The Broad Ax

BROAD AX Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D., Ingloriously Defeated In His Attempt to be Elected One of the New Bishops of the A. M. E. Church at Its One Hundredth Anniversary and General Conference at Philadelphia, Pa. His Alleged Corruption Fund of $5000 Availed Him Nothing. He and His Associates or Campaign Managers Were Sternly and Justly Rebuked For Attempting to Interject Reprehensible Political Methods Into the Conference In an Effort to Permit the Bishop's Mantle to Rest Upon His Broad Political Shoulders HE HEADED THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION TO THE GENERAL CONFERENCE IN A SPECIAL PULLMAN TRAIN. HEADQUARTERS WERE OPENED UP IN PHILADELPHIA WHICH WERE PRACTICALLY IN CHARGE OF HON. ROBT. B. JACKSON, HON. OSCAR DE PRIEST AND HON. LOUIS B. ANDERSON WITH PLENTY OF MONEY IN SIGHT TO SPEND AMONG THE DELEGATES. PRIOR TO THE CONVENING OF THE CONFERENCE THE REV. GENTLEMAN MADE AN EXTENSIVE TOUR THROUGH THE SOUTHERN STATES IN THE INTEREST OF HIS CAMPAIGN FOR BISHOP AND HE AND HIS FRIENDS FELT THAT HE HAD A LEAD PIPE CINCH ON ONE BISHOPRIC SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY ODD DELEGATES ATTENDED THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND IT REQUIRED ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE VOTES TO ELECT A BISHOP. THE HIGHEST VOTE RECEIVED BY THE POLITICAL PASTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH ON THE FIRST BALLOT WAS 96 AND ON THE SECOND BALLOT HE FELL DOWN TO ABOUT 80 VOTES WHERE HE WAS SECURELY CHAINED TO THE POST AND WAS NEVER ABLE TO BREAK AWAY FROM IT. REVS. W. D. BECKETT, OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND I. N. ROSS OF THE BALTIMORE CONFERENCE WERE ELECTED BISHOPS. BISHOP BENJAMIN F. LEE, WHO HAS BEEN A SUBSCRIBER TO THE BROAD AX FOR SOME YEARS; BISHOP H. B. PARKS AND BISHOP SHAFFER WERE ALL BITTERLY OPPOSED TO THE ELEVATION OF REV. CAREY, TO THE BENCH OF BISHOPS AND OPENLY POUGHT HIM IN THE CONFERENCE ON ACCOUNT OF HIS PAST REPUTATION. IT HAS BEEN STATED ON GOOD AUTHORITY THAT AT NONE OF THE SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE WAS HE PERMITTED TO ADDRESS HIS BRETHREN WHICH WAS A SEVERE BLOW TO HIM AND A CRUSHING DEFEAT TO HIS HIGHER SPIRITUAL AMBITION. THE LONG FIGHT WHICH HAS BEEN WAGED ON HIM IN THESE COLUMNS IN CONNECTION WITH HIS FAMOUS AND LONG TO BE REMEMBERED TRIP TO MILWAUKEE, WIS., CUT A WIDE SWATH AMONG THE DELEGATES AND LONG BEFORE THEY BEGAN TO VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF BISHOPS THEY HAD MADE UP THEIR MINDS THAT THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY, PH. D. D. D. DID NOT REPRESENT THE BEST MEN AND WOMEN BELONGING TO THE A. M. E. CHURCH. IN ALL TRUTHFULNESS IT CAN BE SAID THAT HE DOES NOT NOR NEVER WILL REPRESENT THE BEST AND THE MOST PROGRESSIVE COLORED MEN AND WOMEN RESIDING IN CHICAGO, THEREFORE MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON(SHOULD REMOVE HIM FROM HIS PRESENT EASY POLITICAL JOB IN THE CITY HALL. MAJOR ROBERT B. JACKSON, MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN, BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, HON. SAMUEL A. ETTELSON, GOV. EDWARD F. DUNNE, HON. OSCAR DE PRIEST; ALL CONTRIBUTED TESTIMONIALS WHICH APPEAR IN FULL IN ANOTHER COLUMN OF THIS PAPER ENDORSING THE CANDIDACY OF REV. A. J. CAREY FOR BISHOP. Vol. XXI. Rev. Hon. Defeat Bishop niversal His A Nothings to In Conflict to Rev. HE HEADED THE ILLINOIS DELEGENCE IN A SPECIAL PULLMEN OPENED UP IN PHILADELPHIA CHARGE OF HON. ROBT. R. JAHN. LOUIS B. ANDERSON WILL SPEND AMONG THE DELEGATE. PRIOR TO THE CONVENING OF THE MAN MADE AN EXTENSIVE STATES IN THE INTEREST OF HID AND HIS FRIENDS FELT ON ONE BISHOPRIC. SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY ODD DELEGENCE AND IT REQUIRE TWENTY-FIVE VOTES TO ELEVEN RECEIVED BY THE POLITICAL CHURCH ON THE FIRST BALLOT HE FELL DOWN TO SECURELY CHAINED TO THE BREAK AWAY FROM IT. REV. LINA AND I. N. ROSS OF THE ELECTED BISHOPS. BISHOP BENJAMIN F. LEE, WHO BROAD AX FOR SOME YEARS SHAFFER WERE ALL BITTER OF REV. CAREY, TO THE BROUGHT HIM IN THE CONFERENCE REPUTATION. IT HAS BEEN STATED ON GOOD SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE HIS BRETHREN WHICH WAS CRUSHING DEFEAT TO HIS HON. THE LONG FIGHT WHICH HAS COLUMNS IN CONNECTION WITH REMEMBERED TRIP TO MILWAUAM AND THE DELEGATES AND VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF THEIR MINDS THAT THE REV. PH. D. D. D. DID NOT REPRESENT BELONGING TO THE A. M. E. IT CAN BE SAID THAT HE DOESNT THE BEST AND THE MAND WOMEN RESIDING IN OLIAM HALE THOMPSON SHOULD ENT EASY POLITICAL JOB IN. MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON, M. HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN, SAMUEL A. ETTELSON, GOV. B. PRIEST; ALL CONTRIBUTED TO FULL IN ANOTHER COLUMN CANDIDACY OF REV. A. J. CALE. Many years ago or during our early boyhood days down in old Va., when we had to attend church three times each Sunday throughout the year, we remember very distinctly that both the saints and the sinners always at either the morning or at the evening service would join in with the parson in singing that good old familiar song which runs thusly: "The Lord moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform, that He plants His footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm" and so on, and the more we meditate on the actions of the delegates who attended the late General A. M. E. Conference at Philadelphia, Pa., in relation to voting to confer the honored title of Bishop on the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. the more firmly have we become convinced that at least sometimes the "Lord really HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY does move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." None of the candidates for Bishop resorted to the damnable and corrupt methods in order to obtain that object like unto the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. who in the final round up went down to an inglorious defeat in his greatest of all efforts to become one of the new Bishops of the church which he has dishonored so much in every way, until his sins strongly smells unto the high heavens; it is claimed or alleged that he very proudly marched onto Philadelphia, Pa., with a corruption fund amounting well onto five thousand dollars and he and his associates or campaign managers were foolish enough to believe that for money they would be able to buy up all the delegates they would want; that each and every delegate had his price and as many of them CHICAGO, MAY 27; 1916 were a long way from their various homes that they would need the money to have a good time on and assist to paint that old town real red and that with both hands down that he would be elected one of the new Bishops on the very first ballot, but the Gods in the starry heavens decreed otherwise, at the same time administering unto him with an iron hand a stinging and a lasting rebuke for attempting to resort to such raw or reprehensible political methods in an effort to have the sacred Bishop's mantle to fall on his broad tricky political and lady-loving shoulders. No one attending the conference had the great drag or pull that he had gathered unto himself; he headed the Illinois delegation which traveled from this city to Philadelphia, Pa., on a special Pullman train, on arriving there he had regular headquarters opened up with several tons of the letters of endorsements and letters of testimonials from all of the most prominent White and Colored citizens throughout the United States, including this city and the state of Illinois all endorsing his candidacy for the Bishoprie; the letters and testimonials being freely distributed among the delegates and our eminent and distinguished fellow citizens in the persons of the gallant Major Robert R. Jackson, Grand Commander in Chief of the Uniform Ranks Knights of Pythias throughout the world; Hon. Oscar De Priest, Alderman of the Second Ward and Hon. Louis B. Anderson were on hand to boost his game and to loudly sound his praises at every bend or turn in the road. Long before the convening of the General Conference, the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. made an extensive tour through the southern states for the sole purpose of buying up a chain of newspapers so that their editors could get busy with their whitewash brushes and white wash him into a bright shining angel so that he could become sufficiently purified to enter the contest for the Bishopric and that southern trip or swing around the circle among newspaper men and delegates must have cost him well onto two thousand dollars, and on his return to this city he and his loud-mouthed friends who have been endeavoring to make the public believe that he is the second Booker T. Washington, felt dead sure that he had a lead pipe cinch on that new job and that if any Bishops were to be elected that his Lord and Master would see to it that his name lead all the rest of the candidates for the highest honor that can be conferred on anyone in the A. M. E. Church. More than six hundred and fifty delegates attended the general conference from all parts of this country and from the isles far beyond the deep blue seas and it required about three hundred and twenty-five votes to elect any one Bishop and after all of the puffing and blowing on the part of Continue on page 4 J. B. One of the ablest, most painstaking and popular lawyers in Cook County; Republican candidate for Judge of the Superior Court, short term, highly endorsed by the Chicago Bar Association, receiving 860 votes at its recent primary as against 470 for his Democratic opponent, to be voted for at the Judicial election Monday, June 5. Hon. Andrew J. Redmond, Republican candidate for Judge of the Superior Court, short term, to be voted for at the Judicial election Monday, June 5, was born in Philadelphia, August 1, 1864. When he was still very young he came with his parents to De Kalb, Illinois, where he was brought up on a farm. He attended public school, and later a school for teachers at Oregon, Illinois. After completing his course there, he studied at the Northwestern Illinois Normal School. He began his career as a teacher, but being ambitious to practice law, he came to Chicago in 1889 and entered the Northwestern University Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. Since that time he has continued actively in the practice of his profession for a long time occupying an extensive suite of law offices on the 16th floor of the Otis Building; in 1895 Mr. Redmond Alderman Oscar De Priest and Capt. Louis B. Anderson, returned home the first of the week from Philadelphia, Pa., where they made an unsuccessful attempt to land their eminent brother HON. ANDREW J. REDMOND. is most painstaking and popular lawyer candidate for Judge of the Superior Court of the Chicago Bar Association, receiving 860 inst 470 for his Democratic opponent, action Monday, June 5. was happily united in marriage to Miss Emma Robertson, daughter of Mr. John Robertson, the successful banker of Barrington, Illinois and from 1896 to the present time Mr. and Mrs. Redmond have resided in a lovely home in Oak Park, where they are held in the highest esteem by a large circle of friends. He has honorably served in the past as attorney for the Town of Cicero, and again attorney for Barrington, Forest Park, Wauconda, Lake Zurich and River Grove. His home town or the village of Oak Park has recently passed the following resolution in favor of his candidacy for Judge of the Superior Court. Whereas, the services of Andrew J. Redmond as attorney for this district were of the character worthy of the highest commendation, and Whereas, Mr. Redmond has at all and co-worker for the Lord Rev. A. J. Carey, on the Board of Bishops. No. 36 times enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the citizens of Oak Park, and Whereas, he is now a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, Therefore, recognizing his fitness and ability, we, the members of the Village Board of Oak Park, do hereby endorse his candidacy and ask all good citizens to assist in furthering his cause, which we believe to be in the best interest of Cook County. Mr. Redmond is an eminent lawyer, a first class gentleman at all times and in every way well fitted to become one of the Judges of the Superior Court. He is well and favorably known to the Colored people in this city for on several occasions he has addressed them in their churches and it goes without saying that the Colored people throughout this city and Cook County will roll up a solid vote for him on Monday, June 5, and assist to put him over the plate. Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard, Col. Franklin A. Denison, Commanding will march to Quinn Chapel, 24th and Wabash avenue where it will hold its annual memorial services. PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Rep- ublicans, Democrats, Catholics, Pro- testants, single Taxers, Priests, infid- els or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 6532. St. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. AUTHORIZED AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. L. W. Washington, 5465 Kimbark avenue. B. W. Fitts, 3315 S. State street. Phone Douglas 4049. The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the last named place and news items and advertisements left there will find their way into these columns. Artificial Ears Artificial ears are so skillfully 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 'ee puttin' that great box together for?" Tom paused in his hammering long enough to retort curtly: "To hold all your questions, if so be as it's big enough!" Garge eyed him in pained silence for 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 nulsance. 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. 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. 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 spum 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 Sees It Quickly. "Can your wife see a joke?" "If it's in the shape of a bonnet or a dress that some other woman is wearing she can."—Detroit Free Press. Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage and shortens life. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 27, 1916. STEPHENS BILL PROTECTS PUBLIC 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 Is Legal. This court made law upset long established custom, but it does not prevent the end sought from being reached by other means. Producers who wish to have no discrimination shown to favored individuals can insure uniform prices for their goods by establishing branch establishments or by appointing agents. This is the method followed by manufacturers of automobiles. Bakers who sell their products within a restricted area can also regulate their prices by making grocers their agents and thereby retaining title to their bread and rolls until they reach the consumer. Producers of other articles, goods sold in small quantities and which must depend on established merchants for their distribution, are denied the right that men in other lines have. The Stephens-Ashurst bill is designed to restore to these producers a protection they had before it was taken away from them by the supreme court. Cut rate department stores, so called "chaln" drug and grocery stores in the large cities, and mail 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 "hait" 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 reasonable sales. 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, apprasier, 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 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 veils when receiving their guests. Though veils continue to be worn by the Turkish women in the street, still the fashion has made them so flimsy and transparent that they might just as well be dispensed with. Consequently all the fascination and mystery that heretofore has surrounded the harem has suddenly disappeared. There is no longer any such thing, and in its place there is simply the usual family life. The Turkish woman is as much a housewife as her European sister, and in this war her resources have been taxed to the utmost. Despite the fact that the rich agricultural country of Anatolia is not far distant, the prices of all necessaries of life have increased enormously. Turkey has awakened from its long lethargy, and the war has brought a new life in the empire. Progress is now the keynote, and the indications are that within a few years Constantinople will be one of the most advanced cities in the world. WOMEN NOT REAL ANGLERS New York Commissioner Pratt, Therefore, Would Let 'Em Fish Free. Albany, N. Y.—"Women," says Conservation Commissioner Pratt, "do not constitute a factor of importance in the fishing situation." Therefore Mr. Pratt recommends that the fair sex, as are children under sixteen years of age, be exempt from the provisions of his bill to compel fishermen to take out an annual license costing $1.10. "It is not desired," he adds, "to put any burden upon these young fishermen." Under the bill a license is not required to catch suckers, bullheads, carp or other plebeian fish, but to catch fish propagated by the state the $1.10 fee must be paid. WEDS LOSER OF PHOTO. Planter Traveled Throughout Middle West Six Months Seeking Ideal. Hudsonville, Mich.—George N. Howard, a planner of Birmingham, Ala., found a handbag on the Panama-Pacific exposition grounds at San Francisco last September. The bag contained the photograph of a young woman. On the picture was written the name "Wisconsin." Howard fell in love and for six months traveled throughout the middle west seeking his ideal. He found her here. The bride was Miss Nettle Telsma of Oshkosh, Wis. Flying Hen Dropa 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." "Choose carefully your company of both sexes. "Open your eyes and ears, but keep your heart closed to the gush and nonsense from the so called lovers. "Be careful about your dress. Have it becoming and tasteful. "Be more careful about what is in your head than what is in your heart. "Don't be self conceited. "Don't keep company with a sinful young man. "Think carefully and prayerfully about your wedding day. "Be considerate about the time and money of your gentlemen friends. "Be true to the best ideals of womanhood." DRIVEN INSANE BY 100 CIGARETTES A DAY Sent to an Asylum Upon Saloon- keeper's Complaint and Doctor's Testimony. Detroit, Mich.—Frank Winters, the man who smoked a hundred cigarettes a day, was committed to the Pontiac asylum by Judge Hulbert recently in the probate court. The incessant use of the cigarettes was declared by Dr. S. L. Layton, who examined Winters, to have affected his mind. Frequenting a saloon at the corner of Chamberlain and Lawdale 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. Lavton 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 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' Tails Findlay, O.—Anson James, a Delaware county farmer, went into his hog yard and found sixty of his sixty-one pigs minus tails. He watched the drove for awhile and saw the sixty-first pig trying to eat his own tail. 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 sewed just to keep soul and body together, would, after all, get much comfort from her eleventh hour opulence. The state of little Miss Mitfield's mind was revealed when her next door neighbor inquired what she should do with her money—did she mean to save it? "Save it!" Her eyes flashed with new found scorn. "Listen to me, Betsy; all my life long I've wanted a pair of side combs with yellow glass beads onto 'em, and now I'm goin' to hev 'em; yes, ma, even if I should hev to go as high as 50 cents!"—Youth's Companion. Coffee With Milk For many years after coffee was first drunk in Europe, says the Manchester Guardian, no one thought of mixing it with milk any more than the Turks and Arabs do now. The use of coffee au lait seems to date from 1687. Mme. de Sevigne, writing to her daughter in that year, said that a doctor much in vogue "has taught us to mix sugar and milk with our coffee. They make a most delightful compound, which will help to support me through the rigors of Lent." In a letter written seven years earlier she had mentioned as an eccentric proceeding on the part of Mme, de la Sabiere that "she drinks milk to her tea." Readers of "Unbeaten Tracks In Japan" may remember that one of the Alnus 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 dis berry town his own folks didn't know him." "Why," said the listener, "you don't believe the story's true." "True? Ob course it is. Why," pointing to Jefferson. "dat's de man." Boss Prevaricators "There goes a man who boasts that he has never bought a gold brick." "Reminds me of the fellow who says he has never told a lie." "Yes. He reminds me of the chap who says the upkeep of his automobile is next to nothing." "And he's in the same category with the man who says he never was sick a day in his life." — Birmingham Age-Herald. Fuel In Ancient Rome. The fuel of the ancient Romans was almost exclusively charcoal. This was burned in open pans without grate or flue and gave economical heat for living rooms and baths. The inconvenience of chimneys was avoided, and the heat could be easily regulated. Frenzied Finance Short—I wish 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 CITESU.S.GROWTH Long Distance Courtship Rounds Up With a Mishap. WRONG FELLOW IS HUGGED. Victim Utters Incoherent Words of Inquiry When Prospective Husband Comes Along, and After Apologies He Hurries Her Off to Minister. Parsons, Kan.—Marcella Howland kissed the wrong man. And inasmuch as Marcella at the time of her osculatory 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 anxious inquiry as to her 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 only 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 making. This episode might have been labeled "Courtship by Mail, or Wooing by Correspondence." The story is this, duly attested and sworn to by at least one of the parties concerned: Marcella lives near Joplin and is a helper in a grocery store. A year ago she found the name of James Vandyke in a case of eggs, the said James not being a barber, as his name might indicate, but a raiser of chickens and corn near Anadarko, Okla. Marcella wrote to James, and James replied. Then followed a correspondence with each succeeding letter ripened into love. A month ago it was decided to meet in Parsons said have a minister here perform the ceremony, an elopement 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 evening train. Came 7:45 o'clock, and with it the train from Joplin and Marcella. James was a bit confused in time and was not at the station. Marcella, wearing a pink carnation by prearrangement, went to the waiting room and sat down to await the arrival of her husband to be. Now enter the other side of the triangle, whose name for the present is unknown, as he absolutely refused to divulge his identity. His name will be John Doe for this occasion. John entered the station and gazed over the crowds. Marcella saw him, and after giving him time to discover her tripped across the room and stood enraptured before the astonished man. "Well, here I am, James," she said denurely, waiting for her fiance to take her in his arms, etc., etc. John gasped, but made no move toward 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 some incoherent words of inquiry when in came a breathless Vandyke, who had come up just in time to behold the performance, and, convinced that some one was making away with his bride to be, rushed up to thwart him. As he approached misgiving spread over Marcelia's face. She had a faint suspicion that she had kissed the wrong man, and this suspicion grew with each step of the excited Vandyke. He stood before her. She looked at Doe and then at Vandyke. Yes, the last man was certainly the one she had come to meet. How could she have mistaken the other fellow for him, although their resemblance was quite marked? Then apologies, explanations, assurances by Doe to Vandyke that he was an innocent party and had no intention to "cop" Marvella, and then Marvella kissed the right man, right there in the station, with a score of people watching her. The couple decided to take the 8:22 train back to 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. Philadelphia. - Unable to see for eight years, Edward Claycomb, a painter, of Almoona, Pa., is recovering his sight by degrees. In 1908 he fell from a house he was painting, and in addition to his other injuries he detached the retinas of both eyes. He became blind. Specialists of a dozen cities were consulted, and they all told him his case was hopeless. For the last several weeks his sight has been returning, and now he can see and read large letters and distinguish between colors. Physicians are puzzled. Claycomb is hopeful that his sight will become normal. Sells Hidden Money With Potatoes. Manton, Cal. - W. A. Cleland placed $220 in $20 gold pieces in a potato bin for safe keeping. Forgetting about the money, he sold some potatoes. Later a search for the coin proved unsuccessful. Cleland now thinks banks are a safer proposition than potato bins. 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 Subtleness Despite His Eighty Years. Washington.—Reclining on the sofa in his office just off the chamber of the house of representatives, his well known cigar at the proper angle in his mouth, Uncle Joe Cannon, who recently celebrated his eighteenth birthday, told a correspondent on that occasion of some of the changes which have occurred in the United States during the forty-four years he 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 something about the changes which have taken place since I first entered congress back in 1873. Why, my boy, the Photo by American Press Association. UNCLE JOE CANNON. changes have been like those of an infant 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 Philippines. 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 distinction 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 factories 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 congress to keep up with the development of the country." "What do you think has been congress' most farreaching act during this period?" "I would hardly call it an act. I would call it a discovery," replied Uncle Joe. "It was the discovery of the general welfare clause of the constitution. We used to have long constitutional arguments against any kind of internal improvements by the federal government, but now we just read the general welfare clause of that old document and appropriate money for any scheme that may be proposed. "This change of sentiment is pretty general, but it is marked in the delegations from the south." The correspondent met with this answer 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 belief 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 ambition." Although he has been mixed up in every great political fight since the election of Lincoln in 1800, Uncle Joe declined to discuss politics in the concrete. "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." THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 27, 1916 SAVED THE DAYLIGHT IN INDIANA THIRTY YEARS AGO Cement Mills Started at 6 A. M., and Men Got In Ten Hours a Day Even In Winter. New Albany, Ind.—Germany, Austria and other war rent countries of Europe, which have begun to conserve daylight, are thirty years behind 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 impression 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 during the winter the ten hour day can be made. CONSTRUCT HOUSE IN OHIO IN TWELVE HOURS 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 house from the ground up at 4:30 a. m. At 4 p. m. the same day it was completed in every detail and Mrs. Emma Plessner-McCann was serving tea in it to Mayor Milroy and others. The house and lot were a wedding present from the Toledo Real Estate board and contractors. Mrs. McCann was Miss Emma Plessner until a few hours before the house was finished, when she became the bride of John J. McCann. She was assistant secretary of the real estate board for several years. After the carpenter work had progressed a short time plumbers, gas fitters, painters, paper hangers, electricians 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 bathroom, costing $4,000. Ordinarily it takes two or three months to finish such a house. Thousands watched the construction work. Three hundred gallons of buttermilk 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 BOD. 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 exclusive residence district of the city, a Shreveport contractor named Farmer spent all day and part of a night digging in the plot for hidden wealth. Farmer claims he was led to the spot by a divining rod, and he further maintains that his divining rod hasn't played 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, though 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 he is either convinced to his own satisfaction 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 outfit, 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 drove his spurs home just above McClintock's knee, one on each side. The spurs struck a tendon and crippled 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. HEN 29 YEARS OLD LAYS EGG. Spanish Annie Breaks All Records, Delighting Her Owner. Hartford.-Spanish Annie, the grand old hen of twenty-nine years (duly authenticated), 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 egg. Spanish Annie, called because she is of the black Spanish variety, hasn't laid an egg in years. However, within a year she got her name in the newspapers 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 hen, has discovered from his poultry records that Spanish Annie was hatched July 4, 1887, and for years contributed generously to the Blanchard daily 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, and at present her feathers are a mottled gray. Spanish Annie made no particular commotion after laying her egg, but her happy owner 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 ago and to be the oldest specimen of its kind in the world was found by Stanley C. Herold, a Stanford student, six months ago. The Pearl will be presented to the Stanford museum. The Pearl and the cockleshell in which it was imbedded came to Stanford in a consignment of geologic material from the coast of the state of Washington. 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 paleozoic period. "We have no record." said Herold, "of pearls having been formed before the time this one was created. It retains considerable luster and when thoroughly 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." ROBINS ACCEPT HUMAN AID. Man Replaces Fallen Nest and Birds Occupy It. Seattle, Wash.—"I had always understood," 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 exception to this rule. Two robins had 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. "I thought that would be the end of that nest. But the two birds stayed near it all the next day, and finally I got the idea of rebuilding it. I took a foot ladder and fastened the nest back securely in place with some ordinary hay 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. GIBLS TOO BASHEFUL Make Inquiries Over Phone Regarding Man Wishing to Wed. St. Paul. — "Ambitions, but bashful." is the characterization Joseph Mounts, secretary to Chief of Police John J. O'Connor, made of a St. Paul young woman after a day of telephone calls regarding Elmer Johnson, rancher, of Sidney. Mon., who wrote to the chief making an offer of matrimony to a suitable St. Paul girl. "Many girls," said Mr. Mounts, "called me asking about Johnson, but none would give me her name. I think the girls are passing up a good thing, because I think the man is on the level." Johnson has 320 acres of fertile Montana land, two miles from a railroad, and says he is "well fixed." "Some of the girls talked real fine, too," added Mr. Mounts, "and if Johnson had heard them maybe he 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 Fehley, an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, stationed here, considers himself a very lucky individual. A few days ago he bought a ten cent tin of tobacco. While replenishing his pipe he was surprised to see a ring imbedded in the weed, and examination proved it to contain a setting which looked suspiciously like a diamond. He took his find to a jeweler, who appraised the stone to be worth at least $50. With Chair. No Gift. Topeka, Kan.—Property held for the Church of Christ in this city will revert 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 for church purposes, and which has just been filed for record. GIRL GOES FIFTEEN MILES ON SKIS TO MARRY GIRL GOES FIFTEEN MILES ON SKIS TO MARRY Travels Over Deep Snowdrifts to Become Bride of a Young Los Angeles Business Man. Los Angeles, Cal.-Skiing 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 recently in Los Angeles and was married to Wesley P. Turner, a young business man. Miss Skinner, who passed last summer 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 Angeles, no matter how far the snow extended. It was then learned that 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 Dobble, fifteen miles, over snow that lay an average depth of three feet. At Dobble the party was met by a stage from Victorville. BIT OF GALLANTRY WINS HIM $200,000 BIT OF GALLANTRY WINS HIM $200,000 Frank H. Canning, Who Protected a Woman In Fight, Remembered 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 ago, 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 dozen intoxicated men and Mr. Canning. Suddenly a fight started, and one of the men brushed against Miss Chadley and threatened her. Mr. Canning placed himself in front of the woman and, with the aid of the conductor, managed to overcome the rowdies. Miss Chadley was so upset that Mr Canning called a cab and rode with her to her 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, giving them a severe shock and setting the wall paper and bedclothing afire. 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 and 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 Francisco.—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 alliment 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 skinkers, by means of which the water was lifted from a depth of thirty fathoms. The launch went nearly to the Farallone islands, and the party did not return until late at night. ROBBER THANKS VICTIM. Sends Back Keepsake and Keeps $500 He Stole From St. Louis Resident. St. Louis.—The thief who robbed the home of L. L. Whittemore of jewelry valued at $500 mailed a letter to the family. Inclosed was a miniature pair of opera glasses, used as a watch charm. His letter reads: To Whom It May Concern.—Very sorry to take this little keepsake. Thank you for the other articles. 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, Sutherlandshire, was caught fifteen days afterward on the Aberdeenshire coast. The minimum distance covered by the fish was 140 miles, and it had lost one and one-half pounds in weight between the date of marking and its recapture. Stand Made by Suffragists Impresses Pearl White. ONCE SCORNED THEIR FIGHT. Her Views Changed When She Saw How Bravely the Women Marched In a 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 beating against the wind, with their white dresses on, fairly gave one a thrill. THE MUSICIAN UPPER PHOTO SHOWS MISS PEARL WHITE IN A CHARACTERISTIC POSE, LOWER IN ONE OF HER STEEPELJACK 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 suffragettes, 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 steepelejack, 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 twenty-two stories above Broadway. Miss White is as lithic as a panther. She can twist her plant figure into more curves than most women. Half 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? I pay income tax, too, just as if I were a man. I earn money too. In my profession 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? Women are doing every kind of work men do, and over in Europe they are suffering as much as men suffer. If war should come to America they would suffer here. I want to vote for president of this country, for I know who I think ought to govern us. But I shan't have anything to say about the president. 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. Cordery 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 repairing the road. With all the doors locked downstairs, Harley Rickards climbed to the second floor and got through by a window. When Mrs. Cordery was found she was in a pitiful state. She is still seriously ill from the shock. Sentences Himself to Jail. Visalia, Cal.-Ernest Stevenson, a Visalia 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 Stevenson said treatment in hospital did no good and perhaps he could "sober up right" in a year. PAGE FOUR Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey Ph. D. D. D. defeated for Bishop at Philadelphia Pa. Concluded from page one the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. his shouters and retainers, the very highest vote he received on the first ballot was 96, then on the second or last ballot he dropped down to about 80 votes where he was securely tied or chained to the post and he was never able to break away from it. Revs. W. D. Beckett of South Carolina and I. N. Ross of the Baltimore Conference are the two newly elected Bishops. Bishop Benjamin F. Lee, of Wilberforce, Ohio, who has been a regular subscriber to The Broad Ax for the past four or five years who is one of the most highly educated and honorable Bishops in the A. M. E. connection, Bishop H. B. Parks and Bishop Shaffer, were all bitterly opposed to the elevation of the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. to the bench of Bishops and they openly fought him to a dead stand still, right out in the conference largely on account of his past brazen faced unholy reputation they contended that he could never outlive the talk which has been on the lips of millions of people in this country in connection with his famous wet holy ghost trip to Milwaukee, Wis.; that on that occasion he lost his hat while wandering around its streets; that his conduct with a big revolver in his hip pocket so they say was in every way unbecoming to even a Jack leg minister of the Gospel; that he brought burning shame and everlasting disgrace on all the decent and honorable preachers in the A. M. E. connection. Those three Bishops strongly intimated that in some way or other his name had been pleasantly linked or associated with the names of three or four married ladies and with one young single lady who were either members of Quinn Chapel or Bethel Church at the time that he held forth at those two churches; that he draws the color line as much as he possibly can; that he very much dislikes to have black or real dark Colored people to enter his beautiful and costly furnished home at 3428 Vernon Ave.; that when he is in the presence of the Whites and when there is no Colored people in sight that he greatly delights to boast of the fact that more royal White blood flows through his blue veins than common or Colored blood and that without much trouble he can easily pass for a big red-faced Irish-American and that in many other ways he is unworthy to become one of the Bishops in the great A. M. E. Church. When it become evident that the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. had gone down to defeat, Bishops Lee, Parks and Shaffer began to loudly sing that good old song "Praise God from whom all blessing flow, praise Him all creatures here below." It has been stated on good authority that at none of the many sessions of the Conference was he permitted to raise his eloquent voice; that the feeling was so bitter against him that the great majority of his brethren did not want to come in close contact with him and that was the last straw which broke the camel's back, and it was a severe blow and a crushing defeat to his higher spiritual ambitions that is if he really knows anything about the spiritual side of life for being money mad he has no time to waste for his so-called Lord and Master. The long fight which has been waged on him in these columns not because we entertained personal ill feeling against him but simply on account of his rash conduct as one of the foremost preachers in this part of the country, cut a very wide swath among the various delegates long before they began to vote for the election of Bishops, for they, the delegates, had firmly made up their minds that the Rev. Hon. Archibald James Carey, Ph. D. D. D. does not nor never will represent the best men and women belonging to the A. M. E. Church; that he reflects no honor upon it in anyway. Therefore, no one knows better than he does that he does not nor never will represent the best and the most progressive Colored men and women residing in the great city of Chicago and without the least delay, Mayor William Hale Thompson should remove him from his present dead easy political job in the city hall and let him confine his efforts to his duties as the bible pounder at the Institutional Church and in calling on his Lord to forgive of his many past sins. In conclusion the head officials and delegates attending the late Conference richly deserve to be highly commended for absolutely refusing, to elect unmoral or unclean men to the bench of Bishops and it is a very healthy sign that that great church is rapidly progressing in that direction. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB The Club had a great time Wednesday evening. "The Old Maids Association" gave a performance enjoyed by all. Mrs. Vivian Mills, Chairman did fine work. All arrangements for the parado are being completed. JUDGE ROBERT E. TURNEY SHOULD BE REELECTED TO THE SUPERIOR COURT BENCH. One year ago Judge Robert E. Turney was elected to fill out one of the short terms of the Superior Court and so far he has more than made good in that honored position; at this Judicial election Judge Turney is one of the Republican candidates for election to the Superior Court, full term, to be voted for Monday, June 5. He has been highly endorsed by the Chicago Bar Association and all the leading daily and weekly newspapers are urging their many hundreds of thousands of readers regardless of their politics to see to it that he is re-elected to his present honored position. In every way Judge Turney who is very popular with all the lawyers because he is always fair in giving them a hearing in his court, and they with the assistance of his many Colored friends in all parts of this city and Cook County will help to reland him back in the Superior Court. POPULAR CITIZEN OF CHICAGO PLEASANTLY ENTERTAINED IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prof. Alonzo J. Bowling, of the Chicago Censor Board, who made a close and profitable study of the methods and scope of the Pennsylvania State Board, was highly entertained during his stay by the Chairman J. Louis Breitinger. The Philadelphia Daily Record spoke in excellent terms of Professor Bowling, and his excellent preparation for the work he is doing. The learned Professor edited and published a beautiful Centennial Souvenir of the twenty-fifth Quadrennial General Conference and made many warm and admiring friends among the Bishops and others high in authority, which bespeak for him a brilliant and successful future in the great African Methodist Episcopal Church. WORK STARTED BY NEW JERSEY FILM COMPANY Jersey City, N. J., Special to The Broad Ax.-The Frederick Douglass Film Co., a corporation composed of some of the leading Negroes of the State, has started actual work on its first photo play, a three-reel drama, "Winning His First Suit," which will show various phases of Negro progress since emancipation. The leading characters will be portrayed by Jersey City people, Mrs. Ida Askin, Miss Florence Snead and Frederick Quinn being cast for the leading roles. The pictures will be staged by the Centaur Studio of Bayonne, and the scenes of the play will be laid in Virginia. The Rev. W. S. Smith, an active member of the Douglass Film Co., spent several days in Virginia selecting the prospective settings for the pictures, and the players, with the camera man and manager left Jersey City Tuesday night. They were met in Washington by Mr. Smith and taken on Wednesday to the points in Virginia selected for the pictures. The play is expected to be released June 15, or not later than July 1. Officers of the company are: Dr. W. G. Alexander of Orange, president; Dr. L. A. Lawrence of Elizabeth, vice-president; A. R. Mayor of Jersey City, secretary; Dr. George E. Cannon, treasurer. COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED CITIZENS FORMED TO ENTER TAIN THE VISITORS ATTEND ING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. A meeting of representative Colored citizens was called by Alderman De Priest at his office last Tuesday night for the purpose of forming a Citizens Committee of 100 to arrange for the entertainment of visitors and delegates to the city in connection with the National Nominating Conventions to be held June 7th next. Plans covering automobile tours, receptions, stags, dinners, etc., were discussed and a permanent organization perfected. The membership fee was fixed at $5.00 and the newly elected treasurer of the Committee, Mr. Edward H. Wright, carried to the bank a neat little sum as the result of payments made that night. Headquarters will be established at 3439 South State Street, telephone Douglass 7877. Householders having accommodations for visitors may list at the headquarters. Out of town visitors may also communicate with headquarters for accommodations. The following officers were elected: Chairman, Alderman Oscar De Priest; Vice Chairman, Beauregard F. Moseley; Secretary, Morris Lewis; Treasurer, Edward H. Wright. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. "The work of the three General Conferences of the Methodist Church as it affects Negroes," will be the subject of discussion at the Reading Room, 3005 State St, Sunday May 28th, at 4 P. M. Rev. W. D. Cook Bethel A. M. E. Church; H. J. Callis, A. M. E. Zion Church and J. W. Robinson, St. Marks M. E. Church will be the speakers for each of their churches. A crowded house expected. Come early and get a seat. Ida B. Wells Barnett, President. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 27, 1916. Testimonials from Prominent Public Men Endorsing the Candidacy of Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D. Ph. D., For the Bishopric In the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Major R. R. Jackson, Gallant Commander First Battalion, Eighth Regiment, Ill. N. G.; Major General Uniform Bank, K. of P. of the World; Member Illinois Legislature; Active and Loyal Race Man, Anxious for the Election of Dr. A. J. Carey. To the members of the Centennial General Conference, A. M. E. Church. Greeting: As a soldier, a member of the Illinois Legislature and as one deeply interested in the welfare and progress of our race, I pay tribute to one of your number and say to you that it is the conviction of the entire Northwest that the election of Dr. A. J. Carey to the Bishopric of your church will be one of the wisest acts of your General Conference. The war in Europe will come to a close within the next few months. Millions of foreigners will flock to our shores, resulting in a complete re-adjustment of the civic, political, industrial and even religious conditions in this country. To meet these new conditions the Negro race will need brave, courageous, far-sighted leaders, men who can put their hands upon both church and state. The A. M. E. 'Church is a mighty power in this land. Its Bishops occupy thrones of authority. They speak not only for our church, but for the entire Negro race. Hence you will not think me presumptious (being a member of our great church) when I say to you that we of the Middle West, where the fight is ever hottest, feel the need of a man of Dr. Carey's spirit, ability and statesmanship upon your Board of Bishops. He is a man of exceptional oratorical ability, an able representative, a lover of his church, and a champion battler for the rights of his race. He rings true every time. Every denomination in Chicago, every fraternal organization, the leaders in every line and profession, regardless of race or color, are anxious for his elevation. In electing him you will do a great and helpful thing for our church and an immeasurable good for our race. Wishing you a glorious and profitable session. I am. Major K. K. Jackson, Representative Illinois State Legis lature. Office of the Mayor Chicago, April 21st, 1916. Rev. R. E. Wilson, D. D., Presiding Elder, Chicago District, Chicago. My Dear Dr. Wilson: From many sources I have learned of the earnest efforts being put forth by the Chicago ministry and public-spirited citizens generally to secure the election of Dr. A. J. Carey to the Bishopric of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and I take very great pleasure in joining with you in urging his elevation. I have known of the great A. M. E. Church for a number of years and regard it as the most potent and influential organization among the Colored people in the entire country. I know the power and possibilities of its Bishops for good—not alone to your church and race, but to the people of this whole country. I know Dr. Carey well; have known him since he first came to Chicago eighteen years ago; know him to be capable, courageous and unwaveringly true to every interest of his church and race. I have heard him speak on many an occasion and regard him as one of the most eloquent and effective orators to whom I have ever listened. He won the hearts of the Jews of this entire city in the great speech he recently delivered at a Hebrw mass-meeting, held in Cohan's Grand Opera House. As a member of the Perry Centennial Commission it was my pleasure to make the fight that won representation for your race on the program of that International celebration. You, perhaps, recall that of the 425 sailors and seamen who fought with Commodore Perry one hundred years ago, 107 of them were Colored. The government had builted and was unveiling a monument which cost $250,000. I felt that a member of your race should be upon the program. I contended earnestly and finally won and then nominated Dr. Carey. He was chosen, and though among the other speakers were President Wilson, ex-President Taft, Governor Cox, Dr. J. A. McDonald, representing the British Government, and others of international fame, none acquitted himself more nobly than did our own Dr. Carey, and the matchless plea he made for fair play and a square deal for the "Little Brother in Black" won many converts to his cause, and will linger long in the memory of his hearers. To my mind Dr. Carey is pre-eminently qualified from every point of view to make an acceptable, useful and aggressive Bishop of your church. He will not only serve and help your church, but he will help and serve your race. He'll do for you what but few other men can do. With sincere best wishes, I am Yours respectfully, Wm. Hale Thompson, Mayor City of Chicago. Congressman Martin B. Madden, One of the Very Few Friends Left to Negroes in the United States Congress, Pays his Tribute to Dr. A. J. Carey, Western Candidate for the Bishopric. "It has been my pleasure for a great many years to know Dr. A. J. Carey. I have watched his work in this community. I have been delighted with the success of his achievements. I think it is not too much to say that no man in the community has produced better results than he. The moral tone of the citizenship in the territory over which he has presided is noticeably better than it was when he came. His disinterested devotion to the cause in which he has labored is the admiration of all who have given any attention to it. Clean, forceful, aggressive, conscientious, patriotic—a lover of law and order, a believer in the betterment of the human race, in love with his people, attentive to their cause and conscientious in the performance of his every duty, Dr. Carey, in my opinion, is the Ideal Minister of the Gospel. Member of Congress, First Illinois District. Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, D. D., LL. D., Of the Episcopal Church, Foremost of American Prelates, Distinguished Churchman, Brave and Courageous Soldier, Finished Scholar, Humanitarian, President Illinois Commission and Friend of the Negro Race. General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church. Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, D. D., LL. D., President and Presiding Bishop, 2344 Monroe St., Chicago, Ill. Rev. Chas. F. Hendricks, B. D., Secretary, 4236 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pa. William Gibson, Treasurer, 632 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill., April 4, 1916. My Dear Doctor Carev: I have learned with very great pleasure that your many friends and brethren in the African Methodist Episcopal Church are endeavoring to secure your election as Bishop in that great and influential organization. Your splendid services in Quinn Chapel, Bethel and the Institutional churches of this city; your most highly creditable record as pastor, preacher and leader in every movement that tends toward humanity's betterment and your race's improvement; your signal success in the initiation and carrying, forward to triumphant success our magnificent Jubilee, forever connected with the name of Lincoln and the Semi-Centennial of Negro freedom; your potent influence for good in the city of Chicago and throughout our mighty West, to say nothing of your organizing and administrative ability, entitle you to the highest Episcopal office. I write this letter based on an acquaintance with you of eighteen years. I assuredly hope to greet you in May as Bishop Beloved in the Church of God. Bishop Reformed Episcopal Church Senator S. A. Ettelson Commends Dr. Chicago, Ill., April 29, 1916. Hon. Oscar De Priest, Alderman, Second Ward, Chicago. My. Dear Alderman: I have been very much pleased at the earnest efforts of so many worthy Chicagoans who are concerning themselves about the election of Dr. A. J. Carey to the Bishopric of the A. M. E. Church. Whatever of added influence and power your church and race can give to a man so loyal, capable and earnest as Dr. Carey, they do well to give. It was Dr. Carey who urged upon me to present, while I was a member of the State Senate my bill against "The Clansman." When the bill against the inter-marriage of races was before the State Legislature I called upon Dr. Carey to appear before the Senate Committee, and his able and eloquent arguments had much to do with "killing it in committee." Whnever the rights or the interests of your race have been imperiled or involved Dr. Carey has been first on the firing line. His services to Chicago, both in religious and civic life, make us all anxious for his promotion. Success attend your affairs. Corporation Counsel, City of Chicago. Governor Edward F. Dunne Bears Testimony to the Ability and Bace Loyalty of Dr. A. J. Carey. Springfield, Ill., April 29, 1916. For eighteen years I have known Dr. Carey. As Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook Co., as Mayor of the City of Chicago, and as Governor of the State of Illinois, I have ever found him in the front ranks battling for justice, fair play and an equal opportunity for the people of his race. That he has acted with wisdom, tact ability and honesty of purpose is manifested by the results he has invariably attained. I take pleasure in saying to the General Conference of the A. M. E. Church that his election would mean the elevation of one of your strongest, safest and most useful men. Hon. Oscar De Priest, First Negro Alderman in City of Chicago, Speaks of Great Work Accomplished in That City by Dr. A. J. Carey. To the Bishop and Members of the Centennial General Conference, Greeting: After expressions of sincerest goodwill and hearty congratulations upon your splendid achievements ring this first century of your exist. ace, this causes me to say that American Negroes everywhere realize the debt of obligation they owe your great church. The wise and courageous leadership with which your church has been blessed from Richard Allen on to the present has meant much to the race of which we are a part. It has come to us in the West that during this Centennial General Conference you will elect at least two more Bishops to assist your present excellent force in carrying on the work of your great church. Chicago, as you know, is one of the greatest African Methodist centers in the world. Your church in this city holds so important a place not only in the religious but also in the civic and commercial world that all eyes are turned constantly upon you. The A. M. E. ministers of Chicago, the leading lawyers, physicians and business men of this city have joined unanimously in indorsing for election to the Bishopric that minister who has accomplished more for your church and our race in this city than any who has been here for many, many years. I refer to the brilliant, eloquent and aggressive Dr. A. J. Carey, a pastor of large experience, a scholar of great ability, a race man who has contended most vigorously and successfully for all the manhood rights of the American Negro. As former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, as member of the Chicago City Council, I have been in position for years to note the worth and work of Dr. A. J. Carey. And I unhesitatingly say to you that his election to the Bishopric of your church, with the added influence and prestige it would give, would mean more to the church and race than you perhaps at this time realize. He is an ardent worker, a wise counsellor, a courageous leader; is in great demand on public occasions, not only as a representative of the Negro race, but as an inspiring and instructive speaker on the many great themes that have to do with public good. Not since the death of the lamented Bishops Arnett and Grant has there been a representative of the African Methodist Church in this section in such close touch with public officials, city, state and nation, as is Dr. Carey. That he is a thorough lover of his church and an earnest and successful worker for the same is evidenced by his unparalleled work at Quinn and Bethel in this city, and by the further fact that notwithstanding he has been offered many a lucrative appointment he has refused everything that would in any way interfere with his religious duties. He has been repeatedly honored by the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago. Governor Edward F. Dunne, Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Mayor Wm. Hale Thompson have each appointed him to positions of responsibility and trust. In the crisis now upon us the race unquestionably needs not only men who are mighty propounders and successful administrators of ecclesiastical law, but besides all this we need men of broad vision, great courage and intense race loyalty. Add to your already strong and admirable bench the splendid spirit of Dr. A. J. Carey and you will have another man who by his known and proven career has demonstrated beyond all doubt that the connecting link between your great church and the national government will again be established and the race will have in your Episcopacy, backed by your magnificent organization, another wise and fearless spokesman, who will battle against disfranchisement, discrimination, segregation and all the evils now thrust upon us. Hear the voice of the great and loyal West and give us Dr. Carey as one of the next Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. With sincere best wishes that your Centennial General Conference may prove the brightest and best of them all, I am, Sincerely. SERIOUS CHARGES MADE AGAINST W. A. GAINS WHO IS WELL KNOWN IN LOUISVILLE, KY. Evansville, Ind.—Samuel Wurm, township trustee, recently made a request to Lane B. Osborn, Prosecuting Attorney, to investigate alleged irregularities of W. A. Gaines, a Negro undertaker here and prominent Republican politician. Wurm claims that Gaines for two years back has collected township fees for pauper burials and in many cases taken money from the relatives of the bereaved families for the burials. Gaines is worth considerable money and owns undertaking establishments here and at Henderson, Ky. He was formerly a Government liquor gauger in Western Kentucky. At one time he was Grand High Priest or Chief of the United Brothers of Friendship. 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 thirn 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. 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. ‘HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. i a? Dr. W. A. DRIVER 3300{S6. State Street Phode Douglas 3617 POPULAR MEDICINE The fascination that is in the prae- tice of medicine is so great that it is impossible to persuade any person to refrain from trying to practice it. Every adult individual has a remedy of some kind or thinks he has. Every adult person consciously or uncon- seiously diagnoses and prescribes gra- tuitously for somebody sometimes, with some kind of a result. Popular medi- cine like patent medicine is dangerous and very expensive, Tell almost any acquaintance that you have a symptom of ill and note that the listener will presume to know what is the diagnosis and what is the treatment. The tendency to pose as a medical practitioner is so common that it can be safely said that there are as many self-appointed doctors as there are adults. Most of them are uncon- sciously self-constituted usurpers of medical authority. They know not what they do. Henee the need of this THE PLACES TO SEE GOOD VAUDE- VILLE AND PICTURES ON THE SOUTH SIDE. By Karl Monte. So far the beautiful weather has no bad effect on the siceensede south side vaudeville and moving pie ture houses, All continue to draw good crowds, well pleased. Patrons and Managers seem satisfied, and as long as this situation continues to exist it is about all that ean be ex- pected. Next week the Phoenix will run, on Monday, its usual series ‘Mysteries of Myra’? Tuesday, ‘Then I'll come jack to you’? featuring Alice Brady, Wednesday, ‘Sin’s Penalty," Thurs day, ‘‘Larrimor Case,’? on Friday, Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Floorwalker,”? positively the most amusing picture I ever saw, well worth the price of ad- mission alone. In this you see the sune thing for ten cents that you pay twenty-five for in the down town houses. On Sunday they show ‘A Fool’s Revenge.’? The Washington has an exellent program for next week whieh will be well worth going to see. The Wash- ington always has a good pieture and musie, Billy King and Company continue to draw at the Grand, and if you have not seen him you should not longer miss this funniest of comedians and his company, If it should oceur that you don’t like King there are, also, three acts of vaudeville and several Victures in addition to the excellent orchestra employed there night and sy, You don’t lose anything when you vo to the Grand. At the old Monogram, Mills and Frisby and their stock Company are holding out to large audiences this week and will continue for another Weck at that house. They are being well taken here, ‘They change twice a week, Strain and Bailey with a large com- Jouy are at the New Monogram where thee have been packing the house each evening, and next week will be the extra added attraction of King and Gee. Owing to the quality of pietures shown, the States is always crowded. Nothing seems too good to the Man- ager of this house for his patrons. Yesterday they featured little Mary Osborne in ‘*Little Mary Sunshine’? in five acts, also Mutt and Jeff in a cartoon comedy. Today, for grown-ups only. Bruce MeRae and Gerda Holmes in “The Chain Invisible,’? five parts. Ani tomorrow, Francis X, Bushman and Teverly Bayne, in (‘The Wall Be- tween"* a Metro five-act wonderplay. Like the Grand, the States is extreme- ly fortunate in having a good orches- tt, one that does not confine itself to “The Blues’? and other ragtime stuff but, anything and everything. Their leader and managing director at the Tiano is a Fiske man whieh should be Suficient to assure one of good music. Even with his present aceomplish- Rents, Mr. Bailey does not assume that he has acquired it all, in @ musie- al sense and will pursue his studies in the Chicago College. I shall say more of Mr. Railey and his orchestra in & later issue. Why go down town and pay twice &%S much for the same thing. eal 2 ay article. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is in need of teaching. Let us for the sake of humanity teach him. ‘The thin line between life and death is so fine that it is a shame that our schools do not teach the youth the danger of self-appointed and self-con- stituted medical usurpers. It is pathet- ie to note the human wrecks who have been the vietims of misguided though well meaning friends who have ‘pre scribed’? everything from whiskey to dog grease. Popular medicine is not scientific medicine. Scientific treatment of dis. ease can be given only by one who has been trained for that purpose. The physician has a license which society through the State Board of Health, the representative of the people has given him because he passed the required examination and met other require- ments. The physician alone can give scientific treatment of disease. Capt. and Mrs. John L. Fry, have removed from 3311 S. Park avenue to 3449 8. State street. Maj. Robert R. Jackson and Brother Rev. A. J. Carey, returned home Wednesday evening from attending the A. M. E. Conference at Philadelphia, Pa, Arthur Codozoe, one of the popular owners and managers of the old Elite, 3030 State street; has for the past two weeks been confined in Provident Hos- pital from the effects of Quinzy or sore throat. He has been quite ill but he is now improving and he will soon be able to emerge from the hospital. Julius F, Taylor, the verile editor of the Chicago Broad Ax, is getting ‘off some warm facts—‘hot stuff,’? as it were—in a lecture he is delivering around the circle, entitled ‘“The Power and Influence of the Press.’” Men who represent the press are keepers of a sacred trust. ‘The voice of the peo- ple is the voice of God.’’—Richard W. ‘Thompson, in the Freeman, Indian- apolis, Ind., May 20th, 1916. | Twenty-six years ago, this week, attorney Jeremiah D. O’Connell, who oceupies fine law offices on the tenth floor of the New York Life Building was admitted to the bar in this city and from that time to the present Mr. O’Connell has ranked among the able and honorable lawyers of Chicago. He would make a splendid eandidate for judge of the Superior Court in 1917. For fifteen years once each week, The Broad Ax has wended its way into the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. O’Con- nell on Wayne Ave., Edgewater. FOUR ROOMS TO RENT REASON- ABLE. Four rooms with toilet, bath, gas and furnace heat to rent, reasonable to the right parties. For further information, apply or ‘address 3321 Vernon Avenue. ‘The Veiled Prophet of Sanussl. ‘The head of the Sanussiyyah of north ‘Africa and Arabia, the Sheikh es-Sa- nussi, preserves the mystery of the or- der by himself being veiled. No one save his viziers may gaze upon his sa. cred person. And no sultan ever ruled his viziers with a firmer hand than does this sovereign. Under the viziers are the m’kadems, who are the chiefs of the order in their various districts—local governors, as it were. These officials in turn are serv- ed by a staff of subordinates, who keep them informed of all things of interest to the order. Once each year the m’ka- dems gather in the secret city, but what transpires there we can only guess at. One thing is certain—the taxes they have collected in their dis- tricts are then turned into the general treasury. ; ‘The location of this secret city, which bears the name of Jof, can be found on the map, but no Christian lives who ean tell you how the road to it runs, for no Christian traveler has ever been there or at least has ever returned ‘thence.—Christian Herald. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 27, 1916. ee ALD. HENEY UTPATEL. 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 Utpatel, Republi- ean candidate for Judge of the Su- perior Court, full term, was born in this city, April 22, 1870, on the North- west 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 Ger- man Evangelical Lutheran Parochial sehool of the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he is still ‘@ 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 edu- eation which was denied him in his youth, for even at that time he fully Tealized that nothing goes ahead of education in this world when it comes right down to imparting power and in- fluence to those who never permit themselves to rest. until they have finally suceeeded 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 at- tended 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, Aldernian Utpatel has been one of the very valu- able 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 DEATH OF WILLIAM H. HAYMAN. Tuesday morning at 4:30 o'clock, William H. Hayman, 3238 Vernon ave- nue; after an illness of nineteen months, peacefully closed his eyes in death. Funeral services were held yesterday morning at the family residence at the above number. Interment at Mt. Glen- wood Cemetery. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Anna Hayman, other relatives and many friends to mourn his death. AA ~ Be . i \ \ =. 1 : \ Woo» ee Wigs i a) HON. HOSEA W. WELLS. Warm friend of the Afro-American race; popular citizen and Republican car didate for Judge of the Superior Court, full term, to be voted for at th ‘Jndicial election Monday, June Sth. Judge Hosea W. Wells, Republican candidate for Judge of the Superior Court, full term, is so well known that he does not need a long introduc tion to the many readers of this paper. For the past ten years he has honor: ably and faithfully served as one of the judges of the Municipal Court with the reputation for honesty and fairness which cannot be surpassed by any of the judges of Cook County and his well trained legal mind more than amply qualifies him to move on up to a higher court to adjudicate the acts of his fel low men. Jadgo Wells was born on January 27, 1856, at Deleware, Ohio, and re- ceived his education in the public schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity. In 1889, he graduated with Milk and against a dirty ‘‘Pasteur- ized Milk;’? fought against the high cost of living; fought for and deliv- ered to the 15tNjWard improved street lighting; fought against the 20% cut in wages of city employes; fought for better street car transportation; intro- duced the Cold Storage Ordinance which prevents the storing of food- stuffs for the purpose of increasing prices; forced the committee which had in eharge the sum of $220,000.00 for the widows of firemen killed at stock yards to distribute the money. He al- ways voted to further the interests of labor movements and the betterment of working conditions for men and women and for a living wage. Made & special fight for the safety of rail- road employees if electrification was adopted, and while no safety devices were at hand made a bitter fight oppos- ing the electrification of railroads. He introduced the resolution ealling 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; whieh investigation finally resulted in the improving of both working conditions and wages. jae 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 Chieago steam railroads’ employees safety association, and has the good will of all the street car employees. Alderman Utpatel has many ‘ents among the Colored voters throughout this city and Cook county who would be greatly delighted to see him select- ed one of the Judges of the Superior Court at the Judicial election, Monday Saas ih | ALDERMAN JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SMALL PARK COMMISSION. Alderman Joseph Higgins Smith, who is one of the best and most popu- lar members of the City Couneil and who is always looking after all the wants and needs of his constituents in the 14th Ward, has become a mem- ber of the small Park Commission which is indeed very pleasing to his adie 1 bigh honors from the Northwestern University Law School, being admitted to the Bar immediately afterwards and with extraordinary success he prac: ticed law from that time until 1906 when he was elected judge of the Muni- cipal Court, in which eapacity he has served up tothe present time. He is a member of the Hamilton Club, the Illinois, the Chicago, Skat Verbund, the Masonic Order, Mystic Shrine, Consistory, Royal League and Royal Order of Moose. Judge Wells is very popular with all classes of his fellow citizens regardless of their political affiliations and thov- sands of Afro-American voters will on ‘Monday, June 5, assist to elevate him to the Superior Court bench. THE NEXT GOVERNOR Sr, a aN: ap “/ >, © STATESMAN FRANK 0. LOWDEN Octie County. ILL. | 8th REGIMENT I. N. G. : =———June 6th, 1916=—= 3 Evening before the opening of the } National Republican Convention Presentation of Long and Honor- | able Service Medals. :: :: = = New Armory, 35th St. & Forest Avenue | ADMISSION 50 CENTS | Col. Frank ©. 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, Chica- go. He was the Valedictorian ’87 class, Uniog College of Law (now North- westérn); President Alumni Associa- tion and trustee Northwestern Univers. ity for several years; Trustee Univers- ity of Chicago and Knox College, Gales- burg, several years; 189¢—April 29th married Miss Florence Pullman, daugh- ter of George M. Pullman and they have four bright and highly interesting children—one son and three daugh- ters; 1898—formed law partnership— Lowden, Estabrook & Davis. Mr. Low- den’s law practice was extensive and varied. He was one of the most sue- eessful trial lawyers in Chicago He was an able counsellor and a convine- ing speaker. He oceupied the chair of Federal Jurisprudence in North- western Law School. Lowden Hall was named after him for his services; Panama Canal Chains. ‘The huge locks of the Panama canal are guarded by massive chains stretch- ed across the channel. No vessel can crash into the gates at any of the locks Decause of these fenders, placed seven- ty 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 cer- tain 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 1s 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. Mekina “Central’e” 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 ex- tremely particular in sounding the con- sonants clearly in any conversation. Also it is necessary to distinguish care- fully between 5 and 9 and to say “oh” for 0, instead of “naught,” which {s 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 4s, we fear, too often forgotten —Lon- don Globe. Gold Bells. Gold and copper bells served as mon- ey 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 mod- eled in the form of birds, monkeys and grotesque heads. PAGE FIVE elected Lieutenant Colonel, First Regi- ment, Illinois National Guard; 1900— delegate to Republican National Con- vention; 1904—candidate for Republi- can 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 Ilinois and member of executive body of Na- tional Committee; 1906—member of Congress from the 13th district until March, 1911; 1900—purchased Hemen- way Farm, now Sinnissippi Farm, on Roek River, near Oregon, Ilinois. De- voted past fifteen years to development of farm along practical lines, dairy- ing, livestock “breeding, general farm- ing and tree culture. There is one other thing that must be said to the great eredit of Col. Lowden and that is that he has always been friendly disposed towards the Colored people and as one of the direet- ors 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 Ilinois. ‘The Opal. ‘The superstition against the opal be- gan through the stonecutters, each of whom would anxiously ask every oth- er if he had had any luck in his cut- ting, 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.—In- @anapolis Star. ing # PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. e —— * Bathing. Authorities may vary in dis- # cussing the merits of the hot © bath, the tepid bath and the cold ® bath, but they all agree in the abstract that bathing is neces- ® sary to good health. The remov- # al from the skin of the accumu- @ lation of refuse matter is the pri- mary reason for the bath. A bath should not be taken too near mealtime. There is a nor ® mal attraction of the blood to- ® ward the stomach after eating. Any interference with this and the attraction of the blood to- @ ward the surface of the body is ® apt 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 in- ® Jurious if the heart action is not @ strong enough to permit of a ready reaction. To some individ- @ uals the shock to the nervous system is so great that they can- not accustom themselves to cold $ baths. PAGE SIX American Author Whose Book Has Been Suppressed. One of the Four Women War Correspondents 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 because 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, I think, best understand the little things that go to make up the big story," Mary Roberts Rinehart, trained G. MARY ROBERTS RINEHART. nurse, wife of a Pittsburgh physician, author of several successful plays and many delectable stories, was one of the women picked by the magazine. She interviewed both Queen Mary of England and the king and queen of the Belgians. Her description of refurbishing 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 recently been suppressed by the British censor on the ground that it contained information of value to the enemy. When asked what effect the nearness of battle 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 proportion, as all writing is. That is why I think that the real literature 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 attitude of mind. I had just been through a bombardment by aeroplanes, and I wrote that night with cold hands and a hot head my definition of war. It is this: "War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of battle. It is 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 wounded by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race torn, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in ice water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorosa for the son she has given for king and country!" Stuffed Sweatthreads Materials.-Six sweetbreads, a plint plain stuffing, one-half cupful mushrooms, 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.—Parbell the sweetbreads until reader. Plunge them into cold water. Drain, wipe dry and trim into shape. Make a plain stuffing, as for poultry. Cut a pocket in the sweetbreads and stuff. Then sew up the pocket. Melt the butter in the chafing dish, flour the sweetbreads lightly, then dip 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 minutes. Arrange six pieces of toast on a platter, place the sweetbreads on the toast, pour the sauce over and around, garnish with sliced oranges and watercress and serve. These stuffed sweetbreads 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 suits for children are made with skirts of broken checks and coats of serge in solid color. They have suspenders attached 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 looking. Children's skirts are usually cut circular and have considerable flare at the foot, fitting fairly close over the hips. The coats are finished with a coat collar and lapeps, and some are made in Norfolk styles. There are many variations in trimmings. 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 sometimes trimmed with black satin in bands at the foot, and the collars and cuffs are also of satin. Little coats of light blue silk poplin are smocked on either side of the front and in the center 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 mildy dresses, the Russian blouse, the one piece dress joined with a belt, the coat and Norfolk styles and the little suspender dresses worn with guimps, as well as the short waisted effects, are all seen in attractive assortments. Some dresses hang in loose lines from the shoulders and are trimmed 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 effect. Ginghamms, percales, linens, reps and lawns are the prominent wash materials. 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 GOOD STYLE king's blue velvet ribbon with extension 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 evening 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 is drawn upon and the "bloom of youth" applied. But no artificial coloring ever hld 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 maintain her attractive appearance—to be "easy to look at," as one of our famous humorists said—is to keep the body up to its highest standard of efficiency. If this be done rosy cheeks, a clear complexion, sparkling eyes, a sweet breath, grace of carriage, will follow as surely as sunrise follows the night. Covering the Neck. Soon we shall be thinking about pretty ways of decorating the uncovered neck and shall no doubt revive the old time lace hemmed net ruche fastened by a rose or a ribbon bow, which in the portraits of young French beauties of the eighteenth century looks so fascinating. Devices of this and other kinds the collarless blouses which are arriving will make possible and desirable. There is a decided leaning toward the decollete blouses, with a choice of chokers. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 27, 1916. FOR THE CHILDREN FOR THE CHILDREN 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 be here, Uncle Ben told the children this story about AN AMERICAN EAGLE. The eagle has always been the emblem of power and courage. It is pictured in many ways, the most popular 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 Indian 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, carried "Abe" on a staff, which was placed a little above the colors. When any orders were given the colors 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 lie on the ground it flew down and stretched flat beside the soldiers. When they got up it flew to the top of its perch again, so the story goes. It went through twenty-two battles and thirty skirmishes and was wounded three times. When the war was over it traveled all over the country and received as much homage as a great man. A veteran was detailed to take care of it and was well pald for doing so. The bird died in 1851, and its skin was stuffed and put in the state capitol. But it was later burned in a great fire. The Common Hen. When you come right down to natural history facts there is no beast or bird about which a boy or girl knows more than about the common barnyard hen, which is a very industrious individual. But there may be some boys and girls who do not know that the hen and her male companion, the rooster, came originally from Asia. In the jungles of India they used to roam wild and were great fighters. When a couple of them engaged in battle the one that was victorious would shout it out with loud crowing. There is also a negro variety that has not only black feathers, but a black skin. 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 Egyptians thought a great deal of the hen. A Valuable Tree. Writtler, in Los Angeles county, can perhaps claim the most valuable fruit tree in California. It is an avocado (alligator pear) and is insured against wind and fire by Lloyd's of London to the amount of $30,000. This tree in 1914 produced 3,000 pears, which averaged 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 addition that was hailed with delight by the circus folks. It was a baby camel. Photo by American Press Association a cute and awkward little fellow, covered with soft brown hair. Sad to say, the baby's mother was unable to nurse him, so the kind hearted keeper fitted a rubber nipple on the neck of a bottle, and little Mr. Camel soon learned how to take his meals' 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. 1 ULTRA LINES. An unusual finish is gained by a white organdie piping around the coat to match the collar. The slashed belt is also interesting. FOR SUMMER SHOWERS. Gay Umbrellas Are Appearing Like Broken Off Bits of Rainbows. It is 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 umbrellas made of silk taffeta in green, blue, burgundy, prelate, orchid, dull yellow or African brown. The color choice is broad, so that the costume or the salient tone thereof may be matched. These silks are waterproof, and the color looks no worse after 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 loop run through a perforation in the handle, and this is swung over the wrist. One advantage of the new umbrella is that it may be used for sun protection quite as well as for the rain defense. One feels 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 unexpectedly pierces the clouds later in the day. Moreover, the gay color seems to anticipate the appearance of the rainbow. Kitchen Helps. 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 immediate 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 tirt pail. In this stand on the small and 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 is full cover it tightly and place in a cool place, and the eggs will keep perfectly for an indefinite time. On Ironing Day. One will find it a great help on ironing day to have a goodly supply of clothes hangers at hand. As soon as a garment is ironed slip it over a hanger. Each hanger 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 with 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 mashed with one and one half cupfuls sugar. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream FRESH CURTAINS. How to Make Home 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 pulling from the corners. "This is entirely a mistake, and curtains 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 center on the top edge of the frame; then, working from the center, first to the right and then to the left, slip the successive scallops over pins until the entire 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 downward. The next step is to attach the bottom end of the curtain to the frame pins. This usually has the same border as the long, patterned edge. In fastening it to the stretcher work downward from one of the top corners until you have all the patterned edge attached 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 the side and then adjust the remaining two sides of the frame to correspond exactly in the number of inches. Fasten the other short edge of the curtain, 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 puckered 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 emphasized is that the long border or patterned edge of lace curtains should always be dried at the top of the frame. Removing the curtains from the stretcher 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 scallops in good shape. Stretchers which have movable pins can be perfectly 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 birthday party, she needs a smart frock. J CORRECT FLARES. The cut shows one of organdy trimmed with val lace and insertion set around inverted scallops. The tunic falls over a sash of pale pink ribbon, worn low, as do French children. American Chop Suay Two pounds of veal from the shoulder or leg will be required for the chop suey. Cut into cubes and fry lightly in a little butter. Add a tiny bit of onion, two bananas cut in cubes and a small can of button mushrooms sliced. Season highly with salt and pepper and add half a teaspoonful of curry powder. When the bananas and mushrooms are brown cover with cold water and simmer for twenty minutes; thicken slightly and serve. The bananas may be omitted and celery substituted if desired. Here's a Model You Can Easily Copy at Home. This dainty lingerie gown is featured in white embroidered net and lace. A frill of net on the skirt falls over a drop 8 FOR AFTERNOONS. of net ribbon trimmed. A simple bodice is chiefly of the embroidery with V neck, elbow sleeves and deep satin girdle. The parasol is black and white taffeta. LET THE CHILDREN DIG. Nothing Pleases Small Ones Better Than a Garden Patch. If you live out of town or spend your summers 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 developing 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 border, a row of beans (a short one) in the vegetable garden and a little patch of flowers in the flower border. In this way the child has a chance unconsciously to study trees, flowers and vegetables. If possible, make the child interested in 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. Without 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 impossible. 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 garden. There are children's bird books and gardening booas 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, flowers or fruits, whatever they are. It is a 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 bordered with pln tucked self material, straight on its outer edge and widely scalloped along the fine, embroidered outlined inner edge. Another blouse dominating collar has a tapering, narrow 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 crepe de chine this second collar is extremely practical as well as dainty. Toddler's Apron. A charming little work or play apron is made of soft pink linen with a yoke, sleeve bands and hem of white. The little apron buttons 'at the back of the yoke and is cut with faring lines, so that it spreads wide at the hem. There is a cross stitched design of Little Bopeep and a couple of her wee lams. The same apron could be made in blue and white, with any other Mother Goose character or animal or flower in the cross stitch. wy Se I ee ae ao a | > Wp \ | GROWS HAIR | 4 . pa ieice natal . | el ete <a THE IDEAL pearl | 3 QUINACOMB ‘i peor ae >) al mere pla fl Seesy Drvc Company, New York City. N.Y. and SHIP CANAL ee Length -.- - - - 32 Miles Depth - - - - - - 22 Feet Width - - - 162 to 290 Feet Industrial Locations, Dock Facil- ities, Water Transportation, Rail- road 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 e eo Karpen Building 900 So. Michigan Ave, | CHICAGO An Artist’s Fad. A Parisian artist in lieu of a pletare gallery has a collection of great paint- as’ palettes, some 500 in number, amonz 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. Jol Wycliffe, completed the transla- tlon of the whole Bible for the first time futo the language of the English People. He was born near Richmond, fa Yorkshire, about 1824. i A Case of Fifty-Fifty. “Half the world doesn't know how the otlier half lives.” “That's the half that minds its Own business: probably.”—Philadelphia Ledger. ‘The smallest thing well done be- Comes artistie.—William Matthews. Flower ef the Air. ‘There is a plant in Chile and « siml- lar one in Japan called the “flower of the air.” It is so called because it ap- Dears to have no root and is never fix- “to the earth, It twines around a ty tree or sterile rock. Each shoot Produces two or three flowers like a Wy—white, transparent and odorifer- ous. It is capable of being transported %0 to 700 miles and vegetates as it travels suspended on a twig. Perfect Machinery. “Their household seems a perfect Blece of machinery.” “Tes; the wife's the governor, the filldren safety valves and the hus- Mad « cronk."—Philadelphia Bulletin. _ His Views. uter me, I forgot to send her an favitation to our wedding!” “Timazine it won't make much dif- feeace. “\e won't miss one pickle frt"—Kausas City Journal ok Astronomy. ;zonomy is one of the most exact the sciences. The eee = “pes, the spectroscope other Sst perfect instruments come pretty Mer 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 after- ward split in two, in which Hyde, pur sued for some rime, took the powder and underwent the change in the pres- ence of his pursuers. All the rest was made awake and consciously, although I think I can trace in mueh of it the manner of my brownies.” Lerdiv Diereell. 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 suc- cess, and on my asking him to enlight- en 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 magnilo- quent 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 show- er? ‘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 ‘wor!’ 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’ is other thing is what you got to consider: De minute you hollers old man Trouble locates you an’ sets his traps ter trip you an’ send you rollin’ down ter de bottom, whar you come from!’—Atlanta Constitution. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, MAY 27, 1916, ee Astonishing the Chines, | His Backbone Is a Spring. “When I was in China,” a fireworks} The snapping bug has a spring man said, “I was astonished to find | back, like a knife. When not 1 how little the people knew about pyro- | 8 @ spring it serves him as a ftechny beyond their own Chinese | bone, so you see he is a beliet crackers, They can make these crack- | scientific efficiency and makes on zs much more cheaply than they could | of his machinery do the work of be produced in America. But of set |HUS spring backbone, or bac! pieces, rockets and such like, the Chi- | 8P'ng if you prefer, gives him | nese know practically nothing, and Sy se in turn gives hii ae, eet fo malts Cem ans te eae ce ee ne in the extreme. -* “A Chios cnser maker ring nar | Boo. eck” Toure no sere tenet oo ce | temo eta Se = joey ty | BoWever. He slips his backbon friendly mandarin of its groove and then slips it to act as judge. My Chinese opponent | sain suddenly. The spring pop act off a lot of gigantic crackers a0 | up in the air. he turns « some! made a terrifying noise, bot the man- | ang drops right side up. Spring darin bad been used to that from t2-|nones are common in several fancy and wasn’t at all impressed. MY | beetles. The beetle of the pestif show, however, astounded him, ak | wire worm, which destroys the. though it was really a mean exhibit, | er’s crops, has a spring in his for I wasn't going to waste my best| Other members of the family pleces on a private competition. I got |/their homes in trees or decayed the award easily enough—Washington | —Philadelphia North American. Star. = SPS Sees Resourceful Burglar. French Army Helmets. ae cee EN aah) eat aad +here are sixty-four distinct epera- tions necessary in turaing out one of the plain steel helmets worn by Brench soldiers. The first step is stamping out disks from large sheets of steel. A special machine is used for this pur- Pose, exerting a pressure of 150 tons and capable of cutting out 5,000 steel disks a day. Each disk is placed un- der a shaping machine, which presses the disk into the form of a helmet with a broad rim. Polishing and cutting machines remove all irregularities in the helmet, after which it has holes punched in the crown, some for ven- tilation purposes, others for fastening on the regimental crest. Each helmet is cleaned and dipped in a special mix. ture which makes it a dull, inconspic- uous bluish-gray. A lining and leath- er chin straps are then fastened on, ang the helmet is complete.—Pearson’s. The Wesley Oak, tues comme Eaten eee lanta (Ga.) Journal, stands on St, St ‘mon’s island, less than a mile from ‘Fort Frederica. It is 200 feet high, and its cool shade rests like a bene- diction over an area of several acres. According to local tradition, this tree marks the exact spot on which the ‘Wesleys preached. Charles Wesley en- gaged himself to Oglethorpe as private secretary before leaving England, But he afterward took orders and devoted much of his time to preaching near Frederica, From time to time Jobn ‘Wesley came down from Savannah to Join him. This famous oak stands at the gateway to the churchyard of Christ church, and several generations sleep within the inclosure that {t guards. Mosses hang down from its limbs, and it is solemn and beautifal. United States. If you should hear some stranger mention the United States are you pos- itive 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 fs taken to refer to Venezuela. In almost all parts of the southern continent the mention of a country in the northern hemis- phere called “United States” is likely to suzzest Mexico, whose official title 1s Estados Unidos Mexicanos. ‘There are still those who speak of the repub- Ue of Colombia as “the United States,” because during the period when its federal constitution was in force, from 1861 to 1886, it was called Estados Unidos de Colombia.”—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. ‘eae ae ‘The spirit of self help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual, and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from with- out is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invig- orates. Whatever is done for men or classes to a certain extent takes away | the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves, and where men are sub- Jected to overguidance and overgov- ernment the inevitable tendency 1s to render them comparatively helpless. — Samuel Smiles. A Close Connection. “rm tryin’ to get some information about a friend of mine named For, 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,” sald 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 Vaarant 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 tt”— Louisvillg Courier-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. * Bind the Grouch. “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 Sorina. |, She snapping bug has a spring im his back, like a knife. When not in use a8 & spring it serves him as a back. Done, 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 Jay 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 back- bones are common in several other beetles. The beetle of the pestiferous wire worm, which destroys the farm- e's crops, has a spring in his back. Other members of the family make ‘their homes in trees or decayed wood. —Philadelphia North American. i & constable going the rounds of his beat in London a few nights ago no. ticed a light in a house from which the family and servants had gone out of town. After the otticer 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 suspt ¢lon, whereupon the man stated that he had just run up to town to see that all was right. After chatting for a it tle he invited the constable to have a glass of wine. He lit the dining room gas and produced a bottle of port After they bad 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. ‘ies os Shee te Den ‘The shire horse owes its name to Ar thur Young’s remarks, in the deserip tion of his azricultural tours during the closing years of the eighteen cen tury, concerning the large old English black horse, “the produce prinetpalls 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 eulti- vated in the rich fen lands of Lincoln- shire and Cambridgeshire and in many counties of the west. Curiously enough, the Shire Horse scciety, which has done so much to promote the breed, was known for the first six Years of its existence, which began ip 1878, as the Enzlish Cart Horse socie- ty.—London Chronicle. ‘The Firat Wer. ‘The first writing known to scholars ‘was the account of a war waged be- tween hostile nations in Mesopotamia, Perhaps 3500 B. C. The first battle ‘was that between Cain and Abel. Ap- parently men have always been quick to settle their differences by fightins. The first warlike king is said to have Deen Osymandyas of Exypt, who pass- ed 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 Ine of battle, placed sentinels round a camp and excited the soldier's visi- lance by giviny him a password. This occurred durin: the siege of Troy, the date of which is variously estimated at about 2,500 years before the Christian era.—Pittsburszh Press. Reversing tho Compliment. A casuice © \o . portly build was frowning over 2 statement of ac- counts just placed before him’ by his pretty typist. “As a young Indy.” he said, “I ad- mire your type. bat I can't honestly gay 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 fig- ure!”—London Express. ‘Quick Way to Drive Posts. | ‘To drive posts quickly take a section of log about fi’teen in-bes in diameter and two feet lous, to which are attach- ed two handies 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 ft in alignment—Farm and home. Made Him Cross. “I made my husband cross this after- noon,” sald Mrs. Caller. “How was that?" queried Mrs. He mer. “He was on the opposite side of the street, and I beckoned him to come over,” explained the other. Cause For Thanks. Guest—Look bere! This mirror is #0 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—Exebange, 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 wit- ness does not tell the truth. Unhistoric Youngster. “What was the result of the flood?” — 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 ts ervelty, not justice —William Penn. LINCOLN STATE. BANK. OF GHCh 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET; CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 CAPITAL, $200,000.00 SURPLUS, $20,000.00 ERS Commercial Banking ead Savings and Checking Accommen Hie : Foreign Exchange ie (ie Safety Deposit Vaults « lB} || Mortgages and Bonds Qi i — Si 3 Per Cent tr Interest on Savings Peal Fait a Deposits 3 I / Your Patronage Solicited See a This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depos- Depository and Correspondent, Le ee Continental & Commercial Récoank ‘witha Fest elope National Bank of Chicago, wealth. OPEN one with US. Minois. PHONES: OFFICE. MAIN 4158 AUTOMATIC. Sec736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7990 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW, SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Ottice Phones: Res. $138 Se. Wabash Ave. entrant waeloe sesmes Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO eae niueetaiee ear aoe pecacaas Phone Main 2017 Automatie 32.395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Blde. ) 184 W, Washington St. Residence 5548 Jeferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chieazo Household Helps. ‘To cut butter in smal] 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 ket- tle 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 ts dissolved in the proportion of ome ta- Diespoonful of soda to four quarts of race THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobaceo, 20 tion store and news stand, 5012 8. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, S. E. cor ner 5Sist and State streets. 8. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notiows and News Stand; 31 W. 61 Street, nea Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, nows agency; 3109 Btate street. George I Martin, maker of fine cig are and news stand, 18 W. 3ist St, near State. R. M. Harvey’s barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to bacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State Bt. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th Bt, near State. Sylvester MeGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State Bt. BR M. Oliver, notions, cigars and acws stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near Btate. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 &. State Bt. George MeFaro, shee shining parlors and news stand. 3890% State strest. PaGE suvEw A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 te 616 Residence 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ‘ATTORNEY AT LAW | Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark & Washington Sts. Phones Kote: 1-318 cHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 Phone Res. 508. 36th se. FRANKLIN 2727 Phone Douglas 4397 AvTO. 41-543 J. GRAY LUCAS ATIORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborm St. Usion Bank’ Building Suite 311 CHICAGO FRAN DUNT crate Batblbed 107 ‘TEL. OAKLAND 1880, 1881, 1882 JOHN J. DUNN wou OO f we Fifty-Firet and Armour Avenue | RAILYARDS emcee CMoaee T. B. dal, 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 8. State street. Miss B. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 30th street. FF. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Why Not Be FEriendiv? 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 sec- tion? Why be niggardly with nelghbor- Iiness? Of course one may make an occasional mistake, but for every un- desirable 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 ouzht to be simple. If you are an older resident greet the newcomer. There is a double Diessing in a welcome. In giving you get. If you are the neweomer—well, your duty was never better stated than in these words of Ruskin: “It is a cood and safe rule to so- Journ 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. 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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. "So you are playing with your soldiers, Willie?" said the caller. "Yes, ma'am." "They seem very heavy soldiers." "Yes, ma'am. 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. --- Lead Soldiers Fine Field. most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South Entertainers. "JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 ite Cafe BUFFET T CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer BLOCKI & SON CUMERS TO SLER, Druggist State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS carefully Compounded A FULL LINE OF BLOCKI'S FLOWER PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. LOUIE USSELMANN The Practical Otician TICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY THE LOWEST PRICES 150 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 Selize 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 1780 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 enclosed 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 amabille 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 27, 1916. ERNEST WILLIAMSON Why They Walk In Circles. 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 the longer, the inclination 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. Mrs. Newed—I would like a pound of your best cheese. Mrs. Newed—Well, I don't want any of it. I'm not going to pay for a pound of cheese that contains a half pound of 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 adver- sements 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"— "Yeah; 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? BROADWAY GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent all Safety Depos REAL As agent buy and sell Real E dents, including payment of u on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invite The Cra Building The finest building e steam heat, electric light cent allowed on Savings Acct. Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estat payment of taxes and looking after assessments Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business Cranford Apartn uilding. 3600. Wabash A building ever opened to Colored tenant electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. THE HOTEL The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. 'Phone Randolph 803 --- S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tives and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Anford Apartment 5. 3600. Wabash Ave. ver opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET.