparently liked the rough job I made of it, for they came back and have been working together rebuilding the old nest.” GIRLS TCO BASHFUL. ‘lan Wreneng to wee. St, Paul.—~Ambitious, but basb- ful” is the characterization Joseph “Mounts, secretary to Chief of Police John J. O'Connor. wade of a St. Paui ‘young woman after a day of telephone calls regardinz Elmer Johnson, rancb- er, of Sidney. Mon... who wrote to the ‘chief making an ofer of matrimony to a suitable St. Paul irl. “Many girls.” said Mr. Mounts, “call: ed me asking about Jolinson, but none would give me her name. 1 think the girls are passing up a xood thing, be cause I think the man is on the level.” Jobnson has 320 acres of fertile Mon- tana land, two miiles from a railroad, and says he is “well xed.” “Some of the girls talked real fine, too,” added Mr. Mounts, “and if John- son had heard them maybe be would have liked to look them over. It's too bad they are so bashful.” FINDS DIAMOND IN TOBACCO. Railroad Engineer Discovers Gem In Tin of the Weed. St. Mary's. Pa.—Patrick Febicy, 88 engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, stationed here, considers himself a very lucky individual. ‘A few days azo he bouzht a ten cent tin of tobacco. While replenishing his pipe he was surprised to see a ring tm- bedded in the weed, aud examination proved it to contain # setting which looked suspiciously like a diamond. He took his find to a jeweler. who apprals- ed the stone to be worth at least $50. With Choir, No Gift. ‘Topeka. Kan.—Property held for the Church of Christ in this city will re Vert to the original owners should there come into existence within the body any choir or other organization, according to the terms of the deed by which it was conveyed fer church pur- Poses, and which has just been filed for record. en GIRL GOES FIFTEEN MILES ON SKIS TO MARRY ‘Travels Over Deep Snowdrifts to Be- come Bride of a Young Los An- goles Business Man. Los Angeles, Cal.—Skling fifteen miles over deep snowdrifts to be a bride, Miss Helen Skinner, eighteen-year-old daughter of F. C. Skinner of Pine Knot Lodge, Big Bear valley, arrived recent- ly in Los Angeles and was married to Wesley P. Turner, a young business man. Miss Skinner, who passed last sum- mer at Big Bear valley, had intended to leave there for Los Angeles earlier in the season, but was detained until all roads down the mountain had been ‘Washed out by the rains and lost under many feet of snow. When she learned that none of the roads would-be opened until nearly summer she declared her intention of walking down to Los An- geles, no matter how far the snow ex- tended. It was then learned timt a stage could make its way to Dobble, a dead mining camp on the crest of Big Bear, hanging 6,800 feet above the Mohave desert. So the dauntless little bride elect, accompanied by her mother and father, donned skis and walked from Pine Knot Lodge to Dobbie, fifteen miles, over snow that lay an average depth of three feet. At Dobble the party was met by a stage from Victor. ville. BIT OF GALLANTRY WINS HIM $200,000 Frank H. Canning, Who Protected a Woman In Fight, Remem- bered In Her Will. Philadelphia.—As a result of a bit of gallantry to a woman more than three years ago Frank H. Canning, formerly of this city and later of Clarksboro, N. J., is to receive $200,000. Mrs. J. T. Elkins of Detroit, widow of a wealthy ranch owner, died several Weeks azo, leaving an estate of $400,- 000. Half of the money goes to Mr. Canning. the remainder to a charitable institution in Detroit. Mrs. Elkins was formerly Miss Irene Chadley of this city. Miss Chadley was returning to her home on a trolley car late one night. She was the only woman on the car, the other passengers being half a doz- en intoxicated men and Mr. Canning. Suddenly a fight started, and one of the men brushed against Miss Chadley and threatened her. Mr. Canning plac- ed himself tn fzpnt of the woman and, with the aid of the conductor, manag- ed to overcome the rowdies. Miss Chadiey was so upset that Mr. Canning called a cab and rode with her to ber home in West Philadelphia. LIGHTNING STRUCK HOUSE. Russell, His Wife and Baby Have a Narrow Escape. Brady, Tex.—Bob Russell, his wife and baby. who live six miles west of Brady, had a narrow escape recently when lightning struck their home, giv- ing them a severe shock and setting the wall paper and bedelothing atire. ‘The electric bolt passed across the roof and came down the wall inside the room where the family were asleep and passed to the ground by way of a telephone wire and two shotguns standing near a bed. Russell was rendered unconscious, and when he recovered he found the bed clothing aud wall paper afire. He was able to extinguish the blaze with but little difficulty. ‘The barrels of both guns were melted, as was also the telephone ground wire. SEEKS REMEDY FROM SEA. Physician Dips Thirty Fathoms For Pure Salt Water. San Fraucisco.—To save the life of a patient in St. Winifred’s hospital Dr. Winslow Anderson, accompanied by fourteen doctors and nurses, went out to sea in a Crowley launch for thirty- six gallons of the purest of pure sea water. ‘The ailment from which the patient is suffering will give way only to a treatment in which pure salt water from the sea forms the chief element. ‘The party carried twelve three-gallon jugs with heavy lead sinkers, by means of which the water was lifted from a depth of thirty fathoms. The launch went nearly to the Farallove islands, and the party did not return until late at night. ROBBER THANKS VICTIM. Sends Back Keepsake and Keeps $50¢ He Stole From St. Louis Resident. St. Louis.—The thief who robbed the home of L. L. Whittemore of jew- elry valued at $500 mailed a letter to the family. Inclosed was a minia- ture pair of opera glasses, used as 8 watch charm. His letter reads: ‘To Whom It May Concern.—Very sorry to take this little keepsake. Thank you for the other articlen With best wishes, ‘AN OUTCAST. Fish Makes Long Swim. London.—A salmon which had been marked and returned to the water at Kintradwel, north of Brora. Suther- landshire, was caught fifteen days aft- erward on the Aberdeenshire coast. ‘The minimum distance covered by the fish was 140 miles, and it bad lost one and one-half pounds in weight between the date of marking and its recapture. PAGE THREB Stand Made by Suffragists Im- presses Pear!’ White. < ONCE SCORNED THEIR FIGHT. Her Views Changed When She Saw How Bravely the Women Marched In @ Parade In New York Despite a Cold, Miserable Day. New York—“You see, it. was like this,” said Miss Pearl White, curling her slender figure up on a corner of her couch. “I was one of those who found suffragettes funny. They handed me a laugh many a time just because I thought they were pulling a speech off to get themselves heard. But I tell you I didn’t think that after their October Parade. It was on an awfully cold, mean day, if you recall it, and the way those women came up the avenue beat- ing against the wind, with their white dresses on, fairly gave one a thrill. = 3 NG Ete te re ig SOX = F adh we Sates <a CS a+) oe poe Meg aan ae Ase EN be “ 7 « yi N Pea ee UPPER PHOTO SHOWS MISS PEARL WHITE IN A CHARACTERISTIO POSE, LOWER IN ONE OF KER STEEPLESACK STUNTS. There they stood, hour after hour, waiting to get into line, and there ‘weren't six of them that ‘beat it for home,’ I'll make my guess. “I like to see women who dare to do things. ‘There are hundreds of women working for their living, and most of ‘them don't dare say what they think. But those suffragetfes, they've got their courage right with them, all the time,” went on the plucky, daredevil “movie” star. She it was who took up the dare when some one said no girl could be a steeplejack, and on April 15, dressed in the part of a sign painter in overalls and cap on which “Votes For Women” gleamed across the visor, Miss White let herself down an electric sign twen- ty-two stories above Broadway. Miss White is as lithe as a panther. She can twist her pliant figure into more curves than most women. Halt Italian and half Irish, she comes from, Missouri, and so she adds keenness to her Celt and Latin traits. “I pay taxes,” said she thoughtfully. “Why shouldn't I say something about what is to be done with my tax money? 1 Pay income tax, too, just as if I were a man. I earn money too. In my pro- fession a woman star earns more than a man, yet I have nothing to say about the income tax law nor about any other law. Why shouldn't I vote? Wo- men are doing every kind of wérk men do, and over in Europe they are suffer- ing as much as men suffer. If war ‘should come to America they would suffer here. I want to vote for presi- ent of this country, for I know who-l ‘think ought to govern us. But I sban’t have anything to say about the presi- dent. I'll have to abide by the decision of men, who may not care half as much as I care.” WIND IMPRISONS WOMAN. Locked In Closet and Near Collapse When Rescued. Bridgeville, Del—Imprisoned in a closet by the wind slamming a door fast, Mrs. Mollie Cordery, who lives near Bridgeville, had a narrow escape from death and when discovered was nearly overcome by the shock. - Mrs, Cordéry was cleaning the attic, and while she was looking in an old closet a gust of wind slammed the door and locked it from the outside. There was no one but herself in the house, and it was nearly an hour before Mrs. Cordery’s screams happened to be heard by a gang of men who were re- pairing the road. With all the doors locked downstairs, Harley Rickards climbed to the second floor and got through by a window. When Mrs. Cor- dery was found she was in a pitiable state. She is still seriously fil from the shock. ; Qentencen Himeaif to Jail. Visalia, Cal.—Ernest Stevenson, a Vi- salia laborer, sentenced himself to a year in the county jail in Judge Knox's court after pleading guilty to a charge of drunkenness. The verdict was set aside by the judge as excessive. In passing sentence on himself after the judge had asked him to do so Steven- gon said treatment in hospital did no food and perhaps be could “sober up right” in a year. 1 M. B. ATTORNEY J. GRAY LUCAS For almost two years he has been fighting in the C county in behalf of Isaac Bond, with the assistance The case will now find its way into the Supreme C For almost two years he has been fighting in the Criminal Court of Cook county in behalf of Isaac Bond, with the assistance of Clarence S. Darrow. The case will now find its way into the Supreme Court of Illinois. For almost two years he has been fighting in the Criminal Court of Cook county in behalf of Isaac Bond, with the assistance of Clarence S. Darrow. The case will now find its way into the Supreme Court of Illinois. JULIUS ROSENWALD, HEAD OF THE GREAT MAIL ORDER HOUSE OF SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY CONTRIBUTED TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS TO ENABLE ATTORNEYS J. GRAY LUCAS AND CLARENCE S. DARROW TO MOVE ON TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS WITH THE IKE BOND CASE. It will be recalled that several years ago, a Colored man by the name of Isaac Bond, was arrested and later on convicted in the Criminal Court of Cook county, for the murder of Miss Ida Leggston, a young White woman artist. In the due course of time, Isaac Bond was sent to the Penitentiary at Joliet, at that time his friends being unable to raise any-more money to prosecute his case any further; that is STATE STREET SHOW HOUSES DOING BIG BUSINESS. By Karl Monte. Goldberg, through one of his landlord characters in the Daily News, says he can never find his tenants at home so he has to go to the theatre to collect his rent. One night on the "Stroll" is sufficient to convince one that there may be, after all, some logic in this comic saying. At any rate it can be safely said that in the midst of these war-like panicky times no State street manager of any one of the picture or vaudeville houses will resort to the well-known subterfuge of "on account of the war" his business is not good, or that there is no business at all. In every one of these houses all patrons are cordially received and everything possible is done to contribute to their comfort, by each house attache, from the owner on down. Modern ventilating apparatus are installed, opera seats with hat rests attached, elevations in the rear, congenial ushers ever at your service, as well as door men and, nearly every instance, an orchestra for your entertainment and to increase your imagination while you gaze upon the screen. Nor are these any second-rate pictures by any means that are shown in these first-rate south side houses. As, for instance at the States, south of 35th St., where may be seen, from time to time such performers of renown as Theda Bara, Robert Edson, Wm. Farnum, Charlie Chaplin, et al. While speaking of the States it might be well to mention that their orchestra is one of the real drawing-cards of that well-known house. The auditorium is large and spacious and is as comfortable both winter and summer as any in the city. Last Friday they presented the hand-colored film "Shrine of Happiness" in five acts, also "Mysteries of Myra" in which picture Jean Southern starred. Today they present for our approval Charlie Chaplin, the $670,000 movie star in his latest success "The Floor-Walker" also other good pictures. Tomorrow we may see Edna Wallace Hopper in "By Whose Hand?" in five acts. At the Washington today one may see The William Fox Productions today and tomorrow. On Monday the "Cycle of Fate," Tuesday "Lord Loveland Discovers America," Wednesday, Douglass Fairbanks in the "Habit of Happiness" and Thursday, "Betrayed" with Grace DeCarlton; Friday, --- PAGE FOUR to move on to the Supreme Court of Illinois with it. Attorney Clarence S. Darrow, without making any charges whatever, assisted lawyer J. Gray Lucas to defend Isaac Bond and as the brief and record in the case cost in the neighborhood of $400 several clubs and individuals raised $150. Edward H. Morris sending his check for $25, but still being short $250 Mr. Darrow finally made up his mind to write a letter to Mr. Julius Rosenwald fully explaining the whole situation to him at the same time requesting him to assist financially to enable them to secure the record, and brief and last week, like a big or generous hearted humanitarian, Mr. Rosenwald sent Mr. Darrow a check for $250. Just as soon as possible the Ike Bond case on a writ of error will find its way into the Supreme Court of Illinois. Jane Gray in that wonderful drama "Waifs," and next Saturday and Sunday, Theda Bara, the renowned vampire actress starring in "The Eternal Sapho." No children will be admitted on the last two mentioned dates. Every Friday they have, in addition to other features, Grace Cunard and Francis Ford in the celebrated serial "Peg O' The Ring." The Phoenix is a swell little photo house, very comfortable and convenient and enjoys a large patronage. Its programs are sufficiently variegated to please even the most fastidious, and the management is congenial and ever alert to the welfare and entertainment of its patrons. They, also, are running the serial "Mysteries of Myra," and many other features. The old and new Monograms always enjoy their share of the patronage of the south side photo fanatics, and many come from other parts of the city to see their shows. A new policy will soon be instituted whereby the programs of both houses will be entirely changed on Mondays and Thursday. No better places can be found to spend an enjoyable evening by those who enjoy light comedy. This week Strain and Baily have been appearing to excellent houses at the New Monogram in a musical comedy sketch, sharing honors with the versatile Tim Moore who appears in the playlet entitled "Moses' Entrance into Society." At the Old Monogram next week the Mills and Frisby Musical Comedy Stock Co., will begin a long engagement that is expected to bring much joy to the patrons of that house. Their company consists of ten people all of whom are said to be good. The Grand is said to be beyond doubt, the best vaudeville house on the south side. The great variety of acts offered there at different times compare favorably with any, anywhere shown in that class. One may see many "big time" acts there from time to time, such as Mme. Anita Patti Brown, Fidler and Shelton, S. H. Dudley and others. Just now the Grand is featuring Billy King, undoubtedly one of our best black face comediens, and his company of ten people to which will soon be added several others. He brings his own musical director. Manager Johnson has increased his already excellent orchestra, so that, in addition to the regular bills of vaudeville and the Billy King performances, a musical concert will be added. Can you beat this for the price of admission? Hattie McIntosh, who for years played a leading part in The Williams and Walker shows, is with King. With King's aggregation, a musical concert by a large and competent orchestra, three separate and distinct vaudeville acts and several reels of pictures, all in a beautiful, well lighted and ventilated show house no one need be afraid of investing a dime or so for entertainment at the Grand. FLORIDA NUNS WILL T Three Who Teach in Priv for Negro Children Are St. Augustine, Fla.—The la enacted in Florida prohibits from teaching in Negro se ceiving its first test here in three Sisters of St. Joseph who were arrested by the ing under instructions from THE APPOMATTOX CLUB IS STILL BOOMING UNDER THE ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL. The following is the calendar of the Appomattox Club, 3441 South Wabash Ave., for the remainder of May and for the first part of June: Saturday, May 20th, Smoker and Reception to new members; Friday, June 9th, Complimentary dance for visiting delegates of the Republican National Convention, Invitations to members' families and visiting guests only; Saturday, June 10th, Cabaret. Reduced membership fee of five dollars continued until June 5th, 1916. Col. J. R. Marshall, President, Dr. S. C. Dickerson, Chairman, Entertainment Committee. P. W. UPSHAW HAS BECOME A CANDIDATE FOR THE LEGISLA-TURE IN THE FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT. P. W. Upshaw, who is one of the dyed in the wool strong Colored Republicans, residing in the First Ward, and who at one time held down a job under Thomas M. Hunter, chief bailiff of the Municipal Court, has entered the race for the nomination for the legislature from the First Senatorial District of Illinois. He says his hat is in the ring and he expects to buck up against Messrs. A. H. Roberts, S. B. Turner, Edward D. Green, James A. Scott and one or two other live and active candidates who have an itching desire to represent the Colored end of it in the legislature at Springfield, Ill Mrs. Alberta Moore-Smith, 3263 Vernon avenue, this week visited Indianapolis, Ind., where she attended the conference of charities and corrections. 702 ALD. HENRY UTRATEL ALD. HENRY UTPATEL. Valuable and influential member of the City Council, Judge of the Superior Court, full term, to be election Monday, June 5. Valuable and influential member of the City Council; Republican candidate for Judge of the Superior Court, full term, to be voted for at the Judicial election Monday, June 5. Alderman Henry Uptatel, Republican candidate for Judge of the Superior Court, full term, was born in this city, April 22, 1870, on the Northwest side, his parents hailing from that good sturdy German-American stock who have accomplished so much for the upbuilding of this city and the United States in general, during his boyhood days he attended the German Evangelical Lutheran Parochial school of the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he is still a constant member, always being very ambitious to get ahead in this world. At an early age he found employment with a fire insurance company, hustling for outside business part of the time and the rest of the time doing office work on the inside. In order to complete his education, he attended night schools for many years so that he could obtain the education which was denied him in his youth, for even at that time he fully realized that nothing goes ahead of education in this world when it comes right down to imparting power and influence to those who never permit themselves to rest until they have finally succeeded in climbing to the very top round of the ladder which leads on up to fame and fortune. In time Alderman Utpatel decided to study law and while faithfully and honorably serving as the chief bookkeeper in one of the largest fire insurance offices in this city, he attended law school at night, graduating from the law school in 1900, at which time he was admitted to the Bar and he has very successfully practiced his chosen profession from that time to the present, making a special study of Municipal government. For the past eight years, Alderman Utpatel has been one of the very valuable members of the City Council from the 15th Ward. Among his activities in that body he fought against street grabs by large corporations; fought the Milk Trust; fought for a clean Raw --- Three Who Teach in Private School for Negro Children Are Arrested. St. Augustine, Fla.—The law recently enacted in Florida prohibiting Whites from teaching in Negro schools is receiving its first test here in the case of three Sisters of St. Joseph's Convent, who were arrested by the sheriff, acting under instructions from Governor Trammell. They have been conducting a school for Negro children in their private building on De Haven street. Sister Mary Thomasine, Sister Mary Scholastica and Sister Mary Beningus were the three nuns arrested and when they were brought before Judge Jackson the court ordered them released on their own recognition. Sister Mary Thomasine refused to accept her release and she is being held a prisoner at the convent, in custody of Father O'Brien. When the law was enacted by the Florida legislature, the Sisters of St. Joseph consulted eminent lawyers as to the constitutionality of the law. It was the unanimous opinion of the lawyers consulted that the law was unconstitutional and so the school was continued. The nuns have been teaching schools for Negro children in St. Augustine for several generations, their work being entirely gratuitous and their only object the educational and religious guidance of the Colored youth. They were not interfered with even after the passage of the law, until some weeks ago a petition was sent to Governor Trammell, advising him that the law was being violated. This petition was evidently for the purpose of bringing about a test case on the constitutionality of the law. The case cannot be handled in the local courts as it is a state law, and so it will come before the Circuit Court at this term. It will probably be carried through the State Supreme Court to the United States Supreme Court before it is finally settled. Mrs. Addie Fowler, Mother of Mrs. Geneva Smith, 5363 Dearborn street; Mrs. Katie Bowling and Mrs. Jenkins who has spent the past four months in visiting with them; left for her home in Atlanta, Ga., last Saturday evening. THE ELECTORATORY the City Council; Republican candidate for the term, to be voted for at the Judicial Milk and against a dirty "Pasteurized Milk;" fought against the high cost of living; fought for and delivered to the 15th Ward improved street lighting; fought against the 20% cut in wages of city employees; fought for better street car transportation; introduced the Cold Storage Ordinance which prevents the storing of food-stuffs for the purpose of increasing prices; forced the committee which had in charge the sum of $220,000.00 for the widows of firemen killed at stock yards to distribute the money. He always voted to further the interests of labor movements and the betterment of working conditions for men and women and for a living wage. Made a special fight for the safety of railroad employees if electrification was adopted, and while no safety devices were at hand made a bitter fight opposing the electrification of railroads. He introduced the resolution calling upon the Mayor to appoint a committee of Council members and business men to investigate the causes of the recent Garment Makers' Strike, to ascertain the morals and working conditions of the employees; which investigation finally resulted in the improving of both working conditions and wages. At the time of the Eastland disaster he immediately wrote letters to all families affected in his ward, warning them not to turn their claims over to any one, as he would see to it that whatever damages were paid would be paid to the proper survivors without the deduction of attorney's fees and other expenses, which was done. He has been endorsed for Judge of the Superior Court by the members of the Chicago steam railroads' employees safety association, and has the good will of all the street car employees. Alderman Utpatel has many friends among the Colored voters throughout this city and Cook county who would be greatly delighted to see him selected one of the Judges of the Superior Court at the Judicial election, Monday June 5th. FRANK O. LOWDEN OGLE COUNTY, ILL. Col. Frank O. Lowden, Republican candidate for the nomination for Governor of Illinois, was born January 26, 1861, Sunrise, Minnesota, from there he moved to Hardin County, Iowa, in 1868, where he taught school from 15 years of age-until he was 20 years old; he was the Valedictorian of the '85 class, Iowa State University, for sometime thereafter he was law clerk for Dexter, Herrick and Allen, Chicago. He was the Valedictorian '87 class, Union College of Law (now Northwestern); President Alumni Association and trustee Northwestern University for several years; Trustee University of Chicago and Knox College, Galesburg, several years; 1896—April 29th married Miss Florence Pullman, daughter of George M. Pullman and they have four bright and highly interesting children—one son and three daughters; 1898—formed law partnership—Lowden, Estabrook & Davis. Mr. Lowden's law practice was extensive and varied. He was one of the most successful trial lawyers in Chicago He was an able counsellor and a convincing speaker. He occupied the chain of Federal Jurisprudence in Northwestern Law School. Lowden Hall was named after him for his services; HEALTH NOTES. For the second time within a few months, the police in the West Chicago Avenue district have arrested and procured a fine for a violator of quarantine for scarlet fever. Peter Bendenak was arrested recently while breaking quarantine at 850 Bismarck street. A ten dollar fine resulted. The hand of the law is properly doubled as a fist to punish, or closed in a grip to restrain the criminal; but the fellow who errs from ignorance, without real malice or intent to defy the law, is usually given a chance by the Department of Health to make good his real attitude. In breaking quarantine, a man almost always acts with a full knowledge of his wrongdoing. To run the risk of spreading scarlet fever, diphtheria or smallpox among innocent people, with an entire comprehension of the danger involved in the act, is criminal selfishness in the superlative degree. It should always receive the limit of penalty and then some, "for good measure." The ten dollar fine in the above case does not represent adequate punishment, of course, but emphasizes the principle involved. A man who will knowingly break quarantine and thereby endanger his fellows is a poor type of citizen. He is a bad neighbor in time of peace and not to be relied upon in time of war. From the first annual report of the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, we learn that last year (1915) 602 pupils were admitted to 28 schools for the blind. Of this number, 91 children, some 15 percent, were blind from sore eyes of the new born (ophthalmia neonatorum). While the total number of new cases of blindness and the number of schools has increased nearly threefold, the proportion of cases due to ophthalmia neonatorum compared to all causes has decreased from 26.5 per cent. to 15.1 per cent. The campaign of the American Medical Association for the study of blindness, started in 1906, is evidently bearing good fruit, but law and education must continue their co-operation in this direction. Modern preventive medicine, with its reportings, inspections, quarantines and disinfections, its vaccine, antitoxin and serum, its better acquaintance with the microscopic forest of germ life wherein we roam, its greater emphasis upon right living, its wide diffusion of health knowledge, its rapid fire health talk, is making good for longer life, increased efficiency and elected Lieutenant Colonel, First Regiment, Illinois National Guard; 1900—delegate to Republican National Convention; 1904—candidate for Republican nomination for governor. Defeated by combination of Yates-Deneen forces on 79th ballot, on which Mr. Deneen was nominated; 1904-1912—Republican National Committeeman for Illinois and member of executive body of National Committee; 1906—member of Congress from the 13th district until March, 1911; 1900—purchased Hemeuway Farm, now Sinnissippi Farm, on Rock River, near Oregon, Illinois. Devoted past fifteen years to development of farm along practical lines, dairying, livestock breeding, general farming and tree culture. There is one other thing that must be said to the great credit of Col. Lowden and that is that he has always been friendly disposed towards the Colored people and as one of the directors of the Pullman Palace Car Co., thousands and thousands of Colored voters in all parts of this state will either go up or down with him at the state wide primaries, September 13, and at the present time it looks as though he will be the real winner in the final race for the nomination for governor of the great state of Illinois. greater happiness. But this is the people's fight, not merely the business of the profession. If physicians, whose main support depends upon treating diseases, that public ought to listen, look act in its own behalf, and help in this vital work of prevention. * * * Has the good wife spoken to you about fixing those screens and getting them in place? Beat he rto it. Get busy now. FOR INFORMATION. Send names of delegates and alternates to Mrs. Sarah L. Willis corresponding secretary, 420 West 19th street, Cheyenne, Wyo. Send program as suggested, to Mrs. J. Snowden-Porter, 3302 Rhodes Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Observe—Admission fee, $1.00. Per capita tax, five cents per year. Permanent fund, one cent per year per capita. One delegate for every ten members or fraction thereof over five members. Delegates send their name and address to Miss Stella Turner, 518 N. Water St., Wichita, Kans., chairman of placing committee and she will send assignment. Entertainment free. Blue Ribbon art and needle work display will be a feature of the meeting Urge members to send their best. Please contribute something to the Ways and Means Com. Advertise the meeting from now to meeting time in the clubs, in the newspapers, in the magazines and in the church. When the meeting is over each one will be glad to have had a part in it. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. In response to invitation of one hundred women met with Alpha Suffrage Club Wednesday evening of this week and formed a committee to aid in the benefit fund for Joseph Campbell's defense to be given at the States Theatre on the afternoon of June 6, under the management of Mr. Tony Langston. Arrangements for the parade are going on with great vigor, a large number of the hats to be worn in the parade have already been bought by the members and a large number are on sale at the Reading Room, 3005 State St. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, Pres. Mrs. Franklin A. Denison, 451 E. 42nd street and all the Denison children, left last Friday morning, for their summer home near Benton Harbor, Mich., where they will remain until late in the fall. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. 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. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. Sunday May 21, the Colored men from Indiana Harbor, Ind., will discuss the Malone incident which was published last week. Men and women interested in the best solution of our race are invited to be present and hear Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett's report of her visit to Indiana Harbor this week and her investigation of the situation. Last Sunday our mothers day meeting was a splendid success. It consisted of five minute talks on Mothers of the Origin of the day. The League this week sent a telegram to each of the three great Methodist Conferences now in session requesting that they pass a resolution condemning the burning alive of the Colored man in Waco, Texas, last Sunday. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Hope Presbyterian Church 61st and Loomis streets, Dr. C. Lee Jefferson preached a powerful sermon in the morning and Dr. E. A. Johnson, pastor of Grace church, Seattle, Washington, delivered an excellent sermon in the evening. Mother's Day services were held in the afternoon, when fine addresses were made by Mrs. Horace Bronston, Mrs E. Bond, and Mrs. R. E. Wilson. Miss Jefferson's piano pupils held their annual recital on Friday evening, which was enjoyed by a large audience. The musical of all nations booked for the twenty-sixth, promises to be greatest treat of the season. Go to Hope Presbyterian Church to hear a real inspiring service. Mrs. B. Whitefield, has removed from 4529 Vincennes avenue to 4550 Champlain avenue. Edward Tidrington, who is one of the high mucky mucks in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, has for some time served as President of the Men's Sunday Club, of St. Thomas church, 38th street and Wabash avenue, has been instrumental in assisting it to accomplish considerable good along charitable lines. [Name] MAJOR ROBERT BUSSA MOTON. The new principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, who office with great pomp and ceremony Thursday The new principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, who will be inducted into office, with great pomp and ceremony Thursday, May 25. CHIPS [Name] 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. 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. WOMAN WITH BIG SHEARS SMASHES WINDOWS IN LOOP. Wrecks Glass in Mandel's Store Before Seized by Policeman—Unable to Explain Her Outburst. While temporarily insane, it is believed, Mrs. Mary Leddin, aged 40 years, of 1949 South Racine avenue, Thursday night drew a heavy pair of shears from her purse and threatening her niece should she interfere, proceeded to smash four plate glass display windows on the State street side of Mandel Brothers' Department store. The damage is estimated at $2,000. Policeman John Layhart, who was only a short distance away, sprinted up and succeeded in taking the shears away from the woman. Mrs. Leddin was taken to the Clark street station, where Dr. Lipman, city physician, examined her and gave it as his opinion that she was insane. Supt. Dunn of Mandel Brothers visited the station and talked with Mrs. Leddin, but could not discover any reason for her action. He said he was sure he had seen her somewhere before. COZART ELECTED DELEGATE Newark, N. J.—W. F. Cozart, one of the best known Race men in this section of the state, was elected delegate to the Republican National Convention in June at Chicago. He is pledged for Roosevelt. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 20, 1916 Film Picture Freaks. Freak pictures are usually the result of clever manipulation of the camera or the film. Articles or individuals can be made to instantly disappear by stopping the camera while the article is removed or the person walks off the stage, the other characters holding their pose until the camera is again put in motion. In some films in which a person is thrown from a height or is apparently crushed under a steam roller the effect is gained by the live person walking away after the camera is stopped and a dummy substituted to undergo the death penalty. By projecting the picture at a faster rate than it was taken excruciating comic scenes are sometimes devised. An automobile going ten miles an hour by speeding up the projection machine may be made to apparently move at 100 miles an hour, and by increasing the same way the apparent speed of persons dodging the demoniac auto exceedingly ludicrous effects are had. By mechanical means in combining two or more negatives into one positive a man can be shown fencing with himself or even cutting his own head off—Philadelphia Press. Gold In Carats We often hear people in speaking of their watches say, "It is an 18 carat case." Others speak of 14 carat watches or 22 carat or solid gold rings. When you see the marks on a watch case or the inside of a gold ring they read 18 K. or 14 K., or whatever number of carats the maker wishes to indicate. A piece of gold jewelry marked 18 K., or 18 carats, means that it is three-fourths pure gold. In arranging this basis of marking things made of gold absolutely pure gold is called 24 carats. Then if two, six or ten twenty-fourths of alloy has been added the amount of the alloy is deducted from twenty-four, and the result is either 22, 18 or 14 carats fine, and so on. On ordinary articles made by jewelers the amount of pure gold used is seldom over 18 carats, or three-fourths. Wedding rings (and these are considered solid gold) are generally made 22 carats fine—that is, there are only two twenty-fourths parts of alloy in them. Words. Words are used for various purposes—to evade issues, to put people to sleep, to break up homes, to present literature and to conceal ideas. Nothing exceeds like words. Words are used in speeches, debates and stories. Massed in serried groups in newspapers and text books they prevent people from learning anything. Last words are most effective and are employed exclusively by women and prominent citizens who are dying. Words are nothing in themselves, but only in their relationship to other words. It is the system of putting them together that counts. Most words are like unorganized millifth. In war the mortality among them is fearful. They never win battles. When words are found in regular army style, however, disciplined and experienced, they are likely to be invincible.—Judge. Where Women Don't Like to Shop. The stranger in Korea finds that he has struck topsy turvydom when he learns that women do not like shopping, that the prominent merchants keep their wares concealed in closets instead of displaying them in showcases and that the customer who does not fancy the first piece of goods brought from concealment is likely to be told that the merchant is quite sure he has nothing better. Elsewhere the street sign plays an important part in attracting trade. The large merchant houses in Korea are entirely without street signs. Parmenny and Economy "Papa," said a child, "what is the difference between parsimony and economy? "I will explain the difference by an example," the father replied. "If I cut down my own expenses that is economy, but if I cut down your mother's then it is parsimony." Fine Subject. Madge- When you took the long walk with Dolly how did you find so much to talk about? Marjorie- We happened to pass a girl we both knew.—Judge. Uncertain. "I see you advertised for a cook yesterday. Did you get one?" "I don't know yet. I can tell better after dinner." --- PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Food Poisoning. The symptoms of food poisoning are usually those of severe cholera morbus—vomiting, diarrhea, pain in the abdomen, restlessness, prostration, headache and sometimes fever. Mild food poisoning is undoubtedly very common, and many cases of biliousness, indigestion or summer complaint are really of that nature. In all cases of real ptomaine poisoning the first thing to do is to empty the stomach. Even though vomiting has already occurred, some of the poisonous material may be left, and only the artificial production of vomiting will remove it. After that the symptoms must be treated as they appear. The physician's chief concern must be to sustain the heart until the system has eliminated the poison and the attack is over. --- Legend of the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado was first reported to the civilized world by the early Spanish explorers in 1540. The Indian legend of the Grand canyon is picturesque. There was a great chief who mourned the death of his wife and would not be comforted. To him came Ta-Vwoats, one of the Indian gods, and told him that his wife was in a happier land to which he would take him that he might see for himself if upon his return he would cease to mourn. The chief promised. Then Ta-Vwoats made a trail through the mountains that guarded that beautiful land. This trail was the canyon gorge of the Colorado. Through it Ta-Vwoats led the chief, and when they had returned the god exacted from the chief a promise that he would tell no one of its joys lest, through discontent with the circumstances of this world, others should desire to go there. Then Ta-Vwoats rolled a river into the gorge, a mad, raging stream, that should engulf any that might attempt to enter thereby. This river was the Colorado. Animals We Never Met. Dr. N. A. Cobb, an authority on zoology, declares that there must be hundreds of thousands of species of neematodes, or threadworms, more than nine-tenths of which are still unknown to science. Of the parasitic nematodes infesting vertebrate animals alone it is estimated that there are at least 80,000 species. Insects, mollusks, crustaceans and other animal groups are also much infested, and as a rule a given species of nematode is peculiar to a single species of host. Lastly, the species of nematode living free in soil and water vastly outnumber the parasitic species. As these creatures are enormously prolific, the number of individuals must be quite beyond conception. Dr. Cobb estimates that in the upper foot of an arable soil the number of nematodes runs to thousands of millions an acre. Exchange. Panama Canal Chains. The huge locks of the Panama canal are guarded by massive chains stretched across the channel. No vessel can crash into the gates at any of the locks because of these fenders, placed seventy feet from each gate and near the surface of the water. If the chains are struck by a boat they gradually yield to the force, paying out to a certain distance, which depends upon the violence of the impact. The mechanisms which regulate the chain fenders are installed on either wall. A system of hydraulic cylinders is used for raising and lowering the chains. The action of the fender when struck by a boat is modified in part by the friction produced in the machinery, but mainly by the resistance produced by water flowing through valves.—Popular Science Monthly. Making "Central's" Job Easy. It is much more important than most people think to give the name of the telephone exchange before the number instead of vice versa and to be extremely particular in sounding the consonants clearly in any conversation. Also it is necessary to distinguish carefully between 5 and 9 and to say "oh" for 0, instead of "naught," which is often mistaken for 4 and sometimes, curiously enough, for 8. All these are useful memoranda which deserve to be kept in mind as steadily as that duty of courtesy to the telephone girl which is, we fear, too often forgotten.—London Globe. Gold Bells. Gold and copper bells served as money among the peoples of Mexico and Central America before the time of the American Indian. The gold bells of Costa Rica are exquisite examples of metal work. Many of them are modeled in the form of birds, monkeys and grotesque heads. The Opal. The superstition against the opal began through the stonecutters, each of whom would anxiously ask every other if he had had any luck in his cutting, for the opal contains 13 per cent water and is exceedingly brittle and therefore difficult to cut successfully. Commercial Activity Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what is the meaning of "commercial activity?" Paw—Borrowing $5 for a week, son, and dodging the lender for a year.—Indianapolis Star. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Bathing. Authorities may vary in discussing the merits of the hot bath, the tepid bath and the cold bath, but they all agree in the abstract that bathing is necessary to good health. The removal from the skin of the accumulation of refuse matter is the primary reason for the bath. A bath should not be taken too near mealtime. There is a normal attraction of the blood toward the stomach after eating. Any interference with this and the attraction of the blood toward the surface of the body is ant to arrest digestion. Warm baths have a soothing effect and often are prescribed for nervousness. The tepid bath can do no harm. Cold baths are stimulating, but apt to be injurious if the heart action is not strong enough to permit of a ready reaction. To some individuals the shock to the nervous system is so great that they cannot accustom themselves to cold baths. GRANDMILITARYBALL Evening before the opening of the National Republican Convention Presentation of Long and Honorable Service Medals. :: :: :: New Armory, 35th St. & Forest A ADMISSION 50 CENTS ```markdown ``` Computation of Time. There is no uniform rule adhered to by all the cases as to the computation of time where the last day for the doing of an act falls on Sunday, states Willis A. Estrich in Case and Comment. The rule sustained by the weight of authority is that where an act is required to be done within a given time and the last day of that time falls on Sunday, the act may be done on the Monday following. The rule as thus announced has been established by statute in most states providing that, if the last day on which an act is to be done falls on Sunday or a holiday, that day is to be excluded in the computation of time. Under these statutes the general rule is that when an act is to be done on a day which happens to be Sunday it may be done on the Monday following, but the rule is not universal nor generally applicable to all questions of computation of time. Fished and Missed When any young woman of Spriggs Corner attempted to coquette with Elisha Boggs or to draw a compliment from him she was sure to have "uphill work." "My brother Tom has a sore throat. He's had it for nearly a week," said a damsel whom Elisha was solemnly escorting home from the social evening. "If it hadn't been for that," she added, with a slanting glance from under her lashes toward Mr. Boggs' impassive features, "I'd not have had to trouble you to see me home, Mr. Boggs." "What we need in this town," said Mr. Boggs, "is another doctor and a spryer one. The way trifling little ails linger on under old Doc Jones is enough to drive folks crazy."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Mines of Nevada. Nevada is a Spanish word meaning "snowy" or "white as snow," and the name of the state, says a bulletin of the United States geological survey, was derived from the Sierra Nevada. The state ranks sixth in size in the Union. Its length from north to south is 484 miles, its width 321 miles and its area 100,821 square miles. The history of Nevada is chiefly the history of her mines. Since the discovery of the Comstock lode and other famous ore bodies periods of activity and prosperity have alternated with periods of depression. Each discovery of high grade ore in noteworthy quantity has been followed by rapid settlement in that locality and the establishment of one or more towns. The Translation. The postman handed him the letter. One glance at the envelope sent him nearly into hysterics. "Heavens!" he cried. "The first challenge I ever got." "Duel" was in big letters on the outside of the envelope. "But I can't fight"— So he hurried to the station house, explained that he knew of no enemy who should demand his blood and asked for protection. The detective force hurried out. By that time the desk sergeant had recovered. He said it meant "Due 1 cent"—Utica Press. Must Have Seemed Queer. "Do you know, Martyh, when I saw Joelust off after gettin' to the college for my first visit with him I thought he was plum loony." "Why, how was that, Sam'l?" "A young feller told me he was most likely down on the courts, and I went the way he pinned and found our Joel knockin' a rubber ball over a fish net an' yellin' he loved everybody."—Exchange. Quick Process. "Since I've been living next door to a dealer in antique rugs I've learned a thing or two about the rug business." "Yes?" "A rug can be aged very rapidly by allowing a few youngsters to use it as a playground."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. White Sea Rich In iodine. According to a Norwegian consular report, the seaweeds of the White sea yield far more iodine than those of other waters, reaching as high as 2.7 per cent. A Sound Reason. Mistress—Didn't you hear me calling, Jane? Jane—Yes'm, but you told me the other day never to answer you back. The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.—Hillard. ITARY BALL NT I. N. G. h, 1916 t. & Forest Avenue 50 CENTS Cleared His Nostril. The following first aid measure for children who put beans, buttons, gravel and other objects up into their nostrils is given by Dr. David E. Spahr in Farm and Fireside. "A lady residing in the country called me up late at night and told me in an anxious, agonizing voice that she wanted me to come at once as her baby had a grain of corn in its nose," the doctor writes. "I told her I would not be necessary for me to come if she would do as I bid her. She said the corn was in the left nostril. I told her just to lay the child down on the bed on its back, compress the right nostril with the finger; then, as the baby cried, place her mouth over the baby's mouth and blow hard. In another moment a happy, joyful voice came ringing over the line: "Doctor, we got the corn. It's all right and you don't need to come! "Thus I lost my five dollar fee, but made a happy mother. "This is not a very elegant or perhaps sanitary plan, but I assure you it is speedy and effectual." Measuring Electricity The terms volt, ampere, ohm, watt and farad, met with in works on electricity, mean very little to most people. The volt is the unit of electrical pressure, the ampere the unit of current strength, the ohm the unit of resistance, the watt the unit of electric power, and the least of all known, farad, the unit of electrical capacity. Current strength is determined by dividing the pressure by the strength; thus the number of amperes of current strength is equal to the number of volts divided by the number of ohms. The watt indicates the amount of electric energy being used when an ampere of current is flowing under a pressure of one volt. However, the term kilowatt, or 1,000 watts, is more generally used. The unit of electrical capacity, the farad, will contain one ampere of current at one volt pressure for one second of time. The farad is divided into a million equal parts, each part termed the microfarad, and this is the term most used in stating electrical capacity. Japan's Curious Museum. Probably the very oldest museum in the world is that at Nara, the ancient capital of Japan. It was founded in the year 756 A. D., and all the articles therein are of an earlier date, for, although Nara has gone through all the vicissitudes of the empire, not one new article has been added to the collection. The museum is in safe and careful custody, and its doors are opened only once every year. On that day a committee goes over the collection, tabulates it and compares the list, with those made previous. The 3,000 articles in the collection are of lacquer ware, decorative furniture, enamel ware, cambric-like fabrics and of other kinds and are among the very finest of their species that the world has produced. Some come from China and some from Korea, but most of them appear to have been brought from lands further afield. The Wild Camel of Spain. Who would imagine that there are wild camels in Spain, and in a part of Spain which is flooded during a great part of the year? Yet the thing is vouched for by the authors of "Unexplored Spain." The explanation is that "the animals were introduced to Spain in 1820 by the Marquis of Villafranca, with the object of employing them in transport and agriculture, as they are commonly used on the opposite shores of Africa. But local difficulties ensued, chiefly arising from the intense fear and repugnance of horses toward camels, which resulted in numerous accidents, and eventually the bactrian们 were set free in the marisma, wherein they have since lived at large and bred under wholly wild conditions." Net Willing to Try "So you are convinced you could not learn to love me," bleated the discon-solate swain. "I don't know what I could do if I tried," replied Miss Hibrow, "but I think you will admit that in these days of woman's emancipation and broadened opportunities a member of the sex ought not to be expected to waste her time in trifles."—Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Shrewd Boy. "You are a fine little fellow." "Tessir." "And may be president some day." "That's right, sir. And a quarter invested now might arouse a gratitude that might get you an important office when that time arrives."—Kansas City Journal. --- - i 4 Besar arr MIU PDAATD AY CUTCAGO WAY 9H 1016 1 American Author Whose Book Has Been Suppressed. WAS AT FRONT TRENCHES. One of the Four Wemen War Corre- spondents Sent Out by the Biggest Magazine Gives Her Definition of War—Describes Her Impressions Eloquently. ‘When the editor sent four women correspondents to the great war be- cause he believed that “the big story of a war is never at the front, but in ‘the hospitals and in the homes, that ‘war is largely a woman's affair, and ‘woman, 1 think, best understand the little things that go to make up the big story,” Mary Roberts Rinehart, trained A i oO) nurse, wife of a Pittsburzh physician, author of several successful plays and many delectable stories, was one of the swomen picked by the magazine. She interviewed both Queen Mary of England and the king and queen of the Belgians. Her description of refur- bishing up her toilet before presenting herself at La Panne, her quest of shoe buttons in ravaged Belgium and her final transfer of those she had from the top of her boots to that section most prominent below her gown when she sat is one of the liveliest parts of her story. Her latest book has recent- Jy been suppressed by the British cen- ‘sor on the ground that it contained in- formation of value to theenemy. When asked what effect the nearness of bat- tle had on her own literary powers Mrs. Rinehart replied: “I do not know how other writers are affected, but I could do nothing at the front. I wrote the interview with the king of the Belgians there and ruined a really fine opportunity. Of course I have had no newspaper training. But that was not the only trouble. For me writing has two phases, each distinct from the other. One is receiving and absorbing impressions; the other is giving them out. And between the two there must be a lapse of time to give me perspective, to let me see the ‘high light,’ as it were—to know what should be emphasized. It is a matter of pro- Portion, as all writing is. ‘That is why I think that the real Hterature of the ‘war will come after the world is once more at peace. “Once under a great strain I did write something that reflected my atti- tude of mind. I had just been through @ bombardment by aeroplanes, and 1 wrote that night with cold hands and a hot head my definition of war. It is this: “War fs not two great armies meet- ing in a clash and frenzy of battle. It 4s much more than that. War is a boy carried on a stretcher, looking up at God's blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been wound- ed by a shell; war ts spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race torn, battered, bungrs, bleeding, up to its knees in ley water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorosa for the son she has given fér king and country!” Stuffed Sweetbreads. Materials.—Six sweetbreads, a pint plain stuffing, one-half cupful mush- Tooms, sliced; toast, beaten egg, flavor, four tablespoonfuls butter, three-fourths ‘cupful cream, a tablespoonful flour, two tablespoonfuls orange juice, cracker crumbs, salt and pepper. ‘Way of Preparing.—Parboll the sweet- breads until tender. Plunge them into cold water. Drain, wipe dry and trim into shape. Make a plain stuffing, as for poultry. Cut a pocket in the sweet- breads and stuff. Then’ sew up the pocket. Melt the butter in the chafing ish, flour the sweetbreads lightly, then @ip ‘them in the beaten egg, roll in crumbs and fry in the butter in the chafing dish. Remove to a hot platter. Now add the flour to the butter in the chafing dish. When it bubbles add the orange juice, cream, mushrooms and ‘salt and pepper to taste. Cook five min- utes. Arrange six pleces of toast on a platter, place the sweetbreads on the toast, pour the sauce over and around, garnish with sliced oranges and water. ress and serve. These stuffed sweet- Breads will be found delicious for a Sunday supper or an informal dinner. CHILDREN’S... CLOTHES. What Small Folks Are Wearing Closely Resemble Their Mothers’. Suits for little girls are after the models shown for women. The skirts have considerable fullness, and the coats are inclined to ripple below the waist line. Some very attractive suite for children are made with skirts of broken checks and coats of serge in solid color. They have suspenders at- tached to the skirt or are finished with a belt. The coats, as a rule, are loose and belted and of hip length. Belts which encircle the waist or belted back styles with pockets on either the skirt or coat, and buttons fastening the front of the skirt, are especially good look- ing. Children’s skirts are usually cut cir cular and haye considerable flare at the foot, Sitting fairly close over the hips. ‘The coats are’ finished with a coat collar and lapels, and some are made in Norfolk styles. ‘There are many variations in trim- mings. Buttons are used profusely and in novel ways. A number of suits in solid color have collar and cuffs of blue and white polka dotted silk or of green satin piped with white. Coats of shepherd checks are some- times trimmed with black satin in bands at the foot, and the collars and cuffs are also of satin. Little coats of Ught blue silk poplin are smocked on either side of the front and in the cen- ter of the back. The blue collar and cuffs are embroidered in white. Coats have girdles of ribbon tied loosely around the waist, ending in a loose knot on the side. A little coat of two toned corduroy in brown and white is made with a flared skirt, piped at the waist line and on the collar and cuffs. Black and white and blue and white corduroy coats are also seen. ‘The little middy dresses, the Russian blouse, the one piece dress joined with a belt, the coat and Norfolk styles and the little suspender dresses worn with guimpes, as well as the short waisted effects, are all seen in attractive as- sortments. Some dresses hang in loose lines from the shoulders and are trim- med with smocking. ‘The majority of sleeves are made in the set in effect. but there are also sleeves with a low shoulder, the bishop sleeve and also those with a flare ef- fect. Ginghams, percales, linens, reps and lawns are the prominent wash mate- rials. Plain and fancy materials are frequently combined in the making. Colored dresses are often trimmed with collars and cuffs of white. Sashes and belts of leather, self material or silk are used. White dresses, with sashes of color, with the waist line low, normal or slightly raised, are in many attractive styles. The little skirts are very full. THE PERKY BOW. A Model For Sweet Sixteen and All Her Kin. Boxed like a compass, with twin roses clustered on the brim, this hat of navy lisere straw takes a band of a ae, Ls a we zs JE Le Goo STYLE. king's blue velvet ribbon with exten- tion bow. Around the band is a row of green leaves set primly to give a flat effect. The result is quite charming. Don't Rush Through Life. How many women are there who rush through their day's and their eve. ning engagements without a moment's relaxation? A bath before dressing for the evening is substituted for the rest which the body needs. If pallor of the face offends the ever handy cosmetic 1s drawn upon and the “bloom of youth” applied. But no artificial coloring ever hid successfully for any length of time baggy eyes, sunken cheeks and other marks which worn out nerves register upon the face. ‘The surest way for a woman to main. tain her attractive appearance—to be “easy to look at,” as one of our famous humorists said—ts to keep the body up to its highest standard of efficiency. If this be done rosy cheeks, a clear com Plexion, sparkling eyes, a sweet breath, grace of carriage, will follow as surely as sunrise follows the night. Cionsten hw Ca Soon we shall be thinking about pret. ty ways of decorating the uncovered neck and shall no doubt revive the old time lace hemmed net ruche fas tened by a rose or a ribbon bow, which in the portraits of young French beau- ties of the eighteenth century looks so fascinating. Devices of this and other Kinds the collariess blouses which are arriving will make possible and desir able. There is a decided leaning to- ward the decollete blouses, with a choice of chokers. A Sleepy Time Story About a Very Remarkable Bird. WAR EAGLE OF THE SIXTIES. About a Baby Camel Which Was Born In a Circus and Nursed on a Bottle. Many Interesting and Amusing Things For Little Folk. As Memorial day will soon he here, ‘Uncle Ben told the children this story about y AN AMERICAN EAGLE. j The eagle has always been the em blem of power and courage. It is pic. tured in many ways, the most populat way being spread out. This is called the spread eagle. ‘The United States in 1785 adopted the bald eagle, its wings displayed, as the national emblem. You know that sailors and soldiers always make a pet of something and take it with them on their trips. Well, in the civil war the Wisconsin soldiers took with them as their mascot a young eagle. It is very hard to get an eagle from its nest, for the nests are usually very high up and in lonely places. An In- dian once managed to steal a very young eagle from its nest, and he sold it to a soldier. The soldier named it “Abe,” for he intended to present the bird to Abraham Lincoln when the war closed. ‘The soldiers all made a great fuss over this bird. At mustering in they decorated him with red, white and blue ribbons, tying the colors around its neck and putting an immense rosette on its breast. The color bearer, the tallest man in the regiment, car- ried “Abe” on a staff, which was placed a little above the colors. ‘When any orders were given the col- ors and the eagle were always first in place. It would sit very still and look from side to side to see if everything was all right. When battles were being fought it would scream and flap its wings as if to cheer the soldiers. It seemed to understand all the orders given to the men. Once when the men were ordered to Me on the ground it flew down and stretched flat beside the soldiers. When they got up it flew to the top of its Pereh again, so the story goes. It went through twenty-two battles and thirty skirmishes and was wound- ed three times. When the war was over it traveled all over the country and received as much homage as a great man. A vet- eran was detailed to take care of it and was well paid for doing so. ‘The bird died in 1881, and its skin was stuffed and put in the state cap- ito. But it was later burned in a great fire. The Common Hen. When you come right down to nat- ural history facts there is no beast or Dird about which a boy or girl knows more than about the common barnyard hen, which is a very industrious indi- vidual. But there may be some boys and girls who do not know that the hen and her male companion, the roost- er, came originally from ‘Asia. In the jungles of India they used to roam wild and were great fighters. When ‘@ couple of them engaged in battle the one that was victorious would shout it out with loud crowing. a There is also a negro variety that has not only black feathers, but a black skin. ES You no doubt have seen the Cochins that came originally from China, and you may have heard or read that the Greeks and Romans and the Ezyptians thought a great deal of the hen. A Valuable Tree. Whittier, in Los Angeles county, can perhaps claim the most valuable fruit tree in California. It is an avocado {alligator pear) and is sured against wind and fire by Lloyd's of London to the amount of $30.00. This tree tn 1914 produced 3,000 pears, which aver- ‘aged the grower 50 cents each; it also Produced $1.500 worth of bud wood, making a total production of $3,000 for the year. A Menagerie Infant. Not long ago the menagerie of a great big circus received an addl- tion that was hailed with delight by the circus folks. It was a baby camel, | cr Bu As | or me > e 3 was : ’ | ioe a Puts ay Aina aes eae mare ‘a cute and awkward little fellow, coy- ered with soft brown hair. Sad to say, the baby’s mother was unable to nurse bim, so the kind hearted keeper Otted a rubber nipple on the neck of 2 bottle, and little Mr. Camel 80m learned how to take his meals. MODISH SUIT. _——$—_—_$—$—S——————————— A Smart Model Put Up In Blue Serge For Wear. Durable, popular, ubiquitous navy serge gives this good. looking outfit, cut with a box plaited jacket and skirt. @ i > | ; pa | bd i : cee ge ULTRA LINES. An unusual finish is zained by a white organdie pipinz around the coat to mateh the collar. ‘The slashed belt is also interestinz. FOR SUMMER SHOWERS. Gay Umbrellas Are Appearing Like Broken Off Bits of Rainbows. It ig not a bit too soon to get ready for summer showers. Indeed, one need not regret the gentle downpour if she is provided with one of the new um- brellas made of silk taffeta in green, blue, burgundy. prelate. orchid. dull yellow or African brown. The color choice 4s broad, so that the costume or the salient toue thereof may be matched. These silks are waterproof, and tnd color looks no worse aiter its summer bath. ‘The handles are quite short and are said to be copied from the stick of the British or French officer. There is ‘no handle in the usual sense of the word, but instead there is a heavy cord Joop run through a perforation in the handle, and thix is swung over the wrist. One advantaze of the new umbrella is that it may be used for sun protee- tion quite as well as for the rain de- fense. One fecis less foolish starting out in the morning under a cloud, as it were, umbrella in hand or raised above the head. and finding herself equally prepared when the sun unex- pectedly pierces the clouds later in the day. Moreover. the gay color seems to anticipate the appearance of the rain- bow. Kitchen Helos. In order to keep lettuce fresh for an indefinite time put the head in a glass containing water and place it in the icebox or some other cool, dark place. The roots will absorb the water, which should be changed daily, and keep the lettuce fresh and crisp. If you would save your hands from unsightly vegetable stains always peel or scrape potatoes, turnips, etc., under warm running water. ‘When your grocer sends you hard lemons and you want them for immedt- ate use let them stand for a few hours in water, and they will soon become soft and Juicy. A home “cold storage” for eggs may be made by placing two inches of wood ashes in the bottom of a tir pail. In this stand on the small end as many fresh eggs as will fit easily without letting them touch. Over these sift a couple of inches of ashes and adjust another layer of eggs. When the pail 4s fall cover it tightly and place in a cool place, and the egzs will keep per- fectly for an indefinite time. Oi: heii Mie: ‘One will find it a great help on iron- ing day to have a goodly. supply of clothes hangers at hand. As soon as a garment is ironed slip it over a hanger. Each banger will hold a number of the same kind of garments, and in putting the clothes away all that is necessary is to place the hangers in the closet. In this way many pieces do not have to be handled twice and wrinkled clothes are avoided. Strawberry Shortcake For Two. A large cupful of prepared flour, a teaspoonful of lard. Mix vith cold milk, mold into two large biscuits and bake in quick oven. Split through center and butter and pour over same one box of strawberries which have been mash. ed with one and one-half cupfuls sugar. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream. FRESH CURTAINS, How to Make Hoine Laundering Really Effectual. AN EXPERT SPEAKS UP. After Twenty Years’ Experience With Window Hangings, a Professional Tells Us Just How to Manage Unruly Frames and Sopping Wet Curtains. “Many women,” says an expert, “think that the proper way to mount a curtain on a stretcher is to first fasten down each of the four corners and then to stretch the edges into shape by pull- ing from the corners. “This is entirely a mistake, and cur- tains mounted in this way are almost sure to have the mesh broken or torn in several places, even if the pattern and the scalloped edges dry to look straight and even. “In mounting a lace curtain over a stretcher, one should always begin at the middle point of the long border edge. Slip this over the pin at the cen- ter on the top edge of the frame; then, working from the center, first to the right and then to the left, slip the suc- cessive scallops over pins until the en- tire long border edge is attached to the pins on the upper bar of the frame. “The curtain is now hanging with its unpatterned edge falling loosely down- ward. The next step is to attach the bottom end of the curtain to the frame pins. This usually has the same bor- der as the long, patterned edge. In fas- tening it to the stretcher work down- ward from one of the top corners until you have all the patterned edge at- tached to the pins. “Now notice how many inches on the top bar of the frame are covered by the long border edge and how many inches at ¢be side and then adjust the remain- ing two sides of the frame to corre- spond exactly in the number of inches. Fasten the other short edge of the cur- tain, which will be the top edge when hung, and lastly fasten the other long edge to the frame pins. “The last edge may have to be puck- ered a little to make it fit over the pins, but the puckering will not show when the curtains are dry, and, what is more to the point, the edge will not pull down after it is dry. “One other thing that should be em- phasized is that the long border or pat- terned edge of lace curtains should al- ways be dried at the top of the frame. Removing the curtains from the stretch- er after they are dry requires some care. One should not try to take the edges from the pins until the frame has been sufficiently loosened, so that there will be no strain on the delicate mesh; otherwise threads are almost sure to be strained and broken. “A curtain stretcher to be entirely satisfactory should have movable pins and should be made of well seasoned ‘wood. Stretchers having stationary pins may or may not have the pins Placed at intervals which will match the scallops in the particular curtains one wishes to clean, and unless they happen to match exactly the size of the scallops it is not possible to dry the seallops in good shape. Stretchers which have movable pins can be per- fectly adjusted to either large or small scallops.” A SMALL SIZE. Little Honey Needs a Party Gown Like Big Sister's. When the small person speaks a piece, goes to dancing class or a birth- day party. she needs a smart frock. ic Or | | | a = «| ‘The cut shows one of organdy trimmed ‘with val lace and insertion set around inverted scallops. The tunic falls over @ sash of pale pink ribbon, worn low, as do French children. ——_—__ ‘American Chop Suey, ~Wo pounds of veal from the shoul- der or leg will be required for the chop suey. Cut into cubes and fry lightly in alittle butter. Add a tiny bit of onion, two bananas cut in cubes and a small can of button mushrooms sliced. Sea: son highly with salt and pepper and add half @ teaspoonful of curry pow- der. When the bananas and mush- Tea maze brown cover with cold water and simmer for twenty minutes; thick. om sghtly, and carve, ‘The bananas may be omitted and celery substituted if desired. | FETCHING THIN FROCK. Here’s a Model You Can Easily Copy at Home. This dainty lingerie gown is featureq in white embroidered net and lace. 4 ‘frill of net on the skirt falls over a drop i f \ | 4 ii ‘) | ‘ : | i. ; IF R:. FOR APTERNOONS. of net ribbon trimmed. A simple bod. ice is chiefly of the embroidery with V neck, elbow siceves and deep satin gir- die. “The parasol is black and white taffeta. LET THE CHILDREN DIG. Nothing Pleases Small Ones Better Se a Geta Mata If you live out of town or spend our sunimers there. let your children study nature first hand in their own gardens. Nothing will teach them more quickly of trees. flowers, birds and vegetables than the planning and de- veloping of a small garden. Of course each child can personally manage only a very small garden. This can be in the form of a bed or in the form of certain possessions at various Places in the big family garden. For instance, you might give into one child's Keeping a climbing rose over a summer house. a dwarf evergreen in the far corner of the shrubbery bor- der, a row of beans ‘a short one) in the vegetable garden and a little pateh of flowers in the flower border. In this way the child has a chance-uncon- sciously to study trees, flowers and vegetables. If possible. make the child interested th all the details of garden growth. If the child can sketch let him sketch leaves and flowers and roots, seeds and seed pods and all the other parts of the plants he works with. Let him keep a ‘little notebook for his sketches. With- out doubt they will prove so interesting as he collects them that they will form the nucleus of an interesting lot of sketches, which he will refer to even when winter has made gardening im- possible. Buy a bird house or two for the child's garden. By watching the chance inhabitants who occupy it from year to year he will become familiar with birds, for his interest in one pair will lead to an interest in all birds. Perhaps an interesting book or two Will stimulate the child’s desire to gar- den. There are children’s bird books and gardening booss and simple guides of all sorts. ‘Then there are botany books, fascinating when mastered in the open, but rather dry work to most children indoors. Let the child have possession of the fruits of his garden—vegetables, flow- ers or fruits, whatever they are. It is & mistake to give a child anything, even a raspberry bush, unless the gift is free and complete. Collars Make Blouses. Do you know how to “trim up” the plain blouse and make it become your individual style? Get a collar in white chiffon or sheerest organdie which in turning back covers the nape and the sides of the neck, runs flatly across the shoulders and straight down over the bust, forming a slender “V" opening below the throat. This collar is bor- dered with pin tucked self material. straight on its outer edge and widely scalloped along the fine, embroidery outlined inner edge. Another blouse dominating collar has a tapering, nar Tow turnover coming high against all Save the front of the neck and widened by an extremely broad frilling of the Plaited material a-jour hemmed. In ¢repe de chine this second collar is eX tremely practical as well as dainty. Toddler's Apron. A charming little work or play aproa is made of soft pink linen with a yoke sleeve bands and hem of white. The Uttle apron buttons at the back of the yoke and is cut with flaring lines. $ that it spreads wide at the hem. There is a cross stitched design of Little Bo Deep and a couple of her wee lambs. ‘The same apron could be made in blve and white, with other Mother Goose character orginal or flower tm the cross stitch. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEND FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SOAP THOROUGHLY CLEANSSES THE SKALP QUINACOMB HAIR STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINASE 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 Fad. 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 Wycliffe, 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 Alr 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 twines around a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a fly-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 place of machinery." "Yes; the wife's the governor, the children safety valves and the husband a crank." Philadelphia Bulletin. His Views. "Dear me, I forgot to send her an invitation to our wedding." "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 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 Diarelli 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!" -Atianta Constitution THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 20, 1916. Astonishing the Chinese Astonishing the Chinese. "When I was in China," a fireworks man said, "I was astonished to find how little the people knew about pyrotechny beyond their own Chinese crackers. They can make these crackers much more cheaply than they could be produced in America. But of set pieces, rockets and such like, the Chinese know practically nothing, and their attempts to make them are crude in the extreme. "A Chinese cracker maker living near Hongkong challenged me once to compete with him in a fireworks display, and a friendly mandarin was called in to act as judge. My Chinese opponent set off a lot of gigantic crackers and made a terrifying noise, but the mandarin had been used to that from infancy and wasn't at all impressed. My show, however, astounded him, although it was really a mean exhibit, for I wasn't going to waste my best pieces on a private competition. I got the award easily enough.—Washington Star. French Army Helmet. There are sixty-four distinct operations necessary in turning out one of the plain steel helmets worn by French soldiers. The first step is stamping out disks from large sheets of steel. A special machine is used for this purpose, exerting a pressure of 150 tons and capable of cutting out 5,000 steel disks a day. Each disk is placed under 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 ventilation purposes, others for fastening on the regimental crest. Each helmet is cleaned and dipped in a special mixture which makes it a dull, inconspicuous bluish-gray. A lining and leather chin straps are then fastened on, and the helmet is complete—Pearson's. The Wesley Oak The Wesley oak, according to the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal, stands on St. Simon's island, less than a mile from Fort Frederica. It is 200 feet high, and its cool shade rests like a benediction over an area of several acres. According to local tradition, this tree marks the exact spot on which the Wesley preached. Charles Wesley engaged 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 enclosure that it guards. Mosses hang down from its limbs, and it is solemn and beautiful. United States. If you should hear some stranger mention the United States are you positive that you would know what he 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 refer to Venezuela. In almost all parts of the southern continent the mention of a country in the northern hemisphere called "United States" is likely to suggest Mexico, whose official title is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. There are still those who speak of the republic 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. 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 without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. 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 subjected to overguidance and overgovernment the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.—Samuel Smiles. A Close Connection: "I'm tryin' to get some information about a friend of mine named Fox, who came out here," said the stranger from the east. "They tell me he died of some throat trouble." "I guess that's about right," said 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 A Vagrant Thought "I was just thinking about that longevity record established by Me thuselah." "What about it?" "If he hadn't set such a high mark maybe more men would go after it"—Louisville Courter-Journal. Decided Change. Mrs. A.-How marriage changes a man! Mrs. B.-Doesn't it? Take my husband. He used to offer me a penny for my thoughts, and now he offers me $50 to shut up.-Boston Transcript. Find the Groush. "Say, dad, what's bonds of matri- mony?" "They ought to be bonds to keep the peace, but they're not." — Richmond Times-Dispatch. Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.—Bul- wer-Lytton. His Backbone Is a Spring. 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: 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 admiire 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 Posta. 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. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO CAPITAL, $200,000.00 BOLLEN MUSEUM BANK A PORTABLE MUSEUM CELL NICKELS CENTS This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. OPEN one with US. PHONES: OFFICE. MAIN 4153 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7990 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabash Ave. Oakland 4662, Auto. 73-058 Phone Drexel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 8 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 boil 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, eigars, 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; $1 W. $1 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. Marwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St., near State. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2634 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFare, shee shining parlors and news stand. 3900½ 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. 36th St. FRANKLIN 2727 Phone Douglas 4397 AUTO. 41-543 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborn St. Union Bank Building Suite 311 CHICAGO FRANK DUNN J. B. McAHEY Trustees Established 1877 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. OMICA T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. 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 nigardly with neighborliness? 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 EIGHT TEENAN JO TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and BUFFET and C Side. First-Class HENRY "TEENAN A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The El AND H 3030 STATE STREET JOHN BLOCKI, President JOHN BLOCK PERF C. E. KREYS The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO 5057 South State Street NOT ON THE CORNER FOR HIGH GRADE DR MEDICINAL H All Prescriptions C ALSO CARRY BLOCKI'S IDEAL & IN BOTTLE THE MOST COMPLETE OP BEST GOODS AT T BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER IN BOTTLE PERFUMES 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 A Test of Philosophy Slowbetter is a calm man, not easily upset. On one occasion, as his motorcar had come to a sudden stop, he crawled underneath it to see what was the matter. Somehow or other some petrol ignited. A fierce burst of flame and smoke came forth, enveloping Slowbetter. In the midst of the excitement he walked to one side with his usual slow and regular step. His face was black, his eyebrows and eyelashes were singed, and what was left of his hair and beard was a sight to behold. Some one brought a mirror, and he had a look at himself. As usual, however, he took matters philosophically. "Well," he said slowly and deliberately, "I was needing a shave and my hair cut anyway."-Exchange. Our First Free School The first free school established in the United States was in the province of Massachusetts Bay in the year 1641 by order of the general colonial court. In 1647 the same authority declared that free schools should be established within every town having fifty householders under penalty of a fine of $25. This fine was doubled by a declaration made in 1671 and again doubled in 1683. Lead Soldiers "So you are playing with your soldiers, Willie!" said the caller. "Yes, ma'am." "They seem very heavy soldiers." "They seem very heavy soldiers. "Yes, ma'm. They're on their way home from the war and they've got a lot of lead in 'em."—Yonkers Statesman. Warranted Not to Fail. Doctor—Your wife needs outdoor exercise more than anything else. Husband—But she won't go out. What am I to do? Doctor—Give her plenty of money to shop with. Getting In Debt. Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible. A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life—Spurgeon. Madge-Did you have anything to talk about at the club meeting? Marjorie-Lots! On account of the storm there were only three of us present-Judge. Fine Field. and most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South as Entertainers. N" JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 Elite Cafe BUFFET ET CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer BLOCKI & SON FUMERS GO TO SSLER, Druggist DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS Carefully Compounded RY A FULL LINE OF & BLOCKI'S FLOWER PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. LOUIE USSELMANN The Practical O tician OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY THE LOWEST PRICES 3150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO Two Wonderful Clocks. One of the most wonderful clocks in the world is owned by a Frenchman, Louis Descutter. It is mounted on a Louis Seizel stand and has four faces. Besides marking the hours, it shows the tides at six different parts of the world, the mean time and the solar time, the age of the moon, the movements of the planets and all eclipses. It is also a perpetual calendar. It was made by Janvier of Paris in 1789 and took eleven years to manufacture. San Diego, Cal., has a wonderful clock with twenty dials, which tell the time simultaneously in all parts of the world, also the days of the week and the date and month. It stands twenty-one feet high, and four of its dials are each four feet in diameter. It is inclosed in plate glass, so that every action can be seen, and the whole is illuminated every night. It is jeweled with tourmaline, topaz, agate and jade and required fifteen months to build. The motive power is a 200 pound weight. The cost of the clock was $3,000.-People's Home Journal. Styles In Indian Names. Although among the Indians there are not so many Deerslayers as there were in the days of James Fenimore Cooper, yet many of the names still possess strong individuality. This is shown by examining the names that were prominent in a recent sale of Indian lands in the Standing Rock reservation, in the Dakota. Here, for instance, was found Barney Two Bears, an amabil neighbor to Miss Katie Good Crow. Melda Crowghost and Mary Yellow Fat have adjoining tracts, and there are also Mrs. Crazy Walking and Jack Elk Ghost in the same section. It is not to be wondered at that Mary Lean Dog looks enviously from her door when Agatha Big Shield goes by with her aristocratic name, nor could any one blame Jennie Dog Man and Mary Shave Head if they fell all over themselves to assume on short notice the heroic name borne by Morris Thundershield, heir apparent to Long Step Thundershield.—New York Times. Not Too Thick. "Well, not too thick, sir," answered the native. "We have to use this lake partly for navigation."—Louisville Courier-Journal. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 20, 1916. ERNEST WILLIAMSER Why They Walk In Circles. "If you were lost in a desert or in a forest and tried to find your way out," says a well known scientist, "you would be almost sure to walk in a circle." This well known fact is due to a slight inequality in the length of the legs. Careful measurements of a series of skeletons have shown that only 10 per cent had the lower limbs equal in length, 35 per cent had the right limb longer than the left, while in 55 per cent the left limb was the longer. The result of one limb being longer than the other will naturally be that a person will unconsciously take a longer step with the longer limb, and consequently will trend to the right or left, according as the left or right leg is the longer. The left leg being more frequently should take place more frequently to the right than to the left, and this conclusion is quite borne out by observations made on a number of persons when walking blindfolded. The inequality in the length of limb is not confined to any sex or race, but seems to be universal in all respects. Courtesy In Business Pays. In the American Magazine is a story by Fred C. Kelly to prove that courtesy in business pays. It has to do with George C. Boldt, manager of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York city and former manager of a Philadelphia hostelry. "One night when all the hotels in Philadelphia were crowded and it was almost impossible to obtain a room a man and his wife drove up to Boldt's hotel and asked in a tone of despair if he could not give them a place to sleep. "Yes. Boldt told them; 'you can take my room. That's all I have.' "The next morning the guest told Boldt that a manager with his sense of courtesy would be an assured success in a much larger hotel. "And' added the guest, 'I'm willing to provide you with the hotel.' "Since then that same guest has invested many millions of dollars in hotels under Boldt's direction. The guest was William Waldorf Astor." The Silver Fox. The silver fox is really a black fox, instead, as some persons suppose, of being almost white or a silver gray. The name is given on account of the presence of glistening white and grayish hairs which appear among the black. In the better grades the long, silky brush has a tip of pure white. About a quarter of a century ago the little animal, which weighs when full grown only about twelve pounds, became almost extinct. Because of the beauty of its fur the species was trapped until almost the last of them had disappeared. For a long time the standard price offered by the Hudson Bay company for silver fox pelts was around $1,000, and the efforts of the French Canadians, half breeds and Indian trappers to obtain this sum, to them a fortune, can be better imagined than described.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Curious Recruiting Custom. The Russian army in the early part of the nineteenth century had a curious way of raising troops. A levy of two to four men out of every 500 were selected and then medically examined at the army's headquarters, either at Moscow or St. Petersburg (now Petrograd). If the recruit successfully passed he was then turned over to an officer, who saw to it that he was correctly measured and, if the proper height, was sent into another apartment, where the front part of his head was shaved. If rejected as being medically unfit or short of the necessary height the back part of his head was then shorn of its locks to prevent him from appearing again among new levies. Heavy Holes. Quite Deliberate. "I am glad to say," remarked Mr. Seckton, "that I never spoke a hasty word to you." "No, Leonidas," answered his wife rather gently; "I'm willing to give you credit for not hurrying about anything." Do You Want Lower Gas Bills? YOUR GAS RATES WILL BE REDUCED at once by the city's acceptance of the gas company's proposal, which is now before the city council. Here, in brief, is our proposition: Gas Company's Pro- posal to the City 1. Give us permission to make and sell "heat unit" gas instead of obsolete and expensive "candle power" gas. 2. We in turn will put into effect immedi- ately a schedule of rates materi- ally lower than present rates. 3. The lower rate schedule will be sub- ject to further revision when our property is valued, and can always be revised at any time by the pro- perly constituted authorities. 4. Present gas rates must be increased unless we are permitted to make and sell "heat unit" gas. We can prove this to anybody's satisfaction. The city's acceptance of this proposal will give you lower gas rates at once. Talk to your alderman about this. If any part of the subject puzzles you, write us about it. Just address your letter or post card to Depart- ment B, Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, and watch for the answer in the advertise- ments now running in the big daily papers. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Telephone Wabash 6000 Lines on the Palms of Hands. It cannot be said that the lines on the palms of our hands are of any great service to us. Indeed, it is doubtful if they are of any value in themselves, outside of the possible aid they may be in helping us to determine the character of the surface of things which we grasp or touch. It is possible that they aid in some slight degree in this way. There is little doubt, however, that they are a result of the work the hands are constantly called upon to do rather than contrived for any particular service. The habitual tendency of the fingers in grasping and holding things throws the skin of the palms into creases which through frequent repetition make the lines of the palms permanent in several instances. The peculiarity of these lines or creases in various individuals as to details and length and variations is the chief basis of the so called science of palmistry.—Exchange. Yourself. If you want to be miserable think about yourself—about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you and what people think of you.—Charles Kingsley. Hit the Same Way. "Professor Jones has no right to teach. He doesn't understand his subject, and he can't explain"— "Yea!; I know. He gave me a low mark too."—Exchange. Answer It. Little Willie (who is of a painfully inquiring turn of mind)-Mamma, tell me, do mosquitoes bite us because they like us or because they don't like us? 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. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. THE FORTY-FOURTH STREET The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS GE BA 3 per cent all Safety Depos REAL As agent buy and sell Real E dents, including payment of u on Chicago Real Estate. 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