The Broad Ax

BROAD AX The United States Seems to be on the Eve of Plunging into a Long Bloody War with Mexico. President Woodrow Wilson, Through the Secretary of War, Has Ordered Many Companies of the National Guards of the Various States to Mobilize at Certain Points and Prepare to Invade Mexico THE FIRST CAVALEY, THE FIRST REGIMENT, THE SECOND REGIMENT, THE SEVENTH REGIMENT AND THE EIGHTH REGIMENT OF THE ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS ARE ALL NOW QUARTERED AT CAMP LINCOLN AND CAMP DUNNE, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, THE SEVENTH LEADING ON THURSDAY EVENING, COL. DANIEL MORIARTY COMMANDING. THAT SAME EVENING AT 12:45 O'CLOCK THE EIGHTH REGIMENT COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON COMMANDING HEADED BY ITS FAMOUS BAND WENDED ITS WAY THROUGH THE STREETS TO THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL DEPOT AND DEPARTED OVER THAT ROAD FOR CAMP DUNNE, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. FRANKLIN A. DENISON THE BRIGHT LITTLE SEVEN YEAR OLD SON OF COL. AND MRS. DENISON ACCOMPANIED HIS FATHER TO CAMP DUNNE AND MAY FOLLOW THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ON INTO MEXICO. CAPT. LOUIS B. ANDERSON WILL NOT AT THE PRESENT TIME LEAVE WITH THE REGIMENT FOR CAMP DUNNE AS HE HAS BEEN DETAILED AS THE RECRUITING OFFICER AND WILL BE STATIONED AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY FOR SOME TIME TO COME. MAJOR ALLEN A. WESLEY WILL ALSO BE STATIONED AT THE ARMORY AS THE CHIEF MEDICAL INSPECTOR FOR THE NEW RECRUITS AND RECRUITING. WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE REGIMENT IS PLACED ON A STRONG OR SOUND WAR FOOTING. THE MEMBERS OF BEREAN BAPSTIST CHURCH HAVE GRANTED THEIR PASTOR REV. W. S. BRADDAN SIX MONTHS LEAVE OF ABSENCE WITH FULL PAY FOR EACH AND EVERY MONTH SHOWING THAT THEY ARE TRUE BLUE AMERICANS AND THAT THEY WANT THEIR PASTOR TO NOBLY PERFORM HIS PART IN THE WAR AGAINST THE MEXICANS. LIEUT. SAMUEL A. MCGOWAN, HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED AS THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THIS PUBLICATION AND ITS MANY READERS CAN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE MOVEMENTS AND DOINGS OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS UNTIL THE WAR WITH MEXICO COMES TO AN END. Vol. XXI. The United a Long Wilson, Compan Mobilize THE FIRST CAVALRY, THE FIRST OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT AT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS CAMP LINCOLN AND CAMP DIVISION SEVENTH LEADING ON THURSDAY COMMANDING. THAT SAME EVENING AT 12:45 O'TH FRANKLIN A. DENISON COMMAND AND WENDED ITS WAY THE NOIS CENTRAL DEPOT AND CAMP DUNNE, SPRINGFIELD, FRANKLIN A. DENISON THE BRIDGE OF COL. AND MRS. DENISON CAMP DUNNE AND MAY FOR INTO MEXICO. CAPT. LOUIS B. ANDERSON WILL WITH THE REGIMENT FOR CUSTOM TAILLED AS THE RECRUITING AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT A. MAJOR ALLEN A. WESLEY WILL MORY AS THE CHIEF MEDICINE CRUITS AND RECRUITING WENT IS PLACED ON A STRONG. THE MEMBERS OF BEREAN BAPTIST PASTOR REV. W. S. BRADDAN WITH FULL PAY FOR EACH A THEY ARE TRUE BLUE AMIRE THEIR PASTOR TO NOBLY BE AGAINST THE MEXICANS. LIEUT. SAMUEL A. MCGOWAN, HER REGULAR CORRESPONDENT MANY READERS CAN KEEP IN AND DOINGS OF THE EIGHTH GUARDS UNTIL THE WAR WT. Many people in all parts of this country for the past two or three years have been engaged in severely condemning President Woodrow Wilson, for adhering to his "Watchful Waiting policy" while dealing with the Mexican situation and without the slightest warning last Monday morning he startled the entire world by issuing an order through the secretary of war calling on the governors of many of the states to order the National Guards to mobilize at certain well located points and as rapidly as possible make all preparations to invade Mexico, in order to protect the lines of American citizens who have in the past and at the present time are being slain in the border warfare, and the latest news is to the effect that 20 to 30 members of the 9th and 10th Cavalry have been killed by the Mexicans within the last two or three days, it may be that in the past that some of the Americans who have been determined to control that country and rule the Mexicans with an iron hand the same as they wantonly in a brazen faced manner ride rough shod over the civil and the political rights of the darker and the weaker races in this country and in other sections of the world are largely responsible for the present disordered state of affairs in Mexico, but brushing all of that aside for the present, one thing is certain that peace and order should at once be established in that country and its governmental affairs should be in the hands of safe and sound rulers or representatives of the more advanced and civilized Mexicans and the Americans who have large landed interests, and are greatly interested in other enterprises in that country should be severely taught to at all times to respect all the rights of that class of the Mexicans. The First Cavalry, the First Regiment, Col. J. B. Sanborn, Commanding, the Second Regiment, Col. John J. Garrity, Commanding, the fighting Seventh Regiment, Col. Daniel Morlarty, Commanding of the Illinois Na- HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY tional Guards are all now quartered at Camp Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois the Seventh departing Thursday night. That same evening at 12:45 o'clock the Eighth Regiment, Col. Franklin A. Denison, Commanding, with its famous band well in the lead, Capt. William Berry in charge of it wended its way through the streets on its way to the Illinois Central depot and departed over that road for Camp Dunne at Springfield, Illinois, even at that late hour of the night thousands and thousands of both White and Colored people lined the streets on both sides to witness its departure and many of the women were in tears at beholding their loved marching away as though their lives would be ended on the battle fields of Mexico. It was indeed an inspiring sight to see Franklin A. Denison, the bright little seven year old son of Col. and Mrs. Denison marching by the side of his tall soldier bearing father and he not only accompanied his father to camp Dunne but he may follow the Eighth Regiment on into Mexico. Capt. Louis B. Anderson, at the present time will not leave for camp Dunne as he has been detailed as the head or the official recruiting officer at this point and he will be stationed at the Eighth Regiment Armory for the next two or three weeks. Major Allen A. Wesley will also be stationed at the Armory as the chief medical inspector for the new recruits and recruiting will continue until the regiment is placed on a sound or strong war footing. The officers and roster of the Eighth Regiment National Guards follow: Field and Chaplain. Col. Franklin A. Denison; Lt. Col. James H. Johnson; Maj. Robert R. Jackson, 1st Battalion; Maj. Charles L. Hunt, 2d Battalion; Maj. Otis B. Duncan, 3d Battalion; Capt. William T. Jefferson, I. S. A. P.; Capt. William S. Braddan, Chap. Headquarters Co. Captain Louis B. Anderson; 1st Lieut. Samuel A. McGowan, B'n Adju- CHICAGO, JUNE 24, 1916 tant; 1st Lieut. Harry W. Jones, B'n Adjutant; 1st Lieut. Clement N. Hinton, B'n Adjutant. As further evidence that the war spirit continues to run strong among the great majority of the Colored people. Just as soon as it became apparent that the Eighth Regiment had been ordered to Camp Dunne, the members of the Berean Baptist Church 52nd and Dearborn streets, met and cheerfully and willingly granted their pastor the Rev. W. S. Braddan, six months vacation with full pay for each and every month as he is the eloquent Chaplain of the Eighth Regiment, showing that they are true blue Americans and that they are more than willing to have their pastor to nobly perform his part in connection with the war against the Mexicans. For some time to come Lieut. Samuel A. McGowan, will serve as the regular correspondent for this publication and its many readers can easily keep posted as to the movements of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards until the war with Mexico draws to an end. P. S.—The Eighth Regiment did not entrain for Camp Dunne at Springs field, Illinois, until last evening at 9:30 o'clock. U. S. ARMY BILL PROVIDES FOR 14 NEW REGIMENTS. Three Units To Be Formed In Foreign Service—More Men for Funston. Washington, D. C., June 22—Special. The scheme of reorganization for the regular army under the new army bill was announced today. It provides for the addition of seven regiments of infantry, two of cavalry, three of field and heavy artillery, and two of engineers. The act takes effect July 1, and by the plan announced the new regiments composing the first annual increment of increase will be created on that date, giving Gen. Funston twelve new regimental units. Three of the new infantry regiments will be formed in the foreign service. The Thirty-first infantry will be composed of the first battalion of the Fifteenth infantry, expanded to a full regiment and posted in the Philippines. By a process of selecting alternate non-commissioned officers and men from the Eighth and Thirteenth infantry, now in the islands, the new regiment will be given a skeleton organization complete in every detail, but which must be filled up with second lieutenants and recruits. Draft on Foreign Troops. In the same way the Thirty-second infantry will be built up out of drafts from the First and Second Regiments in Hawaii; the Thirty-third from the Fifth and Tenth in the canal zone; the Thirty-fourth at El Paso from the Seventh, Twentieth and Twenty-third; the Thirty-fifth at Douglas, Ariz., from the Eleventh, Eighteenth, and Twenty-second; the Thirty-sixth at Brownsville from the Fourth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth; the Thirty-seventh at Fort Sam Houston from the Third, Ninth and Thirtieth. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth cavalry also will be formed on the border out of men from the First, Third, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth regiments; the Seventh and Eighth field artillery from the Third, Fifth and Sixth regiments. The Ninth heavy artillery, equipped with field howitzers, will be organized in Hawaii. Border Force Not Impaired. Officers say the reorganization can take place on the border without im pairing the efficiency of the force. All the officers necessary for the new regiments will be drawn from the existing organizations and promotions all along the line will follow. The effect will be to leave the army virtually without second lieutenants, and it is here that the additional officers provided for under the bill will be fed into the service. AUDITORIUM THEATBE Wabash Avenue and Congress Street. W. H. Clune presents Ramona adapted from Helen Hunt Jackson's story of Early California and the Mission Indians by special arrangement with Little, Brown & Co., Publishers, Boston. A Cinema—Operatic Spectacle Tour directed by Jno. J. Holland. Ramona. Senora Gonzaga Moreno, Lurline Lyons; Felipe Moreno, Jr., N. de Brulier; Senorita Ramona Phail, Adda Gleason; Alessandro Assis, Monroe Salisbury; Father Salvierderra, H. M. Best; Juan Canito, E. Valencia; Margarita, Beatrice, Burnham; Marda, H. Davenport; Old Juanita, Mrs. Gordon; Jose, Wesley Warner; Chief Pablo Assis., Chief Standing Bear; Carmena, Inez Gomez; Mrs. Hartsell, Rosa Dray; Jim Farrar, James Needham; Father Gaspara, J. L. Franck. In the prologue the chief characters are as follows: Senorita Ramona Gonzaga, Babel Van Buren; Angus Phail, Richard Sterling; General Felipe Moreno, N. de Brullier; Senorita Hermosa Gonzaga; Miss Lurline Lyons; Senora Moreno, Miss Lurline Lyons; Senor Gonzaga, Herbert Whitehead; Lieutenant Ortegna, Arthur Tavers; Father Salvierderra, H. M. Best; Soft Wind, Princess Red Wing; Ramona Phail, Miss Anna Lehr; Relique Moreno, Jr., Master Victor Vallejo. Everything in connection with this remarkable play is of the highest order, the music is the most enchanting that the writer has ever listened to and all in all Ramona should enjoy a long and very profitable run at the Auditorium Theatre. "Ramona" as a story has been read for years, and is almost as well known as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and other literature faithfully handed down to each generation as precious heritage of historical times. MISS KATHRYN RUTHERFORD WHO WORKED VERY HARD FOR THE ELECTION OF MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON IN 1915, WILL ORGANIZE A VOLUNTEER REGIMENT COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF SOUND ABLE BODIED MEN. Miss Kathryn Rutherford, 121 East 43rd St., who springs from one of the oldest families in this city, who is a keen student of political events, who worked very hard for the Hon. William Hale Thompson, for Mayor of Chicago in 1915, delivering many speeches in favor of his election in all parts of this city, who lead the cheering in the late Republican National Convention in favor of the nomination of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, she attracting more attention than any of his many admirers, is at the present time laying her plans to organize a volunteer regiment which will be composed entirely of sound able bodied men. Miss Rutherford will not do any of the commanding herself and she will permit the rank and file of her volunteer regiment to select the various officers whom they want to lead her forces into Mexico. COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON, COMMANDING THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS. WAR FOR HEALTH In England, on account of the war, it is reported that local health authorities are finding it difficult to properly and promptly collect and dispose of refuse of a fly breeding nature. Unless householders co-operate by burning this stuff or burying it, flies will greatly increase and add to their domestic troubles, because of the unusual demand for men at the front. We in America, notably in big cities have no excuse for not fighting this greatest enemy to domestic peace and health—the fly. Some people say they do not believe in America's taxing to maintain a large army or navy. Some say they do not want to prepare to kill human beings by fostering military training and thought. But whether militarists or pacifists, in the ordinary sense, we must all agree on one thing. Patriotism, love of life, love of health, love or comfort, all admonish us to camp on the job of fly extermination. Drill and train daily in the manual which covers careful supervision of wet rubbish, garbage and refuse inviting fly invasion. Here are a good barrero on? Is the cover kept in place? Does your servant put all garbage in the can? Does the garbage wagon call regularly? Does it call often enough to prevent over-accumulation? If not, call up the Department of Health, or Department of Streets & Alley Cleaning and report the matter. Is there any accumulation of damp vegetable or animal matter about your place or on neighboring premises? Do you or your neighbors keep chickens, horses or cows? If so, is proper disposal made of all manure, so that no flies find a breeding place? This is a war worth while. It is a war which is not hell; but an inferno of insanitation awaits us if we hesitate and refuse the call to volunteer. Enlist at once! Fall in! Right dress! Attention! Shoulder arms! Ready! Aim! Fire the fly! Six states and twenty cities are an- Has it a cover? Shoulder arms! nging into Woodrow ered Many States to de Mexico nounced by the American Red Cross as winners of pennants and honors in the Second Annual Competition for selling the largest number of Red Cross Seals per capita during the sale last December. The total sale announced will reach 80,000,000 seals, bringing in a revenue for anti-tuberculosis work in the United States of $800,000. How would you like to live in a town or a community where the people had no public health service, no education or instruction in matters of sanitation and no efforts made to prevent needless disease and death. In a town, so unfortunately situated, you would find people who still believe that night air is dangerous and that files are needed as scavengers to eat up neighborhood filth and thus keep people well. The underfed, poorly cared for child is handicapped for life. BROWN----CARBAUGH Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brown of 9644 Exchange Ave., announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Anna M. to Mr. Geo. Carbaugh this evening. The father will give his daughter away at his residence. The Reverend B. D. Tymepu officiating. An elaborate catered supper will be served and the bride and groom will be the recipient of many wedding gifts from their many friends. Miss Brown has long been associated with the Chicago Legal News Co. and her many fellow workers extend their well wishes for a happy voyage upon the sea of matrimony and as a token of their deep regard and high esteem the happy bride to be was presented with a beautiful and costly gift. Miss Brown was also the recipient of a handsome remembrance from her employer, Judge Thos. B. Bradwell. The bride possesses many excellent qualities and the writer also joins in extending his most hearty congratulations and wishes her a most successful voyage throughout her married life. The bride and groom will be at home to their many friends at 7450 Kenwood Ave After July 1st, 1916. 5 No. 40 * * * *** PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, single Taxers, Priests, infidels 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 THE BROAD AX 6532 St. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS P. 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. Pitts, 3315 S. State street. Phone Douglas 4049. The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the last named place and news items and advertisements left there will find their way into these columns. Artificial Ears. Artificial ears are so skilfully made that they may with difficulty be distinguished from natural ones, so it is claimed. When the person who has lost an ear applies to the manufacturer for a substitute there is made a mold of the remaining ear. If there be left any part of the other a mold of that part also must be taken to assist in the fitting of the artificial. Manufacturers assert that no two ears are alike and that it takes a skilful 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 1899, when the prizes were pieces of plate, the chances 40,000 for 10 shillings each and the desirable object the maintenance of harbors. But, once familiar grown, lotteries corrupted the ancient virtues of John Bull, and by the time of Queen Anne the state stepped in and suppressed every private lottery as a public nuisance. By an act passed in 1823 sanction was given to a particular lottery, and that was the last. At the same time all sale of tickets for home or foreign lotteries was forbidden—London Times. Fair Enough. "Yes," we admitted, "it's a fine car, and we'd be glad to own it, but we can't afford to buy it, and there's no use wasting your breath trying to persuade us." "Listen," pleaded the agent. "This car isn't going to cost you a cent. All you've got to do is to take out an accident policy in our favor and the car is yours. We'll even pay the premium on the policy. Can anything be farther than that?"—St. Louis Post-Dimatch. Lieutenant Thaw Wounded After Thrilling Fight With German. ALLIES PRAISE AMERICANS. Gain Further Distinction as Result of a Hot Battle—Thaw Likely to Go on Legion of Honor—Corporal Rockwell Also In Conflict, and His Exploit Attracts Attention. Paris.—In one of the sharpest aerial battles yet fought the American squadron gained further distinction. Lieutenant Thaw and Corporal Kiffin Rockwell flew out at 5 o'clock in the morning recently and saw a Fokker and an Aviatik close by. Lieutenant Thaw dived for the Fokker, and Corporal Rockwell followed. The Aviatik dived for Lieutenant Thaw, but, catching sight of Corporal Rockwell's machine, turned and hurried to safety. Lieutenant Thaw when fifteen yards from the Fokker fired. The German machine fell at almost the first shot. At 8:30 on the same morning the whole American squadron went out over the German lines, its work being mainly preventive, to stop Germans from flying over to make observations of the French lines. The squadron soon found itself in the midst of a group of German aeroplanes and a general battle followed. Eight distinct duels were registered during the next two hours. A bullet hit Corporal Rockwell's wind shield and exploded, fragments hitting him around the nose and mouth but not seriously injuring Photo by American Press Association. LIEUTENANT THAW. him. As a result of Corporal Rockwell's exploit he has again been mentioned in dispatches. Leutenant Thaw's machine received several bullets. One of these hit him on the elbow, breaking the small bone. Nevertheless he made a perfect landing, wondering whether he was within the German lines until he was relieved by seeing two French soldiers come running up. He is now in Paris, where he will stay until his arm is better. The injury is not severe. He has already been promoted to a full lieutenancy and is now proposed for the Legion of Honor. His victory over the Fokker is likely to assure his receiving the honor. Corporal Chapman engaged two Aviatics and put them to flight. An explosive bullet hit his machine, and another grazed his arm, not wounding him. He has been proposed for mention in the order of the army. Lieutenant Cowdin had two fights, one resulting in the downing of a second aeroplane. He has been proposed for promotion to a second lieutenancy. Bert Hall was actively engaged in the melee and has been proposed for the military medal. The squadron's French captain and lieutenant were also hotly engaged. The fight was remarkable in that it happened for the most part at no great height—between 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Norman Prince had the bad luck to smash his machine in starting and was unable to take part in the battle. Private Lufbury has arrived at the front to join the squadron, and Private Pavelka is under orders to join it. Fred Prince, Willis Havilland of Chicago and Robert Rockwell of Cincinnati have received brevets and have gone to finish their schooling as aviators at Pau. BULLET IN ANKLE 12 YEARS Victim and Man Who Shot Him Now Close Friends. Kansas City, Mo.—A bullet shot twelve years ago by Casimir J. Welch, now justice of the peace, has been removed from the ankle of Martin J. Crowe, county marshal. The shot was one of several fired in a political fight between the two at Twelfth street and Grand avenue. The encounter was in a political campaign in which Welch was working for one faction of the Democratic organization and Crowe was supporting W. T. Kemper, candidate for mayor. Didn't Know Neck Was Broken. Grass Valley, Cal.-W. J. Mow, a miner of this place, has just learned that he has had a broken neck since last August. Mow was struck on top of his head by a falling pipe at that time, but apparently he was not much injured. Recently he suffered pains and applied to the accident commission for compensation. An examination disclosed that the bones of his neck were splintered. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 24, 1916. "When I was in China," a firewren man said, "I was astonished to find how little the people know about pyrrotechny beyond their own Chinese crackers. They can make these crackers much more cheaply than they could be produced in America. But of set pieces, rockets and such like, the Chinese know practically nothing, and their attempts to make them are crude in the extreme. "A Chinese cracker maker living near Hongkong challenged me once to compete with him in a fireworks display, and a friendly mandarin was called in to act as judge. My Chinese opponent set off a lot of gigantic crackers and made a terrifying noise, but the mandarin had been used to that from fancy and wasn't at all impressed. My show, however, astounded him, although it was really a mean exhibit, for I wasn't going to waste my best pieces on a private competition. I got the award easily enough.—Washington Star French Army Helmet. There are sixty-four distinct operations necessary in turning out one of the plain steel helmets worn by French soldiers. The first step is stamping out disks from large sheets of steel. A special machine is used for this purpose, exerting a pressure of 150 tons and capable of cutting out 5,000 steel disks a day. Each disk is placed under a shaping machine, which presses the disk into the form of a helmet with a broad rim. Polishing and cutting machines remove all irregularities in the helmet, after which it has holes punched in the crown, some for ventilation purposes, others for fastening on the regimental crest. Each helmet is cleaned and dipped in a special mixture which makes it a dull, inconspicuous bluish-gray. A lining and leather chin straps are then fastened on, and the helmet is complete. Pearson's. The Wesley Oak. The Wesley oak, according to the Atlanta (Ga). Journal, stands on St. Simon's island, less than a mile from Fort Frederica. It is 200 feet high, and its cool shade rests like a benediction over an area of several acres. According to local tradition, this tree marks the exact spot on which the Wesleyps preached. Charles Wesley engaged himself to Oglethorpe as private secretary before leaving England. But he afterward took orders and devoted much of his time to preaching near Frederica. From time to time John Wesley came down from Savannah to join him. This famous oak stands at the gateway to the churchyard of Christ church, and several generations sleep within the enclosure that it guards. Mosses hang down from its limbs, and it is solemn and beautiful. United States. If you should hear some stranger mention the United States are you positive that you would know what he meant? In the eastern part of South America the term "United States" is regarded as an unqualified designation of the republic of Brazil, while a little way to the north the term is taken to refer to Venezuela. In almost all parts of the southern continent the mention of a country in the northern hemisphere called "United States" is likely to suggest Mexico, whose official title is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. There are still those who speak of the republic of Colombia as "the United States," because during the period when its federal constitution was in force, from 1861 to 1886, it was called Estados Unidos de Colombia."—St. Louis Globe-democrat. Self Reliance. The spirit of self help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual, and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves, and where men are subjected to overguidance and overgovernment the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.—Samuel Smiles. A Close Connection. "I'm tryin' to get some information about a friend of mine named Fox, who came out here," said the stranger from the east. "They tell me he died of some throat trouble." "I guess that's about right," said the cowboy. "What was it? Bronchitis?" "Bronchitis? That's a new one on me, but I reckon I see the connection. He stole a broncho." — Philadelphia Press. "I was just thinking about that longevity record established by Methuselah." "What about it?" "If he hadn't set such a high mark maybe more men would go after it"—Louisville Courier-Journal. Decided Change. Mra. A.-How marriage changes a man! Mra. B.-Doesn't it? Take my husband. He used to offer me a penny for my thoughts, and now he offers me $50 to shout up. Boston Transcript. Find the Grouch "Say, dad, what's bonds of matrimony?" "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—Bulwark-Lytton. WILLIAM, 60, IS SICK; PAPA, 108, NURSES HIM Son Who Cared For Father Since He Passed Century Mark Falls Victim to Measles. Balaton, Minn.—William has the measles. He's sixty and has been taking care of papa since the latter passed the hundred year mark, but now papa is taking care of William. William is the son of John Shequin, who soon will be 108 years old. Mr. Shequin, Sr., has been alling a little lately, but under the care of his wife and William he is able to be up and about again. Father and Mother Shequin celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary three years ago. Mr. Shequin, Sr., was born in Franklin, Vt., and was seven years old when the war of 1812 ended. He couldn't enlist in the civil war because he was too old. His wife was Louise Bigford of Standbridge, Canada. She is nearly ninety-eight years old. The Shequins moved here from Freeborn county, Minn., in 1873. William, being only sixty, is expected to recover from the measles. WEDS CONVICT; NOW WORKS TO FREE HIM Bride Hopes to Gain Pardon For Her Husband, a "Lifer"—First Occurrence In Oklahoma. McAister, Okla. — "Love laughs at prison bars" is an old saying that was given practical demonstration at the Oklahoma state penitentiary. Etta Martin, a pretty young Spanish girl from St. Louis, became the bride of John Cieloha, Bohemian, who is serving a life sentence for murder. It is the first sentence on record where a life term convict was permitted to marry and the third case of marriage in which an Oklahoma prisoner appeared as principal. The first case was that of a trusty, who married before marriage license clerk or officiating minister knew of his record. In the other case the ceremony took place in the warden's office, but the bridegroom held a parole in one hand. The young bride of John Cieloha expects to bring about the release of her husband through pardon or parole. "If he hadn't escaped from the penitentiary he would have stood a much better chance," suggested a newspaper man in talking with the newlyweds shortly after their marriage. "But if he hadn't escaped I wouldn't have found him," was the quick reply of the young wife. The persistence with which she pursued her demand for marriage with a convict leads one to believe that she'll keep her word as to freeing him. Cleloha was charged with being accessory to the murder of David Conway, an aged bridge keeper on the Midland Valley railroad, near Muskogee, seven years ago. Conway was found beaten to death, presumably by robbers. BURGLAR ROCKS BABY. After Order Is Restored Policemen Find Negro Alongside of Child. Aurora, Ill.—A noise at her bedroom window early in the morning aroused Mrs. William Lustic. As she looked timorously in the direction of the window she saw a negro crawling into the room. She screamed and fied, clad only in her nightgown. Her husband jumped out of bed when he heard his wife's shriek. He bumped into the negro and was so frightened that he, too, ran out of the house. In their panic Lustic and his wife forgot their one-year-old baby daughter, who slept in a cradle. Of a sudden Mrs. Lustic heard the baby cry. Policemen who were summoned found the negro seated in a chair rocking the baby. LAYS SIX EGGS AT ONE CACKLE Connecticut Hen Has Busy Birthday. Rooster Acts as Cop. Hartford, Conn.—A hen and a rooster near here have joined the "super chicken" class. In Willington a White Leghorn he celebrated her birthday by laying six eggs at one cackle. After she stopped laying recently an agricultural college student performed an operation on her, which was more than successful. A dangerous "blind" bridge at Boltch Notch was guarded by a rooster. The fowl, which is called Speaker by his owner, Mrs. Minnie Howard, because of his parliamentarian qualities, did traffic cop duty all afternoon, warning automobiles to slow down before crossing the rickety structure. TRAINS LONG TO WHIP RIVAL Waits Nine Years to Do It and Then Gladly Pays a Fine. Hiawatha, Kan.-Robert Noe of Powhatan waited nine years to whip Garrett Bartley and then gladly paid a fine for doing it. Nine years ago Noe, then a boy, won a foot race from Bartley. They afterward fought, and Bartley whipped the victor. Noe promised to even up later and trained for the event. Meanwhile Bartley had moved to another part of the county. A few weeks ago Noe moved into the same neighborhood. The first time he met Bartley they fought. Morgenthau Says Condition In Turkish Empire Is Pathetic. SIGHTSWOULDBRINGTEARS. Former Ambassador Declares if Americans Could Only See Distress as He Had Seen It the Need of Aid Would Be Fully Realized—Says Only Way to Express Sympathy is to Contribute. New York.—Former United States Ambassador Henry Morgenthau in a recent interview gave as one of the main reasons for his resignation as ambassador to Turkey his great desire to make known to the people of the United States some of the conditions in the Turkish empire, especially as they affect the long suffering Armenians. He wants to assist in the raising of funds for Armenian relief, to explain the real conditions in Turkey and to make known in a tactful way to the Turkish authorities the thoughts of the American public on the conditions in that land. Referring to the tragic sufferings of the Armenians and of the need of immediate help to save thousands of men, women and children from dreadful death by starvation, Mr. Morgenthal made the following statement: "In my childhood I cried over 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' and wept at the way the negroes were sold into slavery. 1910 Photo by American Press Association. HENRY MORGENTHAU. Later on I read 'Evangeline,' and my heart went out to the poor woman and her lover, but all of these things are nothing compared to what went on in Turkey under my own eyes. I do not want to give too many harrowing pictures, but I will say that I have been requested to state that most of the stories that have reached the United States are founded on facts. "The Armenians were living just as quietly and peacefully as possible, in friendship and close contact with their Turkish associates, when suddenly they were picked out to be deported. It was then that my heart bled for them. I had been given the privilege of dispensing charity without stint and with full authority on behalf of the English, Russian, French and Italian nations—even the Servians had sent me money, and Russia and Italy permitted me to help the poor Montenegrins in my charge. Suddenly, without available funds, I was confronted with the terrific problem of the destitute Armenians. Can you conceive how I felt? It was then that I sent an appeal to the secretary of care for help, and the response came promptly. "If the people of the United States could only see the distress as I have seen it! If they could see the gaunt little figures of children, the little orphans brought to Constantinople by friendly Turkish officers, the need of prompt aid would be fully realized. If I dared repeat the tales I have heard, sworn to and signed, they would make men and women weep, and every one would see the need of sympathy and help. "There is no use of accusing anybody or finding fault with any one. What this great country should do to show its appreciation of the wonderful blessings that have been showered upon us is for each one of us to make up his mind to do his share. "We are the only people to whom they can appeal for help today, the only people who dare express their sympathy by actual giving. The people of other nations are afraid and unable to do it." Mr. Morgenthau is a member of the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief, of which Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Greer of the Episcopal church, Dr. James L. Barton of the American board of foreign missions, Dr. Arthur J. Brown of the Presbyterian foreign mission board, Dr. Frank Mason North of the Methodist foreign mission board and other prominent ministers and laymen, Protestant, Catholic and Jew, are members. The committee has sent $600,000 to the Armenians and native Christians in Turkey, Persia and Syria since Turkey entered the war, and it is stated that $5,000,000 will be required to save and rehabilitate these peoples. MRS. EDISON RAPS ABBREVIATED SKIRTS Hundreds Present When Inventor's Wife Hits Clothing—Urges Girls to Be Modest. New York.—Hundreds of women recently heard well known women who were delegates to the National Federation of Women's Clubs convention discuss dress—the right and wrong kind of dress, the future dress and the cost of dress. All the speakers advocated greater individuality in dress Mrs. Thomas A. Edison made an appeal for greater modesty in dress, particularly of young women, and in no unmistakable terms assailed clothing which, she said, tended to lead sons down to degradation. She denounced "the present abbreviated skirts and uncovered shoulders," saying: "I had a father who frequently reminded me, 'Daughter, be modest.' I think this would be good advice to our girls today." Her husband, Mrs. Edison said, had declared there was not more than one woman in a hundred who was well dressed. Clyde Has Several Claims to Distinction In Connection With Country's Wars. Sandusky, O.—The village of Clyde, fourteen miles southwest of this city, was the home not only of the highest ranking officer killed during the civil war, but also of the first American killed in the Spanish-American war. It has the distinction also of being the nucleus of what is now the Women's Relief corps. General J. B. McPherson, killed at Atlanta in the civil war, and George B. Mack, the first American killed in the Spanish-American war, are both buried there. According to Joel Elliot of Clyde, Mrs. Hattie McPherson, aunt of General McPherson, organized the first Ladies' Aid society after the civil war began, and it was from the Ladies' Aid society of the sixties that the Women's Relief corps of the present day grow. Elliot says further that army records at Washington will show that in proportion to population, more men enlisted at Clyde for both the civil and Spanish-American wars than from any other place of its size in the United States. President Garfield was to have been the principal orator at the unveiling of the McPherson monument when, on Saturday, July 2, 1881, he left the White House to go to the seaside to spend Sunday with his family before proceeding to Ohio and was shot while waiting for his train. NEW WAY OF GETTING A SUIT Prisoner Warried Owner Until He Gave It to Him. San Jose.—A new way of getting a suit of clothes was introduced here when William Shore, a prisoner, confessed to Police Captain Campbell that he had "mooched" the suit he wore. "I saw the suit on a man on the street and liked it." he said. "So I went up to him and asked for it. He got mad and wouldn't give it to me, so I followed him around day and night for two days, asking for it at every turn. Finally he got disgusted with me and gave me the clothes." Shore told Police Chief Fuller, who threatened to put him to work pitching hay, that he "wouldn't pitch enough hay in a week to keep a canary bird alive for one day." REFUSED TO QUIT JAIL Muncie (Ind.) Resident Said It Was the Best Job He Ever Had. Muncie, Ind.—Albert O'Harra, saveriff, had a hard time to make Frank McLaughlin quit the county jail. A friend paid McLaughlin's fine, but he steadfastly refused to leave the jail until his sentence had been served, the sentence being for eleven days. "I never had a better job than this," said McLaughlin. "All I had to do was a little scrubbing out in the morning, and I had a good, warm place in which to sleep and a good place in which to eat and had plenty of things to eat in the bargain. Believe me, Sheriff O'Harris is the best landlord I've ever known." CALICO FROM THE SKY. Windstorm Drops Bolt of Goods In Needy Woman's Yard. Hume, Mo.—In a recent windstorm here a bolt of calico fell in Mrs. Jenny Harrie's chicken lot in the north part of the city. It was quite a lucky haul for Mrs. Harrie, when the price of calico is considered, and she needed the goods. It is supposed that the calico was taken up in the clouds in the path of the tornado south of here. Where it came from no one knows. Hog With Six Legs. Puente, Cal.-While driving out a number of hogs from a pen on the Rowland ranch workmen in the employ of L. A. Meredith discovered that one sow was possessed of six legs. The animal has two extra forelegs perfectly formed, and all six legs are used by the animal in walking. Mr. Meredith says the two extra legs are just inside the "regular" forelegs and are somewhat smaller. THE ART OF SAVING The Illusive Dollar That Burns Our Fingers. LUXURY GROWS WITH SALARY A Discussion of How, With Increase of Income and No Apparent Increase of Pleasures, Coin Still Takes on the Vanishing Qualities of Mist. "It is easy enough to make money," said a business man the other day. "The hard thing to learn is how to save and how to spend it. The first year I was married I was earning three thousand, last year I pulled down four, and this year I am getting away with five. As I've said, it's easy enough to make money—any man with average intelligence can do it—but how in the world are you going to save it? I don't seem to be getting any more pleasure or comfort for the five thousand than I did for three. I am certain I don't put away any more than I did on the smaller salary, and the question that stumps me is, Where does the money go? There is certainly a leak somewhere. The whole trouble lies in the fact that I don't know how to spend it." This situation is one that many a family faces. All may not be in circumstances as comfortable as those of the man mentioned above, but the situation is practically the same. Family thrift is almost an unknown quantity in the average American household. Our men are famous for their generosity, and most of their wives run their households on the same generous scale. As the income grows larger the demands on it grow bigger, but so gradually does this change take place that it is almost imperceptible. A luxury or two here, a pleasure there, little things which seem of no consequence at the time of their indulgence, but mount up at an alarming rate at the end of a year. It is quite true that a man might not be able to put his hand on a single tangible thing which he was enjoying with a salary of $5,000 a year that he did not have when his earning capacity was little more than half this amount. Extravagance creeps upon us so gradually that the inroads it makes upon our incomes are hardly noticed at the time. It is only when we sit down and take account of our mode of existence that we realize we are spending more and getting less for the money. Every sane man and woman wants to save. They know it is their only insurance against the future. No matter how well matters are going at the present moment, every family stands the chance of facing a rainy day, and if they are wise they wish to be prepared for that dreary occasion. Sickness or loss of position has nothing like the dread for the man and wife who have a comfortable savings account tucked away in some bank as it has for the poor individuals who spend every cent as it comes in, draining the family exchequer to its last cent at the end of each month. Sickness or loss of position to such persons is a disaster, sometimes even a tragedy. Perhaps you think it is impossible to save on the salary you are earning at present. In many instances, unfortunately, this is true. But, whatever your income, sit down and make out a family budget that shall provide for a certain percentage of savings regularly. UP TO DATE SMOCK. What Flappers Like to Frolic In Is This Uniform. Knuckers and smock of khaki, linen, madras or cool chambray make a likeable outfit for girls bent on outings. 1940 HER CAMP TOGS. This one is smocked at elbows and yoke, belted and fitted with shirred pockets that hold treasures well. The bloomers are the regulation design. This one is smocked at elbows and roke, belted and fitted with shirred pockets that hold treasures well. The bloomers are the regulation design. His Backbone Is a Spring. The snapping bug has a spring in his back, like a knife. When not in use as a spring it serves him as a backbone, so you see he is a believer in scientific efficiency and makes one part of his machinery do the work of two. His spring backbone, or backbone spring if you prefer, gives him power to jump, which in turn gives him his name. Nature probably gave him the spring to help him get on his feet when he's on his back. You've noticed how helpless some insects are when you lay them on their backs. Not this one, however. He slips his backbone out of its groove and then slips it back again suddenly. The spring pops him up in the air, he turns a somersault and drops right side up. Spring backbones are common in several other beetles. The beetle of the pestiferous wire worm, which destroys the farmer's crops, has a spring in his back. Other members of the family make their homes in trees or decayed wood. —Philadelphia North American. Resourceful Burglar A constable going the rounds of his beat in London a few nights ago noticed a light in a house from which the family and servants had gone out of town. After the officer had pulled the bell several times a man put his head out of the bedroom window to say that he would be down in a few minutes. He came down in a dressing gown and carrying a candle in his hand. The constable explained his suspicion, whereupon the man stated that he had just run up to town to see that all was right. After chatting for a little he invited the constable to have a glass of wine. He lit the dining room gas and produced a bottle of port. After they had drunk each other's health he let the constable out and bolted the door after him. The man lost no time in getting the "swag" together and left the house by another exit. Giving a Horse Its Name. Giving a Horse its Name. The shire horse owes its name to Arthur Young's remarks, in the description of his agricultural tours during the closing years of the eighteen century, concerning the large old English black horse, "the produce principally of the shire counties in the heart of England." But long previous to this the word "shire" in connection with horses was used in statutes of Henry VIII. Under the various names of the war horse, the great horse, the old English black horse and the shire horse the breed has for centuries been cultivated in the rich fen lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire and in many counties of the west. Curiously enough, the Shire Horse society, which has done so much to promote the breed, was known for the first six years of its existence, which began in 1878, as the English Cart Horse society—London Chronicle. The First War. The first writing known to scholars was the account of a war waged between hostile nations in Mesopotamia, perhaps 3500 B. C. The first battle was that between Cain and Abel. Apparently men have always been quick to settle their differences by fighting. The first warlike king is said to have been Osmandyas of Egypt, who passed into Asia and conquered Bactria in 2100 B. C. Palamedes Bacgos is mythically reported to have been the first who ranged an army in a regular line of battle, placed sentinels round a camp and excited the soldier's vigilance by giving him a password. This occurred during the siege of Troy, the date of which is variously estimated at about 2,500 years before the Christian era—Pittsburgh Press. Reversing the Compliment A cashier of somewhat portly build was frowning over a statement of accounts just placed before him by his pretty typist. "As a young lady," he said, "I admire your type, but I can't honestly say I admire your typing." "How funny!" she replied smartly. "We are so different, for, though you are of course splendid at figures, no one could say you have a splendid figure"—London Express. Quick Way to Drive Posts. To drive posts quickly take a section of log about fifteen inches in diameter and two feet long, to which are attached two handles at an angle. Two men, one on each side, can use this hand power pile driver while a third man holds the post to be driven and keeps it in alignment—Farm and home. Made Him Cross. "I made my husband cross this afternoon," said Mrs. Caller. "How was that?" queried Mrs. Homer. "He was on the opposite side of the street, and I beckoned him to come ever." explained the other. Cause For Thanks Guest—Look here! This mirror is so fearfully dirty that I can't see my face in it. Hotel Servant—It strikes me you ought to be thankful for that instead of making trouble about it.—Exchange. Rope and an Oath In Assam an oath is taken standing within a rope circle, to imply a wish to perish as the rope does if the witness does not tell the truth. Unhistoric Youngster. "What was the result of the flood?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "Mud," replied the bright youngster. —Chicago News. They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. The rest is cruelty, not justice.—William Penn. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 24. 1916 BURGLAR KEPT MONEY. Woman's Last Word About Funds In the Bank Brought Decision. Kansas City, Mo.—He was polite, even suave, as he unlocked the door and entered the room occupied by Mrs. William Buchanan of 1516 Locust street the other day. He closed the door so quietly and had such a gentlemanly manner that Mrs. Buchanan was too much surprised to scream. The intruder took her pocketbook, containing nearly $3, from the dresser. Then Mrs. Buchanan protested. "Please don't take my money. It is all I have," she pleaded. "But I understood you had lots of money," replied he, holding the cash in his hand. "But if this is all you have I'll return it." "But I have more than that," she insisted. "It's in the bank, but as I don't feel very well goodness knows when I shall be able to get more," she continued. The intruder hesitated, smiled and then took the money. Mrs. Buchanan then called the police. TOOK CLOTHES FOR DEBT. Because He Couldn't Collect $3 He Seized Four Suits. Indianapolis. — William Devine, a farm laborer, explained in the criminal court that, being unable to collect $3 from James Boyce, living near Flackville, he took four suits of clothes as payment. He admitted he was generous to himself, for the suits were of excellent quality and appearance. "First I put on one suit," he said, "and then I thought how much better it looked on me than it did on Boyce, so I took the others." With the disappearance of his suits and Devine, Boyce came before the grand jury and an indictment was returned against the farm laborer. Boyce paid $18 to find and return Devine to the city to face the larceny charge. Devine went to Madison, Ind., after taking the suits. Judge Collins sentenced Devine to the penal farm for ninety days. "I'M SO FOND OF MUSIC!" That Explains What Maid Does With an Advance of Wages. Chicago.—For a few days a young north shore matron believed she had solved the servant girl problem. Her first girl found the country life too slow and returned home "back of the yards." This experience afforded an inspiration, and she imported a girl from her former home at Galesburg. Kindly treatment was to be the keynote of success, so when she discovered the new maid lacked underwear she armed her with a dollar and shopping instructions. In thirty minutes the girl was back, but minus the underwear. In its place she had purchased a mouth organ costing 40 cents, which she exhibited proudly to her mistress with the remark: "I'm so fond of music." NEW USE FOR OLD GLORY. In a Brooklyn Court it "Protects the Bench." New York.—After an adjournment of the Brooklyn court of special sessions recently the bench and clerk's desk were bedecked with an American flag. "What's the idea?" Chief Probation Officer John J. Rooney was asked. "That's the duster," Rooney explained. "When the janitor sweeps he covers the bench and clerk's desk with the old flag." Indignant, the questioner sought out Chief Clerk Joseph L. Kerrigan and demanded an explanation of the apparent desecration of Old Glory. "Well, isn't the flag protecting the bench?" was Kerrigan's ready response. GETS EGG DURING TRIAL Hen Labeled "Exhibit A" Lays It In Court, and the Judge Benefits. Portland, Ore.-Maude, a White Leg- horn hen, was in District Judge Bell's court as Exhibit A in a suit over her ownership and that of two other Bidds and a cockerel. Suddenly there smote the air a shrill "cut-a-cut." It was Maude cackling, and she kept it up. "Baillif, kindly remove the ex- hibit," ordered the judge. The bailiff approached · Maude's coop. "Your honor," he shouted, "look!" and held up a snowy white egg. "Maude has laid it." Both litigants agreed that the judge should receive the egg, and he did. DRINKERS SENT TO FRONT. France Adopts Plan to Keep Temptation From Munition Workers. Paris.—On account of a diminution of the output of munitions, due to excessive drinking, Minister of Munitions Albert Thomas recently issued instructions that any munition workers found under the influence of alcohol shall be immediately sent to the fighting line. The explanation is given that the penalty is not in the nature of a punishment, but because the man in question is unlikely to experience the same temptations at the front. First Bath In Twenty Years. Charlestown, Ind.—After being given the first bath he has had in twenty years, according to his own admission, D. W. Hodson, who presented himself at the county farm for the poor, near here, suddenly disappeared. The mystery of his absence was solved when he showed up at his old home at Underwood, Ind., and told of the vigorous scrubbing the farm attendants admin-stered. An Army of Them Gathers In New York City. "SERVICE" IS THE KEYNOTE The National Convention, Under the Presidency of Mrs. Pennybacker and Twenty Thousand Strong, Assembled From Forty-sight State Conventions. The greatest organization of women in any nation of the world, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, was born in New York twenty-six years ago. For the first time it returned to its birthplace, to hold its thirteenth convention. So complete, well manned and vital is the organization that the entire body responds to the pressing of the button or by a wireless that extends to every remote section of every state in the Union. It has working departments in every line of activity—art, clivics, civil service reform, conservation, education, home economics, in H. MRS. PERCY V. PENNYBACKER. dustrial and social conditions, legislation, literature, library extension, music, drama, public health, and subdivisions of these committees to include child labor, woman suffrage, mothers' pensions, peace, preparedness, food sanitation, housing, prison reform, minimum wage, political science, tuberculosis, child welfare and hygiene, Americanization and current events and progress in every department of activity in national life. State federations, city federations and the clubs themselves are completely officered along this same organized line, all tributary to the General Federation. The president of this huge activity, Mrs. Pennybacker, in a recent interview said of the first biennial she attended in Los Angeles fourteen years ago: "The very immensity of the convention was an inspiration. There were women from every state in the Union, representing every phase, every group of our national life. While some feel that the General Federation must be reorganized so as to bring about a smaller attendance, let us never forget that a part of the inspiration comes from the bigness. History has never yet fully written the chapter as to the part the General Federation has played in wiping out sectional feeling. One reason why there is in this dear land of ours today so little north, south, east or west is because the women of all sections meet, counsel and labor together. When we learn to know each other appreciation comes and misunderstanding disappears. When we work together for some great cause petty differences drop from us like wornout garments. "It was also a delight to see that beauty had its place in this great gathering of women. No one has forgotten the 40,000 calla lilies which were used as decorations the first two days, followed by carnations, they in turn giving way to numberless roses of every hue. "Everywhere one felt that the women took their work seriously and with the conviction that it is truly worth while. On the last night this earnestness developed into a spiritual climax. We closed in a moment of cestasy as we sang 'God Be With You Till We Meet Again,' while from the galleries the fair hands of the California women let flutter down millions of rose petals, covering us with fragrance. "Is it not significant that these impressions make of themselves the one word 'service,' which is the keynote of our entire federation life?" Cream Salad Dressing. Mix one-half tablespoonful salt, two and one-half tablespoonful melted butter, one level teaspoonful flour, a shake of pepper and two egg yolks together until smooth. Add three-fourths cupful of thin cream. (You may take the top of the milk in the bottle and have the rest of the milk to use for something else.) Then add slowly one-fourth cupful vinegar or lemon juice, stirring as you add it. Cook over hot water until thickened. If too thick after standing to cool, thin with cream or milk. A. Fashion Tip. The neck line of the modish summer frock is much wider and therefore much more becoming than was last year's—that is, the frock is cut away at the sides of the throat as well as in front, showing something of the shoulder line. O'Connell as an Orator- Few orators have been so fortunate as Daniel O'Connell in their physical appeal to the senses. Grattan, Curran, Emmet, Shell and Meagher were small men, not the least impressive to the eye. O'Connell was a man of royal aspect. His voice was seductively musical—the most musical, according to Dishnell, ever heard in the house of commons. It was soft, of great compass, capable of expressing every imaginable emotion. His eyes, light in color and full, flashed or beamed or burned, according to the sentiment expressed. His contemporaries all mention the expressibility of his mouth. His gestures were free and bold, not in the least suggestive of elocution and yet infinitely graceful and apt. There was nothing in his manner indicative of preparation. His manner was easy and without effort. Wendell Phillips, who heard him, says in his lecture: "We used to say of Webster, 'This is a great effort,' of Everett, 'It is a beautiful effort,' but you never used the word 'effort' in speaking of O'Connell. It provoked you that he would not make an effort.'"—"The Irish Orators," by Claude G. Bowers. The Evil Eye. It is probable that the "evil eye," for which many hapless old women were harried to their death on the suspicion of witchcraft in "the good old days," was no more than a common squint, a "cast" in the eye, or "bossing," as it is called in many parts of the country to this day, writes Dr. N. Bishop Harman in the British Journal of Children's Diseases. Not only was the squint thought to be of evil significance, but the defect itself was considered to be the work of evil spirits. In "King Lear" we find the following in the scene on the heath at night: "This is the foul fiend Filbbertigibget. He begins at curfew and walks till the first cock; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye and makes the harelip, mildews the white meat and hurts the poor creature of earth." Knew His Man. George Bubb, better known as Bubb Doddington, one of the wits of the eighteenth century, always dined well and always liked to doze after the repast. Falling asleep one day after dinner with Sir Richard Temple and Lord Cobham, the latter reproached Doddington with his drowsiness. Doddington denied having been asleep and to prove he had not offered to repeat all Lord Cobham had been saying. Cobham challenged him to do so. Doddington repeated a story, and Lord Cobham owned he had been telling it. "Well," said Doddington, "and yet I did not hear a word of it, but I went to sleep because I knew that about this time of the day you would tell that story." Lightning Rods There were no lightning rods in ancient times. The first one that the world ever saw was set up by our own illustrious countryman Benjamin Franklin shortly after the year 1752. He had just had his celebrated experiment with the kite, in which he demonstrated the identity of lightning with electricity, and was therefore prepared for the construction of the rods for which the world had waited so long. It is not generally known that Franklin was as distinguished in science as he was in statesmanship and diplomacy—Exchange. A. Bright Outlook "Do you—er—do you think, Miss Doblegh, that you will be—er—engaged next Thursday evening?" asked Tompy very bashfully. "Well, really, Mr. Tompy," replied Ethel, "I don't know, but if you can get up spunk enough between now and then to do your share I think there's a fair prospect that I shall be." And Tompy did. Different Kinds "I had a tooth extracted yesterday," remarked the fussy man, "and the dentist gave me gas." "Oh, that's nothing," rejoined the man with the bald spot. "Every time I get shaved the barber gives me a lot of it." - Indianapolis Star. --- PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Hemorrhage. In treating hemorrhage the first thing is to find its cause and then try to stop it by local means. What these means are must depend on the state the patient is in and the site of the bleeding. If that is easily reached the hemorrhage can be stopped by packing or by pressure or by binding with ligatures. Sometimes the state of the patient is such that it is best to stop the flow by the pressure of the hand or fingers while other steps are taken to relieve the constitutional symptoms of shock and collapse. Sometimes only an operation can reach the point from which the blood comes. In that case it must be performed as rapidly as possible while the patient receives constitutional treatment. In many cases only a physician can find the source of a hemorrhage, but intelligent bystanders can do much to relieve the symptoms. Hot water bottles are needed to help in maintaining the bodily heat. Stimulants should be in readiness, and the salt box should be at hand, for saline injections are often given by physicians in dangerous cases of hemorrhage. PAGE THREE FOR YOUNG·FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Fairy and a Poor Farmer. A LEGEND FROM GERMANY. How Luck and Fortune Came to a Good Natured Plowman—Finding the Magic Rake—A Little Lady on Horseback—Information For Little People. Polly Ann and little Ned were getting sleepy when uncle began his story. It was about THE MAGIC RAKE. Hans was a plowman, but was very poor, for, no matter how hard he worked, his wages were so small that he was barely able to get enough to eat. He was a most obliging and generous young fellow, however, and never weared of helping his neighbors when they needed assistance. One day when Hans was busy plowing a field he found, to his surprise, a broken rake lying on the ground. "I wonder whose rake it is?" said Hans to himself. "It is a fine rake and only needs a little mending to make it as good as new." Stooping down, he picked up the rake, which was of a different pattern from any he had ever seen. "Some one has lost it," thought Hans, "or perhaps has put it down until he can have it mended." When the day's work was done and Hans was ready to go home he noticed that the broken rake was still lying unclaimed by any one. "I'll take it home and mend it," he decided. "Some one will most likely come and search for it tomorrow." So Hans took the rake home, and, as he was very handy with tools, he mended the rake so skillfully that it was indeed as good as new. The next morning Hans set forth to complete the plowing of the field and, taking the mended rake with him, laid it down where he had found it. On his way home he passed the spot where he had placed the rake, but it was no longer there. "The owner has come for it," said Hans aloud. "You are right, Hans," said a small voice near by. "The owner has now got his mended rake." Hans turned in astonishment, and there stood a little fellow not more than a foot high, dressed in brown leather, with a curious, conical cap on his head. "Thank you very much, Hans, for mending my rake. I have been able to do nothing with it for a long time, but you have made it better than ever," said the little man. He added: "Take it for your own. It will bring you luck." So Hans became the owner of the magic rake. Ever after his crops grew wonderfully, and in time he became rich. A Painter and His Pet. Rembrandt, the famous painter, had a monkey he loved very much. The monkey took sick and died as Rembrandt was painting the picture of a noble family. He was told at once, and he commenced to cry, and then he started to draw the picture he was making. Nothing would stop him from doing this, although every one tried to do so. When the man he was painting the picture for saw the picture he refused to take it, for Rembrandt told him the picture was of the monkey and not of his family. It is said this picture is still in existence. Three Word Square When this square is completed the diagonal from the lower left hand corner to the upper right hand corner spells a nickname for father. Answer—Bed, ear, dry. A Girl on Horseback. The fair young rider here pictured is Miss Frances Rockwood, daughter of Judge Nash Rockwood of Riverdale, 1930 Photo by American Press Association. MISS FRANCES BOCKWOOD. N. Y. She is a skilled horsewoman and when photographed was riding her prize winning mount. Aim of Scouting. Making real men out of real boys through a real program is the aim of scouting. THE BOY M. HON. JOHN E. OWENS. FORMER COUNTY JUDGE WHO ASSELL BUSINESS IN CONNECTION SHOULD BE SELECTED TO FIRE THE LATE JUDGE RICHARD E. UDGE WHO AS SUCH SUCCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ECTED TO FILL OUT THE RE RICHARD E. BURKE OF FORMER COUNTY JUDGE WHO AS SUCH SUCCESSFULLY DISPATCHED ALL BUSINESS IN CONNECTION WITH THAT OFFICE AND WHO SHOULD BE SELECTED TO FILL OUT THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF THE LATE JUDGE RICHARD E. BURKE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND EIGHTEEN CENTS WAS TURNED OVER TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE OLD FOLKS HOME AS THE NET PROCEEDS FROM THE BENEFIT GIVEN FOR IT BY THE AMATEUR MINSTREL CLUB. The following Itemized Reports shows, that after paying all expenses in connection with its annual entertainment; that the Amateur Minstrel Club turned over a check for one thousand dollars and eighteen cents to the management of the Old Folks Home. In the past, no public institution for Colored people in this city, has ever received such a handsome sum of money in one lump, from any public entertainment. The report follows: June 18, 1916. Balance on Hand 1915.....$ 30.00 Sale of tickets to Public subscribers ..... 293.50 Donation Y. M. C. A. Drug Store ..... 7.50 Tickets sold by members..... 292.50 Sale of programs and flowers..... 44.81 Coat Room receipts ..... 76.55 Punch bowl No. 1 Mrs. Dent..... 23.75 Punch bowl No. 2 Mrs. Jack- son ... 23.25 M. M. H. HON. WILLIAM H. WEBER. Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County and retary of the Republican County Co of Assessors of Cook County and of the Republican County Co Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County and the newly elected Secretary of the Republican County Committee. PAGE FOUR SUCH SUCCESSFULLY DISPATCHED N WITH THAT OFFICE AND WHO L OUT THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF BURKE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Sale of Tickets at Door..... 593.00 Assessments by Members..... 28.80 Total..... $1,413.66 Disbursements to date. Rent of Hall..... $ 100.00 Music..... 80.00 Printing and Cut..... 63.25 Lumber for Stage..... 17.34 Carpenter work building stage 15.00 Helper setting stage and scenery..... 9.00 Rent of Piano..... 2.00 Slides for Theatre..... 3.25 Posting cards and distributing folders..... 6.20 Expressing chairs..... 4.00 Help Coat Room..... 10.00 Help at Hall..... 6.50 Secretary expenses and curtain..... 13.00 Flowers..... 3.75 Rent of costumes..... 16.70 Tamborines..... 1.70 Electrician..... 4.00 Postage mailing tickets..... 15.80 Incidentals..... 16.19 Frappe..... 10.80 Rent of Hall—Rehearsals..... 15.00 Totals..... $ 413.48 Total Receipts..... $1,413.66 Total Disbursements..... 413.48 Balance on hand..... $1,000.18 MAJOR R. R. JACKSON, Pres. CHAS. S. WASHINGTON, Secv. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a close-up of a person's face, but the details are not clear. ok County and the newly elected Sec- nion County Committee. THE SECOND WARD TAMMANY REPUBLICAN CLUB WILL HOLD FORTH IN THE OLD PALACE THEATER BUILDING 41 W. 31ST STREET. Arthur F. Codozoe, President, Archibald Napoleon Fields, Secretary, Cass Harris, General Manager, Mort Shoecraft. Chief. Of The Service Bar. MISS MAUDE J. ROBER NOTED SOPRANO SONS APPEARED IN RECITAL ORIGINAL PROVIDENT CHURCH THURSDAY EVEN Miss Maude J. Roberts, or successful artists or pupils of Devries who has become queen as a soprano songstress, app Thursday evening in recital This evening, the Second Ward Tammany Republican Club will hold its house warming, in its home, the old Palace Theatre, 41 W. 31st street which was founded by the late Col. "Pony" Moore, and later on conducted as the De Champion Cafe, by the Hon. John Arthur Johnson the ex-heavy weight prize fighting champion of the world. The rooms from end to end and the building-from the basement to the top floor has been remodeled, overhauled, richly and beautifully decorated and furnished in the most extravagant manner. It is anticipated, that some rich "killings" will take place in it from time to time. Each member of the Second Ward Tammany Republican Club, will be furnished with a card, showing that his dues or membership fee has been paid in full, which entitles him to all the privileges of the club, unless revoked by the Board of Directors. Arthur F. Codozoe, will have the honor of being the first President of the Second Ward Tammany Republican Club. Archibald Napoleon Fields, will serve as its honored secretary. Cass Harris, will hold forth as its general manager and Col. Mort Schocraft will be the chief headlight in charge of the service bar. THE THEATRES By Karl Monte. South Side theatres continue to do great business where the same pictures that you pay double the amount to see at the down town houses, can be seen for half the money. *** Last Thursday night a Monster midnight benefit was given at the States for Ed Hardin, who is very ill and in need of funds. Hardin was formerly the pianist at the Pekin. This was given under the auspices of Local No. 208 A. F. of M., and some of the best professional talent of the city participated. The States is having a good run, many people going there for the express purpose of hearing their orchestra, which is considered one of the best in the city. On this same night was presented a picture with an entire Colored cast in Aladdin's Lamp, a two-real humorous version of the story of that name. People were turned away from the doors for want of seats. More will be said concerning this picture in the next issue. *** Tonight will be shown the underworld drama "The Overcoat" for adults only, and tomorrow, "The Girl With the Green Eyes" with Katharine Kaelred and Julian L'estrange, five acts. * * * Following is the program for next week at the Phoenix, which always gets its share of the movie fans: Monday, Mysteries of Myra; Tues, Feast of Life; Wed., The Matchmakers; Thurs., The Social Pirates; Fri. Charlie Chaplin, in The Fireman; Sat., The Marble Heart; Sun., Blue Blood and Red. Also good music all the time. * * * The Atlas, The Monograms, The Washington, The Lincoln, The Pickford, all, also have good programs. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE The Negro Fellowship League will celebrate Dunbar's birthday Sunday, June 25th. Everybody is asked to come with a quotation from Dunbar's poems. There will also be a continuation of the "Conference on Race Discrimination at the Marshall Field's." Those who have had recent experiences are invited to present them. Last Sunday a crowded house took part in this Conference. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, president, related the story of her experience and that of a friend, and invited others who had had similar experiences to tell about them. More than a dozen responded. Their stories were commented on by Messrs. Smith, Geo. H. Jackson, F. L. Barnett, and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wright. Suggestion was made that the Pullman porters and their friends urge the company to withdraw the concession for making Pullman Porter uniforms from the firm which has established a policy to treat with contempt customers of the Negro race. It was also suggested that the City Council be petitioned to withdraw certain rights from that company. A motion providing that the Negro Fellowship League Lawyers look into the case and report next Sunday just what can be done. Many persons took tickets for the Joseph Campbell Benefit for June 26th, at the Elighth Regiment Armory. MISS MAUDE J. ROBERTS THE NOTED SOPRANO SONGSTRESS APPEARED IN REGITAL AT THE ORIGINAL PROVIDENT BAPISTIST CHUBCH THURSDAY EVENING. Miss Maude J. Roberts, one of the successful artists or pupils of Herman Devries who has become quite, noted as a soprano songstress, appeared on Thursday evening in recital, assisted by the original Provident Baptist Church Choir, Mr. Theodore T. Taylor, accompanist; J. Wesley Jones, director, Mrs. P. J. Cameron, organist. The recital was well attended; it was held in the original Provident Baptist church, corner of Walnut and Leavitt street. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. The Alpha Suffrage Club had a most interesting meeting Wednesday evening in which plans were perfected for helping the Fellowship League to meet its rent. Under the leadership of Dr. Fannie Emanuel the Ways and Means Committee has already turned in nearly $15.00 on the rent bill. Adjourned to meet at 3005 State St., Wednesday, June 28th, at 8 P. M. Visitors invited. The Republican and Democratic platform were both discussed. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN BOSTON, MASS. IS STILL CONFINED TO HIS HOME WITH ILLNESS. News comes to us from Boston, Mass., that William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Guardian of that city is still confined to his home with illness, the newspaper men all over this country fondly hope that brother Trotter will soon be restored to his usual good health and that he may be spared for many years to come, so that he can still continue to assist to fight with his virile pen the battles of humanity. TO MEMBERS OF THE 8TH INF ILL. N. G. AND THEIR EMPLOYE RFS. Notice is hereby given that any member of this Organization, failing to report for duty with the same, under the Present Call and any person or persons, employer or employers who may prevent, conceal or in any manner interfere with any member of this organization in his duty in responding to the Call will be subject to the penalty of the law. COLONEL F. A. DENISON, Commanding 8th Inf. Ill. N. G. 4. HUBT "JUMPING" ARMY. Colored Infantrymen at Danyille Leap from Armory Window to Escape Service. Danville, Ill., June 22.—In an effort to avoid military service, four Colored members of Company L Eighth Infantry, Illinois Colored Regiment, jumped from the second story window of the armory here early today. All were injured. CHIPS Miss Bettiola Fortson has just returned from Louisville, Ky. She reports a pleasant trip. Mrs. John Bell, of Lexington, Ky. is in the city visiting her cousin, Mrs. Edward Felix, 3002 S. Dearborn street, and she is taking thorough training in domestic science. Jack Johnson, world's greatest heavyweight, has defeated the two best heavyweights in Spain—Frank Crozier and Arthur Gruhan, champion of Spain. Johnson won both fights easily by the knockout route. Under the will of Mr. James Ritchey of Burkesville, Ky., recently deceased, Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., will receive $3,000 (real estate). At the death of the widow it is to get the personal property. Jack Johnson, the ex-heavyweight champion of the world, has settled down in Spain, having opened a boxing academy in Madrid. It is reported that one of his distinguished patrons is King Alfonso. Miss Ethel Stevenson of St. Louis, Mo., is in the city visiting her cousin Miss Ollie Stevenson of 4903 Dearborn St. Miss Stevenson was entertained Saturday evening, June 17 by Miss Ida M. Davis of 3437 Rhodes Ave. The Wendell Phillips High School class of 1916, held commencement exercises Thursday evening at the Auditorium. Among those to graduate with high honors was Miss Lucile Beatrice Robinson, the bright and accomplished daughter of Rev. and Mrs. John W. Robinson, her father being the pastor of St. Mark M. E. Church, 50th street and Wabash avenue. Mrs. Franklin A. Denison, has returned to her city home from Benton Harbor, Mich., she came to the city to witness her husband Col. Denison. the REV. W. S. BRADDAN PASTOR OF BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH AND CHAPLAIN OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS. J. H. COL. AUGUST W. MILLER, SUPERITENDENT OF STREETS OF CHICAGO AND LIEUT.-COL. OF THE SECOND REGIMENT OF THE ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS. commanding the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard leave the city Thursday night with his soldiers for Springfield, Ill., where they will camp and rest on their arms for several weeks prior to being rushed to the front to invade Mexico. Mrs. Denison is firmly convinced that the so-called war between this country and that country will not amount to much. She is a brave woman and with four children to mother, she is not giving away and falling all to pieces, because her husband and the father of her children stands ready and willing to lay down his life in defense of his country and the Stars and Stripes. 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 and 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. INTOXICATING LIQUORS INTO STATE NOT INTERSTATE COMMENCE.—"The Webb Kenyon Law (Act March 1, 1913, 37 U. S. Stat. at L. pt. 1, c. 90, p. 699 (U. S. Comp. St., 1913, Sec. 8739) in substance provides that intoxicating liquors brought into this state from Missouri, and intended by those who receive them or those who send them to be used in violation of the law of this state, are not articles of interstate commerce, and the protection of the Federal Constitution is withdrawn from such liquors; and those who handle them are made subject to the penalties provided by the law of this state, without regard to the place where the liquors came from." Kansas City Breweries Co. v. Kansas City (Kans.) 153 Pac. 523; Gottstein et al. v. Lister (Wash.) 153 Pac. 595. In Stout v. United States, 227 Fed. Rep. 799, decided by the Circuit Court of Appeals (Eighth Circuit), a refused instruction said: "The defendant has seen fit to rest his case upon the evidence which has been introduced in behalf of the government, including such testimony as may have been elicited upon cross-examination of the government's witnesses. You are instructed that he had a perfect right to do so and that fact must in no wise prejudice you against him." etc. Hook, C. J., speaking for the court said: "The claim of immunity or protection seems broader than the statute. The accused refrained not only from testifying himself, but also from offering any evidence whatever by other witnesses or by records, and he seeks to enlarge the immunity from a presumption against him on one ground to an immunity from prejudice on account of another. We think that is inadmissible. There should be no hurtful presumption from the failure of an accused personally to testify but that does not necessarily exclude prejudice resulting from an entire absence of affirmative evidence in defense, nor inferences from a failure to produce evidence peculiarly within his knowledge or control, not requiring personal disclosures or his presence upon the witness stand." Charles E. Stump, the Kansas Newspaper Writer, or so Called Writer, Still Continues His Travels in the South. Lately He Has Been Spending Much of His Time in Texas Beaumont, Texas.—I am of the opin jon that I am some moving man ‘When you think you have me in one place, and you lift your hand th magic Wand has placed me in another place perhaps a thousand miles awa} and thus it goes. For instance wher I wrote the last letter, I was in Nor mal, Ala, You recall 1 was there looking a! them young people get some education and they got it believe me. Then } left there and went to Nashville, for « day, and that day was moving day for me, because I went to many places and saw many people there. I had been hearing them talk about a new pub blishing board for the Baptists, sd I thought I would go and see it. 1 went there and the first thing I met was Prof. S. P. Harris, the new sec retary. He is some educated man, and an educated lawyer. For a long time he was bookkeeper to the National Baptist Publishing Board, and re signed to go into the school business dean of Roger Williams University and when he had finished there, or in other words he was called from there to take charge of the publishing interest and this he has been doing making good record for himself and his church. He has placed them on the map. He shook my lily black hand and was as polite as a basket of chips. God bless him. I had the pleasure of visiting the Nashville Globe; called on Mrs. Evans Tyree the wife of the bishop, then went to see Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Chavis, of Walden University, remained there waiting for a doctor who said that he was going to come and take me out in his wagon that was without horses for a real ride. He was to carry me to the state normal school to some ex- ercises. I remained there until 12 o'lock at night believing that he was going to come because he told me so and that doctor was off some where either looking after the sick or laugh- ing about how he had fooled me, for I was a real fool for thinking that he was going to come. I will meet Dr. Leach at some other point. I left for Birmingham about 2:30 in the morning, and reached there in time for breakfast. I had breakfast with Dr. U. G. Mason, and it was some breakfast believe me honey. I went out to the hospital to see Dr. Moore's wife. She had been cut on, but was getting better. They tell me that Dr Mason is some cutter on the human body. He can take it all to pieces and put it back again, just like Dr. G. C Hall, of Chicago, or some of them other big men there. He can do his part of it, Getting through with Dr. Mason, 1 called on several others and got my: self together and left for Bessemer where | had been invited to spend a day or so with Dr. E. J. Gregg, and I tell you he is another one of them bi doctor men. That man -told me more about my body than I knew my self. or perhaps will ever know. 1 don’t see how he knew so much about me, but he did. He took me right inte his house, put me in his bed, and toid me to be right at home. His sis ter, Mrs. Fannie Dennie was some en: tertainer, and I just listened to tr talk. Of course she did not know much about farming and when I got | to talking about that I could see at A clanee that I was out of her reach and then T put in a few big words, if hot words sounds, for I said to her in speaking of my impression of Bes: semer, “This citius if Ostulculitus hontopuckus, ishumiterious. I was then out of her reach. I spent a nice time in Bessemer and Sunday night ‘went to Birming: ham, as I was to leave there the next. Morning for Montgomery to attend the Session of the grand lodge of Rising Sons and Daughters of Protection, pre Sided over by Mrs. Carrie A. Tuggle. | am here to tell you as I have be-| fore, the more I see this wonderful — the more impressed I am with . I went to her home, and on my way |: Stopped by Mrs. Fannie M. Cosby, | who is the grand secretary of tha grand lodge. I was delighted beyon¢ expression to meet this trained wo man. At her home I met Miss M McDowell, who is a trained nurse and an educated young woman. She is indeed a busy woman. The night was spent in town and the next morn ing we went down in one of tuem things that go without horses to the L. & N. stables to go to Montgomery. They put on behind the fast horse two special carriages to haul us down there. It would take this whole paper and then some for me to tell you about my impression of this place I mean Montgomery. Off from Montgomery to Mobile, for a few hours, and I was thrown with another doctor. This time it was Dr H. Roger Williams, I am meeting some doctors. This man shook my hands, told me to be at home with him. Then to see Knox Brothers, the planters of human bodies, at least they undertake it. Next to New Or. leans for two or three hours then off to Beaumont. This town was put on the map some few years ago by the discovery of oil here in the ground and people came from every direction to dig it out and get rich I don’t see to save my life how so much oil got down under the ground unless it was the melting of those who had died and been buried there. I am not going to think about this thing. In Beaumont, the first thing to claim my attention was the meeting of Prof. T. T. Pollard, one of the leading educators in this country. He has made such a record in the schoo] room until the school board named one of the pupil schools the “Pollard School,” and made him the boss over it. He is not only an educator, but he is one of the finest deer hunters in this country. He knows the deers just like he knows his books, and they tell me that the deers are so well acquainted with him until they walk up to him for him to kill them. I don't give this out as being the whole truth, but I heard it. I had the pleasure then of meeting a young man who patches up teeth puts new soles on them and maker them like new when they are worn out.* He deals in second hand teeth or I mean he makes them out of gold and other stuff and puts them right in your mouth, and some teeth he puts diamonds in them. I am talk- ing about Dr. Charles B. Chariton He has the reputation of being one of the finest in the country. The people just flock to him. He was born right here in this town, some thing lest than thirty years ago. He went through the public schools here. He was touched by Prof. Pollard. Then he went off to college. It was at Howard University, where he got his’ fnishing touches, then returned to hie home, and the people with open arms received their own son. A thing un. usual in this country. He went right in to mending teeth, and then he saw in the Bible where it said “It is not good for man to be alone.” Dr. Charlton, being a christian prayed over that, and then he de ‘ided that it meant he should have a ompanion. He went ont then and found one of the best young women in the town, Miss Jaunita A. Roland, whe had been through the same public chool, and took up some more educa- fon in Prairie View Normal. and hen was teaching the little children But she heard Dr. Charlton, and he oon convinced her that when Job r Jeremiah or some other fellow said hat man should not be alone, he meant woman also, so this young voman was looking into life just as he young repairer of human teeth as, and soon they were standing be ore a preacher answering some ques- ions. This happened about two years go, and they are just like little chil- ren. I am of the opinion that I will now ave to bring this letter to a stop un- jl next week, when I hope to tell| ou more about Beaumont. I have aid enough. Good bye. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 24, 1916. ——_—— ———— Waltzing Ostriches. One of the oddest sights of the stretches of plain in southern Af ® party of waltzing ostriche Writer on the subject thus des their queer antics: “When there are a number of they will start off and after rum few hundred yards will stop and raised wings, will whirl rapidly til they are stupefied or perhaps @ leg. The males pose also fighting. ‘They knee! on thelr : Opening their wings and bal themselves alternately forwar backward or to one side or the while the neck is stretched on 4 With the back, and the head : the sides, now on the right, now MAJOE ROBERT EB. JACKSON COM-| left, while the feathers are bri MANDING THE 1ST BATALION | The bird appears at this time EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS|orbed in its occupation as to ARD! all that is going on around bir ea uae can be approached and caught. ——________J mae alone utters a cry, which : Founa on the Seacoast and Sent te | much iike an effort to speak Wi Stanford University. cee a a ca epee owe ot 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 Stan- ford 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 @ consignment- of geologic material from the coast of the state of Wasb- ington. According to university authorities, the pearl is of little value as a gem, but the oyster in which it was found originated, they said, probably in the paleozoie period. “We have no record,” said Herold, “of pearls having been formed before the time this qne was created. It re- tains 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.” at ACCEPT HUMAN AID. ‘Man Replaces Fallen Nest and Birds Ocoupy It. Seattle, Wash —“I had always under stood,” said Crawford E. White, the attorney, who lives at 4203 Mead street, “that birds would invariably abandon a nest which had been disturbed by human hands. “Something that happened in my yard the other day is a distinct excep- tion to this rule. Two robins had a nest im 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.” HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. sy Dr. W. A. DRIVER 3300§So.fState Street Phode Douglas 3617 HE ELIMINATION OF FEAR AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Since time immemorial it has been taught that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That is the theory but few there are who can or do consistently practice it. On ac count of ignorance the facts of life are not discussed with frankness; disease is for the same reason con founded with sickness just as illness and disease are falsely regarded as synonymous. The result is that de monstrable pathological phenomena alone receives consideration. The pre vention of disease, which means the prevention of undesirable emotions, as well as pathological physical findings, is not given the study and discussion that is consistent with progress along the other lines. Many of our observ- ers claim that insanity is on the in- crease; there is a reason which would if known enable us to do much good to save future victims. The study of the prevention of fear is probably the solution of more ills than appears at ordinary and Jimited study. “Fear is of all emotions probably the most injurious. Physiologists! tell us that certain poisonous products are generated in the system by the| undesirable emotions. Fear is with- out a doubt an undesirable emotion; it is a state that terrorizes and pro- duces pandemonium. No better para- Waltzing Ostriches. One of the oddest sights of the sandy stretches of plain in southern Africa is ® party of waltzing ostriches. A Writer on the subject thus describes thelr queer antics: : “When there are a number of them they will start off and after running a few hundred yards will stop and, with ralsed wings, will whirl rapidly round till they are stupefied or perhaps break @ leg. The males pose also before fighting. They kneel on their ankles, opening their wings and balancing themselves alternately forward and backward or to one side or the other, while the neck is stretched on a level ‘With the back, and the head strikes the sides, now on the right, now on the left, while the feathers are bristling. ‘The bird appears at this time so ab- Sorbed in its occupation as to forget all that is going on around him and ean be approached and caught. The male alone utters a cry, which sounds much like an effort to speak with the mouth shut tight.”—Philadelphia In. quirer. a It was not always called Good Fri- day. Years ago in Germany it was frequently referred to as Mourning Fri. day. Our early ancestors in England id not call it Good Friday, either, but Long Friday. Such is the term in an ancient ecclesiastical law about 1,000 Years old. The Danes used the same name, Long, instead of Good Friday. ‘The reason for using the word “long” Was doubtless found in the seeming endless and severe fast practiced that day. At one time the Spaniards em- phasized the solemnity of Good Friday by closing all the churches. ‘Nowhere else that I have happened to be on a Good Friday was the day 80 solemnly observed ax in Rome. The city seemed to be in mourning, making all the more inspiring the matchless services and sinzing in St. Peter's ca- thedral on Easter.—Philadelphia Led- ger. Gitsiinn the Rnene Re Wasn't First. She (just kissed by him)—How dare you? Papa said he would kill the first Man who kissed me. He—How inter- esting. And did he do it?—Judge. Ys Jones—What do you think will be the end of the woman question? Brown— ‘There won't be any end. They'll al- ways be asking ‘em. If you will be governed by reason ‘and be true to the best of yourself, standing boldly to the truth, you will be happy.—Marcus Aurelius. The easiest thing in the world to make is a promise; also the easiest thing to break. —Philadelphia Record. Cuffs and the Laundress. ‘Why are laundry women the most forgiving of their sex? Becausg the more cuffs you give them the ‘more ‘they will do for you. ‘The great soul of this world is just— Carlyle. = ace i oe * . < Ny me dise can be conceived by finite concep- tion than an absolutely fearless en- vironment. Fear is not productive of a state of ease but on the contrary it is productive of a state of disease. Fear is a disease; there are many evidences of that fact. Hydrophobia is a disease which has as a leading symptom the fear or dread of water. ‘The Greek words hydro means water and phobia means fear. If we take the time to find out we will find that there are other phobias capable of in- juring the entire animal economy, if permitted to grow to full fruition. To eliminate fear means to get in harmony with the prevention propa- ganda. It means to be thoroughly in accord with a knowledge of the ad- vanced thinkers’ proved potentialities. Guess work must be relegated to the scrap heap of fogyism. Those who know and who know that they know must be consulted before not after. We must face the facts and cease to mislead the young with our evasion of free discussion of the most im- portant question of life. We must give every person freedom from fear to have idealism. Can you imagine any better utopia? Imagine the ae ficial effects on health. Ponder i; talk it over with the friends of hu- manity. Send the thought with end- less increasing accumulation of inter- est down thru the endless years of eternity to come. Benefit Ball, 8th Regt. Armory. To Raise Funds For Appeal of “Chicken Joe” Camp- bell, Monday, June 26, 1916. Tickets 50 Cents SAVED THE DAYLIGHT IN INDIANA THIRTY YEARS AGO Coment 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 Burope, which have begun to conserve day- light, 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 im- Pression that it was something new, ‘when, in fact, the idea was adopted thirty years ago at the Speeds Cement mills, north of this city. It was about 1836 when David Cook, manager, who still has charge of the Plant, which produces Portland cement, Tealized 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 eld system. They begin an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier, and even dur- ing the winter the ten hour day can be elie 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 pre- gressed 2 short time plumbers, gas fit- ters, painters, paper hangers, elec tricians and other workmen got busy and did their share of the building work within a given time. More than 200 workmen helped build the house. It 1s « five room house, with a bath- room, costing $4000. Ordinarily it takes two or three months to finish such a house. ‘Thousands watched the constraction work. Three hundred gallons of but- termflk and a cartload of sandwiches ‘were served. In addition to the lot and house, built im less than twelve hours, considerable furniture was presented by friends, ten. As ® general thing, taken by an¢ large, men are honest—except with themselves. A man will cheat himself on his ‘score at golf, when he knows that fail. tng to set down the full number of strokes does not make him a better golfer. If he is a fat man and is dieting to reduce he will shove the weight back pound or two on the scales when he knows in his heart he is heavier than that ‘Then be will tell his friends about “going around yesterday in 92” and “taking off a pound and a half ip three days” by his diet. ‘With these two exceptions almost every man is honest. Therefore all you need to do is to discount what he says about golf or reducing —Jndge. Met a Question of Etiauette. ‘Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady}—Car I help you to some more soup, Mr Dumley? Mr. Dumley—No, thanks. ‘Mrs. Hendricks (engagingly)}—Den' refuse, Mr. Dumley, because tt isn’t considered good form to be helpec twice to soup. We're not particala: Beople here. ‘Mr. Dumley—Oh, etiquette has noth ing to do with tt, madam; it’s the seup PAGE FIVE ‘Changed Words. ‘The English language presents a large number of words that have been completely changed in their signifi. ance since they first came inte use. In some cases their meaning has been exactly reversed. A conspicuous ex- ample of this is the word “let,” which Shakespeare uses several times with the meaning “to hinder.” Hamist ex- claimed, “I'll make a ghost of him that lets me,” of course “him that steps ae" ‘The word is used in the same sense im the Bible, as in I Thessalonians ii 7—“He who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way.” “Ravel” and “unravel” mean exact ly the same thing, although at one time to unravel probably meamt te reduce confusion te order. Compare the words “valuable” and “invaluable” and “loose” and “unloose.” As used frequently in the Bible “pre vent” instead of meaning to “hinder” means to “precede” or “go before,” which is, of course, its etymological meaning.—Los Angeles Times. Holy Lands ef All Religiens. 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 as- sociated with the history of Jerusalem and vicinity. To the Mobammedans Mecca, in Arabia, is the holy land, it being the birthplace of Mohammed, the saviour of the followers of that faith India fs the holy land of the Oitmese and other oriental Buddhists, 1% being the native land of Sakya Muni, the su- prema Puddha. Elis, one of the sev- eral divisions of the ancient Pelopon- nests. was the Mecca and jhe Jeru- salem of the ancient Greekm The temple of Olympus Zeus was situated at Elis, and the sacred festivals were held there each year. The believers in the Shinto religion make annual pil- grimage to Sitsa Kara, the immense stone pillar where their supreme ruler last stood while talking to men. i ia Oca In no big city In the world are there so many tame pigeons as in Constant!- nople. In many squares in Lendon there are small flocks of pigeons, but in the Turkish capital they are te be seen by the thousand. These pigeons are sacred, and. indeed, many a wealthy Turk leaves money to be de voted to buying food for them The story of why they are sacred is rather interesting. When Mohammed, the ‘Turkish prophet, was fying from bis enemies he hid in a cavern. At the mouth of the cavern two pigeons built thelr nest, so tradition runs, while across the entrance a spider spun its web. The soldiers who came along some days later felt certain that no one had entered the cave, seeing the binds nesting and the spider's web, amd so never troubled to enter it and search. Ever since then the Turks have held pigeons and spiders to be sacred. atin ak Gs Geen | The grass is missed only by its ab- sence. 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 ts complete without it. All the teauties of the seashore—the bold rocks, the crested surf, the dashing waves, the lghts and shadows which play at sunrise and sunset beside old ocean—cannot com- pensate for the lack of the grass be- neath our feet. Friends wintering at southern beaches have told us that they grew homesick for the grassy fields and meadows of home—Marga- ret Woodward in Countryside Maga- xine. 1 Naming the Baby. Give your baby a name that will suit him or her throughout life. Let it be ‘2 eaphontous, well balanced name, in- Gicative 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 quall- thes, all the better. Do not indulge in levity, do not give way to sentiment, @ not surrender to affectation oF ro- mance in this matter of selecting & suitable name, and avoid novel com- Dnations and plays upon words with- eat loading the child down with cheap eqmmenniace.—Dallas News. LO PAGE SIX Smart Outfit For the Season's Sport Girl. Striped worsted, buff with coffee colored stripe, is the material in this short sport skirt. The same material is used Tennis "VANTAGE!" for collar, cuffs, belt and pocket lids on a jersey slip on coat. The finger pockets, buttoned on, are an interesting feature. So is the slouch hat. MINERALS IN FOODS A Discourse on Ingredients Needed For Pure, Red Blood. There are a large number of people who have some indefinite notion about iron in foods, thinking it is in amounts big enough to see with the naked eye if they but know how. It is not. Prospective mothers begin to learn about their mineral needs when the doctor prescribes lime tablets, which contain the inorganic mineral, known to be far less absorbable than when organic, as in plants. The plants take the inorganic minerals of the soil and make them over into live stuff for him. He cannot seem to get them so well in any other way. Not only anaemia, but many other illnesses come because not enough foods containing minerals are eaten, or if eaten are made ineffective because the strong acids taken go after them for their own use. If we could talk baby talk to them we might say, "The acids will catch you if you don't watch out." Now, just to get a little bit of a notion about how very slight in quantity, though so wondrous in quality, these vitalizing minerals are, any cook and any eater should study some reliable book on the matter. You will learn that there is nothing quite so heavy in line as turnip tops, which also means the tops of the kohlrabi. How much lime? Oh, about one-half of 1 per cent, but that is a lot compared with what is in the valuable spinach, which has only .00 per cent. Sherman calls these minerals "ash constituents," which is a bit old fashioned. Others call them "nutrient salts," and common everyday people say mineral matter. How great are little things is what we need to realize in this connection. They are almost comparable with radium in this respect. A Shampoo Scheme The possibilities of the hot water bottle as an adjunct in drying the hair after a shampoo have just been discovered by one woman. Half filled with hot water and applied to the scalp and hair it dries both rapidly and pleasantly. With a second bottle applied to the length of the hair it is possible to recline luxuriously with a book while one's hair is almost drying itself. Pound Cake. Take one pound two ounces of sugar, a pound of butter, a pound of flour, ten eggs, vanilla to taste. Cream the sugar and eggs together and the flour and butter. Mix both of these together, add vanilla and beet until light and creamy. It is best to use one's hand, as it makes the cake much lighter. Bake in moderate oven one hour. This makes four pounds. Way of Woman With an Old Shirt. Men's shirts are usually made of such good materials that it seems a shame to discard them because the fronts and cuffs are worn. One woman makes good looking aprons of them by using the back of the shirt for the front of the apron, finishing with a bias and cut from the worn fronts and getting strings from the sleeves. Apricot Tapioca Simmer three tablespoonfuls of tapleca in two cupfuls of milk, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and half a teaspoonful of almond extract. Cool, add a cupful of whipped cream and pour over crushed macaroons soaked in apricot sirup. Serve chilled with whipped cream and apricots. Gothic Architecture The styles called Gothic, springing from a common source in Romanesque architecture and developing throughout western Europe on differing lines, are in general characterized by the following features, although not all of these will be found in all examples: Ribbed vaulting, pointed arches, the flying arch and pinnacled buttress, clustered shafting, traceried windows in all but the earliest phases, stained glass, a progressive tendency toward loffiness, lightness of supports and suppression of wall surfaces, a system of decoration of which one element was the emphasis and adornment of structural features and another the use of sculpture and carving of human, animal, vegetable and grotesque forms, controlled by a definite didactic purpose and significance, and finally the use of available materials according to their nature upon principles in part of structural logic and in part of decorative effect—A. D. F. Hamlin in Architectural Record. National Flags. If the question were asked which country's national flag had been longest in use the answer would be either the dragon banner of China or the chrysanthemum flag of Japan. The former has been used from a very early period, and the latter is as old as the present dynasty in Japan, which is the most ancient in the world. Among European national flags that of Denmark, a white St. George's cross on a red ground, is the most ancient, having been in use since 1219. No other flag has existed without change for anything like the same period as a national emblem, although there are royal standards that are older. The Spanish colors date only from 1885, and Great Britain's flag in its present form was first flown after the union with Ireland in 1801. The stars and stripes of the United States was first planned and ordered by Washington of an upholsterer in Philadelphia and formally adopted on June 14, 1777. —London Spectator. Shaving on One Side The shaving on one side only of the heads and beards of prisoners of war was obviously done to prevent any attempt at escape. But there have been other motives for such half shaving, which occurs at all sorts of points in history. Sometimes the act has been pure insult, as when Hanun, king of the children of Ammon, shaved off half of the beards of David's servants. In these days the victims would have mended matters by shaving the other half. But Jewish reverence for the beard forbade that, and David told the men to "tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown." Demosthenes, when he shut himself up for months in a subterranean chamber to practice oratory, shaved half of his head to cut off all temptation to go abroad—London Chronicle. Earrings Denote Widowhood That India is a land of curious customs is confirmed by the Popular Science Monthly. A widow, instead of wearing black crape, dons ponderous earrings made of solid brass. Since her widowhood is perpetual she is obliged to wear them the rest of her life. Each year another ring is added. The constantly increasing weight of metal stretches the lobe of the ear, to which it is attached, in an extraordinary manner. It is safe to say that no widow ever forgets the fact of her widowhood when wearing such a clumsy weight. A. Silent City. No industry brings the village of Gilthoorn, Holland, into touch with the world. It is almost wholly inaccessible except by water, and the inhabitants are shy and keep within doors, betraying not the slightest interest in visitors. Indeed, Gilthoorn has been likened, empty and silent in its green pluresqueness, to a place visited in a dream.—Argonaut. Progressive. "When did you commit your first fatal extravagance?" "When my boss referred to my wages as my 'salary.'" "And when did you perpetrate this latest folly?" "The day my wife called my salary my 'income.'" -Cleveland Leader Appropriate. Manufacturer—I'm going to call this new cigar "The American Lady In the Japanese Kimono." Dealer —Why? Manufacturer—Domestic filler and imported wrapper—Illinois Siren. The Feminine Pessimist The feminine pessimist worries because she is not as young as she once was; the optimist of the same sex rejoices that she is not so old as she will be.-Life. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Ptomaine Poison. "Pтомaine is a scientific name for food poison," says a physician in Farm and Fireside, "and, although all ptomaines are not dangerous to health, there is no simple test for telling the dangerous ones from the others. Dr. Charles K. Francis, a noted chemist, gives the advice, 'When doubtful about a food do not eat it.' This applies especially to meat which has a peculiar odor or taste, canned goods, especially when they have been opened for some time, and other foods which do not seem just right. Taking a chance may be taking your health or life. Safety first!" THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 24, 1916. JUST BLOUSES. Latest Notes About This Pet Hobby of All Women. This is the season for blouses. They are needed for a multitude of reasons. The one piece frock has not vanished into the warm summer air because the separate blouse has come into fashion again. It appears to be necessary to have both even in the average wardrobe. There is always a struggle in the mind of the woman who is not plentifully endowed with clothes money as to how she should choose between a suit and a one piece frock for constant service, and probably the married man put it correctly for all women when he said that his wife brought the subject up to him semiannually every day for a fortnight, invariably decided in the end according to her own desires and was dissatisfied about her choice, no matter what it was, for the rest of the season. One of the advantages of blouse buying is that the average woman can get half a dozen to suit her different needs and moods. This season they are unrolled before her like a brilliant, never ending carpet. The design and the color constantly change. They have reached a degree of variety and gayety that has not been touched in several seasons. Fine colored muslins, solid and striped, are in the forefront of fashion, and white and colored organdies, which have been so extensively used for neckwear, have been cordially taken up by the makers of blouses. The plain white organdie waists are embroidered with one or more colors, sometimes in the simple and ever pleasing design of scallops, again in polka dots and triangles of brilliant red and blue, green, black and yellow. Because polka dot frocks are in fashion we will be able to wear separate blouses of polka dot fabrics with the pleased feeling that we are quite in the middle of the picture. Taffeta and satin are not looked upon with any degree of warmth, but taffeta is applied to chiffon and then embroidered in gold and silver to build up an ornate blouse. Every one knows by this time that the smartest of French blouses drops over the skirt instead of going under it after the manner of a miniature Russian blouse. Cheruit sent this out in white organdle, with a sash of colored silk, and it has led the way for a dozen other conceptions by our own dress-makers. NOVELTY VEIL. Another Interesting Accessory That Comes "by the Yard." With a close turban, flower wreathed, is worn a flyaway veil that may be as long as preferred, since it comes, A FOR MOTORING. all striped and gay with favorite spring colors, by the yard. Draped horizontally, the effect is picturesque. Menu For One Week. Sunday.—Roast beef, Franconia potatoes, creamed cauliflower, orange salad, steamed apple pudding with vanilla sauce. Monday.—Cold roast beef, hot gravy, scalloped potatoes, peas, pineapple and cake. Tuesday.—Cottage pie (chopped roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy), kidney beans, fruit salad, peach taploca with cream and cake. Wednesday.—Beef croquettes with stewed mushrooms, peas, mince pie and cheese. Thursday.—Veal cutlets, baked potatoes, macaroni and cheese and apple pie. Friday.—Creamed fish on toast, banana salad, prune whip and cake. Saturday.—Baked beans and brown bread, mustard pickles, Dutch apple cake with lemon sauce. Attractive Chains The new bead necklaces show combinations of jade and jet, coral and jet or jade, pearls and jet, with imitation pierced gold or silver filgree beads used at effective intervals for ornamentation. One chain, in which jade is used most attractively, has the pierced gold beads, with antique finish, and a piece of Chinese money used as a pendant. "Kissing the Book." When did "kissing the book" come to be recognized as a part of the English oath? Master William Thorpe, a priest, who was tried for heresy before the archbishop of Canterbury in 1407, has in an account of his own trial related a conversation between a "man of law" and a "master of divinity" on the subject of oaths. The man of law spoke of a witness merely laying his hand on the book, whereupon the master of divinity said, "He that chargeth him to lay his hand thus upon the book, touching it and swearing by it, and kyssing it, promising in this form to do this thing, will say and witness that he that toucheth thus a book and kisseth it hath sworn upon that book." So the practice is at least 500 years old. "Kissing the book" must have been a familiar practice in Shakespeare's day, for in "The Tempest" there is more than one jocular reference to it. "Swear by this bottle how thou camest hither," says Stephano to Trinculo. "Here, kiss the book," offering him his bottle of sack. There is also legal proof that the practice was well known in the seventeenth century.—London Opinion. Being the Vice President: "Isn't it easy to be a vice president?" remarked a young woman who had been sitting in one of the galleries for some time watching the senate work. "Cinch," colloquially responded her escort. But senators know differently, for they are fully aware of what it means to sit hour by hour and pilot their august body through the parliamentary jungles which frequently are confronted. The rules for legislative procedure in the United States senate are practically no rules at all, paradoxical as it may seem. The course of the upper house is guided largely upon precedent and past rulings of vice presidents, and as a consequence the presiding officer must be thoroughly conversant with what his predecessors have done from the time the nation was born. This means long hours of study and extensive reading.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Antiguity of the Ballet. Strictly defined, the ballet is properly a theatrical exhibition of the art of dancing in its highest perfection, complying generally with the rules of the drama as to its composition and form. It was in existence in Italy as far back as A. D. 1500, the court of Turin in that day making special use of it and the royal family and nobles taking part in it. The ballet was first introduced in France in the reign of Louis XIII, and both that monarch and Louis XIV, occasionally took part in its dances. About the year 1700 women made their first appearance in the ballet, which up to that time had been performed exclusively by men, as was the case also with plays and operas, but no woman ballet dancer of any note appeared until 1750. Leggings of the Marines The stout leggings worn by members of the United States marine corps are not a purely decorative adjunct to their very nutty uniforms, as popularly supposed by civilians, but are a protection for the men against tropical diseases while in foreign service, naval surgeons say. Many of the most dangerous tropical diseases are transmitted by the bites of insects. Among these are malaria, yellow fever, bubonic plague, hookworm, elephantiasis and tropical ulcer. Fleas and mosquitoes are the prime carriers, and they make their first attack upon the ankles, thence working their way over the whole body. The leggings worn by the United States marines afford splendid protection to the ankles against fleas, mosquitoes and infected dirt. Shakespeare Altered A portable theater had been pitched in an out of the way spot where the prospective theatrical patrons were unsophisticated in matters dramatic. The players possessed the costumes for "Hamlet," and Shakespeare's tragedy was selected for representation. It then occurred to the proprietors of the show that the name might not attract, so they altered the title to "How the Stepfather Was Paid Out!"—London Mall. A Virtue Misplaced: "I ordered this steak not well done," sald the impatient guest. "I know it," answered the intellectual waiter. "But the cook is one of those people who believe that no matter how small a thing is it should be well done." New Version. Mother was hacking at the fatted calf when the prodigal clumped into the kitchen. "Aw, say, maw," he grumbled, "lay off the veal and give us a little spring lamb. These occasions don't happen every day."—Buffalo Express. Big Balance on Hand "Jack, I have a notion to give you a piece of my mind." "You could do that, Juliet, and still have quite a surplus." — Richmond Times-Dispatch. High Art Patience—They say that is a spurious painting. Patrice—Really! It looks like a watercolor to me.—Yonkers Statesman. A Question of Gifts "Why did you deliberately make an enemy of your old friend Jinks?" "Because he is to be married next month." People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to pattern after.—Goldsmith. Raised Decorations on Eggshells. It is easy to work out a design in relief on an eggshell, whether the contents of the egg have been removed or not. The first step is to draw with a pencil the design or the lettering that you wish to appear on the egg. Make only an outline and the leading points of the design. Then melt a small quantity of candle wax in a shallow tin and let it set a little, but while it is still soft take it out of the tin and spread it over the design on the egg. If there is any difficulty in getting the wax to hold touch it here and there with the heated blade of a penknife. Take vinegar enough to cover the egg completely and soak the egg in it for a period that may be half an hour or may be an hour and a half, according to the strength of the vinegar. At the end of that period take the egg out and peel off the wax. The design will then stand up in relief against the rest of the shell, for the acid of the vinegar will have eaten away the uncovered part and left untouched only that part which the wax protected. Youth's Companion. Tipping In ConstantInople. The tipping evil is no joke even in this country. But it has hardly reached the degree of insidiousness marked by this tale from the near east: "On the morning of my departure from Constantinople I gave the letter carrier who had brought my letters during my sojourn here half a medshid as a tip. "In the afternoon a man came up to me and said: 'My lord, I am a stranger to you. You never received a telegram. But may it please you to know that I am the telegraph messenger. May it please you to know that it was up to me to deliver telegrams to you if such had been received for you in our office. I surely would have brought them to you most quickly. I know you will be just and you will not harm a man who has always been ready to serve you. I cannot be blamed that I have never been called upon to be of service to you. I, too, deserve half a medidsh." — Bruno's Weekly. Masking the Guns Against air craft observation one of the first precautions taken is to splash guns, limbers and ammunition wagons with different neutral tints so that they will blend with the ground about them. Any earthworks, pits, etc., that are erected or dug are strewn with leaves and branches and the earth disturbed generally, so that from above nothing unusual shall be spotted by keen eyed air men. A battery of guns is seldom placed along the sky line, for there it is an easy mark. Generally the guns are concealed some distance down the incline in front of the sky line, unless the guns are howitzers, in which case they can be best served from behind the ridge. The idea of placing the guns in front of the ridge is that the rising ground behind them serves as an effectual screen, as the guns themselves are painted to represent earth and foliage—London Standard. He Wanted to Know The late E. H. Harriman, says the Wall Street Journal, was a stickler for facts. He cared little for an approximate statement. When he asked his employees for information he wanted it definite. While traveling through Nevada one day with a number of the officials of the Union Pacific the train passed a little station with much platform, a bleak background of sagebrush and junipers and no habitation within sight. "What is that station there for?" asked Mr. Harriman of one of the railway officials with the party. "They ship a few cattle and two or three cars of wool." "Which is it, two or three?" snapped Mr. Harriman. "Which is it? There is a difference of 33.1-3 per cent." Birds as Lamps. The natives of Trinidad make use of the young guacharo in an unusual manner. The young are very fat and are frequently found to weigh more than the full grown birds. Their fat is used by the natives to produce an oil which is a substitute for butter. Also it is frequently the custom of the natives to draw a wick through the body of a young guacharo and use it as a lamp or candle. Thus the guacharo is sometimes called the oil bird. A Great Secret Old Bachelor Uncle—Well, Charlie, what do you want now? Charlie—Oh, I want to be rich. "Rich! Why so?" "Because I want to be petted. Ma says you are an old fool, but must be petted because you are rich. But it's a great secret, and I mustn't tell it." The Aftermath Mrs. DuPuy-I was so surprised to hear that Edith and Mr. Sissingham were married. You know they always used to claim their attachment was merely platonic. Mrs. Kolkremes-Yes, I remember. But now, I fear, they wouldn't claim it was even that. Spitzbergen's Minerals A little of almost every precious mineral has been found in Spitzbergen, but there are no signs, according to geologists, that precious minerals exist in paying quantities. Bit of Advice "One of your eyebrows is a trifle awry." "Ah, a bit of misplaced color." "Just so. Hue to the line, my dear."—Exchange. The more virtuous any man is the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious—Clever. MINISTER GIVES GIRLS TWELVE GOLDEN RULES Divine Tells Them to Think Carefully and Prayerfully About Their Wedding Day. Cleveland.—"Twelve Golden Rules For Young Ladles" was the subject of the sermon delivered by Rev. Thomas Hughes, pastor of the Rocky River Methodist church. The twelve rules are: "Choose carefully your company of both sexes. "Open your eyes and ears, but keep your heart closed to the gush and non-sense 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 salum by Judge Hulbert recently in the probate court. The incessant use of the cigarettes was declared by Dr. S. L. Layton, who examined Winters, to have affected his mind. Frequenting a saloon at the corner of Chamberlain and Lawndale avenues, Winters smoked until his supply gave out and his money too. After that he begged smokes from the customers of the saloon, according to Joseph Berman, the proprietor of the place. Berman petitioned the court to have Winters taken to an asylum. A German by birth, Winters was getting along well in this country until the cigarette habit got the upper hand. Given jobs by Berman, Winters even lost his power of application to simple work. "No more work for me," he would say as he would sit down on the job. Berman told investigators. The nicotine undoubtedly had a deteriorating effect on his mentality, Dr. Layton declared. FEWER KANSAS FARMERS There Are Not So Many Now as Ten Years Ago. Ablene, 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 "piano 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 proounded 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 "piano 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. , ct too i aN DT ; | ibs ON te). ent Mal ae ae cele) 1 Py | a \ iemreresnsircen aN HH QUINACOMB #4 ¥ erin rd ; NO eee ees a oa Drvc Company, New York City.N.Y. | ee ee and SHIP CANAL ee Length - - - - - 32 Miles Depth - - - - - - 22 Feet Width &- - - 162 to 290 Feet THE CANAL™OFFERS: 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 viafthe 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. GONNERY, - - Comptroller e e Karpen Building 900 So. Michigan Ave. | CHICAGO An Artist's Fad. 4 Parisian artist in eu of a picture filery has a collection of great paint- ¥ palettes, some 500 in number, among them being Corot’s, Isabey’s ‘md Theodore Rousseau’s. On many @f the palettes are sketches by the Painters who used them. Wycliffe’s Bible. John Wycliffe, completed the transla- thn of the whole Bible for the first time into the language of the English People. He was born near Richmond, fa Yorkshire, about 1324. A Case of Fifty-Fifty. “Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives.” “Thet's the half that minds its nm business probably.”—Philadelphia Ledger. The smallest thing well dome be- Somes artistic —William Matthews, Flower ef the Air. There is a plant in Chile and a simi- lar one in Yspan called the “flower of the air” is so called because it ap- ‘Dears to have no root and is never x- 4 to the carth. It twines around a ‘Gy tree or sterile rock. Each shoot Produces two or three flowers like a Wy—white, transparent and odorifer- ow. it is capable of being transported 0 to 700 miles and vegetates ap it Bavels suspended on a twig. Perfect Machinery, “Their household seems a perfect ‘Blece of machinery.” “Yes; the wife's the governor, the Shiktren safety valves and the hus- band a crank.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. His Views. “Dear me, I forgot to sen@ her an ‘faritation to our wedding!” “I tmagine it won't make much dif. fereace. We won't miss one pickle fork."—Kansas City Journal. Astronomy. Astronomy is one of the most exact *f the sctences. The powerful tele- ‘eres, the spectroscope and other al- est perfect instruments come pretty ‘Rear telling the truth. Stevensen’s Brownies. Stevenson maintained that much of his work was ealy partially original His collaborators were the brownies who ran riot threagh his (ata uring the hours of sleep, Hoe f stances the case of “Dr. Jekyl and Ms Hyde” “1 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 crime, 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 much of it the manner of my browntes.” Lordly Dieraeli. Disraeli once told a woman that two possessions which were indispensable to other people he bad 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 hew do you manage,’ I asked, ‘if there Rappens to be no clock in the room and you want to know the time? ‘I Ting 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 im the park and sre caught ia a suddem show- er? ‘I take refuge,’ he replied, with a smile of excessive gallantry, ‘under the umbrella of the first pretty woman I A Warning. “Watch out how you holler fer de ‘wor!’ ter look up at you when yeu 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 cits good an’ ready. An’ dis other thing is what you got te consider: De minute you hellers old man Trouble locates you an’ sete his traps ter trip you an’ send you rollin’ down ter de bottom, whar you come fremf’—Atlanta Constitution. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 24, 1916. NNN —_—_——— ——— HAS ODD CAREER, BRILLIANTINE TRIUMPI pe te 5a Beautiful Suit of a Serv- Woman at One Time Headed Six Reeabie,: Modich/ Material. Living Generations. Navy biue brilliantine ts featu . —— this Redfern model, the materi rell fo HAD FIVE SONS IN CIVIL WAR. |rize omset22 £o the rippling While She Was Celebrating ‘One Hundred and Fourth Birthday It Was Figured Out That Venerable Old Lady of Wisconsin Has 185 Descend- ante—Ie Rugged and Enjoys Life. Prairie du Chien, Wis—Grandma Shrake is in ae ‘hundred and fifth year, for she celebrated her one hun- red end fourth birthday anniversary Tecenitly. She is a most remarkable ‘Woman in several respects. With the aid of a cane she is able to get about quite well, and she is always cheerful and happy. Up toa year ago she was able to read the newspapers, but her eyesight has fatled fast since that time, and she is now able to recognize People only when they get within a few feet of her. She has a rugged con- stitution and {s able to take care of three square meals a day and enjoy them. At the birthday anniversary thirty- five of her relatives were present to do honor to the event, an event that is exceedingly rare. While the circle were enjoying din- ner it was figured out that this vener- able old lady bad 185 descendants lv- ing at the present time, as follows: Three sons, of which Sylvester Ault, aged eighty-three, of Oclwein, Ia., was Present at the celebration and who de- clares that he is still a young man; forty-six grandchildren, ninety-two great-grandchildren, forty great-great- grandchildren and four great-great- great-grandenildren. Mrs. Shrake herself was the mother of ten children, of which the three sons are all that are living of the first gen- eration. And what a wonderful family record is Grandma Shrake's—the head at one time of six living generations, all fe- male, the only known instance of the kind in the United States. Death has removed only two of the links. The six generations are: Mrs. Lydia Shrake of Wyoming, Mrs. Margaret Hider (deceased), Mrs. Rachel Goff (de- ceased), Mrs. Malissa Spaulding of California, Mrs. Cora Gulley of Call- fornia, baby Agnes Gulley of Califor- nia. They all used to live at Wyalus- ing. Grandma Lydia Thomas Ault-Shrake ‘was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pa. and at the age of four moved with her parents to Coshocton, ©., where at the age of eighteen she married William Ault in May, 1832. ‘To them were born five children—Lou- fsa, Sylvester, Margaret, Elias and Willizm. Two of these sons, Sylvester and William Ault, served in the late civil war, the former in the Fifteenth ‘Wisconsin and the latter in Company A, Thirty-first Wisconsin. In Septem- Der, 1839, her husband died, and two years later she married Jacob Shrake. In 1844 they moved to Green county, ‘Wis, and in 1850 to Wyalusing, their home ever since. To the last union ‘were born five children—Jacob, of Bag- ley; Jane, David, Abner and George. ‘Three of these sons served in the civil war, Jacob in Company A, Thirty-frst Wisconsin; David in Company H, Wis- consin's Eagle regiment, and Abner in Company C, Forty-eighth Wisconsin. ‘This makes five sons Grandma Shrake sent to the front in the dark days of the war, another remarkable thing to her credit and showing her patriot- ism. Her second husband, Mr. Shrake, ‘who died in 1861, was also a soldier in the war of 1812. HOME AFTER 21 YEARS. Kansan, Long Thought Lost at Sea Ends His Roaming. Pratt, Kan—Charles M. Short, who has been mourned as dead by his moth- ex, Mrs. M. A. Annett of St. Joseph, ‘Mo., has been found in this city and is alive and well. Short tells a peculiar story of a roam. ing life, which he has at last decided to stop and go home to his mother. About twenty-one years ago Short left -his home at Excelsior Springs, Mo., and started out for himself. He went to San Francisco, where he went on the seas as a sailor. He never wrote his mother, but a word to a cousin in Ne- braska gave the information that he was a sailor on a certain boat. ‘This boat was reported sunk, and there was no report of Short’s name in the list of survivors. His mother then mourned him for dead until recently a fiash came over the wire from the cousin in Nebraska that Short had been found. FALLS ASLEEP ANY PLACE. Slumbers In Street, on Wharf, Falls In. Seunl. Gecenee ta Coll, Bayonne, N. J.—Roman Kowaski, twenty-six, of 145 Prospect avenue was found asleep recently in the street in front of his home. Passersby, be- Meving him unconscious, had him bur- ried to Bayonne hospital, where doc- tors said he was in perfect health. He ‘was taken home by friends. Shortly thereafter police headquar. ters received a message that a man asleep at Packard's dock at the foot of East Twenty-eighth street had fall- en into the bay. With long ropes he was rescued by Policeman Hunter. At police headquarters he was found to be Kowaski. He was put in a cell and fell fast asleep. BRILLIANTINE TRIUMPHS. ee Beautiful Suit of a Serv- iceable, Modish Material. a Ea eing si ens ni” pain Meee Cpa d ble ing well adapted to the rippling folds. Fine white braid and buttons trim the al la a ide r ite a? > i i <2 ) iy ee ome q Je fg ae | ia / if 4» GRACEFUL SILHOUETTE. sleeves, high collar and girdle. ‘The basque front is also braided. Tiny blue ostrich tips make the stickup on the turban, HEALTH FOR THE HAIR. ow to Resp Vour tresses Srignt ant Beautiful. Fresh air is as necessary to the health of the hair as it is to the health of the lungs. The woman who is not guided by this truth has hair which, as a rule, is matted down and of an un- attractive shade. ‘The outdoor girl, whose coiffure is blown about by the wind, usually has a head of hair that 4s fall of life and vigor, and its color- ing is fine. Fresh air and plenty of brushing, with the shampoo and gentle massag- Ing of the scalp, will often make sickly hair healthy. Brush the hair for five minutes every night and massage the scalp briefly with the tips of the fingers. Then let the hair hang down unplaited until ready to get into bed. In the morning while preparing to @ress again let the hair fall loosely. On balmy days stand at an open win- dow so that the breeze may blow the hair about and the sunshine warm it. In cold weather stand in the sunshine for a short sun bath. ‘When motoring or playing golf you should dress the hair loosely that it may have the benefit of the airing. Let the hair hang loosely in the sun for a few minutes each day if possi- ble. ‘This treatment naturally bleaches the hair slightly. The wholesome ef- fect upon it of the sun more than com- Pensates for the bleach. For a blond this treatment is especially effective; it maintains the fairness of the hair as nothing else will. Close fitting hats and extra puffs and braids cause the hair to perspire and do not allow the air to circulate through it to the roots. Lack of air is responsi- ble for so much poor hair among city women. There is no hair tonic that equals nature's. ‘ Latest Fad of Brides. For blankets the latest brides take pleasure in embroidering in silk im- mense. monograms the color of the satin ribbon wit! which the blankets are bound. The same monogram may be used for sheets or toweling. and a pair of handsome blankets so bound and embroidered will be welcomed by any bride. For a cover for baby’s erib or couch there is a charming fancy in blue or pink linen with a wide white border. the whole quilted as though made of silk, On the colored centers are appliqued fascinating white “bun- nies” with long ears, cut out of white linen with embroidered black eyes. Homemade Rag Rugs. Take wool rags of medium weight one and one-quarter inches wide strips, no bias; turn in and baste to prevent raw edges, so wrong side will be smooth too. Braid a strand forty-eight Inches long. double and sew, always carrying braid to left; hold full as you sew around ends; shade colors, grow- ing darker as you proceed. Braid only one round at a time. so there will be equal number as you braid as regards colors. Use No. 12 cotton thread for sewing. LINCOLW STATE. BANK OF CHICAGO | UNDER STATE SUPERVISION | | 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET; | | CHICAGO, ILL. | Deuglas 200 . | CAPITAL, $200,000.00 SURPLUS, $20,000.00 | . | ——E Commercial Banking So =(|| Savings and Checking Accounts SE SB | Fereien Exchange | i 1 ia Safety Deposit Vaults | TE = \ Mortgages and Bonds aie «© — | an 3 Per Cent | Wri Interest on Savings | a | Pa Deposits i} i | Your Patronage Solicited eee eas This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depos- Depository and Correspondent, ee a eee Continental & Commercial Account to the Flest step to National Bank of Chicago, wealth. OPEN one with US. Dinois. PHONES: OFFICE. MAI 4188 AUTOMATIC. ss736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7200 Walter M. Farmer "ORNEY AT LAW, SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Ottis Phones: Res. 513 Se. Wabush Ave Oakland 4662, Ante. 13-058 Phone Drexel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO maneAinoennlsraces ne Sundays by Appointment Phone Main 2017 Astomate 32395 | A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bide. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Ave. ~ Phone Midway 5515 Chieago Household Helps. ‘To cut butter im small even squares for the table use a coarse wet thread. as this leaves no ragged edges. It is a waste of gas to allow the flames to blaze up the sides of a 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 im it—end wood absorbs odors quickly—should be soaked in hot water in which soda is dissolved in the proportion of one ta- Diespoonful of soda to four quarts of water. ‘THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. ©. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, no- tion store and news stand, 5012 8. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, 8. E. eor- ner 5ist and State streets. 8. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 51 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 8. Btate street. George I Martin, maker of fine cig- ars and news stand, 18 W. 3ist St., near State. BR. M. Harvey’s barber shop and ‘news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, to ‘bacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. / Edward Felix, notions, cigars and ‘news stand, 52 W. 30th St. —_F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St, near State. Sylvester MeGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobaceo and news stand, 2636 State Bt B M. Oliver, notions, cigars and acws stand, 15 W. 86th Street, near Btate. , A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 & State Bt. George MeFare, shee shining parlors and news stand. 3990% State street. PaGs suvEN A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Scite 615te 618 PHONE MAIN 2216 Residence 1262 Macalister Place "Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Seite 313-329 Reaver Block Clark & Washington Sts. Phones Sate. 41-318 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St. Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 Phone Ree. 508. 30038. FRANKLIN 2727 Phone Douglas 4397 ‘AUTO. 41-543 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 25 N. Dearborm St, ane = CHICAGO FRANK DUNN | crugagn ‘Eatabllsbed 1077 ‘TEL. OAKLAND 1880, 1881, 1852 JOHN J. DUNN Fifty-Firet and Armour Avease RAILYARDS serene owroaee T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. ‘Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco ‘and news stand, 3342 8. State street. "Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 30th street. ¥. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. Why Not Be Friendly? ‘Less than a third of the peaple in the average American nelghbethoed are natives. In thousands of cases practically all the population was bern elsewhere. So why stand off when some one moves in from anether sec- thon? Whf be niggardiy with neighbor- Ines? Of course one may make an eceasional mistake, Vut for evemy un- desirable acquaintance we find several good people worth knowing. Yeu, your neighbor and the newcomes are Problems of your community, am@ as each of you may be the other twe the problem ouzht to be simple. | If you are an older residemt greet ‘the newcomer. There is a doable Diessing in a welcome. In giving you get. If you are the newcomer—well, your duty was never better stated them in these words of Ruskin: “It is a good and safe role te so Journ in any place as if you means to ‘Spend your life there, never ousitting an opportunity of doing a Kindmems or speaking a true word or makiag a friend.” ‘The way to fill the lonesome heums is to be friendiy.—Country Gentleman. i a es PAGE EIGHT TEENAN JON TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most BUFFET and CAFE Side. First-Class Entrance HENRY "TEENAN" J A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The Elite AND BU 3030 STATE STREET JOHN BLOCKI, President JOHN BLOCKI PERFUME GO TO C. E. KREYSSI 5057 South St. NOT ON THE FOR HIGH GRADE DRUGGIES MEDICINAL PREMIUM All Prescriptions Careful ALSO CARRY A FU BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BOTTLE P The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER IN BOTTLE PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE DR. LOUIE USSELMAN The Practical O ticia THE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES Consultation or examination FREE. We have 28 different ways of testing the eyes and guarantee to give satisfaction. 3150 S. STATE ST Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO 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 sung, and what was left of his hair and beard was a sight to behold. Some one brought a mirror, and he had a look at himself. As usual, however, he took matters philosophically. "Well," he said slowly and deliberately, "I was needing a shave and my hair cut anyway."—Exchange. Our First Free School. The first free school established in the United States was in the province of Massachusetts Bay in the year 1641 by order of the general colonial court. In 1647 the same authority declared that free schools should be established within every town having fifty householders under penalty of a fine of $25. This fine was doubled by a declaration made in 1671 and again doubled in 1683. Lead Soldiers "So you are playing with your soldiers, Willie?" said the caller. "Yes, ma'am." "They seem very heavy soldiers." "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—Spurreon. Fine Field. 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. A most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South Side Entertainers. N" JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 Elite Cafe BUFFET ET CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO SSLER, Druggist North State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PREPARATIONS Carefully Compounded ERY A FULL LINE OF & BLOCKI'S FLOWER LE PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. LOUIE USSELMANK The Practical O tician OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY AT THE LOWEST PRICES 3150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO Two Wonderful Clocks. One of the most wonderful clocks in the world is owned by a Frenchman, Louis Descutter. It is mounted on a Louis Selze stand and has four faces. Besides marking the hours, it shows the tides at six different parts of the world, the mean time and the solar time, the age of the moon, the movements of the planets and all eclipses. It is also a perpetual calendar. It was made by Janvier of Paris in 1789 and took eleven years to manufacture. San Diego, Cal., has a wonderful clock with twenty dials, which tell the time simultaneously in all parts of the world, also the days of the week and the date and month. It stands twenty-one feet high, and four of its dials are each four feet in diameter. It is inclosed in plate glass, so that every action can be seen, and the whole is illuminated every night. It is jeweled with tourmaline, topaz, agate and jade and required fifteen months to build. The motive power is a 200 pound weight. The cost of the clock was $3,000.-People's Home Journal. Styles In Indian Names. Although among the Indians there are not so many Deerslayers as there were in the days of James Fenimore Cooper, yet many of the names still possess strong individuality. This is shown by examining the names that were prominent in a recent sale of Indian lands in the Standing Rock reservation, in the Dakota. Here, for instance, was found Barney Two Bears, an amiable 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. "Are the fish thick here?" "Well, not too thick, sir," answered the native. "We have to use this lake partly for navigation."—Louisville Courier-Journal. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 24, 1916. ERNEST WILLIAMSON 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 Paya. 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 Holea. Grocer—Yes, ma'am; that's the way it comes. 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 willing to give you credit for not hurrying about anything." 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: 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. 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? THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Safety Deposit Vaults, REAL ESTATE DEAL As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, including payment of taxes and looking on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of The Cranford Building. 3600 The finest building ever opened to steam heat, electric light, tile baths, J. W. *Phone Randolph 803 Do You Want Lower Gas Bill? OUR GAS RATES WILL BE REDUCE by the city's acceptance of the company's proposal, which is now before council. Here, in brief, is our proposal to the City Gas Company's Proposal to the City cent allowed on Savings Acct. Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages est- payment of taxes and looking after assessment Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business. Cranford Apartu- building. 3600. Wabash building ever opened to Colored tena- sic light, tile baths, marble entrances owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Anford Apartment 9. 3600. Wabash Ave. ver opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. 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 Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. Want or Gas Bills? S WILL BE REDUCED y's acceptance of the gas which is now before the in brief, is our proposition: mpany's Pro- to the City What Bills? BE REDUCED ance of the gas now before the our proposition: s Pro- 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 immediately a schedule of rates materially lower than present rates. 3. The lower rate schedule will be subject to further revision when our property is valued, and can always be revised at any time by the properly 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. this proposal will give you lower k to your alderman about this. puzzles you, write us about it. will give you lower alderman about this. u, write us about it. hard to Depart- take Company, the advertise- daily papers. Oke Company Telephone Wabash 6000 Just address your letter or post card to Department B, Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company, and watch for the answer in the advertisements now running in the big daily papers. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Gas Building Telephone Wabash Light & Coke Company Telephone Wabash 6000 J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET.