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THE BROAD AX The Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guards, Col. Franklin A. Denison, Commanding, Continues to Make Good with the Press and the Citizens in General of San Antonio, Texas THE Y. M. C. A. BUILDING CONSTRUCTED ON THE CAMPING GROUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOLDIERS IS WELL PATRONIZED BY THEM. THREE COLORED SECRETARIES ARE EMPLOYED ALL THE TIME TO LOOK AFTER THEIR INTEREST AND COMFORTS. THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT WHILE ON "DRESS PARADE" AT THE "QUADRANGLE" PARADE GROUND OF THE PORT SAM HOUSTON ARMY POST WAS REVIEWED BY GENERAL FUNSTON WHO WAS PRESENT AND STOOD AT "ATTENTION" AND SALUTED THE COLORS AS THE REGIMENT PASSED HIM. THE WHITE SOLDIERS AND WHITE CITIZENS LOUDLY APPLAUDING THEM AS THEY PASSED BY. MANY FALSE WILDCAT AND DAMAGING ARTICLES HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN ONE OF THE CHICAGO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS WITH THE SOLE INTENTION OF INFLAMING THE PUBLIC MIND AND TO WORRY THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF THE SOLDIERS AT HOME CONCERNING THE HOSTILITIES ON THE PART OF THE WHITES IN RELATION TO THE EIGHTH REGIMENT. THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION FROM SERGEANT MAJOR LEWIS E. JOHNSON, LAWYER WITH OFFICES AT 3102 S. STATE STREET, DIRECT FROM THE FIELD OF ACTION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. ol. XXI. The Eighty A. De the F Texas THE Y. M. C. A. BUILDING CONSTITUTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOLDIERS THEM. THREE COLORED SEEN THE TIME TO LOOK AFTER THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE "DRESS PARADE" AT THE OF THE FORT SAM HOUSTON GENERAL FUNSTON WHO WAS TION" AND SALUTED THE CHIM. THE WHITE SOLDIERS PLAUDING THEM AS THEY PAY MANY FALSE WILDCAT AND DAM LISHED IN ONE OF THE CHIC THE SOLE INTENTION OF IN TO WORRY THE RELATIVES A HOME CONCERNING THE HOS WHITES IN RELATION TO THE THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION E. JOHNSON, LAWYER WITH DIRECT FROM THE FIELD OF A HEADQUARTERS 8th ILLINOIS INFANTRY IN CAMP, NEAR FORT SAM HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. Special to The Broad Ax.-The 8th Illinois Infantry to-day completes its first month's encampment at this place. Great strides have been made within this time. The machinery of the regiment is now running smoothly and the men and officers move about performing their duties like clockwork. It would do your heart good to see the pretty sight of the boys marching out on their long hikes into the small foot hills that surround this camp, behind the old famous 8th Regiment Band, playing "Tipperary" or some good stirring march. After they have "thiked" about 10 miles or more they return to camp often with their clothing soaked with perspiration but always in high spirits and singing as they march. Colonel F. A. Denison, Lt. Colonel J. H. Johnson, and, Majors Robert R. Jackson, Charles L. Hunt and Otis B. Duncan, together with the Captains of the Company are sorting every effort to make the 5th peer of all the regiments in the field. A result of these efforts is shown in the compliment paid the Regiment by the San Antonio Press, which stated that the 5th had the neatest and cleanest camp of all the regiments encamped here. The Machine Gun Co., commanded by Lieut. Albert W. Ford and Lieut. Richard Bradley is receiving the praises of the higher authorities for their excellent demonstration of the Lewis Machine Gun. The Camp now resembles a little tented city with its soldier citizens moving about very much like they would in any city. A Y. M. C. A. building has been erected on the grounds for the use of the men with three Colored secretaries in charge—the men patronize it liberally. The 3rd Battalion Boys gave a "stunt" night last night that was a "hummer"—the program embraced everything from singing and whistling hymns to clog dancing and a six round boxing bout. It was in charge of the newly appointed Battalion Sergeant Major, Lewis E. Johnson, one of the Chicago lawyers who joined the Regiment just before it left Chicago. On last Friday the Regiment was invited to give a Dress Parade at what is known as the "Quadrangle", the beautiful parade ground of the Fort Sam Houston Army Post. The officers and boys looked splendid as they marched in perfect alignment with their new clothing and looking spick and span in every respect. General Funston was present and stood at "Attention" and saluted the colors as our Regiment passed him. The Regiment acquired itself so splendidly that they have been invited to give another parade at the same place on Wednesday of next week. There has been ```markdown ``` HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY much exaggeration and misrepresentation in regard to the racial relationships between our boys and the Texas citizens. Of course we realize that we are in southern territory but the treatment is far better than many would expect. There is much cordiality existing and there have been plenty of instances where the San Antonians have gone out of their way to accommodate our men. A few little disturbances, which might have happened in Chicago, have been enlarged and dwelt upon unreasonably. Such disturbances however, are below the minimum. A feeling of great resentment is carried by the officers and men of the regiment over an article published in one of our Chicago papers saying that the whites had held a meeting and threatened to shoot and kill all the members of the 5th Regiment and that a fund had been subscribed to pay the murders for their services. It is hard to conceive a better example of deliberate misrepresentation with the intent to inflame the public mind and worry the relatives and friends of the soldiers at home than this. The members of the regiment regard it as the ravings of some maniac who dared to thrust his hallucinations into public print. Before such articles are published, they should be verified and known to be authentic. There is no ill feeling between the Colored and white soldiers. This was shown last Friday when the regiment marched through the various camps of white soldiers on their way to give their Dress Parade at the Quadrangle; the white soldiers by the thousands, lined the roadway and cheered and applauded our boys along the entire line of march. Their march to and from the Army Post was one continuous ovation. When the 5th Regiment Band gives its evening concerts white soldiers from the surrounding camps bring their chairs and sit down among the crowd and enjoy the entire program. In view of this, it is no wonder that the men resent the publication of articles which attempt to prove an estrangement between our men and the other soldiers and the citizens of this place. Major Jackson, said it was “outrageous”. L. E. JOHNSON, Sergeant Major Attorney B. F. Mosceley, 6221 S. Halsted street, who has spent the last two weeks in southern Illinois, in the interest of Hon. Medill McCormick for congressman at large, will leave this evening for his summer home in Idlewild, Mich., where he will spend four or five days. Mr. Mosceley feels confident that Mr. McCormick will win out at the State wide primaries, Wednesday day, September 13th. CHICAGO, AUGUST 12. 1916 NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comment BABY OF NEGRO PARENTS WINS PRIZE. Philadelphia, Pa.-The Main Line Citizens' Association of Philadelphia and other organizations interested in welfare work there, conducted a baby week campaign last March that was a great benefit to the surrounding communities. One of its features was the beginning of a "baby improvement" contest that was to last, and did, for several months. The results were announced on Saturday by the committee that carried on the work. It seemed a good idea to those interested to go around yesterday and ask the mothers of the winners how they managed things, under the advice of a doctor and a visiting nurse, so that their children showed so much improvement in two or three months. Heading the list of winners was William Johnson of 714 Brooks Street, Bryn Mawr. Seated on the porch was a woman, smiling proudly, when questioned, over her baby and a $10 prize. She said her name was Mrs. Silas Johnson and the name of the award was William. He showed, the investigators said, he ought to win a prize. He is as healthy and happy a little Colored boy as ever heard a crooning lullaby. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are Colored people. They are proud of their record in cleaning up their house so well and in making William so healthy that the doctors judged him worthy of first award. In another house, several squares away, was Ethel Cattell, white, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cattell, who are the parents of four girls and two boys, winner of the second prize. After that, John Smith, another $5 prize winner, was under observation at 40 Prospect Avenue. Mrs. William Smith, holding John in her lap, had two girls and two more boys seated in chairs beside her. The Smiths are also Colored people, thus two of the winners, the first and third are Colored babies. REJECTED OF ALL PARTIES. Washington, D. C.—The Washington Herald, under the caption "Rejected by All Parties" gives this opinion of the movement for National Prohibition: The one issue that has made the most noise in Washington in the last two years is not mentioned in the platforms of any of the political parties which have held national conventions in the last two weeks. This is prohibition by amending the Federal Constitution. The Republican convention last week heard the advocates of this great issue and ignored their arguments. The Progressive convention discussed it on the floor for several hours and then rejected it by a vote of 5 to 1. The Democratic convention at St. Louis heard but did not heed the admonition of those who want the Constitution amended so as to make the people sober; and last, but not least, the Prohibition convention at Indianapolis denounced the plan as not an aid to temperance. The delegates to these four conventions were elected by the people in the various Congressional districts throughout the country, and they represented the political aspirations of the people. This prohibition question has been discussed throughout the country, and it has been insisted here in Washington that the people, regardless of party, demanded such legislation by Congress; but there was no command sent by the people to their party convention for a declaration in favor of national prohibition. [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit. The background is black. The man's face is centered, and he looks directly at the viewer. The suit is dark, and the tie is white. The man's hair is neatly combed, and he has a mustache.] HON. CHARLES E. HUGHES, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, RECEIVED A WARM WELCOME ON HIS ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO ON TUESDAY. More Than Twelve Thousand People Crowded In and Around the Coliseum Tuesday Evening To Hear Him Speak and to Catch a Glimpse of Him. Mrs. Hughes Is Accompanying Her Distinguished Husband On His Long Western Tour and Is Sharing Honors With Him. MR. ALBERT W. COHN REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, FOR THE NOMINATION FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BUSINESS MEN OF CHICAGO. There are five or six gentlemen endeavoring to secure the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and among that number is Mr. Albert W. Cohn who is one of the most active and up-to-date business men of Chicago, he was born in this state and has resided in this city for the past 32 years, he is a graduate of the Chi-MME. CALLAWA REC. When Mme. Calhoun in song recie should be accorded since it is only of a truly great artist, singer is gifted animental qualities decidedly praiseworthy cepted artist with most exquisitely h eludes many Italian She will make but and we have place as low as fifty cee sire to hear beautiful Tuesday was "Hughes Day" in Chicago, for on that day the streets near the Conway Building, Clark and Washington streets, were crowded with people in honor of the arrival of Hon. Charles E. Hughes, the Republican presidential candidate, a reception was held on the main floor of the Conway Building in his honor and all the leading Republican politicians in this city and state were present to greet him and with the greatest of ease he extended the glad hand to all pleasantly smiling all the time upon all who come near unto him. That same evening more than twelve thousand people crowded into and around the Coliseum to hear him speak; all in all Mr. Hughes made a fine impression in this city. Mrs. Hughes who seems to be very democratic in every way for she has no maid to attend her, is accompanying her far famed husband on his long western tour and greatly delights to share honors with him. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Codozoe 5329 S. Wabash avenue returned home the first of this week from a pleasant tour through the East. MR. ALBERT W. COHN REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMINATION FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BUSINESS MEN OF CHICAGO. There are five or six gentlemen endeavoring to secure the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and among that number is Mr. Albert W. Cohn who is one of the most active and up-to-date business men of Chicago, he was born in this state and has resided in this city for the past 32 years, he is a graduate of the Chicago Kent College of Law and for seven years he was prominently connected with one of the leading banks in this city at the present time he is associated with the stock and bond firm of A. M. Andrews & Co., 108 S. Lasalle street. Mr. Cohn is an honored member of Humboldt Park Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, he is also affiliated with a number of other social clubs and organizations. He is a firm believer in all the principles and ideas set forth in the platform adopted by the National Republican convention. Mr. Cohn has opened up headquarters in the Morrison Hotel and at all times he is ever ready to extend the glad hand to all comers. Mrs. B. W. Fitts, 3315 S. State street, returned home Tuesday morning from a two weeks visit with Miss Pauline Owens, Mounds, Ill. Mrs. Fitts also attended the sessions of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Illinois at Cairo. Mrs. Helen C. Jones, formerly a resident of this city, but now a resident of Topeka, Kan., is at the present time visiting her son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Jones, at 4342 Forestville avenue, Phone Oakland 2263. No. 47 West Side a strong regular Republican court. MME. CALLAWAY-BYRON IN SONG RECITAL. When Mune, Callaway-Byron appears here in song recital next month she should be accorded distinctive honor since it is only once in a great while a truly great artist comes to us. This singer is gifted with great temperamental qualities and her singing is decidedly praiseworthy. She is an accepted artist with the ability to handle most exquisitely her program which includes many Italian and French arias. She will make but one appearance here and we have placed the admission fee as low as fifty cents that any who desire to hear beautiful singing may not be turned away. The celebrated diva and refugee of Europe will appear at Quinn Chapel Monday evening, September 25th. STATE SENATOR RICHARD J. BARR WILL OPEN UP HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE NOMINATION FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ILLINOIS IN CHICAGO THIS COMING WEEK. Hon. Richard J. Barr, state senator of Joliet, Illinois, who ranks with the ablest lawyers in this state, has for some time past extended his campaign in person to all parts of this state in his effort to secure the Republican nomination for Attorney General and the first of this coming week he will open up his fight or campaign in this city with that object in view and Senator Barr has many friends and supporters in all parts of this city who will aid him in that direction. Mrs. E. Azalia Hackley, 3019 Calumet avenue is on a singing and concert tour through several of the Southern States. She successfully conducted a big musical festival at Ashville, N. C., the first of this week which was largely attended by both White and Colored. PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republians, 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 ap- plication. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6532 St. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, Ill PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOB, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. GOES LONG WAY TO WED. Pretty Newfoundland Miss Traveled to Vancouver to Marry. Vancouver, Wash.—Coming all the way from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to meet her sweetheart of school days, Miss Isabel M. Ewing, a pretty twenty-two-year-old miss, was married to Herbert G. Bradley, a restaurant man of Portland, Ore., in the office of the county auditor here recently. It was only a few hours after her arrival in Portland, whence she had come at Bradley's call, that they came to Vancouver together and were married. Though it was several hours after the time for the marriage license bureau to close, Mrs. May R. Hacok, the county auditor, obligingly went to the courthouse and issued a license. Justice of the Peace W. S. T. Dart was called, and the ceremony was performed in the auditor's office. Only two friends from Portland and the local officials witnessed the ceremony. Bradley left his home in Newfoundland several years ago and came west in search of fortune. In a dairy lunch business in Portland he built up an income sufficient to send for his sweet heart. LAD. TEASED. USED GUN. Boy, Who Was Mountaineer, Made Onion Weeders Scatter. Kenton, O.—A real Kentucky mountaineer of fiction type—six feet one and a half inches tall and weighing. 100 pounds, although only fourteen years old—awoke the quiet settlement of Alger on the Scioto marsh, the center of the greatest onion raising district in Ohio, when he started a cannonade that sent the natives to the trenches. He was Charles S. Hale, who halls from Greensburg, Ky., and who came to Hardin county to weed onions. The youth bought a gun and threatened to shoot the hats off any one who opened their heads to him. He says the other weeders were teasing him. The trouble came when officers tried to arrest him. The bullet hit Harvey Porter. Spectators scattered. The lad was sent to the Lancaster Industrial school. HAS SHAVED 243,960. Barber Says He Has Had That Many In His Chair. Lorain, O.—Theodore Curtis, a Lorain barber, has just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of his career. Curtis, who has kept account of every man he has shaved, says he has removed the whiskers of 243,900 men. "I have also cut enough hair to make eleven mattresses and to pad 43,562 crutches," said Curtis. The barber has shaved some of the country's widely known men, including Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, Senators Mark Hanna, Matt Quay, Albert Reveridge and Ben Tillman. "Doc" Cook, Buffalo Bill, Jesse Willard, Tod Sloan and Harry Thaw. "I would like to add Charles Evans Hughes to my list of notables," observed Curtis. NOW IT'S "SWAT THE WEED." Arkansas Begins Campaign to Protect Soils From Useless Growths. Fayetteville, Ark. "Swat 'em" applies to other things in Arkansas besides the fly. A campaign against weeds was announced recently by the extension division of the University of Arkansas, with the terse advice: "Swat 'em and save future labor and soil fertility and soil moisture." Weeds may cost a community or state millions of dollars, according to an extension division bulletin. Spread of weeds is said to be due to carelessness. After farmers let weeds ripen the seeds are scattered by travelers or birds or are sold with hay to infest other neighborhoods. The bulletin urges children be taught to "swat" weeds and never let one ripen to seed. --- FIND NEW TRIBES. White Men See South American Race For First Time. CLOTHING 'PUZZLES THEM. Leader of Philadelphia University Museum Expedition Returns With Enormous Ethnological, Archaeological and Other Collections. Philadelphia.—After an absence of three years Dr. William C. Farabee, leader of the University museum, this city, has returned from a South American expedition, having accomplished all and more than he expected. Dr. Farabee brings with him enormous ethnological, archaeological and other collections for the museum, and on his journey took some hundreds of photographs, including many of the people and places never before visited by white men. When the party arrived at Dadanawa they continued on foot south to the Cuduwine river, thence by canoe down Photo by courtesy of University mu- sorum. Philadelphia. TYPE OF CAYAPO INDIANS FIRST TIME SEEN BY WHITE MEN. this river and up the Essequibo to its source, passing on the way some villages of the Tarunias. Crossing into Brazilian territory again, they continued south almost to the equator, then east and north on foot and by bark canoe on numerous head streams of the Trombetas, and finally passed over the divide of the Courantyne and descended that river to its mouth. En route several tribes and remnants of tribes were visited and studied, some of whom were never before seen by white men and were unacquainted with matches, guns, clothing, etc. From the vocabularies it seems that dialects of both the Carib and the Arawak languages are spoken in this region. Wars have almost annihilated some of the tribes. The tribes were found to be courteous and gracious savages, who believe themselves men of peace and hunt heads of enemies only for honor. This trip was interesting also because it located for the first time astronomically the southern boundary of Gulana. USE "GOULASH GUNS" HERE. Citizen Marines at Lansdowne (Pa.) Camp Being Fed by This Means. Philadelphia.—The famous "goulash guns" which, second only to the giant howitzers have worked ceaseless wonders in the European war, are being used to feed citizen marines on hikes from their training camp at Lansdowne, Pa., which is now in operation. The marine corps training seemingly carries a strong appeal to young men who cannot make up their minds whether to train for land or sea. All United States marines are trained for both shore and sea duty, and the citizen volunteers at Lansdowne will also be trained for the double service. BURNED HIMSELF ON PYRE. It Is Supposed That Sawyer Had Read About Abraham and Isaac. Denver.—Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son is believed to have caused Thomas Sawyer to burn himself to death near here. The body was discovered near Castle Rock. It was resting on a pile of stones, and charred wood. Near by was found Sawyer's Bible. Opening the charred Bible, Mrs. Sawyer found a passage heavily marked with a pencil describing Abraham's attempted sacrifice. Relatives believe Sawyer built a pyre of wood and stones and offered himself as a sacrifice to the Lord. CAT'S BABIES OF HIGH BIRTH. Maltese and Four Kittens Discovered Far Up In Tree. New York.—High in a maple tree a Maltese cat belonging to Michael Dooley, owner of a saloon on Union Street, Flushing, purred over her four brand new kittens. She had carried to the spot material for what might be called a nest. Lying on guard over her young ones, she appeared to enjoy the refreshing breeze at that altitude. The keeper of "Fort Dooley" had missed his pet and was surprised to find her comfortably ensconced among the branches. Bowling Green, O. — Eighty-seven years of age, Mrs. Rebecca Stevens of Ridge street, this city, was papering a ceiling in her home when she fell. Her arm was broken and a deep gash was cut in her head. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916. It's Hereditary, Saye Miss Osborn, and Not Due to Fever or Tight Hats. Washington.—According to Miss Dorothy Osborn of the Ohio State university, baldness in men is inherited just as much as horns in sheep. Family histories which she has gathered show that neither typhoid fever nor tight hats cause baldness, but if your father was bald then you are doomed. Baldness in women is more frequent than is generally known, she declares, "because women can conceal their baldness much more easily than men." She finds that a woman is bard only when she inherits it from both parents. If one of her parents was bald, however, she may transmit baldness to a half of her sons. If a mother is bald all her sons will be bald, no matter whether the father is or not. Her daughters will not be bald unless the father was also. IS SORRY FOR ALL SHE SAID, WIFE ADVERTISES IS SORRY FOR ALL SHE SAID, WIFE ADVERTISES That Being the Case, She Can Come Back Home, Replies Lone Husband. New York.—If you don't know just how a wife should reply to her husband's announcement that he isn't going to be responsible for her debts any more perhaps this card, which was printed in a newspaper in Mineola, N. Y., may help you—and perhaps it may not: Mrs. Herman Ertel wishes to announce that after leaving, her husband for six months she is now sorry for it and wishes she return, being sorry for all she has said. She promises to do all in her power ever after to make their home a happy one. MRS. HERMAN ERTEL Herman Ertel, who is an engineer and lives on Mineola boulevard, advertised six months ago that his wife's debts wouldn't be paid by him. He said, not in these exact words, but to this general effect: "I have been receiving letters from my wife, Hedwig, of such a pleading nature asking me to let her come and live with me again, saying she was lonesome and now realized all I mean to her, that my heart melted. I have agreed to try married life again. My wife agreed to make a public declaration of her mistakes and a denial of the accusations she has made against me." DUCKS DO HIS ANGLING. With Line and Hook to Their Legs They Bring In Fish From Lake. Leitchfield, Ky.-Henry Cecil of Cecilia in a lake near his home has devised a most successful and novel way to catch fish, according to Roy Bond. Cecil has a number of ducks that frequent this lake. He ties a short fishing line to the duck's foot with the hook baited. The duck swims about the lake, fishing all over it. When a fish strikes he pulls the duck's leg, and Mr. Duck, not understanding what this means, turns and flees to the shore just as fast as he can. Cecil takes off the fish, rebails the hook and throws the duck back into the lake to renew the fishing. He has a number of ducks fishing for him at the same time and has caught 100 pounds of fish this way. FUNERAL DISK EULOGY. Minnesotaan Would Provide a Substitute For Clergymen. Lake City, Minn.--James Scott of this city is planning a series of disk phonograph records for use at funerals in remote places. The records will contain a funeral oration, a song by a quartet and a prayer. Various types of records are planned. According to Scott, a Presbyterian will have a strong Presbyterian program. Baptists will have characteristic sermons. If a strong eulogy is desired it will be forthcoming. The entire program will not cost more than $1. Deed Blown Ninety Miles. Pocahontas, Ark.--A deed of trust, the property of S. D. Wright of Judsonia, which disappeared during the tornado there last month, has been found at Maynard, ninety miles from Judsonia. MAINE GETS NATIONAL PARK. Reservation Comprises 5,000 Acres on Mount Desert Island. Washington—Creation of the first national park east of the Mississippi river, comprising 5,000 acres on Mount Desert Island, Maine, was announced by the interior department. It will be known as Sieur de Monts National monument. The tract was donated to the federal government. Its northern boundary is only a mile from Bar Harbor, and several popular summer resorts lie near it. There are ten mountain peaks and four lakes within the tract. Cuts Wheat at Night. Salina, Kan.—Frank Johnson, a wheat grower in this county, is this year cutting wheat by electric light, using the illumination on the front of a large tractor, which pulls several binders. This is an innovation that is working satisfactorily. Haste is made necessary by the rapidly ripening wheat. 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 WEDS CONVICT; NOW WORKS TO FREE HIM Bride Hopes to Gain Pardon For Her Husband, a "Lifer"—First Occurrence In Oklahoma. McAster, 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. Cleiola 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 fled, 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. Minnle Howard, because of his parallentarian 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. New York Enlarges Studies For Municipal Employees. AIM IS TO IMPROVE THEM. Success of Experiment Results In Organization of a Great Continuation School at City College For Those Who Wish to Advance Themselves. New York.—An advisory board was recently organized here to take part in the direction of courses at the College of the City of New York, of which Dr. Sidney E. Mezes is president, to train young men for the municipal service. The following men were appointed by Mayor Mitchel to serve on the newly created advisory board: Alfred D. Flinn, deputy chief engineer of the board of water supply; Michael Friedsam, well known in the mercantile world; Public Service Commissioner Henry W. Hodge, Curt G. Pfelffer, Civil Service Commissioner Henry Moskowitz, President Straus Straus of the [Image of a man in a suit and tie]. Photo by American Press Association. DR. SIDNEY E. MEZES. board of water supply, Commissioner of Accounts Leonard W. Wallstein and Gano Dunn. In the last four years the City college has granted special student privileges to persons in the city employ, with the view to improving the efficiency of the municipal service and aiding individuals to advance. Last year the experiment was made, in cooperation with New York university, of conducting special courses for those in the city service in the municipal building. The success of the experiment last year influenced the mayor to appoint the advisory committee and lay plans to organize a great continuation school which will aim to improve all those in the service who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity and to stimulate men to study for advancement in the city employ. SORRY $54.923.15 WORTH. Last Year's Conscience Fund Breaks All Records. Washington. — Contributions to the treasury's conscience fund for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted to $54,923.15, making a total of $498,763.54 returned by persons made uneasy by frauds against the government. Figures compiled at the treasury department show the returns were much larger during the past year than ever before, chiefly because of two contributions, one for $30,000 and one for $10,000. It was in 1811 when the first $5 came with a letter saying the writer had taken that amount from the government. It is an unwritten law of the department that no effort shall be made to learn the identity of these contributors, and even where the writer has confessed to theft the money has been accepted and no effort made to prosecute. From 1811 until 1827 there were no receipts. Since then, except for. 1848, not a year has passed without amounts coming in. SOLDIER FUGITIVE PARDONED. Kentuckian Says He's Now a Corporal in United States Army. Frankfort, Ky.-A fugitive for twenty years, Milton Franklin, under sentence of life imprisonment, was pardoned recently by Governor Stanley a few hours after he had appeared at the Frankfort reformatory and surrendered to Warden Wells. Franklin was convicted of murder in the Floyd county court twenty years ago. He escaped from the Johnson county jail, where he was held pending an appeal. According to the story he told reformatory officials, he enlisted in the United States army soon after his escape and is now a corporal stationed at Columbus, O., on recruiting duty. Dawson, Yukon.-Miss Cassie Henderson, daughter of Robert Henderson, discoverer of the Yukon, was married on the steamer Casca when twelve miles above Dawson. The bridegroom was Irvine Crowther, employed with the Yukon Gold company on one of its dredges on Bonanza. Mr. Crowther and the Rev. Mr. Ross went up the river in the launch Reindeer, and the wedding took place immediately after the boats met. Hartford (Conn.) Lads Promptly Aroused at 5:30 Every Morning by Pet Bird. Hartford, Conn.—Herbert and Steward Carlson, brothers, are paper carriers in South Manchester and in order to get the papers around in time it is necessary for them to arise each morning at 5:30 o'clock. Ordinarily an alarm clock would be necessary to get them out, but they have a better method. They are called each morning by a pigeon. About a year ago Stewart Carlson found a pigeon that had met with an accident. It was only a squab. Its wing seemed to be broken and one leg was damaged. The boy took it home, gave it attention and the wing grew stronger, the leg improved and after awhile it learned to fly. Instead of flying away it remained in the neighborhood and became a chum of the boys in the territory. The pigeon must have noticed the two boys leaving the house each morning about 5:30 o'clock and appointed itself an alarm clock. Every morning now, just at 5:30, the pigeon leaves its coop, flies to the window of the room in which the boys sleep and coos and pecks at the screen until they awake. THIS SCHOOL IS RUN LIKE BASEBALL LEAGUE Four Classes Vie to Win Games and Maintain Batting Averages by Getting High Grades. Fort Dodge, Ia.—The following formula has been instituted in the high school here for a new game of baseball played with students and textbooks and recitations: One recitation group equals one ball player. One high school class equals one ball team. One day's recitation equals one inning. One week's work equals one game. Average of grades made by the different recitation groups equals batting averages of the individual players. Class with highest averages wins inning. It is the result of studies in motivation for high school work undertaken by W. H. Blakely, principal, and is printed in a current issue of the School Review, published by the University of Chicago Press. Mr. Blakely has 400 boys and girls engaged in an opening series of games between the four classes. The students and teachers both are said to be very enthusiastic about the scheme. The work of figuring the averages and the standing of the teams and their members is left to the arithmetic classes of the commercial department. The bookkeeping classes keep records, and typewriting classes publish the reports and scores. LEFT HANDED CHAIRS MADE Students In Kansas University to Get Seats For Their Convenience. Lawrence, Kan.-Left handed students in Kansas university will have seats made for their special convenience when the classrooms are opened next fall. John M. Shea, superintendent at the university, announced that five doze left handed chairs had been ordered from a Grand Rapids machine firm and that they will be distributed as needed among the classrooms. The difference between the new chairs and those previously used is that the arms are on the left side instead of on the right side. The company that made the chairs had never received a similar order, Mr. Shea said. HONEYMOON RIDE COSTLY. Detroit Bridogroom Gets Into Cell For Speeding In New York. New York.—Thirty miles an hour in Detroit may not seem as fast as thirty miles an hour in New York, especially when the driver of the automobile is on his honeymoon. William Berman, a wealthy real estate operator, married recently in Detroit, found this out when he was arrested at Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue for speeding and also learned that the mention of Henry Ford as your friend fails to impress New York cops. At the West Twentyth street station he lacked $50 of the $500 ball required, so he spent two hours in a cell until a friend put up the money. AUTO OWNER NO DISTINCTION More Gold Watches and Pianos In One Kansas County. Troy, Kan.—Owning a motor car is not the only way in which to gain distinction in Donjinham county. You can achieve almost the same exclusiveness by owning a gold watch, a piano or four dogs. Although there are only 506 auto in the county, there are just 508 gold watches—that is, according to the assessors' reports—and 551 pianos. Tiffin. O.—Four years ago Mrs. W. H. Souger, wife of an implement dealer, lost a heavy gold band ring in her garden. The other day she pulled up a radish and found the ring fastened about the root. an Optimist’s Essay. ‘A pessiiaist 18 a Son cf the man who ‘qian't believe there Was any such,thing fas electricity. He is an offspring of the man who was sure that the horseless carriage ‘ould never come, and a nephew of {he man who was willing to bet money that men would never fly. "A pessimist is a direct descendant of the man who Was sure that wireless telegrapby Was a fool’s dream and a gubmarine merely the creation of a fic. tion writer's brain. ‘The pessimist’s ancestory scoffed at the telephone, the typesetting machine, the twenty story building, anaesthetics ‘and every forward step the optimists have taken for the betterment of bu- man life. If the pessimists of the past had been right men would still be living fn caves and trying to get thelr meals with clubs and flint arrows. And evi- dently they died without publicly con- fessing their mistakes, for their pessi- mistic children continue to prophesy dismally that everything that is surely going to be cannot possibly come to yass. They seem to Le born with the habit and eannot get over it—Detroit Free Press. a oe The rate of fall of the bullet from the line of projection is fixe] by the laws of gravity, hence the miore rap. idly the bullet is made to pass from the rifle to the target the flatter will be this curve or “trajectory.” the less accurate the estimation of distance re- quired and the less the chances of error through an inaccurate estimate of distance. 5 ‘The normal velocities of our sport- ing rifles, in black powder days, were about 1.300 feet per second. The first of the small bore, hizh power, smoke- less variety raised this to 2.000 f. s. for bullets of military length and 2,200 for shorter sporting bullets. Now it has gone up to 3.100 fs. The burn- ing questions asked azain apd again by the rifleman are, “Where will we stop?” “Will the 4,000 f. s. bullet come next?” ; Citticntine een Don't provide inducements to get a child to love amusements. It may en- courage a habit that will sadly inter- fere with a sincere and useful life. Don’t make a boy feel that he cannot waste too much time in having fun and catering to his senses. Life 1s real and earnest, and amusement fs a4- missible at times, but should not ‘be the rule. The manly youth fs for fun, but he is not always engaged in striv- ing for his own pleasure. He should not be educated into that idea of life. Fe should not be furnished with fn- clinations away from what is true and real in life. It is a serious matter tempering with a youth's nobler aspir- ation, Providing amusement fs apt to prove an unnatural adjunct in educa- tion—Columbus Journal. Hate All Around. The famous English chief justice Holt and his wife hated each other to the limit, and when she fell danger- ously il he was so delighted that he became digracefully tipsy. But bis wife was equal to the emergency and sent for the great Dr. Radcliffe, who hated Holt, and therefore out of spite when the case was presented to him came with great promptness and sav- ed her life.—Westminster Gazette. Baieh Tick. ‘The feminine naivete that is so amus- ing to the nautical man has a good {I- lustration in this question asked by a young woman who saw a monitor lying at anchor in Boston harbor. She turn- ed to her escort and said: “What makes that boat lie so low in the water? Is tt high tide?”"—Sallors’ Magazine. Pope's Preference. The Prince of Wales of Pope's time once said to the poet: “Mr, Pope, do you not like kings?” “Sir,” replied the poet, “I prefer the lion before the claws are grown.” Safety First. Knicker—Folks are queer. Bocker— Yes; the ones who stop, look and listen ai a keyhole won't do it at a railroad crossing.—New York Sun. ©90000000000000000 ° ° © PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. © ° — ° o Sei ks ee ° © Infants suffer from not hav- | © ing enough water to drink. Ba- | © bies are thirsty and frequently | © cry from the discomfort due to | © thirst. © In proportion to its weight an © average infant during the first | © year of life requires a little more | © than six times as much water | © as an adult. During the time | © when the child is upon an entire © ly fluid diet the addition of much | © water other than that supplied | © by the food is unnecessary, The | © food (breast milk) of all young | © mammals consists of from 80 to | ©”) per cent of water. This 18 | © needed for the solution of cer | © tain parts of the food, such as | © the sugar and some of the pro | © telds, and for the suspension of | © the other proteids and the emul | © sified fat. All the food is thus | © dissolved and minutely divided | © so as to be the more readily act- © ed upon by the feeble digestive © orguns of the infant. © When the feeding becomes less © frequent water to drink (from a © bottle with a nipple on ft) should © be given to drink between the | © feedings. In summer time espe- © cially babies suffer a great deal © from thirst. =F Camping Courtesy. Good camping grounds should be the ‘special property of sportsmen and bbv- ets of the woods, and it is a pity that they should 80 often be desecrated by the unappreciative. ‘This is the season ‘When the forest floor will be strewn with tin cans and cracker boxes, when the clean woods will be marred with all sorts of ugly rubbish, and when the pleasure of late campers will be half destroyed by the vandalism of their predecessors, Great tracts of for- est will be blackened by flames set from little campfires. The growth of young timber will be checked. And all the trouble could be banished if only people would observe the few simple rules of the woods! The forest 1s the last refuge of solitude amid beauty; therefore do not make its se- clujed giades into vulgar picnic grounds. Noblesse oblige there as else- where, and though the after comer may not know you he will know what sort of person you are by the condi- tion of the camping grounds you leave. Countryside Magazine. The Gold Dust Was There. North America has counted as a gold producing continent only since the late forties. But it might well have done so for about 200 years. According to the London Chronicle. in the voyage round the world which began in 1719 the privateer Captain Shelvocke found in certain California valleys “a rich black mold which, as you tarn it fresh up to the sun, appears as if intermin. gled with gold dust. Though we were a little prejudiced,” he adds, “against the thought that it could be possible that this metal should be so promiscu- ously and universally mingled with common earth, yet we endeavored to cleanse and wash the earth from some of it, and the more we did the more it appeared like gold. In order to be fur- ther satisfied I brought away some of it, which we lost in our confusion in China.” ‘Wie Neeser Olina. ‘There were nine earths, according tc medieval cosmogony, nine heavens nine rivers of hell and nine orders o! ‘angels. The number being perfectior since it represented divinity was of. ten used to signify a great quantity. as in the phrases, “A nine days’ won: der,” “A cat has nine lives” and “Nine tailors make a man.” In Scotland s distempered cow was cured by wash ing her in nine surfs. To see nine magpies was considered extremel3 lucky. Nine knots made in a black woolen thread served as a charm ir the case of a sprain. It was also be lieved and is still by some that if a servant girl finds nine green peas in one pod and lays them on the window sill the first man that enters will be her beau. Nine grains of wheat laid on a four leaved clover enable one, it is said, to see the fairies. Foilina a Fakir. A story used to be told at Cairo of Sir Richard Owen during one of his sojourns in Egypt. ‘The great natural ist was seated in the shade on the ve randa at Sheppeard’s hotel when the inevitable snake charmer came to him and produced from his bag a lively specimen of the horned asp—the dead. ly cerastes. The professor gazed and nothing daunted, stooped and plucked the horns from the head of the reptile wriggling at his feet, remarking to a bystander that the man would prob ably think twice before trying to palm off upon any one else a harmless snake as a cerastes by the ald of a couple of fish bones. With anybody else the charmer would probably have succeed- ed. He had tried it on the wrong man. Attar of Roses. Attar of roses, by common consent, ranks at the head of the list of per- fumes. Other preparations from roses too, hold a high place and have long Deen esteemed. Rosewater is historic. ‘When Saladin entered Jerusalem in the twelfth century he had the walls of the mosque of Omar washed with it. But attar of oll of roses is by far the most precious and the most prized ‘of all. An eastern prince will present to an honored guest rich jewels, rubies and diamonds and then add, as the rarest of all, a crystal bottle filled with this essence. Not Necessarily. “One wife too many!” exclaimed Mrs. Wederly as she glanced at the head- Unes of her husband's paper. “I sup- pose that is an account of the doings of some bigamist?” | “Not necessarily, my dear,” replied ‘her husband without daring to look up.—Buffalo Courier. Of Course She Doesn't. “George is such a nice chap,” said the girl in pink. “I always enjoy bav- ing him call on me.” “I don't,” snapped the other. “Of course you don't, dear. You'd rather have him call on you”—St ‘Louis Post-Dispatch. | —— |_ The greatest happiness to be known fm life is the conviction that we are loved; that we are loved for ourselves, z, rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Hugo. Too Close. “Why are you asking me for help? Haven't you any close relatives?” “Yes. That's the reason why I’m ap- Dealing to you."—Birmingham Age Her- Some Solace. “How are the new twins? “It might be worse. They usually ery fm unison. You know they might week ‘m relays."—Kansas City Journal. ‘Clletty the mold of a man's fortume ts ‘m bis own hands —Becen. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916. —_————_—_—_—— : — — —— A Boost For Barley. How the Trouble Began. “Barley is strangely neglected by the! It was a bright. sunny Tues¢ cook of today.” says a writer in the! morning and Mrs. Brown was on | Woman's Home Companion. “As {t] roof preparing to hanz out her wa contains more starch and sugar and| when Mrs. Jones apreared on the sc less gluten than wheat, it might well carrying a basket of clothes. | take the place of the potato on our ta-| “What are you doin" here?” demai bles and this with benefit to purse and | ed Mrs. Jones. “Monflay is your ¢ health. for hangin’ out clothes.” “One cup of barley will swell to five] “I know it is." replied Mrs. Brov times its original size when cooked:| removing the clothespins from | and its uses are wonderfully varied. | mouth so"she could articulate m “As a breakfast dish. with sugar and | clearly, “but it rained yesterday, : cream it fs rich and satisfying; for| I’m hangin’ ‘em out today inste dinner, as a garnish for meat or with | Tuesday belongs to the fourth fi rich meat gravy, it makes a savory | back, an’ that’s vacant, so I guess I entree; at tea time cold steamed barley | got as good a right here as anybe cut in slices and browned in hot butter, | else. What is it to you, anyho then served with maple sirup, is dell-| Wednesday is your day.” clous. “Wednesday Is my day, all rigt “Combined with dried or fresh fruits | admitted Mrs. Jones, “but the pal it makes as wholesome desserts as rice. | says it’s goin’ to rain tomorrow, ar Indeed, there is no way in which rice] ain’t takin’ any chances. You t may be prepared in which barley can-| them rags of yours downstairs ags not be cooked with just as good re-| or I'll throw ‘em off the roof!” sults, Barley requires a long time to| And that's how the trouble began cook properly, but now we have the| St. Louis Post-Dispatch. cereal cooker and the fireless cooker ——— and with them the opportunity to have Lock Canals. the perfect cereal.” ‘The Egyptians had canals before | = days of St. Paul, but the lock ca Se ae ‘citi candi: Os meakiibin 40: eusen eae Somme years epo ard Halieee Pre fled the house of commons when re- plying to a remark made by another member as to the danger attached to the use of cordite by saying that he himself possessed a walking stick made of cordite which he sometimes brought down to the house and left in the cloakroom. An uneasy look stole over the faces of the members present, but in a scientific and highly technical speech his lordship explained that cordite was a perfectly innocent sub- stance until brought into contact with dangerous allies. and without certain ingredients necessary to convert it into an explosive it might be handled with impunity. At the same time it was noticed that Lord Haldane’s stick was given a wide berth when it was seen in the cloakroom. cece Dic En __A writer in a Tokyo journal reports the struggles of Japanese writers to translate English idioms into their own tongue. We cite several of these howlers. “We put our heads together” (We collided). “He could not find it for the life of him” (He could not discover it till his death). “He is a great loss to bis country” (He is a great calamity to his country). “He hung his head for shame” (He committed suicide by strangulation). “He takes things eas- fly” (He is a deft thief). “She sat over a cup of tea” (She sat upon a teacup). “I shudder at the bare idea” (I shud- der to think that the man is naked). “The bare idea” is evidently translated into “the idea of bareness.” “Spare me five minutes” (Spare my life—only for five minutes). HMerees In the Time of Hamer. The, horses used in Homer's time were ‘war horses. The warriors were drawn in chariots. The art of riding was known, but it is alluded to as something unustal. Ulysses at the time of his shipwreck “bestrode a plank, like a horseman on a big steed.” There are reasons for believing that the practice of riding was much later than that of driving, and the myth of the centaur, where, according to Shake- speare, “man is incorpsed and demina- tured with the beast,” probably origi- nated at an early period when the ap- pearance of a man on horseback was a novel sight. Too Costly. At one of the Boston theaters recent- ly there. was shown on the screen a picture of a stock exchange. The bro- kers were hurrying about, pushing, waving their arms, gesticulating and to the uninitiated acting like a lot of in- sane men. Two young ladies in the balcony watched them with breathless interest for some time, then one asked: “Why in the world don’t they sit down and rest once in awhile?” “My dear,” was the enlightening an- swer, “don’t you know that a seat in the Stock Exchange costs thousands of dollars ?"—Harper’s Magazine. Two Kinda of Joy. The joys as well as the burdens of Ife are pretty evenly divided between the sexes after all, and probably a little girl derives as much innocent pleasure from being a flower girl at a wedding ag a little boy does from going to school with a live garter snake in his trousers pocket—Ohio State Journal. | a i a a Pe ae ee Tae tated eR er IETS ‘The value of a thing depends largely upon who says it. Words may be bul- ‘lets, but character must be the powder at the back of them to give them pro- fectile force. The man behind the mes- sage is as important as the man be- “hind the gun. ee He Told Her. “What is it, do you suppose, that keeps the moon in place and prevents it from falling?” asked Araminta. -“{ think it must be the beams,” re- Plied Charile softly. Koopa Him Busy. ‘The Skeptical Aunt—What does he do, Dolly, fpr a living? Dolly (greatly surprised)—Why, auntie, he does not have time to earn a living while we are engaged! | Unueuel. “He's different to most men anyhow.” “In what way?” “He even knows all the words in the second verse of ‘America.’ "—Detrolt Free Press. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it depends chiefly on two worde—industry and frugality— Franklin, How the Trouble Began. Tt was a bright. sunny Tuesday morning and Mrs. Brown was on the roof preparing to hang out her wash, when Mrs. Jones appeared on the scene carrying a basket of clothes. “What are you doin’ here?” demand. ed Mrs. Jones. “Monjlay is your day for hangin’ out clothes.” “I know it is.” replied Mrs. Brown, Temoving the clothespins from her mouth so"she could articulate more clearly, “but it rained yesterday, an’ I'm hangin’ ‘em out today instead. ‘Tuesday belongs to the fourth floor back, an’ that's vacant, so I guess I've got as good a right here as anybody else. What is it to you, anyhow? Wednesday is your day.” “Wednesday Is my day, all right,” admitted Mrs. Jones, “but the paper says it’s goin’ to rain tomorrow, an’ I ain't takin’ any chances. You take them rags of yours downstairs again, or I'll throw ‘em off the roof!” And that's how the trouble began— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Smet ieein The Egyptians had canals before the days of St. Paul, but the lock canal which made it possible to cross moun- tains in a boat came only a few years before Columbus discovered America. To be told that Raphael in bis spare moments when not painting a Raphael was constructing a locomotive would ‘scarcely surprise you more than to be told that Leonardo da Vinci was a Pioneer canal lock builder. But the hand that put upon the walls ‘of that historie church in Milan “The ‘Last Supper” also designed the locks for Milan’s caual. ‘That was just five years before an- other Italian from the nearby town of Genoa sailing a Spanish ship tame to anchor at San Salvador. Before the lock system was born canals had to be on level ground. althouzh in China they had them on slight inclines.— Philadelphia Ledger. a a One of the most rarely witnessed of natural phenomena, but one that bas often been discussed at scientific meet- ings and that always awakens wonder when seen, is the so called “green flash” occasionally visible at the mo- ment of the disappearance of the sun behind a clear horizon. ‘The observer's eye must be fixed upou the rim of the sun as it disappears in order to catch the phenomenon. One authority tells us that he has seen the green flash, although rarely, at the instant of the setting of a bright star. Among the explanations offered is one based upon the optical principle of complementary colors. If one looks,at the sun and then closes the eyes a green disk will be perceived. A sensitive eye might be similarly affected by a brilliant star. ‘Theft Im Ancient Wales, In some ways which might nowadays be called “sentimental” the laws of an- cient Wales were in advance of those of today. J. E. Lioyd in his “His- tory of Wales” mentions that in some of the codes (which were, as a rule, very severe on theft) a remarkable provision exempted from punishment “the starving man who, after begging for three days and receiving nothing, helped himself to tlie food which be needed in order to keep him alive. ‘That every man had the right to live was a principle of the law, and the sentiment of the country demanded that every person of substance should Keep open house not only for ordinary travelers, but also for the destitute and the friendless.” African Grosbecks. The social grosbecks of South Africa live in large societies. They select a tree of considerable size and lterally cover it with a grass roof, under which their common dwelling is constructed. ‘The roof serves the double purpose of keeping off the heat and the rain, and 400 or 500 pairs of birds are known to have the same shelter. The nests in this aerial dwelling are built in regu- lar streets and closely resemble rows of tenement houses. a ee “How did you manage to sell that piece of goods that’s all out of date to Mrs, Hisi?” Clerk—I told her it was a great bar- gain, but I thought Mrs. Richcoin bad had it Iaid aside for one of her daugh- ters. Then she took it right off. Happiness. “There is an instinct in the heart of man which makes him fear a cloud- less happiness. It seems to bim that he owes to misfortune a tithe of his life, and that which he does not pay bears interest, is amassed and largely swells a debt which sooner or later he must acquit.” Only on the Outside. “Why, Ethel, you don't mean to tell me you want to marry that baldhead- ed Professor Wiseman?” “It is true he is bald,” said Ethel, “but think ow many young men of today are bald on the inside of thelr heads.” Its Risk. “A kiss may often have deeper mean- ing than appears.” “Perhaps, but it is a thing you have to take on its face value.”—Baltimore American. ‘ine Stitt The more rare a man’s qualities are the more he will be found fault with Dust on a diamond is alwus more no- ticeable than dust on a brik.—Josb Bi. lings. ‘The manner of saying or doing any- thing goes a great way toward the value of the thing Itself.—Seneca. ‘iis a0 ie What is the iimit of human endur ance? A A bomb thrower bas hurled bombs continuously for forty-one hours. ‘There are numerous striking and more peaceful record breaking feats. A club swinging champion once swung his clubs for forty-six hours without a moment's rest. ‘A young Brixton athlete once swung &@ Diacksmith’s hammer for twelve hours on end. Then this same modern Samson belabored a punching bag con- tinuously for fifteen hours at the aver- age rate of 145 punches a minutes. ‘A few years ago two Frenchmen walked round and round a billiard ta- ble, playing game after game and cov. ering sixty miles for twenty-four con. secutive hours. ‘A band of change ringers once rang the bells of St. Martin’s, Birmingham. for eight hours without pausing. A certain: Polish lady danced, with only momentary rests, for thirty-four hours, while an Italian dancer danced for fourteen hours at the rate of eight- een waltzes an hour.—London Stray Stories. Devil Worshio In Tibit. ‘The religion inculcated by Buddha had certain cardinal points—thé gx couragement of the ascetic life, tbe maintenance of virtue. the exhortation to persons of all castes aud both sexes to aim at deliverance from the evils of existence and, lastly, the attainment of ‘Nirvana. “But in Tibet Buddhism has been ‘grafted on to the earlier devil worshir of the people, and a religion bas been evolved better expressed as Lamaism, or modified devil worship. so that in addition to the Buddhas and Bodisats there have also come to be tutelary and guardian deities of a terrifying and malignant aspect. whose duty it is to defend the faith and the faithful People from external attack. These deities are depicted in grotesque and terrible forms in all the monasteries, generally in violently colored fresee paintings at the entrance. — National ‘Guimeubic Manette: Sa See Oe ae eee eee eee ‘The idea of this cabinet is to furnish amusement to the family when they have scratched up all the furniture and done all the damage elsewhere they can think of; therefore Do not replice or put back anything that you take out of these drawers. ‘Try, if possible, to select and remove from this cabinet some article or tool that is absolutely indispensable, leav- ing it preferably out in the back yard. If you have anything hanging about your room that is of no earthly use you might store it in one of these drawers. ‘Remember that the main {dea of hav- ing this cabinet on the premises is gradually to fill it with utterly useless ‘things. And remove from it at the same time all the useful things. Patience! Keep at it and you are nomad to succeed.—Life. 7 Sawse Sawae. Here is the old King Richard IL way of making sausage: “Pyggs in sawse sawse.” or pigs with sage sauce. “Take pyses yskaldid (scald- ed) and quarter them and seeth them in water and salt; take them and let them kele (cool); take parsel (parsley), sawge (sage) and grynde it with brede and yolkes of ayren (eggs) harde ysode (oiled); temper it with vinegar some- what thick, and lay the pyggs in a ‘vessel and sewe onoward (the sauce over them), and serve it forth.” “Take pyggs” is pretty good. Size or number seems of no consequence. Care With Mushrooms. Mushrooms, on account of the amount of nitrogen they contain, approach nearer to animal food than many other vegetable products. An analysis shows that mushrooms contain 3.5 per cent protelds, boiled potatoes 2.5 and onions 16. Experts say that mushrooms should be eaten perfectly fresh and never eaten after being “warmed over.” Salary of the President. In the second sessions of the Sixtieth congress the president's salary was fixed at $75,000 a year, and in addition he is allowed $25,000 for traveling ex- penses, which is practically extra sal- ary, as he does not have to return any of it not used for traveling expenses. Old Enough to Notice. “are your papa and mamma at home?" asked the caller. “No,” replied little Marguerite. “One of them may be here, but they never are both at home at the same time.” Character. Character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing and may become diseased as our bodies do. George Eliot. Words and Actions. “Is Bliggins a patriot?” “Yes, But he’s the kind that would be more useful in a school of elocution than in a training camp.”—Washington ‘Star. Chest and Leg. First Fresb—My {ather bas « fine cedar chest. Second Fresh—'Snothing. ‘My father is a veteran and has a bick- ory leg.—Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern. A tee Where. “Did you have many words with your wife last night?” “No; only a few words, but they were repeated—very often.” If you would abolish avarice you must abolish the parent of it, luxury— Cicere. Pa@B TERED ir Houses In Bagdad. A Bagdad house in the summer is a fiery furnace, and no one. unless his mame be Shadrach or Meshach or Abednego, could live within its four walls with comfort, and yet the natives have made a brave attempt to over- come the difficulties of their situation. Deep in the ground they have built cel- lars, or serdabs, and these serve as cooling chambers. The cellars are kept pretty dark. “The light enters,” says one who has lived there, “through ‘small windows, or openings, where, in- stead of glass, is placed a lattice of palm filled with a prickly camel's thorn. Several times a day the occu- Pants sprinkle water on these thorns, and the moisture cools the hot wind as it passes through the rooms and gives @ comparatively refreshing breeze. But,toward night these cellars become unbearably close. and then the entire city mounts to the flat roofs, where it dines and sleeps.” —Boston Transcript. . eee Ee In the days of wooden war vessels two frigates. or line-of-battle ships, might be lashed together and fire shot into each other's interiors for an in- definite period. When Paul Jones was summoned to surrender he replied that he had not yet becun to fight. At a distance of eizht miles there would not be much conversation between hostile commanders, even by signals, and aft- era vessel is hit there isn't much ques- tion as to its future. A vessel may be injured by gunfire and get away, but if a floating steel fort is hit below the armor belt by 2 torpedo or has its deck penetrated by a fifteen inch shell which meets expectations in the promptness of its explosions it does not remain in sizht many minutes, and the crew can't float around on spars until they are picked up. for there are no spars. In ten minutes the formidable warship goes under and carries every- body on board.—Philadelphia Record. ‘Fine ‘Tieton It is unfortunate, according to the Engineering Record, that in America most people associate the word “en- gineer” with a man who rons an en- gine or a boiler. Even the man who operates the boilers of an apartment building fs called an “engineer,” al- though the name is entirely a mis- nomer when applied to him. He may be a good mechanic, but he is not an engineer. The gray haired man who drives the locomotive of a transconti- nental limited and who holds the lives of hundreds of human beings in bis care belongs to the very highest type of mechanic, but he is not an engineer, except in the United States and Cana- da. All foreizn languaxes have words that properly desiznate the work these men are doing. In our country there is no word to distinguish them from the bridge builder. the sanitary expert, ete. ‘Seas sie ante Book: ‘The Letts are a branch of the Lithu- anian nation, a Slavonic division, and dwellers in the Baltic provinces of Russia. Lithuania was at one time a great kingdom. later a part of the Po- Ush nation and now embodied in Rus- sia and Prussia. The Letts, a subdi- vision of the Lithuanian people. at present number more than 2,000,000. ‘They are of averaxe height, well built, Dut seldom very tall. The finely cut features, fair hair. blue eyes and dell- cate skins are characteristics that dis- tinguish a Lett from a Pole or a Rus- sian.—Philadeiphia Press. Compulsion. “If that bad boy insists on carrying a chip on his shoulder you shouldn't no- tice him.” “I didn't,” replied the square jawed youngster, “so long as he kept it on his ‘shoulder, but when he took it off and hit me in the eye with it I bad to do something.”—Washington Star. Her Fear. Maud—What makes you so awfully nervous, dear? ‘Clara—Why, Fred 1s to have an in- terview with papa this afternoon. “Oh! And are you afraid your fa- ther will not give his consent?” “No; I fear Fred won't show up.” Tastee Pieneeks, A Turco-Tartar proverb throws & strong light on the question of the amount of veracity to be looked for in official documents by oriental. The Proverb runs as follows: “He who speaks the truth will be expelled from nine villages.” 000000000000000000 ° ° © PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. © ° — ° i Prickly Heat. oe © Never tse soap on a child suf- < © fering from prickly heat. Wash « © its sensitive skin with starch « © water, using a half teacupful of « © starch to a small baby tub of < © water. Keep the skin dusted « © with talcum powder. Morning « © and evening the child should be « © sponged from head to foot with ¢ © a solution of bicarbonate of soda © —a teaspoonful dissolved in a | © pint of hot water. Use when < © lukewarm. The soda water re- < © eves the burning sensation and « © ftching. Unless one has suffered « © from this affection she cannot © imagine the misery of the little « © ehild who fs covered all over its © body or in parts with a fine red « @ rash that stings, bums and © pricks like needles. It is some < © times necessary to call in a phy- | © siclan to treat the baby when ‘ © the condition causes great rest- < © lesmmess and nervousness and « © lens of sleep. c e a 83 83 HON. JULIUS JOHNSON. First class business man of Moline, Illinois and Bradstreet Commercial Agencies nation for Auditor of Public Account for at the state wide primaries, W First class business man of Moline, Illinois, who is rated very high by the Dun and Bradstreet Commercial Agencies and Republican candidate for the nomination for Auditor of Public Accounts for the state of Illinois, to be voted for at the state wide primaries, Wednesday, September 13th. The majority of the people throughout the state of Illinois will greatly honor themselves if they decide on primary day, Wednesday, September 13th, to record their votes in favor of the nomination of Hon. Julius Johnson of Moline, Ill., for Auditor of Public Accounts, for in all honesty it can be truthfully said that in every way that he is well qualified to discharge all the duties in connection with that responsible and very important office, that at no stage of the game would he make a football out of it nor transform it into a political brokerage office and permit it to become the hanging out place for all the down and out politicians in INDUSTRIAL AND HISTORICAL PAGEANT TO FEATURE THE 17TH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, KANSAS CITY, MO., AUGUST, 16, 17, 18. Kansas City, Mo., August 11, 1916, Special to The Broad Ax.—"We believe that the Industrial and Historical Parade which we have planned as a feature of the Business League meeting will surpass anything of its character the race has ever had," said Fortune J. Weaver, President of the Local Negro Business League of Kansas City, today Probably the most impressive thing the stranger meets in Kansas City at this time is the whole-souled enthusiasm of the citizens as they speak to you of the coming meeting of the National Negro Business League. Every one in Kansas City seems to feel a sense of pride in the fact that this organization is to hold its annual meeting here and officers of the Local League together with the various committees which have been appointed to arrange the details of entertaining the delegates, have been most cordially supported in their efforts. The meeting at Kansas City will be epoch making in the history of the League in many resuets. First: This is the first meeting of the League to be held since the death of our president, Dr. Booker T. Washington and the Memorial Exercises which are to be held on the evening of the 16th at the Convention Hall, one of the largest auditoriums in the city, will include on its program speakers of national character from all parts of the country. In a sense these Memorial Exercises in honor of Mr. Washington will be national in scope and therefore of special interest to people in all parts of the country. Second: On Thursday afternoon, August 17th, an Industrial and Historical parade will be conducted. This demonstration will represent the progress and achievements of the Negroes of Kansas and vicinity. Decorated automobiles and floats together with other features will make this parade unique and will afford visitors to Kansas City an opportunity to observe the splendid work being done by the progressive Colored people of Kansas City. The parade which is to be reviewed by the Mayor and city officials will be PAGE FOUR Memorial Exercises. Industrial Parade. short with Mr. Johnson at the helm all of the affairs pertaining to the office would be conducted in a business like manner or far different than it has been conducted in the past. With his broad business experience Mr. Johnson would make an ideal public official, therefore it is high time that the people residing in all parts of this great state should see to it that only capable and honorable men are placed in office and by assuming that position they will select not only at the primaries but also at the main election in November honest Julius Johnson to serve them as Auditor of Public Accounts. headed by the Uniform Rank of the various fraternal organizations represented in Kansas City and will be followed by the officers of the following organizations: National Negro Business League, Kansas City Local Negro Business League, National Negro Press Association, National Negro Bar Association, National Negro Undertakers, National Negro Insurance Association, National Negro Retail Merchants Association, all of which are affiliated with the National Negro Business League. These are to be followed by the Physicians of Greater Kansas City; floats representing the various business enterprises owned and operated by the Colored people of Kansas City, Officers of the Pullman Porters Association, Officers of the National Alliance of Postal Employees and thirty automobiles representing Oklahoma State Negro Business League. The Knight Templar Band, K. P. Band and Prof. N. Clark Smith's Concert Band and several other bands will dispense lively music during the progress of the parade and the line of march will cover all the principal and most important streets of Kansas City. In order that the Colored people of Kansas City may have the opportunity to witness and participate in this important event all of the local business houses have agreed to set aside August 17th as a holiday. Instructions to Delegates. Delegates intending to be present during the sessions of the National Negro Business League are urged to write Mr. J. H. Simmons, Chairman, Housing Committee, 1516 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Mo., so that proper arrangements for home accommodations, etc., may be made in advance. Mail intended for delegates may be addressed to them, care of League Headquarters, 1516 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines, 6155 Wentworth avenue, one of the efficient stenographers of the Juvenile Court, has been confined to her home this week, with a severe cold. The Coterie Daneing Club will give its first summer outing in Ogden Park, on Monday evening, August 14. Daneing in the pavilion from 5:30 to 10:45 P. M. Mrs. W. H. EVES. Secretary. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916. Preliminary Call for a NationalRaceCongress. The Call Is Fathered by William Monroe Trotter, Editor of the Guardian, Boston, Mass. and Byron Gunner, President of the National Equal Rights League Hillburn, N. Y., August, 10, 1916. Fellow Comrades and Fellow Citizens of Color: By the authority vested in me as president of the National Equal Rights League I hereby issue this preliminary call for the ninth annual convention of said league. The matter of the exact date and place for the convention is not yet quite settled, but it is very timely and proper that there be no further delay in inviting public attention to the fact that such a convention is to be held, and within the next sixty days. National Race Congress. It has been wisely suggested in view of existing unfavorable social, civic and political conditions confronting us as a people, that the National Equal Rights League invite and urge all of our people, in all sections of the country, to unite in a great "National Congress of Colored Americans," and for the special purpose of voicing the feelings and opinions of the race on those unfavorable conditions now surrounding us in this country; and also to decide upon the wisest and best methods for combatting color segregation and all other forms of color discrimination. Extraordinary Wrongs Suffered. After fifty years of so-called freedom in this country, what is the prevailing condition of our Colored-American population? Briefly stated it is this: Our civil rights have been rendered almost futile; we are shamefully curtailed politically; we are denied equality before the law; we are not allowed equal industrial opportunities; our property and our very lives are not at all secure; and "the black horrors of lynching" innocent Colored Americans continue unabated. While our Federal Government's indifference towards all these injustices is but little less than the nullification of our great war amendments. Throughout the southland, and to more or less extent in the north, the increasing millions of our fellow Colored Americans are being more and more reduced to the pitiful condition of political serfs and social outcasts. Don't forget that infants suffer greatly during the hot waves of July and August. Don't forget that ice is salvation to babies. Don't overlook prickly heat as torture for the baby and insomnia for everybody. Don't forget that prickly heat means hot weather, needlessly heavy clothing and neglected baths. Don't forget that a bald headed man can swat the fly that frets him; but baby has to let it walk, tickle, irritate and bite, as only flies can. Mrs. Mamie Clark, 6155 Wentworth avenue, left last evening for an indefinite visit with friends in Tuscon, Arizona. Can We Be Unmoved? If such conditions do not stir our souls and our blood, what under heaven can do it? Do not the industrial opportunities denied us, the freedom of speech and of the press not allowed, the civic and political rights taken from us, and the insecurity of property and life that surrounds us, give sufficient ground and reason for the calling of such a National Congress of Colored Americans as is herein suggested? "In this fierce era of controversy and bloodshed," can we be unmoved? While the whole world is wide awake socially and politically, shall we sleep? While all other classes and races are on the verge of social and political revolutions, shall we be indifferent? Since all other groups of oppressed people are in the stir and rush of agitation, is it not high time that we should at least begin to get on the move? The south is still in the saddle at our national capital, rushing headlong with a most reckless disregard for the feelings and rights of ten millions of loyal, but oppressed Colored Americans. Fling Our Standard. Therefore, let us get together in a great national congress, and fling to the whole wide world the full story of our grievances and of our earnest demands for justice and fair play. Get Ready. Let all our religious, educational, social and political leaders among us heed this call. Let all of our great religious organizations and lodges and benevolent societies begin now to plan to be represented in this proposed congress. By so doing we cannot fail to produce a powerful effect on the public mind that will greatly help us in our struggle for justice and freedom. This congress will be independent and wider than any present organization. Its deliberations will not be under the Equal Rights League, which will meet in conjunction. Faithfully yours, BYRON GUNNER, President of the National Equal Rights League. Pamphlet Prepared by National Tuberculosis Association Given for the Asking. Free expert advice for consumptives and others interested in tuberculosis is given in a pamphlet just issued by The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, entitled "What You Should Know About Tuberculosis." The pamphlet was prepared by a committee of experts of international prominence consisting of Dr. Charles L. Minor of Asheville; Dr. David R. Lyman of Wallingford, Conn.; Dr. H. R. M. Landis of Philadelphia; Dr. John H. Lowman of Cleveland, and William H. Baldwin of Washington. It contains the latest and most authoritative information about tuberculosis. It deals with the nature of the disease; how infection may take place; how the disease is cured; how the family may be protected; what the patient may do after discharge; and how the disease may be prevented in the community. A copy of the pamphlet will be sent free to anyone applying for it at the office of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 105 East 22d Street, New York, or at the office of his own state or local anti-tuberculosis association, or board of health. Mrs. Lottie Carter, 5423 S. Wabash avenue, is visiting with friends and relatives at Indianapolis, Ind. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH AND LOCAL NOTES. By William J. Burdine. Sunday, Aug. 13th, Dr. Blackwell will fill the pulpit at 11:45 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. The public are invited to attend our services and hear Dr. Blackwell as he is both a profound and intellectual gospel preacher. Sunday School at 1:30 P. M., Rev. G. W. Rivers Superintendent. Stewardess Board No. 1 was entertained Tuesday eve., by Miss Ragland at her home on Wabash Ave. Stewardess Board No. 2 met at the home of Mrs. Mary J. Greens, the president, 4012 Dearborn St. Mr. Chas. Tinsley, leader of Class No. 8 was the successful captain in the rally and is entitled to the trip to Atlantic City where the Connectional Council convene on the 16th inst. Mrs. Nora F. Taylor delivered the principal address on the Red Letter Day program Wednesday eve. At the conclusion of the morning service last Sunday morning, Dr. Blackwell introduced Mrs. Nettie Payne, Mr. H. H. Grandison, Jr., of Cincinnati; Mrs. O. L. Campbell and Mrs. W. M. Washington of Montgomery, Ala. Mr. Grandison and Mrs. Washington gave interesting talks, Mr. Grandison dwelling principally upon Dr. Blackwell's noble work in the Queen City. Miss Sylvia Kidd of Knoxville, Tenn., was the Soloist last Sunday morning and sung Calvary most impressively. Mrs. Dr. Carter delivered an interesting address on Red Letter Day program, Wednesday eve. Mrs. Lula E. Fugett, Miss Anna B. Davis, Miss Pearl Bruce of Knoxville, Tenn., were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Barr in Evanston Thursday. Mrs. Nettie Powell and Mrs. Bessie White of St. Mathew's A. M. E. Zion church sung a beautiful duet at Walter Chapel Wednesday eve. Mrs. Emma Womaek, formerly of Knoxville, Tenn., departed this life at Oak Forest Saturday evening. She was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will. Luttrell who resides in Indianapolis, Ind. Funeral from the home of her brother Mr. S. B. Luttrell, S. Dearborn St. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. All friends are invited. Mrs. Selina Gray of Ebinezer Baptist church gave a very instructive talk on the missionary program at Walters Chapel Wednesday eve. Mrs. H. M. Warfield of 49 W. 34th St., served a 6 o'clock dinner Tuesday eve., complimentary to Mr. H. H. Grandison of Cincinnati. Mrs. Warfield was so very kind as to invite the writer which was highly appreciated. Miss Barner of Quinn Chapel sang a solo at Walters Chapel Wednesday eve., which was highly complimented. THE INTERNATIONAL HIGH COMMISSION. The Bulletin of the United States Trade-Mark Association writes thus of the International High Commission: The Internal High Commission, composed of delegates from the United States and from the Latin-American Aires in April, is expected to take up [Name] MAJOR ROBERT B. MOTON NEW PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA, WHO WILL SUCCEED THE LATE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AT ITS FORTHCOMING MEETING AT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. 83 --- JULIUS JOHNSON MOLINE, ILL. Candidate for the Republican Nomination for Auditor of Public Accounts STATE OF ILLINOIS Primary Wednesday, September 13, 1916 HURCH countries, which will meet at Buenos the question of legislation necessary or desirable for improving the protection accorded to trade-mark property in these countries. This Association was requested in January last to submit for the consideration of the United States section of the Commission, any suggestions or recommendations that it might care to make, relative to means of improving the protection now accorded to trade-marks in the Latin-American Republics. The opinion that no legislation in this direction was necessary, but only a ratification of the Pan-American convention of 1910 (Bulletin, vol. 6, p. 366; 11, p. 15) had been expressed to the commission by important authorities conversant with this subject. This view has been well expressed in an article published in the Scientific American of February 12, 1916, wherein the convention was referred to as "framed * * * practically to prevent piracy of trade-marks of one country by dishonest traders of any other country." With this view, the Association found itself unable to agree. In fact, the most the convention will accomplish when it is adopted is to provide a scheme, automatic as far as the owner of a trade-mark is concerned, whereby his registration will be extended from his own country to the other countries of the union. But this will merely enable him to obtain in one registration what he now obtains as a result of several registrations. It will not alter in any material measure his standing as the owner of a registered trade-mark in any of the countries. What protection will be accorded to him as the owner of a trademark registered in a country, will still depend upon the local law of that country, therefore, the fundamental defect in the situation must still be looked for, even after the ratification of the convention, in the statutes of the several countries. Thus, Article V of the convention forbids the registration of certain marks, but it concludes with a sentence which makes the prohibition subject to the laws of the several states. Article VIII provides for the prosecution of infringements "in accordance with the laws of the state where in the offence is committed," but if the laws of the state where the offence is committed, provide for the prosecution of infringements, no international convention is necessary to give to the party injured the right to resort to the courts for relief. There is no Latin-American country at the present time where a citizen of the United States, or a citizen of any other Latin-American country, does not already enjoy the same rights in this respect as a native. Moreover, the Article affords no greater relief than is already provided in the law. Article IX attempts to provide the solution for questions of conflicting rights in trade-marks, but it can hardly be made operative, where the relief it is intended to accord is directly contrary to the statutes in force in the particular country. These illustrations merely show that the protection of trade-marks in these countries must continue to depend primarily upon the local laws, after the ratification of this convention, quite as much as before. Hence the importance of legislation in the individual countries for the purpose of affording the greatest measure of protection there to foreign owners of trade-marks. This view of the subject, was presented to the commission, together with the history of the work done by the Association in procuring revisions of the trade-mark laws in Latin-American countries, and copies of statutes and proposed statutes dealing with this subject, to wit, the laws of Ecuador, 1908; Salvador, 1910, and the proposed Colombian and Chilian laws, to the enactment of which the Association has been for some years directing its efforts. It is hoped that with this material before it, the commission will see the need of positive legislation in the several countries, and will not be content to rest with the recommendation for the ratification of the convention of 1910. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. 3300 So. State Street Phode Douglass 3617 PHYSICAL CLEANLINESS AND HEALTH. Physical cleanliness is absolutely essential to health. By physical cleanliness is meant internal cleanliness; by physical cleanliness is meant cleanliness of every organ and cell in the body. At this stage of the world's evolution, it is still necessary to advise some of our contemporaries to bathe the body externally and frequently, if not daily. Those who practiced daily bathing are alone able to appreciate the benefits of such a clean healthy habit. Such persons really suffer when they fail to take the daily external bath; they feel just a little discomfort at first; it is a sort of feeling that for want of a better expression may be called unworthiness or inefficiency. The one hundred per cent efficient persons on this precious earth or those who are nearest one hundred per cent efficient are those who take daily baths of the proper temperature for them. And in the matter of temperature, it is pardonable to digress here to write that the proper temperature of the bath for an individual, like many other considerable factors of life, depends upon conditions and circumstances too numerous to mention here. Fewer people understand the necessity for proper and frequent internal flushing of the inner tube of our complex bodies. The drinking of water is the natural instinct of internal bathing: VALIDITY OF STATUTE DISCRIMINATING IN FAVOR OF CITIZEN IN CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC WORK The latest decision on the question of the right of a legislature to discriminate in favor of citizens in the construction of public works is that of Lee v. City of Lynn, Mass., 111 N. E. 700. The question involved the constitutionality of acts which required that "in the employment of mechanics and laborers in the construction of public works by the commonwealth, any county, city or town, or by persons contracting therewith, preference shall be given to citizens of the commonwealth;" and that, "in all work of any branch of the service of the commonwealth, or of any city or town," a like preference shall be given. Upholding the constitutionality of the acts the court, through Chief Justice Rugg, said: "Since the argument at the case at bar, the federal questions involved have been decided adversely to the contentions of the plaintiffs. Heim v. McCall, 239 U. S. 175, 36 Sup. Ct. 78, 60 L. ed.—; Crane v. New York, 239 U. S. 195, 36 Sup. Ct. 85, 60 L. ed.—; affirming People v. Crane, 214 N. Y. 154, 108 N. E. 427, Ann. Cass. 1915B, 1254; Elkan r. Maryland, 239 U. S. 634, 36 Sup. Ct. 221, 60 L. ed.—. By these statutes of other states, indistinguishable so far as concerns their constitutionality in any material particular from those here attacked, have been upheld as not violative of any right protected by the Federal Constitution or secured by treaty of the United States with Italy and by other treaties containing 'the most favored nation clause.' On the authority of these cases, it must be held without further discussion that these statutes are not inconsistent with the Federal Constitution and treaties. While the provisions of our Constitution are not in the same words as those of the United States Constitution upon this subject, the result must be reached that these statutes are not in conflict with the State Constitution. The decision upon this point is concluded in principle by Woods v. Woburn, 220 Mass. 416, 107 N. E. 985, following the reasoning and conclusion set forth in Opinion of Justices, 208 Mass. 619, 94 N. E. 1044, 34 L. R. A. (N. S.) 771, where the power of the legislature was upheld to fix the number of hours which shall constitute a day's labor for employees of the commonwealth and its governmental subdivisions, and by the reasoning of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court just cited. The cities and towns of the commonwealth are divisions of government established in the public interests. The legislature is supreme in the control of these governmental A. E. Consider those of us who refuse to drink water, the best cleanser physical and the best solvent in nature. The orifices of the body must receive appropriate cleansing doucheing, if we desire to reach the maximum intensity of well being and physical efficiency of the highest possible percentage. The mouth is the fountain and origin of many of our indispositions and even of many of our diseases. To prevent many of those indispositions as well as to keep the good will of the most efficient of our contemporaries, the proper care of the mouth and teeth is absolutely essential. The teeth should be washed and brushed at least twice daily; the mouth should be rinsed after each meal; if pyorrhea alveolaris, the most common and one of the most obstinate disorders of the mouth is present, it is necessary to rinse the mouth at frequent intervals with an antiseptic solution. Those who possess a bad breath cannot with propriety be classed as truly efficient in the accepted up to date classification. A bad breath is an evidence of personal neglect, or in other words, it is an evidence of inefficiency. A foul infected mouth, decayed neglected teeth and a beafounded gastrointestinal tract produce bad breath and concomitant disease. Keeping clean is a big job requiring much care. The reward is sure and ample; physical cleanliness will not only bring physical health but will go far to maintain mental equilibrium. instrumentalities, subject to the provisions of the Constitution. In its representative capacity, within appropriate functions of legislation, the general court stands in the position of employer. It may establish general rules for the employment of labor. Since it is a public agency directing the expenditure of money raised by taxation, it cannot make arbitrary discrimination and favor the employment of one class of citizens to the exclusion of others. But a preference of citizens over aliens in the public service is not favoritism among the subjects of the commonwealth. Aliens are not members of the state in the strict sense. Statutory discriminations in favor of citizens and against aliens have been upheld. In Commonwealth v. Hilton, 174 Mass. 29 54 N. E. 362, 45 L. R. A. 475, regulations restricting to inhabitants the right to take claims were sustained, and in Commonwealth v. Hana, 195 Mass. 262, 81 N. E. 149, 11 L. R. A. (N. S.) 799, 122 Am. St. Rep. 251, 11 Ann. Cas. 514, a limitation that licenses to peddlers should be granted only to those who had declared an intention to become citizens was held to be valid. Where the state, either directly or through its governmental departments, acts as proprietor or employer, a determination not to engage aliens in its service cannot be pronounced unreasonable or violative of any constitutional mandate. The distinction between laws passed by the legislature regulating the conduct of the state and its departments and subdivisions as employer, which are within its right, and similar laws designed to control the conduct of the general public, is adverted to in Truax v. Raich, 239 U. S. 33, 36 Sup. Ct. 7, 60 L. ed.—. A law of the latter class there was held to fall under the condemnation of the fundamental law. But the instant statutes belong plainly to the former class."—Law Notes. FEDERAL LIABILITY ACT—NEXT OF KIN UNDER STATE LAW.—The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States by Mr. Chief Justice WHITE holding while the federal liability act of Congress of April 22, 1908 (35 Stat. 65 c. 149) in so far as it deals with the subjects to which it relates is paramount and exclusive since the statute contains no definition of who are to constitute the next of kin, it was the purpose of Congress to leave the determination of that question to the state law and that the minor children who under the South Carolina law were the next of kin of their illegitimate brother because of their common motherhood were the next of kin under the act of Congress. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916 Charles E. Stump, Jumps from Birmingham, Alabama to Kansas City, Missouri, in Order to Attend the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League Birmingham, Ala.—This is a moving world and the people move with it. Did you ever try to make a world? I used to think that I wanted to make one myself, but then I have looked around and find that you would have too much to do in order to make it, so I am just to use this one as long as I am here, and when I leave, I will have to then decide on other things. The world is full of misunderstanding, and it seems that men don't take time to get together. I would like to see them just one time have a real good understanding, and then I wonder if it would be just a little heaven. Men kill each other, simply because they don't take time to understand and adjust their differences. Two men going in the opposite direction each contending that he is right, and unless they stop and reason it out there is likely to be trouble. I saw in a paper the other day where the matter between the A. M. E. Zion church, and Dr. J. S. Jackson, former financial secretary had been adjusted, and Dr. Jackson is now in good standing with his church. I am sure this could have been done in Louisville, Ky., just as well, if men had not been so hot-headed and even refused to hear Dr. Jackson. They did hear him, and now they have kissed and made up, and will go on serving the Lord as they should have done in the first place. It took the wisdom and common sense of one of the best women in our race to accomplish this, Mrs. Pauline H. Jackson, the wife of the former secretary. He did not realize what a jewel he was securing when he spent so much time in trying to win her heart and hand, but he got both and she is just a blessing by his side. Perhaps her real value to him will never be known. This race of ours has produced some real fine women, and we have them now and we have them coming on. We need only to take time to know them to study them, and we will see just how fast we are growing, and just what we are doing for the betterment and uplift of our kind. The woman is really the backbone and sinew of this race of ours. She is an angel in disguise. Not always in disguise. Believe me honey, if Mrs. Jackson is not called to heaven before 1920 her husband will be one of the bishops in the A. M. E. Zion church. But then, I come to consider how men are killing up each other in Europe, how they have killed them in Mexico, and how in our country they just have human barbecues, but fail to eat the meat when they are through. I thought of all of this when I was in Waco, Texas a few days ago and saw the place where they burned a young boy, and I wish you could see the cuss word coming up in my mind, and I was ready to say some of them, and it was then I thought of how men should have an understanding. I then let Jesus into my heart and the cuss thoughts even left me although the thoughts are still lingering in my fond memory, and may bust out any time. There was a young man working for the Paul Quinn Weekly. The Chicago Defender had an article in which it declared that the white man, the husband of the murdered woman had confessed the crime and was in jail. This young man thought it was good news, and published it in the Weekly without giving credit to the Defender, and it landed him right in jail, and he has been there ever since. For fear of misunderstanding I am not going to comment on it this week. Some of them cuss words may creep out. My regiment was doing well down in San Antonio, Texas, until a white man thought he could run a dozen negro soldiers dressed in the uniform of the government, and then from Illinois at that. He tried it, and they almost have to patch him just like a woman patching a quilt. All other white men will run from them soldiers before they will touch them again. Now that man should have taken time to have had an understanding with them. He should have known before that skin does not make a man. He should have known that a Negro is not afraid of a buzz-saw, and it matters not where he is he would be willing to fight the devil if he got in his way. A black man is not afraid to die. I wish that the white people of this country, especially down in Balm would learn this lesson. Of course it is easy thing after you get any kind of man behind prison bars and divest him of every thing that looks like defense, then take a few hundred men, go in take him out and hang him, burn him at the stake or things like that. I suppose that is what you call a brave man. I am not abusing any one, but just speaking out some of the things in my heart. The United States carried them men down there to fight Mexicans, but Texans must not bother them. It is certainly an unwise and unsafe proposition. As black as I am, and the great reputation I have as a soldier, I would not do it. You remember just a few weeks ago I put 180,000 to death in one battle, and then put the others on the retreat, and I am now on my way back to Kansas to see how things are there. I will be there next week during the session of the National Negro Business League. Now I am of the opinion that Dr. E. P. Jones could have been a greater man, if he had just had of thought a little bit and remembered that he could not go into a big convention like the National Baptist convention, and without even qualifying as a member take it, and have the whole Baptists of the country follow him. It was this unguarded moment that caused him to find out that he was not the only pumpkin on the vine, and even his own state turned him down a few days ago, and it is liable to do so again. He will go to Kansas City with a hand full following him, but the Mississippi people will flow to Savannah by the hundreds. You see I have been through Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and I will be in this state a few days longer, and then I will leave for Kansas. I spent a few days at the home of Dr. E. C. Morris, or at least in his home town, and stopped with some busy people, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson and Mrs. Lulu Kincheon. Mrs. Coleman is the mother and the other two are the daughters, and believe me, Mrs. Johnson is dealing with the Poro college treatment. She is turning it into account. She is just one busy woman. Then Mrs. Kincheon is working on the heads of the other folks, fixing their hair up in the latest improved style, fixing up their fingers, and in any way improving them. Both are busy, while they are working in opposition or in opposite directions they have an understanding and are reaping results. I met some real sure enough big men down there. I shook hands with Dr. Sutten E. Griggs, who is now visiting Chicago. Rev. W. H. Moses, went to the home of the wealthiest woman of our race in the south, Mrs. A. H. Miller. She is as rich as cream, and very devoted to her people. She is just in reach of them and has no desire to get away, but closer to them. She carries the Arkansas Baptist college, and puts up at least $20,000 for which she holds a mortgage against the property for protection of her own interest. She has got some money and property too. She is a benefit to Helena. Getting away from there, I found my way around to other places. I went to the Vira college. This is operated by Madam R. C. Douglass, formerly of St. Louis. She has discovered a way to make hair grow instead of making wigs, and she is teaching it to our girls, thereby making something for them to do. It was a pleasure to see her busy, to meet many of her agents, ride in her car, the car in which she herself made the trip from Helena to St. Louis and returned. She passed over the Ozark mountain, and in some places was just like a circus, because she went through counties where none of us lived, and it was just like an M. MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON WILL RETURN HOME FROM FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS, ON OR ABOUT AUGUST 25TH. HE WILL REMAIN TWO WEEKS TO TAKE PART IN HIS RENOMINATION FOR THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS. Maj. Robert R. Jackson who is honorably serving with the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard, which is stationed at Camp Wilson, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, will return to this city on about August 25th and remain for two weeks which will elephant going through. They flocked around to look at her. All were courteous and kindly disposed. Look out for my next letter. I shall have some things to say to you in my next. A letter will reach me at 1116 Washington avenue, Kansas City, Kans. ADVERTISING IN SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS —WORK OF NECESSITY—PULITZER PUB. Co. v. M.CNICHOL (Mo.), 181 S. W. 1. The publication of a daily paper on Sunday is a work of necessity within Revised Statutes, 1909, section 4801, of Missouri, prohibiting labor on Sunday other than works of necessity, etc., and it is immaterial that the paper contains advertisements and that the labor used in making up, printing and delivering the paper is increased on account of the advertisements, and hence the recovery of a balance due for advertising cannot be defeated on the ground that the papers containing the advertisements were printed, mailed and delivered on Sundays. This decision finally determines a controversy as to the proper interpretation of the Sunday Law of Missouri upon which the Kansas City Court of Appeals and the St. Louis Court of Appeals had taken conflicting positions. The following is from the opinion of the Supreme Court: "Moreover, the press is a great educator in literature, art and science, and points out their beneficent influence upon the home, morality and religion; it enables the poor who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces to procure employment, to familiarize themselves with the best and cheapest necessities of life and the most reliable places where they may be procured; it imparts to the business man price currents which largely control the commerce of the world; it informs the financier the rates of items and exchange around the world which keeps finances of all nations within conservative bounds, and it makes known to employers of labor the condition of the industrial world, etc., and so on to the end of all good and useful vocations of life. The great service the press is rendering to humanity is performed on Sundays as well as upon Monday, or upon any other day of the week, and its beneficence is more potent on the former than on the latter, for the simple reason that the toiling masses have more time to read the papers on Sunday than upon any other day of the week, and therefore acquire greater knowledge and information from them regarding the matters stated on that day than upon any other day. "Upon this state of affairs, where is the court or jury in Christendom which would convict the publishers of the Post-Dispatch if judicial notice of the fact that such publications are matters of public necessity, and the latter would not stultify itself by finding a verdict of guilty against the publishers in the face of overwhelming evidence which would be introduced in such a case. The fact that the paper contained the advertisement, and that a part of the labor which was used in making it up and printing and delivering it was increased on that account, in no manner altered the case, for the reason that the paper with its advertisements constituted the necessity. PAGE FIVE ... give him ample time to take part in his renomination for the legislature of Illinois from the third senatorial district. Maj. Jackson has made a splendid record in the law making body of this state which cannot be surpassed by any of its members. He has served two terms in that body and there is no logical reason on earth why he should not be renominated at the primaries Wednesday, September 13th, and reelected Tuesday, November 7th. For our part we are for Maj. Jackson first, last and all the time. and such a paper without them would be practically worthless to thousands in every city." ELECTION OF JUDGES The Virginia Law Register has pronounced news on the election of judges by the people. It says: "We are sorry to see a joint resolution has been offered in the General Assembly to provide for the election of judges both Supreme and Subordinate, by the people. We rejoice to see it was defeated. The argument has been used that there are "log-rolling" and "combinations" in the General Assembly which render elections of the judiciary by that body unwise. "The proof of the pudding is chewing the bag," is the old saying. We challenge any state with a "people elected" judiciary to show a better, higher, cleaner, abler lot of judges than those which today wear the ermine in Virginia. Take the last contest between Lile and Sims for the Supreme Court Judgeship. The accusation was made of "log-rolling," etc., in that contest. What was the result? What could have been the result? Why no matter which of the two was elected the State would have obtained the services of an upright, able, learned and high-minded lawyer, whose career will do credit to the State and those who elected him. We had our preferences. We would have voted for Professor Lile; but we recognized and recognize the fact that his opponent was in every way worthy of the office to which he was elected, and that neither of these gentlemen would have stooped to do an unworthy act, to have been elected President of the United States. But imagine them on the stump canvassing for an office of such dignity such importance, and one to be separated as far as possible from the clamor of the mob and the soiling of the hustings. Even then neither would have stooped to an act unworthy of their standing; but how many more might have been in the contest. "Logroding" and "combinations" may be bad enough, but demagoguery and the appeals to the popular demands, to the prejudices and passions of the multitude would be a million times worse. We once witnessed in a neighboring state a joint debate of two candidates for a judicial office (circuit judge) before a large crowd. One was the incumbent. He bragged of what he had done; he boasted of what he intended to do. He fawned; he begged; he appealed to those in whose favor he had decided cases; he tried to explain away decisions adverse to the popular will. His opponent—who was elected—out-Heroded Herod. He abused his opponent's conduct on the bench; sneered at his decisions; appealed to the "pistol carrying crowd," and the poor fellow sent to jail for selling a "little liquor." He told how he was going to temper justice with mercy; to favor the poor man in his cause and exhibited a touch of temper which gave a fair indication of what he turned out to be—one of the poorest judges ever upon the bench in that circuit. He was re-elected, however, against one of the cleanest, clearest-minded, ablest lawyers we have ever known; but a modest, high-minded man, who made no promises, save that he would try to do his duty as God gave him to see it, and would judge alike the rich and poor. Wouldn't something of this sort be likely to ocur in some of our circuits? No! The best proof of the wisdom of our present method is the class of men our General Assembly elects. We believe they are better qualified to make better selections than the populace." PAGE SIX OUR BORDER NURSE One Society Woman Has Offered Her Services. HAD EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE After Watching a Corner of the Battle of the Aisne and Serving In Servia, Mrs. French Has Applied For Permission to Go to the Border Here In Her Own Country. Mrs. Seth Barton French, prominent in New York and Newport society, who has just returned to her home after completing part of a 7,000 mile tour on THE NURSE Photo by American Press Association. MRS. SETH BARTON FRENCH. which she started in behalf of the allied hospital work and Servian relief fund, has applied to Secretary of War Baker for permission to go to the Mexican border for the organization of hospitals there. Mrs. French was among the first women who offered their services as nurses in the European war. She took up relief work in Servia, to which country her father, Walker Fearn, was at one time United States minister. Mrs. French had charge of one of the American hospitals in France and stood alone on the banks of the Aisne with shells bursting about her, watching an artillery duel between the British and Germans. She says: "It was my good fortune to drive several staff officers to the lines in my car. As a result I saw a small slice of the battle of the Alsace. I could see shells bursting in the air, and suddenly the whole scene of the artillery duel spread before me from the high plateau on which I was standing. It was so exciting that the thought never occurred to me that I was in danger, and even when shrapnel burst a few hundred feet away I was so engrossed with the spectacle that my own person seemed wholly unimportant. Afterward I learned that the Germans could easily have hit me if they had wanted to." FOR A CHILDREN'S PARTY. Hints to Help Mother and Also Please the Youngsters. Be sure to have an abundant supply of wholesome, attractive drinks. Children are always thirsty after romping about. Chop all the fruits you use for the cakes, even the currants. In this way they don't upset the little "tummies." Do not use carraway seeds or much candied peel. Most children do not like them. A supply of small individual sponge cakes, iceed with chocolate and made in attractive shapes, are sure to be popular and are quite wholesome. Keep the menu very plain, but decorate lavishly and gayly. Food that looks pretty and party-like will delight the little people, while the simple, wholesome fare that leaves no after effects will make the mothers rise up and call you blessed. Very thin sandwiches filled with simple fillings and free from condiments will be much appreciated, especially if cut in fancy shapes and garnished prettily. Let the party begin early and break up early. Put the time clearly in the invitations. If the tots are kept up much after their usual bedtime it means frazzled nerves with subsequent squabbles and tears to spoil the joy of the evening. Fruit pastes, homemade fudge, plain taffies are the best candies, and an old fashioned candy pulling adds considerably to the pleasure. In warm weather an out of doors marshmallow roast, corn popping- and peanut roast, accompanied with story telling, is an unfalling success. Cucumber Sticks Pare some chilled cucumbers and cut them their full length into sticks about as thick as a pencil; serve them on a dish of chopped ice; to be eaten with salt as celery. BLOUSES OVER SKIRTS. Vivid Chat About the Very Latest Kinds of Waista. Many and varied are the lines of the new blouses; possibly the most noteworthy feature is the peplum or skirt sections which are seen on many of the new models. To be sure, these plumed blouses were introduced some time ago, but they have not attained the wide popularity which they would seem to deserve as pleasingly different and affording splendid opportunity for effective trimming. New blouses of this type are of crape, taffetta and satin, and when in matching color with the separate skirt give the appearance of smart dresses that eliminates one of the chief objections to separate blouses and skirts—that of giving the figure a cut in half look that is disastrous to the average figure. A very striking example of this peplum blouse is of taffeta, the wrist length sleeves set in at a drop shoulder line; the peplum a straight gathered one about eighteen inches long and the sleeves and bodice generously trimmed with tiny buttons. Still another feature is the draped or hoodlike collar of the blouse material. Striped silk used on the bias is another fashion feature, and an interesting blouse made thus is finished as a basque and is to be worn without a belt or girdle. Most of the dressy washable blouses and many of the silk and crape ones are enhanced by effective hand embroidery, for the vogue of this attractive trimming is now assured. Sleeves are long or short as one prefers in dresses and blouses and set into regulation extended or drop shoulder armholes, so you see fashion is kind just now and does not restrict us to one and only one style. Probably there will not be a narrowing of new fashion features, such as was the case a few years ago. Women do not like to be dressed like an aggregation of twins, and we have come to know that there is not one particular fashion that suits us all to perfection. NEW MODEL OUT. Misses' Corsets For Autumn Wear Are Built Like This. Built on straight lines to please French dressmakers, this juvenile corset has a free hip and comfortable, almost boneless seams. The material GJ PARISIAN DESIGN. is crepe de chine, with only two side bones and one'at the side back. The top is fitted with elastic to ease respiration, and the bottom is hemsitched. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. An Expert Tells Mothers How to Avoid and Prevent This Scourge. The following statement was issued recently by Dr. Charles F. Bolduan, director of the bureau of public health education of New York city: "Infantile paralysis is caused by a very small germ, perhaps the smallest germ known, entering the brain and spinal cord of little children. The germ probably gets in through the nose or mouth. It is important to keep your children away from those who have the disease and also away from the other members of the family in which the case has developed. "The reason for this is that the germ is in the nose and throat of the patient and frequently is carried there by others in the household. "Read the list of addresses where the disease has occurred and which are published in the newspapers, and keep away from the infected houses. "Every mother should keep her children about her much as a hen looks after her little chicks. It is dangerous to let children attend parties and festivals and to take them into crowds where they may sit alongside of some person who has the germs in his or her nose. "Since the germs are so very small and may be present on the hands or the face or soiled handkerchiefs, even when there is no visible dirt, the utmost cleanliness is necessary. See that the hands and the faces of your children are kept absolutely clean. Soap and water, after all, are the greatest foes of all disease. "Clean up your house. Throw away all useless rubbish. Take down the curtains and wash them. Wipe all the woodwork with a damp cloth." THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916. FOR YOUNG FOLKS A Sleepytime Story That Speeds the Sandman Along, WEIRD AND STRANGE TALE. What Happened to a Lonesome Old Musician—Story That Came From an Instrument's Strings—Riddles For Little People—A Queer Name For a Camel. Tonight I am going to tell you a mystery tale, said Uncle Ben to Polly App and Little Ned. I shall call it THE VIOLIN'S STORY. Once in a little village lived an old violinist. He had many friends. They were the old men of the town. He loved children and they loved him. One stormy day it was dreary for him. No children came in to hear him play. He had an old, old violin. He knew nothing about this violin, except that it was willed to him at the death of an old friend of his father's. He loved the instrument dearly and often wondered where it had come from. To soothe his restless spirit he decided to play. He had no sooner taken the precious instrument when that same thought came to him again. "Where did that violin come from and what is its history?" He played. His thoughts were far off. As his fingers wandered over the strings sad and sweet, wild and triumphant notes came forth. They told of a youth who had loved that violin dearly, who had often soothed a little old mother's heart with its touching music. Then came wild clashing notes, telling of war; then sobbing, plaintive tones of the little mother left behind. But, bravely shouldering his gun, the young man went forth. At the last moment he turned back to take with him his beloved violin. After a lonely and patient year of waiting the mother received back not her son, but the violin he had loved. His faithful comrade brought it and told of his dying a hero and how he had also comforted and inspired others with his glorious music. Sobbing over her lost son, yet proud of him, the little old mother passed away, giving to the faithful comrade the beloved instrument. At last sunshine and happy little faces peeped in the window. The old violinist laid his violin carefully away and told the children the "Violin's Story." Wit and Wisdom. Why is a stick of candy like a horse? The more you lick it the faster it goes. Difference between an auction and seasickness? One is the sale of effects, the other the effects of a sall. Why is the letter A like 12 o'clock? Because it comes in the middle of day. What occurs twice in a moment and not once in a thousand years? The letter "M." Difference between a spendthrift and a pillow? One is hard up, the other soft down. Soldiers The general gave an order then; He shouted to his men: "About face! March right up that hill, Then march right down again!" Then Will spoke up and said, "I think Your order rather queer, For if you send them up, then down, They might as well be here." The general looked perplexed and sad. His brow wore quite a frown. He said, "I'll march them up the hill, Then only halfway down." An Oddly Named Camel. Recently in the city of St. Paul there was a parade in connection with the convention of the Prohibition party, which hopes to prevent the sale of intoxicants. More than 10,000 persons took part in the parade, including ```markdown ``` MISS ANN T. BOOER many children. A feature of the parade was a camel, the picture of which is here shown. And what do you think she was named? You never could guess it. The camel was called "Miss Ann T. Booze"-Anti-boose. Clever, wasn't it? FORMAL FROCK. Every Woman Needs One Such Gown as This Just Now. Sage green taffeta is the fabric used here—a kilt skirt, deep girdle of crushed sage velvet and collar and vestee of A FOR AFTERNOONS. white net. The musquetaire sleeves are finished with cube buttons, pendant from cords to match the cube tassels on the girdle. BAR-LE-DUC CURRANTS. Two Picked Recipes For a Delicious Winter Treat. Take selected currants of large size, one by one, and with tiny embroidery scissors carefully cut the skin on one side, making a slit one-fourth an inch or less in length. Through this with a sharp needle remove the seeds, one at a time, to preserve the shape of the currant. Take the weight of the currants in strained honey and when hot add the currants. Let simmer two or three minutes, then seal as jelly. If the juice of the currants liquify the honey too much carefully skim out the currants and reduce the sirup at a gentle simmer to the desired consistency, then replace the currants and store as above. The following recipe is less work, but gives a nice preserve: Get the largest size currants, red or white, and stem them without breaking. To each pound allow three pounds of sugar. Take some ordinary currants and brusse them while warm until you have a pint of juice. Put half a cupful of this into a porcelain kettle and three pounds of sugar. Bring slowly to a boll and skim carefully. After boiling five minutes drop in very carefully one pound of the large currants and let simmer four minutes. Take them out without breaking them and boll the stirup down five minutes or longer if not very thick, as the currants are sometimes less juicy than at others. A few minutes more will be needed at one time than another. When thick skim well and strain through a hot cloth over the fruit. Put into little jelly glasses and when cold cover as in jelly making. PAPER ROPE FOR WEAVING A New Occupation For Idle Vacationists This Summer. Raffia and reed have long been popular for weaving, but now give way to the more practical material-paper ropes. In using(this article all necessity of wetting and singeing disappears. It is soft and therefore easy on the hands. The lengths are greater, minimizing the need of continual plecing, and the possibilities in color combination make it far more adaptable. Dainty blue rooms, pink rooms, yellow or violet rooms may have woven waste-baskets, lamps and even whole desk and bureau sets of matching color. A soft finish is often preferred, but if something more durable is desired a coat or two of shellac will produce a hard, glossy finish that will stand any amount of wear. The shellac will keep the basket in shape and will shed dust. It makes no difference how intricate the chosen shape may be, baskets can be made in curved lines or straight, with sharp angles or tapering lines. This is because the foundation is of wire-easy to bend, yet strong enough to hold a shape once formed. Reed baskets are often uneven when finished, for the material is springy and the spokes vary in flexibility. Even more popular than the baskets just now are the butterfly rope trays and the electric lamps. They are beautiful in any home and also make handsome wedding presents. The work once started becomes of absorbing interest. Woolen Stockings. There are very attractive woolen stockings made for sport wear. Some of them are striped and others have clocks of bright color. Picturesque are the frocks with the skirt trimmed with narrow upstanding frills that are finished at the bottom with narrow ribbon. THE NEW FREEZER Ice Cream as It Should Be Made In Your Home. FOOD VALUE OF IT IS GREAT. A Domestic Science Expert Talks About the Substitutes For This Hot Weather Delicacy-The Real Thing Dishes Out Quite Different From Gelatinous Mixtures. The government standard calls for an ice cream made of cream, sugar and flavoring and containing from 12 to 14 per cent of butter fat. Since cream itself averages about 20 per cent of fat and may have as much as 40, this would not seem unreasonable, but many there be who consider ice cream, made of cream, to be the dream of an idealist and too rich for the average taste and digestion. If you don't want a straight ice cream, well and good. If a frozen custard, a sherbet or a cornstarch pudding is preferred, have it, but buy it and, incidentally, pay for it under its own name. Don't call it ice cream. Let ice cream be sold as such to prevent fraud, that the invalid, the convalescent and the child may not get something they should not have, and that every one may know what he is eating. For true ice cream is a substantial food; it is not merely a frozen dainty for topping off a meal. With 6 per cent of tissue building protein from the milk—and the best kind of protein at that—14 per cent of fat, also of the most approved quality, about 16 per cent of sugar and with an energy value almost equal to that of brown bread, weight for weight, the food value of ice cream is not to be overlooked. Of course if one wants a sturdy, companionable product, one that will sit about sociably with the family on a warm summer evening and show no disposition to run away, then a starch-gelatin mixture, with just enough milk and flavoring to give it character, is just the thing, but it isn't ice cream. While various dangers threaten ice cream, the most serious are those due to the use of carelessly handled cream containing disease organisms or streptococci, the melting and refreezing of the product and, its manufacture or storage in unclean, insanitary places. We cannot depend upon the freezing nor even upon pasteurization to destroy the toxins produced by organisms in the milk, even if the bacteria themselves are killed. Typical illness marked by colic, headache, depression and diarrhea has been traced to the presence of colon bacillus, acquired during the process of manufacture while the mixture cooled in an insanitary place. It is a good plan to know your ice cream maker like a brother or to make it yourself. And obviously the children should be warned against the ice cream cone and the wayside stand that so appeal to their vagrant hearts and fearless stomachs, cruel as such a precaution may seem. After the third or fourth year children may be cautiously introduced to plain vanilla cream, small amounts at weekly intervals being given. Whether or not it agrees is largely a question of personal peculiarities—some children tolerate sweets much better than others—and no hard and fast rules can be laid down. NEW NECKWEAR. What Fall Collars Promise to Look Like Is Really This. This Cromwellian effect is achieved by a triple collar of pale pink organdle, each edge being trimmed with three 1920 THE PURITAN. rows of cartridge plaits. The collar fits the neck rather high in the back, and worn with a dark gown is most picturesque. Medieval Experts. Our medieval forefathers were quite accustomed to women workers in many of the trades which in our pre-war days were closed to women. Chancer and Langland use many words with characteristic feminine suffixes, which indicate the trades then open to them, as, for instance, baxteres (female bakers) and southeater (female shoemaker). There were also female candle makers, wigmakers and bookbinders, and in the Act of 1454 (33 Hen. VI., c. 5) complaints are noticed of the women silk manufacturers of London against the Lombard merchants. BLOUSES COOL. Ponges and Shantung Are Favorites For Summer Waists. Silk for blouses are much in vogue—striped pongees, crepe de chines and georgette crapes. This illustrated is a figured shantung, the natural tone THE TENNIS WOMAN WELL CLAD. blocked off in chocolate. Moire ribbon makes a perky little tie, pearl buttons close the front, and all seams are hem-stitched. TRAINING THE TASTE. The Importance of Teaching Children The Sense of Colors. Some persons are totally lacking in color sense—taste in colors, to put it differently. In other respects they are quite normal persons and often, of course, get far ahead of those with the keen color taste. Other persons lack appreciation, taste, in other respects. Usually appreciation or taste can be trained, although sometimes color or music appreciation is utterly lacking. The time to begin to train is with very young children. The place is the home. If a child is brought up in a tasteful home it will unconsciously grow up with a cultivated taste. In addition, of course, it is well to note the child's individuality. If it seems dull to music, painting, color, form, help develop its taste along these particular lines. A house, to be the ideal environment for a growing child, should be beautiful, of course, but it should have the beauty of simplicity and find the beauty in its surroundings without depending on elaborate furnishings. Perhaps the best way to train a child's taste, if the child seems rather hopelessly deficient, is to let him work things according to his own ideas for a little while. If a little girl like gaudy colors, let her have a frock of a gaudy color, which she herself chooses. She will, the chances are, soon tire of it. If the small boy likes impossible ornaments and hangings in his room, let him have them. Not only will he himself dislike them soon enough, but his friends will doubtless make fun of them, and so they will become intolerable to him. Once there was a boy of nine or ten years who chose for the wall paper of his room a dainty design with pink background upon which there were medallions showing little French maids in all their finery. His mother remonstrated with him, telling him his choice was not boyish, that it was babyish, a nursery paper, or at best one for a very little girl. But he wanted that paper, and he got it. It had not been on his wall very long before he realized his mistake. Of course he had to put up with it for months, but its presence there taught him a lesson in interior decorating he never forgot. EASY WAY TO CLEAN SILVER. This May Help You to Save Your Elbow Grease. A simple way to clean discolored silver is to put a quarter of a pound of sal soda into a gallon of water. Place this on the stove and let it come to a boil. When at boiling heat dip in the pieces of silver, one by one, taking each out quickly. Wash in soapuds and dry with a soft, clean cloth. This method takes about one-quarter of the time consumed by polishing. Silver spoons or forks may be kept brightest if they are left for several hours in strong borax water. Silver that is frequently washed with ammonia water will need cleaning less often. Silver teapots, be seldom in constant use, are very likely to become moldy. They can, however, be kept in perfectly good condition if, after washing and drying them thoroughly, a lump of sugar is placed inside. The sugar absorbs the dampness and keeps the teapot sweet and fresh. Silverware should always be kept by itself and wrapped in tissue paper, each piece separately. Silver dress trimmings may be cleaned by covering with magnesia and leaving for two hours. Giddy Towala. Turkish towels are now being made with a deep border to be embroidered. The cross stitch and the French knots are the two most popular stitches used on Turkish towels. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEND FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO 50AP THOROUGHLY CLEANSSES THE SCALP QUINACOMB HAIR STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINADE 25¢ QUINACOMB 50¢ QUINASOAP 25¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS SEEBY DRUG COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. THE SANITARY and SHIP CANAL Length - - - - - 32 Miles Depth - - - - - 22 Feet Width - - - 162 to 290 Feet THE CANAL OFFERS: Industrial Locations, Dock Facilities, Water Transportation, Railroad Connections, Electric Power, Concrete Building Material. Direct Connection with St. Louis via the Illinois River and Direct Connection with the Gulf via the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Electric Energy Created from Water Power for the Modern Factory Means Efficiency and Economy. THOMAS A. SMYTH, - President JOHN McGILLEN, - Chief Clerk F. D. CONNERY, - Comptroller Karpen Building 900 So. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO An Artist's Ead. A Parisian artist in lieu of a picture gallery has a collection of great painters' palettes, some 500 in number, among them being Corot's, Isabey's and Theodore Rousseau's. On many of the palettes are sketches by the painters who used them. Wycliffe's Bible. John Wycliffe, completed the translation of the whole Bible for the first time into the language of the English people. He was born near Richmond, in Yorkshire, about 1324. A Case of Fifty-Fifty. "Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives." "That's the half that minds its own business probably."—Philadelphia Ledger. The smallest thing well done becomes artistic.—William Matthews. Flower of the Air There is a plant in Chile and a similar one in "apan called the "flower of the air." It is so called because it appears to have no root and is never fixed to the earth. It twitches around a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily—white, transparent and odoriferous. It is capable of being transported 600 to 700 miles and vegetates as it travels suspended on a twig. Perfect Machinery. "Their household seems a perfect piece of machinery." "Tes; the wife's the governor, the children safety valves and the husband a crank."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Hia Views. "Dear me, I forget to send her an invitation to our wedding!" "I imagine it won't make much difference. We won't miss one pickle fork."-Kansas City Journal. Astronomy. Astronomy is one of the most exact of the sciences. The powerful telescopes, the spectroscope and other almost perfect instruments come pretty near telling the truth. Stevenson's Brownies. Stevenson maintained that much of his work was only partially original. His collaborators were the brownies who ran riot through his vain during the hours of sleep. He is stances the case of "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde." "I had long been trying to write a story on this subject," he writes, "to find a body, a vehicle for that strong sense of man's double being which must at times come in upon and overwhelm the mind of every thinking creature. For two days I went about racking my brains for a plot of any sort, and on the second night I dreamed the scene at the window and a scene afterward split in two, in which Hyde, pursued for some crime, took the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuers. All the rest was made awake and consciously, although I think I can trace in much of it the manner of my brownies." Lordly Disraeli. Disraeli once told a woman that two possessions which were indispensable to other people he had always done without. "I made," she said, "every kind of conjecture, but without success, and on my asking him to enlighten me he solemnly answered that they were a watch and an umbrella. 'But how do you manage,' I asked, if there happens to be no clock in the room and you want to know the time?' 'I ring for a servant,' was the magniloquent reply. 'Well,' I continued, 'and what about the umbrella? What do you do, for instance, if you are in the park and are caught in a sudden shower?' 'I take refuge,' he replied, with a smile of excessive gallantry, 'under the umbrella of the first pretty woman I meet.' A Warning. "Watch out how you holler fer de worl' ter look up at you when you gits ter de mountain top," said Brother Williams. "Of all time dat's de one time ter lay low, fer de worl' will find you when it gits good an' ready. An' dis other thing is what you got to consider: De minute you hollers old man Trouble locates you an' sets his traps ter trip you an' send you rollin' down ter de bottom, whar you come from!"—Atlanta Constitution. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916. A Trip Into Space. A Trip Into Space. "If you could ride from the earth to Alpha Centauri on a train going at the rate of a mile a minute you would reach your destination in 48,000,000 years," says John Brashear in the American Magazine. "At the rate sound travels if a song were to be sung on Alpha Centauri it would be 3,800,000 years before we could hear it. This neighbor of ours is 35,000,000,000 miles away. A spider's thread from a cocoon reaching to it would weigh 500 tons. "Our earth in its revolutions on its own axis and its trip around the sun and outward into space makes a journey of 844,000,000 miles a year, but the old clock never varies. There is never a jar or tremor, and we are back again on the hundredth of a second. Do you know it would have cost me $1,500,000,000 if I had had to pay my way so far at the rate of 2 cents a mile during my journey of seventy-five years? To ride from the earth to Alpha Centauri would cost $700,000,000,000." Sharks as Swimmers One ill service nature has done the shark—namely, that of placing a triangular fin on his back, which acts as a danger signal and gives warning of his approach. Happily the shark has not been gifted with sufficient sagacity to be aware of this peculiarity, for had he been so he would unquestionably abandon his habit of swimming close to the surface of the water and would in that case be enabled to approach his victim unobserved. The shark is a slow swimmer for his size and strength. Byron observes, "As darts the dolphin from the shark." But Byron was a poet and does not appear to have been a close observer of the habits of inhabitants of the water or he would have known that a shark would have no more chance of catching a dolphin than a sheep would of overhauling a hare. Value of Good Manners Good manners, like the gold at the foundation of all money, are current the world over. Emerson noted this: "Give a boy dress and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes. He has not the trouble to earn or own them; they solicit him to enter and possess." "All your Greek," Chesterfield wrote to his son, "can never advance you from secretary to envoy or from envoy to ambassador, but your address, your air, your manner, if good, may." "The difference between a well bred and ill bred man is this," Samuel Johnson said, "one immediately attracts your attention, the other your aversion. You love one until you find reason to hate him; you hate the other until you find reason to love him." Civility, polished manners, mean much to a youth in his first position. Obituary Gems. When John Sherman of New Haven, preacher, mathematician, almanac maker and father of twenty-six children, heard of the death of his good friend Jonathan Mitchell, a Harvard pastor, he explained (after due thought and many poetic pangs): Here lies the darling of his time. Mitchell expired in his prime. Who, four years short of forty-seven, Was found full ripe and plucked for heaven. When Thomas Dudley, father of the first American poetess, Anne Bradstreet, came to his deathbed he showed where his daughter had received her surprising gift by composing such farewell lines as: Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach shew My dissolution is in view. Eleven times seven near lived have L and now God calls L willing die. "Hail, Columbia." "Hall, Columbia," was written in 1780 and "The Star Spangled Banner" in 1814. "Hall, Columbia," was first called "General Washington's March," the music having been composed by an orchestra leader in New York and the words written to be sung when Washington went to New York to be inaugurated president April 30, 1780. Later, it was called "The President's March" and finally "Hall, Columbia." Why He Was Proud. In a particularly desolate region of the country two travelers came on a tumbledown shack in the midst of filth and barrenness. They were discussing the improbability of human beings living there and did not see a forlorn little boy sitting in the edge of the weeds. He arose with a proud flush on his face. "Ye needn't make fun of it. Tain't our n. It's jest rented!"—Exchange. Her Uplift Scheme "What is Gertrude Gadder's latest fnd?" "Prison reform." "Along what lines?" "She thinks every convict ought to have a canary in his cell."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Unreasonable. Mrs. Sharpe (severely)—Norah, I can find only seven of these plates. Where are the other five? Cook (in surprise)—Sure, mum, don't ye make no allowance for ordinary wear an 'tear'? Not as Guaranteed. "You know these gloves I bought here the other day—you said they'd last me two years." "Well?" "T've lost them!"—Paris Rire. Two Typists. Jenkins—My stenographer can write 150 words a minute. Tompkins—So can mine—but she doesn't seem to care what the words are.—Puck. A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.—Guthrie. Naming a Famous Dish: If you are a gourmet you like lobster. The man who made lobster a la Newburg famous refused to have his name go with it. He gave Delmonico the recipe, and Del gave the delicacy the name it bears today, while that of the benefactor is never heard outside of the little circle in which he lived. Well, the creator of the dish was Benjamin Wenburg, a New York broker. He used to take his luncheons at Delmonico's downtown place, not many blocks from the Battery. When he told Del how to make lobster a la Newburg—it had no name then—Del put it on his bill and called it lobster a la Wenburg. Wenburg got angry about it and told Delmonico if he didn't remove his name he would feed elsewhere. The big caterer reversed the first syllable, and the title has been what you have been accustomed to see ever since.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Whim of a Great Actor Salvini, the great Italian tragedian, made it a condition that none of his sons should act in Italy so long as he remained on the stage. So Gustavo was banished to the other countries of the continent and acted in Russia and Austria with some success. Alexander learned the English language and played in this country until he died at an early age. Tomaso is now an actor in Italy and is said to have inherited to a greater degree than any of his brothers the talents of his father. Salvini was married twice; first to Clementine Cazzola, an eminent Italian actress, who died, leaving him three small children. Many years later he married an Englishwoman named Lotte Sharp, by whom he had two children. His grandchildren have attracted attention in art and other circles in Italy.—Argonaut. Flowers and Leaves Flowers are produced by the sacrifice of stem and leaves, which subordinate their own functions to the making of seed to carry on the species. In the late summer time, when plants have flowered and set their seed, the leaf spirit seems again to assert itself and in many instances becomes so strong that the miracle of its self sacrifice is revealed. One often sees roses, after producing perfect blossoms, producing some which push out a small bunch of green leaves from the heart, or perhaps the axis of the aborted stem grows right out from the middle and bears a small secondary rosebud. This secondary rose is generally smothered in a calyx more like a conglomeration of leaves than any ordinary calyx, the calyx showing a strong tendency to revert to the leaf form—Edinburgh Scottsman. Stupendous Surnames. The bearers of some of the surnames which appear in medieval documents must have been glad of an excuse to change them. Apparently this was done, for the more grotesque have either vanished or have been modified out of recognition. Among the former are such names as Alice Thepundersstepdoghtre, Mazelina Stabwourchman, Frethesancecia Del Countyghouse, Godisman Attestresteesende and Thomas Wrangwisshe, which certainly have no claimants nowadays. Many surnames derived from trade or service have been contracted, such as Le Lindraper into Draper, Le Couhride into Coward, Le Chapelayn into Chaplin and Le Gresuenour (gros veur) into Grosvenor.—London Opinion. A Queer Creature. Queer that while the male seal is a bull and the female a cow their youngster is not called a calf, but a pup. Why "seal fisheries," too, when the seal is not a fish? And why should the seal's breeding place be styled a rookery? It looks as if this strange creature is only a fish in common parlance while at sea. On land (or ice) it is classed popularly with animals or birds.—Exchange. A Glimpse of Heaven. Paterfamilias—Well, Mr. Smith, I'm pleased to see you at our humble board for the first time. Now, is there any particular cut you fancy? Prospective Son-in-law—Oh, no, thank you. I think— Youngest Daughter of the House—Dad, aren't you going to ask Cissie? You know what a shindy she kicks up if she doesn't get first pick—London Optun. The Beginning and End. Fond Mother—It was at this point in the entrancing landscape that my daughter received a declaration and accepted. Friend—And tell us the rest of the romance. Fond Mother—Unfortunately that is all there was.—Meggendorfer Blaetter. The Assent Sarcastic. He (at the end of a fishing story)— My word, it was a monster! 'Pon my word, I never saw such a fish in my life! She-1 don't believe you ever did!—London Mail. Pertinent. "I asked Arthur how old he thought I was, and he guessed right the very first time." "Have you made up yet?"—Pittsburgh Press. Telling the Time. Ingenious Teacher—If the clock were to strike fourteen, what time would it be? Intelligent Pupil—Time to send the clock to be repaired.—London Telegraph. The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.—Mrs. Jameson. During the war of the Revolution two British soldiers of the army of Cornwallis went into a house and abused the inmates in a most cruel and shameful manner. A third soldier, going into the house, met them coming out and recognized them. The inmates acquitted him of all blame, but he was imprisoned because he refused to disclose the names of the offenders. Every persuasion was tried, but in vain, and at length he was condemned by a court martial to die. When he was on the gallows Lord Cornwallis, surprised by his obstinacy, rode up to him, saying: "Campbell, what a fool you are to die thus! Disclose the names of the guilty men and you shall be immediately released; otherwise you have not fifteen minutes to live." "You are in the midst of a campaign, my lord," replied Campbell. "You can better spare one man than two." And, firmly adhering to his purpose, he died. What Am I? Ive wrecked trains; Ive saved a rich man's life and of course married his beautiful daughter; Ive committed murder; Ive preached the gospel; Ive found treasure; Ive led armies to victory; Ive been a king; Ive seen hell; Ive toured heaven; Ive made men slaves and freed them; Ive threatened women's honor and saved it; Ive condemned to death the innocent and given liberty to the guilty; Ive built nations and destroyed them; Ive created drought and brought flood; Ive changed poverty to riches and robes to rags; Ive fought in the Crusades; Ive gone through the Revolution; Ive made men of politicians and politicians of men; Ive tortured Christians as a pagan and as a Christian enlightened the heathen; Ive been lawmaker and law breaker; but, with all, Ive made the world progress—I am imagination!—Life. A Phrase Explained: Medicus tells us that it makes him mad whenever he sees some writer using the old southern phrase "the spit an' image" without showing any knowledge of what it means. Medicus says that he has even seen it spelled thus: "The spitin' image." So we have seen in the works of an English novelist: "He's the spit and image of his father, as they say in America." And an American short story writer makes a negro character say: "Yassuh. He's de spittin' image of his ma." The phrase was originally "the spirit and image," explains Medicus. Of course that means that one person is both mentally and physically like another. Southern people are careless about their r's, so the phrase became "the spit an image" and "the spittin' image."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Hydroaeroplanes. The idea of the hydroaeroplane was suggested in patent specifications by Hugo Matullath of New York in 1899, but it had its practical origin in Glenn Curtiss, who added floats to the aeroplane with which he was experimenting over Lake Keuka in 1908. These were placed under each wing, so that in case of accident the machine would not sink. Langley and others had "made their experimental flights over bodies of water for like reasons". Probably the first to make the floats an integral part of his machine was Fabre, who on March 28, 1910, made the first flight with a practical hydroaeroplane at Martignes on the Seine. Curtiss soon abandoned floats and built boat bodies, and for this accomplishment he received the Aero Club of America trophy in 1911. Butter From a Tree. One shea tree beside each man's back porch would cut a big slice of butter off the monthly food bill. In Africa vegetable butter is made from the fruit of this tree, and it is said to be of richer taste than any butter made from cow's milk—alleged or actually scraped from a churn and squeezed into the wooden mold which leaves a yellow rosebud on top of the cake. The Arabs used it in early times.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. High Calling. Little Walter's uncle was attached to the commissary department. Naturally little Walter wanted to know what that meant. His father explained that it was the commissary's duty to supply the soldiers with food and drink and the like. The very next day a lady came to call and asked Walter how his Uncle Paul was. "He's fine," said the young man. "He's a waiter now."—New York Post. Woodwork. "Is it your intention to offer your enemy an olive branch?" "I'm not sure," replied Senator Sorghum. "We'll try out the olive branch proposition. But we'll fix the thing so it can be turned into an ax handle."—Washington Star. From the Stars to You Somewhere beneath the stars there is something that you alone were meant to do. Never rest until you have found out what it is!-John Brashear in the American Magazine. A Long Run. "Dear me," said the debtor, "how tired it must be"—Detroit Free Press. The Plan of Opposites. "Get hold of some soft thing."—Baltimore American. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.—Emerson. PAGE SEVEN PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 4158 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7990 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabash Ave. Oakland 4682. Auto. 73-058 Phone Drexel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee. DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 618 PHONE MAIN 2214 Residence 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 313-329 Reaper Block Clark & Washington Sts. Phones Central 239 Auto. 41-816 CHICAGC Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 FRANK DUNN J. B. McCAHEY Trustees Established 1877 TEL. OAKLAND 1850, 1851, 1852 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. ONLOAD THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: N. C. Chalmers, cigars, tobacco, notion store and news stand, 5012 S. State street. L. E. Chilton, news stand, S. E. corner 51st and State streets. S. Berenbaum, Cigars, Notions and News Stand; 31 W. 51 Street, near Dearborn. E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3 W. 27th St., near State. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shoe shining parlors and news stand. 3800½ State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State street. Coleman & Glanton, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3342 S. State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair pressing parlor and news stand. 30' W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. PAGE EIGHT TEENAN JO TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most BUFFET and CAST Side. First-Class HENRY "TEENAN A. F. CODOZOE, J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The Elite AND B 3030 STATE STREET JOHN BLOCKI, President JOHN BLOCKI PERFU C. E. 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The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. A. F. CODOZOE, DOUGLAS 5971 J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors Phones DOUGLAS 3256 CHAS. HARRIS, Manager AUTO. 72-379 The Elite Cafe AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO FOR HIGH GRADE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS BLOCKI'S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER IN BOTTLE PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. LOUIE USSELMANN The Practical Otician THE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES Consultation or examination FREE. We have 28 different ways of testing the eyes and guarantee to give satisfaction. 3150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO A Test of Philosophy. Slowbetter is a calm man, not easily upset. On one occasion, as his motorcar had come to a sudden stop, he crawled underneath it to see what was the matter. Somehow or other some petrol ignited. A fierce burst of flame and smoke came forth, enveloping Slowbetter. In the midst of the excitement he walked to one side with his usual slow and regular step. His face was black, his eyebrows and eyelashes were singed, and what was left of his hair and beard was a sight to behold. Some one brought a mirror, and he had a look at himself. As usual, however, he took matters philosophically. "Well," he said slowly and deliberately, "I was needing a shave and my hair cut anyway."-Exchange. Our First Free School. The first free school established in the United States was in the province of Massachusetts Bay in the year 1641 by order of the general colonial court. In 1647 the same authority declared that free schools should be established within every town having fifty householders under penalty of a fine of $25. This fine was doubled by a declaration made in 1671 and again doubled in 1683. Lead Soldiers. "So you are playing with your soli diers. Willie!" said the caller. "Yes, ma'am." "They seem very heavy soldiers." "Yes, me'am. They're on their way home from the war and they've got a lot of lead in 'en.'"—Youkers Statesman. Warranted Not to Fail. Doctor—Your wife needs outdoor exercise more than anything else. Husband—But she won't go out. What am I to do? Doctor—Give her plenty of money to shop with. Getting In Debt Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible. A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life—Spurgeon. Madge-Did you have anything to talk about at the club meeting? Marjorie-Lots! On account of the storm there were only three of us present. Judge. --- Fine Field. most UP-TO-DATE CAFE on the South Entertainers. JONES, Proprietor. DOUGLAS 5971 Phones DOUGLAS 3256 AUTO. 72-379 te Cafe BUFFET CHICAGO F. W. BLOCKI, Treasurer BLOCKI & SON CUMMERS TO SLER, Druggist State Street THE CORNER DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND REPARATIONS Carefully Compounded A FULL LINE OF BLOCKI'S FLOWER PERFUMES All Eye Trouble SEE Dr. Louie Usselmann The Practical Optician TICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY THE LOWEST PRICES 150 S. STATE ST. Phone Douglas 5308 CHICAGO One of the most wonderful clocks in the world is owned by a Frenchman, Louis Desutter. It is mounted on a Louis Selke stand and has four faces. Besides marking the hours, it shows the tides at six different parts of the world, the mean time and the solar time, the age of the moon, the movements of the planets and all eclipses. It is also a perpetual calendar. It was made by Janvier of Paris in 1780 and took eleven years to manufacture. San Diego, Cal., has a wonderful clock with twenty dials, which tell the time simultaneously in all parts of the world, also the days of the week and the date and month. It stands twenty-one feet high, and four of its dials are each four feet in diameter. It is inclosed in plate glass, so that every action can be seen, and the whole is illuminated every night. It is jeweled with tourmaline, topaz, agate and jade and required fifteen months to build. The motive power is a 200 pound weight. The cost of the clock was $3,000—People's Home Journal. Styles In Indian Names. Although among the Indians there are not so many Deerslayers as there were in the days of James Fenimore Cooper, yet many of the names still possess strong individuality. This is shown by examining the names that were prominent in a recent sale of Indian lands in the Standing Rock reservation, in the Dakota. Here, for instance, was found Barney Two Bears, an amabil neighbor to Miss Katie Good Crow. - Melda Crowghost and Mary Yellow Fat have adjoining tracts, and there are also Mrs. Crazy Walking and Jack Elk Ghost in the same section. It is not to be wondered at that Mary Lean, Dog looks enviously from her door when Agatha Big Shield goes by with her aristocratic name, nor could any one blame Jennie Dog Man and Mary Shave Head if they fell all over themselves to assume on short notice the heroic name borne by Morris Thundershield, heir apparent to Deng Step Thundershield.—New York Times "Well, not too thick, sir," answered the native. "We have to use this lake partly for navigation."—Louisville Courier-Journal. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 12, 1916. My Compartment Auto-Cars Are Revolutionizing Formal Service in Chicago. They Are Vastly Preferred to Single Carriages and Artists, as they Inquire for Greater Comfort and Comfort, and Bridges Save More than Half the High Cost of Carriages and Automobiles Tel. Kenwood 455 Calls Promptly Answered Day or Night Auto. 73-867 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. Courtesay 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 hooks under Holdt's direction. The guest was William Waldorf Astor." The Silver Fox. The silver fox is really a black fox, stand, 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 to 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 short of its locks to prevent him from appearing again among new levies. Heavy Holes. Mrs. Newed—I would like a pound of your best cheese. Grocer—Yes, ma'am. Mrs. Newed (examining it)—Why, this cheese is full of holes. 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 Dellberate. "I am glad to say," remarked Mr. Seckton, "that I never spoke a hasty word to you." "No, Leonidas," answered his wife rather gently; "I'm willing to give you credit for net hurrying about anything." GOST A DIAMOND FOR EACH TIME JILTED Youth Has Only Three Remaining of Original Seven In Locket—Hopes to Find a True Lover. Kansas City, Mo.—A well dressed young man walked into a loan office here. He brought forth his pocketbook and paid the interest on money he had borrowed on a locket. Then he asked Frank Nevin, appraiser, to be allowed to see the trinket. Nevin produced it. The young man examined it and grew confidential. "That socket," he said, "represents four love affairs gone astray. You will notice four of the seven diamonds with which it was originally set are missing. It was four years ago that I became engaged the first time. The girl suggested I take a diamond from the locket for our engagement ring. I have been engaged three times since, and every time I have used one of the diamonds. The girls have broken their engagements and then kept the ring. "You see these three remaining stones? I hope to be able to find a girl that will keep her promise before they are all gone." Mr. Nevin said the diamonds in the socket were worth about $75 each. WAR EMANGIPATES THE TURKISH WOMEN Veils Being Discarded or Modified, and Theaters Will Soon See Native Actresses Is Belief. Constantinople.-Since the allies abandoned the Dardanelles attack Constantinople has become normal and is now as far removed from the theater of war as any big city in neutral countries. The cafes and motion picture houses are well attended, and the theaters are crowded. Recently there was a big first night in the Petit Champs, the occasion being the performance of a French comedy. The actors were Turks, but the actresses were all Armenians, as Turkish women are not yet permitted to appear on the stage, but the general opinion is expressed by all thinking Turks that before long their women will make their first appearance as actresses. The emancipation of women in Turkey has made remarkable progress since the beginning of the war. In the best society in Constantinople the women no longer wear their vells when receiving their guests. Though vells continue to be worn by the Turkish women in the street, still the fashion has made them so filmy and transparent that they might just as well be dispensed with. Consequently all the fascination and mystery that heretofore has surrounded the harem has suddenly disappeared. There is no longer any such thing, and in its place there is simply the usual family life. The Turkish woman is as much a housewife as her European sister, and in this war her resources have been taxed to the utmost. Despite the fact that the rich agricultural country of Anatolia is not far distant, the prices of all necessaries of life have increased enormously. Turkey has awakened from its long lethargy, and the war has brought a new life in the empire. Progress is now the keynote, and the indications are that within a few years Constantinople will be one of the most advanced cities in the world. WOMEN NOT REAL ANGLERS New York Commissioner Pratt, Therefore, Would Let 'Em Fish Free. Albany, N. Y.—"Women," says Conservation Commissioner Pratt, "do not constitute a factor of importance in the fishing situation." Therefore Mr. Pratt recommends that the fair sex, as are children under sixteen years of age, be exempt from the provisions of his bill to compel fishermen to take out an annual license costing $1.10. "It is not desired," he adds, "to put any burden upon these young fishermen." Under the bill a license is not required to catch suckers, bullheads, carp or other plebeian fish, but to catch fish propagated by the state the $1.10 fee must be paid. THE BANK OF NEW YORK S. E. Cor. 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The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. THE FORTY-FOURTH STREET Honolulu.—The reforesting or now barren Kahoolawe island, in the Hawaiian group, is the proposition the territorial board of agriculture, the members of which, after a visit to the small islet heretofore designated unsuitable for settlement, decided to begin the work of planting algaroba trees there. It is recommended a portion of the island swept by the strong trade winds be fenced to prevent depredations by sheep and wild goats. Members of the board say the introduction of horses on the island would assist in the distribution of seed. It is also proposed to construct several large reservoirs to conserve the rainwater that falls so plentifully at all times. Algaroba trees planted there ten years ago have reached a substantial growth. COLORS EMPLOYED ON FARM Barnhart Tells How He Made the Whole Place Yellow and White. Reading, Pa.—Henry A. Barnhart of Indiana told the committee of the state board of agriculture, in session here, of his efforts in behalf of the artistic side of farming. He illustrated this by citing that his big barns and outbuildings are all painted yellow, with white trimmings; the farmhouse is painted white, with yellow trimmings; the cattle have the same yellow color, because they are Guernseys; not a horse is used except he is yellow and has a white mark on his head and white feet. The shepherd dog is yellow, with a white band around his neck; there are yellow colored chickens, yellow colored squirrels, the place being known as the "Color Scheme Farm of Indiana." BORN WITH EIGHT TEETH. Baby Also Brought Into World a Sufficient Quantity of Hair. Pittsburgh. - A baby boy born with eight teeth and Samsonian locks has the attention of all Undercliff. The boy has been named Alvin Leroy King and is the son of Mr and Mrs. Leroy King. When the baby opened his mouth for his first lusty yell the nurse was surprised to see four teeth each in upper and lower jaws. The child's head was covered with black hair. Ever since the King home has been an attraction for mothers, fathers and children calling to see the baby. Protects Tame Jack Rabbit Bloomingdale, Ind.—William B. Leonard has inserted a notice in the newspapers requesting his friends and neighbors not to harm his pet Kansas jack rabbit. The rabbit has the run of the Leonard farm, but is so domesticated that it returns at night to sleep in the kitchen --- Telephone Douglas 1565 J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. When Twins Came Along He Asked For License, Which Was Granted. Olympia, Wash.—A man in Vancouver has a motor driven baby carriage and has applied to the secretary of state for a license to operate it. He wrote as follows: "A short time ago I took out a license for a motor attachment for a bicycle, and now I want to transfer that motor to a baby carriage that I purchased when twins were born into my family. May I do this without taking out a new license?" I. M. Howell, secretary of state, in his reply to the proud though anxious father replied that the transfer would be allowed. Cheapest Light and Fuel Cheapest Light and Fuel The U.S. Bureau of Standards announces, in an official bulletin, that the mantle gas light is the cheapest of all house lights. The Bureau's tests show that the antiquated flat flame burner uses up five times as much gas as the mantle burner to produce the same amount of light. The tests also show, that for the same amount of light, flat flame lighting costs about four times as much as mantle lighting, including cost of mantles. Since "candle power" is useless in mantle lighting, isn't it perfectly plain that the most economical household would save money with "heat unit" gas and mantles for all lighting? And since "heat unit" gas would be more economical than "candle power" gas for cooking and all heating purposes, what reason remains for retaining "candle power" gas in Chicago. Talk to your Alderman about this.